foreign over to David welcome to your work session good afternoon everybody alrighty let's see the first thing I'll do is talk about some upcoming events and just to remind everybody around the table that our next budget work sessions are scheduled for next Thursday August 24th and next Friday August 25th both beginning at 10 A.M and next I'm going to call on Renee tayas our chief Communications officer to recognize a couple groups Renee good afternoon mayor and Council this summer the communications and public engagement staff along with many departmental pios had a presence at and attended the Texas Municipal information officers conference or tamio tamio is an affiliate of the Texas Municipal League representing 98 of Texas urban populations through its more than 1150 member cities our diversity equity and inclusion Department entered the Deni Outreach campaign category and the nomination of work focused on their cdfi friendly Fort Worth initiative cdfis are community development financial institutions that specialize in providing flexible affordable financing and support to small business owners affordable housing developers non-profits consumers and Commercial Real Estate all in historically underserved communities Fort Worth's initiative has become a Beacon of Hope and progress for our minority entrepreneurs the initiative launched was firmly centered on community engagement with grassroot efforts taking place in government business non-profits and neighborhoods how are de and eni Department engaged and communicated and generated excitement about the program garnered the department of the city of Fort Worth the award of Honor from the tamio organization in the communication planning category and today we recognize their winning efforts I understand the department leadership is at a professional development opportunity but helping to accept this award is their ACM Fernando Acosta [Applause] happy to accept on behalf of diversity inclusion Christina Brooks and Glenn Forbes who is the CEO for cd5 friendly Fort Worth are both scheduled to brief the council at your next work session on August 29th about cdfi friendly Fort Worth it's a great success story you'll be happy to hear the report thank you very much thank you Fernando Renee you got another one don't you okay I do not need to boast about the service provided to our residents through the call center from reporting not picked up recycling to informing about a loose dog to navigating City processes a small But Mighty team facilitates more than 25 000 calls a month I think we'd all agree that the best place for our call center reps to be spending their time is taking calls not filling out complex timesheets or reporting the leadership team sought ways to enhance efficiency and productivity at the call center by seamlessly integrating nice the call center software with our HR software which is called PeopleSoft now nice speaks to PeopleSoft to capture logins and logouts breaks and lunches to appropriately route the seemingly endless calls from our residents we nominated the solution to nice showcasing 416 hours saved annually and highlighting how supervisors save time when checking hourly timesheets by 67 percent and noting the call center now performs at 96 scheduled adherence to not missing routed calls due to having performing other tasks large industry call centers use nice and our team's nomination was up against those larger call centers such as Hyatt Walmart Pfizer and even Globe Life however because they were able to articulate how they eliminated timesheet errors and unlock substantial Time Savings and provide continual exceptional customer service our call center received the prestigious nice 2003 Excellence Trailblazer of the Year award please help me in congratulating our call center administrator joining me here is Sharon Gamble and her leadership team I'm sitting in the back there receive this nice award can have you guys stand up in the back there [Applause] congratulations thank you to Renee next up are informal reports and the first one is our monthly development activity report and DJ Harrell is available if there any questions all right next up is an informal report on proposed preparation of Americans with Disabilities Act compliance plan and Fernando Costa is available if there's any questions we're rolling third informal report is on door-to-door vendors in Janie Scarlett Morales is available if there are any questions all right come on up good afternoon an overview will do for me because I'm very irritated with these people so what can you tell us about the process yeah very good we all know how to tell them to leave me alone tells me you don't have any trouble with that Gina but on behalf of your constituents we can figure out how else people can do it the process that's managed by the development services and the ordinance does require for our registration the registration is valid for six months and we take the applications in person via online and via my Fort Worth CRM system we review those applications they are required to provide some information to us that includes their their name the name of the entity they also need to provide us information on the vehicle that they will be utilizing they also have restrictions as to when they can operate they can operate normally under central time from 9 PM to 7 from 9 A.M to 7 pm and during daylight savings times all the way to 8 pm this same restrictions applied to the actual solicitation as well as to the posting and distributing of hand bills so it's the same time distribution requirement and uh that they miss it here too the that's how we administer it here in in Fort Worth and the enforcement is done by our Police Department we were asked also to provide an update on how other municipalities handled their door-to-door programs and they're very similar we actually contacted a total of nine different cities in Texas and all but nine have some enforcements and a requirement registration provided that as a part of the informal Report with the exception of Austin all the other municipalities have very similar regulations that the city of Fort Worth has the breakdown that I provided was on the registration requirement nine of the Cities require registrations as far as regulations they leave the time the day that they can operate for example Fort Worth only has a limitation as to the time that they can operate but other organizations have the time of the days for example they cannot operate on Sundays or they cannot operate on certain holidays another regulations that um that is required that they have to comply with is six of the municipalities are required to do criminal background checks and seven of the municipalities have peace and five limit the municipalities have a fine of up to 500 for each occurrence as well as the city of Fort Worth foreign are there any other questions yes ma'am thank you for putting this together the reason I asked for it is because I was getting an increased number of calls from constituents complaining about uh aggressive salesmen at you know later times in the evening based on some of those emails I do think that it would be beneficial um to maybe work with our npos to try to combat some of these late night folks or I don't want to take a lot of resources off of it but I do think some sort of maybe brief enforcement would be helpful some things that I would like us to explore changing in our policy is one the fee for registration um it looks like all of our major counterparts have some sort of fee for registration I think that will help us administer the the program a little better it also makes make sure that we have more credible businesses coming in criminal background checks do you know if the cities that that require that if the cities conduct those criminal background checks are the companies that are applying for these permits are required to submit um criminal background checks for um their employees the ones that I that I reviewed indicated that they would go through the organ the municipalities and do the background checks so that so that and they have to pay for those background checks as well okay in some instances um how onerous are these background checks do we know no um okay so I think that we are behind the ball on background checks of folks that we're allowing to come knock on folks doors so I'd like to see that changed I'd like to see the fee for registration changed but I would also like some sort of requirement um that as part of and I think this is why a fee would be helpful is that there is some sort of um document like whether it's a badge a lanyard that these folks are required to wear so that our residents can easily see that they have registered with the city so they know that there's a background check they know that it's it provides some sort of credibility to that and safety to the person answering the door so that's my charge on um on what I'd like to see changed in our current um policy Charlie okay so first I don't think you're going to find anybody more pro-business than me however I mean the fee I agree okay 411 projected applications even at ten dollars the Marine math 4100 I'd rather City pay them 4100 to not knock on doors right I mean these are a home I think if um if we're going to keep keep saying you know we want a safe City absolutely the criminal check is I think that's way behind due um but even looking beyond that like these are our neighborhoods and I mean I don't know if we can just not allow it at all but I don't think anyone says oh look I'm so glad someone's at my door to sell me some solar panels right like I don't think anyone's looking forward to it and especially what I'm my biggest concern too is with our elderly uh population who then gets pressured into buying something they don't want how many times has it happened I'm sure a lot uh I mean even my district director who's a young buck you know it feels like he may have gotten pressured into a high pressure cells meant for uh for solar panels so I know it's happening to everyone um so I'd like to see any other large cities who have a zero tolerance policy on this because again really going back to the safe City Mantra this is I I don't think it's good for for anybody except for those businesses which I don't think is going to be good for us and the level of those checks I also have major concerns with um just knowing that like even you have the national National agency checks and local checks and I'm sure in these cases it's just a cheap local check you know like uh somebody would run on a uh on a tenant for for a rental property it's not very in-depth at all and quite frankly a lot of these are young salesmen door-to-door uh sort of a lot of them are going to come back safe but are they really so I do have a lot of concerns just the whole program in general and whether or not we can just not allow it or what our options are because there's not a lot of money in it for the city so that's just my take I've got one more thing to add mayor go ahead Gina I uh when I left Encore I destroyed all of my shirts that had the Encore logo because of the safety concerns we had from people pretending to be utility workers and so I like the idea Elizabeth has for some type of ID I think if you have a fee that's stiff enough you know that will be a deterrent for the companies to make sure they're putting the right people out usually what I just do is talk real ugly to them and I won't be specific but it tends to work but uh I do have a non-solicitation sticker on my storm door right there at eye level and when they come I point to that and they push on then I pointed that with another finger and they they'll leave but you know I like the idea your other ID yeah well you know so but it's I don't like the hours and that's the issue I have you're disturbing my dinner hour if I had a traditional family and I think if we were to take this very seriously we might get some type of you know Conformity you know with this so I hope step in just taking this as a scriping this is pretty important any Clarity needed from staff we're good okay any other questions Jeanette so I like the idea of a fee and ID as well and maybe with some of the money that we bring in with the fees we could buy stickers and have NPO or code hand those out at community events no soliciting stickers any other questions thank you David go ahead our next informal report is on the Texas Enterprise Zone nomination for Gulf Stream Aerospace and Robert Stearns is available if there are any questions I have any questions but Robert uh I'd ask if you can come up there because I think it's very noteworthy we have the nomination of Gulfstream Aerospace for the uh Texas Enterprise zoned you know program I think that's a tremendous benefit possibly sure thank you councilman Flores uh getting Robert Stern's Economic Development so if you'll recall if we mentioned in the IR that back in October Gulfstream announced the opening of their newest mro maintenance repair and operations facility at Alliance Airport they invested 55 million dollars and a 160 000 square foot facility they have approximately 200 people that are working at that facility today so as they have opened that new facility they have decided to expand additional expansion here in Fort Worth at 2500 Golden Triangle Boulevard this will be about a hundred thousand square feet uh facility which would employ an additional 105 workers and they're going to invest another six million dollars in the in the project particularly on purchasing tooling to facilitate the work that's being done there the nomination for the Texas Enterprise Zone again that is no impact to the city dollars this is a state designation a competitive designation so we it has to be submitted by the city it goes down to the state so we're trying to get this in by the September 1st uh deadline so they can be considered and hopefully they would end up getting a sales and tax refund for a five-year period as part of this project I'm very excited about this yeah me too and also add that uh they were high they committed to hiring you know economically disadvantaged folks and I think that's very noteworthy great thanks Robert thank you Robert next informal report is on the Will Rogers Memorial Coliseum and the final design of the plaques describing the historic tile mural Michael Crum our public events director and estrus Tucker the chair of the Fort Worth Arts commission are available if you have any questions I have a couple questions um come on up guys sorry Mike for the record uh please note that I gave Mr Tucker the skinny Podium this afternoon hi I'm Mike Crum I'm the director of the Public Public events Department my name is Esther Tucker I chair of the public Arts Commission I think the religious questions on timing I know we have 65 million dollars in the active projects going on at Will Rogers majority are going to start during the time frame of this installation I just want us to be cognizant on when these are going to be delivered installed and then we're gonna have all this new renovation and construction going on what's the plan to protect the plaques are we going to work with Fort Worth events to make sure that we're on timing not having to pull things up and redo them sure so uh we're here today as a final check-in on the plaque project uh from here we would secure a vendor negotiate an agreement and start with fabrication as we all know nothing happens at the Will Rogers Memorial center during the stock show and so we would anticipate that this project would would be actually installed sometime in 2024 probably in the second or third quarter of next year I guess my question is more about the timing of the construction I know we have lots of different projects to be going on that's what I'm more worried about than them so the uh the the construction projects that we're uh looking at uh don't need the front Plaza of the complex uh to be staged will stage construction work from the uh the Will Rogers Coliseum side of the building the East Side uh of the building so this this uh the installation of the plaques would be relatively isolated and can take place in sequence so they can go in one at a time so we're not we're not digging out the entire Plaza in order to do the installation okay perfect I just want to make sure we're not duplicating efforts and spending more money we're good okay thank you okay thank you gentlemen estrus thank you as usual good to see you thank you next informal report is an update on the fiscal year 2024 proposed budgets for operating pids and the tourism PID and I know there's somebody here to talk about that questions Allen foreign there we go yes sir so I want to say first say thank you Crystal for all the hard work and Robert uh for putting all the PID budgets together uh councilman loversdorf and I had the pleasure of being together at the PID 7 annual meeting last night and we received a question about pilos the payment in lieu of service and the concern from the residents was strictly related to to the sense that we're increasing mowing as a service to the city inflations occurred yet that number doesn't seem to be trending in the same direction so if you could take a moment and talk to that and maybe let us know what the plan is yes council member um I did email you back on that and ICC Tenzing Sherpa Sandra Youngblood and her team at the parks department because they could provide probably just a little bit more detail and from the email chain um they have proposed the same allocation for FY that they gave an FY 23 as a decision package in fy24 and I think that's pending approval so you'll essentially get the same allocation in FY 23 if it's approved now they're proposing a plan to the budget office for fy25 and Beyond at a percent year-over-year increase and I think Tenzing and Sandra emailed this afternoon on the status of that um right um from the email that I recall it's it's it's a decision package and so how that works is it's going to be on next fiscal Year's agenda for discussion and approval but as far as the rate increase year over year I think it was one to two percent year over year and those conversations I've updated the board and the management companies from Parts communication to me and so I kind of rely on part to give those status updates as they get them but that is what I know of 25 and Beyond okay thank you very much I appreciate that okay it helps um if we can accelerate maybe to mid-year that would be even better yes and I'll give you an update on uh the approval of fy24 Appropriations yeah at mid-year fantastic thank you so much yeah thank you okay thank you and the final informal report is on zoning notifications for continued cases and Stephen Murray is available if there are any questions no questions mayor that concludes my report okay thank you David our next item is any questions regarding changes in membership on Boards of commissions for the August 22nd council meeting any questions regarding the MNC log moving right along our first presentation is affordable housing and neighborhood conservation plans I believe that Victor Turner Neighborhood Services director and Scott page with interface Studios is going to present today good afternoon mayor council we're here today to give you all a briefing on our neighborhood conservation plan and affordable well housing affordability strategy back in 2019 at Council Retreat the focus was on neighborhood conservation and there was a desire by Council for us to develop a plan of how we could attack some of the neighborhoods that were on the verge of distress uh those at risk those that were already uh challenged and come up with strategies and recommendations to rise all boats raise all boats and so covet came and so 2020 2021 we wrestled with that but in July of 22 we executed a contract with interface Studio Scott page and also with Kevin Hively and Nina Grant Partners to develop a neighborhood conservation plan so what we have is two plans in one so we couldn't really address uh the conditions of neighborhoods without talking about housing so we have a housing affordability strategy neighborhood conservation plan so two plans in one so uh just to kind of speed up the process a little bit they have over 40 strategies of recommendations in the two plans some of them are higher priorities than others we have already started to attack some of those areas that they have raised as issues one is preserving existing affordable housing uh in the upcoming budget recommendation to increase our priority repair program also partner with an agency or entity for Community Land Trust also some some funding in there to address our homelessness issue so we've already kind of started that process with that road map that's been provided by the plan that Scott and Kevin have put together so today they're going to go through that plan and and give you all a snapshot of what what they think we should be doing as a city to address this Scott page all right good afternoon um it's good to see a number of you again particularly those that have been involved in this process just a couple of words about about this work it is comprehensive that was the intent to think about and look at affordable housing and housing overall across the board throughout the city and really think through the number of strategies that are necessary it's data driven so that's also a priority of this work and it's built on Partnerships here in Fort Worth to really tackle the unique challenges and strengths that you have as a city so that's just a little preface of where this work comes from and appreciate the uh the introduction Victor thank you we've been at this for about a year it started early on with some work looking at the neighborhood Improvement program specifically and ways to fine-tune that very successful program that neighborhood services and their Partners have been implementing to tackle conditions across different neighborhoods in Fort Worth we sense since that time been launched into this work around housing housing affordability in neighborhoods so what I'd like to do is just provide a quick overview and special thanks certainly to the neighborhood quality and revitalization committee you have now seen some version of this presentation a few times as we talked through the data and tried to get our heads around the range of things that would be appropriate and supported here in Fort Worth so a few big reasons to really focus on housing in particular I'll be talking about the housing affordability strategy first uh obviously Fort Worth is growing it's growing to the point where it's also growing faster in jobs than in housing which means that puts more and more pressure on the housing market right no surprise to anybody uh with all of that growth we have some increasing housing prices across the board these are charts that we have shared before but the long and short of it is the median income family within Fort Worth cannot afford the median priced home there are a lot fewer homes that are priced at below 200 000 than there were even 10 years ago where you could find quite a supply of those homes across the city some communities are already starting to see some level of displacement because of that constraint on the housing Supply so can't find a house you just moved to Fort Worth you might look at a neighborhood where the prices are a little less expensive you pick up that house and slowly those prices begin to rise so some of that displacement we did some mapping here that demonstrated places within Fort Worth that are either seeing some some rates of displacement or at risk of seeing some displacement and I don't think it would be a surprise to anyone here that some of those neighborhoods that are seeing that activity most frequently are neighborhoods that are primarily Hispanic and black so the issue of displacement is of course an issue that needs to be addressed in the context of Housing and housing affordability and then with respect to homelessness homelessness counts have been rising this is a national issue that doesn't diminish the fact that each city has to tackle this Challenge on their own terms and figure out what exactly is necessary to start to address some of the challenges that we've seen in the past few years so homelessness is very much a part of their strategy as well one of the things that we have emphasized from day one is that if you look at Raw numbers it's too much of a blanket to begin to address on its own if you just look at the numbers of Fort Worth and you say how many folks are spending too much of their income on housing it's about 109 000 households that is not a problem we are going to address nor is that a problem we need to address because some of those households are actually upper income households who just bought too much house that's their problem we have other concerns that we really need to focus on within this strategy so we broke it down into a number of different categories there are folks who are lower income who own their home who might need a little bit of help to stay in their home so that they don't lose that resource which is Affordable and provides a place for them to stay um they're of course very low income renters who would be uh who would qualify for subsidized housing but they don't currently or can't currently access the resources that are available just because of the limitations of the resources that we get from HUD so we break this into a number of different categories which helps us to then identify a number of clear goals the goals that this plan is based around and that's what the actions are really targeted to so there's um goal one is about low-income cost burden homeowners there's about 23 000 folks in uh households within Fort Worth that pay too much for their housing but they own their home so there are some tools and strategies a lot of which you already employ that can help them stay in their home and that's part of what this plan is focused on there's a goal around the subsidized rental units you do have they're about 21 000 households that have housing they pay exactly 30 percent of their income for that housing whatever their income is we want to make sure that we retain that housing and not lose any of it that means reinvesting in tax credits uh when that time is up and looking at all the other tools that you already use and making sure we're not losing any of the resources that we have there's opportunities to look at for some of the low-income cost burden renters that may be at the cusp of buying a house but just need a little help that is an opportunity and then there's a number of very low income cost-bird renters about 19 000 uh that we would be looking to preserve housing build housing this all becomes part of the the overall strategy similarly with respect to homelessness we really needed to Target this work um Target it to families with children we know that housing instability which causes kids to move frequently diminishes their school performance and that is a real concern for us and it's a concern for the school district and everyone involved in education so that should be a priority when we're thinking about how to address those on the customer unhoused that have kids and then there's the other kinds of homelessness there's the intermittent kind I just had a crisis I've lost my home let's try to reduce the number of days that you are unhoused that becomes part of the goal of this work and then there are a number of chronically homeless individuals folks that have been on the street for a very long time many of them need medication or additional assistance there's about 300 and that becomes a goal to really look at finding ways to provide permanent Supportive Housing for them so I wanted to spend a little time on these goals just to give you a framework for how all of this is put together and I'll go I'll go through this strategy now a little more quickly um just to give you a sense of what's here this is what you all currently do this is what is uh allocated uh program goals Fort Worth housing assistance and you can see how many households you are able to impact in a given year in addition to what Tarrant County adds to that number now this is all based on the resources that HUD provides you all so we were just talking about problems in the thousands you can see that the good work that the city does based upon the limitations of federal resources is hitting about a thousand total so it's a question of resources and that is something that we're really focused on how do we extend and maximize the resources you do have and make the most of the money that's available to you so we have to do that by attacking a few different costs and we really do look at it through the lens of how do we do this most effectively we have to attack the cost of building and preserving housing if you're already in a home whether you're renting or owning we have to make sure that we're attacking the cost of what what that occupancy is and then we need to certainly intervene and manage in the housing crisis for those that are on the verge of homelessness for any number of reasons so there's a lot on these slides I'm just going to pick out a couple things um when you look at things like the cost of building and preserving housing there's a number of things that play into this right there's the cost of land there's the cost of construction cost of capital all of those things matter and there's actually programs that we can identify and have identified as a part of this process to help reduce those costs or expand our effort to make the most of the dollars we're spending so for instance under Land one of the things we are recommending is a land bank I know this is something that's been discussed but one of the most effective strategies that cities have to create and preserve affordable housing is to have the land available when they have the funds available to build housing so that becomes a really critical component of this strategy under the cost of capital we are thinking that we need um flexible local dollars to extend the benefit of the federal dollars that you're getting and frankly are limited and diminish every few years so the more that we invest as a city we're suggesting 100 million dollars as an investment from a number of different sources to be determined by City leadership would go directly into addressing a number of these challenges and then things um one of the things that will help the most is to actually invest in community capacity so Community Development corporations organizations on the ground that can make so much of a difference with a bit of public investment and the good example here is what's happening in lvt lvt Rise is a really successful organization that's able to build upon and expand what the city is investing in that community with respect to occupying a home so what are the costs when you're occupying a home is things like taxes utilities the cost of the unit there are a number of strategies here that the plan identifies that look at things like we know the states just passed uh some changes on the on the income tax and the sorry property tax but certainly expanding City rehabilitation programs is a really critical opportunity and resource and something Victor's already mentioned as well as looking at a community Land Trust which is sort of a land bank but with an additional layer of partnership and ownership that helps to provide affordable housing over time so it does not it does not um uh terminate at some point 15 20 years down the road it's a resource that can be there for cities across across Generations we have also talked a little bit about some opportunities with respect to zoning and making sure where we're looking to build or preserve housing make sense with respect to where transit's located how do we get to work all of these things are of course critical when we're thinking about housing and then with respect to homelessness there's a number of key opportunities here um expanding things like the eviction diversion program that's critical and really really helpful if we can keep people in their homes they don't end up on the street requiring other services which becomes a real cost and certainly a really centerpiece of trauma for those families and those that are dealing with those kinds of challenges but even expanding permanent Supportive Housing we've identified a couple ways within this plan and the way that other cities have done this particularly by working closely with hospitals and Medicare and Medicaid programs to actually invest in those programs because it is a cost benefit to them and that's something that we can talk about in in more detail uh with a with an investment of about a hundred million over the next five years you'd see a number of number of benefits uh Beyond addressing a lot of the challenges that we're that we're discussing it brings an outside investment it improves all of these neighborhoods in the way that I think uh was the direction for this work to begin with it builds upon programs like the neighborhood Improvement program it brings other partners to the table and that's been part of this process not just talking with all of you but also talking with those that are involved in all aspects of Housing Development preservation to make sure that we're all working towards the same goals so the benefits are really clear for us and we think it also reinforces the full strength Fort Worth which is the plan you all have adopted implementation and full strength Fort Worth is direct implementation towards the work that we're discussing here with the housing affordability strategy so that's one component of the work the other component I'll go a little faster which is the neighborhood conservation plan and as Victor said these are really two plans in one we're going to talk about the health and vibrancy of neighborhoods across Fort Worth we can't do that without talking about housing so I spent a lot of time talking about the needs of housing but of course Fort Worth neighborhoods have a wide range of conditions one of the things we have provided in this data-driven approach is a way to measure these neighborhoods and group them in categories so that we understand the kinds of challenges different neighborhoods are up against some neighborhoods have a lot more vacancy and need different types of strategies than neighborhoods that are pretty stable but maybe need have different kinds of needs whether it's around fixing their streets or a little code enforcement so part of this is to try to provide some tools that can map a range of ideas and Investments onto the neighborhoods in Fort Worth and really recognize where they are in the process I don't need to go through each of these but essentially all of these categories all have a number of data points that define those categories this is a simple process to do and this is one of these data points that we would say measure this every year and see how the neighborhoods are doing particularly the neighborhoods where you're investing is it having the impact that you all wanted to have so yeah there's a distressed and challenged neighborhoods they have a number of data points um that make up those areas there's influx and steady neighborhoods which are more of your Middle Market neighborhoods and then of course there's neighborhoods in Fort Worth that are doing even better they're stable or thriving the market is strong the property conditions are strong so it's important for us to understand these statistics so that we get again can begin to measure progress and success and what the neighborhood plan does is it provides two tools one is a checklist and one is a series of strategies the checklist itself is really intended to help measure a number of different things what makes a neighborhood great to live in what has some level of capacity and neighbors that know each other and are willing to take action there's investment and then of course there's maintenance and for us the checklist is really just a way of saying look even two neighborhoods in the same category as we've measured it through neighborhoods that are say steady or in flux may have very different components to them you all have invested in community centers that's a great investment that has really impacted some neighborhoods so if we're looking at neighborhoods like doesn't have that do not have Community Investments like that or a community center then that's an opportunity so what the checklist does is really looks at the range of things that we'd be looking at with respect to City investment and activity as a way of starting to fine-tune where this work is going so I'm not going to read through all of these but this is really a tool for those City staff and those on the ground to help understand what is it that my neighborhood may need and what's going to be most effective just as a beginning uh beginning point in the conversation we then would move into we have a number of strategies with respect to Neighborhood conservation and I can't emphasize enough how important all the housing affordability strategies I just mentioned are embedded in all of this but we are looking at a number of things whether it's about Greening a city-wide Parks initiative particularly thinking about heat and shade in low-income neighborhoods devoting infrastructure dollars to underinvested areas this is something nip is doing so again this is recognizing the fact that you all are making these kinds of very important Investments um but also looking at things like data prioritizing a list of vacant properties street cleaning and bulk trash pickup strategies there are some things that some cities have tried that are um really really helpful even though they sound very very simple some of that is even what's called a trash Amnesty Day for Neighbors to get rid of anything that they need to and the City Works with those neighborhood groups to basically bring in dumpsters to remove trash so it's one of those smaller things that we could look at as opportunities so if we're talking about concerns around trash or illegal dumping this becomes one way of thinking about how to address it and then finally around capacity I mentioned the need to invest in Community Development corporations to train resident leaders I know that a whole bunch of Staff get similar calls all the time from folks in neighborhoods about how do I do this or how do I make this Improvement we can also think about creating some resource guides that would help to address and provide address those questions and provide information proactively which again would help to enable more people on the ground to take action and partner with the city which I think is what everyone is looking for so with that I will stop um I wanted to make sure I provided enough of an overview of everything that's in the document there's the two plans and then there's also at the end of those plans uh an appendix full of data which provides all of the background that helped to shape the maps uh the analysis and much of the the strategies that have come out of that process so thank you very much thank you Scott okay any questions no my question might be for Victor in our conversations in this budget I know we're adding an additional neighborhood in our neighborhood strategy based on the planning you've gone through here do you anticipate a change in your focus can you talk about that just a minute if it's appropriate during this presentation no we um we adjusted the priorities and criteria for scoring just last year um we will include additional neighborhoods that may have been recommended by Council to do an analysis but we fine-tuned the scoring I think it's at a good place right now so I think it's consistent with what's in the plan and what you all have desired okay thank you and then in your measurement for or any recommendations this is more throughout their presentation I'll give you an example so you can follow me a little bit on these last few slides when you discussed maintenance in neighborhood conservation um do you keep track here and how we're doing already in some of these categories and the efforts we've made especially since last budget or these just blanket recommendations that you know work in communities and we can kind of decipher the things we're already working on together here the simple answer is both okay um so their strategies come directly from discussions with folks that are on the front lines doing those things in Fort Worth and some of the changes that have been made but we also know how important that is just globally and keeping a focus on on that issue in particular okay thank you that's all my questions Carlos just one question and you can provide a follow-up for it Victor if you don't know the answer right now I would be interested in knowing in our neighborhoods where we have displacement that is either in progress or at a high risk where where are the Community Development corporations you know around the city in council districts yeah that's one of the areas that we really need to beef up we only have maybe two three organizations that would fall in that category what you would call a Community Development Corporation we have had some um interest from three or four additional organizations that we'll need to help build their capacity so in Fort Worth today I could say there are two organizations that are really active in Fort Worth so there's a lot of room for growth in those distressed neighborhoods that you're talking about okay and would be looking for guidance from from you all to see how we can promote you know establishment of those corporations thank you Carlos to address the the corporation issue in this proposed budget are three positions in Economic Development and one of those was really at the the request of having staff to help Foster organizations like that because it takes so much to get that ball rolling so hopefully I'm with you on that that I hope we see some more of that and as we focus we can look at that map on distressed areas um as well so thank you for bringing that up I have a question about the specialized code enforcement approach I'd be interested to hear um what that looks like and what your thoughts on yeah on how to operate that absolutely so this actually came out of discussions through the nip process when we were looking at um you know making some tweaks to the nip and one of the things we heard is that you know in some neighborhoods they felt that code enforcement wasn't necessary for the level of challenges they were under against right so as an example some neighborhoods may have bigger issues than the house next door that's not in the best condition they're more concerned about the illegal dumping down the street or maybe some of the issues around crime um and so our feeling is okay let's let's make sure the code enforcement matches the level of need in the community and what the community is looking for lvt is another good example there where we have a number of rental properties multi-family rental properties that were of particular concern and so the issue there was okay well how do we then Target some of the code enforcement to address the concerns of those multi-family properties so that we can alleviate those issues in the neighborhood so that's really what that's speaking to is it's never a a one-size-fits all it's it's really tailored to the needs um and then I appreciate all the data that's in here uh when you look at renters versus home owners do you feel that we are one is we're in danger one group is in Greater danger than the other when it comes to when we talk about affordability like do you see that Gap widening for homeowners or renters at a greater rate are they about the same that's a really good question I don't know Kevin if you have Insight on that I would say that they're a yeah they're both they're both real challenges they're just different kinds of challenges right so if I'm moving to Fort Worth because I have a new job I'm going to struggle to find a place that matches my income in some cases and that becomes a problem so we say one of the things we talk about in this study is we need new housing at all income levels so we should be really encouraging development which would help to alleviate some of those stresses but for the 19 000 renters we talked about that are very low income they are very much on the cusp of an eviction away or a job loss away from moving into a different category of challenges both for them and for the city to help okay and then when you um you mentioned uh eviction programs are those when you talk about those that other I'm assuming other cities have those are they state law are they county law are they local ordinances how are those particular programs enacted in their government structure yeah go ahead go ahead you already Tarrant County already has one it's really a question of providing it with more resources yeah thanks Charlie I just have one question so I heard you mention quite a bit about what other cities are doing that's working and with us going into budget have you seen what other spheres are doing that's not working that's a waste of money that we may need to consider going forward you know maybe reallocating funds to different projects um I can't think of a very specific instance but I can't say there's there's been a mistake that I have seen other cities make frequently which is to spread the resources too thin and I think part of the opportunity and part of why this strategy is important is to really focus it's what you do with nip it's what the police police district does when some of their targeting when they realize there's a particular issue in a community that kind of focus is really really valuable and I think you see that as the benefit through the nip program the question is as we look at these other resources we think about Rehabilitation or working to alleviate displacement risks you'd want to take the same kind of focused approach and really think this is something that we need to Target so that the resources go as far as possible yeah I would just add one thing which is I I think and one of the reasons why I think our plan is different than what you would see in some other places is a lot of communities try to rely on one solution so it's either a zoning fix or it's we'll just throw a bunch of money at it whereas we're trying to do things at multiple levels to address all the different costs and as Scott said and try not to spread it around so using the nip and those metrics to really kind of help Focus where that investment needs to go Chris thank you and uh kind of off of what you guys are saying about not spreading the resources around I'm looking at your slide where it talks about the distress and challenge communities versus the staple and thriving communities and I'm looking at Southeast being one of well the main distressed and challenge other than some parts up north what what is when you talk about resources in the nip um I know we want to enhance the entire city of forward but if we're looking at the map we see that there's a a portion of a work that really needs more work than others so how does that look in your program how does it are we going to provide more resources to help pull them up to the standard of others or we're going to try to just keep doing it around the city for work yeah and that's exactly why we why we created this map right because these are the discussions that are really necessary so as an example in some of those in flux neighborhoods and some of the challenge neighborhoods you actually have a risk of displacement that shows up in a different map so that would tell me that if there are resources that are looking at anti-displacement or even home Rehabilitation or keeping homeowners in their homes those are the neighborhoods that would benefit most from that kind of investment because that's where it's most needed there are other neighborhoods that may not be facing those challenges but say have a number of properties that are empty and would be available for new development and the right so new development resources might be focused on those communities so what this helps do is kind of fine-tune the problems a little bit to say okay one kind of investment doesn't make sense in southeast as it does in Northeast right like different kinds of Investments matter in different kinds of neighborhoods are need different things so that's exactly where this is sort of pointing and it's very certainly in the report we go into some details of about the kinds of activities that are best suited for different kinds of neighborhoods to meet them where they are okay and just a question for Victor and I know uh we have two neighborhoods coming up this year for the budget um and I know we mentioned that we have uh Council uh recommendations but when you're looking at the recommendations also versus what the city as a whole are different neighborhoods need how do you weigh those two out and what what type of neighborhoods will we be looking for this year yeah so as I mentioned earlier council member we have those metrics already in place and so the scoring won't vary any but what I was asking is if you have neighborhoods that we haven't considered in the past then we'll run them through that analysis and see how they stack up with all the other neighborhoods that we've considered so it's designed to address the most challenged neighborhoods already we did have up to like 20 something metrics we combined those and grouped them into I believe reduced it to nine that incorporated a lot of the things we've looked at in the in the past but we picked out those that were I guess would most directly impact the neighborhoods and allow us to score it I guess more uh equitably across the board so um uh yeah if there's a neighborhood we hadn't hadn't looked at that's what we're asking for you to submit that to us okay in question um do we have funds to so we did a neighborhood say for instance ask question I think we did that back in 2018. and we invested uh dollars in but they have not been able to kind of care or reach that threshold that we really need them to be at do we have money in the budget to enhance those neighborhoods on a continued basis even though we already did the uh nip on that yeah I think Ash Crescent the one thing remaining is I believe the I believe it was a park uh yeah and so uh you mentioned you saw in the slide it had neighborhood revitalization strategy areas so that's one of the things that uh Scott's team suggested that we could Implement that's usage of Community Development block grant money they kind of continue to support those neighborhoods so we do have money uh aside from neighborhood Improvement they say we do have money we get money every year from HUD but we do have money we will we will have money I'll put it that way I'm messing with you yeah so that's how we continue to investing in those areas challenged areas okay thank you either Macy yes a quick question on the Community Land Bank do you have examples of other cities that have done this and what does that structure look like is it a family foundations is it private individuals is it corporations how do they go into this structure and how does that work Ellis Scott speak to we got two different things that was mentioned up there the traditional land bank and a Community Land Trust so those are separate type entities a lot of times the land banks are run and administered by a city and that's typically just the accumulation of property that the city holds and makes it available for developers at a low cost the land trust is more of a long-term uh property being held whether it's for rental or home ownership that's basically at affordability and almost in perpetuity and generally non-profits or another type agency run those there's a combination of ownership correct the city and non-profits as I'm trying to understand the Community Land Trust the land for I'll let Scott speak to over the land trust generally is a non-profit or another agency versus this city yeah it's exactly usually it's an outside organization that takes on the responsibility of managing the property um maintenance upkeep all of the things that go with it so the land bank might be operated by the city um and at some point the land bank may choose to take some of that property and put it into a trust which is managed by somebody else which would keep housing affordable in perpetuity so there's different structures there are land banks in other cities in Texas and plenty of other cities uh around the country and there are some very successful land trusts that that provide a good model on how that works but it's all about getting access to underutilized and empty land that's really the first step in making those things effective I guess my question was about the funding piece so you're mentioned in your presentation philanthropic dollars and the city dollars as well so what does that structure look like specifically yeah and that's usually that's usually what that is so the some land Banks um are entirely publicly funded which is really just about managing the resources you have if you have empty land and you're able to get a hold of it that becomes something that you the city can then have more control over whether you want to sell it for market rate housing or affordable housing or something entirely different the land trust is usually uh has outside Partners involved with the funding whether that's philanthropy or private business or both it's helping to capitalize the the trust that enables it to um manage the properties and um and basically expand the the trust so that you can get more affordable housing through it you'll have examples of other cities that have done that we can certainly send some yeah thank you I think there's a bunch in the Big Deck yes Gina did you have something yeah Robert and I just want to say thank you for embracing the idea of a land bank I know for years that is not not Robert sorry Victor and Robert too y'all are going to have to work together on it anyway but uh the the idea of embracing such is a good thing my question is do we have any type of models anywhere where whether it's a land bank or a land trust it has been used to bring a grocery store to a a food desert so this becomes an interesting question because this is actually where uh city of I friendly Fort Worth also plays a role and the piece that's missing is the Community Development Corporation that can actually organize not to get too wonky but what's known as the capital stack which is what your question is which is all what are all the layers of money and that's kind of a missing piece of trying to organize the money to make that happen on land that maybe the city owns Finance with philanthropic Equity Investments and some other things where they're not looking for Market level returns they're looking at you know they don't want zero they don't want zero but they also don't need ten percent um and so and that organizing piece is the piece that's missing at the moment well I know under the leadership of Glenn Forbes you know we'll get there but how do you all keep this Council in the loop of that type of discussion because there may be assets around the table that could provide help in that conversation Victor I feel like that's a question for you I'm always asking staff to keep us in the loop there's there are some things we actually may be able to contribute to that discussion yeah thank you councilman um I may approach him but I'm sorry um so really uh Economic Development has for the past couple of months been doing some uh research on what the opportunities look like what the market looks like for Grocers right now uh what are some of the challenges and what are the things that we can bring to the table uh to make some of those things happen and what other communities have done and so we're not quite ready to bring some of that data forward but I think once we have a good picture of that that would be something that we bring forward to the council and have a discussion about how we can advance some of those things so some of it is land banking some of it is cdfi some of it is finding the correct sides types of sites uh and then obviously the thing we've heard uh you know the margins are not zero but they're about two to three percent and so how do we kind of cover those operating margins to ensure that we can have a successful long-term grocer not someone that's going to be there for a couple of years and then move out let's for sure keep in touch because that's a topic I've been requested to bring to my District Five leadership meetings and so the timing of it is really important please keep me in that Loop of discussion any other questions Council no will you pull the goals back up Scott this one or this one if if staff can work over the next few weeks to take these goals and align them with our current fy24 budget recommendations just to kind of know you know this is in the green or am I in the right direction or we're not working on this and we can plan over the next few years that'd be really helpful um but otherwise I think a great presentation we appreciate all the hard work Victor to you and your team as well thank you thank you very much okay we're moving along our next presentation is a briefing on the one second collaborative I think that assistant chief Robert Aldridge executive assistant chief sorry Robert and Regina Williams with the United Way Executive Vice President and chief impact officer is here as well I think there she is mayor council titles are just titles come on it's okay um one of the greatest tragedies that we have is whenever we respond to incidents where a young person has either been injured or killed due to senseless gunfire that's one of our highest priorities to try and reduce those incidents around the city we know we cannot arrest our way out of the problem and so we need other organizations and other entities to try and help us out in this endeavor if you guys remember back in late 2022 we partnered with United Way in the one second collaborative using arpa funds since that time they've hit the ground running they've done quite a few great things in in light of some of the incidents that occurred July July 4th in Como and some of the other tragedies we've had across the city we thought it was an important time for you guys to get an update of what United Way is doing where we're going and kind of what the future holds so with that I'm going to turn it over to Regina Williams and she's going to provide us with an update okay do you want to operate it from there okay thank you good afternoon um thank you again for having us um so I'm just going to do just a just really quick overview because I know that we have some council members who are new but I also know that our one second collaborative director Sam Varner has scheduled meetings with several of you and he's making his rounds to do individual meet and greet so I'll just spend just a little bit of time here but we'll also leave it open for questions if there's anything that I spat through too quickly so as we know with the one second collaborative it is a collaborative collaborative between the city the county Fort Worth PD and United Way of Tarrant County through that funding program goes here are the same one point of order that is is really interesting to note is Sam who is our program director was meeting with the City Grants Department a city the city Department because we're really looking that how do we align all of city funding that is directed at crime crime efforts as well as United Way's efforts to see how we are going to meet this goal as a unit and not necessarily just one second we believe that there are some opportunities to align reporting align what are some capacity building efforts that are grantees may need so when we look at this goal it is not a goal just for the one second collaborative it is how can we align that across the board throughout the city and the county again updates here as far as we have a steering committee that really guides this work even though this is Under the Umbrella of United Way is really Guided by community members council members representatives from our PD representatives from each of our priority zip codes and although we say priority zip codes it is all of the city as well as all of Tarrant County as well as the organizations that you see here are cbos are community-based organizations non-profits either their executive director and or their designee so again it is driven by our anchor organizations which are the funders and then our community Representatives sure sorry um can you just walk us through um how those uh particular assignments were determined particularly if you go down to the um those orange blocks that we see down there at the bottom the orange blocks okay so the orange blocks here the first top are the priority zip codes that were identified through data and data is not just crime data we also looked at what we call Soft Data such as 2-1-1 looking at where our cause most often coming from whether that's from basic needs whether that is things such as rental assistance even Mortgage Assistance those looking for utility assistance or other and then we also looked at Communities In Schools we know that Communities In Schools are identified for particular schools and and districts so we wanted to see where was CIS in those particular campuses we also looked at Fort Worth ISD Arlington ISD Crowley Everman HEB areas and looked at attendance rights suspension rights discipline rights and that's how we drill down to see how often those particular zip codes showed up in those particular data points so what we did was we reached out to either that council member for that zip code and or that commissioner and asked that they appoint a representative they are most often those individuals are most often knowing who constituents that are calling who are active who really want to get involved I appreciate that thank you so much um I'd be interested to see that data because what I see here particularly um on those lists is and I appreciate that some areas experience greater tragedy than others but I don't think that it captures all of the areas in the city um specifically I see two members one from councilman Flores two from councilman bibbons one crane two Nettles to Williams but there's nothing from District 9 or District 11 which I think I would like to look at that data to justify why those two particular communities were left out of this process while other folks received multiple absolutely and I will also say that there although they were not identified as a priority zip code that there is not a zip code that is left out because there are also some other and I'll get to some other ways that we're engaging as many people as possible as many zip codes as possible as well for that very reason because we also know that there's just one factor where another zip code could have been as a priority zip code and we recognize that so although when we say that priority so I will definitely get that information over to you yeah we need to make sure that it's Equitable amongst those of us here on Council absolutely the communities we represent yes ma'am absolutely I do have one question on the slide and I'm looking at some of the names on here and some of the names that are affiliated with groups that participate in crime which is great that we have them on here if they apply uh for funding is it going to be an issue that they are on this steering committee no because they were exempt from reviewing any applications or taking part in any of the decision making and they knew that also um matter of fact that question was asked of some of them before they applied to be on the steering committee to make sure they weren't exempt from funding one important distinction might be here too on the ZIP code if you look closely councilmember Beck the the individual zip codes pertain to the council member but they're different so like councilman Williams has two zip codes that were very problematic this was probably also done before council member Martinez was here in her District so this may shift correct based on her districts and candidly it may change continue to change based on how we focus on these Hot Spot areas 76133 is in Council District 9 just so we're all on the same page on that one which zip code I'm sorry 76133 it's split correct it is already in District 9. so fair so I think her point is in 76133 that's actually District nine okay majority there's a small portion there that is in Council District Six okay and probably 0.05 and importantly here for United Way leadership that may have shifted during redistricting so as we move forward we can kind of re-look at lines because it may be in the future that councilmember Beck or anybody else here at the table may need to be the one making that appointment or at least working with who's appointed to make sure they feel good about who's there serving their constituents so we don't we expect you to fully keep track of those lines I know it changes but yeah and absolutely and our steering committee is also meant to be a a living steering committee that changes for that very reason um as well as as data changes the more that we learn we want for this to be representative of where you believe that we need to put our focuses at so as Sam goes around and has has those individual conversations with you that's exactly what we would like to hear from you um so I'll make sure that he also has this in tow when he comes and meets with you all as well to get your feedback well I can verify that just a moment Chris this is to the concern that was raised and I think it's a valid concern I had my meeting with Sam yesterday and we talked specifically about making the rounds individual council members so they can get the opportunity to make input into what the Committees and you know work groups are doing so that's going to be addressed absolutely thank you so I there was a lot um that has been taking that has been taking place um since the contract was signed in December but I did want to just highlight just a couple of factors of where we are right now this just takes you through some of that Journey um one point I would say is in April when the applications um were drafted and put out for organizations we had quite a few organizations that reached out to us to say hey I heard about the one second collaborative opportunities for us to get funding to either sustain and or build up the programs that are going to be either addressing in prevention intervention suppression or re-entry so we also know that many of our organizations may not necessarily have the capacity to address all of the factors when you go after federal dollars because there are so many opportunity opportunities for missteps in that particular process so we offered actually required a bidders conference for all organizations if you were going to apply for funding you must attend that bidders conference so that we could walk you through the process because ultimately what we wanted for organizations to be successful in the process of applying so that way we equal that playing field you'll see is there a one-time opportunity for the bidding process are you going to have multiple we were so it's not like the um like the crime that CCP refunds whereas roving so we had a phase one one later in the fall so we did close to 2 million that we put out on this first phase and then we'll have just shy about 100 about 850 000 that will be in phase two so that'll be a second bidders conference coming up and we did have several organizations who missed that opportunity that will want to come through this second one how did you uh promote that uh that conference um as far and wide as we could so we also knew that we don't know everyone so what we did was we put a lot of um Reliance on the organizations that do the work already who do you often refer to who do you often talk with we also went through the schools and asked the social workers counselors who do you refer to we also have a pretty extensive database internally of organizations who apply to United Way also talked with Keith Morris wanted to see who else applies for like ccpd fundings that type of thing so a lot of it was I'm sorry yes ma'am you did on your Facebook page and all so it was wherever we could get the word out but also knowing that's why we left some money for phase two because we knew there was no way we were going to get to everyone and we did hear from some people sure thank you absolutely so where we are right now agreements have been drafted so after organizations apply they go through a review process we have 20 reviewers that comes from those who have reviewed Grant applications before those who have never looked at a Grant application from all zip codes throughout our County age range race gender those who know about violence in our communities and those who may be a little new to it so those representatives from those different areas review the grants over a couple of weeks scored sent them back with the recommendations then we had a consensus meeting during that consensus meeting is where they debated about the organizations at that time we were also knew that there were some shootings taking place that we heard of not all of them because we don't know of everything that had took place at that time that they were actually been reviewing so their focus really went towards intervention what can happen right now if we put dollars on the ground knowing that we set aside funding for prevention dollars we wanted that the intervention team um really what the I'm sorry the review panel really wanted to focus on Intervention dollars so those agreements went to the city once those organizations were selected by virtue of the city contract we sent all of those agreements to the city for final approval it did take us a little bit more time than we had anticipated and or hoped however the reason for that is every organization is so uniquely different that we wanted to make sure that we crafted their metrics in such a way that they they could be successful however that it also placed some parameters as far as the impact that we're looking for the evaluations and that they understand if you accept this funding these are the parameters to it and what you were going to have to report to capacity building workshops you're going to have to attend so therefore it's not just we're going to give you two hundred thousand dollars and you go out and be great you are going to be great as a cohort with this phase one Ford funding organizations and United Way will be there with you to be able to provide those capacity building workshops alongside you so where we are now is those organizations have their agreements they are due to have them back in our office by Monday and they are required to attend an onboarding session either Tuesday or Wednesday where we will review all of the expectations when are you to report what does performance look like what does outcomes look like not just outputs meaning I serve 20 kids we want to know if you serve those 20 what was the outcome what was the impact they also now once they submit their agreement can start drawing down the funding that was allocated no one gets a hundred percent of their funding it is all Performance Based if they are meeting all of the requirements if they are not meeting those requirements because we have so many check-ins through the Midway points we are able to address those at that time um engagement opportunities really excited this kind of really speaks to the fact that we are truly city-wide County right regardless of the ZIP code is the work groups our steering committee members have met and identified the work groups that they would like to focus on during this phase work groups will go in eight eight week increments so what you see here are the work groups that they will focus on what will take place is there will be two co-chairs a co-chair who is a Content expert and one of these work group areas here the top six priorities as well as a steering committee member or a committee or a Community member which is when when Sam is meeting with you all individually he will be able to have that conversation with you as well if there is a Community member that you would like to identify these work groups will work on smart goals to establish what are the goals in this particular regular area for instance we know that our young people need mentors well how do we get to that and what does that look like we want to establish those smart goals and that's what the work groups will do over the course of eight weeks after eight weeks they will get that timeline together we would come back before this body and present out on the work group The statuses and how we will go forth in that work as that work continues they will onboard other priorities and other work groups and again it expands the table of the amount of residents community members that will be able to take place to take part in this work it's just a little bit more about the work groups here the youth Advisory board and the multi-disciplinary team are the other two areas where community members will be able to get involved youth Advisory Board Roger Fogle along with a consultant will be putting together this particular initiative where we're going to be onboarding young people we can't build this plane without young people taking part in the work how do we address violence what are the things that you need what are the things that we're doing that's just not working I mean that's what the youth Advisory Group will do the multi-disciplinary team will be an opportunity for those who are conducting work Street Outreach boots on the ground that comes across the young people that needs more than what they can give you can refer that individual or that family to the multi-disciplinary team and the plan is there is a solution in that room or a resource in that room or someone who can help us find it I've talked about the um decision making process for our request for applications here you will see we made 18 recommendations for phase one funding there were 11 organizations that were not recommended for phase one funding but that does not mean that they are out of that pool that they are many of them are also considered for phase two we are not yet releasing um the names of those organizations because we want to wait until they agree to the terms which will be on Monday because they could opt out they could say that's too much I don't want to do that or that's not enough money for what you're asking for me to do and so we understand that so after that deadline on Monday whatever we don't receive back we'll reach out to those organizations just to make sure they just didn't miss the um the date see how we can assess sometimes it's just questions sometimes they're just fearful they just don't know how this is going to work and we want to really let them know that we're going to walk alongside them with this work and then once we have all of those together then we will submit that to you all and also issue a press release and introducing those organizations in this phase one cohort and that's where we're at thank you Regina questions from Council Chris I have a couple questions um I think you mentioned um funds will be released off of performance um and then I think you also mentioned out for the requirements that you have for the the steps they need to do um what does performance look like because I mean you could be doing the work and it takes a little longer for you to actually see change in that community so what what does that look like it looks different for every organization just based on what their proposal um was based on for some it was individual counseling like through Alliance for children or recovery resource direct treatment that type of thing so performance can look like are you meeting the metrics that we set forth in your agreement so if you say that you're going to see 12 young men in that first quarter one did you see 12 young men but we're also looking for how did you identify those young we don't want just any 12 Year young men right so when we work with those organizations we're actually setting up how do you identify those that were actually trying to reach because if we're doing intervention dollars then we're trying to reach those who are right there on the cusp that's why we didn't do as much in the prevention area yeah because that's a wider pool right that's really all of our young people and so metrics such as that how are you identifying how are you surveying that their lives have changed are you pulling attendance records are you pulling suspension records so all of those areas are built into those who are seeing young people as part of their proposal if it's those who are seeing counseling a little bit trickier because there's only certain things that they can release but there are surveys and such that we're looking at for those metrics for performance sure my other question is I know in our process for the ccpd funding a lot of our applic applicants were having issues with filling out for the grants not meeting the requirements or not putting it together and I think one of the things that we test United Way with is getting them ready for that process and walking them through and I know you mentioned it just a little bit um some of the applications much you can talk about that did not make that price did not make the funding was it because of the Grant application did not meet the standard level or um and how do we fix them and get them ready for the next Point thankfully we did not use their scores as the only source for decision making because that would have thrown out even some of those who got recommended for funding as well we know many of our organizations that are just doing the work and they've always done the work aren't ready to submit a Grant application so our goal is never to hold that piece against them so we not only looked at their scores but we also looked at their history of being in this community and doing the work we also looked at our ability to basically as we say grow them up into this process are they willing are they able are they when they sign this agreement that's telling us yes we will sit with you and actually be able to conduct this work and let us build that capacity so we didn't use just their scores in order to recommend them for funding okay last question I promise uh Chief and the other issue was some people that was applying for the ccpd funding were not getting enough funding in order to do the work that they were doing and so we was hoping that United Way was going to be able to come in and help supplement that funding did we come to an agreement that they can receive ccpd funding as well as one consecutive one second collaborative funding yes there are several programs that have ccpd and one second collaborative funding yes okay thank you any other questions from council members no no I think that's lost our questions thank you very much thanks chief our next presentation Council of actually two with Robert Stearns our economic development director one is a proposed tax abatement agreement with Siemens and the next would be a tax payment agreement with drink pack you can roll right through them Robert thank you mayor members of council and Robert Stearns Economic Development as the mayor said we are presenting uh two proposals for your consideration today one with uh drink pack and one with Siemens uh before we get started I would like to recognize uh our partners at the economic development partnership Robert Allen uh Robert unfortunately couldn't be here he's still out meeting everyone across the city but Robert and Sarah were great Partners in working on these two projects and then I also want to uh specially recognize Sheree Gordon on my staff who's really done the yeoman's amount of work on coordinating with both of these projects and structuring these deal terms I will do that when I get to their part of the presentation thank you there we go I got a I got nothing up here that's okay I got it okay okay we're going to cements first all right so yes since we that's all right we'll roll with it so we've got semen so as we move into the Siemens presentation I do want to recognize our guest in the audience from the company uh Grant Williams who have been working with very closely on the structure and then Joe redoff who is Siemens uh head real estate guy I think that's the correct uh easy way to say it Joe so thank you for coming in for this presentation I think Grant while some cooler weather to Texas for us so we appreciate that uh so Siemens as you know is a German multinational corporation really this is the global market leader in Industrial Automation and software uh annual revenues of over 76 billion dollars and they have been working for several months now on a multi-state site selection process and I will state both of these projects are very competitive projects uh that this will be the first step in ensuring that Fort Worth is the selected site but we still have a couple of other approvals that we have to work through with them as part of the uh part of the process but Siemens is looking to establish an advanced manufacturing plant to produce low voltage switchware and switchboards and so this is really in consideration the fact that the the switchboard Market is really exploded over the last few years capacity or demand has really exceeded capacity and so because of that and Siemens sees that continue for the next several years they have had to look at opportunities to upscale their production capacity to meet that demand so the proposed project will be here at 7200 Harris Legacy so the society in Carter Park East and Council District eight uh the project overview so again uh they would be proposing a capital investment of 133 million dollars as part of the project 70 million tied to the real property improvements which would be in place by December 2024 and then another 63 million and personal property in place by January 1st 2025 when the appraisal district recognizes uh that placement uh we'd have 167 full-time jobs by December 24 ramping up to 715 jobs by December 2026. again the annual salary for these jobs are 63 000 and so this kind of continues our focus on attracting higher page Wayne jobs to the city and then they have our standard commitment to utilization of business Equity firms as part of our Economic Development agreements so again just reviewing that capital investment of 133 million and that job creation 715 jobs by December 2026 with salaries at 63 000 dollars uh we are proposing a 10-year tax abatement of up to 70 percent of the incremental real and business personal property uh that's kind of based on you'll see the commitments Fair tied to investment the bef commitment and job creation again if there is any year during the term of the agreement that the average annual wage is not at 63 000 and they would forfeit uh that uh incentive payment for that year but all of the terms would result in a proportional reduction to the amount of dollars that would be abated back to the company and you can see the overall development summary here won't go through all that to extend the overall incentive um on this project you see the Net Present Value to the city uh is about uh too it's kind of hard to read that from up here uh 2.2.6 million dollars as part of the project uh C participation is just under five percent uh and we have about a 22 to 1 private to public ratio so private investment uh two public dollars involved in the project uh so our proposal recommendation will be to enter into a 10-year tax abatement for up to 70 percent of the incremental real and business personal property uh because this is a tax abatement we have to conduct a public hearing and because of uh state regulations we have to have a 30-day notice requirement for that public hearing so we would not have the hearing to create the reinvestment zone until September 12th and then we would also have an MNC for Council consideration on that same date for the agreement itself and I'll answer any questions thank you Robert any questions for him on this deal gentlemen thank you for attending today we appreciate your presence let's move along to drink pack okay as I said uh second project is drink pack again another uh product we've been working on that has been a fairly competitive site selection process again looking at sites both within the state and outside the state uh drink pack is really um you know one of the leaders hold on while we're getting the slide pulled up drink Pack's really one of the leaders in beverage production so uh they are beverage Solutions comprehensive operational services including procurement support uh batching and processing storage and distribution inside okay thank you so drink pack is currently based out of Santa Clarita California approximately 400 employees and again as I mentioned this is one of the most technologically advanced canned beverage facilities in North America and as you'll see as we go through this presentation and you note in the following slide that what we're really focusing on here is a job creation so we've got two additional facilities that are under proposal 1 000 employees that would be brought up to the DFW region this will be the Fort Worth obviously and again these facilities would include production for energy drinks hard Seltzer canned cocktails alternative Dairy beverages Etc so the phase one location is a tramaco site at 35 Eagle up in Denton County see the location outlined in the map here in the phase two location again will be in other development in Carter Park East in Council District eight so this will be down at Oak Grove Road uh so again establishing those two locations their proposed investment uh in both locations uh comprise about 452 million dollars uh phase one which essentially would be the tremel crow side is proposing about 37 million in Real Property improvements by December 2026 and 183 million in BPP by 2027 phase two which essentially is the Carter Park site uh 32 million in Real Property improvements and 200 billion and BPP again uh a thousand full-time jobs split between two facilities uh 550 of the trauma curves site 450 at the Carter Park East site with average animal salaries of seventy thousand dollars for these positions and so again uh having a a beverage producer a beverage manufacturer that is creating high paying jobs it's really what it attracted us to uh to try to bring this project to Fort Worth so similar to Siemens we're proposing a 10-year tax abatement this will be on 70 of the incremental real and business personal property again the forfeiture of the abatement if they don't hit their salary requirements at seventy thousand dollars and again uh on the way that because there's two phases this project they would be able to earn a 50 uh baby if they only did one but again that is not the intent of the project they are fully intending to move forward with both sites and so that would get us to the seven percent over the 10 years uh so again the development summary 450 million dollars in capital Improvement 1 000 new jobs at seventy thousand uh annual wages uh estimated benefit to the companies about 21 million dollars uh City participation just under five percent again just over uh just under 22 to 1 profit to public ratio in the city should gross uh just under 9 million dollars as part of the part of the development and so again same process for Siemens we have a 30-day notice requirement to create a public hearing uh to create the reinvestment zone and so this will be on the September 12th agenda for the reinvestment zone and the MNC for approval and I'll answer any questions you all have thank you Robert any questions on this incentive great work Robert and your team thank you very much thank you Council will move to the next presentation a presentation on Banner policy William Johnson assistant city manager and Melinda Ramos Deputy City attorney will be conducting a presentation okay good afternoon mayor and Council um just wanted to kick this presentation off as you recall before the summer break we committed to come back to city council with some recommendations on improvements uh in our overall Banner policy the policy has not been updated since the 1990s I want to say and so it's well overdue as you recall there were a few issues with some applicants that came forward to utilize our downtown Street banners when there was going to be a very small relatively small event it's going to take place for about three hours and we just wanted to make sure that we were being clear and working with our our partners non-profits that are assisting with managing the policy on our behalf under contract we want to continue those relationships provide some more clarity and I just want to take a moment to thank Melinda Ramos and the law department for their hard work along with our tpw team Michael Owens Martin Phillips Lauren prayer and her team and working on the updates to this policy so with that I'll turn it over to Melinda foreign mayor and Council Melinda Ramos Deputy City attorney as William said we're going to be going over some proposed changes for your consideration for the street Banner policy as William said this policy was first adopted in 1998 governing the placement of banners in the right-of-way and has not been updated significantly since then so the policy does allow for agreements with non-profits as William mentioned sorry forgot the advantage we currently have four agreements in place with non-profit organizations downtown Fort Worth think in pids 1 and 14 Camp Bowie district for pin 19 Arts De la Rosa and the Stockyards Business Association this next slide lays out exactly where those Banners are with those particular four non-profits that they manage for the Stockyards Business Association and art Stella Rosa there's stretch from North Main from 23rd Street to 28th Street and Clinton Avenue to Packers and then from North Main Street to Northside Drive and Northeast 23rd Street and then for Camp Bowie it stretches all the way from the Cultural District all the way down to 8 20. so the purpose for bringing this forward to you all and to revising the policy is to explain what banners can be displayed on street lights and poles and over the streets to make clear that these are polls that are owned and operated and maintained by tpw that banners do not constitute a public forum and to kind of really use this to focus the purpose of these banners which is to announce and promote community events cultural events education and Civic events and information so some changes to the banner policy that are being proposed are to add the overhead banners to the policy currently they are in a standalone document by themselves currently there's only one overhead Banner that goes over 7th Street as you exit downtown and enter into the West Seventh area to remove some on-site off-site distinctions that are in currently in the policy and those are related to whether or not a non-profit is contiguous to the street polls or not to continue the special agreements with non-profits to run the program but to update how those are going to be managed by those groups to update specifications in the maintenance changes to duration and removal to add some specific definitions that we're lacking in our current policy and a change in the fee structure since those haven't been changed since 1998 as well so these are just the elements of the new policy it contains everything that goes into a policy the purpose the definitions where it's allowed we're not allowed reservations fees Insurance hold harmless what has to be included in the application and what happens when a permit is denied and where they can appeal currently our current policy does allow for an appeal of a denial of a banner however it the appeal is to a council group Council committee that no longer exists that was in existence in 98 but no longer so under the current policy there's no defined definition of event what there are are examples in the policy so the policy current policy states the nonprofits may use banners to promote their organization or events or exhibits held in the city some examples provided in the policy of what events are I'm sorry to go back it needs to be open to the public of common interest and recognize or contribute to the cultural fabric of the city some examples are as listed on the slide public concerts sports events entertainment education related activities so what is being proposed is to have a more defined specific definition of what an event is and Define it as something that's of significant interest to a portion of the residents of the city of course it would still include cultural Civic or major events kind of the examples are the same as what were provided previously in the current policy art shows concerts festivals that would be of broad interest to either residents or tourists which would benefit the city a government agency generate significant tax revenue and basically benefit the residents of the city so what would be allowed under the proposed policy would be events hosted by the city sponsored or co-sponsored by the City events which supporter attract tourism events being held at the convention center Will Rogers Dickies Arena major colleges and universities welcome messages for those attending conventions conferences and other city-wide events promoting public Improvement districts and or other particular districts by the city as decided by the city council and promoting our educational institutions all the way from higher education to elementary schools what would be disallowed under the policy is the promotion of commercial advertising messages what the political religious or uh public issue advertising profane language or personal attacks those that promote discrimination those that advocate for illegal activity messages that are con infringed upon a copyright those messages that can compromise safety or security of proceedings those banners that could create a traffic Hazard based on the language that's used on them stop look Danger and any other banners that would violate local state or federal law so with regard to the duration okay this would change to a first come first serve priority in order so the first priority would be city hosted events followed by events hosted by a tourism entity tourism entities include uh visit Fort Worth Chambers of Commerce and other others as defined events sponsored by the city but organized or managed by a non-profit duration would change to be limited to 14 days prior to the event the current policy allows displays six days prior six weeks sorry prior to the event banners that don't promote a date specific event would be allowed for three months 90 days but additional time could be requested as Allowed by the tpw director so the following are the fees for the proposed new fees for the banner program so the program fee would that actually is at a hundred dollars must be touching something Patricia the the fees would go to a hundred dollars as you see on the screen the poll would the fees would go for 25 per Poll for two week period fifty dollars per Poll for two week period the overhead Banner program fee would be at a hundred dollars and the flat fee of fifty dollars per two weeks as I stated before we would continue this special agreements that we have with the four partners that we currently have what would change with regard to the contracts that we have with them is that right now the these organizations have the ability to keep all of the fees and to decide approve the banners themselves so final approval would shift now is being proposed to shift now to the tpw director and that the city would retain a percentage of the fees collected for those banners um this is just more information about changes to the installation and maintenance so it would be by a contractor licensed by the city and bonded to work in our right-of-way the banners would be required to be removed by the date stated in the permit that would be issued or if not removed within seven days of that date tpw would remove the banners and charge the applicant for the cost the responsibility to maintain those banners is up to the applicant and the removal of the banners would be required if it they're going to be damaged in any way that was good would cause injury or a traffic hazard changes to the application process would be to allow to limit application to at least 90 days before the reservation date currently folks can apply for a banner at least a year in advance of when they want to use the banner like with all other applications that the city has there would be a laundry list of items that would need to be submitted as part of that application in including a traffic control plan insurance requirements to provide a sample of the banner and the content and identify any kind of sponsorship logo that they intend to put on the banner but it would be limited to the the bottom 10 of the overall size of the banner now with regard to approval and denial of the permit approval would be the sole authority of the tpw director to approve the design the content location and installation dates review and approval is proposed to be within 10 days of the date of submission if the uh if the application is denied it can be appealed to the city manager for a final determination the peel has to be received within five business days of denial by the tpw director and this is the criteria that city manager would use to determine whether or not to uphold the decision of the tpw director or to Grant the permit so whether the banner meets the criteria that's listed under the allowable displays whether it's likely to promote tourism or a local event provide under the allowed usage that is provided earlier or is of a great interest to a majority of the residents whether the banner seeks the same time slot as someone else requesting what's the priority of approval who has the higher priority essentially in any other kind of lawful basis that they could use for the determination that's kind of really the proposed Banner policy in a nutshell and I'll be happy and willing to be happy to take any questions that you all have Gina go ahead remember Tim I like the presentation but I would like to have further discussion on the fees to make sure that it's enough money to allow for the registration that we talked about previously identifying them so could we hold off on that okay does that make sense to you Melinda to I'm sorry mayor Pro tem um specifically for the for the fees what what did you want to have to consider holding off to make sure the fees are enough to get proper registration that we've talked about before whether it's an ID badge or the company oh this is this is this is different yes than the door-to-door this is strictly as it relates to our our street banners yeah no wonder [Laughter] um Jeanette you're next no no wonder not that this would ever happen but what if there was a group who mounted flags on these polls without you know going through the process tpw takes them down I'm assuming okay yeah could we feed them too should that be included is there a process by which to find someone that doesn't have authorized use no Dana says no not worth the time just doesn't happen let's be involved it's not something you can do very easily without somebody knowing Macy my question was about the schedule of fees do you have a proposed schedule of fees and how much the city would take in is it by District or by the amount so I would defer to William on what they were contemplating in terms of when you're referring to the agreements that we have with the the four organizations yes like Cambridge District currently does not pay any fees or fees back to the city so what percentage I'll defer to William on that thank you we're thinking about a 90-10 split no just kidding really um our cost is what we're all that we're looking to cover and in most cases where the third parties are doing most of the work our only risk main risk is going to be related to the security deposit if there's something that we have to go out and take care of then we would utilize that security deposit to to reimburse ourselves for our costs so we're primarily looking to cover our costs there may be some minor costs associated with the review process internally but the third parties are doing the majority of the work so does that answer your question Macy not really we get an idea of um I mean did these fees cover the city's cost I guess these fees are have been increased over the 1998 levels and so there should be no negative impact compared to what those third parties are collecting today based on the new fee schedule if that answers your question do we create a copy of the fee schedule that I'm looking for the percentage that we're going to take from the fees right so the district so we'll have to go through and calculate what it what it would be on a percentage basis but we need some time to experience what our costs are going to be but we don't anticipate them being more than we have we haven't been receiving any funds right and so now there's just going to be an additional approval step that will be more actively involved in and it should be very minimal compared to what's been collected the fees have been increased over what's been collected so I don't see them losing any any funding based on current levels if that answers your question yes yes thank you good Charlie then Gina hopefully mine's not as complicated uh what since we still had this slide up I just want to make a correction for anyone who might be depending on their closed captioning uh you had said fifty dollars per two week uh period but that's the 500 uh per two week period so just want to not take that as far as the application process goes will that also involve uh proof that they have a venue large enough that has we'd consider I guess large impact I mean yeah they'll have to provide information related to their event the location the time and show that proof like it's actually reserved and deposit made okay yeah Gina let the record State I tell you to go for it let's let the record say that whatever agreement council member Hill comes up with I will fiercely support and defend that's it got it Allen thank you a question not about the policy but general maintenance of the banners when they become damaged what's the process how is it identified and how is it taken care of you can't speak to what currently occurs what I can speak to what is being proposed is that if the banner is damaged then the contact will be made with the applicant to repair their their Banner within a set period of time if they're they don't repair it within that set period of time then tpw will be authorized to remove the banner and essentially keep whatever the is determined to be either the program free or the security deposit to cover the cost for tpw actually removing the banner any other questions Council thank you very much for the presentation okay our last update is an update on the future city hall Dana burgdoff is going to kick it off and then turn it over to tanyon all right thank you mayor and members of city council we're excited to bring you this update on our future home our future city hall a couple of good news items one of them you're already aware of we're just keep celebrating the fact that we got our federal permit from the US Army Corps of Engineers for the new construction of our future council chambers and parking extension and other site work so I do want to acknowledge and thank tanyan Farley and the Athenian group and all of his team for their yeoman's effort I think they first applied in last July of 2022 but had been working on it for many months leading up to that so it was a long arduous process we're glad to have that moved forward so Daniel and I have a number of updates for you including schedule the other piece though that I wanted to give kudos for is that um we got a request about a month ago from our tenant on the 19th floor of future city hall if you may recall when we bought the building we had tenants in floors 15 through 20. and there's been some atrophy if you well some folks who've moved out for covet or other business reasons and so we have tenants moving out this fall from 16 and 17 and then we had two remaining floors left 18 and 19. and so we heard from the 19th Floor tenant that due to some business decisions that they needed to move out prior to their 2029 lease termination so it was quite a surprise to us so I want to give kudos to our property management team Ricky Salazar and also Greg Wingate who worked very well to come up with a fair early termination settlement if you will that will come before you on August 22nd so that enables some moves within the tower that tanyon will cover as well and so we our goal just so you know for the record is that we want to try to keep our project costs the same even though we're expanding into this new floor some of these new floors sooner than we thought we would so that's our goal and we're gonna we're gonna work towards that all right so tanan come on up thanks all right thank you Dana appreciate it um pleasure to be in front of you again today mayor and Council thank you as always for your time I know I'm the last presentation of the day so I will try and go through this as expeditiously as possible so you can move on to your next activities um I am here with our normal our normal quarterly update uh as Dana mentioned obviously we have some very exciting news to share this time around I'm happy to be here with our permanent hand I want to thank once again you know as Dana mentioned not only uh the Athenian group team I want to thank DJ Harrell and the development services group at city of Fort Worth for all their work to be able to review uh the permits and other items ahead of the 408 process to make sure that once we got their four-way permit that we were able to move forward and I really want to want to give a thank you to Greg Wingate and interim Property Management director Ricky Salazar on their work on the 19th floor as well because that is not an easy process to get through especially with the municipality and they did a great job of coming to what I think is a really fair recommendation in a quick period kudos to them all right with that jumping into our presentation for today Project updates we're going to talk a little about our employee staff management Forum uh food and bro food and beverage program update and then some final thoughts and questions um for those of you that are new to Mayor and Council you know that this is my favorite slide this was the goals for the future city hall program that we put together over the course of about six months in partnership with City staff City leadership elected officials public and many of the support agencies in the city of Fort Worth and surrounding areas that really will help make this building your future home so just to review those I think it's important we level set every meeting we really wanted to create an inclusive and engaging public space bring more people to the building than we had traditionally and make it feel like a community location maintain the class a look and feel it is a beautiful building today it is a 20 year old building today so there are some things we have to do to keep it Class A make it safe make it inviting and make it welcoming create efficient Equitable and flexible workspaces we know that the city grows and changes all the time and we want to make sure that we can support that that we create Equitable workspaces for staff across departments regardless of their division making sure that they're in the same types of spaces for the same type of functional roles sustainable and cost efficient building obviously we've done a lot of work to bring as much of that into the building as we can as well as the new building the site itself transformational delivery of city services you have a couple things there number one our community service floor that will have our development services water bill pay a number of other functions as well as bringing together you know 23 departments from across 13 City buildings into one facility to better serve the public and ultimately Drive vision for the next 50 years we've been in this building you know close to that now and obviously we want to make sure we design to grow into that facility so with that being said let's talk about kind of where we're at so as Dana mentioned we are working with y'all and with City on the 19th Floor lease to come available this fall rather than 2029 with that happening we do have a planned restack of the building for those of you that have heard me say this before these projects are like a Rubik's Cube but when we finally solve the Rubik's Cube y'all move the stickers around and that's okay because we're going to find a great way to continue to move forward so with that the 19th floor is going to go plan to go to our Law Department and put some really close to Mayor and Council and provides for some good space for them to use that functionally aligns with their way of work as Dana mentioned we're looking to not add costs for this ad to the program so we need to find a space that best fits their current way of work and future way of work with minimal update costs the 18th floor is currently tenant occupied and will be through really summer of 2025 um at at the future date we do have plans for uh departments that could relocate to that floor uh we're potentially looking at diversity inclusion and economic development relocating to that floor as they continue to grow with some of the great things the city is doing uh the 17th floor and 16th floor will be occupied mostly by the water department uh with one of the Suites occupying diversity inclusion in a suite that is larger than what was planned before and allowed them to continue to do the great work they're doing 15 HR and office of police oversight monitor 14 is our CMO Economic Development and the newly minted Fort Worth lab group I think that creates a great opportunity for the CMO to work really closely with the lab on some of the Innovative things we're doing finance and purchasing Consolidated together on 12 was some of the things that purchasing is doing to drive innovation in their work 11 is tpw 10 will be really kind of a Hallmark floor for what this program was meant to be which was to bring groups that work together together in the same facility so obviously property management and public events have a lot of great work they do together we're so excited about what we can do with that floor Neighborhood Services and parts similar situation a lot of cohesive cohesive work on nine eight is our data center floor so it makes sense to go there seven is another collaborative floor with CSO City Secretary Library development collaboration spaces and then six and five five being our One-Stop shop experience so a lot of really good things happening there the main thing we like about this is this provides the best flexibility for City growth for your departments to expand as well as groups to move between floors and then ultimately our our first group up is obviously y'all with mayor and Council and that is on track to take place just after the holidays so I was up there this morning we're making great progress we're excited for you all to see that and get you in the building now with that I would like to show an update of what that 24 looks like so in July when I send out an update to the group you can see some of the framing that otherwise is being done on 20. as of last week you can see on the top right here you're seeing um actually mayor Parker's future office here with some of the built-ins there and then you can see the planned work Cafe where we'll be able to bring members of the public folks you're working with your District directors and otherwise lots of natural light coming into this space and I'm really excited to give you those spaces so that when the public comes to visit and work with you you have a really great space to interact with them and better the community so that's an exciting update but I do have one update that is more exciting that we're going to pull over here Patricia and I'm breaking my number one rule which is never showing a video in a presentation but we're going to do it anyways all right so this was taken yesterday morning uh via drone of our site so um that's actually David Cook driving the backhoe right there no um we've we've made you know obviously thank you to our friends at um uh trwd and the Corps of Engineers for helping us through this process and we're excited to be making progress what you're seeing here is uh we started we received our permit on July 25th um since then the group has obviously mobilized quite quickly to start initial site grading with really a focus on phase one which is the actual building pad which you're seeing just up here which will be connected to our future building at the end of this month you'll start to see the peer Drilling and that next steps happening so some exciting things there then it will be several weeks of of hard work on getting the site pad prepped and ready and some of the superstructure and or kind of building where you start to come out of the ground will happen in November so as these things start to move it's going to be an exciting time as with construction it's going to look like this from the outside for a while well as we get all the foundational components utilities and otherwise right but we will continue to provide updates here on a monthly basis on progress with this tracking now to be complete for the first council meeting in winter 24-25 so obviously we've had some significant delays from the Corps of Engineers but the team is ready to go and as we continue to move closer to that date and we talk about the first council meeting we'll make sure we communicate that but exciting progress we'll continue to have these videos and pictures along the way foreign wow seamless great job thank you all right so um on that front I also want to talk about with progress obviously there's been a lot of work on this program to make sure we include a lot of different groups in the community that had been traditionally included on projects like this with the city I want to thank Gwen and Christina from the diversity inclusion department for really being champions for the business Equity program for the city and working really closely with us on this program as well as linback and our architecture team at Boca pal for really working to find creative ways to break up packages to make it more digestible for smaller groups to be involved in this program so at current date obviously different contracts or different stages the Athenian contract down here is obviously heading towards the end as we move into heavy construction and really see the project through we are obviously a minority-owned vendor local certified so we're tracking above goal seamar with our linback contract they're only about 10 percent complete as of the end of July and that's because we got the permit um and that component so a lot of that work is now going to ramp up you can see they're just below their business Equity goal already and I can tell you we're tracking above that at this point which is very exciting and our a e group is tracking right on schedule they're actually tracking to be just above and a lot of their work is heading towards completion as well the remaining percentage here is really going to be on the final design of the new parking garage with our permit so that's where all those dollars are going to go and our two main groups to support that are both business Equity certified with the city of Fort Worth so we're tracking it a good Pace there the other thing I really like about what we've done on this project is you can see a number of different types of groups included on this project you know I have worked on projects across the country where mwbe spend is really just a percentage of spend with those groups I think the group here at city of Fort Worth has done a great job of trying to make sure we include a number of groups within the community and we'll continue to do so throughout throughout as I mentioned before if there are groups that you feel should be involved in this program we're more than welcome to send them more than happy to send in the upcoming bid list diversity inclusion publishes that on a monthly basis we're happy to provide you with that as well all right so things that you'll see on the city of Fort Worth social media and website upcoming um this is Greg Wingate that I mentioned earlier this is our building manager today he is also happens to be the star of a few of our public Communications videos as well as a number of other City staff that have volunteered and participated so over the next uh really 16 months or so we'll be rolling out a number of uh communication videos working with Renee and his group on public comms to make sure we're informing our public about the benefits updates Etc they're coming with the building but also as we move towards actually moving people into the facility where they're going to go to pay their water bill where they're going to go to get a permit the functional components that they look for and so we'll be rolling those out over the next couple months but lots of things to bring up and film there if there are things that you think are important to your District or otherwise please reach out to me and we can make sure we incorporate that in our communication plan going forward um for those of you that haven't yet met in current room 376 or current room 380. we have installed uh the new AV video conferencing gear that we plan to use at the future building and we did that for a couple reasons number one we want you all to have the ability to test and use the future equipment to make sure that you understand how to use it if there's kinks in it that we can work it out ahead of time but also so that when we have folks in from the community or otherwise we can test the plan to make it easier for them to connect and share going forward and so I will continue to work with you all on this if you have questions feedback let me know but we're excited about what we're doing with these rooms and a preview of what's to come in the new facility um this October we'll be hosting a management forum for uh supervisors and above when it comes to City leadership and partnership with HR the CMO group and another number of other departments at the city to really help answer one key question that David Cook posed to us at the beginning of the project which is how are we going to work differently so we've done a lot of work to set that up facility WISE Technology wise Etc but it is now time to work with the departments on how we're going to actually fundamentally make those changes come to light so we'll have a series of activities between now and that October Forum including additional programs prior to move-in for those groups that talk about best practices for these facilities we're going to bring in guest speakers that have been through this transition and we're going to help inform those Frontline managers that are helping to lead that change on tools and techniques to really help maximize it so a lot of exciting things to come on this I think that's the key to making sure that this engine continues to move in the right direction and so thank you to the HR Group for really helping to pull that together um from a food and beverage perspective as you know the existing building has a cafeteria that looks something like this this is obviously kind of covered for updates at that point in time but we are planning to bring that cafeteria to Life as a part of this program with staff moving in significantly prior to the completion of the council chambers due to some of the permitting delays we will be looking at a interim food and beverage plan to make sure we can support the staff that are there while the council chamber completes prior to this cafeteria opening up if you don't know the floor plan of the building the bottom half of this cafeteria actually connects to where the new Council chamber of the building is going to be so it's not the most advantageous place to have a cafeteria during construction and so we're going to find a way to support this in interim capacity I want to thank Michael Crum from Public Defense he's done a great job of helping to kind of spearhead this program for the city but right now there's a number of pieces that we're looking at as an interim food and beverage option from the time Marion Council move in until the new cafeteria stood up which includes daily subscription programs so many of you have seen this before but Pizza day Taco deliver day Etc and something that is pre-ordered by departments or otherwise and kind of creates a fun collaborative activity as well as answers to food and beverage food and beverage question a food truck program as many as you as many of you know for the future building we're planning to have an area for food trucks otherwise to be outside the chambers but in the interim we'll find a location for them on site that's something that will work on the program for that a temporary coffee vendor in the facility and then enhance grab and go capabilities sandwiches salads reheatables etc for those of you that have been to an airport recently you know that the vending machines have gone from chips and soda to not having full on salads sandwiches and meals and it's really cool some of the technology that's out there and so we want to find a way to include an interim plan while we work through this all right so uh upcoming key events um so our moving vendor is the last vendor to really come on board in this program that we haven't got on board uh we're completing that solicitation now in partnership with the city's purchasing department and we hope to have that group on board by the end of August um the department luncheon learns so the prep sessions for the management Forum with supervisors will take place the second week of September and then our management Forum will be in October the new security system will be commissioned in October and that's really to make sure that the cameras access controls all the things that make a city hall safe are set up and commission before anyone moves in the building and then finally the mayor and Council move just after the holidays at the end of this year which we're very excited about and excited to get you all in the building so I think I got through that in enough time to give you all some time for questions before you got a break for uh the public session tonight questions from Council Elizabeth yeah I took note that there's six floors difference between us and you and so I just want you to know I can use the exercise so if there was any attempt to to keep us from popping in I don't think that's going to work um can you tell us when I saw where Marion Council are moving in but when foreign is the CMO um Hall moving in in the other departments yes so the rest of the apartments will phase in uh kind of on a month-by-month basis out through um really the better part of 2024 with most of those being in by the end of uh Q calendar Q2 of 24. there may be a few with some of the new floors that lag but we're getting them in as fast as we can just after that so so six months-ish total total to move everybody correct when does CML move CMO is currently slated to go as soon as they can after all there are a few redesigns that are happening because of the 19th floor so the Law Department was on 14 prior to this change we're making some changes to accommodate lab that takes about two weeks to redesign and six weeks to bids there will be a small delay but they should be just after y'all great um as we move through this process what are we doing to invite the community into City Hall I mean it's a beautiful new class A office space building um but talk about what that Community looks like as we're moving to and settling into that home sure great question um and this is candidly a delicate balance of bringing the community into a building that's under Full Construction and making sure that we can make it a safe and welcoming environment for them so we're going to continue to you know evaluate that at each stage of the program obviously as we move towards the council facility being CLE being complete all of the Departments will be in the building and we're going to work together with you all and City staff to bring folks into the facility but you know over the next you know six or so months eight or so months as we move folks in the building we're going to try and minimize the public in the building to try and maximize our speed of getting in the building and keep it safe okay two more questions um the move right as we transition to where we um you know where our constituents meet with us where we hold our Council meetings what plan do we have what is that communication strategy look like to make sure that we are letting Fort Worth know that the move is coming what to expect I mean because that's a that's a huge shift huge shift yes correct agreed and so there's a number of pieces that help that right one of the first things working with Renee and his team on the public Communications Group to make sure we get information out about the who the what and the when those changes are coming and we'll work with you all to make sure we get that out to your District's groups the second thing we're doing is working with the tpw group on some of the signage changes that have to happen actually physically redirect to this facility and then third is continued communication I can tell you from doing this a number of times that no matter what programs are put in place and no matter how much you communicate folks there will people there will be people showing up to this facility 10 years from now asking where the mayor is just the way it is PD can direct them to our new home yes yes um once the food court is operational what's our plan for what that looks like in a permanent setting that is a great question that we're still working through with Michael Crum and the subcommittee that's focusing on that from the city staff and so there's a number of options that are being evaluated and we're working with purchasing a law right now and what the best way to get vendors selected and on board would be but the thought would be to bring together some recognizable Brands as well as some local Concepts and a capacity allows for an affordable option for the Vose attending the building or working in the building but also in a capacity that keeps it interesting long enough so it doesn't go vacant um I just want to reiterate I think that this is a really great opportunity to work with economic development in our Chambers to highlight and support promote local businesses so to the extent that we can use this use this space to do that I want to urge you to continue to look at those options I big names are great but I'd rather support and Foster some homegrown folks here sure understood thank you questions Carlos what about the gym excellent when are we going to use that I've been asking that for a while just it seems rather lonely there I know I can use this uh some black there so so the gym that the gym is uh you know in a great state today at the facility we're working through the final plan with Pard um and Property Management on how it's going to be managed and when it will become operational but at this point in time the facility is ready to be used it's just really a matter of when we want to let folks start using the facility as I mentioned the key gatekeeper to really activating the building as a whole is completing the security system changeovers we have your Access Control right now there's three different Access Control Systems in the tower and I can tell you it is a nightmare for our current staff to try and manage we're trying to get that changed over as soon as possible so in the meantime we do stairs to visit there you go we got a nice sidewalk around the site you can walk around and check the views so yeah gotcha that's all thank you council is the conclusion of presentations any future agenda items Carlos I mean Chris uh um I need an IR on the uh forward police uh car chase policy um in the situations the officers uh pursue uh vehicles Gina I'd like to get a report on we've made a lot of success in zoning and the way we're notifying the public and I think that needs to be shared I'd like to have a presentation you know with an IR on that and I think that'll make a few people happy including Bob Willoughby because there are some positive changes uh the other thing that I'd like is this idea came from our stop six collaboration meeting I'd like to get a presentation that staff will have to partner with Fort Worth Housing Solutions on what we call the One-Stop data sharing possibility yeah David knows what I'm talking about we're looking at ways to make things easy for people who might rely on public housing and keep them from running all over town getting the certifications and whatever they need and so I know the city manager can elaborate on on that to make sure staff gets it and the other thing this takes me back to a request I made maybe three or four months ago and Steph should know I have not forgotten I do want to get a report on the geographic aspect of handling zoning cases I know the city secretary finished her part I think it's now in DJ's office and for those who don't who don't remember this is so that when people come up to speak on zoning cases we've got technology in place that lets us know on the diets where they live because you have people coming from Dallas and Houston speaking on zoning cases and you don't really know where they live because they might use a local business address and so staff is able to do that and I'm waiting for it and getting kind of tired of waiting thank you Gina any other agenda items Council no with that we are adjourned thank you [Music] foreign