 Okay, I think we're going to go ahead and get started. Thank you all for coming out tonight. We have several presentations that we're going to go through and you'll have the opportunity to ask questions and we also have comment cards if you want to fill those out and leave those if you don't want to ask your question. So to get us started we're going to have council member Nettles come up and welcome everybody. Welcome. Welcome to our state of the district address district eight our town hall whatever you want to call it. This is an opportunity where you get an opportunity a chance to hear from city staff about economic development called compliance for people police is here chief nox is here all sorts of people here. You also hear what I have done in the first hundred days in office and so we have a lot of things we want to discuss with you. I'm glad to see you. Glad that you're here and I want to take the opportunity say thank you for giving me an opportunity to represent district eight. This is just the beginning of something great something new and so we're excited that you guys are here and make sure before you leave if you have a burning question ask the question whether you feel like it's going to make me look bad make me look good or make me mad ask your question so that we can deal with your concern the only way we can deal with issues and concerns if we hit it head on and be frank with each other and so let's ask those questions let's ask city city staff the hard questions tonight that is why they are here we are here to represent you and support you so again I say welcome later on in the presentation I will give a presentation of what we have done in office so I want to thank Mr. Jim Austin for allowing us to use the warehouse Mr. Austin you wave your hand and so he's been gracious to allow us to use his facility today inside of district eight we always want to make sure that we support businesses that operate in district eight so with that I'm gonna let Michelle come back up and we'll start our presentations so our first presentation will be on transportation and public works and the projects that are going on in district eight hi good evening I'm Lauren prayer I'm the assistant director for capital delivery here tonight I'm going to talk to you about TPW and kind of what we have going on so tonight the council member has asked that we cover pavement management so how does our team plan the paving repairs across the city we'll also cover program updates from the 2022 bond as well as talk about some of the proposed projects in the 2022 bond so that we'll cover neighborhood streets arterials and mobility and intersections and we'll wrap up with kind of a brief on our transportation management projects so the pavement management group maintains the street assets through data collection they perform condition assessments identifying proper treatments and procedures as well as prior prioritizing the funding for city programs so we maintain over 8 000 lane miles in the city's pavement network so over 14 miles are scheduled for heavy maintenance in council district eight for this fiscal year 21 14 lane miles are proposed for reconstruction in the council district eight for the 2022 bond program and roughly 60 lane miles will be reconstructed citywide in the 2022 bond program so how do we do asset management so a digital inspection vehicle drives all 8 000 lane miles in the city of Fort Worth every five years to measure the pavement condition so from that survey we calculate a score from zero to 100 zero being the worst it's a failed pavement to 100 being brand new we built it yesterday so we have approximately five percent of our network in a poor or failed condition which represents about 300 and lane mile 80 lane miles throughout the city so in council district eight we have roughly eight percent of the streets uh or 80 lane miles in a poor or failed condition really where maintenance is ineffective and we have to go in and reconstruct it so streets that are in a poor or failed condition are prioritized to be reconstructed through the bond program so in order to reduce reconstruction cost and maximize pavement life regular maintenance is performed on our street network so the yearly allocation of pago funding is used for preventative maintenance techniques like crack sealing uh joint sealing and mill and overlays of the pavement surface so the pavement condition index that we just talked about helps us to identify the proper paving treatments uh for the the condition that the roadway is currently in and then we prioritize those pavement treatments in either the pago or the bond funding programs so the following criteria were used in prioritizing our 2022 bond projects so equity is our new category which was defined by the race and culture task force as being within an smma so leverage opportunities are if a project has committed funds from outside organizations or public agencies like the tarrant county bond uh capital replacement this is where we bring in that pavement condition index project collaboration uh if the project connects with existing or proposed projects by other departments where we can share resources of course federal state and other legal requirements so this is the proposed 2022 bond funding for the tpw infrastructure by project category so this is roughly a 20 increase over the 2018 tpw allocation of 260 million so there are new categories in here for vision zero and grade separated railroad crossings sidewalks neighborhood school safety and streetlights have also seen significant funding increases in line with the active transportation policy recommendations today we've actually been able to match about 78 million dollars of our 2022 bond arterial project funds with the tarrant county bond so an additional 200 million dollars in leveraging opportunities still remain with tarrant county so i caution you this is still a very fluid chart that is changing in the positive direction as as more is known about arpa funding tarrant county funding and the 2022 bond funding so now to discuss our active and planned neighborhood street bond projects so now all streets in a project will be from one council district we really do this to increase the buildability of a project so the neighborhood street bond project standard scope of work uh is a complete reconstruction of the street so what we mean by that is from the back of sidewalk to the back of sidewalk on each side of the street it's all new and it's also includes new utilities most likely so the street lists streets listed here are for an eight million dollar 2018 bond project that is currently at 50 construction complete uh we are scheduled for completion this march in 2022 so the picture on the right is an example of a reconstructed street segment from the 2018 bond program so streets in the historic south side area for kentucky broadway missouri our under construction will be complete this january so it should also be noted that rosita street and council district eight has been completed under the 2018 bond program so there's a total of 14 lane miles proposed in council district eight for the 2022 bond program so roughly 21 million dollars out of that neighborhood streets category we have our project managers here tonight to to discuss with you individual projects or to gather your additional comments for streets you'd like to see work on we also have project maps over here showing uh 2014 2018 and 2022 bond projects again this is just the complete list of neighborhood streets in council district eight and i believe these presentations will be made available if you signed up at the front with your email address so arterials we had over 60 arterial projects were weighted against the bond project prioritization criteria of congestion capital replacement needs uh crash data equity public health and safety concerns as well as the project collaboration opportunities we have three active or planned arterial projects in council district eight so rising drew road at i-35 several factors delayed this project progress at rising drew road most notably material availability for signal poles massed arms and traffic signal pro cabinets this project will actually complete next month in october so this 2018 bond project is on the border between council district six and eight construction completed and the road reopened in april of this year so it should be noted that rising drew road from i-35 to technology boulevard uh is planned to be a full four lane divided arterial that will be constructed by development the section of crally road to technology boulevard is actually on our arterial list so we had mentioned we have 60 arterials in that list this is ranking about number 15 and we're also looking at including an elevated railroad crossing in this arterial project when it is built so the everman parkway grade separated road crossing is a proposed 2022 bond project this would also create a new east west road segment linking everman to i-35 potentially taking traffic off a sycamore school road so there's existing industrial at the east end uh access to this property would allow for potential economic development opportunities in council district eight so the project grade separated railroad crossing would go over sycamore creek as well as the union pacific railroad over 15 million dollars uh will be leveraged from the tarrant county bond program for this project so established corridor projects reconstruct the street and apply complete street concepts like bicycle lanes enhanced lighting and shared use pass for increased multimodal connectivity and walkability so really there's no singular definition for what a complete street is each one is unique in response to the community's context balancing safety and convenience for everyone using the road and that includes children people living with disabilities older adults and people without access to motor vehicles so 10 million dollars of the established category uh corridors category will go toward leveraging funds uh for the infrastructure grant on lane caster avenue infrastructure grants for dot funded projects are for projects that result in good paying jobs improve safety projects that apply transformative technology and explicitly address climate change and racial equity barry street and mccart avenue will split the remaining category funding for design only it is our intention to get as far as possible and to right away acquisition for these projects setting these projects up for funding of construction as soon as possible so the mobility and intersection bond projects include a change to the geometric layout of the intersection so think adding new turn lanes uh most intersection projects have specific coordination requirements and timelines with text dot railroads and other municipalities completed projects from the 2018 bond program include uh sidewalks on crowley road in sycamore school road sidewalks on ultimasia boulevard so intersection improvements at east seminary drive in mansfield highway uh city staff is currently coordinating with the city of forest hill and adjacent property owners uh so this project will be bid through text dot and is scheduled to go to bid in april for the ultimasia boulevard and crally road intersection improvements we're currently requiring right away construction is scheduled to begin in february the east dale east rosedale street lighting improvements contract is currently under construction and scheduled for completion this december so the east four street to first street project will provide street bike lanes and concrete sidewalk the advanced funding agreement with text dot was approved by council yesterday so the majority of funding on this project will come from federal grants with construction anticipated to begin in november of 2023 so the quiet zone improvements on cunningham street include reconstruction and widening of the existing roadway to provide uh one 12 foot wide lane in each direction as well as a small concrete median so the vertical profile of the road will also be adjusted and flattened to allow for a more smooth and safe crossing of the tracks the new concrete median along the existing railroad crossing arms will prevent along with the existing railroad crossing arms will prevent vehicles from driving around the arms when they're down and therefore that will allow us the establishment of a quiet zone in the area after construction is complete so this project is currently under construction with completion expected this november so this project will install additional street lights along the lane caster avenue corridor to promote safety and security uh this project requires text dot approval and is anticipated to go to construction next year transportation management so for vision zero the city council adopted a resolution in november of 2019 that supports the development of a vision zero strategy to eliminate traffic fatalities and severe injuries so our crash data shows that 25 percent of the fatalities and serious injuries were on three percent of our network 100 percent of fatalities occurred in super majority minority areas so in support of the vision zero effort transportation and public works has initiated a school zone uh signed maintenance program in 2020 to ensure the safety of our most vulnerable roadway users is enhanced especially as they walk to school so the following schools received updated signs refreshed pavement markings and preventative maintenance on flashing beacons so the following sidewalks have been prioritized from the active transportation plan and programmed for installation and fiscal year 21 so two locations include installation of new ramps only transit access was also considered in the programming of these locations sidewalk construction along miller avenue is under construction and will be complete this january the following sidewalks have been prioritized from the atp and proposed for the 2022 bond program so the following are the proposed 2022 bond intersection projects the intersection at forest hill drive and royal crest will be to reconstruct the existing intersection and create dedicated northbound and southbound turn lanes the intersection at east berry street and south riverside drive this is also a text dot intersection uh it will be to construct a free right turn lanes which triangular islands at the northeast northwest and southeast corners of this intersection so it is also our objective to apply for tarrant county bond funding to leverage more dollars in this category so basically we can get more projects built the more tarrant county bond funding we receive so the following traffic signal improvements are proposed for the 2022 bond traffic signal improvements don't change the geometric layout of the intersection but install or upgrade existing signals and that's it does anyone have any questions yes sir in the green okay so the question was was it seems like you know when we go around town that uh the the new construction of 80 a ramps is all a little bit different um so you are all right sir there there are uh standard guidelines you know the city has a a standard uh four different a da ramp types uh they do get altered based on existing conditions um so so that is a possibility uh but we do uh build all new ramps to the a da standards uh the sir in the pink so my question is how is money allocated in different districts when you all meet inside the program you know two different models and the percentage of population in this state gives much money uh percentage of the population mile of the road and population at the end of the county so the question was was how do we allocate money uh for the bond program projects understanding that uh the roadway condition of council district 8 is below the average great question um i i'd rephrase that a little bit in that when we prioritize projects we we go by the criteria that we mentioned at the beginning of this presentation and so i think where you'll see a lot of projects added and to hopefully elevate council district 8's roadway their average roadway score um is the the the addition of the equity category so when you have roadways that are in the uh super majority minority area those received extra points in addition to their payment condition index score so we want to be doing the roadways um based on a data analysis so what are the roads that need the the reconstruction that's kind of our first question um and then going through those other criteria that we listed uh that completes the final score so we don't uh look at projects or dollar values by council district we look at it based on the data and the need for you know that goes into our net so the the question was you know do we look at what it takes to bring council district 8 up to the average so yes you know each council district has an average score uh we have a national average standard uh that we try to meet or exceed and that's what uh we use for our budget justification presentations uh having that data guide um our request for additional funding for for more roadway maintenance or reconstruction uh yes ma'am okay uh i understand that the bond happened after four years and so y'all got the mobile going around every five years to assess the streets right so is there any system of checks and balances so sometimes there's weather events uh excessive water flooding that can cause the streets to deteriorate before the five-year period again when y'all come in to assess the streets or whatever so is that taken into play like the complaints or the repetitive patching and all that because we have very highly deteriorated streets even neighborhood okay so the question was and i'll summarize this uh do do our assessments take into account uh the deterioration of the roadways in the five years that it takes us to go out and resurvey the roadways and does that also take into account um any maintenance requests that we receive yes um so all of your maintenance requests you know are entered into what we call our view works database uh so that database will show all of the maintenance requests across the city uh that is one of those metrics that we look at um one for just planning maintenance planning whether or not or where we send the pothole truck um as well as that goes into kind of our overall formula for that pavement condition score now what's also available is we do have a technician who we dispatch um based on community request or planning needs for the roadways that will go out and do a an evaluation of the roadways to help with our planning needs okay so the question was on rose dale uh what is the justification for taking away uh was it lanes and putting in planters so uh you know streets like rose dale will go through a design process to see if the traffic volumes uh justify having as many lanes as we have there so one of the the transportation tools we have is uh roadway optimization where you know it is possible to to slow down the traffic by not giving folks a a wide breath to speed down so that's possible but talk with with me afterwards let's look into some of the project details i by no means know what specific decision was made there on rose dale um but we'll follow up with you absolutely um okay i'd have to get you that exact figure um you know i would say just in summary kind of our our biggest projects that we have still outstanding that are carrying over to uh the 2022 bond our crime moment creek and avondale haslet so those are going to bring about 40 million dollars um into 2022 bond for design only so i'll have to get you i'll get you the specific information on what's to be spent in council district eight yes sir i got it please please see me afterwards so that i can get your contact information filling them in just packing them up and they said well that's a bond month so there are two different types of bonds okay so the question was are there different types of bonds um tonight we're specifically talking about uh the bond that will be voted on in may of 2022 i'm not a bond expert but i do believe there are other bonds across the city you know specifically for storm water uh projects and other departments across the city um the question was um remind me again okay so is there more more type of bonds so bonds aren't typically used for maintenance projects which is what it sounds like you described of filling potholes uh we use our arpego our yearly maintenance funding for pothole improvements um bond program funds are typically used for a reconstruction or resetting the the lifecycle of an asset uh so we are going in and uh like i said reconstructing a street from back of sidewalk to back of sidewalk all brand new okay we're going to take one more yes sir go ahead i don't have much time with the meat side of the sidewalk right now and when people walk into there at night they get the ground over they got the walking on the street and there's nothing for it so right there it takes so long to put a sidewalk on the river side of drive and i've been in the area for 50 and years and i know they take for their full time okay so the question was why has it taken so long to put sidewalks on river side uh i'm not sure of the specifics but again if you'll leave me your contact information and you also had a really good uh project to potentially add to the list i believe it was sidewalks and street lighting on maddox avenue uh so it's very important that you guys fill out your comment cards or speak with with one of our project managers tonight to make sure that we have your comments that we so that we can incorporate it into planning for these projects we're going to take more questions for the end of the question now she still can't address that question but we have five other speakers that we want to allow them to speak and in a timely fashion so at the end of the presentation we want to you guys can just hold your your question either write them down also any day of the week you can contact my office with those questions we will get with you um our next speaker will be um brandon Bennett he is the code compliance director but he has also been leading the covid response for the city since march of 2020 so he's going to give us some covid information hey thank you for having me here tonight uh during the recession we combine public health code compliance solid waste animal control environmental protection and a few other things i have a background in public health and that's why it got moved under me i'm going to try to get us caught up a little bit on time because we need to get out of here by 7 30 tonight so we all watch the news we we have all heard you know covid stories uh you know good and bad uh i want to share with you tonight just real quickly something that is unique to fort worth and probably something that you haven't seen already on the news something that'll help you make good decisions also so i have up here on on on the screen here a graph and it's not important that you can read right what the numbers are on the graph or necessarily see the colors because i'm going to describe what you're actually looking at and so these are pediatric hospitalizations but it also speaks to hospitalizations across all age groups and what the lines on the graph represent are a week to week change in hospitalization so it's not the total hospitalizations over time it's from one week to the next are hospitalizations going up are they going down so right in the middle of the chart uh you see that there's there's kind of this this uh incline and then you see a dip that was last november december january and february so that was the holidays when we're in the middle of flu season people had not been vaccinated right and the hospitalizations went up now the reason why it didn't go up higher back then is because we had mitigation strategies in place right we had mask mandates we had occupancy limits at businesses people were staying home more people were socially distancing more so we were able to kind of keep that that curved down that was good it kept our hospitals from being overrun so move across the chart um and then you see on the far left i gotta do this backwards right far right far right okay um on the far right you see those lines spike up again and that's what's happening now in fort worth texas this isn't europe it isn't the nation it's fort worth texas and the bottom two lines they're green and blue those bottom two lines that's for people that are between the age of 50 not between but people that are 50 years old and older and so what's happened with this delta variant is a number of weeks ago people of all age groups started to get sick and people started to get hospitalized now i will tell you that since the beginning of the delta variant about five to six weeks ago that the hospital rate for people that are vaccinated has been two percent or less every day i talk to doctors and i talk to hospitals 98 percent of the people that are being vaccinated across all age groups 98 percent are unvaccinated so it's a hospitalization of the unvaccinated that's important when you look at those two lines what happened when vaccinations came out people that were 50 years old and older they were the high-risk group remember from the very beginning right if you're older than 50 you have underlying medical conditions you are the ones that definitely need to stay home and you're the ones that need to get vaccinated first so what happened in the state of texas 95 percent of people between the age but that are 50 years old and older got vaccinated and as a result of being vaccinated their hospitalization rate right now is lower than any other age group at 95 percent vaccination so the next line up there's kind of a yellow line in the middle and you see it goes above there's like a red line that breaks the chart that goes up there that's for the age group between 18 and 49 and again you see it go up it goes up higher than the older folks and it starts to level out well one of the reasons why it leveled out was people in that age group who thought hey we're doing okay we're young we're healthy they started seeing their family members hospitalized they started seeing people that they knew that were dying from covid right you all know you all know that right now the death rate the mortality rate right now in fort worth texas for people that are unvaccinated if you look at the the look at the percentage 99.5 percent of the deaths that occur from covid 19 are unvaccinated people and people saw that and they said i'm going to get vaccinated so right now in that age group it's 70 percent 70 percent of that age group is vaccinated and that's why it stopped going up it started to level out and we're starting to see that come down that last line it's kind of a purple line fuchsia line and it's going it's skyrocketing that's children that are 17 years old and younger they are the least vaccinated group remember in the beginning there wasn't a lot of concern about this age group because in the beginning we had the alpha variant the very first variant it wasn't as dangerous as the delta variant that we're facing now and kids were staying home from school now kids are going to school so for the last three weeks cook's children's hospital has been reporting that it's pediatric icu beds and its hospital beds have been full and the reason for that is in the state of texas less than 15 percent of children less than you know they're young they're 17 years old and younger have vaccinations it's only available for the 12 to 17 year olds and even at that if you're a parent many of you are or you're a grandparent many of you are there's always that concern about giving young children vaccinations no matter what the vaccination is so we've seen a very slow response to getting children vaccinated and as a result we're seeing more children hospitalized and we're also seeing a higher mortality with children at this point that we've seen at any time during the pandemic here's the good news and then i'll close up and i'll stick around for any questions at the end so the good news is this we've kind of gone through this wave it's starting to level out because more people have responded by getting vaccinated wearing their mask many most of you actually tonight are wearing your mask right i wish we could get that everywhere right you're all doing the right thing so it's coming down the next uptick and there's going to be another uptick is going to occur sometime around november at the same time when we see the flu uptick it's going to be just like it was last year so the sooner we can get that other five percent of the 50 and older and that 30 percent of the 18 to 49 and work on the children the sooner we can get back to some sense of normalcy there's going to be other variants that come that may challenge us that may require booster shots right but i we've got to get through this first variant before we start worrying about the next ones because this is killing people much much higher rate than what we've seen throughout this now the good news is this starting yesterday we opened up a mass vaccination clinic that's a drive through just like we did last fall and we plan on having this this drive through open all the way through the holidays it's at the wilkerson grinds um field house and and um you can go to our website get the hours because they're going to change you know if we have to do evenings for a while and saturday sunday for a while we'll do it right now your weight is about zero right you get there we get you in and the good news is not only is it free but you don't need an appointment you can just show up right we'll help you with the paperwork you don't need insurance we don't ask you for your insurance we don't make a copy of your driver's license we just need to confirm who you are you can show us your library card as far as i'm concerned right it's more important to get you vaccinated than to have all that bureaucracy so i encourage you tonight we have a vaccination clinic out here uh if you need still need your second shot if you are immune compromised and you have the physers what you've been getting we can actually give you your third booster shot tonight if you'd like to do that but take advantage of the resources take advantage of our website and i'll stick around at the end if there's any questions i appreciate you letting me give you this this update though thank you okay next we will have robert sterns come up and give us an economic development update um we do have the director of transportation and public works with us tonight and he said that he can also take any questions that you have in the lobby area thank you michelle good evening uh robert sterns economic development director uh i could talk about a lot of things that are going on within district eight for the past couple of years but i want to spend tonight focusing on evans and rosedale which the project that we are really excited about uh finally kicking off here within the district this is okay we'll power through with this um so we've been working on this project for quite a while as you all may know the city actually started purchasing this property back in the late 90s uh around the district in the evans and rosedale district um we began to engage in conversations with a developer named hope global uh back in january of 2019 about redevelopment of the site uh we have issued a request for expressions of interest a process that allowed us to receive eight development proposals on the property we narrowed that down to three and then hope global was the group that we ultimately selected for the overall project and we were negotiating with hope really through the the bulk of 2019 to try to work through issues like the land acquisition like the incentive structure etc and then obviously 2020 came around and that pretty much put everything on pause as far as the ongoing negotiation so we've been somewhat quiet we've been having a lot of neighborhood meetings so several of the community had not heard from us for a while they were wondering if the project was still going to happen but it is still moving forward we did have a community presentation just this week to lay out the overall project and then had a presentation to city council yesterday to go over the overall incentive structure of the development and the land acquisition so this the presentation I have here is really kind of the presentation we gave that the community it has a lot of information uh that I'm going to kind of move through pretty quickly because I want to get to some of the specifics of the overall project um something that's good so so here obviously the specific sites tied to the development so this is again right at the corner of 35 and Roesdale you see really two track two colors areas of land those lots that are in blue which are the properties that are owned by the public entities so that is either the city of Fort Worth the housing finance corporation or the Fort Worth local development corporation the properties in green are the those properties that are still owned by the private sector so again you can see that obviously the tracks of the jack-in-the-box and the 7-11 that are there two churches miss opal leaves property there at the corner and so really the development site they were talking about is is the site the lots that are really just north of the plaza so if you're kind of looking at this most of those blue lots to the top and to the left like brand of me up to the left of the project site which will encompass the main elements of the project and then we'll be picking up some of the blue property along on the western side of sorry eastern side of Evans Avenue so I'm going to skip through this well actually let me get back to that real quick so one thing that we that was important to us as part of this overall selection process was the criteria that we laid out and part of it was we wanted to make sure that this development and any proposals that we were looking at really respected the history of the area we've gone through a lot of different opportunities to try to develop this site you know the city invested in the reconstruction of Evans and putting it in the public plaza we did the chamomile library at Hazel harvey peace building so we put all these public dollars in but we were having some real difficult to getting the private development to come to the table and again you know we had the 7-11 and the jack-in-the-box there that's fine but that is not the vision that we had for the overall project site and that's not what the community wanted to see so that was one of the key things that we wanted to have as part of this process being able to bring a new commercial activity that they that the neighborhood wanted to see and respecting the overall history and context of the area the quality of the design was important the economic impact to the city we wanted an experienced design team that had the capacity to take this on and then the community engagement piece was very important to us uh while uh hoax uh we've been a little bit quiet in this interim when we've been bringing this forward a hoax global has been meeting consistently with the neighborhood association kind of prior to 2020 and and really it's kind of talking about what the project could entail getting feedback from them and I say I really have to applaud hoax so the first public meeting that we had if you all were there uh was a little rough uh to be honest with you uh they presented some concepts kind of their initial concepts uh people had a lot of questions about it uh they had some concerns about some of the things that that they laid out and hoax took all of that feedback and really took it to heart and came back with a revised plan that addressed those neighborhood needs and so again when we talk about that engagement process that was very important to us uh here just kind of listen to a number of the the community meetings that we've had with hoax over the past couple of years um so the overall project overview again hoax is proposing to redevelop this site in two phases uh one will be the first phase will be a 60 million dollar investment that they will be making to develop 292 multifamily units and 28 live work units uh they will also have 27 000 square feet of retailer office space and 15 000 square feet of that will be earmarked for a grocery store again that's that's kind of that community feedback we heard that we we need a grocery store in the area uh so that's going to be marketed to a grocer and they're going to be working closely with the city to try to make that happen they've had several conversations with some grocers out there i think there's some strong interest and so we're going to continue to pursue that uh and try to bring that to fruition uh we're going to have about a 300 and almost 340 space parking garage that will be tied to the development and then they'll be doing some enhancements around the the cultural square around the plaza uh and within the development site uh to make it more open and accessible and appealing and then phase two will be an additional 10 million dollar capital investment where they will be developing 20 townhomes uh on the uh on the eastern side of evans avenue so you can see in the um um site plan that we lay out here here's all the project kind of lays out so if you're uh if you're kind of standing over the site the the plaza is down at the bottom bottom right of phase one so again the first phase piece is really the areas going up evans to terrell avenue across dot 35 uh that's where you see the multifamily development occurring and the live work units and the majority of the retail and then the phase two again eastern side of evans avenue that's where the townhomes are going to go and again they're not they're not tearing down any existing buildings uh within the project site the only existing uh building that they are going to be doing some work on is the uh building right there at 900 evans uh so kind of right there at the corner of evans and terrell so it's vacant building uh they're going to kind of work on that as a a they're calling it kind of a coffee brew pub uh experience so they're going to take the roof off leave it very open and have that as an opportunity for people to uh gather have a bite to eat have a bite to have something to drink um so i'm going to let me go back one more again i'm trying to be consistent with time because i know we got the short amount of time left so i will say that uh as part of the developer commitments uh they're going to have an affordable housing component as part of the project so 20 percent of all the units will be affordable housing so 10 percent of that will be at 80 percent area median income and 10 percent of those units will be at 60 percent or less area median income so that was an important piece of the development process for us and then they are also committing to the jobs that they have direct control over that they'll be directly hiring they're going to be working to hire directly from the neighborhood so kind of in the the area in green that we're showing here on the map so in order to facilitate this project the city is proposing a 15-year chapter 380 program so that's a grant program that's tied to the new taxes that are generated excuse me new taxes generated by the project uh and that will be capped at eight million dollars uh on the phase one and if they complete the phase two portion of that they will get an additional million dollars on that but it'll be capped at nine million dollars total um and we'll just move quickly through the seller properties we talked about the fact that we have an affordable housing component um so here are some of the uh here's just the city property that's tied to the site here's the local development corporation properties and here's the housing finance corporation properties that will be going into the overall development as a part of this the tax increment financing district will be investing seven million dollars from the tiff so the near south side tiff which has been responsible for all the economic activity in the hospital district on the other side of our 35 is committing seven million dollars to this project uh the majority of that is going to the parking lot parking garage construction uh and that will allow us to have some public parking spaces within the garage so again it won't just be focused on the residential uh the people living in the residential units there there will be public parking and then they'll have some dollars allocated towards uh the square interactive spaces in the public spaces uh and so this is the overall development summary do we not have the renderings as part of this presentation uh okay well so I did have a rendering in the in the site um yeah we didn't have okay well uh we will get I'll get that uh rendering out I know that the councilman Nettles has a copy of that running I thought we had it including a part of this presentation but it really just shows uh a conceptual running of how the site will lay out um the next steps for the overall project as I said we presented the uh economic development agreement to city council on Tuesday along with the land acquisition uh that we are proposing so they have signed off on that it's not a formal approval we'll have to actually have them vote on that uh that'll occur in October uh the near south side tiff will be meeting October 13th to consider the seven million dollar investment uh from the tiff district uh there we're going to rezone the property which will allow us to have uh concepts like a brew pub have sit-down restaurants where people can have a bite to eat and uh something to drink so we're going to rezone the property uh and then the plan is that um uh Hope Global would essentially break ground on the development hopefully about this time next year uh so we'll have about a three-year development process on phase two so we still got still have a ways to go before we'll be able to sit down and have uh have uh some entertainment and places to live here and uh and and district eight but but we're excited that we have gotten to this point with this project uh it has been a long ride for us and I know it's been a much longer ride for the community so uh just to get to this point and be able to have something that we can show you and talk about uh moving forward is exciting for us so I'll answer any questions and again we'll make sure that we get you the presentation with the rendering so you can see the pictures Yes, ma'am Okay uh you and I had some you know this thing last year about the grocery store I wanted to meet you so I was just uh I was here to see that because you know the sentences one on four the food is right and the closest grocery store is um it's a real brand right okay so that's it but I'm saying what my concern is uh justification uh is a real concern you know I'm going to talk about the development is good the justification is not so I was just trying to another the only 20 percent of the housing is going to be affordable housing the weekends meantime and church is not so well just okay actually it's only 144,000 so we use that affordable housing and only 20 percent I'm just concerned about that yeah that's a very low amount of affordable housing and then my every uh my last question is uh economic development is good but it can raise tax so how is it gonna uh raise the taxes of the existing uh stock residents that have been living in their homes a lot from juggling yeah yeah so so two really good questions so the questions were one should their concerns about gentrification and the number of affordable housing units tied to the project so again it's about uh 20 percent about 64 apartment units and um about six uh the townhomes that would be tied to uh that would actually have the affordable uh component to it so concerns about the number of units and then also just concern in general about about gentrification and being able to afford to live in the area will the will the taxes go up uh so I'll tell you on on the on the gentrification slash affordability issue you know one of the things that that obviously we were concerned about was bringing forward a development that would not overpower the neighborhood and I talked about that that first public meeting we had at a lot of the pushback that that the city was hearing and that hope was hearing and it was really tied to that how do we bring forward a development that doesn't overpower the area that doesn't drive people out uh it still allows them to enjoy the amenities so that that was really why we try to be kind of sensitive and be context sensitive to the area uh the the development is not as dense as it as it could be given the amount of land that's available there so it's it's somewhat scaled back it's about four stories total as far as the overall size and as far as the affordability piece of it and talking with Hoke um they're they're actually trying to trying to keep those prices fairly stable so uh even in the the market rate housing uh that they're proposing like the studios are going for just under a thousand dollars uh the the one bedroom is about 1200 and then you put the affordable pieces in there uh studios about 850 uh at 60 percent and about 900 or so uh at um at the 80 percent so they're they're trying to be sensitive to that fact but they also have to ensure that they can continue to finance this project uh as far as taxes again if you are above a certain age you have the over 65 exemption so that's always there but I you know I can't really speak to the ability to bring in new investment into an area that is not going to have some impact on your taxes I mean that that is that that is just unfortunately a side effect of what happens if you bring new investment new residential new commercial you are going to have an associated raise to some level of your taxes there's just no way we can we can't bring the new development and not have that the question is how do we bring in development that can uh that can be supportive of the neighborhood that isn't too aggressive that causes people to get forced out and that we can we can have the the existing neighbors continue to live and work and play in the area but but I'll just be honest with you you're gonna have some level of that regardless of of whether it was uh a multi-family unit or we brought in a hotel or it was just a grocery store coming in here and increased traffic to the site why only 20% yeah that that's actually yeah yeah yeah so that again it's it's partially a policy question so again within our uh incentive policy we have a we have a 20 affordable requirement so that's meaning the policy but too it's a financing question so the more affordable units that you require the more public dollars have to go in to support the overall project it and that we've just seen that historically so we've got all in about 20 million dollars into the project about 21 million dollars in the project if you include the chapter 380 the tiff investment and the land costs that we're putting in that the developer is not having to pay for uh you you get to a point where you're almost paying for the development outright if you're having to continue putting that amount of money to fund the overall project so there's there's a certain level of financing that they're able to go after and they have to have a certain number of market for it to make that happen not not trying to not trying to but i but i understand your concerns i understand the concerns yeah all right yes sir when you talk about uh redevelopment and entertainment and distribution what happened to the project for the old pieces uh funeral and is there any private public plans to try to revitalize that project again or what yeah so the farmers they still have that property uh and they they uh i don't know how much renovation that they've been going on i think it slowed down a little bit but but they still on the site they're still looking at options for what they can do with pinksons and i think what well we're you know you look at this property you look at the the pinkston site you look at some of the other properties in and around the district that the other people are looking at for development opportunities i think it is an opportunity to have uh local businesses and that was really what our focus was you know outside of having the grocery store we wanted to provide opportunities for local business owners within the neighborhood to have a place to open up shop so i think as we start to see some of the construction happen that will allow the farmers to begin to accelerate what's going on at pinkston and some other things to kick off since the city is known for giving away tax abatement are y'all going to try to sweeten the deal with some additional tax abatement so that they can bring the the entertainment there sure it depends on the use yeah yeah i mean i i'm not saying we're not going to look at look at anything i mean we we understand that uh and i said this to uh the council this week when we were talking about the overall incentives on the project you know this is this is compared to some of our other projects the amount of public dollars going into it versus the private dollars this is a little bit on the high side for us we usually look for about a uh on average about a ten dollar ten to one public private ratio uh this is about a three three fifty uh so again uh we're we're really incentivizing this project uh but i said in order to get the type of development we want to see here and that we need here we we've got to stretch we've got to push on it so uh we're we're investing a lot in the project i i think if other projects come forward we will take a look at them and see if it makes a good fit and if it requires incentives to uh to make that happen then we'll we'll see if that that works i just wanted to piggyback on something that was said um i'm a i'm a real estate worker so as far as taxes goes the taxes going to go over whether this development happened or not because that's just where we're going at this point in in real estate and in um development so there you can protest your taxes every year you can protest if you have repairs or whatever get estimates and protest your taxes you have a general homestead adventure you have over 65 exemptions you have disability exemptions there are things that you can do in order to keep your taxes lower so the development is going to happen and whether development happens or not then our taxes are going to go up anyway because property values are going up across the board so we just have to educate ourselves to make sure that we have the exemptions and we're taking advantage of home ownership exemptions so to keep our taxes lower nope that's the excellent point excellent point that okay i think i think michelle's giving me the hook so i i will be here i look yeah i i know i know y'all have questions uh and we've got a few more three or four more presentations to get through so i will be here and i can answer your questions after we finish up but i want to make sure that everyone has a chance to uh to get their presentations in so thank you all i appreciate it i know that um our police um representatives have um another event they have to go to so i'm going to ask chief aldrich to come up next to give his update on some of the ccpd programs good evening it is great to see so many people out here to be engaged with their community and to get some information uh i appreciate you guys uh spending some time with us my hope is that maybe i can uh educate you a little bit on the ccpd uh some of the funds that we spend where the dollars go i'm really going to focus on the community-based programs so you guys are aware of where some of those dollars go so just for a little bit of uh education we know the police department can't arrest our way out of a problem it takes the community and the police department to work together to solve the majority of the issues in those areas you guys are the experts of your areas and you know what the issues are we didn't know we need to know what they are we want you to work with your npo's we want you to work with the police department to help us out uh to have a safer community not only for you but for your visitors that come and visit you throughout the year so ccpd is broken down into five different categories neighborhood crime prevention enhanced enforcement recruitment and training equipment and technology but really what we're going to talk about is community-based programs which is partnered with the sheriff vision so we invest approximately five point five million dollars in community-based programs because we know that if we invest on the front end there's less that we as a police department have to do on the back end so some of the programs that we invest in is called academy four and that's where uh they provide there are mentors that are provided to fourth grade students in the fort worth elementary schools and so they help out with any issues problems um and they help support those students kind of with uh any educational need that they need going through school another one is the clayton youth enrichment um that is a it is a support and it's an after school program at the panola campus and it serves zip codes 76103 uh 76106 which includes polytechnic stop six in meadowbrook neighborhoods lbt rise anybody that's familiar with the west side that's over the las vegas trail area that's a new community center they provide not only educational resources but food training opportunities for residents that are over there we also have the shaken baby alliance and that's an educational effort to help reduce head trauma for young babies and it's not only for students it's for adults it's also some training for law enforcement officials to help better investigate those crimes so we have the center for gel transformation we help with job placement job skills that's what the funding kind of goes for to help them reintegrate them back into society um one of the other ones is christ haven it's a family resource center that will serve foster families uh and at risk youth another one is um new day services for children and families um and that's a mentor type program uh that is aimed to interview and coach coaching services for their clients uh we have the parenting center that we invest in we also have river tree academy and that's a behavioral management program uh to work with students that have behavioral or emotional issues we also have unbound that's a survivor advocacy group that works with uh services for youth and adults so we have several after school programs with large isd's because city of Fort Worth has several isd's within their boundaries so Crowley isd Keller isd Fort Worth isd and white settlement isd we provide funds for those after school programs also the boys and girls club um that's a safe haven deal that uh partners with martin branch boys and girls club for an after school and summer programs uh we have united community center uh it is another safe haven program at the bethlehem center uh educational enrichment for youth development programs we have alliance for children it's a crime against uh our kaku crimes against children unit um and they basically to conduct forensic interviews for any any victim of a crime for a young child uh the last three that we have is coming up gang it's an intervention and prevention program uh that we go out there and try and help youth not get involved in gangs and show them opportunities that they're uh they can get out there and do different things besides joining the gang uh we have safe city commission it's a call center and advocacy group uh it's the one of them's our crime stoppers and another one's just a call center for uh services that they provide and the last one is the safe city commission the family justice center uh and it's kind of if you haven't been there it's at rosdale and hemp hill um it's kind of an all in one center that we have family advocates we have crime uh victims assistants along with family violence detectives and sexual assault detectives in that building and it's supposed to be meant as a one-stop shop um to help victims of crime where they're not uh have to relive that trauma over and over again i know this was a very quick rundown i'm trying to respect everybody's time uh we'll be by for we'll be here for just a little bit if you guys have questions not only about the programs uh but any other police related questions thank you next we're going to have a presentation from the community engagement office and ruth is going to come up and do that good evening everyone my name's ruth osse i'm with the community engagement office and uh just to share a little bit about what our office does and how we can help you um we help connect residents to city services resources and each other to build a strong community we work with several neighborhood associations and i can see a lot of neighborhood leaders here in the house today so thank you for coming and being here um our office has six liaisons and we serve over 300 neighborhood associations hoas and alliances um that part in the gray area there you can see that's the southeast part of Fort Worth and that is the area that i serve we our main role is to coordinate with city departments we are also the people that post on next door so if you have the next door app and you see messaging from the city it comes from our office and we attend community events special projects uh do presentations and do curricula at the schools as well and i'll talk a little bit about that our office also houses the citywide volunteer program so the city of Fort Worth has 20 plus volunteer programs to choose from um to become more civically engaged and the city has over 10 000 volunteers that are with us whether it's on a one-time basis or continuous over each year this is our volunteer our citywide volunteer coordinator her name is tabitha um if you need it to get in contact with her learn about more volunteer opportunities with the city she is who you would need to reach out to our office's main goals is to work with neighborhood associations school and after-school programs and civic and faith-based organizations are the three main areas that our office focuses on so what do we do how do we help neighborhood associations organize um we work with neighborhood associations whether you are interested in starting a new neighborhood association and don't have one in your neighborhood we can help organize we can help you start a brand new neighborhood association by starting a public interest meeting writing bylaws so that you can register with our office um and hosting a public meeting to invite your neighbors we will help you with flyers we will help you by posting on next door and by doing a verbal cost to re-engage or engage your neighborhood association we also register HOA so if there's a new HOA in the neighborhood a lot most of our HOA's are in North Fort Worth or Southwest Southwest Fort Worth um you would set up a meeting with us so that we can get you registered and some of the benefits of being registered with the city are early courtesy notifications so if you live in the state of Texas the only requirement is that we send you as residents notifications of any zoning or board of adjustments notifications if it's within 300 feet of your home if you are a registered neighborhood association or HOA that extends out to about half a mile so if there's any zoning changes that happen your board neighborhood board will receive notification and it is their responsibility to then send that out to the neighborhood whether they share that on extor on facebook through a distribution list or newsletter um that's what we why we want neighborhoods to register with us as well as having just and added resources with our office to help them connect to other city services we also provide free trainings and presentations um if your board is struggling or you need help reengaging reengaging with your neighborhood and you need leadership development those are the types of things that we can help with as well as doing this for other civic groups in school we share city information so hopefully on your way in you grabbed one of those maroon bags and those are the types of information that we share with our neighborhood associations when we attend your meetings we want to make sure that we are sharing everything and anything that we can with you so that you're informed some of the these are some of the presentations that we offer for school-age children so if you are a part of a civic group a church group you're a teacher or your work at a school these are some of the things that we can do education on um for teachers we provide them with a lesson plan um with their altiques correlated and that's what teachers need to be able to say that you know they hit all their marks um for that school year so we provide that for them so that they don't have to recreate anything we just want to make sure that we go in and are teaching our kids about civic engagement um that they learn more about the city and how we can collaborate together we also provide training so again um for any neighborhood associations civic groups church groups we do a presentation on city hall 101 and this is just learning everything and anything you want to know about the city we do neighborhood leadership training and our outreach and volunteer recruitment and we also have presentations on how to build trust and building community so how would you even know that you live in a neighborhood association we have a tool that we call one address and it is actually a really neat tool you would visit one address dot four worth texas dot gov you put in your address and it gives you all sorts of data um it'll give you nearby facilities it'll let you know who your neighborhood patrol officer is um it'll give you very specific information about your neighborhood including code violations in the area if there has been any permits pulled in and around your neighborhood but it will also let you know um if there is a registered neighborhood association in your neighborhood or where you live and once you know that we have another tool we have a neighborhood database where we list all the neighborhood associations that are registered with us we share their boundaries we share a map and the board members and officers contact information and I'm going to show you how to get to that tool so if you visit the city website um foot with texas dot gov slash engagement you will find on the right hand corner the neighborhood resources or neighborhood database and it will pull every single neighborhood association that's registered with us when you click on view details for example um if we click on Arlington Heights you will see a boundary map and this is the boundaries that this neighborhood association claims it will let you know when they meet how often they meet and it will also give you contact information if that neighborhood has made that public it will give you a way to contact them to let you know about next meeting dates it will also share further information it will let you know who that code officer is for that neighborhood and who your neighborhood patrol officer is it will also let you know who your liaison is in case you forgot or you don't know who that is it will tell you who and it'll give you their phone and email so this is just another picture of what that looks like another added benefit of being registered with the city and being involved in your neighborhood association really is um just an added communication a lot of you when you signed in you signed up to also receive city news um this is another bulletin that our office does um it's a community engagement weekly bulletin it goes out every Thursday to all of our neighborhood leaders and it'll talk about public events that are happening public meetings um it'll bring up any special events that the city is hosting and we send this to our neighborhood leaders so that they can share in their own newsletters and their own social media accounts and we make it easy for them to share by providing a pdf link at the bottom so if you're not receiving this link get in touch with your neighborhood leaders um gave you a few handy tools um to do that and this here is my contact information I will also stick around at the end of the meeting to answer any questions that you may have and for those of you who've worked with Ruth you'll be sad to know that October 5th is her last day with the city she is going on to do um bigger opportunities and we wish her well but we're going to miss her and now I am looking for council member nettles there we go as I said we've got people here to talk about the bond projects if you want to um come and ask questions we've got representatives from tpw if you have any questions for pd be sure and fill out a comment card and we'll get that to them and we'll have them get back with you um but staff is available to answer questions on any of the the presentations that you've gotten so far and now to close out tonight's meeting council member nettles all right I'd like to say a few things before we actually get started on the presentation first let me uh thank everyone for being here tonight and also thank you again for giving me the opportunity to serve you one of the things we want to make sure is that the things that we want to bring to district eight that we do it as a group as a whole and so um I want you to know that I represent you at city hall and so when you have any questions outside of this town hall please feel free to contact our office uh when Sally steps back in I'm gonna let you know who she is she is my district director she takes all our calls all our emails and so we are working on a policy where once you call we try to reach back out to you within the next three days believe it or not we are serving a hundred and four thousand people in this district and so I know a lot of people call our office and email and sometime it does we do not get back to you as fast as you would like but please work with us uh keep calling us and keep emailing us until we get back with you so tonight I want to talk about some of the accomplishments uh that I have made in office um on the first hundred days and so today is my hundred day in office and so I want to talk about those accomplishments and then I want to take questions uh from you as well as if you have questions from any other city staff okay so again we want to first talk about economic development the things that we have been able to do in district eight we have brought over 590 rooftops to support our case with major grocery store chains we have talked about the uh being in a lack in a district uh with low income a district with no access to grocery stores no access to drug stores no access to um find things in restaurants and so in order to bring those economic development here we have to have a perfect come we have to have rooftops we have to have income we have to have mixed use so we have to have affordable units as well as those who pay market rate to help support the economic the economic development so one of the units that we have is come in Palladium USA they're also here today you just wave your hands they're representative uh they're bringing 240 mixed income units with workforce housing to East Berry so if you go right up this Berry Street once you go up to here across from St John the old YMCA land that is going to be a new development for Palladium it is a nice development I encourage you to um look it up Lenore Homes will be bringing 350 rooftops to Shelby Road so that's adjacent to Everman so that's in Everman if you go down for us here drive and you get to Shelby Road you will make a left and those will be affordable homes two bedrooms I'm sorry three bedrooms and four bedrooms and so that's we know that we are living in a time that people are moving to forward so we need housing and we need to have a place to house them and so that these two things have been great for us also gave the green light to the Evans and Rosedale project when I came into office the Evans and Rosedale project was kind of on a halt uh is on a standstill we had already picked global hope global for the developer we had already had designs ready to go but it was just on halt so I met with Robert Stearns I met with Hope Global I met with David Cook and I said we need to get this project up and moving so that we can bring economic development so we gave those green lights on Tuesday we voted to begin the sale of the land so that the projects can start happening so the next 18 months we'll start seeing dirt turn we'll start seeing economic development to come uh we also fought to increase the city budget by one million dollars for the understaff fire department uh when we got into office the fire department began to talk about how they were understaffed by over 250 firefighters and so we had an issue come up in district 8 where a gentleman a house caught on fire it was a um a kitchen fire and he was placed on hold for 20 minutes from the fire department public safety has to be our number one goal when we represent the city of Fort Worth and so we fought hard in work session I tell people when you watch the city council meetings at 7 p.m that's just the formality of what we have already discussed in work session all things that we have talked about in meetings work session is where the rubber the meat's hits the rubber and so I encourage you to watch those meetings it's at three o'clock on Tuesdays we are going to have a schedule change it was proposed in the work session so I encourage you to go and look at that so do I just hit next arrow oh on the keyboard I'm sorry okay also in office I ran that said we was going to fight for justice I believe representation matters and so when I got in office I sent the letter to the presiding judge and the DA urging them to set the trial for the Aaron Dean trial as part of my representation and we did get news that that trial date has been set we approve I also put in place to approve to rename a portion of I-35 to a Tatiana Jefferson freeway we have come up to some hiccups but we're working with city staff to figure out how we get past this hiccup but we did vote on a resolution to rename it as a city council also led the efforts to make Juneteenth a paid city holiday in the in the city of Fort Worth miss Opelie fought so hard to make it a national holiday but we fought as city council to make it a city paid holiday so if you're a city employee you get to be off and you get to be paid for Juneteenth worked with city staff to find new permanent housing solutions for our homeless community met with homeless with terror Perez and there is places inside of district 8 that we're going to try to make permanent housing for our homeless especially for the chronic homeless the chronic homeless is labeled as people who has been homeless for over a year or longer and so guys we got to make sure that we support everyone we don't know why people are homeless we don't know what what happened we all fall into hard times and so we're working to bring that also brought the civilian oversight board back to life to put to take some time to fix it and some city recommendations and so in the work session we kind of talked about the recommendations that Kim Neil brought to the city council there are some more things that we got to fix on that but we're working on that representation okay go to the next slide so when I tell people to call our office and we'll get on these these issues that you have some of these issues can be fixed right away some of these issues take time to be fixed but we have to know what those issues are and so we got to call about the East Lancaster fence if you see at the top the fence was knocked down and so we worked on that and you see that we got the fence back up and working also we had an Alice issue in Riverside the grass was I mean tall as the fence it it backs to two churches it was a safety hazard I mean we didn't know what was back there and they called our office and this issue just didn't materialize it has been going on and so I put it in play and we got them to fix it within a matter of I think about three weeks Sally I'm not remember the Sheridan Road dumpster you see the before and then you see the after these are things that when you call our office we can handle for you so anything that deals with district 8 city please feel free to give us a call we had storm drainage in Hallmark you see the before how the water is just laying there we had city come out they fixed it we had uneven roads on West Evan Parkway you see the before and you see the after and then this is one of my favorites is the ramp and sidewalks they called our office and they said hey it had already been approved to your point money was already set aside for why hasn't it happened it just slipped through the cracks of nothing that happened we got on it we called them and they fixed it and so we fixed the curb and the sidewalks if you look closely and we'll have this presentation available for you that they added a slab so that people can walk up and get to the church successively and so these are just some of the things that we have done in the first hundred days it might not seem much to you but each one of these things we fixed it meant something to the people who call and so I want you to know that this is why I'm here to bring representation be your voice be your ears be your eyes and whatever it is that we can do in our in my ability I'm going to do that so now we're going to take questions so if you have any questions for me cold tpw anybody that's here we'll take those okay if you can you're going to answer that you'll talk to okay we'll talk to you and if you can get that address to us so we can also follow up on that we'll do that yes uh my question uh 287 to Mitchell Boulevard on various seats there at the wall boy area when was that you picked out your predecessor say in three years they're gonna fix that shoot they need to give me the tape going down there that is the yes I'm very familiar with that street I have already talked to tpw about that do we who would be here with Swanson for this something that they built down here on the front of Riverside and Berry you know they just built a new complex who's going to monitor that that don't turn it to a dump out well um that is some of the senior living that was built okay um I mean it's not anybody that's going to monitor that but once we get feedback of something that's going on we will go out and see about it uh but um we're working to do some things around that because it's it's not the senior living it's the problem it's the gas station and the motel and so the right those are we have been talking about that and so do you want to answer anything on D so so we are familiar with it the portion on Berry Street that you've mentioned we will be doing interim maintenance uh that is actually part of the 2022 bond program in the complete streets category so that complete streets focuses on the multimodal aspects but as well as a reconstruction of that segment thank you so that is on a 22 bond so if y'all allow me just to go all the way back I am being something but for us to continue to offer our children safety to the people that don't recognize that they're driving at the community where children are going to school they're a great major school 25 25 no they're yes and so the speed bumps we don't do speed bumps anymore but I think she mentioned how we can make the road smaller for traffic too but we'll we'll look at that you got something William no it's a little bit hard to hard to hear some of the questions but I think you were talking about an area where there's a chronic speeding problem and you are right there's I I always talk about these three elements there's engineering which we can do to try to help slow the traffic down we can narrow roads and do things like that well and I'm not sure which schools there are but we do have a group that works with our schools to help to make sure that we've done everything that we can do as part of our safe routes to school program to make sure that it's safe for pedestrians the kids that are walking to and from school but that the second piece is education right and by education I'm not necessarily talking about the people in this room but the people that are driving so we put up signage we try to provide warnings that they're going into school zones to slow down and the third piece is for those people that don't pay attention and that's enforcement so we work closely with the police department when we get corridors like the one that you're describing where there's chronic speeding we combine our engineering and our signage with enforcement to try to address those issues so when I step down just now I'm going to get the exact location that you're talking about and we'll start a process to start looking at that okay who on this side had a question right here it would be through code you can also call our office and so and I'm going to take a few more questions if you have if you don't have a comment card here raise it up if you and we'll bring one to you we're going to talk about three more questions yes ma'am she's referring to the traffic on new york between evans and mississippi um i can't get to the south side because i want to read back to the community we glad you're back so we live right down here on mississippi and joe we're across the morning signage school and it is a uh this is a bad song the people who run through there and the police have to have more time to try to direct traffic to parents and i'll talk about that and how can i help police officers in the city and the uh get some things out of mississippi because that's a little too those kids of the parents have not been able to be in the traffic files and to be somebody something happened to somebody on jello on mississippi uh services came in here then my second question is um i'm proud to south side because i grew up here but it's so depressing when i see it but i'm here that we got the income uh we don't keep up our property okay now i know we're building up new residences but how we got to try new people from out of town when they look at those stats and say they don't want to come to the south side of here because i see how people ask me why do you want to come they thought but i wanted to so that's just some issues with me i want to prove to you yeah and it takes okay and and it takes development uh it takes development in order to attract people to come and so uh and there is other programs out there there are programs out there for uh seniors that actually want to help fix up their house or some things that been torn down there's there's programs out for that uh also there's programs for the uh exemption there's a lot of things that the city offers but if we don't ask we don't get and so yes sir they don't do them first of all you should give them a fine if the dog can get they need to be in their own front door so the dog comes and gives them a time to fight out how let's go on each side and then i'll tell them i'm gonna take it in my name because the dog like me what's the question i'm sorry i'm i'm listening y'all we're already past time i don't want to be rude but just give me the question okay we we were we were looking to that we were looking to that uh yes ma'am oh oh Yeah, so if you haven't picked one of these up this is going to be some information to answer a few of the questions that you're having. It talks about the trash, the lightning and dogs and so you can look at this and I'm gonna take this last question and I'm gonna stay to answer any questions but we're gonna close the meeting in just a second. I have two people I need to mention before we actually close. With redistricting being a top issue, will you hold a committed to meeting to show us what the plans are to revamp, districate as it currently is? And the second question is because the city and housing solution has partnered together, what is the status of Butler and the sale of it and what's going to happen? Okay, on Butler, they have not even did a RFP on that just yet, if I'm correct. And so it's a process they have to go through a hood and they're going through that hood process now. So nothing has happened with Butler. On redistricting when we, I believe is it the 20s? Is it today? Was it today? Okay. We haven't got all the information put into the system yet for the census in order to start the redistricting maps. But as soon as we get there, we will have another form, another open meeting. And since I see all of you guys here, I know that you're so excited about district eight. So we'll have another town hall real soon. I'm going to stay out there. Some others are going to stay out there. The Fort Worth safe. I'm not familiar with it. It's important to get a new area or familiar with that. It's only the place not even have I said, you know, if I had it done two years ago, for enough. Thank you. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. We have Southside Community Garden that's here. And they're in the back. They participate in putting gardens in front or back of the homes. And so there's a nonprofit. So anybody that's here that wants to help volunteer or or be a part, she's waving her hand. Please. I'm sorry. Yeah, so they have an event on Sunday. So if you would like to volunteer, I'm telling it's awesome. And then also we have Dr. Love here that wants she's right here. She has a charter school that she wants to bring to district number eight. And so I really want you guys to see her and hear from her. She needs the support of the community. And so she was here to speak. We did run out of time, but we're gonna have her speak on the next time if that's okay. Michelle, you have anything else? Oh, I'm Dr. Love. I just mentioned her. She's right there. Okay. This have been recorded live on my campaign page. Councilman Chris Nettles, the latter part of the meeting, but the city of Fort Worth recorded it on, I believe it's gonna be on YouTube. They're gonna send us the link. So again, I'm gonna be here to answer any questions. Thank you guys for coming out. You have a wonderful day and stay safe.