Speaker 0: The item has been called out under bills for final consideration elsewhere, and each is called accountable. 388 for a comment under pending. No items have been called out. Did I miss anything? All right. Madam Secretary, will you please put the first item on our screens? And, Councilmember Torres, will you please put councilor resolution to 79 on the floor.
Speaker 2: And the Council Resolution 2279 we.
Speaker 1: Adopted.
Speaker 0: Thank you. It has been moved and seconded. Questions or comments by members of Council. Council Member Sandbach.
Speaker 2: Did you put on 386? Correct.
Speaker 0: This is 279.
Speaker 2: Okay. So this one is an issue. Thank you, Mr. President. This one is an issue for me. I'd like to call the vote on this because a National Western Authority is something that I had been involved in way before even getting elected. And there was a huge fight from community to have representation, voting representation on the National Western Authority. In the last few months, we've lost our voting member who is a resident of the neighborhood, and we sent multiple applicants to boards and commissions to fill that seat. While I don't have any objection to the individual who was appointed the voting member as a person. I think that we missed the intent of that seat to have resident representation because the individual does not live in our neighborhood. The other person being appointed is a non-voting member of our neighborhood, and I think that's incredibly problematic and not true to the intent of this seat. So I will be a no on this, and I encourage my colleagues to honor the neighborhood and the intent of this position as the only neighborhood or only resident representation on this board and vote no on this as well, and send boards and commissions back to the drawing board to ensure that we have resident representation as a voting member on this board.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Councilmember. Next up, councilmember talks.
Speaker 2: Just a question. I don't see groping in the room.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you.
Speaker 2: Have any information.
Speaker 1: About this particular bill.
Speaker 0: And if you could go over to the iPad is the presentation.
Speaker 2: Oh, sure. Skye Stewart from the mayor's office. I have not been totally involved in this, but are happy to try and answer questions for you. Here is the.
Speaker 1: It looks like the.
Speaker 2: Residence that was in terms of women concerned about providing them as well to keeping her place for them.
Speaker 1: As well.
Speaker 2: As the resident board.
Speaker 1: Member.
Speaker 2: I believe that is correct, yes. So we're looking at every almost scenario as a community member, board.
Speaker 1: Member, but the non-voting one in.
Speaker 2: So I'm talking off the top of my head here, so I probably will need to get you a more complete answer. But the way the framework agreement set up this or before that, there is a nonresident voting member and then a community member that does not necessarily have to be from the neighborhood but should represent a certain perspective and not just the seat that Curtis house is filling. And then the neighborhood seat is a non-voting seat. So there would be no voting member who a resident of the.
Speaker 1: Parliament for the various functions.
Speaker 2: I believe that is correct. But I would really have to check back with our remaining moments in a long time, because I look at that framework agreement.
Speaker 1: And.
Speaker 2: I think concerned about that too. I have no objection to this House actually, which.
Speaker 1: Is a phenomenal individual and a.
Speaker 2: Great board member. But I do concerned that it could getting compared to a.
Speaker 1: Community block.
Speaker 2: When there's no other.
Speaker 1: Residents from the neighborhood also on the board. So I'll be in the room as well. All right.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Councilmember Councilmember Hines. Thank you, Mr. President.
Speaker 1: And Mr. Reid, thank you for your.
Speaker 0: Willingness to field these questions, even though.
Speaker 1: This isn't totally your wheelhouse to see. You know it is. Is this the board or a third of the board members are District ten residents.
Speaker 2: I do not know the answer to that off the top of my head.
Speaker 1: So I am excited. I guess I believe that that's the case. So I'm excited that a district that has an outsized sense of representation for the board and I would share some concerns as well that someone from the neighborhood is it that this opportunity has become part of the has been saying nothing about us without us? And I would like to see that at least one member of District five of that specific community is is represented. So thank you, Mr. District Councilmember.
Speaker 0: Councilmember CdeBaca.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Mr. President, I have a proposal. If Sky is able to make the has the authority to accept it. Is it possible to flip these two appointees? Because one is the voting, one is the non-voting, one is a resident, one is a nonresident. Is it possible to appoint Mr. House as the non-voting member and the other person as the voting member? So again, the roller coaster ride of memory on the framework agreement, I believe. Well, so let me start first by saying that we would have to take that through a process that needs to happen for more efficient appointments. Romanian media involved. And we would need to talk with the mayor. But I believe the answer to that is no, because the non-voting member serves specifically has to be a neighborhood resident. I would again have to go back to the framework agreement and check that. But if I remember correctly, that is the case that there has to be a member of that neighborhood in that seat as a non-voting member or in this House would not be able to be put into that seat.
Speaker 0: Anything else?
Speaker 2: Is it possible for you to verify who is being replaced? Because although Jonathan Zobayan is on the board, he is not a resident of the neighborhood. He's a property owner in the neighborhood, but not a resident. And and I would be curious to know if he's cycling off or who is cycling off, because there are three other people that we know of who are cycling off. So I don't have that information in front of me. If you want to hold on voting on this one, I can see what I can do to get that if you want to come back to it. But I don't have it in front of me right this minute. Thank you.
Speaker 0: All right. Council member, can you. There are few more people in the queue sky.
Speaker 2: And my intelligence.
Speaker 0: Firm. Yes, go ahead, counselor.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Mr. President. I appreciate some of the questions being raised. I actually have a question about the third appointee. And this happens to have a success. I can't remember if I voted against this Pakistani person, but I know history concerns about the individual who informally got to the staff position immediately when they left. The employment being put on the board did not feel appropriate to me at that time having that continue. So it seems to me like it might be. This is a great example. We've made it a long time without committee, but I think we should send this committee for some discussion. I mean, it just seems like we can get more information on the current membership as a whole. It's very difficult always talking about an appointment without understanding the other members of the entire board. That's the practice that we now speaking on. When we're making council appointments, we never leave them in a vacuum. We uniformly serve. And so I think it's not about the individuals per se, but it is about what's the overall balance of representation, of importance of this body in particular. I'm afraid of the fact that given some of the economic impacts that are happening, you know, understanding how this may affect the national progress in terms of larger staff, it just seems like these are pretty important appointments at this moment. So I would make the motion to send this back to committee. And in generally speaking, I don't think we have to have a date associated with that because I don't know how that's going to be done this year. But if I can have a second, I will make that most of the sentence.
Speaker 1: That's all right.
Speaker 0: Madam Secretary, do you need anything else for that motion to be referred to through? And I'm seeing Councilmember Ortega as seconded. That you're a voice that Councilmember Ortega so that we have you on record on voiced you.
Speaker 3: So yes, I would like to second that. I think it's important for us to have complete information. And I've texted a couple of people just trying to clarify whether or not Mr. Zuckerman has left. And so I think it's important for us to have complete information on where we are with all those positions.
Speaker 0: Okay. And Councilmember Torres, I still have you in the queue. Are you okay with the referral to committee or if you want to jump in as well? Okay, then let me go over to you. Go ahead.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: I am fully supportive of the Reform Committee. What I am remembering was I actually made the request.
Speaker 1: Of.
Speaker 2: The National Center to see.
Speaker 1: Someone from.
Speaker 2: The native community. And so I appreciate that this house was put forward. What I see as community representation. So I think there could be greater accommodation.
Speaker 1: For community representation and.
Speaker 0: Right. Councilmember, can each and every forward vote when you were.
Speaker 1: Like three or four.
Speaker 2: Yes. A specific request which is that if we can have this information provided by running for office and the information circulated well before committee, I think it's time to have a challenge getting responses from the information office. And I think it's really critical that we not wait until the committee date to begin answering some of the questions . And so we request that that information begin getting gathered in there, because it's possible that there could be some discussion and perhaps even, you know, the administration may decide to withdraw its proposal. So I don't think that our work needs to begin in subcommittee, but with that.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Councilmember. All right. Secretary, let's vote on the motion on the floor to refer.
Speaker 1: To the committee.
Speaker 2: Who am I.
Speaker 1: With? Hi. You're fine.
Speaker 2: I can eat. So I thought I said about coffee. I. Cashman.
Speaker 0: Councilmember Cashman We couldn't be more different.
Speaker 1: Ortega I know.
Speaker 3: I.
Speaker 1: Council President.
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Speaker 1: 1339.
Speaker 0: Council Resolution 279 will be referred back to committee. All right, Madam Secretary, if you please, for the next item on our screen, it is called out by two different members. This is 386. So, Councilor Canete, you ought to go ahead with your comments.
A resolution approving the Mayor’s reappointment and appointments to the National Western Center Authority Board.
Approves the Mayoral reappointment of Kelly Leid and Mayoral appointments of Ernest House, Jr. and Gabriela Acevedo (as a non-voting neighborhood resident) to the National Western Center Authority Board for terms effective immediately and expiring 12-31-24, or until a successor is duly appointed.  The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 5-12-20.