 first we say thank you for your love which surpasses all understanding we're so grateful for this opportunity we know today wasn't guaranteed and so we thank you for yet another day we're so grateful to come before you're throwing a grace and and to cast our cares upon you God I pray a special prayer over our city that you will let your love rain throughout the city and that we all will cling to justice love mercy and serve one another with humility and good will God also pray for our leaders in this room and across our city that you will let humility wisdom and courage rain through our leadership also pray for our neighbors in need and we know that there are many among us and we're going through hard times right now I'm gonna ask that you not only teach us to love you but to love our neighbors I'm going to be there for them God your work calls for us to let our shot or light shine before others so that others may see our good work and let this city be a light a beacon of light for the nation and for the world thank you for yet another opportunity bless the decisions that are before us give us discernment and wisdom and clarity thank you we love you and just so incredibly grateful for yet another opportunity to serve it's in your name we pray amen our first item will be special presentations with the first presentation being a presentation of diplomacy out to student athletes and coaches good evening mayor Parker and council members thank you for welcoming our very large group here tonight we know you have a full agenda so let's jump right in my name is Matt Graves I am the co-chair of the planning committee for the seventh edition of the Giochi del Tri Calori youth sports games in Reggio Emilia Italy which is taking place next month we have 17 coaches and 77 young student athletes who represent Fort Worth in the USA in this event most are here tonight I think every single one of them is here tonight we we are they're here to take the pledge of citizen diplomacy before you and this council I'd like to take just a few minutes to introduce the coaches so for baseball we have Ronnie Cardenas reach your hand there you are will cruise dash sprule and Alex Xavier Cardenas boys basketball we have Chris Anderson and Lonnie Mae girls and boys swimming we have core leaf luge and Abby Harbour boys volleyball we have Kyle Kennedy and Stephen Bland girls volleyball we have Kenley Buckle Alex opera-worn and Abby Zippaway and boys soccer we have Amanda Novoa and Courtney Alvarado so at this time mayor you may take the floor and administer the oath of citizen diplomacy thank you Matt and all of our student athletes and of course our coaches especially our coaches taking this many students abroad to Italy I know will be an exciting trip definitely on a vacation as I'm just joking and to our parents and all of the family members thank you for taking the time to be with us this evening we are incredibly proud of not just Fort Worth sister cities and all it means across the globe to represent Fort Worth especially to citizen diplomats like each of you and so with that I'm going to administer the citizen diplomat oath please repeat after me I state your name have the opportunity and responsibility to improve relations between the United States and the rest of the world I am a citizen diplomat appointed by mayor Maddie Parker the Fort Worth City Council and the Fort Worth sister cities program I'm committed to do this for my city my country and my world let this be so you're ready to go guys congratulations and just as a side note for all the parents we took really great pictures before the city council meeting took off so we'll make sure that that may gets those and we'll give those to all the parents here that attended God bless and have fun on your journeys the next item will be a presentation of recognition of lifesaving events efforts sorry to members of the Fort Worth Police Department I'm going to turn to council member Carlos Flores for this presentation thank you Carlos good evening mayor and council okay before I get started chief chief nox it's a little lonely up here I'd like your officers to join me up front and center if you can yeah we'll just give them a moment mayor alright that's a little better okay mayor council I'm here today to offer a little humble recognition for a job well done by our forward police officers on Monday May 15 there was an incident approximately 7 p.m. in the evening the Fort Worth police department the Northwest Division and responded to a kidnapping call the 3,300 block of North the Con Street the caller told police officers that an unknown male had jumped into her car and driven off with her six month old child now she had the car running numerous additional officers responded to search for the vehicle including narcotics gang directed response units in just over an hour after that initial call officers located the stolen car on Dean Street and took the suspect into custody however the baby was not in the car officers gathered information from the suspect began checking the area approximately five minutes later the officers located the baby in the car seat lying in a ravine nearby the child was fortunately unentered and reunited with their parent subsequent charge the kidnapping abandoning endangering a child and auto theft that was a good outcome and I think we have a short video showing the recovery just a few seconds worth of video can we put that up please now what I was told and what we all know is that several officers were responding to this and to give us a little more clarification on that want to call commander Kim and the chief up here if they would like to add some words and I have a short list of some of those officers but perhaps you all could more adequately recognize everyone that was involved because it took a multitude of people to make this happen absolutely thank you so much council member Flores mayor and council I could not be more proud of this team that you see behind me what's so unique is they all came from different units different teams but that not they're on the same team there's a child who's in danger life threatening danger very quickly very efficiently very professionally they went out they got the job done they didn't act as though somewhere in undercover capacity somewhere patrol somewhere specialized units they were all part of the Fort Worth PD family protecting the Fort Worth family and this not they protected that child and I believe myself had they not acted so swiftly this outcome could have been much much worse and the list is long council member you're right and I don't want to leave anyone off aside from what you have here because we're talking about our call takers our dispatchers any citizen they called in and helped and everyone that was out there with a forward PD badge that evening that made it happen I could not be more proud for every single one of them thank you maybe make it really short I know chief pretty much covered everything but I want to make sure to recognize some of the citizens partners that we have specifically BNSF Union Pacific and Textural they stopped their train operation just for the safety of this child that we're missing so I'm really wanting to show an appreciation on behalf of the police department thank you thank you just want to acknowledge again the very short list an incomplete list of officers that I know we're involved including one civilian sergeant Ronnie Chow with the gang unit officer Steven Smith narcotics officer Wesley Davis of Northwest Patrol officer Tom Garling real-time crime center Sarah Carmill the communications Lieutenant Kyle Lawrence Northwest Division Lieutenant and of course commander Jason Kim who is leading the Northwest Division and I will read this recognition matter since you head up the Northwest Division we're gonna give that to you to hold it reads city Fort Worth is honored to recognize the actions of several Fort Worth police officers including narcotics gang and director response units and taking swift and selfless action to locate and rescue a kidnapped six-month-old baby resulting in a safe return to the family on May 15 2023 the initial call reported that an unknown male drove off with a baby in the car numerous officers and response units located the stolen vehicle however the baby was still missing the collaboration and timely investigation by these individuals saved the life of the infant who was found and entered in the nearby ravine we extend our deepest gratitude to the officers and response units involved for their exemplary service diligence and efforts that safely reunited the baby with their parent and family and therefore our pleasure to give this certificate again a humble token of our appreciation thank you one and all and thank your officers and officers if you want to stay right there that's fine because the next one pertains to you as well chief I'm gonna leave those officers there thank you yes the next will be presentation of proclamation for the Fort Worth police departments sesquitinial anniversary good evening and it's my great honor to recognize the fourth police department or as I like to call them the very best police department in the country and it's hard to hard to imagine this is the 150th anniversary of the founding of the fourth police department I'm gonna read this important proclamation of recognition for our department and then ask chief notes to address his department and this community as well and whereas the fourth police department was established in 1873 and has since marked as the primary law enforcement agency in the city of Fort Worth 2023 marks the 150th anniversary of the founding of the fourth police department and whereas the fourth police department has grown from five officers serving four square miles in 1873 to an authorized strength of 1,816 officers serving more than 350 square miles of incorporated city and whereas fourth police officers respond calls for service patrol the city apprehend fugitives enforce the traffic code proactively intervene to suppress crime assist residents in numerous and varied circumstances and provide support to multiple city agencies and community outreach programs and whereas the fourth police department is committed to hiring and maintaining a diverse workforce that is reflective of all the communities that make up for worth and whereas the hunt of the fourth police department continues to find creative and innovative methods to build long-lasting community relationships and partnerships while demonstrating fairness voice transparency and impartiality during encounters with the public and whereas fourth were celebrate 2023 as the fourth police department says that that's quintennial and the city of fourth work employees and residents appreciate the police department's work to execute their duties with professionalism every day now therefore the city of fourth does hereby recognize fourth PD's 150th anniversary and celebrate the year 2023 as fourth police department says when cannibal anniversary congratulations to chief nokes council thank you so much for this this honor 150 years it sounds kind of crazy last month I reached my 23rd anniversary with the fourth police department and I thought that was a long time 150 years the only reason we are where we are today's an agency is because we honor the department the city the citizens we serve those who came before us what's really incredible is how far we've come and how much farther we absolutely will go I wish I could go back to 1873 and talk to those five officers look at the difference between in the now then and now I wish I could go to 1923 1963 talk about the differences the challenges I really wish I could be here in the next 150 years to see where we go and with the leadership of the city with the support of our citizens and with the absolutely incredible people we have on the department I know we're going in the right direction the only reason the department is so good is because of the people because of the officers of all ranks because of our professional civilian staff our volunteers and again our amazing community that supports us I want to give special recognition to Marty Humphries who has some gifts for everyone today if you want to go and hand those out we have a design set a challenge coin set commemorating our sesquicentennial it was designed by Marty and a few of her her team she put so much work into this never asked for any credit and rarely gets it because she doesn't let people know the hard work she does so I'm letting you know the hard work that she does absolutely I thank you so much again for this honor and my prayers that God grants us another great 150 years even better than the last thank you so much next will be items withdrawn from the Consent Agenda we have two items to withdraw from the Consent Agenda the first one is MNC 23-0441 and the second one is MNC 23-0439 items to be continued or withdrawn by staff and we have one item to withdraw and actually two items the first is MNC 23-0062 and the second is its companion zoning case ZC 22-192 mayor next will be the Consent Agenda speakers and I believe we have three of those thank you Jeanette we do have three speakers on the Consent Agenda just for reference point for our audience today first of all thank you for coming out to your Forest City Council meeting we do have 54 speakers this evening so that's about two and a half hours of good commentary on zoning cases and of course a few other items I just want to give you context before we get off and started this evening our first speaker is Debbie Stein followed by Bob Willoughby okay that's my breath I'm Debbie Stein I live at 24 17 Stadium Drive I've been in District 9 for 35 years thank you Elizabeth wherever you are but now I'm in Carved Down in District 3 it's a whole new life for me so I stood here about 20 years ago when there was going to be a transition from the modern to the cultural center so after that we I was president of Life Theatre League so then we had a consultant come to talk to us about what we as the theater group wanted to see in the building comments were black box theater and affordable rental rates and then after the consultant left somebody came up and said so he said it's an arts incubator what the heck is an arts incubator they didn't know what it was well nobody really knew what it was but it seems to be certainly the thing of the times so I attended the final task force meeting and I heard them describe the RFP as a directive to build a world-class arts incubator two things occurred to me after hearing that that most members on the task force really might not know what an arts incubator is and that they might think that it needs to be world-class well I had some other thoughts about that not a criticism just an observation so sorry I'm out of breath I came running down there an arts incubator is not a building it's actually what happens in the building so by definition it's a business incubator for the arts which is a subset of the National Association of Business Incubators it nurtures arts organizations and individuals by facilitating growth and professional development supports artistic and creative innovation and encourages collaboration and mentoring many of the things we now have and that they're actually doing in the building so you know we need to continue that and it can grow it's kind of a broad definition but it's really there to help people in the community no matter what their medium is and it's not just performing nor visual arts it also encourages collaboration and mentoring based on what we've heard from the community and the public meeting the RFP should specify really what the community wants being too general is not really going to get the arts incubator boy that one fast okay and the other thing is world-class think about this do we really want world-class or do we want first-class materials everything about it first-class even stadiums are not world-class we're not competing with the world like a museum we're competing we're not competing we're just trying to provide something good for the community so we went first-class quality things in this building I can see my time is up very quickly so I will leave it there and happy to talk to you further if you'd like thank you Debbie thank you our next speaker is Bob Willoughby who we followed by Geraldine Jackie Cox can you tell me how many non-agenda items on them on hand how many agenda items I have I sign up for three things you're currently speaking on mnc-23 hyphen 0444 is that one agenda item or two that's a consent agenda item you have your three minutes okay okay oh four four oh yeah this is about the the awards for the neighborhood associations correct okay well neighborhood associations most of them are corrupt they are the John T white neighborhood association should not be on the data bank I have documents to show this I met with the city manager David Cook and confirm this he won't answer though okay and they're gonna get a ward for having secret meetings not letting people to run in John T white I can't be a part of the association where I grew up at one school and they're gonna give him a ward I've been there for three years you on about John T white just asking I asked David Cook for one thing let us have an open election in John T white okay they can run to just have an open one and to see what happens they won't because they're owned by councilmember Gina Bibbins that's true now that's the only thing you get to speak on this one or you get to speak on another one later you've got a minute and 48 seconds or everything I got here okay the other one is one's a resolution oh one's about the money with Gina Bibbins too because she says this one is counselors on these boards and stuff like that this is a large amount of money for the board that Gina sits on 22 million 495 dollars to revise a road that Gina Bibbins sits on the board that's why I point this up the boards a lot of money here okay they get a lot on the table stuff the next one's a resolution so that's separately right that's not the same thing okay well anyway the money from there but the data debate needs to be cleaned up there should be some kind of guidelines to be on our data bank and when you got proof that the neighborhood social it's on there's not legitimate they should be removed and we should have a city manager that'll set that because I had an iron meeting with him he used to talk to me to that meeting now he runs from me so that's what we got the highest paid employee in the state of Texas is David Cook our city manager I have a one-hour meeting on the film oh that's not true keep going Bob that's not true no sir okay someone in the paper before reports said that I think okay my mistake then he was maybe the maybe he was the highest I don't I never less nevertheless when you have an hour meeting with a man and he doesn't answer any questions from that we're not getting what we should you can't read my website fwdistrict5.com I gotta do that better next time you can't read it should be done in different coloring but nevertheless if you go that you'll see mr. Cook running fwdistrict5.com also about our local election I just contested it in court our local election I want you to see the video fwdistrict5.com there are questions about our elections are unbelievable an election company of people of them I called to find out the the guy with the gives you the answer he hung up on me I don't know what's going on here it's crazy have a good night thank you for your time our next speaker is Jerilyn Jackie Cox and as mr. Cox come down just a point of clarification we have quite a few speakers on the final report of 1300 gindi task force that's actually on the non-consent agenda so we're going to get to those speakers in a minute I just don't want anybody to panic when we get to the consent agenda just letting you know please go ahead okay thank you to whom should I give thank you console I live in jurid Williams district district six I'm pleased that he is concerned about water issues this is really to me more about a water issue than about hiring lawyers what you're looking to do is hire lawyers to represent the city in a class action with something like four thousand plaintiff cities lined up in a district court in South Carolina to share and proceeds that are maybe as much as 12 billion dollars from 3 m and about 1.2 billion dollars from two ponds and some other settling defendants the issue is going to be who gets what out of this pot of money that has been assembled by the lead attorneys in the class action as it has gone forward up to now there are attorneys from Dallas baron and bud some attorneys from Louisiana and the first name of the plaintiff firm is conish and then there's some attorney that you're looking to hire out of houston I'm sure he'll be a good lawyer but this is going to be about how badly the Fort Worth water has been tainted by chemicals called pfas they don't go away easily they are not easily removed from the water and they are very toxic they do cause cancer and I feel like you owe us to let us know how dangerous our water may be because I just got a report in my email box from the city of Fort Worth saying oh you can trust the TSEC because they have high water standards and we did well on their tests but they didn't test for pfas and they didn't trust for PCBs which is the other long lasting chemical that we have working in the bottom of our river from both from carswell air force base and from all of the on-core and anyway we're in danger our water's in danger and if you don't let us know going forward what you find from your testing you leave us in the dark and that seems so unfair to me I want to know whether I may or may not safely drink water from my tap I want to know whether the baby who lives next door from me who is growing up on Fort Worth water is in danger from growing up on Fort Worth water and I don't like to see the thing go off to a class action settlement thank you miss Cox your time's expired okay let us know what you find with your testing please deserve to know that mayor and council the next item will be approval of the consent agenda as amended council I can entertain a motion to approve second any other discussion please vote motion carries next item is mnc 2304 39 councilman large door if we have no speakers on this item try the other ones and have a mic treble there we go so I just wanted to bring this one out to the attention for for those that don't know this area is recently become rife with that with homeless and in this particular underpass so I've been working with forward police departments well as our tpw and text dot text press all those folks to make sure that before this art is actually put into place the lights there are fixed cages put up there to prevent any further vandalization but I do believe I support this project this particular project because I believe it's going to be a good first step in revitalizing this entire area so if we're willing to invest this money in this area I believe the the the rest will follow suit in here so I just wanted make sure that was known thank you so without a motion to approve gonna motion a second in their discussion council please vote motion carries next item is mnc 230441 and council that was pulled by staff so that we could read into the record a correction in the contract number the contract number should be 59029 not 55457 and without mayor we can entertain a motion on the item thank you council councilman nettles motion a second on the floor in their discussion please vote motion carries next will be announcements by city council including recent events recognition of citizens and approval of ceremonial travel if needed council member floras you have the floor thank you mayor parker looks like we got our first slide up there on may 26 who said whether scholarship dinner was held at tcc northwest campus these scholarships are giving to deserving hispanic students and our this year we had norma a bazaar whose assistant tarrant county criminal defense attorney uh as our keynote speaker i'm proud personally to continue supporting this for many uh community leaders who do support this non-profit and uh appreciate the catering by those melinas restaurant a local north side favorite tarrant county college uh thanks for again hosting the event there at your campus and of course junta se puede appreciate what uh debacle yardo continues to do next slide please all right may 29th celebrate the 94th annual fort worth memorial day service amount all of its cemetery mayor parker gave remarks along with uh the joint reserve base commander mclean where were two veteran and us marine don graves saying a very inspiring rendition of god bless america and boy does he have lungs at his age it's very impressive so we continue to thank those who died for our freedom and keep and continue to keep you know our nation safe in the example of their sacrifice and oh noteworthy too there was a picture there we ran in mayor parker and i ran into glenn i'm sorry gerald glenn who is a sergeant in the air force and he also works for the it department as an information security analyst all right next and final slide uh here in june 9th we uh celebrated a dedication of fort worth historical marker in the stockyards behind the livestock exchange building and this acknowledges two families uh the woody and coach family who have been important in fort worth's history and connections with the stockyards specifically with the cattle industry back as far as 1849 so we had some members of the woody family there present who still ranch out in weatherford who were there on hand to be recognized and celebrated so appreciation to them because our history is also part of our living history and that's all i have thank you councilmember crane uh two quick things one i just want to make this announcement working on what councilmember larry zorf talked about homelessness um pulling together for the police department taren county homeless coalition uh pressuring night shelter uh and uh also our own city services with camp buoy district this is really going to be a conversation about what's happening all over the city we're going to use the venue at camp buoy district to talk about it so everybody's invited june 26 monday night 5 30 to 7 at ridgely theater and the second thing i just wanted to mention is today we got a great update on the small business task force and our partnership with the institute for justice and city's work along with the coffin foundation has produced the small business insights and policy policy recommendations reports anybody like one from district contact the district their office but i think it's worth noting out of here the startup champions network summit was held um a week before last in washington dc and some of the things that we put in place here in forworth were discussed and talked about and raved about uh i'm gonna i'm not gonna dana burgdorf i appreciate you and all those leadership from the city staff and david cook for making this a priority and everybody else dj robert everybody's been a part of this we one of the things we created is a one-stop shop and we started off about six six months ago with one of the things completed and now four of the five things that make us great in this report we've completed and there's still more work to do but it's interesting read and pretty proud of the task force and everything going on there i'm using the wrong microphone apparently so it's making everybody panic so just a second but i'm going to go ahead and call on mayor pretend you know bivens who has announcements thank you mayor this is to be very very brief for those of you who are interested in what's going on with with our fireworks initiative and street racing we're going to talk about those and much more this Saturday at a district five meeting it is not the district five leadership meeting it is a district five meeting taking place at the east regional library we'll also talk about the woodhaven tip that's tip 13 and we'll talk about what's going on at trinity boulevard you'll notice i'm not giving you a time because you do need to register and you can do that by just emailing us at district five at fort worth texas dot gov lots of good information thanks to head to the two chiefs who will be there chief nox from police and chief davis from the fire department hope to see you there if you live in district five thank you councilmember williams thank you mayor just a few announcements first of all congratulations to crowley xt they cut the ribbon to their new auditorium it's a great example of the power public private partnerships in partnership with the ryan family ymca it's always so neat to see kids learning how to swim of all ages and if i if my memory serves me correct this facility will also be for their competition swim competitions as well i'm both at the middle and high school level so congratulations crowley xt our kids and families are super excited about the new pool um a few more announcements um there are a few events happening that i just wanted to um broadcast um first um the lake komo juneteenth celebration food from the soul um is june 17th at the komo community center um festivities begin um at eight a.m. um and they will go to two p.m. and then same day um later that evening the third annual juneteenth uh a commemoration it's an art event um at the komo community center from five p.m. to eight p.m. um there's a number of other festivities as well so um amongst many um we know um miss opaly and the legend um in history that she continues to pave so um you know please be sure to check out all the events across the city and um for more information you can go to the visit forward website for a number of juneteenth events that's all thank you council member hill sorry guys um okay on my 26 i was able to join the fort worth water department on a tour of lake worth and learn about the importance of the lake and the fort worth water supply as well as that of surrounding cities um thank you to chris harder marie got created the ccc to provide work for young men during the great depression and this was from 1934 to 1937 the ccc did considerable work in the fort worth nature center and refuge and 200 men arrived on may 1st in 1934 to begin work and they continue working through december of 1937 many of these structures and bridges were constructed by the ccc are still in use today at the nature center and i encourage you to go out and look at them and use them and fort worth is actually the only existing legacy ccc chapter um of the descendants in the nation next slide please this was uh gene fifth we had a neighborhood meeting in cresswood discuss the um redevelopment of the cresswood apartments and marie um margaret lemons of fort worth housing solutions and matt verushnik with ohala holdings came they came to answer questions and give us more detail about the project and thank you to loyde uh colgro for the cresswood neighborhood association for a very informative meeting and on gene six i had the pleasure of going to the tech spot press conference announcing the grade separation at bonds ranch road and us 287 through the new railroad crossing elimination program and this was in partnership with the city of fort worth bnsf railway and tech started obtained federal funding for crossing over bonds ranch road near the us 287 interchange and fort worth received the first federal grant of 17 million dollars on behalf of the biden harris administration um this particular intersection has 36 trains that stop block traffic every day this is um well hugely impacted traffic and zedge congestion in that area and in addition i want to thank the fort worth tpw staff who continue to work on the traffic issues in this area um the people in attendance were french thompson from bnsf and mit bows from the federal railroad administration brandy hendrickson from tech start and michael morris from the north central texas council of governments that's all i have that was your chance rusty to stand up and clap i'm shocked that you didn't right i know rusty i gave you that chance we should clap for that one that's a big one yeah there you go councilmember nettles you're up thank you um the first slide here is had opportunity to go to van sanguin elementary school playground ribbon cutting i was there with wallace bridges the school board trustee for that district um next slide please uh the ymca safe swim safe on the deck event it was a great event uh teaching children how to swim we know the importance of summertime where our kids are drowning so the ymca is doing their first share of teaching our young people how to swim next slide please uh journey for uh ward um gun violence prince prevention um event you know gun violence has really struck america and foreword and so it was a great opportunity to be amongst people uh to figure out how we can fix our issue here in foreword next slide holy wise graduation had opportunity to shake hands of individuals who're going on to the next adventure in life it was a great event holy wide um next slide please foreword uh civic camp that came up to city hall sit where you said came where we are teaching the kids about civic involvement that group of kids was very interesting they had a lot of good questions and a lot of things to talk about next slide please uh these are some events that's coming up uh this is going to be the evans and rose dell asking for our contractors to come out to bid on subcontracting for uh the project noon to two p.m. Wednesday jane june the 14th so that's on tomorrow so our contractors please uh govern yourselves accordingly next slide soul of sycamore juneteenth music art festival and celebration of freedom is going to be june the 17th through the 18th at the sycamore park it was a great event last year it's going to be a great music event this again this year so please come out you'll see parade freedom car show and the list goes on and on next slide please the openly walk vehicle registration 35 dollars uh you can look online just type in open i'm sure you get everything you need to know from there uh but come out and be a part of the walk uh we was great last year all the council members come out so we're looking for it again this year next slide please we're working on a health fair for the district eight or was really for the whole community so to come out we're going to have a doctor um jackson uh doing blood blood pressure checks and breast cancer awareness and then we're also going to have dentists and all sorts of things for our young people so come out and let's get healthy i believe that's it thank you councilmember beck all right uh first up we had our memorial day carry the load event and i want to thank uh one of my newest colleagues um councilman larsdorf for joining us and being so um quick to to jump in and be part of that it was nice to have someone to walk with also um chief nooks chief aldridge and members of the fourth police department members of the four worth fire department who all came out um in honor of not only our veterans but those first responders that we have lost here locally so i appreciate everybody for their participation next slide we had the fort worth pd uh family day and community safety fair the marshals were out there also some of the cutest pups that you've ever seen um and so if you are in the market for a dog even if you're not in the market for a dog you might be in the market for a dog um i'd highly recommend you all go and and check to see what the city of fort worth has to offer this was sammy who unfortunately um was adopted before i could get back and change my mind so um next slide fort worth isd vital links program i know i had the opportunity to speak and i think they visited city hall with the mayor as well this is really great opportunity for students at fourth isd to um get exposed to different career paths um i once was a vital link participant myself so it's always really great to be able to give back to those children next slide there's a little uh kick paul game this weekend um you can see there in that first picture none other than chief swearingen making a uh a run there in the uh tough stars give back celebrity kickball game for the record i would like it to be known that councilman chris nettles did lose one of order one of order um i really thank everybody who came out and participated in that as well there were a lot of really great community leaders um staff from the city and uh volunteers um special thanks to those who participated on the team top notch because we did show that we were in fact top top top notch i think my muscles look bigger but are y'all done down there okay we're looking they're there but can you blow that slide up so we can see chris's muscles please next slide um we do have um saturday june 17th i will be at wedgewood library reading to a bunch of children so i appreciate um those young and young at heart to come and join us at 10 30 next slide thursday june 22nd we will be having a public meeting to discuss um intersection improvements at forest park in 10th street so um please reach out to office if you have any additional questions about that next slide june 24th will be trinity pride fest from 6 p.m to 10 p.m on magnolia on the green i'd encourage you all to come out and join us next slide uh for those of us interested in completing the pride activity badge um you can click the qr code and do so here and um attending that trinity pride event is definitely one of your activities so i hope to see you there thanks i think that's a conclusion of our council presentations thanks janette next item will be 23-0382 we have quite a few speakers on this item our first speaker is david martinez followed by jordan johnson good evening usually i'm here to uh complain but i'm here to encourage the city to do all they can for the arts the reason why i believe in the arts is because i tell people well it's not privilege uh people think art this fine art all that stuff is it's all privileged stuff and we need uh there's more important things but i tell somebody uh i have family members that are blind and they wish they could see the artwork they wish they could see hear music see plays things like that those things are very important and um they're very important to our community in south side uh lots of us we don't have a cultural center in our neighborhood we don't have uh art supplies and things like that ready available to the kids in our neighborhood um those things need to change and i believe that new director gentle i believe in him and i believe he's going to reach out to the community and i also believe that it's going to there's going to be inclusiveness uh around the city and i believe that we need to keep this the 1300 genie building open and we need to keep it under the arts foot worth we don't need to only to privatize this not not like what y'all did to the botanic gardens we know this was this was built by the citizens that are already here um you want to make it for the people that you want to attract here uh that's fine but um you know you gotta remember we are the taxpayers not them and i know they bring millions of dollars i know they i i'm not ignorant to that but i understand that we need to keep foot words culture uh that's not a brand that's not something like you could go up there and say hey we're gonna have a levy leave it to a corporation to handle those type of things and i don't know what y'all plan on doing exactly but i haven't heard about the budget so i'm wondering is that already a done deal or not but i'm against that i and the people that i'm with in south side we're against that we're for we are for this arts foot word keep it going keep funding it in fact we need more funding and i'm here to tell you uh most of my community we're we're poor people they're hard working poor people but they pay taxes and i'm speaking with them and there we we've have a consensus that we believe that the arts program should continue thank you our next speaker is jordan johnson followed by hailey green hello my name is jordan johnson i live at 2204 hillcrest and i'm here to first speak in favor of the proposal provided by the task force i think they've done a great job but i do have some comments as i go through it um i know it's not a q&a but a couple little questions um first off i did want to say that i'm a fifth generation native and my great great great grandfather was joe hogsett who wrote the charter who started the city my grandfather joe lydic built kasabinyana so i've spent quite a lot of time uh in those buildings in this art center my mom actually used to run a haunted house in the basement when i was little so i love the building but first i'm here to announce i've been a commercial real estate broker and developer for 30 years i hate to admit and i was also one of the founding members of the now we call it the cultural district alliance so i've been around the neighborhood quite a bit and i plan on forming a dream team to respond to the rfp and make a proposal so that would include you know a to be determined architect world-class architect engineer all of those things so i have decided uh that that's gonna happen i've also been talking to westley who'll come up and speak and and aerial friends and some of the art community representatives about some of their concerns and so in the process of going through the rfp my team will be committed to keeping the arts community involved in my process every step of the way because i know that's very important so there won't there'll be no hidden processes from my point of view you know and i don't know who else is going to be uh competing for this but you know we're going to give it our best shot and i know my time is running out pretty quick here but you'll also hear from a lot of other people but i just wanted to say that in the process of doing this um i would urge that the council reviews the timeline that's proposed it's just a little bit tight um you know and the questions are you know we are going to have to find out you know there's phase two environmentals there's all kinds of studies we're going to be looking for that just take time so i would just urge that um as we go through this the reality is is the timeline is going to need to probably be pushed way out and you know other than that i do want to also commit that we will make a proposal where we will accept all of the preferred development where it says prefer selected developer incorporated we are going to require it upon ourselves thank you thank you okay thank you our next speaker is hailey green followed by benjamin connor hi there my name is hailey and i'm a resident of full word district seven i've been a passionate arts worker in dfw since 2015 commuting back and forth from university in summers to get my start in the theatrical community and residing and working full time here since 2019 during the COVID-19 pandemic the art scene in fort worth came to a screeching halt as most things did since the world is open back up we have seen time and time again that art and places of artistic expression are more important than ever in a time where society is in a constant state of revealing the things that separate us from one another art and spaces of artistic expression are examples of what can unite all of us together the fort worth art center provides valuable resources for new and emerging artists to begin to make their way into the rich artistic landscape of our city but most importantly arts for worth creates unprecedented paths for access to marginalized groups of artists specifically to artists of color who historically have been gate kept from opportunities and careers in the arts i remember what it was like to be given the opportunity to create art for the first time and everyone who craves that feeling deserves to be able to taste it and that chance is afforded to individuals every year by arts for worth and the other residencies and programs that call 1300 gendy street home i urge council members to ensure that 1300 gendy street remains a community art center so that many more years of creators have the opportunity to find their places in our community here in fort worth and to continue to grow for worth into a city where art is valued elevated and made accessible to everyone who wishes to create it thank you benjamin connor followed by jasmine walthall darry me yep sorry we're gonna skip that okay so benjamin connor and then aims fender is next scurry i'm benjamin connor i live in northwest side district two i have a professional background in finance and economics i'm also an artist and writer so i empathize with the concerns of both the council and arts community we all have the same goal of being a hub for world-class art excuse me we all have the same goal of being a hub for world-class artists and artifacts as such a community art center needs to be needs to have the funding for permanent spaces to facilitate artists artifacts and performances but the city should require that there be professionals who can educate artists and viewers about the cultural and personal significance of the art that is housed there the art center needs leaders and teachers who inspire local artists viewers and patrons with the necessary aesthetic prowess to be a world-class art space i would hate to see political motivations that co-opt and undermine the purpose of aesthetics in our culture the philosophy of aesthetics is the foundation of all meaningful art the community art center has skilled artists who have knowledge and experience administrators who have understanding but how many of them have something more than that how many of them have the appropriate education to generate creative wisdom that can transform somebody's worldview by using something akin to the Socratic method artists and viewers can emotionally and philosophically interrogate an artifact or performance in order to obtain the prophetic significance locked inside the art with that updated understanding one begins to apply that insight and methodology to themselves in their lives it's an education on how one can relate a sensation to an aesthetic form and from there they explore new aesthetic forms unlock new sensations in a deeper self realization that is world-class art space the development of taste is the expansion of one's own identity which helps develop character and if one has a rich character just how much more impactful will they be in their spheres of influence focusing on how to sell art isn't just what makes the city known as a hub of world-class world-class art it's the way we educate people about art how emotional intelligence unlocks oneself and how being a greater degree of oneself transforms our city at a grassroots level this is not the return on investment that taxpayer is this not the return on investment that taxpayers and leaders expect a greater degree of well-being for the whole community the functional education at libraries provide is no different from the emotional education that the arts provide please don't forget the sole purpose of a regime a constitution its leaders is to ensure that and increase the safety and well-being of the citizens thank you our next speaker is Ames Fender followed by Wesley Kirk hello my name is Ames Fender I reside at 311 Bryant Avenue Fort Worth and my office is at 201 South Calhoun there has been a fender involved with the arts in this town since my grandfather was in a barbershop quartet back in the 19 teens including my mother's 50 years on the board of the Fort Worth Symphony and there was my brother in a band that opened for Slimes Family Stone at Will Rogers back in the 60s so in some way or form a fender has been involved and for the last over 50 years 1300 Gendi has been at the center of that development of the arts in this town I can remember as a child being dragged in meetings that my mom would go to with the symphony in that building and I think that I also have a unique perspective having been the architect for ADA conversions renovations from the modern art museum was still in there and then working with the Scott Foundation for the last serious renovation that occurred to the Scott theater with the rigging lighting seating and various finishes so I understand the complexities about building I understand the complexity of financing in the arts and the difficult challenge facing everybody here I do believe most of that building can be preserved and saved in whatever fashion whoever funds it or whatever developer does it I think because of the finance and everything involved I fully support the idea of it the property being redeveloped so long as it is strictly placed in there the requirement that it be for arts organization and that it be in an incubator inaccessible and for all diverse groups in the city of Fort Worth because it needs to be maintained as that for the city whoever is managing it that's all I have to say thank you very much our next speaker is Wesley Kirk followed by Sean McGuire my name is Wesley Kirk I live in district seven I'm a photographer a filmmaker an arts organizer the Fort Worth community art center is a foundational corner stone of the entire creative community not just in Fort Worth but throughout north Texas you'd be hard-pressed to find an artist or arts organization in town who hasn't in some form or fashion been impacted by the art center I'm here to ask you for a continuance in approving this recommendation partly because y'all have not had enough time to learn about the pivotal role that the art center plays in the city partly because if you push ahead with what even Maddie Parker called an aggressive timeline you risk not only missing a golden opportunity for this building to truly live up to its highest and best use but you also risk losing one of the most vital resources the city has I've been to many of the task force meetings and witnessed lots of miscommunication and a lack of forethought on the impact of the recommendation because it only prefers that the things that the community loves remain it creates a possibility that we lose everything for the simple fact that it's not required I think the responsible thing to do is to listen to what the community wants and needs to understand what the full function of the building could be to work with the tenants who are already working miracles in the building to learn how the city can better support them potentially with a new building better designed to fully fit the community's needs then talk to developers to see how we can make that happen no matter what happens at 1300 prendy Street now or in the future I urge you to require that it remain a community art center with galleries and theaters the Fort Worth community art center acts as a community showcase to display the talent skill and creativity that Fort Worth has to offer it is a place that the community that ties the community together where we can tell our stories it is one of the few accessible equitable and inclusive art spaces in Fort Worth without it there will be too few art spaces here and artists might have to move to other cities where the arts are better supported any city of our size has at least four community art spaces and they are almost always owned and maintained by the city treated the same way as a library or community center it's time for Fort Worth to step up and take a more active role in supporting the arts the very same arts that make the city such a wonderful place to live and visit the task force says they want to create a world-class cultural hub but it is already a cultural hub with world-class art and Fort Worth deserves a world-class building to reflect that by expanding upon what is already happening there no one here wants to lose what we already have this is an opportunity for you as city council to listen to the community to do the responsible thing and do the right thing i ask you to either issue a continuance so that we can take time to get this right or require that it remain a community art center so that we can help the arts flourish in the city of Fort Worth thank you our next speaker is Sean Maguire followed by Joe a brown my name is Sean Maguire and i'm a local artist in the community i'm here today to ask that you please make the galleries and theater spaces not preferred but required in the redevelopment of 1300 gendi the first time i visited the four worth community art center was on a field trip in high school we went to the modern the kimble the aamon carter and the four worth art community art center because it was right there we'd even have to get back on the bus in contrast when we would go to dallas we would go to the dma and the nash or but we never went to one of the dallas community art centers why they're nowhere nearby the museums i myself worked in museums for over six years and the question you get asked the most is how do i get my art in the museum which is not an easy question to answer most artists don't start off showing in museums they start off showing in galleries which gallery specifically community art galleries if you are in any of the major art museums in fort worth you are at most four blocks away from the four worth community art center so if someone asks how do i show my work in a museum you can start off an actual trajectory for them by just saying oh down the street that's where you get your start additionally because of this close proximity to the museums our local artwork also has a bigger platform for reaching wider audiences bringing attention to the strength of the art coming out of the actual community without these galleries and theater spaces in the cultural district you'll just emphasize how little the city cares about local artists by essentially saying our local art isn't good enough to be in the cultural district beyond just the location of the community art center arts for worth has supported so many local artists and allowed them to grow in their artistic careers by giving them places to show and sell their work from hosting workshops to help you with the business side of art to critique nights and by just giving a space to get our voices out there i don't know a single artist in north texas who hasn't in some way but like positively benefited from the four worth community art center and the community surrounding it i'm so sad and that like the future of the such a wonderful space is even a topic of conversation so please make gallery spaces and theater spaces and non-negotiable and the redevelopment of 1300 gandy street thank you is joe brown followed by tiffany castello hello i'm joe allen brown i live in district 11 on the trendy east side i am professor of theater and chair of theater at texas weston university where we finally had a winning football team this year yeah yeah um there have been such eloquent speeches i think westley especially talking about the need for this space to continue to be for arts incubators galleries theater and other various performances currently right now kids who care is in there still in shakespeare is in there and what is known as the scott theater is rented by many of the private high schools in the area theater tcu uses it texas weston uses it my concern in looking at all this is that that theater is the only theater that was designed by don lansleger who was a 1950s broadway designer who went on to be the chair of design at yale it is a significant architectural space in the same way that causes geodesic dome designed by buckminster fuller is a significant space in the cultural district it's also one of the few theaters that is a mid-sized theater there are no small theaters here we have bass we have will rogers we do not have other spaces we have the wonderful i am terrell space that thank you for it worth for finally doing a decent theater space for the teachers of the fourth isd but we need a smaller space i'm also on vice president of the board at jubilee theater which is also very interested in using it as well for their larger shows it's an incredible space we do not have a mid-sized theater there yes it needs to be updated but we need opportunities for public theaters that could be used that are not huge barns like will rogers or even some of our high school theater spaces but it the value there within the history of that space so whatever you all are looking at doing please keep it a community art center but please please continue to look at keeping that particular space within there something that is the treasure for fort worth that's it our next speaker is tiffany castello hi i'm tiffany castello i'm from district nine i live in near south side i'm a musician and an event producer and a photographer and all things creative and i also have a numbers brain um so i can speak to both sides of this situation i recently moved back to fort worth after being gone for eight years during those eight years i lived in denver seattle and new york city all amazing creative hubs for the arts vibrant cities for artists because of that support and funding available texas currently ranks 42nd in the country for funding the arts and fort worth has the chance to move that needle which will only amplify the vibrancy of our creative community and the voice of it and draw other people to this community the creative economy is also a profitable sector with budget minded events programming of exhibits and more at 1300 gendi can be a destination place for people in and around dfw and from across texas as well as the country i'm thinking marfa texas it's a tiny town everyone knows where marfa is and it's creative i came back to fort worth to return not only because my family's here my friends are here but also to the creative community that is that exists and has existed here for so long from independently owned record studios dance studios very unique venues bars museums and more fort worth is an incubator for artists and creativity and supports local businesses and it is creatively accessible here access is incredibly important not only to support the artist but to get them started as it's been mentioned um in previously um and to continue that access uh support and preservation are essential 1300 gendi is creatively accessible to the community and we need to continue to support the community with support to these spaces one of the things about the other cities i've lived in is that those community gathering spaces are not in short supply they are everywhere they're often unique historic buildings which create a one of a kind atmosphere and for the experience of the artist and the patrons these venues and spaces are destinations because of the story they can tell and the historical significance behind them and the atmosphere they can create 1300 gendi is and continue to be a destination finally the creative economy is robust in texas it creates one in 15 jobs generates 380 million in tax revenue 50.1 billion in gdp 6.1 billion in revenue for texas 26 so 26 million dollars in repairs would see an roi due to the local economy ready to attend and to the vibrancy of that stream of revenue already existing in texas with so many eyes on fort worth on this current situation there's a unique opportunity to make a positive impact on the artist community and elevate fort worth as a city that supports the arts thank you our next speaker is leila razi and she has to correct me on probably had butchered her name followed by denise celerno don't worry it's pretty uncommon to pronounce it correctly so my name is lala reside thank you thank you i'm the owners of south barbershop and district nine south main village it's just me and a fellow barber george um two chairs and a bunch of wall art i've been in operation for four years and from day one i've hosted artists display their art in my shop each month i've had about 40 different artists in total i also participate in the third thursday art crawl in the near south side if you know about that you totally go it's really fun you just go from shop to shop people have art in their businesses you can visit and they usually have special events going on that night between the art walk my clients the neighbors art enthusiasts that visit i can sing the praises of the impact that art has had on my business it has since become a pillar of my shop and its culture i'm constantly surprised by how excited clients get at seeing art from new artists on the wall each month i absolutely love it all that to say i am doing what i can to adamantly support and promote local artists in an effort to enrich the culture of a rapidly growing city without these easily accessible exhibits the heart of a cultural district beats too softly to really experience the richness of the people who live and work in its borders what i've gleaned from coordinating this little art gallery in the smallest barbershop in town and why to consistently hear from artists is that there is a huge shortage of affordable accessible spaces for the sheer number of artists we have in port worth we're so lucky to call residents here art groups have been vocal about it and have had to be extremely creative with scouting locations for exhibitions it has fallen on the shoulders of businesses to nurture the artists in the city and we happily participate but it isn't enough for these truly talented and bright artists to hope for a chance to display their art in a five by eight piece of plywood in my shop or for a group of renegade artists to start their own art collective even if more businesses had their own art walls it would wouldn't be enough to replace what arts fort worth already offers at the fort worth community art center private solutions can't solve a public problem obviously fort worth is rapidly growing this little cow town is now a cow city as such we should do the city residents and visitors we would do the city's residents and visitors a disservice by failing to secure accessible spaces for artists and performers to display and celebrate their work without the exorbitant cost and uncertainty easily navigated by well-established artists now is the time to decide what kind of city we want to be as a business owner there's a greater appeal in a city that cultivates an exciting creative culture we want to remain a competitive city we must maintain that fort worth community art center as a space for artists and for the people of fort worth you must ensure that the community art center hosts artists and galleries and performers and theaters the amazing work happening in the fort worth community art center to give the amazing work happening in the fort worth community art center to give the innumerable talented artists a platform to display their work and expand their careers must continue i'm asking you to require that no matter what happens to 1300 gendy street that it remain a community art center thank you our next speaker is denise salerno followed by jerry tracy hi i did enjoy the team here tonight fort worth gonadility it's great yes my name is uh denise salerno i'm a poet the importance of creative arts music song movies books poetry dance expression of language we communicate with one another not only through i'm sorry not only through our minds and bodies but through our soul of well-being it's through our minds and bodies we speak human race filled with passion medicine law business engineering these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life but poetry beauty romance love these are what we stay alive for telling stories preserving our history is what we learn from now and future generations bringing resources education economics benefits miss salerno i'm going to pause your time i think we've got disruption from a call or something coming in okay she was at 147 please continue thank you thank you sorry to interrupt you no no problem an enjoyment to not only in our community but all over the world this is the core and strength of a foundation storytelling but not limited the importance of creative arts performances there of function to entertain as well to educate to understand the impact on all of us i encourage everyone to explore the poets of fort worth the remembrance of the poets that brought poetry to our community i'm placing a marker in fort worth and the poets the fort worth poet society still remains in our community welcome strangers warmly in a world of need love and peace that's beautiful thank you thank you thank you very much our next speaker is jerry tracy followed by bernando valrino good evening mayor parker and council members it is really hard to follow a poet and i know it so on that i am representing historic fort worth tonight a 501c3 charity a preservation organization that has been around since 1969 with and right as of today 36 board members that any one of them would have loved to have served on your task force but no one was invited so just tuck that away for next time these comments also represent our board chairman here kenner who was a construction attorney she's out of the country and sent back additional comments the task force recommends a world-class building and the fort worth community art center has a distinguished provenance herbert bare an austrian trained architect is known as a curator of aesthetics and he designed phase one of the building in 1954 for over 30 years he was the lead architect to design a little village called aspen that took off in 1966 the scott's theater was added and designed by cornell educated architect joseph r pellick of fort worth and harvard's donal owens lager of new york city lastly in 1974 the final addition to the art center was designed by o'neill ford and associates of san antonio an architect known as the grandfather of texas modernism this is a building that can generate restoration tracks tax credits within specific ownership requirements the state of texas restoration tax credit program generates 25 percent on each dollar spent for improvements on a state or nationally designated building this plan would allow a phased-in approach rather than funding all the projects at once like new construction the tax credits would reduce the 30 million price tag to 22.5 million off the top design demolition and construction costs for a new building will cost much more than restoring the art center it is misleading to announce that the restoration cost are excessive because no one knows what the new building would cost this is a building with deferred maintenance that's gone on for years the charities that work at the community art center cannot fund these expenses especially for a building they do not own scraping the building will severely interrupt the business of the arts group renting the building a phased-in restoration plan would cause the least amount of disruption for the arts groups that use the building a thriving arts environment continuously innovates and grows and supports a vibrant tourism industry cultural museums and historic preservation thank you miss tracy support economic development thank you thank you thank you jerry our next speaker is Bernando Valerino followed by Henry Willis good evening everybody my name is Bernardo Valerino I live in 7417 Dublin Springs material jerry is my council member and it's great to see a lot of people I recognize are carless michael you know david it's very great to be here it's it feels like family and I want to talk on behalf of the gindy uh issue that we have here today one of things that I want to point out as a artist but also as a real estate agent for 20 years of experience in commercial residential real estate is that it looks like we have dropped the ball as a city with our own assets the amount of disrepair that this building has had for so many years to me it's it's it's wrong and as an artist I feel like I've been double screwed not only it's a taxpayer but also an artist so just to keep that in mind the other thing I want to point out is I have taught art as well graduate and postgraduate levels and here in Fort Worth one of the things that people ask me is uh similar question the early is like what do I do to grow as an artist in to get to museums and and further further ahead in my career and and normally the answer is you need to find opportunities right so if let's say for example that Jared or you know michael one of your kids wanted to go to school and have an arts career that's what I will tell them right start with the community arts center but if the community arts center does not exist as it exists right now your kids will have to go to a different city in order to have those opportunities because we only have one or two cultural centers locally that gives us kind of opportunities that would be embarrassing if I was in your seat right to have them to go somewhere else so just having the requirement in the in the current uh verbiage that we have would be important right so to increase it from from you know a into a requirement so I don't lose time um and last but not least the other thing that I wanted to point out is just be careful about creating a public private partnership when it comes on to the arts you know in my case I make artwork that is social commentary you know I make artwork that makes comments on religion uh currently I'm making artwork that it comments on guns so I have you know um torsos that have a gun instead of male genitalia right and you know a lot of private entities may not like the kind of artwork being shown right it works well for um you know the zoo because animals are not politic per se right or for plants for those kind of stuff it works but when it comes to the arts we have to be very very careful who hasn't said so because our first amendment as artists can be really easily be put aside just because of those elements so once again make sure that we're making the right decisions with the arts our future and our city thank you it's followed by ariel davis esteemed counselors and mayor parker good evening my name is doryl henry willis the third and I have lived my entire life at 2300 from rose avenue and oakhurst and district 11 I'm here today to speak against the adoption of this resolution I first came to 1300 gendy street as a child of seven or eight to attend art camp at what was then the original modern art museum I have been part of uh field trips that have gone to the scott theater over many years and recently I was invited there by arts fort worth to read my poetry as part of a uh let's see uh yeah it's part of an initiative which encouraged local poets to write about pieces made by fort worth artists so to say that this building has played an important part of my life would be an incredible understatement unfortunately this building has suffered in fort worth we've gotten an awful lot of hotels motels restaurants bars and other kind of businesses this is a good and necessary thing as I have recently read that we are on track to reach a million residents and more in the next brief span of years those people are going to need places to work and live places to buy groceries and places to park their cars but they're also going to need something more than that they are going to need a place for art fort worth has some of the finest art museums in the world I know that because I grew up here not long ago 1300 gendy street stood proudly as one of them how fortunate we are then to have it and this historic building which it is as our fort worth art space what is required is not development or redevelopment but rather preservation and support your support I will end my entreaty to you with some questions when you're in your car returning home at the end of a long day of hearing from people like me have you ever listened to music when you get home do you have a painting or prints on the walls have you been to a movie theater recently or maybe a play well wouldn't you prefer that that music and that painting and those plays and that movie be fort worth art by fort worth artists I know I would in that spirit I urge you not to approve this resolution for redevelopment and instead to reevaluate this situation and give it the necessary time attention and support to preserving 1300 gendy street so that fort worth art and fort worth artists may yet have their proper place in this our great city thank you thank you miss davis will be followed by claire kennedy hello mayor parker and council members I would like to start by thanking you for hearing so many of us today and uh to the task force who's put so much work in on this project my name is ariel davis I'm a resident of district seven and I'm an artist and arts professional and I am against the recommendation with its current language and it is a simple fix the fourth community arts center holds a dear place in my heart I first showed my work there at 17 years old and was awarded a prize for my work by harry tenison since then it has served me and many of my peers as an important place to show our artwork in a professional public setting it is a wonderful space for discovery I currently serve voluntarily on the exhibition advisory panel for the fourth community arts center and I am proud of the exhibitions that have been displayed as a result of the panel's hard work each year how many of you on the council and the citizens of fort worth believe that local artists are showing regularly at the modern kimball or aamon carter aside from aside from some community programming at the carter and long-established artists in permit collections this perception is wrong you won't find our works displayed in exhibitions in these great museums yet to get to that level artists including the young emerging and mid career need spaces to share their work in person and with the public taking away this important show space is like taking out a rung in a ladder making even even more difficult to find pathways into museum spaces as artists progress in their careers after watching the video from the june 6 task force recommendation presentation it is clear that the task force sees the cultural value of the services provided in the 1300 gindi building however from the artist's perspective many of us are alarmed by and concerned with the accelerated timeline of change which is leaving many scared and confused especially when that change does not guarantee that there will be a space for them in the form of galleries and a theater at the end of the process but because change seems inevitable in the circumstance i ask you to simply replace the word prefer in the recommendation to required make it a requirement that the redevelopment proposals must include ample and world-class space for the next generation of artists to grow in and i ask you to invest in and nurture our talent that is here as well as attract artists you foreword we have an opportunity to make foreword a great leader in this regard for years to come and you have an opportunity for that to be a part of your legacy as foreword leaders don't waste it let us continue to build on our rich history as a city that loves and supports art guarantee with a requirement that there will be an exhibition space for us artists to call home in the future thank you our next speaker is claire kennedy followed by mary anchoa name is claire kennedy and i live in council district three represented by council member michael crane and i'm proud to say that i'm currently the emerging artist in residence at arts fort worth which entails being offered a studio space for one year located on the second floor overlooking the front entrance of the building i actually grew up in sincenady ohio moving to north texas in 2019 for my mfa program at unt i graduated last year and have since been working as an adjunct professor at various art programs at dfw universities as many artists and educators know this is not always the most stable or reliable career path classes can be hard to come by and enrollment shifts every semester as a working and exhibiting artist studio spaces are extremely hard to come by in fort worth i would not be here in this wonderful city i now call home if not for the opportunities offered to me by arts fort worth my first solo exhibition out of grad school was at arts fort worth which gave me the visibility to show with galleries and dallas and beyond not only has arts fort worth offered me multiple opportunities to show and work uh to show work in a state where i otherwise wouldn't have a foot in the door but they've also given me the space and funds to continue creating art and contributing to this vibrant community in a city 1000 miles away from my hometown a space like arts fort worth is not only beneficial but pivotal in my relationship building in the arts and ability to stay in fort worth and continue making art this is true for myself and so many other friends and colleagues who have been offered opportunities because of the doors opened by arts fort worth all of this is made possible by the galleries studio spaces and offices available at 1300 gendi street when i moved to texas i dreamed of finding a rich and supportive art community where i could plant my roots i'm lucky enough to say that i found that through grad school and my time at the fort worth community arts center the arts deserve funding people moving to texas deserve opportunities to show their work please keep 1300 gendi street a free and accessible arts center for the deserving residents of arts fort worth or sorry of fort worth as jenna grace said in her speech to the task force on march 30th if this goes where do we go thanks so much our next speaker is actually chad win chad will be followed by carol asado hi thank you for your time um i'm gonna keep this brief i didn't have anything prepared uh i hear from dalis about five years ago and i love this city um i've recently um come to see how arts fort worth and the community center has impacted this community and i think it should stay as it is um it should stick under arts fort worth um i think we need to pillar this sort in this community um it's going to be beneficial for us i um like i said i don't have much prepared here but i just i wish that you would just make um this a requirement to have the theaters in the in the galleries in there above anything else thank you very much thank you mr win our next speaker is carol asado followed by matt sacks um my name is carol asado i am a small business owner i have had a business here for 17 years i'm from district seven um let me put my glasses on um my business i am an industrial designer i have a consultant business and i also am a traditional artist um dido to what everybody else has said here um i'm not going to repeat repeat it so i'm just going to tell you my testimony um due to the so-care program at fort worth community arts center i was able to have my first exhibit i and another artist we none of neither of us had representation we both had our very first exhibit in gallery one at the fort worth community arts center it's a beautiful space um it you feel like you're you can bring people there and be proud you can take pictures of your exhibits and it's such a beautiful space it looks like a professional exhibit and part of that plays into um the the the unique part of it um sometimes these types of spaces are relinquished to basements with paneling and you know just some awful spaces that you know concrete walls and things that don't really show off your art and bad lighting so um after we had our show there we had a gallery owner come and we signed our contract for representation and and they took every single painting every single piece of art that we had in that exhibit and it was our first gallery representation also so i had i had my first solo show the following year at that show it was during the fort uh fort worth stock show and rodeo and it was a western exhibit and i had picked up two more galleries and every single piece of that art went into a gallery and all of those paintings have been sold with the exception of two so um i just want to say it's the only place i know where emerging artists can apply to have an exhibit all on their own without having someone else necessarily tell them you do have to apply and they do look at your artwork and determine but um i don't know what any other place in the country that does that um i'd also like to say i'd like for the building to be preserved is in itself is a piece of art um it's a beautiful piece of mid-century architecture the architect is an artist i would like to see it preserved if possible and um if you do have to tear it down please build it back better give us more space more theaters more gallery space that's it thank you matt sax will be followed by sofia del rio good evening my name is matt sax um i live at 4620 winnell campo uh some friends of mine and i we run a local art gallery out of that space it's called the grackle art gallery and i'm here to speak in favor of the fort worth community art center the building that it's in and everything that that place does historical significance cultural significance and all the great things that the fort worth community art center does for everyone in this community up and coming artists up and coming musicians theater performers you name it it is vitally important that this place be preserved physically and that it preserve be preserved for the entire community so that the entire arts community can grow and be significant for everyone thank you fia del rio followed by debbie wheeling sofia del rio masters of science northwestern university neuroscience phd candidate all but dissertation neuroscience district six dr jared williams is my representative here dr williams from one whip smart texan to another i think you should know what's at stake here redevelopment of 1300 guinea street is a freedom of speech issue what has been the driver of american innovation free speech free speech and the right to peacefully assemble the community art center in fort worth is the only place in north texas where texans can gather for free and be immersed in seven galleries of art as well as theater dance etc many nonprofits that serve the community are also housed here dr williams this is our first time meeting i have never seen you at the community art center let me tell you right now on view is julie lebersat from dentin curator and artist marica batista from loretto and lily and young a native texan now residing in brooklyn new york as well as 80 other artists right now this fort worth based community art center serves all of texas because it is unique and free this place houses the ability to assemble and speak it is a grassroots hub of innovation in conversation this very american place of innovation is being redeveloped we are here to discuss the redevelopment it's been made clear to me that a for-profit model is being pushed forward i caution you against a for-profit model ticket prices sensor who has access in fact the parking the paid parking around the area has prevented community members from attending pricing people out of access to free speech is censorship this model closes the doors to the community it serves it will become a tourist attraction for worth already has world-class museums we need to serve the whole community not just the bankers and the developers like mr jordan johnson and the rich i introduce myself with my scientific credentials intentionally you see i am a local artist artists are seen as being ditzy and disorganized i'd like to tell you that is a stereotype that historically has been used to quiet the voice of thinkers and innovators i will not be quiet i also introduced myself with my neuroscience background to tell you this for worth is like a living animal if you cut out the thinking portion of the brain the imaginative portion of the brain the language centers and the planning portion of the brain in surgery the animal will keep living it will be a breathing drooling non responsive sack of flesh it will never be able to care for itself again if you redevelop the community arts center thank you so for a for-profit model you lobotomize for work our next speaker is debbie wheeling followed by quintin mcgowan good evening my name is debbie wheeling i've lived in district three for about 50 years now and i have been a patron of the port worth arts community arts center for many years i was introduced to it by a local locally educated mfa educated artist who really opened my eyes to what's possible out there and i really just want to say that if we don't have a place like the community arts center for our new and emerging artists where are they going to go they they have to have a place and i would urge you to consider uh in the redevelopment plans that it's required that we have that community arts center there because if we just wait five years to build another one what's going to happen to those artists in that time frame i have uh art from local artists hanging all over my walls at home and i'm very proud of it and i i think everyone has been very eloquent tonight and uh you certainly have had a lot of comments in support of keeping it a requirement that the community arts center be in the new redevelopment and that's pretty much what i wanted to say thank you our next speaker is quentin mcgowan and then we're going to shift to some calls that we have on the agenda mayor parker members of council manager cook it's been remarkable listening to the voices of these emerging artists and the new generation of artists i'm just another multi-generational old guy who's lucky to live in both districts nine and seven but i'm here to ask you tonight to continue consideration on the recommendation from the 1300 gendi task force i applaud the work of the task force and firmly believe that they approached a difficult situation with honesty and integrity but were not allowed the time nor given sufficient information to result in a recommendation that we now risk destroying an existing world class cultural hub with no needs and attendant costs for the nebulous prospect of building another with unknown costs unseen design and unforeseeable public acceptance it was the fort worth arts center as the community arts center was then known that brought international recognition to fort worth we've already heard some of the remarkable architects who were included in this complex i've included a little bit more of that information and expanded remarks for you i urge you to reject the recommendation that's on the table at the very least continue consideration of the task force report to allow for a fully developed and better informed public process to determine the fate of this most public facility the public had a single opportunity to advocate for the complex and last minute changes to the speaking rules further limited meaningful input from a capacity audience that night now is not the time to make a precipitous decision based on a deliberately short study that supports the result the city has pursued since it acquired stewardship of the complex from the art association nearly 20 years ago the task force recommendation is an unsurprising result following decades of deferred maintenance and the doomed from the start concept to shift the city's responsibility for maintenance onto the shoulders of tenant managers the city knew could never fulfill impossible obligations we are told now that the complex is old is too expensive to repair so let's tear it down and see what happens those same words were spoken over the years about the north side coliseum the will rogers memorial complex and the taren county courthouse and dozens of other architectural treasures that make fort worth the great city it is we are now confronting a self-fulfilling prophecy reflected in the public comments contained in the report start with an irreplaceable complex crafted by some of the world's best designers then don't maintain it don't promote it choke access to it by charging excessive and economically discriminatory parking fees and then determine that it can't serve its purpose and open the doors to redeveloping scarce public land now is not the time to reward neglect please take time let's just take a step back do this right we want a world-class center we need a world-class effort and i know fort worth is capable of doing it thank you our first caller is jasmine wall palt dare me mayor we have not been able to reach her christina snook listen see us oak christina christina i'm here yes please go ahead to the count yes can you hear me yes can you hear me yes we can hear christina council you have heard okay you have heard me speak in recent weeks concerning issues within my community of rosemont and the collective south side but today i'm here to speak on another matter i would like to speak on the many positive experiences i've had at art sport worth years ago i had the privilege of attending a gallery opening of a friend of mine as a young woman at this time this experience was like none other i had had before complete with food and beverages and communion and celebration of the art that this friend had to offer our community though this may seem like a regular event to many for me it was the first and something to that point i had only seen in movies you see up until that moment i did not realize those types of experiences were available to people like us both the artists and those who enjoy their art i thought only certain people that ran in wealthier social circles and with connections to high end galleries could have experiences like this my second memorable experience with arts fort worth was years later when i was a teacher at morning side elementary one of my students invited me to their performance with kids who care i watched as this very talented and vivacious student of mine sometimes struggled to feel like he fit in at school but when i watched him perform for kids who care i watched him come alive as his full self on that stage and i watched as his fellow kids who care past members embraced him with love and full acceptance i know for a fact that kids who care made a huge impact on his life not to mention that spot theater is just such an amazing and unique theater that just made the experience that much better my latest experience with arts fort worth in scott theater was my niece's recent dance competition with her dance studio motivation dance which by the way is the absolute most inclusive dance studio in dfw and the only one of its kind everything about the scott theater enhanced experience of watching this dance competition and i want to make sure that the scott theater remains a place where organizations like dan motivation dance and kids who care can continue to showcase the talent of all children no matter their cultural ethnic or economic background i would also like to say that in preserving community arts and fort worth you are making sure that the most marginalized people of our community has the ability to showcase their art express the challenges their community space through art and have a real shot at making their career as artists please preserve the unique and diverse nature of fort worth remember we are not dallas please do not widen the space between a half and a half knot by replacing this community art space with some high end gallery and only make art successful to a select few please keep the scott theater and the galleries at this location intact so that it continues as a community art space and cultural landmark in fort worth thank you our next caller is uh is it mary anchua mary we have not been able to reach mary or uh keisha okay cat stupka hi can you hear me yes go ahead please my name is cat stupka and i am a 32 year and second generation resident of fort worth texas district three my family now has three generations that are connected passionately to and have benefited positively from the fort worth community art center at 1300 gendy i went to every gallery night in the fort worth community art center with my grandmother betty say a prominent local artist from about age six until she could no longer walk to make it through her favorite thing was getting to show her work in that building over the years she told me repeatedly through my life and stated that it was because of the diverse artists she got to show with and the access that provided to the community not only to view the work but be a part of it she could have shown her paintings anywhere in the city and was frequently asked to but she always chose the fort worth community art center because of what it gave to the community she is 96 and can't be here but i know she would speak emphatically about preserving it i uh saw my first kids who care play at the scott theater on an elementary school field trip and i fell in love with the stage i pursued theater as an anchor of my middle high school and college years because of one experience in that space i spent 15 years on stage acting running lights sounds building and painting award-winning sets for multiple schools and fort worth one experience in that space began not only the foundation of friendships i still hold today but the fundamentals of who i am as an artist and a person and it all started at 1300 gendi street when i was a single mom with a five-year-old who desperately wanted to be on stage the only reason that i was able to let them attend theater camp and classes was because of resources and scholarships provided to me through kids who care that five-year-old is almost 14 and is in the building at 1300 gendi literally as we stand here speaking learning from former fort worth community art center kids turned Broadway performers at kids who care camp we're privileged to not need those scholarships anymore but without that space and the ability that it allowed for kids who care to support us when we did i don't know if my child would have ever gotten the opportunity to find their voice because of the fort worth community art center my performer and artist has a bright future in a second home at this building in fort worth a cultural hub is meant to be a catalyst for building the next generation of artistic cultural and creative leaders so if the task force aims to create a cultural hub in fort worth respectfully they cannot do any better than preserving the world-class building and fort worth community art center and its countless efforts to support educate connect give access to and celebrate the unique voices and work of generations of fort worth artists if this building is going to be redeveloped i support that but encourage a continuance that will allow you to listen to the overwhelming voices that are asking you to require that it have galleries and theaters and require that it remains a free community art center that allows fort worth kids who care art fort worth and other organizations to use it to state thank you cat your time expired our next speaker speaker is rachel gollay rachel and i'm can you hear me yes go ahead now great good evening mayor parker and council members my name is rachel gollay and i am a resident of district nine i'm also a local musician and i'm proud to have called fort worth home for almost 20 years now in january 2020 i was honored to represent the city through here fort worth as an lgbtq music ambassador at the new york times travel show and tonight i want to echo the many folks who are speaking on behalf of the vital importance of community art space here in our city and request that the rsp for 1300 gandy be amended to require that galleries and theaters in the proposed space be included so that the fort worth community art center's mission can continue to benefit our city without a facility like fort worth community art center i would not have made the many meaningful connections that i have made with fellow artists in a variety of different mediums we need these kinds of cultural hubs to strengthen and invigorate the creative class that's vital to our city's thriving both economically and culturally from kids who care to art's fort worth to the early days of amphibian stage which is now a beacon of our city bringing in internationally renowned performances it's clear that the kind of tangible impact this home for the arts has on improving the overall quality of life here in the city is not just for artists but it's for everyday residents who deserve these kinds of authentic touch points with culture and community if fort worth wants to remain an attractive and vibrant city community art spaces like 1300 gandy are not luxuries they are necessities and while we're lucky enough to be home to world class museums theaters and galleries publicly funded community art spaces fill a completely different niche that has been woefully underfunded over time this is quite literally the place where artists of all ages get their first start their first break and even establish artists are continuing to hone their craft our communities can thrive with equitable access to art and creative outlets and together we can ensure that access continues and sustains well into fort worth's future it's time for us to invest meaningfully in the kind of spaces where performers and artists of all kinds can call home we should be adding to this ecosystem and not subtracting from it and so i'd like to urge a continuance or at the very least that the rfp be amended to require that gallery and theater spaces for community art at 1300 gandy be included please take a stand to ensure that there is still a home for community arts programming here in fort worth thanks here is loretta snook weizel loretta loretta hello yes go ahead good evening mayor parker and council members thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak with you again today my name is loretta snook whistle and i live in district 11 i also have spoken to you in recent weeks on issues impacting the rosemont neighborhood and south side but tonight i am also speaking to you on another important matter many others and i and rosemont support this community arts center for the last couple of years i've personally been able to enjoy my children performing at the pot theater and to see their faces light up when they see me in the audience means the world to me this proscenium theater is so unique to fort worth and makes it such an enjoyable experience to see production it is also more importantly enjoyable for the children who can actually see their loved ones in the audience supporting them the gallery space is one of the few remaining in fort worth that helps emerging artists that may not necessarily have the money or resources to showcase their art the fort worth community arts center should be regarded the same as the library or community center as the focus should not be on revenue but on preserving a place for emerging artists the fort worth community arts center provides an opportunity to emerge emerging artists actors theater companies and young dancers that may not necessarily have had this opportunity otherwise imagine a fort worth child who is an artist actor or dancer whose love for their art is so powerful they want to showcase it to the world now imagine that passion inside of them being stifled because they can't access a place to showcase that talent i respectfully request that you all vote to postpone the resolution accepting the final report of the 1300 handy task force until language is added to the rfv that requires the art gallery space and the scott theater be preserved and that it will not be for profit i truly hope after you all hear everyone speak on this matter that you will take the community's wishes and consideration and help preserve this existing community art and theater space help keep art successful to all in fort worth regardless of socio-economic class imagine how many children's dreams you will help make come true that their creativity can be celebrated regardless of what tax bracket their parents are in thank you for internet is at the last of our calls that's the last of the callers for this item yes okay perfect thank you council that's the last of our speakers on this item um i'll turn it over to council to see yeah no she's take she with her name sorry um council member williams i've got you you've got council williams and bivvans up no you're just okay go ahead mayor for ten bivvans go ahead i get really excited when i see the people show up and what makes me excited about that is because as we enter any kind of process your presence is very important now i really took note of the lady who used the word lobotomize okay well there will be none of that here but let me just tell you what what really caught me in alignment with you and that was when you reference the remarks by mr jordan johnson detailing his lineage in this city i don't know him but i was very concerned because we don't want anyone to think that this process can be tainted in any kind of way and even though i don't know him i don't think he intended to do that when he announced his plans to hopefully participate uh i haven't seen aims aims is always the tallest guy in the room no matter where you are but aims did the same thing but again not for any type of uh heads up if you will but it makes me very concerned about the rfp process and that the remarks that you all shared with us tonight are reflected in that process because things must be transparent fair shot for everyone i don't know if you're going to have your way in terms of getting us to delay i don't know i'm just glad to see you and i can tell you this entire council is made the better just by your being here and i see you i see marty and quentin has gone but this has been a great night for a citizen engagement and usually i don't like being here this long but this has been a great night for input you know for my city and so and i can promise you uh the lady who used the word lobotomize he'll get there eventually we don't get a chance to go everywhere but he represents your district with great passion mayor that's all i have to say thank you mayor for tim um any other comments from from council members on this item nope council member hill anything thank you mayor um i just want to reiterate thank you all for coming and being the voice of the artist community i think it's important um to hear from you and hear what you have to say um i'd like to thank the task force because they really had a difficult job trying to figure out what to do in the situation and how best to approach it um former councilman lennard firestone i think did a great job of leading the charge and um and thank you again for your comments um the other day too as well i really appreciate you i'm speaking up and and giving your opinion um i had a couple comments i wanted to make um i want to reassure everybody that an rfp is a request for a proposal it is not a decision um when developers respond to those we want to make sure they have the ability to be as creative as possible these are artists too and i think we need to take that in consideration there's two sides to it um when they bring proposals to us it's not a this is how it's going to be they're going to be reaching out to the the artist community a responsible developer that's going to respond to this project will reach out to the stakeholders have interviews want to understand exactly what the community wants and not just what they want this is not a one-sided decision and so we just want to put that out there that i think that we need no matter how this ends up we need to make sure that we are open minded and that we do accept um what the artists are bringing to us um you know this this this process has to be creative there's a financial piece to it we all get that that's why we're in the situation we also don't want to be in the situation in 10 or 20 years so thank you thank you before i give remarks i'm going to ask fernando costa to come to the microphone i'm not going to make and give the whole presentation i just thought fernando as you listen to speakers this evening is there any additional context or commentary you might want to give to the council this evening and thank you for presiding over this process as usual um i refer to fernando costa as the professor emeritus of city hall he does an amazing job truly um we appreciate you fernando so please proceed thank you ma'am i think it's fair to say that the comments you heard this evening were generally consistent with the comments that residents expressed to the task force at the task force's public meeting on march 30th those who are familiar with the community art center those who use the community art center feel strongly for good reason about preserving the values associated with that institution i think the task force heard those remarks loud and clear and took them fully into account as they debated the merits of at least three different options which began with the possibility of restoring the building and maintaining the status quo in respect to the services that are provided to renovating the building and considering the addition of new uses to the option of redevelopment which contemplated the entertainment of new ideas but expressing a clear preference for reflecting the history and the architecture of the community art center and including an arts incubator with gallery space in studio space and including a theater for live performances within any new development that might occur at 1300 gendi and so i think much credit goes to the task force led by former council member lennard farstone for respectfully considering everything that the public expressed not only at the public meeting but in surveys that the task force conducted the task force engaged in vigorous debate based upon factual information and engaged in meaningful compromise by including provisions that reflected a broad span of opinion about what should happen at 1300 gendi the acceptance of their report and even the issuance of the request for proposals as council member hill has plainly stated is only a starting point for consideration of ideas it'll ultimately be subject to review by a committee it'll be subject to a public meeting to air these ideas and to hear from the public and ultimately the city council will receive the benefit of any proposal for redevelopment of gendi and the council will have the final say in what happens that will take months and so today is merely a starting point for that process based upon the fine work that the task force has performed for us already thank you for nando appreciate that um councilman crane did you have anything i'm sorry like one okay perfect thank you for nando very much thank you um i'm going to provide a little bit of context and how we got here if that's helpful so one of the first few meetings i had when i became mayor um was actually with kids who care and deborah and i want to thank deborah because i've spent a considerable amount of time in the community art center with my own children and especially understand how the dressing rooms are in desperate need of improvement having tried to get little girls and tutus in bad lighting um but deborah brought to me issues in the facility of the building and i appreciated that because you know a city of a million people 350 square miles there's any different things that can come at you and truthfully um this maybe not have been such a priority but i do agree and many speakers articulated this i think no one more eloquently than quinton mcgowan that i do think the city of fort worth has ignored this building in particular an investment in the arts we've been very proud of the monies given every year to arts fort worth and the commitment we have to those community grants and that is meaningful but we have to do more because when you think about thriving us cities in the country today it is all about quality of life and i know in the city of fort worth each of you represented today would agree with me that our arts a thriving arts community that is truly grassroots is a piece of that quality of life so fast forward a few weeks later we contemplated fernando and i what do you do that's appropriate to really think about the community art center which is where this task force idea came up with and truthfully no task force works unless you ask fernando to cast costa to lead it um but truthfully thank you to fernando for being willing to work on this effort together um i also was inspired by the words that haley said earlier that you can this is something a building that can unite all of us together and i do believe that art does that very well um i also felt like aims fender had some some quotes in there that i could have written myself and understanding the importance of this particular building and then i'll give you my why some of you have heard me talk about this i was raised by professional ballerina that only quit dancing because she needed to have children and she was getting too old she would tell you that um she had a dance studio for 20 years of my young life and i would not be sitting here today if it weren't for the art of ballet uh maybe i would be in new york dancing which is what i thought i wanted to do so an art is a part of my whole being in life and i'm incredibly grateful for that and the last thing i'll say one of the first things i did with my adopted daughter was called debora's group at kids who care who was 10 years old she'd never set foot in a theater and said i thought a little girl that has no idea what theater or dances could you take care of her and they did many of you have stories about kids who care so here's my on the record and and to fernando's point this is just a starting point but as your mayor i will not approve any rfp that doesn't maintain a priority and a requirement that includes that theater is maintained and you have a community art space it's imperative to me and i know that to to macy's well put point our architects and developers they should be artists the ones that are most interested in this space the ones that that come forward with big ideas should want to preserve that amazing theater into perpetuity and also inspire the city to make the right level of investment that that facility deserves into the future which is how we got here in the first place right a long-term lease that required management operation by arts fort worth and no fault of their own not capable of doing that as an arts organization that belongs to the city of fourth as a facility and maintenance agreement so all in all that's where i am tonight this is a starting point i'm excited about what the task forces presented us it is an aggressive timeline i was very much on the record i like aggressive timelines when it works but we have full ability to slow things down as necessary along the way if we need to get there in order to make sure this community art center remains a world-class first-class art community art center with also a new vision that's that's honestly complementary to what is already there without displacing our amazing community artists so that's my perspective i'll stop talking and i'll let council entertain a motion and a second thank you and you go for it mason go ahead go to prove you can motion and make a motion to approve the resolution accepting the final report of 1300 gindi task force authorizing city manager to proceed and implementing the task force recommendations going to motion second in their discussion council please vote thank you council and thank you all for coming this evening really appreciate you and i look forward to working with you continually on this project thank you next item is 230383 thank you motion a second in their discussion please vote congratulations robert aldridge and val washington robert needed more jobs next item is 230387 and mayor we have one speaker bob will it be are you still here mr will it be you're up to speak sir and this is on the resolution nominating charlie allsdorf to the emergency preparedness planning council moved on okay well charles there's a problem i have a lot of i have a lot of people up here you know our the way we live nowadays and where our city is going and stuff you know you would think this is kind of a mockery really i mean council members and stuff should be people who have been to council meetings bond meetings budget meetings knows what's going on involve and want to do the job for the people not for themselves but over the decades we managed to turn this into a job that they do for themselves and that's it if you don't believe me that's why they asked for a triple pay and raise last time sustained yeah am i dead or what no you just have to stay on topic bob thank you okay i'm just explaining why i don't think charles should be on this board that's all i'm just trying to make my case can i do that okay anyway well i don't think you should be on the board whatever i think you got a point people to be on the board and learn how to be a council member first so that's why we got community engagement so they don't have to go out there but anyway i'll tell you what changed my mind on any of these council members if we ever want to come on my show fwdistrify.com then come on my local board education program sustained bob just stick with me here just turn and face is charles having a problem over there no he has any i can see he's not enough now so okay i'll tell you what we'll cut it so we're going to cut it real short charles because i don't think you got the gulls to come on my show and and me so we're going to leave that we'll stop okay we'll stop real quick yeah bob you're done thank you so much i'm so glad you're here this evening i appreciate you i'm just gonna say maddie you're my target oh god he's a marine jeana jeana motion curious next item is mnc 230481 with report by city staff daniel miracle the best last name ever thank you ma'am hi daniel hi how are you ma'am mayor members city council good evening my name is daniel miracle i'm a senior environmental specialist environmental quality division in the code compliance department the purpose of today's public meeting is to receive public comment regarding mnc 23 msd dash 031 relating to the establishment of the municipal setting designation for ch fw rosedale llc camber hotels fort worth property located near the intersections of gerome street and rosedale street to be referred to as cfw msd 0031 following any public comments staff recommends closing public hearing and adopting mnc 23 msd 031 and attach resolution and ordinance thereby establishing cfw msd 0031 the proposed msd consists of approximately 2.458 acres located in council district 9 the site is owned by ch fw rosedale llc the subject property has historically been used for military training local government administration a gun range waste storage construction lay down area which are believed to have contributed to the arsenic contamination in the groundwater the exact meets and bounds description is provided in the ordinance that would prohibit the use of the designated groundwater under this site for portable or irrigation purposes the site is currently zoned pd plan development the chemical concern identified in the groundwater beneath the site exceeding applicable tier one texas risk regulation program commercial and industrial protective concentration levels is arsenic the designated groundwater shallow perched discontinuous groundwater that occurs at depths of approximately 15 to 50 feet below the ground surface the affected shallow groundwater is underlaying by naturally occurring confined layer the paw paw formation the western portion of the site is underlain by the fort worth limestone and duck creek formations undivided these confining layers serve as a regional aquitard to prevent the vertical migration of chemical of concern to underlying potable aquifers as part of the application process staff for cope from co-compliance planning data analytics transportation and public works development services and the water department reviewed the application no comments or concerns were made the code compliance environmental quality division is satisfied that this msd will be protective of human health and the environment a public meeting was held on may 18th 2023 at 6 30 p.m at the hazel harvey peace center for neighborhoods three representatives of the applicant and three staff city staff members were present no individuals from the community attended the public meeting in advance of that meeting and today's hearing written notice was sent to property owners within one half mile of the msd boundary other municipalities within one half mile of the msd boundary owners of registered water wells within five miles of the proposed msd boundary and retail public utilities and municipalities with groundwater supply wells within five miles of the msd boundary again following any public comments staff recommends closing the public hearing and adopting mnc 23 msd dash zero three one and the attached resolution and ordinance thereby establishing cfw msd zero zero three one thank you daniel any questions from council rebeck move to close the public hearing and improve the mnc motion a second from councilman nettles any other discussion please vote motion carries thank you daniel next item is mnc 230508 with report by city staff lori gordon good evening mayor and council i have a presentation if that would be helpful to talk about the park conversion if not i don't know if it's easy to plug in or not anyway um i am here on behalf of the park and recreation department to talk about public hearing for the proposed use of a portion of anderson park for a permanent water maintenance area anderson park is located in council district seven and it was dedicated in 1998 and is approximately 55 acres the change of the park use uh the fort worth water department has is requesting 0.196 acres of parkland for a permanent water line maintenance area the pertinent pertinent i'm sorry the permanent maintenance area is for the relocation of an existing 20 inch water line due to the widening of cromwell marine creek road from two lanes to four lanes the park impact the construction is anticipated to begin in december of 2023 and last about two years the contractor will install install orange mesh fencing around the perimeter to keep the park attendees separated from the construction workspace and 17 trees will be impacted with the the construction and uh there will be 27 200 pay to the fort worth mitigation tree fund it is recommended that city council conduct a public hearing under the guidelines set forth by the texas parks and wildlife chapter 26 protection of public parks and recreation lands find that no feasible or prudent alternative exists for the use of anderson park for the installation of a permanent water line and associated maintenance area find that the proposed permanent water line and associated maintenance area includes all reasonable planning to minimize harm to the parkland and close the public hearing and authorize the use of approximately 0.196 acres of dedicated parkland at anderson park for the proposed permanent water line and associated water and associated maintenance area thank you thank you laury any questions council if not council member hill and they've to close that public hearing and approve mc 230508 motion a second by council member bivens please vote motion carries thank you next item is mnc 23062 which earlier was announced that it was being withdrawn so marron council without objection we will record this item as being withdrawn from the agenda no objection thank you janette the next item is its companion zoning case which is zc dash 22 dash 192 with a correction that the correct council district should be council district 10 council member blalock well yes says we have been informed that the developer is withdrawing i have a motion to accept the request the request for withdrawal of the zoning case cc 22 192 motion a second please vote motion carries next item is zc dash 23 dash 009 um council member laury's dwarf our first is david gregory who will be followed by susan kenny good evening my name is david gregory dcg engineering 1668 keller parkway suite 100 keller texas uh 76248 thank you for agreeing to allow us to be here to present our case to give you a little bit of back history we're presenting a automated car wash with 17 back rooms 110-foot tunnel uh in on a commercial piece of property off of north turner parkway a little bit west of ray white it's a very unique piece of property it's a multi pad developed uh uh property that currently has a gas station a brakes uh plus a coffee shop and two vacant lots in addition to the one that we're here to talk about um it's surrounded by a park has a lot of uh really beautiful natural trees uh there are quite a few trees over on the western side of our property we uh put together our site plan in a way that we were trying to be as conscientious to the neighborhood as possible to where we would not get into any of the tree stands um we were trying to place it as close to north turner parkway as possible so we could maintain a distance of over 300 feet from the tunnel entrance or exit to any of the residential properties that would be either to the north of us or on the opposite side of north turner parkway uh south of an existing commercial uh set of businesses we passed zoning commission uh with a split vote and as we got close to city council we had learned of a lot of neighborhood opposition we had asked to be tabled council uh granted the tabling for us so we could meet with the neighborhood in me with the neighborhood we found that uh one of their biggest concerns was noise and rightfully so there was a another business there that was exceeding noise ordinances and and I could see where that would be very irritating one of the variances that we had originally asked for was to not install a fence on the adjacency because it would have put it into the flood plain and we did not want to put any fences in a flood plain hazard to cause any potential damage or potential damage in the zoning commission we agreed to have that fence moved to the top of the existing retaining wall we have agreed with the neighborhood associations that we would convert that fence to masonry to make it a sound wall I know I'm getting short on time if you would look at the exhibits that we have there on the second exhibit that has a sound thermometer that's a list of a lot of common sounds a vacuum cleaner 10 feet is about 70 decibels uh heavy traffic etc what we're proposing with our our uh car wash is approximately 49 decibels and on the last page is a copy of the sound study that would show you these decibels thank you david our next speaker is susan kinney followed by rusty fuller good evening mayor parker and city council members i'm susan kinney president of the park glenn neighborhood association a neighborhood located in north fort worth and directly south of this proposed car wash on northerham parkway the parkland neighborhood association board of directors and many residents asked that the city council and mayor vote no to this request for a conditional use permit for this car wash residents from park glenn as well as coventry hills and other nearby neighborhoods attended a meeting with the developer representative on may 22nd the residents present had many concerns especially concerning the noise that will be generated from this car wash as well as environmental and property value concerns the noise from this car wash will be heard from nearby homes in coventry hills and from homes in park glenn where the car wash opening will be approximately 360 feet away from park glenn homeowners coventry hills homes are even closer at 300 feet as an example a car wash on nearby beach street south of northerham parkway can be clearly heard from the cbs parking lot also about 360 feet away the developer is offering today that he will put in a new type of blower that will produce a noise level of 72 decibels instead of 90 decibels at 10 feet away and that it will sound like a dishwasher in an adjacent room at the adjacent homeowners properties this car wash will be continually run for customers from 7 a.m to 9 p.m a dishwasher usually only runs once a day there will be a noise impact to adjacent homeowners in addition how can we be assured that these blowers will not be changed out later or less to less expensive and latter blowers or when they need to be replaced also the vacuums that customers will be using to clean their cars will add to the sound for nearby homeowners as well as they the machinery um i'm sorry as well as other machinery besides the blowers residents were also concerned with the runoff from the site into the floodplain which leads to arcadia park which is a 20-acre natural park in the neighborhood the developer confirmed that there will be some runoff into the floodplain these chemicals will affect the fish turtles and birds residents also question what is the value to the neighborhood there are already at least 12 car washes within a three-mile radius in preparation for this meeting i went to the proposed car wash site i saw a resident walking their dog on the sidewalk in front of this proposed car wash and i also noticed that there was a large green space west of the site and floodplain i have been told that this property is owned by the city and is a future park site the noise on the sidewalk for passengers wise will be very loud at only 50 feet away this car wash use is not permitted by right and we ask you that you preserve the residents quality of life and use their properties and use their properties from this noise encroachment and protect the environment and property values by denying this request for a conditional use permit for this proposed car wash thank you so much our next speaker is rusty fuller followed by chris kittle hi i'm rusty fuller and i'm still president of the north fort worth alliance we represent 43 homeowners associations and neighborhood associations in the far north we also work with other homeowners associations on common issues like this one want to welcome a fellow marine to your council and who could do emergency procedures better than a marine hopefully you've had a chance to read our email opposing the conditional use permit i'll try not to repeat too much of that you've heard from the neighborhoods and you'll hear from some of the residents about their reasonings for opposing the development noise economic development and visual pollution we want you to be aware of the effects of such a development on suburban residential neighborhoods the noise standards the city uses do not take into account urban and suburban environments therefore we must rely on the council to use its judgment in cases like this where options are available this does not only apply to our area but the other developing residential areas in the south southwest southeast that are accommodating so many of our new new members to fort worth there are five car washes within three miles of this site that is only within the city of fort worth if one looks into the cities of wataga and keller there are six more within two miles sound economic development is not met by adding to a marketplace that already seems saturated one last point we would offer that since the zoning ordinance requires a constant a conditional use permit there ought to be some presentation by the developer that the c up is in the best interest of the city and the neighbors there is no such presentation absent stated benefits of the car wash the opposition of the neighborhoods the suburban residential neighborhood on which this car wash will impinge we argue that council should not accept the findings of the zoning commission and deny the conditional use requested in zoning case 23009 double zero double thing zero nine there are things thank you resty thank y'all and thanks again for that bridge oh my gosh thanks again for that bridge absolutely our next speaker is chris kittle followed by kim rutherford good evening mayor parker councilmember staff i am chris kittle and i live in coventry hills neighborhood which is directly behind this proposed car wash i want to share some of my concerns about this business being so close to our neighborhood when the representative met with the neighbors last month he mentioned possibly needing to reduce more trees for the building and i'm concerned about just how much more the green state space will be removed and just how far beyond the already fenced area the facility will be we've seen an increase in wildlife on our streets due to the reduction of their habitat from the original clearing of the property and this potential additional re reduction is concerning we've also been told that the facility will have 17 vacuum bays and while it may be rare that all of them would be used simultaneously they will still be running even while unused and this will produce significant noise to the adjoining properties i received a letter from the representative that stated that the developer planned to install acoustic screens at the end of the tunnel which is on the north tyrant side however nothing was mentioned about blocking noise from the vacuums at last month's meeting with the representative it was mentioned a clear a cedar fence may be added at the back of the facility but a cedar fence will do nothing to reduce noise we have seen an increase in vagrants in our area the way the representative has described the fencing would land to an area homeless individuals may set up camp behind the building between the fence and the existing half wall and honestly we actually already have a place literally two streets down where there is a homeless i wouldn't call it a camp necessarily but we're homeless are residing um and so the soap and the water will just draw them even further closer into our into our neighbourhood and since we really do not have enough police officers to patrol our area as it is this is really not safe for our community and according to the representative there would be room for 30 cars waiting to enter the car wash and each cycle is two minutes and if you've driven in that area right there off a north tyrant you will see that there's a curve in the road right at the exit of the clearing where they're going to be building this building and i'm concerned that there will be an increase in accidents as people enter and exit the car wash right there just because they cannot see very well uh furthermore there will be an increase in exhaust and noise from the waiting cars and our neighbourhood pool is right in that area the car wash does not benefit our neighbourhood it does not add value to our area as there is an existing car wash down the street at beach and north tyrant i'm asking that you deny with prejudice this zoning change thank you thank you our next speaker is kim rutherford followed by michael snider good evening i am kim rutherford and i live in the coventry hills neighbourhood and my backyard directly faces the proposed car wash i want to share some concerns over the proposed car wash uh excuse me when david gregg re met with us he said that more trees will likely need to come down this concerns me um this concerns me with the effects to the wildlife with animals losing their habitat and looking for new homes this becomes a safety issue for families and pets we were told that there will be 17 vacuums and up to 12 blowers and open 14 hours a day this will cause significant noise issues to the residents on coral and western meadows which i am affected by imagine losing most of your backyard recreation to 17 vacuums while at the same time competing with seven brew we live in a quiet neighbourhood and the vacuum blowers at 60 decibels will take that away the community pool is about 300 feet from the proposed car wash we are concerned with the amount of smog and pollution that that will cover our pool we have begun to also see a high increase in panhandlers and homelessness in our area the car wash on beach street has several campsites set up and the concern is the same thing happening at coventry hills thank you thank you our next speaker is michael snider on the phone so i am can you hear me yes go ahead please yes my name is michael snider and i am the vice president of the homeowners association of coventry hills uh you've heard that neighborhood mentioned it is the community just north of the proposed car wash and um i don't want to keep repeating what everybody else has said but i will say that um as soon as the word spread about this proposed car wash our facebook page went up like a christmas tree with people dissenting of this decision and i represent 499 homeowners that are directly affected by this and it is almost unanimous that they are not in favor of this as far as the pollution goes as i said our community pool is within 300 feet um and also the cars will enter through the rear of the car wash so those cars will be aimed during dusk and dawn their headlights will be aimed right into the back windows of the line of homes that are right behind the car wash as well so besides that we appreciate the mayor and the council uh hearing our uh our stories that we had tonight and thank you so much and we strongly consider the zoning uh request that we are making thank you thank you michael our next speaker is christie shallcross it's christie here nope thank you rusty that's the conclusion of our speaker's council member larstorf well first of all i think it's clear that north fort worth really likes to have our cars clean with the number of car washes we have uh but david i i do want to thank you for um when trying to bring business to note fort worth especially district four i do appreciate that and i do appreciate you making the effort to reach out the neighborhoods to take the time to actually sit down with them um and try to go over some of their concerns even from the initial sit down trying to come back with different ideas as far as noise mitigation uh so in the runoff mitigation all the other methods you came up with even today receiving an email about upgrading the uh the noise blockers to even further reduce the noise i do appreciate that as well um that said i think it's quite clear uh the opposition is so strong i've received numerous emails numerous facebook facebook groups i'm part of it was a strong opposition unfortunately i did not receive one that did want it and as you mentioned this was uh sort of bad timing with the coffee shop next door the one place you would not assume there'd be a noise complaints however we had numerous noise complaints we had forward place out there code compliance out there for a coffee shop with loud music i think that issue has been resolved however i think one of the issues with this car wash proposal is if there are in fact noise if it is higher than these estimates uh at that point it'll be a little too late to do anything about it um then in the day even if this was something i strongly wanted for myself uh my job up here is to represent my district and the 92 000 plus that are there um if there was just just one house whose quality of life would be affected by this i have to take that into strong consideration especially someone who spends a lot of time in my backyard in my little refuge uh i deal with noise on parkwood hill boulevard all the time but i knew that moving in these neighbors when they uh when they moved in this was not something that they uh they were planning on uh they have no doubt i've spoke with them numerous times they have no doubt something will go there um but i think we all agree that we just want to be a little bit more friendly to the neighborhoods friendly to those who live nearby uh um and so with that i'm motion to deny the request motion a second and their discussion council please vote motion carries next item is zc dash two two dash one five six we have one speaker on this item and only itself if there's opposition which i believe there is none council member crane yeah mayor actually i got word today the developer is going to abandon this deal and so i moved to actually withdraw this uh request okay motion to withdraw in a second by council member floras please vote next item is zc dash two three dash zero six eight and i believe we're we need a motion to continue this item um to a future meeting but first we have two speakers the first is tenel tayer followed by craig kevillier opposed by son tenel tayer with fifth corner i'll be very brief uh we believe that this zoning proposal to change some of the zoning designations within the mu2 areas is not going to address any of the issues that are of concern we support a solution that is based on security and infrastructure improvements we'd like to be part of the process we're open for uh communication with any of the council members that are interested in it and with the neighboring property owners and that's all i have to say it's getting late so i'll finish with that thank you thank you our next caller is craig kevillier we were not able to reach him thank you that's the last of our speakers it's an emotion for continuance to what is it august 13th it's a current august eight okay thank you august eighth somebody has to do that besides me go ahead i'll move to continue this item until the august eight city council meeting second motion in a second please vote thank you Elizabeth motion carries next item is zc-22-223 council member hill we have two speakers on this item ben rave followed by cori keller i don't think there's opposition mayor and council my name is ben rape with peloton land representing the uh the applicant developer and and home builder so i know it's getting late so i will speak swiftly so currently over in the barcy ranch neighborhood there's a school there and a bunch of residences there's a property that's zoned for kind of like a higher intensity commercial area and rather than develop it in that nature the the home builder and developer wants to convert that to a a more palatable use in the area which would be residential right so so they're looking to put some townhomes in there this property also lies on the fourth saginol boundary line and so this development will also extend into saginol which we're currently having conversations with saginol but two takeaways tonight so number one is we've reached out to the the citizens in the area and we've we've collaborated with them we've heard a response that they're okay with the change in land use but they do want maybe a cap on the density because this is townhomes right so i think there's a a higher density than what they want and so um they've they've basically told us that they would like eight units per acre so we would like to amend the motion tonight to actually add that cap onto the zoning pd regulations tonight so item one is if we can set a cap at eight units per acre that would be great and then the other one is we would like to waive the requirement for the site plan and this is because as we're working with both fort worth and saginol things tend to change and mold over time nothing too serious it's it's just a townhome development but we do want that flexibility to not have to come back and present a site plan townhomes to y'all so um so that's the request convert the property to townhome and number one cap the density at eight units per acre and to waive the requirement for a site plan that's a request thank you questions from a hill no questions and i move to approve mzc 22223 thank you i want to confirm that we have one more speaker kory keller all right you're good it's kory here go ahead kory good evening kory keller 409 masonview trail i come here representing the 1100 homes for marcie ranch uh we do we are um in favor of this proposal and uh after the uh zoning commission uh it came to my realization that uh uh there could be 24 townhomes per acre in this zoning in r2 and that became a concern because of the price point that could possibly have the price point on these townhomes has been been presented to us to be about $400,000 per townhome and that would keep away any investors and rental owned properties on on these townhomes and uh he's and and they've they've talked about uh doing this amendment to the eight we would before that uh that's primarily just to maintain that as we we would like this to be a five but we're realistic about the economics of this property and uh so uh at this time at this price point and uh at this density that they're proposing this is workable for our community it will not uh it will not do anything we do not want this to be the current pd 514 we do want the r2 we just want the cap on there and this will be a fantastic addition to our area thank you thank you cori councilmember hill yes sir okay yep uh yes i just want a clarification from staff steven is it possible to have a pd without a site plan yes it is possible okay just wanted to come from the site plan waiver is something that we do every once in a while right but my question was specifically was with a pd just wanted to be sure of that that's correct yes sir thank you thank you councilmember hill okay um i want to make a motion to amend the 22223 eight units per acre and waive the site plan requirement perfect motion a second in their discussion council please vote motion carries next item is zc dash 22 dash 202 no speakers on this item councilmember williams moved it and i would prejudice motion on the floor i should have a second please vote motion carries next item is zc dash 23 dash 048 we have one speaker on this item councilmember beck only there's opposition which there is none none move to approve this is a different one motion a second any other discussion please vote motion carries next item is zc dash 23 dash 051 our first speaker councilmember beck is rick garcia followed by michael howell because the rooftop of this proposed duplex would be used as a bar for the tcu students and for the safety of the students if it was approved i think 30 25 is it 35 feet yeah 35 feet is the maximum height right now and so i'm going to ask councilman beck to initiate a request to move that down to 25 feet i want to go on the record saying that small businesses that can go on this lot would be something that's eco-friendly there are grants sba loans that would cater to let's say bicycle repair shop everybody likes to ride their bikes right for us is a bike friendly city something to do with maybe batteries solar something to help with the ecosystem to make for more friendly toward the environment that'd be a great small business this zoning commission asked me for recommendations i thought about it for a couple of weeks and that's what i came up with please deny with prejudice thank you mr howell our next speaker is it's daniel leech mr leech this is daniel can you hear me yes go ahead all right thank you good evening mayor and city council my name is daniel leech and i live on wayside avenue i'm the i'm on the board of the pascal neighborhood association in regards to the duplex proposed on stanley avenue all the responses that we received from the neighborhood were in opposition to this rezoning our neighborhood as well as surrounding neighborhoods have been bombarded with states with self-dorms being built they're taking over neighborhoods the tcu overlay which applies only to single family zoning and limits the number of unrelated persons to three per dwelling was designed to preserve the single family neighborhood surrounding tcu by preventing the self-dorms the two-family rezoning that has been happening is an attempt to sidestep the tcu overlay by making the zoning two-family and thus allowing up to 10 units per property and 10 unrelated persons per property the owner and developers are stating that they're wanting to create housing for tcu students is evident as you drive up and down mccart or force park and see the duplexes going up that have their sorority and fraternity flags flying to the balconies the tcu student housing issue is being addressed by tcu and they are building additional dorms to appease their need the fix the student housing issue is not to push the problem into the local residents that have lived here for decades or to rezone a single family neighborhood to bring in six to ten unrelated persons per lot we have seen we've not seen any type of side plan but the specific applicant mentioned that they are not trying to do that the five-bedroom duplexes and that they're just a small-time developer and builder that wants to do a three-bedroom two-bedside-by-side we'll do in a quick google search you can see that this developer owns at least two other duplexes less than a half mile away on the cart and force park corridor if you've been down this corridor you're familiar with the five-bedroom duplexes that are there these are no different both these properties have a flex balcony on the top structure that operates as a fourth floor this specific area is on this plan development for light industrial there are a few businesses that have moved in recently on this trip we would like to see other small businesses move in to this area such as barbershops boutiques coffee shops restaurants our neighborhood does not have an accessible park without having to cross over large busy roads such as force park board avenue this area will be perfect to create a walkable gathering place with businesses in open space for families to enjoy please deny with prejudice thank you that's a conclusion of our speaker's customer back do you deny with prejudice we should have a second in our discussion please vote motion carries next item is zc dash two three dash zero five three no speakers on this item councilmember hill the homeowner has withdrawn this request i make a motion to request a withdrawal of zc 23053 motion a second please vote jared yeah thank you motion carries next item is zc dash two three dash zero five four motion a second please vote motion carries next item is zc dash two three dash zero five five hold on there we go catching up here jenette just a second sorry you're all good zero five five we have a few speakers on this item our first one is melanie goders followed by leticia wilbert hi good morning thank you for having me excuse me i'm melanie goders i'm the general contractor doing some capital improvements for the subject property um i know we're short on time i wanted to make this nice and brief you've heard the skinny of it what we uh proposed this evening is essentially to continue the current zone i'll say this let me put it backwards in 2018 the zoning for this particular property was changed um from light industrial to the intensive commercial the four of the five buildings are still occupied by users long-term users that were uh that still uh excuse me still function in those light industrial uses the reason we ask for the um additional uses is so that we can fill backfill the vacant building it's been big vacant for five years with a similar use on the similar prop um on the property with it's with its neighbors um i will keep it brief i'm the armory um if you have any questions please um feel free thank you council member vivans i'm going to be making a motion to continue this until august eighth and the reason why is because the defunct neighborhood associations information had still been given out to companies like yours the carver heights east association has been newly reactivated and so i'm going to make a motion to rezone this until august eighth and ask you to get with staff to get the contact information for the new officers of carver heights east east okay all right great thank you i've got a motion to sign on the floor but we do still have one more speaker leticia wilburn okay thank you thank you two hours ago leticia wilburn i just want to say that i am in agreement with the continuance looking at this there's no clear definition as to what they're trying to do at the particular property my concern is of course you all know that i'm with the coalition echo six and five mental coalition so i'm really concerned about what will go in that particular spot something that really puzzles me is that it actually bothers me is that on a trip to new york i was in manhattan i met a foreigner and we laughed back and forth about our accents and when he found out i was from four words he became kind of a little moody towards four words that he considered four words as the closest thing to south africa as to any place he's ever been and he travels a lot and he's actually been to south africa and y'all's zoning process is very racist it's racist to the core it is apartheid and it is oppressive these black and brown communities suffer from y'all zoning everything comes there it's negative there's nothing good that comes to these communities that's five acres you could use restaurants there you could put like one place was here art facilities there this side of town does not have anything recreational that's good for the community i mean it's just it's insane i know uh mike tyson and i said this last night and i'll say it again i'm not advocating violence but mike tyson said everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth is it going to take these black and brown communities to come together to punch four words in the mouth so that you all can see that we deserve the same quality of life that our white counterparts deserve and the rich counterparts deserve for worth is the city of the halves and the have nots and the have nots suffer at the expenses of the house i know i live in i'm a retired police deputy sheriff that decided to live in the community where i bought a home in 1985 so i just would say this has no definition as to what's going there and it does need to be continued and i recommend holly that the city to avoid puke publicly being embarrassed nationally come together and decide to start doing something good for these black and brown communities instead of always doing negative we can go national and we will y'all need to step up y'all's game the second conclusion of our speaker's customer revivance i've got a motion and a second on the floor i remember who seconded your motion it was your continuance who was the second thank you jared please vote motion carries next item is zc-23-056 no speakers on this item councilmember floras move for approval motion and a second please vote motion carries next item is zc-23-057 no speakers on this item councilmember hill there you go there we go i'm going to get right one of these days uh for speaking with the developers and no opposition from the neighborhood association and support from white settlement isd and move to approve motion a second please vote motion carries next item is zc-23-070 we have one speaker only there's opposition which i believe there is none councilmember beck move to approve motion a second in their discussion please vote motion carries next item is zc-23-072 council we have one speaker on this item but only if there's opposition which i believe there is none move to a motion and a second please vote will Elizabeth motion carries next item is mnc-23-0381 motion a second please vote which item are you on sorry zero three eight one let's do a hand vote then while she finds it got a motion carlos floras as a motion is that who it was sorry i missed it crane michael elizabeth was the second all in favor say aye aye any nays motion carries next item is mnc-23-0498 motion a second i call us floras please vote motion carries next item is mnc-23-0476 councilmember floras yes mayors my motion i move that the city of fort worth oh sorry that the Fort Worth city council allowed the resolution authorizing use our eminent domain to acquire 0.0521 acres in the right of way and 0.0890 acres in the public open space easement from real property owned by north fort worth baptist church the land rights in the subject property are needed for the cantrell samson road widening project a public use that will widen and connect the roadway the property will be used for the permanent grading construction maintenance and repair of cantrell samson road the public open space easement will provide traffic visibility for the new road connection the property is located at 5801 north freeway in the north fort worth baptist church edition block one lots one a city of fort worth terrant county texas the property interest to be acquired is described by meets and bounds and depicted by survey exhibits attached to this mayor and council communication councilmember williams please vote motion carries next item is m and c 23-0500 please vote motion carries and mayor that concludes all of the items for today council is adjourned