e e for e e e e e e e e e for sorry for the delay long executive session I will call us to order welcome to your Council work session June 4th 2024 David I'll turn it over to you thank you mayor good afternoon everybody we have a number of employee recognitions so we'll Jump Right In I'll call on William Johnson our assistant city manager he's going to recognize the number of folks good afternoon mayor and Council um I want to start by you know just commending the city the council for its continued investment in our people our resources our recruiting our training uh especially as it in our commit and especially our commitment to Public Safety I believe that as of this date we have some of the finest First Responders in the state of Texas um we had recently an employee who suffered a life-threatening event at the Bob Bolan and a number of people who have come here today most of them I was going to call up but it looks like most of them are already up here uh Chief Davis Chief NOS if you'll come up to the to the stand we just want to recognize them because in the middle of that event these people jumped right into action and literally saved one of our own employees lives and he is actually here today I think Terence Parker is also here right so yeah so Chiefs [Applause] mayor and Council Neil noes very proud to be the chief of police for the for wor Police Department my friend and colleague Jim Davis is here as well chief of the for Worth fire department and you're looking at two proud Chiefs today on May 16th of this year officer Terrence Parker was at the Bob bowlan Public Safety complex and he suffered a massive heart attack he was unresponsive for 15 minutes he was basically dead for 15 minutes fortunately we had some officers that located him when he was down on the ground they became uh began life-saving measures immediately while one of our officers ran to grab Fort wor fire department personnel they came over begin to administer more advanced life-saving efforts MedStar was called we had paramedics for MedStar or as Jim tells me we are to refer to them now and rightfully so the newest members of the city of for family they all treated officer Parker on scene until MedStar transported officer Parker to the hospital and although he was clinically dead for 15 minutes later that evening same day he was up around alert and cracking jokes and you can see today you would not know anything happened to him but if not for the First Responders that day we' be having a different conversation we protect life rarely do we have a situation where we're protecting the life of one of our own and that's exactly what happened I'm going to keep my remarks brief because I want to name every single person that was involved because they deserve recognition from the Ford police department off obviously we have officer Terrence Parker Sergeant chansy po detective Jeff Lucio detective Thomas Vil Corporal Alec wisman officer Arthur Williams officer Trenton Hill and officer Rox sener faren and I meant to have you all raise your hands at I called your name we'll start with the MedStar Personnel if you will please raise your hand as your name is called paramedic Bry white paramedic Kyle sonderer EMT Rachel Samuelson and from our brothers and sisters in the Fort Worth fire department we have Lieutenant Jared go not present but still deserving of recognition is Lieutenant Jacob panel Lieutenant Gary presba engineer Chris Davis firefighter danne Edwards firefighter Quinton McMillan firefighter Jason Maus battalion chief Greg Dykes Lieutenant Mark Driggers Lieutenant Josh Scarboro engineer Maris Robinson firefighter Shane newerk and Lieutenant Brent Sanderson I cannot tell you how proud I am of all the First Responders who jump into action to do exactly what they needed to do to get get the job done and because they did we have a fourth officer police officer who is still here today because of their actions Chief did you have any words thank you I I would just add real quickly that um this is what uh demonstrated today but then the system goes on to transporting to a hospital and not just a hospital but to the right hospital and these are hospitals in our community that are prepared to take care of people with lifethreatening cardiovascular events which is where he was transported to and that system continues there with the emergency department care and then getting out of the emergency department to a cardiac catheterization lab where a clot is pulled out of his uh main coronary artery one of the main cor coronary arteries in his body um in his heart so then the rehab and then the Continued Care in the community that you're going through now in order to rehab your ill heart so the point is is that it takes a system to come together and on this particular day the city of Fort Worth the Fort Worth fire department the Fort Worth Police Department and MedStar were a small part in a chain of survival that the reason this man's here today and we are all very thankful for everybody that was a part of that [Applause] thank youall all for taking the time and I apologies that each of you have very important jobs and we left you waiting over an hour longer than you probably anticipated I'm sure the outside is covered up in emergency response Vehicles because all of you are here to be recognized today um to both Chiefs thanks for taking the time to do this it's what it's all about and um we're glad that we're they're here with us and um I mean it's it's a pretty amazing story and a good reminder um that every day is precious that's absolutely true so absolutely look all right well I got to say thanks to everybody that's here all these guys I'm still here today so training Works training is a effective I'm prime example of that uh for those that thought that maybe they could push you to the side you know hey CPR I know a little bit of this little bit of that dive into it because you may be the person to save somebody else's life one day just like everybody else here did mine uh I don't know what else to say you got something say that was [Applause] perfect thank you and I think we're shifting right David we have a people okay thanks everybody thank you very much for being here next I'm going call up Dana bergd off she's going to recognize some employees as well all right thank you thank you David thank you mayor and Council I'm excited to have this opportunity to highlight our partnership with visit Fort Worth and the Fort Worth film commission um as you all know the commission was established uh just under 10 years ago and they've worked with hundreds of projects uh generating over half a billion dollars in economic impact to Fort Worth as well as supporting nearly 20,000 jobs so it's increasingly become a very important part of our Economic Development uh strategy for Fort Worth so one of the things we've done is obviously mayor and Council support City leadership but also it's been important for us to make sure that our city departments are engaged in helping to make sure that the process of filming uh and and doing business here in Fort Worth is is supported and streamlined just like we do with our other Economic Development initiatives uh so I was thrilled when we had uh Mitch Whitten uh Jessica Hill with visit Fort Worth and our film commission reach out and say that they wanted to recognize a few uh City of Fort Worth employees for their assistance in in the film uh film filming here in Fort Worth um so but first I'd like to uh bring up Bob Jameson our president and CEO of of visit Fort Worth to say a few words and thank you for making your way through the crowd Bob appreciate it thank thank you Dana and uh thank everybody around this table and and your predecessors who for the last 10 years have been tremendous supporters not only the work of visit Fort Worth but this particular Endeavor in visit Fort Worth the film commission it's hard for me to believe that it has been in existence for 10 years and it started um just you know recognizing that Film Production work was taking place in our community but without anybody advocating for them holding hands through whatever process they were trying to get through and some people persevered and endured and and figured out how to get what they needed done and other people went to other locations but we formed the film commission and uh really today is about recognizing the partnership that exists between the city of Fort Worth and the film commission there's some very special contributors on City staff that are worthy of that recognition my part is just to call up Jessica Hill and to make sure she gets recognized for her part of the partnership because she has been a remarkable leader for this endeavor and she has um not only forged these great relationships with people in City Hall but with Partners all throughout the city and with those clients that we have um that are doing all sorts of Film Production now at levels not even imagined um when when we began this so um Jessica and Taylor Hardy who works with her um both of them are just they work tirelessly and they and there's a distinction to be drawn between the work done by our film commission and other communities because these two really work at to to solve problems and to answer questions they're not just helping to fill out forms they're not just handing out here's a phone number here's who you call but they are engaged in every step of the work they're doing on behalf and that builds confidence and it builds relationships and that's why people have been coming back uh time and time again so Jessica you're going to do the recognition of our friends at City Hall thank you thank you thank you and Dana thank you so much for your leadership and your support of the film commission from day one we really appreciate it it's been a big part of our success so um thank you all for this opportunity uh film and television Productions utilize our local hotels restaurants parks and Retail and they require Street permits parking permits road closures and the support of Fort Worth fire and PD the Fort Worth film commission's goal is to attract projects here and then support them once they're in Fort Worth making sure they have all the resources they need to build community connections and create a film-friendly city film Productions require a lot of problem solving and Fort Worth has become known as a city that makes things happen for film television and commercial production this is in thanks um to the support this is in thanks to the support of our city Partners in development services permitting parks and wreck for worth PD and for Worth fire your Swift responses care and collaboration have given for worth the reputation of be being a yes town the for worth film commission and visit for worth would like to recognize the following individuals for their contributions to the film industry in Fort Worth Charles McClure tpw I know Charles can't be here today but Charles has been getting probably daily if not weekly emails from Taylor and I for the past 10 years and so he's used to seeing our name he has been a huge support to the film commission he's helped navigate major street closures including the Takeover of several several blocks of the Stockyards during the filming of 1883 and most recently landman and special ops lius that none of this would be possible without um Charles's support and his guidance on these major projects so thank you Charles uh Evelyn Vasquez tpw come up um Evelyn's prompt responsiveness and attention to detail for every film application is greatly appreciated because of her timely care and collaboration with Charles for worth is getting a reputation for having some of the quickest film per film perent turnaround times of any City this is a huge deal in the film and television industry because every minute counts and that quick responsiveness has really made such a huge difference so thank you so much um she also gets daily emails from us literally uh Peter Elliot tpw Peter has been involved with the film commission since day one as well we greatly appreciate Peter and his team's collaboration and quick response times um as many of you have seen major Productions require a lot of parking for equipment trucks and crew members Peter and his team have worked closely with lman lioness and every major film uh and television project that's been here in Fort Worth we appreciate your uh responsiveness your support and your collaboration we couldn't do without you so thank you Peter and your team um Corporal Paul akkus Fort Worth Police I know he can't be here today but uh Corporal Fus has gone above and beyond to support literally nearly every film Project we've had in Fort Worth since the start of the film commission including Miss juneth 12 Mighty orphans 1883 Lawman bass Reeves landman special Opus you got a believe and countless commercials and music videos production Executives have shared that corpal Fus embodies Texas hospitality and is a joy to have on set um Sandra youngb Park and wreck Sandra was also there with us from one of the very first meetings we had when we said we're gonna get together and start a film commission um she and her team are always quick to respond collaborate brainstorm and find out um Creative Solutions for filming um in city parks um her partnership has allowed us to pitch locations like Samson Park to double as a medieval Europe and David Lowry's the Green Knight to transform Gateway Park to 1930s football field in 12 Mighty orphans and to showcase the for Worth Water Gardens and music videos um with Kendrick Lamar and Salange so thank you so much for all of your support and helping us showcase Fort Worth in addition 101 Studios has identified 45 Fort Worth police officers who have been instrumental in supporting 1883 lman bass Reeves land band and special ops L us and so we look forward to recognizing those individuals soon so thank you all again for all of your support and making was so film friendly thank you Jessica before you go I just want to say thank you to you and your staff at visit Fort Worth um as we've started filming more in our neighborhoods of the city um you've been so communicative with our um office we make sure that we're letting our neighborhoods know that this is coming and they're not taken by surprise and the only thing that I would request that you do moving forward is let us know when those shows air so that we can go and watch our city on the big screen absolutely thank you so much appreciate it thank you Jessica good to see you thank you now we'll call up our Jessica assistant city manager to recognize a number of folks here thank you mayor and Council I've got three different recognitions to do so this first one is a pretty good um sized group of employees so I'm going to going to call up all of our UTA MPA graduates to come join me are they in the room or are they still outside can somebody check okay now we're coming in all right well they're coming in let me tell you a little bit about this distinguished group so this past May the University of Texas at Arlington Fort Worth Center graduated the first cohort of city employees from the master of public administration program uh we started 35 employees in the program we did lose one from the program um along the way and then we had a few employees that left employment don't be shy y'all come on down there's a lot there's a lot it's okay y'all just line up and then we'll recognize a minute um so ultimately we graduated 29 employees within this group a little bit of background on the project this group of employees started this program in August of 2021 they have committed many many many hours of independent study but also class time at the Fort Worth Center um to get this done and then most recently they completed what is called the Capstone project which is the final class of the mpa program and as part of the Capstone project they were split off into smaller groups of five to six employees and each group was assigned a research and report project that was picked by the city management office based on a number of project proposals from our department heads uh the Capstone projects were absolutely timely and important projects and they are things that we are using as we move forward one of the projects was to evaluate the city's land acquisition needs and potential Partnerships both internally amongst departments and also externally they looked at the wellness and employee benefit programs they evaluated safety program enhancements that we need they looked at the public information request process and how we manage those requests they also looked at the review of the e management department and operational structure and then lastly they reviewed the information technology product delivery methodology and they really did a top-notch job as part of the conclusion of the Capstone project not only did they do a lot of work over this semester to research and put a report together but they then presented their findings to a to all of the department heads in early may I am extremely proud so my MPA is also from UTA so I know what they did but I'm extremely proud of all their work not only did they work full-time and still balance all of their family obligations that they committed to getting this MPA degree done as well I am going to read out the names of the indiv of the employees that are able to join us today we do have a few that were just not able to be here as well and so we miss them when I call your name please raise your hand for me uh the first employee in the water department is Eduardo agiri Airi we have Agnes bonsu in water Leticia Cordo in Environmental Services Victor escabedo in Human Resources Veronica Gary in diversity and inclusion Elizabeth Garza in police Juan Gonzalez in it Mary Hannah in tpw Rashad Jackson stal in tpw Christy lemon in Fort Worth lab Bianca Lord financial management Claudia Martinez Municipal Court Allison mcnamar public events Kenneth NY impart John Pine Financial Management uh Juan Pettis Municipal Court Avery pesic Environmental Services Ryan Po in Economic Development Evan Roberts in development services Jennifer Roberts in development services cica rodri Kenley Municipal Court Jennifer Snyder and fire and last but not least Michelle Swindle it please join me in congratulating all of these employees on their [Applause] graduation thank you all does anybody want to say anything fun about their experience what they loved most they're just glad to be done yes yeah thank you all very much all right next up Patricia will you put that slide up for me thank you next I'm going to invite Amy Connelly to come join me all right next up on the list I was here before you about a year ago recognizing two of our employees um that were named to the top one 100 influencers by the emerging local government leaders organization it's quite an honor to be named to the top 100 leaders or influencers list in the United States and once again this year we have two more employees that were recognized for their leadership Amy connley in Neighborhood Services she is the assistant director of Neighborhood Services um you all know Amy she has been with us for how many years now five years now and just done a tremendous job leading numerous efforts within the organization Tiana Thompson could not be here today but you might remember you saw Tiana Thompson at your last council meeting when she was here receiving the Public Works week recognition as well uh Tiana is a h Public Works senior capital projects officer she's also very involved in the public works organization here locally and she just does an outstanding job of keeping a lot of project details together and keep them on track and moving so please help me congratulate both Amy and Tiana for their recognition as top 100 influencer all right last up on my list I'd like to invite Kyle McClure with the parks department up perfect Kyle has been named as the new assistant director of Parks and Recreation for the golf and Athletics division following a nationwide recruitment we had more than 100 applicants for this position and Kyle was actually internal to the city of Fort Worth so we are incredibly proud of him for stepping up into this role um he did a an outstanding job through the interview and recruitment process and really just Rose to the top as the best candidate for this position he previously served as the district superintendent in athletics prior to working for the city of Fort Worth Kyle was the director of operations for the village Dallas a resort living community in the Heart of Dallas and then he also worked for the City of Richardson in athletics and Recreation Kyle received his master's degree in sports management from Baylor University as well as his undergraduate degree from Texas Tech University Kyle and his wife have their hands busy these days with their toddler Harrison and he enjoys spending his time with family cheering for his beloved Red Raiders and playing golf very poorly is what I'm told I have not witnessed it but Kyle has a heart for public service and he looks forward to providing greater access to programs and facilities for all residents please join me in welcoming Kyle and Kyle if you would like to say a couple words just pull that microphone up so we can hear you thank you all for having me I look forward to working with each of you thank you [Applause] thank you now I'm going call up Mike crumb to introduce a couple new employees in his Department maybe not new employees promotions in his Department can here I'm going to go to the skinny p mayor and councel good afternoon we start today's introduction with a question do any history Buffs out there know the name of the first general manager of the Will Rogers Memorial center hands please okay hearing none in 1936 aan Carter and other city leaders tapped Miss Hazel Hayes the city manager secretary to lead the Will Rogers operation now Miss Hayes must have been pretty good at her job as three years later a local publication featured her in a 1939 article entitled women Auditorium managers like jobs do business without profanity or cigars with or without profanity or cigars 88 years later we closed the circle on female leadership at Will Rogers with the appointment of Allison mcamera as public events Department assistant uh director and interim general manager of the Will Rogers complex Allison has a strong public events and equestrian background she began her City career 18 years ago at Will Rogers and advanced through the ranks from event coordinator to accounting technician to operations manager at the convention center she has a degree in animal science with a focus on equestrian studies from Mississippi State University and as you just heard recently received her master's of public administration degree from UT Arlington as part of the city's cohort of master's degree candidates Allison is a problem solver and a team builder in the single month she has been on the job she has already knocked out a long list of programmatic repairs equipment replacement and streamlined process to improve operations at the 17 building 120 acre complex assisting Allison in leading the Will Rogers team is Claude Humphrey who steps into the role of senior operations manager if Claude looks familiar to you it's because he's been working with the venues managed by public events since many people in this room were born Claude started his career at the tarant County Civic Center in the 80s think about that for a minute sticking with the facility through the transition from County to City ownership and management ultimately landing on the leadership team at Will Rogers in 2022 Claude was honored by visit Fort Worth with their above and beyond Ward which honors the hospitality industry employee of the year together Allison and Claude will lead the Will Rogers team in 24 and 25 as the facility transitions from public to private management please join me in congratulating Allison and Claude on their new leadership rols Allison if you want to say anything go right ahead thank you like Kyle said I look forward to working with all of you thank you as well thank you now we're going to shift to informal reports and we have a number of the first one up is the 2024 2025 action plan for the use of federal Housing and Community Development Grant funds and Casey best is available if there are any questions Council rebec um I have one question and it's specific to the um the cdbg Housing Programs dollars um our general admin cost for this program is $1.4 million and that's almost double what we are actually spending in um in in programmatic delivery to that program and that's seems out of alignment with um the admin cost and all the other programs so can you explain why that is and the admin cost for the cdbg is based on a certain percentage that we get to um assign to those costs and so it's just based on the dollar amount that we received from cdbg so it it it's not actual costs associated with it I'm just concerned because it's it's we're spending about a million dollars on the program and 1.4 on admin cost correct and it's just based on um the assigned percentage that we get that man cost it includes our staffing and it includes all of our cdbg funds all of our cdbg programs and I have um Sharon Berkeley here as well who can help thank you sorry hey Sharon good afternoon yes ma'am um the maximum amount is 20% that's set by Hud okay so our city BG allocation was 7 million for this current year okay 20% of that is a 1.4 million so it's a percentage of all of all of them percentage so yall had it in a separate um in a little separate um chart so it made it look like one program was doing that um it's down cdbg housing programs project subtotal so that's all that's why so but it's for all the CB all CBG fonds correct okay all right that makes much more sense thank you thank you the next informal report is the 2024 debt plan the rating outcomes in the bond pricing results and Reggie Zeno is available if there any questions all right next informal report is the adoption of new neighborhood empowerment zones and Sarah odel is available if there any questions I'd like for Sarah to explain how this came about especially the time Factor the schedu what expired what's good and how it benefits communities I'm just giving you time to get there Sarah is the queen of the nez's so thank you thank you um I'm sorry you want to know the timeline of yeah how this came about and what happened that we find ourselves here today I know that there were some that expired so you want to talk about that and how things are okay now so the city adopted the NZ program originally in 2000 um over the years there have been several changes to the program that have been made the largest change was in 2019 at that time we terminated uh 23 neighborhood empowerment zones and adopted six large neighborhood empowerment zones at that time we decided and the council approved that the neighborhood empowerment zones would be effective for 5 years and at the end of that fiveyear term that we would look at the boundaries again um during this time the cdbg maps also changed which is a qualifying factor for drawing the boundaries for the neighborhood empowerment zones so the neighborhood empowerment zones that were in place expired at the end of January of this year and now we are adopting the new neighborhood empowerment zones and can you provide just in your own words how this benefits our city as a whole especially those neighborhoods where these nzas will exist yeah um the neighborhood empowerment Zone Program is the only program that lets homeowners have any kind of break on any City fees including their permitting fees or have a tax abatement on the improvements that they make to their property um it's covers areas that are Community Development block grant eligible so that is the biggest factor in determining the neighborhoods that could be a neighborhood empowerment Zone um it also assists our small businesses and multif family commercial and Industrial programs as well and um it's kind of a one-of A- kind program in the city thank you than you Sarah it looks like from the map you provided that there's only a few areas that were removed from the NZ is that correct yes what was the major factor generally as to why those areas were removed those areas were removed because they are no longer Community Development block grant eligible okay nothing else was removed out of the NZ quite a bit of area was um added to the NZ area so we've gone from 42 square miles to what we're looking at adopting is 60 square miles okay and just out of curiosity if you look in what looks to be District 11 um it's right there at an intersection near wilbarger Village Creek Martin that area on the map do you remember off the top of your head why that had dropped off what development had been going on there why that dropped off from from being removed from the NZ no I can't I can't speak to that because the Community Development block grant eligible maps are federal m right I'm just curious so yeah they're they're um I'm surprised there were some surprises there yeah um definitely but I can't really say what I know it's affected by the census um so maybe Fernando can explain a little more since I don't Madam mayor I believe you're referring to the industrial district uh around Sun Valley in southeast Fort Worth and I believe we uh Sarah we deleted uh industrial districts so no we ended up not deleting industrial districts the only thing we deleted was um areas that were no longer Community Development um okay block grant eligible there there's a large industrial area in southeast Fort Worth that isos for okay yeah that's helpful thank you both appreciate it absolutely the next informal report is on child care services and academic progress in Fernando Costa is available if there are any questions I don't know why he's tried to sit out mayor pretend Bivens thanks to the mayor this topic is very important to me now hasn't always been but I think that the general population would appreciate this type of update you've inquired about U the quality of child care services and how that quality contributes to the academic success of uh children who receive those services and as it happens childcare asso recently commissioned a study by the school of education at SMU on um the performance of child care uh programs in Taran County and specifically in Fort Worth and the informal report that you've received provides a summary of the findings from that study it looks at uh different um uh measures of child care program performance as it affects the physical social emotional and cognitive development of children uh who receive child care services and the findings are a mixed bag uh they found for example that on some measures roughly 90% or more of the uh Texas Rising Star certified Child Care programs um uh met the high quality uh uh threshold uh for of those standards but uh on other standards uh roughly uh half or even fewer of the programs uh achieved uh the high quality uh level and uh I think uh well we have much to celebrate in the quality of our child care programs in Fort Worth we can also acknowledge that we have room for improvement uh particularly in respect to Workforce uh the postco uh Workforce uh crisis has affected all kinds of employers but perhaps uh uh Child Care programs uh to an exceptional degree uh and that can be attributed to a host of factors um uh such as U relatively low pay many of our child care uh professionals are are working for 12 to $14 an hour that is not competitive uh in today's environment and the annual turnover rate for child care workers tends to be as high as 40% or more that's a exceedingly High uh and as a result many Child Care programs find themselves moving uh teachers around to satisfy uh the uh required uh student uh uh teacher ratios and that instability uh has an adverse effect on the performance of children receiving these child care services so that's a brief summary of a more complex uh report uh we encourage you to take a closer look at it for further information here ma'am is Cara here today Cara woodell is CEO of Child Care Associates I don't see Cara think she's here but I want to acknowledge uh uh her help in providing us with this information when when you look at the study commissioned by childcare and Associates done by SMU what is it that the city can do to help with this situation since when you take a look at it overall children are at stake which means eventually communities are at stake people being able to make good livings for their families become jeopardized so what what can the well I can think of nothing better than what uh our own distinguished mayor uh Maddie Parker has done to elevate the public awareness about issues affecting uh child care in Fort Worth and the connection uh between the performance for our child care programs and the ultimate success that children experienced in school yeah mayor and I just think we've already done a lot we know the cdbg prioritization and working with Neighborhood Services putting some of those funds for facilities which is often an obstacle for high quality Child Care Chris knows all about that um the most recent vote we've taken um to Abate property taxes which is a small amount of but to a lot of these businesses it really allows them to put those monies back into the classrooms to help them and then lastly these are Big lifts that we're working on with our largest District forth istd and others to make sure they're um creating um it's a partnership opportunity that tea allows where they can really draw down additional money in these Early Childhood classrooms it's a complicated model but thanks to CCA and others I think we're on the right track and we just invited Mike morath and Brian McDaniel from um Brian Daniel from Workforce Commission to Fort Worth so we're leading the way in lot of different aspects of this Council should be committed on supporting those efforts because to your point earlier this is not something we control but it is absolutely something that impacts the daily lives of residents that live here and has a propensity to be incredibly long lasting positively um for our citizens so thank you Fernando you've used the America rescue plan act the arpa funds to support the development of uh Child Care Facilities the county should be commended with their recent um distribution of money over $40 million and went towards child care as well so and and just one last question from staff for for those independent operators who may be watching listening or even be here today who would be a good point of contact for them to reach out to if they just didn't know prot to call there is no greater resource in Fort Worth in respect to child care programs in car woodell whom you've already mentioned uh as CEO of Child Care Associates she has not recognized not only local but across the state as an expert in the field and nobody is more generous uh with her help and uh advice than car woodell thanks for elaborating on this thank you ma'am all right our next informal report is on Commercial ownership of single family Residential Properties got some question and Christian Simmons is available if there any question I don't have any questions um but I would like to see um when reading through this y'all identified 83 residents um res resident-owned um properties and 154,000 and some change had the homestead exemption but in those that didn't y'all identified people who probably are eligible for that homestead exemption and so what I would like to see is us communicate with those particular residents and let them know that that exemption is available to them I think people are used to getting um notices from the city um to pay taxes but I think we should also make sure that we're giving them notices that they have some tax relief AA to them as well I do have a question well kind of a statement to you um so when you say commercial properties in the IR it reads as if they're commercial properties operating a commercial business and I think just for the general public could you clarify that that's not what this is intended to represent right that's not exactly what this IR is for um not operating as commercial properties but we're defining commercial properties as properties with owner names that indicate commercial ownership um and then properties that don't have a homestead exemption so those are the assumptions we're making when we try to when we try to say is a property occupied by its owner or not okay and how does the city utilize that information I don't know if we've utilized this information before um this was just a request I don't actually remember where it was born out of if it was in QRC or something else but we um we're responding to request that someone made um and we're just using Tad this is actually only Teran Appraisal District we use April estimates to just sort of um make some assumptions about perhaps the percentage split that's going on thank you my question or maybe just a comment is I think there were a few news stories after this posted on Thursday that were a little misinformed about what the actual data is telling us and you were pretty clear in the IR that despite the fact that it may be tagged as commercial it may be an LLC that's owned by one individual that lives here and it's a rental property next door to their home that's quite different and especially if it's rented and available to Residents that live here in the city of for worth and so um I think it may be helpful if Rene and his team put out a community you know city news story to make more clarification about what this looks like I just think there's a lot of heightened awareness around housing affordability especially in the state of Texas and in Fort Worth and there needs to be um and I think we all should be concerned when especially when you hear many stories across the country of large hedge funds purchasing entire swast of neighborhoods and we do have some of that in for worth however I don't think it's systemic and it's something we should be aware of and the way we can parse this data to be more um mindful in the future I think would be helpful to our residents and sometimes these IRS kind of get out in front and so this may be helpful to even do a full presentation in the future if this is something we think is useful as we're watching to see if we see troubling Trends around the purchase of homes um that for commercial purpose or or rather from entities that don't have the same interest as some people that actually live here that makes sense Council can respond to that Gina yeah I just want to uh add this Christian you you do a darn good job all the time but this was not what I expected to see and I hate to mention this but I did see more information on a similar study coming out of Dallas County and so yeah that was very embarrassing but when I when I take a look at what's happening in parts of our city you know people have no idea who's buying up these properties until you find out that you're living in an area where you may see 10 or 15 cars to a two-story house and so I think we need not think I know we need to dig a bit a bit deeper to help our people you know in the city of Fort Worth uh it is very disturbing I I hate that Jared's not here I know that he was very concerned about this as well but this was really not the meat I expected to get from here no slight to you but there is more information that other cities are doing more studies and we need to be just as aggressive in digging for the benefit of our people here that's fair and perhaps sorry Council nedles I was just going to say I know that we have a follow-up item on June 11th at the nqrc and it's a little bit backwards but um maybe we can look between now and next week at how we can beef up based on the examples that you're giving and we can also work on a city news you know explainer or clarifier with Rene's group Council n sorry about yeah and I was just going to uh say kind of what you just said I mean this did come out our committee meeting uh Dr Williams and I and others were concerned with uh affordability hom been available in the city of forward with many residents moving from Dallas and all coming to forward uh and a lot of these homes are not available because they're they're uh owned by uh commercial and their rent homes and so I think to what Jenna was saying and also mayor is we may need a better presentation of uh how many homes in our neighborhood that are owned by commercial that are renting homes instead of home ownership and then also as well as what Elizabeth said about making sure that those who are um have homes and don't have the homestead exemption that we notify them so they can get that exemption uh I think will be very good okay and I look forward to that presentation uh inqr whatever you call and it may just be in the context of what we can and can't control right you can't control this but I know the legislature is actually looking this this issue specifically in our own charges so maybe if we level it on the legislative front that helps I mean otherwise you're just talking about something you can't do anything about so sure okay thank you thanks I'll just add to thank you and I I know this is a a snapshot of a point in time too I think what you're not also and y'all are the data experts and can figure this out I know a lot of people buy um homes as llc's and then flip them you so they're selling them and putting them back on the market so I think that's also worth noting that when you put a snap you know snapshot point in time 26% or whatever the statistic was that might not also be accurate I don't know how you look at that but I'll leave that to the data experts to also parse that as well yeah that might be right and if this is a trend we want to keep an eye on which it sounds like it might be then we can look at some of that more longitudinal sort of point in time of you know to see how it's ebbing and flowing certainly okay thank you all right next informal report squatting laws in Texas Matt Murray is available if there any questions wait a minute you didn't you skip over something yeah 24 did I sure did let me go back before we get to squatting registration policy for Community organizations and Michelle yeah and Renee T is available any questions I I brought that up and just to make sure people remember why why I brought it up I was very concerned about the uh interaction we have with these so-called neighborhood alliances and you know who and what entities can we influence and uh partner with uh my office was denied access to a virtual meeting of the I think it's called the neighborhoods of East Fort Worth and I took offense to that and so I think if you're going to be an alliance and you consider yourself connected with the city of for worth at some point then there should a relationship so that's the premise from where I'm coming from okay um so what some of the recommended changes that we um that we are pushing forward or putting forward I'm have to do with issues that have come up like the one you just spoke to about alliances we've also had some other instances with um neighborhood boundaries and um some of the current policy that we have that makes it unfair to Residents if they don't want to join a new Association and so we tried to look at all these issues that we were having and we also looked at what other cities were doing um and tried to come up with some recommendations for for the changes that you see in the IR specifically when it has to do with alliances what we've started doing is that when an alliance um submits their update their annual update they have to list all the organizations that are members of their Alliance We Now contact those organizations to confirm that they have agreed to be a part of the alliance and if not then they we tell the alliance they have to be removed from their from their document um and one of the recommendations we have on the alliances is that we currently draw Geographic maps to represent the alliance and what happens is sometimes you'll have a neighborhood sometimes a very large neighborhood within that area and I think this has happened on the east side where that neighborhood association has not agreed but on the map it looks like they're included in the alliance so one of our recommendations is that we start listing the organizations that are in an alliance and not have it be like a geographic map that's representing them because if you look at what an alliance is it's it's organizations who have come together for a common cause and um so we think that by listing them were we really showing that it is an alliance of organizations and not like a geographic area on the map well I I can appreciate you standing up here where is Renee you you're taking the the brunt of this and you're doing a real good job but I'm not going to tiptoe around this and my my next question is to City legal just so you know lean we had a conversation with uh Sarah before you became City attorney and at that time we felt that alliances were becoming unwieldy just because they were claiming associations that said no we are not affiliated what what does legal say about an alliance denying access to meetings to the council office that is not right yeah I mean I think in terms of from a legal perspective that an alliance is not like for instance an HOA where it's required by law that they follow something like an open meetings act type thing so it's a little bit different um I I would think that there would be advantages to them to to have uh Council uh representative in some way there but from a legal perspective they don't they're not required to follow the open meetings act and have it be open to to anyone that they choose well I'll be looking into ways to make sure you know they say membership has its privileges I think affiliating with the city of Fort Worth there are privileges there and there should be some type of uh requirement to engage or we need to just say bye and so I'm pretty sure this is the only Alliance you where you see this behavior taking place and I'll be following up with that and talking with you with very serious conversation because that shouldn't it makes no sense that that would happen I don't know when their next meeting is but we'll try to crash that one too any other questions yes I do uh Michelle just out of curiosity um I draw a distinction between an alliance formed of Association ation and Alliance formed of HOAs and what you have here is that distinction present meaning in your assumptions and your recommendations here right now we don't make any distinction between alliances that are comprised of neighborhood associations or HOAs or a combination of them okay I think that is necessary what I would recommend because this issue has happened before in the past I know when uh Dennis shingleton you know was district 7 councilman at the time uh this came up uh with the north forth Alliance I think Macy you might be aware of it too um and there was some discussion about it right and I think in talking to Renee uh you know he was aware you know of that I think I think we need to kind of bear down a little bit and get some input at least from those two alliances because they're they're among the most vocal right in our area but but I understand Gina's point of view as well I mean I I would be very uh very upset you know if I was denied access to you know neighborhood group you know within the council District I mean it's all part of our Outreach so you know I understand you know her point of view as well um this may be a topic and I I know it's an ongoing discussion we have from time to time support and training okay I'm just looking at this list right here you know the benefits of of being a member right support and training in the past I know that we were able the city was able to provide things like bylaw you know training and and Etc and my understanding is we're still trying to get back to having that capacity correct yes we do um when a new Association is forming or if there's um maybe new officers that have come in we do um provide sample bylaws and help walk them through that process so that is training that we still provide all right because I think as recent as last year I had an organization that had undergone some leadership changes and some membership changes that approached my office and asked for help on bylaws now I've done bylaws before for organizations but you know that's not you know possible for me you know given the other you know things that I have to do so I referred him over to uh the committee engagement office and I was told we can't do that so just to clarify can we do that now absolutely good that's good to hear okay so we're improving in that regard uh uh just to kind of wrap it up right here uh overlapping boundaries for associations I had a similar situation occur you know in my district about that that you had not necessarily overlapping boundaries but inscribed boundaries you had an organization that popped up right in the middle of a long existing you know Association and for whatever reasons that that new one did you know refused to be part you know of the existing one for whatever reasons and um that's different you know in my view you know of overlapping I mean they're inscribed so what about that scenario so um one of the reasons that we address this is because um and it has not come up very often but um it did come up recently and um we had a new Association that wanted to form and so the way our guidelines or our policy is written right now you draw a map and then you have to get 50% of the people within that map plus one to form the new Association if you do that then that is a new Association so if you have the 49% who do not want to belong to the association by our current policy they belong to the new one and so when this instance came up people were very vocal about not wanting to be part of a new Association that was being formed and we felt since they're voluntary neighborhood associations we needed to really look at the way our policy was written and try and come up with another option and so we looked at what other cities had done um and came up with the suggestion of the overlapping um boundaries if you have an area where people want to Bel there are people that live within that geographic area that choose to belong to two different associations and it's not an ideal situation but I feel like the 50% plus one is forcing people into a new Association that they might not want to belong to so this was just a suggestion to try and address that um part of our policy okay I'll have some follow-up questions for you because I can think of a few scenarios but in interest of time you I'll save those for later but thank you mayor I do have one one more question and I'd like for Renee to come to the microphone Renee this is easy don't I'm good uh can you talk about your overarching vision on using social media to strengthen the bonds of neighborhood associations as well as how they operate for the general public because most people who live in neighborhoods are not members of associations just like churches so how do you propose to use social media your Twitter and stuff yeah it's a it's it's an overall strategy because we know no one person gets all of their news from one place and so particularly um our um analytics show that younger folks tend tend to look get their news from social media we follow our social media platforms very closely and we look at the analytics on the backside to see every week we get a report on what does well and what our residents want to know about I can tell you off hand it's it's a lot of nuts and bolts it's um road closures it it's um work of the city that that um does well within our social media platforms but it depends on the platform and in the audience that we're trying to reach and so with our neighborhood associations for instance we know that they're very tied in um to um the uh what's the next door next door that you that Michelle's team actually gets to run I just got banned from next door you're you're you're 0 and two just got back on Facebook thanks to the mayor you're 0 and two Gina yeah yeah thank you awful and so um yeah with within our social media platforms we look at the analytics and and try to write what toward what is doing well um and then we have to be able to to balance that across the news of the city and in 25 different departments that all are are kind of appealing to us um as to why they should be in city news as to why they should be featured in um social media as to why they should be um um in next door thank you and mayor all of this to say to your listening and your viewing audience if you live in Fort Worth and I know you do because you're watching us on cable you ought to know at least the name of your neighborhood association and that way you can get engaged be informed because if you're out there on an island by yourself you have no idea what's going on and so I encourage membership in neighborhood associations but not ones who are part of big alliances that don't let Council offices participate so and I would want to give a kudos to Rene's office in communication because uh it may have been the swimming pool uh but I think I was tagged in the post or shared the post and uh comments started coming in and before I could comment Fort Worth had already commented on uh the answer to those questions so we really appreciate you guys coming to Residence and I mean you guys on it so I do want to give you that another thing we've started doing is for some of our neighborhood associations the liaison who's assigned to that has been asking to join their Facebook page so that she can she or he can post things directly on that page in addition to pushing it out on next door and most of them have been very receptive to that and to to your point Chris I I have been working with the the team that posts on social media to create the Persona of how we want to answer those in a respectful and nice way so if we post a new initiative and you know the the um pessimist says fix the roads before you do that then like we were starting to to be able to reply on how much money we spend on roads yearly and and how how we we repair roads and refer that back to city news articles if they want to learn more so that we can be on that okay we're back to squatting laws in Texas Matt Murray's available if there any questions all right moving on storm water criteria manual flood plate ordinance and grading permit ordinance updates step Nichols is available if there any questions Stephen come on up while we're waiting on Stephen I uh I really want to thank tpw staff for taking on this effort and really coming up with some uh proposed changes to the way that we do it um I think our Lynwood neighborhood is a really great example of what happens when we don't um enact these new changes and it's um small incremental development that on its whole ends up being very um dangerous for some of our employee or sorry some of our residents the only question that I have is um why the new regulation would apply to fences that's a good so first of all thank you for having me Mary Council I appreciate it the new regulation would apply to fences in that if you have water racing down a hill and you build a fence like a privacy fence it's effectively impervious to that water you may divert that on your neighbor okay um can we as part of this program maybe uh get with development services and offer some um maybe some examples of what fencing that would allow water to to move through that wouldn't require this because I want to make sure that we're being safe but um fencing does seem like it's small and I get I get why you want to do it and a brick wall is very different than say a chain link fence and so if we can maybe have some examples and work with some industry leaders to provide that to Residents so um they can maybe find a way out of that specific to fences absolutely okay thank you um I think I'd want to note too that most fences don't actually require permit unless they're over 7 ft okay and so the majority of backyard fences won't actually be captured through the perming process okay thank you and there are fences too that have like a rete footings that yeah that what I that's what I would think thank you next informal report is an update on the Redevelopment of the Community Arts Center and Fernando cost is available if there are any questions council member Hill Fernando if you will you please just give us an update on the project yes ma'am you'll recall that almost exactly a year ago the city council adopted a resolution accepting the findings and recommendations of the 1300 gendi task force which called for redevelopment of the city-owned property at 1300 gendi Street in the cultural District the property currently housing the Community Arts Center and pursuant to your guidance uh the staff uh from The Economic Development Department issued a request for proposals we received the proposals from four different firms a committee comprised of two task force members and three department heads reviewed those four proposals selected two as finalists and invited them to submit uh final proposals uh which were the subject of uh public presentations uh they submitted uh actually multiple iterations of those proposals U uh but ultimately uh neither uh proposal satisfied all the criteria that the council uh had Pur prescribed uh for redevelopment of 1300 gendi so we are going back to the drawing board this is a matter of some uh urgency uh for the city and we intend to proceed in a timely way to attract uh appropriate uh investment in 1300 gendi that would be commensurate uh with the high standards that we associate uh with our Cultural District and so uh we asked the public to stay engaged uh and uh work with us as we seek uh a suitable solution uh for this property because as you'll recall it was uh uh as recently as uh as recently as as two years ago uh that uh the city commissioned uh a structural conditions uh uh study on uh the building at 1300 gendi and found that at the time uh the estimated cost cost to to repair the building was in the ballpark of $26 million uh in today's dollars that would be well in excess of 30 million uh and uh we're holding our breath because on any day uh major systems at the community art center could fail uh so this is not the situation that uh uh we can allow to continue in definitely uh and so we're seeking uh a a solution that will be broadly acceptable to the community uh and I know that uh uh our council members uh and our esteem mayor are are engaged uh in this challenge uh every day I want to publicly thank you for your time and effort because I know you've spent a lot of time and effort on this and not just with the public but also with the task force and also want to publicly thank them um including my predecessor Leonard Firestone um and I I want to reassure our constituents um specifically the Arts Community the Cultural District um that we know this is an important project and we know that that their time is of the essence but we we only get one shot to make this right that's correct and they can be a worldclass facility really in the heart of our city so I want to reassure everyone that this is a priority for me and I think it's a priority for the council and staff as well uh thank you councilman very timely uh comments this process has been as challenging as it has been in large measure because it's city council has taken it to heart uh you have taken uh seriously uh the charge of finding a suitable use for this property and you have listened carefully to what the community has told us particularly folks uh who are users of the community art center uh they have spoken passionately about their expectations and uh and the council has responded by saying that we want to preserve what's important about the community art center we want to preserve access to space where artists can grow and developed and uh whether it occurs at 1300 gendi or elsewhere we want to find a place for artists in this community uh and we want to develop this property in a way that uh meets the community's expectations uh and so thanks to your leadership and the leadership of your predecessor uh former council member Leonard Farson who chaired the 1300 gy task force uh the leadership of uh mayor Parker I could go on uh I think we can U reasonably expect u a positive outcome to this process thank you ma'am any other questions Council thank you Fernando our next informal report is on crime free mult multihousing program and we have Chief Aldridge and Britney Jones available if there any questions come on up Chief while you guys are coming up uh one thing I'll be looking for probably not in this report today but I want to see what the Staffing looks like because what I hear from people is know this is a great effort but understaffed and I also want to know about what happens when you have an apartment complex that's the source of numerous complaints but we haven't made the case yet for a nuisance case if you will how do we track those after training has taken place and who has taken the training how many complexes have taken the training and how do we follow up and so those are some details that I'm interested in absolutely so before we get started um I have officer Britney Jones here she is the sole and only person dealing with crime-free multi housing that was my next question so um prior to April of 2023 this program kind of has been neglected and so you know we hadn't done some things for quite some time we brought Britney over she has done a phenomenal job turning the program around if you would indulge us a little bit I'd like her to give just a a couple of minute highlights of this IR because this IR is pretty lengthy um but I think she'll be able to give a pretty good overview and then if she hasn't answered your questions we can definitely take those questions at the end thank you mayor and Council so in 2014 we P passed the crime pre multi housing program into city ordinance to address violent crime drugs and gangs in apartment communities um for phase one every manager assistant manager and anyone that can execute a lease with eight or more units in the city of Fort Worth has to attend an8 hour training um within six months of being hired at least one person from the property each year has to come back for a refresher training during the training we encourag them to use the crime free lease addendum um that states that a resident one of their household members or a guest cannot engage engage in criminal activity on or near the property which includes um disorderly conduct Class C assault drug paraphernalia any Class A or Class B misdemeanors or any felonies on near the property during phase oh if they uh violate their crime freeas addendum it could is lead to a 24-hour notice of vacate to be issued during phase two they have to go through a sep head inspection which is crime prevention through environmental design um that is conducted by Code Compliance then they also go through a light inspection with the assistance of the npos and code blue and a daytime inspection to check for minimum safety requirements during phase three they have to go through a safety social where uh the property manager plans it um with the assistance of our criminal I'm sorry crime prevention specialist and npos um this meeting is held to bring the residents together together to to talk about crime and crime prevention and allow them to meet each other and build trust with the police after they've completed all three phases of the program then they're certified in the crime pre multi housing program until the next year we currently have um as of August uh 2nd 577 PE I'm sorry 591 people who have came through the program 277 departments are apartments are currently going through the face one thing you might think about is inviting the council person when these socials take place I'm looking at two neighborhood presidents who are very active on the east side of Fortworth who have single-handedly gone in and done the work of code and police on occasion without license but to a very good end result and I know you know who I'm talking about but it would be good to know you know when those take place and that way the Council Office could appear and provide some additional information about engagement absolutely yes ma'am okay so who's getting arrested Ian you I mean somebody's got to be getting rested I'm sure uh what what what are you finding I guess is a more sophisticated way of asking so I'll let Britney kind of cover the stats if you have those uh you know I will tell you we kind of started a it was because it was neglected for so long we started in Las Vegas Trail and the reason being is because we had that neighborhood Improvement program going on there and it kind of coincided pretty well with them because of the large number of apartment complexes they have and so you know prior I think you saw in the IR in the previous 10 years we've had zero citations you know and that's pretty Pro Troublesome right because we know that not all apartment complexes are doing what they're supposed to do uh but since that time Britney's you know done a really good job and um if you can share some of the stats you know that you've that you've done sure so from January of 2024 through March of 20124 the West nopo's and team has done a phenomenal job of really enforcing the program in the LBT area um they've uh Sergeant Owen has went and helped deliver 18 violations to get um those people that have committed a lease violation um A Ware I guess that make the department managers aware and they went and issued the notices uh they also had about 40 due to the relationship they built with these apartment managers um because they're going to all the meetings they were able to arrest uh 40 people on Criminal Trespass and 70% of those led to higher felony charges due from that relationship they built so one thing that we're doing U because Britney is you know a one person show uh is we're trying to use the npos as Force multipliers for us that we can train them in this training program prior to Britney getting there the training program by the apartment managers had to be done in person which means the crime-free multi housing officer had to give that training program we have since transitioned over to an online program that allows them a little more latitude and be able to reach a lot more people a lot more quickly so now it's just a matter of getting the npos trained to help them help Brittney you know address some of these apart trouble Department complexes I I would to you that the location around Barry and stall cup requires just as much attention as Las Vegas Trail does and with one Britany what what would be ideal for you in terms of Staffing well ideal would be to have one per division okay um you know one for every Patrol Division that way they could be the coordinator with all the mpos and they could create a list of the actual apartment complexes because what Britney does now is um she has a list of these apartment complexes and all the people that have gone through the training and she has the no SWAT check do some of those inspections that we do to make sure they're still in compliance with you know the regulations and the classes that they went through I'll just tell you this Chief and and I know I'm going to get some calls I I look at the NPO position as a cushy type position and uh that's the way it's been historically uh do you see np's willing to get in here and do this this work that's taking place in Las Vegas Trail and that's needed in deep stop six because I don't see a lot of help coming toward that part of town I will say with the proper leadership yes okay okay thank you so we've um trained all of the npos in February to help with the program so during phase one it's their responsibility to go out and get their apartment complex registered so for like East Division we currently have 46 apartments in the program some in your area uh that are currently going through the phases so it's really just the npos getting out there and they seem because this program is to help them in the long run right so they seem willing to go out there and get everyone signed up we just have to make sure they show up so I have a great NPO just so you know but the bad people come out at night that is true and so you know that coordination is very very important I yield hey Britney so you know we have some problem properties on metab Brook and Lancaster as well um but um do you also promote the National Night Out event to these apartment complexes that could be also dual serving as a safety social each year because the safety social is just once in the program right so they have to do it once yes so last year we actually had a safety social that was held on National Night Out but the we're we're trying to hit everyone right and so it was hard to make sure they had an noo or crime provision specialist because it's such a huge night so we do talk about National Night Out um in the 8- hour training the crime prevention specialist we'll talk about it in the safety social but I think it it doesn't work as well on National Night Out yeah thanks Brittney thanks for all the work you've been doing over in Las Vegas Trail and and I here mayor protim uh and I I think I can read your mind a little bit we've got to multiply these Services across the city because there's more of you that need are needed and I don't want to lose you uh but there's more of you that are needed across the city um answer this question for me first of all I want to make comment on the six months there's a lot of turnover with these apartment managers especially if it's a bad apartment so they may never actually go through the training and really this is about helping them help the residents there know what what's in the so I think we should take a look at that the other side is if they don't do it what are the real repercussions and are there any if they don't really go through the training so according to the city ordinance it's a $2,000 fine per day per occurrence so if they don't go through the training then they could be fine Code Compliance does a good job of telling them about the program and getting them registered when they're applying for their certificate of occupancy or um registration so they also push the program great that's good to know so thank you again for what you're doing here and we I think we have to keep on it I think we're seeing some real strides you saw some examples in here I know you and I have talked about some specific anecdotal information too that's happened in the area but it's it's again all about just keeping our residents safe safe and so if the apartment managers and the leadership of the apartments are making sure that that they're following these then I think it trickles down for sure thanks any other questions thank you thank you thank you the next informal report is an overview of property maintenance responsibilities and re resources for owners of vacant property and we have a team which includes assistant chief aldrid Shannon Elder Cody Wittenberg and Melinda Ramos yes I have a few questions on this one if we could want St the Le here we go yes sir awesome well so I asked for this one just because the sheer fact that we're getting sick and tired of these absentee commercial property owners just letting their property go you can get a hold of them if you want to lease it but you can't get a hold of them if you want them to fix it so I'm all for our city doing whatever it takes to put teeth behind our ordinances uh through like heavy fines as much as we legally can um so one of my questions though on the IRS it just says when property owners are non-responsive then the city can pursue a 10-day nuisance abatement what are we considering non-responsive like 24 hours 48 hours two weeks three weeks so when we give notice we usually give 10 days in order to comply in four days for mail 10 days and then four days okay um awesome and then if as far as like let's say it's like a landscaping issue and we have one that's absolutely out of control um if they still don't Abate it is it the city is it just were we don't have enough contractors to perform that work and they're backed up or so when you say Landscaping are you talking about High Grass because we have an ordinance on high grass but we do not have an ordinance necessarily on the Landscaping on maintaining your Landscaping grass is definitely part of it for sure uh but then the rest of it I mean all of it's just so we have so we have an ordinance on High Grass it has to be 12 in uh once it is 12 Ines we have to notify the property owner once per uh 12-month period um and then if they fail to comply it goes over to our mowing contractor who then will mow it and we will um lean the cost to the property if it is vacant property it will go into an automatic mowing cycle and get sent to the mowing contractor every 28 days okay every 28 days okay I saw that contract on bonfire I can see there's a shortage of contractors so uh good to know okay and then my last question was just regarding the signage uh on the back page it says uh police are going to continue to work with tpw and place signage at problem locations I did take the full report from uh my for worth Report app reports for the last year identified the top 10 locations in my specific District um and because there's no HOA or na around those areas that would be willing to B I guess bear the cost of those signs our office the district office is actually looking at uh procuring those signs we got the estimates from tpw I thought it was expensive so I designed them myself with feedback from uh residents um we're trying to find you know more cost effective options for those um but is this saying that this can be a cost that's I guess uh taken on by tpw or oh tpw will not take on the cost so the money has to come somewhere if we get the signs made and if they're put up so whether it's you know uh through U the police department tpw I mean there has to be a cost associated with it or even the owner so okay got it yeah like I said we're going to be we're going to buy those signs ourselves from our office funds and then in a year see if it actually made any effect sure um and of course we've talked about doing more U massive Citywide campaign to educate the citizens who are the you know they're if they would quit giving then we wouldn't be in this position so also created a sign for high drug use areas but I don't know how well that's going to go over with legal but I look forward to running that by you guys to see how that works um I'm all about stirring the pot so that's all I got thanks all right the next informal report is on semi truck and trailer parking in neighborhoods in Shannon Elder and assist chief FD are available any questions Council Martinez okay I request this informal report and um just looking at the numbers you know we have a lot of cases each year uh but very few citations is it that um these individuals are being warned and then they move but there's these um individuals that are repeat offenders so each time they come back like the next week they have another warning okay so warn once and then if they're a repeat offender we issue citations okay just you know just 22 to 24 was 633 cases and um 22 to 24 only 43 citations just I mean I know that there are you know this is happening throughout the city but it's happening a lot in District 11 is it just enforcement that we're having an issue with or why is there such a difference in cases and citations so the numbers are specific to uh private property and so we are seeing compliance on private property okay so but I'm talking about um in on residential so that is still considered private property if it's on just a neighborhood street so if it's a neighborhood street it's a police department and so what we usually do is we go out we give warnings try and get them to move their vehicle uh most of the times they do comply they don't want to have to pay the citations so anything that's basically in the yards deal with code compliance anything that's kind of in the streets that's us okay so these are numbers from Code Compliance then the citations okay um can we get numbers from PD sure okay quick question um this is for you Chief uh when it comes to uh semi- drugs a large commercial vehicles that do Park on residential streets uh when I've called it in before in the past you know every so often a dispatcher might ask well how long have they been parked there okay how much does that factor into a decision whether or not to dispatch someone I mean you know sometimes I don't know how long they've been parked there so a lot of it has to do with uh is that a no truck parking area um what are the restrictions on the roadway um in in residential areas oversized vehicles cannot be there um and it really just depends on where where the location is the length of time for us really does not matter um but you know it's a low priority call as you know and so the time to get an officer out there might take some time so um but I don't know why they would ask you that okay thank you all right our next inform report is on short term rental registration Shannon Elder is available if there any questions all right next inform report is an update on door-to-door vendors and Jamie Morales is available along with assistant chief Aldridge so my first question would be for chief Aldridge um in the first bullet in the IR says that um if we report the violation of the ordinance police officers will respond um is this something that we can expand to our civilian response team to respond to no okay because we don't want our civilian Response Unit being an enforcement unit so we don't want them writing citations okay so I mean we don't we want them to be uh you know as safe as possible out there because they don't have the tools or the skills to to deal with somebody that might get IR rate okay that makes sense um and then I think that's the only PD question that I had thank you though um why are we doing a biannual instead of an annual registration proposal in this actually the registration is good for six months right so um is there any reason why we couldn't do an annual registration I mean I think if we're going to charge them it looks like um what is it $150 to register is that yeah yeah I think it should last for a whole year I mean if we're going to pay that if if we're going to go through that process and make them pay we don't want to be a hindrance to any you know businesses but we also want to make sure we're keeping folks safe is it because their background check go you answer the questions yeah yeah that's a good so I think that may be a factor we can do a little bit more research on that one to find out if the background check is good for an extended period a period of longer than okay six months if it if it is for a year you don't have to bring it back um if the background check if we determine that you know a year is an adequate period I'd like to see it um a a yearly um or an annual registration and then um what would um is there anything in the ordinance that would exempt things like are Girl Scouts selling cookies or Boy Scouts selling popcorn like those types of Civic um events or Civic type engagements because I want my cookies um in the current ordinance that is not considered a door to door so there's not anything that addresses that at this point okay when we update the ordinance can we add some explicit language in there so people know that they're that those are not Civic organizations not yes and then um and relation to the background checks what um have have we had any discussion about what in those background checks would disqualify someone from receiving that um that certificate yes so in the interest of public purpose and Public Safety um events like or violations like um violent crimes or thefts are what we would be looking at at adding to the ordinance okay um would fraud any fraud um charges as well be be part of that um at this point we hadn't we hadn't really researched fraud but I would think if that fraud led to theft it might be considered part of it okay and then is there a time Lim on that so say if um it was 20 years ago versus five years ago is it just any any of those um as we move through the ordinance we will engage legal to determine what a time period should look like okay perfect um last thing is thank you so much for putting this together um I know my residents are going to be much happier knowing that um that there is an ordinance that people have to be registered we'll be able to easily identify them at the door so if they are in violation um you know I think it makes it also easier for py to respond because they can call and say they didn't have the appropriate identification and so they know to to respond to that call quicker than just I think they shouldn't be here so thank you so much I really appreciate it thank you and thank you for your time and um also again as mentioned in the IR for last year's National Night Out we had created the stickers no solicitation stickers and we happen to bring a few with us um so what we can do is pass them out and leave them also on the table in the back if you would like to take some to your constituents or back to your offices thank you thank you all right our next informal reporter on options to recycle or donate items from Old City Hall and Marilyn Marvin and Cody whittenberg are available if there any questions yes all right okay Cody Who coming Cody's got it hello Cody aside from uh items that might have some usable value right maybe um you know you can resell them too um old furniture I I had also asked about what about those other things such as Metals right maybe you have an item that is no longer usable right you really can't sell it but then you have the recycle value to it I mean how how good are we in that regard in terms of uh you know making the transition over from Old City Hall to New City Hall and all the items between absolutely so we do have vendors available for Metal Recycling and so absolutely if any department has any need to to move a piece of metal rather than going to the landfill we will try to divert all of that waste away from our landfills and so certainly reach out to our environmental services and we can work to to get that scheduled with the vendor and hopefully even make make a return on on That Metal Recycling okay exactly what I need to know thank you all right our next informal repor is on the process to receive proposals for the development and operations of a renewable natural gas facility at the Landfield Cody is available if there any questions all right Cody stay close by next one is the trendy river water wheel initiative update y available there any questions I one I'd like a just an update on where we are how we got there and then uh what our plan is moving forward yeah absolutely so we were we were able to release a second request for proposals for the water whe project and it's always disappointing whenever proposals come back and they exceed our available budget so in order to move the project forward we're currently working with streams and valleys and with the tant regional water district to evaluate options to continue to fundraise to see if we're able to that uh another benefit component here is we did go back to our vendors and they've secured the price for the water will and the price for the construction through the end of August at this time and are open to continuing conversations if we need to but we're excited to continue the conversation and and see if we're able to move the project forward all right next in for report wait D I had a quick question a couple comments actually sorry Cody and I realize that you aren't asking for more additional funds at this time or you're continuing to fundraise but is August I mean do you have a hard deadline when we're not going to do more fundraising or I mean can you get walk through a timeline of fundraising that you're working through with dreams and valleys and the other organizations or Partnerships you're trying to cultivate to get this funded absolutely so I I think at this point we want to focus on three key aspects of the water wheel for starters so one of course is the obvious benefit of cleaning up the river and taking that surface floatables or those litter that are floating off the surface but we also see this as an opportunity to present an icon of our commitment as a city to keep a clean an attractive City and then also to really invest in that Environmental Education and promote those concepts of a clean and safe City to Future Generations at this location along the trail system so we're going to be looking at different opportunities with educational Partnerships and others to see if there's any opportunities that we can seize for fundraising in terms of a long-term strategy we we hope to come back this fall with some clear understanding of where what we build what we've been able to achieve over the summertime and hopefully give you a more clear Direction on what that looks like thank you all right the next inform report is on a proposed Council initiated zoning change for 4812 Parker Henderson Road in the Echo Heights neighborhood and Leandra string fellows available if there are any questions we good I'm just all right we're good and then the final informal report is the on the proliferation of certain uses and applicable zoning regulations and DJ harell and Leandra Stringfellow and Melinda Ramos are available if there any questions I I do have some questions and comments on this one what you waiting on DJ okay uh thank you for putting this together I certainly appreciate it um what I appreciate the most is that um you have given us options on this IR so that we don't have to come back for a full presentation we can just kind of pull through it here so thank you for doing that um on the liquor and package stores um you gave us two options can we do both of those options both the limit the use to more intensive commercial industrial districts or um or and add a distance requirement to other so we could do both on those okay great and then um for our payday lending uh I I'm in favor of of op the option that you presented which was amending the zoning ordinance to add credit access businesses as a defined use and limit the zoning districts that they're allowed um I'd also like them if we can have a distance between those as well to make sure that we don't have those popping up um and then um with our smoke shops uh I think we didn't have okay so I didn't understand this option so I don't have an opinion on it yet so can you kind of um I didn't understand what moving the threshold removing the threshold did or didn't do to this particular one so so right now in order to be considered a retail smoke shop 90% of your products sold have to be related to tobacco use so that is a very high threshold in order to be considered a retail smoke shop um in comparison to some other cities um Dallas had that same kind of threshold but some other uh major cities did not not have that threshold so it was the sale of tobacco products so I think that offers a little bit more um ability to make a determination that a shop is um a retail smoke shop and then put any additional regulations right now there's a distance requirements to hospitals universities and such um uh so it doesn't I'm not necessarily suggesting to take it to zero but we may want to consider lowering it from the 90 to another percentage and we can work on some research as to maybe what that what that should be by visiting some of our current retail smoke shops and seeing really what's their percentage that they're selling in their stores okay and um and you said Dallas doesn't what did Dallas put their limit as I believe Dallas is at 90% okay um which I think when we were initially doing our smoking ordinance in 2017 we probably reviewed their ordinance and some other City major cities ordinances and probably took that information in okay I will tell you my uh Vape loving jenzy staff isn't going to like this but I would like us to explore the um um reducing that 90% um and looking at the um a distance between each shop as well because they do seem to be okay popping up at an alarming rate okay thank you well and I can't remember if you and I talked about this Elizabeth but um I've talked to a few colleagues in Oklahoma and when the state of Oklahoma decided to legalize Iz marijuana this type of ordinance was a problem for them and it was overnight that they had smoke shops across their cities and they couldn't they ordinance wasn't prepared so it's it's it's an interesting threshold I'm not saying that we may be a really long way off from that but I think that this also has happened in lots of neighborhoods unexpectedly well in in in this IR they specifically talk about the hemp and medical marijuana because that was my concern as well that if the ledge should um at any point decide yeah then we would um be behind the ball and getting to decide where we want them and what they look like and my guess is that all as well that those smoke shops kind of turn in to to those as well so if we could get out in front I would appreciate that thanks Monda mayor that concludes my report look at that y'all uh any questions on boards commission zoning cases M andc log before we roll into presentations okay first up is Chief noes with a presentation on fireworks safety and he's also going to be joined by Chief Jim Davis look at all these quitters leaving the sorry you get me they're all leaving I'm calling you out you're running away and Charlie you can't leave all right you get me today sorry about that so Fourth of July for most people it's a really fun time um for your in U mailboxes on July 5th not so much uh you guys get a lot of complaints you get a lot of uh concerns from your constituents and rightfully so so um kind of go over our little preparedness for this year what we're doing what we're doing a little bit differently uh and some of the things that we've changed that you probably haven't even noticed so what is the law fireworks are illegal plain and simple unless it's a permitted show by the city of Fort Worth you cannot possess hold manufacture uh deliver sell uh fireworks in and of themselves if you do it's a $2,000 fine so again fireworks are illegal I don't think I can say that enough so our enforcement strategies you know they they're dependent on a lot of different uh things that happen a lot of different factors so it's the number of calls we received to the 911 system number of available officers we use surveillance cameras a lot that are in the areas that maybe we have these problem locations that we can actually look at it before we send an officer there to determine if there's an issue or not um that helps us out tremendously gives us a situational awareness of that uh ongoing event uh we use intelligence monitoring with social media because believe it or not uh people put on social media everything they're doing and a lot of pictures and videos of what's what's occurring at the time you'd be surprised probably not surprised uh in the past we have surveillance video of U-Haul trucks being pulled up with loads of fireworks being unloaded um that does happen quite frequently uh believe it or not so you know all of our calls are pro pro um prioritized through our communication Center you know of course uh preservation of life is number one for us uh and making sure people are safe so sometimes the fireworks calls are just a little bit lower on that priority list and take a little bit of time to get there so reporting illegal fireworks um you know we want you to utilize the hotline the fireworks hotline that's very very very important um the Fourth of July is a very resource intensive event for us because of all the special events that are going on around town and because of all the officers that are working during the Fourth of July holiday I do want to note that you can text the 911 for emergency situations however please do not text the 911 to report fireworks um because the emergency situations will override the fireworks all day long and I don't want to tie up a call taker on texting thread because of a fireworks call I will encourage people use my Fort Worth app that does have a fireworks call annotated on it uh use the 392 4444 number please please please those are uh the calls that we kind of sift through and we get out to the field so fire department uh historically uh and chief Davis and his team has been phenomenal uh we sat down it was uh for New Years and we kind of re-evaluated what was fire department's role in fireworks uh we know every once in a while the arson investigators would go out on 4th of July and New Year's Eve and they would do some enforcement activities for fireworks and we didn't understand why that ever occurred um it puts them in a very precarious situation because it's not something they do on a very regular bases and so uh we made the decision to say no police will do the enforcement for the fireworks however the fire department still is an instrumental partner for us because they're the ones that are going to be standing up the jooc they help us with the hotline they're going to be whenever we confiscate the fireworks we're going to deliver them to the fire department so they can be disposed of properly um for me it's you know they help with the social media messaging and I believe a lot of the members of council around here around the table have uh delivered a message that we're going to be able to use on the social media platforms um and so you know just because fire is not part of the enforcement effort doesn't mean that they're not a crucial piece uh to this so lastly uh Community engagement and Outreach uh we do a lot of social media posts a lot of Flyers uh a lot of communication I I see in the audience we got Cindy Bolan Torchy white U they are great advocates for us on the east side uh and have worked with us really closely um with some of the issues that are going on on the east side another community that we've worked with uh pretty extensively over the past year has been KO um you know we've been working with their neighborhood association committee and the Legacy uh gentlemen the to help have a very successful program this year um but it's not just those two communities we reach out to all the communities our npos have a pretty good pulse on where the problem problem areas are in the city and so with that you know um our npos are going to be out working we're going to have officers available in every division working in an overtime capacity to help address the fireworks cause so in last we're going to be communicating all of our uh messaging through social media the news channel panels uh any kind of outlet that we can to get the message out to everybody that we're going to be out and that fireworks are dangerous so with that unless Chief Davis has something to add um I will take any questions thank you Chief and I know this is really focused on illegal fireworks but I know we have several permitted Fireworks shows that'll be going on across the city is there anything we can do to get the word out that those are permitted they're going to happen do we have a schedule of any of those the city put out is that or since they public shows we can't do that I would have to defer to Renee and his group because uh I think they would probably have a list of those permitted shows okay um but yes I have no problem sharing what the permitted shows are we could definitely share that on social media okay I think that would be helpful fire has a list okay okay I do think that would be helpful for those of us that get those calls regularly yes other questions Council thank you gentlemen our next presentation is a briefing on police technology also with Chief Aldridge not really just a little one okay so uh this is going to be kind of a very brief overview of our police technology it's kind of like a 100,000 foot view it's not going to get down into the weeds too much but I just kind of want to highlight some of the things that we do through our department uh Fort Worth safe initiative uh you guys have heard this probably over the last several years this actually was created uh back in 2021 uh May of 2021 we started looking at a different way of addressing violent crime in our city and addressing crime in our city prior to that if you guys remember the way that we used to address violent crime was saturation details we used to put a large number of officers in these communities and pretty much stopped almost anything that moved wrote tickets and there were some innocent citizens that were getting kind of hemmed up on some very minor violations and it was impacting the community police relations and we looked internally and said hey there's something we can do better and so we want to focus on the most violent offenders that's really kind of our biggest uh goal in this it's a laser focused approach um that we can actually go after these offenders follow them and arrest them uh we want to uh pair with the community outreach we have our mpos like if we serve a search warrant in a certain neighborhood we want MP is to go out there after the fact talk with the the community members and advise them kind of what's going on why we're out there and see if there's any other programs that we can help with them to try and solve some of these issues that are going on because not every issue in these troubled areas have to do with police they may deal with code compliance they may deal with another city Department that we would like to make those connections to and our hope goal in this is that we're not dealing this secretly this is public we want people to know that this is our initiative this is what we're doing to try and keep Fort Worth safe so prior to 2021 a lot of the teams kind of operated independently whenever they were addressing violent crime now they talk to one another um but with this new program we kind of marry teams together like narcotics and our Dru teams uh they go out together they partner together and they address the problems together each week we have a crime meeting so all these units can kind of get into the same room they can get a game plan going for the next week and they can look back and see what successes they've had over the previous week and so this is a constant Evolution as we go whenever we started the crime initiative basically in May of 21 it is morphed and gotten so much better since uh even just this year and so every year we try and make improvements to make it better we like to leverage technology the cameras are kind of a game changer for us in a bit um because it allows us to see areas and not have police officers in those areas all the time and so for us we like using those we like using license plate readers and of course our ballistic the Nan test results um education and drugs that's really a big deal uh for us is that we want to make sure that our young people are aware of what's going on uh we've done 20 around 250 school presentations and about 21 staff presentations and our narcotics units have been in the schools talking about the dangers of fentel which we know that is extremely a grave concern right now uh with our young population and so we're trying to get the school resource officers up spun up so they can give some of those classes and not have to depend on just the narcotics unit to do it so let's dig into kind of our technology piece the fusion Center the fusion Center itself was established in uh August of 2019 it's made up of three separate units Homeland Security our Intel exchange and the real-time crime Center kind of Encompass what our Fusion Center is um if you look at this map you can see that U you have North Texas uh Fusion Center which is in Colin County you have the Dallas Fusion Center uh which is in Dallas prior to our Fusion Center coming online there really wasn't anything from tarant County to the west and so we relied on a lot of the information from either the north Texas Fusion Center or the Dallas Fusion Center um and we saw that there was a big gap and so we felt it was very important for us to stand up a fusion Center so we can have that information sharing process for some of our Western and Southwestern counties so in in inex the intelligence exchange there's four full-time analysts their whole job is to do risk assessments and you know for our 84 annual events and as you guys know most of our annual events are huge they're not small small time small things that happen uh the stock show is one of our biggest ones that has over a million visitors that come to that so they are the lead on sharing information for all of our partners not only within our Fusion Center area which is the 10 Western counties but also with the north Tech Fusion Center and also the Dallas Fusion Center their top priorities of course is that information sharing they also do a lot of risk assessments for the protests that go along not only in our area but around the region in case it does come to our area so we can anticipate some of the issues that might come up so one of the biggest things that they're prepping for right now FIFA 2026 you know it's nine Super Bowls in 40 days and there are a lot of things that can happen within that time frame and we're going to be impacted you know quite a bit with the influx of people that are going to be here so they are working on coordinating with the other fusion centers that are hosting the same type of games so they can get a situational awareness of what's going on in those areas as well and see if they are the same that we're seeing in here locally Homeland Security if you if you can Envision Homeland Security our homeland security unit is like boots on the ground so they can do some Intel uh analysis behind the computer but those are the guys that basically do our dignitary protection they're the undercover cover guys that will go out there whenever we have an actual real threat they will go interview people arrest people um but those are the ones that we we want them to be out there um kind of in the shadows um for some of these dangerous things that are going on realtime crime Center most of you guys know what the real-time crime Center is um you know it's 18 swarm position One Professional staff 247 operations they basically monitor the flock surveillance cameras um their primary role is to help Patrol to help Patrol give a situational awareness picture of what's going on in the streets all the time so every once in a while calls will come in all the time um and they are able to kind of cherry-pick those calls if it sounds very important and they can do some data mining on those calls before officers get there and so there are times that they know information about some of the actors that are involved before the officers get on scene and that information can be relayed to them they are really really good at what they do and they can search these databases quicker than I can even think so um they they do a phenomenal job and they really do help our officers in the field so they deal with Motorola command aware that's a software program it helps the officer it helps them see where the calls for service are where the patrol vehicles are and where our cameras are all in one kind of platform so they don't have to click on multiple different platforms to see everything that's going on they also have uh flock OS which again is a situational platform um and it's will where all the LPR cameras are uh The Gunshot detection systems and if we have any launched drones out there it kind of maps them on a map as well and so they those two uh Platforms in and of itself kind of incorporate a lot of different of the Technologies into one place so surveillance cameras you guys have heard a lot about surveillance cameras over the years and in fact our surveillance camera program really got off the ground whenever we did the stop six neighborhood Improvement project that's whenever we were really getting into the cameras we were trying to understand you know what is the value of these cameras and fortunately for us the community members saw the value as well and so in each of the neighborhood improve Improvement programs you know we've been able to add cameras to that which has really kind of multiplied our efforts of getting cameras out into our city right now we have about 1150 they're called you know pan tilt Zoom cameras which means they're on a poll but we can move them around we can look at things uh the one good thing about uh these cameras is that we can build in the LPR technology into these cameras and so they can be multifaceted cameras we don't have to have stationary flock cameras just sitting there running plates um we do build these inhouse so the in-house cost is about half half of what it would if we bought them you know out on the open market um and the retention schedule for these is 5 days uh because the quantity of video uh in five days if we haven't seen something on the camera it overwrites itself and we continually start over the other cameras you guys have heard about about are flock cameras so flock cameras are basically License Plate Reader they take a picture of the plate and they run the plate through our system and you get hits and those hits are relayed to the patrol officers and so Patrol officers are able to respond a lot of the hits that we have right now uh the majority of the hits are for violent crimes that's it that's what we want to use these cameras for is to get violent criminals off the streets we don't use these for traffic warrants we don't use these for suspended licenses um we literally use these for felonies and above to get violent Predators off the street so currently we have about 250 flock cameras in the city of Fort Worth and for the private entities whether it's a neighborhood association or an apartment complex we have another 200 cameras that we have access to that we get the information from gunshot detection for us this is kind of new you guys have heard of other companies and other uh other groups that have gunshot detection technology this is through flock and what we're doing is kind of a trial basis with them and trying to see how this is going to work out there's going to be a five square mile area each one of these locations basically is one square mile and these cameras have microphones on them and whenever they hear gunshots or record gunshots um basically that's going to send the alert to the real-time crime Center and we can get officers kind of roll in that roll in that way um those incidents are retained for 200 incidents uh unless there's something of evident value uh and then we put them in evidence.com you may wonder how are these locations picked what did we just randomly pick them no we looked at a hot map a heat map across the city uh for all uh shootings and shots fired calls that have occurred and so as you can see these hotspot Maps correlate with those locations of where we're going to put these gunshot detection so a little bit of a transition from uh technology but one thing I wanted to address because councilman Flor has asked this previously was uh collision avoidance technology um you know our our current vehicle we have front collision avoidance warnings we have side uh Lane indicators uh we have backup camera warnings um only on the higher-end vehicles do you see the automatic emergency braking um and uh certain other Technologies uh with that request we were asked to look at mobile I 8 connect um we did look at them and really the Technologies we have in our cars right now are what they offer so um there's nothing more that they could offer that we don't already have but that doesn't mean we're not open to looking at other Technologies down the line to see if we can make it safer for our Patrol officers driving down the street so with that we're always going to look for technology to help us out that's our goal and we want to make sure that it fits within our mission and that we are we use that technology within federal and state laws um we want to make sure it's safe for our officers out on the street and we want to be able to pass this information uh instantaneous ly to the officers um so they can have a situational awareness whenever they show up on scene they have a better picture of what is going on I know that's a lot of information and that's only a tip of the expert but I'll open it up with questions if you have any Council questions for chief Aldridge yes coun Martinez Chief uh are The Gunshot detection um equipment going to be able to differentiate between gunshots and fireworks so so that from what we were told yes they are but until get them out there and we actually start testing them we're not going to know okay so they'll be up for 4th of July and we we're putting we're in the process of putting them up now I don't know what the time frame is to get them all put up but I know that we are in the process of getting them installed how sensitive are those um detectors The Gunshot detectors like are they only looking like are they only programmed to hear loud noises or would they pick up a conversation as someone walked across the street so from my understanding the only programm to pick up gunshots okay and so we can't say like hey detector and it hears us I'm being funny but I mean it's not it's not that it's not that wouldn't be that sensitive no it's not the eaves drop on the population walking by great thank you Chief all right thank you Council our next presentation is take-home vehicle policy update I think Marilyn Marvin is going to kick things off or is it nope Jess go ahead oh goodness all right perfect thank you Jessica mcachran assistant city manager I'm going to present on this and then if you have any specific questions we've also got um our both police chief and fire chief available to answer any questions about their specific policy I should be able to answer any specific questions about our general policy if I need to call up reinforcement I can do that so to give you a reminder of where we started last year we were asked um a question about our take-home vehicles and so that launched about a six-month project to look into both what is our policy are we in compliance with our policy what vehicles are being taken home and where are they going right now and as you will recall we came back to you and presented the findings in December um unfortunately it was not good news and I'll just give you a reminder in just a second of that um as we go into that but the good news is we here today to tell you that we have a lot of policy updates that we're making we've made some really good progress on that um and then we'll review our next steps with you as well so this was the kind of wrap-up slide that was in our presentation to you in December just showing you that we found we had a lot of issues both with the form that we were using to have employees report what vehicles were being taken home for offsite parking um we had reporting requirements that we found we were not doing both internal quarterly reporting requirements also annual reporting requirements as part of the budget process we found that we just really didn't have a lot of processes set up to achieve what was in the policy and so we had a lot of work to do I will tell you that as we started reviewing our policy we also compared to a lot of our Benchmark cities to see what was in their policies unfortunately we found that there's really no standard when it comes to what cities allow um vehicles to go home what is the range that they allow to go offside parking that kind of thing but we have come up with what we think is a good recommendation to you and we've worked with all of our internal department so that they have provided feedback along the way on what we are bringing forward to you today this was the initial map that we showed you back in December um what we found unfortunately is about 58% of our vehicles that are going to offsite parking locations were going outside of the city limits and we agree that really wasn't probably the right intent of the policy when we set it up so that was a big thing for us to take a look at at the time that we did our look last year we had three main departments that were still utilizing take-home Vehicles the first was Property Management second was police and third was fire so taking a look at the administrative regulation E6 which is regards to regarding the use of City Vehicles this is the policy that applies to all General employees and then it has a reference back to to police and fire specific policies that are within theirs governing their vehicle usage as well um we realized first and foremost we needed to update all three policies to match to make our definitions match we had a lot of discrepancies between the definitions in the policies or we just had a lot of things that were not defined initially so that was one of the first things we did um we also clarified what the driver's license checks are that are required and that's one of our our practices that we're setting up is how do we do those annual driver's license checks who's required to do that what is the process and how do we ensure that they're checking it each year we also had a requirement in the policy to take defensive driving every year I'm sorry every three years but again we didn't have the process by which we could tell employees here's how you can go take that Defensive Driving here's where you report it back we didn't have a good process for Department directors to check and see are their employees doing that so we've made good progress there we had reporting requirements in the policy again no good practice so we're proposing some updates to that to really clean up what reporting is required um we're recommending that we go to an annual reporting internally for the Departments now they can always go more if they want but at a minimum we want departments to be reporting their after hours usage annually to their Department directors we had a vehicle use form that just had a lot um of holes if you will so on the vehicle use form anybody could submit the form so I could go submit it on behalf of a cooworker instead of me submitting it the address form didn't have a template that that would kick it back if you didn't put in a real address so we had some just things that you couldn't even really tell what was the address where they were going so our um Fleet division staff Eliana guara Brad Hunter and Marilyn Marvin they've really worked with it over this to um fix the form all the deficiencies that we found with the form and they've set up a lot of checkpoints in the form if you will too to where you cannot submit it if it is not correctly completed and all of the answers are correct meaning your driver's license you have a valid driver's license you've done your Defensive Driving um uh you have no accidents or within that that time frame kind of a thing it will kick it back also we did set up um if somebody is a new hire maybe they're coming from out of state they've got 90 days to get a Texas driver's license if they don't get that Texas driver's license Within 0 days and update their form it will then notify back to the department director that we're missing something and so it's a good reminder for the Department director to be able to manage all of theirs and I'll keep let me make one note too the vehicle use form is not just for those City vehicles that are going to offsite parking this is a form that actually covers many things it covers any employee that drives a city vehicle in the course of business so that could be just your day-to-day driving it covers if an employee takes a vehicle home to their residence for parking if it's in compliance with a policy it covers if a vehicle is parking their if a I'm sorry if an employee is parking a vehicle offsite perhaps at a different city facility than their assigned work location or it also covers if an employee is driving their personal vehicle for the active business as well so honestly a lot of employees within the city of for worth will use this form which is why it really was so important to make it better um again we also um identified a process to implement the annual justification that was required to the forth lab previously called the budget office it was written in the policy that you had to do it but we really didn't have a mechanism or a way to tell you how to do that and so that's being implemented right now and then two notable changes to the general employees again those that are going to be governed by A6 is that number one we actually reduced the eligibility criteria for who can take home a vehicle or or I should say park it offsite um previously it had about four different reasons that it could you could authorize an employee to take home a vehicle and they were pretty broad we've really come back to say only those employees that are actually on call or are required to respond to an emergency situation really need to be taking home a vehicle um and so again I'll remind you property management was really the last Department amongst General employees that had some take-home Vehicles so it's a minimal impact to the organization um those employees that are on call though on a rotational basis you will often see their vehicles go home with them and again that's because we want them to be able to respond when the Call Comes in pretty quickly versus going to their assigned work site and then out to wherever the need is and then last we are limiting uh off-site parking vehicles or take-home vehicles for General employees to in city limits only so back to that map I think we had about 10 or so General vehicles that were going outside the city limits those will come off as well we will not do those anymore and then just to remind you um for those employees that maybe live outside of the city limits that will no longer be eligible to take home a vehicle to park at their residents one alternative to still leaving it at their assigned work location is they can park it at another approved off-site location we have a lot of employees that will park them at another city facility perhaps that's closer to the city limit boundry but on their way home to work um we've seen some that have approval to park them at churches I've seen schools County locations things like that so that is also an option to an employee where it gets it closer to their residents so they can hop in their vehicle as soon as they get inside the city limits and respond directly to wherever the need is this is just another look comparing side by side what our current policy had to what our proposed policy again some of these I've already mentioned one of them that I'll note in there is that definition of a temporary use being defined as up to two weeks that's traditionally where you're on call and employees will fall but another example of where we may intentionally tell people we want you to take your vehicles home if we know that we have bad weather coming say for example a winter storm coming we may want a lot of our employees to take home their four-wheel drive vehicles again so that when those calls start to come in they can respond quickly to whatever the need may be I mentioned this one already but new employees with an outof state driver's license you've got 90 days now to get your driver's license here in Texas that was previously um undefined and so we clarified that and again through the form we've set up the actual reminder so if it's not completed in time it's not going to fall through the cracks and and become one of those that we're just not aware of the in the defensive driving that's required every three years um our HR department in Risk they've been working on setting up an in-house City sponsor Defensive Driving program they're actually starting the testing of it uh I think within the next week or two and so that will roll out by early fall so all employees will able to take this course they're not having to go somewhere else to go find it and then another notable change is that all final approvals for anybody with an off-site parking vehicle especially take-home the new approval is the department director so again all directors will have a knowledge of what vehicles are within their departments that are approved for off-site parking and they will be required to um review this information annually again they'll have to justify it to the Fort Worth lab through the budget process and then also all employees will have to do the form annually regardless so previously you know once I was hired I did my form I never got another notice so as long as I didn't move or something didn't change my form just stayed active and what we found when we reviewed all of our data is you had a lot of forms out there that really no longer had the vehicle or maybe they moved their assigned work location so by this annual requirement to redo it every year we will catch a lot of those things as well all right for police they updated their guiding principles with how they evaluate and look at take-home vehicles that are assigned first and foremost it's assigned it's authorized for sworn personnel based on the nature of their work and any Duty obligations in an emergency situation uh their current policy also references high frequency of after hours vehicle usage or work usage I'm sorry non-sworn police employees previously fell under their policy but again they will fall under the administrative regulation EAS six so that means non-sworn police employees again General employees they will no longer be able to take take-home Vehicles outside of the city limits and they'll only be allowed to have those take-home Vehicles if they have the nature of their frequent call backs or they have an emergency response requirement this was already in their policy but again it's a really important um guiding principle and this is both in police and fire but vehicles are only to be used in the performance of their official business they are not to be used um to give rides to family members or or other things like that ultimate approval for take-home Vehicles this is reserved for the chief of police or the executive assistant chief and it will be be reviewed annually both with the updated form also their checks that they're doing throughout the year um the policy is also being updated to include Mission critical positions that will be identified by list by division and the nature of response going along with the justification to take home Vehicles based on the need to respond to emergency situations police and fire are both proposing to allow take-home vehicles to go up to a radius of 20 miles outside of the city limits and that coincides with about a 30 minute drive response time Based on data from the north Texas Central of governments and the traffic Network in the area and both police and fire in the proposed policies are um asking for a waiver process based on um need but that is approved by the city manager so anything beyond that 20 miles will have to go to Mr cook and then again each officer that is being called back will be required to document every emergency call out or after our weekend Community event meetings we initially talked about setting up a separate reporting um portal or maybe form if you will that these could be tracked but what we realized is we can really do this through payroll where they're already reporting their time so we had a Time code through our payroll system for emergency call back pay what we didn't have is a SE separate payroll code for those that are coming to a lot of after hour functions Community functions perhaps on the weekend so we'll work with it to set up a separate payroll code um I think it makes a lot of sense for employees to have one place to report what they're doing and most people don't forget to report their payroll time their their work time so they can get paid so this will allow us the opportunity to pull a report as frequently as we want again at a minimum annually but the Chiefs can do that on a monthly basis or however often they want side by side look at some of the notable changes within the proposed police policy I've mentioned some of these um but the justification or or who gets assigned a vehicle will change from a tiered system to no tiered system but again based on position need for emergency call back Mission critical position the like the 20 mile radius limit that I've mentioned there annual approval required an auditing function for after hours usage again that's through the payroll system and then the definitions to match our uh Personnel regulations and our AR6 for the fire department updated updated guiding principles very similar to what we just covered so I won't walk through every single one of them um but just a as an example of who in the fire department might have a take-home vehicle for emergency response you could have perhaps the bomb squad arson people those with the Kine where their vehicle is equipped and they keep their their Kines at home obviously they need to way to get the K9 back and forth same thing with the 20 mile radius from the city limits based on it's a an approximate 30 minute response time and again all of you all employees do the vehicle use agreement annually as opposed to before final look at side by side very similar to what we've already covered for both um police as well all right taking a look at an updated map now you'll notice that property management Vehicles which were previously noted in Orange theyve been removed from this map they will not have eligibility to take them outside the city limits so those are coming off already uh police and fire residing outside that 20-minute buffer and that 20 I'm sorry 20 miles that 20 miles is shown as this purple boundary on there so those within that um outside of that 20 mile boundary they will no longer be eligible for a take home vehicle again they can park them at one of those alternative locations that I mentioned just a few minutes ago and then I would mention that the police Chiefs are working right now to continue looking over their final list to determine what other positions May currently have a vehicle but won't qualify under the proposed policy and which ones of those need to come off and so these numbers are still going to be changing over the next probably month or two as they work through that final list but this is what you saw in December just updated what I've removed here is that last line that was beyond the 20 mile boundary so these are all the remaining um you'll see the total outside the city limits for fire is five for police is currently 354 compared to our total as for our next steps oops we're going to complete our final review um and testing of the form update I really am extremely impressed with all the thought that they put into that form again that was our Fleet division our it division working together to identify what were all the deficiencies previously that we identified and how do we close those deficiencies so we can't let this fall through the cracks again we anticipate approving all of these policies with all final edits on September 1st they'll be effective um then and then by October 1st we will start rolling out the the actual implementation of all of the updates with our employees we're suggesting a phased in approach just because that is a lot of employees again it's not just those with take-home vehicles but nearly the entire organization if you drive a vehicle of any kind um and so we'll have to phase out how many are doing that form working through the Kinks that we have hopefully we don't have any as we're in test right now we'll also provide the training on the reporting requirements we'll also show the department directors how to pull their own reports so they can track after hours responses um and the usage of those vehicles and then we will also roll out the defensive driving requirement um as we reported to you in December we have a lot of employees that were not caught up on defensive driving so again this will also be a big push to get everybody through um the new system that will be inh house and get that done okay with that I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have or likewise we've got our Chiefs that can come up as well thank you Jess questions from Council Council lorf question I just want to clarify a couple of the numbers on slide 11 it says beyond the 20 mile buffer it says 25 Vehicles then on the next one it says uh within the 20 mile buffer 25 and outside city limit is 354 yeah so so if you you add them each one up so the first or the second line in that table within five miles the bulk of our vehicles that are going outside the city limits are really within five miles of the city limits So within that 10 Mile buffer which really I should clarifies is between six and 10 miles then is going to be 63 within that 11 to 15 buffer is 25 so if you add all of those outside the city limits up then that's how you get to that total outside the city limits number at the bottom gotcha okay yes awesome sorry thank you I should have clarified you're welome I guess my next question is would be for uh Chief NOS or alge whoever's agent know uh Neil L chief of police for orthopedia yes sir thanks Chief uh the reason I I want to present these questions to you just because obviously the Lion Share is here police I think PMD and fire was thrown in there just to kind of make it look like it wasn't targeting police in this case I guess my first question is did you know that the price of milk in Afghanistan is $2.70 no sir you're probably wondering why I'm asking that why it matters I'm asking the same thing about this entire policy like why we're even talking about it um I feel like we entrust you uh with our most valuable asset or resource and that's our residence I think we can trust that you're you know the the policy you have is a good one so has this policy or has it currently ever affected the budget that you've been approved for every year has has it ever created an issue it no do not created an issue or caused us to go over budget okay um so uh have you ever personally felt like the policy was being taken advantage of by any of your officers absolutely not any officer who has a take on vehicle has been approved uh to take that vehicle home okay um and then as far as you know it seems like we always turn around we say uh know this council is supportive of our our police and it's supportive however do you think that this is making it more restrictive do you think that's sending the wrong message I believe it's sending the wrong message to our police officers saying hey we trust you and we appreciate what you do call call the service you know run to a sound of chaos but this one small I don't want to call it benefit but perk whatever you want to call it we're going to go ahead and take that away um I mean I'm not going to ask you that that I'm not going to put you in that spot I feel like it's sending the wrong message do you think that with the take home policy as it as it is or I guess as it was um do you felt that it helped with retention because we all know retention is a huge issue right now so it's recruitment do you think that's ever really served as like hey this is a it's a nice to have it's helped with retention at all it's definitely possible as you know there's a recruiting and retention crisis across the country we're doing well in Fort Worth compared to other cities we've see a lot of agencies who are finding new and creative ways to either Rec recruit or retain so I could see how some officers might look at this as a reason to stay with the Department because they feel like they're being taken care of go okay thanks that's all have for now thank you thank you questions from Council yeah Chris uh Jess if you will come back up um I think when we councilman talked about the budget and so I think it may be uh been official I know uh councilwoman Beck has some things um the gas that is put in the take-home Vehicles is paid for by the city of for worth correct okay and so once if the change of this policy allowing those Vehicles not to go outside of 20 miles will eventually save the city of forward dollars in gas mileage I certainly I mean the the more your vehicles Drive the more gas you have the less Vehicles you drive the less gas you pay sure and if you would go uh to slide number four okay this is the Outlook this is the first slide you showed us back in December back in December okay and this if you can just kind of explain this map I think the black you can barely see it is actually the city of exactly so the black and the gray shaded area that is inside the city of Fort Worth that's your your corporate city limits as it stands today the green line um was to show what that first five mile buffer is this aligns with the table the next line is your 10 Mile buffer your 15 and then your 20 okay and I think we kind of discussed this the last time and I think we couldn't really remember but those dots that's up there can you give us a a an estimate of where that is that oh goodness I did look last time and I can't remember but um I think so this one in the top Corner well no I was gonna say Louisville so that's not what's the lake north of that see I'm terrible at my Geography okay there we go um no sir I'll be honest I really don't remember I can remember that one I think they said R har Past walk aah hatchee um I don't I don't remember where that one that one is that inis maybe I don't AO maybe something like that so um in the policy that we're proposing uh I think it's going to be on your last map that you have you pull that one up correct right so looking at what's inside the purple boundary so these are still shown on there but they would be coming off under this proposed policy okay I'll you for a moment again unless an exception is made by the city manager they would be coming off sure thank you questions from Council Council uh I have some questions uh the first thing that I want to address is um the question that councilman Lor asked is this has ever um impacted your budget and your response was no correct well the response was if if I understood the question correctly was causing us to go over budget obviously is it a cost on the budget yes yeah correct so you answered that it has not caused you to go over budget the the take- home policy itself correct correct okay so um David C was it last budget cycle that we were two that we had an adjustment to PD's budget because they were $2 million approximately $2 million over in fuel was that last year or the year before I'd have to check I don't remember but it was in the last two years for sure two years Fernando Give Me A twoe Sign so we have been over budget on fuel by $2 million which was attributed to the increase in gas prices rightone ofic so is is it your statement that driving to Hillsboro walks a hatchee um almost to posm Kingdom Lake wouldn't have contributed to that um overage in your gas well obviously the further someone drives the more gas they will use correct do you know what the average um MPG on a Tahoe is no I don't know specifically what it is it's 15 miles City and 20 mil highway so gas since we know how much milk costs in Afghanistan gas in the United States costs about $3.50 a gallon so if we're driving a Tahoe and we're going to assume that it's getting the best gas mileage possible if it's 20 m a gallon then that means to get us from the city limits to that Residence at 20 miles outside of the city limits that's $33.50 that's $7 a day that's $1,800 a year just in gas not to do the job not to even drive all the way into work but from the city limits to that to that officer's home and $18 or $1,800 adds up quite quite fast um and so I'd like to I I think that it's an incorrect statement to say that this has never caused any budgetary issues um while you might not be able to parse out the percentage of that $2 million that went over I think that it's fair to say that driving 10 to 15 20 even multiple hours outside of the city limits is going to cause us to increase the amount of gas that we use um the second question I have and this is for Jess so we're getting rid of any um across the city any Department there won't be because previously PD had I think a monthly reporting requirement and fire was quarterly correct now within their policy they may still have a different reporting requirement I can't remember what you proposed if the change the cities General AR E6 originally had a um I think it was a I think it was quarterly quarterly reporting requirement and what we're proposing is to go to an annual but again any department head can do it as frequently as they want if they want something more at a minimum this is what we're proposing to require and so what are PD and fire proposing under this any policy changes are you are you keeping it at the monthly or is that changing one thing we'd like to do and I appreciate AC McAn bringing up the uh change to the time code if if we can make this something that's more efficient something that's easier for people to report and something we can more readily pull up then we could do it as frequently as we need to uh the policy and the draft that it's in is just that it's a draft one of the reasons we're here today is to get input from members of the council and that's some information I'd like to hear from Council how frequently you'd like to see those reports you're asking if we'd like to see the reports no how frequent do you suggest oh I mean I think that you know the operations of your of your department and I think what you need to manage it would be appropriate I mean if it's a month if it's a quarter I I think annually quite frankly for city employees now granted we're doing things very differently with city employees now so they might not be driving as often and that's that was kind of where we were going with it is we don't have near as much to track so it didn't make sense to have as frequently of a reporting requirement I I think that would be a great question for your for our Fort Worth lab to answer because for me quarterly seems right the gut response to me is quarterly seems like an act you know a a good interval because if someone's not doing it right that gives you the red flag to know hey you don't have a Year's worth of stuff you have to go back and fix you've got maybe a couple of months worth of things you have to go back and fix um and I'm sure it would help audit and anyone else that's looking to dig in um okay and so then my next question is what are mission critical positions so you haven't brought a definition to us today so tell me what that means do you want it I'm sorry I have your list printed do you want it well no that's fine um so Mission critical positions those the things as uh Jess explained earlier ACM mccr they were going through to determine exactly or Mission critical so basically what we're talking about with Mission critical positions we have those positions where where we need an immediate response we want to make sure officers can respond as efficiently as possible to emergency calls I'll tell you another category that we want to look at as well something that also is critical to our mission is our community facing components and any I think everyone around the table here has worked extensively with npos now many of them are part of our mobile Field Force team which is the team we need to respond quickly which will make them fall into critical Mission anyway but the number of hours they spend after hours at meetings at forums at different events and on weekends I believe they fall into a mission critical area as well okay and so I guess in the previous policy you had the three buckets and it was the emergency response um highly visible or after hours and then increasing safety within the city or visibility within the safety so are those three buckets going to go away and be replaced by this the mission critical umbrella yes we're looking into more the mission critical rather than having the tear that we had before I understand your question let me back up so um in the policy as y'all have it now um the qualifiers to to receive a take-home vehicle were one of those three things and so my question is instead of having those three separate definitions where if someone if you're looking at a position and you go is it a b or c now it'll just be whether or not it falls under that mission critical uh definition thank you that clarification I thought you meant the different tiers that we had before but you're talking about something else those three things are what we're using to determine what's going to be Mission critical so actually they're working uh together to determine that list and the list is not complete now but we'll be able to bring a complete list to you when we finalize the policy okay um couple areas of heartburn that I've got here that I want to discuss um when we initially saw this map six months ago in December those dots caused a lot of pearl clutching they caused Pearl clutching amongst acms amongst council members and amongst the community I can tell you I had numerous people reach out to me and um specific to that to to what we saw and thanked me for asking that question because when you look at this map there are some pretty egregious dots up here and what it seems like to me is instead of coming with a a a solution that reduces those number of dots or makes it more reasonable for the residents were proposing something that just codifies where we should be doing better and so 20 miles to me seems pretty far 20 miles is on the other side of Weatherford it's on the other side of Denton it's on the other side of Cleburn and if I'm thinking about if I can get there fast right because you said immediate response to calls I as a as a resident have concerns about the operational ability for folks to get there quickly so can you address how that how this how folks living that far out and I'm not trying to tell officers to move but how does does this not impact operationally how expeditiously you're able to answer some specific calls well obviously the further someone lives out the longer it would take to respond that's true what we tried to look at is basically we're trying to balance the need for us to provide efficient professional Police Service with our requirement to be good stewards of the tax funds that our residents entrust us with sure do you think the 20 miles is a good Steward absolutely uh within a 20 mile buffer you're talking about about a 30 minute uh commute I could have someone that lived in South Fort Worth that could make it to North Fort Worth if they needed to in 30 minutes possibly because the city has grown so much so yes I do believe the 20m buffer is uh us being good stewards do you know how long it takes to get from granberry to Bob Olan I haven't timed that it's 45 minutes and gr lake granberry is within that 20 20 mile buffer I may just add here I think we go around the table I think 20 mil is very reasonable I don't know how the council feels around the table I fully respect council member Beck's position at the end of the day this is a city management policy we won't vote on this so I think what they really need is feedback Council rebec has provided her feedback very clearly and she's done a lot of research on that but I think at the end of the day if someone lives within the 20 mile buffer and they're a homicide detective and they off D they get called in and they can get there in 30 minutes it's reasonable they should be able to take home the vehicle you may disagree on that but I think this body can provide that feedback and we can move on sure um I've got some more feedback to provide I'm sure you do all right so so we're all on the on the 20 20 miles I've made it very clear that I think that is not a good Steward of what would you propose miles 10 miles I for what reason I think 10 miles one if you look if you go back to the map of can you do the rings but that's without any knowledge about who the vehicles belong to what roles they play their criticality of the position it's just mil if their position is so critical that we should evaluate it on this map as to where they live inside 10 miles or outside or within 20 miles then it's probably a position that we need here pretty quickly and they we when we're looking at it do we want them living farther than 20 miles out so you do want officers to move no but I think that one we have a city code that says they have to respond to an emergency within 30 minutes so they have to let's go around the table who agrees that it should be less than 20 mil if we could just if I can let me finish let's just do this who agrees that it should be less than 20 miles I do and I want to add one more thing um and we're talking about 20 miles to the city limits not necessarily 20 miles to where they're going sure and so it it will be different so just say for and I think you made a good point is we don't know what those dots are and I think we should and so say from that do is that and they need to come to Southwest for work we're not talking about 20 miles we're probably talking about 40 and 50 miles so I think that's something that I'm looking at I'm not just looking at the city of for worth I'm looking at the city limits so before they get into for work is 20 miles where they going once they get into for work by bowling is on the south South for work so if they're going into work or if they're going to my district that's an additional so that's why I think that's that's my and I couldn't agree more I think I would feel differently about this discussion if we ultimately are going to have to vote on this policy this body will not vote on this this is a city management policy and I know each of us spent a lot of time with council member with Excuse me with David with Jess with Chiefs to make sure they understand where Elizabeth stands where Chris stands and I think this feedback is very helpful I just don't want to belabor the conversation if ultimately we don't have a vote on this elizabe sure I'm not well I don't think it's belaboring I do there are some points that I have to make on this policy and I don't don't think that it's been done it's been handled the right way we're a year out so I asked for this data in June of last year so 12 months later we got a six-month update and I appreciate all of the work that staff did on that six-month update because what we learned is that we were really doing a lot of things wrong what is insulting to me as a council person is that six months later we've come back and we don't have a final recommendation from PD what we're hearing is well we we've got a buffer set up but we still need to go back and look at the positions and I have um some real heartburn about that because I don't know that it has been as Co PD specifically has been as cooperative and unfortunately you're really the only Department that we're dealing with this Fire's got one outside of that 20 mile radius and I think the same policy should apply to them as applies to PD but now we're coming back six months later when we knew that this was coming to the table and it's well now we have to go back and look at positions nine civilians a retired officer had a take-home vehicle Fort Worth PD someone at the auto pound had a take-home vehicle Fort Worth PD Bud an had to take-home vehicle PD so what I think is happening is that instead of looking about how we can actually be good stewards of our tax dollars and really make some comprehensive changes to the policy we've come back and you've given us a policy that just codifies what we were doing and the last thing that I want to say on this because I think it is very important and I'm so glad that you brought that up Charlie is that um you know the idea of um it being a perk and and and chief talking about um you know how we use that in our Recruitment and our retention and I'm pretty sure that perks are not allowed in this city and I'd like legal's opinion on as to whether or not perks are um Gifts of public funds because we have 8,000 we have 8,000 city employees and so for them to for anyone to say well we don't want to give these cars away because it's a morale issue because it doesn't make them feel supported how many General employees are sitting in this in this right now in this room or watching on TV what does it do to their morale how put their life on the line every single day Elizabeth come on since I have been here sir we have lost two employees in the line of duty for the city of Fort Worth one of them was a tpw employee and the other one was a a no doubt are they asked every single day to put a badge on and go go go to a domestic assault case or or or pull somebody over is it your that they should get a perk because they chose this no I think it's my position that this should be as low on the priority list as a fireworks call like this is ridiculously we're even talking about this like we we're talking about 25 Vehicles okay chief my question would be how what are you going to spend that $45,000 extra that you're going to get per year that's a huge winfall right $45,000 I'm sorry Mr lowor but wasn't it you that sat at this table and said that when it came time for the budget that we were going to have to go line by line and see where we can cut and if we absolutely should be the last place I'm going to cut it as as long as we're going to spend money on as a resident I can see many other areas where you go back to your residence and justify driving to Pilot Point then you're more than welcome to do that anybody who's want to put their life the line for for our residents hell yes I can guarantee you our will do that good luck with that that is not a good Steward of our tax dollars $5,000 yeah that's no did you have something you wanted to say I'm sorry one thing if I I may respond I did not say that we use take home Vehicles as Recruitment and Retention tools we don't have any posters that say join for PD and get a take on vehicle what I said some officers may see that as something that is gives them reason to stay but if someone's staying just with a vehicle we don't want them here for that correct is but it is something that adds to the the total show of support for the officers and if if I could ask one question you said we've lost two you said in the line of duty since I have been on Council we have lost a tpw employee and we have lost a um a public events we have lost someone in PD and we have lost two firefighters but the two employees that died on the job while conducting their in the years that I have been here have not been from thankfully we have not lost any police officers we have not lost any firefighters but we have lost two employees and my point is to say well these other employees don't we is disrespectful to them but that's not a complaint to Chief I have to address that address for your information we lost an officer in the line of duty since you've been here Sergeant John Jensen died of Co on duty injury I was in Washington DC with many other members of the four Police Department recently for police week to see his name etched on the wall we have lost one in your time as a council member for the city of Fort Worth watch your tone maybe you should write that down okay well watch your tone with me you'll be you'll be respectful because I know that's very important I think council member Beck you give respect you get respect absolutely one officer that was the officer that I was referring to Chief is there any other is there any other feedback that to CMO thisy Council Martinez I just have a question for chief um did you bring this before your advisory Council as this is something related to policy I'd be really curious to to and it's contentious right really would like to see what they would have to say about this is that something you would consider I would absolutely consider that that the topics we've been bringing to them so far are topics they've requested to hear about so we wanted to bring first the ones that they want to hear but that's actually a great great idea to have them take a look at this one as well thank you so my final question is when can we expect the updated list of people who have them would you pull the calendar back up please Jessica I'm sorry AC maer you're fine so to make sure I'm clear so we're in line with the CM approves September 1st we talking the 1st or the 9th for the policy to be approved by City manager's office uh September one is our go and so that's when we'll have the list of mission critical positions yes ma'am that will be part of the policy and to be clear I don't need to see who you consider Mission critical I think you can run your department sounds like coun Mor Beck would like a copy of that anybody else needs to provide it just let you know Chief yeah yeah any other questions thank you all thank Youk you we have one more presentation um let me pull back agenda thank you it is an overview of small area plan criteria selection Eric flater is here do it and then as a reminder to council don't move after this we've got to go back to Executives I know some of you have other meetings okay good afternoon again those people are transitioning in and out I'm just going to kick it off by introducing Eric um I know it's been a long day before I call on Eric I just wanted to remind the coun that the focus on area plans is part of the expansion of some of the planning division's efforts in the for worth lab um these plans are meant to provide some enhanced planning at a micro level and to help bridge the gap between the longer-term comprehensive plan and the more specific neighborhood um needs and so these area plans will also work in tandem with or alongside other critical efforts like Corridor planning open space planning uh similar efforts and so Eric presented this criteria last month at the neighborhood quality and revitalization committee um there were no changes requested to the criteria at that time actually the input we received from nqrc was how can we accelerate your two a year schedule on these area plans and so that was that was great feedback for us so we're looking into how to do that for the fiscal year 25 budget um but with those comments in Minds all mind I'll turn it over to Eric um Eric's one of our assistant directors in the forth lab over the planning division Christian before you leave I'm just curious who's doing all of your presentations now at of forth lab who's putting them together oh um a mix of of people yeah leaders they're doing a great job thank you thanks I'll pass that along yeah it's definitely a team effort thanks uh mayor and Council thank you for the opportunity to uh share with you uh what we're doing for um uh planning sector plans so first off uh planning sector plans uh we have not done as a city for a long time it was back in the 90s um and they are more focused plans you are well aware that we're underway with uh Community engagement for the 2050 comprehensive plan that is a plan for the entire city uh and as such is is a highlevel um sort of umbrella plan that includes a variety of other plans as well in it uh planning sector plans are going to be more focused so we're looking at specific planning sector boundaries and all the activity all the land uses all of the infrastructure Etc within those those areas so this gives us an opportunity to be more focused uh to get into more detail and then to uh use it as a way to help implement the broader policies that are embedded with the comprehensive plan so uh we have 16 planning sectors in the city of Fort Worth uh and they're listed here uh on the table to the left uh they're also depicted on the map and with labels on them the black outline is the is the boundaries of those areas so what you'll see right away is that the colored areas that are the council districts uh overlap in different ways with the planning sector U boundaries so the planning sectors uh use uh sort of uh you know logical boundaries so you know railroads and highways and water features and so forth um and it's a way of looking at the city in sort of a more compartmentalized way so we can focus our attention on it but you can see that that many of the planning sectors have multiple council districts uh that overlap that boundary uh the ones on the on the outside are bringing in the extra territorial jurisdiction as well we have jurisdiction to plan for that we cannot zone out there uh but uh that's nonetheless something we're planning for so have these largely stayed the same that the boundaries of planning sectors for a while they have indeed they've been uh the same for 20 years they and you know any adjustments that take place are because of City boundary adjustments associated with it so uh Christian mentioned uh a couple of different planning layers and that's what this chart is depicting the comprehensive plan as I said is sort of broad overarching it's a policy document that helps the city make decisions about growth and development also addresses a number of other things that the city does uh and as we go down that list uh functional plans are also Citywide similar to the comprensive plan but they're looking at a very specific function whether that's water or Wastewater or Master thoroughfare plan uh those are examples of that um and they're updated or created at different ranges in time so that's over on the right so area plans is that third row that's where that falls under we've got a number of other area plans that we've done besides planning sectors uh and and uh you know we've got Vision plans for Lake Arlington for instance or Lake Worth we've got the Norths side economic development strategy we've got other types of plans that are in that category uh and then implementation documents are where we get into the actual implementation of decision making that the city is responsible for so you're you're zoning your uh other kinds of um uh sort of uh specific implementation uh tools are what's located there so for the purpose of of looking at the planning sector plans and determining how we were going to go about doing that um we've had a number of discussions with City management and others uh and what we've determined is that a a very um logical way to approach it is to look at the areas inside Loop 820 and outside Loop 820 because they're very similar um in terms of their concerns in terms of their opportunities uh outside of loop a20 lots of fast growth lots of infrastructure need inside Lupa 20 uh the issues are a little bit different tend to be more focused on Equity or Redevelopment opportunities um so we've looked at it that way and we've actually uh targeted in terms of the criteria uh for inside loop a20 we're focused on Equity issues outside loop a20 we're focused on development because we're trying to get ahead of all that rapid growth that we're having out there so in terms of the criteria that we Ed to identify the planning sectors and determine which ones we were going to do first and how we were going to rank that order uh this is this is a summary basically of a of of a very large set of spreadsheets that went into great detail on a variety of different criteria uh the criteria are the ones that are identified in the middle middle they're I you know they're they're grouped by demographic changes or access or land use and development uh you'll notice that there are waiting numbers uh on the edges here um and you'll see that the criteria themselves are the same on both sides of this chart so um on the right it's looking at outside L2 that's a development Focus so we're trying to get ahead of that rapid development uh so we are putting a higher waiting on the criteria that relat specifically to that and and we're at the same time lowering some of those Equity criteria exactly the reverse for inside Loop 820 where we're heightening those Equity related uh issues uh and and looking less so at rapid development so all of that brings us to this so this is the schedule of uh of of the of essentially the the process of the the planning for the sector so we wanted to identify two planning sectors to start with and and start working on those right away the goal is then to cover all of the rest of the 16 planning sectors over time doing two per year um just based on uh you know the based on on budget based on staff resources and just the ability to to get through through the planning effort uh this seemed the most logical way for us to proceed so on based on the criteria that we uh showed you and sort of the ranking of that and the waiting the first two that we would start on uh pretty much uh right away uh are Southeast and far Southwest so again Southeast is that inside Loop 820 sector far Southwest is outside Loop 820 and we would follow that same process throughout until all of the planning sectors are covered uh and that's that's how uh we propose to do that uh the the D numbers are your districts so you can see where you have some coverage in those different planning sectors custom Beck um yeah for the Wedgewood names matter and people get finicky or you know sometimes their feelings hurt about what we call things and I'm looking at the area that you've designated as Wedgewood and it's D3 D6 d8 and D9 um and that's much larger than the proper Wedgewood area and I think it would be beneficial if just for seman Antics we broaden to that name of that particular um area just so when we're advertising for it or we're talking about it people um understand where they belong in that particular um sector so so just changing the name to bring in surrounding areas as well yeah yeah so you have it titled as Wedgewood um but the area that it covers is much larger than Wedgewood and so I think that it would be beneficial if for semantics we uh we broaden that so those folks that aren't in Wedgewood proper also understand that they're um they're part of this particular group well we can certainly look at that and see if there's a way to make it more inclusive for the areas that are actually inside that boundary thank you okay so this is the final results of all of the criteria the analysis that went into it the mapping the gis work and so forth so this is depicting uh in the map form the rounds uh so first round 2026 and then sort of every year we'd be rolling down that Legend list there um the dark color that you see 2026 again Southeast and far Southwest so the second round would be the darker purple color North Side uh far south and so on you can see sort of scheduling how that lays out in MA form and then on the left is just the uh council districts and then the rounds of planning effort where those uh districts would fall and again you'll fall within multiple planning sector plans so you you'll get a lot of opportunity to be active in this process uh our proposed schedule and this is really focused on the first round uh is just starting up in the fall uh setting the stage uh and then uh in the winter uh working on the Community Vision identifying community's priorities and so forth it will also entail Community engagement just as the comprehensive plan is entailing community engagement uh and for the first round we have the opportunity to sort of overlay those activities to some degree uh and then we'll be moving on to creating places and this gets it uh essentially implementing the future land use planning perspective of place types um on a on a you know a sector by sector basis so we get more opportunity to look at it in more detail and then we'll move on to implementation strategy and then public review so uh so we have a budget um and we're we're sort of revisiting that right now for the fir just the first round uh and this is our schedule so uh we're targeting uh really the end of June for your last uh eligible meeting for an MNC uh to authorize a contract with the uh essentially the Consultants that we're using right now for the comprensive plan um for that effort so that's what's immediately in front of you uh and then we'll just start the process of the planning and pre-planning for this afterwards i' be happy to take any questions or comments any questions from staff I mean from Council sorry Council bons we don't go ahead so so the consultant team that we have in place right now for the 2050 comprehens plan includes public information associates also known as Pia and Mig um is our planning and Urban Design Focus consultant Pia is really focused on community engagement that's their specialty um so that same group we would use for the plan first planning sector uh round and we would essentially because of the activity Mig would be doing a little bit more than Pia on that one as opposed to right now they're sort of half and half can you send me a bio brief on them just so I'll know who we're dealing with yes ma'am and thank you for all you've done thank you so much any other questions Council thank you that's the last of our presentations thank you Eric thank you are there any future agenda items for city manager cook May yes um I have a list um and it's mostly regarding Animal Control um one an update on the current spay Neu ordinances including citation fees for non-compliance a report on the new managed intake program current live release rate a report on how medical records are maintained on animals in the shelter care policy and procedures on how animals are assessed and treated and euthanized um I would like to know what other cities are the leaders and shelter best practices that we can compare ourselves to and their live release rates thank you Council Martinez I'd like to look into uh limiting the number of sex offenders that can reside in a single family home this of course would not include halfway houses I got a question um I just want to uh confirm that the uh minimum wage increase is going to be on the budget the special car budget Workshop it yes I hear yes June 18th actually said yeah thank you yeah anyone else no okay meing journ stay put we got one more EXA session