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Austin City Council works to finalize budget after Prop Q failure · Austin Signal

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Austin City Council members are
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meeting today as they work to
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finalize a budget for the city.
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They'll have ways, they'll have to
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find ways to trim the budget after
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voters resoundingly rejected a
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proposed tax rate increase that
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would have generated more than $100
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million.
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We're gonna have an update from City
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Hall. Plus, the Austin Independent
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School District will vote this week
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on their plan to shutter campuses
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across the city and reassign some
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students to different schools.
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AISD released their final version
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of the plan last week, ahead of
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Thursday's vote.
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We'll have more about what's changed
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and what's the same.
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The Austin Signal is a production of
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K UT News, hosted by Jerry
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Kihano.
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And bats eat tons and tons
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of pests each night.
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Farmers are hoping they can play a
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bigger role on their properties.
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That is coming up next on Austin
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Let's get into the show.
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Austin City Council members are
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holding a work session today to
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finalize a budget for the city
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by the end of this week.
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Voters rejected earlier this month
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the proposed tax rate increase,
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proposition Q, and now City Council
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is deciding on which parts of the
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budget must be trimmed.
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KUT City Hall reporter Luz Moreno
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Lozano is downtown at
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the work session, and she is joining
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us now here on Austin Signal.
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Howdy Luz.
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Hi Jerry.
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Thanks for having me.
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I'm glad you are here with us.
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Can you get us up to speed?
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Austin City Council tried to get
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this process started last week, but
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they hit a bit of a speed bump.
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What happened there?
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Yeah, so you know, the the city
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council had posted its agenda for
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I think last Thursday and it
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included, you know, a date, time,
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location, the agenda item.
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But as part of a new state law,
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that new that agenda item should
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have included backups to like the
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proposed amendment budget,
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what the annual tax
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rate would be for
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the average homeowner.
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And because those documents were not
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part of the
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agenda that was posted, it
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was technically a violation of the
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Texas Open Meetings Act.
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And so two attorneys, Bill
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Alshire and Rick Fi
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and his colleague Rick,
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filed a complaint against the city.
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The city did say that they believed
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that they followed and complied with
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what was supposed to be posted,
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but they ended up canceling the
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meeting anyway out of transparency.
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And the city manager had talked
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about wanting to like address and
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make sure that the community is
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aware of what's happening with this
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budget.
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Okay, and so that meeting got pushed
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back to today.
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You've been out there since this
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morning. What's been going on so
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far?
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Yeah. So we you know, we
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heard the city council get kind of
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their first overlook
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at what this budget would include.
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You know, they are having to find
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or reduce their budget by the
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hundred and ten million dollars that
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was supposed to be added through the
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tax rate election.
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We've seen kind of cuts or
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suggestions for cuts across the
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board.
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You know, they wanted to make cuts
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to homelessness.
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And so they've reduced
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that particular area.
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Same thing with park, same thing
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with the library.
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And so we've seen just how they
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can do that. I think, you know,
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there's still a lot of moving parts
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of this. So I hate to say, you know,
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we might see four million dollars
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here and six million dollars there
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without the city council first
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you know, deciding what that looks
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like. But yeah, it looks like
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they're gonna have to really make
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some tough decisions about what they
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wanna see funded and what they're
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gonna prioritize.
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And you've been doing some reporting
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on this, a lot of reporting
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actually, but your most recent story
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over at KUT dot org,
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mentioned a lot of those services
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that had come up in the proposed
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cuts to the city budget.
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One of those was first responders
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EMS.
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You spoke with the president of the
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Austin EMS Association.
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What did he have to say?
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Yeah. You know, EMS has been
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struggling with staffing shortages.
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And, you know, the city is just
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getting bigger and so it's making it
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harder to respond in an
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an effective manner.
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And so one of the things that this
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budget was supposed to do was kind
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of help hire more people
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and help kind of fill those gaps
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that they were filling.
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You know, we have seen the city
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council kind of throw their support
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behind potentially supporting
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some of those asks that they were
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that they were hoping to get as part
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of the tax rate election increase.
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But yeah, we'll kind of see what
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happens. I I think people are
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we we've heard a lot today from the
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community and from city council
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members about wanting to make sure
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that people have access to
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Emergency medical services, you
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know, when you call nine one one,
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you want someone to respond as soon
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as possible.
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And I think that's gonna be a top
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priority for the city council.
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And J James Monks,
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who's the president of the union,
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told me that that was something he
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heard and he was hoping to to
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kind of hope to play out this week.
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But yeah, we'll see how that plays
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out for sure.
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Well like you said, in your article
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at K U T dot org, Austin City
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Council still plans to adopt a
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revised budget by the end of
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this week. So they're having the
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work session meeting today.
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What is the rest of the week
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expected to play out like?
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Yeah, this is a fast track
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kind of budget, especially since
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next week is Thanksgiving and so
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there are gonna be a lot of people
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out of town.
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So yeah, so today they got their
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first look at it. They're going back
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and forth and discussing as we
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speak.
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They will discuss more tomorrow,
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and that's where I think we'll see
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some of the city council kind
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of lay out some of their budget
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amendments and priorities, things
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like EMS funding, homelessness.
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I saw something about wanting to
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fund food
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pantries at Title I schools and
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meal delivery programs for senior
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citizens. So we'll see more of that
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tomorrow and fig and see
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how city staff can move
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money around to support some of
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those initiatives.
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They're hoping that they are going
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to adopt a budget by Thursday.
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It could be Friday, as we saw in
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the original round of budget
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discussions. They did take the full
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two days to adopt the budget.
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So that could absolutely
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play out that way this week as well.
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They also have an extra meeting
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scheduled for Monday, just in case
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they don't actually get something
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this week. But I foresee
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at least something by Friday.
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Okay, well she will definitely keep
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us updated. That is K U T City
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Hall reporter Luz Moreno Lozano.
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Luz, thank you for your time.
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We are thankful for you.
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Thanks, Jerry.
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Alright, another deadline this week
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in the city, the Austin Independent
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School District is gonna vote on a
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school condu consolidation plan
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that will close schools and reassign
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students. Now Austin ISD
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released their final version of the
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plan late last Friday,
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and here to tell us more about that
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plan and the vote is KUT's Katy
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McAfee. Howdy, Katy.
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Hey Jerry.
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So you know, there's been a lot of
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changes to this plan.
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How does this latest final plan
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differ from the initial
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announcement?
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Yeah, so the plan is mostly the
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same, at least from the last time I
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was here talking with you at the
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Austin Signal.
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From the last update, three schools
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were taken off the list.
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That's Maplewood, Breaker Woods,
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and Palm Elementary.
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The district is still deciding
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to wait to redraw attendance
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boundaries for most schools.
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But there were a few refinements
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that the district made in response
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to community feedback and some
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concerns from board trusted
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members, some small-ish
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things.
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One thing they changed is AISD
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is planning on moving its dual
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language programs to Sanchez,
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Pickle, Wooten, and Odom.
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Originally that meant that those
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schools were all going to turn into
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non-zoned schools.
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But after hearing some community
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feedback, they decided to make
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Pickle Woo-Ton and
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Sanchez neighborhood schools
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that kids who are already going to
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those schools can still be enrolled
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there and make Odom the only
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non-zoned wall-to-wall dual language
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campus.
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And then another sort of refinement
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that they made was
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one campus was going to be
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relocated to a school
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that had a failing accountability
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rating, and they wanted to change
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that in response to some board
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feedback. So mostly the same from
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last week, but just a few
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refinements.
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Okay, that the one big change
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was that number going from thirteen
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to ten on the school closures list.
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With the vote expected to happen
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this Thursday.
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Is that gonna be it for the campuses
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on that closure list?
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As far as we know, yes.
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The district was pretty firm that
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the plan released Friday is the
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final version to give board members
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time to think about how they're
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gonna vote on Thursday night.
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But there that doesn't mean that
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changes could happen in the coming
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years.
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Those three schools, Maplewood,
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Breaker Woods, and Palm, the
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board could still vote on closing
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those schools maybe next year
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or vote next year to close
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in the coming years.
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Another change that they were sort
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of floating around but didn't
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actually decide on was what to do
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with Oak Springs and Blackshear.
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So right now, students at Oak
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Springs, which is on the closing
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list on the closure list,
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are moving to Blackshear.
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But Oak Springs was due for a
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big multi-million dollar renovation
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from the 22 bond the 2022
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bond.
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So the district is considering
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continuing construction on that
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campus and then eventually
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relocating students at Blackshear
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to Oak Springs.
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Okay, so a lot a little, you know,
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it's in the fine details now as they
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get to this final version of their
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plan. Again you can read more from
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Katy at K U T
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dot org.
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Obviously the the big item on
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Thursday is going to be the vote on
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this school consolidation plan, but
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is there anything el else that we
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should be paying attention attention
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to at the school board meeting?
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Yeah, Jerry, there is another big
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vote happening on Thursday.
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The board is also voting on
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turnaround plans for two dozen
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schools. Turnaround plans
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are mandated by the state after
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schools receive consecutive failing
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grades.
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The what the district is voting on
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is plans that would mean more
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funding for these schools, maybe new
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requirements for teachers at these
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schools.
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Those plans are available at AISD's
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website and the board will take an
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official vote on Thursday.
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Okay, and we had s me even more
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breaking news happen this morning.
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That was the news was that Attorney
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General Ken Paxton has filed a
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lawsuit against the Leander and
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Round Rock independent school
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districts.
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Why was that the case, Katy?
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Why did he do so?
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Yeah, so this is a very
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fluid situation.
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I just jumped on this story this
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afternoon.
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The attorney general is filing a
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lawsuit against those two school
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districts for not displaying
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donated copies of the Ten
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Commandments in all classrooms.
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That is a law that went into effect
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on September first.
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And I was wondering why
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these two is Austin ISD
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are is are they already involved in
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litigation with this Ten
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Commandments law?
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Yeah, so there
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are eleven school districts in the
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state that actually cannot display
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these Ten Commandments.
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That's after a federal judge ruled
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after sixteen families filed a
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lawsuit against those districts and
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a federal judge ruled in the favor
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of those sixteen families.
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So here in central Texas that
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includes Austin, Dripping Springs,
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and Lake Travis, but Leander
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and Round Rock ISDs were not part
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of that ruling.
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Okay, well like Katy says, a very
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fluid situation.
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Just a story that you worked on just
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about an hour ago before coming on
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to talk AISD with us here on
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Austin Signal.
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So we appreciate your flexibility
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and we appreciate your reporting.
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That's K U T's Travis County
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reporter Katy McAfee.
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Katy, thank you.
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Thanks so much, Jerry.
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And thank you out there for tuning
12:14
in to Austin Signal on this Tuesday
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coming up. We're gonna talk bats
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and we're gonna talk Austin FC
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soccer schedule.
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Lots more coming up after the break.
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This is Austin Signal.
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Thank you for being with us today.
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Bats, sometimes they get a
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bad rap.
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Luckily, Austinites have a lot
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of love for the only mammal
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capable of sustained flight.
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Not to mention the fact that they
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eat untold tons of pests
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every single night, which
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helps keep crops healthy and
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saves farmers some money.
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And on some farms, bats might be
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able to play an even bigger
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role. For Harvest Public
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Media, Texas Standards Michael Marks
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has this story.
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It's a clear September night on a
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bank above the San Marcos River in
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central Texas, and a group of folks
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in headlamps are inspecting a
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small noisy creature.
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And this is very, very typical of
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this species.
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They got a lot to say all the time.
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Researcher Melissa Donnelly is
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holding an evening bat in a cloth
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bag. It's tiny, no bigger
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than a Clementine.
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She just caught it over the river in
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a supersized tennis net and now
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she's measuring it.
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Yeah, and so I'm just holding on to
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the humerus so that
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I can get to the
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form and
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Donnelly is a science specialist
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with the nonprofit Merlin Tuttles
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Bat Conservation.
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One of the reasons she's collecting
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data on this bat is actually
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to help farmers grow better pecans,
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farmers like Troy Swift.
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So our job is to work with
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Mother Nature instead of against her
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to grow the best pecans money can
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buy. That's what that's the way we
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say it.
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Swift's pecan orchard covers more
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than 250 acres.
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Lots of insects affect pecans
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like moths and stink bugs,
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which bats love to munch.
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But when Swift first bought his
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orchard in 1998, he
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protected his trees the way everyone
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did, with plenty of chemicals.
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Spungicide, insecticide, herbicide.
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That started to change, though,
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after Swift met Merlin Tuttle
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in the mid-2000s.
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Swift first knew Tuttle as
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the guy he let fish on his property.
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But then I found out he was a famous
14:54
bat scientist.
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Tuttle spent sixty-five years
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studying bats around the globe,
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including at Swift's Orchard.
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Tuttle says you'd be hard pressed to
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find better bat habitat.
15:04
If your orchard
15:06
is near a river, you
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have a very good opportunity
15:10
for attracting bats to bat
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houses.
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Tuttle's been using the orchard to
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experiment with bat boxes,
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tweaking the color and position,
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even the kind of wood they're made
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with. Swift also runs
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a sawmill at his orchard where he
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makes lumber out of cypress trees.
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Turns out it's perfect for bat
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houses.
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It's extra lightweight,
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extra insulative,
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and yet it's one of the longest
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lasting woods in America.
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This punky cypress, as it's called,
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is porous on the inside, which gives
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the bats something to hold on to in
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the house.
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It also regulates temperature well,
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which is crucial for bats in
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hot places.
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What we're doing is actually
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helping. We're not just
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giving the bats are already
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there a place to live.
15:56
We're building populations
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with more bats
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There are dozens of bat boxes now
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on Swift's property housing hundreds
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of bats.
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So many, in fact, Swift
16:09
decided to just let them handle the
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bugs on part of his property this
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year.
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This year is the first
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year I did not spray any
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insecticide at all.
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And guess what?
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We got a really good crop over
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there.
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Reducing reliance on insecticides
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is one of Swift's big goals
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because of how they can harm
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ecosystems, human health, and a
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farmer's bottom line.
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Not every farm can do this though.
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Russ Benedict is a biology
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professor at Central College in Iowa
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who studies bats and agriculture.
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Primarily I hear those in, you know,
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smaller operations folks who are
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doing organic farming, that kind of
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stuff.
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The among the the corn and soybean
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folks I I haven't really heard that
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much.
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Bats need diversity in their diet
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and they can't get it from a
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landscape that's just acres and
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acres of the same crop, according
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to Benedict.
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They don't thrive in wide open areas
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either, but for those farms where
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bats could make a difference,
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Troy Swift is ready to share
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what he's learned on his pecan farm.
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I really want to have an impact on
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agriculture.
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This is not just pecans.
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Bats eat stink bugs and corn
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earworms.
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So that's good for all agriculture.
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And when you talk about mosquitoes
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and flies, it's also good for
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people.
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Have you been bit by a mosquito
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since you've been here?
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I had not, neither had
17:26
he. And for that, we could thank
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the bats.
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I'm Michael Marks, Harvest Public
17:31
Media.
17:38
All right, the Austin FC season
17:40
is over, but Major League Soccer
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made some news this month
17:44
announcing that it's changing its
17:46
calendar to align with more
17:47
international leagues.
17:49
This change is gonna mean the season
17:50
will shift from the current February
17:52
to November model to the
17:54
more common August to May schedule,
17:56
more common for soccer leagues.
17:58
This though is not gonna change
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until twenty twenty-seven.
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Here to talk more about those
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changes and how this might affect
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Austin FC fans is Juan
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Diego Garcia.
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He is one of the hosts of our Austin
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FC podcast, Vamos Verde.
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Juan, how's it going, buddy?
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It's going all right. How about
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yourself, Jerry? I'm doing great.
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I am a little confused and I was
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just asking you questions before we
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came on the air.
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So can you just clarify why the
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league is making this schedule
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change and you know, w
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what benefit does it provide?
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Yeah, so for a long time a
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lot of soccer fans have been asking
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or wondering why Major League Soccer
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plays its games from February
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to November, when if we look
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at the current Premier League
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season, it kind of just started
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back in August.
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So Major League Soccer is trying to
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line itself line itself up
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with some of the biggest leagues in
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the world, those usually being the
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European leagues.
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And there's lots of little moving
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parts, lots of little areas within
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the sport that get impacted with a
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change like this.
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And I would guess like you're
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saying, you're mentioning the
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Premier League, it probably also
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stands to benefit when some of these
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players play for their club for
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their international teams, right?
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For their countries as well.
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Yes, that's actually one of the
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biggest changes that's happening
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with this new schedule.
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This is going to allow Major League
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Soccer to observe the FIFA
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international break schedule.
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So traditionally in Major League
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Soccer, you had just to take
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as n as an example, Austin FC
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playing some pretty significant
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games late in the year without
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their sort of most expensive
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and and high name, high
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billing players because they
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were away representing their
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nationalities in World Cup
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qualifiers, that kind of thing.
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Now Major League Soccer is going to
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be taking breaks when everyone else
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takes a break, allowing those
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players to freely represent
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their international teams without
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putting their clubs in an awkward
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spot.
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Okay, sounds like lots of good
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things are gonna come from this
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change. That made me wonder why are
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they waiting until twenty twenty
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seven to implement it?
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It takes a while to adjust these
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things. For example, just taking
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twenty twenty seven as an example,
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Major League Soccer plans to play
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what they call a full season
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from about January until May
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with a complete playoffs format,
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as well as crowning an MLS Cup
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champion and a supporter shield
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champion, before the official
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change happens later in twenty
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twenty seven, into the twenty
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seven twenty eight season where they
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play the first full year or
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first full season under the new
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format.
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Okay, so as I gather, Austin
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F C is gonna start two seasons in
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the year twenty twenty seven because
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of this change with a break
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during the summer months.
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What that what might that mean for
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Austin F C fans?
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It sounds like a literally a
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cooler experience.
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In a way, yes.
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It's you know, you're still gonna
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get the same number of home games,
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for example, within one calendar
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year between January and December
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for that twenty twenty-seven year.
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But there are a lot of interesting
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balancing questions
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around what constitutes a
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year when it comes to like
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commercial rights holders, when it
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comes to player contracts, as well
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as season ticket holders.
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There's a lot of details that maybe
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haven't quite been fully hammered
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out yet.
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That being said, you're not gonna
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get as many hundred degree
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at kickoff games in the
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middle of the summer, which could be
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a bit of a home field advantage for
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Austin, but can also make it very
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uncomfortable for folks to go to
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actually see the games.
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To balance that out, there might
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be times when it's frozen
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in Minnesota, so the loons have to
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come to Austin first before Austin
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makes a trip up north.
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Okay, well that does make sense.
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Okay, so that change gonna happen.
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It's gonna happen in twenty twenty
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seven.
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But it did get Austin FC fans
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excited and enough to spark
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a little bit of a bonus episode of
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Vamos Verde.
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What's happening there?
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We're gonna be breaking down what
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this means for a lot of different
21:46
things, roster construction,
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you know, transfer windows,
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how this could shape
21:53
playoff formats going forward,
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little things like that, all of
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those little details that, you know,
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some folks might not be thinking
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about or, you know, trying to answer
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all of the questions that come up
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when a big change like this happens,
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all of that will be in the bonus
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episode that Jimmy and I plan on
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making soon.
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That's Jimmy Moss, and we've
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been speaking with Juan Diego
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Garcia. They are the host of the
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Austin FC podcast, Vamos
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Verde, from the K U T
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and K U T X Studios.
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Juan, thank you for your time.
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Always a pleasure, Jerry.
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And thank you to you out
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there for tuning in to Austin
22:25
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22:37
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22:41
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We will be with you tomorrow.
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We will talk to you then.
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Be well.