Thursday the council voted unanimously to<\/a> approve adding language to that code saying a council member is \u201cstrongly encouraged\u201d not to sign an NDA in their official capacity.<\/p>\n\u201cI know there\u2019s been an instance previously, maybe not with Project Marvel, but previously, where council members have have signed NDAs,\u201d Jones said. \u201cI publicly, completely said I will not sign NDAs, and I strongly encourage my colleagues not to.\u201d<\/p>\n
What happened with Marvel<\/p>\n
Throughout the last city election, council members frequently refuted members of the public and fellow candidates who accused them of signing an NDA on Project Marvel. <\/p>\n
At a Feb. 26 council meeting, then-Councilman Manny Pelaez (D8) even made Segovia go through the list of top city officials to put on record none of them had either. <\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody in San Antonio believes that we signed NDAs because it\u2019s just gone uncorrected for so long, and because so many people are out there just throwing that word around cynically,\u201d Pelaez said.<\/p>\n
In the case of Project Marvel, Pelaez said an NDA was signed on the city\u2019s behalf by Segovia \u2014 solicited by the consultants who put together the renderings. That allowed the city to start having conversations with people who\u2019ve done similar projects in the past.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe discussion was, before we can intelligently come to the city or any other party and have a conversation about what it would take to build a new stadium, expand the convention center, the Alamodome, the bridge, all that, you should probably talk to a consultant,\u201d Pelaez said. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnd so we sat down with a few of them \u2026 and they said, \u2018OK, we\u2019re going to let you guys look under the hood of some of the projects we\u2019ve done in the past, but in order for us to feel good about that sign, sign our NDA.’\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a mayoral race full of City Hall insiders, Gina Ortiz Jones stood out from the crowd by…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":236690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,30360,27146,7452,127059,13123,7202,7203,358,7453,3187,7815,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-236689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-andy-segovia","10":"tag-erik-walsh","11":"tag-gina-ortiz-jones","12":"tag-manny-pelaez","13":"tag-project-marvel","14":"tag-san-antonio","15":"tag-sanantonio","16":"tag-texas","17":"tag-top-story","18":"tag-tx","19":"tag-typedaily","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115226086337568719","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}