thank you very much good afternoon everybody the first order of business is to talk about next week schedule uh Monday is Labor Day so Labor Day Holiday City offices will be closed but business will go on as usual in the garbage area and in the public safety area there is no council meeting on Tuesday but there is a budget workshop on Thursday scheduled for 10:00 that's September 7th at 10: and we also have one scheduled for Friday September 8th if needed and Council I think on that one we'll do like we did this last week we'll try to give you plenty of warning if we think we're going to need Friday we'll try to get through it Thursday and allow you to have um your Friday back to work in your other jobs so that's a good motivator too mayor all right and next I'm going to call on William R Rumley to recognize the Goodwill summer earn and learn program William thank you David good afternoon mayor and counsel uh colleagues um as I have some folks come up here we want to talk today just real quick recognition about the summer earn and learn program the summer earn and learn program is a program funded by the state of Texas Workforce Commission and administered locally by Goodwill North Central Texas to create Pathways to employment for students with disabilities um this year we were able to place 23 seal interns this year um this is our fifth year to be a part of that program and we've uh placed over a hundred individuals uh throughout those five years um it's a 10 week program this last last summer June 5th to August 13th placements this year were with Parks and Recreation Property Management Transportation public works department uh as part of the program disability awareness training was offered Citywide to St staff for Texas Workforce Solution as part of this learn um how to work with individuals have disabilities the value of them and just you know what we can do those things to bring folks into the workforce um and and the considerations we need to make so that training was provided just to my right by Deborah Jones who's with the Texas Workforce Commission uh I also have Daniel Clark from the deputy Regional director of Texas Workforce Commission so they um work to make sure this program is out throughout the area and then we also work with will North Texas so if y'all will raise your hand Courtney carway is rehabilitation program manager and Natalie W was the work experience trainer so they were sending out information and there's staff here from other departments so as I said parks and W Property Management Transportation public works department um so uh the bulk of our students were at uh recreation centers and convention uh other centers so uh I have Sher eny here district superintendent Eric Lopez Max Pierre Victoria leech Britney Sanders Rosie Perez uh two individuals not able to be here today Francis eong Marcus Hatcher um and then Kelly Bard is also here we also had as I said uh tpw and specifically in the fleet area I'm sorry uh PMD the fleet area and then also tpw so we've had them all throughout the city in different areas um and so we just want to recognize today the great work that the team you see up here in working with these students uh unfortunately because of school they're not able to be here today um but you know in the future we hope to that there will be two individuals we're looking for potential stories and we'll pass those on success stories that we one was Kevin Hudson at the James Avenue and the other is Sydney little at Thomas place with Rebecca and Victoria so um we're looking for that we will pass that on um but again just want to thank the city's support from the city manager's office um I know the mayor last year I think we had pictures with you with some of the team um as well as our some our council members so um it's a great program great opportunity for individuals to um get real world experience um and I was speaking with Victoria earlier today and we have somebody that we believe in the future could be one of our employees did an outstanding job um really came out of Rell so we just want to applaud the individuals both the participants as well as these team members helped make this happen yeah thank you William thank you and to City staff for taking this on thank you very much I know that you all have very busy jobs and you didn't have to volunteer to make this work but I hope that you got something out of it as well I know I certainly um can say the same when you got to interact with these awesome hopefully future employees um and to the Workforce Commission in Goodwill thank you for the opportunity for the city of Fort Worth and we look forward to contined part partnership so thank you all thank you [Applause] William next we'll turn to our informal reports the first informal report is on the fiscal year 24 Fort Worth Dallas International Airport Budget and Chris Point Set uh fwd's Chief Financial Officer is available if there are any questions Chris if you don't mind just come up to the microphone I don't have questions I just want to brag on Chris um as as a DFW board member it's always a joy to get to interact with the amazing team that Shan Donahue has put together and Chris is a piece of that if you have questions Council um on on our budget please ask them now or or Chris can provide that and in addition I'm going to have Sean come back in the next few months just give an overview of DFW Airport there's a lot of great successes right now for us to celebrate and I want to ensure that this Council understands those and can celebrate those in community as well um any Chris you want to have any overview you want to provide or counsel any questions I have nothing in particular to say happy to answer a question and thank you for the comments great easiest meeting you've had right Chris I do enjoy it thank you so much thanks Chris the next two informal reports are on recruitment processes one's for the chief transformation officer and one's for Library director and Dianna gordano is available if there are any questions I have a question excuse me this may be hard for you to answer um di but I'm just curious in a CTO position do you hope to have um an interesting cross-section of applicants that may be private sector as well as public sector to make sure we have the the role filled with the right person yes their their search is not going to be limited to public sector certainly that does lend itself to some familiarity with the organizations sure um but yeah it will not be limited whatsoever in fact these positions you tend to see more in private sector so any candidate that has expertise in these areas would be a viable candidate for consideration and I guess same would be true for the lab director as well well for the library for the for the for lab director yes okay great well we look forward to it this is a big deal I know David's worked really hard with Mark M if Mark is here or not we really thank him for getting the lab set up um and getting us to this place so we just want to make sure that hard work continues thankk you thank you mayor the next informal report is on the medical director reporting structure in EMS and fire and Valerie Washington is available question I'm anticipating you all have questions so go ahead and have her come up yeah okay excuse me Michael you can go ahead yeah I don't uh have a question really I just want to say thanks for putting this together I'd ask for it just in relation to I know there's some issues happening so I just I'm glad this is on paper and you see some numbers so the people that are part of the ad hoc committee can take this information and it's already there we don't have to wait for a study to show the information so that was really the point of asking for this any other questions from Council no I'll just go on the record is making sure this Council knows we are lucky right now we have an excellent medical director and Dr Jarvis who serves with MedStar um and I know he and his entire team will be paying close attention to the aaot um discussions but if you want to meet him or know him I'll pass along contact information and make sure you have a chance to do that but we're in good hands right now and we know you can add anything Val you want to but I just wanted to make sure that was clear I know that was not your intention when we asked for this it's just it's really helpful actually to see it in this context of how the reporting structure looks in other cities it's perfect timing of the sirens in the background yeah I would just say that um he's the the med the MedStar system medical director which means he's the medical director if we have issues here in the city of Fort Worth um and have specific items where we need medical Direction um the prior MedStar medical director Dr ver vithalani um gave us a lot of guidance and counsel during coid um so there are opportunities for mayor and Council to engage with the medical director um as needed um and he works closely with the fire department and the fire chief thank you Val Jared hey thanks Val um I just want to ask um this information is really helpful can you also provide this um at our next committee meeting as well for the ad hoc committee yes this will be really helpful and thanks council member crane for this I think we're anticipating having even a session where we talk about medical Direction and the role and how that impacts the MedStar member cities at a prior MedStar board meeting Jared we also discussed this information and the requests made and uh Dr Jarvis is aware and you know he's M I think he's wants to make himself available if there are any questions thank you B thank you the next informal report is on the nuisance abatement litigation process in Benjamin sree with our attorney's office is available if there are any questions of course we need to hear a presentation there he is I called him the street fighter I'm sorry I'm sorry what was that may Pro oh you know what I call you Street Fighter I was trying to act like I didn't hear it no I'm I'm proud that the city has a street fighter in its legal department is that an official name change or or position change if the mayor protim likes it it's okay with me um I want to give you some accolades before you start a lot of you may not know but there have been years and years and years of problem properties that make life hell for people who are just trying to be at home in peace and so we started taking a more aggressive look at what can we do and I want to commend Leanne and Benjamin for coming together with this idea that I'm fully supportive of and I think you if you just give us the high points okay be helpful certainly so first of all Benjamin sampra with the city attorney's office um while I'm here I I should point out uh I'm not the only person here I've got darina Pia she's the code prosecutor and then I've got the city's nuisance abatement officer from the police department Gentry cotton so these are two very intrical people in this whole nuisance abatement process um we have others that are part of the team as well but these are two people that are quite critical you all can go ahead and have a seat um in terms of the nuisance abatement litigation process it is a very very important and effective tool um to combat the properties just like mayor protim just said um think about you know apartment complexes think about convenience stores think about places apartment complexes convenience stores hotels but think about places where you know CD activities taking place drugs prostitution oh it's quite Cy but drugs prostitution um you've got gun violence you have people hanging out outside of buildings but they're doing a lot of illegal and bad stuff right so you've got citizens in the community who are troubled by it who are affected by it and they want something to be done well under certain circumstances the something that can be done is we can file lawsuits to try to get those properties closed down um specifically the statute says if it's a place and I'll try to be very high level but if it's a place where people habitually go to commit certain kinds of crimes and these are the crimes that I mentioned prostitution drugs murders if they're committing those crimes at these places we can file the suit and if people are going there consistently and you all know you've got them in your districts it it's places that it's been a history of criminal activity well we can follow the suits and try to get them shut down um thankfully for us and I say thankfully in quotes because we don't often have to use the the actual lawsuit process we can meet with property owners and we often do it's called an accord meeting and most of the time fingers crossed most of the time you know the issues on the properties debate without us having to pull the trigger of a lawsuit um but it's good to know we have it if we need it and then uh one other thing I'll mention in addition to chapter 125 which is a nuisance abatement tool we have chapter 54 as well so if you have folks who have you know code violations on their product properties accumulations of trash substandard structures those kinds of things that you all are very familiar with but if you have those on properties we do have a tool for that as well we can file lawsuits to get injunctions and civil penalties every property is not made for this but uh the properties that that are the worst of those that this is a process that we can use for those um any particular questions or specific questions from you all Charlie so what super excited about this program I mean I reached out before with a couple locations that ear in District 4 that we've had issues with but is it true that if they make any level of change to baate the issue but obviously not enough to actually make change that it kind of put you back at step one or can you talk a little bit more about what what meaningful change looks like and what you guys can do absolutely so case law is clear when it comes to abating a property oftentimes people think oh you know they haven't stopped every violation that's occurring on the property and specific speically I'm talking about chapter 125 here but the case law tells us though to aate a nuisance isn't to eliminate it in its entirety to Abate a nuisance is to lessen it the case law has told us and in abating a nuisance or lessening it right it's contemplated that everything that they could possibly do may not work that's why the standard does not um make it so that there's no crime it's to lessen the crime so if property owners are hiring security if they're doing certain things and I won't get into all of it here um from a strategic standpoint but if there are certain things that are happening on the property that shows that they're not reasonably tolerating it and they're taking reasonable steps then that is something that the courts consider in terms of whether an injunction is going to be issued and the property gets shut down but in terms of starting from square one we look at the cases uh you know Case by case to make a determination while sure they're doing some stuff but maybe they're not doing things that they could do we've got a property now that's very similar I won't get into the details but but no we don't have to start back from the square one we don't have to no Benjamin question for you especially related to the second category addressed in the IR specific to chapter 54 which is really public health and safety if if a resident has a concern for a neighbor say and they they know that maybe they can't keep up their property for whatever reason how does a city typically respond to those because there are times when someone is not intending um to not abide by city code but we still have to take action kind of walk us through what that process looks like so that's a very good question because there there are a different factors that affect the decision whether or not we go for it with a suit so I I'll give you an example and this may be something that you all might consider but let's say you have a property where there there are mass amounts of accumulations on the property um you've got trash and rubbish everywhere but let's say the person um who lives at the property is maybe an 85 or 90 year old person right so and maybe someone else is putting the stuff on the property right that's something that we might look twice at before we just haul off and file a suit and try to go after civil penalties right because of the specifics of that property in that case so that's something we might look at but generally speaking um if somebody is in violation and you're saying that uh they may not be trying to do that they can work with code enforcement and code enforcement is very helpful with working with people to try to resolve issues on the property in fact um there is a building Standards Commission process that that the properties go through where they have an administrative civil penalty process where code can get an order to go out there and clean the property um municipal court has a process so there are processes in place before it gets to a lawsuit where code can work with the property owner to try to Abate it thank you any your questions Council for benjin thank you very much would you call them again Street Fighter Street Fighter and the final inform report is on water utility shut off practices and Chris harder is available if there are any questions Chris Chris I I want to hear from you from a utility standpoint when it comes to safety you know of people you know with some utilities you have to get to a certain temperature before you're cut off that kind of standpoint if you could address include that in your remarks yeah thank you uh mayor proam uh good afternoon uh mayor and Council this uh IR IR is to kind of describe our delinquency process delinquency time frame it also provides information related to the different uh financial assistance available for our customers but it also does talk a little bit about uh shut offs um when we don't do shut offs and then the special Provisions that we have for critical customers so you may remember after the February 2021 storm I seem like I go back to that all the time uh there was a I think it was Senate Bill three that had some uh language related to uh resiliency and risk associated with utilities and one of the provisions of that was uh a moratorium on shut offs due to cold weather and I put the the conditions of that it says for cold weather the previous day's high temperature does not exceed 28 degrees and the temperature is predicted to remain at or below that level for the next 24 hours so that's a a Public Utility Commission requirement and so that's part of our practice now we also uh as a practice this is not something that required by Statute we have not shut off water during excessive heat uh conditions so you know really what you have is you have um excessive cold or excessive Heat heat and you know what is the Practical implication of that well with this summer we've had temperatures over5 degrees almost every day um going back to to June so we've actually had a moratorium on shut off since June 20th so uh this is obviously very highly unusual this summer has been unusual but that's that's uh I guess our Mor terms related to temperature and then mayor protim you ask specifically about people that have health conditions we do have a um a an application that customers can send to us that uh would give their conditions uh especially related to life support type issues but it also needs to be signed by their doctor and that would remain on file with our customer service agents how did they get that file Chris it that application is it on our website Jerry yeah it is on our website well you know I'm not real good at that website can you have somebody send it to me sure okay thank you and and if I if I may I'll just also take take this opportunity to talk about the the lowincome household water assistance program this is a federal uh program that allows um funds uh customer assistance if you're if you have an income that's uh less than 100 150% of the poverty income you qualify for potential customer assistance that money is uh there until the end of the calendar year we're hoping ing that this program gets extended to to compare it with the electric program the electric program has been in place since the 1980s so the water program got stood up in 2022 is one of the federal uh Aid packages that have came out and we're hoping that it gets extended but we want customers to know that it's there for a finite finite time unless it gets extended so we are going to be doing a lot of communication over the next couple months talk to uh customers that are in any type of delinquency and trying to get them to take take advantage of this program okay Chris I have a question I was um one individual who's asked for this IR in conjunction I think May protim and one of my issues was it was delinquent uh utilities of water but it was also um there was an incident I guess with a a church in my district and they had shut off the water on a Friday and the church wasn't notified yeah so they was going to have the council service for Sunday until they called my office and we was able to we was able to get the water back on so I I do appreciate uh your office helping us get it back on but um I'm looking on the first page and it says the shut off process um it says this is for Del delinquent rent I mean delinquent um payment uh 2:30 Monday through Friday and then on noon by Friday and I had an issue with that only because most people work during the day and and so once they get off five or six they come home and the water is off it's too late to call to get it shut turned back on by after you pay and so I looked on the last page because I did read the IR prior to coming to the meeting um and I saw that you guys changed that so I want to make sure that from now on we will not be shutting off water on Friday yeah and you know this is there's been an evolution on this right I mean so when you talk about the um the practice of suspending shut offs till uh noon on Friday that's something that uh we put in place in January that also U involved uh extending the times that our our customer service agents were in in their office till Beyond 7 o'clock uh our our meter Services Group is working late Fridays and then we ALS also set up a um a 247 contact with our dispatch that would then route calls to our meter services so so that was uh that was put in place because of this exact situation is that we didn't want people to get a notice late and then not have any uh recourse and be without water on the weekend so this was this was put in place I think you saw the statistics related to some of the you know to the good numbers that we saw on this what our recommendation is and what we're planning on putting in practice is to go One Step Beyond that and suspend um shut offs on Friday so we would be doing shut offs on Monday through Thursday and that would allow a customer a full day to make uh payment Provisions where they wouldn't necessarily uh have only like seven hours if we suspended it Friday at noon so it gives the custom more time to make uh arrangements and it also gives our staff more time to actually receive payment and get the water turned back on without going into the weekend so we're we're wanting to you know put this into practice there is some work on our end that we have to do but this is our intent okay and that's starting next uh starting October one or when we're planning on starting it next week sounds good thank you thank you Chris mayor that concludes my report okay thank you David appreciate it Chris first up is any questions regarding membership in boards and commissions coming up for next Council I just have a comment two of mine are are missing but I'm sure City Secretary staff will be flexible to include Charles Edmunds and I forget the other but all is good on me except for two but we'll have them turned in thank you Gina and any questions on significant zoning cases coming up on September 12th MNC log okay we'll move on to update on our cdfi friendly Fort Worth I think Christina Brooks the diversity inclusion director is going to kick things off and I know that Glenn Forbes is also here good afternoon mayor and Council Christina Brooks just want to go on the record that Notre Dame is undefeated at this point in the football season uh it is with great pleasure that I bring um this report uh regard St ing cdfi friendly Fort Worth to you uh the journey has been over uh two years now and it was uh the impetus was a combination of uh really hard work with our Economic Development Department Robert Sterns um and Victor Turner from our neighborhood services department and our diversity and inclusion team that really wanted to use $3 million in arpa funds to uh address a number of issues um beginning with affordable housing uh also small business and business Equity Firm development and another of other uh issues that the city was facing and thus we brought in cdfi Friendly America to help us solve that problem at the time that we started um we had had one physically located CD uh cdfi here in the Fort Worth area and we had about $10,000 of capital um for almost a million residents uh annually to lend and through some really hard work uh Economic Development diversity inclusion um Neighborhood Services support and the Man Standing to my left uh Glenn Forbes were happy to announce a much larger number in capital circulating in the Fort Worth market so without further Ado I'm going to turn this over to Mr Glenn Forbes the new executive director of cdfi friendly Fort Worth thanks Christina and to Mayor and Council it's been a while since I've stood in this room I think I had that much air on my head back then of course that's all gone now uh say least bear with me on the slideshow I usually turn to my 15 year old when I got to do this kind of stuff he pushes me out the way and says I'll fix it just move you're delaying things so as Christina mentioned um here and I I won't try to be labor and go through each slide in in depth but for those of the new members of council uh cdfi friendly model if you will is one that I tell folks as we're going out and presenting we're kind of the the cupid or date matcher for the rest of the cdfi ecosystem where there's about and anybody's guess is anywhere from, 1500 to 2500 cdfis across the country the the value for us here in for worth is the model was built such that through collaboration and coalitions with that ecosystem if cdfis have an interest and knowledge of the great things that are going on in Fort Worth they can now come in and do business here so without that uh without the model being built in that capacity uh we'd still be struggling to some degree on some of the issues that Christina just mentioned uh I will comment that you know as we mentioned about one time only having one CDC cdfi and the marketplace which was William man CD CDC um they face the challenges that consistently we're hearing throughout the ecos system its capitalization often times its structure often times and then it's just an awar awareness and continued education so moving forward cdfi 101 I probably use this as much for myself as I do for others and kind of give you it's private financial institutions many of our constituents and clients out there when we're talking them realize um you know these cdfis came to be as a result of redlining in the financial sector many years ago through the treasury Department they started organizing these institutions to try and Tackle closing some of the gaps and financing and underserved communities and individuals uh at the same time many of the major financial institution even the Regionals are key investors in many of the cdfis so they do it for Community reinvestment purposes but to say that even though I came out of 32 years with one of those organizations who is probably one of the top three investors nationally and cdfis I'm trying to be careful not to beat them up too bad on the things that I know and wish we could have done done here in Fort Worth and didn't get done but we know there's a there's a passion somewhere in the traditional sector to help uh you see the commitments to unders serve communities financing technical assistants etc etc and we save 1500 cdfis throughout 50 states so here's what we believe and I think everyone in the room can attest to this particularly in the council districts that you serve we've got development it's that's extremely exciting and putting for worth on the map and then we have other sectors where we're not seeing the same uh riches and and benefits that we should be seeing um won't go into detail you know what those are you know where they are but in addition the model that we have here is is primarily directed to serve and support communities of colors ethnic minorities who in business or personal uh consumers but also we're serving in the city of for worth in its entirety however we're very cognizant and we've had a number of situations where folks will call us and you know there's always a way to folks try to figure out how do you gain the system they believe cdfis will always give you lower rates more traditional financing uh non-traditional financing etc etc rates are not always necessarily the case cdfis don't lead in rates uh we try certainly to beat Street Landing or hard money Landing pawn shops etc etc if we're ever beyond that point they might as well close the doors but that said we often find times where folks are calling us and saying hey can we get financing we'd like to purchase some investment property in certain segments of the community whereas there's no no development we don't turn them away we would forward them to a cdfi who may be in the business of financing entities in the real estate realm but we're not aggressively trying to support those businesses because the one thing we don't want to do is have someone come in buy investment property in communities that are not being developed only to sit there and hold the properties for some longevity uh some turnaround that doesn't benefit the constituency that we're trying to support our cdfi benefit communities kind of the model there you have it in front of you you see it's a system we call it an ecosystem it's just moving money from entities to communities and individuals that are deserving where there hasn't been the success in the past the goals this has been and put in place since 22 or when it's first kicked off you can see us educate organize attract cdfis which we successfully done to some degree today technical assistant providers and to facilitate that's an aggressive that's an aggressive number there without question much of that was built off of some of the planning that's that's in documents here in the city of Fort Worth in the local area and the growth and development that's we seeing to happen in the city of Fort Worth as we move forward we know there's an opportunity there that number though large is not unattainable but it's going to take more than just cdfi friendly for Worth to make that happen but we believe it's real um we're funded as Christina mentioned through Opera funding you can see the breakdown there and all this happened prior to April the 30th when there was a contract with CFA America um the goals again for locally engage attract and technical assistance the technical assistance piece I want to mention more specifically we're finding as we're doing assessments with clients in the marketplace one key we're seeing over and over again it's not any different for the cdfi space it's the same that I saw in the business world in the banking World technical assistance for those who want to be in business but don't have all the components and pieces to allow them to sustain their business is still highly necessary and critical in the space that we're trying to do business so there are many entities out there Taran county has a small Business Development Center many of the financial institutions have started to develop program where they can provide certain financial and educ and business assistance to those who are desirous and uh that has to continue for us to be successful moving forward so what have we've done today since 2022 the pictures that seen up here these are all cdfis who have at least expressed an interest in some way of doing business in the city of Fort Worth either through communication or direct funding so at one time as we mentioned there were a few was William man locally and then there were most that were based either out of Dallas or possibly Austin that were doing business here but in a small scale today we've been in contact at times with the IND the organization that you see on the screen before you so starting in May so I kind of Take It Forward from cfa's handoff to Fort Worth you know we're building a business uh we were given a model we were given good components and critical components to moving forward but we now have have to take that and build it out to be able to continue to do the things that we know uh there desirous in the city of Fort Worth uh and what we are capable of doing Texas A&M the illegal Clinic was very supportive in helping with the 501c3 application which we finally get submitted on August 16th of this year that will allow us in many respects to go after additional Capital as I've been meeting and talking with financial institutions who traditionally will help Finance either on operational side or from an equity side the one thing they want to know is have you attained your 501c3 status as a v in the interim though I'd like to commend uh Leah King and Teran County United Way they provided their assistance of being a a fiscal sponsor for us so we're able to continue and do business as we're waiting for IRS designation and confirming that we are officially a 501c3 uh I was hired in May of 2023 and then over the course of a couple months and trying to find the right persons to come in as to to fit the model we initially said we'd have a staff of three pretty much that's where we're going to be for at least the near term and so I was fortunate to be able to identify a Fort Worth resident who's joined the team Stephanie Delgado who's got both business background financing background and is a marketing Guru so it's she and I are the Tandem and team for cdfi friendly for worth moving forward capitalization wise you see operational Capital the 680,000 that came into us that was brought down from CFA through their contract with the city of Fort Worth and then there's a million dollars that has been called in the original plan as an enhancement fund we tend not to use that it's kind of a quirky name but truly in the in the truest sense it will be the lending Capital that we envision will be put in place beginning in 2024 that was by Design we figured by that point we'd be up struct Ed and have the coalitions and collaborations with other cdfis to be able to participate in funding in a way that we're capable of doing when we utilize that million dollars of funding we will only participate 5050 on any particular deal that's partially due to being able to utilize that million dollars in the best and efficient way that's that it's possible as well as to utilize the resources and strengths of other cdfis who are financing in the community uh using their back office using their resources HR and otherwise to get things done financing so to date this is without any true structure we've closed 193 loans with more than $23.2 million Clos now that's that's a you know we say that within the marketplace even some of the small independent Banks you know kind of give us a a hand clap because that's that's not easy to achieve uh the one thing in there youc small business which we still need considerable work on we know in the city of Fort Worth that there are many more small businesses that can utilize financing that they're not getting from tra traditional financial institutions and that would allow us to be able to interject and inject cdfi Capital as we're moving forward mortgages were extremely uh successful during the is initial months uh initial organization of the operation that was part and partial due to rates at that time that slowed considerably you might expect with the changes at the FED level but we're also having U success on the consumer side there are cdfis that we do business with that do small business and Consumer loans and for those of you who may or may not know they'll do everything from a personal loan and I and I I say this and folks look at me and for real they actually will finance tombstones they'll do everything from Tombstone to automobiles to personal consumer on that vend as well as the higher end of doing large scale development projects where they're participating on the real estate investment and financing side so from Soup To Nuts there's a cdfi somewhere that is supportive of the marketplace that we're trying to serve the key is trying to get the marketplace to connect with us to be able to show them what all is available to them to take advantage of some of the cdfis operate on a online basis so you can go online on your computers and you get 24 to 48 hour response other ones are more like traditional financial institutions where you're providing uh documentation and there's the the underwriting process that one must go through but on on average it's about a 30-day period if you're going through a traditional Financial uh a financing deal with most cdfis in some respects they are similar and dissimilar with financial institutions the key for them is that we should be more patient should be more flexible in terms of terms and should be have more sensitivity sensitivity and empathy for the types of businesses and individuals we're trying to serve again we talked about technical assistance and in the mortgage side as well so what's next for us the 501c3 application getting that approved and finalized will allow us to go out and attract additional capital from financial institutions and Foundations Etc and then implementing a CRM a client relationship management to that we're working on we're hopefully pretty close to closing that that will allow us to take a twers operation and make it look like we're a 10 person operation and connecting with the ecosystem we're finding out and through our assessment as I may mentioned earlier cdfis have even said to us I hope you all are going to do thing in a more automated and efficient fashion than many of the others who have started over in past years the client relationship tool that we're talking about allow us to have a little more sophistication where we can bring the applicant together with ourselves in the CDF I and we can track where they are on any given time frame to know where the hurdles are challenges and also where support is continuely necessary for both the client and the cdfi space included that is very key for the ongoing success for our operation and then we're continuing ongoing operational lending investment Capital um building a coalition again well we're headed to Washington DC there's a National Organization um that is all cdfis if you're cdfi anywhere and everywhere from one person to 25 they'll be at that uh they'll be at that conference that's where we'll spend a significant amount of time trying to build networks and coalitions with cdfis telling them about the great things that are going on Fort Worth the opportunities that are here and hoping that we can at least attract them to come in and desire to want to do business moving forward and then again the technical assistance piece uh is is key and must continue to happen as we go forward uh that's all I've got for today question and answers from anyone apologize if that was longer than you anticipated but I'm more than happy to answer what I can if anyone has any questions great update Glenn Carlos first thanks Maddie um Glenn Mission I'm looking at uh I don't know what number slide of this where you how CD how cdfis benefit communities and uh people Mission and impact motivated investors is that ESG type of Investments is that what we're talking about it can be yeah it can be Equity can for so that's that's the Advent where we're trying to attract um investors from either the development space from Equity capital or wherever they may be that have a true sense of the same goal and Mission that we're trying to serve and that's closing the gap on of them to serve communities and individuals okay and just generally so I know how it works when when you look at yield motivated investors right obviously you want as much yield if you're an investor as possible but within the context of cdfi are you talking about generally lower yields or or what uh that's where we get into the it's all the cdfis good question all the cdfis have their own underwriting criteria so there's not one model that fits all and the key goal for many of them is to try keep rates for the client base within reasonable market for them to to do business or to have day-to-day you know personal operations in a manner where they're not being gouged and being stretched beyond the limitation many of the investors are also investors in cdfis so it gets tricky there um some cdfi stay clear of the equity Capital Market or individual investors because as you've mentioned they're looking for a specific return and often times to get that it's got to come from somewhere ultimately lands in the laps of the client so uh for the most part many of cdfis there's a treasury fund that they tap into on a regular basis was often funded uh out of Washington and all and then there's also where many of them collaborate together to try and figure out ways on how do we reduce the cost of capital to the client base which is something we see ourselves doing here so with the million dollar for example we won't have a a true need for a certain return coming back to our entity so we could play a role in helping with financing where we can bring rates down for the clients given whatever the market conditions may be and then we can have more patient turnaround for ourselves or repayment for cdfi for wor that we may get less over the long term but we're helping clients get what they need on the front end got it thank you Gina good to see you old friend I emphasize old we've been around together for a long time I I think your 30 40 Years of banking has made this more credible when they told me you had the job I felt at ease can you talk about how will 76105 76104 119 how will those communities change if you have a cdfi that is making a positive impact good good question um if the the goal of again cdfis were created to serve um those communities that we know traditionally have been left out of the financing uh Avenue that many others have had opportunities to take part in having the cdfi not just ourselves but the ecosystem in those communities should enable not only for them to develop and grow in a manner that was long overdue but also to allow you know consumers and individuals that be it single family residential and maintaining their properties or buying properties etc etc anything that they need to do to change the look and feel of what those communities look like going forward is what cdfis are designed to be able to do if we're out doing lending and thriving and and in affluent areas of the city we're not doing our job um and I if you look at just Google across places like Detroit where I once lived and saw it go from from a very large scale City to now a third of its size but it's turned around in terms of development in terms of ethnic minority ownership of businesses etc etc much to do with the support of the cdfi ecosystem so we're hoping that over time you know we should be able to do the same thing here we've got a good and bad story here in Fort Worth and we even I even heard it when I was in with JP Morgan back in the day the world sees the successes that are going on in Fort Worth and that's great internally but for the markets that are being left out of the mainstream of embrace and being a part of those successes the rest of the marketplace doesn't understand that there's a problem here at any they see for worth as you know 13th largest city it's blowing and going everything's great so they don't step back to understand and look at but there's got to be someone that needs assistance and help as well and so the cdfi uh place in this community hopefully over time will change the look and feel of what certain zip codes once look like and what they can be so that we can all kind of participate and allow the growth and success as we become the 12th and 11th and 10th largest taking on not necessarily all of just the successes but the challenges that come with that success as well so and I got one more question for you and for folk who don't know you he never gets emotional and so for him to be excited about this is good because he's usually a poker player absolutely absolutely yeah you got me pegged real well and I when I was asked if I would participate in this um coming out of you know you can only watch so much stuff on TV every day I was semi-retired um but but I tell folks this is exciting from the standpoint of having seen deals that often times many of us in the banking Arena and there are good Bankers out there that have a Sensi sensitivity to commun to communities that often class with the organizational structure it happens but this gives a chance to go out and look at those deals that we couldn't do for whatever reason and try to figure out a way through a channel like cdfis to make those things happen and you know it's that that that's the exciting part and yes she's right if you see me at a basketball game where my son's playing or somebody else you see a different emotion out of me otherwise yeah I'm a poker player because often times it's trying to understand where we are and where we're going and figure out what's the role I can play in trying to make things happen so uh it's not just me again Stephanie is great I think if for those who have already met her out in the community um she's got a background that lends itself to being able to listen and navigate in circles um that even I might not be able to be from my banking background but uh We've we've got to bridge gaps with the community within the cdfi industry and I certainly feel confident that if we do what we're capable of doing and build those Coalition coalitions uh the stories about forward won't just be about North for worth it'll be about Central City as well so other questions for Glenn Janette um the loans close to date what's that time frame of 193 pretty much since so we kicked off in 2022 so Jan January so that's that's without any particular structure that's was from the excitement of cdfi saying hey let's take a look at Fort Worth and they just started doing business so that's without again without any structure without any strong prodding our handholding we're hoping that we not only we keep them at the table but we'll also begin to build out and broaden cdfi interest in the marketplace to grow that number as we're moving forward and what what's your Outreach look like um that's yeah so Outreach for us and this is where that see that relationship model will come into play um we try to you know we're we're two person entity that's trying to do financing so unlike many other organizations where you probably can get to every Workshop every Community event so on and so forth that would be extremely difficult for us to do and be successful in terms of building our infrastructure out in the manner that we need to so what we've attempted we've been invited to many um many events that are business focus either by traditional financial institutions or cdfis uh there's one National one out of Boston they came in recently did a workshop uh in conjunction with us here locally and then invited myself to come over to Dallas you know as much as I say okay I'll come to Dallas but that's not my preference uh for work purposes but to say the least there were some Fort Worth businesses in the room as well and we brought together both traditional bankers and cdfi lenders and the platform to talk about what we can do to build out and help communities that we're trying to serve so we're taking different angles at it uh council member Martinez and trying to figure out how do we tap into the right markets using resources that are out there and being in the right place at the right time without stretching ourselves and becoming ineffective but that model we're talking about building will allow us to automate and be in communities and offer Educational Tools etc etc on times and and spaces where a business can't be at a 12:00 to 2:00 Forum but if they get on in the evening and is a is a webinar that they can they can look at because they got a particular focus on financial statements etc etc or how to build their business further we can provide those rooms within the the the model that we're trying to build to allow them to do it on their own place and time and that will be much in collaboration with the other organizations that are supporting these efforts Jared no question just a comment uh just want to say thank thank you Glenn for the amazing work that you uh do you're the right man for the job and um cdfi friendly is so critical to um the the vibrant and um um growing city that we're all working to Steward and develop over time so thank you for what you're doing I appreciate it and and again I I like to I think after my youngest is 15 after a blended family of six my my my ego gets stroked many times and beaten down often times and I I have to candidly say the success of what we do is truly going to be based upon the coalitions that we build with the other cdfis who have who have much more Capital than we have but also have proven results of doing things in more difficult uh economies and cities than what we have in for wor so without that partnership um it wouldn't be about Glen fors but I I don't mind standing up here smiling and telling the good stories and hopefully we can continue to do that so any other questions for Glenn great update thank you Glenn for being here Council our next presentation is a briefing on our annual audit plan with David Madrono our city auditor Christina thanks for putting that together too appreciate it um mayor Parker members of council David Ando City auditor uh I'm here to provide a brief overview of the um the proposed annual audit plan that department of internal audit has put together for your consideration by way of background um it is required per city ordinance 24030 uh we are required to provide a uh annual audit plan to city council no more than 30 days prior to the beginning of the fiscal year uh this is a working document uh and it may change during the year depending on the priorities and risks that uh the city is confronted with the schedule of activities that we have in your booklet uh comprises 30 separate engagements resourced by an excess of 16,000 auditor hours and we've got a smattering of um engagement types from performance it compliance financial and management action plan followups uh this is a high level timeline of some of the activities leading up to this presentation um we uh in June in May and June we provided a risk assessment questionnaire to uh executive management and their staff um and asked a series of questions to formulate certain um uh aspects that might uh we want to take a look at as far as the um audit plan uh we are here presenting what has come out of that process um and on September 12th uh provided you incur we uh plan to submit the annual audit plan for approval as a consent agenda item uh input sources include suggestions from leadership and management uh required engagements internal audit staff suggestions and for engagements any relevant topics uh as audit worthy we looked at cities Austin Dallas and San Antonio see what some of the issues they were confronting uh to see whether they were equally applicable here uh and certain topics from media sources uh that make headline risk that we all need to be aware of uh risk factors that we looked at budget impact larger uh departments tend to have a little bit more of our interest um as you'll notice in the audit plan that we're proposing uh potential for negative publicity organizational operational and Technical changes relevant laws and regulations and the time since the last audit or prior audit results uh the objectives of this year's audit plan uh are to acknowledge effective performance uh and the administration of the city's system of internal control um uh we want to acknowledge where people are doing good things on behalf of uh uh taxpayers and the citizens uh we want to identify opportunities for improvement in the design and operating effectiveness of the city's system of internal control and also recommend practical solutions to strengthen the city's system of internal control uh and because we spent so much time uh on this concept of a system of internal control we believed it was important to provide a working definition to provide context for what it is that we as Auditors do um so we provided a working definition and this is taken from the committee of sponsoring organizations of the Treadway commission which is a international Consortium of organizations that try to uh provide thought leadership and governance and controls uh the objectives of any organization system of internal control should be the efficiency and the effectiveness of operations the reliability of Financial and operational reporting compliance with laws and obligations and safe guarding of assets so these are the things we look at when we look at um a lot of the activities to make sure that the activities are lining to some of the objectives of what a system of internal control should um uh produce uh and we've also um for further context uh provided a framework of components and working principles uh that really drive a lot of what it is that we look at uh in our work what we find is that when we find observations and recommendations um it is usually because we're a little bit misaligned to uh the principles that um a system of internal control should should provide as evidence of the activities and and the people that are working for the organization uh and obviously there's things that support a system it includes the elements which are people process and technology and the attributes associated with each of those elements those are critical so we look at a lot of those um attributes um and the elements associated with those in the uh scope of our audit or product and here's the mission and the objectives really are critically um dependent on the system and the enablers in order to achieve um uh successful outcomes and then if you can refer to your package um what we have provided to you uh is just a little bit of background again um it is required uh by our professional auditing standards to provide a risk-based audit plan to the governing body uh we also um want to abide by the ordinance that requires that we deliver the audit plan uh our hope is that we can cover the Enterprise across multiple departments uh We've provided a standard engagement process from the risk assessment uh through the presentation to the audit uh to the city council and also um the findings that come up from the engagements uh that are uh completed as part of the audit plan um on on page 14 we begin with the schedule of engagements um it is uh um everything from City Hall we're looking at City Hall renovation relocation uh to city- Owned Vehicles we're looking at um uh Neighborhood Services and affordable housing we're looking at the library programs and services um development services it talent management so we do cover many departments across the city um and we have allocated what we believe are um uh reasonable hours to complete those audit engagements um on page six and seven we do have several engagements that are carryover uh these are engagements that u in name the uh city councils is prior prior approval uh in another audit plan year but because we are using 2024 resources uh to complete a prior Year's um uh work product we are formally requesting um and seek approval to for hours to complete those projects uh and we've also provided appendix of how we got to the resource hours uh the budget uh some of the audit cycles that we've done um the fiveyear look back for uh departments that we've worked at looked at uh and then what the calendar looks like uh for the audit plan by engagement um uh and then ultimately some of the resource priorities that uh we're looking at uh as far as fiscal year 2024 and with that I'd be happy to answer any questions that you may any questions Gina thank you mayor I I don't have a question I just want to State this is the best audit presentation I've seen in many years we had a great auditor before but this I just salute the team it's clear transparent and it's going to help us maintain transparency so hats off to your department thank you Gina thank you very much Charlie and then to Jared just one question on the um the page six of 14 the 2024 2023 Tac 11 to determine whether assumptions in the revenue estimate for budgeted Revenue are reasonable uh we done that one in the past as I don't why that was carried over uh is there a recent one that we can review at all so one we we have we have experienced um an exceptional amount of vacancies so this is a carryover from this current audit plan year fiscal year 2023 that we are in the the process of completing uh we also have one that we are proposing for fiscal year 2024 uh we want to make sure that the assumptions and the way that people are formulating Revenue estimates that go into the budget are reasonable um so we we tend to look at that every year in different departments uh because it's again it gets back to the objectives of what a system of internal control are really intended to to to achieve which is the reliability of Financial and operational reporting and revenue is certainly one of those components yes sir thank you mayor um thank you so much David um for all the work that you all done um I know I said this in our 101 um and I wanted to say it on public record that um you know being a member of the audit committee and seeing the work that's been done especially on uh the schedule of activities has been really a joy to see um it's very transparent and it um helps us understand you know the level of activities that the department is doing as well as also appreciate the special request because I know the audit committee sometimes you know given circumstances may need to um you know add an additional audit or your team may see an additional audit needed and so um I think this is um an awesome path forward and um just really excited about the plan for the year um so thank you for what you're doing one last thing thank you also for working um with so many departments I know there's a couple of items here that um we haven't audited in um in some time and so um putting those things on regular schedules was definitely helpful so thank you for that I really appreciate it thank you for your feedback any other questions Council thank you David okay thank you so much okay next up is TJ Patterson Governor Affairs and I think Matt Murray is also joining him to give a presentation on our legislative wrap up good afternoon mayor and councel TJ Patterson government relations um division here um come to give a um a brief uh presentation on where we are we think we are probably three fours done uh as September happens this Friday um and we prepare for uh returning back to Austin for some finished business uh with the state and uh we look forward to that opportunity to be able to serve uh We've shared with the team and always sharing Austin that we believe that if we're you're not at the table that you're on the menu and I always tell the State team that we always have to make sure that we're at the um at the table to um engage the process so we thank thank um uh thank the team for doing that the firms of G woods and uh Greenberg Tri are currently our firm State firms we actually utilize uh in the legislative process this past session found the the highest number of um bills filed in the history of Texas uh approximately 8400 bills were filed and only about 1,59 were passed that's about 15% uh actual passage rate so we had the highest number of bills filed and then the lowest number of bills that actually passed in the history of Texas 2021 they they filed 6,900 and passed a th000 and then in uh 2017 they filed 6,800 and then actually passed 12200 so it was a busy busy session and we tried to make sure we were there at the table to engage we intend to do a full presentation of this presentation before the legislative committee uh at the end of the month at the newest next meeting uh there's a lot of information to particularly share we always work in three probably three to four different buckets we work in Appropriations we work in seek legislation or and then also uh support legislation and then I guess the fourth bucket is probably defense most of the items I'll talk about here today are going to be talking about the first three buckets this talks about some of the state Appropriations these items are listed because these are mostly ones that affect us as a local government when you look at loc local park grants that were passed by this legislature uh so in 2022 they're only 29.3 million this year they passed 29. six uh up of $10 million un Health Science Center and um city of for worth that particularly is a joint project with the city of for worth and the UN Health Science Center it's with the actually the back Assistance Center and then also with the Health Science Center in the incubator system there at un this particular funding that we comes directly to the city of for worth um has been coming since about 2006 and I think we're built into the budget and we'll continue to watch that as we move forward the next one look is important item to the city city of for worth is moving image industry in the past it was 45 million again this year they it was up to about $200 million and thanks to the help of um uh chairman uh Craig Goldman in his work on dealing with the moving industry issue so it was up about 155 million that is that is excellent and that keeps a lot of the competition down a lot of film industry folks were going to going to Florida going to Oklahoma going to Arizona and Louisiana to shoot films about Texas and so we're glad we were able to get that appropriation in and support that school safety the $1.1 billion that money goes toward the issue remember that the legislature passed law that every school has to have an armed um um guard or an armed Marshal on their property so this goes toward uh U supplementing some of those um some of those individuals mixed beverage tax why is that important that $635 million a plus up of 151 million that money comes directly to local government that money is used for and why it's important city for worth is used to to enforce DWI eyes throughout the city of for worth not all of it comes to the for worth but Prat share comes to the city of for worth which what makes that very important dag uh funding and that basically stands for a defense economic adjustment assistance grant in the past we've got 30 million now we've got another 30 million that Grant is used to actually help us support the jrb and the The Joint Base jrb here in Fort Worth it's it's made it's given to a lot of cities who have military bases through the um uh Texas uh military preparedness commission through the governor's office and typically those grants can run from anywhere from $50,000 to $5 million per request and we the last couple cycles for wor has received an an appropriation uh an award under that particular Grant next item is broadband connectivity 1.5 billion that's important because that helps us with our Broadband connectivity as we move forward uh through the BDO through the Broadband development office and working with the com Controllers Office to make sure that we have connectivity in our communities that's very important locally nextly is the national Jun Museum this is a project that was brought to us a and we wanted to uh uh work with the uh National Jun Museum foundation work with Mr Jared Howard and we were able to get an appropriation this time we're hoping to go back and and kind of giving some signals that there may be a possibility going forward in the next session of Mayor to even try to get additional funds so we're working on that now with the Texas uh historical Commission Now to work on that op uh settlement funds 28 $26 million never had before ever been given but yet this this money is given for overdose and also for fit all issues in around our in around Texas next item I want to share with you briefly is talk about seek legislation seek legislation are bills that we actually file or heavily support during the legislative process this session we had two bills we were actually supporting one dealt with adding three events to the major events fund and that bill was carried by chairman Garren uh during the legislative session we work with the visit Fort Worth folks and we're able to actually add these three items to the actual major events trust fund which is a it's a major win for us the next legislation uh deals with the trying to request a two-year extension for the project Finance Zone the pfzs for Dickies Arena it helps to fund the Dickies Arena issue and we were also trying to change change change the bracket unfortunately the bill passed out of the house but did not pass in the Senate they want us to take a look and chairman chairman of the committee um uh chairman U uh Brian Birdwell wants us to take a look over the next two years to see how coid affects us and then probably come back and visit it however the other issue dealing with the popul bracket we a we're able to get that amended in the in the emus bill of HB 4559 so that the um that does not affect us and we're able to function uh using this uh pfz Zone the next items deal with items we supported during the legislative process and Matt will talk about some of them in more depth here actual bill numbers but I wanted to highlight them because some of these are very important as Council has talked about these over over the last couple years the issue of regulating temporary Motor Vehicle Tax we were able to get some regulations put in place place um and bills filed even by again chairman Goin had a had a great effort in moving forward and trying to help us in that effort was was very successful Catal converter thefts are big in in in our community so there was legislation files to actually prosecute individuals who are actually caught with cataly converters and even multiple cataly converters so it allows us to be able to prevent that going forward street car racing and Street takeovers major legislation was passed this past session and Matt will highlight those actual numbers but I wanted to make sure these these are all items that were part of our legislative program that we supported and wanted to make let you know that what we did were able to get accomplished by supporting with our other partners and the other big five cities drug overdose crisis this issue of fit all and drug overdose issues bills were passed and there was a bill uh passed by again uh chairman Craig Goldman hb6 very important bill about trying to address um enforcing uh folks who die accidentally from fit and all poisoning um and actually the individuals who had done that even though it was accidentally the Bill states that person can actually be charged with murder for accidentally providing it and an individual actually passing away so I think that's going to go a long way legislation that uh for State Appropriations for school safety issues which a major topic this past session and we supported those bills as they moveed forward Economic Development again we talked about earlier about film incentives these are the actual bills that were actually passed by uh represented by chairman chairman Craig Goldman uh legislation creating media production zones in and around Texas and for worth Will benefited from will benefit from that as well and also then the grants uh that'll be it'll be created based upon the legislation and Appropriations that was submitted uh by representative Coleman next Community Health and Wellness programs one of the major issues I think mayor was a big part of and a great push with mayor you remember hb12 which was by Tony rose out of Dallas and You' ask us to engage that issue basically dealt with postpartum Medicaid coverage from two months to 12 months for individuals in Texas that was a major win and we were able to were able to support that legislation and move forth and major wi for communities all throughout Texas U because this is going to mitigate the extreme um um um maternal morbidity and mortality rate in Texas and in Fort Worth then legislation deal with mental health and Behavioral Science behavioral uh health issues was a major issue for us this past session we were able to support to try to make sure there was um considerable legislation and assistance and also financing done there was a bill passed by representative click it's called hb400 it actually puts in place grants for to allow for more psychiatric uh training and programs throughout the state of Texas and there another tan County um um state representative had a major impact on legislation then also legislation dealing with mental health and early intervention Grant programs uh throughout the state also legislation to increase the number of mental health behavioral professionals which is what I'm referred to earlier hb400 by representative click and as we see our our delegation we definitely want to make sure we share our appreciation for them and their efforts because they had a major impact on moving forward this past session infrastructure needs in the state of Texas Broadband connectivity uh whether it be the um sjr that's going to be on the agenda um for the um general election as a um as a as a constitutional amendment and then also there also the unmanned aircraft activity around military bases and public airfields that was a bill filed by uh by Senator Kelly Hancock has actually was able to get through the process you remember if you remember Council those on Council last session that um um um the bill did pass last session but it was also ultimately overturned as being unconstitutional now this particular bill by Senator hanock was a benefit would allow us to protect our jrb which sometimes has issues with um um unmanned aircraft fing around it lastly state parks is another big issue this item will be as a constitutional amendment as well on the on the November 7th general election and we want to encourage to make sure that folks get out to vote for it this J Jr actually allows for legislation to support investing $1 billion do to create new state parks in Texas so individuals and citizens can vote on this in November and we definitely want to encourage our citizens to get out and support this particular item as it will be very important and then finally the second uh special session a call session um had uh I guess two three major wins and was very beneficial the first call session you remember that no legislation passed therefore the governor after the end of the 30 days called them back for a second special session and you will remember that in that particular session in the second second call session you remember that uh a bill passed basically allowing for reducing by using 12 billion of that Surplus that we had to spend on reducing school property tax rate for homeowners and businesses from the state level now this is not on the local this is actually froming from the state government the state government be using mean using the12 billion to buy down the cost that also will allow for homeowners who have homesteads which is approximately about 5.7 million uh people in Texas allows them to go that Homestead to go from $40,000 up to $100,000 from the state that is not from locally but actually the state actually paying that cost and then the other item that that that passed during that session was actually the non-homestead properties valued at $5 million and under uh including residential commercial they have this thing called a circuit breaker that triggers and gives them a uh give them a break on their taxes by 20% now again I will tell you if this is only for a three-year trial period is not it does not go on after year period of time but nonetheless it is a big item and then finally I want to share with you in the special session uh there was a bill pass that included a savings for franchise tax for small businesses and creates a newly elected uh positions on our local appraisal boards so those are some of the items that are kind of key items we want to share with you briefly here on today and ask any questions you might have about it I know there have many questions there's many bills of about 8,000 bills uh file we were tracking about 2,000 but we'll definitely want to try to cover most of them when we do the full presentation before the committee be helping to ask any questions before I turn over to Matt for his presentation Carlos on dag uh TJ do you I know most of it well maybe that is the question that 30 million I think you said does all of it go to NAS jrb no it doesn't all go to NAS jrb part of it what you have to do is actually under the Texas Military preparedness commission we have to apply for the funding it's about $15 million per bium so over buing them there $15 million for the first year and the that we can apply for we compete against with Austin with with um um Houston with San Antonio other folks and like I said over the last couple Cycles we've received funding for what we'd asked for the money is used for fixing infrastructure needs either entering onto the base or there may be certain projects on the base that we want to partner with the jrb with we can actually and we've done it before and Miss Dana bur office LED that effort in the past and we submitted applications in and we granted the funding we asked for there is a small match in some of the funding but it's benefited for worth the last two cycles and it's a great benefit for military communities because what the federal government looks at they look at local local involvement they want to know is the local community really supportive otherwise that bad word that we Al always talk about which is called Brack they look at that and say well maybe that that base doesn't need to be there so we in Texas along with the Texas mayors of military communities in which the mayor is a portion of and I think um council member Beck is your appointee we try to make sure that we tell the story of important the economic impact of bases in the state of Texas so that federal government the people in DC will stay away from that that bad four-letter word that we don't want to talk about sure no and and it is no question about it especially in relation to lock yes sir U the other thing that you mentioned I forget what slide that was uh Med you called it media development areas said I'm sorry say I think that's what you referred to it as you know movies you know a promotion of the film industry yes sir yes sir was that what it was yeah yes sir movie incentives and film Project yes sir okay uh those development zones uh I don't know if this is a question for for Robert or somebody but I'd be curious to see where those uh development zones are in Fort Worth and in Texas too um I don't know where they are in Fort Worth Robert is coming up to share with us that could be you know future agenda item I don't mean to slow you down sir if you don't know that's fine just ask it to Robert later Here Comes Robert yes there's actually only one motion picture development Zone in Fort Worth so when we created The Zone uh it really is encompassing the entire boundaries of the near Southside District so that's where the first Zone was created we do have the opportunity and the ability to do some additional zones uh but that was created for a specific project that we were working on at the time uh as far as the state I believe Austin is the only other community that has uh utilize the motion picture media production development Zone and they created a Zone around the entire city if I'm not mistaken so it's really just us and Austin at this point got it thanks Robert CJ Robert will you say more about um The Zone I don't have any context of that what project was it created for uh so that was for uh uh Backlot Studios red Productions action soon yes yes I think Charlie had a question just one are we um can we use those dag funds to acquire land right outside the base as well is that we'll have to I think we have to look at what we're actually talking about doing with I think it's infrastructure as long as it's infrastructure and I think it's got to be in the day may speak to it more directly connected to the to the actual jrb or going into the property or immediately on the outside I don't think that there can be a separation between the actual land in the actual um um base but we can definitely look into that and as it as the idea and concept comes forward because actually they're getting ready to release the next round uh this $15 million actually going to be released this coming Friday September 1st the new new applications will going and be released for the new for New Era time period to submit in for the $15 million so if we want to look at that we probably want to start looking now before the applications are released this Friday okay gotcha thanks yes sir any other questions for TJ no thanks TJ appreciate you okay thanks TJ mayor and Council I'm Matt Murray City attorney's office I will not be going through a thousand bills today but I do have a couple I'd like to highlight for you and we'll begin with hb750 this is part of a broader effort that we've seen this session uh for Right to Farm you could probably call this the right to farm in the city bill this will restrict our ability to regulate agricultural activity we will recommend an update to our high grass and weeds ordinance to ensure it's continued enforce ility against agricultural vegetation I should also note that on the upcoming November 7th election there will be a proposition to enshrine the right to farm and ranch in the Texas Constitution I expect that it will pass and the next we have HB 3699 this regulates the city's subdivision plot application and approval process it allows a delegation of authority to City staff for plat approval but perhaps most importantly it allows disapprovals to be appealed to city council so development services is working to align their current procedures with the new law and to develop a process to receive those appeals to city council another development related bill is hb14 this allows for third-party review of a wide range of development submittals if the city does not meet the deadline disapprovals or conditional approvals can also be appealed to city council development services is working to ensure that they do not miss any deadlines and again aligning their procedures with the new law and developing a process to receive any appeals to council up next is SB SP 2038 this allows for the release of certain portions of the city's EXT territorial jurisdiction by petition or election currently there is not a process in state law for the release of the city's etj this would be similar to the procedures for annexation and we are preparing to receive interview petition seeking release or requests for an election and then we have hb1 1526 this is related to non-residential Parkland dedications this is not a seismic change but Park and Recreation is revising the neighborhood and Community Park dedication policy to comply with the new law and here we have HB 1819 which prohibits the city from adopting or enforcing a juvenile curfew and then a couple of bills that TJ touched on earlier SB 222 and hb1 1442 which should help the police department with catalytic converter theft and Street takeovers on a similar note HB 2195 increases penalties for attaching or displaying wrong fictitious altered or obscured license plates and HB 914 creates a criminal offence for tampering with a temporary vehicle registration tag sb29 prohibits a city from imposing mandates requiring masks or vaccines or closing businesses or schools to prevent the spread of coid and hb1 1893 requires the city to adopt a policy prohibiting the installation and use of Tik tock on all city-owned devices um I is updating their administrative regulation to prohibit tick tock on All City own devices but I understand that it's already been blacklisted and then last but certainly not least we have HB 2127 the Texas regulatory consistency act dubbed the Death Star bill by its opponents I know you've heard a lot about this bill but in short it restricts local ordinances from exceeding state law the bill also provides that someone injured by conflicting regulation can bring an action against the city but fortunately they have to provide notice of claim 3 months before filing the action we expect minimal impact to our existing ordinances because virtually all of them are authorized by state law but we are prepared to respond to any notices of claim and we will of course evaluate all future ordinances in light of the new law and we're going to closely monitor the city of Houston's lawsuit against the state in which they argue that the statute is unconstitutional and that's all I have so with that I'll turn it back over to TJ any further questions for TJ or Matt Council Carlos and then down the line go ahead yeah I uh you know maybe I'm just kind of overreacting but it looks like you once again we're having to deal with local control and folk in Austin just wanting us to look like eye candy I'd like to have some more information on that first one in terms of egg agriculture that first one and for those of you you know who are new we've been fighting Austin since I've been here and the war continues to escalate so I just need to know who our friends are and if you guys could talk TJ in terms of what's what's effective immediately uh where do we have friends who feel as incensed as I do I I saw Allen's head turn red so I know so somebody around this table but I mean this is ridiculous I I don't know what we can do but it just pisses me off every time I see them chipping away so talk about agriculture that's very important to us in in for this bill does erode the city's ability to regulate agricultural operations that is a defined term unfortunately it's defined very broadly we can regulate them but it does require the certain findings and a resolution be made through Council are there any other cities who don't like this yes many so what do we do we'll continue to enforce what we can enforce and where we have issues we may bring forward those findings and resolutions for Council to consider well it it's hypocrisy in my mind because we talk about Texas being a property right State well but it turns out we can't have that oversight at the local level and just for the record I would ask you to please keep us up to date on any developments that would help erode yes we will Carlos thanks mayor um about HB 1750 that kind of hits close to home for me uh years back have dealt with this before but not at the legislative level but I'm curious I mean I see what the impact is for cities right you know tall grass and weeds but when you look at uh extr territorial areas ejs what happens there because many times if you have a an a operation out there you might decide you see the big you know municipality creeping up on you and you want to do something about it to preserve your use and you approach them and say Hey I want a development agreement so I can continue doing what I'm doing so in etj is there any impact there because of that build yes we're also losing the ability to regulate those areas as well as far as agricultural operations are concerned and again that's defined broadly okay so then does that mean a city can no longer entertain or or extend development agreements no we can but if something is considered an agricultural operation for example having chickens M then we cannot regulate it unless we go through count and make these findings and the findings are that there's a health or safety risk and that it cannot be addressed through a less restriced means okay I'll probably have more later for you um you know offline but um yeah that's it that's it for now thank you Jared thanks mayor um same um slide can you explain um in lman term um what the impact uh this law has on the high grass ordinance sure so under this law someone could argue that their High Grass is actually an agricultural operation and if so under our existing ordinance we would be unable to regulate it however we can establish a maximum height for even agricultural operations but we'll need to go back and a our ordinance to do that and uh does the property have to be Zone agriculture or it can be in any zoning District zoning okay um one more question um I don't like front yards anyway so maybe you're this is EXA i' had no influence on this but this is all my dissertation so it might be a good thing we can have prairie grasses all across the state now um one more question on S sp29 with mass is it um specific to um Co 19 or in the that there's some future Global pandemic again would that restrict our ability to make decisions based on emergencies I think it would also restrict you with future pandemics so in that um that would be left up to the governor or the state legislature if there was mass needed they would have to change this law yes got it Allan so thank you for the presentation the uh my questions were about 1750 as well and you mentioned you brought up the word chicken uh but we went through some significant exercise I think it was a couple years ago before I was on Council anyway uh to to regulate that kind of thing within the city and and also to extend the ability for HooHa to regulate it further does this impact an hoa's ability as well or just us and and you mentioned chickens I think the even worse case is a rooster and is that where is that with the yes so raising of chickens would be considered an agricultural operation that we would not be able to regulate under this new law unless of course we come through Council and make the findings through a resolution um I do believe that HOAs would continue to be able to enforce other restrictions through restrictive covenants for example can you FP back to the about the etj and the election as part of etj just want to understand what that means is it an election to the property owner saying they want to be pulled out of our etj yes that's correct they can request an election and if a certain percentage vote for it then they're removed from the etj but if it's one property owner at etj that's theh no yeah say that again I don't believe one land owner would meet the threshold okay I'd like to I mean I have Richmond Kraken here you can provide more detail on this bill yeah so this is kind of an interesting bill there's two ways that the city can receive a petition under this new law it can be 51% of the people whose property wants to be released from the utj or you can have the majority and value of the property owners of that area under that scenario if you have the 51% they submit a petition um and we verify the petition requirements it's automatically released all that Land from the etj so if you think about it you can affect a bunch of other property owners in your subdivision out in the etj that may not even want to sign a petition may not understand what the etj is or what it does but their property would be deemed automatically removed from the city's ecj there's no appeal to council there's no council action it's at the staff level they verify the petition and it's automatic the second way in which you get property released is to have 5% of the registered voters from the last uniform election submit a petition calling for an election and then have an election on that any other questions Council no as as a final as as we close um think May mayor Pro asked the question I think engaging our elected officials is going to be really important this past session we had quite a few etj bills some of them we were able to stop some of them we were able to amend some of them we amended for worth out of by working with the law Department Miss Guzman and her team uh this spill uh um got through on us and uh but there were many there were like maybe 15 or 20 etj bills they were it was a tough session on etj so engaging uh mam Pro I would say engaging your elected officials I know they're part of your District please talk to them about this thing called local control it's really important um um as we look at that particular issue moving forward so I'll I'll leave it at that and um share that with you but we'll continue to fight uh looking forward going to our next issues next week the impeachment trial is scheduled uh to begin on the 5th um ask you to stay tuned to what may come of that and then also the Third special call session where the governor expected to call the Third special session and you're wondering what can they cover well the thing that the government will probably want to talk about would be school vouchers a school choice and may possibly school funding and then teacher pay raises and then our bonuses and then also you remember there 76 bills he vetoed some of those bills dealt with local government and one big one uh that was vetoed by the we're really going to be watching is there was a bill by Senator Bon cour out of Houston deal with certificate of obligations whenever you file a bill uh two things can happen and one of them's not good and if you file it and comes to the floor then people start to add amendments to them going forward so we that's why we'll be watching that particular issue and that's why it be important for us to watch Mar uh elections coming up November 7th there'll be 14 proposed Constitutional Amendments on the ballot and we talked about uh proposition four which deals with uh uh lowering property taxes have to be approved by the voters he talked about proposition six which deals with projects that deal with water a water plan in Texas going forward proposition eight also deals with Broadband we makees want to make sure that we support that issue then also proposition 14 which deals with funding for state parks and new state parks in the state of Texas and then also in 2020 24 of March 4th of 2024 the uh primary elections will be conducted and then the general election will be in November and then that January will be going back in for another regular session starting January second second Tuesday in January that concludes our presentation at this time if there questions I I just have one one more admonishment the next time your State Rep invites you to play golf have dinner go for drinks remind them that you see what they're doing to us I'm emailing Ramon on a different topic right now but these are the people who are there making those votes taking away our control friendship is one thing I have many friends in Austin but when it comes to our control they need to know that we're willing to speak up and stand loud because if not you you're not going to need a counsel for your citizens at the end of the day so I I encourage you please be aggressive and letting them know that you do not like the erosion of local control it's happening Nationwide any other questions Council thank you both very much Council that's the conclusion of our presentations um do we have any requests for future G items anybody okay get your list out I even wrote mine down to be organized uh we have had two or three presentations in citizen comments called Lancaster updates those are Tak on the appearance of official updates so here's the action I need from Council so that the citizens who look to us for guidance will know what really is happening so I'm asking for a presentation that I call the East Lancaster update project whatever you want to have it called but we need input from Trinity Metro from the Council of governments and tpw and that way this can be a balanced report so that the citizens know what's happening on Lancaster uh I also o need an update on what I call the geographic as aspect of a speaker signin sheet for zoning I see DJ in the back DJ don't leave the room because that's I'm waiting for my update and those are my two eugina anyone else yeah I have one uh since we have new counsil on I would like to uh get a report back from the uh race and culture task force on what their recommendations were to update the new staff that we have a new new uh city council we have Janette and Jared are FR Janette go ahead i' I'd like to see numbers on um HVAC assistance that we've done so far this year and what other services resources are out there to help keep our residents cool I know MHMR I'm sorry um crap I forgot who never mind so there's another um group Meals on Wheels gives um window unit to folks but it what else are we doing as as a city um and what are we doing as a city to stay ahead of potential another potential coid outbreak as far as you know for our at least for our um uh City staff you know are we do we still have coid testing kits in the city just wondering where we are on that Jared um just one um I want to work with um development services on a IR um about requirements for um development requirements for parking with schools um both um all types of schools anyone else okay that's all adjourned thank you all