for everyone that waited for your patience we will roll in and get started to our work session on November 7th 201 23 and move to our report by the city manager David Cook thank you very much good afternoon everybody let's see we have uh an upcoming event it is Municipal Court week and I'm going to call on Juan petus to give us an update on what will happen that's perfect all right good afternoon mayor and Council uh so this last legislative session was declared the first full week of November Municipal Court week so it is an opportunity for us to recognize the role that the Judiciary plays in maintaining uh safe communities and appreciate our clerk staff our judges Marshals and all of our support staff um so we do have a fun week of events planned out you should have received the agenda um just yesterday we had our opening ceremony so thank you to ACM Washington for coming out to support and providing some kind work and and recognition for our staff that's always appreciated thank you um tomorrow we are also hosting our recognition ceremony for our staff that has uh served with us so Faithfully for several years and several that have attained their Municipal Court certification which is a significant accomplishment um as you may have noticed we also have food trucks at the front everybody hopefully takes advantage of those uh so we would love for you to come down and and participate in any of the events we'd love to host you and tell you a little bit more about what we do at Municipal Court if you have any questions I'll be happy to answer any questions Council no you got off easy thank you very much for your hard work appreciate it all right next we have a few informal reports the first informal report is uh sales tax revenue update from August 2023 and Clay Pearson's available if there are any questions moving on the next one is on the business Equity program and we have Gwen Wilson from diversity and inclusion if there are any questions yes please um I requested this and thank you so much for pulling it together think it just be helpful to give an overview um first and then I'm I think I have one followup question okay I'm sorry I didn't hear your question oh no no question just give us overview first and then I'll follow up with a question oh okay all right um as as you all may have read our business Equity program was born out of a disparity study and the purpose of the disparity study is to determine uh if there any if there are any disparities in in uh our procurement process as it relates to uh business Equity firms and there were disparities determined uh we have a narrowly tailor program that is race conscious we found that Minority and women business enterprises were not equitably getting contracts therefore each year now we create reports we track our spend with these groups um um last year we were very successful with African-Americans we uh four years ago we were at less than 1% we've increased up to 6% as of 2022 um with Hispanics this year we've exceeded our um our goal at 99.2% we're at 9.84% so we are seeing improvements one of the things that we have seen this year in our uh in our numbers is that even though we had a higher percentage last year at 20% we went down to 177% this year but that's because we may have given out more contracts but the value of those contracts were significantly less so 2023 did show um a small drop in um in in uh percentages thank you and then just one followup question um you know for me at least the goal is ensuring that um as we're um awarding these contracts that um the business Equity is proportionate to our demographics of the city that um put in other words that the way we do business is reflective of the people that we serve in the community um what are some things that you all are think about as a department and striving towards ensuring that um there is equity and that we see a better uh proportionality between um um um our population and the way we're awarding business okay um our business Equity goals are not set by the population is based on the availability of business Equity firms within the market place so the study was instrumental in showing us how many uh mwbes are within the marketplace so that's how it's based on it's not based on the community itself or the demographics it's based on Strictly how many firms are located within that market area by ethnic that's that's helpful to know too the availability is a important aspect to I guess ultimately get into that proportionality um how are y'all working to um kind of assist with that availability I know there's some criteria um that um mbes um particularly one being that they have to serve in the market um or have a location in the market how are yall working towards um increasing availability we do a lot of networking with uh with our advocacy Partners but additionally one of our big um one of the big um events that we have is we have a partnership with the uh Beck Group of construction and so it is the first construction School of its type in Fort Worth so that was something that we came together with where they teach MBE about construction and estimating and so forth so we've had some successes in that program with the um with the uh MBE that have gone through that program and growing M mbes um the other thing is like I said we have these relationships with all these groups around around the uh Metroplex um I think we participated in over a hundred events in the past two years so um we've been pretty active in the community um and working with different groups that's awesome thank you I commend yall for the work that youall do um um as it relates to City management I think this is a huge opportunity for us to continue um building on that progress um by ensuring that we're helping incubate businesses um so that there is a better pull of businesses so that we can you know continue to move than needle on these goals but thank you for this report I appreciate you okay any other questions Council thank you Gwen appreciate it all right our next in for a report is on the chief judge Jud judicial Recruitment and appointment process and we have our Municipal Court chief judge Danny Rogers available to ask any questions any questions for Danny ith any questions I just uh well really one what does he think he's doing leaving so that's it you can sit down and then finally we have an informal report on the fiscal year 2023 tax increment financing annual report and Robert Stern is available of 30 questions no questions all right mayor that concludes my report okay we're rolling on our next item is any questions regarding changes in memberships on boards or commissions that'll be addressed on November 14th moving to any questions regarding significant zoning cases for the upcoming council meeting and any questions regarding the city council MNC log for November 14th no perfect our first presentation today is by executive it says exive assistant chief I like that almost said executive assistant chief Robert Aldridge um to talk about filling our police vacancies Chief you're up good afternoon mayor and councel good afternoon it's great to be in front of you guys again if you guys remember this is a uh followup on a on an IR informal report that was given about a month ago um you're not going to have as many stats uh as that report has and I would ask you if you you know have some of those questions we can definitely answer them today my hope is I clear the muddy water a little bit there were some additional questions that's why I'm standing before you today so oh so one of our biggest challenges for us right now is determine what positions that we fill and what positions do we remain vacant until our staffing improves current currently we have 211 uh vacant positions in our department that includes the 63 new positions that you guys authorized on October 1st we also have 29 probationary officers that are in training that does not include into our staffing numbers right now because they are not cut loose I want to add a little Nuance here because we have about on average about 80 plus Personnel that are on light duty or OD days that kind of equate to this problem as well so how and when we uh how and when vacancies occur is a constantly changing Target for us so it really depends on retirements resignations disciplinary terminations medical separations promotions you name it there is a gamut of things that are variables kind of outside of our control now there are a couple of things that we can predict we can predict promotion or uh retirements if we get enough notice from the officers when they retire or for promotions because we know how many people we're going to promote um but whenever somebody promot are separates from the Department it could be from a patrol position or from a specialized position it's not necessarily from one group or another and that's why for us that variable continues to move so due to the randomness there is not a hard set plan of how we fill vacancies on a day-to-day basis so there are several contractual and legal things that we must do whenever we fill vacancies one of them is the school resource officers we have a contract with school resource that we were going to have those positions filled uh and that is in the contract that it has to remain staffed so we can be in the schools to help protect the children the others are promotions that's governed by Texas local government code chapter 143 that there are timelines that we have to promote people whenever those vacancies occur in those ranks so outside of those two um there's a there's a lot of other things that we look at whenever we we deal with transfers within the department so the mass majority of our transfers occur whenever a recruit class is about to get cut loose when they're done with that field training we give them the keys to the car and they can go out and answer a call by themselves so as that class approaches their graduation date we sit down as an executive staff and this is kind of a list that we look at uh the priority of the positions needed the negative impact on leaving the position vacant the impact on filling one position over another total vacancy rate for each unit and the overall go goals of the department for filling or leaving a position vacant and so for us you know the priorities of our department and the vacancy we have in certain units again change sometimes from month to month sometimes from week to week so it's really kind of challenging for us to to stand up here and tell you I'm going to fill this unit on this date I'm going to fill this other unit on another date so looking at this slide I want people to understand Patrol is the backbone of our department we need Patrol officers to be out there answering 911 emergency calls that is our highest priority we want to keep them as as fully staffed as we can without depleting the other units in our department to be able to accomplish a mission that you guys have tasked us to do so our next highest priority is of course our violent crime initiative we want to make sure that we have a a a safe clean and green City that's very important that's our Mantra that we've done throughout our whole budget process and safety of that is extremely important so right now our vacancy rate is about 11.25% that's what the positions added if you don't add the 63 positions we would have been at 8% I we reached out to a couple other departments because if you guys listen to me in some of the community budget conversations we kind of had this conversation about what is our vacancy rate compared to other departments so Harris County Sheriff's department has a vacancy rate of about 14% uh they have 317 vac vacancies Austin we did an internet search and the best that we could tell their vacancy rates about 18% Houston PD has 1273 vacancies at a vacancy rate of 20% so if you go out of the state of Texas let's look at Atlanta Atlanta has uh 500 over 500 vacancies 2 26% vacancy Rate Phoenix has over 500 vacancies at an 18% vacancy rate Boston has 700 vacancies uh at a 34% vacancy rate and then New Orleans has over 700 vacancies for a 44% vacancy rate yes ma'am no that's this is just information that I wanted to kind of share with you guys without kind of throwing it up here because that's a lot of numbers and that's a lot of things to kind of wrap your head around and the whole point I want to try and make is that Although our numbers may look Bleak to some when you compare them to other departments it's really not as bad as you think so we're we're really doing pretty well so to show that there's Hope on the Horizon we have uh recruit class uh 156 uh they have 48 recruits that are in there currently some of you guys attended the graduation of recruit class 155 that put 20 new recruits in the field uh lateral Class 8 has 17 recruits that are in there uh class 157 which started on Monday has 45 recruits we plan on starting another lateral Academy class uh spring of 24 and then class 158 should be starting around July of 2024 and our hope is we just had um a testing cycle go or at least application cycle and I'll share the demographic numbers with you guys a little bit later in the slides but we would like to get another large class put into class 158 that's kind of our goal so again if all separations from the Department were planned out we could easily have a easy to follow replacement process unfortunately that's not the case every command level in our department is experiencing V encies to include the Hope team Crisis Intervention npos the Traffic Unit and they all have very legitimate needs uh we do our best to share the burden amongst these vacancies across the department and fill our vacancies with the everchanging priorities giving given to our department I did reach out to assistant chief Joe Sparrow and we are going to be at least posting for two positions in the Hope team because we know that there are quite a few vacancies there so there is some hope in that in that area I know that assistant chief Sparrow also mentioned how they we were going to manage the CIT team which was we're going to select them train them they're going to stay in Patrol until our staffing gets better to incorporate them into the unit so I know there's questions but one of the things I wanted to kind of throw out there some of the the changes that we made to the academy to make our Academy a little bit more efficient to get our officers out on the street a little bit quicker I'm not going to read this slide I violated every PowerPoint rule there was um but I think it's very very important that we kind of highlight just some of the these aren't even all the changes that we made we changed the physical standards for our incoming recruits and that was for class uh 157 that started on Monday and we saw a vast improvement from 157 compared to when 156 started uh we only had about six people failed the Run whereas for class 156 that was a d double digigit number so um we're very pleased with the outcome of some of our physical fitness standards that we're not going to lose those people people you know in in that Accord one of the other good things is we partner with uh Frontline uh Frontline does a much more comprehensive physical and mental evaluation for incoming officers and they have been able to catch some severe um health related issues on some of the recruits that have applied uh in fact there's one that I mean he Pro they probably saved his life because he had a heart disease that or heart issue that he did not know about so um for me uh nothing against hugly it just seems like Frontline is able to pick out some more uh serious issues and maybe some underlying issues that need to be addressed before they go through the academy so one of the last things I want to share with you guys is the demographic report from our most recent application process uh we had 1149 applicants for the trainee if you look at the diversity numbers extremely diverse um one of our um biggest challenges is to get the N number of employee or number of people that applied to come and and sit for the test because percentage wise we only get about 40 45% of these individuals sit for the test so my hope is you guys approved the recruiting unit uh that recruiting unit is going to be reaching out to these individuals to try and keep them engaged encouraged that we can increase that number of people that are sitting for the test because the more people we have sitting for the test the more pool of applicants I have to put into a large class so on the left hand side is our lateral officer program uh we got 69 applicants out of that and so so um again I I'm very impressed with the diversity of those numbers and so with that I'll open it up for questions I don't have any questions I just really want to applaud everything you're doing to look at that demographic report um specifically the trainees and to see um what is true diversity not just you know we've upped our numbers but I'm looking at almost equal um applicants and so whatever you're doing uh good job and keep it up appreciate that thank you uh thank you Chief uh for this presentation I was one of the ones that wanted this ir and they wanted to presentation for more clarity I think one of the issues that I was at a community meeting and uh they talked about how is CIT and hope team being uh improving with the vacancies and you answered those questions today and so I'm excited about that and I I think that uh you have a counsel here that's willing to support uh police and so I don't think it's a question about the issue with vacancies just how they'll field so I appreciate your report today um and maybe I'm not here too long back in the day when I was a little kid I used to want to be a police officer uh but I grew up and Mom the woman do that so if I'm still in young good health when I leave here maybe I will apply come on over all right we'll see I know I heard your I heard your speech at Center for transforming lives and you admitted to a bunch of people that maybe You' had some issues in fourth grade okay well yeah there are some issues there and I I would like to say these numbers aren't just from our efforts they're from your efforts as well I mean it takes a team effort for us to get these people to apply to want to be police officers in this great City we have the best department in the world there's no doubt in my mind uh it's just I need to open up everybody's eyes and want to be a part of the team Chief before you I just want to be able to the mayor called my name so I'll go the I want to thank you for the strides and improvements the department has made you'll recall a few years ago after the George Floyd incident you we were losing applicants of color Yes ma'am I think there was one who was ready to take off but when it happened we had three that time and so your department has certainly made an improvement in diversity and I'm just looking forward to the day when we don't even have to worry about it anymore but kudos to you guys and thank you for all what you do it's a definitely te team effort go ahead Micha to that end I just want to know what the process is again appreciate all that applaud the efforts if we're really concentrating on minorities and recruiting minorities into it what do we do with the people that don't make that class how do we keep them engaged over especially those target areas Target populations that we I'm glad that you sorry to get in the weeds but I think that is a phenomenal question so we realize just because they may not be able to pass the test doesn't mean they're not viable applicants we have applicants that come time and time again and we want to work with them and so one of the things that we're instituting and the one thing we did for class 157 was that we kind of had family training days once a month we invited the families to come down we went through the physical assessment with the applicants and so what we're going to do is we're going to incorporate people that may not have passed the test and try and still keep them engaged with activities that we have on campus to keep them energized to hopefully be able to take another test and try and get on our department do we give them guidance on why they didn't pass absolutely work through that process yeah we we tell them whatever whatever stage of the process they were eliminated what they need to work on and if they need help with physical fitness our physical fitness coordinator has no problem giving them a training plan and helping them along the way that's perfect thanks for getting uh looking at that from a whole different perspective abolutely thank you yes Chief Michael actually touched on a couple things that were related to what I was going to ask so I'll change mine up a little bit when it comes to the physical tests okay that they don't pass uh how how do how does that change you mentioned the classes from one class to another how you've implemented some changes yes what changes have you made I mean I can look up some basic standards across you know the uh the nation and what physical test requirements are for police officers in our department what has changed from one class to another so you're talking just the physical standards or physical so the physical standards prior to class 156 so this was the first class we changed the physical requirements prior to that we had to do a physical assessment test it basically is an obstacle course it's a 2 minute and 30 second you jump over a fence you you know clim you climb up in downstairs you pull a dummy uh and really most anybody can struggle for 2 minutes and 35 seconds through that test um and and make it what we were finding out is once we put them on the track to try and make them run a mile mile and a half they can't make it a quarter of a mile without stopping and walking well part of our phys physical fitness training is for our ctdt training our control tactics because we don't want them to get hurt um we want them to be in pretty good physical shape so because they're going to do a lot of physical activities on the mat so the physical fitness training isn't necessarily to get them in great shape it's to keep them in shape to a fitness level so they do not get hurt in our training so what has changed is they have to do a mile and a half run they have to do push-ups and setups and they have to do a 500 meter row so everybody thinks oh my God mile and a half run uh the times are not what you think they are so to get into the academy they have to run mile and a half in 1751 so they only have to do 11 push-ups 22 setups and do the mile and a half Row in 2 minutes and 25 seconds or me I'm sorry the 500 meter Row in 2 minutes and 25 seconds so as long as they can meet that requirement then that is a very Baseline for us to get started with now in the academy day one our standards are raised a little bit and so we want them to run be able to run a mile and a half in 1433 and be able to do I think it's 17 push-ups 27 setups and do the 500 meter Row in 2 minutes and 7 seconds so um but even if they don't pass that it's okay that's a guiding post to show them this is where we're going to get you to and so we want them that's the whole point of the training with them in the summertime or at least over the months leading up to the academy so they know what to expect whenever they get into the academy because getting past the application process is one thing but we want them to be realistic about what the phys physical rigors are of the academy okay thanks Chief think this would be a good idea thanks questions for chief no excellent presentation Chief you very much appreciate you okay Council next up is Victor Turner our neighborhood services director to talk to us about the 2024 housing tax credit policy media is leaving are you offended Victor no and's wrapping up the cord no no tax credit for you mayor you see that slide yes you know where that's you know where that is it's excellent uh good afternoon mayor council I was going to say after the push-ups and situps I'm done so you have to wor about so anyway uh every year we come before you with uh our proposed tax credit policy uh you all are very familiar with this process during the competitive 9% credits this time of the year you'll be getting uh letters from various developers about uh projects that they want to do in Fort Worth uh this program is administered uh nationally by the IRS and then each state uh Housing Finance Agency allocates the tax credits so why do we have the policy one so we're not uh subjective in our decision making uh every uh major city has some type of policy as it relates to tax credits and deals that are are coming into their City uh you can see also this is a tdca requirement that uh there is a percentage of the units are at zero to 30 and then we also try to align our policies every year with uh the state's policy to try to reflect any changes that they may have so your here us come to you with two different types of uh credits during this time of the year is the competitive round that's the 9% credits and then the 4% they can apply uh anytime during the year we are making some changes so it just doesn't come in randomly on the 4% but the main differences are the amount of equity that's generated by the two uh for and the 9% programs and also with the 4% uh Bond financing is included as part of it I'm not going to bore you with this one because uh it is a more complicated process than on this on this slide but basically um developers apply the credits each state right now I believe is $2.95 per capita uh that's provided to the state for tax credits to allocate and so you take out grants and you take out land as part of the the process and calculating those credits and you multiply by various fractions and come up with the credits multiply that over 10 years and that's how they get that Equity this is the process as I mentioned already RS the developers apply to the state uh the state has what's called a qualified allocation plan so you're here staff talking about qap so when they see Q say qap that's what that means that is their guidelines each state devel velops that for the developers to apply for the credits not much difference between a nine and a four as I mentioned other than Bond financing is included as part of the 4% as well as uh it's not as much Equity generated so this is a list of projects uh that we've funded uh over the years you can see last year we had uh quite a few and I believe over the last eight years we've had 42 new developments uh in Fort Worth so this goes a long ways in helping us uh meet our affordable housing uh shortage and so you can see some years we don't get as many as others uh looking on the right side that column the competitive round as you can see in 2018 there was just only one project in Fort Worth but it did improve last year um one thing I want to mention the 9% we compete regionally uh with Dallas and other areas in the um DFW and the 4% of State so the resolutions um which is what we're here to talk about you either get a resolution or support a resolution of no objection or no resolution at all and so you can see what uh is required to get each one of those um the units at 0o to 30 if they're in a high opportunity area which generally is better schools higher income um those areas um that we look to um fund projects of course you have to get a notification Council uh the neighborhood association homeowner associations as well and then uh last year there was an intent if they wanted to seek funding from us they would have to notify uh NSD we had a forum on October 3rd at Ko Community Center with the developers that around the state and country that are interested in applying in Fort Worth you can see the two options uh one uh if they set aside 10% of their units affordable units as uh deeply affordable that is a state requirement Fort Worth goes a little bit further we say 10% of your total units so we're getting more affordable units than even what the state requires when there's a project in Fort Worth uh the notifications uh previously it was a 1/4 Mile um uh distance uh We've increased that to a half a mile to be consistent with uh what we do in zoning the notifications uh you see developers wanted to do electronic and just email only we asked that they do both so electronic notification as well as um snail mail hard copy and then other things we looked at as I mentioned the qualified allocation plan Fort Worth is part of a group called Texas housing group with other large cities in Fort Worth so we compare notes and and talk to them about their policies uh as it relates to tax credits and then we also um consulted with Fort Worth lab and City manager's office and Council real quickly go back to that slide it says developers ask staff to revise the 10% set aside rule expressing concern kind of dig deeper into that conversation and what led to that yeah so uh they didn't want to have to do as many of those as we require as you can see on option b it says 10% of total units whereas the state requirement is only 10% of the uh deeply affordable 0 to 30 so that's that's the difference so we didn't really change anything in our policy but they wanted us so for example uh in the tax credit developments there may be 20% of the units at 50% of Ami or 40% at 60% of Ami so they can just do 10% of that smaller number and we said 10% of the total of the total number okay so we get more right and they still push back on that yeah I mean but it's our practice that we've been doing every year good okay yeah so um this particular slide uh some of the changes um we put a limit on the amount of fee waivers uh previously there was no limit so we're putting a cap at 30 uh th000 also we will not wave Transportation or Water waste water impact fees and then this year as part of um uh some legislation passed on the state level uh related to park dedication fees that basically put some limitations in place that goes into effect I believe January uh we'll have to comply with that can you speak more to that lean if or Victor on the HB 1526 or whoever had to follow that thanks Richard good afternoon Richards ofala Park and Recreation Department yes the legislature did pass House Bill 1526 the governor signed into law and we must be in compliance beginning January 1 of 2024 you have an MNC coming on your agenda next week for you to make the changes in accordance with the state legislation we're compelled to do it uh the main impact on us is how we handle multif family housing how we compute that uh different from the current Park dedication policy and what's going to be required under the state law what's so it it is going to have an impact what's the bottom line impact though look like uh we usually get about I think it's 14,000 per unit and it's going to drive drop us down to about 5,000 there's a table in the MNC that gives you that uh the other thing we have to do is rather than fair market value we have to do land value and we have to do it over a 10year average based on the the the appraisal district wherever the property is located okay so there are a couple of other things like that that are affecting us but nonetheless it's now part of the sure local government code and we must comply okay I believe there's a 10% limitation total and you have to designate the entire city as Central business district Urban or suburban and that affects some of what you can charge okay thank you uh that last bullet it's something that um was impr practice anyway about um whole harmless uh for zoning so in tdca qap it basically says you can't hold the city um liable if uh you don't get zoning for one of these projects so now we're just putting that letter in up front uh versus asking uh later in the process I already talked about expanding the boundary from a fourth mile to a half a mile uh on the 4% I previously mentioned they could apply anytime during the year now we're going to have deadlines quarterly so once it it'll be a little bit for one it'll be a little bit more orderly for us we won't get developers coming in at the last minute and say they need this to go to counsil and two weeks three weeks so we'll be able to plan better um remove requirement to request funding upfront we have very limited funding right now so we've taken that out this year we really don't have anything to loan or Grant so we taken that out and then we move the deadline up a week uh to align with uh Council meetings uh this is the U requirements this year the only difference between this table and the previously previous one I showed you is that uh where the language is stricken at the bottom about the intent to seek uh hfc or City money since we won't have any available to to to loan or Grant same process here with Community engagement they notify Neighborhood Services on their inent to apply we do a map provide that to um Community engagement staff uh they go through the process of notifying those neighborhood associations and then the developer has to have at least one one uh meeting it could be virtual or in person uh if there is no neighborhood association within a half mile uh they're not required to have a meeting so here we are November 14th uh well November 7th for next week November 14th you all's approval uh the deadline to notify council is December 6th uh deadline for them to host a meeting and get applications in to us is January 5th and then February 6th will be recommendations and Council approval on the 13th and I believe the deadline to tdca is March uh 1st uh this is what I mentioned earlier about the quarterly deadlines for the 4% tax credits so you can see how they're spread out uh quarterly so you won't be seeing any of those uh uh right away but um just periodically during the year on a quarterly basis finally next steps next week week uh uh the policy for you all uh consideration and approval and all the other deadlines that I mentioned on that graph previously questions any questions for Victor go ahead Michael uh Victor you're expanding the neighborhood association fourth a quarter of a mile to a half a mile also there's meetings to be held how is this that it's obviously going to create more work in your office I'm just curious how the Staffing is in your office at this point that will be able to handle this increased workload yeah it it'll be fine Community engagement works with us very closely on that and so um it's just a matter of being able to reach some of those neighborhood associations that are kind of close and so that's why we're expanding it also to be consistent with what the practice is with zoning okay I so it's been a problem in the past connecting with neighborhoods so make sure we're working together on that thank you any other questions from Council no great job Victor thank you very much well that was fast Council request for future agenda items or reports Gina I'd like for staff to look into what it would take to change our Municipal elections for November and that you know we we hear all the time about low voter turnout we know that if we were to hold local elections in November we would have more people voting so I didn't mean to shock everybody but that's my future agenda item thank you Gina Alan did you have your hand up or notes Janette I have three things so this would be code and Animal Control uh what are we doing about controlling our cat population and what can we do to help the situation if any yeah and I'll tag on to that I think we all have experienced that whatever we are doing right is not getting communicated and each of us is getting understandably beat up there is a keen interest from the community about getting as close to that 90% no kill I know Macy has spoken to this out of um experience professionally as well and we have a major deficit and our community especially those that volunteer in our animal clinics our animal shelters are very upset and so what do we do to close the gap there is incredibly important and I do think communication is a piece of that I know there's been some work behind the scenes I just haven't been briefed on that in a while so even more support with spay and neuter absolutely so this would be for the City Secretary um hear about process to add resolutions as a recognition option through City Council meetings and uh HR I'd like to explore the idea of adopting a school specifically the lowest performing School in the city and through different programs and maybe penp pal maybe help raising money for the um PTA or just different ideas so those are my three thanks Janette Elizabeth I've got one and it's kind of Highly specific it might be better as the presentation but we have the boarding home ordinance we have the um short-term rental ordinance we have the lodging home ordinance and they're all kind of different I and so if we could get a presentation on what each of those are how we police them how we report them um and what we can do to better help our residents navigate that system also um from report to to you know worst case resolution what are we looking at 90 days 60 days 120 days because our office gets inundated and it doesn't seem like anyone knows the difference between any of them can I add on to that and probably put like the TCU overlay and what that how that's reported Etc so people understand that process yes what's legal what's not Jared then Charlie awesome thanks mayor um I want to follow up on today's informal report on the business Equity program with the presentation and specifically um um I would like to kind of hear from not only diversity but City Management on how we're going to um how are we addressing availability I know we do a lot of work with the black chamber and Hispanic chamber um through um um a grant that we a to them to assist with that but is there something we could do to um um do better there I'm a little concerned about 79% of all of our contracts going to non MBE and the 5% number wow a huge um leap and bound away from less than 1% I think we could do more so I would love to um for this body to have a presentation and then more discussion on what we can do thank you Charlie so I just have a couple I don't know if there'd be presentations or a report or what but I think um with Veterans Day coming up I think it's a good time to talk about it and that's getting some more information for what the city of Fort Worth is actually doing for veterans um for example I know that we have the Ford home program and the fund for veterans assistance which are both through the Texas veterans commission with I think is great we just accepted a $600,000 check from the veterans commission for that I mean for Fort Worth residents so something to show like hey here's exactly how these programs work here's how you can tap into those resources especially with the holidays coming up if if we get something in the in amount quickly that we can get out to Residents especially as be moving into the holiday season which is prime time for veteran suicide uh and of course with cold weather we have a lot of Vietnam veterans a lot of World War II veterans who may need some of these um assistance from some of these programs so some sort of report on what we're doing and then also on better known small businesses and servic disabl to better known small businesses understanding that we might not be able to add those to the business Equity firms um because of what they are but what the city can do in terms of offering some sort of incentives sort of like we do at the federal level since they do fall under historically underutilized businesses with the federal government I'm hoping we might be able to do something more so that's kind of what I would like to see great Alan back to Mich so I would just like an informal report as an an an update on the payroll system sure um continuing some of the work we've done we've done with the small business task force now rolled up into entrepreneurship and Innovation um the development service department has done a report on some of the recommendations that the institute for justice report talked about so like an IR and they can incorporate some of what they've done but I want my colleagues to see all this in a formal way of uh our grease trps and and what we can do specifically there for some of our businesses there seems to be maybe some uh working that work that we can do there uh and I'd like to have that discussion and then secondarily um our permitting fees and an overall discussion about how they are how they lay out so we can have a discussion about moving forward into a new budget year what we might be able to do there any others from Council I have two the first is I would like us to work with staff and Tara and Victor Turner and others on some type of homelessness Workshop um alongside Taran County Homeless Coalition and the COC I'm open-minded whether or not that's the entire Council in a full public meeting or if it's best to keep that in a smaller setting um we all get questions about our work in homelessness we've made some terrific strides but it's something we have to stay on top of and then importantly as part of that meeting we're communicating the work we're doing across the city of Fort Worth um the second one is kind of t dtales on what Janette described um but more specifically I think we should Outreach this would be cumbersome but we can work with staff to each of the schools um across Fort Worth that's 12 school districts um we can decide to start maybe in pyramids we can I can work with staff on ideas but what I'm most interested in is understanding the schools that are serving the most atrisk population specifically asking a school you know how many children do you anticipate you expect are living couch surfing or homeless what are your major issues that are affecting your families do you have the resources you think you need in your school the answer will be no because I think this Council can really rally support um for each of those individual schools where needed and I can work with staff on kind of what that looks like but I think a communication from my office could get a better response directly from our schools but I would like to work with each of you individually because you probably know the schools that probably need to be contacted first as first priority um and we can tear those appropriately that sounds good Gina mayor I wholeheartedly support that first portion of your request I'm hoping staff could do a quick turnaround so that we can get that out before the count takes place and it would show us in in sync with what's going on around us yes completely agree any other questions Council okay that's it meeting adjourn thank you all right everybody we 7 minutes after 9:30 and let's get started with the ad hoc Council committee on Emergency Medical Response Now call the meeting to order and to start with uh let's see we have an overview and follow-ups from Hillary Shine from what the atoc committee did on our September 12th meeting Hillary all right good morning it's been a minute since we have been together um and we had one specific followup but then there were a lot of pieces of inform information that have been requested which is what is contained in your handy dandy binder here um and so I don't know if you all have had a chance to thumb through but hopefully it is complete with the expectations that you set at the last meeting and if not um please let us know if there's any other data that you need us to provide for you but the outstanding item that we had was the setting of Baseline response times uh we were intending to uh uh tackle that earlier and so now we're going to do today and I want to um set this up with this is point in time this is today so what we really are trying to do is to establish the framework with which we expect U medstar's response and Fire's response to operate over the next few months until we can transition to whatever is a a more um uh acceptable uh um standard when we move to some new system so so we're trying to establish some sort of uh accountability and stability so that as we move through this process um we can kind of maintain at least where we are so that we don't lose ground with with regard to response and so I'm going to ask Chief Horton to actually walk us through there's a PowerPoint presentation related to response times and where we are currently so again this is current time obviously we want response times to be as good as they can be but what we want to do is just establish this Baseline for now good morning Chief good morning thank you mayor and members of the committee uh we'll get this pulled up and we'll go through it and it is it's tab one in your binder okay again as uh as Hillary mentioned this was a kind of historical going back to what was done with citygate and kind of where we got today um just making sure that you understand some of the terminology and um where we get some of the different information from uh I'm not going to read all these to you but um some of the key ones here we have ALS Advanced life support BLS BAS basic life support the fractile time um I don't see fra oh fractile percentage of goal 90% so one of the things that citygate said was we need to start measuring everything at the 90th percentile instead of looking at averages and some of those things uh NFPA National Fire Protection Association where we get some of our standards um and then crew turnout and it is a process from the time the 911 call comes into the city until we get resources on the scene so we want to look at every one of those steps into individually as we go through this process to make sure that we are are good in each of those areas