good afternoon mayor councel city manager Choppa I um I think they've got this video queued up to play now I really strive to be someone who's Dependable reliable really willing to get in the trenches and dig with with to get the job done the main thing about Jennifer is her focus on customer service I mean she is all about internal or external I always get kudos from those customers that she solved their problems I love her willingness to step in and help when needed I've been lucky enough to work with her twice now and she has always treated me with respect and encouragement The Next Step should be and I just think that says a lot about her as an employee but also as a colleague she has a friendly attitude she's funny she's very intelligent and I have always um admired the way that she helps others without any hesitation her workload is she's usually willing to help out no matter what it is having the opportunity for my colleagues to to recognize me it makes me feel valued and makes me feel seen and it makes me feel heard by some of the most respected people that I have in my life and just being offered the opportunity of an ambassador would mean more than the world [Applause] tool and you know for those that don't know um you know we've worked really hard in development services to ensure that our art we're facing and our customer uh experience is going to be a positive experience when folks are dealing with the city of Fort Worth um uh in the beginning of fiscal year before we created a program uh sort of like the employee of the month employee of the year program but we call it Ambassador um we were looking for individuals that uh represent uh the the standards that the city manager and this Council have put into place for development services and those who work for the city with regard to our interaction with customers and one another as staff um and so um basically every every quarter we issue ambassador of the quarter Awards and then at the end of the year we issue an ambassador the Year award to the Ambassador has made the most impact and I'm honored to stand before you today to introduce you to Jennifer ezernack U and I'll say one little quick thing about her I mean she's she's homegrown I don't know how many folks know I I know Mary Pro Tim knows her because she works on a lot of your projects um um but Jennifer has about 20 years with the city of Fort Worth her mother retied after about 30 years with the city of Fort Worth in fact her twin sister works for development services as as well so she's homegrown and we're not letting her get away so Jennifer [Applause] aset it's been an honor to be chosen as ambassador of the year for last year I do appreciate everyone with their hard work and thank you for allowing me to support you thank you a May Tim Jennifer you don't get to leave you you have to stand there and let me make you blush I I had a project that just seemed to be going nowhere very important project so important there's a train station at this project right now and so last year sometime you I started convening weekly meetings and it was still kind of hard until Jennifer came along and you know you are a shining star when a developer asked the question who is that lady running these meetings and so she truly is no drama she truly is holding everybody accountable and this is a business where people can slide through the tracks through the cracks if they want to and Jennifer will say uh did you get that and you understand your deadline in a real nice way and so Jennifer I I just really appreciate all that you brought all that you bring and it's just a pleasure to know you and thank you for the the harmony you bring to the lakes of river trail project thank you so very much thank you mayor P Jennifer I'll just be briefly uh real brief I want to say thank you um I have personally observed in several meetings with developers your um incredible spirit for this work an incredible heart for this work um you know you have always been thoughtful and kind to everyone who comes on the calls and also I'm very clear about the expectations for development in the city um and you've done it um all with Brilliance and Grace and so I couldn't think of uh DJ a better person to give the award to although you have a team full of rock stars but um congratulations and welld deserved here are your flowers thank you thank you very much thank you thank you DJ and congrats Jennifer well done um I now want to call up Robert Sterns to introduce his uh newest employee thank you city manager Chapa Mayors and members of council uh after what has been a very long search it feels like uh I am pleased to introduce newest member of our team Lance Randall who is our deputy director for economic development uh Lance is an award-winning Economic Development practitioner with 29 years of experience in the fields of Economic Development community devel development Workforce Development housing tourism government relations and business management uh he has served uh at the mon Economic Development commission the greater mon Chamber of Commerce the Seattle office of Economic Development and was executive director of the black Business Association of Oregon so we are very pleased to have Lance here Lance please come up and join us uh he is a graduate of Morgan State University in Baltimore and political science uh and as you can tell he is a much better dresser than I am so I've got to uh I've got to update my wardrobe game to hang out with let so again let just want to have you uh welcome the [Applause] board um thank you Robert for the introduction um I'm honored to be here in the city of Fort Worth to work for the office of Economic Development um I've been here um a month and I tell you we have a great team a great leader and a lot of great opportunities I'm looking forward to continue my work um for the organization for the city to serve the businesses the residents and of course the leaders of our city so thank you for the opportunity [Applause] welcome we're going to move into informal reports uh we're going to move up uh informal report regarding find it here the metal theft metal theft unit update number 0027 so um mayor Pro bivans I know you may have questions or wanted them to walk through this is that fair to say yeah I uh wanted to let the council know how this came about uh my office like I'm sure y'all's offices too started receiving complaints of Internet service being out for extended times at one point I had one neighborhood without internet service for more than two weeks and was totally unacceptable and so I called my former partner in crime Linda carum at AT&T and we convened a work group with Chief noes police and other departments and so this is to bring you all up to date on where we are now and mayor I don't know if this is something that TJ you know would at least you know take a look at but it's affecting not just the city of Fort Worth and not just the city of Dallas it's happening Nationwide people are stealing copper and when you depend on your Internet to have your visual doctors visit that's more than you having to check your Tik Tok or your social media it it impacts your life and so that's the reason why we're here and thank you all for moving this up because my mom's in the hospital mayor council thanks for having us um as Gina set the table really well um this is a really big issue not only across our city but across the country um I'm going to turn this over to Anthony White he's over our metal theft unit um he's going to kind of Step through the IR instead of it's a lot of information in there but he's going to be able to break it down pretty well for you and afterwards we'll take some questions if you need thank you Chief good afternoon mayor and counsel uh thank you for having us and I'd like to start out with an overview of this IR um and to touch it and to add a little bit more to what mayor protim Biven said this is impacting every single one of us in this city when when a when a copper Thief when metal Thief disrupts critical infrastructure it impacts not only City Hall but hospitals post offices and every facet of our life uh this is a national Trend this is not uh just an impact here in Fort Worth a simple Google search just typing in AT&T AT&T cable theft it is Nationwide in every city in America and here in Fort Worth we are we're in particular we're tired of it as a as a metal theft unit supervisor I've got my officers here with me as well U I've provided some statistics um and in the past four years uh in a comparison of a two of two years from 2020 to 2022 up from 2022 to 2024 we have experienced a 545 per increase in a in in AT&T cable theft alone in this city um that is exponential I don't know of any other crime in this city that is impacted that has such an impact in a two to fouryear span like 545 per. um overall metal theft we have a 53% increase and when when I say metal theft most people say are we talking about gold and silver no we're talking about large large cable uh Communication cable critical infrastructure copper and the uh the cable that I passed around the room there that that Chief Aldridge has that is about approximately one foot of cable and officer right looked it up just a few minutes ago and that is $433 per pound as of today in the metal industry so that is about $20 there in Chief's hand that we just passed out and when these thieves are hitting us here in Fort Worth they're not getting one foot they're taking out 2 to 300 ft sometimes more at a time uh a recent just a recent blind search just recently of by one of our officers that we have on loan to the unit uh revealed that a couple and I can't talk much about it but go in depth about it because it's an active investigation but there's a couple here in Fort Worth that in the last two months they have profited and put in their pocket $40,000 stealing AT&T cable um we've tracked that down we've identified some people and that investigation is moving forward I'd like to highlight some of the amazing work that my team and the Fort Worth metal theft unit is doing U officer Wright and officer purcelli are here in the room and in 2024 they made over 20 arrests uh from particularly pertaining to metal theft alone now some of those crimes did not involved just metal theft you may have you may remember seeing in the news um up on Northwest 28th Street in Northwest division officer Wright wrote a wrote a warrant and after that warrant was executed over 20 stolen vehicles were recovered that had been stolen all across Texas and the United States in the backyard of that house I'd also like to highlight the collaborative work group that mayor protim Biven set up we've uh we've established a great work group that includes multiple City departments AT&T Charter Spectrum and many more uh that work group has led us to uh we were we were recently involved as a unit at a critical infrastructure Summit at Verizon headquarters where there were dozens of dozens of uh of law enforcement as well as partners in the communications industry so we collaborated and have met to talk what can we do as an industry uh what can we do to to to help these companies as law enforcement and we're excited about that approach moving forward um to talk a little bit more about what the unit's doing not only are they getting assigned cases uh to investigate metal theft but they also inspect the scrap yards here in Fort Worth the metal recycling yards to ensure compliance to make sure that they are up to Industry standards and many of these inspections um that they've done over the past year have have been very have gone very well with working with the uh with with the management uh the management most of the most of the management of these recycling entities here in Fort Worth they want to work with law enforcement to help make us a safer City and to identify thieves and um it's it's been a it's been a good relationship over the past couple of years so those those inspections are ongoing to ensure compliance and um during those inspections officer wri and officer purcelli also provide education to these scrapyards on what to look for and how to notify us so U and then last lastly I'd like to look I'd like to talk about the legislative efforts so some of you may be aware but catalytic converters were a major issue being stolen over the past decade and they spiked up until two years ago in the 88th legislature um when the 88th legislature passed laws stricter laws on simple possession of a catalytic converter that doesn't belong to you we've seen catalytic converter theft go down meanwhile we've seen critical infrastructure assaults on telecommunication wire Skyrocket so we are working with AT&T and I believe AT&T is here today as well we're working hand inand with AT&T and with Spectrum to craft a bill to craft legislation and we're working with our lawmakers down in Austin to hopefully pass a bill in the 89th legislature to enhance punishment for critical infrastructure assault moving forward um and lastly I would just like to thank mayor protim Bivens for put for putting together that work group that that she's established um to collab it's a collaborative work group and it's it takes all of us takes all of us in this community and for any citizens if you see something say something if you see somebody climbing up a pole and cutting a wire call 911 and report it because that's most likely going to affect thousands of residents internet including your own so and I'll take any questions that you have any questions Council yes Charlie so just one so one thank for that information that's great if there's three people I can't stand it's First Amendment Auditors liars and thieves um so on the thev side understanding we may have to wait for legislation to come out with stricter laws on what we can and can't do uh I think that's going to be a great first step shouldn't have a lot of issues there but in the meantime have we noticed any issues because I know a lot of times our police officers are told you know our Gils are full so we can't take anyone you know violent felonies only um know these type of people if they're willing to commit these kind of crimes they're probably not going to show up in court if you just site and release them so are you getting any help from County at all or what are the other concerns that we should be looking at as a city in how we handle this issue well moving forward I'm I am I'm exploring the option of creating a regional task force I would love to I would love to see a collaborative effort uh regionally between Dallas Fort Worth Arlington and all the surrounding jurisdictions because this is going to take an a metroplex effort because when they hit halam City when they hit Sansom park that is impacting Fort Worth residents as well because those lines cross jurisdictions just because there's a a City Line doesn't mean that that the uh that the cut in Sansom Park doesn't impact our community so I think a collaborative effort a regional effort is warranted to combat this effectively and councilman LW doors on the jail situation uh we've been able to kind of resolve some of those issues and so over the past couple of months we haven't really had an issue with our jail overcrowding so we haven't put restrictions on our officers on arresting people okay got so these if these folks are caught then is is it I guess what are they being if you catch them in the act of digging up a cable for example what are they being charged with at that point because uh they're they're being charged with with the uh with the theft of recyclable material um copper bronze it's a it's actually it's actually specific to medal in the Texas Penal Code okay thank you and there before we go to the next speaker I'd like to ask AT&T's lead investigator to come to the the podium because we want to know what AT&T is doing with this problem and so as he's coming I know we'll take some more questions councelor Williams and thank you all for this report I certainly um understand the impact of um when people make decisions like this um can you tell me a little bit more about the people who are choosing to um you know steel wires and what's their what have you seen as the motivation and you know tell us more about who they are in their story yeah this is uh this is there's really um this is all walks of life people people taking this stuff all ages um young old um it it really is just a just everyone so these these people are uh they they they know the scrap industry very well so they're not looking at taking people's aluminum cans out of their trash because aluminum cans aluminum is very cheap compared to copper copper is one of the most expensive uh one of the more pricey Metals um to be able to recycle so that's that's their target that's helpful I Envision and hope a world in a future where people don't have to steal to survive yes Anthony as sorry um as you're starting to crack down on these uh thefts are you seeing that the numbers are coming down a little bit or they still staying consistent we're still with he can he can talk more about the experience of the cuts that they're having but we are still we are still brushing the surface um as far as the number of the number of cuts that are taking place hello my name is CS from G Global Security investigation with AT&T and I want to say I appreciate the collab up after with the police department's uh mayor Pro Tim and uh the other members here uh cable theft has been an ongoing problem what AT&T has done to help with those efforts we do have a $10,000 reward leading to the arrest and conviction of cable theft suspects uh the answer uh this question here is far as Arrest being made you still can't pull out the rule of law that is is is most of these offices are State Jail felonies but at the same time most of you speaking with the Das they're nonviolent crimes and offenders do get out we've had over 250 thou I mean 250 arrests last year alone in the Dallas for FL Metroplex 80% of that on the Dallas County side because of the bigger plants as they moved forward this way so in working with the metal theft now we're educating them on because crime is just moving we're getting caught here we're getting moved oh we got a new area to play with so we continue with our collaborative efforts but we want to put that out there is for the reward which goes up until November 2025 those calls are coming in we're following working with the PDS of every person that's been arrested have been either have a misdemeanor or felony record they're multiple offenders I've found people arrested more than once in a three-month period committing four crimes All State Jail felonies but they're sitting at home waiting on court meanwhile going back out there doing the same thing you know so but I think uh this is a good start but our Focus to be here is to let y'all know about that $10,000 reward which has been advertised but that has helped with us reducing is still going on we're working as fast as we can to upgrade to fiber plants that's not always feasible in every area just because where they are that has a lot to do with it as well but coming to this side yes they are targeting a lot and they're not just there every day off the street person this is organized from groups that cut to groups that pick up to groups that go splice it's it's a sence to this so that's the most important of this but we're going to continue working with the for worth PD and uh because any arrest is a good arrest because once they're identified that leads to where they selling it what's how broad is the network so those are multiple things that come back in the pack with just arrest mate I'd also like to add that our real time crime Center uh here at Fort Worth PD has done a phenomenal job uh we've received calls over the weekend uh the realtime crime Center will call and say hey we've got this right now in progress um on the other line we're getting Spectrum or on the other line we've got AT&T um so it is truly a collaborative effort and our real time crime Center is uh and our electronic our ESU they're they're being able to they're putting up we're putting up cameras all over this city so that we can identify uh these these crimes in progress so that we can respond effectively any other questions Council thank you gentlemen very much we appreciate it thank you Council our next report is a DFW international airports Bond Finance package and chapter three updates we have uh Executive Vice President um Chris poinet here from BFW to answer any questions if you have any any questions for Chris Council no we're easy Chris thank you very much you very much next report's uh 2025 housing tax credit resolution recommendations chadler rocks here to answer any questions but you should have received an updated version of this uh report yesterday council member Hill um I think the only concern I have is on Legacy Park um I just want to bring up publicly State about the I'm concerned about the density issue with the New Harmony School going in the north elementary school there's a super Walmart and ALDI and Albertson's all up against um single family homes and so I just want staff to be aware of the traffic issues that are already there between Academy Drive and White Settlement that we're already facing and just want to make sure that we're making a good choice okay thank you and we'll uh at our next next policy next year we can look at maybe incorporating some additional um some criteria in our policy for evaluation Council MRA oh sorry go ahead Carlos maybe not Carlos are you there I bet we can hear you I don't think we can see you we'll just ask offline I'll go Chad thank you and I I just wanted to mention I think Jade mentioned that the Reserve at Parkwood it's the last one on the table there they did withdraw after um after we' already went to thank you the agenda posted thank you next no we cannot you sound like a robot yeah you may have to try to reconnect Carlos I'm sorry you're okay Chad go ahead want to move on yes let's move next one is the congregate living facilities for persons with disabilities Leandra string fellows here from development services councilwoman be Shandra you could come on down please uh while you're on your way down here I want to thank you and um the rest of your staff for putting this together um we've been working on congregant living for a while now which started with the boarding homes and now has um morphed into this um and this is the first time that I've read a description of all of our different types of facilities and understood what those were because they seem to be a a jumbled mess in our zoning code um in our land use tables and so um thank you for for drilling down and and really giving us something that we can understand um so my first question is we see the different types community homes boarding homes group homes uh for clarification for those watching U boarding homes are the only type of facility congregate living facility that the city actually has um jurisdiction over correct that is correct okay and so um for the community homes and then for the uh group homes what um can you just describe what uh limited power the city has has to um regulate these particular facilities so community homes and group homes are regulated by the state um the state will actually um issue um I can't remember if they call them licenses or permits but those are under control of the state the state also um determines the number so for example community homes the state has determined that six are allowed and they're also allowed in residential districts so the city you know follows suit um for group homes um the number actually is a little bit more um one of the things that we've been talking about which was also a reason for this IR is um there are some other categories that we are aware that the state has so the city is also looking at um making sure that we are being consistent with what the state is doing so we'll be adding a couple of other categories as well okay great I'm glad to see you're doing that because it can be quite confusing to applicants and to council members U before these changes um the the next thing I want to address is the half mile uh limitation that we have so community homes have a half mile radius with any existing same with boarding homes um and I believe group group homes do not have the half mile correct or do they as well that is correct okay um but that's like to like so in theory you could have a boarding home next to a community home yes okay that is correct okay um and uh I just want to publicly express my um my desire for us to uh go with the option of U registering those group homes the community homes and group homes yes ma'am so um through some work we did for Wedgewood we determined that we weren't um registering these homes so we weren't technically enforcing the half mile radius because we to the extent that we can um we weren't able to do so because we weren't registering correct correct okay and so that won't will that impact the the new registration process will that impact any of these facilities currently on the ground so what we'd like to do we'd probably follow a very we're still talking with staff and talking with co- compliant with about that we're probably going to follow a very similar process to what we did for the boarding homes and So eventually you know we want all of them to be registered but you know we'll probably start out with registering new ones as they come in and then have a process whereby as we find out you know about existing ones that we get those registered as well okay great thank you I appreciate all your work on this thank you Leandra Leandra is up for the next if there's any questions that's Council initiated zoning changes for certain properties along Montgomery Street and for the botanic gardens uh Jay I was just going to make a comment on this um so the majority of the properties that were um included in this IR are current Zone J and I've been working with study staff to get those to align with the comprehensive plan right now they um do not um I do want to thank Dana um Steph Murray forget Lyn Jordan Lyn Jordan thank you um and for their hard work on this because this really has been a a group effort and thank you to all the property owners that have agreed to beat with me going through this at September and I think we've landed in a good spot where we can make sure that the the corridor of mcgomery street is protected moving forward next item is engagement of a consultant uh to advise the city for the selection of a developer Master developer uh for the Commerce Street property this is once we straighten out the property at the convention center the available property uh this consultant will advise City staff on this go through a process to select the master developer there's any questions uh William Johnson's here answer any questions any questions from Council no next one's funding of the Will Rogers Memorial center col c m Renovations and Michael crumb's here to answer any questions uh next is next door application information there's any questions on this council member B absolutely assistant chief Aldridge is here and chief the backstory to this is most people think if they complain grip or just Raise Hell on next door that the council person knows that there's a problem but they don't know that we we don't see beyond our neighborhood so I've always asked you guys couldn't you amend this because you're the ones who brought this here so we are the ones that brought this here yes so um looking looking at the the IR and a little bit of research uh Nextdoor app was kind of established in 2011 uh Fort Worth uh kind of took it under its wing in 2012 and although it's not our program we helped promote that program to the neighborhoods um because we wanted them to communicate with one another um because if you kind of think about where social media was in 2011 2012 I kind of did some research um and it was really kind of interesting that Pinterest and goog plus had just come on the scene Snapchat you were able now to do 10-second videos uh Facebook basically had a public IPO and tender was launched so just think about how long ago that was compared to where we are now and I know that you guys you guys get requests not only through Facebook but also through Nextdoor app um our limitations on on Nextdoor app is that if we didn't post it we can't take it down um if we did post like a actual post for crime prevention or something like that and there's some negative posts on there we can modify those but if we're not the authors of that then we kind of have some limitations in that Arena so I understand that maybe they do complain a lot on next door and they think that maybe you monitor it but really it's a very small segment and it's important to note that we have 722 neighborhoods with over 347 ,000 people that are on next door so that's a very large contingent of our citizens that actually use nextd door they may all not be griping I mean they may actually be using it as it's [Laughter] intended any other questions Gina thank you very much and the last uh report is um going out for a request for proposals for insurance broker of record for our risk Management Group we haven't done this in several years we'd like to proceed with that looks like no questions from Council Jay before we move um into work session reports I think Carlos wanted to try to try again related to the IR I think he just wanted something on the record correct thank you Maddie I sound any better now yes great okay uh for -22 resolution 2025 housing tax credit resolution recommendations I wanted it on the record that for the Irma park proposal I had concerns uh staff is aware and so is the applicant of the timeliness of public Outreach they have made uh efforts and better efforts uh to make sure they connect with folks I'm still getting phone calls that people do not know about this proposal another point that I had some concern with is that January 7th I believe memory serves was a cut off to consider other uh things such as senior housing that time that that deadline came and went and people didn't know about it and that couldn't be considered anymore so my concerns you know are noted for the record thank you Carlos Council that's the completion of our IRS I'll move into any questions regarding changes of memberships on Boards of commissions are any questions or comments related to significant zoning cases pertaining to the February 11th c meeting that's next week anything on MNC log great we'll move into our first presentation which today is a public health update from our very own former council member Brian bird Dr Brian bird who's here on behalf of Taran County Public Health Brian it's great to see you and thank you for joining us today thank you mayor and uh Council good to see everybody yeah come on back we'll both be back here together and uh we'll figure out how to use this clicker here so it's great to see it was a lovely experience walking in and seeing familiar faces and um getting some hugs and just a quick observation as I was sitting here you guys are really crispy getting business done I thought it was good uh so so way to go it's um great cities don't just happen right you've got you have to Steward them and I appreciate all of you all that are doing that okay the reason we're here at your invitation is to talk about the latest outbreaks and flu that we're having and probably more importantly to talk about bird flu why are we going to talk about bird flu well thus far bird flu hasn't caused us too much trouble because it's mostly or completely jumping from cows to humans or Birds to humans however this virus is mutating very quickly um just two weeks ago the CDC put out a health advisory and they asked all of the hospitals in the United States to make sure that they subtype every flu case that is hospitalized what does that mean well it means that before somebody who's hospitalized with flu leaves the hospital we want to know if that's bird flu uh so that we can do our job in public health and track down the contacts and make sure that doesn't spread around so that's how seriously the CDC is taking it we thought it'd be great for you as Leaders to know a little bit about that so when people ask you about it you can know speak a little bit about it and understand how we are preparing for that so that being said I like to hear from experts uh so with me is tan County's Chief epidemiologist Russ Jones who knows more about this in his pinky finger than all of us put together uh he'll run through the slides and we'll take some questions after if you would if you have any so with that being said Russ I'll turn it over to you yes sir good afternoon thanks for having us we're going to talk a little bit about highly pathogenic Aven influenza in particular one called h5n1 um there are many different Aven influenzas of all the influenza that we have originated somewhere in a bird at some time um there are others but the one that we're concerned about is h5n1 this is a little bit of its timeline we've been watching this organism for about 30 years it's it first arrived or first was noticed in guong province of China in 1996 um it caused some disease about 18 cases in humans half of them died but a lot of bird deaths and then it it disappeared for a while it reemerged in 2003 through 2005 um and from there it spread to other countries mostly in Birds through wild fou uh water foul that are wild and and the flight paths in their migration where uh it was spread to other other animals in particular poultry now highly pathogenic a influenza is a intestinal disease in birds so it's not a matter of a duck sneezing uh it's amazing what birds do and then when they're around uh domesticated flocks they can uh transmit the disease there and it can decimate a domestic flock of of poultry uh in 2020 um oh and let me back up 2003 to 2005 there was a number of serious illnesses in China and Indonesia and Southeast Asia mostly among people who uh who raised and depended on poultry for subsistence uh living for their livelihood literally they were around the chickens all the time and it caused serious illness in the Deep lung with pneumonia so it was a virus of concern but not a whole lot of cases and very very limited human transmission was reported in fact some of it was even doubted it disappeared for a while but it didn't go away in 2020 a new genotype of h5n1 called clay 2.3.4 point4 B and that's the only time I'll reference it like that um made an emergence in in Europe and by that fall it had spread around Europe in 2022 we started seeing outbreaks here in the United States and that's the first real time that we've had a problem with h5n1 it's a result of the migratory Birds water foul going north mixing and and it's not a it's not like the European water foul mixed with the North American Water foul it's actually kind of an accident but it did happen and in the flyways back um we started seeing large out breaks in the United States among uh backyard flocks and Commercial flocks the first human case occurred in 2022 now if you remember back then but eggs did go up a bit in we of price so in 2023 additional animal infections were noted and this is one of the things we we'll have a kind of a mental model I'll put up in a minute about pandemic potential uh but one of the things we look for is is it being spread in other animals is it going from birds to something else um yes um just about all mammals now have been affected in uh in the world uh the clay has spread around the world and so a number of mammals for example about 30,000 die off of seals and walles along the Chilean Coast uh back in 2023 um of all things polar bear in the northernmost part of Alaska died cultured it or PCR it and it was this bug um mountain lions are susceptible all F lies go cats we'll get to cats house cats in a little bit uh additional animal detection so this is a a virus that's mutating as Dr bird said when I say bird flu I'm talking b i r d uh not B Rd so he's tired of that joke but anyways it was uh it's jumping to other animals and it's able to mutate and go from other animals what that means is it's changing enough maybe perhaps that we're in contact with an animal that's close enough to us and we'll have cases um in 2024 by November World Health Organization recorded 948 confirmed cases of h5n1 in the last 22 years uh 21 years so it's not a lot of cases in 21 years uh the majority of that were serious were back in 2003 2004 um but in 2024 we had 66 cases here in the United States 66 of them since March and you may remember in the media back in March 2024 the first case and the dairy farms being in in involved that originated that was first detected in the panhandle of Texas and then the first death occurred this past month out of Louisiana this is um the human infections by state California's got the most we've only had one detected in Texas almost a year ago um and so this is where the 67 cases have occurred mostly among people working with animals poultry Andor dairy farms at this point uh this is the mental model I just wanted to present to you it's kind of like our what we think of going through as far as is there a new virus influenza virus that may be affecting us uh investigation this has been going on for a long time do we have h5n1 what's it doing is it infecting family members uh where did they get it from and the recognition so that's been going on for a good while but in January 2025 we're in the recognition possibly we're afraid moving to initiation of pandemic that's the concern hasn't happened yet the initiation of a pandemic would be efficient human- to human transmission and we don't have evidence of that yet uh the risk of a virus becoming pandemic there's a protocol at the federal government where they pull together the dod the CDC FDA USDA the other acronyms with their experts to get together and talk about what is this virus like the properties of the virus um how well is it mutating and going among different animals the pop uh attributes of the population in our case we don't have immunity to it the viruses that affect humans are in the H1 and H3 part of influenza and up until about 1972 H2 so H5 has never been seen in humans as far as an efficient uh pandemic or epidemic and the ecology and epidemiology of the virus now I will say that influenza can reassort it's a segmented genome and these different parts of the genome can reassort if they're infected in the same animal uh swine pigs are the the model for that where they have attachment points to the virus in the respiratory tract for bird flu and attachment points for human flu and so in in 2009 we saw a reassortment of some animal influenza that infected pigs came out as H1N1 a new variety that cause a pandemic for us in that year so that's part of the concern it may not be just h5n1 but what it will do to human flu as well so it's a it's a variety of things and they answer questions about likelihood of the virus becoming pandemic and the likely impact of the virus so with that said oh um it's a moderate pandemic risk on the federal government scale and the last time this was done I believe was June of last year after it was noted a number of dairy farms however the current risk is low so not worried about getting h5n1 but there are folks that we are concerned about and are being monitored now going back to the signs and symptoms I mentioned 2003 2005 uh about 60% of the people who actually got infected with that strain died so it was a high C fatality rate but not many of them got sick the current signs and symptoms for this CLA is a bit different and it's not your typical respiratory it's mostly conjunctivitis and pink eye now there have been some severe cases hospitalization California Louisiana and one in Canada where they had respiratory symptoms and they were hospitalized but uh the ey redness and conjunctivitis is the predominant uh thing we've had some severe not much hospitalizations that's why we're calling it low exposures direct contact through occupation or backyard flocks the person who died in Louisiana had a backyard flock that died um there was evidence that he had been in the wild around wild fowl before his flock died so possibly he could have trafficked home on his Footwear um and he was infected there and eventually hospitalized and passed so uh people dealing with infected poultry they're out there in the hen houses def Feathering slaughtering preparing for consumption uh all those type of things people in the dairy farms it affects cows a little differently is through the milk and they get a mesitis at the other um very High viral loads uh in that milk and um of All Things Not only was it detected in people but uh cats were noticed to die off uh so Farm cats who drank the contaminated milk died um not all but it got sick and recently there's been a small outbreak among house cats that were fed um contaminated raw meat uh for their food and and and commercially so that's been recall environmental exposure uh for example down in Central Texas Austin had a park with a u a lake a pond or a number of of ducks and geese that had migrated and died so you don't want people you know trafficking through that and walking through so there's the environmental exposure household exposures if you're living with someone's a concern and then so far in the last three years especially this year uh this past year little over 22 2,000 people exposed that have been monitored for a few days to see if they develop anything so we're we're just let you know we're not seeing human to human Trace uh transmission cases are reported emergency departments are unusual Trends I'll show you a graph of what we kind of look for there Wastewater surveillance a newer thing since the in particular during the pandemic with covid being able to take samples out out of the sewer plants or out of pipes and determining what's in there we did it for Co initially but other um other organisms we look for flu both H1 and H3 for type a uh and we can do it also for this one h5n1 testing a positive influenza specimens um and that's what Dr bird just talked about asking every hospital to subtype from H5 uh from a type A is it an H3 and H1 and that's what can be tested for commercially and usually in clinical Labs if you if it's not one of those we want to know about it and our Public Health laboratory can test it further to presumptive testing for H5 if we were to find it it would go to CDC for confirmation uh some of the commercial laboratory CDC has worked with Quest lab core AUP if you're familiar with those to do H5 testing Quest is on board uh Lab Core has got one AUP is is getting there so um that's a little bit about the concern and how we're looking for it this is a this is me pushing the wrong button here we go this is a graph of of our syndromic surveillance of U ERS here in Taran County um the red line is the current flu season so this is an example of what we look at people coming in with influenza like illness the blue dotted is last year so you can see this season we were following last year's season until uh about 10 days ago and I will tell you that red one has gone up to 26% 28% so over a quarter of the people coming to the ER have flu like symptoms this past week we would be looking for similar things in the ERS if we thought H5 was being transmitted we change our definition we would look for the signs and symptoms that the organism is actually causing like conjunctive vtis and we'd have a concern about respiratory because when it's respiratory it's more serious the responses I talked a little bit about surveillance the lab testing um CDC has tested a little over 88,000 uh flu specimens in the last couple of years coming from the commercial labs and they found three cases of H5 so really rare um most of them are being found as a result of monitoring Farms where infections were occurring uh California they have a little over 1100 dairies they had them all tested over 700 had outbreaks I believe 110 have come off their quarantine period so really concerned about the workers there uh there's PP recommendations I don't know how many of you ever been around or worked on a dairy farm I have and wearing a mask is not something you do right you're on a farm um so it's difficult there are several candidate vaccines in the Strategic National stockpile uh at the federal level for using a against h5n1 but not directly against the clay that's circulating uh there are newer mRNA V vaccines that can be de developed faster they're in the pipeline um so we're doing continued surveillance and trying to describe who's being affected and I talk fast enough so we can get any questions you may have C Martinez so we have a lot of folks in Fort Worth that have um you know outdoor chickens and in my case I have an indoor one so I have lots of questions um so what does a sick bird look like are they just lethargic they get lethargic and they they usually get pretty sick really quick uh for example laying hands will stop one day they're fine the next they're not okay um so how long does the illness typically last in the bird before they pass that's a good question I don't know okay I usually when it's respiratory is pretty quick but um how are the birds spreading the disease and you talked about it you know with those wild um foul but you know just thinking about my chickens in the backyard is a pigeon going to be able to fly in there and and contaminate them or I think it's mostly it's mostly foul okay um I'm I'm I won't say pigeons can't be infected but it is a a fecal oral route it is is uh is feces being deposited and another bird picking it up okay so um and do we need to report dead birds if you know one of our if you have a backyard flock suspected yeah yes the Animal Health commission takes those reports they like to know because they're they're protecting um animals of commercial interest right of significance and so you can go to their website they did have a list of places now they consider poultry Only commercial operations and backyard flocks separately they had a list by County who are affected and and since 2020 there's a good number here in the Metroplex okay I just want to make sure I'm doing my part you know to keep my flock safe my family safe and the general public safe so thank you yeah thank you any other questions Council oh Council M Flores thanks mayor uh a question about uh mystis and cattle um antibiotic treatments uh you know for cattle uh in cases where they might be you know uh H5 related is that recommended over uh lactation therapy yeah so there's there's no antibiotic for the virus um and typically haven't been around a dairy in years but when a cow got mastitis we would get we would pop it with an antibiotic and I'm sure some of that's occurring um but it won't treat it won't treat this it's a matter of letting it run its course there are um some cows do die uh the others are not producing well and then of course part of it you're taking them out of the rotation I'm assuming you still have to milk them so they they have pain um but when they come back they don't produce as what they did before so you have lower production of the cows that survive um the Animal Health commission had an emergency order in place that lactating cows would not be uh could not come to an exhibit uh like our our stock show um or for show unless they had a PCR negative test at certain Veterinary labs in the last seven days and that was part of their attempt to keep lactating cows from mixing and transmitting among each other because it is being transmitted among cows so veterians are required to report uh to um uh Health officials if they you know detect or know of An Occurrence in in livestock yeah I believe to the Animal Health commission yeah okay thank you thank you any other questions questions Council Dr bird mayor thanks for having us out and uh consider this an open invitation to come to the public health department and to our our bio safety lab three uh we process white powder envelopes and all kinds of nasty things there it's really something to see and mayor Maddie was kind enough to come out I think in December is when very impressive thank you for having me anyhow thank you all very much for having us thank you Dr B Council our next presentation is with Mike Barry our Hillwood president on the alliance economic impact report okay well that's a fun topic for me to follow um thank you mayor and uh members of the council thank you again for the opportunity to present the Alliance Texas annual economic impact which I've had the pleasure of doing many years haven't can't even count how many it's been but as I tell people this is my favorite every day of the year um unless it weren't a good story and fortunately most of the years it's been a good story and and it is today um Julie fiser of Hillwood is passing out hard copies of the economic impact report U so that you'll have them and I know there there'll be some extras and they're also um available digitally so Julie's here with me today Reed gets of Hillwood is also here um so there any hard questions at the end um I'll let them handle those um so we uh celebrated 35 years if you count the way we do and that's really sort of from the opening of Alliance Airport which I count December 14th 1989 was the actual opening day for Alliance Airport um so you know you can depend on on how you want to use a start date we we celebrated 35 years of of development last year and we have since the beginning because a lot of the original infrastructure which was in the form of the airport and roadway and water infrastructure and Wastewater infrastructure was funded on the front end by the public sector primarily the city of Fort Worth and then the state in the case of some Highway improvements in the FAA in case of the airport so we felt a responsibility over the years to report out um the performance of that investment that original investment and then investment that's been ongoing by the public sector over the years um and it's been it's been fun to do uh and I'm glad we started doing it early on and and the cumulative uh story is just continues to to grow and the all of the graphs are doing this now which is which is fun for us because makes life a lot easier uh when you when things begin to grow organically and you're not having to drag everything in new so I want to talk about those numbers I want to recap some of the highlights of of 2024 and talk about a few things that we're focused on for the future uh so this is the the uh Master the regional master plan for all of the Alliance Texas uh program which is in total 27,000 Acres it's not all in the city of Fort Worth but a huge percentage of the land is in the city of Fort Worth not just what's south of Dent Denton County Line but all the way up to the speedway and and that area um and then the newer projects which are mostly residential communities to the north are in the cities of North Lake Argy and and Denton um but the majority of the economic impact comes from that big block of blue land which is where all of the commercial development is concentrated um centered around Alliance Airport the Burlington Northern Santa Fe and motal rail Hub and the highway uh system um so the cumulative number at the end of this past year was $130 billion that's cumulative from the beginning all the way to date and we've got a formula model that Insight uh research conducts every year and they run all the the new tax and and physical investment through that model and it ripples um uh through the multiplier so that's the that's the total 130 billion just if you look at 2024 alone it was 10.2 billion in direct uh economic impact in that one calendar year um and this is the graph that shows the growth of that over time and you can see incrementally each year it's beginning to get bigger and bigger year-over-year so last year was our largest almost our largest increase 10.2 um I guess between 2021 and 22 was 10.8 um but it's gradually year-over-year growing uh in terms of of individual annual economic impact so that's a good thing um you know the best number maybe from your perspective is uh the taxes generated off of the project um so we do count this is you know real dollars we count every year the the tax revenues that come off of just the property so this is real property and personal property but it doesn't extend beyond that so there's no sales taxes in this number uh so the cume um to date is 4.1 billion and I remember it it doesn't seem that long ago but I remember I think maybe mayor monrie was in the seat might have been early of Mayor Price's when we surpassed a billion and that seems like not too long ago so once again that that that sort of um escalation is is starting to really take hold uh the Fort Worth portion of that 4 .1 is is 826 um million um and then you can see obviously the school districts because their tax rates are higher than either the cities or the counties the school district total revenue numbers are bigger um but Fort Worth stands in terms of the municipal and and County stack uh Fort Worth stands at at the top of that list in receipts and this is the once again this is the graphical view of that and you can just begin to see uh how that how that graph is is is shooting um more vertical which is a good thing um just some of the other pieces of the of the program there are now 590 companies um at Alliance Texas the my favorite number is the jobs so 66,6 people go to work every day at Alliance at least that's our count you know there's a lot of changes in how the workplace works today so I'm not sure I could tell you that there are 66,6 people on site every day but those are the those are the payroll numbers from all of our our corporate uh residents and then there's 60 million square feet um on the ground and we're we're actively building new space as we speak just starting a couple of new projects right now so that number is going to grow as well if you look back over 2024 we had some really significant uh milestones um I think you're aware uh of the $80 million infr grant that we received for the smartport which is a big Mega project that we've been working on now for a few years to make Alliance more of an efficient Intermodal Hub and Inland port and that particular Grant will link uh the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Intermodal Hub and Intermodal Parkway out to 170 and provide a seamless Trucking connection contion so there won't be any stops they'll just be able the trucks will be able to just flow seamlessly onto the 170 uh system it's it's a it's a big big uh piece of infrastructure um and I guess under the current uncertainty around federal funds and the administration we're hoping that stays alive but uh we're tracking it every day um other milestones we had the first HB uh in the city of Fort Worth opened uh last April at Alliance Town Center uh we did a big expansion with Henry shine uh the world's largest uh dental supply company um and then we opened a 1.2 million foot facility with Southwire who's a major um player in the electric uh transmission uh distribution business and then most recently and you all are very familiar with this project because you were very involved in helping secure the victory for Fort Worth uh Bell announced the that they will stand up their first state-of-the-art manufacturing facility uh for the Bell V 280 in what was a former manufacturing facility that Stanley Black and Decker had and they left it and Bell was able to capitalize on that and and take it over so I think great outcome there and and hugely uh positive for the city we had a presentation from Lisa Atherton uh the CEO of bell yesterday on sort of the big roll up of that Pro program and you know I think the economic impact we can't even measure what that program May mean for the city in the future but I I think it will be significant um around the airport Embraer uh announced a major uh facility commitment to Alliance Embraer is one of the largest oems of commercial aircraft in the world um major supplier to American Airlines and they're going to be building a new mro facility for their eets um at Alliance and thanks to the council uh that project was also uh expedited uh because of your your involvement uh AVX aircraft uh is another a smaller company but they announc their headquarters uh at the airport and they stand to grow and and be one of the leaders in in uh vertical lift Solutions um and then a lot of expansion uh and investment on the airport to continue to improve it for the growth in operations I might add we were named um last year we were named the 20th highest volume cargo airport in the country and you might say well 20 that doesn't sound very big well we're the only airport in that list that is a non-passenger airport so most of the big passenger airports a lot of Air Cargo travels in the bellies of Passenger aircraft so they a huge percentage of Air Freight is credited to passenger activity so we're just cargo only in that measurement um so that was a big that was a big uh big plus um in addition we finished uh last year the main lanes for 170 I don't know if any of you I'm sure councilman block has and councilman L lorf has driven 170 some of you may have but if you've driven it for the last 30 years like I have and you drive it today versus what it used to be it's pretty amazing um and and and it'll just be a catalyst for more connectivity and and more growth in that in that quarter um this is the map that shows that grant that I was telling you about you can see down there in that highlighted boxed area is where the actual connector Lanes will be built so all of those you know those 4,000 trucks a day that come in and out of the BNSF Intermodal Hub will be will be uh more efficient getting on and off the roads with that with that Improvement um this March we'll host our fourth um annual Ford Fort Worth conference which is a supply chain Mobility Innovation Summit um again at the drover it's become sort of a a must attend event for a lot of the leaders in that in that industry and um it's really helped us uh develop more engagement with with the new the Next Generation a of of Mobil Mobility Innovation South Fort Worth we don't talk about that much most people don't think of us down there but we completed um or we started construction on a project for Dicks Sporting Goods uh this year and that completed our development of of what was about a 250 acre project that now includes Amazon Continental Tire and dicks we wish we had more land in South Fort Worth quite frankly we didn't realize it was was going to explode like it did uh we would have gotten gotten a little ahead of the game but we're done down there so uh we're we're looking for more land um and you know all in all I think uh just based on what we've seen in the first 30 days of this year it's pretty it's pretty positive uh from the standpoint of corporate activity corporate interest new capital investment that's showing up I'm pretty excited about about what this what this year holds um I do want to I think councilman councilwoman Bivens did she leave oh sad is she gone for the day oh well I wanted to I want to make some comments about her because um you know she's pretty much an amazing woman and I you know she's been here a long time um and done a lot of great things so um be okay if you did it twice Mike mayor pretend would be just fine if you said them twice so if you want to do it today or you want to wait either way um so with that I'll thank you for the opportunity again to present the the update and I'm happy to take any questions thank you Mike questions from Council Council lar dworf so Mike thank you for that information definitely uh good news stories so I appreciate that I also appreciate um allance and Hillwood being good partners U when it comes to city and the projects talking isds for one second uh I'm sure you've heard all about the potential ker ISD split funding the reasons behind it we won't go into all those Shenanigans but as uh councilwoman um Beck has to remind me some we have to break things down Marine style for me there's a lot of commas there 816 million right it's I get my my commas right 816 million in tax revenue for ker ISD over that period and then geography is also not my strong point uh but looking at the map um not really seeing any uh projects in color area I'm assuming that's no sir and then looking at the the cities that uh your projects have impacted um I mean HL ronoke West Lake also not part of ker iy so um looks to me like that's going to be a huge huge uh Financial impact in a negative way to KD as a whole uh not necessarily the west side of 377 which they're talking about being the U the boundary so we're not going to discuss what's who's on the right or wrong side of the tracks in this conversation we'll save that for another night um but just looking at last year that $51 million in uh tax revenue from your guys' developments and projects to the kellerer school district I got I got those numbers right correct I think I don't have the I don't have last year's annual but if you're getting that off of what we gave you yeah that was last year's number the aggregate number is the eight yeah that's the eight uh yeah 816 8 million but you're you're correct that none of that was generated from the Eastern side of 377 yeah that's that'd be a substantial negative impact over to the overall istd in that case but well thank you that that's incredible numbers and impressive information thank you sir yes sir customer Lu Mike I just want to thank you and the Hillwood team uh youall have been incredible partners with the city and with the community and and uh I I just look forward to continue to see great things out of your organization so thank you for all you do thank you appreciate it Alan any other questions from Council excellent job Mike we really do appreciate you thank you my pleasure appreciate it okay Council we have one additional presentation it's Fort wor sister City's annual update and I believe is Val Washington kicking things off is that right good afternoon mayor council and city manager choa I know sister cities generally comes to Mayor and Council annually to provide an update on their prior year successes and any issues that they had to work through and then they provide um strategies on their upcoming year just to get Mayor and Council excited about that generally they don't need an introduction because they're regular players as we work here in the city um but we have a new CEO and executive director that I want to introduce um as we start this presentation since May Ferguson has retired um kippen is the new president and CEO of sister cities um he was appointed in October of 2024 after an extensive search by the sister cities board and I believe Kipton you have several board members here that you'll introduce when you come up here um he has experience in international relations and not for-profit leadership um sister cities promotes Fort Worth as a cultural and educational Gateway um they see big opportunities as the World Cup is coming to the region to help with diplomacy training and other items like that um and with that I'm really proud to welcome kippen so he can come up and provide the annual report for sister cities kippen if you don't mind coming on up or kippen or Cindy perfect thank you and Cindy you might want to come to this microphone that to he's gonna do that part he's gonna do the hard part good afternoon um mayor Parker Council city manager Chapa thank you for the opportunity for us together to present a Partners report because that's really what this is I'm Cindy Johnson the chair of the board and we'll just make a couple of brief comments but we celebrate today 40 Years of partnership in efforts towards our mission which I think we're all aware is to um to promote Fort Worth globally to enrich our own community and to do that through International Education International Exchange and international Commerce and it really is a partnership and you know this because each of you as council members are the official liaison to one of our sister cities and Mar Parker we continue to be delighted that you're the honorary chair of our organization so thanks to each of you for the effort you make on our behalf it is our honor and task to put wheels under this initiative year after year and we do that uh through the the nine sister cities that we have through the connections we have with 500 other communities and 2,000 Partnerships in 180 countries through sister cities International and you know that Carlo Kaa is leading that initiative at the moment Valerie did ask um for us to come and talk about 2024 and 2025 and she's done a wonderful introduction of K I just need to add a couple of things we did do a national search um after 25 years of excellent Service uh with with may we really wanted to do the right thing for this next time in in the organization's life and so what U Valerie didn't tell you about kippen is that he originally was lured to Fort Worth by the Museum of Science and History from his home state of Hawaii where he was for 13 years years chief of staff for a member of the Hawaii House of Representatives and an additional 12 years as executive director of the Alone um Palace which was the Royal Palace in Hawaii so he has a rich experience in terms of his work in the world he's lived abroad he's studied abroad he is an Executive MBA he speaks four languages uh he really is a citizen of the world and so it is my pleasure to add to Valerie's welcome and introduction my pleasure to introduce kippen the ALU he'll give the rest of the report thank you Cindy good afternoon mayor and members of the council uh I would like to recognize the board members that we have here today if you wouldn't mind standing we have Greg Jackson here uh Fernando Costa our most recent board member and then I see stasa IR Kell cromar Shan Bourne thank oh and Ronnie Corb there in the back then you just met thank you all for coming Fernando I think has some extra time now so if you need to sign him up for any additional projects he's your man all right thank you so as we celebrate May Ferguson's long tenure leading our organization we looked back at key accomplishments over the past year we we're also going to share with you uh some of the things that we have planned for 2025 on top of our awardwinning programs we currently offer all right oh there we go simply put we do exchanges on behalf of the city of Fort Worth so that people can connect on a human level a lot of the behind the scenes effort goes into making these exchanges happen and this is one area where we ac C this is our current list of the nine sister cities we have we are exploring a 10th potential candidate in Canada the City of Calgary we recently hosted a reception along with visit Fort Worth uh of a group from the Calgary Stampede which is the that City's annual Rodeo held in July council member Beck welcomed the group at the National Cowgirl Museum this year we have three adult exch changes the first is to Italy in April second to Indonesia in June and the third to Southern France in October all right looking back at the year 2024 so these are the numbers of the actual uh exchanges we've done and how many people we've impacted for this year we have youth exchanges going to six different countries with a total of 85 students based on the data that we collect before and after our programs we measure what the outcomes are those areas listed represent the most significant improvements in our for our students uh we should also remember that many of the friendships forged during our programs will be lifelong I was just at had an alumni Gathering uh hosted by Carlo capua this past Sunday for folks who participated in our International Leadership Academy 32 years ago all right the impact of our programs can be lifechanging and alter the professional trajectory of our alumni Monica here is a great example of someone who participated in many of our our exchanges enrolled in our International Leadership Academy then became a facilitator and mentor to other students 15 years ago today she is based in Chicago and in charge of placing interns from Albania Estonia lva and Lithuania with us companies to gain professional experience as Cindy mentioned we incorporated on June 26 1985 making this the 40th anniversary of our founding coincidentally 2025 also marks the 40th anniversary of our very first sister city REO Amelia in Italy which occurred on October 29th of note we are all already working closely with Carlo Kapa on a number of projects including the annual gathering for sister cities International uh which will be taking place here in in Fort Worth in July Carlo has been an incredible resource for us and an awesome connector of people okay so as we move into the N the new year we are going to be intentional about our role in the Workforce Development ecosystem for Fort Worth for example in working with employers we will focus on those skills critical for leadership in an organization whether it's a global global company a local nonprofit or the city itself also please keep in mind that we are a re resource for you all for next year's FIFA World Cup of soccer and we stand ready to assist in whatever way we can this is just a sampling of the skills that we can teach which are inherent in our programming for example we are exploring a potential partnership uh with PNC Bank to offer financial literacy to our youth participants giving the cost of going abroad many of our students work part-time to help pay for their trips learning the importance of budgeting and establishing solid credit history will go a long way in preparing them for the next chapter in their lives having alumni who are culturally competent both globally and locally can only enhance Fort Worth's standing to attract more International businesses with your financial support we could expand the number of students being served and finally we conclude with the most critical aspect in determining the success of an organization its culture as The Scene goes culture eats strategy for breakfast any day so many of our businesses here in Fort Worth are no longer just local many operate in Multicultural markets or have teams based glob mob the ability to work across different languages and Customs is not a soft skill being culturally competent is a power skill and the most important element is being curious about other people instead of judging them thank you for inviting us to share with you today the vital work that we do in service to the city of Fort Worth and its citizens thank you Council any questions or comments council member Hill um first welcome thank you so much for the presentation um I'm thrilled I'm part of the ctown marathon and I know we're doing the sister cities anniversary challenge this year so all those that are participating from all of our sister cities are going to receive a special medal and a certificate so appreciate you working with us to make that happen and I know we have some probably I think nine participants from France is what 18 oh 18 okay it's even better well good so thank you again for that Partnership of course you're welcome any other questions or comments council member crane did you have something sorry you're off the hook thank you K I appreciate you very much thank you for coming today and to your board members thank you as well Council that's the conclusion of our presentations today I can open up for future agenda items as needed anybody council member Beck yeah um I would like an IR on um his our historic landar Historic Landmark commission how it operates and then a comparison to um other cities within Texas how it operates and what Authority they have Chris yes I have quite a bit um I initially asked for um an update on the the police Towers I I know we have about 12 I think I want to when they bring the IR back or presentation I want to uh get the cost to purchase more of those police Towers uh because as I see grow we're having more issues with our crime and I know there are effective in certain neighborhoods also the implantation of cameras on our street uh lights and signs uh a couple of my residents have been asking I know Gina has some in her District so I want to see how we can Implement those in District a in other areas also a time frame on uh vandalism to Vehicles such as K cars what do the time report uh reporting that those uh issues that has happened um also uh the process of illegal buildings or such as storages on vacant Lots without permits uh what the city needs to do regarding those we have quite a bit of those in District 8 and lastly uh security at New City Hall I know we talked about this uh previous but I know that uh the county has up their security due to um threats and uh overwhelming uh out uh acting out the uh acting out actors and so I want to know what we're going to do at New City Hall in the chambers C cran yes uh one is just overall Jay we talked earlier this this morning about the process for IRS what a as you're going through that I have this uh a staff action tracking which we don't get a regular what's out there we just get the ones from the week before so as you're going through those I think just a general um if you're sending it out send them all out that are still sitting there in the dates the one I asked for um I think this is back in October was due January 14th this is about TCU I think councilwoman Beck also jumped in on this one too but the review of the overlay and portlets and other things in the area but obviously it's pass due and and been no update but I don't think I'm the only one that's uh said that before and the other uh an actual IR is uh an overview of our our if we have any or how we're regulating drones in the area I know there's a lot of discussion at the state level surrounding military bases but just overall there's some proliferation of businesses starting to use drones I'd just like to understand and citizens would like to understand what we do and how that's regulated if it any any other future gen items Council no if not then meetings oh sorry Carlos okay uh just to dovetail on Michael's uh request U I had recently requested that from staff and we got a report on uh on legislation and regulation on drones so I think staff has a starting point there to give us an update in that regard any other questions thank you council meeting is adjourned