Okay, council, I will call us to order. Welcome to your Tuesday, August 5th work session and I will turn it over to Jay Choa. >> Good afternoon and welcome back from the summer break. Um, currently have no upcoming or recent events organizational updates. So, I'm going to move on to informal reports. The first uh informal report is the quarterly development activity report uh for the development department and DJ Herel's here to answer any questions. No questions. Uh the next informal report is the June 2025 report on the release of area from the ETJ by petition of land owners and residents. DJ's here to answer that. Well, questions. Uh the next is the informal report on the annual action plan for the use of federal housing and community development block grants uh grant funds and Casey Bess is here to answer this qu any questions related to this questions. Okay. Um the next IR is on the cost of graveling alleyways in the city. Dave Lewis from park and wreck is here to answer any questions. >> J have one sir. >> Um Dave, where are you? Mr. come to the podium. Sir, I read the IR and occasionally get uh questions from uh constituents about alleyway improvements and what can be done and what are within our options. Um I know in the past some very few if that alleyways were uh paved over with some recycled or some surplus asphalt. Could you talk specifically a little bit about that and uh whether your staff looked at that option? How does it compare with um with gravel? >> Sure. Good afternoon. Um I am actually not aware of that practice in the past, but I'm going to turn to maybe Debbie Branch. >> Now, just to be clear, I'm not saying it was a practice. All I'm saying is that it had happened before, you know, on on a few alleyways that I know of. Good afternoon, mayor and council. Um, in when taking over this program three years ago, TPW had been involved and I I think it's called Flex Base, and there may have been some flex base and gravel and alleyways, but that was definitely before parks and wreck uh acquired the program. >> And from a uh cost effectiveness standpoint, how does that compare with gravel? Uh, I would assume it's comparable, but I don't that was a transportation public works and I don't think it was part of their official program. I think it was more kind of as you mentioned kind of, oh, we've got this product, you know, maybe just put it down on the side. But >> if you don't mind, can you look at that further and you can get back to the council on that or or with me. I'm just curious how it compares to gravel. >> Yeah, we'll research that technique more and figure out what it would cost to do. And here we have pretty much a per alleyway cost. We could probably provide the same thing for that. using, you know, recycled, you know, asphalt. Okay. Thank you. >> I have a question, Dave. Uh, I'm looking at, uh, the IR and the amount. Is there a way or, um, are you guys able to give us a roll out plan? Maybe not if we because I know we don't have the manpower to do it all at once. So, what does more of a rollout plan look like? Uh, is that in here? >> It is not. uh partially because we are not recommending doing this. Even despite the cost, we would have ongoing maintenance. Even if we did gravel, weed will grow through the gravel. So, we'll have to continue to do the weed killing, tree trimming, and uh the dump the illegal dump removal. So, it's probably not an effective way to to manage that anyways, but we certainly could put together a rollout plan. >> Okay. Not to put you on the spot, but you know how it go. Is there a better way to uh mitigate this issue uh other than gravel? >> We don't know. We're still looking at that because we would certainly like to figure out the best way to manage it as well. We've got roughly half of the alleyways in our city are in the program. So that means half that only get services on demand. So we certainly would like to wait find a way to make this more cost effective and lower maintenance. Um but we have no solutions at this point. But we're still looking at that because we would always like to find those efficiencies. Okay. And I appreciate that because I think it's really important because I know in uh uh on the south side in the historic southside, the alleyways are one of the biggest issues there. And we have a lot of senior citizens who live there who's not able to uh mow the law cut the yard or take care of the alleys. And we know when you have high grass, you get snakes and other uh insects that you know can be a threat to the residents. So, uh, for me, coming up with a solution is top priority. >> Continue to research that. >> Any other questions for Dave? Okay. Thank you, Dave. >> Thank you. >> The next IR is a FY25 recycling program update and Jim Keyasel is here from environmental services to answer any questions. Jim, >> good afternoon, Mayor and Council. >> Thank you. So, yes, my questions on the last three years since we were losing money on the recycling program. How do we evaluate the profitability moving forward for the next fiscal year? So, it looks like we're going to lose at least year to date at least $400,000 in 2025. Is that right? >> Yes, we budgeted over $2 million. the commodity market for recycling was a little bit better um the first half of our fiscal year. It's declined a little bit the last couple months. Um so we're we're actually trending a little bit better than we budgeted and that we for that we decreased our budget for recycling processing for FY26. We lowered it from our initial expectations because of that. But in terms of determining profitability, it's strictly commodity based as you saw in the IR. There were uh two years there about two and a half years where we were doing really well but we have not um actually received revenue since I believe July of 2022. >> Okay. And Jay maybe this is a question for you but when do we start re >> right um and again I think when you look at the the overall life of the landfill and trying to preserve that the subsidy to keep that out of the landfill is actually a net positive. We can put together a whole analysis on that and bring back if you'd like. >> Yeah I'd be curious. Thank you. Mhm. >> That's Rebecca. That was I was going to ask that when you did that analysis that you take into account the the savings on our landfill and the cost of a new one. >> And that's probably hard to annualize, but >> uh they have ways to do it. They've got some amazing spreadsheets. >> Thank you. >> I'll stand up here since I've got next on the next one, too. So, in case >> the next one's a neighborhood traffic calming program overview. >> I've got the waste management as well. >> Oh, I'm sorry. Go up to waste manage >> waste management service levels for residential solid waste. >> I think it's healthy to kind of walk through this please. Thank you council member Peoples. >> Yeah because I was going to ask you to talk to us a little bit about customer service since uh coming into office that I have gotten at least three complaints about miscolctions and can you talk a little bit about what you're doing to improve customer service? >> Sure. Um so as most of the council is aware uh WM took over all of the city's residential routes effective December 9th of last year. they took them over from the MBE contractor KWS and as part of that um WM also acquired the vehicles from KWS. So they've been basically repairing those vehicles getting those vehicles seaworthy effectively to put back into service. Um they're also working to modify some of the routes by by lessening the the home the home count on some of those routes. So, we actually talk we have an operations call every day with Waste Management or WM to go over the operations daily. Um, you'll see that I send out a report or an update every day around three-ish between three and four hours. I send one out every morning to let to let uh council and staff know of what's been left behind. We're working with them diligently to improve service. Um, we have meetings set up next week with uh WM staff to to go over service levels again. >> Yeah. Well, one one thank you to you and your office for always being so responsive uh whenever we have issues. Um I know those emails that you send out that certainly helps uh especially preempt some of those calls or emails that we undoubtedly get every week uh regarding mu uh missed collections. Um but two, I really want to uh say thank you to Waste Management as well. Mr. Keller, I see you out there um for being responsive to those residents who may have missed that 24-hour mark. And it'd be easy to say, "Nope, sorry, that was our that's our policy." um but still taking care of those customers. Um and until you talked about taking over those routes, um I have to say I I see it with the nicer trucks now and I see a difference. And can you talk a little bit about the quality of life change for some of those previous employees because they were offered jobs and and I understand there are many of them were offered um uh starting bonuses to switch over from night to waste management. Um if I'm not mistaken, they all received payraises as well. Correct. I would actually defer that to Steve Keller if he's he's from WM. He we may be able to answer that. I'm not I don't know the specifics on what those employees were offered. >> Steve, do you mind Steve? >> Just briefly, please. I know we t we discussed it before uh with some of the quality of life issues from previous employees. Can you just real briefly tell us about the job offers that were given to previous employees? Yes, sir. >> What they're possibly making then around what they're making now and those changes. Well, first of all, I'm Steve Keller from Waste Management, uh, public sector, government affairs, and I appreciate the opportunity to be here with y'all in this fantastic facility. Uh, I have worked with, uh, the city of Fort Worth for the last 24 years as the government affairs representative to the city. And I can tell y'all, and first of all, I I want to say this, it is a monumental task that we undertake every day. And I'm not making excuses or whatever, but council lady, you said you've had three complaints. I understand that things happen out there. We had an incredible uphill battle to take over what we took over less than a year ago uh at the council's direction. And yes, sir, we offered jobs to all of the previous uh company that that was having the serious issues taking place. We offered jobs to everybody that came. About 80% of their people came over. Um part of the reason is is that we have pretty stringent qualifications on you know CDL and stuff like that. But uh to a person and I have these conversations quite regularly with those folks that came over and transitioned into the the WM lifestyle, they are thrilled with what they've got. uh no no problem with payroll being met on a you know every other week basis. The benefits that they receive from the 401k to the incredible li uh health insurance that they have, you know, with us for their families. They are very excited and very happy to have made the transition over. Um we we take great pride in our employees. We're all about our employees. Our drivers on the street is who we are out there. And those folks came over and have been very happy with doing so. Yes, sir. They did receive a bonus for coming over. They went through extensive training. Um they they received payraises and we if y'all don't know this, if you know people that are looking for jobs out there, tell them to go get their CDL license and come with us because there is such a shortage of drivers. We could not have made the transition without those folks. And so, Councilman, I don't know if that answers your question. I don't know the specifics of the percentages and stuff like that, but uh we were very very pleased and happy to have incorporated most of the employees. They all had the opportunity to come over and most of them did. >> Awesome. >> It does. Thank you. >> Yes, sir. >> Any other questions for staff? Council peoples. What's the average uh hourly wage for those drivers and those workers? >> I don't know what the average is, council lady. I I it's it's kind of proprietary, but I know this that we've had three pay increases in the last 15 months to our drivers. It is so competitive. Our drivers are the most important aspect of what we do out there. We do everything possible to keep them. And believe me, with the number of CDL jobs that are available, if they weren't happy with us, they can walk out the door and have a job immediately somewhere else. But we have a very very high retention rate on our drivers. And I know it's north of 90% of of the drivers that choose to stay. >> Council peoples, I'm sure we can get you, Miss Washington, if you don't mind giving us a general idea, that'd be help. >> Get me that information and also the retention rate information. Thank you. Any other questions from council? Yes, council. >> Thank you very much, guys. >> Hey, before you leave the podium, uh just one thing. What can you tell us about I know you've had some uh heavy equipment issues that you know related to incomplete routes and missed routes. You know, I've spoken about that. >> Uh can you just give us a very brief update on that. I know you've been making some good headway. >> When we took over the full collection, there was 30 something routes. Is that right, Jim? 30 >> 30 routes. That's correct. >> 30 routes. getting 30 trucks is in a in a short order of time is impossible there. The lead time on getting equipment is between a year and a half and two years. You know, it's the same for the city. Uh you know, if you if you need new police cars or what, you know, whatever it is, there's such a difficult but in our industry, it is very difficult. And so what we ended up doing was purchasing the 30 trucks from the the previous uh subcontractor that was in there. Then we had to take all of those and bring them up to WM standards. We actually ended up, so you know, we opened a we we took all of their equipment to V Victoria where >> Yeah, I was told Victoria, Texas. >> Victoria, Texas. and we put we brought in our green team mechanics from all over the country that just did nothing but refurbish and recondition all those trucks. Now, it's been a slower process than we were hoping, but as those trucks meet standard, the WM standards, they're coming in. Then they go out on the streets and it's a different thing from going from the mechanics yard out on the streets. That's where you find out what particular issues happen. So, we've had some of that that's happened. Council member, um we are we're pleased that we are in the process of closing that specific location in Victoria where we where we've been working on these trucks for over a year now. Uh and so those trucks are coming onto the streets right now. >> All right. >> Is that Did that answer your question, sir? >> Yes, that suffices. Thank you very much. >> Yes, sir. Any other questions council? >> Yes, I have a couple questions. Um, from Can you give me a more of a percentage amount of the collections that are still being outstanding? Missed? >> You're referring to mis missed collections specifically? >> Yes, sir. So, I know we're still getting calls in our office. >> That's correct. We I would say though that right now we're trending at about a 99.5% success ratio. So you bear in mind as as Steve began to point out the enormity of the collection of city of Fort Worth um the contractor collects roughly 54,000 homes a day on average. So when we say that we're did a 99.5% success ratio that's ballpark 1300 to400 miss collections a month on the trash side. So does that meet our overall standards? Probably not. We'd like to be less less than one per 10,000 homes. But when you look at the enormity of the collection here, there's over three million collection services per month when you factor in bulk collection, recycling, and yard waste. >> Yeah. And I understand um and I appreciate the empathy that you're showing today. Uh but people still want their trash picked up. And I mean, I understand what you're saying. And so I I want to um I guess in the next uh six months or so um have another IR to come back because I know that uh he articulated the trucks um getting them fixed and all that what have you. And during this process we went through this process it was a very egregious and rush process. And so I'm a little concerned with a lot of the empathy that we having today of the trash that we didn't have then. And so I want to uh make sure that we can make sure that every resident in the city of Fort I think we made this decision to make sure that every resident in Fort Worth uh can receive uh quality service. And I think that we we are we trending that way, but I want to make sure we continue that. >> We we agree too. That's our goal too in environmental services to make sure that everyone receives that same same service. And again, we work hard every day with WM to ensure it. Um, we're doing our best and we're we're trying to hold them accountable for for collecting the trash on a daily basis. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions, council? Thank you, Jim. >> Thanks, Jim. Uh, next IR is a neighborhood traffic calming program overview and Chelsea St. Louis is here from TPW to answer any question. >> I have a question. Hi Chelsea. Um question for you. Uh I know you provided us with a number of uh speed cushion sets that were applied and speed cushions reflect the majority of you know traffic calming u devices you know that that the city provides. uh what percentage of other traffic calming would you say off the top of your head aren't reflected or reported in these tables? >> Well, really I would say that 100% of the traffic calming has been speed cushions. We have proposed things like flex curb um to create uh curb extensions to narrow crossing distances at intersections. We've proposed using um the flex delineators um to do some of that same work as well. Um generally neighborhoods have not been receptive to using those items because of the aesthetics. Um and so that's why we primarily use speed cushions. >> Okay. And then uh my second question is u again you report the number of speed cushion sets installed. How does that compare to the applications received? That is we shouldn't assume that there every application received resulted in >> correct >> cushions or tables. Right. >> Correct. So in the IR over 2,000 people submitted requests related to speeding or traffic calming. And so the 79 that you see here were all of those that got filtered out um or we filtered down to the 79 you see here either through the speed um threshold that we outlined in the IR um pavement condition because there are some locations where we recommend speed cushions but at this time the pavement condition uh doesn't allow that to happen. Um and then also the petition process. Um, so there are applications that are received and we may recommend speed cushions, but requesters aren't able to secure the required twothirds property owners to support. >> Is that very many? >> I can't make that uh number signed. >> I wouldn't say we'd be able to really quantify that number right now because sometimes it just takes a long time to get the petitions. Um on average we have some um locations that have come back maybe six months to a year later saying we finally got all the residents or property owners on the street to agree to the speed cushions. So it really depends. >> All right. Thank you. >> I have council member Martinez. >> Oh. >> Hey Chelsea. Um yeah. So I wanted to have ask a question or a request uh in regards to the petition. um we have a constituent who is disabled. Uh in those type of situations, is there any way we can help them at least get mailers out if we can verify that they are disabled? Um just like a general note card like we do with zoning requests. Would that be something? And I know it's going to cost money to mail those, but you know, they they have they don't have an organized uh neighborhood association or the neighborhood association isn't willing to help. Um, so in those situations, I would like to request that we consider that as as another way to help those individuals who may um, of course there's the need for traffic coming, but there's no way for them to go and secure those signatures themselves. >> That's something we can consider. Council Net. >> Uh, yes. I have a qu a couple of question, but uh because I asked for this IR because I had a couple of neighbors um concern about speed cushions or can you just give a quick overview of the application process or the petition process, what residents need to do? Uh because I I guess it's at the residence that needs to do it. And then I have a second question about when you go out and you uh survey the area and the street conditions are not up to standard. Is council or the council representative notified so that we can work with TPW to get that street um up to standard? >> I'll answer the second uh question first. Okay. So, usually we don't uh reach out to the council member related to the payment condition. We work with our neighborhood streets team. Um so there have been instances where initially we um informed the requesttor that we weren't able to install the speed cushions and then later um it's getting installed because it's on the schedule uh for our neighborhood streets um to do pavement management on it. And then also um just in terms of our process, so the requesters submit the request through our My Fort Worth app or the call center. Um they also submit applications as well. They give us the list of streets where they would like to see speed cushions or they've observed a speeding issue. We um perform speed data collection. Um, some of that data collection happens through our thirdparty vendor, so it takes some time to get that speed data back. We typically recommend speed cushions if the 85th percentile speed is 5 miles per hour or more over the posted speed limit. At that point, we notify the requesttor that the um that we would be recommending traffic calming for that particular street. And at that point, we actually provide the petition to the petitioner um with all of the property owner uh information populated from TAD. And then it the onus is on the requesttor to um get that petition populated with all of their requisite signatures. So, in the uh my forward app, is there is there an application where you just go in to submit for speed cushions or you go in to submit for speeding first and then it prompts you into uh the speed uh cushions. >> So, we have two different issue types. Okay. >> And um that's why I broke it down in the IR. There's the I think it's increased traffic speeding and then there's also the traffic calming specific one as well. But we review all the same team reviews all of those requests. So sometimes we actually have to kind of triage triage requests and make sure they go to the right place. >> Okay. And I don't know if it's still if it's under this IR or your department, but such as um um I don't know if you're familiar with Mr. Smith on Allen and New York that gets his mailbox or uh street knocked over every other week. I think he submitted for uh either a light or a speed cushion there. Um if it needs to be escalated to a higher department, does your department escalate that because it's been going on for a couple years? >> Um we can look into that request. Um I think I may be familiar with that location. Some years ago, we may have installed an LED stop sign at New York and Allen. in New York and because it curves and go into and turns into Maddox and that curve for some reason no one sees it and runs right into smack of uh his neighbor his house uh mailbox. So in addition to the traffic calming requests that we receive, we we receive all of the neighborhood uh traffic safety requests or traffic safety requests in general uh for the whole city. And so, um, that request, if it was related to installation of, let's say, a traffic signal, that may have gone to our traffic signal team to do the evaluation on that, but it's something we can follow up on. >> Okay. I have one request. I don't know if others are having the same issue with uh speeding uh in their neighborhoods, but uh some departments we get like a um uh annual 6 month by monthly notification of requests being made uh because a lot of times we don't recognize the issue until we go to neighbor to the neighborhood association meetings and by that time the neighborhoods are highly upset. And so if there is a way that we can kind of get some type of data uh every six months of uh speeding locations that are high priorities in the city of forward per per districts. >> Um that's something we can look into. Uh one thing that I will say is that we do have some data about speeding. Um so there is the perception of speeding and then there is the actual speeding. And so what I will say is um we looked back at some of the speed data from fiscal year 23 and 24. Out of the almost 250 locations that we had our third party vendor looked at, only about 20% of those came back showing that there is actually speeding as we define it. Okay. And so what we are looking to do moving forward with the vision zero safety action plan that will be coming before you on August 19th um is one of the action strategies in that plan looks at how we reduce speed limits because even though technically there isn't speeding as we define it. What we do understand is that people think that 30 miles an hour is too fast for a residential street. And so taking that information we want to look at how we can reduce speed limits on those local residential um roadways where it makes sense. Okay. And maybe scratch that by six month thing. Can we just get a presentation on it of of what they have already uh recognized throughout the city of Fort Worth and maybe that we can help understand. >> I think what she's saying is they're going to have be a presentation on the 19th of August on >> So you will have a presentation on the 19th >> on the vision zero plan that talks about where all the areas be. >> Yeah. So the presentation will be on the vision zero safety action plan which will we will be recommending for adoption. But um it in that plan it outlines several strategies that we're going to be taking to address speed management as well as other issues like truck traffic and um some of the other safety issues that have been brought up by the community. >> Councilman, we can we can >> but I kind of want to see the report of the 200 people who have submitted the applications. >> Right. We we can pull to see what the data is and see how often we can share it with the whole council. Okay. Across the city. >> Any other questions? Yes, Council Martinez. Sorry, Chelsea. I meant to ask just for educational purposes because this is a very common request. Um how long do you collect the data and um when you do those trafficcoming studies, what days uh out of the week do you have those strips out there or how is data collected essentially and how long? >> So it's typically a 24-hour count on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays to avoid any anomalies from beginning of the week. On Mondays and Fridays, people leave for the weekend. We typically try to keep those counts to times when school is in session. >> And why wouldn't you include at least like one weekend? Because, you know, I feel like I mean, they're they speed every, you know, day throughout the week, but I feel like Sundays and Saturdays are probably a lot higher. >> Um, that's really just our standard practice. We usually look at normal traffic patterns. And so unless it's an area where the normal traffic is a special event, um we wouldn't typically schedule things on the weekend. But for example, we have gotten requests related to speeding connected to um places of worship. And so in those cases, we have um collected data outside of those days that we prescribe. But it's really based on the context. So we can look at those things. So 24 hours Monday Tuesday through Thursday or Monday through Thursday. >> Yes. >> Okay. Tuesday through Thursday. Okay. >> Thank you, Chelsea. Appreciate it. >> Okay. The next IR is the proposed council initiated zoning changes for property south of I30 uh to MU1 lowdensity mixeduse zoning district uh with the uh base overlay. And Landre Stringfellow is here to answer any questions. Any questions or comments? Council Crane, if you need anything on this one. Okay. Thank you. >> And that concludes our IRS. >> Thank you, Jay. Appreciate it. Um, okay. Council, we're going to move straight into any questions regarding uh membership on boards and commissions, questions on significant zoning cases or the council MNC log. Anything on those? Okay. Our first up is a proposed economic development incentive with Adam Industries. Kelly Bagot, economic development coordinator um and Michael Henning are going to present. >> Thank you, mayor. So, I'm just going to kick this off and then I'll turn it over to uh Kelly Bagot, our innovation coordinator and the project manager over this recruitment effort to really dive into into the details on this project. Um but the purpose of this presentation is to discuss a proposed economic development program agreement with Atom Industries. Adam Industries is developing new technologies and platforms uh for the um prototyping and design of micro electronics and uh semiconductors and they're they've been searching for a location to service their long-term headquarters as well as uh the spot where they will be expanding their operations over several key phases. Um now kind of at the heart of their operations is uh the development of a an electronics workbench uh which can be used remotely over the cloud by their clients. Their clients would include uh many of the biggest names within the technology industry. And really what differentiates uh what Atom Industries does versus the existing industry practices is that by developing an electronic workbench at scale as they're proposing, it allows for them to be able to provide um certain efficiencies and really at the end of the day help their clients to develop chips faster with more flexibility uh more energy efficiency and then ultimately to be able to uh move through the development process. on chips faster. And so with that, I'll hand it over to Kelly to really discuss what the proposal for for Worth. >> Thank you, Michael. Uh this project will unfold in four phases centered on the development of a headquarters, an electronics prototyping lab, an electronics workbench, and a semiconductor fab for cloud-based users. The initial site will be at 4,400 uh gateway alliance gateway. Sorry about that. with future phases to remain in Fort Worth. The company is proposing 229 million capital investment uh with the bulk of the investment being in business personal property. They are also pursuing the Texas Semiconductor Investment Fund as well as the uh NSF funding. Adam and the city are both part of the Texas Semiconductor TechHub. At full operation, the project is expected to deliver 267 jobs with an average salary of 91,000 and just over 16 million R&D expenditures uh spending over 15 years. So, as you know, um you know, Fort Worth has not historically been the creator in this space. Uh Loheed has more often, you know, been the purchasers of this type of technology. So, we're eager to pull more of it this way and rather than seeing opportunities like this always land up in the eastern side of the metroplex. Uh we believe that this project will become one of Fort Worth's most significant semiconductor related projects to date and that's right alongside Wistron which uh council approved back in June. >> And then just real quick uh you're going to hear a lot of uh references in this presentation to uh commitments around R&D. I just wanted to just want to go ahead and pause on this issue just for a moment just to kind of walk through that a little bit and explain uh you know why that's such a priority for us. Um and so really what it comes down to is that even though there have been several notable exceptions uh Loheed Martin, Alcon Bell, etc. Um at the end of the day, Fort Worth just really has not produced the the level of R&D activity that you would expect for a city of our size. And that's been really one of the the central or one of the key uh priorities within our economic development strategic plan has been to uh try and recruit more of that activity here in Fort Worth. Um it doesn't obviously translate into any immediate fiscal benefits. We don't tax R&D activity uh but it definitely uh translates into broader economic impact uh and can go a long way in helping us to recruit high quality talent. R&D intensive projects tend to um involve jobs that that pay higher salaries and really at the end of the day it helps to to boost the per capita GDP and helps us to drive growth in our target industry clusters which is really core to our our overall strategy. So in terms of specific commitments, the here is what the company is committed to deliver at least 229 million uh capital investment, 260 jobs with an average annual salary of 91,000 and over just over 243 million in R&D over the full project term. Uh so this is a significant uh long-term commitment. Now, I'm not going to walk through this slide in detail, but you can see here we laid out specific milestones that the company will be required to meet over the life of the agreement. It starts uh with phase one in 2027, moving through to phase 4, which is targeted for completion by 2033. Each phase is tied to clear deliverables, and our incentive structure is fully uh performance-based. So now let me walk through a little bit of the proposed incentives and how they are structured. Uh the incentives are capped at 15 million total. So that's a hard ceiling. Uh the first two years are especially important and that's when we will use the EDIF grants and this is actually a big reason you know why this company is choosing forth in the first place. The EDIF grants deliver value where it matters most during the heavy R&D phase and the factory ramp up. Early stage semiconductor R&D uh prototyping is extremely capital intensive and these early incentive support uh enables the company to derisk that early period. So this structure delivers value in the early years which is strategically important and this incentive is entirely conditional. It requires full delivery of phases one, two and three. If those phases aren't delivered uh the agreement is subject to clawback. Now beyond the first two years uh the bulk of the incentives um there are for the remaining 13 years of the agreement they're more conventional structure and the grants are based on incremental real and BPP M and again this is strict accountability um the company fails to meet its salary or job commitments those annual grants are subject to a reduction or forfeite to sum everything up here's a quick recap uh here on the left side for the major deal points on the right side of the public. The uh proposed incentives total about 12.4 million lifetime value or roughly 7.6 million in today's dollars. That amounts to 4.7% participation rate from the city. We're also looking at a 21 to1 private public ratio which as you all know is a very strong return. And turning to the projected city tax revenues as far as a total net new taxes or gross we are estimating approximately 3.3 million over the term that equates to 1.1 million in today's dollars. So I want to emphasize that these tax revenues are after the payment of incentives and once determined the city will receive uh the full project value. So, with that, council, u staff is recommending that we um that the city enter into a 15-year economic development program agreement to provide the grants as Kelly just outlined. Uh the plan from here would be to bring an an MNC forward for consideration at the August 12th meeting. And uh with that, we'll be happy to answer any questions. >> Any questions for Michael or Kelly? No. >> Great. Thank you both for your hard work. We appreciate you. >> Okay, council. Next up is an update on police chief recruitment. Um Da Gerardano is going to present. >> Afternoon mayor and council. I'm here to present the police chief search and kind of provide you with an overview more specifically about the public process that is forthcoming. And so um Da Gerardano, assistant city manager. I'll go over the uh summary of candidates that we received to date, which was very impressive, the next steps in the public process, and then just how we round out kind of the selection for the next police chief. So, as you've heard, uh we had over 51 candidates apply for the role um from 15 different states across the nation, which is very impressive. The caliber of talent that applied for this position had very valuable experience in the police industry in many, many years. We identified four of those candidates to advance to the finalist rounds. One of them withdrew and and had a promotional opportunity in her home agency with the remaining that are listed here that will be part of the public process and the other interview panels. And so I'll go through the names just in alphabetical order. Our um own chief Aldridge who's the interim police chief for the city of Fort Worth. We have Chief Eddie Garcia and then Chief Vernon Heel who are part of the candidate process. This was all based off a very competitive process that Mosaic's uh partners helped the city um identify candidates for the police chief. This is the important part that we wanted to share, make sure that mayor and council was aware, but more importantly the public. We have the meet and greet and a public forum that will be hosted on the um uh on the 14th of August. The information has been shared publicly since July the 15th. And so we've reached out with a press release to the media. The story was picked up by several of the media outlets. We also had a city news story as well as a e newswsletter that went out to the public that's continuously being shared on all of our social media platforms so that we can generate interest and continued interest to ensure that we have uh good community representation here at the meet and greet in the public forum. There's also a QR code that was provided to individuals that allows uh members of our community to submit questions in advance, questions that they feel are compelling to ask each of the candidates. To date, I'll share with you, we've had over 43 participants, some of which have asked multiple questions uh by submission through that QR code. The QR code closes on August 8th, so that's uh coming up soon. And it closes at midnight. So, there's still an opportunity for the public to submit uh questions that they'd like for the city of Fort Worth to ask during the uh during the public forum. It's going to be a packed day for the candidates on that day. So, starting um earlier that morning, we're going to have interview panels with the community and then also uh with the uh members of the police department. Following the here's the public process. We're going to have the meet and greet started at 5:30 to 6:30. So, it'll be an informal meet and greet. The candidates will be available um here in the lobby area at New City Hall. Um they'll have an opportunity to engage with different members of the residents that show up to the event. In addition to that, immediately following starting at 6:30 to 8, we're going to have a moderated panel in the city council chambers. It will be livereamed on Facebook, YouTube, and the Fort Worth TV. And we'll also have Spanish translation for those individuals that may need find that necessary. In addition, we'll also have attendees or participants that are watching online. They'll have an opportunity to send in fe feedback. There'll be another QR code so they can provide feedback on the candidates based on the meet and greet or the public forum that's going to be televised. That QR code will also remain available starting on uh the 14th during the um actual activity or immediately following and then close at midnight as well. And then following we'll uh kind of wrap that up with the selection process. And so as I said, it's going to be a pack day on the 14th. They're going to start as early as 9:00 am. They're going to wrap it up with that public forum ending at 8:00 p.m. Uh they'll have we have different panel members that are participating in a four crossf functional panels. Um following the information and the feedback will be provided to the city manager on the 15th based on information that's coming in from the public and based on feedback from the other interview panels. The city manager um in accordance with chapter 143 of the Texas Government Code will will make a selection of the next police chief, present an offer, get into negotiations. will still have to go through background checks and initiate all of the other onboarding processes associated with the candidate before resolutions presented to mayor and council to to confirm the appointment of the next candidate. So, as I said, I wanted to kind of just provide you with an overview of the police police search process. It was an impressive list of candidates. I think the three final lists are impressive as well. And so, it'll be a very competitive process as we continue through the police chief search. Any questions for me? >> Thank you, Diana. questions from council. Council member Flores and then council people. Council Flores first. Council Flores. Council Flores is first. Sorry. Go ahead. Please go ahead. >> Go ahead, Deborah. >> Go ahead. >> Okay. So, Diana, thank you for giving us the briefing, but you talked about the interview panels and there was a a community interview panel. Uh, have we picked all the people for that interview panel or and is that uh information available? Yes. So, we have picked all of those panel members. We've invited several. Some, not all, could participate just given the time and the date, but many of them were able to. We don't typically divulge the panel makeup or the composition so that we can preserve the integrity of the process. We don't want any outside interference prior to or even following the selection of the process. >> So, um it's too late to give you any more names. Is that what you're telling me? >> Likely. And what I'll share with you is we have over 50 panelists that are participating in the process. And so it's a pretty good group of individuals. They're very diverse in nature, various backgrounds from everywhere from internal to city manager's office to external community stakeholders. And so we try to have a very wide reach and community representation to be able to provide good feedback to the city manager. Well, even if you can't give us names, is there some way you can give us some just generic information like did we pick people from the district? I'd like to know if people were included from district five. I mean, did we reach out to the clergy? What did you know? Just some information so we'll kind of know because people are asking me who's on the interview panel and want to know if people are included from our district. uh and I can't tell them anything. >> I can certainly reach out to you directly and share information on district representation and then I can assure you we did reach out to members of the different clergy community and those there are members that are represented on the on the panels. >> Any other questions? Council Flores. >> Thank you, Mayor. Uh DA, was there uh staff level discussion about the possibility having a second forum? I know that uh the timeline is relatively short, >> but I'm curious to see if there was a discussion in >> there was lots of discussion on just kind of what the um candidate panel would look like or is particularly the public form. We landed on the day panel. So we have the meet and greet immediately following by the public form. It is a long process. Um many of the candidates that are external to the city or two of the candidates external to the city have commitments in their current agencies and so we needed to kind of be mindful of that as well. And so we landed on the 14th and the 15th being the two days where we would host those activities. >> Okay. I see. Have you gotten outreach from either organizations or individuals on how they might uh submit questions if they couldn't be there in person during the forum? >> Yes. So if individuals cannot be during the forum and and we want to make sure that that QR code, this is currently what's out on the social media sites and the media sites. This is the way in which individuals can submit compelling questions that they would like for the city of Fort Worth to ask. So if they cannot be in attendance, we would encourage them to use that QR code. It will be sent out again following this presentation so that individuals have an opportunity to provide input. >> And let me better phrase my question. Have you gotten good response via that QR code? >> So we've had over 43 participants >> providing uh multiple questions in some instances, not just a single question. And so we've got a good compilation of questions that will be used during the moderated forum. >> I think Jay was going to add something here. >> So we use this process the last time around um because it was COVID so we had to get the questions beforehand. And what we found is that all the questions fall 10 or 12 categories, right? Because you can't you only have an hour and a half. You don't you can't ask 43 questions for instance. And so, uh, the reason we close it at the end of this week is because then staff takes all those questions, figures out what categories they fall in, and then creates a question that covers those questions so that we can ask the individual candidates those questions and they can answer basically answer the questions that were provided versus, you know, having people just show up and then you just pick random people to ask questions when we now then have a population of questions beforehand. try to get as much of those >> all right >> completed in in the hour 15 minutes and then their closing statements >> and I'll share just Jay mentioned it this process is identical to the process including the duration and the dates and times and the meet and greet that was used in the selection that rendered uh chief notes >> okay are we continuing uh doing the public outreach >> panel that will be com composed for the 15th >> okay so the 15th is only for basically staff >> and interview >> and that gives the community an opportunity to provide the feedback so that it can be shared on the 15th in advance of the of the interviews. >> Okay. Correct. So the 14th uh basically is going to be for the community and stakeholders and you you start on the presentation from 5:30 to uh to 8:00. But you also mentioned starting at 9:00 a.m. Can you walk me through that day again? >> Yep. So, the 9:00 a.m. is going to be a community stakeholder panel and it's going to be um it it's going to be alongside um a command staff panel or police panel with members of the POA, members of the community, various stakeholders. And so that morning, we'll start with those different panels and then carry into the meet and greet in the public forum. >> Okay. But when you say POA, you're talking about the only POA that we have meeting and confer with. Are you talking about the black POA, the Hispanic POA, and other members of PAS? >> The the POA the three PAS actually are all represented in that group. >> Yes. >> So they they put a group together of representing the nonappointed group. So command staff is a portion of them and then non-appointed group and it it includes folks from all three of the PLA. Okay. >> All inclusive. >> I'm sorry. >> All inclusive. >> Okay. So, each POA that represents here in Fort Worth is going to is included in that. >> Yes, sir. They're part of the panel. >> Okay. So, after the 9:00 a.m. meeting, Deanna. Diana. >> Yes. >> What's next after the 9:00 a.m. meeting? >> No, it goes through because there's the three candidates. So, they kind of route between both panels. Then they kind of wrap up, then go into the meet and greet, and then into the public forum. Okay. So, basically the and when do council meet with uh these candidates? >> There's a special meet and greet for council on the day of the 14th starting at 4:30 to 5:30. We didn't want that to coincide with the public. So, there's a special invite that was sent to mayor and council for 4:30 to 5:30. >> Okay. Yeah. I must have sent it when I was on the beach. >> On your calendars, >> but it's okay. We know now. >> Yeah. I don't think any of us got that invite. We'll make sure it gets on your calendar. >> I know you was on the beach somewhere, Michael, but we got it now. All right. Um, some more questions for you. Uh, um, Mos Mos Mosaic, Mosanic, what's the name? >> Mosaic. Mosaic. >> They are not here today. >> They are not here. Okay. Cuz I have a question for them. So, I guess I'll ask it to you. >> Okay. >> Uh, somebody's here. >> No, you can ask me. >> Oh, okay. I thought I saw you looking back there. Okay. Uh so when we talk about um the uh candidates uh so since we're getting an update on the candidates, I know there was some discrepancy of a candidate applying after the deadline. Do you have any information on that and what was the decision for our department? Um >> I'm sorry. Go ahead. >> Yes. Yeah. And so I'll share and I I know only from what I've read in kind of the media um but what I'll share is that when we met with Mosaic Public Partners at the onset of the recruitment um we made it very clear that we wanted consideration for all viable candidates to be presented to the city of Fort Worth. We um it was very publicly known that Chief Nos was retiring. So we know that there would be interest prior to the job posting going up and potentially really close after. So we did not have a hard deadline. There was not a deadline like you would see in a normal um maybe individual contributor role. It was an encouragement to apply before a certain date with consideration still be given to candidates that particularly those that would be viable um candidates for this role. And so that process worked just as we expected and we were presented with the full list of candidates. >> So Masonic did >> Mosaic. Thank you. and they're not here today. So, we really can't get the real answer from them, but they did not have a confirmed deadline which was articulated as the fourth or the fifth. >> I can't remember. >> Correct. And I can read you the language that was on the job posting or the advertisement because the language that was written there was very consistent with what the city established them to present. and it was basically that all qualified candidates were strongly encouraged to submit a resume before um June the 4th. Typically, when there's a hard deadline, it is an established deadline. It is you will submit or you will be required to submit. This was a strongly encouraged so that we could make sure that we're still attracting individuals. When you deal with these executive recruitments, we know that we're attracting individuals that are currently employed and they have to manage that, you know, their commitment to their home agencies while pursuing opportunities like this great position here in the city of Fort Worth. And so we recognize that and so that was part of the discussion that we had with Mosaic at the onset of the process. >> Okay. Did the uh firm reach out to the city of forward uh after the deadline to see if we should receive the additional application? >> So, we never received the deadlines immediately. We never received applications on June 4th. Like there that didn't occur because they're still vetting the candidates, >> right? Deer terms of them telling us that they had another candidate for consideration. Yes, they did share that. >> Mayor, if I couldn't councilman, we had this conversation. We did, but I mean I I want to ask it publicly because >> and so I'd like to answer publicly. >> Sure. Um, so we had this conversation the and I sent you the the the um uh the advertisement because >> I have it said that had the language that said they are strongly encouraged and I explained that we were allowing folks to apply because when we started the application process in April, we didn't have a firm date of when we were going to be able to put everybody together to meet to vet the applicants. We knew it was going to be in June. We knew we had a lot of things going on and so we put the force as strongly encouraged and we told Mosaic that we would accept applicants until we start until we started vetting those applications. Mr. Garcia's application and it's really a submitt of his interest came in before the date we started vetting those applications which was the 16th of June. So there was not a hard deadline. There was no special treatment. There was nothing like that in mind. We had this conversation. I I thought since you want to make it public, I'd like to explain it publicly on what the process was. >> Right. And I appreciate that, Jay. And I actually have it pulled up. And I have not once said that there was special treatment. I didn't say on the news and I haven't said it here today. >> It was reported that way. >> Well, I can't control the way the news reports things. Uh but I can control what I say. And so I'm going to say publicly uh that um during this process, we hired a firm to do the search and to bring us qualified candidates. And I think they did that. And whether or not we told them that there is a strong deadline or there's a not a deadline, they're going to present us candidates. Once they present us candidates, then we would do our process. That's normally how it goes. That's how we went through the process when we hired you. Um, but what I have noticed in this process is that after the unconfirmed or whatever date that was set, Mr. Garcia had interest in the job. They Mosaic then contacted the city of Fort Worth to ask for permission to allow him to apply. We the city of forward being you or DA gave permission to allow him to apply at whatever date that was because we haven't started reviewing the applications. >> Right. There wasn't it wasn't permission. They notified us that they had an additional candidate that was interested in applying. >> Right. >> And we we told them per our process if we haven't started vetting it, you can accept that application. So it wasn't a change and it wasn't permission. They were just letting us know. >> Okay. So, and as I stated to you in our meeting, excuse me, for me, it's about um um um how things look when it comes to um the the community and we had a tough uh hire uh in January uh but we hired you and I'm feel confident that you are able to do the job and I told you that I don't have no uh bad will about that and I think it was perspective that we should make sure that it is a transfer um transparent process throughout the process in our community. People have called and said they don't feel like this process was transparent because one applicant filed or applied after you know a deadline or no deadline. So, I just in the future because we have already we are already here. Uh that we should set hard deadlines uh because I truly believe that if I want to run for office, I can't sign up in Janette's office two weeks later or a week later and say, "Hey, I want to be a council member." And she's going to call y'all and say, "Y'all want Chris?" No, we don't. And they're not going to set my application. And >> but and and I we'll look we'll look into doing that going forward. But and I understand the executive hire. I get what you're saying. >> At the end of the day, as a city manager, I want to be able to hire the best the best police chief in the country for our position. And so in this case where we had we we had a a the recommended date and we knew we weren't until we started vetting we were going to be accepting uh applications. the fact that he ended up being one of the four four finalists. Nobody in the group that vetted that had ever met him or know knows Mr. Garcia. We met him in the interview process. So there's nothing there there that it seems like people in the social in social media and and on the news try to make out of it. All I'm saying is at the end of the day, why would we be interested in limiting the pool of the best applicants in the country? Um that's what that's what I just don't understand. >> Well, I think >> maybe based on some other reason, right? Uh because it doesn't make sense at this point. We got three great applicants. We're going to finalize the process. We know we know who they are now. Everybody knows who they are now and we're going to finalize the process and the best what we feel is the best applicant will be selected. I will it's who I'll be selecting. So, >> I appreciate that. And I wrap up my my comments is it makes sense to me because I represent a community of diversity who want as well as the best chief. And I think if the best chief that we get should at least apply on time or the deadline or have his application in early nevertheless not to say he's good or not. So, as we move forward in this um recommendation, I implore all of our communities to come out and make sure you talk to each one of them so that you can know what your desire is as a police chief. And I hope and pray uh and I believe we have the finest staff here that will vet these candidates 100%. I'm just concerned about our perspective and I think the city of Fort Worth need to be concerned about how we present things to our community to make sure that they know that we have their best interest at heart and not um a single interest. And I think that we need to be more clear on what newspapers are what media that we should be listening to. Uh because when the Dallas Express says the things that they say, it puts us in a bad light. And I believe that I think that the forward start telegram is our newspaper on record if that's correct. And so I don't know if people are watching that if you want to make sure you have more accurate and correct information you should be looking at the forward start telegram and not other news outlets that will articulate things that we're now having an argument a a heated discussion about. I don't know if it's even heated cuz nobody's really upset but just a discussion. >> Yeah. Very true. Council knows. Any other questions or comments for Diana or the team? >> Well, my only comment is I'm glad we had this discussion while it was lengthy because I think this needed to happen and it needed to happen publicly. We have three great candidates and I want to be sure that we are not prejudic pre prejudicing the heir about any of the three because I want all three to be given the same priority when they get interviewed because I think that's very important and I do want the public to come out. Uh Diana, I would suggest that you put the QR code on that flyer and so it can be redistributed. I just uh I just went to it and I had to go to it three times before I got through. So I don't know if it's the uh if if it's here the uh here in the chamber or but I would suggest that we resend that out. But uh I think Chris, thank you for bringing it up. I think that was good discussion because it needed to happen publicly because people needed to hear the whole rationale behind everything that happened. >> We'll make sure we get the flyer updated and we'll close on be here August 14th 5:30 to 8:30 to have public input. >> Thank you, Dion. >> 4:30 for council. >> Yeah, 4:30. That seems like we need to make sure that's on everybody's calendars. Yeah, for sure. Okay, Diana, as usual, you and your team do such a great job. We appreciate you. update on proposed 2026 bond program. Um Christian Simmons for Earth Lab Chief Transformation Officer is here. So Christian, Mayor, before we get going, I think I asked the last time we were here and the bond program came up and I know you're going to cover it. I wanted to see what happened in the last bond program with District Five. So, I'll I was told District 5 got a lot in the last bond program, and I want to be sure I'm not screaming loudly to the wind. So, just that's a to-do if you can get me the information on the last bond program. >> We can do that. All right. Good afternoon, Mayor and Council. Christian Simmons for Lab. Glad to be back with you after the summer July break. So, yes, Council Member Peoples will follow up on that. I'm here um to provide a brief update on where we are in the 2026 bond program, facilitate conversation as needed. Um we really just want to say again appreciate the engagement that's happened really back to April 1st when we first presented the proposed bond program. Um we've had a number of work sessions since then. Um we're at the point in >> Sorry to interrupt you. What is it that you just passed out? >> Hi. Um yeah, that is the updated 2026 list. So, it's really it's almost the exact same as uh the June list, but just in case you need it, there is a minor change which we'll go over today. >> Thank you. >> Thanks for reminding me. Um, we're at the point really, and you know this, that we're looking to finalize the proposed list so that we can turn to the public and start to get their feedback and input. I know we all agree that that's a really important step. Um, so most of my remarks today are going to be reminders, like post break reminders of where we stand. um sprinkled with a couple of updates um and then we'll look forward at at public engagement. So you have seen this slide before uh most of you this is our total bond asks. Uh these were submitted by departments really over the last 12 to 18 months. They're organized by department not necessarily by proposition. So this is really the only place you see them organized by department. Um but this is really just a context setter for the total universe of requests. So, $2.42 billion requested across all departments as the Fort Worth lab began intaking those requests again like at this point about 18 months ago. So, um really as of this is uh a repeat of what you saw in June but has today's date. Um when we last presented in June, we were working from a projected bond capacity of $800 million. This is how that $800 million was broken out by proposition and percentage of the total. So Proposition A, streets and mobility primarily derived from TPW, transportation and public works and their capital needs, Proposition B from parks and so on. Uh and so you can see the comparison here of proposed ratio compared to the average of the last two bond cycles per proposition. So TPW aka streets and mobility really getting the lion share followed by parks uh and so forth. And we talked in previous work sessions about sort of Proposition E, the big difference there, taking up some of the capacity um with the new animal shelter. So, this is one of my minor updates. This is sort of by way of followup. A couple of you at least asked about whether we've compared the Fort Worth closure list uh for the school safety projects. So, this is a followup on that comparison. Um you were correct in assuming that maybe some projects would shift. So you can see on the left hand side the old projects um with the asterisk those are schools that are closing um in the plan. So we've removed those projects and shifted um so you'll see a couple of them um Charles Nash de Zavala and Kirkpatrick removed and now Forest Oak Man Riverside and Rosemont appearing as the next highest school safety. >> Yeah I think it was Council Rebeck that brought that up Dave because there's quite a few differences there. >> Yes, really good feedback council member Beck. Thank you for asking that question. All right. And so inclusive of those changes, here's the latest map uh of proposed projects across the city. So you can see in the legend um you know, a number of signals across the city with the little maroon, you know, signal icon, um red crosses for intersections, tiny trees for parks, um sort of where those projects split out. You'll notice um like longer roads in the north, some of the major arterial projects, but this is just that that map that you're familiar with by now of how the project split. And then you'll likely recall that in previous work sessions we researched uh at your request what other funding scenarios might look like in order to get streets and mobility up to 65% which was a little more in line with what we've done in the past. So we talked before about some potential tradeoffs referencing that to get streets up by 5% um we'd need to reduce 40 million from other propositions. And so we talked about you know where some of that would come from. Of course, the obvious look is parks as the next biggest category. Um, and so this is just a reminder of sort of what some of that looked like. But again, at the bottom, $40 million from other propositions to boost Proposition A. >> Christian, I don't see on um on any of these a propositions um any housing any money for housing. Has there been any discussion about adding that and where that comes from? discussion. Yes. The only place we've shown it to this point is in that supplemental list that we'd take to the public to sort of get their feedback on. Right now, there's not an affordable housing or a permanent supportive housing proposition in the proposed bond program. >> I'd like to see that one makes it into the proposed bond program. So, um I think we can start with something small like $5 million. $10 million is obviously preferable, but um I'd like to I'd like to see that included in the package and how that impacts everything else. >> Any other feedback from council councelor Flores? >> Yeah, not not on this. Uh Christian u council member Crane and I were looking at this back on page seven. We have updates to school safety projects. Sorry to uh turn you back. I just want clarification on this >> on the uh >> correct. >> Yeah. Okay. >> Oh, are you talking about my three and two typo? Yes. >> Yeah. Yes. Caught it. Thank you. >> Now we're good. Thank you. >> Good. >> Eagle eyes over there. Okay. So, um we can talk more to the housing point about what some of those trade-offs might look like and this might be a good segue for that. So, this is like my big update of the day. Breaking news. Um update on bond capacity. So, um, obviously over the July break, we got values from the appraisal districts. And so, this is a preview, a little bit of what you'll hear also in the budget presentation when we give that next week. Um, but we did receive certified values on July 25th, and the growth in values exceeded our projections. And so, all through Yes, clap. Yay. Um, April through July, we were kind of telling you, hey, don't forget we're probably going to have to reduce the bond capacity. and instead we're here saying, "Hey, we're going to increase the bond capacity um maintaining the debt rate, but because the values are up, we we can push it to 840 million." So that's an additional 40 million. Uh and that in turn, of course, leads us to ask, okay, well, what what do we do with the 40? So per my previous slide where we were really trying to boost Proposition A, um we we recommend putting the 40 into Proposition A. Um and the the recommendation sort of on the table for discussion is um to split that 40 million evenly between bridges and then minor roadway reconstruction. So not major arterials but the neighborhood streets category as prioritized by TPW. Um on the bridge side, you know, between both federal and state infrastructure funding being really at historic levels, hundreds of million dollars available in leverage, we almost always need local match for that. So that, you know, local bond dollars there would really enable us to be competitive on a lot of those bridge infrastructure projects. Um and then again with the other 20 million in in neighborhood streets, we feel like we have major arterial needs covered in various areas, right? And so um this would additionally fund I think anywhere from like maybe three to six more neighborhood contracts on the on the street side. Council Hill, >> Christian, since we're reopening the conversation again, can we get the list circulated of all the I guess tier one roadways that we did not include? >> Yes, we can. >> Thank you. And then I had a question too on um the sheet you just handed out on the animal new animal control center. The numbers uh 58 million >> and we had 59. I was just curious on was it a typo or just we've reduced it for some reason? >> I actually don't know. I don't think we changed anything. Oh, Brian's 59. And it says 58 on your list. >> Yes. >> 58.7. >> We're trying to short you by >> I know. Don't show me. Brian needs all the money. >> Okay. That must have been Brian's salary. Um reducing. >> Just kidding. >> It's a lot of animals. Thank you. >> Yes. Thanks. Thanks for catching it. We'll take a look. >> Hey, Christian on uh Council Member Hills um reminded me of something that I don't think I've acted on yet. Um, has staff explored any possible uh partnerships with either agencies or nearby cities on the new um animal shelter? >> You smile like maybe knowing who >> would like to talk about that. >> Yes. So, there's there's been some discussions with private sector folks that that would want to participate and I think this number the original request was to get a facility that's larger than the current facility or can house more, but that was like $90 million. So, it got shrunk down to where it is now to at least replace the older facility, but there's some discussions going on about maybe uh having private entities donate to make that a larger facility. >> And I think you asked though about public sector, so maybe other municipalities also whether they're not. I don't know, Brian, if you could speak to that. >> I'm not familiar with that piece, but Brian might be. >> Here comes Brian. He's sneaking up on you. Christian, >> repeat it one more time. My apologies. I heard busy. Have you been working with other cities possibly about collocation or partnership on our new facility? And if you haven't, maybe we should help do that. >> Yeah, we've toured some other facilities and we've also looked at different partnerships, not just with other cities, but like Operation Kindness and Best Friends and stuff like that. We're still in the kind of beginning phases of how we want to organize, you know, that that splitter if there's something like that. But I did want to add is while we reduced the size because you know it did go from 97 down to 60. Uh the layout that we're picking is a available for expansion. It's going to be just like the north campus with different pods. So when that intake increases and we need to expand, it's it's available for expansion in a much more feasible way going forward than they kind of expanded silox where it was peacemilled here and there. This will be just an additional pod which is greater for the animals, it's greater for disease mitigation and it's it's the ideal model. Okay. uh not to belver the point and we can talk about this you know later but uh talk >> okay >> that's where people's >> yes >> uh uh yay yay on tad thank you for giving us the other 40 million but uh I you had given us a sheet and I don't have it in my binder where we had things that dropped below the line. So, I'd kind of like to know what's going in uh what we can pick up with that 40 million out of for TPW and I don't um you might have that uh slide with you. >> So, on the on the bridges piece, what we would what we were recommending is that those 20 million be available to leverage other funds. So, Tex DOT had a uh the the the state legislature passed about a $500 million bill to give text dot additional dollars for bridges and roadways. And so they're going to there's always a component of local match tied to that. And then there's federal funds as well. And then then COG does the same thing when they they provide dollars for a project, especially bridges. We typically don't have the the local match. And so we wanted to use that 20 million to be able to have a local match to be able to capture some of those dollars. It'll it'll well it'll be to either uh when there's a bridge needed over a new road, we'll be able to actually ask for this text dot grant to cover it and then we would just put in our two million if it's a $10 million grant then we put our two million of local dollars out of there. And so that's what the recommendation >> well they're all over the place. There's also railroad bridges, right? The railroads want us to separate land and they'll ask for for dollars associated with that. Um, and then the the other one's the minor roadway, but this would be the obvious if if you wanted to add a different category like housing or something else, this would be the average the obvious dollars to >> uh to look at to to be able portion of this to go toward >> and the I guess that the same question would be for the minor roadway neighborhood street reconstruction. You probably have a list of those streets that got added, correct? Maybe in this >> there's probably five or six that >> Okay. that are next in line. Some are bigger than others. So, it's the they'll look at it to see which ones are in the worst shape. And like she said, it might be five packages, it might be three packages. Uh, and they're all they're all in the inner city because it's the older the older parts of town. >> Okay. Uh, so this is the same uh total. Oh, let me make a note about your list. on your list. You're going to see the 20 million as a bucket on your list since they're not itemized by contract yet, but we can get you what TPW's recommendation would be on that next 20 million. So, this is proposed funding with that new capacity. So, same chart, but you'll just see that the Proposition A total increased by 40 million. Um, and sadly, this is a math a math sadness as many math things are. Um, we thought, oh, we'll add 40 million and we'll get to 65% in Proposition A, but of course you're dividing from a bigger number at 840 million. So, it jumps TPW or Proposition A to 62% almost rounded, not 65, but but does give them a nice chunk. And then you'll see the other percentages sort of shifting with that new division. >> Well, I just want to say thank you. I know when you first brought um the bond to us, um one thing we really pushed y'all to do is to allocate more funding to the the streets and mobility improvements. And that's I can see that you're really struggling with making sure that we get to that number and that we try to make sure that we're prioritizing transportation. So, thank you. >> Yes, that's the hard work of staff and city manager support as well. >> Okay. I I have a question about that slide right there. Thank you, mayor. Um, for proposition B, parks and open space, >> is there a I guess we we're not seeing the breakdown of each of these propositions today. We'll see that later. >> Um, the list ties to So, what's in front of you is the detailed list, right? So, parks and open space, you can if you were to add all those projects by category, that's what that's the detail you have in >> the list you provided us today. Yes. >> Okay. All right. >> Yes. And same list. It's really except for those new two $20 million buckets. It's the same list that we've considered really I think in both work session the both of our previous work sessions too, just with some minor shifting. But yes, um parks and open space there and Proposition B. Um no no change since last time. And >> and as a reminder, so she's going to go to the public portion next. We're asking that we be able to go out to the public. Remember, the council gets a second view of this once we go through that process to finalize the list. So, there's additional after we've gone through the public input, staff will provide feedback on things we really heard from the public that sometimes changes that list overall. And so, there'll be another another in December basically uh information provided the city council to get to a final list. So, you'll have another opportunity to make changes at that point as well. >> Right. Yes. This is this list is not representative of what people would be voting on next May. This is just the list that we propose and and originally and I think still we were planning to take sort of that supplemental below the line list a couple of you have mentioned with you know 10 or 12 more projects or something just so that people didn't think it was fully baked but that they have some projects to weigh in on you know as we're as we're sort of chatting with them out in October. So that gets us to Jay's covered some of this, but um we're hoping to start online engagement really immediately with some of the tools I've showed before. I'll show you again a preview in a moment. Um and again with we'd showcase a larger bond list just so that the public has you know more to more to look at. Um and then the plan would be that in October once the budget's adopted and we can sort of shift gears into bond without confusing budget and bond together as sort of two different topics. Um, we would do hybrid community engagement meetings in each council district along with comprehensive plan engagement because comprehensive plan and bond should really flow together. So, we'd like to marry those together through October since the timing works on the 2050 plan. Um, and then we'd come back to you at the end of the calendar year and say, you know, here's the feedback we've received and obviously you'll know a lot of that too. Um, and then we'd finalize the list so that you can call the election in January. Then we do another round of public engagement, but this time it's an education effort, right? because now we're saying here's what you'll be voting on, not what do you want to be voting on. So that's kind of the two phases. And if we were able to start digital engagement right away, we're really using two primary tools. One's balancing act, which is really a fun tool. There's kind of a live demo if you can see the screen. Um, but residents can enter their zip code. Um, that's how we kind of know where they are in in order to um tabulate who's participating. And then they they can play with the 800 and 84. It's still at 800 right now, but 840 million. Um kind of check projects and even submit other projects that they may not see on the list. And that way they can kind of go through that balancing exercise kind of what staff goes through and what you go through when we're trying to build a bond program. And then they can submit it and we're able to tabulate that behind the scenes as as feedback. And then the other project or tool, which is really my favorite tool, is um ArcGIS story maps. And in this case, another live demo on your screen. They'll see the proposition list um and they can submit feedback through the email or through submission in this exercise. Balancing act is built into it. My favorite part of this tool is that they can very easily search the map. And so there's the map and they can move it around. they can go by council district and then you can click into each icon and see what the project is, how much it is, pictures, the scope, all of that kind of thing. So, it's really nice if you can't even make it out to a meeting even in October, you can really kind of get a get a sense of what we're looking at with pictures that were taken by staff. And again, that doesn't replace inerson engagement. That's just additional tools. >> Okay, so that is the end of my briefing. That wasn't as brief as I was hoping to brief you, but you know, um, happy to facilitate any conversation or ask answer questions, concerns at this stage. >> Questions are council member Crane, >> just that website you is it live now? I'm sorry I missed that. >> Honor, is it live now? Yes, it's live now. So, we'll get it pushed out on Connect for Worth and all those places. >> Any questions? >> Council Nles. >> Um, thank you. So, to um Councilwoman Beck's uh concern, cuz I know I guess it was I think it was on you said the supplemental list. I think it was on that list that one of the top things for the housing. >> Yes, it was at the top of the list for all those times we showed it. >> Okay. Is that will go out to the public as discussion as well? >> Yes, that's the plan. >> Okay. cuz I'm really concerned if if we're not actually talking about uh some of the things that council is concerned about to the public, then we won't get the feedback that we need as it relates to housing. And you know, I don't want to go down the long laundry list, but cities such as San Antonio, Austin, Dallas, and uh other cities have all uh did housing bonds. And one of the reason why it's so important is when we have housing projects uh and talking development developers coming in and they're not able to meet up to um the funding mechanism because of they're trying to make it affordable. Um a couple of projects in my district had to seek money from the city as well as Taran County and we know Taran County is making a major shift in their funding. So, it's going to be um important that the city of Fort Worth stand strong in supporting um housing. And so, my one of my questions to you is in these propositions that you have up here um would housing go into one of those proposition, would it be its own proposition voting? >> It would be a standalone proposition. And so I know some of the council has some some concerns about putting a housing uh bond on there uh where some voters wouldn't vote for it. But if it's own proposition, I think uh that should give some uh some heartburn taken away that if people are going to vote for it, they're going to vote for it. I definitely think that we should have some type of housing. Uh but I would actually like a um an update on uh maybe from neighborhood services of how many times that we have receive uh inquiries of housing support to make sure we have that um make sure that project happens in certain districts. >> Great. >> And maybe along those lines because when we go out to the public, we don't want to create more confusion. So, it would be important to to Chris's question because it would be its own proposition to articulate that clearly so people can kind of react to that, see what the language is. I know poor Dennis is usually the one that gets tested uh you know on on all these propositions and give some feedback. I don't know how you do it best in those public forums. You know, what would we give and take? It's probably easiest to look at that $40 million that we just added in and it would maybe come from those dollars or from other propositions. But just my my my most important point there is just to give them a visual of that that extra proposition and how that would look so they don't get confused. >> Should we reduce the bridges to 15 and put 5 million as a housing proposition or did you mention 5 million? >> Five. There's we can cut it however you want to cut it. I mean there's five propositions on there now. So, if you carved out one million from each proposition, you get to five there. You could take five away from one proposition and get there. I mean, I think uh my preference I don't have a preference on where we take it from, >> right? >> But that it that it be in there and so I I look to you, city manager, to tell >> I just think it's additive um so we wouldn't undo something that we've had on the list for a while. And then importantly, as we have discussions with residents, you know, how we'll just use housing as a good example because it's not here. What are the types of projects to council Reynold's point that we could fund? What's an example? Neighborhood services and Casey can kind of come up with a few theoretical examples that in the past, you know, six months to a year we might have used out of that bond dollar so the public can kind of react to that as well. Council member Larsdorf. >> So to your point, Mayor, that that is something I think would be incredibly important is if we did add another prop to it, make sure that the community understands. Would you rather see it here or in streets or in parks or somewhere else? I think if it's just thrown out there, here's these propositions. If they know it could go somewhere else, then just want to make sure that's abundantly clear when it comes time. >> Well, they could all go someplace else. I mean so so why are we giving if that's the case we then we need to go back and say however much we took out of these other propositions when Christian met our um you know met our challenge of of uh increasing transportation and um works TP sorry TPW um then should we then for transportation tell people where those additional dollars came from because really that's just setting an unfair marker for housing. It's setting it up for failure because it says, well, you could have it someplace else. Personally, I could have uh, you know, TPW go, we could take the $5 million, $10 million from there. So, I don't I don't know that that's particularly helpful. In fact, I think it does more harm than good. >> The good thing is, those of you many of you around the table have sat through many of these bond discussions with with members of the public and in every council district. The good thing is to each of you can kind of also help advise staff on how you want them set up, but typically people are pretty well informed and they have a conversation with staff on where their their most priorities are. Some people come like they only care about streets, they only care about parks, but it will be helpful, I think, for neighborhood services to help also be prepared to educate the public on where affordable housing. And really, let's be honest, the whole entire state of Texas is grappling with this issue. And every community is kind of tackling it differently. So, we may just need to think about an education piece that would be unique for this bond that we haven't had to do before. Um, so just a suggestion. Council Hill, did you have something? No, I saw a hand. Maybe I didn't. Okay. >> Anybody else? Okay. Christian, thank you very much. We appreciate you. >> Um, she what you glad. Yeah, >> she's good. Okay, council, we have future agenda items or reports on the agenda. Councilor Beck, go first. And >> so a while back, um, we had tasked staff with creating a door-to-door salesman registry and our registration process and program. And so I'd like to get an update on that. Um, also, not all things that came out of the Texas legislature this session were bad. Um, one of the good ones was SB304, which allows uh municipal municipalities by ordinance to um or to adopt an ordinance that allows civil jurisdiction for um our municipal courts for dangerous structures, injunct vehicles, and also jurisdiction over municipal health and safety codes. So, um that law doesn't go into effect until September 1. So what I would like to see is for next budget cycle um an ordinance in place you know adopting this so that our municipal courts can now handle our nuisance abatement. the speed in which we are able to help residents bringing it in-house versus um our district courts uh I think will go a long way to to help our residents that often get frustrated by how um how long that nuisance uh nuisance abatement process takes and so for next cycle what that looks like for our municipal courts department and have legal draft that ordinance. >> Other items from council members? Yes, council Lar. Um, a while back, Councilwoman Beck, uh, she had asked for an IR. I don't know if you ever got it or, and forgive me if we did, but, as related to vape shops and what we were doing to be more proactive with any potential legislation going forward. Um, I know in district 4, our zoning commissioner actually pulled all the vape shops and nearly half of them were actually opened under what seems to be false pretenses under just commercial, not just actual smoke shop. So that does concern me with what she brought up before with what we could do proactively to where if there was legislation that did change overnight, uh what are we doing to protect ourselves and our communities? So if we could just revisit that IR from what's >> it maybe I don't know about y'all but maybe it would be helpful to do it in a full presentation have some dialogue back and forth with data from each of your districts because you're right they have popped up exponentially in the last several years across the city. So >> they they are in preparation of of legalization, which is why I want us to get out in front of it. You know, I'm okay having a vape shop certain places, but I don't know that I want a dispensary where >> where they are now. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Good feedback. Any other future items from council? >> I just have one here. Um in exchange back and forth with the constituent, we're we're now sending out about water usage and enforcement. And some good questions here. Um they had it was an HOA. They had some requirements and they could HOAs can give advanced notification the contractors can. Um but I'd like I think everybody would like to know this too probably about does advanced notification how does that work and does it result in optimized water usage? Um they did not do that because they didn't know about it and they had thousands of dollars in charges and we had to go wave them later after they went through the process. But maybe that's part of a notification that we can give. Is the water conservation group ready to handle the potential volume of these notifications? And are the advanced notification processes sufficiently documented so customers and landscape irrigation contractors can access, understand what is required? >> We'll get you an answer. >> Council Flores. >> All right. Um, Leanne, you might want to listen to this because I don't know if it's premature. I know your staff is working on it, but um, whenever they're ready, unlike a briefing on the habitual nuisance ordinance, I think could be an additional tool that we're hoping to help us uh, take care of those properties that u, well, have repeated offenses occurring. It's becoming more of a problem. Council Ed. >> Uh yes. Uh question I mean I are on overgrown grass that is impeded on the roadways such as like uh back roads, oak grove trees are falling onto uh the roadways. Um how we are is that a priority to get fixed and corrected. Um it's a hazard. Uh the second thing is I've received a couple of notifications from residents receiving uh a letter from the water department about maybe bills that wasn't rectified 10 to 15 years ago and added to their now current bill. Um, and I actually have a letter from one of them uh from like a old account number and saying they need to pay those that bill in conjunction with their current bill and it could be from the sums of maybe $200 or $300. Um, and lastly, um, I would like a IR and the discussion about mayor and council pay for the charter election uh, for May. Is there a chart election in May? Oh, we can call one. >> We'd have to call one. >> We have to call one. So maybe an open discussion about >> open discussion. Yeah. Okay. About charter >> other ones from household. Um I have two. The first one is and and we can do this over looking at an IR or discussion about all of our attendance records at boards and commissions, but I'm most particularly concerned about board of adjustment both commercial and residential. Um I know that staff and I have talked about this a little bit. There going to be a few internal meetings. I think we can do this better. I think some of the items that are going for variances to BOA um both resident or commercial actually should be coming to council because they're quite significant cases at times and your council members deserve better say because as a reminder they're quasi judicial bodies and oftentimes it gets your residents or commercial patrons stuck having to go to judicial to to district court to appeal those which is quite lengthy. Um, so that would be one, but then overall just where are we on attendance quorum issues? Occasionally, as I'm sure you've heard, occasionally we don't have quorum at some of these meetings and it delays a zoning case, which I know it could be frustrating for y'all as well. Um, the second one is pertains to my desire to initiate a process to rename our south division patrol for Sergeant Billy Randolph, who of course died in the line of duty and spent his entire career there in South Fort Worth. Um, I want us to look closely at what that would look like to initiate that quickly. As a reminder, um the anniversary of his death is actually Tuesday, August 12th, so it's coming up very quickly. Secondly to that, I learned, and I have not heard this directly from Officer Nava's family, but I think they had also looked at maybe renaming a street or doing something had gotten kind of gummed up in bureaucracy. So, let's reinitiate that. I'm not sure what that request was. And just making sure we're working with our families or our fallen officers and fallen firefighters for that matter. um and that that when these issues come up that this council can be of help um where necessary. So >> we are we are working on that one. I've been great Charlie about that for officer Nava. >> That's great news. Thank you. Okay. Any other questions, council? >> Okay. I would for us to uh get Tara Perez back here and the homeless project that we talked about the pilot that they did. Uh, homelessness is really propping up in my district and I want to know I know that when we did the pilot, District 5 was not included, but I want to know how we start uh operationalizing that uh project and the project hope. And then I'm glad you brought that up about naming the streets because we have I have a um street topper for an amazing citizen uh Shirley Knox Benton that got caught up in the whole process. I think the officer Nava thing slowed it down. And so we need to have a better process for trying to make those things through. She's about 80 and I want to get it done before she leaves this earth. Okay, >> fair enough. That's good. Any other questions for council? Okay, if that meeting is adjourned