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          [Public Safety Committee	on June 11, 2024. ]
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          10:00 AM I'M AMY PECK, CHAIR OF THE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE, AND I CALL THIS MEETING TO ORDER. 
          TODAY WE ARE JOINED BY COUNCIL MEMBERS, HUFFMAN MARTINEZ, RAMIREZ, PLUMBER, AND ALCORN. 
          AND WE HAVE STAFF PRESENT FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CAYMAN'S, OFFICE, COUNCIL MEMBER FLICKINGER, UM, AND MAYOR PRO TEM CASTEX TATUM'S, OFFICE STAFF AND STAFF FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CASTILLO'S OFFICE AS WELL. 
          UM, TODAY WE WILL HEAR A PRESENTATION ABOUT EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FROM THOMAS MUNOZ, ACTING DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND HOMELAND SECURITY. 
          JUST SO EVERYONE IS AWARE, I HAVE ASKED FOR THE INDEPENDENT REVIEW COMMITTEE TASKED WITH REVIEWING THE SUSPENDED HPD CASES TO GIVE US AN UPDATE AT THE COMMITTEE MEETING OF NEXT MONTH. 
          SO WE HOPE YOU WILL ALL JOIN US FOR THAT. 
          UM, DIRECTOR MUNOZ, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO COME UP AND IF YOU WOULD ALSO LIKE TO INTRODUCE ANYONE THAT YOU HAVE IN THE AUDIENCE WITH YOU AND UP HERE AS WELL. 
          YES, GOOD MORNING. 
          UH, I HAVE BRENT TAYLOR HERE, OUR CHIEF COMMUNICATION OFFICER, PIO SLASH ADVISOR . 
          BUT FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU. 
          I KNOW IT'S BEEN A VERY BUSY, UH, MONTH AND A HALF, TWO MONTHS, BUT IT SEEMS LIKE THREE YEARS, BUT, YOU KNOW. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, AS YOU KNOW, NEXT SLIDE IS, UH, THAT WE, UH, AT THE CITY OF HOUSTON, WE HAVE THE SLIDES. 
          YES. 
          GIVE US JUST ONE SECOND. 
          THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF A DELAY. 
          OH, NO, THAT'S FINE. 
          HERE WE GO. 
          YEAH. 
          UM, SO WHO ARE WE? RIGHT? THE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. 
          UM, WE'RE THE CHIEF COORDINATING AGENCY FOR, UH, DISASTER RESPONSE IN, IN OUR, OBVIOUSLY THE CITY. 
          UH, AND WE HELP A LOT THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY AS WELL. 
          UM, WE PRO WE PROVIDE THE RESPONSE COORDINATION, UH, THE COMMUNICATION ASSISTANCE, COMMUNICATING WITH ALL THE, THE WHOLE COMMUNITY. 
          BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY AS WELL IS THE, THE STAKEHOLDERS THAT WE CAN CONTINUOUSLY BEEN WORKING WITH THROUGHOUT THE, THE LAST, UH, COUPLE OF MONTHS. 
          BUT THROUGHOUT THE YEARS, OUR MISSION IS, UM, COMMITTED TO SAFEGUARDING EVERYONE, TAKING THE WHOLE COMMUNITY APPROACH. 
          UM, AND WE TAKE THAT VERY SERIOUSLY WITH, UH, WHEN WE STARTED OFF ON THAT MISSION STATEMENT WAS JUST THAT, WHICH IS THE COMPASSION PIECE, WHICH DRIVES WHAT WE DO AS CIVIL SERVANTS, AND WE TAKE THAT. 
          UM, AND WHEN WE TAKE THAT APPROACH, IT COMES OUT TO VERY SUCCESSFUL RECIPE. 
          UH, ALONG WITH THAT, WE, UM, HAVE ESTABLISHED A VERY DIVERSE TEAM THAT SOME OF YOU HAVE MET, UH, THAT WE'RE PROUD OF THAT 'CAUSE THAT IS A REFLECTION OF THE COMMUNITY THAT WE'RE SERVING. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          UM, SO AGAIN, THE MISSION STATEMENT OF OUR, I THINK IT'S THE NEXT SLIDE WE'RE LOOKING AT. 
          ONE MORE SLIDE. 
          YEAH. 
          SO WHAT, WHAT ARE THE FOUR PHASES OF OEM THAT WE UTILIZE? ONE IS THE PREPAREDNESS THAT WE DO YEAR ROUND, THAT WE CONTINUOUSLY WORK TO SEE WHERE THE GAPS ARE. 
          WE CONTINUE TO DO THE AFTER ACTION REPORTS. 
          WE CONTINUE TO PREPARE FOR THOSE TIMES OF DISASTER, BUT WE ALSO TAKE THAT PREPARATION PHASE AND WORK WITH OUR STAKEHOLDERS SUCH AS FIRE, PD, PUBLIC WORKS, SOLID WASTE, EVERYBODY ELSE, PARKS, HEALTH DEPARTMENTS, SO MANY OF THE STAKEHOLDERS THAT WE HAVE SUCH A GREAT COLLABORATION WITH. 
          AND THE EVENT, NOT ONLY FOR THE NATURAL DISASTERS THAT WE JUST EXPERIENCED, BUT ALSO FOR THE SPECIAL EVENT THAT THE CITY IS WELL KNOWN FOR. 
          WE GOT THE WORLD CUP COMING UP. 
          WE HAVE THE WORLD BASEBALL CLASSICS YEARLY. 
          WE DO THE MARATHON, UH, HOUSTON MARATHON, WHICH IS THE BIGGEST SPORTING EVENT PER DAY WORK WITH THE HOUSTON RODEO. 
          SO ALL THESE MAJOR EVENTS THAT WE HAVE THROUGH THE CITY, ALONG WITH THE PARADES AND EVERYTHING ELSE TO BE READY IN THE EVENT SOMETHING SHOULD OCCUR. 
          SO IT'S MORE THAN JUST THE NATURAL DISASTERS THAT WE TAKE, THE PREP, THE PREPAREDNESS LEVEL. 
          ALONG WITH THAT, WE DO THAT PREPAREDNESS TO RESPOND. 
          HOW DO WE RESPOND AND HOW DO WE WORK TOGETHER TO GET THOSE PLANS TO ENSURE THAT EVERYONE IS ON THE SAME PAGE WHERE WE'RE DOING THE RESPONSE, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, TO HAVE AN EFFECTIVE OUTCOME. 
          THE RECOVERY, JUST WHAT WE'RE DEALING WITH RIGHT NOW. 
          RIGHT. 
          WE DID HAVE, UM, THIS LAST STORM, AND RIGHT NOW AS WE SPEAK, WE'RE WORKING WITH FEMA, WITH TEEM, SBA, ALL THOSE INDIVIDUALS TO HELP THE NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS, NGOS TO, THAT IS PART OF THE RECOVERY PIECE THAT WE'RE WORKING WITH RIGHT NOW TO ENSURE THAT THE PEOPLE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY AND, AND THE EQUITY, AND I SAY 
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EQUITY BECAUSE WE WANT TO ENSURE THAT EVERY MESSAGE THAT GOES OUT TO HELP PEOPLE WITH PREPAREDNESS IS THERE. 
          TO GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE, UNDER RECOVERY HERE IN HARRIS COUNTY, APPROXIMATELY 120 PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY DONE THE INDIVIDUAL ASSISTANCE REGISTRATION. 
          AND THAT IS TO HELP THEM WITH THE, THE MONIES THAT ARE NEEDED TO GET THEIR LIVES BACK TOGETHER, THEIR HOMES BACK TOGETHER. 
          I THINK I JUST GOT MY ADVISOR, BUT THANKS. 
          120,000. 
          SO WE'VE ROUNDED IT OFF AS OF THIS MORNING. 
          SO 120,000. 
          BUT WITH THAT SAID, THAT IS PART OF THE PROCESS. 
          WE'RE PROUD OF THAT PROCESS IS BECAUSE, AGAIN, WITH OUR STAKEHOLDERS, WE WE'RE ABLE TO HELP THE COMMUNITY, WHETHER IT BE A LANGUAGE BARRIER, WHETHER IT BE A SL, ALL THE MESSAGES THAT WE'RE DOING WITH ALL THE STAKEHOLDERS, THAT HAS VERY BEEN EFFECTIVE FOR US. 
          AND OF COURSE, THE MITIGATION, UH, THAT WE CONTINUOUSLY WORK ON ON. 
          WE CURRENTLY HAVE JUST GOTTEN THE HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN APPROVED IN JANUARY. 
          THAT'S A FIVE YEAR PLAN. 
          IT'S A REQUIREMENT, FEDERAL REQUIREMENT, WHICH ALLOWS US TO APPLY FOR FEDERAL GRANTS. 
          THAT IS A REQUIREMENT. 
          SO THAT IS A VERY TECHNICAL PIECE THAT OUR OFFICE HAS COORDINATED, HAS BEEN SIGNED OFF. 
          IT'S GOTTA GO THROUGH SO MANY LAYERS. 
          TEEM HAS TO REVIEW IT, THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, TEEM AND FEMA, AND THEN WE GET THE BLESSING. 
          SO HAPPY TO SAY THAT WE'RE GOOD FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          UM, WHAT HAVE WE DONE THIS YEAR? UH, THANKS TO FEDERAL MONEY, THE CDBG, UH, WE WERE ABLE TO UPDATE ALL THE PLANS THAT WE HAVE WITHIN THE CITY, WHICH IS A BIG REQUIREMENT, WHICH IS ALSO HAS ALLOWED US TO DO, UM, WHAT WAS TOLD WAS VERY DIFFICULT. 
          AND THAT IS TO WORK TOWARDS WHAT'S CALLED THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACCREDITATION PROGRAM, WHICH IS A GOLD STANDARD FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENTS. 
          IT IS, THE BEST WAY TO DESCRIBE IT IS THEY DO AN AUDIT ON WHAT YOU HAVE, WHAT THE SYSTEM HAS. 
          WHEN I SAY SYSTEM, I MEAN THE CITY SYSTEM, ALL THE STAKEHOLDERS. 
          SO A LOT OF, A LOT OF THE AUDITING DEALS WITH HAVING TO WORK WITH OTHER DEPARTMENTS, SEE WHAT THEY ARE. 
          AND HAPPY TO SAY THAT WE'VE GOTTEN A CONDITIONAL LETTER THAT WE GOING FOR APPROVAL. 
          THEY'RE COMING IN TWO NEXT WEEK, YEAH, THE 24TH. 
          THEY'LL BE HERE ALL WEEK TO DO THE FINAL AUDIT. 
          AND THAT'LL PUT US AS THE LARGEST CITY IN THE COUNTRY TO HAVE THIS ACCREDITATION, WHICH IS A HUGE UNDERTAKING. 
          BUT AGAIN, THAT WAS NOT DONE ALONE. 
          THAT WAS DONE THROUGH EVERY SINGLE DEPARTMENT IN THE CITY. 
          SO MANY THANK YOUS TO THEM. 
          UM, AND LIKE I SAID, THESE PLANS DID PAY OFF. 
          WE LOOKED AT THEM. 
          IT ENABLED US TO SEE AND WORK WITH, UH, THE CONTRACTORS TO SEE WHAT HAD TO BE UPDATED. 
          UH, AND SO THAT HAS BEEN A VERY GOOD PLAN FOR US. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          120 HOURS TIMELINES. 
          WHAT IS OUR HURRICANE PLAN? UM, SOME OF YOU THAT, YOU KNOW, COUNCIL MEMBERS, THANK YOU FOR SHOWING UP AT, AT OEM. 
          WE, WE'VE GIVEN YOU A GLIMPSE OF THAT ONE 20. 
          BASICALLY, IT IS A CHECK CHECKLIST FOR US TO ENSURE THAT ONCE WE GET THAT STORM THAT'S HEADING OUR WAY, WE'RE ABLE TO DO CHECKLIST, THE KEY EMPHASIS 120 HOURS. 
          RIGHT. 
          WHICH BRINGS ME TO THE SECOND BULLET THAT WE HAD TO USE, THE COLLAPSIBLE FOR RAPID INTENSIFICATION, WHICH IS USUALLY 36 HOURS. 
          WHAT OCCURRED TO US, UM, WAS WHAT WE CALL IT, THE RETRO STORM DERECHO, DERECHO STRAIGHT WIND, DOING A HISTORY ON THAT. 
          THE LAST TIME A STORM LIKE THAT IMPACTED THE AREA, AND I SAY AREA WAS LIVINGSTON, AND THAT WAS BACK IN 1986, RIGHT? SO THIS WAS AN EVENT THAT HADN'T BEEN SEEN HERE IN HOUSTON. 
          AND WE SAW THAT, AND YOU SAW THE DAMAGE THAT WAS DONE, JUST TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF THAT DAMAGE, UH, 922,000 PEOPLE WITHOUT ELECTRICITY TO COVER. 
          BASICALLY THE WHOLE CITY OF HOUSTON FOLLOWED BY APPROXIMATELY SEVEN, EIGHT DAYS LATER WITH ANOTHER 420,000 PEOPLE. 
          'CAUSE WE HAD THE SAME SEWING COME IN. 
          AND THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT, WITH OUR STAKEHOLDERS, WE WORKED REALLY HARD AT MAKING SURE THAT WE WERE THERE. 
          HOW DOES THAT NOTIFICATION WORK? SO IT WAS A VERY FAST MOVING THAT WE KNEW THERE WAS GONNA BE SOME WEATHER THAT DAY, BUT THAT WAS, AS ONE OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVES SAID ANOMALY. 
          BY THE TIME WE SAW SOMETHING LIKE THIS WAS LAKE LIVINGSTON AREA, UH, WHICH IS BACK IN 1986. 
          AND IT HAPPENED, MY UNDERSTANDING IN GRAND, UM, NEAR DALLAS, I BELIEVE GRANBURY AND I DID GET A CALL THAT HOW DID, IT'S BASICALLY THE SAME THING HAPPENED TO HIM, AND WE ASSISTED THEM WITH THEIR MESSAGING AND SO FORTH THAT BRENT WAS ABLE TO HELP THEM. 
          THE EVACUATION 
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SHELTER AND DAMAGE ASSESSMENTS, THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE IN PLACE. 
          WORKED WITH PUBLIC WORKS. 
          WE WORK WITH OUR DEPARTMENT WITH BASICALLY EVERYBODY BOOTS ON THE GROUND, GETTING THOSE DAMAGE ASSESSMENTS TO START THE DSO, THE DISASTER SUMMARY OUTLINE PROCESSES TO ENSURE THAT WE START GETTING THE NUMBER FIGURES SUCH AS WE DID. 
          THE STATE HAS A THRESHOLD OF 51 50 3 MILLION THAT HAS TO BE MET BEFORE CERTAIN CATEGORIES CAN BE MET. 
          THE COUNTY HAS APPROXIMATELY 21.3 MILLION THAT HAS TO BE MET. 
          SO THERE'S ALL THESE LAYERS THAT TRIGGER WHAT TYPE OF, UH, CATEGORIES WE WILL QUALIFY FOR, FOR REIMBURSEMENT AND FOR FEMA HELP. 
          AND THIS STORM, ALL THE CATEGORIES WERE MET. 
          SO THAT WAS A VERY INSTILLED GOING ON RIGHT NOW, GETTING THOSE NUMBERS. 
          BUT ON THAT WAS ALL HANDS ON DECK WITH ALL THE DEPARTMENTS THAT WE WERE WORKING WITH, ALONG WITH THE TOOLS THAT ARE OUT THERE, THE, THE, UM, IAS, WHICH IS THE, UH, INDIVIDUAL ASSESSMENTS, PUBLIC ASSESSMENTS, ALL OF THAT TAKES INTO PLACE TO START THE PROCESS. 
          UH, THE EVACUATIONS, WE DEAL WITH THAT. 
          FORTUNATELY FOR THIS, WE DIDN'T, IN A SECOND WE'LL BE TALKING ABOUT THE EVACUATION PROCESSES THAT WE FOLLOW. 
          AND THEN OF COURSE, AGAIN, THE BIG ONE IS RECOVERY. 
          AND THAT'S ONE, ONE OF THAT IS SO MANY TIMES, IN MY OPINION, TIME AND TIME AGAIN, AFTER ALL THE STORMS I'VE SEEN, IS WHERE THE HUMAN COMPASSION PIECE COMES IN. 
          AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT I'M, I'M HAPPY TO SEE AND SAY THAT THANKS TO YOU, A LOT OF YOU MAJ I THINK EVERYONE WAS IN, IN DOING THAT RECOVERY PIECE, WHICH IS HOW DO WE GO OUT THERE, RIGHT? WHAT DO WE DO TO GET PEOPLE JUST TO THE LITTLE NORMALCY WHEN THEY DON'T HAVE ELECTRICITY, WHEN THEY'VE LOST EVERYTHING THEY HAD? SO THOSE ARE THE HARD ONES, BUT THAT IS WHERE THE COMPASSION PIECE DEFINITELY, UH, COMES IN FOR US, ALONG WITH EVERYTHING ELSE. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          THIS IS JUST A 30,000 FOOT ON THE H ONE 20 TIMELINE, THAT WHAT IS EXPECTED FROM OUR OFFICE IS THAT WE START MONITORING, WE START THE ALERT PROCESS, 96 HOURS OUT, START HAVING THE DISCUSSIONS WITH THE STAKEHOLDERS, WITH YOU ALL, WHAT'S ABOUT TO START HAPPENING? AND IT'S A COUNTDOWN TILL LANDFALL. 
          AND THEN WE HAVE POST LANDFALL THAT WE START WORKING VERY HARD ON TO ENSURE THAT WE'RE MEETING EVERYTHING THAT'S GOTTA BE MET, THAT WE'RE, UH, THE PLANS ARE KICKING OFF. 
          AND THEN AGAIN, WHICH LEADS INTO THE RECOVERY PIECE. 
          THAT, SO IT'S AN, IT IS CONTINUOUS PROCESS, UH, THAT WE START MONITORING. 
          AS I MENTIONED BEFORE, WE DO HAVE THE INTENSIFIED PLAN, BUT THEN AGAIN, WHAT WE SAW, THIS, THIS LAST STORM WAS DEFINITELY, UH, AS WE SAID, AN ANOMALY. 
          BUT OUR TEAM'S READY TO RESPOND. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          THIS IS JUST TO LET YOU KNOW SOME, THIS IS JUST A GLIMPSE OF THE VERY MANY TECHNOLOGIES THAT WE HAVE, AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT ON WHAT WE'RE ABLE TO DO WITH THE TALENT POOL THAT WE HAVE IN OUR, IN OUR OFFICE. 
          UH, OUR GIS HAS BEEN VERY, UM, VERY HELPFUL AND, AND TOOK US TO THE NEXT LEVEL AND UNDERSTANDING. 
          THIS IS JUST TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA. 
          WE HAD THIS YEAR PROGRAM, UH, THAT STATE OF TEXAS EMERGENCY ASSISTANT REGISTRY PROGRAM, WHICH, AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WHAT Y'ALL DID, CALLING THOSE PEOPLE. 
          AND I THINK SOME OF YOU HEARD THAT. 
          SO WHAT, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME WE HAD DONE IT, RIGHT, AS PER THE NEW HOUSE BILL, AND I THINK MAJORITY HEARD, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME EVER THAT ANYONE HAD ACTUALLY CALLED. 
          AND WE TESTED THAT. 
          BRENT TAYLOR WAS DOING THE TEST CONTINGENCY WORKING OUT. 
          WE DID FIND, AND THANKS TO YOU, WHAT PROCESSES, RIGHT? THIS HAS NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE. 
          HISTORICALLY, YOU'LL HAVE OTHER CITIES, SMALLER CITIES THAT DON'T HAVE THAT MANY. 
          WE HAD APPROXIMATELY 3,200 PEOPLE REGISTERED. 
          AND THEN OF COURSE, NOW WE'RE WORKING WITH TUM TO SEE THE, THE GLITCHES THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN TAKEN. 
          WHAT'S A BETTER PROCESS WE COULD DO TO ENSURE THAT EVERYONE GETS THAT CALL. 
          BUT JUST TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA, 800 DOORS WERE KNOCKED ON 800. 
          AND THE REASON WHY THAT IS, UM, SUCH AN IMPORTANT PIECE, AND FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT WERE THERE, THE STEER PROCESS HELPED IDENTIFY AREAS. 
          WE HAD A A, AN ASSISTED LIVING HOME WHERE I WAS TOLD THAT THAT STEER CALL IS WHAT GAVE US A HEADS UP OF WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN THAT ASSISTED LIVING HOME. 
          AND SO, BUT AGAIN, THOSE, THOSE CALLS, AND I THINK, UM, IT WAS QUITE A SIGHT TO SEE WHERE EVERYONE WAS DOING THOSE CALLS. 
          AND SO THANK YOU FOR THAT. 
          BUT THAT IS THE WAY WE WORKED IT OUT. 
          WE'VE CAPTURED THE AFTER ACTIONS. 
          UH, WE'RE CONTINUING DOING TO DO THAT. 
          WE'RE GONNA WANT TO MEET WITH SOME OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS. 
          SAY, HEY, WHAT DID YOU DISCOVER? WE'VE GOTTEN NOTES ALREADY. 
          AND THAT'S, WE'RE VERY 
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APPRECIATIVE OF THAT. 
          'CAUSE THAT IS WHAT HELPS FINE TUNE A PRODUCT. 
          IF WE FIND THERE'S A GLITCH, WE FIND IT. 
          BUT THIS WAS A HUGE UNDERTAKING, OBVIOUSLY THE LARGEST IN THE STATE, JUST BY SIZE ALONE. 
          UH, BUT IT WAS SOMETHING THAT NOW PEOPLE ARE WANTING TO SEE HOW WE DID IT. 
          IMMEDIATELY THEREAFTER, WE STARTED GETTING CALLS ABOUT PREPARING THE PRESENTATION, SEEING WHAT ARE THE BEST PRACTICES, BECAUSE THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'D NEVER BEEN DONE. 
          AND, AND NOW THE OTHER OBJECTIVE ON THAT STEER IS, EVEN THOUGH IT IS A STATE PRODUCT, AND WE'RE TALKING NOW WITH TEEMS, WHO'S BEEN A GREAT PARTNER ON HOW TO HOUSTON, IS THAT RIGHT? HOW DO WE MAKE IT FIT OUR CITY AS SUCH MAGNITUDE, AND WHAT TASK FORCE DO WE NEED? WE STARTED LOOKING AT CALL OUT SYSTEMS. WHAT'S A BETTER WAY? SO THESE, ALL THESE THINGS THAT WE HAVE TO, THAT ALLOWED US TO SEE WHAT WAS HAPPENING. 
          NOW WE'RE MEETING WITH TDO TO SEE WHAT'S, WHAT CAN WE DO TO TIGHTEN IT UP? BUT THOSE ARE THE THINGS, AND THANKS TO YOU, UM, WE WERE ABLE TO HELP PEOPLE SAVE PEOPLE'S LIVES. 
          AND I, I BELIEVE, UM, I, I THINK IT WAS COUNCILMAN KAMAN THAT WAS THERE WHEN WE WERE TALKING. 
          AND JUST A LITTLE HISTORY, MY HISTORY INVOLVED, UH, AS SOME OF YOU MIGHT KNOW, RETIRED AS THE COMMANDER IN THE US COAST GUARD. 
          AND THE HARDEST THING FOR ME WAS TO SEE THAT INDIVIDUAL THAT WAS, DID NOT SURVIVE DUE TO BEING FORGOTTEN. 
          AND I TAKE THAT VERY SERIOUSLY. 
          OUR TEAM TAKES IT VERY SERIOUSLY. 
          THIS, AND I REMEMBER SAYING, NOT UNDER OUR WATCH THAT WE HAVE SOME FATALITIES THAT WERE OBVIOUSLY DRIVEN BY THE WIND. 
          YES, WE KNOW IN PRAYERS TO THE FAMILY, BUT THE THINGS THAT WE FOUND HAPPY TO SAY THAT IT DIDN'T HAPPEN UNDER OUR WATCH, AND IT WON'T. 
          SO THANK YOU FOR THAT. 
          UM, SO HERE YOU'RE ABLE TO SEE, THIS IS JUST A SMALL PIECE OF HOW THE TEAM, THE, THE, AN INDIVIDUAL IN OUR OFFICE, UH, FRANCISCO CARMINE HAS BOUGHT THOSE TALENTS, YEARS OF EXPERIENCE, AND WE'RE WORKING WITH OTHER CITY, UH, GIS SPECIALISTS. 
          AND THIS JUST GIVES YOU AN IDEA OF IF WE ZERO IN AN AREA, IT TELLS US, UM, LIKE WHAT ARE THE NEEDS? AND THIS HELPS THE DECISION MAKING PROCESS WHEN WE'RE ASKING HOW MANY VENTILATORS OR HOW MANY OXYGEN BOTTLES ARE WE GONNA NEED. 
          UH, OBVIOUSLY THIS WAS A DRY RUN, UH, OUTAGE TRACKER. 
          YOU MIGHT WANNA ADD ANOTHER 920,000 ON THAT. 
          SO JUST TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA. 
          BUT THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE ON THAT NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          YEAH. 
          REAL QUICK, UH, ONE THING ON THAT, UH, PREVIOUS SLIDE, JUST TO, TO GIVE AN EXAMPLE. 
          SO WITH, UH, WITH THE FLOODING THAT WE SAW IN KINGWOOD AND WE WORKED, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER FLICKINGER WITH YOUR OFFICE WITH DUSTIN, UH, DAY IN, DAY OUT ON THAT, UM, WE WERE ABLE TO TAKE USING OUR GIS SUPPORT, TAKE THE EVACUATION ORDER LOCATIONS THAT, UH, COUNTY JUDGE HIDALGO PUT IN, OVERLAY THAT WITH OUR STEER DATA TO IDENTIFY THAT THERE WERE ONLY 33 PEOPLE WITHIN THE, THE EVACUATION ORDER AREA THAT WERE REQUIRED TO BE CONTACTED THAT HAD REGISTERED THEMSELVES AS SOMEONE WHO MIGHT NEED ASSISTANCE DURING AN EVACUATE OR DURING A EVACUATION OR OTHER EMERGENCY ISSUE. 
          AND SO WE WERE ABLE TO CON CONTACT THOSE PEOPLE DIRECTLY DURING THAT ONE. 
          SO THAT WAS KIND OF OUR FIRST, LITERALLY JUST PUTTING OUR TOES IN THE WATER, UH, THE RAPIDLY RISING WATER, UM, . 
          BUT, UH, WE WERE ABLE TO KIND OF DO A SOFT, UH, A DRY RUN LIKE CHIEF MUNOZ MENTIONED IN THAT STORM. 
          AND THEN JUST TWO WEEKS LATER, WE HAD THE DIRETO, WHICH REQUIRED A FULL CALL OUT. 
          AND SO WE, WE WERE ABLE TO KIND OF TEST THE PROCESS WITH THE FIRST ONE, AND THEN WITH THE DIRETO WAS THE FULL ACTIVATION, WHICH HAD NOT BEEN DONE IN THE CITY'S HISTORY. 
          YEAH, NO, I THINK KINGWOOD WAS A PRIME EXAMPLE OF THAT, THAT, YOU KNOW, HOW IT WORKED REALLY WELL. 
          AND, UH, THOSE HARD CALLS THAT WE FOLLOWED UP IN AND, AND, UH, BUT YEAH, THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR ASSISTANCE THERE, SIR. 
          UM, SO THIS IS THE, THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          UH, THE EVACUATION, WHICH WE CONTINUOUSLY, WE DO HAVE A SPECIALIST IN OUR OFFICE WHO CONTINUOUSLY WORKS ON FINDING OUT WHAT THOSE ARE. 
          AS YOU SEE, THESE ARE GONNA BE COLOR CODED AND GOES THROUGH THE, THROUGH THE DIFFERENT ZIP CODES THAT WE HAVE. 
          AND AGAIN, THAT ONE 20 STARTS WORKING. 
          WE START LOOKING AT WHAT THE IMPACT. 
          NOW THERE'S ALSO THAT DISCUSSION ON CATEGORY WINDS VERSUS STORM SURGE, AND WE'RE LOOKING AT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AND TALKING. 
          WE'RE LOOKING AT MORE AT THE WATER DAMAGE THAT, YOU KNOW, UH, HIDE FROM THE WIND, RUN FROM THE WATER, YOU KNOW, SCENARIO. 
          AND SO WE'RE LOOKING AT THAT. 
          SO IT DOES IMPACT THE CITY OF HOUSTON, BUT THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT WE CONTINUOUSLY WORK ON, WORK WITH THE STATE, WITH OTHER STAKEHOLDERS TO SEE IF WE DO HAVE TO EVACUATE, WHERE TO GO, HOW TO SET THAT UP. 
          SO THIS IS CONTINUOUSLY, WE'RE PRACTICING ON THAT TO ENSURE THAT, THAT, UH, WE HAVE THAT PROCESS DOWN. 
          YEAH. 
          GO AHEAD, CONTRAFLOW. 
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I WAS, I WAS JUST GONNA SAY, SO THESE MAPS WILL ALSO SHOW, UM, THESE ARE THE, THE STATE, UH, EVACUATION ROUTES. 
          SO YOU SEE THINGS LIKE 1 46, HIGHWAY SIX, ALL THOSE, UM, THOSE ARE THE ROADS WHERE WE CAN ENACT CONTRAFLOW WITH, UH, OUR PARTNERS AT TECH DOT, WITH ALL OF THE REGIONAL PARTNERS WHO ARE IN THOSE PLACES. 
          SO THAT YOU'LL ESSENTIALLY DOUBLE OUTPUT ALONG THOSE ROADS, UH, AS YOU'RE GETTING TWICE AS MUCH, UH, YOU KNOW, LANE COVERAGE IN THOSE AREAS. 
          JUST WANTED TO MENTION THAT. 
          YEAH. 
          THANK YOU, BRENT. 
          UH, NEXT, NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          UH, MASS CARE, I THINK, UM, THIS IS WHAT, YOU KNOW, EVERYONE, UH, WAS WORKING REALLY HARD ALONG WITH EVERYTHING ELSE. 
          UH, THE SHELTERS, OBVIOUSLY, WE HAD 'EM THROUGHOUT THE CITY. 
          UH, THE MASS FEEDING OPERATIONS, THIS IS WHERE ALL OUR STAKEHOLDERS AND OUR PRIVATE PARTNERS CAME IN AND REALLY HELPED. 
          AS THE NUMBERS I GOT THIS MORNING WERE APPROXIMATELY 80,000 PEOPLE WERE FED MEALS. 
          THAT IS A LOT. 
          AND WE LOOKED AT THAT, AND WE LOOKED AT THE AREAS, AND AGAIN, IT WAS WITH OUR STAKEHOLDERS, US AND OUR NONPROFITS AND OUR MINISTRY GROUPS THAT WERE COORDINATING THOSE EFFORTS. 
          THE COMMUNITY LIFELINES, ALL OF THOSE INDIVIDUALS OR INDIVIDUALS STAKEHOLDERS WERE, HAD A BIG, BIG PART IN MAKING SURE THAT PEOPLE WERE FED. 
          YOU KNOW, AS I MENTIONED THAT OVER 80,000, THAT'S A LOT OF MEALS. 
          UH, WE ALSO WORKED, UH, SAW FIRSTHAND HOW ARE OUR PRIVATE PARTNERS. 
          WERE ABLE TO REALLY STEP IN AND DO THAT. 
          SO, BUT AGAIN, THAT'S THROUGH THE, THE YEARLY PLANNINGS THAT WE DO TO ENSURE THAT WE DON'T CALL 'EM JUST DURING THE TIME OF NEED, BUT WE ARE STAKEHOLDERS TOGETHER, FRIENDS TOGETHER. 
          AND THEN WE START CONTINUOUSLY WORKING ON THAT AND FINDING THE BEST PRACTICES ON THAT. 
          UH, POINTS OF DISTRIBUTION. 
          THIS IS ONE AREA THAT WE CONTINUOUSLY LOOK AT, CONTINUOUSLY LOOK AT WHAT ARE THE AREAS WE DO HAVE THE PLAN FOR THAT AS TO EVERYTHING THAT, HOW MANY, YOU KNOW, WHAT IS THE NEED THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE THERE? WHEN I SAY NEED, HOW MANY RESOURCES ARE WE GOING TO NEED? YOU KNOW, THERE'S, IT'S ONE, IT'S, UH, THE LOGISTICS THAT GOES BEHIND IT. 
          WE HAVE TO LOOK AT THAT. 
          EVERYTHING FROM FORKLIFTS TO TRAILERS, ICE TRAILERS, THOSE TYPE OF THINGS THAT WE HAVE TO LOOK AT. 
          AND WE WORK CONTINUOUSLY, AND THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR CALLS ON WORKING CONTINUOUSLY AND, AND, AND IN COORDINATED EFFORT TO SEE WHERE THE BEST IMPACT'S GONNA BE. 
          RIGHT? AND SO THOSE ARE THE KEY THINGS THAT WE WORK OUT. 
          IDENTIFYING EVERYTHING FROM, IS IT IN A FLOOD ZONE? DO WE HAVE THE ELECTRICITY? WHAT'S THE IMPACT? DO WE HAVE THE, THE TRANSIT, YOU KNOW, CAPABILITIES OF GOING THERE, YOU KNOW, SO THESE ARE ALL THESE FACTORS THAT WE LOOK IN, EVERYTHING FROM THE LAYOUT. 
          SO WE DO HAVE A OF, UH, POINT OF DISTRI COMMUNITY POINTS OF DISTRIBUTION, UH, PLAN OR, AND OUR COMMODITIES AS WELL, TO GO OUT THERE AND SEE WHAT IS THE LAYOUT. 
          SO WE HAVE THE PHOTOS. 
          WE START LOOKING AT CAN A TRAILER FIT? HOW LONG SECURITY ISSUES, TRAFFIC FLOW, YOU KNOW, THOSE TYPE OF THINGS. 
          EVEN WE HAVE THAT DOWN TO THE, TO THE MATH OF DO WE NEED 22 PEOPLE TO RUN THIS SITE? DO WE NEED 16? DO WE HAVE THE FORKLIFTS? DO WE HAVE THE CAPABILITIES? SO THERE'S ALL THE ASSETS THAT SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO DIVIDE AND, AND, AND, AND STRATEGICALLY PLACE TO ENSURE THAT WE HAVE THE MOST IMPACT FOR THAT. 
          UM, AND OF COURSE, WARMING CENTERS, THAT'S GONNA BE CONTINUOUS THAT WE, THAT WE CONTINUOUSLY WORK WITH. 
          LAST YEAR, FOR EXAMPLE, WE DID UTILIZE, WE, THE YMCA, WE UTILIZE OUR OWN RESOURCES TO ENSURE THAT THOSE WARMING CENTERS AND PEOPLE HAD THE MEANS TO GET OUT, JUST LIKE COOLING CENTERS AS WELL. 
          AND THE OPERATIONS DIFFER BECAUSE DURING THE SUMMER TIMES PEOPLE GO IN, BUT AT NIGHT, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE HAVE THE NORMAL BUSINESSES, THAT'S USUALLY AT NIGHT THAT DURING THE WINTER TIME WHEN WE HAVE THE TEMPERATURE DROPS THAT TRIGGER OUR PLANS, AND THEN WE HAVE TO START COORDINATING THAT EFFORT TOO. 
          SO A LOT OF GREAT SUPPORT FROM OUR, FROM OUR CITY STAKEHOLDERS, UM, PARKS, DEPARTMENTS, UH, OBVIOUSLY HEALTH DEPARTMENTS THAT WE WORK IN TO ENSURE THAT THOSE PEOPLE STAY SAFE AND MORE AND MORE. 
          COOL. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          I'M GONNA PASS THE ALERT AND WARNINGS TO BRENT. 
          YEP. 
          SO, UM, SCOOCH IN A LITTLE BIT. 
          YEAH. 
          SO ALERTS AND WARNINGS. 
          UH, YOU ARE ALL, I'M SURE FAMILIAR WITH ALERT HOUSTON. 
          THAT IS THE CITY'S OFFICIAL MASS NOTIFICATION SYSTEM. 
          UH, WE HAVE APPROXIMATELY 220,000 PEOPLE WHO ARE SIGNED UP ACROSS THE REGION TO RECEIVE THOSE MESSAGES FROM US. 
          UH, THAT, THAT ALSO, UH, THE, THE PLATFORM THAT SUPPORTS THAT ALSO SUPPORTS CITIZENS NET, WHICH IS A, UH, MORE OF A DEPARTMENTAL NEWSLETTER TYPE PROGRAM. 
          BUT FOR OEM'S PURPOSES, ALERT HOUSTON IS THE, IT'S THE, THE MECHANISM. 
          IT'S WHAT WE USE, RIGHT? AND SO PEOPLE CAN SIGN UP ON THAT. 
          UH, WE ARE ABLE TO SEND MESSAGES IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGES. 
          UM, PRIMARILY, UH, MESSAGES WILL GO OUT IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH. 
          AND THEN AS WE IDENTIFY, DEPENDING ON THE HAZARD AND THE 
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COMMUNITY PROFILE OF WHERE THAT HAZARD IMPACTS, WE CAN ADD LANGUAGE SUPPORT TO THAT IN COORDINATION WITH, UH, THE MAYOR'S OFFICE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND COORDINATION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS, UM, WITH, YOU KNOW, MAYOR'S, OFFICE OF NEW AMERICANS AND IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES, THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          SO PRIMARILY THOUGH, THOSE MESSAGES WILL BE SHARED IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH. 
          UH, IPAS IS THE, UH, FEDERAL TOOL THAT ALLOWS US TO CONTACT PEOPLE BOTH THROUGH, UH, THE EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM. 
          SO THE MESSAGES THAT WILL RUN ACROSS THE BOTTOM OF A TELEVISION. 
          WE CAN USE THAT. 
          UH, AND THEN WE ALSO DO THE WIRELESS EMERGENCY ALERTS THROUGH, THROUGH IPAS. 
          AND SO WIRELESS EMERGENCY ALERTS ARE SIMILAR TO AMBER ALERTS LIKE YOU GET ON YOUR PHONE. 
          UH, WE CAN, UH, GEOFENCE A SPECIFIC AREA THAT IS IMPACTED BY A HAZARD AND SEND ONLY TO THE CELL PHONE TOWERS THAT ARE IN THAT AREA. 
          UM, AND SO THAT'S A VERY EFFECTIVE TOOL. 
          UH, DURING THIS STORM, UH, THE DERECHO, UH, THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SENT ONE THAT, WAS THAT CALLED IT A DESTRUCTIVE THUNDERSTORM OR A DESTRUCTIVE WIND EVENT. 
          UM, IT WAS THE FIRST TIME I HAD PERSONALLY EVER SEEN THAT PARTICULAR MESSAGE. 
          NORMALLY YOU SEE, YOU KNOW, SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING OR WHATEVER IT MAY BE. 
          BUT THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME I SAW ONE WHERE THEY CATEGORIZED IT AS DESTRUCTIVE, UH, WHICH I THINK KIND OF SENT THE FLAG UP TO PEOPLE, OH, THIS IS DIFFERENT THAN WHAT WE NORMALLY SEE. 
          AND SO THEY'RE MORE LIKELY TO HEED THE WARNINGS THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THAT. 
          SO, NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL SEND THEM, UH, SEND IPOS MESSAGES ON THOSE PARTICULAR ONES THAT ARE THINGS LIKE TORNADO WARNINGS. 
          UM, THEY CAN SEND THEM ON THE, AGAIN, DESTRUCTIVE WIND EVENTS. 
          THEY'LL SEND 'EM FOR THE, THE MORE SIGNIFICANT THINGS. 
          BUT FOR, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, AN AERIAL FLOOD ADVISORY, FOR EXAMPLE, THAT WON'T MAKE, UH, THE THRESHOLD FOR A WIRELESS EMERGENCY ALERT, BECAUSE THERE HAS TO BE A CRITICAL THREAT TO LIFE SAFETY. 
          UM, SO AS THE SITUATIONS GET MORE SEVERE, THAT'S WHENEVER YOU'LL START SEEING THOSE IPOS. 
          UM, EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM AND, UH, WIRELESS EMERGENCY ALERTS BEING USED. 
          AND THEN OF COURSE, THE INTERNAL NOTIFICATIONS. 
          THIS IS SOMETHING WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON. 
          UH, WE USE, AGAIN, THE SAME SYSTEM, UH, EVERBRIDGE TO DO, UH, DEPARTMENTAL NOTIFICATIONS. 
          EMPLOYEE NOTIFICATIONS CAN BE MADE THROUGH THERE. 
          AND, UH, WE CAN COORDINATE. 
          WE ALSO HAVE A TECHNOLOGY CALLED READY OP THAT WE USE AT THE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. 
          THAT, THAT, AGAIN, IS FOR INTERNAL NOTIFICATIONS, SETTING UP QUICK CONFERENCE CALLS, THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          SO THOSE ARE ALL THE, UH, WELL, THOSE ARE SOME OF THE SYSTEMS THAT WE USE. 
          UH, WITHOUT MENTIONING, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY SOCIAL MEDIA AND LEVERAGING OUR PARTNERS, UH, IN THE, THE CITY COUNCIL OFFICES IN, YOU KNOW, THE MAYOR'S OFFICE, UH, WE HAVE A EXTRAORDINARY RELATIONSHIP WITH SEVERAL, UH, CONS GENERALS. 
          UM, THAT'S BEEN A PROGRAM THAT WE'VE UNDERTAKEN IN THE PAST YEAR OR TWO WHERE WE'RE REACHING OUT TO THE, THE, THE CONSULATES AND ESTABLISHING RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM WHERE THEY CAN, UH, DO A LOT OF TRANSLATION ASSISTANCE FOR US IN REAL TIME. 
          SO THAT IF THERE ARE MESSAGES THAT, UH, AGAIN, ARE NOT GETTING OUT IN THAT ENGLISH OR SPANISH THAT WE'RE, UH, CONFIDENT IN OUR ABILITIES TO SHARE, THEY CAN HELP US IN SUPPORTING THAT BY THEY DO THE TRANSLATION AND THEY SHARE DIRECTLY WITH THEIR CONSTITUENTS. 
          UM, AND SO THAT'S BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL. 
          WE'VE GOTTEN A LOT OF GOOD FEEDBACK BOTH FROM THE COMMUNITY AND FROM THE CONSULATE GENERALS AS WELL. 
          YEAH, WITH THAT ONE, THAT'S A BIG PROGRAM THAT WE'VE STARTED ON THE STAKEHOLDERS MEETING OUT WITH ALL THE GENERAL COUNSEL. 
          ITS, WE, UM, ABOUT THREE MONTHS AGO, 27 OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL THAT'S WERE IN OUR, OUR OEM. 
          SO WE SHOWED HIM WHAT WE DID. 
          SO THOSE ARE SOME GREAT PARTNERSHIPS THAT WE HAVE TO HAVE THE FORCE MULTIPLIER AND TAKE THAT WHOLE COMMUNITY APPROACH, UH, 'CAUSE ONE, IT'S COMING FROM US, BUT IT'S ALSO COMING FROM THEM, WHICH MAKES THEM THE TRUSTED SOURCE IN THEIR COMMUNITY. 
          SO THOSE ARE THE AREAS ALONG WITH WORKING WITH ALL THE NEIGHBORHOODS, SUPER NEIGHBORHOODS, THOSE INDIVIDUALS IN, IN THOSE AREAS TO BE THAT FORCE MULTIPLIER AS WELL AS THE MINISTRY GROUPS TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE'S GETTING THE MESSAGE AND GET THAT TRUSTED SOURCE. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          AND THAT'S THE CONCLUSION OF OUR PRESENTATION QUESTIONS. 
          THANK YOU, DIRECTOR. 
          UM, FIRST AS, SO YOU WERE, UM, GIVING YOUR PRESENTATION, WE WERE ALSO JOINED BY OUR VICE CHAIR COUNCIL MEMBER JACKSON, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER CAYMAN, COUNCIL MEMBER FLICKINGER, AND ONLINE BY COUNCIL MEMBER EVAN SHABAZZ. 
          UM, WE DO HAVE A NUMBER OF COUNCIL MEMBERS IN THE QUEUE, BUT FIRST, I JUST WANTED TO THANK YOU BOTH FOR YOUR WORK, UM, WITH THE STORM LAST MONTH. 
          I KNOW THAT THERE'S MANY HOURS AND A LOT OF HARD WORK IN THE AFTERMATH, AND AS THAT STORM WAS CONTINUING, SO THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE DISCUSSED AND WOULD LIKE TO, UM, DISCUSS FURTHER IN OTHER COMMITTEE MEETINGS AS WELL, IS THE PLAN FOR, UM, DISASTER RECOVERY. 
          THAT DOES NOT NECESSARILY ENTAIL MULTIPURPOSE CENTERS. 
          WE DON'T ALL HAVE A MULTIPURPOSE CENTER IN OUR DISTRICTS, INCLUDING DISTRICT A. 
          WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING LIKE THAT. 
          SO, UM, THE NEED TO BRANCH OUT TO OTHER AREAS AND OTHER FACILITIES FOR COOLING CENTERS AND RECOVERY CENTERS AND THAT KIND OF THING. 
          UM, WE, FOR EXAMPLE, USE MEMORIAL ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES AS A COOLING CENTER FROM THIS LAST STORM. 
          AND FINDING PARTNERS LIKE THAT. 
          I KNOW YOU TALKED ABOUT THE YMCA, THE ONE WE HAVE IN DISTRICT A IS KIND OF ON THE FAR CORNER OF THE DISTRICT 
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AND DOESN'T NECESSARILY, YOU KNOW, NOT EVERYONE CAN GET THERE. 
          SO WHILE THEY'RE A GREAT PARTNER AND WOULD LOVE TO CONTINUE WORKING WITH THEM, WE NEED OTHER KIND OF LILY PADS THROUGHOUT SOME OF OUR COMMUNITIES THAT ARE, ARE BIGGER. 
          SO I KNOW THAT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'VE DISCUSSED AND LOOKING FORWARD TO CONTINUING WORKING ON THOSE DISASTER RECOVERY PLANS WHEN IT DOESN'T INCLUDE A MULTIPURPOSE CENTER. 
          NO, THANK YOU COUNCIL MEMBER. 
          AND I KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, UM, WE WERE TALKING EVERY DAY AND, AND WE STILL CONTINUE TO DO THAT ON, AT, AT THE STORM, AND THOSE ARE THE BIG THINGS THAT HELP US, RIGHT? WE, WE LOOK AT THE, OBVIOUSLY WITH THE SQUARE MILEAGE, WE LOOK AT THAT AREA AND AFTER THAT WE STARTED, WE STARTED LOOKING, OKAY, WHAT ARE SOME, SOME OTHER ALTERNATIVES THAT WE CAN USE TO COORDINATE WITH YOU? AND IF IT IS LIKE FEMA DO, CAN WE SET UP THE TRAILER THERE FOR THEM TO, EVEN IF IT'S JUST THAT WHERE THEY CAN GO GET THE QUESTIONS ANSWERED. 
          SO THAT'S A BIG HELP, AND THANK YOU FOR THAT. 
          AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR INPUT. 
          APPRECIATE THAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OKAY. 
          FIRST IN THE QUEUE IS COUNCIL MEMBER KAMAN. 
          THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. 
          UM, DIRECTOR, FIRST AND FOREMOST, I SHOULD SAY, I SHOULD SAY CHIEF, UH, CONGRATULATIONS, UH, ON YOUR NEW ROLE. 
          UH, BUT TO THE ENTIRE TEAM, I DON'T THINK THE PUBLIC OFTEN SEES THE HOURS THAT GO IN AT OUR HOUSTON EMERGENCY CENTER. 
          UM, Y'ALL ARE THERE AROUND THE CLOCK. 
          OUR NINE ONE ONE CALL TAKERS ARE THERE AROUND THE CLOCK AT THE COOLING CENTERS. 
          UH, WE DIDN'T JUST HAVE, UH, SO WE, WE TALK ABOUT PUBLIC WORKS, WE TALK ABOUT THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, HPD, BUT WE EVEN HAD OUR HEALTH DEPARTMENT AT THE COOLING CENTERS. 
          YES. 
          MM-HMM . 
          UH, DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS IS OUT CANVASING DOING WHAT WE CALL OUR WINDSHIELD ASSESSMENTS, RIGHT? LIKE THE LIST GOES ON AND ON, BUT SO MANY HOURS WHERE YOU ARE TAKEN AWAY, WE ARE ALL TAKEN AWAY FROM OUR OWN FAMILIES TO SERVE. 
          UM, SO FIRST AND FOREMOST, THANK YOU FOR THAT DEDICATION IN THAT TIME. 
          OKAY. 
          UH, REGARDING STEER, I DID WANNA SPOTLIGHT 'CAUSE WE'VE HAD MADAM CHAIR PRESENTATIONS IN THE PAST. 
          THE FACT THAT THE STATE HAS ABSOLUTELY NO GUIDANCE FOR HOW TO DO THIS, IT IS LITERALLY JUST CALL, DO A REGISTRY, AND THEY DON'T SPECIFY ANYTHING. 
          SO THE FACT THAT Y'ALL HAVE TAKEN THIS SERIOUSLY, UM, AS HOUSTON DOES AND IMPLEMENTED A SYSTEM THAT CAN BE REPLICATED IS EXTREMELY COMMENDABLE. 
          AND I APPRECIATE ALL OF MY COLLEAGUES AND ALL OF THE STAFF WHO STEPPED IN WHEN WE SAID, HEY, WE REALLY NEED HELP REACHING OUT RIGHT NOW. 
          UH, MY CONCERN, AND WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS, IS THAT, UH, THIS WAS ONE OF DERECHO NOT A HURRICANE, UH, BUT IT WAS CATEGORY TWO-ISH LEVEL WINDS, SUSTAINED WINDS FOR 20 TO 30 MINUTES ONLY OVER A PORTION OF THE CITY. 
          MM-HMM . 
          AND WE SAW THE DEVASTATION AND THE DAMAGE. 
          UH, I KNOW THAT AS A CITY, WE ARE DOING WHAT WE CAN TO PREPARE, BUT MY CONCERN BEING, AND THIS ISN'T DIRECTED TO ANY DEPARTMENT, IS THAT, EXCUSE ME, WE'RE NOT READY FOR THE BIG ONE. 
          WHAT HA YOU KNOW, WE WERE ABLE TO HAVE CENTER POINT BRING IN FOLKS FROM OKLAHOMA OR MISSOURI, AND WE APPRECIATE THEM, BUT IN A REGIONAL CATASTROPHE, ALL OF THOSE RESOURCES START TO, UM, GO ELSEWHERE. 
          AND WE STILL HAD RESIDENTS THAT WERE WITHOUT POWER FOR UPWARDS OF A WEEK OR MORE IN DISTRICT C AND OTHER PLACES AS WELL. 
          I CAN JUST SPEAK TO MY DISTRICT. 
          SO MY, MY QUESTIONS COME FROM THAT CONCERN. 
          MM-HMM . 
          UM, I'M NOT, WE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO HAVE OUR DEBRIEF YET, SO I'M NOT GONNA BLINDSIDE YOU, BUT I DO WANNA SAY, I DEFINITELY WANNA TALK, UH, MADAM CHAIR, ABOUT OUR STAR CONTRACTS, UM, AND OUR AGREEMENTS WITH OTHER CITIES, BECAUSE WE'RE EVEN SEEING THE CHALLENGES WITH DEBRIS PICKUP RIGHT NOW. 
          WE CAN USE THOSE MUNICIPALITIES RESOURCES, BUT NOT THEIR CONTRACTORS. 
          SO MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE IMPROVING ON THAT, WHICH I KNOW YOU'RE WORKING ON, AS WELL AS THOSE MOUS HOUSING AT THE HOTEL VOUCHERS, GETTING THE SYSTEM IN PLACE SO THAT WE CAN GO, BECAUSE I SPOKE WITH SO MANY FAMILIES AT THE DRC THAT, UM, COULD NOT TAKE THEIR LITTLE CHILDREN TO THE ONE SHELTER THAT WAS, YOU KNOW, STOOD UP AT THAT TIME. 
          AND OUR APPRECIATION TO THE SHELTERS. 
          BUT WE HAVE TO GET THE SYSTEM IN PLACE FOR THOSE HOTEL VOUCHERS SO WE CAN MOVE QUICKLY. 
          UM, GIS WITH OUR PARTNERS, OUR CITY'S GIS CAPABILITIES ARE ONLY AS GOOD AS OUR PARTNER'S WILLINGNESS TO SHARE THEIR INFORMATION WITH US. 
          SO I'M PUBLICLY SAYING TO CENTERPOINT AND TO OTHERS THAT THEY MUST GET IT TOGETHER IN TERMS OF SHARING, UH, THEIR TECHNOLOGY, NOT JUST WITH THE PUBLIC. 
          'CAUSE THE PUBLIC COULDN'T SEE WHERE THINGS WERE, RIGHT. 
          THE SYSTEM KEPT GOING DOWN, AND CENTER POINT HAS BEEN ACCOUNTABLE AND RESPONDING AND SAYING, YES, WE NEED TO FIX THAT. 
          BUT, UH, CHIEF, CAN YOU QUICKLY, AND I'LL GO BACK IN QUEUE, BUT TO THIS QUESTION, MADAM CHAIR, CAN YOU PLEASE QUICKLY SPEAK TO THE CHALLENGES WE HAD WITH GIS OVERLAYS BECAUSE I COULDN'T EVEN GET AN ANSWER ON WHERE ARE MY HARDEST HIT NEIGHBORHOODS RIGHT NOW WITH POWER OUT? WHERE ARE WE EXPECT IT, IT JUST, IT'S NOT THE CITY, BUT WE NEED 
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OUR PARTNERS TO STEP UP. 
          CAN YOU SPEAK TO THAT? YES. 
          UH, YOU KNOW, IS EVERYTHING ELSE, THE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS ALLOWS US TO MAKE THOSE DECISIONS, RIGHT? UM, IT WAS EASIER FOR US WHEN WE DID HAVE THAT CAPABILITY GIVEN TO US OR WAS THERE FOR EVERYONE. 
          IF WE HAVE 922,000, YOU KNOW, I HAVE TO KNOW WHAT IS THE BIGGEST AREA NOT HAVING THAT CAPABILITY. 
          IT WAS, OKAY, LET'S JUST FOCUS. 
          AND NOW OF COURSE, WE COULD GO IN THERE AND DO THE ZIP CODES AND TALK TO THEM, BUT HAVING A FIRST GLANCE, WE'RE, WE'RE ABLE TO BREAK THAT 922,000. 
          AND ONCE YOU ZERO ONE IN AN AREA, OKAY, WE GOT 10,000 HERE, WE GOT 400,000 HERE. 
          I, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THOSE LIMITED RESOURCES, WE KNOW WHERE TO FOCUS. 
          RIGHT. 
          UH, GOING BACK TO WHAT YOU HAD MENTIONED ON THAT, THE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS IS, IS CRITICAL FOR US. 
          YOU KNOW, IF, IF I'M HAVING THESE ALMOST 700 SQUARE MILES ALONG WITH HARRIS COUNTY, I'M LIKE, WHERE IS THIS? IS THIS IN OUR JURISDICTION? IS IT NOT? SO THAT IS LIKE SUPER, SUPER CRITICAL THAT I KNOW THAT WE WERE CONTINUOUSLY ON THE PHONE. 
          YOU HAVE TO GET ME THAT CAPABILITY BECAUSE RIGHT NOW I'M HEARING 900, YOU KNOW, 922, 400,000. 
          THAT IS A LOT OF PEOPLE. 
          AND THEN OF COURSE, PEOPLE WANT ANSWERS. 
          OBVIOUSLY, THEY, THEY WANT TO KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING. 
          AND THE OTHER REASON IT'S SO IMPORTANT FOR 'EM BECAUSE IT ALLOWS ME TO SEE IN THAT AREA, WE CAN DO THE OVERLAYING, IF THERE IS A NURSING HOME, IF THERE IS A DIALYSIS CENTER, IS THERE IS AN AREA OF IMPACT ASSISTED LIVING HOMES THAT ALLOWS ME TO KNOW WHERE THE RESOURCES ARE GONNA GO. 
          SO NOT HAVING THAT CAPABILITY DOES HINDER THE PROCESSES OF WHERE THEY GO. 
          AND IT WAS ALL THROUGH JUST THE BOOTS ON THE GROUND THAT WE NOW, THEY WERE ABLE TO GIVE US INFORMATION, BUT THERE'S SOME TIMES WHEN AN HOUR IS TOO MUCH. 
          RIGHT. 
          AND, AND WE DO HAVE TO HAVE THAT CAPABILITY THAT I'VE HAD BEFORE OF JUST SAYING, OKAY, THIS IS THE IMPACTED AREA. 
          OKAY, WELL, WE KNOW WE GOTTA FOCUS ON THIS AREA, START SENDING RESOURCES. 
          SO THAT WAS A BIG ONE. 
          AS FAR AS YOU MENTIONED EARLIER, UM, THE, UH, LIKE THE CONTRACTS AND SO FORTH, YOU KNOW, WITH THE ONE 20, WE WOULD DEFINITELY START THOSE CONVERSATIONS, HEY, WE GOTTA START LINING THESE PEOPLE UP. 
          OBVIOUSLY CENTER POINT'S ALWAYS GONNA BE THERE AND SAY, OKAY, WE GOTTA START FIGURING THIS OUT. 
          UM, AND SO THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT, THAT WE DO NOW WITH THIS ANOMALY. 
          YEAH. 
          THOSE ARE THE BIG ONES THAT WE HAVE TO, OKAY. 
          BUT DO WE, WE HAVE TO HAVE THOSE ESTABLISHED CONTRACTS, AND THAT'S OBVIOUSLY ONE OF THE, ONE OF THE BIG LESSONS CONCERNS THAT WE FIGURED ON THIS ONE. 
          SO THANK YOU. 
          AND MADAM CHAIR, I WOULD JUST ASK IF WE CAN KEEP THE CONVERSATION MOVING AND HELP IN ANY WAY WE CAN, CHIEF AS IT RELATES TO MAKING SURE THAT WITH ALL OF OUR PARTNERS, I'M NOT TRYING TO CALL OUT CENTER POINT, IT WAS JUST THIS WAS THAT INCIDENT WHERE IT, IT HAPPENED TO BE CENTER POINT WHERE WE ARE MAKING SURE THAT THEY ARE SHARING THE TYPE OF INFORMATION THAT WE NEED SO THAT WE CAN, AS A CITY EFFECTIVELY RESPOND. 
          ABSOLUTELY. 
          I'M SURE THIS WILL NOT BE THE LAST TIME THAT, UM, THEY COME BEFORE THIS COMMITTEE. 
          SO COUNCIL MEMBER ALCORN, THANK YOU. 
          THANKS FOR THE PRESENTATION AND FOR ALL YOU'VE DONE IN THESE RECENT MONTHS. 
          UM, YOU, YOU SAID SOME LIMITS THAT FOR REIMBURSEMENTS, AND I MISSED IT, IT WAS LIKE 153 MILLION FOR, OR 53 MILLION FOR THE CITY AND WHAT, 50 NO, FOR THE COUNTY AND 21 POINT, UH, OR 21.7, UH, 21 MILLION FOR THE COUNTY. 
          SO IT'S 53 FOR THE STATE AND 21 MILLION FOR THE COUNTY. 
          AND THAT KICKS OFF THE CATEGORIES. 
          AND THAT'S FOR ANY KIND OF REIMBURSEMENT TO KICK IN. 
          YES, MA'AM. 
          AND THAT DETERMINES, YOU KNOW, THEY LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, THEY HAVE THEIR FORMULA, BUT IT DETERMINES WHAT CATEGORIES WE, WE QUALIFY IN THIS. 
          WE, WE QUALIFIED EVERYTHING FROM THE PREPAREDNESS TO DEBRIS REMOVAL TO, I MEAN, JUST A WHOLE SLEW OF, OF, UH, THAT I'LL BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO SEND YOU THAT LIST TO YOUR OFFICE TO HAVE THAT. 
          BUT, SO THE BIG THING WAS OBVIOUSLY WE ALWAYS LOOK AT INDIVIDUAL ASSISTANCE, RIGHT? AND THAT'S THE ONE THING THAT WE LOOK AT PUBLIC ASSISTANCE, WHICH IS US, OUR GOVERNMENTS, TO BE ABLE TO GET THE REIMBURSEMENT FOR ALL THE PREPAREDNESS THAT WENT IN ALL THE, THE, THE PEOPLE THAT WERE OUT IN THE STREETS, OUR FIRST RESPONDERS, US EVERYONE THAT THEIR DAILY DUTIES HAVE TO SHIFT DUE TO THE STORM. 
          SO WE CAPTURE THAT. 
          OKAY. 
          AND OUR FINANCE DEPARTMENTS REALLY WE'RE WORKING HAND IN HAND. 
          AND YOU GUYS ARE REALLY THE KEEPERS OF ALL THAT INFORMATION. 
          YES. 
          RIGHT. 
          AND WHEN YOU SAID 80,000 MEALS, I MEAN, EVEN ON STUFF LIKE THAT, DO PEOPLE REPORT EVEN PRIVATE, UM, AGENCIES TO THE EXTENT YOU KNOW ABOUT, WE GET OUR NONPROFITS, SO WE ALWAYS DO THE SITUATIONAL REPORTS, YOU KNOW, DAILY DEPENDS ON THE BATTLE RHYTHM THAT WE HAVE. 
          AND THAT'S HOW WE CAPTURE THOSE NUMBERS. 
          AND SINCE WE'RE IN CONTINUOUS CONTACT WITH THEM, WE'RE ABLE TO, TO GET THOSE NUMBERS AND, AND SEE THIS IS WHAT'S HAPPENING, WHAT AREA OF IMPACT, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S THE IMPACT THAT'S HAPPENING? SO WE'RE ABLE TO CAPTURE ALL THAT. 
          YEAH. 
          UM, I WENT YESTERDAY, MY STAFF AND I, AND, UM, TO TRAIN STAR. 
          I, I'D BEEN OF COURSE THERE FOR LIKE PRESS CONFERENCES, BUT 
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NEVER TAKEN A TOUR OF THAT AND SEEN EVERYTHING AND SAW THE, UM, OPERATIONS CENTER THERE ON THE THIRD FLOOR THERE. 
          IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING, THE CITY USED TO BE PART OF THAT AND THEN BROKE OFF. 
          IT'S TO DO ITS OWN THING. 
          I'M, I'M, I DON'T WHAT, WHY, WHY DOES THE CITY HAVE ITS OWN THING IN THE COUNTY AND EVERYBODY ELSE IS TOGETHER. 
          I'VE BEEN HERE THREE. 
          I MEAN, THAT'S JUST THE WAY IT'S BEEN. 
          I, RIGHT. 
          YEAH. 
          I'VE BEEN THREE YEARS AND I BELIEVE THIS BUILDING'S BEEN HERE LIKE ALMOST 20, 25 YEARS. 
          RIGHT. 
          AND I THINK JUST TO FOCUS ON OUR JURISDICTION AREA NOW, THERE IS CONTINUOUS, UH, COMMUNICATIONS WITH HARRIS COUNTY, OBVIOUSLY. 
          RIGHT. 
          AND I DID ASK ABOUT THAT. 
          THEY SAID THAT THE COMMUNICATION'S GREAT AND ALL THAT, BUT I GUESS IT USED TO BE PART OF IT AND THEN IT BROKE OFF OR WHATEVER. 
          YEAH. 
          MY UNDERSTANDING IT WAS LIKE THE 9 1 1 SYSTEMS THAT WERE REALLY WORKING TOGETHER, BUT I'LL GET SOME MORE INFORMATION. 
          DON'T WANT, GIVE YOU SOME WRONG INFORMATION UNLESS YOU'VE GOT SOME, BRENT. 
          BUT, UM, I MEAN, UH, SO BEFORE I WORKED FOR THE CITY OF HOUSTON, I WORKED ON THE TRANS STAR FLOOR, ON THE CONTROL ROOM FLOOR ON THE, THE FIRST FLOOR AT, UH, AS A SOCIAL MEDIA SPECIALIST FOR METRO MM-HMM . 
          AND I CAN TELL YOU THAT IT'S, IT'S, IT'S BOTH, RIGHT? SO, UM, WHEN WE ACTIVATE OUR EOC, UH, THE, THE, THE LEVEL OF KIND OF GRANULARITY THAT WE HAVE WITH OUR DEPARTMENTS AND WITH THINGS LIKE THAT IS A LITTLE MORE SPECIFIC. 
          AND SO, UH, IN THE COUNTY, EOC, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE REPRESENTATIVES FROM ALL OF THE DIFFERENT JURISDICTIONS. 
          BUT IF YOU'RE LOOKING AT SOMETHING LIKE A HURRICANE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE, THAT'S GONNA AFFECT EVERY JURISDICTION IN THE COUNTY. 
          AND, AND, UH, FOR US TO HAVE, YOU KNOW, A, WE WILL CERTAINLY HAVE A PRESENCE THERE, UH, WHETHER IT'S THROUGH A LIAISON OFFICER OR SOMETHING ELSE MM-HMM . 
          BUT WE STILL HAVE OUR WORK TO DO THAT WILL INCLUDE, AGAIN, SOLID WASTE, DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS, ALL THESE OTHER FOLKS THAT, THAT FRANKLY DON'T NEED TO BE AT THAT COUNTY LEVEL, BUT WE WILL STILL HAVE A PRESENCE AND A COMMUNICATION WITH THE, THE EOC OVER THERE DURING ANY OF THOSE LARGE SCALE EVENTS. 
          HAVING OUR OWN FACILITY ALLOWS US TO FOCUS A LITTLE MORE DIRECTLY AND SPECIFICALLY ON THE NEEDS OF THE CITY OF HOUSTON. 
          AND I THINK THAT IT MAKES IT ALSO WHERE IT IS THE JURISDICTIONS. 
          RIGHT. 
          YOU KNOW, AND, AND, BUT LIKE I SAID, FOR US, WE FOC WE GATHER ALL OUR CITY STAKEHOLDERS IN OUR EOC AND WE'RE, WE'RE IN CONSTANT COMMUNICATION WITH THE LIAISONS AND SO FORTH FROM THE COUNTY. 
          SO, OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, COUNCIL MEMBER HUFFMAN, THANK YOU. 
          AND THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING YOU DO. 
          UH, ONE QUICK COMMENT FIRST AND THEN A FEW QUESTIONS, BUT I WAS ACTUALLY AT AN EVENT LAST NIGHT AND HEARD ABOUT A MAN IN DISTRICT G WHO HAD LOST POWER AND DIDN'T HAVE ACCESS TO HIS, UH, LYMPHEDEMA MACHINE. 
          AND HE WASN'T NECESSARILY GOING TO REACH OUT ON HIS OWN. 
          HE WAS JUST HOPING THAT POWER WOULD BE RESTORED AND HE'D BE ABLE TO ACCESS IT AGAIN. 
          UM, BUT OEM ACTUALLY ENDED UP CALLING HIM AS PART OF THAT PROGRAM AND GOT HIM AN AMBULANCE, TOOK HIM TO METHODIST DOWN IN THE MEDICAL CENTER, AND BY THE TIME HE GOT THERE, HE WAS IN SUCH BAD SHAPE THAT HE REALLY, HE CREDITS OEM FOR SAVING HIS LIFE, UM, DURING THAT STORM. 
          SO, YOU KNOW, GREAT WORK THERE. 
          ABSOLUTELY. 
          UM, OKAY. 
          NEXT QUESTION, OR FIRST QUESTION. 
          UM, HOW DO WE IMPROVE THE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN OEM AND THE COUNCIL MEMBERS WHEN WE'RE NOT AT THE HEC CENTER? THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION, AND THANK YOU FOR THAT. 
          ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT IS OBVIOUSLY WORKING WITH LEADERSHIP ON GETTING THE, A COUNCIL MEMBER ONLY EITHER A WEATHER CALL. 
          THAT'S ONE OF THE BIG NOTES I TOOK GETTING THERE. 
          AND OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, I THINK IT, IT, IT, IT REALLY HELPS WHEN WE HAVE THE VISIBILITY ONE-ON-ONE, RIGHT. 
          AND THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT NOW I TRULY, TRULY APPRECIATE THE LEVEL OF, OF COMMITMENT AND, AND THE COOPERATION WITH OUR OFFICE. 
          'CAUSE AGAIN, YOU KNOW, I THINK, UH, YOU KNOW, DUSTIN WAS A HUGE HELP IN THAT. 
          AND, AND I THINK HAVING PEOPLE THERE. 
          SO FOR US, ONE COUNCIL MEMBER IS SETTING UP A SEPARATE CALL JUST TO SAY, THIS IS WHAT'S HAPPENING, RIGHT? AGAIN, I KEEP ON REFERRING BACK TO THE H ONE 20, BUT THAT IS NOT, UH, THAT THAT'S IN THE PERFECT SCENARIO FOR THIS SCENARIO. 
          WE CAPTURED THAT, HEY, WE HAVE TO GET THOSE CALLS, HAVE, UTILIZE THAT READY OPS AND SAY, WE'RE GONNA HAVE THIS CONFERENCE CALL. 
          AND JUST TO GIVE YOU A HEADS UP ON WHAT'S ABOUT TO BE HAPPENING, RIGHT? AND SET THAT PERSON THAT STRICTLY IS GONNA WORK WITH THE COUNCIL MEMBERS TO SAY, WHAT ARE THE ISSUES THAT YOU'RE SEEING AND OR YOU'RE HEARING ABOUT IN YOUR, IN YOUR, IN YOUR DISTRICT. 
          SO ALLOWS US TO, ONCE AGAIN, THIS WAS A PERFECT SCENARIO WITH NOT KNOWING WHERE THE OUTAGES WERE. 
          WE DID HAVE AN INDICATION, BUT THIS IS A PERFECT SCENARIO THAT IT'S BASICALLY YOU'RE THE REPRESENTATIVE FROM THAT AREA. 
          SO FOR US, IT'S GONNA BE SETTING UP THAT COORDINATION CALL WITH YOU, UH, GETTING MORE OF THOSE SIT REPS OUT AND THOSE TYPE OF THINGS. 
          AND JUST FOCUSING ON, ON THIS PARTICULAR GROUP HERE, SO WE CAN GET THAT INFORMATION FLOW GOING BACK AND FORTH. 
          AND OBVIOUSLY ESTABLISHED IN THE LIAISON POSITION THAT'S GONNA BE RESPONSIBLE TO ANSWERING YOUR QUESTIONS AND GETTING THAT INFORMATION. 
          GREAT. 
          NOW, KIND OF FOLLOWING UP ON WHAT COUNCIL MEMBER KAMAN WAS SAYING, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY WE KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T WORK FOR CENTER POINT, UM, BUT I'VE HEARD FROM CONSTITUENTS THAT THE OUTAGE TRACKER REALLY FOR THEM ALSO IS A VALUABLE TOOL. 
          MM-HMM . 
          UM, AND WE 
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SEE THAT ON THE WEBSITE. 
          IT'S STILL NOT BACKUP ANY IDEA WHEN, UM, OR IF IT'S COMING BACK BECAUSE, UH, WITH HURRICANE SEASON NOW IN FULL SWING, UH, I'M HEARING FROM CONSTITUENTS IT'S SOMETHING THEY REALLY WANT TO SEE. 
          SO I DID HAVE A CALL WITH THEM LAST WEEK, LIKE, WHAT IS THE STATUS ON THIS? AND IT'S DEFINITELY SOMETHING THAT HAS, THAT IS NEEDED, UH, NOT ONLY FOR OUR PURPOSES, BUT OBVIOUSLY THE CONSTITUENTS. 
          AND THEY'VE TOLD ME THAT THEY'RE WORKING ON THAT. 
          BUT AFTER THIS MEETING, I'LL FOLLOW UP, LIKE, WHAT, DO YOU HAVE A TIMELINE? WHAT IS HAPPENING? UM, YOU KNOW, THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT'S WORKED BEFORE. 
          SO WE WANNA SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING. 
          AND I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S THAT ANSWER THAT HAS TO BE MET. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I WOULD JUST UNDERSCORE THAT. 
          UM, SO OEM, ASIDE FROM ONCE WE'RE ALREADY IN THE ACTIVATION, WE HAVE CENTERPOINT SITTING IN THE ROOM WORKING WITH US. 
          UM, WE DON'T HAVE ANY SPECIAL ACCESS TO THEIR DATA. 
          WE'RE USING THAT EXACT SAME TOOL THAT THE PUBLIC USES. 
          THAT'S THE LAYER, THAT'S THE INFORMATION. 
          SO WE HAVE, WE'RE ON EQUAL FOOTING ON THAT GROUND UNTIL WE GET CENTERPOINT IN THE ROOM TO PROVIDE US WITH ANY, UH, SPECIAL OPERATIONAL INFORMATION THAT MAY NOT BE PUBLIC. 
          UM, SO HAVING SAID THAT, WITH THE DERECHO, WHILE THAT WAS STILL FUNCTIONING, THAT GAVE US THAT IMMEDIATE NOTIFICATION THAT THIS IS A LOT WORSE THAN JUST A NORMAL THUNDERSTORM. 
          YOU KNOW, ON A NORMAL THUNDERSTORM, YOU CAN SEE, UH, YOU KNOW, 10,000, 20,000, MAYBE 50,000 PEOPLE WITHOUT POWER. 
          WE SAW WITH THIS STORM, ALMOST IMMEDIATELY AS, AS IT WAS COMING THROUGH, THOSE NUMBERS SHOT UP INTO THE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS VERY QUICKLY. 
          AND SO THAT'S WHAT GAVE US THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT WAS KIND OF ONE OF THOSE FIRST ALARMS FOR US, ASIDE FROM THE, THE, THE, UH, YOU KNOW, THOSE WHO WERE IMMEDIATELY IMPACTED AND SAW IT, IF WE WERE SITTING SOMEWHERE THAT DIDN'T HAVE THAT, YOU KNOW, CHIEF LIVES DOWN IN LEAGUE CITY, SO WE WERE GETTING PHONE CALLS FROM PEOPLE IN THE NORTHWEST SAYING, OH, THIS STORM'S WILD. 
          AND HE, HE STILL HAD SUNNY SKIES. 
          YEAH. 
          UM, AND SO, BUT, BUT HAVING THAT NUMBER IN REAL TIME, SAYING, OH, THIS IS 75,000, THIS IS 125,000, THIS IS 200,000. 
          THAT'S HOW WE SAW THE SCALE. 
          UM, AND, YOU KNOW, RAMP UP SO QUICKLY AND WE KNEW HOW SEVERE IT WAS. 
          THAT WAS ONE OF THE BIG INDICATORS. 
          SO WE REALLY DO RELY ON THAT INFORMATION. 
          IT'S VERY IMPORTANT. 
          YEAH, WE REALLY DO. 
          AND I'LL BE GETTING THAT AND WE'LL BE DEFINITELY TALKING TO THEM. 
          'CAUSE I, YOU KNOW, AND AGAIN, I, I SAID THAT THESE LAST TWO STORMS WE HAD ARE THREE SINCE APRIL 26TH. 
          I, I THINK THERE'S SCRIMMAGE, RIGHT? AND, UM, SO YEAH, THANK YOU FOR THAT. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER PLUMMER. 
          THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. 
          AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU'VE DONE FOR THE CITY OF HOUSTON. 
          UM, IN JULY OF 23, UM, THE PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION PUT FORWARD A DOCUMENT FOR THE HOUSTON RESILIENCE HUBS. 
          AND, UM, THERE'S A MASTER PLAN, A TOOLKIT, ET CETERA. 
          CASHIER GARDENS IS CONSIDERED A RESILIENCE HUB. 
          I'M ACTUALLY PUTTING A, A BUDGET AMENDMENT FORWARD TOMORROW, UM, TO GET A PERMANENT GENERATOR THERE BECAUSE IT'S CALLED ONE. 
          BUT IT DOESN'T REALLY HAVE ANY OF THE, UM, THE THINGS THAT WE NEED TO, TO MAKE IT, MAKE IT RESILIENT. 
          UM, IN YOUR MINDS. 
          WE, WE KEEP ON TALKING ABOUT THIS NEVER HAPPENED, RIGHT? I MEAN, EVERYTHING THAT WE'RE SEEING HARVEY NEVER HAPPENED, RIGHT? UM, THIS DIRECTOR NEVER HAPPENED. 
          WE'RE GONNA SEE THAT. 
          I THINK, THINK THAT THAT'S GONNA BE KIND OF WHAT WE'RE GONNA SAY MORE AND MORE OFTEN. 
          UM, DO WE HAVE A TIMELINE ON HOW THE CITY IS GOING TO NOT, AND THIS IS NOT IN A NEGATIVE WAY, BUT WE'RE OBVIOUSLY KIND OF REACTIVE BECAUSE WE DON'T REALLY KNOW THESE STORMS ARE SO NEW AND SO RANDOM. 
          UM, IS THERE GONNA BE, OR IS THERE A PLAN OF ACTION TO REALLY PUT LILY PADS IN PLACE, REALLY PUT TRUE RESILIENCE HUBS IN PLACE, REALLY, UM, PUT, UM, THE REFUGE OF LAST RESORTS IN PLACE? IS THERE A, A, A PLAN OF ACTION FOR THAT? SO THANK YOU FOR THAT QUESTION. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER. 
          JUST YESTERDAY WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THOSE AREAS, RIGHT? WHAT IS THAT, WHAT IS THAT MODEL? YOU KNOW, HOW DO WE IMPROVE THAT MODEL? RIGHT? I KNOW THAT WE'VE, I'VE ALREADY APPLIED FOR SOME GRANTS FOR, TO OUTFIT, YOU KNOW, SOME FIRE STATIONS, POLICE STATIONS. 
          NOW WE'VE IDENTIFIED A GRANT TO START LOOKING AT THE MULTI-SERVICE CENTERS THAT WE CAN UTILIZE THAT. 
          AND OF COURSE, LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE, ONCE WE GET THAT GRANT, THERE'S PERIMETERS, THEY COME INTO THEIR ASSESSMENTS. 
          WELL, THIS ISN'T A ONE YEAR, A HUNDRED YEAR FLOOD ZONE, THEN IT DOESN'T QUALIFY. 
          MM-HMM . 
          BUT THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT I, THAT THEY'RE, THAT ARE GOOD FOR US TO KNOW. 
          SO WE COULD PLAN AND PRESENT THAT PLAN TO THE COUNCIL MEMBERS AND SAY, THIS IS WHAT'S IN YOUR DISTRICT. 
          WHICH BRINGS UP ANOTHER POINT, AND THANK YOU FOR THAT. 
          'CAUSE NOW WITH THIS IS, WE WANNA START MEETING WITH YOUR, YOU OR YOUR CHIEF OF STAFF AND, AND, AND BRENT'S WORKING ON THE SCHEDULING FOR THAT TO START SAYING, THIS IS WHAT WE'VE IDENTIFIED IN THE AREA. 
          AND I KNOW TIME AND TIME AGAIN WE HEAR THAT, RIGHT? MM-HMM . 
          BUT IT IS PRO, YOU KNOW, IT IS MY BEST INTEREST AND IT IS IN YOUR BEST INTEREST. 
          AND IT'S A PRIORITY FOR US TO IDENTIFY THOSE AREAS. 
          SO WE AT LEAST COULD KNOW WHAT IS THE MINIMUM. 
          RIGHT NOW, THERE'S ALSO THAT CONCERN. 
          IS 
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THERE GONNA BE FLOODING? YOU KNOW, THOSE ARE THE THINGS, BUT AT LEAST IF WE HAVE A PLAN A, B, OR C, WE HAVE THAT. 
          AND THE FACT THAT NOW THE COMMUNICATION'S LIKE REALLY AMAZING WITH, WITH COUNCIL MEMBERS, THAT THAT MAKES IT EASIER FOR US TO SEE, OKAY, WE MISSING SOMETHING IN YOUR DISTRICT. 
          'CAUSE GOING BACK TO THE STRATEGIC PLAN THAT WE DID FOR OUR AGENCY WAS THE WHOLE COMMUNITY APPROACH. 
          MM-HMM . 
          AND AGAIN, THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT WE LOOK AT, BUT WE ARE LOOKING AT THOSE AREAS. 
          I'LL SEND THAT OVER TO YOUR OFFICE ON WHAT THE SITES ARE, WHAT THE GRANTS ARE, YOU KNOW, AND, AND THOSE ARE THE BIG THINGS I'M LOOKING AT TOO, TO START WORKING. 
          BUT YES, THERE IS A PLAN. 
          THERE'S CONTINUOUS DISCUSSIONS ON HOW DO WE MAKE THIS THE MODEL THAT IS NEEDED FOR THAT COMMUNITY AND A TRUSTED SOURCE AS WELL. 
          AND, AND JUST, AND CHAIR, JUST ONE MORE COMMENT AND, AND I THINK FOR THE BIGGEST PIECE IS, IS THAT WHEN WE NAME SOMETHING AND WE DON'T IMPLEMENT WHAT WE'RE CALLING IT, IT REALLY, IT DOESN'T, FROM A PUBLIC FACING PERSPECTIVE, IT DOESN'T, WE'RE NOT BEING VERY FORTHRIGHT. 
          THE OPTIC. 
          YES. 
          AND I THINK THAT'S REALLY THE BIGGEST PIECE. 
          AND I, I KNOW THAT, UM, ESPECIALLY COUNCILOR JACKSON, I MEAN HER DISTRICT SPECIFICALLY, AND IN OUR CASE, LIKE THE CASHIER WAS THE FIRST ONES WE LOOKED AT. 
          AND THAT WAS WITHOUT ELECTRICITY, RIGHT? SO EXACTLY. 
          THERE GOES AT THAT PLAN, AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE, WE'RE TRYING TO HARDEN THOSE CAPABILITIES. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, CHAIR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER RAMIREZ. 
          THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR COUNCIL, AND UH, THANK YOU DIRECTOR AND BRENT FOR ALL THAT YOU GUYS DO DURING THESE, UH, WEATHER EVENTS. 
          SO I'M GONNA USE A SPORTS ANALOGY. 
          AND LET'S SAY THESE WEATHER EVENTS THAT WE'VE HAD, YOU KNOW, THREE OF THEM NOW, UH, IN THE FIRST PART OF THE YEAR, WE'RE GETTING READY TO GO OUT FOR THE SECOND HALF WITH HURRICANE SEASON. 
          WHAT KIND OF ADJUSTMENTS DO YOU THINK, UH, WE NEED TO MAKE IN ORDER TO BE READY FOR WHAT'S, WHAT'S GONNA COME? SO THE FIRST ADJUSTMENTS THAT WE SEE IS OBVIOUSLY AS COUNCIL MEMBER CAME AND MENTIONED, YOU KNOW, WE'RE SOLIDIFYING THOSE, YOU KNOW, THE, THE CONTRACTS. 
          SO WHAT DO WE HAVE TO, ONCE WE HIT GO, YOU KNOW, AND WE, AND I'M TALKING TO RECHO RIGHT NOW. 
          IF IT'S H ONE 20, WE, WE KNOW WE CAN PICK UP THE PHONE, RIGHT? THE ADJUSTMENT'S GONNA BE THAT RIGHT. 
          TO GET THAT READY. 
          SECOND IS SOLIDIFY THE SITES. 
          YOU KNOW, WE, NOW, THIS LAST ONE, WE SAW THAT, WAS THERE ANY HARDENED DAMAGE THAT COULD, THAT HAS, THAT HAS TO BE CORRECTED? AND THEN OF COURSE, IS THAT MODEL FITTING, RIGHT? MM-HMM . 
          THE OTHER BIG ADJUSTMENT COUNCIL MEMBER THAT WE'RE DOING AS A RESULT OF THIS IS HISTORICALLY WE LOOKED AT NURSING HOMES, WE LOOKED AT HOSPITALS, DIALYSIS CENTER, THE ASSISTED LIVING HOMES IS SOMETHING THAT WE'RE REALLY GONNA ADJUST. 
          AND WE'RE ACTUALLY DISCUSSING NOW, GETTING THOSE ON THE MAPS OF WHAT, HOW DO WE IDENTIFY THOSE AREAS TO ENSURE THAT THOSE INDIVIDUALS WERE THE WORD ASSISTED LIVING IS IN THAT TITLE OR OF THAT, OF THAT, UH, THE BUSINESS IS JUST THAT, RIGHT? THOSE ARE THE ONES PRE IDENTIFYING THOSE AREAS. 
          AND OF COURSE, THE ADJUSTING. 
          THE OTHER ONE IS THE COMMUNICATION PIECE WITH YOUR ORGANIZATIONS. 
          AND, AND ALONG WITH THE COUNCIL MEMBERS, SETTING UP THAT SEPARATED CALL, WORKING WITH LEADERSHIP ON WHAT IS THE INFORMATION, UH, THAT WE'RE GETTING. 
          SO YOU CAN GET THAT AS WELL AND HAVE THAT TRANSPARENCY. 
          NOW THE ASSISTED LIVING PIECE OF THAT, HOW LONG IS THAT GONNA TAKE BEFORE WE'RE, WELL, WE'VE ALREADY IDENTIFIED BASED ON JUST WHAT'S REGISTERED IN THE CITY. 
          AND WHEN I SAY REGISTERED BUSINESSES, THE NAME SEARCH AND SO FORTH, WE'RE LOOKING AT THAT, RIGHT? WE'RE WORKING WITH OTHER, UH, WE'RE LOOKING, WORKING WITH SETRAC. 
          I PERSONALLY HAVE REACHED OUT TO TWO SENATORS ON, HEY, WHAT DOES THIS LOOK LIKE? IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE? I KNOW THAT OURSELVES WITH, UM, YOU KNOW, STEVE AND DAVID AND, AND CHRIS NEWPORT AND THE MAYOR, EVERYBODY'S LOOKING AT THOSE HARD BECAUSE THIS WAS A VERY, UM, A, A VERY, UH, BIG ISSUE THAT, THAT WE SAW, THAT I SAW PERSONALLY. 
          IT'S LIKE, HOW DO WE ADDRESS THAT? BECAUSE THE STATE REGULATORY IS NOT THERE. 
          SO THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE TO LOOK AT. 
          BUT IN THE INTERIM, HAVE THE VISIBILITY ON THE, ON THEM AND ENSURE THAT, HEY, THOSE AREAS ARE EVEN, YOU KNOW, WE'RE LOOKING AT, OKAY, DO WE, DO WE HAVE THE POINT OF CONTACTS, WE'RE WORKING WITH THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, THE INSPECTORS, AND EVERYBODY ELSE, WE HAVE POINT OF CONTACT, WE HAVE THIS. 
          'CAUSE WE HAVE TO START ENSURING THAT, THAT THEY KNOW THE RESPONSIBILITY AS WELL. 
          MM-HMM . 
          ALRIGHT. 
          LEMME TALK ABOUT A FEW TOPICS IN TERMS OF STEERS, YOU KNOW, UM, I WAS HAPPY TO PARTICIPATE IN, IN CALL, CALL MAKING. 
          UM, BUT THE LIST SEEMED VERY STALE TO ME AS FAR AS THE INFORMATION AND THE NUMBERS ON IT. 
          WHAT CAN WE DO TO GET UPDATED INFORMATION FROM THE STATE NEXT TIME? TALK ABOUT THAT. 
          YEAH. 
          SO, AND I'LL GO BACK IN THE QUEUE AFTER THAT. 
          YEAH. 
          SO THE, UM, THE DATA IS, UH, WE, WE MAINTAIN THE DATA. 
          INITIALLY IT WAS ON, SO WE, WE KEEP A LIST OF ABOUT TWO YEARS WORTH OF DATA OF PEOPLE WHO REGISTERED THE STATE 
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REQUIRES TO REMIND PEOPLE THAT YOU HAVE TO REGISTER EVERY YEAR. 
          BUT AS A, AS A FAIL SAFE, WE KEEP TWO YEARS WORTH OF DATA, UH, TO ENSURE THAT WE'RE NOT MISSING ANYONE WHO HAD UN INADVERTENTLY FALLEN OFF. 
          RIGHT? AND SO, UM, WITHIN THAT THOUGH, THE WAY THAT THE STATE MAINTAINS THE NUMBER OF PHONE NUMBERS, FOR EXAMPLE, UM, YOU KNOW, YOU MAY PROVIDE, UH, YOUR FIRST TWO PHONE NUMBERS WHENEVER YOU REGISTER. 
          AND THEN WHEN YOU RE-REGISTER, PERHAPS YOU HAVE A NEW PHONE NUMBER. 
          WE DON'T KNOW IF THEY'RE, UH, I, I DON'T KNOW IMMEDIATELY IF THEY'RE REMOVING THE OLD STUFF AND PUTTING IN NEW ONES, OR THEY'RE JUST ADDING, ADDING, ADDING. 
          YOU PERSONALLY SAW THAT SOME OF THESE, UH, REGISTRATIONS HAD SIX, SEVEN, EIGHT PHONE NUMBERS ATTACHED TO THEM, AND AS YOU SAW, THAT CAUSED A, UH, SIGNIFICANT, UH, YOU KNOW, TIME IMPACT, BECAUSE WE HAD TO CALL ALL OF THOSE NUMBERS TO MAKE SURE WE WERE GETTING TO THE RIGHT ONES. 
          UM, AND SO THERE IS A BIT OF DATA MAINTENANCE THAT WE CAN DO ON OUR END IN THE CITY, UH, THAT WE KNOW AND THAT WE'VE ALREADY IDENTIFIED, AGAIN, WORKING WITH OUR GIS TEAM, UM, TO ENSURE THAT THE DATA IS CLEAN, AS CLEAN AS IT CAN BE. 
          BUT, UH, TO YOUR POINT, EVEN OUR BEST EFFORTS AT MAINTAINING IT ON THE CITY SIDE, BECAUSE WE'RE PULLING FROM THAT STATE DATABASE AT LEAST ONCE A MONTH TO GET THE LATEST INFORMATION, WE HAVE TO RES SCRUBB IT EVERY SINGLE TIME. 
          AND SO IT'S VERY TIME CONSUMING AND IT'S VERY, UH, UH, INEFFICIENT TO, TO PUT IT QUITE HONEST. 
          I THINK THE OTHER PIECE TOO, THAT JUST BY LOOKING AT IT, YOU KNOW, JUST BY TALKING TO SOME INDIVIDUALS, EVEN IF WE HAVE THAT LIST, WE SAY, OKAY, WELL OBVIOUSLY THIS NUMBER IS NOT WORKING. 
          WE CAN DELETE IT AT OUR END, BUT IT'S NOT GONNA DELETE THE STATE. 
          AND SO WHEN WE GET THAT LIST THE SECOND TIME, THAT NUMBER'S STILL GONNA BE THERE. 
          MM-HMM . 
          SO IT'S, WE'RE HAVING TO WORK WITH THE STATE AT THAT LEVEL TO SAY, YOU KNOW, WE, WE FOUND OUT THAT YOUR SYSTEM IS NOT EFFECTIVE, OR HOW CAN WE IMPROVE IT? RIGHT? SO IT, IT CONTINUOUSLY STAYS THERE. 
          SO WE COULD GET OUR SPREADSHEET, WE COULD DO ALL OUR EXPERTS IN HOUSE AND DELETE THAT AS WE'RE GOING, BUT THEN ONCE WE GET THE NEXT MONTH, THE LIST FROM THE STATE, THAT SAME NUMBER'S STILL THERE. 
          AND, AND AS PART OF THAT, SO THE STATE BILL, UH, 9 68, THAT, THAT ENACTED THIS REQUIREMENT OF MAKING THESE CONTACTS, UM, BEFORE THAT STATE BILL WAS IN PLACE, IF WE WANTED TO, WE COULD HAVE USED THEIR INFORMATION, BUT MAINTAINED OUR OWN DATABASE SEPARATELY. 
          NOW, BECAUSE OF THE WAY THAT THE STATE BILL IS WRITTEN, WE ARE REQUIRED TO USE THEIRS, WHICH, WHICH KIND OF MAKES ANY MAINTENANCE THAT WE DO ON OUR END, NOT ANY, BUT A LOT OF THE MAINTENANCE, WE WOULD DO A MOOT POINT BECAUSE WE HAVE TO CONTINUE TO GO BACK TO THE STATE DATABASE. 
          MM-HMM . 
          THANK YOU FOR THE QUESTION, SIR. 
          DO YOU WANNA BE ON IT BACK INTO THE QUEUE? YES, MA'AM. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, COUNCIL MEMBER, MEMBER MARTINEZ. 
          THANK YOU. 
          CHAIRWOMAN, UH, UH, DIRECTOR BRENT. 
          UM, AND THE REST OF YOUR TEAM JUST, UH, APPRECIATED ALL THE WORK Y'ALL DO. 
          UH, IT'S DEFINITELY SOMETHING THAT AS COUNCIL MEMBER KAMAN MENTIONED, FOLKS MIGHT NOT REALIZE, BUT Y'ALL ARE THERE DAY IN, DAY OUT, UH, MAKING SURE FOLKS ARE SAFE INFORMED, AND SO I APPRECIATE THAT. 
          I WANTED TO SPEAK TO THE STEER AS WELL. 
          UM, SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I, I STARTED, UH, RECOGNIZING IS THAT AS WE PUT OUT THAT WE'RE MAKING THESE CALLS, FOLKS WANTED, WANTED TO KNOW HOW TO REGISTER. 
          AND SO, HAVE, HAVE Y'ALL SEEN AN UPTICK IN IN THAT NUMBER? WE DID. 
          YEAH. 
          I, I DON'T HAVE THE SPECIFIC NUMBER FOR YOU. 
          THEY WERE ACTUALLY PULLING, SO AGAIN, WE PULL ONCE A MONTH, AND I BELIEVE THAT THE LAST PULL HAPPENED IN THE PAST FEW DAYS. 
          UH, WE WERE INITIALLY, BEFORE WE HAD CLEANED THE DATA, WE'RE EXPECTING THAT IT WOULD'VE GROWN. 
          SO AGAIN, WE HAD ABOUT 29 TO 3000, UH, 2,900, 3000 PEOPLE ON THE LIST. 
          AND WE'RE EXPECTING THAT IT'S PROBABLY GONNA BE ABOUT ANOTHER 500, AT LEAST THAT CAME FROM THE MOST RECENT STORM THAT HAVE ADDED TO IT SINCE THEN. 
          IT'S, SO, I THINK, AND, AND I'VE PROBABLY BEEN HEARING A LITTLE BIT OF THESE CONVERSATIONS THAT WE WOULD PROBABLY WANNA DIG IN A BIT MORE AS TO HOW THIS STATE CAN BE MORE HELPFUL, UM, YOU KNOW, FOR US TO BE MANDATED TO, YOU KNOW, HAVE THIS LIST AND CALL. 
          UM, I THINK THERE SHOULD BE DEFINITELY SOME, UH, SOME ASSISTANCE, UH, WHETHER IT'S RESOURCES, FUNDING, WHATEVER IT MIGHT BE TO HELP MAKE SURE THAT THOSE LISTS ARE, UM, AS, AS USEFUL AS POSSIBLE. 
          BECAUSE AS, AS YOU MENTIONED, BRENT, UM, THERE WERE SEVERAL NUMBERS UNDER SEVERAL FOLKS AND, UM, AND IT JUST DELAYED THE PROCESS. 
          BUT, UM, I, I DEFINITELY, UH, COMMEND Y'ALL FOR STEPPING UP AND DOING THIS. 
          UH, I KNOW IT WAS PROBABLY, YOU KNOW, A SURPRISE THAT WE WERE GONNA HAVE THE STORM. 
          AND SO TO MOVE INTO ACTION AND KEEP THAT IN, IN, IN THE IN MIND AS WELL, IS APPRECIATED. 
          UM, THE OTHER THING, AND, AND, UH, COUNCILOR PLUMMER AND PECK, AND I'M, I THINK ALMOST EVERY, EVERY COUNSELOR PROBABLY WANTS TO CONTINUE TO HAVE THESE, UH, CONVERSATIONS, BUT I DO WANNA MAKE SURE THAT, UH, MAKE IT PUBLIC THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, DIRECTLY WE'VE HAD THIS CONVERSATION OFFLINE AS FAR AS HOW WE DO PROVIDE LOCALIZED, UH, RECOVERY. 
          UM, UM, YOU KNOW, DISTRICT GUY HAS MULTI-SERVICE CENTER, MAGNOLIA MULTI-SERVICE CENTER, BUT THEN WE REACH FROM 45 AND BELTWAY ALL THE WAY TO, UM, YOU KNOW, PRETTY MUCH, UH, GREENS BAYOU AND HIGHWAY 90. 
          SO IT'S A LONG STRETCH. 
          AND, AND, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THOSE PARTS OF THE, OF MY DISTRICT DON'T HAVE A COMMUNITY CENTER, UM, VERY, UH, UH, SCARCE, UH, YOU KNOW, EVEN CHURCHES AS WELL, UM, IN, 
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IN THE NORTHEAST. 
          AND SO, UH, WE'VE BEEN FORTUNATE TO CONTINUE TO BUILD RELATIONSHIPS INTERNALLY, BUT HOWEVER WE CAN KIND OF HELP OFFSET, UH, OR SHARE SOME OF THAT INFORMATION WITH YOU ALL, UH, SO THAT WAY Y'ALL KNOW HOW, UM, YOU KNOW, WE COULD, WE COULD WORK AND COLLABORATE TOGETHER. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, WE SAW THE STORM, UM, IMPACTS SEVERAL PARTS OF THE CITY AND THE NORTHEAST PART OF THE DISTRICT, UM, REALLY WAS HIT HARD, UM, AS WELL. 
          I THINK JUST LIKE ANYBODY, PROBABLY ONE OF THE HARDEST IS, YOU KNOW, IT WAS A STRAIGHT, YOU KNOW, STRAIGHT LINE OF WIND COMING THROUGH. 
          SO WHATEVER WAS FELT ON THE WEST SIDE WAS FELT ON THE EAST SIDE AS WELL. 
          IT DIDN'T SLOW DOWN. 
          UM, AND SO I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THOSE CONSTITUENTS CAN CONTINUE TO SEE THE SUPPORT THAT WE, WE SHOULD BE GIVING THEM AS WELL. 
          SO, UH, I LOOK FORWARD TO THOSE, UH, UH, UH, YOU KNOW, INTERNAL MEETINGS THAT WE'LL BE HAVING, UM, AND ALSO SHARING SOME OF THE RESOURCES THAT WE HAVE, UH, FROM OUR DISTRICT AS WELL. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER, VICE CHAIR, JACKSON, THANK YOU CHAIR. 
          AND, UM, THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION AND JUST EVERYTHING THAT YOU, YOUR OFFICE, UM, YOUR TEAM DO TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE ABLE TO RECOVER AND, UM, MAKE IT THROUGH A STORM. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, SO I REPRESENT DISTRICT B, UM, DISTRICT B OF COURSE WAS HIT, UM, REALLY HARD THIS RECENT STORM. 
          UM, DISTRICT PS YOU PROBABLY KNOW COVERS ACRES, HOMES, UM, THE WILLOWBROOK AREA, GREENSPOINT, HUMBLE, NORTHEAST, UM, YOU HAVE PLEASANTVILLE, FIFTH WARD, CASHEL GARDENS, UM, UM, UM, THE COUNCIL MEMBER PLUMMER MENTIONED, AND OUT OF THIS WHOLE, IT'S A BIG DONUT HOLE, RIGHT? AND SO, UM, I CAME IN THE OFFICE IN 2021, AND SINCE BEING IN OFFICE, WE HAD QUITE A FEW STORMS, UM, DISASTERS, WHETHER IT WAS FOR FREEZE OR, UM, NEEDING A COOLING LOCATION. 
          AND SO, BUT I'VE LEARNED AND HAVE EXPERIENCED THAT. 
          UM, MY NORTHEAST SIDE OF TOWN, IT'S ALWAYS, THERE'S NOTHING EVER PUT IN PLACE FOR, UM, A RE A RECOVERY LOCATION. 
          AND SO MY QUESTION TO YOU IS, WHO DETERMINES WHAT LOCATIONS ARE OPEN UP WHEN WE DO HAVE GENERATORS? BECAUSE RIGHT NOW WE DON'T HAVE GENERATORS IN THESE AREAS. 
          UM, I KNOW THERE'S, THERE'S IMMEDIATE LIST THAT GOES OUT, UM, WHEN A DISASTER HAPPEN. 
          UM, HOW DO WE GET, 'CAUSE ONE OF THE THINGS WE'RE TRYING TO DO IN OUR DISTRICT, AND WE'VE DONE, WE'VE IDENTIFIED NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS THAT HAVE, UM, THEIR DOORS CAN BE OPEN WHEN A STORM HIT. 
          HOW CAN WE COLLABORATE WITH YOU TO GET THOSE ORGANIZATIONS ON A LIST, UM, SO THAT CONSTITUENTS ACROSS DISTRICT DONUT, HOLE, DISTRICT B, THE HOLE KNOW EXACTLY WHERE TO GO TO GET HELP, BECAUSE IT HAS REPEATEDLY HAPPENED WHERE WE HAVE NOT HAD A RECOVERY LOCATION. 
          WHEN, WHEN YOU SAY RECOVERY, MA'AM, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT LIKE, LIKE MULTI-SERVICE CENTER, LIKE ONE MULTI-SERVICE. 
          YEAH. 
          SO HERE'S SOME GOOD NEWS FIRST. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, SO THERE IS A, A GRANT D 21, RIGHT? AND AKER HOMES IN NORTHEAST HAVE NOW BEEN IDENTIFIED, YOU KNOW, TO GET THOSE GENERATORS TO, TO DEFINITELY HARDEN THAT, THAT YOUR FACILITIES AND, AND THOSE FACILITIES IN THAT, IN THAT AREA. 
          THE SECOND THING FOR US IS WE LOOKED, YOU KNOW, AS WE TALKED ABOUT, SAY, THIS LAST STORM THAT WE HAD, WE LOOKED AT, YOU KNOW, CASHMERES, WE LOOKED AT THOSE AREAS. 
          WE DID HAVE ONE IN ACRES HOMES THAT WE START SEEING, HOW DO WE DO THAT? AND THE THING IS, WE DO, WE DO HAVE 'EM ON THERE, AND IT'S, BUT WHEN WE'RE DEALING WITH THE, THE FEDERAL AGENCIES, THEY LOOK AT SO MANY FACTORS. 
          BUT FOR US JUST IDENTIFYING THOSE AREAS AS, AS YOU MENTIONED, YOU KNOW, WHAT DO, WHAT, WHAT CAN WE DO TO HARDEN THOSE? WHAT DO WE DO? AND THESE ARE, THESE ARE THE PRIME EXAMPLE, JUST IDENTIFYING THOSE TWO AREAS WE MET, AND THIS IS THE AREAS WE GOTTA FOCUS ON TO, TO GET THAT SUPPORT THAT YOU NEED, RIGHT? UM, SO FOR US, WORKING WITH YOUR OFFICE IS SAYING, THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE. 
          IS THIS, ARE WE MISSING ANYTHING? BECAUSE TOO MANY TIMES, AND, AND FOR EXAMPLE, IT IS DIFFICULT SOMETIMES EVEN LIKE RIGHT NOW, WE HAD TO DEAL WITH, WITH A CERTAIN, UH, MULTI-SERVICE CENTER WHERE SUMMER ACTIVITIES TAKE PLACE. 
          WE'RE TRYING TO DO A RECOVERY CENTER, A DR DISASTER RECOVERY CENTER, BUT THERE'S ALL THESE CAVEATS THAT HAVE TO BE MET, SEVEN CONTINUOUS DAYS FOR 60 DAYS. 
          MM-HMM . 
          WELL, THAT DOESN'T PASS, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE THERE'S ALL THESE FACTORS THAT HAVE TO TAKE IN, CAN WE OPEN SEVEN DAYS A WEEK? SO WHEN THAT COMES TO THE FEDERAL DISASTER SIDE, THAT'S ONE THING FOR US. 
          WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT, WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT AS WELL, THE WARMING CENTERS, COOLING CENTERS, THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT WE WORK WITH THE, WITH THE STAKEHOLDER, WHETHER IT BE THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT, WITH THE PARKS DEPARTMENT, WE START IDENTIFYING THOSE CITY OWNS, AND OF COURSE, YOUR NGOS. 
          BUT WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO IS, YOU KNOW, I'VE ALREADY TALKED TO OUR STAFF, IS TO COORDINATE WITH YOUR STAFF. 
          THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE, THIS IS WHAT WE GOT IN SET UP FOR, WHETHER IT BE GENERATORS AND SO FORTH. 
          AND THEN OF COURSE, THE HOW DO WE WORK WITH YOUR, YOUR AREA TO ENSURE THAT THAT'S COVERED. 
          AND THAT'S A PRIORITY. 
          I KNOW THAT WE LOOK AT THOSE AREAS, WE LOOK AT STRATEGIC, WE LOOK AT TRANSPORTATION. 
          DO WE HAVE ONE THAT'S THREE MILES AWAY? CAN WE JUST DO Z TRIPS FROM THAT FACILITY WHERE 
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PEOPLE SHOW UP, WE DRIVE THEM OVER TO THE NEXT AREA FOR THE, THE, THE WARMING CENTERS OR THE COOLING CENTERS. 
          SO THOSE ARE THINGS THAT WE'RE WORKING ON TO ENSURE, BUT WE'LL DEFINITELY LIKE TO SIT DOWN WITH YOU AND YOUR STAFF AND YOUR CHIEF OF STAFF AND STAFFERS TO SAY, THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE. 
          OKAY. 
          SO ONE OTHER, SO DO YOU GUYS, LIKE I KNOW THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT OR HPD, SOMEONE WOULD GIVE YOU AN AREA THIS, LET'S OPEN UP THIS FACILITY OR NOT OPEN UP THIS FACILITY. 
          DO YOU LOOK AT THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS AND JUST PROACTIVELY SAY, OKAY, WE NEED SOMETHING IN THIS AREA. 
          I KNOW WE, YOU SAY WE DON'T NEED IT, BUT LOOK AT THIS MAP, THERE'S NOTHING THERE. 
          UM, LET'S OPEN SOMETHING UP. 
          DO YOU EVER DO YOUR OFFICE? YEAH, WE DO. 
          WE HAVE OUR GIS AREAS. 
          WE LOOK AT THE MAPS. 
          WHAT'S OUR CITY OWNED PROPERTIES, RIGHT? MM-HMM . 
          WHAT DO WE HAVE? WHERE'S THE AREA OF IMPACT, YOU KNOW, WHAT IS THE BUS LINE? WHAT'S THE CLOSEST ONE? DO WE HAVE TO TALK TO TWO COUNCIL MEMBERS AND SAY, HEY, WE'RE GONNA PUT ONE IN THE MIDDLE SO BOTH CAN SHARE THE FACILITIES AND THEN HAVE THOSE Z TRIP OPPORTUNITIES AS WE HAVE IN THE PAST. 
          OKAY. 
          ONE, ONE THING I'D LIKE TO ADD COUNCIL MEMBER IS THAT, UM, WE WOULD, WE WOULD ABSOLUTELY ENCOURAGE SETTING THE MEETING TO HAVE THAT CONVERSATION ABOUT THOSE FACILITIES THAT MAY NOT BE CITY OWNED. 
          UM, GISELLA CINTA, OUR MASS CARE COORDINATOR AND I HAVE WORKED, AND OF COURSE WITH CHIEF MUNOZ, WE WORK, UH, WITH SEVERAL DIFFERENT COUNCIL MEMBERS TO IDENTIFY CERTAIN ONES. 
          UH, COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, PECK, WE TALKED ABOUT TRAINING MENDE HALL, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER CAYMAN, WE'RE WORKING ON THE JCC. 
          SO THERE ARE SEVERAL FACILITIES THAT, UM, WE HAVE ACCESS TO AND THAT WE CAN WORK TO INCLUDE IN OUR PLAN. 
          BUT THERE ARE REQUIREMENTS FOR, UH, CERTAIN PHYSICAL SPACE. 
          LIKE, SO IF YOU WANNA OPERATE AS A, UH, A SHELTER, THEN YOU HAVE TO HAVE, I BELIEVE IT'S 40 SQUARE FOOT PER COT IF YOU'RE GOING TO BE SETTING UP COTS. 
          AND SO THERE ARE, THERE ARE CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS AND THRESHOLDS THAT WE HAVE TO MEET, UH, PHYSICALLY AND, AND, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TO KNOW WHAT YOUR OCCUPANCY IS GOING TO BE. 
          SO IT INVOLVES WORKING WITH THE FIRE MARSHAL'S OFFICE AND THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          SO WE'RE GLAD TO DO THAT, AND WE WOULD ENCOURAGE THAT. 
          UM, WE WANNA WORK WITH YOU ON THAT. 
          WE JUST, THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS THAT WE, THERE'S A CHECKLIST WE HAVE TO GO THROUGH TO ENSURE THAT THE FACILITIES THAT THE CITY IS COORDINATING MEET THE REQUIREMENTS AND ARE, ARE GONNA BE SAFE FOR THE PEOPLE WHO ARE USING THEM. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER CAYMAN. 
          THANK YOU. 
          JUST TO PIGGYBACK ON THAT, I KNOW WE'RE TALKING LILY PADS, RESILIENCY HUBS, AND I THINK CHIEF, AGAIN, NOT DIRECTED TOWARDS YOU ALL, BUT SOME OF THE FRUSTRATION THAT YOU HEAR IS, HOW MANY YEARS HAVE WE KEPT SAYING, OKAY, THESE ARE THE LOCATIONS THAT THE DISTRICT COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE IDENTIFIED. 
          PUBLIC WORKS HAS ASKED US TO IDENTIFY THEM, THEN ANOTHER DEPARTMENT ASKED US TO IDENTIFY THEM. 
          UM, A I KNOW A CF I'M SURE OTHERS, IT'S JUST WHAT I'M AWARE OF, HAVE AGREEMENTS WITH OTHER NONPROFITS IN THE TOOL BANK BECAUSE WE JUST CAN'T KEEP WAITING. 
          AND AGAIN, IT'S NOT DIRECTED TOWARDS OEM. 
          WE'RE JUST LOOKING TO YOU ALL, UH, TO BRING EVERYONE TOGETHER. 
          SO WHEN YOU'RE MEETING WITH COUNCIL MEMBER PLUMMER, MAKING SURE THAT THE RESILIENCY OFFICE IS ALSO IN THAT MEETING AND PUBLIC WORKS IS IN THAT MEETING, SO THAT WE ONCE AND FOR ALL HAMMER THIS OUT. 
          BUT I DO ALSO, AS WE USE THE WORD LILY PAD, FOR EXAMPLE, WE MAY KNOW A FEW GOOD PARKING SPOTS, BUT IF THOSE ARE UNDERWATER, YOU GOTTA, UH, LILY PADS ARE IDENTIFIED VERY, VERY FLUIDLY, RIGHT? RESILIENCY HUBS OR, UM, LOCATIONS OF DISTRIBUTION, WHICH ARE DIFFERENT FROM RESILIENCY HUBS, THOSE CAN BE IDENTIFIED IN ADVANCE. 
          BUT AGAIN, I KNOW IF WE DON'T HAVE, FOR EXAMPLE, ENOUGH RED CROSS VOLUNTEERS TO STAND UP, TWO, WE HAVE TO CONSOLIDATE AND GO TO ONE. 
          IF WE DECIDE TO STAND UP AND GO TO GRB, THAT THEN BECOMES THE FOCUS WHILE WE HAVE SOME REGIONAL, UH, OR CITYWIDE COOLING CENTERS, BUT WE MAY BE DIVERTING ALL ASSETS AND TRANSPORTATION THERE. 
          SO IT'S FLUID AND I WANNA RESPECT THAT PROCESS. 
          AND AT THE SAME TIME, WE'RE ALL DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN TO BE PREPARED AND TO MAKE SURE RESIDENTS KNOW. 
          I KNOW THAT I CAN'T COMMUNICATE OUT AHEAD OF TIME OF A HURRICANE. 
          THIS IS GONNA BE THE HUB BECAUSE THE ROOF, WE MAY LOSE THE ROOF. 
          EXACTLY RIGHT. 
          WE DON'T KNOW WHERE THE DAMAGE IS GONNA BE. 
          BUT AS MUCH PLANNING AHEAD OF TIME, I THINK IS WHAT YOU'RE HEARING FROM SOME OF US. 
          AND I JUST, AT LEAST FOR DISTRICT C, WANTED TO CLARIFY THAT. 
          UM, REGARDING THE SENIOR CENTERS, I DID WANNA GO BACK AND FLAG, BECAUSE THE ONE IN DISTRICT C THAT WE FOUND WASN'T DEPENDENT, IT WAS INDEPENDENT LIVING. 
          AND I USE QUOTATION MARKS BECAUSE THERE'S NO WAY IN HELL THAT CENTER IS INDEPENDENT LIVING. 
          RIGHT? SO HOW, AND I'M LOOKING TO THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT AS WELL AS TO HOW WE ADDRESS THOSE CHALLENGES. 
          TWO FINAL QUESTION. 
          THREE FINAL QUESTIONS, THOUGH. 
          ONE CELL SERVICE. 
          THIS WAS A HUGE ISSUE DURING THE DERECHO. 
          AND, UM, WE STILL HAVE REPORTS, FOR EXAMPLE, OF ONE CELL SERVICE THAT IS STILL SHODDY IN SOME PLACES. 
          UM, I HAD EXPECTED THAT WE WOULD'VE HAD THOSE EXTRA KIND OF CELL AMPLIFIER MOBILE AMPLIFIERS, I DON'T KNOW THE TECHNICAL TERM, READY TO GO WITH OUR PARTNERS AHEAD OF TIME. 
          SO, UM, 
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AGAIN, WE HAVEN'T HAD OUR DEBRIEF, BUT I WOULD JUST FLAG, WE HAVE A HUGE CHALLENGE WHEN IT COMES TO CELL AS WELL, BECAUSE RIGHT WHEN THAT HIT, I COULD, I CALLED OEM TO SAY WHAT'S HAPPENING IS, DID A TORNADO JUST HIT MY HOUSE? BUT I COULDN'T PULL UP ANY INTERNET, I COULDN'T TEXT, I COULDN'T DO ANYTHING. 
          AND THEN, SO WE'RE SENDING ALL OF THIS IMPORTANT INFORMATION OUT TO RESIDENTS, BUT THEY DON'T HAVE SERVICE TO GET IT. 
          UM, SO THAT'S A, A CONCERN THAT I WANTED TO ELEVATE. 
          UM, DO WE KNOW THE NUMBERS OF HOMES DAMAGED FROM THE DERECHO YET? FROM I STAT, FROM T DM, FROM OUR WINDSHIELD ASSESSMENTS, WE'RE STILL GETTING THOSE COUNCIL MEMBERS. 
          'CAUSE WE, WE STILL HAVE THE BIG NUMBERS COMING IN, RIGHT? AND, AND SO, YOU KNOW, IT DEPENDS ON THE DAMAGE. 
          YOU KNOW, SOME PEOPLE WERE THE REASON, IT'S, IT'S DIFFICULT. 
          WE HAVE PEOPLE SAYING THAT ELECTRICITY DAMAGE YOUR HOMES AND THEN WHEN WE DO THE INSPECTION, BUT I WILL TELL YOU THAT FROM OUR SITUATION REPORT THAT WE DID HAVE SOME NUMBERS AS FAR AS, EXCUSE ME, HOW MANY PEOPLE REGISTERED? UM, AND THIS IS JUST FROM THE REGISTRATION. 
          I STILL HAVE TO DO THE DEEP DIVE AND I WE'LL GET THAT NUMBER FOR YOU, BUT WE HAD 109, ALMOST 120,000 PEOPLE REGISTER RIGHT NOW. 
          THE HARD PART IS ONCE THEY VALIDATE THOSE, WHAT IS THE OFFICIAL NUMBER OF THAT? UM, GOING BACK TO, IF I MAY YEAH, PLEASE. 
          ON THE, UM, THE QUESTION IS CELL TOWERS, RIGHT? WE DID HAVE THE REPRESENTATIVES FROM T-MOBILE, WE HAD AT AND T VERIZON THAT HAVE THEIR DISASTER RESPONSE UNITS. 
          AND YOU KNOW, THEY, THEY ONLY HAVE SO MANY. 
          SO THEY SET UP THE, WHAT WE CALL THE, YOU KNOW, THE, THE COLS. 
          YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THE, UM, THE COWS, YOU KNOW, THE CELLULAR TOWERS ON WHEELS, THOSE TYPE OF THINGS. 
          WE WERE GOING TO DIFFERENT OF, LIKE, FOR EXAMPLE, UP AT, UM, WHEN WE WERE TALKING TO AMERICAN, I MEAN THE BLUE, UH, THE BOYS CLUB AND GIRLS CLUB, THEY WERE PUTTING, YOU KNOW, THE STATIONS THERE, WHETHER IT BE A HOTSPOT OR THEY'D BE PUT IN THE CHARGING AREAS. 
          SO THOSE ARE THINGS THAT WE, WE ARE IN CONTACT WITH 'EM CONTINUOUSLY, AND THEN WE LEAVE THEM 24 HOURS ON THE PHONE. 
          HEY, THESE ARE THE AREAS, THE FIRST THINGS THEY TRY TO DO FIRST TO SEE WHAT TOWERS ARE DOWN SO THEY COULD FIX THOSE. 
          AND IN A SECOND IS DO THE MOBILE UNITS AND SO FORTH. 
          YEAH. 
          AND WITH THE MOBILE UNITS THOUGH, I THINK MY CONCERN IS, I DON'T KNOW HOW FAR THEY GO. 
          AND SO, FOR EXAMPLE, WITH THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB, IF PEOPLE KNEW TO GO TO THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB AND COULD GET THAT INFORMATION, THAT'S GREAT. 
          BUT I KNOW I HAD RESIDENTS ON BLOCKS THAT HAD NO IDEA THAT, OH HA, A MAJORITY OF THE CITY ACTUALLY HAD POWER AND THEY COULD JUST DRIVE TO, YOU KNOW, THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FREEWAY. 
          THEY WERE JUST, THEY THOUGHT IT WAS THE WHOLE AREA, RIGHT? THE WHOLE CITY. 
          SO WE JUST, WE HAVE WORK TO DO. 
          THERE, AGAIN, IT'S NOT DIRECTED AT OEM, BUT CELL SERVICE WE KNOW IS GONNA BE A CRITICAL, UM, SAFETY COMPONENT TO ALL OF THIS. 
          LASTLY, MADAM CHAIR, UM, I KNOW WE HAVE OUR CHIEF, ONE OF OUR CHIEFS FROM THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. 
          I DON'T KNOW IF THEY CAN COME UP DURING THE BUDGET HEARINGS, UH, CHIEF PAYNE HAD FLAGGED, WE HAD MULTIPLE, NOT JUST HIGH WATER RESCUE VEHICLES, BUT THE HYBRID VEHICLES THAT WE'RE UTILIZING MORE TO CONVERT, RIGHT? THESE ARE HIGH WATER TRUCKS THAT WE CAN CONVERT INTO THOSE RESPONSE AND RESCUE VEHICLES, MULTIPLE ONES OF THOSE OUT OF COMMISSION. 
          AND A LOT OF THEM NEED TO BE REPLACED. 
          UH, IF I DON'T RECALL, I'M ALSO LOOKING AT COUNCIL MEMBER ALCORN, IF WE GOT, IF WE, IF ANYONE RECALLS THE NUMBER OF HOW MANY WERE OUT, IF THERE'S FUNDING FOR THEM TO BE REPLACED, AGAIN, I'M GETTING VIDEOS OF JUST LAST NIGHT DISTRICT C FLOODING. 
          UM, AND I WANNA MAKE SURE WE HAVE AS MANY VEHICLES AS POSSIBLE READY TO GO. 
          AND IF THAT'S SOMETHING WE NEED TO ADDRESS IN THIS BUDGET, I JUST, I WANTED TO RAISE AWARENESS ON THAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          SO CHIEF, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAVE, MADAM, I'LL DEFER TO YOU. 
          I DON'T WANNA CALL ANYONE UP, BUT WE CAN DEFINITELY, UM, ASK AND GET THAT INFORMATION TO YOU. 
          UNLESS THERE'S ANY INFORMATION TO SHARE RIGHT NOW, IF YOU, IF YOU WANNA COME UP ONLY, ONLY 'CAUSE WE'RE VOTING ON THE BUDGET TOMORROW,  WON'T BE THAT LONG. 
          , UH, GOOD MORNING. 
          HEY, MORNING CHIEF, MADAM CHAIR, CHIEF. 
          UM, SO WE HAVE, UM, NINE OF THE OLDER MILITARY STYLE HIGH WATER VEHICLES AND SIX OF THOSE THAT ARE CONVERTIBLE. 
          UH, RIGHT NOW THERE ARE 13 IN SERVICE, EIGHT OF THE OLD STYLE AND FIVE OF THE CONVERTIBLE ONES THAT ARE IN SERVICE. 
          SO THE NINE AND THE SIX THAT ARE OUT OF COMMISSION, THE NINE AND THE SIX, THEY'RE IN SERVICE. 
          WELL, NINE, ONLY ONE OF EACH IS OUT OF SERVICE. 
          CORRECT. 
          OKAY. 
          AND DOES THAT MEET OUR CURRENT FLEET NEEDS? IS IT RELATES TO THAT ? THE, THE NEED COULD BE AS GREAT AS THE STORM. 
          SO, UH, AS FAR, WE ONLY HAVE ONE DOWN EACH, WHICH IS NOT BAD COMPARED TO WHAT WE'VE HAD, BUT I THINK WHAT CHIEF PENA WAS ALLUDING TO THE OLD MILITARY STYLE 
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VEHICLE WITH NO AC HARD TO GET, PARTS HARD TO MAINTAIN. 
          WE NEED TO REPLACE THOSE. 
          SO THE NEED WOULD BE TO REPLACE THOSE WITH SIX OR NINE MORE OF THE CONVERTIBLE STYLE. 
          SO WE NEED NINE MORE. 
          AGAIN, I KNOW NUMBERS CAN BE, WE WOULD ALWAYS WANT MORE. 
          WE MAKE IT A LOWEST, BUT IDEALLY FOR JUST TO REPLACE AND STAY AT BASE LEVEL, WE NEED NINE OF THE MODERN CONVERTIBLE STYLE VEHICLES. 
          YES, MA'AM. 
          AND DO WE HAVE A, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER, ALCORN, MAYBE WE CAN GET A NUMBER ON THAT BEFORE THE BUDGET TOMORROW OR KNOW IF IT'S, IT'S INCLUDED. 
          YEAH, AND I THINK THAT WOULD BE A CIP UM, YEAH, DISCUSSION AS WELL WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE CIP LATER IN THE NEXT TERRIFIC. 
          FOUR MONTHS. 
          SO WE WILL, WE WILL GET BACK TO YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER RAMIREZ. 
          THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR AND DIRECTOR IN, IN BRENT. 
          UH, I'D LIKE TO TALK ABOUT FOOD INSECURITY. 
          UM, YOU MENTIONED 80,000 MEALS SERVED MM-HMM . 
          NOW I LOST POWER FOR FIVE DAYS AND AFTER ABOUT A DAY, YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING IN THE FRIDGE AND, AND FREEZER'S GONE. 
          UM, AND NO MORE POWER, NO MORE FOOD OTHER THAN THE NON-PERISHABLE STUFF THAT'S AVAILABLE. 
          AND SO, UH, I'M CONCERNED THAT WITH AN EVENT SIMILAR TO WHAT WE HAD, UH, MAYBE WE'RE NOT DOING ENOUGH FOOD DISTRIBUTIONS, UM, NOT ONLY IN IMPOVERISHED AREAS, BUT THROUGHOUT THE CITY. 
          UH, AND I'M ESPECIALLY THINKING OF OUR SENIORS. 
          DO, DO YOU AGREE WITH THAT? YEAH. 
          YOU KNOW, WITH THAT, SIR, YES. 
          OBVIOUSLY WE CAN ALWAYS DO, UH, MORE THAN DISTRIBUTIONS. 
          WE DO WORK WITH THE COMMUNITY LIFELINES, SUCH AS YOUR NGOS, YOU KNOW, TO GET THAT FOOD. 
          AND OBVIOUSLY SOMETIMES IT GOES OUT FASTER THAN IT COMES IN, RIGHT? WE'RE WORKING WITH OUR PRIVATE PARTNERS, RIGHT? SO THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT WE LOOK AT. 
          AND WE DO WORK, WE, WE DO WORK WITH THE MAYOR'S OFFICE OF, OF, UH, PUBLIC, YOU KNOW, THE SAFETY AND, AND HOMELAND SECURITY AS, AND WE DO HAVE THAT CORE GROUP THAT WORKS ON JUST GETTING THAT FOOD IN. 
          BECAUSE IF YOU RECALL GETTING THAT FOOD, FOR EXAMPLE, WE HAD 23 STORES, MAJOR STORES WITHOUT ELECTRICITY. 
          SO OBVIOUSLY THAT CREATED A, A, A BAG LAG BAG LOG ON THEIR DISTRIBUTION PIECE. 
          THAT WAS ONE, ONE MAJOR STORE. 
          WE HAD ANOTHER MAJOR STORE THAT HAD FOUR. 
          SO THAT'S A TOTAL OF 27 STORES THROUGHOUT THE AREA THAT WERE IMPACTED WITH THAT, THAT OBVIOUSLY THE ONLY THING THEY DID HAVE WAS PERISHABLE, YOU KNOW, OR NON-PERISHABLE FOODS THAT COULD BE GIVEN. 
          SO THOSE ARE THE BIG THINGS THAT WE LOOK AT. 
          AND THEN WE HAVE TO IDENTIFY THE AREAS. 
          AND AGAIN, IT GOES BACK TO NOT KNOWING WHERE, WHAT AREAS WERE IMPACTED. 
          SO WE LOOK AT THOSE AREAS, WE COORDINATE, WE DO OUR ASSESSMENTS, AND THEN OBVIOUSLY WITH WHAT'S COMING IN, WE WORK WITH THE NGOS AND VOLUNTEERS AND DO THAT MM-HMM . 
          BUT OBVIOUSLY TO SAY YES, DO YOU KNOW WHAT ARE THE AREAS AND TO GIVE OUT THAT FOOD. 
          AND THEN THE OTHER PIECE THAT'S HARD AND IT'S, IT IS A VERY BIG MOVING TARGET IS WHEN ARE THOSE AREAS ENERGIZED. 
          THE OTHER THING THAT WE LOOKED AT TOO, AND WHILE WE WORK WITH OUR NGOS, WE HAD A DISCUSSION THAT SOME PEOPLE CAN'T AFFORD TO THROW AWAY FOOD. 
          AND THOSE ARE THE HARD ONES THAT WE LOOK AT. 
          IT'S WHO'S GOT THAT WE START WORKING WITH IS THERE THE VOUCHER SYSTEM THAT THE NONPROFITS CAN DONATE OR GIVE TO THOSE INDIVIDUALS? AND IDENTIFYING THOSE PEOPLE AND PASSING OUT THAT INFORMATION AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE SO THEY CAN KNOW WHERE TO GO GET FOOD. 
          AT LEAST THE BASICS, BUT YES. 
          HMM. 
          NOW YOU MENTIONED WORKING WITH NGOS. 
          MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THE COUNTY, HARRIS COUNTY WAS MEETING WITH THE HOUSTON FOOD BANK. 
          ARE WE HAVING MEETINGS WITH THE HOUSTON FOOD BANK? YES, WE DO, SIR. 
          WE CONTINUE TO SEE THEY WERE GIVING OUT THE FOOD BOXES AT THOSE DRC CENTERS, UH, THE DISASTER RECOVERY CENTERS WITH PEOPLE THAT NEEDED THAT. 
          IF THEY DIDN'T, IF THEY WERE GETTING THEIR APPLICATIONS AND THEY SAYING I'M IN IMMEDIATE NEED OF FOOD. 
          THE HOUSTON FOOD BANK WAS WORKING WITH THAT AS WELL. 
          OKAY. 
          ONE THING THAT, UM, THAT I REALLY WANT TO COMMEND THE MAYOR'S OFFICE AND, AND CHIEF MUNOZ ON AS WELL, IS THAT WE WORKED WITH THE STATE TO GET THE REPLACEMENT SNAP AND REPLACEMENT WIC BENEFITS IN PLACE IN PROBABLY RECORD TIME. 
          IT WORKED VERY, VERY WELL THIS TIME AROUND, UH, TO ENSURE THAT THOSE WHO ARE MOST VULNERABLY VULNERABLE TO FOOD INSECURITY WHO ARE ALREADY ON THOSE PROGRAMS, WERE ABLE TO, UM, YOU KNOW, LOWER THE, THE BUREAUCRACY THAT IT TOOK TO GET THAT FOOD REPLACEMENT IN PLACE. 
          AND YOU MENTIONED, UH, YOU MENTIONED SNAP. 
          WHAT ABOUT D SNAP? UM, I DON'T THINK WE, WE WENT THERE THIS TIME, BUT WOULD THAT BE CONSIDERED IN THE FUTURE? ABSOLUTELY. 
          MM-HMM . 
          MM-HMM . 
          ABSOLUTELY. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, I'LL, I'LL GO BACK IN THE QUEUE. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER PLUMMER. 
          THANK YOU CHAIR. 
          AND JUST ONE, ONE QUICK, UM, PLUG, I'M REALLY, AS A LARGE MEMBER, I CAN ONLY IMAGINE WHAT THE DISTRICT MEMBERS EXPERIENCE SITUATIONS LIKE THIS. 
          THEY'RE THE LITERALLY THE FIRST LINE OF CONTACT. 
          AND SO I JUST WOULD LIKE TO 
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REITERATE THE IMPORTANCE OF WORKING WITH THE DISTRICT MEMBERS. 
          THEY KNOW EVERYTHING. 
          ABSOLUTELY. 
          THEY JUST DO. 
          AND, UM, AND FOLKS ARE CALLING THEM FIRST. 
          AND SO I KNOW YOUR MAPS AND CENSUS DATA AND ALL THAT, BUT THESE ARE THE FOLKS, THESE ARE THE COUNT, THESE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT HEAR FIRST LINE. 
          SO PLEASE, WHATEVER YOU DO MOVING FORWARD IN A VERY PROACTIVE WAY, PLEASE CONTACT EACH, EACH ONE OF THEM AND TALK TO THEM. 
          'CAUSE THEY JUST KNOW WHERE EVERY CORNER, NOOK AND CRANNY IS AND WHERE PEOPLE NEED THINGS. 
          AND, UM, I JUST WANNA JUST REALLY SUPPORT THEM ON THAT BECAUSE THEY GET THE PHONE CALLS. 
          YEAH. 
          AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT, AND I, I'M REALLY GONNA ENCOURAGE US TO HAVE A REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE COUNCIL DISTRICTS IN OUR EOC, WHICH IS AN OPEN DOOR, WHICH IT SEEMS VERY, IT WORKS VERY SUCCESSFUL BECAUSE YOU'RE THAT LIAISON TO US, WHETHER IT BE EVEN A STAFFER, JUST, HEY, THESE ARE THE CALLS WE'RE GETTING, AND WE COULD HAVE THAT COUNCIL QUOTE UNQUOTE TABLE FOR YOU, WHICH IS NOW A NEW DIRECTION. 
          AND I'M ENCOURAGED BY THAT. 
          'CAUSE NOW THERE'S MORE OF THAT CONVERSATION BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER THAT. 
          THAT DEFINITELY TAKES PLACE. 
          SO THANK YOU FOR THAT. 
          COUNCILMAN MAYOR RAMIREZ. 
          ALRIGHT, SO, UH, LAST TOPIC HERE. 
          COMMUNICATION. 
          UM, WE HAVE, WE HAVE A LOT OF RESIDENTS WHO DON'T SPEAK ENGLISH OR SPANISH. 
          SO HOW ARE WE COMMUNICATING WITH THEM IN AN EMERGENCY ON, ON WHAT THEY SHOULD DO AND WHAT THEY SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR? SO FOR US, WE'RE DOING ALL OUR MESSAGING IN SPANISH, ENGLISH, AND, AND THE OTHER LANGUAGES, I BELIEVE WE HAVE SIX TOTAL. 
          BUT THE ONE THAT WE ALWAYS DO, IT IS A, FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE SINCE, UH, PRIOR, OUR OFFICE DOES TRANSLATE EVERY SINGLE MESSAGE IN SPANISH. 
          WE COMMUNICATE IT OUTRIGHT. 
          WE'RE ALSO USED, AS I MENTIONED, WE'RE WORKING WITH THE GENERAL C, IT'S ON THAT POPULATION AS WELL TO MAKE SURE THAT GENERAL COUNSELOR MEXICO, WE HAVE A GOOD RELATIONSHIP, GREAT RELATIONSHIP WITH 'EM THAT PASSES OUT THAT INFORMATION. 
          WE ALSO HAVE THE MEDIA THAT COMES IN AND WE DO THE INTERVIEWS IN SPANISH. 
          RIGHT NOW WE HAVE APPROXIMATELY, WE HAVE FIVE PEOPLE THAT ARE FLUENT IN SPANISH THAT WE'RE ABLE TO COMMUNICATE AND PASS THAT OUT AS WELL. 
          SO THOSE MESSAGES ARE GOING OUT IN SPANISH AS WELL. 
          OKAY. 
          SO WHAT IS THE METHOD OF COMMUNICATION WHEN WE DON'T HAVE POWER FOR FOUR OR FIVE DAYS? AND SO THAT, THAT'S, THAT'S A GOOD, A GOOD QUESTION. 
          'CAUSE AS WELL, WE DEPEND ON THE, THE ELECTRONICS. 
          CORRECT. 
          SO FOR US, WE START, EVEN IF WE, WE, WE START COMMUNICATING WITH THAT FORCE MULTIPLIER. 
          AND THAT'S A DIFFICULT PART. 
          I'VE SEEN THAT TIME AND TIME AGAIN THAT WE RELY ON THE CELL PHONE SYSTEM. 
          WE RELY ON MEDIA. 
          BUT WHEN THAT GOES OUT IS WHEN WE START LOOKING AT OUR NGOS WHO ARE DOING THOSE ASSESSMENTS, BOOTS ON THE GROUND. 
          AND WE HAVE THAT INFORMATION IN SPANISH AS WELL TO, TO WHAT EXTENT ARE WE USING TEXT MESSAGING IN LANGUAGES OTHER THAN ENGLISH AND SPANISH? ARE WE USING THAT AT ALL? TEXT MESSAGING AND LANGUAGE? I KNOW YOU'RE WORKING ON ENGLISH AND SPANISH. 
          SO THERE'S, UH, THE CAPACITY FOR THAT IS LIMITED AS COMPARED TO ENGLISH AND SPANISH ALSO. 
          I'LL BE COMPLETELY HONEST WITH THAT. 
          UM, THE SYSTEM THAT WE USE, UH, HAS SOME TECHNICAL LIMITATIONS AS WELL REGARDING NON, UM, WHAT'S THE NAME? EE EITHER WAY, FOR, FOR LANGUAGES THAT USE, YOU KNOW, LIKE ARABIC OR, OR CHINESE, THAT, THAT USE THE, THE NON, UH, THE, THE, THE CHARACTERS THAT ARE IN OTHER THANK YOU. 
          UM, AND SO THERE ARE SOME LIMITATIONS THERE THAT WE'RE WORKING WITH. 
          UM, HOWEVER WE CAN PUBLISH THOSE THINGS. 
          AND I HAVE, UH, I, I WORKED WITH, UH, WITH MARK CUEVA ON, IN THE DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS WITH SOME OF THE INFORMATION FROM THE SBA AND FROM FEMA AND THINGS LIKE THAT TO GET TRANSLATED. 
          UM, AND WE CAN PUBLISH THOSE THINGS TO OUR WEBPAGE AS AN EXAMPLE, AND THEN SEND THAT MESSAGE TO GET PEOPLE TO, IF THEY CAN CLICK THE LINK, THEY CAN GO THERE KIND OF THING. 
          RIGHT. 
          UM, BUT THERE, THERE ARE CERTAIN TECHNICAL LIMITATIONS THAT WE RUN INTO THAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR WAYS TO, TO ESSENTIALLY WORK AROUND MM-HMM . 
          AND THAT GOES BACK TO THE THING THAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT WITH, UM, WITH IPAS. 
          SIMILARLY, CURRENTLY IPAS ONLY ALLOWS ENGLISH AND SPANISH. 
          SO IF YOUR PHONE IS SET TO RECEIVE MESSAGES IN URDU, YOU'RE GOING TO GET THE ENGLISH MESSAGE BECAUSE THE, THE IPOS SYSTEM DOESN'T RECOGNIZE LANGUAGES THAT ARE NOT ENGLISH AND SPANISH. 
          RIGHT. 
          WELL, I, I WAS ABLE TO GET INTERNET BECAUSE I WAS ABLE TO COME INTO WORK AND WE HAD POWER HERE, BUT OTHERWISE I WOULD NOT HAVE HAD INTERNET. 
          UH, SO I COULDN'T HAVE GONE TO ANY WEBPAGE TO CLICK ON, ON INFORMATION. 
          FAIR POINT. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, IDEAS COME TO MIND. 
          RADIO STATIONS, THERE ARE A LOT OF RADIO BROADCASTS THAT ARE NOT IN ENGLISH OR SPANISH, MANY OTHER LANGUAGES. 
          MM-HMM . 
          ARE WE, ARE WE MAKING USE OF, OF THOSE? CERTAINLY. 
          SO I, WHENEVER I SEND THE INFORMATION TO, UM, THE PUBLIC AT, AT LARGE, I ALSO INCLUDE A SPECIAL MESSAGE TO, UH, THERE'S A, THERE'S A GROUP HERE CALLED THE HOUSTON ETHNIC MEDIA SERVICES. 
          AND THEY, THEY, IT, IT INCLUDES A LOT OF THOSE SMALLER, UH, HYPERLOCAL RADIO STATIONS AND, UH, TELEVISION STATIONS. 
          AND I INCLUDE THEM, I SEND A LITTLE MESSAGE TO 'EM ON TOP AND SAY SPECIFICALLY, HEY FOLKS, THANK YOU 
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SO MUCH FOR ALL YOU DO. 
          UH, PLEASE, UH, TRANSLATE THIS INFORMATION AND, AND DISTRIBUTE IT ON YOUR PLATFORMS IN THE, THE LANGUAGE THAT YOU REPRESENT. 
          OKAY. 
          GLAD TO HEAR THAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER CAYMAN. 
          ALRIGHT, REALLY QUICKLY, 'CAUSE COUNCIL MEMBER RAMIREZ BROUGHT UP THE SNAP AND ALL OF THAT. 
          I THINK WE ALL, AND I APPRECIATE YOU RECOGNIZING THE WORK AT EVERY LEVEL OF GOVERNMENT, AND I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT AS COUNCIL, WE ALSO RECOGNIZED THE COUNTY PARTNERSHIPS. 
          MANY OF US WERE PARTNERING WITH ALL OF OUR COMMISSIONERS, UH, THROUGH THAT FOR ME AND DISTRICT C JUST 'CAUSE OF THE OVERLAP, IT'S, UH, COMMISSIONER ELLIS AND COMMISSIONER BRIANIS, BUT I KNOW COMMISSIONER GARCIA AND RAMSEY WERE ON THE GROUND, AS WAS JUDGE HIDALGO. 
          UM, BUT ALSO AT THE STATE LEVEL, T DEM HAS BEEN A GREAT PARTNER, UH, FOR THE MOST PART. 
          I KNOW WE'RE STILL TRYING TO WORK THROUGH SOME OF THOSE WHO GIVES THE GREEN LIGHT ON WHAT, UH, BUT TO YOUR POINT, COUNCIL MEMBER, AS SOON AS THE CITY ASKED FOR THAT WAIVER, UM, FOR WIC AND SNAP AND ALL OF IT, THE GOVERNOR DELIVERED ON THAT. 
          PRESIDENT BIDEN DECLARED A DISASTER DECLARATION WITHIN 24 HOURS, WHICH ALLOWED EVEN THE FEMA ADMINISTRATOR, SHE WAS ON THE GROUND ADMINISTRATOR, GRISWELL, UM, DIRECTOR, UH, ADMINIS, ASSOCIATE ADMINISTRATOR SANCHEZ, I THINK HAS BEEN HERE FOR OVER 10 DAYS HELPING. 
          UH, AND WE STILL HAVE SBA SERVICES EVERYWHERE, OUR CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION, THIS HAS BEEN EVERYONE COMING TOGETHER TRUE TO HOUSTON AS HOUSTON DOES. 
          UM, AND I THINK WE'RE ALL VERY, VERY APPRECIATIVE OF THAT AS WELL. 
          SO I WANTED TO JUST STATE THAT FOR THE RECORD. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER PLUMMER. 
          THANK YOU SHARON. 
          WHAT, JUST ONE LAST, UM, ASK OR QUESTION, DO, DO WE USE THE DIGITAL BILLBOARDS TO ALSO GET INFORMATION OUT? IT'S FUNNY THAT YOU MENTIONED THAT. 
          SO I ACTUALLY HAD AN EMAIL WITH JESSE BOUNDS YESTERDAY ABOUT THAT IF WE'RE SENDING THINGS AS, SO, SO THE ANSWER IS TWOFOLD. 
          UH, WE DID NOT USE THEM FOR THIS CURRENT DISASTER. 
          UM, THE, THE IPA MESSAGE THAT WAS SENT BY THE NATIONAL HURRICANE, I'M SORRY, THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE, UM, WOULD HAVE GONE TO THOSE BILLBOARDS THAT ARE IN THE AREAS THAT WERE SO, SO THEY DO A GEOFENCE THING SIMILARLY FOR THEIR, THEIR TRACKING. 
          AND SO THOSE SYSTEM, THE, THE DIGITAL BILLBOARDS ARE DESIGNED TO RECEIVE THOSE MESSAGES AND DISPLAY THEM AS A URGENT, UM, YOU KNOW, IT, IT OVERRIDES THE PROGRAMMING, THE, THE ADVERTISING AND THINGS LIKE THAT THAT ARE ON THEM. 
          UM, SO IPOS WILL WORK THAT WAY, BUT WE'RE ADDITIONALLY WORKING RIGHT NOW IN ADDITION TO THE IPOS SUPPORT THAT THEY HAVE, UH, ON INCLUDING, UH, BASICALLY INCLUDING THEM INTO OUR COLLATERAL OF, OF PRE PREPARED, UH, PRE TEMPLATED MESSAGES THAT WE'LL BE ABLE TO USE FOR EVENTS GOING FORWARD. 
          STAFF FROM MAYOR PRO TEM CASTEX STADIUM'S OFFICE. 
          THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR. 
          I JUST WANNA SAY THIS WAS A GREAT PRESENTATION, BUT I DID HAVE A QUESTION AS IT PERTAINS TO THE RISING HEAT AND POWER CONSUMPTION. 
          I RECENTLY SAW SOMETHING FROM ERCOT CONCERNING THE POWER GRID. 
          HAVE THERE BEEN ANY, UH, CONVERSATIONS OR PLAN IN PLACE FROM THE OEM, UH, FROM ERCOT REGARDING ROLLING BLACKOUTS? UH, SO YEAH, WELL THESE BLACKOUTS, IF, IF THERE IS, WILL THESE BLACKOUTS TO NOTIFY THE PUBLIC, WILL THEY BE DONE BY ZIP CODES, TIMEFRAMES, UH, WILL THEY AFFECT, UH, SENIOR S SENIOR, UH, FACILITIES, COOLING CENTERS, HEATING CENTERS? BECAUSE I CAN TELL YOU ON THAT WINTER STORM THAT WE HAD SOME RESIDENTS EXPERIENCED BLACKOUTS FOR DAYS, SOME WERE ON THE ROLLING SYSTEM. 
          SO IS THERE A PLAN IN PLACE FOR THAT? SO WHAT WE DO IS WE'RE IN CONTINUOUS CONVERSATIONS, NOT ONLY WITH CENTER POINT, BUT ERCOT, RIGHT? THEY GIVE US A HEADS UP ABOUT WHAT'S, WHAT'S ABOUT TO HAPPEN THAT ALLOWS US TO TRIGGER OUR PLANS AS FAR AS WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO. 
          NOW, GOING BACK TO YURI, I REMEMBER I WAS GETTING NOTICES THAT, HEY, WE'RE LOOKING AT 45 MINUTES, RIGHT? AN HOUR AT THE BEST. 
          AND THAT ALONE IS LIKE, WHAT IS THE PROCESS? OBVIOUSLY THERE'S BEEN A LOT, A LOT OF ACCOUNTABILITY SINCE THEN. 
          AND SO HAVING THAT VISIBILITY FOR US, GOING BACK TO WHAT COUNCIL MEMBER CAME AND MENTIONED ON HAVING CENTER POINT MENTIONED THOSE, HAVING THAT GIS WORKING FOR US TO BE ABLE TO MAKE THOSE DECISIONS, THE ANSWER IS, IS ONCE WE GET THAT INFORMATION, WE START THE PROCESS OF PLANNING. 
          WHERE ARE WE GONNA FOCUS ON, RIGHT? WHAT AREAS ARE WE GONNA BE TAKING PEOPLE? THAT WAS AN EVENT THAT AFTER THREE DAYS AT MY PREVIOUS JOB, I QUICKLY REALIZED THAT THE ANSWER WAS NOT GONNA COME ANYTIME SOON. 
          AND THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT WE LOOK AT. 
          HAVING THOSE PEOPLE HAVING THOSE CONVERSATIONS PRIOR WORKING WITH CENTERPOINT AND SAYING, HEY, THIS IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN. 
          WE START GETTING READY OUR PLANS, HAVING THOSE GENERATORS LOOKED AT, MAKING SURE THAT EVERYTHING'S READY, THOSE FACILITIES, WHERE ARE WE GONNA TAKE THE MASS CROWDS IF 
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IT IS. 
          BUT THE MAIN THING, SIR, IS THAT FOR US, HAVING THAT TRUE, AND I SAY TRUE VISIBILITY IS WHAT'S GONNA ALLOW US TO BE SUCCESSFUL. 
          BUT AGAIN, DO WE, DO WE HAVE THOSE GENERATORS IN PLACE? WE HAVE EVERYTHING IN PLACE WORKING WITH CENTER POINT TO HAVE THOSE MOBILE UNITS. 
          WHERE DO WE START LIGHTING UP THE AREA SO PEOPLE CAN BE COMFORTABLE DURING THOSE TIMES? SO YES, WE CONTINUOUSLY TALK WITH THEM. 
          WE ACTUALLY HAVE, WE GET OUR REPORTS ON WHAT'S THE LEVEL OF ERCOT, WHERE ARE WE LOOKING AT, ESPECIALLY IN THE SUMMERTIME. 
          SO WE'RE LOOKING AS THERE, WHERE ARE WE GONNA GET INTO A CRITICAL POINT THAT WE EITHER START NOTIFYING PEOPLE, HEY, YOU MIGHT WANNA START TURNING OFF ALL YOUR LIGHTS AND THAT TYPE OF, UH, OF INFORMATION THAT HELPS CUT DOWN ON THE ENERGY. 
          OKAY, WILL, BUT WILL THAT BE DONE BY, HOW WOULD THAT BE DONE BY ZIP CODE COUNCIL DISTRICT? BECAUSE I KNOW IN CALIFORNIA THEY HAS, THEY HAVE A SYSTEM TO WHERE WHEN THE POWER, WHEN THEY'RE GONNA DO ROLLING BLACKOUTS, THEY'LL SAY, THIS AREA GONNA EXPERIENCE THIS TIMEFRAME, THIS AREA WILL EXPERIENCE THIS TIMEFRAME. 
          AND MY UNDERSTANDING TALKING TO CENTERPOINT AND NARCO IS THAT YES, THEY LOOK AT THE AREAS THAT ARE GONNA BE TAKING PLACE FOR HOW LONG AND THEN THEY ROLL IT OUT. 
          OKAY. 
          SO THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, THANK YOU BOTH AGAIN FOR THE PRESENTATION. 
          I DON'T SEE ANYONE ELSE IN THE QUEUE, SO WE WILL MOVE ON TO OUR PUBLIC SPEAKERS. 
          WE HAVE ONE SPEAKER THAT SIGNED UP. 
          IF YOU'RE IN THE AUDIENCE AND DID NOT YET SIGN UP, BUT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK, YOU CAN COME UP TO THIS FRONT TABLE TO SIGN UP. 
          OUR SPEAKER IS BOB CHOATE. 
          HE IS HERE VIRTUALLY. 
          IF YOU COULD PRESS STAR SIX. 
          GOOD MORNING. 
          GOOD MORNING. 
          THIS IS BOB SCHAD. 
          I'M AN ADVOCATE FOR RESPONSIVE AND RESPONSIBLE LOCAL GOVERNMENT. 
          I'M HERE TODAY TO SPEAK ON BEHALF OF THE TIMBER GROVE MAN, MANOR CIVIC CLUB AND SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD 14. 
          THE, UH, PRESIDENTS AND CHAIRS OF THOSE ORGANIZATIONS WERE NOT ABLE TO ATTEND TODAY. 
          WE ARE DEEPLY APPRECIATIVE OF THE EFFORTS PUT FORTH BY THE CITY AND PRIVATE INDUSTRY. 
          AS, UM, THE CENTER POINT REPRESENTATIVE RECENTLY, HE TOLD THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL, OUR NEIGHBORHOOD TIMBER GROVE MAN WAS GROUND ZERO FROM THEIR STANDPOINT AS FAR AS, UH, HAVING TO RESTORE POWER TO THE AREA. 
          AND THERE WAS A TREMENDOUS EFFORT TO GET THINGS GOING. 
          AND THAT EFFORT CONTINUES. 
          SO THE COMMENTS HERE ARE INTENDED TO BE CONSTRUCTIVE AND, UH, TO ALLOW IT A PRE-PLANNING PROCESS FOR OUR NEXT DISASTER. 
          UM, COUPLE THINGS I THINK IS PRETTY WELL KNOWN AS THE CENTER POINT TRACKER AND THE SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT, UH, DEBRIS PICKUP TRACKER. 
          BOTH, BOTH KIND OF, UH, WELL, WE'RE INEFFECTIVE. 
          UH, WHAT WE ALSO SAW AS NEIGHBORHOOD LEADERSHIP WAS WHAT APPEARED TO BE A LACK OF EFFECTIVE STAGING AND EFFICIENT DISPATCH. 
          AS IT APPEARED THAT CREWS WERE BEING DISPATCHED FROM SOMEPLACE ELSE WITHOUT, UH, EFFECTIVE KNOWLEDGE OF WHERE THE PRIORITIES LIE. 
          WE WOULD URGE THAT ENLISTMENT IN TRAINING OF A NETWORK OF CITIZEN VOLUNTEERS, PARTICULARLY FROM THE SUPER NEIGHBORHOODS AND, UH, CIVIC CLUBS, HOAS, ET CETERA. 
          SO THEY CAN BE THE EYES AND EARS AS OPPOSED TO THE TRUCKS AND CREWS BEING ASSIGNED TO CRUISE ONE STREET TO THE NEXT. 
          WHILE THERE ARE PERHAPS STREETS ON THE OTHER END OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD THAT ARE PARTIALLY BLOCKED OR EFFECTIVELY BLOCKED BECAUSE THEIR PILES ARE HIGHER BECAUSE  WERE CUT DOWN OR KNOCKED DOWN THERE. 
          ALSO, WE HAD THINGS SUCH AS HAZARDS WHERE A FIRE HYDRANTS ARE BEING BLOCKED BY DEBRIS. 
          AND, UH, UH, WE HAD SOME CITIZENS WHO PERSONALLY CONTACTED THE FIRE CHIEF TO ALERT HIM OF THAT. 
          WE WOULD ALSO SUGGEST A PRE IDENTIFICATION OF REFUGE POINTS THAT ARE PRE STOCKED. 
          AND I THINK I HEARD SOME OF THAT IN, IN THE, UH, IN, IN THE CONVERSATIONS THAT WERE GOING ON IN THE LAST SEVERAL MINUTES. 
          ONE POTENTIAL PLACE TO START WOULD BE WITH VOTING LOCATIONS. 
          THOSE SEEM TO BE THE USUAL SUSPECTS. 
          CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, UH, LODGES, OBVIOUSLY THE MULTI-SERVICE CENTERS AND COMMUNITY CENTERS. 
          AND IF THOSE LOCATIONS ARE PRE-IDENTIFIED AND ANNOUNCED TO NEIGHBORHOODS, UH, IF I KNEW FOR EXAMPLE, THAT THE RESURRECTION METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY CHURCH HAD A SUPPLY OF WATER, ET CETERA, AND WOULD, UH, POSSIBLY OPEN, THAT'S A HALF MILE WALK FROM MY HOUSE. 
          I CAN HANDLE THAT IF I KNOW IT'S THERE. 
          AND I THINK THE SAME THING WOULD APPLY TO MANY, MANY NEIGHBORHOODS WHERE, PARTICULARLY WHEN THERE'S FOLKS WHO ARE TRANSPORTATION DEFICIENT. 
          UH, I BELIEVE THAT'S ABOUT ALL WE HAVE HERE. 
          AND, UH, AGAIN, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE AMOUNT OF SERVICE THAT WAS PROVIDED. 
          LET'S BE PROACTIVE. 
          WE HERE IN THE COMMUNITY ARE READY TO JUMP IN AND HELP AND, UH, YOU KNOW, WITH PROPER LEADERSHIP. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU MR. CHO, FOR THE INFORMATION. 
          UM, IS THERE ANYONE ELSE IN THE AUDIENCE WHO WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK TODAY? SEEING 
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NONE. 
          OUR NEXT MEETING WILL BE ON JULY 9TH AT 10:00 AM WE STAND ADJOURNED? YEAH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU COUNCIL MEMBER RAMIREZ. 
          APPRECIATE THAT. 
          APPRECIATE THE QUESTIONS.
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