okay have we seen councilmember back yet perfect okay and carrie is late he's just texting me so okay she's not here yet okay i'll text her okay okay if council members will get seated we'll get started there you go happy wednesday do you want to just go ahead and grab your computer and move over there somebody else doesn't yeah one two three four five six okay there you are has let me show you okay good morning i'm gonna get us started here we have a few council members stuck in traffic which happens sometimes thank you all for braving the weather this is always a really um fruitful use of our time and so i'm excited to be with david eisenlure and his team today thank you david for being so organized and then importantly thank you to tcc um and all of their leadership for helping make today happen it's a beautiful space and i thought it would be a good opportunity for us to get outside of our city hall um and talk about the future of fort worth um i will be brief and just turn it over now um to i think david cook and who's gonna introduce a good friend susan alanis as well thank you i'll just go ahead and admit up front that michael crane wanted me to put uh redistricting on the agenda this morning that's right and and we're not going to do that i think the mayor said the right words this is about the future of fort worth and it's a time that we could put aside redistricting and all those other things that are on your mind that are currently in front of you because this is thinking about not just next week next month next year but in the next decade or so so it is thinking about the future and we need to take more time to do that every now and then so i want to thank everybody for taking the time out of the day to do that because i do think it's very important that we put the next generation at the front of our minds every now and then and think about what we want the long-term impact of our time here to be i do have the pleasure and the honor to introduce the chief operating officer of tarrant county college this is when i start crying she used to work large jenga knocking it down experience that you'll get to have but um but on that note i'd like to introduce our acting chancellor i think she's a familiar face to many of you and um some of you she may be new so she'll tell you a little bit about herself but dr elva leblanc county and that's thanks to your support and the support of the taxpayers who had the vision back in the 60s to say that a community college was critical for the economic development of this community and they were right we we work so hard and are so focused on budgeting every little penny that we don't market ourselves very well so a lot of individuals throughout tarrant county don't really know the spectacular work that that's taking place at this college so susan asked me to share a little bit about myself i started out at tarrant county college as a student i came back as a faculty member i was invited to become an administrator and i've worked in all the different levels of this college i also was chief academic officer for austin community college and president of galveston college and in each institution at each institution i learned a great deal about the challenges of working with individuals that are well educated very smart and don't necessarily have the same viewpoint so we take great pride in hiring independent thinkers that have this strong philosophy about whatever their discipline may be and then we ask them to work as a team so that's a lot of fun right but we've managed to do that and tarrant county college has moved in the direction of working as one college versus six independent campuses we're working together in collaboration because we know that again through those internal partnerships we're able to better serve the community i have a reputation for being very good at reaching out and having strong partnerships with business and industry with our public schools so when i was president on the northwest campus i started the first early college high school in tarrant county at the time everyone said that is the craziest thing i've ever heard of it's not going to work we were actually working with two independent school districts fort worth isd and the small district that's right there next to our col campus and they it worked out beautifully and now we've got multiple early college high schools throughout the tarrant county the we graduate over 400 students with associate degree before they get their high school diploma these are individuals that are first in their family to attend college often they are esl english is their second language or they might not have made very good decisions for themselves in the high school when you put them among adult learners they don't behave the way they did in the high school they feel a little foolish and so all of these environment that we've created for them have allowed them to be hugely successful and i have to give most of the credit to our faculty we have amazing faculty so i mentioned that i started as a student at tarrant county college some of the best faculty that professors that i had in my entire college career were professors at tarrant county college and so you need to know that we are committed to tarrant county the trains will continue running on time i love this institution i grew up here and tarrant county is my home i've lived in this region for decades and i've served on multiple boards and given back to the community in every way that i can right now what we what i it's important to me for you to know that our focus is our students we continue to do the good work and we will continue serving tarrant county and fort worth in the very best way that that we can so thank you again for being here and uh if there's anything else that we can do for you we're here to serve thank you thank you elba [Applause] good morning good morning i'm excited to see everybody here today i'm glad you came uh came and we're looking for a very uh active busy day today you have a copy of the agenda in front of you and so i promise not to read that to you but um uh this gives you sort of an idea what the plan flow for the day is we're going to start at the very highest level and we're going to ask you to think about talk about your your your personal vision for the for the city of fort worth so start with vision and then we'll sort of go down this uh funnel of it and kind of increasing specificity we're going to talk about well if this is our vision what are the forces that are working on us externally what are the trends and the factors and the and the pressures that are on on you as governing uh members um to deliver that vision and we'll then next turn our attention to the organization itself what are we go swat what are we good at what are we not so good at what worries us and what are our opportunities and then by the afternoon we'll actually ask you to start thinking about what specific concrete things do you want to accomplish over the next period of time no particular time horizon but but what is what are the things that we need to do understanding the environment that we work and having assessed ourselves and talked about our vision what do we need to do to to move us ahead so we should end the day with uh with some sense of where the council is in terms of vision and big picture um priorities we won't be doing a lot of ranking of projects and individual programs so much as painting a picture of where we want to take the city and the organization itself the process can feel kind of messy it's always kind of mushy in the middle i found this years ago but i like this graphic that says that you know there's a part of it that'll be a grown zone and we'll be putting you through well we're going to ask you to think and make lists and quantity will be more of the emphasis than quality initially and then in the afternoon it'll start to all converge and we'll get to something specific so this is my trust the process uh message to you it's good to have ground rules and and so i'll i'll propose these and see if there are others that um you might suggest please turn your cell phones off or to stun years ago i used to have to say cell phones and pagers but now it's just cell phones understand you may need to take a call fully understand but if you have to excuse yourself quietly please do so we just want to keep the flow going we've organized this room in a way that as you've probably seen that we've mixed the senior staff and the council together and that's all about trying to promote a sense of collaboration and teamwork among the most senior leaders and and the policy makers but we'll also try to understand and respect as we go through this the various roles and responsibilities council sets policy so at the end of the day when we're starting to do some prioritization those will be council we're going to use some technology to do that council setting policy staff contributing from from their from their expertise but uh professional advice and not policy making um please participate and i'll i'll ask sort of for the leeway if you're not participating i'm going to call on you and ask you to participate and if i see someone that may be dominating i may interject and ask you to let someone else talk is that okay all right um avoid killer phrases what's a killer phrase that'll never work yeah that's a stupid idea and they're even more subtle ones like well we tried that before yeah yeah so let's try to keep an open mind again in this con this idea of out here we're going to focus on quantity not as as much as quality we're not evaluating we're going to get there but let's let everybody have their say um elmo this is my favorite one everybody has elmo elmo is something i learned when i went through baldrige training and it's an acronym that stands for enough let's move on so if if you sense that we're getting bogged down uh feel free to holler elmo and we'll we'll evaluate whether we move on or not and i'll do the same have fun humor helps this is serious stuff no doubt but but it's also kind of uplifting and fun and we should have some fun as as we do this bio breaks is needed the restrooms are right this way so there you go any other rules that you want to propose does anybody object to those rules okay good you're all you're all on record um from time to time during this uh session we're going to use some technology and it's we're going to spend a couple of minutes to just get you oriented to that get you logged on so we can use it along the way so each of you have either your tablet or your smartphone please join the tccd public network that's one of the uh networks that should pop up on your device and uh and that's uh open to the public and i think it will ask you for your email address to log in and get on i want you to know the part of the value of the polling that we're doing it's all anonymous we're not capturing names ip addresses tracking all of that that's just to get you on the network and then navigate to poll ev pull everywhere pollyv.com slash david e 675 and um oh i should and and and i i i'm really focused on the people sitting at this horseshoe in terms of what we're gonna do first uh which is what are your expectations so when you get there first we're just gonna have a little fun with it to make sure you're on the on the system and and it's working and you should see when you get logged on you'll see this question if you were a superhero what super power would you choose to have so yeah that's right i just that's i want to make sure everybody's found found their way to the url and that you've got a connection is anybody not you bet woody can you uh help out anybody needs help i failed to introduce my colleague with me today i'm sorry woody battle from our philadelphia office is here to to help doesn't matter does everybody have a connection and you're you're on anybody not maybe is a better way to ask the question okay uh yeah what a mistake people sometimes make is they'll put a polyv dot com david e 675 in the search bar rather than the address bar and that'll confuse you so are we good so you should now see the poll on your screen if you were a superhero what superpower would you choose to have flying invisibility x-ray vision super hearing telekinesis super strength mind reading and i think we have 16 people here so the number i'm looking for is about 16 one two three four seven eight nine ten thirteen fourteen likes mr moon's not here so 15 will be the number we're not going to analyze you on this it's just to make sure it's working all right there we go so um mind reading and invisibility i would guess mind reading is um is uh well no i'm not gonna give never mind okay so here's a substantive question and this is what we talked about in some of our our conversations if today is going to be worth your while what happens in a brief phrase how do you hope what do you achieve what do you hope to achieve over the course of this workshop and you can answer up to three times and you should begin to see um the results of your colleagues scroll across the screen you type in a little phrase and you'll have to like hit enter or register or something like that mutual understanding so today is worthwhile you walk out of the room having a better understanding of the priorities and the concerns of each of you build relationships between between david and the acm team with the council specific directions the new new council wants the staff to take the new a new plan for the city of fort worth direction and agreement on collective vision this is all very consistent by the way with what you all told me individually understand the vision for our city from our colleagues define and refine our priorities future thinking build relationships so if we if we come out of today with a sense of a more cohesive team really understanding one another uh and and our respective roles and respecting that and coming up with some ideas about where you want to take the city uh both as policy leaders and as administrators that'll be a good day okay i'm going to move on we're going to do a little icebreaker game i everybody played jinga before you know you're with me that's true who made that last the tower collapsed last time um so so one of the things i usually have done in the past is i've given some summary of the um of the interviews i've did actually i've merged those two into this jenga game so on on the uh on the end of each one of these blocks is something one of you told me that was important to you this says support transformative projects such as the tamu campus crescent hotel buoy house the stockyards that was what one of you said was you know an important thing that you wanted to accomplish i'm going to ask you each to come up in turn and maybe we wouldn't line up to make this go faster and just pull out a block and uh read the read the quote it's not a quote they're paraphrased out loud talk a little bit about it if you want to and then we'll go to the next one and we'll see how far we get so line up let's just go around this way well i guess you're in the hot seat i guess the city manager don't knock it down on the first one and i will trump you played this game so what you do you've never played it oh you haven't okay so you look for one that you think you can get out oh and then you stack it right back on top so there you go you did it so read that out loud okay here's the one i have identify community policing champions and increase community engagement yeah so one of the council members said it's really important to me that we really identify people in the community to champion community policing and do a better job of engagement with the community next mark are you reading on my radio you reread it need for more focus on the needs of the homeless population an annual budget allocation is required right okay so stack it on top and go to the next one so more more focus on the homeless population is important to uh one or more of you there you go boy you're doing it the hard way fernando equitably complete i don't want to say this redistricting all right you can stop you can stop there that's what one of you said clearly communicate the priorities of the new council so the people know they were heard right that was mine you're right it was yours oh there's a loose one do i like what it says ah bingo now the secret is when i put it back on top we should define what we want to be as a city when we grow up okay ah all right [Laughter] all right promote economic development in at-risk communities we can arrange those there you go i've decided i don't want to be acting anymore you can have this job take it back that's right fort worth must pivot away from its small town mentality to that of a grown-up city [Laughter] [Music] understand why elizabeth beck drives that little car and does not like car washes just kidding provide general fund resources to support new startup businesses thank you oh you're watching you're welcome it's solid it's solid for you you got it there you go the city council needs to focus time on the strategic rather than the routine okay full you have to complete the layer so yeah okay okay enter in the danger zone a more aggressive economic development in the inner city is needed [Music] valerie you can try this one if you want promote fort worth's conservative governance as in promote i'm sorry promote fort worth's conservative governance as an economic development tool [Laughter] no pressure there you go there you go focus on major infrastructure needs outside of the 820 loop she got it wow preserve and protect the ccbd funding for the police department okay derek [Laughter] wow okay thank you all for that i mean you know typically when you do these kind of things there's sort of a metaphorical context for that and what is that what other than having some fun what is what is the what is it what are we trying to communicate here you all have a whole lot of good ideas in there and and and the tower is a lot stronger when they're all um together so thank you for your work and we'll clean the mess up in a minute um and it's now on to really one of the more important parts of these retreats each year and that's the update on growth trends and data and mark mcavoy is going to leave that there you go thank you all right thank you david um mayor council it's an honor to be here and to be able to present these growth trends to you this morning i wanna before i get started uh just take a minute to thank uh freda castaneda and all of the team from tcc to uh that put in all the work to help get all of this set up the city team tracy martin on my staff all of these folks back here we wouldn't be able to present this this morning without all of their work over the last couple of days to get us set up and ready so thank you all for that i appreciate it um what you saw on some of the blocks that we read and i'm sure that we're on some of the ones that we didn't think of especially the ones that we we read and heard as we go through this so what you're going to see is somewhat familiar uh in some ways because a lot of what is going to be presented this morning has been presented in some way or another in other presentations over the course of the last year or so and there is also new information sprinkled in um most of it is information that is coming from the past and leading up to current in addition to some information that is a projection or a forecast so as we go through you'll you'll be able to see with some visual cues what is coming uh from from past and and what is projected into the future so here we go and feel free to stop any time and interject questions uh as we go i've got uh about 45 slides so we're going to try to get through this and in the time allotted so just some level setting you've seen this before after the 2020 census count city of fort worth came in at 918 915. uh placement really uh isn't all that important other than with the controversy that we heard about 12 and 13. according to the count we're 13 but the most important part of this is the growth rate the change over 2010 to 2020 is 24 that was by far the not by far necessarily but it was the highest change of any large city until you get down to number 66 which is irvine california was the the highest ranking city that had more than 24 growth so of the 20 largest cities fort worth was the largest growing over the last decade when you look at the other statistics here 18th in density uh well below the average density but again first in growth rate so with the population trends you've seen this before as we got ready for the kickoff of the redistricting process as we uh relayed the 2020 census count information won't spend a lot of time here but as you can see from the statistics of the census counts starting in 1990 and going through 2020 uh the city is getting more uh integrated less or more racially diverse as you can see there at the bottom 2020 with that stratification uh at um 38 percent white 18 african-american 34 hispanic latino four percent asian five percent other i like to include these uh because i i think these tell a really great picture of what the previous bar chart kind of alluded to and as you can see here with the blue yellow and orange shading uh in in the 1990 map is concentrated largely inside of 820. when we take a look at this over time going to 2000 going to 2010 and then finally with the 2020 census count you see the yellow blue and orange expanding outward and so again to reiterate the city is becoming more integrated less segregated and as we go and prepare for the 2030 census even though that's eight years away i would expect for this trend to continue into the future so some additional population trends with respect to age you can see that as the population grows the numbers don't change all that much although you will notice that there was some change some significant change in not significant change but change uh going from 2010 to 2020 in a couple of categories but by and large except for coming from 1990 to 2000 these numbers are fairly consistent there's not a lot of drifting with these age categories from census to census so all together fairly consistent with respect to age the city is growing uh both in population who is moving here from other places and it is also growing by way of annexation as you can see here there are two groups of annexed territories um one of them is all of the territory that the city annexed between 2000 and 2010 which was approximately 30 000 acres and then all of that annexed between 2011 and 2021 which was approximately thirteen thousand acres and so again the city as they annex territory is is growing although most of this is on the edge or uh infill with enclaves um it's not terribly distinguishable on this map but you can see the extra territorial jurisdiction kind of in a hatched shading there on the mostly western northern and southwestern boundaries that's where a lot of this annexation has occurred over the past 22 years or so growth rate from 2010 to 2020 as you can see and it is not a surprise based on the numbers that we saw in the population growth particularly in council district 7 up on the north side is where the majority of the concentrated growth has occurred over the last decade and you can also see some 100 percent changes in tracks out on the east side but primarily those are concentrated uh on the on the northern end north there of hugging 820 and north of 820. here's one of the projected uh growth rate so this is looking out into the future 2020 to 2045 and by the way these numbers are based upon estimates that north central texas council of governments publishes and tomorrow in fact they're going to release their new estimates for 2020 i'm sorry 2045 projections and so all of those uh figures will be public as of tomorrow we've got some of them sprinkled in here because they allowed us to use them because they've already briefed their executive board but the the public numbers will be released tomorrow but they are incorporated here so if you look at the 2045 projection you see more of those parcels or tracks with 100 growth you see a concentration of them outside of 820 wrapping around the city so still strong growth projected although i will say that they have revised the city's 2045 population downward and you'll see that in a slide in just a minute i'll explain it again when i get there and in fact it's here so this is the uh slide that we're projecting population growth this is based on the nct cogs figures and when they last released their 2045 projections the city's population at 2045 was projected to be approximately 1.4 million they've revised that downward as they have for all of the cities in the region all of the big cities in the region um and in comparison with those on the chart dallas and arlington have also been revised down as well but you can still see significant growth projected between 2020 and 2045 of about 31 percent how does that translate into density where are people uh most congregated and in 2020 you can see those hot spots there up along the northern uh tier and just outside of i-35 on the east and then down uh south southwest where the highest concentrations of density occurs in the city according to the 2020 census counts now the yellow or the obviously the most people but the red is a high concentration as well so you've got these areas of density these little teardrops that appear on the map there north south southwest and then across kind of the i-30 287 corridors there as you see what does it look like projected for 2045 same places with density but as you can see some of them have intensified and we've got new spots showing up particularly around downtown extending north into what is panther island out here outside of the view of of the building that we're in and so as you can see more density happening uh but still a lot of uh density around the major transportation corridors as you would expect let's look at jobs job growth and i'll say also that the census bureau is not projected to release its 2020 american community survey data until sometime in march so unfortunately we don't have those updates to incorporate into this presentation so american community survey data stops at 2019. so some of these figures and we'll point them out and this is one of them that uses 2019 american community survey as the as the end point and you can see here that compared with austin san antonio dallas and houston between 2019 uh between 2010 and 2019 the city of fort worth's job growth outpaced those other major texas cities when you look at what does that look like between the ratio of jobs to households on those same comparable cities you see that fort worth is on the low end in fact it's the next lowest the second lowest so although it added the most jobs the job growth was the highest it still has some room to catch up to dallas austin and houston so looking out into the future we'll see some information that may paint a picture of how that's going to happen or the the numbers associated with that ketchup employment density where like the population where are the jobs located within the city as you can see here going back to 2005 sometimes it's helpful to look back farther in in this case we have the data from 2005 and so you can see there are a few areas where the employment density is higher than in other places but in no tract except downtown and just southwest of downtown in that medical center area do you see the highest density category identified on the map this is 2005. as we see the data for 2019 and again this is american community survey data we see more of those highest intensity categories show up we see out on the far east side around the airport area and then some others start to creep into that 10.1 to 50 jobs per acre category that is different than the 2005 map showed now let's project and look at what it looks like for 2045 and you see that although there aren't a large number of tracks that moved from the second highest uh density to the highest there are many that move from a lower uh density category into the that middle tier and so job densification happening along the 35 corridor up north as you would expect around alliance and some other areas where we would expect to see more jobs being added and that job density increasing an interesting way to look at that if you look at the job balance as compared to the adult population in these census blocks this is somewhat revealing here so you see the yellow areas are areas where there are fewer than one job per adult adult defined as uh someone who is boating age population and then the green shades is somewhere between one and one and a half per adult and then the purple areas are more than one and a half jobs per adult and so you can see as compared to or even in contrast with the job's density that we just saw for 2019 we have many areas throughout the city where there is more than one and a half jobs per adult this is an interesting chart that i wanted to make sure to include because it kind of in summary uh shows at a very high level what the business cycle looks like and this is being reported by the dallas fed for the fort worth arlington combined areas but what this does is it measures in aggregate the unemployment rate the non-ag employment wages and then retail sales and as you can see there going back to january of 04 all the way through december of 2021 there's a positive growth in 211 of the 252 months that are accounted for in that range and so you can see kind of the dip in in 2909 and 2010 which was the recession and then the big uh cliff in late uh 2019 early 2020 which is the covid related dip and so you can see that we have now come out of that and the december 21 report is higher than at any previous point along this graph going back to 2004 but if you look at this going back to 1980 it that would still be true is one of those figures that the business cycle incorporates into its index the unemployment rate the change between 2000 and 2019 is reflected here and so as you can see by the shading on the left map the 2000 map as compared with the 2019 map on the right you see that there is more concentration of unemployment rate in 2000s we've gotten a reduced concentration of unemployment rate as we've gone from 2000 to 2019. that's good news so you can see that although the overall unemployment rate only dropped by about a percentage point um it is not concentrated in as many places as it was in 2000 we look at the median home value information again comparing 2000 to 2019 there's a little bit of change that you can detect as you kind of scan from 2000 to 2019 if you control for inflation you see the concentration of the values going around starting in the north and wrapping around to the southwest and up into the central core of the city median home value in 2019 was 200 209 400 as compared to 93 000 in 2000 and so you see a large increase over those two those two years 20 years apart median household income you can see a fairly significant change here as well especially with the concentration of those households earning in the higher range of the bracket but the median household income in 2019 being 65 000 just over 65 as compared to 2043 and again these are all adjusted for inflation another one of the factors in the business cycle analysis or one of the things that factors into it is the poverty rate and so comparing again 2000 to 2019 you can see that the concentration is largely similar in 2019 in fact in some areas uh north of downtown it's intensified uh when comparing 2019 to 2020 although the poverty rate in total for the city as a whole has gone down by 0.1 percent although the population has gone up by approximately 400 000 over that time the poverty rate has actually gone down so before we get off of kind of the demographic information are there any questions that i can help answer before we move into some of the budget information yes sir going back to the job to household ratio um does that include access to urban services like transit network i'm not sure i understand the question um okay i've heard it said before that that ratio also takes into account those access and proximities to these urban services for example like in the central city area right people are commuting for example outside of where they live i understand you see that's going to affect your ratio uh i will have to confirm that i i don't know if that's incorporated into this statistic okay and uh let's see oh you have it up right there where is fort worth right now on that ratio at 1.54 so it is the second lowest okay so something and i don't know pl please confirm this at that ratio level that may indicate that a lot of people are commuting further out it could be to get to their jobs okay so yeah if you can confirm that marketing i appreciate it thank you any other questions about the demographic information yeah i had one question mark so historically how accurate has census data been when you look back at it say okay this is what we're projecting uh population is going to be where they're moving so forth in the next 10 years is is it accurate so we could definitely run a look-back analysis to to compare say the cogs estimates or projections over the last 30 years or so with the census count and come up with a better answer i can tell you that the 2020 census count estimates and this is another factor to consider estimates that texas as a whole under counted by about 1.8 percent now how that impacts what in this case we're using cog projections said say 20 years ago we would be at 2020 we'll have to go back and we can run that analysis and do kind of a projection actual how much were we off comparison so that we know what that is i don't have that in front of mind here mark we actually we actually presented that information at this retreat two years ago at the meacham airport and some folks around the table remember we presented what cog and the city expected our growth to be over the next from and we missed it by mile uh we underestimated uh what our growth would be we never even came close so uh the tendency in fort worth north texas has been of building permits are regulations that they've got a model that takes all those factors into account but we can we can definitely quantify those and report back that would be interesting to know hey mark looks like we have that yeah we were wanting to know too on do you have any information on the quality of jobs that you show that we have more jobs here but do you have and i'm quality maybe i guess the income are the wages tied to those jobs so we we would definitely in in this presentation be able to kind of gauge over that same period of time what changes occurred in the median household income which you can see here but we would have to do some more in-depth analysis at a you know job category level to see what the shifts were between one point and another at a more detailed level in the aggregate we can kind of see some of that with income levels but not necessarily job quality not with the census data we would have to go out and get some other data sources but we could we could look into performing that analysis uh and i would just add to it i think that's a good idea because when you talk about the medium uh household income we have to be careful with that because everyone that lives in fort worth does not work in fort worth exactly and so even though those income in the house goes up it could be from somewhere else so i think the report that she's asking for i think that'll be really good to try to figure out the jobs that we have in fort worth are they actually getting the people in fort worth out of poverty yeah and i'll pick it back on chris is saying i think he's absolutely correct and i think as we think throughout the day one thing that i had made notes on to talk about was what our current jobs per capita per household that fort worth businesses provide to our families and what our goals should be around that in the coming decade um because i think a number would be nice to kind of have in mind like what is a healthy number of jobs per capita and we can look at our other cities that's for council to consider as well because we've known for a long time we had the problem as being a commuter study and people were going across north texas which is natural when you have such a large metro area with a lot of economic opportunity but what we want to achieve here in fort worth from an economic development perspective would be helpful so all right eric do you have all of these down so we can start looking okay and i want to make sure robert stearns is listening to this one historically i've been critical of the wages that companies we offer abatement packages to have offered but in recent years those wages have been on the increase is there any way you can tie that data into all of the salaries job quality tie that together to see how we're doing on how we bring in companies and what they're paying and how that impacts the fort worth wage earner we can certainly add any variable to that analysis and make sure that we are looking specifically at that one as well okay and and i state for the record they have been better because i've been so very critical and yeah i appreciate you know the effort for us to negotiate and could you go to in any slide showing the job centers i can easily point out center port dfw and bell you know because those are you know touching my district whether completely or partially as the airport does but i'm looking south is that where you're going to see uh the bakery alcon miller brewery can you just touch some of those so that everybody who's not familiar with the city as a whole might know and of course we all know alliance and if we can get the average wage that those companies pay i think that would be helpful too and that data is available it's not some of those we can we can definitely uh highlight as we perform that analysis i think it'll be good and the other thing i'd like for us to see is what is the average wage that the fort worth companies are paying that data is available through workforce solutions but just to see you know how are fort worth companies doing by fort worth people and as much data as we can get we can build a stronger you know wage earner here in the city absolutely good suggestion okay so what we want mark yes sorry is the presentation available in dropbox does it drop boxable it is drop boxable it is not presently in the dropbox okay let's see general fun what we wanted to do here is we wanted to uh we we've kind of talked through demographic uh job-related population um information now we wanted to take a look over the last several years and show you some changes particularly with respect to the general fund and ccpd budgets and so what we're going to start with here is that combined those two funds adopted budget change over the fiscal 2010 to 2022 period so essentially a 13-year period that we're looking at here and so you see how the growth from 2010 occurs over a steady growth uh through 2022 at a aggregate we're talking a change of 54 percent between those two points if you look at the departments that make up those two budgets and you look at from high to low in terms of budgeted dollars you can see the top 10 that are presented here police fire transportation and public works parks and rec economic development and on down the difference in shading that you're seeing is the dark blue bar represents the general fund the orange bar represents the ccpd so on both the budget graph by aggregate budget and by department you're seeing a general fund component and a ccpd component only a couple of departments police part neighborhood services have both elements of budget general fund ccpd so when you look at the department breakdown you're only seeing the ccpd component on those departments if you look at the actual dollars in more detail to see some of the change between fiscal 2010 and 22 at a department level again you're looking at the top 10 here and again you see that police and park and rec have both a general fund component and a ccpd component you see that the total growth again is right at that 54 percent 53.5 and you see the the total change approximately 323 million dollars over that period of time and then you see how that change affected each department and its proportion of the total of those two fund budgets uh in each year that we're looking at and so you see going from top to bottom and these are sorted by the fiscal 22 total budget right so highest to lowest with police on top information technology at the bottom the rates of growth are fairly consistent in some cases with the total growth but look at some of the others police is just under fire is significantly over uh tpw is significantly under park and wreck over but look at economic development and a lot of that has to do with the incentive dollars that have been put into the economic development department between 2010 and 2022. code compliance a major jump in and i'll point out that in cells where there is no number it means that either the department wasn't a department in 2010 or it wasn't in 2022 and so only the ones that were that had budgets in both of those years have the full row of data represented here so mark on that note like for instance development services which has been many different iterations maybe it was planning development fernando is that right in 2010 is there a way for us to know it's not totally comparable because then we split departments i'm just really curious how we've evolved over those time periods and are we in place where we need to be for some of those departments yeah absolutely and and this is a great example uh property management is another it was part of another department and there there's many reorganizations that you would see when you looked across but yes there there's a way to match uh dollar for dollar as you go back we made a decision for this presentation to keep it essentially at top ten so we didn't present so many figures that people's eyes blurred but yes we can we can track that back and show that evolution as it happens over time yeah and then my other question might be for the department who doesn't have to be necessarily maybe the department heads so for instance like police and fire big increases parks and rec police and fire i'm presuming a lot of that is personnel and adding additional rank to their forces but that could be incorrect and parks and recreation same thing there to make sure we're staying on pace with where all those departments need to be well and mark i can't remember if the next slide has personnel increases but to piggyback on what the mayor was saying a lot of this growth with the departments that have capital this is being driven by new buildings so the the new building increases the operating budget both in personnel and in just general operating thanks manya and i want to add on too with police and fire their collective bargaining meet and confer so that their increases would have been a part of that as well but to that point and and to follow up on on mania's response the next couple of slides show uh from an authorized position perspective what those changes look like in the same group of departments and so this uh won't necessarily show or it doesn't show the average pay per position but it's showing you a growth in the authorized positions not that we can't provide that other data we just don't have it incorporated here so as you can see here same period of time same two funds general fund and ccpd the combined change over time on the off no total number of authorized positions in aggregate grew 21 remember that the budget grew by 54 in aggregate and then when you look again at the department breakdown going from highest to lowest again you see the the top uh 10 or so that are represented here with police being highest followed by fire and on down and again i'll point out that the orange bar represents the ccpd component and only a couple of departments have that whereas on the left side you're seeing the aggregate and so again uh mark i department yes ma'am before you on that slide i i have a question that really is going to uh make department heads uneasy because i know they really don't speak with the frankness i would like to hear but are we able to identify needs for example i know in development services we hear complaints about tree inspectors and i don't think the city has a position that's dedicated specifically to tree inspectors when we look at neighborhood services where you have priority repair and it's still at five grand you know for for reasons that department heads can justify but do we go as deep as needed positions and i know that calls for some lobbying with the city manager who i respect highly but i just think based on complaints that we hear i'm trying to determine if there is a correlation you can make and with the one two three four system that we have now we should be able to to know where the complaints are coming from and tie those to needed positions and no david no department head asked me to pose that question but i'm just trying to figure out you know how how are we tying in not just the positions that we have but to those that we needed it took a couple of years for randall harwood to get i think three positions and so how do you address need in this or is that another location another conversation well i think this points out what is there what has been there i think to address the what is needed and how to accomplish that need that's a bit of a different conversation i don't know if any of the acms or or david wants no i'm not i don't know i uh i i guess that'll be a future agenda item to truly address the need because i think the complaints we hear from citizens should drive need or at least have it addressed in some way and i was shocked when i found out just looking that we really don't have people dedicated specifically for tree inspections and as much growth as we have even if it's a shared role it's nothing that is dominant and so i'll put that on the table on a tuesday and but what i will say is that you know through the budget process and and i don't want to speak for other uh department heads but generally speaking uh each department head is evaluating his or her operation and and what the needs are in order to know no offense but i i can tell you that it's not as simple as that but thank you for the effort sure but that evaluation is happening um and and goes into the budget making process but to your point look at me in the eye thank you so if you look at this by the numbers uh top 10 here that again you see that aggregate change of 21.2 again we're talking authorized positions here uh you see that that police over that time grew by 15 uh fire by almost seven park and rec again some of this incorporates back to the mayor's earlier point some reorganizations um and because you see some very significant changes here both on the high and low sides mark two it would like on the fireside new fire stations coming online yes there are all kinds of variables over this 13-year period that would account for growth and retraction now we're going to shift and we're going to look at some characteristics of the city's workforce that is made up by those figures that you just saw plus every other fund that has authorized positions as a part of it as well so now we're expanding or looking at the entire workforce so this is something that um if you remember last year's retreat was incorporated into one of the presentations but if you look at the city's workforce age demographics you'll see that the city uh is get obviously the workforce is getting generationally younger what i want to point out and what i thought was interesting and i want to thank nathan for providing this information is when you look at the difference between 20 and 21 which are actual figures obviously 25 and 30 are projections but 20 and 21 are actual figures look at the change just in that one year so we had in 20 20 baby boom 40 gen x so 61 was gen x or older just in that one year the workforce got significantly younger 15 32 so it went from 61 to 48 in one year right so that's a significant shift how does the workforce look with respect to race and ethnicity as compared to the city as a whole well you can see that as you go from 2005 to 2021 and we don't have exact uh comparables with the year of the census count in this case but if you take 2021 as a representative comparison with the 2020 census count you see that here the the white workforce wraith race and ethnicity uh category is 51 whereas the city population category was 35-ish 37 somewhere in there and so workforce a little bit higher african-american a little bit lower hispanic latino considerably lower and then other is about the same uh one one percentage point less what does the workforce look like in terms of the in-city residency and we're comparing here 2011 to 2021 it's gotten a little less the number of city of fort worth employees that live outside of the city over those 10 years but it's still more than 50 that live outside of the city in 2021 as compared to 2011. all right now we're going to take a look just and and these are not necessarily to show individual categorizations of things and talk about them specifically it's more just in in general to show as population and job growth has occurred the service burden of the city workforce has grown as well with respect to certain types of things that the cities typically maintain in particular the city of fort worth in this case we're looking at uh transportation infrastructure you can see those major categories and most of these are things that are reported in the annual financial report so you can go out and take a look at this whole list of things that that is in that report on an annual basis and see the changes over time but if you look at the 2010 to 2020 change in all of these street lane miles trap number of traffic signals and street lights you see the plus percentages on all of those in the deltas over those two periods if you look at city facilities contained here to police stations fire stations libraries and community centers and some of these although the the ending year is 2020 we went ahead and added some things that were already on the ground just to make the point that it didn't make sense to have a category knowing something is out there and not not reporting it so some of these have a few units added to them even though the date says 2020. so you can see plus 20 plus 12 percent on down the line parks and rec again same thing public spaces park acres trails athletic fields the only reduction here is the number of golf courses going from five to three over that period can we go back one slide sure to transportation when you look at that leonard and kerry on street and lane miles i'm just curious what your reaction is knowing what your constant headache is in north fort worth it doesn't that doesn't feel at all significant enough for what we've seen in growth yeah i think it's one reason we're addressing it in the bonds right package today yeah if i may jump in there my district is in that mix too and it's not just one metric of lane miles but also the capacities of existing right miles right and keep up on that you're not well i'll let you go ahead yeah same thing water steward storm water mains fire hydrants sanitary sewer lines storm pipes you can see again all of these are are increasing as the city builds out and moves out uh from 2010 to 2020 into those areas that it previously wasn't this is i found this interesting roger and i were kind of chatting about this before we started this morning but um real airport is not in the general fund neither is water and sewer but it was interesting just to see some of the deltas here but these are uh combined basically flights out of each of these airports right on the top so you see alliance meacham and spinx they're all uh increasing meacham by 75 but look at the alliance cargo and tonnage uh changed their 171 percent change over those two points this is just a summary you saw the uh analysis of this when etc was here a couple of weeks ago this is just another uh kind of point to consider when we're talking about change again this is monitoring the entire period that the survey has been administered over that 20-year period but what i'm showing you here those categories that had major changes either up or down major being defined as 10 or more and these are inputs from residents across the city all right so now look at some more high level things and we'll wrap up here uh taxable property value this is in the aggregate city-wide this is showing you all the way back to 1990 109 growth between 2010 and 2022. we chose 2010 just to kind of keep the the census boundaries intact so if we're thinking about that uh change over those two points this generally coincides with that the estimate for going into the fiscal 2022 budget was if you'll recall 87.3 billion in taxable property value property tax rate allocation as you all remember in that conversation when we went through the budget adoption process we this year lowered the tax rate and as you can see going back uh certainly to 95 96 going down from 85 mid 80s all the way down to now the .73 73 and a quarter cent but between 2010 and 20 22 a 14 reduction taxable property per capita uh 63 percent growth between 2010 and 2021. some of these cut off at 21 because those are the actuals when we look at estimates we we have an extra year to include property tax revenue this is the revenue the city collects from property tax levies 68 growth between 2010 and 2021 per capita 35 and that just reflects that the population is growing faster than the valuations and the revenue collection between 2010 and 2020 at least this is interesting to look at because we get uh to see kind of a value uh taxable value over um a couple of different categories one is this you know you've got a taxable value that is incorporated into the base as it changes over time and then you've got new construction that hits the books in each year so the one thing i want to point out here is that the residential base and the commercial base lines and also include the new commercial and new residential values but as you can see there at least since 2017 the new commercial construction or the values at least hitting the books have outpaced the new residential values hey mark if i can jump in for a second i have a question can you go back to the per capita slide um yeah so and help me if i'm explaining this right but you know i think it's we've done a really good job as a city trying to lower the property tax rate um out in the streets of district 6 and all over the city people don't necessarily feel the feel the relief of that because when they get their property uh taxes every year including my family right we see that our tech property tax responsibility is going up higher um and so does this chart i guess reaffirm that by saying per capita although we've lowered the tax rate we're still seeing people's tax bills go up so on a there are a couple of factors that that go into that one is like you said the the actual revenue this is the revenue that the city collects applied against the population so as the the population is going up obviously that your denominator is changing right so that's having an impact here so it's not growing as fast as the percentage growth in the revenue but certainly the valuations are coming into play um and certainly the rate is the other factor that comes into play so as the rate is going down as we've seen if the values increasing or outpacing that rate reduction you're going to see a continued increase yeah and that's for me personally and also for a lot of residents many residents that i represent i think that's a conversation that's happening in the bars and restaurants across fort worth is while residents are grateful for our work to try to reduce the tax rate where possible um they're not really feeling the relief because values are going so high and i know that people are concerned about values going on my house for example we just uh refinanced it and the value went up a hundred thousand dollars right and our income didn't go up right and so i think that's an important conversation for us to have as a council i know it's not um our issue solely to solve right like valuations uh are done at the county level and then also there's some state issues there but i think it's an important thing for us to discuss about how we do our part as we continue to move forward if if i could hit on th this what this tells me this chart right here is we're collecting about the same property tax revenue per person as we were doing back in 1990 right so that's just one so we're not i would say over collecting on the property tax side that's a different conversation than what you just mentioned and i've heard council member moon mention a few times there are four or five other taxing entities right we're simply one of right that's exactly what i was mentioning right so we're only going to make up a small proportion of that total tax bill and so what are the other taxing entities doing as we talk about property tax rate reductions are the other taxing entities having the same conversation yeah carrie david beat me to it and keep in mind when you're walking through this building one of those one of those taxing jurisdictions is paying for this building so great building but we're paying for it [Laughter] so this is this is actually the same slide as this we didn't take the other one out sorry about that but yeah if you go back to that one too just uh and i think it's gonna be your next slide we keep talking about trying to grow the commercial tax base at a greater proportion than the residential tax base is growing if you see those bottom two lines new commercial is beating new residential but the values of existing properties is going up at a higher rate if it's residential than if it's commercial and if that dynamic is always there we're never going to catch it yeah so you can see the slope of the red line is going up faster than the slope of the blue line there even though new commercial is outpacing so yeah and i just i'll make it it's probably not appropriate right here but i'll make it so we it's thrown down there of are we investing the way that we should be in our development services to make sure that we are making it easier for our businesses to get through the process and that's probably a question or something we should we should highlight and you can tie that to staffing too in terms of appropriate staff mark can you go back five slides there's one one factor you just kind of brushed over but i think it's important that the this council take a look go back back back where's the one about okay where you see the overall level of public involvement in local decision making we've lost some ground there and i think it's important that we address that at some point with this council the things that we want to achieve will be easier if the public thinks we're respecting their point of view and when when the public says that they're not involved in local decision making i think that's something that should not just be glossed over and i wanted to just make that point everything that we do if the public doesn't know that they're at the table with us or at least being heard then we're losing ground and for us to lose ground in that area and we weren't that impressive anyway it's troublesome to me and i know i'm not the only one but you know when it comes to communicating with the public we have to continue always trying to do better and i know that you're going to be hiring a chief communications officer david and i'm hoping that you'll get a person smart smarter than the rest of us so that we can make improvements in that area and i promise you it'll be easier getting bond packages through without having to grip our teeth and go white knuckles on getting support from the public thank you for that um interjection i didn't intend to gloss over that certainly not that one individually let's see here's where i believe i have a question about the commercial versus the residential uh this one that one okay and you might not be able to answer this question but i think david you had a really good point about how one is outpacing the other and not that we want to artificially inflate any values but is there any insight as to to why they don't seem to be increasing at the same rate commercial versus residential and that could be a very complicated answer and i respect that but so it's it's not it's not necessarily a simple answer there's a lot of factors um you know one of them uh we we've talked about quite a bit the the demand for housing is high right that's a factor um i i think i heard dana mentioned uh protests and and valuations that's another factor that we don't necessarily always talk about um but you know there are a lot of things that go into that analysis that we can certainly take a closer look at but but that's a fairly complex set of things that interplay with one another and there are a lot of variables i don't know if can i jump in if dj is here yes but um basically your house is assessed by the market and that's a sales approach and so if the neighbor the house next to you sells more the appraisal district can come in and say this house next to you sold for this so that makes your house worth that the commercial side the back page is an income valuation and you know you may have commercial properties that have five year leases on it with automatic increases of three percent thereafter um and so you could use that income evaluation that income producing asset and that controls that valuation with the appraisal district so it's market versus income sales approach versus income sorry which is one of those variables right so one of the is a point i don't know if this is the right time but the state of texas also decided that we can't capture that red line right so the state of texas is decided or if you do the combination of those that you can only capture three and a half percent of that line so if that line grows by five percent you only get three and a half percent of it no no no just on existing values existing values right any other questions we want to move on uh yeah i have one more um so back where we were talking about the infrastructure with the the lights and so forth yes um and this may tie into some of the the larger macro things we're going to talk about but in what we project from an infrastructure standpoint and um i guess maybe population a little bit do we bake in schools and development of construction of schools in those student bodies and account for traffic and infrastructure for those schools so what i will say is that through the development process those yeah should absolutely be be factored in i don't know dan if you want to get into more detail about how that's done and and how the city works with the school as their developing locations yeah so couple of different thoughts there and william johnson may actually want to want to chime in as well so one is in terms of overall traffic projections that's generally handled by the council of governments looking at population and employment growth and trying to figure out what those travel patterns are going to be so they have the traffic survey zones and they have a very complex but well-respected model for trying to figure out traffic patterns and that's that's what helps to inform their congestion maps and then also their air quality maps as with regard to traffic patterns and then more specifically we've been talking as an example with eagle mountain saginaw isd about their future school sites they've committed to us that they only have one elementary school planned at this point and then it'll be inside of a neighborhood where the developer will build the streets and it won't have the same impact on arterials as middle schools and high schools but they've committed to us that they're not planning any of those larger schools at this point but that they understand that we want to coordinate with them and at least be at the table to understand where those larger facilities might go and so we'll be kind of working our way around the around the city to um make sure that we're having those conversations and then obviously there's always the the just the day-to-day challenges of making sure that you've got the traffic patterns figured out at a very local level for parent pickup and drop off or um but at least eagle mount saginaw is better than some other school districts and that they have a lot of that on-site rather than affecting the adjacent streets so they've got a lot of on-site circulation we've got other schools where that's not the case and dana i'll throw in even the cog doesn't get it right all the time right and what i do is reference lakes of river trails and there i have an heb isd school and because of the unexpected growth the emergency of the unexpected growth of lakes of river trails and they had to react and that's how we got one new school and and a second and a church and that was because of the generosity of that master you know planned community but they knew how many homes were going to be built but they just didn't think that they would sell as quickly as they did and so and that could also explain for the traffic congestion on trinity which we'll address in the bond election but sometimes even the best of experts don't get it right and when you are in fort worth but you've got heb isd i think that gives a reason for a breakdown in communication sometimes yeah and i do think cog has a regional schools committee where they're trying to work with the isds that could help because i'm reminded of a conversation that i had with you david about how a generally speaking a school district selects if they're adding facilities a property they're going to look for the best bang for the buck that's going to be the priority when a municipality like the city looks to establish say capture let me just read it back to you to make sure that i didn't miss something one there were a number of various requests for refinements and tweaking of some of the data points and mark's the team was capturing those you talked about the need to make sure that um that people understood the multitude of taxing jurisdictions that it's not just the city that that's going up need to continue to work on the balance of residential and commercial um contributions to the composition of the tax base streamline development processes understand the differences in valuation methods recognize that state put some real constraints that limit your revenue growth uh and then um improving uh school collaboration with the school on site selection as kind of the key takeaways that i heard did i miss anything big let's take a break can we come back in right at 10 30 or as close to 10 30 as we can get thank you very much can you give me some volume if we can uh find our way back to our seats we'll get back to work got an hour well i tried that you scared that jenga tower you scared um let's see missing a few yet mr williams i'm gonna go ahead and start mayor if that's okay so um i mentioned this morning that we were gonna we were gonna start with some uh visioning uh activity what we're about to do is uh a a well it's a visualization exercise some of you may have noticed that out in the hallway along those uh countertops is a whole collection of images of photographs they're they're some are very like abstract i don't know what that is a circuit board or a aerial photograph or a satellite picture or machu picchu they're just all kinds of pictures out there and for for this this team here the senior staff and the elected officials what i ask you to do is take a few minutes sort of browse through those images thinking about what is my vision my personal vision for fort worth's future and grab an image one image this is always the instruction that people um struggle with one picture each that resonates with you for some reason about that you connect to as being part of as as representative of your vision of fort worth's future and what we'll do when we get back i had organized it to do some little group discussions before you report out to try to accelerate this i'm just going to ask each of you individually when you when you come back to show your image to the group tell tell us why you picked it what it means to you we'll capture your your thoughts on the uh on the flip chart with that image and then we'll do a little polling activity around vision so i'm trying to catch up a little bit of time here by eliminating the group discussion piece and we'll try to get that collectively rather than in small teams so does everybody sort of understand the assignment it's ready set go go out and find an image that represents to you something important about your vision for fort worth's future and be prepared to talk about it all right fine fine we'll just do that okay great well so this this is great we're going to hear council members visions and i see that a couple of you as i predicted couldn't settle on one mission but that's okay who wants to go first what we're going to ask you to do is just come up show your image or your images what he's going to capture it what you say put it on the board we'll stick them up on the wall and then later do an activity after that who wants to go first oh that's mean of us kerry so describe your image and then tell you tell us why you picked it and what it what it says to you about fort worth's future we're just not sure where to start but basically you know we think through our our live work and play and fort worth and you know how do we make sure that we do are able to do all three in fort worth um and then we talk about how does that tie into mobility how does it tie into infrastructure and you know one thing about the pandemic that it's that it's taught us is how much we can do virtually whether it be work um it's changed our work schedule for for our residents has changed how our businesses operate how they manage their space it's challenged us as a city from an i.t infrastructure um and just mobility is a larger larger balancing act okay and we want to get to this you know we can live work and play comfortably to avoid this all right um and mobile mobility i'll talk some i think it's our as we get further along but i don't know how i'm going to expand david mobility is just something i think and infrastructure is a big challenge to the city the way we invest in mobility is not getting the results that we need um and and we've got to look at a larger what is the overall need for that mobility how is our what does our workforce do what is our workspace how does environment look like today post pandemic so those things so we ought to just be go let me get your images carrie i'm going to stick them up here with the stonehenge balance okay who wants to go next i'm going to i'm going to draft you if you don't volunteer okay this is the image of a radar um i think it's i would say maybe a good metaphor for um getting on the radar of the world maybe call it uh global affairs kind of uh economic from an economic development standpoint to an awareness standpoint from tourism standpoint as well that fort worth become better known globally for what it is and what it can be if people were to come here and invest here wonderful so you're part a big part of your vision this is comport with what you and i talked about is on the radar screen not just locally but globally now very good correct thank you okay thank you sir that's great you follow the rules too yeah there you go i chose this one now initially i was going to be city and crt here at the city of fort worth for all the employees because if you know anything about africa egypt this goes back to where those who know we all came from but when leonard was talking i had to give you the real reason why i chose this uh we talk about being known around the world people want to come here but they still look at us as little fort worth and we're big as i'll get out we don't even have an international relations office we've got sister cities but we need to take a look at what it takes to let people around the globe know that we are welcoming we are inclusive and we do want to be known other than that small town those those are not my words i had may ferguson text that to me but it did speak to me that way did she get does she get you too well i already got may handle so international relations international relations so very interesting you know one of the i won't i i won't reveal the source but one of the um one of the blocks that we didn't get to that was that collapsed in the tower was a was a member of the council saying um you know um our motto our tagline how how the west was won is that really what is that really the best thing is that where the bus begins where the wisp what did i say how yeah i'm sorry i apologize i've known that all my life but anyway the point is is that our image is that what we want to project to the to the world or not but we don't want to lose that yes but it was a branding question how do we get ourselves more broadly known for everything that we we are so thank you gina yeah who wants to go kind of feeds on next great we'll go over to this one um and i'll move this one uh for you yeah thank you may you're if you're watching you're being taken care of so and carlo too there you go uh i think mine feeds onto a little bit of what we're talking about there i grabbed these uh there's the space shuttle and then walked uh a little bit because i've said this in a few different places i think we're on the cusp of doing some really great things with the city we have a great city we've got to keep it that way um and we've got a brand new council uh doing some great things but we have to figure out as a city where we honor some of our past but move forward and we've seen this seem to have a tussle of uh in some some respects of fighting our past and and not just wanting to and wanting to totally destroy it but understanding that's why we're here where we are today and we can use it and make it better and keep going from there and learning from each other and that sort of piece so that's kind of my sort of aspirational how do we do that what do we do it and and the situation is just because someone wins doesn't mean someone else loses we've got to move figure out how to win win together great man and not blow up thank you i chose two images one kind of reminds me of council yesterday where there's someone pulling a donkey out of the road and then there's a car with folks coming at them you know i think it changes daily this is my my picture so i get to decide who the donkey is today i think you didn't take the bait good so i chose this it's um it's a group of women rowing in a river but it's in an urban setting and you can see that there's construction happening as well and i think that's where our city is is moving towards a place that we live work and play we're having a lot of movement around our our river and our open space and our parks and so it's a great opportunity for us to to really reimagine our city and so this really is indicative of how we have started that process of reimagining what we look like and we've taken steps to it but also the folks rowing growing unison how it works and so we don't get we don't move forward if we're not working together and that's not just us here i know i joked with the with the donkey kerry um [Laughter] but in all in all what did she just call you i just said hey i was he was looking at me we don't get where we need to go if we're not in unison and i don't necessarily mean just counsel but if we're not in unison with our community um to to get there so that's why oh that's great yeah so a lot of different ideas about what what the physical look of the city is how we collaborate we work as a team those sorts of things great who's next derek good morning everyone all right thank you i'm not a morning person so i just walked up i just woke up so i chose this this here kind of skydiving and so i kind of chose this is uh when you do this you have to get to a certain climate can everybody tell what that's a picture of it's it's um skydivers about to jump out of the airplane together yeah and so um i kind of chose this for a couple of reasons first we need to get our city to our peak his moment our highest moment and then we need to about and do something we have never done before also you see three people holding each other that shows that we have to not only jump out we have to trust each other and so we have to hold on to each other as we go out and expect each person to survive and making sure that the uh garments is together and so i just think that we're moving here let's get to our highest peak let's work together let's make sure we all survive wow you guys are pros of this bucket i put the stickies up so who's next more than one image appealed to me but i picked something that probably exemplifies some of my emphasis when i think of things form follows function you can't have a functional big city without connectivity you need it may not be glamorous may not be fun but it's necessary and so all things under that transit umbrella we need as a growing city because if we don't have it we don't have the connectivity we can't connect to one another and we can't function well it's important aspect of it having traveled other places i've seen investments in transit that outstrip us you would be surprised so hopefully we can get to there and i know hey it's all a question of funding right dude they were that easy everyone would do it that's it who haven't we heard from god has a sense of humor because i chose this one and then took a phone call because i have a sick 10 year old at home 11 year old at home so but i actually didn't choose it because of my mom i chose it because i think you could the baby could be whatever people are juggling in their lives and that sometimes especially at the city each of you including city leadership you all lead very important jobs but you also have commitments at home with family um and outside in your personal circles that pull you different directions and i think to be a strong city and accomplish all the things that each of us endeavor to do you also have to care about each other individually um so that we kind of have that which i think what fourth has always been known for is that personal charm those of you that have moved here in in recent years you could probably attest to this what a welcoming wonderful community it is we'll lose that if we just focus on the business of running the city or being a mayor council member and you forget who the human beings are behind that work so that was what this was about the zach morris phone and all for those that can remember the days thank you mayor um i think um mr williams hasn't rejoined us yet he's the one we're missing so um so just a little bit of dialogue council member staff whatever tell me a story what what what is what does all of that say collectively to you in terms of your your joint vision for fort worth's future are there some connectivity is there some connective tissue there that jumps out at you i think we all are most of us touched on um collaborativeness and working together or not being alone were common themes that i heard the tone was very positive everybody spoke about their hopes for the future uh i don't think anybody uh spoke about fears uh and um the elected officials spoke about building on the past not discarding it respecting and honoring but seeing a bright future that may be different from the past i would i would say not connective tissue that came to mind but was dna similar in a way but sort of the dna of values shared values that again are very positive but from a brand standpoint what our values are and called a a family standpoint as a community shared values yeah so and and maybe what are some of those shared values because i certainly heard that um things about several of you talked about live work and play and balance there are many moving you need these words but lots of different pieces and parts to it certainly collaboration and working together collegially productively as a team was a common thread what else david the one thing that i think about and mayor parker touched on it was just the theme of family and the importance of family being a part of all that we do um i know i appreciate i'm a mom um and i appreciate um mayor and council kind of that spirit of flexibility and that when things happen in life you need to go take care of them and that's okay but i think that that's that's a big value that i see that just continues to i think it just gets stronger and the way we emphasize it great any other thoughts we're going to go back to the polling application you should still be connected but if not we can show you the uh the url again but you're going to get prompted here to say you know based on what you just heard what one word not necessarily one word it could be a phrase but what word best describes your vision for the future of the city of fort worth and you get three bites at the apple oh it's a great question yeah um man you asked for the city or the city government i you know i'll give you an answer answer whichever way you you want i i i generally think that i this is my own view is the the the the the council is talking about their grand vision for the community a staff perspective may be all right how do we deliver that and what does that bring as a vision for the organization so prosperity growth innovation partnerships urgency so you saw innovation just pop up in the larger text that means that the more people that use that term uh will will cause cause those uh larger text parts of the word cloud diversity delivery imagine people are saying service delivery that terms bourbon for the record that one was not me thank goodness it didn't say scotch all right this is fun so a number of words that pop up with sort of a lot lots of weight behind them that didn't show up in our conver our imagery so innovation seems to be a really important aspect of of this team's vision who wants to talk about innovation and and the importance of that and then we'll get to bourbon innovation several of you said innovation was an important thing to you well i think innovation probably means different things to everyone um for first of all how the city of fort worth and our departments can lead very innovative departments into their respective fields ask for things that they need be willing to change with a growing community and then and we have a responsibility as council to support management and those decisions um and at the same time as a city government be willing to accept that we don't have it all figured out by ourselves and that there's a lot of opportunity to lean on private industry and their growth and innovation and then as a city as a whole in our communities what does innovation look like and it probably looks different each respective districts and what they're asking for how they would prioritize innovation specifically those are my thoughts great i put down innovation too and uh it's a good segue from what maddie had just mentioned it's not just what's new and flashy but also what innovations actually produce efficiencies we've talked about it a lot before on council efficiencies at the departmental level and efficiencies in how we deliver services so when i put that down those were what was on you know those were the thoughts that were on my mind for me i put down innovation tied to a lot of the employers that are coming to fort worth um whether it be the mobility innovation at alliance uh brad huxmal's company you know just just multiple companies that are coming to our area for that the mobility zones that we're working on and the innovation tied to those mobility zones the other word that is is up there prominently with a couple of them diversity prosperity collaboration we talked about collaboration i think we touched a little on uh diversity in the imaging exercise not much uh prosperity anybody want to kind of those are to me are the are are the words that sort of jump out at me collaboration innovation diversity prosperity as a almost well it's not a tagline but uh kind of the resonant themes here what i'll say there is innovation is part of pigging back on what's already been said of us leading a you know better government what we're doing how we're spending taxpayer dollars but at the same time if you're innovating and you're inclusive at the same time you lead to all the other diversity prosperity for everybody across the city so i think we have to look at that as what we're doing is it being inclusive from all the parts that we're doing great yeah so there are there's some other really interesting words and they they tie together nicely so i see trailblazer i see urgency and so there's a sense of urgency about getting to this place you're describing inclusion technology shows up in different ways a couple of times so this is this is uh what what what i say is going forward the rest of the day today as we talk about the environment that we're operating in or our strengths and weaknesses as an organization and the big big strategic action items we need to take it's how do we get to that place that you're describing right there so we'll we'll uh we'll this will include this in our report to you but keep those ideas in mind is there maybe i guess this way another question just popped into my head is there a is there a concept that's missing any any of you would see i wonder why this isn't there okay all right great so and we just go ahead one um and i'm not sure if it completely answers the question but uh it's one of um kind of identifying paradigms right identifying paradigms paradigms okay so to innovate you got to understand what the paradigm is and what you're trying to change or think about ways to change that paradigm um and i think that can encompass a lot of perhaps the the themes we're talking about that's a great interesting point does does does this set of terms and maybe this is a question to the to the staff around innovation diversity collaboration prosperity equity inclusion is that a paradigm shift for the for the organization is that different maybe it's just more strategically focused now i don't know if it's a paradigm shift maybe it's just we're being a little bit more laser focused on on how to get it done and achieve it another word partnerships just jumps out at me and a lot of that's based on what i heard y'all saying you know as i talk to you individually okay great well what we're going to now start doing is looking outside looking outside the four walls of our organization um and and we're gonna click complete this what's called a context map in sort of the lexicon the the literature on strategic planning it always talks about what's called an environmental scan that's what this really is looking out around and understanding you know if this is the place we're trying to get to what kind of forces are working on us that we have to understand and accommodate or work around uh and so we're going to ask you to work on that you each have at your place a blank a copy of this template and i'd like to ask you to spend a few minutes working individually to [Music] fill it out and i when i say fill it out i don't we don't expect that you have an answer for every every trend or every uh factor but just the things that come to mind so let me just work across the way societal trends what's happening in the world around us what are some of the societal norms that that are are are important to us and that influence how we work community trends maybe they're the same as the bigger societal trends maybe they're not maybe there's some kind of trends and and and uh uh aspects of fort worth that we we need to think about and accommodate politically that could be national state local what about the economy what kind of economic pressures are we under and so forth so don't challenge yourself to haven't answered every question by the time we get around the room we'll have found them all so take a few minutes think about these things jot some notes down and then we'll collect those and have a discussion after we get the map built everybody understand okay so let me give you an example gina if you had a uh a a particular concern let's say one of the big trends that i hear a lot that people talk about it usually comes up either in societal trends or technology factors is the impact of social media growing impact of social media and how we have to know that it's there and how do we respond to and react to it and if you think that's an important trend that you can either piggyback or work around to get to this place that would be an example it's the other paper and now you may later say on strengths or weaknesses yeah we're really good at social media or you may say say the reverse but we're going to move from kind of the big picture to looking out or around ourselves and then looking at ourselves will be next so it makes sense now okay no uh i'll come over there and help you i remember my college days i'm gonna age myself there was a book that we all had to read in college called megatrends this is megatrends what are the big trends that we have to understand both could be either societal on one side community on the other right i'm just trying to distinguish so societal is the bigger picture correct society us global yep versus community transit fort worth tarrant county regional right exactly so yeah uh um i got a question for you david the question is do we have to do every one of them no just where you think you know here's an important societal trend or here's an important political factor or here's an important uncertainty that's that's plenty by the time we've heard from all of you we will gotten a lot of stuff so yeah don't don't uh we're not collecting them and giving you a great just your own notes okay that we need to understand i'll start i think there are two for me that stick out and that is the societal change in what we consider markers of success what it was for our parents our grandparents is no longer what it is for myself or even my children we're no longer measuring someone by the amount of money they make or how large their house is houses and so we can't plan for the future using our old markers of success interesting so is that um is that sort of generational shift that you're you're talking about or more very specifically on we just think differently about what success looks like i do think it's probably there's a generational shift but i think it's something that spans multiple generations um you probably see it emerging more with with our younger folks us younger folks on council but is it having a job that pays the most money or is it having a job with the freedom to to travel and so i think those are shifting um and then we have become rapid results immediate impacts kind of throw away culture as and i think that plays into technology um the iterations that people expect us to see they want faster and so it feels like we are we are developing and we are innovating at a faster rate than we used to and so with phones with social media we become a culture of immediacy culture of immediacy okay and uh and so i think that prevents us from looking long-term because we want results and we we want it now and then we have a throwaway culture throwaway culture where uh we don't like to fix what's broken we don't take our vacuum into the vacuum repair van anymore we just go buy a new one and i think we do the same thing often um as a community with our our built environment or our um policies you know procedures programs if it doesn't work immediately well then that must not be yet thrown away so how do you i'm putting on a little bit on the spot here um but how do those things impact cities and how we deliver service are there things that that immediacy that throw-away culture impact the way we have to think about how the city runs yes um i think we need to be mindful as um the leaders of the city not to not to allow ourselves to get into that throwaway culture to um to repair instead of just replace what we have and that's that's harder to do and then i think with the immediacy i mean i've only been here a couple months as most of my colleagues have but i can imagine back in the day before we had my fort worth app where you could report your street light you had to get out your yellow phone book and you had to find the city phone number you had to figure out which department to call and then you had to call the department and you know there was this process um between nine and five between nine and five yeah yeah yeah and that but not but not during lunch right and so when it took a week two weeks three weeks a month to have that street light repaired well you just kind of thought it was part of the process because you know how long it took you to get there to to report it but now i can just boop and so if i it takes me that long to report it then there's this reaction that or this flows from that well then you should be able to get out there so what i hear you saying is you know pick the cliche that i might apply to it it's a two-edged sword or or two sides two sides of the same coin right in terms of instant gratification and and those sorts of things right i'll just add on to your piece they're saying because you can report it so easily now etcetera the the thought process that takes a long time to fix is something that citizens can't understand so it's that customer service piece that it feeds back into that like reported it last week why isn't it finished by now right or you know we can google at our you know at our fingertips we have masses massive amounts of information so to our residents and so when there's a request for information or data um there's this expectation of immediacy and it takes away the layer of communication and collaboration that often get to that answer or that response and so we have to figure out how we thread that how we we utilize this information without stripping it of of what we're here to do and that's to interpret and analyze it any of you have other additions you'd make to that societal trends side of the map other what are other important trends for for us to understand as we think about trying to achieve that vision media isolation yes exactly i was going to say social media as a news source and i'll add on to that too because that was one thing i wrote down we have access to a lot of inaccurate or biased information that lead us lead people down maybe a wrong path and so i often say that that's one of our biggest challenges is how do we fight that and how do we push back and a lot of that's just communicating it in the first place and being ahead of it but and that leads to distrust of government authority i mean you should you know always be critical then question and verify your information but now people tend to jump to that conclusion first with the presumption that they you know government authority can't be trusted without doing their own research david i'll i'll mention the next door technology that was introduced to us by our police department and this goes back to the reason why i mentioned social media isolation too often people think if i put my problem on next door or facebook then city hall all knowing knows that my pothole is still there or that the tree limb is still there and so because we're so isolated with social media we think it's the end all to everything and we have to make people understand no you still have to communicate with city hall yeah yeah very true i'm sure all of us can point to right now we're all getting a comment and a tag and then suddenly we're accountable for whatever random account that went to so um i put tribalism and division um across the country and how that impacts here locally and it ties into all the things that were already mentioned tribalism okay yeah pick your tribe and you're unwilling to listen to anybody else that's not in that tribe right and they're the enemy and they're the enemy yeah and that ability to listen to one another and agree to disagree sort of has gone out the wayside which is interesting um and along what michael said you know based on where you get your news whether it's tick tock or cnbc right that's going to be the source that you're willing to listen to and then um right now especially in the in our economy is as you can put on the economic climate too but great resignation and and to that value set of what is important to our workers in society in fort worth what makes people happy and fulfilled and how that's impacted our local employers and also the city of fort worth as an employer too sure and the responsibility we have to sort of adapt to that and and keep and retain as much talent as possible and also attract the next generation of leaders to our city i have put workers in the uncertainties category tied to the great resignation more people have found out that they don't have to have a job to make money so the great resignation and and and yeah i guess i'll add maybe one or two to societal trends i think that's where they fit it's kind of similar to council member beck's sentiments on the doorway culture around the increasing need for environmental conservation and sustainability efforts in light of that throwaway culture um you know we have some finite resources and renewable resources and um one example in the city is the landfill right with the thorough culture and the impact economically that that has on building a new landfill and then where do we find that land and how much is it going to cost so that's one example of a societal trend that's affecting our city increasing awareness of right environmental sustainability and then the second one um is a societal trend as well that i know many of our residents are having conversations about in in the city and across the country but just this idea of disparities on a number of indicators by race and gender and income that create gaps right and create conditions where there's haves and have-nots on a number of very important indicators that we're all trying to that we measure ourselves as a city against but that i mean every city i think across all across the country is grappling with as well yeah so the widening gap on those dimensions that you talked about right whether it's wealth or access or whatever right i would throw an ad to what jared just said it could be in societal trends or economic climate or wherever you want to put it but that that gap or the skills gap that's happening in fort worth in texas and what responsibility we have as city leaders to be more proactive and demand different of our state leaders because the trends are so there's a cliff coming that we're not acknowledging and and fort worth is not immune to that by any means and so what role do we play to sound an alarm because there's a lot of people doing it but it's for some reason deafening and no one's listening to it in a meaningful way and mayor parker too with the i mean the connections between education and income levels i mean i mean we know those correlations so we know the areas i think that we need to look at and make things better i might add you know and some of this i think is yet to be revealed but certainly trends uh coming out of the pandemic of you know how we work and where we work uh that's certainly going to impact our economic climate and community trends to move to virtual work um and a consequence maybe of of that technology that um provides that and other social media and otherwise um privacy concerns i think um are pretty significant um and with that right yeah then technology grab that down yeah is better for that uh security and privacy yeah uh i also had down isolation i think gina mentioned that but i put in the context of uh the lack of interaction and uh changing interpersonal communication skills or avoidance um and uh you know i look at my teenager with an iphone and it's unbelievable how they communicate and don't verbally communicate with one another it's just it's frightening um but uh and us yeah of course um so some of those trends yeah so let's let's go if we can over to the then the community trends are there some that fort worth trends that either we and we don't have to repeat all these by the way on the societal side but maybe we're bucking trends here i don't i don't know but what what's what what's trending that matters to us in fort worth tarrant county texas whatever you want to describe as your community go ahead dana well i was debating whether to mention this on the societal trend side because i think it's more important where it hits us at home which is it looks like from the maps that mark showed us this morning that we still have concentrations of poverty um within the city and so i've you know read articles about growing in equity in income across the country and i'm curious in this somewhat relates to the wage question that that mayor pro tem vivins and others asked about the jobs that we're bringing to fort worth but are we seeing a growing disparity in incomes in fort worth similar to what you know we've read about across the country is that what the data said it seemed to did it i don't think we got into it today we didn't get into income spread in terms of looking at the the quintiles of of income but when you look at united way when you look at workforce solutions and you can look at zip codes and so i had put wealth gap under societal trends but i think it could go with community trends as well and also i put educational challenges because for a local trend for a local trend because if you're poor and you stay in 76 105 104 or 119 chances are your school doesn't have a booster club you know to pay for that trip to go to a college trip as opposed to if you live somewhere else and so i see that as a trend also the prison trek you know that that's always been the uh where you where you project the future of these poor kids yeah so those are some community trends that i look at but for sure educational challenges elaborate on the prison trek you're saying you're seeing more more and more people on the way it's been established it's been documented since i was in college and it hasn't changed and you can take a look at the prison population we didn't talk about that here and i'm not prepared to give the stats but forth isd has those stats okay and it seems to apologize it seems to relate to the gun violence exactly the geography that we saw a couple weeks ago exactly i was going to add to that and just to drill down even deeper on like gun violence for example we got a report last week specifically that it's our black boys um just and that's a trend that we got to grapple with this is fort worth it's a trend but it's been a trend for decades so at what point do we stop calling it a trend and it's a crisis and until every every community is going to have to deal with it differently right um and you know the burden obviously is higher for people like you as a black man and for chris you know so how do you use your voices to that issue specifically it's very true um i have a positive did you get the gun violence i have a positive on community trends and it can be a little push-pull too but you're also i think because of our growth there's also been this opportunity for our individual neighborhoods and communities to feel that they're able to express their individuality um and the city has started the trend towards listening it started with stop six and our community investment and how you leverage our city infrastructure into that so that trend of our communities starting to prosper in their own ways um and then the responsibility we have to to come in behind the communities that maybe haven't had that same opportunity and dr williams has talked about that before of we target the communities that need us most but what about that next level community that you could lift up um to to keep them from going down the wrong path um so there's a lot of positive there and for the you know i'll talk to this a lot when i'm on the road show about fort worth but for a long time a lot of people only had downtown and sundance to talk about as a positive well now that's no longer true and that's great we have all these wonderful places across the city um that are prospering and then the next trend would be how do you really focus on the areas that need our attention the most we just said when i took office my white constituents on the east side wouldn't even participate in in the mayor's award ceremonies because they said east side never wins and then all of a sudden rosedale park a historic african-american neighborhood won neighborhood of the year and we recently had another finalist and so that neighborhood identity and pride is being seen and we can document that that it is happening one of the other uh things that was on one of your colleagues uh uh blocks was the need for a marquee kind of a project investment in in the in the eastern part of the city yeah we tried that we talk about growth all the time but one of the things i've observed both as the library director and i'm sure richard has felt this as well but all these new people they're coming with expectations based on where they moved from right so i moved here from denver i love fort worth but i expected to have a library more accessible to me or a community center and the tension between that and the folks who don't want us to grow and don't want us to change is really hard but those those new people and their expectations are really going to drive us and i i'm i fear we're not always paying attention or we we dismiss it uh more than we should read that back make sure we got it right so i wrote down new resonant expectations and tensions yeah i think that's fine i think what i want to make sure we don't miss is this idea that we're we're behind other large cities in the country around certain things and then that expectation comes we have we have a lot of positives but we have fallen behind what uh other big cities have when it comes to to things that are less tangible to us right not neces i get the streets thing but these these less tangible city services that are so valuable that people take for granted they come here and they don't we don't have them available for them does that fit in sort of with the uh uh act like a big city theme that we heard in some of the uh yeah the jenga game this morning definitely i hear that we all hear that a lot that we don't act like the 12th largest city in the country but i'm not sure that we've really defined what that means very well on a practical level what does it mean to not act what does it mean on a policy level or you may have the opportunity to change what a really good big city is right we have nothing but opportunity but if we don't talk more specifically about what we mean when we say we don't act like a big city i'm afraid it's going to pass us by okay great other big important community trends just to understand i'm watching the clock we've got about 15 minutes to go i'll just use today's example i feel like our society is so much more connected and engaged to their government jurisdictions whether it be the city whether it be the schools and and you've heard different examples about how do you report a pothole i mean now you how you can do that now compared to how you used to be able to do that but we use today as an example for inclement weather and i was thinking on the way here how it used to be in the you know 15 years ago you got up and you just went to work you just hope you made it to work you didn't have a text or an email telling you what the roads are going to be like or a message from the school saying school's going to go until time yeah or there was just no pre-planning and or communication with that and and we see that big difference now where you know we knew this was coming a week in advance and there was government planning for that and we can kind of use that example with everything that we do that the community is just so much more engaged and it just maybe there's an expectation with that and that's great i don't know if it's called a trend but it's definitely responsibility that uh that comes with with the functions of government that we do and it's just it's it's good to see the advanced planning and communication that goes with something as simple as inclement weather any other additions to the trends david the only thing i would maybe add were health disparities and i think we're becoming more aware of some of the health disparities in different communities within fort worth um whether it's access to insurance just health providers you know increased infant mortality rates health disease obesity diabetes those types of things that impact the community which i think then in turn impact you know someone's ability to get an education then get a job earn an income later are those more pronounced in fort worth than elsewhere or you're just you're just seeing it more i think that it's probably i think it's pronounced everywhere honestly i think we're seeing it more and i think we're just talking more about public health i do think the infant mortality is specific to fort worth and tarrant county i do think that information life expectancy in certain life expectancy yeah and you have some sharp disparities in health uh they're among the most egregious disparities that we have in respect to race and ethnicity and i think we're coming to gain a better appreciation for uh the importance of uh equity in the delivery of city services we we're certainly talking a lot more about it we're uh collecting and analyzing data a lot more about it uh and uh we're discussing policy more in respect to equity i think that's a major trend we weren't that that topic was not prevalent [Music] 10 or 15 years ago in city council retreats now it's a lot more uh a lot more prevalent let's talk about political factors and that could be state national or local but what's happening what political forces are are working on the city of fort worth that we need to understand accommodate avoid to do this to be the state of texas loves cities there's a state versus city and county dynamic in texas that is which doesn't seem to be getting any better no uh-uh okay that got vigorous head knobs around the room to add on that i think gridlock just general political gridlock gridlock is something that um that we see in washington and we see in the state and sometimes we see it here in the city um that we have to be mindful of and so and from the city's point of view find a way to to not have that right correct i think there's become an expectation of gridlock and so when the mayor mentioned tribalism and societal trends i actually had something similar to my political factors because there has become this expectation of of gridlock and showdowns this idea that you want loud leaders not effective leaders loud not effective okay what else what are the other political now for schools are included in a deep political divide and that really wasn't necessarily the case until most recently there's a lot and we don't necessarily have anything to do with that but it definitely trickles up to us um and it's a sad state of affairs because i would i would attest that we've stopped talking about students and we're talking about adults that can't get along and and and that end result is dismal student outcomes are these contention around mass mandates and curriculum and those things yeah i had um ideological decision making okay worse we have a while people are very engaged i think that's true but they also have a lot of apathy i mean our voter turnout continues to be really low in tarrant county and in fort worth and there's a lot of debate as to why that is but it's just as a fact and i think it's a political factor for us and more apathetic than historically unfortunately it's always been this afternoon we had we've had better turnout in the last few elections but are you really going to brag yeah yeah okay let's just drop down below the city hall there customer or citizen needs what are they what does what do you think citizens expect out of you i put for both citizen and employee needs efficiency and support efficiency of service delivery and support of workforce to support them oh okay okay yeah i think our residents want to feel supported by the city and i think our employees want to feel supported by their employer yeah i'll elaborate on the support a little bit i know the city isn't directly tied to these needs as in like we're the ones that'll facilitate it 100 but um good paying jobs um small business support quality early learning and education um and quality recreational amenities were some of the things that i lifted up there's a bunch of others you're leaving here a lot the uh customer yeah um customer can you run that list yeah quickly and it's it's customer only in the sense that they come to us about some of these yeah sometimes i change that word to me citizen or public constituent you could put it in uh so us facilitating good jobs um small business support i know we come we get conversations about that a lot um supporting um the city or efforts in the city around early learning and education and then quality recreational amenities um i mean that i guess in the sense of yes the libraries and parks and that kind of thing and also i know there's um you know other amenities that the city doesn't manage that are you know business opportunities that are developed in the community that also could fill that things like restaurants sit out restaurants and amenities for teenagers to go hang out after school and that kind of thing uh and i just want to add to the small business piece because i do understand that the city of fort worth uh house has funds uh for the small businesses and i don't want us to overlook because we're doing a good job of small businesses but i think we lack the piece of showing the person how to apply for those funds and it has been hard on into small businesses i remember maybe a year ago there were funds for the city and they sent an email an application and it was just like 30 pages and trying to get through that process and get a granted most people don't follow through and so i think we need to do a better job as a city for our um citizens needs is that if we're going to provide these um small businesses boost let's walk them through the process let's make the process more easier or make it streamlined so that the people who really need that boost can actually get it communication rule of nation so the need is the citizen need is improved access better better uh communication and more hands-on kind of uh well support for lack of a better word hands-on coaching or so forth and less red tape i guess too just to sum it up less red tape so like 30 page applications and things like that try to streamline it so it's were these relief fund programs that we're talking about not exclusive but it really came to my attention during covet when we were trying to help the small business small business grants and those kinds of things but luckily city staff was was very nimble and they were able to listen and whereas we were going to be giving out loans we heard we need grants not loans we flexed that other cities had to send money back but we didn't have to because we were listening but it's all about communications you know how do we communicate to work with our citizenry under customer needs or citizen needs is what we have on ours is this could fit in a lot of categories could fit under political factors also in uncertainties but a lack of immigration policy and how that has impacted cities like fort worth that has a very proud immigrant population that currently live in the shadows of our city and we can't do anything about that other than try to provide equitable services but it's absolutely impacting neighborhoods across our city and it fits in a lot of different categories and unfortunately no site no hope in sight for them to fix it but it is very troubling mayor if i can add on to that i think even things as a city as simple as language matter on this issue right like saying citizens versus residents right when we talk about how we deliver things that benefit everyone who lives in the city of fort worth and so i think even those things further push are undocumented and even our you know folks with legal documents but are not officially citizens of this country um that further but they do reside here yeah and they make them push them further into the silo and as kind of you know i've spoken to a number of folks on this who are directly impacted by this but it makes them feel like they're not a beneficiary and a part of this community when we use terms like that so okay how about employees what are the expectations needs does what do employees need out of what out of you out of the out of the governing body in senior management this is my observation because i've been on both sides uniquely is i don't think the elected body has always done a great job of showing appreciation enough we might have one-off things at work sessions but what could we do collectively as a body to say to our employees we are thankful for you we know how hard you work because naturally we're all human if you show appreciation they naturally want to be better and are more communicative about what they need and then additionally what an opportunity is for our employees moving into the new city hall and allowing them to experience a culture shift that they're excited about right being able to work together in a new environment and that's something that is that i know city management is working on right now and how can we as a body support them in that especially those of us that have other experiences outside of city hall and can kind of lend some expertise there a couple of you mentioned in the interviews the importance of getting that transition from old city hall to new city hall really spot on right okay flexibility that employees want that's a need so in terms of their work life yeah well i think that then that all kind of leads back into this whole idea of great resignation are we addressing employee needs the way that we are to attract the best talent it's not just pay at this point it's the full package that we give them and what does that mean for the future of the city we're one of the top employers in the county the city of fort worth is and so we are competing in a very tough job market right now i know we're trying to hire some key staff up and down the the um what's the word yes thank you yes thank you um what was the word food chain yeah up and down the the structure we're trying to to hire some some key people uh and so to define what that means to be a big kid city right we also need to think about being a big kid employer and so we have some really great employers here in fort worth that we like to show off and we're very proud of and so we have to think of ourselves as not just a governmental body or entity but how can we be that top employer how can the city of fort worth uh win our own awards and that's what we should be working i will also add a properly staff a lot of our departments may be fully staffed but they're not staff enough and so i think we need to have department heads and acm revisit um the quality of the work or the how much work each person is having to do the quality thank you and i think our employees would certainly appreciate that is my microphone i want everybody to hear this david knows where i'm going with this but i i once told uh a department head in open session work session i told this department head i know david cook has threatened the life of your first child if you ask for another employee and that was my way of trying to get the point across you know we i don't know of any department who will tell you that they are properly staffed i think we need real staffing needs met i think there are people doing too many jobs and i think people are trying to be cross-trained so that they can fill in the gaps i'm concerned about employee retention and so as we lose good talent here that the question becomes why and i'm i'm optimistic that we'll see changes for the better because we have one of the best hr directors with us now i see deanna back there the woman walked in the door telling jay who hired her send my employees to me for complaints i mean she walked in that strong and i teased jay about that as well but you know it's we really need truthful staffing needs met so that's david yo you okay yeah we ought to focus on recruitment yeah yeah absolutely oh and speaking about retention when we talk about uh hiring more diverse police officers the question i know that chris and i have gotten is are we going to the historical black colleges still and i don't know that we are but i know that this council is still loaded with people who will go on any recruiting trip with any department and so if you if you want to you're an hbc i didn't have that benefit i am the fort valley state university well i went to north texas state but just know that that that's out there the need to go to the hbcus specifically for recruiting of police and fire let me do a quick process check we're at lunch now we can finish this out maybe take 10 minutes to do that or we can reconvene after lunch in 30 minutes and finish up what do you want to do keep going all right so let's talk about can i can i have employee needs sure um what i would say is my experience experience as i said grew up professionally in the banking world but you know i worked for for big companies and there was always a culture that was communicated and um before i was banking i was with enterprise you know and there was always that message from this well known prominent good leader you know andy taylor with enterprise jamie dimon with with jp morgan you mccall with nations bank bank of america and and i don't know that i see that in our city and it i was a little smaller but you know um there was always a different message but it was consistent you know it was might be a message about accuracy and efficiency you know what are we doing from a process standpoint um there'd be a a measure to do quick starts or debriefs with employees and small groups every day as a form of communication there would be initiatives to say how do we gather employee solutions um through 360 degree coaching and go into employing saying you know these are things that you're you're doing well um and these are things that you need to do better but tell me what i'm doing well for you and tell me what i can do better for you and there was just a corporate hierarchy of that message being communicated from the ceo all the way down to that first employee they walk in the door you know there's a big easel you know welcome john new employee here's our city initiatives um you know it's it's being prudent with our taxpayer dollars it's providing a high level of service to our to our residents um it's being apolitical you do a good job with that um you know what are those cultures and values that we communicate to every department head and every employee um and and with that i've been doing this seven years and you know admiring david i think you did a great job and i'm coaching you and giving talking about culture and stuff but um you know we've had a lot of not a lot a change over and that's every company deals with that and and sometimes there is a period of time where we have to wait for that department head to catch up or um or there's a lap sometimes and it just always i don't see it i don't know what i'm not there every day nine to five and so you know just make sure we have a culture to embrace that new executive that new employee with the um items that are important to our city again that culture what do we expect those expectations um and so i just i just think that's one thing that i've that i feel like is missing in this big corporate world in this government sector that i saw and blossom under in the private sector [Laughter] but you you are spot on with with that and and you know i've had the the pleasure of working in government as well as corporate america and now run a non-profit that non-profit connects me to 35 of the larger employers here in this region when bob pence well now when brian colton hires a new employee that's frieza nichols they go around to all of their cities with a welcome to that new employee and uh it used to happen up under bob pence i'm sure his predecessor did the same thing our former city manager that tone is very important i still have coasters from tu electric that are worn but it had our values and we were able to get that message communicated to the entire workforce and at that time we had 15 000 employees but they all knew where earl and i stood and so having worked in government i don't i don't see that as a lacking for us here but i just never saw it in government and so it may be something that needs to be communicated and i will tell you right tcc is one of my partners the day that the announcement of the change going on here took place every tcc computer got a message from dr leblanc or the chair i forget who sent it to let them know it's going to be okay and that kind of stuff happens in corporate or in this case higher academia but you don't see it in government because we're so busy drinking from the fire hydrant but it may be something that we should adapt adopt here and it might be good we don't know what happens day to day because we're not supposed to wink wink but i think it would be good to hear that that message just traveled down and let department heads continue the message down their their downline as well so i'm glad you brought that up i i want to add on to that um i think that's really good carry and if you remind me of my time with marriott i'm specifically at the gaylord and one thing that was consistent across the property for all employees was our service basics and i think that's important even for our city in terms of the customer interfacing aspects of our city that we have service delivery basics that everyone is clear on that allows us to be efficient and give especially in the new city hall give like our customers and folks interact with city hall that feel good experience my dad used to always say like people don't care what you know until they know that you care right and i think that um that's a really great um point kerry and thank you for taking me down that memory lane and i think it's applicable here too so awesome let's talk uh quickly because i i hop down looks back right above that any particular uh economic of forces uh considerations that again you need to account for as you look ahead to where we're trying to go good or bad i'll start with a good if that's okay um one thing that struck me about the cog presentation that we had as a city council was that um we were encouraged that this is the year of doing with all the federal funds yes and so i think that's a that's a once in a lifetime shot that we have in the city with all the federal funds that we have to do some really good things for to continue our economy moving forward uh i'll just add from that or had to um i don't think we still know completely post coven uh how our business has been hurt devastated what that looks like so i think that's still a big question mark of how we address that what we do yes other economic considerations let's talk about uncertainty since we were down there what are what are what are the things that you know and we're going to we're going to talk about this here too when we talk about threats but what are the big unknowns out there it's been mentioned before but we're going to focus on it on the council level but our response to rising violent crime in our city fernando you look like you were about ready to say something that was going to remind us that uh last year at this retreat we were talking about uncertainties associated with covid in the post-covet world and we shared with the council some predictions that proved to be wrong we missed it badly uh and uh we trotted out all the experts and we told you that uh our sales tax was gonna be flat and our property tax is gonna decline and we actually had it modeled uh with a high degree of precision it was all wrong uh on the low side though right it was better we did much better than we expected and in fact thanks in large part to the federal funding we've had the best budget year anyone can remember i mean that's great that's an uncertainty and we didn't know what we're getting into and we still don't uh so we have to take it one one day at a time i might mention um really it's uncertainty but also related to the economic climate um you know it's been some time since fort worth has really experienced a bear market particularly in housing and you know um what's gonna what can change lots of things of course but uh rates are changing uh today um you know there's unrest around the world it's gonna affect the markets um you know what what is what can change a lot of things can change that can uh lead us to begin to experience things that we haven't in a long time um we've still have a housing boom going on what happens if that changes you know are we prepared for that but i think those are realities again that unless you live through it um you you always just think it's going to keep on going in such a positive way yeah that usually comes to an end at some point last thing technology so how is technology impacting city government i'll do one more for uncertainty you keep skipping yeah so i'm trying to get to lunch there you go i would just say uncertainty is cost um we just don't know how much it's going to cost to to build something today that we start planning we don't know how much it costs to retain employees um and that's just how long it will take to get those items and get those it's not just our government it's our businesses that are struggling with that so yep technology anybody want to weigh in on you know the importance or the impact of technology on our pursuit of that vision yeah electric vehicles and automated vehicles for passenger freight delivery electric and autonomous autonomous yeah broadband technology yeah that's a good kind of undergird all of disparity in schools okay technology yeah so did this disparity in terms of availability of technology in school exactly you'll continue building an underclass if you can't get kids educated and technology is one of those those areas where we're lacking because you don't have the access in those cities with the aging infrastructure yeah yep okay i had access have access to habs and have-nots [Laughter] okay and city staff can can start using drones too eventually don't you think david inspect my trees that's what i heard is that true it's being used well arlington had for a while okay i just need drones to look at trees you know i'm not going to ask a department here i don't get anybody in trouble so the lesson here is in order to achieve your vision there are lots of things that are going on in the world outside you that you have to take into account and think about um some trends very positive some trends um concern certainly some economic good news some economic not so good so that's the purpose of this exercise just to say you know we're not operating in an isolation but we're in this ecosystem where we have a lot of pressures that we have to account for and one of those is hunger so it's time to break for lunch we've got 30 minutes allocated for lunch and i believe it's frida's just right next door right yep thanks we'll see you in a well we're supposed to take 30 minutes so quarter till we're talking about university city staffs and good relationships also with our uh with our you know something fernando highlighted that not all cities have the same relationship with their their labor forces with particularly police and fire you know that that the city of fourth may enjoy government relations we work well with our council of governments in deploying dollars and that's that's a big um advantage that this region has this metropolitan planning organization that that uh that they do and the model they have in place is just it really highlights a lot of successes that we sometimes discount or don't recognize enough relationship with county uh tcc jps i don't think trwd made the list and then overall improving and then just public support you know we have folks asked talking to us about potholes and police patrols but in the end we we're we have support of our community and we see that does anyone else from the strengths group want to speak to anything specifically or even add anything yeah under local economy it was just part of under local economy it was just it was growth strength in corporations as part of local economy just yeah philanthropic okay philanthropy perfect does anybody else want to speak to strengths that maybe didn't make the list or something that resonates that came out of the strengths group oh yeah i can read them all back thank you so for the top we have local economy financials leadership and council staff then workforce government relations and corporate and resident support so those are all the buckets but again if there's something that didn't make that or doesn't fit squarely feel free to add an open discussion as well if there's something that resonates i would add one to leadership just the diversity on our council both in all in every sense um you know our ideas and perspectives our race or gender our age like all those things allow us to have a fuller picture of the conversations that represent residents of the fort worth and our neighborhoods too yeah when you say neighborhoods you mean that that same diversity and leadership is also within neighborhoods of okay perfect other strengths other areas where feel that their strengths happening could be soft skills can be anything i think as a city we we do have needs and infrastructure both mobility water environmental but i also think that when you compare us to other large cities we're in a pretty good place and with the right level of planning that can continue and we have some of the best department heads that really focus on that area so i think that's a strength for us as a community definitely just infrastructure say that again mayor i'm sorry i missed it infrastructure just infrastructure i mean we could talk about as a weakness too because there's plenty of need um that comparatively across other large cities in the country our infrastructure thanks to leaders before us have planned pretty well um and so and how do you remedy the areas where we've had the most we've fallen most behind but also use it to our advantage as a strength and that's also if i can that's a really interesting point because not all of these are going to be unique to that category so infrastructure both being a strength and a weakness like you mentioned or some of the others could fall across three buckets all right if that's all for strengths we can move into some of the weakness areas a lot of times these conversations there seems to be a lot of emphasis on some things that we trying to fix or some things that we want to uh we want to make right so let's jump into that let's go over to the weaknesses group um what are some areas what are some weaknesses that you think that you all discuss yeah let's just start there yeah i'll share out but um to my teammates please jump in wherever you see fit um the first one was uh and i'm gonna ask maya's help for the source one can you explain a little bit but uh you know mine brought up about just our employee mindsets and and long-term employee mindsets can you elaborate on that yeah and it's not to say all long-term employees of course but i've observed that for some the rate of growth is faster than they have the ability to change and to innovate it's just so fast it's it's taken some people unaware so uh for an example i gave to the group was every time we compare ourselves to plano or mckinney i kind of cringe because we've never been that small since i've lived here so i don't understand why we compare ourselves to such small towns when we're so big so to me that that often feels like the growth being faster than people's brains can process it if that makes sense would you say that that comparison is also is that something that's negatively affecting would that be a weakness that comparison that's a huge weakness to me i think we should be comparing ourselves to denver and charlotte and seattle and i mean we're bigger than every big city i just named yeah okay thank you for that monia um and then moving down the list our ability to deliver capital improvements [Music] our development services and sometimes um the challenges that developers face in getting through that process um that's the same thing or is that two different points which one development services cip delivered to cip and then development services yeah okay and then rethinking how we approach staffing both in the sense of and david described this really eloquently sometimes we need more staffing and sometimes we need to rethink the service delivery and how we've done it and maybe the way we've always done it isn't the way that it needs to be done in the future to be able to serve the current needs that we're seeing yep um and then um i think sometimes we're limited by our culture to be innovative um in in that we could always stand to be more innovative as an organization so just before you move on you said you're limited by the culture in order to be innovative yeah so i think being intentional about creating a culture around giving ourselves permission to be innovative okay got it a culture of permission to be innovative that's interesting very innovative building an innovative culture i like it um and then this is a redundant but thinking critically about um how we deliver services as a city um and then another weakness is um delivering services to the city i'm gonna combine those please um and then another one we wrote down was um you know homelessness and and litter um in the city homelessness and litter yeah and just to kind of give some context of the connection there um you know we see like we'll go clean up an encampment and then encampment moves and then we're constantly spending energy chasing litter instead of addressing for instance the issue of the encampment yeah a clean city maybe a clean city yeah i think yeah thank you for that mayor pro tem mayor another weakness is transportation and mobility transportation and mobility so we're going to add transportation and mobility yes okay as a weakness as a weakness hold it up here um another one is a use of staff and council time and i know like this is an example but it's a really good example we've spent two days full days back to back with each other which i really love but also as you know a young council member who still has to work like there's a delicate balance for me too so and in the paycheck yeah so the next one is uh or the last one implementation of automated systems um as we continue to move into the future um you know there's a lot of systems and processes that can be automated but sometimes the devil is in the details and in the implementation and so we can always be better at implementing automated systems yeah so automated systems to increase efficiency efficiency right okay perfect all right any other weaknesses now as we throw it out to the whole group uh anything i guess we don't have any others that's perfectly fine we can move on wait wait one more i missed one community i skipped over one our team said communications as well how we communicate okay internally and externally into our resonance yeah got it we will add that to the list i'll save it for opportunities okay i said in and out just to make it short all right so now strengths weaknesses opportunities and threats that's the swot analysis we're going to move into the threats peace were there no other additions to i don't think we had any more for weaknesses right no one else wanted to add any just just an observation i found over the years doing this that um the best organizations are often always the most self-critical to that means they're thinking about how to get better so don't feel bad about having a longer list of uh weaknesses and strengths go ahead woody yeah no that that's a really great point david as we move into threats i think this group over here was the threat groups as we move across the strengths matrix share with us some of your thoughts where uh where are the threats lying all right i'm just going to go down the list and if you need we can elaborate okay misinformation because that interferes with resident outreach and communication sorry i don't think i heard the first part of that misinformation misinformation misinformation interferes with resident outreach communication resident outreach and communication got it all right global instability all right because even at a local level it does affect us okay all right so we're going to add global instability perfect all right um i'm going to try to articulate this as best i can so jump in if you need to okay um an out of character reaction in our efforts to act like a big city out of character out of character reaction in trying to act like a big city interesting could you elaborate on that one more i think that one's a really interesting one i i think you knew we were gonna yeah we were trying to uh go but well we did go back to that conversation earlier this morning about acting like a big city a lot of us hear that and it just begs the question of what does that mean and it it can be interpreted different ways as we're not doing things we should be doing but at the same time we should be at least recognizing maybe we are doing some things well that others aren't doing um so um it it's there's a person presumption in that statement of um uh not doing things that's as we should or as other larger cities are which again as i said you get you have to um question that so um along those lines if as we're growing and you know trying to mature aspirationally we don't want to do anything rash that is out of our character in our culture as a city um because we're trying to implement some change from an external source okay so there's an element of strict strategicness as well being strategic okay that's interesting okay not not executing on economic development sorry not executing on economic development opportunities not exercising executing executing on economic development opportunities perfect okay and then not being able to recruit needed talent and part of that is competing against the private sector and i think as it was said here amongst our group how do we make city hall cool in the sense of you know working here and attracting you know the people we need here right and and i'm going to combine another one that we said and that goes hand in hand with retention of talent as well not just recruitment but retention of talent and that's our list okay awesome i tried i think we won yeah the threats group is saying they won i think that's what we want in terms of being successful perfect for sure so let's pull it out i know um any other group people in the other groups any other council members uh assistant manager any other thoughts threats threats wise i just want to celebrate that team um one thing that really resonated with me was just how you all talked about like making city all cool it automatically made me think like how do we make city hall the place to be and for everyone who either wants to work here or come to do business here or whatever the case may be making it the place to be in city that you didn't enjoy spending two long days with us i really enjoyed it hey it got shady over here yes it is we're gonna move on to opportunities and i think this is the one sorry about that once we're done with this one we're gonna go back and we're gonna work through all these because there's always room to pull some of these areas all the way into the opportunity so please go ahead okay so for our opportunities um an influx in federal funding for infrastructure and other um program influx and federal funding for programming correct infrastructure and programming yeah okay infrastructure and programming perfect um remote workers are able to relocate to fort worth if we make it yeah if we with place making we can get them here even if they don't have to work here okay spend some money here the ability for remote workers to come to fort worth right our philanthropic partnerships throughout the community we're very giving fort worth is a very giving community and so that's a huge opportunity for us um i lost the first part of that sorry yes philanthropic partnerships philanthropic partnerships um both current and exploring new new potential partnerships and then partnerships to help us rethink transit and transportation partnerships to rethink transit and transportation yes yes okay and some of these opportunities as far as it relates to transit uh and a lot of our uh major companies uh our current transit is going through a new president and ceo search and so it gives us an opportunity as a city of fort worth to establish a new relationship with the high leadership and there's other opportunities that we have that we want to uh dive into when we have new leadership coming in yeah is that is that a sub bullet to this one or is that separate well i think we'll have a whole separate one that would touch on it too so it's what strengthened the the trinity metro partnership relationship is that what you're saying related to that yeah rethinking transit and transportation he's elaborating on it that we have we do have another bubble though talking about the changes in leadership yeah um and so i guess i'll skip to that one then uh we have new leadership across the county in both organizations that we work with such as the t r i the t trinity metro i'm aging myself trinity metro jps uh we'll see new leadership at at the county level the black chamber leadership act various organizations various levels right and we're going to we're going to call that an opportunity today so if i said leadership changes with major critical significant partners something like that that sounds great okay elizabeth just so you know the former ceo of trinity metro is here but i don't call him new i'm just trying to convince him that he ought to stay yes yes steve is back there too paul you want to respond to that [Laughter] higher education and some really exciting opportunities coming to the city in the form of a medical school and texas a m you can just call that one the whoop opportunity w-h-o-o-p yeah aren't you an aggie david his foot hurts he can't move and so and then we have our our natural assets our natural assets natural assets so river our open spaces okay um around resources correct well i don't want to say resources because that sounds like we're going to use them up i don't want you we want we preserved them yes okay as assets yes natural assets [Music] um and then our upcoming election our charter election our bond election are both big opportunities for the city okay all right i think that's all from the group so if there's anybody else across the panel opportunities please feel free to share it just as i mentioned at the start the purpose of the swot analysis is to arrive at the opportunities so our strengths can become opportunities weaknesses can be turned into opportunities threats can be turned into opportunities what are your thoughts okay very briefly i just wanted to throw this in there office of global affairs okay david you may want to pay attention to this the city had this before i checked with maddie but maybe we should revisit this and make it sustainable through a public private partnership so we're just not merely adding you know to to city departments in any way but beyond just being window dressing welcoming vips strengthening economic development ties sure you know from a global standpoint it would be one way we would partner with groups that could also bring in revenue opportunities so okay and i have an opportunity fort worth is a destination place so just right in the bubble destination place yes ma'am so we've run out of bubbles up there but we can keep adding as many ways um i think first would be it's a weakness and an opportunity is the education level of our um community members okay um there's a lack of higher education credentials and the need to fill jobs but you also can fix that so it's an opportunity to really hone in on maybe not the traditional four-year degree pathway right but recognizing that the workforce has changed and how do we support those pathways for our citizens and our residents to have um make a living wage live here so i think if you just put education or workforce that's that's helpful okay and then the other opportunity i would say is we're a young city um our average age usually hovers around 33. we have a very high percentage of young children i think still the second highest in the country among large cities and so obviously is a place where people want to raise a family which is an opportunity as a community as well okay say that again mayor the what's the uh headline young we are young city our average age is 33. we also have a very high percentage of families with young children in fort worth so family friendly and then you i i abbreviated your workforce point to workforce development you said it was also potentially a weakness also yes all right well if that's it for the opportunities one last round is there anything else that anyone wants to add that wasn't mentioned reiterate we can always emphasize something more um that's on there that if somebody thinks it just wasn't punched through how much importance that should have um otherwise that's um that wraps it up please sir how to say just efficiencies in general thank you i'm carrie um just efficiencies in general and and there's there's a positive takeaway from the pandemic is and it's more just the social acceptance of doing a zoo meeting or processing a set of plans through electronic service and you know my list is really tied to how do we you know specifically improve our efficiencies um and you've heard me talk about payroll you've talked about a permitting you've talked about tpw um you know it's also our service center um it's audit increasing our audit because every time we do an audit we pay for the manpower there with that those are more of those things that i would like for us to to focus on and i'll be talking about that over over the next few weeks um or if the time allows here today depending on what the next topic is but just efficiencies in general as we work to improve our service delivery and then the cost of that service delivery okay and carrie is that efficiencies found through technological solutions or people technology yeah um because i i was gonna imagine mention it as um jared brought up the development services i get a lot of feedback of course um with a lot of development going on in the the north side of the district about how um you know are there ways that we can improve because we're you know we're we're not um you know keeping pace right and there's manpower issues we know and everyone is uh overtaxed so are there other solutions that we can investigate specifically to that area because i think the feedback is we get a lot of [Music] information that isn't always consistent and how can we improve upon that yeah i'll say and i i guess we're all hearing it about the development services and i'll tell you what we hear is that they handle the you know this one permit okay but the problem is you don't have enough people so it lends to the question that you asked the technology people and i said technology well maybe it's technology and people they can't handle the volume that they have and that's what's bogging causing the bottleneck but is there a technical element that we can change there that we can impact and then we struggle with this decision in our city of if our volume exceeds our workload do we hire more people or do we knowing that we may not have the same workload over the same period of time in the private world if you've only got staff to do one project and you get the opportunity two projects you hire the stats to do two projects but you can't always do that in the government world unless you outsource some of that work and and that's just that control that this institution has to make sure that we have our fingerprints on everything that comes through city hall when some of that work could be done differently you know i'll bring up the service center i think that's a big cost opportunity for us we have you know 7 000 employees right now our police officers when they need all change they drive across town to get their oil change and they sit in the in the lobby and wait for the oil change to be happened to occur i don't know of a private company that has a fleet the size of ours that has a that has the same type of service centers we do to the same extent they might have some for special needs special vehicles things that nature but um but not to the same capacity and so i know in the private world that um we pay that person a change and all to do a an oil change more than that employee makes in the private world because it's a more skilled technician just doing an oil change they're looking at other things there's a larger checklist but what's the opportunity to cost that employee driving across town and waiting in line we also know that our benefit costs for that employee is forty percent four zero compared to twenty percent in the private sector and it's just a cost accounting to say what does it cost us to do an oil change and are we doing that correctly yeah um um another really good point to make it was very pro it was very profound david is this the ground zone idea department heads we give department heads a budget um but yet they don't have control of that expense item um for the maintenance of their vehicles that is a set expense and they don't control necessarily everything that can be done to that car whereas you and i have that decision on our car um and and they've made adjustments to include how they purchase vehicles now to make sure that when they purchase the vehicle because they have headaches with service that i'm just going to buy all the maintenance options from the dealer so i don't have to deal with the service center anymore and so we're actually paying more to purchase the vehicle to accommodate that concern the departments head have with the service center so anyway kerry that was profound okay good glad i delivered i'm i'm glad you added people when when you talk efficiencies because i think well i know it is technology and people and we had a shot at that a few years ago i got so excited when we hired a six sigma black belt because i just knew that when she was hired we would see things improve but i don't think we were able to really utilize her effectively and and she's gone okay but yeah when you take a look at how we operate when you first mention the automotive example it took me back to txu because there there's no way our linemen would be sitting up waiting for an oil change but when when you look at efficiencies i'm just hoping that we can look at some ways to get better service delivery but if you don't have the proper staff and the properly trained staff that in itself adds to your cost because you've got people who don't know what they're doing when it comes to development services one thing that we learned through covert is that we're very nimble and i was really jazzed when i saw the i guess the all the new technology and development services but if you have people who mess up stuff then you're going to get bogged down again and when i was on board of adjustment i would tell folk if you go down there in the bowels of the beast at 12 noon show a set of plans they will say looks good same set two o'clock they'll find problems four o'clock they never saw you and so we've got to make sure people are are trained to do the jobs we hire them to do but for me efficiencies is very important but i do link them to people and technology i'll turn my mic off question for david now that we've done this matrix and i'm looking at challenges and opportunities help us understand what you're trying to get us to over here because i i think all of us could probably go down this and have a lot to say and really want to get into it but that may not be where you want us to go what i'm going to do is i'm going to ask you to use your sticky notes and and almost flip all of this on his head where i've been keeping you at a pretty high level get pretty granular and say okay what is it that we need to specifically do to achieve i nearly wrote down innovation prosperity diversity in bourbon but i left bourbon off to achieve that vision which is just our shorthand for the vision right now by leveraging our strengths overcoming our weaknesses mitigating our threats capturing our opportunities what are the action steps around that and we'll then have you give us your individual idea and we'll group them together and figure out all right what are the big buckets of challenge that are out there so the end result and i don't want to tell you what what what the end result will be but typically it would be things like strengthen uh strengthen economic development invest in infrastructure and those kinds of things but we'll start i always forget is it deductive or inductive where you move from the from the um from the detail to the general but i'm flipping it on time we're going to start with the details and move up to the general does that answer question mayor trust the process okay yes i'm trusting trust fall here we go yeah no no trust falling um so we'll just we'll just move in that direction and um so this is this is all about kind of your own individual ideas what are your personal uh these are things we need to get done so here's advance the slide if you would woody one more so this is a facilitation technique they call future pull i want you to go out in your mind in the into the some point out in the future where you're achieving um you know unrivaled success you're you're uh you're you're reaching your vision you're making progress towards your vision you've overcome your weaknesses you've leveraged your strengths you're capturing opportunities um how'd you get there you're out there right now looking back on what is today the 21st of february 2022 is it 22 yeah um what do we do from that future future point looking back to today what specific action steps did we take as a governing body as a city to get us to that future place one idea per sticky note one idea per sticky note written legibly go any number five to seven is probably a good target some will have a lot more some may have less and then we're going to start seeing where the common commonalities are to um poison the well but it could be things like um increased community policing programs we um we uh let's see what else we we invested in mass transit we we re-engineered our development process we automated whatever yeah we're gonna see where we are time wise we've got essentially uh an hour why we're all writing fort worth isd just announced that they will be closing tomorrow for all the parents in the room yeah while writing too we're gonna um [Music] we're not having the redistricting uh public comment thursday night tomorrow night we're going to move it to monday um and i'm looking at when you make sure i'm right and then we're going to do we've already scheduled another drawing session for tuesday because work session was already pretty short okay i know that's our favorite topic but at least that lets you plan for tomorrow we want anybody driving an ice and fun stuff and we will try to get out of here by three so those of you are trying to figure out the rest of your afternoons like me with kids you'll know where you can leave we're on course thank you david a lot of them are picking up kids early yeah [Music] okay let's start i just want one idea anybody give me your best idea what looking back from a position of great success what did we do just one we fixed the 9-1-1 system get your um sticky note okay fix the 9-1-1 system and uh assign a process owner for fixing the 9-1-1 okay so who else has something that is related to that it doesn't have it could be public safety it could be process improvement but let's build off of that one so we made an investment in could be a technology investment who knows but something that that sort of shares some common trait with that give me another one on the subject of public safety implement recommendations from the matrix study that's the name of a consulting firm sure for police department staffing and justify funding requests based on yeah workload and outcomes okay so we got a theme developing here right now could change as we go through this process but now right now we've got two ideas looking back from great success to help us get to where we want to be we fixed our 911 system made sure somebody was in charge of it and we and we implemented the staffing recommendations and i'm familiar with matrix work using their their call for service based modeling right okay so now we're looking for public safety stuff who else had things around public safety that are looking back from great success we did this reduce violent crime uh by collaborating with our communities reduced violent crime collaboratively with the community you want to elaborate on that a little bit without changing core values does that fit here mr firestone or is that maybe a start of another idea i'm going to put it there for the moment this says public safety prioritized with more emphasis in community-based programs and um valerie mentioned that fire might something about fire and i know you're looking at some analysis of fire staffing coming up might fit in that category this is police centric but that would now make it public safety centric do you have does some of somebody have some i know mr flores this is one of the things you and i talked about on the fire side what else oh i'm sorry reduced speed neighborhood in neighborhoods and streets so sort of a traffic control traffic enforcement issue ann is that you [Laughter] all right tell you what let's get another idea another sort of cluster of ideas going anywhere anybody so i can go economic development all right um this i'm sure like very's got lots of thoughts on this one but i said we executed on major projects and opportunities such as panther island farrington field capitol place butler texas a m tcu medical school everybody could probably add something to that yeah so so this whole idea of economic development and kind of executing against a growing list as i understand it of really signature kinds of projects right you can add this one too that forth is recognized globally we've executed on our economic development plans to make forth a globally recognized city for business and entrepreneurship okay yes so so so this is um um still economic development but it's about having a great story to tell that attracts people here from maybe where we weren't attracting them before huh yes ma'am i'm going to include this one in economic development although others might think it goes someplace else but we'll talk about it we need to build a robust fixed route transit system fixed route transit system as an economic development tool you want to elaborate on that a little bit sure and there might be some experts in the room that can correct me if my my math is incorrect but is it for every one dollar we invest in transit we get 20 back is that correct yeah so for every dollar we invest we know we get 20 back and significant economic development follows along transportation corridors bus routes are movable light rail is not it's why we saw in our future population our projections that mark went over this morning uh that growth was along our our highways okay um i i think it might will fall under its own category because i have one to add to that we created rapid transit on lancaster with new businesses along the corner yeah okay well so we're talking in both of these instances as uh transit as an economic development opportunity tool so i'll put it there this could this could spin off into its own standalone and then i would just add to what the mayor had earlier uh we created the uh tritony river uh with a wealth of economic growth so to her first that's okay the ones she had first what i called the kind of the signature project idea we created the trinity river with a wealth of economic growth is that right anymore on the economic development or transportation front yes sir excellence in education all levels all schools retain high school college degree so looking back from great success we would have will have achieved excellence in education at all levels in all schools retain high school college and masters degree graduates so as we graduate people they stay in fort worth to build their careers and their lives correct i'm gonna think let me go back over here let me let me go back to mr firestone if you don't matter but growth without changing core values can you elaborate on that i'm putting it here because it says growth but i'm interested in your core values point well um i think i handed it to you actually when we were doing the emergency services yes sir you did that to me it sort of fit there because we we value each other we value you know a 911 call and being responsive as a city to individuals and families and and some of the other things outlined there um it was growth that got me do you didn't mean growth in the public safety services or more generally well just more generally yeah um but it's it it's that what we touched on this morning about um you know the the core values of the humanity of a good city and caring about each other and in our communities okay so excellence in education i'm going to guess that this is sort of well as directly related to the opportunity that the mayor advanced about both a strength and a weakness this an opportunity to build our workforce and overcoming workforce weakness so again we'll move these around if we need to another idea another cluster of ideas david development texas a m urban campus generates new business entrepreneurs and and uh in an innovation zone okay so again particular a project but kind of an in-state description here too i don't know if you want to put this with economic development if we're going to have another category but specific to poverty and economic economic mobility with partnership cut our poverty rate below 10 i know you're always going to have folks below poverty at a poverty level and then every zip code and school pyramid offers an opportunity for students to be successful so yeah the heading on this is poverty and economic mobility with partnership cut our poverty rate below ten percent every zip code and school uh offers an opportunity for six for student success yeah that strat that straddles um uh this here it's kind of on the kind of on the uh on the intersection between economic development and workforce no say it again what about homelessness it doesn't exist yeah well i'm gonna tell you why okay it's because we got tcc and workforce solutions to create literacy job preparedness and financial literacy courses for the homeless and tcc does the training workforce gets the job connection okay sure so that fits right neatly with with with this idea excellence in education at all levels retain high school college grad graduates get tc's to um to uh to to do preparedness training uh and then uh workforce every disc uh zip code in school uh offers opportunities for student success this is all saying how do we strengthen i think it's saying how do we all have the kind of workforce that that the community needs both for the people here and to attract others right and here's one you can add to it ensure all communities have access to it and if we did that add that one to the mayors yeah internet access all ensure all communities have access to internet for it for the purpose of edu education primarily yes okay and job training and okay training all right i have one for health care okay let's talk about health care then what's that one side we got unt health science center jps thr and all other health care providers to staff full service hospitals for the homeless i'm the bleeding heart today i'm going to start a new one there and see where that goes some more support our children outside of schools in a meaningful way to allow them to be successful in the classroom support our children outside of schools in a meaningful way to allow success in the classroom so the extent that success in the classroom learning helps build build well build lots of things but certainly we're forced can i put it here improve grade reading levels okay so we're really up and down which is good up and down the spectrum of education but there are lots of things that you're saying we could do to strengthen our educational outcomes and therefore the quality of the workforce and therefore our ability to attract investment okay this is doable it may sound crazy but chesapeake did it i say for mr firestone we get leon bridges kelly clarkson ed bass and tommy lee jones to be in a psa about while working at fort worth city hall is cool kelly's from earl said i know but she'll do it [Music] i don't know exactly what we call that yet but let's see gina needs her own category oh sure what gina says city hall cool okay you're on a roll let's keep you going i'm still looking at three o'clock so this doesn't go anything up there but piggybacking on what elizabeth had brought up earlier about open spaces our parks and we've executed our efforts to achieve things like our 10-minute walk to park initiative we've preserved land and adequately with open space we've also created maybe a land trust that we don't currently have in the city of fort worth yeah to help support all those efforts open space and that so this is sort of a well amenities maybe is the theme i've got something similar let's add to that trails opens invest in trails open space parks sidewalks connected green system so trails and bike paths and all of that and yeah natural open space yep the river will be at the core of a lot of it more these are great ideas it's good stuff and we're not saying we're gonna every everything's gonna get done tomorrow but this is starting to say this is what how we're gonna go about executing our vision invest in city systems to improve efficiency employee and user experience so this is sort of an operational internal operation efficiency technology i could add to that i could add to that we created a virtual suggestion box with incentives for the employees all right suggestion box i'm going to take all of these that are being waived how old i am nobody talks about development services anymore and growth is still robust staff working strategically and up to their capacity investment in technology related to development services related to something oh hang on a second carrie i'll be right back investment in technology working strategically and to capacity we fixed the problem at development services that's what david meant um created uh a automated uh suggestion box and then and then the pink c coming my way i'll read them off in a second so fix pa fix payroll this it says cure procurement plague she got payroll got payroll employee culture so that was your point you made just a few minutes ago right mr moon inspect what you expect increase uh audit or ap audits okay yeah talk about that one just said earlier i mean audit is paying for itself and i come from that culture and banking where you always had occ or fdsc in there inspecting your your cash controls your your assets um uh everything we do um but i want you to know that that doesn't just happen in the banking world i have a friend that works for you asking what he does he says i work for a home builder and so you would think he builds homes but he works in the audit department of that home building company and they make sure if they go by the lumber package for a house that the lumber package goes on the house it was bought for it's just a simple process every time we do an audit we pay not every time ninety percent of time we do an audit we find efficiencies and we're not looking for gotchas we're looking at how do we make sure that we're doing a review and a change order for tpw that we've got the process down and this working correctly was it a payroll issue or was it a process issue or personal issue the assets on the balance sheet that are listed as restricted assets with our police we had seven hundred thousand dollars there that was listed as restricted and it wasn't restricted that was money that was freed up to be available for the police to use we had three hundred thousand cheated over to the state that didn't even be as cheap we have procurement contracts vendor contracts um that we regularly recognize um challenges and so it's it's not designed to to get people like i said to be a gotcha it's a it's how do we improve our efficiencies to make sure that the functions within those departments are are doing well i want to add on to what what councilmember moon was just talking about with respect to [Music] process efficiencies and looking for those lean government process improvements so i think we have one person right stephen hole is in planning and data analytics but oftentimes when we're engaging internal audit they're making sure that we've got procedures number one do we have procedures are we following the procedures and are we doing things correctly but i think there's another step to that which i think you're alluding to which is are the procedures the right procedures right i think there's some question about the number of touches that something has or the technology that's supporting or not supporting those procedures that that that's something that we're not really looking at in a coordinated way other you know other than development services has been trying to look at that right with our development advisory committee and our business process improvements with commercial building permits and some others but there's so much to to look at within development services as well as all other departments capital delivery you know talked about payroll whatever it might be procurement purchasing there's a lot of lean government things that we could be doing but it's just we're so busy and so in it that it's hard unless you have someone who's that's their job right is to come in and audit the process but not looking for something that's incorrect or inaccurate necessarily just continuous improvement so maybe we have maybe a future state would be to have more trained process i guess process improvement folks or people who can map out processes because until you have that i mean that to me i think you chase your tail but you've got to have those people that come in and know and can document processes and i think from there you can set up linear ensure that there are linear processes in place but so maybe there's just that grassroots person in the departments that is that something we need to add as a sticky note or just write it right honestly i think so because i think it's a deficit that we have just in terms of internal capacity to do that kind of can you jot that down on a note and i'll stick it up there so so let's just let's just pause for a second again i'm watching the clock we've got we've got a and we're going to name these in a minute but we've got a priority or a challenge around um economic development um and that's that's linked to um to the the transit impact on economic development it has to do with our branding and our re outreach and those kinds of things we've got a workforce development theme developing here we've got an open space theme amenities kind of a theme here we've got a efficiency improvement a service excellence idea here we've got a public safety emphasis here and then these two that i hadn't quite figured exactly where they go uh oh this is this is services to the homeless and uh oh and this is kelly clarkson and ed bass uh promote promoting it's sort of a uh attracting people to public service was the was the idea right so maybe that has to do with um some of the things you talked about over here around a challenge uh challenges in um recruiting and retaining people right so what else looking for the big big big uh themes fernando you got several here well a couple pertaining to neighborhoods which we've discussed in the past yes uh transforming our most distressed neighborhoods like stop six and las vegas trail and also stabilizing and revitalizing many of our at-risk neighborhoods by adopting and implementing a neighborhood conservation strategy which was the subject of a city council retreat about uh three or four years ago yeah yeah i've got a poverty no neighborhood qualify for neighborhood improvement program okay looking back for from great success we've had so much success with this neighborhood improvement program that nobody's asking for anymore this is their poverty neighborhood poverty yeah sorry sorry this says tr invest more did it twice city partner resources and concentrated poverty areas new housing poverty and violence areas new housing more direct services uh interventions education job training health care so this is sort of attacking root causes of of poverty and violence right does that go perhaps with uh gina's note around homelessness or neighborhoods or neighborhoods at least if we're i think what fernando's point about distressed neighborhoods the most distressed neighborhoods is where i was going okay uh invest with equity focus in communities could i and that would be synonymous with neighborhoods right yeah with the city council on that topic but christina brooks is taking the lead involves a lot of data collection and analysis to help us deliver services in an equitable way across the city i'm thinking about this so that's not that's broader than neighborhoods right does it go here with all of this most of this is efficiency driven but as service excellence operational excellence broadened and encompassed this idea of equity and all we do again i don't want to force feed anybody i think it's different i mean i think it can go together but i think it's different well i can start another one we'll see so that's sort of the equity lens question other people have anything related to that yeah any other new ideas new themes this one this one i'm not sure where you want to put it but it's um the idea is a we're known in 20 years in terms of innovation and prosperity by an identity that we would have created like historically fort worth cattle oil whatever it may be so examples would be uh autonomous vehicles coming out of alliance or ev batteries energy technologies air delivery educational opportunities there's you know there's an identity to from an economic development perspective i guess this is where it might go for innovation and prosperity it came from this this area so it's the idea of uh silicon valley wall street hollywood you know nashville do you go though to those places for kind of specific reasons what's the reason people are coming to fort worth so one of the tricks to this and this one of the hardest things to do is to find the right level for these ideas so we've got this cluster of of ideas that all link to economic development but it's very diverse and of course economic development is right you've got to have to pull a lot of levers but we created the trinity river uh we um we completed some really important signature projects we uh we became globally recognized it's similar to what mr firestone just talked about what are we known for uh so that's branding um so what do are all of those are all of those economic development or to some of those rise to a level of a stand-alone priority like i don't want to put my words on it but well it also has several transit and transportation related things in here so do we have really a transit idea or a transportation idea and an economic development idea and a branding idea that are important priorities or does that all lump into economic development who knows i i kind of i want this to be yours not mine but i think there's can you ask that question again david yeah i'm just trying to figure out of all the things that we've categorized as i have categorized as economic development do some of them really rise to it to a co-equal kind of a priority if economic development is a priority does that priority does that roll up transit branding signature projects uh what kind of recognition or some of those do they do they belong stand alone if you don't break them out we'll never get them done was that you gina i think everything all roles lead to economic development but for us to be able to tackle them you may need to break them out where's robert stearns yeah robert what do you think you want all that okay okay and i might say the same about education schools i mean i've i put in the context of of economic development but uh that's a totally different animal as well i'm trying looking for that one yeah where did i put it oh yeah here so you're saying excellence go education goes to its own but but uh we we have what i was calling workforce development these are also all education delivery is it not already at its own level or is it something different i think they're the same but also different quite honestly and because i think a part of it is that educational attainment and things that roberts talked about in the economic development strategic plan and making sure we're workforce ready um and continuing for future economic development but i don't think all of the education conversation is tied necessarily to economic development i've got i moved those over here build a robust transit system fixed fixed uh route transit system created rapid transit on lancaster with new businesses along the corridor again transit is an economic development engine we've got this education idea here which is excellence in education at all levels all schools high school college masters graduate stay okay any more ideas that we haven't captured somewhere else reduce reuse recycle abandoned buildings change policies to encourage use and reuse dana and i couldn't decide if we wanted that to be environmental public safety or economic development economic development yeah so this could go here with the parks open space uh trails sidewalks no we want to yeah productively use our vacant commercial buildings okay does that go here as a as a tactic as an economic development tactic maybe not a strategy i don't know okay for now maybe i'm not turning my back anymore i put it with economic development directly no yes maybe okay it tends to be more common and i would say in the central city right that's part of the point the heart of the city mr moon the heart of the city of time so i'm gonna not try to wordsmith this i'm just gonna just use usually uh the sharpies are beating me down um this is economic development and i'm gonna i'm gonna ask you all to look at these up close in just a second this is a neighborhood i don't know what what term neighborhood resiliency neighborhood conservation vitality very good okay this is standalone right now but homelessness this is a public safety this is operational efficiency this is parks open space this is transit this is educational excellence when it was this equity plan i'm just going to call it equity so let me just read it back to you in a way that well that the way at least that i'm thinking of this if we left here today oh workforce development if we left here today and we said after getting together and talking about our long-term vision as a council and assessing our external environment and talking about what we're good at not so good at we said that our our biggest most important challenges and opportunities lie in the areas of transit promoting uh educational excellence economic development neighborhood vitality homelessness workforce development parks open space operational efficiency and public safety nine are those the right ones are those would you be willing to say boy that was a day well spent and we know that these are the areas that we really need to focus on in broad terms going forward i'm not sure about homelessness if it's just the one this is dana's talking so you can't tell who's talking and i hear you over there yeah i'm not sure about homelessness as a stand alone sure transit and maybe that's really transit and transportation more broadly but right now those two sticky notes speak to transit educational excellence that says doing whatever we can as a city to promote the idea of really high quality uh education um and now i'm working just clockwise homelessness let's talk about affordability affordable housing all those pieces as we get into it i mean that if you're going to make that a category on its own that's a part of it yeah well i i think yeah i think that's the the the the question we had one that yeah specifically mentioned homelessness and it's not the same the feedback i heard was it doesn't fit directly uh to connect directly to neighborhood vitality but let me finish answering mr firestone's question so we'd walk out of here saying we have identified that our big strategic challenges and opportunities lie in the areas of transit educational excellence economic development neighborhood vitality homelessness if we include it public safety operational efficiency parks and open space and workforce development nine big categories oh and equities over here thank you i skipped that one 10. so i i'm wondering val if you would be okay if we did combine educational excellence and workforce development for the purpose of having buckets because i do think that it's sort of that through the entire you know you want to have excellence in k through 12 so that we also then have excellent workforce and also i'd like to kind of add some i guess salt and pepper to park some space um i think if we thought about it more broadly in terms of how we address like environmental conservation and sustainability moving forward i think that's a broader bucket that opens conservation covers but then things like litter etc would also fall under got the litter for you gina this says here right now invest in trails open space park sidewalks connected green system um 10 mile let's see i can't read i think councilmember williams we might need a sticky that's a sticky if sorry i wasn't here that was can you give me right yeah yes you could could jot that jot that down so we're we're expanding this idea of not not just you know sort of recreational and amenities kind of use of parks and open space as much as a part of our commitment to sustainability in the environment that kind of thing is that right and i think he's talking specifically environmental sustainability as opposed to like financial sustainability here yeah no litter yep up preserve the landfill i guess what's the what's the landfill issue everybody familiar with that i mean i know what a landmill is extending the life all right extend the life yeah so i got to change the name of this one what were we going to call that here i'll just move this in here i think environmental sustainability i can't i can't write this polysyllabically s-u-s-t period something like that environmental sustainability may be spelled right okay we're making progress got 20 minutes so i want to uh this came up earlier prior to this conversation but i'm wondering for transit if we should combine with it or if it's a separate thought the transportation funding challenge that we have that council moon mentioned earlier in terms of our financial funding strategy if we want to talk about transportation funding with transit or keep them separate yeah and virtually every one of you in one form or fashion the other as i talked to you focused on transportation infrastructure specifically roadway improvements and particularly outside of the loop it came up time and time again would we have something is there something up there on financial sustainability or long-term investment strategies improving those kinds of things would that be a category we could make one um i guess carrie i'll look at you for that too it seems like that would almost be a category that we would look at i'm always good for that but operations is operations is where we put it um i think we could elaborate on on transit i think we could elaborate on the i put the cure the uh procurement plague and the procurement plague is a term i picked up from a from an employee but i just want to encourage staff department heads and really just to look at i mean it's a large frustration and i feel like that i'm just going to say it i feel like sometimes legal legal does a great job but sometimes legal just saying here we got two more two months left say it say it we all have too much left we're setting up our whole policy based on the concern that someone is going to sue us about our purchases and there is no greater level of frustration than when we are trying to just purchase something under whatever the new threshold is now 150 000 and my um prior work and conversations have all been about making sure that we spend that dollar we choose wisely and we document why we chose the purchase we did and at the same time we're required to purchase through this by board um and then we're required to document a lot of things and we missed the opportunity a lot of times to to choose wisely um i just think we've got to look at how do we revac that whole process and how do we give our department heads the opportunity to purchase things at a savings without violating state law and we need to work on changing state law we can do that um yeah but it it you know we just we got it and i feel like legal is in our way a lot of times and how they interpret things um just with that i'll say just with that issue they're they're at the decision table as opposed to reviewing the decision and there's just significant significant savings there so that's all i'll say live in your program it's very frustrating for your employees if you ask them what are you frustrated that's going to be second behind payroll and then you want to talk transit i'm just thinking as a vendor i have a lot of things to say about that one of these days ma'am with with transit you know we all see a value in in mobility and we know we can't solve all transit needs with concrete and but we have to invest in something that people are going to ride and right now we don't have that and you know for what we are spending right now and i've i've told others this chris i mean for what we're spending right now in transit we could buy everyone that rides transit a cadillac and just let them drive a cadillac and so we just got to rethink it and think through how we can better utilize those dollars and get i mean some argument yesterday we have 270 000 people in the north we have one bus routes in the north i'm not advocating for bus routes to the north because with those but with that bus route has come policies around shopping carts taking from the grocery store to the bus stop because folks are having to come there to get groceries which is great welcome but why not just drop them off at the at the grocery store why not pick them up with their house maybe folks be willing to drive to participate in trans if they didn't have to solve the first mile and last mile because we know who's riding the bus we have private companies do it all the time you know where you schedule where you picked up um you schedule where why are we not changing our bus system to accommodate that why are we not putting the size of the bus to match the size of the the crowd of the people that are riding the bus and until that visual that folks have on on buses is negatively impacts the overall dollars that we make and you know if we we just took police to a public vote in july months after you know george floyd and it passed if we took the same vote to the public for the same half cent allocation which i think we should would it pass would the public decide to invest 99 million a year in how we utilize that dollar so i was like we need to we need to have a hard conversation about about that and i know mayor manny's taking some some bold strides in how to address that and uh it is a a long-term decision process audience i could have put carrie on the board with trinity metro that'd have been fun right i'll add a lot of sticky and but to curious what we can we don't have time to debate transit and how to create it but i think the point being how do we as a body collectively work alongside our partners at trinity metro to make sure we're serving our residents the first category of residents are those that depend on transit for lifeline right for work for health care for education um and do an analysis on how to take care of those folks and and create best practices we're in a good place to do that so i think to kerry's point it is while it's hard and maybe those conversations aren't always fun to start we do have a responsibility to have those conversations especially to have a world-class transit system mobility system that works for fort worth specifically so so um i'll i'll i'll go back to kind of where where we were just a minute ago and ask the question one one more time so i i saw our charge as to help this group um as as as as a a new a new council a more diverse council a younger council to to articulate what it is that we see as the big big challenges and the opportunities that we want to um to work on during our terms of office and and beyond and we've we've reshuffled a little bit since then but again are the things that are most important to you as a governing body to guide sort of the policy agenda transit transportation economic development neighborhood vitality public safety operational efficiency equity sustainability environmental sustainability and workforce development and if we left here today and that's what we said we did today would you would you have spent the day productively in your view okay any other con where we've got gosh i left you with nine extra minutes um anything else you want to talk about anything we didn't talk about today that you want to um to bring up talk about rethink in terms of what we did earlier in the day any changes to mate my only observation and i've been able to sit through this as several council members council members have before and i remember who it was today already said man it's nice to think about the strat strategically about direction of the city rather than get bogged down in the details we have to do every single tuesday how do you keep that going though because it really is hard every tuesday we get back in the weeds and so i'm just that's throwing that out there is people to think about how do we keep strategy at the top of mind rather than the next ir or the next crisis we're managing and maybe that's just the nature of being in a big city but yeah it's easy to get away from that pretty quickly i i that's the hard part everybody says that um you know strategic plans rarely fail in the planning it's in the execution of so to your point if we agree collectively that these are the categories that we want to focus on for the next 10 20 30 years to create this visionary city then everything we're doing at the city should fall in one of these categories and should be moving the needle on some of the aspirations that we articulated today i would generally agree with that i i recoil a little bit at the word every there may be sort of sort of day-to-day running the business sorts of things that won't easily fit in here that you still have to do let me give you an example mayor and i'm not sure this is directly responsive but one of the first opportunities i had to do something like this was with the city of arlington lz odom was the mayor uh so that dates me a little bit and in those days the city council and i think there were nine members that may end in seven had 30 committees 30 council committees and part of the reason behind all of that is that council candidates in arlington made a very a big virtue in their campaign literature about the committees that they chaired so ultimately everybody had committees and we came out of a two-week a two-day weekend retreat out in kaufman and if i remember right the number of of this kind of thing was seven seven big strategic priorities and the mayor just agreed okay we're getting rid of 30 committees we're going to have seven and the seven were those things that they'd agreed to their their strategic priorities and from the and it was a a change for the staff certainly and i'm not necessarily recommending this but they changed their entire agenda process such that those items that made it to the council for action filtered through those strategic committees and the staff moaned about a little bit because the more work uh but that was how they went about doing it i'm not saying it's the best way but they i guess the bigger answer to that is they align everything they do to that right let's just say i think i would think there's ways that you can we can check in during the budget process right to see if any special things that we're doing in the budget process or do they fit into some of those categories but i do agree that these are meant to be focus areas but it doesn't mean there's no way it can cover all the city business that we do you know so that you know water and sewer is going to touch on a lot of these but i don't you know that's going to have its own emphasis for different reasons but there are going to be some special activities that we're going to undertake i think that's exactly right i would say that because this was a hurried process right what's more important than these is these right so for example you mentioned uh water and sewer well there isn't anything up here that talks about water and sewer but you did call this environmental sustainability and that's where waters were most likely fed right i think it's really important that moving forward staff is completely aware of what we identified here and maybe it takes staff to give us a status of what it takes to achieve what they've heard us say here today but we've got to make sure that these just don't stay sticky notes on a board now this is something that we came and discussed after a long day at council yesterday i never want to do a retreat again after council but it's it's it's important that we make sure that the way staff functions has all of these ideas incorporated into whatever they do and if there's a need for a change in processes it's going to take staff to let us know so i'd like to hear from david to see if that's how we're going to some kind of way that we're going to move these things off the wall into the operational manuals and stuff well one one of the reasons of inviting the audience here you see over there is so they hear the same conversation that played out and and it's also been being videotaped and other people are watching it somewhere else so everybody has heard the conversation that we've all had here today so that's one way it gets communicated the other thing we'll do with david eisenlure is we will synthesize this right and feed it back to not only the city council but also to department heads and staff the what i was going to also add is the way the your calendar is currently composed or scheduled makes it actually easier to come back with some of these topics since we have work sessions on two of those tuesdays during the month and right we can organize the feedback of information the scheduling of presentations to focus around these areas as a part of your new schedule so the new schedule i think makes it easier as well and then it we test that each year when we come with the recommended budget which will be this summer of are we allocating resources to get some of this stuff accomplished to make sure we're able to give carrie a temporary badge so that after may you promised me you would still still be close and that way carrie can come back and be with us and keep us on the track that you know deal move to deny second carrie i was going to go for a contract but i don't think i can get four more people now we have trouble getting five people up here all in favor all in favor as long as you make him stay on topic uh well i think to maybe start to close this out and and i'll turn it back to david into david you know you're davidson um one final thought on this maybe it's serendipitous that we had one open circle which would be this category to dana's point of the daily running of a city that doesn't really fit in a category we have to bring to council issues that are coming up and that makes sense to me but i'll speak for myself and i want council members to respond to this it would be immensely helpful if we could tweak these categories if we think there's needed need to over the next several weeks but if department heads and leadership try to put their presentations and their work and their decisions for council into these categories and also work with mark and his team on what are the data metrics we should be tracking collectively as a city and you're bringing that to us you know very periodically so we're all kind of aware of how we're moving the needle together because i think we all got a lot of this presentation today was really helpful it needs to be done more than once a year at least for me um because all of us are juggling lots of different things and it's so much easier to know okay today we're going to focus on public safety and there's a variety of different things we're going to talk about but they all fit in that category and if you knew walking into a work session how great would that be if you knew today we're going to talk about operational efficiency and we're going to talk about all the things that pertain to that and so when a department head says hey i need to present this to counselors like great your time is a month from now on this tuesday because we're going to dive in on operational efficiency that day maybe less whack-a-mole for me but i want reaction to that um from other council members i'll second that thank you yeah there you go can you want to put on you with us on that one carrie all right we might have the votes perfect uh i just to expand on that i think that's a great idea because you know we go into the work sessions and we're bombarded with a lot of different information but coalescing around certain topics i think will go a long way in breaking down some of the silos so if we're talking about operational efficiency and that's where our brain is and we have several different topics or departments it gets us collectively thinking from a policy or procedure perspective and not a silo perspective good idea i love that idea as well because it allows us to also get a lot more done in those buckets like for example we could have done this whole thing just on transit and transportation and doing that allows it'll at least help me feel like we're able to move or at least kick the ball down the field as far as possible before having to switch to the next thing our committees are sort of aligned in these categories already and we're not we don't cover every area but there our committee's already aligned hopefully our committee chairs and council members feel like that's helpful to what you're trying to do in each individual committees also what are we missing here i'm really leaning on you because you are going to leave us in a few months you've done this a lot where have you felt like we've fallen short and what can we learn from that um a lot of it i think that how do i say this we have functions within various departments that are duplicate function in another department and i'll talk grants management is one payroll is another um that'd be one i would say with building services or building i've always i think our biggest thing there is our pos is how we process permits you know you got to go to how do i say this example i use you go into a restaurant you you sit at the bar you order something from that bartender on the off the bar menu the bartender serves it you get up and you move to the restaurant section of that restaurant at a different table you order from a different menu from a different employee from a different pos but when you leave you get one ticket and we can't do that so you go to a permit you should get the same on the same ticket should be your fire your tabc your impact fees everything should be on there that can be done it's done in the private world it could be done in our basement and that's efficiency so that'd be one thing that's the second thing that the first is just we have duplication of functions if you're in grants management that should be under one department we had we do a great job with grants management we had exposure as a city to 100 million dollars that we had with federal grant that we had to say hey we here's our data on it but what if maybe there's another function another department that doesn't manage it as well been our exposure there and then we see the challenges with with payroll and payroll is a problem of combination of time keeping and payroll so those are the things i would i would focus on from operational efficiencies we could streamline those services yeah um you know it's it's funny there's a i think we've actually kind of captured this concept but there's a great management book uh called measure what matters by a venture capitalist named john doerr who you know was one of sandhill rhodes great venture capitalist do you know the book david um but it's a management philosophy based around uh identifying objectives and then key results and we could take each one of these categories define what the objectives are and the key to it is to schedule on a regular basis an update on how we're tracking to achieving those objectives so it never it doesn't go away it doesn't you know finish when we you know conclude a good day here but it's a it's a tool that we can actually keep the the um the intent and the the wisdom so to speak of what we've done today we can follow through with it because we're measuring it and it's a discipline that we're going to implement um to stay on point is just one idea and i'll just elaborate on that is it's all about employee solutions we don't we don't have the answers we just want to listen to but a lot of the staff does the employees do and just give them the opportunity to come with those solutions and it may be something you just you don't have to create a new idea it's got to imitate what works elsewhere what you've seen work elsewhere so i just value that employee solution because there's ideas out there from the employees i hear them but they don't make it all the way up into a changing of a policy or process anybody else to close out any comments before i turn to david to give us his wisdom before we leave today i don't know that i have wisdom because i do think as i described before how we can bring that this back will be uh very helpful and i think help you because that's our job is to figure out how to help you uh but time and we talked about in our smaller group is what's valued too right and we want to be respective of how much time we all spend for the benefit of our 900 some thousand citizens and all the visitors that come here so i want to thank you for the time that you've spent today we will follow up with you on several occasions to make sure that your time here today was well spent and we'll test that as we bring stuff forward on future work sessions and budget so forth so thank you for your time awesome well i think with that council we are adjourned great job today thank you you