Remarks by Alyssa Garza
151 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 6 of 7
- Play at 5:20:18
“Is that what you're referring to specifically? It says... There was a couple of things. Yeah, the Axon Customer Experience Improvement Program Index.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 5:20:28
“And it says, includes the sharing of de-identified segments of agency content with Axon to develop new products. and improve your product experience by signing below you agree to the terms of the Axon Customer Experience Improvement Program. I'm just wondering, is participation in that necessary to use evidence.com? Because if you... Can we opt out? Yeah, if you do some deep dive on that, there has been concerns. I want to say Axon is one of them too, but with similar companies to where there has been some situations that cities and counties have encountered that... They assumed that this is…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 5:23:09
“Yeah, and thank you for bringing up the policy. I figured we'd have one. I couldn't find it. I think in the future we could just add that on there just so that folks know that, like, there's, again, there's these conversations happening across the nation, and there are less resourced organizations municipalities that their policies are just like not super well fleshed out and I think it would be helpful for the people who are taking the time to kind of unpack this to see that we have, like what we're working with, right? I think that would be cool. Again, I haven't looked at it, but I'm…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 5:30:19
“for the transportation, what, um, uh, transit.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 5:30:29
“Can you expand a little bit about the community feedback you're going to be soliciting?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 5:31:39
“Thank you. Yeah. I, this has been like my grievance since like joining council or since I moved here in 2008, I'm used to, uh, a really good public transportation system when, again, like when I moved here, I thought that I could hop on a bus and be able to go work off campus, right? Because I could hop on a bus anywhere in Laredo and make my way home or make my way at any part of town. And so, yeah, this has been something that I... have tried to keep an eye on, and I appreciate the intentionality on the stakeholders that you're going to be asking for feedback on, because there's a lot to be…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 5:32:37
“Thank you, man. I think that they have a lot of good suggestions, and I see them all the time on Facebook, but I need them, I need our neighbors to take the commentary from Facebook to, like, listening sessions or surveys or whatever, because I think that it's really valuable. But if we don't hear it, then how are we going to, yeah.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 5:33:02
“Are y'all building that? Is it a consultant or what's the team?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 5:33:09
“Okay, I'm just making sure it's not the one who's doing the county strategic plan because that was atrocious. Okay.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 5:33:15
“That was really bad, their strategic plan.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 5:38:28
“Can you give us some? Oh, she's supposed to be on there? Can you give us like background, like what do they do? Sure. What's the deal?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 5:39:48
“Right. I just wonder, I know that I've attended some of these type of meetings, right? And there has been chatter that it gets kind of awkward, like chief being the chief of police and also serving on that board. Like, who are you representing? I'm sorry, chief of the fires of it all. Like, who are you representing when you're here type of vibe? So I just, how do we... name and acknowledge that type of tension.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 5:41:05
“All I'm saying is the conversations about the... The whole thing just stressed me out, having to hear from different people, having to constantly ask you guys, what's the breakdown of responsibilities? Who's representing who and at what point? I just don't want that to repeat because that type of stuff really, really frustrates me. We hear you. Yeah.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 5:43:50
“Oh, wait. Dang. Tonight, I'll proceed to deliberations the first Tuesday of every August. And we have a meeting that day. Well, I guess I just won't go.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 5:44:12
“We've had this conversation before. It's kind of like a community response similar to National Night Out. It's like reimagining safety. Yeah, some folks do it on their own, like as a neighborhood. Some folks don't, but I mean, whatever.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 5:44:38
“Yeah, so this year, because of the nature of the over-policing or the perception of all of the... different like ice stops in Kyle and all of that, it was more closed off and not super publicly available. But I think that that's just like a response to the moment. So I'm hoping that that will pass. Maybe I'm being too optimistic.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 27:28
“You took info snacks to like a whole other level. So I appreciate it. Really appreciate it.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 57:33
“I hear you, ma'am. But I do think that like the composition of a lot of San Marcos families are, um, like various children of various ages and it also gives like caregivers something to do. So I, I, yeah, I can see both, both sides.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 58:59
“before we for my notes want to make sure that there's a consensus on as we proceed not maybe not right here but volleyball yeah i didn't want to address it here but if you want us to talk about volleyball in general somewhere um what do y'all think yeah i think it would be helpful just to like get an understanding so that if and when our neighbors approach us because they do know that there is some kind of feelings about you know, whether they can go to school or, you know, whether whatever, whatever, just so that we can answer them. Like this is kind of the, all that goes into something like…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 1:00:15
“That's a good point. And they're like award winning. Like the volleyball players in the Marcus ASD, they're like, That's the whole thing.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 1:14:25
“Right. Yeah, I agree, Mary. Thank you for bringing that up. Like a lot of folks, like they carpool or it's like, I'm going to pick up, you know, my girlfriend's kids and we're all going to hang out and it's easier to access when you're not having to drive.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 1:16:04
“Right. And what, will you remind me, what was the response rate for those surveys?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 1:16:19
“right or i'm just thinking like the folks that that i'm thinking about to the mayor's point of like for that it's the fun point thanks for like saying that because it triggered birthday parties yeah is that maybe it could be that population just you know does didn't have the time or capacity to fill out their survey but i do feel like generally it's kind of like a if we have to like we're fine with it yeah but if it's like not a um if it's not a whole other deal like if it's feasible to leave it there.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 1:17:57
“Y'all good with keeping the splash pad? Oh, absolutely. Councilman Shane Scott has been an advocate for more of the kiddo stuff. And I'm like, he's like splash pad real quiet. But I feel like if we came for a splash pad, he'd come for us.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 1:51:52
“I didn't even know what that was until I moved to San Marcos, and then I understood the hype.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026