the chief is going to give us an update on the uh recent scrapyard fire that occurred this past Friday chief calling the chief there he comes our meeting is in session if you're in the audience please maintain silence I hear you all the way up here sounds like I'm at church chief you might want to pause just a couple of minutes until we get the cable signal going we have standing room only thank you all for being with us this afternoon Ron can you check on the cable okay Joseph I'm getting the impression it's you giving us trouble no never never never yeah y so miss City attorney if the cable doesn't work good to go or should wait so legally you're okay with me started yeah I don't need that I'm good City legal is going to check and make sure we are recording at this time and even with no video if we're recording the meeting will proceed okay just one second I'm waiting on Leanne to tell me good afternoon May Pro time members Council Mr cook uh Jim Davis fire chief last Thursday on the 16th uh yes ma'am you have to wait a bit it's confirmed that I thought you should go but you sounded good that's a great audio check again good practice that'll work I mean I see HDMI no connection we're good okay and with that please Chief if you would repeat and give us your report thank you again good afternoon mayor Pro members Council Mr cook Jim Davis the fire chief last Thursday on the 16th at uh 2:14 in the afternoon the city of Fort 911 communications center received a uh report of a fire um at the uh 3800 block of uh North Commerce Street um right there on North Main that um involved the scrapyard uh recycling Center the um uh incident lasted a total of approximately 14 hours and I was asked to come and brief you uh on some high level things that that went on there for your information um as I said the call originally came in at 214 it took companies approximately uh two minutes uh to actually uh get mounted up and get across the street with the first arriving company arriving at 216 um the total number of fire apparatus that that we ended up using during the course of that event was 48 with a total of 145 firefighters on those apparatus um the vast majority of the fire uh was contained um by about 9:00 that evening and then on a rotational basis through the course of the rest of the evening uh they were there monitoring and putting out uh spot fires and I'll explain why that occurred in just a second um we used uh Mutual Aid assistance um from two Suburban departments we dispatch for of Sanson Park and sagol we thank them for their help um we worked with the water Department um as you can imagine fires like that there's um there's three ways that you mitigate them and put them out uh one of them is to cool the fire with water one of them is to smother it and confine and reduce the oxygen consumption we use foam to do that and um then we remove the fuel and the that was one of the big problems in this fire is was with a a recycling center with a lot of auto parts and things like that there's grease there's oils it's a deep seated fire so a couple of the different it's not just as easy as throwing water on it you have to really get the crane operator you have to protect them and get them in their machine so they can help pull it apart as well to put it out so all of those things went into play and we were using a fair amount of water to try to uh contain it to the yard which then Cody and the environmental folks were involved to help us with water monitoring of the water off uh off the facility to make sure that the air was being monit because you know the smoke conditions in the area we were in communication with meum airport because it's right by the airport so the airport put out an advisory to ENC to what's called a notm to to pilots in the area we uh actually had to stretch hos line uh to make sure we were not operating on the same water uh lines in the in the area so we had to work not just with the water department with the police department to make sure that um the U roads were shut down for the for hose lines so there's a huge huge investment of City resources in a fire like this and we don't do it alone I want to thank everybody for their support on that there um were two injuries that occurred one was related to the Heat and one was related to an injury that a a part came off of a truck uh there was an engine fire on one of the fire apparatus that occurred during the course of it that had to be extinguished uh it had no relationship to proximity of the fire uh it was a mechanical issue and we're working with PMD on that um and the uh facility uh there's been in my six years with you all here there's been Three Fires there our our fire prevention folks have been working with um The Code Enforcement folks to make sure that those that that facility is inspected and protected the last inspection it really didn't have a whole lot of violations and by code they're allowed to stack to 20 feet so if you think about the 20 feet and then trying to pull it apart that that's one of the challenges that that took several hours to contain it so I spoke about the en Al impacts I spoke about the smoke um and um so there was we we work with the emergency Operation Center we advis a shelter in place but it wasn't like any type of evacuation was needed it's just more of making sure that folks that have respiratory and breathing problems uh aren't exposed to that type of environment for for the hours that we're operating so with that I'll stop and answer any questions but I I do want to say that it was a uh uh a several hour event that took multiple City departments working in coordination uh we're very fortunate for that and I'm very proud of the uh cooperation and the work of the fora fire department so with that I'll answer questions CH yes sir uh first I want to give my thanks to the very heavy response that you had to give and bring the beer on this fire and uh I think I missed it but you said uh Fire Departments of Sagen and what other Samson Park Samson Park and there two departments that we have built a relationship we dispatch for they're part of our suburb I don't know if any of them are here but I want to give my thanks pass that on please um you touched on this um a couple of times and I know that Cody whittenberg and his staff are partly looking at it uh were there the factors that you mentioned that contributed to the fire's intensity and you know longevity uh were there any other things that you observed that might have been in violation of our city code no I've I've reviewed the reports I've I've spoke with the fire uh investigators that were on the scene I've also uh asked our fire prevention Bureau to pull all the records in anticipation of of of of an issue or a concern like that and um we we see there's nothing that's been reported to me that the facility has not been Cooperative these appear to be accidental fires that are that are occurring from metal on metal causing some type of spark igniting some type of oil or some type of contaminant grease that's that are in some of these you know like the last fire that occurred a couple years ago was engine blocks and so you know they're heavy you got to be careful because you put people too close to them the pile shifts and next thing you know you got an engine fall block off of a car falling falling at you so they're they're really something that what we try to do is work ahead of time make sure that they're compliant with the height restrictions that we set make sure that there's operators available to help us pull it apart when it occurs and then we try to surround it and we try to keep it from extending in into um causing impact to other areas like neighborhoods the report and Etc and then we try to drown it try to suffocate it and we try to uh pull it apart yeah I'd received a number of calls from you know concerned residents you know to the point about is there any uh toxic substances that are combusting that are you know circulating in the air uh as it turned out uh after talking to uh you know the Pio Craig he had indicated that no after doing uh testing that wasn't the case but they were recommending if uh residents feel more comfortable they could stay indoors uh so appreciation to him do you know how many other fires in in recent years have occurred at this facility um this is the third in my six years of being here with you but I don't have a number Beyond six years and I can look into that okay and then uh I know Chris Harter is here uh I do want to mention that uh there were some pressure problems I think you know in the water system that uh when you were fighting this fire that he had to contend with I think the water department stepped in and tried to boost that I know the the tanks were full Chris I don't know if you want to get up to the podium and give some uh Clarity there I think it was on 37th in Grove that there was a water main break uh uh I forget the diameter of the line crisp but go ahead and speak to that I know that uh yall did a you know uh your best and you know got that line repaired I don't think it impacted uh your firefighting ability too much so yeah when we have a a fire that um you know involves multiple engines that is um you know devoting a lot of resources uh from the fire department too what we will do is we will um increase our pumping in order to uh top off the tanks in the pressure plane where the fire is located and that's what we did here uh it's not that the the pressure was low it's just that we tried to provide as much pressure as possible we did have a a main break in the area that was on a 2inch cast iron so that's not something that would have uh uh impacted the pressures but what we what we did is uh when that crew was done at about like 4:30 with their main brake repair we actually had them stay at the site because what will often happen especially in area that has old cast iron pipe like this area does is that just the demand in a very very concentrated area related to the fire uh the fire demand it creates a lot of high velocities within the water uh pipes themselves and then as they as fire hydrants are closed and opened and closed that can create pressure transits which actually can lead to main breaks and that's the last thing we want to happen is have a main break affecting uh the ability to uh fight a fire in the event so we kept a crew there just in case uh we had a leak or a main break that needed to be valved off real quickly good measureing again thank you Chris thank you and our goal when we teach our people we work Chris and his team are really great about helping us understand what size Mains are where in the city and our our education our people is not to hook up to every hydrant on the same main because it basically robs Peter to pay Paul so to what Chris is saying it's a supply and demand issue and we try to make sure that we pull off of different Mains and that's where his increasing capacity to the area is incredibly supportive and I'll just say that you know we do actually do have plans uh to um greatly increase our ability to move water in that area just through a cast iron replacement program we're going to be taking out some of these old cast iron transmission Mains and putting in larger diameter uh looped system from our Holly pressure plane so uh I don't think that we had any big problems with this fire event but we're going to be positioned in the next couple years to to be even better all right sounds the city's re we're being rehabed right now for our iso1 rating as a city which reduces people's homeowners insurance commercial insurance and Chris and his team are a about 40% of that fires about 60% of it so they they assess whether or not the cooperation that you're hearing this morning here or this afternoon here is actually occurring in this city or not and and I'm very confident that they're going to find that's that's working well and to that point you know one of the things we like to do is if we can actually hydraulically model scenarios as opposed to go out there and flow fire hydrants where there's you know lost water we try to do that in terms of proving our our system reliability that's good to know thank you both gentlemen again my thanks you know to to all the firefighters that responded to this and also want to thank MedStar who was out there keeping them hydrated as well and and safe thank you thanks all right next I'm going to call on our assistant city manager Jessica mccaran she's going to recognize our 2024 emerging leaders class thank you there were slides go it's okay I'll go with all right good afternoon mayor and councel uh the city manager team is thrilled to recognize two outstanding groups of employees here today uh that have completed the requirements to graduate from our emerging leaders one and emerging leaders to program I'm going to tell you a little bit about the program and then I will call up the two groups for us to recognize um together so the emerging leaders program was initially created last year in 2023 it was the brainchild of a young lady named Rebecca Doyle who's in our parks and wreck department but very active in our young professionals organization and Shane and loose our training specialist with HR you can wave real quick uh together they reached out to interested young professional members to see um what they would like to see with this program and they developed a curriculum that helped people hone skills such as leadership collaboration communication um hiring and managing building a strong culture and so much more in the first year of the emerging leaders program which was last year we had 11 employees graduate and we brought them here last October so you got to see those 11 graduates last year the program was so successful and those employees wanted to continue leading and developing their skills so they volunteered to continue the program and develop emerging leaders too those employees then um continued their training with the with the new emerging leaders class um but they did so while mentoring those new emerging leader participants we started out the new emerging leaders one program with 26 employees this year um and we are graduating 19 so we're very proud of them um when we were preparing this I also found it absolutely exciting that eight of our inaugural classmates so eight of the original 11 have already promoted within the city since participating in emerging leaders emerging leaders one program so just tremendous um this past year the emerging leaders won participants and marging leaders two mentors attended classes together they discussed their challenges and their successes and they jointly developed their skills through their efforts they created a sustainable educational and mentorship program which is dedicated to the growth and development of the Future Leaders of the city of Fort Worth today we're going to celebrate 10 emerging leader 2 graduates and 19 emerging leader one graduates um so let me start with the emerging leader 2 graduates if you will come up first and come stand right here please and I apologize we had some slides I am not proficient at working this so we're going to move on I know we're short on time um but we have a little bit of information to share about each one of these and just the incredible things that they're doing if you'll indulge me I'm going to send those to you afterwards because I think it's really neat to see just how much they've grown and all the ways that they're contributing back um both to their departments and to other employees within the organization so when I call your name go ahead and raise your hand um and I will note we did have a that had scheduling conflicts that are just not able to be here but I'm still going to call everybody's names uh we have Martha Lee Collins Rebecca Doyle Andrew Goodman Margo Gordon Tabitha guess Timothy Hayden Daniel leech Avery pesk and Cody Wittenberg and Stephen Nichols who's in my department I'm so sorry Stephen um clearly I have an issue with typing as well today now um please join me in congratulating all of these employees and their very hard work thank you and afterwards they're gonna go outside and shanon's gonna present each one of them a certificate and just a special um gift for our appreciation for again continuing in the program helping us develop the program make it even better and also mentoring the next group thank you all so much okay while they're stepping off may I have all of our employee um emerging leader one graduates come up and join me all of these employees come from a range of departments within the city and it's really neat to hear them just when they're collaborating and they're talking to all share their experiences and brainstorm I hope they all got as much out of it as we think they did and and we just have such a big group so it's great when I call your name go ahead and raise your hand come tight towards me it'll be good okay um Benjamin Thompson Brandy kelp Courtney August Eric banley Fanta cabba Heather barryman James Garrett Jordan bosk Kayla Scott Cole Kieran Karu Crystal Lofton Lacy Ruiz lorica Bailey Lindsay Mesa meline Mackey Rashad Jackson Rebecca Wilson Sundy adikari and Sher mat once again please join me in congratulating these [Applause] employees okay thank y'all so much thank you mayor and councel great work thanks everybody next I'm going to call on by seal sukumi our police oversight monitor to introduce a new member of her team good afternoon mayor and Council thank you for having me I'm excited to introduce a new member to the opon staff for those of you who knew um when I started the office we were short three staff members so it's been quite a journey for the last year but if I can please call up Mr Eric Sullivan he is the new Deputy Police monitor for the office of police oversight monitor he comes with us with an extensive background in law enforcement he started his career um around the Ferguson protest so at night he was working the protest lines and during the day he was taking water and food to those who were fighting for their civil liberties against police brutality he has over a decade of experience including being the chief of police for Harris Stow um the director for campus safety of Williams college and most recently worked in compliance for the University of North Texas in Denton so we're thrilled to have him on staff it has been an amazing first three weeks I would like to say I and I'm excited to see what other perspectives he brings to the [Applause] office I just want to say I am proud of the thankful for the opportunity to serve the city and I look forward to working with you all thank you so [Applause] much and next I'm gonna call on Fernando cust uh to recognize uh our new director for Neighborhood Services thank you David three months ago we presented Casey best to you as our interm neighbor Services director we extolled her many skills that are relevant to the leadership of that department and we told you that we had high expectations for her performance and yet she has exceeded those expectations she has demonstrated that she's the right person at the right time to lead our neighbor Serv department so I'm happy to present to you the permanent director of neighbor Services Casey Bess who will share with us information about her new management team Casey thank you everyone I am very excited about this opportunity and excited to get to work for the city of Fort Worth we have a great team um there's a lot to do we want to make sure we're doing right by our residents and so we're ex um happy to be here I do have some new people I want to introduce you to um first we have our new assistant director that will be starting on September 9th and that is Michelle dun King she is um going to be over our community services division um replacing what used to be Sonia Singleton's position Michelle is a under um actually all three of us Michelle and Pamela Rambo ston I found out we are all graduate was of UT Austin um and she also has her Ms in social work from Howard University and so Michelle is in the Fort Worth area she is from um a Child and Family Services she's been there for over 20 years and has been doing really good work and so we're really excited about what she's going to bring to our community action partners team so Michelle mayor I I've got to say something to Casey you got too many people for them to all talk yeah okay well just let it I'm just way let me tell you when when people were told that a current employee from HR was going to be serving as interim for your Department's uh director position it was like being told the IRS is coming to help you and you passed muster with me coming in into one of my revered projects immediately being able to answer critical questions and having a sensitivity about time and I'm talking about arpa money possibly going back and so the idea that you didn't have any need to do a lot of research you were Johnny on the spot or Jania on the spot you have won a spot you know in my confidence and so I say to you congratulations I know you've got a wonderful team and we expect great things from you and I've already seen great things from you so congratulations thank you I really do appreciate that thank you um and I do want to just real quick introduce two other people so Pamela Rambo seon has been with the city of Fort Worth for over 13 years she's currently with our public events Department she will be coming over until we can um f we have a vacant assistant director position and so she will be helping us until we can fill that position um and so we're looking forward to her helping and then I do want to thank Brian Brown Brian Brown came over for transportation and public works and was just as lost as I was when we came over but he has been he has done everything that I've asked of him and he's been um grateful um and just Johnny on the spot he's going to be helping Michelle get situated here and so we just want to thank Brian before he moves back over to transportation and public works so thank you [Applause] all that's called hitting the ground running all right next next we have informal reports we have a number of those the first informal report is on the Cowtown Coliseum license agreement Amendment and Robert Sterns is available if there are any questions all right the second informal report informal report is on the proposed Master developer selection for Evans and rosale Urban Village and again Robert Sterns is available if there's any questions yeah if Robert can come up and give a a quick uh overview thank you mayor members of council Robert Sterns Economic Development uh in your packets today is an informal report on the selection of a new master developer for the Evanson rosale project I probably seen this covered uh in the media uh this is a result of a request for expressions of Interest process that we started back in April of this year after uh movie on from the prior development team we actually had 11 uh developers that responded to that request for uh expressions of interest on the project which was uh very I think exciting for us to see that level of interest uh in the project and looking at the opportunities to invest in southeast Fort Worth uh we had a team comprised of City staff neighborhood partners that reviewed uh those submissions and we ended up selecting Royal Capital LLC uh as the development partner that we will be working with royal capital is headed up by Kevin new uh they're actually based in Milwaukee uh but they've done some really exciting work up there and this is part of uh an effort by Royal Capital to invest uh over hundred billion dollars across the US so they have a very large expansion plan that they're looking at uh excited about being in Fort Worth they actually came down to the city before the rfbi was officially released they heard about the project uh came down visited with the neighborhoods uh since being chosen as the selected development team uh they have already began to engage with historic Southside neighborhood association they're talking to the jth museum so they are jumping in uh feet first on moving this project forward uh we will have a update to the combined Housing Finance Corporation and local Development Corporation which are the primary land owners at the September 24th meeting and then following that we will have a a meet and greet with World Capital with the neighborhood kind of an official meet and greet and kickoff for the Pro project so we'll this will be the first of many steps as we continue to negotiate and structure a a deal with them but look forward to where we are in the project today and uh hopefully turning dirt on Evans and rosale here soon Robert just want to say thank you I know that Council Nettles has worked really hard along your side too but I'm just so impressed by your tenacity to get this project done and I think that we're we're right where we need to be so I just wanted to say sincere thank you and to you and your entire team rather and to the neighborhood I know that you put together a great team of neighborhood involved folks from d8 and historic Southside that really feel invested in this and Council Nettles I hope that you're happy too I think that you are with this selection and I think an year from now we'll be really turning dirt which is the goal yeah yeah I agree I thank you man you also have been a big support for this District so I really appreciate you uh William Johnson thank you for making sure that when people came back to the table they brought things that we needed to see up front and I appreciate you David as well and I you may be gone but we'll send you pictures invite me to the we'll invite you to because I know you've been working on for the last 10 years as well so thank you Robert thank you thank you next inform for report is an update on fiscal year 2025 proposed budgets for operating pids or public Improvement districts and our tourism public improvement district and again Robert Sterns is available there any questions all right the next informal report is on historic preservation incentives to support small businesses and Justin newart is available if there are any questions my only question for Justin or whoever may handle this is how are we communicating this opportunity out to small businesses and if we've developed a Communications plan yet using Justin's expertise who's not wearing a cowboy hat today I noticed yeah thank you mayor I think it's good that Justin explained this thank you um hey everyone Justin newart planning manager and development services so anytime grant opportunities come up or applications are being accepted we communicate that to various um partner Community organizations um so they can spread the word to local businesses and Property Owners we find that um people engage better that way than our office trying to go out and contact every um eligible property owner with a designated property so um we really try and partner with our community organizations like historic Fort Worth the Hispanic chamber of commerce near South Side downtown Fort wor thing to spread the word yep any other questions for Justin thanks Justin thank you next informal report is on how police calls are prioritized how many calls go unanswered and the number of false alarm calls dispatched and assistant chief Aldridge is available if there are any questions I think Chief yeah Council Beck's got questions maybe a few others I kind of figured that uh I do actually have uh several questions um thank you for putting this together I know when I go to Neighborhood meetings and I know my colleagues here as well people often complain about why I called and the police didn't come and I think some of that is managing expectations on the type the nature of the call and the appropriate level of response and which is in large part why I asked for this and so um you listed out kind of the technical um terms or the technical definition say Priority One pose an immediate threat to human life I think I can kind of figure that deduce what that is but if you don't mind for priorities one two and three if you could just give us an ex like an example of the type of crime that would be or the type of call that would be a priority One versus two or three absolutely Robert Aldridge executive assistant chief so a priority One Call would be like an active shooter a homicide where a suspect is still on scene things of that nature something that is actively going down that somebody's life is in Jeopardy so a priority to SS or scen security would be like a major accident on a freeway where MedStar Personnel is going to be there the fire department personnel is going to be there or let's say we have a mental health call where MedStar and Fire Department Personnel are there and they like Police Department being there for security as well priority two could be a domestic violence incident where maybe the suspect is on scene and maybe the violence isn't actively occurring um but there is a threat of that violence could be occurring or maybe an assault had occurred in the suspects somewhere nearby a priority three would be similar like an assault that does happen suspects no longer there a burglary that occurred that the suspect's no longer there that doesn't pose any kind of imminent threat or anything like that okay and then uh there's four and priority four and priority six is not a priority five no priority five no we just skipping just to throw you off okay great I love that for us okay um so really what I kind of want to focus on is the false alarms for a second yes um where do alarm calls fall in that prior priority one through sixish so it just depends so a regular let's say it's a panic alarm um that's a priority One Call okay so it's lights and siren officers are going to show up even if the call is cancelled or let's say the uh homeowner or the business owner says hey there's no real emergency we'll downgrade that to a priority to the officers will still respond to make sure everything's okay if it's a like after hours or like if it's a commercial holdup along alarm again priy one response if it's an active after hour um alarm where nobody's at the business and it's just a regular run-of-the-mill alarm that's a priority to call um and you know it's send up accordingly okay um and do we have can can any type of business in the city of Fort Worth have a panic alarm or do we have certain criteria for those that are that are allowed to no if they want to pay the fee and pay the services for that alarm they can have it okay um so then that's really what I want to get to next um because first of all thank you for putting this together um as I went through the data it's really alarming the number of false alarm calls that our officers are going out to um throughout the course of the year it seems to take up a vast majority or at least on paper of our resources uh we want people to have alarms and I want people to know that the police are going to respond to them but what I would like us to go back and look at is how other cities um charge for registration and for those um false alarm calls because it does seem like it's a pretty significant suck on our system right now um and we need to free those officers up to do you know pertinent work not false alarms um I don't know how other cities deal with it um but I'd be interested to know how maybe we can improve that system one to um to be a little more efficient and maybe deter folks to be a little more judicious or have a better set of circumstances around their alarm so that we're not chasing false calls so I know that whenever we do have a business that may have a large number of calls and we're I mean a large number of calls not just you know five to 10 um the will go out to that business they will even though there are other criteria where they do get fined for that um they do go out there and just let them know that we have had a lot of calls calls out there to check the sensors to have maybe the system checked out to see if we can minimize some of those calls moving forward and um one last question when it comes to alarms uh where do Home Security Alarms fall within that um like if a alarm went off at a home does that have the same priority as that if alarm went off at it does because home security systems have Panic alarms just they do have regular um just a regular alarm that goes off and if it's a panic alarm again we will go lights and siren get there as quick as we can if it's just a regular basic burglary alarm unless there's something else to it it's going to be a priority to call okay can I answer the question yeah no I'm done thank you just a question to that if police will only go out if the um alarm system call and they are registered with the city forward yes is that correct that is correct yes so we want to make sure citizens if you do have Lo make sure you're registered with with the city of forward in order to is it on the website it should be yes okay uh so that the police officers will come out I do have a question um there was an incident I think it's been about a year ago uh there was a resident uh in Glen Crest neighborhood uh and they called the police because there was a a man a homeless person laying in the yard and tried to get in their house the police will call they was coming and then it took like an hour for them to get there so I did I had called the assistant chief I think I think assistant chief helped me out with this and what happened was Central was on its way out and then they got a maybe a priority One call and they went somewhere else and so then South Division had to come which was much farther away to this uh this resident is there any I know I may be asking for a lot but there is is there any way uh if we know a police officer is going to come there's a call that we have to reroute an officer but they're they are in route to your location that'd be very challenging um because of the number of calls that we get through the call center itself and the number of calls that are dispatched um because the details of the call change as the call transpires so the individual that might have been trying to get into the house I don't know the details of that call there's a good chance he either walk down the street or he tried to stop getting into the house which would have downgraded that a little bit um whereas the response initially probably would would have been a priority one response but it probably got you know it could have got bumped down depending on his actions so um we don't like to dispatch to other sides of town to come to a like let's say from South to East to come and take care of that um we' like to you know the divisions to take care of those calls themselves but depending on what they're on sometimes that does occur so I mean uh we can look into it um to see if we can let them know that there might be a delayed response because we had to dispatch another unit um just so that they're aware of it but the system does update when when it changes to a different officer it does yeah it does in the dispatch system so if they call 91 again and say nobody is here it should show up and say well we have another offic that's in rout it would yes it would on the call sheet it would show that um but like if the dispatcher had to basically reroute and send another officer the call takers wouldn't know that they'd have to pull up the call sheet again if the call taker called back in it's simple to do I mean but and they could let them know that all right thank I actually I have one more and it's really just a request um we probably don't tell people when they call in you know 911 I have an emergency and we're like well you're a priority too or you're a priority you know we don't communicate that to them but if there is something that we could do um just proactively um to to let to just set expectations for residents and just maybe it's through social media or some sort of educational campaign so people kind of understand where you know this is how we prioritize calls and so this is what to expect when you call 911 in the city of for worth I think that a lot of what the conation I get is really I think people just don't understand they think 91 you know they think their emergency is everyone else's emergency and maybe there's not this understanding of there's some more severe emergencies you know above them and so if we can maybe just communicate that in a way that would be effective I would agree maybe that helps I don't know it would it would set the expectation for sure thank you any other questions for chief thank you Chief than you Chief the next informal report is on policy of designated delivery routes for delivery drones and Roger venables is available if there's any questions counc go ahead yeah thank you mayor uh no questions Ro uh Roger could you just give us a quick overview of that and uh flesh out um since I requested this last you and I have had some conversations about what the IR should show and why that's important yes sir uh Roger venal Aviation system director so yeah the purpose of this informal report was really to answer the basic first question about does this city have any regulatory authority over designated delivery paths for drones and the simple answer is no uh the FAA through its regulatory Authority has complete and exclusive jurisdiction over the national airspace uh same thing on a state level the state has also uh provided some laws that preempt the city from adopting ordinances that are somehow in conflict with the FAA or what the state has adopted so we're narrowing it down we're coming down to a local level and so what does the city have in its capacity to not regulate the airspace but influence where for instance drones take off and land their proximity say these drone nests that we're starting to see now that we've seen across the country but now have made their way into Fort Worth as a uh a delivery system for convenience to the customers Walmart has selected Fort Worth with several sites under evaluation one of which is currently operating at 8520 North Beach Street is sighting that that drone nest if you will away from noise sensitive land uses I mean local municipalities are starting to evaluate the location of these drone systems you know hours of operation noise addressing privacy concerns and so those ordinances are kind of focused in on that and not so much the delivery path of the drones themselves so I hope hope that answers the question the basic question was no we really don't have the the regulatory authority to do it but we have some influence in terms of our local ordinances about how we treat them within commercial districts you questions thank you so mine would be because one of these passes directly over some of my residence so I've gotten a lot of questions about it and saw State Rep try to chime in about this too yeah clearly understanding we have zero regulatory authority over the airspace but one of the things you mentioned that if we can get more information take back to our residents which is the noise piece and we hear about this a lot the noise ordinance and reason what's considered reasonable what's unreasonable Etc like is that something that we could address with them because some of these houses and I've listened to the videos it's all day long back and forth just to deliver some cookies I get it uh so it's a valid concern so is that something we can tell them that hey you can fly we just can right I think you could tell them that we can't regulate the airspace now there are not no fly zones okay that have been established over say critical infrastructure or prisons or schools or those sort of things they skirt around that so it's not just basically a direct path so they've already taken that into consideration I think it's up to wing and the communities to understand the operational specifications of the aircraft just understand what it's capable of doing the noise profile right at these particular sites or around residents and there's a community outreach program that all the Drone operators are obligated to do when they receive their uh part 135 air carrier certification which basically means they can be hired right uh receive compensation for delivery so they already have an obligation to do that and it's really working with the community neighborhood association with council members again to have people have a full awareness of what the operational Co capabilities of each aircraft are right now Walmart has has is using Wing at the location of North Beach Street they will contract with other drone operators that have different operating capabilities than Wing does so they're all not the same so I think that's important to have that community outreach wi and I think we've already started to reach out and I believe Wing has started to reach out as well and zipline will as well as they start to roll out additional sites and have that Community engagement but yes to your point there is certain things that we can do to make sure that those setbacks right based on what the noise profile is that is away from those noise sensitive uses right now we're treating it really as an accessory use on the retail side but we also require a site plan where you going to put the outside storage facility where these drones are put up at night what's the distance from those noise sensitive land uses any other questions Council yeah go Alan so Roger thank you yes sir U wing and the Walmart in question delivers into my district as well as councilman lowers dorf and so uh we we've been getting comments from from residents about noise and other issues uh I'll say yesterday uh Roger and I and others met with uh met with wing in Walmart to get a better understanding of what's going on on a great meeting Carlos set it up and uh we got a lot of good information out of it uh as Roger commented a moment ago uh Wing has been very agreeable to having discussions with the community and showing the community what their product is how it works and how loud it is and and how they get from point A to point B uh I think they have a meeting tonight actually in your District District Charlie with uh the park Glenn neighborhood association and we're looking to set something up and my district as well yeah to to better informant and Wing seems to be fully supportive of that yes Wing is very committed to anywhere where they're going to propose a new location for delivery service that again they're working with the council member working with the community and that it's going to receive those those deliveries that there is that communication that they people understand what's what's taking place in terms of these drugs mayor I'm sorry just one question Roger to your knowledge uh since more of these uses will become prevalent that was part of the reason why I was asking specifically City doesn't issue permits yet for that kind of use right well we actually issue I think there is a process to go through for site plan lesandra here she can help answer this question but basically there's an outside storage component that's part of the uh of the Drone nest if you will that requires some type of permit also we've got a u electric generator out there for instance that help charge the charging stations that's temporary in nature so and again a site plan to show where they're at so yes they go through an approval process to site the location of the drum Nest okay thank you thank you Roger thank you thank you our next informal report is on property management director recruitment process and Diana gordano is available if there any questions all right the next informal report is on subreg and collections process for the city of Fort Worth and once again di gordano is available if there are any questions we're rolling now proposed Council initiated zoning changes for property bounded by Clay Mountain Trail Sandell Boulevard Corin drive and North Freeway or interstate 5 in Council District 4 and L Leandra string fellow is available if there are any questions all good then the final informal report is on water utility fiscal year 2025 recommended budget and rates and Chris Harter is available if there are any questions hearing none mayor that concludes my report okay thank you David Council any questions on MNC log members boards commissions coming up before next meeting if not we're going to move directly into our first presentation which is by Robert Sterns to discuss the proposed Economic Development agreement for West bin phase two thank you good afternoon again mayor and Council Robert Stern's Economic Development uh we're here to discuss a proposed Economic Development agreement for the second phase of the Westbend project uh look at it off University Drive uh so here you can see a map uh of the uh overall project uh West been phase one is here here is the vacant property that is being designated as the phase 2 location uh so this really follows the successful completion of Westbend Phase 1 that was done in 2015 uh it's currently on the tax rolls for just under $70 million uh so again it's a total of 53 million assessed uh mixed use development 265,000 F feet of residential 4500 feet of retail and that phase one is supported by a 10-year chapter 380 which provides 50% of the incrementals property and sales tax so we paid about 1.2 million to date uh and phase one will be completed by July of 2028 and here just a breakdown of the phase one Grant payment so you see as theyve again wrap it up the actuals payments first payment made in 2017 uh they're averaging a little bit under $200,000 through 2023 uh and then we're projecting uh three additional years of payment so again just under 1.2 million paid to date total projected to be about $2 million so our estimated total uh for the 10 years of phase one Grant P Grant payments will be $3.2 million uh so the phase two project uh here's just kind of a massing of the uh of the overall site plan uh you see how the buildings are laid out interior parking here and here just some images of how that would look uh really uh if you're looking at this site uh from the Trinity River again some uh additional renderings so the proposed phase two is a seven-story mixed use development should have about 65 million in assessed taxable value additional 265,000 ft of total development 300 units of multif family 4500 ft of commercial space essentially faing University Drive and this project will be engaging in the Trinity trails and so there's several amenities that they will put in place uh along about a 28,000 squ foot uh site along the trail along the Trinity uh that will activate the trails it's a total investment of about just under $82 million that includes the installation of those amenities and the other improvements on the Eastern Edge so that would include sidewalk improvements bike repair stations public Landscaping outdoor seating and an enhanced trail head the developer is committing to produce this seven-story mix she property again with the elements that have been previously described completion deadline of July 2028 as part of this project they would also install a vehicular connection from Collinsworth to River one drive uh and then they are going to use commercially reasonable efforts to reframe the Macy's outlet that is currently at the site now that used to be a grocery store they're going to work to try to bring some type of retail Neighborhood Market back uh in that phase one site and then they will also commit to our standard 15% uh minimum on business Equity Firm participation so our recommended incentives would be to amend the existing 380 agreement this would provide 10 additional grants uh basically the same terms 50% of the incremental avalor of the uh property tax and the city's onent sales tax and these phase two grants would be from the new development only so there won't be any double dipping between phase one and phase two and our total estimated grants for this additional phase additional phase of 10 years would be uh $3 million based on hitting those minimum investment and minimum and here's just a breakout of kind of the timing of how those Grant payments would make so you see here the phase one grants would uh end in 2026 uh we' have about two years uh of of non-payment before the phase two gretz uh began to materialize and then those would start approximately in 2029 uh and again you see there U $3 million over that 10-year period and that's based on uh estimated taxable value of just over 65 million and $11 million in annual taxable sales here's just a summary of the overall project again I'll note that the grants uh gross amount just over $3 million that's about a $1.8 million in the Net Present Value City particip is just over 3% we have a 27 to1 private to public ratio uh and the net payback for this overall project will be about just over four years uh after the uh final payment of the grants so our recommendation will be to amend the existing economic development program agreement with Fort Worth River Plaza LP uh and then we would have an MNC for city council consideration on the August 27th agenda thank you Robert questions from Council back um I don't have any questions Robert I just want to thank you and your team for um finally getting this across the Finish Line um it wasn't the easiest project to um to navigate and I know it's been a couple of years in the making um but I'm excited that people are going to finally stop um complaining about the the fence up on a university and we're going to see some great development so um hats off to you and your entire team thank you thank you council member and I do want to thank Michael henik who did a lot of the heavy listing on the negotiation Robert I think you get to stay right there our next presentation is on a proposed interlocal agreement with the University of Texas at Arlington for the establishment of new campus development at Walsh Ranch all right so this is another uh initiative that you've probably read a lot about in the paper uh over the past uh week or so uh but what was not outlined in some of those articles is that the city uh has been working with the University of Texas at Arlington for several months now on a way to support uh the proposed UTA West Campus uh in Western Fort Worth and I do also want to thank uh Robert Allen with the economic development partnership who's been working with on with us on this as well I see uh John Hall with the UTA uh vice president of administrative and economic development and I think Jeff Jeter may be with him as well so our representatives from UTA uh in the house uh to uh be here for this presentation so as you all aware for uh UTA has had a long history in Fort Worth uh the UTA Fort Worth Center uh actually opened back in 2007 but their their history extends beyond that the uh Advanced Research Institute utari uh and East Fort Worth opened actually back in 1986 and they are doing about6 million annually in research projects just coming out of utar so again UTA uh while they are based uh little little down the road Eastern in Arlington they have had a significant presence in Fort Worth for some time the Fort Worth has a number of undergraduate degree programs and graduate degree programs which they support uh including NBA's master of social work uh healthcare administration public administration and Engineering the proposed UTA West Campus which you've heard about UTS UTA plans to construct a new campus at Walsh Ranch uh and it's really broken up into two areas there's a kind of North and South parcel uh the North Parcel is going to consist of approximately five buildings uh 930,000 gross square feet feet parking structures about just over 1500 spaces and they would install the associated infrastructure to support the development uh the total cost of this parcel to North Parcel is just over $800 million and that's going to be a phased in uh spending as they develop the overall campus but this uh initial phase would uh open potentially open in Fall of 2028 with the capacity to support 1,000 students initially and then grow to serve 5,000 students by 2043 now the the overall campus including the North and South Parcels could include up to nine buildings and enrollment anywhere from 10 to 12,000 students so again this is a very significant investment that UTA is making in Fort Worth and we were talking in CMO about this about this uh campus I think Dana mentioned maybe we should change our tagline from where the West Begins to where education begins uh and that's not a bad description of what's been going on in Fort wors if you look at this proposed investment by UTA uh what Texas A&M is doing here in the heart of downtown TCU medical school on the Southside Investments by Texas weslan HSC these educational institutions are investing heavily in Fort Worth and through these Partnerships uh did I mention Texas was make sure didn't feat them off I forgot T thank you I doubt I know there's one I left off the list there but these uh these institutions are making a significant investment in Fort Worth and so you know this is not a typical incentive deal that we're talking about you know this is not something that we're based Bas on job creation and things like that but this is an investment in the future of our talent and our Workforce and if you think about this area and I'll show you the map uh here at the intersection of of 30 and 20 uh there's about 13,000 Acres of potential development opportunity just at Walsh and field Ranch where this uh college campus will be situated and when you think about what that means from the standpoint of being able to attract new investment out in those areas having a college campus on site where the workforce and talent that's being developed is going to be critical for us uh so it's not again not a traditional Economic Development deal but thinking long-term and strategically about how the city invests at dollars uh I think this is going to pay significant dividends for us when we think about Workforce Development and talent development so again just to orient you to the side I mentioned it's really at the intersection of I30 and I20 uh really just east of the cooks children hospital that is there today uh here is a Jo campus overview a rendering of how the North North Campus and the uh future South Campus will lay out uh and then this is just more of a drill down on the north campus itself so you can see the five buildings uh Associated parking some of the campus notes Central Lawns Etc uh and then a a a rendering on the street level you can see what those buildings uh will potentially look like so what we are proposing is an interlocal agreement to support the overall installation of infrastructure improvements that will support the development of the campus and so that can consists of uh some of the public utilities and services water lines domestic water meters sanitary sewer uh we would also support the construction of an inner campus Road some lighting some Frontage Road approaches uh and then the installation of franchise utilities including electric gas and Telecom uh so again these are significant costs that UTA is undertaking to uh have development occur in this area uh the university is committing to expend by the completion deadline 50% of those costs with our business Equity firms uh Walsh is installing Highland Hills Drive so we have a prior agreement already with Walsh Ranch so they'll be taking care of Highland Hills Drive along with the water and sewer and then under this proposed interlocal the city would provide $2 million to UTA uh no later than 90 days after execution of the agreement and then after completion of all the infrastructure improvements we provide an additional $2 million as final reimbursement and these funds are coming from our Economic Development initiatives fund uh which was established several years ago to do some creative things when it comes to Economic Development so we're not asking for an additional uh burden uh on the general fund for this particular investment of that $2 million so our recommendation would be consideration of a resolution authorizing the execution of this interlocal agreement which would allow for the transfer of up to $4 million from The Economic Development Fund uh that would go to UTA for their Associated infrastructure improvements and we would have an MNC for Council consideration on August 27th yeah until this happens I could brag that I'm probably the council person who uses UTA facilities more than anybody else that will change you know once we get this campus but the new president had a bold vision of expanding the presence in Fort Worth and this certainly is a way to make it happen and Robert in case you don't know because you are much younger than I uh utari when it first landed off of random Mill was known as the robotic Center yes and so that that made a splash then but this is a big deal I just wish it was in D5 but it's close enough thank you any other questions Council good I I miss most of this working on something else but appreciate this I've been briefed on it and excited it's coming to West Fort Worth thank you thank you great work Robert thank you very much you Council we're move next into our presentation from Animal Care and Control and we have our new code compliance director Brian doy as well as Chris mallister our Code Compliance assistant director I got a dog how's it going mayor and Council Brian doerty you're new director of C- compliance I don't think I'm I'm I knew that I was seeing if y'all were checking you're on top of it I appreciate that there we go yeah I knew that but he's on it he's on it I was waiting you guys are on your on top of it uh so yet again uh Brian doerty um director of co-compliance um first work session actually speaking pretty excited uh I will tell you back in June uh there was a lot of items requested and there were a lot of issues that they wanted to speak about was related to animals so we pulled those together as well as sort of a brief synopsis of kind of everything that animal does so that while we explain a lot of the details you kind of have the broader picture and understand everything that's going on in the department um here's just a few pictures of our fantastic staff and volunteers at our two different shelters uh silk Hawks down at South as well as our pretty new North Campus uh we're going to go over obviously the structure of animal services as well as our our core Services uh digging into Staffing and morale capacity and live release rate and then we have a lot of new updates of things we changed few things on a few things on the way our advisory committee and uh we'll Dive Right into that um overall uh one of the issues that was brought up was sort of uh best practices you know kind of where are we at uh there's obviously industry standards that we follow but more specifically there's state and federal guidelines that dictate what we have to do as relating to an animal whether it be youth in Asia quarantining all those things and no we have a a ton of best practices as well well as a a few Innovative life-saving programs whether it's pause for pause a community intake program which I'll dive a little bit more into that just recently started transport program Doggy Day Camp um our Fosters and volunteers are a huge huge huge help um and then the one thing that I really wanted to make sure Council understood is that whether it relates to if you looked at a dozen different animal shelters they're going to have different programs than we do and we're going to have different programs than they do um however a lot of them are going to be the same thing maybe under a different branding maybe followed some different guidelines but I will tell you uh we will poach great ideas and a lot of our ideas have been poached by other cities that's pretty common um and all I really want you to understand there is uh there's an effort um there is always different ways to get out to the public different ways to get people involved different ways to find these pets their homes and that's really the main effort that all of the staff and animal that goes towards uh real quick the breakdown of uh we have 128 employees uh Chris mallister fantastic work he's the assistant director over our uh animal care and control and then we have four superintendents two at each shelter uh with a number of Supervisors and uh technicians which is a really really vital part of the shelter they really facilitate they're the they're the oil that makes the engine go uh they transport the animals maintain them clean the kennels which is a pretty pretty important role not just from a perspective that you want to if you go to adopt you want to see a nice clean dog but from a Disease Control standpoint um that's one thing I kind of want everyone to have at the top of their mind is that if something happens and disease gets into these shelters it reeks Havoc uh in a sense where a lot of animals have to be euthanized and it also slows down everything we're doing not to us not to a stop but it can um that's happened at other shelters and it's a it's a very big big challenge so essentially when you go to a shelter what's going on there and you know you you I'm sure people drive by it and they say oh I know what goes on at a shelter that's where I go to adopt an animal well yes and no that's one of the things they do um they impound and care for stray animals that come in from the field services host a ton of adoption events um which we get to Mega that was this weekend had pre successful turnout um as well as educating the public on responsible pet ownership that's a really really big deal because that is one of the key factors with mitigating our live release rate is we have to make sure the public knows they need to be vaccinated they need to be altered you know we need to do everything we can so we're not you know the pet population isn't outgrowing the capacity of the shelter um we also have a lot of community engagement programs we also do vaccination Spain neuter and then like IID said before monitoring monitoring preventing and and tracking hopefully reducing zuntic outbreaks um as far as our Field Services this is this is a pretty big deal because that's the front facing out in the neighborhoods U more than likely your average citizen will have seen one of them unless they're frequenting the shelter I'm not saying a lot of people don't go to the shelter but I am saying that there's more people calling for a loose dog in their neighborhood or they're coming by to ask about it or hey they broke through the fence and so they have fantastic customer service I'm really proud of all the staff that I've come across and that's sort of in a no-win situation because if they're out in your neighborhood you're either upset that they haven't got the dog or they're telling you something you have to have to do with your animal and I have pets I'm sure a lot of aming council have pets those are looked at like family members so it's not it's not always a pleasant conversation but they do it really really well and it's a it's a really important that they're out there for the public safety for Animal Welfare they also help with our community outreach um and then emergency response which is is very common as well um you're going to look at a few slides in here that I have never ever been proud of and I say that where I came from a city um that I was at for 18 years and I was over animal as well over there for 5 years um and I want to give a Chris uh some serious serious props as well as his team when he took over two years ago uh just just so I everyone's on the same page Animal Services is a grind it is a very very challenging job to have and in addition to that it's to have passion and want to do a good job it it wears on them quite a bit it's not like any other Workforce and so attrition is pretty high uh when Chris took over he recognized that and they did a survey and this was sent out to all of staff had about 50 to 60 response I believe was around the amount of staff that responded them didn't make him do it but I it blew me away at the results he was able to get in a few years if you look at this how satisfied you with your work environment very satisfied in 2022 is 5% that was at 39% now and on the flip side very dissatisfied was 31% that's down to 3% this is a challenge I've dealt with in my career and spent a ridiculous amount of resources and trying to improve I did not get these results this is this is something where I I really hope everyone understands the levity of the the challenge that that that job presents and to get these results is is nothing short of amazing um there we go did I skip one no and so the next one was how would you rate the morale in your work base same thing great was 2% now it's 22% poor 54% down to 133% um and then this deals directly with attrition and that comes down to are you planning on leaving your job I mean everybody has feelings about you know any number of reasons whether it be pay or anything else but no I'm happy in my position went from 16 up to 61% and that just I can't get the smile off my face about that and then planning on leaving from 20 down to eight now obviously we want 100% in zero so it's always a work in progress and we recognize that and it's still everything's a work in progress uh the one thing I've met with a lot of you already is uh I believe I've told every single one of you I can't snap my fingers and no we fixed animal I don't know if you know but animal's taken care of there's no more issues it's always going to take a lot of work a lot of effort and it's going to take the entire Community it's not something I can do by myself or Chris and his team it takes everybody and so it's always a work in progress but these three slides like it blew me away I I'm I'm very very lucky to to inherit a staff at this level um moving on to the capacity of the shelters uh the north campus which is fantastic if you haven't been out there please visit it it's awesome uh the capacity is 372 and that includes both short and longterm capacity uh our our South shelter silox is at 638 and so just so you know what short and long term that means there's Bays open in you know our surgery and Clinic area but that's not necessarily something that they're going to be ready to available to adopt immediately so there's different time frames on there um and then while silox has been awesome uh it it it still serves a great function it is ending the near of its lifespan there's been three additions however when you're adding to it it's not like you can keep continuity great um if you go down there and it looks like a maze you're correct it is in fact a maze um but that's what happens when you're adding to it so we are working and looking at public and private as far as new facilities and making sure we can get that on the next bond election wink wink any help would be great um I did that real clearly so y'all can know that I was looking for support um uh real quick just to give you an idea fantastic north campus right here um there's different Bays separated kennels which is great for disease mitigation um just a top-notch facility great uh Clinic uh and there's an a view of the Second Story there and here's our silcock Center um it's it's great it's done what it needs to do but it's also one of those scenarios where we kind of need to see what we're up against uh obviously not great outdoor areas we're doing what we can on the indoor areas and I promise you staff has done everything they can to get it to the highest level that it can operate but on certain buildings you you just reached the end of that lifespan and we're we're getting really close with with that one um the live release rate is sort of everything that goes on at the shelter is to get animals to their homes forever and you know the obviously the alternative is is euth in Asia nobody wants to hear that uh but it is a very large challenge um here is our live release rate for the past four years we're right at 81% you can kind of see a sample of of all the other cities I will tell you that in in right after covid everybody was doing great because everybody wanted an animal if I'm going to be home a lot more I want I have time and resources to dedicate that there's since been sort of a snapback and then you combine that with it when the economy starts to slow and pennies start getting pinched we will see owner surrenders grow up we will just see more animals coming into the shelter because people have to make decisions and sadly a lot of those is to let their pet go and so we our goal is 90% I'm never going to say that we can have that and maintain it at all times I can't predict the animal world no one can so there's challenges that we can't always come across we we're at 81 and we're we're we're still working I will tell you this though um different shelters operate differently uh specifically uh Austin announced July 2nd that they closed their doors they are not taking any more animals uh we will not and cannot do that um that is not serving your public that's not serving the community that's not really helping anyone even the pets themselves so our doors are open um we're always going to take in animals it's just there's a lot of hurdles there's there's always going to be challenges but it we have a DED at passionate staff I can't thank them enough and they are always doing everything they can to get these animals to find their home or find rescues or Fosters or volunteers or transport there's so many different avenues that we can have but it's always going to be a challenge we're still working at it 81% is great but we got to get up over that 90 and just to give youall a little idea when we say a 90 and they call it a no kill shelter it's a little bit of misnomer in a sense that if it is aging or if they're injured or too sick they still will be euthanized that's sort of why they have the 90% Mark is they're still going going to be some animals that they don't have a choice on um this was started uh in March and it's been fantastic it's uh Community intake programing program meaning that in if you're going to own or Surrender Your animal well let's put let's figure out why you're doing that don't just come drop your animal off at the shelter or we're not even there to answer the door you tie the lease around the door just so we're clear that stuff happens um it's a bummer but people don't want to feel the guilt they don't want to have to talk about why they're releasing their animals well when you set it up where they have to schedule it and then we can have discussions well why are you dropping your off look times are tough I don't have any money for food that's great we have all the food you can need we have a a ton of food that gets donated to us and that is a very easy hurdle that we can get over and so then there's other scenarios whether it's do you need some assistance with training do you need help with it what do you need so that we can get you to keep your pet and keep that as a part of your family and it's been very successful it's uh this was something that also uh I operated in in AR and it was the same scenario had a lot of success uh Chris and his team have done very well with it um there's some there's always some worries with setting things like this up like Strays would increase we haven't had any any sign of that and so this has been a pretty successful program that that I'm proud of um a lot of a lot of requests were about our spay neuter ordinances they're pretty clear um that you know it's required unless you get an intact pet permit um there's there's obviously pros and cons to to that it it's there's not a lot of cons really it's people even the responsible people that have pets that want to keep it intact I think I'm a pretty good pet owner I can tell you at least twice in the past like three years they got through a busted fence picket or one of my kids let the gate open and they got out um when they're out this may shock you they're going to find other dogs um and if they are not altered that is how your pet population grows and so that's that's part of it that we make sure they understand that um and with that it's a $50 fee you have to provide uh you have to go the responsible pet ownership class we also need to make sure that they have a proper enclosure they can't be transferred and the the fees are non-refundable one of the things that we've been doing uh was already doing when I got here but I've helped with that and they we're reviewing everything what can we do to improve this we have talked about increasing the fee um in a sense that no uh not from any sort of Revenue standpoint but making sure they understand we you have to have the animal altered because we have to control this pet population so that's one of the easier factors and we have I've I've heard some citizens be critical that oh well whenever you do get a hold of Strays you know and they're they're intact you're you're you haven't you know you guys don't do anything um this right here will tell you over the last three years uh we have like six times the amount of citations that we used to write so I promise you when it comes to that side of it we are taking efforts to make sure that the the citizens know no you need your pet altered or you have to you can't let it get loose and we're writing citations because while it's a $50 fee if they come to us proactively if we find out can we find your animal it's a $500 fee um and uh and that that's really important we're again we're trying to mitigate everything we can when it comes to the pet population um there have been uh citizens critical of our assessments as well as our medical records and what we're doing but I promise you uh all the medical records on all the animals are maintained through petpoint which is sort of a universal software that every municipality I've dealt with works with they're all tracked in there as well as our supervisors and Senior staff go through through the records quite a bit um and then our controlled substances are regulated by uh the DEA guidelines and they're inspected by the state I promise you all of that is taken care of and they do a fantastic job because those are really important things that we need to make sure we're staying on top of um sent to you guys we also had the Asilomar assessment it's quite bigger and colorcoded we sort of summarized it on here and that's simply whenever we evaluate an animal these are the categories that they will fall into they either be healthy where you know we just take care of what we need to and they're up for adoption treatable uh and then with rebu re I'm going to just stumble all through this get ready rehabilitat I did it we're all cool um and then treatable manageable uh sadly unhealthy and untreatable and this is uh there's more detail in the the attachment that we had as far as the assessment that we do but I promise you that we they go to Every length possible because if they don't do the assessment right and the dog is is just a menace and it bites everybody if we put that up for adoption I'm pretty sure that dog's coming back and so it doesn't help staff at all to not go by these guidelines and make sure that we're putting out pets that can be taken in and can adapt to a new environment a new family um the animal control advisory committee is uh is really crucial and it's it's often challenging as far as making sure we get everybody showing up and all on the same page but this is really our connection to the community is if there are a lot of a lot of issues if they think that the euthanasia you know the live release rate is not where it should be or we're not doing something correct this is sort of the mechanism where we connect to them and they find out everything we're doing and everything they do um state law only requires three meetings a year we are going to increase that to four so it lines up with our quarters um but I can't rule out if there's any sort of circumstances that come up and the public would like to have more of them we can shift it we could shift it to do monthly for a while until anything's mitigated but uh I'm never opposed to speaking with any member of our community when there's challenges in the animal world and what we can do we have to do by law and what our challenges are and and no I we all understand that people are very passionate about animals I I have no problem with that every person I meet with I'm like I love that passion I love it sounds like you want to volunteer at the shelter or you want to help Foster or you want to be part of rescue group let's channel that because there's no one on staff that wants you know a low live release rate we all are working towards the same goal we just got to get everybody on the same page um the volunteer Pro the volunteers are essential to operations of a shelter they they're giving their time and they typically account for a number of what would normally be paid full-time positions um at the same time again we have to make sure we're in alignment with them we have to make sure we're all working towards the same goal so this isn't finished but we are in the process of a program revamp we're working with legal and uh this is also going to include conduct policy as well as performance expectations and then also getting them sort of a new uniform new outfit and then that matters um they want to see that they're recognized and that they're respected and and I we plan on treating them as such so we really think this is going to help with keeping volunteers getting more volunteers and working towards the same goal um whenever uh I started uh obviously there's always going to be challenges in the animal community and that includes whether it be on social media whether that be on our practices or any number of things uh so we are in the process of filling a new communication coordinator position which is going to help tremendously but until then our team has really revamped everything that they're doing when it relates to Communications working closely with marriage communication team um and here is a big big big one that I'm I'm on top of and this is on the the code side of things as well as the animal and that's we have to track Su successes and we have to celebrate them um you it's if you're not putting out there all the great things you're doing you're probably only seeing the negative aspects of animal and I promise you there is more than enough awesome stories to go around whether we hear about you know a family that this turned around you know challenges they had with their kids and they bonded over it or or you know there's there's any number of things and I'm one of those people just so we're clear I wasn't raised with dogs I was raised with a cat my wife we adopted a dog this was prior to me coming here and it was from the Humane Society we still adopted but I I had no idea how intelligent the personality and the bond you have where it's like I have two sons and I joke with my wife that's the daughter I never had uh it's I I I love my sweet Nova um she may be staring at some computer screen right now my wife's watching this so um but no I I I had no idea and until until you really get into that world a lot of people need to realize that connection you have with animals and it's it's it's an awesome awesome thing um working with the community is a really really big deal like I said before we can't do this alone we have so many partners animal hope Cowtown Friends dog as my co-pilot Humane Society Montana pity project uh Operation Kindness that's actually one of the facilities that when we were looking for get things on the bond program that we went and toward that's a picture of we went and toward their new facility um it was fantastic uh there's a lot of great ideas there that we saw as far as getting donations and increasing a number of things we can do better but I I can't thank all those people enough and I would love to come back and show you a slide and it's it's 20 bullet points um we will take any and all the help we can get from the groups in the community and uh somebody should have told me in this picture can we clearly see I wasn't standing with the group what what is what is this Gap here that's I didn't I was debating just cropping it right out because it looks far better without me in there um more recently over the weekend we had our Mega adoption event it was it was awesome there was uh 82 animals that we got adopted out that we brought there for the event it was over 700 I appreciate all you guys promoting it uh shout out to council member crane we did a FaceTime live video hopefully I didn't ruin it or upset any of your constituents um but uh it was it was awesome it was a lot of fun I went out there even put my wife to work we were walking all all the dogs we could for a while it it was really successful um but to put things into perspective so we were able to adopt 82 animals for Saturday and Sunday that same weekend we took in 91 at our shelters so even all of these resource weeks of preparation staff did a fantastic job it was a well oiled machine I was there to just not be in the way and try to help but even with all those resources put in all those groups together we had 82 go out during that had 91 come in um and that's just sort of that's the way of the animal world is it takes constant effort when it comes to getting this live release rate down and trying to get all these pets into homes um we have a lot of stuff coming on um new programs uh puppy yoga we're going to get on board I I had already got a commitment from I think everybody at the table they're going to participate David too you're in on puppy yoga right there he is yes he's going to be in on it um no there's there's a there's a lot of new programs one of them that's awesome that uh we have some staff here I'm going to give some kudos to here in a second but pause for Patriots that's another program we're starting and this is awesome um what it is is we're going to combine with ve veterans and get them into the shelter and get them a lot of on the job training with occupational Training and stuff where they can build up a resume if they need to to get back into the workforce and it's it's awesome um I'm really excited Chris is is is working hard and so's team on that um we're also going to have a kitty Hall here fairly soon and so get ready there's going to be some cats rowing around um it's fine because we're all taking animals home right that's what we're talking about um but no it's it's uh it's exciting I'm I'm really really the the the sky is the limit and and the the progress that's been made here recently is just is nothing short of astounding and uh real real quick um before we have some questions I wanted to give a shout out some staff uh chrisa Solace she's been fantastic she works at our uh our down at silcox uh enthusiasm she also Fosters kit and she's doing great stand up what are you do let the people see get up there get up there um awesome appreciate you uh Christa then we have Crystal Wells and she she there there we go um really big deal uh as far as working with our controlled substance is crucial to the success of the North clinic and I can't thank her enough um Jeff Jones who Jeff Jones um right there uh he's fantastic North supervisor he also came up with a great idea that we're implementing and that's going to be a coloring book uh for kids and that is really really important because information is key and if you start kids at a younger age respecting and understanding and being a responsible pet owner that's just going to turn into ideally what we need with responsible pet owners overall um and then we got Anastasia she's got uh corn nugget if you haven't seen that's it and Anastasia is fantastic I bothered her the whole weekend and she was super helpful but she is a rock star and sort of organizes pretty much everything if you have an animal question she will know it I promise you um and then we got Megan battel there you are our thing there we go um but no she's a supervisor on our out Mound team and she also uh came up with the idea for pause for Patriots which is awesome and so that's what I want to get at where the staff is fantastic and we're we're definitely not one of those groups where I management I know all the great ideas no it takes all of us meaning if you have an idea put it out there I can't think of something that I've said no to it's like we need everything and working at it constantly and I I can't be more proud of the team um I'm I'm I was so excited to to join the city of Fort Worth and to get this team like I'm not deserving but I'll take it it it has been nothing short of amazing and I'm I'm really really excited so with that uh any question questions you guys have I'm ready thank you Brian Macy then Charlie around table Brian welcome to Fort Worth we're so glad to have you excellent and you really do have a wonderful team and I want to thank them for everything that they do um will you flip back to slide 15 for me yep yes I'm going to Second your um comments on the the Cello's shelter it's if youall have not toured yet I encourage you to go and then go toward the nor shelter and see what you're missing um but this is we owe our community better we owe the animals better and we owe our employees better so plug on that um welcome slide 16 please um and I know we you touched on it briefly this is a hard conversation to have um 77 is unacceptable 81 to me is still unacceptable but I think we've we understand that there's some manipulation of numbers and as you mentioned um Austin shelters shut down intake probably for lots of reasons but they can also control their live release numbers too so will you touch on that just a little bit yes um there's there's a there's a number of ways that sort of you can track your numbers where if that's if that's how those organizations want to do it that's fine um when I was in Arlington and also when when we're here I'm a big person where if you want to drill into our numbers let's drill as deep as you want to go we are not going to lie about anything we're not going to we're not going to you know sort of do a shell game when it comes to what we're doing with animals you can't improve your live release rate and serve the community property unless everything's transparent and I can we can stand behind that 81% I'm not going to speak on any other side of town um and any other communities but no uh obviously when you you close your doors and you stop your intake if we stopped intake I would have no problem at a 90% live release rate I promise you that um uh on the flip side y'all would probably have an issue with some stray animals um you would probably have a lot more bites you would have a lot of challenges in the community but no it's uh I I won't speak on any other organization but I will say I can I everything I've seen we can stand behind our numbers and uh and and 81% is true you're exactly right it's not where it needs to be it's a work in progress and we're always going to be getting to that 90 and higher um but I I I do trust in all of our data um and slide 20 the citation fees mhm and so obviously there's an increase in citations which mean there's an increase in the animal population um and some of our community doesn't respond to citations and specifically the homeless are those that are transient will you talk about what the shelter does to address those or this is not effective yes yes uh you hit the nail on the head uh it's not uncommon that you see homeless with pets I will tell you I've been at more homeless encampments than I I can remember I will tell you um by and large they will take care of those animals better than they are taking care of themselves um we do often get concerns out there but they will have food and water but they won't be altered or tipped or vaccinated so we do offer a number of services because writing a citation to them is not going to help the situation so we will offer different scenarios where we can get it V vaccinated as well as altered even have uh a couple times a year we'll have V uh a vet that we can get that will go out there to help them as well and we are looking at some programs where whether it comes to there was a dog bite and quarantine standards by state law that they can't really take care of because you have to home quarantine and um you know uh that's that's their current biggest challenge so we are working on a couple of different programs to assist them whether it be helping out with spots at the shelter for the quarantining or ways that we can get around that where we're as long as they're taking care of their pets we're going to do all we can so they don't lose the animal but it's also it's it's in the best shape and same thing for the city but yeah we are we are working uh right now we definitely go out and address it and offer free vaccination and altering them but then there are a couple different uh programs that we're looking to roll out that's great and then slide 23 are Animal Control advisory um this is actually a question for Council and I think this is an opportunity for us to have a more robust approach on how we address Animal Welfare in the city um right now we had seven members I don't know how these members got decided but I'd love to see us move to maybe a council appointments um and we can pull people from the community that represent our district that are passionate about animals but I do believe we still need to have a licensed veterinarian on that board to help provide medical advice Yeah Yeah by state law we have to have at least one as a V and at least one as a municipal official um but yeah no you're you're exactly right if you guys want to make changes this is the Forum okay um 25 on your communication that counc back and is that is yes to her sorry I have like two more things I'm I think there's good that's a great idea Council M Hill um okay communication kudos to y'all this is way more positive and happy and I feel like we're putting out the message out there so just wanted to reiterate that and then um okay working with the community um we have some really great Partners out there I think there's also an opportunity for us to engage the community even more a lot of people don't know what to do and they don't know what organizations to plug into I would love to see a 501c3 public charity support organization that's part of the city of Fort Worth and so would love to have a conversation uh with the city attorney's office too on how that would work and if that's something we could do where the community could provide charitable contributions to help support you and fill in the gaps and my next question for you is where are are the gaps I know we looked at the budget and we're going to be going through that process now are there things that are not included that are kind of on your wish list that we need to be aware of yeah we we submitted a lot of budget proposals and I realized that you know we're not the only Department in the city so obviously you have to take all that into account um and and yeah there there's a couple of events teams that that would would help facilitate getting out into the communities as well as uh our temp labor that was on there that that's that's something that's pretty vital um and I only bring that up for two reasons uh it's it's keeping it keeps the stable or the uh the the shelters running but more importantly it works with the Presbyterian night shelter and Goodwill so it's twofold in a sense that it helps the that you know the the challenged community of that we previously spoke about get into the workforce and also be productive helping the shelter so um uh but yeah there there's a number of of of budget proposals submitted that I I can get you more information on but I think they were on there I I could go through the entire list but yeah yeah if you could follow up with that it' be great we'll do thank you yeah Council lorth yeah so what I will always defer to Macy when it comes to all this stuff so if you make her happy then then I'm happy on these things so yeah she will definitely be the this this committee she just invented chair I support it completely um PA for Patriot super excited about that too uh let me know how I may be able to get involved and help out however I can and sure wen's already involved in that too so just want to make sure he's involved yeah um and then of course CH McAllister you talked about how he's an absolute rock star it's no secret he's also United States Marine just saying it's no coincidence there um and to just keep keep doing what you're doing as far as um the community outreach and you'll continue to get those nasty emails just like we get those Nast emails and just like those idiotic dumb First Amendment Auditors that are out there I ignore them uh you keep doing what you're doing just keep up the go to work and keep moving that that needle to the right and you'll always have my support in that regard so I just keep up the good work excellent thank you coun I'm with the Marine I ignore them too so for all of you who send copy and paste emails they're not resonating with me uh Macy I love the idea of having a different approach to the board when I first got on the council I thought one of my neighbors had been appointed by my predecessor but that process was completely different so it would be good to have Council appointed representation uh I I need to ask you for a report but you can't tell me now me I don't want it to be future I want to know where the uh cases of animal cruelty are occurring per District okay and I have an idea that I shared with the mons early on when they donated the money for the medical Wing in that silcock Center and the idea is to expose children in the neighborhoods by way of their schools where you find this cruelty occurring so at some point I'd like to know that okay for sure that's it CC I I just have one suggestion I know we talked about it and I didn't see it on the list of upcoming programs but the hiking with homeless dogs um if we could look at getting people to some of our um Parks facilities we have tany Hills we have the Nature Center so I think it does two things it gets uh residents out but then um it lets us take a dog from the shelter and get him out for a couple hours yeah yeah there's there's been a couple iterations whether it be a dog day out program which we briefly talked about and that's also kind of similar to the Fort woof Runners Club just so we see the play see what we did there see how creative that's awesome um I definitely didn't mess it up several times prior to this um but yes agree we definitely I'm I'm all for any additional programs and yeah and I'm all for getting everyone in Council involved uh so I promise we will keep you in the loop on any one of these whether it's going for a hike with a dog or you know uh doing whatever you need to um to get the awareness out for these animals and let them find their homes c m crane yep Brian thank you you're doing awesome work it was great to meet your wife this weekend as part of that so I can tell this is an all-in Family Affair important question is corn nugget up for adoption I believe there's an adopter lined up we're also teetering with a department mascot for him so um yes but uh well there may be a backup contract with Val over here so just yes yes yeah yeah thank you again for all you're doing thank you councilor Martinez hey Brian it's been great working with you you know just briefly and I look forward to getting to you know you a little better and working with you um Chris has been awesome thank you so much for all your help that you've uh provided throughout the past year um my question is I have a constituent who is at his max three dogs um and the so the dogs had puppies uh but they're not planning on keeping those puppies would he still require to get that multi pet permit I need to review as far as when they have a litter because I know it there's a a time frame no yes head up here head up here no he's not keeping the puppies he's a breeder he can keep the puppies up to four months but after that they have yeah yeah okay for some reason I was thinking eight weeks but that was something else yeah any other questions Council yes Council Flores Ryan thanks again for your presentation great enthusiasm I told you that before so you're infectious in that way in my opinion but that's a good thing uh I once served on the animal advisory committee once upon a time so I got to see it from a different perspective you know that I have two shelter dogs as well and Foster before my questions are this uh having been at the Chuck silcock Center uh various times uh in talking with staff I know that there's a challenge to find additional space uh in recent years uh you know when Brandon Bennett was here and I had a chat about that how they were able to expand uh to get some usable space outside where the trucks queue up where they come in uh to clean up restock and get ready to go out uh there uh the impression I got at the time is they're limited but you know you need more usable space are you going to be looking at that that kind of facilities assessment yes yes and at the time that that was probably accurate but on a our intake goes up about 5% a year M and it we're going to be planning for tomorrow even when that's put on the bond package hopefully and it gets if it gets approved we're going to be chasing that almost constantly but yeah unless we can really get into the community and reduce the intake uh capacity is always going to be an issue I will tell you there is additional space that they it's for to put it in building terms we've kind of built out that facility as far as we can to keep it with our standard of care for animals um we're not warehousing animals uh that that's that's a challenge that a lot of shelters I've come across and that's a problem cuz you can get your live release right there but you're bringing down the care of all of those animals which makes disease outbreaks worse uh you're not doing proper assessments it's it's a nightmare honestly so that that's our biggest hurdle is making sure that they get the proper care with the capacity that we have while also trying to get above 90% Life release rate uh it's sort of one of those things where it's like you can exercise size you can have fun and you can sleep but they're like you can only do two of those three because of time yeah so it's it's very similar in the animal world but we're we're trying to get all three done okay do you have any pet uh ownership statistics specifically like you know per capita here you I mean you had a slide there where you showed the various cities if you don't might be helpful you know at some future time well you might have that because I mean I think that goes into describing what your live uh you know release rates are about yeah it's it gets a little tricky we could definitely go as far as our adoptions and just do it based off the population per capita it sounds like kind of that's what you're asking for okay yeah we we can get that info all right last question I I heard that there's a new feature on microchips for pets is there is there some kind of new tech that's been added to them I can't think anything off the top of my head we'll just get back to me you know separately on that because I thought I'd heard that so all right that's it that's all we got um any other questions we good C Martinez oh just Blended a second Macy's um request to fund the silox center in the upcoming Bond thank you um great job thank you for all the meetings we've had since the first day you got here y'all are doing a fantastic job I think the other thing you've done is pick a lot of attention on what it looks like to bring positive awareness to the needs of the shelter specifically the code red list that used to exist um that wasn't really productive in the community and you'll recognize that um our goal is to make sure we are honoring the pets that we do have and also mitigating any disease and you've had to work through that as well the other thing I'd just make this Council aware of that's a problem that really um animal care and control has across the state of Texas is attracting vets to the practice in a public sector environment because it's so competitive with such a shortage of vets so I don't have a solution to that problem but it may be something we need to address in the next legislative session um because it is a a significant issue you just cannot attract them there's just they can make more money in the private sector it's just that simple so looks like in this budget we're focused to part-time vetss is that correct uh yeah I think that may have been something that we're changing because we have a hopeful full-time vet that exent we may be filling um yeah so we all need to make phone calls to welcome them and we'll do that yeah yes yes yes I I will I will do everything I can and that's you're you're 100% correct uh prior to me leaving Arlington it was five years without one and doing everything possible to try to get it and then we came here and I was Chris and I have been talking about it at length and it's it's a huge challenge um but I'm all for any and all new ways to to get to get one in here as many as we can in here thank you Ryan appreciate it thank you okay councelor next up I believe is assist city manager William Johnson to give a presentation on police meet and confer good afternoon mayor and councel William Johnson assistant city manager um we're going to give you a very high level overview of kind of the status of our uh meeting confer ongoing discussions with the police officers Association we started um negotiations last year in November um today we're we're here to give you kind of a an overview uh for consideration of future and in consideration of the future 2025 budget process uh we're hopeful that uh next month if not in the next couple of weeks at least by next month we'll be concluded with NE negotiations and that the POA will then be in a position to present what we've discussed to their membership for a vote assuming that that gets ratified uh we're trying to have something in front of council by September 17th in time for consideration along with the budget and uh any necessary mnc's that would be necessary at that time um in the absence of that this current contract will expire on September 30th and we would go into an evergreen period in which all terms and conditions of the agreement would be Frozen and uh until a new agreement was would be put in place in our meeting we kind of laid out some ground rules uh that team members would be respectful and solutions oriented as we exchanged ideas and and discussed different aspects of the contract um uh it's also understood that all of the tenative Agreements are subject to final uh to a final agreement being reached so nothing is final until everything is agreed to um and the POA has had an opportunity to ratify the agreement and the city council has voted to approve the contract this may be kind of small but it kind of talks about a number of articles that have been put on the table many of them we've reached uh tenative agreements on uh there are some that are still outstanding I call your attention to the right side of the screen uh we talk about definitions which is just a cleanup item that will be done once we're done with all the most of the major negotiations um for consistency uh time off for Association business is uh something that's currently under discussion um we think that uh um we may be able to reach some level of agreement on that on that item um disciplinary action article 7 we'll get into a little bit more detail on but we've made a lot of movement and a lot of progress um in terms of tenative agreements and those discussions are ongoing I think we're getting really close oning for beginning positions in the Fort Worth Police Department is also a topic that's currently under discussion Deanna and her team have been actively working as part of our group as we talk about some of our challenges with hiring um and civilianization of certain positions we provided some detail on certain positions that may be being performed by a a a uh a sworn officer that may not necessarily need to be performed by a sworen officer but if those if those positions were CI civilianized it would still not reduce our overall strength of police officers so that would be done without reducing our our police officer strength some of the key initiatives uh that have been proposed article 7 uh we proposed to shorten the time to conduct hearings of disciplinary um appeals um we think that we're we're close on that we I think we've we've come come down on that that that the amount of time that it takes to do that from a a number of months extensive number of months to about 120 days um we reduce or increase the age of a police officer so if someone is transferring in from another place and they're an officer or they want to go into the academy and they're an officer they can do that up to the age of 50 right um as opposed to 45 which kind of broadens our pool to recruit from um our promotion criteria we reduced from four years to three years for a Corporal position on the other side of this chart you'll see POA had proposed promotion criteria reduced for from three years to two years for Sergeants lieutenants and Captain so all of those positions and the Corporal will have will be able to promote one year sooner than they currently can under existing contract um and I won't go through every single one of these but we are looking at a four-year contract um um the meet and confer agreement if if approved would the new one would expire on September 30th 2028 or go into a one-year Evergreen Evergreen period which we would always like to avoid if we can and look at at kind of some of the historical things I will go back and say that we do Market surveys our HR team has a number of cities that we go to we conduct surveys to collect data and we use that data to kind of structure and inform us about some of the goals and objectives each time we go through this process and what we've done here is we provided historical data that where it shows that back in 2009 um this over four contract Cycles in 2009 the Blue Line shows that the city of Fort Worth's wages were above the market median and Market averages right so through that first contract in 2009 to 2012 22 to 2012 to 201 16 Etc we stayed above the market but if you look out into 2022 2023 the current contract you can see the point all the way out here on the far far right where our wage rate went below the market median and Market average right now we think we're about uh 13 plus or minus percent below that market median and Market average and I point that out because in the prior contracts it was a much easier process all we really had to do was look at across across the board number uh that we would provide to everyone this time we have to look at how we fix some things that are going where we have people on the early End early in their careers that are well below the market median what things we need to do to be able to attract and retain talent and get a bigger pool and a better pool better quality pool into our Academy to become police officers here in Fort so nationally the the the labor market has become very competitive um most cities a lot of cities in Texas don't have contracts so if the market starts to move over a four-year period they can just change change what they're paying police officers year over year we are more locked into a contract we have the ability to go back and open that contract if there's an exceptional economic event or something something like that that happens uh by mutual agreement but in general we're locked into that contract for a four-year period um and during this current agreement as as I just mentioned we saw not only our our um labor rates go below the market median but we also saw that the time that it takes for for a an officer to reach Max salary and or uh their lifetime earnings over the over their over their work work lifetime we fell behind we fell behind the market so we wanted to try to correct those things as much as we could in this in this current contract as a result um we made a counter proposal and this is what we've currently placed on the table uh to the POA for steps 1 through 4 4 um as of 1024 year 1 we would see a 12% increase for steps 5 through 8 we proposed a 10% increase we proposed to eliminate step number nine which would increase or or reduce the time that it takes for our employees to reach that maximum salary level and increase their lifetime earnings and in addition to that anyone Beyond step nine would receive a 5% increase in year one in years two three and four we proposed a 3% increase uh across the board a lot of these I'm I'm putting these out there as proposals because we're still in negotiations and discussion this chart shows this chart shows on this red line the market median uh compared to other cities around the state the blue line at the bottom shows where the city of Fort Worth's pay rates compare how they compare the market median today and that green line in the middle shows based on the proposed the proposals that we have on on on the table how much closer how much closer we're going to move to that market median for for our employees going forward um if you'll also notice there's an area where in the market median I the market the red line where it kind of flattens out that's that Max salary that I've been that that we referred to a little bit earlier now our Green Line the the new proposal would get our employees up to that Max salary about two2 2 and a half years earlier right now it takes about 16 years under this new proposal it's going to be between 13 and 14 years to hit that Max salary so in essence we think that while there's more work to be done uh this proposal will make a big difference it moves us a great deal back in the right direction um we're hopeful that um we'll be able to continue our discussions with the POA Partners in this in this effort and provide some relief for everyone um who is represented under the contract our next steps um we have another negotiation session coming up this week on August 22nd uh over at the new city hall um once we've reached agreement on all the outstanding terms the POA will be able to present this to the membership they'll take a vote and hopefully be able to have this U ratified by a majority vote uh before we come back to Council in September on the 17th for Council approval along with uh any other necessary ordinances needed to ratify the contract with that I'll I'll address any questions you thank you William questions from Council council member nles thank you yeah I have a couple questions um and I didn't see the another slide um so the slide that proposed the 10 to 12% uh increase do we know uh even in the last uh meeting confer or uh when we have increased officers uh pay in increase what percentage have we done in the past our last the last agreement um the increase was an average of 3% across the board um but I'll remind you that going into the last agreement our current wage rate was above the market median and the market average so this time we had to take be a lot more creative and take a look at how we make adjustments for the changes that that have that have occurred since the signing of the last contract over the last over the past four years okay are there any other departments within our organization who have also received a 10 to 12% increase what our HR department does yes uh our HR department looks at Job catap categories and classifications and where there are for lack of where there's a need for a market adjustment they have made those adjustments we can come back to you with specifics on examples of where we've done that but what comes to mind all the time are our Engineers they're very difficult to fill positions and we've had to do some things to make them make it more attractive to fill a lot of those positions as well as of uh the development services department okay yeah I would like to see that slide added in here and actually you guys come back uh prior to us uh going to MC MNC so that um residents could see the comparison of other departments as well as I don't see um the slide that talks about um what is going to the price is going to cost our taxpayer dollars or what's going to come out our budget so the next time we come back can we have uh a slide that reveals uh the budget impacts that the city forward with take be it uh ccpd and general funds we we will it it'll probably be an appropriate time to do that uh because hopefully at that point we will have finalized our discussions with the POA and have a a number that we can bring forward also with the 12 the 10 and 12% increase will they also receive a merit in in uh the spring the no the the contract would say okay in year one yep the the negotiated increases are what they receive in year one each subsequent year would be an across theboard increase and what's on the table now is for year two year three and year four each of those three years to be 3% which is fairly consistent with what we do with all of our other employees okay those the question I have right now this question may be for uh di um some of those positions that that council member Nettles was talking about those are aside from engineer can you name a few others that have required that such a large rise yeah so we actually looked at I you might have heard me speak about hard to fill position so those were everything from CDL Drivers to Engineers to customer service reps they're across all departments and so um one of the adjustments that were made in addition to pay for performance which range from 0 to 7% they received an added increase of 3 and 4% depending on their uh performance evaluations but we identified classifications that were hard to recruit then we've made uh design changes at the department level so the water utility development services department we've worked with tpw to just look at their whole classification systems to look at how we can make modifications to pay and that occurred over the last two years was just kind of coming out of that Co envir enironment where we're really looking at uh the population of people to attract to the organizations was reduced became a much more competitive environment so we we were really working hard to keep our talent in the organization okay so hard to feel critical to City of Fort Worth any of those other positions other than perhaps fire and even uh code in some cases any of those ever required to kind of put their life on the line at all or no well the public safety is very different than those and the and the pay systems different as well thank you William I had a couple questions um again that we di you may want to stay up there the number of vacancies that we have in the police is that the largest Department I guess the department has the largest amount of vacancies in the city of Fort Worth it's yes it's one of the largest departments so their vacancies going to mirror and be comparative to their size okay um will you go to slides I think it's six this one uh sure that'll work um just for point of clarification the dollar amount associated with market rate is that wages taken home does that include a benefits package or is that separate that's base wages and so when we look at the market averages the best way that we can do that is just base wages there might be some incentives uh or certification pays that differ across agencies so we look at face wages okay and then obviously if we're paying market rate or more competitive as close as we can get we're going to be able to fill those vacancies faster absolutely especially in the metro area okay thank you thank thank you mayor um um just one request um the compression costs um are we fixing compression costs here across the entire department or is it is there a certain position level in which we stop that yes um we ran into anytime we start making these adjustments we run into compression cost I mean compression issues and so when we make a proposal and we look at what it's going to cost the contract we have to ad adjust across all steps and all classifications or categories if you will to to deal with compression one of the things that's that we also found is that where we were eliminating a step it also helped to solve certain compression issues as well so yeah it we we are addressing compression as we deal with this okay great um I would like a budget response just to better understand how much that compression dollar amount is in relation to the overall um package okay um and then just to follow up um just commentary I really commend yall for the way that y'all were able to address the um need for adjusting our officers um wages and also addressing compression at the same time I think there's a lot in this strategy that we could apply to um the you know wage salary or the the minimum wage conversation that we've been having separate of this in the budget and talk so I would really like us to take a lot of these things for example you know I know it's hard to find apples apples with base pay but we use base pay here and we didn't use base pay um in the minimum wage conversation so there's a lot of great things that we did here that I think we could apply to that and look forward to doing that okay thank you Council us last of our former presentations do we have any future agenda item requests yeah councilor Martinez and coun no hi yes um so last week I noticed that there was a bullet that hit one of my vehicles and um so and I know that there have been gunshot detection monitors throughout the city so I'd like to um see an IR on gunshot detection activity and how those hot spots are being addressed uh yes um I want to get an IR on uh what we where we what we are using uh in our Police Department um to protect the office when it comes to uh car crashes and uh on the highways I know that the uh the fire department has that extra piece that the blocker yeah what is it called yes yeah um so do we have that in our police Department are we able to uh put that in and what that looks like thank you any other did you have one council member okay uh yes uh I think I've already spoken to Mark and his staff about this but I'd like an an IR that explores the fiscal impacts to the city budget if we were to consider adding SES out Chavez Day and also include Veterans Day as well separately I'd like to see what those Bud uh fiscal impacts are anyone else no meeting is adjourned reminder we do have ccpd immediately following for for all right it's 5 after 4 and I now call the ccpd meeting for Tuesday August 20th to order first order business is the approval of meeting minutes from May 21st do I have a motion move to approve second and I have a second all in favor IND by saying I I any Nays seeing none motion passes all right let's see any questions on written report going once going twice see none all right let's keep moving on all right uh we have FY 2024 third quarter performance report on activities and finances uh Marian Spencer is available if there are questions okay silence says no all right all right moving on okay partners of shared Mission quarterly activities report Keith is here and he's available for any questions we may have are there any questions okay none there moving on now we're on to discussion action items consideration of Community Based program funding recommendations for FY 2024 programs grants in the amount of over a million dollar so Keith floor is yours let's go thank you president boorder of directors uh this will be our quarterly recommendations from uh The Advisory Board uh want to thank our chair who's in attendance from the advisory board for these recommendations and their work going through this uh should be a short presentation but we'll address any questions as we go along uh we'll start off with our program grants as you may recall this is our $300,000 three-year grants that we lift the lifted the cap back in February uh this is different from our mission uh Partners grants uh that have a separate uh cap on them uh but these are these grants that are here left over from uh before we lifted the cap and so uh that's that's part of the reason that you see the amounts that you do there uh we we did have a a goal to increase applications we've been working on that to get more applications in the door I noted that we had 11 uh program grants applications in the 24 cycle uh and already in the 25 cycle which started back in March we have 14 applications which we're already seeing an increase and the average request increase is up over 300,000 uh and so we're starting to see uh some impa of that uh besides these applications we have nine other applications in various stages we'll talk a little bit more about those other applications but I wanted to go ahead and get into these recommendations first recommendation is for campfire First Texas their collaborative uh legal advocacy solution program uh that provides increase to safety reduced Dropout rates and reduce juvenile Crimes by engaging underserved middle school and high school students in positive activities cultivating a growth mindset and conflict resolution skills through social emotional curriculum family engagement one-onone mentoring and College and Career Readiness uh funding will be used to compensate Personnel responsible for programming uh supplies and participant travel I believe we have Jenny Wester in attendance if there are any questions on this particular application moving forward to our second one uh Guardian Services their victim services financial exploitation prevention center program and this is a financial exploitation program which creates a unified network of Partners committed to prevention protection and prosecution of financial exploitations of aging and or disabled adults in Fort Worth the program has served 400 participants in all districts by providing education Outreach and victim Services funding will compensate a Victim Assistance professional community outreach manager Grant accountant and Victim Assistance intern I believe we have ly Scott in attendance if there are any questions moving on to our third uh program United community centers their education literacy program uh this is a literacy program for family empowerment and building relationships between neighborhood police officers businesses and schools uh the program will serve lowincome uh with ages 4 to 16 at the Wesley and poly Technic community centers and zip code 76106 and 76164 funding will be used to compensate literacy teachers bus drivers and child care assistance and then uh Southside Hornets is our fourth recommendation for program grants uh their Unity 360 program aims to combat juvenile delinquency and Southside communities by engaging ages 4 to 12 in sports education mentorship with activities including stem learning uh parental engagement and sports all underpinned by their proud values to instill discipline respect and Community Spirit thereby enhancing safety and reducing crime rates funding will be used to compensate a program coordinator counselor administrative assistant and program supplies and I believe we have Patrick Brown and Latasha Ireland on hand for any questions those are our program Grant recommendations are there any questions on those all right any questions over those recommendations Chris yes thank you um so I always ask this question when you bring uh these slides up so we have the recommended uh um groups and organizations to receive funding are there any groups that did not receive any any funding we had let me pull and I know this is the uh balance of what was left over is that correct mentioned at the beginning so we still have a balance which we'll address here in a moment okay U so uh currently let's see here uh we have in your report there report in your packet we had five decline concept papers uh and those agencies have been contacted with their feedback Our Community Partnership command also reaches out to them to make sure they don't have any questions they can immediately begin preparing to resubmit um they have to wait 120 days to submit but they can immediately begin preparing uh and among those uh three out of the five agencies I'm reporting didn't use their Grant Navigator a grant Navigator has been a really a big part uh of the program has been very helpful and so we are encouraging agencies to do that uh we do train them and provide that information during the required training RFP training that we do with all the agencies they're required to attend that training we talk about the Navigator so we encourage them to do that and then I just talked with an agency today encourag them to go and use the Navigator uh system our grant Navigator through United Way uh to reapply okay um you said it's in our packet I'm looking at and a you got it right there okay I don't other the on okay uh so it is good to uh I think um you said southide Hornets here I want see if they can come up and kind of just talk about what they're doing because I think this was Southside was one of the ones that maybe a couple years ago that had applied and and didn't make it through and I had asked the question of why and so it's good today to see that they did uh make it through this process here yeah yeah sticking in the process yeah you're you're exactly right uh were they able to stick around and looking at my staff yeah I think Patrick Brown and Latasha Ireland from Southside Hornets ster now what was your question just give us overview of of what you guys going to be doing in in the community well good evening um I'm Dr Latasha Ireland and we are actually working with uh Brisco elementary schools one of the primary things we're doing we're also working with community members and so what we're really trying to do is do a wraparound service we have been doing free services already in an after school program so not only are we working with the youth we also have a parent it's called pass which is parent and Student Success program and with this p program it's an incentive program and so what it does is we're trying to increase the engagement and involvement of the parents so what we do is every time they get involved with the school they volunteer they attend stuff they have a point base where they we created an app where they can document their time and then based off of that time we give away incentives like a TV or we do a room makeover or we do a night out for the um parents and what we're really trying to do is get those parents together and then also we have the four se's program which we've talked with the counselor the coach the clergyman and the uh cop and our whole concept is to do a wraparound service around that youth as well and then now we're incorporating um meeting with the Educators at Brisco so now we do another call where we sit with the Educators and we give them all this feedback that we getting from the kids that are at the school along with the parents and also getting the feedback for the Educators as well and we're doing that are centered around Sports so what we do is do it interactive um they play Sports we teach them some type of activity and while they're doing that we're also assessing their behavior and looking at different skills and competencies and we're scoring them so how are they doing in their teamwork so it's more of an indirect way uh because last year no year before last we did a mind over guns campaign for ages four through six and we learned that a lot of times their mind they don't have alternatives to their decision making and so that's what we wanted to implement within the uh Brisco Community thank you and one one last question how old is is the Southside Hornet organization as a whole I'm 60 and I played for them so they at least over 60 over years so this this this is a good organization I will tell you uh many many years ago I used to coach for the Southside hornets and that you know is that the L no we we actually won and Elijah strong strong who used to be the district director was playing he was like six years old and so uh this organization has come a long way so congratulations glad that you guys have continued to do the work work uh for our uh community and District a and Southside so thank you so much and if I could say one other thing please if I may yeah um so I was born and raised here in forward graduated from odw high school uh did 20 years in the Air Force came back to give back to my community and it's organizations like Southside who's been in the community for 40 years and when we introduce what they're doing now it's almost like well when did they start doing it they've been doing it only difference is they didn't have the exposure and that's what I've been doing to make sure that they get that exposure so I am very proud of Southside to be able to get this grant with the ccpd thank you for your service too I think Gina did you have a question on this topic go ahead not for the Hornets but thank you for what you've done uh what I what I want to talk about is the training and you've enhanced the training in terms of information you know for for years I've seen this be an issue and I want to commend you on making it happen uh what I'm concerned about is there are some people who for whatever reason can't get the information to know about the Navigator and to know about what's available you know at uh United Way I looked at each of those who receed the decline ruling you know from for ccpd funding and just looking at their websites it was pretty clear why the you know decline came through and so for the sake of those people who want to do good do well serve the community can you talk about how they can learn the application process we know it here but just because you're at that microphone and hopefully somebody will hear it I think it's being recorded absolutely it's it can be an intimidating process um and so we we've added over the years with the help of of this group um some helps along the way uh both uh iners the Navigator is an in-person that can work Hands-On on application but we've always had the RFP training where we meet in person with an agency it's a required training we we asked that it be required so we make sure that everybody has the same information that nobody's missing anything and so uh we have the RFP training we have the grant Navigator and we've also haded professional Grant Training uh and so ccpd is covering is helping to cover that as well and so we work with a professional Grant trainer that the program that we use as somewhat of the basis for how we structure our application so you're getting it from about three different directions uh plus the staff who's there to answer answer the questions as well and so if you don't know about the grant Navigator uh reach out to the partners of the shared Mission staff go to our website um and we'll make sure you get connected yeah it's also helpful to know that uh through the pre-screening uh process you're provided an initial technical score so if there any you know things missing for example yeah you know like the uh use of the training Navigator uh there's an opportunity there for the applicant to go back and uh you know Rectify that right yeah the the concept paper uh really provides an opportunity for them to get feedback uh and and know how to proceed and the Navigator works with them through that process to answer their questions about the RFP about their agency the big thing we're trying to do is connect their mission with our mission we can't change our mission but we can certainly help them connect to our mission yeah it's also helpful to know since uh uh councilman NS brought it up Southside Hornets they were awarded under the prior funding model and if they would be eligible for sustainment uh uh grant funding right correct correct that's the next phase that we added just in the past year Gina and and I needed to just let you know that I talked to one of my sources that being Mark Carter and his favorite programs I asked him you what are your top three and he listed the afterschool program the late night program and of course the Safe Haven youth program so do you have any any explanation for that magic sauce why these three programs stand out for this guy who is known to be an advocate in the community yeah I mean the those programs we've had them in the community for a long time I think they've they continue to work work with the city uh to refine their methods and to make sure that they measuring things ccpd requires us to measure what it is that we're doing and so I think uh you know them working with us and and the process that we go through that partnership really yields good results um in addition to just I mean honestly we have some of the greatest um programs you know in Fort Worth so that's a big part of it all right any other questions from the board all right still have uh development grants so we'll continue on if we may uh so these are our two development grants we had two total last year uh in 25 we already have two and so cons continuing to see growth there as well uh for Maroon 9 and TFT organization now our development grants are focused not on prog programming uh but on strengthening organizations and so the expenses are a little bit different and how that functions and it's for our agencies that we want uh they may not be ready for a program Grant yet but we want to get them there so we it's another way that we kind of wrap around to help them move to a stronger uh Stronger programming that move towards more funding and so for Maroon 9 uh they provide year round uh Arts enrichment programs to underserve teens in districts 5 six and8 uh this project will increase their overall impact and Effectiveness through targeted capacity building initiatives resulting in measurable improvements in participant engagement program reach and Community influence funding will be used to compensate a consultant website uh excuse me website redesign uh program supplies and computer equipment and then moving on to TFT organization uh this $50,000 Grant uh is for an agency that provides uh Financial education to at risk underserved communities in Fort Worth their project will develop and expand their ability to increase safety through D direct neighborhood projects youth crime prevention and intervention projects by conducting weekly Executive coaching sessions and implementing a strategic plan funding will be used to compensate a consultant program supplies computer equipment and software and and as I've mentioned in the past uh development grants does require our agencies to work with an outside consultant to to bring more resources to the table and help provide that additional layer layer of support so with our recommendations and this answer question that was brought up earlier uh so we have uh 1.1 uh million for program grants and $91,500 in development grants for a total recommendation of 1.19 million so total funds available uh and these are in a life to- dat funds so they continue to uh be available until we're able to grant them uh total funds available are 4.7 million uh after today a remaining balance would be 3.5 million if approved uh and with the pending grants and the increased uh cap uh we have about 3.6 million in Grants that are pending so uh if all are awarded then we will be uh we won't have any additional resources available except for the 25 budget Qui question um you if you don't have any other programs uh that apply for these dollars do it stay in the community uh budget or do y'all allocate it somewhere else no it's it's excuse me sorry go go ahead yeah yeah it's in a life to-date fund uh so that allows us to do multi-year grants but also uh as um it stays committed for this purpose so it's a partners admission fund they stay there and this is the report of what's remaining and what we're anticipating any other questions from the board these all right okay so before us we have uh this item here to consider uh G based program funding recommendations uh do I have a motion to okay second all right any discussion all in favor indicate by saying I any Nays seeing none motion pass thank you all right once again Keith consideration of fy2 recommended ccpd budget oh okay chief I guess you're giving that we're gonna we're tag Dem good afternoon uh CCP board Mr President thank you I wanted to start off today with something a little different though I want to start off with a thank you to all of you I know this is the ccpd board but I'm speaking to the mayor and Council now last week was a very tough week for the Ford police department as you all know we lost a brother a friend a hero a family man and it it's hard to get through times like that but it's been support that has gotten us through we've seen it all the all the way from the national level the state level locally with our communities with other agencies across the country that have stepped up to support us but I wanted to thank this group everyone around this table once where it really struck struck the most to me was the uh the candalot viil there were so many people there I saw so many faces and I saw every single one of these and when I saw your faces I saw your eyes and the tears in many of them I knew then that not only were you supporting us and Billy's family you were literally standing with us in the heat at this somber occasion but when I saw your faces I knew you were also grieving with us and as the chief of the Ford police department I cannot tell you how much that meant to me how much I appreciate that support from every single one of you from the bottom of my heart thank you now with business thank you Chief NOS excuse me I've already messed up the slides Keith can you back that up yes thank you okay for the agenda today we're going to be talking about our accomplishments and our performance also our fi25 police budget so for some of our accomplishments we always talk about what we're doing vient crime because violent crime is number one for us we've got to keep our residents safe and make them feel safe this key accomplishment for Quarter Two for the homicides being down over 26% is something I wanted to highlight and it's because of the great work being done by officers out there in the field every single day and our professional staff working behind the scenes like our crime analysts like our crime lab like our communication Specialists and everyone that's contributing you see this plus six on gun violence clearance rates when we started our gun violence unit late 2020 early 2021 the clearance rate for non-fatal shootings was about 16% with this 6% increase we're now 79% clearance rate because of the incredible work being done by our gun violence unit uh we have a 1.8% decrease in violent crime it's not the number we want to see we're going in the right direction but we're working hard to increase that number M we're very proud of our forth ISD criminal justice program we're working with students from Eastern Hills and South Hills it's been one of the most engaging incredible experiences not only the students but our officers have had as well we had some facility openings we're proud of our Priority One response times being down and obviously we're proud of meeting our FY 23 general fund goals so our performance indicators I'm going to go with the red first because the red is not where we want to be we're up on our priority two we're up on our priority three we want to see those numbers go the opposite direction but I want to point out what we're doing with our Priority One calls how we've actually come down there's some things we've changed to make that happen uh it used to be that whenever A call came in for for service to our Dispatch Center it just went to whatever call taker might be available we've taken about half of our call taker staff and they only take emergency calls because of that those calls are being answered faster there's been a 10% increase in the number that are answered within 15 seconds of making the call and because of that idea that came from our communication Specialists we're actually now seeing that decrease we need uh we're also looking at or have implemented a quality assurance program where we're working with all of our Communications employees to make sure they're working to the standard that's expected and even going above and beyond uh one thing this kind of goes back to what council member Nettles said earlier earlier uh asking about uh communication with those who call us so recently we've entered an agreement with power DMS for a model that's called Power engage it's one-way texting and what that one-way texting will be will be text messages directly to our residents who call us who we might not have been able to reach yet to let them know we are on our way or an officer has been dispatched uh it's going to take us probably over the next 90 days to get that fully implemented but the a company power DMS looking at the results they've seen in other agencies it's been a significant reduction in residents actually calling back which is taking more time from the call takers that's been by as much as a 50% reduction which for us would be about 50,000 fewer calls for our call takers each year which would help them actually answer the new calls that are coming at yes ma'am um is that a system that um folks will have to opt into prior to calling 911 kind of like we have our emergency alert system or is it automatic if they call 911 from a cell phone we know to just text them that update automatic okay yes ma'am uh moving on well no no I'm sorry Keith please one one second we do see an increase in uh crimes against Society a lot of those will be say for instance crimes at our vice unit work on prostitution gambling some of those offenses actually come come from the proactive work that those units are doing to take people off the street who might be involved in those kind of crimes but we've seen our crimes against persons and our crimes against property rates actually decrease Priority One calls we'll go back to that as you can see well we all know I don't to tell you the population of for worth is growing rapidly the number of calls that we're receiving is growing rapidly for instance says 2013 the number of priority1 calls is increased 40% 40% at the same time our response times have increased but only by about 18.7% about half of it and because of the new positions you've approved Us in budgets because of the new positions in Communications it's absolutely helped what I want to point out here is the significant increase that we're seeing in population and in calls but the fact that we're able still to bring down those Priority One response times bless you okay next going back to population so since 2013 the crime rate for property crimes has decreased about 40% that's pretty incredible and that's while our population since 2013 has increased about 23% normally when you see population go up you might see a different number but we've actually been able to bring that down and you might not be able to tell it by this slide but crimes against property with the same increase in population has actually come down down about 2% okay uh violent crime initiative has done amazing things as I mentioned before we've seen slight increases in robbery and aggravated assault which we are addressing but the double digit decreases we've seen in Murder non-fatal shootings and deadly conduct has been an absolute joy to see and there's so many officers out there day and night that are making sure we're increasing those numbers and continuing to bring them down all right so recommended budget uh we're going to review these recommendations I want to thank Keith line the entire team for all the work that they've done to get this together and also want to thank christianne Simmons and the for wor lab for being Partners in preparing this it's been a an absolute team effort so here's our recommended budget overall 4 61.8 million and then we've broken that down into General and ccpd what I want to know when you look at ccpd it looks like a smaller number than you might expect those are just the funds in ccpd that are going to police directly that doesn't count all the other departments that are affected so ccpd is about 27.4% of our overall budget which leaves 72.4 for general fund a lot of information on this slide I'm just going to give you some highlights one thing to remember we break these two down general fund you see primarily we're talking about Personnel cost when you're talking about ccpd you're talking more about training Community collaboration programs overtime support Capital training and Personnel who work in a lot of our specialized units who focus on the community okay you can see a little better here as it breaks down the different items that are covered in general fund and in the ccpd but I think this group really knows it pretty well what I do want you to know is we we take the priorities that you give us we listen to the community and the feedback that they give and we bring uh budgets based on those priorities that we hear from you in the community so the process obviously today we're here to talk about this uh if there is no action today on the budget we can meet again on the 27th and ultim ultimately culminating in a vote on September 17th this year I say for the revenue summary obviously we all know that uh it's going to be a little tighter budget year this year that's okay we're going to make this work uh because revenue for sales tax is expected to be about 1% we had to significantly alter the way we were doing some things uh we budgeted interest differently based on historical actuals to make sure we were budgeting that accurately and you can see here the reflection of that with some of the numbers and if you have any questions or going along please jump out and ask me okay for the ccpd expenditure summary a little bit later we'll talk about each program specifically right now uh we're looking look at it by initiative and how the budget looks some highlights here enhanced response what we're talking about with our enhanced response portion of the bud budget those are based on recommendations for more SRO for bike teams and for the new crossing guard contract uh for neighborhood crime talking about npos and actually moving a couple of positions that were in general fund to the ccpd uh recruiting and training we're going to highlight that a little bit more in a later slide so we'll move on Chief before you leave that slide I did have a question can you get back to it um Recruitment and training uh talk talk us through that decrease please absolutely so when we looked and that's concerning one which is why we're going have a slide explaining a little bit better but we'll discuss that now one of the things we saw in our Academy classes going through was a higher than normal attrition rate we have done several things to address that and we've seen an improvement but based on the last few years the attrition rate we've been seeing we budgeted a 15% attrition rate and because of that new factor that we're considering we have a decrease in the overall spending for recruitment not that we're reducing the number of classes not that we're reducing the number of people we're trying to put in the classes we're just being real real istic about the attrition rates we've been seeing in our classes okay so because attrition rate was never accounted for before and this is a new consideration that's why it it reflects in that number as it does correct and now if I can be make sure I'm explaining it clearly we did factor in attrition rates okay but we had seen significantly higher than normal attrition rates so it caused us to recalculate that based on the last few years of attrition rates understood oh Chief can I ask a quick question that slide and the slide before what is the difference between funding application and then recommended budget those two columns so there was a an adjustment with we worked on with the Fort Worth lab a number that we hadn't got in for the Mee and confer the number that they wanted in there so uh that was a last minute change that we had to get in there had it was intended to be in there we had just missed it okay thank you all so breaking things down into each of our categories recruitment and training equipment and technology and infrastructure have decreased some enhanced response in neighborhood crime prevention have increased and one thing I want to point out in Gray at the bottom partners with the shared Mission you're going to see 9% one thing I want to make sure all of you know is we are still sticking with our commitment the 10% of the tax revenue for ccpd goes to our partners with the shared Mission there is 9% there because what is also factored in is the overall budget budget which also includes Revenue such as revenue from the SRO program where 4 THD covers half of our officers and 100% of our sergeants so although that says None of the overall budget we are still sticking with our commitment of giving 10% of the tax revenue in the ccpd that has not changed couple things to point out here school resource officers what that's going to come down to for fourth ISD three additional sro's or school resource officers for elementary schools and one new sergeant and again it is important to note they pay half of the cost for the officers and 100% for the sergeant want to talk a little bit about the ballistic glass uh that is something we want to do for our officers to keep them as safe as possible what that will be is ballistic glass in the driver side window and door like a panel in the door also in the front passenger window and door and that's going to go in the windshield as well it's only for new marked Patrol or vehicles that are out actually serving in our communities and marked units yes ma'am I just want to ask you or Keith to please send me a specific job description of the school resource officer okay somebody make a note please thank you we will get that to you and then the addition with the school crossing guards obviously there was an increase from what 1350 to 16007 for our crossing guards which I know they appreciated and that was an increase of about 1.4 million uh there's going to be a significant increase in vehicle replacement one thing we did we had our Fleet uh team look at our replacement schedule we were really behind we needed a catch up we needed more vehicles in the fleet to actually be able to catch up our next Staffing units that's a lot of information um let's get to some of the high points points we talked about bike units one uh we had spoken with council member Beck about the need for making sure there is Security in the Magnolia Entertainment District we're have two bike officers for the Magnolia Entertainment District also we're going to have two for the Stockyards something we've been talking with council member uh Flores I'm sorry president Flores for quite some time something he's been very patient about and one thing I want to notice right here it says West bikes program uh Mr President the only reason it says West is because we have two funds for bike officers in the ccpd one is Central because they're already in downtown and now they will be in Magnolia the other is for West for West 7th so they're funded out of that fund but they will be in your District in Northwest in the Stockyards understood thank you sir yes sir uh Community Alliance this is the swap I was talking about we had a lieutenant and a captain who were over units who were completely within the ccpd and made no sense so we're moving those positions from general fund into the ccpd no change to the overall budget it's just which bucket they're coming out of and for our friends of North we're going to get two more npos we're going to make sure we staff up the npos they've been working short-handed they've not had the number that they've needed we've been trying to cover it the best we can we're looking for asking for two full-time no positions for North Division the expanded training very very important very near and dear to my heart that's going to be a full-time Sergeant for our Wellness unit this is the one I want to make sure I cover really carefully the 911 call taker program we're talking about a million dollars coming out of that here's why we were I was very ambitious about doing everything we could to fully staff the communications division there was a program we consider that I asked for it was approved to be able to have a bit of a surplus because it takes a long long time to recruit hire and train new applicants and actually get them on the floor in the Communication Center so the idea was even once we're fully staffed maybe we have a few more in the pipeline ready to go as soon as an opening comes up I was a bit too ambitious we never got close to that Mark we don't anticipate getting to that Mark by the end of this budget upcoming budget so those were funds that were sitting idle and we could not use what we're requesting is that money is actually going to be diverted so we can use it for things we need and can use right now if the program looks like it's a good idea once we are fully staffed down the road we can come back to you and discuss it again at that time but the number of authorized positions that we've always had we're not reducing that it was that program we had to try to have more of a pipeline of communications employees before you move on from that slide I see that there's a reduction in the new officer training program um can you kind of walk through what type of training or why that reduction is it just we have less new officers or that's going back to the attrition rate that we talked about before thank you for the question all right next did we H enhance response Keith I think we did okay very good move on let's go to slot 18 is what I'm looking for here go okay couple I want to point out on this one we already talked about the central bikes and all one thing almost all the positions we're talking about when we're talking about either new positions or current they're all going to be affected by meet and confer however that turns out and pay for performance that's pretty much blanket so I'll just leave that so I don't have to mention on every single one the community facility policing program that was the uh the library Marshall which is is continuing the reason there's a decrease we had a one-time Capital expense of a vehicle for that Marshall last budget cycle that will not be in this budget but the program is not stopping we're not reducing funds we just don't have to purchase another vehicle this year let's go ahead and move on I think we've covered all the rest in the other slides Keith and I only want to point this one out right here because again we're going to our community stakeholders they make us aware of their priorities these were perfectly aligned with our own needs assessments having the school resource unit Stockyards back team and the Magnolia team perfectly in alignment with the what the community's been asking and our council members our next really the only one that we haven't already touched on somewhat is the patrol support program and there was an adjustment there and I don't want you to think we're providing less Patrol to support but we looked at our historicals and for instance last year five of seven of our Patrol support centers had significant Savings in 2023 so it's just a more realistic number based on the hours that were being used it's an effort to be as responsible as we can with the funds we are entrusted with all right let's go to the next one Keith please and I believe this one's yours uh yes sir so as you may remember in our February meeting uh we talk about uh changing some of the titles and consolidating to make a little bit more concise to go towards a priority approach to our programs and so this is uh that Consolidated approach uh with our gang intervention uh priority program after school uh priority program victim Services as well we still have all the same agencies are funded uh and the thing that that I'll point out here is that we did a 4% increase uh for our programs this year our mission partner programs this year uh you see the decrease that's in our after school priority program and and part of what that is we had offered for two years a 10% violent crime initiative increase uh to our agencies a couple of them didn't see that it fit in their programming which was was fine it was no problem we decreased that out uh but we still offered that 4% increase this year and so the re the the net of that is is that slight decrease that you see in after school programming uh our request for emerging Partners programs which is our community- based uh programs we talked about earlier it's same program is 4.6 million I'll I'll talk on the next slide to see where we're at um as we talked about earlier we have nine applications pending uh then also our partners uh with a shared Mission admin program we have three staff members that uh work tirelessly uh to make sure that this initiative is well staffed this is where we currently are with our partners of the shared Mission uh specifically our emerging Partners our community based programs we have 3.49 uh million remaining in active contracts that's across 23 active contracts and you can see them listed right there uh our prospective applications uh in the past quarter we trained 39 agencies and had 25 eligibility surveys come through so we're seeing an uptick in agencies that are interested in our funding uh and then with our remaining funds we talked earlier about after the recommendations there's about 3.54 million remaining uh we have 3.6 million in pending applications uh between four concept papers and five full applications that are pending mov forward to recruitment training initiative Chief you have anything else here uh the only thing I wanted to point out here was the uh the new officer training point we're going to be having four new classes and we already have one class that started now that will be included in this and again remind you of that 15% nutrition rate that we factored in now if as we go along that changes we would definitely come back to the board and let you know if there's more capacity there but that's where we are right now yes mayor proen Chief if you would please send me some information on efforts to recruit African Americans to swat you a lot of your dangerous crimes go I guess not as impacted as they possibly could be because you need someone of color going in and I don't want you worrying about it now but send me some information on how you guys are looking in that area yes ma'am all right so this is what we're looking at for our classes for our next classes new classes not the one we have going now we're looking for about 70 in the full classes 159 and 160 and between 10 and 20 for our lateral which are lateral entry officer programs the Leos uh 10 and 20 and if we can exceed those numbers we're going to do our best to actually either meet or beat those so here is how we're looking as far as sworn vacancies and I want you to look at the very end of 21 and our goal for quite some time now has been to be completely staffed at the end of 2026 we have 21 showing there that's what the numbers are showing right now we plan on catching up with the classes we have coming up but I want to tell you why we have that 21 we have always made a commitment to never sacrifice quality just for quantity just to get more officers out there I know that's what you have demanded of us as well our most recent class class 158 we had 1100 people apply that standard it's usually around a th people we got one class of 52 people from 1100 applicants one class and 52 was not even close to what we wanted obviously that's not what we wanted to see that was a disappointment but I hope you will see our commitment that we made we'd rather hire no one than the wrong one and we're only going to put the best that we can find in our classes even if that means we have 10 a, 50 people that we have to turn away from our Academy classes what I'm very excited about is all the work that our full-time recruiting team has been doing and I'm excited to see what our numbers will be in January I know executive assistant chief Aldridge applauded them to have for having a th people apply he said next time why not 2,000 so we're doing everything we can to increase those numbers Equipment Technology and infrastructure there's a decrease in your Citywide camera that's only because of a one-time expense we had in the last budget for Will Rogers that's not going to be a recurring expense um facility requirement program you see that blank there's a lot going on with that when we're talking about a new Central Division fac facility we're talking about overages and costs for our Northwest division the potential for what's turning out to be a very expensive facilities program um so we're planning on coming back in November with some more information on that because there's just so much going on to put all that information together uh the high mileage vehicle program uh that obv obviously includes the cost of the vehicles maintenance and Fuel and it also reflects that comprehensive review our fleet team did letting us know we needed to increase the number of vehicles we have to keep up with our replacement and we will have another slide explaining that more shortly matter of fact I believe it's next Keith yes sir yeah and I was I was part of that review and meet working with the fleet division uh worked really hard to to they're working to increase the the data that they have on hand and how they categorize the fleet uh and so uh based on the the vehicle specifications that we have these are all of the vehicles that are eligible uh for replacement uh we're not going to try to do all of those in the next fiscal year we average those out over 5 years uh which is a good practice to do uh but we also worked with Fort Worth lab on our total loss vehicles we found out that we were getting behind on some of the total vehicles that were uh taking away from our Fleet and so we worked with Fort Worth lab to come up with the right number to Budget to replace those Vehicles so it didn't continue putting us further behind at at 29 Vehicles a year that just it cuts into our replacement and so that's where you see uh that 15.1 uh Million number for Fleet replacement this year is higher than it was last year but that's based on a comprehensive review across our our vehicles if I can one thing wasn't really on the agenda but I'm going to bring this up to it's something we've been having conversations with many a lot of the accidents are not our fault some of them are so we're working at increasing and in wherever we can improving our training of our officers to hopefully bring down the number of not just re but total uh Vehicles which not only will bring that price down it we'll keep our officers and our residents safer as well moving forward this is our Capital Improvement plan that includes the the aformentioned uh vehicles that 17.4 million is the the portion that is for Capital vehicles uh we have our crime lad equipment that is there as well obviously our technology is a big part of the way that we operate keeping our technology running so that we can do intelligence Le policing is a big part of U the way that we operate uh and so our Capital Improvement plan this year is 21.5 million so with that I'll move to to this slide uh and this is uh kind of the balance of where where we're at and it's projected but I'll kind of walk through it um the end of uh this current fiscal year we're projecting to have a 49.2 million in in fund balance remaining uh with the 25 recommended budget that that'll come to 45.6 million you see there um in the third Blue Line uh we have a reserve requirement that totals to about 18.9 million uh so that leaves an excess um fund balance of about 26.7 million now we usually try to share and make sure that the repayment of sales tax that we have that we pay over 10 years is roughly about 6.2 million so if you were to deduct that out uh it leaves us about 20.4 million um but we want to that we pay that out over 10 years so we want to make sure that you're kind of aware of where that's at now we didn't expect to to have this number when we came to this meeting uh but just in the past couple months as Chief was talking about there's some changes to the way Central Patrol and Old City Hall worked and so we had a uh a plan for that to go towards uh that uh that project but there were some changes and so with those changes on the ground we're planning to come in November uh with some potential projects as we work with PMD and Fort Worth lab uh on those issues that that CH had mentioned any questions all right questions from the board on any of that material covered there's lot of digest there going once going twice all right seeing none okay well thank you Chief thank you Keith for that presentation uh going to close the public hearing and now uh ask for a motion move for approval okay all right any discussion seeing none all in favor indicate by saying I I okay and any Nays seeing none the recommended CCP budget passes all right uh do we have any members of the public here J to address us there are no members all right okay request for future agenda items I took notes on few I think Janette you had something a question about an update on the gun detect ction technology is that correct okay all right and then Gina SRO information as far as duties responsibilities and African-American uh recruitment efforts for SWAT all right I have one I want an update on safe night LLC in their efforts looking at our entertainment districts does anyone else have future agenda items that I have not covered I can add some clarity okay to the SRO request we've had numerous fights at Eastside schools and I think think the public and I need to have Clarity on what is the role of the SRO because some through the years have felt that they don't step outside the the school building and I just need to look at that description to make sure we all know okay thank you very much Jared thank you chair um I don't know if ccpd has ever done this but curious about it um have we ever hired a consultant or did it internally to or had staff do a study internally on like strategic planning especially with related to our partners with a shared Mission and how those Investments are helping to achieve some of our I don't recall safy goals ke could you come up there and uh perhaps address council member Williams's question yes sir uh we've been working on some things trying to get uh it rolling we talked before a study with TCU a survey that was going to go out uh we've been working with the lab a little closer on that to make sure before it goes out that is what it needs to be uh it's not a strategic plan per se it's really just to assess impact uh and so if you impact a little bit maybe there something we can look into maybe we talk about it that' be good um just as Contex I think that'd be good for us to discuss at a future meeting but just context I know that the City of Arlington with their tomorrow Foundation fund they recently did a number of Assessments um to help better understand the return on investment for The Limited dollars that they were investing into the community so maybe something good for us to discuss and maybe support staff if that's something they find useful okay staff is that clear sufficiently uh yes thank you as far as how to address uh Council memb uh question okay all right anyone else Charlie you got both hands in the air okay all right well not seeing any then we are adjourned for