I You know how much We're so tired. That's the difference. Okay, council. I'm going to call us to order. It is just about 1:30. We'll call our work session to order and immediately turn it over to Jay Chapa. Good afternoon. Um we're going to start off with organizational updates today. And actually, I'm going to start with Councilwoman Hill who would like to recognize the group. Yes. Uh Dr. Wittenberg, will you come up with Neil Johnson, Toby Owen, and the entire EPSAIR crew that's here today? While y'all are coming up here, what I want to start off and say thank you so much for all the work that you do every day. And Cody, I think you have a couple slides to go through, but um before they get started, um y'all have an incredibly difficult job. You have to to balance human dignity with public safety and taking care of the homeless camps. It's not a crime to be homeless in Fort Worth, but illegal camping is. And to be able to take care of um people, their belongings um and and connect with them on a very human level is really hard to do every day. And I just want to say thank you for all that you do and keeping Fort Worth clean and taking care of our homeless population. So, Cody, I'll turn it over to you. Absolutely. Thank you for just a few minutes today to recognize this these great team members. Um we have a few slides to go through just to show the impact that it that it takes to create and maintain a clean and attractive city. Just a few slides for reference. You can see that there is a lot of work that goes into working to collect these items and and move them away to restore the the clean, attractive city that we're trying to create. And it's all because of the great work of the team you see before you today. You have our nuisance abatement team within environmental services as well as our East Lancaster Upspire crew who dedicates five days a week to keep that corridor clean. And we just wanted to take a few minutes to recognize and celebrate their work today. Thank you. So, if you guys want to turn around and take a quick picture, we'll do that right quick. And if you guys want to join us, that's certainly fine. Yeah, sure. Let's do that. Council, let's join them. Okay. And then I have a question I want to ask. Okay. [Applause] Dr. Davis. Oh, hi. I I am new and I'm sure that all these other council members know all the great things that you all are doing, but can you quickly tell me how you measure the success of Upspire and what do you think of some of your most meaningful outcomes in our community? Thank you, Councilwoman Peoples, for that question. Good morning or excuse me, good afternoon, Mayor and Council. Um, I'm Daryl Davis. I have the privilege of serving as vice president of workforce and career development for Upspire. Um, frankly, we are able to uh measure success ultimately by the way that we're able to transition individuals from homelessness to homes. Okay? And since the um since the inception of Upspire, uh we are currently knocking on the door of almost 400 individuals in our community, neighbors in our community who were once homeless who are now uh in permanent places of uh of of living. And so that's one of the major um measures that we have. But even beyond that, one of the things that's probably more intangible is really seeing the pride that many of our uh employees, many of our crew members, now we're totaling over 200 individuals that are work uh at Upspire, but seeing the hope and the dignity that is restored by them simply working every day. Uh and over half of those individuals that work at Upspire are through our partnerships and collaboration with the city of Fort Worth. So, we are so grateful for uh being able to continue to work with the city of Fort Worth. Wow. Well, that that is a great story and having volunteered to work with the homeless, I know that is such a meaningful move when they move from homeless to house. So, thank you so very much. Thank you, Council Martinez and Toby Owen, I see you hiding back there. It's great to see you as CEO of Preser Night Shelter. We're incredibly thankful for your long-term relationship with the city of Fort Worth. Council Martinez, just I just wanted to thank you, Dr. Wittenberg and Toby and the entire environmental team and EPSire team. We of course have uh many many calls in about uh encampments in district 11 and the majority of those are in the ride ofway. So they they really do get cleaned up really quickly and so we we like to communicate to the residents of D11 and Fort Worth just um as long as they're reporting, you know, those do get cleaned up pretty quickly and and that they're not on private property because I know that takes uh probably a little bit over a week. So just thank you for all that you do, all the great work that you're doing. We really appreciate you. Cody, if you don't mind, I'll I'll circle on account council members. At a high level, what's your your statistics in just the last year have looked like and the litter abatement piece? Absolutely. So, we we're currently at roughly 20 million pounds of of litter removed from our community every single year. And in a few minutes, there's an IR that also speaks that we're on track to do that again. And it's all because of the great men and women and all the amazing work that they do. So, thank you for that. We're very thankful. Council Nettles. Yes. Thank you. Uh I just want to kind of give a couple of kudos. I really appreciate the work that Uspire PNS is doing and Cody you guys are doing in district 8 on Lancaster. There's so much talk around what's not happening and not enough talk about what is happening. And so I think as we're moving into this new phase of forward of trying to tell our story of what we are doing uh in the historic part of uh district 8 also um and how the city of for work can I know we're already partnering but if you're talking about getting uh unhoused to house how the city of for work can also partner with making sure uh housing is available or such as uh providing dollars towards to make sure that we are uh making up the gap where there's may be some gaps with some uh uh uh our uh people part of Uspire trying to get into those homes or apartments or um places to live. So, thank you again for the work that you guys are doing and hopefully we can continue to work further in the future. Thank you Macy for having them to come. Council Williams, thank you Macy for um having um this presentation. I really appreciate it. Dr. Whittenberg, um Toby, uh Mr. Davis, thank you'all so much for the work that you're all leading. I know that this council has made um big- time investments in expanding this program and obviously it was um worth an endeavor not just for you know keeping our environment um clean and sustainable for generations to come and and not just um for um you know the the programs that y'all are facilitating. Most importantly for me at least um for the people um we're walking alongside co-suffering with people who have experienced really hard times and we're there with them in the trenches um and investing in them and and walking alongside them as they pick up their life um from a really hard time. And so um that's what makes Fort Worth special programs like these um investing in the people of Fort Worth um and uh us being um good neighbors to one another in this regard. So, thank you for your leadership and your vision. This is absolutely incredible work. Any other questions or comments from council? Toby, please. I had just a couple of comments. Uh, first off, thank you, Councilwoman Hill, for making this happen and your advocacy in the area to make it uh definitely improvements. I appreciate that. And secondly, I'd like to thank this council along with the previous uh mayor Betsy Price, particularly at the very beginning and then under you, Mayor Parker. I've said this once before, but I I really cannot emphasize this enough. I really try to keep tabs on what the homeless service providers are doing across the country. And uh there is no other example without fail of a private city and public partnership between a city and a homeless service provider really providing a solution which is employment. There is no other place across this country that is doing it to the level of the city of Fort Worth than the Presbyterian night shelter. So thank you for that very very much. It really is under the leadership and and the emphasis to see this happening and being impactful. And then my third comment, we're missing uh there's three legs to this stool. We're missing one of them and that is the hope team with the Fort Worth Police Department. And I just wanted to make sure that they get the recognition because they are a tremendous part of what's going on. So thanks to to them as well. Thank you, Toby. Okay, Jay can move to our next presentation. Thank you gentlemen for being here. Thank you to Darl and Toby. So, next I'll be calling up Cody Whittenberg, Dr. Whittenberg, to make a staff announcement. Absolutely. So, I'm super excited today to also announce our new assistant environmental services director, Pam Rambo Sexton, with over 23 years of experience in the last 15 dedicated to the city of Fort Worth. Pam brings a wealth of knowledge. She's going to be overseeing our business services division. So, our budget, our finance planning, data analytics, capital planning, and long range. And we're so excited to have her on board. I just want to give her a few minutes to say hello. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor Parker, members of city council, city manager Chapa. Um, it is a thrill to have been chosen by Cody to serve Fort Worth in this capacity as the assistant director of environmental services because I am a Fort Worth girl, born and raised. I graduated from Eastern Hills High School. I was raised by two long-term public servants for the Fort Worth ISD. My mom spent most of her career at Eastern Hills. And then my daddy was Bob Hughes number two at Dumbar with the Flying Wildcats. So when I knew that public service was also my calling and that I wanted to do it in local government, the only place I could think to do that would be to come home and do it here. So, I want to thank everybody in this community who's invested in me, in this organization, all the individuals, and I'm here to give back because for me, it will always be Fort Worth it. Congratulations. [Applause] Those are all our employee recognitions. I'll move straight into the informal reports unless we have a litany of informal reports with the council break next month. Uh staff's trying to get these all in. First is 25 2025 mosquito surveillance program and Wendy Turpin is here to answer any questions. Just have one question for Wendy and I'll ask it while you're headed up. Um, do we provide any sort of um mosquito like deep pellets or or um for our residents that are in proximity to any positive testing sites? So, for our positive testing sites, what we have uh working out with Tarant County Public Health Department is some free larvide dunks that will be available. We've yet to receive them from Tarant County, but they have been promised to us. So hopefully we'll have them uh by July, which is normally when we get the bulk of our positive mosquitoes, and we'll have that for them. And uh it'll also come with uh directions on how to break them up so that they can use one pellet all over their yard. So it's very effective. Okay. And then um for those that don't aren't maybe necessarily in proximity to um to positive testing sites, but um we talked a lot about roads today. Um, and there are some roads that like to hold water and become kind of mosquito breeding grounds over the summer. Can our residents pick up those dunks? Is that what they're called? Is that what you dunks? Yes. So, the number one thing I would have them do is turn in where that pothole is to our one two three four number so that we can get that filled in. But then also, yes, they can get dunks from us. They are free. And when I have them, I'll make sure that I let we send out the email and let y'all know that we have them. And then we'll also advertise on our on our website and through our social media that we have those available for the residents for free. Any other questions? Cal. Uh really just a statement um on this one. Keep up the great work. But two, can we just make sure that on any of the testing sites we're not using u uh residential addresses? I know recently in district 4 we had an issue where a residential address was used for a testing site and because of that now it's gone to risk management for possible damages even though the testing site wasn't actually at his house. It was just in the vicinity but it was used so we had to retract the address and putting out a public apology and it's now affected his rental capacity. It just so I just ask that we make sure we're not putting residential addresses on those. That has been fixed and will remain fixed forever in future. Thank God. Thank you. Any other questions? Thank you, Wendy. Thank you, Wendy. Uh, next we have the midyear litter control update and Dr. Whittenberg is here to answer any questions for this questions from council for Cody. Next in IR on the amendments to chapter 16 health and sanitation and Wendy Turpin is still here. No questions. Okay. The next is the economic development update for the first two quarters of 2025. Ory Fernandez, assistant economic development director is here to answer any questions. Okay. The next is a report on emergency medical services waiver policies. Uh Reggie and his crew as well as laws here to answer any questions regarding I have one question. Um, and it's not necessarily a waiver, uh, but it's within the same realm. And, um, I know I've received a ton of questions about it. Um, as we've moved across the city talking about the transition, and that is currently MedStar has a program where you can become a member um, to help reduce the cost if you're a frequent flyer. And so, I know a lot of our senior citizens take advantage of that program. Will that program still be in existence um as Fort Worth takes over operations? Yeah, the subscription program. Yes, it'll still be in existence. And will there be any substantive changes to that program? Currently, I'm not aware of any right now. Okay. Thank you. Thanks. Any other questions? Nope. Just one. Mayor Council, can I get you to come back to the podium, sir? Um somewhat of a related note on that and I've talked to Chief Davis about this and while uh on the MedStar board also had discussions of what would be uh coming up. Medar expanded a lot of resources, financial resources to provide health care for, you know, indigent and homeless folks, right? Calling 911, getting an ambulance there was their default healthcare plan, right? Financially, that's not sustainable. So, uh, I'd like to know going forward, I don't have to have a complete answer now, chief. You know, you may want to give some remarks towards that. uh now with an integrated EMS system, you know, how are we going to address that? One of the suggestions that we talked about prior was getting maybe perhaps more involvement from uh outfits like JPS have clinics in key areas like along East Lancaster corridor to uh maybe offer not just more services but maybe expanded hours to cover more of that uh need. So, just kind of want to hear your thoughts on that. Yeah, I'll let you take that. Thanks, Council Member. Thank you for your question. Um, Assistant uh City Manager Johnson has asked uh that we get together. Uh when I say we, um Chief Aldridge, myself, Tara, Bethany, uh that we sit down, we talk about what that looks like to specifically uh begin digging into the issues that you've just spoken about and be uh provide him some alternatives to speak to leadership and council about regarding the 26 budget requests. So, um we have a meeting again on Friday and uh I met with my team this morning and asked the placeholders into our u budget presentation which is scheduled for next week. Um, and we believe, and I don't want to speak for for Chief, but I do believe that we have um a couple ideas and thoughts of things that are already existing uh between the city and the county that we can offer to build off of that I that I think you might find palatable. Great. It's good to hear. Thank you, Chief. Chief, had a quick question. Thank you. Um if if you're not familiar or have a relationship with the healing sheeperd clinic on East Lancaster, they're a separate 501c3b underneath UGM, but this is exactly what they're set up for is to kind of be that net to help catch the homeless that don't need to be it's not an emergency situation. They should not be calling 911 or using MedStar, but they can mitigate their issues right there on the spot or connect them with JPS. So if you don't have a relationship with them, I'm so happy to connect the two of you. I would I would value anything like that that you are willing to help us connect because that's the one very positive thing about um putting us all together as MedStar in the fire department is that we'll all be um in the same place working on the same issues with one direction and leadership. And I failed to mention and I think it's important that I mention it before your session today. I also spoke to Dr. Jarvis, who is now part of the city as leadership in in the city here, um about how we could um provide other services with other level of providers um that have different levels of expert expertise specifically in these areas and work alongside uh the community that's already working so hard to try to do it, but make sure that we're feeding off of each other in in moving the uh conversation forward instead of doing our own things individually. So, exactly. That's that's our goal. Okay. Thank you. Yes, ma'am. Any other questions for Chief? Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. Next item up is the update on MedStar transitional medical services, Medicaid and Medicare billing and against our finance folks and law are here to answer any questions you may have. Any questions for Reggie? Nope. Keep going. All right. Next is the overview of HIPPA policies and notice of private practices. Um and Taylor Paris is assistant city attorney's here to answer any questions. Okay. The next one is a participation in the National Emergency Medical Services Research Network. Dr. Jarvis is here to answer any questions. Council member Flores. Yes. I'd like to call Dr. Jarvis up to the podium to introduce himself and also uh elaborate further on the contents of this IR. Please. And I should mention all these IRS are tied to future city council action that will be coming up this month. How do y'all? Hi there. So, thank you for uh for the question and for asking about this uh opportunity. So, my name is Jeff Jarvis. I'm an EMS physician. I was the medical director for MedStar and now, thank you all very much. have the opportunity to uh serve as the MedStar or the uh medical director for this new system. One of the opportunities that presented itself was some researchers from the University of Pittsburgh reached out to me early in the year and said they wanted to uh enroll Fort Worth as what's called a site in a multi-center study and they wanted us to participate in their research network. The research network is called lights. L I t that stands for something. Um and it the acronyms get very tortured. So the lights network is designed around uh trauma research. It's funded by the DoD and the idea is they generate multiple studies. The specific study they're asking us to participate in is called the pain study. It's a study looking at two medications, FDA approved medications very commonly used for pain. As a matter of fact, we use both of these medications in our system now. And what we don't know is how well they work in comparison to each other. So the study they're asking us to participate in will help compare those two drugs and identify which of them works best with fewest side effects. Um and again that's called the pain study because this is a study of patients who have undergone significant trauma. They have to be a trauma patient and they have to be exhibiting vital signs suggestive of shock. They may not be able to fully understand uh the process of informed consent. So they may not be able to understand the risks and benefits of enrolling in a trial like this. So what the federal regulations around research do is talk about something called in uh exception from informed consent or ethic and the idea there is if patients don't have the ability to object to being uh involved or enrolled in the study they have a process for allowing the community to consult in the process. So that's called community consultation and the idea is that multiple community groups would um have the opportunity to hear about the study, provide feedback about the study and then individual uh well they wouldn't be patients at that time. Individuals would have the opportunity to opt out of the study. Um so that's a general concept that applies to all research projects. So the other thing about this is that I mentioned it was funded. This is a funded study. Um so the uh expenses would be reimbursed reimbursed for the fire department uh for OMD and we would be doing this in conjunction with our partners at the JPS trauma center. Any questions for Dr. Uh yes, I was as you were talking I was thinking about the Tuskegee study and I was thinking so how does that work if a patient is not able to opt in? So tell me about the community piece and how do you pick those patients? Yes ma'am. Um and thank you for bringing up the Tuskegee study. That was one of the key elements that led to the development of these regulations and they are specifically designed for vulnerable populations. Um so right off the bat any study um that is uh operated under exception from informed consent excludes several classes of of patients. So pregnant women and uh prisoners. Those are automatically excluded. Uh children are also excluded. Uh there are some studies that um enroll them if you have to be looking at children. This is not one of those studies. So pediatric patients are excluded. patients have the opportunity to say I don't want to be a part of the study. The classic way of doing that is with a um I'm trying to remember the exact verbiage. No, I think it's no pain study. It's a it's a um bracelet that says I don't want to be a part of the study. And in addition to that, family members um or if the patient can speak for themselves, they have the opportunity to um exclude themselves. And then the final part of that is let's be optimistic. We'll get them to a trauma center. They start to recover as soon as they have the ability to speak for themselves. If they say they don't want to participate, they won't participate and their data will not be used. Any other questions? Dr. Jarvis, just one. Uh again, Dr. Jarvis. uh you know fentanyl is an opioid adamine is uh efficacy I mean generally speaking in lay person's terms one over the other um yes sir and thank you I I failed to mention the two drugs that are being studied that's kind of important uh fentinil and a drug called ketamine uh both of these are FDA approved um both of them are effective pain medications and they've been approved and shown their effectiveness in multiple trials comparing them to placebo or to other medications. Those are the two most commonly used pain medicines in EMS. We've just never done a head-to-head trial. Um, fentinel, the there are two things I want to say about both drugs. Uh, fentinil gets a lot of of PR, very bad PR that I think is deserved, but that type of fentinil is illegal fentinil that's unregulated. We have no idea what's in it. Um, and it's being used illicitly. That's not the medicalrade fentinyl that we use in EMS and we use daily in the hospital. Uh ketamine also has multiple uses, also is a drug of abuse, um but also has been proven to show to be very effective at a multitude of uses. The one we're using right now is or talking about right now is for pain. Uh both of them are safe medications. There's no perfectly safe medication, but the major side effects are well under 2% for both of these medications. Thanks. Thank you for the question. Any other questions? Dr. Jarvis, I was with Nim Kid, our text department members manager and his wife Emily, and they both said that we have one of the best medical directors in the country. So, congratulations. We're very thankful you're a part of the city of Fort Worth team working with you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Our next ours flock cameras installed in the rideway and Chief Aldridge is here to answer any questions along with Michael Owen from our transportation public works. Council Beck. Yes, thank you. And um I actually already received the clarification from our city attorney, but I thought it was important because it's not included in the IR so that um we have a little bit of clarification to our residents about how these operate. So, um we are allowing these private cameras and public rideaways with um an agreement. Correct. And Yeah. Yes, Chief. Yes. Okay, that is correct. And then for those um cameras that we're allowing in the uh public rightway, the private cameras in the public rideway, who has access to that data that is collected from those cameras? So all the camera feeds feed into our real-time crime center and we are the ones that have access to the data. Okay. And our um the neighborhood associations or the private businesses or the HOAs, do they have access to that data? So they can request access to the data and we have a policy that's in place. But we're going to have a point of contact for each one of the HOAs, whether it's a security director for the HOA or one of the board members. Um, and just for clarification, anybody can do an open records request for any of our cameras. This is a way because it is their camera. If they give us a reason and the reason seems reasonable for it, for example, let's say there was an accident on private property and they wanted to figure out that uh who maybe the asalent was or if maybe some of their property was damaged, they didn't make a police report. um we would then um bypass the open records because it is their it is their camera and we would allow them we would give them access to that information would um open records allows us um an opportunity to catalog all those requests and so my my request to you would be um I get why we're um bypassing that open records request for them um but can we keep a substantive log of of when that is just for that's easy to do because the request comes into the real time crime center. It goes to the real time crime center sergeant and lieutenant. So it's not that big of a deal for us to keep a log of who requested the information. And do these have license plate reader ability? Okay. Thank you. And they will residents have access to that data specifically like say if there was an accident and they requested the information, would you give them the license plate information as well? It would get the copy of the video which has the license plate information on it. Yes, but it would have the underlying who it belongs to and all that. Okay, but not that's all the questions I have. Thank you. Any other questions? Thank you, Chief. Thank you. Our next IR is Historic and Cultural Landmarks Commission composition and Laura Lee Willitz here to answer any questions. Council Rebeck, welcome back. Hey Laurie, thank you. Um the only Lauraai. Laura, sorry. What did I say? Lori. Sorry, Laura. No worries. I think Jay did that and I'm blaming Jay for that one. Um, okay. Um, thank you for doing this, for going back out and doing this after our last conversation. Um, and I just want to make sure that um that I'm reading this correctly. Um, when we say that someone has demonstrated an interest and show competence and knowledge in historic preservation, do we have any markers to kind of rate that against? Sure. So, um, when they fill out the application with the city secretar's office, they do have a section where they can say, um, why they're interested, basically. Um, and we take a look and and say, um, okay, you're a community leader. Um, you teach history. Um, you have roots in the city of Fort Worth that go back, you know, a long way. So, um, so that's that's pretty much where we do that. Does that make sense? That makes perfect sense. Um, so, as we discussed earlier, I'd like to see um that requirement instead of six go to all 11. Um, Charlie, you got to get yours filled. I didn't ask them to call you out on this IR, but I appreciate that they did that. I'm just kidding. Um, but, uh, the one thing that I would ask is because it's left up to us to read these, um, you know, as they come through the city secretar's office, we get the resumes, we get the little statements of interest and then it's up to us to determine if they meet that demonstrated interest or competence and knowledge. And so, um, I'd ask that in addition to making the requirement all 11 that, um, you work with the city secretar's department to figure out a workflow or some sort of flow. It would be my preference that historic landmark commission staff would look at those resumeumés before they come to us because they have that additional requirement um, and get an an up or down on whether or not it meets the standard of um, demonstrated interest and competent knowledge. I see. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Laura. Thank you. Learning. Uh, his next one up is historical training and travel related expenses. And Christian Simmons is here to answer any questions. Questions from Council Council Hill. Thank you, Christian. And I know this is a lot of work to put this together. Um, I'm going to ask for a redo on it. And here's why. Um, I think it discounts when you put them together, travel and training, excuse me. I think it discounts the amount of um high level detailed training that some of our departments need like police, fire, IT. I mean, those are things that they they really do need to be on the cusp of um cutting edge on what is happening in their industry. So, that first two um and I think it kind I had some questions about how things are allocated. Um, so city manager 2021 through well 2021 was 65,000 2022 through 2024 those numbers are extremely high and it dips back down to 2025. And then if you look at mayor and city council it looks like those monies were reallocated or how things were shuffled around in the budget. Can you walk me through that so I can better understand how spending works? So yes uh related to your first comment you are right that um in our accounting system the same account codes used for travel and training and workshop. So it is all sort of comingle to break it apart is a manual effort. Um it takes studying every form and sort of segregating out training versus travel. Um so we can talk about a way in which to meet your requests in a timely manner uh over the summer. city manager's office. You're right. This um when you see fluctuations like that, it's often because of like organizational restructuring that happens with a cost center or two. So, for example, from fiscal year 24 to fiscal year 25, the difference you see in city man that dip in city management. Um remember that we actually budget city management and mayor and council all together in one department. For the purpose of this IR, they're broken out, but really they roll up together. Um, so if you if you add them up, you'll probably see they net a little bit more closely, but um, for the fiscal year 25 budget, the city manager's office um, we moved out costs like the TML, NLC, some of those conferences that, um, that council members occur out to the mayor and council's budget. It's actually in the mayor's cost center. Um, and so it's pulled down from mayor and council. Um, another thing that came out of the city manager's office in fiscal year 25 is the legislative affairs division. Um, so you'll see a bump in the city attorney's office for that purpose as well. So those are organizational kind of restructures that um that make those numbers shift from budget to actuals. I guess as I'm thinking of budgeting and I'm looking at $4.5 million we're spending on travel and um programs and training, I think I know it's a lot of work, but breaking it out or at least giving us some kind of idea on how much we're actually spending on training, how much we're actually spending on travel, I think just to help us understand where we're spending $4.5 million. Yeah, we can talk about that and maybe through a budget work session in August or something. I agree. Um, you know, I I would posit that I can say this like substantively but without the detail. the the large majority of that 4.5 million is is training and workshops both internally and externally. Um and that's everything from a spectrum of like CDL lensure or continuing education that's required for attorneys and planners and lawyers and engineers. Um and then some of it you know is career development or going to present about the department or the city and other places. Um we can certainly try to take a stab at what that percentage breakdown looks like. That's why I said in the beginning I feel like we did a disservice just putting it on one page without a whole lot of detail because I know how much we do need to have trainings for those those special departments. Yes. Yeah. It it is um yes this is a summary. We thought that question might come up. It's a it's a pretty like I said a big manual effort not not an impossible effort. So we'll we'll take a look at the best way to present that. That's yeah Macy actually expressed the same concern I had. Um because when you look at some of these numbers, it does kind of make your head spin per department. But then if you logically follow that through to what departments those are and the type of training, I think I can make that logical leap, but I'd not I'd like not to have to make that logical leap. And sure, I know that the data bears it out. Um, also when you come back with that IR, $190,000 budgeted for travel for 11 people is more than the budget um allotted for 13 of our other whole departments. And so I really want to know what this $190,000 for 11 of us to travel for a year is expected to entail because that seems um like a a pretty significant number. And so, um, you know, if if as a new city manager, I had my eye on that through the budget process. Thank you. I'd also What are our district directors in that? Are they included in that? Yes. Mayor. And so I' I'd like to know how that breaks down um by council as well. Okay. By district, specifically council district. Any other questions? Sorry, it's not you, it's me. Coffee this afternoon, Christie. No problem. Thank you. With those funds, we could um probably move them to extra staff. I know we have, you know, a number of um concession related service calls or we could put it in a budget to do good work in our district. So, it doesn't necessarily have to be restricted to travel. So, in the upcoming budget, it may be worth thinking about that. I was thinking PGO, but payo for every dollar helps. Okay. Okay. Thank you, Christian. Uh, next IR is homeless strategies request for proposals. Let me just get an overview of that real quick. Sorry, Terra's coming. Hi Terra. Hi. Tara Perez with Homeless Strategies. So last fall um our office conducted about um 300 interviews with stakeholders largely in four different groups. Um one was city folks including our elected officials and department heads and departments very involved in the camp cleanup process. We had folks in our homeless system and then nonprofits. We had community groups such as churches or neighborhood associations or forth ISD people who touch homelessness but that's not their primary focus and then also people experiencing homelessness and uh through these interviews we were looking at what has changed the past few years. Um COVID changed a lot of things really impacted our system. So we were looking at what are the needs and gaps and how can the city best support our system. We may not be the primary funer of homelessness um services, but we are a major funer. And so, overwhelmingly, we heard um that the city should be focusing more resources on our unsheltered population. That that was a big concern. And so, we shifted some of our programming to reflect that priority. And so, then we did the request for proposals. Some of the programs we just did a preference um for people who are unsheltered. But the biggest change we made is we expanded our outreach which is to connect unsheltered folks to housing and services. Tara, how does this correlate with our pilot program? Is this a result of the the pilot program? Um no. Um the pilot program started earlier. Um it started in May of last year. um we already knew that um there was an issue with the intersection of home unsheltered homelessness and severe mental illness. So that was on our rate that's been on our radar for a long time. And so that pilot was put together just to address that and that was just to address seven target areas in the city um that we saw had really high um campaign complaints. Thank you, Tara. Thank you for everything that you do every day. We appreciate it. Got a couple questions. Yes, council. Yes. The dollar amount that um that I'm looking at, is this included um what the city of Fort Worth is just putting in or this is Taran County uh homeless coalition? Uh this is city of Fort Worth. Okay. And so when you articulated that uh you move dollars more towards uh connecting uh individuals to services, what page would that be on? [Music] I'm sorry to be asking. Um, so on the on the IR, yes, under the refocus request for proposals, uh, that's where we mention which programs that we didn't include in the RFP in order to devote more resources to the unsheltered. Okay. And just off the top of your head, can you just name off some of those uh those organizations that you're connecting the unshelter to? Okay. The organization that we're recommending funding for out street outreach is um is DRC Solutions. Um we have many outreach providers in the community. Um but in the scoring process they scored the highest. One of the things that we're really looking at as performance measures is um is outreach connecting with people and helping them get some of the things they need. For example, identification documents um regular check-ins to housing. If they have a disability, is the outreach worker helping him get a verification of disability? because there's a lot of documentation that can be done to help people um be eligible for housing and that's what we really want our outreach to focus on as well as have that emphasis on diversion. There are folks that come through Fort Worth that are are stuck here um and they have family elsewhere and so how can we quickly connect them um with a bus pass, bus ticket and get them reconnected with family and so that's what we're really wanting outreach to focus on. Okay. Thank you for your work. And so I think initially when we started well when I came in I think the budget now is up to 3.8 eight 3.8 uh has that increased the last four years? It has and I will point out that that 3.8 it does not include two other programs that will be coming in a different M andC which is the high impact program. Okay. Um my understanding is council requested a presentation on the 17th on that. So um there will be an M andC on the 24th for the high impact program. And then also we needed a little more time on our to award our cold weather sheltering contract. And so the 3.8 is not the total. Uh it's closer to six million. Okay. Well, that's awesome. That's good to hear. We uh are really uh putting dollars towards uh our homeless uh issue. I had initially asked not specifically to you directly in the work session uh but a couple of weeks ago kind of articulated uh an ambassador program as it relates to uh moving our homeless from out of the neighborhoods that are adjacent to Lancaster and with your outreach team with DRC solutions. Do they provide such a service uh of moving individuals uh back to services locations instead of in neighborhood streets and um businesses that they're kind of uh influxing into the historic southside. So for Historic Southside in particular, um in meeting with the the neighborhood association, they had requested some outreach very specific to their area. And so we did divert um one DRC outreach worker to be connected to the neighborhood police officer in that area to just learn and understand like what are the attractors of homelessness? Um just kind of get a lay of the land. Is this people who were here for a long time? Is this very transient population? And so she was able to to do that for a few weeks and collect that data. But to answer your question, outreach does not h doesn't have the role of moving people. A lot of times they're working handinhand with law enforcement. And so as you know, law enforcement um may say to them, you know, this is public property or this is someone else's private property. You cannot be here. Please go to the shelter. Um, and outreach also does offer people the shelter, but they don't tell people like get out of the neighborhood. Okay. Well, and I I know we're not at the IR part uh future agenda item, but I would like to see something uh with a dollar amount that focus on um some type of ambassadorship of moving people out of the neighborhood into and that may come from the hope team, I'm not sure, or even from uh our police officers. Uh but in this last uh election cycle, it was a very brutal beating about our homeless population in our neighborhoods. And I think they have a right to uh have that concern. And so our neighborhood associations uh historic southside being one uh that's very vocal of just even the Evans Plaza people sleeping on the benches and we added a a rail in the middle to kind of prevent that. So we've done some measurements but what else can we do uh with um that corridor of Lancaster to uh Morningside if you can help us with that. Okay, I can certainly follow up. I think there have been some connections connecting that to the Evans Roadale project also and sure thinking about opportunities there. Yep. And they're they're in agreement of putting dollars towards I know Royal Capital is and a couple of other organizations around there that's coming online. Thank you so much for your work. Any other questions for Tara? Thank you, Tara. Janette, did you have a question? C. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay, the next uh item is pathways to removing obstacles to housing pro housing grants and Casey Best is here to answer any questions. Councelor Martinez, you have questions on this one. Next. Oh, okay. Thank you, Mayor. Sorry, Casey. Thank you. Um I'm looking at the the list. They're retrofitting the suburban malls. Which three malls are identified? So we are still looking at them but um obviously some of the that we have are the Hulin Mall area um Lron Plaza and the idea we have several areas that we can look at in the city. Um as part of that plan we would want to work with the property owner um first to make sure they have an interest in participating in this program and then if they do express an interest then we would move forward but we don't want to presume that this is something that they would be involved in. That was my question. If they have already been approached or they approached the city and had that work, but no one's been approached yet. Not at this time yet. We wanted to make sure um it was approved in the action plan and then if it is, it would be a two-phase approach. The first page, the first stage would be to make the outreach to the property owners and then the second phase is once we identify a property owner who's interested, then we would move forward with the second phase. Okay. Thank you. All right. The next IR is a priority repair program policy updates. Casey's still here to answer any questions. And the last IR is the unimproved alley mowing program. Mon'nique Hill from Park and Rec is here. Martinez, I have a question. Is Dave here? Monique is coming up. I think David Lewis is spending some of that travel money. Ah, very nice. So, my question, well, first, thank you very much. Um, each time that we've requested that an alley be mode, it's uh always been done um under the 30 days um that is projected. Um but my question is so these um blue areas on the map are included in the U AMP or however you say it. Is there any way to alternate those? Um every other year like one year the blue gets mowed, the next year the red gets mowed. Okay. And good afternoon mayor and council. Um I'm going to allow Debbie Branch who is responsible for our program to answer any questions. Yeah. Good afternoon. So, this is the the third season that parks and wreck has been overseeing the alleyway mowing program. And um your question is valid, right? Why is some why are some in the program, some aren't? And as was explained to me when the program first came over to parks and wreck and uh for FY 23, I went around and surveyed everybody who had had a finger in the alleyway program at all. And it was explained to me that the alleyway program was really started as a safe neighborhood initiative. So, it wasn't necessarily just to um to to get the alleys mode, but it was also to increase neighborhood safety and they were identified with conversations between police and code as explained to me. I could not find anybody originally in those conversations. And so, um we are looking at ways because it does we would say if I'm next door to an alley that's in the program and mine's not, it it it's like makes you scratch your head and say, "Well, why can't I be in the program too?" Right? So um we are looking at creative ways and that that may be something but since it was those alleys were selected as part of safe neighborhood but maybe it's just time to to completely look at the alleyways or you know I you know currently it's a quarterly program when does it make sense to you know move that to you know identify alleys that could sustain a three times a year to free up funds to add more alleys um and so forth. So it's a valid question. Okay. Well just an idea to consider. Um, but since you guys are up here, I don't know if either of you can speak to this. Each council member has a hat. Medical Metobrook Golf Course is set to open this summer. And I know this is supposed to be a dock and it's the new logo. So, if y'all can explain um that new logo. I have it. I'm sorry. I left my little note. I'll get it. Just come back. My apologies. I didn't expect that question soon. Okay. So, yes. Um, so Metalbrook Golf Course will be opening soon. We should have an actual date for the opening pretty quickly. So, what you have there is the new logo for that course, which is the blackbellied whistling duck. And so, I was like, I would just refer to it as a bird. So, I'm glad I asked the experts about it. So, so apparently over in the area at that golf course, you see this little bird a lot. And so, because they saw it, people in the community wanted to make sure that they have that there. So it has become the new logo for that particular golf course. So when you see um that emblem or that logo that is representing Metobrook because it actually is in the habitat in that area. So we hope you'll come visit. We'll make sure you all get an invitation. Thank you. And I really love the new logo. So y'all did a great job. Good. Thank you. Um, in relation to alleyways, uh, one of the questions my, uh, colleague to my left here boasted that his alleyways are paved in his district. And, um, I'm not asking us to pave our alleyways because we don't have the money. But but I would be interested and I think a future IR and a um an intellectual exercise for us as a city to really take a look at how much it would cost for us to gravel, you know, like large um gravel uh these alleyways so that we don't have to go back and keep mowing them and that they remain easily access to our residents. I imagine that cost is not inexpensive, but as you start to add up the mowing that we spend annually on that, I think chipping away at a reoccurring cost is um is probably beneficial. So, if you could maybe take a creative look at some ways to to reduce our need to mow on those alleys would be great. Okay. No, go ahead, Council Member Beck. We'll look into what those other options or alternatives are. So, I'm looking at this hour. I kind of wanted a more of an overview because I think I don't know if this is the IR that you guys gave that I requested about mowing uh of the alleys, but I kind of needed a a more overview of what I'm looking at. As Janette Martinez articulated, some are being mowed and some are not. Can you kind of give me an overview of this? Sure. Yeah. very valid question. And and just so you know to um to get to get the alleyways visible on this IR, there's a really good um website. So if you just Google uh Fort Worth alley mowing, it'll pull it up and there's an interactive map where you can put in any address in Fort Worth and it'll tell you whether it's in the program or out of the program. So um this the alleyway mowing program has a long history in Fort Worth and you know at one point it was with TPW code kind of oversaw part of it. it I think it had been in parks long time ago. It's been then it went to neighborhood services. So before Casey was there it went to neighborhood services and so I oversee the contract mowing for rightways and medians. And so then in 23 it came to us and um and and we just continued running the program how it had been handed off to us and as I as I spoke before it was started as a safe neighborhood initiative. And so certain alleys were identified by a select group as as was told to me um by maybe police department staff and uh maybe code um but they would identified the safe neighborhoods and some alleys were in the program and some weren't. And and so if you're not in the program, you can request a one-time annual mowing of your alleyway. And we have a goal. We try to get there within 30 days of the request, but it it's an unfunded request. So, it's our staff's trying to fit it in as they can get to it, and they get to it and they mow it. Um, if you're uh not in the program, you are, you know, you're allowed or you're you're encouraged to mow to the center point of the alley, which is basically your easement behind your home. Um, but um yeah, that's that's specifically the program. The program covers mowing, um, tree trimming, limming up the trees, and string trimming. Um, okay. If I'm looking at page, I guess this is page two or four. And well, let me look at page three or four. That's where more of uh, district 8 is. Uh, so the blue represents it represents alleys that are in the program and the red represents the alleys that are not in the program. Correct. And so if these alleys are not in the program, the city of forward do not mow. We do not. It's not scheduled for mowing. No. Okay. But they can request a one time annually, correct, to be mowed. Correct. Okay. How often are the ones in the blue mode? Uh quarterly. Quarterly. And then the ones that are not in the mowing, do the city of Fort Worth provide a a stipen or money towards if they mow it uh up to the property line? No, that that that's not a that's not done. Um No. Okay. So, we tell them that they can mow a city property and we don't provide resources for As I understand it, it's like uh it's like the easement in front of your house, the rideway, right? You're supposed to mow to the edge of curb. Um the city does own that part to the edge of curb, but you are uh per city code, you're supposed to mow that as I understand it. Same thing in the alleyways to the edge of al the middle of alley is part of the easement behind your house. So, okay. Uh this is another pro uh uh something I think that the city of forward need to uh publicize in our news and our media. Um, but I'm going to look up that um that link that you just told me about so I can make sure because I have had a lot of people complain about the alleys not being mold. So maybe they're not in um the program and some of them I know you the your office asked about one particular alley and our contractor was running a couple weeks behind and so I think with once a quarter in that spring mow it had gotten kind of high but it has been mowed now. So, um, with that, I'm glad you brought that up because I think I asked also, how many contracts do we have for, uh, mowing? We currently have two contractors mowing alleyways. Okay. And would it benefit the city to is it is it too much for them to get to? Why are they so behind? Because I think this is happening year in year out. Yeah, I think a lot of it depends on on staffing. you know, those frontline workers have been hard for city staff to hire as well as outside contractors as well as weather. You know, when you get get the the rains, a lot of those alleys become more difficult to mow. So, those are the two main reasons is is staffing and weather. Uh, last question. Do we know when those contracts are up? Are they up annually? There they actually no renewals at the end of this year. So, we'll be going to bid the coming up year. So, in the fall. Okay. Well, can we get an IR on the contracts that we have already on the two contracts we have? Yes. Okay. Thank you. That concludes our IRS. Mayor, thank you, Jay. I'll move into um presentations. Before that, we'll do any changes or requests on memberships, boards, commissions, zoning cases, or MNC log that we need to make staff aware of. Okay. Next up is the Southeast Connector project update. Lauren Priier will kick things off. Good afternoon, Mayor and Council. Thank you again for the opportunity to discuss the Southeast Connector project. So, today's presentation will be led by Nick Andershack from South Point Constructors alongside Propy Chararma and Brandon Bby from Tech Dot. You'll notice the bright orange. Yeah, you can't miss them back there. Can't miss them. They'll be providing key updates on project progress as well as upcoming milestones and community outreach efforts. So, let's get started. Thank you so much, Lauren. Yes. So, I'm Nick Andershack and I am the public information coordinator for um South Point Constructors. We're the contractor building this Southeast Connector project for Texot. Uh today, I'm going to provide a brief update on the status of the project. I'll go over the limits as well as the schedule and then I'm going to break it down uh into some of our active segments. We'll look at work uh year to date and then what we can expect for the remainder of 2025. So this here is the map. Everything in that dark blue is the existing Southeast connector project. So on Interstate 820 on the north end, we go all the way up to Brentwood Stair Road um which incorporates segment one north and south down to about Berry Street. Segment three, uh, from Berry Street down to about Sun Valley Drive and then north of Village Creek Road. Segment four, um, is kind of that 2820 interchange. Those are the three segments that are within Fort Worth. Segment five is in City of Forest Hill. Um, from around the railroad sort of to Forest Hill Drive and then segment six and eight are Arlington, which has that 2028 interchange and carries down to Sublet Road. Here is the timeline of the project. We're right there in the middle of 2025. So, we're well without of the design phase and and into that bulk of heavy construction. So, 2025, 2026 are going to be those those years where we have um a lot of work happening, a lot of roadways opening, a lot of roads closing. So, uh the date that everybody's interested in on there is substantial completion, which is in February of 2028. Uh the difference between substantial completion and the final acceptance. Um the substantial completion is when um for the most part everything is open for its intended use. All the roadways, all the ramps are opened. The final acceptance is kind of the bells and whistles and paperwork side of things. Uh so February of 2028 is the date that we're looking at. I'll roll into segment one, which is that northern section in Fort Worth from Brentwood Stair Road uh south to Berry Street. Uh work to date in 2025. Um you can see in the picture on the left, we've moved all the frontage road traffic between Metobrook Drive and Brentwood stair uh up adjacent to the highway lanes uh separated by concrete barrier. It allows us to open up the work areas on either side. I wonder if I've got a laser pointer on this. It's not showing up on the screen, but it has all that outside room for us to work. Uh and then eventually it would switch and we'd start working in the middle again. Uh we've also already paved all of the permanent pavement concrete uh for the frontage roads between Barry and Remy uh northbound and southbound uh as well as some heavy construction both at the intersections of Barry and Remy themselves. Upcoming in segment one, uh we do have a lot of work to finish off this year here uh especially this summer. So uh first thing that folks will see will be the northbound frontage road between Rosedale and Lancaster uh will close for construction. We've met with a lot of these neighborhood associations already. They're aware of this upcoming. Um they know all the detours. They also have my contact information um if anything comes up and they have some concerns. Also, in the late summer, we're going to be demolishing the Craig Street Bridge for reconstruction. Uh so when that bridge closes, it'll be closed for approximately one year and then it will open up into the permanent alignment uh with all the improvements associated with the project. Um on the right side picture there shows Lancaster Avenue. This one is also going to be demolished this summer for reconstruction. Uh but this one's a little bit different because there's the two portions of the bridge. Uh we're going to switch traffic onto the eastbound section uh in in a head-to-head configuration that allows us to to demolish and build the westbound side and then we'll flip-flop. Uh and then another big one, if you guys drive the area frequently, uh this summer we're going to switch the northbound 820 traffic onto that center median. So, um, if you see all the big, uh, wooden walls, wire walls in there with that concrete being paved, uh, later this summer, we're going to have the northbound traffic onto that new concrete. I drive that area frequently because that's in my district. And so, I would tell you some of it is a little bit scary. So, [Music] um, we either need to slow the traffic down, uh, and I don't know how we work with the state on that, but it gets pretty scary trying to get on to the freeway there. And, um, just a little bit concerned that I'm really grateful that we haven't had any accidents, but I'm a little bit concerned that we will. Yeah, absolutely. Um, this project is going to solve a lot of those problems. Um right now it's it's a lot of left exits and merges. Um so in the final condition that will all be solved. Uh temporary just due to the fact of having to move traffic around. Uh some of the ramps change locations, some of the turns might not be as visible. Uh which I understand. So uh we do try and stay on top of it as best as we can. It's a very large project, so occasionally there's areas that we don't notice until the neighborhoods reach out to us. Um but if they do reach out with some key locations, I'm happy to go out there with our maintenance and traffic manager, add some additional signage. Um I met with the Metobrook folks recently. They had requested some of those red flags on the yield signs um in the temporary configuration just to make it more visible. Uh we're happy to comply. So wherever we can help, we we will look at it. Moving a little bit south to segment three here. Uh kind of the same deal. We're paving all the permanent frontage roads with the concrete uh between Wilberger Street and Berry Street. We've finished it northbound. Uh we'll finish it southbound by the end of this month. Um, northbound US 287 traffic is onto the new concrete underneath the Village Creek Road Bridge, which we opened to traffic uh in April of 2024. Uh, the picture on the right shows Kerry Street uh from May 20th. Uh, we've completed the intersections adjacent to 287, both on the north and south side there of the highway. Um, that's all the new pavement and is open uh fully full capacity there, as well as the southbound US 287 frontage road from Village Creek all the way down to Martin Street. Upcoming in this um segment here is a lot more frontage road work. So uh we're looking in the fall, by the fall to have um northbound and southbound frontage roads paved and open to traffic connecting Sun Valley Drive uh and Martin Street. That will incorporate the intersections, all four of them there, Martin Street and Sun Valley Drive. Uh you can see in the picture, we do have uh the Martin Street intersection west of 820 already opened and paved. Uh but kind of handinhand with this front road pavement, we'll have those other intersections opened as well. Um same deal in segment four. We're we're doing a lot of paving. So the picture on the left is the new concrete frontage road um heading southbound between Sun Valley Drive and Business 287. Uh that picture shows one of the lanes, but we do have both of them in there now. Uh waiting on a couple more phases before we can put traffic onto it. Uh and then northbound between uh Village Creek Waterway all the way up to Sun Valley Drive. Uh we're going to start paving that next week. So that's coming up quick. Uh last but not least, the picture on the right shows um some frontage road bridges that we plan to build over top of the Union Pacific Railroad right there. Uh right now, folks, local traffic need to merge onto Interstate 20 to get over that railroad. This project will add uh frontage road bridges east and westbound over top of the railroads so um a lot of folks can have some more local mobility there. Um the picture shows all of those columns already poured. Um since then we do have most of those caps on there and they're waiting for girders. Coming up here, we're going to open up that frontage road uh southbound between Sun Valley Drive and Business 287 this fall as well as the intersections at Business 287. I know a lot of folks have concerns. Um that's that's a really highly congested intersection. Um so when this does open in its new alignment, there'll be designated turn lanes. The signals will be revisited. Um so that should really really reduce um the congestion that we see, especially during peak rush hours. Also this fall, we're going to demolish the Sun Valley Drive bridge for reconstruction. Um same as all the other bridges that we take down. So once it closes and is demolished, it'll take about a year to rebuild up. Um, and when it's back up, it'll have all of those uh permanent improvements uh from the project. And then also in the fall, we'll have the eastbound direction over top of the railroad there connecting um Forest Hill to Fort Worth and Arlington. Segment five is in the city of Forest Hill, and a lot of this work is on and around the Angland Drive bridge. Uh the picture in the left there shows us getting ready uh to build the new highway lanes outside of where the highway is now. So between the current main lanes and the frontage roads uh which will allow us to then switch traffic to the outside and work on the inside. Uh the photo on the right shows England Drive north of Interstate 20. Uh that has been paved and open to traffic now. Uh folks who are familiar with that area might know that it used to be that kind of jug handle movement where you'd go against traffic. Um, this is a lot safer and uh when England Drive Bridge itself gets rebuilt, it's going to connect the north and southbound uh quite well. Which brings me to uh another bridge coming down this summer, which is the England Drive bridge. Um later this summer, we'll take that one down again for a year and then reopen it up uh in its permanent future condition. Uh we'll also have the east and westbound Interstate 20 traffic onto the new pavement this fall. segment six in Arlington. Uh work to date. So we've we've moved Little Road traffic into a new location temporarily. Uh we've also opened up, the picture on the right there shows it, the eastbound 20 ramp, uh the collector distributor to southbound US 287. Um and then of course the westbound 20 frontage road traffic from Little Road all the way to Bowman Springs, uh which we're looking at on the left there. Uh upcoming this year in segment six, uh the Bowman Springs Road bridge demolition. We actually completed half of it, so the northbound section over the westbound lanes last weekend. Uh and then this weekend we'll demolish the portion over the eastbound lanes. Um we're also going to finish up the eastbound I20 frontage road that will connect uh business 287 all the way to Little Road. The picture on the right shows it right now. We do have traffic on a portion of it already. You can see the merge there from the existing frontage road uh to the new one. But, uh, this summer we're looking to have it fully connected from business 287 all the way to Little Road. Um, and then I'm going to jump back a slide, but the northbound US 287 to westbound I20 ramp that'll open up this summer. Uh, you could see it on the left picture kind of running adjacent to um the frontage road there, but that'll be another big interchange ramp opening and a huge milestone for the project. I will leave it up here for the public information slide. This is how folks can get a hold of me. Um the phone number, the email, all come directly to me if anybody has any questions. Uh I would also encourage folks to sign up at the bottom there for the text alerts uh sec to that number. Uh we reserve that for full highway closures or maybe incidents that happen um that we respond to that impacts traffic. That way um if you're driving to work in the morning, you know ahead of time, hey, some lanes might be closed on the highway. But I I'll open it up to questions here if anybody has anything. Questions from council. Thank you very much for the updates. Thank you. Thank you. Next up, we have Landfill Gas Republic Southeast Landfill Lease Agreement Amendment, Dr. Wittenberg. So, good afternoon again. I'm excited to bring you an update on our landfill gas project and to to talk about our next steps to move the project forward. So, perfect. So, as we talk about this project, you may recall last August, we were able to move forward with an agreement from city council to to start negotiating the contract for this particular project at our southeast landfill. Just to give you a quick recap of what we discussed at that time, we want to walk you through just the fact that this is a city-wide project and there's been so many departments that have helped us. Special special thanks to our law department and property management, others that have helped us. also to our consulting partners Burns and McDonald, Adrien Galvan, Inova, Porter Hedges, many partners have helped us to get to this point in this project. And then of course to Republic Services, our landfill operator who has been operating since 2003 has been a tremendous partner as well. Just a recap, we received some some understanding of our existing contract back in August of 2023. Last August, we of course came to you and received that that uh council action to move forward with this particular contractor. Again, this is with Archa, which is a a company within the the BP company portfolio. And as we move into this fall, we're getting very close to completing this agreement and and hopefully getting to the the groundbreaking ceremony for that particular facility. So, what you're going to see today is just uh some some steps that need to be taken with our landfill operator, again, Republic Services, to move the project forward. Today, we'll have this update, and then next week on June 10th, we will have a council action for amendment six with Republic Services to enter into a sub lease and to move the the mutual agreement forward for this particular project. Just a recap on the financials related to the RNG project. There are four lines of revenue related to our our project. Uh a certain amount due at signing and then for the couple of years that it takes to construct the RNG facility. We will receive a a development fee for this particular project. Once the project is constructed, we'll receive a 30% split for those royalties and rents or other attributes related to the landfill. And there's also some some tax credits involved. So all in all, once the project is fully operational, we should see between two and $5 million annually coming from the project. Just as a reminder, there is zero investment from the city of Fort Worth. This is a developer-led project. So recapping with all of that, uh our next step is really the the uh red box that you see here. We have to move forward with an agreement with Republic to receive an amendment six for that mutual agreement for the joint venture, if you will, between the city and Republic to move this project forward. On the right side of the agreement, that was what was approved in August. On the bottom part of the triangle, you see that there will be a sub lease between Republic and Archa to advance the project. And again, the council action next week is for this amendment number six with Republic. A few highlights from amendment number six. It changes some key terms and and conditions of that contract. It clarifies that the city is has the sole title for landfill gas. It extends the operation agreement which is currently set to end in 2033 out to 2036 consistent with when we expect for the southeast landfill to close. It also addresses landfill liquids and making sure we understand how to address those should we have an issue with arsenic or other naturally occurring conditions that create a a hazardous condition for for those landfill liquids that need to be disposed of. And then we move into the operation of the southeast landfill. We have to secure that sub lease with Republic and our KIA. And then finally, we were able to work with uh Republic to secure a timeline for our landfill environmental fees. Each year we bring this forward as a part of the master fee schedule and I think we have a good plan to move forward. Again, all these details will be a part of the MNC next week. So just in closing, next week we would we would ask for council action consideration on approving amendment number six and authorizing the city manager to execute all related agreements. Again, that is on June 10th next week. And then from there, we will hopefully move the project forward. Happy to take any questions. Any questions for Dr. Whittenberg. Thank you, Cody. Next is the Westside Tax Increment Financing Update with Michael Henning, economic development. Thank you, Mayor Council. So, I recognize that it's been a busy day, so I'll do my best to keep this brief. Um, so Michael Heg, economic development manager. So, we wanted to go ahead and um bring back to you an item that we discussed here recently, which is a proposed uh new tiff district on the near west side. And as you recall, we discussed that on uh May 6 at the work session on that day. And the general purpose of the tiff would be to address infrastructure needs that are currently impeding new development from being able to take place within that district. Uh and also through doing so to be able to track new private investment that can help uh to be able to support this uh area of town. Uh and then also the uh purpose of the TIFF is to support the historic preservation of Fington Field as well as adjacent development nearby. Now, as you recall from that last meeting, the um there was request from city council to reconsider just the boundaries that we were proposing for that district as well as some of the the funding prioritization. So, we just wanted to give you a little bit of an update here today uh as we have addressed those items. So taking those in turns, so specifically the uh boundaries of the proposed TIFF have been adjusted uh taking into consideration some of the feedback that we received at that last meeting and really kind of filling in some of the gap that had been presented to you before. So this would allow for the collection of increment from the whole of the proposed district uh to really be able to address uh a a wider set of the storm water improvements that are necessary to be addressed throughout the district which can be better illustrated on this map here. Um, and as we discussed in some detail last time, there as you can see here, there's uh pretty pervasive storm water issues that have been impeding development throughout this portion of Fort Worth for for many years. Um, and as you can imagine, there's a significant cost that's associated with that. And so, the proposed TIFF is staff's uh recommended way for helping at least in part to be able to address some of these issues. Now, as was presented before, uh another key component of this proposed TIFF would be to uh support the historic preservation of Fitton Field and to be able to explore opportunities to activate uh some of the surrounding properties through new development. Now, the proposed rates of participation are the same as what we had presented to you before. We are continuing to recommend that the city participate at a rate of 50%. Uh and we are requesting participation from the county, from the uh college district, and from the water district as well as Fort Worth ISD all at rates of 35%. Uh and again just to be a little more precise, the participation by Fort Worth ISD is made possible by the inclusion of a school facility within this district and the likelihood of utilizing this tiff to be able to support improvements to that facility. Now with the changes to the proposed boundaries, uh this does include a wider set of properties than what we had presented to you before. This of course doesn't impact in any particular way the taxes that are paid by pro by the owners of that property, but it does increase the base of this proposed tiff district and that has an impact on the revenue that is projected to be generated by the tiff. And so what you see here are updated uh long-term lifetime projections for this tiff district. Uh and you can see here that over the proposed 20-year span, the city is projected to uh contribute approximately 151 million to the tiff. Uh as with uh in combination with those other participants, that would amount to uh just under $261 million uh if all participants were to agree to participate. Now again that is subject to their respective boards to be to for them to authorize their participation either at the rates that we have proposed or at any other rate. Um and so we will of course be updating council as those conversations continue. But we just wanted to go ahead and again round out and update the picture based on that change to the boundaries. Given the fact that only a portion of the tax increment generated by this district would be contributed to the tiff. Then of course the remainder would continue to flow to these respective entities and you can see here that that would amount to approximately $1 billion worth of tax revenue that is projected to be generated over this time. Now in addressing uh some of the feedback that we received and and that relates to the prioritization of tiff funding towards specific projects. You can see here uh the what what staff is now recommending be reflected in the project and financing plan for this tiff uh with a proposed $150 million uh being proposed for supporting storm water and flood control improvements. Now again, I I just want to pause on that just to to uh be clear that the the intent there is to really reflect just the the broader set of issues that we know are at play and just the pervasiveness of storm water infrastructure that needs to be addressed over many years. And so uh after discussing uh previously, we we tend to agree that this is a better reflection of the the items that are likely to be addressed through this tiff. Now, as we walked through before, all funding decisions and all projects that would be funded by the TIF are ultimately going to require individual TIFF board approval. So, what we're presenting here is our current projection and our our general expectation as to where those funds would be allocated, but individual budget decisions, individual project decisions would be subject to TIFF board approval if and when that is created. So just to again draw a little bit of a comparison as to how both the the revenue that is projected to be generated by the uh different taxing entities which you can see here on the graph on the right uh compares to the funding that the tiff would be uh capable of supporting if these projections are able to be maintained and and given the proposed participation rates. And so you can see here again it it is an updated view that reflects the feedback that we've received before as well as our current expectations for how the tiff would be used. So if council does uh choose to go forward then the um timeline from here would be for an emcy and a public hearing uh to take place on the at the June 10th city council meeting. After that then uh with of course the the uh creation of the tiff board and the appointment of a chair which we're also expecting at that meeting then we would go through and work with the other taxing entities to secure their participation in this proposed tiff and with that we would then be able to stand up the board and hold its first meeting to be able to consider the uh the first couple of projects that might be brought before it. So, it's currently our expectation that that work is is work that would be done uh over the summer and getting on into early fall. So, I'll be happy to answer any questions. Any questions for Michael Hill? Thank you, Michael. Um, quick question. Can you go back to the storm water and flooding depths chart? And I think we touched on this last time, but you'll have to refresh my memory. So the two areas at the top on the west side on the east side that have the most flooding it looks like. Why were those not included in the tiff boundaries? Uh yes, council member. So uh there that that section that is on the northeast portion of this map might be able to actually see it a little better here. That is already located within an existing tiff district and so we're unable to be able to include that within the boundaries of this tiff. Now, there's the possibility of being able to use this tiff to be able to support certain improvements outside of the district if we're able to demonstrate that uh it has a positive benefit and direct benefit to this tiff district. So, uh that that could be something we could explore in the future. But the purpose for the boundaries being carved out the way that it is just to reflect the uh existing tiff 9 that turn the river vision tiff that is there. That's the cemetery I guess. Yes. And so it's the portion that's to the northwest kind of uh toward the left hand of your screen that's the cemetery. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions from council? Thank you, Michael. Council, that's the conclusion of our presentations today. Are there requests for future agenda items from council? You got my two already, right? Right. Jay got mine. Council Beck, I would like um in light of our conversation earlier about the cast iron pipe replacement. U maybe a presentation as opposed to IR on that program. I know they've done it before. Um but specifically, what I really want us to hone in on this time, I think we understand the number of lane or the number of miles we do annually and where that funding comes from, but I really want to understand the interplay between TPW and water. who pays for what, what can and can't be paid for by each department, what kind of coordinating you do, because I'm going to go back to the fact that West 7th was just redone, you know, within my lifetime here on council in the past three years, and we are about to go dig that back up to replace a water line and that is infuriating. Any other council feature updates? No. Okay, meeting is adjourned. Thank you.