e e e e noon nice to see everybody back I will call our work session to order today is August 6th and turn it right over David Cook we've got a good agenda glad to see everybody's face Hello everybody welcome back hope everybody enjoyed July off we're back all right let's see for upcoming events uh we have a public comment meeting at 6 and I just wanted to remind everybody that right before we start public comment we will have the kids who care who will perform a Thank You song before that at 555 all right for organizational updates the first thing I'm going to do is call on Mark McDaniel to recognize employees from our information Tech technology department Mark okay well this is a great opportunity for me to call out our IT staff uh because as the council is very aware we were uh I think in touch with you all all through the day on Friday July 19th when we had the uh misconfigured update to the antivirus software Crow crowd strike it disabled 425 of our servers and another 1,500 of our laptops and um desktop computers um and we were down for a time even with our Emergency Services Communications uh but thankfully uh we have a a plan uh that they they rehearse they drill on uh and it worked very well um I just wanted to take some time out to really publicly thank Kevin and his team and not only them but uh IT workers in other departments um for their really quick work um I got the call um well we we this it happened at 1:00 a I think Sally Trotter was really engaged around two uh probably before then my uh phone uh starts blowing up at about 3 or four Rene's calling me and so then we we opened the uh EOC just to as a soft opening with the executives there with the emergency teams to make sure that you know there was anything else that that uh we didn't know about and that we actually had a plan in place uh and sure enough uh we did as of Kevin and his team uh by the this was Friday of course and by the time Monday rolled around it was virtually a non-event because of all the hard work that they had done uh throughout the weekend uh late into the night uh and uh really scram Ling at different facilities to try to take care of our employees so uh please help me and just thanking all of our IT staff for a great job well [Applause] done Kevin yes thank you Mr McDaniel city manager cook mayor Parker uh council members uh usually we spend our time in the back office we don't get seen a lot uh and we're not providing the Frontline services but we do support those who do provide those Services every day we take a lot of pride in the work that we do and I thought it was important so you could see all of the faces of the people who support this city day in and day out 365 uh seven days a week and and really do a bang up job in the process so go ahead guys raise your hand and [Applause] yay about about 50 people across five six uh seven departments really got the city back up up on its feet and running in a very short amount of time we're very proud of them thank you well done Mark's gonna stay right there because he's now going to introduce our new code director okay thank you Mr city manager so Val is taking her uh daughter to college this day and so she asked me to step up and help her to introduce Brian so Brian docker come on to up to the podium Brian I want tell you a little bit about him uh many of you have met Brian he's got this infectious energy um and just can do Spirit that's just off the charts uh so just two of the reasons why we're excited about him joining us he's a 20-year resident of Fort Worth he has 17 years in Code Enforcement with the City of Arlington starting out as a code enforcement officer and working his all the way his way up to director um during that time so uh three or four promotions um he uh he attended uh Mercy College and where he received a bachelor's degree there um and he's very familiar with a lot of our programs like like the uh neighborhood enhancement program or uh or Improvement program and um the short-term rentals and the the issues there and just all facets of it including Animal Services as well so um we're so honored and really happy he he is on board uh and again um your your energy is infectious and just keep doing what you're doing so please help me to welcome Brian on board thank you guys excited to be here appreciate it okay all right and then uh finally I'm going to call on Jessica mcaker to introduce uh new staff member in Parks and Recreation perfect mayor and Council it's exciting to be here today I am here to introduce our newest assistant director with the Park and Recreation Department you all remember that Sandra youngl just retired after 29 long years of service to the city so we knew that we had some big shoes to fill we conducted a nationwide search for this position we had almost 90 applicants to look at um and Joel mcnight Rose to the top and is just amazing and we are so thrilled that he's here Joel joins us after a 16-year career with the city of El Paso as the parking Recreation deputy and assistant director prior to that he served as park operations manager for the city of Lancaster and then prior to that he was superintendent of golf at Hackberry Creek Country Club in Irving Joel holds a Bachelor of Science degree in horiculture from Texas A&M University he is a national Recreation and park Association certified Park and wreck exec and he also participates as a visitor advisor and Mentor for the commission for accreditation of Park and Recreation agencies he is going to be responsible for planning directing and managing the activities and operations of the Department's uh Park Operations Division which includes 122 full-time staff members in that division they maintain 263 of our 302 Parks um they also manage the oversight of city-wide programs and services such as Grounds Maintenance mowing contract Park reservations adopto Park agreements and pit contracts as well as the graffiti abatement program and our natural resources initiative Joel began his time with us just a couple weeks ago on July 8th and hopefully soon his wife Diane and Son Joshua will join him here in Fort Worth so please join me in welcoming [Applause] Joel thank you very much I'm happy to be here and look forward to us making a difference in the community and not to throw confusion but we now have two assistant directors in parks that are both Joel M so happy to help though distinguish between the two when you need help Joel thank you welcome Joel now turning to informal reports the first informal report is an update on sales tax revenue and Christian Simmons is available if there's any questions all right the next informal report is an update on broadband enhancement efforts and Kevin gun is available if there's any questions we're rolling the third informal report is uh is on creating single roll EMS positions within the fire department and Dianna Giordano is available if there are any questions think be good to have an update on that one Di good afternoon Diana gardano Human Resources Director as well as the civil service director for the city of Fort Worth just to kind of give you a quick overview of the process uh that we're entering with the local 440 as we look to create the single role EMS provider in the fire department part of that includes us kind of negotiating and creating a memorandum of understanding with the local 440 to amend their collective bargaining agreement uh we have initiated those conversations we have a schedule that's scheduled through July um through September 4th with kind of a Target date to ratify the memorandum of understanding by end of end of uh September uh one of the things that we're looking at is everything relating to wages overtime leave benefits hiring promotional processes and discipline those are kind of the key categories that the collective bargaining agreement oversees and then how do we fold those single World providers into the collective bargaining agreement we're off to a good start we in in addition to that we have subcommittees that are working on very specific processes relating to pay benefits entry exams promotional exams and those um entities that we're working with include not only members of the city but members of MedStar members of local 440 as well as just kind of all of the different stakeholders within the city and MedStar that are going to be impacted again we're off to a good start we're hoping that we can have that um entered into and complet it by the end of September so if there's any specific questions I'm available to answer them all right thank you the next informal report is on the fort wor Spinx master plan and Roger venables is available if there are any questions I do Roger yeah good afternoon Council yes sir I don't really have questions maybe just give it over rview for the audience and for those listening about this plan sure uh this is the Spinx airport Master Plan update um historically you want to do these about every seven to 10 years to make sure you're meeting the forecasted demand of the aviation industry the last time we did a Spinx Master Plan update was 2004 so in 2022 we received a grant from uh Texas Department of Transportation Aviation division to conduct an update to essentially our master plan which it really turned out to be a new master plan after 20 years of not having done one uh so what it is it very core it's a it's a facilities plan it's understanding what capital needs or Investments need to be made to the airport to support forecasted Aviation demand over the next 20 years again plan should be Revisited about every five to seven years uh again to make sure one we're aligned with our master plan over that 20-year term Horizon if not we need to make changes to it or provide another update to so basically that's what city council will be asked to adopt at the next council meeting would be this updated master plan and we really appreciate the efforts of the aviation Advisory Board we had a planning advisory committee that was formed with representatives from Tex out Aviation the city of Burleson Economic Development here transportation and public works and local stakeholders at the airport to help formulate this plan thank you Roger thank you any other questions Council thank you oh go ahead Carlo sorry just real quick Roger I think you told me but I forgot uh does the Spinx master plan include uh you know those fuel station islands that we talked about uh for meum as well uh there we didn't do any relocation of the fuel farm right now that'll be based on on demand future demand for expansion of that facility uh a couple of notable items really in the Spinx airport master plan or a extension of the runway to meet critical Design Group airports uh aircraft craft in the future again that's not something that has to happen immediately it's when demand starts to exist for it in that critical Design Group for larger jets for instance then we would look at doing a Runway extension that's probably the most significant one and we've carved out areas in the master plan to accommodate Advanced Air Mobility okay thank you thank you RoR thank you all right our next informal report is on a proposed zoning text amendment to add schools to the 1,000 foot distance requirement for hotels I have a couple questions Shandra Stringfellow is available Leandra oh that's not Leandra surprise hi I'm Stephen Murray I'm with the zoning department Hey Stephen how are you good good um I just have a couple of questions uh just so we're kind of clear on who isn't isn't impacted okay so with the H and the mixed use and uh the form based that would exclude Stockyards downtown near Southside West 7th and any other entertainment districts that is correct okay um the only thing that I would ask is um if you could reach out to visit Fort Worth and um and just make sure that we're not missing any other areas that might need to be um exempt and then uh if you could just for the benefit of the hotels or maybe people developing hotels right now um can you just let people know what this process looks like if they already have a hotel or if they've already pulled a permit to build a hotel okay sure and just FYI we've notified hotels that are currently within that thousand foot boundary to let them know that there is a text amendment in place so we can get feedback from them but we'll do okay thank you thank you the next inform former report is on the public safety payroll solution and Mark McDaniel is available if there are any questions all right the next informal report is on a reallocation of unprogrammed Federal grant funds for elderly and homeless services and special needs support and Casey Bess is available if there are any questions and the final informal report is on mosquitoes it's an update on the 24 mosquito surveillance program and West now virus control response and Wendy Turpin is available if there are any questions mayor I don't know what happened to this group but I am finished with informal report back from summer break there you go there you go okay Council we'll move right along any questions on the upcoming MNC log for next week's council meeting on August 13th no then our first update uh and report from staff is an update on landfill gas by Dr Cody witberg with Environmental Services director all right good afternoon and welcome back happy to bring an update about our landfill gas project to you this afternoon you just may recall that in the spring we brought an IR of a pretty aggressive timeline for a voluntary procurement process through the summer and I'm very excited to say that we were able to to what land on a really good path forward in my opinion let's do a quick overview of landfill gas talk about that voluntary procurement process then hopefully to speak to who we are recommending as a selected vendor and talk about recommendation and next steps for this project and just recap rethinking waste all the time to try to identify resources from those opportunities so again landfill gas sometimes abbreviated lfg this is this natural byproduct that's coming out of the landfill as those materials decompose and of course the city again owns the southeast landfill and we operate with that landfill with Republic Services and we worked together to come to the table to come up with a path forward to hopefully develop a RNG facility at the southeast landfill so again this lfg is converted through a series of processes to create RNG or renewable natural gas and from that we get some benefits waste to energy from that Solid Waste that's decomposing reduction of greenhouse gases like methane and hopefully some Revenue opportunities as well as we then sell that r or the renss that are profitable from there and it's not the first time we've dealt with biogas as a city for the last 20 years or so the water department has shipped some of this biogas through a pipeline to a RNG facility at the Arlington landfill so just real quick for a quick diagram from the EPA you can see what we're talking about is this facility that's it's on this illustration in this red box so gas again comes from the landfill is processed through this RNG facility and then is pipelined into your natural gas pipeline in this case to mix with that natural gas and to be used for energy or Transportation or other uses and just as a note as of March there were about 526 active landfill gas projects in the US and about 459 candidates for this type of facility we are one of those 459 I just want to highlight of course that this was a collaborative effort there's no way that Environmental Services could have done this by ourselves so many departments have come forward to help us support this project project we've also worked closely with outside partners for reviews of financials review of engineering review of best practices and even review of our contracts as we continue to work with Republic and then of course speaking to Republic as great partners and also great Partners throughout the community who are really advocating that we try to find a path forward here just as a quick recap Once we're able to work through some conversations about the contract with Republic we've been able to expedite this process in the last few months moving into just February and March we were able to develop this voluntary request for proposals and then moving into April and May we were able to get that request for proposals out to five pre-selected vendors and we are happy to report that we had all five of those pre-selective vendors submitted Pro proposals to us and then the panel worked through that process another reason for this sort of aggressive timeline is we were trying to capitalize on what's known as the investment tax credit this is coming out of the inflation reduction act and helps us able to capitalize on some of those IRS type proceeds so moving right along through that selection process and just highlighting the excellent work that has been done so again we took those five pre-selected firms we offered them this request for proposals and received proposals again from each of those and then an independent panel worked to conduct full reviews of those proposals and all five were invited to interview with a specific panel and we actually requested best and final off offers from the top two firms from those evaluations then we had a joint evaluation panel to highlight that partnership that has to occur between the city and Republic but then we had the city staff independently review each of these proposals and do an independent scoring and then we of course went back to Republic to ensure that we had agreement on the recommended vendor also want to highlight this was a voluntary process so it is not utilizing City funds this is what we kind is really TurnKey the developer comes in provides all the services installs the RF RNG facility and then we're able to move forward but each of these proposals came forward with financing options design construction operations and maintenance and really a discussion on those Revenue distributions so our proposed vendor through this process is Aria energy it's a it's a company within the BP family and they are recommended vendor we will be they're based of course in Houston and they were acquired in late 2022 as a part of their proposal they again bring forward this concept of being fully funded they anticipate that once they get a notice proceed and everything is signed it would take about 18 to 24 months to develop this RNG facility they would also of course pay development fees to the city and within their proposal it's capitalizing on a 30% of that royalty for sell of that RNG again piped into the pipeline and also for the ren or the renewable identification numbers as a part of that field standard program and then of course they also highlighted a potential for maybe future carbon capture and carbon sequestration so just highlighting a little bit further on what we are hoping to to see move forward in accordance with our contract with Republic these proceeds any proceeds would be split 50/50 and the landfill gas itself we expect that it will be producing that landfill gas for conversion to RNG for 20 to 30 years from from now and of course beyond that of course the facility would be decommissioned once it's no when it's useful life and there's there's no longer a need to capture that that landfill gas moving into the specific Financial benefits to the city uh if we were able to execute an agreement they would pay the city and Republic 100,000 we split that so 50,000 coming to the city and then during development they've offered to pay development fees as part of their proposal so somewhere between two to three million anticipated again half of that coming to the city and then the real benefit is once that facility is up running and producing that RNG and those renss that would be as a byproduct of of those we seeing probably between 5 and 10 million dollars per year annually again split between us and Republic moving forward so we're really excited to see where this project goes these revenues could be really beneficial as we look for long range strategies for solid waste planning so we would like to move forward with also creating a capital fund to secure funding for either a future landfill or some other Municipal solid waste facility and hopefully also have additional Revenue to support the acquisition of green space and conservation of that green space or perhaps some other environmental type programs among other potential uses so with that next week on Tuesday the 13th it's our recommendation as staff that you would consider approving an MNC to enter into a Services agreement with our K energy and then from there we will work of course as staff to complete the executed agreement with Aria and hopefully begin construction of the site and hopefully start to capitalize on some of these Revenue opportunities so thank you any questions for Cody man y'all are easy today thank you Cody very much um our next presentation is a presentation our proposed tax abatement agreement with GE on wi and Sher Gordon is going to present today as mentioned the purpose of this presentation is a tax abatement agreement with GE on-wing a proposed tax abatement agreement with GE on-wing support which is a subsidiary of GE Aerospace GE Aerospace is a world leader in providing aircraft engines systems and avionics GE on-wing support is a legal entity of GE Aerospace GE on-wing support has is a full service provider of engine maintenance and repair with eight facilities across the globe including a current facility in Fort Worth at 15225 FAA Boulevard competing sites for this project were sister facilities of GE onwi support in Oklahoma Kansas Tennessee and Ohio GE Aerospace parent company has over 52,000 employees on-wing support has 3 employees worldwide with 65 currently based in Fort Worth in test cell and engine maintenance operations parent company GE Aerospace had 38.1 billion in Revenue in 2023 the project location at 15225 FAA Boulevard is seen in red on the current location the additional site is jent at 15101 FAA Boulevard which is currently Greenfield and they'll be expanding to have a presence across both sites uh as mentioned they're expanding from the current facility across the adjacent parcel for a larger single footprint the proposed capital investment is 50 million it's 100 additional full-time jobs so that's in addition to the 165 for a total of one in addition to the 65 for a total of 165 at the site and the expected average annual salary is above 70,000 on the company commitments their their commitment per capital investment is 50 million it's 37.5 in Real Property improvements by December 31st 26 12.5 in business personal property by January 1st 2027 that's the 100 additional full-time jobs by December 31st 2026 the minimum average salary for all jobs above 70,000 we expect that to be closer to 880,000 or above based on current salaries but this is the minimum salary that's agreed to and a 15% of construction cost to be bef companies we're proposing a 7-year tax abatement of up to 60% of the incremental reel in BPP the abatement is subject to the company performance requirements failure to meet the minimum debt investment is a default failure to meet the minimum 70,000 average salary require results in a forfeiture of the batement for that year failure to meet full-time jobs commitment the jobs commitment of the plus 100 would result in a reduction of the abatement a proportional reduction failure to deliver 15% of construction costs would result in 10% reduction of the abatement um and on the summary we have the 50 million total capital investment 37.5 real 12.5 BPP creating 100 new full-time employees average wages above 70,000 proposing 7-year incentive 60% with a value of 1.2 million City participation 2.4% net new taxes at the site is 811 the in net present value of those net to taxes is 6458 185,000 with a payback of 3.88 years recommending the seven-year tax abatement 60% of the incremental real and business personal property taxes and we would see this at MNC on August 13th and available for any questions you ch any questions no no questions Council that is the conclusion of our presentations for today do we have any requests for future agenda items or reports council member Beck sure um I'd like staff to conduct a a review of what other cities do um when it comes to variable tax rates for affordability right now our options are to leave it on the tax rolls or take it completely off I'd like to see if there's some um possibility of a sliding scale that we can Implement to help us get to affordability but not losing that tax base council member Flores I think you had your hand up I have a couple um first I already made Outreach to uh Robert Sterns and Justin newart on this so they're aware of it but just to formalize it request an IR and for staff to look into uh using National Trust of historic preservation to support small uh uh historical businesses I know that you know around the country that it's been used before they indicated that that's something that they could uh perhaps Supply here in Fort Worth so formerly I request they look at that second uh is an IR and I've already spoken to jerus Mapes and legal about it and Leanne as well uh this has come up before you know in the recent history of Council evaluate the use of G carts in entertainment districts and college campuses and I'm being very very uh Limited in in what I am saying because I know that I don't want to create a slippery slope here and just have them run rampid across the city because I've had issues before and some of the areas up north in my district don't I'm not advocating for them to be used up there on public streets but what we are seeing is in the Stockyards for example more purchases by stakeholders there of golf carts are using them more frequently are uh jerus has talked to them about that this is going to continue so I see that as being applicable in uh entertainment districts and then in college campuses just driving through the TCU area yesterday one pulled out in front of me and uh excuse me and it's not for you know street legal use but they're being used in construction areas and it's more prevalent so I think we should try to get ahead of it and start you know making some uh recommendations and how we handle it under our ordinance than Carlos did you have one char did yes so I talked to Lauren PR about this uh before but i' just like a an IR from tpw and risk management risk management regarding um how aggressively we're going after uh insured motorist whenever it comes to taking out street signs our light pools Etc know we deal with that quite a bit uh and looking at the cost of those and going up I just want to make sure we are aggressively going after these we all know insurance companies try to get out of everything uh but I just want to make sure we're actually getting our money back from those uh insured or or what the process is for uninsured motorists and how all that's recuit so thank you Charlie Chris yeah uh I think I asked for this last time I can't remember but the uh grease trap ordinance I wanted to uh look deep into that uh versus um uh major kitchens and smaller kitchens and then the other thing I want us to um revisit I know we talked about uh in the new city hall uh security uh with the metal detectors I know we initially said we wasen going to have them but I want us to revisit that idea thanks Chris anybody else no with that Council wear journ I'll see you at 6 for