e e good afternoon everybody got so quiet thank you um welcome to your September 10th work session I will call us to order and turn it over to City Manager David Cook thank you good afternoon everybody all right we have a couple organizational updates first I'm going to call on our library director Midori Clark and she's GNA recognize one of our programs here she comes good afternoon mayor and councel thank you so much uh for your grace as we crowd this work session with our incredible Library staff who's here today I want you to know that every person who's here was selected by their team to represent them today to be here um after being here for nine months I can tell you firsthand how dedicated this team is to serving the community and we really saw their incredible skills and also their love for Fort Worth shine through with this year's summer reading program at the fort Public Library so I'd like to share some statistics with you um we had 8,608 participants this year which is an incredible 43% increase over last year we also had uh 4.5 million minutes read this year which was another incredible 106% increase over last year um thank you so much to the mayor for her her uh lending us her her cache her name for our fantastic reading challenge um just in case you didn't want to do the math in your head that is an average of nine hours of reading per person this year and that's compared to an average of 3.5 hours per person last year um in case you're interested we had the most growth in our adults and also in our pre-reader age groups and technically our pre-readers are read to by a adults so um we had a big gain there and I also want you to know that every single Library had an increase this year um in the minutes read across the board so great news there but we do want to recognize uh a special team our special recognition this year goes to lron biblioteka and if this is our incredible staff than they are the winning library of our uh internal summer reading challenge which is awarded to the library that has the largest percent increase in uh participation over the past year and you can see they had the most participant growth at 433 per. I am so grateful to this Library team that serves the community so well and I just want to thank you all very much for recognizing their incredible work today thank you so [Applause] much to the library team that came today and also to your colleagues that are running your libraries thank you very much for doing such an outstanding job I had a quick reminder of what it's like to read to toddlers when I came to ridgley um Library I think it's been a little bit um but I'm always humbled by the work that you do and the communities that you serve so thank you on behalf of the and the council and for making this year's summer reading challenge such a success and we're going to beat that next year as well so [Applause] congratulations great work next up I'm going to call on Kelly peard and she's going to recognize one of our Parks and Recreation employees good afternoon mayor and Council Kelly peard assistant director Park and Recreation thank you for the opportunity today to recognize the extraordinary actions of Judy Rodriguez Judy is a proud resident of the Diamond Hill Community but she is also a 17-year employee at Diamond Hill Community Center which is one of the ways she gives back a one of her favorite jobs that she does at the center is work with our active aging population and the best years club and on July 17th at one of the best years Club functions at a gathering one of the participants started choking Judy implemented classic first aid protocol and I'll pause and say this is part of our community center training for our staff so that we are always prepared for this um and I want to thank Sher eny who's in the audience um she is an instructor her job is district superintendent but uh teaches employees all across the city um classic first aid and so that day Judy recognized this she saw signs of distress went up implemented protocols saying are you okay got a shake of the head no may I help you got a shake of the head yes and after three times doing the heck maneuver the food was lodged the participant was fine needed no further medical assistance and so I just want to recognize Judy for what she does every day um but for this extraordinary action serving the community [Applause] I'll let Judy think about it but I'll just give a few words thank thank you Kelly and thank you Judy uh it's really our city employees that are Parts you know of our communities that make a difference in our city so Judy stepped up where the need was there she was prepared you know it's a good thing to have that training so uh I won't belabor the point and read you know this uh recognition but needless to say you're committed to Excellence and thank you for performing a life-saving measure got to say one of our lead senior citizens so thank you J dep thank you Judy for coming today thank you thank you thank you next up I'm going to call on Jessica mcaker to recognize a couple employees in Parks and Recreation thank you mayor and counsel I am going to first start with Kelly peard again so I'm gonna have Kelly come on up here so most of you have already worked with Kelly and you know her through her role as the assistant director of the Park and Recreation Department uh Kelly uh manages and directs the recreation division right now which is responsible for all of our community centers Log Cabin Village fourth Nature Center um late night at 6 program and the aquatics facilities as well Kelly is retiring this month after 26 years of service uh and so it's very Bittersweet for me to recognize her and thank her but also wish her well um she has done some incredible things throughout the city and I just want to share a few of those things with y'all so she began her career on June 1st 1998 as the Historic Site supervisor at Log Cabin Village and she served at Log Cabin Village for almost 20 years before promoting to the assistant director position over Recreation while at the Log Cabin Village Kelly accomplished many noteworthy things she professionalized the museum operations she served as a peer reviewer for the American Alliance of museums and served on the advisory committee for Museum Assessment program she served as a grant review for The Institute of Museum and Library Services managed numerous restoration projects on the 19th century structures uh she helped form 501c3 support groups to raise money for Log Cabin Village and the VanZant Cottage and she also spoke at many national state regional and local levels on professional Museum operations uh Kelly served in many capacities for the board of Texas Association of museums for 11 years and served as president for two of those years six years ago Kelly promoted to the assistant director position over the recreation division um she brought consistency to Community Center operations by analyzing the operations and developing a tiered system for Staffing in hours she focused on cultivating and sustaining a positive workplace culture and providing excellent customer service during covid Kelly LED all of the division's facilities uh which resulted in a Texas recreation and park Society award for Community Center Camp connection response to the need for virtual learning she assisted in numerous emergency response activities for Hurricane evacuees and inclement weather Sheltering and she participated in the development of multiple impactful capital projects including the Diamond Hill Community Center the Northwest Community Center the Marty Leonard Lotus March Marsh Boardwalk expansion at the Nature Center and the Forest Park Pool Kelly has been an integral member of this team and we are truly sad to see her go but we are so excited um one of the things that Kelly and I bonded quickly over is our love of travel and RV camping and so she and her wife Sandy are H they already go on a lot of trips right now but they're about to embark on many many many more Adventures both enjoying their retirement in their new fabulous RV I might add named the Freda Rome named after artist Freda Koo and it is fabulous I'm very jealous I've told her that already but please join me in recognizing and thanking Kelly for her many years of [Applause] service thank you so much and thank you Jess I'm G try not to get all emotional here um I so loved representing the city of Fort Worth I've Loved living in the city of Fort Worth um serving this community but I think one of the things I'm taking away is I work with the most incredible team uh both in my division but everyone throughout the park department and our executive team all of my direct reports are just amazing and such talented um hardworking individuals um and throughout all the Departments I've worked with so many great people so it's just been an honor um have amazing fond memories that I'll be taking on the road but but also uh Fort Worth will still be Hometown and uh always treasure every time I come back to it so thank you all for 26 great years awesome wait Kelly before you go um Kelly is one of the few city employees that I had the opportunity to know before I took this position and she was still still at the log C Village you have always been such a pleasure to work with professionally and personally so thank you for all that you've done thank you for your tremendous help with Forest spark pool I mean what I think I heard you say up there when you were speaking is that we're all welcome to come visit you in tal is that correct I hope you have I hope you have so much fun up there that's great Jared please Kelly I Can't Let You Get Off The Hook without me saying anything um thank you for your service of the city um I have personally been blessed by just um the um many um impacts that you've made on our kiddos especially in district 6 whether it's with the late night programs and getting those started or um you know ensuring that every kid the city gets to go to a community center without having to pay for a membership I mean you you've tremendously impacted so many children's lives um through all of the programs that you have led with your team and so uh just so grateful we'll miss you and there's certainly big shoes to fill um when you're gone but um just thank you for your service and um cheers to the all the road trips you'll take after this yes absolutely yes congratulations Kelly thank you very much all right and speaking of big shoes to Phil we are excited to announce her replacement who's here so Mo'Nique come on up and Mo'Nique got the memo this morning about how to match me on our outfit today so I love it uh so we are excited to introduce Monique Hill to you as the new assistant director of the Park and Recreation Department Recreation division to replace um Kelly so Mo'Nique is no stranger to the city as well many of you also likely know her she has been with the city for 22 years um she has worked originally in the parks department as a community center attendant coordinator thank you um and then she went to the neighborhood services department as a superintendent still working with community centers and so um we did a nationwide search for this position we had more than 120 applicants but Mo'Nique Rose to the top and we realized we had our talent right here already and we were so excited for her um she is uh moving over and one thing I'll mention you might remember through our budget discussions we are taking all of the community centers that are managed by The Neighborhood Services Department effective October 1 they're actually going to move over into the parks portfolio to the customer they will see no difference it has no changes to the customer but this transition is also just perfect timing with Mo'Nique taking over to help facilitate that and Kelly worked very hard to lay the groundwork on that as well in the assistant director role Mo'Nique will oversee all of the community centers The Aquatic facilities the Fort Worth at 6 late night program all of the camps and after school programs Log Cabin Village and the Nature Center um I know that Monique is going to be very successful in this role because she is very Adept at developing sustainable programs and collaborating with our community Partners which is just such an integral part of our community center operations Monique is a Fort Worth native she's a proud graduate of Trimble Tech High School she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in social work from Grambling I cannot say that Grambling State University she earned a master of social work from Washington University in St Louis Missouri and she earned a master of public administration from the University of Texas at Arlington so please join me in welcoming Mo'Nique as the new assistant director thank you so much I will tell you um I am very excited for the opportunity I have worked with Kelly and Richard and Dave and Casey now for a long time before this and um with a lot of you all and so I'm very excited for the opportunity I feel like there are huge Kelly's not a big person but she's got big big footprint uh but she's pav the way um for us and I'm very excited for the opportunity and looking forward to all the things that we'll get a chance to work together to do thank you [Applause] congratulations thank you for all that now we jump to informal reports our first informal report is on Dallas Fort Worth International Airport amendments to codes of rules and regulations Paul Tomy is here if there are any questions yes questions Paul come on up hey Paul hello um thank you as always for um just all the amazing work that DFW Airport does um I personally fow there countless times and so just really grateful for all that yall um do for our community I have um couple questions on this IR um just three of them so if you don't mind indulge me for a second um um I noticed on the changes um to these amendments um several things I just wanted to get your clarification on it the first question is um um you know why why are youall proposing these um changes um like what what triggered these changes um and are there um are these updates addressing new operational concerns legal requirements or other factors uh both uh uh this particular set of code changes is heavily on First Amendment issues the Supreme Court says that under the First Amendment we have to uh make reasonable accommodation for those who want to pick it or uh solicit or uh do any sort of First Amendment expression and we get so many of these applications that we thought it would be wise to put into the code a lot of the rules that we impose and are allowed to impose under the rules uh it would take way too long for me to go through the all but that's the basic purpose of those changes uh we also have uh some uh changes to our smoking prohibition we tried to Define where you can and cannot smoke and we have a lot of problems with people smoking on the ramp who shouldn't be we tried to Define it as a general rule but we found that it was just impossible to enforce so what we're proposing now is that the CEO should be allowed to designate with signage where you are and are not allowed to smoke and it will be a code offense uh to violate that and finally oh excuse me we're also uh revising our rules on commercial photography licenses to make very clear that uh the only rules we impose on that is uh that you can't interfere with uh Public Safety and there's a list of things you cannot do we thought it'd be wise for the public to know that and then finally we're adding a few streets to our code which we have to do in order to enforce the speed limit awesome thank you for that clarification two more questions that I'll be uh um the second question is um what process um was used to engage local stakeholders um with these changes including airpl employees labor unions Community organizations about the proposed change and were there any concerns that were raised in in the feedback process uh I don't think we had any comments from any labor unions or other stakeholders about this again we're not really changing uh what we do we're just making it better known uh we're confident that all of our rules especially those dealing with the First Amendment are consistent with federal case law okay great last question um how did these propos changes to dfw's codes um compared to similar policies at other major airports um did y'all notice any differences or common Trends and then I know there was also a um a legal um or a lawsuit with the Cincinnati Airport related to a similar policy and that y'all consider that as well knowing that there was an injunction there on that policy uh I don't think we've had any injunctions on the policy in Cincinnati I'm sorry oh Cincinnati cincin Airport uh well I don't know specifically what case you're talking about but I can tell you that we confer with airports Council International and every other commercial airport in the country on a regular basis this is a very top popular topic of conversation every time we go to Legal committee meetings and I can assure you our policies are very consistent with those WEA airports in fact we kind of lead the way in terms of defining what is a sensible First Amendment accommodation policy right thank you um and I appreciate all the clarification and again thank you for the amazing work that DFW does um I it's you know it's my responsibility to just make sure that as we're voting on things that um we consider all you know ramifications if there are any implications for lawsuits or anything like that especially since it's dealing with the First Amendment so absolutely for clarifying that if any if at any time you get curious just don't hesitate to give me a call I'd love to discuss that subject thank you Paul I I just had one question I'm not sure if Jared asked that question is this new change going to uh prohibit uh the union from picking at the location absolutely not what we will do is is specifically Define where they're allowed to be and the signage they can hold we don't allow people to set up tables which is annoying to some of them because they they want to do that but if we allowed everybody who applied for a First Amendment permit to set up tables we'd have a crowding problem within the terminals and we we do put limits on how much what how they're allowed to interact with people they're not allowed to solicit donations uh they're not allowed to argue with people who would just want to get to their plane uh but we are required by law and we do allow uh people to pick it uh and to leaflet inside the terminals as uh required by the decision from I think it was 92 the Harry Krishna case you may be familiar with may have heard of it it it was sort of the seminal case that defined First Amendment obligations for airports fascinating read if you ever want to midnight reading right yeah Paul yeah thank you Paul appreciate any other questions for Council okay all right our next informal report is a monthly report on the release of area from our extr territorial jurisdiction and DJ harell is available if there are any questions any questions yes Macy C Hill I just had a definition question what defines a petition as being in eligible in order for a petition to be eligible um I I'll kind of answer it differently is it cannot be in an exclusionary area meaning that it has to be outside the F mile buffer of the Naval Air Station or it can't be in an area defined as an industrial uh area that city has defined or an area that is under a um strategic partnership agreement so in this case for these two that were ineligible they were actually within that 5 Mile buffer and that's what made them ineligible for it thank you okay and just to clarify I think there was um four others um two were withdrawn and it was due to um misunderstanding what the intent of this etj release was um they actually wanted a septic letter one with was withdrawn because they had some issues with the description but unfortunately they came back and applied once again and it they were eligible and I think there were two that were um let's see unel U what were the other two withdraw ineligible and I can't think of the other two but anyways we've had about 88 that have been successfully um released so any other for questions for Council no thank you gentlemen appreciate you all right our next informal report is Panther Island equable Equitable development initiative and Fernando cost is available if there any questions no questions but Fernando if you can give us just a uh you know concise overview of where we're at with those efforts uh no Outreach has been uh being done by public uh meetings you know around uh you know my Council District so can you tell us a little bit more about that yes sir thank you Council Flores mayor and Council you'll recall that earlier this year acting as the Board of the for Housing Finance Corporation you approved the allocation of funding in the amount of $37,500 toward a $230,000 budget for this Panther Island Equitable development initiative which consisted of three parts the first part is what council Flores has just described that's the preliminary Community engagement phase in which a team of uh professionals uh under uh direction from the for worth Hispanic chamber of commerce reached out to uh multiple stakeholders throughout the the north side of Fort Worth uh to brief them about the panther Island project and how it might affect the north side and to solicit uh their comments uh uh about uh how they would like uh the north side uh to to grow and uh develop uh in the face of of Panther Island uh that was the first phase uh and we've recently received a report from the community engagement team on their findings uh the next phase which is probably the the most prominent uh occurs next week uh with the arrival in Fort Worth of a team of uh eight uh nationally recognized real estate development experts associated with the Urban Land Institute or U uh to conduct a week-long workshop uh on the impacts of Panther Island upon surrounding neighborhoods particularly on the historic north side and how we can use Panther Island uh as a catalyst to revitalize the north side and conserve uh attributes uh of the neighborhood that uh we think are worth preserving uh the north side is well known uh as a a Gateway into Fort Worth for for many immigrant families going back uh to the early days of of Fort Worth it remains a Gateway today uh it's a uh a focal point for Latino culture in Fort Worth and uh this effort is aimed at preserving that culture uh even as we accommodate uh the kind of uh uh growth associated with with Panther Island in fact I think the next IR on your agenda uh contemplates an update of the panther Island development regulations to accommodate that growth the the third phase uh in this project uh is the implementation of recommendations from the Uli panel and in fact we've already raised funds uh to launch uh implementation activities so uh this is an exciting time for the North Fort Worth much credit goes to the uh Hispanic chamber of commerce for providing leadership in this effort they are the sponsor of the Uli panel uh credit as well goes to the various local foundations and businesses that are co-sponsoring uh this effort with the Fort Worth uh uh public uh Housing Finance Corporation so thank you Council FL thank you Fernand all right as mentioned the next informal report is an update of the panther Island development standards and guidelines Justin newart is available if there any questions I'd like to call uh Justin up I have one specific question and he can go ahead and elaborate on his efforts as well uh Justin uh you know you and I you know talk regularly about this and it's my understanding that as part of future efforts uh there's a regulating plan that's part of what you're doing that uh concerns uh future Street planning and I know that's been a one of the relevant topics in in my discussions with the 1012 North Main folks given where they're at uh located in the panther Island area and how that you know will develop over the course of time to make sure that they have appropriate access um so if you can tell us a little bit about that and then just kind of give an overview of what you're working on on the updates sure so um the current Panther Island form base code has the regulating plan and map um within it that regulates the construction of uh future streets and Pathways throughout the island so as part of the code update we we're going to look at um that component along with everything else to make sure it aligns with the recommendations from Lake flate um including you know do we have enough um access do we have enough streets in the right places do we have enough pedestrian Pathways throughout the island to make sure that um all of the sites that are available for development do have access to the grid okay and uh when do you expect that part that regulating plan to be touched on TimeWise um we'll we'll touch on it along with all the other components of the code you know over the next couple months uh this fall winner as we're engaging stakeholders in the community on what they want to see in terms of updates to the development regulations so you know next five to six months okay thank you yep thank you Jessie the next in report is an update of the camp buoy revitalization code and that's Justin again any questions Justin can you just give a quick overview of it yes this code is uh very out of dat um it hasn't really been updated since it was adopted by U all in 2012 so we're doing a comprehensive update we're coordinating it with our other form based codes and mixed use districts through throughout the city so it's easier to develop consistently throughout Fort Worth and we're making it um easier to read and understand so it's not just easier for staff to implement and review projects but it's easier for the community to develop in in the Cy District thank you that's all yep all right the next informal report is a Professional Services agreement Amendment with visit Fort Worth and Robert Sterns is available if there are any questions all right oh yes Robert thank you Robert I had just a quick question of the 16 million how much of that is allocated to the Fort Worth Sports commission at a visit Fort Worth funds how much that to the sports commiss how much and they get funding from visit Fort Worth I didn't know if some of the 16 million is allocated directly to them or if how that works in the budget I don't believe so I would have I would have to get with uh Mike crimee and those folks to get a firm answer on that one you check on that form okay thank you all right thank you Robert the next in for repor is on GRE strap requirements for commercial kitchens and Chris Harter is available if there any questions Chris Chris nles has a question for Chris Harter Chris Chris um Chris I think when we when I first brought this up it was a uh a concern of the requirement for grease traps for restaurants in the city of forart was the same as for like commercial uh kitchens and churches daycare Etc which does not uh even get close to the type of performance that restaurants are performing is is that information in your IR today yeah yeah it is um and the IR is actually one of the the longest IRS we've ever produced uh in water utility that's why I didn't didn't really get all the way through it that's why I'm asking you is it in your IR I joked yesterday that it it was like my go to sleep document lie Chris it was hard to get through so if if you have a commercial kitchen you will have to have a grease trap uh and sometimes I think in the in the case of your situation council member Nettles there was maybe a kitchen shown on the plans but it wasn't necessarily planned to be construction constructed uh but if there is a commercial kitchen it will trigger a grease strap so the difference that you may have is you have the kitchens that are like the Heat and cons serve type of a situation and then you have the full kitchens so what you will normally see is that type of a a kitchen that has a heat and serve type situation they will go with What's called the hydro uh Hydro mechanical type grease trap and that is sized differently than you would have for a full commercial kitchen with dishwashers and those type of things where you'll have the much larger gir straps and if you look at the um there's actually a table that provides a breakdown by size of the inventory of grease traps in Fort Worth there's over 3200 of them we have actually about 20% of them that are less than 500 gallons so those those small uh type heat and sered kitchens that don't necessarily have dishwashers don't necessarily have a lot of cooking going on those will get by uh potentially with a hydr mechanical uh grease trrap that is much much uh less expensive uh and much uh much smaller and is this standard because I I I was working with uh uh someone um that was serving food and they were required to have the large grease strap uh so they were doing like some kind of uh feeding after school or something to that fact and so that's kind of why I asked this question but you're telling me that their size should be a lot smaller than what's required for a restaurant yeah I'm saying that so there's there's two different types of grease traps out there there there's the type of grease traps that provide that's separate by gravity those are the larger type uh grease traps and those are the ones that require much more capacity the smaller type uh systems are those hydromechanical ones and those are not only significantly less expensive but also less volume okay and I will just say that uh um from our perspective the ordinance and the the sizing uh guidelines that we've had in place for over 20 years now have been very successful and when you look at the the large utilities that are under consent decrees right now the Houston the San Antonios they uh are coming up to our standards and even going beyond our standards now so our standard is ultimately a performance-based standard what we do is we will measure the uh effluent coming out of the Trap and the grease concentration has to below be below 250 milligram per liter so it's not just the installation itself that installation has to be maintained and it has to be performed and it has to be performed and if you look at the number of violations that we've had just over the last five years you'll see that that performance is actually happening the number of violations have dropped considerably over the Last 5 Years thank you thanks sorry I have lots of questions today Chris um does it matter the type of structure if it's a temporary structure or a drive-thru does it matter if they're as long as they're cooking food and they have to have a grease trap does that dictate the size that did they have to have one if it's a temporary structure yeah even if it's a temporary structure and they're and they're going through the permitting process for it then it would trigger a greas trap okay I'd have to I may want to get with you after the meeting just to kind of get an example of what you're talking about okay let's do that thank you that was Chris's eight page informal report to show he could write a onepage informal report the next one is Chris's too it's the irrigation ordinance compliance informal report sure update please yeah Chris can you just give an update on that I it's worth hearing yeah actually that did cross my mind that I I had bookends here uh one page and an eight pager so what what this uh informal report is is just kind of report back to you as Council um kind of what we've seen in terms of violations of the uh irrigation ordinance now let's kind of step back a little bit if you remember correctly IR ly we financed the Ami remote read meter program with a low interest loan from the water development board part of the reason why they were willing to finance that uh is because this is a conservation uh tool and conservation is a water supply strategy according to the Texas water development board so since we've converted all of our meters to remote meters we now have 186,000 customers that are signed on to that portal which is every utility would love to have that kind of a utilization so that's the customer side the goal is when when customers get an hourly usage that they have access to we're wanting them to be good stewards of their water use now on our end so all of our uh meters got installed in 2022 we had a very very hot and dry summer of 2023 which put considerable stress on our system we are looking at using the remote read meters as a tool to ensure that customers are following the ordinance that has been placed since 2014 so I asked staff to go ahead and start running queries on a weekly basis to see what kind of compliance we are seeing so with the 300,000 accounts that we have we were seeing uh about 15 to 20,000 customers that were not following the ordinance requirements whether they were irrigating on a Monday they were irrigating uh during the 10 to six uh restrictions or they were irrigating more than uh three times a week so not only that we we've been running this query every week since the beginning of July but not only that we have customers that have actually received a violation notice which is just a card or a text every week for the last nine weeks so uh you know unless we actually have some type of enforcement behind this ordinance I don't know that you're ever going to get uh those customers to change their behavior so again the goal with this uh IR was to kind of brief you on what we're seeing and then talk about these uh fees that we've had on the books for a while uh related to um ordinance violations thank you Chris the next informal report is on our storm water utility rate amendment process and timeline and Jennifer Dyke is available if there any questions all right next is tarant County 91 one structure funding in the fiscal year 25 budget approval and Valerie Washington is available if there are any questions all right then the final informal report is an update on T&M Fort Worth Campus project and Roger venables is available available if there's any questions uh yeah Roger if you could just um give a a very brief overview on what's in this informal report because I want to make sure um anyone that's watching knows the amazing things we've got going on at uh at our newm campus yes yes thank you council member be so over the last several months we've been working with the Texas A&M University and our developer to program the space if you will for the new building it's essentially initial design concept massing of the building uh but more importantly to understand the programming requirements of the University there are a number of state agencies and schools within the university system that are vying for space in the building and excited to come to Fort Worth and so a good bit of effort has been spent on that part well in August of this year um the board of regions felt so great about the project that they gave the thumbs up to move forward with what is the next real Milestone which will be design and preconstruction services so this will essentially get us to 100% architectural schematics construction plans permit approvals and a gross maximum price for the project so we can move forward with construction uh there'll be a couple of action items on council's agenda for the 17th uh one of which is is authorizing the LGC to issue debt to move forward to fund the preconstruction work um and the second one would be uh transferring funds of an uncommitted amount from the original $5 million in the amount of 2, 353,000 to the LGC again to help pay for a small portion of Design Services so we're excited about it you know following up on the 24th we're going to come to the LGC and request some action items there so we can move forward and issue debt before the end of the year get the project moving so you're welcome uh mayor that concludes my report thank you David Council moving to any questions regarding changes in memberships boards or commissions questions regarding seg zoning cases or questions regarding the MNC log that's in your packet if not we'll move to our first present ation on the Dallas for Worth International Airport proposed fiscal year 2025 budget our friend Chris quincat is here from DFW as our CH Chief Financial Officer Chris it's good to see you thank you mayor good afternoon everybody it's always a pleasure to be here in for worth this I'll go I know you've got a busy agenda so I'll give you a very quick overview of our budget uh we have once again record re passengers revenues and net revenues this year our EXP expenditure budget is up about 6% at 1.3 billion and what the airlines pay us in landing fees and terminal rents is up 46 million but 8.6 million less than what we told them when we negotiated the use agreement last year so they're pleased with this budget when you look at passenger forecast you can see we're going all the way back to 2019 and uh we are really doing quite well with 6.5% growth over each of the last four years including what we're budgeting for for next year uh when we look at DFW cost center revenues almost 593 million of revenues uh from non-airline sources up 99.4% and then these are the major Revenue sources and parking concessions and Rental Car are up primarily because of passengers commercial development we have more acres under development and interest income is driving 7 million positive variance so we up total of 50.8 million and here is the net revenues or the profit that we make on our non-airline revenues and the dark blue shows what we keep for ourselves to spend on the airport as in our discretionary capital account and the other in the lighter blue is what we give back to the airlines to lower what they pay us so a healthy sum at 144 million do this year as we look at our expenditure budget Focus you down on the table you can see operating expenses are up 5.8% and debt Services up 6.2% each of the next five years it'll bring you the budget Debt Service is going to go up we've got A9 billion Capital program right now so we'll be borrowing money to to finance that and when you look at our operating budget if you focus on the orange bars you see the total increase in our operating expense budget each year and we're at one of our lowest increases in a while but on the blue bars if you look at that that's inflation adjusted numbers and and actually the lowest we've had since FY 23 this is a walk forward of our budget we show you every year uh we had $14 million in budget reductions primarily from things that were one-time costs this year that were not repeating uh employee related increases include a 4% Merit increase for General employees and 4 and a half% for our DPS along with some pension funding and Health Care increases fixed contract increases relate totally to contracts already awarded by the board that next year just go up because of inflation primarily uh we have digital and Technology Investments of 5.8 and the big one there is workday implementation and then we we have customer related increases that relate to adding busing um and more attendance in our parking lots to help find parking parking spots while we do as much construction as we're doing and then other increases is up 9.8 and that's primarily to reestablish the CEO contingency uh that we put in the budget each year at $8 million so total of a thir 39 million net increase and then when we look at what the what the airlines pay us if if you'll look at the 24 budget uh to the 25 budget that's actually what they're paying us today for landing fees and so you can see it's actually a drop next year uh but the terminal rents are up about $5 a square foot and so this is the budget we're asking you to approve uh $ 1318 billion it includes $10 million outside the rate base which we've asked for for the last 15 years so if revenues come in higher than we expect the board this is totally controlled by our board um we can uh SP we can make some additional Investments some sometimes like this year we're actually putting a little M extra money into our pension plan and then finally each year we show you our tax sharing from the uh to the owner cities uh Ulus Irving Capel and Grapevine have tax sharing arrangements with the airport um they paid in a total of $27.5 million for calendar year 23 which was up uh 18% and Fort Worth share was $1.7 million in23 and that's a very quick overview of the budget and I'd be happy to answer any questions uh I have one as far as um meeting the net zero emissions Target for 2050 has there been any discussion on that from the airport because that's looming and the projections show that passenger uh number of passengers that are going to be traveling is expected to Triple by 2040 I think it I think I had read so what what's the status on that front uh good question uh we actually have a net zero goal in 2030 rather than 2050 um and we will we're at about an 81% total reduction now we have two major initiatives that will be implemented over the next several years the first is an electric Central utility plant which will become operational next year um that will take us very close to uh the definition of net zero and then we're also converting all of our Fleet over the next 5 to 10 years and that will ensure that we're actually achieving that goal so we're the largest carbon neutral airport in the world today um we are at may not mean anything to you but there is an industry Association that sets standards and we're at the highest level um that you can have from an industry perspective now that does not include the airlines what they contribute that's what DFW produces understood and uh just a followup question as part of that uh pollution mitigation plan are you employing the use of green walls around the airport you know that kind of like a biof filters for pollution we have biof filters in our terminals for the HVAC systems but I'm not sure what I'm talking about is actually Greenery right vegetation oh you in in like vertical barriers that can just you know filter out those uh pollution in all of our commercial development projects we have requirements for environmental standards and planting more trees and things not necessarily the wall you're describing but we'll jot that down and uh get try to get back to you with some specifics if we have anything okay and then just one other follow well one other different question uh verp ports uh has DFW Airport looked at the use of verp ports I mean eventually to become more of a multi modal Hub we have uh we are looking at by our uh corporate Aviation facility putting in five uh five spots um the project is funded um and uh we are working on it we'll be working on it over the next couple of years but right now that's still tied up with the FAA and and how um you know actually that's going to work from a air report standpoint thank you yep great Chris great to see you thank you again thank you so much Council next on our agenda is the update on police meet and confer William Johnson our assist city manager will lead the discussion good afternoon mayor and Council William Johnson assistant city manager um I'll preface this presentation with a caveat that everything that we're going to discuss is subject to final vote and ratification by the membership uh and you'll see in this presentation that that process is going to start on tomorrow key dates and timeline uh as of I'll just draw your attention to September 5th all articles have been uh tentatively agreed to by the POA in the city um we're having uh this discussion on um today uh POA is going to start their ratification process on Wednesday and they anticipate being completed with that process before this comes back to council to vote um on the 17th the uh I'll remind you that our contract expires the current contract expires on on September 30th and October 1st would be the effective date of a new contract assuming that it's all ratified some key initiatives that we discussed and were able to make progress on we added a second position on full release to the association for Association related business uh we shortened the time to conduct hearings of disciplinary appeal s uh We've made tremendous progress in bringing police officer pay closer to the market median um we were able to increase the the initial starting age of a police officer this really applies a lot to officers that are transferring in from other agencies um um physical incentive pay will be paid now when the officer passes the physical exam as OS to having to to wait until September every year uh promotional criteria is reduced from four years to three years for a Corporal it's reduced from 3 years to two years for Sergeants lieutenants and captains uh holiday pay is observed for juneth uh which is a process that we've already been doing we just Incorporated it into the agreement uh we were able to eliminate some of the minimum qualifications that were re restricting our ability to hire positions um as for certain civilianized positions um this will be a 4-year contract it would expire uh on uh September 3rd of 2028 uh if if it's not approved at that point it would go into an evergreen period and for lateral hires we can apply uh they may they're allowed to apply for promotional opport unities of following two years from their commission date um I showed you this slide before where uh around 2021 2022 uh contrary to to the historic rate at which uh the city was well above the market median we fell below the market median that blue line represents uh where we are in Fort Worth we think we're about 12 13% below that market median uh before this agreement um a lot of cities don't have uh contracts so as the market moves year over year they're able to just be flexible and and make adjustments in salaries but we're we're pretty locked in once we once we sign our contracts getting to the wages um the wage structure is a combination of steps and ranks so uh for steps one through through four that's the early years of uh an of a police officer's career that's where we were most behind the market uh they in year one they would get a 12% increase steps 5 through eight year one a 10% increase uh we're eliminating the step nine as it exists in the in our in the current contract so in the new contract step today's step 10 becomes step nine uh that ens the time that it takes for them to reach Max salary um today step 10 I mean Step 11 will become step 10 in the new contract and both of those uh for steps N9 and 10 will receive a 5% increase in year one in subsequent years um in 2026 207 26- 28 um steps 1-8 will receive a 3% across the board increase uh for all ranks and all uh throughout throughout the the pay structure um that increase would begin in January of 2026 then January 2027 January 2028 for steps 9 through 10 uh in year two they receive a 4% increase beginning in January of 2026 5% and January 2027 and 5% in January uh 28th in all ranks um effective the first pay period of of January you might recall this chart it kind of shows the blue line at the bottom kind of shows where we are today that green line represents um how much we were able to close the gap uh with this agreement uh I'll point out that you know in the past uh the agreements have typically just been across the board um adjustment sometimes they might frontload a little bit here or there but it hasn't been this complicated we didn't have to break it up into the different steps and in in order to to make progress on our market like we did so hats off to uh all of the team that was involved in negotiating on both sides uh the POA um and and their team working with the city and our team our HR Group the Law Department everyone who really uh put in the time and effort to be creative to come up with a solution that leaves us walking away with something for everyone who is affected by that by that agreement in terms of cost of contract our year One cost is going to be 1.56 million um and you can see years two three and and four with the increases that I described total cost of contract over that 4year period is 47.1 million um and that breaks down to be to about 39.8 million hitting the general fund additional 7.3 hitting ccpd with is about 15.5% of salaries that are currently loaded into ccpd covered by ccpd yes thanks mayor uh William not not to interrupt you too much slide seven I just want to be sure I was reading that right uh in getting rid of the old Step n becoming the current step 10 to be new Step n how much time is saved for them to reach that uh you know Max salary point is at two years each step is about two years yes all right okay thank you and this slide just gives you kind of a comparison to the general employees over the last few years where police had a contract that had a a cost increase locked into just at 3% in 22 we were um issuing an average of 6% base pay increases to General employees it was a very competitive time period where we made adjustments we had 4% pay for performance up to 7% plus an additional 2% just because we recognize the difficulty it was to attract and retain in employees in fiscal year 23 we had the 4% again for pay for performance up to 7% we also had had an additional 2 and a half% that was applied for hard to fill positions and that affected over 1,500 employees and then in FIS care year 2 24 again 4% pay for performance up to 7% it's just really to showcase the differences between these two different organizations and what we've done historically for General employees next steps uh as I mentioned before uh the POA over the between Wednesday and probably Monday Tuesday of next week will be meeting with their membership um hopefully having a success with getting the contract ratified um mayor and Council would would then approve the agreement as part of the uh council meeting on September 17th ordinances are being prepared as needed to be included with that um and the new pay pay rates would be effective o October 4th 2024 that I'll take any questions any questions for William Will I just had one question and it was the same question I asked earlier I didn't get an explanation for it but I think on the first slid you said they're going to they need to add an additional fulltime uh officer to what what is the reason of that the um our Workforce has grown substantially and as we deal with hearings and meetings Etc we they currently have one person that's dealing with all of that we were able to accomplish that without any real significant cost impacts to us uh they have a number of hours that they have available and so we were allowing them to utilize those hours uh basically it amounts to us taking a person letting them be paid by the hours that are donated by the membership and US asking councel to increase the authorization by one so that the same dollars that we're spending to pay for that person today will just pay for that new person that we're bringing in and does the contract uh articulate that that is how it's going to be uh operated for the the duration of the contract yes yes so each year they're going to be paid through the hours that are donated to and uh I lost my thought okay thank you Jared just Dove telling off of that what um what type of work is included in that scope it's it's similar work that's done by the POA president now uh representing employees when there are issues discipline um any policy changes that we might might be considering they participate in and discussions around those conversations with our Command Staff Etc on behalf of uh police officers thank you um second question I'm in this role are the um is there language within the our policies about um any type of outside activities outside of that scope and they're not being allowed to do that example political campaign yeah not not on not on our on our um based on our cost under our specific contract cost there's no that's not allowed okay thank you um last question um um I um I requested um a different breakdown of the compression cost so that I could better understand it I'd like to see that before um we vote on the budget can y'all provide that yes yes yes we have a the rate table maybe that they can explain that'll help explain as we increase salaries best or or compensation especially on the front end of the of the table it creates compression between uh the Frontline officers and the next level up of of supervision and so we can we can we can explain we can provide your copies of that for okay great I um I know I requested for a different formatting on it in our last budget work session to reflect previous um tables that you provide on compression so it that the last table was really hard for me to kind of decipher and I love tables so this the previous formatting yall use would probably be way more helpful for me okay we'll get that for you thank you sir back just to follow up on Jared's question about the scope um of that position that the city is paying for and what they can and can't do is they in monitoring to make sure that that's being followed the hours that they are allowed to use they do have to request the use of that time and um it is tracked in our system so we keep up with how many hours are you they get 6,000 hours that are donated from the membership every year a pool and then as those hours are are are used down once we get to the end of that contract year any remaining hours roll over that's the extent of I guess all the monitoring that goes on related to that is that good okay I do remember my other question you did ask it I mean you answered it I just want you put back on the record again is that this additional officer that's going to be used for this uh job uh will be coming from a resered position not from our officer pool it's it's there may be an officer we may have an officer pool now that has been doing some work they may select one of those people to be full-time but once they go full-time they're being paid for out of that pool of 6,000 hours that they get every year yeah I'm not concerned about that I think the question was making sure we're not taking an office off the street right and that's that's the reason why we we would ask for Council to increase our authorization by one for that one person that that comes out we'll have one more person authorized so that we're not losing any officers on the street so correct it does not it's not going to affect our ability to have officers on the street other questions good okay any other questions from Council will you go back to the schedule real quickly William towards the beginning this one yes sir thank you oh sorry we're good okay thank you very much any other questions Council okay we'll move to our last presentation which is active capital projects and funding gaps it'll be led by Christian Simmons Fort Worth lab Chief transformation officer hello everyone I feel like everyone looks sharp today I don't know what it is it's the fall the oncoming fall all right so I'm going to close this out today by giving a progress report on Capital funding gaps so you might remember we were here in May talking about this last and we have a couple of pending items on your September 17th agenda so just thought we'd give a progress report to that end so um here's a quick snapshot so this table here represents all the active capital projects uh in the city so this is governmental and Enterprise activities this is Bond not Bond all the projects so this is sort of the universe of what's going on so um a little over 2400 active projects you see the budget there um and so this slide's really meant to show first of all there's a lot going on all across the districts um a lot of Citywide projects which don't necessarily mean Citywide but maybe they span more than one District at a time so they get categorized in Citywide um and of those active projects you can see that there's really a very small percentage that have a funding Gap so that's good news the bad news is that it still has a dollar figure right $115 million is what we're looking at in funding gaps um at this time this table reduces the previous list to just Bond projects because I know that's where you know those are the voter approved projects where we really like to focus um and so this table is reducing that previous project list to just those that are associated with bonds from 2014 2018 2022 um and you'll see that of the capital Project funding gaps most of of them a little more than 80% are part of bond programs so that's concerning that's something we want to continue to look at and as a side note plug for the lab that's really a place where the lab is plugging in when it comes to preparing for the 2026 bond to ensure that we're really estimating those projects um in a way that's really tight and takes into account the trends we've seen in inflation the way that costs tend to change um between Bond program votes and then execution of the projects um but you can see here 246 active Bond projects the budget there um and there are 177 of those projects that have a funding Gap that's just a little under $100 million so this is what we showed you in May so these are the general Capital project gaps sort of by governmental function so Transportation parks and the rest um and so in may we were sitting at about 168.5 million in general Capital project gaps but we've had some actions since then and you've been involved in that action through mayor and Council agenda items um and so here are some of the things you might remember that have happened since May so we was U you approved uh residual Transportation bonds for the Cromwell Marine Creek project um and then you approved a combination of tax notes and ccpd funding for the Northwest Patrol facility you can see those figures um and then a general fund Surplus approval for the Intermodal project which we also supplemented with a bit of arpa money in the next uh section there were also arpa approvals for North Beach Street and Western Center Boulevard as well as the Meadow Brook Golf Course Maintenance building um and then finally you may remember that we did a swap with arpa and general fund fund balance for Evans and Rosedale and the A&M Innovation Hub and remember that that wasn't any change in our commitment to those projects it was just about arpa timing and that project delivery so uh looking forward to next week here are some things that are on your agenda for September 17th so there's a time sensitive 2018 Bond program project at North Crowley Road in North Crowley and curn Road and that should say District six so that's that's an edit sorry yes sorry um I noticed that about well my staff noticed it like 12 minutes ago um so I don't know how I missed it but um so anyway North Carley Road and cl Road um there is sorry um i' like to keep you guys on your toes see if you're looking at the slides um so that we need a a a $1 million gap close on that project and that one is is ready to go um and the bids actually expired in the spring and that contractor has been holding those bids out out out all the way through August um and so that's the last bit of funding needed to complete that project um that project's budget and then you're a familiar with the Texas ANM Innovation Hub the 2.4 million which was swapped from arpa um that is on your agenda for next week and of course you had an IR on that today so you're familiar and then you'll have one MNC that is coming from tpw that requests to approve arpa funds for five different Transportation projects so you see that list there it's Long Avenue North Beach and Champion view Basswood and Old Santa Fe wiah and Martin Street and then Western Center in sandshell um and so you'll see those all as one MNC next week and those are all tied to bond programs as you can see with those sort of red flags including a couple from the 2014 Bond so we're really trying to push you know make um make um let's see use of make use of uh that arpa money and get those projects rolling um and then just a quick note on the library cuz this comes up so remember obviously you remember this um last month we did the downtown library purchase um and so of that 16 million dollar from the Central Library proceeds um we Ed a little under six and a half of that for that uh purchase and then we're assuming that um in the first quarter fiscal year 25 we may see um Council District 7's The far Northwest Library using a bit more of those proceeds in the amount of 3.4 million and then um with an unknown date at this time but we're sort of earmarking the fact that the rest of those proceeds will go toward Renovations at the downtown library um and so that you know those actions together would then use up the 16 million from selling um so I just wanted to put that note out there to show that those Central Library proceeds would be tied to those Library actions so from May to now you can see the bit of reduction in a lot of those pending actions so we've moved from 168 a. half million in general Capital project gaps down to 44.4 million that includes if we did use all that Library money here um and you can see we still have some fire station actions to take um and obviously some other gaps to close so um as it sits today if we use all that other Library money we'd have $33 million in that assigned general fund Surplus that's being held for capital projects no more tax notes and a little bit of arpa money left after those pending actions on next week um and so as you know this is 36 million um but we still have a number of gaps to close above and beyond that amount and so here are what some of those projects look like so that is the snapshot of where we are um the lab and finance and all the Departments have been working really hard over the summer in conjunction with or adjacent to the budget process to scrub the lists of all these capital projects that are happening and make sure um that they're input correctly that the districts are right that old projects that maybe for some reason are not closed are getting closed so that's a long analysis that's happening there are a couple of actions as you've seen that have had to happen in the midst of that but we're still working to get you a list of projects by District um the other thing that happened over the summer is that um finance took the lead on working with all the Departments to determine arpa eligibility for every one of those 2400 projects so we know of all of those projects that have a funding up whether they're arpa eligible or not and that's what's informing the mnc's that you're seeing so the next steps are we just wanted to give you this progress report we'll continue to um work toward the goal of getting you that list by uh district and then you'll see those mnc's on the 17th we'll keep evaluating um and we'll we'll continue to look at if there are Bond residuales impact fees other sources you know for certain we'll continue to look at and what we can do in the meantime as we're monitoring gaps and then again I mentioned we're really trying to keep these Trends in mind as we develop the 2026 Bond Q&A discussion we go back to the library page I think it was accidentally listed as District Seven but I think it's district 10 I swear these District numbers y'all have to forgive me I don't know what I'm I'm doing clearly I would love to take credit for another Library I know okay yeah sorry I'm go through it again we try to catch them all that is also as a not what's happening in the financial system so when I'm trying to produce a like list by District they're sometimes wrong or they're sometimes listed as Citywide and they're not Citywide so anyway that's part of the cleanup that's happening and the lab will take a more strategic approach in how we're reporting and delivering things any other questions aside from my sad typo okay question oh hi go ahead Janette thank you can you go back to the list of unfunded um projects that have gaps here yes I don't see any projects in District 11 is there a reason why I don't think your projects have any gaps okay yeah so you can see here on your I know how did that happen she's looking at slide three just for your reference there active Capital project summary Janette yes so I'm on three and then four yeah so you have 137 active projects $147 million in projects but zero gaps so somehow you got away scotf free on this one I don't know I'm just skeptical I feel like there's something out there that you could take something from the amount I trust myself to No I um yeah so give some give some project money away yeah I'll um they have all kinds of ideas for how to fix how to fix this yeah we can go over your projects and just take another another look I know anything else for me thank you Christian Council that's the last of our reports today next up would be any future agenda items requested for City management council member Beck yeah I just want to add I had as previously asked for an IR on um noise and um buffer zones uh amongst us uses and I'd like them to when they bring that back to us also add the potential of um updating our building code to require um bars and music venues to um provide additional insulation for noise in relation to uh proximity to our single family homes any other featured in items Council no okay with that meeting is adjourned see you this evening e