* 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. [00:00:04] IT IS 1:40 PM ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 1ST, 2023. I AM MAYOR PRO TEM DAVE MARTIN, AND I'M CALLING THIS MEETING OF HOUSTON CITY COUNCIL TO ORDER. MAYOR TURNER IS LEFT TODAY ON A MUCH NEEDED VACATION, AND HE WILL BE BACK NEXT TUESDAY AT THIS TIME. SO THE [PRESENTATIONS] CHAIR NOW RECOGNIZES COUNCIL MEMBER SALLY ALCORN FOR A PROCLAMATION TO THE US COAST GUARD IN CELEBRATION OF THEIR BIRTHDAY. YAY. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE COASTIES. WOO-HOO. YOU LOOK VERY YOUNG FOR 233 YEARS OLD. ALL RIGHT, I'VE HAD SOME GOOD TIMES WITH THE COAST GUARD RECENTLY. WENT OUT ON A GREAT TOUR, AND THEN I WENT TO THE, UH, THREE AND A HALF, MAYBE FOUR HOUR CHANGE OF COMMAND, WHICH TOOK PLACE WHEN JASON, JASON SMITH, WHO WE ALL KNOW, STEPPED DOWN AFTER A LONG AND STORIED CAREER WITH THE COAST GUARD. AND NOW WE HAVE KEITH DON KEITH DONAHUE AS THE NEW HEAD. SO HERE WE GO. WHEREAS ON AUGUST 4TH, 1790, THE OLDEST CONTINUOUS SEAGOING SERVICE OF THIS NATION WAS FORMED. THE US COAST GUARD WAS ORIGINALLY ORGANIZED AS A FLEET OF CUTTERS TO STOP, HELP STOP ILLEGAL SMUGGLING FROM THE SEA AND COLLECT REVENUE DUE ON GOODS COMING TO THE YOUNG NATION LATER CALLED THE REVENUE CUTTER SERVICE. THE SMALL ORGANIZATION COMBINED WITH A LIFESAVING SERVICE IN 1915, AND ASSUMED ITS NOW FAMOUS NAME, THE UNITED STATES COAST GUARD. IN 1967, THE COAST GUARD WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, AND IN 2003 TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY. TODAY, THEY'RE BOTH FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY'RE BOTH A FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND A MILITARY FORCE. THE COAST GUARD RESERVE WAS ESTABLISHED ON JUNE 23RD AS A CIVILIAN SERVICE. IT WAS RENAMED THE US COAST GUARD AUXILIARY IN 1941. AND WHEREAS THE CITY OF HOUSTON IS PROUD TO HAVE US COAST GUARD SECTOR, HOUSTON, GALVESTON, AND 23 OUTLYING UNITS, INCLUDING 41 SMALL BOATS, EIGHT CUTTERS, AND THREE HELICOPTERS, WITH OVER 1700 PERSONNEL TO INCLUDE. 927 ACTIVE DUTY PERSONNEL, 210 RESERVE PERSONNEL, 105 CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES, AND 483 AUXILIARY WORKING, WORKING ALONGSIDE OUR LOCAL GOVERNMENT PARTNERS, INCLUDING HPD, TO ENSURE THE NATION'S LARGEST PORT COMPLEX REMAINS SAFE, SECURE, AND CLEAN BY PERFORMING THE COAST GUARD'S 11 STATUARY MISSIONS. AND I WAS ON THAT COUNCIL MEMBER HUFFMAN AND I WENT DOWN THERE AND RODE AROUND WITH THE COAST GUARD AND WITH HPD. AND BELIEVE ME, WE ARE SAFE THERE AT THE PORT. THEY ARE, THEY ARE MAKING SURE NOBODY, NOBODY'S GETTING CLOSE TO THOSE SHIPS OR NOBODY'S, NOBODY'S GONNA DO US HARM DOWN THERE. WHEREAS ON AN AVERAGE YEAR, OUR LOCAL COAST GUARD CONDUCTS 325 SEARCH AND RESCUE CASES, SAVING OR ASSISTING 480 LIVES AND PROTECTING OVER $12 MILLION IN PROPERTY. 589 MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION RESPONSES, PROVIDING TIMELY CLEANUP OF OIL SPILLS AND HAZARDOUS MATERIAL RELEASES 4,742 REGULATORY INSPECTIONS, ENSURING COMPLIANCE OF THE AREA'S COMMERCIAL VESSELS AND WATERFRONT FACILITIES. 3,175. THEY'RE GOOD AT COUNTING TOO. 3,175 VESSEL BOARDINGS, KEEPING OUR PORTS AND COAST SECURE AND VESSEL TRAFFIC SERVICE FOR 219,266. MARITIME TRANSIT AND MAINTENANCE ON 544 AIDS TO NAVIGATION TO PRESERVE SAFETY ON THE NATION'S BUSIEST WATERWAYS. AND WHEREAS THE US COAST GUARD CELEBRATES 233 YEARS OF HONOR, RESPECT, AND DEVOTION TO DUTY AS THE NATION'S PREMIER MARITIME LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMUNITY, COAST GUARD PERSONNEL SERVE TO SAVE LIVES, PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT, AND DEFEND THE HOMELAND. THE COAST GUARD'S MOTTO IS SEMPER PERITUS, ALWAYS READY TO PROTECT OUR NATION AND CARRY OUT THE DHS MISSION. THEREFORE, OOPS, , I CARRIED AWAY. SO THEY MAY BE ABLE TO COUNT, BUT YOU'RE THE GREATEST SPEED READER IN THE WORLD. THEREFORE, I MAYOR PRO TEM DAVE MARTIN ON BEHALF OF SYLVESTER TURNER, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF HOUSTON, TO HEREBY PROCLAIM AUGUST 4TH, 2023 AS UNITED STATES COAST GUARD'S 233RD BIRTHDAY. CONGRATULATIONS. WELL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. OUR OUR WOMEN AND MEN, UH, WHO SERVE IN THE COAST GUARD AND OUR FAMILIES, WE COME FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY TO SERVE IN THIS AREA. UH, AND AND WE COULDN'T DO IT WITHOUT THE GREAT SUPPORTER OF THE CITY WE HAVE HERE. SO IT'S, IT'S A, IT'S A GREAT PARTNERSHIP. WE HAVE, UH, THE IMPORTANT SHIP CHANNEL, UH, THE SUPPORT CITY, UH, AND, AND WE'RE GLAD TO BE A PART OF IT. SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU. WE DO HAVE A COUNCIL MEMBER IN Q COUNCIL MEMBER KNOX. THANK YOU. UM, COUNCIL MEMBER ALCORN, COULD YOU, UH, GO OVER THAT SEVENTH STATISTIC ONE MORE TIME? ? NO, I'M TEASING ALL OF YOU GUYS. Y'ALL DID A GREAT SERVICE, UH, FOR OUR, FOR OUR COAST GUARD. A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THE, THE VALUE THAT THE COAST GUARD HAD, PARTICULARLY DURING WORLD WAR II. I THINK WE RE RESPONDED TO SEVERAL SUBMARINES IN THE GALVESTON AREA AND ALSO ON THE WEST AND EAST COAST THAT WERE, UM, [00:05:01] EVIDENTLY BOMBED OUT OF EXISTENCE BY YOU GUYS. SO Y'ALL ARE DOING A GOOD WORK ON BOTH THE LAW ENFORCEMENT SIDE AND THE NARCOTIC SIDE. I'M, I CAN'T IMAGINE, YOU KNOW, HOW MUCH DRUGS Y'ALL ARE ABLE TO GET ON ONE OF THOSE, ONE OF THOSE SHIPS THAT MIGHT VENTURE INTO OUR WATERS. SO GOD BLESS YOU ALL FOR WHAT YOU'RE DOING. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AND, UH, CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR BIRTHDAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. YEAH, WE'LL GO TURN AROUND THIS WAY. OH, SURE. YEAH. HERE, STAND RIGHT IS COUNCIL MEMBER KNOX FOR A PROCLAMATION TO I ASPIRE YOUTH TO RECOGNIZE THEM FOR SUPPLYING MEALS TO OVER 1000 CHILDREN AND FAMILIES WEEKLY. THANK YOU EVERYBODY. THIS IS MY GREAT PLEASURE AND HONOR TO, UH, TO PRESENT, UH, THE I ASPIRE YOUTH PROGRAM TO COUNCIL AND THE, AND THE CITIZENS OF HOUSTON. UM, I WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME PASTOR TERRENCE HALL OF KING KINGDOM BUILDERS CATHEDRAL TO COME ON UP HERE, CHRISTIAN LIFE COMMUNITY CHURCH, AND FOUNDER OF I ASPIRE YOUTH PROGRAM, INC. TODAY, WE'RE GONNA RECOGNIZE THEIR CONTRIBUTION AND TIRELESS EFFORTS TO GIVE BACK TO THEIR COMMUNITY THROUGH SUPPORTIVE YOUTH AND SENIOR SERVICE SERVICES AND MENTORSHIPS, WHEREAS I ASPIRE YOUTH PROGRAM IS A NONPROFIT THAT ASSISTS HOUSTON SENIORS AND YOUTH, FOUNDED BY PASTOR TERRENCE HALL. I ASPIRE MISSION IS TO SERVE ALL PROVIDING VALUABLE RESOURCES TO ENSURE NO ONE IS FORGOTTEN. THE ORGANIZATION SERVES OVER 1000 CHILDREN AND FAMILIES WEEKLY, AND HAS BEEN GIVING BACK TO THE COMMUNITY FOR OVER A DECADE. AND WHEREAS I ASPIRE HAS SUCCEED, HAS A SUCCESSFUL MENTORSHIP PROGRAM WITH RELATIONSHIPS AND SURROUNDING SCHOOL DISTRICTS FOR CHILDREN AGES EIGHT THROUGH 17. THE ORGANIZATION OFFERS SUMMER YOUTH CAMPS THAT ARE INCLUSIVE OF MEALS AND FIELD TRIPS. I ASPIRE PROVIDES ACADEMIC ASSISTANCE TO THEIR SCHOLARSHIPS FOR HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES. AND WHEREAS I ASPIRE HOSTS VARIOUS EVENTS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR WITH EACH EVENT SERVICING TWO TO 300 HOUSTONIANS. THESE EVENTS INCLUDE CHRISTMAS TOY DRIVES, HALLOWEEN TRUNK, OR TREATS, THANKSGIVING, TURKEY GIVEAWAYS, EASTER EGG HUNTS, COAT DRIVES, SHOES, DRIVES, AND MUCH MORE. WHEREAS I ASPIRE PROVIDES A SENIOR PROGRAM WITH LOCAL COMMUNITY CENTERS, THE ORGANIZATION AS A FOOD PANTRY AND SUPPLIES DAILY SENIOR MEALS. AND WHEREAS ON AUGUST 5TH, 2023, I ASPIRE YOUTH PROGRAM WILL HOST ITS BACK TO SCHOOL GIVEAWAY. YOU KNOW, THAT'S IN COMPETITION WITH THE CITY'S ONE, RIGHT? OKAY, I'M JUST SAYING. WELL, IS BACK TO SCHOOL GIVEAWAY THE CITY OF HOUSTON HONORS AND COMMENDS. I ASPIRE YOUTH PROGRAM FOR THEIR COMMITMENT AND DEDICATION TO IMPROVING THE LIVES OF HOUSTON'S YOUTH AND SENIORS AND EXTENDS BEST WISHES FOR CONTINUED SUCCESS. THEREFORE, I MAYOR PRO TEM DAVE MARTIN ON BEHALF OF SYLVESTER TURNER AND MAYOR OF THE CITY OF HOUSTON, HEREBY PROCLAIM AUGUST 5TH, 2023 AS I INSPIRE YOUTH PROGRAM DAY. CONGRATULATIONS. VERY GOOD. PASTOR HALL, WOULD YOU LIKE TO, UH, SAY SOMETHING? YEAH, I WANT TO, UH, THANK, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER AND TO THE MAYOR AND THE MAYOR TIM, AND TO ALL THE COUNCIL MEMBERS THAT I LOOK TO AND KNOW ME AS A YOUNG MAN. I WANT TO RECOGNIZE, UH, MY WIFE FOR 15 YEARS, UH, WANT HER TO, UM, STAND. MY WIFE WAS STAYING 15 YEARS. I HAVE TWO BEAUTIFUL KIDS, UH, SIDNEY HALL AND TERRANCE HALL. I WANT TO THANK THEM. MY WIFE, UM, SUE, HAVE BEEN WITH ME THROUGH MY UPS AND DOWNS, AND I WANT TO THANK HER AND MY KIDS AND MY FAMILY. ALSO TODAY I HAVE MY PASTOR, PASTOR KEN ROSE. I WANT HIM TO COME. I HAVE MY OTHER MODERATOR, MODERATOR, UH, CARL GRACE. I WANT HIM TO JOIN US TODAY. AND I HAVE MY BOARD MEMBER, UM, CONSTANT JONES. SHE'S WORKED DAILY, UM, TO SERVE [00:10:01] OUR COMMUNITY, MAKE SURE WE MEET THE NEEDS OF OUR PEOPLE. SO I WANT MY BOARD MEMBER CONSTANT JONES TO COME. I NEVER, UM, COUNCIL MEMBERS, I NEVER FORGET WHERE THE LORD HAS BROUGHT ME FROM. AND I WANT TO THANK GOD, UM, AS I CELEBRATE TODAY. I CANNOT CELEBRATE WITHOUT MY RIGHT HAND. MY ACE CO. WHEN I NEED HER, SHE'S THERE. I WANT JENNIFER POOL TO COME AND STAND WITH ME TODAY. AS YOU KNOW THAT I HAVE A LOT OF FRIENDS. I HAVE A LOT OF FRIENDS. AND SO I WANT, UM, UH, MS. BRU SHEPHERD, THE LIVING LEGEND. HER MOM HAVE DIED, BUT HER DAUGHTER LOVE ME AND SHE'S ONE OF MY MENTORS. SO PLEASE, MS. DIANE, COME ON. AMEN. ALSO, HAVE MY MOTHER-IN-LAW WITH ME TODAY. I WANT TO THANK GOD FOR MY MOTHER-IN-LAW, UH, FOR BEING HERE TODAY. AND, UM, MY MOM, UM, A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T KNOW MY MOM RAISED ME AS A SINGLE, UH, MOTHER. UH, SHE IS NOT HERE TODAY. SHE WANTED TO BE HERE. SHE HAD KNEE PLACEMENT SURGERY. BUT I WANTED TO GO HAT OFF TO MY MOM TO KNOW THAT TODAY SHE IS SITTING IN HER ROOM LOOKING AT HER SON, KNOWING THAT ALL THE WORK THAT SHE HAVE SOLD INTO ME IS STILL DOING GOOD. AND I WANT TO THANK GOD FOR MY MOM, VITA GAMBLE, FOR BEING HERE, UM, IN HER ABSTINENCE. UM, ALSO, I HAVE SO MANY FRIENDS, SO I JUST WANT EVERYBODY TO JUST COME UP AND WE TAKE THIS GROUP PICTURE. , UH, I WANNA THANK YOU SO MUCH, UH, EVERYBODY. AND I ALSO, UH, WANT, JUST GIVE A KUDOS AND SHOUT OUT TO MY AUNT, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER SHABAZZ. UH, SHE, SHE'S ALWAYS THERE WHEN I NEED HER. SHE'S CALLING. I MIGHT BE CALLING HER. SHE'S ON THE WATER, UH, WITH HER HUSBAND. UH, BUT I WANTED TO PAUSE TODAY AND SAY THANK YOU AINT FOR ALWAYS ANSWERING THE CALL. UH, YOU DON'T NEVER JUST SEND ME THE VOICEMAIL, BUT YOU ALWAYS DARE. AND I WANTED TO PAUSE, MAMA, SAY, FOLK DON'T HAVE TO DO NOTHING FOR YOU WHEN THEY DO YOUR LEAST SAY THANK YOU. AND SO I WANTED TO, UM, PAUSE AND SAY THANK YOU. MY LAST THANK YOU. I GOT A LOT OF THINGS TO TALK ABOUT. UM, I OH WOW, LETICIA PLUM, HOW YOU, UH, SARAH . UH, I WANNA THANK MY, MY PERSONAL ASSISTANT. UH, SHE'S RIGHT HAND. UH, OUR CHURCH BEEN UP SIX YEARS. UH, WE'VE BEEN UP, WE ORGANIZED AND OUR CHURCH STILL BEEN MOVING. AND I WANTED TO THANK GOD FOR ONE OF MY PERSONAL ASSISTANTS FOR BEING HERE. AND SO THAT'S IT. THAT'S IT. 'CAUSE I GOT A LONG STORY. UH, MY TESTIMONY'S LONG, UH, BUT YOU KNOW, I LOVE EVERYBODY AND YOU CAN'T DO NOTHING ABOUT IT. AMEN. ALRIGHT. ALRIGHT. SO, UM, IF THIS WERE THE ACADEMY AWARDS, HE'D HAVE BEEN HOOKED A LONG TIME AGO. WE DO HAVE A COUPLE, EVERYBODY IN HERE, COUNCIL MEMBER KNOX, WE DO HAVE A COUPLE OF COUNCIL MEMBERS IN QUEUE. WE'LL START WITH COUNCIL MEMBER SHABAZZ. THANK YOU, VICE MAYOR, PRO TEM. CERTAINLY WE OUGHT TO KNOW BETTER THAN GIVE THE PASTOR MIKE . BUT AT ANY RATE, UM, THIS HAS BEEN MY FRIEND. I MET HIM ACTUALLY ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL SOME YEARS AGO, AND I ADOPTED HIM AS MY NEPHEW, AND HE ADOPTED ME AS HIS AUNTIE. AND SO I AM SO VERY PROUD OF HIM. HE DOES TREMENDOUS WORK, UH, WITH THE YOUNG PEOPLE WITH HIS CHURCH. NOW, HE DOES BUG ME FROM TIME TO TIME, AND I TRY TO MAKE IT, AND I SAY, IS THAT IN DISTRICT D? I DON'T KNOW, IF'S NOT DISTRICT D. CALL ME BACK ABOUT DISTRICT D. BUT CERTAINLY, UH, I THANK YOU COUNCIL MEMBER KNOX, FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD. AND IT'S SO GOOD TO SEE YOU, JENNIFER, RENEE POOLE. I HAVE NOT SEEN YOU IN MANY YEARS. PASTOR ROSE JUST, AND THE MOTHER-IN-LAW, I'M TELLING YOU, SHE WAS SITTING BACK THERE AND I DIDN'T SEE YOU. AND HE SAID, MY WIFE. AND I'M LIKE, AND SHE DIDN'T GET UP. YOU AND YOUR AND YOUR MOTHER LOOK LIKE SISTERS. BUT CERTAINLY THANK YOU FOR ALL THE WONDERFUL WORK YOU DO. IT'S ALWAYS A PLEASURE TO SUPPORT YOU. YOU KNOW, Y'ALL'S LOOK CLONE CHILDREN LOOK JUST LIKE Y'ALL, BUT YOU ALL ARE GIVING THEM A WONDERFUL EXAMPLE OF, OF WHAT A FAMILY STRUCTURE LOOKS LIKE. AND SO WE'RE LOOKING TO SEE GREAT THINGS FROM THEM AS WELL. AND A FIRST LADY IS, UH, YOU CANNOT REPLACE A GOOD FIRST LADY. SOME PEOPLE DON'T KNOW HOW DIFFICULT IT IS TO BE A PASTOR'S WIFE. IT IS ONE OF THE HARDEST JOBS YOU CAN IMAGINE. AND SO I WANT TO GIVE KUDOS TO YOU AND THANK YOU MAYOR PRO TEM FOR STANDING IN THE GAP THIS MORNING. AND WE JUST LOOK FORWARD. WE KNOW YOU GET THESE MEETINGS GOING AND, AND, AND ON THE WAY. SO I'M GOING TO NOT BELABOR THE POINT, BUT THANK YOU EVERYONE THAT HAS COME OUT TODAY, UH, TO SUPPORT. I ASPIRE. THANK YOU. OH, AND HE GIVES US GOOD FOOD TOO, WHEN HE HAS THESE, THESE EVENTS. I CAN'T, I'M NOT GONNA LEAVE THAT OUT. COUNCIL MEMBER ALCORN, THANK YOU. AND PASTOR, CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR DAY TODAY. I TOO, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER EVAN SHABAZZ, MET PASTOR HALL ALONG THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL, AND, UM, GREAT TO JUST WATCH ALL THAT YOU DO FOR THE COMMUNITY. AND YOU ARE SUCH A HELP AND SUCH A LIGHT IN THE COMMUNITY AND, AND ESPECIALLY FOR THE YOUTH, UM, WHAT [00:15:01] YOU'RE DOING FOR EVERYONE. SO REALLY, REALLY APPRECIATE IT AND, AND GLAD YOU'RE HAVING YOUR DAY. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER JACKSON. THANK YOU. AND CONGRATULATIONS, PASTOR HALL AND FIRST LADY WELL DESERVED. UM, THANK YOU, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD. UM, PASTOR HALL HAS DONE A, A LOT OF GREAT WORK THROUGH DISTRICT B, UM, FROM FOOD DRIVES, FROM GIVING AWAY CLOTHES, YOU KNOW, EASTER EGG HUNTS. UM, IT'S BEEN A PLEASURE TO PARTNER WITH YOU, THE DISTRICT B OFFICE. YOU WELL DESERVE. KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK. AND YOU KNOW, WE ALWAYS HERE IF YOU NEED OUR SUPPORT. SO THANK YOU. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE MOM-IN-LAW AND, AND THE FATHER-IN-LAWS. EVERYBODY THAT'S HERE, THE FAMILY, YOU KNOW, IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO RAISE A CHILD. AND, AND YOU HAVE A WHOLE VILLAGE RIGHT HERE. SO, CONGRATULATIONS, COUNCIL MEMBER PLUMMER, THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND PASTOR, I THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU DO. I, I AS WELL THAT YOU ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL. AND ONE THING I RECOGNIZE ABOUT YOU IS YOUR CONSISTENCY. YOU JUST NEVER GIVE UP. YOU NEVER TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER. YOU ALWAYS MOVE FORWARD WHEN YOU HEAR OR NO, YOU FIGURE OUT A WAY TO MAKE IT A YES, . YEAH, YEAH, YEAH. AND IT'S BEEN MY HONOR AND PLEASURE TO WORK WITH YOU ON MULTIPLE PROJECTS, HONESTLY. AND, YOU KNOW, IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE CITY, IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO AND HOW TO HELP, YOU'RE THE FIRST PERSON THAT CALL. THANK YOU. SO THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT YOU DO. YOU'RE ABLE TO DO WHAT YOU DO BECAUSE OF THE FOLKS STANDING BEHIND YOU. AND, AND THANK YOU ALL FOR, FOR HOLDING HIM UP AND KEEPING HIM UP AND PROPPING HIM UP ON A CONSISTENT BASIS. AND THE EXAMPLE THAT YOU ARE TO YOUR CHILDREN IS IMPECCABLE. SO THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING AND CONGRATULATIONS MAYOR PRO. TIM MARTIN, DID YOU HAVE A COMMENT TOO? YES. THANK YOU, PASTOR HALL. AND AS EVERYBODY HAS SAID, WE MUST HAVE ALL BEEN CAMPAIGNING AND MET YOU ON THE TRIP. , YOU HAVE, YOU HAVE A LOT OF INFLUENCE. AND IF, IF YOU WERE LONG, I HATED TO SEE WHAT CAROLYN, EVAN SHABAZZ, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO HER IN THE ACADEMY AWARDS, . WOW. WOW. JUST SAYING. BUT, UH, I KNOW THAT PASTOR'S HAVING THIS, UH, THIS BACK TO SCHOOL DRIVE, BUT WE'RE ALSO PUTTING TOGETHER SOMETHING THAT I THINK IS PRETTY COOL WITH ALL HIS YOUTH PROGRAMS IS THAT WE'RE TAKING A BUNCH OF KIDS DOWN TO NASA YEAH. AND GIVING THEM A TOUR OF NASA AND SPACE CENTERS, HOUSTON, AND SEE THE NEXT ITERATION OF WHICH SPACE TRAVEL IS GOING TO BE WITH THE LAUNCHING OF ARTEMIS TWO AND THE FIRST FLIGHT TO, UH, THE MOON SINCE THE ORIGINAL APOLLO UH, TRIP. AND WHAT'S INTERESTING ABOUT THAT, IT'LL BE THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN PERSON THAT WILL BE WALKING ON THE MOON. WOW. AND, UH, THAT'S QUITE AN ACCOMPLISHMENT IN THESE DAY AND AGE. SO THANK YOU PASTOR FOR WHAT YOU DO, AND THANKS TO ALL THE PASTORS AND THE AUDIENCE TODAY. SO THANK Y'ALL VERY MUCH. ALRIGHT. CONGRATULATIONS PASTOR HALL. ALRIGHT. OKAY. TO GET A PICTURE. OKAY. SO WE NEED [00:20:55] THAT MEANS, BUT HE SEEMED VERY EXCITED ABOUT IT. THANK YOU EVERYONE. AND, UH, WE WERE DISTRIBUTED A BOBBLEHEAD, JUSTIN VERLANDER BOBBLEHEAD, BECAUSE IF YOU HAVE NOT HEARD LOANED LO NOT GIVEN, WE WERE LOANED, UH, THE ASTROS JUST TRADED TO GET JUSTIN VERLANDER BACK IN THE FOLD. SO KATE UPTON, WELCOME BACK TO THE CITY OF HOUSTON. SO THAT'S AWESOME. AWESOME NEWS CHAIR [2:00 P.M. – INVOCATION AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE] NOW RECOGNIZES COUNCIL MEMBER CISNEROS FOR THE INVOCATION. THANK YOU MAYOR PROAM. UM, SO IT IS MY PLEASURE TODAY TO, UM, TO WELCOME AND INVITE REVEREND NATHAN JENKINS TO THE, THE PODIUM. HELLO PASTOR. UM, SO REVEREND NATHAN JENKINS IS A NATIVE HOUSTONIAN WHO GREW UP IN ACRES HOMES FOR THE LAST 11 YEARS. HE HAS BEEN SERVING THE HISTORIC COMMUNITY OF INDEPENDENCE HEIGHTS AS A BIVOCATIONAL PASTOR AT PROVIDENCE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH. THANK YOU PASTOR JENKINS FOR JOINING CITY COUNCIL TODAY AND FOR DELIVERING TODAY'S INVOCATION. WE ARE HONORED BY YOUR PRESENCE AND OUR APPRECIATIVE OF YOUR BLESSING IN ORDER OF THE MAYOR. AND TWO, THESE COUNCIL MEMBERS THAT ARE JOINED HERE TODAY. AND THE CHURCH SAID, AMEN. WANNA READ VERY BRIEFLY FROM PSALMS ONE, FROM PSALM 17, JUST ONE VERSE. I CALLED UPON THE LORD, FOR THOU WILL HEAR ME. OH GOD, INCLINE THY EAR UNTO ME AND HEAR MY PRAYER FOR GOD. WE THANK YOU FOR THIS MOMENT IN TIME THAT YOU BROUGHT US TOGETHER. YOU WOKE US UP THIS MORNING AND YOU STARTED US ON OUR WAY. THAT MEANT THAT YOU HAD PURPOSE. IN THIS DAY, FOR US, WE PRAY, GOD, THAT AT THIS MOMENT WE HAVE CARRIED OUT PART OF THAT PURPOSE. WE ASK YOU, LORD, IN ACCORDANCE WITH YOUR WORD, THAT AS WE PRAY TO YOU NOW, THAT YOU WILL INCLINE AN EAR. AND HERE I PRAY, WE FIRST LIVE TO YOU, FATHER GOD, CITY HALL IN HOUSTON, TEXAS. WE PRAY GOD THAT YOU'LL TOUCH EACH OF THESE SERVANT LEADERS AS THEY CARRY OUT THE JOB THAT THEY HAVE BEEN ELECTED TO DO. WE PRAY, GOD, THAT YOU WILL GIVE THEM YOUR DIVINE WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE AS THEY SEEK TO CARRY OUT EACH TASK, THE KNOWN AND THE UNKNOWN ONES. AND THEN GOD, NOT ONLY DO WE LIVE TO YOU TODAY, OUR CONCERNS FOR CITY HALL, BUT LORD, WE LIFT TO YOU TODAY OUR CONCERN FOR OUR CHILDREN. WE LIFT THEM UP TO YOU, GOD. AND WE ASK THAT YOU WILL HELP US TO BE THE STEWARDS THAT YOU'VE CALLED US TO BE. THAT WE FATHER GOD WILL HELP THEM IN THEIR PRESENT, BUT WE'LL GIVE THEM WHAT THEY NEED, THAT THEY MAY SUCCEED IN THEIR FUTURE. HELP US GOD NOT TO REMOVE PLACES THAT CAN HELP TO REFINE THEIR MINDS, THAT THEY'LL TRY TO SUCCEED, BUT HELP US TO KEEP PLACES WHERE THEY CAN GO. THEIR MINDS WILL CONTINUE TO WANT TO WANT TO REACH. BUT THEN GOD, NOT ONLY DO WE PRAY TODAY FOR CITY HALL, NOT ONLY GOD TODAY, DO WE PRAY FOR OUR CHILDREN, [00:25:01] BUT GOD, WE COME PRAYING TODAY FOR THE COMMUNITIES WHERE WE LIVE. HELP US TO DO BETTER IN THE COMMUNITIES WHERE WE LIVE. HELP US TO SHARE YOUR LOVE AND THE THINGS THAT WE SAY AND IN THE SERVICES THAT WE RENDER. GOD, WE LIFT AND WE PRAY IN YOUR NAME, IN THE NAME OF JESUS THE CHRIST HE HUNG, LED AND DIED, BUT GOT UP EARLY SUNDAY MORNING, WE PRAY IN THE NAME OF THE GOD WHO MANY OF US EMBRACE, WE PRAY THAT YOU'LL REACH US AT OUR PLACES OF FAITH AND BRING US CLOSER TO YOU. BE THE GOD THAT LEADS AND GUIDES US IN EVEN THIS MEETING TODAY. THAT AT THE END OF IT, YOU'LL GET ALL THE GLORY AND YOU'LL GET ALL THE PRAISE. WE PRAY IT NOW AGAIN. IN JESUS' NAME. AMEN. AMEN. PLEASE STAND FOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, P PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH HE STANDS, ONE NATION IN LIBERTY. JUSTICE, MADAM [ROLL CALL AND ADOPT THE MINUTES OF THE PREVIOUS MEETING] SECRETARY, WOULD YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROLE MAYOR? ATTORNEY WILL BE ABSENT. CONSTABLE PECK. HERE. COUNCILOR JACKSON. HERE. COUNCILMAN KAMAN. CONSTABLE EVAN SHABAZZ. HERE. COUNCILMAN MARTIN. PRESENT. CONSTABLE THOMAS. PRESENT. CONSTABLE HUFFMAN. PRESENT. CONSTABLE CISNEROS. HERE. COUNCILMAN GALLEGOS. CONSTABLE POLLARD. HERE. CONSTABLE CASTEX TATUM. HERE. CONSTABLE KNOX. HERE. CONSTABLE ROBINSON WILL BE ASKING COUNCILMAN KOSH HERE. CONSTABLE PLUMMER HERE. AND CONSTABLE ALCORN HERE. WE NEED A MOTION TO DELAY THE MINUTES CASTEX TAKE TO MOVE. SECOND, WE HAVE A MOTION. AND SECOND. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. NOW DO WE HAVE ANY PROCEDURAL MOTIONS? SEEING [PUBLIC SPEAKERS] NONE, MADAME SECRETARY, PLEASE CALL THE FIRST SPEAKER, THE FIRST SPEAKER, CHUCK ANDERSON, TO BE FOLLOWED BY BRIDGET MURRAY. THANK YOU. GOOD AFTERNOON. GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL. UH, MY NAME IS CHUCK EON. I'M REPRESENTING THE, UH, THE DEVELOPER WHO IS SEEKING THE MSD APPLICATION FOR THIS PROPERTY. AND I'M JUST HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. WE DO NOT HAVE ANY, SO THANK YOU. WHAT? YEP. THANK YOU. NEXT SPEAKER, BRIDGET MURRAY TO BE FOLLOWED BY TOMORROW. BELL. GOOD AFTERNOON, MS. MURRAY. WELL, HELLO. HOW IS EVERYONE? GREAT. AND IN TO THE COUNCIL AND IN THE MAYOR IN HIS ABSENCE, I'M HERE TO SPEAK ALSO ON THE MSD FOR NORTH POINT. UM, I'M REPRESENTING TODAY TWO SEPARATE ORGANIZATIONS, THE PLEASANTVILLE AREA SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL NUMBER 57, AND THE NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION ACHIEVING COMMUNITY TASKS SUCCESSFULLY, ALSO KNOWN AS ACTS. OVER THE LAST FOUR YEARS, I, ALONG WITH OTHERS, HAVE BROUGHT OBJECTIONS TO THE APPROVAL OF THE MUNICIPAL SETTING DESIGNATION FOR NORTH POINT. BUT TODAY I'M SUPPORTING THE APPROVAL. OVER THESE LAST FOUR YEARS, THE COMMUNITY REQUESTS HAVE BEEN ADDRESSED THROUGH EITHER DIRECT OR INDIRECT COMMUNICATION WITH BOTH THE CITY AND THE APPLICANT. THE CLOSURE AND RELOCATION OF THE EMERGENCY ACCESS GATE HAS BEEN COMPLETED. THE FUNDING IS BEING PROVIDED TO THE COMMUNITY FOR ADDITIONAL SOIL SAMPLING, COMPLETION OF A COMMUNITY BENEFITS AGREEMENT TO SUPPORT BOTH ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL JUSTICE PROJECTS. SPECIFICALLY, WE'RE WORKING ON A SCHOOL COMMUNITY GARDEN AT HOLLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL. AND, UM, WE ARE IN A CONTRACT WITH THE HOUSTON PARKS BOARD TO WORK TO INSTALL A SHADE STRUCTURE TO REDUCE, UH, URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECT. MM-HMM . AT JUDSON ROBINSON SENIOR PARK. I PERSONALLY WANT TO THANK ALL OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS THAT SUPPORTED OUR EFFORTS TO ADDRESS TOXIC EXPOSURES IN THE COMMUNITY. UNFORTUNATELY, THE WORK CONTINUES NEWS EVEN TO THE MAYOR IN HIS ABSENCE. I WANT TO THANK HIM FOR SIGNING THE EXECUTIVE ORDER REGARDING THE MSD ORDINANCE. IN REVIEW OF THE DOCUMENT, I DO HAVE SOME OUTSTANDING QUESTIONS. THE SAFETY OF RESIDENTS IS SOMETHING WE ALL WANT TO ADDRESS, AND HIS COMMITMENT TO HIS WORD IS TRULY APPRECIATED. BUT YOU ALL KNOW I HAVE TO PUSH THE ENVELOPE A LITTLE FURTHER. WAS THERE ANY INPUT FROM COMMUNITY? AND I, I THINK I WANNA RESTATE [00:30:01] THAT TO SAY INDIVIDUALS OR ORGANIZATIONS INVOLVED IN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE WORK IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SAMPLING REQUIREMENTS. SO IT IS MY UNDERSTANDING FURTHER WORK IS BEING UNDERTAKEN AND WOULD ASK THAT PUBLIC WORKS WORK WITH EJ ORGANIZATIONS. YOUR FINE. THANK YOU. HOLD ON, MS. MURRAY, WE HAVE COUNCIL MEMBER SALLY ALCORN. THANK YOU MS. MURRAY. AND THANKS FOR ALL YOUR WORK ON THIS. I THINK EVERYBODY WOULD AGREE. CERTAINLY YOUR DISTRICT COUNCIL MEMBER AND ALL THAT. IT WAS YOUR WORK AND THE COMMUNITY'S WORK THAT GOT YOU TO THIS POINT ON, ON NORTH POINT. SO, UM, LORD KNOWS THAT CAME TO MY COMMITTEE A COUPLE TIMES AND, AND WE, WE, WE'VE HAD A, HAVE HAD A JOURNEY WITH THIS, BUT REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT OF THE ITEM TOMORROW AND ALSO YOUR RECOGNITION OF THE EXECUTIVE ORDER. UM, COLLEAGUES, THERE IS AN EXECUTIVE ORDER. REMEMBER WHEN WE HAD THE MSD DISCUSSION, THE MAYOR, UM, SAID HE WOULD LOOK INTO THIS AND, AND, AND REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SAMPLING. AND THERE, THERE IS SAMPLING TO BE SET UP AFTER THESE MSDS ARE APPROVED AFTER FOUR YEARS AND AFTER SEVEN YEARS. AND, UH, VERY MUCH HEARD YOUR POINT THAT YOU WANT COMMUNITY INPUT ON THIS. WE DO HAVE SOME TIME AS PUBLIC WORKS WILL BE WORKING ON THIS. I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE SOME TIME AS THIS GOES ON AS, AS, AS, AS MSDS ARE APPROVED IN THE YEARS PAST. SO THERE IS TIME TO WORK ON THAT MM-HMM . BUT IT IS A A HUNDRED PERCENT CREDIT TO YOU AND OTHERS WHO REALLY FOUGHT FOR YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND, AND GOT AND GOT WHAT YOU NEEDED FROM THIS PARTICULAR ONE. SO JUST KUDOS TO YOU AND I THINK WE'RE, WE'RE DEFINITELY HEADED IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION ON THE MSDS. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER ASHA JACKSON. THANK YOU. AND THANK I ECHO. UM, SALLY ALCORN, COUNCIL MEMBER ALCORN, UM, IT WAS YOUR LEADERSHIP AND YOUR FIGHT, UM, TO MAKE SURE THAT, UM, THE MSD THE, THE EXECUTIVE ORDER WAS MOVED FORWARD. I DON'T KNOW, DID YOU GET A CHANCE TO REVIEW THE EXECUTIVE ORDER BEFORE? YES, I DID. OKAY. SO YOU'RE OKAY WITH THAT. SO AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP. WELL, GO AHEAD. LET ME JUST SAY, OKAY, UH, I AM APPRECIATIVE OF THE EXECUTIVE ORDER. I JUST FELT AS I WAS READING THE DOCUMENT THAT THERE MAY BE QUESTIONS TO OTHER COMMUNITY MEMBERS NOT AWARE OF WHAT SOME OF THAT WORDING MAY MEAN. MM-HMM . AND JUST TO TIGHTEN UP SOME OF THAT LANGUAGE OR TO HAVE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF HOW PUBLIC WORKS WILL ACTUALLY ADMINISTER OKAY. THAT, THAT ORDER. SO I THINK IT'S MORE ABOUT HOW PUBLIC WORKS WILL ADMINISTER. OKAY. OR, AND OPERATIONALIZE THE DOCUMENT. OKAY. WELL I WILL CONTINUE TO WORK WITH YOU ON, YOU KNOW, JUST MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE IN COMPLIANCE. 'CAUSE I'VE READ IT YESTERDAY, THE FINAL DRAFT. I WAS ACTUALLY, I HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH UM, ANDY EKIN AS THEY WERE DRAFTING IT UP, BUT I THOUGHT YOU WERE PART OF THE CONVERSATIONS AS WELL. AND SO, UM, BUT I WILL CONTINUE MY OFFICE, WE'LL CONTINUE TO WORK, WORK WITH YOU TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE, YOU KNOW, IT'S IN COMPLIANCE AND EVERYTHING IS MOVING ACCORDING TO, YOU KNOW, WHAT OUR VISION IS. ALRIGHT. OKAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR WORK AND SUPPORT AS WELL. COUNCIL MEMBER JACKSON. THANK YOU. THANK YOU MS. MURRAY. THANK YOU ALL. NEXT SPEAKER. TOMORROW, BELL TO BE FOLLOWED BY DOMINIQUE MAZA. AFTERNOON MS. BELL. HELLO. LONG TIME, NO, SEE, I MEAN IT, I CAME HERE TO COMPLIMENT HIM AND HE NOT HERE . Y'ALL BETTER SEND HIM PRESIDENT. I'M NOT KIDDING. I WAS LIKE, I GOTTA GET OVER HERE. I GOT 50 THINGS TO DO. BUT THE COMPLIMENTS ARE, I, I WANTED TO COMPLIMENT SLACK TURNER ON THE EXECUTIVE ORDER BECAUSE YOU SEE IN OUR COMMUNITIES, WE DIDN'T HAVE A CHOICE WHAT WAS BUILT OR ALLOWED IN OUR COMMUNITY FOR DECADES. AND IF THERE'S NOT A WAY TO MITIGATE IT, THAT MEANS THE CESSPOOL GETS TO STAY THERE. SO IF YOU CAN MITIGATE IT BY MAKING SURE THAT THE LAND CAN BE USED FOR OTHER, AND THAT COMMUNITY GETS THE OPPORTUNITY TO GROW JUST LIKE OTHERS WHERE THAT STUFF WOULD'VE NEVER BEEN ALLOWED. SO I CAME HERE TO TELL HIM THANK YOU, BUT HE NOT HIM. SO, MARCIA, THANK YOU SO MUCH, SALLY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. LETICIA OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS, THANK Y'ALL SO MUCH. AND LET ME TELL Y'ALL WHO DESERVES THE BIGGEST KUDOS. AND THAT'S THAT LADY BACK THEN IN THEM BLAST NAMED AMY, DAN, BECAUSE AMY DAN WAS SO INSTRUMENTAL IN THE LEGAL ASSISTANCE THAT THEY NEED AND HOW TO DO THE BATTLE. AND I WANT TO THANK NORTH POINT BECAUSE NORTH POINT WAS LIKE, OKAY, LOOK, WE NOT LEAVING, WE ARE GONNA BE OVER HERE. WE WANT TO BE GOOD NEIGHBORS. SO THEY REACHED OUT AND MADE SURE THAT THEY COULD GET TOGETHER WITH THEM TO SEE WHAT IS IT YOU NEED IN PLEASANTVILLE? WHAT IS IT YOU DESIRE? AND SO I'M TELLING YOU, TEAMWORK MAKE THE DREAM WORK EVERY TIME. AND SO WE WERE ABLE TO GET A COMMUNITY AGREEMENT. AND SO I'M VERY PLEASED. BUT I HAD COME HERE TO TELL SLOT TURNED UP. THANK YOU. NOW I'M ALSO SPEAKING ON NUMBER 18. UH, THE ONE ABOUT THE, Y'ALL GONNA TALK ABOUT WHETHER THREE COUNCIL MEMBERS, UH, I KNOW Y'ALL NOT ABOUT TO VOTE ON THAT, BUT I'M JUST SAYING Y'ALL NEED TO SUPPORT THAT WHETHER YOU'RE STAYING OR WHETHER YOU GOING BECAUSE YOUR COMMUNITY ELECTED YOU TO COME HERE AND GIVE WHAT THEY NEED. AND IF YOU DON'T HAVE A VOICE, YOU DON'T GET TO DO THAT. SO IF YOU HAVE THE OPTION TO BE ABLE TO [00:35:01] ADD A CRISIS THAT YOU HAVE IN YOUR COMMUNITY TO THAT AGENDA, DON'T LET IT WALK AWAY. WHETHER YOU GONNA BE HERE OR NOT, ALLOW IT FOR THE NEXT PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO BRING THEIR ISSUES, THEIR COMMUNITIES MAY HAVE TO THE FOREFRONT. SO THAT'S IT. Y'ALL HAVE A GREAT DAY AND THANK YOU MS. BELL. THANK YOU. COUNCIL KNOX. MS. BELL. HOLD ON ONE SECOND. COUNCIL MEMBER MICHAEL KNOX. THANK YOU MS. BELL. HOW YOU DOING TODAY? I'M GREAT. SO I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT WHEREVER THE MAYOR IS ON VACATION TODAY, I'M PRETTY SURE HE HEARD YOU . UM, I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT HE WILL GET THE MESSAGE. UH, VERY GOOD, VERY GOOD. ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. SO LEFT IN TEXT . YES. THANK YOU. YOU THANK YOU FOR THE WORK. THANK YOU. AND THANK YOU MS. BE NEXT SPEAKER. DOMINIQUE MAZO HERE TO BE FOLLOWED BY AMY DEAN. I AM DOMINIC MAZO. CAN YOU HEAR ME? CHARGE THE CLOCK. UH, YES, I KNOW COUNCIL MEMBERS ARE GONNA ASK THE QUESTION, WHAT, HOW DID I GET HERE? AND I TOOK THE 96 TO THE RED LINE INTO THE TUNNEL SYSTEM TO HERE. I GOT FROM MY HOUSE TO WHICH IS 45 AND PARKER TO, UH, THE SECURITY GUARD IN THE TUNNELS IN 40 MINUTES. SO THAT'S NOT BAD. THE THING I'M CONS, I AM FOR PROPOSITION 18 AND I'LL GO DIRECTLY TO 40. AND, UH, UM, A REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE SOUTHEAST PART OF THE CITY, SIR, I THINK THIS IS GONNA BE RIGHT SMACKING YOUR RIGHT SMACK IN YOUR AREA. I, WHEN I WAS A YOUNG MAN, I SAW THEM DESTROY, UH, THE, WHAT WE CALL THE 69 QUARTER. I REMEMBER WHEN HIGHWAY 69, WHAT WE CALL HIGHWAY 69 STOP AT WEST PARK AND YOU HAD TO GO TO THE FEEDER STREET DOWN TO 98. THAT'S HOW LONG I'VE BEEN BASICALLY A CITIZEN HERE FOR ABOUT 60 YEARS. MY CONCERN ABOUT ALL THIS IS, I KNOW THERE'S TIME LIMITS ON THIS, UM, ON THESE GRANTS AND STUFF, BUT WHEN THIS WAS PRESENTED TO HJC TRANSPORTATION POLICY COUNCIL ON FRIDAY, AND Y'ALL GONNA VOTE ON IT TOMORROW, MY CONCERN IS THERE'S NO STATEMENTS ANYWHERE ABOUT METRO. AND NOW THIS MONEY IS NOT, I DON'T, IT WOULD BE WRONG FOR METRO TO GET THIS MONEY. I UNDERSTAND THAT. I KNOW THERE HAS TO BE CONNECTIVITY TO REVERSE THE DAMAGE THAT WAS DONE WHEN THE SOUTHWEST FREEWAY WAS BUILT. MY CONCERN IS THOUGH, METRO IS GONNA BE BUILDING TWO BUS RAPID TRANSIT LANES OR SOME SORT OF HIGH CAPACITY TRANSIT IN THAT AREA, WHICH BE THE U THE ORIGINAL UNIVERSITY LINE, WHICH GOES DOWN THE OH SEVEN PACIFIC RIGHT OF WAY ON THE WEST PARK CORRIDOR AND THEN SOMETHING DOWN INTO THE GULFTON AREA. AND MY CONCERN IS, ARE WE TALKING TO EACH OTHER? YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE THAT LINE FROM KUH AND LUKE, WHAT WE HAVE IS A FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE. MY THING IS, I CAN UNDERSTAND THAT Y'ALL AND TECH START WORKING TOGETHER TO GET THIS DONE, BUT INCLUDE METRO, AT LEAST TO THE POINT OF PRESERVING RIGHT OF WAY. SO THAT IF YOU PUT SOMETHING IN, YOU DON'T HAVE TO TEAR IT UP TO TAKE IT TO, TO REDO SOMETHING. YOU KNOW, THE CITY'S INFAMOUS FOR PUTTING SOMETHING IN AND TAKING IT OUT, UH, BECAUSE SOMETHING ISN'T UP TO STUFF. SO MY, AGAIN, MY CONCERN IS I'M NOT AGAINST 40, BUT LET'S LET ALL THE GOVERNMENT AGENCIES GET TO THE TABLE TO DO IT RIGHT. SO, YOU KNOW, WE CAN. AND TWO, WITH, WITH A TRANSIT OPTION THAT GETS PEOPLE TO ABLE TO MOVE WITHIN THE GULFTON COMMUNITY AND OUT OF THE GULFTON COMMUNITY. SO WITH THAT, I JUST WANT MY MONIES, WHETHER IT'S COMING FROM METRO, SEE, YOU KNOW, FROM A CITY TAXES, UH, THROUGH, UH, TRA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION FUNDS. I WANTED TO BE ALL SPENT AND SPENT CORRECTLY. WITH THAT, I'M SENDING IT BACK TO YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS TODAY. NEXT SPEAKER, AMY DEAN. GOOD AFTERNOON. I'M AMY DEN WITH LONE STAR LEGAL AID. I'M HERE TODAY ON BEHALF OF THE PROGRESSIVE FIFTH WARD COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION ON ITEM NUMBER 46, WHICH IS THE PLEASANT HILL VILLAGE APARTMENTS. AS YOU MIGHT HAVE HEARD, I'VE BEEN WORKING ON MSDS FOR QUITE A WHILE AND I, I HAVE SOME PREPARED COMMENTS. I USUALLY COME DOWN HERE AND TRY AND TELL YOU ALL THE TECHNICAL ISSUES THAT ARE GOING ON WITH THESE APPLICATIONS AS FAST AS I CAN. 'CAUSE YOU ONLY GIMME THREE MINUTES AND IT'S REALLY COMPLICATED. AND SO I SENT YOU ALL A LETTER THIS MORNING. IF Y'ALL WOULD TAKE A QUICK MINUTE. WE HAVE AN EXPERT THAT DID AN, UH, POWERPOINT TRY TO MAKE IT REALLY SIMPLE. WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH INVESTIGATION ON THIS. ON THIS PARTICULAR APPLICATION. THERE ARE DRY CLEANERS IN THE AREA. THIS IS OVER IN FIFTH WARD, WHERE WE ALREADY HAVE A LOT OF CONTAMINATION. WE HAVE DRY CLEANERS IN THE AREA THAT WERE [00:40:01] HISTORIC, NEVER INVESTIGATED BY THIS APPLICANT. WE HAVE AN EPA MODEL THAT THEY USED IN ORDER TO DETERMINE HOW, WHAT THE LEVELS OF CONTAMINATION IS THAT THE EPA DISAPPROVES OF THE MODEL THAT THEY USED, THEIR, THEIR, THEIR INVESTIGATION OF THE SITE IS INSUFFICIENT TO ALLOW THE CITY TO ASSESS WHETHER THIS APPLICATION IS APPROPRIATE FOR APPROVAL. AND THAT'S LIKE A FUNDAMENTAL REQUIREMENT IN THE STATUTE THAT THEY FULLY INVESTIGATE THE SITE SO THAT THE CITY HAS ALL THE INFORMATION ABOUT THE CONTAMINATION THAT'S THERE. AND WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT? IS BECAUSE SENIORS, THERE'S A SENIOR LIVING APARTMENT COMPLEX ON TOP OF THIS SITE. THERE ARE SENIORS LIVING THERE RIGHT NOW. I'M AWARE THAT THAT FACILITY WAS IMPACTED BY HURRICANE HARVEY. THERE IS SMELLS OF MOLD IN THIS COMPLEX. THIS IS NOT A GOOD SITUATION AND WE DON'T WANNA MAKE IT WORSE BY APPROVING AN MSD THAT ALLOWS CONTAMINATION THAT'S UNDER THE GROUND TO CONTINUE TO BE THERE AND POTENTIALLY AFFECT THE HEALTH OF VERY VULNERABLE RESIDENTS LIVING THERE. I NEED YOUR HELP. WE'RE TRYING TO BRING THIS INFORMATION TO THE CITY'S AWARENESS. WE'RE PUTTING RESOURCES IN THESE COMMUNITY FIGHTS SO THAT Y'ALL CAN BE INFORMED SO Y'ALL CAN DO YOUR DUE DILIGENCE. I KNOW COMPANIES WANNA REDEVELOP. THEY WANNA MAKE THINGS NEW, BUT THEY'VE GOTTA CLEAN UP THE CONTAMINATION THAT'S THERE BEFORE THEY START AGAIN. AND WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THE LEVELS OF CONTAMINATION ARE. SO WE KNOW PUBLIC HEALTH IS SAFE, PARTICULARLY SENIORS. PARTICULARLY SENIORS PARTICULARLY IN AN AREA LIKE FIFTH WARD, WHERE SOME OF THEM ARE NOW LIVING IN THAT APARTMENT COMPLEX THAT PROBABLY LIVED NEXT TO UNION PACIFIC GROWING UP. AND WE REALLY NEED TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT THESE VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES AND WE NEED TO DO THE RIGHT THING. AND WE NEED TO TAKE A HARD LOOK. AND MY FRUSTRATION COMES BECAUSE WE COME DOWN HERE AND I BRING THESE CONCERNS. I'VE WORKED WITH A NUMBER OF Y'ALL IN YOUR COMMUNITIES TO HELP YOU FIX PROBLEMS, ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS IN YOUR AREA. AND I APPRECIATE WHEN Y'ALL LISTEN. BUT WE ONLY COME DOWN HERE WHEN IT'S IMPORTANT AND WE HIRE AND PUT RESOURCES IN IT BEHIND IT WHEN IT'S IMPORTANT. WE JUST WANNA BE LISTENED TO. AND IN THIS PARTICULAR CIRCUMSTANCE, AND MAYBE IT'S BECAUSE IT'S THE TURS THAT'S INVOLVED IN THE APPLICATION AND THERE'S A PLAN FOR REDEVELOPMENT, I DON'T KNOW, BUT THE CITY'S NOT LISTENING. WE CAN'T GET THEIR TRACTION. NORTH POINT THAT WE JUST HEARD ABOUT WAS A SUCCESS STORY. WE WERE ABLE TO WORK WITH THE APPLICANT, WITH THE CITY TO MAKE A BETTER APPLICATION TO HELP THE COMMUNITY MOVE FORWARD ON ITS PRIOR PRIORITIES TO ENSURE ADDITIONAL TESTING. AND THIS SITUATION OVER HERE AT PLEASANT HILL, THAT IS NOT HAPPENING YET. TIME HAS EXPIRED AND ALL WE'RE ASKING IS WHY, AND ASKING YOU TO TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT THE APPLICATION BEFORE YOU APPROVE IT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU AMY. I DID WANT TO, UM, JUST TAKE THIS POINT OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE TO TELL YOU THANK YOU FOR THE WORK YOU DID IN DISTRICT A WITH THE SALT DOMES, UM, AND PREVENTING THAT FROM, UH, COMING TO DISTRICT A, UH, WE ARE LISTENING. UM, WE APPRECIATE YOUR DILIGENCE. UH, AND WE DO HAVE ONE ADDITIONAL COUNCIL MEMBER IN THE QUEUE. COUNCIL MEMBER PLUMMER. THANK YOU SO MUCH. VICE MAYOR PERAM. AMY, THANK YOU. AND I WANTED TO KIND OF COLLECTIVELY THANK ALL OF YOU, UM, MS. MURRAY. MS. BELL, THANK YOU FOR ALL OF THE WORK, UM, THAT YOU'VE DONE. YOU AND I HAVE WORKED REALLY CLOSELY TOGETHER WITH THE CANCER CLUSTER STUFF AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT OR HOW WE WOULD'VE MOVED AS FAR AS WE DID WITHOUT YOU AND YOUR GUIDANCE AND YOUR EXPERTISE. SO DEFINITELY LISTENING AND, UM, I'LL LOOK INTO ALL OF THIS AS WELL. BUT JUST THANK YOU. KEEP UP, KEEP UP THE WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING 'CAUSE IT MATTERS. THANKS. THANK YOU. NEXT SPEAKER, STEVE WILLIAMS. STEVE WILLIAMS IS NOT PRESENT. ERICA FRANCIS TO BE FOLLOWED BY THE BOY ELAINE ALLEN. GOOD AFTERNOON. ALL COME IN FRONT OF ONE OF THE MICS. ONE OF THE MICROPHONES. OH, SORRY. GOOD AFTERNOON ALL. I'M HERE BECAUSE I HAVE BEEN IN CONTACT WITH YOUR OFFICE. UM, COUNCILMAN SHABAZZ. AND I THINK IT'S, I'M NOT SURE WHOSE OFFICE IS WHO BECAUSE I KNOW THAT IT'S JUST BEEN COMMUNICATION AND I'M HERE MORE SO TO SPEAK WITH YOU. UM, COUNCIL MEMBER TATUM BECAUSE, OR CASTEX BECAUSE THE LAST TIME I WAS HERE AND I BROUGHT MY ISSUE UP WITH MY WATER BILL, I HAVE A DELINQUENT WATER BILL OF OVER $2,700. AND IT WAS IN, UM, I HAD A DISPUTE IN, AND I IT WAS WITH A THIRD PARTY VENDOR, WHOEVER HANDLES YOUR DISPUTES. IT WAS IN A DISPUTE FOR TWO YEARS. WHEN I CAME AND SPOKE WITH SOMEONE AT COUNCIL, IT MOVED TO THE MIRACULOUSLY TO THE TOP. THEY WERE ABLE TO MEET IN A MEETING THAT I WAS NOT PRIVY TO, I COULD ONLY LISTEN TO. AND IT WAS A DECISION MADE THAT I WAS OUT OF THEIR JURISDICTION. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? I DON'T KNOW. I SPOKE WITH, I'VE BEEN IN CONTACT WITH DISTRICT D AND DISTRICT D DOESN'T KNOW EITHER. THEY'VE BEEN TRYING, [00:45:01] EVERYBODY'S BEEN TRYING TO HELP, BUT THE BUCK HAS KIND OF STOPPED WHERE THEY'VE MADE A DECISION OF IT'S OUT OF THEIR JURISDICTION. I NEED TO PAY AND I DON'T NEED TO CONTACT THE CITY. SO I'M, I'M, I'M, I'M CONFUSED. . I HAVE WHO DID, WHO DID YOU TALK TO? I WHEN YOU SAY WHO DID I TALK TO MM-HMM . WHO IN THE WATER DEPARTMENT DID YOU TALK TO? I, I TALKED TO THEY, SO THEY WON'T TALK TO ME. BASICALLY THE WATER DEPARTMENT WON'T TALK TO ME. I'VE BEEN TALKING TO, UM, MS I THINK IT'S MS. HEIGHT. IS SOMEONE IN, IN DISTRICT D? NO, HEIGHT IS IN K. SO YOU CALLED THE DISTRICT K OFFICE. YOUR YOUR HOME IS IN DISTRICT D? MY HOME IS IN DISTRICT D. OKAY. AND I'VE BEEN WORKING WITH DISTRICT D AND ALSO DISTRICT K BECAUSE K IS YOUR OFFICE, I'M ASSUMING. RIGHT. AND I THINK IT'S MS. CHAVEZ. MS. CHAVEZ WAS, SHE WAS WORKING WITH ME AT SOME POINT, AND THEN SHE PASSED ME OVER TO SOMEONE ELSE. AND SO IN CONJUNCTION THEY WERE GIVING ME INFORMATION ON WHEN THE MEETING WAS, BECAUSE I WASN'T PRIVY TO THE DATE. IT WAS JUST GONNA BE A, A MEETING THAT HAPPENED. I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE WATCHING YOUR CITY BOARD FOR THESE TYPE OF HEARINGS AND DIFFERENT THINGS OF THAT NATURE. SO WHEN I DID FIND OUT ABOUT IT, AND I DID LISTEN TO THE MEETING, THE MEETING RULED AGAINST ME. AND WHEN IT'S, AND, AND BASICALLY THE RULING WAS, IT WAS OUT OF THEIR JURISDICTION. SO WHEN I CONTACTED, UM, DID, WHEN I CONTACTED, UM, DI MS. SHABAZZ'S OFFICE, I WANTED TO UNDERSTAND, I THINK HER NAME IS MS. HEIGHT. I WANTED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? INGRAM. INGRAM, OKAY. I WANTED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT DOES OUT OF THEIR JURISDICTION MEAN BECAUSE IT'S LIKE THE BUCK STOPS THERE. AND SO BASICALLY NOBODY KNOWS WHAT THAT MEANS. SO I COME, DO YOU HAVE AN OUTSTANDING WATER BILL? NOW I HAVE AN INTERRUPTION. SO IT'S, IT'S, IT'S CAUSING ME PTSD BECAUSE WHEN I CALLED TO PAY MY BILL, I'M STILL PAYING, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING ON IT. BUT WHEN I CALLED TO DISPUTE THE $452 WATER BILL THAT I HAD TWO MONTHS AGO, THEY TELL ME THAT I CAN NO LONGER DISPUTE ANY ADDITIONAL BILLS. I NEED TO PAY THIS IN FULL. LITERALLY WHEN I, WHEN I SPOKE WITH THE CITY WATER DEPARTMENT YESTERDAY, MOTION TO EXTEND COMMENT SECOND. IT'S BEEN MOVED IN SECOND. WHEN I, WHEN I SPOKE WITH THEM ON YESTERDAY TO, UM, YOU KNOW, TO SEE LIKE, I HAVE THIS BILL FOR THE FIRST, YOU KNOW, I'M THIS OTHER BILL. WELL, BASICALLY THEY TOLD ME I COULDN'T DISPUTE THE 4 52 UNTIL THE RESO, UM, I GOT A RESOLUTION FROM, SO YOU'VE GONE TO A HEARING. I'VE GONE TO A, A HEARING. AND THE HEARING DECIDED THAT THE WATER, IT WOULD, WOULD BE UPHELD? NO, BASICALLY THE, THE HEARING WAS THE, THE DECISION WAS IT WAS OUT OF THEIR JURISDICTION, OUT OF THE WATER BILL DEPARTMENT'S JURISDICTION. IT WAS OUT OF THE, UM, HEARING WHOEVER CONDUCTS THE HEARING, THE WHATEVER, WHATEVER THE, WHATEVER IT WAS OUT OF THEIR JURISDICTION. THERE WAS NO DETERMINATION. IT WASN'T, UM, SAYING OKAY. WHEN YOU CAME THE LAST TIME, DID YOU TELL US YOU HAD SOME VIDEO FOOTAGE OF YOUR I DID. AND METERED. DO YOU HAVE THAT? I DO NOT. AND I CONTACT, I BASICALLY COMMUNICATED THAT WITH YOUR OFFICE BECAUSE IT WAS STORED SO LONG WHEN WE HAD THE POWER ISSUE, THAT INFORMATION THAT I, IT WAS NO LONGER THERE. SO THE WATER ADJUSTMENT BOARD DETERMINED THAT THIS WAS NOT IN YOUR JURISDICTION? I, I'M, I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW HOW TO HELP WITH THIS, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS BECAUSE WE'VE HAD QUITE A FEW PEOPLE CALL ABOUT THEIR WATER BILLS AND GETTING ADJUSTMENTS. I DO KNOW THAT SAUL IS HERE FROM, UM, FROM PUBLIC WORKS. SO HE, THIS IS MY THING. WHEN YOU POINT ME IN THE DIRECTION OUTSIDE PEOPLE OTHER THAN YOURSELF, THEN I, I STOPPED GETTING PHONE CALLS. I'VE STOPPED GETTING EMAILS BECAUSE JUST LIKE, YOU DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER. THEY DON'T KNOW EITHER, YOU KNOW? AND WHEN I ASKED THEM, IT'S LIKE, BECAUSE I'VE CONTACTED YOUR OFFICE SINCE I'VE BEEN HERE, I HAD TO TAKE OFF WORK TO GET HERE. SO I MEAN, IT'S NOT, IT, IT'S, IT'S IT, I'M COMING TO THE CITY FOR HELP. BECAUSE WHEN I ALSO, WHEN I WAS SPEAKING WITH INGRAM, UM, THE QUESTION WAS, DO YOU LIVE IN HARRIS COUNTY OR DO YOU LIVE, THEY WERE TRYING TO FIND OUT IF I WAS A HARRIS COUNTY PERSON OR A CITY PERSON BECAUSE IT, AND THEN IT MADE ME FEEL OUT, NO, NO DISRESPECT TO INGRAM BECAUSE SHE WENT TO, AFTER I LEFT HERE THAT DAY, I WILL SAY SOMETHING GOT MOVING, YOU KNOW, SOME TYPE OF BALL, BUT IT'S STILL NO, NO RESOLUTION. AND I MIGHT GO HOME TODAY AND I'M, I'M WITHOUT WATER, YOU KNOW. IS YOUR WATER ON NOW? CURRENTLY IT IS. OKAY. BUT MY INTERRUPTION IS FOR EIGHT ONE. SO THAT'S WHY I CAME HERE TODAY BECAUSE IF THE CITY WON'T TALK TO ME, THE, THE LADY SAID, WELL MA'AM, YOU JUST NEED TO CONTACT COLLECTIONS AND MAKE, UM, ARRANGEMENTS TO MAKE A PAYMENT. WHY AM I MAKING A PAYMENT ON A $450 WATER BILL? I, UM, COUNCILMAN KOSH, HE, HE REACHED OUT TO ME, ASKED ME TO REVIEW MY WATER BILLS, AND HE SAW THAT THERE WAS AN ISSUE THERE. HE ASKED ME COULD I SET UP SOMETHING IN MY COMMUNITY FOR, UM, HIM TO COME OUT AND SPEAK WITH THE COMMUNITY. PEOPLE DON'T WANNA BE ON CAMERA, [00:50:01] THEY JUST WANT A RESOLUTION. NO, I, I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND , AND YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY ONE THAT'S HAVING AN ISSUE WITH YOUR I EVERY DAY WITH YOUR WATER BILL. AND, AND I MEAN, NO DISRESPECT TO THE OTHER PEOPLE. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEIR RESOLUTIONS ARE, BUT I KNOW THAT MINE IS, I NEED WATER TO WORK. RIGHT. I I, I, I DON'T WANNA HAVE TO BORROW MONEY OR I DON'T WANNA HAVE TO PAY THIS BILL. AND THEN HOW MUCH IS YOUR WATER BILL EACH MONTH? PRIOR TO THIS? PRIOR, TYPICALLY. SO ABOUT $70, $80, AND THEN YOU GOT A BILL FOR $400 OR IS THAT A CUMULATIVE BILL? NO, I GOT A BILL. I, IT WENT FROM BEING 50 TO 70 TO 1 25 TO 2 25 TO THREE. I'VE, I'VE, I HAVE 'EM ALL OVER THE PLACE. I'VE PAID PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TO COME OUT THE, UM, TO SEE IF I HAD A, A LEAK. A LEAK. NO LEAK. THE WATER HAS, THE WATER COMPANY HAS COME OUT, CHANGED MY BOX FOUR OR FIVE TIMES, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, SO I, I'M IN A, I'M NOT A BRAND NEW COMMUNITY, BUT PRETTY MUCH BRAND NEW. I'VE HAD EVEN THE BUILDER COME OUT TO SEE THAT THERE'S NO LEAKS IN THE, IN THE AREA. SO LIKE NOW I'M JUST REALLY STRESSED OUT BECAUSE I NEED WATER EVERY DAY. OKAY. COUNCIL MEMBER THOMAS, CAN YOU ADD SOMETHING TO? SURE. I JUST WANT YOU, YOU, UM, ANSWER MY QUESTION. I WANTED TO KNOW IF YOU WERE A RECEIVING ELECTRONIC METER READINGS. I THINK WHEN YOU FIRST CAME, YOU SAID YOU WERE, THEY WERE ELECTRONIC AND THEY WERE, CHECK, THEY'VE BEEN OUT, THEY, AND THEY CHANGED YOUR WATER METER. RIGHT? AND SO SOMEONE MANUALLY HA HAS COME FROM PUBLIC WORKS TO CHECK YOUR METER. CORRECT. ON MULTIPLE OCCASIONS. ON MULTIPLE OCCASIONS. AND I'VE GOTTEN CORRESPONDENCE IN THE MAIL SAYING, OH, WE'LL APOLOGIZE OF CORRECTION. WE'RE GONNA CREDIT YOU $19. WHAT DO YOU CREDIT ME $19 FOR? I DON'T LIKE, I, THERE'S NO EXPLANATION. SO ON THE AT ALL. SO, SO ON THE, WHEN YOU HAD A, A MASTER PLUMBER COME OUT TO LOOK AT YOUR, UM, YOUR PIPES, DO YOU HAVE THE INVOICES FROM THAT, THAT YOU PROVIDED WITH TO PUBLIC WORKS? I MEAN, I'M SURE I CAN GET IT. YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT, I THINK THAT WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL. YEAH. I MEAN, I'M SURE I CAN GET IT, BUT I CAN ALSO GET RECORD FROM MY, YOU KNOW, THE DEVELOPERS THAT THEY'VE COME OUT. SO I DO, I DO, I MEAN, I DO A LOT OF RESEARCH, BUT WHAT'S GONNA BUY ME TIME WITH ME, ME, MY WATER BILL? DO YOU HAVE ALL OF THOSE RECORDS WITH YOU OR AVAILABLE? THE RECEIPTS? YEAH. NOT WITH ME. IF I THINK WHAT WOULD BE HELPFUL IS TO PACKAGE ALL OF THAT TOGETHER. UM, ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEWS ARE COMMON. WE'VE ESCALATED THAT AND THROUGH VARIOUS ISSUES. UM, I'M SORRY, OFFICES. UM, NOW I HAVE THE BILLS AND THE FLUCTUATIONS. SURE, SURE. HOLD ON. SO, I'M SORRY. UM, UM, BUT I THINK WHAT WILL BE HELPFUL IS TO UNDERSTAND THE RESPONSE OF WHAT'S OUT OF THEIR JURISDICTION ALT MOST TIMES WE'RE ABLE TO RESOLVE AT AN ADMINISTRATIVE HEARING, UM, TO EITHER IF IT'S AN ISSUE WITH ELECTRONIC READING, A METER SYSTEM OR IF THERE'S A LEAK ON THE PRIVATE SIDE, AND THEN WE, WE MITIGATE THAT. BUT IF YOU HAVE ALL OF THAT BACKUP, I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU TO DO THAT WHILE WE FIGURE OUT WHAT THAT MEANS AND HOW THAT IMPACTS YOU. WHEN I LOOKED UP YOUR ADDRESS, YOU ARE IN THE CITY LIMITS. YOU'RE NOT, UM, YOU ARE IN THE CITY. SO, UM, UM, I'M, I'M UNCLEAR ON WHAT THAT MEANS, BUT, UM, I'M GONNA DEFER TO THE VICE MAYOR TO GET SOME ADDITIONAL RESOURCES. SO NOW, MS. FRANCIS, YOU, YOU HAVE RECEIVED SOME, UH, CREDITS ON YOUR ACCOUNT. DID YOU GET THE MESSAGE THAT THEY DID CREDIT YOUR ACCOUNT? I GOT A MESSAGE THAT THEY CREATE ACCREDITED ME $19 AND 2 CENTS. OKAY. AND THIS WAS SOMETIME BACK, YOU KNOW, IT, THERE'S, SO INITIALLY WAS YOUR BILL $2,628. SO THAT'S THE CURRENT BILL. OKAY. I THOUGHT YOU SAID IT WAS 400. I'M NO, NO, NO, NO. THIS IS ACCUMULATION BECAUSE I PAY, BASICALLY WHAT I'VE BEEN DOING IS I, I PAY, I MAKE PAYMENTS ACCORDING TO WHAT I THINK IT MIGHT BE OR SHOULD BE. BECAUSE LIKE THIS MONTH I GOT A BILL FOR $252. IT'S ONLY MYSELF. I, I DON'T RUN MY SPRINKLERS. I'M, I DON'T RUN MY WATER HOSE. SO I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND LIKE WHY I, I'M, I CAN'T AFFORD TO PAY 2 52. AND THEN WHEN YOU FIND WHATEVER'S WRONG WITH IT, YOU TELL ME, MS. FRANCIS, WE GONNA GIVE YOU A CREDIT ON YOUR BILL. LIKE, I, I MIGHT NOT. SO I I I, I HEARD YOU SAY YOU PAY WHAT YOU THINK IT'S GOING TO BE, MEANING NOT 2 52, A HUNDRED HERE, 1 22 HERE. BECAUSE BECAUSE WHAT, WHAT I'VE WATCHED, LIKE YOU ASKED ME OF THE FLUX, WHEN I FIRST MOVED IN THE FIRST YEAR, MY WATER BILL WAS NEVER OVER A HUNDRED AND SOMETHING DOLLARS. RIGHT. I DO KNOW THAT THE CITY HAS, I, I PAY ATTENTION. YOU HAVE A CITY INCREASE OF SOME MIRACULOUS AMOUNT, BUT IT, I DON'T THINK IT WOULD DOUBLE MY BILL. RIGHT. YOU KNOW, I DON'T, I I I DON'T SEE WHERE OR WHY I SHOULD BE PAYING 2 52 NOR FOUR 50. RIGHT. SO MS. FRANCIS, WE, WE ARE NOT GONNA SOLVE IT RIGHT HERE. MM-HMM . TALKING. UM, BUT I, I DO HAVE A NOTICE HERE THAT THERE HAVE BEEN SOME PARTIAL PAYMENTS, SOME MISSED PAYMENTS. AND I WANNA GO OVER [00:55:01] YOUR, THE BILLS THAT YOU HAVE, WHAT YOU'VE PAID AND WHAT IS DUE. UM, THERE MAY BE AN OPPORTUNITY TO, UM, MAYBE GO TO A ANOTHER HEARING AND THEN MAYBE GET ON A PAYMENT PLAN. BUT WE AREN'T GONNA SOLVE IT HERE. I DO IT SOLVED HERE. IT'S ALL HERE. IT'S IN THE BACK. SAUL, CAN YOU WALK HER THROUGH HER, HER PAYMENTS AND SEE IF THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR HER TO GO TO ANOTHER HEARING SO SHE CAN BE CLEAR ABOUT WHAT SHE OWES AND WHAT WE CAN DO AS A CITY FOR ANY ADJUSTMENTS, UM, FOR HER WATER. AND IF WE NEED TO GET SOMEBODY ELSE OUT TO READ, READ HER METER. WHERE IS HE? HE'S BEHIND. HE'S NOT STANDING. STAND UP. STAND UP. HE'S ON THE, HE'S ON THE, THANK YOU. OKAY. YEAH. HEY, SAUL. SO MS. FRANCIS, IF YOU'LL, IF YOU'LL GET WHAT'S SAUL, THEN WE'LL TRY TO GET THROUGH THIS PROCESS WITH YOU. UM, I MEAN, IT MAY NOT BE THE ANSWER THAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR, BUT THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE TO OFFER FOR YOU TODAY. SO AFTER HE AND I GO THROUGH WHAT I OWE, HOW DO WE RESOLVE THE, UH, YOU, YOU'RE SAYING YOU HAVE TO MAKE A PAYMENT ARRANGEMENT WITH THE WATER DEPARTMENT TO PAY THE BILL. SO THE $450 IS WHAT YOU'RE SAYING? I OWE, I, I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU OWE, BUT THAT'S WHY I SAID IF WE CAN GO OVER YOUR BILLS, UHHUH AND WHAT THEY'VE CHARGED UHHUH, AND IF THERE'S NOT AN OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU TO GO TO ANOTHER HEARING, YOU'LL HAVE TO MAKE, MAKE AN ARRANGEMENT TO GET ON A PAYMENT PLAN WITH THE WATER DEPARTMENT. OKAY. NOW, MY QUESTION IS, IS THAT WHEN I EMAIL YOUR OFFICE, HOW, HOW DO IF IF, IF I CAN'T GET SAUL ANYMORE, THEN DO I HAVE TO KEEP COMING HERE TO GET HER TO GET ATTENTION? OR WILL SOMEBODY RETURN MY EMAILS? AND, AND THE WATER DEPARTMENT DOES HAVE A CUSTOMER SERVICE NUMBER. HAVE YOU CALLED? THEY DON'T. OKAY. HAVE YOU CALLED THE CUSTOMER SERVICE LINE? I, I'M NOT SURE IF YOU HEARD ME IN THE EARLIER PART THAT THEY STOPPED TALKING TO YOU. THEY STOPPED TALKING TO ME. THEY TOLD ME THAT I NEED TO PAY THIS WHOLE BILL AND THAT'S IT. THAT'S ALL. SO WHAT I'M TELLING YOU IS, IS THAT WHEN THEY DON'T HAVE A RESOLUTION AND, AND NO ONE HAS A RESOLUTION, THE IT, THE BUCK STOPS THERE. SO, AND I DON'T HAVE ALL THE DETAILS, BUT IT FEELS LIKE THE RESOLUTION IS GOING TO BE ON A, ON A PAYMENT PLAN FOR YOU TO BE ON A PAYMENT PLAN FOR THE WATER THAT HAS BEEN USED. BUT I'M ASKING YOU TO MEET WHAT SAUL, THAT'S FINE. AND GO OVER WHAT YOU OWE AND WHAT ADJUSTMENTS CAN BE MADE BY THE CITY BECAUSE WE WANT YOU TO PAY WHAT YOU'VE USED AND ONLY WHAT YOU'VE USED. AND THAT'S ALL I WANNA PAY. RIGHT? SO IF YOU CAN GET WITH SAUL, THEN WE CAN TRY TO FIGURE OUT WHAT IS APPROPRIATE FOR YOU TO GET ON A PAYMENT PLAN. YOU ARE WELCOME. COUNCIL MEMBER EVERSON. THANK THANK, THANK YOU MS. FRANCIS. UH, MS. FRANCIS, I'M SORRY, JUST, JUST A SECOND. I'M SORRY. UM, COUNCIL MEMBER, AND I KNOW THAT YOU'VE BEEN TALKING TO INGRAM MM-HMM . AND I DON'T WANNA JUST LEAVE YOU IN THE HANDS OF SA WE WILL ENGAGE WITH THIS TO SEE IF WE CAN GET A RESOLUTION. NOW, I DID SEE THAT THEY SAID THAT THEY WERE GONNA DO A METER ACCURACY TEST AND THEY NEEDED A REQUEST FORM, BUT THEY SAY THEY HAVEN'T RECEIVED THE FORM FROM YOU. DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THAT? SO JUST FYI AND THAT'S WHY I FEEL SLIGHTED BECAUSE WITH INGRAM, INGRAM HAS BEEN WORKING BACK AND FORTH. MM-HMM . THIS INFORMA SOME OF THIS INFORMATION THEY SAY THAT THEY'RE REQUESTING, THEY'VE NEVER REACHED OUT TO ME AND ASKED ME. THEY, AND THEN THEY'VE EVEN TOLD INGRAM THAT, UM, THIS IS NOT INFORMATION THAT WE PROVIDE TO THE CUSTOMER. OR LIKE, I MEAN, I, I, I, AT THIS POINT, I UNDERSTAND YOUR FRUSTRATION BECAUSE WE'RE GONNA TRY TO WORK, WORK WITH YOU TO SEE WHAT'S GOING ON. 'CAUSE I'M STILL BACK AT YOU GOT A WATER BILL, BUT IT'S NOT IN THEIR JURISDICTION. I'M, I'M STILL TRYING TO WRAP MY MIND AROUND THAT. AND I'M STILL, I'M, I'M, I'M STILL IN THE SAME, I'M IN THE BOAT, WHEREAS THE PEOPLE ARE PASSING ME ON. OKAY. BECAUSE I'VE NEVER DENIED THAT. I, I, I HAVEN'T USED ANYTHING. BUT WHAT, WHAT I'M SAYING IS THAT I DON'T WANNA PAY MORE THAN WHAT I'M PAYING. ABSOLUTELY. AND SO NOW I'M BEING PUSHED TO PAY. THAT'S, THAT'S HOW YOU'VE MADE ME FEEL TODAY, RIGHT, . OKAY. WELL, WE'LL, WE'LL STAY ENGAGED ON THIS TO TRY TO GET YOU A RESOLUTION. THANK YOU. NEXT SPEAKER, DEBORAH. ELAINE ALLEN. OH, YES. DEBORA IS NOT PRESENT. BARBARA . HELLO. UM, I'M REPRESENTING MYSELF. MY NAME'S BARBARA SMET. UH, I'VE BEEN LIVING IN THE MUSEUM DISTRICT ABOUT 25 YEARS. I MOVED THERE WITH BABIES AND NOW THERE'S, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S, THEY'RE GROWN. AND, UM, BUT WHAT'S, YOU WERE PASSED OUT SOME LETTERS. ONE IS DATED 2019. UM, AND COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, CAME, IS NOT HERE TODAY. AND THE OTHER LETTER WAS SENT BY COUNCIL MEMBER ALCORN TO OUR MAYOR. AND THAT WAS FOUR MONTHS AGO. AND SO I'M NOT AN ATTORNEY, BUT MY QUESTION IS, IF WE HAVE CHAPTER 28, CAN WE DRILL DOWN AND SEE WHY [01:00:01] A HOTEL, A SHORT-TERM RENTAL THAT'S OPERATING AS A HOTEL, 24 UNITS AT WITHIN. SO I'M 1130 BANKS. THIS IS AT 1 1 1 6 BANKS. HOW COME THAT'S STILL OPERATING? AND I, I WANNA, I WANNA BE REALLY CLEAR ABOUT HOW THAT'S IMPACTING ME AND WHY I AM DEDICATING THE AMOUNT OF TIME THAT WE ARE DEDICATING WHEN I SAY WE, IT'S A BIG GROUP, YOU GUYS, SO I DON'T WANT YOU GUYS TO GET BLINDSIDED, BUT IT'S REAL. SO SHORT TERM RENTAL, OPERATING AS A HOTEL CAN CHANGE A NEIGHBORHOOD. LIKE YOU CAN'T BELIEVE. I, I, I SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING. I MEAN, I UNDERSTAND CHANGE, I UNDERSTAND THAT. BUT THIS IS NOT MA PA GOING ON VACATION. THIS IS CARS PULLING UP, PEOPLE GOING IN, PEOPLE GOING OUT. I, I'M NOT WATCHING BECAUSE I'M NOT IN THESE UNITS. THERE'S 24 OF THEM. BUT I CAN TELL YOU THAT I KNOW WHAT I'M SEEING. AND I THINK WHAT I'M SEEING FRANKLY IS HUMAN TRAFFICKING. I THINK WHAT I'M SEEING IS DRUG DEALING. I THINK WHAT I'M SEEING IS PROSTITUTION. AND THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME THIS HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO YOUR ATTENTION. AND I'M JUST ONE PERSON. I'M A MOMMY WHO MOVED HERE FROM EL PASO WITH TWO NINAS, TWO LITTLE GIRLS. AND THIS IS A FRAGILE OLD NEIGHBORHOOD IN THE MUSEUM DISTRICT. A BEAUTIFUL NEIGHBORHOOD. AND I CAN TELL YOU HOW HARD I'VE WORKED AS A SINGLE MOM TO STAY IN THAT HOME. SO MY PASSION FOR STAYING IN THAT HOME IS INTENSE. AND I'M GONNA STAND UP FOR MY NEIGHBORHOOD BECAUSE I LIKE IT. IT'S QUIET, IT'S TREE LINED, SO THEY LIKE IT TOO. 'CAUSE IT'S QUIET AND IT'S TREE LINED. AND IT TOOK ME FIVE MONTHS TO WORK WITH OUR CONSTABLE. WE GET THAT YOU GUYS ARE STRETCHED. SO WE AS A NEIGHBORHOOD WENT DOOR TO DOOR AND RAISED $90,000 TO HAVE A CONSTABLE. WE CAN'T AFFORD 24 7, BUT WE HAVE ROUGHLY 40 HOURS. SO THE POINT OF THE STORY ABOUT THE CONSTABLE AND ABOUT THE EFFORTS AND ABOUT WHAT I'M, WHAT I'VE SEEN AND WHAT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED. WE SHUT DOWN A DRUG HOUSE. IT TOOK FIVE MONTHS, SO YOUR TIME HAS EXPIRED. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER ALCO. THANK YOU. VICE MAYOR PROAM. AND THANK YOU BARBARA FOR YOUR CONTINUED ADVOCACY FOR YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD. I KNOW COUNCIL MEMBER CAYMAN, UM, WOULD JOIN ME IN, IN, IN THANKING YOU. UH, THIS, UM, VICE MAYOR PRO TEM WAS, WAS A SITUATION AT 1116 BANKS, WHICH WAS BROUGHT, UM, SEVERAL SPEAKERS CAME TO MY COMMITTEE MEETING BACK IN, I GUESS, MARCH. UM, WHEN WE MET ON SHORT TERM RENTALS. WE, UH, WE WERE SUCCESSFUL IN GETTING THIS, THIS PROPERTY TAKEN OFF AIRBNB AND VRBO PLATFORMS. BUT THERE'S OTHER, IT'S ALMOST WORSE BECAUSE IT'S LIKE LESS KNOWN, LESSER, UH, ACCOUNTABLE PLATFORMS BY WHICH THEY CAN STILL, UH, RENT THESE APARTMENTS, UM, FOR LOW RATES FOR A TON OF PEOPLE. IT DOESN'T MATTER. AND THIS, UH, THIS IS IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD, IN THE MUSEUM DISTRICT, BUT IT'S IN A LOT OF PLACES. AND THIS IS THE MOST EGREGIOUS, I THINK IF WE'RE GOING TO DO ANYTHING ON SHORT TERM RENTALS. IT'S THIS, IT'S IN THESE COMPLEXES BECAUSE FIRST OF ALL, A LOT OF THESE ARE, THESE ARE, IT'S REMOVING AFFORDABLE HOUSING STOCK OFF THE OFF. I MEAN, THESE WERE AFFORDABLE APARTMENTS FOR PEOPLE TO RENT. WHAT'S HAPPENING? THESE OWNERS ARE COMING IN, THEY'RE BUYING UP THE WHOLE THING. THEY'RE HIRING SOME MANAGEMENT COMPANY THAT'S JUST RENT THEM. AND THEY ARE A DEFACTO HOTEL. I MEAN, THAT'S WHAT THEY ARE. AND WE HAVE RULES ON THE BOOKS. AND I KNOW LEGAL'S LOOKING INTO THIS FOR FOUR MONTHS. , WE HAVE, UM, CHAPTER 28, WHICH STATES YOU, UH, ABOUT OUR HOTELS. IT SHALL BE UNLAWFUL FOR ANY PERSON TO CONVERT ANY PREMISES FOR USE AS A HOTEL UNLESS THE FOLLOWING REQUIREMENTS ARE MET. IT'S SITUATED, HAVE DIRECT FRONTAGE ON AND TAKE PRIMARY ACCESS TO AT LEAST ONE MAJOR THOROUGHFARE. THAT'S NOT THE CASE. UM, NO PORTION OF THE TRACT AND TAKE ACCESS FROM A STREET ON WHICH A PUBLIC PARK IS, HAS FRONTAGE, WHATEVER. THERE'S BELL PARK, RIGHT, RIGHT THERE. THERE'S A SCHOOL PROPERTY LINE OF THE, UH, UH, OF THE TRACT ON WHICH A HOTEL WITH 50 OR FEWER SEPARATELY RENTABLE UNITS IS SITUATED. MAY NOT A, BUT AT ANY POINT, ANY OTHER TRACK THAT ISN'T WHOLE OR PART RESIDENTIAL IN CHARACTER, WHICH IT IS. SO IT'S, WE EITHER DEFINE THESE SOMEHOW, I MEAN, OR WE LIMIT THE NUMBER, THE PERCENTAGE. MANY CITIES LIMIT THE PERCENTAGE OF, OF UNITS WITHIN A COMPLEX, WHICH CAN BE AIRBNB, WHICH CAN BE OR BE SHORT TERM RENTALS. A LOT OF CITIES ARE GOING THAT DIRECTION. I KNOW THERE'S LEGAL CHALLENGES TO ALL THESE, UM, ALL THESE SHORT TERM RENTAL LAWS THAT, THAT CITIES ARE PUTTING ON THE BOOK IN THE BACK OF, OF THE, OF COUNCIL MEMBER PECK. AND MY MEMO IS RESEARCH FROM OTHER CITIES, WHICH IS ALREADY DATED. THE [01:05:01] DALLAS I KNOW HAS MADE SIGNIFICANT CHANGES, BUT IT'S ALREADY OUT OF DATE. UH, I'M GETTING TO A QUESTION. SO, SO WHAT IS YOUR GROUP, OR I KNOW YOU'RE REPRESENTING JUST YOURSELF AND I EXPECT THERE WILL BE ADDITIONAL SPEAKERS NEXT WEEK ON THIS TOPIC. GET READY. BUT WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST ASK OF THE CITY? IS IT TO WHY ARE WE EVEN TALKING ABOUT THIS? THE LAW EXISTS. SO WHY ARE WE LOOKING AT OTHER CITIES? IF YOU HAVE RULES ON THE BOOKS, WHAT GOOD IS THE CITY IF THEY DON'T ENFORCE THE RULES? THEY HAVE PEOPLE, WE HAVE RULES ABOUT HOTELS. WE DO NOT HAVE RULES ABOUT SHORT-TERM RENTAL, RENTALS. RENTAL. SO UNLESS THIS IS DEFINED AS A HOTEL, UM, WHICH IT SEEMS TO BE ACTING. I MEAN, IF IT LOOKS LIKE A DUCK THAT LOOKS LIKE A HOTEL, SMELLS LIKE A HOTEL. YEAH. THAT I, YOU'RE RIGHT. SO ANYWAY, I CAN THAT LEGAL, WELL, UH, LEGAL IS LOOKING INTO IT, I HAVEN'T SURE. FOR FOUR MONTHS. AND, UM, THANK YOU FOR COMING. YOU'RE WELCOME. THANKS GUYS. IT'S A MESS. COUNCIL MEMBER POLLARD, I'M SORRY. THANK YOU. I I AGREE WITH YOU. UH, HOWEVER THE ORDINANCE WILL BE INTERPRETED IS FOR A COURT TO DECIDE. THAT'S NOT FOR US TO DECIDE. WE HAVE SOMETHING ON THE BOOKS THAT IF WE WERE TO INTERPRET THE WAY WE WANT TO INTERPRET IT, WHICH IS TO ENFORCE THAT THESE COMPLEXES CAN'T HAVE THESE SHORT TERM RENTALS, THEN WE ENFORCE IT AND LET THE COURTS DECIDE WHAT THEY WANNA DECIDE. AND THEN IT MAY GET APPEALED FROM THERE AND APPEALED FROM THERE. WE UNDERSTAND HOW TO USE THE LEGAL SYSTEM TO ENSURE THAT WE GET THE RESULTS THAT WE WANT TO GET. SO WE DON'T WANT, WE SHOULDN'T PICK AND CHOOSE WHEN TO TAKE THAT COURSE OF ACTION. MY, MY BIGGEST THING IS IF WE HAVE AN ORDINANCE AND WE BELIEVE THAT IT COULD, UM, BE SEEN TO BE, UM, GERMANE TO THIS TOPIC, JUST USE IT AND GO FORWARD AND THEN, AND THEN WE GO FROM THERE. NOW WE HAVE TO TWEAK IT BASED ON A, BASED ON A COURT RULING, THEN WE CAN DO IT THEN. BUT I DON'T SEE ANYTHING THAT STOPS US FROM BEING ABLE TO ENFORCE. I THINK LEGAL DOES AN EXCELLENT JOB, BUT WE PUT SO MUCH ON THEIR, ON THEIR, ON THEIR PLATE TO SAY, REVIEW THIS REVIEW. THAT'S JUST ACT. AND THEN FROM THERE WE WILL START TO SEE WHAT ACTUALLY WORKS AND WHAT DOESN'T WORK. BUT WE ARE THE ONES WHO CREATE THE ORDINANCE. SO WE'RE THE ONES THAT INTERPRET THE ORDINANCE, AND WE CAN INTERPRET THE ORDINANCE TO SAY, THIS IS IN VIOLATION OF OUR ORDINANCE. SO LET, LET'S MOVE FORWARD THAT WAY. SO THAT WOULD BE MY SUGGESTION. UH, AND I'M, I'M SURE THE MAYOR WILL, WILL BE LISTENING OR HEARING, UH, MORE ABOUT THIS AND WE CAN ALL DISCUSS THIS ON OUR OWN, BUT AS YOU SAID, THERE IS AN ORDINANCE. LET'S, LET'S SEE WHAT WE CAN DO WITH THAT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. COME COUNCILMAN POLLARD. NEXT SPEAKER MAC HOKE. UH, MAC IS MY NEIGHBOR, AND, UM, HE'LL BE HERE NEXT WEEK. OKAY. HE'S A LOT OF . THANK YOU. NEXT SPEAKER. PHILLIP CARRANZA. SPEAKER IS NOT PRESIDENT. MICHAEL TRU. N WHO, I'M SORRY, I SKIPPED ONE. ROBERT NEUENDORF. ROBERT NENDO. NEXT SPEAKER. NO, MICHAEL TO BE FOLLOWED BY RONA SMITH. OKAY. GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS, UH, MICHAEL TRUNCAL. I'M A HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER HERE IN HOUSTON. I'M ALSO PART OF THE LGBTQ PLUS COMMUNITY. I WANNA SPEAK TODAY ABOUT PURE WORDS BAPTIST CHURCH, A CONGREGATION IN A STRIP MALL AT 1 4 5, 6 7 SOUTH MAIN STREET. I WANNA START BY QUOTING ONE OF THEIR PASTORS, JONATHAN SHELLEY. UH, TO WARN YOU, THIS IS OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE, BUT PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW WHAT PURE WORDS CHURCH STANDS FOR IN A SERMON IN 2020, PASTOR JONATHAN SHELLEY SAID, I WISH EVERY F*G AND T****Y WOULD KILL THEMSELVES RIGHT NOW. ALL OF THEM. AND IF THEY WON'T KILL THEMSELVES, YOU KNOW WHAT? OUR GOVERNMENT SHOULD TAKE THEM OUT AND STONE THEM TO DEATH. THIS IS ONLY A SMALL TASTE OF THE DISGUSTING VIOLENCE THAT THIS CHURCH ADVOCATES. PURE WORDS. BAPTIST CHURCH IS PART OF THE NEW INDEPENDENT FUNDAMENTALIST BAPTIST MOVEMENT. THEY HAVE ROUGHLY 30 CONGREGATIONS ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND IN THEIR SERMONS, THEY REGULARLY CALL FOR THE GENOCIDE OF THE ENTIRE GAY, LESBIAN, AND TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY. IN ADDITION TO BEING A TEACHER, I'M WITH UNITED HOUSTON, UNITED FRONT AGAINST FASCISM. WE HAVE HELPED ORGANIZE THE NO HATE IN HOUSTON CAMPAIGN TO MAKE OUR COMMUNITY AWARE OF PEOPLE WHO ADVOCATE MURDER AND GENOCIDE AS A GAY MAN. PURE WORDS, MURDEROUS RHETORIC NOT ONLY INFURIATES ME, BUT SCARES ME. THE POLITICAL CLIMATE IN TEXAS [01:10:01] HAS DESCENDED INTO A DARK PLACE WHERE LESBIAN, GAY, AND TRANSGENDER PEOPLE DO NOT FEEL SAFE. PURE WORDS, RHETORIC OF VIOLENCE IS BEING EMBRACED AND ACTED ON BY MURDEROUS INDIVIDUALS. IN THE PAST YEAR, TEXAS RANKS THIRD IN THE NATION IN HATE CRIMES AGAINST THE ENTIRE QUEER COMMUNITY. ONLY LAST WEEK, AN LGBTQ PLUS FRIENDLY CHURCH IN PLANO WAS FIREBOMBED. ALSO LAST WEEK IN BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, A YOUNG GAY MAN WAS STABBED TO DEATH AFTER BEING HARASSED BY A GROUP OF TEENAGERS THAT USE GAY SLURS. THE VIOLENCE PURE WORDS ADVOCATES IS BEYOND JUST TEXAS. IT IS GRIPPING THE NATION TELL PURE WORDS IS EVICTED AND DE PLATFORMED. THE NO HATE IN HOUSTON CAMPAIGN WILL BE PROTESTING EVERY SUNDAY MORNING AT THIS CHURCH. SINCE MAY, WE HAVE HAD 21 CONTINUOUS PROTESTS ON SUNDAY MORNING TO BRING ATTENTION TO THIS MURDEROUS CULT. AND WE'LL CONTINUE UNTIL THEY ARE GONE. THE PROPERTY OWNER OF THE STRIP MALL IS BRIDGEWELL INDUSTRIAL PORTFOLIO, AND THEIR AGENT IS ATTORNEY BRAD PORTER. I ASK YOU TO CONDEMN THIS VIOLENCE AND HATRED. I ALSO ASK THAT ANYONE IN THE COMMUNITY WHO WANTS TO STOP THE SPREAD OF THESE MONSTROUS FASCIST BELIEFS, PLEASE JOIN US IN OUR PROTESTS. FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE EMAIL HUGH FAFF@PROTONMAIL.COM. THAT IS SPELLED HU FAF AT PROTON MAIL. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. NEXT SPEAKER RONA SMITH, BE FOLLOWED BY DAVID SMITH. GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS RONA SMITH. I'M A LICENSED PROFESSIONAL COUNSELOR IN PRIVATE PRACTICE AND A MEMBER OF HOUSTON UNITED FRONT AGAINST FASCISM AND THE NO HATE IN HOUSTON CAMPAIGN. OUR CAMPAIGN IS ORGANIZING OPPOSITION TO PURE WORDS BAPTIST CHURCH AT 1 4 5 6 7 SOUTH MAIN STREET IN HOUSTON BECAUSE THEY PUBLICLY ADVOCATE GENOCIDE. THIS HATE CHURCH CALLS FOR THE EXTERMINATION OF ALL LGBTQ PLUS PEOPLE AND ALL JEWS. AS A JEWISH PERSON, THIS ANGERS AND FRIGHTENS ME. THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER AND THE ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE HAVE IDENTIFIED THE NEW INDEPENDENT FUNDAMENTAL BAPTIST MOVEMENT WITH WHICH PURE WORDS IS AFFILIATED AS A HATE GROUP. IN ITS SERMON, JONATHAN SHELLEY, THE PASTOR OF PURE WORDS, EXPRESS DOUBT THAT THE HOLOCAUST KILLED 6 MILLION JEWS. AND HE SAID, ONLY IF WE WERE LUCKY. IN ANOTHER SERMON DISCUSSING GAYS AND JEWS, SHELLY SAID, YOU HAVE TO ELIMINATE THESE INDIVIDUALS. WE CANNOT ALLOW THEM TO SURVIVE PURE WORDS AND AFFILIATED CHURCHES ALSO CALL FOR THE EXECUTION OF ALL PEOPLE WHO HAVE OR PROVIDE ABORTIONS, ALL ADULTERERS AND REBELLIOUS YOUTH. THIS ADVOCACY OF GENOCIDE HAS LED THE MOVEMENT LEADER STEPHEN ANDERSON, TO BE BANNED FOR MORE THAN 30 COUNTRIES. THIS MOVEMENT ALSO CONDEMNS MUSLIMS AS DEMONIC AND REVILES EVERY CHRISTIAN DENOMINATION OTHER THAN THEIR OWN. ALTHOUGH THE VOTE'S AMENDMENT PROTE PROTECTS EVEN THE WORST KINDS OF HATE SPEECH, OUR CAMPAIGN RECOGNIZES THAT PEOPLE IN GREATER HOUSTON HAVE RESOURCES TO COMBAT THIS CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO THE COMMUNITY. WE'LL CONTINUE OUR WEEKLY PROTEST, PURE WORDS, AND WE'LL CONTINUE ASKING BRIDGEWELL INDUSTRIAL PORTFOLIO TO EVICT THE CHURCH. WE'LL NOT STOP UNTIL THE CHURCH AND THE THREAT IT POSES ARE GONE. WE'RE HERE TODAY TO INFORM YOU ABOUT THIS THREAT AND REQUEST THAT YOU CONSIDER AT AN UPCOMING MEETING, A RESOLUTION CONDEMNING PURE WORDS ADVOCACY OF GENOCIDE. THIS RESOLUTION WOULD HELP DRAW PUBLIC ATTENTION TO THIS DANGER AND SEND A POWERFUL MESSAGE OF OPPOSITION ON BEHALF OF THE PEOPLE OF HOUSTON. OUR CAMPAIGN WILL EMAIL ALL OF YOU DOCUMENTS RELATED TO THE CHURCH IN THE NEXT TWO DAYS, AND WE WOULD BE VERY GLAD TO MEET WITH COUNCIL MEMBERS TO DISCUSS THIS INFORMATION AND A POSSIBLE COUNCIL RESOLUTION. ANY COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO WANNA PARTICIPATE IN OUR PROTESTS CAN CONTACT US AT HU F@PROTONMAIL.COM. THAT'S HUF LIKE FRANK A F LIKE FRANK AT P-O-T-O-N-M-A-I L.COM. THANK YOU. THANK YOU MS. SMITH. NEXT SPEAKER DAVID SMITH, [01:15:01] TO BE FOLLOWED BY FELICIA GALLOWAY. GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS DR. DAVID MICHAEL SMITH. I'M A FORMER TENURED PROFESSOR OF GOVERNMENT AT COLLEGE OF THE MAINLAND AND FORMER ADJUNCT LECTURER AT, UH, DOWNTOWN. I'M ALSO A MEMBER OF HOUSTON UNITED FRONT AGAINST FASCISM IN THE NO HATE AND HOUSTON CAMPAIGN, ALONG WITH MY COLLEAGUE MICHAEL AND MY WIFE RONA. I'M HERE TODAY TO INFORM YOU ABOUT THE DANGER POSED BY PURE WORDS BAPTIST CHURCH AND TO ASK FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE IN OVERCOMING THIS THREAT. THE PUBLIC ADVOCACY OF EXTERMINATION OF ALL L-G-B-T-Q PEOPLE, JEWS, PEOPLE WHO HAVE OR PROVIDE ABORTIONS, ADULTERERS, REBELLIOUS YOUTH AND OTHER PEOPLE CANNOT GO UNCHALLENGED. WE LIVE IN A HISTORICAL PERIOD IN WHICH THE PROMOTION OF HATRED AND VIOLENCE DEMONSTRABLY LEADS TO DEATH AND DESTRUCTION. WITNESS THE EPIDEMIC OF MURDERS OF GAY AND TRANS PEOPLE AND THE GROWING ATTACKS ON DRUG SHOW DRAG SHOWS AND PRIDE EVENTS. WITNESS THE MASS MURDER OF MEXICAN AMERICANS IN EL PASO AND VIOLENT ATTACKS ON MIGRANTS. WITNESS THE MASS MURDER OF JEWS AT THE TREE OF LIFE SYNAGOGUE IN PITTSBURGH AND ATTACKS ON OTHER JEWISH INSTITUTIONS. WITNESS THE MASS MURDER OF BLACK PEOPLE IN CHARLESTON IN BUFFALO. WITNESS THE MASS MURDER OF ASIAN AMERICANS IN ATLANTA AND OTHER VIOLENCE AGAINST THIS COMMUNITY. WITNESS THE GROWING NUMBER OF ARSON ATTACKS AND DEATH THREATS AGAINST ABORTION CLINICS. THE HATRED AND VIOLENCE PROMOTED BY PURE WORDS AND AFFILIATED CHURCHES HAS ALREADY PRODUCED FRIGHTENING RESULTS. THE DAY AFTER THE LEADER OF THEIR NATIONAL MOVEMENT PUBLICLY SAID HE PRAYED FOR THE DEATH OF PRESIDENT OBAMA. ONE OF THEIR ARMED CHURCH MEMBERS SHOWED UP AT ONE OF THE PRESIDENT'S EVENT WITH A RIFLE PROTESTORS AGAINST THE HATE CHURCH THAT'S AFFILIATED UP IN NORTH TEXAS HAD BEEN REPEATEDLY PUSHED AND SHOVED BY ARMED CHURCH MEMBERS. AND LAST YEAR, A HEAVILY ARMED MEMBER OF AN AFFILIATED HATE CHURCH IN WASHINGTON STATE WAS ARRESTED AFTER PUBLICLY THREATENING DECAY KILL GAY AND TRANS PEOPLE. TO BE SURE ALL THIS HATRED AND VIOLENCE IS ONLY ONE FACE OF THE GROWING THREAT OF FASCISM IN THIS COUNTRY. AS YOU KNOW FAR RIGHT, REPUBLICANS IN TEXAS AND OTHER STATES ARE ENACTING LAWS TO DENY L-G-B-T-Q RIGHTS, TO BAN ABORTIONS, TO RESTRICT VOTING RIGHTS, DENY MIGRANT RIGHTS, PROHIBIT SCHOOLS FROM TEACHING THE TRUTH ABOUT OUR HISTORY, LIMIT LOCAL GOVERNANCE, ROLLBACK, WORKERS' RIGHTS, AND MUCH MORE. FRANKLY, WE'RE NOT HERE TODAY TO RECRUIT YOU FOR A BROAD ANTI-FASCIST MOVEMENT. WE'RE WORKING ON THAT OURSELVES. BUT AS RONA JUST SAID, WE DO ASK YOU TO CONSIDER AT AN UPCOMING MEETING PASSAGE OF A RESOLUTION UNEQUIVOCALLY CONDEMNING PURE WORDS BAPTIST CHURCH ADVOCACY OF GENOCIDE. AND WE WILL FOLLOW UP ON THIS REQUEST. COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO WOULD LIKE TO PARTICIPATE IN OUR PROTEST CAN CONTACT US AT HUF FAF F AT P-R-O-T-O-N-M-A-I L.COM. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. NEXT SPEAKER, FELICIA GALLOWAY. FELICIA FOR HIM? YES. OH, OKAY. MR. SMITH, IF YOU'LL COME BACK, WE DO HAVE A COMMENT FROM COUNCIL MEMBER GALLEGOS. YES, SIR. WELL, FIRST OF ALL, THANK Y'ALL FOR COMING HERE TODAY AND, UM, BRINGING THIS TO OUR ATTENTION AND TO THE CITY'S ATTENTION. UH, I KNOW THAT, UH, LIKE YOU STATED, UH, YOU KNOW, WE DO NEED TO SPEAK UP, UH, AND WE NEED TO TRY TO DO WHAT WE CAN. UH, I KNOW THAT, UH, DUE THE FACT OF SOME OF OUR NATIONAL LEADERS AND OUR STATE LEADERS, UH, THAT ARE PREACHING THINGS LIKE THIS THAT DOES NOT HELP, DOES NOT HELP. UH, SO IF YOU CAN REACH OUT TO MY OFFICE AND SEE WHAT I CAN DO, UH, AND, UH, UM, SO AGAIN, AGAIN, IF YOU CAN JUST REACH OUT TO MY OFFICE, PLEASE. WE, WE SURE WILL. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS I CAN ANSWER? THANK YOU MR. SMITH. THANKS AGAIN. NEXT SPEAKER. FELICIA GALLOWAY. FELICIA GALLOWAY IS NOT PRESENT. TRACY WILLIAMS. TRACY WILLIAMS IS NOT PRESENT. KIMBERLY DUNBAR. KIMBERLY DUNBAR IS NOT PRESENT. JOSEPH BALLARD. JOSEPH BALLARD IS NOT PRESENT. RESSA CLEMONS. RESSA CLEMONS IS NOT PRESENT. RALPH HEBERT JR. [01:20:01] IS NOT PRESENT. ROBERT CAMPBELL. NEXT SPEAKER, ROBERT CAMPBELL IS NOT PRESENT. RHONDA JONES IS PRESENT TO BE FOLLOWED BY TRAVIS MCGEE. GOOD AFTERNOON. HEY, MS. JONES, IF YOU'LL SPEAK RIGHT BEHIND THAT MICROPHONE. THIS ONE? YEAH, THAT'S FINE. OKAY. I, I HAD WRITTEN A SPEECH, BUT I HAVE, UH, I'VE HAD A TIME AT THIS MEETING, SO I'M JUST GONNA TELL YOU WHAT, WHY I'M HERE. I LIVE IN THE QUAIL GLEN SUBDIVISION. OKAY. YOU KNOW, AND I SPOKE WITH YOU LAST FRIDAY, THURSDAY ABOUT THE LED LIGHTS. WE NEED THEM. OKAY. I'M ASKING IF YOU CAN DO A VARIANCE. I UNDERSTAND THERE'S TWO OF THEM. ONE IS A VARIANCE AND ONE IS A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT. WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS TWO YEARS, AND SO WE NEED SOME COMMUNICATION MOTHER FOR OUR PEOPLE. WE CAN'T GET 'EM OUT. THEY DON'T KNOW. BUT YOU ALL HAVE THAT ORDINANCE. AND HE, HE JUST SAID, WHAT'S THIS, UH, COUNCILMAN POLAND? HE SAID, IT'S HOW YOU INTERPRET IT. OKAY. I'VE EVEN SPOKEN WITH THE PERMITTING DEPARTMENT AND WE NEED THAT SIGN. SO DO WE HAVE TO WAIT ANOTHER TWO YEARS OR CAN WE GET IT? I WAS HOPING THAT THE MAYOR WAS HERE AND HE COULD, HE, EVERYBODY WORKED AT HIS DISCRETION, THE PEOPLE IN THE PERMITTING DEPARTMENT. ALL HE HAD TO DO IS DO A VARIANCE AND I'D BE REAL HAPPY. SO, SO MS. UH, JONES, IT IS, WE HAVE TO CHANGE THE ORDINANCE AND I'VE TALKED TO PUBLIC WORKS AND I'VE TALKED TO A RA ABOUT THE ORDINANCE. UM, THE ORDINANCE THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE ON THE BOOKS WITH THE LED LIGHTS IS OUTDATED. WE NEED TO CHANGE THE ORDINANCE BECAUSE NOW THE COMPANIES THAT DO THE LIGHTS, UM, OR DO THE, UM, THE SIGNS IN THE, THE NEIGHBORHOOD SIGNS CAN VARY. THE KNITS, WHICH IS THE BRIGHTNESS OF LED. UM, ORIGINALLY WE WERE TOLD THAT YOU COULD NOT DO THE SIGN BECAUSE IT WAS A DANGER TO DRIVERS. NOW THAT HAS CHANGED AND OUR ORDINANCE HAS NOT KEPT UP WITH THE CHANGE. AND SO I'VE BEEN IN COMMUNICATION WITH THE PUBLIC WORKS AND A RA TO GET THAT ORDINANCE CHANGED. UM, AND I'VE COMMUNICATED THAT TO RESIDENTS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND TO THE SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD PRESIDENT THAT WE ARE WORKING ON GETTING THAT ORDINANCE CHANGED. UH, UNFORTUNATELY THAT'S, THAT'S A PROCESS. UM, BUT WE ARE WORKING ON GETTING THAT ORDINANCE CHANGED. I UNDERSTAND THAT THERE HAS BEEN A FINANCIAL COMMITMENT BY THE NEIGHBORHOOD, UM, FOR THE SIGN. WE ARE WORKING TO TRY TO HELP YOU TO GET THAT. NO, YEAH, NO. YOUR PRESIDENT TOLD ME. NO, THE THE, THE NEIGHBORHOOD HAS ALREADY PURCHASED THE SIGN NOW THAT WE'VE ALREADY INVESTED IN THE SIGN. RIGHT. OKAY. NOW DO YOU ALL WANT US TO LOSE? I KNOW YOU DON'T WANT US TO LOSE AND THE ORDINANCE MAY BE OLD, BUT IT WAS JUST THIS, THIS ONE HERE WITH THAT ONE LINE THAT SAYS THE LED LIGHTS CAN CANNOT BE PUT ON A SIGN. THIS WAS JUST DONE AND Y'ALL APPROVED IT IN JULY OF 22. LOOK AT THAT DESIGN MANUAL. WE JUST NEED THE SIGN. WE DON'T CARE WHAT YOU GOT TO DO. WE DON'T WANNA WAIT FOREVER. THIS, WE JUST WANT IT DONE. REALLY? YOUR TIME HAS EXPIRED. YEAH. YOU AIN'T SEND IT. IT, DO YOU HAVE SOMETHING ELSE YOU WANNA ADD? YES, MA'AM. I DO. GO AHEAD MS. JONES. OKAY. NOW THE SECOND THING THAT, THAT WE NEED, WE NEED CAMERAS ON QUAIL GLEN, IF YOU RECALL, IF YOU SEE THE NEWS, THAT AREA, WE HAVE A POOL BACK THERE THAT, THAT POOL BELONGS TO QUAIL GLEN, WHERE THAT IS ON THE 7TH OF JULY. THAT'S WHEN THEY FOUND THE MAN, YOU KNOW, WHEN THEY WENT TO CUT THE GRASS? MM-HMM . FOUND HIM FLOATING IN THE AMERICAN CANAL, WHICH IS THE BRIDGE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BRIDGE IN THE BACK OF OUR SUBDIVISION WHERE THEY OPENED THAT STREET UP. I TOLD YOU THAT THAT PART OF THAT AREA IS SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW, RATHER STRESSING. SO WHAT WE ARE ASKING, AND I WAS HOPING THE MAYOR WAS GONNA BE HERE BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE HAD SHOOTINGS BACK THERE. WE'VE HAD A LOT OF STUFF. AND SO WHAT I'M ASKING ON [01:25:01] THE SIDE OF THAT BRIDGE, AS YOU GO BACK TO EDGE HAVEN, I'M ASKING THAT, UH, CAMERA BE PUT ON ONE SIDE AND THE OTHER SIDE, Y'ALL HAVE THE MONEY. WE PAY THE TAXES. WE, SOME OF US ARE SENIORS, BUT ALL OF US ARE NOT SENIORS. SO WE ARE ASKING FOR THE CAMERAS AND WE'RE ASKING WHEN ARE WE GONNA GET SOME INPUT. AND THAT'S OKAY. THAT CAN GO OFF. I'LL BE BACK NEXT WEEK. OKAY. NO PROBLEM. ALL RIGHT. WE GOT TO GET, WE GOT, WE GOT YOU NOTED, UH, AS ASKING FOR THE CAMERAS. WE GOT IT. AND I WILL FOLLOW UP WITH YOU ABOUT THE LED SIGN. SO DO I NEED TO SEE YOU NEXT WEEK? YOU CAN. OKAY. I'LL BE HERE. NO PROBLEM. THE MAYOR'S GONNA BE HERE. UM, I'M NOT SURE. OKAY. IF YOU'LL BE HERE BECAUSE I DIDN'T COME LAST WEEK BECAUSE YOU ALL WERE SUPPOSED WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO BE HERE. RIGHT. BUT I'M, I'M GONNA COME BACK. WE NEED IT. NO, I HEAR YOU. WE NEED IT. YOU CAN PUT ME AT THE END, BUT GUESS WHAT? I'M STILL COMING TILL WE GET IT DONE. I APPRECIATE YOU MS. JONES. WE NEED, WE NEED COMMUNICATION FOR OUR COMMUNITY. ABSOLUTELY. THEY DON'T. IF YOU WANT 'EM TO VOTE, WELL YOU, Y'ALL CHANGE THAT SIGN BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW NOTHING. WE DON'T HAVE NO NEWSLETTER. WE GET WHAT YOU SENT AND I'M, IT'S GOOD. OH, BY THE WAY, WHAT, MS. JONES, WE GOTTA MOVE TO THE NEXT SPEAKER. I'M NOT, YOU GAVE THEM OTHER PEOPLE TIME. MS. JONES, I GAVE YOU TIME. OKAY, WELL, I'M, I'M, THIS IS GOOD. I'M VERY PLEASED WITH MR. WHAT IS HIS NAME? UH, ELRIDGE P HE'S WORKING REAL GOOD WITH US AND WE WILL MAKE SURE HE GETS THAT MESSAGE. GOOD. THANK YOU FOR SHARING THAT. BUT WE NEED YOU TO DO THAT, OKAY? OKAY. ALRIGHT. I'LL SEE YOU NEXT WEEK. ALL RIGHT. WE'LL SEE YOU MS. NEXT SPEAKER TRAVIS MCGEE. BE FOLLOWED BY CHRIS PRATT. GOOD EVENING. DO Y'ALL HAVE THOSE, UH, PICTURES? I, YES. OKAY. UH, I'M TRAVIS. I'M THE CIVIC PRESIDENT FOR SUNNYSIDE GARDENS BY YOUR STATES FOR ALMOST 20 YEARS NOW. WE PUT IN THESE CIP REQUESTS AFTER EVERY ADMINISTRATION. WE CONTINUE TO HAVE TO WAIT, BUT NOW THE WHOLE PROCESS HAS CHANGED. THEY WILL COME AND TEAR UP PERFECTLY GOOD STREET AND IGNORE THE ONES THAT LOOK LIKE A LANDMINE HIT IT. THAT MAKES ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE. BUT WHEN THEY TEAR IT UP, WE GOT TO DRIVE THROUGH THE LANDMINES FOR WEEKS AT A TIME. IT IS PAVEMENT THEY PUT DOWN LESS THAN TWO WEEKS AGO. IT'S CRACKING ALREADY. THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE. THEY HAVE, WE, WE PAY ALL THESE DIFFERENT FEES WITH THE DRAINAGE FEES AND STUFF. SOME OF IT'S SUPPOSED TO COME TO OUR, OUR STREETS AND STUFF. THAT'S NOT HAPPENING. UH, THEY SAID THAT, THAT, THAT YOU, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER SHABA PICKED CERTAIN STREETS. THAT'S WHAT THE, UH, RIGHT OF WAY MAINTENANCE TOLD US. BUT IN THE PAST, IN THE PAST, THEY WOULD COME TO THE CIVIC LEADERS AND WE COULD SHOW THEM THE WORST CASE FIRST. IF Y'ALL LOOK AT THOSE PICTURES, SOME OF THOSE CRACKS ARE LIKE TWO FEET DEEP, 18 INCHES DEEP, WHICH IS HORRIBLE. UH, MUFFS ARE GETTING TORE UP. AMOUNT OF CARS, TIRES ARE GETTING TORE UP AND EVERYTHING, BUT, BUT THEY'RE DRIVING ON THEIR TAX FUND STREETS. THE, IN PAST, THE CITY HAS REMOVED PROGRAMS THAT HAVE ACTUALLY BENEFITED THE PEOPLE. LIKE THE, THE STREET SHOULDER PROGRAM THAT THEY DISCONTINUED LIKE 20 YEARS AGO. THAT BASICALLY WAS THE SHOULDER WHERE YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO, LIKE, IF SOMEBODY WAS TO BUREAU A LITTLE BIT TO THE LEFT OR A LITTLE BIT TO THE RIGHT, THEY'RE GONNA GO IN A DITCH. IT IS NO COMING OUT BECAUSE THEY HAVE BUILT THE PAVEMENT UP SO MUCH. NOW YOU HAVE TO GO ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE BASE OF IT. IF YOU PUTTING A ONE INCH PAD ON TOP OF A TWO FEET CRACK, THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE. IT'S GONNA COST THEM MORE MONEY TO COME OUT THERE AND TEAR IT UP AND DO IT. RIGHT. UH, I KNOW WE NOT IN A SO-CALLED FLUENT AREA, BUT IN FLUENT AREA, BUT WE, WE PAY TAXES AND I EXPECT TO SEE THOSE TAXES OUT THERE. UH, BUT LIKE I SAID, IF THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING AND IF THEY'RE GONNA PICK CERTAIN THOROUGH FAST, THEY NEED TO COME OUT THERE AND PICK THE, AND TALK TO THE PEOPLE WHO ARE ACTUALLY DRIVING AROUND THERE WHO ACTUALLY LIVE OUT THERE. UH, THE, UH, MOST OF THIS IS CAUSED BY POOR DRAINAGE, ALSO POOR DRAINAGE. BUT I DON'T THINK I SHOULD HAVE TO COME DOWN HERE AND SAY THAT I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD CONTINUE TO HAVE TO CALL THREE ON ONE ABOUT CIP PROGRAMS THAT WE'VE BEEN HAVING IN THE QUEUE FOREVER. AND WHEN THEY FINALLY COME OUT THERE, THEY HAVE DOING THE WORK. IF A CONTRACTOR DO THE SAME WORK THE CITY WOULD NOW THE ACCEPT IT. SO WHY IS THE CITY DOING THE SAME POOR WORK THAT SOME OF THE CONTRACTORS DO? THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE. IF YOU DRIVE DOWN THAT DRIVE ON ANY OF THESE STREETS AND A BIKE, YOU'RE NOT, YOUR TIRE'S GONE. IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE HOW CERTAIN AREAS ARE TREATED IN THE CITY OF HOUSTON. IT, IT HAS TO GET BETTER AND ALL. UH, WE'VE BEEN ASKING PEOPLE FROM RIGHT AWAY MAIN TO COME TO OUR CIVIC MEETING SINCE JANUARY, NOBODY SHOWED UP [01:30:01] YET. THEY BID HOMELESS. SOME OF THE, UH, THE MEETINGS REGARDING HOMELESS, I DON'T KNOW WHY THEY'RE THERE FOR THAT, BUT THEY COME IN OUR FLOWS TYPE OF THINGS. SO WE NEED Y'ALL. YEAH. TIME HAS EXPIRED. INSPECT, SUNNY SIDE, THIRD WARD, SOUTH PARK, AND EVERYTHING ELSE. THE SAME WAY THAT Y'ALL RESPECT OTHER AREAS. I'M PAYING TAXES ON LIKE FIVE DIFFERENT PROPERTIES. THANK YOU MR. MCGEE. WE DO HAVE A COUNCIL MEMBER IN Q COUNCIL MEMBER POLLARD. THANK YOU. VICE MAYOR PROTE AND MR. MCGEE. THANK YOU FOR COMING FORWARD IN THE PICTURES. UM, IT'S, IT IS JUST NOT YOUR SIDE. IT, IT IS THE WHOLE CITY, HONESTLY. AND THAT'S NOT A GOOD THING FOR US TO SAY THIS. THE CITY HAS HORRIBLE STREETS AND, UH, I GUESS I DIDN'T REALLY, I KNEW IT, BUT I DIDN'T REALLY REALIZE IT UNTIL I GOT ON COUNCIL AND YOU START REALLY EVALUATING EVERYTHING THAT WE DO, RIGHT? AND SO YOU GO TO OTHER CITIES AND WE, WE RIDE AROUND AND WE SEE THEIR CONDITIONS. I REMEMBER I WAS IN BELIZE AND LOOKED AT THEIR STREETS. I'M LIKE, IF THEY STREETS LOOK LIKE THIS, WHY CAN'T OURS? BUT, UH, I WANT YOU TO KNOW IT'S JUST NOT YOUR STREET. BUT WE DO NEED TO DO A BETTER JOB OF MAKING SURE THAT, UM, THE CITY DOES ALL IT CAN TO GET INPUT FROM THE RESIDENTS. UH, THAT'S IN ALL OF OUR DISTRICTS, RIGHT? NOT JUST, UH, DON'T THINK IT'S JUST YOUR DISTRICT, RIGHT? UH, BUT THIS IS KIND OF A CALL OUT THAT WE, WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THESE STREETS. I MEAN, IT LOOKS LIKE WE DO A LOT OF PATCHWORK IN THE CITY WHERE WE DO THESE TEMPORARY FIXES, BUT WE HAVE TO FIND WAYS IN TO ENSURE THAT WE DO LONG TERM, REALLY GOOD RECONSTRUCTION OR REDEVELOPMENT OF THESE STREETS. BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE'RE SPENDING MORE MONEY IN THE LONG TERM JUST DOING ALL THESE PASSES. I JUST, I JUST CALLED IN SOMETHING IN MY DISTRICT. IT LOOKED LIKE IT WAS FIXED. TWO WEEKS LATER IT WAS CRACKED AGAIN. RIGHT. SO I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR, YOUR TIME. I KNOW YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE TO COME DOWN HERE FOR THIS, BUT JUST KNOW, DON'T THINK THAT IT IS JUST YOUR DISTRICT. IT'S THE WHOLE CITY. THANK YOU. WELL, THIS IS A CITY, THIS IS A PICTURE THAT I TOOK FROM 2011. MM-HMM . SO THE WORK IS SUPPOSED TO ADVANCE, IT'S SUPPOSED TO. AND, AND THEY LOOK EXACTLY THE SAME. I EVEN PUT A MEASURING TAPE ON IT SO Y'ALL CAN SEE HOW DEEP IT IS. AND WHEN THE CITY CREWS ARE GOING BY THIS AND SEE THIS, I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO CALL IN. RIGHT? AND THE BIGGEST PROBLEM IS THEY JUMPED FROM SUNNYSIDE GORDON TO EAST SUNNYSIDE COURT. THEY USED TO DO ONE SUBDIVISION AT A TIME BEFORE THEY LEAVE, BUT THEY WOULD LEAVE THOSE OUR STREETS LIKE A LANDMINE HITTING. YOU GOTTA DRIVE THROUGH THAT ALL UP FOR LIKE TWO OR THREE WEEKS BEFORE THEY DECIDED TO COME BACK. AND THEN WHEN THEY FINALLY DECIDED TO COME BACK, THEY STILL NOT DOING THE WORK PROPERLY. I DID ROOFING MOST OF MY LIFE. SO I HAVE A LOT OF EXPERIENCE WITH ASPHALT. IF YOU GO OUT THERE AND LOOK AT THIS, YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO SEE THE SEAMS BECAUSE AS SOON AS THE WATER GET BETWEEN THOSE SEAMS, IT'S GOING TO TEAR UP ALL OVER AGAIN. THANK YOU MR. MCGEE. WE DO HAVE A, A COUNCIL MEMBER IN Q COUNCIL MEMBER SHABAZZ. THANK YOU. VICE MAYOR, PRO TIM. AND THANK YOU, UH, MR. MCGEE. UH, YOU ARE CERTAINLY RIGHT. UM, ON TODAY I WENT DOWN MARTIN LUTHER KING NEAR SUNBEAM AND IT'S BUCKLED LIKE THAT AND I DON'T THINK THAT'S BEEN DONE VERY LONG. SO, UH, THOSE ARE THINGS I KNOW THE HEAT HAS A LOT TO DO WITH IT, BUT CERTAINLY THOSE ARE THINGS THAT WE DO NEED TO LOOK AT. I APPRECIATE YOU COMING. AND I DO NOT CHOOSE ALL OF THE STREETS. I DO. I HAVE CHOSEN SOME STREETS WITH THE MAYOR'S, UH, PROGRAM. UH, AND THEY WERE MAJOR STREETS LIKE CULLEN AND MARTIN LUTHER KING. BUT DID YOU, DID YOU, DID YOU CHOOSE ANY OF THOSE IN SUNNYSIDE GARDEN? BECAUSE WE NORMALLY PRESENT OUR CIVIC AREA BOUNDARY MAP, AND THEY TAKE THAT AND GO FROM THERE. BUT THAT'S WHAT THEY SAID. THEY SAID THAT YOU CHOSE BECAUSE SOME OF THOSE STREETS WAS, THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO BE TOUCHED. THEY PASSED UP THE, THE, THE ONES THAT WAS HIT BY THE LANDMINE AND THEY WENT TO THE ONES THAT DIDN'T HAVE NO BUSINESS TOUCH IT JUST TO MAKE ANY, THAT DIDN'T MAKE ANY SENSE. BUT CERTAINLY I CANNOT ATTEST TO, TO DOING THAT. BUT I WILL CERTAINLY GO BACK AND LOOK. UH, BUT I DON'T SEE ANY REASON THAT THEY SHOULD HAVE TOUCHED STREETS THAT DIDN'T NEED IT, ESPECIALLY WHEN THERE ARE SO MANY THAT DO. AND SO, UH, I AGREE WITH YOU. THE INFRASTRUCTURE IN THIS CITY IS REALLY POOR AND I THANK YOU FOR COMING FORWARD. AND I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH RECEIVING RECOMMENDATIONS FROM, UH, CIVIC LEADERS TO INDICATE WHAT STREETS YOU THINK ARE, BECAUSE I DON'T LIVE IN THESE AREAS AND WHAT, AND, AND SO, I MEAN, I MAY KNOW THOSE IN MY, IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO ME, BUT I CANNOT ATTEST THAT I KNOW ABOUT ALL OF THE STREETS THAT ARE IN THE DISTRICT. AND I KNOW THAT THERE ARE SOME TERRIBLE STREETS. SO THAT'S WHY WE LOOK TO THE CIVIC LEADERSHIP TO CALL US OUT AND BRING THIS TO OUR ATTENTION. AND WHAT ABOUT THE, WHAT ABOUT SOME OF THESE PEOPLE THAT WE PAY OUR TAX DOLLARS TO SAYING THINGS LIKE THEY DON'T WANNA STRETCH THEIR PEOPLE TOO THIN. WE'VE BEEN ASKING FOR SOMEONE FROM RIGHT AWAY. MAINTENANCE COME OUT SINCE JANUARY. I'M SURE, I'M SURE I'M MR. MCGEE. I'M SURE YOUR COUNCIL MEMBER CAN GET SOMEBODY FROM PUBLIC WORKS TO MEET, TO MEET WITH, MEET WITH YOUR TEAM. YES. BUT IT SHOULD TAKE MY COUNCIL PERSON IF, BUT IF THAT WORKS, IF I ASK THEM IN JANUARY AND IT AND ITS OFFICE RIGHT NOW, RIGHT? IT TAKE ALL THAT AND THEN A FEW TIMES THEY SAID IT'S [01:35:01] GONNA SHOW UP AND THEY DID NOT SHOW UP. COME TO MY CITY. CAN YOUR COUNCIL MEMBER TO GET SOMEBODY FROM YOUR, FROM PUBLIC WORKS TO COME TO YOUR MEETING? IF THAT WORKS, WE CAN, WE CAN DEFINITELY WORK WITH YOUR COUNCIL MEMBER TO GET SOMEBODY FROM PUBLIC WORKS TO COME TO YOUR MEETING AND THEN YOU CAN HAVE THIS DISCUSSION WITH THE PEOPLE THAT ARE DOING THE WORK. I THINK THAT WOULD BE, UM, PRUDENT FOR US TO HELP GET SOMEBODY THERE AT THE MEETING. OKAY? AND THEY EVEN SAID THE REASON WHY THEY DON'T DO THOSE STREETS, PLEASE EXTEND THE TIME Y'ALL GO, GO AHEAD, GO AHEAD, FINISH YOUR COMMENT. THEY EVEN SAID THAT THE REASON THEY DON'T DO THE SPEECH CORRECTLY IS BECAUSE IT'S GOING TO USE TOO MUCH OF THE BUDGET OF, BUT COMING BACK, TEARING IT UP, ALL GETTING STARTED ALL OVER. THAT'S, THAT'S STUPID, RIGHT? I MEAN, I CAN'T SAY THAT WHEN MY TAX BILL COME, I CAN'T SAY, Y'ALL DIDN'T FIX THIS. Y'ALL DIDN'T FIX THIS, Y'ALL DIDN'T FIX THIS. AGREE. AGREE. SO AGREE. I JUST NEED SOMEBODY BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THIS. I, I TOTALLY AGREE. AND THEN WE'LL WORK WITH YOUR COUNCIL MEMBER TO GET SOMEBODY FROM PUBLIC WORKS TO COME TO YOUR MEETING. OKAY? NEXT WEEK, TUESDAY AT THE SUNNYSIDE MONTHLY SERVICE CENTER, 44 10 REED ROAD. THANK YOU MR. MCGEE. NEXT SPEAKER. NEXT SPEAKER. CHRIS PRATT TO BE FOLLOWED BY ART SMITH. HELLO. I'VE BEEN HERE A FEW TIMES ALREADY TO TALK ABOUT THE STANDARD BAR OR EL PADO, WHATEVER THEY WANNA CALL THEMSELVES THIS WEEK. UM, IT'S BEEN 11 MONTHS SINCE YOU GUYS PASSED THE CHANGES TO THE SOUND ORDINANCE. UM, TOOK EFFECT THREE MONTHS, FOUR MONTHS LATER. UH, IT WAS FIVE MONTHS BEFORE THEY GOT THEIR SOUND PERMIT REVOKED, AND NOW IT'S BEEN OVER TWO MONTHS SINCE THEY'VE HAD NO SOUND PERMIT. THEY'RE STILL GETTING CITATIONS VIRTUALLY EVERY NIGHT. THEY'RE OPEN, MULTIPLE CITATIONS A NIGHT. UM, AND ALL, ALL WE KEEP HEARING IS WE'RE STILL TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT OUR OPTIONS ARE. 11 MONTHS IS ENOUGH TIME TO FIGURE OUT WHAT YOUR OPTIONS ARE. IT'S TIME TO DO SOMETHING NOW. AND I NEED A REAL ANSWER ABOUT WHAT THE CITY IS GOING TO DO ABOUT THIS AND WHEN IT'S GONNA HAPPEN. COUNCIL MEMBER ACORN. THANK YOU MR. PRATT. A LAWSUIT IS FORTHCOMING ON THIS MATTER. OKAY? DO WE HAVE A DATE OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT? DO WE KNOW WHEN IT'S GONNA BE FILED OR VERY SOON. OKAY. ALRIGHT, THANK YOU. NEXT SPEAKER, ART SMITH TO BE FOLLOWED BY COFFEE L BAY. HELLO. I CAME DOWN HERE LIKE A WEEK OR SO AGO, AND I WAS EXPLAINING, UH, WHAT WAS GOING ON, DEALING WITH THE ADVERSE POSSESSION OF PROPERTY. AND THE CITY ATTORNEY CALLED ME AND SPOKE TO MY WIFE AND I FOR OVER AN HOUR AND A HALF. UH, RANDY, UM, I CAN'T THINK OF HIS LAST NAME, BUT , SO I HAVE SOME PAPERWORK WITH ME RIGHT HERE THAT'S SHOWING NOW. UM, THERE'S A GENTLEMAN THAT I'M PRETTY SURE A LOT OF Y'ALL ARE FAMILIAR WITH, THAT'S BY THE NAME OF BENJAMIN B. HALL. HE'S A FORMER MAYOR CANDIDATE. HE'S A FORMER, UH, UH, CITY ATTORNEY. SO WHILE MY WIFE WAS ON A TRO CALL, A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER FOR THE PROPERTY THAT WHERE HOUSE WAS ILLEGALLY DEMOLITION, DUE TO THE FACT THAT THE CITY PERMANENT DEPARTMENT ISSUED OUT A PERMIT TO, UH, SOME NON DEED OWNERS, SOME NON REAL PROPERTY OWNERS, AND NOT SOMEONE THAT HAS SOMETHING THAT WAS ACTIVE, AN ACTIVE CASE AND ADVERSE POSSESSION OF PROPERTY SUCH AS MY WIFE, THE CITY OF HOUSTON PERMANENT DEPARTMENT IS NOW VERY, VERY LIABLE. I THINK THEY AVOID, WE ALREADY CALLED SEVERAL PEOPLE OUT AND SEVERAL CORRUPT ATTORNEYS OUT FOR BEING INVOLVED WITH ORGANIZED CRIME. BUT NOW I'M SEEING THAT THE CITY OF HOUSTON, UH, PERMIT DEPARTMENT IS INVOLVED WITH SOME ORGANIZED TIME. YOUR TIME HAS EXPIRED. NO SPEAKERS. COUNCIL MEMBER JACKSON. COUNCIL MEMBER JACKSON. OKAY. YES. YES. THE THE THING IS, IS, YOU KNOW, WHEN, WHEN WE CAME DOWN HERE AND WE POINTED OUT ONE THING ABOUT, UH, THE ADVERSE POSSESSION OF PROPERTY AND THE MAYOR PRO TIM WAS SITTING THERE, UH, DAVE MARTIN, AND HE SAID, ART, WE LOOKED AT IT, UH, LEGAL IS NOT GONNA GET INVOLVED BECAUSE WE FOUND OUT THAT ONCE YOU HAVE AN ADVERSE POSSESSION OF PROPERTY IN PLACE, NO ONE CAN DEMOLITION. NO ONE CAN PULL A PERMIT. WHAT I HAVE PROOF RIGHT HERE THAT THE CITY OF HOUSTON IS CONSTANTLY, UH, GIVING OUT PERMITS. NOW, THERE'S AN INDIVIDUAL BY THE NAME OF ROBERT CHUCK WILLIAMS. I'M, I'M PRETTY SURE A LOT OF Y'ALL MAY BE FAMILIAR WITH HIM BECAUSE HE WAS THE GUY THAT WAS OVER THE CONTRACT. HE WAS THE CAPTAIN. WHEN YOU COME IN THE BUILDING AND I GET THIS PERMIT THAT'S ON MY ARM, HE WAS THE ONE THAT WAS OVER THE CONTRACT. SO I'M PRETTY SURE A LOT OF PROTECTION IS IN PLACE BECAUSE YOU'RE PROTECTING ONE OF YOUR OWN. AS FAR AS SOMEONE THAT USED TO WORK IN THE BUILDING, HAD THE CONTRACT AND WAS OVER THE PERMIT DEPARTMENT. THAT'S DOWNSTAIRS, THAT'S NUMBER ONE. THE SECURITY. THAT'S NOT THE PERMIT DEPARTMENT, BUT THE SECURITY, THAT PERSON THAT WORKED HERE FOR [01:40:01] YEARS, HE'S DECEASED NOW. SO NOW THE REAL DEEDS, THERE'S A COPY OF THE REAL DEEDS RIGHT HERE. SO WHEN WE CAME DOWN HERE AND, AND LET IT BE KNOWN THAT THE CITY, LIKE I GAVE DR. SHABAZZ, UH, AN EXAMPLE, I SAY, DON'T YOU KNOW THAT CURRENTLY THERE ARE NO CITY ORDINANCE IN PLACE. I CAN COME TO YOUR HOUSE AND I GAVE THIS EXAMPLE, I CAN COME TO DR. SHABAZ HOUSE, PULL UP HER ADDRESS, GO TO THE CITY PERMITT DEPARTMENT AND GO DOWN THERE AND SAY, HEY, I'M BILLY BOB AND I WANT TO, UH, PULL AATE. I WANNA GET A PERMIT TO, UH, PUT TO, TO, TO DEMOLITION HER HOUSE. RIGHT? THERE'S NO CITY ORDINANCE IN PLACE TO PROTECT THAT RIGHT. NOW HAVE YOU HAD THE CONVERSATION WITH THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT? YES. AND DID THEY GIVE YOU GUIDANCE ON, ON WHERE TO GO? YEAH, HE TOLD ME, HE GAVE ME, HE, HE PRETTY MUCH ASKED ME, WHAT DO I WANT? I SAID, I WANT Y'ALL TO STOP ENTERING PERMITS TO NON DEED REAL PROPERTY OWNERS. WELL, SINCE THE, UH, TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER WAS GRANTED BECAUSE THE, THE, THE, THE HARRIS COUNTY DISTRICT, UH, CLERK IN THE CIVIL DISTRICT, THEY TAKING US FOR REAL. IT'S NOT GONNA BE UNTIL I ASKED MY WIFE TO GO AND HIRE AN ATTORNEY TO COME AND FILE A MULTIMILLION DOLLAR LAWSUIT AGAINST THE CITY THAT IT'S GONNA GET Y'ALL ATTENTION. BUT IT SHOULDN'T HAVE TO BE THAT BECAUSE IT'S NOT GONNA COME OUT OF Y'ALL'S POCKET. IT'S GONNA COME OUT OF THE TAXPAYER'S POCKET. BUT Y'ALL CAN FIX THIS BECAUSE THIS GUY RANDY CALLED AND TALKS FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF, BUT JUST THE OTHER DAY THEY WAS OUT THERE PULLING A PERMIT, UH, UH, UH, GOING OVER THE TWO BUILDING THAT'S LEFT THE OLD GAS STATION AND THE OLD STOREFRONT, THEY OUT THERE DOING, UH, AN ASBESTOS CHECK. THEY DONE TOW DOWN NINE RESIDENTS, INCLUDING MY WIFE'S HOUSE ILLEGALLY, ILLEGALLY, UNLAWFULLY. THEY DIDN'T DO AN ASBESTOS CHECK ON THAT. BUT THE CITY IS ISSUING THE PERMITS. HERE'S THE PROOF. THE CITY IS ISSUING THE PERMITS AND NO ONE HAS PROVED THAT THEY, THE DEED OWNERS. AND, AND THE ONE THING, THE ONE THING I LAST WANNA SAY IS THIS. I FEEL THAT THERE SHOULD BE A CITY ORDINANCE THAT, THAT IT IS REAL SIMPLE. NUMBER ONE, YOU CHECK TO SEE IF ANYTHING IS ACTIVE IN ANY HARRIS COUNTY COURTROOM THAT DEALS WITH, UH, ADVERSE POSSESSION OF PROPERTY ACCORDING TO THE STATE OF TEXAS RULES. THAT'S NUMBER ONE. NUMBER TWO, THE OTHER THING IS YOU, YOU, YOU LOOK AND, AND, AND CHECK THE OFFICIAL DEED RECORDS, WE CANNOT LOGO NO LONGER GO BY WHAT A PERSON NAME IS ON THE TAX DOCUMENTS. BECAUSE MY WIFE AND I SPOKE IN NOVEMBER OF 2022 BEFORE HCA HARRIS COUNTY APPRAISER DISTRICT. AND IN 2021 THEY CLICK COLLECTED $687 BILLION IN TAXES IN HARRIS COUNTY. BUT WE SPOKE BEFORE THAT BOARD AND MY WIFE EXPLAINED TO THEM THAT THEY HAD A DOCUMENT THAT SHOWED THAT ROBERT CHARLES WILLIAMS' NAME WAS ON A TAX DOCUMENT. AND GUESS WHAT? HCA SAID, WE'VE LOOKED AND WE'VE GONE OVER EVERYTHING, UH, MS. CAULFIELD BAY AND R SMITH, AND I'M SORRY, BUT WE DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW WE PUT THOSE TAX DOCUMENTS IN ROBERT CHARLES WILLIAMS NAME. THAT'S NOTHING THERE, MR. BAY. SO THE CITY IS LIABLE. I I APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENTS MR. BAY. IS THERE A SPECIFIC ASK MR. SMITH, MA'AM? I'M SORRY, MR. MR. SMITH. IS THERE A SPECIFIC ASK THE, THE SPECIFIC ASK FOR, UH, FOR ME MM-HMM . THE SPECIFIC ASK FOR ME IS IF THE CITY ATTORNEY IS GONNA CALL ME AND TALK TO MY WIFE FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF AND THEN HE ASKS ME, WHAT DO YOU WANT US TO DO AT THIS TIME? WE REALIZE WE LIABLE, WE REALIZE WE GAVE THESE PERMITS OUT THAT THEY DONE DEMOLISH YOUR WIFE'S HOUSE. WHAT CAN I DO AT THIS TIME? I SAY, CAN YOU GET THE CITY PERMIT TO NO LONGER ISSUE A PERMIT TO PEGGY RUTH WILLIAMS, THE FAKE LANDLORD AND JC LOFT AND NOW IT'S BENJAMIN B. HALL. BUT I ASKED HIM THAT. HE SAID, I'M GONNA GET RIGHT ON TOP OF IT. OKAY? THE SAME WAY THE MALE PRO TEMP SAT THERE A WEEK AGO. DAVE MARTIN. AND HE SAID THAT HE'S GOING TO THE WHAT? TWO WEEKS? OKAY. TWO WEEKS AGO. AND GUESS WHAT HE SAID, UH, MISS, UH, , HE SAID, I SAID, ARE YOU GOING TO TAKE THESE? I SAID, WOULD IT BE WITH URGENCY? BUT SOON AS HE LOOKED AND SEEN US COME IN THE DOOR, HE GOT UP AND LET YOU GET THE SEAT. HE JUST WALKED OUT WHEN HE SAW US. WELL, HE HAD A MEETING, BUT I APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENTS. NEXT SPEAKER. COFFEE BAY TREE, FOLLOWED BY MUSTAFA BAY. HELLO, I'M HERE BECAUSE OF THE NEGLIGENCE, CORRUPTION AND CONSPIRACY THAT HAVE BEEN COMMITTED BY THE CITY OF HOUSTON. AND THE HOUSTON PERMITTING CENTER IS STILL ISSUING AT, UH, SEWER DISCONNECT, DEMOLITION APPLICATIONS AND PERMITS TO PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT THE PROPERTY OWNERS OF THE PROPERTY THAT I'VE BEEN IN POSSESSION OF FOR 10 YEARS. IN REFERENCE TO ADVERSE POSSESSION, MY FAMILY HAVE BEEN ILLEGALLY EVICTED BY THESE FRAUD PEOPLE. THEY HAVE DEMOLISHED OUR HOME TO THE POINT WHERE WE WERE SLEEPING IN OUR CAR FOR A WHOLE WEEK. NOW THE CITY IS ACCOUNTABLE BECAUSE THEY ARE CONTINUOUSLY GIVING OUR PERMITS TO THESE PEOPLE WHO DON'T OWN ANYTHING. AND SO WHEN [01:45:01] I HAD MY TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER HEARING, THE JUDGE ASKED JC LOFTUS, UH, THE PROBATE ATTORNEY FOR THE PEOPLE WHO DON'T OWN ANYTHING, UH, WHO IS INVOLVED IN DEMOLITION. SO HE SAID, ATTORNEY BENJAMIN BEN HOWELL. THIS IS THE SAME ATTORNEY THAT REPRESENTED THE CHURCH COR CHURCH THAT ILLEGALLY HAD MY HUSBAND TASED IT. IT WAS ALL OVER THE NEWS. SO IT'S CORRUPTION AND CONSPIRACY. AND BEN USED TO BE A CITY, A CITY ATTORNEY. SO IT'S CORRUPTION. NOW I'M BRINGING THIS TO THE ATTENTION OF CITY HALL 'CAUSE I HAVE PUT THEM ON NOTICE ABOUT THIS IN 2021 TO TRY WHEN THIS WAS GOING ON. AND, AND Y'ALL DIDN'T HAVE A SECRETARY, SO I PUT 'EM ON NOTICE AND, AND WHEN THEY DID GET A SECRETARY WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY AND EVERYTHING, MS. MS. BECK. SO I'M BRINGING IT TO Y'ALL ATTENTION AGAIN BECAUSE Y'ALL WILL BE PUT ON NOTICE. AGAIN, THANK THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS MS. BAY. NEXT SPEAKER MUSTAFA BAY. CAN I HAVE SOMETHING THAT'S PASSED AROUND I WOULD LIKE TO BE SHOWN? YOU CAN GIVE IT TO RENEE AND HE'LL PASS IT AROUND FOR US. THANK YOU. PEACE. FIRST I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT UM, OVER THE LAST 20 YEARS, MY DAD HAS BEEN THE CHIEF CONSULTANT WITHIN THE TRIBE. MY MOM HAS BEEN THE CHIEFEST ATTORNEY AND SINCE 2007 I HAVE BEEN ENFORCING TRIBAL LAW. UH, AND THEN ALSO SINCE 2014, I HAVE BEEN THE ACTIVE CHIEF JUSTICE WITHIN OUR NATION. UM, AND DUE IN DECEMBER 16TH, 2022, I HAVE BEEN THROUGH A CEREMONY WHERE I HAVE BEEN GRANTED HONORARY JUDGE WITHIN THE HARRIS COUNTY DISTRICT COURTROOM, UM, AS WHO I AM AND WHAT'S GOING ON IS A VIOLATION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF US VIOLATION OF THE DI OF INDIGENOUS RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE THAT WAS GRANTED AND ACKNOWLEDGED BY PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA. AND THESE ARE THE THINGS SPECIFICALLY ARTICLE EIGHT, ARTICLE 18, AND ARTICLE 26 OF THE DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, BOTH, WHICH ARE BY THE UNITED NATIONS. THESE THINGS ARE TO BE LOOKED AT, CHECKED OUT AND MADE EXQUISITE. YOUR TIME HAS EXPIRED. PAID ATTENTION BY THE CITY OF HOUSTON, THE STATE OF TEXAS. THANK YOU MR. BAY. NEXT SPEAKER EMMANUEL THOMAS JACKSON. COUNCIL, COUNCIL MEMBER JACKSON? YES. UM, MR. SMITH AND MS. COFFEY. UM, WHAT I WANTED TO DO WAS SEE IF WE CAN, I CAN FOLLOW UP WITH YOU GUYS. I WANTED TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT THAT ORDINANCE TO SEE WHAT WE CAN DO TO, UM, MAKE SURE PEOPLE ARE NOT GETTING PERMITS TO TEAR DOWN OR DO YOU KNOW ANY TYPE OF CONSTRUCTION ON FOLKS' HOUSE THAT THEY DON'T OWN. AND SO I'M REALLY INTERESTED IN THAT. I KNOW WE'VE HAD A CONVERSATION BEFORE ABOUT YOUR PREVIOUS PROPERTY. UM, I DID TALK TO LEGAL, UM, ABOUT THE ADVERSE CONDITION, BUT MY CONVERSATION WITH LEGAL WAS, UM, THAT THEY NEEDED TO MAKE SURE THAT THE COURTS HANDLE THE SITUATION, DETERMINE WHO OWNS THE PROPERTY BEFORE EVEN GOING TO TEAR IT DOWN. SO I'M REALLY INTERESTED IN THIS, UM, GIVEN THE FACT THAT, YOU KNOW, MY GRANDPARENTS PROPERTY, ALL EIGHT OF THEIR HOMES WERE TORN DOWN, UM, IN ACRE HOMES. AND SO, AND IT WAS JUST DONE JUST OUT OF THE BLUE. AND SO I WOULD LIKE TO JUST MAKE SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE ARE BEING TREATED FAIRLY AND UM, AGAIN, WOULD LOVE TO SIT DOWN AND TALK TO YOU MORE ABOUT THAT. OKAY? WE'RE GONNA WAIT TO TO, SO CAN WE SPEAK? YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, WE'RE WAITING TO, OKAY. ALRIGHT. NEXT SPEAKER. EMMANUEL THOMAS. EMMANUEL THOMAS IS NOT PRESENT. THIS COMPLETES THE LIST OF SPEAKERS WILL BE IN, [RECESS] WE'LL BE IN RECESS UNTIL TOMORROW MORNING AT 9:00 AM ADJOURN. WELL RECESS, RECESS. THE CITY COUNCIL AGENDA FOR THE WEEK, AUGUST 1ST AND SECOND, 2023. ITEM ONE IS A PUBLIC HEARING RELATIVE TO THE DESIGNATION OF 16 LANDMARKS OR PROTECTED LANDMARKS. THEN WE HAVE THE REPORT FROM THE CITY CONTROLLER AND THE CITY ADMINISTRATION REGARDING THE CURRENT FINANCIAL STATUS OF THE CITY. AND ITEM TWO IS REQUEST FROM MAYOR FOR CONFIRMATION OF THE APPOINTMENT OF REAPPOINTMENT OF THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE EAST END DISTRICT. ITEM THREE, REQUEST FROM MAYOR FOR CONFIRMATION OF THE APPOINTMENT OR REAPPOINTMENT OF THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE I AREA DISTRICT, FORMERLY KNOWN AS HARRIS COUNTY IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NUMBER NINE. ITEM FOUR, REQUEST FROM MAYOR FOR CONFIRMATION OF THE APPOINTMENT OR REAPPOINTMENT OF THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE SOUTHWEST MANAGEMENT DISTRICT. ITEM FIVE, REQUEST FROM MAYOR FOR CONFIRMATION OF THE APPOINTMENT OR REAPPOINTMENT OF THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS TO TO THE SPRING BRANCH MANAGEMENT DISTRICT BOARD OF DIRECTORS. ITEM SIX, RECOMMENDATION FROM DIRECTOR GENERAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT FOR APPROVAL OF FINAL CONTRACT AMOUNT OF FIFTEEN MILLION FIFTY SEVEN THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED EIGHTY FIVE THOUSAND FIFTY NINE CENTS [01:50:01] AND ACCEPTANCE OF WORK ON CONSTRUCTION MANAGER AT RISK CONTRACT WITH MARTI TEXAS INC. FOR THE HOUSTON PUBLIC WORKS NORTHEAST QUADRANT BUILDING. NEW ITEM SEVEN. RECOMMENDATION FROM DIRECTOR HOUSTON PUBLIC WORKS FOR APPROVAL OF FINAL CONTRACT AMOUNT OF $10,440,742 AND 25 CENTS AND ACCEPTANCE OF WORK ON CONTRACT WITH T CONSTRUCTION LLC FOREST MAIN RENEWAL AND REPLACEMENT ELDRIDGE PARKWAY BEACH NUT IN WEST ORUM. ITEM EIGHT, RECOMMENDATION FROM DIRECTOR HOUSTON PUBLIC WORKS FOR APPROVAL OF FINAL CONTRACT AMOUNT OF FOUR MILLION SIXTY SEVEN THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED THIRTY EIGHT THOUSAND TWENTY THREE CENTS AND ACCEPTANCE OF WORK ON CONTRACT WITH T CONSTRUCTION LLC FOR FY 2017. LOCAL DRAINAGE PROJECT CONSTRUCTION WORK ORDERS NUMBER ONE ITEM NINE APPROVED SPENDING AUTHORITY IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $565,299 AND 29 CENTS FOR EMERGENCY REPAIRS FOR AMBULANCE MODULE, REFURBISHING AND REMODELING SERVICES FOR FLEET MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT OF WATER TO FRASER LTD ITEM 10 APPROVED SPENDING AUTHORITY IN THE AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $76,000 AND NO CENTS FOR A PURCHASE OF TWO NIGHT VISION BINOCULARS FOR PUBLIC SAFETY AND HOMELAND SECURITY ON BEHALF OF THE HOUSTON PUBLIC POLICE DEPARTMENT AWARDED TO Z BAR SUPPLY COMPANY, EXCUSE ME LLC ITEM 11. APPROVED SCREENING AUTHORITY IN THE AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $108,910 AND NOTE CENTS FOR EMERGENCY PURCHASE OF FOUR BOOSTER PUMPS FOR HOUSTON PUBLIC WORKS WATER TO JERSEY, EXCUSE ME, JERSEY EQUIPMENT CODE OF HOUSTON ITEM 11 AGAIN APPROVED SPENDING AUTHORITY IN THE AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $108,910 NO CENTS FOR EMERGENCY PURCHASE OF FOUR BOOSTER PUMPS FOR HOUSTON PUBLIC WORKS AWARD TO JERSEY EQUIPMENT CODE OF HOUSTON INC. ITEM 12 APPROVED SPENDING AUTHORITY IN THE AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $990,000 AND THOSE FOR EMERGENCY BRIDGE REPAIR SERVICES FOR HOUSTON PUBLIC WORKS AWARD TO NBG CONSTRUCTORS INC. ITEM 13, AMEND MOTION NUMBER 2020 DASH 81 PASSED FEBRUARY 19TH, 2020 TO INCREASE SPENDING AUTHORITY FROM $5,688,070 AND NO CENTS TO $7,000,963 AND 2 960 $3,298 AND NO CENTS FOR PURCHASE OF CALCIUM HYDROXIDE SLURRY CHEMICAL FOR HOUSTON PUBLIC WORKS AWARDED TO EL HOIST NORTH AMERICA OF TEXAS LLC AND OF 14 FERGUSON WATER WORKS FOR REPAIR CLAMPS THROUGH THE COOPERATIVE PURCHASING AGREEMENT WITH NATIONAL CORPORATE PURCHASING ALLIANCE FOR HOUSTON PUBLIC WORKS AND OF 15 APPROVED SPENDING AUTHORITY AND THE MILE C $175,000 IN NO CENTS FOR EMERGENCY REPAIRS TO THE FORCE MAIN AT THE SIM SOUTH WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT FOR HOUSTON PUBLIC WORKS AND WATER TO BOYER INC. ITEM 16 APPROVES SPENDING AUTHORITY AND THE AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $501,423 AND 23 CENTS FOR NON-HAZARDOUS WASTE COLLECTION, TRANSPORTATION AND DISPOSAL SERVICES FOR VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS OF WATER TO BFI WASTE SERVICES OF TEXAS LP ITEM 17 ORDINANCE DETERMINING THE POPULATION OF THE CITY AND THE POPULATION OF EACH OF THE COUNCIL DISTRICTS AND DETERMINING THAT THE EXISTING CITY COUNCIL DISTRICTS ARE NOT MATERIALLY UNBALANCED. ITEM 18, ORDINANCE OF MANY ORDINANCE NUMBER 20 21 6 96 ORDERING ESPECIALLY ELECTION TO BE HELD ON NOVEMBER 7TH, 2023 FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUBMITTING TO THE QUALIFIED VOTERS OF THE CITY OF HOUSTON, TEXAS. A PROPOSITION TO AMEND THE CITY CHARTER TO ENABLE THREE OR MORE COUNCIL MEMBERS TO PLACE AN ITEM ON A REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING. AGENDA ITEM 19, ORDINANCE SUBMITTING ORDINANCE NUMBER 2020 DASH 9 9 9 TO REVISE AND UPDATE THE AMENDED AND RESTATED CITY OF HOUSTON'S FINANCIAL POLICIES ADOPTED THERE UNDER ITEM 20. ORDINANCE APPROPRIATING $5,799,328 AND NO CENTS OUT AIRPORTS IMPROVEMENT FUND AS AN ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATION TO PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONTRACT BETWEEN CITY OF HOUSTON AND HELMUTH OBTA AND CASA BALL INC. FOR FEDERAL INSPECTION SERVICES RENOVATION AND EXPANSION PROJECT AT GEORGE BUSH INTERCONTINENTAL AIRPORT SLASH HOUSTON PROJECT NUMBER 8 2 8 ITEM 21 ORDINANCE APPROPRIATING 33342075 CENTS OUT OF AIRPORTS IMPROVEMENT FUND FOR THE CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT AT RISK SERVICES CONTRACT WITH HENSEL PHELPS [01:55:01] CONSTRUCTION CODE ITEM 22 ORDINANCE APPROPRIATING AND $5,938,848 AND NO CENTS OUT OF AIRPORTS IMPROVEMENT FUND APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING FIRST MEMBER TO DESIGN BUILD CONTRACT BETWEEN CITY OF HOUSTON AND CHRISTENSEN BUILDING GROUP LLC ITEM 23 ORDINANCE APPROPRIATING $4,991,000 AND NO CENTS OUT OF EQUIPMENT ACQUISITION CONSOLIDATED FUND FOR VEHICLES AND RELATED EQUIPMENT FOR THE SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT. ITEM 24, ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NUMBER 20 22 7 3 7 CONSENTING TO THE ADDITION OF 0.1452 ACRES, ACRES OF LAND TO PORT OF MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT ITEM 25 ORDINANCE ADMITTING ORDINANCE NUMBER 20 22 9 46 PASSED AND APPROVED APRIL 12TH, 2023 CONSENTING PASSING APPROVED APRIL 12TH, 2022 CONSENTING TO THE ADDITION OF 37.336 ACRES OF LAND TO MONTGOMERY COUNTY MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT NUMBER 24 TO CORRECT THE ATTACHMENTS TO SAID ORDINANCE. ITEM 26, ORDINANCE APPROPRIATING $5,485,861 AND 99 CENTS FROM CONTRIBUTED CAPITAL PROJECT FUND FOR THE PLAN CONTINUATION AND SUPPORT OF THE HOUSTON PERMITTING CENTERS PERMITTING AND INSPECTION SYSTEM FOR HOUSTON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES ON BEHALF OF HOUSTON PUBLIC WORKS, EXCUSE ME, LETTER 27, ORDINANCE APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING FIRST AMENDMENT TO CONTRACT BETWEEN CITY OF HOUSTON AND BECKS INC. DBA APPLE TOWING CO FOR TOWING FOR VEHICLES AND EQUIPMENT ITEM 28 ORDINANCE APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING FIRST AMENDMENT AND RESTATED SURFACE LEASE CLOSED MUNICIPAL LANDFILL BETWEEN CITY OF HOUSTON, TEXAS AS LANDLORD AND SUNNYSIDE ENERGY LLC AS TENANT ITEM 29 ORDINANCE APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING SUBMISSION OF ELECTRONIC APPLICATION FOR AND ACCEPTANCE OF GRANT FUNDS THROUGH THE US DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, OFFICE OF COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES FOR FY 23 COPS HIRING PROGRAM GRANT ITEM 30 ORDINANCE APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING SUBMISSION OF ELECTRONIC APPLICATION FOR AN ACCEPTANCE OF THE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE DIVISION FOR FY 2024. LAW ENFORCEMENT RESPONSE TO MASS MASS CASUALTY EVENTS. FAST GRANT ITEM 31 ORDINANCE APPROVING AN AUTHORIZING SUBMISSION OF AN ELECTRONIC APPLICATION FOR AN ACCEPTANCE OF THE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE DIVISION FOR FY 24 VIOLENT CRIME PROGRAM GRANT ITEM 32 ORDINANCE APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING SUBMISSION OF AN ELECTRONIC APPLICATION FOR AN ACCEPTANCE OF THE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE DIVISION FOR FY 24 DEFENSIVE TACTICS AND PHYSICAL FITNESS GRANT. ITEM 33 ORDINANCE APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING SUBMISSION OF AN ELECTRONIC APPLICATION FOR AN ACCEPTANCE OF THE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE DIVISION FOR FY 24 UPDATING TECHNOLOGY AND AUGMENTING THE FUTURE GRANT. ITEM 34 ORDINANCE APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING SUBMISSION OF AN ELECTRONIC APPLICATION FOR AN ACCEPTANCE OF THE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE DIVISION FOR FFY 2024 EXPLOSIVE DETECTION, K NINE STRATEGIC UTILIZATION AND DETERRENCE INITIATIVE GRANT ITEM 35 ORDINANCE APPROVING AND AUTHORIZED SUBMISSION OF AN ELECTRONIC APPLICATION FOR AND ACCEPTANCE OF THE US DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION FOR FY 2023 MOTOR CARRIER SAFETY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM, HIGH PRIORITY GRANT. ITEM 36, EXCUSE ME, ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING THE EAST AND WEST SIDES OF THE 1500 BLOCK OF ORANGE STREET BETWEEN EAST 16TH STREET AND EAST 15TH STREET WITHIN THE CITY OF FUSION, TEXAS. ITEM 37 ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING THE NORTH SIDE OF THE 4,600 BLOCK OF ROAD NEED DRIVE BETWEEN BLYTHEWOOD STREET AND CALHOUN ROAD WITHIN THE CITY OF HOUSTON, TEXAS HAS A SPECIAL MINIMUM LOT SIZE BLOCK. ITEM 38 ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING THE NORTH SIDE OF THE 4,600 BLOCK OF ROSE NEED DRIVE BETWEEN BLACKWOOD STREET AND CALHOUN ROAD WITHIN THE CITY OF HOUSTON, TEXAS HAS A SPECIAL MINIMUM BUILDING LINE BLOCK ITEM 39 ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING THE NORTH AND SOUTH SIDE OF THE 900 BLOCK OF WOODLAND STREET BETWEEN MISHAW STREET AND JULIAN STREET. ITEM 40 ORDINANCE APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING EXECUTION OF AGREEMENT WITH US DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION. ITEM 41 MUNICIPAL SETTING DESIGNATION ORDINANCE PROHIBITING THE USE OF DESIGNATED GROUNDWATER BENEATH ATTRACTIVE LAND CONTAINING 86.658 ACRES, COMMONLY KNOWN AS 82 30 STEADMAN STREET, HOUSTON, HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS SUPPORTING ISSUANCE OF A MUNICIPAL YOUTH SETTING DESIGNATION BY THE TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AT THE REQUEST OF NORTH POINT DEVELOPMENT LLC ITEM 42. ORDINANCE APPROPRIATING $402,619 88 CENTS OUT OF WATER AND SEWER SYSTEM. CONSOLIDATED CONSTRUCTION FUND APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING ANY LOCAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN CITY OF HOUSTON AND GULF GATE REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY. ITEM 43 ORDINANCE APPROPRIATING $196,350 AND NO CENTS OUT DEDICATED DRAINAGE AND STREET RENEWAL CAPITAL FUND AT RUM TAX APPROVING. AN AUTHORIZING FIRST AMENDMENT TO ADVANCE FUNDING AGREEMENT BETWEEN CITY OF HOUSTON AND TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION. ITEM 44 ORDINANCE APPROPRIATING $3,150,000 IN NO CENTS OUT OF WATER AND SEWER SYSTEM. CONSOLIDATED CONSTRUCTION FUND APPROVING AN AUTHORIZING PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING SERVICES CONTRACT BETWEEN CITY OF HOUSTON AND INDUSTRY CONSULTING LLC ITEM 45. [02:00:01] ORDINANCE APPROPRIATING $8,800,000 IN NO CENTS OUT OF DEDICATED DRAINAGE AND STREET RENEWAL CAPITAL FUND DRAINAGE CHARGE AWARDING CONTRACT TO RAY TECH CONSTRUCTION RESOURCES INC. THAT IS THE END OF THE CONSENT AGENDA UNDER THE MATTER SALE CATEGORY. ITEM 46, MUNICIPAL SETTING DESIGNATION ORDINANCE PROHIBITING THE USE OF DESIGNATED GROUNDWATER BENEATH THE TRACT OF LAND CONTAINING 4.682, COMMONLY KNOWN AS 38 14 LYONS AVENUE, HARRIS HOUSTON, HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS. THIS WAS TAGGED BY COUNCIL MEMBER ALCORN. THIS WAS ITEM 27 ON AGENDA OF JULY 26TH, 2023. ITEM 47 IS AN ORDINANCE APPRO AND AUTHORIZING SUBMISSION OF AN APPLICATION FOR GRANT ASSISTANCE TO THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION FOR THE CHARGING AND FUELING INFRASTRUCTURE COMMUNITY GRANT PROGRAM. THIS WAS TAGGED BY COUNCILMAN CAST STATE'S TATUM. THIS WAS ITEM 31 ON AGENDA OF JULY 26TH, 2023. THIS COMPLETES THE READING OF THE AGENDA FOR THE CITY COUNCIL SESSION OF AUGUST 2ND, 2023. STATE TUNED FOR THE NEXT SESSION OF HOUSTON CITY COUNCIL. SCHEDULED TO BEGIN AT 9:00 AM I'D LIKE TO WISH MY SON WHOSE BIRTHDAY IS AUGUST 16TH. HE IS FIVE FIREFIGHTER JEFFERSON, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AND TO EVERYONE ELSE, ONE THE MONTH OF AUGUST. IN THE WORDS OF THE CURRENT CITY SECRETARY OF PAT JEFFERSON, DANIEL, I'D LIKE TO LEAVE YOU WITH THIS. ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS TREAT EVERYONE THE WAY YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE TREATED. HAVE A BLESSED AND FOUS DAY. [RECONVENE] GOOD MORNING EVERYONE. AS COUNCIL MEMBER MIKE KNOX TOLD ME IT IS 9 0 3 AND HE IS HERE . SO WE, SO WE, WE CAN, SO WE'RE STARTING. YOU'RE BLESSING US. NO TAGS, NO CONVERSATIONS, NO NOTHING. GOT IT. OKAY. IT IS NINE O'CLOCK ON WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2ND, 2023 ON MAYOR PRO TEM DAVE MARTIN SITTING IN FOR MARIAL, VESTA TURNER. AND I'LL CALL HIM THE EYE IN THE SKY. 'CAUSE HE ALREADY CALLED US THIS MORNING AND TOLD US HE'D BE WATCHING. SHOCKING, ISN'T IT? BUT I'M CALLING THIS MEETING OF CITY COUNCIL TO ORDER. SO, WELCOME MAYOR. HOPE YOU ENJOY YOUR VACATION AND GET OFF THE PHONE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. WE'LL HAVE A NUMBER OF ITEMS TODAY. THE FIRST ONE WILL BE THE MONTHLY FINANCIAL REPORT. UH, AFTER THE MONTHLY FINANCIAL REPORT, WE'LL MOVE INTO THE HEARING ON THE LANDMARKS AND PROTECTED LANDMARKS DISTRICTS, UM, FOLLOWED BY THE MAYOR'S REPORT, AND THEN THE CONSENT AGENDA. AND THEN, UH, AFTER THAT WE'LL DO THE RECOGNITION OF THE APPOINTMENTS. AS I KNOW, WE HAVE SEVERAL PEOPLE HERE THAT ARE BEING APPOINTED THIS MORNING. [REPORT FROM CITY CONTROLLER AND THE CITY ADMINISTRATION REGARDING THE CURRENT FINANCIAL STATUS OF THE CITY including but not limited to, a revenue, expenditure and encumbrance report for the General Fund, all special revenue funds and all enterprise funds, and a report on the status of bond funds and a Quarterly Investment Report by the City Controller ] BUT AT THIS TIME, CHAIR RECOGNIZES CONTROLLER CHRISTOPHER BROWN AND DIRECTOR WILL JONES. GOOD MORNING, GENTLEMEN. GOOD MORNING, MAYOR PRO TE AND COUNCIL MEMBERS. I'M PLEASED TO PRESENT THE MONTHLY FINANCIAL REPORT FOR THE PERIOD ENDING JUNE 30TH. IN THE GENERAL FUND, THE CONTROLLER'S OFFICE IS PROJECTING AN ENDING FUND BALANCE OF 442.4 MILLION FOR FY 23. THIS IS 7.6 MILLION LOWER THAN THE PROJECTION OF THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT. BASED ON OUR CURRENT PROJECTIONS, THE FUND BALANCE WILL BE APPROXIMATELY 268.8 MILLION ABOVE THE CITY'S TARGET OF HOLDING 7.5% IN RESERVES. OUR REVENUE PROJECTION INCREASE BY 23.7 MILLION FROM THE MAY 23 REPORT, AND THAT'S DUE TO THE FOLLOWING. PROPERTY TAX INCREASED BY 9.4 MILLION. INDUSTRIAL ASSESSMENTS INCREASED BY 5.9 MILLION. SALES TAX INCREASED BY 5 MILLION. ELECTRIC FRANCHISE FEES INCREASED BY 700,000 LICENSES AND PERMITS INCREASED BY 600,000. CHARGES FOR SERVICES INCREASED BY 2.5 MILLION, AND THE DIRECT INTER FUND CHARGES DECREASED BY 1 MILLION. AND OUR EXPENDITURES CATEGORY EXPENDITURE ESTIMATES DECREASED BY 22.8 MILLION FROM THE MAY, 2023 REPORT. AND THAT WAS DUE TO HIRING DELAYS IN PERSONNEL COST SAVINGS, AS WELL AS SAVINGS ON SUPPLIES AND SERVICES IN THE FOLLOWING DEPARTMENTS. ADMINISTRATION, REGULATORY AFFAIRS DECREASED 2.1 MILLION. CITY CONTROLLER DECREASED BY 638,000. FINANCE DEPARTMENT DECREASED BY 2.7 MILLION. HEALTH DEPARTMENT, DECREASED BY 2 MILLION. LEGAL DEPARTMENT, DECREASED BY 1 MILLION MUNICIPAL COURTS DECREASED BY 1.8 MILLION. DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS DECREASED 783,000 OFFICE OF BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY DECREASED BY 1.11 MILLION. PARKS AND RECREATION DECREASED BY 3.5 MILLION. PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DECREASED BY 747,000. AND FINALLY, POLICE DECREASED BY 5 MILLION. MOVING ON TO THE ENTERPRISE FUNDS AND THE AVIATION OPERATING FUND, THE TOTAL OPERATING REVENUES INCREASED BY 12.6 MILLION, AND THAT WAS DUE TO INCREASED TRAVEL DEMAND. TOTAL OPERATING EXPENSES INCREASED BY 1.8 MILLION. [02:05:01] UH, AND THAT WAS DUE TO AN INCREASE OF 3.2 MILLION IN SUPPLIES AND SERVICES. EXPENSES OFFSET BY A DECREASE OF 1.5 MILLION IN PERSONNEL COSTS. NON-OPERATING REVENUES INCREASED BY 17.6 MILLION. TOTAL TRANSFERS FROM THE REVENUE FUND TO THE AIRPORT IMPROVEMENT FUND INCREASED BY 28.4 MILLION IN THE CONVENTION AND ENTERTAINMENT FACILITIES OPERATING FUND. TOTAL OPERATING REVENUES INCREASED BY 1.1 MILLION, AND THAT WAS DUE TO AN INCREASE IN PARKING REVENUE. NON-OPERATING REVENUES INCREASED BY 2.3 MILLION, AND THAT WAS DUE TO HIGHER THAN ANTICIPATED HO HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX RECEIPTS IN THE COMBINED UTILITY SYSTEM, TOTAL OPERATING REVENUE INCREASED BY 17.2 MILLION, AND THAT WAS DUE TO HIGHER THAN ANTICIPATED WATER AND SEWER REVENUE. TOTAL OPERATING EXPENDITURES DECREASED BY 26.4 MILLION. NON-OPERATING REVENUES INCREASED BY 5 MILLION, AND TOTAL TRANSFERS DECREASED BY 20.9 MILLION IN THE STORMWATER FUND. TOTAL REVENUES DECREASED BY 3.3 MILLION. TOTAL EXPENDITURES DECREASED BY 3.3 MILLION. THAT WAS DUE TO LOWER ANTICIPATED PERSONNEL COSTS, SUPPLIES, AND OTHER SERVICES. MOVING ON TO THE DEDICATED DRAINAGE AND STREET RENEWAL FUND AND THE AVALOR, UH, TOTAL EXPENDITURES DECREASED BY 21.1 MILLION IN THE D-D-S-R-F DRAINAGE CHARGE. THE TOTAL REVENUE INCREASE BY 2 MILLION AND THE TOTAL EXPENDITURES DECREASE BY 4.5 MILLION. AND THE D-D-S-R-F METRO TOTAL REVENUE INCREASE BY 13.5 MILLION, AND TOTAL EXPENDITURES DECREASED BY 6.6 MILLION. MOVING ON TO OUR COMMERCIAL PAPER AND BONDS, ALL OF OUR VARIABLE RATE DEBT IS BELOW THE 20% THRESHOLD. AND I WILL THEN MOVE ON TO THE QUARTERLY INVESTMENT AND SWAP REPORT. AS OF JUNE 30TH, THE CITY HAD 5.66 BILLION INVESTED IN OUR GENERAL INVESTMENT POOL. FITCH UH, RATINGS REVIEWED THIS POOL AND ASSIGNED, UH, THE HIGHEST RATING THAT OF AAA, UH, WHICH IS NOW HIGHER THAN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PER FITCH , UH, INVESTMENTS ARE 370 MILLION HIGHER THAN LAST YEAR. AND THIS IS PRIMARILY ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE TEXAS WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD LOAN AND INCREASE IN FUNDING FROM THE CAPITAL PROJECTS, FUNDS, COMMERCIAL PAPER INSURANCES AND HIGHER SALES TAX. IN THE GENERAL FUND, AS OF JUNE 30TH, 2023, THE GENERAL INVESTMENT POOL WAS YIELDING 2.5220000000000002%, WHICH IS UP FROM 2.368% YIELD IN THE PRIOR QUARTER. AND FINALLY, THE SWAP REPORT. THE CITY HAD A NET PAYMENT, UH, FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED JUNE 30TH, 2023 FROM ITS TWO SWAPS OF 4.2 MILLION. THE FAIR VALUE FOR BOTH SWAPS AS OF JUNE 30TH, 2023 WAS NEGATIVE 122 MILLION. THAT'S APPROXIMATELY TWO POINT MILLION MORE THAN LAST QUARTER. AND THAT CONCLUDES MY REPORT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, CONTROLLER BROWN, FINANCE DIRECTOR, WILL JONES. GOOD MORNING. GOOD MORNING. UH, THIS IS THE 12 PLUS ZERO FINANCIAL REPORT FOR THE PERIOD ENDING JUNE 30TH, 2023. FISCAL YEAR 2023 PROJECTIONS ARE BASED ON 12 MONTHS OF ACTUAL RESULTS. HOWEVER, JUST AS A REMINDER, INVOICES, UH, FOR GOODS AND SERVICES, UH, PROVIDED LAST FISCAL YEAR STILL CONTINUE TO COME IN. AND THESE EXPENSES WILL BE RECORDED AS ACCRUALS TO, UH, LAST YEAR UNTIL AUGUST 31ST. SO THE RESULTS ARE NOT FINAL UNTIL THE PUBLICATION OF THE FY 23 ANNUAL COMPREHENSIVE FINANCIAL REPORT. SO NEXT MONTH WE'LL BEGIN PRESENTING THE MONTHLY FINANCIAL REPORT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2024. AT THE TIME OF THE FY UH, THE Y 24 ADOPTED BUDGET FORMULATION, THE BEGINNING FUND BALANCE WAS ESTIMATED TO BE 420 MILLION. IN THIS 12 PLUS ZERO FINANCIAL REPORT, WE ARE CURRENTLY PROJECTING THAT THIS FUND BALANCE WILL BE 450 MILLION AND INCREASE OF 30 MILLION. SO MOVING ON TO THE GENERAL FUND, OUR PROJECTION IS 108 MILLION HIGHER THAN THE ADOPTED BUDGET. AND THIS IS FOR THE GENERAL FUND REVENUE AND 6.7 MILLION HIGHER THAN PRIOR MONTH'S PROJECTION. AND IT'S PRIMARILY DUE TO 3.5 MILLION INCREASE IN INDUSTRIAL ASSESSMENTS. 2.4 MILLION INCREASE IN CHARGES FOR SERVICES, 1.1 MILLION INCREASE IN MUNICIPAL COURTS, UH, 814,000, INCREASE IN INTEREST TO REFLECT HIGHER THAN ANTICIPATED CASH RECEIPTS AND 668,000 INCREASE, UH, INCREASE IN LICENSING PERMITS. AND THEN WE HAVE A 1 MILLION DECREASE IN DIRECT INTER FUND SERVICES, PRIMARILY DUE TO LOWER CHARGEBACK FOR POLICE AIRPORT SERVICES. AND THEN WE HAVE 595,000 DECREASE IN MISCELLANEOUS, PRIMARILY DUE TO LOWER THAN ANTICIPATED PAYMENT IN LIEU OF TAXES AND 535,000, A DECREASE IN SALE OF CAPITAL ASSETS. AND MOVING ON TO THE EXPENDITURES, OUR EXPENDITURE PROJECTION IS 6.5 MILLION HIGHER THAN THE ADOPTED BUDGET, AND IS 22.8 MILLION LOWER THAN THE LAST MONTH. THE VARIANCE FROM LAST MONTH'S PROJECTION IS DUE TO YEAR END SAVINGS IN PERSONNEL SUPPLIES AND SERVICES ACROSS, UH, VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS. WE ARE CURRENTLY PROJECTING THE ENDING FUND BALANCE OF 450 MILLION, WHICH IS 101.5 MILLION HIGHER THAN THE ADOPTED BUDGET IN 19.4% OF THE ESTIMATED [02:10:01] EXPENDITURES LIST. DEBT SERVICE AND PAY AS YOU GO, THE FUND BALANCE IS 276.3 MILLION ABOVE THE TARGETED 7.5% OF EXPENDITURES, EXCLUDING DEBT SERVICE AND PAY AS YOU GO. UH, WE AGREE WITH THE CONTROLLER ON THE ENTERPRISE FUNDS. SO I'LL MOVE ON TO THE SPECIAL FUNDS. AND WE HAVE QUITE A BIT OF CHANGES, SO I'LL FOCUS ON, UH, CERTAIN ONES, UH, WITH, UH, YOU KNOW, SOME SIGNIFICANT CHANGES STARTING WITH THE HEALTH BENEFITS FUND. REVENUES DECREASED BY 9.4 MILLION DUE TO LOWER ENROLLMENT AND EXPENDITURES DECREASED BY 19.7 MILLION, MAINLY DUE TO LOWER CLAIMS. LOOKING AT THE PROPERTY AND CASUALTY FUND REVENUES AND AN REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES DECREASED BY 11.2 MILLION, MAINLY DUE TO A LOWER THAN ANTICIPATED COST FOR LEGAL SERVICES AND INSURANCE PREMIUMS. UH, YOU LOOK AT THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION FUND, OPERATING REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES DECREASED BY 5.6 MILLION, MAINLY DUE TO A LOWER THAN ANTICIPATED CLAIMS. UH, LOOKING AT THE BUILDING INSPECTION FUND REVENUES INCREASED BY 2.2 MILLION DUE TO HIGHER THAN ANTICIPATED PERMIT AND CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES. UH, THE ESSENTIAL PUBLIC HEALTH FUND EXPENDITURES DECREASED BY 2.7 MILLION DUE TO SAVINGS AND PERSONNEL AND SERVICES. AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THAT CONCLUDES MY REPORT. THANK YOU, GENTLEMEN. UH, WE HAVE A COUPLE OF COUNCIL MEMBERS IN QUEUE. START OFF WITH VICE CHAIR ED POLLARD. THANK YOU MAYOR PRO. TIM, GOOD MORNING TO EVERYONE. THANK YOU BOTH FOR THE PRESENTATION. UH, REALLY QUICKLY, JUST WANT TO GET THE, THE NUMBER OF WHERE WE STAND ON OUR FUND BALANCE. IS IT, UH, 400 AND WHAT MILLION FUND? BALANCE IS 450 MILLION. AND AGAIN, THIS IS FOR FY 23, SO IT'S 450 MILLION AT THE MOMENT. OKAY, THANK YOU. THANK YOU. VICE CHAIR. UH, I MADE A COUPLE OF COMMENTS YESTERDAY. NO ONE ELSE IS IN QUEUE. I'M SURPRISED THAT, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER SALLY AORN DIDN'T READY TO SPEAK. BUT, UM, AS MANY OF US ON COUNCIL, I THINK WE HAVE ABOUT SIX OF US THAT ARE, THIS IS OUR LAST FULL FISCAL YEAR. UH, WE'RE CLOSING OUT FISCAL YEAR 23 WITH THIS MOER. AND WHEN I LOOK AT THE ANNOUNCEMENT BY FITCH THIS MORNING, AS THEY DOWNGRADED THE US DEBT FROM, UM, AA PLUS TO, FROM AAA, UH, TO AA PLUS, I LOOK AT SOME OF THE THINGS THAT THEY HAD MENTIONED. AND IT WAS CASH, REVENUE VERSUS EXPENDITURES AND DEBT. SO AS WE EXIT FISCAL YEAR 23, I WANTED TO BRING UP SOME OF THE POINTS I BROUGHT UP YESTERDAY ON THE REVENUE SIDE, 442 TO $450 MILLION IN RAINY DAY FUND. IN FUND BALANCE, UH, THE POLICY REQUIRES 7.5%. WE'RE 19% OVER DOUBLE THAT. ALMOST TRIPLE THAT. YEP. THREE X, THAT'S THE CASH SIDE. ON THE EXPENSE SIDE IN YOUR REPORT, WE'VE DECREASED EXPENDITURES BY $23 MILLION. A LOT OF IT IN PERSONNEL COSTS. SORT OF A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD. I GET IT. YOU KNOW, PEOPLE ARE LEAVING FOR HIGHER PAYING OPPORTUNITIES. WE TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE STUDY THAT WE'RE DOING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE COMPETITIVE IN THE WORKPLACE, BUT A DECREASE OF $23 MILLION ON PERSONNEL. AND THEN THE BIGGEST ISSUE THAT AFFECTS EVERY THE US IS GETTING DOWNGRADE. EVERY STATE, EVERY COUNTY, EVERY CITY IS DEBT. AND THE PRESENT VALUE THAT WE HAVE ON DEBT OBLIGATIONS ON THE PENSION SIDE, WE'VE DECREASED IT FROM 8.2 BILLION TO 2.2 BILLION ON THE OPE SIDE. THE OTHER POST-EMPLOYMENT BENEFITS FROM 9.1 TO 4.5. SO AS A NUMBER OF US EXIT, AND WE'VE ALL BEEN A PART OF THIS, WHAT I THINK IS A PHENOMENAL FINANCIAL PICTURE AS WE SIT HERE TODAY, NOT KNOWING WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS FOR US, BUT REVENUE, STRONG EXPENDITURES, REDUCTION DEBT, I THINK WE'VE GOTTEN TREMENDOUS RESPONSIBILITY AND INSIGHT INTO WHERE WE'VE MOVED OUR PENSION AND EP DEBT. A LOT OF THIS CONTROLLER BROWN IS WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT YESTERDAY AND ON THE OPE TRUST ACCOUNT AND THE ABILITY TO IMPLEMENT THAT. SO, UH, AS I SIT HERE AND LOOK AT THE LAST FISCAL YEAR THAT I WILL CLOSE OUT AS A COUNCIL MEMBER, I SAY, GOOD JOB ADMINISTRATION, UM, GOOD JOB CONTROLLER'S OFFICE, GOOD JOB TO EVERYBODY FOR PUTTING US IN THIS POSITION TODAY WHERE WE WILL TURN OVER THE CITY WITH SOUND FISCAL POLICY AND GREAT NEWS ON CASH, REVENUE, EXPENSES AND DEBT, ESPECIALLY THE DEBT SIDE OF IT. SO, UM, YOU KNOW, I ALWAYS LIKE TO LEAVE PLACE BETTER THAN YOU INHERITED IT. I WOULD SAY THAT FOR US THAT ARE LEAVING IT, COUNCIL MEMBER KNOX, COUNCIL MEMBER ASH, COUNCIL MEMBER GALLEGOS. UM, WE'RE DOING JUST COUNCIL MEMBER CISNEROS. WE'RE DOING JUST THAT. SO I, I FEEL GOOD ABOUT CLOSING OUT THIS FISCAL YEAR AND WHERE WE ARE FROM A FINANCIAL STANDPOINT. DAVE MARTIN'S THOUGHTS. SO WE HAVE NO OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS IN QUEUE. SO WITH THAT, I WILL MOVE, HAVE A MOTION TO ACCEPT THE MONTHLY FINANCIAL [02:15:01] REPORT FOR ASEX TATUM MOVED PERIOD END IN JUNE 30TH, 2023. CASTEX TATUM SECONDS. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OPPOSED? MOTION GRANTED. THANK YOU GENTLEMEN. GREAT REPORT AS ALWAYS. [1.  PUBLIC HEARING relative to the designation of sixteen Landmarks or Protected Landmarks - DISTRICTS C - KAMIN; D - EVANS-SHABAZZ; G - HUFFMAN and H - CISNEROS ] NEXT WE'LL HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING. AND THIS PUBLIC HEARING IS REGARDING, UH, THE, WHAT IS IT CALLED AGAIN? LANDMARK PROTECT THE LANDMARK AND PROTECTED LANDMARK LANDMARK HEARINGS. SO WE HAVE WELCOME DIRECTOR MARGARET WALLACE BROWN, AND DEPUTY DIRECTOR NICOLE BROUSSARD FROM THE CITY OF HOUSTON PLANNING DEPARTMENT. UH, GOOD MORNING LADIES. GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL MEMBER. UH, GOOD MORNING COUNSEL. IT'S A PLEASURE TO BE WITH YOU THIS MORNING. UM, I WANT TO INTRODUCE NICOLE, UM, SMOTHERS, WHO MANY OF YOU HAVE KNOWN FROM OTHER, FROM HER OTHER PRESENTATIONS. WE ARE HERE TO PRESENT A PUBLIC HEARING ON 16, UM, APPLICATIONS FOR LANDMARK AND PROTECTED LANDMARK STATUS. I KNOW SHE'LL SAY THIS IN A PRESENTATION, BUT I CAN'T EMPHASIZE IT TOO MUCH. EVERY ONE OF THESE APPLICATIONS HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE PROPERTY OWNER. THIS IS NOTHING THAT WE ARE DOING TO PROPERTY, UH, THAT PROPERTY OWNERS COULD, COULD OPPOSE. THEY, IN FACT, ARE THE ONES ASKING FOR IT. UM, SO, UH, SO I, WITH THAT, I WILL HAND IT OVER TO NICOLE. GOOD MORNING. UH, THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT HAS RECEIVED 15 SEPARATE APPLICATIONS FROM PROPERTY OWNERS FOR LANDMARK AND PROTECTED LANDMARK DESIGNATIONS. THERE ARE THREE LANDMARKS AND 12 PROTECTED LANDMARKS. THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT ALSO RECEIVED AN APPLICATION FOR ONE PROTECTED ARCHEOLOGICAL SITE, A CEMETERY APPLICATIONS FROM PROPERTY OWNERS REQUESTING DESIGNATIONS WERE RECEIVED FOR THE FOLLOWING ADDRESSES PRESENTED BY COUNCIL DISTRICT IN COUNCIL DISTRICT C. THERE ARE EIGHT PROTECTED LANDMARKS, ST. MARY'S MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH AT 46 0 2 ELI STREET, THE SALZMAN HOUSE AT 36 15 NORTH BRASSWOOD BOULEVARD, THE JOHN C PENTHOUSE AT 4 28 HAWTHORNE STREET, THE EARL AND BERTHA CARPENTER HOUSE AT 53 30 MENDEL STREET, CHRISTIAN HOME MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH AT 34 32 ROSALIE STREET, THREE OAKS, MR. AND MRS. H ARCH BRADLEY HOUSE AT 2201 ALS ROAD. THE GOODMAN HOUSE AT 4 26 WESTMORELAND STREET. WINSLOW WESTHEIMER CENTER, WHICH IS MADE UP OF THREE ADDRESSES, 19 0 1, 19 11, AND 1915 WESTHEIMER ROAD. AND THIS IS AN INTERESTING PROPERTY, WHICH INCLUDES A FORMER SERVICE STATION. IT'S A ONE STORY TUDOR REVIVAL BRICK VENEER BUILDING ORIGINALLY CONSTRUCTED IN 1930. ALSO IN COUNCIL DISTRICT C, THERE WAS ONE PROTECTED ARCHEOLOGICAL SITE, THE OLIVE WOODS CEMETERY AT 1300 COURT STREET IN COUNCIL DISTRICT D, THERE ARE TWO PROTECTED LANDMARKS. THE WILLBANKS HANNAH HOUSE AT 26 0 6 ROSEDALE STREET, AND THE SPENCER AND LEILA ROBINSON HOUSE AT 30 19 GRAY STREET IN COUNCIL DISTRICT G, THERE IS ONE LANDMARK, THE MR. AND MRS. RONALD ELLSWORTH LEE HOUSE AT 2153 PELLUM DRIVE IN COUNCIL DISTRICT H, THERE ARE TWO LANDMARKS. THE RYER FRAGA HOUSE AT 15 TIC STREET AND THE THOMPSON BROWN HOUSE AT TWO 15 EAST 30TH STREET. ALSO IN DISTRICT H, THERE ARE TWO PROTECTED LANDMARKS. THE 1134 EAST 14TH STREET HOUSE AT 1134 EAST 14TH STREET, AND THE LIONEL J CASTILLO COMMUNITY CENTER AT 2101 SOUTH STREET. THERE WAS NO OPPOSITION RECEIVED FROM THE PUBLIC TO ANY OF THESE DESIGNATIONS. THE PROPOSED LANDMARKS, PROTECTED LANDMARKS IN ARCHEOLOGICAL SITE WERE PRESENTED TO THE HOUSTON ARCHEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL COMMISSION ON SEPARATE MEETING DATES IN 2022 AND 2023. AND THE COMMISSION UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDED APPROVAL OF ALL DESIGNATIONS AND FORWARDED THEM TO COUNCIL FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION WHERE AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE. THANK YOU, MR. WE DON'T HAVE ANYONE SIGNED UP TO SPEAK, BUT WE DO HAVE, UH, COUNCIL MEMBERS THAT WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER ROBERT GALLEGOS. THANK YOU CHAIR. UH, UH, MAYOR CHAIR. UH, FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL THAT Y'ALL DO IN PROTECTING OUR HISTORY HERE IN THE CITY OF HOUSTON. UM, IN, IN REGARDS TO THE ANO CASTILLO, UH, COMMUNITY CENTER. I BELIEVE IT'S A COUNTY FACILITY. UH, I KNOW THAT THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT WAY BACK WHEN, WHEN, UH, IT WAS FORMER COMMISSIONER SYLVIA GARCIA, UH, SHE'S THE ONE THAT, UM, UH, ACQUIRED THE BUILDING AND, UH, AND, AND WE WERE ABLE TO RESTORE THAT OLD BUILDING. AND, UH, IT'S GOOD TO SEE THAT NOW IT'S GETTING A LANDMARK AND, AND, AND, AND THEY'LL BE PROTECTED EVEN MORE. SO THANK YOU AGAIN FOR EVERYTHING THAT Y'ALL DID TO PROTECT THE HISTORY HERE IN THE CITY OF HOUSTON. COUNCIL MEMBER MIKE KNOX. THANK YOU. UH, SO COULD YOU DESCRIBE FOR ME THE DIFFERENCE? I ALWAYS GET CONFUSED BETWEEN A LANDMARK AND A PROTECTED [02:20:01] LANDMARK. WHAT, WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THOSE TWO? YES, SIR. UM, IT IS CONFUSING. SO EVERY PROPERTY THAT IS, UM, DESIGNATED IS ACTUALLY DESIGNATED AS A LANDMARK FIRST. AND THEN IF THE PROPERTY OWNERS WANNA PUT A SLIGHTLY MORE STRENUOUS RE RESTRICTION ON THE PROPERTY, THEY GO FOR THE PROTECTED LANDMARK STATUS. IN LAYMAN'S TERMS, THE, THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO IS THAT IF IT IS A LANDMARK, UM, AND THEY WANT TO MAKE CHANGES TO IT, OR THEY WANT TO DEMOLISH IT, THEY ARE, AS WITH ALL HISTORIC PROPERTIES REQUIRED TO GO TO THE HAHC, THE HISTORIC COMMISSION, IF THE HISTORIC COMMISSION SAYS, NO, WE DON'T AGREE WITH WHAT YOU ARE TRYING TO DO, AND YOUR, YOUR REQUEST FOR CERTIFICATE IS DENIED, THE PROPERTY OWNER OF A LANDMARK MAY WAIT 90 DAYS. THEY GET EFFECTIVELY WHAT'S CALLED A 90 DAY WAIVER. THEY MAY WAIT 90 DAYS AND THEY MAY TAKE THE ACTION ANYWAY. IF IT IS A PROTECTED LANDMARK AND THE COMMISSION SAYS THEY DISAPPROVE THIS CERTIFICATE, THEN THERE IS NO 90 DAY WAIVER AND THE CHANGE CANNOT HAPPEN. OKAY. SO THE, THE LANDMARK, THE, THE OWNER CAN STILL MAKE A CHANGE LATER ON IF THEY WANT TO. CORRECT. AND THE PROTECTED LANDMARK IS IN PERPETUITY. WELL, EVERYONE CAN MAKE THE CHANGE. THE DIFFERENCE IS THAT IF THE COMMISSION DISAPPROVES THE CHANGE, THE LANDMARK PROPERTY OWNER CAN MAKE IT REGARDLESS. RIGHT. BUT THE DECISION ABOUT THE PROPERTY IS FOR THE, UH, HISTORICAL COMMISSION TO MAKE NOT THE OWNER WHETHER THE CHANGE THAT THEY WANNA MAKE IS APPROPRIATE OR NOT, WHETHER IT'S APPROPRIATE OR NOT. YES. THAT IS A HISTORIC COMMISSION DECISION. WELL, THAT'S MORE CLEAR. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. APPRECIATE IT. COUNCIL MEMBER SALLY ALCORN. THANK YOU. AND REMIND ME ABOUT THE, THE TAX CREDIT. IT'S A 15 YEAR ON A LANDMARK, RIGHT? YOU CAN GET A TAX CREDIT IF YOU DO WORK TO GO HOME. SO FOR EITHER A LANDMARK OR A PROTECTED LANDMARK, CERTAIN EXPENSES TO RESTORE THE ORIGINAL HISTORIC PORTION OF THE HOME. AND THAT DOES NOT INCLUDE ADDING ON A SECOND BEDROOM OR BUILDING A POOL OR A RIGHT OR ANYTHING ELSE, BUT RESTORING THE ORIGINAL HISTORIC PORTION OF THE HOME. CERTAIN EXPENSES CAN BE QUANTIFIED AND THE, AND THEY MAY APPLY AT SOME POINT FOR A CITY, UM, EXEMPTION FOR A CITY PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION BASED ON THOSE. OKAY. BUT THEY MUST BE APPROVED THROUGH THE C OF A IF IN FACT, WHAT WE WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT WITH A PROTECT WITH A LANDMARK, IF THE COMMISSION DOES NOT ISSUE THE C OF A AND THE PROPERTY OWNER GOES AHEAD AND DOES IT THOSE EXPENSES. GOT IT. ARE AVOIDED. OKAY. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER CARLOS CISNEROS. UM, THANK YOU. UM, I WANTED TO ALSO ADD ABOUT THE LEON CASTILLO CENTER THAT, UM, THAT AS RECENTLY AS THE, THE NINETIES, THE 1990S, IT WAS STILL OPERATING AS AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, LEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND THE, THE NEAR NORTH SIDE. AND, UM, I'M JUST, I'M REALLY PLEASED TO SEE THAT IT'S THAT THIS NEW LIFE HAS BEEN BREATHED INTO IT AND THAT, YOU KNOW, THE COUNTY HAS TAKEN IT OVER AND, UM, I WAS IN AN EVENT THERE LAST NIGHT AND, UM, IT WAS WELL ATTENDED AND, UM, THEY HAD THEIR NATIONAL NIGHT OUT THERE. SO IT'S STILL, IT'S STILL SERVING THE COMMUNITY. AND, AND THANK YOU FOR, FOR ALLOWING TO BE ONE OF THESE, UM, PRO UM, PROPERTIES. COUNCIL MEMBER, IF I MAY RESPOND BRIEFLY, THIS, THE LEON EL CASTILLO CENTER IS A HUGE GEM FOR US TO BE ABLE TO PROTECT. AND WE ARE VERY PLEASED THAT THE COUNTY HAS TAKEN THIS ACTION. GETTING HERE TODAY IS A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT BETWEEN THE REALLY HARD WORK OF THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION STAFF IN THE CITY, PRESERVATION HOUSTON AND THE COUNTY WHO, WHO HAVE WORKED FOR MORE THAN A YEAR, I'M GONNA SAY TWO YEARS TO GET US TO THIS POINT. SO THANK YOU. WE HAVE NO OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS IN Q. IS THERE ANYONE HERE PRESENT THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS ISSUE? UH, CHAIR CALLS MS. TAMARA BELL. THANK YOU LADIES. GOOD MORNING, MS. BELL. HOW ARE YOU? I'M EXCELLENT, THANK YOU. Y'ALL ON A ROLL. WE GIVE ANOTHER COMPLIMENT ABOUT THAT. UM, THE FACT THAT I SEE HOUSTON SAVING LANDS, MY HUSBAND'S AN ARCHITECT. I LOVE THE STRUCTURE. I MEAN, I DO, I I LOVE THE EDSEL BUILDING DOWN THE ZO BUILDING DOWNTOWN AND THE OTHER BUILDINGS, THE, UH, THE NEIL ESPERON BUILDING. AND IT BREAKS MY HEART WHEN I SEE, YOU KNOW, SO MANY ARCHEOLOGICAL, UH, ARCHITECTURAL GYMS, GYMS JUST BULLDOZED TO THE GROUND. SO I'M VERY, VERY HAPPY ABOUT THIS PROCESS. AND, UH, THE OLIVE WOOD CEMETERY, THAT'S A BIG ONE. UM, I'VE TRIED TO HELP THE, THE, THE, WHAT'S THE NAME OF THAT CHURCH IN FOURTH FLORIDA, BUT THEY WERE THE ONE OF THE ONES WHO WERE BATTLING ABOUT THIS. SO THE FACT THAT YOU ALL ARE GONNA MAKE THIS AN ARCHEOLOGICAL SITE AND PROTECT IT, IT'S GREAT. LENO CAN STILL, THAT'S MY NEIGHBOR. HE LIVED IN MCGREGOR. SO I THINK, I MEAN, I CAME TO GIVE Y'ALL KUDOS BECAUSE THE PROPERTY OWNERS INITIATED THIS, OR YOU ALL DID THE RIGHT THING AND DECIDED TO PROTECT THEM. SO CAL TWO, THAT'S TWO, THAT'S [02:25:01] TWO IN A ROW. SO THAT'S ALL I WANTED TO SAY. THANK YOU. WHAT, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER KNOX MS. BELL. HOLD ON ONE SECOND. SO THIS IS TWO DAYS IN A ROW. I KNOW IT, I MEAN IT. , I, CITY SECRETARY. WOULD YOU WRITE THIS DATE DOWN IN HISTORY? EXACTLY. TOMORROW. BELLS TWO DAYS IN A ROW. IT SAID I GOTTA COME BACK NEXT WEEK. I WAS LIKE, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THAT, BUT . BUT YES, I DO. I REALLY DO. AND THE MC, HANNAH, UH, WHAT MCNA DID FOR, UM, HOUSTON AND ESPECIALLY IN AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES, IT ABSOLUTELY DESERVES TO BE PROTECTED. SO, THANK YOU. DID YOU HEAR OUR FINANCIAL POSITION ON HOW WE CLOSED OUT FISCAL YEAR 23? I HOPE, I HOPE TO HEAR THOSE POSITIVE COMMENTS. DON'T START, DON'T START. HOPE TO HEAR THOSE POSITIVE COMMENTS ON THAT SUNDAY MORNING TALK SHOW. I WATCH EVERY NOW AND THEN. GOD BLESS. GO BREAK THE ROLL. GOD BLESS. UH, IS THERE ANY OTHER PEOPLE THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS ISSUE? SEE NO ONE. IS THERE A MOTION TO CLOSE THE HEARING CAST? TAKE TATUM. MOVE TO CLOSE THE HEARING. THOMAS SECOND CAST, TAKE TATUM MOTION. THOMAS SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR? OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. [MAYOR'S REPORT] THANK YOU. NEXT WE'LL HAVE THE MAYOR PRO TEMS REPORT. SO A NUMBER OF ITEMS THAT WE HAVE THIS MORNING TO START. THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR BRINGS EXCITEMENT. PARENTS ARE INVITED TO BRING THEIR CHILDREN TO THE MAYOR'S 13TH ANNUAL BACK TO SCHOOL FEST, PRESENTED BY SHELL ON SATURDAY, AUGUST 5TH, 2023 FROM EIGHT IN THE MORNING UNTIL 2:00 PM OR UNTIL THE SUPPLIES LAST. AGAIN, THE BACK TO SCHOOL FEST IS PRESENTED BY SHELL THIS SATURDAY FROM EIGHT IN THE MORNING UNTIL 2:00 PM OR UNTIL THE SUPPLIES LAST. THE EVENT WILL OFFER 25,000 BACKPACKS AND SCHOOL SUPPLIES AND FEATURES ON ONSITE SITE HEALTH SCREENINGS LIKE DENTAL SCREENINGS, VISION SCREENINGS, AND ROUTINE IMMUNIZATION. THIS EVENT ALSO CONNECTS FAMILIES TO A WIDE RANGE OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES OFFERED BY COMMUNITY AGENCIES. VISIT HOUSTON TX.GOV. PTS F FOR REGISTRATION AND MORE INFORMATION. AGAIN, HOUSTON TX.GOV/BTS F FOR REGISTRATION. AND I BELIEVE THAT EVENT IS AT THE GEORGIA BROWN, CORRECT? YES. AT EIGHT TO 2:00 PM A COUPLE OF ACCOLADES FOR OUR GREAT CITY OF HOUSTON EMPLOYEES. WE WANT TO CONGRATULATE THE HOUSTON FIRE DEPARTMENT AND CHIEF SAMUEL PENA AS HE WAS NAMED THE 2023 METROPOLITAN FIRE CHIEF OF THE YEAR BY THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS AND THE NATIONAL FIRE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION. HE WILL SERVE ON THE 2023 METRO EXECUTIVE BOARD. AGAIN, CONGRATULATIONS TO CHIEF SAM PENA ON THIS OUTSTANDING AWARD AS THE 2023 METROPOLITAN FIRE CHIEF OF THE YEAR. YAY. ALSO, CONGRATULATIONS TO MAYOR SYLVETA TURNER. MAYBE HE'S STILL WATCHING. THIS PAST SUNDAY, HE WAS AWARDED THE GEORGE BUSH MEDAL FOR EMPOWERING PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES. THE AWARD COINCIDES WITH THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT 33RD ANNIVERSARY. SIGNED INTO LAW BY BUSH 33 YEARS AGO, THE MAYOR WAS HONORED FOR NOT JUST HIS YEARS OF ADVOCACY, BUT HIS ACTIONS WHILE SERVING IN THIS PARTICULAR OFFICE. THIS AWARD WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1992 AND MAYOR TURNER IS THE FIRST MAYOR. MAYOR TURNER IS THE FIRST MAYOR TO EVER RECEIVE THIS DISTINGUISHED AWARD. SO CONGRATULATIONS TO MAYOR SYLVETA TURNER ON THE GEORGE BUSH MEDAL FOR EMPOWERING PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES HIRE HOUSTON YOUTH. IT'S ALWAYS INTERESTING TO WATCH THE, UH, YOUNG STUDENTS THAT WE HAVE RUNNING AROUND CITY HALL AND THE CITY HALL ANNEX IN THE SUMMER. THEY BRING A LITTLE BIT OF EXCITEMENT TO WHAT WE DO. UH, THEY BRING A LOT OF PASSION TO THEIR JOBS EACH AND EVERY DAY. AND IT'S ALWAYS FUN TO COME TO THE SUMMER BECAUSE THEY MAKE US BETTER. SO THANK YOU FOR THAT. THIS IS THE FINAL LAST WEEK FOR THE HIGHER HOUSTON YOUTH INTERNS THAT WILL BE LEAVING US TOMORROW. WE HAVE SEEN MANY OF THESE YOUNG PEOPLE WONDERING AROUND WORKING AROUND CITY HALL AND SOMETIMES WONDERING, AND THEY'RE WORKING THE PRIVATE SECTOR AND THE NON-PROFIT ARENA AS WELL. MAYOR TURNER'S SUMMER JOBS INITIATIVE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE, AGES 16 TO 24, HAS PROVIDED OPPORTUNITIES FOR THEM TO DEVELOP JOB SKILLS, LEARN FINANCIAL LITERACY, NETWORKING, AND WITH THE MAYOR AND BUSINESS EXEC EXECUTIVES, AND EARN A FABULOUS PAYCHECK. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL. WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU SUCCEED AS YOU RETURN TO SCHOOL OR YOUR MEANINGFUL CAREERS. WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING A BUNCH OF YOU COME BACK NEXT YEAR AND WE'VE THOROUGHLY ENJOYED YOUR PARTICIPATION. IT'S ALWAYS EXCITING TO SEE YOU RUNNING AROUND THE HALLS, DOING A LOT OF WORK FOR MANY OF US SITTING AROUND THE HORSESHOE. SO, UH, MAY THE GOOD LORD CONTINUE TO BLESS YOU IN YOUR ENDEAVORS AND HAVE A GREAT SCHOOL YEAR. THE ASTROS YESTERDAY [02:30:01] WAS A BIG DAY FOR THE HOUSTON ASTROS. I THINK PHARMA VALDEZ GOT A LITTLE MAD THAT THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT THE NEW ACE FOR THE STAFF. SO HE GOES OUT AND THROWS A NO-NO. SO GREAT NO-HITTER AND ONLY WALKED ONE BATTER. THE TEAM REACQUIRED JUSTIN VERLANDER AND COMES ALONG WITH JUSTIN VERLANDER FOR MANY OF THE LADIES. HIS WIFE KATE UPTON. SO THE DEFENDANT SIDE SHOT SIDE YOUNG AWARD WINNER WILL BE BACK WITH THE ASTROS. I THINK HE'LL JOIN THEM IN NEW YORK TOMORROW. HE WAS WITH THE ASTROS FROM 17 TO 22 AND WAS PART OF THE 22 WORLD SERIES TEAM. I THINK HE WAS ALSO A PART OF THE FIRST ONE AS WELL. I'M NOT SURE ABOUT THAT. LAST NIGHT, AS I MENTIONED, FROMMER VALDEZ PITCHED A NO-HITTER WITH MARTIN MALDONADO CATCHING HIS THIRD NO HITTER. SO CONGRATULATIONS TO MARTIN AS WELL. A CATCHER. THE CATCHER'S A VITAL PART OF ANY NO-NO. SO, UH, CONGRATULATIONS TO MY FAVORITE ASTRO MARTINE MALTO ON MONDAY. IS THIS A SPORTS CAST ON MONDAY? THIS IS A SPORTS CAST. I'M A SPORTS GUY. I'M A JUNKIE, NO DOUBT ABOUT IT. ON MONDAY, THE PRESIDENT AND THE FIRST LADY WILL HONOR THE 22 WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS AT THE WHITE HOUSE. AGAIN. ON MONDAY, THE PRESIDENT AND THE FIRST LADY WILL HONOR THE 22 WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS AT THE WHITE HOUSE. FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW, THEY'LL BE COMING OFF A THREE DAY, THREE DAY SWEEP OF THE YANKEES. THEY'LL BE IN THE WHITE HOUSE ON MONDAY, AND THEN THEY'LL GO SWEEP THE BALTIMORE ORIOLES AS THEY HEAD OVER TO BALTIMORE. TO FINISH OFF THAT ROAD TRIP, THE CITY OF HOUSTON HOPES THE GOOD LUCK STREAK CONTINUES. AND I KNOW I DON'T HAVE ANY NOTES ON THIS, UH, OUR OWN CITY ATTORNEY, ARTURO MICHEL, HAD A FABULOUS AWARD. HE WAS AWARDED THE, WHAT'S IT CALLED AGAIN? THE GREATEST PERSON OF THE YEAR AWARD. ATTORNEY OF THE YEAR AWARD. ATTORNEY OF THE YEAR AWARD. SO CONGRATULATIONS TO ARTURO MICHEL, WHO DOES A GREAT JOB DAY IN AND DAY OUT. SO CONGRATULATIONS, ARTURO, AND THAT FINALIZES THE MAYOR'S REPORT. [CONSENT AGENDA] SO NEXT WE WILL MOVE ON TO THE CONSENT AGENDA. SO, MADAME SECRETARY, UNDER THE MISCELLANEOUS CATEGORY, ITEMS TWO THROUGH FIVE NEED A MOTION. CASTEX, TATUM, MOVE, THOMAS, SECOND MOVE, AND A SECOND. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? UH, OPPOSED ITEMS CARRIED. WHO'S GONNA READ THE NAME AND I WILL TAKE THE MOMENT. WE HAVE A NUMBER OF PEOPLE HERE, UH, FOR THE RECOGNITION OF THE APPOINTMENTS THAT WE JUST MADE. THOSE THAT WE JUST MADE WERE NUMBER ONE WAS THE EAST END DISTRICT BOARD OF DIRECTORS. NUMBER TWO, THE HOBBY AREA DISTRICT BOARD OF DIRECTORS. NUMBER THREE, THE SOUTHWEST MANAGEMENT DISTRICT BOARD OF DIRECTORS. AND NUMBER FIVE, NUMBER FOUR, BUT NUMBER FIVE ON OUR AGENDA LIST, THE SPRING BRANCH MANAGEMENT DISTRICT BOARD OF DIRECTORS. I KNOW WE HAVE A NUMBER OF PEOPLE HERE. IF ANY OF YOU ARE HERE, PLEASE COME FORWARD AS YOU MOVE FORWARD. NUMBER ONE, WE APPRECIATE, WE APPRECIATE VERY MUCH YOUR SERVICE. A LOT OF THESE BOARDS ARE VERY INSTRUMENTAL IN WHAT WE DO AS COUNCIL MEMBERS AND WHAT WE DO AS A CITY. AND WE COULDN'T DO IT WITHOUT YOU. SO IF YOU WOULD GO, I'LL GO LADIES FIRST AND WE'LL GO FROM MY LEFT TO YOUR RIGHT. SO IF YOU WOULDN'T MIND INTRODUCING YOURSELF AND TELLING US WHAT BOARD YOU PRESENTLY SERVE ON. MY NAME IS DONLY. I'M SERVING SOUTHWEST MANAGEMENT DISTRICT POSITION FIVE. ALL RIGHTY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE. THANK YOU. YES, SIR. UH, KEN LEE SOUTHWEST MANAGEMENT DISTRICT POSITION ONE, SOUTHWEST MANAGEMENT DISTRICT. DAVID PETERS. UH, POSITION THREE AND THAT WOULD BE EAST END DISTRICT POSITION 13. THANK YOU. ERIC YBARRA, 10 DISTRICT. UM, LONG TIME EAST END RESIDENT AND LONG TIME ENTREPRENEUR. HAPPY TO SEE SOME FAMILIAR FACES. GREAT POSITION NINE. AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, UH, SOUTHEAST MANAGEMENT DISTRICT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AND WE APPRECIATE IT. BEFORE YOU LEAVE, COUNCIL MEMBER ED POLLARD. THANK YOU MAYOR PRO TEM. I WANNA, UH, CONGRATULATE YOU ALL ON, UH, THE APPOINTMENTS AND THE REAPPOINTMENTS. UM, MANAGEMENT DISTRICTS ARE CRUCIAL TO THE CITY OF HOUSTON. AND, UH, SPECIAL SHOUT OUT TO DON LIN, DAVID PETERS, AND THE CHAIRMAN OF THE SOUTHWEST MANAGEMENT DISTRICT. MR. KENNETH LEE. UM, I WANT THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS TO DISTRICT J AND I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU ALL. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER TIFFANY D. THOMAS. THANK YOU MAYOR PRO TIMM, GOOD MORNING. CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU ALL. UH, SIMILAR TO MY COLLEAGUES' COMMENTS. UH, IT'S, UH, A LABOR OF LOVE AS BUSINESSMEN AND WOMEN, UH, YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO OUR COMMUNITIES, NOT JUST THE BUSINESS INDUSTRIES WITHIN THOSE, UH, NEIGHBORHOODS. IT'S CRITICAL. AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARTNERSHIPS. SPECIAL CONGRATULATIONS, UH, TO DAWN. WELCOME NEW APPOINTMENT, UM, TO OUR CHAIRMAN, UH, THE MAYOR OF CHINATOWN. THAT'S WHAT WE CALL HIM, THE MAYOR OF CHINATOWN, . KENNETH LEE AND DAVID. UM, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE [02:35:02] COUNCIL MEMBER ROBERT GALLEGOS. THANK YOU MAYOR PROAM, FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU SO MUCH EVERYONE FOR, UH, YOUR WILLINGNESS TO SERVE THE CITY OF HOUSTON, UH, MANAGEMENT DISTRICTS OR AS YOU KNOW, VERY IMPORTANT HERE IN THE CITY OF HOUSTON. I KNOW BEFORE WE HAD THE EAST END MANAGEMENT DISTRICT, UH, UH, BORN AND RAISED IN THE EAST END, I FELT LIKE, UH, WE WERE BEING NEGLECTED BY THE CITY OF HOUSTON. BUT THE MANAGEMENT DISTRICT HAS DONE A LOT TO IMPROVE THE EAST END. UH, I KNOW THAT, UH, I DO, OR I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO WORK ON SOMETHING THAT I'M HOPING GETS DONE, UH, HOPEFULLY WHILE I'M IN OFFICE AND AS A COUNCIL MEMBER. AND IF NOT, HOPEFULLY WHOEVER SECEDES ME WILL CONTINUE. UH, WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY ALONG THE GULF FREEWAY FROM HOBBY AIRPORT TO DOWNTOWN HOUSTON. UH, THERE'S SIX MANAGEMENT DISTRICTS, THE EAST END, THE HOBBY AREA, SOUTHEAST MANAGEMENT DISTRICT, EO MIDTOWN, AND DOWNTOWN MANAGEMENT DISTRICT. IF EACH MANAGEMENT DISTRICT WOULD TAKE A SECTION OF THE GULF FREEWAY AND, AND, AND MAINTAIN IT, UH, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH TEXDOT. AND WE'VE HAD A, WE'VE HAD MEETINGS WITH TDO AND TDO IS WILLING TO DO THIS. WE JUST CAN'T GET THE MANAGEMENT DISTRICTS ON BOARD, UH, TO BE PARTNERS. BUT I DO WANNA GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO THE EAST END, 'CAUSE I KNOW THE EAST END HAS BEEN TAKING CARE OF THEIR SECTION OF THE GULF FREEWAY. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND YOU CAN TELL WHEN YOU'RE IN THE EAST END, BECAUSE THE PALM TREES ARE TRIMMED, THE TREES ARE TRIMMED, UH, IT'S NICE AND CLEAN. UH, BUT WHEN YOU'RE ON OTHER SECTIONS OF THE GULF FREEWAY, YOU HAVE DEAD PALMS ON THE PALM TREES. TREES ARE OVERGROWN. UH, IT'S NOT CUT ON A, ON A TIMELY MANNER. THE GRASS ALONG THE GULF FREEWAY. UH, AND THIS, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD DO NOW WHEN WE'RE EXPECTING A SUPER BOAT TO COME TO THE CITY OF HOUSTON. BUT THIS SHOULD BE DONE EVERY SINGLE MONTH, UH, OF THE YEAR, BECAUSE THAT, THAT'S A MAIN CORRIDOR FROM THE HOBBY AIRPORT TO DOWNTOWN HOUSTON. AND I CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY SIX MANAGEMENT DISTRICTS CANNOT WORK TOGETHER WITH TXDOT TO GET THIS DONE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER CARLOS CISNEROS. UM, THANK YOU. I, I, I, UM, I, I KNOW HOW MUCH WORK THE MANAGEMENT DISTRICTS, UM, CARRY AND HOW MUCH YOU DO. AND, AND I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT. UM, I, I DON'T KNOW, UM, THE DIFFERENT MANAGEMENT DISTRICTS, LIKE I KNOW, UM, THE EASTON MANAGEMENT DISTRICT, AND I WANNA THANK YOU FOR, FOR ACCEPTING THIS RESPONSIBILITY. AND I WANNA GIVE A HUGE, UH, SHOUT OUT. AND BIG THANK YOU TO, UM, THE, THE LEADER WHO'S SITTING DOWN BEHIND US OVER HERE, UM, VERONICA CHAPPA GOSKY. UM, THIS IS, SHE'S DONE AN EXEMPLARY JOB. AND, AND I, AND I, I, I DON'T KNOW, I DON'T KNOW, AS I SAID, WHAT, WHAT THE REST OF YOU ALL, UM, AS MANAGEMENT DISTRICTS DO. BUT I KNOW THAT, THAT THE EASTON MANAGEMENT DISTRICT IS A MODEL AND, AND REALLY A, A GOLD STANDARD, I THINK, FOR WHAT CAN BE DONE AND REALLY SEIZING OPPORTUNITIES TO, UM, TO MAKE IMPROVEMENTS IN, IN THE COMMUNITY. AND I JUST WANTED TO GIVE, UM, A BIG THANK YOU TO THE WHOLE TEAM THAT THAT DOES THAT. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER ED POLLARD. THANK YOU MAYOR PRO, TIM. AND, UH, STEVE, MR. SHAWNEE HAS ALSO JOINED US. SO I WANT TO THANK YOU, UH, FOR YOUR SERVICE. AND, UH, MS. LYNN, I BELIEVE YOU MAY BE, ARE YOU THE ONLY FEMALE THAT'S REPRESENTED ON THE SOUTHWEST MANAGEMENT DISTRICT? THE SECOND ONE. THE SECOND ONE? WHO, WHO, WHO? WHO'S THE, WHO WAS THE FIRST SANDY FROM HCU? OH, YES. IT'S ON THE BOARD. OKAY. WELL, GLAD TO HAVE YOU AS WELL, AND LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU. THANK YOU. AND, UM, CHAIR RECOGNIZES MR. HARRY SHAWNEE OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF SOUTHWEST MANAGEMENT DISTRICT, WHO JUST ENTERED OUR CHAMBER. SO CONGRATULATIONS, MR. SHAWNEE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE. APPRECIATE WHAT YOU DO EACH AND EVERY DAY TO MAKE THE CITY A BETTER PLACE TO WORK IN, BETTER PLACE TO LIVE. AND GOD BLESS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MADAM SECRETARY, IF WE COULD PROCEED WITH THE CONSENT AGENDA UNDER THE ACCEPT WORK CATEGORY. ITEM SIX THROUGH EIGHT, NEED A MOTION HAST A MOVE A SECOND TO SECOND, THE SECOND A MOTION AND A SECOND. ANY DISCUSSION ON ITEM SIX THROUGH EIGHT? ANY DISCUSSIONS? ANY AND NONE? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES UNDER THE PURCHASING AND TABULATION OF BIDS. CATEGORY ITEMS NINE, 13, AND 16 HAVE BEEN REMOVED FOR SEPARATE CONSIDERATION. NEED A MOTION FOR ITEMS 10, 11, 12, 14, AND 15. A MOVE TO SECONDS MOTION. AND SECOND. ANY DISCUSSION? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES UNDER THE ORDINANCES CATEGORY ITEMS MOVE SEPARATE CONSIDERATION. 17, 18, 19 AND 41. THOSE NUMBERS AGAIN ARE 17, 18, 19, AND 41. NEED A VOTE ON THE BALANCE BEFORE THE VOTE? COUNCIL MEMBER CAROLYN, AFTER THE VOTE. COUNCIL MEMBER CAROLINE EVANS SHEPPA [02:40:01] ON THE VOTE ITSELF. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? OPPOSE. ITEMS CARRIED. COUNCIL [CONSIDERATION OF MATTERS REMOVED FROM CONSENT AGENDA] MEMBER CAROLYN, EVAN SHABAZZ. THANK YOU. UH, MAYOR TIM. UH, JUST HIGHLIGHTING, UH, ITEM 28. I JUST WANNA SAY THAT I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THE BRIEFING FROM ANDY IKIN, UH, SO THAT WE CAN TALK, TAKE IT TO THE COMMUNITY. 'CAUSE THEY'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO, TO THIS AS WELL. AND SO I THANK HIM FOR ALL OF HIS HARD WORK AND WE ARE JUST READY TO MAKE THE SUN SHINE AND SUNNYSIDE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. NO PROBLEM. THAT'S ALL. MADAM SECRETARY, I MOVE. SEPARATE CONSIDERATION. ITEM NINE NEEDS A MOTION CAST NEXTT TO MOVE. SECOND MOTION. AND A SECOND. ANY DISCUSSION? COUNCIL MEMBER MICHAEL KNOX. THANK YOU, MAYOR PRO TIM. UM, ONCE AGAIN, I, I'M GONNA TALK ABOUT TWO ITEMS ON THE AGENDA TODAY. UH, ITEM NINE AND 16, BOTH ARE EMERGENCY PURCHASE ORDERS BECAUSE WE FAILED TO GET THE CONTRACT IN ON TIME BEFORE IT EXPIRED. AND I HAVE AN ANSWER BACK HERE FROM, UH, FROM PROCUREMENT. UH, SAYS THE DEPARTMENT ERRONEOUSLY THOUGHT THERE WAS MORE TIME REMAINING ON THE CURRENT CONTRACT. SURELY WE CAN FIND A COMPUTER PROGRAM THAT WE CAN ENTER INTO THE COMPUTER THAT WILL FLAG THESE ITEMS IN PLENTY OF TIME. ON THE SECOND ONE, UH, THEY'RE DELAYED BECAUSE, UM, IN FEBRUARY THEY SENT AN INTENT TO AWARD LETTER FOR THE PROJECT TO THE LOW BIDDER. AND THEY'VE BEEN WORKING FOR OVER SIX MONTHS TO GET THIS LOW BIDDER TO BRING IN THE APPROPRIATE PAPERWORK THAT MEETS OUR CRITERIA. AND THEY'RE DOING THAT BECAUSE THEY'RE THE LOW BIDDER. WELL, IF YOU CAN'T GET YOUR PAPERWORK TOGETHER, WHAT KIND OF WORK ARE YOU GONNA DO? IT JUST CALLS THAT INTO QUESTION. SO I'M CONCERNED ABOUT THOSE TWO ITEMS. I'LL BE VOTING FOR THEM BECAUSE THEY ARE EMERGENCIES AND WE NEED THIS MATERIAL AND THESE, THESE PROJECTS DONE. BUT ONCE AGAIN, IT'S TWO MORE ITEMS ON THIS WEEK'S AGENDA THAT WE ARE JUST, YOU KNOW, THE BALL IS DROPPING. I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S MANPOWER OR LACK OF TECHNOLOGY OR WHAT, BUT I KNOW THAT CORPORATIONS AROUND THE CITY OF HOUSTON DON'T HAVE THIS PROBLEM. THEY GET THEIR CONTRACTS DONE AND THEY GET 'EM DONE IN ON TIME. SO THANK YOU COUNCIL MEMBER KNOX. AND, UM, YOU HAD AN ASK IN THOSE COMMENTS AND THEN ASK FOR THE CITY TO ESTABLISH A PROCUREMENT PROCESS, METHODOLOGY SOFTWARE TO ADDRESS THESE CONCERNS. BECAUSE YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT AND YOU'VE LET US DOWN THIS PATH. SO THANK YOU FOR THAT FOR EIGHT YEARS IN OCTOBER OR NOVEMBER, . SO HOLD ON, STOP BREATHING, CALM DOWN. WE WILL HAVE THAT PROCUREMENT SYSTEM IN PLACE. I FORGOT THE NAME OF IT. WE DISCUSSED IT. THIS ARIBA, ARIBA WILL BE IN PLACE. AND IT'S A SOFTWARE SYSTEM THAT TRACKS, BECAUSE WHAT WE HAVE IS WE HAVE TO RELY ON THE CITY DEPARTMENTS TO MANUALLY ALMOST LIKE A TICKLER SYSTEM TO TRACK 'EM. AND SOMETIMES LIKE NUMBER NINE, IT SLIPS THROUGH THE CRACKS AND YOU'RE FACED WITH AN EPO. SO HOPEFULLY THIS SYSTEM WILL PREVENT THAT FROM HAPPENING IN THE FUTURE. AND, UH, YOU AND I WILL WATCH THAT FROM A DISTANCE. YES, WE WILL. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. . COUNCIL MEMBER LETITIA PLUMMER. AND IF I COULD ADD A MANUAL, A PROCUREMENT MANUAL TO OUR WISHLIST ABSOLUTELY. THAT WOULD BE AMAZING. YEP. YEP. AND THOSE WERE, THOSE WERE THINGS THAT WE HAVEN'T TALKED A WHILE ABOUT FOR A WHILE AND, AND IT'S FINALLY COMING TO FRUITION. SO WE'LL LOOK FORWARD TO ARIBA. SO, UM, ANY ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION ON ITEM NUMBER NINE? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? OPPOSED? ITEM NUMBER NINE, CARRIES. THANKS FOR YOUR COMMENTS. ITEM 13 NEEDS A MOTION. KA TATUM MOVE THOMAS. SECOND ITEM NUMBER 13. MOTION. AND A SECOND. ANY ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION? COUNCIL MEMBER MICHAEL KNOX. ONCE AGAIN, WE'RE SPENDING MONEY AGAIN. THIS IS A SPENDING AUTHORITY. IT'S INCREASED FROM 5,688,000 AND CHANGE TO 7,000,963 AND CHANGE THE, UH, MILLION. SO THIS HAS TO DO WITH THE INCREASED COST. THAT'S A 70% INCREASE. MM-HMM . IN COST. HOW, HOW IS IT? I MEAN, WE JUST CAN'T ANTICIPATE THIS KIND OF INFLATION. IS THAT, IS THAT THE ISSUE HERE? THE COST WENT FROM $175 TO $300 A TON. IF YOU LOOK AT CHEMICALS, WE HAVE THIS WITH OUR TREATMENT FACILITIES. YOU LOOK AT LAWN FERTILIZER, YOU LOOK AT POOL CHEMICALS, THEY'RE, THEY'RE CRAZY EXPENSIVE THESE DAYS. RIGHT. AND THAT'S OUT OF OUR CONTROL. YES. AND WE HAVE NO WAY TO CONTROL THAT. SO I'M GONNA BE IN FAVOR OF THE SPENDING 'CAUSE WE NEED THIS MATERIAL. BUT, UH, JUST TO LET THE COMMUNITY KNOW THAT WE ARE BEING HIT WITH THESE INFLATIONARY ISSUES LIKE THEY ARE IN THEIR DAILY BUDGET. YOU'RE CORRECT. THANK YOU. ANY ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION ON ITEM 13? SEEING NONE. ALL [02:45:01] THOSE IN FAVOR? OPPOSED? ITEM 13 CARRIES. THANKS FOR YOUR COMMENTS. AGAIN. ITEM 16 NEEDS A MOTION CAST TATUM, MOVE, COMMENT. SECOND MOTION, AND A SECOND FOR ITEM NUMBER 16. ANY DISCUSSION? ANY DISCUSSION ON ITEM 16? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? OPPOSED? ITEM 16 CARRIES. ITEM 17 IS AN ORDINANCE. JUST NEED A VOTE. ITEM 17, COUNCIL MEMBER CARLOS CISNEROS. THANK YOU. UM, THIS IS AN ORDINANCE DETERMINING THAT THE POPULATION OF THE CITY AND EACH CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT ARE, UH, ARE NOT MATERIALLY UNBALANCED BASED ON, UM, DATA COLLECTED IN THE MOST RECENT CENSUS. THE PROBLEM IS THAT BECAUSE OF THE WELL RECOGNIZED AND ACKNOWLEDGED UNDER COUNT OF HISPANICS LIVING IN OUR CITY, UM, THE NUMBERS ARE NOT ACCURATE AND THE POPULATION COUNTS WITHIN EACH COUNCIL DISTRICT IS NOT BALANCED. UM, THE DISTRICT I REPRESENT, DISTRICT H IS HEAVILY HISPANIC AND MANY RESIDENTS CHOSE NOT TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CENSUS BECAUSE OF MISTRUST OF WHAT THE GOVERNMENT WOULD DO WITH THAT INFORMATION. AS A RESULT, DATA COLLECTED IN THE CENSUS, UM, REPORTED THAT THE POPULATION OF DISTRICT H HAD DECREASED DRAMATICALLY, IN FACT, MORE THAN ANY OTHER COUNCIL DISTRICT. AND THAT DISTRICT H WAS FOUND TO HAVE 35,000 FEWER RESIDENTS THAN THE AVERAGE OF OTHER DISTRICTS. THE NEW DISTRICT BOUNDARIES OF DISTRICT H HAVE PUSHED OUT IN, UM, MULTIPLE DIRECTIONS TO CAPTURE A WHOLE LOT MORE PEOPLE SO THAT THE CITY IS COMPLIANT WITH THE PROCESS THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS IN PLACE. THE TRUTH, HOWEVER, IS THAT THE COUNCIL DISTRICTS ARE NOT MATERIALLY BALANCED. EVIDENCE IS PERSUASIVE THAT BEGINNING IN JANUARY, 2024, DISTRICT H WILL HAVE SIGNIFICANTLY MORE THAN ITS FAIR SHARE, WHICH WILL STRETCH COUNCIL DISTRICT RESOURCES. SO I KNOW THAT WE ARE OBLIGATED TO APPROVE THIS, THAT THAT'S THE SYSTEM THAT'S IN PLACE, YOU KNOW, FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. BUT I WANTED TO NOTE THAT THE REALITIES, UH, I JUST WANTED TO POINT OUT AND, AND NOTE THE REALITIES OF THIS FLAWED SYSTEM. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER. ANY ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION ON ITEM 17? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? OPPOSED? ITEM CARRIES. ITEM 18 IS AN ORDINANCE. JUST NEED TO VOTE ANY DISCUSSION ON ITEM 18? ITEM 18. ANY DISCUSSION? COUNCIL MEMBER? MARIANNE HUFFMAN. THANK YOU MAYOR PROTI. SO ON THIS ITEM, UM, IT HAS THE LANGUAGE THAT IS GONNA GO ON THE BALLOT. HAS THAT BEEN DETERMINED? I'M, I'M SURE THEY'RE WORKING ON IT NOW, BUT THIS IS REALLY AN UPDATE TO THE 21 ORDINANCE. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU REMEMBER, WE PASSED AN ORDINANCE IN 21 THAT SAYS THE NEXT ELECTION CYCLE. MM-HMM . SO THE NEXT ELECTION CYCLE FOR US WAS GONNA BE 23. SO I WOULD ASSUME IT'S THE SAME ORDINANCE THAT WAS PUT IN PLACE IN 2021. SO I'M ASSUMING WE SHOULD HAVE A COPY OF THAT EXACT ORDINANCE. IT IS. SO THE ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION IS YES, AND THIS CHANGE IS ONLY 15 EXHIBIT A AND B, IT ONLY AFFECTS EXHIBIT A AND B OF THAT. BUT IT IS SOMETHING THAT WE DID IN 21. AND IT JUST SAID THE NEXT ELECTION CYCLE, WHICH IS NOVEMBER 23, THUS WE'RE SITTING HERE COMES MEMBER MICHAEL KNOX. SO CAN WE GET A COPY OF THE LANGUAGE? SURE. YEAH. IT'S NOT IN OUR PACKET HERE. SURE. NOT IN, IS IT IN THERE DERE? THE LANGUAGE IS IN THE ORDINANCE. NO, BUT IT'S NOT IN, ON THE BACKUP MATERIAL. IS IT WITHIN THE PACKET OF INFORMATION WE RECEIVED? PRECO? YES. IT SHOULD BE. IT'S IN THE ORIGINAL ORDINANCE THAT COUNSEL APPROVED 21. RIGHT. OKAY. BUT WE'LL GET IT TO EVERYBODY. NEW COPY. MAKE SURE OF THAT. OKAY. ANY ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION ON ITEM NUMBER 18? COUNCIL MEMBER ROBERT GALLEGOS. THANK YOU MAYOR PROAM. UH, COULD YOU ELABORATE IF, IF THIS PASSES IN NOVEMBER EXACTLY, HOW WILL THAT WORK? I MEAN, A COUNCIL MEMBER OR THREE COUNCIL MEMBER, THREE OR MORE COUNCIL MEMBERS CAN JUST PLACE WHAT THEY WOULD LIKE ON THE AGENDA AND THE MAYOR WOULD NOT SAY NO, OR IT HAS TO COME TO, YOU CAN'T SAY NO. IT WOULD BE THREE COUNCIL MEMBERS DRAFT A DOCUMENT THAT SAYS WE WOULD LIKE TO PUT THIS ON THE AGENDA. IT WILL BE ON THE AGENDA. I DON'T THINK THE MAYOR IN THE, IN THE NEXT ADMINISTRATION HAS THE VETO POWER OVER THAT IT WILL JUST APPEAR ON THE AGENDA. UH, ATTORNEY. IS THAT CORRECT? YES. YES, YES. YES, SIR. OKAY. SO THE, I'M ASSUMING THERE'LL BE A LOT OF ITEMS COMING TO THE AGENDA. [02:50:02] YOU GUYS THAT ARE GONNA REMAIN, ARE GONNA SPEND, UH, LIKE 18 HOURS ON A NEXT, WELCOME TO HARRIS COUNTY MEETINGS. . SO COUNCIL MEMBER ED POLLER, I'M SORRY. COUNCIL MEMBER GALLEGOS. I MEAN, AS, BUT AS WE KNOW, I MEAN, YOU STILL HAVE TO GET NINE VOTES TO DO ANYTHING. SO, YOU KNOW, THE THREE PEOPLE CAN DO WHATEVER THEY WANT TO DO, BUT IF YOU DON'T GET NINE VOTES, YOU, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO REALLY THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE DOING. UH, SO I, I SEE THE PO I SEE THE INTENT WITH THIS TO GIVE SOME FLEXIBILITY. UM, BUT AS COUNCIL MEMBERS, I, I THINK WE'RE ALL STILL USE A LOT OF OUR DISCRETION INTO WHERE THIS MAY COME INTO PLACE. SO, UH, WE SHALL SEE. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER ROBERT GALLEGOS. I MEAN, UH, I MEAN, I THINK THIS IS GREAT. AND IN REGARDS TO A COUNCIL MEMBER ACTUALLY BEING ABLE TO PLACE SOMETHING. THE ON THE AGENDA, THE ONLY FEAR THAT I HAVE, LIKE COUNCIL MEMBER KNOX STATED, THERE WOULD JUST BE A LOT OF ITEMS COMING TO THE AGENDA. UH, SO, YOU KNOW, UM, BUT, BUT, BUT AGAIN, I DO SUPPORT IT. I MEAN, I, I, I THINK COUNCIL MEMBERS SHOULD HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PLACE SOMETHING ON THE, ON THE AGENDA. I JUST, I JUST FEAR THE CHAOS OF THE NUMBER OF ITEMS COMING EVERY WEEK ON THE AGENDA. YES. THANK YOU. ANY ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION ON ITEM 18? SEEING NONE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? OPPOSE. ITEM 18 CARRIES. ITEM AM 19 IS AN ORDINANCE. JUST NEED A VOTE TAG. ITEM 19 HAS BEEN TAGGED BY COUNCIL MEMBER SALLY ALCORN. AND COUNCIL MEMBER JACKSON. AND, AND COUNCIL MEMBER MARTHA CASTEX. TATUM. AND COUNCIL MEMBER AMY PECK. AND COUNCIL MEMBER LETITIA PLUMMER. OKAY. SO AL WELL AGAIN, PLUM, ALCORN, JACKSON, PLUMMER, PECK. MARTHA CASTEX. TATUM. TATUM. ANYONE ELSE? ANYONE ELSE? GOING ONCE, GOING TWICE. SOLD AS ALLY ALCORN. OKAY. ALCORN, FORMER PEX, TATUM, PECK. AND JACKSON. JACKSON. I MS. JACKSON. JACKSON. OKAY. GOT IT. GOT IT. WE'RE GOOD. OKAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. ITEM 41 IS AN ORDINANCE. YOU JUST NEED TO VOTE. ITEM 41. ANY DISCUSSION ON ITEM 41? COUNCIL MEMBER TARSHA JACKSON. THANK YOU. UM, THIS IS, YES. UM, THIS ITEM IS A, UM, MSD, UM, UH, IT'S AN ORDINANCE TO ESTABLISH A MUNICIPAL SETTING DESTINATION. AND I JUST WANT TO THANK, UM, THE FOLKS OVER IN PLEASANTVILLE, UM, UM, BRIDGET MURRAY, AND THE FOLKS AT LONE STAR FOR THE ADVOCACY AROUND THIS. UM, OUR, UM, OWN VICE, UM, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER, SALLY ALCORN AND THE MAYOR, UM, FOR ACTUALLY MOVING FORWARD WITH THAT EXECUTIVE ORDER, UM, TO ENSURE THAT THE TESTING CONTINUE EVEN AFTER THESE MUNICIPAL, UM, MSDS ARE BASICALLY PUT IN PLACE. AND SO, UM, I SUPPORT THIS BECAUSE THE COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AND THE FACT THAT WE HAVE, UM, THE, UM, EXECUTIVE ORDER TO ENSURE THAT TESTING CONTINUE. AND I ENCOURAGE MY COLLEAGUES TO SUPPORT THIS AS WELL. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER. A LOT OF GOOD DISCUSSION YESTERDAY. I PUBLIC SESSION ON THIS ITEM. SO, ONCE AGAIN, ITEM NUMBER 41. ANY ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION ON ITEM 41? SEEING NONE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? OPPOSED? ITEM 41, CARRIES. [MATTERS HELD] ITEM 46 IS AN ORDINANCE. JUST NEED A VOTE. ITEM 46 HAS BEEN TAGGED BY COUNCIL MEMBER JACKSON, WHO WAS NOT AT LAST WEEK'S MEETING, I BELIEVE. WERE YOU AT LAST WEEK'S MEETING? I'M JUST JOIN, JOIN THE BUT YOU CAN'T TAG IT IF YOU KNOW'S JOINING, CAN I JOIN THE TAG? YOU CAN'T JOIN THE TAG UNLESS YOU ARE MISSING. PERFECT. COUNCIL MEMBER JACKSON HAS TAGGED ITEM NUMBER 46. SO THANK YOU. ITEM 47 IS AN ORDINANCE. JUST NEED A VOTE. ITEM 47. ANY DISCUSSION ON 47? SEEING NONE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? OPPOSED? ITEM 47 CARRIES. ALL RIGHTY. EXCELLENT. THANK YOU. AND TODAY WITH [NON CONSENT - MATTERS TO BE PRESENTED BY COUNCIL MEMBERS] COUNCIL MEMBER LETITIA PLUMMER. EXCELLENT. I PASS PASS. COUNCIL MEMBER AMY PECK. THANK YOU MAYOR PERAM. UM, TODAY I WANNA SAY A HUGE THANK YOU TO MADDIE FLORES. IF YOU WANNA STAND, PLEASE. UM, SHE WAS OUR SUMMER INTERN AND DID AN AMAZING JOB. WE JUST KIND OF THREW HER INTO THINGS, ANSWERING PHONES AND DOING ALL KINDS OF THINGS, BUT SHE DID SUCH AN AMAZING JOB AND WE HOPE THAT SHE'LL COME BACK AND JOIN US AGAIN NEXT SUMMER. SO, THANK YOU MADDIE, FOR EVERYTHING. COUNCIL MEMBER TASHA JACKSON. THANK YOU. AND, UM, AS WE ALL KNOW, OUR HOUSTON FIRST, UM, INTERNS WILL BE LEAVING. AND SO I WANTED TO, UM, RECOGNIZE PUBLICLY RECOGNIZED MY INTERNS. CAN YOU LADIES STAND UP? I HAD THREE INTERNS AND WE ARE GONNA START WITH ELIA, WHO'S GRADUATED FROM GW CARVER [02:55:01] MAGNET HIGH SCHOOL IN ACRE HOME. SHE'S NOW SENIOR AT TEXAS WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY, MAJORING IN PRE-MED BIOLOGY. ELIA HAS DREAMS OF BECOMING A PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT AND OWNING HER OWN PRACTICE, ALONG WITH OWNING A FUNERAL HOME THAT WILL CATER TO AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES. SO THANK YOU, UM, FOR YOUR WORK. ALSO, WE HAVE SERENA ELDRIDGE, WHO IS CURRENTLY A SOPHOMORE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON, STUDYING ECONOMICS AND OTHER HUMANITY SUBJECTS. SERENA INTEREST IS LEARNING ABOUT THE WORLD. THE WORLD IS ROOTED IN A HER SENSE OF COMMUNITY AND YEARNING FOR, UM, A BETTER FUTURE FOR ALL. UM, SHE WAS RAISED IN ACRE HOMES. SERENA MISSION IS TO IMAGINE AND WORK TOWARDS A WORLD THAT CHERISHES HUMAN LIFE. SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK. WE ALSO HAVE TIFFANY WYNN. SHE'S CURRENTLY A STUDENT AT L LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY, MAJORING IN POLITICAL SCIENCE WITH A CONCENTRATION IN AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS. SHE IS ALSO A ON THE PRE-LAW TRACK WORKING TOWARDS HER DREAM OF BECOMING A CORPORATE LAWYER. SO I WANNA WISH YOU GUYS A SUCCESSFUL, YOU KNOW, AS YOU GO BACK TO SCHOOL, ALL THE SUCCESS. AND JUST KNOW I'M HERE FOR YOU IF YOU NEED ANY HELP. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK. THANK YOU. AND CONGRATULATIONS. GO TIGERS. COUNCIL MEMBER ED POLLARD. THANK YOU MAYOR PRO TEM. UH, THIS FRIDAY, UH, MY OFFICE WILL BE PARTNERING WITH, UH, THE HOUSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT, SOUTH GESNER GULFTON STOREFRONT FOR A BACK TO SCHOOL DRIVE. IT WILL BE FROM 9:00 AM TO 11:00 AM THE ADDRESS IS 6 2 2 7 SOUTHWEST FREEWAY. UH, WE WILL HAVE, UH, A LOT OF SCHOOL SUPPLIES, BACKPACKS, OTHER ITEMS TO PREPARE, UH, FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR. SO I WANT TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO, UM, THE GULFTON MANAGEMENT DISTRICT AND, UH, TAMMY RODRIGUEZ AND HER LEADERSHIP FOR HELPING PUT THIS TOGETHER. ALL THE OTHER SPONSORS, UM, AND ORGANIZATIONS THAT WILL BE THERE. UH, WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO A GREAT BACK TO SCHOOL DRIVE ON FRIDAY. UH, ALSO WANT TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO OUR INTERNS, KAYLIN GRAHAM. AND YESENIA VICENTE. THEY'VE WORKED REALLY HARD OVER THE, UH, SUMMER AND, UH, HAVE BEEN, UH, ADDED ASSET TO THE DISTRICT J OFFICE IN CHAMBERS RIGHT NOW. WE ALSO HAVE ALI HUSSEIN. UH, WOULD YOU STAND UP MR. UH, HUSSEIN, WHO IS A RISING SENIOR AT, UH, STRAIGHT JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL. UH, HE'LL BE INTERNING WITH US FOR THE WEEK AND GLAD TO HAVE YOU AS WELL. THANK YOU. YOU THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER CAROLYN, EVAN SHABAZZ. THANK YOU MAYOR PRO TEM. UH, I JUST WANT TO GIVE KUDOS TO, UM, JUD ROBINSON JR. AND THE MAYOR AND MY COLLEAGUE TIFFANY THOMAS, FOR A WONDERFUL EVENT LAST WEEK WITH THE HOUSTON NATIONAL HOUSTON, NO, NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE CONFERENCE THAT WAS HELD HERE. AND IT WAS GREAT PARTICIPATING ALONGSIDE MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES. AND IT WAS A REAFFIRMING AND INSPIRING EXPERIENCE, PARTICULARLY TO THOSE DEMANDING, UM, TO, IN THESE DEMANDING TIMES. UH, I WANT TO TURN OUR ATTENTION, CERTAINLY TO THE MAYOR, UM, DISCUSSING THE TEA DECISION OF OUR, UH, SUPERINTENDENT MIKE MILES TO USE THE LIBRARIES AND SCHOOLS AS DISCIPLINARY CENTERS. I AM A FORMER TEACHER. I CERTAINLY KNOW HOW DIFFICULT IT IS TO TEACH IN AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE STUDENTS ARE DISRUPTIVE. IT ROBS THE OTHER STUDENTS OF THEIR OPPORTUNITIES AND THE STUDENT HIMSELF IS ROBBED OF AN OPPORTUNITY. AND SO CERTAINLY, UM, I, I RECOGNIZE THAT. AND SO I, I BELIEVE THAT IT'S A GREAT IDEA, BUT CERTAINLY I DO NOT THINK THAT THE VENUE SHOULD BE THE LIBRARY. I DO NOT THINK THAT YOU SHOULD REMOVE THE LIBRARIANS. I WAS A FORMER READING TEACHER ACTUALLY, AND I KNOW HOW IMPORTANT THE LIBRARY WAS TO MY STUDENTS AND HOW EXCITED THEY WERE TO BE ABLE TO GO TO THE LIBRARY. AND THEN WE KNOW LATER IN LIFE HOW THE LIBRARY SKILLS ARE NEEDED TO BE ABLE TO MATRICULATE WELL IN HIGHER EDUCATION. AND SO I WANT HIM TO RETHINK THE VENUE FOR THIS PARTICULAR ITEM BECAUSE I THINK IT'S GOOD THAT THE STUDENTS CAN REMAIN ENGAGED IN THE INSTRUCTION, UH, IN, IN A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT. UH, AND THAT MAY HELP THEM TO BE ABLE TO STAY ON TASK AS WELL. BUT CERTAINLY I HOPE THAT HE REVISITS THIS IDEA AND CHOOSES ANOTHER VENUE, PERHAPS A, UH, TEMPORARY BUILDING OR SOMETHING OF THAT NATURE. AND WHAT I SAID, UH, IN, IN THE PRESS CONFERENCE, THAT A LIBRARY WITHOUT A LIBRARIAN IS LIKE A PULPIT WITHOUT A PREACHER WHO WILL TEACH OUR CHILDREN. AND SO CERTAINLY A GREAT IDEA, BUT SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE TWEAKED IN THIS IDEA TO MAKE IT MORE PALATABLE FOR THOSE THAT KNOW THE VALUE OF LIBRARIES [03:00:01] AND THEIR RESOURCES. AND I WAS KIND OF STUMBLING AROUND 'CAUSE I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT MY INTERN MADE IT IN HERE. STORY. THOMAS, I WANT TO THANK HER. UH, SHE WAS HARDWORKING AND I TELL YOU, SHE AND INGRAM AND MY STAFF, THEY JUST WORKED SO WELL TOGETHER. SHE WILL BE SORELY MISSED. UM, AND SHE WAS VERY DEDICATED AND VERY INSTRUMENTAL. THANK YOU STANDING AND HER ABSENCE WILL BE FELT. AND WE CERTAINLY WISH HER WELL. AND WE OPENED THE OPPORTUNITY TO FOR YOU TO JOIN US MAYBE NEXT YEAR, UH, BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN A, A BRIGHT LIGHT IN THE OFFICE AND WE DO APPRECIATE YOUR SERVICE. AND SO, UH, I WANNA HIGHLIGHT A MEETING TONIGHT, UH, AT THE ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, DOWNTOWN HARRIS COUNTY. WE'LL DO A BUDGET TOWN HALL MEETING. IT WILL BE AT SIX 30 AT 2019 CRAWFORD. SO IF YOU ARE AVAILABLE AND YOU WANT TO SEE HOW THE COUNTY DOES THEIR BUDGET AND PERHAPS BE ABLE TO GET IN ON OPPORTUNITIES THAT MAY PRESENT THEMSELVES, IT IS TONIGHT AGAIN AT SIX 30 AT THE ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, UH, 2019 CRAWFORD. AND THAT CONCLUDES WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE DISTRICT OF DESTINATION. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER CARLOS CISNEROS. THANK YOU. UM, I TOO WANT TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO THE HIGHER HOUSTON YOUTH, INTERNS. UM, AND, AND ALSO TO, UM, OLIVAR AND KOSKA, THE DIRECTOR OF THE MAYOR'S OFFICE OF EDUCATION FOR EXCEEDING THE GOALS THAT THE MAYOR SET FOR, UM, OVER, YOU KNOW, OVER 20,000, UM, YOUNG PEOPLE AGE 16 TO 24 WERE EMPLOYED THIS SUMMER. I DON'T KNOW THE EXACT NUMBER, BUT I KNOW THEY, THEY, THEY PASSED THE, THE 20,000, UM, UH, GOAL THAT THE MAYOR HAD SET. SO, CONGRATULATIONS. I KNOW IT'S A, IT'S BEEN A TON OF WORK AND, AND I WANTED TO THANK THE 30 INTERNS THAT, UM, WORKED AT, UM, THE 15 DIFFERENT PARK RECREATION CENTERS, UM, FOR TECH CONNECT, YOU KNOW, UM, UH, LEADING STEM ACTIVITIES AND HELPING BRIDGE THE DI DIGITAL DIVIDE FOR, UM, THE CHILDREN, UH, AGES SIX TO 13 THAT WERE PARK CAMPERS THIS SUMMER. UM, JUST HUGE. THANK YOU. IT WAS A VERY SUCCESSFUL PROGRAM AND, YOU KNOW, AND, AND, UM, EXPANDED THIS THIS SUMMER INTO, UM, MANCHESTER AND SUNNYSIDE AND ACRES HOMES. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MAYOR PRO TEM DAVE MARTIN. THANK YOU, MAYOR PROTE . I'D LIKE TO CONGRATULATE NASA ON THEIR 65TH ANNIVERSARY THAT PASSED LAST WEEK, 65 YEARS AGO, ON JULY 29TH, 1958, MANY YEARS BEFORE Y'ALL WERE BORN, PRESIDENT EISENHOWER SIGNED THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ACT ESTABLISHED IN NASA. THERE ARE A FEW MAJOR THINGS IN THE WORKS AT NASA TO RECOGNIZE, SUCH AS ARTEMIS TWO MISSION, WHICH WILL BE TAKEN HUMANS TO THE MOON FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MORE THAN A HALF A CENTURY. NASA ALSO RECENTLY ANNOUNCED THAT THE FOUR PER PERSON CREW WHO WILL LIVE INSIDE A SIMULATED MARS HABITAT FOR A YEAR TO PREPARE FOR FUTURE MISSIONS TO THE MARTIAN SURFACE. I'M EXCITED TO SEE ALL THAT NASA CONTINUES TO ACCOMPLISH AND BUILD ON IN THE YEARS TO COME. AND, UM, THE DIRECTOR OF VANESSA WISE DOES AN OUTSTANDING JOB DAY IN AND DAY OUT. SHE'S, UH, FABULOUS AT WHAT SHE DOES, AND SHE'S A GREAT DIRECTOR ON THE NORTH SIDE. THE KINGWOOD MONTHLY ELECTRONIC RECYCLING EVENT WILL BE HAPPENING THIS SATURDAY, AUGUST 5TH FROM EIGHT UNTIL THREE, OR UNTIL THE TRUCKS ARE FULL AT THE KINGWOOD METRO PARK AND RIDE. REMINDER THAT THE WEEKEND RECYCLING PROGRAM IN KINGWOOD NOW ACCEPTS ALL TYPES OF PLASTICS. YOU CAN BAG ALL YOUR PLASTICS FOR RECYCLING AND BRING THEM TO THE RECYCLING CENTER AT THE KINGWOOD METRO PARK. AND ROD LOT CURBSIDE PLASTIC RECYCLING HAS LIMITS, WHEREAS STYROFOAM, FOR EXAMPLE, CAN NOW BE RECYCLED. SO, THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER ROBERT GALLEGOS. THANK YOU, MAYOR PROTO. UH, LAST WEEK, I, UM, PARTNERED WITH THE, UH, EASTWOOD LAWNDALE WAYSIDE SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD. UM, WE HAD T DOT COME TO THE MEETING, UH, TO GIVE US AN UPDATE ON THE IMPROVEMENTS THAT THEY ARE DOING ON WAYSIDE FROM GULF FREEWAY TO POLK STREET. UH, WE HAD A GREAT TURNOUT, UH, BUT IT WAS VERY DISAPPOINTING THAT T DOT FAILED TO ANSWER OR ADDRESS THE SAFETY ISSUES THAT RESIDENTS HAVE BROUGHT TO THEIR ATTENTION AT PREVIOUS MEETINGS. UM, YOU KNOW, THEY DID A POWER POINTING PRESENTATION AS TO WHAT THEY'RE PLANNING TO DO, AND IT'S BASICALLY JUST IMPROVING WAYSIDE. BUT THERE ARE SAFETY ISSUES THAT PEOPLE HAVE GOTTEN HURT. UH, SOMEONE WAS PUSHING A, UH, A SHOPPING CART FROM WALMART THERE ON THE GULF FREEWAY IN WAYSIDE, TRYING TO CROSS WAYSIDE AND GETS HIT, UH, YOU KNOW, CA VARIOUS CARS THAT HAVE, UH, WRECKED THERE AT THE ENTRANCE OR EXIT AT WALMART THERE AT THE GULF FREEWAY IN WAYSIDE. BUT NONE OF THIS WAS, UH, ADDRESSED. AND WHAT WAS REALLY UPSETTING WAS THAT [03:05:01] T STA SAID, WELL, WE'RE GONNA GO AHEAD AND DO THIS PROJECT, AND WE'LL COME BACK AT A LATER DATE AND DO A STUDY AND TRY TO ADDRESS THESE ISSUES. BUT YET, THIS WAS BROUGHT UP TWO, THREE YEARS AGO AT PREVIOUS MEETINGS. UH, SO I'VE REACHED OUT TO T DOT, I'M STILL WAITING BACK TO HEAR FROM TXDOT. I DID GO TO WALMART TO TALK TO THE MANAGER TO SEE WHAT THEY WILL DO WITH TXDOT TO TRY TO ADDRESS THESE ISSUES. AND I FELT LIKE I WAS JUST DISMISSED BY THE MANAGER, UH, LIKE IT WAS NOT A BIG DEAL. UH, AND, AND IT IS A BIG DEAL. YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE'S LIVES, UH, TRYING TO GO IN AND OUT OF THAT WALMART, UH, AND, AND, AND SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE. SO, TXDOT AND WALMART, I HOPE Y'ALL SIT DOWN AND TRY TO FIGURE THIS OUT. UH, LAST WEEK, LAST SATURDAY, WE DID A, UH, RIBBON CUTTING AT DOW PARK, EXCITED OF ALL THE IMPROVEMENTS THERE AT DOW PARK IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF THE DISTRICT NEAR HOBBY AIRPORT. UH, I WANT TO THANK, UH, PERRY HOMES. UH, THEY WERE A PARTNER OF THE 50 50 PARKS, THE MAYORS INITIATIVE. I WANT TO THANK THE GULF GATE TOURS, UH, BECAUSE THEY ALSO PUT MONEY INTO THIS, THIS, THESE IMPROVEMENTS. UH, IT'S EXCITING THAT, UH, THESE PAST 10 YEARS AS A COUNCIL MEMBER, WE HAVE EITHER ACQUIRED OR RESTORED THROUGH PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS, RESTORING OVER 300 ACRES OF GREEN SPACE AND DISTRICT I BENEFITING THE RESIDENTS OF DISTRICT I AND ALL HOUSTONIANS HERE IN THE CITY OF HOUSTON. SO WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT THAT. UH, THIS WEEK I DID JOIN THE MAYOR AND PASTORS AND OTHER ELECTED OFFICIALS, UH, AT A NEWS CONFERENCE IN OPPOSITION OF SUPERINTENDENT MILES AND HIS PLAN OF CLOSING LIBRARIES AT MANY OF OUR SCHOOLS AND CONVERTING THEM TO MANY DETENTION CENTERS, UH, FOR TROUBLED YOUTH. UH, THIS, THIS IS NOT AN ANSWER, AND I HOPE, UH, HE DOES NOT DO THIS. UH, BUT I'M REALLY HAPPY OF THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE, PASTORS AND ELECTED OFFICIALS THAT WERE THERE IN OPPOSITION OF THIS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER TIFFANY D. THOMAS. THANK YOU, MAYOR PROTI. UM, I WOULD LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE HEADS, HEADS OF HOUSTON IN THE AUDIENCE TODAY, IF YOU CAN STAND UP. HEADS UP. ALL RIGHT. UM, HEADS UP HOUSTON, UM, LED BY KEVIN COBE. WAIT, WAVE, KEVIN TO THE PEOPLE . UM, SO KEVIN AND HEADS UP, UH, THEY WERE INSTRUMENTAL IN 2021 WHEN, UH, AFTER THE TEXAS WINTER FREEZE, UH, UH, NOT ONLY KEVIN AND HIS LEADERSHIP TEAM, BUT MOST OF THE, THE YOUNG FACES YOU SEE IN THE AUDIENCE WERE OUT THERE HELPING ME PUSH OUT WATER AND SUPPLIES, UM, EVEN WHILE THEY WERE NAVIGATING THEIR OWN, UH, RECOVERY IN THEIR HOMES. AND SO I'M HAPPY TO HAVE THEM IN CHAMBERS, AND THEY'RE GONNA BE VISITING THE HOUSTON ZOO LATER TODAY. SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK, AND I'LL SEE Y'ALL AFTER CHAMBERS. YAY. GIVE THEM A CLAP FOR THAT, BECAUSE WE'RE ALWAYS ENCOURAGING YOUNG PEOPLE TO RESPOND AND DO WORK AND GET INVOLVED IN YOUR COMMUNITY. AND THEY HAVE, AND THEIR PARENTS WERE RIGHT THERE WITH THEM. AND SO I'M, I'M TRULY INDEBTED TO THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO, UH, OUR COMMUNITY. UH, NEXT WEEK, UH, IF YOU LIVE IN PINEY POINT, I WANNA ENCOURAGE YOU TO SHOW UP TO YOUR PINEY POINT CIVIC CLUB ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 8TH AT SEVEN 30. THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT WILL BE THERE. THIS WILL BE YOUR VERY FIRST MEETING TO DISCUSS CONSERVATION DISTRICTS. AS YOU CAN RECALL, PINEY POINT IS ONE OF THE SIX PILOT NEIGHBORHOODS. THIS IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO LET YOUR REQUEST BE KNOWN. UM, WE CAN CALL MY OFFICE FOR DETAILS, BUT THIS IS LED BY THE CIVIC CLUB AND WE ARE, UM, SUPPORTING, UH, THEIR EFFORTS. UH, ON AUGUST 12TH. ON SATURDAY, WE'RE GONNA HOST OUR ANNUAL BACK TO SCHOOL GIVEAWAY, ALONG WITH MANY OTHER INDIVIDUALS. THIS WILL BE SATURDAY, AUGUST 12TH AT TWO 30 TO FOUR 30 AT THE ALE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER. UM, THE MAIN HIGHLIGHT WILL BE THE EL SIC HASTING ALUMNI BASKETBALL GAME. THE WINNER GETS BRAGGING RIGHTS AND BRAGGING RIGHTS ONLY. UM, BUT A, A SIDE NOTE OF THE BACKPACKS, WE'RE ALSO GONNA BE PROVIDING SUPPLIES FOR TEEN EXPECTED MOTHERS. LOOKING FORWARD TO SERVING THE COMMUNITY IN A DEEP AND MEANINGFUL WAY. WE ARE ASKING FOR REGISTRATION. PLEASE REGISTER BY THE QR CODE ONLINE. OR YOU CAN CALL OUR OFFICE AT (832) 393-3002 OAK HARBOR SUBDIVISION. I'M COMING TO YOU ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 15TH FROM SIX TO SEVEN. WE'RE TALKING SIDEWALKS, SAFETY CONCERNS, UPDATES ON PROJECTS, AND I'M WILLING TO HEAR YOUR QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS ABOUT THE UPCOMING, UM, UH, ENHANCEMENTS TO HACKBERRY PARK, WHICH FLANKS BEHIND YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD. UH, MAYOR PRO TEM, THIS IS INTERESTING FOR YOU. AND MAYBE COUNCIL MEMBER ALCORN, YOU MIGHT BE, UH, CURIOUS TO KNOW THAT WE DID A COST ESTIMATE OF THAT SUBDIVISION FOR SIDEWALK REPAIRS, AND IT CAME BACK AT $2 MILLION, $2 MILLION. SO I'M COMING BACK TO THE COMMUNITY TO SHOW THEM EXACTLY WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE, WHAT IT COSTS, WHAT THE ALTERNATIVES ARE, BECAUSE OUR FUNDS ARE LIMITED. UM, AND SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE A COMMUNITY CONVERSATION. SO THE COMMUNITY WILL HELP ME PRIORITIZE HOW I, UM, ORGANIZE MY COUNCIL DISTRICT SERVICE FUNDS, UH, TO, TO AT LEAST GET THEM SOME A DA RAMPS. BUT JUST TO KIND OF GIVE EVERYONE CONTEXT TO HOW MUCH IT COSTS. AND YOU'RE TALKING A SUBDIVISION [03:10:01] OF 125 DOORS. IT'S SMALL. SO, UH, BUT MEET US THERE AUGUST 15TH TUESDAY. I ALSO WANNA SHOUT OUT THE DISTRICT F INTERNS. I BELIEVE WE GOT THE BADDEST INTERNS IN THE CITY. I JUST BELIEVE THAT, UH, ISABELLA GARCIA AND TOMMY JUAN, UH, THEY ARE BACK. THEY HAVE BEEN WITH ME FOR THREE, TWO OR THREE YEARS. UM, THEY ARE PROS IN THIS GAME, UM, AND I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT THEY'RE RUNNING THE WHOLE A LEE VOTES OPERATION OUTTA MY OFFICE. IT'S A FANTASTIC OPPORTUNITY, BUT I THINK OUR COUNCIL OFFICES AND CITY GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE WHERE YOUNG PEOPLE FEEL COMFORTABLE. THEY SHOULD, YOU KNOW, UM, BE ROOTED. THEY SHOULD, UM, SHARPEN THEIR SKILLS. THEY SHOULD BE AROUND THE, THE, THE WORK THAT WE DO AND INFLUENCE OUR WORK. SO I WANT TO, UH, PUBLICLY SHOUT Y'ALL OUT. THEY'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO WORK WITH US AS THEY WRAP UP THEIR SUMMER. UM, WITH THAT, I WANNA ENCOURAGE, UH, YOUNG PEOPLE IN SPECIFICALLY IN A EAF 'CAUSE THIS IS A FUNDED INITIATIVE FROM MY DISTRICT OFFICE, THE DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS IN OCA GREATER HOUSTON FOR THE A EAF VOTES FELLOWSHIP. PLEASE APPLY THE, UH, DEADLINE IN SEPTEMBER ONE, WE CONTINUE TO GROW THIS ROSTER, AND I BELIEVE WE HAVE 16 SO FAR FOR THE UPCOMING YEAR. ONLY A EAF STUDENTS MAY APPLY AND THEY'LL RECEIVE CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TRAINING RESOURCES, A STIPEND AND A BUDGET TO FUND THEIR OWN COMMUNITY PROJECTS. THIS A LEAF VOTES FELLOW ALSO RECEIVES AN ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT FROM MY OFFICE. AS YOU CAN SEE, Y'ALL CAN TOUR AND YOU CAN SEE THE WHOLE, UH, COMPOUND. SO I JUST WANTED TO THANK, UM, ALL OF THEM FOR THEIR WORK. AND WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO ROCK ON THE WEST SIDE, THE BEST SIDE. GREAT. SO, THANK YOU. YOU'RE TELLING ME WE, WE, WE CAN'T APPLY WHEN WE FINISH UP IN DECEMBER? UH, NO, SIR. YOU ARE NOT ELIGIBLE. OH, I'M SORRY. THAT'S, WE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE YOU VOLUNTEER. NO THANKS. COUNCIL MEMBER SALLY C ALCORN. THANK YOU, MAYOR PROAM. AND ON THE SIDEWALK FRONT, UM, REVENUES KEEP CONTINUING TO, UM, INCREASE. SO I AM HOPEFUL THAT THERE WILL BE ADDITIONAL REVENUES AVAILABLE FROM THE CITY SIDE ON SIDEWALKS 'CAUSE THEY ARE EXPENSIVE. ALSO, UH, REALLY DOING SOME RESEARCH ON COST SHARING PROGRAMS THAT OTHER CITIES DO, WHERE THE CITY DOESN'T TAKE THE ENTIRE COST OF THE SIDEWALK. UH, AND I JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT, I, WE TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THIS YESTERDAY, BUT TODAY WE APPROVED, UH, THE NORTH POINT MSD, WHICH IS THE FIRST MSD WE'VE APPROVED IN SEVERAL MONTHS. UM, WHEN THAT PROGRAM WAS HALTED, BECAUSE BASICALLY WHEN THE TCEQ APPROVES THESE, IT'S KIND OF LIKE YOU'RE DONE. YOU DON'T HAVE TO TEST ANYMORE, MOVE ON DOWN THE ROAD, WHICH CAUSES A LOT OF CONCERN IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS. THIS EXECUTIVE ORDER SIGNED BY MAYOR TURNER, UM, REQUIRES, UH, TESTING FOR, UH, CAMEL CALLS OF CONCERN. UH, THE CITY CAN REQUIRE IT FOUR YEARS AFTER AND SEVEN YEARS AFTER. AND THEN IF THERE'S ANYTHING FOUND, UM, ADDITIONAL REMEDIATION WILL HAVE TO BE DONE. SO THAT'S A BIG DEAL AND, UH, REALLY THANKFUL TO ANDY ICKEN AND THE ADMINISTRATION COUNCIL MEMBER, TARSHA JACKSON, ALL THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS THAT REALLY PUSH FOR THAT STILL WORK TO BE DONE ON HOW THAT ALL PLAYS OUT. BUT A REALLY GOOD STEP AND GLAD WE GOT. UM, WE'RE BACK IN THE MSD, UH, BUSINESS WITH A LITTLE MORE, MORE SURETY THAT WE'LL, WE'LL CONTINUE TO, UH, TO SAMPLE FOR THOSE CHEMICALS OF CONCERN. THAT'S ALL I HAVE. THANK YOU. SEEING NO OTHER PEOPLE IN Q MEETING, ADJOURN, HAVE A BLESSED DAY. 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.