21st it is obvious our beloved and highly respected mayor is not here today I am sitting and standing in her Stead and not very prepared at this time because all my stuff is upstairs but first on the agenda is the report of the city manager city manager cook thank you very much good afternoon everybody uh we're in a minute I'm going to jump right to informal reports but before that I think councilmember crane wants to make an introduction yeah thanks David I just want to introduce I have a constituent here Matthew O'Brien that's a junior at Fort Worth Country Day and he's been shadowing because he may want to get into this public policy realm someday so we'll see if he if he's convinced one way or another but I just want to welcome him here today thanks welcome did you tell him he had to stay all day all right does he really all right thank you okay then we're going to jump right into informal reports the first informal report is on the 2023 election information and Outreach and Michelle good is available if there any questions moving on second and former report is the Amber Alert Network and Robert Aldridge is available if there any questions there's people looking at you walking up that's it there wasn't but since since walking up I think I can find a cup I got three in a row yeah yeah um I quick question does the same work for the silver alert as well so the criteria is just a little bit different um but yes we still go through DPS and it's at 65 or older um but yes they got to prove that you know there's a danger to them uh in order to get that alert out okay and so and just help me reconcile because I know we get the alerts or the emails through the PD notification system it says it's a missing elderly or child and so I guess at that point we haven't made the determination as to whether like when we get those correct so you get you get the initial call that we get which is we're going out there to determine what are the circumstances why this person is missing uh and we're trying to wrap our head around it if it rises to the level of maybe an amber alert or a silver alert then we call our major case unit out there because they're the ones that give the notifications to DPS okay and do we have a Target time frame when we try to do we try and exhaust all of our leads so we try and contact the friends of the family and we try and contact any other locations that they normally you know go to and visit and so we run down those leads first Sometimes they can take 30 minutes other times they can take a couple of hours but we try and do our due diligence before we pull that you know that alert out there thank you I really appreciate that you bet okay stay there the next informal report is on criminal offenses occurring at Dollar Stores oh yeah oh yeah I would like to know what you're finding out and the reason why I asked for this months ago is because for whatever reason even in Dallas it made news that these seem to attract the criminal element and it really gets bad during the holidays which were past now but what what what did you learn so out of the dollar stores we have about 72 dollar store locations that's Dollar General Dollar Tree and Family Dollar and those are the stores that we primarily looked at you have some other mom and pop stores that might have a dollar connotation but they were pretty small and insignificant out of those 72 locations we had approximately 452 crimes that occurred at those locations to put that into context we had 53 000 reported crimes so there's you know if you really kind of look at that in that context there wasn't a whole lot of crimes at the dollar store and whenever you're talking about uh violent offenses there were 29 total violent offenses at the 72 Stores um out of those 29 violent offenses 11 of the robberies were what we call shoplifting gone bad so somebody shoplifted an item a Kirk clerk tries to grab them or they get pushed down in the course of a theft it's classified as a robbery so if you take that out I mean basically we had about 18 violent crime offenses at the dollar stores so you know not really a high volume of a violent crime that have occurred here most of it was property crimes burglaries thefts things of that nature I like the way you use the term burglary going bad or whatever because in the case that brought this to my attention you had two women working night shift somebody was shoplifting they tried to apprehend and he took on the the older woman and they are not allowed to bring any type of weapon on site like most employees will will not allow do we have any type of contracts with those types of convenience stores where we provide you know cops provide private security so if they would like if they want to reach out and have security we have no problem providing security but the majority of these stores have not asked for our assistance in that in that Arena okay okay thank you absolutely all right the next one is uh noise ordinance issues use of decibel meters in Muffler enforcement good okay next informal report is on the our competitive pay plan update Indiana Giordano is available if there any questions no questions David but I'd like to get uh just for the viewing Publix uh purpose hear a little bit about that Diana okay so Deanna Giordano Director of Human Resources just kind of what this um IR reports is that we constantly look at our pay competitiveness in the metro area and amongst Texas cities we're currently in the middle of a market study where we look at about 150 of our 500 job classifications to look at how we compare in terms of pay with those other area cities as well as private sector pay data and we also look at like jobs where their educational requirements and experience are similar in nature to make sure that we're paying employees competitively in addition to that we also look at just the total compensation and so for employees that join the city of Fort Worth not only do they have the base pay package that we extend but we also extend benefits around benefit subsidies where the city contributes to their health care plan we have pension contributions that are in upwards of 26 to 27 percent depending on their career field of choice and so we also look at those actors as well in addition this IR covered kind of the living wage for individuals that live and reside in the area of Fort Worth and it appears that our living wage needs for those that reside in Fort Worth in comparison to what we pay on average is adequate for our employees and again we just continuously evaluate the pay to make sure that we don't fall behind in any particular area one question that I have for you you mentioned that the living wage so far and the study is still ongoing and here later I'd like to know when that study is going to be completed but adequate to me that doesn't really strike and know where I think that where we want to be right as a city we need to be more than adequate we need to be attractive in terms of attracting talent and retention are these two things in in your mind as we uh go through this study yes those are things that we keep at the Forefront to make sure that we are attracting Talent quality talent to the jobs that we have that are vacant as well as retaining talent for individuals that have committed to um the city of Fort Worth is an employer okay very good to hear and when will that market study be done it's we're anticipated to have that completed in the spring of 2023 and part of that is so that we can Implement any changes that we foresee for the fiscal year 24 budget all right thank you thank you next up is the Citywide aquatic Master Plan update and Dave Lewis is available if there are any questions all right next informal report is the monthly development activity report in DJ Harrell is available if there any questions I thought where's DJ it's not dj come on foreign and I want you to specifically include Apartments multi-family you know as you shared with us because last week I see Mr Hayes here there were some comments made about the age of apartments in District Five and I think your report covers some aspect of that in as best you can yes yes I wanted to go over this with you so in our IR we do isolate our multi-family and our detached multi-family and I should have led with who I am sorry my name is Jennifer Roberts I am one of the assistant directors in development services I know I've spoke with many of you but gosh there's a lot of us so I wanted to remind you of that so in our IR we do isolate the detached multi-family and the multi-family out from our commercial development which is where it typically is housed because of the type of development that it is and we have historically always pulled out single family so that's isolated as well and then if you look through the information it talks about you know how many permits we have we compare month to month and then that same month in the previous year now attached to the IR and I don't know if you have it in your packets as our development activity report which goes into greater detail about those numbers and actually pulls data back from even further so from 2021 2022 and then we're counting through 2023. I don't have with me today information on the age of those multi-family residences and we can pull that information for you if that's what you would like can you talk about how many apartments have been permitted or built inside the past 10 years do you show that um no man we don't have that information readily I'd like to get a report yes ma'am we can pull that for you okay because I'll be sharing that with with my current constituents as well as my future constituents just to clarify are you asking staff to provide it for a council District I think that'd be helpful District who wants a two yeah we'll do it forever it'll be a party like you're right everybody yeah and uh future districts as well as what I'm hearing around the table when when you take a look at our development services department getting the attention of the Dallas Business Journal we've got something going on here and I don't think we are a void of multi-family being built but we need to be able to Define that and so that type of report will be helpful to all of us okay so divided up by current council districts and future council districts yes ma'am yes ma'am now I said the past 10 years is that okay with everybody do you want to go I think 10 years is fine for me okay going back further than that just for your information is more challenging for us because of our um computerized system so a sellout only goes back to a certain period so once we start to get really ancient then we have to start digging through paper so tins okay so 10 is okay yes ma'am we'll do that thank you thank you any other questions thank you the next informal report is on procedures relating to financial due diligence performed during the zoning process and Eric flatiger is available through any questions together and the discussions that we had around this because I know it was kind of an esoteric ask at first um can you briefly describe because I don't think in here it talks about how no other city has done it but can you talk about some of the cities that we know are doing some Innovative analysis around the financial impacts to zoning or development changes and how we might learn from them sure well I'll share one of our neighbors actually City of Denton we've had some discussions with they have hired a consultant to work on fiscal impact analysis tool so they're looking at sort of a you know a computer system approach and the and that was really instigated by the city council in that in that in that location they had read and had taken to Heart a lot of the material in the strong towns Chuck moron's books and so forth and they really recognize that they wanted to really be able to understand what the financial impact long-term impact on the city was of of development of different types different locations all development doesn't pay for itself the same way or the same amount and they wanted really dig to the bottom of that so that is the the local example that that we look to and uh and we were teeing up to have more conversations with them in terms of how that process is going have they completed have they implemented its use uh and we hope to learn from them and will that be part of the RF the RFP that we're putting out so it wouldn't be directly tied but yes it would be again we would be trying to learn from their experience and what they've learned uh and do some additional research as well thank you oh I wouldn't leave if yeah I'd stay right there Eric the next informal report is on the proposed 2023 comprehensive Plan update and Eric is available of 30 questions before you start Eric and you will start because I'm going to ask you to talk okay I I expressed to City staff yesterday I am uncomfortable making a decision on an area that does not yet have a council member and so I don't know how we isolate or handle that but I do believe areas especially the the two new council districts need to have the benefit of public hearings public engagement what have you to get the full flavor but I would like for you to go over this comprehensive plan and you've seen I think the correspondence from McFarland yes and so if you could talk about the plan overall but also a weigh in heavily on the environmental concerns from an environmental justice perspective uh well I'd be happy to thank you mayor Pro tem um so we update the comprehensive plan every year this is an annual event and this is we're gearing up for bringing it to a public hearing before the city council uh on March 21st so we're almost there what you have before you now is the informal report that that essentially goes over some of the modifications that are being proposed for the comprehensive plan that includes future land use map changes future land use map is the city's long-range 20-year plan for the use of its land and so it identifies different types of land use you know residential multi-family commercial industrial and so forth and it it actually Maps those out in a color-coded fashion so you have the PowerPoint I do not have the PowerPoint today you have a PowerPoint it's on the website right it is it is for the sake of the public and the people I know who are here for environmental concerns can you state how they can get to that map on the website sure um you essentially going directly to the city's website at the top banner across the top of the home page there is a work there's departments and there's a drop down box for that you can go to planning and click on that that'll pull up a page that includes the comprehensive plan so there will be a button for that you click on that it'll take you to the adopted current plan as well as the proposed plan for 2023 that will be coming to council at that time and I will share that at the city plan commission hearing we had a couple of representatives from the echo Heights neighborhood that attended and they shared their concerns and that had to do with the industrial growth Center and the industrial land uses that are uh you know neighboring that community and I shared with them that the industrial growth Center designation at that location had been there since 2000 when the sort of first modern comprehensive plan was created for Fort Worth and that there's been some modifications over time to some of the boundaries some relatively small adjustments and the the the most of the ones that are a Jason Echo Heights are have been primarily the same since 2010 with a couple of adjustments that went to light industrial land uses and many of those kinds of changes occur based on zoning cases that come forward that are approved by Council when that occurs if it's uh if it's in a site that has a future land use designation that is inconsistent but Council has approved that zone change we will go and make that adjustment in the comprehensive plan to retain the consistency between the city's long-range plan which is comprehensive plan and the zoning map and the zoning ordinance itself I'll tell you I'll let you complete your report here or overview and then I'll give you what I perceive to be the position of those impacted by industry Okay so um so what we're doing right now is we're we're making modifications we've shared those with you in the informal report and we will be coming to council March 21st for a public hearing uh this past year we have made relatively minor adjustments to the comprehensive plan and that is because over the past three years we've really recreated the plan uh in in a lot of different ways so a lot of new information a lot of new data a lot of new maps and policy uh discussions and so forth included in that so it's just a minor modification this past time we will actually do the same thing again for the 2024 plan so we will be coming back to you a year from now with the same request for minor modifications and what we're going to be doing during that same time is we're going to be gearing up for a community-wide city-wide robust public engage engagement process we're actually working on a the scope of work right now to bring in some consultant help to help us do that because that's an enormous exercise to do that Citywide so we'll we'll be bringing the community in to find out what their current concerns are to find out what their vision is of Fort Worth's future so that we can begin to incorporate that into what will then become the 2025 comprehensive plan which will have more significant changes than either the one that we're we're talking about today or the one that we'll be talking about one year from now thank you my what my perception is on behalf of community leaders who I've not spoken with in a formal format but I would submit to you their thoughts are just because this started in 2000 doesn't mean it has to continue along this path and at what point do our residential constituents have standing half presence have a voice to ensure that we do everything we can to protect them and I think you know I've gone through Toxic release inventory training when I was with with TXU so I'm familiar with what's in the air the idea of community meetings is very important but at what point do you see the community as a whole being able to impact and really make an impact on the report as as City staff sees it right now well it it's it's important to us to take advantage of opportunities to share information with the community about changes that are occurring and to hear from them about what their concerns are what their goals are for the future um and and we have done that you know throughout the cover it's a plan process since the original creation of the 2000 plan that was again a very robust engagement but because of you know staff uh shortages to to do that kind of Engagement every year we've taken advantage of opportunities we've had to do that uh for just in the fall for instance we have a number of open houses to talk about the Commerce plan the future land use modifications that we were making and so that's an example we take advantage of other open house opportunities like in the past working with the budget and so forth I I think that for that really broad Outreach each I think the scope of work they're working on right now to bring in the consultant help to accomplish that is going to give it brand new opportunity to hear from a much broader range of community members but having said that I'd say that we're we're very happy to go out into neighborhood association meetings other other organizations that are interested in talking about the future and talking about their concerns and their interests for their neighborhood that we'd love to go out and have those conversations any other comments questions My head goes off to the people of echo Heights who have actually formed a recognized environmental Association and I think that's the only one on the east side of Fort Worth and so my head goes off to them thank you for this information and when you get ready for the big meetings outside have some real clear language because if you if you get a chance to go to a comprehensive plan community meeting you may be more inclined to go if you see and we're going to talk about environmental issues as well so thank you yes thank you thank you the next informal report is on the North Central Texas council of governments 2023 Regional Transportation council's legislative program Kelly Porter is available if there any questions yeah it's I want to get a high level oh Kelly's not Lauren is though good afternoon mayor Pro tem and Council happy Mardi Gras first of all so this IR is about a resolution in support of the regional transportation council's Texas legislative program so the program includes five topic areas to focus on the expansion of funding opportunities and implementation tools expansion of Transportation options in the Texas triangle pursuit of innovation and Technology improving air quality and enhancing safety so this resolution broadly supports the focus areas with specific emphasis on High-Speed Rail and Broadband components thank you thank you Lauren the next informal report is on the human relations commission and membership membership and Jeanette Goodall and Christina Brooks are available if there are any questions I have a couple of if I'm reading this correct so if I read this correctly there are no vacancies correct and so were those filled in time because last work session we talked about movies that mattered and how there were some vacancies so have those been filled since then or yes there the mayor has made appointments they haven't been finalized but um yes those vacancies that do exist um we have appointments for them and those aren't listed in this correct in this IR the the new itemized okay great can you just email my office a list of those please we're just waiting on a couple uh applications from one of them okay thank you all righty next informal report is on Tarrant County 9-1-1 District regionalization feasibility study in Valerie Washington Fernando costs are available if there any questions just an overview of it please all right where we are thank you Valerie Washington and Fernando Costa here we have been working with the Tarrant County 9-1-1 District their board has asked for the regional feasibility study just to look at the 34 different peace apps in Tarrant County to see if there is any benefit to doing some regionalization efforts they have hired a consulting firm I don't want to when I say they're called management Partners to come in and they've held Mission critical parties Mission critical thank you Fernando they spent July I'm sorry January and February holding stakeholder meetings with elected officials the different psap staffs trying to share their mission with looking at regionalization and then sharing the timeline that the firm is going to use to give us their initial report you know psap is a public safety answering point there are 32 of them across Tarrant County and the current system by everyone's acknowledgment is not sustainable we're experiencing rapid transfer population growth across the county uh exceeding the capacity of staff to support all of these answering points uh technology has evolved greatly beyond what we currently have in our current funding model is not adequate and so for a whole host of reasons it becomes obvious that this regionalization study makes sense we'll be looking at it from the standpoint of Technology from the standpoint of funding and operations and it happens to correlate in important ways with what we're doing within the city on our own non-one system we need to coordinate and perhaps consolidate our functions in fire police MedStar so all these efforts are interrelated we anticipate this regionalization study to be completed by June of this year we'll be providing the council with the timely updates and I think it's important to note too that they really want the Tarrant County 9-1-1 District wants to take a real partnership approach they understand when you start talking regionalization it makes some of the different peace apps a little bit nervous you want to hold on to what you own and so they're really trying to take a comprehensive open approach to working with jurisdictions and trying to reach the best conclusions for efficiencies and for giving the best customer service to the residents that need the service thank y'all for providing that update it's a really important issue to Residents I'm in District Six especially our leaders it's something that comes up quite often I appreciate all the work that we've done you know over the past couple years to really take a new Fresh look at how we um you know modernize our number one system to be there when folks call so thank you and I guess in closing too if I can just Echo what Fernando mentioned as well as part of our 911 efforts for this year we're working closely with fire police in MedStar to get them located within the same facility and so we're really spending a lot of time figuring out what that looks like so we can make it happen I do have a couple questions um with what has recently happened with Austin um you guys seen that that city council member uh was on the phone called 9-1-1 for over 25 minutes um because of what was happening with the car race and uh turning street racing and so um this was starting to seem like we have an issue just not here in Tarrant County or city of Fort Worth but it's nationally and so are we working in I see this Tarrant County uh region but we're working outside of the the region to figure out how we can fix this issue because we're looking at Best Practices across the country to learn uh what the best communities are doing to uh improve response times uh and provide more effective responses yeah and I know we have duplications and I think the last three racing was in District Five uh about a year ago and so we really want to make sure that does not happen here in the city of Fort Worth Street Racing is a is a big issue uh here in Fort Worth that perhaps not as dramatic as it was recently in Austin but it's uh a big issue and we intend to come back to the council in a few weeks with a report on what we're doing to address street racing thank you thank you the next informal report is an update on the developer selection for the Texas A M Fort Worth Campus and Roger venables is available if there any questions Roger could you just provide for the public a quick update on who we selected why we selected them and how excited we are about this particular project thank you you bet you'd be happy to Bear Pro 10 City Council Members is an exciting day we have uh through a selection process selected a developer Edgemore KDC team I'll go a little bit about the process and how we got to this point you know in June of last year we engaged the services of a consultant you three advisors who's been a part or an integral part of this project really since its Inception they helped us craft a request for proposal to go out and get that developer and their design team their design construction teams everybody was going to be involved with the process to really find that best-in-class developer for this type of project so we did that in September of last year we went out with an RFP we responded back in December of last year and we've spent through a selection committee which is really representatives from a m Tarrant County the city and some local experts that served on that selection committee we're able to evaluate and interview a shortlisted team there were five proposals that were submitted all quality proposals very thoughtful uh once after the interviews and careful deliberation the the selection committee members said their recommendation was Edgemoor KDC you know Edgemoor and KDC KDC is a is a large developer edgemoore has been in this business for 20 years and they really specialize in Innovation hubs really what we're trying to accomplish in the Southeast quadrant of downtown they have a very strong team that accompanies them they've got jll for their real estate component you've got Clark Byrne two well-known construction firms that are teaming up on part of this project we've got akari management who's going to help us achieve and exceed those Hub participation goals for the project so they brought together a comprehensive team that the selection committee said this these are the people these are the ones we want to work with at this point in the process we are starting tomorrow morning at nine o'clock we are going to start having those meetings and engage that developer to get in place the transaction documents that are necessary for them to uh to facilitate the construction of this this project you're welcome thank you Roger it is exciting and the final informal report is an update update on placing conduit in city streets and Mike lowen is available if there any questions I have one question dude all right Michael it's coming up yes sir yes Michael uh one question that I had you can add any other uh contextual information if you'd like I know that staff's hope is to start and you know making these installations um you know in 2024 if funding is approved what are the ramifications if funding doesn't get approved where does that put us in terms of potential Federal funding or being behind in other development activities that are coming to the city so what we looked at was you know where should we install this conduit in support of things like uh Broadband expansion it has a separate project that you all have heard of public-private partnership where they're working and so the goal here we cut it kind of split into two pieces one being a master plan for fiber for the city Citywide to identify where our needs are to put that conduit in place and then you know getting that conduit in place early to save fund to save money the one of the most expensive part of laying and placing fiber is the conduit in place the excavation and backfill and so our intent would be to get out ahead of that as best possible but those are really separate initiatives but dependent so we need to know where we need to put these there will be some opportunities for us to put them in our projects possibly funding it with the project if it makes sense but not every linear project on an arterial will really have that opportunity uh you wouldn't want the water department great payers to pay for a conduit to serve a different function and so we we need to look at that so the ramifications of of not getting that is basically we won't have that opportunity to get out ahead of some of those projects if we're going to cut a street uh we'd like to do that the intent would most likely be to place it along with our street light and Signal conduit in in the same trench have have extra conduit for it so it I don't really think there's a anything tied to Federal funding on that I'm not aware of anything but that's really what we would get if we don't fund it we would basically be delaying it until we were able to do that interested thank you thank you Michael mayor Pro tem that concludes my report thank you David and thanks to all the staff participating with this do we have any questions regarding the MNC log for February 28th known from Council on that okay we're going to skip and go to item number four which is a presentation on Beach Street Gateway Park area development and just so you all know Gateway Park is not in my district I tried to give it to you twice and I think giving us this presentation will be uh Eric flatiger and I'll let him identify a guests that he has uh Eric flotiger planning and data analytics Department assistant director thank you mayor Pro tem and council members um we wanted to share with you today the results of the Urban Land Institute technical advisory or technical assistance panel study for the Gateway Park area including a significant amount of property owned by the frost Bowen family they actually were co-sponsors with the city on this effort uh and I wanted to bring up David laninger from Sasaki Associates he is the chair of the technical assistance panel he'll walk us through that presentation thank you Eric mayor Pro temen members of the council City staff city manager thank you very much again my name is David leininger for years I worked in the public sector I was most recently the CFO at Dart in Dallas so I'm used to presenting and usually the presenter who's not a member of Staff gives his address and City so mine is 424 Fall Creek in Richardson Texas just but we're pleased to be here the presentation we're going to go through I'm going to truncate a little bit it's 43 slides I also learned from experience that you don't take a council through 43 slides but I will Point them out you all do have the copy of the presentation and you have a report and of course all this information is available to you you see the uh a couple quick things about process tap is a technical advisory panel Carl you have yavaskinski is the chair of the of the tap panel program and has been overseeing working with cities and and private developers run the region in combination with the Urban Land Institute so these are volunteer exercises they're basically three days in duration the all the participants are volunteers all of the participants have an obligation not to pursue any business with whomever the client is for that particular assignment for a minimum of a year uh and all the time is donated in this particular panel I am serving have served the chair I've done this about 12 times over the years we had a very good panel cross-section of Engineers Architects uh investment bankers uh construction Personnel so it was a nice comprehensive balance of Technical Resources who have got some direct familiarity with Fort Worth and also a lot of subject matter expertise uh as Eric had said the cap this tap was co-spotted by Fort Worth on one hand and the family and the other I'm going to speak to that a little bit more real quickly uh there now the reason that this came about uh is because of a problem that the owners experienced uh they had uh they the family had made a determination that they were ready to sell the property and and discontinue active involvement in any of this real estate they had gotten an offer from a developer for essentially a warehouse a distribution for the entirety of the asset the asset is roughly 200 Acres about 160 Acres of that is developable it's contiguous to the Gateway Park area there's flood point on some of the balance in Floyd way so not developable and about of the 160 Acres when it says 200 Acres actually correction there's there's some 70 Acres a little bit less this actually now been deeded over uh to Panther Islands so it's really nuts down to 160 and then take the flood point out it's about 105 Acres it's really developable and that's what the uh in this Development Group was interested in pursuing when that was brought forward to the city and given broad public exposure to a strong opposition and the owners recognized that that was not a way forward uh it was and that's not really the way they wanted to weed the city that this family's been involved in Fort Worth for years decades so they wanted to come up with a better solution in that the city identified work of the planning staff in particular suggested a tap process to assist them in framing some options that might be acceptable and so that's how the tap came about and that's what we formed to do this was done in November 9th this slide presentation by the way is the same presentation that was prepared and delivered on the Friday after the Wednesday so the panel puts this thing together we the panel met on Wednesday morning we were briefed by both the city and the owners we had a tour of the property we interviewed about 30 people from the area neighborhood residents uh broader area residents City staff Etc the next day we put together a series of Assessments facts and so forth and then came forward with recommendation we purposely did not recommend a particular solution we specifically identified five options that might be considered by the developer working with the city I can tell you that a couple things number one the I'm not going to take you all the way to the end to give you the answer of the five there were two development options that the ownership found were most appealing one had to do with a with the sports oriented destination attraction strategy the other had to do with basically mixed density residential but I'm going to touch briefly on the other so you know what they are all of them would work our Focus as a tap handle was to make sure that they were actually Market supported so we were not presenting anything forward that really we didn't see a market opportunity for uh with probably the exception on the sports activity that takes a special combination of The Talented developer and entrepreneur in combination with the city in combination with the owners so that one is induced demand strategy not a uh and that one that just naturally would come to come together you can see uh and given this location I know you're all familiar with this area the city and you can see Beach Street there there's a substantial amount of open space there and this has been identified this whole area as being well suited for support in the Open Space strategy for the city the uh and there has I think the trust public land just worked with the city recently on looking at a variety of things that uh that might be appropriate here now um we went through a process of identifying you know basically what do people say they want and whether people say they won't want um I'm going to focus a little bit more on what they said they won't want uh I mean what we talked to the city we talked to Residents and and as I say area Representatives they all basically had some definite ideas about something that had sustainability uh that was catalytic and that would be compatible with the the wishes of the the local neighborhood and so frosh Brothers quality housing Gateway uh transformative these were things that were interesting them but they also had an interest in making sure that they could exit the property City Fort Worth had some specific ideas about uh Stronger uses adding more value activating and animating this area neighborhood Representatives very focused on some Public Safety considerations connectivity to Gateway they really can't get to Gateway and and also the improvements on beach itself which does not have sidewalks does not have it's it it consensus the tap members was it really needs to be rebuilt and that's the one area that we would strongly recommend Community Representatives have broader vision and the see what they were saying there there's no thanks uh the brothers were not interested in giving the property to the city you know they do want to sell what's developable property at fair market value the city was reluctant to really consider something it was a singular single family detached uh felt that it really wasn't the best development used the highest best used for the community uh the neighborhood Representatives did not want any more heavy industrial they were concerned about solving some of these crime issues that they perceived over there and the community Representatives really talked about additional low-income housing and they were referring referencing a particular I think Eastchase some of the property a little further east and bringing they brought that into attention so options considered five the uh and I should mention here that uh in putting these together again we were focusing on things that were ranged from what can they build they being the owners within the current zoning what they were requesting they Brothers with the warehouse developer was a rezoning so we asked well what is the zoning and what could they do inside of the existing zoning so that was base case that's where we referred to it we looked at a mixed density residential strategy with some retail we looked at a single family almost exclusively because the local neighborhood really wanted to emphasize wealth a generation of opportunities the ability to actually stay in the neighborhood buy homes and actually build wealth and they saw ownership as being Central to their thinking and then we looked at some Park oriented strategies and one that was pure open space where you just didn't develop it at all it became public assets the this is the base case this is basically what the current zoning permits and you can see here that the blue the waters down the bottom industrial is that is currently zoned industrial those two Parcels in the brown the beige down at the lower end and then uh basically a single family and duplex and a single family in the brown going all the way up as you can see Eric and his team have looked at each one of these and then looked at the changes that would be required in the comp plan to actually accommodate them even if there was no zoning there would be comp plan changes so this is base case the and this was the the work that Garrick and Eric had put together to look at what the existing future land use plan is and then things that would have to be done uh to address that one the next that one is mixed use Trail adjacent multi-family reach on the multi-family could be a townhouse for sale attached uh rental it's a mix it's not it's not all rental uh now in this one I want to point out the industrial on the top why in the world whether it be industrial when the neighborhood said specifically no Industrial the reason for that is because there's a very interesting story around the truck parking that's up in that area on First and there was a concern about putting a use adjacent to that that would be inappropriate the now it's an old old landfill There's an opportunity actually probably to mitigate and change the character that which would then reduce the need to really consider something like a flex Tech or some kind of a light tech use there but the reason that's there is because of the the truck parking which was not owned by the city not owned by the brothers the family but we did recognize we needed to deal with it otherwise you can see the rest of this how this residential spreads out up and down north and south from first so that's and I'll point out a thousand units 15 000 Square free retail not a lot basically some neighborhood retail uh 140 000 square foot of industrial and that would be up there in the blue seven to ten years absorption as you some of these projects you're going to see have absorptions go out 20 30 years and this again is the mapping that was done looking at that from a comp plan basis the uh primary ownership oriented that means basically all single family uh it's this kind of product so it's higher density it's townhouse and duplex in the main to get a maximum amount that you can in there about 14-1 units the acre 900 units probably 30 to 50 unit absorption per year 20 to 30 year absorption so a long time it would take a long time under this strategy as best we can determine for all of this to build out this is what it looks like by the way this is compliments of Michael Bennett he spent quite a bit of time sketching this over that day and a half Michael versus an area architect a very prominent land planner uh so that's what this looks like and again corresponding on the comp plan the the next one really talks about sports tourism we know that you've been talking about sports tour of considering some things and you have in the past you're considering something on the west side and there definitely is a business that's emerging and you uh in earlier conversation today I heard about the notice that you all were getting relative to the activity and business activity of Fort Worth it was a very nice article about the amount of Economic Development around sports activities uh you're well okayed for that and so again it's destination retail by the way you think in terms of 200 to 300 mile radius draw when you start talking about this kind of a use you're really drawing from a big region and pulling it into you so uh highly animated much more active integrated with Gateway Park really intending to basically make this a destination that would draw from all over the region and Beyond uh lots of ball fields uh indoor and outdoor facilities I point out that on these ball fields that are on to your right in the scheme in the lower portion kind of in the middle right now that's designated by Panther Island actually as an ecological preserve area and and so that probably can't happen as depicted all these things are subject to adjustment of course but this is the general idea strong big concentration right there at 30 and Beach uh Hospitality hotels restaurants and events so big program uh that's that's described here and you can get a sense then of the kind of structures and Facilities that would be associated with that 20 plus Fields a lot of a lot of parking a lot of things the final one really is pure conservation you know you take that whole area pull it into a conservation easement and don't develop it at all I can tell you that that was not the preferred use associated with the neighborhood that's not what they want they really want more activation more investment better Beach those kinds of things so real quickly uh summing up what everybody wants and doesn't want the owners want a orderly divestiture they're they are prepared to move forward move out the Three Brothers we were talking to are all around 80 years old plus or minus and they recognize it's it's time for them to make these decisions and they do want and expect a fair market compensation for their developable property the uh we all had identified as to say development scenarios but we said we can't pick one at this point because you've got to engage with the community you've got to engage with city council and planning staff and you've got to really see what fits and what seems to be most acceptable the owners basically uh have come back and advised us we like the the mixed density residential and we think that's a Way Forward our our preference is the sports term the tourism strategy we really think that's it's got the best catalytic effect but it's also complicated so they recognize that you know that could be aspirational but it's the one that they really want to see in test but they really don't want to spend too much time testing it and if not if not then they want to really look at the mixed density uh multi-family strategy the uh we commented about absorption times uh you know when you go over 15 20 years you're really getting into talking about Futures that you really can't project you all know from your own development experience A lot's changed just in 10 years on this side of the of the marketplace so going out 20 years it's really hard to think that what the absorption patterns would be but it's a long time and some of the infrastructure gets old so forth so you would really want to come up with a strategy where you're developing things simultaneously and finding a way to take this thing through faster and I've spent a lot of time talking to public bodies and the one I work for and I know they're talking about more money is never a pleasant communication but in this instance you have an investment public investment that that's associated with something that beach in particular that is a good candidate it should be considered it's been there for a long time clearly needs to be improved you've got eight million dollars in your bond program that you're already committing to Gateway which is a a nice Coincidence of circumstances between Gateway and panther Island and what you're doing there you really have a combination of activities and investment that leverage a great opportunity windows open Windows close right now your window is open so we certainly would encourage you to jump through it if you can uh and obviously we think that our conversation was almost done you know inside of a bubble so this has to be done in combination with the community and Community engagement and staff uh but we felt that the uh the options that were identified were viable and thank you very much and and I hope we got through this in a reasonably quick period of time and didn't force you we didn't read I didn't read off too many slides thank you again I want to thank you for the full presentation when you think of Gateway Park it is in essence our Central Park when you look at the size of it and I I speak that so that this entire Council can know no matter which district it falls in it really is the city's Park that this is a masterpiece in the making and I've Eric I've never had this type of conversation in such a public venue so this is new to me and I'm filling in as best I can but the information provided is very thorough you had me when you talked about working for Dart Gary Thomas is a dear friend of mine and so I'm sure he has for a number of years yeah you had a lot of fun spending all that money because I had all this all the transit money in the nation was going to Dart at one time still is but uh it was a good thing comments from the council Eric do you have any closing to that or do you want us to go into comments and questions from the council oh I I think we're ready to hear from you this has been you know this has been something that the community has been engaged with we have a few community members here that came here just to hear this presentation and and hear your reaction to it on some great options provided the mixed use uh you know is is one that certainly could move forward and certainly one that the neighborhood would would support um and you know it's there are more discussions to be had and a lot of them at this table well I I expect the conversation to be rather organic but I do want to lean on council member Blaylock initially followed up by council member crane because of his professional background and so Alan I know you met with Mr Frost recently yes I did thank you mayor Pro tem so I just want to thank the frost family for helping fund this study and working with the community come forward through this process with some really interesting and compelling stories for what could go there and I I have to say I love both of the options that that are that are at the top of the list there's some challenges and I I look forward to to continuing the process and the discussions and seeing what we can actually achieve there Marco what does your real estate Brian tell us not much uh no I appreciate the work that's gone into I know it's been a long process to to get to something but I think anytime we can plan this out as a city instead of mishmash and get to it it makes it better for everyone some predictability what's around so I look forward to what the neighborhood and everything else wants to see come forward yeah only cautionary tale would be to make sure that we see this um that we go ahead and change the zoning that needs to be changed to see this plan come to fruition and that cautionary tale is West 7th where we had you know big hopes and dreams for it being a lot of you know mixed use and high density residential and office space and some things kind of came in to fill in those gaps and so learn from our lessons there and and and try to make sure we're getting out ahead of that and that the buildings aren't conducive to to uses we don't want when we rezone those reports you have come in and mastered it very well as best you could I think simply stated you don't want to see a bunch of drugs hanging around the park Michael your expertise okay going going God any other commentary thank you certainly just one thing after closing that I should have mentioned earlier the frost family was very appreciative of Staff involvement and they were highly complimentary of the work the staff did to prepare the briefing materials and assist them in bringing this forward so they're very appreciative of that as we are of you and you're involvement in your engagement thank you very much thank you Eric thank you thank you if I can catch up let's see next oh we're going to talk about the Teen Court with my buddy judge Danny Rogers and judge Rogers I hope you'll start your presentation with an announcement about where you will be this Saturday okay and everybody take a note because you may have a relative who needs to be with the judge this Saturday yes yeah we'll be in Woodhaven good afternoon mayor approach him and council members Danny Rogers chief judge and I will begin at your direction this Saturday at the Eugene McRae Community Center we'll be holding our first Community Court a warrant forgiveness event of this calendar year so if any of you happen to have or you know anyone who has outstanding Footwear tickets come see us we'll be there from nine until noon I'll have three judges and an incredible support staff there this is just the first Mr Rumley is reaching out to each of you individually to just to determine where yours will be and what date it will be so this Saturday though Eugene McRae Community Center nine o'clock to noon be there or send someone else there okay we're not fixing tickets we're just no ma'am we're not fixing we're helping them get on the right track with their tickets thank you got a video but I didn't bring it with me but we're really good together again thank you so much for the opportunity to share with you about a program that I am very proud of that our court has in that team Court making our presentation this afternoon is someone that I'm very proud of and that is Michelle Sims Michelle Sims came to us in 2021 and helped resurrect our Teen Court from the ravages of covet and she's going to share with you about team Court she's taken charge of it and as our coordinator and works very well with it so I'm going to stop talking and let Michelle talk use my voice I'm overcoming a little bit of a cold so um my name is Michelle Sims I'm the team core coordinator as judge Rogers says and I'm just going to share a little bit about the program with you all okay so um Teen Court is a is a voluntary program that allows young people 10 to 17 who are currently enrolled in school or those 18 or 19 who are currently enrolled in high school to resolve their tickets by performing community service hours and paying a nominal fee the ultimate resolution of this um the program is that their cases are dismissed so some of the benefits are team core of course the best one is that the um the offense is dismissed from their record it also gives both the uh participants and those young people who volunteer with the program the opportunity to learn more about the judicial system additionally it gives them the opportunity to work with people from many different backgrounds ages socioeconomic status and helps them to understand the importance of Civic engagement so team Court was started in 1987 by the Junior League of Fort Worth Junior League continues to support Teen Court through volunteers we currently have four volunteers from the Junior League and we get usually about four every cycle that they go through teen court has Teen Court Inc which is a 5013 CB associated with the which is in partnership with the city um the program is funded through private donations and grants Teen Court participants in order to be enrolled in Teen Court you must appear before the judge for your juvenile arraignment with your parents you can ask for team court at that point you will come upstairs to the team court office and we will enroll you immediately and get you scheduled for a teen court hearing in calendar year 2022 we had 53 youth volunteers from over 20 different schools so um youth had the opportunity to volunteer as teen attorneys which requires a training or they can volunteer as a juror which does not require any training and as you see we had over four we had excuse me we had 400 volunteer hours last year from teams alone teen court community collaborations I mentioned the teen attorney trainings we've held them at local community centers we had one at MLK Hanley Meadowbrook Riverside and most recently Como Community Center we also partner with the boys and girls club coming up program to help the young people enrolled in those programs resolve their tickets if they're eligible for Teen Court then we can enroll them in Teen Court if they're not eligible for that program then we work to get them in an appropriate divert deferred program it's not here on the slide but I'd also like to mention that we've had two interns from Texas Wesleyan in the last couple of years and our current part-time staff is one of our former interns from Texas Wesleyan adult volunteers we had 47 adult volunteers during 2022 um as you see we've had volunteers from all different career backgrounds we've had some private attorneys um assistant DA's public defenders we actually have some of our city attorneys that have been working with us recently staying staying after work um helping our teams for uh fiscal year 2022 this is like judge Rogers said we were kind of restarting getting the court back open I was getting acclimated to the position so these are our numbers for that time frame it was a foreign this year we're moving right along as you can see our success rate is a little lower but we are at the beginning of the fiscal year we have also implemented 30-day and 60-day reminders we're sending emails and making phone calls the parents and the youth are very receptive to that so we're we're hopeful that our success rate will improve and what we need free parking for our volunteers our program starts at five o'clock so our volunteers are required to pay the meters until they're free so it's really difficult to ask people to volunteer their time and spend their money um Youth and adult volunteers we always need volunteers anyone who's interested in volunteering with the program can visit the city's volunteer webpage search team court and find out more information about the program or contact us directly and monetary in-kind donations are always welcome to the Teen Court Inc about if you could go back to the the what you need slide one I think parking should be easy if you can make a flyer um for us to share via you know I many of us put out newsletters District newsletters and Facebook or Instagram or Twitter or whatever Michael crane has a tick tock he dances I'm just kidding um but but if you could have those if you could just provide us something to share to help and maybe in that put what um what that entails the time and you know kind of what their options are and then as far as monetary and in-kind donations obviously monetaries money but what type of in-kind donations do you think would be helpful to the organization so I mean things like um any type of gift cards that we can give as incentives and rewards to our volunteers we do have an annual volunteer appreciation dinner so those things are helpful I do like to give snacks to kids that's always helpful so anything like that snacks water juices candy things like that when working with teenagers so we know that they're always hungry um you know anything that um as far as any type of office supplies things of that nature I mean we don't have the support of the city but when we're doing our teen attorney training it is nice to give kids things to take home with them and you know to to help them when they're prepping for their cases and things of that nature if you'll put together a list too when you send us that graphic that would be helpful and then also include the date of your appreciation dinner so that helps us plan backwards on trying to get y'all some some extras for the volunteers great thank you and your flyer please work with our Communications people you don't have to go draw this up yourself our community engagement people can help you with that flyer they have a template okay yes and make sure we all get that Michelle Goot was in the audience she's probably upstairs working on a flyer for me right now so you're not alone in that any other comment council member Blaylock thank you mayor Tim so I love the program and and it's it's fantastic it's great I I wonder how we can get engagement further out of the city and up into the North and the North End of District Four and current District Seven is is there opportunity there or is there is there enough is there enough in terms of citation work that could be referred to to to make it worthwhile well every person that appears for their arraignment doctor for the juveniles we always offer this this is always an opportunity for them to do regardless of where they live in the city I hadn't thought about going up there but we certainly could think about that in doing something we can look at the zip codes and see see if there's enough need up there but yeah we can certainly look at that sure any other questions Michelle's got one more thing that she wants to share so I would I want Paul to hear from a young lady who participated in the program and she then she returned to us to be a volunteer so the literally she's a currently a senior at the Young Women's Leadership Academy so she just wanted to share a little bit about what brought her to participate in team core and why she returned as a volunteer good afternoon is team Council as um Ms Sims has stated hi my name is Kimberly Guetta I am currently a senior at Young Women's Leadership Academy I participate participated in team Court last year when I received a ticket for no registration and driving on a restrictions license while participating in the program I obtained my driver's license and I have not received a ticket since I also created a youth volunteer recruitment flyer for the program in my graphic design class as a community service project after completing the program I returned as a volunteer juror I enjoyed participating in team court because I it gave me the opportunity to be a juror for other teams like myself thank you mayor Pro tem if I may just William Court director I just want to say in a former life I was a Teen Court coordinator in her in a city close to us Hershey's Bedford so this is close to my heart um and so uh we have a great group here Michelle's really brought out new ideas there's more things going on we were the original Teen Court in Texas Fort Worth was the first Teen Court in the state of Texas so uh just be aware of that and so we have a long history of doing great things in this city it is a voluntary program so it's not for every individual we have other opportunities and options and so we do also want to want to make that known and then just as far as looking at other locations as we think about where we might hold remember there's a lot of pieces we've got volunteers we've got staff and everything so we can look at that um you know but we just want to make sure that it makes sense and we have to make sure you know consistency for both adults teens and adults is important but we'll look at all those things and see what would make sense in order to get as much participation from volunteers as well as as participants and before you before you purpose of Teen Court in Fort Worth right so the there are two actual prongs of Teen Court the first side is what we may think of related to giving teens an opportunity to resolve a citation and keep it off their record in a way that may not have as much impact financially so one of the things that happens to going through Teen Court and we discussed this back when we were talking about curfew is that let's say you have a fine on an offense anywhere from 200 to 500 well instead of that you pay twenty dollars and the judge can even waive that if they find like it's appropriate financially based on the circumstance of the individual and then they do jury service and community service so it's tying that back to the community giving back to them individually through community service so that's the first part with the with the individuals who are going through the program and learning about the judicial system in a non-threatening manner the second thing is for the volunteers and the community to get involved and all the community hours get to give back and information one of the things that you also need to know about our team court is we're very competitive so every year there's a team Court competition and we are always at the top of that competition every year so we'll make sure you all get that information as well because that's one of the things they talk about when we have the the banquet at the end of the year so we could go and support our team Court team like Shark Tank or something like that absolutely we're Fort Worth we always go into Spectrum to win absolutely yeah I want to go I want to be involved we're not doing it this year we're still coming out of covet on the competition okay we're in all kinds of hopes to be able to pull it back next year councilman Rebecca please consider me a resource when y'all move forward to help the teen volunteers um particularly if it means we get bragging rights over uh absolutely our sisters absolutely yes yes and in closing what I will tell you Michelle is I want to connect you with the East Side commander of the police department in Fort in in District Five we're having an issue with numbers and numbers of students who are parking on public streets but causing quite chaos for the property owners and we've had about three meetings with the principal there I've even offered to pay for the the parking registration that's needed but that's not the answer to this and so I'd like to connect you with with police Commander Monica Martin I think her next meeting is coming up soon that could give you a very well-filled class courtroom whatever you call it and so and the principal there is Justin Edwards but we have an immediate need right now because I'm told most kids are parking on the street because they don't have that registration and I hear some don't have licenses and so this is a problem that would be great Michelle has done a great job this last year year and a half of going out into the community and talking with with folks who could could have an interest in team court so she's become our ambassador as well well I will see you sir at Eugene McRae yes ma'am then I'll go to Woodhaven afternoon are you bringing coffee or am I bringing coffee I was going to bring gum okay good I'll see you there thank you thank you all very much we appreciate it thank you and next on our list of reports presentations we will hear a tpw update from Lauren Brewer who is the interim director of tpw and a beast when it comes to All Things streets yes she is I appreciate the confidence well again good afternoon mayor Pro temment Council I appreciate this opportunity to discuss our Department's accomplishments and progress so today we'll discuss the fiscal year 23 pavement markings program uh the fiscal year 23 street light program as well as a general Capital delivery update start off with payment markings so in fiscal year 23 Council has fully funded our pavement marking program where markings will be repainted every three years so this is our design and implementation plan by fiscal year quarter so by the end of the year we'll deliver 2.9 Million linear feet with an 8.8 million dollar budget so plans are great but let me show you what we've done with your investment so this is our actual progress in the first quarter so our team has exceeded our goal of 300 300 000 linear feet and installed nearly half a million linear feet to date so this is without additional resources coming online so we have two new contracts with a capacity of 10 million dollars coming online this spring so then we're really going to start rocking and rolling so if you thought pavement markings was exciting you just might be an engineer but just wait till you hear about our streetlight program so our three funding sources are Pago arpa in 2022 Bond so Council once again had the crazy idea to fully fund our Pago program so this means our teams have the funding to respond to each of our over 8 000 work order requests previously we would have run out of funds at about the 6 000 mark so now we have over 29 million dollars in our street light funding so let's talk about what we've done with this investment in Street lighting so with the Pego money we are in the progress of hiring three new Crews and we're expected to be fully staffed by the end of the month foreign so we've also dedicated two million dollars to additional contractor capacity one million dollars for freeway repair and one million dollars for tear outs so tear out is what it sounds like is generally generally related to construction near our street lights this is where a contractor who's boring for their own work inadvertently hits our system we are taking the following measures to prevent this from happening but also holding contractors accountable when they damage our system so let's talk about what we've done with your additional paygo funding so I want to highlight that the additional Crews and contracts are not online yet and haven't contributed to the success the transportation management staff has pulled resources from within their division within their Department to achieve this progress so Fleet Services has also prioritized the rental of bucket trucks and in the in the interim and secured 11 new trucks to be delivered this spring this is critical to Our Success so since May of 2022 we have gone from over 2 000 open work orders to now just under 600. we're on track to be able to address work orders as they come in within 30 days of our service level agreement by this summer only 18 of all of our backlog work orders remain open so there's been an 82 percent reduction in backlog work orders completed since May of 2022. so now that I've gotten you excited let's realign our mutual expectations and goals so tear outs with the current growth of the city tear outs are becoming more frequent these damages are frequently more costly to repair so tear outs can be repaired within 30 days from the time of the exact location of a tear out has been identified we will achieve this 30-day SLA by June knockdowns so procurement of this material can take anywhere between 60 to 90 days depending on the type of poles decorative poles can have a much longer procurement time frame anywhere between 60 to 120 days so arterial and residential knockdowns can be repaired within 90 days depending on our materials on hand and freeway knockdowns normally take more than 120 days but will achieve these slas by June so vegetation this problem obviously escalates in the spring and summer months high winds and thunderstorms cause additional complications and outages however we are currently working to procure a tree trimming contract to address this so looking at this fiscal year A Little Closer only one percent of our work orders consist of complex repairs and these will also go to our contractors 88 of repairs have been made within 30 days or less so freeway lighting is a whole animal in itself but we are making steady progress so we'll have three separate projects with our 12 million dollars in 2022 bond funds so the U.S 287 contract is currently in design with construction anticipated to begin in fiscal year 25. so our burn rate is reviewed on a quarterly basis this is done manually by visually inspecting every light in the city of Fort Worth approximately 472 light repairs have been made to date on our freeways increasing our freeway lighting from 42 percent to 63 percent we anticipate the burn rate being over 80 percent by the end of this fiscal year and finally I'd like to mention our 12 million dollars in arpa funding for conversion of lighting in MMA neighborhoods to LED so this is our list of programmed projects we'll be using a unit price contract and we expect our work to start this April council member Flores has the first question Michael not done yet okay okay I'll get you after Carlos Michael okay are we okay to move on to Capital delivery yes all right we'll keep this party rolling with capital delivery so this is our overall progress we'll cover each of these programs in the following slide so neighborhood streets neighborhood streets has completed 38 of the 2014 Bond projects the 2018 bond has completed 22 projects with the final two currently under construction the 2022 bond has over 108 streets when leveraged with water department projects will actually be delivering over 200 streets so the neighborhood streets team is setting the bar as usual with free projects going into Construction so the bad news is that out of our three projects going to construction bids are coming in at approximately 35 percent over budget so the main reasons for this are inflation supply chain and quite frankly in this area there are too many projects and not enough contractors all right arterials this is always a Hot Topic I feel like Jeopardy up here all right in the 2014 bond is substantially complete except for one project so this is McCart McPherson which I think we all are aware has had significant right-of-way issues three projects from the 2018 Bond finishing design are Avondale Hazlet with an anticipated construction start date of August 2025 but there is a potential to start the East half about a year earlier based on our current right-of-way acquisition trends Golden Triangle is anticipated to start construction in March of 24. Cromwell green Creek anticipated start construction this December of 2023. so keep in mind these projects were all re-scoped from intersection only to full Corridor improvements this was essentially restarting the entire project so the 2022 Bond projects are hitting their scheduled milestones and progressing there have been many Lessons Learned From the 2018 bomb program that have been being incorporated into the right-of-way and acquisition phases for the 2022 Bond we're also utilizing alternative delivery more in the 2022 Bond program in an effort to speed up the delivery of the program so the CMR and design build methods are going to allow us to streamline the project due to the contractor's early involvement in the design phase so they can recommend improvements recommend cost savings recommend Time Savings while we're designing the project so Cromwell Marine Creek and Ray White are currently finalizing contract negotiations Everman wagley will have an assigned owner's rep on board by this April with the the design Builder on board this fall Mobility infrastructure last but not least our Mobility projects are progressing so the 2022 Bond program projects have all entered design at the same time so this is different from how we approached our 2018 Bond program it was a bit more of a phased approach in the 18. so the 10 2018 projects in design are all working through railroad coordination issues all right that's it do we have any questions this has been a fantastic presentation I don't know how you guys have turned things around but David I'll start with you this this is a whole bunch of different than when I first joined the council and Mr Johnson you should be very very proud and thank you for such an uplifting report because if anything makes people very angry and I could be more graphic but I won't uh it's streets street lights repairs and who does what and so the speakers I have lined up so far are council member Flores followed by council member crane Lauren also Echo those uh sentiments you know by mayor Pro tem done great work measurable results thank you very much I'm just going to mention a couple of other things that I have not gotten updates for maybe you know about it maybe not but you can get back to me on it I had reported and I know Blue Mound roads under construction in some segments uh Blue Mound run between Terminal Road and Northeast Loop 820. there were a lot of street lights that were out back in December and uh the response I got from staff was that as far as the intersection is concerned Tech stock manages that we manage everything else but I never got follow-up on whether or not those lights were up and running now okay yes sir we'll definitely follow up on that okay and then the second thing also in the December time frame Old Main Street Bridge the lights there there are a lot of outages reported at once they came back on but they were on during the daytime and only half so we re-reported it they looked at it and it seems has both sides working but I've seen it from time to time where they're burning in the daytime there's still some other ones that are out and I know staff had said that there were some other repairs that needed to be done but just bringing that to your attention yes sir that's all I have but again I will leave it to the experts to analyze that it should be noted that we're actually bringing on board a new senior Capital project officer who is coming from the City of Arlington so okay terrific thank you very much again good work council member crane followed by council member Beck thank you mayor Pro tem I'll ish I'll uh share the sentiments Lauren you're doing a great job I've been throwing a lot at you lately and I'm preaching you hadn't noticed uh he haven't noticed at all um can you flip back to the slide you talked about um 287 and the work there I forget I tried to get a number but I didn't see it keep going back it had two or three projects keep further there uh okay it was great he's talked about 287 but he skipped over 30 right there from altamir to downtown so I wanted to you to just tell me a little bit about that project there because for at least four or five years this is mainly Highway 30 right there between basically Como to 820. um those lights have been out told for years it's TxDOT it's not us and then told a year ago no it's really us so can you tell us where that 4.3 million is what that will look like require a reason design of the the lighting it'll be a full upgrade I think as mentioned in one of the bullet points really what we're looking at is the the high massed traditional freeway lighting it stands a better chance in knockdowns so with all these projects they will need to be designed so I can get you those specific dates on when we anticipate the I-30 project to be designed and constructed yeah that'd be perfect and make sure that's also as they're talking about the redesign of the street what that might look like or the highway of the tech that um cog's doing too I'd make sure we're having conversations about that the other thing if you flip forward few slides where you had the list of all the neighborhoods ridgemar 211 can you just tell me a little bit about that too I get blown up continually by that neighborhood yeah well you've got good news for them right um you know all of these these street lights will be converted from uh you know the current old style to an LED we will be making sure that the you know the the conduits the the actual system is in good shape so that we're not just changing a light bulb if you will these projects will require little if no design but will be done through our unit price contractor so really we'll be giving him these project lists as soon as he completes one he gets another so I believe we're going to be starting off with the first five but I can certainly get you a better idea of a time frame for specific neighborhoods you're interested in I think that'd be great I think all of us would probably be interested any of that fall in this like what is a timeline and what does that look like and what's being said as a priority yeah thank you councilmember Beck followed by councilman Jared Williams did I see you giving me okay then followed by councilman Chris thank you I think that we often don't get to go to Residence and tell them that we're doing something ahead of time so this is really really exciting news to be able to share with them and I think it's a testament to the work that you and your team are doing um and I know Renee is virtual but his ears are going to perk up when he hears this um Ron Gonzalez with the city secretary's office actually sent shared an email with us while we're in this meeting from a woman that had come to visit us from West Virginia and it says that um she felt like our city ran very well everywhere she went the city was clean and she felt safe and people were friendly and our police officers were very helpful and informative and she would be back for a visit and so much of that is because we're taking care of our streets and that's the first thing people see and so if they come into the City and they can't tell where to drive or the street lights are out it doesn't feel safe and welcoming and so you're not just helping our residents but you're helping our tourism as well so good job well part of the quality of she didn't change her path comes in councilman Williams I'm going to Echo the choir here a little bit but I just want to thank you and the team for not only all of the work that you briefed us on today but um the way that you're also communicating between the council offices and also when we receive concerns related to things like this that you're all able to update our residents on that that's been really helpful for our residents to you know get that kind of information so that they know that their concerns have been heard and that you know your your Department's working diligently to address those and with respect to this I'm really excited about the neighborhoods I'm in District Six particularly around the altames of McCart area I know my office and council member Beck's office have um you know really been getting a lot of feedback about some of the things that the residents would like to see in our revitalization efforts and Street lighting is one that's really important so they were really excited to be able to hear that you know we were able to allocate funding for for projects like these so all in all thumbs up and thank you all for you know the work that y'all do with not only with our office but with the residents yes yes thank you very Nettles yes a question on the replacement of the lighting I think you said LED is these are lights that when they light up they uh more they look more purple yeah we're talking about what a great job and you got to bring a purple light so so I'm not an electrical engineer by any means but as I understand it from our resident experts is you know the there's only a few manufacturers of LED lights and one of the the of our chosen manufacturers their product is defective it's not something that they can capture during the quality assurance phase before it leaves the factory it happens when the uh the filament on the bulb burns out and you get that purple color the great news is is that these are all fully under warranty the the manufacturers standing by their product they're replacing every one of them with their own Crews at their own cost so what we've been asking folks is to please report these through the my Fort Worth app we've seen a great response from that I think we've gotten over a thousand requests in these all go directly to the manufacturer for replacement so keep those requests coming in thank you we just want to make sure that those lights do need to be replaced yes we do stand by TCU in the purple but we need to replace those lights something so that councilman Blaylock thank you mayor Pro tem I just want to take a moment and uh Echo all the comments have been made so far this has just been really fantastic uh I really want to reach out and thank you specifically in your team and William uh for one the meeting that y'all participated in in District Four you know a week ago Saturday uh incredibly well received incredibly informative and then the meeting last week with the North fort with Alliance that meeting was incredible and and uh was very informative and well put on so just thank you very much I appreciate those comments everything we do is as a team and in closing on this Lauren I will tell you and this entire Council I have it on very good authority this was not a defective install that you see that brought the purple light but rather a highly skilled TCU alum that's that that's embedded in the street lights team that that might be a good theory to work out yeah so yes yes thank you I mean this is the first thing that made me smile all day long thank you thank you so much next a presentation on the never-ending Saga involving abandoned shopping carts and that will be Brandon Bennett this is going to be the quickest presentation ever no no no take your time take your time I just need you all to cooperate okay um real real quickly you know there's a lot of text on our slides um but you know you charged us with developing a shopping cart ordinance uh something that we did not have before uh it's something that we were reluctant to develop over the years uh we we as you all understand uh saw the stores as both a contributor because they have all these cards uh to the cart Saga but also a victim because most of the stores didn't want their cards uh leaving their parking lot because that was a financial loss to them and a loss of use to their to their customers so uh we have come up with various ways over the years to handle shopping carts probably one of the most effective one was we had a tool online where people could type where the cart was and address uh and it would tell them who to contact the store managers for that area they would call the store managers and the managers would send somebody out pick up the card that worked great for years uh and then about a year year and a half ago that started to fall apart and and probably the pandemic uh and and Staffing shortages and other things uh played a role in that but most certainly we aren't seeing any uh Improvement in some of the retail chains uh today and so we think that bringing you an ordinance that that keeps bureaucracy down uh that doesn't impact 97 to 99 of the businesses who are doing the right thing uh and then lastly for that one percent who after repeated uh requests from us would be held accountable uh for not picking up their carts in the neighborhood so that's that's what we have for you today and we we understand that that carpet carts impact the cleanliness and appearance of a city we talk about crime prevention through environmental design uh it's not just street lights when they don't work but it's also the cleanliness of a neighborhood and creeks and parks and things like that the cleaner we keep them uh the safer it feels and actually the safer that it is um our efforts over the years again um we've done a number of things but in developing this ordinance we also did some work with the retail establishment I have public health consumer health underneath Code Compliance so we have a good database we sent out an invite to all of our our major minor uh small Mom and Pops people that anybody we thought had a cart and invited them to come meet with us we had seven larger retailers uh that that showed up and met with us we talked about what we were seeing uh we threw out some some potential Solutions uh and from that we developed an ordinance that we're bringing back to you today I I will tell you that that across the board that that all of our retailers big and small um they all want to do the right thing right and they don't want to see a regulation that is too far reaching and so with that um we have for you today that an ordinance that again for the vast majority of retailers what they're doing what they did yesterday what they're doing today and what they do tomorrow is seamless that they won't have to make any changes because they're not part of the problem that the vast majority of them if a code Ranger volunteer a code blue volunteer a resident a code compliance officer you anybody else contacted the store and said hey there's a cart out there they would go get the card right and I'll tell you these are the same businesses that are going and collecting the carts anyways before you call about the few that you see so um what we came up with was that we would instead of picking up the carts and taking and uh disposing of them because that's what happens right now if they're pulled out of creeks if they're they're picked up by City Cruise they generally go to a recycle pile at one of our yards if they don't show up at the recycle pile then it goes for recycling so what we are going to encourage is or what we're going to do is we're going to contact the businesses give them 24 hours to retrieve their carts uh we'll tell them where the carts are we're not going to take them to our facility if they don't do it then we'll we'll take the cards and we will hold them for 30 days if they want to to retrieve them from the drop-off station it would cost them fifty dollars to do so that's a best practice if you look at ordinance nationally um cities that that have grocery short grocery cart ordinances the vast majority of them have a bounty on the cart that is the city collects them and then you have to pay a fee to get them sometimes it's a one-time fee but there's a few cities where it's a one-time fee plus a rental for every day a rental uh I guess it's a caretaking fee of like two or three dollars a day for every day that it sits uh in in this in in the cities coffers so when you look at at an overview of what we're trying to accomplish the current uh the black and white photos of course shows polluted waterways what we're looking for is clean water days uncut bus stations clean bus stations uh carts you know that that are all over parks and and the right of ways and and and a city that is not littered with the cards that's that's the the projected impact of of the ordinance so I think this slide really is is the best one to kind of bring you know everything together on what the ordinance uh will have in it um and that is if you know a car is found against we we're encouraging the businesses to go out and collect the carts on their own long before we get involved but if it is found along a roadway Waterway air Parks um Parks can call them volunteers can call them uh Code Compliance officers can call the managers say Hey you have 24 hours to pick up the pick up the card again most of them they already do and they'll continue to do it after 24 hours Code Compliance or other City agencies he can pick up the car take it to a drop-off station and then the drop-off station will hold that cart for up to 30 days if they want that cart back there would be a fifty dollar fee when we worked with the retailers we also worked with the state retail association the the big dog uh and one of the things that they they asked us to do was there's this wheel lock system that some stores can put on their carts I will tell you very few cards that we recover have the wheel lock system that's how effective it is but if they do have the wheel lock system they wanted us to cut them some slack on the 50 50 fee and we built into the ordinance to do it it's about 20 000 per store to put the wheel locks on so they've invested the money up front for the few cards we might get and I don't think we're going to get even a few but if we do they won't get charged that fee to get their their cards back um if there's more than 15 abandoned shopping carts picked up within six months uh shopping control plan uh will be required and the citation can be issued and I will tell you I don't think we're going to issue that many citations and I don't think we're going to have that many plans but given between the two I think we'll end up with a few plans and not a lot of citations and and the reason why I say this for the for the plans is uh there's at least a couple of the council members around the table today uh who has residents that you're hearing from that talk about certain stores that just will not pick up their cards and sometimes these are carts that are just off their parking lot at the bus station same side of the street or across the street it doesn't take that much for the employee to walk across the street and and get the cart or to walk into the you know over to the bus stop and pick up the cart that these are stores that I think you know will work with them we'll put them on notice we'll give them a last chance but I think there may maybe one or two of them every once in a while that we have to put into the plan and that plan could be more aggressive proactive uh picking up the parts on their part it could be putting in the wheel locks on their carts um so forth and so on but those are things it's much like when we do an accord meeting with criminal nuisance properties um that you know we sit down say this is the problem and you have an obligation to fix it so the idea is to again put it on their shoulders not initially to be punitive but to say this is really really serious now you've got to do something with it um and again you know when I say 97 it's more like 99 I just I just don't think there's going to be a lot of enforcement with this I think having this on the books to be able to sit down with the managers and say this is what we're going to hold you accountable to is going to get us better better compliance so this is uh somewhat of a unique approach We Believe it'll become a national best practice because we're not saying we are going to be the cart police and pick up all your carts and you can come pay us for it we don't have the staff for it if if you drive around any City yard you see tpw water Code Compliance all of us are trying to hire people right the last thing that we want to do is enact an ordinance that requires us to do more work particularly when it's on on the part of the business to do the work themselves we will call them right and we'll say you have 24 hours and and part of the argument sometimes that you all hear is well we're a victim they stole the cards well if somebody steals your car and a police agency recovers your car and says this is where your car is if you don't go and recover your car the police department doesn't deliver it to your house right they impound the car that that that's what we do with property that's left along right-of-ways and things so you're still a victim in either case but you still have an obligation to go get your property in a timely fashion or it has to be impounded same thing with same thing with cards we anticipate a lot of Outreach on this we'll do a lot of education on this we're going to really get our volunteers to help us do the reporting and contacting the the the uh the store store managers and we're really going to push for those anti-theft blocks uh the wheel locks on those carts because those really bring about the best result so our recommendation for you today is we're open still open to any changes from you or any recommendations from you but the ordinance we would bring it back to you on the 28th begin our education to retailers right away and that the ordinance would go into effect July 1st thank you Brandon as mayor Pro tem Piven stepped out any questions by council members Yellen so one Brandon thank you so much for this uh my predecessor's office started working on this quite some time ago and you know I've been following up with it ever since as has I believe Mr Williams and some of the others all right for us I mean we think this will be effective in helping uh reduce a nuisance issue in our city and helping us be cleaner and safer I do want to mention at the same meeting Lauren was at week before last uh Cody Wittenberg was there and presenting on behalf of your team because where were you yeah I was running a trail race which I didn't win [Laughter] and Cody as he was giving his presentation he touched on this and it was by far and away the most popular most recognized and most appreciated thing that was discussed with the constituency that day uh for for whatever it accomplishes there it is something that our constituents want at least in my district so so thank you for bringing this forward to conclusion yeah and thank you I make sure we give Cody a pat on the back and this just fits with our cleaner safer City initiative that count that city manager cook got us all excited about this last year and adding the the litter teams and everything else that nothing distracts you know more from a community than these carts laying all over the place Michael I saw your hand go ahead you didn't okay anyone else Jared maybe that was your hand I saw okay sorry it was me yeah right we're practically twins that's my brother um Cody I'm Cody gosh I'm thinking of this trail ride I'm sorry for giving you friendship uh Brandon thank you for um you know um just all that you've done on this I know the first picture was probably because I wrote um the actual my Fort Worth request for that those baskets so needless to say I've I've been driving around using the my fourth app for this issue quite a bit um I want to say you know I appreciate the plan and I think you know it's it's right on um point with um the ability to reduce the amount of shopping carts we're seeing in District six so thank you for you know all of y'all's hard work and also for engaging the businesses um because last thing we want to do is you know put an ordinance on the books that just makes it hard for everyone and um so thank you for that I would also say you know as someone who's used am I for it to have quite a bit for this issue it would be helpful for some of our residents in engaging in this process if maybe we could think of how have a cart yeah I don't know I don't want to suggest a button that's y'all's Realm of the world but just something to make it easier to report it especially because you know folks have to pull over to the side of the road in order to report it and we want to make sure they're safe I would also say that not only does this address a nuisance issue it's also a safety issue and you brought it up I was driving um in the in the area where those shopping carts were one morning at 5 a.m to the gym and it was really dark and there was a shopping cart in the middle of the road and had it not been for you know the grace of God and me seeing it you know I would have had a very huge car repair bill for hitting a shopping cart so um you know thank you for all that y'all did on this it's a really important issue and I'm excited to see us move this forward thank you okay anybody else doesn't look like it Brandon thank you thank you all right next on our agenda requests for future agenda items and or reports oh anyway you got something oh go ahead I'm sorry David Mark and I are going to tag team and we're going to give a brief update because we want to keep the momentum from the council Retreat from uh February 10th so I'll let him walk us through a brief recap and then we'll talk about next steps all right good afternoon mayor Pro tem Council I will be back in a moment I'm sure but uh in Council um so as city manager said we've done a little bit of wrap up here and want to give some direction from you all about next steps we've have some suggestions here for you all uh this next slide uh just kind of Recaps uh you know the day of the event and what you all did but uh really the four points at the bottom are what we're requesting as follow-up so the first action that was listed was bring back some strategic Vision priorities for your adoption and of course create the process for submitting goals and budget considerations which is what we want to talk more about today and obviously incorporate that in our processes and also um a reporting system so this is just a recap of the exercises that you all went with on the SWOT analysis spent several hours going through each of these and talking more about them and what they meant and and what needed to be done to address them this is a recap of where you all ended up at a very productive day with an overarching vision of quality of life and then strategic priorities of Economic Development Community investment Community safety infrastructure and responsible growth and fiscal responsibility so all of these Under the Umbrella of quality of life so these now are to be used for organizing and prioritizing and evaluating goals which we want to to hear from you more about and then also to achieve um the um I guess uh efficient allocation of resources as we move through uh to the budget process for this coming year um turn over to city manager cook now to talk a little bit about the goal setting so you remember we were able to at the end of the day on that Friday go through an exercise that talked about just identifying an issue and then identifying a goal and in that brief period of time we then went around the table and the council members could talk about the issues that came up we talked about storm water we talked about violent crime and youth we talked about the infrastructure relationship with economic development uh small business food deserts we think we achieved a lot in a brief period of time but it just scratched the surface I think of working with the council members to walk through and really those top two issue and then goal and so if you go to the next slide our next steps what we would recommend is Staff working with the mayor and each city council member and I'd say over the next month or two and going through a little more detailed process individually and then we'll bring it back collectively but individually going through what are those issues that you see out there what are the goals that we're trying to achieve and what impact might that have on the upcoming budget and so what we would suggest is US Mark staff working with the manager's office working individually with the council members over the next couple months identifying these issues and goals and then bringing it back it probably in the April May time frame because that's still before the budget will be developed and talk about issue goals and what the impact on the upcoming budget would have for the fiscal year 24. I think that's The quick summary of it but we'd be glad to ask any questions we just want to again build on the momentum from The Retreat from February 10th and don't let time pass before we can sit down and go through a more a greater conversation on the issues and the goals councilmember Blaylock so this obviously was my first Retreat and I found the whole process to be engaging and rewarding and and very thoughtfully done and actually very well done by the by the group that organized it and presented it so I just want to thank the process so far has has been fantastic I look forward to continuing through this process council member Williams yeah I appreciate the approach for that y'all laid out for us I'm looking forward to the 101 meetings I've really liked the idea of you know a meeting with each council member individually that's the goal is based on our overall priorities that we have under quality of life I think that makes sense I'm eager to see there might be a lot of overlap you know between our goals I mean of course there may be some nuanced issues that are geographically specific but um say that to say I like the the plan and look forward to meeting with y'all to share just your six goals David I will tell you this is this was the best Retreat I've attended yet with with the city and I think Carlos was in impressed as well and just the the debt and the I guess plain speak but I've been here since 2013 this was absolutely the best so thank you bring them back whenever you can bring them back for a touch-up the other people were great but these people are just outstanding you'll be hearing more from us over the next two months okay thank you and now it's time for a future agenda items I see council member of Blaylock so I have one item recently the Real Estate Council of greater Fort Worth uh presented or made us aware of a study that they've put together and it's a report on Commercial development in Fort Worth I'd like a presentation regarding that's great any other future Michael uh I'd like an IR overall overall this deals with architectural engineering services and how we award those contracts I don't think we've gotten something like this at least I can think in present recollection the overall process for selection of the companies that make application and specifically how selection teams are comprised or end users are part of that team or how many end users what's the typical uh in that in that sense I'd also like as part of that over the last 10 years I guess maybe in a spreadsheet format of all the projects over a million dollars and as part of that where is their home office located and then uh as part of that how many of those projects that initially started have gone over budget and what was that amount it went over budget any others could I clarify that I believe that's only on horizontal projects so to be on buildings yes again not roads and streets and other things yeah thank you and David you already have mine from the development services team on multi-family stats for the past 10 years well guess what you have three hours to do whatever you want to do so work session adjourned okay Elizabeth don't don't get it [Music] [Music] foreign [Music]