 My name is Sally I think most of y'all here know me I am a councilman nettles district director and I'm going to get us started tonight before we get into all the city business I did want to give some of our local organizations a chance to come up and introduce themselves and advertise their organization so Rodney if you want to come up first good evening how y'all doing my name is pastor Rodney Macintosh I'm the executive director of VIP for a work which stands for violence intervention and prevention for a work where an organization who focuses directly on cyclical retaliatory and group violence we do is some people would say the hard work man is literally our goal and our uh our desire to end gun violence in this city and a lot of people are saying to never end but we're going to do the best that we can to make sure that happened our focus is right now right as a right now is the east side of Fort Worth south side of Fort Worth which they call central in the city and then the west side of Fort Worth we deal with young men from the ages of 12 to 29 but we also understand that there's no age limit on violence so we're willing to work with any young man that we have to to see if we can end violence in our city thank y'all so much hello everybody my name is Sean Lasset on the executive director of braver together we are centralized in 76104 but primarily in the historic south side communities Morningside and Hillside we have been bringing community ambassadors together to address what was published in 2018 that 76104 had the lowest life expectancy but what we know is that not all of 76104 is a part of that number it's mostly the black and brown communities that have suffered the most and so that has become our focus it's not a single focus on just health care we believe that there are a lot of determinants that add to that which is health care also education housing and business and economic development and so we have a festival coming up November 12th in Evans Plaza right in front of the Chambley Library I have flyers where you can go and do a little QR code and go to our website but our website is bravertogether.org and it will pop right up and you can get more information but we have basically turned the plaza into a little I would say an oasis in a way to say that we are going to bring the water and the life to the community it's already there but we are going to concentrate it for day and so community members can come and get all health care services for free pick up a lot of the things that they may need to just household items things for their babies and children and to have a little fun so it's going to be health care justice and community joy and that is our slogan justice and joy we have to be able to do both and we have to change the narrative and and put some positive joy into our work it's hard work but we also have to live and be in a community together and so that's our goal so our flyer is over here but bravertogether.org you can get so much information of how you can join us good evening my name is Gabrielle Watson and I work with advocates for community transformation our focus is neighborhood safety we started out in Dallas we've been there for a little over 13 years we've just kind of trickled into Fort Worth so we're getting to know everything here but we provide free legal services to home owners who are needing representation against nuisance property owners so if you'll come see me I'm right over here and I can give you guys a little bit more information thank you. Hi everyone I hope everyone's having a good evening my name is Patrice Jones and I am the founder of Southside Community Garden and we build gardens for families in 76104 as Sean stated this is zip code with the lowest life expectancy UT Southwestern that is studying 2018 deeming that zip code of having the lowest life expectancy at 66.7 years fast forward four years later it's now 62.8 years so people in that zip code are dying 15 years younger than the rest of the state of Texas my organization we build gardens at people's homes help them maintain the garden we said it was going to be for a year but we're having a hard time letting go so we're helping everyone maintain their garden and they keep all the produce that they grow and they have an opportunity to sell that produce at a former's market called monkey town mindful market that takes place once per month over at Texas Wesley University and so that's teaching them entrepreneurship uh my hope the whole movement of Southside Community Garden was founded based on me fighting for justice for Tatiana Jefferson who was murdered by Fort Worth PD over three years ago and the trial still hasn't started so when I organized that mural on Evans and Allen I learned that that area was a food desert and I just wanted to pour back into that community the appropriate term is actually food apartheid because this was systemically done it wasn't a desert it didn't happen naturally thank you guys for your time I'm right over here in the corner with enough funding I would love to expand my program across Fort Worth good evening everyone my name is Consuela and I am the franchise owner of a dispensary right here on the south side of Southside of Fort Worth Evans and East Oleander it's called 3.5 cannabis dispensary shout out to Southside shout out to Braver so um I've been there since August of this year our main focus as an organization of a cannabis industry is to educate to destigmatize what this flower has been stigmatized as in our society for so long we want to educate everyone on the benefits on the both sides of this flower whether it's CBD or THC we want to educate I can't stress that enough that's what we really want to do with this with our dispensary so my table is located back there again I'm on the corner of Evans and East Oleander we are building I'm the third franchise I'm the second one that's fully operational the third one is still in in the works the home office basically is in the southeast Texas area which is sour lake I'm sorry which is uh Silsby and the other one is going to be opening up in the Beaumont area so I'm the first one in the DFW area and we are black owned business and so we're really trying to just push the effort of what this beautiful flower it's known for for its natural organic content and we want to decriminalize it and we're going to push for that effort I'm a farm believer that if alcohol is legal why can't cannabis be legal and so that's where we're trying to push it to decriminalize this and get this flower into the community to for the benefit of what it's good for so if you have any questions again my table is back there I do have brochures that has a lot of information on determining which one is best for you whether it's THC or CBD both of them have great benefits for the medicinal side but please come and speak with me again my name is Consuela and I look forward to speaking to you all thank you we're almost to the councilman but I did want to give a shout out to HCH for hosting us tonight in this beautiful space so can we all just give HCH a round of applause all right and with that I've given him many introductions in my life but a man that needs no introduction because everybody knows who he is councilman Chris Nettles good evening everyone it is truly uh oh a honor and a pleasure to be with you on this evening one of the things we did in campaigning also in telling people what we want to do different for our community is to get the community involved is to hear concerns a lot of people don't like town halls because they get tough but that's what we want we want to know the true concerns what you're dealing with in your communities and how we can fix those so that is what this event is about we have all city all kinds of city staff that's here to answer your concerns to answer your questions and so I want you to ask those questions but I also want you to talk to us about them so that when you ask them we can follow up that's what our office is really here to do and so I do want to acknowledge we have the chief of police that is that is here chief notes and then we also have our commander for a central division that is also here and then I see we have a ACM Fernando is in the house so we really have we really have brought in all the dogs oh we're not dogs well all the chiefs let me be careful how I say that all the chiefs is that okay chief all right scratch that off the tape all the chiefs in the house so that we can get things done and so I really want to thank our organizations especially VIP Fort Worth and Braver Together and this organization in Southside Garden and the dispensary is because we want to let you know that we are doing things in District 8 on the east side on the south side for the betterment of our community and so I'm going to start this slideshow so that we can have opportunities to ask questions I will also we see Representative Commissioner Brooks offices here at Leon Pope and so let's give him a hand thank you for coming tonight Commissioner Brooks oversees a part majority of our district as well in the county level and so I give a brief presentation about what we have been doing in District 8 for the last 15 months and what we aspire to do moving forward and then I will take some questions I will be able to answer some of those questions if it's for city staff we'll have them come up and answer those questions so here and I'll just kind of give a brief of course my name is Chris Nettles I am your Fort Worth City Council representative I was elected June 2021 I currently sit on the Texas Wesleyan board their football team is phenomenal this year y'all need to start going to the games they're doing real good Trinity Metro board and working with our transit I sit on I'm part of the Fort Worth Rotary National Black Caucus of Black Officials Texas I really can't see y'all so you see that there so those are things that I'm doing for you as the elected official here in Fort Worth so we talk about economic development what have we done since we got an office so and we have brought over 1,907 rooftops to support our case for a major grocery store and change when I was running we talked about how we needed a grocery store how we needed drug stores how we needed fresh produce how we talked about seven six one or four been the lowest life expectancy in the nation and how do we come back that we have to bring rooftops we have to bring in money so that we can support that while market's not coming average is not coming if there's not dollars in our community that is just a true reality and so what we have to do is we want to make sure that we bring in affordable housing but also incomes that can support those grocery stores I was so excited when Kathleen Hicks and Mike Mont may or Mike Montcrete worked so hard to get the Walmart's and this plaza here built but if you go to Walmart today it stays packed grocery stores don't stay on the shelves it's because we have outgrown it and so we have to support those and so we've been combating that we're bringing affordable and housing here so Playton USA is bringing 240 mixed income workforce housing to Eastbury street Laguna Holmes is bringing 350 rooftops to Shelby Road and Evermond James Walker Hope Global Dallas Maron Dawson and Donaway and George all have partnered with our offices to bring these developments to come to city of forward in order for those developments come we have to do some zoning change we have to talk with our communities with our neighborhoods with Evermond with our school districts to make sure that happened and so that's what we have been working on thus far and economic development we brought ground on 56 million dollar housing project 56 million dollars when you're talking about trying to bring economics here you got to bring dollars and you got to bring tax base to support economic development and so we brought ground on that I tell you that was one of the first zoning cases that we work with our Mitchell Boulevard new Mitchell Boulevard is here we work with Bishop Kenna Spears and his church to make sure it's something that they want or how do we get to a medium or how do we get to a happy place and what I have talked to all of our developers and our communities that we can't say no to every development but what we can do is say how do we work together to make sure that the community is supported as well as the developer is supported and so some people tell you that I'm just pro development I'm moving and shaking and not caring about the neighborhood but if you know neighborhoods they know we have talked and we have worked together to make sure things happen and so we're really excited about that development we brought ground that on yesterday we also broke ground on a Morrison cool 65 million dollars into the district packing housing warehouse to bring 75 new jobs priority employment into district eight so when they came they want to talk about that I said listen I need my people they live in the area because it's right there for 35 adjacent to Irving Parkway Hallmark Holland Hills I said don't be bringing me people from the north side I need people in district eight to have these type of jobs and I'm talking about jobs that's making $60,000 a year and so when I went to the ground breaking that they were so excited I challenged them again I need my people in our district to get these jobs and so we're not just bringing these jobs we want to make sure that we as a people get those jobs this is really exciting so on if you're familiar with Eastbury and Riverside the old Montgomery Warhouse building when I first got in the office there was a zoning case to change it to a it was storage facility thank you and I said no we don't want a storage facility we need true economic development that's going to support our community we want to uplift this area back in the day where the bus transit is it used to be a shopping center right there behind there it used to get my haircut there it's not there anymore it's just dirt it's grass it's no type of excitement we got rundown motels we got gas stations that has all kind of things going on we have to fix that we came police our way out so we got to help the police officers and making sure we bring good economic development to that area and so we're excited we're going to bring we partner with Center for Transforming Lives they're going to bring a multi-million dollar development there where they're going to have space for you to come if you have a restaurant are you trying to get off the feet off your ground they're going to let you rent their commercial kitchen to do your food the right way they're going to okay I think we need some lights for the camera back here I'm sorry they're going to have a childcare facility they're going to have working space open space where you can come and use their facility and they're going to have green space where a parking space where you come out and enjoy the greenery and so we're excited about that there's coming we was able to give them some money through the city of forward to make sure that project happens this is the economic development that has secured a 24-month property holding for Hope Global 70 million investment that's going to come to Evans and Rosedale this project was kind of on the brakes or kind of just silent or kill historical south side have been working really hard to make sure that they are play a part into this development and so in this development there is going to be a space set aside for a grocery store and so Hope Global have already been working with some type of groceries to come in here they're working with the black chamber they're working with the forward chamber they're working with south southeast ink to make sure that we get some type of fresh produce inside of the south side and so we're excited about that fighting for justice we approved to a portion of I-35 to name at the Atatiana Jepsen freeway but the city council approved that in 22 but it has to go through Texas legislative session and so we're going to be working with Nicole call your office to bring that forward also we in works of renaming the community center at the Atatiana Card Jefferson Community Center we're working on that as things progress in the legal matters also we have been working to bring an oversight board to the city of Fort Worth and we've been working with the office of police monitor to establish that also we have been working with permanent supportive housing PSH and I tell you this is one of the strongest topics for our office we house the majority of the homeless population in the city of Fort Worth up and down Lancaster they're migrating to the south side historical south side and Polly Texas Wesley and we have to figure out how we can fix our homeless population and our solution the reality is COVID have taught us a lot that all of us is a job away a paycheck away or a sickness away from being homeless and so Tara Perez who's in the back have been really working with our Taren County Coalition of Homeless and so we're excited that we're going to be bringing and I think that may be the next slide but I jump ahead we have approved the PSA facility that will be housing 72 chronic homeless people chronic homeless is people who have been homeless over a year and have a disability so it's not it's not your panhandle it's not the people who's up and walking down the street it's not the people who don't want help because a lot of times we say people that are homeless they don't want to help there are people who are chronically homeless who really need to help and are being displaced and so we have a facility that's going to be built off a Crowley Road in Sycamore I believe Crowley in Sycamore and then we also approve eight units of deeply affordable housing to assist families struggling with homelessness this is the project that we that we're proposing to be built we met with the Homar Camelot area we're excited about that that's going to be coming up through the zoning process pretty soon we work to advocate for Jackie Craig that led to a settlement in the city of Fort Worth we know that took over five to six years to get done we finally did that in the city of Fort Worth we also suggested alternate solutions instead of voting for the rights to speak and so and I'll tell you about this I believe that the city of Fort Worth us as a community should always have our right to speak and these are things that I believe and I think our community believes and so we're working on that we you still have a right you come down the first and the third of of the month you get to talk about anything that you want to talk about for three minutes I encourage you to come down because what happens is when you come down to the city hall you get the whole council and you get the staff and they're listening and they would we would direct you to the right people to talk about to talk to so I encourage you to come down the city hall and speak to the entire council I'll tell you the numbers always matter the most fighting for justice and so we initiated an anti-gun violence campaign that was called Fort Worth Violence Intervention when we brought the community organizations together we brought VIP out at Dunbar our police department came out we had funeral home directors come out and basically we want to do is talk to our young people that listen guns nister don't kill people but people with guns kill people and we need you to understand that we can't talk about police officers killing us if black folks gonna kill black folks and white folks gonna kill white folks and expect we got to deal with the whole everything and we got to figure out how we can fix the issue you know things that have happened that it was nothing that the police department could even do at that moment and so we have to go into the community not just my office not just the county not just the organizations but we as a whole have to be a part of the process there is volunteer efforts there is I mean some of us you know and always been as good in our life and we got some experience that we can tell I'm sure he got some volunteer efforts that you can come and talk to his group but we need people to what play a part of the process and that's what I want to help facilitate and so we're going to be lunching that we went to I believe we did Dunbar and Polling and we're going to be going into middle schools and other high schools all around the city of forward this is not just going to be a district 8 thing this is going to be a city of forward thing representation we worked with our budget department to add more staff currently I am representing 109,000 people in district 8 and so it's just been me and Sally Masson who is our chief of staff but we was able to hire an additional person in our office which is Jasmine Tate he's one of our district directors and so we're able to do more constituency work and so don't hesitate to call I was in office today I answered about five or seven calls and when I answered them they was like hello is this the council I said yes is everything okay tell me your concerns and they was just shocked and so I have instructed our office that when we when you call if we're available we're going to answer your calls we're going to email we're going to email you back we're going to get you set up with what you need to do so do not hesitate to call our office we are here to support your every needs we also move three million dollars of our bond money from Sycamore Park to allow Pollard neighborhood for one to be included into the process but also we're developing a lot off of Oak Grove and Everett Parkway and we have a lot of homes that are coming in and we have park space with no park and so we're going to use that three million dollars to invest into establishing a park so that our young people can have something to do them three million dollars was going to uh Sycamore Park that has been closed for some time now to do some renovations and it's nothing wrong with that but we want to invest some money where people can use that park right now and so we moved that money um it was a it was a fuss but we got it done and so we did that for the community we're excited about that that's coming down the pipe also uh we went through redistricting process and so a lot of people are aware that we have new maps here during this redistricting process the communities talked about how they wanted another latino has spent opportunity district we as a city council the mayor maddie parker and all of us came to a consensus to establish a second latino has a Hispanic district and so we look forward to that being elected in the next coming uh months and so we're excited about the new map so on the left side is our current district on the right is our new district some of the changes is we lose uh portions of riverside meadowbrook uh we lose portions of poly we come farther down into the burleson area and we pick up some more things off of 35 into the garden acres area also in holland hills uh they were really concerned with if those of you for me with is 20 and uh ogro that development that's on the corner had a lot of poverty and drugs and uh uses that holland hill didn't like and so we read we did a council initiative rezoned and we rezoned that then it won't be no clubs the neos neon club and coming back for those that was going to it's not come back we rezoned it so own thing it can be there is a church a daycare or some type of center that will support the community and so we did that to support uh those senior citizens uh holland hills is really uh a marker and a statement in our in our district uh we have been working with trinity metro to reconfigure a bus route to add to a stop to the v a hospital and so we uh there was a stop that used to went to the v a hospital but you could get to Dallas v a hospital faster than you can get to forward and so we had to fix that and we fixed that and made that stop happen if you guys are having concerns with bus stops or anything like that again i sit on that board uh one of the things that uh and i'm really appreciate to uh our mayor maddie parker is that she said we want to have a more tangible touch for our transit we are the 12th largest city and so we want to make sure that transit matters and so we selected two council members to sit on the transit board so that it can be information that's uh relate right away and so myself and michael crane sits on that board representation so i talked about uh invested in our schools and we want to make sure that we partner with our school districts and so we're excited to announce that a lot of our schools that were d rated and c rated went up to b's and c's uh and so that's exciting um we're working on establishing a close relationship with the superintendent and the uh board trustees where we can meet twice a year uh to talk about how we support our schools i don't care what education get if it's charter schools if it's private schools but if it's forward is these schools we want to make sure that we support every child because if we want a stronger city we have to have a smarter city and so we're supporting our education on the budget we was able to work with our police department at 73 73 new field officers including six npo officers uh we also with our fire department added 23 new staffs new positions for our hope team as well as development service department added 38 positions and so we're really trying to be a city where you can be touchable and reachable and we can get to your issues and concerns a lot faster uh if you look at the caring things that we have on the top versus what we're going to have moving forward uh our streets creeper so some people been talking about trash and and dirtiness on our roads we're going to go from two to twelve uh our camp cleanups we're going to go from 35 to 110 uh pounds collected i mean if you look on there we're going to really be working for making the city of forward a more cleaner vibrant city for you to live and thrive in and so really excited about this budget that we have approved here at city council this is our contact information so if you need to contact our office again you can email me directly you can email salamance who's been with us from the very beginning as well as jas take jasmine take whose come online and again feel free to call our office let's talk about let's come to a solution and so that's really what i have um we as district eight again want to move forward we want economic development we want to grow we want to make sure that our poverty sees and that the 76104 become a vibrant community again my grandparents still in in that area and i tell you it doesn't affect 70 and 80 year old people it affects 20 year olds 30 and 50 that are not going to live past 62 years old because of the poverty and so we got to do our part and so i know a lot of you then come to hear my stump speech but this is what we have been doing for you at city hall people say what are you doing this is it so you can let people know but i want to take your hard questions tonight i want to also challenge our staff if those questions come up to assist me and so we're going to open the floor we have we'll take about 15 minutes 15 to 20 minutes to take some calls some answers some questions salas looking no seven to ten okay seven to ten again uh this is being recorded it'll be on the youtube uh the city of forward youtube page tomorrow as well as it's being live recorded so who has a question for me or the city of forward okay so i've been doing some work with promo community center uh looking to do some organizing i'm really impressed with the programs that they're offering to the community and they have jps coming out to do health seminars they have financial literacy classes they have grant writing workshops all types of stuff i'm really wanting to see how we can work together to bring more of those resources to south side community center i understand both centers are under neighborhood services so i want to see where we can how we can work together to bring jps across the bridge to address the low you know life expectancy and maybe get that community some education so we may be able to increase uh the life expectancy in that community i certainly do and so and i will tell you about uh come on come on as a city by itself and if you talk about come on you talk about net and you talk about uh those come come on leaders what they have done is really just taken over and they have a lot of things that they facilitate is community driven and so i would say to our community as you listed off a lot of things we can do that here in this community but it's going to take the support of organizations like that we have listed here i know shun lasted really been talking about some things working to make that possible it takes a really strong neighborhood to really change the outcome and so i will support you in that and we can set up a meeting for any organization that want to participate our office is taking notes so any other organization want to participate in that meeting will will facilitate that yes there was a city council uh work session briefing about sidewalks and footwork 2600 miles about 600 miles that are in bad shape what about the places where there aren't sidewalks it should be for example the mind after the woods all medical drive there's missing sections all over the place there just never has been a sidewalk so what do we need to do get that going is that going to have to wait on a bond election or is there room to try to do that through budget i'll find miss loren is coming sidewalks are a big concern of ours what you're referring to is basically a gap filling for sidewalks so get with me we'll look at the location we do have many priorities throughout the city but we'll look and see where yours ranks in terms of priority and where we might be able to find funding for that question thank you okay no you can and i think some of the priorities is like near schools and others so there's there's a lot of different funding opportunities for sidewalks so near schools we're looking at safe routes to school programs um so there's a lot of different funding opportunities council has appropriated a lot of funds to sidewalks because they are just as concerned as we are um so please get with me on your locations and we can look and see what's what our opportunities are thank you yes ma'am we specialize in building materials structural steel rebar and miscellaneous metals and what i'm interested in doing is bringing our headquarters here to put a fulfillment center that will bring vocational trade so that our at risk youth our section three our lmi can touch it fill it and be able to do structural steel fabrication roofing any of those vocational trades and if they're in high school they have an opportunity to come and have state-of-the-art equipment do innovation technology even if it's professional services and i'm looking for about 10 acres and i want to know how you can support me by bringing them to that district so that we can teach and have those young adults lmi individuals get to the streets and teach them trade and then still be making money so i'll tell you two things one i will refer you to uh connect with our black chamber a commerce so she's here we're okay we're already working okay and i support the black chamber also with southeast um with development and bringing because they really help us find a land that's available um working with different developers and so i don't have problem with supporting that i think okay we'll get your information tonight and we'll set up a meeting and to stay in the neighborhood to help the people on the east side well because of the vagrancy because of the street walkers they have to have to run away a lot of our people some of my elderly people which is who i service for the most part have been afraid to come back to the office and so i'm going to call in multiple times to the city trying to get some assistance because we've had broken windows we've had broken doors uh we've had people to try to break in and so that's very discouraging not only for my um not for my patient but for me and for my staff when we come in the morning we have someone laying at the front door and we have patients following us in and we have to call either security or the police to get inside our building also we have plumbing problems the water comes out dark and they have to use the bathroom the city a month or two ago had a project to repair the plumbing now it's it's dark you can't even drink the water there so i was wondering how can i get some help maybe for uh going forward for all the problems that we had all the extra expenses that we had all the extra compensation that i've had with multiple people of the city well you're in the right place uh you you're sitting next to our commander for that area uh and the chief and so we we can deal with that uh that crime issue tonight and then if we have uh water uh that can assist us we will get those those questions answered for you and one thing i will one thing i will say um again we have the hope team and i don't know uh taro do you mind giving us a brief or the chief of what the hope team is to do i don't know the hope team good evening everybody i'm neil notes uh chief here at fourth pd first of all thank you councilmember nettles for the invitation to be a part of this this great event tonight and i have to say this is one of the best attended community forums i've seen in a long time so it tells me we have a lot of residents who are who care about the community want to see things improve and you're talking to the people who can make that happen uh specifically talking about the homelessness issue we have a team called our hope team the homeless outreach program enforcement team which we have i think tripled the size of since we started their main focus is outreach to our homeless community in fort worth first to offer resources to offer support and do everything they can to set that community up for success to get them off the streets to get them what they need but as we have heard there are times when those efforts don't work and that's when law enforcement action is taken to make sure we are respecting the rights not only of the homeless community but of business owners and of residents who are seeing problems in their neighborhoods because we have people sleeping in doorways maybe urinating out in public dumping trash in places so what we're going to do we're going to connect with this young lady right here and talk about engaging our hope team and our crisis intervention team because i think we all know that unfortunately oftentimes when we're dealing with the homeless sometimes they're dealing with those who are dealing with mental wellness issues as well so our first move will be to try to help those individuals and we can work with terror as well because i know there's a lot of resources that are offered for our unhoused residents that will be our first move but if that doesn't work we will take the efforts that are legally permitted to make sure we're providing some service to you ma'am we'll make sure we take care of that thank you thank you yes sir i think uh the people who are on somebody else she thought of another issue uh and that is with water and the water comes out of the pipe and it's so dirty uh she needs somebody a direct person contact so she doesn't have to deal with that i mean that's a shame i had to do i had same problem and right over down the terror avenue and i had to reach wrong in my house and that it was water filled today i got the same problem but she and her performance really just when you're right down that house there's nobody you can not see those five guys standing over the bridge running money two white girls and three and one on one side of the bridge two over the other side there's no way nobody could not see that i see it and when they don't and when i drive back through that's the man y'all gotta move i'm working man but you know we're gonna help her johnny we're gonna we're gonna help her all right she's gonna contact me she just told me we're gonna we're gonna help her all right let me ask her yes ma'am okay yes go ahead and i will say on on that when we are encounter with that we need to immediately is it that's what we call the hope team is that correct chi yeah we get people out there at on the scene right there and so when we are seeing this we the way we correct that is by calling and getting the people out right away okay two more questions before we go into the open uh yes ma'am thank you for saying something about that last week i want to give some props to the community for pushing um this uh revitalization of evidence and a couple days ago we were out there with i think about eight city people walking the plaza because that is a big deal and i think the frustrating part is trying to comb through all of the woven systems to get to the issue and um i don't have a question but i would just say like we walked it we took notes people were there we have emails people are working on it but i just want to make sure that the community sees us actually get these things accomplished that we don't just talk about it you walk we do all the things and then it doesn't happen so i'm really looking forward and looking forward to us to really accomplishing what we talked about on that walk in terms of cleaning up getting the work found working again the streets the lights all of that because what i don't want is for bigger entities like economic development projects we talked about coming to the community and then all of a sudden all the issues go away when the community has been asking for these issues to go away for a long time we need to bring like we need to come together in terms of economic development in the community as opposed to pitting them against each other so i'm excited and i'm glad that you uh set your team out to walk with us and um also break it together we would love to hear from the community of what you need so that we can continue to do our business to raise those issues and work with the city work with chris to make these things happen so thank you i would also like to say that uh south side community garden would like to hear from the community as well to see ways that we can maybe help facilitate real change in the community um i we did an event that morning so i last month chris and uh while we were preparing i spoke with uh monica garrett the principal there's a city i believe there's like a city on part on the property so how long have you worked like i mean i just it was kind of yeah so i hear you say we're working on it so i guess i just so make sure that there you know like there's gonna be some action because words you know without action behind that you know that there doesn't mean much so just one i want to just bring that to your attention in this public forum to see how we can help those kids at morning middle not have to see homeless people on the park that's located living on the park so thank you for that and we do have a meeting set up so she's talking about the morning side middle school that has a park inside the jason gate and so i think we work with parks and understand that it is actually owned by the isd but leased to the parks and so we're right so we're working on fixing that issue and so again and i tell you and i these are a lot of issues that we have been dealing with for many many of years and so um i'm i'm glad you brought that up and we have staff here that that hurt you and so we'll get that last i'm gonna take these two questions and then we're gonna open it up so that you can go to the tables of our city staff that's here what are you all specifically doing in the school districts and when does economic development to teach and promote financial literacy and financial empowerment i'm not seeing any programs that are specifically for this um body and policy center and financial um uh center from small business development i'm seeing a thing here in Fort Worth and it is in doubt so i'm curious as to how to get that done especially with the Fort Worth isd community financial literacy programs in the schools and it doesn't just start with the uh it starts with the parents it starts at home educate the parents on financial literacy so they can turn along to the children so that way we're sustaining a common economy and build a well-generational well so i'm just curious as to what's going on and how are you all going to work with other organizations and so that sounds like council initiate initiatives that you will bring to the city to bring those programs uh the big component is that is our school district and so for so long we have been working in silos or in the individual and that's just the way life has allowed us to work and so this council have been one of the strongest council about talking about working with the school district and i think i kind of facilitate that earlier we're going to have our superintendent for Fort Worth isd to come and give us an update of what they're doing in the school district and how we can meet to elect the bodies come together and meet and address some of these concerns and so um that's an initiative that needs to take place that somebody can lead as well as community being a part so if there's a program that's working in dallas and we can uh mock we don't mock a lot of things that dallas do but but if it's working for our kids we will try to see how we can make that happen well i will entertain a meeting we have uh i believe uh laurence uh fernando laurence thompson uh works in our uh he's a manager of education strategies uh in the city manager's office and we can bring you thank you we'll do that okay i think i have one hand here you you sir okay i mean the trash is there i mean with the kids coming out of school that's not a community center that's a uh grocery store a store where people go and shop so but some of the kids well a lot of kids go there after school and they appear to pick them up now i'm not i'm having to guess that but they have somewhere to go but that's not the place for them to go and it looks dirty not just walmart but the whole plaza the trash everywhere so for it to be a new uh area it looks like a business whatever in a day and i don't think it's fair to the the ones that have been in the area for so long to have experience to you know where's my new uh place like that but it looks so dirty and i mean it's disgusting to me you know and i'm a lot about citizens i'm a fair about everything and another thing are the gray markets on the street we have like i love your family my hermals got to be one and have a lot about lost loved ones but to me to beautify the city we have to not do that you know what i'm saying um we have great excitement not just to dress your street up um memorial memorial markers to me that doesn't look nice you know what i'm saying so if there's something to clean it up the neighborhood um that needs to take place um not trying to come up with whatever but that's the thing is that stand out to me that will help bring the community back to where you need to be you don't know what well where it needs to be very nice and clean and i know it's going to take a community as a whole and we have a lot of moving from countries and everything moving over here in the area i kid that i understand that however we still need to appreciate the new development we really do do well for them but however once again here let's take care of it you know what are we doing to make it to beautify it to make it look nice and we can have other things no thank you thank you thank you and i tell you um and that's why this budget is so great for this this time because we had to really deal with trying to clean the city of forward and so when you look at uh mouse clean going from 410 miles to 1380 that is a major difference that is investing back in the community and the other thing is we do and we do bus cleaners we do uh community cleanups and a lot of times we do those you have a neighborhood a neighborhood association to come out you only have five people to come and so we have to build an alliance with the community and so i appreciate all your concerns we have wrote them down we we willing to meet with anybody anywhere and so i want to say thank you guys for coming out tonight thank you for being a part of the community uh all our organizations are here to speak with you before you leave so please get their cars get their information and be informed before you leave you had one thing to say Rodney did you have something to say no yes sir uh yes sir as far as any taxes in my company now the uh future of forward is written in the past and in my building i mean i look at the community here and uh a lot of people don't know that from 1902 to 1934 we had most advanced electric railway in the entire southern half of uh the country running right here on michael with the stuff from michael and fawn on its way to peter uh johnson county lot we also had a pretty two-mile line and ran it down Lancaster blowbar division street right up jefferson and oakliffe and downtown dallas and uh downtown downtown convention center convention center and uh well we submitted that project for consideration where we're in arlington but when you look at it statistically haven't been rosed out especially when mobility was ended in 1934 that's when the neighborhood stagnated and that's been in decline since so i would just say that uh we need to look in the past and how the city was founded especially around the intellectual mobility because there are solutions there that will solve lock-offs thank you thank you so much all right um again thank you for being here please i'm still here jasmine is still here it's good to see uh pasta crane in the back um and so um thank you guys for coming out and you are dismissed to uh be with the vendors have a good evening