Remarks by Sukh Kaur
31 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
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“Thank you, Mayor. I want to thank everyone that's been here all morning with us and for the last several months as we've gone through some really tough conversations about where we are putting our values as a city as a community we always say that your budget really shows what you truly care about and there was just a lot of discussion that just happened about public safety and at the end of the day public safety will and forever be the biggest part of our budget so there is no doubt I think in any of ours mind that public safety is a huge part of what we do and it'll continue to be that way…”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Councilman core, please just asking a clarifying question so the position would be from their offices in any additional fees because like For 320 is it 320 thousand dollars, so it'd be 160 from both So it just come from one position and additional funds from their offices the way I understood the amendment is that it would come from positions and or operations of the district budgets and”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Council member core, please. Thank you mayor chief. Would you come up real quick? I? I spoke to council member Spears about what was going on in our district with SAPD and the challenge with patrol. And I learned a little bit about how districts are set up and how substations and districts for police are different than council districts. So can you just give us a little bit of color regarding what's going on with patrol in the north side districts and how that how that is or is not different from what's happening in other areas? Just want to clear up any miscommunication.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“So one thing Councilmember Spears has mentioned to me is a concern about traffic in front of schools and some of her patrol officers in, I guess, the north substation have been out for various issues. Can you commit to working with Councilmember Spears and White to ensure that they have the appropriate coverage for traffic in those areas as well?”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Okay, go ahead, Suk. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Yes, go ahead, Councilman. Thank you, Councilman. Congratulations. I was so excited to be there with Councilman Villagran and actually be among so many amazing chefs that came to support you. And that's what I wanted to highlight today, is that the community that you all get to be a part of that is a result of our World Heritage Office and City of Gastronomy is a really important community and you guys are getting to lead that and show everyone across the nation how amazing San Antonio really is and my favorite part about it was that you…”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“congratulations Thank You councilmember core please Thank You mayor chief I'm really excited that you were able to be standing in front of us and that we get to vote to preview as the next chief of police for SAPD you absolutely deserve it I actually think the process was already community oriented we all got to appoint two members so I think the community already got to hear from you and I heard from my two appointees that it was a tough process. So you didn't just walk right in into this role without competition. There were some really excellent candidates from across the country that…”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Thanks, Mayor. I want to shout out Maria and Liz and the amazing negotiating team for getting us here at one point. I did not think it was going to happen. So I am grateful that we were able to make that happen. And I want to shout out the SIPOA team and my colleague on the Pension Fund Board, Officer Ryan Reynolds, who couldn't be here today. I know he wants to, but he's appointed the new treasurer. And I've learned so much from the collaboration working with SAPOA. And what I actually really am super proud is there is, I'm not gonna go into the details of it, but I've heard about some…”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Thank you. Council Member Cora, please. Thanks, Mayor. Thank you for the briefing, Adrian. It's been really interesting to be on the committee of six and appreciate Mike Ramsey and all of the team's leadership for their support for us as well. I wanted to just highlight a couple of the things that I've been talking a lot about and one that is making sure we are As best as we can advising families on what the rating of the child care facilities that they are using we've been doing a lot as a city as a whole to ensure we have higher rated child care facilities and we want to make sure that that…”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Got it. So we're not going to be able to know that before we vote on it next week, right?”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Okay. Well, I'm hopeful that we come to a good solution there that allows us to provide a little bit more funding for services because that is the number one priority that we have for you all. So I look forward to continue to serve on Committee of Six, and thank you for always answering all of my questions. Thanks, Mayor.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Thanks, Mayor. I want to thank Council Member Munguia also for helping to figure out how we could get to more folks to a yes on this today. I just have a couple of questions because at the Midtown Tours board meeting on Friday, one of the things we talked about was actually creating goals and priorities for the Midtown Tours. to include what we would want to support for housing. One of the things that Justina sent out on Friday was our emergency preparedness plan and I had asked her about funding right now. Their plan takes away a million and a half dollars from NHSD's major minor home rehab…”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“okay um is that okay if i um i well then um let me let me let my colleagues speak and i'm going to write the language but essentially the other thing that we also uh asked for last friday was figuring out at what point we could do more housing like if we were to take out housing debt at what point we would have the capacity to take out housing debt from either any of the tours and particularly the midtown tours and those were information asks that I had requested come back to the TUR so that we could discuss. Would I need to add that too to the amendment so that when it comes back?”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Okay, I'm gonna write that real quick So I'm not just fumbling around on the word.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Can I so we only allowed 2 amendments on one item so since I asked first in my able with the body allow me to make my amendment. Yes, that's fine.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Okay, so I motion to amend into the finance plan everything that Councilmember Munguia listed out, including housing programs and potential housing bond previously discussed with the Midtown Tours Board. Councilman seconded. Castillo seconded. Okay.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Go ahead. I amend the motion to include everything mentioned by Councilmember Munguia, including housing programs and a potential housing bond previously discussed with the Midtown Tours Board. So essentially, the emergency housing program small-scale rental rehab and Potential housing bond were the three that I brought up on Friday and that we've discussed with in previously that I'd like to See like basically come back with options for those Point of clarification how would that how would that work though if if the intent is to understand when those projects could end earlier if you're…”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“What do you mean by that exactly? When we come back for approval of the actual finance plan for ITC, they could present options where they said if we close it without adding any of the other programs for emergency preparedness, all those three that I mentioned, emergency preparedness, small-scale rental rehab, or affordable housing, if we did none of those, we would be able to finish all of the funding by 2050 or whatever it is, and we would have a remainder of... 60 million that would be able to put back in the general fund at that point because all of the reserves that are staying there for…”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“I just wanted to thank all of our partners that came out to speak today and the folks that are here supporting our cultural corridor partners. You know, it's interesting. We just had a really good discussion about economic development yesterday and what economic development means. And some of my colleagues said we don't actually do enough for economic development. And I think it's because economic development is such a broad term and how you define that. can be different for each individual. For some, that might mean giving more incentives to companies from Taiwan from coming into the city.…”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. I proudly also serve on the Inner City Board and have had the opportunity, which I was hoping for the Midtown Tours to get, of setting goals and priorities for the Inner City Tours. Both Council Member McKee-Rodriguez and I have been able to sit on the Inner City Tours, but neither of us were on that Midtown Tours until just recently. So, unfortunately, some of the planning that has happened in some of the other tours has not happened in Midtown. But I did also want to say that since we are having this TURS discussion, I just wanted to show the financial plan for the inner…”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Thanks. I appreciate it, Troy. I just wanted to make two points. One, again, wanted to commend Council Member McHugh-Retrievers' leadership on the board, but wanted to share two things. One, anytime we do a project, we always talk about total project value and net present value. We're not saying a $46 million senior center and aquatic center is actually $75 million. So I just want to say sometimes we pick and choose which dollars we want to use in terms of how much things cost. And so anytime we take out debt there, if you think about your house payment, anytime you take out debt, your house…”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Councilman Kaur, please. I just wanted to shout out Mission Heritage Partners for their work at getting security and better security for their park. Their CEO is a D1 resident, Carla Vasquez, and has been here supporting. So I just wanted to say thank you for your advocacy. Thanks, Mayor.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“So just want to clarify it restricts the height. It does. So what is the height restriction?”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“Okay. And what does that mean for in terms of like the stories next to a single family home that might not be 35?”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026