 authority for there is no authority except through God. God, we ask you to give us the wisdom, the understanding, and the compassion to lead this city. Now, God, internally, we want to say thank you. Thank you for life. Thank you for breath. Thank you for our limbs. Keep us and God us in your arms. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. That's why I pledge allegiance to thee and I pledge allegiance to one and the same, under God. The first item of business is the minutes from the December 7th work session, the December 7th public comment meeting, the December 14th council meeting, the January 4th work session, the January 4th public comment meeting, and the January 11th council meeting. Thank you and council. I think I've got a motion from council member Crane. In a second. Any other discussion? Please vote. Motion passes. I think we're now moving to public comment, am I correct? We're gonna start with our phone calls, which is the first caller is Sherry Huckabee. Ms. Huckabee? Yes. Please go ahead, you have three minutes. Thank you. Good evening. I'm Sherry Huckabee, a resident of trails with also Creek, which is in the 287 corridor off Bond Ranch Road. I spoke to the city council on January 4th regarding infrastructure issues and adding additional projects to the May Bond election. I requested two projects to be added to the Bond election for Wagley-Roberton Road from Bond Ranch Road to Bailey-Boswell Road, and that one of the project for Heritage Trace Parkway expanded to include the design of this road from business 287 to the BNSF separate grade crossing. As a previous noted with to the council having the design and right of way of the Heritage Trace Parkway project done now will make it shovel ready when the funding for construction is determined later. Heritage Trace Parkway is a vital expansion that will provide much needed relief to Bond's range congestion. I've been informed that the project for the southern half of Wagley-Roberton, specifically Heritage Trace Parkway south to Bailey-Boswell is now being funded by developers that are building future commercial and single family homes there. Therefore, any bond money that was intended to be used for that project can now be utilized in other infrastructure projects. This means that there's no excuse to not improve Wagley-Roberton Road from Bond Ranch Road to Heritage Trace Parkway. Improves that must include flood control mitigation as well as expansion from the current two lane road. I previously sent an email to council members that included a link to a CBS report from May 24th, 2021 where a woman was swept away by floodwaters. But that is just one of many instances attributed to the flooding. I've provided a snapshot of that news report this evening where you can see the victim's car and the road which is completely submerged. And another picture that shows the drain that this flooding victim was swept into. Thankfully, she was rescued about 200 yards downstream while clinging to a tree. While the plug in Bond Ranch Road is on a bond election for improvement, it is not a long-term solution. Having the northern half of Wagley-Roberton improved will not only address flooding, but it will give us an alternative route to using Bond Ranch and thereby relieve some of that congestion. Additionally, it would allow us traffic to flow to the eventual Heritage Trace Parkway expansion. It is imperative that these projects be done now. We cannot continue to wait for some future bond election. We've waited long enough. Thank you. Thank you, Sherry. Our next caller is Alexander Stein. Mr. Stein. Yes. Please go ahead. You have three minutes. Yo, this is prime time 99, Alex Stein. Let me tell you all about that Fauci-Alchie. We got to stick the needles in the arms ASAP. We got to mandate the vaccine. That is how we live the dream. Let me tell you all about the Fauci-Alchie. You can get the shot even on your couch. Even though it hurts and you might get myocarditis, it's no fair. You can have fun when you get the vaccine because you feel good and clear. Because your head is clear, because you got the vaccine and it's not poison. It's good for you. It's like glue. It sticks to your DNA. It was created by the CIA, but you don't play all freaking day. I love the vaccine. It makes me feel so good. I'm a rooster. Get my booster. Come and stick it in my coaster. Hoop to do. What can you do? Because I go number two while I get the vaccine with my crew. And my boys. We got big toys. We ride Mercedes. We're the ladies. That's why we vaccinate all day eating cream gravy on our chicken fried steak in the Lone Star State. What can you say? I'm prime time. Number 99. Always on the grind. Vaccinate your mind. Vaccinate your body. Vaccinate your life at your vaccination party. If you don't vaccinate, you will hesitate and die. That ain't no lie. That's why you get your voucher ouchy and you can sit on your couch. You can take off some work and relax like you are a boss because you paid the cost. You settled the score. You got the shot in your arm. You got the shot. The booster is the fifth charm. You need five boosters. Don't forget. They will say seven is enough, but eight is the real number because to truly vaccinate, you got to take eight boosters in your coasters. Kaka-doodle-doo like a rooster. What can you do? I say who? You say boo. Don't be an anti-vaxxer. You got to dump Trump. Trump is a chump. You got to go with Biden. Yes, I'm riding all day long. I vaccinate while I wear my thumb. I'm the king of the castle. Y'all can't stop my flow. No hassle. Y'all want to hate, but I'm in the Lone Star State because I'm primed time. Nine to nine. And I'm on the ground all the time. I'm a lyrical lord. Cut the cord on the dog. Call the frog. Vaccinate your mom. Vaccinate your dad. Vaccinate the happy. Vaccinate the sad. Vaccinate the skinny. Vaccinate the fat. Vaccinate rats. How you like that, dad? But I'm still going hard with my credit card because I'm a pimp on a blimp eating shrimp while I vaccinate in the Lone Star State. But y'all want to hate and stop my shine, but you forget that I'm primed time. Nine to nine. And my shine don't ever stop. I'll vaccinate you if your fireman are caught. Don't stop. If you're not mandated, then you are hated by the left or the right. Vaccinate the black. Vaccinate the white. Vaccinate the skinny. Vaccinate the fat. Rats and tat, tat. Vaccinate all that. But you don't stop there. Vaccinate the babies just like we vaccinate for rabies. They need to shot prenatal. They need to shot all day. I just stick the needle in your arm. You just vaccinate your mom. Thank you, Alex. That was very entertaining. Thank y'all, price time 99, Alex time. Price time's down on Instagram. Our next speaker is, is Rick Irving. Follow that, Rick. I can't talk about that. You need to answer something. I'm just here to talk about the parking and the stock show. I know that your hands are tired on it. It's not y'all's deal, but it's $17. It's keeping a lot of low income, fixed income people from going to the stock show. I know we have a bus up at Billy Bob's that can take them, but we need to figure out a way to cap that parking so our citizens whose tax dollars have funded all that can enjoy it. And one thing that we could do, I know whenever we talked about the parking, there's parking set of premium down there, but the city of Fort Worth and the mayor and city council right now could give our citizens about 40 parking spaces because on Will Rogers Drive between the Kimbell Art Museum and Amon Carter, it's about two blocks long and it's got meters and they're all covered up. And it's not for safety. It's not for traffic control. It's so the guys over there at Dickies can make 17 bucks a car. So I would like for y'all to make a good faith effort and go check that out and see if we can at least take the covers off the parking meter and free up some parking for people so they can afford it. And it's something that a lot of people are interested in because about 215 today, I made a little post on our friend Larry O'Neill's Fourth Memories and got over a thousand people that have made some kind of lack or something and over 500 people, about 99% of them were in agreement with me that the city of Fort Worth needs to do something. We can do it in future contracts. And I would really like to see the citizens of Fort Worth not get charged that much, maybe cap it so we only have to pay $10 instead of 17, 20, 25. Don't take a look at Will Rogers Drive and see if we can take those covers off the meters, okay? Thank you, Rick. We appreciate it very much. Our next speaker is Bob Willoughby. Yeah, the truth ain't always beautiful. Turn the sound up, please. So you can hear this turned up before you start this video, turn the sound up. What happens when the wrong people are put in power? Turn it up, please. So you can't hear it, they did that to me. It's good. Seems like I'm not gonna use it. But we appreciate you. Thank you. Thomas Trollin-Cawsey is our next speaker. Madam Mayor, council members. The moral arc of the universe bends slowly towards justice. But it doesn't do it by itself. Sometimes it needs a nudge. Sometimes it needs leadership. It never needs politicians. I'm gonna tell you a story in a moment. I wanna encourage you to start to become more proactive when it comes to the issue of police reform and not wait until the trial is over. This is my story. It's about a mama mia moment. In my big Italian family, we have many mama mia moments and mega mama mia moments. A mini mama mia moment is when I walked up to my Italian grandfather for the first time when I said, hey old boy, have some tea and crumpets please. He looked at my grandmother and said mama mia. A mega mama mia moment is a life-changing event. And once you've experienced it, everything you understand about justice changes. So I have a confession, mayor. I made a district judge really mad one time. I spent 109 days in a rural county cell next to my friend Anthony. Now a friendly guard, that Anthony and I sit on the jail cell floor every night. Anthony had just come off death row, 14 years awaiting a new trial. We spent every night visiting with each other and at first I thought we have nothing in common. He hadn't lived more than 30 miles from where we sat except when he went to jail. I'd been around the world and educated. His skin was darker than mine. His hair was earlier than over the nights when he kept saying, God is good, Thomas, God is good. I realized that everything that matters between two men we had in common. Eventually our days were over and he awaited trial for another year and a half. I had told him about the internet and the wonders of cell phones. He told me about the desperation and loneliness of being innocent and on death row. He didn't know that I had been made aware of the evidence that exonerated him, but a year and a half later I was out in the middle of a field and I got a call and it was from my friend Nicole's cell phone but it was this voice. Is this doubting, Thomas? This is Anthony. I told you God is good. I told you, Thomas. Yes, Anthony, you told me. He said, do you wanna come to my mama's house and have some spaghetti? Sure, Anthony, I'll do that. We need to hear what the plan is now, not after the trial occurs. Thank you, Thomas. Our next speaker I think is a caller, David Menendez, no answer, okay. What about Corey Keller? Oh, I'm sorry, David, excuse me. Mayor and council, I'm here again to discuss the safety concerns of Northwest Fort Worth area. Two men died and a mother was critically injured on Bailey Boswell. I wanted to remind you of this so you'd never forget that these safety concerns are your responsibility to solve. You owe this to the people of Fort Worth to give them a safe environment to live that includes roads and infrastructure and safety that all falls on your shoulders. Cromwell Marine Creek is on the 2020-22 bond, however, Bailey Boswell, Old Decatur, Bowman Roberts, WJ Boas, and Bond's Ranch Road are all need of addressing and they are not on this bond. We don't have time for empty promises of next bond or maybe when there's more development, those things have come and gone. Those promises have come and gone. The development has already happened. The Northwest area grew by more than 75% and it is the fastest growing area of Fort Worth, yet there has been extended neglect in this area where safety and infrastructure are concerned. Thankfully, after the council, after December council meeting where we had a group speak, Bailey Boswell was re-striped. This was the absolute minimum this council could do and they did the minimum, which doesn't make it work. You need to do more. You need to address these safety concerns. Also, this council needs to start a plan for Bond's Ranch Road. While it is not in a critical state, it is quickly becoming there as growth moves forward. Plan ahead, don't play catch-up anymore. It doesn't work. Catch-up is killing Fort Worth and you wait for development to happen, then you're behind the eight ball and not what do you do? You need more money than you did before. If you'd put the investment in ahead of time, you'd have that money later on. Please stop neglecting Northwest Fort Worth, focus on safety, increase infrastructure spending and dedicate resources to keep up with growth rather than playing catch-up. Thank you. Thank you, David. Next speaker is a caller, which is Corey Keller. Mr. Keller. Yes. Please go ahead, you have three minutes. I would like to address, first of all, Madam Mayor and to the council, I'd like to echo the sentiments of the previous speaker. I'm watching on Fort Worth TV and thanks for providing that as well. So the citizens of Fort Worth can watch the proceedings. Northwest Fort Worth has extensive transportation needs. I would like to point out that heritage trace could simply be finished if they built an overpass over the railroad tracks. This is not on the bond and it needs to be. If you take a look at Northwest Fort Worth and you look at the Alliance area, there is no direct transportation network to get people from Northwest Fort Worth over to the Alliance area, which is a major, major job growth. A lot of our people work there. It is ingesting our roads. It is causing safety issues. I would implore the city, any project that doesn't make the bond, I would implore the city to take a look at other ways to take care of this problem and get this transportation work done and get it paid for. We are suffering badly. We have fire that is taking a long time for to get through the service. The police is being delayed. Saginaw is doing its part, but Fort Worth is failing. I've lived in the area since 2002. So just under 20 years, I've seen very few improvements in that 20 years. It's time for Fort Worth to do something. Waiting another four years for bond isn't going to happen. We need it done now. We've got over 7,000 homes that will be built in the area in the next five to 10 years. I've got two developments, actually three developments that are being built along Wigley-Riverston. Wigley-Riverston is a two lane road for just over three miles. And it hasn't been improved in decades. And as one of the previous speakers pointed out, there was a person that actually got washed off the road due to storms. She about lost her life. We had people that were killed over on Bailey-Boswell just this last year. How many people, how many lives are gonna be sacrificed before Fort Worth decides to build these roads? Thank you. Thank you. And council, I think that's the last of our speakers this evening. Before we adjourn, I gotta shout out to Jay Choppa here to my right. This is your second to last city council meeting sitting here. So I thought that was a pretty good public comment session for you as you close out your tenure 25 years with the city without all adjourned. Thank you.