 Let's pray. Gracious Father, from whom every good thing cometh, who pull out on all who desire it, the spirit of grace and supplication, deliver us when we draw not to thee from a cold heart and wandering of mine. It is our desire to every step fast thought and counter-affection, to edify and worship, representing spirit and truth. The world knows our motto by the way we live and by the choices and decision we make. Our way of life reflects our philosophy of life. God, you speak clearest to those when we are receptive to your voice and available for your service. Heavenly Father, we pray for the city of Fort Worth. In God, we trust. In God, we trust. In God, we trust. God, we trust you for guidance of hope, flame of faith, changes that will impact wisdom to make a difference, unconditional love and safety for all. Father, we understand real security is found when man faith and trust meet your love and mercy. Because coming together is beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success. We continue to pray and show our appreciation for our leader of this city, Mayor Maddie Parker, Chief of Police, the Police Department, City Council, officials, community leaders and all the residents of this great city. Let's we do not forget those who have prepared the way for us. We are grateful and we are thankful. Realizing the past can teach us, the present can test us, the future can reward us. Faith in the goodness of God is the anchor that can stabilize us in life, fear, and storm. God, we in a storm. It is the foundation, the solid rock on which we can confidentially be that a life that no flood or adversity can undermine. It is the tabernacle that give us strength and doubt that it cannot destroy. In God, we trust. In God, we trust. Amen. Items to be withdrawn from the Consent Agenda. Let's see, we have three items to withdraw from the Consent Agenda. The first one is MNC 22-0123. The second one is MNC 22-0132 and MNC 22-0133. Items to be continued or withdrawn by staff? There are no items to be continued or withdrawn by staff. Consideration of the Consent Agenda as amended. Motion carries. MMC 22-0123, authorized acceptance of the donation of gear cleaning extractor system and installations from the Fort Worth Fire Service Resource Network to be installed at six fire stations. Council, we have two speakers. Our first speaker is Carol Del Reel. I'm Carol Genevies Del Reel. I live here in Fort Worth. And in 2015, the Fort Worth Fire Department chief, Rudy Jackson, formed a cancer committee. And in that group of Fort Worth firefighters was Craig Trojak, Robert Webb, Mark Ware, Steve Collins, Cameron Brown, and Troy Clark. And that was the first year that committee started teaching and training our fire department on cancer, pertaining to firefighters. In 2019, I joined their cancer symposium committee for a cancer symposium event that actually got canceled because of our unprecedented COVID. However, in that committee, I met Deanna Stewart from Cancer Care Services on that committee. And I found out that her son is a firefighter in ULIS. And the city of ULIS provides extractors in all their fire departments. I had no idea. And so I started going back to the committee to question about these extractors. I found out that in 2018, Chief Rudy gave Battalion Chief Mark Ware and firefighter Steve Collins the green light to go to every single station to get the requirements. They took the vendor, the plumber, the electrician, everything to determine what needed to be done. That was in 2018. They determined through this that with all the research over the years that the extractors having these extractors cleaning the bunker gear routinely would have a huge impact on cancer prevention. Through that, Mayor Mike Moncrief and Rosie encouraged that committee to form a non-profit to be able to accept donations in this endeavor. Oh, well, OK. It's left your good, Carol. OK, anyway, through that, I met with Fire Chief last year, Jim Davis, and have really wanted to push forward on getting these extractors in these stations. We've now lost firefighter Steve Collins to occupational cancer. And unfortunately, the city has denied every firefighter benefits on occupational cancer. So you have handouts. And I really, right, you would read it. Thank you, Carol. We will. Thank you very much for providing. We appreciate it. Our next speaker is Mark Ware. Mayor, counsel, thank you so much for taking the time to hear a few words from me. And then thank you for everything that you've done for Fourth Fire. I know that cancer and firefighter cancer is at the top of y'all's minds. You understand it. You realize that it's a real problem. So I just want to thank you for all the funding, the support, the advocacy that y'all have had for us. We're people who don't like to stand up and ask for things. We like to take care of ourselves. We're proud. We should be. The job that the Fourth Fire Department does for its citizens is beyond compare, literally laying down their lives on a daily basis for the residents of this city. I'm a 24-year veteran of the Fourth Fire Department, a board member of the Fourth Fire Service Resource Network 501C3. Our group has been working to reduce firefighter cancer since 2015 through education, policy, prevention through early detection, and assisting firefighters with worker compensation claims. It's volunteer work, people. I know who y'all know about it. Your jobs don't stop. Council meeting is just a very small portion of what y'all do. The phone rings at 10 PM. What do you do? That's what we've been doing since 2015 in regards to firefighting and cancer. We've done the research. We've done the work. We've done the legwork. And we haven't asked for a whole lot because it's an intrinsic reward, intrinsic rewards for us taking care of each other. While it believed that we can agree that cancer in the fire service is not going away, we must provide firefighters with the safest working environment possible. They must have the power and the resources to have clean firefighting gear. And gear extractors are part of that. In 2017, the survey that I sent out with the approval of Chief Jackson, it identified different tools and resources that firefighters would like to see at their fire stations. Extractors were the number one thing that they asked for. Said that there was a priority for them. So that's directly from them. Last and definitely most importantly, we wouldn't be here. We wouldn't be able to benefit from this without the donors. And our 501C3, the fourth fire service resources network would like to recognize former Mayor Mike and Rosie Moncrys. So they're going back. We have a history in our community, in our country, of sending people off to serve only to find out years, maybe sometimes generations later that they were exposed to a chemical or a substance that created irreparable harm for not just them, but their children and in some cases, their grandchildren. We've seen that when we send soldiers off to war. And now we see that when we send firefighters into fires, often time that work of discovery takes too long. The damage is done and unnecessary life is lost. I truly appreciate Mayor and Rosie for your generous efforts to Genovese family and every person in Fort Worth who has made that generous donation to keep our firefighters safe. But we shouldn't be relying on residents to take care of those that take care of us. And it's why I hope to work with Mayor and Council to ensure that we don't wait too long to follow those trails and to do the necessary studies to have a accurate reflection of the dangers that we're sending all of our first responders into when they keep us safe. And so with that, I would like to move to approve. Got a motion and a second. I've got comments from Council Member Flores. Yes, thank you, Mayor. Back in December, Mayor Mike, Rosie and others were gathered there at station 12 including Fire Chief Davis where we had a small little humble ceremony with a lot of meaning behind it. That equipment is very much appreciated by our Fort Worth firefighters and by the community that they serve. So my personal thanks to you because again, this doesn't just hit at a departmental level, it hits at the community level. So thank you for your efforts. They are very valued and appreciated here. Council Member Williams. Yeah, I just wanted to also express my deepest gratitude for the work that all of y'all are doing really on this important issue of addressing how we mitigate cancer for our first responders and our firefighters specifically. I know Chief Davis knows that this is a really important issue to me. You know, our firefighters, like you said, Mark put their lives on the line and are exposed to some really harmful chemicals while doing that. And so I just want you to know that you have my commitment to continue to work on this issue and ensure that we continue to expand how we think about cancer mitigation here in the city of Fort Worth. So thank y'all for what y'all do and thank you for this generous donation. Council Member Firestone. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you for your time, Mr. Monkreef and Rosie and reiterate a bit of what others have said here from the Dias. But I just wanted to note that, you know, Mayor, your commitment to fire and police has been steadfast from day one as your time in the office. And Rosie, of course, by your side, supporting those folks. That you've provided in support of them. And so we're going to continue that on. Thank you. Thank you, Leonard. Chamber Tim Bivens. Thank you, Mayor. I just want to remind Mayor Monkreef of something that he said even before I came to this council. And I'm going to paraphrase, but you said we will stand by our first responders. And that was in spite of what the rules dictated. And you did that. And we were able to stand by one specific officer who comes to mind. I want you to know that Fire Chief Jim Davis is carrying the banner to do everything he can to give us the information we need to push forward. Sometimes the science comes late, but we should be able to notice what we see on the grounds. And when we see firefighters suffering from illnesses that the industry may say you shouldn't pay here, we've got to have the heart to be able to do that. And Chief Davis, I know from time to time you feel like you're on your own, but I support you and I'm not the only one on this council. So keep pushing, because we don't need to wait to lose firefighters waiting on the stats to show what we ought to do and we need to do what's right. And so thank you all for your contributions. Chief Davis, thank you for the fight. Don't give up. We're in there with you. Thank you, Gina. I'll reiterate, thank you Mayor Mike and Rosie for being here and being such good friends to everybody on council. It's not lost on me how difficult this last two years have been for everyone, but especially for our first responders. You've had to really pivot in a variety of different ways and for that we were incredibly grateful. And I think you've heard very clearly from this council, we take the responsibility very seriously to weigh the science and the personal impact to our first responders, our firefighters and our police officers that are serving our community so valiantly. So thank you for being leaders in that space and for stepping up in such a significant way to make sure that we fill the gap whenever necessary. And it has already been said city management and Jim Davis are working together right now on real solutions, not just for this department but across the country. We wanna be really leading in Fort Worth and what this looks like into the future. So very, very exciting day. Thank you all for taking the time to be with us. With that we can vote council. Thank you. Motion carries. MMC 22-0132 authorized execution of a contract with the Fort Worth Hispanic Chamber of Commerce to assist business equity firms, certify minority and women business enterprises for the period of October 1st, 2021 through September 30th, 2022. We have one speaker council, Bob Willoughby. Well, the reason I'm speaking on this in denial is because I did contact the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and I did inform them that the public presentation was moved from the city council agenda. We're not allowed to speak tonight. We're off the agenda. They voted nine to zero to remove the public presentation. So when I called and talked to them, they not reached back, I told them what I was doing. I said, we need Americans. When your first amendment has been taken away, now we're gonna find out, does the money mean more than the first amendment? I write this. It's 100% on subject. No, keep, try again. One more time. Okay. I informed them that they do not need to take this money unless they take a stand to put back our rights to speak, that they were false advertising in the Chamber of Commerce. On their website, it says for a better-fought word. Well, if they mean a better-fought word, they would be down here immediately. They'd be calling their officers asking this mayor, why did you take away the public's right to speak? Why did you keep yours on the agenda on top and take away the public? I think we're entitled to that answer. You take our tax money. So I told them, I said, if you're not real, the money means more than when you're going on the list, we want to start exposing the people in this city that don't care about our first amendment. They shouldn't take money from us taxpayers and they don't care about our rights. So as far as my concern, the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce has failed. They're not real. This cash means more to them than our first amendment. So when they say they're doing good for our city, that's a lie. Mayor, respectfully, it's not on topic. Yeah, thanks Jared, I'll take care of it. Okay, we got lots of speakers after that one. Who wants to go first, Elizabeth? You know, last week, we heard from Mr. Willoughby and he once again chose to focus on someone's national origin as his discussion point. And last week, I reminded him that his not so thinly veiled racism is not welcome in these chambers nor is it welcome in this city. So you can keep it at home. You sway no vote on this council. You pick up not a single ounce of public opinion when you come in here with that mess. The Hispanic Chamber does an amazing job for this city. It does an amazing job lifting up a group of people that have historically been marginalized. So to come here today and to demand that they need Americans is disgusting. I cannot wait to vote in favor of not just this one, but I know you're up next to speak to about the black chamber and so I would remind you to keep your racism outside of this chamber. And I'm gonna let my colleagues make this motion, but I have said what I needed to say and I'll be back if you do it again. I've still got lights on. I think council member Nettles was next. Sure, thank you. I want to also talk about the Hispanic chamber minority and women business entrepreneurship. They have supported the city of Fort Worth and we are grateful for their partnership. And so I second the motion. I also am excited that we are, I know, I know, but I'm so excited that we are giving this money to the Hispanic Chamber. And I will say this and it may be me or maybe the council here, but if we take the right away from you to speak, you would not have the opportunity to speak like you just spoke. So I don't know if I missed that in English or in speech, but every week we give you an opportunity to speak. And I thank the mayor and the council for allowing him to speak again today, even if it's off a topic. That's my comments. Thank you, Chris. So I got a second for Chris. You want to make that a motion, Chris? And we'll get a second in a minute. Is that worth it? A motion for approval. Perfect. Go ahead, Jared. Second that. Second that, perfect. Gina. Karen, most people know I very seldom, if ever, speak directly to Mr. Willoughby. I speak to the public who is listening so that they know what this council stands for. It is unfortunate, but although Mr. Willoughby knows nothing about the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, I can assure you this entire city does. Before I came to the council, whenever there was a need to help small business people understand how to read plans, how to submit plans, I would refer them to the Hispanic Chamber and on occasion the Black Chamber. And so for those of you who hear that the Hispanic Chamber gives no contributions, that is not true. And I will be voting in support of this and the Black Chamber. And if we ever get an Asian Chamber here, I'll support that as well. So those are my remarks. Thank you, Gina. Council Member Flores. Thank you, Mayor. Business equity is central to the American spirit of business. In the comments that I just heard, that's not reflective of the American spirit. Supporting our chambers of commerce, in this case, the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce is based on their established record of supporting and establishing minority and women businesses and their enterprises. That is a firm that's established anybody with a modicum of interest can research that and find that out on their own. So what we're doing here today is more than well-deserved because it is factually accurate to look at their track record of our chambers of commerce, of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and vote to support this absolutely. Thank you, Carlos. Council Member Crane. Yeah, I just wanted to make a comment that clearly Mr. Willoughby does not know the chamber at all, Hispanic Chamber, does not know Annette Soto and what they do on a daily basis supporting our Hispanics here and our Hispanic businesses across the board. And so with this, I'll say, I wholeheartedly support this and on comments, silly people make silly comments. I'll leave that. Thank you, Council Member Crane. I don't know if Annette, Landeros, or anybody, the team from this year, but just thank you for what you do. This is really a public-private partnership between the City of Fort Worth to make sure we are focused on MWBE businesses and business equity in the City of Fort Worth. I'm remarkably impressed by her team even during COVID, the growth that they've had. So we are so lucky to have Annette and by the way, her all-female team leading the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce has had to throw that in. So thank them for making this opportunity available to us at the city to make sure we're doing our jobs better as well. We've got a motion by Councilor Nettles and a second by Councilor Williams, we can vote. Motion carries. Authorize the execution of a contract with the Fort Worth Metropolitan Black Chamber of Commerce to assist business equity firms, certifying minority and women business enterprises for the period of October 1st, 2021 through September 30th, 2022. All right, we have one speaker this evening. Our morning, Mr. Willoughby. Thank you, thank you. Let me start off by saying that I said nothing about racism. Not at all, that's a politician thing, okay? Secondly, I agree with Jared. Action speaks louder than words and I'll never apologize for offending the First Amendment. You people clap all you want. You can throw stuff at me but I'll never stop offending the First Amendment, okay? Now I did not say racist, that was them, okay? Let me put another point out here to Mr. Chris Nettles. Talking about our rights being taken away. No, Bob, we're just gonna stick to this. No, we're gonna stick to this item. Make a point, they can call you out but you can't talk, you can't defend yourself. That oughta show you're right there, something's wrong. The Black Organization, I called them too, the one that was real nice. But they never did reach back or talk anymore about it. She didn't call back, talk anymore, she should have. When our First Amendment was taken away, that is raising eyebrows everywhere with a lot of people. I'm getting calls left and right and people finding out all across the city that they didn't know. I'm small, I don't have the money to put it out there. It's taking time but it is growing rapidly. These people, to say what they said, it's not right. It's not right to call your name out and not allow you to, and I've seen other people get their name called out and they come back to my place. Mr. Willoughby, do you have any other comments related to this item? Well, anyway, once again, our First Amendment was taken away by these people. You do not speak at city councils. Yeah, we're done, I'm so sorry. We just wanted to talk about this item. Thank you so much for coming. Council Member Williams was first. You're here for a second, okay? I had had my light on the number one away. It is with the same enthusiasm that I move for approval of this motion. Thank you, Council Member Williams for a second. Any other discussion council? Please vote. Motion passes. Special presentations. The first one is by Mr. Vincent B Adams to sing a verse from the Black National Anthem. Mr. Adams, come on down. Good morning. Morning. Timing is everything. I'll be singing the Negro National Anthem this morning in the spirit of inclusion and equity for all the people. If you would stand, we'd greatly appreciate it. Lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven see. Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us. Sing a song full of the faith that the present has brought us. Facing the rising sun till our new day begun. Let us march on till victory is won. Thank you very kindly. The next presentation is by Ms. Addie, Indies Christian Academy to present Who Am I in Black History? Ms. Parker in Council. I'm Sue Crosby with Ms. Indies Christian Academy, which is nestled in the heart of the Lake Como community. We've been there for 40 years. With me this morning is third grader, Carter Alleyu, and fourth grader, Sanad Davis, who would like to challenge or perhaps compliment your Black history knowledge and recall. We're doing it just for fun. So when you ask the question, Who Am I? Please feel free to verbally ID the African-American Trailblazer that these two young people chose to impersonate today. Thank you. We will begin with Carter. Born in 1831 in Philadelphia. I died July 28th, 1892. My father was Reverend John Raymond, a Runaway slave from Virginia and abolitionists. On July 28th, 1871, I became the first Black Fire Chief in U.S. history. I was in control during the Great Fire of Boston. I advocated for stronger fire prevention codes. I was the Fire Chief eight years over the Cambridge Fire Department in Boston, Massachusetts. Who am I? I am Patrick H. Raymond, a Black man. Great job, Carter. Into slavery in Hickman County, Tennessee in 1832. My mother's name was Suzanne Fields, but my father was unknown. After the Civil War ended, I was emancipated. I had one of the most dangerous challenging job as the first African American female male carrier in the United States for years. I traveled the bad lands with my pet eagle, protecting male from outlaws and wild animals, never losing one single horse or package. In 1914, I died from liver failure in Gray Falls, Montana. Who am I? That is right. While the mayor is going down to take a picture with Councilman Nettles, what I want the audience to know is every year this city has put on a Black History program, but never before has a council member gotten actively involved with that program. And the timing was perfect because as it turns out, the staffer who usually puts the program together is no longer with us. And so I salute Councilman Nettles for his engagement and giving us Black History every Tuesday of February. So that should give you all enough time to get that picture ready to give you enough time. And Mayor Mike, as the mayor who I know to have always been a champion for diversity, I think it was very appropriate that you would just happen to be here today. And Vince, I wanted to say one more verse, one more verse, one more verse. Can we get the fire chief down too? Come on, Chief Davis. Okay, we're all gonna go down and crush his full, let's go, let's go. Well, what I wanted to say is Chief, while you're going down there to take a picture, I noticed that young man's hat says Mesquite Fire Department on that, we need to get that fixed. And Mayor, we also have a certificate of recognition to give to them as well. I wish Bob had seen this be good for him. Okay, so good luck to our next groups. Our next presentation is from Techstars Fort Worth. Perfect, and as Cameron Cushman is coming up to the podium, Cameron, I heard it's your birthday today. Is that right? Yes, 222. So we're gonna sing you Happy Birthday because we're just gonna do that, right? Because I know how much you hate the attention. So we're gonna, so ready, everybody go, ready go. Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Cameron, happy birthday to you. And you get to spend it with counsel. What more could you want, right? All right, I'm now sufficiently embarrassed, so thank you for that. You're welcome, of course. But I'll turn it back over to you, go ahead. Yes, thank you. It was hard enough to follow these guys. Yes, so Cameron Cushman from the UNT Health Science Center, I'm so excited to be here today to announce that Fort Worth is no longer the largest city in the country that does not have an early stage accelerator program because today we get to announce that Techstars is coming to Fort Worth. And yes, that is a big deal. What is Techstars, you might ask? I'm gonna let my friend Trey Bowles update us on that. But a few of you may remember when Techstars came to town last August. A few of you were in a meeting with them and we talked through what a Techstars model could look like for Fort Worth. And we also had the county involved and the city of Fort Worth and Tarrant County both jumped in to help us jumpstart this program that you approved last October. And today is the day that applications are opening for this program. The website is up to announce Techstars, Fort Worth. And I wanted to introduce the brand new managing director of Techstars, Fort Worth and physical health, Trey Bowles. Good morning, thanks for having me here today. I'm gonna run through this really quickly but I wanna remind you what Techstars is, what we do and what to expect in Fort Worth in this year. Can you forward it for me? Thank you. So Techstars doesn't just do accelerators, we do a lot of different things. We help people with ideas all the way to getting funding and eventually one day an exit or an IPO. So we have programs that you will see across the city and across the region that are focusing on whatever point a startup or entrepreneur is at. Next slide. This is what Techstars has done since its founding back in 2007. More than 289 accelerator programs, total funding going into those companies of almost $20 billion, with a $69 billion portfolio market capitalization and 18 unicorns. If you don't know what a unicorn is, a unicorn is a company that is worth more than a billion dollars. Needless to say, Fort Worth has made a good decision to partner with Techstars. They are one of the best in the world at what they do. Next slide. So Cameron talked a little bit about the partners. We appreciate everybody's been involved. The only thing I'll say about this is in my experience I've had the opportunity to be a part of building ecosystems around the country. And what I will tell you is that there's no better thing for a startup, for entrepreneurs or for small businesses than to have different stakeholders from different parts of the community coming together. So you have private investors, you have educators, you have municipalities in the city and in the county. This is going to continue to transform what Fort Worth is already doing for entrepreneurs and for small businesses and make it even more valuable today. Finally, what's going to happen next? Next slide. This is what the next 12 months looks like for us. Applications open today. They will go on for the next 12 or 13 weeks. At that point, we'll start to make decisions about the companies that we're going to bring into this program. There will be 10 companies that go through this program. That program will start in September and go through December. And then in the second week of December, there will be a demo day. You are all invited where you get to come and watch these companies that we believe will come from all over the world to Fort Worth to come and show what they've learned, what they've done. They'll have gotten to meet with mentors. They'll have gotten to meet with funders. They'll have gotten to meet with companies and hopefully customers. This is an amazing opportunity for this region. And I'm really excited to get to be a part of it and get to spend more time over here in Fort Worth. So finally what I will do is I will ask you for your help. You've done so much already, but what we need now is we need companies to apply. We need mentors and subject matter experts, people who have built companies, people who have exited companies, people who understand the space of physical health and rehabilitation to participate. So please reach out to me at any point. I will be around here often and I look forward to working with you and the other great people in Fort Worth to make this the most successful accelerator that we possibly can. Thank you. And Mayor, we have a Techstars t-shirt for you. Oh, that's right. You come down there and take a picture. Is that the right thing to do? Okay. Don't feel bad that not everybody else wants to come down and take our picture. I brought you a t-shirt. Yeah, we do accept t-shirts, too. My size is 2X. Okay, y'all come up with me. Thank you. The next presentation. I just want to say thanks, Cameron, Cushman and Robert Stearns for sort of putting this program on our radar and making sure that we have one here in Fort Worth. And Trey, it was great to interview you yesterday as part of Fort Worth Forward the next episode and appreciate what you're doing. Welcome to Fort Worth and thanks for bringing this program here. I appreciate it. Leonard. Yes, one last comment, guys, welcome. Cameron, thank you for your leadership here. And we're excited about Techstars and we are gonna do our best to help in whatever way we can. I did want to underscore one thing that was in the presentation and that was the participation of Goff Capital. And that's just such a great example of the private sector in Fort Worth coming to support a new initiative that is all about economic growth, entrepreneurship, innovation in some incredibly important and distinct ways in physical health. And that I think is really gonna put us on the map. So thanks to John Goff and his team and the plan that you all have put forward. Thank you all very much. Just right now from people asking, what is this? And so if there is any type of website or any way you can link the council, we can help because we all conduct meetings in our districts all over town all the time. You've got the perfect contact with Robert Stearns but he will tell you the council can help you as well. We want everyone to know what you're doing. Congratulations and thank you. Yeah. Thank you council. Thank you gentlemen for being here. We appreciate you. Next presentation is a presentation of proclamation for the 75th anniversary of Westmore Manufacturing. And I think I'm gonna turn here to council member Flores who's gonna help us with this proclamation and presentation. Mayor and council, I have no song. I have no costume. I have no t-shirts. But I do have a proclamation plaque. So hopefully that suffices. All right. And I will thusly read. Whereas in 1946, Ernest and Martin Hochster started their own shirt company, Westmore Manufacturing Company and began putting pearl snaps on their popular gambler style shirt. They came up with a brand name that personified Texas cowboy panhandle slim. In the past 75 years Westmore Manufacturing has grown to include four successful apparel brands that represent the Western style that Fort Worth is known for and a look that continues to personify Texas culture. And whereas the long standing family business was founded on the principles of individuality, intelligence and style. These principles fell into place with designs, passion and marketing put forth by the brothers and the employees whom they welcomed to the company like family. It's the Fort Worth way. And whereas Westmore Manufacturing has remained in the Hochster family for 75 years and is now run by second and third generation family members, Jeff, Lenny, Jameson. They continue to be actively involved in the Fort Worth community. They consistently produce clothing that celebrates Western tradition while cultivating a unique style that is inherently Texan. And whereas Westmore Manufacturing designs are worn by the top cowboys and cowgirls in equine sport representative of the Western heritage in Fort Worth, Texas. They have pioneered Western design in Fort Worth as the makers of Panhandle Slim, Western Wear, Rock and Roll Cowboy and Rock and Roll Cowgirl. Now therefore, it is my pleasure and honor that the city of Fort Worth does hereby recognize and celebrate May 1st, 2021. And that is the correct day, 2021. We're a little behind but we're catching up. As the 75th anniversary of Westmore Manufacturing. Thank you, Carlos. Thank you. Would you like to say a few words? Please, Jeff. All right, it's yours. It's really an honor to be here today. I remember 47 years ago when we relocated to Fort Worth from Nebraska. And my father and my uncle chose a site up on the North Freeway with the help of the city, also the Chamber of Commerce to establish that location. And we've been there ever since. It's been a great marriage between Fort Worth and our company and we're very, very proud to be here. Thank you all for coming. It's a perfect example of a quintessential Fort Worth-based business and we're lucky to have you in our community. Next is the upcoming and recent events, recognition of citizens and approval of ceremonial travel if needed by council members and staff. Thank you. I think I've got to start with Council Member Flores. Thank you, Mayor. Okay, Melissa, I think we have a couple slides shown whenever you get that up. All right, with the support of Mayor and Council, successfully came back from a visit with our Fort Worth delegation of Fort Worth Sister Cities International to Toluca, Mexico. We met with our counterparts down there, had the pleasure and honor of addressing their legislature. We had Deputada Monica Alvarez de Mer who is very accommodating, very helpful, very welcoming introducing us to key members of their legislature. We're seeing doing a press conference there on the bottom left picture in the middle, behind the, or in front of the Mexican flag, the banners and the standards. We all met there in their chambers. The purpose of going down to Toluca, aside from strengthening our Sister Cities ties, is that we also went to see the annual migration of them on our butterflies, very critical to agriculture. And what we did, we all contributed of our own money and went to a municipal garden and planted plants that are pollinators, so that, or to attract pollinators to the garden and encourage that migration. So thanks to our Toluca delegation and thank you Fort Worth Sister Cities International, Becky and May who headed that delegation down there, including Beth Leibel. Next slide. All right, on the community front. There's some great news going on in the Diamond Hill area. Construction for the new community center has started. I wanna commend staff, park staff, here we see Joel McElhaney there, flanked by community members, including the architects, representatives of the general contractor. We were talking about the traffic impacts, since in that particular area, there are a lot of schools involved. So it causes some disruption to traffic with the construction. So we're trying to speed up in certain areas so that we can alleviate, mitigate some of those effects, but appreciate them being there and also to our NPOs in the area that have to manage those traffic patterns. So appreciation to all. Thank you, that's all I have. Thank you, Councilman Flores. Council Member Crane is next. Great, I have a few slides, I think, up there. This weekend, we had an LBT block party where our third-party vendor that we've hired to come in and do the revitalization plan came in and did some fun stuff around. You see some, where people are able to identify the parts of their neighborhood, what they like about their neighborhood, and this will be all part of the metrics that we put forth in the revitalization plan. Next slide, there may be more pictures. Nope. So we also had Silver Creek Materials, which is in District 3, the zoo-pru product. They have a relationship with the Dallas Zoo to take their poo from various animals, and I brought my six-year-old because she just wanted me here to say poo or poop as many times as I could with me, but glad to have my colleagues, Carlos Forrest there, Elizabeth Beck, Chris Nettles, and Jared Williams, but it was a great day as we celebrate that partnership and would love to see it here in Fort Worth, too, with our Fort Worth Zoo. I think that's the end of the slides, couple other announcements. Oh, I did a lot of Fort Worth ISD school visits. They're with the principal at Monning, and then there may be a few more there, too. Nope, but there are a couple others out there that we visited this week. I went to Trinity Valley and to Leonard, and I thought there were gonna be some kids' pictures up there, but we'll get those next week of who I visited. One last announcement, too. We may cover this in another way, but I wanna shout out to Como for the Fort Worth Pride Award and our Neighborhood Awards for their revitalization of the Como Cemetery and Ridgely North in their newsletter. Yeah, there you go. That's a big, but shout out, I know there's a project undertaken by a lot of people there to clean up that cemetery and keep it clean, and I know it's a matter of pride for that neighborhood. Thank you very much. Thank you, and I may pretend Bivens or just Carrie have something, too. Yes, go ahead, Carrie. Real quick, this past Saturday, we had Neighborhood Awards for Citywide 4th, and I'm proud to say that District 4 cleaned house, so we are proud to announce Neighbor of the Year for the second time in a row was Brenda Sanders Wise from our Garden of Eden community. Daniel Guido won that last time, also from District 4, so congratulations, Brenda Sanders Wise. She does burn up the District 4 phone lines for the Citywide needs. And then the Neighborhood of the Year, Heritage HOA. So congratulations to all the Heritage folks. Heritage started in 2001. It's a neighborhood of 3,000 homes. I will say it's represented by myself and Council Member Firestone. I will regularly say that it's a very engaged community between its HOA and its pit. It has a budget bigger than some cities in Tarrant County. You've also got regular engagement with them as well. And then our Neighborhood Patrol Officer of the Year, out of our Woodhaven community, Officer McNeil. And then our Mayor's Health and Wellness Award went to the Heritage HOA, and then our 4th Pride Award went to Heritage HOA. So congratulations to all the District 4 recipients. Gina, I guess I'll clap or carry. Nobody clapped. I can't. I'm sorry. There you go. Congratulations. This weekend, we had the first District 5 leadership meeting of the year. And I want to say thank you to the Bridgewood Church of Christ for giving us that meeting site. Usually the first speaker is the city manager, but he came in second fiddle because crime is such an important topic. And I want to thank Assistant Chief Aldridge for standing in for Chief Nokes, because Chief, I told them you were ill, we didn't know what you had, you didn't know what you had, but we didn't want it. And so you were very well represented. You can go to the next slide. City Manager David Cook gave us an overview of the bond election coming up. He was able to sidestep one of the preachers who tried to talk him into giving another park. But thanks to Richard Zavala, I know how you get parks and it's because you got to be 10 minutes walking from a park and we were able to quiet that down quite a bit. But thank you, City Manager David Cook. The next slide shows Brandon Bennett wearing several hats. Brandon spoke on all things COVID and he brought rapid tests to give away to people who were participating. And if we have another slide or two, just let me know. You'll have real good crowd. That's one of the most famous NPOs there, that's we call them Lloyd, his name is Cook. Same email address as the City Manager and he continues to get your email, David. So you can use that as an excuse, but I'm so glad to see the neighborhood and homeowner association leaders show up for the leadership meeting. We will do the next one in the next quarter and that's gonna be where we hope to do speed dating with the NPOs Chief. And so I hope to have every NPO there so that all the neighborhoods active and inactive can meet their NPOs and they can have this exchange that will help us fight crime. So that's all I have. Thank you, Gina, I just lost mine. Who's next? Who has speaking? Thank you, Council Member Williams. Alrighty, thank you, Mayor. I think we have a few slides. We took donuts and the world famous Juan's burritos to our firefighters and had a really good time at our two fire stations in District 6 and also had a really good time eating tons of breakfast burritos. So I just wanna give a major shout out to our firefighters. Again, I know I did it earlier and just we're really grateful for what y'all do for the residents of District 6. Next slide, please. We also had the privilege of going to my alma mater North Crowley High School AKA the best Texas. And we got to celebrate black history with their black student union. They had a panel discussion from elected leaders including Mayor Evans from the great city of Mansfield. And it was a really awesome time spinning with the seniors and all the students of North Crowley High School to talk about the importance of civic engagement in our city and also on state and federal issues. So shout out to North Crowley and the black student union for inviting us. Next slide. We also got the chance to go to Southwest. They had an amazing tournament for basketball unified that unifies all of our students of all abilities to celebrate relationships and community in basketball. And so it was such an amazing event. We saw high schools and unified teams from all over the city of Fort Worth and Tarrant County and Southwest did an amazing job including number four in the background, Charlie who coach gave him a green light to shoot whatever you wanted and he hit most of the team's points. So Charlie is amazing basketball player and amazing student at Southwest. Next slide. These are some more pictures. We got the chance to hang out with trustee Ann Dar and trustee Quinn Phillips from Fort Worth ISD. And also we got a tour of all of the amazing things that they're doing in their career center. They took us into their, Gina you'll love this, their media center and where they broadcast the news for the school and they also have a podcast and they're also introducing our kids to the amazing careers that are available to them and media and giving them real world and hands-on experience. Next slide. And that's it. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Councilor Williams and Councilor Firestone. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Is that on? Yeah, real quickly just wanted to give a shout out. To the Fossil Creek Estates HOA for winning the mayor's civic engagement and community collaboration category at the recent neighborhood awards luncheon on February 12th. They did a great job. They were awarded that really for bringing the Bonds Ranch area together to actively oppose a zoning case for a large development up on the Bonds Ranch road area. So they were very pleased of course with that result. Last Thursday I just wanted to mention and give a thank you to the Lake Country Property Owners Association for having me out at their annual meeting. It was a great visit out there. We discussed road improvements that will be coming to the Northwest area, thoughtful development for the area as well as talked in some length about the 2022 bond proposal and the need to get out and vote. So thanks very much. Thank you, Leonard, Council Member Nettles. Thank you, Mayor. Before I get into my slides, I just want to again thank city staff, the mayor and all those that participated in making sure that we celebrate Black History Month. I am grateful and excited for the Indian Academy. I've been knowing Miss Sue Crosby ever since I was eight years old at the Church of Philadelphia and she has continued to do good work in the city of Como, Michael Crain. And so we're grateful for her. Also thank you, Vincent Adams, for also doing that today and Pastor G with the invocation. Truly you guys have made forward proud. So our first slide here is the Neighborhood Workshop Awards. We also got some awards. Kerry is not here, but District 4 was not the only district who received awards. So we got some awards today for the West Meadowbrook Neighborhood Association. Next slide. Then we had the Greenway Neighborhood Association. They also do great work in the city of Fort Worth. We were excited about them. Next slide. I had opportunity to participate in the Family Empowerment Zone giveaway in the heart of Southside, Morningside and you will hear me all the ways talking about the Southside because that's where I was born and raised on Evans Avenue. And it's so important that we support that community. And so I was there handing out food with them as well on this past Saturday. And so each of the different groups in the historical Southside are participating and making sure that we may be in a food desert, but there are people who want to lend a helping hand. Next slide. So that is a good picture. She said it's a bad picture. So that's my friend Elizabeth, also fellow council member. She met us at the Rebirth of Food. This is one of the, what we have done in District 8 is make sure that we support our small businesses and Rebirth Food opened up during the pandemic. And so we went and showed her some love and invited everyone to go out. So if you have not been, she has a restaurant that's vegan but also serves other foods. And it was tasty. So I encourage you to go for Oakland. It's right at the corner of Oakland and Lancaster. So please go out and support. We had a couple of people come out, Alice Jimenez came out and opened up a tab. Councilman Beck was there myself and others that came and supported. Thank you for your support. Next slide please. Also, I had an opportunity to go to the Community Food Bank, which is in Riverside. There was a warder to check from Bank of America. And I believe it was $75,000. And when I tell you, they have a true operation in Riverside. And I was just grateful to be a part of the operation. Ms. Opalee was there. I mean, she's just a star here in the city of Fort Worth. But we're grateful for the Bank of America and any other banks that want to support our communities. We're grateful for them as well. Next slide. I believe that's all I have. Thank you again. Have a great day. Thank you, Chris. And Councilman Beck, I thought it was a good picture of you, by the way. Lesson learned, don't let Chris catch you eating because you put on counsel. And for the record, that was some of the best grains and sweet potatoes I've ever had. So I would recommend getting over there as well. So have the opportunity to attend a special event with mayor and several colleagues at the Calvary Hall of Fame to celebrate an exhibit that highlights some of the costumes and props from the 1883 series. If you haven't watched it, it's a great little piece that starts here in Fort Worth and kind of harkens back to the days that we were in backcow town. Next slide. We did have the community awards. I will say that Rick Herring lives in Councilman Moon's district. But we share him in the Riverside Alliance. And I know this slide says that he was neighbor of the year. He was one of the finalists. And so hopefully that's some foreshadowing for next year because of all the hard work that he does with the Riverside Alliance. And to do that, he has to work with not one, not two, but three council members. And that is no easy feat. I also wanna congratulate both Berkeley and Oakhurst for winning newsletter of the year awards. Next slide. We have a big event coming up here in district nine this weekend, weather permitting. I hope that we, yes, everything will be good. Okay, all right. And so we are opening a new library and what is really unique about this and hats off to the folks of the library department for really sitting down and looking at how our libraries serve our community. And that doesn't mean that every community utilizes them differently. And so what we have done here is we're moving into La Grande Plaza, which is huge because it is absolutely a hub of Latino culture in the South side. And so now when families do shopping or they go to community events there, they'll also be able to engage in our forward library. So I hope you will join us this weekend for that Saturday. Next slide. Okay, so in honor of Black History Month, big brothers and big sisters is doing a push to recruit Black mentors. They are really hurting right now for mentors across the board, but specifically for those in our Black communities. And so I would encourage you if you have the opportunity to access your networks and let them know that there is a mentorship opportunity available for them to really strengthen our communities and make Fort Worth a better place. And that's it. Thank you. And that's all. Yes. I don't think I have anything looking at staff. I don't think, yeah, we're good. Keep going. Okay, next item is resolution 22-2053, amending resolutions 5375-04-2021, 5488-10-2021, and 5512-12-2021 to amend certain redistricting procedures. Thank you. We have two speakers. Our first speaker is Bob Willoughby. Is Bob still here? Then with the next speaker is Thomas Turlin-Cosse. Mayor Parker, council members. I wanted to make a point and remind you to be mindful of how the public perceives some of the things that you do, for example, this particular resolution. I saw the slide about Monning Middle School when it reminded me that the football coach in 1973 would tell us what the rules were and what the procedures were at every practice. And at the end of the practice, he would add something. One of the things would be run to the elementary school and back, and then practice will be over. But the little fast guys like me got it done too quickly and he would add another lap to the elementary school. Last week, I mentioned that the council might be meddling a little bit too much in the redistricting process. And here you are adjusting a few resolutions. The difference is that my football coach in 1973 had the power, the prerogative and the permission because he had leverage over the people that he managed on the football team. We had a stake in the outcome. Here, the roles are actually reversed. And one of the things that it looks like to the public, although there aren't very many speakers here this morning to point this out, is that the thousands of hours that the task force put in, every neighborhood's association's volunteer hours, independent advocacy groups, the particular communities of interest put in hundreds if not thousands of hours following the rules and following the procedures that you established. We've already seen a number of changes, including completely dropping and ignoring the core recommendation of the task force and yet again, you're tweaking it, eliminating some things and adding some extra hurdles or barriers. I don't know how much political capital each of you individually can surrender and what it appears as far as the optics to the public or to the people that serve on your boards and commissions, but how many times can you call on citizens to help with the process and then just crash it and do it the way you want to? That's the last of our speakers, council. I've got any emotion in a second and then I'll turn to council members for comments. Motion to approve. In a second, council. Second. Perfect, any other discussion? That'll go ahead. And I just want to add, I appreciate your comments, Mr. Thomas. And in the process of what we have really been doing at the city of Fort Worth, and we have said this on numerous occasions that if you look across United States and if you come closer, look across the state level, the Congress level, the county level, that the city of Fort Worth has been the most transparent process of redistricting. And thank you. Because certain maps had got drawn that had no communication with the city, no communication with the residents, but we have made sure that we have heard and listened to the residents. And I for one, and I will tell you, if you watch the videos, I did not necessarily agree at first to change these resolutions, but in the sake of our communities and to make sure that we get it right the first time, because when we vote on this map, it is gonna be set for the next 10 years. So we're voting for how the city of Fort Worth is gonna progressively move for the next 10 years. And so I for one are excited that Mayor Parker stepped back and said, well, let's just make some revisions so that we get it right the first time. And I know other people think that council or elected officials should not meddle in this process. But I tell you that we have worked hard day in and day out to make sure that each district is intact, as well as bring another minority opportunity district in the city of Fort Worth. So I appreciate all the comments. And I want those that have been watching, those that have been emailing, we get the emails, we hear you, we're making conversation, we're making sure that we get the best map that supports the movement and the fullness of the city of Fort Worth. So thank you for your comments. Be patient with us, work with us as we continue to move this process forward. And Fernando can tell you once we vote on this map, we're going back to the community. So guess what? It may be some more tweaking once we get to the final map. But we're doing that to make sure that you have been heard. So that is what this resolution, I feel like it's doing today. Thank you. Thank you, Chris. Any other discussion council? Please vote. Motion carries. AMMC 22-0114, consider and adopt a resolution of support for the Gala at Ridgemore 2022 competitive housing tax credit application. Approve a commitment of development funding in the form of fee waivers and make related determination. Thank you. And motion council, council McCrane. I moved to approve and I just want to say with that motion, thanks to developers here for working with the community there with the base and with Ridgemore especially and also with our own staff bring this forward and keeping push it because it helps us in a lot of different ways. So with that, I make a motion to approve. And a second council? Second. Any other discussion? Please vote. Motion carries. AMC 22-0120, authorize execution of a construction contract, adopt attached appropriation ordinances and amend the fiscal year 2022 through 2026 capital improvement program. Get a motion from council member Beck. Moved to approve. And a second from council member Crane in their discussion. Please vote. Motion passes. AMC 22-0128, authorize execution of amendment number one to an engineering agreement. Authorize execution of a contract with landmark structures to appropriate this project for a portion of the water's contribution to the fiscal years 2022 through 2026 capital improvement program. Adopt resolution expressing official intent to reimburse expenditures with proceeds of future debt and adopt attached appropriation ordinance. Motion from council member Crane. Move to approve. A second. Second. Any other discussion? Please vote. Motion passes. AMC 22-0129, authorize execution of a contract with crescent constructors, provide for project costs for the total project total and adopt attached appropriation ordinance to affect a portion of the water's contribution to the fiscal years 2022 through 2026 capital improvement program. Motion from council member Crane. Move to approve. And a second. Second. Any other discussion council? Please vote. Motion passes. MMC 22-0130, authorize execution of amendment number one, authorize execution of a contract, provide for the project costs for the total project costs, appropriate this funding as the portion of the water's contribution to the fiscal years 2022 through 2026 capital improvement program. Adopt attached resolution expressing official intent to reimburse expenditures with proceeds of future debt and adopt attached appropriation ordinance. Motion from council member Crane. Yeah, I'll just say another great day for the citizens of district three. So without a move to approve. And a second. Thank you. Thank you, Chris. Any other discussion council? Please vote. Motion passes. Mayor, that concludes all of the items. Thank you. And I believe that's the end of our agenda council. Meeting adjourned. Trisha, you got all the presentations. I got executive session. I need to load up here. Yeah, I know. That was my question was like, am I gonna have to wait till the district? I need to. No, I need to, I need to go into the, the notes file to pull up the, to take it away.