we will have our invocation remotely by the pastor of baker chapel african methodist episcopal church his name is reverend melvin wilson jr is he on the line reverend will stay in him so shall we yes can you hear me yes would everyone please stand and remain standing for the invocation and pledge of allegiance god we thank you for gathering us here today though we may have varying opinions we are connected by our love the love of the city the love even of our fellow citizens we ask this meeting this session will allow us to operate in the healing where we do not listen or hear through the lens of our wounds rather the perspective of unity so throughout all the items that are due to be discussed tonight we remain hopeful that you god will show us what it means to be united we thank you for all the provisions and the strength and everything that you've allowed us to get to this point today whether we are in person or use of technology we pray that this will be a fruitful and successful meeting in your name we pray amen forever being here we do have some remote attendees so you'll see me looking up at them from time to time first item on the agenda is calling for approval can we do these all together jeanette okay i need a motion for the approval of minutes from april 20th june 14th two from june 21st one is a work session june 27th 22nd which is a special call meeting and june 28 council meetings is there a motion for approval second all in favor i don't know how to work this thing so until i figure it out just raise your hands okay with that we are now entering the public comment section and to reiterate the rules for this evening when you speak you have three minutes to make your comments at two minutes and 30 seconds you will hear a bell what that means is you have 30 seconds remaining you will hear a second bell indicating your three minutes is up and then the microphone will silence and we'll call the next person we're starting out with our people who are calling in or we're calling them and the first person who we're calling is kenneth soderson mayor pretend we're still trying to get into contact with uh mr soderson if we could move to the next miss tally layla tally do we have her on the line okay hi i'm layla talley uh district six uh good evening council and mayor from temp the census flexnet smart meter program is not saving money there is no equitable billing and this is not conserving water according to jerry presley the media readers will be laid off jerry also believes that because of his code to install any kind type and size of a meter there is no reason to ask a rate payer for permission during these past years jerry presley chris harder at all has been uncompromising in regards to an opt-out program they ghosted jungus jordan and chris harder at all to stern up against kendall locke and jared williams thank you jared and kendall for working so hard numerous rate payers on nextdoor have found a leak specifically a a busted pipe before the smart water mirror leak notification jerry williams master thesis on water conservation successfully conserved water in dallas with analog meters i called in a complaint to erlot the director of the water office at the texas commission on environmental equality and share that the smart water meter rollout in fort worth is mandated to every home and business he was flabbergasted earl was empathetic as he listened to my complaint that the police are utilized to ensure a forced smart water meter install according to a professional hacker these encrypted wireless smart meters are easily hacked which causes the national security threat by texas law ratepayers own their smart meter usage data permission must be granted by the ratepayer before any water usage data can be shared to the utility by law and to third parties a ratepayer can sue for damages for unlawfully sharing water usage data uh jerry presley mentioned on bob willoughby's radio show that two million dollars a year for meter readers is not affordable the smart water meter project is much more expensive how does that make any sense a 76 million dollar loan three million dollars from the council account and now an additional 3.5 million dollars a year for a one to five year contract with aquametric from the council account is too expensive we need to stop relying on technology to conserve water and save money especially when it is not working and in closing at the last meeting thomas torwinkazi was concerned about too much surveillance he has always been kind and respectful to me and others emanuel mata deserves scream of the press to record these meetings because he has been an integral part of the community to inform us of the truth and teach us our rights thank you so we'll go to daniel hayes good evening mayor and council yes go ahead you have three minutes okay good evening mayor and council my name is daniel hayes i live in fort worth i'm part of district 8. i know you on the council have already heard plenty regarding short-term rentals but after having thought about the nuances of this topic for the last six months or so it is obvious to me that there are any number of debatable anecdotal or theoretical statements on both sides of this issue there is however one fact for which there is no debate and that is this short-term rentals reduce the amount of housing available to home buyers and traditional renters in fort worth we already have a serious housing housing shortage in fort worth which is especially critical when it comes to affordable housing if the city makes a change to its existing ordinance it will undoubtedly have the unintended consequence of encouraging more investment in short-term rentals especially by deep pocket investors as they have done in austin fredericksburg and other places where the genie is out of the bottle unlike shoes or some other commodity the lead time for development of new housing cannot possibly keep up with the double whammy of growth and existing housing being converted to short-term rentals this situation has the potential to dramatically increase the number of people who find themselves on the brink of homelessness simply because there is literally nothing they can afford to buy or rent this can be demoralizing and losing the ability to house yourself and your family is a big step in losing hope and dignity and that can result in psychological and social problems that we are already all too familiar with i don't normally go around quoting the dalai lama but this one is worth repeating just as ripples spread out from a single pebble the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects my hope is that each of you fully understand the ripple you will cause if the ordinance is changed thank you thank you next speaker would this be steve thornton he's not answering hi steve hello good evening guys how you doing i'm steve thornton you can call me pinch or pinch that's french for good in a pinch i'm in district 2 with honorable colors floors there and i'm here to speak before you i'd like to start my three minutes off with just a very quick quote you know the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common they don't alter their views to fit the facts they alter the facts to fit their views this is the third meeting i've attended so far of this and i came in each time with an open mind wanting to listen to both sides of the issue because i think that's important i didn't want other homeowners to face any kind of onerous code the kind of motorist codes that i've been listening to i was surprised most by the very negative overbearing tone from some of the respondents i think we need to put a face to the to the sti owners here right um i want to assure you that most of you that gathered the facts you did so with good intent but sometimes the figures don't lie but liars can figure they can be manipulated i have spent my whole career 26 years of my 28-year career as a public servant on the streets of the north side and i can tell you that some neighborhoods have unique needs we have not taken away any home from a first-time homeowner what we've done is we take blighted homes that turn into drug infested wholesale centers throughout the day blighting our neighborhood i would suggest to you that the needs of the short north side are very different from the needs of any other neighborhood i'm not asking for any special consideration what am i asking for that we pass a code that's reflective of the unique needs of a neighborhood and for the lady that last week made the ugly remarks of saying that you need more income go get a job and she slided the poor guy working at walmart that brother over there is a vietnam veteran that risked his life to give that lady the freedom to say what she did and cassie who i don't see in the audience tonight three four children her husband military came to the north side with vision and dreams and entrepreneur efforts to do their own revitalization effort because the first time honor wouldn't have it i ask you folks to please as you make your considerations think about the face of these owners and as the dalai lama said that ripple that ripple of those beat up homes ripping rippling and keep building we need to build our neighborhood back up not tear it down thank you and we'll have a call with carrie hines miss hines yes please go ahead you have three minutes good evening there person good evening mayor pro tem and council my name is carrie hines and i live in fort worth tonight i asked the city to remove neighborhood police officer m chavez badge number 4053 from my community last week i turned over to the office of police oversight monitor two police reports where chavez lied about the actual facts that occurred in the situation this week i confirmed on one of those falsified police reports he stated my hot water heater leaked causing a 631 dollar water bill this when the water was shut off and the meter lost at my request this line was repeated to my insurance company causing my insurance claim to be denied this is malfeasan police perjury police misconduct and goes against the code of ethics of the fort worth police department which states in part honest in thought and deeds in both my personal and official life i recognize the badge of office as a symbol of public faith and accept it as public trust to be held so long as i am true to the ethics of the police service i will constantly strive to achieve these objectives and ideals dedicating myself before god to be to my chosen profession law enforcement mr chavez is a menace and an embarrassment to the badge he wears i know the fort worth way is to promote bad officers but no on this one the city will be watching in closing there is a need for a civilian review forward in this city thank you thank you miss hines i see mr costa here i'm sure you'll have someone make a follow up next speaker is thomas tolinkosi he's in person oh did i skip over next caller okay okay thomas please we'll get the next car there's quite a glass collection up here by the way mayor pro tem council members a few weeks ago i was standing at the corner of richmond and hemphill in district 9 where i live i was talking to a friend while i was pumping gas and a little family with a little girl about 4 years old came walking by she looked at my friend and said hi emmanuel mata how are you today the reality is is that in district 9 a lot of people know who manuel mata is and don't know who my council member is that's just the facts i don't think that that little girl could communicate to you how much there are people who are afraid of the police or afraid of government or feel like they're protected by mr mata and his filming and recording but mostly today i wanted to talk to you about rules laws and rights to start with i want to talk about the rules that eight of the nine council members voted to approve when it was revised last fall the rules are 21 pages and they're the procedures of conduct during city council meeting as well as a few other things that guide how you conduct yourselves at a city council meeting page 5 through 14 are the most important ones on june 28th the council violated at least 20 of those rules let's talk about laws the two laws that govern open public meetings and open public comment and the ability to record at public meetings are five five ones and five five twos but today i just want to focus on 551.023 which specifically states that the public and the media are allowed to record at any public meeting a law that you're supposed to abide by now let's go to rights is a first amendment right under the constitution that everyone in this council swore an oath to three members of the council swore an oath twice because they're attorneys one member of the council swore the oath three times when they served in the united states military it is your responsibility the three of you who are attorneys to do only two things in your oath of office as attorneys the first one is to uphold the constitution of the united states the second one is to show the public and people in general dignity and civility it has been my witness as i've spoke and given voice to other people before this council i come here to help or to ask for help that consistently the council and nearly all the members have fallen far short and showed little civility towards their people they serve thank you next is a caller nanae johnson miss johnson nancy johnson miss johnson miss johnson if you've muted your phone please unmute if we don't get hurt then we'll go to keith soderstrom who is now available i'll save those names if you all advise mr st soderstrom yes please go ahead can you hear me yes please go ahead you have three minutes um if i could i'd like my wife tracy soderstrom to speak on my behalf hello this is tracy soderstrom i just wanted to share my experience about airbnbs here in fort worth in our neighborhood particularly we've lived in our house for 11 years my 81 year old father lived next door lives next door and excuse me we also have two adult children currently living with us we have about a 3 400 square foot home the house across the street sold and an airbnb opened up and we had drunk men drunk people we had littering glass bottles in the streets glass bottles in the yard we had them harassing my daughter when she'd come and go from work to at her car we had loud noise music playing outside even they have a pool there there was screaming and yelling we had one time we had like four people were sharing it the lady said and so they pulled up in about six cars and some of them um took up they took up all the parking for the neighbors our children's cars and everything um some of them two of them parked in other people's driveways it was a complete and utter nightmare having an airbnb across the street there were people coming and going at all hours and it was just horrible time in our lives for our family uh the city did come and shut down the airbnb um we live in the middle of a residential neighborhood and it was just shocking to us that this could even happen but i just wanted to say that it would be devastating to our family for airbnbs to be back in our neighborhood i appreciate you listening thank you next we'll try nancy johnson again she's now so i'll go back into in person just to reiterate the rules of speaking when you come to speak you have three minutes after two minutes and 30 seconds you will hear a bell ring what that means is you have 30 seconds remaining you will hear another bill that indicates your time is up and the microphone is silenced and the next speaker will be called for those of you who arrived after those rules next speaker is bob willoughby in person hmm so like the glasses uh well let me start off with why i never address y'all or address anybody's mayor or council down here because those seats belong to people who respect the citizens of the city and y'all do not anyone that would remove us from the city city council meetings you moved the public presentation from the city council meetings so we don't speak there no more and you want to answer why that's about the lowest thing council can do i don't care about these short time rentals i don't care about the crime when you can rob our first amendment from us that is the biggest crime that okay issue two mr cook oh man i'll tell you i have been down here for three years because we have a uh a uh corrupt neighborhood association john t white they hold secret meetings and um you know they ban people that don't agree with their same philosophy so you're banned i lived in john t while all my life i'm banned you know that's against the rules now mr cook three years i've come down here and asked about this and no one will do anything about it i'm asking to remove that neighborhood association from the data bank and so that me and my neighbors which on the list i gave to you are asking you to remove the corrupt john t white neighborhood association from the city data bank and recognize a new john t white neighborhood association and by removing them they can still run if they want to but they won't the only reason they stay in there is because they have secret elections and to confirm this more if you go to the data bank and they have associations to at a bank neighborhood associations will advertise a location and a date let's say the third monday of the month for the second monday not john t white it just says the month secondly the they're held in a um not even in john t white they held outside there so mr cook i'm going to be down here afterwards at the end i'd like for you to talk to me and let's get this done i didn't have much hope you doing it you won't rep do anything about the directors in our city that are bad like brandon bennett god knows he should have been fired years ago michelle goop should be disciplined or fired and you won't touch those but this is a real easy one this is just the neighborhood association can't we move them off and recognize the real ones and they're welcome to run and no one will be banned and everybody can be there so i would appreciate that also real quick here this letter here the attorney should know and better send this and she's being used as a pass to do this so i can only blame you the attorney here because no one to take harassing city council members father said would you roast your hand anyone that harassed you not done that so i guess it's a makeup thing you know it says in here you've also recently commented counselors that you previously have sex at a wrestle with someone mr crane did i sexually arrest you by any chance anyway will one of you council members raise your hand if not attorney you'll be thank you bob beverly sims beverly sims good evening mayor pro tem council members i'm beverly sims i live in district five and i'm here tonight to address the proposed change in the current str ordinance when i do not see any need to modify the current ordinance i have several thoughts and suggestions i did some research and discovered that approximately 1 million people live in fort worth and that there are approximately 1700 str's active in the city assuming one str owner per str this amounts to approximately two one one hundredths two hundredths of one percent of the fort worth population likely to be in favor of allowing free reign in str's does this entirely lopsided fraction require overturning the current ordinance in their favor is this democracy in action i think not sdr owners seem to think the council thinks that fort worth would stop growing without strs this is obviously ludicrous they tell you in snazzy little terms and phrases such as ambassadors for the city to demonstrate how wonderful they are they're only ambassadors to their wallets the proposed ordinance changes are solutions in search of problems simply enforce the current ordinance and keep strs out of our single family neighborhoods str violent violations can easily be verified following a complaint of non-compliance allowed allow code officers to volunteer to occasionally change shifts to cover the str happy hours that is weekends when people start pouring into these places four to five pm on friday is the general arrival time our let officers work thursday through sunday with monday tuesday wednesday off you will not have to verify violations eight to five during the week it's mostly friday through sunday once the str's are booted out of single-family neighborhoods this method won't be needed very often no third-party vendor will be required and the city will then be able to handle the problems as they occur it should be noted that inserting third-party vendors into the compliance complaint chain is a needless and expensive complication turn the page okay the city should do their job of serving the citizens and taxpayers by keeping our neighborhoods areas where people can enjoy their homes and not worry about what's going to happen this weekend with the invasion of the str people thank you thank you next is adrian smith adrian adrian devon smith fort worth native uh district three resident former city council uh candidate of district three um 2021 uh greetings and welcome back to you all council mayor pro tem uh to the to those who are in opposition of short-term rental i would like for you all to walk with me for a moment your voices are being heard your voices are the loudest so i say within i say with this being said now that your voices are heard and have been allowed is what will your elected official do when it comes time for making a vote i say hold them accountable to a vote either a yes or a no no recusals no disappearing acts meaning they're not not available because they had other engagements but a vote yes or no this will let you know what they think about you all collectively because the majority thus far has spoken and i believe in the majority rule that's how politics normally works unless there's corruption unless someone has been paid under the table to do otherwise so i say those who are in opposition of short-term rentals you need a vote yes or no from your council member regardless of what district it is you need a vote for worth has been given away already to business interests and we can't continue to go in that direction the citizens of this of this city are the ones that the council ought to represent not business interests in my last 30 seconds i would say i know many of you stood in opposition of proposition f and that dealt with the council's uh pay raises pay increases during the last bond election city charter amendments etc i want the council to know that the no vote for your pay raises it wasn't nothing personal i told you all to search switching yourself to find out why it didn't happen so again those who stand in the opposition of short-term rentals you need a vote yes or no thank you thank you next speaker is james smith good afternoon council my name is james smith i live in district 8. uh councilman nettles is my councilman every time i come here i come here heavy-hearted disappointed but on july 4th of this year i went to dallas i was invited to dallas uh and i was in a i wouldn't call it a protest it was a freedom of speech and i walked the streets of dallas with a four by eight sign of a tatiana asking for justice i felt liberated because i can't do that here for three hours i walked the city of dallas and i felt bad because i can't do that here i digress as you all know this trial this travesty hasn't been addressed yet i'm hearing that a date will be by the end of the year which pretty much cements the three-year mark in this tragedy i find that unacceptable i stood here in 19 2019 and i heard the word accountability transparency i haven't seen any of that and if you follow this trial this case you see it too freedom of speech freedom of expression and freedom to film in a public building if that's the law if that if that's what it's supposed to be why isn't it being that i find that problematic october 19 2019 i filmed with my eyes the tragedy across the street from me it's it's it's like a burn cd in my head i spoke about trust between the citizens and the police department i don't trust the police when i see a man arrested for fun for nothing to see a young man escorted out of this chamber for nothing i watch you guys at home when i don't come down here i heard the word nauseam i wondered i actually wondered were y'all nauseated by me coming out here talking about top 10 jefferson for almost three years i don't know what the outcome of this trial is going to be but from what i read in the fourth weekly last week i'm i'm perplexed because i know in the city of fort worth we have attorneys we have lawyers we have scholars and there's a mention of impropriety in the process that's been going forward and nobody has said anything so i'm wrestling with myself mr james what are you going to do with this information of something not going right what are you going to do with it i'm wrestling with it and when i figure that out the city of fort worth will know thank you for your time thank you next speaker is rebecca de lashowick you can correct the pronunciation when you get to the microphone hello i'm rebecca delossowicz and in 2017 i called because i was assaulted and the deputy took the side of the man who assaulted me he took me to a cycle because he didn't like my attitude and he abused me and i've been trying to get justice for over five years that man sent out cps who took the side of the man who assaulted me took the side of everyone who assaulted me and then they took my children for five months wrongfully and my children were assaulted by the man who assaulted me initially i live with children who have been so traumatized that they have disabilities from the trauma it has been over five years that i have tried to get someone here to help me i have to go home and tell my children you are worth being protected from violence i have to tell myself every day that i'm worth being protected from violence in this city i have a ptsd therapist with me i have people standing with me i will protect my sons from violence and if you send out cps or deputies to try to tell me that the men who assault me are right or the men who assault my children are right you will be wrong there is no way anyone can make me believe that a man who hits my child that's not related to me is right and if the deputy tells me that it's my attitude why he's taking me to a psych ward dear god what men think they can take a woman because they don't like her attitude you can take our rights and you can take us and throw us in freaking psych wards you cannot like us you don't have to like my attitude but you can't tell me that i cannot protect my children from violence and you can't stand with men who violate me and assault me i want justice for my children i want deputy domit who assaulted me i want larry graham who assaulted me i want cps nate savage i want all three of them to pay for the pain my children have suffered my children are worth protecting from violence anyone who doesn't think so wrong i am saving up to move out of this city so my children are triggered every day when we walk outside after five years my son tells me we can save up money mom one day we'll be wealthy enough to make them care that we were assaulted if your children were assaulted coming to you they couldn't sleep at night that nightmares what would you do what would you do i don't care if i'm mad i don't care if anybody likes my attitude i'm here for my boys i could care less about anything else and i'm sorry because it's not any of your fault you don't even know me but i hope to god thank you miss deloshowicz and this matter involves the tarrant county sheriff's department chief you might want to coordinate and facilitate an introduction to gk manias next speaker is doreen geiger in person doreen geiger from fort worth council district 3 and i'm here for option number one regarding strs please keep short-term rentals out of fort worth zoned residential neighborhoods according to the national association of realtors in 2021 50 of single-family houses in tarrant county were sold to investors corporations and companies who are not people moving into these houses some of these houses may have been purchased by flippers some flippers may sell or keep these houses for strs the cost of renting and buying a home has far outpass outpaced wage growth the problem is not just cost it is also the lack of a of availability there have been 1707 airbnb listings in or just outside the borders of fort worth since 2016 with 56 of hosts having more than one listing today verbo lists 1 450 vacation rentals in fort worth when so many fourth houses become str's for tourists where are actual residents supposed to live guess which council districts have illegal strs operating in them today districts one two three four five six seven and eight short-term rentals serve the needs of investors and speculators rather than fort residents wanting to buy or rent a house long term in the community where they live work and study some fort worth landlords are not renewing long-term leases because they can make more money by operating the houses as strs a city can change rapidly look at austin texas since 2020 census the number of str's has increased from 12 thousand to seventeen thousand in one and a half years five thousand new str's were added fort worth already does not have enough affordable housing family friendly neighborhoods are a fort worth strength as our neighborhoods decline so will our city please enforce the current policy of option one thank you thank you our next speaker is malik austin good evening to the board uh and the council i come here today with uh extreme uh cry out uh uh i made a request to the county for the help with the air conditionings uh in our communities some people that had these uh inefficient window units it's just not enough it's just not enough i'm asking the city to match what the county has matched if you're gonna take from the cover relief front to come up with a team game violence uh program which i have yet to see my group has been on the ground more than any group in here fighting against violence no one has reached out to me or my group i find that very appalling being that you know we live in the upper income bracket and i do this out of kindness of my heart when it comes to my people and the ones who can't afford winter units we have money in the city you know we can vote on a group of people that don't produce nothing give them tasers and drones and a whole bunch of gadgets i don't even know if they broke or fixed or whatever i did not see that but it's very important 103 degrees over 30 we're close to 40 days a triple digits we got one more two more monsters uh uh of this of this heat our people need air conditioning so i'm asking to y'all agenda ties this sell one of my regular tanks that we don't need that we don't need that you claim that y'all didn't that was given to us sell one of those militarized tanks our people need air conditioning in these lower income neighborhoods this is not a color thing this is a human thing council mayor pro tem it doesn't matter this is about life i cannot hand out box fans to say sister this is gonna help you i have i'm a hvac technician i can show you my car i got my credentials i went to school for it got a college degree for it and so i know about this but we talk about life-and-death situations we have life-and-death situations we ring the bill we come out with all you know uh our bells ringing to help these people if the county if we can miss what the county has done we need to do the same within the city if there are any forms sites to help these people to get these people assistance because this heat is not going to let up so i'm asking to agendatize this and help whatever the county is doing and match what the county doing to make sure the people have adequate and sufficient air conditioning in their homes thank you mr austin we don't have to agenda ties fernando wave your hand so that you can connect him with probably victor okay we can help next speaker is tara rice hello these are the names that i want to lay out that we need to get out of the office because there is corruption um i was assaulted on april the 12th of this year by officer manga that still holds a badge to this day badge number 4393 my son has been since a juvenile for since 2020 has been incarcerated all behind of district judge alex kim on a charge that is basically hearsay and so now they don't they collected dna from him about a two euro two year incident on april the 13th of this year we are in we are with april 2nd and nothing has he doesn't have a court date doesn't have anything but he's sitting in there wasting taxpayer dollars all because someone's political agenda then i was arrested on april 12th william william knight the d.a who was running for office goes and listens me as a state's witness to testify against my son at 7 56 p.m i was not arraigned until the third the 13th and then when i will we get the police reports i have yet to get the body cams um from from this there has been nothing but lies i am officer manga who still holds the badge of 4393 needs to be terminated he pulled over my 15 year old son and he said in my parking lot my son had nothing to do with it with my son's mug shot jalen rice on his screen while he was playing his phone and then he pulled him over and my son was so scared he which he's directed to do was call me when he's pulled over it when once he entered our gate and then i pulled up and he's and he's in he had ran across the parking lot and attacked me after i asked for his supervisor numerous times it is corruption and it needs to end and i am calling for the release of my son jaylen rice immediately stop wasting taxpayer dollars all be kind you guys political agendas doesn't make sense so remember that name will you knight needs needs to be terminated as well as well as district alex kim everybody knows he's a biased judge thank you miss rice next speaker is evgeny barbara trikov good evening city council uh mr gonzalez i think i have a video um so my name is evgeny varenikov i'm a fairly new resident here at fort worth district eight um i'm attending the tcu so before i speak i'd like to eat i swear we're gonna fix traffic just build one more lane just let me build one more lane just let me fill one more lane i swear i swear i swear it's why we're gonna fix traffic just just one more lane and just make it bigger just make it bigger we're gonna fix traffic it's gonna fix traffic it's gonna fix traffic it's gonna fix traffic do you know what would fix traffic trains [Music] um so as some of you have guessed my uh my speech is going to be in regards to transportation and zoning well specifically traffic and zoning but um i would like to propose transportation zoning changes to the city that will benefit its residents now i propose focusing on walkability and easing zoning restrictions and making zoning changes around walking and public transit trains trams bicycles and buses in particular now my recommendation will improve the financial health mental and physical health of the residents that's that's a fact as a result our city will become more beautiful and we can give more independence to to the children and the elderly community as well some of the ideas that i have perhaps they might seem a little bit unorthodox for texas but as a u.s veteran i i'm always seeking for practical solutions to problems and the biggest problem not just in fort worth but in united states cities in general is car dependency i do not represent any business i'm just a simple person who likes urban design and i want to contribute to my community so i just want to know who i can talk to to provide some of the ideas that i have um i think you guys should have my contact information please feel free to give me a call text send me an email i'd love to talk to you guys and you know throw some ideas around thank you very much william why don't you put him in contact with trinity metro thank you sir next speaker is nancy johnson is that the same person we weren't able to get a hold of miss johnson okay uh next person is angelica alanis hello my name is angela gallanise i have lived in fairmount district 9 for over 11 years um and i'm really appalled by the recent behavior exhibited by my councilwoman elizabeth beck towards her constituents and members of the fort worth community and quite frankly this unprofessional behavior and dismissive attitude can be seen across the council including the mayor herself i'm not quite sure if any of you have actually read or comprehend the job requirements for your roles or at a minimum understand that you work for me and everyone else that lives in this city you report to us and as such we can provide feedback on how well or how terrible you are at performing the jobs we gave you it is our job as citizens to keep you all accountable i have been an advertising professional for over 24 years and have lived in cities across the u.s that are much bigger than fort worth during that time i have managed teams of highly intelligent capable individuals who i hire to perform their jobs to the best of their abilities i provide ongoing reviews and feedback of their performance and suggest adjustments as needed this is how higher roles are managed in the real world in professional environments city council meetings are not your birthday parties for you to praise and celebrate each other for all the events you attended in the last month they are for you to listen to the community and hear them instead you have ridiculed and chastised constituents who are actually on your side of the issue why because you're a woman and only women can speak or support women-related issues seriously how small-minded of you i would think that in these times we all need to support we all need as much support as we can get and look to become allies for each other your actions during recent council meetings i've consulted with the city attorney it is fine for you to criticize the job but you're getting personal and i encourage you to stick to the topic in terms of job performance sure you're asking your actions during recent city council meetings reeks of naivete and ignorance of how pro how to properly run such meetings many of you need to brush up on your knowledge of legal statutes and conducting public meetings in the state of texas as well as guidelines you yourselves approved this year the treatment of manual mata is unacceptable and only further demonstrates your lack of professionalism and understanding of how to legally run a council meeting for a large city you can't shut off people's mics because you don't like what they're saying or kick people out of meetings for videotaping the bigger question is what are you so afraid of my confidence and your abilities to effectively lead the city continue to diminish week after week i'd be more than happy to discuss potential solutions thank you carolyn rodriguez is the next speaker carolyn rodriguez you scrambling something because i can't go live right now are you are y'all got some kind of scramblers going or something you're trying to start my cell phone's not going live your time has started okay so i just came here to tell a story and i was trying to remember where i knew you from and i remember i talked to you a couple hours after that stuff happened i remember how tore up you were that you called the police he didn't walk across the street to take care of it himself because he she was a young lady he's old school even though he's a man he wanted somebody professional to come and help but they didn't they came and shot her and murdered her he was more tore up than anybody i've ever seen this one here telling her to go somewhere else that's real nice and you how come you guys are on your cell phones can you look over here why do you guys have to be on yourself you need to address this council your time is winding down that's fine i'm just letting y'all know that you guys are on your cell phones and playing around why can't y'all pay attention i bet you don't even know what the last speaker spoke about i'm paying attention and we're always okay okay what'd you talk about this last lady that is not the issue okay well i just wanted to tell the story and it's about this guy that was standing at a gas station and he was filming a police officer and that police officer is rude to him so he gave him the bird and he took off on his bicycle and that officer actually chased him while he was riding his bicycle and ran him over and he planted drugs on him then there's officer hoffman and i know this is true because when he went to the to court they asked for all the video the body cam footage of all of it but guess what the body cam footage was missing so the kid spent time in jail he gets out before he requests the body cam footage and guess what it shows up in the mail and we look at it and on the video is officer hoffman planting drugs on him and running over and it got put on youtube and then you all did anything about it we got a city manager that gets paid what 1700 a day he pays himself does he even know how to pull dance for that i mean i mean i want to get my money's worth when i'm paying somebody 1700 a day can somebody at least go tell the chief of police to do something about it because he's still riding around in his little squad car probably assaulting that lady back there since you all like to assault women the cops do so when are y'all going to do something about it why are you still texting mister look at me i'm talking you need to focus to us you need to focus on me this is my time and y'all are just playing around back there and i'm looking at you you're looking at me but he's not that's okay she's been on her cell phone the whole time he's looking at me with rolling eyes you don't care what the citizens say you don't care i'm done 20 seconds okay thank you miss rodriguez gerald banks next week he likes quit cutting the mics up gerald banks i don't want to see him pole dancing gerald banks senior attention council members district five gina bivens is my councilman representative attention council members just you just valid you just validated affirmed and concluded that at some point if not at all you don't listen or care what a person who stands here has to say if it's not in your best interest or favor the fact that you were elected to the seats to sit in those seats to listen and pay attention to a person speaking like like it or not and not treat them like a child or scold them or humiliate them will only show that this council has great leadership from where i'm standing three minutes is not enough time to process to better good that will last a lifetime and a dict and a dictatorship is not what the people in fort worth voted for i'm sure we are concerned citizens and at some point many of you stood in this very spot and gave your opinion without being treated disrespectfully i know it's a two-way street for respect we know and i've said this before in my speeches that your minds are already made up after a workshop and before you sit in the in this chamber but you just have to validate the process let our free speech stand as we stand and don't treat us as if we are less than because we all deserve a chance to be heard completely the citizens see and hear so let's keep our composure because there's there is another day to speak and to be heard i appreciate you listening thank you mr banks next is chandler crouch ah thank you for the timer uh chandler crouch uh it is good to see you guys i i recognize so many faces and i've talked to many of you guys uh i'm here on a field trip today we're i'm i'm getting an education i've never been to a fort worth city council meeting but i'm here with my children here my daughter caroline stanley and jonah and um i wanted to speak to you today about a couple of things uh one i wanted to thank you for the job that you do i've been getting an education sitting here first time at a former city council meeting and you guys have a tough job you have to represent so many different interests in so many diverse ways and i know it's difficult and i appreciate what you do and uh i represent a lot of people too here in tarrant county and in fort worth specifically i'll represent many thousands of people um i'm a real estate broker but i serve the community um by helping people with their property tax protests i do it free of charge and i look for ways to be able to try to improve the system in general recently i became a part of personally involved in part of a controversial issue down at the appraisal district and um i have to say that uh it would not be in the public eye if it weren't for emanuel mata and thomas trolling kelsey uh i didn't know them before i think it was june 30th i didn't know them before that day or known as uh maybe the meeting before that excuse me but i sat there thomas sat beside me manual standing up against the wall and they did their thing they videotaped and uh i don't always agree with everybody's conduct nor do i know you guys agree with your contact but you sit here and you listen to everybody i appreciate how you've engaged i love seeing how when there's an issue and you can connect somebody with a solution right away that you're taking that action i think that that's really encouraging i think it's awesome um uh i know that so many people disagree with some decisions you guys make some contact you've heard i've heard the the conduct you guys have some people disagreed with that um and some people disagree with my conduct as well um i just recognize the value that each of us contribute to the system and i appreciate it i appreciate you guys i appreciate these guys for doing their uh their their uh standing up for the people in the way that they see fit and i appreciate the opportunity to get to do the same uh one reason why i wanted to talk with you today in the last 30 seconds i have here is because there's a board meeting next thursday uh the 12th at the appraisal district and um the board members that are going to be running that meeting are voted in by you guys and so i just wanted to bring that to your attention so that you can pay attention to the meeting get to observe what happens there and remember for the election that's going to happen not this november but next next year at the end of the year um whether or not you just observe see if you like the way that they conduct the meeting the conduct that they have the decisions they make and then just remember that etch it in stone and uh remember that for when the election comes up thank you so much for your time thank you mr crouch next speaker is erica butters good evening mayor and council my name is erica butters and i am a fort worth resident in district three and a short-term rental host my fiance and i have both worked in the real estate industry for the past seven years and owned several properties in fort worth that include both long-term and short-term rentals i have a degree in hospitality management and have always hoped one day that i could put that credential and passion to use we started our first short-term rental in district 9 in december of 2021 after living in the home for several years we are happy to say that we are five-star super hosts on airbnb and five-star premier hosts on vrbo with a 90 occupancy rate we pride ourselves on providing a top-notch fort worth experience for our guests while maintaining a beautiful home and strict rules to keep the neighbors happy and the neighborhood both peaceful and safe our strict rules prohibit parties or events of any kind and we have happily turned down countless booking requests to ensure this we have strict quiet hours limited occupancy automatically shut our outdoor lights off at 10 pm each night and limit guests to two cars we have open communication with the neighbors next door to this home and urge them to call us if the guests break any of these rules or disturb them at all i am happy to say that this has never happened the majority of our guests are traveling to fort worth for family vacations to visit their collegiate students at tcu or work not to party one street over in the same neighborhood we own a long-term rental although we require background checks credit checks and cross-check both rental and employment history of our tenants we still found ourselves with a very troublesome tenant this last year this caused many issues with not only us as their landlords but their surrounding are their surrounding neighbors during their year-long lease there were multiple domestic violence occurrences resulting in many screaming and physical altercations at all hours of the night countless police visits threatening altercations with neighbors and overall disturbance of peaceful neighborhood as a whole we received many complaints from neighbors and consulted several attorneys but were told that this is not enough to warrant an eviction i tell you this because in contrast to short-term rentals where we can easily enforce strict rules we as landlords of long-term rental properties have very little control as what actually goes on at our properties these are two properties in the same neighborhood in fort worth one with no restrictions and the other facing the possibility of being shut down the idea that short-term rentals are all bad and the owners and hosts do not care about the well-being of their neighbors is simply wrong we responsible hosts want changes made as well we want regulations set forth so that bad hosts like that the opposition describe are banned and the rest of us can continue to peacefully provide alternative stay options for the millions of fort with tourists that come to our city each year our guests choose to stay in short-term rentals rather than hotels for many reasons including privacy safety convenience and affordability a family of six cannot comfortably stay in a single hotel room which would be the only comparable option in price to most of our short-term rentals if short-term rentals are banned in single-family neighborhoods the vast majority of these visitors are not going to opt for a hotel in fort worth rather they will take their business elsewhere and stand a short-term rental in one of our nearby cities that successfully allow them thank you thank you miss butters next speaker is alonzo aguilar alonzo aguilar okay i thought i saw you leave for a second uh honorable mayor and council members city staff good evening my name is alonzo j aguilar senior and i live at 3725 stuart drive in fort worth texas i come down here this evening because of my concerns of all the apartments that are going up in our city they're all over the place and i guess you can't turn to one side of the highway or the other or go down city streets and not run into i don't know how many we don't have the resources from what i understand according to our newspaper to keep taking care of the citizens that are here already because our electricity problem has been growing our water problem is growing and now the last that i read about was our food transportation problem and i don't know who is okay in all these construction contracts in fort worth but they need to stop and think how many citizens are you going to pile up like sardines in a can in fort worth and i just finished reading the paper yesterday i believe where they had another contractor coming in with i don't know how many hundreds of one bedrooms and two bedrooms and then i guess the other ones are just whatever they're supposed to be i don't know but i've been reading the newspapers over and over again and i've been running these kind of advertisements and readings about and i don't know when the city of fort worth is going to put a stop to it i know that our past uh mayor did a lot of promoting of fort worth and and that was good yes but it was also uh i don't know whether they thought was what was going to happen but people do like to move and fort worth was one of the choices that they made and i had i have never seen so much traffic around fort worth as well as in fort worth as going as is going on now anywhere you look around and forth you'll find buildings of parking lots we need to stop that that needs to slow down that needs to stop and think do we have the resources to supply our citizens that are here already plus the ones that want to come here and live but these houses are causing thousands of dollars more than what they used to charge when i was uh live start living here which i've been here about 90 years almost all my life thank you mr aguilar thank you for being with us this evening next speaker is jim delong good evening i'm jim delong district 7. it's an honor to be able to stand before you tonight and i want to appeal to people to dream and go for their dreams i remember i was a fourth grader or spring and we had a field trip to go see the seattle symphony i didn't care about the symphony i just wanted to get out of school so i was looking forward to the time and i go into the opera hall sitting on the left side i can see it as if it was yesterday it was many decades ago i can assure you and i'm looking at the orchestra see the violins i see the tuba see the oval player and all of a sudden i saw the tympanus and my life changed i came and i was confronted with my destiny i became a musician supported my family for over 17 years traveled the world did studio recording and it was seeing that timpanist something clicked on the inside you know we say people say that we're a product of our past that is not a true saying we are a product of our future we can be affected by our past but we are a product of our future i saw that timpanist and i'm left-handed i was taught right-handed i'm left-footed to play a bass drum on the right foot you have no idea the hours and hours and hours that it took i had people saying you'll never make it i had people scoffing me but i had a dream i had a vision i had a future and i went for it i practiced four to six hours a day because i'm uncoordinated i've seen some kids sit down and play the drums and i go my god how can they do that i it would take me a year to be able to do that we're in a day where people talk about their problems they talk about what's happened in their past and don't i'm not trying to belittle that or say that there aren't atrocities that have gone by and in people's pasts but if we look at the past will never reach our dreams if we look at the past and allow the past to affect us that will affect the kind of future that we have everyone has dreams and i just want to encourage people don't let your past dry up your dreams don't let your past and things that have happened turn you bitter on the inside you can dream you can have a vision and if you determine to go for it i was on thank you very much thank you jim next speaker is edgar rodriguez good evening council members uh madame mayor pro temp my name is edgar i am in district 4. thank you for all you've done for our neighborhoods um it seems kind of uh out of context to speak on short-term rentals given some of the things that we've heard here today a lot of issues going on with our city within our people so but nonetheless i'm here to express my full support of short-term rentals in all of our communities with sensible regulation and i believe that we can accomplish that uh that's what the short-term alliance is is for so on the drive here i kept thinking you know what could i say to to kind of help bridge the gap to kind of help you know fix some of the misunderstanding that's going on with short-term rentals so i just kind of jot in a couple of bullet points um things that we have heard that's what i'm going to focus on things that you guys have been hearing throughout all these months and and the themes that that so first thing commercial enterprises own them enterprises are coming in taking all over all the neighborhoods false i'm not a commercial enterprise uh neither are these people here the grand majority of our members are all individuals here in the city of fort worth who have a vested interest in all of our neighborhoods here we we hire people locally we we invest all of our money here locally so that's that's something that is out there um that is incorrect um another thing is well you might be thinking you know here's 2022 some of us have already you know perhaps stayed in an airbnb in a verbal home some folks back there like well maybe not i haven't okay that's that's great why not wouldn't it be great to wake up in the morning and have coffee with your grandchildren right spend spend that time that's a personal choice why are we taking away the choice for everyone else so sdrs airbnbs whatever you want to call them they they are not you know the devil right so why big hotel corporations are we essentially saying that that is what we support hotel corporations for what for our 10 cent per share dividend is is that what we're saying here like the one gentleman here mr aguilar he was mentioning uh apartment buildings what are we saying about big hedge funds right real estate investment trusts coming and purchasing property and building all these high condos right does that does that help the housing uh crisis that we have home uh uh affordability i highly i don't think that you know the mother the single mother right with with the children or with the baby can afford a 1500 a month uh rent and if you think that that's that's a crazy number you haven't really been paying attention 300 330 000 plus homes in the city of fort worth 1600 or so str rentals that is less than half percent of the homes in fort worth that belong to short-term rentals so there is room for opportunity there we're not looking to be las vegas with a 22 you know short-term rental homes there uh sdr owners have been breaking the law so why would they care about it now we're legitimately asking you to text us to to let us work with you and work with the uh associations thank you you our final speaker for the evening is chris wood hello in february i got a parking ticket for forty dollars i'm on disability i get a check once a month and it's spent a million different ways i know i wasn't going to pay it on time i wasn't too worried about it i went to pay it in may and it went from 40 dollars to 84 i think that is egregious i think it is unconscionable i think it places undue burden on the poor twenty dollars i was charged because it went to collections but i was never contacted by a collection agency so either the collection agency pocketed the money city fort worth parked with the money or both of you guys did but i think the exorbitant parking fee late fees is exorbitant and unconscionable thank you before you leave vale is rumbly in here okay if you would see that gentleman in the back and maybe we can work to some resolve uh that concludes this evening's meeting thank you for coming the meeting is adjourned