of announcements we have some upcoming events the first one is the Fort Worth Police Memorial and that is Wednesday May 3rd at 6 pm we also have the Fort Worth Police Department and a promotional ceremony and that will take place at the Bob Bolin Public Safety complex Friday May 5th at 10 A.M I'm going to call on council member Williams and I think he has an announcement for us as well thank you for that um yeah I just wanted to take a quick moment to invite all of our forward District Six residents and all of our residents across the city to join the Auburn Anderson family and remember the lives of Ben and Meg Auburn as we dedicate a Memorial Park Bench and a memorial Street topper in their honor the dedication ceremony will be tomorrow May 3rd at 6 pm at Summer Creek Ranch Park and there's more details on our social media at Jared Williams TX thank you thank you and next I'm going to call on Christina Brooks to announce an upcoming event Christina foreign good afternoon mayor council city manager and all the assistant manager assistant city managers and community as you know may is Asian American Pacific Islander and Asian American heritage month and in light of that celebration I want to give you a quick overview of the history of the celebration so it's a celebration of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States although it's a rather broad term Asian Pacific encompasses all of the Asian continent and the Pacific Islands of melanesia which includes New Guinea New Caledonia Vanuatu Fiji and the Solomon Islands it also includes Micronesia which includes the Marianas Guam Wake Island uh palu Marshall Islands Kiribati nauru and the Federated States of Micronesia it also includes Polynesia which consists of New Zealand the Hawaiian Islands rotuma Midway Islands Samoa American Samoa Tonga tuvalu Cook Islands French Polynesia and Easter Island like most commemorative months Asian and Pacific American heritage month originated with Congress in the 1970s and began as a week-long designation until 1992 when Congress passed a new law designating the entire month of May as Asian-American Pacific American heritage month the month of May was chosen to commemorate the immigration of the first Japanese to the United States May 7 1843 and to Mark the anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad on May 10 1869. the majority of the workers who laid the tracks were Chinese immigrants to celebrate the diversity and inclusion employee committee hosted an employee social and program the topic uh um and event took place Tuesday April 25th from 9 to 10 30 a.m and it was just outside of council chambers here where employees enjoyed Japanese tea and cookies and learned about the upcoming May 11th uh Asian American Pacific Islander program this year's program hosted by the staff diversity and inclusion committee is called the Asian tradition of meditation and mindfulness it will be held Thursday May 11th from noon to 1 in Council chamber on the second floor at City Hall the program will feature a presentation by Dr Mark Dennis a Texas Christian University professor and director of contemplative studies or calm compassionate awareness and living mindfully initiative who will talk about the history doctrines and schools of Buddhism which continue to inform and influence modern practices in meditation mindfulness yoga and Tai Chi there will also be guided exercises and mindfulness grounding and gratitude registration is not required for City staff but it's highly encouraged lunch will be provided for the first 75 employees who register if you can't make it to City Hall you can watch remotely on Fort Worth TV and the city's YouTube channel in Fort Worth City Hall thank you thank you Christina because the first time our Council chamber has been used synonymously with mindfulness and meditation but we'll hope they rub off on everybody while they're there yeah exactly thank you all right now we'll turn to informal reports the first one is a downtown library update and Marilyn Marvin is available if there are any questions I think Marilyn maybe come up just to walk through things yeah yeah good afternoon mayor and Council Marilyn Marvin interim Library director we are scheduling the last day of service for the Central Library to be June 30th that allows us time to clear out the Central Library on the timeline that has been proposed in the contract the cell of the library we have about a hundred thousand pieces of material books and items that have to be dispersed throughout the system we're also donating to a local 501c3 to get to into the hands of teachers it gives us time to get all the furniture out and and get our employees to the appropriate locations that they're going some of the staff's going to at least space on Camp Bowie West some of the staff will go to the Future City Hall and we are still actively working with proper property management to figure out where a new downtown location will be thank you Elizabeth go ahead hey thanks so I'm going to be honest I'm a little concerned by the progress that we have not made in finding a new location so you've given us a final date for when our downtown library is no longer going to be open and I think it's fair to say that it's not just downtown that uses it but you know there's not a library location the West Seventh area and so it it has some it has a pool when we made the determination to sell that property and not have a location in the bank we did so on faith that there would be one so that our residents would not be out of service but it's looking like our residents are going to be out of service in downtown and so when is when what are we doing here to make sure that we're addressing that and another thing that seems problematic to me in this as well is the fact that it says the new location will determine the programs and services offered when it really should be the other way around our location should be chose to accommodate the services and programs that our residents want the same way we do with community centers and so I need you to lay out exactly where we are and where we're going to to make sure that this gap of non-service is as short as possible I'm going to let Steve help me with the the property search itself from a programming perspective you're absolutely correct we need we look at our what our communities need and then based on that Community need we helps Drive the programming that we present so every Library location in the city doesn't provide the same programming because each Community is different and so that is worded a little incorrectly it's not about the size of the library on how we'll do programming because as our rise Library shows us we can provide services and 800 square feet exact same services that we provide in central today and so the size is not what determines the programming it is our community I just wanted to share that as an apartment working with with Library we have shown them and looked at multiple areas around downtown and within downtown we've made offers that weren't accepted we made full price offers that weren't accepted we've looked at everything we could think to look at we've looked at 12 000 square feet and 200 square feet we've looked at leasing we've had a couple of leases that has fallen through we have one more that we're working on diligently to try to get that one going we won't stop doing that work but we have not found anything that's available to us right this second we have to have a willing buyer and a willing seller and we haven't come to that conclusion yet with somebody but we have certainly been working on it so and we'll continue to continue to do that work so are you looking when you're looking for property are you looking specifically in downtown only like what are the boundaries that you're looking at well we're trying to find something that pretty much will fit anything that fits within some kind of budget obviously we can't just do anything we want to but and we're limiting that to size to some extent as well but um we have we've stretched out as far as we think we can in the downtown we've even gone beyond that a little bit and for the most part we haven't found anything on those exterior ones that have would really work um without spending multiple too much money to make sense for what we're trying so we're going to continue down the easement I mean the the lease path as much as we possibly can just like we've done with the cam buoy space we want to do something like that we want to be as close to downtown as we can be so we have not been successful but that is not something we're going to quit trying to do is it a possibility as we move into and I want to be clear would like to see a solution before this particular date but um there's all of the properties that we'll be vacating as we start to move into New City Hall have any of those been identified as potentials we have absolutely thought about this building because of some of the things that you know we want to do with the remodel of this building obviously when we move out where most of us move out and so that's part of that we've been thinking about that for for a very long time and so that remains an option in just about anything else that we can think of we've looked at literally looked at 200 square foot space in a in a train depot we've looked at 12 000 square foot places to buy and just like I said we haven't we haven't come across the deal yet that we can that we can nail down thank you any other questions Council thank you both the next 10th formal report are on efforts to reduce high-speed traffic reckless driving street racing and other hazardous Behavior I would like this and come on up assistant chief well the chief is coming on College I want to acknowledge some citizens who've been very helpful in bringing this committee into its its purpose right now that being torchy-wide Cindy bowling Judy Taylor had a few other people along with our East Side Commander took the lead so would like to acknowledge them and hear what we have for the latest good afternoon mayor and Council um glad to be here this is a very very very difficult topic to talk about a because people have lost their lives in B it is really hard to address and as you can tell by the IR that's kind of outlined we broke it up into two different areas I could have broken it up into five six seven different areas and I could be standing up here talking all day about it if you would like but for us you know whenever you're talking about speeding and reckless driving I mean that's really what it is it's people speeding down the street having opportunities they're late for work whatever the case may be speeding and reckless driving don't always correlate into racing street takeover events sometimes they do sometimes they don't but just just so you guys know I mean we handle it a couple of different ways we get calls from the citizens we get call from school administrators for school zones we get calls from just about everybody for speeding or reckless driving complaints uh our mpos are out there our traffic enforcement unit is out there we have our commercial Motor Vehicle Enforcement unit out there because we get a lot of complaints about the 18 wheelers rolling down the street so just a number to throw out there in the last six months traffic enforcements issued almost 13 000 citations so out of the 13 000 citations they've done over 1700 stops just in school zones we'll let you guys know we have a lot of schools in the area and so they can't be at every school zone every day but they're trying to hit every one of them that they that you that they can another thing they do is they use our crash data some of the accidents that we have that information that we have and they go in groups and you may see them if you ever have the Waze app you'll know where our Traffic Unit is because they're very much highlighted on that Waze app of where they're at because citizens report the police in the area and really what they do is they try and stay you know in those high traffic areas where we have reckless driving or high speeds to try and calm that behavior down so whenever you kind of transition though over into racing and Street takeover events something totally different that one is just that that sometimes can be spur of the moment that sometimes can be definitely well orchestrated but some of the challenges we've talked about before is on social media they go underground and so we usually only get about 15 20 minutes notice before they kind of pop up sometimes we don't even get any notice except whenever citizens start calling in saying hey this event has happened so for us we use our directed Response Unit and those are our primary unit because they're out during those times whenever we have those events take you know taking place and they're able to address them quite quite easily now we have partnered with Dallas they have a task force for racing and we have a really good network of Intel that kind of flows back and forth and they help us out tremendously on kind of highlighting if certain events are supposed to come into town but what happens is sometimes they come into town sometimes they don't the event that happened in Austin they actually were supposed to be in Fort Worth that weekend so don't know why they diverted to Austin but they did one of the greatest resources we have in all honesty is that spectator ordinance we've been able to make quite a few you know arrests on that and it has a significant impact on those individuals because not only can we arrest them but if they're in a vehicle we will tow their cars make it inconvenient for them because they're creating a hazard for the public out there so you know we're hoping with this legislative session that there's going to be some other laws that gives us a little more teeth to help out with some of this but you know I will tell you the officers out there are doing a phenomenal job and in the IR itself you guys have seen uh stats for the number or the citations across the city we listed the fatality accidents kind of where they're at kind of the causes of those just for your information questions Council Jared yeah uh thank you Chief um first of all I'm similar to Mayor Pro tem I just want to thank you and Commander Smith and our mpos like officer carrier and officer Hayes I know they work a lot with our residents like Pastor Brown and some of our neighbor presidents on major arterials and high-speed racing I appreciate the differentiation between high-speed traffic excuse me reckless driving and speed racing because I know you all take different approaches to address those issues I just have a few questions I'm in a spirit of partnership at the first one is it's my understanding through the informal report that the traffic enforcement section enforces traffic laws is that centrally located or is that in each division so the the we have two different enforcement units one is the motors where you see them out riding on the motorcycle others we have cars a lot of the cars stay kind of on the highways and the main thoroughfares but the motors will pretty much much go everywhere and they are different teams are assigned to different sides of town but that doesn't mean they don't get pulled into other areas whenever we need them there so they try and stay within their geographical areas but sometimes they get pulled away that makes sense and then I know we had a meeting with Commander Smith and Pastor Brown in a specifically about major arterios on District Six that have caused some concern Columbus Trail Reisinger McCart Summer Creek Granbury Road and Hulen and I know in that conversation that we had conversations about potential challenges with Staffing in that revision can you kind of highlight what challenges you are facing in the traffic enforcement section so because we have a few vacancies in Patrol um you know Patrol is our highest priority we want to make sure that we have call answering bodies out there so when people call 9-1-1 we show up with that we have to hold some of those vacancies in some of our specialized units in order to make sure you know Patrol is fully staffed as we continue to get more Personnel within our department government we're going to start filling those positions up as time goes on absolutely and I would love personally for district 6 to see us have more traffic enforcement I know that's a function of Staffing and so in this budget cycle I would really like to see us make a concerted effort to provide the resources needed in traffic enforcement I know in District Six the perception although not always reality is that you know if a car is if a police car is patrolling or seen patrolling that it's empty and so folks will blow through blow past the car blowing past the speed limit as well and it creates a lot of angst and also a lot of accidents and also unfortunately a lot of traffic tragic losses of life so I want to be a partner in that and that's budget cycle to do that the other thing I wanted to do is bring up maybe tbw just to ask for their insights on some of the traffic calming measures um I know we use a lot of temporary kind of Solutions on an as needed basis I would love to maybe have a discussion and maybe we can talk before the chief leaves I I still have a question stay there um so first of all thank I'm super great for tpw y'all have worked with our office in District Six on a number of improvements multiple stop signs on Risinger traffic signals school zones pedestrian safety related issues so super grateful for that I know that you all work hard to make sure that our roads are safe and have the proper infrastructure in place what are some of the permanent yeah all right I'm trying to ask I'm sorry okay you want to go ahead okay let me pause okay yes ma'am and I think after Gina Carlos has something for Chief and then we'll come back yes you just can't take over the holes no no I just wanted to give mine out and get out the way yeah I want to remind you when Commander Martin first took over uh what we saw was a big stop if you will a pause because they they had planned on coming to Fort Worth from Dallas her father a retired cop was able to call and tell her well looks like your neighbors are going back that's because you guys had a grand showing if you will at the at the uh overpasses what have you you can you can't do that all the time because you don't you can't be everywhere all the time right can you talk about the importance of everybody participating in this and how frustrating is it for your officers to get a call about shot shots fired but nobody knows where they were and it's not like they're just waiting for the cops to come so you know we have some really good Partnerships not only you know internally but with DPS I mean tpw has been a phenomenal partner you know with the kind of the street takeover deal we learned that one of the the quickest measures to try and hamper some of those issues are just those small little delineators in the road um it tears up the cars whenever they're trying to do donuts which I thought was very very interesting because it's a very cheap fix we were trying to think really grandiose and hey oh my gosh you know we got to do all these things and really it wasn't that Commander Martin has done a really good job she has a sergeant over there Sergeant Walker Sergeant Walker he went to Dallas saw how their task force kind of did things brought some of those Concepts back because our Dru Personnel can't always be everywhere at one time whereas he helped train some of the people in East Division because I know you're having an issue at John T white as well and so you know presence is a really big thing but also the enforcement piece is an even greater thing because whenever you start enforcing these really The Spectator ordinance that's pretty much what they arrest them for if they can get them for reckless driving they will but whenever you put them in jail they don't want to come here it's an inconvenience it costs them money and so the word gets out really really quickly whenever we have a large presence of individuals that are coming down on them I I appreciate that I just I didn't want to gloss over this because this is a very important topic to many people in their homes Gina Carlos super questions for chief well both Chief and I guess uh since uh Chelsea you know is up there we'll probably talk about this at least I hope you would uh mention this um you know since 2017 I've been asking tpw to look at speed tables and it's only been recently that that has been I think uh now looked at to the point of implementation speed tables again not speed bumps not to be confused with on average they reduce um you know speeds average speeds 85 uh the 85 percent tile speeds as well uh reducing Auto collisions and probably the severity of all auto collisions is you know included when are we going to start deploying those I mean do we have a do we have a plan of attack where the streets that we know that this is a problem where we give frequent speeding when will they be implemented so I'll answer the question on the speed table so speed tables are really appropriate for certain applications and in tpw we're really looking at residential streets um for high-speed corridors where folks are going 45 50 miles an hour potentially having speed tables will only create on those another safety issue at those locations so we're focused through our neighborhood traffic calming program on implementation of speed cushions speed tables residents have the option of looking at doing a narrow narrowing the residential streets using bulb outs essentially so we have these rubberized engineered curbs that we're purchasing to do some of those things and with those recommendations it also requires Community consensus so lots of times whether it be signs or cushions or tables there's a parking impact in front of someone's property and so we have to make sure there's buy-in for those things before we Implement them right and the speed cushions being a lower profile generally speaking you know as opposed to speed tables I've seen this implemented in other cities like the City of Austin there's one right in front of my sister's house down there they love it so and I agree with you I think that there is opportunity to do that a residential streets that's where I get a lot of my consternation from uh just for two residents so um you know I'd like to work with you all to identify what streets they are because if you're looking for Community buy-in I'll give you a list and you know we can proceed that way thank you questions Council Gina go ahead yeah one one more question there and I don't know if this this involves these street sweepers I still haven't seen one yet just just so y'all but every time there is you know burning rubber you know they've been there they leave their Mark with those black circles that's not a good thing to be left behind how do we address that and is that something that street sweepers could be called in at the ready or do we even think about it in my neighborhood the people get these things cleaned up but I think that's part of our problem as well we don't want the remnants of this bad behavior to remain Leonard yeah uh Chief you mentioned uh we may look to Austin to put some teeth into giving you some greater abilities I guess to enforce um uh any laws regulations I'm just curious as to what they might be considering and additionally are they getting information from you as PD that would help in their consideration of whatever changes they might make so one of the pieces of legislation that I know that they're looking at is specifically Street takeover events um and really they're looking at the ability to you know probably seize the vehicles and have higher penalties for events like that to answer your second question absolutely they're asking us they're asking our opinion uh asking for our support for things like that which they have thank you thank you mayor um Chief um you had mentioned in an intersection when folks are doing donuts what is that device called that's relative they're just those little like reflective delineators that you see on the street that that divide the high the roadway so if you go across it you can tell with your car they're literally just this this tall awesome and so you know you just put glue on the bottom of them sticking on the on the roadway Chelsea I would be really interested in those devices also um what are our what are our current practices for the digital um or permanent digital radar speed signs um in the city so at this time we don't uh currently deploy permanent driver feedback signs and part of the reason is that previously that was used as the strategy for traffic calming over time it's not really effective and we've actually gotten requests for people to take out those driver feedback signs because people were using them to help with theirs speeding or racing on the on the roadways so the way that they're deployed Now is really over a three week period we'll install it let it run without the driver feedback sign on collect data and then on the third week the plan is to remove it look at the data and see if there was any impact in the awareness of drivers of the speed based on those driver feedback signs and I'm assuming Based on data y'all have seen short-term impact but over time it kind of dwindles okay perfect thank you I know a number of residents asked that question so I thought it's important to answer that do you have any plans I guess pilot the delimiters and certain intersections if so so I know in the east side we put some we put some down and it's been very effective for us but the answer for the speech rate we have speed trailers as well we did put them out on West Risinger not that long ago and it does exactly the same thing you know it monitors the speed of the the people driving down the road we've learned that if we move them around they are a lot more effective than just having them in place perfect well I would love to participate in the next pilot in District Six with the delimiter so I'd be happy to work with you all in a couple intersections sounds good thank you when you talked about well maybe this might be more of a tbw question but those reflectors can you physically tell me like what that configuration looks like on the road that stops and like is it a you know it's not a defined pattern it's just having them in the intersection because it disrupts them doing donuts in that intersection sorry yeah good no go ahead so that stops the donuts but it doesn't really help with the street racing it does not okay um and so then how much uh roughly to install these in an intersection to prevent the donuts about how much does that cost per intersection I would actually have to do some research on that and get back to you okay but I think we're talking about the raised pavement markers yes um they're probably one of the lowest costs okay items that we have and the reason I ask is because in last year's budget we really doubled downed on Street striping and that maintenance and updating that schedule and so to the extent that we can piggyback those so as we're going out and re-striping these streets if it is that inexpensive to to install these reflectors if we can incorporate that into the design of their street striping that would be I think probably really helpful for us and because I know like for example 8th Avenue and District 9 is one that we get constant complaints on Street striping and street racing and so to the extent that we can restripe that street and then add those reflectors to to combat both to me that seems to make the most sense and so can we get a follow up IR on on what a program like that or maybe it's best for a budget response but some sort of information on what that combined program would look like thank you and maybe in the meantime I think a lot of council members have interest in providing more feedback on what roadways whether it's street racing problems or just speed and just let them know how you want that reported and we can do the same thing in our office because we do get a lot of complaints about this through social media and also through email so just tell them which email you want to fill up full of those you look really happy about that I know I'm so sorry [Laughter] um but I just want to commend Chief Aldridge in the department for how hard you've been working and know how much resource you're having to put towards this issue every single mayor I talk to in Texas right now is dealing with this so we're thankful that DPS is taking it seriously and Tech Stop for that matter so if anybody at this dice needs to help you especially on the legislative side Michael crane obviously chairs that committee I'm happy to do the same and the legislators I've talked to have said nothing but praise for our department and how they've been in Austin and helped Lobby on these issues but if you need anything else just let us know and I appreciate that and it's the officers on the street doing the job it is not me I can assure you of that they're doing a really good job and they're taking it just as seriously as I would yeah thank you Chief we appreciate you any other questions Council we'll keep going thank you thank you next informal report is also a police tpw partnership smart street lights and gunshot detection as collaborative Technologies Deputy Chief carbajal and Julius white with tpw so come on up I'll State the question that I've gotten so that the chief can be aware I've gotten a text message and basically this is from news media saying that several large metropolitan areas are getting pushed back and Chicago is facing legal issues by groups trying to have this technology evidence be inadmissible to courts and so as you tell us about it please keep that issue in mind to let me know how we're looking in Fort Worth well I'll just say on the record um Miss Mason a little crass but I do not think we want to be compared to Chicago when it's done violence so whatever this department is doing we are really appreciative and appreciate you pointing that out Gina but I think RC attorney's office is well prepared to make sure these are defensible in court nobody is like Chicago I'll tell fox for that okay thank you good afternoon Maryland Council this is an IR to update how we can Implement gunshot technology with our smart street lights if the city decides to consider that as an option um as we go forward the current status right now is in order to implement gunshot detection you need uh you need certain uh power sources as well as with cameras the smart street lights will provide that in a very efficient and effective way so really the point is just to get us up here to say that yes as this new technology comes on to play for both of us that we are working together yes um excuse me I'm going to touch on he's just speaking on the infrastructure of Street lighting and implementing gunshot triangulation what require significant investment to outfit each individual street light with what we call a smart note each node would report things such as tilt and vibration sensors voltage uh wire thefts knock downs we would basically be able to determine when a fixture would be able to uh when its end of life cycle would be coming up so we could kind of predict where a outage will be reported in that cycle with that no there is a power tap that could be used to power The Gunshot detection because it's just an acoustic microphone that's tuned to the frequency of a gunshot and what that is is that gunshot is then using PTZ cameras to triangulate where it come from what's ptd uh I'm sorry my apologies pan tilt and zoom okay wood pan tilted Zoom operations what we would do with the smart Street lighting is creating a spotlighting effect if we had a smart streamlined system the plan would be to run all street lights at a 70 to 75 percent threshold so we could extend the life cycle of each fixture possibly two to five years if a gunshot was detected when the camera turns the Tilt in the area where the gunshot comes from the area where the lighting is in that vicinity would increase and the lighting on the Outer Perimeter would decrease so in instance you get a spotlight in effect along with the video image so it is this triangulation of gunshots and smart streamline it can be implemented uh it has not been implemented in Texas uh there are a few cities doing both but not you know at the same time uh I do know that cities like Dallas has implemented things like a smart Street lighting controls that they're actually testing and Paladin however they have not integrated The Gunshot detection aspect but they're actually testing gunshots in a different part of town but they have not actually did the integration for both yeah are you an officer as well are you from Iowa I'm a senior CPO for transportation management okay what I would strongly suggest is that PD be sure to bring Roy Hudson in this conversation because the basis of these questions being raised is it might drive up unpleasant encounters between people and police in these areas which could often be high crime areas inner cities and so I think it's important that Roy Hudson be involved in the conversation so that if we do this the community is not caught off guard absolutely absolutely and just to kind of comment on that our whole focus with this technology is that we don't have those unpleasant encounters we want to have that laser focus so we'll definitely include everyone in the conversation but the whole purpose of this technology is to have limited interaction and those interactions that we do have are most effective in keeping everybody safe as well yes ma'am councilman crane yeah I just want to say thank you and I'll reiterate something I said in a private meeting um you know I'm uh in support of Technology as we can figure out how to uh stop crime I mean this is about preventing crime overall and we can catching and I'll say I hear from my neighborhood so I'll reiterate one of the things I did here I we have a whole plan in Las Vegas Trail for revitalization and I can't not get anything done there if people don't feel safe and so I hear from the neighborhoods I hear from other things and I see that's one of the target areas from the high crime so if we and I'll be supportive of this technology that we can use it there to test it to make sure it can work across the city and I'll advocate for it that way because we have to continue to make our citizens feel safe and if this is a way we can do it in a very um objective way to find out what crime is happening then we should be doing it and everything that we do so I appreciate you all researching this and putting this forward for us to consider thank you for your support councilman Flores you and I have talked about this when I made the original request for this IR uh I'm going to focus on a couple of things one you know I support this this approach this grant money gives us the ability to go ahead and evaluate these two things the IR reads of implementation and Technology well it's implementation but it there is no penalty cost to us because we're evaluating the tech right absolutely yeah between flock and uh a a column A co-m I guess right yes okay well good um when I first read it through my initial impression was that it was tied into the nips right the neighborhood Improvement programs but but it isn't necessarily right you also looked at the you know the previously provided information that we see with reported gunshots and the heat Maps Etc so I think that factors into it I did have one question and you know it's one of those uh what's in a name considerations right you say the historic north side west of the Stockyards Stockyards yeah um really uh 28th Street okay down to really Northside Drive and West over to Jacksboro that's that's not defined area but as you stated you know many factors to consider before we Implement implement this technology uh as as we get closer to implementation we're going to do another study and a heat map to where we have the most violent crime in combination with public population density and existing technology available to get the most bang for our taxpayer dollar okay and that's good and I think you've had some when I say you the editorial you uh PD had conversations with our neighborhood services folks especially those that are tasked with the uh you know management of our neighborhood Improvement programs I ask that you please consider to do that there's one that's uh you know uh starting up you know there in the greater North Side area of the historic Marine neighborhood yes sir as we discussed I think I explained to you where where those boundaries are I would like to see a boundary map of uh what is reference here is a historic North Side West so so I can have a better understanding because even within the greater north side there areas that have their own namesake absolutely just want to make sure that you know we're uh you know we're clear you know on the areas that we're going to get support you know a a good you know fact-based approach to you know getting this technology out there so we can evaluate it in the areas that need it the most uh so please you know coordinate with Amy Connolly you know there who you know setting up our neighborhood Improvement plans specific to the historic Marine see if there's opportunity there because money has not been allocated so you know that might be you know an area of interest to you but uh thank you you know for this great information thank you one thing I'd like to add Carlos you really do have to watch the dollars with with my neighborhood Improvement money I was able to keep it down to the penny because they will hide that money from you if you don't let them know you know how much is there and I'm serious and and the other thing when it comes to light when we started that neighborhood Improvement strategy street lights made the big difference in stop six Michael and so if if yours is the first to start I think you'll see a very a very Swift change but your como Community will may not welcome them because they didn't welcome the cameras whereas stop six north side whichever for the north side Ash Crescent all did but the key was giving people light to help them feel safe correct absolutely Elizabeth so I hear a lot of gunshots in my neighborhood and I have the benefit of receiving else emails so I know if that gunshot was related to some sort of violent crime and what I have obsessed out was that a lot of times it's not there just seems to be people like to shoot um and so what from a uh like a PR Communications standpoint other than enforcement are we doing to try to deter gunshots because I have personally come to the conclusion that we have just as a community decided it's real cool to go outside the middle of the night and pop off rounds and so what what can we do in addition to this enforcement to to curb that or what are we doing absolutely from a public awareness standpoint we have our mpos going out they go to places where we do have common areas and we'll put up especially obviously before the Fourth of July a big topic um we go out there and we put out literature saying you know these are the rules about shooting guns don't do them also a part of our violent crime initiative we've gone to areas as well and put out literature to educate people on on that it's not appropriate shoot guns any other questions Council um I appreciate the question uh councilwoman back and I will uh like the challenge that I think it needs to be a little bit more communication because the literature that you're probably handing out are giving her to the people who are probably not shooting guns sure so that probably needs to be a better approach maybe posting on social media um sponsoring a post um and I was looking at the IR when councilman crane had mentioned a Las Vegas Trail and I started looking at the uh different communities and not what I'm seeing uh that a majority of these communities that we have listed are um in areas I guess where we discover there's high crime or in areas of low income and so one of the questions I have is uh how do we discover these areas where does it conversation with council members or did you just use your crime radar to figure out where you want to Pilot these programs yes sir this is our preliminary study and we're always open to more suggestions as well but preliminarily they looked at where's the most gun violence and combination where is the most population density where also where is the most technology existing to get the most bang for our book because it The Gunshot technology alone is not the it's not the Silver Bullet for nobody intended it's uh you have to have other technology in place in order to make that you have to have other cameras in place and it's it's technology that's really put in in about a one mile area so you want to be very particular about where you put that to where you do get the most for your technology okay and I understand that and so in some of my senior living areas uh there is maybe not necessarily gun violence but it goes back to I think councilman Beck said there's gun shooting the people are just shooting guns uh in the air or whatever they may be doing I was actually talking to a resident the other day uh about Sin there's just a lot of shots going on got shot so um one of the questions I have is once the The Gunshot detected uh are you familiar with the program is it going to alert um the sergeant or what when it detects and the light gets brighter and the other lights get dim what happens at that next step well that's it there yet do is go to our real-time crime Center and then it's going to hit a human aspect then they're going to start zooming in on the cameras okay and seeing what they can see and once they decide that something worthy of dispatching an officer out there then they'll put that call out there so it's not just a shot going off and we're going to send officers everywhere that'll take up all our time so it's going to put that human element in combination with technology to give us the smartest approach okay so you kind of have an idea of what's happened on scene before you go which is a great idea that's the goal yes sir all right thank you officer chief questions anymore Council thank you both very much thank you deputy chief you might want to stay right there the next one is use of flock camera search functions and deputy chief carbajal is available if there any questions Carlos yeah uh deputy chief if you just cover again um what you and I had discussed I just want everyone listening in to be clear on the capabilities the flock cameras have the additional search functions that they do have you know by subscription if you choose to buy them if you can just cover that please absolutely the flock camera itself has the ability to detect license plates in the area and we can check those license plates reference to a database that tells us that someone has a potentially committed a crime or has warrants for their arrest specifically the IR references of the advanced search feature what that does it has three sections you have the Convoy analysis and it'll tell you when vehicles are traveling together so if I have a vehicle that I think is suspicious I want to know who his friends are I can see everywhere where it's hit and if it has someone else with it then I'll know in fact maybe that's someone I want to look at as well the other one we have is a multi-geo search so you can bounce a location where an offense has occurred if you have a camera nearby and just so you have a suspect or a gang House nearby you can check both both those locations to see if you get a commonality between those license plates and the last is going to be the visual search what that does it allows things like ring cameras or closed circuit TV you can get those images push them into our system and it'll search for that car in the system based on what it's what you put in there all right thank you sir the ring cameras those are is that part of the voluntary program where residents can enroll yes ma'am they can voluntarily enroll or just say an offense was occur where they haven't voluntarily enrolled the officer can say hey do you have any images they can check it if there's something of a car you can get that image sticking into our system and it'll try and find similar things in the area bouncing off the cameras but they'd have to grant that permission first absolutely yes ma'am Jared yeah I just want to follow up on that question as well can you explain for residents who may be watching what the registration process is and what it means I think some residents think that it gives you all direct access but I don't think that's necessarily the case you know I believe it's in a couple of different it's in a couple of different levels you can grant us access or you can just grant us access after the fact or you can just let us know that it's actually there so you can have it registered so we can know if there's a common Kirk this is someone that we're going to want to talk to so it's really where your comfort level is at perfect thank you and that that data is not publicly available if someone were to register their camera right okay anybody else thank you very much Chief thank you Chief next up is the towing management contract and deputy chief barthen is available if there any questions questions from Council all right next informal report is on the quantity of multi-family and detached multi-family unit development in current and future council districts in Dana Bergdorf is available if there any questions all right next informal reporters on options for posting start time on agendas and Jeanette Goodall is available if there are any questions I don't I don't have a question but yes I mean I do have a question I know I am too thank you Jeanette if you could just give us a quick high level of the changes that we're proposing to make for uh the times I don't remember exactly when we went with posting especially for the corporation boards and the ccpd board on the agendas to start immediately following the other meeting which allowed you to move into one meeting without having to wait for a posted time um so there were some concerns especially with the ccpd meeting with it being last trying to figure out when um a resident may want to attend um so your options really are going back to very specific start times which means you may have breaks in between your meetings or continuing the same type of posting we've been doing the what we did was we just moved the ccpd meeting immediately following the city council meeting since that was the one that the bulk of the residents were really more interested in attending and known when to show up a lot of times people would ask me what time do I think the meeting will start and it's difficult to give a time because it really varies on how long the previous or the earlier meetings take so that's that was our solution to so thank you because I'm not going to Advocate to put in times where we're split up because we're all so busy about I think it is great if we can do the ccpd meeting immediately following uh the council meeting and I believe these meetings are on the Tuesdays we start at 10 A.M correct correct and so to our residents who wants to participate in the ccpd meetings you are able to come to the city council meeting at 10 o'clock because this Council also approved free parking if you register with the city secretary is that correct or the city manager's office um you can get free parking through the city manager's office they have parking validation tickets right so that will take care of saying I don't know how long I gotta pay for parking and so I think this is a great move for it we have that uh but I will not advocate for setting a set time so thank you for this hour you're welcome all right our next informal report is on project management services at Will Rogers and the Will Rogers complex and William Johnson is available if there any questions I would like William to just describe this for those listening and special thanks to Matt Carter um and Rod Barnes for being here as well good afternoon mayor and Council um this this IR is to uh advise you of some discussions that we've been having with event facilities Fort Worth which is a non-profit arm of the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo that has really contributed over a number of years towards the economic viability of the the Rogers complex historically as major projects have come up in the past we've allowed or had them involved in managing major projects right now I think a couple of weeks ago we talked about the sheep and Swine barn but as you know there are additional improvements that we're planning to do at Will Rogers and it just made sense to start looking at whether or not they could also assist us in managing projects at the real Rogers they are probably more than anyone involved directly with the public getting feedback on issues out at Will Rogers as you know we're continuing to do evaluations of that facility and we thought that this was an opportunity to be more efficient and effective and implementing a lot of the improvements that need to be that need to be done at the Will Rogers so this is a continuation of a partnership we're talking to them about these projects and other projects that we may be having come that may be coming up in the future at a Will Rogers thank you William any questions Leonard go ahead yeah um could you just talk William about the timing of the implementation and what we can anticipate yes we have uh as you know we had already started a process of evaluating potential uh contractors and consultants for some uh initial improvements to The Concourse area restrooms out at the Will Will Rogers uh complex and at the same time we recently approved a contract uh that would to allow them to go ahead and procure a con an architect to design the improvements to the sheep and Swine Barn we had so those projects are already moving what this would allow us to do would be to allow them to participate in helping to manage some of the improvements that Council has already approved as well as the timing on additional major improvements that will be coming up once we issued that for I think about a 42 million dollar Improvement of the Will Rogers complex and and on that note um are there further funds that you can speak to that we're going to be putting to work and what what is the magnitude of those funds yeah in total as of today uh we know of and are in the process of having uh Council approve about 100 million dollars in improvements at Will Rogers um while we're and that's based on a 2019 assessment of the improvements needed at the Will Rogers complex we're updating that assessment now and I think it'll it's maybe another year or so before we'll have updated numbers on any additional improvements that are going to have to take place but we have a plan in place and we're working with finance and our financial advisors on how to fund how we intend to fund those improvements this year and with this call it a reorg of sorts um you mentioned that it'll make things more efficient do you think it will accelerate the timing of the work that can be done that's historically been the case um there will be a laser focus from this group and and more importantly it's not as simple as just going out and doing the work there's ongoing activities at the Will Rogers and so we have to work around a lot of the shows and the tenants and the bookings that have been been done there needless to say we anticipate that is immediately after the stock show ends next year you might see a lot of construction activity taking place because we'll be trying to get as much done as we can before the huge crowds are coming back to enjoy the stock show there okay thank you a few additional questions William so the 100 million dollars in improvements that's been dedicated Capital Improvements for Will Rogers based on this ir and I know you're working on additional agreement you feel like events facilities can start us now on those improvements with those projects correct that's correct that's correct and do you anticipate sounds like right now we're working on timing to to work on The Concourse and restrooms that's today we're not waiting till after the next stock show rodeo correct that's correct okay any other important projects that you might want to articulate for the public and those that might be watching that I know or there's a lot of attention around the improvements to what Rogers right so the entire facility is is under review um as I mentioned in 2019 there was an assessment where an additional I think we have what about 22 million that has been approved already for improvements there's an additional 42 million in improvements based on the 2019 study that we're ready to start the process of of Performing those improvements and we'll be coming back to council for approval to fund those later this summer in addition there's the sheep and Swine Barn improvements that's a 40 million dollar investment so major Investments and more to come as we continue to evaluate the need to upgrade the standards there we want the Will Rogers facility to really represent the city of Fort Worth we want it to be a place that we can all be proud of I think this is the 85th year so we're coming up on a hundred years of operation there and this is one of the crown jewels of the city we want to make sure that we're being representative thank you William and again thank you to Brad and Matt for attending today and for all the partnership with events facilities Fort Worth and Forest stock shine Rodeo we appreciate it yeah just want to make a comment I've supported This Will Rogers a great asset but I think we found with some of our other facilities here Brit the Coliseum of the Stockyards Zoo our public-private Partnerships can get things done more quickly again we've got some great City staff but I think so sometimes when we Outsource this of sorts to people that know what they're doing and care about it and have a lot invested like we know event facilities Fort Worth does it may be better and I know there's some timing with the sheep and Swine Barns and everything all the ongoing activities you talked about so I think this is a pretty smart move on our part to partner with them and get these things done thank you the next informal report is on Staffing of community centers and Aquatic facilities and Dave Lewis and Sonia's Singleton are available if there any questions but I just really appreciate you all putting this together and making sure that we're Forward Thinking this summer and we've learned from our mistakes from last summer we don't have to be perfect all the time but we have to learn from them so I really appreciate this thank you and the final informal report is on our street light program and it's a status update and Martin Phillips is available if there any questions all right mayor that concludes my report okay Council next item is any questions regarding zoning cases or on the MNC log it's upcoming for next week okay moving then to our first presentation results of commercial development study and steps required to create a One-Stop shop I think we're punting that is that correct we are okay I'll come back at a later date okay next one is briefing on the fourth lab which was going to start off with David Cook and Mark McDaniel all right I'll I'll kick it off hold on I wish I could shake it off David likes a good prop needs a good steam or iron but otherwise we'll let it pass so we're going to talk about the Fort Worth lab and I get to kick it off um I've had a goal for a number of years that envisions a group of employees working at a corporate level that combines data analytics budgeting or how we allocate our scarce resources and public policy analysis all with the idea of answering the question for you city council and our citizens in our community how are we making Fort Worth a better place and our organization we have a large number of plans we collect a lot of data we have a large operating and capital budget and we measure a lot of activities I think there is Magic though when you combine all of that and then have a bunch of curious people that ask public policy questions like has the increase in spending in street lights and pavement markings made Fort Worth a safer place and has traffic and pedestrian pedestrian accidents gone down or we've added a number of Civilian response positions in police to handle lower priority activity how has that improved the availability of time for Control Officers or how can we improve the 9-1-1 system from the time the caller calls us to the time the response is by their side and it is also about looking into the future like how will artificial intelligence drones robotics affects Service delivery and how we deliver services in the city of Fort Worth in the past we've had a department it was been named budget management budget and research performance and budget and most recently planning and data analytics I asked Mark McGann Mark McDaniel to look at where we are look at where we need to be and then tell us how we're going to get there so we're making the recommendation of and we're calling it Fort Worth lab and Mark's going to describe what that means I think it's a great visual though right it is about exploration it's about learning it's about analysis it's about cause and effect and most importantly it's about making Fort Worth a better place not only today but tomorrow next week next year next decade and the generation that follows so this is our idea of how do we take all of what we already produce which is plans data measurements and turn it into useful information for you our city council and our community mark Dr Mark take it away thank you Dr Cook so um good afternoon mayor and Council it's a pleasure to be in front of you after three months being here and talking to a lot of folks here on the ground in Fort Worth and also talking to a lot of my colleagues around the nation that are part of the my network and my previous life and a lot of the different associations that have also helped to contribute to this and you'll see that as we proceed through the slides our apologies I interrupt you but I'd like for you to introduce for those watching and those maybe that know who you are and your background and why you're so critical for this role and how David somehow suckered you into it thank you mayor so Mark McDaniel um been in City management for 35 years manage City's 8 000 population up to 1.3 million uh with the with Dallas um and then I got the opportunity to come here to Fort Worth after speaking with David when I was recruiting to fill this position that I'm feeling right now on an interim basis and so my my career has built been built mostly on City management but also with an emphasis on performance Improvement and in budgeting and fiscal analysis thank you thank you so we always like to tie back to our vision and Mission whenever we begin a New Journey and our vision as you can see here does mention that we'll be the most livable and best managed city in the country and so Fort Worth lab definitely has that vision in mind then we look at our mission it's also about working together to build a strong community and the way we have structured and formatted the Fort Worth lab is definitely what makes it different perhaps than other efforts and a lot of collaboration particularly among all departments and all staff we always like to also remind ourselves as staff as we begin a new effort about the Strategic Vision priorities that you all established here recently as you see on the slide here all three of them supporting the quality of life so what's next as we've talked about it's the Fort Worth lab and so it's building Municipal systems capabilities to explore analyze and learn from data and the why is really important to talk about as as well so why why would we do this I think Mr cook really articulated it well but it's also enhanced in meaningful public engagement that that's the fuel for this to make it work collaboration among departments as I mentioned just a moment ago and also making sure that we have our eye on the ball in terms of the council strategic Vision priorities and then better tools to develop and use data analytics so you'll see in a moment where we're bringing in some resources to do that and then looking at our performance Trends so that we can begin to what we call Bend the curve in a favorable direction as we see Trends develop over time also enhanced transparency and accountability so that we we own uh the work that we're doing and then just better informed consideration for both long and short-term decisions so making that happen as has been mentioned the planning and data analytics will be transformed to become the Fort Worth lab through the realignment collaboration of people tools and systems before I go into the driver which is really the public engagement and and hearing from the council and other stakeholders I want to talk a little bit about leadership which will make sure that this is sustainable over time so uh the whole effort reports up through to the city manager and we want to introduce a corporate Advisory board so if you think about Fort Worth being a really a multi-billion dollar Corporation with several thousand employees I think we can learn some things from the private sector uh which I have done in a prior life uh for them to advise us on best practices in the private sector and how we could apply those in the public sector now we know we know that government can't necessarily be run like a business but we do know that we can borrow best practices from the private sector and use them and you'll see some of those in a moment so the idea here is that Mr cook would would appoint c-suite Executives uh from large some of the largest employers in Fort Worth to serve on this board they'd meet at least twice a year to hear about what we're doing and make suggestions about how we might further improve the way that we're running as an organization the other really critical piece here is the staff leadership steering committee will be meeting once a month and we'll be talking about the deployment of these strategies the pace that we're proceeding that and just all the strategies involved to make sure that it's going to work and also so that they own it and they have a stake a stake in it then the chief transformation officer will report up and run the lab on a day-to-day basis so you don't see this title a lot in the public sector you will see it in private sector and we're pleased to introduce it here uh to to really be accountable for making sure all this works so on the left hand side this is really the fuel that drives the engine is all that feedback mechanism whether it's the council telling us what your key priorities are and those driving budget decisions and the way we do business on business planning or it's the community with our traditional surveys which we still do and we're about to launch another one here in a while or the traditional Town Hall meetings right those are still part of this now if you think about budget comprehensive planning the bond program those are all public engagement efforts we want to make sure that those dovetail and that they're working together and that we are kind of cross-pollinating information for those efforts and doing it all out of the lab and so we'll also be using a lot more robust platforms software platforms to get feedback from people that perhaps we don't hear from all the time uh and and that will then complement the citizen surveys so I'm going to start going into each of these components first of all we talk we start with strategic foresight and future Tourette's so this is working with an outside firm with the alliance for Innovation Fort Worth is actually a member of this organization so we already get some of their studies and this is looking out as uh the city manager mentioned 30 to 50 years from now what does service look like not just in the U.S but around the world and how Service delivery could be provided for for in the future and then talking to a lot of stakeholders maybe inside the organization even outside the organization here in Fort Worth and really discussing what if you know what if we could do this and how would that work and what sort of technology is out there now so there's a it's a group of futurists that can look at a variety of topics and we're toying with what that first one might be I would Envision doing about two of these a year and so we've looked at a number of service areas that we might want to um really hone in on and so you know we do a lot of studies now like the Matrix studies and the Gateway study or City Gate studies but that's really about the here and now it's not about what is that Service delivery look like 20 30 40 50 years from now and how can we position ourselves now to be able to really take advantage of those new technologies uh whether that's artificial intelligence or just a new way of doing things the next piece is data analytics we do this in the organization um some of our better departments at this I would say are probably police and perhaps transportation and Public Works uh experimenting with a lot of tools so we're we're Contracting with the firm called delivery Associates this is a this is a firm actually out of the UK but they have a lot of presence in the U.S and so they provide us tools and then they train us how to use those tools and it's kind of turn teaching us how to fish right so after they're gone then we can still use those tools and what we what we anticipate here is a multi-phase program where we're taking a few departments a year and walking them through the use of these tools helping to train them train them and use these tools and then you'll see that next with priority-based budgeting as well so the first three departments that we're focusing on are police transportation and public works and we want to use an internal service um so we're going to use human resources to help them to analyze the data and use these new Tools in different ways that we've never used before uh it'll also really start looking at things like Predictive Analytics and transportation and Public Works is already experimenting with with with some of this now about where they need to focus their maintenance dollars or where they might anticipate uh you know street lights going out that sort of thing the next piece is party-based budgeting and this is moving away from that traditional line item approach where we're really um talking about putting things in front of the council decision packages that are about is does this meet your priority and to what degree does it meet your priorities so we can rank each of those decision packages in that way so when we ask the Departments to submit their budget they're doing them in alignment with these priorities and so we'll have a firm resource X help us with that again teaching us how to do it so that we don't we don't have to have them on on board all the time they're kind of a lab partner so to speak for now and so they'll help us prioritize and allocate mapping those costs back to the Strategic priorities so the listening sessions that we had with all of you uh to interpret for us with the what the priorities meant that information will then go into this help us to to prioritize each of these in that way uh the next piece is what we already do in terms of comprehensive planning um and we're as you all are very well aware we're about to launch on a very public effort haven't done that in about 20 years as far as the extent to which we want to engage the public in developing the next comprehensive plan uh that RFP is already out on the street um and we will ask the council to select a service provider mid-summer and then work we will likely begin in the fall so this is what Eric and his team has traditionally done but but we're going to go beyond that in this next block so we want to take on the coordination of the bond program still you know in orchestration with William and his group and Dana and her her group and others on helping to develop that and and provide all the input that they normally do but then we also want to develop a Strategic investment plan so it's taking all the plans that we have today not just the comprehensive plan but also area development plans The Village plans Tiff plans PID plans Water and Sewer plans layering all that together and then making recommendations around where do we get the most bang for our buck and be strategic about the investment of our infrastructure uh so Eric and his group along with the budget team will be doing that and I'm so excited about this because we're finally marrying the comprehensive planning function with the budgeting function particularly on the capital side uh we're also going to be I think you're aware of this because it was an IR earlier uh look at using um some tools for fiscal analysis around land use decisions so when you have a zoning case or a land use change you have some idea about fiscal impacts and so we're looking at uh providing that information as well out of Eric's group this next piece is strategic planning at the department level we'll call it Fort Worth stat this is a program that you'll find in the nation's largest some nation's largest cities where it's a really kind of a quick um review of every Department in the city at least twice a year when there's not you know you know you're not fighting a fire in some emergency and it's not the budget process so you can really focus on what's Happening and this is where you'll have their SWOT analysis their goals that align back up to the council strategic priorities you'll also have actions to achieve those goals and what's the dollar amount that might be associated with that so that when we're putting the budget together we've aren't we don't already know about what the Departments might be bringing to us because we've talked about it in these Fort Worth stat meetings or we call them turn the curve or bend the curve meetings and they'll be static statistics statistics in there that will be able to to monitor over time and look at those Trends and so the new lab will help the Departments who develop these strategic plans or the Fort Worth stat plans the next piece is sunrise reviews uh this is a kind of a knockoff if you will on Sunset reviews I've done sets of reviews in a prior life they're negative you never really eliminate whole programs you just really evaluate them and see what you could do better and so we're calling them Sunrise reviews because it's about new beginnings and looking at the way we do business and how can we do it differently to make it even better and so we'll identify opportunities for these maybe two three a year that will conduct through the Fort Worth stat meetings and also through the data analytics and other ways of getting this information up through either the leadership or from employees making suggestions even the next piece is lean Six Sigma and the parallel organization Fort Worth has a history of the use of lean Six Sigma I know that we've all heard the staff stand up here and talk about whether it's in Lauren's group or um you know another group development services how they're using lean six Enigma to improve processes with the employees who are closest to the issues understanding them better conducting the analysis and so this is really taking it to a whole another level and deploying it in a whole different way and supporting those efforts that are already happening today but going beyond that and it really enhancing that program across the organization so let's just say for example uh we take two cohorts through the process maybe there's 10 to 15 of that are in that process per year we teach them how to do lean Six Sigma but they start their training with a project it's not they go through all their training and okay now you have a project they start with the project from the very beginning so they're starting to make an impact from the very beginning with their project once you get to kind of a critical mass with the number of employees that have gone through this program the mindset on looking at ways things are done um really changes they start looking at it in different ways and say what if we did this and why do we still do it this way and so it really begins to take on a life of its own and move the organization not just the leadership pulling the organization from the top the people in the from the middle of the organization or even the bottom pushing it up and forward in an all in the same direction and that's what I mean when I talk about that parallel organization where you've got this group of people that are really developing some energy in the organization to move all in that same direction and then last piece um is a as a first in the nation we're working with the government Finance Officers Association of America to deploy a fellowship program around rethinking budgeting and so their initiative on budgeting is is really it's the two differences that I that major differences are number one uh over the top public engagement so that you really understand what your citizens want and number two um would be the whole idea of party-based budgeting so that it's not just that line item budgeting it's really about funding those things that are most important to you as a community and so we'll bring in some fellows each year gfoa will will provide a curriculum uh and these will be a one-year fellow and hopefully some of these individuals will come on full time with us not just in the lab but every Department's got budget staff and so this would be a great pipeline for some real talent and some energy around that in the organization so here's the implementation uh we've already uh we're already bringing on strategic Partners uh to help us with this that I mentioned earlier whether that's delivery Associates or Alliance for Innovation or resource X um this position that I'm holding now I'll start recruiting for my replacement that'll fill the position full time in May and then we're realigning our staff to make sure that we are able to pull this off and then we'll uh phase in those each of these components over time and then here's again a timeline in terms of what I just described and we're going to layer in the proposed budget process so with that mayor and Council be happy to answer any questions thank you Mark Council from question Council whatever I'm trying to say questions from Council there you go Jared thank you thank you for the presentation I have two questions one's um kind of off the cuff but um for as long as you hear are you going to wear that white coat moving forward yeah we're gonna get the the not logo but the brand on it we'll wear these up in the shop can you provide it to all of us sure absolutely yeah um the second question is um I really appreciate your vision and really love the direction um thank you David as well um what happens next for you after the July August timeline of a CTO being onboarded I'll answer that so he wants to post the position I have to approve posting the position right that's what I'm trying to figure out thanks for the presentation Mark so generally speaking I get it you know you're going to have a descriptive a prescriptive predictive um in diagnostic approach to this right that all sounds great you know I like it I guess going forward um you mentioned the three departments that you're going to start with police tpw and HR uh you know I can guess maybe at least on some starting points what they're going to look at uh going forward I'd like to get some information on how much input these three third-party entities are going to have when it comes to Staffing right if they're going to offer us modeling capabilities that can tell us you know where we went wrong in the past what is going on in the present what we should look like in the future I just kind of want to know the balance right I mean my expectation is the city you know that that Authority resides first with the city manager so I kind of want to get some detail later on you know on how all that's going to uh to play out yeah very very good point and it's top of mind and that's why the steering committee is so important meeting on this as far as strategy and then also in talking with uh David and his team about the resources that it's going to take to do this to make sure that we're property resourced thank you Gina thank you very impressive presentation here I've got a question for you now I don't keep up with a lot of them but I know that we've got at least one company in Fort Worth that's won the Malcolm Baldridge that being Frieza Nichols they're the first to win it in their category Nationwide back in 2012. I would imagine that companies like that you would want to partner with because Frieza Nichols continues to spread the gospel of performance now we've had we hired a Six Sigma Black Belt here years ago David that's why I looked at you I got real excited then then she was gone I don't know what didn't connect there but do we have a list or roster of who we have who's already trained in Six Sigma Greenville black belt do you know we do not have the list mayor Pro tem but we will we're going to start developing that list because that's going to be critical as we we talk about deployment you know who are who are the folks that are already very familiar with this well I'm kind of lackluster because I've been to this party before David knows I was real excited and then that chick was gone I don't know where she went but uh some some things that come to mind for me are you know aviation in terms of who you're pulling from David when I think of Aviation I think of DFW now second busiest North America I think of course at the beginning SF railroad I don't know how you pull in the local providers uh when it comes to health care I'm thinking about thr JPS we got our level one Trauma Center there Jones Lang LaSalle who's coming here and so I'd like to make sure that you keep this this entire Council in the loop of this because there may be resources we all have that we can help with this but you know for sure I would expect Frieza Nichols to have a seat at this table and they would love to be there yeah Bob her is one of my mentors and Cindy millraney was actually on my Advisory board when I was in Dallas so right on Cindy did my strategic plan for me at my real job after they won it awesome any other questions from Council Leonard go ahead yeah um just uh maybe a couple comments David one uh thank you for your vision in um thinking about this as a strategic move for the city I think we're going to be better for it um and mark thank you for the presentation it's super thoughtful and um very in-depth so um uh uh what very well done thank you I I guess my one question is about um work product so what can Council expect on what kind of timeline in terms of how to see um what the work that you all are doing and implementing and in what form will that come so for phase one we hope to begin launching that we will uh before this fiscal year ends and so that's not just setting the shop up but also launching the priority-based budgeting with fiscal year 24. that's going to be a little challenging because we are short staffed right now but we we've been talking with our our partners we think we can pull that off and also introducing the data analytics for those three departments that I just just mentioned and so um you'll begin to see some of the tools that they're using probably six months to you know nine months in fiscal year 24 because they'll be uh we'll be mapping uh on the priority-based budgeting leading up to fiscal year 24 and then we'll be training also during that time on the data analytics and so then you'll be able to they'll be able to use those in the following fiscal year I'll be submitting a budget request to enhance our staffing levels not dramatically but enough to to do this properly um and so those folks will come on in fiscal year 24. I anticipate we'll do probably four or five more departments in the next fiscal year and then keep that going and develop a full year plan for deployment so all 30 or 26 departments however many there are are already programmed about when you're going it's not a matter of if you're going it's when and so everybody can know and prepare but then also the way we're doing this in a phased way helps us to teach a few departments to do it well and then everybody gets to see how it's working and we also get to see some of the issues that we might be developing you know facing in the process and and then improve it on the next phase so uh again uh Ergo the you know the reason for the phased approach and in your work or your experience previously um the the program that you have designed here and outlined um do you all work with audit in any way to coordinate um you know the efforts uh their efforts along with what you're seeing in terms of uh better practices yes um in my prior life we did um that the auditor actually had a seat at the table and on the steering committee so we were aware what what he and his shop were doing and vice versa and David and I have talked about that and how we might make sure that um you know there's some some knowledge about what each is doing and how we can you know share collaborate I guess to match your question about what you can expect you know the Fort Worth stat um implementation really needs to replace our uh our our narrative side of the budget you know where they they report their kpis and their goals and their objectives that's going to be replaced with Fort Worth stat so that they're working on it a full year it just rolls right into seamlessly to the budget process and you're looking at those Trends over time so we want to deploy that hopefully before the end of this fiscal year maybe beginning of next fiscal year the Strategic foresight initiative we want to launch that even this fiscal year so you'll start seeing some of this now and then a lot next year thank you any other questions or comments from Council no very exciting thank you very much thank you David thank you our last presentation is integral strategies and Renee tell us is going to kick things off with Carlo capua just as a reference for Council we're not going to do the overview of credit rating agency meetings because we've got one we're outstanding on so good afternoon mayor and Council Carlo capio chief of strategy innovation and as you can see in keeping with the city manager's theme and Mark McDaniel Carlo and I uh dressed up as intergovernmental Municipal workers today that's right thank you thank you doctor so in our roles Renee and I we really focus on the synthesis of people and information to make sure that we're all working toward the well-being for the city of Fort Worth and its residents and visitors and so we were talking yesterday about intergovernmental strategy our approach is probably best synthesized by if you've ever been to Africa you probably heard this proverb uh it's uh if you want to go fast go alone but if you want to go far go together and so we plan on going very far together we've been working about the past six months with city manager cook for three things number one to make sure that our efforts are aligned with all of our partners number two to make sure that the city of Fort Worth is at the table on a local County State and National level and number three that we're thinking intentionally to make sure that we serve every diaspora group and manage growth here in the city so we'll just give you a brief update and here's the the flow is we will the truth we'll go through the why the key players and then the proposed concept so you may remember by now you're probably very familiar with this slide that you've seen probably ad nauseam a few months ago this was your strategic Vision priority and when you look at intergovernmental strategy a thoughtful approach will focus on those three at the bottom Community investment Community safety and growth all of which impacts as you can see the quality of life and so we also saw you may be familiar with the city manager work plan uh Mr cook in section 5c he specifically calls out intergovernmental with a Veterans Affairs liaison and any good intergovernmental strategy would touch on these three City values talking about respect customer experience and continuous Improvement and so we're here today to share how your city values your city council priorities the city manager work plan and these organizational values all come together to meet that need and in part of assessing that need is really working off the premise and the acknowledgment that we can and should be doing more in this area and so we want to be able to have this function um that we'll we are proposing here at the end be able to take um from the city perspective to working with our team members from the macro to the micro in the micro to the macro so that both entities can be able to receive a benefit whether it's a project or just the organization as a whole so when we were looking at the um when we were assessing the organizations we could better be involved with and or improve our relationships with um we thought it would be best in our mind if we place them into these three buckets and you'll see those played out as we move through the slides but just to kind of question maybe for the table or our viewing audience surprised us when you think about how many Municipal entities or city-like organizations do you think actually touch the city of Fort Worth boundaries or Fort Worth surrounds them go ahead 31 that we actually touch and then counties that we actually touch are are seven of those and so the objective again is for us to be able to break down the silos and actively build relationships with these entities now our history of collaboration has maybe not been necessarily the best or or what it could have been and so we realize that as we begin this process that there may be some Skeptics that may question our authenticity as we move forward and so really the low-hanging fruit as we look at these adjacent government entities will be for the city manager and his leadership team to make one-on-one meetings with the leadership Administration for each of these entities and go to these organizations kind of on a listening tour and begin asking them on their space on their Turf and on their time what it is their issues and challenges um they are facing so that we can know how we can either better support or complement what they're doing and it's not so that we are going to come in as the big dog and tell others what to do and then as we look into our regional committees this is just the first slide of two slides and we realize that some electeds and some employees have been attending these or have a seat at these at the table for other situations maybe not so much but we want to be able to take full advantage of the seat we are provided we can go on to the next slide so that we can guarantee that the perspective of the city managers leadership team and the council's goals are being carried through to these tables and then being brought back to the CMO team as we make long-term plans for the city very much tied into kind of what you're hearing about the Fort Worth lab and ensuring that we can all be rowing as best in the same direction as possible and then next as we establish the common need to realize our Collective power we have the cogs committees and subcommittees that are going to help us realize that Vision as well so quite a big chunk of organizations and entities that we've on this initial assessment looked at that we need to to be working with so when actualizing that from administrative standpoint these are the components that we know we most need to fill in relation to Personnel time and serve in different roles many of these individuals already working in roles that they see but this includes of course the Veterans Affairs that we've been talking about the regional committees that you saw the logos for the touching base with the other governmental entity municipalities and then the educational component as well and a special thanks to Diana Giordano for helping us look at what a Veterans Affairs position looks like across other municipalities what the pay is and what the job description is and thanks also to the City Secretary office I called Cog just you know the whole list of committees and they even admitted we have like a gazillion committees they said so having one person really own this and making sure that we have a seat at every table and that what's being talked about in one organization in another organization or maybe synthesized for example let's say that a school district in Fort Worth were having a billion dollar Bond well how does that affect our roads and our traffic and our safety and maybe our open space and our Parks I think having those in intentional collisions between departments and key stakeholders would be really important and so working out the details of how in many additions to these team will work with our current staff members will really help complete the team and that's something that we're continuing to talk about but we welcome your comments and and feedback and questions thank you sure thanks um I want to be clear on the reason why I think that this is very important and I open the floor up to my colleagues we do said those of us that sit on the regional transportation committee or the Trinity Metro or various boards um you know I think we try to do a sufficient job of making sure that we are relaying that information to staff when appropriate as it comes through but we sometimes aren't maybe the best conduits for that we have the base and you know that's a huge entity we have TCU Texas Wesleyan right we have all of these major institutions working within our city and I sometimes feel like I'll see something on the news that maybe the base is doing or Texas Wesleyan or you know whoever it is I think well that would be right that would have been great to know about and I think that enhanced communication one keeps us more informed and it helps us support our partners those major players in this city in a more comprehensive way and I think by doing that we support our residents in a more comprehensive way too right if we start with the big ones then we can move to those smaller entities um you know we have we are very lucky in this and what I don't see up here and I'd be open to discussion we are really really lucky in this community that we have a lot of great philanthropic organizations that do some amazing work um in the education space but but also outside of the education space and to the extent that um one of those roles is trying to make sure that we're working with those organizations as well particularly you know the larger ones obviously we can't work with all of them um but really focusing on getting the information from those entities and being able to push them out to our residents for example if there's a major training operation on the base that's going to have increased traffic air traffic or you know something that would cause alarm to Residents you know Michael being able to send an email out saying don't be alarmed when you see this it's not Jade Helm right we'll be good to go and so it's those types of things that that I really would like us to improve on in this and so I appreciate y'all putting this together um and I've got lots more suggestions but we'll take those offline thank you Alan Ellen and Gina so Carlo Renee thank you so much for bringing this together and bringing it to us today at the very end of the discussion you mentioned Carlo and the slide kind of covers what I was going to ask the question about and that's the school districts we have a number of school districts and right now between the North side of Fort Worth I mean the far north of Fort Worth and the South Side we have about 3.3 3.4 billion dollars worth of bonds that they're issuing that's going to be construction and and so I think it's really important that we consider our interactions with the school districts to to Really stay on top of that both from traffic from safety and just educational assistance that we can do so I'm glad to see that come through at the end thank you thank you I was just going to pick up that Crowley for example is going to build eight new schools which means they have to find eight new sites we ought to be part of the site acquisition group just because we're going to be impacted by roads sidewalks and other things so it's Inc it's improving the coordination of all that and we do have that with Eagle Mountain Saginaw ISD you know you remember that they even provided us with their comprehensive plan and I think a lot of Staff members have that so I mean that's in that same direction we should continue to coordinate with the others remember Tim Bivens yeah I was just going to piggyback uh David I I noticed that you and the team met with Crowley ISD and I was really excited um to see that and this is a testament to the work that y'all already beginning so I think it's I think you're absolutely right that coordination is necessary Gina since this is the Silly Season of politics I'm going to make sure you all know my role in this I had a conversation with Carlos six months after you came on board and explained to him that I saw him potentially leaving or getting bored if he didn't have something more comprehensive and I knew that because I heard his conversations through the walls and he would be I knew I should have wore that headset he would be he'd be dealing with potholes loose dogs all the things that you know I saw him bigger than and the idea of intergovernmental relations is what what I talked to you about now I'm going to Echo what Alan said in in that Vision included relationships with these school districts that we touch but I will caution you guys if you'll go back to the Cobb page or slide that you have I'll caution you that the committee that Elizabeth mentioned the council members who served on that committee are very territorial I expect slav to be in the traditional supportive role which is what they serve right now I serve as Vice chair Mike is on that committee Allen is on that committee as is Elizabeth we need to continue having that support from tpw that we get I can promise you Kelly looks at every agenda before I sit at that chair and if if I'm back here in a few weeks or so I'll be chair and I assure you I need staff to be supportive so don't get out in front of counsel that off that happens too often yes ma'am I I will also commend you on the structure that you have but we also need to take a look at what are we doing with tml NLC icma there are so many opportunities but in spite of this great presentation that you've given us today David I am still concerned about the weakness of are communicating through traditional forms of communication to the public and so we can we can continue building up other things but until we get a very strong Community engagement program that talks to John Q public about when we meet what's on the agenda where is City Hall then we still have that we still have that week's link and so I thought we were going to be getting that addressed with with the change that we have now but I need to see a traditional public information office and until we get that the bigger we get we'll have more frustrated citizens because we're not communicating what they expect from us so that's just my concern and it pains me and maybe I'm just kind of stuck on that because I used to serve in that role and I know how that role functions but we do not communicate things to the average citizenry as we should and as we're expected to so I would like to see us work toward that and I will help with that don't be confused it's a great presentation thank you since it's been brought up a couple times actually go back to the Cog it actually the regional Coordinating Committee that she was talking about that deals with the base that makes sure it's continued continues to thrive and survive isn't actually not on that list so that's another one that should be added anyone else on Council [Music] thank you very much for the presentation Council that's the last of our presentations any future agenda items you want to alert city manager cook too oh yeah go ahead Chris let me find it uh I do uh and I have met with the uh the people who are working to bring in our new police monitor uh some in the community is asking what is the public engagement looks like for the new police monitor higher so we can put some information out there with that public engagement is going to look like I think most of them were pretty pleased with the last time Kim was hired with the public engagement we want to know how this one is going to look um that's all I have anyone else Leonard go ahead yeah um I would like to request an IR uh to explain why the concert at the panther Island Pavilion Sunday night and this was two Sundays ago April 23rd was allowed to happen so close to neighborhoods um we received I can't even tell you how many calls and and emails uh complaints from residents on the West Side those neighborhoods who were trying to get their children to bed on Sunday night heck I was trying to go to bed Leonard it wasn't the kids well we heard it as well yeah um and so you know windows were rattling um and again there were a ton of complaints so you know specifically uh I'd like to know if proper permits were approved for this event did the concert go above approved noise decibels why would such a concert be allowed so close to neighborhoods what was that a consideration uh why was this concert allowed to go on until midnight and is there a way to prevent this from happening again in the future Jared I have uh two items um one is related to earlier conversation on traffic enforcement section David um I don't know if it's a budget response or whatnot it doesn't necessarily have to be IR but I would like um for us to have a discussion about um what what is um what our chief staffing needs with respect to the traffic and force and division to adequately enforce traffic on our arterials um the second thing um you might want to add authorized strength to that today yeah yeah well received the second thing is um I'd like IR to better understand um our Street Maintenance schedules for neighborhoods we have some older neighborhoods that are in need of some fairly intensive Street work and so just want to better understand what that looks like ahead of our discussions on Pago and the upcoming budget and some of it may need to be in the next Bond so just want to better understand that program before having those discussions Michael I have two one um in our ongoing work with the small business task force uh all the credit Carlo for sending the Arlo article around showing that fourth is the ninth the best place to open a business um they had categories business environment business environment access to resources and business costs it seemed we were pretty non-competitive in business costs to open a business so I'd like an RR just looking at our cost to open a business here and as compared to other like sized cities and then a second IR as we're we just talked about the Abu Dhabi Festival I know Leonard you appreciated down Panther Island um and getting into the fireworks season um I know that we fire we have we follow our fire code International Fire Protection Association dealing with the rules about when we actually permit large commercial firework displays but I'm wondering what our noise ordinance and setbacks from neighborhoods say with those big commercial I have had some uh some inquiries into fireworks within neighborhood settings that are authorized and we permit but it may not actually be the safest thing so thank you any other items Council okay with that getting adjourned [Music] foreign [Music]