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THANKS FOR BEARING WITH US, HAD SOME TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES THERE.
SO WE'VE GOT A QUORUM PRESENT.
WE'VE GOT, UH, MYSELF AND COMMISSIONER TREVELYAN AND COMMISSIONER HOWARD HERE AT 700 LAVACA.
AND WE HAVE COMMISSIONER GOMEZ AND COMMISSIONER SHEA, AND REMOTELY GONNA CALL TO ORDER THE MEETING OF THE TRAVIS COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COURT.
MA'AM UH, ERIC, CAN YOU HEAR US, MAYBE OUR TECHNICAL ZU FROZEN.
YOU TASHA IS BACK IN HER BREW BEAR.
CAN YOU HEAR US? IT'S IT'S TIME TO START YOUR PORTION OF THE MEETING.
I WONDER IF HIS AUDIO IS WORKING HE'S MUTED.
I'LL GIVE IT, I'LL GIVE THE MAYOR JUST ANOTHER MOMENT, JUDGE.
BUT IF HE CAN'T HEAR US HERE IN JUST A COUPLE OF MINUTES, I'LL, I'LL TAKE THE LIBERTY OF STARTING THE MEETING.
IF YOU'RE COMFORTABLE WITH THAT.
AMERICAN NEW HARRIS NOW WE'RE GOOD THERE.
SO I JUST, I JUST KICK THINGS OFF HERE CALLED TO ORDER THE
AND WOULD YOU SAY THAT'D BE A SPRINT COMMERCIAL? I THINK I CAN HEAR PEOPLE NOW.
WE CALLED THE COMMISSIONER'S COURT TO ORDER AND I'LL PASS IT OVER TO YOU MERIT TO CALL THE CITY COUNCIL TO ORDER.
I WILL CALL THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING, UH, UH, PORTION OF THIS TO ORDER AS WELL.
AND JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU CAN HEAR ME OKAY, MAN.
IS THERE YODA LADY, THE LADY WHO, WHY ARE Y'ALL DOING? SORRY, MY APOLOGIES.
DO WE HAVE ANY CALLERS FOR TRAVIS COUNTY PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE JOINT BRIEFING? NO, SIR.
SO WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A COUPLE OF BRIEFINGS TODAY AND WE HAVE A, I THINK A HARD STOP AT 11:00 AM.
AND SO TO HELP ENSURE THE EFFICIENT USE OF TIME AND MANAGE THE LENGTH OF THE BRIEFING, UH, BUT LIMITED OURSELVES TO ONE QUESTION EACH.
UM, AND THEN AFTER THE COVID BRIEFING, I THINK WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A BRIEFING ON THE AUSTIN, TRAVIS COUNTY CENSUS 2020 AFTER ACTION REPORT.
AND SO, UM, I WILL GO AHEAD AND PASS IT OVER TO, UH, DR.
WILKES, ARE YOU STARTING US OFF TODAY? YES, SIR.
AND WE'LL HEAR FROM YOU THEN APH.
AND THEN WE HAVE A UPDATE FROM THE TRAVIS COUNTY VACCINE SIDE AS WELL.
ARE YOU GOING TO SHOW THE SLIDES? THANKS
[1. Update on Covid-19 related matters.]
MORNING, EVERYONE.UM, I'M DOES MORE WALKS AND I'M THE NEW HEALTH AUTHORITY MEDICAL DIRECTOR FOR APH AND TRAVIS COUNTY CITY BOSTON, LIKE TO GIVE YOU A SITUATIONAL UPDATE ON COVID-19 IN TRAVIS COUNTY.
UM, THIS GRAPH SHOWS US THE PROGRESSION OF CASE NUMBERS SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE PANDEMIC.
AND WE SEE THAT OUR CASE NUMBERS ARE DROPPING.
WE HAVE A TOTAL NUMBER OF CASES RIGHT NOW OF 83,962 CASES, 229 ACTIVE.
AND WE'VE HAD UNFORTUNATELY 873 DEATHS.
THIS COMPARES THE, UM, SIX MAJOR METROPOLITAN AREAS IN TEXAS.
UM, AS FAR AS CASES GO AND WE SEE THAT, UH, UH, THIS COUNTY
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HAS, UM, THE FEWEST NUMBER OF CASES AS COMPARED TO THOSE OTHER AREAS AND BEAR COUNTY HARRIS, DALLAS EL PASO AND LOVETT COUNTIES.LUBBOCK COUNTY HAS FEWER THAN TRAVIS, BUT WERE MUCH LOWER THAN THE OTHER HIGHER COUNTIES.
UM, CAN YOU GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE? I'M GOING TO COVER THIS LATER ON NEXT SLIDE AS THIS SLIDE SHOWS AGAIN, OUR CASE NUMBERS, UM, AND OUR NUMBERS CONTINUE TO FALL SINCE OUR SECOND PEAK IN MID JANUARY.
UM, WHEN WE LOOK AT THE UT UM, CONSORTIUM DATA, UM, IT SHOWS THAT GIVEN OUR CURRENT TRAJECTORY WILL CONTINUE TO SHOW A DECLINE IN CASES.
UM, ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, UH, THE MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND AND THE WRIST AND GRADUATION, UM, CELEBRATIONS WERE CARRIED OUT IN A CROWBAR COVETED WISE FASHION.
WE'RE HOPING THAT THAT TREND WILL CONTINUE.
AND SO FAR IT HAS BEEN HOLDING STEADY.
AND THIS LOOKS AT OUR ADMISSIONS AND DISCHARGES, UH, OVER THE COURSE OF THE PANDEMIC.
AND NEXT SLIDE TO BREAK THAT DOWN A LITTLE BIT FURTHER.
UM, WE HAVE AS OF JUNE SEVEN, 78 COVID CASES IN HOUSE 30 PATIENTS ON IN ICU AND 14 OF THOSE PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS IN THE LAST 24 HOURS, THERE'VE BEEN 11 ADMISSIONS AND 11 DISCHARGES, UM, WHICH KEEPS US AT BAY STAGE TWO LEVEL.
AND THEN IF WE LOOK AT OUR HOSPITALIZATIONS BASED ON AGE, UM, LET'S SAY THAT THERE'S BEEN A SLIGHT INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF CASES, UM, ADMITTED TO THE HOSPITAL IN THE AGE RANGE OF 80 AND ABOVE.
WE'VE GONE FROM SEVEN CASES TO 14, UM, THIS WEEK, THIS PAST WEEK, UM, THERE'S BEEN A SLIGHT DECREASE IN THE AGE 20 TO 29 AGE GROUP.
I MEAN, SLIGHT UPTAKE IN THE 30 TO 39 AGE GROUP AND SLIDE PLEASE.
UM, ONE THING THAT I NEGLECTED TO MENTION ON THE PREVIOUS SLIDE IS THAT OUR SEVEN DAY MOVING AVERAGE ON HOSPITALIZATIONS, IT'S 11 ADMISSIONS PER DAY.
AND THIS SLIDE, WE'RE LOOKING AT THE SCHOOL AGE, CHILDREN IN OUR COUNTY AND WHAT THEIR POSITIVITY RATE IS.
AND WE WOULD SAY THAT, UM, HIGH SCHOOL AGED CHILDREN REALLY POSITIVELY, RIGHT OF 2.4% MIDDLE SCHOOL, 1.3%.
UM, THAT'S UP JUST A LITTLE BIT FROM THE PREVIOUS, UM, CURATOR MAY 16TH THROUGH MAY 22ND WHEN WE WERE BOARDED 9% ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SHOWS A POSITIVITY RATE OF 1.6%.
UM, THAT TOO IS UP A LITTLE BIT BY, FROM THE 1.3% WHEN IT WAS LAST REPORTED TO YOU IN THE LATE 16TH THROUGH 22ND TIMEFRAME AND PRESCHOOLS, UM, CHILDREN HAVE A POSITIVITY RATE OF 0.8%, WHICH IS AGAIN UP JUST SLIGHTLY FROM 0.6%.
AND THIS LIKELY AS DUE TO, UM, SCHOOLS NOW OUT, WE'VE HAD SOME GRADUATION ACTIVITIES AND OTHER EXTRA EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES.
SO THAT AGAIN, STRESSES THE NEED FOR US TO BE COVID WIVES AND WEAR A MASK SOCIAL DISTANCE WASH HANDS, AND GET THOSE THAT ARE UNVACCINATED, VACCINATING THEM.
NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE, IF WE BREAK THE ADMISSION INFORMATION DOWN BASED ON RACE, UM, FOR THE PAST WEEK OF MAY 31ST THROUGH JUNE SIX, YOU'LL SAY THAT, UM, WE'VE HAD 40, 22 CASES, UM, IN THE HISPANIC POPULATION, UM, 41, UM, REPORTED AS WHITE.
UH, WE'VE HAD 14 ORDERED AS BLACK, UM, RE RECORDED AS ASIAN INTO HIS OTHER, UM, WHICH IS A CATEGORY THAT'S USED WHEN, UH, PEOPLE DO NOT WANT TO REPORT AND, OR THERE'S, UH, SEVERAL DIFFERENT RACES.
AND SO THEY DEFAULT TO THE OTHER LIBRARY.
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PLEASE.AND CAN YOU GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE PLEASE? UM, IF WE LOOK AT THE, UM, DATA, UM, REGARDING DEPTHS IN, AGAIN, THOSE SIX COUNTIES WITH MAJOR LARGE METROPOLITAN AREAS, YOU'LL SEE THAT TRAVIS COUNTY HAS THE FEWEST STEPS AT 80 400080.4 PER A HUNDRED THOUSAND.
UM, AND THEN THE NUMBERS ARE THERE LISTED FOR THE OTHER COUNTIES.
UM, NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE FURTHER BREAK THAT DOWN, JUST COMPARING THE HIGHEST, UM, DEATH RATE.
UNFORTUNATELY, YOU MUSTARD FOR EL PASO AND BELOW US FOR TRAVIS.
I WANTED TO LOOK A LITTLE BIT, UM, MORE CLOSELY AT OUR HIGH-RISK POPULATIONS.
AND THIS LOOKS AT THE BLACK RESIDENTS IN OUR COUNTY AND EL PASO WHERE BLACKS REPRESENT 3.1% OF THE POPULATION THEY RE REPRESENT 1.3% OF THE DEATHS AND IN TRAVIS COUNTY WHERE BLACKS REPRESENT 8% OF THE POPULATION, THEY REPRESENT 10.5% OF THE JOBS.
AND LOOKING AGAIN AT, UH, HISPANICS WHO ALSO, UM, REPRESENT A HIGH PERCENTAGE OF THE GROUPS THAT IS DISPROPORTIONATELY AFFECTED BY DISEASE BURDEN, ILLNESS AND DEATH IN EL PASO, HISPANICS REPRESENT 82.8% OF THE POPULATION AND 89.4% OF DEATHS.
AND THEN TRAVIS, WHERE THE POPULATION REPRESENTS 33.6% OF THE POPULATION AND 46.3% OF DOTS.
WHAT IS I LOOKING AT BREAKTHROUGH CASES, WHICH ARE, UM, CASES THAT DEVELOPING AS WHO'VE BEEN VACCINATED, UM, YESTERDAY THE, UH, CDC DIRECTOR, DR.
RACHELLE WILLINSKY, UM, RELEASED A PRESS RELEASE, UM, TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO BE VACCINATED BY DISCUSSING SOME OF THE POST RELEASE DATA THAT SHOWS THAT 81% OF FOLKS, UM, ARE PROTECTED AFTER ONE DOSE OF VACCINE AND 91% ARE, UH, WHO ARE FULLY VACCINATED, ARE PROTECTED FROM DISEASE AND HAVE LESS SEVERE ILLNESS, LESS FEVER CHILLS, TWO DAYS LESS, UM, ON IN BED.
UM, SO LESS SEVERE ILLNESS IF THEY DO HAVE A BREAKTHROUGH CASE.
AND IN TRAVIS COUNTY, WE'VE DELIVERED 1,092,827 DOSES AND HAVE ONLY HAD 158 BREAKTHROUGH CASES.
UM, WE'VE HAD 38 30 MALES, UH, 54 FEMALES WHO'VE RECEIVED PFIZER WITH HIGH BREAKTHROUGH CASES, 10 MALES, 37 FEMALES WHO'VE RECEIVED MADONNA.
WHO'VE HAD A BREAKTHROUGH OF COVID-19 AND NINE MALES AND 18 FEMALES.
WHO'VE RECEIVED THE JOHNSON AND JOHNSON WHO HAD BREAKTHROUGH.
HELLO, ANOTHER AREA OF CONCERN.
UM, THE VARIANTS OF CONCERN THAT THE W ONE, ONE SUDDENLY UK, THE, THE ONE, THREE, FIVE, ONE, UM, THE SOUTH AFRICAN, AND, UH, HE WON THE BRAZIL AND THEN THE ONE, THE ONE, FOUR, TWO SEVEN, AND THE ONE, FOUR, TWO NINE RETURN, THE CALIFORNIA ONIONS.
WE'VE HAD NO NEW CASES OF THE VARIANT THIS WEEK.
UM, 51% OF THE VARIANCE THAT WE'VE SEEN THUS FAR HAVE BEEN IN FEMALES.
AND THE AGE RANGE IS ANYWHERE FROM EIGHT TO 87 YEARS OF AGE, FOUR OF THE CASES THAT HAVE BEEN SEEN IN TOTAL OF THE TWO 65 WERE CASES RELATED TO FOREIGN TRAVEL, UM, TWO FROM MEXICO, ONE FROM THE UK AND ONE FROM DUBAI.
SO WE'RE IN STAGE TWO, UM, AND THIS IS JUST A REMINDER OF WHAT THAT REPRESENTS FOR US A FIVE TO 14, SEVEN DAY MOVING AVERAGE OF HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS TO GET TO TWO STAGE ONE.
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BELOW FIVE ON OUR SEVEN DAY MOVING AVERAGE, THE HOSPITALIZATIONS, OR REACHING 70 TO 90%, UM, VACCINATION, UM, HERD IMMUNITY, UM, BEING ACHIEVED.UM, AND OF COURSE THE, THIS DECISION WILL BE MADE BASED ON ALL THE FACTORS THAT ARE OCCURRING AT THE TIME OF THE DECISIONS MADE.
BUT THESE ARE SOME OF THE GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR THIS.
UM, WE HAVE BEEN, UM, SHOWN BY THE UT CONSORTIUM DATA THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE, UM, PROBABLY A LITTLE BIT MORE OF A PROLONGED STAGE TWO, UM, GIVEN THAT MASS AND ARE, UM, NOT MANDATED.
SO IT'S MORE OF A PERSONAL CHOICE, WHICH WE'RE URGING ALL TO MAKE THAT CHOICE TO BE COVID WISE TO WEAR A MASK WASH HANDS, SOCIAL DISTANCE, UM, TRY TO, UM, WHEN POSSIBLE BE IN SITUATIONS OUTDOORS WHEN YOU'RE WITH A LOTS OF PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY PEOPLE THAT YOU'RE NOT LIVING WITH AND RUN VACCINATED.
UM, AND WE URGE THAT EVERYBODY TAKE ADVANTAGE OF BEING VACCINATED, UM, SO THAT WE CAN GET TO THE STAGE ONE SCENARIO.
THERE'S BEEN A SENSE THAT WE'RE AT THE END OF THIS.
WE ARE NOT, UM, THOSE OF US WHO ARE PHYSICIANS PRACTICING AND TREATING PATIENTS REMEMBER AND SEE STILL PEOPLE WHO HAVE, UM,
I'VE SEEN PATIENTS WHO HAVE BEEN IMPACTED TO THE POINT WHERE THEY HAD MEMORY ISSUES AND HAD TO RELEARN THEIR JOB.
UM, BEEN VERY WEAK AND TIRED AND SHORT OF BREATH FOR SEVERAL WEEKS.
UM, I'VE SEEN THE HEARTBREAK OF SOMEBODY WHO'S YOUNG GETTING COVID WITH VERY MILD ILLNESS AND THEN FINDING THEMSELVES, UM, FACED WITH THE GUILT OF HAVING THEM WITH SOMEBODY THAT'S OLDER THAN THEM AND THEIR FAMILY THAT THEY LOVE DEARLY WHO GOT THE DISEASE AND SUCCUMB TO IT.
SO, UM, NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE, IF YOU LOOK AT OUR, UM, CURRENT STATE OF PROGRESS TOWARD HUGE HERD IMMUNITY, UM, WE HAVE 45% OF OUR POPULATION FULLY VACCINATED, 13% PARTIALLY VACCINATED, 7%, UM, CONFIRMED CASES.
AND THEN THAT 12% OF ESTIMATED ADDITIONAL CASES IS BASED ON A FACTOR THAT'S BEEN CALCULATED BY THE CONSORTIUM THAT WE, UM, ARRIVE AT BY MULTIPLYING OUR POPULATION NUMBER BY THAT NUMBER, UH, FACTOR TO COME UP WITH THE 12%.
AND THOSE ARE PEOPLE THAT MAY HAVE MILD ELEMENTS OR FOR WHATEVER REASON, IF NOT BEEN TESTED AND IDENTIFIED.
UM, AND THEN WE HAVE 23% OF PEOPLE WHO ARE VULNERABLE AND THOSE INCLUDE PEOPLE WHO ARE ON VACCINATED.
SO I URGE US TO USE OUR SAME ENERGY THAT WE USE TO GET THE VOTE OUT AND GET THE FACTS OUT.
TWO FOR LISTENING TO THIS PRESENTATION AND I PASS IT ON TO ADRIAN.
THANK YOU FOR SENDING THAT NOTIFICATION, ASKING ME TO MUTE MYSELF.
GOOD MORNING, ADRIAN STIRRUP INTERIM DIRECTOR FOR AUSTIN PUBLIC HEALTH.
UM, SO THE FIRST SLIDE THAT WE SEE HERE IS OUR TYPICAL UPDATE OF THE VACCINE DASHBOARD, WHICH SHOWS THE NUMBER OF, UM, DOSES COMBINED, UM, FROM AUSTIN PUBLIC HEALTH AND COMMUNITY CARE.
BUT THIS WEEK FOR THE WEEK ENDING, UM, SIX, FIVE, I KNOW THERE WAS A LOT OF INTEREST ABOUT ZIP CODE PENETRATION.
SO THIS SHOWS, UM, THE NUMBER OF CLIENTS AND PARTICULARS OF CODES THAT WERE VACCINATED DURING THAT WEEK, THE LIGHTER NUMBERS REPRESENTING AREAS OF OPPORTUNITY.
IF YOU LOOK AT THE TRAVIS COUNTY DATA, UM, FROM DISHES, YOU CAN SEE, UM, WHERE WE ARE BROKEN OUT BY, UH, RACE AND ETHNICITY
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AND NUMBER FOUR OTHER AND UNKNOWN IS SOMETHING THAT OUR LPS WANT TO DIG INTO DEEPER.ANECDOTALLY, WE KNOW THAT THIS, THESE NUMBERS REPRESENT, UM, INDIVIDUALS WHO WERE UNCOMFORTABLE WITH SELECTING OR IDENTIFYING THEIR RACE AND ETHNICITY WHEN, UM, FILLING OUT THE REGISTRATION INFORMATION.
AND WE'RE HOPING WITH A LITTLE DIGGING THAT WE'LL SEE THAT THERE'S SOME UNDER-REPRESENTATION OF THE NUMBERS FOR BLACK AND HISPANIC IN OUR, IN OUR ACCOUNTING, GOING TO THE NEXT SLIDE.
WE CAN SEE THE REPORT BY AGE, UM, 12 AND A HALF.
WE HAVE 55% OF OUR POPULATION FULLY VACCINATED.
UM, AND THE NUMBER FOR THE 1215 YEAR OLDS.
LAST TIME WE HAVE 20,534 RESIDENTS IN BETWEEN THE AGES OF 12 TO 15, WHO HAVE RECEIVED AT LEAST ONE DOSE OF THE VACCINE FOR AGES 65.
AND NOW WE'RE AT 75% FULLY VACCINATED.
AND SO NOW THIS MAP LOOKS AT, UM, FIRST FILLS DISTRIBUTION BY ZIP CODE.
AGAIN, UM, THE LIGHTER NUMBERS ARE AWARE.
WE ARE LESS THAN 50% OF VACCINE PENETRATION, AND THIS IS THE TYPE OF MAP THAT WE ARE USING TO INFORM OUR COMMUNITY-BASED AND POP-UP STRATEGY.
AND SO THIS MAP I WILL SAY IS, UM, AS OF MAY 28TH, AND WE HOPE TO I'VE UPDATED BI-WEEKLY AND SHARE WITH COMMISSIONERS AND COUNCIL, UM, OF NOTE AND SEVEN, EIGHT, SEVEN FOUR FOUR.
WE HAVE OUR SOUTHEAST LIBRARY CLINICS, AND WE'RE HOPING THAT THOSE NUMBERS WILL, UM, INCREASE.
AND IN SEVEN, EIGHT, SEVEN, FIVE EIGHT IS WHERE THE LITTLE WALNUT CREEK CLINIC IS.
SO AGAIN, WE'RE HOPING THAT AS WE DRIVE, UM, RESIDENTS TO THESE TWO AREAS THAT WE'LL SEE AN INCREASE FOR THOSE PARTICULAR ZIP CODES AND THAT AS WE CONTINUE TO WORK ON OUR POP-UP STRATEGIES, WE'LL BE ABLE TO FOCUS ON THOSE LIGHTER SHADED AREAS.
IF YOU LOOK AT, UM, DISTRIBUTION BY WEEK, UM, BROKEN OUT BY RACE AND ETHNICITY, YOU CAN SEE, UM, IN THE BEGINNING HERE IN JANUARY IS WHEN WE WERE MOSTLY FOCUSED ON OUR, OUR MATH VACCINATION POD AT DEL CUP WEEK 14 IS WHERE IT GETS REALLY INTERESTING WHERE WE SEE GREATER REPRESENTATION OR A GREATER DIVERSITY OF REPRESENTATION.
AND THIS IS THE WEEK THAT OUR, UM, POP-UP STRATEGY AND SOME MORE OF OUR COMMUNITY-BASED CLINICS WERE IN FULL SWING.
AND SO YOU, WE CAN SEE, UM, THAT THERE IS A GOOD INCREASE IN THE HISPANIC POPULATION, BUT THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THESE STRATEGIES, UM, THE REPRESENTATION OF THE ASIAN POPULATION IS ON PAR WITH THEIR REPRESENTATION OF THE COMMUNITY.
WE'RE STILL SEEING, UM, NUMBERS THAT NEED TO IMPROVE IN THE BLACK AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY.
AND THEN IF YOU LOOK AT IT FURTHER, UM, FIVE SPECIFIC, SO GROUP BROKEN OUT BY A WEEK, YOU CAN SEE HERE FOR THE ASIAN POPULATION, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S REMAINED AT A GOOD PACE HERE.
UM, FOR THE BLACK POPULATION, WE CAN SEE THE INCREASES, UH, TOWARDS THE END OF MARCH, AND THEN THE SPIKES AGAIN IN MAY, AND THEN JUNE, WE HAD MORE CONCENTRATED EFFORTS WITH OUR FAITH-BASED PARTNERS AND THE HISPANIC POPULATION.
AGAIN, WE CAN SEE SIGNIFICANT INCREASES THIS WEEK IN FEBRUARY, I BELIEVE REPRESENTS WHEN WE DID THAT FIRST CLINIC AT SACRED HEART.
AND THEN YOU SEE THE NUMBERS STEADILY IMPROVE AS WE, UM, BEGAN TO IMPLEMENT, IMPLEMENT MORE OF THOSE BENEFITS, SACRED HEART AND OTHER FAITH BASED COMMUNITIES AND THE, UH, HISPANIC, LATIN X POPULATION.
AND THEN JUST TO TAKE A LOOK AT IT BY SITES HERE, THIS SHOWS THE, UM, THE BREAKDOWN OR A LITTLE WALNUT CREEK PFLUGERVILLE AND SOUTH EAST LIBRARY.
AND WE CAN SEE THAT THERE'S A GOOD REPRESENTATION, UM, IN THE HISPANIC, LATIN X POPULATION AGAIN, AND THE ASIAN POPULATION.
SO MORE TO DO WITH BLACK AND AFRICAN AMERICANS.
IF YOU LOOK AT THE POP-UP SITES AND THESE INCLUDE GREATER MOUNT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH, WHICH IS ON, UH, 10, A HILL LANE, YGLESIAS EL SHADDAI, OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE, SACRED HEART AND ST.
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SIGNIFICANT INCREASES IN THE NUMBER OF HISPANIC AND LATIN X RESIDENTS THAT TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THOSE CLINICS.JAMES IT'S SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF BLACK AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN RESIDENTS THAT TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THAT CLINIC.
AND THEN JUST TO COMPARE, UM, BECAUSE THE MPS THOUGHT IT WAS IMPORTANT TO OUR MATH VACCINATION SITES, UM, TO POINT OUT THAT EVEN THOUGH THE PROPORTION OF, UM, HISPANIC AND BLACK RESIDENTS WERE LOW AT THESE SITES PROPORTIONATELY, THEY DID PLAY AN IMPORTANT PART IN VACCINATING, UM, MEMBERS OF THAT POPULATION, BECAUSE THE NUMBERS, ER SIGNIFICANT FOUR THOUSAND FOUR THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED AND SEVENTY SEVEN.
SO THERE IS SOME ADVOCACY WITH THE MASS VACCINATION SITES FOR, UM, VACCINATING OUR, OUR POPULATIONS OF COLOR.
AND THEN AGAIN, THIS SHOWS THE BREAKOUT FOR SACRED HEART JUST TO DEMONSTRATE, UM, OUR FOCUS OUTREACH STRATEGY COULDN'T HAVE A GREATER IMPACT.
AND AGAIN, BREAKING IT OUT FOR ST.
JAMES MISSIONARY TO SHOW THE INCREASE IN THE PROPORTION OF, OF BLACK AND AFRICAN AMERICANS THAT SOUGHT OUT VACCINATIONS AT THAT SITE.
AND SO WE FIND THAT INFORMATION ENCOURAGING, AND WE PLAN TO CONTINUE ALONG THAT COURSE USING THE UPDATED MAPS, UM, TO DRAW ATTENTION TO AREAS OF FOCUS, UM, FOR JUNETEENTH, WHICH IS FRIDAY, JUNE 18TH, WE HAVE MADE THE DECISION TO KEEP OPERATIONS OPEN.
UM, IT'S, UH, A HOLIDAY NOW FOR CITY EMPLOYEES AS WELL AS MANY STATE EMPLOYEES.
AND WE'RE HOPING THAT FOLKS WILL, UM, TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY OF THE DAY OFF TO GO GET VACCINATED.
UM, OUR PIO IS WORKING ON A FULL, UM, PUSH TO, UH, DRIVE PEOPLE TO THESE EVENTS.
UM, THE FIRST ONE IS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH GRANT AME CHURCH ON, ON KRAMER LANE, AND THEN WE'LL HAVE OUR STANDARD OPERATIONS OPEN THAT LITTLE WALNUT CREEK AND THAT SOUTHEAST LIBRARY OF THE HOURS LISTED HERE.
AND THEN ON THE DAY OF FESTIVITIES WHERE, UM, MOST OF OUR COMMUNITY CELEBRATES, UM, JUNETEENTH, WE CONTINUE TO PLAN TO HAVE A PRESENCE.
UM, WE WILL BE AT LITTLE WALNUT CREEK LIBRARY WORKING WITH OUR PARTNERS AT THE COUNTY.
UM, WE ARE IN CONVERSATIONS WITH THE ORGANIZERS FOR THE, UM, CELEBRATIONS PLAN FOR ROSEWOOD AND FORGIVEN PARK TO BE PRESENT.
AND WE ARE ALSO PLANNED OR SCHEDULED TO BE AT OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE.
AND, UM, I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE NICE TO, TO END THE PRESENTATION ON A REMINDER OF WHAT DR.
WACHS SHARED EARLIER THAT, UM, MATT SKIN CONTINUES TO BE IMPORTANT.
AND WE KNOW THAT GOOD BEHAVIOR CHANGE THEORY, UM, SAYS THAT WE NEED TO NOT ONLY PROVIDE INFORMATION, UM, TO ALLOW PEOPLE TO MAKE GOOD DECISIONS FOR THEMSELVES, BUT WE ALSO HAVE TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO RESOURCES.
SO THIS PAST SATURDAY, THE TEAM FROM AUSTIN PUBLIC HEALTH AND AUSTIN TRANSPORTATION WERE OUT, UM, GIVING AWAY PPE.
WE GAVE AWAY 654 PPE BAGS, AND THOSE PACKETS USUALLY CONTAIN, UM, FOUR TO SIX MASKS AND SOME, UM, TRAVEL SIZE, AS WELL AS FAMILY SIZE, HAND SANITIZERS.
THEY GAVE OUT 600 DISASTER RELIEF BOXES, 600 BOXES OF FOOD AND VEGGIES.
UM, 300 BOXES OF FEMININE HYGIENE PROJECT PRODUCTS, EXCUSE ME, AS WELL AS 500 PILLOWS.
AND SO JUST AS A REMINDER, AS A FOUR YEAR TO DATE THROUGH OUR PPE PPE DISTRIBUTION EVENTS, WE'VE SERVED OVER 17,000 FAMILIES AND PROVIDED OVER 59,000 MASKS AND 18,000 BOTTLES OF HANDS AND THE TYPES.
AND SO WE ARE DEFINITELY HAVING A, UM, OF A FULL CIRCLE APPROACH AND NOT ONLY ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO BE VACCINATED, BUT ENCOURAGING THEM TO CONTINUE TO PRACTICE SAFETY MEASURES AND PROVIDING THEM THE TOOLS, RESOURCES, AND INFORMATION TO DO SO.
AND WITH THAT, I WILL END OUR PRESENTATION AND, UH, ASK IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS.
I THINK WE'VE GOT CHIEF BAILEY AND CONSTABLE MIRALIS TO GIVE US A UPDATE ON THE TRAVIS COUNTY EFFORTS AS WELL.
THANK YOU, JUDGE, UH, COURT, UH, AND COUNCIL CHUCK BROTHERTON, TRAVIS COUNTY EXECUTIVE FOR EMERGENCY
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SERVICES, UH, JUST WANTED TO UPDATE THE COURT, UH, AND COUNSEL BRIEFLY ON OUR CONTINUING OPERATIONS, OUR MASS VACCINATION OPERATIONS AT THE TRAVIS COUNTY EXPOSITION CENTER ON DECKER LANE.UH, WE ARE CONTINUING A WEEKEND OPERATIONS, FRIDAY, SATURDAY AND SUNDAYS, UH, TYPICALLY, UH, FOR MASS VACCINE DRIVE-THROUGH, UH, AT EXPO, EVEN AS WE TRANSITIONED TO STRIKE TEAM OPERATIONS AND POP UP EVENTS.
SO, UH, WE WILL, WE PLAN TO CONTINUE AT EXPO SO LONG AS THERE IS A DEMAND, UH, THIS PAST WEEKEND, UH, WE DELIVERED 1,385 DOSES OVER FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY AT EXPO, UH, IN ADDITION TO ABOUT 228 THAT WE DELIVERED AT, UH, SOME POP-UP CLINICS THAT, UH, CHIEF BAILEY AND CONSTABLE MIRALIS, UH, WILL TELL YOU ABOUT.
SO WE SEE THIS CONTINUING, UH, THROUGH JUNE, UH, LIKELY INTO THE SUMMER, UM, AND, AND PERHAPS SHRINKING OUR FOOTPRINT AT EXPO, UH, FOR THE DRIVE THROUGH OPERATIONS, EVEN WHILE WE CONTINUE SUPPORTING THROUGH THE PHARMACY OPERATIONS, SUPPORTING OUR, OUR, UH, STRIKE TEAM OPERATIONS.
SO WITH THAT, I WILL TURN IT OVER TO CHIEF KEN BAILEY WITH TRAVIS COUNTY EST 11.
SO GOOD MORNING, COUNSEL, JUDGE, UH, COMMISSIONER'S COURT.
UH, THANK YOU FOR HAVING US AGAIN, I'D LIKE TO START BY SAYING THAT, UH, CONSTABLE MIRALIS, I ARE GOING TO BE BRIEF, BUT, UH, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A COMBINED EFFORT OF A LOT OF PEOPLE, NOT REALLY JUST US, UH, OBVIOUSLY TRAVIS COUNTY, SETON ACC, AUSTIN, PUBLIC HEALTH, UH, THERE'S UH, A NUMBER OF PARTNERS COLLABORATIVE IS NOW A PART OF THAT.
SO, UH, THE DATA THAT I'M SHOWING YOU IS SPECIFIC TO OUR STRIKE TEAM, UM, EFFORTS FROM THE BEGINNING AND THUS FAR, UH, FROM THE STRIKE TEAM PERSPECTIVE, WE'VE DELIVERED ABOUT 16,000, UH, DOSES.
I'D LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT THAT 83% OF THOSE ARE TO, TO, UH, PEOPLE OF COLOR IT BECAUSE OF THE WAY IT'S BROKEN DOWN WITH AMTRAK, UH, WHITE SHOWS TO BE A LARGE NUMBER, BUT WHEN YOU BREAK THAT DOWN TO THOSE THAT ARE, UM, HISPANIC, AND THEN THE NONWHITE POPULATION RUNS ABOUT 83%, WE ARE SEEING A LARGE UPTAKE IN THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE UNDER THE AGE OF 20 THAT ARE TAKING THE VACCINE, WHICH IS OBVIOUSLY, UH, WITH THE CHANGES FROM THE CDC GUIDELINES FOR, UH, S THE AUSTIN PUBLIC HEALTH HAD MENTIONED THE, THE ZIP CODES THAT HAVE THE LEAST AMOUNT OF VACCINE PENETRATION.
UH, WE'VE HIGHLIGHTED THOSE, AND THOSE HAVE BECOME A PRIORITY FOR THE STRIKE TEAMS. AND, AND THEN THE QUESTION WHICH SEEMS TO US TO, TO BE IMPORTANT IS WHAT HAVE WE DONE IN THOSE ZIP CODES? AND I'LL GIVE YOU SEVEN, EIGHT, SIX ONE SEVEN AS AN EXAMPLE, UH, YOU KNOW, IT'S LESS THAN 50% OF THAT POPULATION, UH, IS, IS VACCINATED WITH AT LEAST ONE DOSE.
BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE NEXT SLIDE AND YOU SEE WHERE WE'VE TAKEN OUR STRIKE TEAMS, WE HAVE BEEN IN SEVEN, EIGHT, SIX ONE SEVEN, BUT HOW EFFECTIVE HAVE WE BEEN IS, UH, AS, AS A LARGER QUESTION AND CLEARLY, UH, CONSTABLE MIRALIS AND OTHERS ARE STARTING TO FOCUS ON OUR MESSAGING IN THESE AREAS SO THAT WE CAN BRING THOSE NUMBERS TO A HIGHER LEVEL.
AND THEN, UM, I'D ALSO LIKE TO POINT OUT THAT THE LAST TWO WEEKS IN THOSE AREAS THAT HAVE HAD LESS THAN 50%, OR THAT ARE OUR, OUR PRIORITIES, UH, THE LAST TWO WEEKS OF DOSES, WHICH INCLUDE HEB, AUSTIN, PUBLIC HEALTH, COMMUNITY CARE, TCF ARM, UH, SEED IN ALL, ALL THE PROVIDERS, UH, REPRESENTS ABOUT 20% OF THE EFFORT WENT INTO THOSE SEVEN OR EIGHT ZIP CODES.
AND THEN THE LAST THING THAT I'VE MENTIONED IS THAT WE HAVE GEOCODED AT LEAST FOR THE STRIKE GAMES AND SOME OF THESE HARD TO REACH SUB CODES SO THAT WE CAN START GOING STREET BY STREET, UM, WHETHER OR NOT IT'S THE LEFT SIDE OF THE STREET OR THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE STREET, UH, WITH, WITH OUR EFFORTS TO EDUCATE AND DO SOME OUTREACH, WHICH CONCERT MORALES IS GOING TO SPEAK TO, UH, AND IN REGARDS TO OUR NEXT STEPS WITH THOSE, UH, OUTREACH EFFORTS, CONSTANT WELL MORALES, GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL COMMISSIONERS, JUDGE, AND MAYOR.
UM, RIGHT NOW WE'RE, WE'RE CURRENTLY FOCUSING ON OUTREACH AND EDUCATION, UM, SO THAT WHEN OUR TEAMS ARE OUT THERE, UM, THEY CAN BE MORE SUCCESSFUL.
UM, TOGETHER, WE'RE WORKING ON A UNIFIED MESSAGE, UM, ALONG WITH ALSO PUBLIC HEALTH, UH, SETON COMMUNITY CARE AND OTHER COMMUNITY GROUPS, UM, SO THAT WE DON'T SEND MIXED MESSAGES,
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UM, YOU KNOW, SUCH AS LOCATIONS, UH, TYPES OF VACCINES AGES, CALENDAR OF EVENTS, RESPONDING TO QUESTIONS, INFORMATION TO THE VACCINE, UH, HEALTHY ACCUSING CONCERNS.UM, RIGHT NOW OUR VACCINE EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH IS, UH, ONE OF THE FOCUSES THAT, UH, AS A, AS A TEAM IN A GROUP WE'RE OUT THERE, UM, WE'D LIKE TO MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE HAVE ANSWERS TO SOME QUESTIONS LIKE, YOU KNOW, THE VACCINE HESITANCY, UM, THE RELIABILITY OF THE VACCINE AND THE TYPES OF VACCINE GIVEN AND THE AGES THAT CAN BE TAKEN.
UH, YOU KNOW, FOR INSTANCE, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE AN, UH, A UP EVENT ON JUNE 12TH.
UM, THAT'S AT THE MILLENNIUM YOUTH COMPLEX, UM, THAT IS STRICTLY 100% VACCINE EDUCATION, UH, WITH OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS.
UM, YOU KNOW, ALONG WITH COMMISSIONERS GOMEZ, TREVELYAN, UH, MAYOR PRO TEM, NATASHA HARTFORD, MADISON, UM, FIELD AT THAT HE, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, COMING TOGETHER AS A GROUP AND REACHING OUT TO OUR FAITH BASED LEADERS OR OUR TRUSTED FACES IN THE COMMUNITY OR FAMILIAR FACES IN THE COMMUNITY ARE, NON-PROFITS MAKING SURE THAT I'M SORRY, MAKING SURE THAT, UM, WE CAN ACTUALLY BRING THAT INFORMATION FOR ANYONE THAT HAS THOSE QUESTIONS OR THOSE HESITANCIES OF WHY THEY NEED, THEY SHOULD TAKE THE VACCINE AND HOW HEALTHY THE VACCINE CAN BE.
UM, OUR MAIN FOCUS ON COMMUNITY OUTREACHES, AGAIN, USING THOSE TRUSTED PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY.
UM, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF THE TIMES, UH, WE, WE HAD A DISCUSSION ON, ON, ON, YOU KNOW, DO YOU KNOW WHO YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS OR DO YOU KNOW WHO YOUR REVEREND IS? DO YOU KNOW WHO YOUR PRIEST IS? DO YOU KNOW WHO THE PERSON, YOU KNOW, AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER IS? THOSE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT WE WANT TO, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE OUT THERE AND WE GET OUR MESSAGE OUT.
UM, YOU KNOW, RIGHT NOW, YOU KNOW, IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS WE'VE WORKED ON, UH, SOME OF THAT PART.
AND, AND WITH THE HELP OF, OF TRAVIS COUNTY, WE WERE ABLE TO GET SOME STAFF MEMBERS OUT TO WHERE WE'VE MADE ALMOST 2000 PHONE CALLS.
UM, WE, FLYERED ALMOST 2,500 APARTMENT COMPLEXES IN THE MOBILE HOMES.
AND, UM, TEXT MESSAGING IS ABOUT 2000.
SO, YOU KNOW, AS WE INCREASE THAT INFORMATION IN THAT EFFORT, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT, THAT PEOPLE ARE, ARE COMFORTABLE WITH, WITH US GETTING OUT THERE.
UM, AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE PEOPLE ARE COMFORTABLE WITH THE MESSAGE THAT WE'RE GIVING.
UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S A SCARY PROCESS BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE ARE JUST UNFAMILIAR WHAT WE GOT GOING ON.
UM, JUST LIKE BEFORE I SAID, WE ARE WORKING TO REACH THE HARD TO REACH AREAS, THOSE PEOPLE WITH LACK OF TRANSPORTATION, LACK OF WIFI, UH, ACCESS TECHNOLOGY, YOU KNOW, THOSE ARE THE AREAS THAT ARE FOCUSED ON CONCERN, AND I'LL MOVE IT BACK TO CHIEF BAILEY ON THAT.
WE'RE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MIGHT HAVE.
UM, CHUCK, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING IN INDUCING? THANK YOU.
JUST ONE, ONE OTHER MENTION, I'D LIKE TO JUST GIVE A SHOUT OUT, UH, JUDGE, MAYOR COURT, AND COUNSEL TO THE TEXAS ARMY NATIONAL GUARD.
UH, THEY HAVE BEEN SUPPORTING OUR EFFORTS, BOTH AT CIRCUIT OF THE AMERICAS NOW AT EXPO AND CONTINUING, UH, TO SUPPORT US AS WE MOVE INTO THE COMMUNITY WITH STRIKE TEAM.
SO LIEUTENANT JOSE TORRES AND HIS FOLKS HAVE BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN CONTINUING TO SUPPORT AND, UH, AND MAKE OUR OPERATION SUCCESSFUL.
SO WITH THAT, WE'LL TURN IT OVER TO Y'ALL FOR QUESTIONS.
THANKS VERY MUCH FOR ALL THAT.
SO WE'LL START WITH THE QUESTIONS, COMMISSIONER GOMEZ, UH, RECOGNIZE YOU FIRST, IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS, ANY QUESTIONS, UM, IT APPEARS THAT WE ARE, UM, ARE GOING TO, TO WHERE PEOPLE ARE AND THAT, THAT IS A VERY GOOD, UM, STRATEGY, UH, TO TRY TO REACH AS MANY FOLKS, UH, AND GIVE THEM THE TIME TO ASK QUESTIONS AND TO GET ANSWERS, UH, SUFFICIENT ENOUGH FOR THEM TO WANT TO GET VACCINATED.
SO THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH FOR THAT EFFORT.
I DON'T HAVE ANY, UH, QUESTIONS EITHER.
I JUST REALLY WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE WORK WORK OF ALL OF OUR STAFF, UH, AND ESPECIALLY THE USDS AND THE CONSTABLES.
UM, AND I AGREE WITH COMMISSIONER GOMEZ, IT DOES SEEM THAT THESE SORT OF TARGETED, UH, STRIKE TEAM EFFORTS, WHICH I KNOW MY COLLEAGUE, MR. RICHARD BILLION HAS BEEN PUSHING FOR FROM THE FIRST WE WERE HAVING.
THESE HEARINGS ARE REALLY PAYING OFF AND I JUST WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE EVERYONE'S HARD WORK AND, AND, UH, AND EFFORTS TO TRY AND PROTECT OUR COMMUNITY AND KEEP IT HEALTHY.
UM, I'LL ECHO MY COLLEAGUES THAT, THAT, UM, THEN, UH, I REALLY APPRECIATE THE EXTRA EFFORTS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE, UM, BY, UH, BY OUR STAFF.
UH, I THINK THAT WE'VE BEEN WILLING TO GO OUT.
WE'VE SEEN A WILLINGNESS TO GO OUT INTO THE COMMUNITY.
I THINK THAT, UH, YOU'VE MADE EXTRAORDINARY EFFORTS AS WELL TO MAKE SURE THAT, UH, PEOPLE HAVE ACCESS TO VACCINE.
UH, WE ARE PLANNING, UM, A COUPLE MORE
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EVENTS, A FEW MORE EVENTS BETWEEN NOW AND JUNE 10TH.I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE, UH, THAT, THAT WE CONTINUE TO HAVE THE VOLUME OF VACCINES THAT WE NEED BECAUSE, UH, AS, AS WE LOOK AT, UH, WHAT IS BEING PLANNED, UM, BY OUR CONSTABLES, UH, ON THE, UH, F A MILLENNIUM CENTER THIS WEEKEND, I THINK THAT COULD BE A BIG EVENT WITH A LOT OF PEOPLE.
AND I THINK THAT JUNETEENTH WILL BE HUGE AS WELL.
AND THERE WILL BE A NUMBER OF EVENTS WITH A LOT OF TRUSTED PEOPLE ALL AROUND THE CITY.
SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE THE SUPPLY, THAT THEY NEED TO SERVE THOSE DIFFICULT, TO REACH PARTS OF THE COMMUNITY WHO WE KNOW WILL BE OUT FOR EVENTS.
SO I JUST WANT TO THANK ALL ON, THANK YOU ALL FOR ALL THE EFFORTS THAT HAVE BEEN DONE, AND, AND LET'S REDOUBLE OUR EFFORTS UNTIL, YOU KNOW, BETWEEN NOW AND THE 4TH OF JULY, UH, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE REACHING AS MANY PEOPLE AS WE CAN.
AND THE ONE AT THE MILLENNIUM IT'S THIS SATURDAY AND SAID, I THINK IT'S LIKE NINE TO ONE.
DOES THAT SOUND RIGHT? UH, CONSTABLE MIRALIS, COULD YOU GIVE HIM THE CONTOURS JACK, WE'RE GOING TO BE, UM, IT'S, IT'S ACTUALLY NINE TO ONE.
WE THAT'S NINE ONE EXACTLY, UH, SHOW UP AND, AND MORE, UH, EDUCATION WITH OUR VENDORS.
UM, THERE YOU'LL HAVE FREE FOOD, UH, WORKING WITH COMMUNITY CARE TO GIVE OUT SOME GIFT CARDS FOR FAMILIES.
UH, WE'LL HAVE KONA ICE ON SITE.
UM, AND, YOU KNOW, WE WANT PEOPLE TO FEEL COMFORTABLE ASKING THOSE QUESTIONS WHEN THEY COME TO THIS EVENT SO THAT WE CAN, WE CAN ASSURE THEM THAT, YOU KNOW, IT CAN BE SAFE AND, AND TRY TO ANSWER ANY ADDITIONAL HESITANCY QUESTIONS HAVE, YOU KNOW, I MIGHT HAVE TO, AT SOME POINT, UH, GET SOME TYPE OF CONTEST BETWEEN THE CONSTABLE AND TO SEE WHO HAS THE BEST BARBECUE ACCESS TO THE BEST BARBECUE.
SO I MIGHT HAVE TO THROW THE GAUNTLET DOWN, UM, CONSTABLE TO SEE, SEE WHAT YOU KNOW, OUT THERE.
IT'S FUNNY YOU SAY THAT COMMISSIONER.
CAUSE THE GUY I GOT WAS ACTUALLY YOUR FRIEND, THAT'S A FRIEND OF OURS.
HE ACTUALLY PARKS HERE IN OUR OFFICE, SO IT'S GOING TO BE TOUGH.
SO WE KIND OF FOCUSED ON THE STEAK ON THE BARBECUE.
ALRIGHT, WELL, WE'LL CHECK IT.
AND IT'S 12 AND UP FOR A SATURDAY, RIGHT? SO IT'S THE PFIZER Y'ALL HAVE ON SATURDAY.
WE WILL HAVE A VACCINE TEAM ONSITE.
MY QUESTION MIGHT BE BEST DIRECTED.
THE CHARLES BROTHERTON ON THE MAP SHARED, UM, IN THE, IN THIS MOST RECENT PRESENTATION, IT DOESN'T INCLUDE THE ENTIRE TRAVIS COUNTY, UM, LIKE NORTH OF THE RIVER.
AND I'M CURIOUS AS TO, UM, WHY IS THAT? UM, IS THAT JUST, IS, IS THIS THE SHADED AREAS WHERE WE'VE DONE STRIKE WORK OR DO WE, IS THIS THE CITY? I'M JUST A LOT OF MY PRECINCT IS NOT ON NOT SHADED ON THE MAP.
UM, AND I'M CURIOUS ABOUT THE AGE OF THE PEOPLE REFLECTED IN THESE STATISTICS.
IS THIS ALL HUMAN BEINGS OR JUST FOLKS 12 AND OVER, OR WHAT, AND COMMISSIONER HOWARD, I WILL DEFER TO CHIEF BAILEY.
UH, HE IS THE CREATOR OF THOSE MAPS COMMISSIONER.
ARE YOU SPEAKING TO SEVEN EIGHT, SIX, FOUR, FIVE AND SEVEN EIGHT SIX FOUR ONE.
UH, THAT'S MY ERROR I'LL HAVE THAT CORRECTED AND, UH, AND GET IT BACK OVER TO YOU.
AND THESE ARE THE FIRST DOSES OR AT LEAST ONE DOSE IS WHAT YOU WERE SEEING.
BUT OUT OF WHAT, YOU KNOW, THAT I'M SURPRISED THAT WE DON'T HAVE MORE FOLKS WITH COMPLETE DOSAGE ON THE, YOU KNOW, OUTLAST.
AND SO IS THIS ALL AGES OR JUST, IT IS ALL AGES AND I CAN ACTUALLY GET YOU A BREAKDOWN.
UM, ALL OF THE DATA THAT I HAVE IS SPECIFIC, UH, IS FROM DISHES.
UH, AND I HAVE IT DIVIDED INTO AN EAST AND WEST AS WELL.
SO, UH, I CAN GET THAT TO CHUCK AND WHO CAN THEN GET IT TO YOU TODAY.
UM, DON'T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS JUST WANT TO SAY THANKS POSSIBLE.
RALPH'S CHIEF BAILEY COMMISSIONERS, UH, FOR ALL THAT YOU'RE DOING AND THANK YOU APH ALSO FOR BEING SUCH A GREAT PARTNER IN ALL OF THIS.
UH, I THINK THE STRIKE TEAM EFFORT ACROSS THE CITY AND THE COUNTY IS MOVING THINGS IN A GOOD DIRECTION.
UM, SO I'LL PASS IT ON OVER TO YOU MAYOR.
THANK YOU AGAIN, THE COMMISSIONERS.
WE'RE GOING TO GO, UH, UH, ONE THROUGH 10, UH, LET'S BEGIN WITH, UH, THE MAYOR PRO TEM.
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LET'S SEE WHAT THE MAYOR PRO TEM.NOW I DID IT EARLIER, BUT HE'D COME BACK.
DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? YES.
UM, UH, MY FIRST QUESTION IS, AND FIRST I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO CHIEF BAILEY, CONSTABLE WIRELESS FOR ALL THAT YOU'RE DOING FOR OUR COMMUNITY.
IT'S JUST INCREDIBLE TO SEE THE DATA THAT YOU ALL LAID OUT.
WERE YOU ABLE TO SHOW US THE TARGETED ZIP CODES THAT YOU'RE WORKING ON AS PART OF THE STRIKE, THAT TEAM EFFORT, UM, AND THEN SHOW US WHERE YOU'VE BEEN IN THAT ZIP CODE.
I SUPER APPRECIATE THAT LEVEL OF DETAIL AND INFORMATION, AND I'M SO GRATEFUL FOR ALL THE HARD WORK THAT Y'ALL ARE DOING TO GET OUR COMMUNITY VACCINATED.
UM, CHIEF BAILEY, WHEN YOU SAID THAT Y'ALL ARE GOING STREET TO STREET, THAT YOU'RE SPEAKING MY LANGUAGE, I'M RIGHT THERE WITH YOU.
I WAS LIKE, YES, THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE NEED TO BE DOING.
SO JUST WANT TO EXTEND MY GRATITUDE TO YOU ALL.
AND JUST, JUST SO GRATEFUL FOR THE STRIKE TEAM EFFORT.
UM, MY QUESTION IS FOR, IS AROUND, UM, THE, JUST TRYING TO UNDERSTAND, YOU KNOW, WHAT IS THE PLAN TO GET THE ZIP CODES THAT HAVE LESS THAN 50% OF THE POPULATION VACCINATED WITH ONE DOSE? HOW ARE WE GOING TO MOVE THOSE ZIP CODES? UM, AND WHAT ARE THE COORDINATED STRATEGIES? I WANT TO ENSURE THAT OUR STRIKE TEAM EFFORT WITH THE COUNTY AND THE COUNTY SPEARHEADING IS ALIGNED WITH THE PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT'S EFFORT.
UM, SO IF YOU, IF, UM, UH, DIRECTOR STORE, BUT IF YOU COULD SPEAK TO THAT AND, AND ALSO IF YOU COULD TOUCH ON THE CITY'S MOBILE VACCINE PROGRAM, HOW THAT'S GOING AND HAS THAT BEEN UTILIZED, YOU KNOW, ANY TYPE OF INFORMATION THERE THAT WE SHOULD BE AWARE OF? UM, SO THAT'S MY FIRST QUESTION.
THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER POINTS.
AS, UM, AS MY COLLEAGUES FROM THE COUNTY POINTED OUT, YOU KNOW, THE FIRST THING IS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE HAVING CONSISTENT MESSAGING AND THAT WE'RE ALL SAYING THE SAME THING.
SO THERE IS A CONCERTED EFFORT TO MAKE, TO WORK ON, UM, CAMPAIGNS AND TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE SHARING THE SAME INFORMATION.
UM, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT VACCINE HESITANCY, YOU KNOW, WE'RE REALLY TALKING, I READ A REALLY GOOD ARTICLE THIS WEEK AND IT SPOKE TO ME BECAUSE NOW WE'RE REALLY TALKING ABOUT VACCINE EQUITY.
AND SO ALL OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE DOING TO BE IN THOSE OTHER COMMUNITIES, THAT FOLKS EITHER ALL ACCESS OR NEED ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
SO IT WILL BE A COMBINATION OF ALL THE THINGS THAT YOU YOU'VE HEARD TODAY.
RIGHT? SO FIRST WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE CONTINUING TO PROVIDE, UM, UP TO DATE, REAL TIME INFORMATION ACCESSIBLE AT DIFFERENT POINTS IN COMMUNITY, WHETHER IT'S GOING, YOU KNOW, THAT I LOVE THE HEALTH FAIR MODEL APPROACH, YOU KNOW, DRAWING PEOPLE IN WITH LOTS OF CHOTSKY AND JOY AND, AND GOOD FOOD, AND THEN GIVE THEM SOME INFORMATION.
AND THEN IF YOU CAN GET THEM OVER THE NEXT HOUR, WE GIVE THEM A SHOT LIKE THAT IS LIKE CLASSIC STRATEGY FOR THAT.
SO, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S REALLY ABOUT CREATING THOSE OPPORTUNISTIC MOMENTS FOR PEOPLE TO GET VACCINE.
UM, AND SO AS WE BEGIN TO SHIFT FROM OUR, OUR MATH SYKES WE'VE BOUNCED SITES, WE WILL JOIN OUR, UM, COUNTY PARTNERS IN DOING MORE OF A STRIKE TEAM APPROACH.
UM, TYPICAL VAN PROGRAM BACK IN THE DAY BEFORE COVID, WE WERE OUT AT WALMARTS AND AGVS HIV TESTING, GIVING SCREENINGS FOR BLOOD PRESSURES.
WE PLAN TO USE THAT SAME MODEL, UM, FOR THE VACCINATION, UM, STRATEGY.
SO LEAVING PLACES LIKE SOUTHEAST LIBRARY AND LITTLE WALNUT CREEK, BECAUSE THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD, UH, WAS THAT PEOPLE CAN STILL GRAVITATE TO AND HAVE CONNECTION WITH.
AND THEN COUPLING THAT WITH, UM, USING THE MAP TO SEE WHERE WE'RE BELOW 50% AND DEPLOYING OUR TEAMS IN THOSE AREAS, REACHING OUT TO OUR PARTNERS.
I MEAN, THEY, THEY HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD, THE TRUSTED PARTNERS THAT WE'LL BE HAVING EVENTS THAT WE CAN TAG ONTO, OR THAT WE CAN CREATE EVENTS WITH.
SO IT'LL BE A COMBINATION OF MESSAGING, UM, PROVIDING GOOD INFORMATION AND THEN MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE EQUITABLE OPPORTUNITIES AND PLACES WHERE PEOPLE WEREN'T PLAYING AND LIVE TO GET VACCINE.
AND I DON'T KNOW IF MY PARTNERS FROM THE COUNTY WANT TO ADD ANYTHING TO THAT.
UM, AND, AND AGAIN, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S AN EXCITING TIME TO, TO ACTUALLY MOTIVATE AND INSPIRE AND EDUCATE PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY.
AND ONE FINAL POINT COUNCIL MEMBER, I WOULD OFFER THE, UH, THAT THERE IS A JOINT INFORMATION TEAM, PUBLIC INFORMATION FOLKS FROM BOTH SET, UH, COUNTY AND CITY THAT ARE WORKING TOGETHER TO CRAFT MESSAGING THAT IS CONSISTENT, THAT HAS, YOU KNOW, THE SAME ARTWORK, BUT EDITABLE TEXT THAT WE CAN USE FOR, UH, DOOR HANGERS, UH, POSTERS, ALL OF THAT KIND OF LITERATURE
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THAT WE'RE HANDING OUT, JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'VE GOT CONSISTENT MESSAGING AND CONSISTENT BRANDING, IF YOU WILL, UH, FOR OUR COMBINED EFFORTS.AND THEN, YEAH, THE OTHER QUESTION I HAD, UM, IS AROUND THE COMMUNITY GOAL TO GET TO 70% VACCINATED WITH ONE DOSE BY JULY 4TH.
YOU KNOW, I REALLY, UM, IT'D BE HELPFUL IF WE WERE ABLE TO GET SOME TYPE OF PROGRESS, PROGRESS UPDATE AS WE HAVE THE DIFFERENT WEEKS GO BY FROM NOW AND TILL THEN, UH, TO SEE, YOU KNOW, HOW WE'RE MOVING THAT NEEDLE AND JUST, I WANT TO GET A SENSE OF, YOU KNOW, HOW SUCCESSFUL ARE THOSE ARE THE VACCINATION EFFORTS ARE WHEN WE HAVE THE, THE HEALTH FAIRS AND, UM, JUNETEENTH AND JUST TRYING TO SEE, OKAY, BECAUSE OF THESE VERY TARGETED OUTREACH EFFORTS THAT ARE COLLABORATIVE, THIS IS HOW MUCH WE WERE ABLE TO MOVE WEEK TO WEEK TO HIT THAT COMMUNITY GOAL.
AND AS MUCH AS WE CAN SHARE THAT OUT, THAT WE'RE TRYING TO REACH 70% BY JULY 4TH.
AND I THINK WE'RE AT WHAT WAS IT? 66% WITH AT LEAST ONE DOSE OF TRAVIS COUNTY.
IS THAT RIGHT? YES, THAT IS CORRECT.
I DON'T KNOW IF THIS HAS METRICS.
I WAS A LITTLE LATE JOINING, BUT I DID WANT TO EXTEND A HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO COMMISSIONER GOMEZ AND, UH, JUST WANT TO WISH YOU THE BEST YEAR YET, AND HOPE YOU HAVE A GREAT DAY.
I HAD SKIPPED THE MAYOR PROGRAM AND LET ME GO BACK AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY COMMISSIONER.
AND, UM, I CAN'T HELP, BUT OBSERVE THE SERENDIPITY.
SO I WASN'T ON CAMERA BECAUSE I GOT A CALL FROM MY MOM.
UM, SO I COULD SING HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HER.
SO HAPPY BIRTHDAY, COMMISSIONER GOMEZ.
YOU AND MY MOM ARE BIRTHDAY TWINS.
SO, UM, BUT THAT I, I ACTUALLY DON'T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS AND I WANT TO THANK MY COLLEAGUES, EXTEND THE MOST GRATITUDE FOR HAVING WATCHED ALL OF THESE, UM, INITIATIVES AND DEPARTMENTS COME TOGETHER.
AND I THINK WE FINALLY HAVE FOUND OUR STRIDE WITH, LIKE YOU SAID, UM, POSSIBLE MORALES, JUST GO ON WHERE PEOPLE ARE.
AND SO I THINK WE'RE MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION NOW.
AND I JUST LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUED GUIDANCE FROM EVERYBODY HERE ON HOW TO BEST, UM, GET THE WORD OUT TO OUR CONSTITUENTS.
I'M GETTING MORE AND MORE QUESTIONS FROM PEOPLE WHO HAD PREVIOUSLY STATED THAT THEY WERE HESITANT.
SO I, I THINK THE, UM, I THINK THE OUTREACH EFFORTS ARE STARTING TO PENETRATE COMMUNITIES AND THAT MAKES ME VERY HELPFUL.
ME, HER AND ALSO A HAPPY BIRTHDAY AND MARGARET.
UH, MY, MY, I MEAN, I'M A LITTLE CONCERNED ABOUT LOOKING AT THESE, UM, FOUR, FOUR ONE EIGHT EIGHT SEVEN EIGHT 41 AND 44, IS THAT, YOU KNOW, I, I KNOW IN SOME OF THESE LOCATIONS, ESPECIALLY IN THE RIVERSIDE AREA, THERE MIGHT NOT BE ANY ACCIDENT AND MAYBE IN APR HAVE FOUND ANY TO SET UP ANY OF THE POP-UP CLINICS IN THAT AREA.
UH, UM, AT SEEMED LIKE, YOU KNOW, AT, AT 38 POINT SOMETHING PERCENT VACCINATED, IS THAT JUST ONE SHOT OR IS THAT THE ONES THAT HAVEN'T BEEN TOTALLY VACCINATED? I I'M REALLY CURIOUS THAT IN THAT AREA, THAT IT'S THAT LOW.
SO 38% REPRESENTS, UM, ONE DOSE.
SO THIS, THIS, THIS MAP, THE DISTRIBUTION OF ONE DOSE PRESENT CODE.
AND, AND SO, YES, UM, THE TEAM IS CONSTANTLY WORKING ON WHERE WE CAN BE IN THOSE AREAS.
AND IN FUTURE REPORTS, I HOPE TO COME BACK WITH EITHER WE COMPLETED AN EVENT OR THIS IS WHERE WE PLAN TO BE, BUT THAT'S, THAT'S THE PURPOSE OF HAVING THIS MAP IN FRONT OF US TO MAKE IT VISUAL, YOU KNOW, OF WHERE WE NEED TO BE IN AND WHO WE NEED TO CONNECT WITH.
I THINK, YEAH, I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF HESITANT GOING ON IN MY COMMUNITY.
UH, I EVEN HAVE A NEPHEW THAT HE HAS A CHILD AND HE DON'T WANT TO TAKE IT PRAYED, YOU KNOW, AND I'M TRYING TO CONVINCE HIM THAT IT'S JUST THE OPPOSITE.
AND SO IF I HAVE A NEPHEW THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, AND HE, HE'S, HE'S AFRAID OF TAKING IT.
AND MY, A LOT OF PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT ARE THE SAME WAY THAT HE IS A CHILD.
AND, AND HE'S AFRAID THAT I CAN'T UNDERSTAND THAT I'M TRYING TO CONVINCE HIM, BUT IT'S VERY HARD TO SEND OUT THAT MESSAGE
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TO PEOPLE.SHE WOULDN'T EITHER HESITANT TO, TO TAKE THAT.
AND I BELIEVE THAT IF YOU GET IT CLOSER TO THEM WHERE IT'S WITHIN A SHORT DISTANCE WHERE THEY KEY OR WALK, OR IT'S A SHORT DRIVE AND YOU'LL GET A LOT MORE PEOPLE TAKING IT.
SO, UH, UM, I'M GLAD WE HAVE IDENTIFIED THOSE ZIP CODES AND NOW WE COULD CONCENTRATE ON, SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
AND I WANT TO THANK ALL THE OTHER STAFF AND THE CONSTABLES AND COUNTY COMMISSIONERS THAT ARE HELPING OUT.
SO I'M JUST WANTING TO THINK PACO ON THAT.
THEY'RE DOING A GREAT JOB THAT I COULD SEE.
I REALLY APPRECIATE THE LATEST DATA THAT SHOWS TO US AS HAS OUR IDENTITY.
I SAID, WHAT WE HAVE KNOWN, WHICH IS THAT PLACES LIKE 77, FIVE, THREE AND SEVEN, EIGHT, SEVEN, FOUR ONE NOT ONLY ARE ANTS AT 50%, THAT THEY'RE BELOW 40%.
SO THAT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO CLEARLY SEE, BUT THEN FOR US TO KNOW THAT WHAT WE'RE DOING IS ACTUALLY DIRECTLY ADDRESSING THAT.
AND SO IN THE OTHER MAP, YOU SHOW TO US THAT THE PLACES WHERE YOU HAVE ADMINISTERED THE MOST DOSES, UM, WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT OUR, OUR PUBLIC EFFORTS ARE PLACES LIKE SEVEN, EIGHT, SEVEN, FOUR ONE FOUR FOUR AND FIVE THREE.
WHAT I WOULD'VE BEEN SEARCHING FOR IS TO SEE HOW WE REALLY IDENTIFIED AND CONTINUE TO GET A SENSE OF THE PROBLEM AND THEN ARE AS THE MAJORITY OF OUR WORK DIRECTED RIGHT THERE.
UH, AND I THINK THIS IS THE FIRST PRESENTATION WHERE WE'VE SEEN THAT YOU ALL GET RE AND WE'RE, WE CAN SHOW VERY CLEARLY TO THE PUBLIC THAT WE'RE AWARE OF THE CONTINUED DISPARITIES AND THE CONTINUED NEED, AND THAT WE'RE FOCUSING OUR RESOURCES DIRECTLY AT THAT.
SO, UM, SO I JUST WANT TO ECHO THE THANKS OF EVERYBODY THAT'S SPOKEN SO FAR, UM, AT THAT CONTINUED EFFORT.
UM, AND KNOWING THAT THAT EFFORT IS, IS FAR FROM DONE, KNOWING THAT WE HAVE PARTS OF TOWN THAT ARE STILL UNDER 40%, AND I KNOW Y'ALL KNOW THAT, AND THAT Y'ALL ALL ARE WORKING THAT, BUT I APPRECIATE THAT WE NOW HAVE HAVE MAPS THAT CAN SHOW THAT TO THE COMMUNITY.
I AM GOING TO SEND A QUESTION IN FOR OUR NEXT PRESENTATION ON THE MORTALITY RATES, BECAUSE I DO THINK IT IS IMPORTANT FOR US TO SHOW THOSE DISPARITIES THAT WE HAVE, BUT I ALSO WANT US TO BE ABLE TO SHOW AND UNDERSTAND, UM, YOU KNOW, EVEN IF SOME OF THE DISPARITIES MAY NOT BE QUITE AS SEVERE IN A PLACE LIKE EL PASO WHEN YOU HAD THREE TO FOUR TIMES THE DEATH RATE IN THOSE CITIES.
UM, UH, I W I THINK, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY IT'S CLEAR THAT THE MORTALITY RATE FOR LATINOS HERE IS LOWER THAN EL PASO OR IN BEAR COUNTY OR IN HARRIS COUNTY, EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE A DISPARITY IN THE DEATH RATE.
AND SO I DO THINK HAVING THOSE NUMBERS WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL FOR NEXT TIME, AGAIN, FOR US TO SHOW OUR COMMUNITY WHERE WE'RE FALLING SHORT, BUT THEN ALSO WHAT WE'RE DOING THAT IS WORKING, UH, BECAUSE I THINK PEOPLE FOR US TO CONTINUE TAKING CAREFUL BEHAVIORS AND ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO GET THE VACCINE, I THINK IT IS REALLY HELPFUL FOR PEOPLE TO SEE WHAT IS WORKING.
UH, SO AGAIN, I REALLY APPRECIATE, UH, THIS PRESENTATION BECAUSE I THINK IT GIVES ME AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC CLARITY ABOUT WHAT THE PATH IS MOVING FORWARD.
AND I JUST WANT TO THANK EVERYBODY.
THAT'S REALLY WORKING TO TARGET THOSE PLACES THAT ARE UNDER 50% OR EVEN UNDER 40%.
UM, UM, I DON'T HAVE ANY, UH, SPECIFIC QUESTIONS AT THIS POINT.
I DO WANT TO, UM, THANK, UM, OUR STAFF.
UM, AND I ALSO WANT TO SAY, I WANT TO, UM, I APPRECIATE THE QUESTIONS THAT COUNCIL MEMBER QUINTUS WAS ASKING, UH, POINTING OUT THE IMPORTANCE OF THE, UM, THE TARGETED OUTREACH THAT THE, UH, THE COUNTY IS ENGAGED IN, UH, REALLY APPRECIATE THAT EFFORT AND AM HOPEFUL THAT THAT'S GOING TO, UH, PRODUCE REALLY GOOD RESULTS.
SO, AND THEN I AGREE WITH WHAT COUNCIL MEMBER CASSARA WAS SAYING.
WE NEED TO REALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS THAT'S, THAT'S MAKING A DIFFERENCE.
SO AGAIN, THANK YOU TO, UM, TO EVERYONE WHO'S INVOLVED IN THIS.
AND, UM, I HOPE THAT WE CAN JUST CONTINUE TO PUSH, TO GET AS MANY PEOPLE VACCINATED, UH, AS WE CAN.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY COMMISSIONER GOMEZ.
I HOPE YOU HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY.
I WANTED TO THANK ALL OF THE STAFF AT BOTH THE CITY OF AUSTIN AND TRAVIS COUNTY FOR BEING ABLE TO PROVIDE THESE MEETINGS FOR US JOINTLY.
I CAN THINK OF NO BETTER WAY TO COMMUNICATE AND COLLABORATE ACROSS DIFFERENT GOVERNMENT ENTITIES AND WORK TOGETHER TO HELP SOLVE PROBLEMS ACROSS OUR COMMUNITIES.
AND FOR THAT, MY HEART IS VERY FULL AND
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I'M SUPER THANKFUL.JUST, UH, GOING TO, UM, AMPLIFY ALL OF THE GOOD WISHES TO COMMISSIONER GOMEZ AND TO OUR STAFF FOR CONTINUING TO SEE IMPROVEMENTS IN OUR COMMUNITY ON VACCINATION RATES, STILL HOPING FOR THAT A HUNDRED PERCENT ACHIEVEMENT, WHICH I HOPE WE SEE REALLY, REALLY SOON.
SO THANKS TO EVERYBODY COUNCILOR ALICE, THANK YOU, MAYOR.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO EVERYONE WHOSE BIRTHDAY IT IS.
UM, ARE WE SEEING THAT THE VACCINES THAT ARE CURRENTLY OUT ARE BEING AS EFFECTIVE TOWARD DIFFERENT VARIANTS AS WE WOULD HOPE OR IS, IS THERE SOME MORE WORK BEING DONE TO MAKE SURE OUR COVID SHOTS IN THE FUTURE ARE, UM, ARE EFFECTIVE AGAINST THOSE VARIANTS? SO FAR, WE'RE SEEING THAT THEY ARE EFFECTIVE, THERE'S ONGOING RESEARCH TO COLLECT DATA.
UM, AND THERE IS SOME TALK OF THE BOOSTERS THAT ARE BEING DEVELOPED, UM, THAT THEY WILL HAVE, UM, SOME FOCUS ON SOME OF THE VARIANTS THAT MAY NEED, UM, SPECIAL ATTENTION AS FAR AS VACCINE DEVELOPMENT GOES SIMILAR TO WHAT WE DID WITH THE FLU VACCINES.
UH, COUNCIL MEMBER TOVA, UM, THANKS VERY MUCH.
THE INFORMATION YOU PROVIDED TODAY ABOUT THE GRANULAR AT THE MORE GRANULAR DETAIL ABOUT ZIP CODE LEVEL AND, UM, THE PERCENTAGES BASED ON AGE OF THE NUMBER OF VACCINATED AND WHATNOT WAS REALLY VERY, VERY USEFUL.
I WONDERED IF YOU HAD, IF YOU COULD SUMMARIZE FOR US ANY RESEARCH THAT YOU'RE AWARE OF, THAT EXPLAINS THE DIFFERENCE, THE DIFFERENT RESPONSES, UM, THAT WOMEN APPEAR TO BE HAVING TO THE VACCINE IN TERMS OF THEIR NUMBER OF BREAKTHROUGH.
I KNOW THAT YOUR SLIDE NOTED SOMETHING THAT SEEMS TO BE SUPPORTED BY OTHER AREAS AS WELL, WHICH IS THAT WOMEN APPEAR TO BE HAVING MORE BREAKTHROUGH CASES THAN MEN.
AND I'M, I'M WONDERING WHAT SOME OF THE PREVAILING THEORIES ARE FOR WHY THAT'S THE CASE.
I DON'T BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE THAT DATA AS YET.
UM, IT'S 51% WOMEN AND 49% NONE.
AND THE BREAKTHROUGHS SLIDE THAT I SHOWED.
SO IT'S STILL EARLY, UM, TO, IN, IN THE PROCESS.
AND I'M SURE THAT WE'LL GET MORE INFORMATION AS WE GO FORWARD.
UM, I'M AWARE THAT THERE ARE SOME, THERE HAVE BEEN SOME OTHER ARTICLES ABOUT THAT, TALKING ABOUT HOW THE VACCINES MAY BE SLIGHTLY LESS EFFECTIVE FOR WOMEN.
AND SO I'M JUST, BUT THANK YOU FOR POINTING OUT THAT THE DATA HERE IN AUSTIN IS STILL PRETTY CLOSE, UM, IN TERMS OF A BREAKTHROUGH RATES.
I HAVE NO QUESTIONS AND I JOINED MY COLLEAGUE THAT THANKING EVERYONE FOR THEIR TIME.
WACHS, THANK YOU TO THE, UH, WELCOME TO AGAIN, THE, THE, TO THE COMBINED MEETING OF THE COUNCIL AND THE, AND THE COMMISSIONERS.
I ALSO WANT TO THANK, UH, UH, FOR THE, FOR THE PRESENTATIONS TODAY, UH, THAT HAVE THE DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION OVER TIME.
UH, I THINK THAT DOES TELL US, AND THEN REAFFIRM THAT THE DIRECTION WE'RE TAKING IS IN FACT MOVING, UH, THE, THE PERCENTAGES THAT WE WANT TO GET TO AT THE MOST VULNERABLE OVER TIME.
UH, YOU KNOW, IT'S KIND OF INTERESTING.
WE, WE SEE THAT THE MASS EVENTS GET TO MORE PEOPLE, SO THEY GET TO GREATER ABSOLUTE NUMBERS OF COMMUNITIES OF COLOR.
THE MORE TARGETED EVENTS DON'T GET THROUGH AS MANY PEOPLE THAT GET TO THE GREATER PERCENTAGES, UM, CLEARLY THE DIRECTION WE NEED TO BE GOING NOW AS FEWER AND FEWER PEOPLE ARE GOING TO THE MASS SITES, UH, I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO SEE THEIR, THEIR MORTALITY NUMBERS, UH, BOTH FOR WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE, BUT ALSO COMPARED TO OTHER JURISDICTIONS, UH, TO SEE IF OTHER FOLKS ARE DOING SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO TAKE A LOOK AT, UH, TO BE ABLE TO DO BETTER.
UH, I WOULD BE INTERESTED IN KNOWING, DO YOU HAVE, OR DO WE HAVE THE DATA OR THE NUMBERS TO BE ABLE TO, TO PRESENT, UH, THE PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE THAT ARE NEW CASES OR THE PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE THAT ARE NEW HOSPITALIZATIONS THAT ARE VACCINATED OR NOT VACCINATED? IS THAT THAT AVAILABLE? I'VE ASKED FOR THAT IN THERE.
I, WE DO NOT HAVE IT AS YET, BUT AS SOON AS I GET THAT, I'LL DISTRIBUTE IT TO THE GROUP.
I THINK THAT'D BE AN INTERESTING THING TO SEE, AND IT MAY HELP WITH, UH, THE, THE HESITANCY ISSUE IS JUST TO GET THAT INFORMATION OUT AS WELL, BECAUSE A CITY THAT I WAS NOW PUBLICIZING, AND I THINK THEIR NUMBERS WERE SOMETHING LIKE 98% OF THEIR HOSPITALIZATIONS
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ARE PEOPLE THAT HAVE NOT BEEN VACCINATED, UM, WHICH IS AN INCREDIBLY HIGH NUMBER.AND I'D BE INTERESTED IN KNOWING YOUR FIRST THING IN THE SAME KIND OF THING.
UH, HERE, CONGRATULATIONS TO THE COUNTY AND THE STRIKE TEAMS AND WHAT WE'RE DOING WITH APH, THAT MORE TARGETED STUFF, UH, ACTIVITY RIGHT NOW SEEMS TO REALLY BE WORKING.
UM, WE NOW HAVE A TRACK RECORD, UH, TO REALLY BE ABLE TO LOOK AND SEE WHO THE TRUSTED PARTNERS ARE IN THE COMMUNITY THAT ARE, THAT ARE DELIVERING THE GREATEST NUMBER OF TARGETED PEOPLE AT EVENTS FOR US TO, TO GET VACCINATED ON.
I HEARD YOU ALL TO, TO RELY ON THEM AND LOOK AT THAT AS TRACK RECORD.
SOME OF THOSE FOLKS I THINK ARE ASKING FOR, FOR ADDITIONAL SUPPORT IN ORDER TO AMPLIFY THEIR VOICES.
UH, AND IF THAT MAKES SENSE TO DO BASED ON THE TRACK RECORDS WE'RE SEEING, I HOPE WE'RE CONSIDERING CONSIDERING THAT, UM, JUDGE, UH, I THINK THAT TAKES US THROUGH, UH, ALL OF OUR FOLKS, IF YOU WANT TO TEE UP THAT EXTRA PATIENT, THANKS.
[2. Briefing on the Austin-Travis County Census 2020 After Action Report.]
CALL UP.I DON'T USE SO IT'S THE AUSTIN TRAVIS COUNTY CENSUS 2020 AFTER ACTION REPORT.
AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A BRIEFING FROM TRAVIS COUNTY, INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS, OFFICER JULIE WHEELER AND CITY DEMOGRAPHER.
LYLA, VALENCIA AS WELL AS JOHN LAWLER.
UM, COMMISSIONERS AND COUNCIL.
WE ALERTED THE TRAVIS COUNTY INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS OFFICER.
UM, THE JUDGE HAS ALREADY ANNOUNCED MY COOPER'S ENTERS WITH ME.
SO OUR GOAL TODAY IS TO GIVE YOU ALL EDIT AN AFTER-ACTION REPORT ON THE JOINT EFFORTS OF THE CITY AND COUNTY AROUND THE CENSUS.
SO, BECAUSE THERE'S BEEN SOME CHANGE IN MEMBERSHIP BETWEEN BOTH BODIES, I JUST WANTED TO GIVE YOU A QUICK UPDATE OR SORRY, QUICK BACKGROUND ON THE IMPORTANCE OF THE SENSES, HOW WE ARRIVE AT THIS JOINT PARTNERSHIP, WHAT OUR LOCAL CAMPAIGN LOOK LIKE, WHAT THE DATA THAT WE'VE RECEIVED SO FAR IS TELLING US, AND THEN SOME RECOMMENDATIONS AND NEXT STEPS FOR GOING FORWARD.
SO I'M GOING TO SHARE MY SCREEN WITH YOU GUYS, SO YOU CAN SEE THE PRESENTATION.
HOPEFULLY I CAN DO THIS EASILY AND QUICKLY.
CAN YOU ALL, ARE YOU ALL SEEING THAT? YES.
IS IT IN PRESENTATION ABOUT I'M SO SORRY.
I'VE NEVER ACTUALLY DONE PRESENTATION MODE IN THE JOINT SESSION BEFORE.
I THINK YOU NEED TO GO TO LIKE FULL SCREEN OR WHATEVER.
SO WE'VE GOT PRESENTERS, SO I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANY WAY TO OVERSTATE THE IMPORTANCE OF THE CENSUS.
UM, ONCE EVERY DECADE, US CENSUS BUREAU IS TASKED WITH COUNTING EACH AND EVERY PERSON IN THE UNITED STATES, WHETHER THEY'RE HOMELESS, WHETHER THEY'RE OVERSEAS SERVING IN THE MILITARY, UM, DOES NOT MATTER IF THE GOAL IS TO COUNT YOU WITH THAT DATA.
$1.5 TRILLION ANNUALLY, OR ARE DISTRIBUTED BASED ON THAT DATA.
SO THAT'S ANYWHERE FROM MEDICAID FUNDING, TITLE ONE GRANT FUNDS, TRANSPORTATION.
MOST RECENTLY, WE SAW THIS WITH THE ALLOCATIONS FOR BOTH CARE SPENDING AND FOR ARPA FUNDING FOR EVERY ONE PERSON THAT'S NOT COUNTED.
THE COUNTY, UH, STANDS TO LOSE ONE POINT OR SORRY, $1,500 PER YEAR, PER PERSON COUNTED.
YOU CAN IMAGINE CUMULATIVELY WHAT KIND OF IMPACT THAT HAS TO OUR COMMUNITY.
SHOULD WE HAVE AN UNDERCOUNT? UM REINFORCEMENT REINFORCEMENT IS ALSO BASED ON THE CENSUS.
VALENCIA IS GOING TO TALK ABOUT THAT LATER IN THIS PRESENTATION, TEXAS STANDS TO GAIN TWO SEATS.
UM, BUT WE'LL GO INTO MORE DETAIL ABOUT THAT.
AND THEN MORE IMPORTANTLY, REDISTRICTING HAPPENS BOTH FROM THE STATE LEVEL AND FOR CITY COUNCIL DISTRICTS AND COMMISSIONER COURT PRECINCTS.
IT TOUCHES EVERY ASPECT OF OUR LIVES.
UM, WE USE THIS DATA FOR THE NEXT 10 YEARS.
WE'RE GOING TO LIVE WITH THIS AND IT'S GOING TO HELP INFORM OUR DECISIONS, WHICH IS WHY IT WAS IMPORTANT AT THE TIME THAT WE PUT INVESTMENTS INTO THIS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE COULD GET AS ACCURATE OF ACCOUNT AS POSSIBLE.
SO I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND FROM 2010.
SO WE'RE GOING TO GO BACK IN TIME.
UM, AT THAT TIME THERE WAS A JOINT PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THE COUNTY AND THE CITY.
SO THIS ISN'T NECESSARILY SOMETHING NEW.
THAT EFFORT WAS LED BY BRUCE ALFOND, WHO WAS THEN CONSTABLE FOR PRECINCT FIVE DSX TIME.
MY PREDECESSOR AND RYAN ROBINSON, THE FORMER CITY OF AUSTIN DEMOGRAPHER, AND SO STEPS THAT THEY TOOK BACK THEN, UM, SIMILAR TO WHAT WE DID THIS TIME AROUND, WHICH WAS THE CREATION OF A COMPLETE COUNT COMMITTEE THAT WAS LED BOTH BY THE MAYOR AND THE JUDGE BROUGHT TOGETHER DIFFERENT COMMUNITY AND INSTITUTIONAL LEADERS THAT REALLY CREATED THE BACKBONE FOR WHO BECAME ACTIVE PARTICIPANTS WITH THIS EFFORT.
THEY ALSO WORKED CLOSELY WITH THE CENSUS PARTNERSHIP SPECIALIST.
SO IT WAS A, IT WAS A ROBUST EFFORT, BUT TO A MUCH SMALLER DEGREE.
SO IN 2018, WHEN EVERYBODY CAME BACK TOGETHER AGAIN AND STARTED LOOKING AT HOW DO WE PLAN FOR THE 2020 CENSUS, THEY TOOK A LOOK AT WHAT WORKS AND WHAT REALLY NEEDED TO HAPPEN TO MOVE THIS TO THE NEXT LEVEL.
SO I KNOW THAT 2018, WE'VE ALL HAD THAT ABOUT A MILLION LIFETIMES SINCE THEN, BUT JUST TO SORT OF REMIND YOU OF WHAT THE CENSUS WAS GOING TO LOOK LIKE AT THAT TIME, THERE WERE A NUMBER OF CHALLENGES GOING INTO IT.
WE ALREADY KNEW THAT THE CENSUS, THE CITIZEN
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CITIZENSHIP QUESTION WAS AT THE FOREFRONT OF EVERYBODY'S MIND.IT WAS STILL UNDECIDED AT THAT POINT, WHETHER OR NOT THAT WAS GOING TO BE ASKED ON THE QUESTIONNAIRES, WE UNDERSTOOD WHAT SORT OF CHILLING EFFECT THAT WAS GOING TO HAVE.
AND THAT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT AS A COMMUNITY, WE WOULD REALLY NEED TO OVERCOME, REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE OUTCOME WAS WITH THE INCLUSION OF THAT QUESTION.
ULTIMATELY, IT WAS NOT PUT ON THE QUESTIONNAIRE, WHICH WAS GREAT, BUT THERE WAS A LOT OF DAMAGE DONE WITH JUST THAT SORT OF EARLY CONFUSION.
ADDITIONALLY, THE CENSUS MOVED TO AN ONLINE TOOL THAT HAD NEVER USED, BEEN USED BEFORE.
THERE WERE CONCERNS ABOUT WHAT THE ROLLOUT OF THAT WAS GOING TO LOOK LIKE.
IT HAD SORT OF A ROUGH ROCKY IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS.
UM, AND THAT GAVE US OBVIOUS CONCERN.
THIRDLY, IT'S IT HAPPENS EVERY DECADE, BUT THE CENSUS WAS THE CENSUS GOING TO BE ADEQUATELY FUNDED.
SO WOULD THERE BE ENOUGH PARTNERSHIP SPECIALISTS TO PROVIDE THE LEVEL OF SUPPORT THAT WE WOULD NEED ON THE COMMUNITY LEVEL? SO WITH THOSE IN MIND, UM, ALONG WITH CONCERNS ABOUT THE STATE'S PARTICIPATION, WHICH WAS THE STATE REALLY DIDN'T HAVE MUCH OF A COORDINATED EFFORT, UM, BEHIND IT, THERE WASN'T A STATEWIDE COMPLETE COUNT COMMITTEE.
THERE WASN'T ANY SORT OF FUNDING THAT WAS PROVIDED.
ALL OF THAT, THAT HAPPENED AT THE STATE LEVEL REALLY CAME MORE FROM INSTITUTIONS AND IT WASN'T REALLY SOMETHING DIRECTED BY THE STATE ITSELF.
SO WITH ALL OF THAT IN PLACE, THE CENSUS ACTION TEAM, WHICH IS THE THREE MEMBERS I HAD MENTIONED BEFORE WITH MYSELF INCLUDED, I'M REALLY STARTING TO TAKE A LOOK AT HOW DO WE COME TOGETHER AND MAKE A MUCH MORE FORMALIZED PROCESS, A MUCH MORE ROBUST PROCESS.
AND SO RECOMMENDATIONS WERE MADE THAT IT WOULD BE VERY BENEFICIAL TO HAVE SOME SORT OF COLLABORATIVE FUNDING.
UM, WE WERE VERY LUCKY THAT BOTH ENTITIES AGREED TO PUT IN AN INITIAL INVESTMENT OF 200,000, EACH ALONG WITH A JOINT POSITION, WHICH WAS THE CENSUS PROGRAM MANAGER.
UM, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THEY LEARNED FROM 2010 IS THAT THIS REALLY WAS, UH, A CAMPAIGN AND YOU ALL HAVE RUN SUCCESSFUL CAMPAIGNS OR, OR YOU WOULDN'T BE HERE TODAY.
AND SO YOU ALL REALLY UNDERSTOOD THAT IT'S IMPORTANT TO HAVE SOMEBODY HERE WHO DAY AFTER DAY IS REALLY STAYING ON TOP OF THINGS.
IT'S THERE TO HELP KIND OF COORDINATE, UM, RUN INTERFERENCE ON ANY SORT OF PROBLEMS OR RESOURCES THAT WE MAY NEED.
AND SO THE IDEA WAS THAT THERE NEEDED TO BE ONE DEDICATED STAFFER, UM, WHO WOULD LIVE, EAT, AND BREATHE THIS FOR BETTER, FOR WORSE TO THEIR MENTAL HEALTH, THAT, THAT THEY WOULD BE THE PERSON REALLY SHEPHERDING THIS PROCESS.
WELL, UM, SO THAT BEING SAID, SO THERE WAS THE CITY AND COUNTY JOINTLY FUNDED.
THIS POSITION ALSO PUT MONEY IN FOR THIS COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVE FUND THAT REALLY DROVE THE EFFORTS OF HELPING TO PUT ON EVENTS, UM, HELPING TO PUT TOGETHER MATERIALS, ANY OTHER SORT OF SUPPORT THAT WAS NECESSARY TO HELP FORMALIZE THIS PROCESS OF THE CENSUS REALLY QUICKLY.
I DO WANT TO THINK, UM, MATT DOUGAN, WHO IS NOT HERE TO PRESENT TODAY AND JOYCELYN BOMBARD, MATT IS WITH THE CITY OF AUSTIN.
JOYCE IS THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS.
THEY ALSO HELP STAFF THE COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVE AND WERE INSTRUMENTAL IN HELPING AGAIN, FORMALIZE THIS PROCESS AND REALLY PUTTING IN A LOT OF EFFORT TO KEEPING THIS EFFORT GOING AND STAYING SUCCESSFUL, ESPECIALLY IN THE LIGHT OF ALL OF THE CHALLENGES WE KNEW GOING INTO IT, ALONG WITH THE CHALLENGES THAT WE KNEW, UH, THAT WE DIDN'T KNOW TO EXPECT THAT CAME CAME ABOUT.
SO TO GIVE YOU JUST A QUICK SNAPSHOT OF SOME KEY TIMELINE DATES, THIS WAS A LONG EFFORT.
UM, WE STARTED AS EARLY AS 2018, REALLY LOOKING AT PRELIMINARY PLANNING AROUND THE CENSUS, WHAT NEEDED TO HAPPEN IN OCTOBER OF 2018, THEN COUNTY JUDGE ECKHART AND MAYOR ADLER ANNOUNCED THE CREATION OF THE COMPLETE COUNT COMMITTEE, WHICH AGAIN, IS THAT COLLABORATION, COLLABORATION OF INSTITUTIONAL COMMUNITY LEADERS, GRASSROOTS LEADERS, REALLY SORT OF THE FOUNDATION OF OUR, OUR COMMUNITY WHO HELPED PUT TOGETHER THIS EFFORT.
UM, IN 2019 WE HAD OUR KICKOFF MEETING.
UH, SO IT WAS ONE YEAR OUT FROM THE CENSUS WITH THAT, WITH THAT GROUP COMING TOGETHER, SINCE THIS PROGRAM MANAGER, JOHN LAWLER CAME ON IN AUGUST OF 2019.
AND THEN I THINK WE ALL KNOW WHAT HAPPENED IN 2020.
WE HAD A CAMPAIGN PLANNED AND THEN IN MARCH OF 20, 21ST DAY AT HOME ORDERS WERE ISSUED BY BOTH THE COUNTY AND CITY BECAUSE OF COVID.
I DIDN'T PUT ALL OF THE DATES IN HERE, BUT JUST TO GIVE YOU A QUICK UNDERSTANDING, THE CENSUS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE WRAPPED UP AND COMPLETED JULY 31ST OF 2020.
THAT DATE CHANGED NUMEROUS TIMES DUE TO COVID.
IT WAS SHORTENED, IT WAS EXTENDED.
IT WAS SHORTENED, AS YOU CAN IMAGINE THAT MADE IT A VERY COMPLICATED PROCESS FOR TRYING TO MANAGE A CAMPAIGN WITH SORT OF AN EVER-CHANGING TARGET DATES, UM, AND ULTIMATELY ENDED IN THE MIDDLE OF OCTOBER AND WRAPPED UP OUR, OUR FORMAL PROCESS.
AND SO I'M GOING TO NOW PASS IT OVER ONTO JOHN, AND HE'S GOING TO GIVE YOU GUYS, UM, AN OVERVIEW OF WHAT OUR LOCAL CAMPAIGN LOOKED LIKE, HOW WE CAME TOGETHER WITH DIFFERENT COMMUNITY LEADERS AND WHAT OUR MEDIA STRATEGY LOOKED LIKE.
SO, JOHN, I AM GOING TO PASS OVER TO YOU.
CAN YOU HEAR ME ALL RIGHT ON MY MICROPHONE? AM I GOOD? YES.
UM, SO, AND, AND THANK YOU, JULIE, FOR HIM, YOU KNOW, PASSING THIS BATON ON AND ALL THAT EARLY WORK, YOU AND THOSE INSTITUTIONAL LEADERS, YOU MENTIONED PUT INTO CREATING THIS ROLE AND LEARNING THIS CAMPAIGN TO HAPPEN.
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AND AS JULIA MENTIONED, I CAME IN THERE IN THE MIDDLE OF AUGUST, UH, THERE IN 2019, UH, WE QUICKLY TRIED TO WRAP OUR HEADS AROUND WHAT A CAMPAIGN AROUND THE CENSUS WOULD LOOK LIKE, ESPECIALLY WITH THE EVER-GROWING DISTRESS WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AT THE TIME, THE CITIZENSHIP QUESTION LOOMING OVER CERTAIN POPULATIONS HEADS, AND THEN THE, THE ABSENCE OF THE STATE AS A COLLECTIVE ORGANIZING ENTITY.UM, THANKFULLY THROUGH CONVERSATIONS WITH OTHER FOLKS AROUND THE STATE, UH, ESPECIALLY WITH LOCAL LEADERS, YOU KNOW, BASED HERE IN AUSTIN, UH, WE WERE ABLE TO KIND OF COME UP WITH A THREE TIERED PLAN HERE.
ONE WOULD BE OUR INSTITUTIONAL, UH, STRATEGY, WHICH WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, HARNESSING THE COLLECTIVE, UH, INSTITUTIONAL HALF OF THE DIFFERENT ENTITIES INVOLVED.
WE HAD OUR COUNTYWIDE COMPLETE COUNT COMMITTEE, SEVERAL OF Y'ALL SERVED ON THAT AND WHAT IT, WHAT CREATED THAT AND EMPOWERED THAT WAS THAT INTER LOCAL AGREEMENT THAT CREATED MY STAFFING ROLE AND THE ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT TO SUPPORT IT.
UM, ONCE WE HAD THOSE INSTITUTIONAL BLOCKS BUILT, WHICH WERE NOT EASY, UM, WE STARTED TO BUILD OUT THE GRASSROOTS TEAMS AROUND THAT.
UM, THIS WAS BASED UPON EVIDENCE AND RESEARCH.
WE WERE SEEING FROM OTHER PARTS OF THE COUNTRY AND SOME SUCCESSFUL ACTION BY GROUPS LIKE HOUSTON AND ACTION, UM, DOWN IN THE CITY OF HOUSTON HARRIS COUNTY, WHERE THEY WERE BUILDING COMMUNITY ORGANIZING TEAMS AROUND THE HARD TO COUNT POPULATIONS THEMSELVES VERSUS JUST THAT INSTITUTIONAL COUNTY-WIDE UMBRELLA.
UM, AND WE'LL DIG INTO MORE OF THAT IN JUST A MINUTE, BUT THEN THIRDLY, THAT MEDIA STRATEGY, WHICH WAS REALLY EFFECTIVE CATCHING FOLKS ON THE RADIO WAVES, WE WERE ABLE TO COLLABORATE WITH OUR FOUR SURROUNDING COUNTIES, UM, ON A PLAN THAT WAS BOTH SPANISH ENGLISH AND WAS IN DIFFERENT PRINT MEDIA AS WELL.
SO WE FEEL, JUMP US TO THE NEXT SLIDE.
SO HERE'S JUST A BRIEF SNAPSHOT.
THESE ARE ALL THE DIFFERENT FOLKS THAT WERE INVOLVED WITH THAT COUNTY-WIDE COMPLETE COUNT COMMITTEE, NEW MEMBERS WOULD BE ADDED.
YOU KNOW, SOME FOLKS WOULD JUMP OFF AS CAPACITY ALLOWED, BUT YOU CAN SEE IT'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT FOLKS, RIGHT? WE TRIED TO GET, UM, THE, THE EVERYDAY NAMES WE'RE USED TO WORKING WITH THE LARGE SCALE, UH, TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHERE THEY, WHAT THEIR CAPACITY WAS TO PLACE INTO THIS EFFORT.
A LOT OF IT WAS EITHER THROUGH DIRECT FUNDING ITSELF OR INDIRECT ORGANIZING CAPACITY, RIGHT, HELPING US OUT NEXT SLIDE, JULIE, YOU KNOW, GIVEN HOW TIGHT THAT TIMELINE WAS WHEN THIS CAMPAIGN STARTED, HOW FATS THE CENSUS CAME ALONG.
UH, WHAT WE ULTIMATELY DECIDED TO DO WAS JUST REALLY HUNKER DOWN WITH THE INSTITUTIONAL GROUPS THAT WOULD GIVE US THE BIGGEST BANG FOR OUR BUCK.
AND BY THAT, I MEAN, THE INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS THAT TOUCH THE MOST OF THE HARD TO COUNT COMMUNITIES THAT WE WERE WORKING TO TRY TO GET COUNTED AND DIG MORE INTO WHICH, WHAT THOSE COMMUNITIES WERE AND YOU KNOW, WHO THEY WERE.
UM, BUT JUST HIGHLIGHTING A FEW FOLKS HERE, AUSTIN ISD AND THE AUSTIN COALITION OF BTAS DID AN AMAZING JOB.
YOU KNOW, WE FIGURED OUT THAT THE PARENT WHERE WE DIDN'T FIGURE OUT, THEY TOLD US THAT THE PARENT SUPPORT SPECIALIST, UH, WOULD BE THAT GREAT TOUCH POINT WHERE WE COULD REALLY CONNECT THROUGH TO THESE COMMUNITY MEMBERS OR THESE FAMILIES WOULD TRUST THEM.
AND WE HAD A LOT OF GREAT MESSAGING CONVERSATIONS.
YOU CAN SEE A LITTLE SNAPSHOT OF THAT THERE.
THIS SLIDE ALSO, ONCE COVID CAME ALONG AND FOLKS WERE AT HOME, YOU KNOW, TAKING CLASSES, THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS SEND OUT SCHOOL BUSES WITH BANNERS AND DIGITAL, POP-UPS SAYING, HEY, YOU KNOW, YOU'VE GOT TO TAKE THE CENSUS.
OUR HEALTH CARE PARTNERSHIPS WERE REALLY BIG, UH, CENTRAL HEALTH, REALLY THE LEAD ON THAT, BUT COMMUNITY CARES AND DARYL, ALL THOSE FOLKS, THEY JUMPED IN AS WELL.
WE WERE ABLE TO HAVE COPS AT A LOT OF THEIR CLINICS.
AND THEN ALSO WE WERE ABLE TO CALL THROUGH YOUR DATABASE.
AND SO YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THEIR MAPPING, WE USE TO TRACK THEIR CLINICS AND SOME OF THE OUTREACH THAT WENT ON THERE.
AND THEN OF COURSE, THE CITY OF AUSTIN, LIKE THE COUNTY PROVIDED A BIG INSTITUTIONAL HALF, AND I'VE GOT AN EXAMPLE DOWN THERE OF THE TRAFFIC SIGNS.
YOU MAY HAVE SEEN DRIVING AROUND WHILE THE CENSUS WAS GOING ON.
AND THERE WERE A LOT OF FOLKS WHO REALLY HELPED OUT WITH THAT, ESPECIALLY THAT THE PUBLIC LIBRARY, UH, THE, UH, EXCUSE ME, THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES, ESPECIALLY THE BOOKMOBILE AND INDIVIDUAL EFFORTS FROM DEPARTMENT THAT YOU MAY OR MAY NOT GUESS THE AUSTIN CODE DEPARTMENT, THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT PIO A DIFFERENT, THE TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT HELPED BUILD OUR WEBSITE.
SO IT VERY MUCH WAS AN ALL HANDS ON DECK FOLKS COMING IN WHO HAD THE TALENT TO HELP JULIE, NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.
NOW HERE'S THE PART THAT REALLY MADE THE DIFFERENCE.
JOHN, I CAN'T STRESS THIS ENOUGH.
ALL THOSE PARTNERSHIPS WE JUST TALKED ABOUT ON THE INSTITUTIONAL LENS WERE INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT.
THEY PROVIDE A LOT OF RESOURCES, BUT THIS IS WHERE WE REALLY DUG IN DEEP TO OUR HARD TO COUNT COMMUNITIES WHO WERE THE HARD TO COUNT HERE IN AUSTIN, TRAVIS COUNTY.
WELL, WE WENT AND GRABBED US CENSUS BUREAU DATA.
WE HAD OUR CITY DEMOGRAPHER AT THE TIME, RYAN ROBINSON AND SOME NATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS AND THE CENSUS BUREAU HELP US DIG IN AND SAY, HEY, THESE ARE LIKELY TO BE OUR HARDEST TO COUNT COMMUNITIES.
UM, THE LARGEST ONE BEING OUR HISPANIC, LATINO POPULATION, SPECIFICALLY THE IMMIGRANT POPULATION WHO WAS FEARFUL OF THAT CITIZENSHIP QUESTION COMING ALONG, OUR BLACK AFRICAN-AMERICAN POPULATION MEMBERS WHO WERE SUFFERING FROM DIFFERENT THINGS LIKE DISPLACEMENT, OR, YOU KNOW, GROWING LOW, YOU KNOW, SMALLER SHARE OF THE OVERALL POPULATION.
AND THEN OF COURSE ALSO OUR GROWING ASIAN AMERICAN POPULATION, WHICH WE HAD A NUMBER OF BARRIERS, INCLUDING LANGUAGE AND CULTURE.
THANKFULLY, WE HAVE AN AMAZING NETWORK OF COMMUNITY GROUPS HERE IN AUSTIN, TRAVIS COUNTY, OUR ASIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY COMPLETE COUNT COMMITTEE.
IT WAS THE FIRST STEP FORWARD.
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ON THE NUMBER OF DIFFERENT COMMUNITY LEADERS CAME TOGETHER TO PUT THAT WORK IN TOGETHER.YOU CAN SEE THAT BEAR THAT'S THEIR CATCHPHRASE COUNTERS AND OUR BLACK AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY, CCC PREP FOLKS FROM ALL OVER, YOU KNOW, ALL OVER THE COUNTY AND DIFFERENT NEIGHBORHOODS AND INSTITUTIONS.
YOU KNOW, I, I, A NUMBER OF COMMISSIONERS AND CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS HELPED OUT WITH THESE DIFFERENT GROUPS AS WELL, OUR HISPANIC, LATINO COMMUNITY TEAM FROM THOMAS AUSTIN.
UM, YOU KNOW, IT HAD DIFFERENT GROUPS LIKE HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TEAMING UP WITH CONSTABLE MORALES AND PRECINCT FOUR WITH COMMISSIONER GOMEZ, YOU KNOW, ALL THE DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS LIKE LATINO HEALTHCARE FORUM, THERE WERE ALREADY PRIORITIZED TO THIS.
AND THEY CAME TOGETHER IN A UNITED EFFORT TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THE STRATEGIES WERE AND OUR JOB WAS TO HELP FUND THEM.
AND THEN OF COURSE, WE ALSO HAD OUR LGBTQ PLUS CCC THAT ACTUALLY WAS UP FOR NATIONAL BOARD FOR THEIR DIGITAL ADVERTISING THAT THEY WERE DOING.
SO WE HAD A NUMBER OF OTHER GRASSROOTS BASED GROUPS, BUT I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THESE REAL QUICK AND YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE DIFFERENT MATERIALS THEY PUT TOGETHER.
AND SO THIS IS OUR, THIS WAS OUR THIRD LITTLE STRATEGIC PRIORITY HERE, WHICH WAS MEDIA.
AND WE WERE REALLY LUCKY AT TIMES FROM COUNTY BASTROP COUNTY HAYS COUNTY, CALDWELL COUNTY, THEY WERE ALL DOWN TO ORGANIZE.
AND THAT WAS IN PART BECAUSE THE UNITED WAY IN GREATER AUSTIN HAD FUNDRAISED AND DEVELOPED SOME DOLLARS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION AND ST DAVID'S FOUNDATION.
WE WERE ABLE TO JOINTLY TOGETHER THERE, GO AFTER A $60,000 GRANT THAT WE WERE ABLE TO TURN AROUND AND PARTNER WITH UNIVISION AND TELEMUNDO WATERLOO MEDIA TO GET SPANISH LANGUAGE ADS OUT, TO GET TRUSTED COMMUNITY LEADERS UP ON THE AIRWAVES, ON TELEVISION, ON SOCIAL MEDIA.
AND THEN AS YOU CAN SEE DOWN THERE, THE BOTTOM RIGHT HAND CORNER HAD EXAMPLES WHERE WE REALLY BLENDED OUR INSTITUTIONAL GRASSROOTS AND MEDIA STRATEGIES.
THAT WAS A POP-UP AT A LOCAL SUPERMARKET WHERE WE HAD OUR HISPANIC, LATINO CCC OUTREACH FOLKS FROM PRECINCT FOUR.
UM, WE HAD THE LIVE SOCIAL MEDIA OF THE MOST POPULAR RADIO DJ ON THE CHANNEL TELLING FOLKS TO COME ON OUT FOR SPECIALS AND TAKE THE CENSUS WHILE YOU'RE OUT THERE.
AND SO OUR MEDIA, ALTHOUGH IT WAS, UM, TRADITIONAL IN SOME WAYS THAT IT GREW TO BE VERY NON TRADITIONAL, AS WE IDENTIFIED, THAT WAS A VERY EFFECTIVE TACTIC.
AND THE GROUP THAT HELPED ORGANIZE THAT MEDIA COMPONENT WAS OUR DIGITAL TEAM.
THIS WAS LARGELY VOLUNTEERS FROM CITY DEPARTMENTS, COMMUNITY, THOSE DIFFERENT COMMUNITY TEAMS, UH, GROUPS LIKE OPEN AUSTIN WHO JUST DECIDED THE CENSUS WAS GOOD.
YOU KNOW, I USED TO JOKE IT WAS THE, THE DIGITAL, YOU KNOW, NERDS OF THE WORLD USING THEIR POWERS FOR GOOD TO HELP US OUT.
AND THEY CREATED A TON OF DIFFERENT ONLINE RESOURCES, DIFFERENT THEMES THAT COMMUNITY GROUPS COULD POST.
WE WORKED WITH THE MAYOR AND THE COUNTY JUDGE AT THE TIME TO CREATE A 10 DAY COUNTDOWN.
UH, WE IDENTIFIED THAT SCHOOL LUNCHES WAS SOMETHING THAT ALL OF OUR DIFFERENT COMMUNITY GROUPS REALLY IDENTIFIED WITH IT.
SO WE HAMMERED DOWN THAT THE CENSUS, YOU KNOW, IT'S ALL ABOUT FUNDING SCHOOL LUNCHES.
WE HAD A WEBSITE WHERE BOTH THE COUNTY AND THE CITY ALL PLUGGED INTO AND JULIA, IF YOU CAN GO TO THAT, THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE, THEY ALSO DID SOMETHING REALLY IMPORTANT.
AND THIS IS I THINK, RELEVANT TO THE CONVERSATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN OCCURRING EARLIER THIS MORNING, BY HAVING A COLLECTIVE STRATEGIC MAP, A TOOL THAT BOTH THE PUBLIC COULD USE, THERE'S A LITTLE BIT MORE SIMPLIFIED, BUT THIS WAS OUR UNDER THE HOOD THAT A VOLUNTEER HELPED US BUILD, UH, WHERE WE HAD DIFFERENT LENSES.
SO OUR AFRICAN-AMERICAN BLACK COMMUNITY GROUP COULD SAY, OKAY, HOW ARE ZIP CODES DOING? BECAUSE THEY HAVE PRIORITY ZIP CODES, THEY'RE DOING THEIR OWN CAMPAIGNS.
HOW'S OUR HISPANIC, LATINO, SINCE IT'S TRACKS AND ZIP CODES DOING.
I MEAN, WE WOULD LITERALLY, UH, WITH OUR HISPANIC, LATINO CCC LEADERS TRACK THOSE CENSUS TRACKS DAY AFTER DAY, CONSTABLE WOULD SEND IN A LETTER OUT TO THE MAILBOXES OF FOLKS.
WE'D HAVE SOME AUTO ROBOCALLS, WE PLAY SOME DIGITAL ADS AND WE COULD SEE THAT LITTLE NUMBER GO UP AFTER WE DID THOSE TACTICS.
AND IT WAS THIS KIND OF COLLECTIVE, UH, DATA SHARING ANALYSIS THAT WOULD REALLY WORK.
AND AT THIS POINT, I'M GOING TO HAND IT OFF, UH, TO OUR NEW CITY DEMOGRAPHER, BUT SOMEONE SUPER FAMILIAR WITH THIS EFFORT BECAUSE SHE WAS HELPING EDUCATE ME AND GET ME ON BOARD WHILE SHE WAS WITH THE STATE DEMOGRAPHER'S OFFICE, UH, LEVEL NCO.
GOOD MORNING, MAYOR JUDGE BROWN, UH, COUNCIL MEMBERS AND COMMISSIONERS I'M LAILA, VALENCIA, AND I HAVE THE GREAT PRIVILEGE OF SERVING AS AUSTIN CITY, DEMOGRAPHER.
AND TODAY I'M EXCITED TO SHARE WITH YOU THE FRUITS OF THE LABOR OF ALL OF THE COUNTLESS CIVIL SERVANTS AND COMMUNITY LEADERS AND THE EFFORT THAT JOHN JUST DESCRIBED.
AND ALL OF THESE EFFORTS OF COURSE, WERE MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH YOUR JOINT INVESTMENT, UH, IN THE CITIES AND THE AREA'S GREATEST ASSETS, THE PEOPLE OF AUSTIN, TRAVIS COUNTY.
SO I'LL START BY SHARING SOME NUMBERS.
SO YOU MAY HAVE ALREADY HEARD OF DIFFERENT PERCENTAGES DESCRIBING THE NATIONS AND STATES PERFORMANCE IN THE 2020 CENSUS.
AND ADMITTEDLY, THE CENSUS BUREAU HAS A NUMBER FOR EVERYTHING.
AND SOMETIMES THESE METRICS CAN GET A LITTLE CONFUSING.
I FIND IT HELPFUL TO THINK ABOUT THESE METRICS AS PARTS OF A WHOLE.
SO THE WHOLE BEING THE TOTAL RESPONSE OR ENUMERATION RATE, THIS RATE IS THE PERCENT OF HOUSING UNITS THAT WERE RECONCILED OR PROCESSED BY THE CENSUS BUREAU OUT OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE OF HOUSING UNITS AND ADDRESSES ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
THIS IS A GOOD MEASURE OF SUCCESS FOR THE CENSUS BUREAU, UH, AT THE END
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OF THE DATA COLLECTION PERIOD, 99.9, 8% OF HOUSING UNITS AND ADDRESSES NATIONWIDE WERE ENUMERATED AND A SIMILAR PERCENTAGE IN TEXAS ABOUT 99.9, 6%.SO THIS IS AN IMPORTANT METRIC BECAUSE IT LETS US KNOW THAT WE'RE STARTING AT A GOOD BASELINE FOR THE COUNT OF THE PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY LIVE WITHIN THESE HOUSING UNITS, THE PARTS THAT MAKE UP THE WHOLE, THE TOTAL RESPONSE RATE, OUR SELF RESPONSE.
AND NON-RESPONSE FOLLOW-UP THE SELF RESPONSE RATE IS THE PERCENT OF HOUSING UNITS THAT RESPONDED ON THEIR OWN BY PHONE, BY MAIL.
AND FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER IN 2020 ONLINE, THIS IS KNOWN TO BE THE MOST ACCURATE TYPE OF CENSUS DATA THAT WE CAN GET.
AND IT'S ALSO THE BEST METRIC BY WHICH TO EVALUATE THE WORK OF THE AUSTIN TRAVIS COUNTY COLLABORATIVE, BECAUSE THEY WERE TASKED WITH MOTIVATING HOUSEHOLDS TO RESPOND ON THEIR OWN TO THE 2020 CENSUS.
THE NON-RESPONSE FOLLOWUP MAKES UP THE REMAINDER OF THE WHOLE, THIS INVOLVES CENSUS WORKERS GOING DOOR TO DOOR TO FOLLOW UP WITH ALL THOSE HOUSING UNITS THAT DID NOT RESPOND ON OWN ONCE THEY GET THERE.
THE CENSUS WORKER DETERMINES IF THAT HOUSING UNIT IS VACANT OR OCCUPIED AND ATTEMPTS TO GET RESPONSE TO THE CENSUS.
NOW THIS RESPONSE MAY COME FROM THE ACTUAL INDIVIDUALS WHO LIVE THERE.
AND IF IT, IF IT DOES THIS, THESE DATA CAN BE JUST AS ACCURATE AS SELF RESPONSE, BUT IT CAN ALSO BE ATTAINED BY WHAT'S CALLED A PROXY.
AND THESE ARE TYPICALLY NEIGHBORS OR LANDLORDS THAT MAY HAVE SOME INFORMATION ON THE OCCUPANCY STATUS OF THE HOUSING UNIT, AS WELL AS SOME INFORMATION ON THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE.
IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THESE RATES REPRESENT, DO NOT REPRESENT ACTUAL COUNTS.
THESE ONLY REPRESENT THE SHARE OF HOUSING UNITS THAT THE CENSUS BUREAU PROCESSED IN THAT MASTER ADDRESS FILE.
AND SO THE COUNTS ARE REALLY ONLY GOING TO BE AVAILABLE UNTIL AFTER THE PROCESSING AND RELEASE OF THESE HOUSING UNIT LEVEL DATA.
SO USING THE SELF RESPONSE RATE AS THE KEY METRIC, HOW DID WE DO, UM, 67% OF HOUSING UNITS ACROSS THE NATION SELF RESPONDED TO THE 2020 CENSUS? THIS WAS ABOUT A HALF PERCENTAGE POINT HIGHER THAN THE SHARE THAT SELF RESPONDED IN 2010 FOR TEXAS, TEXAS RANKED 39TH COMPARED TO OTHER STATES.
AND THIS WAS A LOWER IN 2010 WHEN THEY RANKED 35TH.
OUR SELF RESPONSE RATE DROPPED FROM ABOUT 64.4% TO 62.8%.
AND THE CITY OF BOSTON HAD THE SECOND HIGHEST SELF RESPONSE RATE AMONG LARGE TEXAS CITIES WITH A SELF RESPONSE RATE OF 67.3%.
YOU CAN SEE AUSTIN HERE COMPARED TO OTHER SELECT CITIES.
AND SELF RESPONSE RATE AMONG TEXAS COUNTIES RANGED QUITE A BIT FROM A HIGH OF ABOUT 75.8% IN FORT BEND COUNTY, RIGHT OUTSIDE HOUSTON TO A LOW OF 18.6% IN EDWARDS COUNTY, WHICH IS IN WEST TEXAS WITH, UH, GENERALLY SUBURBAN COMMUNITIES AND RURAL AREAS, UH, OR, OR SUBURBAN COMMUNITIES OUTPACING URBAN AND RURAL AREAS.
TRAVIS COUNTY WAS AMONG 29 OR 11% OF COUNTY STATEWIDE THAT MET OR SURPASSED THE 2010 SELF RESPONSE RATE.
AND AUSTIN WAS AMONG 283 OR 23% OF CITIES THAT MET OR SURPASS THE 2010 SELF RESPONSE RATE.
MOST NOTABLY TOGETHER, THE AUSTIN TRAVIS COUNTY CARE WAS THE ONLY LARGE TEXAS CITY COMBO TO BEAT THEIR 2010 SELF RESPONSE RATE.
YOU CAN SEE HERE THAT OTHER LARGE COUNTIES, NAMELY BEAR AND TARRANT SURPASSED THEIR 2010 SELF RESPONSE RATE, BUT THEIR CORRESPONDING PRINCIPAL CITY DID NOT.
AND SO I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT THE FACT THAT AUSTIN AND TRAVIS COUNTY BEACH THERE, UM, 2010 SELF RESPONSE RATES AS A COMBO IS REALLY DUE TO THE EFFECTIVE CAMPAIGN AND THE STRONG UNIFIED EFFORTS THAT WERE, THAT WERE, UM, PUT UNDERWAY IN AUSTIN, TRAVIS COUNTY AREA.
SO WHEN CAN WE MOVE FROM SELF RESPONSE RATES TO ACTUAL COUNTS? WE ALREADY HAVE TO SOME EXTENT THE PORTION THAT FILE WAS RELEASED, UM, LATE APRIL, THIS FILE INCLUDED THE POPULATION COUNTS FOR THE NATION, THE STATES AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, TEXAS HAD BEEN PROJECTED TO GAIN ABOUT THREE CONGRESSIONAL SEATS, HOWEVER, A LOWER THAN EXPECTED COUNT FOR TEXAS RELATIVE TO POPULATION ESTIMATES FROM THE CENSUS BUREAU, ALONG WITH A BETTER THAN EXPECTED COUNT FOR OTHER STATES RESULTED IN TEXAS GAINING ONLY TWO CONGRESSIONAL SEATS.
NOW THIS WAS MORE THAN ANY OTHER STATE GAINED, BUT IT WAS STILL THE LOW PROJECTIONS.
SOME OF THE MEDIA HAVE NOTED THE LOWER THAN EXPECTED COUNTS FOR HIGH GROWTH, HIGH LATINO STATES LIKE ARIZONA AND FLORIDA AND TEXAS, AND THE HIGHER THAN EXPECTED COUNTS FOR COASTAL COASTAL STATES LIKE CALIFORNIA AND NEW YORK ALSO WITH SIZABLE LATINO POPULATIONS.
AND ONE KEY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THESE STATES WAS THE LACK OF STATE FUNDING OR CENSUS OUTREACH EFFORTS IN 2020.
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UM, AS EARLY AS AUGUST 16TH, THE CENSUS BUREAU WILL BE RELEASING, UH, WHAT'S COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS THE REDISTRICTING FILE.THIS IS THE PL OR PUBLIC LAW, 94, ONE 71 FILE.
THIS THE FULLY PROCESSED, UM, EASIER TO USE FILE WILL BE AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 30TH.
THIS DATA FILE WILL INCLUDE DATA DOWN TO THE BLOCK LEVEL ON TOTAL POPULATION, RACE AND ETHNICITY, UH, VOTING AGE OR 18 YEARS AND OLDER AND OCCUPANCY STATUS FOR HOUSING UNITS AND GROUP ORDERS BY TYPE.
AND SO THESE ARE FOR EXAMPLE, NURSING HOMES AND COLLEGE DORMITORIES, ET CETERA.
UH, THIS FILE WILL BE THE FIRST TIME WE GET TO SEE THE COUNT FOR CITY OF AUSTIN AND TRAVIS COUNTY, UH, DESPITE THE LOWER THAN EXPECTED COUNTS FOR THE STATE.
I'M REALLY OPTIMISTIC FOR THE COUNT FOR TRAVIS COUNTY AND AUSTIN.
AND I REALLY THINK IT WILL BE STRONGER IN LARGE PART DUE TO THE CONTRIBUTIONS AND INVESTMENTS MADE BY BOTH COUNSEL AND THE COUNTY COURT, AS WELL AS THE COMMUNITY EFFORTS AND EFFECTIVE, UM, AUSTIN, TX TRAVIS COUNTY CAMPAIGN.
NOW THE REDISTRICTING FILE WILL SUPPORT THE WORK OF THE CITY OF AUSTIN'S INDEPENDENT CITIZENS, REDISTRICTING COMMISSION, AS WELL AS THE TRAVIS COUNTY'S COMMISSIONERS COURTROOM DISTRICT PROCESS.
AND IN SPRING OF 2022 MORE DETAILED DATA WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE IN THESE DETAILED DATA.
OR SOME OF THE EXAMPLES INCLUDE HOUSEHOLD TYPE RELATIONSHIP TO HOUSEHOLDER, AS WELL AS THE FULL AGE DETAIL, NOT JUST BUILDING ENGINE UP.
AND THEN FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE CENSUS BUREAU HAS RELEASED MORE DETAILED DATA QUALITY METRICS THAN EVER BEFORE.
THE FIRST SET WAS RELEASED WITH THE APPORTIONMENT DATA.
ANOTHER FILE WAS RELEASED LAST WEEK, THESE QUALITY METRICS, AS WELL AS THE POST ENUMERATION SURVEY WHERE A SAMPLE OF HOUSING UNITS THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE CENSUS COUNT ARE RE-INTERVIEWED ALL OF THESE METRICS HELP US TO DETERMINE THE QUALITY AND ACCURACY OF THE DATA AND ASSESS FOR, OR SOMETIMES OVER COUNTS OF THE POPULATION.
AND WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE RELEASE OF THESE DATA QUALITY METRICS AND BE EXTRA VIGILANT FOR THE UNDERCOUNT OF HISTORICALLY UNDER COUNTED COMMUNITIES, SUCH AS COMMUNITIES OF COLOR, BUT ALSO IMPORTANT IN THE CASE OF AUSTIN AND TRAVIS COUNTY, THE COLLEGE AGE POPULATION THAT LIVES OFF CAMPUS, COVID-19 HAD A PRONOUNCED IMPACT ON THE LIVING SITUATION OF THIS POPULATION AND WILL NEED TO ENSURE THAT AN ACCURATE COUNT WAS OBTAINED.
AND WHAT IF WE DETERMINE THAT A SIGNIFICANT UNDER COUNT WAS OBTAINED? UM, THE CENSUS BUREAU'S HAS A COUNT QUESTION RESOLUTION OPERATION THAT PROVIDES A MECHANISM FOR GOVERNMENT ENTITIES TO REQUEST A REVIEW OF THEIR OFFICIAL 2020 CENSUS COUNT.
NOW, THE CENSUS BUREAU WILL USE THESE UPDATED COUNTS TO INFORM OTHER PRODUCTS LIKE POST SENSEL ESTIMATES THAT BEGIN TO BE RELEASED IN 2022.
AND THEY ALSO CREATE WHAT ARE CALLED EROTIC INFORMATION ON THE WEBSITE.
AND SO SOMETIMES YOU'LL LOOK AT A POPULATION NUMBER AND IT'LL HAVE A LITTLE ASTERISK ON THE TOP RIGHT CORNER THAT INDICATES THAT THAT OFFICIAL COUNT HAD TO BE MODIFIED DUE TO THIS COUNT QUESTION, RESOLUTION PROCESS.
HOWEVER, THE COUNT QUESTION RESOLUTION IS NOT A MECHANISM TO CHANGE THE COUNSELOR USED AN APPORTIONMENT OR REDISTRICTING OR ANY OTHER OFFICIAL 2020 CENSUS DATA PRODUCTS, BUT THEY'RE STILL VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE MANY OF THE FUNDING PROGRAMS THAT JULIE MENTIONED EARLIER ON IN THE PRESENTATION RELY ALSO ON THESE POSTS, CENSUS ESTIMATES.
AND NOW BEFORE I TURN IT BACK TO JOHN, UM, TO DESCRIBE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 2030, I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU ONE MORE TIME FOR YOUR INVESTMENT IN THE 2020 CENSUS.
EVEN DURING A TIME WHEN YOUR SYSTEMS AND ORGANIZATIONS AND FAMILIES WERE STRETCHED THIN, TRYING TO ADDRESS UNPRECEDENTED DEMANDS OF COVID AND THE PANDEMIC INDUCED RECESSION, YOU UNDERSTOOD THE IMPORTANCE OF THE CENSUS AND THE INTENTIONAL COUNT NEEDED TO REACH OUR HISTORICALLY NEGLECTED COMMUNITIES.
AND BECAUSE OF THESE JOINT EFFORTS, I'M REALLY EAGER AND EXCITED TO SEE THE COUNTS FOR AUSTIN AND TRAVIS COUNTY.
AND I WOULD BE HAPPY TO COME BACK AND PRESENT THESE DATA TO YOU AT A LATER DATE.
AND AS SHE WAS NOTING, IT WAS THAT INVESTMENT BY Y'ALL THE CITY AND COUNTY THAT ALLOWED US TO PROVIDE THOSE RESOURCES.
UH, BUT LET'S GO HERE INTO THE, SOME REFLECTIONS ON WHAT IT WAS LIKE THERE IN 2020, UH, THE ENVIRONMENT, AGAIN, WE HAD THREE DIFFERENT PRIMARY LOCAL CAMPAIGNS THAT WERE OCCURRING.
WE WEREN'T THE ONLY SHOP IN TOWN.
THERE WAS THE FEDERALLY FUNDED SINCE THIS PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM THAT WAS A PARTNER SPECIALIST.
YOU MIGHT'VE SEEN THEM AROUND TOWN.
THERE WAS OUR, OUR PROGRAM ITSELF THAT COMBINED CITY COUNTY.
AND THEN THERE WAS A PRIVATELY FUNDED UNITED WAY PROJECT THAT HAD ITS OWN ADMINISTRATOR AND WAS, YOU KNOW, PROVIDING GRANTS TO DIFFERENT PARTNERS ON ITS OWN AS WELL.
UH, AS LAILA NOTED, THERE WAS NO STATE EFFORT AND I CAN'T HIT THAT NOTE ENOUGH, HOW MUCH THAT REALLY HURT US AS A STATE.
AND IT WAS THANKS TO THE EFFORTS OF FOLKS LIKE DALLAS COUNTY, JUDGE, CLAY JENKINS,
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AND OTHERS COMING TOGETHER AND KIND OF PUTTING US ALL IN A ROOM THAT WE WERE ABLE TO STILL STAY CONNECTED.NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE, YOU KNOW, AND MORE LOCALLY HERE FOCUSED BESIDES JUST THE STATE'S LACK OF FUNDING, BUT IT WAS OURSELVES.
UM, WE HAVE UNDEVELOPED INFRASTRUCTURE WHEN IT COMES TO HOW OUR INSTITUTIONS ARE ABLE TO ABLE TO HELP FUND AND EMPOWER OUR GRASSROOTS PARTNERS.
THERE WERE SEVERAL HEADACHES AND HICCUPS AS WE TRIED TO GET DOLLARS A RESOURCES TO THESE COMMUNITY TEAMS THAT STRAINED THE RELATIONSHIP.
AND, BUT FOR THEIR COMMITMENT TO THIS EFFORT, I'M NOT CERTAIN THAT THEY WOULD, YOU KNOW, THAT WE WOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO KEEP GOING.
SO AGAIN, I JUST WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THOSE GRASSROOTS LEADERS, HOW IMPORTANT WAS THEY STUCK WITH US? THEY RECOGNIZE THE IMPORTANCE, BUT WE NEED TO RECOGNIZE AS A CITY AND COUNTY THAT WE COULD HAVE DONE BETTER, WE DID GOOD, BUT WE COULD HAVE DONE BETTER WITH MAKING THOSE CONNECTIONS.
SIMILARLY, VOLUNTEER BURNOUT WAS ESPECIALLY DIFFICULT DURING COVID, UM, WHICH WAS ITS OWN HUGE BEAST TO DEAL WITH.
BUT I THINK THAT INFRASTRUCTURE, IF IT'S IN PLACE, IT HELPS PREVENT THAT TYPE OF BURNOUT.
IT, IT BROADENS THAT TRUST WITH DIFFERENT FOLKS.
SO THAT WAY WE'RE NOT RELYING ON THE SAME FOLKS TIME AND TIME AGAIN, JULIE, NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.
SO HERE'S SOME JUST IMMEDIATE QUICKFIRE RECOMMENDATIONS START EARLIER.
YOU KNOW, IT WAS GREAT THAT I WAS ABLE TO COME ON, YOU KNOW, ABOUT A YEAR BEFOREHAND AND IT WAS GREAT THAT SOME OF OUR GRASSROOTS LEADERS WERE ALREADY ROCKING AND ROLLING.
UH, BUT FRANKLY WE SHOULD START TOMORROW PLANNING FOR THE CENSUS IN 2,330, THOSE HURDLES ARE NOT GOING ANYWHERE AND THEY MIGHT GET HIGHER BETWEEN NOW AND THE NEXT 10 YEARS, UH, DIVIDE AND COLLABORATE.
THERE WERE MANY TIMES EARLY ON WHERE WE WERE, THERE WAS THOSE THREE PRIMARY CAMPAIGNS.
I WAS MENTIONING WHERE A LOT OF US WERE DOING THE SAME THING AND WE HAD TO FIGURE OUT ON THE FLY.
OKAY, WELL, YOU GO, YOU GO GRAB THAT, I'LL GRAB THIS, YOU KNOW, AND, AND BUILDING THAT OUT, YOU KNOW, IF WE COULD'VE AVOIDED THAT EARLIER, WE MIGHT'VE BEEN ABLE TO HIT SOME OTHER THINGS HARDER, UM, AGAIN, AVOIDING DUPLICATION AND THEN STAFF UP EARLIER.
SO AGAIN, THERE WAS A LOT OF WORK, ESPECIALLY BUILDING OUT THESE GRASSROOTS TEAMS THAT SHOULD HAVE TAKEN OVER A YEAR YEARS, YOU KNOW, TO GET THESE FOLKS READY, TO READY TO GO AND EMPOWERED AND CONNECTED IN WITH THE RESOURCES AT THE INSTITUTIONAL LEVEL.
AND WE WERE DOING THAT IN THREE MONTHS, 60 DAYS, 30 DAYS IN SOMETIMES.
AND IT WAS THOSE LEADERS OF THOSE COMMUNITIES, CCCS, WHO MADE THAT MAGIC HAPPEN.
SO AT THE TIME DATA DATA, DATA THAT, YOU KNOW, THE DATA FROM THE CENSUS BUREAU, THE DATA THAT LAILA WAS PROVIDING US SOME STATE DEMOGRAPHER'S OFFICE AND OUR DIGITAL TEAM WAS CHURNING OUT.
THAT IS WHAT ALLOWED US TO PRIORITIZE WHICH COMMUNITIES AND INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS WE'D WORK WITH.
BUT THEN IT ALSO ALLOWED US TO CHECK OURSELVES NOT ALL THE STRATEGIES WE DID WORK.
UM, THAT WAS THE STRENGTH OF OUR CAMPAIGN IS WE WOULD ADMIT THAT ON OUR CENSUS ACTION TEAM CALLS, WE HAVE TO LOOK AT THE NUMBERS.
YOU KNOW, WE PUT MONEY INTO THIS, WE TRIED TO DO THIS AS WE WERE PIVOTING WITH COVID THAT THEN IT WORKED ULTIMATELY IT WAS A LOT OF MORE OLD SCHOOL TACTICS THAT WE NEEDED TO HONE IN ON, BUT, BUT FOR THAT DATA AND THAT ABILITY TO KIND OF CHECK OURSELVES ALONG THE WAY, WE WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ABLE TO KNOW WHAT WAS WORKING, UH, INCH WIDE MILE DEEP.
YOU KNOW, IT'S GREAT TO HAVE THAT BROAD COUNTY-WIDE CCC, BUT IF WE HAD STARTED FIRST DIGGING INTO WHO WE KNEW, THE HARD TO COUNT COMMUNITIES WOULD BE, WE WOULD HAVE HAD MORE TIMES BUILDING AND STRENGTHENING THAT ORGANIZATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE LEADING INTO IT.
INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS ARE MOST LIKELY TO JUMP AT THE TABLE.
UM, BUT TRYING TO GET THESE FOLKS WHO HAVE OTHER JOBS AND HAVE OTHER COMMITMENTS AND ARE ALREADY HAVE THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLD ON THEIR SHOULDER, WE'VE GOT TO GET WITH THEM FIRST AND WE'VE GOT TO FOCUS ON THEM AND THEN INTERSECTIONAL CAMPAIGNING.
YOU KNOW, I WAS REALLY PROUD OF THERE AS THE CAMPAIGN MOVED ALONG, IT BECAME LESS OF WHAT IS MY SPECIFIC COMMUNITY GETTING OUT OF THIS, YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE WE FOR MY SPECIFIC COMMUNITY? AND IT WAS SHARING STRATEGIES, SHARING TACTICS, SHARING RESOURCES, UH, IT WAS A REALLY BEAUTIFUL THING TO WATCH.
SO AGAIN, I WANT TO COMMEND THOSE FOLKS FOR, FOR DOING THAT.
AND THEN LASTLY, AND THESE QUICK PART USE WHAT WE HAVE.
I LIKE TO SHOW FOLKS THIS LITTLE DOOR HANGER, THIS DOOR HANGER IS NOT JUST A LITTLE ORANGE PIECE OF PAPER.
IT REPRESENTS, YOU KNOW, GRASSROOTS INPUT ON THE, ON THE WORDING FOR IT IT'S IT WAS OUR TAX ASSESSOR AND, AND COUNTY VOLUNTEER PROGRAMS THAT PROVIDED THE PRINTING.
IT WAS THE LEGAL WOMEN VOTERS AND PRECINCT FOUR DEPUTIES WHO WERE OUT PUTTING IT ON DOORS.
AND IT WAS OUR DIGITAL TEAM THAT WAS TRACKING ITS EFFICACY.
AND THE AUSTIN PUBLIC LIBRARY IS BOOKMOBILE GOING OUT, HOSTING THE EVENTS AFTER THESE, THESE DOOR HANGERS WOULD GO ON A DOOR.
SO IT'S A LITTLE SIMPLE THING LIKE THIS, THAT RECORD REPRESENTS USING WHAT WE HAVE AND GETTING OUT THERE.
SO ONE BIG IDEA THAT WAS SOME QUICK FIRE THINGS TO WORK ON, BUT Y'ALL, THERE'S SOMETHING REALLY COOL WE COULD DO, UH, THAT WOULD BUILD UPON THIS RELATIVE SUCCESS WE HAD.
WE DID, YOU KNOW, BETTER THAN MOST HERE IN THE STATE, BUT THIS IS TEXAS.
AND SO THE ONE BIG IDEA, THE ONE BIG OPPORTUNITY WE HAVE IS TO CONTINUE TO FUND THIS TYPE OF WORK.
THE HURDLES THAT THE HARD TO COUNT POPULATIONS WERE OVERCOMING WERE NOT UNIQUE TO THE CENSUS.
THEY GET WORSE YEAR AFTER YEAR.
AND I KNOW Y'ALL HEAR THIS ALL THE TIME, BUT IF WE COULD SPEND THE NEXT 10 YEARS DISMANTLING THESE HURDLES THAT WE KNOW EXIST, THAT THE DATA PROVES UP.
IF WE COULD TRY TO STRENGTHEN AND BUILD THAT, THAT INFRASTRUCTURE BETWEEN OUR INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERSHIPS AND THESE GRASSROOTS LEADERS WHO REALLY KNOW HOW TO PUT THOSE RESOURCES TO WORK,
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THAT IS THE SECRET SAUCE.THAT IS THE MAGIC THAT CAN MAKE SOMETHING REALLY GREAT HAPPEN 10 YEARS DOWN THE ROAD, SIMILAR TO HOW WE'RE INVESTING IN TRANSIT RIGHT NOW IN HISTORIC LEVELS, SIMILAR TO HOW WE'RE INVESTING IN OTHER FORMS OF INFRASTRUCTURE.
THIS TYPE OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZING IS IN ITSELF INFRASTRUCTURE THAT REQUIRES ANNUAL OPERATING BUDGETS AND COMMITMENTS FROM OUR INSTITUTIONS.
WHY SHOULD WE DO THIS RIGHT NOW? A LOT OF THE GRANT MAKING ENTITIES OR NOT, YOU KNOW, HAVE A LOT OF THE POWER WHEN IT COMES TO WHO CAN GET FUNDED.
UM, WHAT WE COULD DO IF WE ACTUALLY ANNUALLY ORGANIZE AND FUND, THIS KIND OF WORKS, YOU KNOW, AND THIS, THIS TYPE OF COLLABORATIVE THAT WAS FORMED, UH, WE CAN PUT THE GRASSROOTS LEADERS AND THEIR NETWORKS UP FRONT.
THEY CAN DICTATE THE STRATEGY.
THEY CAN DICTATE THE PRIORITIES AND THAT WE WILL DO OUR JOB, WHICH IS GETTING THE RESOURCES TO THEM AND LONGTERM THAT INVESTMENT WILL PAY OUT BIG TIME, 10 YEARS DOWN THE ROAD, WHERE WE KNOW AS WAS NOTED EARLIER FOR EVERYONE WE GET UNDER COUNTED, WE LOSE OUT NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.
SO HOW DO WE DO THIS? FIRST AND FOREMOST, WE NEED TO CONTINUE TO INVEST IN SUPPORT A COUNTY CITY COLLABORATIVE FOCUSING ON THESE PRIORITIES.
WE KNOW HOW TO WORK IN INTER-LOCAL AGREEMENT.
WE KNOW HOW TO WORK WITH THE JOINT FUNDING MECHANISM.
IT'S JUST ABOUT RECREATING THAT AND KEEPING IT GOING FURTHER AND TRYING TO TACKLE THESE THINGS WE'VE IDENTIFIED.
IT'S USING THE DATA THAT WE'VE MENTIONED TO HELP LEAD THAT EFFORT.
IT'S NOT ANECDOTAL, BUT IT'S, WE KNOW WHAT, YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE THE BIGGEST ISSUES.
AND THEN IT'S ENGAGING THESE THINGS.
FOLKS, I'M REALLY PROUD OF THE FOLKS OVER IN ASIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY WHO HAVE CONTINUED THEIR ASIAN AMERICAN CCC.
THEY'VE REBRANDED IT, NOT AS A COMPLETE COUNT COMMITTEE, BUT AS A CIVIC COMMUNITY COALITION THAT, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, JUST LIKE WE DID EARLY ON, WE NEED TO FOLLOW THEIR EXAMPLE.
WE NEED TO KEEP FUNDING THAT WORK AND SUPPORTING THEM HOWEVER WE CAN.
UM, AND THEN MAXIMIZING OUR PUBLIC INVESTMENT WHERE WE PUT UP DOLLARS LIKE WE DID WITH Y'ALL, YOU KNOW, INVESTMENTS INITIALLY OF 200,000 EACH, WE WERE THEN ABLE TO GO TO STATEWIDE AND NATIONAL GROUPS PARTNER THOSE DOLLARS.
WE WERE ABLE TO GO TO THOSE OTHER LOCAL CAMPAIGNS THAT WERE ORGANIZING AND SAY, HEY, IT ONLY MAKES SENSE FOR US TO WORK TOGETHER AND NOT BE IN SILOS ORGANIZING.
THERE'S THOSE, THOSE VERY SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS THAT Y'ALL CAN TAKE A LOOK AT, BUT THIS BIG ONE WOULD REQUIRE ACTION TO TRY TO KEEP THAT COLLABORATIVE GOING, FUNDING IT ANNUALLY AND SEEING IT AS THE INFRASTRUCTURE THAT IT IS FOR BIG THINGS LIKE THE CENSUS.
THERE'S A TON OF FOLKS THAT JULIE AND LYLA HAVE MENTIONED ON THIS CALL.
YOU KNOW, THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF HOURS THAT WENT IN FROM THE CITY AND COUNTY WITH DIFFERENT STAFFERS, FROM DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS THAT JUST POURED THEIR HEARTS INTO THIS.
AND THEN WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE HUNDREDS OF VOLUNTEERS THAT REPRESENTED THOSE DIFFERENT CENSUS COMMUNITY TEAMS, I MEAN, IT'S JUST, IT BECOMES IMPOSSIBLE TO LIST THEM ALL, BUT I JUST WANT TO THANK THOSE FOLKS FIRST AND FOREMOST.
AND THEN ALSO THANK Y'ALL THE CITY COUNCIL COMMISSIONERS COURT, ESPECIALLY MAYOR ADLER AND FORMER JUDGE THEIR CARD, YOU KNOW, FOR INITIALLY PUTTING THIS THING TOGETHER, ENVISIONING IT, PUTTING THE BUDGET BEHIND IT THAT WE NEEDED AND BELIEVING IN IT.
IT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE WITHOUT YOUR INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT.
THANKS, JULIE, DO YOU HAVE ANY OTHER JULIE, I'M SORRY, HOW TO TRANSITION? UM, I, TO ECHO WHAT LYLA AND JOHN SAID, THIS WAS SUCH A HUGE UNDERTAKING.
AND, YOU KNOW, WE, WE STARTED OUT WITH A VERY CLEAR PLAN AND DIRECTION OF WHAT WE HOPE TO SEE, AND I HAVE TO GIVE CREDIT TO EVERYBODY WHO WAS AN ACTIVE PARTICIPANT IN THIS, NAMELY YOU ALL, AS BOTH OUR FUNDERS AND OUR, OUR CHEERLEADERS SUPPORTERS, UM, COVID REALLY DID KIND OF KNOCK THE WIND OUT OF OUR SAILS AND REQUIRED THAT WE REALLY SHIFT HOW WE DO THIS, BUT I THINK GOOD THINGS HAVE COME OUT OF THIS.
AND IT WOULD BE A SHAME TO SORT OF LOSE THAT MOMENTUM THAT WE HAVE.
I THINK COVID HAS BEEN A PRIME OPPORTUNITY TO SHOW HOW THOSE PARTNERSHIPS HAVE BEEN STRENGTHENED.
AND I THINK WE'VE BEEN SUCCESSFUL GETTING THROUGH THE PANDEMIC IN PART BECAUSE OF THOSE RELATIONSHIPS AND THAT COORDINATION THAT HAPPENS THROUGH THE CENSUS.
UM, WE'RE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU GUYS HAVE, AND WE'LL BE BACK TALKING LATER ON ABOUT REDISTRICTING, WHICH IS SORT OF PART TWO OF THIS, BUT AGAIN, HAPPY TO ANSWER ANYTHING.
UH, THOUGHTS, CONCERNS, QUESTIONS ABOUT THE CENSUS YOU GUYS MIGHT HAVE FOR US.
I GUESS WE'LL RUN THROUGH THE ORDER AND JUST SEE IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS, UH, ON OUR END, START WITH COMMISSIONER GOMEZ.
I DON'T REALLY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, JUDGE.
I THINK I WAS, IT WAS GREAT TO BE PART OF THE PROCESS AND, UM, WE, WE REALLY FORMED A LOT OF, UM, VERY NEAT, UM, COLLABORATIONS.
AND SO IT WAS, UH, UH, I'M GLAD TO SEE THAT.
UM, WE, WE THINK THIS IS, UH, THIS WAS A GOOD PROCESS AND THAT WE'RE READY TO MOVE ON.
THANK YOU EVERYONE, JULIE, EVERYONE.
THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
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UM, MY BANK SAYS WELL TO, UH, EVERYONE WHO WAS INVOLVED.UM, I THINK WE DID A REMARKABLE JOB, UM, IN SPITE OF THE STATE JUST BEING AN ABSOLUTE, UM, BARRIER ON, ON SOMETHING THAT'S SO CRITICAL.
AND I THINK PEOPLE REALLY NEED TO UNDERSTAND HOW FRANKLY YOU'RE RESPONSIBLE.
I THINK THEY, THEY HAVE BEEN ON THIS WHOLE PROCESS.
UM, AND I REALLY, I REALLY SUPPORT, UM, JOHN'S KIND OF BIG IDEA RECOMMENDATION BECAUSE WE NEED TO HAVE BETTER MECHANISMS FOR ENGAGING THE LARGER COMMUNITY ON VIRTUALLY EVERYTHING.
AND I THINK WHERE WE REALLY SAW IT SPRING INTO ACTION, IN ADDITION TO THE CENSUS WORK WAS DURING, UM, WINTER STORM URI.
WE DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH FIRST RESPONDERS.
IF YOU DO THE MATH, WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH FIRST RESPONDERS WHEN THERE'S A LARGE CRISIS LIKE THAT.
AND WE DEPEND ON THESE GRASSROOTS IN MANY CASES, ORGANIC, UH, UH, EFFORTS FREQUENTLY BY OUR NEIGHBORS TO HELP OUT.
AND I THINK THE MORE WE UNDERSTAND THAT AND TRY TO MAKE USE OF IT, UM, THE BETTER WE'LL BE AS A COMMUNITY.
SO I, I, I LIKED THAT IDEA AS ALWAYS, UH, WITH THE LEGISLATURE, PUTTING A STRANGLEHOLD ON OUR FUNDING RESOURCES.
WE HAVE THE PROBLEM OF FIGURING OUT HOW DO WE FUND SOMETHING LIKE THAT? HOW DO WE MAINTAIN IT? HOW DO WE CONTINUE IT OVER TIME? BUT I LIKED THE GENERAL DECK DIRECTION OF IT, AND I CERTAINLY SUPPORT IT, BUT THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR GREAT EFFORTS.
UM, I WOULD, I WOULD LIKE TO, UM, AS MY COLLEAGUES HAVE FIRST, I'D LIKE TO SAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY, UH, TO COMMISSION GOVERNMENT.
UH, IT, IT IS SPECIAL TO HAVE SOMEONE AROUND WHO HAS BEEN HERE AND WATCHED US GROW AND EVOLVE IN SO MANY WAYS.
AND IN A LOT OF WAYS, UH, SOME OF THE THINGS THAT BEGAN TO HAPPEN FROM THE VERY BEGINNING, UH, HAPPENED BECAUSE OF HER RELATIONSHIPS IN THE COMMUNITY AND IN THE COURTHOUSE.
SO, UH, SHE PULLED US TOGETHER FOR OUR FIRST MEETING.
SHE ENCOURAGED PEOPLE, UH, TO, UH, PARTICIPATE IN THE PROCESS.
I HAVE TO THANK JOHN AS WELL FOR, FOR HIS METHOD BECAUSE HE DID NOT COME IN AND TRY TO TELL COMMUNITIES HOW TO ORGANIZE THEMSELVES.
HE CAME IN AND ASKED THE COMMUNITY AND PARTNER WITH HIM.
SO, UH, WHEN, WHEN THERE WERE PARTS OF THE LATIN X COMMUNITY, WHEN PARTS OF THE ASIAN COMMUNITY PARTS OF THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY, MANY OF THEM ORGANIZED THEMSELVES AND WORKED WITH HIM.
AND HE, AND HE PROVIDED A SPACE FOR US TO COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER RESOURCES, FOR US TO SHARE WITH EACH OTHER, UH, BROUGHT IN A NUMBER OF PEOPLE FROM DIFFERENT DISCIPLINES, WITH DIFFERENT TOOLS, SO THAT WE COULD UNDERSTAND WHAT WAS AVAILABLE TO US, TO US WORK TOGETHER AND BRING IN OTHER RESOURCES WHEN WE NEEDED TO.
SO, YOU KNOW, THE PUSH AND PULL OF THE PROCESS, YOU KNOW, UH, OFTENTIMES THERE'S MORE ENCOURAGING AND THEN HURTING.
AND I THINK JOHN DID AN EXCELLENT JOB OF MAKING SURE THAT, THAT HE, UH, HE INVITED THE COMMUNITY INTO THE TABLE AND GAVE EVERYBODY AN OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE IN THEIR OWN WAY.
UH, SO I WAS VERY PLEASED WITH THE WORK THAT HE DID, UH, WITH, WITH THE COMMUNITIES THAT I SAW HIM WORK WITH.
AND, UH, AND I THINK THAT, UH, THIS EXERCISE HAS BEEN, UH, AS, AS SUCCESSFUL AS IT COULD HAVE POSSIBLY THEN GIVEN THE CHALLENGES THAT WE HAD SIGNIFICANT CHALLENGES, THE ICE DISCUSSION HAS GONE ON.
WE WERE IN THE MIDDLE OF A PANDEMIC, AND THEN WE HAD A SNOW STORM OF THE CENTURY.
UM, ALL OF THOSE THINGS HAPPENED.
I STILL THINK THAT, UH, HE DID AN EXTREMELY GOOD JOB AND THE TEAM, UH, LED BY JULIE DID, DID AN EXTREMELY GOOD JOB OF GIVING US THE BEST OPPORTUNITY THAT WE COULD TO LAY A STRONG FOUNDATION THAT WE CAN CONTINUE TO USE AS EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES OCCUR IN COMMUNITY.
SO THANK YOU FOR THE WORK THAT YOU'VE DONE.
LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING TO WORK WITH YOU.
THANKS TO EVERYBODY WHO WORKED ON THIS.
I JUST AM CONTINUED TO BE, UH, GRATEFUL THAT I LIVE IN TRAVIS COUNTY.
AND WE'RE, AGAIN, WE ARE, I'M STANDING OUT IN THE STATE OF TEXAS AS A, AS A TEAM BETWEEN AUSTIN AND TRAVIS COUNTY, UM, FROM THE PRESENTATION EARLIER ABOUT COVID TO THIS ONE, ABOUT THE, THE CENSUS, UH, WE CONTINUE TO SHINE AND I'M GRATEFUL FOR THAT.
UM, I REALLY LIKE THE BIG IDEA, UH, UH, ECHOING,
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UH, COMMISSIONER SHEA.I MEAN, THINK ABOUT THE MESSAGING WE COULD BE SENDING OUT ABOUT FIRE PREVENTION, THROUGH TRUSTED TEAMS THAT GET TO KNOW A COMMUNITY, A NEIGHBORHOOD, UM, AND ABOUT VACCINATIONS.
SO I THINK, UM, I THINK WE'RE ONTO SOMETHING.
I THINK THE CITY IS ONTO SOMETHING TALKING ABOUT THE RESILIENCY HUBS.
I THINK WE NEED TO CONTINUE TO PARTNER, UM, AND TO JUST GROW THE COMMUNITY TRUST THROUGH ENGAGEMENT AND MESSAGING AND CONVERSATION.
SO LET'S KEEP WORKING ON THE BIG IDEA.
THANKS SO MUCH, JOHN, AND, UH, VALENCIA AND JULIE, AND I WILL PASS IT ON OVER TO YOU.
UM, AND AS, AS, UH, COMMISSIONER, UM, AND HOWARD HAS SAID, UH, WE REALLY WAS, I THINK THE, THE CORE AND THE COUNCIL JOINING TOGETHER TO, TO, TO ADD SOME RESOURCES IN THE ABSENCE OF THEM.
UH, JOHN AND YOUR TEAM, UH, FOR BEING PROBABLY THE MOST RESILIENT CAMPAIGN I'VE EVER KNOWN, UH, EVERY TIME THERE WAS A COURSE THAT WAS SET, THERE WAS A NEED FOR A COURSE ADJUSTMENT AND, AND THE RESULTS RELATIVE TO EVERYONE ELSE DOING THOSE WERE JUST REALLY STRONG.
UM, I ALSO APPLAUD AS COMMISSIONER TREVELYAN.
DID THEY GO THE WAY THAT YOU WENT ABOUT THAT? UH, IN TRYING TO, TO EMPOWER, UH, ALL PARTS OF OUR COMMUNITY TO, TO, TO, TO AN ORGANIZED AND TO FOLLOW THEIR LEAD.
UH, BUT MOSTLY, UH, I JUST WANTED TO REEMPHASIZE WHAT COMMISSIONER SHAY SAID WITH RESPECT TO THE STATE, THE FAILURE OF THE STATE TO COME IN THE WAY OTHER STATES DID THAT WERE ABLE TO, UM, MAINTAIN GREATER REPRESENTATION IN CONGRESS, UH, BECAUSE OF THE INVESTMENT.
THE FACT THAT THAT DID NOT HAPPEN IN TEXAS IS, IS, IS, IS HORRIFIC, AND IS SOMETHING THAT OUR, UH, CITIZENS AND RESIDENTS TO BE PAYING FOR OVER THE NEXT 10 YEARS.
UH, IT WAS, IT WAS DIFFICULT TO SEE RELATIVE TO THE COMPETITIVE NATURE OF WHAT THIS, UM, PROCESS LAST PROTEST SPEAKING THERE.
I THINK I'LL ECHO THE SENTIMENT THAT EVERYBODY SHARED SO FAR.
AND I'D LIKE TO SAY A SPECIAL THINGS TO I'M A FORMER EMPLOYEE NOW ACTIVE, UH, ROBUSTLY ACTIVE LAW STUDENT, NEIL WHETSTONE, WHO WORKED SO HARD ON THIS CAMPAIGN, UM, UNDER THE GUIDANCE INTO THE LIVES OF JOHN LAWLER, WHO NOW I'M SURPRISED HE WAS ABLE TO WALK AFTER THAT.
SO AGAIN, THANKS, EVERYBODY WHO WORKED SO HARD TO, TO DO THIS REALLY IMPORTANT WORK.
AND I REALLY DO LOOK FORWARD TO TALKING TO YOU ALL ABOUT REDISTRICTING WHEN YOU COME AROUND AGAIN.
I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE FOR YOU FOR YOUR WORK AND WANT TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO THE HISPANIC COMPLETE COUNT COMMITTEE, ESPECIALLY THE HISPANIC AUSTIN LEADERSHIP TEAM, WHICH WAS SO CREATIVE AND INNOVATIVE IN THEIR OUTREACH EFFORTS.
THEY CREATED A THUMB ABELLA, UM, VIDEO SO THAT FOLKS COULD, UM, GET COUNTED AND UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF GETTING COUNTED.
AND I JUST SO GRATEFUL THAT THEY WERE ABLE TO, TO COME TOGETHER AND SEE THAT PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN HOWE AND THE HISPANIC COMPLETE COUNT COMMITTEE.
AND, UM, AND I'M THRILLED TO SEE THAT AUSTIN, TRAVIS COUNTY IS THE ONLY CITY COUNTY TO HAVE BEAT THROUGH 2010 NUMBERS.
AND SO I DEFINITELY WILL, WE'LL SHARE THAT OUT WITH THE COMMUNITY AND, UM, AND LET PEOPLE KNOW THAT WE DID A GREAT JOB.
I ALSO WANTED TO ECHO MY SUPPORT FOR US ESTABLISHING A CITY COUNTY COLLABORATIVE AND, AND MAINTAINING THAT EFFORT MOVING FORWARD.
UM, CERTAINLY I WAS HIGHLIGHTED, UH, I THINK BY COMMISSIONER SHEA, UH, THE NEED IS TREMENDOUS AND WE'VE SEEN IT IN TIMES OF DISASTER.
THERE ARE MANY, YOU KNOW, AS WE, AS THE COMMUNITY HAS A CONVERSATION AROUND RESILIENCE, UH, THERE ARE MANY INSTANCES THAT WE'VE SEEN JUST IN THE PAST FEW YEARS WHERE HAVING THAT TYPE OF SYSTEM IN PLACE AND SOLIDIFIED REALLY WILL HELP, WILL HELP OUR COMMUNITY IN NEED AND WILL HELP US HAVE A BETTER IMPROVED RESPONSE.
AND SO I DO SUPPORT THAT EFFORT AND JUST WANTED TO VOCALIZE THAT, UM, AND, AND THINK THAT IT CERTAINLY NEEDED.
THANK YOU, OUR COUNCIL MEMBER, THE REST OF THE YEAR.
I ALSO WANT TO DO A SHOUT OUT TO ONE OF MY POLICY AID THAT WORKED AT THE CAMPAIGN, DAVID CHIN KANSAN.
UH, HE AND HIS BROTHER WAS OUT THERE WORKING AND DOING A LOT OF GREAT WORK OVER THERE
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IN THE DOVE SPRINGS AREA.UH, BUT I, I HAVE, UH, A QUESTION.
I DON'T KNOW IF HIS DOCTOR, BUT NCI CAN ANSWER THAT AS WELL.
WE WILL GET THE DATA FOR, FOR, FOR AUSTIN CITY OF AUSTIN.
AND DO I, UH, OR DO WE HAVE THE DATA ALREADY ON THE POPULATION? DON'T HAVE THOSE DATA YET? WE WILL GET THOSE DATA BETWEEN AUGUST 16TH AND SEPTEMBER 30TH.
AND THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT YOU'VE BEEN DOING FOR US.
THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER, I DON'T COUNCIL MEMBER KITSCHY.
THIS IS, UH, VERY HELPFUL, UM, TO UNDERSTAND PARTICULARLY UNDERSTANDING WHICH DATA WILL ARRIVE AT WHICH TIMES FOR US.
I THINK IT WILL BE REALLY IMPORTANT, UH, WHEN THAT DATA COMES TO US IN AUGUST OR SEPTEMBER THAT WE LIKE TALK THROUGH IT AND UNDERSTAND IT BECAUSE OF THE IMPLICATIONS THAT AS YOU DESCRIBED WILL IMPACT THE DISTRICT AND ALSO IMPACTS A LOT OF OTHER ASPECTS OF WHAT THE, UH, WHAT THE CITY DOES.
SO, UM, I'M HOPING THAT, YOU KNOW, VERY SHORTLY AFTER IT COMES OUT THAT, UH, ALLELE CAN COME BACK AND, UM, AND TALK TO US.
AND, UM, I'M NOT SURE IF I JUST, I, I MAY HAVE MISPRONOUNCED YOUR NAME, UM, UH, THAT ARE SENDING DEMOGRAPHER, COME BACK TO US AND, UM, AND REALLY GO THROUGH THE DETAILS WITH US.
I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE I PRONOUNCE IT RIGHT, JUST FOR KELLY.
THANK YOU, STAFF FOR PUTTING THIS PRESENTATION TOGETHER FOR US, IT WAS VERY COMPREHENSIVE AND ANSWERED A LOT OF THE QUESTIONS THAT I HAD REGARDING THE INFORMATION PRESENTED.
I KNOW IT'S NOT EASY TO PRESENT IN FRONT OF A ELECTED BODY LIKE THIS, AND HAVING BEEN STAFFED BEFORE.
I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF WORK THAT GOES ON BEHIND THE SCENES TO GET US TO THIS POINT TODAY.
AND SO FOR THAT, I'M APPRECIATIVE.
COUNCIL MEMBER POOL, THANKS TO ALL.
AND I WANTED TO ASK THIS WHEELER, UH, UH, QUICK QUESTION.
HEY, JULIE, I WAS CURIOUS THE OTHER GOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES WITHIN TRAVIS COUNTY BEYOND THE CITY OF AUSTIN.
ARE THEY ALSO PART AND OR WERE THEY ALSO PART OF THE EFFORTS? AND, UM, DO YOU SEE THAT IF THE SEPARATE CONTINUES GOING FORWARD IN ADVANCE OF THE 20, 30 SINCE IT'S DC INVOLVING, INCLUDING THE OTHER, UM, ELECTED BODIES? YES, ABSOLUTELY.
SO, UM, THERE WAS SO MUCH TO COVER THAT WE DIDN'T GET TO TALK ABOUT EVERY SINGLE THING THAT WE DID, BUT WE, PART OF THOSE, UM, COMPLETE COUNT COMMITTEES WERE SORT OF SUBGROUPS OF ENTITIES.
AND THERE WAS A GOVERNMENT SUBGROUP, UM, WHICH ENCOMPASSED, WE HAD BOTH STATE GOVERNMENT LEADER, AS WELL AS OUR SMALL CITIES.
AND SO THEY STAYED ACTIVELY INVOLVED AS WELL, WHICH, WHICH REALLY DID HELP LEAD OUR EFFORT, I THINK.
AND, AND THAT IT WASN'T JUST AUSTIN.
IT WAS REALLY EVERYBODY WHO'S PART OF AUSTIN AND TRAVIS COUNTY.
UM, A REAL EXAMPLE TOO, OF AGAIN, WHERE COVID HAS BEEN A WEIRD SILVER LINING TO IT IS THAT, THAT COLLABORATION REALLY, THIS CONTINUED WITH BOTH OUR SMALL CITIES, UM, OUR OTHER LOCAL GOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES AS WELL, JUST BECAUSE WE HAVE THAT, THE CENSUS AND IT, IT JUST KIND OF MADE SENSE.
LET'S KEEP TALKING, LET'S KEEP COMMUNICATING.
THERE'S SO MUCH WE CAN LEARN FROM EACH OTHER.
THERE'S SO MUCH COLLABORATION AND BETTER WAY OF MOBILIZING RESOURCES TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE, WE'RE REACHING OUR AUDIENCE THAT'S THAT WE NEED TO REACH, YOU KNOW, WE WORK BETTER WHEN WE DON'T OPERATE IN SILOS.
SO THANK YOU FOR THAT QUESTION.
AND PEOPLE WANT TO KEEP US ACTIVELY ENGAGED WITH OUR OTHER PARTNERS AND YEAH, SOMEBODY HAD AC SLOT AS WELL AS ST.
EDWARD'S UNIVERSITY, HOUSTON TILLOTSON.
WE REALLY, REALLY INVITED EVERYBODY TO THAT GOVERNMENT, UH, UH, GROUP.
AND, AND, AND ALSO HOPE THAT THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO, UM, HELP US WITH THE FINANCING OF THE CONTINUED EFFORT IF WE ARE GOING TO KEEP GOING, BECAUSE THEN, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT TO BE GAINED FROM THAT.
THANKS SO MUCH TO EVERYBODY AND CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR, YOUR POSITION THERE.
AND I, I, IT LOOKS LIKE YOU MANAGED TO GET THROUGH THAT LEGISLATIVE SESSION, UM, IN GOOD SHAPE.
I'M JUST SO APPRECIATIVE OF THE HEAVY LIFT.
I KNOW THAT THIS WAS, I KNOW WE ALL WANT TO SEE A HUNDRED PERCENT, BUT IT SHOWS WHEN WE LOOK CITY TO CITY AND IN
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TEXAS.OH, HOW WELL WE'VE DONE AND HOW HARD YOU WORK.
SO I REALLY APPRECIATE EVERYBODY'S EFFORTS ON THIS.
YEAH, I'LL JUST ADD MY THANKS.
I HAVE NO FURTHER QUESTIONS EITHER, BUT THANKS TO ALL OF YOU FOR PARTICIPATED ON IT.
AND THOSE WHO ARE, ARE NOT HERE TODAY, BUT HELP SUPPORT THE EFFORT IN A VARIETY OF WAYS, INCLUDING A LOT OF OUR COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS THAT YOU'VE REFERENCED.
I KNOW OF MANY, MANY, MANY OF THEM ARE REALLY ACTIVE AND WORKED HARD THROUGHOUT THIS PROCESS.
YOU GUYS REMEMBER HALTER, I GUESS I'M I'M LAST.
SO I, I, OTHER THAN THE MAYOR, SO I WILL JUST ECHO WHAT MY COLLEAGUES HAVE SAID.
UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND THANK YOU TO ALL THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS, UM, WHO WORKED SO HARD TO MAKE THESE RESULTS POSSIBLE.
I'LL TURN IT BACK OVER TO YOU.
UM, I THINK WE ARE ALL DONE TODAY, SO JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR THE REPORTS AND ALL OF YOUR HARD WORK.
SO WHY DON'T WE WE'LL ADJOURN AND THEN COME BACK AT 1120 AND MAYOR I'LL PASS IT OVER TO YOU.
AND AGAIN, THANK YOU TO THE COURT.
UH, TODAY IS JUNE 8TH, IT'S 1114.
WE'RE GOING TO, UH, UH, ADJOURN OUR PORTION OF THE JOINT MEETING HERE.
WE WILL CONVENE OUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED WORK SESSION AT 1120 AS WELL.
UH, WE'LL LEAD WITH THE LEGISLATIVE BRIEFING AND THE BRIEFING ON THE ADC, UH, WITH THE GOAL BEING, THEY GET THOSE THINGS DONE BEFORE LUNCH BREAK ABOUT NOON-ISH, UH, THE INTENT BEING TO COME BACK FROM THAT LUNCH BREAK, UH, IN EXECUTIVE SESSION, UM, IT LOOKS LIKE, UM, UH, TWO OF THE ITEMS, UM, I WILL BE MOVED TO, UM, UM, UH, THURSDAY, UH, APPARENTLY THE, UH, HISTORIC PRESERVATION ITEM IS NOT, UH, UH, AVAILABLE TO BE ABLE TO GO TODAY.
AUSTIN ENERGY WILL BE ON THURSDAY.
WE'LL SEE HOW MANY OF THE OTHERS WE CAN RUN THROUGH ON EXECUTIVE SESSION.
THEN COME BACK OUT FOR A POOLED ITEMS AND THE, UH, DISCUSSION ABOUT DIJUAN AND HOMELESSNESS AND THE CABINETS.