there's a community engagement office presentation that will not be on today that is scheduled for April 4th next we have some organizational updates and employee recognitions and the first thing I'm going to do is call on William Johnson to introduce our new tpw director good afternoon mayor and Council William Johnson assistant city manager tpw is what I often refer to as the quality of life Department because the things that we do impact so many of our residents lives and we've been fortunate to be able to build a really strong team of talented independent leaders that are part of that department people like Monty Hall and Jennifer Dyke Raj Gupta Kelly Porter Lane Zarate Martin Phillips Michael Owens Lizette Acevedo and when you have that many strong leaders you have to really be thoughtful about who you're going to bring in to take over a leadership role and allow them to continue to grow and flourish and do all the great things that they do so after a national search a number of interviews a number of candidates and an extensive review I'd like to announce that Lauren prier has been selected as a new tpw director for the city of Fort Worth [Applause] Lauren comes to us she's a licensed professional engineer a PMP she has a master's in public administration she worked as interim director since August I want to say of last year and before that as assistant director over our Capital delivery programs prior to coming to the city she worked with the Corps of Engineers as a dam engineer I think it's always funny it's not and also with the City of New Orleans and also had a stent as a engineering consultant she's demonstrated consistent follow-through and commitment to our residents she's demonstrated over and over again that she really not only deserves this opportunity but she's up for the challenge and I think it's ironic that in this women's History Month that we were able to announce what's probably our first woman leader in this in this position so congratulations Lauren [Applause] well every engineer loves this much attention let me tell you but Marin Council thank you for this opportunity I am so excited and honored to lead a fantastic team of superstars who are on their way to become Legends um thank you again for this opportunity so funny story on Lauren I I intercepted her in the hallway after David Cook had offered her the job officially on Thursday or Friday of last week and of course I come bounding down the hallway so excited and she goes yay that's about as excited as an engineer gets Jokes Aside she is a real rock star and I hope now the rest of the city of Fort Worth really get to work with her in this permanent capacity we are lucky to have you Lauren so congratulations to you thank you next I'll call on Brandon Bennett to introduce a new assistant director oh just I hope this this one works uh hey I'm really uh excited to introduce the new assistant director for co-compliance and animal services but I also want to make sure that I give a shout out to our prior assistant director and that was Dr Timothy Morton that he worked for us for a number of years he came on board when our live release rate was around 50 to 60 percent he he got that number up to 97 percent we were able to maintain that for a number of years built a brand new shelter up on the North side that's become a national uh model for all new shelters for Disease Control and the well-being of animals and so with him going back into private practice we knew those were some big shoes to fill we did a national search interviewed people from all over the nation and at the end of the day we picked a local Fort Worth employee Chris McAllister that many of you and your aides already know Chris from Code Compliance he started with the city in 2011. as an officer worked his way up to supervisor up to superintendent he went to University of Texas at Arlington and got his Master's in public administration he is a Marine Corps veteran and he's just an all-around super guy he's got a lot of lean Sigma experience does a lot of lean evaluations for us and has stepped into that new role with both feet running and so I wanted to make sure that we put a face with the name and and for you and your Council AIDS anything you need that's Animal Control related you let them know now I'm not going to make him speak today he was all worried about that apparently he's having a bad hair day um so with that I just appreciate the opportunity to introduce him and congratulate Chris on the promotion [Applause] all right next up is Diana Giordano to introduce a new assistant director I actually have two assistant directors that I'm going to introduce and one is not new to the city but she's new to the human resources department she's been a rising star with the city of Fort Worth and that's Casey bass Casey joined the city about 10 years ago as a management as a budget analyst promoted and worked in fire Administration promoted as a senior administrative services manager with Park and Recreation and now is the Assistant Director of Human Resources joining our department in July of 2022. she holds a bachelor of business administration degree from the University of Texas at Austin and a master of public administration from UT Arlington she has overseen the compensation classification and Civil Service division of HR as well as the hres and Records Division and in the short time that Casey has been with us she has looked at things through a critical lens has made them process improvements and really created the space for the team to do things differently and better over for the contributions of the city of Fort Worth so join me in well I mean Casey Bess Emer [Applause] anything variety of things and so when I came to HR I thought I don't know if it's going to be interesting enough but there is so much to do in HR we have a really great team who are really excited about the city of Fort Worth and every day we get to come to the city and figure out how to make this a bless a better place to work for our employees thank you so our latest additional so as an assistant director of Human Resources is Holly Moyer and Holly Moyer has over 25 years of public sector experience as she also holds a Bachelor of Arts in government with a minor in business from the University of Texas at Austin completely coincidental that they both are graduates of UT at Austin Holly has subject matter expertise and compensation she served as a labor relations coordinator also benefits administrator and joins our team overseeing the benefits and wellness division of HR as well as Talent acquisition organizational development otherwise known as Fort Worth employee University as well as our HR business partner so join me in welcoming Holly Moyer [Applause] council members I am excited about being here this is day seven so I'm just getting one of the things that I have from the past has worked for other cities and Fort Worth has always been known as a city to work for because it's a great place and opportunity for not only employee Recruitment and development but also as a wonderful career as a public sector employee so I appreciate the opportunity here foreign [Applause] okay now I'm gonna call on our tpw director to talk about a recently received award all right so the stormwater team recently received a community rating system which is a voluntary incentive program that recognizes and encourages Community floodplain management practices that exceed minimum requirements of the national flood insurance program so Ben Thompson with our stormwater division managed the five-year verification visit last April and improved our program from a Class 8 to a class seven so the best part is and you know I love a good deal this Improvement increased our discount for Fort Worth residents from a 10 percent to a 15 discount on all flood insurance policies so this equates to an annual average savings of 216 dollars per policy over a hundred and a hundred and fifty two thousand dollars saved each year by residents Citywide thank you [Applause] thank you for that and next is Dave Lewis our Parks and Recreation director to an announce something about Bunch Park thank you good afternoon mayor council Mr city manager I'm very proud to announce that Bunch park has been awarded with a lone star Legacy award designation this is heavy so I'm gonna go ahead and put this in a proper file so the Texas recreation of parks Society annually gives out these designations to Parks it's one of the highest Honors that can be bestowed on a park in the state of Texas um Park must be over 50 years old and you must prove this significant impact that it's had on the community a panel of six Statewide judges judge all the applications that are turned in Parks professionals Landscape Architects really look at the history of the park and and judge its its character and its contributions this year there were six parks that were added to the class of course Bunch park park in Austin San Antonio and even a state park as well uh Bunch Park 2023 out of the 72 parks in the state that are designated as a lone star Legacy Parks the city of Fort Worth has seven pretty good percentage um along with Bunch Park we have the botanic gardens the Nature Center Refuge Tandy Hills Trinity Park Marine Park and of course Log Cabin Village this is a picture of us at the traps conference last week accepting the nomination this is uh Park staff here and I want to give a special thanks to Sandra Youngblood and omatayo ajayi for their hard work on the application and their constant dedication to keeping the parks in shape to a win designation such as this and obviously mayor Pro tem Bivins and Park Board member Pastor Michael Moore for their constant advocacy for places like Bunch Park thank you thank you mayor for Tim Bivens yeah I want to share some history with you all we didn't have this park on our roster when I came into office it had been given to Fort Worth ISD to help with desegregating of schools and that was a weird explanation for me because we had been desegregated and so I told Richard Zavala you know we're integrated now I want the park back and I had opposition from the late beloved Ruby Carey who said Gina if you reopen that Park they're going to sell dope again and I said Ruby that just got you a seat on the planning committee for the park and you know he was so proud of it it is a non-vehicular park and we are delighted to see kids playing in the park again and for those of you who don't know I don't know if the minutes have changed but if you live more than 10 minutes away from a park that you can walk to you are being underserved and that was the argument that we made to really work is that right Richard okay that's how we were able to get Bunch Park back and we worked it and Richard Zavala was the key Champion swiping money anywhere he could from any Department he could figuring out ways to get the council to manipulate funding for the benefit not just of this park but all parks and so my head goes off to the entire staff and especially that committee who worked on it so thank you so much for this recognition for bunch all right very good now we're going to go through informal reports the first informal report is on the ad hoc fire Staffing committee and Valerie excuse me Valerie Washington is available if there any questions well Valerie yeah I think Gina's thinking the same thing I am tell everyone else what we've been working on all right good afternoon mayor and Council um in response to this IR we have been working to set up the fire ad hoc Staffing Review Committee it was a committee the mayor requested um as we were wrapping up fiscal year 23 budget preparations it's taken a little time we needed to spend time reconciling The City Gate Staffing report that we paid for we also spent time working with the local 440 on their Fitch Staffing study we're at the point now where we've convened the committee and we have our first meeting on Friday May or March 10th and then we have about six meetings scheduled already pre-scheduled where we can provide an update to Mayor and council at the June work session with potential staffing recommendations any questions for Valerie thanks Val thank you all right next informal report is on the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport Bond financing package and we have Chris poinsettia from the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport if there's any questions I don't have any questions David but I do recall at one point in time there was on the table to create a terminal F and do some other Renovations part of it this may not be the right time for that but maybe bring back a presentation just talk about where things Chris is going to come up okay perfect help I didn't know we would be talking about project F but my wife works on that project so I want to accuse myself from this conversation um we are we did get excuse my voice we received approval from the airlines to do a 27 million dollar planning study of terminal F and that or it worked that is in were in process and we are having conversations with the airlines about the timing of that hopefully if we get a new use agreement put together here in the next couple of months they'll be more to talk about remind me what time of year we usually do an annual report David from DCB Airport could you remember when we do an annual report uh from DFW Airport what time of year uh we usually come at budget time in August or September yeah so I think that likely will be a good time to come back and Sean can come and kind of give a presentation and hopefully by then we'll have some loose ends tied perfect thanks Chris I appreciate you the next informal report is on the enforcement of marijuana laws in Leticia Brown is available if there are any questions David I have some questions foreign thank you Leticia for this IR um one of the reasons why uh we requested this IR uh so that we can bring it forward to council and have a discussion about it I do want to request before we get started a formal presentation on the completion of this IR I did some more research with asking some additional questions but if you can real briefly and I have a couple of questions I want to put out here give us a high level a review of your IR that you presented so basically the IR covers uh several part what state law says about marijuana possession as you know marijuana possession is still illegal in the state of Texas it is a Class B misdemeanor starting off and could go up to a felony there's a provision of law section 370 of the Texas governmental code that says that uh cities are prohibited from adopting policies that do not fully enforce state and federal Law related to drugs you probably also know that there are a lot of cities that have um where the citizens have put forth uh propositions that went on the ballot last uh year to vote on whether or not to decriminalize marijuana in their cities cities such as Colleen Denton Austin all did that and their voters voted overwhelmingly to to make it uh so that those laws marijuana laws could not be enforced those laws have run into problems with their legal attorneys and some in some cases such as Killeen the county as to whether or not those are enforceable laws and so um so those cities are having their issues as to whether or not they can enforce it some of those cities have decided to repeal those laws some of those cities have decided to amend uh make them easier to deal with and some are just left in a quandary here in the city of Fort Worth we have adopted formally the police department has adopted a policy that is in line with the code of criminal procedure which allows police officers to stop sight and release individuals who are found with small amount of marijuana in their possession they also for uh practical purposes because of the issues with testing have adopted a policy to primarily give Class C drug paraphernalia tickets when they catch someone who's in possession of of marijuana as long as that person is not a violent offender and that is primarily the only um only violations other than maybe a traffic violation that they could be guilty of so we still enforce it in this city primarily as a Class C small amounts could be done there's a site and release under the code of criminal procedure in the police department general orders okay thank you and I think that small amount is two ounces yes sir normally police declare it as a usable amount usable amount is generally two ounces four ounces or less okay so one of the proposals that I'm proposing is that it'd be four ounces and I tell you why um and I asked you for this report and I'm that's why I want the presentation to come so that the counselor can see it uh because I asked for a report for uh marijuana arrested from October 21 through October 22 and I believe we had a total of uh 200 230 marijuana stops and out of the 230 marijuana stops 16 was actually the site and release and so I kind of went through your breakdown of which ones were narcotics only and which ones were none uh non-violent and violent and so when I looked at the break then I believe it was about a 146 around that were non-violent but they still went to jail uh with the different ounces and so I think it benefits um our community because four ounces um it's not a lot it's not something that's normally sold as a driving around trying to sell four ounces it's normally recreational use or whatever it is that should be cited release and given a ticket as the class C because what I have noticed and we can't fix state law we can't fix our jail system here at the local level at the city level but these individuals are sitting in jail for six months sometimes to a year because they can't afford an attorney and they cannot uh they have to wait for a court appointed attorney and so with coven and jails being full if we can do something as a city if they're non-violent they should not be sitting in jail and so I don't know um what is what is the issue from moving it from two to four ounces and how can we make that a must with our officer not as a discretion because it's now as a discretional if an officer chooses or not chooses these numbers are a lot of these numbers are recent and so I'd like to be able to and so presentation wise work for the police department to do a deeper dive on that because it is part of it is so general orders require site and release under certain circumstances to find out what if anything that would have made those not sight and releasable so so to speak or why they didn't give a Class C so we can give a more definitive answer about that and then also to work with Police Department on maybe definitions they probably are keeping it under two ounces because that's what the law says to keep it at class B anything else would make it a Class A or a state jail felony so it could be that they have four ounces but what you're seeing is an offense where they say two ounces to keep it at a Class B so they may be doing that but classifying it differently so if we we can take a deeper dive into answering that question for you okay I appreciate that I think that's fair I will say um and this will be another question I won't answer uh and I don't know Chief can answer now but how are the officers measuring these ounces is it by sight or is it by scale foreign scale okay so each officer's uh is has a skill in their vehicle well I'm gonna Chief okay it's coming up so Marion Council Neil Oaks chief of police Fort Worth PD so the scales are used normally at the property room when they are weighing the evidence before it's submitted so the actual official wait would be done there and if they take it and they say they assumed it was 2.5 ounces or three ounces if they show up there and it's less then that's that can be a change in the paperwork or anything else they need to do some officers do have scales with them in their cars but I can't say that every officer has a scale with them as part of their usual equipment so generally it's by sight and then once we get to the department its way and so once this way you said change the paperwork at that moment can the individual be released because the paperwork has been changed if the officer went to the jail spoke with the supervision at the jail and the magistrate and that was a determination that was made with agreement of the magistrate that is a possibility to be quite honest it probably wouldn't happen but they could pursue that if they chose to okay uh well if we're using this policy or the policy that you have with the two ounces would it be reasonable to provide each officer or with the scale R is there are two visors that have scales if an officer called for backup to to weigh these skills so that we're not taking individuals to jail that's less than two ounces I can check and see if the sergeants have them they do have additional equipment we provide to the Sergeants but I don't know if a scale is one of those pieces of equipment I can check on that okay thank you Chief and I won't prolong this uh item uh but like I said Leticia I sent you quite a few uh questions and I think that when we looked at the number of states that are legal I think is around 26 and 9 that decriminalize and again this isn't I'm not speaking on behalf of the State of Texas I'm speaking on behalf of the city or for my district or for myself or whatever you have you um I think it's worth the city of Fort Worth looking into this issue if we can get to a point where we're not crowding jails for non-violent individuals people who are just I don't know what they use for recreational or whatever you want to have you if we can have a policy or procedure that I believe and I understand the two ounce in the four ounce like we can really hone in on that definition at state level if there's any loopholes or anything that we can move forward with that I think that's a great discussion if we can get that in the presentation so that we can have a bigger discussion on this for a point of clarification and maybe to minimize misinformation having had a really comprehensive meeting with Tarrant County and the Sheriff's Office last week including Tarrant County Jail um the individuals that are currently at Tarrant County Jail are not the individuals you're talking about I think our magistrates are doing an excellent job right now to make sure we're setting appropriate level bonds to keep these people out of jail the site and release policy is I would call it fairly new um and so it probably is also a matter of communication with our individual officers and I think Letitia made an excellent point that the difference between two and four ounces in the state of Texas is significant and the way our officers are usually maybe using a cider skill process on site and giving them a two ounce rather than a four ounce to create that policy in general orders would actually create more problems for the people you're trying to protect here Chris so maybe in the future we'll just come back with a presentation or additional discussion as a city we don't want to we want to create more problem with the site and release policy and I certainly don't want to be in a position like some of these other cities that are going through a pretty painful process after a city-wide ordinance that they actually can't Implement so thank you and I will only say uh with the 214 that are in jail that you will give us if they're still currently in in the system we'll see what we can find out okay thank you all right our next informal report is on the proposed permanent Supportive Housing project in Las Vegas Trail and Victor Turner is available if there any questions I don't have any questions I just want to say thank you this has been uh a lot of work thank you to the mayor for going to bat for this project and knowing all the work that we put in the Las Vegas Trail and what the difference is going to make Mary Margaret lemons is here from fourth Housing Solutions I don't know if anybody from Ohio is here ohala who's the development partner into the county too for ensuring that this project stayed on track stayed together so we could make um it's just really a important part of revitalization that we're doing in the area so I just want to say thank you for that you're welcome kudos to you too Michael and pretty bold investment from a lot of different partners to make these projects work and I know wholeheartedly that this project will be transformative not just for August Trail but also how we house families in the city of Fort Worth moving forward so special thanks to Tarrant County and to Manny Ramirez for believing in this project and for the city and Victor Turner and staff for making it all happen um so thank you very much we much appreciate it the next informal report is on the preparation of the 2023 to the 2027 Consolidated plan for submission to the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development and Victor Turner is available if there's any questions I would appreciate a presentation all right Victor tell me everything mayor council victor Turner Neighborhood Services yes ma'am any particular questions you just want me to give overview just an overview and you might even mention that there's a project on the ground right now that people can look see touch and feel okay and I want to we we did hire a consulting firm jayquat Planning Group to help us with the five-year consolidate plan I'm going to ask James to come and join me so each year we do what's called an annual action plan to our five-year Consolidated plan and so now we're at uh year five of the uh past Consolidated plan so at this point we will need to develop a new plan submit it to HUD so we can continue to receive uh the four uh Grant programs from HUD which include Community Development block grant the home investment Partnerships program emergency Solutions Grant and housing opportunities for persons with AIDS and so part of that process include Community engagement our plan is to have public meetings in each of the council districts also as part of The Five-Year Plan we have to do an analysis of impediments and fair housing so we'll be having sessions to get public input on barriers that or suspected barriers that the city may have to prevent people from obtaining housing so those are some of the aspects that uh we'll be discussing over the next few weeks James and his team will be working with our department on getting input from the public on what are their priorities whether they're housing Child Care other types of social service projects one of the things that mayor Pro tem mentioned anytime an agency whether it's the Housing Authority or other agencies apply for funding there's a form we have to fill out does your project or is it consistent with the city's Consolidated plan and so of course Choice neighborhood initiative is one of those projects that would have to be consistent with our Consolidated plan and that is a difference between our comprehensive plan and our Consolidated plan so this is specific to HUD programs or programs that support HUD initiatives you want to add anything the only James Gillian with jayquat Planning Group the only other thing that I would add is that our particular emphasis will be on engaging the community over the next uh several weeks this plan is it's Victor pointed out is only completed once every five years so we think it's important to make sure that we engage the community so we'll be kicking off our process with meetings within each of the council districts and making those meetings available to anyone to attend in other districts that they're unable to attend the one that's scheduled for their District but that will be our first initiative we hope to be back to you uh by the end of June with a draft plan for your review and then in July a 30-day comment period for the public to give input before you take final action in August and I do have one question mayor and Victor you know that people can hardly afford a newspaper a subscription today we have very few beef reporters who cover city council glad to see media here today but for people who want to know and follow these steps and know what's going on and know how to give input what is the best way for them to know because I get tired of people saying we didn't know yeah so we're going to have a really aggressive uh marketing campaign we're going to be using social media so Facebook Instagram all of those as well as they can contact our office uh we'll have on our in fact we already have on our website information how they can reach out we'll have a list of all the public meetings so we'll use our community engagement office to get that information out to the various neighborhood associations and one other thing I want to mention uh you got that award for Bunch part so part of these funds that we received went into Bunch Park so cdbg dollars went into that uh particular project as well so I wanted to point that out it'll be in my office yeah right David I want to thank you for meetings in every District you know as you know people around this table complain on a regular basis when some department heads try to compress these meetings and make us go to centralized locations meetings in every district is going to be beneficial so that people can understand how their input is important so thank you and thank you Victor good to see you again right thank you nice plug Victor about that cdbg money [Music] the next informal report is on the office of plea over police oversight Monitor and the director recruitment process Tiana Giordano is available if there any questions I have some questions David the honor foreign thank you for the report and I want to thank also uh Valerie uh Washington for uh uh working with this office while this position is vacant I think this is a crucial uh position for the city of Fort Worth um for any City that increa creates this office uh one of the questions I had not mentioned it to David earlier uh when the vacancy was announced um how we're going to allow council members to participate those that are willing in this process of hiring at the early stage I for one I'm not sure any other member on the council wants to participate but I for one want to be a part of the entire process to make sure that we have a great candidate coming to the city of Fort Worth okay so we can create a virtual opportunity for you to meet with Pamela Weidman who is the recruiter with ref tell us she's done an excellent job with meeting with the city manager's office she's met with members of the oppom team as well as the chief and the chief there in PD so we can certainly engage if you have an interest in meeting with the recruiter in advance of creating the process or the candidate profile please just send me a quick email and we'll get that set up okay and and not just to and maybe you can give us a high level of what you have on here because I see the dates with March 23 April 23rd uh May and June meeting with the team and then a virtual in June lie and I think it's more than just meeting with the crew but being a part of the entire process is there is there a plan for uh council members to be a part of that process yeah process yeah we're refining the plan so we're looking at kind of just very high level what the overall process will entail and so what you see there is just really some Target months of where we'd like to have at least the candidate profile uh developed and so March is what we've identified we can engage Council as they as as you know once you notify me of your interest but at the telling we're going to have a very robust engagement process to include stakeholders members of City management mayor and Council and so that is all still being formulated because that's where you have a more vested interest in who we pick to slot into those positions ref tell us will do a very thorough job in vetting candidates and providing those resources and identified individuals to the city but certainly at the end of the process we want a lot more engagement from a number of different stakeholders and interested groups to include this body as well okay and when you mention stakeholders I do want to make this very clear the city of Fort Worth uh has a idea of stakeholders but there is a wide variety of the wide community members who have a different idea of who stakeholders is and I think it would be very important that we reach out to community members not just the known stakeholders that we have already identified yes and it'll be a very open process so it won't just be a single invitation there'll be opportunity for even members of the public to participate but we're still formulating what that's going to look like and so as we get further into the process there'll be more marketing and Communications that go out to the community into this body as well okay one last question you might not know to answer this because this is a very specific job how how's the pool looking is it is it a wide pool of candidates that are out there are we looking at a very narrow small candidacy yeah so at this time we don't have a candidate poll just yet the reason that we did pick raftelus though is they've operated in the space of police monitor recruitments at least three times and so they were the only recruiting firm that had that level of experience so we're hoping that they do attract a number of individuals that could be able to competently do the job and so it is a small Niche it is a very very specific role but we're confident that raptellis can bring us some good candidates thank you so much great our next informal report is on the reappointment of substitute judges and judge Danny Rogers is available after any questions moving on next info more report is on Tarrant County 9-1-1 district and the transition to Next Generation 9-1-1 technology and Valerie Washington is available if there any questions next up is informal report update on the timeline for street life repair and replacement in Lauren prier it's available if there any questions I okay so this is just a follow-up IR to questions asked at the previous work session primarily the arpa funded neighborhood street light LED upgrade program so the timeline for that is the LED conversion projects are assessed designed if needed and constructed in the same fiscal year so we've also attached the projects to be done under that program in this IR the altamir capital replacement program so this is from on I-30 from Las Vegas Trail to Green Oaks Road the city of Fort Worth has funded and completed the design this has now moved on to TxDOT they will be programming this project in the near future with no additional city funding needed and then the last two Terminal Road at Blue Mound Road in Loop 820. so that project that lighting project has been completed and then lastly the old Main Street Bridge also known as Paddock Viaduct those repairs were completed yesterday Lauren I know back when we started the neighborhood Improvement project you know we were able to get tremendous you know enhancements to street lights in five eight two and I know this is about arpa funding but at some point in the future can we get a complete list of you know what we've done with street lights because our city has been very dark for a long time and when there's no light you have shootings murders all things like that but we got significant in street lights since I'd like to see a complete list whether it's offer or not at some point in time yes ma'am and probably the easiest way to describe that quickly is in our burn rate so the burn rate is the amount of Lights in the city that are on right now we're at about a 65 percent burn rate and we're moving up every day we're getting more of the street lights on and so we'll continually be updating you as we improve that burn rate and how are we addressing the theft of copper the theft of copper so yes we can where we notice that copper theft is an issue we'll substitute it with aluminum now the downside to that is aluminum has a shorter lifespan so about 10 years so we will have to replace it more frequently but it isn't as track as attractive to Copper thieves so while you're up there I actually got a question while you're up there the replacement we're this the four-year plan here is just replacement of existing lights not adding new lights into neighborhoods correct correct okay just want to make sure and clarify I think that was your point too but burn rate is 65 what's the most feasible increase annually that you can make that closer to 100. oh my team is is going to get mad at me for misquoting this but I believe we're anticipated to get up to about 80 percent burn rate by the end of the fiscal year but let me get get those exact numbers to you and I believe we did talk about them in the last work session presentation that's great thank you sorry to piggyback on that question um about the 80 is that is this is all arpa dollars or is any of this tied to our the efforts that we allocated the funding we allocated in this year's budget to address um street lights specific to mayor's question about the burn rate yeah so the burn rate is regardless of funding program it is how many streets across the city are on um but yes the the dollars that were allocated under the fiscal year 23 budget will go to improving that burn rate significantly okay and then my second question is uh how is the the defective diode issue that we're dealing with is or is that impacting the speed at which we're I know that contractors fixing those but is that one is that fixed are we gonna have to go back and have them redo the purple lights and is that in any way impacting our delivery um on the updates as you said the um the manufacturer is handling all of the repairs to the purple lights so that is not impacting our crews we are merely compiling the list and handing it to the manufacturer for them to address together thank you Lauren and the final informal report is on water account transfer process and Jan Hale is available if there any questions all right mayor that concludes my report thank you David and get back horses to go here I think their first item is any questions on zoning cases coming up next week Council Jared uh not really a question but I saw that we're having to postpone the zoning commission meeting um so I would just like to ask that the cops team helped get that word out our office will be doing the same I know we have an important case coming tomorrow but I think it's worth doing some relatively expedient Communications about that go ahead hi there yeah we'll take care of that um we've got it on Facebook we posted it on our website we've contacted the applicants we've contacted the neighborhood groups so uh we've done uh trying to do a good job of getting out to those folks to let them know that that zoning commission meeting is moved to the 22nd as opposed to the eighth what was the reason attendance from zoning Commissioners no um it was a notification issue okay very well thank you any other items Council okay anything on the MNC log that's problematic we want to bring up now okay then our first presentation is Alliance economic impact with Mike Berry CEO of Hillwood thank you for your patience Mike thank you mayor always it's my favorite day of the Year by the way at least when I'm delivering good news and fortunately I am today um I always learn something when I'm here you all cover I told the mayor yesterday this is a big city with a lot going on and you all are covering a wide variety of issues and we appreciate everything you do uh just for those who don't know the history of this presentation why we do it if you go all the way back 34 years ago thanks to the leadership of the council that preceded you 34 years ago Fort Worth helped put together and lead the development of Alliance Airport which was the first Industrial Airport in this country built in a unique public-private partnership between City of Fort Worth FAA and Hillwood and from that we've from that initial public investment we've developed what you'll see today 34 years later is a pretty pretty great story so we do this every year because we want the city to understand that original investment and what it what it has uh created because we truly see this as a partnership so know you're behind and I'll try to go quickly there's some good numbers in here that I'll I'll just touch on briefly but you have packages I think in front of you and you're welcome to I'll be happy to take questions today or later but there's a lot of a lot of positive going on um just to refresh the whole Alliance platform is 27 000 Acres the airport sits in the center of that blue uh area there most everything south of 114 is in the city of Fort Worth the pieces of development and inclusive of the Texas the land around the Texas Motor Speedway which is shared by Fort Worth and and North Lake and then everything else that we're doing primarily residentially is north on the way to Denton so it's in some of the other cities but what I'm talking about today is really the core uh development of of Alliance just in summary after accumulating these numbers over the last several decades the total economic impact generated from this project is 10.8 billion dollars and that was just last year alone that was in 2022. so if you add up all those years it's 111 billion and this is this depicts really the growth the good news for all of us is once this thing gets going it just becomes exponential so this curve hopefully continues to to grow and and Rise Like That I think the other number that you all would be most interested in are the the total taxes paid this is the cumulative number I don't have last year's Fort Worth specific number on this chart but it's in your in your package but you can see over the period of time it's to the city of Fort Worth alone 684 um 0.6 million dollars and uh total taxes pay to all of the governmental agencies in the region uh 3.4 billion dollars it's it doesn't seem like too long ago that I stood in front of this Council I think mayor price was just in her early part of her term and we had just surpassed a billion dollars so now we're over we're almost three and a half billion so like I said it's it's exponential at this point um in this this sort of uh further reinforces that point about the about the city's uh share of that the other number that I think is noteworthy are the jobs created because that's really what what it's all about it's all about bringing in business and growing business that create a wide variety of of good quality jobs and we're now a little over 66 000 total jobs working coming to work and in Alliance Texas every day which is which once again that number continues to grow and there's some new announcements underway that that will even make that number bigger I think this is important last year's activity was unique in that two of our bigger projects were manufacturing and the high-tech manufacturing the first was MP materials which I think a lot of you on this Council know a little bit about because you were big supporters of it um but it's it's important because I don't think many people not just in the city but in the country realize the significance of rare earth Mining and what that means for the future of U.S manufacturing you've probably read articles about how China is sort of the center of the of the world in in terms of controlling and capturing the mining of rare earth minerals which goes into the manufacture of battery of magnets which in turn make batteries which in turn Powers a lot of future technology so we've got to recapture that and MP materials has the largest Rare Earth mine in North America and that the materials coming out of that mine are coming to this plant here which are manufacturing the magnets which will actually go the initial orders will go to GM in Arlington to go in the uh the vehicles being manufactured there so it's an important part of our future economy and we have a chance to build on that and bring more of that industry here I'll skip over Target and Truck Yard beauty manufacturings is another deal which you all also are familiar with and supported but it's Unique in that it's high-tech manufacturing it's Beauty Supplies but it's high-tech manufacturing created a lot of great jobs and it's another example of this sort of wave of manufacturing deals that are coming our way and maybe signaling this reassuring that we all read about I think it's real and I think we've ever have a chance both here in Fort Worth and in this country to recapture a lot of manufacturing that we lost over the last couple of decades um a lot Fort Worth Alliance Airport became for parole field Fort Worth Alliance Airport once again thanks to your support last year and the airport activity is off the charts uh we became ranked 20 number 20 in U.S airports for cargo operations and you might think well top 20. that's not that great you ought to be in the top ten well we are only an industrial airport the bigger cargo airports in this country get to count all of the freight that comes in the bellies of Passenger airplanes we don't get to count pasture because we don't have any so to be a dedicated cargo airport and to be in the top 20 is is pretty significant and and I think you'll see us continue to to grow Gulfstream another big deal it's not pure manufacturing but it's quasi manufacturing because basically they're they're bringing airplanes in to this Center and enhancing them with new technology so it's a great it's a great user um we're working a lot and I've talked about this last year Mobility Innovation is a big Initiative for us we think we can capture and become the center for the next generation of innovation around mobility and transportation we're primarily focused on freight not people so we're looking at truck technologies that will move Freight autonomously both Long Long Haul middle Mile and short haul but you can see here and I won't read them all but they're they're a huge number of accomplishments and new companies who joined us at the alliance Mobility Innovation Zone last year and we've got we've got a lot of momentum both in our surface activities as well as our our aerial activities and this is just another slide that depicts the diversity of the new companies all of these companies are basically new to us in the last two years and our partners in this whole Mobility Innovation so if you think about what Texas A M is doing downtown and the research and academic component that they bring to the table and what we're doing sort of in the real world environment testing and developing and Manufacturing new technology there's a real opportunity I think for Fort Worth to become uh what I tell people we could be the Silicon Valley of Mobility Innovation if we really really do it right last week mayor Parker was there um last week we hosted our second annual Ford Fort Worth conference where we bring in a lot of these people that I'm talking about these innovators and leaders in Mobility but it was it was outstanding uh it was even better than year before and so hopefully we can keep bringing momentum so lastly I'm going to show this short video which just gives you a visual of some of the some of this technology after I show the smart Port which is our next big thing I'm not even going to talk about that today I'm going to go straight to the video [Music] oh [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] so that's that's even though that's high tech that's a demonstration of Technology it's not a very high-tech use case where they're basically delivering catered meals to the FBO at the airport some of those meals end up going on aircraft but the I think the importance of it is this is a company out of Estonia which is a hotbed of technology and Innovation they moved here because they were able to have a platform to work in like Alliance where they could develop this this autonomous vehicle and show how this technology could be used in a wide variety of deliveries so these are just some of the things that are going on that we can really grow and and build off of uh and we thought it would be a pretty cool thing to to show so with that I want to thank you very much for the opportunity I'm happy to take any questions you might you might have today it's very impressive I just want to say thank you for the time you spent with District Five during our leadership meeting we're still benefiting from that and I did find that interview with parole I'll get it to you oh great great you know Gina remind me reminded me last year that we first met the very first time at the Fort Worth Opportunity Center which we worked on with the city down near Dunbar and we've had a great working relationship since then that was several years ago thank you just one quick question Mike thank you for the presentation um if you could describe the difference in you know um maybe a couple highlights of the difference of last year's forward conference and this year as it reflects on the the people coming the companies coming the entrepreneurs um any any highlights there that you would recognize this year it just got bigger and and better last year for instance we had maybe four or five representatives from the same companies and this year because we wanted to get more diversity we limited attendance to like one or two per company which gave us the ability to bring in more corporate folks so we had a lot of big companies represented this year as opposed to just entrepreneurs and innovators who else had a lot more Venture Capital people there so putting you know the entrepreneurs and the capital together and I think the most amazing thing is whether it was an oem or a big corporate or a venture capital or an entrepreneur early stage most of them you know didn't really know each other so we put them in an environment where they could just Network and a huge number of business opportunities come come out of that we actually just get out of the way we say hey we're putting you in the room we're going to give you some content with some great panelists we're going to serve you dinner we took them to Tana Hills and let them listen to live music and then we just get out of the way and let it happen and it's I think we can really build on it well it's just fantastic and I think we all uh can't thank you enough thank the pros uh the Hillwood team enough for everything that you do for our city uh in terms of this kind of innovation but the history and the contribution uh to the city from a tax base is just extraordinary and I think just this is an example of the future playing out in front of our eyes and we're going to look back on this moment and this time as you're looking back maybe on the airport and the forward-thinking vision that that was that mobility and Innovation is just going to be as dramatically impactful to the community so thank you very much thank you appreciate sure questions or comments no we appreciate you Mike as usual thank you for the very update thank you bye you're not going to stay I know I know it's okay thank you Mike okay next up is an update on Tarrant area food bank with Victor Turner Neighborhood Services and Julie Butner is also here with Tara area Food Bank also Victor before you get started I will be recusing from this item due to my employee employee relationship with the terrenair food bank and my forms are on file good afternoon again mayor council I have Julie Butner here with President CEO of alternative Food Bank want to take us back in September of 2020 uh the Fort Worth Star Telegram had an article in a newspaper uh talking about food deserts in in Fort Worth and the lack of access to healthy foods so we had a conversation our department and territory Food Bank uh latter part of that year in early 2021 about having a mobile market to deliver fresh produce to those areas of the city that lack grocery stores lacked access to fresh produce and in fact in that article it highlighted a gentleman that spent about an hour on a bus trying to get to a grocery store just to get fresh produce so Julie um accepted our challenge about trying to get a mobile market that could serve about six ZIP codes in Fort Worth to get fresh food to those areas and I want to point out also um the Red Bus as it's called and she'll talk a little bit more about that also allows individuals to apply for other types of assistance as well in addition we were just talking about the five-year Consolidated plan we invested a little over four hundred thousand dollars for operating costs for the red bus so they would be able to uh operate that vehicle over a three-year period so we're very pleased with the success of it um Julia talk a little bit more about the numbers and our future plans for Terry Day food bank so Julie Victor and thank you mayor and the council and to the city staff as well I don't know Victor we might need to talk to Mike Berry about the delivery method I don't know okay let's see for those of you who are not familiar with tarant area Food Bank um we started 40 years ago in fact this year was our 40th anniversary as a Grassroots effort right here in Tarrant County today we serve 13 counties almost half a million food insecure families in this 13 County area in our attempt to alleviate hunger by providing food education and other important resources the ternary food bank is affiliated with a network of food banks called feeding America it's sort of an industry Association 200 food banks are part of the feeding America Network this is especially critical for tarant area food bank because it unlocks the door to federal and state Commodities and subsidies over half of the food that we receive free comes from the federal and state governments we are also part of feeding Texas which is a shared infrastructure of the 21 food banks that are right here in the state of Texas were one of the most populated states in the country so we have a lot of recognized food banks in this state they are our lobbying arm and right now all down in Austin working very hard to Lobby on policy changes that impact the populations that we serve especially within the farm bill right now in the Tarrant area one in six people are struggling with Hunger they're going to bed at night hungry one in four children you know if you think about the four basic necessities rent utilities gasoline for your car to go to work and food which one of those things can you readily do without is food and so often these families are making the decision to do without a meal or two in order to get by and pay other very important bills and for again for those of you who do not know us I hope you walk away just remembering this one word Alice which stands for asset limited income constraint and employed this is our number one client she is a female she is a working mother typically with one or two children she is working she is employed she is Alice she's asset limited income constrained in making very difficult decisions about what bills to pay including her food bill so now on a happier note we were very excited to receive funding from the city of Fort Worth and so I want to say thank you again to the council to the mayor and to Victor for Champion our cause we signed a contract in July of 2021 we launched the program in August of 2021 and the program will continue through 2024 so this is my update on this program we have spent about 60 percent of the funds that were granted to us we have served close to 5 000 neighbors uh in these six zip codes that Victor mentioned earlier we have dispensed over 50 000 meals in that period and we have signed uh community members up for various Texas benefits but most particularly the snap program which the snap program provides nine meals for every one meal that the Terran area food bank can provide and that number the 1432 results in a local economic impact of 11.6 million dollars so when folks are signed up for the snap program they are eligible to use those dollars in our local grocery stores and so it does fuel the local economy these are federally appropriated funds that come directly into our city and into the counties that we we serve and in this case the 11.6 is all for right here in Fort Worth Texas and can all be attributed to the Red Bus resources and education delivered I I was at a conference a couple of months ago down in San Antonio hosted by the southwest region of the United States Department of Agriculture and I I knew we we were in need of the benefit the SNAP benefit but I didn't realize to what extent in Tarrant County um only 46 percent of the people who were eligible to receive snap are actually enrolled in this Federal program and if you compare that statistic 46 if you compare that statistic to the National statistic which is 82 percent we are certainly behind in getting this important benefit out into our community when I look at the ternary food bank when I started three years ago we had three dedicated resources for the 13 counties that we serve to help community members enroll in this very important program today we have nine when I compare myself to Central Texas Food Bank in Austin and San Antonio food bank in San Antonio equal size we're serving the same number of food insecure populations they have 20 and 26 resources respectively so we are behind and we're trying to catch up on this very important benefit for our community members but also for our local community you can see the financial impact I don't think I've ever in my 30-year career in Corporate America seen a 1906 percent return on investment and that's what your dollars did for us so thank you again the other update I wanted to give and several of you including mayor were at our groundbreaking that occurred inside we didn't actually break the ground but we had a good time with the groundbreaking is making really great progress um this is a public private partnership the city of Fort Worth contributed 3.2 million and Tarrant County contributed 4.8 million to purchase the building and the property which coincidentally is right across the street from our administrative offices and our distribution warehouse so we felt very fortunate that we found this location in addition to that the Texas Department of Agriculture has invested 3.5 million dollars in the renovation to make the facility food safe and we've had private investment of 1.5 million dollars we're about a million dollars shy of total dollars needed to complete the project but this agricultural Hub will pull produce from the Texas Valley and also from Arizona Nogales area in big quantities so this is product that is donated to the food bank that retailers have decided to take off the stocking shelves because some other produces come in that has a better margin so they have to do something with that excess produce that produce comes to the food bank and big 18 wheel quantities and we have to break it down into smaller case Lots so that we can give that fresh produce to our over 500 partner agencies in this 13 County area so we will be changing the mix of what we're giving and what we're providing into the community to the tune of about 40 percent once this is fully operational of what we distribute into the community will be fresh nutritious produce which as you can imagine will have tremendous impact on the health and well-being of our community members the AG Hub is also a very beneficial to the community and one of the reasons why Texas Department of Agriculture has made their investment in this project is because they would like to see food banks share product across state lines so the Oklahoma food bank processes beef and the Arkansas Food Bank processes chicken so we will be able to stock in excess so we can share the excess with Oklahoma and Arkansas and this is an initiative that is also obviously very important to the feeding America Network so again we're super excited about it thank you for all of those who came out to our groundbreaking it was a fun event even though it was inside we certainly appreciate it and I'm just here really to give you the update and to say thank you very much for the support that you've provided Elizabeth I just thank you you mentioned so you said that only 46 of the people that are eligible for this benefit are enrolled to receive the benefit yes yes and so um do we know why that number is why it's not higher and then my second question is what can we do as council members what can we do as a as a city to to help that because it's federal dollars yeah these are federally appropriated funds that have been earmarked for Texas Tarrant County city of Fort Worth and so we don't if we don't grab them what happens to them then they get reappropriated right right so it is very important that we use these dollars and there are a couple of reasons the first one I'll say is that Texas as a state has additional barriers to accessing the benefit when compared to other states and so that's one of the things I'll give you one example mayor there's a vehicle asset test and if you have a vehicle that's worth fourteen thousand dollars or more regardless of your income you become ineligible for the benefit we are a state that has this provision where other states do not now you can imagine if you're Alice and you're working you have a car and you know today's car market right even if it's used in 15 years old it's worth 14 000 and I'm assuming that number hasn't changed over a period of years yes ma'am that's right okay do you think that's something that your advocacy organization is working on this session as a change you can talk about that offline and we can do as a city to help yes we advocated for it last time the state was in session and were not successful but we think today especially with the rapid car values right I think today we will have a better shot at getting that reversed happened to up until why the state because if it's federal dollars what's the state's role in setting the requirements for that is it just because they're passed through and they they get to make the rules I think it's a really Antiquated provision and they just have never taken the Liberty to you know really look at trying to unwind that and what it means for the state I think this year we're in a better position than we've ever been in in getting that reverse but that's one so there are some restrictions within the state law that are more stringent than other states but right here we have a resource issue right when I when I came into the food bank is the number one source for signing community members up for snap it's a takes about an hour when you have assistance you can do it long format it takes longer than that if you do it online it's an hour so think about the same issues that we had during covid and people accessing online education do I have internet do I have an iPhone do I have a computer do I speak a foreign language right so that's why my staff is out there with the Red Bus enrolling community members in this important resource how approximately how much money are we leaving on the table by not being at 100 I don't have the answer to that but I can get that for you just don't know it off the top of my head and then our your um do you have any staff members in our Neighborhood Services community centers to help enroll folks there yes in fact we use the community centers frequently we scheduled the red bus to go there um you know we're working with John Peter Smith at their intake Center so that we can be right there when uh community members are enrolling in Medicare Medicaid we can also enroll them in snap we have many Community Partnerships that are helping us be in the neighborhood where people are the importance of the bus and it's been brilliant right after you approved funding Arlington approved funding Parker County has approved funding Denton would like to get a bus because it allows us to roll into the neighborhood where folks have barriers to to access food they don't have a grocery store they don't have transportation there's not good busing system so we're right there at the library or at the elementary school at the local Health Care Clinic so we are meeting them where they are to help them with this so to answer your question there's some State barriers but there's some resource barriers as well can I answer anything else any other questions from Julie no thank you for the update thank you so much for your support I really appreciate it thank you thank you okay now we have a briefing on Commercial development study Dana Bergdorf is going to kick things off for us thank you Marion Council danaberg golf assistant city manager I'm happy to be here with you today to talk about commercial development we know that this is a high priority for mayor and Council uh it's certainly one of uh David's top work program priorities along with the entire management team so we've got a lot of a lot of work to do we also have a lot of great success to build on I want to recognize that we have our Real Estate Council Partners here with us today in the audience I believe we've got Joel haydenburg who's the current chair for the Real Estate Council board Tom Galbraith Bowie I see you back there and then Travis Clegg as well who will come up in in just a minute um so I want to say that we agree with most all the recommendations that you'll hear from the Real Estate Council today so we're in lockstep on on the need to continue the improvements that we've made so far and to continue to streamline the experience for our customers as I talked to with Travis about recently there may be some characterizations there may be some specific methods that we might not agree with but at the end of the day we're on the same page with the outcome that we're trying to achieve and as a quick side note before I ask Travis to come up I wanted to let you know that we need to give some kudos to development services and I.T Solutions this last weekend they completed the major really massive shift of our excela Software System from multiple servers to the cloud so all of our development processes probably hundreds of thousands of development records all transitioned over so while the system was down for a day on Friday DJ and his team put on a one-day in-service customer service training and t-build team building effort to continue with the improvements that we want to see for for our customers so with that I'll ask Travis to to come on up and share the report that they have for you afternoon my first time presenting in this forum I do it a lot in City Council meetings um Travis Clegg representing the Real Estate Council of greater Fort Worth we represent not only Fort Worth but also Arlington and surrounding areas um and uh my daytime job I'm a engineer so Peloton land Solutions we do developments we represent big developers who process plants this video Fort Worth so we spent a lot of time working on working with City staff I'm a civil engineer so I'm not a dam engineer I smell a little bit I like the excitement too of coming up here but um so let me give you a little history of who Real Estate Council is we are mainly a commercial based um group and so we have 550 members as part of our program we've also had David and Dana as part of our group that we meet on a monthly basis we're very thankful for that that relationship that we have with the with uh with our city um through our 17-year existence we've worked on all kinds of topics and a lot of topics are on this on this report but I wanted to hit some highlights I'm not going to go through every little detail of the report this is actually a summary of the report that Council has already received and that staff is also received as well so again this is a um a a summary of what the Real Estate Council is kind of engaged in we did a study here recently and that study was going out to our development Community we surveyed roughly 87 respondents who responded back to us with regards to how the processes of getting developments through the city of Fort Worth were working and so what we did is and since 2019 we did our first study we skipped it during a pandemic process but then we came back here recently do the same study asking questions like where do you struggle on getting your projects to the system uh how long does it take to get a project to the system most of our respondents were seasoned developers or seasoned Consultants they've spent a lot of time here in the city of Fort Worth they've done three or four projects they've also done projects outside of City of Fort Worth so they have something to compare it to um and so we kind of broke it down into three different sections one is the development of the sort of the council development professional survey two is the org chart which I want to kind of spend some time on and three is a tax study that shows the deferred revenue to the City by uh by a slower process so the development professional survey again went out to a number of developers in the area I'll skip to the next slide real quick but so when I asked uh which department has improved since 2019 the most 82 percent of those said development services had the most improvement over that time frame when asked if Enterprise cooperation across development departments has improved 68 answer no or is getting worse and so we kind of came up with some recommendations with regards to our initial survey one was to expand the positive trajectory that development services has already gone through and get that through all departments not just development services two was to instill a culture of problem solving across those departments across the the uh the different departments and then three was to resolve cities uh internal process conflicts so again you hear process you hear interdepartmental quite a bit but you also hear a lot of successes that we've had over the past few years dealing with development services permit times have gone down substantially iprc review times have gone down but there's other pieces whether they're out of our control or in our control that have gone up and we've also created a some some issues so one of the issues that we kind of came up with was who's in charge of the development process in Fort Worth so when we get phone calls from anger developers who are saying things take too long a lot of times they just say permitting is horrible in Fort Worth what does that mean does that mean just the whole entire process does that mean permitting what we find out is it means everything it means preliminary planning process it means the studies that you do from water and sewer it means iprc it means permitting there's a lot of processes that go into place when you actually do a full development project and so what we found out is we worked with City staff DJ to come up with an org chart of how the city is is set up and we found out that there's not one Department that handles development there's nine departments that handle development so there's several assistant city managers there's many directors involved but it doesn't go through one Department it goes through nine different departments four decent sized projects so if you fix development services and things are moving quickly you could have issues hung up in other other departments as well so I know you can't see this but this is the org chart that we worked on with with a DJ the green area what I want to highlight are the is the development services department and that handles roughly services and then Dana also handles the water department as well in her ACM role the rest of it these other eight departments are not involved in development services so DJ wants to go and or Dana wants to go and fix something or try to move a project along they're going across interdepartmental Department lines and so all these different groups touch a regular project in the city of Fort Worth so we came up with some additional recommendations with regards to how the city is kind of set up one is silos we hear this word a lot in Fort Worth we're stuck in different departments we can't cross these silos I can't get one thing from one Department get it to the next apartment or I got to wait for this department to do what they need to do before I do my work in my department the other word we used is the One-Stop shop we hear that a lot some cities have a have a group where you submit everything to one central location and that group takes you around to the different departments so instead of your consultant or your developer having to find out where to go to fix things you have a One-Stop shop I think the facilitation group was kind of that idea that we set up under mayor price I think she called it the shepherd the shepherd group it's called today facilitation group but we don't utilize it as well I think we could utilize it and some of the Cities do it pretty well additionally for the silos so again we're all in different departments right now we would like to have all those apartments rolled into or at least people who are working on specific development issues to be within the development services area and I'm not sure how that's going to work it might be pretty tough to go from different groups but it would be nice to be able to go to one person to solve some of these problems the second part of that is the new city hall can we have everybody who works on development projects on one location that might make it easier for developers or Consultants to navigate the system versus going to different buildings or maybe different floors to find solutions to their to their projects um number six was scheduling staff meetings to review workflows we already do a lot of this in development services bpis we look at the issues we look at the processes how do we fix those make them more efficient but I want to do that through different departments as well invest in proven customer service training again there's a lot of training that goes on at City Hall I'm not privy to all those different training meetings but there's definitely a lot going on I heard recently DJ there was a a training session of people building boats out here or something so I thought that was pretty interesting um city manager to work on a two-hour Forum attended by all development Personnel kind of working across interpersonal lines number nine was something that came up pretty pretty often in our survey we're losing a lot of staff and we're losing a lot of staff not only outside the city of Fort Worth but from internal departments going from one Department to the next looking for a job raise looking for a promotion and we're losing a lot of historical Knowledge from those people who leave either the CFA group or development services the water department they go to a different group and now we have to look and work with a completely new person and all the discussions and history you've had with that person to fix certain issues are all gone you're having to retrain those same people um and the last one was it's not reflected what is actually on the org chart uh the legal group not to get too detailed into this but things can get complex whether it's easement changes whether it's a CFA change or whether it's a public-private partnership legal departments involved in a lot of different aspects of development you may not think that all the time but there are times where we need to get an easement language approved through the city of Fort Worth and that that takes some time as well so oddly enough I did some research and and in 2006 a Zucker report was done I'm not sure how many faces we have from the 2006 era but when I went through that report that thing was 250 Pages a detailed study it took a year to get through a lot of Consultants involved a lot of stakeholders and customer service customer groups but I saw some of the same words that were in 2006 and I'm seeing today you're pushing good people out cooperation problem solving lack of communication change in Attitude um people not part of meetings that they should be so there's a lot of similarities in a study that was done in 2006 then I wonder if I could just take the cover off and put today's date and we could find a pathway to get some of the stuff through oddly enough a lot of these things were done so facilitation group came out of that the development advisory committee came out of these reports so a lot of things have happened but I think there's some some similarities between 2006 and today the only difference I see is the amount of work so 2006 if you think back 2005 was a Heyday we had a lot of residential development a lot of commercial development we were pulling permits and I think the numbers were roughly we always called it the The Benchmark right it was 500 permits was like this huge number we were pulling eight and nine hundred permits last summer per month so relatively the same amount of staff twice the workload the projects were much larger much more expensive uh and we just had a kind of a bog down in certain areas from getting projects from A to B so we have some conclusions in here um again I kind of went through uh mainly The Ore chart situation and how we can fix working across those those other eight uh City departments again we continue to work with City staff we continue to work with our council members to find ways to improve our processes um and I think the next part of this is what the dollar figure is when we delay projects so we also did another study it was called the Highland study and we engaged a consultant to look at what the cost would be for delays and projects So based on our study basically we had a 10-week development process delay which impacts roughly 20 percent of the projects and ultimately you'd have a 1.4 million dollar delay in Revenue to the city of Fort Worth um because we can't work out processes the other part of that is six hundred thousand dollars in fees we don't collect on that same 10-week process so we're losing two million dollars every 10 weeks on delays for projects not getting to the ground quickly thus not getting the tax revenue from from those projects last but not least we're working with Dave he probably haven't seen this yet I put in his inbox before I walked over here but we want to continue to work with David and his staff on and the directors on on process improvements finding metrics and how to measure those metrics um The Real Estate Council is going to continue to survey its membership so we've historically done this every two years we're going to start doing it every quarter to see if we're improving on some of these areas so with the help of David and Dana I'm hoping that we can kind of move that needle a little bit I already know there's been conversations that David's had with Department directors I've already had several calls and several meetings with Department directors asking how can we improve the process are we the problem if so what can I change so I appreciate again the uh the teamwork and all the help that the city has given us and hopefully we can start removing this needle a little bit a little bit quickly and so I'll leave it for any questions you may have thank you Travis questions or comments from Council Michael yeah Travis thanks appreciate it um dj2 I know Joel and I see Bowie and Tom from the Real Estate Council if I missed anybody sorry about that um I want to say thanks again we've I've been on this for a long period of time but appreciate the increased investment in development services that the best part of the budget this last year David um spent a lot of time with DJ and what that means it's funny that you bring up those two reports and it's the same thing um a number of years later talking about One-Stop shop and silos um we still have that I I think the One Stop Shop is is a great idea and I'm hoping that we're getting there as we're moving as I've been told through to the new city hall where that's a possibility that they can be on the same floor the silos are still frustrating for me because I hear again and again about the holdup that happens and I know David you've got a printout of this in your office that I've seen of all the different departments that touch this I spared roll it out on top of the desk like I did in the mayor's office I'm rolling it out it was 14 feet long when I rolled it out 14 feet long but the silos bother me a lot because I've said this I don't think you need to be a certain Department employee to understand the policy in that department um and I think we have to keep breaking down those silos because of the numbers you just put up there of two million dollars every 10 weeks basically that we're losing them we can't get these businesses open I understand having a bottom line that this is the bottom line for a lot of people getting their business open these might be big commercial projects but they're also creating jobs for other people that it's a bottom line putting food on their table so people are getting frustrated and not coming back or getting frustrated and saying they're not going to be here so um I do want to see too you point out there The increased customer service aspect because I think that lends itself to a lot of people that want to be here they might be frustrated with the system but but if they know they're getting the answers they need in a timely manner we can work that out so I think that's an idea too one of the ideas that you brought up was this forum to discuss resolved ideas I don't know how is that accomplished now you may not be able to answer that but I know for a fact I'm I'm it's like I'm beating groundhogs of that little game every time an issue pops up and I know that we do a good job of trying to address it I don't know if DJ wants to talk about that but the more we can do to make sure across the board that people understand you know the employees whatever the issue is with whatever that everybody understands it I think it helps one of the new things we're doing now is this development 101 Yes program so we're going to bring the different development groups into the city hall and have these conversations about how we move projects across from one Department to the next and where things could get held up and then if you do get held up how do we navigate because right now what I do when I get held up I call that guy yes and he can't solve every problem well I called no he does and so or any department head so it's just it can't be that way all the time there's got to be some path forward and you know just like Travis said it's just investing uh in training right and we do have a High number you know in our turnover statistics right and so we're constantly bringing folks in so we're constantly having to train that institutional knowledge is also leaving right and so the same way we've got the development Community turning over we've got developers coming from California and other locales right and so we're we're needing to train our staff up on our processes and our policies and the reason why we do the things we do but we're also having to train a development Community concurrently right and so you know again like the development 101 some of the staff training with the boats in the hallway right so we're just constantly trying to figure out how to engage folks and and make Creative Solutions for training um and moving things forward well I'd like to understand a little bit more why the turnover what's happening what are we not doing where they're going Etc and so that might be something too to let future if we can study that then we might be is it pay is it something else is it time off whatever what are we not doing I'm sure it's all of it I have it on our company as well yes fighting for sure people leaving the company to go get more money and do less work yeah I won't believe the last Point well two points one I like this idea which I I make sense but the legal department across the board is involved uh we don't need to discuss it here but the idea that's being brought up the state level of a court that just deals with business I would we should probably look in that for our own legal department of just dealing with business questions and that might streamline this a little bit too the last point that you didn't bring up here but I'll bring up because it because I can is inspectors and how we do that and what that process looks like because they're inconsistency again with their inspectors that probably goes back to training that probably goes back to problem sharing one of the ideas that we've talked about in the small business task force is a ticket so when they go to that business they cross off all the stuff that they don't need that inspector does so when a new inspector shows up and says why don't you have this they say well the last inspector told me I didn't need it but they don't have any proof of that so I think that's something else that might help it'll help in the commercial world too that we could look at but I would suggest this too I look at your timeline I think it's great but we go into the budget process in August and I'd suggest you come back and give us another sort of progress report in August as we start the budget to see where the seven months has happened you had a meeting two meetings it looks like with a city manager you've worked with staff but that gives you about seven months to give some more data and put it together then see if there are other suggestions we need to do with development services from there absolutely thank you DJ added to what Michael just said you provided an update a few months ago about the state of affairs with inspectors a number of them maybe you can give us more timely you know update then I've got a question or or a comment sorry about having to leave my car is ready so I'll be leaving in a few but uh one thing I'll mention Michael in terms of why people leave uh McKinsey study tells us that there are more jobs available in this entire country than there are people qualified to take them so they're leaving everywhere I don't think you'll get any unique reasons as to why they're leaving that department because they're leaving so that's just FYI one thing that I've noticed I sit in on pre-development conferences I don't think many council members do and and you shouldn't but I have two projects that are really important to me uh when it comes to coordinating these meetings it's really important that we make sure people know how important their presence is I've been in too many pdc's and the main person is not there you know if you're in an area developing where there is high flood water concerns you know we need to make sure Claire is there and that's just one example and so coordination is very important I don't know how you get the level of efficiency you want unless all these people work for you and so that that becomes a problem and I don't know if you're going to build a kingdom or whatever but if I work for the fire department and DJ says I need you here but my fire chief says well you work for me how do you I don't know how you fix that and so you may I'm not asking you I don't want you stretching yourself right now because this if I hold you to it but but it's important to know that when it takes a team and so I may have missed something Travis doing during my call but unless people are working for you they don't have the loyalty to that project process because they have another boss so that's just food for thought I'll just I'll just say this council member um uh we don't know what that organizational structure looks like in the future but we're all leaning in to figure it out right all the directors the Chiefs right we're we're leaning in to figure it out but David's been very clear that we are going to figure it out right so he's been very he's been very clear with you know all staff and gave me a comment uh there is a zoning case coming through the process right now and this zoning case has been given tentative approval from staff but the people who gave that tentative approval are no longer here and the ones remaining are wondering how the hell did this get approved and so I asked for the mailing list you know who sent out the the notices for a zoning change and there were only eight notices and I think four of those were industrial where I know there are about 300 homes within that reach and so again this process has to be cleaned up and I'll share those details with you this was near Lake Arlington and it is it is so unbelievable that anyone could think that this could go through the process and so more than likely it's a good thing that that zoning commission meeting has been delayed to get more time but process has to be pure and people have to be committed to it and it's it's bad when they leave because you can't blame anybody but you know who who did the bad deed yes ma'am it's messy Leonard yeah uh just a couple comments questions um have we looked at uh other cities have your has your research taken you you to other cities to see what they're doing right or wrong you're not so much research as we do projects in other cities yeah so we know the process um I know that some City staff have gone to other cities to see what their processes are I know DJ's on a field trip on several occasions yeah and reported back to the Real Estate Council group um but we've done work in San Antonio and Austin and Dallas and and other other smaller cities it's hard to compare yourself to smaller cities that are a little more agile and one person handles eight different tasks um but the larger cities you know I would say that you know some cities do some things better and they do some things worse and so we want to capitalize on some of the good habits and maybe not take all of our direction from certain cities as and how they do things because they do take quite a bit of time yeah and what happens then is the state gets involved and rights legislation that slows everybody down right right but that's part of the process in terms of how we are approaching solutions by taking the the best things so to speak of what others are doing and try to apply them maybe yes sir we do a great deal of benchmarking you know not just organizational structure right but also you know metrics right turnaround times we look at their volumes versus our volume is what's practical as far as review times go right um we also you know even with the future city hall conversations we work with tanyan and Athenian group to make several site visits across the country to look at how those One-Stop shops you know shape up right and so we spend a great deal of time internal to the department and then external partnership with DAC and Real Estate Council to look get other cities and what they're doing as well yeah terrific well and I would just also comment on the org chart kind of um representation of the system because as it appears to be kind of simple and just laying it out on a page or a very long page um it reveals so much and I think it's an opportunity to talk about um you know the organization when you're focused on process and efficiencies versus structure right and one may require a big change to to improve the others so structure improving process and efficiency because just something you mentioned DJI that got my attention was you know with turnover and with um getting people up to speed as to the way we do things well we're prep we're perpetuating the problem right if we're trying we're always playing catch up or or whack-a-mole was what you were thinking of um instead of taking the Band-Aid off and looking at the structure and looking at the best way I think to attack those problems just two cents of Jared Allen either one oh thank y'all um just a comment um I know that we're you know quickly approaching the budget season and um you know DJ you've shown me not only the org chart but also the process chart and how that process kind of interweaves between different departments and I personally would like to see us take a look um at what it would take to make a One-Stop shop and consolidate some of these functions if not all of these functions underneath the underneath One Umbrella I don't know what that structure looks like but I personally would like to you know see if we can get to that timeline of August so that we can discuss that in the budget process and see what improvements we can make next year so Travis thank you for coming today I really appreciate the work the Real Estate Council has done putting this together I think it's been Illuminating I think it's been incredibly helpful and also want to thank DJ and and David on the efforts they've been putting forward uh over you know these past months with the new budget and you're Staffing up to help solve this in the development service department specifically I think there that the the survey showed that there was uh decided Improvement there I look at the org chart and and Jared just touched on a little bit but I can't imagine what an optimized process flow would look like and and even more so can't imagine what the reality process flow actually is so that would be my challenge is is kind of to to Really workflow it whether whether all the whether there's organizational change or not uh you know a great process flow and so everyone really understands uh could be beneficial I had discussions with Travis about best way to Benchmark this and it sounds DJ that you have thoughts on that already I if there is if there is a good way to Metro size and Benchmark the process so we can see the tangible improvements over time I think that would be incredibly beneficial to us so anyway I just want to thank thank everybody for what's been happening here and I don't want us to lose any momentum anyone else Elizabeth so we added upwards 30 plus positions in this current budget cycle to development services to help address this issue and we're still dealing with the issue now granted it hasn't been a full year and like patience isn't my virtue but we have allocated resources to this I have seen the uh the infamous org chart because it is taped up across David Cook's bookcase in his office and I walked in one day and was like what in the world is going on here and it is complicated and a little convoluted but what we know is that we we put a whole bunch news of additional staff members into this process and it may have alleviated some but it hasn't fixed it there are a lot of different moving parts to this because it takes so many specific expertise to come to this conclusion right so while it may seem easy to put everyone study under you know one bucket I would venture to say that [Music] um Fernando Costa is not a storm water Engineer Expert is that fair to say all right okay so so we have to make sure that we're continuing to keep that professional continuity together however we do that because we can't lose that professionalism at the sake of expediency because then we get bad development um what I would be interested in knowing is um what other cities or charts look like because this may be a situation where we've got this and this is great and I think we're always really good at tinkering with stuff but maybe the the solution is not to Tinker but just take a sledgehammer to it and and start all over and so I would be interested in knowing what those cities that we look to that um that don't have these lags in in the process what are they doing how are they structuring it and how can we do that better and then to David Cook I would say if there are silos in anything then it's indicative of of a culture not just when it comes to development services but across the city and so my charge would be to um to help break those down across the city not just in the developmental Services because it shouldn't matter who you report to um the the end goal is providing top-notch customer service to our residents and so um I don't know how you fix that David but we're here to help great comments DJ thank you it was great to see your staff last week hard you're working a lot of these changes you are implementing and I keep saying it but the environment matters and you're going to be in a new city hall with a One-Stop shopping your employees are going to be very excited to come to work every day and I think that while some people that maybe have not visited as many times as Travis has downtown into the basement of our city hall it does make a big difference so special thanks to City management for recognizing that the investment was going to be maybe one of those critical pieces of all the changes that were going to take place in your department and just keep doing what you're doing I know it takes a lot of time and effort and you're only one person but I know you have a lot of other directors and people that that are right behind you making these efforts and and to other folks or maybe not in your department thank you as well because in some cities I'm sure they'd say pound sand we don't really care what you're doing and that's not been the case at least when I've talked to the department heads they're all really willing to make a difference in this sector and because of that economically the city will flourish and all the other things they're working on will come together so thank you very much thanks to you thank you thank you we have another one sorry next up is economic development Sherry Gordon is going to present on Carhartt good afternoon you're ready the purpose of this presentation is this to discuss a proposed tax abatement with Carhartt and I would mention that we do have representatives in the audience from the company and so happy to welcome them to Fort Worth carhart's a us-based apparel manufacturer known for its work clothes family owned annual revenue 2 billion number of employees 5500 based in Dearborn Michigan and they're partnering with a third party Logistics provider to lease a state-of-the-art distribution center space to meet their growing long-term Market so that location is at 16101 wolf cross crossing that's west of the Texas Motor Speedway off Highway 114. on the project overview Carhartt is to partner with that third party Logistics provider they'll manage the building Construction and design of a 1.2 million square foot building they'll be investing in business personal property including fitting the facility with machinery and equipment their proposed capital investment is 80 million that'd be 50 million in taxable appraised value of business personal property by January 1st 2025 with 500 full-time jobs by December 31st 2024 and I did want to note that those 500 jobs are to be organic and local they're not having transfers for those jobs the average annual salary for the jobs will be over 55 000. the company commitments are the 50 million in taxable bbp by January 1st 2025 500 full-time jobs December 31st 2024 and all those full-time jobs would have a minimum average annual salary of 55 000. so what staff is proposing is a seven year tax abatement up to 75 percent of that BPP the abatement capped at 2 million that 75 percent breaks down 30 percent is based on the BPP at 50 million 25 is based on the 500 full-time jobs being over 55 000 and 20 is based on the 500 jobs so for the summary there's private investment by Carhartt minimum of the 50 million in BPP right by December 31st 2024 as a part of this uh project there is expected to be another 60 million in Real Property improvements by the 3pl and property owner at the site and that 60 million estimate is also included in the future projections the employment is 500 New ftes Again by December 31st and average annual wages 55 000 with a proposed seven year incentive proposal so that public-private ratio is at 1.7 at present value 1.3 with a estimated ratio of 29 almost 29 to 1. with net new taxes of 3 million MPV 2.5 and that payback is just 2.3 years again with the Real Construction costs in addition to the BPP so our recommendation next steps are to enter into that seven year tax abatement agreement 75 percent with a public hearing on April 11th and MNC on April 11th and do we have any questions any questions Council no very exciting thanks for the update and special thanks to economy development for making it happen thank you one more presentation on FY 2020 annual comp financial report I think Reggie Zeno is up first good afternoon Maryland Council I'm joined by Tony Russo the assistant director of accounting actually the accounting Bureau and I'm here today to uh present a quick overview of the FY 22 annual comprehensive financial report uh the agenda today uh we'll just go over the purpose of the annual comprehensive financial report we'll review some highlights from fy22 we'll briefly go through financial performance of on an entity-wide basis and then several of the individual funds and then we'll we'll turn it over to Tony to review the audit findings and results the audit itself was presented this morning to the audit committee but we'll provide a brief overview of that presentation uh the annual financial report is prepared in conjunction with the generally accepted accounting rules that govern its preparation the document itself is audited annually by an independent auditor and the purpose of the financial report is to provide a detailed description and accounting of all city-wide expenditures obviously several bodies use the document in particular Bond rating agencies bondholders and investors as well as granting agencies uh just to highlight a few of the accomplishments in FY 22 the Auditors provided an unmodified clean opinion which is the highest opinion provided on financial statements by an external auditor the city received the award the certification for achievement and excellence in financial reporting that was awarded to the finance department and then Additionally the planning unit planning data planning and data analytics Department was awarded the distinguished budget presentation as well as a part of the annual audit the city was successful in implementing the new gasby statement number 87 as it relates to leases from a financial performance perspective this is a really busy uh slide but the documents the document itself is prepared based on generally accepted accounting practice and that's a set of accounting standards that's administered by what we call gasby the government Accounting Standards Board revenues are recorded when they are earned and expenses are then matched up against that within that same period to match revenues this accounting that you'll see is slightly different from the budgetary basis accounting reports that are presented through pdna to council periodically and those revenue and expenses are recorded as they occur or as we collect the revenue and the expenses as we pay bills uh on an entity-wide basis we've seen a net increase in net position city-wide of approximately 273 million that's attributed to several factors throughout the organization but generally an increase in revenues from as compared to Prior year net pension liability calculations which caused the fund balance the balance and that position to increase slightly related to pension and the opeb which is the the basically the retiree Health Care Program we've we have recorded an unrealized lost on investments of approximately 50 59 million and that's an unrealized loss it's not an actual loss on the Investments because we hold all of the Investments until maturity and then we've seen a slight increase in expenditures which help to increase the balance and as total we've seen a net increase in the in the net position from the standpoint of outstanding debt we currently as of September 30th hold approximately 2.3 billion of outstanding debt uh 45 percent of that debt is is attached to the water and sewer rates um that's a billion slightly more than a billion dollars of outstanding debt uh Geo bonds as well as Geo government CEOs account for approximately 32 percent of the debt load it's a significant balance of debt uh we we saw a an increase due to bond issuances of 360 million offset by payments of approximately 264 million the next this slide just provides a really high level view of the general fund on a gap basis we've seen the end the fund balance increase by 2.7 million with the resulting 2.243 million dollar fund balance that's attributed to a variety of of occurrences we've seen property tax collected generally at the budgeted Target sales taxes we saw a dramatic increase in sales tax collections we were able to aggressively manage the budget to the credit of All City department heads we actually were able to build a fund balance up by approximately 25 million and then within the general fund we had the unrealized lost on investments uh this slide basically is attempting to provide council with the crosswalk uh probably two months ago uh city manager presented the estimated balances on a budgetary basis to council and there we reported an unassigned fund balance of 192.2 million uh all within an ending a fund balance of 244.4 million on a budgetary basis and we're simply providing a crosswalk of all of the various adjustments that are required within the Gap basis accounting we are several non-cash transactions or actually embedded into the accounting record to basically reduce the fund balance slightly but then additionally we're we're required to report the endowment gas lease within the general fund on the Gap basis schedules and so the resulting Gap bases is the approximate 243 million of fund balance uh culture and tourism had a great year in FY 22. the hotel taxes were up dramatically approximately 12 12 million and ticket tax as well increased by approximately 3 million that also led to an increase in the culture and tourism fund balance by 19 million which left a resulting 46.5 million in its fund balance and then of course this is all based on the Gap basis of accounting ccpd ended the year as well with the Positive fund balance of 40.3 million that fund balance is slightly less than the prior year and that's due to obviously the sales taxes being collected over and above the budget the expenditures were slightly below the budget and then the resulting use was primarily due to the use and purchase of vehicles I believe with the ccpd funding in fiscal 22. uh on a risk the risk fund is the One Fund that was that is continuing to be somewhat problematic this fund ended with a deficit of 12.4 million that's attributed to increases in costs we actually were required to pay 3 million out for Hail claims we are experiencing a dramatic increase in commercial insurance premiums as well as self-insurance claims liability increase dramatically by two 219 percent and then as well workers compensation uh as I've noted these statements are based on a gap basis includes some non-cash adjustments however from a cash perspective the fund does have sufficient funds to cover its current liabilities but this fund will require some really serious budget analysis uh during the 24 process FY 24 budget process but as Illustrated we've seen some dramatic increases within this fund uh water and sewer had a very excellent year again ending with the 2.9 billion dollar net position that was an increase of 222 million and again I'll note these are on a gap basis uh with additional Revenue contributed due to a drier than normal year which generates additional Revenue uh there was a cash defeasants which which generated some additional long-term savings the pension liability decreased by 32 million which all resulted in an increase in the fund balance there was an additional net invested in capital assets of which 86 million approximately was contributed by Developers uh pension which is always of interest to all of us the generally accepted accounting practice requires us to account for pension differently than the Actuarial report that is prepared annually through the Retirement Board uh this calculation is based on an assessment of accrued liabilities that is then offset by the market value of the pension at the end of September 30th of 21 22. uh the actuary report that Council will receive I believe in May from the Retirement Board will be a better illustration of the pension scenario it'll be much more updated the Actuarial values are calculated differently in that the investment returns are smoothed out over a five-year period to avoid any major uh adjustments or any major impacts to the liability it's not it's a an effort to smooth out the effects of any investment scenarios and as you may be aware of the investment fund retirement investment fund suffered a pretty significant loss due to the stock market and all of that data will be presented on the May 16th a joint meeting of council and Retirement Board but based on these calculations which is uh the accounting standard by which all governments must follow we are representing a slight decrease in the unfunded liability and these calculations are always one has a one-year lag in it so much more current information is forthcoming uh the post-employment benefits liabilities basically is the retiree Health Care overall the health care is a closed plan employees hired after 2009 are no longer available eligible for City funded health care so therefore these expenses are paid on a pay-as-you-go basis there's approximately 28 million budgeted in the budget to fund these Health Care claims at present at the end of June September 30th the city had basically an 89 percent unfunded liability but the payments are made on an annual basis on a pay-as-you-go the city currently manages a portfolio of approximately 88 million that's used to help offset future liabilities but as I indicated this this program will well the liability is attached to this program will will decrease dramatically over time and we're projecting that by 69.70 this fund will have sufficient assets to fund Insurance uh health care payment insurance expenses without a need for a general fund allocation Reserve compliance within the general fund as was presented several months ago by Mr cook that we will end fiscal 2021 with an undesignated fund balance of 21 as the the chart depicts we have attempted to grow the fund balance over time the goal is to reach a 25 percent uh 25 percent of projected expenses as our unassigned fund balance which would represent three months of reserves and as you wear the government needs is required to have sufficient reserves to cover any unforeseen issues that may come about and this is simply a depiction of the general fund fun fund balance with the under unassigned at 192.2 million which represents 21 percent uh as it relates to the other government funds uh all of the funds represented are well within compliance the green check marks The Debt Service funds are compliant with the policies as well uh Enterprise funds are primarily within the target except for the solid waste which is off slightly by one day of cash on hand but well within a reasonable uh performance internal service funds as well oh well within current uh policies except for the risk fund that that I referenced earlier and I'll turn it over to Tony to briefly discuss body findings okay so I'll start with just some audit terminology so material weakness is in deficiency in internal controls such that there's a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement in the city's financial statements will not be prevented or detected and corrected on a timely basis and a significant deficiency is a deficiency or combination of deficiencies in internal controls that are less severe than a material weakness however they're important enough to bring council's attention to it so for a fiscal year 2022 we had a total of 140 million dollars in Grant expenditures there were 267 active grants and 17 and managed by 17 departments throughout the city so all of the audit findings identified and previously have are have been addressed and corrected so in the past five years the city's averaged four audit findings and um since I've worked on 17 annual Financial reports for the city and we've always had numerous findings we've never had no findings this year we came close the the Auditors found one finding which they considered a material weakness we'll talk about that next so this is regarding the um airport Improvement program where the contractor did not submit um certified payrolls for itself and for sub contractor work as required by the Davis bacon Act and the city didn't have internal controls in place to to ensure that that we received them however since this finding has been brought to our attention Aviation received the certified payrolls Finance reviewed them and we've determined that you know there isn't any issue all employees were paid were paid at least the minimum amount but we still um you know to to prevent this from occurring in the future so one thing departments are responsible for the operational compliance of their grants while Finance works with the financial management part of the part of the grants and the aviation Department was already in the process of reclassifying a position to a contract compliance specialist which would assist in this area and in addition finance will establish a process where we are communicating deadlines for compliance related items in you know up front so then once we receive it then departments will send them to finance and finance will review for reasonableness and then we'll load them into PeopleSoft and in addition we'll continue to provide training to Grant personnel and re reinforce the key concepts of Grant compliance and this is just an update the Auditors also provide five separate agreed upon procedures they're in process right now so there's not really an update but but it's something we don't anticipate any issues with them but but it's still they're not completed at this time questions questions from Council no thank you all very much for the hard work put in into staff that's here too thank you thank you thanks Reggie Council I think that's the last of our presentations we can move to Future agenda items go ahead Carlos [Music] hey brother Seth some years past I guess it's directed to both tpw and police department now when I go to conferences I take a close look at what uh applicable Technologies they are since we're talking about street light you know infrastructure improvements now I know that the state of current technologies have changed talking about maybe lower cost sensors that can be installed to help us with locating you know triangulating gunshots because that technology is it you know matures keeps getting cheaper I know that there is a collaboration between a T and T and General Electric on that front I don't know any other further details but my request would be that tpw and the police department get together and give Council an update as to whether or not those Technologies are you know can be feasibly you know implemented at a good uh price point I'd like an IR on on what the process and the procedure is for our police officers following a CPI or other type of traumatic events you know what type of time off they're allowed counseling or other type of Supportive Services um so if we could get a list of the types of triggering events and then what is at a available to them afterward would be very helpful uh yes I want an IR well yeah I guess our procedures are there's a better way of doing uh our meetings such as like the ccpd meeting last week it shows as follow and and instead of the four o'clock time that most people are planning to be here and so I got a lot of comments about they were not prepared to be here so um what does that look like moving forward is a better way that we can do that also um an IR on when we have formal presentations come to this Council when does it go to council for a vote I know I think one of them is we talked about a consensus but is that the only way so I want to IR on the procedures of when presentations come to counsel and work session How does it go to a council for vote also I want to IR on all of the CPS uh that have been presented to council from the last 10 years nope okay thank you meeting adjourned thank you