Remarks by Amanda Rodriguez
219 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 9 of 9
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“And then, so this is a probably more unique one, but again, I probably should ask it on the last one. The city of Arizona, just given heat, has been exploring, I think what they call cool, let me see, Cool pavements, I might be wrong on that. But essentially, we talk a lot about impervious cover as it relates to the river and those things. But Arizona is actually trying out the way they paint their concrete to reduce the heat island effect. And so given that we're going to be looking at potentially, I mean, not necessarily a tremendous amount of more parking, but more concrete for sure. I…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Okay, and then this last one, Mayor, it might receive the same, more of the minutiae, but I just want to throw it out there. So for the managed access, considering we're sort of designing something around keeping that. So I've driven by the river. I know that for the staff that are processing the people coming in and out, we have tents and those things situated for them, which is much appreciated. I guess, are we planning more I guess, firm, in place, permanent, robust shelters for them?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Yeah, and I really do like the lighting that y'all put on the, again, the city park to shout y'all out. It's beautiful, and people are playing there at night, and it's really cool to see. And I don't know, back to the volleyball, I don't know if this is a potentially better location for something like that.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“I'd be open to whatever location would be most practicable and feasible.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Yeah, but I think when the park staff was gracious enough to give members on council, I think the city of Kyle also came along the tour of the activity center. I think one of the reoccurring themes that I realized is y'all are sort of, to put it frankly, busting at the seams. We are. And so I also think about how these potential improvements to the parks does alleviate some of what y'all are dealing with. I mean, I don't see us going out for bond anytime soon to put another activity center, even though I would wish for us to. So this, I really think of it too, to alleviate some of what the…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“I don't have anything. No, ma'am, just again, I don't know for anybody who comes off that bottom corner through the, it looks like it connects the shared use path adjacent to the, but I would say if not, maybe the same consideration should somebody be. Yes. Okay. Yes, absolutely.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“I'm trying to pull up the e-mails. the plethora of emails. I've got that addressed in the next one. Okay, because this is just the north that we're talking about. Yes, correct. This is not the part up against Blanco River Village.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“No, ma'am, for me, and I was a proponent for this initially, but I think given the consideration both to the floodway, to the responses by the neighbors, and I could have sworn I put these, all of the emails that we got in a separate folder that I cannot find right now.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“But yeah, position them in a way that's more... With keeping the baseball? The multipurpose fields.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Yeah, I think that's great. I think it's... I'm glad to see the consideration from the body for this because we want people to love this park. Absolutely. It's going to be such a generational park.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Yeah, no, that's going to be good. Okay, perfect. All righty then. All right.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 1:52:01
“Because you always see them play over there by the cemetery.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Yes, ma'am, just one real quick question. Is there water in the river?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 1:54:57
“Okay, and the reason I ask is because it's really cool to see that we're going to be giving access despite the steep grade. And this case might be more into the minutiae, given that this is high overview, but If we're going to be putting people there, maybe also considerations for people who want to fish. Oh, yeah. Y'all have those wonderful litter things for, I guess, fish material? Yes, absolutely.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026