Historic Preservation Board - Regular Meeting

Do we have a quorum?

Good evening.

I know Maddie's there, but.

Good evening. This is Lourdes from the chambers. We need three, four quorum. and um if you've looked at the package in the detached uh report today it is for an for an addition to a home to one of our members mr menendez and he is here but he would have to recuse himself so exactly we need to have four board members present if we're including mr menendez to have a quorum yeah we need one more board member that's exactly what i was thinking correct correct um so

Well, Dr. Price said she would try to make it. Lily, I think, could not make it, right?

The two ladies, yes. I believe it was Anna said she'd try to make it, and I did not hear from Guadalupe Perez. So I'm looking between her and Mr. Guillen and yourself, Costales. We have quorum. Let's see.

Right, but not for Manny's thing.

We need one more.

In which case, I guess it gets approved then, I guess, with the staff recommendations, right?

Right. The item moves forward with staff's recommendation. You're welcome to send comments if you wish. But the item does move forward to permit stages. Just give them a few minutes to see if...

Hey, well, before I leave, I'd like to thank staff for helping with this. And, and I'm gonna get going. Hi, Gary. Hi, Julio. I'm gonna go work the door outside to see if anyone's stuck on. Hey, how are we doing? So anyways, thank you very much. I'm out.

Take care. Wait, you're, you're okay.

Yes, I'm gonna go become part of the, the, well, actually, I can't even be part of the audience. I have to leave the, leave the room.

i didn't know that i thought you could just recuse yourself correct it no if you're being if you're recusing yourself you should uh you should not be present in the room okay so all right well thank you guys uh see you next time and i'll see hopefully somebody's out there trying to get in thanks well we might not have a quorum for your item that's that's a possibility we're giving some time right but if yeah As the chairman, I'm sorry, go ahead.

As the chairman, if I wish to begin now, I can.

Yeah, you can start the meeting or you can decide to wait to give the other board members some additional time. It's up to you.

Let's wait a little bit longer. It gets away till 610. It's 607 now. And then, yeah, Manny, hang out there. I guess we have three minutes, right? I don't even know. The city's fiscal year ends today, or are you guys on the same fiscal year as the federal government?

Yeah. Yeah, we are. Okay.

Okay, unless somebody wants to delay it a little bit, I guess we can start the meeting now.

Chairman, you can call to order and we can do the pledge, the roll call, and so on.

Okay. All right, is Manning still in the chambers or? I can't get that screen up at the moment.

No, Mr. Menendez has recused himself and has departed the chambers. He's no longer here.

Okay.

Mr. Chairman, if you'd like to call the order, we can start with a roll call.

Yes. Yes. I'm just looking at, I apologize. I'm just getting my screens together here.

You may not see the chambers because the... I do now.

I found it. Okay, this meeting is called to order. Let's start with the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag. Okay. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay, next order of business is the roll call. Gary Castile is present.

And they don't see any other members online. So Chairman, unfortunately, we do not have quorum to proceed with today's agenda. Uh, I think it'd be appropriate since we have only one item on the agenda to defer unless there are other items that the board wishes to have during their discussion. No.

So we could, um, I don't have anything. I mean, I could add. You know, since this is the new year and everything, I can add, I had some ideas on future meetings, but we can add that to the next agenda. And I guess, you know, based on that, then how should I proceed, Mr. City Attorney?

Well, for lack of quorum, I think we should defer the meeting to a future date. Okay.

All right, we'll do that. In the meantime, but I think pragmatically speaking, if we defer, then that doesn't, then Mr. Menendez's application is going to be approved. I mean, in the normal course of business with staff recommendations, I assume.

That's correct, the item, when there's an quorum, the item typically proceeds with staff's recommendation on staff's report. If you have any comments.

Even if.

Even if, if you have any comments, you can email them to staff and make sure that the applicant, the architect incorporates that comment.

Just for the record, any comments that you might have, any suggestions you may have will not have the force of law, won't be a formal recommendation of the board. It'll just be as any other citizen commenting on an application.

Okay. All right. Well, then, I guess we'll have to defer any other items on the agenda since there's no quorum. And I assume we just end the meeting then, correct?

Correct.

Unless, Julio, you have any questions or comments or anything? No, I don't have any comments.

I actually would like to go ahead. Okay.

All right. Okay. So do we need to vote secondly to adjourn the meeting or just adjourn it?

No, sir. No, sir. No vote needed.

No votes needed.

Okay.

Correct.

Okay. All right. Well, then, this meeting is adjourned. Goodnight, everyone.

Thank you.