under upcoming events we we don't have anything uh on the upcoming events but I am calling on councilman Flores to give us a shout out to Chris Campbell thank you Jay uh Chris Campbell uh is my recent appointee to the library Advisory board for uh place two and he really wanted to be at the council meeting so I'm uh doing them a solid and just saying Chris wherever you are if you're in the audience welcome aboard thank you for serving Library [Applause] advisory under organizational employee recognitions I'd like to call Christian Simmons to come up she's going to tell us about an award thank you Jay uh mayor and I'm really excited to announce that the city of Fort Worth has achieved For the First Time The what works City certification so if you're not familiar with the whatw workk cities certification is a partnership between Bloomberg philanthropies and results for America it's a pretty big deal it started in 2017 and we've been kind of looking at it uh that whole time but it really wasn't until um the implementation of the lab and support from you for the data analytics function that we were able to pick up a lot of steam here um so the purpose of this uh certification is is to recognize cities that are effectively using data to make decisions and not just like once or twice as a one-off but really where the data um harnessing is threaded into the practices and policies of the city um there are a couple people including amethyst lone who's not here because now she lives in Virginia annoyingly um but she kind of was the torch bear of what work cities for all of the last seven or eight years um but over the last year with the lab's work we were able to sort of cross the finish line for the first time so we're really excited uh after this last Ann ment last week I think there are 104 cities in North Central and South America who have this certification it's really very competitive there are 43 criteria that measure um you know how you're doing with data all things data including a multi-day site visit uh so it's just a testament to not just the work of the Fort Worth lab but really A a huge enterprise-wide effort with all of our departmental partners in particular they were really impressed by Waters data management of lots of procurement um thumbs ups and so this isn't the end I've already asked the staff like hey what does it take to get to gold because we got certified at Silver um and we have a lot of criteria in progress to get to that next level um but this is just a great time to pause and sort of celebrate our progress with regard to data driven decision-making so thank you again to all the city departments who are collaborating with the lab every day um and for pursuing data Excellence thanks for allowing me to [Applause] share and last but not least on the on the organizational updates I'd like Mark McDaniel to go up to the podium and be recognized for his time here at Fort Worth as this is the last council meeting with us since Friday is his last day [Laughter] wow oh boy Jay didn't tell me he was goingon to do this I I asked him to let me quietly just ride off into he wouldn't have showed up if I told him you're right um this is the last council meeting I'll ever attend so uh and and and it's bittersweet uh but I'm so happy it's with you all um just a few quick comments number one couldn't thank David enough for for inviting me back in to be a part of this family uh feel it truly has felt like that um the council I know that um you know there's from time to time there's some disagreement and that's healthy and that's good it makes a stronger City but I've never seen group work uh this well together and sometimes it may not feel that way but I've this is the eighth City I have served and I've you know also been with uh organizations Nationwide and it's just not like this everywhere else it's a very special place and it's because the work that you do together as a team and I've really enjoyed working with each one of you um mayor I've you're the 12th mayor I've worked with um Head and Shoulders you are the finest mayor I've ever worked that's I mean not just because you're political Savvy and um your communication and um you know you can speak at the drop of a hat and be very articulate but you're also very compassionate that's very special and then the city leadership team goes the same you know comments about being part of a family uh we've just done some great things together and thanks for letting me be a part of that and that extends to the department directors um and many projects and then Jay best wishes to you brother the council is in great hands um with your um leadership at the staff level and also the city's in good hands so wish you all the best thank you how many years total in city government 40 [Applause] wow Mark you really are a rockstar there everybody on this table could probably give an example of something you've fixed and made better in a very short amount of time and David Cook was very wise when he started working with you to say hey what about coming on board full-time and I think that took a lot of coing as much as I've given you a hard time about leaving because I did not want you to leave I'm excited for you and your wife and your family to really have a little more balance I hope we still see you around um we won't make you come to a council meeting you don't have to do that um but there are very few people that are best in class in this business and you absolutely are one of those so thank you you for spending time in Fort Worth um and making this city such a great place um to live and to work and I know that your impact will have many years of of lasting um Legacy here in Fort Worth so we love you and thank you very much appreciate [Applause] you mayor I'd like to say something too on a personal level uh Mark I really want to appreciate you my back is turned just so I can speak in the microphone but I want to appreciate you on a personal level because during uh um my dad's sickness the multiple times that you text me uh to say that you was praying for me that meant a lot to me and I appreciate that uh we can work uh here at this table but we also can have compassion and personal so uh for me and my family thank you Mark for being uh a good friend and a personal uh Confidant doing my my Dad's passing I appreciate that Mark I'd like to say something too um I really appreciate your help and and guidance and expertise during the EMS transition that helped us all you on the ad hoc committee and as a city city staff really appreciated your leadership in that regard so thank you sir I have commentary too mayor if it's possible Gina yes too often when you have new staff coming in and they know they've got a new Council you know sometimes they they just don't do their best and many of you have been in my office to see the huge maps of my district that I have showing specific things like schools Trails Rivers uh community centers what have you before I talked to Mark saff was insisting they couldn't do that I knew the hell they could and so for me Mark was my go-to guy and I just want to say mark thank you for for getting it done because we as council members have a role and each of us knows what it takes to be our best and anytime I had an issue where I knew that it was doable I could go to you and you got it done and that means so very much and I thank you for your many years of Municipal service well said Gina thank you well I think we all don't approve your motion to leave so I'm not sure where that leaves you so sorry thank you very much Mark uh informal reports the first report is on the 2025 debt financing plan overview and Alex loer and Reggie Zeno are here to I do want um Reggie and Alex I don't have questions just a high level overview um thank youall very much for putting this together it's succinct in a complicated um document but I think you did an excellent job any high points you want to point out um Reggie to to you or to Alex you can take it from there we'll let Alex laer the city's debt manager thank you uh good afternoon mayor and Council um uh just uh we're moving as always delivering Capital uh to the city this year issuing a series of general purpose bonds tax notes along with CEOs to finance them um on in that case Rogers Memorial center improvements um we're issuing water SE revenue bonds uh along with seeking a u whiffy Loan program uh federal funds Grant uh totaling 25 $ million that'll support the Mary's Creek Water Treatment Plant um and then we have our first series or sorry uh first series of bonds that we're issuing on the new hot uh lean that will issue special tax revenue bonds to support the uh design of the convention center expansion thank you Alex Council as you all know and this may be a topic at your previous and upcoming legislative committee meetings but um Municipal debt continues to be an item in the legislature and I think we do an excellent job and that's a special thanks to the boundary set up by Reggie and his team but I think we need to stay vigilant about this and then ensure that as needed we're working with our legislative delegation to make forth an example um because you cannot you cannot build infrastructure for the fastest growing city in the country without the right type of debt program and you'all done an excellent job and just want to point that out Jay you can add anything to that you want to no I agree I think you know we we we stayed to like the blocking and tackling of of municipal government and and you can't as you mentioned you couldn't get the infrastructure in the ground without Debt Service it would take years and years and years to to finance those things through cash so I think we have a a good team and with our financial advisers and bond counsel uh moving forward we'll stay on our on our annual uh program uh to stay up with growth thank you Jay thank you regie and Alex appreciate you and Alex I'm sorry I commment your meeting the other day they were in a meeting to talk about this and I just sat right down and talked about things that had nothing to do with debt financing he sat down with a smile I appreciate that sorry to waste your time the next IR is a library special revenue reallocation and appropriation uh madori Clark's here to answer any questions any questions for madori Council we can roll through all right the next is a plan to reduce the celebratory of firearms within the city limits and chief Aldridge is here to answer any questions coun and I think Janette a few other people yes I think mine is uh not so much a question but a statement um I appreciate what you're doing here I know there's um certain areas of town that really um are impacted by this more than others but um I can tell you that um I often hear gunshots in my neighborhood as well um randomly at night um and so I think it happens all over the city and so to that end I've asked several times um for us to do a really a dedicated media campaign to educating folks that this is illegal and that um that we are going to start enforcing it and so I appreciate here that um you've got a plan to to push this on social media but um my push on this would be that we go farther than just social media and look at some traditional media Outlets whether that be um both English and Spanish um TV radio and um newspaper to make sure that we are reging folks um that are Beyond just the social media um U universe that's all I got thank you Jette just you know like councilman Beck said you know I almost daily hear gunshots in my neighborhood and I really do not want what happened in Forest Hill to happen in Fort Worth and in inevitably it will and we just need to be more aggressive we need to fine-tune these gunshot detectors to locate those hotpots throughout the city just some very aggressive traditional media outreach Chief Aldridge I agree with you and so over the past couple of years we've been looking at gunshot technology for quite some time and fortunately uh with the two companies that we're partnering with we have that opportunity to at least see it on a a trial basis to see how it's going to work it will take a little bit of time for us to calibrate the systems because not everything you hear is a gunshot and not everything um you know sometimes there's fireworks and in fact um at The District 11 meeting you know I I mentioned that we have one gunshot detection by Rosemont Park unfortunately some of the alerts that they were hearing were from the train that goes by that's very near and so it's really kind of finetuning that technology to make it work for our for our purposes um but I I think there's a lot of Promise in that and I would agree with the social media and uh the mainstream media uh information getting that out there because that's the best way to get to the public so we have a really good pro team that I don't think will be an issue to get that going Council Flores thank you mayor Chief um to add what's been said here agree with uh the prior comments you anticipated a question that I had about the pilot program when is that ending as far as gun detection Tech uh Shakedown so I mean it's it really just kind of kicked off in December and so we're going to keep those units um as long as we have them because we have a contract with flock anyway um we're just wanting to make sure that they're effective to see if we can spread them out throughout the city a little bit more prevalently than just the five locations you have listed in the IR all right and then the prior uh information the council has received about the hotspots around town in our council districts as far as reported gunshots uh how often is that updated so the information that we got for the five hotspots were two years worth of data from 2022 to 2024 um we can definitely relook at that each year to see if those hotspots have changed if we need to relocate those uh sensors throughout the city yeah and I don't know if you able to uh reduce the DAT a little further and pull out say the reported gunshots that we get during times of the year where you have this liberatory gunfire issue and look at that specifically to see how that aligns with the overall hotspots around the city that may help us again fine-tune where we need gun detection technology especially in those areas that tend to celebrate the wrong ways absolutely I agree thank you Chief you bet uh the next um item is the proposed noise ordinance amendments uh yeah if I could get staff to come up and give um a just brief overview of of what we're doing it why we're doing it and where we're doing it and then I have a couple of questions uh Chief Aldridge and Melinda from the Law Department are here good afternoon everyone uh Melinda Ramos so the primary reason we began this uh amendment process was because of the complaints that we were getting in the West 7th area uh related to noise so the first proposed amendment is to adjust the hours uh the allowed desal L hours in the West 7th area in particular currently um you can have ad0 DBA from 7 a.m. to 2: am and so the recommended amendment is to adjust that to have daytime hours go from 7 a.m. to 12 a.m. to be 80 DBA and then lower the DBA from 12:00 a.m. to 7: a.m. to 70 on Friday through Saturday so that is the first amendment that's being proposed the second amendment being proposed is related to vibrations and um some of the council members the last time um the chief and I presented had some complaints about related to vibrations examples of those are the base that you hear from music and the other example is the Thump Thump that you get from compressor stations we don't address that currently so the amendment would be to add that as a nuisance uh complaint uh the third one is something that we heard from our development community is currently construction is um set to daytime hours and streets Clos while they're doing infrastructure or Lane line and they remain closed at either the full Street or partial Street uh because they're not able to work overnight so in circumstances where it would be to the benefit of the public and would be determined by the city manager likely the tpw director or development services director as appropriate would allow them to get a waiver to work U kind of 24 hours to get the road open much quicker is the example that that provides for those the last Amendment that's being proposed is currently we have one uh penalty provision which is $500 for violations of the noise ordinance is convicted and so what's being proposed is to build in a scale for first conviction seven second conviction onward up to 500 and also Implement a civil penalty provision um that the determination of that penalty would be by the police chief or designes so those are the kind of basically the four amendments that are being proposed so my thank you for that my first question is when it comes to the the vibration or the Thump Thump um how are we going to measure and enforce that specifically is there like for noise we have a reader so right so right now what the proposal would be is to put it in that provision of the ordinance that applies to when um the person who's being the most affected by it for their quiet enjoyment uh of their um residents would' be the one that would have to report that complaint to the police department and be the witness if a citation is written okay so there's no specific measurement it's going to be dependent upon the the person who is calling the police to complain to be the witness in that case similar to some of the other uh items in that section as it relates to noise okay and so other items in that section as it relates to noise though um there's a measurement and so if this one doesn't have a measurement is it up to the uh officer's judgment as to whether or not or is if someone complains they get a citation so I'll it's always the officer's discretion um even when there's a deal level or there's there's not you for most of our um noise violations that are considered nuisances um you don't necessarily have to have a sound level a sound meter reading for it if you have a complaining party that wants to be a witness okay but it is at the officer's discretion as to whether or not to write that citation and that would remain if we make this amendment okay and then um what is our uh what's the timeline for Implement implementation on this I would anticipate we'd be able to get this to council by by the end of April if not before then okay and then um do we know what our public Outreach to the affected businesses is going to be on this so I would really have to defer to Dana on that piece okay thank you that a quick question what is the I mean I this is specifically for West 7th but what about the rest of the city what are the typical daytime hours and nighttime hours I knew you'd ask that I'll have to if Dana can answer the question and I'll come back with you with that ex I have a question about fireworks and how this impacts that yeah thank you council member be Dana bergd off for the city manager's office so we would reach out um to of course the Cultural District Alliance and then the the West 7th restaurant and bar um Association uh and others that that you may recommend or That Others May recommend okay and then um when we begin um the enforcement part my pre preference would be that we have some lenience in um making sure that folks understand that that they've changed before we're um issuing citations um which I think we typically do when we've um enacted like when we did the open container ordinance down there I think there was kind of a period where we informed folks um the one thing that I'd like to ask of Staff um if we're doing this and um and I understand why we're doing it and I think it's it's probably it's not probably it is necessary um to create some Harmony amongst the businesses and the residents down in the West 7th area um I've asked staff before and I'm going to ask staff again um there are experts in we've done the safe night study and that's really great from a safety perspective when it comes to um policing in the area and but what we haven't done is really looked at um noise specifically and there are Consultants that work with um entertainment districts that can come in and they can help these um bar and restaurant owners with how they can um internally make some changes to their business to reduce that outside outside noise coming through whether it's you know the direction of your speaker or you know additional phone foam around windows Etc um I'd like us to to to engage in a consultant like that I think that's part of um part of the process here is that you know we're going to lower this but we also need to provide some tools for the people that are already there um to to be better neighbors yeah and there's some good examples we may be able to to learn from uh downtown interests as well not just Fort Worth downtown but others because we've seen some venues where they've self-regulated if you will where they've got like trigger switches that turn down the volume or turn things off when when it reaches certain levels well I know Nashville and Austin have engaged um with Consultants that that do that type of that type of work so they exist and other entertainment um districts have used them and I think that um we owe it to the business owners down there to provide some sort and the residents to provide some sort of practical tools for them to um to regulate noise that leads their buildings as well very good thank you car have a questions so to for council member Hill um the noise levels in residential areas are from for daytime hours from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. uh they're at 70 DBA and then from 10 p.m. to 7: am they are at 60 DBA so I was trying to understand the difference between is the West 7th area consider so the West 7th area is about 10 D level levels louder Just on in what is the difference between this area and a residential area how do you so the difference the I think and I'll have to refer to Dana again but West 7th is a um mixed use area so it's more there's commercial and a mix of residential as opposed to our residentially Zone districts that the decel levels that I gave you would address that are just purely residential there's no commercial okay that makes sense in that area thank you Carlos Linda as far as the uh other entertainment districts mean Stockyards has its own issue as well I mean you can be there on East Exchange or even West Exchange on any given night you hear loud music and the mpos are aware of it and you know they take a judgment approach to what they want to uh take care of outside of that uh say if we go down the road on North Main and uh uh Northside Drive there's a QT there right A lot of people stop by there you know I gas up there on occasion it is very consistently loud and I put that very understated terms I've talked to the management there they agree they don't like it but they don't want to be put in the position of going out there and telling people to turn down their music right it's so bad you know I've had a drive away sometimes I don't want to gas up there but they acknowledge it's a problem they want it taken care of you know I've connected them with you know the Police Department police dep Department can't be there is there anything else that businesses can do you know aside from maybe something enforceable posting hey you you know turn down your music or don't keep it that loud something uh that's legally enforceable well I they could perhaps do an information campaign put on signs saying asking to lower the level but I think in terms of true enforcement they would have to reach out to the police department right okay thank you Michael the I just wanted to look at this I looking at the reasonab reasonability of this one question I did have is there exceptions to this rule if it's a permitted event which has gone through our permitting that it could go later or the deciel levels don't apply when it's a permanent event are you referring to our outdoor events ordinance a special event so there is an exception in to the noise ordinance for permitted events know time it's going to end and things like that right that's correct I mean to a certain extent they still have to comply but there are some exceptions that that are allowed for for certain special events perfect I just want to make sure there was at least if there was something like that being held down in the area that they could still do it second I kind of have a consternation that the deciel level Etc is left up to a reasonable judge or a judgment of sorts and is the reason because we don't have those decel um what I don't know what you call them but machines in all the cars are is that so we we regulate Noise by by two measures the first one is by decel levels which is why we have stated decel levels in there so the police department the officers are equipped with sound meters to be able to do that and they can measure and in that instance when you're able to measure measure based on the deciel level the officer can basically be the witness they don't need an outside witness in instances where either the noise they're coming after the noise has already ended but you still have a complaining party that wants to make a complaint then the officer has the discretion to write a citation based on using the the person that's being the compl the complainant uh being able to be the witness even though at that point in time the officer there may not be any noise for the officer to measure at that point in time but you got to remember I mean our ultimate goal is compliance right we don't want to write tickets every time we go out to a loud music call and sometimes they're just having a good time maybe a birthday party they don't know that they're disturbing their neighbors so really I mean that's the approach we take most of the times is is the most reasonable approach which is please turn it down but if there's reoccurring calls then we'll probably issue a citation sure great I I just wanted that something out there as part of it because I think we all have dealt with people or dealt with calls that we get that might their definition of reasonable different than other definitions reasonable thank you Chief just one followup question uh maybe a couple of years ago I requested an IR on that specific matter you may remember it on decibal readers how many per Division I can't remember off the top no I'm not going to ask you to quote those numbers but it was low right it was low but we had we had purchased more since that IR had been actually whenever I gave the IR we had purchased quite a few more for each division yes okay good thank you sir I'm going to reserve my questions I think you're doing the Entertainment District study today and presentation so some of that may come up then I'll just wait thank you they should uh the next IR is a policy of designated delivery routes for delivery drones and Roger venables is here to answer any questions I do have just one for Roger Roger thanks for putting this together I appreciate it I'd gotten a few calls about it especially with all the delivery that's starting to happen um went up in in Charlie and Allen's district and watched the Walmart delivery and then it started in the H mall area um but reading through this I just wanted to these drones are regulated at the federal and and sometimes state level right there's that's correct yeah that's correct what is it that we can do at a city level you know on a city level we really can have an influence on where they take off and land say at a Walmart location we can address to some extent noise and privacy concerns but how far we set back the Drone Ness uh from sensitive land uses for instance uh and that's what we do today so as a drone operator comes in and wants to apply for a uh for a site permit then they have to give us a site plan show us where their fence is located at show us where their drone Nest is any outdoor building that houses the drones at night and they might have a small generator to recharge the drones during the day they show us that they get their their authorization that's really our regulatory author Authority you're right we have very limited the FAA controls the national airspace okay so it sounds like from a location maybe some Aesthetics maybe some noise if there's a generator that's the extent we can regulate any of these from the city perspective yes okay thank you you're welcome the xir is a ston waterer program fiscal year 24 Capital delivery and maintenance accomplishments and Jennifer dyk's here to answer any questions all right the next one is update on the camp buoy revitalization code Leandra is here I would like to have a counc member crane thanks lre up thanks for uh this I'd just like a uh quick just what is this why are we doing it what does that look like yes so the last update was in 20 or well actually the original ordinance was adopted in 2012 and um whenever we adopt these form based codes you know we kind of have to live in them to really see um you know what the impact is going to be um and this code has served us well but now we're seeing that there is time to make some updates um some of those updates or we're looking at rearranging some of the subdistricts as well as we've seen some uses that really aren't compatible so we're also going to be making some um you changes to the land use chart and also to make it clear because right now we kind of have some duplication um in two different sections of our ordinance so we're going to be making those changes as well great and you have any comment on how this affects development balancing property rights Freedom right so thank you for asking that um in terms of non-conforming um any existing businesses will continue to to be allowed to um operate um however if there are any changes um for example if a business move moves out and a different type of land use wants to come in then that's when um that would be impacted but existing businesses will continue to operate um as they're con existing now those businesses can continue to exist great I appreciate it I just wanted that on the record why we're doing this what the changes are and we will also be sending notifications as will to all those Property Owners I appreciate that thank you is is Lydia here or no Lydia I I'm I might have damaged a yucka today when I was trying to come across Camp buoy so I'll figure out who I need to pay for said yucka in the middle of your beautiful median it looks like you're about to Rel landscape but I'm just owning it today okay okay I very much apologize Michael Mayor that concludes my report okay good okay Council we'll move right into our work session items if I can flip to the right page here sorry I guess first anything on board's commissions changes zoning cases and and C log that were in your packets if you had any questions for J or management yes Council Martinez yes so I see that there are some upcoming um closures to some streets and I know we do notifications for um capital Improvement projects within the district do we also send emails out to update those in our district of upcoming street closures if if not if we could consider doing that for at least the district 11 closures that's a good suggestion council member T I know there was one over Christmas break that was in D9 that Elizabeth and I worked on that um Carpenters catering had a lot of trouble with so that might be helpful to flag for businesses that yall have better contacts with we'll check on that and add that thank you okay we're going to move into the urban rail update Jess mcran is going to kick things off and rich andreski is also going to join Jessica our president and CEO from Atty Metro perfect mayor and Council we are excited today to share an update with you on the work that this committee did uh this was a group of 26 26 community and Business Leaders that the mayor tapped to pull together together to work with City staff from both uh the city and Trinity Metro to talk about whether or not we should look at the future viability of developing a an urban rail system between our entertainment districts uh we pulled this group together for a total of five meetings throughout the fall to talk at a very high level and we'll share some of the information that uh we provided with them and that they discussed here in just a moment um I will also acknowledge that we were supported by two outstanding consulting firms uh one was Texas A&M Transportation Institute and the other was HDR both of which we currently work with right now on this slide you'll see the names of the committee members that we pulled together thank you so much um we are joined by several of our committee me committee members today so if you are part of this committee and you are here would you please stand and just wave really quick to the council we want to recognize you and thank you for being here and then we also invited our Trinity Metro board members they will also get this update and so we're very appreciative of their support on this initiative as well all right at the very first um committee meeting one of the things that we did was to set what the purpose of the committee was and so we we determined that the purpose of this committee was to explore the potential of urban rail capitalizing on opportunities for Economic Development and Tourism while also providing for Transit options for local residents and I'm going to kick it over to Rich now to talk a little bit more about what the committee discussed during our meetings Jessica thank you uh would you mind advancing slides great thank you so couple key considerations of the committee we wanted to learn from uh past history here in Fort Worth that particularly the 2010 street car study um also looking at peer systems around the country one of the advantages of pursuing this um initiative at this time is that we can learn from others um there's ample examples of what works and what doesn't work and so we want to um really not only get consensus among this committee but also learn about the best path forward for a potential Urban rail program uh we did our best not to Define streets although I don't know if we succeeded totally in that um we we know generally what the districts are here in Fort Worth that could benefit from something like this and the goal with a program like this let's be clear is to not only move folks that are going between our entertainment districts and tourism districts but also to provide access for residents and as we see growth in our Central City we see growth um in in the West 7th area we see growth in the Stockyards near Southside Lancaster Avenue we've got to be mindful that with that growth Comes potential for congestion and we we really believe there's an opportunity here to begin to layer in um some investments in urban rail I'll point out one thing here many of our peer cities around the country focused on size and scale right they went fast they built networks that are expensive to build expensive to operate what I think we're talking about here in Fort Worth is a really Nimble flexible Innovative service that leverages the best benefits of urban Rail and does that in a way that's fairly compact we're talking about distances a handful of miles to connect districts and so next steps one of the questions we've received or committee discussed is opportunity for public input and that public input opportunity is coming so um part of the next steps here in this initiative are to form a really a technical group that what can pursue uh and review different alignments and different and and evaluate the return on investment and opportunity um again we're not building necessarily a transportation mode here we're building something that creates a flywheel of impacts uh including Town attraction and retention business attraction Economic Development uh certainly and retaining Talent here in Fort Worth will be critical to sort of growing uh successfully U as we as we look forward 10 and 20 years from now um questions also this group considered we're funding and we're going to that that that will also sort of be a discussion topic as we look at the Alternatives in terms of the best way to create a revenue stream to support those Investments so really excited about where we ended up here um I'll just leave on the final slide here and that is um we're not waiting for urban rail to innovate uh we started with orange line you may have all heard about orange line um we're pretty proud of this the orange line is really um a proof of concept and that when we create great Transit that works and is is efficient and effective people will use it and so we're really happy with the results so far and we think there's a lot more opportunity ahead so thank you and mayor council just note um at your place each of you have a copy of the summary booklet that goes into a little bit more detail the conversations and the things that the committee learned and discussed we will also make sure that this summary report is put on our City website as well as the Trinity Metro website too yeah Council Flores um Jessica first question uh are we GNA get more of a deep dive here on say specific about the modern street car or is that for later probably for later okay let me just say this uh I took a quick read of this Kansas City is a good case study but I would also humbly recommend to the committee look at the city of Milwaukee okay and then we'll talk thank you thank you any questions from Council Members no um Council thank you for and to the those that attended all the meetings and participated and also attending today um as Jess mentioned the intention today is not to Ram you with a bunch of information for you to kind of take this there's a lot of next steps that would be needed to move forward here a feasibility study and looking for money to do that as well so you'll have ample opportunity to engage with this Op with this particular process have questions um react to it it was important to me as we embarked on even looking at Urban rail that we had Buy in from community and Business Leaders there was full agreement that this was possible but then understanding these are very complex projects that are quite expensive and we have a responsibility to continue at the same time building infrastructure that's traditional across the city and Rich and I talked about that in a few interviews this morning but also to look to the future of what rail should ra should be um as a potential not just for commuter but also to connect entertainment districts and create true Tod and economic development opportunities for the city so this is just a start of that um just to give Clarity and and we'll have plenty of time again to to Workshop this in the future and I suspect too when we do a council Retreat Again part of it will be around um the future of of transportation and urban rail Michael I just want to clarify since the Press article came up this is not saying right now that we are going to go down this path I want unless you have a billion dollars that's right that's right correct so these are it is and you know candidly these these projects that's clear in this report they take a lot of partnership from federal state and local um to make them possible and we also a feasibility study is exactly what it says like what is feasible for Fort Worth what is um you know economically prudent and how would we even fund a project to this size um and which Entertainment District would come first also trying to really work with triny Metro on the hard work they've already created with orange line and other lines in the future um and building Rapport slowly I think is important um especially if you learn lessons from the past so yeah yes council member back yes thank you thank youall both very much Rich we appreciate all your partnership and you and your staff as well thank you thank you mayor thank you councel thank you oh you'reall waiting on me to cue things aren't you so sorry Chief alridge your update on Entertainment District study thank you mayor council city manager it's great to be in front of you again and it's uh really uh it's refreshing to be up here to be talking about the entertainment District study because if you guys remember um we kind of started this little Endeavor about almost two years ago so um it was kind of accumulated in a couple of high-profile and actually tragic incidents that happened in the West 7th area which made people kind of question the Safety and Security of that area um during that time many of the city departments whether it was police fire code tpnw had really put a lot of efforts in the West 7th area to try and make it a little safer whether it was traffic flow lighting um but we really wanted an outsider perspective to see what we could do differently and see if we could make some positive impact and so an RFP was created uh we created a steering committee uh and we selected four entertainment areas which was West 7th downtown stockyards in the near Southside Magnolia area held interviews and we selected safe night for uh the project so this was our steering committee members uh we have some of them in the audience today I saw Bob Jameson I saw Chaz I saw ctin uh Trina Johnson and Mike Brennan um if you guys could wave um because honestly I you guys don't understand how much time we asked them to volunteer to help us with this project uh we met monthly and sometimes we met more than monthly uh to kind of talk about this topic uh during one of our meetings we actually had a steering committee of uh young people which were much younger than I that go uh visit these entertainment areas and really some of their insights were were helpful for us um because they saw it from a different perspective um some of them actually said you know most of the entertainment districts they felt safe during the daytime but you know not so much at night uh they said West 7th lacked the uh dis uh distinct culture or identity Beyond being a bar District uh there was parking issues that came up all the time whenever they were talking about entertainment districts uh the perception of Safety and Security not only in West 7th but in the Stockyards um it said the West 7 lacks a strong sense of community or connection uh among businesses which could be improved by promoting uh the faces behind the establishments and I mean the comments kind of went on and on and on but from their perspective it was really good to see kind of their their input and their Insight because they do visit these places quite frequently um safe night safe night whenever they came in they kind of had a four-phase approach whenever they looked at our area and one of their biggest themes is that this isn't a police only event this isn't solely on the shoulders of the police it takes everybody kind of in an e ecosystem to make this work so they completed on-site assessments of each one of the areas they did a rist string modeling and basically that's a fancy way of saying that they looked at environmental factors that contributed to Crime uh they developed a bar in restaurant voluntary voluntary accreditation model uh and training recommendations for City staff and bar employees so whenever they did their site visits they basically listed out some strengths and some recommendations um with each one of those specific districts you're going to see a reoccurring theme in probably every one of these on the strength side which is constant or consistent communication between the business owner and City agencies that's pretty consistent amongst all four um you're also going to see a consistent on the on the recommendation side which is increase for traffic enforcement and engagement um but as you can see from West 7th you know the strengths are we have a dedicated team there uh they have monthly Bar Bar and restaurant owners meetings it's well lit it's clean their recommendation uh relocate ride share uh loading zones increase traffic enforcement um higher intensity lighting uh engagement with patrons during the our police engagement with patrons exiting the district and coordinating with TCU uh the irony is on some of the recommendations a lot of those things we had already done and so that wasn't really a new recommendation for us although it just kind of reinforced what we had already been doing so whenever we go on to uh Stockyards um the strengths off off-duty officer presence consistent communication very active pit uh recommendation coordination between off-duty officers and The Nightlife team uh conduct a light evaluation uh sidewalk evaluation traffic enforcement and engagement and relocate ride sharing zones whenever we move on to downtown well lit again constant communication between owners and agencies active PID and really just increased traffic enforcement and coordination between the off duties and the on duty nightlife team and then lastly whenever we go to near Southside and Magnolia well lit clean consistent communication active PID and the only recommendation was increased traffic enforcement so you can see a lot of the although the entertainment districts in and of themselves are very very unique um and they have different qualities um you can see a lot of reoccurring things amongst all of them so their recommendation and really we could talk about this for hours although I know you don't have hours um this was their list of recommendations throughout their study which was adult adopt a multidisciplinary team approach which means all of us are working together together to make this a safe place a relationship based approach uh unified night nightlife strategy which has all these bullet points that are associated with it a risk ring modeling approach expand procedural Justice and broaden the uh public private Partnerships um it's a very lengthy report um I'm sure you guys have better things to do than probably reading it um but a lot of this stuff is really common sense right is all of us working together to make this area safe whether it's code whether it's police whether it's an ambassadors it doesn't really matter everybody has a hand in making this area safe so one of the recommendations was a a voluntary accreditation for all bars and and restaurants whether they're in the Entertainment District or not we thought it's a good idea to start with the entertainment districts because that's what makes them the entertainment districts a lot of bars and restaurants now I have to give a shout out the uh little sticker that you see over here on the slide this is what the sticker would be that they would put inside their window to say hey we've met the accreditation uh requirements or the standards that were put forth I have to give a shout out to Renee tez and his team uh Jason McGregor Allison Rich Vanessa FZ Kenneth n and Kimberly Tyler um because I'm not the creative type they're the ones that kind of created this and they're helping us with the communication strategy with the bar and restaurant owners owners um and our theme is going to be the golden lasso which is the lasso around exterior um I believe Dallas has what they call the Silver Star so um we're a little bit better than them and so we had to up it up a little bit um and so with the voluntary accreditation model you know it's it's standardization of safety protocols for staff and customers um whenever they see the sticker they they should feel a sense of safety that they These Bars have met a certain level of standards that other bars maybe have not uh develop additional relationships with Municipal staff you know Shifting the perceptions of the unsafe environments that hopefully this will kind of guide people letting them know listen we're putting a lot of investment time and energy into this program and that the bars have some investment in this as well because they got to keep these standards up for them to keep the accreditation and really improving employee morale the long-term benefits for them hopefully increased Revenue reduce liability because they do have a standard in place and if things do happen at their bars they can say no we're meeting a specific standard we have been accredited uh hopefully would you know possibly decrease insurance rates that's up to their insurance provider um maybe a sense of Pride for their community and business um and then the overall culture and economic vibrancy of Fort Worth so one of the next steps that we have is that we'd really like the council to complete a resolution to memorialize the intent of the program and the support for the program so we met with some of the bar owners and you can probably imagine they're they're not extremely excited about this program because of maybe past histories they've had with the city some of them were concerned over the financial impact it was going to have on them and their bars specifically um they they thought maybe this was a way that this could impact zoning and the way the city zones certain areas if they're not a part of the program uh this might be a method for them to be denied permits um if they applied for permits in the future um and they were concerned about what enforcement might happen if they do not comply uh William Johnson and myself sat down with them and we explained to them none of this is true um it's not going to cost them anything it's totally voluntary and there's not going to be any sanctions against them if they choose not to want to be a part of this program uh we tried to highlight the benefits of that um but unfortunately uh you know I I think because of their their past uh dealings with the city uh they might be a little bit cautious about being a part of this program so we're working with that same Communications team that developed the sticker um to have a marketing strategy to try and get these bars and restaurants into our training program um we're going to partner with visit Fort Worth that they're going to highlight these businesses that are accredited through this program so whenever visitors come to either the Omni Dickies or wherever we can say hey these are the places that have been accredited and are considered safe spaces um in our eyes um we're going to continue to recruit and on board as many bars and restaurants as we can around the city and we're going to monitor this to see what adjustments need to be to be made so one thing uh the training is coming up between on March 26 through the 28th it's going to be at the Bob bowling Public Safety complex and so we're really at the point right now we chose Chaz I know Chaz is out in the audience I saw him he's kind of the program lead at least in the West 7th area and we putting a lot on his shoulders to try and get as many of these bars you know engaged in this so they can attend the training so we can get this accreditation rolling so I know I've probably said a lot um but I'm tried to condense it as much as I can for almost a two-year project and at this point I'll answer any questions that you guys may have thanks Chief Council Flores thank you mayor uh Chief you and I have talked a little bit about this along the way as the safe n LLC you know assessment went on so specific to the Stockyards area Okay does this study make any specific recommendations in as far as the no deployments because right now the noos are splitting their time you know in Stockyards right and then they also have their assignments you know the surrounding neighborhoods and I know Commander Molina has looked at it you've talked about it if you're not prepared you know to do a deep dive on it right now that's fine we can talk about it later sure but was that ever part of the discussion so it wasn't part of the discussion for the study itself but believe that's a self-correcting problem with our beat analysis study um because we created a beat around the Stockyards area that's solely the Stockyards area where that no could focus their concentration and and their efforts on got it okay uh just to pick something out I know ballards received you know a lot of attention right there on North Main and East Exchange you know right now what do we put you know vehicles or you know uh those saw horses down and block it that way and the event of what's happening around you know not here just in the country but also internationally where you have vehicles that just you know plow into crowns yes right very serious you know Potential Threat yes so ballards you know of a suitable capacity would be a good idea to have so that's part of the safe night LC study right so it's it's not necessarily part of their study how however it is a safety component of stockyards so the ballards for West 7 were their installation started on February 24th and if you can remember I think there were six or seven locations we were putting ballards there there um we are doing a feasibility study for the Stockyards I agree with you that they would be very beneficial in the Stockyards for the reasons that you listed okay and then clarify for me again uh I guess what are you asking Council to do uh is it necessarily endorsing this plan or or what specifically is that so the overarching thing would be the resolution so um talking with the bar owners um one of their concerns is that they would like to see this kind of Memorial I from city council you know in a resolution that would make them feel more comfortable what pitfalls may be there or what things are not going to happen to them uh whether it's the financial impact whether it's going to be the zoning changes whatever whatever things they have in their mind that thinks this is going to be used against them we wanted to memorialize in that document for you guys to vote on okay and again that would apply to the bars on West 7th as well as Stockyards any Entertainment District or any bars within the city of Fort Worth okay all right and for the forementioned reasons I guess so long as we include this these other things that I've mentioned and you know others that I did not mention sure you know as being related to you know the overall safety you know assessment of the Stockyards Abol I would ask that thank you yesc uh thank you for your time and putting this together also Chaz thank you for being here out in the audience um uh not just West 7th but near Southside as well so um it really takes good bar owners to be partners with the city to come up with a solution so thank you and everyone um all of our business owners that were part of this I if you could go to the recommendations page and I know you probably didn't put a ton of info on here just for sake of time but I have questions about what those mean sure so did um did they provide us with it's my opinion that we take a multi-disciplinary approach now I mean code works with you know we have the streets ERS down there for a while telling people they didn't have to go home but they couldn't stay here we had um you know we have fire out there um we've got PD um legal so in my mind we take a multi-disciplinary approach so did they offer ways that we could communicate better or involve other people or was that just like a a blanket recommendation it was a blanket recommendation because we do this on a daily basis this is an UNC for our city um because our departments work very well together okay and then the relationship based approach did they offer any specific suggestions as to that so the the theory behind the relationships based approach is that you have the city staff workers working with the bars and owners and basically because they're having those interactions they have developed a relationship which makes things move a little bit easier or maybe some of the misunderstandings are kind of diminished okay and then the risk terrain modeling is something that they did as part of that and is that where the um we saw the recommendations as like high intens high intensity lights and um traffic enforcement yes yes correct and so uh when they talk I'm glad you brought up traffic enforcement because we saw that in every single one of them um are we talking about speeding are we talking about parking like what specific traffic enforcement um and and what's the uh the gain why why traffic enforcement on all of those so some of it was um from their perspective possible DWI drivers that are within the area leaving these bars and restaurants others of course are the uh what we call the hot roders um that cause um a little bit of challenges for us um throughout the city um not necessarily the parking issues it was more moving violations um that they saw during their observations okay great and then um recommendation number six did they offer any specific recommendations as to how we broaden the public private Partnerships I don't believe I believe it was just more of a generic uh statement um I would have to go back and read the report on that one specifically fine and then on the um accreditation model um I see the benefits there but can you walk us through what it will take for these bars to become accredited maybe just an example of some of the stuff they'll have to do so some of the standards that were listed are things that they already do um you know the signs posted in their Windows um training for their staff many of them already have training for their staff um the one training that we will have on March 26th through the 28th the bar owners are only going to be there on the 28th from 4: or 10: in the morning till 4: in the afternoon because the first part of that training is going to be for City staff whether it's code whether it's tpnw it doesn't really matter that's going to be for our staff and then the bars are going to come in and they're going to do Roundtable exercises and kind of wrap that training up so everybody understands what this model is all about um there's quite a few standards that are listed um I can get you the list of the standards um but if you saw them they're very to me they're very common sense type standards that most I mean almost every bar is doing them already so if so it's just about memorializing then what the bars are already doing it is yes and so we would ask the bars that basically they have a policy on file that have these recommendations in there and that they are meeting this recommendations so each year somebody like Chaz at for the West 7th area the program lead would go around they would you know uh they would look at these bars and make sure the standards are still in place and the bars are still meeting those standards so we could issue a sticker for the next year and update the date on that sticker um and really there's the only heavy lift I can see for the bars would be to have an actual written policy that memorializes the things they already do gotcha um the one the only ask that I'll have is we have a lot of off-duty officers that work part-time jobs um at these different bars and I'd like us to um explore tying that policy of them being an accredited bar through this program um and allowing those off-duty officers um to work there one I think that um politely softly nudges uh bar owners to want to be part of this program but also I think um it helps keep our officers safer in those jobs because they're at um establishments that we've identified as safe yeah if you see one of those bullet points it says in enhance Off Duty Officers responsibilities entertainment districts they looked at our policy and they thought maybe some of our off dut officers do a little bit more than what they're doing already and so that's something that we're looking at at a policy level to see if there's some other you know responsibilities that maybe they can do okay great thank you yes any other questions mine is just a a suggestion um one of your slides about how you're going to implement this I don't know how many conversations we've had with the chambers but um I think that might be an also logical place to make sure your bar owners are engaged there they might also be a neutral party to help you know if and when there's ever an issue where they feel like the city's not being a fair partner the chamber is always a good neutral ground to say hey can we have a better advocacy campaign around this and I'm sure Steve for the forward chamber and all of them really would help us think about is there are could they do more Outreach to each of these different entertainment districts across the city and give them better representation in each of their respective chambers that may be also be a good option it's a great suggestion anyone else great thank you thank you okay next is our 2026 Bond and Christian Simmons is going to kick things off for us all right all right good afternoon again I'm closing out our work session today happy to do so with an update on the 2026 Bond program so you get me today again Christian Simmons Fort Worth lab uh the lab is the home of the bond program now if you didn't know that it fits really nicely and with planning initiatives and capital budgeting and all of those things so we've been coordinating this work uh this is really your first presentation on the 2026 Bond but we've been working in the background for really pretty much a year now um and so it's been a great team effort just like what works cities you see my theme so again thank you to departmental Partners uh and the lab staff who have all worked on this we have a bond projects working group that's met monthly or more um really for the balance of the past year to to get this right to get it to you in order to then open the doors for public engagement and engagement with you um and speaking of that I do want to note for any public who's who in the audience or who's watching either now or later um we know that bonds are intensely personal discussions they can be difficult um discussions about trade-offs um so we want to tell you that this is not like a fully baked Bond program we're bringing it here to council um just to begin to get input so we're really early in the process leading up to May of 2026 um so if you're a person or a neighborhood or organization who is looking for a project and you don't see it in the list today just know that we are about to sort of open the floodgates of public engagement over the forthcoming months both um in person and digitally so just want to level set there a little bit all right so where have we been so far uh departments submitted a lot of projects as you can imagine and so we had to create a methodology to turn those submissions into a viable plan and so the bond projects working group and the lab came up with a methodology and without digging like way into all the data like I contend to do uh it first incorporates the Department's expertise so the Departments as you know they have a ton of inputs that they use when they think about submitting and prioritizing projects some of it's quantitative data like you know pavement condition Index right or asset condition um and then a lot of it is qualitative data you know I'm thinking about Parks who I know keeps a running list of things they hear from residents and stakeholders about Parks um and so they have that anecdotal expertise that we also really rely on and that the lab certainly can't replace but the lab also has a data input to this process and so we applied a number of sort of Citywide strategic looks uh at the project list as well so that measured things like how does this project connect with other existing efforts right um how does this project leverage existing funding Partnerships um is it advancing the city's strategic goals consistent with approved Master plans we have this whole Strategic investment plan that sort of overlays all the adopted plans so we know where our targeted investment areas are um so it was a good mix I think that the bond projects working group came up with uh that gave us a very robust data Rich score methodology that took into account all that departmental expertise uh that can't be replaced at all but also kind of gives it that strategic comprehensive look across the city and this is a great table to demonstrate why we need a robust scoring methodology uh to get to a viable uh Bond plan so this uh this is submissions by department so it's not yet organized here in proposition format so this is Department submissions um and you'll see the date is pretty recent there up top that's how recently we've been continuing to update you know Scopes and cost estimates and things but as you can see the needs clearly outweigh the assumed debt capacity I mean even just cpws fond request alone right exceeds our assumed debt capacity um and so that $800 million number at the top right is uh our Planning number as of right now based on our projected growth in appraised values you've seen that number a few times even in today's debt plan IR you'll see it there um and you'll also see that figure change as we get closer um we'll get certified value vales in July so I'll be up here talking to you about budget about certified values but we'll also be recalculating the bond capacity number right at that time and just this is because as a reminder the city of Fort Worth does not structure its debt programs with the intent of a tax rate increase right we're really proactive and conservative to manage our existing debt and so that's why we continue to to revisit that number as it gets closer all right so now we get to um the list actually organized by proposition uh and so this would be probably about what the propositions would look like in 2026 on a ballot and the amount per proposition here so just quickly walking through you'll see uh streets and Mobility infrastructure improvements typically The Lion Share of the bond so we've provided an average over the last two Bond programs of what that percentage looked like in 2018 and 2022 um and then the proposed ratio for 2026 so streets and Mobility there at about 2third a parks in open space uh sitting at 23% historically and again in in 2026 we have Library improvements in the package Public Safety improvements which Encompass fire and then 911 which is of course police and fire uh and then a proposition related to Animal Care uh a new shelter so that's sort of how they break down you can kind of see with both 911 and Animal Care um that some of the capacity is being shifted a bit and that's the reason why but we'll go into some more detail on that so at this point I'm going to move forward from these sort of introductory foundational comments to more of the meat of the bond program but I have one more little stage I wanted to set which is this graph um so here on your right you'll see this chart this chart comes from the national highway construction cost index so this is federal data but we're certainly it's certainly representative of what we're seeing at the local level with regard to cost of construction so this is transportation cost um you see in 2021 you know it's it's pretty much doubled in the last three years um and then not in the chart but on the left hand side in that second bullet you'll see that vertical construction cost is also up significantly um so that means even with increased dollars you're not going to really see a proportional increased number of projects um so that's just kind of important context for how the dollar is stretching or not in this case it's not stretching um this is also as a note why you've seen presentations from us about funding gaps for the 2022 Bond projects because this is kind of a different landscape than uh existed when we costed those in 2021 um our plan is to come back to you in April with a recommendation for how to close those 2022 Bond Project funding gaps uh we have ideas for using other debt capacity to do that but just for today know that we've tried to keep those project gaps out of the 2026 Bond program we really you know if possible would not like to go back to voters and ask them to sort of revote for projects that they've already approved so we're working on some things in the background and we'll be back in April to talk about some of those recommended Solutions so if you have a project that you know how to the funding Gap and you don't see it on the list and that's probably why but I'm also happy to answer if you don't see it um and then the lab and departments are really trying hard to use the right cost escalation figures as we're doing these cost estimates again these are kind of hard to predict but we're revisiting those very often and using some what I would say aggressive hopefully cost escalation figures here okay so let's walk through a projects by how they'd appear in proposition uh so the first section is arterials or I think tpw now likes to call them major major roadways uh the first thing I'll point out is that bracket to the right so this 227 million across the 10 projects you see in the major roadways category really turns into 427 million or more uh when additional funding partners are accounted for so I just want to show how we're leveraging Partnerships that's a lot of reg Regional coordination and effort with Taran County and Cog and teod and you know all those all those groups that we hear from often um the next category I want to show is if you can see that green uh we have a couple of projects that were designed in the 2022 bond that are now going to Construction in the 2026 Bond so that includes those first three meum Boulevard West East Bailey Bosell Road and Heritage Trace Parkway I'm going to try not to just read the list of projects and try to give you some more detail um but happy to go through any of these so all of three of those were voter approved in 2022 for design uh and so we we'd ask that they go to construction of course in 2026 um the next big one is bonds Ranch Road and I actually have a map on this one that might be helpful I got a quick question is this updated from when we previously met and top so I see some streets on here that wasn't really initially on there I don't know when you met but probably it's updated because we've made changes even as recently as like in the last week okay perhaps yes because we had uh some news that we have grant funding coming in for one of the major projects and so that project came out of this out of the bond program since it's going to be funded with Grant which gave us more capacity so we moved projects that were next in line right we talked about that okay I see some projects on here exited yeah okay so that's why uh actually in your District Barry and Hill both jumped into okay thank you yeah now I can see you're like yes yes wasn't list yes that happened that is something that happened as recently as Friday so yes you wouldn't have seen that surprise you're welcome um okay surprise all right so um let me go back to bonds Ranch so Bond Ranch Road is a $66 million project that takes up quite a bit of the major roadways category um on this project Taran county is leading the design effort for this Corridor and so the city's obligation here is to pay for construction there are also some private developer dollars at play um but it's really broken into three segments so that segment one most Westward is $20 million of the 66 segment two in the middle is two and a half and segment three here is uh 44 43.7 million to create that $66 million project this is almost six miles 5.6 miles and this expansion just helps keep up with all that residential growth that is happening there so back to my list we have a design only project and Al at Altima Boulevard um we have a a pretty significantly uh funded project at shapen School Road this actually has the most amount of external funds being leverag for a city project both from the Cog and the county um this shap and School Road Project by Alo Road and I20 helps with the future veel Rock Brook annexations um and provides a railroad crossing that's critically needed and then to council member nettles's um point and excitement we do have two projects that are appearing on the list in the major roadways category in District 8 that's East Berry which was partially designed in the 2022 Bond um East Berry Road helps complete part of the East Berry corridor plan uh and it's really a recapitalization and Safety project parts of barrier on the higher Injury Network and so this is recapitalizing sort of rebuilding That Old Road and looking at safety uh and then you'll see Hill and Risinger there which is as much probably part of District Six uh and benefit to District Six as it is to District 8 so I know it's really important to both of those those council members um but this helps alleviate congestion near the Crowley ISD Stadium the idea is to provide access to Everman Parkway over the railroad all right neighborhood streets um so we don't have the you have but we don't have in this presentation the list of all the different contracts in all the neighborhood streets you'll know those are those are listed in the bond booklet and we'll certainly provide those online and as part of public engagement but staying high level here it's 34 new Lane miles uh as well as just a bit of remaining 2022 bond shortfalls that we're still still working to close uh and then this also includes Park Road improvements at three locations those locations are the fourth Nature Center Buck Sansom Park and Sycamore Creek Park if you are curious and so we've lumped those there with neighborhood streets and we have intersections and traffic signals again you have that project level detail and where they span I also have them mapped later uh if helpful but the traffic signals in particular include new traffic signals and Signal upgrades as as well as some city-wide enhancements that benefit everyone moving through some of tpw or streets and Mobility infrastructures smaller categories uh you'll see Bridges they tbw actually submitted four and we are recommending funding all four um you'll see sidewalks school safety street lights railroad crossings all with smaller buckets um where you have projects outlined in your handout and then um a placeholder there for vision zero and active transportation this is these projects are still being fleshed out actually I think they're mostly fleshed out but um we can list those but um it's pretty representative of what we did in 2022 with some proportional growth there between two and 3% for both of those initiatives and then as a reminder public art you're going to see this public art contractual obligation in each section um so that applies to capital projects not the design piece but the construction piece it's 1% of tpw and 2% for the other facilities and that's based in the code of ordinances that's where that contractual obligation comes from uh so just a reminder of why you'll see it sort of threaded through I mentioned some of our partners where we're leveraging funding so here are those again and now I'm going to move to parks in open space any questions on Transportation before I move and we can always come back if needed go ahead Carlos thanks mayor just you you mentioned three part par roads or Parks uh roads leading to parks that are part of that Improvement what are those by the way they are the Nature Center Buck Sansom Park and something else Sycamore thank you phone a friend yep thank you thank you okay moving on to parks in open space so a big chunk here is Community Parks the first two are Gateway and Trinity those are sort of the the biggest ones there so Gateway is um in accordance with their master plan those phase two improvements which could include things like Fields related facilities parking lighting you're familiar with the master plan a Trinity Park um we're looking there to um to meet the higher demand of recreation needs at that Park I did not know that Trinity Park was the first park ever purchased by the city I learned that in the project submission form um but I I believe they're embarking on some master planning efforts there um so this will include design and construction of Park amenities depending on how those planning efforts go but things like playgrounds and picnic shelters and site furnishings and um also includes some funding for river bank and natural resource restoration at Trinity Park then you have Buck Sansom West Prairie Dog Park and Glennwood um and we can talk about any of those details but those are just a bit smaller in the community Parks uh section we have the rebu building of the atatiana car Jefferson at Hillside Community Center I think we're mostly familiar with that but that will include the um the Demolition and rebuilding redesign and rebuild of uh the programming space and the facility needs of that area uh and then we have contractual obligations to the botanic garden and the Fort Worth Zoo these are typically included in the bond program notably the botanic garden contractual obligation uh completes our deferred uh maintenance uh infrastructure maintenance agreement that we have with Brit so this will be the last time you see that here uh and then in the Water Gardens uh you might remember that the first phase of Water Gardens improvements was funded in the 2022 Bond program to kind of figure out what's going on there um and this is a projected $10 million uh to start doing more of those improvements so it includes things like the active pool infrastructure the South Wall circulation and connectivity in the Northwest Cascade Fountain I don't know if you guys know all the parts of the Water Gardens maybe a map would have been helpful or a diagram um but those are some of the the items that we'd project to do with this 10 million continuing on with Park and open space so we have open space acquisition um you'll recall that the 2022 Bond program was the first time the voters approved to have open space acquisition in the bond program um and so this is not just acquiring land but also sometimes capital projects to get those sites ready for public use things like fencing or parking or signage um and it's not only acts as a counterbalance to the 50 acres a week that we lose to development but also important for Environmental Quality things like Watershed protection ensuring air quality um and certainly align with the mayor's good-natured Green Space initiative next we have aquatic facilities so you'll see two there proposed by parks North Zeos being the first and then the North Park YMCA gym and Aquatic expansion there in District 4 and that includes uh matching funds I believe from the YMCA uh the meadow brick clubhous and cart Barn is included in the proposal it's an aged uh facility and then there are a couple of athletic complexes and infrastructure projects that Parks ruled together uh the the most sort of public facing one is the Rolling Hill Soccer Complex in District 8 Renovations there that include things like turf fields and restrooms and lighting um and then the parks service center renovation and a new one to keep up with as Park inventory grows maintenance needs grow and these are the facilities that um those folks operate out of and then again the public art contractual obligation there just a reminder we get this question on open space so with the 2022 Bond dollars they're about 80% spent um and on track to spend their 2022 appropriation by the time the next Bond is available you guys have approved this uh 13 acquisition 601 Acres um so that's just a status update there that I think it's been a minute since you saw all right going to move on okay so libraries there are three projects that are um in the proposed Bond program that have to do with libraries these are all expansions of existing libraries the first is Southwest Regional uh East Berry and Diamond Hill uh so these would include multi-purpose rooms for programming Community meetings teen centers uh these are high demand libraries um one is from 1967 on East Berry um and then the 87 and 89 uh Respec itively for Southwest and Diamond Hill uh so this would improve those facilities and give them some additional space to house their current needs I know in at least the case of Southwest that that's literally expanding the footprint I can't remember the other two if they're being redesigned are also expanding the footprint on those sites but the plan allows for both um from the public safety perspective there are two fire projects the first is a new Station 46 in South Fort Worth and the second is a rebuild of station 40 in district 7 uh and then we'll talk about 911 so here's at New Station 46 you see the big arrow down there in Southwest Fort Worth uh this is related to Future development um and meeting anticipated uh calls for service um increases right so it's located near the new Charlton campus we have the land it was donated to the city in 2018 um but as you can see although the star is a little bit like bright in the way but it's not green uh 0 to 5 minutes uh is what we'd be aiming for for response times and currently uh they're not hitting those marks so as development occurs we really want to make sure that we're um accommodating for that need and good response times there in the southwest a fire station 40 was constructed in 1983 there's a picture uh and then the city assumed ownership in 2000 through an annexation of that area this configuration is no longer practical for things like the accommodation of female firefighters for instance um it can't hold an apparatus um and it's been identified as the fire department's top priority as far as rebuilding a station due to the age of the facility uh and the cost to maintain it this one is at the base of a water tower if you're familiar with that one up there yeah all right and then we move to 911 uh so this is an exciting project uh this renovation is proposed to occur at the city's zipper building uh and it uh is it includes space configuration structural enhancement Safety Systems upgrade to the Building Systems and then all the technology and consoles that it takes to run a a a Class A if you will a Best in Class sort of Consolidated 911 Center um and so Sunny Saxton and Aubrey inco as they've come online really uh put pedal to the metal to figure this out and get it into the bond program so we're we have that here all right and then we move into Animal Care so this uh the code Department's proposal is to construct a new animal shelter to replace the existing Chuck silcock Center if you've been to the Chuck silcock Center you know that they're operating at capacity Beyond maybe Beyond capacity um and so this would replace that Center uh and construct a new one you might remember that in the 2014 Bond we designed the North Center and then constructed it through the 2018 Bond program um and use those kennel pod design they would propose to do that here as well um so the that they could continue to expand into the future because we know demand um you know for animal that capacity will continue to increase as population increases but we'd like it we don't have a spa a um a property acquired for this but the intention would be to remain in the Southeast Fortworth area so we're still exploring options there um but it would replace the existing I have a question for you yes ma'am are we gon to keep the name Chuck Sil Cox I don't know I would say that's a coun decision it's I guess it's up to I guess it's up to you well it was listed so generically I thought I would just mention that because Sil Cox uh brought a lot of money to that Center engagement from the other family of the M Crews and so that'll be something that the community will convey to the council but my main reason for asking was it looked to be generic so I guess that will be a discussion that's had after I'm no longer in office no it's a good question Brian do you have a comment yeah no there it would be up to the council thank you and is the vision to if you're replacing Chuck Sil Cox you're going to purchase additional land build a new center and tear down the current Chuck Sil Cox and what does the city plan to do with that location and property it hasn't been determined yet um I know a couple of organizations reached out about possible you know acquiring and whatnot um unfortunately it has reached the end of its life we're sort of doing everything we can to keep it going but um yeah that's still open okay it's helpful and then go back one more slide Christian I noticed the public art note here we this is way far in advance but I would offer that let's think differently about public art in that location and use the $1.2 million really strategically it could maybe be something that you could actually use somehow um for um staff or for the City or something than just putting a statue outside of the location for $1.2 million just offering an idea great I like your idea I like where your head's at and F the record is the Chuck and Brenda silcox oh thank you that's right so I can ensure that that's properly yeah s Sandy just stated that Chuck and Brenda we're on the phone right now debating that so I got sy's back there the debate has been Michael just brought it up Sandy so we're good thank you good note thank you thank you all right so that gets us through our prop by prop walk uh the next few the next sort of set of slides is just a mapping so we have a Citywide map but I also um have them sort of the team mapped them by region so you can sort of see the locations of projects so I'll just guess I'll stand here and click through them awkwardly while you guys look at them um you also have these obviously in your um in your presentation decks and we'll make these all of these things available online but here uh is a look at the east east project so again these are kind of just like General Regions they're not necessarily on perfect lines and then we have South so you see the legend there there's signals uh you'll see little little lines of arterials some are under construction some that were designed last time constructed this time so a couple different uh keys there we have the West portion of the city and number of intersections here since we didn't get into that level of detail you can see some of those here's Central some intersections there as well that you didn't get to see the project detail on and the north big arterials there as you'd expect uh and then this is just some history of funding by District I know that it fluctuates uh but this shows 1822 and then proposed funding and some of these share you know um projects among themselves and a couple cases where lines really you know butt up against each other um so you'll see those denoted in in asterisk there I wanted to note that uh some of the big changes are the redistricting has moved projects that one time were in one District now they're another District yes good good note and uh same for project by District so this number has also fluctuated a bit and then there's some projects that are considered Citywide so like the animal shelter for instance serve Citywide Open Spaces acquired everywhere there are a few signals projects that are Citywide um enhancements and then public art sort of goes everywhere too and then as we flesh out these Vision zero and um implementation of active Transportation initiatives um those will go up into the list I want to pause here so this is um the projects that I just summarized total to that $800 million Planning number um but we did want to provide a list of projects that are not in the $800 million Planning number but that either scored maybe next highest in certain categories uh or projects that we know have public interest so this is a sample of what that could look like the point here is just sort of to emphasize that we're not again coming with this fully baked bond proposal that we can expect people to weigh in on without really knowing what else was there um and so we plan to take a supplemental list sort of to you when we talk to you in a deeper dive Workshop which we're hoping to do in April um and then also into the community uh and so we can have some of those trade-off conversations with people um you know the debt capacity is real and so we'll continue to recalculate and we won't exceed that um so a $10 million addition from the list would have to have a $10 million reduction from the existing list uh so but I think that providing sort of a menu uh to you and to the public is helpful to have a little more of a substantive engagement process um and more productive conversations about the options so we just rounded up sort of to what would be 925 million um by by selecting a number of projects that were close to that line so speaking of Engagement these would would be our proposed next steps uh we we plan to meet with you I think it's actually on the next slide in April for a deeper dive uh into both the the topics we've talked about today and some of the supplemental list projects methodology if needed um and then we'd roll out public engagement through May into the fall um and excitingly you know that I love the streamlined engagement that's part of what the lab tries to help with so I imagine we'd be talking about comence plan and budget and bond and giving people a fun opportunity to engage on a lot of important topics uh so we do that all through the summer and the fall and then take all that input uh and create the finalized project list based on all your input in the public by the end of the calendar year we'll also revisit costs at that time and then you'd call the bond election in January and we do another round of public meetings this these are in uh education meetings because by that time we know what will be in each proposition and so we're teaching people about what will be in each proposition so they can make informed decisions about how they want to vote uh and then the bond election um you know not withstanding any legislative changes or anything would be in May of 2026 so we'll keep working on engagement plans um we'll provide I think we're planning hoping to get on your calendars a bond Workshop uh I think April 1st is the day we're we're hopefully targeting for that uh and then we'll keep adjusting this recommended funding list per feedback that we get so as Christian mentioned we're we're looking at the morning of April 1 before exec session to have a bond workshop with the city council to kind of finalize those those projects within the 800 million that would then be able to kick off the public input process um so we wanted to have that meeting uh to kind of give the council an opportunity to provide direct feedback and suggestions of what might move up and what might move down and yall can arm wrestle on how that works there we appreciate your time great job Christian thank you for this and questions from Council comments yes Council lorf so looking at that there's clearly no excitement from for like you got from Chris uh but I would just say I know things will change undoubtedly um but if they I would say if they don't change much what my recommendation to staff would be make sure any especially any district four meetings we have and Jake and Nest we definitely bring people out just bring a lot of PD and bring some fire because something will get set on fire for sure um we we tend to take care of of our own area but we will absolutely U this will not go over well at all I can just say that much uh like just 5.6 million and we've spent twice as much as that on just one lawsuit uh and you have a large taxpaying base that's going to be responsible for paying a lot of this debt it's going to be um not a good time and that's one meeting you probably won't see me at and unless I can go back to the uh Armory and draw some my gear so that's just recommendations I need to make there thank you noted playl I'll Echo that concern uh I knowing how big the backlog is in need in District 10 uh specifically for tpw projects to see uh 10 million total between four and 10 I I'm not convinced that there's anything for the northern portion of the city to to consider supporting this at all in in all fairness and I think you're right to look at those numbers and advocate for your districts um but this Bond wasn't um created in a vacuum and the north got a ton of allocation last year or not last year but last Bond specific to Transportation so I hear you my counter to that is well then let's look at last time and see how much the north got and and the the central didn't and so if we start fighting over it that way it becomes a blood bath not arguing with you at all it's going to be up to the voters any other questions from Council no yeah mayor I'll just add some some background to these discussions which I've heard many Through The Years uh what what I can share with members of this council is you will probably see years when your District gets a boatload of money and there's a lot of work throughout the entire district and and that comes when your people are engaged with these public meetings I think one of the uh good years for D5 I recall probably 18 I'm not sure but it was just construction everywhere and so what you want to tell your people is show up show out with their list uh District 5 was able to alter a recom a recommended list by sta but it was because they showed up and went to every council meeting and that was the bond bond issue that we were able to get two rec centers in the same bond issue but it was only because of the citizens showing up and it's been hard to see two reiters in one bond issue since then but just get your people to show up and I know staff will be listing anyone else no okay thank you very much chrisan thank you that's last of our presentations we can move into any um future agenda items you may have for staff I I have one um I'd like an IR on the new texting communication system that PD rolled out to folks that call 911 um just an overview on what that is and how it operates anyone else yep Carlos yes mayor with the upcoming school semester coming to a close and you know Stars testing you know starting and finishing request an education update from Fort Worth education partnership as a presentation thank you anyone else y Macy I okay um I'd love a list from tbw on the heavy maintenance streets throughout the city not just D7 but I think across the city would be helpful Gina yes I have a couple and for discretion I'll call the first one developer accountability and this is something we've talked about but I'd like to have a discussion on developer accountability and I can go into greater details with staff so that we get what we need which is knowing who's really taking care of our city and the other is I'd like to know how other municipalities deal with security and I'd like for staff to you know give us at least what's going on with the top 10 because those large cities probably have the engagement that we see so I'd like uh to see what what's going on with other cities and how they offer and how they monitor people who might uh be disruptive with arms so those are the two I have at City Hall Gina at City Hall okay and I'm forwarding an email to you and council member Nettles right now on something else okay anyone else no okay perfect meeting is adjourned see you all at 6 for