WITNESS LIST
Urban Affairs Committee
July 25, 2017 - 10:30 AM or upon final adjourn./recess
Roles & Responsibilities of State & City Governments
On:
Benson, David (Finance Department, City of Houston)
Cortinas, Robert (City of El Paso)
Grady, Richard (City of Plano)
Houston, Scott (Texas municipal league)
McKamie, Mick (Self; City of Amarillo, Texas City Attorneys)
Nirenberg, Ron (City of San Antonio)
Tagliabue, Tom (City of Corpus Christi)
Thomaides, John (City of San Marcos)
Registering, but not testifying:
On:
YAntis-SToker, Teresa (Self)
For:
Brown, Dr. Craig (Self)
Dennis, Mary (Texas Municipal League)
Lehde, David (Dallas builders association)
Mars, Keith (City of Austin)
Norman, Scott (Texas Association of Builders)
Sparks, Chance (Texas Chapter of American Planning Association)
On:
Cannizzo, James (US Army, Fort Sam Houston, Camp Bullis and Camp Stanley)
Murphy, Jocelyn (City of Fort Worth)
Shannon, Michael (City of San Antonio)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Brandel, Bruce (Self; Texas BOMA)
Englund, David (Self; Building Owners & Managers Association (BOMA) Texas)
Erwin, Philip (City of Dallas)
Files, Priscilla (Self; Galveston island Tree Conservancy)
Glenn, David (Home builders association of greater austin)
Gonzalez, Daniel (Texas Assocation of REALTORS)
Hensley, Elisabeth (Self)
Jackson, Kyle (Texas Apartment Association)
Johnson, Karisa (Self)
King, David (Self)
Lieberknecht, Chloe (The Nature Conservancy)
Parenteau, Julia (Texas Association of Realtors)
Parsons, Brad (Self)
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For:
Pate, Gardner (Texas Building Owners & Managers Association (Texas BOMA))
Perkins, Val (Texas Community Association Advocates)
Tagliabue, Tom (City of Corpus Christi)
Tahuahua, Geoffrey (Real Estate Council of Austin)
Turner, Ginger (Self)
Vandenberg, Bertram (City of Dallas)
Weist, Jon (City of Irving)
Against:
Alles, Richard (Self)
Altmiller, Eileen (City of Buda)
Bonner, Charlie (Self; Texas League Of Conservation Voters)
Cahn, Adam (Cahnman's Musings)
Cuellar, Guadalupe (City of El Paso)
Davis, Kelly (Self; Save Our Springs Alliance)
Doyel, Elizabeth (Self; Texas League of Conservation Voters)
King, David (Self)
Murphy, Patrick (Self)
Nazor, Craig (Self; Sierra Club, Austin Regional Group)
Perkins, Thais (Self; TreeFolks)
Reiswerg, B Claire (Self)
Rosshirt, Ryan (Self)
Ruge, Todd (City of Buda)
Thomaides, John (City of San Marcos)
Woiton, Sonia (Self; Texas League of Conservation Voters)
Zwiener, Erin (Self)
On:
Canavan, Margaret (Self)
Cole, Jackie (Self; Galveston Island Tree Conservancy)
Cuellar, Cheri (Self; City of fort worth)
Dobbs, Andrew (Texas Campaign for the Environment)
Fishbaugh, Michael (Self)
Flowers, E. Kay (Self)
Flowers, John (Self)
Giedraitis, John (Self)
Hillis, Jon (Self)
Luck, Brent (American Society of Landscape Architects - Texas Chapter)
McCollough, Rhonda (Self; West Lake Hills City Council)
McKinney, Eleanor (Self)
Pacatte, Dan (Self)
Reed, Cyrus (Lone star chapter sierra club)
Rooni, James (Texas A&M Forest Service)
South, Beth (Self; City of West Lake Hills)
YAntis-SToker, Teresa (Self)
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For:
Cahn, Adam (Cahnman's Musings)
Hollingsworth, Steve (Self)
Hollingsworth, Steve (Self; Wanda and Gerald Hollingsworth)
Martin, Paul (National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies)
Mathew, Bryan (Texas Public Policy Foundation)
Against:
Alles, Richard (Self)
Ayala, Juan (City of San Antonio)
Baker, Kenneth (City of Southlake)
Beard, Anne Marie (Self)
Bonner, Charlie (Self; Texas League Of Conservation Voters)
Bunch, Gordy (Self; The Woodlands Township Board of Directors and our 115,000 residents)
Canavan, Margaret (Self)
Cannizzo, James (US Army, Fort Sam Houston, Camp Bullis and Camp Stanley)
Claunch, Dave (Self)
Cole, Jackie (Self; Galveston Island Tree Conservancy)
DePalma, Richard (Self)
Dobbs, Andrew (Texas Campaign for the Environment)
England, Brian (City of Garland)
Erwin, Philip (City of Dallas)
Fields, Shawna (City of Garland)
Files, Priscilla (Self; Galveston Island Tree Conservancy)
Files, Priscilla (Self; Galveston island Tree Conservancy)
Flowers, E. Kay (Self)
Flowers, John (Self)
Giedraitis, John (Self)
King, David (Self)
Luck, Brent (American Society of Landscape Architects - Texas Chapter)
Madden, Jensie (Self; League of Women Voters of Texas)
Mars, Keith (City of Austin)
McCollough, Rhonda (Self; West Lake Hills City Council)
McCollough, Rhonda (Self; City of West Lake Hills city council)
McKinney, Eleanor (Self)
Murphy, Jocelyn (City of Fort Worth)
Murphy, Patrick (Self)
Perkins, Thais (Self; TreeFolks)
Phillips, Bradford (Self)
Plunkett, Brian (Self; City of West Lake Hills)
Ponebshek, Phil (Self; GEAA)
Ramirez, Rick (City of Sugar Land)
Reiswerg, B Claire (Self)
Reynolds, Joseph (Self)
Schunck, Phyllis (Self)
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Against:
Shannon, Michael (City of San Antonio)
Sparks, Chance (Texas Chapter of American Planning Association)
Toth, Steve (Self)
Turner, Ginger (Self)
Wilcox, Cynthia (Self; TCCSA)
Wolda, Nick (Self; The Woodlands Convention & Visitors Bureau)
YAntis-SToker, Teresa (Self)
On:
Perkins, Val (Texas Community Association Advocates)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Ayala, Salvador (Self; Empower Texans)
Brandel, Bruce (Self; Texas BOMA)
Clark, Stephen (Self)
Collett, Alline (Self; Texas BOMA)
Englund, David (Self; Building Owners & Managers Association (BOMA) Texas)
Fuchs, Jeremy (Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association)
Glenn, David (Home builders association of greater austin)
Greener, Jerome (Self; Americans for prosperity)
Hensley, Elisabeth (Self)
Jackson, Kyle (Texas Apartment Association)
Johnson, Karisa (Self)
Luby, Kristie (Self)
May, Patty (Self)
Norman, Scott (Texas Association of Builders)
Pate, Gardner (Texas Building Owners & Managers Association (Texas BOMA))
Patton, Marissa (Texas Farm Bureau)
Tahuahua, Geoffrey (Real Estate Council of Austin)
Against:
Altmiller, Eileen (City of Buda)
Anthony, Linda (City of West Lake Hills)
Arnold, Jim (Scenic Texas)
Ashworth, Stephanie (Self)
Bailey, Chuck (Las Colinas Association)
Blanton, Dana (Self)
Breach, Stacey (Self)
Brown, Dr. Craig (Self)
Brown, Jennifer (City of Sugar Land)
Caponi, Matthew (Self)
Compton, Ann (Self)
Crawford, Chelsea (Self)
Cuellar, Cheri (Self; City of fort worth)
Cuellar, Guadalupe (City of El Paso)
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Against:
Davis, Kelly (Self; Save Our Springs Alliance)
Deasy, Caiti (Self)
Dennis, Mary (Texas Municipal League)
Doyel, Elizabeth (Self; Texas League of Conservation Voters)
Drake, Kevan (Self)
Embesi, Michael (City of Austin)
Fishbaugh, Michael (Self)
Flakowitz, Kristina (Self)
Foster, David (Clean Water Action)
Hale, Angela (City of Mckinney)
Hale, Angela (McKinney Chamber)
Hale, Angela (Fridco Chamber)
Hill, Laura (Self; City of Southlake)
Hillis, Jon (Self)
Kaplan, Cliff (Self; Hill country alliance)
Lara, Rene (Texas AFL-CIO)
Lee, Randy (Self; City of Conroe Texas)
Lieberknecht, Chloe (The Nature Conservancy)
Lobberecht, Marlene (Self)
Maceo, Peggy (Self)
Mays, Dan (American Society of Landscape Architects - Texas Chapter)
Miller, Scott (City of Conroe)
Nazor, Craig (Self; Sierra Club, Austin Regional Group)
Nguyen (Self)
Ozuna, Jesse (Mayor's Office, City of Houston)
Pacatte, Dan (Self)
Parsons, Brad (Self)
Quaroni, Palmer (Self)
Reed, Cyrus (Lone star chapter sierra club)
Rodriguez, Cynthia (Austin Parks Foundation)
Rooney, John (Self)
Rosshirt, Ryan (Self)
Ruge, Todd (City of Buda)
Shelley, Adrian (Public Citizem)
Solis, Eddie (City of Arlington)
South, Beth (Self; City of West Lake Hills)
South, Beth (Self; City of West Lake Hills)
Speights, Sara (Self)
Sprague, Alex (City of Waco)
Stephanow, Leah (Self)
Stokes, Jeff (Texas Nursery & Landscape Association)
Tagliabue, Tom (City of Corpus Christi)
Thomaides, John (City of San Marcos)
Vandenberg, Bertram (City of Dallas)
Weist, Jon (City of Irving)
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Against:
Woiton, Sonia (Self; Texas League of Conservation Voters)
Yardy, Christopher (Self)
Zimmerman, Joe (Self; City of Sugar Land)
Zwiener, Erin (Self)
On:
Crenshaw, Sandra (Self; Neighborhood improvement)
Rooni, James (Texas A&M Forest Service)
Warndof, Donna (Harris County)
For:
Clark, Steve (Self)
Hoy, Sandy (Texas Apartment Association)
Norman, Scott (Texas Association of Builders)
Against:
Alles, Richard (Self)
Cole, Jackie (Self)
DePalma, Richard (Self)
Scott, Randal (Self; City of Austin)
Speights, Sara (Self)
Turner, Ginger (Self)
YAntis-SToker, Teresa (Self)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Clark, Stephen (Self)
Glenn, David (Home builders association of greater austin)
Gonzalez, Daniel (Texas Assocation of REALTORS)
Lehde, David (Dallas builders association)
Parenteau, Julia (Texas Association of Realtors)
Against:
Bonner, Charlie (Self; Texas League Of Conservation Voters)
Cahn, Adam (Cahnman's Musings)
Canavan, Margaret (Self)
Cole, Jackie (Self; Galveston Island Tree Conservancy)
Cuellar, Cheri (Self; City of fort worth)
Cuellar, Guadalupe (City of El Paso)
Dobbs, Andrew (Texas Campaign for the Environment)
Doyel, Elizabeth (Self; Texas League of Conservation Voters)
Files, Priscilla (Self; Galveston island Tree Conservancy)
Hillis, Jon (Self)
McKinney, Eleanor (Self)
Nazor, Craig (Self; Sierra Club, Austin Regional Group)
Reed, Cyrus (Lone star chapter sierra club)
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Against:
Rodriguez, Cynthia (Self; Austin Parks Foundation)
On:
Sparks, Chance (Texas Chapter of American Planning Association)
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