63 right on the dock.

Welcome to our September Super Neighborhood Alliance meeting.

Thank you all for joining us, taking time out of your day and spending a little bit of time with us.

Hopefully we won't be extremely long tonight, but thank you guys for being here.

So I'm gonna go ahead and open up the meeting and we'll get started with roll roll call, and now we'll hand it over to Amy.

I don't know who's got their background noise going.

There's lots of big news.

Okay, can you hear me now?

I had unmuted myself, but it's been audience muted.

Hello?

Okay, thank you very much.

All right.

Well, picking up with uh our roll call for this evening for our September meeting.

I will call uh the names of the super neighborhoods that have been present for the last four meetings, uh or one or more of the last four meetings uh per our bylaws, and if you are here for one of those groups, please announce present.

Um if I get to the end of the roll call and we have not called your super neighborhood, please let me know, and we will mark y'all present.

Um five super neighborhood six present super neighborhood fourteen, Marie Carlisle present, super neighborhood fifteen, all right.

Kevin, I'm here super neighborhood sixteen, sir.

Representative, super neighborhood seventeen, Jeff Baker's present, super neighborhood twenty-two, stacy fairchild here.

Okay, super neighborhood twenty-four.

Smith is here.

Okay, super neighborhood twenty-seven.

Thank you, Sandra.

Super neighborhood 28.

Uh Kathy, Easterly here.

Burger Wee is present.

Super neighborhood 31.

Harold Eaton, president, present.

Thank you.

Uh Super Neighbor 32.

Cheryl O'Brien present.

Super neighborhood 36.

Sylvia Rivas, present.

Naomi Ostfeld present.

Okay, super neighborhood.

Cindy Chapman, president.

Present.

Sorry.

Stephen Paulash present.

Okay.

Uh Supernaver 41.

But I'm going to say.

Thank you.

Okay.

Uh, supernatural 47.

Present, Jackie Mayhorn.

Supernumber 48.

Huey Germa Will Wilson present.

Can you hear me, Amy?

49.

Vicky Martin.

I heard you, Huey.

Thank you.

Vicky Morden present.

Thank you, Vicky.

Got you.

Uh 52.

55.

57.

63.

64.

Amy Den is present.

Um 65.

66.

67.

68.

Paulette Wagner.

Present.

All right.

67 or 71, excuse me.

83.

Tomorrow bell present.

And 88.

Uh, that's Amy Dunn present.

Uh representative for Londale Resign.

All right.

Uh any additional super neighborhoods that we might have missed during roll call.

All right.

We have Pastor Deb 45.

Thank you.

Oh, thank you, Pastor Dad.

All right.

We have 24 uh super neighborhoods present.

Do we have a quorum, Amy?

Uh yes.

Perfect.

All right, guys.

We'll move right along.

Again, for those of you that have just joined us, um, thank you.

And please add um that you're present in the comments.

And we'll just move right along.

I did see Alex in our meeting.

Oh, I'm sorry, approving the minutes from July.

Everyone should have received those minutes.

All of the voting members should have received those meeting, those minutes via email.

So can I get someone to make a motion to approve the minutes?

Madam Chair, may I have a point of information, please?

Sure.

It says approve the minutes of July 2025, but then the minutes of July 2025, it says uh that the June 2025 minutes meetings were deferred to the next meeting.

Yes, and they should have been in that email as well.

Right.

So are you planning on approving the June minutes as well?

Because they're not in the agenda.

Yes, we can approve the June and the July, but we'll start with the July.

Okay.

And then in the there, they talk about in the June, they talk about the May minutes looking like having been approved.

The May minutes were approved.

Uh, if I'm not mistaken in our July meeting.

Well, that's what this says, but the June meeting, the June meeting also talks about approved minutes of May 2025.

So that's where I see a conflict.

Yes, it doesn't have to be approved, but they were improved approved in July.

That's what that's why we're left with June and July to be approved.

Well, if the June minutes say that they were approved, the May minutes were approved in June.

Well, they were approved in July.

So when we ask you to approve, you would just say with one correction, right?

Okay, well, perfect.

Fine, if that's what I'm not, I don't have point of information because I wasn't sure exactly what's happened.

As a as referred to the corrections on July, I do have a correction in the sense that those I there was a legal issue related to the to the notice provisions, and that was not yet resolved, and that was not put in the minutes.

Okay, and I don't have a response back from you either about that ma'am, madam chair.

I didn't get anything from you outside of what we talked about in the meeting, so we will make note of that in these minutes in this minute, these minutes.

Can I I make a motion that we approve the minutes?

Thank you.

We have a hand up for Harold.

Yeah, I second it.

Thank you.

Okay, moving into June.

This is Bert Ruiz.

Um it looks like in the June meeting minutes.

I don't know if it's it's it's the same person, but there's a Bert Ruiz as a guest spelled B-U-R-T.

And then I'm listed correctly as B E R T as a super neighborhood representative.

So I don't know if that was a typo.

If there's actually was someone else that has the same name I do with a minor revision for different spelling.

Does that make sense?

Yes, it absolutely does.

Okay.

Amy, do you have that?

Uh we we can research that, Bert, and see this is Cheryl.

We can research that and see what's going on, Bert.

You bring up a good point, and we can we'll see if we can get that sorted out for you.

Okay.

Yeah, no worries, not a big thing.

I just noticed that and wanted to go away.

We'll work on that.

Thank you.

Is there any more?

I'll make a motion the June minutes be uh approved with a possible uh correction just discussed.

Thanks.

Thanks, Tamara.

Okay.

Next agenda item.

Harris County Clerk's Office, a workshop presentation from Alex.

Alex, I did see you in here.

How are you today?

Howdy, I'm doing well.

Thank you for having me.

Oh, Harold, you have a question.

Well, there are two motions on the floor.

Um I I would say that the next question.

I would say those motions need to be uh addressed and voted by.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I'm looking I'm moving too fast.

Um, all of those in favor.

Can we do the website?

And any of so let's back up.

Let's go to the first one.

The first motion is the approval of the July minutes.

All of those in favor.

Uh and any preferred, would you prefer eyes, or would you just prefer them to raise their hand in the uh may I suggest we raise our hands so that way it's in the recording?

Thanks.

Thanks, Amy.

So um for those of you that are in favor, please raise your hand.

This is July.

Okay.

Lower your hands now.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay.

And we at least have a few.

There please how many hands were there?

18.

18 hands up.

For those that are opposed, please raise your hands now.

I think I raised my hand.

One anybody abstain.

No abstentions.

Now for the motion for the June meeting minutes.

Please raise your hands.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

That typically means that someone is logged on twice.

Okay.

For the June meet minutes.

Please raise your hand if for the approval.

Amy, we have 18.

I reflect 29.

I'm saying 20.

20 came up.

There were 20.

The note said 18.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I'm just looking at the number that said 20, and then it changed to 18.

Oh, okay.

I think I caught it at 18.

Okay.

For those that oppose, please raise your hand now.

Please, everyone, please lower your hand.

And then oh.

Oh, okay.

Okay.

And the chicken zoom.

You gonna eat the chicken zoo.

I think so.

For those that oppose, please raise your hand now.

The June meetings with the the June minutes with the correction.

If you oppose, please raise your hand.

We have two, Amy.

And anyone abstain.

And that's zero.

Kevin, your hand still still raised.

Did you have a question?

No, sorry, apologies.

No problem.

No problem at all.

Okay, guys.

Now we can move on.

Alex.

Are you ready to present?

Yes, absolutely.

If you don't mind, I'm gonna share the screen.

Perfect.

Awesome.

Thank you so much, Letitia.

I really appreciate your time and for meeting with me so far in advance to plan this out.

And thank you to everybody here in attendance tonight.

Hope you don't mind if I take it away.

I won't take too much time, but that's okay.

All right.

So on your screen, you're gonna see the voter workshop for the summer.

Uh so I am Alexander Govea.

I am a voter outreach specialist from the Harris County Clerk's Office Elections Outreach Department.

Um I see some familiar faces like Kevin.

I saw uh Miss Huey, I saw some other familiar friends that I've already been to your super neighborhood and given either a similar presentation or given some updates over the election.

So a pleasure to see y'all again, and hopefully some of you that I don't know, I can get the opportunity to do the same for your neighborhood.

Uh so I'm not gonna take too much time.

I do just want to go through it.

Uh brief agenda.

I'm just gonna go over a little bit of an overview, uh, some information on voter turnout in Harris County and some other items of information to help empower you for this upcoming election.

Uh so just to make the distinction clear.

So the Harris County Clerk.

So back in uh 2020, whenever it got moved to the election administrator, uh voter registration and the elections got moved under one roof, which is the elections administrator, and 2023, whenever it got moved back to the county clerk.

So elections got moved directly uh strictly just to the county clerk.

You can see over here under her umbrella that it's strictly dealing with elections and the voter registration aspect moved over to the tax assessor.

So we're no longer in the same house in that regard, but we still operate ballot by mail, outreach, and other essential election operations.

And just to make it a little bit easier.

So uh on the screen, I do want to highlight a little piece of information.

I have the 2020 presidential election turnout information for Harris County.

Now I'm just gonna focus in on the bottom information.

So out of 2.4 million registered voters in Harris County in 2020, we only had 1.6 million show up to go vote.

So that's an um that's a total turnout of 67% of the Paris County population that actually showed out and had their voice heard.

Now going into 2024, we know we have presidential elections every four years.

We would ex we would expect that to increase with time.

But going into four years later, even though we had increased registered voters, uh, we actually had a decreased amount of voter turnout.

So it went from 67% down to 58% of voter turnout in Harris County.

And over here on the left side, I do have a little bit more of a breakdown of uh voters by the age bracket.

So you can see typically who's gonna show up more whenever they're coming out to vote, depending on the age.

And all that just to say that um there's always another election.

It's not just the presidential election.

Quite frankly, if I showed you what every single election looks like, or the most recent election in May, uh, these numbers would be a lot more abysmal and not as high as they are for a presidential.

So this is actually what a busy election looks like in Harris County.

So as I mentioned, there's always another election.

We had elections in May.

We had a runoff election in June, and upcoming in November, we have the November 4th general and special election.

And uh just a little bit of civics just to make it a little bit easier to understand what a special election is.

Uh, these are elections that aren't typically counted on a general election.

Uh for this upcoming November election, we have uh congressional district 18 on the ballot uh with the passing of Congressman Sylvester Turner on March 5th, 2025.

This is this has left the CD 18 seat open.

And from the governor, uh governor of Texas is Governor Abbott.

He did call for special election in this November ballot as well.

So that's where you're gonna be getting to vote on this if you live in CD 18 area uh for that special congressional seat.

Also, just a little bit of a preview for next year.

Next year is gonna be a very busy election year.

It's gonna be the primary election time.

So that's gonna be starting in March.

And wouldn't you know it?

We have early voting in February.

So as soon as you're done celebrating Christmas, the new year, we're gonna have a little bit less than a month and a half before we're getting into early voting season and then uh starting voting, starting to vote for the primary election.

So that's where you're electing your House representatives, your senators, and other uh congressional seats as well.

Uh a little bit of context, the runoff elections.

This happens in any election where a single candidate does not receive over 50% plus one of the vote.

So uh going into this November election, because we do have a large amount of candidates that are running.

We don't expect any single one candidate to get 50% plus one.

So we are expecting a runoff in December for that uh CD 18 race as well.

So something to keep in mind whenever you're going out to vote, that you're not just gonna be only voting in November, you may potentially be voting in December as well.

And I do want to highlight some important dates uh for this upcoming election.

As I mentioned, we have the November 4th, 2025 general and special elections.

So we'll be voting on Texas constitutional amendments.

And if you live in the CD 18 area, you'll also be voting on that CD 18 district seats.

And then we have the expected December 13th runoff election.

So we already have two elections just left in the year.

We only have a couple months.

And going into next year, we have the March primary.

We're expecting a runoff election in May because uh there's going to be a lot of different contests on the ballot in March.

So we are expecting a runoff in May, and then we have another election in November, and we're expecting another runoff in December.

So just in the next year and a couple months, we already have six elections planned.

Uh, so it's very important to just actively think about it.

Elections aren't just going to be every four years, they're going to be every single year, multiple times a year.

And especially whenever you're voting and getting active inside your local elections, those are going to be the elections that you really see a lot of change in your area.

You may see uh increased um increased activity in the communities in the neighborhoods, uh, if they're renovating parks, if they're uh adding sidewalks, or if they're uh fixing the potholes in the roads or increasing trash pickup, those local elections are where we're gonna see the most direct impact locally to use.

So I actively encourage and admonish everybody to just stay involved.

Uh, in regard to voting, there's three ways to vote.

We have in-person at any vote center in Harris County.

You can go to any vote center in Harris County and you're able to cast your ballot.

You can vote curb side, or you could even vote by mail.

I will say uh we did get some new laws passed at the beginning of September that went into effect.

So uh we're still getting that information prepared on how that's going to impact our local elections.

So I do want to be upfront that I don't have those immediate answers on how that's going to affect us just yet.

Uh in regards to preparing for the election, just make sure you have any of your list A photo IDs.

You have your Texas driver's license, Texas personal ID, Texas handgun license, a U.S.

citizenship certificate with a photo, military ID with the photo, Texas election ID certificate, or a US passport book or card.

Per the Texas election code, if you're under the age of 70, you can use any of these IDs for up to four years if they're expired.

So as long as they're within that four-year expiration date, you could still bring these to the vote centers and still use them to check in and cast your ballot.

Uh per the Texas election code, we also have the reasonable impediment declaration.

So if you do not have any of those photo IDs, you may use your voter registration certificate or a secondary form of identification, such as uh original birth certificate, voter registration certificate, utility bill, bank statement, government check, or a paycheck, just something that has your information so that we can verify that you are who you are.

Um, this lets us know that you cannot reasonably obtain a list AID.

And you can also go to the HCTAX net uh website.

So that's a tax office website to get a copy of your voter registration card as well, even if you don't have any of those other items.

And that's straight from the Texas election code.

So that is an option whenever you're going into the vote center.

And I do have a couple more slides.

So I really appreciate everybody's patience.

I know it's the evening, so I will get through this to make sure that I'm not taking too much time.

Uh voting is accessible.

We have many different facets and avenues in place to allow easy asset accessibility to the vote center for every single voter.

We have curbside voting for voters who can not go into the vote center without likelihood of injury or without needing uh assistance, so they can vote from their vehicle by pressing that blue button at every single vote center.

We also have voting order priority for voters with limited mobility.

So the vote, those voters can actually go to the front of the vote center line to cast their ballot uh if they have any mobility issues.

We also have this little device called the ATI, the audio tactile interface.

I know it looks like a little game controller, it's not, it's the little tactile device.

So if you cannot use the touch screen features, or if you need any audio guidance, or if you need something to make it a little bit easier to navigate the screen, that device is also there.

You can also bring your own sip and puff device or also your own jelly switches as well.

We also provide virtual interpretation on demand.

So not only the four most commonly spoken languages in Harris County, English, Spanish, Vietnamese, and Chinese.

So voting is accessible in Harris County.

You do have the option to vote by mail.

So as long as you meet these expectations, you are able to vote by mail.

I am gonna push through this information just a little bit.

Just again, we did have some new laws that came into place.

And I don't want to hyperfixate on this too much if there is any big differences.

We are in the process of adding that information to our presentation.

But here's the final summary.

So essentially you can find all this information on Harrisvotes.com.

Uh, this is gonna give you all the information for tracking your uh mail ballot for seeing what's gonna be on your ballot, some important election dates, and even seeing what your nearest voting center location is in your area.

Um we do have opportunities to get involved.

So if you'd like to get it become an election worker, you can always um reach out and apply on our website where we have an application ready for you so you are able to apply to be an election worker.

Uh we do hire election night support staff.

So if any of you are interested in seeing the behind the scenes of what happens after they drop off their election equipment at our headquarters, you're more than welcome to join us.

We do hire, we do pay 17 an hour, and it's a wonderful opportunity.

Uh, I'm usually there.

So if you like me and you think I'm fun to hang out with, uh, hang out with me on election night, and we can have uh a lot of good time.

So and we do involve our high school students, so we do allow them the same opportunity.

The only difference is that they have a curfew of midnight.

So by midnight, we are releasing all those high school students so we could be respectful of their curfews and make sure they're not staying out too late.

Uh they do have the opportunity for letters or recommendation and to network as well with other fellow students or us.

And finally, I'm on my last two screens.

Um, so visit our website, HarrisVotes.com, follow us on social media.

You can scan that QR code if you want to get added to our mailing list.

I also dropped my information in the chat.

So if you want to get connected with me and have uh this presentation at your next meeting, or if you want to see what the machines look like, I can do all of those different things and more.

Uh so feel free to connect with me afterwards.

Uh again, thank you so much, Letitia.

I'm almost done.

Lastly, just the phone number.

This is our phone number to contact us throughout the every 365 days a year.

Uh 713-755-6965.

And actually, let me say uh not 365 days a year.

Uh, we follow the same schedule as the clerk's office.

So whenever the clerk's office is open, we're open.

Uh, you can get language assistance in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, and Chinese.

And that is our headquarters, and that's everything.

So thank you so much, Letitia.

I don't know if you want me to take questions or just wait till after.

I don't want to interrupt you for running.

No, we actually have a question, Harold.

He has a question.

Yes, I have a really simple question.

When he was talking about the IDs that could be presented, he said that they would you could use your driver's license if you were under 70.

So, what about us people over 70?

Yeah, sorry.

I I didn't mention, so if you're 18 years old through 69, it could be expired up to four years.

If you're 70 or older and it's expired longer, there is no expiration date.

So if it's expired for 10 years, five years, you could still use that same ID.

You just get a little bit longer leeway with expiration.

Thank you.

I think that works.

I think you just made him happy.

Good video.

Okay.

Um there is a question in the chat, Alex.

If you can get to that to answer it from Cheryl.

Cheryl, did you want to say it out loud, or did you just want to leave it in chat and loon?

Oh, sure.

I'll I'll say uh is the application for a mail-in ballot ballot out there on the website yet.

Last time I checked, it wasn't my 94-year-old mom needs a mail mail in ballot.

Yes, to my understanding, I just checked it.

Uh I just went to an internal seminar.

We have everything updated.

Okay, where is it then?

Because I just called up the website and it says uh the deadline to apply is October 24th.

Just click here for the application, but there's no place to click.

It says click here, but don't also here.

Let me let me double check.

I hope y'all can see my screen.

I'm just gonna go to the vote by mail.

Uh you should be able to do that.

How do you access that?

Because I went to whenever you okay.

I went to Harris Votes, and we're okay.

I went under voter and then uh vote by mail.

Ah, because I there's another place you can ask you can go through and access it and you and the click doesn't work there, but okay.

I can I'll just go this way.

So okay.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you so very much, Alex.

Thank you so much for your time, and thank you for um offering to provide us with this presentation.

Um, and guys, if you do not, or if you have not had a presentation if you're super neighborhood and you'd like for Alex to come to your super neighborhood to do the same thing, um, please just Alex.

If you'll put your information in the chat so they can reach out to you directly, that'll be awesome.

Yes, absolutely.

Thank you so much.

I really appreciate the opportunity.

Hope you don't mind if I stay for the watch too.

The meeting.

Good deal.

No problem.

Well, as I was scrolling through, as Alex was speaking, I did see we have two individuals that are going to be on the special election.

And if I miss someone, please let me know.

I saw Amanda Edwards.

You did.

Hello, everybody.

Hi.

Well, I just wanted to uh first say uh good evening to everyone.

I'm Amanda Edwards, and I am running to be the next Congresswoman for the 18th Congressional District.

Uh, one of the things that I want to just emphasize is that it's important to get the word out about this election coming up on November 4th, 2025.

And in the special, of course, the original maps uh that were voted that were when Congressman Sylvester Turner was in office will be used for that special election.

That has been a point of confusion for a lot of voters uh across the district, um, whether they are going to be able or eligible to vote in the special election.

And so, just to remind those that have questions, always tell them this is as though you are stepping into the shoes of Congressman Sylvester Turner to fill the unexpired remaining portion of the term.

And so, with that, and with that said, that's the original lines.

Uh, the meet the redistricting redistricting maps won't apply until the 2026 midterm elections.

So please do get that word out because that has been a consistent point of confusion for a lot of voters given what they've been hearing about redistricting.

But again, thank you all.

I'm your former at-large Houston City Council member.

It's been my pleasure to serve uh and I have been to many of the super neighborhood alliance meetings, and of course, uh, look forward to to the opportunity to uh serve further in this capacity.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, Amanda.

It's always good to see you.

Um there is another there's one other person that I saw, Alejandra.

Are you there?

And Alejandra is actually running for um at large C4.

So she was here, but I think we may have lost her.

Um, if I missed anyone, I was trying to scroll through.

Umpe, don't think I missed anyone else.

All right, guys, we will move right along to our agenda.

I had a suggestion for uh uh request for an update to our agenda, and that is to move our elections above old business.

If we can make that a motion and vote on that motion, we can make that happen.

I make a motion that we move the elections above old business and have our election before old business.

Do we have a second?

I'll second it.

And that was second Amy by Harold.

All those in favor, uh, please raise your hand.

You're yeah, there we go.

Now I'm seeing 13.

Oh, I didn't raise my hand.

I'm sorry.

Four 15.

16 now.

15.

Okay, you know, the art of forgetting yourself.

Please lower your hands, everyone.

All of those opposed, please raise your hand.

Okay, Amy, that was that's two opposed and any abstentions.

Uh let's show this Vicky.

Uh, put it in the the approved.

I couldn't get to the button quick enough.

Sorry.

Okay, so that's 17 or 18, something like that.

Anyways, okay.

So the motion carries.

All right.

Let's go ahead and uh Greg, where does that put you?

That was an abstain.

Okay, good deal.

All right.

All right, let's move along.

It looks like that's to you, Cheryl.

I'm just gonna throw the bottom to you.

All right.

I just wanted to remind everybody what we're voting and why.

Just kind of a brief summary.

That we had a resignation of our chair.

Letitia was vice chair, and she has stepped up and is acting chair now.

So we need to vote on a chair, and then Letitia.

If she were to be named chair, then we would have a vacancy as a vice chair as well.

So we uh have met and Doug is going to present our proposed slate.

Doug, turn it over to you.

Okay.

Uh I guess what we have to do is have two votes.

Uh we'll vote on the chairman, and the committee uh is presenting uh Letitia Grant as the chair for the Super Neighborhood Alliance.

Uh and uh we if there are any nominations from the floor, that is open at this point.

And I want to remind everybody this is to fill the term remaining, so it's th until January.

So it's a it's a short term.

Okay.

That's correct.

Thank you for that.

That is correct.

Is there anyone else that would like to be considered for this position?

Amy, your hand is up.

I think that's from voting.

Yeah, I think that's from voting.

So anymore.

Okay.

Okay.

Uh since I don't hear anyone else interested in running that for that position.

Uh I would suggest that we vote by acclamation to elec Letitia as our new chairman.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

You want to raise your hand again?

We ought to raise our hands.

Okay, fine.

We'll raise our hands.

I see 19, 20, back to 19, back to 20.

Did you vote Letitia?

Okay.

I see 20 votes uh for Letitia.

Okay.

All right, so lower our hands.

And now uh since Letitia is chairman, we need to.

Well, we have to go.

We have to Doug, we have to allow people to vote no and abstain.

Oh okay, fine.

Uh everybody lower your hands then please.

And uh okay, anyone voting no uh on this position.

Anyone abstaining against this vote?

Okay, great, done.

Okay, we see nothing.

Okay, now since Leticia is chairman, we need a vice chairman, and the committee met and Cheryl has agreed to be vice chairman uh for the remaining term through January of next year.

Uh she and I would like to put her name in consideration for that position.

Is there anyone else uh that would be like to be considered as vice chairman at this point?

I don't see any hands raised, so I will call for a vote by everyone raising their hands for Cheryl as vice chairman.

19.

I see 19 votes for Cheryl.

Is there anyone that votes no?

Please please lower your hands if you've already voted.

Um wait till the hands get lowered.

Okay, anyone voting no uh in naming Cheryl O'Brien as vice chairman.

Carold, your hand.

Harold, is your are you voting no or is this your uh hand?

Okay, I see no votes for no.

Is there anyone abstaining from this vote?

In that case, Cheryl, congratulations.

You are the new vice chairman.

And that that ends our uh uh portion here on the elections and thank both Letitia and Cheryl for uh the work they're gonna be doing.

Um and Letitia, I just want to remind everybody that we do have elections in January.

Uh, thank you, Kevin.

If you uh would like to be considered for an office in um starting in with the January election, please reach out to the Super Neighborhood Alliance web um email address and let us know.

Um so that we can consider you.

All three positions will be up for election, and that would be chair for a one-year term, vice chair for a one-year term, and secretary for a two-year term.

So if you want to be considered, um let us know and try to let us know by the first of October if you if you would by via sending an email to the SNAC email address, and we will take it under consideration and with the nominating committee.

Okay, uh, I'll be quiet now.

Perfect.

Thank you.

Thank you so very much for that, Cheryl.

I appreciate it and thank you guys for a swift and smooth voting session.

I definitely appreciate that.

Um, there is one thing that you've seen on your agenda that we skipped right over, and that is the committee reports, and that is because every committee member is pre fairly new, and we won't start reporting from our committees until next month.

So for those of you that are committee chairs, that will be your opportunity to report any updates from that particular committee.

Um, and that'll be the section that it's going to be in, but I just put it there as a spaceholder.

Um, and this is that time to discuss old business.

And ironically enough, and I don't know if she's prepared, but I just saw Alejandra, whom I mentioned earlier.

Alejandra just re-entered the meeting.

And Alejandro, it was a pleasure meeting you at HAR.

Um, would you would you like to say hello to the Super Neighborhood Alliance?

Yes, I I would love to.

Uh hello everyone.

This is Alejandra Salinas.

I'm sorry uh for the noise in the background.

I'm at another meeting.

I just want to say thank you all for everything you do.

The best part of this campaign has been meeting folks in community.

And my pledge on running for city council is to just get out of your way.

I want to do as much as I can to empower what the super neighborhoods are doing, make sure that we're focusing on priorities you all are focusing on.

Just a little bit about me.

I'm a trial lawyer and partner at Suspan Godfrey, taking on some of the biggest companies in the world and gotten big things done, and that's exactly what I want to do on council.

I want to fight for all Houstonians, no matter who you are, no matter where you come from, to receive the equity and dignity that you deserve.

I've been so grateful to receive the support of a wide array of folks, including three city council members, Sally Alcorn, Joaquin Martinez, um, and Mario Castillo, including a number of democratic officials across the city.

I would be so grateful to earn your support.

And I apologize, I'm not on video and catching you all sort of at the last minute.

Uh, but I I so appreciate the opportunity to speak and truly thank you all for what you do.

Perfect.

Thank you.

Um thank you so much, Alejandra.

Um, I can't say your name the way you said it, but I I'm I I'll get as close as I can.

You do it, you do it quite exceptionally well.

I really appreciate it.

Thank you.

Thank thank you.

Tomorrow, I see your hands up.

Yes, yes.

Uh I wanted to invite everyone uh to Good Hope Baptist Church on Saturday.

Um they're having a uh candidates forum.

The AK's um the Houston uh grad chapters are sponsoring a um congressional district forum there uh at uh I think it's a two o'clock, and good hope is at 3015 North McGregor.

I am the historian.

Um I will be given the history of the 18th Congressional District and those who have uh served in the past.

So I'd love to see you all come out.

Thank you.

Uh thank you, Tamara.

We also have Greg.

Greg, I see your hands up.

Yeah, it's just a point of information, madam chair.

Was there anything you're gonna talk about on item four, which is the SNA members only drive?

So we'll, you know, and and I yes, I'm glad that you mentioned that.

I stuck that there.

So what we've done is for the members, uh, just in case you wanted to access the agenda or the minutes at a later time and you can't find them in your email.

Um, the members only drive is there for you, along with the presentation from tonight.

I uploaded that information there as well.

So the members have access to it.

Um, I will make sure for those of you that emailed us back requesting access, you should have access now.

So thank you so much for bringing that up, Greg.

I appreciate it.

Oh, we have Doug, Doug's hands raised and then Pastor Deb.

Thank you.

I um I don't know whether anybody else uh is can or is as confused as I was when I heard uh Angelica speak.

Uh I didn't realize that we were having a city council election uh in November, and I had to double think what she was talking about.

And LaTeXia Plummer is running for county judge, and her at-large seat has to be filled.

And so this election will be all of us will be voting in this election.

And again, I don't know if anybody else was confused, but I just wanted to mention that because we've talked a lot about uh congressional district 18, but we have not talked much to my knowledge about the at-large council seats.

So that's all.

Thank you.

Thank you so very much for that.

That's one of the reasons why I was glad that she was actually on the meeting.

Um, because you're right.

There was there's been a lot of conversation about that particular position, but very little conversation about uh the at-large position four.

Um and the constitutional um changes that are also going to be on for thank you.

As well, Letitia, uh the HCC seats.

Because you know, Ms.

Johnson, yeah.

So it's three elections.

There's three for that one, and um the um the one that Ms.

Johnson used to have that one trustee two.

That's right, trusty two, and the other one.

Uh I've got the lady's name.

Cynthia Lingary's a seat is up, and it's another seat that's up.

I think the lady's last name is Flores.

I think it is, but yeah, there's three HCC trustees uh that's on that ballot as well.

Yep.

Thank you for that, Tamara.

Okay.

Pass it up, and then Greg.

Thank you.

Um, my question, I had put it in the chat, uh, but it passed over.

Um, it was about the members only drive.

Um my question is uh, are these minutes available to the uh public uh stakeholders?

And number two, um, if uh if they're not, and we're trying to grow, and we only always get 20 to 25 teams here chapters.

Uh, what is the purpose of limiting that to what you call voting people?

Y'all know I've been coming here five years, and we've been trying since Harvey, so we're gonna probably get it all together in October with our elections.

We'll hold them right away and install right on the spot.

Yeah, uh, and um, and then we'll get to work.

But uh, will these be available uh to chapters that come in?

Uh are they gonna be um limited?

I was trying to get the purpose of you limiting these things.

Well, it will be available to those chapters because once you have access to the drive, you have access to the previous minutes as well.

So um it will be available to you, yes, ma'am.

Pastor D.

And the first question was the public, are these going to be made available or was should we not share these with uh that is correct?

I do not believe that we will be sharing those with the public, but I will confirm to see if there's anything against that in our bylaws.

Um, but as of as far as I know, at this very moment, it is the members only.

Please check back with me on that.

We're big on transparency, and I don't really see any reason why everyone in the city of Houston shouldn't get involved in the super neighborhood and have access to everything.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Greg and then Stacey.

Yes, thank you.

Uh, to follow up on a question, all the recordings are already up and available.

The minutes used to be, but they haven't been up for quite some time.

So I wouldn't see a reason not to include the minutes on there.

Uh the question I was well, the point I was going to make is I hope that people uh are looking at the permit activity report and separately the plat activity report that come out basically weekly.

It certainly helps you idea what's going on in your neighborhood in your super neighborhood as well.

I I want to bring up a point, and I asked about this two weeks ago now, but I don't have a response from us from uh Don yet.

Is back in the beginning of June, the plat activity report used to have every super neighborhood area, if it was related to that plat, put on there.

It went away.

So after several months, I worked through that with the city of Houston, found out there was a bug in the way that their new activity report was going on, and it's now changed.

So it does show the super neighborhood, generally speaking in that plat activity report.

But what I asked Don representative at our meeting two weeks ago was did anybody know about this and was there any resolution about it uh at that point, as opposed to just me bringing it up.

Thank thank you for that, Greg.

And I I'll tell you, there are I've received several emails about replatting just within the last week.

It's a lot going on.

So thank you for bringing that up.

And we will um ensure that we add that to our minutes and hope to get an response for that.

Yeah, it wasn't really about the reply itself, but the question is there's a lot of replying issue.

And if you just scan for your particular super neighborhood, it makes it a lot easier.

And they weren't reporting.

So you couldn't figure out exactly where it was.

That was my only point.

Thank you.

Honestly, thank you.

Okay, Stacy.

And then I believe Vicky had her hand up, but I don't see it anymore.

Stacy.

Thank you.

Um following on to what Doug was talking about in terms of the at large for uh election coming up in November.

Historically, the SA has held candidate forums for the at large positions and the mayoral uh position as well.

And so my question is is has the executive committee had a conversation about holding an at-large for candidate forum for this particular election.

So I mean, it's very clear that none of us are I I know a lot about it, but the majority of people in Houston are not aware of this, and I think it's a good opportunity for the SNA to lead um as we have in the past, but that's just my two cents.

I will tell you about Stacey.

Here's the unfortunate thing.

I do totally agree with you, and I do believe that this is a space for that.

The unfortunate thing is I do believe that there are 13 candidates for that one position.

And there was at one point for the um CD18, if I'm not mistaken, 30 candidates for that position.

Um, in effort not to keep the SNA on the call all night.

Um I maybe you and I can talk offline about how would you propose to get that done with that number of candidates for that position.

But to answer your question, no, the executive team had not discussed that.

Um, but I do think that it's a space, if nothing else, just to make an announcement of everyone that is running.

Um, but I did just see in the chat to wait until the runoffs.

Um, but yeah, Stacey, that's something um maybe we can just carve out a little bit of time and have that conversation.

But for these many of these positions, the number of people that are running, it's just ridiculous.

Um yeah, but I will tell you in a regular election cycle, whenever you have all at-large positions um, you know, on the ballot as well as mayoral, you will have particularly with these open seats, anywhere from 15 to 20 people running in each race.

Yeah, so it is not uncommon.

Um, and quite honestly, these are just two races uh this time, which is a whole lot less than a typical election cycle.

But you and I can absolutely I I have a strategy, uh, I can propose it to you, and you can you know decide or the executive committee can decide on whether or not um they take it forward or not.

Sounds great.

Sounds great.

Thank you.

And our last question is Ms.

Vicky.

Okay, good evening.

Um to Greg's point, and I know we have a number of attorneys and uh real estate people on the phone.

Uh it was posed to me last week from one of our civic clubs that when it comes to the land plats and things like that, for our communities that do have D restrictions, what we observing are developers are coming in and say they're building on one street.

I just say anywhere street.

So they're coming in and naming anywhere street as anywhere estates.

So the question would be is this a carrying in other communities where developers are coming in, claiming the street name as an estate and changing it.

Are they doing that to circumvent your D restriction?

Or has anyone else had occurrences of that happening?

And how do we counteract that?

Because we would like to see the uh HCAD have some type of process in place where we get notified, and perhaps we can appeal, uh we can have some kind of conversations about developers coming in, attempting to circumvent deed restrictions by renaming the cluster of properties that they are developing.

And that's what I have.

So I'll tell you in my neighborhood, Vicky, they're renaming it to appeal to a different market in in my neighborhood, um, because these are areas that don't have deed restrictions, and they're renaming it and they're getting a different um group of buyers for that.

But I don't know about anyone else.

I see two other hands up, and I don't know if anybody was wanting to answer that.

Yeah, we had that, Vicky.

We had that in our neighborhood, and the restrictions have been in effect since the 30s.

And uh this uh person bought a knees.

I mean, uh I live in McGregor, and you know some of these lots are humongous.

Um, and the closer you get to um McGregor Park, the lots are massive.

So this guy come in and go make his own little subdivision, uh, put 18 houses on one lot and call it something else and say he wasn't in the deed restrictions.

Well, they end up hiring uh Lock Lord because they ain't broke uh to go after him, and he ain't put up the first brick yet.

And Cheryl know we've been fighting that one for like three years.

This lady tried it over here on Armore.

We shut her down.

She talking about she had just a single house with with 14 doors to get in.

Now we saw what that was.

I thought if you're building a house, it's a trap house, and we don't let trap houses in McGregor.

So we shut that down too.

So but uh I mean, you you have to fight them because they absolutely will try to go around your D restrictions and say that this is not included, but the land is still the land of the land that was put in a D restriction in the 30s, so we ain't having none of that because you changed the name.

Okay, Jack.

Yeah, Jack, I do apologize.

I didn't mean to skip over you.

Um, I was um I said there were two other hands up, and you were number two.

So, yes, the uh at large runoff will be in December, but the CD 18 runoff will be in January because of the way the statutes are written, and that's a I guess considered a state election.

Also, I did want to bring up heavy trash.

Uh, I mean, solid waste.

Uh, thanks to Stacy, she had the director at her last meeting, and I do feel a lot better in this explanation of fixing the problem.

Um, that he's discovered so many problems, and the new trucks are here.

They put them out the field before they even painted them to get them out the field, but the fight is not over.

There are still problems.

For example, they announced they weren't going to pick up recycling in my neighborhood because of the holiday, yet they were out there yesterday picking up recycling.

So we still have a big problem in communications.

But I do think we see the light at the end of the tunnel, but it's gonna take a while.

Thank you.

Thank you for that.

Um, Tamara, your hand is still up.

Is that I don't know why.

I don't know why.

Okay.

And and and burning your hands up.

Yeah, uh, just I wanted to go back to the um the item related to deed restrictions, the concern about some uh changing the name to circumvent that.

Has there been an instant where that actually was successful?

Someone actually pull that off and legally circumvent the deed restrictions, or they're just attempting to in these different examples.

In other words, it's president's but set that someone was able to accomplish that.

Are you asking me?

Oh, we haven't we it just came up when they filed for the variants and they named it.

We haven't had a chance to address it, but we see an occurrence of that happening, and we were just wondering is it happened anywhere else?

So we do intend to speak up about it, but if they were to take care of it at the county level, then people won't be able to just do that without due process.

I mean, they just put the name on it and they're doing it.

So I'm gonna probably get with Tamara uh they all after uh after this and just see what they did just in case we have to be ready.

Yeah, I was just curious if they're if there were any examples of any neighborhoods where they were actually successful in doing that.

That was my question.

But I think you're asking the gas area, but that setting gas is not de-restricted, but yes, they were able to successfully rename about four properties in the Sadie Gas area.

Yes, right, but but they don't have deed restrictions.

No, they don't.

And this and the same thing for acres homes.

There were portions that they renamed, but we didn't have deed restrictions, so it wasn't to circumvent the deed restrictions for us either.

Got it.

Okay, thank you.

Sherry.

Oh, can y'all hear me okay?

Yes, we can.

Okay, great.

Hi, um, I just want to let everybody know that y'all know the the citywide PIP is with HPD is going to be happening tomorrow.

Um, and um it is not going to be at the police union like it normally is, it is going to be at Sunnyside, which is at 4410 Reed Road.

Interestingly, um, HPD has decided to split the citywide PIP into two meetings, one at noon and one at 5 p.m.

The one at noon is going to be, yeah, it's very interesting.

Something we've never seen before, but hey, I'm all for the try.

So the one at noon is going to be for the senior community.

So the district attorney's office will be there with one of our ADAs to discuss senior crimes and crimes against the elderly and what you can do.

And also about resources.

And at 5 p.m., we are going to have a guest speaker as well from the DA's office to talk about protective orders and the domestic violence resources that we also have available.

And that is going to be DA Sean Tier.

He will be there to speak on behalf of the Domestic Violence Bureau at 5 p.m.

Just so you know, it's at a different time.

It's going to be from 5 to 6.

It is going to be the route, from my understanding, only fits about 80 people.

So if you're going to get there, I would recommend that you get there early.

And so that's all I have for announcements for us for this week.

So if anybody has any questions, please feel free.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Then we have Huey.

Hi.

I just wanted to mention that while they may not have been successful in other areas in Houston Gardens.

The developers are suing because of the deed restrictions.

So we're finding them being creative in a lot of different ways, Bert.

So that was that's been a struggle on that civic club because they worked really hard to get those deed restrictions reinstated.

And so a year out or two years out having that done, they they've been sued by the developer.

Thank you, Huey.

Good evening, everyone.

I'm uh Perdita Chavis.

I go by DD Chavis.

I'm chief of staff for Mayor Pro Tim, Martha Castex Tatum.

She's the council member of District K.

Just wanted you to share some news.

Um on Saturday, September 13th, um, at Tom Bass Park Session 1 will be the uh 40th anniversary, the UNCF walk bike run for education.

Uh Mayor Pro Tim is serving as honorary chair, and we're gonna encourage you guys to come out and support um this organization that helps raise um funding for students, uh, 50,000 students each year at 1100 colleges and university.

I'll provide the link um in the chat for information so you can visit.

Um and hopefully you'll choose Team Martha and join join our team.

Um on Saturday uh September 20th from 9 a.m.

to 11 a.m.

Um Mayor Pro Tim Cassex Hayden is inviting our district community to come out and meet the district K team.

We've got some new team members who joined us, a new uh deputy chief of staff and a new director of consistent with services.

So we will be at Starbucks at Brazoaks Crossings at uh 10888 South Sam Houston Parkway um west.

Uh come out for coffee and light bites and meet our our staff members.

We'd love to engage with you.

Um I'll put a flyer in the chat as well.

Um and also National Night Out is coming up.

Um we want to celebrate with our with our neighborhoods.

So please, if you're hosting an event, um, please let the district K team know.

We want to come out and celebrate and engage with the community.

Um email Joe.gatson at Houston TX.gov with your neighborhood event, the time and location, and we'll be happy to come out and make it a really, really good national night out on October 7th.

Um and our um August newsletter was out.

Our September newsletter is coming out soon.

We encourage you to sign up.

I'll be putting those links in the chat as well.

Thank you for your time and attention.

Thank you.

All right, ladies and gentlemen, it is 7:34, and I will accept a motion to adjourn.

I'll make a motion to adjourn.

I was gonna, I was wondering if you asleep because I just knew you were going to be the first one.

There's somebody out there.

Let's somebody is out there with their hand up.

Oh, it is for announcements.

That was it.

Oh Jay, James, I didn't even oh I'm sorry, I didn't see your hand.

It's all good.

I I figured I'd just jump in at some point.

But um, well, first things first, congratulations, madam chair, madam vice chair.

Uh, congratulations on your election.

Uh to everybody, my name's James Burnett.

I'm a community engagement coordinator in the office of your Harris County Commissioner Lizabrionis here in precinct four.

I know we're wrapping up.

I just got three updates, and then I'll get y'all out.

Uh, first thing is we're hosting our Hummingburg Festival that is this Saturday, September 13th from 9 to 3.

It's going to be at the Clipwoods Nature Preserve.

I know it's a little far off there, but if you've ever been to the woods, I can tell you it is worth the drive.

Uh it's worth being out there on nature walks and to seeing those honeybirds.

So definitely would like you to come out there.

Um, second event is our Hispanic Heritage Festival in Town Hall.

That's gonna be Saturday, September uh 27th.

It's gonna be at Bayland Community Center at 6400 Bissinette Street.

Uh it's gonna be a town hall at noon and a resource fair uh from one to four.

There'll also be some corporate performances as well as some food trucks.

Uh love to have you out there to get to learn more about Hispanic Heritage and hear from Commissioner during the town hall.

The last one, if you can't go to that town hall, there will be another count town hall Saturday, October 18th.

That's gonna be at Katie Legacy Stadium uh from 10 a.m.

to 12.

Uh again, a resource for follow.

Uh we'd love to have you out there, Greg.

I I uh I see you thank you for posting that up.

Uh we'll love to see you at those town halls.

I'm gonna drop all the information for this in the chat as well as my contact information.

Uh again, my name's James Burnett.

Thank you for having me again.

Thank you.

Thank you.

So we have skip in real quick.

Okay, Vicky and then Angelica.

Yes, all right.

Thank you.

I'll be quick.

Uh, looking at the calendar on September 20th, we have a ride along.

We're partnering with Coco to do a ride along a bus tour through that it starts in Denver, Harvard, goes to Fifth Ward, then Trinity Gardens, Sadie Gas, and ends in uh Galena Park.

Well, opposite Galena Park and ends in Denver Harbor.

Also, we'll have our normal super neighborhood meeting on the 16th, but on the 23rd of September at the Houston Community College North Forest campus from 6 to 8.

We'll have our town hall with our state reps, state rep Dutton and Sophonia to do our updates of what all the laws were that were passed uh in this regular session and special session.

And we will participate in national night out on September the 7th, and you all get geared up because my next initiative will be to engage the mayor and city council in doing a city of Houston uh anti-littering campaign.

I want to do a draft a letter so that we can do something to abate littering in the city of Houston.

Thank you.

I yield back.

Thanks.

And Vicky, you do know September 7th was yesterday.

I mean, October 7th.

Okay.

Okay, thank you for that call.

You're welcome.

Angelica.

Good evening, everyone.

I'll be brief.

I represent Houston Independent School District.

Thank you so much for allowing me to join the meetings.

Um, when the opportunity arises, I would like to take a moment at a future meeting to share and give you some updates on what's happening in the school district and where we are.

So if you would be open to that, please let me know.

I'd like to share how HISD has masterfully along with the hard work of our educators to eliminate F schools.

So uh definitely would like to do that in the near future.

Perfect.

Thank you so very much.

We will we will um if you sent us an email, I don't I don't believe I have an email from you, but if not, please send it over and we will get it in the chat.

Perfect.

Thank you.

And Doug.

Yeah, I just wanted to say there are two council uh staff members that are on, Jordan McGuinty and Cece Scott.

I don't know whether either uh Jordan put a note in the chat, but I don't know whether either one of them wanted to say anything, but I wanted to give them a chance to do so.

Thank you, Doug.

CC Jordan.

I'll go first.

Greetings from the office of council member plumber.

You know, we're the At-Large Four office.

We're available to serve in any capacity citywide.

And so if there's some resources andor some information that we can share, it's always good to be here to get information from you guys and to know what's going on in your communities.

But if there's something we can do for you, we say uh bring us on and we'd be glad to share.

I have a helper.

And I was gonna ask if that those services included babysitting, because I may have one of the services.

The services include babysitting.

Thanks again, Carson.

Wave hi.

I don't see you.

I don't see you.

I was like, oh my god.

Let me phrase the camera.

Let me turn it off.

And so thank you guys.

It's very engaging and and good to meet um this way, as opposed to downstairs.

I thought we were gonna be meeting downstairs at first, but um, we'll get back together again someday soon.

As the COVID numbers in Houston are some of the highest in the nation.

Um, and so uh it's not gone.

It's still here.

And um, yeah, that part.

So everybody be safe, have a good and safe evening, and thank you for the time.

You too.

Thanks, CZ.

Thanks, C.

And I'll call Jordan again.

Okay, tomorrow.

We're ready for you.

All right, I'll make a motion that the super neighborhood alliance September meeting come to a close.

Do we have a thank you?

Sure.

A second.

A second.

Okay, wait, who was the second one?

That was here.

Okay, thank you.

As always, thank you guys so very much for joining us.

And I look forward to seeing you all in October.

Y'all have a great one.

Good night.

Bye guys.

Great meeting, guys.

Thank you.