Good afternoon, everyone.

The time is now 2.08 p.m.

on Wednesday, January 28th, 2026 in the City of San Antonio B session is called to order.

Madam Clerk, can you please read the roll?

Councilmember Corps.

Councilmember Via Gran.

Here.

Councilmember Mungia.

President.

Councilmember Castillo.

Councilmember Galvan.

Here.

Councilmember Alderete Gavito.

Here.

Councilmember Mesa Gonzalez.

Councilmember Spears.

Councilmember White.

Mayor Jones.

Mayor Pro Tim Mickey Rodriguez.

Present.

Mayor Pro Tim, we have quorum.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

This meeting will hear a briefing on some solicitations for the San Antonio International Airport Airport.

Eric, do you want to get a start as a question?

Yes, sir.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, uh, Mayor and Council.

So today's B session focuses on three high profile solicitations.

Uh recommended design contracts for improvements to the airfield and terminal A and B, as well as a pre-solicitation on a centralized receiving and distribution center.

So it's just gonna walk through all three.

Um this is in keeping with our uh lumping all airport issues in together.

And um I'll turn it over to Jesus.

Good afternoon, Mayor Pro Tem Council.

Hesu Science, Director of Airports for the City of San Antonio.

Um I'd be remiss if I didn't bring this up.

Um so we are announcing three new nonstops, one of which is incredibly attractive to us, which is Raleigh Durham.

Um it's one of our top three targeted markets.

We probably have close to a hundred people that travel in and out of uh San Antonio every day to go to Raleigh Durham.

And uh Memphis, Tennessee is a great addition as well, and Pensacola as we look at uh what Breeze does, over 170 routes across the entire country, and they are starting to move international as well.

I know they were here in 2021, but excited to launch this.

We encourage everyone, not only is it uh really good for San Antonio, but the prices are incredibly uh low when you look at being able to connect into Pensacola and Memphis at 49 dollars one way or getting to Raleigh Durham for 79 dollars one way.

Uh the flight from Pensacola uh will be two times weekly, and then there will be another flight that will go in and connect into Tampa.

So you don't have to get off the plane and you can go into Pensacola and then get into Tampa.

So that's a good opportunity for that one as well.

So uh thank you guys for all your support as we look at our overall platform.

We are now at 50 destinations.

Um excited about the growth that we've had.

I know we've shown you guys a number of times of where we were post-COVID.

We had a total of about 33 destinations, and we are now at 50.

So I give a lot of credit to Jacob Tyler, our Air Service Development Administrator.

He's done an incredible job and continues to work.

In fact, he can't be here today for the announcement because he's working with another airline right now.

So uh we continue to move in that direction.

Today's B session briefing is two post-solicitations and one pre-solicitation briefing.

Uh, the airfield design services, and I'll go in through a little bit more details and some technicality about why that's important for us.

The post-solicitation for the architectural design services for terminal A and B is about the renovations that we're doing in Terminal A and Terminal B so that the entire airport system looks the same way.

So we are already starting the design work to revamp Terminal A and Terminal B.

And then the last one is a pre-solicitation for Central Receiving and Distribution Center for San Antonio International Airport.

And I'll get into a little bit of discussion about that because that's new for us.

But as we establish new design standards for the way we do things here at the airport, I'll tell you why this is important, not only from a safety, a security, but the sterilization of materials that come in and out of the airport.

The post-solicitation for the airfield design, you're gonna hear me say ASIP, you're gonna hear it called us ASIP a lot.

It was a request for call uh qualifications.

It was 40 million uh on the contract value, and the funding sources for that come from FAA grants and aviation capital funds.

What's important to note about the ASIP is this is the preliminary work that we are doing as you look at the two parallel runways, which are 13 right and 13 left and getting to a parallel configuration so that we can increase our overall capacity of our operations.

We're not just thinking about 2025.

Um a lot of credit to Tim and Sam and the entire team on the development side for what they've been doing on this to get us prepared for the direction that we're heading in 2040 and in 2050 to ensure the airport is ready for the future growth that we're experiencing.

It is um the decommissioning and working towards making 422 into a taxiway, and that is important to us because uh, like I mentioned, not only does it add capacity, it's supported by the FAA, and the FA wants us to move in that direction.

But the last piece, it's you know it removes the deconfliction that we have with Randolph, and that is really important for us as we want our military efforts to continue to grow.

Um I know Jeff and I have been talking uh with Jeff Webster and many others about the importance of taking this from SA to DC.

So we're putting a lot of documents together so for those of you that go from SA to DC can talk about the importance of why we're moving in this direction.

I I want to emphasize this isn't a wand that waves and it happens.

This is a lot of work that we have to get through, so it will not happen tomorrow, but this is the preliminary steps that gets us there.

The initial evaluation consisted of two that were pretty tight.

Uh as you look at uh Kimley Horn and R S and H overall, they both were pretty well matched for that reason.

We took them to the final evaluation and performed interviews, and Kimley Horn again uh came out uh as a successful respondent, and um with your approval, we'll bring that to council once we finalize this today.

Um I'll go into the next post-solicitation, which is for the architectural design services of Termal A and Termal B.

And that is uh an in-depth reconfiguration of what we're doing with Termal A and Terminal B.

Um, while I'd love to show you all the renderings that we have of what it can look like.

We don't want to show you something that we haven't fully vetted.

So we're working on doing the early design work uh for that.

It was a solicitation that went out as an RFQ.

It's a $35 million contract, and the funding sources for that are the aviation capital funds.

The most important component to this solicitation is really bringing A and B up to what C is gonna look like, and I can't emphasize that enough.

Why is it important?

Because it aligns with C, it implements the airport design standards that we now have established.

If you haven't driven by the airport lately, you can start to see some of the color scheme changes with the ground facility, some fencing that changes as we start to you know demolish the area for the parking garage as we build out the new terminal C.

All of those will be in sync in in sync with the design standards.

This is the effort to take Termal A and Terminal B in that same direction while upgrading and modernizing many elements of the security checkpoint, the ticketing counters, and then long-term concessions as we look at the the work that we're gonna be doing into Termal A and Terminal B.

It elevates the passenger experience, whether we're looking at restrooms or whether we're looking at uh hold rooms, bringing those into you know what is today 1,900 square feet for 727, 717 planes.

We're gonna bring that up to you know large planes so that we can have 3,000 square feet in each one of those gate areas, and it addresses a number of infrastructure needs that we have, whether that be mechanical, electrical, or plumbing.

There was quite the response uh to this uh evaluation.

We had 13 respondents, uh, which was I mean, we could have hired any of them.

They all are very credible, international, well-known architectural design firms across the entire country.

Um I told somebody on the team the other day we had more for Thermal A, Terminal B renovations than we had for Termal C on the respondents.

So people are excited about being here in San Antonio and working as we continue to progress forward with uh the help that you all have given us.

Uh we we we brought that down to a total of eight as we looked at everyone that was in there, and we brought all eight into a room and interviewed.

It took us a day and a half to go through that effort, interview each of them, and ended up with help uh helmouth, Obada, and Cassabaum.

They're HOK.

Um, I normally don't say it that way.

So HOK was a successful respondent.

Um as we looked at it, the top three or four were all really good.

Um, but we felt like when we looked at the renderings, there's cost associated to it, what they could do.

As you've seen us with the terminal C, we are at 90% design.

We are on scope on schedule on budget.

We want to move in that direction with a C-MAR and a master architect, the same way with what we're doing for A B renovation.

So cost was a big factor as we as we looked at some of the ideas that they had and you know their overall experience into what they've done in specific renovations at other terminals across the globe.

They include West East Design Group, which is San Antonio based, ARUP, uh, which is out of uh New York.

A lot of these teams have done work, not only in LaGuardia and Terminal B for a lot of their uh redevelopments that they've done.

Uh CAET is another group and CNG Engineering, which is here from San Antonio based as well.

So they put a good complement of a team together, and we're excited to begin working with them.

On the pre-solicitation briefing for centralized receiving in the distribution center, um, we call that the CRDC.

You'll hear us say it that way as we tell you we have new design standards.

Why is the CRDC so important to us?

Today, we take out the trash to the front door, right?

Um, as people are coming in and out, there's so many things that we do in the airport that we want to change as we move forward.

So, what we are doing here is taking this to an off site uh facility at the airport.

It's all going to be sterilized, it's gonna be security controlled, and as we bring in food, beverages, consumables, non-food uh products, and various concession air items, we want to bring that in through the freight elevator and through the back doors.

We want to take out the trash to the back doors.

So as we've designed the new terminal C and we start moving towards A and B, this is the direction that we're moving towards with this uh solicitation.

It is a request for proposals from a delivery method standpoint.

Estimated contract value is 11.25, a 10-year agreement with um one five-year renewal option, and the funding sources will come out of the OM funds.

The CRDC evaluation committee consists of uh Mr.

Jeff Coyle, the assistant city manager, Michael Garnier, the assistant uh director of aviation, Rick Neal, who oversees the aviation concession management team, Virginia Coborubias, who oversees contracts and fiscal uh at the airport, and Ernesto Ortiz, who's the deputy assistant federal security director for uh TSA.

30 points for experience, background, and qualifications, 30 for understanding the project and the proposed map management plan, 20 for pricing, 10 for local preference, five for veteran-owned small business, and five for small uh business prime.

Our request from council today is to support move forward with the contract awards for airfield design services for ASIP and architectural design, um, the services for Termal A and Terminal B and the release of what we call the CRDC solicitation.

We thank you for the support and advocacy for federal funding that we've been able to get with FAA and the future development of not only the airfield, but also what we've been able to do with the terminals and the existing priorities that we've established.

It's a very strategic plan over the last three to five years of what we have put together with the city's federal legislative program, whether that be airport infrastructure or the overall military protection of our jobs and our military personnel that are here in San Antonio.

The next B session presentation, I think we're scheduled sometime in April is the I I apologize, I don't remember the date, but uh we'll do the construction manager at risk as we talk about the master architect for Termal A, Terminal B renovations.

We'll do a construction manager at risk for Termal A and Termal B.

So we will start moving forward with that.

We'll bring that for a post-solicitation.

We'll bring the post-solicitation of the MRO, which is a maintenance repair and overhaul.

We're in the middle of scoring that as well today.

Uh we'll have a pre-solicitation briefing on Terminal C concessions.

I know it's hard to believe.

I was telling some of the council members early.

We are 28 months away from opening the new Terminal C.

Um, and as we get ready for that, we've got to start aligning the concessions.

We have 41,000 square feet of space that we're going to be uh releasing for concessions.

And if you haven't read the articles, whether it's any of the world renowned chefs I call them under Chef Johnny and everybody that's been involved with this, it's incredible.

Everyone says, How did you do that, Jesus?

And I'm like, well, the city did it.

It's not one person.

I mean, everybody was involved.

So kudos to all of us for the work that we're doing to support local and helping them, you know, continue to grow here in San Antonio.

And then a pre-solicitation briefing on the TDP Airport Access Roadways program.

So as you've seen the map that we show you on all the work that we're doing, this is all the roadway work that we're going to be doing, uh, eliminating ingress and egress congestions that we have as we start to finalize what we're doing in Terminal C a brand new parking garage, new terminal A.

We want to align the new roadway so it can match the footprint of the overall complex.

That completes my presentation.

Thank you guys so much, and I'll make myself available for any questions that you may have.

Thank you.

Thank you, Astrois.

Thank you so much for the presentation and uh congratulations on the three new direct flights with Breeze Airways.

I think every new direct flight that we get represents a tremendous economic opportunity for us.

Of course, thank you to staff uh for all of your efforts and to the audit and accountability committee.

Uh it is solicitation of galore over at Team Airport.

Uh so thank you.

Um I do want to go real quick to slide uh 11 and 12, if we can we'll start with 11, I guess.

So whenever I'm looking at the um these sort of evaluations, I want to see if what happens in the initial evaluation carries through in the final.

And what was most shocking to me was I think seeing PGA move from first place essentially all the way to the end.

Everything else remained fairly stable.

If you can, uh would you mind sharing a little bit like what what happened?

Yeah, so I mean, we have um all of the evaluation committee members uh individually, review all of the packages and look at all 13 submissions, and we all come together and score those as we as we move forward with that.

And then as we go through that effort and process, we're just looking at what they're putting on paper.

And one of the things that we're very specific and intentional about is when we bring them back for interviews, we're asking the hard questions, and we want to know first and foremost, what is your commitment to San Antonio?

Right.

So, how many people are you bringing here?

How focused are you?

Are you gonna bring your your general supern superintendent and is he gonna live here or is she gonna live here, or are they gonna be somewhere else?

So those are the types of examples that I can give you when we go through the interview process.

We have a number of questions.

We can certainly share those with you that we ask.

Um we spend a lot of time putting together those questions as we get into the evaluation process.

And if they don't deliver, then we can't make them what they're not.

Um, and it's important to us that we see their commitment to San Antonio, and we see that uh I like to say it all the time that they're hungry to be here with us because uh that makes the difference in the way we deliver not just the project but the entire program that we have for the airport.

Thank you.

And uh, I do see that HOK.

Uh I'm happy to see that their team includes West East Design.

They've done great work in District 2, and I think throughout the city.

Uh so it's a familiar face that uh I'm eager to see work in in this capacity.

Uh can you remind me again?

What is the feedback that you're looking for from council right now?

Basically, just supports uh move forward with the recommendations that you made and that is correct.

So um we will bring this to an A session once we uh finalize the post-solicitation with you today, and then we'll move forward with taking it to a session for your final approval.

Wonderful.

Well, uh, you have my support uh for my colleagues.

Um today we'll do um 10 minutes and five 10 minute first round, five minutes second round.

If you need to go over in your first round, you can use your second five minutes, just let me know as the time goes out.

Uh, we will start with uh council member Spears.

Thank you, Chair.

Um, excellent work.

I'm just so so proud of everything happening at the airport.

Um fully supportive of everything you've presented today when in the MTTF meeting, it was discussed how important this project is.

Our our runways are um redoing in our runways.

So I encourage all of my colleagues to really focus on that when we go to DC and talking about the need for moving this project forward.

Um it's gonna impact the whole USA if we don't keep pushing on this.

Um it will cause delays that across the nation, longer routes.

Um it's just a real big federal priority.

So I just wanted to share that with you.

And that I got the same information in a different setting.

So again, super proud of y'all.

So happy y'all are in mostly in D9.

And everything you can do, we can do to support you.

I'm I'm fully behind it.

I understand how important the airport is to San Antonio and our growth.

So I think excellent work and thank you so much.

Thank you, Councilmember Spears.

Uh, Councilmember White.

Yeah, I'll be brief as well.

Um thank you for the presentation.

Jesus, this all looks great, fully supportive.

Um, you know, as we talk about economic development for for the city, the airport's gonna play play a huge a huge role in that.

And I'm glad we're expanding our direct flights.

We need we need more of those, certainly.

Uh we've got to make it easier for people to come here for leisure and then for folks to come here for business and our people to fly elsewhere for business.

It's it's of the utmost importance, and so I'm glad we're moving forward in that regard.

Uh just a couple of questions on the um receiving and distribution center, uh, the need for this, what sort of operational efficiencies or inefficiencies are we addressing here.

So um the biggest ones are we're going to centralize where all of our products and and and goods are going to.

And it will go into a central location.

Um the RFQ is set for them to respond to us.

Uh, we're telling them you've got to be within a certain radius of the airport, and we want you to go lease some space or buy some space on the airport property.

And we want you to house all of those goods and products that are coming into the airport, but more importantly, we want it to all be sterilized, and we want as we move forward, you know, towards where we're going as we're trying to ensure everyone that's getting on what we call the sterile side of the airport.

We want everything to be sterilized uh as we move forward.

So that's a big piece.

On the operational side, because it all goes into a central location, that helps a lot of the concessions because they can store as much as they want into that location, and they can go grab it quickly from the airport and stock better, which means we don't have to have everything out in the front or in closets or in pallets out in front of the terminal where people are grabbing and moving things.

All of this comes in during the non-peak periods for them to move through freight elevators and bring the material in.

It's very similar for the trash as well.

So we have a lot of back alleys that everything will be moving on as we move forward, and that's what we're getting ready for this.

And is this something that our current concessionaires ask for?

And I I wouldn't say they're they're necessarily asking for it, but uh I would say they're excited because it gives them some cost efficiency in the storage of their products in a centralized location and their ability to go get the product.

Um there's sometimes in peak periods in the morning, they run out of water.

Yeah, so and if they don't have enough space and the existing foot foot plan footprint to get water, then they'll be able to call into this and say, I need blank blank and blank and bring that in as quickly as possible.

And this is how it works in other airports across the country.

Um there's probably about eight to ten now that have moved in that direction, and everyone's moving in that direction.

Okay.

All right, thanks.

Yes, sir.

Thank you, Councilmember White.

Uh, we have Councilmember Aldera Covido followed by Dr.

Corr.

Thank you, Chair.

Uh thank you, Jesus, for this presentation.

Yeah, also fully supportive.

Uh really the only question is, and I I feel like y'all may have given this to us at some point in the past, but it'd be good to see an updated version, really just timelines of when we're expecting all of these um milestones to take place.

One, uh it's it's helpful to us for us to communicate to residents because sometimes you know they're seeing the construction or they're seeing things go on, and so we can be able to better answer those questions, and then two for us just to have a grasp of the timelines.

I think that's great.

We can give you a schedule that we call a Gantt chart.

Yeah, GAN chart, perfect that reflects exactly what our milestones are.

Perfect.

Yeah, look forward to that.

Yes, ma'am.

That's all.

Thank you.

Thanks, sir.

Thank you, Councilmember.

Uh, Councilmember Dr.

Kore, followed by Councilmember Messi Gonzalez.

Thank you, Mayor Pratin.

Thank you, Jesus, for the presentation.

I have a couple of questions.

Um, one, I was excited to see that Kimley Horn got the first contract.

That's a 40 million dollar contract.

It's a pretty sizable amount.

Do we think that this work is gonna affect their ability to handle any of our like I know this because they're working with us on our San Pedro Springs Park Bond program, and so they have a lot of other projects that, and that's probably a different team because this is a security assessment.

But we don't foresee them being able to or affecting any of our other contracts because they're getting this work right?

No, uh, none whatsoever.

We've changed the structure as we talk about the overall organizational and architecture of Kim Lee Horn.

Um Edwin's back here behind me because he knows I interviewed him thoroughly before he came to San Antonio to make certain he was ready to do the things that we're doing on the airfield.

So uh I feel confident in their abilities and what they're doing.

And as we mentioned, this is a long-range plan.

This starts the early phasing design work, and then we'll work towards year five, year eight, year ten.

We just don't know all those answers just yet, and we gotta figure that out.

Got it.

So what I heard uh just clarify if I'm wrong.

What I heard is they're going to pro bono give us time for San Pedro Springs Park to do the design work.

That's what I think I heard.

Eric is like no, I uh I'm glad to see that that happened.

Uh for the TABRR evaluation group.

Can you tell me a little bit about the difference between the first and the second?

It's a very small uh point difference.

So I was just wondering.

And yeah, as I mentioned in the opening comments, they were all so close.

It was tough.

We sat in there for probably two hours trying to come to finalization.

Um a lot of it was focused on their ability to do when we do terminal C, which is on a brown field a day, right?

There's nothing there.

It's very easy to go in there and start putting holes in the ground and erecting pylons and doing all the vertical work that we're doing.

That's easy.

When you're doing terminal renovations, you've got to know what you're gonna close, what's gonna open, how you're gonna do that phasing.

As Eric has always told me, Jesus, when when am I gonna see some tough construction stuff so that people can you know know that we're doing a lot of work out there, right?

Um, we're getting there.

So when we start turmoil and turmoil be renovations, how are we moving all of our carriers so that everyone's in the right places?

How are we taking care of our concessionaires?

There's a lot of efforts that go into into this coordination.

Can I answer this?

Please.

I just wanted to add as one of the non-technical people on these selection committees.

What we're really doing in the interviews with designers is understanding how they think, seeing their creativity, they're coming forward with ideas about you could do this and terminal A, you could move the security here, you could do this to bump this out, and and sort of validating that against what our budget is.

So Jesus is right, we had 13 great firms, which was an awesome problem to have.

But at the end of the day, HOK really impressed us with their thought processes, some of their ideas for how we can modernize A.

We'd love to show them now, but as Jesus said, we've got to work through the costs and make sure all of it works, but they were very, very impressive in terms of the creativity they were bringing to the renovations.

That was my follow-up question.

So based on what we know with what's going on at Terminal A, do we did we give them a budget to say like present designs that would fall within this scope?

Yes, there were uh, as you I think you know, there's um in the airline deal, there's 200 million for A and 100 million for B pre-approved by the carriers.

So that's the budget we were working with in.

And one of the things HOK did was give us three different tiers.

We could do this for this much, we could do that for that much, and so we looked at all those things that we've got to do.

What was the highest tier they gave?

It was more than the budget, so it wasn't it wasn't necessarily what we'll do.

That's the work we have to do now.

But um, I think we all walked away from the conversation feeling like they understood what our needs were, they were being really creative and cost effective in how they did it, and so that's what led to them being our recommendation.

What is their recommendation for where the security should go at A?

We'll we'll follow up with you on that.

There's lots of lots of things.

We can't talk about it yet.

Okay.

Good.

Yes.

Um, okay, and then the last questions um and Jesus, maybe you can answer this, but for the points, why was the points different for the first two?

I see that there's the Federal and Small Business Prime and the Small Business Prime on this next pre-solicitation, but it wasn't there on the previous two.

Um do we know why?

Yes, maybe and a local preference program is also on that one.

Good afternoon, Toriel at Chief Financial Oscar.

There are really two different types of solicitations.

The first two are requests for qualifications based on requests for qualifications that are gonna be statutorily driven.

Also, that the and the other one that has the local and the veterans on it, it's an RFP, so it's more flexible, and we can actually incorporate those things into the evaluation.

So we're not allowed to for um request for qualifications.

No, typically not, and there's a lot of factors we look at.

One RFQs, like I mentioned, are typically statute statutorily driven.

Also, if there is depending on if it's on the air side or the land side, the FA regulates it differently, and that's considered federal funding, and so that will not allow certain preferences as well.

So there's a lot of different factors that we take into consideration.

So the first two that we just discussed, these ones that we're doing post solicitations on were both federally funded.

Um I don't know if they were federally funded or not.

Federally eligible, yes.

They're eligible for grants, council.

They're eligible.

And this next one will not be because of these points, or we already know that it is not going to be, so we can for the RFP.

Yeah.

Yeah, the RFP is funded by out of the own out of the uh MOP budgets.

And um it's an RFP, so we can actually allow those type of items in there.

If we took out, not the same that I would advocate for this, but if we took out those points, would it then be eligible for grant funding, or is this just not one of those that's not I can't answer that question.

So we we have um what was called the bipartisan infrastructure law.

Um it's always been the IIJA.

Don't ask me to give you the acronyms for IIJ.

There's so many acronyms in our industry, but we've never had the ability to have grants for vertical funding, and we've had that over the last several years.

So we want to make certain we put ourselves in a position to be able to go get that funding as we look at the way this is scored.

For the first for the the post solicitations, but that's not the same thing for the pre-solicitation.

That's correct.

Okay, okay.

All right, that's all I have.

Good job, Ms.

Seuss.

And um excited to see the pre-solicitation briefing for our terminal C for the F and B spaces, and congrats on the breeze.

Never even heard of them, but I'm glad they're here providing non-stop service.

Thanks, Mayor Pro Tem.

Thank you, Councilmember.

Uh, Councilmember Massa Gonzalez, followed by Councilmember Via Gran.

Thank you.

Uh just a quick question on the I I didn't know if uh any of these folks had gone through.

Do we have like a mentor mentee like program for any of these firms, engineering firms, have they been part of one?

Well, what we try to do, and as you see by some of the selections that we've made as we look at what was in the terminal C footprint, um we have a large contractor that brought on a local firm.

So we're trying to do that with all of these to do exactly what you're referencing so that they can start to get experience in aviation in these large projects that will help them expand across the country and go say, I built out San Antonio International Airport, I was part of this team, and we did this, and that helps them get that experience.

So we're very intentional about connecting large firms across the United States with a lot of local firms.

And I don't know if we can do this considering where we are, but is kind of create any sort of commitment that we can get from the HOK or the leading firm to have a mentorship mentorship program because right we have the School of Construction at UTSA, we have all these um good programs in higher ed, and so just to make sure that we're we're building people up from here to continue that work, I think is important.

We we we spend a lot of time working on letting our youth become familiarized with the importance of aviation, whether that be in the high school level, the collegiate level.

Um we've done in the past a number of of different we we were up to 8,000 students that we had put into a flight simulator.

As I mean Eric who does that for us, couldn't get a day off.

Everybody was I want to know how to do this, how does this work?

So those are the things that we've tried to work on, and um whether it's UTSA or you know Trinity or UIW or any of the institutions here in San Antonio, Texas ANM, San Antonio, all of them we want to we want to continue to grow the knowledge of aviation.

Okay.

Um I think that was it.

I just do we have a like a mentor mentee program through is it through public.

I'll share with you just yesterday.

I had six or seven management fellows from this office that were in here.

I I just just because the airport or even the sports and entertainment district, it's like the um what is it like the Mount Everest of projects, right?

That every firm wants, and so there we know that there's small local firms, don't necessarily have the capacity.

Um, and so just especially with these big programs, projects coming.

Um and so just especially with these big programs, projects coming, if we have something in place or we do, we do, councilwoman, and and more so on the ones, and this is good feedback for application to other solicitations.

Um HOK has West East design and CNG engineering to two uh fantastic uh companies that we do business with on a smaller scale.

Right.

So it does give them the opportunity of generally speaking, our uh their mentorship protege process um on other procurements uh looks a little bit differently than the airport.

Okay.

Um but you know, this is good feedback as we talk about potentially other large projects coming down the road.

It's it's one of the things that makes sure that as we as we solicit to Councilwoman Coors uh questions that we're soliciting in a way where we can value local, but also you know, we we we do want um we do want those that team approach because a lot of times whether we call it mentor protege, it is an opportunity for a smaller local firm to be part of that business and be able to add that to their resume and and grow that.

Okay, thank you so much.

That's all my questions.

Thank you, Councilmember Councilmember Via Gran, and she has the last person signed up.

Uh th thank you, Jesus.

Thank you for the presentation.

Uh a lot of this is gonna be technical on the I on the uh presentation.

It was a lot of information.

Congratulations on the new nonstops.

I'm very excited about that uh and very excited to see us grow.

Uh I like the first three slides.

I think that's great.

We got into the overview, post solicitation briefing, post solicitation briefing, pre-solicitation briefing.

Um when this comes presented, or if I could get the information, is you have the post solicitation briefing, it's fine with the contract.

Um, but when we get to um slide number seven and eight, um there is a difference between points between slide number seven and eight, and what I would like to know is why and who did the scoring.

So I know that it was you have a little note that says held with interviews and scoring completed.

I I think it'd be important at this point for the public and myself to know who who was on those interviews in terms of why we um Kim Lee Horn got that extra point, and R S N H uh got a point subtracted, and so there we end the first ASE ASEIP evaluation.

And so we've got our two, and these were the only two that uh applied.

That is correct.

Yeah, so if you could just get me the information of who was on that scoring team to understand why uh like they interview, they interviewed poorly.

The other thing is for them or for others in terms of understanding, hey, they lost a whole point when they did the interview or gained a whole point.

Um we move on to the post-solicitation for the architectural designs for terminal A and B.

Um this is just an aesthetic thing.

Uh if it would be nice if there's some continuation, because then we put the solicitation contract value and funding source on the bottom, and so it's kind of hard to follow.

But I did read it through the other thing, and we and the TABRR program goals, great.

Uh as we get here, I think this is kind of the questions that Councilman McKee Rodriguez is we had somebody that was was number one, but then we come back and it's like final evaluation, it's it it flips, and I'm fine with that, but again, what I'd like is the information on the uh the scoring team and kind of um why we saw that difference.

I'm I'm very familiar with West East Design Group and uh familiar with C CNG engineering, and then I have been to the Tampa terminal, so I understand that I liked that terminal, so I was like, this is experience, we see it.

But if you could just put that um somewhere in the slide, I don't want a super long presentation because I think I'll did really great with the 18, but I would like to know kind of it was in that interview process, it was in the hard questions when we asked, uh, that this is why we went with Holmouth uh uh and that group.

Okay, and then um as we get to the CRDC, this is gonna be our evaluation committee.

And can y'all pull up slide number 15?

So yeah, so this is going to be our evaluation committee for this this next level.

And just uh again, as we go through the process, understanding that this is the team.

Is this the team that's gonna do the interviews too?

Yes.

Okay.

Yeah, and I think I think that's just what I was I was following it and following it, and I was like, wait, who did the interviews?

So if you could just add that on either to the final presentation or just I I know I've seen them before, but I can't remember who it was.

But I'd like to know in terms of uh how our firms, especially in the second one where we had so many San Antonio firms, but ended up going, and I I'm fine with the one you went with because I've been to those terminals, but kind of understanding you know where the different the difference in points and have.

We'll send you a follow-up on what comes out.

Okay, thank you.

Other than that, totally in support.

I think the team that's gonna have the hard go is going to be that concession.

And if you weren't at the um EWDC or you hadn't heard about it, we're looking for some concession space for to sell all the San Antonio gear.

So uh we're really excited about that too.

So thank you, thank you for the presentation.

Thank you, Councilmember.

Any other council members would like to speak?

Hearing none, I just want to send another thank you uh for keeping the slides under 20.

You know, I was not a fan of the 67 slide presentations.

Um Eric, do you have any final words or any final takeaways?

No, okay.

The time is now 2 49 p.m.

and the meeting is adjourned.

No executive session today, but we do have five o'clock public comment.

There are several speakers signed up to speak, so please be prepared.

Thank you.