On April 14, 2026, the Audit Committee of the San Antonio City Council convened at 2:02 p.m. to approve minutes and receive briefings on three major contracts related to downtown mobility and the proposed Sports and Entertainment District. The meeting concluded at 3:07 p.m.
All right, we're gonna go ahead and begin. Then time is now 2 02 p.m. on April 14th, 2026, and the meeting of the audit committee is now called to order. Madam Clerk, please call the roll. Councilmember Mesa Gonzalez. Councilmember White. Cit Citizen Member Taino. Citizen Member Pacheco. Chair Viegran. Here, Madam Chair, we have quorum. Great. I'll be allowing members uh of this members, speakers, two rounds of comments per item. We have three minutes the first round and three minutes the second round. Um first item on the agenda is approval of the minutes. Are there any corrections to the minutes? No. Can I get a motion and a second to approve the minutes? I've got a motion and a second. All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed say no. Motion carries. Madam Clerk, are there any members of the public signed up to speak? We have no members of the public signed up to speak. All right. Uh we have individual items. We have one pre-solicitation and two post-solicitation briefings. Uh, Madam Clerk, please read the caption for item two. I'm sorry, am I going too fast? Item two is a briefing on the release of a solicitation for one contract to provide the city of San Antonio with a downtown accessibility and mobility study for an estimated total value of $500,000 for one year with one option, one one year option to renew. All right. Can we get the staff presentation? So uh good afternoon, uh Chair and Committee members. Uh bear with me this afternoon. I think the allergies are getting the best of me, so I'm gonna try to hopefully my voice makes it all the way through here. But um, this is a pre-solicitation uh briefing on a downtown proposed downtown accessibility and mobility study. Um we want to engage a consultant to do this study to look at vehicular and pedestrian traffic scenarios. If we think about the current state of downtown, and we have events, sometimes we have challenges moving vehicles and people in and out of downtown. If you add into that the proposed ballpark here on the northwest end of downtown, a proposed sports and entertainment district on the southeastern part of downtown, that would include a number of venues. Both of those developments would include a lot of mixed use development. So we really want to step back and look at how we move vehicles and people in and out of downtown. And this is what this study would look at. Um initially, when we talked about this back in January, it was styled more as a parking feasibility study. We've really broadened it. Um really parking is just one of those solutions that we would be looking at in a broader mobility context. We really want to look at transit, we want to look at um ride share, we want to look at micromobility, we want to look at all of those options to come up with comprehensive solutions in terms of how we manage uh this traffic within a downtown um footprint. You know, at the end of the day, we really want to try to comprehensively align our built infrastructure. So we are um as it relates to the downtown sports entertainment district looking at some of the needed physical infrastructure improvements that we need to make. Some of that would support our partners like VIA to help buses get in and out to support park and ride, um, but other uh infrastructure improvements downtown as well. We're in the process of updating those assumptions and our planning around that and plan to come back to council in um uh late summer, probably in the August September time frame.