From: John McMillan
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Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2018, 12:33:33 AM CST
Subject: Fw: City: Asst City Mgr Goode had role in CM Alter's silence re: does she support safe housing for me
A respectful FYI to each of you public officials and civic leaders on all of this (below),
from Austin City Council District 10 resident John Kevin McMillan of northwest Austin.
My most recent rental-apartment-unit address at Village Oaks Apartments on a continuous basis ever since early September 2017: 10926 Jollyville Road, Building 16, Apt. 1609, Austin, TX 78759.
My home phone: (512) 342-2295.
Subject: Fw: City: Austin Asst City Mgr Goode had role in CM Alter's silence re: does she support safe housing for me
(EXPLANATORY NOTE from myself, Austin City Council District 10 resident John Kevin McMillan of northwest Austin:
Copies of the cited legal documents that are found below, PROVIDED IN DESCENDING CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER FROM FIRST TO MOST RECENT E-MAIL, were each emailed to me in attachment form by the City of Austin Law Department's Public Information Requests (PIR) Team on February 17, 2017. That reply from the City Attorney's Office was in direct response to a February 3, 2017-dated e-mail public-information request (last item, below) from me that I had submitted to the City Government of Austin. The City of Austin-assigned identification number on that February 2017 public-information request of mine was: 32250.
The City of Austin Law Department's Public Information Requests Team's office phone number is (512) 974-2268. Their address: 301 West 2nd Street, Austin, TX 78701.
PLEASE NOTE THAT Mr. ROBERT GOODE IS THE ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER OF AUSTIN WHOM MY DULY-ELECTED "DIRECT-REPRESENTATION" CITY COUNCIL MEMBER FOR DISTRICT 10, Dr. ALISON ALTER OF MY DISTRICT, CHOSE TO REPEATEDLY CONSULT BY E-MAIL IN RESPONSE TO A "YES"-OR-"NO"-type PUBLIC-POLICY QUESTION FROM ME.
THAT PUBLIC-POLICY QUESTION, WHICH I HAD POLITELY SENT TO COUNCIL MEMBER ALTER BY E-MAIL ON JANUARY 16, 2017, RELATED TO HOUSING CONDITIONS FOR ME IN AUSTIN.
Council Member Alter, a Harvard University-trained and Stanford University-trained public-policy expert, is a distinguished member of the highly-esteemed Temple Beth Israel Reform Judaism religious congregation. Their synagogue is situated relatively close to the main campus of The University of Texas at Austin.
MY VERY BASIC JANUARY 16, 2017, PUBLIC-POLICY QUESTION FOR COUNCIL MEMBER ALTER HAD BEEN: DOES COUNCIL MEMBER ALTER SUPPORT FREEDOM FROM CRIME FOR ME ON A 24-HOUR-A-DAY BASIS INSIDE MY LOCKED BEDROOM OF MY BOLT-LOCKED APARTMENT UNIT?
ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER ROBERT GOODE PRESIDES OVER PUBLIC WORKS AND TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES FOR THE CITY GOVERNMENT OF AUSTIN. Mr. GOODE ALSO PROVIDES OR DIRECTLY SUPERVISES A STAFF LIAISON FOR THE "AUSTIN ENERGY" CITY OF AUSTIN ELECTRICITY DEPARTMENT.
Mr. GOODE'S JOB DUTIES APPARENTLY DO NOT INCLUDE DIRECT SUPERVISION OF THE AUSTIN POLICE DEPARTMENT. THAT RESPONSIBILITY LIES WITH AUSTIN ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER REY ARELLANO, A FILIPINO-AMERICAN GENTLEMAN WHO PREVIOUSLY PRESIDED OVER CITYWIDE PUBLIC SAFETY IN SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, FOR THE CITY GOVERNMENT THERE.
THE MOST RECENT E-MAIL RESPONSIVE TO MY FEBRUARY 3, 2017, PUBLIC-INFORMATION REQUEST, FINAL ITEM BELOW, WAS WRITTEN BY KYLE CARVELL, A HIGH-RANKING CITY OF AUSTIN OFFICIAL WHO ASSISTS AND REPORTS TO AUSTIN ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER ROBERT GOODE.)
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From: Alter, Alison
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 4:56 PM
To: Goode, Robert
Subject: FW: 1-16-17 urgent question for my new rep. on the City Council
"Any further guidance on this?"
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From: Goode, Robert
To: Alter, Alison
Subject: RE: 1-16-17 urgent question for my new rep. on the City Council
Date: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 5:04:00 PM
"I recommend that you stay silent and not respond."
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On Jan 28, 2017, at 9:46 AM, Alter, Alison wrote:
"Robert, Can you please provide further guidance to my office on how to respond to this gentleman? I know you had advised me that city officials were aware of this matter and to not respond. I was not aware that my staff was also receiving these messages until now."
"Thanks,
"Alison Alter"
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From: Goode, Robert
To: Alter, Alison
Cc: Rivera, Osiel; Cadena-Mitchell, Kurt; Diaz, Elaine; Carvell, Kyle
Subject: Re: Harvard alum Council Member Alter silent on apt. security issue
Date: Sunday, January 29, 2017 10:13:47 PM
"I see a few options. 1) continue with silence...however, he may still send out emails berating you for that silence. 2) reply. Since he has stated that he has been assualted, you could refer him to APD. You certainly can't investigate his claims, so you should refer him to the correct agency to handle these claims. If you choose alt 2) I can find the correct contact for the referral.
"With that said, I'm guessing that either alternative will still lead to continued communications for awhile. But, if you refer him to APD, the next time he contacts your office, you can stay with that path and just repeat that your office can't investigate his assault claims.
"I will get you a contact for APD and relay that to you."
Robert Goode
Assistant City Manager
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From: Cadena-Mitchell, Kurt
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2017 1:25 PM
To: Rivera, Osiel; Diaz, Elaine; Carvell, Kyle
Subject: RE: Harvard alum Council Member Alter silent on apt. security issue
"Kyle,
"Thanks for your follow‐up phone call on this the other day. Do you have a specific person/phone number we should refer him to with APD?
"Best,
"Kurt Cadena‐Mitchell"Policy Advisor
"Austin City Council Member Alison Alter, District 10
"512‐978‐2207"
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Carvell, Kyle
From: Carvell, Kyle
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2017 2:55 PM
To: Cadena-Mitchell, Kurt; Rivera, Osiel; Diaz, Elaine
Cc: Goode, Robert
Subject: RE: Harvard alum Council Member Alter silent on apt. security issue
"Kurt,
"According to my colleagues here in CMO, you can refer Mr. McMillan to the APD Crisis Intervention Team, Sgt. Michael King for follow up. We will contact Sgt. King and ask him to call Mr. McMillan on the Council Member’s behalf, if you like?
"Thanks,
"Kyle"
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(EDITOR'S NOTE: THE FOLLOWING IS THE CITED JANUARY 16, 2017, E-MAIL LETTER FROM ME THAT APPARENTLY PROMPTED REPEATED CONSULTATION OF ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER ROBERT GOODE BY MY DULY-ELECTED CITY COUNCIL MEMBER FOR DISTRICT 10, Dr. ALISON ALTER:)
From: John McMillan [mailto:mcmillanj@att.net]
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2017 10:12 AM
To: Alter, Alison ; Rivera, Osiel ; (and numerous other cited recipients, including to then-Interim Austin Police Chief Brian Manley at an e-mail address of "Brian.Manley@ausps.org" that I was provided at that time by a City of Austin official).
".....Council Member Alter, your temporary assistant, Osiel Rivera, did helpfully state to me on January 12 (2017) or January 13 (2017), during a phone call I made to your City Hall office, that he himself supports full freedom from crime for myself inside my locked private bedroom ---a private bedroom where I ALWAYS sleep ALONE on a bed I myself own, I myself being a longtime-celibate-by-choice, single-by-choice, always-sober (no alcohol consumption or any illicit-drug consumption) and lawfully-nonChristian gentleman --- on a 24-hour-a-day-basis inside my current two-bedroom, two-bathroom rental apartment unit in northwest Austin (an apartment that I currently share with one total official roommate, a strictly-platonic new roommate for me who is an older gentleman....).
"In my phone conversation with your temporary assistant Mr. Rivera, he also stated to me that he could not speak for yourself on that cited issue.
"Council Member Alter, do you yourself also agree with Mr. Rivera's very recent statement to me on that very important quality of life issue for myself?"
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(Explanatory note: the following is my revised and corrected public-information request to the City of Austin, a revised request that I emailed to the City on February 3, 2017, with the City officially identifying that request from me as PIR number 32250.)
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From: John McMillan
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Sent: Friday, February 3, 2017, 1:24:25 AM CST
Subject: correction Fw: PIR re: City Council Member and Harvard Govt PhD Alison Alter
Friday, February 3, 2017
Dear Public Information Coordinator for the City Government of Austin in Austin, Texas,
This is a Texas Open Records request in which I seek to obtain from the City Government of Austin a copy of any and all letters or e-mail letters or
e-mail notes that at any time since or including December 1, 2016, were written by a City Manager's Office staff member or official and were then mailed or sent or e-mailed to District 10 Austin City Council Member Alison Alter or District 10 Council-member-elect Alter or District 10 City Council candidate Alter, or to a staff member of hers, and that, in each such case, directly referred in some manner to myself, District 10 resident John Kevin McMillan.
This public-information request was prompted by a disclosure that Osiel Rivera, a polite male assistant to Council Member Alter, made to me on the telephone at about 4:13 p.m. Monday, January 30, 2017, from Dr. Alter's City Hall office in downtown Austin.
In that phone conversation this Monday, Osiel Rivera stated to me that an individual employed in the "City Manager's Office" in downtown Austin had written and sent an e-mail to Council Member Alter's office earlier that same Monday that directly referred to myself, John Kevin McMillan of northwest Austin.
Mr. Rivera declined to identify to me the name of the author of the cited e-mail note about me that reportedly originated this Monday from the City Manager's Office in downtown Austin. In response to a polite question from myself, he stated that Ms. Alta Ochiltree was NOT herself the author of the cited e-mail letter about me this Monday that originated from the City Manager's Office.
Also in our phone conversation this Monday, Mr. Rivera indicated to me that the cited January 30, 2017, e-mail letter from the City Manager's Office had apparently requested that Council Member Alter refrain from writing and sending this particular law-abiding and gainfully employed single adult male constituent of hers, John Kevin McMillan, a reply letter in response to a question I had myself written and also stated orally and posed to herself.
That question from me, in approximate form, had politely and very simply asked Council Member Alison Alter whether she supports my own legal right to myself enjoy full freedom from crime on a 24-hour-a-day and year-round basis inside my locked private bedroom of my bolt-locked rental apartment unit situated in District 10 of Austin.
On Monday, January 23, 2017, Osiel Rivera of Council Member Alter's staff had in fact stated to me on the telephone at about 5 p.m. that day that he would ask "Kurt Cadenas", a cited permanent staff member for Council Member Alter, to write and e-mail to me a note that replied in writing to the above-cited public-policy question about my own housing conditions in District 10 that I myself had posed to Council Member Alter.
As of 11:03 p.m. this Tuesday, January 31, however, neither Austin City Council Member Alter nor any of her staff members have sent me any reply letter or made any return phone call to me that responded in any way on behalf of Dr. Alter to that one primary question I had myself politely posed to her in writing and on the telephone earlier this month.
Thank you in advance for your prompt reply note to me, providing me with a copy of any and all applicable legal documents.
Sincerely and Best Wishes,
from John Kevin McMillan.
Home address ever since late September 2015:
Village Oaks Apartments (a northwest-Austin apartment complex reportedly owned and managed by a for-profit corporation that is itself headquartered in Newton, Mass.), 10926 Jollyville Road, Building 9, Apartment 902, Austin, Texas, 78759.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
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