I don't even know any Swedish streamers that I know of hey gormoball just throw something off my head out there just let you know I'm I in here supporting you good morning no good afternoon thank you so much for coming by man I hope you have a great day gormo appreciate thank you for hanging out with us all right wolf I'm trying not to upset you thank you for removing appreciate that a well-mannered wolf you love to see it uh you must have disrupted natural order of this particular structure all right kato's have fun working on your home don't overdo it yeah he's doing that real life stuff he's not doing this fake minecraft stuff who does that humans you was do that no well did you know that they do sound silly don't you do that for a living no male don't you like fix stuff you get paid to do that stuff what is going on in my chat you thought he guarded the door now he fixes pipes man all right let's not let's get rid of these right get rid of my diamond break all the bad tools first was that would you get some more check it out chat wife brought me some blackberries whoo we found out I don't know where where they grew these on Mars or something but we found out there so good all this guy does is dig he doesn't actually build anything he just digs and destroys partly true wish you had a banana for reference they're just sweet that's I mean the size is one thing but they're just really they're really well we've got a bunch of bat batches over the last couple months and this is like the first good batch in a long time hey on pony can we get a boy and a boy in chat for a on pony for being late boy boy we forgive you but you still get a boy and a boy they may be member berries oh no my the space egg go away oh yeah my the space now we're not gonna hurt you we're just gonna give you a boy and a boy in chat boy the boy chaos thank you chaos yeah for that tier three sub everybody's showing some love in the chat thank you chaos how you doing man and thank you so much for that great contribution to the stream if you haven't already please show chaos some love in the chat for that tier three sub I'm doing good man we're just starting our subathon kicking it off right we got a couple of big gifts today we got a 10 gifts sub from from Bert Grave and we got five gifted from Jarrah Blaze actually I need to pull up this dashboard so I can thank people appropriately here it was Lindy Anna Jones yeah gift us up earlier after that too I couldn't remember who did the other gift us up you're doing the POE grind what build you going with I decided to go with the melee summoner this time and it is something dude I haven't played since I got up stream yesterday but man it is fun all right this is gonna spawn all kinds of nastiness if I don't light this up yes I do have a pet dude if you must know can we see it not right now not right now he's doing his thing if he decides to come in here I'll let you see all right these are almost done believe me you mean believe you mean he's uh he's been in the stream quite a bit so he's not something I hide yes am I looking at your farm oh my gosh I see it when did you do this oh kurataki did it chat chat chat oh my goodness can we get some borna boys in the chat please I need this I just need to see a wall we need to see a wall of what the boys nobody else has praised this holy totem oh my goodness that is so accurate it looks almost exactly like it I gotta clip that I gotta clip that is wow can we can we uh put a teleport spot here just call it borna boy so people can see this I don't know how to set uh waypoints yes need to build we need to build a oh this already there oh we don't have it there okay we need to create that uh we need to create that thank you no mail for showing me that I had no clue that that existed that is amazing do set warp name well crap all right um I remember how to get there now that's amazing well done kurataki oh I love stuff like that that's how you that's how you love minecraft man when stuff like this happens set warp just call it boy that's great that is really really great indeed good job um my goodness here we get some borna boys in the chat please I need this I just need to see a wall we need to see a wall of what the boys nobody else has praised this holy totem my goodness oh my goodness that is so accurate it looks almost exactly like my my my my my goodness can we get some borna boys in the chat please I wall we need to see a wall we need to see a wall of what the boys perfect good stuff man I loves it okay man I have a trouble seeing what I've done and what I haven't done because it's all getting so flat now maple squid how you doing man welcome not sure what they're talking about on the server yet all right so that's the uh it's both my iron tools gone I spy with my little eye someone on my roof been good being got shipped out to japan so my time zone is way too misaligned whatever oh man I bet you're waking up and everybody's fast asleep it's probably the exact opposite right what's Japan like eight 12 no they're not 12 hours yeah they're like 12 13 hours right from the east coast I know Australia's around that I'm trying to visualize where Australia is vertically to Japan quick Google will tell me what it is but I don't remember off the top of my head 13 hours wow it's right surprise it's 3 a.m now oh yeah so it's 13 hours whoo 13 hours from the east coast 10 hours from the west coast wow that is that is the quite the difference my secondary windows clock is at the Tokyo time ah oh it's for Niko Niko I haven't been at sight in a long time man because they freaking have flash I hate flash stuff they need to upgrade to something else because I uninstall flash from my machine hey we gotta harvest those in the morning my doorway is very bad oh they changed HTML5 oh no I'm watching the night do they have a mobile app oh I hope they have a mobile app but I can watch that when I'm going to sleep I can just watch in my browser Niko Niko it's this Japanese streaming site it's just the best way I can describe it is like it's a choose your own adventure website of weirdness it's a Japanese they just people just stream the weirdest stuff on there and you just find some of the crazy stuff and you just it's hard to stop watching it's really hard to stop watching some of the stuff they stream man those are some good blackberries oh time to cheat date sheet time yeah I can I can I could eat myself sick I have to really watch myself all right all of these aren't we're just about there I'm probably gonna go to like let's let's let's establish a stop point probably like here that'd be a good stop point that I'm gonna go out you can get buckets of here those things and just eat the whole thing like 500 oh man like I grew up next to one my next door neighbor had a blackberry tree that's probably why I love them so much and we used to just uh we used to just raid that tree get her permission of course but oh and just eat so many of them and when they're in season man they are so sweet they are so good very good for you too very good for you probably not an excess but everything in excess is probably bad for you but except for hugs yeah I eat a lot of them I eat a lot of blackberries I didn't even hear the blackberry plant too used to go down their house every week it's so good yeah my wife and I she bought like because they're expensive especially the the really good ones the one that aren't made in a test to um she found a really good batch but she only bought like one little container of it and I half of the container and I was I was telling her how good it was and she had some of it so she went out today and bought another one that's how good they were she went and bought another one today and that's she gave me something I was like oh it's so good wish we could afford more they're expensive man they don't they don't play the radio this it's very expensive likes most most really healthy things around here unless you find a really good cheap farmers market they're gonna charge you a lot for it man it's hard to be it's hard to be frugal with money eat healthy it really is most of the healthy stuff costs three times as much as other stuff oh we're talking about uh blackberries I got three chaos from one the currency nose in the mind dude I was watching some streams last night and what the heck is wrong with your head oh my goodness this dude um I was watching some people who got higher up and deeper in those mines and the rewards are just astronomically higher than what I was getting last night of course I just started last night we're talking about Path of Exile now um those mines are pretty fun beans are good for you and cheap yeah beans and uh some some good rice but I can only eat so many beans same with uh what was I thinking I don't know what I was thinking I was thinking I wanted some pasta like some spaghetti spaghetti is cheap and lasts a long time but you can't have too much of it but it's a definitely a cheap meal lasts a while blackberries grow like weeds but you need to pick some of them weeds and send them my way even with like uh do you get the the low carb noodles they're still not that good for you and I love spaghetti too when we're almost done chat with this re-landscaping here and watch my shovel break yeah let's see it chat yeah I hate to see it all right let's craft another almost out of diamonds look at that sound mine tinker is this something there's like tinker tools some new mod I get what where'd these guys come from just suddenly two llamas chilling in my yard I don't even know what the songs sound to even make just two llamas chilling in my home llama 220 everybody's thinking fortnight look at you guys loot llama huh oh no I messed up wait free modifier slots okay does that mean you can repair these two the durability okay oh no thanks for the bits frascate fratscat thank you so much for the old no bits playing that sound everybody else also love the chat repair and upgrade add modifiers and add modifiers oh no that's pretty good for a server side mod I think server side mods are the best thing ever because having to deal with all that client side bloat is ridiculous it probably puts some stress on the server though so George probably has to use like 20 gigs of his 3000 this thing levels up fast


Greetings, everyone. This is Dr. Steven Pfeiffer. I am a licensed psychologist just outside of Washington, DC, a town called Frederick, Maryland. And I am really looking forward to coming up to the Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium to present on the Neuropsychology of Reading and Written Language Disorders on December 5th and the Neuropsychology of Mathematics on December 6th. We are going to be at the Executive Borough Hotel in Edmonton. I know what you're thinking, neuropsychology, why do I need to come to a workshop involving neuroscience? I'm in the classroom, I'm an educator. Well, I've been in the classroom for over 20 years working as a school psychologist, but my background is also in neuropsychology. What we want to get into in our workshop is how neuroscience can help us best inform intervention decision-making for students with learning needs. We'll talk about reading, we'll get into what is dyslexia, what's a reading disorder, how many different kinds of reading disorders should I be aware of? We'll get into written language disorders. We're gonna get into different subtypes of math disorders as well. Why do we subtype it out? All total, there's gonna be 10 different subtypes we discussed because we are going to link specific intervention strategies, websites, apps, suggestions, math games, you name it. We're gonna try to target those interventions directly to the individual subtypes. We're gonna use the brain as our basis to justify those different kinds of learning disorders. So while the workshop might start out in the brain, it will end up in your classroom.  Hey, for those who need more information about our big event, I want you to go directly to www.erlc.ca. Again, my name is Stephen Pfeiffer. I really hope you'll join me. I promise you'll be a lot out of our workshop. See you shortly. Thank you.


Aminwala head of the November 11, 2023 governorship election in Bilesha state, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INAG, has uttered the name of the candidates of the old Progressive Congress, APC, Timibri Silva, to the final lease of candidates for the poll. INAG and the new lease published on its website said the adhesion of Silva's name was in compliance with an appeal court judgment delivered on October 31, 2023, which reversed the sacking of Silva's candidacy for the poll. In a new lease, Silva's name is penciled as APC governorship candidate, whilst that of Makai Vajoshwa was written as his running mate. Joining us live is Honourable Michael Bless Olomu, chifting of APC and 2023 APC, Federal House of Representatives candidate Sagbama Ekremu, Federal Constituency Bilesha State. Honourable Michael, good evening and thanks for joining us on news now. Good evening, thank you. So what are the chances of your candidate? Yeah, I want to commend the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for his free and safe playing plan. I also want to commend the Security Agency. You must also note that our candidate, Chief Timibri Silva, was a governor before now. He understands the terrain, he knows what's happening, he knows everything about Bilesha State. His experience, he has been special advisor political affairs, he has been a minister, he has been a governor and he has every ability and capability to govern the state. He's well granted, he has gotten a better experience unlike when he was a governor before now. So we are determined and we are prepared and we are hopeful that by the special grace of God at least we are going to have 65% in the Saturday Governor's election. Well said, Honourable. I want to confirm something. You just said that Chief Timibri Silva has been a governor in Bilesha State. So what do you think he would do differently after he has served in the state and he's now coming back after some years to become a governor in the state? So what do you think he would do differently in Bilesha State? Now let me bring to the notice of all your listeners that in the past 12 years in Bilesha State there's no pi bon water in the state. In the past 12 years in Bilesha State there's no free scholarship. I was senior special assistant to the governor of Timibri Silva on student and Buzzer. I said the last time Buzzer was paid was in 2012. The last time foreign scholarship was granted was in 2012. The last time Bilesha was sent abroad for full sponsor fee was in 2012. So you can see that there's a setback from the present administration compared to when he was a governor. I think if he comes in he has promised the student of Bilesha State that by March of next year he's going to commence budget payment. He's going to commence scholarship process. He has also promised that there will be pi bon water in the state so he knows what the people need. He knows what is lacking in the state and I believe and I know that he's determined and he's prepared to make changes. Remember he's going to spend one time and four years is just a small time and he has six points agenda which is education, empowerment. I know he's a youth friendly leader. He believes in the younger generation that's why you can see that Bilesha those between the ages of 50 below are glamoring, aspiring, eager to see him in the affairs of the state leadership. Okay I'm going to ask you a two in one question because of time. First of all I want you to tell us how the party is managing the post primary crisis so that it will go into the election as one united political family and secondly I also want you to chip in on the your candidate. I want you to also let us know what he has been doing for the state because he has always been in government. He has always been in government so what has he been doing for the state before now that he's coming back as a governor? Yeah if you say what he has been doing for the state you know he was the minister of state petroleum while president Buari was in charge of the petroleum sector. It interests you to know that the petroleum industry bill was initiated and it has been passed to law. That's a kudos to me because in the futuristic leader he knows the yanny and the aspirations of Nigeria and he has the lobbying schemes that's why I see the national assembly both the brain and the red chamber you know were able to pass those bills in the right time. Now you can also see that the president minister of petroleum will be a few days ago said that by December, likely December the protocol to refinery will be on. Now these are all the projects that chip to me perceive are two parts the cardinal refinery probably by the middle of next year will come on string so if you look at the word refinery the first or second quarter of next year will come. So these are all initiative and blood able projects he has also embarked as a coordinating minister of state petroleum. Now to the area of the post election crisis and the rest you can say that the inspector general of police only yesterday just left the state as we speak the GOC commanding officer in the body camp is embarrassed to say all the security chiefs are embarrassed as the state security service another commander and everybody would believe that security are on ground and they are fully responsible for the day to day running of this election. INEC is ready prepared to say everything on ground so we believe that the security agency will do what they think is right and what they think is proper. Yes, our only fear is you know 90% of the security industries are being accommodated by the present state government like the bazaar state government you know if somebody is in charge of where the food you eat the drink you take where you sleep there might be a little compromise or we feel we are a little nervous that the security agency with the resources given to them by the federal government should as a matter of a take care of their own accommodation not depending on the state's government as you can also know that he will face the Piper calls the tune so if government has won their place for their accommodation to some extent we are in doubt if the security will be fair to the OPC so we want to also call on the chief of Amistad we want to call on the uh the general state security service in Navar and every other top security agency to caution their men that the fact that your accommodation is provided feeding is being given to you by the state government it doesn't mean they will compromise their integrity and the the why they are in bias as they so we want to call on the service to caution the men on ground because if you go to government house they cast to all the hotels have been booked by the state government and they are all housing all the top security chiefs in bias are stayed you can send your men around go all the hotel 98 percent has been booked by the state government fully paid by the state government and that is where the security agencies are staying so we as a party we have a little doubt in our mind that they'll be fair to us but we all know that directive has been given by the president and commander of the armed forces that they will be a fairly clean ground to everybody so we are hopeful and we know by sunday are the results will be coming in that APC will come victorious all right thank you so much honorable Michael for joining news now and we want to wish you a very successful election come november 11 thanks for joining us thank you it's my pleasure to be with you have a good evening hello hope you enjoyed the news please do subscribe to our youtube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates


hi hello today's a life update video i'm feeling a bit more upbeat now and that's good so i'm in hospital you can tell that based on my surroundings was i don't want to go into details as to why i'm in hospital but i'm sure i made an attempt on my life it was pretty serious and now i'm in cycle moving on life update so my helipereal dose has been increased i now take 2.5 milligrams this is a lot higher when i came in i was on 0.5 and that was 2.5 and it is really helping it's really happened with me i've done most of my training for my job which is positive i'm getting back into youtube again another positive for me i started doing my coursework for uni again which is huge huge huge but those folks have small things in hospital while i've been in hospital i've only had one incident i have itself harmed i've made an attempt on my life i haven't kicked off and i haven't tried to leave so much so that i actually do have a scorted grounds leave tomorrow i'm seeing a consultant and i'm going to film near the heart this video after i spoke to the consultant to you because tomorrow there could either be uh you getting discharged you're staying longer it could vary the way personally i think they're going to keep me in longer just personally i can't see them discharging me tomorrow with it like they won't even let me call hospital grounds escorted i have to be escorted on hospital grounds but i don't know do you never know i decided to film this tonight because i thought i'd film how i feel before the meeting and how after a lot happens it's my last update anyway meeting with mental health has happened me and becker split and i don't say that easily i actually want to cry now we split and we're moving into several places beckers moving home to parents i'm looking at moving to brighton nothing neurotic happened we were just both our mental health was suffering like we're still friends and i still care enormously about becker and i always will she'll always have a place of my heart and you know i do genuinely love her i i didn't just say that i meant that and i love her as a friend now that's the difference so that's been hard to deal with everything happens for a reason and i hope i believe that i stand by that as far as medication goes there hasn't been any other dramatic changes so i've got a water round today and anything could happen i could be discharged i could become an informal patient or they could do nothing um i don't really know so i'll update you guys after so i do this little clip now i'm very anxious about that i've got this discharged i'm going home successful successful water round i'm going home ayy


Very important, your tax dollars at work and everybody gets a chance to participate and see how your tax dollars are being spent. The priorities that you all have, one thing that I can say very proudly about our city manager is that she really, and her whole team is that they really listen to what some of our concerns are. And so that's why we're here today to continue to talk about these budget issues. So these, last week on August 7th, the manager proposed a fiscal 2015 budget that is balanced and includes no layoffs and no property tax increases. We also have recently received again for the eighth year in a row, I think triple A, fifth year in a row, triple A bond rating. It's especially important because it allows us continue to do more projects in your neighborhoods. So I also want to just take a moment to thank my staff that's here today. Most of us are sitting in the back. We have a few sitting throughout in the pink t-shirts. Our volunteer team, we have several volunteers and also my staff from District 5. We have our field office here at Nogalitos and also one at Las Palmas. And here to answer any questions that you all have that are not related to the budget but we're here for you if you have any questions. So I'll talk to you guys a little bit about, oh, and in fact it'll give me the opportunity to announce, Councilman Joe Crier is here from District 9, going to sit in and listen to the presentation today. I thought I saw maybe another council member but I don't have my glasses. So who's here? We saw Crier, we announced Councilman Joe Crier and as I come we'll announce them because I think we had some others that were coming. And so thank you all and for your participation. Please participate and let us know what you want to hear.  And also if you hear things that you don't like about the presentation, not about the numbers per se, but if there's things that we can do to improve the presentation, for example if you can't hear enough or if you would like a greater expansion on a particular item, please let us know so we can address those concerns. So thank you all for being here and I'll just turn it over to the City Manager so she will talk to you about how the project will work today, starting with the video and then some other exercises for everybody to participate in. So thank you all so much for being here. Thank you Councilwoman. And our thanks for the staff here at our Senior Center. I used to shop here when it was an HEB, how many of you remember when it was Yes, because I live close by, so we're glad to be here and this is one of the best attended Senior Centers so we're happy to be here tonight and thank you all for coming. We appreciate the input and Councilman Ron Nirenberg just walked in as well. Ron represents District 8, maybe, wait, there he is in the back. So we have three Council members here tonight and what we do at these meetings that we do out in the District, we collect all of the information, the input that we receive and we share it with all the Council members so that they can hear from everyone throughout the community. We have a number of staff here tonight and I see our Fire Chief in the back of the room and Assistant Police Chiefs. So let me ask and at each of your tables there are staff members so that they will take notes and compile the information and we'll ask you to designate an individual to speak on behalf of your table tonight. But let me just ask the staff members to stand and be identified. We have quite a few department heads and assistant department heads and executive staff here to take notes and to listen to you. So staff, thank you all for being here tonight and participating as well. So we have about a five minute video that summarizes the proposed budget. It is balanced. We're required by law to maintain a balanced budget. It's balanced today. It'll be balanced when it's adopted by the City Council and we keep it balanced throughout the course of the year. It identifies the video that we will share with you, identifies the changes and what's proposed in the budget. We have some very good things in the budget this year, including increased street maintenance, increased drainage improvements to prevent flooding in neighborhoods, as well as some increases in our parks budget, our libraries and our senior centers because we're opening two more senior centers. So the input we get from you all at these types of meetings and direction from the City Council helps us prepare the budget annually. And then we use the input that we receive from these meetings as well as the Council's deliberation about the proposed budget to finalize the budget before it's adopted. And our budget adoption is scheduled for Thursday, September 18th. We're required by law to adopt the budget before the end of September because our fiscal year is through September 30th and the new fiscal year begins October 1. So we're going to show you a video, then I have a couple of slides I want to share with you that further describe what's included in the budget. And then we'll break into our table conversation and report out before we end this evening. And our goal is to be done by 8 PM so that we can all get home, okay? So let's roll the video and then we'll share some slides with you. The City of San Antonio's fiscal year 2015 proposed budget provides recommendations for making it easier to get around. Becoming healthier, more educated, and providing affordable public safety. The city's $2.4 billion proposed budget is a reflection of what is most important to the community. The proposed budget is balanced as required by law. Includes no increase to the city's property tax rate for the 22nd year in a row. Increases the street maintenance budget significantly. Strikes a balance among the community's many priorities and does not include layoffs for uniform or civilian employees. Priorities that you shared with us during the five community budget meetings held in May. More than 400 people attended and worked in small groups to identify the cuts they would make, as well as to add funding to an existing service. Following these community meetings, the city council held a day-long goal-setting session and together agreed on the following budget priorities. Increase funding for streets and drainage. Develop a multi-year plan to improve and acquire more parks. Enhance the city's investment in education, including more library services and adult literacy programs. Maintain and strengthen public safety without crowding out other services like streets, libraries, parks, and human services. Enhance animal care, neighborhood code enforcement, and other programs to improve neighborhoods. Keep the economic development toolbox equipped to attract new companies and jobs to San Antonio. Fund and complete a comprehensive plan for the city, including policies related to transportation, water, air quality, and public spaces. Public safety is by far the largest expense in the city's budget. Two out of every three general fund tax dollars are spent on fire and police protection. The fastest growing driver of public safety costs is the health care benefits the city provides for uniformed employees. Health care for uniformed employees costs the city nearly double what it costs for civilian employees. In the city's recent community survey conducted by an outside pollster, 70% of respondents said they want to see uniformed health care benefits brought more in alignment with civilian health care benefits. The fiscal year 2015 proposed budget makes changes to health care benefits for firefighters and police officers, saving the city millions of dollars, while still continuing to cover 100% of on-the-job injuries and offering better health care benefits than those provided to city's civilian employees, and better than those offered in other Texas cities. This follows the council's direction to ensure that public safety does not exceed more than 66% of the city's general fund budget. By maintaining affordable public safety costs, the city can invest in other priorities. The proposed budget adds an additional $21.8 million dollars for neighborhood street maintenance and drainage projects to the current $52 million dollars in the infrastructure management program that is used for the continuous maintenance of San Antonio infrastructure. It will grow the infrastructure maintenance program by nearly 30%, which will significantly increase the number of roads fixed this year. It adds funding for the maintenance and operation of a new library, two new senior centers, and new parks projects approved by voters in the 2012 bond program. It funds the hiring of two city veterinarians to conduct spay-neuter surgeries, to reduce stray animals and keep the city's live release rate of stray animals at 80%. It provides resources for a new program to regulate vacant buildings throughout our city. And finally, it funds a code enforcement case management system to close cases faster and more transparently. The fiscal year 2015 proposed budget does not include an increase to the stormwater fee. Instead, the city will review a new stormwater rate method and make recommendations to the city council and the community in the 2015 calendar year. The budget also does not include any funding for VIA's streetcar project.  So there you have it. The fiscal year 2015 proposed budget, balanced, no tax rate increase, addresses the community's top priorities by keeping public safety costs affordable and does not include any layoffs for uniform or civilian employees. The city budget is the most important policy document the city council will consider in any given year. And before the council considers adopting it on September 18th, we want to hear from you. There will be five community budget meetings held across the city and two public hearings at the city council chambers. You can learn more at the city's website, www.sanantonio.gov. I think this week about the budget and we learned something new at each meeting. Questions come up or information is shared and so we'll offer some additional information for you as you talk within your work groups. And let me share just a couple of slides with you specifically about public safety and why we're making the recommendations we are. So as we had the goal setting session with the city council in May, the city council said let's keep our public safety costs in check. Right now it represents two thirds of the general fund budget and we don't want to have to reduce our libraries and our senior centers and our social services and the delegate agency funding as those costs grow faster than our general fund revenue. So we're keeping public safety at 66% of the general fund budget so that we can fund the new parks acreage that's coming online this year and as well as the new libraries and other services that are included with our 2012 bond projects. Most importantly and what we hear the most from the community is that we need to do more in terms of street maintenance. We maintain 4,000 miles of streets and I think we all have a favorite street that needs repair. Is there anyone that doesn't have a list of streets that need to be repaired? So even though we have large bond programs that focus on some of the bigger streets there's still so much to do in the community. So this budget does include a recommendation to increase our street maintenance. This about a year ago the city council appointed a task force to take a look at what we call legacy costs, pension and health care for city employees. Civilian as well as public safety and it represented civilian employees both active as well as retired and uniform employees. It also included business representatives from the community that are experts in health care and pension. So it was a combination of people to study the issues and there were eight meetings in total more than 30 hours of meetings. A lot of study of numbers and that those recommendations were presented to the city council. Here you see the pie chart, public safety representing two-thirds of the general fund and all the other departments are shown here on the balance of the sheet. So everything else, libraries and health and animal care services, code enforcement, the municipal court, the health department, our delegate agencies, street maintenance, parks and recreation, all of that is in the other one-third and over the past five years there's a phrase that has been coined called crowding out and what happens is public safety becomes a larger and larger percentage of the budget. It crowds out some of those other services. So we're looking at ways that we can manage our costs long-term. Health care is one of the major cost drivers for the expense within public safety. For the civilian employees we adjust the health care plans annually and we all know that we contribute to the cost of health care and are required to make changes in how much we pay on an annual basis because health care costs are going up in the public safety area. And here we're showing our civilian employees as compared to the uniform employees. Our civilian employees contribute about 30 percent of the total cost of health care and we're talking about health care, general health care for themselves and for their families. The national average is 43 percent. So we're providing better health care coverage for our civilian employees than happens on a national basis. In terms of our uniform employees they contribute only about nine percent of the total cost. No premiums for themselves or their families and very low out-of-pocket low deductibles. So those costs have increased on average over the last three years about 20 percent per year just on our claims. So we know that it's a major expense driving the cost and we are asking our uniform employees to contribute toward the cost of health care like almost all of us do. Here's how much we spend on an annual basis for uniform health care as well as for civilian health care and it compares us to other cities because we need to benchmark ourselves. How do we compare to other cities within the state of Texas? And you can see that what we spent last year about 13,000 per uniform as compared to 7,000 per civilian employee for health care paid for by the city and how that compares to other cities in the state and we are by far the highest. So what here is where we are 7,000 per civilian employee almost 13,000 last year per uniform and we've offered an alternative to both unions to say we're willing to meet in the middle. We're willing to negotiate with you something that is less than what you have today but something a little bit more than what civilian employees have and we're hopeful that they will have that candid conversation with us and we invite them to come to the table and negotiate with us on that point. Now even I want to show you here's a police officer you might say well maybe the salaries are different what about total compensation? Salaries, special pays, benefits, how do we compare to other cities? And you can see for a police officer 20 years of service here's how we compare. We're second only to Austin within the state on a total compensation basis and for firefighters we're tied for number one in terms of how we compensate our employees. So even if there was an adjustment in health care we'd still be at the top of the list. So that is what we're talking about as you hear some of the conversation. Our firefighters we want them to come to the table and negotiate with us. We haven't had a meeting with them yet, they haven't been willing to meet with us but we're encouraging them to do that and we're inviting our police officers the union to come back to the table because we want to negotiate something with them that's reasonable for them and fair and also affordable to the taxpayers because we know that is what you want. Now at some of the meetings so far, Dale can you hold that for a minute? We've heard a few comments and I just want to share this information with you as well. There are no recommendations you heard that there are no layoffs in the budget. We have reduced a number of city positions over the past eight years and we haven't laid off any employees in the process. We have increased the number of police personnel by nearly 500. Added 500 police officers and firefighters over the past eight years. It's one of our core services and we need to keep up with population growth as well as the size of our city. We've also cut during that same time frame 1200 civilian positions all without layoffs. A question has come up in the budget meetings over the last two nights. This budget does not include the elimination of the victims advocacy unit in the police department. There's been some conversation that we are recommending, eliminating that we're not. There's no cut recommended in this proposed budget. Secondly, property tax revenue. So when we talk with the council about the forecast in May, we estimate what we think property values will be and how much they will increase but we don't set the assessed valuation. That's set by the Bayer appraisal district at the county and they give us the tax roll the end of July. It was up a little bit more and we're recommending that those funds be used for the street maintenance improvements that we're proposing within the budget. So the tax roll in May we had recommended at about 3.9%. It actually came in 1.7% better at 5.6% and those additional revenues are built into the budget. Back in May we estimated sales tax revenue would be up about 8% and that's what's included in the proposed budget. So we have a combination of factors cuts in the budget. There are some cuts on the civilian side but we're also increasing a net increase of 13 positions to staff our new parks and our new libraries and our new senior centers so that we can take care of the highest priorities for the city. Again the budget is balanced. There is no property tax rate increase and there are no layoffs proposed in this budget for uniform or civilian personnel and we've taken into consideration any revenue growth now that we're coming out of the recession. That too is built into the budget so that we can accommodate the changes. Our budget's complicated. We are a corporation that includes many different types of services and we all have different things that we are here perhaps to ask about or advocate for tonight. So you'll see in the table discussion and Maria is going to come up here. Maria Villagomez is our budget director does an outstanding job with her team helping to work with the departments and balance all of these competing priorities. And what we'd like to ask you to do tonight is to identify those things that you think we should increase in the budget but also tell us what you think we perhaps could do with less. That is perhaps we could do without something or we could make some reductions in an area to be able to fund those things that are most important to the community. So I'm going to ask Maria to explain what we'll have you do over the next 30 minutes and then at the end of the meeting we'll ask a designee at each table to report out to summarize the consensus or the major points that you make during the conversation this evening so that everyone can hear what you discussed and then we'll gather up that information and share it with the entire city council. Maria. Thank you Cheryl. Well good evening everybody and thank you for joining us tonight. What we're going to do over the next 30 minutes is ask you for your priorities for this proposed budget. So now that you know about the budget what is included and what we're recommending we're going to ask you two questions. Number one what areas of the budget you support and you don't want to see any changes. So for example if you are in agreement with a recommendation of additional street maintenance and you don't want to have any changes made to that recommendation that would be an example of those areas that you support. The second question is to provide us up to three areas or programs within the budget that perhaps you wanted to see increases and you don't see those reflected today. So for instance if you wanted to see more dollars added to the library and that's not what we're recommending please provide us with that feedback and as the manager mentioned our budget is balanced so if you are recommending an increase to the library then we're also going to ask you to make a recommendation in another area that you want to see a reduction so we can continue to maintain a balanced budget. So we're asking you again for up to three programs that you support and you don't want to see any changes made in the budget and another three programs where you perhaps want to see some changes or increases. Once you have that information for your table the facilitators that are your table will help you through that process. If you can please assign a spokesperson for each table to report back to the group. We're going to give you 30 minutes to go to go through that exercise. We also put some materials at your table like this handout that I'm holding in my hand and this has some information about the general fund where the money comes from how we are proposing to invest those dollars and also some additional information on areas that perhaps you need additional data such as the non-departmental budget the transfers budget. Last night we got requests for the delegate agency's funding so we also have included that on the packet for tonight. And I'll be around answering any questions that you may have. So thank you so much and we have 30 minutes. Thank you. I'm Shirley Gonzalez City Council District 5. Do I look at you or do I look at the camera? You can just look at me. Okay. So tell me about the budget process and why people care about it. Well this is the budget process we're going through and finding some of the details and we've got to vote on the budget on September 18th. So what we're doing here today is giving people an opportunity to give some of their feedback that they would like to see. We do have to present a balanced budget as the city manager mentioned so if we would like to see some increases in some areas we need to make reductions in others. But this is an opportunity for the public to get out and talk about the issues that they're concerned about and hopefully see some of that reflected in their city. And how should people learn more about this and what's the next step? Well we can always learn more about it by going online and checking out some of that information. It's all online and it's all available to the public anytime. It's all in open records and open books. So being here today is one way that people can learn about it and see what the priorities are for everything that is being presented and then what was your second question? Like what's the next step? The next step it would be that we'll vote on this here in September. And how can people who didn't attend this meeting today have their input after all this information? So we have still a some open area to make comments online. We can also there's a box in front of this building or you can just drop and give a little bit of input if you want to do it deal fashion way just write it by hand or you can always check the websites for the city of San Antonio.gov. And what are the most important issues to you? The most important issues to me first of all are just our balancing the budget. That we have increase in streets and sidewalks and drainage. I think where the priorities as public safety is always the number one priority. And then commitment to social services. We do have so many of our agencies that do a lot to help the community. We want to make sure that they get all the help they need so that they continue to help other people that are the most vulnerable. Thank you so much. Hey, thank you. Thank you. Tell me your name again. My thout. My name. Thank you, my thout. Can everyone take a seat so that we can report out and hear from each of our tables? Table two requested to go first. Okay. My name is Jim and we had a really good table here. We had a few good laughs at some of my terrible jokes, right? You know, now we had a really good table here. Some of the things we support that are in the current budget are the streets and sidewalks. We all agree those need a lot of work and we do know where a lot of those that work needs to be done at. We'd like the idea with the drainage being in the budget. We know that's very important, especially during these flash floods. We support the current staffing levels and we appreciate the fact there are no layoffs in the civilian or the sworn positions. We appreciate the continued funding for delegate agencies, especially for Project Quest. Give me a shout out there. We like the fact that we're maintaining the victim advocacy programs over at the police departments. Changes and additions. I had to admit, I stole this from last night, but utilize vet schools for maybe getting some of the veterinarian texts, you know, because we have one of the biggest medical training facilities here at Fort Sam. You know, maybe they can alleviate some of those issues and know that for you guys. I mean, it's huge over there. That's a huge resource. Like I said, and we'd like the fact that there's two vets going over there in this budget. Increase workforce development. We also wanted to see an increase in youth services, drug prevention programs, maybe bringing dare back to the police department and our safe units already built to maybe do that. I just don't know what kind of cost or time they have. I'm not familiar with with what's involved with dare. And the ways to maybe pay for some of those additions is maybe look at streamlining the vendor purchasing process, you know, make it competitive to where if I know, for example, we have staples, maybe in their contracts, say, look, you have the price match. If an officer can go out, get some of Costco, Sam's or things like that, you know, not paying for those goggles that cost five dollars if we walk in. Like I said, I just would like to see the department heads have the ability to maybe just credit cards, this or that, but I think there's a huge amount of cost savings there. And another thing, we're all proud of how we do things here in the city of San Antonio is maybe solicit our services and find example is solid waste, you know, soliciting to all these other communities, you have maybe waste management who are a lot more expensive built in a margin there to where we can actually increase revenues by soliciting our services to other parts of the bear county. Not necessarily consolidation, but things we're already doing. Hey, let's make some money on what we do, do very well here in the city. Everybody does a great job here. And that's, is that it? That was team quest report. Thanks, Jim. All right. I think Diane's table next. Can we, can we help you with that, Diane? Oh, okay. Okay. The first thing I'd like to say, okay, the first thing I'd like to say is that we looked at how to increase revenues. One of the things is that we should try to solicit volunteers wherever we can. The animal care services are getting so many volunteers that are really doing a lot of heavy lifting in it. And I'm sure there's places that we could be having more volunteers because a lot of people do like to help. So that's number one. The second thing is where we can increase money is not reversing decisions that we've already made. Such as Flora Street or the bike lanes, that reversing the decision cost us a million dollars. And I don't know how much negotiation was made, but we were talking about that, that isn't there some other way that we can deal with the traffic problems and just instead of saying, no, we don't want it, let's just redo it. Yes, there was not enough input from the citizens ahead of time, but still a million dollars and you can't figure out something that will keep the bike lanes and not cost us a million dollars. Another thing that we talked about is the revenue from commercial properties, that these seem to be ways that we might be able to get more money by the vacant properties getting better taxation on it. The things that we're supporting and would like to see as is are in the new budget, animal care, victims, advocacy and family violence unit, the aligned civilian uniform benefits. And the one thing that we're proud that it's not going to be a draconian measure for the firefighters and our police that they will have to give something, but when you see the disparity that there is two thirds of the budget for 4,000 employees and one third of the budget for the salaries of 7,000 employees and everything else that we're giving libraries and parks and everything else, that's a big disparity and not to go draconian, I think was a very good move. At least for the beginnings of the negotiations. So we appreciate that. And we don't want to say show the police and fire that we don't appreciate them, we do and that's important. We thought there might be room for an increase of some benefits for a quest because it provides a good service. So we have all our revenue sources in line. Thank you. All right. Which table would like to volunteer to go next? Okay. Right over here. Table number five. Hi everyone. My name is Martha Bonda. We have a lot of district five cheerleaders over here. So yay for district five. And thanks to John Jacks. He was a really great city facilitator. So starting with our support, no change items. We have parks and rec and the wellness initiatives. We'd like to support and keep that. And also any the inner city redevelopment iCrypt and the other item that's on there. We would like to continue to support that. Libraries and adult literacy streets and infrastructure maintain that. And then on the change increase in cut. There was a recommendation to cut the hemisphere funding that I think is a one time project fund. And also to add street lighting to district five. And then increase the health department budget. Given our health statistics here in the city. We'd like to see that increase. And then support of desi sase and other cultural and arts activities in the city. We'd like to see that increased as well. That's it. Thank you. Thank you. We didn't talk about it, but the budget does include increasing our adult literacy center. So we piloted a program this year that was developed by our human services department. And we're expanding that in this budget. So thank you for that input. Okay. Paula your table wants to go next. Number is that six. Okay. Hello everyone. This is what table six came up with. What we support. No change is the additional funding for the street maintenance sidewalks and drainage. We support improvements for the parks and recreation. And also for the vacant building program. And we'd also like to see a complete streets being fulfilled whenever there is any kind of reconstruction on city streets that they comply with all current policies, federal policies. We'd also like to see increases, especially in the animal care services. I think district five, especially where I'm from, there's a lot of stray cats and dogs. More street lighting maybe on both sides on West Commerce. Most of the streets, most of the lighting on West Commerce is on the south side of the West Commerce. If we could have lighting on both sides. I think that would enhance the importance of a very major artery in the city of San Antonio, which is West Commerce. We'd also like to see competitive wages for cities employees, I guess. One percent is not enough and they're talking about the cost of living allowance. And they'd like to see it come from the, and by all means, we love our men in blue. But it would come from the Fire and Police budget. That's it. And commercial property that they pay their fair share in taxes. Okay. But a couple of tables have mentioned increased lighting in the neighborhoods and Councilwoman Gonzales has asked us to take a look at that and increase the lighting. And this budget does include an additional $300,000 for improved lighting within District 5. So she's listening to your comments and we did too. And so there is a recommendation in the budget for increased lighting. Okay. Next table. We, okay. Table seven. Okay. All right. We are Table 7. And although I don't live in District 5, I have a business and business in District 5, so my heart is there. We support street improvement and we also maintain, we would like to maintain the current funding, the proposed current. We would like to also support victim services and the vacant building ordinance. I think that will prevent a lot of crime and homeless just running around those vacant buildings. We would like to add more funding for victim services, an enhanced increase for enforcement and prevention. For, I think it was more for, what kind of victim was just a crime or just abuse domestic violence? So we would like to add monies for domestic violence, enforcement and prevention. Street lights. We would like to add monies for under the bridge lightning. I know you already have street lighting, but we would like to see it under the bridge. We would like to add education, transitional programs for teens, and this is what I come into place. I've seen a lot of the teenagers that are aged out of the shelters. They're homeless and they have no direction in the after hours, so we would like to see programs for them and maybe guidance, extract curricular activities for those children, Dali, for instance, in heaven for hope. There is not a program for them. There is a program for families, but not for those teenagers, aged out teenagers. And we would like, transitional programs for this, general reserve? What is this? Here's somebody else. This reserve shaves some from the reserve fund. Oh, okay. Wherever we could shave and maintain the AAA bond rating. Oh, that was shaving some from the general, from the fund reserve in the general fund, wherever to, of course, to maintain that very important AAA bond rating, but also to shave some of that 10% down. A lot of this doesn't add up to the 10% that would come out of that general fund. And the last thing was, not our entire table was not in favor of that, but the 1% tax increase, which would do $7.8 million, the 1 cent tax increase, which would do the $7.8 million in revenue, which could pay for everything on our table. That's us, table seven. Thank you, table seven. All right. We're going to jump back over here, what table four, and then we're going to come to table three. Okay. Hi there. I'm Maria Salazar with Project Quest, and we're table four. And the areas that we were looking for reduction were to reduce economic development by 1.5 million, to reduce city attorneys by 4 million, to reduce the one-time projects by 2 million. So that would give us about a 7.5 million revenue to go into these increases and to the agencies that we support. What areas we support or no change? One of the first ones is delegate agencies in my particular Project Quest. And then second, increase civilian benefits and align with safety employees, and then increase also funding for animal care. Great. Thank you. Table four. Edward, your table's next. Table three. Hey, everyone. We're with table three, and we came up with some recommendations. What we supported were street infrastructure. We liked that increase, especially in district five. We need sidewalks, lights, parks, drainage. I mean, there's tons of different projects that I think we need to get done. In addition to that, we like the status of the parks and recreation funding. We feel like, you know, the what's going on with the city. We think there's more parks to be had. And we really like that. We didn't like, you know, we didn't want that to decrease or anything. The third thing we supported were the new library. And in addition to that, senior centers. So if there's any way, you know, to maintain those funding mechanisms to keep those, we liked.  And to offset those costs, we figured maybe a tax increase of any sort. But in addition to that, efficient collection of, you know, anything from cold compliance or other fees to help offset an increase in civilian benefits. And that's it. Okay. Do we have one more table over here? Table number nine thing. Vincent? Yep. You gonna help? Okay. Linda. Yeah. Go ahead. We had several people who had to leave. One because he was like four. So we agreed with the overall budget and we were excited about the library funding. And we also were pleased with the animal care funding. We did come up with the fact that a lot of people are still talking about they'd like to have the library hours extended. But I understand that we would have to hire more employees so that makes it a major increase, which I don't know that we can afford. And we feel like the staff has done a great job getting this budget together. I know y'all have spent weeks. I know months, probably Maria. So we're thankful that you were willing to stay with it. We'd like to have a funding increase for community centers. Apparently this area is lacking in that. Not only do they not have lighting, but they also need community centers other than this one. And we thought that it could come out of the increase on city council fundings. That's it. The private funding for stuff like Illuminatius instead of coming out of the city budget. And encourage the employees to take leave and to actually, they can't accrue leave time.   I was not prepared to do this because our person left. So thank you. Well, thank you everybody for your input. Thank you for staying till the end and giving us your input. We're looking forward to getting all of the information together from all of the different budget hearings like we've had today and then reporting back to the community as soon as they're already. So thank you everybody for coming. Have a wonderful evening.


Today I'm going to be running a webinar about boosting staff morale during lockdown and while I was preparing for the webinar One of the ideas that I came up with that I'm gonna share I thought was just really worth sharing more widely really and and that is that I Really strongly believe that as a parent a teacher a teaching assistant a headteacher You are only ever as happy as the least happy child in your care And so if we want to boost morale and enable staff to feel that sense of well-being and that things are okay During these really challenging times one of the things that we can do is to look beyond the immediate stuff around their Well-being and looking after them and actually think about what's worrying them in terms of the children in their care so what's keeping them awake at night and if we begin to explore that what is making the children less happy and Actually, if we'll be able to begin to address that then that in turn Will boost that morale of your staff of the team of the adults that you're working with So just remembering that the adults are only ever as happy as the least happy child in their care So beginning to question what is making the children unhappy and what might we be able to do about that? So a really simple example of this was one member of staff said to me that her team Were really worried about children being hungry families being hungry And they were finding it really really difficult to think about anything else because the kids the families were going hungry and So the headteacher Decided that it was really important that the school got involved and made sure that those families were fed So they looked at their priorities and their school budget and that was something and that they were able to contribute towards That meant that hopefully the children were happier and therefore the staff felt Better happier more fulfilled in their roles. So Happy children make happy adults. How can we help the children to be happier?


began to move towards some more structure and oversight around liability um and background checks it became clear that um at least in most of our towns not at eastmont failure that we needed to take the schools need to take on oversight and manage the liability of um the athletics and recreation and also to ensure that we're offering those enrichment activities to all of our students where possible um and over the last few years it it's evolved from an athletic director in one building to the wisdom of saying we're all trying to work together it would be wonderful to hire one person to have some oversight over all of our buildings eastmont failure is not a part of the fold because what they're doing currently is working and there's no reason to make a change in that i don't know if you'd add anything more to that alisha nope you said it well thank you okay and that's at least the history i don't know if that's the rationale that you're looking for steven haven't we had someone in this position yeah so it's not a new position chris was hired to a different job so he left the position and now it's open i'm okay understanding that it's not a new position okay the paperwork didn't make that clear usually it says who's leaving but this was a position that already existed yeah okay all those in favor of the name of hiring lori please say hi hi hi any opposed any abstentions here none the motion and that business for tonight and we have an executive for the board members you're not done yet could i have a motion to move into executive senate for personnel i move to move into executive session for the purpose of personnel so lindy is getting that one chris sure i'm just just any question all those in favor please say hi hi hi hi hi so mark able to please move us into executive session with our supreme our acting superintendent jan miller please i would like to do that my computer once again frozen are you able to hear me let me i i'm sure i can try that okay i'm sorry i just it just did it as i started to do that all right i can i can try to do that for us real quick hold on thank you otherwise i if i just would take enough you know a minute for a restart and i can get back in and do it it's okay mark if jen can't do it i'll do it from here i'm gonna give it a go here hold on thank you i bet you've got it i'll restart once again and then if it's still not you know if you can't get it i'll be back in in just a moment i apologize is anybody going anywhere i'm moving people i might have to hold on um let me finish let's see all right i'm gonna open the room and try it everybody i think i got you all right i'm gonna now i have to get myself in i have somewhere fine welcome back everybody i'm gonna give a couple more seconds for everybody to come out of recording in progress there there's bruce okay would you like me to close all breakout rooms floor do you want me to what sorry mark i missed part would you like me to close the breakout rooms so that everybody comes back oh yes yes please we should all be in the general session now yes please i believe we i think we are all here i think we're here i think most people have left already mark so it jonas do you have a motion i do uh i move to designate jennifer miller arsono to serve as interim superintendent for the 2021-2022 school year i'll second that thank you cari i need this question thank you i just want to say thank you to gen for your willingness to support your district and all those in favor please die any opposed carrying on the motion carries unanimously welcome gen thank you you're ready to do it but thank you we feel fortunate so that concludes the business for tonight thank you everybody for your patience and thank you for participating in the retreat and the community engagement so have a good evening chris do you have a comment or you're gonna move us to adjourn you're muted just saying good night good night everybody good night y'all see you later right good night good night good night good night thank you