Good afternoon.

It's 202.

Welcome to the regularly scheduled meeting of the Planning Commission for the City of San Antonio for Wednesday, September 10th, 2025.

Can we please have staff conduct the roll call?

Commissioner Sanchez.

Commissioner Garcia.

Commissioner Dezucke.

Yes.

Commissioner Lopez.

Here.

Commissioner Olet.

Here.

Commissioner Mylam.

Here.

Commissioner Orion.

Commissioner Busamante.

Here.

Commissioner Siegel.

Here.

Commissioner Prophet.

Present.

Chair Peck.

Quorum is present.

Thank you.

Can we please have information about Stan Spanish language interpretation services, please?

Good afternoon.

Buenos tardes.

Para que ya personas que requieren the interpretación inspanol.

Pasen por favor a la cabina.

Iles podemos proporcionar un audio.

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Thank you.

Today we will have two agendas.

The one being the consent agenda and the other being individual items.

All items on the consent agenda will be considered and discussed by the commissioners.

One action will be taken.

Individual items will be heard individually.

Two items are postponed.

Item 16 and item sorry, item 15, item 16.

And 18 will be individual.

Is that correct?

That is correct.

Thank you.

And Commissioner Sanchez is at the in the meeting.

All right.

Commissioner Bustamante is leaving for recusal purposes for items two, three, nine, and twelve.

And I don't think we have anybody sign up to speak.

So are do the commissioners have any comments related to the consent agenda.

I move that we approve all items on the consent agenda.

Second.

Motion by Commissioner Siegel.

Second by Commissioner Mylam.

Commissioner Siegel.

Yes.

Commissioner Mylam.

Yes.

Commissioner Sanchez.

Yes.

Commissioner Garcia.

Yes.

Commissioner DeSucci.

Yes.

Commissioner Lopez?

Yes.

Commissioner Olette.

Yes.

Commissioner Prophet.

Yes.

Motion passes.

Thank you.

Can we have Commission Commissioner Bustamante rejoin us, please?

Yeah.

Time is 205.

Commissioner Bustamani has uh returned.

Uh final item today is item number 18.

The budget update.

Good afternoon.

My name is Justina Tate, I'm the budget director for the city of San Antonio.

And today I will be presenting with Mike Shannon, who is the director of the cap newly uh created capital delivery department.

So I'm gonna provide a brief overview of our 2026 proposed budget, and then Mike will be talking about our capital budget and also the newly created department.

So a quick overview.

Our total uh fiscal year 2026 proposed budget is four billion dollars, and this represents about a 2.2 percent increase over last year's budget.

Now the budget is broken out into three major components.

The first being our restricted funds at about 1.2 billion dollars.

Our restricted funds are those funds that have revenues that must be uh used on a specific purpose.

So for example, our solid waste fund, uh revenues generated by that fund must be used for garbage pickup, recycling, and brush pickup.

Also, our airport is another uh restricted fund as well as development services.

So all the revenues generated by those funds must be used for specific purpose.

The second component is our capital budget at 1.1 billion dollars, and this funds our large capital projects to include the 2022 bond program as well as like our large capital projects being done at the airport.

And finally, the general fund at 1.69 billion dollars.

This represents about a 1.6% increase over last year's budget, and this funds the city's basic services.

So these include public safety, infrastructure, parks, code, as well as animal care services.

Included in the budget is our total city positions of about $13,723.

This does represent a net decrease in civilian positions of about 246 positions.

So we have in order to balance the budget, we reduced about 68 positions in the in across the departments.

Additionally, we have transferred 65 airport and park police, vacant airport park police to become SAPD officers.

And also we had about 121 grant positions that were reduced.

So wanted to talk a little bit as we developed the budget.

So when we presented our trial budget in May, as well as our I'm sorry, our trial budget in June, as well as our five-year forecast to city council, we were facing a deficit.

Our trial budget, we were looking at a deficit of about 174 million dollars over two years.

And this is just in the general fund that I'm referencing.

Overall, our revenues were still growing, but they're growing at a much slower pace, and our expense growth is outpacing those revenue growths.

This is not unique to San Antonio.

We are seeing this across the state as well as across the country.

And we also continue to see uncertainty at the federal level.

We have many programs and initiatives that are funded through federal grants as well as some infrastructure that are funded through federal grants.

So we're watching these closely to see how they may impact our initiatives and programs.

And finally, the last challenge that we faced was the state legislature.

So there were certain bills that were passed that reduced our property tax as well as impacted revenues outside of property tax to include our food license as well as liquor license.

So as we were working on developing the 2026 budget, these are some of the challenges that we faced.

So as we started to develop the budget, we developed a clear strategy that was grounded in priorities developed by city council as well as our community.

So our strategy focused on three core principles protecting essential and mandated services, minimizing impact to vulnerable populations, and avoiding long-term risk due to changes in the budget.

As I mentioned, at the trial budget, which was presented to city council in June at our goal setting session, we faced a deficit of about 170 million dollars over two years in the general fund.

Now we balanced, we when we uh when the city manager proposed his budget in early August, we proposed a balanced budget for 2026 as well as a balanced plan for 2027.

And we did this by reducing spending, looking for ways to reduce spending across the departments that had minimal impact to our services.

We used savings from completed project and unspent funds.

We moved eligible projects that were funded out of our operating funds and moved them into the capital budget.

We implemented our CPS revenue policy, and I'll talk about that in the next slide.

And we also looked at increasing five fees and fines to add new revenues to our general fund.

So this table illustrates the impact of those actions that we took during the summer to balance our budget.

So you can see our starting point was a deficit of about 172 million dollars over the two years.

We did experience a reduced property taxes, which I'll talk about in the next slide, but we experienced an irregular drop in property values as more residents appeal their taxes as well as take advantage of our homestead exemptions.

So when we presented the trial budget, and uh compared to our proposed budget, our property tax dropped about 12 million dollars in about two months.

Um, our off-system sales, so city council has implemented a policy for CPS where we have our base CPS revenues as well as off-system revenues.

So off system revenues are that those revenues or those revenues that we receive as CPS sells energy to the market.

So they sell to ERCOT when they have generated more capacity than what San Antonio needs.

So that's what we call our off-system sales.

So the city council has said anything over 10 million dollars will be reserved for future discussions with council, but we had projected about 69 million dollars in off-system sales over those three years that would be reserved for that policy discussion.

However, as we saw, we were facing this deficit.

Our proposed budget assumes that we keep the city keeps those revenues rather than giving them back to CPS.

We, as I mentioned, we had new and adjusted fees and fines of about 12 million dollars over two years, and less expense of about 111 million dollars.

So that's what I mentioned earlier.

We took a hard look at spending across departments.

We looked at areas where we just weren't spending, we reduced budgets, we looked at services that would not have a large impact to the community.

So we looked at all the ways that we could reduce spending in order to balance this budget.

So with uh the proposed budget, we are balanced as I mentioned.

So wanted to talk a little bit about our property taxes.

So we received our certified role in July, and as you can see from the table, our base value for 2026 is lower than 2025.

It's about 0.9% lower.

Our new values are slightly higher.

However, as you can see, our revenue for property tax is relatively flat over the three years.

We are not including a property tax rate increase in the proposed budget.

Our city uh rate remains at the 54.159 cents per 100 dollars in valuation.

Now, the budget does include about 152 million dollars in property tax relief for our residents.

This is comprised of exemptions to include our homestead exemptions, our overage 65 exemptions, uh, disabled persons' exemption as well as child care facilities, and it also includes the overage 65 tax freeze that was approved by by the residents.

So wanted to move on to some of the investments that are included in our 2026 budget.

So every year we work with city council as well as our community to develop the priorities for the upcoming budget.

So this year, as we have done the past two years, we did a statistically valid survey of our residents, as well as holding a goal setting session with city council to develop those priorities.

And from those two uh surveys and the goal setting session, we identified the following budget priorities, which include homelessness, infrastructure, affordable housing, public safety, animal care service, and city employee compensation.

So wanted to start with homeless services because we saw that as a priority for both city council as well as the community.

So the budget establishes a new homeless services and strategy department, leveraging existing city resources.

This office will be led by our chief housing officer.

We have about 30.5 million dollars in direct investment for our homeless services.

So this includes outreach, it includes homeless encampment, it includes a low barrier shelter.

So as you may recall, we have funded a low barrier shelter for the past two years through ARPA funding.

This budget continues funding for that, about 4.8 million dollars, and it continues funding for one year as we develop long-term, a long-term shelter plan in collaboration with non-partners for city council consideration next summer.

Additionally, uh, we are increasing the frequency of our abatements.

We are anticipating to do about 1,300 abatements this year in fiscal year 2026.

Our next is our public works department.

Uh, Mike will talk a little bit more about this, but this proposed budget splits the public works departments into two.

So we have our public works department will be focused on maintaining infrastructure to include streets, sidewalks, drainage, and traffic systems, and our capital delivery department will be focused on delivering those projects.

Included in this budget is about 500,000 to revamp the street maintenance program using data-driven strategies and best practice so that we can ensure long-term results in our street maintenance program.

So included in the budget for street maintenance is about 122 million dollars.

This funding remains flat as compared to 2026 2025.

With this funding, we're going to be able to do over 1,400 projects and maintain over 400 miles of streets.

Additionally, we have uh 17 million dollars for sidewalk investment.

This will provide uh construction funding for 21 miles of new sidewalk and 11 miles of sidewalk repairs throughout the community.

Affordable housing is another uh priority of both the community and city council.

The budget includes about 30.4 million dollars in affordable housing and operating, so general fund as well as grants.

And the budget continues implementing implementation of our strategic housing implementation plan.

Our SHIP goal uh is to produce about 31, I'm sorry, 28,000 homes by 2031, and we are estimated by the end of fiscal year 2026 to have about 13,000 anticipated to be constructed under constructed or in the pipeline, and this represents about 47% of that goal.

Other initiatives that are included, uh we are continuing the funding for our rental assistance program as well as our major and minor repair program.

Now moving into public safety, uh so our police department is about 630, uh almost 631 million dollars in the general fund.

The budget includes 53 new police officers.

So 28 are included for a new substation that is being built in District 3 at South Flora substation, and 25 for citywide active patrol.

So a couple years ago, city council uh adopted a plan to get to a goal of 60 percent proactive time and 40 percent reactive time.

So, what this means is that when a patrol officer is is on duty, 60 percent of his time is proactive work, and 40 percent is actually responding to calls because right now that is flipped.

Right now we're at 40 percent proactive and 60 percent reactive, so we want to flip that goal.

We needed to we in order to flip that goal, we need to add about 360 officers over five years with the 2026 budget.

We will have added 190 of those officers.

As I mentioned earlier, uh we are uh reorganizing 65 vacant park and airport police, and they will become they will become SAPD uniformed officers.

And as a result of these new positions that are coming online in 2026, we will be holding six academy classes and hoping to graduate about 270 graduates.

Now, this includes filling the position the new positions as well as attrition as as people retire.

For fire, the general fund budget is about 428 million dollars.

This budget includes 12 new firefighters to add squad units at two of our busiest stations to include fire station 10 and 21.

It also includes 1.4 million dollars for a needs assessment that will focus on uh staffing, equipment, and facilities, and then 291,000 is included for drones that will provide situational awareness, map fire perimeter, and identification of hotspots during fires.

And my last slide is animal care services.

So our animal care service budget is about 33, over 33 million dollars.

In 2026, animal care services will continue to protect our community through education and enforcement while focusing on positive outcomes for animals.

So there are several initiatives that we've been funding over the past uh several years.

Uh, one of the the main ones is our response to critical calls.

So two years ago, we were responding to about four out of every 10 critical calls that were made.

So we get about 50,000 critical calls each year.

At that time, we were spending uh responding to about four out of the ten.

We've been adding resources over the past two years to increase that call rate because council uh directed staff to get to 100 percent.

So we've added resources by uh the second by the um by 2026, we will be at 100 percent in the last quarter.

Another uh initiative that we have been focused on is our spay neuter surgeries.

So in 2025, we added two spay neuter surgery clinics, one on the west side, one on the east side, those have opened, and as a result, we are anticipating over 41,000 spay neuter surgeries between the city, what the city can provide as well as our partners.

And that concludes uh some of our initiatives that are included in the 2026 budget, and I'll turn it over to uh Mike Shannon for the Capital.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, everyone.

It's good to see you all.

Um again, I'm Mike Shannon, uh director now of our capital delivery department.

It's a new department that's been created uh this fiscal year uh to address uh some uh new focus on a lot of the capital work that we have going around the city.

So I'll talk a little bit about that.

So uh as Justina mentioned, uh we have now two departments.

Uh those of you that have been around for a while here in San Antonio.

This has happened before where we have had two uh different departments working on public works uh infrastructure maintenance and a lot of the um thousands of miles of streets that we have to maintain and drainage infrastructure, uh sidewalks, etc.

traffic lights.

Um but uh we're creating the capital delivery department uh with um about 188 of the existing positions that are in public works will move to this department, and we really will be focused on our bond work, right?

Uh every five years or so uh we asked the voters to approve large-scale projects in a wide variety of city infrastructure needs, streets, drainage, uh city facilities, libraries, fire stations, et cetera.

And um, you know, the last one in 2022 was the largest we've ever had at 1.2 billion.

Um but at the end of the day, the city's growing uh faster and bigger every day.

More people are moving here, more roads are being built.

Uh the ones that we have are need more maintenance.

Uh so the the idea here is uh for our department of capital delivery to focus on those large-scale uh projects and and and really making sure they're done on time within budget with some additional communication out to residents and our stakeholders and our businesses, um, and also plan for future bonds.

And now our public works will still have almost 700 uh employees that are out there maintaining our existing infrastructure uh daily.

And uh by splitting them apart, the idea is that each team will be able to focus a little bit more on their side of uh the projects, and uh but uh I will tell you there's there'll be a lot of collaboration.

I've been uh assigned over to this new department now for just a couple of weeks and uh working with our existing team, and uh so there's a lot of work, a lot of excitement about uh this change.

Uh but the idea is to do things a little bit more efficiently and better moving forward.

Uh so again, this was the priorities that I talked to our mayor and city council about uh and our city manager uh for our capital delivery really on time and within budget.

We just have to spend our city's tax uh dollars uh and those bond dollars uh uh wisely.

Uh, there's more and more projects, they're they're more and more difficult.

Uh that they're more and more complex, so a little bit more focused on on time and within budget.

Most of them are falling that category, but we've had some that have not uh for a variety of reasons.

So uh that'll be our number like one A priority.

One B has to be communicating to stakeholders.

So those of you in neighborhoods and or on business corridors, construction affects all of us, and um, we do a lot of communication now, but really the demand is we need to do more.

The standard needs to be over communication, not just communication, and it has to land well, it has to be often early and often as that construction projects change, and um, so uh that'll be our key focus.

That's our one B focus.

Uh certainly improved some project uh estimating tools that we have.

That's usually at the start of a project, right?

If we're gonna estimate the time, especially the the dollars, um, you know, there's some improvements I think we can do there.

And then uh we have some strategies listed there, but uh some of those uh again, the reorg um you were already already working on a new communication plan.

I'll work with our city uh leadership, um, our our elected officials, our city leadership at the city manager's office.

Uh but we're already going out to communities and and I'm talking to business owners about you know what's working well, but really what's not working well, and how we can address those uh on our projects moving forward.

Uh here's our proposed budget for our capital department.

It's 250 million dollars, um, and about 200 uh 21 of that, almost 22 of that is actually the capital dollars going towards the projects that we'll be working on this year.

Um about 28 million there.

Uh you see, is as our operating cost for the 188 staff.

It's broken up there into our drainage projects, parks projects, um, municipal facilities, right?

The streets, uh, and then we have vertical project delivery and our support services.

So uh that aligns with our bond projects, and I'll talk about that a little bit on the next slide or two.

So I just said about 250 million dollars is the capital department.

We'll be we'll be delivering uh working on those projects, design, getting construction started, finishing them off.

But take a step back, there's over 1.1 billion dollars worth of capital projects that the city is working on this year.

So out of that $4 billion budget that Justina talked about, 1.1 billion is capital construction dollars or capital dollars.

The largest one uh is the airport, of course.

You've all heard about the airport terminal expansion, uh, but over 600 million of that of this year is really towards that.

So that is ramping up, the construction is starting.

Uh, a lot of dollars will go to that uh so that we can hit those deadlines over the next couple years.

Uh but streets and city facilities and drainage, the housing bond.

You remember the housing bond uh in 22, 150 million dollars of our largest uh uh housing bond in uh uh was uh was in the 22.

So 39 million of that will be spent this year working on those uh technologies, some IT stuff and parks.

But that's just an idea of how it's all split up, uh, but really a lot of capital money in the budget this year, improving and working on all those uh city infrastructure needs and important projects.

Just to reset you, I talked about the 22 bond program.

Remember that was 1.2 billion.

If you go back to 2007, remember we were doing 500 million dollar bonds, and then it went to like 800 million a couple times, and then 1.2 billion dollars.

So bigger, more projects, more complex.

Um, and you see how the the the six uh areas that we uh we had votes on uh and how it's all broken up, but a lot of street work, bridges, sidewalks, of course, uh drainage, parks, recreation, affordable housing again.

That was the 150, uh public safety facilities, of course, uh, whether that's animal uh control, uh fire stations, uh public uh I think with police stations we talked about, and then libraries and cultural facilities.

That's how it's broken up.

But 187 projects were approved in that bond uh a few years ago.

We do track uh our bond progress, and uh what what you see here is about uh just under half are uh complete or under construction, and that was as of July.

It'll grow to uh 65 percent here in the next month or two.

Um but what what happens in any five year period?

The first part of that bond cycle is either purchasing land but a lot of design, right?

The first year or two is a lot of design work on these projects.

We start transitioning in that third and fourth year to get some of the smaller projects complete.

The larger projects are under construction as we work towards that, usually fifth and final year.

Most of the projects are built, some bleed over.

For example, we do have a few of the 2017 bond projects that are still underway.

Uh those are larger, more complicated, uh, maybe had some hiccups, uh, but that's how it typically works.

But we do track, and that's something that we'll continue to work on is how we can get these done not only on time, but how we can get them quicker, right?

And I think that'll um certainly build more trust as we go into the next bond uh cycle.

Uh I did share with uh the council, mayor and council just share with you uh just some.

There's a handful of the projects that we'll see that'll uh start construction this year, and you can see the list there.

I tried to pick some from each of the council districts.

I mean, all these projects, they're all over town.

Uh again, this is only a sampling of them, but uh there's the police substation is a very um important piece to some of those public safety goals.

So we'll start the construction of that.

Uh I mentioned the ACS, it's not on here, but they're uh building a new vet hospital to really improve the services that our ACS uh team, animal care team can provide to the community.

So that's a big priority.

But a lot of drainage work, parks works you see here, so getting those uh underway under construction uh is critical.

And then uh some will go live this year.

We'll finish the construction this this upcoming year.

And again, similarly, just a few examples of them, some park work, uh, some work at the zoo, uh PED mobility, pedestrian mobility, a lot of sidewalk improvements, um, some park uh work.

I was at a meeting last night talking about the Opie Snaval Park Project expansion of a pretty cool bike park that's happening over there.

So some of those will come online this year, and that's our job is to uh not only design them well, get them going under construction, but deliver them uh to the community, uh, these important projects.

So, one of the items that uh we did discuss and is under discussion, just let you all know.

So uh if you pay attention to this, uh we we've been on a five-year cycle for bond uh votes and bond packages for since 2007, right?

2007.

Uh one of the things that's being discussed right now with our mayor and council at the city manager's office, is uh moving that up to 2026 and maybe looking at four-year bond cycles.

Uh, there's some uh there's some benefits to that.

There's uh probably some cons to that too, but that's in discussion.

So uh for a lot of us that may have been thinking about maybe May 2027.

Uh, we're now actually thinking of what we could possibly do in May of 26 or or November of 26, having a vote earlier.

Uh so the team is already working on that.

There's a lot of work that we have to do, project development identifying needs.

We know of a lot of projects already that are the next phases of some of our projects.

Some some projects like some of our drainage projects have you know a handful or half a dozen uh phases, and we're only on phase three, and we've been working on it for 10 years.

Uh, but others we have some new uh needs that we'll identify at the staffing level or with departments.

Uh we'll work through that with the city council.

There's a significant community input.

If you anybody uh remembers the community bond committees, uh those are uh important part.

We need the community's input as we wrestle, which ones uh that we put out uh to city council to put on the list for vote, and then project approval has to happen a couple months before a call uh a call for a vote.

So there's a timeline there, each one of those takes a few months, uh one or one to three months.

So hitting uh hitting a May uh 2026 would be very challenging, but possible.

Uh maybe in November, a little bit more doable.

Uh but that's the conversation that's happening at the city leadership level and our elected officials.

So more to come.

So again, there's our department summary uh for our capital projects.

We just have to keep working hard to uh get these projects on, you know, done on time, delivered on time within our budget.

Um, and then that overcommunication is really key with include with it and uh with improved uh cost estimating.

Now, I'm not gonna hand it back to Justina because I think I can handle this.

Uh next steps in the budget process for the city is uh August, there's what we've already done.

Uh but we're finishing up our work sessions.

There's one going on right now.

I know Justina's gonna run uh to help with that.

Uh there's a couple budget uh rate hearings, but next week, next Thursday, City Council, and there'll be a few more meetings in between.

Uh they'll uh look to adopt the FY26 budget, and then October 1 is our new fiscal year.

So I think that's my last slide.

But before I hand it back to you, uh Mr.

Chairman, uh, I do want to say this change this change for me and and our Department of Development Services and Capitol happened very quickly.

So I did not get to say thank you personally to the work that you all do.

Um being a board uh a commissioner on one of our boards, you you you give us a lot of time, energy, effort, and uh staff.

We we know it.

Uh I know it as director, uh a former director, and uh I probably didn't say it enough, but thank you so much for what you do for the city.

Uh it's critical to the work that we do here to make our city better every day.

So I will just say thank you on the record and uh really appreciate all of you.

Thank you, Mike.

And congratulations, and thank thank you for your commitment to the city.

I know you speaker had some other efforts with ACS as well.

So all the work that the staff does here is much appreciated.

So do we have any commissioner questions?

I'll just open it up if you have any Commissioner DeSuki.

Um thanks for both of you for the uh presentations.

My first time to hear it.

Um I believe it's a lot of fork to put all those together.

Uh any potential uh funding or increase in the medical uh services.

And uh we had this also the flooding things that happened to the city.

Have there any also funding towards mitigation toward that?

And the last question if federal funding that been used to supplement some of the project that we currently have and later you find that the federal funding is not coming, how you fill in these gap.

Um I'll try to tackle that.

Um I'll tackle the drainage.

Certainly, drainage is one of our top priority.

It has been certainly with some of the recent events locally and uh just around uh the region, uh, some of the tragedies.

So it remains a significant priority.

The money that's in this year's budget uh allocated to our drainage maintenance and our projects that are on the list, um that that is still there.

Uh it'll be a heavy priority on our next bond.

That's one of the reasons possibly moving the bond to 26 and not waiting to 27.

Uh, and we are looking for uh not only state but federal help uh with some of the funding uh drainage repairs and um projects that we have on our list.

So for example, I'll just tell you I was working on a project uh where we have submitted to the state a request.

I think a couple years ago we we submitted 50 drainage projects that we we uh we wanted some help funding with.

Uh they got some scores, I think 14 uh our potentials out of that 50.

So we're always looking for money at the state and federal level for that.

looking for uh not only state but federal help uh with some of the funding uh drainage repairs and um projects that we have on our list so for example i'll just tell you i was working on a project uh where we have submitted to the state a request I think a couple years ago we we submitted 50 drainage projects that we we uh we wanted some help funding with uh they got some scores I think 14 uh our potentials out of that 50 so we're always looking for money at the state and federal level for that so that's gonna remain a top priority uh at from the mayor the council and our city leadership um so I think I think the answer is uh we're looking for all the money we can to do as much drainage work that we can but we have about a four billion dollar uh drainage need if you if you take all of the projects that we think we need with all the floodplain uh and and new intensity levels and existing homes and buildings in that um it's about four billion dollars worth of need uh so we're always looking for uh money to do it and uh and I think that's why you'll see always a lot of drainage projects on our list each and every year so um your last question repeating medical concern you want to touch that sure are um are you just to clarify for firefighters like medical response medical services we are growing as a city as you mentioned we are increasing so it is definitely an increase of medical services expansions uh so I didn't see that in the budget uh sure so we so the city provides EMS services so emergency medical response services those are funded through the fire department uh most of their calls are medical service calls uh we are adding two squad units um and the squad units are at our at two of our busiest stations metal uh that receive more more of the medical calls so what squad units do is they allow a smaller unit to go out to respond to those medical calls that may not be as as big or they can be handled on a on a smaller scale leaving the our large apparatus like the actual EMS transport unit or fire engines to respond to those larger medical calls in terms of hospitals if that okay so a city that's more of the uh university health system um and so we provide that EMS response um and they will transport them to the hospitals to to deal with any medical emergencies does that answer your question so the university hospitals and all those facilities does not fall into the project correct okay and then I did just want to add to Mike's uh comment there's about 11.4 million dollars allocated to three drainage projects that were impacted as part of the uh June floods so it includes Grissom Road uh old O'Connor Road and Bidal Creek great uh any further comments yeah well yeah I'm sorry the loss of potential funding gaps oh yeah no okay so federal funding gap no we're we're we're very uh conscious of some changes with uh federal funding and um I I think uh one of the things that just you talked about uh for example was some of those grant funded positions were related to grants that either either expired or maybe are no longer available because of some of that uh but if we have matching funds at the federal level um you know we if if that gets pulled that could that could actually kill a project um so I could do some research and figure out which ones uh if that's happened to recently I'm not I'm not aware of any of those but uh but that is a concern at I think it came up at some of the budget conversations with the city manager uh we have to pay attention to what's happened at the federal level so just we've been um impacted some on our operating side so our immunizations uh grants have been reduced a couple of our air quality um have been reduced but on the on the infrastructure side we haven't have been impacted as of yet but we continue to watch that we actually have a weekly committee that um meets includes the city manager the uh city attorney's office so we're tracking those grants and working um to ensure that any impact uh as a result of a loss of grant we can communicate with the city manager as well as with city council mr mr money yeah and just just for the commissioner's uh information uh 2024 the universe university health system was about three billion dollars from the county and that's primarily where that that is budgeted for so I think it's tax there's also sales tax revenue that goes towards the district but the primary administrative body is the county commissioner's court I have a couple of questions um both of these I think will be for Justina um so I wanted to if we could go back to the um homelessness slide is that possible yeah thank you homeless services slide so um I'm curious about um you mentioned I think you said something like 1300 abatements over the course of the year that's that's like four a day yes so how is that calculated is that per site or is that per individual boundary within a larger site so it's 1300 across the city so we have um there's certain areas that are reoccurring sites I believe there's about 22 that are reoccurring that they're gonna do on a there's 10 that are high priority that they're gonna do weekly

Um so I wanted to if we could go back to the um homelessness slide is that possible thank you homeless services slide so um I'm curious about um you mentioned I think you said something like 1300 abatements over the course of the year that's that's like four a day yes so how is that calculated is that per site or is that per individual boundary within a larger site so it's 1300 across the city so we have um there's certain areas that are reoccurring sites I believe there's about 22 that are reoccurring that they're gonna do on a there's ten that are high priority that they're gonna do weekly um there's another and I'm sorry it's ten that are high priority 22 that will be done on a bi weekly so every other week and then what what happens is we'll get 311 calls that say there's an encampment at this location and our what happens is our um what will be the homeless strategic uh the new department they have homeless outreach teams that will go out to communicate with those in the encampment to work with them to get them try to get them into a housing situation either through the low barrier shelter haven for hope or Sam Ministries and then Solid Waste Department goes out and they clean the the encampment so it's throughout the city so it's not just um a situation where people get chased off and all of their belongings are collected no so we have a team that goes out there's a homeless encampment team that works that is will be part of the homeless strategy department they go out first there's a notice too they there's a notice that uh encampment will be cleaned then the outreach team goes out works with the uh the people living in the encampment to get them some housing or help a lot of times it takes several times um to gain that trust with those individuals but the um the goal is to get them into a shelter okay thank you um and then um looking at the um police department budget um i noticed the the increase of 360 added positions are all of those officer positions or are some of them civilian positions no those are all patrol okay and what percentage overall increase of officers does that 360 represent so we have about 22893 officers 2800 or 22800 uh 2893 are approved within the 2026 budget um I'd have to get that per I don't know that percentage off so this is about like a 15 percent increase maybe I'd have to okay but yeah that's about 300 of the 2893 thank you okay any other comments again just to appreciate taking the time it's a lot of work and you know I'm sure your crystal ball gets a little fuzzy sometimes when you're trying to figure out do we are we're gonna have federal funding is the state legislature gonna impact things is the city growth going to increase or decrease so thank you for the work you're doing and we appreciate your time today so thank you I do want to uh director staff updates what no staff updates for today all right it is 245 we are adjourned