for if that sounds good to y'all I'll call our work session to order good afternoon this nice March 5th David I'll turn it over to you March 5th and 8 something degrees outside good afternoon everybody we're going to jump right two informal reports and the first informal report is on firework calls for the 4th of July in New Year's and Robert alridge Is Here If there any questions I have a comment or two all right Chief come on up here good afternoon mayor and Council good afternoon Chief from the PD side of thing I just wanted to know since we changed you know our our prior approaches to reporting you know illegal fireworks in the city how did that measure up with what you've seen in the year prior so uh you have the charts kind of in front of you and the calls that we looked at were the calls that came in the 911 dispatch Center and also those calls on 4th of July that came through the fire department and so you can see on the first chart from 2019 to 2023 we have a we had a pretty significant increase in fireworks overall so whenever I looked at the I kind of narrowed it down a little bit from 2022 to 2023 and you can see on third and fourth of July there was only one Patrol Division that had a decrease and that was in uh Northwest which was in your District Carlos um and if you looked at uh July 1st uh the New Year's holiday when you looked at Patrol divisions basically there was a decrease across the board however I broke it down a little bit further and went down into council districts because the council districts are a little bit smaller than the patrol divisions and you can see that uh in for the four third and fourth of July districts uh 36 um I'm sorry 345 and seven saw a decrease and then whenever you looked at the uh new years's um there was a increases in four seven and eight so um the numbers are you know pretty scattered across the board but I think probably more concerning for us is that if you look at it from 2019 to 2024 just a significant increase overall from a number of citations issued can can you comment on that Chief so we normally don't have a tremendous amount of number of citations that are issued through the third or fourth and the the first because really the challenge is we have to have we have to catch people with the in their possession and so that's that's really a big Challenge and so we have very limited citations across all of the years okay is that inclusive of PD and fire or it is okay yes gotcha all right uh since fire is up there I don't know if there's something else to be added from from your side of things we were just up here in case any questions that all right just giving me the opportunity to to do that because sometimes I think fire did receive some calls uh at I guess through certain stations and I don't know if you elected to respond to specific concerns uh maybe ongoing firework activity in neighborhoods where maybe you could catch them in the ACT yes um Fire's priority on those dispatches we all of the enforcement we lean towards supporting the police department so we work with them on what they need our focus is on responding when there's a report of a fire or an injury or significant potential of that so to kind of be sure that we're ready for that that life safety first approach okay and I don't know if either of you would know this this is my last question uh did we get significant use or or decent use of the M Fort Worth app to report illegal fireworks I don't know if we have that information broken so we didn't collect that data for this report uh the majority of the calls came in through the call center that the fire staffs on the 3D and Fourth of July and then of course through 911 U because most people you know they believe they want the immediate response and my for worth app is not an immediate I mean it's a little bit of a delayed response sure okay well that's all my questions thank you both appreciate think Gina had a question to yeah I just wanted to comment the chief mentioned District 5 among those districts that saw increase and that's directly because of the involvement of three neighborhood association presidents uh tari White Cindy bowling and Judy Taylor launched a fullscale campaign that included political like yard signs advising of the fine that people would be subjected to if they engaged in illegal fireworks and so it didn't just happened because something magical happened these three ladies after meeting with police and fire and code have brought about some tangible and measurable results and my hat goes off to them uh any other districts who want to know how to bring them down in your District I'll connect you with those ladies and we'll all be able to celebrate so the one thing I'd like to add before I walk away with our listening audience fireworks are illegal you can have fireworks and there are substantial fines if we catch him with them thank you Chief any other questions okay thanks Chief you the next informal report is on automatic car washes and those permitted since January of 2020 and DJ harell is available if there are any questions no car wash questions next up is public excuse me Fort Worth Public art and private development review process again DJ harell is available if there are any questions yes I'd like to DJ there he is I think my only question really DJ for you is uh the implementation of adding that uh you know information layer uh you know to our RG is you know system uh staff in working with Justin newart you know over in historic preservation and development services uh I thought applied that very well I mean Fort public art have this information of the location of you know art pieces and I think it's very important when we do Development Across the city especially in our historic areas that we're very cognizant and fully aware during the permitting process that we don't overlook something that may be there could easily be overlooked and perhaps lost so I think you know adding that layer you know to what we look at uh during that process is is a very smart move so I want to commend uh your staff you know on coming up with that my only question is implementation wise how quickly can that be implemented um um I would say near immediately um Justice team's already gotten the layer uh or the locations from the public art uh folks and so they've you know began working with our GIS folks to map it in in the system in general most of our public art is going to be on found on city property or in city RightWay so we won't run into a lot of situations where private development will be um um affecting it however um we're trying to figure a way to work it into the development process without slowing the development process down to where staff takes a moment to say okay there's some public art in the area how are we going to protect it how are we going to make sure our signals aren't crossed um and so that's what we're we're trying to think through now but as far as identifying the locations and being able to to kind of bring our antennas up you know doing the development review process that's already getting started great and uh it just occurred to me one other question since Fort Worth Public art has detailed information Beyond just location if you're looking at a given art piece maybe it's something that's been given to the city or has a deed of gift attached to it uh once you locate it you know on our mapping process could we cross reference that information there or is it just merely give location information no we could we can put uh we can put that information in there as well okay um you know basically in GIS you know you know when you map these things there's an attribute table that basically you can put all kind of information in about you know you know whether it was it something that we commissioned or was it something that was gifted to us you know if it's something that's on loan to us you right we can put all that information in the background great well again my thanks for responding to my concern on this appreciate that thank you all right next in foral report is on Community Development block grant the disaster recovery action plan and Victor Turner is available if there are any questions councilwoman Beck has a few questions Victor yes hey Victor um so I have a couple of questions and just so you're clear and everybody's else is clear why I asked for this during our U the workshop that we had on homelessness one thing we heard was that the city of Houston was kind of innovative with their disaster their CBG uh disaster money and I understand that while we don't receive the same magnitude that they receive thank God we don't have things like hurricanes um I was interested in how we use those dollars and how we could compare to Houston in that sense of being Innovative um and so that's really the place that I'm coming from in this and I have a couple of questions um so I see that there are four program activities that were approved the single family one to four units housing for Rehab the multif family housing for rehab and reconstruction of properties impacted by the storm mitigation and then infrastructure and that's specific to city- Owned buildings and land improvements do you know how much we spent on mitigation initiatives and this city- owned buildings and land improvements as part of that roughly 37 we'll call it 38 million uh mayor council it's it's 27.4 that we received uh we haven't spent any of those dollars yet okay um we did coordinate with water on uh to find out any impact to uh facilities that they may have uh one of the things that we can do is supplant other funds that were designated for for particular activity so we have to be aware of duplication um in regards to um the other activities it has to tie back to the disaster for one uh we we pull that directly from the the language uh it can have a direct or impact or direct or indirect impact so the way we were trying to work in the uh homelessness activity was a indirect impact okay and when you say indirect impact can you give me an idea of what that what that means and how we would Implement that yeah for for example we already had demonstrated that we had a shortage of of units available for homelessness and so this exacerbated that problem by a shortage of units uh during that ice storm and so we listed in the in the um IR a couple examples of properties with over 500 units that cause a a strain on our supply of affordable housing okay thank you for that there's um the last sentence here it's important to note that in compliance with f Federal Regulations CBG Dr funds cannot be used for Supportive Services vouchers or general operating expenses um but I'm I guess I need some clarification because I'm looking at um the department Hud's Disaster Recovery homelessness toolkit and it's got several three pages worth of the activities that we we can use um these funds on and services were explicitly listed in here so can you walk me through how we got to it can't be for services sure so HUD provided us with a TA provider and so we uh directed that question to them and so we asked about that and they their response was uh that we could not use it out of the particular uh allocation we got so each time there's a disaster HUD issues a federal register and listed the different types of activity that you can use and in Houston case that may have been an example of some units that may had folks with vouchers in it I'm not certain but they told us that we could not use it for vouchers so is it then I guess tell me what a TA is technical assistance provider my my apologies no no no that's okay um so what you're saying is that these grants are given to cities based on the qualific a qualifying disaster and then what each City can use those on are different per the guidance of a ta uh in some instances so um say for example um we had public housing that was impacted for for example uh public housing is allowed to to tap into our disaster money we didn't have any public housing that was impacted I'm sure Houston probably did so they could use it at a public housing facility whereas we could not that's just one example okay I think I'm going to need a little more I think discussion on this because as I looked through this um this document in preparation for this IR um I don't see those prohibitions per HUD and so um I'm interested to know I guess the mechanism that those prohibitions came up for us in um in contradiction to Hud's guidance because if that's the case then I think that's something to just add to our legislative um our upcoming legislative affairs agenda and for us to work with because based on what HUD has has put out and I've got a presentation that they also gave um in April of 2023 that provided the same information and so um we seem to be reaching a different result than what HUD is telling us we can do with it because when I look at this sheet um this this reference guide we can build new with these dollars and we can provide services with no I didn't say we couldn't build new right but what I'm saying is like the no services and support and um that it has to be a one for one uh there has to be damage to one unit for us to be able to to do that to build another one doesn't seem to be well maybe maybe I'm not making myself perfectly clear what we can do is if we can tie it back to the storm it doesn't necessarily have to be one for one okay as I metion mention if it was direct or indirect if you had an unmet need we had an unmet need of homeless beforehand sure so that's why we put in there that we would include psh as part of it what the provider told us was uh operating expenses and vouchers were not allowed that may be some clarification between that technical assistance provider and HUD Who provided them to us absolutely because the the first thing on this list is tenant-based rental assistant so so there does seem to be some sort of miscommunication there yeah and I could see where that may have been where there were some individuals that receed ten Bay rental assistance and they may been renting at a complex that was impacted so they would probably still need to receive that TBR uh to locate to another facility okay what about job training child care or Health Care yeah so we did not include job training or any of those in uh our action plan um we did have to do a an assessment of needs so the actual units and activities that we listed were the ones that came back as our most um um unmet need gotcha um okay I think in light of what we're trying to do here around housing I'd like you to work with my office to set up some time so that I can better understand where that disconnect is and hopefully help you us as a City navigate that so that we can have the freedom that other cities do to be Innovative with our funds absolutely back just confusion it's probably on my part what are you concerned we didn't spend money on with those funds so in our briefing and what we were told is that we had these funds available and what Houston did with them is they really invested in building that infrastructure right and I think in discussions that that's not what we did um in in in how we allocated it and it was because there had to be this connection between the home bre the the homeless person and and what was damaged by the storm um and I think that maybe is a too literal of an interpretation based on what I'm seeing that the HUD uh that that the HUD that HUD has um has produced I think that we have much more flexibility in how we spend these funds um and I'd like us to look to Houston as an example if we know across the country that they are the standard for how to address homelessness um I want us to be able to have the freedom to do what they did which was build from the ground up and I don't disagree I think one thing I did take away um play glaringly that presentation that Tara and others provided is that Houston it's not Apples to Apples because the volume of money they receive especially in Disaster Recovery friends that we're thankful we don't have that need here so to your point I I think there is Need for clarification and um but at the same time I fully respect the plan that you put in place and that this is a finite number of dollars I know you're trying to stretch it across a lot of different in a lot of different ways so I appreciate where Elizabeth's trying to take you though yeah and in the in the IR itself it says that for rehabilitation and development so development is new construction yeah thank you I appreciate that thanks Victor thanks Victor the next informal report is in homelessness update and Fernando cost is available if there any questions my only question I think I can answer it but this is this IR was just meant to memorialize the followup correct there's nothing in here that's new and different it's just to say this is what the council agreed to during that session yes ma'am the intent of this informal report is to explain the various actions by City staff in direct response to requests that the city council made at that February 13th homeless Workshop thank you Fondo the one thing I'd have on the item note that we're going to start the pilot project which I think is um well worth an investment there is I've gotten a few questions from people that paid attention during that session about what if they think they have an individual that would qualify for us to reach out to are they are not on the list of people that um are homelessness providers and I just want it maybe that's through Tara's office it's the best person for referral okay Tera PR the list is not set in stone yet congrats Tara okay okay got it thank you I think You' just opened the floodgates I know poor Tera she'd like us to publish her cell phone number thank you Fernando our next informal report is an interlocal agreement for arreste EMS care and transport Valerie Washington is available if there are any questions yeah think yeah I'd like to hear about that please if he could just give us an overview of that Val and uh current status for the 350 agreement all right good afternoon mayor council and city manager um the IR outlines an interlocal agreement that the city of Fort Worth is going to enter into with metstar uh to provide um EMS transports for arrestes that are in custody at 350 bellnap current I would say for the past I think it's been noted 10 20 years there hasn't been an Ila in place to handle those arrestes MedStar has been working with the city of Fort Worth and with JPS um to handle arrestes that are in Teran Cy's custodies to make sure that there are interlocal agreements in place that outline the terms um and the cost for providing that service to us it is just a one-year agreement um with um options to renew any additional questions Carlos or Council no I think that for me that covers it right now thank thank you all right our next informal report is on the office of police oversight Monitor and the mediation program and vonal sukun is available if there any questions I think there are a few questions Von seal good afternoon Bon seal good afternoon just uh first I think I I would like for you to kind of give us an overview I know I think you met with all of us by now kind of explaining what the uh opom Community Police mediation program is about uh essentially it's a moderated approach for improving those relationships between police uh and uh community and it also gives you I think a uh a good Avenue for you know conflict resolution so uh it's voluntary it won't necessarily trigger uh penalties or or punishment and it's a an environment with where you have neutral and equal footing I think between the parties uh I do know that police and and the POA were very supportive of that so I commend you you know for doing you know your uh due diligence and outreaching to them to have a good Avenue of understanding you know between that and have that Mutual dialogue so tell us how you plan to roll that out to the communities because it's very essential right to have that that kind of relationship and then my next question is going to be uh pertaining to uh Personnel that you may need in addition to who you've hired so uh first off please explain how you plan to roll that out to the communities so the roll out is going to be a joint effort between myself the police department the city of Fort Worth and the POA because we have several entities that need to be on board to ensure that it's a successful roll out for a community we've already started working with um the Communications Department with uh media and we have teaser videos ready for press to send out in the development of the program the development process started in 2021 there were several meetings with community members Community leaders and organizations and reinv volving them is something that I took very seriously when I came on board and so they're currently engaged and we are letting them know that this is going to be a process that's available to them starting officially in April with the police department we've already started working with the pro team with the police department to assist in the roll out for the communities that they might have an easier time reaching as well with the Police Association to ensure that we have buyin from the officers as well so when of the teaser videos will it will be in U other languages other than English yes great great okay and then my uh question that I've already uh alluded to is you've hired recently into your department I don't know if you're fully staffed at this point but uh maybe if you could share with Council what needs you might have still yet to fill so we have hired recently we hired additional policy analysts and prior to to my on boarding we did hire a community engagement director who will be running the mediation program we currently have two positions open for a second policy analyst and for Deputy police monitor and those are positions that we'll need to fill at this time all right thank you I have a question yes of course counc berett thank you uh I I may have assistant chief is here as well because I know as we talk uh some of incentives of making this mediation happen I just have a question with our department uh what are we going to do as a department to try to incentivize officers to go through this mediation process if any at all so really it's just about making them aware so part of this is you know we want to make sure that the community and the police are working together and there are times that some of those interactions aren't quite what we want them to be uh but we also understand this is voluntary this is just another option that an officer has that if they choose not to go this route then we investigate it through Internal Affairs um but the one good thing about this if they choose to go through mediation they will not go through an internal affairs investigation so I think it's really highlighting the you know the upsides to this because there are very little down downsides to this for the officers thank you and and I guess I I think in our conversation what is the percentage around uh when we have these incidents with uh um with officers that the resident really wants to be heard of you know I want to know I want his office I want his uh Sergeant to know or his captain to know how he mistreated me I know there might not be any consequences behind it but I I just want to be heard because that's kind of what this mediation is going to do so that is what it's based on I can't give you the percentages on community members who automatically want to participate what I can tell you is 21% of the cases that go through Internal Affairs would be eligible for mediation and then what the statistics have shown is by and large over 75% of individuals that participate in mediation are satisfied with the outcome that's just for the community members and then for officers it's about 90% and more importantly for both sides they both indicate that there would be a change in Behavior if they were involved in that same type of incident again okay and one other question I had is uh caros uh councilman caros alluded to the p a supporting and the for Police Department supporting it uh and I guess here at City we're most likely supporting it my my question is did we reach out H how do we reach out to the community and see how much support we have from the community the residents and themselves absolutely so there were Town Hall meetings that started back in 2021 virtual in person and then when I came on board I started doing my meetings and going around and following up to make sure that we still had that buy in as well as surveys ensuring that that the community wanted to particip participate in this type of programming and 100% this is something that the community wanted to see because people wanted to have the opportunity to use their voice and express their frustrations and anger versus going through a disciplinary process where they would not be afforded that opportunity okay I I really I think this is a good program and I will say um me personally is not because the office didn't do its job but me personally I didn't see a lot of information come across the table for my uh preview to hear about this mediation until I uh spoke with you and I don't think that's on your office I think it's just how we roll out information as it relates to the city of forward uh so I think just as uh assistant chief just mentioned it's going to be very beneficial for our officers and our community to really know what this can do for the officer and for the community and so I think will be really important of our roll out I I think that we need to really work with Rene's team uh your team and as a whole as city council to flush this information out as soon as we're ready to go live with it I think it's going to be very vital to our community absolutely and I do want to stress that the way that a Community member gets involved is by filing a complaint so as long as a community member is aware that they can file a complaint we will contact them if it's eligible to let them know that they can participate in the Pro so we wouldn't lose any community members who might not be aware right now as long as they know that they have the option to file a complaint against a police officer Gina go ahead thank you for the information uh council member Nettles and I were together yesterday on another issue involving I guess uh Equity diversity what have you and what we tried to do was communicate to staff how important it is to involve the Council Office uh we can be an extended arm for you if you will on Public Information uh I think it's very important that the public know or be reminded who you are so I have two questions for you the first question is will you please give us the cliff notes version of your background people people don't wake up every day wondering well what's her background what's her experience so what is your background I'll give the cliff notes version that most people want to hear is that I am an I am a licensed attorney and I'm a former prosecutor um I came in from New Orleans Louisiana and I've been in law enforcement oversight for over the last five years I want to stress I did that under a federal consent decree as well as local oversight um in New Orleans where policing has been considered some of the most corrupt that they've seen across the nation um and I had the opportunity to prosecute in Orleans Parish um trying cases ranging from low-level drug cases to life cases involving um death penalty you sum that up thank you and yes it was very very corrupt and we're glad that we have you here now uh the the other question is can you talk about other municipalities where mediation has been a tool in the toolbox and how have you seen it roll out in terms of Officer acceptance absolutely so I can refer to New Orleans which I will because that's where I came from and they have what is considered the national best practice for the community police mediation program but I want to ensure the community that we're not just doing this one because New Orleans did it is a program that has been launched and successful in St Louis Missouri this has been launched in Washington DC New York City Miami and several other major cities Across the Nation in addition to that as we're seeing consent decrees pop up Across the Nation this is something that's being implemented in order to build Community Trust um one of the data points that I did share with uh council is that when officers participate in the program about 90% of the time they said that they have a change in perspective from participating in the mediation program that is sign significant because while an average citizen may have two police Encounters in their life that officer is going to walk out the door and conduct another traffic stop if we can have them stop and pause and possibly think about that interaction differently then is worth the investment that the city is making into this program thank you and if you can see that members on this Council get some form of communicate from you in terms of something we can use in social media I think it would be helpful and it lets us make sure that we launch the narrative as well and we'd be more than happy you to do that uh Carlos and I like stuff in jpeg we don't like having to convert anything and so that's just for for you to know but we'd love to be a part of helping we'll make sure to share that thank you thank you thank you the next informal report is on a process for addressing junk vehicles and Shannon Elder is available if there are any questions I think i' asked for this IR is this Lati the one okay okay yes I'm sorry um I didn't realize this was on here today um so I think the original question I had was uh there was a junk vehicle uh that was on the property of the the owner's property uh and it was tagged by uh I guess us a code to have removed what's so the concern is they own a lot it's their vehicle and we came on to their property to tag it yes okay so the um Texas Transportation code and then also our city ordinance does allow code officers to go on to private property to identify the vehicle and if necessary remove the vehicle um what we do is go onto the property to get the VIN number and license plate number and see if it has a um unexpired registration sticker we go ahead and place a green sticker that is more educational for anybody that's seeing it that says what a junk vehicle is and what the process is and gives the code officers information because we want people to contact us uh to learn more about about what's going on with that vehicle in order to be a junk vehicle it has to remain inoperable for over 20 consecutive days so after 20 days if um they haven't reached out to us to show us that operable or removed it um to where it's not seen from from view uh then we issue notice to the vehicle owner any lean holders on that vehicle the private property owner or tenant and they can request a hearing because we go through a hearing process to determine that it's a junk vehicle go ahead is that the main issue that it can be viewed or seen from others yes yes so if the vehicle is uh is considered a junk vehicle if it can be viewed from any property other than the property that it is on okay cuz I did a ride out in uh py somebody had didn't go supposed to go with us going to call any names uh Janette uh but we had a lot of one of the residents uh were complaining about a lot of junk vehicles in the backyards and riding through you really couldn't see but I guess if I'm on my porch and I stand on top of my chair and I look over I can see all their junk Vehicles is if it can be seen from another property then yes it can be the definition sure but just so you know um this we have a very high owner abatement ratio for Junk Vehicles it's about 96% so in the end we only end up Towing about 4% of the vehicles that are deemed as junk Vehicles how how long how old is this Ordinance do we know um I saw stuff going back to 1997 okay all right thank you you're welcome go ahead Janette she defend herself Chris thank you so much for taking one for the team um I just I have a request would it be possible to create an educational campaign on junk vehicles and have that shared yes uh through our various platforms but also on yard parking so those two things so that would be code okay great okay I'll work with the police department on the yard parking thank all right our next inform report is on school traffic congestion issues and we have Ty Thompson and Martin Phillips available if there are any questions yes sir please scared me I forgot he was come on up guys I like what do iist I've been quiet day I know Jared you scared me I forgot you're there it's quite all right go ahead Jared your questions awesome thanks mayor um one I think it's appropriate to have an update and I guess the follow-up question um I would have to the update is um just explaining more about the requirements based on enrollment and just as a caveat before youall get started um I think all of us at the table agree that um we want nothing more than um our students to be successful um irrespective of what school they go to um and also um I personally have seen um just differences in the way um um traffic and school drop up and pickup looks like across our city depending on the schools and I particularly been concerned with the schools um in Southwest Fort Worth particularly public charter schools and um you know our kiddos safety and our parents safety would drop off and pick up and I know that more could be done um on the city's behalf to partner with our Charter Schools both in the pre-development process but also um in kind of of the traffic uh management plans and ensuring that those are adhered to but also ensuring that um campus leadership and campus uh staff has the um wherewithal to be able to implement the plans that they're submitting in the development process so um thank y'all for this report I'm looking forward to this conversation and thanks in advance for the recommendations that y'all put forward in this I was that a because I was excited that seem good yeah that so um so what our program what we've recommendations that we have created first it starts with a transportation engineering manual um what we'd like to do is uh revise the design requirement right now when somebody comes in for a TI or a transportation management plan we do not take the student body uh population and tie it to the Transportation uh study the reason why is because why we would like to do that in in the future moving forward is because as schools grow if they grow more than what they had uh anticipated we've got to mitigate that traffic in some way so we would like the opportunity to be able to go back and have a conversation now that goes into creating relationships with all these uh isds and charter schools and private uh schools because we need to reach out to them and explain we want to be partners and we want to work through this uh in the most expedience way that's offers the least amount of disruption to their uh them schooling the children or or to the community yeah and I'd like to just speak a little bit to what happens if it's an existing school and our coordination with the schools has been really positive to this point uh we've reached out to those schools we've we've worked through some changes that they've implemented based upon City recommendations and so the expectation going forward is we're going to continue we benchmarked some we're going to continue to Benchmark other cities are experiencing the same issue um so we're going to continue to have that conversation with them we're also going to continue to have conversations with the school leadership because it's been fruitful thus far we just have to have more conversations with them more discussions with the community so we can Implement some of those changes that are beneficial all the way around any other questions on just another followup um I'm sorry just one more followup um in terms of um the traffic um studies um what consideration um will staff make in regards to school when they don't have the Bus drop off I noticed that was in the informal report as well and it seems like that's been some of the um I guess kind of Disconnect between the study and then what happens on the ground once the school is operational so uh with regard to the transportation impact analysis the the study or model what we take into consideration say for a charter school that doesn't provide busing we look at this each student has it's a one for one trip so each student it's basically it's almost equal to one whereas isds provide busing so their traffic mitigation is much smaller that they have to take care of so it does the modeling does account for that sir that makes sense and then the last question I promise I'll be done y'all is um related to the parking as well I know that um at least with the charter schools in in District Six some of the in has been there's not really been a adequate uh space on campus um for to park and drop off and I'm not sure if that's necessarily considered in the calculation can you provide some clarification to that yes sir so that is actually part it's a very large part of the traffic management plan which requires that all schools regardless of ISD or Charter or private that they cue all of their traffic on site so they're not allowed to park in the RightWay or across the street uh in a subdivision and wait they they must cue on the property of the school great thank you'all so much and thanks for done on this I know y'all spent a lot of time on it thank you gentlemen thank you the next informal report is on sighting of Municipal Solid Waste facilities and Cody Wittenberg is available if there any questions all right then our last informal report is an update on the use of our water myh2 or portal and Chris Harter is available if there's any questions without any questions mayor that concludes my report thank you David looks like we are moving on to our regularly scheduled agenda unless there are any questions on MNC log zoning cases or boards and commissions upcoming for the next two weeks okay first presentation is on the 2023 Community survey results ameth is Sloan with forth lab will lead us through that presentation okay good afternoon mayor council amethyst loan strategy and performance manager Fort Worth lab um so as some of you may know or not um every two years we go out and do a community survey and we've been partnering with the ETC Institute for over 20 years uh to conduct this survey today in a minute I'll introduce you to Chris TM the president of Etc who's going to walk you through highlights and major findings from 2023 um we've worked with them for a very very long time they're a national leader and in the results you'll see we have really strong comparative data Geographic data demographic data insights as to what we're doing really well and areas to improve um this is a baseline survey it's recurring so every two years so major questions remain similar over time but in each survey we do add a section to gather feedback and level of community support on specific initiatives so this year you'll see some of that about broadband and our open space initiatives and uh shortly so you've received the full report you'll have this presentation today in your inboxes as soon as probably later today you'll also have a report of all of the maps by Council District of the results so you have that Geographic data as well and lab staff is available to you anytime if you'd like to go over the results specific to your District uh the communications and public engagement department will be releasing an article um with links to the full report to this uh later today this week as well and with that I'm pleased to introduce you to Chris TM I think we have him up on screen and again some of you will recognize him he usually comes to visit us every two years to give this report and he'll also give you an idea um and some information about the methodologies for this report and why this survey is so um relevant and important as we move forward uh it's great to be with you uh today and is I guess the city going to be presenting and controlling I think the presentation yes I've got you very good awesome well anyway it's great to be back for those of you who don't know me I've actually been coming down to Fort Worth since 2002 in fact the next slide if you to go on shows a little bit of our experience National Etc Institute now do work on four continents uh we actually do surveys for more than 50 communities in Texas including nine of the 10 largest our clients include 26 of the 35 largest US cities and we do our own National research every year so when you see us compare Fort worst results to other communities they're head-to-head the same methodology same question and that allows us to provide some interpretive context that you may not get if you just do a standalone survey so for wor is especially important to me now that I lead the company because you were the very first large city I ever did a survey for so I've been coming back all these years just to remember where I from started so I appreciate the opportunity to be with you today and from that I'm G to kind walk through what what we're going to do so the next slide is just the agenda just shows a little bit what we're going to talk about since you're the ones who ultimately used the data I want to make sure you're comfortable with the methodology and kind of what how we did it because if you don't have confidence in the results they're not going to be something you're going to use for decision making so I just want to walk you through that then I'm going to identify what I'd say five major findings or things that I take away there's a lot of information in the report but frankly if I get into all the details you probably won't remember anything so I'm hoping to at least share with you what I think the big Tang WIS are and then at the end of this time I'll certainly be happy to answer some questions so anyway if you go to the next chart is just a little bit about the purpose uh if you follow uh Trends with attendance at local uh government meetings even with online forums only about 5% of us residents actually are engaged in those kinds of meetings one of the challenges you have is oftentimes what does the rest of the community think because we actually did a survey a couple years ago we found that the number one reason people attend meetings is to see people get Awards and recognition or get it themselves number two is to basically Express a complaint about something and number three is to change the way things are doing so the average citizen or resident just doesn't have time to come to meetings and oftentimes without a process like this you don't hear what their priorities are and Fort Worth has been committed to doing this for more than 20 years and you're really to be commended for that so I'm going to walk you through what we found this year but before I do going on to the next chart I might just talk a little bit about the methodology because these days everybody's getting surveys you don't know if the survey is good or bad uh good thing for you is I just tell you how the survey results are I've been doing this for you for 22 years and when things have been really good I've told you that when things have gone down I've told you that so I'm not here to please you I'm just let here to let you know what the results are for this survey we select a thousand households at random in each of your council districts and it's done through address based sampling we then mail them surveys and then we follow up with social media we follow up with texts emails and the way we control the samples we require respondents to give us their home address to make sure they're actually part of our random sample and that's done just to make sure that when we're all done the people who are represented and Survey truly are residents of Fort Worth and that they were randomly selected for the process and these results aren't perfect they have an accuracy of about plus or minus 2 and a half% at the 95% level of confidence and that just means if we did the survey the same way a hundred times you get these results within about 3% or less it's a very good sample and it's also accurate for each of your council districts next chart that just shows a little bit about where the people responded from you see we have little teeny red dots all over the city it's not so that we can go visit their home we actually don't tag their exact address uh but the idea is we want to make sure that there's good represent a from the whole city we also match the results of our survey up to census estimates with regard to things like race age gender and other factors and it aligns very very well so at the end of the day from my professional opinion we've got another great sample this year which I think you can have confidence that you can use this data to make good decisions so with that here's the five things that I hope you can remember from today's presentation there's a lot more here but number one as you see in the results and if you've looked at the report over all satisfactions decreased with most Services uh but the decreases in Fort Worth are actually less than National Trends and I'll talk to those in just a little bit I think even though some of the results have decreased most of your residents still have a pretty favorable impression of the city and that's been something that's been that way for a long time and continues uh and your overall satisfaction ratings are above the national average which I'll share with you in a few minutes if you're going to continue to do well or see increases in satisfaction in the future Street Maintenance traffic flow police cleanliness of appearance of the city should be the top priorities and I found it interesting that those were a lot of the items in the short reports I heard before this meeting which suggest you're aligned with residents think priorities are as far as what you're discussing and planning for and then the last item I want to identify which is new this year is just how dramatically different perceptions are in the city based on the respondent age oftentimes geography you know Council District or race or other factors can be a drive driving factor that can polarize the community uh this year we're finding that age is one of the most differential factors in the survey results and I'll share that with you toward the end so that's where we're headed so let me just kind of walk through each of these and I'll give you some of the major takeaways so the first let's talk about what's happened with the trends and if you go to the next chart uh you'll see that we asked uh questions for 97 items this is a pretty comprehensive survey both in 2021 and 2023 and 888 of those 97 areas declined we saw surge in rate ratings after covid where people fed a lot of Public Health and other things in local communities have been responsive but as the world's returned to normal and we've had challenges with the economy with public shootings and things like that uh we've seen decreases really across the country decline in fact the national average for large cities which is residents or communities that have more than 250,000 residents has gone down by 6.3% over the last two years Fort Worth is down average of 4.4% so overall you're actually doing better than the nation but you are down in most areas uh if you look at the top decreases that we saw which is on the next chart we actually see that things like local traffic law enforcement uh visibility of police of pavement markings how well litter is kept under control Street lighting have kids being safe in school those are the areas we saw the biggest decreases are part of that is we saw a lot of increases as traffic came to halt during covid but now that things have been returning to normal traffic flow is becoming a bigger issue along with safety and other things with a lot of the things that people seen reported in the media the last couple years uh the good news at least from my perspective particularly for Fort Worth is on the next chart which are your most significant increases you'll notice that of the items listed here four of these five have to do with customer service and actually most communities have had a hard time responding to Rising expectations with customer service but you see Fort Worth's ratings for how easy it is to contact City staff the promptness and accuracy they get from staff staff doing what they say in a timely manner and the overall courtesy and politeness all improved from the last survey that's going against the national Trend we also saw improvements in Mowing and trimming along City's streets so great job with your staff and customer service so that's the first takeaway things have gone down but you're gone down a little bit less than the national average uh next chart shows the second thing I hope you take away with is that though we've seen some decreases in satisfaction residents still generally have a pretty positive uh attitude toward the city and one of the first things I look at is on this next chart you'll see that 91% uh feel that the economy and Fort Worth is the same or better than the rest of the country in fact if you look at the percentage that the it's better compared to worse it's five to one so most residents feel much better about the economy or at least they think Fort Worth is better off than other people next chart just shows the perceptions of how people would rate the city as a place to live as a place to work place to raise children and retire and you can see the majority of people in most cases give those good or excellent ratings they're particularly high as a place to live uh in a place to raise children and work you can see those all have relatively low negativity but we do see some slight slightly higher negatives for as a place to retire uh one of the things that impresses me uh when I always do these surveys for Fort Worth is how similar a lot of the ratings are for things like quality of life if you go to the next chart uh one of the things you'll notice is when we did the mean rating uh for how residents rate the city as a place to live you get the same rating more or less in every Council District so though there are some differences based on people's ratings of concerns related to some of the issues related to pools uh things like traffic congestion and so forth when it comes to just the overall rating as a place to live it really doesn't matter what council District you live in you have very similar P perceptions and they're high which you can see all the districts are shaded in blue the next chart just shows some of the comparisons on these key indicators to the national average uh Etc does a survey each year of about 8 to 10,000 residents more than a thousand of them live in US cities uh with more than 250,000 residents and that's where we get this National large city average you see and you'll see that when it comes as a place to live as a place to work and as a place to raised children Fort Worth rate significantly above the national average you're more in line when it comes to as a place to retire actually a little below the Texas average but definitely when it comes a place to live and a place to work you're setting the standard and that's just the average one of the things that we found as cities that do surveys tend to outperform all cities because a lot of cities don't care or they just don't want to know so this next chart actually shows how you stack up to some individual cities some of which are the best performers in our database uh got like Raleigh and Virginia Beach which are two of the highest rated surveys in our database I've also got some of the Texas cities that we have surveyed as well in here and your full reports have a complete set of these so you can see for yourself so part of this is just to let you know well how do you stack up against cities in Texas that are large uh where could you be if you were trying to set the National Standard and that's what you show here and you can see overall you generally right on par with this this group of here cities though your overall rating compared to the nation as a whole is much much better so if you go to the next chart just get to item number three which is overall satisfaction with most of your services in addition to perceptions of the community is above the national average uh and you see that on this following chart uh you'll notice that most of the items here everything with the quality you see of your fire Services uh you can see Library Services Water and Sewer Services Parks and Recreation and your communication are all above the national average you're particularly strong when it comes to customer service which I mentioned before you've actually improved While most of the rest of nation has declined and also your communication you can see that your communication is at 44% compared to a national average of just 24 and your customer service is at 55 compared to a national average of just 32 so you're doing really really well in those areas on the other hand though you'll notice where you some of the areas you Trail slightly or below that's traffic flow the second one to the bottom you'll see the maintenance issues you'll see you're at 25 compared to the average of 28 and you can see when it comes to code enforcement or issues that have something to do with the appearance of the city is also slightly below the national average but all in all you continue to perform well even though we've seen some declines since the last survey so go to the next chart uh this actually shows the overall ratings uh for customer service Citywide and again like with the quality of overall ratings for the city is a place to live you'll notice that the average is pretty consistent and this is important because when I first did this survey for Fort Worth back in 20 2002 there were only about four 550,000 residents now you have nearly a million residents and with all that growth you've continued to provide good quality customer service to Residents in all parts of the city and that's something again uh that's very impressive from my perspective if you go to the next chart uh it just shows you the four thing to remember and these are really the takeaways or the priorities you know one of the reason you do the survey isn't just find out how well you're doing but what do residents think the top priority should be and Street Maintenance traffic flow police and appearance related issues are at the top of the list and things that I think will have the biggest impact to help you improve satisfaction moving forward and you can see that in this next uh chart where we actually asked residents what were the highest overall priorities and you can see the top two things on the list clearly have to do with ceptions related to maintenance of streets and the overall quality of Public Safety you can see those really stand out much higher than the others followed by traffic flow and then you can see code enforcement water and SE Services Parks and Recreation are all about the same and one of the analytic tools that we take a look at is not just the importance or just the satisfaction we actually put these together to give you some recommendations and what I felt was interesting is some of the areas that were most important were actually the areas you rated lower compared to the national average or just slightly above the average and so the things that are most important are truly some opportunities to do better and if you look at the next chart we've actually got a table uh that shows what your importance rating is what the satisfaction rating is and we use this to identify what your greatest opportunities for improvement and you can see maintenance of streets traffic flow Public Safety are really the three areas that I'd recommend you emphasize the most and then you can see followed with things related to code enforcement satisfaction with your roadway delivery and Parks and Recreation and this is for those of you who are left brain Learners and like a list from which one's the best to which one's the least as far as opportunities for improvement if you're more uh right brained and you like kind of visuals if we go to the next chart this is similar information but what it shows is from left to right is how important each of the items are and how satisfied folks are from the bottom to top and what we're looking for here again is the things in the bottom right quadrant these are things where you're getting lower ratings that things are important again Street Maintenance traffic flow and Code Compliance uh but I want to highlight Public Safety you're doing relatively well but it's really really important to folks and you can see also water sewer Parks and Recreation are those areas you should probably make sure you continue to do well in uh next chart is just really gives you the f a couple of the final things that I wanted to pull up just some of the specifics if you get into the report we we've actually got some details when in each category so when it comes to maintenance the specific things really are Street Maintenance and traffic flow with Police Services issues related to crime prevention and police visibility when it comes to Code Compliance and such as the cleanliness of streets uh and litter control those are the things that really I think will have the biggest impact moving forward if you're to make improvements in those areas last thing I want to let you take away from on the next chart is just the impact that age is having this is actually something we're seeing nationally and some of the polarizing views but it's perhaps the most biggest polarizing category I found in the survey in fact if you look at the next chart you can actually see how age of younger folks who are adults age 18 to 34 rated things compared to adults over 65 and you'll see when it comes to value for taxes and fees there's a 24% differential uh when it comes to quality of city services it's a 20% differential when it comes to even views of how people rate the city as a place to live raise children work and retire you see their substantial differentials especially when it comes as a place to retire uh and last one you'll see that of all the city services that were assessed the biggest differentials were on police services and information and I share that with you that it's not necessarily unique to Fort Worth we're seeing this Nationwide but if the city's not addressing this the people are 18 34 will become 40 to 44 uh and next thing you know you'll see declining satisfaction over time because lower or younger people are having different expectations from the community than perhaps older residents and so merging those together figuring out how to respond to both groups effectively I think will be important for the city's future so last slide uh is just some of the other findings that we had for the survey we had a few questions that weren't really related to Performance but we did did ask some questions about whether or not people volunteer uh and you'll notice that the volunteerism in Fort Worth is significantly higher than the national average it's 23.2% nationally report volunteering at least one hour a month you can see it's more than a third 36% in Fort Worth a couple other things that we looked at on the next chart are just uh whether or not people support various City initiatives and you can see when it comes to supporting and expansion of the preservation of open space in the city and also you can see the when it comes to the uh pursuing uh the initiatives I'm actually my screen just went BL but you can see what's on that chart I just lost the slide but bottom line is there's high level support for both of these initiatives that were assessed on the survey and I think we're getting close to the last slides in the presentation you're on some of the yeah so we my slide came back up we asked some people about their support or interest in different types of uh development and you can see what was particularly interesting as though single family subdivision was the one that was picked number one by most people there was significant interest in mixed use developments of different kind and so I found that interesting when you actually look at the sum of the top three choices and then finally just to wrap things up uh for the survey kind of takes us back to the five things I know there's a lot of information in this report you're going to get lots of maps there's lots of cross tabs but at the end of the day nationally we're seeing things decline for for worth has declined uh similarly to what we've seen nationally but at a slightly lower rate so you're actually outperforming the nation uh residents continue to have a fairly positive perception of the city uh and frankly you're setting the standard in a lot of service areas but the areas where you're not setting the standard of trailing actually are some of the areas that are most important to your residents and that's your Street Maintenance traffic flow plan of city and so forth and and I just want to encourage the city to be looking at ways to engage younger adults I think that's going to be really important a lot of times it may be a race issue it may be a geography issue but really from my perspective the difference in age is perhaps the biggest thing the city is going to have to be managing moving forward and if you don't you'll probably see the Cline satisfaction in the future just because younger adults have different expectations uh than older ones do so with that I will pause I don't know if there's any other questions but it's great to have a chance to be with you again no questions great presentation thank you very much thank you mayor emth did you have anything you need to close with there no we'll have the the rest of the information to you this week your maap results and we also have access to an interactive dashboard so we're happy to sit down with your District directors and kind of show you how to use that so you can really dig in at the district levels to get you more information that's helpful thank you next up is a presentation on Street Maintenance funding um Jess is going to kick us off maybe that's appropriate considering the presentation we just had did you do that on purpose I could not have teed this up any better but I really appreciate amethyst and um the team for doing the community survey results right before um so really we started on this a little over a year ago staff started looking at how can we increase funding for Street Maintenance and that's really coming in response to many questions and many asks of you Council um because we know that it is a need that we have here in the city and obviously we saw it in the community survey from 2023 that this is one of the top priorities for the city moving forward so I've got a great team with me here today that's going to present for us oh there we go um I've got amethyst I don't have amethyst I don't know what I'm talking about I have Lane Zarate with tpw assistant director over Street Maintenance and operations she's going to talk about a lot of the steps we've taken already to date in trying to address Street Maintenance she's going to talk about the condition of our streets and really some of the challenges that we have currently facing us uh we also have a um why do I keep saying amethy I'm so sorry we also have Christian Simmons our chief transformation officer with the Fort Worth lab and she's going to talk about a lot of the different funding mechanisms that are available to cover Street Maintenance um and what we're finding is some of the the best recommendations going forward and then we also have Trey shanks who's with Frieza Nichols and he's going to talk to us as well um about some of the recommendations and just some of the analytical work that their company has done on behalf of the city of Fort Worth um so at this time I'm going to turn it over and we have a lot of great information for you um at the end we will have an opportunity to ask questions as well thank you Jess and Council I think rather than wait to the end of questions with this presentation it may make sense to ask along the way so I'll try to watch you and if you have questions we'll get to those immediately and that was dedicated for Street Maintenance in the amount of 14.5 million in 2017 we implemented our vieworks payment management system and this is the software that we use to house all of our data and keep updated in 21 we collected our most recent Citywide condition assessment on our entire Street Network which is 8,100 Lane miles in 22 we developed our Fort Worth decision entry for Street treatment assessment so this allows us to select the proper procedure based on a lot of different variables in order to allow us to do modeling and assessments quickly and then in 23 we developed our ability to do condition forecasting and funding scenario planning and most recently in 24 the city manager increased our payo funding again um significantly by 9% to the current $ 28.3 million budget that we have today so all of this work that we've been doing has been in line with our Target of of optimizing our asset management the challenge that we have is that this target keeps moving on us both with growth and with population increase the graph on the left just shows visually the increase in population that c for worth has been undergoing and it is projected to continue increasing and so this population increase results in additional development additional assets that we need to maintain and more demand for services Citywide the graph on the right is a representation of our price increasing the streets Pago funding is shown in the orange bar graph there and our contract cost is shown in the green line there so while we have been increasing our payo allocation uh we have not been increasing it fast enough to keep up with our contract costs so our money isn't going as far as it used to so both of these issues together really compound each other and leave us where we are today this is our current road conditions for the city of Fort Worth and what we've done is we've taken our normal very colorful map and we've simplified it to just three colors these represent different categories of streets so our gray streets need preservation we have 3200 Lane miles with a pavement condition index score above 85 so these are the good streets we have orange streets which need maintenance we have over 3,000 Lane miles that have a PCI below 85 but above 50 and this is where we typically spend our our maintenance dollars annually our 28 .3 million then we also have our red streets uh so these need reconstruction these are 1800 Lane miles that are below a 50 PCI these primarily need to compete for bond funds because they're more expensive projects and some of them need to really be brought up to standard with new carbon gutter this requires design and a longer duration to deliver and so in order to optimize our maintenance dollars uh we we don't fund the the bond qualifying work so I want to talk a little bit more about our focused area of Need for maintenance which is our orange category of streets as I said before we have about 3,000 Lane miles that are below 85 and above 50 so just think about the distance of that if you have one lane of pavement stretching 3,000 miles that's a lot to maintain and we know that below 85 we're going to start having oh yes do you have a question just for purpose of discussion could you remind everyone the approximate cost of one lane mile of road today to construct it brand new uh from scratch I mean we're probably looking at two million is that what you would say Lauren I mean it depends on whether it's a local small street or if it's a major arterial of of course um but that's a good round number for you yeah um so as I was saying below 85 we know that water is able to penetrate those surface distresses and once it does it starts actively undermining our pavement and our integrity of the road and then that starts to spread more quickly so that leads to the next point which is that in this orange category of Maintenance we have the fastest rate of deterioration whether it's an asphalt Street or a concrete Street the degradation curve for a street has a steep section right in the middle of its life and so that falls within this orange category as well it also contains the majority of our Vital segments to fund um this is a term vital uh that is related to the timing of that work being performed in order to minimize our cost right because for our decision tree we could do it now at a lower cost versus if we wait a year or two years it's going to be a more expensive procedure um and then anything that we don't fund that is vital basically rolls down into red and becomes a an additional Street in our bond backlog so our city staff did our own estimate and we determined that we probably have about 30% with our pgo funding of what we need to address the vital subbits so we know our bond back is backlog is growing and in order to visualize that what we did is a current budget scenario forecast so I'm going to start with our base map that we already showed you before of our current PCI mapped into these three categories I want to draw your attention to the fact that right now our orange and red streets are primarily inside the loop with a lot of gray newer rete development outside of the loop and our average PCI score right now is a72 Citywide which many of you might think is a you know if you're in school it's a passing grade um but it's important to understand that that is an average between that is skewed by the amount of new development that we have if we look at just our asphalt condition Citywide it's a 56 our concrete is almost 90 so that's where the 72 comes in so with the budget scenario forecast what we do is we apply our current maintenance dollars which increase at 4% per year to the vital segments to fund and anything that doesn't get funded out of that we let continue to deteriorate along the degradation curve and if we apply our maintenance dollars for the next 10 years the resulting PCI we can map which is this map here so you can see 10 years from now we're looking at more red within the loop we're also looking at newer streets up on the North that are going below 85 some of which are already going below 50 the average PCI at this point um based on our calculation would be a 62 however the astri connects to that is important because it's reminding me to tell you that we cannot factor into that average um predicting where new development uh would also occur which would of course not be included in that average we also can't predict where our bond dollars will go to reconstruct the red streets which would also affect the average so now 10 years from now with the amount of orange that we have I think what we're about to show is that steeper rate of deterioration from from Orange to Red if we apply our maintenance dollars plus 4% year 20 looks like that a lot of our streets are below 50 PCI even the streets up on the north um and when you consider that a concrete Street has a surface life of about 30 to 40 years uh that starts to make a little more sense that those streets in year 2045 would be uh below 50 they would be in the last half of their life so the story that this tells is kind of twofold uh first it tells the story that our current maintenance funding is not sufficient to prevent deterioration of our average score um and then it also tells the story that the impact of deferred maintenance and underfunding maintenance reaches everyone in the city um not just where we currently have the worst conditions to are net work um so our leadership in tpw really recognized the need to act quickly and asked us to Outsource an independent analysis so we have consulted uh Frieza Nichols and I'm going to introduce you to Trey Shanks here he is the infrastructure management and financial strategies group leader and their scope was to provide us an independent analysis using our current data uh to identify our funding need and then to also provide us some expertise with these funding options and support our decision Mak so Trey is going to talk about his methodology for his uh analysis and his results thank you Lan I'll talk about a couple of slides quickly and turn over to Christian then I'll come back and talk to you about uh some of the detailed findings um of things so um I really want to um on this slide just visualize what Lane was just telling you about if you take a road really any asset but we're talking about roads here um you build it over time it's going to age and it's going to get in worse and worse condition right if you do nothing at some point it fails and You' need to replace it and so if you did that the you know that backlog that um that lane was talking about is cost for reconstruction this is an example here reconstruct it and and that's um your life cycle of that roadway and what you see there on the table on the left is that total cost over that time know you got your your uh average condition um and the like for that really what we're getting at you know with this though is how do you not just spend more money but how do you spend money differently how do you get more out of the money you spend on your roadways so the green is an example um of doing those maintenance activities okay so we're talking about say crack seal and still in good condition it may not visibly look like it needs maintenance it's just like your car you don't wait until your car is rattling to change the oil you change it to you know preventative approach so that's what a crack seal and a surface seal do they keep it in that better condition over a longer period time at a cheaper cost than reconstruction at some point the road you know will still fail and need to be reconstructed but this extends the life and you can see the benefit one and lower cost over the whole life between maintenance and reconstruction dollars and that the condition of the road is is in better shape on average over time as well so there's a better experience with the road so um what we've done is we took um the city's data you've got a lot of data a lot of information um related to your roads um we we took the condition assessments that have been done for the city we taken the maintenance actions it's a list of the different types of Maintenance treatments that are done what those costs are for those maintenance actions and what the benefit of those how do those improve or maintain or extend the life of the roadways we appli that to all the road segments in the city and identified those green actions or what we would call preservation actions there's a lower cost um when it's and they really apply when it's still in really good condition and the heavier maintenance is kind of like your major tuneup um that is more expensive but still less expensive than uh full reconstruction and for 2024 identified what um those recommended actions would be and the associated costs for that relative to your current funding you see that there's an additional about you know 59 million excuse me 59 million uh for this year for that but really taking that over a fiveyear look what you see is there's about 66.1 million on average that's needed um in additional funding for your Street Maintenance to extend the life of your roadways to have them in better condition and to minimize them going to need for reconstruction okay turn chrisan thank you good afternoon so we thought that at this point in the discussion it would be prudent for the Fort Worth lab to give a quick reminder on where we stand today with Street Maintenance funding as well as as some other mechanisms that have been discussed as options in order to introduce the concept of what a street maintenance fee might look like so as you know this is a reminder the city carves out a portion of its tax rate in order to fund capital on a cash basis we call that payo pay as you go and a lot of what that funds is maintenance so as you can see I'm going to sort of just snapshot fiscal year 24 for the purpose of this discussion so in fiscal year 24 current budget year uh the total pgo allocation across all all the programs is 76 million so of that 76 million 28 million is dedicated to Street Maintenance so that's almost 40% um of the pgo property tax allocation um that's spent on Street Maintenance currently so as you can sort of infer from that that means any desired increase in funding for Street Maintenance would require you know hypothetically right decreasing one of the other pgo areas um so in Orange you see streets maintenance the other yellow shaded bars if you can see those are other Transportation related pgo buckets so things like signals um sidewalks Bridges um and then in blue are all the non tpw pgo buckets so things like parks and neighborhood Improvement programs facilities it um and so that's just sort of the the tradeoff right of maybe increasing within our existing pgo allocation so another way to look at this um to State it a bit differently so again total pgo allocation 76 million so that's seven cents of the tax rate you're remember that seven cents that we sort of carve out of the omm rate um that's where we get our 76 million current Street Maintenance funding in that allocation 28 million or two and a half cents um the additional need for Street Maintenance that we just saw in try slide was 59 million in fiscal year 24 which would mean an additional 5.4 Cent in Pago so oh there's my little animation I forgot that was there thank you um so what that means is a tax rate hypothetically tax rate increase of 5.4 cents to meet that need that we just saw or perhaps more reasonably um a decrease from other payo programs um or other general fund departments that are funded in that o andm portion of the tax rate in order to shift more dollars to Pago so then you're starting to talk about shifting money from things like police or fire um other parts of tpw Economic Development Parks Etc so that very sky- high bar is just to show you know if we added what we need according to this analysis in streets maintenance left all the others the same you know we're way exceeding the total dollars that are currently allocated to P so um in addition to property tax as the current funding source of Street Maintenance there are often other funding mechanisms that are brought up or questioned as Alternatives so the first of those here is bonds um bonds are a great option for growth and infrastructure and they're not eligible for maintenance purposes um and as you know bonds require voter approval um another thing that's great but not eligible for maintenance purposes is transportation impact fees so the city does levy those um again those are limited to growth and capacity needs uh sales tax big Revenue Source than general fund as we know definitely eligible for maintenance but again we begin then talking about requiring that Revenue offset to other general fund departments um and as you know we already have dedicated sales tax funding streams for ccpd um in transit and then Tech the Cog the county often have transportation related programs and some of those do have a maintenance um focus but again when it comes to a continued funding stream um those the availability of those es and flows and so that's a bit unreliable with regard to continued maintenance needs so then we we we've covered property tax and so then we're left with discussion of um potentially a street maintenance fee so a street maintenance fee as you can tell by the name is eligible for maintenance um it's a stable Revenue stream that would be dedicated to existing roadways and we'll talk a bit about um how it would you know be set up but it's a monthly fee based on proportional use of traffic it's traffic generation proportional use of the roadway system um it does not require a public boat it is a council level um approval and implementation so this is not the first time that a Street Maintenance fees has been discussed um It's Not A New Concept for the city of Fort Worth back in 2010 there was a task force the Blue Ribbon task force that looked at transportation funding gaps and as part of that plan they recommended adoption of a straight Street maintenance fee in their report if you know their report it was called a transportation user fee so those are interchangeable for today um but that group identified the fee as an ongoing way to provide continued maintenance funding but as you can see there we've sort of marked that that was something that you know obviously did not get adopted so what is it a street maintenance fee is a charge to property occupants for their proportional share of the cost to maintain the street system so again it's been called to Transportation user fee here in the city before um it's also adopted in some other places as a road maintenance fee or a road user fee um but the typical characteristics are that it's based on vehicle trips and by land use it's an ongoing fee that you typically would see on um the water bill utility bill um and the fee revenue is dedicated to Transportation purposes it's a continued stream of funding for that purpose and this is to confirm that it is legal to do this hopefully I wouldn't be talking to you otherwise um but we are um you'll see in a moment that some other cities have already implemented these and we'd be able to do so as well under our home rule Authority so there's language there referen in the charter um on our ability to maintain all things public works until to Levy and collect fees for for local improvements uh in comparing those two main funding options that we talked about there are a couple of key differences to highlight so the Street Maintenance funding for maintenance whereas property taxes sort of competing for all those Department you know you're you're really familiar with uh the competing needs for property tax funding um on the street maintenance fee side the revenue needs can be address through fee adjustments at your level again um and you all you do rate setting annually for the property tax too but then there's you know complications right with state law regulating increases to the tax rate or how much growth we can capture um and then the street maintenance fee allows for an exemption of nonusers of the street system um on the property tax side obviously you're familiar that there are exemptions there too but those are not related to use or non-use so those are just a couple of key differences um and then with regard to being a fee and not a tax I won't read all these but the fee is calculated to establish the connection between what it costs to maintain the roadway systems and use of the roadway system um and the fee would apply to all developed properties including those exempt from property tax um and then again there's an appeal process that would permit those who you know have a case for not using the roadway system maybe they say I don't have a car like I'm not using the streets or you're a property owner that has a building but it's vacant so it's not drawing traffic to you there there's a mechanism for exempting property owners um but typically it applied to all developed properties and then that dedicated stream only used for roadway maintenance and this is just a quick look at some of the other cities in Texas who have already implemented a street maintenance fee so you see Austin started back in 1992 um with the most recent City looking at this wakeo they're in the middle of an implementation now um and later in the presentation I think you'll see sort of where a proposed methodology Stacks up against some of these cities but this is just a quick snapshot of sort of who has these now and with that I think I'm turning it back over to Trey unless you have any questions for me any questions no go ahead okay I'm going to run through uh some of the specifics of how do we get to uh the fee and and what the uh a considered fee might be with that um as we talk talk on the right of how do you how do you identify what an appropriate uh Street user fee would be per property think of it you know as comparable to on the left with your water system you got a meter that measures your amount of water use Fort Worth has a stor utility fee that's measured based off of the amount of what's called impervious area that causes additional runoff for Street Maintenance think of it from a standpoint of measuring the amount of uh traffic generated okay and the trips generated so an example calculation of that is uh factors a variety of considerations okay so one is the land use uh itself okay so type whe is single family residential is it industrial is it commercial retail and the like um and then uh using industry standard information from what's called The Institute of Transportation Engineers there's industry standard information um what's called trip generation manual that identifies the number of trips and the length of trips on average for different types of property use um and to use to develop what's called vehicle miles travel based off of that land use um there's different factors that go into that there's different property characteristics um that I'll show in just a minute um the factor for that so in simply single family residential would all be treated the same okay a business would be uh treated differently based off of the size of the business so I'll have examples to show of that in just a minute okay so shifting a little bit from the condition aspect that lane was talking about earlier and the the decreasing condition of Roads um you see that blue line on the left is representation over time that your current funding uh for Street Maintenance what the condition of the roads will be over time what we've um analyzed is what would it take to be able to maintain your road condition um you know where it is um what level of funding would be necessary for that with that optimized maintenance approach that we talked about uh when I was up a second ago so that 66.1 million of additional annual funding what that would get to um alloca um across the community um would be this rate schedule here building off of the 2010 task force initial recommendations so this is the same structure as what was initially proposed in 2010 uh that Council considered at the time just adjusted um for the growth and the increase in funding needs so what you're seeing is for a single family residence $922 per month for apartment complexes would be $565 cents per apartment unit okay so where that's assessed you know overall to the apartment complex and allocated out and then the rest of them what you see is so for office retail commercial dining industrial and institutional um it varies um by rate based off of different trip generation as I talked about um based off those different types of classes um but they're all based off of for property the square footage of the building area okay so a and I I have examples I'll show here in just a minute to give you some uh real world examples but you see a range from as low as 267 per th000 square feet for industrial there's not a lot of traffic generation to retail commercial dining 1580 1206 per th square feet so that's per thousand square feet of building area any questions before I move on from that one maybe more of a comment um you alluded to uh the council back then at 2010 considering uh that task Force's recommendations I remember that uh when it started in '08 at the time it was more geared to new development north of the loop didn't really talk about you know funding sources for inside the loop where you have uh older streets right because now we're talking about maintenance back then you know we called it um you know a a user fee right it was that type of user fee so so I see that difference right there uh I'm not I'm not going to go through like the those recommended numbers right there is he's single family residential right and there are differences depending on where you are in the city you know when it comes to that rate so I might have some questions later on there but I know this is all dependent on the rate at which you address your maintenance you know concerns otherwise you'll never catch up that's correct and I guess one point of clarification sometimes uh this gets confused with what's called your impact fee so that impact fee is that onetime charge for development this is that ongoing monthly that's exactly right okay okay so as Christian alluded to um we provided a comparison uh relative to other uh cities in uh comparable cities in Texas of what uh their user fee is um every one of them has a different rate structure um and so uh for residential though you see that you know fo worth is at the lower end of that Spectrum um and then there's variable approaches that are taken on the the commercial the non-residential side um but but uh there's a a wide variation there and again wacos is uh pending uh this year implementation so one we want to look at is to see what what's that total impact to the average residential utility bill um and so if you see here you see uh a typical monthly uh utility bill for Fort Worth Dallas Corpus chrisy and Austin um so factoring water Wastewater uh you know the street maintenance fee storm water fee if they have it um you'll notice that Dallas doesn't have a street maintenance fee um Corpus and Austin do forward still compares favorably even with the street maintenance fee to all um of those comparisons okay so I'll go through some of those examples from those earlier rate uh uh that earlier rate table there so this is uh an example of a small business dining fast food uh facility and so what you see is that rate is at 1580 per th000 square feet and the monthly fee would be about $46 and change uh you know for that okay so that factors um a lot of trips uh relatively short trips um for a a fast food restaurant um would be the way that would be factored in so shifting to a big box example this would be a you know a large uh you commercial uh retail facility uh but common throughout the city and so different category but also a lot more square footage a lot more traffic uh generated um that uh fee would be about ,450 $57 is the way this example uh would show uh a large industrial example so a lot lower traffic generation so significantly lower traffic generation but also it's important to note that it also you know factors the type of traffic the heavy traffic um component uh heavy vehicle traffic component of that that fee uh monthly fee would be estimated at 2874 for that large industrial facility and so that building is over a million square feet for reference okay and then uh this uh Church uh example would fall under the institutional um you know classification and now you see this is a large uh church 133,000 square feet of building area right so that that's key it's not the overall property area um and it's not you have facturing other aspect that building area um that fee would be $362 a mon month so and uh next one Apartments um again uh noting that it's per unit so uh in this example there's nearly 300 apartment units at $565 cents per unit so that would be for the overall complex uh $1,684 per month so for each unit would be $5.65 and I believe there's one or two more so a high school example this has uh 230,000 Square ft of uh impervious area and um this be an Institutional category so monthly fee about $630 for reference the for Fort Worth ISD cumulative uh number of properties we identify was a little over 240 properties that' be about $24,000 a month um an aggregate for for wor istd for worth umul of you know of all properties uh there's over 12.9 million sorry 12.9 million square feet of building area at that institutional um rate of $271 per th000 square fet would be $35,000 a month month uh for the street user fee uh I'm just going to pull this all the way up okay so a key summary aspect of this is on the left is the graph show showing that we showed before about condition the Blue Line shows your current funding levels and it's showing condition decreasing over time the purple shows um what the condition is if it's uh funded at the prop level on the right shows the impact to your bond funding needs that at the blue level of funding your bond uh needs the the amount of Road Network going to reconstruction uh needing reconstruction is going to increase significantly over the next five years whereas we um identify that maintain relatively flat over the next 5 years if you're able to fully implement the the maintenance actions down there at the bottom you see that kind of summary of the significant difference in costs of uh you know the preservation funding four to 28,000 you know 200 to say 500,000 for the heavier maintenance but you get into the Millions for the Reconstruction okay so uh the key is that what I talked earlier about different funding that that's the idea is proper maintenance funding minimizes the demand on your bond funding needs so this example uh you know status quo versus the proposed approach would be the difference of additional 650 Lane miles worth of Road uh Network that would U fall into that reconstruction category about five Bond programs worth of reconstruction and I'll turn over just to finish it out all right mayor and Council so what I want to do is talk about if this is something that you want to continue exploring what that potential path forward can look like and one of the things I want to just reiterate is the figures that you saw those are the preliminary estimates based on the previous work that's been done and the desired funding goals along the way we have a lot more work to do to flush out these numbers and really determine Council what is it that you want to see there are lots of other options like a phased in approach um or certain categories that can look at so just keep that in the back of your mind as well um we're here today because as staff we are about to start on the budget preparation process for the next fiscal year so this timing is great to know that if this is something that you want to move forward again we have a lot of work to do ahead of us so number one there needs to be a lot of stakeholder engagement we need the feedback from those that would be impacted to understand is this supported in the community what does it look like um and bring that back to you we would begin that right after this work session if you if if you want us to keep going forward and we anticipate bringing that feedback back to you in August um and I would imagine that stakeholder would also be looking at the model the financial figures that Freez and nickels will determine as we work through we would keep this in the back of our minds as we plan for that fiscal year 25 budget we would start thinking through what would this look like to execute um so we would also determine what is the timing of that Revenue coming in what is the timing then of the ramp up of the program and the expenditures going out again we choose to move forward one option would be to adopt this ordinance in October of 2024 so just this year um in the back of your minds there's a lot of work to do also on the billing integration side um and so what does it look like to incorporate this onto the utility bill there's a lot of data validation that would need to occur so a lot of steps to take and then finally um we could begin collecting this fee as early as the fall of this year uh again tied to the adoption of the new budget year with that I'm available to answer any questions as well as well as our team thank you Jess Elizabeth uh first I really want to thank tpw and staff for um for bringing this to us I'm sure that this wasn't easy to present um our a true accurate status of where we are as a city um and quite frankly it doesn't look great when you go back to those Maps I can't see gray because all I see are yellow orange and red I and that's not just for the historically older parts of the city but I see that across our map as well and so we definitely have some work to do and we have to figure out how we get there um and so I appreciate you bringing this to us I have some questions and concerns and the first one being our transportation impact fee we are proposing to Levy an additional fee on our residents of single family um homeowners are businesses that exist today when we don't fully um when we don't make developers pay for the actual cost of of their development we are still subsidizing that and so that's a really that's going to be a hard sell for me um to take back to my residents and say we're going to charge you 922 or we'll call it $10 a month when we aren't charging the developers the actual when we're subsidizing them so if we can subsidize folks wanting to come to the city we should certainly think about what that looks like for the people already in the city um so my challeng to you is to go back and look at that Transportation impact fee as well I'm not saying throw this baby out with the bath water but um I think it's only fair that we do that before we start adding fees on um I am I appreciate the walk through of who pays what and how um I still don't know that I can look you in the face until you understand that calculation and how I got there or how y'all got got there um when I look at the rates of users by comparison it just feels the gut check that I have is that we're doing n you know 922 for single family but then you see some uses that intuitively we know cause more traffic um that have a a rate that's not much higher and so um I don't think it's a critique on your work I think I just when I look at that it doesn't intuitively make sense to me and so that could just be me being dense or that could be that um it just doesn't pass that initial smell test when we go out to people and so um I think we need to do something I think we have to do something um and I'm open to dialogue about this plan but I think um I would definitely need some additional information before we move forward and at serving on your Mobility um committee this wasn't brought to us before it was brought to us collectively here on Council um and I think that that was a a mistake that it should have come to us first so that we could have better vetted it out then Gina I thought I was going to just supplement what Elizabeth was talking about but you took away my concern about coming to Mobility first it it should have come to Mobility first but I can tell you I offer nothing but compliments to you and your team this is the first time I've seen such a thorough Foundation helping us understand what we have to make decisions about I've had a couple of peers ask me what do you think well my response today was I think nothing today it's going to take a while to absorb the entire package but uh kudos to you Jessica kudos to you Lauren anytime you bring Frieza and nickels in the house you're going to get accurate information and so thank you for being able to at least set the table for this discussion to begin and I would ask that you guys get to Mobility as soon as you can but good good presentation Carlos then CHR does got lots to absorb there thank you uh for presenting um just a couple of things that I would like to get some more information on when it comes to the uh SMF rate structure and rates I would like to break down how you calculated those and then in addition uh let's see I'll laun my employ I think when it comes to what we have in terms of when it comes to maintenance actions right we have a set of In-House capabilities here tpw that we can do that and then we Outsource you know contract out the rest I'd like to know currently what we have right in-house what we Outsource okay what we contract for that would be great and if I could share one other tidbit in response to the rate structure fully agree we can bring a lot more information to explain that one of the things that we talked about is how limited or the the fewer number of rate classes that we're proposing um and I'll tell you we had a little bit of debate around that as well and we also looked at a lot of the other cities they all do it differently and some of the lessons we learned though from some of the other cities is the more rate classifications you have the more um convoluted it becomes and hard to implement so one of those key lessons that we took from the other cities was make it as simple as possible but that does then make things look off sometimes when you're generalizing an entire group of businesses into a very simplistic category but again I talked about we have a lot of work ahead of us still that can absolutely be one of those things that we study further to see do we need to change it from what we have right now one thing I would ask and I should have when I spoke earlier as we did with the transportation impact fee we had a plan in place we knew where we wanted to the ultimate number we wanted to get to but we stair stepped it there and so I'd like to also see what a plan to stair step this walk us into um this fee instead of just starting with the yeah and that'll be the work that we undertake between now and then you know between the the consultant the contract community and our in-house Crews we couldn't possibly triple our operations in one year so it will be a gradual increase they're already looking at that you know how can we make sure we show people in an immediate Improvement the first year if this were to go ahead but also slowly implementing it over a three to five year period okay thank you and again I just want to say I know that this was tough to bring um today and I really do appreciate all the work and your willingness to um step outside of the box and figure out a way to get to yes and just saying instead of just saying well we'll figure it out in the budget or leave it I'm sure David appreciates that as well so again thank you they've done a they've done a great job tpw Frieza Nichols forth lab they've been working on this for quite some time so they've really done an outstanding job a lot of research has gone into this we know it's still a very big ask and and definitely a big decision Point Chris did you have some uh thank you uh for the presentation I'm like some of the others I have some heartburn when it comes to uh raising fees especially for our residential single family uh when we recently raised the fees for trash can I had a probably 30 minute debate with my papa 82 year old man and I lost I lost uh and so he talks about you know my income has not Chang and and you want me go down there and push the thing down or I'm going to be charged more etc etc and um in historic Southside Holland Hills Rolling Hills these are areas uh that are very populated senior citizens and so one of the concerns I have I didn't see it articulated here is there a different fee for senior citizens who's at a certain age bracket I mean think that's what we look at going forward but also the next step would to be a stakeholder Community uh committee which sounds like your pawpaw is getting signed up right now um You got to pick them up yeah that's fine we can partner with Trinity Metro on um but you know really making sure we have a good idea where everyone at in our community could expect to be built for this uh We've also talked about you know kind of an application on one address where could you could look at an estimate of the fee based on your particular situation yeah and I appreciate that that's just kind of something I'm throwing out there so going back to the community community trying to explain and I would I know we're getting ready for our July break uh but if we can get something if this is something we're really considering we can get something earlier before August I mean we got August and then we go into September getting ready to vote on the budget and you talking about an ordinance in October those months go okay pretty quickly um and then I still also want to I just say in here you alluded to I think freeze Nichols alluded to uh money coming out the general fun possibly you know we would have to decrease in what we do for police and what we do for fire and I'm not advocating for that but I am advocating for that we should see some type of compromise as relates to our budget not saying that we're just going to okay we need more rows the better rows we're going to tax the the taxpayers what are we going to do into our budget system and that's more on the David question uh I mean because I still have heartburn nothing against District nine but when we have Etc funds that's left over we just choose to relight a bridge for over $2 million we actually could use that for other things and so I think that there's things we have done historically uh for the city of for wora for one individual person that we have that has not uh benefited this city holistically uh so those are my comments uh today Jared go ahead thank you mayor um and thank you all for the presentation I particularly appreciate it being able to see the magnitude of the challenge we face with um infrastructure in the city um I do also have some heartburn while I appreciate the urgency and um and the importance of UR we have infrastructure my U heartburn comes from a conversation we had last budget cycle about fees um and when our residents pay taxes is they expect that basic services are delivered and that includes infrastructure maintaining their streets I mean so one of the concerns I have in regard to that it's the context of how we got there um Elizabeth brought up a really great point about impact fees we're still not where we want to be and we're behind on roads because we've subsidized impact fees for so long um we also um really been focused on cutting the tax rate for years um and at the expense of not being able to provide adequate infrastructure now we're asking our residents to pay more in fees and so um that's a challenge for me and also we're sprawling as a city um which is creating this cycle to where we may never catch up even if we're charging residents and businesses especially those who are most vulnerable with an additional fee um that makes it harder for them to be able to afford living or doing business in the city of Fort Worth um the other challenge I have with this um is that um we haven't had a conversation about Transit as well knowing that Transit can reduce trip Generation Um and I I can't see us making a bold investment in Street Maintenance um and maintain the roads we have without also being Visionary and bold about what investments are we going to do in transit and what are we going to do differently in transit I know we're all really excited about expanding the rail into the hospital District I think that's a huge success that helps reduce trips long term when we have a complete multimodal Transit System um and then the other thing um this is more of a question um I I do want to know um how much we are charging residents and and monthly fees because we could be defeating the entire purpose of cutting the tax rate um and promising our residents that we're providing tax property tax relief but at the same time charging fees for the same services that we should have been providing as basic Services um through our general fund and through our um typical revenues that residents are paying that expect services to be provided with what they're currently paying good council member Williams for clarification are you talking about the their residential utility bill and then just are there any other fees that residents are currently paying yeah all fees because last budget cycle um last time we looked at the list of fees all most of the fees that we had as a city went up last budget cycle and now we're talking about adding an additional fee I mean I don't know the dollar amount I can't go back to my resident say how much they're paying in fees and so I would like to know how much um um our residents are paying in monthly fees so I can better understand what an additional fee would do um it's a really hard time for our residents and so and especially for our businesses I'm a finance share in my church um and so talking about impact um user fees for churches as well that gives me harburn knowing that um churches uh do the very best they can with the generous offerings that people present to the Lord um to try to do good work in our community and to provide um that offering for uh uh um user fees like this I I know a number of churches in my district who would not be able to do that and so um I'm more concerned about fees in general and just to add to that as you roll out the question I had about senior citizens I think it might be important for nonprofits that has a 501c3 status a 501c4 uh if there is some type of of decrease uh exemption and most churches would follow underneath that but as well as other nonprofits who are doing work in the community right any other questions Council no thank you all very much for teeing this up do you need any other directions I don't think you've gotten any negative feedback on potential path forwards I think you got the green light to proceed and pay close attention to stakeholders that each council member may want you to include and we've got a few missing people so make sure that you're briefing them separate L if you haven't already we do thank you thank you mayor I think it would be helpful also um if we brief each council member individually following this and also I wholeheartedly support council member Beck and mayor proin Biven comments about it going to our Mobility um committee I we have Brilliant Minds on that I think it needs a lot more work before we rush this through just for clarity though Jared are you good with the timeline that was presented in the presentation because I think it articulates what your concern would be but if you've got additional feedback you might provide that to Jess offline yeah totally happy to do that I think um next budget cycle is ambitious I don't know if we can get there I'm open to the conversation but there's a lot of question marks I have at least thank you okay Council next presentation is our annual comprehensive financial report finan is fun Reggie ESP today good afternoon mayor and Council um today I'm here to present the FY 23 annual financial report otherwise known as the Aur and you may hear that hear that reference today I'm joined at the podium uh by Tony Russo Tony's the assistant director in finance and Tony's responsible for all accounting and finan financial reporting uh for the city uh the presentation will recap all of the associated revenues and expenditures uh within the FY 23 uh fiscal year uh which also includes any short and long-term liabilities that are required uh to be included in the Gap basis schedules that you'll see in a minute additionally Tony will review uh the external audit report that was issued to the audit committee earlier today uh the agenda today will uh briefly cover uh the purposes of the annual financial report uh we'll touch on a couple of accomplishments within Finance as well as forward lab uh we'll touch on briefly financial performance of all of the various funds and then as I indicated Tony will make a few brief comments on the audit the annual financial report is used uh by several parties outside of the city in particular in addition to Mayor and Council and residents uh granting agencies uh in particular Bond rating agencies Bond holders and investors pay close attention to every uh government agency's annual financial report and uh the purpose overall of the act for is to be transparent uh as it relates to the use of taxpayer resources and to provide a the public with an overall detailed accounting of all revenues and expenditures uh just to touch on a few accomplishments uh of course um the unmodified clean opinion from Auditors uh that was received actually this morning and that's the highest level of assurance from an external audit uh the city has received that now for I believe 14 consecutive years uh the in addition to gfoa government Finance Officers Association has awarded uh the city two two distinctions the Excellence in financial reporting uh as well as the distinguished budget presentation uh through the forward lab operation uh additionally um the treasurers the Treasury office has also received an award uh for its investment policy uh and that's awarded uh through the go government treasurers organization of Texas and of course that unit is headed by uh John Sanford and we'll briefly touch on uh financial performance of the various funds uh but I think before we start the the reports that are provided within the the the acur are compiled on a gap basis uh which differs slightly from the budgetary basis schedules that Council would typically see uh periodically from the fort wor lab or even uh David Cook recently in January presented some budget basis schedules and there are major differences between the two types of reports uh and it's primarily related to the inclusion of long-term liabilities within the Gap uh statements uh we are also required to incorporate unrealized gains and losses on Investments as well as capital assets uh but probably one of the biggest distinctions would be the timing of Revenue and expenditure uh recognition so those are just some key differences uh on an ENT entity-wide basis uh the city's ending net position on a gap basis is approximately 4.8 billion that's an increase of approximately 600 million uh during FY 23 that's made up of several categories primarily increased revenues uh during the year a decrease in the OPB liability uh increase in net pension liability uh uh the Auditors require us to post an unrealized gain uh from our investment uh investment uh income uh as well as we saw a decrease in expenditures all to to amount to approximately 600 million increase in the net position of the city uh the city's current outstanding bonded debt it's approximately 2.4 billion uh a a billion of that a billion 44 million is a is a tied to General obligation debt which incorporates tax notes certificates of obligation as well as the Geo bonds that are authorized by voters the remaining debt is comprised primarily of the water and sewer operation with currently approximately 1.2 billion of outstanding debt uh just briefly going to the various funds uh from the general fund side uh we've seen an increase in fund balance of approximately 75 million um that increase was attributable to several factors sales taxes were collected over the budget by approximately 21 million uh the city overall did an outstanding job managing the budget uh each department takes credit for managing managing their individual allocations and we were able to save approximately 24 million from that effort uh and then during the year uh we we came to council with uh some additional investment income which were allocated to some very specific uh purposes during the year uh and that's the result of a dramatic increase in interest rates that we're all aware of and we are basically uh subject to those additional windfall of revenues based on investment income which isn't technically put into the budget on an annual basis uh typically investment income for General operations are used and transferred over to The Debt Service fund uh this slide simply provides a crosswalk of budget budgetary basis uh schedules that actually were presented uh to council back in I believe in January uh and then the various uh adjustments required uh to get to the final uh Gap basis schedules uh for the city uh culture and tourism uh again had a a significant rebound um as it relates to hotel tax collections as well as ticket tax increase is primarily over at Dicky Arena uh ccpd again had a excellent year this data had previous has previously been presented to council uh increased its fund balance by approximately 12.5 million uh and that's attributable to sales tax Collections and again uh excellent management uh over the budget saving approximately 9% of the budget are 8.4 million uh risk financing uh one of the areas that we are really paying attention to the the this program actually ended the year with a negative net position of 18.6 million uh there were several factors that caused an increase uh in the deficit in this fund uh it actually incre the deficit the negative deficit actually increased by 6.2 million uh the fund has 39 million in cash for any current year uh liabilities uh and expenses uh including any insurance deductibles that might be needed uh the significant net position is primarily the result of having to account for all of the long-term future liabilities uh within the risk fund and we'll we'll get into a little more detail in a subsequent slide uh Water and Sewer in it the year with approximately 3.2 billion of net position an increase of 253 million and again this is on a gap basis which incorporates uh some non-cash adjustments but once again an excellent uh year for Reggie pause there I think Council M block has a question you want to wait okay keep going Reggie sorry okay but again uh these are Gap bases which incorporates several of the long-term uh liabilities that are referenced earlier pension I know this is always of interest uh on a gap basis uh the annual financial report uh requires that we establish a a net pension liability uh based on a very specific calculation that's required by the accounting standards uh and it's primarily based on the the fund value at a point in time time uh basically the data is one year behind the actuary report that we are uh planning to receive at the well the Retirement Board is planning to receive at the end of April and then subsequently shared with councel at its uh Joint Council retirement board meeting and I believe that meeting is set for at some point uh early to miday I don't have the exact date uh and then it's at that meeting we will receive the calendar 20 re actu report but as it relates to the government uh the required accounting uh that's embedded into the act for the total pension liability actually increased a bit uh per to calculation of approximately 473 million uh but again uh the actu era report is is pending and we're really excited to uh see the results of uh F calendar year 23's activity and as you know the pension fund uh is required to have a 30-year ammonization period it's currently sits at 36 years uh and uh potentially will decrease to 35 years based on the Assumption changes that were recently adopted by the Retirement Board and I believe the council uh saw those assumption changes a few meetings ago uh but uh more to come on the pension fund but this uh this presentation does incorporate in addition to the unfunded liability uh OPB OPB is the the account that we well the account that we uh record all retire Healthcare uh the program itself is on a pay as you go basis with approximately 30 million budgeted within the general fund uh for U retiree Healthcare uh the the AER requires that we calculate an annual liability uh on the overall program uh this year's calculation actually uh resulted in a decrease in the liability uh subsequently uh a decrease in the amount of the unfunded liability and as you know we do hold a trust of approximately 90 million uh that's managed through the Treasury Office uh but again uh this program is closed uh Health Care is provided to only employees that were hired prior to 2010 2010 and so uh this program will ultimately run out as you know we go through uh the current uh slate of employees who were set to retire who were hired before 2010 uh and we project that to be somewhere in 2056 2057 that we will have a balanced operation but uh nonetheless this program is funded on a pay youo basis now we can uh shift to reserve compliance uh the city's general fund ended the year with approximate 21.5% unreserved uh fund balance uh and as you're aware the fund balance is used and provides for a stable operation stable delivery of service uh and protects the organization against Financial instabilities from uh Revenue downfalls to any other major emergencies that might occur uh and this slide simply provides the calculation uh with the unassigned balance of 27.9 million uh that's basically a math equation if you will as we compare that amount to the uh level of the current Year's budget uh compliance as it relates to the various uh government fund Reserve General General government funds the reserve requirements uh all all funds are falling within compliance except for the Environmental Protection fund uh which is slightly out of compliance and that's due to a one-time use of fund balance to to fund uh the street sweeping program uh but the department is uh scheduled to eval establish a a multi-year plan to uh restore the operation back to compliance uh all of the various government uh Debt Service funds are are well within compliance uh all of the Enterprise funds um are all within compliance and included within the Enterprise funds would be the water and SE operation storm water utility Municipal parking municipal airport and solid waste we've actually seen significant Improvement within the solid waste area and we've seen uh Municipal parking take a turn uh positive turn over uh the last several years um the internal service funds uh as I indicated the risk fund uh sits with a net unrestricted net position of approximately negative 18.7 million uh but as I indicated I we do have current Assets in the fund of 39.2 million to cover any current year um emergencies or expenses that may occur uh we are uh HR department is currently working on a five to 10 year restoration plan uh for uh the risk fund but it is definitely an area we we're keeping our eyes on um as we go forward in 23 in 24 as well as the 25 budget uh Information Technology systems uh moved over to the uh internal service fund uh for the first time in fiscal 24 and 23 I'm sorry uh and they're currently reflecting a net deficit in its working capital however uh the fund does have a positive uh cash uh working capital of 1.1 million and the various Gap adjustments are causing uh the working capital to reflect a negative amount again the IT director will be establishing a program to uh get the fund into compliance over a number of years it may take a few years uh then as it relates to the unrestricted net position negative of 14.4 million that's really comprised of various uh Gap adjustments and primarily the capital assets far outweigh uh the negative unrestricted net position actually leaving it Information Technology systems with a positive 34.3 million uh net position and at this point I'll turn it over to Tony who will briefly review the audit findings all right so I'll start with some audit terminology so material weakness is a deficiency in our internal control such that we it's reasonably possible that we have a material misstatement in our financial reports well a significant deficiency is a deficiency in internal controls that's less severe however the Auditors bring it to our attention so we can correct it to avoid um future issues so Reggie Reg talked about the the big report you have the the annual financial report we also you also have the single audit report that that discusses the grant expenditures so the city had for the year $117 million in Grant expenditures that were um 20 departments manage 279 active grants so so everything's a it's a Citywide effort for the for the annual report as always and you'll see in fy21 we had um five um five audit findings so we went from five audit findings in fy21 to one finding last year to zero findings this year so once again we had an un modified opinion which is the the highest level of assurance that Auditors can provide they did emphasize two matters related to the housing um Finance Corporation one was a correction of an error that Finance had failed to communicate new gasby standards with hfc staff so realizing that now we've put procedures in place to to where we'll improve our Communications and that should you know that that shouldn't happen anymore and then um again there was no audit findings and 1993 was the last time the city had no audit findings so this is the first time in 30 years that we haven't had an audit finding that's due to all the all of the um staff right here you we've got some outstanding managers we've got um Kate Perry Christian McCoy Steven Nesbit and if you guys want to want to quickly stand just to be I mean great job they're shy all right so so great job there and then um just real quickly there's we always have some we have five agreed upon procedures that the Auditors are finishing up this week and they haven't identified any ISS issues with that either so with that if there's any questions questions Council Carlos and then di um thanks for the presentation and uh maybe I can get a little clarification I know generally you know you would want you know a higher fund balance to cover you know those unexpected costs disasters things of that nature that come by also an assurance that you can uh manage your your debt right how much uh and we're training in the right direction right the end of sign fund balance is is going up you know see the chart on on page 19 but um how does that how does that correlate with our credit rating I mean I don't know if you can quantify it necessarily sure but sure um actually uh Mr cook uh presented at the council Retreat uh some information that uh actually Moody's shared with us actually at last year's credit rating meeting where they uh prepare an indicative report and it's prepared through the credit rating agency where they they rate each component of the rating I don't have that document in front of me but and nor do I but maybe maybe to narrow the question sure can can it improve our credit rating I mean you know the city's is what yes absolutely and we we we definitely uh based on the Moody's indicative report uh there they rate US very highly from the standpoint of having reserves and strong management policies uh and those higher ratings within the components help to offset some of the the the lower ratings for pension and debt o outstanding debt um and so that's why we are heavily focused on trying to raise the fund balance as best we can of course there's always a balance between offering services and having a fund balance but uh that's one of the positives I think here in Fort wor is that we have a really strong uh fund balance and not not just within the general fund but based on all of the individual funds that we manage we require certain fund balances as well and so we think that's a real positive and positively impacts the credit rating yep seems to be thank you sure so I just want to take a moment and say thank you it audit committee meeting today we had the presentation from Ben Conley and Dan Baron uh from forest on the external audit related to this and you went over the the key points from that in your slide 26 and 27 I don't think we can emphasize enough U the how incredible it is to have such a clean audit it's been 30 years and so Reggie Tony and the rest of the team I just really want to say thank you for your tremendous efforts here I don't think we can emphasize it enough thank you must be that audit chair right Alan any other questions Council gentlemen thank you so much excellent job and to the entire team I can't imagine how many hours went into this um and I will say well it might not be um Light reading there is some really helpful information in here in the analysis and I've in the past gotten really good background on departments and financial information other sub Departments of the city so just wanted to say thank you very much thank you okay Council last presentation and Dana berdoff our assistant city manager is going to kick things off for us a presentation on the panther Island strategic vision all right very excited to be here it's hard to follow a clean audit that's a pretty amazing accomplishment but I want to thank mayor and Council for this opportunity um before we get started uh do want to recognize um the partnership and the importance of partnership to this conversation and also the importance of community engagement um and so uh We've we've got an outstanding consultant team um but we wouldn't have gotten here without uh not just a public public partnership uh but public private partnership and so I'd like to recognize uh some of the the folks that we've been working with uh over the last uh year or so so we've got uh tarant Regional water district tant County tarant County College District greater uh uh Fort Worth Real Estate Council downtown Fort Worth Inc and streams and valleys and so you can imagine uh getting together seven different entities to not only draft a scope of work but hire a consultant and reach consensus on a final report to bring to you today uh also to the terent regional water district and other boards uh that will be briefing in in the coming weeks so I did want to mention um that um in 2022 when the Central City uh flood control project received its um really huge trunch of funding um to get get that project going get the bypass Channel design underway uh to see construction hopefully start in 2025 we realized that we needed to come together and revisit our vision for Panther Island which the city council adopted in 2004 and so 20 years later uh there's been a lot of changes a lot of growth in Fort Worth we've had covid uh we've had changes in the real estate uh market and so we realized that we needed some really some national experts to help us out and so we're really excited to have hrna advisers um come to us they've they've looked at about 40 different at least 40 different cities across the US and elsewhere that have dealt with near downtown Redevelopment uh reuse and particularly Waterfront development and so it's really exciting the opportunity that we have here in in Panther Island uh so in addition to Partnerships and in addition to looking at Best Practices they also spent a lot of time uh in community engagement over this last summer and fall working with property owners with potentially Future Property Owners with adjacent districts adjacent neighborhood leaders Trinity Metro the Cog the chambers um Tex do on and on so there's been a a lot of work that's that's gone into this and so we're excited to see that the guiding principles that they've highlighted and the recommendations that they've identified really reflect the the community input that that we all heard so with that I'd like to turn it over to uh managing partner with hrna Carrie herstein to kick off the consultant presentation so come on over to this mic it's a as mayor proen Biven says it makes you look better on this side well thank you Dana um um as Dana mentioned I'm Carrie hin I'm a managing partner with hr& advisers and uh really pleased to be here to um speak with you about Panther Island um you know I want to begin by recognizing really what uh an amazing Partnership of public and Civic entities that this effort represents it's a real pleasure to get to do this work it's even a greater pleasure when that Foundation has been laid when we come um to a city and um the complexity of this project warrants that level of involvement and it's been um great to see that level of integration and collaboration among the seven Partners listed here um we we we've began working about a year ago um we are a team of four firms uh hrna advisers a real estate and economic development consulting firm we work in cities all across the country to help create vital places build more Equitable and resilient cities and I'm pleased to be joined here by uh my partner Aaron ablon who's the managing partner of our uh Dallas office um we brought aboard Lake Fato uh an Urban Design and Architecture Firm uh out of Austin and you'll hear from Justin Garrison um their director of planning in a moment but it's it's been a real honor and privilege to work on uh a project of such importance for uh for the city so we've been working for close to a year uh with this group in very close collaboration uh with the steering committee and executive committee that was formed um very recently we've just released um three documents uh it's really two documents in executive summary um but our assignment was uh was was two main things one as Dana pointed out the vision for Panther Island was one that was cast over 20 years ago as we can all imagine and appreciate a lot has changed in the world since then um so now was a really important time and I'll talk about that in a moment to sort of rethink that and come up with a renewed Vision so uh led by Justin and his team um we're releasing a a sort of renewed Vision that really distills the communicate our our engagement of the public our work with the steering committees um to talk to establish urban planning and Urban Design framework for the island it is a foundation for thinking about for for all the work that needs to be done moving forward around the island the second sister document to that um is a real estate Economic Development and implementation strategy that lays out the steps by which the public sector in particular can really leverage this opportunity to um uh catalyze development to maximize the economic and social good produced by um the island and to lay out a road map for its implementation over time it's important to recognize that there are two separate projects um of which our Focus has really been the latter so um there is a the Central City flood uh control project which um is a larger Regional effort to uh uh protect uh flood uh to to to promote flood control that involves the bypass Channel now when that bbass channel is built and the uh sort of interior measures required along the Trinity River come into play the levies can come down and so a lot of the land that sits today vacant on Panther Island that has been reserved for flood control purposes can take upon a new use so the flood control project simplify things unlocks this Economic Development opportunity our charge was to think about that Economic Development opportunity um and we did so really I think at an important point in time um you know the receipt of over $400 million from the US Army Corps a few years ago matched by meaningful local contributions by the city the county the water district and others really has unlocked this momentum in new opportunity for the planning the design and the construction of many of the improvements associated with the flood control project people are beginning to see actual progress from this project that have been talked about for a very long time there are bridges that are built and they're going to people are going to see more and more Pro progress with the flood control project as as the coming over the coming years so this was a really important point to re-engage on a vision for the island and an implementation strategy and so we didn't do that from scratch we really built on two decades of planning work that has been done lots of really careful uh engineering work that has been put into place through the flood control uh um uh design work um and really tried to build upon that um and in instill a vision that met where we are today as a community this is a really a one I I can't emphasize this enough this is a once in a generation opportunity to take advantage of um you are the fastest growing city in Texas one of the fastest growing cities in the country this is an opportunity to capture that growth to strengthen that growth uh really in your Urban core in an infill environment not on the periphery of your city but in its core and you know Aaron Justin and I work all across the country it's really hard to think about an example um in other cities of this magnitude of this centrality and this potential um so I don't want that to be lost on you this is a really momentous opportunity both in terms of scale um between the North and South Island we have 335 acres of land um should this Vision come to fruition about 190 Acres of that is developable um so it's an Amazing Canvas really to build upon there's a tremendous amount of vacant land that has been reserved for flight control purposes and that allows us to really think about the future of this place and and reinvent it the centrality of this location is so important given its adjacency to downtown to the Cultural District to the Stockyards to North Side um and allows the opportunity for us really to think about a place that no longer is a place you just drive through but a place that connects all of these rich assets and rich communities and in doing so elevates all of them um so we really want to think of this project as a way to sort of deliver upon that goal as Dana noted um a you know a sort of incredibly important project like this requires the time um and focus to talk to lots of people uh in the community about this work um so we really focused on trying to engage you know the broad citizenry of Fort Worth but really many of the communities that surround it and landowners businesses that um exist on it today we sponsored six different public meetings where we invited uh specific uh communities to each of them um we spent a lot of time with a steering committee an executive committee that was formed from those seven sponsoring public and Civic uh um entities um and we undertook a lot of interviews and surveys and panel discussions um and those really shaped uh all of our thinking so what you'll see are not our ideas we're not coming from out of town and putting our thoughts on you it's our job really to distill um what we're hearing from everybody and bring that together in something that is is visionary but practical uh um so six key themes kind of came out um through many of those discussions and those informed our guiding principles which I'll talk about right now and which our team here will expand upon first the idea of creating this really one-of-a-kind District that engages the Waterfront we have this opportunity today to have a district that engages the river in a way that um downtown has not had the benefit to do today and that many of the adjacent communities have not we also have the opportunity to build something that is authentic Ally of Fort Worth but is unique and different and complimentary to it and in fact create something that is unlike anything in Texas or the country um this is an opportunity really to create a diversity of Park spaces green spaces Open Spaces across the island that um integrate into um sort of touch the river and bring people to the Waterfront that integrate to the canal system which is a really unique feature of the flood control control project um and allow us to not just create an amenity for Panther Island but to think about uh this network of of active Urban signature green spaces that are of an amenity for everybody the communities all around for downtown and for the greater region it's an opportunity to really have a vibrant mixed use destination that's about people and about community building so you'll hear from us this is about a place where people can live um and you know commute to downtown where they can work where they can play and visit and it's about creating new experiences and we really thought about how do we get these interactions and how do we get the types of experiences that build community and build um social the social fabric that makes great places great um and in doing so how do we do that really at a human scale this is the place for people first and foremost um as I mentioned we really want want to think about this as a source for connection um and for complimenting surrounding neighborhoods so everything we did was not to think not just about what would make Panther Island great but how is Panther Island an asset a source of synergy for its surrounding communities and in doing so starting to think about how we celebrate Fort Worth's diverse communities and its Heritage um Aon will talk a little bit about some of the tools and resources we want to deploy to really make this a place that wel eles everybody that honors and celebrates the history of the island and also to think about this project as bigger than something that's just you know 200 developable Acres or 330 Acres this is about the future of Fort Worth in many ways this is one of the most important projects you have to define the future of this city and to think about this project as that as a meaningful economic driver in your future um I will hand things over to Jus in a moment but the last thing I'll say is that the other thing that really makes this a tremendous opportunity is the public sector's control of land and as we talk about all the types of benefits and how we deliver upon this Vision the fact that you uh and your partners uh predominantly the water district control such a significant amount of land provides the opportunity for for the public entities really to dictate uh its future to select the right development Partners the right Community Partners to work with um to dictate the outcomes it seeks to achieve um and the public policy objectives it seeks to achieve but there's also an important aspect of that that's all about public private partnership which is both about working with the existing land owners as shown here in red as well as new parties that will come to the table with the desire of investing in in Panther Island and helping build its future so I'm pleased to hand things over now to Justin Garrison from Lake Flo who will talk a little more about the urban design framework great thanks Carrie um yes as thank you so much for having us here today it's a pleasure it's been a pleasure working with everyone on this project to date and it's an exciting moment for us to to help reveal that uh Vision to you all so as kri mentioned you know the next few slides I'm going to walk you through is a little bit of the updated the updated strategic vision for the Urban Design and planning part of it uh what this is not is a detailed master plan this is a framework plan that it builds upon the previous efforts to date and outlines some key features and recommendations related to urban designment planning as well as to to look at the future Evolution implementation of the of the the district so as you see here on the screen is accumulation of all these amazing features and recommendations that we're talking about and I'll walk you through in a few pages what those mean but that is access to more open space that is uh creating a continuous public accessible Waterfront uh having a walkable and connected District scale blocks for people uh having an efficient and connected Road Network and having an efficient and connected bike Network as well but also thinking about amazing opportunities for a robust Transit Network and again as car's mentioned there's once in a time once in a last time opportunity here Panther island with the canals I mean this does not really exist with this much Waterfront in the United States you have to look elsewhere for for True Vision like this so an amazing opportunity and I want to mention that there's a lot more detail in the report so we're covering high level here so encourage everyone to go look at the recommendations uh in in the final report but as we kind of break down those ideas from an open space Network big idea you know we looked at could there be successful districts around around the world is there one large open space for Panther Island and as we looked at the existing constraints of Panther Island and what's happening in previous Visions as well uh we come to a conclusion that a Distributing network is actually probably the best idea moving forward Panther Island what that does is allows you to break down those open spaces and move them across the panther Island and make each open space be within a f minute walk to anyone who lives nearby it allows you to have them to be interconnected to each other it allows different open spaces and green spaces to have different identity and program they could be on the water they could be interior to the to the district they could have different future identities and visions that for the community these are open spaces for everyone of Fort Worth this is not just for Panther Island and as you think about how that starts to play itself out uh and in terms of implementation when you distribute it and you break them down open space could be phased over time so as you see the kind of imagery of what that could look like of the open space conditions it's a mixture of scale it's for festivals and events there's there's a natural experience there's an active experience there's Hardscape there's there's softscape with and then there's also opportunities for storm water capture and and the needs of of the density that requires that I I'll just sort of lean in quickly and and say that these parks in open space in some ways do double duty for us one they deliver these great public amenities that open the island up for everyone but they also create significant value for the land around it so a lot of what you'll hear us talking about is how does the public sector over time invest in Contin to build create value on the island um you know all all the infrastructure everything that needs to be built is costly and we have to have viable development economics to do that so creating this type of of green infrastructure is a really effective way that we've seen um and put to use in cities all across the country to really sort of um bring both benefits in terms of uh land value premiums absorptions um uh sort of Market absorption as well so that's you know sort of a core goal as well and thinking about how they're distributed to bring that opportunity to lots of different land Holdings across the island and as we've been talking about the importance of Panther Island and it's relationship to water so there's three major features of Panther Island and this water engagement that is the bypass channel uh the canal system the pan the panther panther Lake and the Trinity River so all three of those basically Encompass the Waterfront so when we say public accessible Waterfront it is all three of those experiences the entirety edge of of Panther island is publicly accessible and what that experience could be like in those in the water as well as adjacent to the water could be building on what's happening today as well as um having art and culture and Community various um water interactions you know board boardwalks marinas um Gathering spaces you have the you know place to live place to shop place to dine all connected to the experience of water so an amazing opportunity here to play uh that out with the community and when it comes to the road Network looking at this we were making some tweaks to it but really the main points is just making the roads uh more efficient and connected internally to Panther Island but also externally to the surrounding neighborhoods and giving certain identities to roads that help them make a special opportunity and experience so for example you know for Street maybe becomes a Green Street connector connecting Riverfront Park to Riverfront to park and you can kind of see what that could look like in the bottom left image here creating this Double Tree LA prominade but also opportunities for roads to to close down for festivals and events roads to be accessible through Transit uh through uh bike Network through storm water capture but also make them the most pedestrian friendly streets you can imagine um here as well and it what happens on the streets is the transit um and the have there's an amazing opportunity here to think about the future Transit of Panther Island and the opportunity of this high-capacity Corridor that could that could connect you from downtown through Panther Island to the Stockyards to North Side Station uh so key recommendation is really just think about the future of that and the density that Panther Island would would help strengthen the reality of this as well as an Implement implementing an East West Mobility connection and connecting to those neighborhoods as well and then internal to Panther Island having more of a mo maybe a Mobility Loop connector within that larger Island connecting you to getting access to people to the parks to the waterfronts you can see here a mirror images of you know it's the buses it's the multimodal access where you can ride a bike you can get on a bus you can potentially get on a future street car um and you know the future of Mobility circulator is fun ideas as as um the uh kind of culture of community evolves into that world and the idea of Panther island is that we want to make it a place for people so this needs to be people designed first so habit um you know habitats for humans and that's really in places for people and breaking down the scale blocks to making sure that they're walkable and connected but also we we showed a lot of roads and transit in and out of of Panther Island we want to make sure that people can get to Panther Island on foot so that's pedestrian Bridges and that's connecting to your surrounding neighbors and neighborhoods as well and what that could feel like and look like like as a from a pedestrian standpoint again it's those experiences with with open spaces and water Bridges and the connectivity with even within the interior aspect of the island and creating a walkable human focused opportunity and from a scale and density standpoint and programmatically looking at opportunities to have a mix of uses to where they can cater again to to where you can live work play entertain recreate and and have all that opportunities here where Mi a mixture of scale where it's people focused and the density isn't scaring scary and it's not towel Tower slamming down to the ground there is a there is a play and mixture of heights that could go from one to two stories and we'll talk bit on the max height what that could be but that mixture of scale just creates a comfortable and pedestrian friendly environment and and the mix of uses allow that to happen as well so it's not predominantly one use across the island and as we talked about height we looked at from a high level standpoint the height the overall height allowance you know this is not a form based code we're not here telling you exactly what parcel is a certain height and setbacks and step backs and the realities of that but we are looking at holistically you know how can we recommend some density and height on Panther Island and to think about successful districts that that break this down we want we wanted to to recommend that we create a flexible kind of height allowance and the previous form based code had these subdistricts that were pretty detailed uh and kind of breaking that down and making more flexible but encouraging height around certain aspects and that is Transit so you can see the kind of heat map where there might be future Transit stops and having density around Transit having density around select Open Spaces that Carri was mentioning the economic reality of that and then also having uh density around Panther Lake has the sheer scale of it but then making sure that we're being cognizant of our neighbors and um the surrounding view corridors and saying view from downtown to panon from panon to downtown to stepping down to North Side stepping down to s Avenue that there is a sensitivity here you can see down in the section here and a recommendation of heights to achieve that and then maintaining the the the previous form based code it had the uh the tallest zones and maintaining those Heights as they are but I'm mixing that in with the recommendations of of the future I'm hand it off to Aaron to keep going on the implementation good afternoon I'm Aaron ablon managing partner for Texas with hrna advisers and uh you heard a lot from Carrie and Justin about what the Strategic Vision update puts forward and recommends I'll spend a few minutes talking a little bit about how it might move forward um and I think it's fair to say anyone who's lived in Fort Worth for a while or tracked the panther Island project or been uh or been part of complicated projects anywhere patience is a virtue um and that you know these projects take a long time to plan and a long time to implement but at the same time it was also a charge from the steering committee but also a priority uh in our work to think about what are the opportunities to do something soon what can happen in the near term um both to sort of demonstrate progress you know take advantage of the the flood control work that's that's happening um but you know really took sort of an analytical approach to say okay yes it's going to take some time for the flood control work to be completed and the entirety of the island uh development opportunities to be available um but you know as we dug into the infrastructure as we dug into uh what exists where there are reason things drawing people to uh Panther Island today there are people living in the The Encore apartments for example people go to Panther Island Brewery to Coyote Drive-In um and you know really what it boils down to is that even in advance of the flood control work being completed and the levies being decommissioned and able to be taken down um everything you see in red with uh some infrastructure development uh could be set up to move forward and most notably The Zone one the darkest red that you can see on the screen there are opportunities that could move forward um uh in in the very near term with infrastructure that is in place um and connecting in with the canal section that already exists um and so you know this this work I think really helped uh put forward a phasing approach that the the project Partners can use to guide some decision-making about infrastructure uh and development and as we you know engaged with community members as he engaged with um with with some of you I think it it became uh quite clear that it's it's important not just that Panther Island the panther Island P project happen and and come to fruition uh but that it be done in a thoughtful um and Equitable way um which really boiled down to to three goals one um and and these are important to sort of understand and and have on the table now and be planning proactively for um to ensure that you know that that the economic opportunities associated with the development of Panther Island um Can acre to to the neighborhoods around around the the project to Citizens across Fort Worth um that you know this project links very closely in with the city's economic development plan um and the sort of Economic and Workforce training initiatives and and efforts and priorities that you all have have defined um you know it's it's important to acknowledge that large scale projects large scale Investments like this uh can and do have impacts on the neighborhoods around them um and you know this there's the benefit of this project that the the its location has a little bit of distance from those neighborhoods but it's important to be planning proactively for those those impacts um and planning for things like affordable housing um within the project and lastly um using through through design through programming making sure that uh Panther island is a place that is welcoming that is inclusive um that people of all ages people from of all Races people from every neighborhood and in particular some of those that are closest to Panther Island um can and do want to be there and can see themselves there um you know none of this happens without uh financial resources and I think that's there's been so much invested to date and our team spent time thinking about you know with for all of the infrastructure that's required for all of the buildings that are going to have to be built um it's really going to require a multi-layered and public private approach to uh to funding um you know you all have already in invested in a lot of the infrastructure that's necessary uh for the for the flood control work and that's ongoing um and I think in in this case it's about finding the balance of uh you know what developer contributions um the use of of public land and other funding opportunities any of which can be you know acred through typical uh uh fees or repayment um to make the project uh feasible and similarly uh large scale projects like this um often require uh some governance approaches that can ensure that the vision um like that we're we're describing today uh has the the resources and capacity in place to Steward over the long term and so we've put forward some recommendations in close collaboration with the steering committee and the executive committee uh to ensure that that that that organizational structure and governance and the level of collaboration and the level of commitment that we've seen over the course of the last year is institutionalized and not lost as the project moves forward and so um establishing a a new uh organization to oversee and and Steward that plan um formalizing some of the near-term agreements around infrastructure uh development and making sure that you know as the project moves into operation and there's parks and Open Spaces to to Champion and to Steward uh that the organization uh organizational structures are in place to attract you know public and but and private and philanthropic resources uh and program and operate high quality spaces um and so there's a lot of work to come this is this is one important step and reflects a lot of work from from many um on on both our team and and the the the uh the client team um and you know just just to highlight a a few of the next steps that over the next coming years you know there's a f there need to be a focus on Zone one to make some of that early activation possible um of course on the architecture and planning front updating the form-based code is going to be a process that that you all will of course be very involved in um and leading the infrastructure planning you want to not get behind on it and make sure you're setting up for for develop to be ready for development um and preparing for uh these this governance effort the governance structures to be in place um a number of those things that are going to be important to move forward uh most immediately and so we are just excited to be here I think this is an exciting moment it's not an easy project it's a complicated project it's going to require a lot of continued attention and commitment um and we hope that the work we've done and collaborated with uh many folks uh and and the community on can help equip you to to move it forward and we're happy to answer any questions thank you Carlos I think you had a question yes thanks for the presentation I know youve worked very hard with it and I appreciate the continued Outreach that you made you done those multiple times and uh I know that councilwoman Beck and I have been watching this carefully uh in particular I I like that uh you added the mass you know the massing renderings I think that went far to kind of U addressing some of the uh concerns that some had in trying to picture you know what development could look like you know per zones so this is a development Vision as you said it's not a master plan per se it does prescribe you know with with the stakeholder input that we received how development could go again within you know form based code context so um you know I'll let councilwoman back talk about the downtown you know uh input that they've received but the way I see it is you know Panther Island downtown are neighbors right right and panther island is just starting on a very long road of development you know downtown continues to evolve and continues to develop I think that both you know as neighbors can do more than just merely coexist they can I think benefit from each other's uh development courses and uh raise each other you know both in in the process so uh the developments that we've been talking about that are possibilities for you know Panther Island range from residential entertainment Open Spaces uh office spaces U that's that's a big swath right A lot can happen you know within that and again I want to emphasize that this is mutually complimentary I think you know with the downtown neighbors including those older neighborhoods like north side that have existed there you know for a very long time and been watching this and have been very active you know in the stakeholder input process so all this built around the infrastructure de that we've been talking about the Central City River Project flood control accessibil ility surrounding neighborhoods Mobility you know I I like the parts you know that that you've outlined that you identified that we need to keep in mind as we go into the form based code development thank you for stting that Carlos I really appreciate that um and thank youall for all of the work that you've done and like councilman Flores said we've been watching this pretty closely we've got a lot of stakeholders that are very interested because they are neighbors to Panther Island and I appreciate your attention today down town um when going through this process um the one thing that I want to make sure that we're not losing sight of is that it also neighbors West 7th and so with downtown now Panther Island and uh West 7th which um is a got a couple years head start on Panther Island in our Redevelopment efforts uh this particular area of the city is um set to we're hopefully setting it up to see some very explosive growth and densification of um people living there and so um thank you for doing this thank you for giving us something big to achieve for the only thing I would ask is that moving forward um we also make sure that we're including those Neighbors in the West 7th area because I can tell you from the emails that I get they are just as interested in what's happening here as uh my folks in downtown as well so thank you Gina I lived in San Antonio for four years I can't wait to stick it to them in their River wall serious uh I I have some very positive feedback to offer but when it gets to that that is questionable I'm going to call staff because you guys don't need to be bothered with the negativity but uh one thing that I really like when you talk about a f minute walk that is awesome I see Richard zala back there he knows I'm going to want to talk about the 10-minute standard you know National Park standards dictate if you are not within a 10-minute walk to a park you are underserved so you guys are knocking that out of the park now you mentioned so much about Transit I'm hoping you've had a conversation with the Beautiful Mind of Michael moris because Michael just comes up with things that are just crazy but brilliant and it's it's very very interesting for me to to watch his brain work a few of us serve on the regional transportation Council let's see I had another note here tell me again because I had to walk out to kind of wake up while ago but you you talked about the importance of a public private land in terms of public ownership what makes that so good I I think what makes that so important is that you can in control the timing um and help Drive the specific outcomes of what you seek with that land you know one of the great things of the public sector is that it can be patient it can think in the long term um and this is one of those efforts where you want to get it right I mean this is going to matter for generations and generations so to have that land and to be able to dictate which land gets set aside for public open space when you dispose of land to think about the types of things you want to achieve in that um we're very focused on a fully publicly accessible Waterfront as one example um but we're also talking about things like affordable and Workforce housing and how those are integrated so the control to be able to say well this is what we want to achieve to go to the market and choose the development partners that you have the greatest trust in in partnering with to execute that and to dictate the order and timing by which that happens is is is a great gift now don't get me wrong it doesn't mean that projects won't jump up and pop up here and there you know private developers uh private land owners have rights to develop their land and they will pursue so it's not as if this is a you know a plan that needs to be followed to a t but it creates a structure a framework by which you can proceed in building out portions of the island I look forward to frequent reports from you guys and updates and now I need staff to get to the podium I hate to be a party pooper but one thing that I never will forget was when I went through leadership Fort Worth and we had uh mwan doing part of the tour MH he talked about Samuel's Avenue yes Samuel's Avenue has a history that does not rest well with African-Americans in this city that's where the lynching occurred that's right and so what I would like to make sure is that we give appropriate recognition in however that is going to be conveyed because we just can't gloss over history that's right and I'm not the one but you know you you've got people who have people and we've got the black historical engine logical people let me finish then I'm going to sit down because it's y'all's District not mine but it's just really important to me that we recognize that but just know I am really excited about this I think you guys were right on the mark you know for this and I'm going to be there with pom poms and everything but I had to mention that yeah and now I defer to the council woman well I have some great news for you tell me so you mentioned that Samuel's Avenue does have very dark past um and the site of that particular lynching has been purchased through a very generous Grant from the rainwater foundation and the City of Fort Worth is working with those um Partners to help make sure that there is a permanent memorialization of that event there on Samuels Avenue so we're working on it so in addition to Ellis pan we bought this land too we didn't buy the land someone else purchase right and we're working with them to to make they're two different sites yes ma'am okay okay we didn't oh yeah well when I see Fernando getting up he's getting ready to clean it up so that people know exactly where we said I think councelor Beck has uh put her finger on it uh the city is cooperating uh on the development of a Fred Rouse Memorial uh at the site of that uh event and uh it may be appropriate that a future date for us to bring you a briefing by Mr Fred Rouse III uh about that significant project he worked for my dad year year years ago and are you still convening that group of black clergy over at Hazel Harvey peace uh you may be referring to Michael Bale and the others we have uh met on several occasions we have not met in the past several months um because that group was focused uh uh principally uh on U uh events associated with the a criminal trial uh but uh that's a a valuable resource uh for this project and for others of its kind it it's going to be very important that they be updated because if not they'll feel left out we'll be sure to do that okay okay thank you and again this is awesome thank you thank you um Dana and team thank you all for the presentation today I think we had a few people I know Dan buman is here thank you Dan for taking the time I saw mayor bar here as well um thank you mayor bar um Ken came to my office um gosh it's been 18 24 months ago to say you know what if we convened a a great group of Partners and we've achieved to this so um thank you for all the incredible work I I think um yeah Stacy Pierce is here from Str Val I thought she left she's still here I just can't see you Carlos has has good hair congratulations Carlos uh hi Stacy um I don't really have a lot of specific Statics to share I think that um as the as the residents of Fort Worth kind of get used to this plan I'm really optimistic of how positive it is um you've gone through a lot of stakeholder meetings um and public transparency has has been the at the center of this which we really do appreciate um the other thing I would mention is that we are so proud of the partnership we have with the water district right now and Dan kudos to you and your entire team and your board everything we've needed at least since I've been mayor you've gone above and beyond and I think that that partnership is reflected here in this document because the only way this this project is accomplished is if the two governmental entities are really working closely together so um thank you very much for for all that you've done so far and um Council I think that all of us have a piece of this this may be specific to D9 and D2 but I hope that you see the transformative opportunity that this presents and so if you have questions that are not addressed in this executive summary or you want additional information or really want it C down to smaller pieces I know this team could do that for you so you feel like you've got the information you could send out to your respective organizations and there's Miss Kate back I didn't see Kate either um Kate is a traitor no no no kidding Kate works for she's been assimilated she has I know she's she's got a foot in both places is teasing aside we wouldn't be here without you either Kate thank you for all your expertise we appreciate it that's all thank you Council that's the last of our presentations today um I think we can move to Future agenda items as needed if anybody has any Elizabeth please uh I would like an update on our arpa funds I know that the the time period in which we have to use them or lose them is approaching and so I just like to see where we are on that um and then the second IR U I would i' would like to task staff with um exploring um installing baby boxes into our Safe Haven locations and what that would look like from um a strategic standpoint and a um and a financial standpoint as well uh baby boxes are essentially um specialized units where instead of knocking on the fire station door the hospital door um mother a parent can can put the infant in that box and it's been shown Across the Nation to be highly effective at at saving newborns that um are otherwise going to be [Music] abandoned yeah you'll have to help me understand the baby box we'll talk I uh I'd like a report no I'd like to revisit the stop six memorandum of understanding it dawned on me we've got two new key players and they have not really been brought in that being for ISD and TCC and I'd like to make sure that we acknowledge the interest from United Way and so it might be just a report or the convening but it needs to be stated into the public record because of all the partners who've been so helpful with that stop six revitalization plan sounds good anyone else on future agenda items Chris yeah I have one I got a question uh someone I want to know um I know that we did our negotiation with the uh Mee and confer agreement for 10 years but I think every four years there is a every four okay oh only four years I want to know who um who are our stakeholders as a part of that negotiation and just update on what it looks like that's I think we're approaching the four years maybe in a couple years something like that I can real briefly that we're in the process of doing the uh negotiations on the meet and confer for police that agreement will expire at the end of September of this year right and that'll then go for the next four years last year we did fire and it'll go for another three years I got one more mayor yes ma'am I need everybody who is watching this on TV who's listening to it who can read a paper sometime in March this month we're going to have the biggest party you've ever seen it's going to be at Trinity Boulevard and 820 as we formerly celebrate the opening of the Trinity Lake Station I wrote that station to Dart last week it's easy although they did send an on board a ride with me I guess they thought I get lost again but it's going to be fabulous and in time will get you to Houston within 990 minutes from that location so sometime in March we don't have a date yet but everybody get ready for it it's going to be fabulous thank you Gina Jared did you have something yes ma may I look forward to running that train with you at some point we gonna make you pay I just have one hey I don't mind that but I I'll have you know that might take food out of Janelle's mouth so anyways um I just want to follow up on our earlier conversation um just to request um formally um an informal report on regular monthly fees um that are um charg to our residents so if you could just provide something really quick about what are the average regular monthly fees that our residents are paying that'll be helpful in that conversation that we had earlier anyone else on items okay thank you meeting's adjourned huh yeah I will I don't I need it though Council I'm just going to read this for executive session to start the city council will now convene into executive session on the following matters the city council will conduct a closed meeting in order to seek the advice of its attorneys is authorized by section 551.071 of the Texas government code deliberate concerning real property matters as authorized by section 55107 the 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