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Sean Saunders – Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I do have something I want to bring up tonight. I
spoke with Chief Woitena on this situation already. As most of you know, I am the
president of my HOA, and I had a homeowner who contacted me the other day because I
try to keep appraised on what’s going on in the neighborhood. He had a man that came up
to his house, beating on his door, tried to get into his house, telling him let him in, it’s his
house. Tried to get into his car, saying it’s his car. When he tried to talk to the guy, the guy
tried to attack him almost, and he called the cops. I contacted Chief Woitena to find out
who the officers who were involved in this, and I want to commend the actions of our
officers Edwin Turcios, Chief, I’m sorry about that, I’m horrible with last names
sometimes, Roy Banner, Garrison Mitchell and Lauren Hudgins. They came out, took a
report from him, and instead of making a block and saying hey, I can’t find anything, they
actually found the guy. They took him into custody, the homeowner gave them a full report,
and I don’t know what the disposition of him is after that point was. This is the kind of
actions that our police department does for our citizens. This isn’t the first time I’ve seen
them go above and beyond to help citizens out, and I wanted to make sure that I brought
this up tonight and put it on the record that I commend their actions and taking care of our
homeowners and our residents like they do. Thank you, Chief.
Andy Mann – I just wanted to speak to the library scanning situation. I’ve received a
number of calls and emails from citizens. While I support the mayor’s and this council’s
initiative to match costs with citizens versus non-citizens, I think honestly that the scanning
might be a bridge too far. For those of you who don’t spend a lot of time in municipal stuff,
usually stuff will kind of die down after a while. This kind of feels like we’ve already got
the first and second punches on this and it’s going to die down. I just personally can’t
imagine us going this far with this situation, even though I voted for it. Hopefully, we will
find some way to enforce the ordinance that we passed in a less heavy-handed manner.
That’s all I’ve got to say about that. Thank you.
Tommy Cones – Thank you, mayor. Again, the Houston-Galveston Area Council board
meeting and transportation meeting was this month again. Just kind of keeping everybody
abreast here on Council. City of Houston is still trying to manipulate the numbers a little
bit. The transportation committee met last Friday, and last Tuesday the board met. We’re
still working through the bylaw changes, but it still appears that we have the votes to
squash the City of Houston, Harris County, trying to take over the voting of a lot of things
in H-GAC. Just kind of keep y’all abreast of everything. There are a couple of grants I’m
going to give John to look at. I think we may have some opportunities for that.
Tom Crews – Just two things. One, if people weren’t aware, this Saturday from 10-2, we
have the not-for-profit I think it’s called an expo. What that’s going to do, it allows any
citizen or anybody who is interested in volunteering to come and see all the not-for-profits
that we have in the area so that they can see where they think they would fit in and where