 I am Joe commisar. I'm the assistant director and financial management services department for Capital projects. I developed or helped develop the the annual CIP for the city and also facilitate bond elections If they happen to occur, which they are certainly doing now what I'd like to talk about today is the very briefly the CIP development process And the reason I want to talk about that is so that you know what the process is in the city It's important for you to know that if it's July this is going on if it's if it's May This is going on and if you'd like to interject yourself you have a feel for where that is So we've got a pretty structured process put together It's important for you to understand and then I want to talk about some of the 2014 bond highlights That we have here today Fort Worth uses a four-step process. We introduced it last year We do the same thing every year in a repetitive kind of process and the goal is to develop that comprehensive integrated plan that we That we link to the city's comprehensive plan the city's comprehensive plan is the plan That projects out 20 years and it's important that our CIP be tied to that We're looking at the funding. We look at how much money we have to spend and then we develop the CIP All along that way. It's critical that we interact with you folks Regularly and routinely to get your input. This is your Fort Worth. This is your opportunity to present Information to us so that we know what you want. We we serve you and work for you as you well know And then if we need to we hold a bond election, which in fact we need to do This is a very briefly the four-step process and you can see that January through April. We're developing projects We have a summer CIP workshop with the city council in June and July or May June timeframe every year And we we go back to the city council ask them to verify the work that we're doing make sure that we're on track Then we use the fall to go out into the public to solicit feedback And we do that in conjunction with the comprehensive plan update We did that last year. We had 17 meetings last fall It was very successful in the sense that we were able to get feedback from you all on what you wanted And then in December November-December we come back to the city council and we say okay. Here's what we've got from the public Is it okay? What is the CIP? Okay, and we ask for approval of CIP. That's the process every year So you know you know that we're developing projects in the spring. We've got two city council meetings a year one in the summer One in the winter to talk about Capital projects and we're out in the public Public meetings typically in the fall. So if you want to interject yourself into that process, that's the way you can do that You can see that we've have had Public meeting or public meetings and city council meetings. I'm going to cover some highlights of those very quickly So let's that's the background on the CIDV development Process and again we can answer questions on those if you have those later I want to talk about the specific bond program now that everybody's probably most interested in you can hear me say The word projects a lot today, and I want to emphasize that I'm talking about projects that are funded through your property tax There's a segment a component of your property tax that's used to pay for Certain projects and those are the ones we're talking about there's hundreds of other projects in the city They're paid for by water your water bills your storm water bills your aviation Has projects funded by the feds through the FAA grants things like that. We're not talking about those today Those are ongoing. They're moving along. We're talking about those ones that are funded by our property tax And I also want to emphasize that everything you hear today There is no tax rate increase associated with it. We're using money that we currently have so no tax rate increase associated with anything you're hearing today, and I think that's an important thing to know We we have a substantial need. We're one of the fastest growing cities in the nation largest One of the largest met areas some metropolitan areas in the state And we're growing like crazy as you've seen in the newspapers and it's important that we get get infrastructure built to To take care of the services that you need and the infrastructure that you need to to get your jobs done and just to just to live so We've had four current programs The 2004 bond program the 2008 program and a couple of other ones in between and we're running out of money this summer We're going to sell the very last of that money and that money no longer exists. Those projects will be underway this summer So we need additional dollars. I Mentioned in in spring. We're talking to the departments about what it is that we need They came back to us and here's some macro numbers On in general categories about what's needed. You can see that by far the largest Requirement in the city's transportation infrastructure. That's no surprise to anybody It's critical that we we have the streets and roads and road repairs necessary to get folks moving around the city facilities parks IT projects and a variety of other cities city economic development kinds of Projects as well as various services are also critically needed and this adds up to a very large number You'll see in a moment that we don't have the money to pay for all this So it's important that we pick the right projects as we go through this process And that's where we really need your help as we're as we're winding down to to getting this list Developed now We wanted to build we wanted to build a formal way To start this process in the past we haven't had the opportunity to We haven't we haven't had a structured process. We've just kind of started and said let's go but over the last Nine months we've developed a very strong strategic process to build a project list That we want to offer to you as a starting point for your deliberations on this whole thing and very briefly I will tell you that Department heads met several times we brought in a consultant We developed a matrix and we spent a lot of time trying to figure out what the best projects would be For the city going forward And so when you see this list, it's a result of the staff's work over many many months to try to find the right Recommendations for the city now naturally we've been to city council several times and asked for their Guidance and direction. They've offered their input to this process. It's been tweaked and so it's been a pretty comprehensive effort But I want to mention some things about this list it's very important that you understand that this list is Is just simply a recommendation to you. This is our this is our subject matter expert our staff's recommendation To where we think these projects Or where the dollars should be spent, however It is in no way a final list and it will not be a final list until December. We're going to go through this summer Councilwoman Alan Gray mentioned the several meetings. I'll mention them again. We want your input. We're soliciting your input We want to know what you want so when you see these lists you have the option of tossing all the projects out adding projects Increasing the scope of the projects decreasing scope of the projects anything is open for discussion So there's this list is no way shape or form a final list It's really important that you understand that and I'll talk about those milestones a little bit later So your your input is very valuable to us and it's very critical to making good decisions. I Mentioned that we've been to city council several times over the last 18 months This list has been tweaked. It's been generally determined to be okay City council has been pretty pretty direct with us and telling us what they wanted to see I wanted to see a strong emphasis on transportation infrastructure keep that Emphasis the way you've had it find ways to provide higher allocations for parks projects That's been a pretty pretty highly discussed subject as we've run these lists by city council and Continue to find ways to partner with other entities the ISDs the counties And other private entities if we can get their dollars in the mix then we then our dollars will go farther We can leverage our dollars and and that effort is underway full-time It's going on as we speak it will not stop just because we've got this bond election going on We're still going to try to find ways to partner with those folks so that we can free up dollars for other projects And that will occur all the way through the rest of the year and then Importantly as we're doing today stay out in the public and get input from the citizens on what they want So this list as I talked about now, which which is not a final list is broken down Categorically this way and I don't need to go into a lot of detail because I'll show you the projects in just a little bit But what should stand out here is the very strong emphasis in transportation infrastructure? 70% of the available dollars that we have we we would recommend Go to transportation infrastructure type projects. Obviously we want your feedback on that That may or may not be what you want, but it seems to be The common theme as we go through the prior public meetings in the city council's discussions And then the significant contribution to the parks projects you can see 22 million dollars here Allocated to parks the rest of the projects are distributed around the the various categories, and I'll show you those in just a second This is the project list the one that's not final, and I just want to walk through it with you briefly just to mention a Couple of highlights about the projects the department heads are here You know that there's their setup outside with their displays They can talk to you about detail on these projects or any other projects. You'd like to see so very briefly Transportation infrastructure I'll show you a breakdown a little bit, but you can imagine that's streets roads Bridges sidewalks intersections that sort of thing We have a fire station 42, which is in South Fort Worth. It's down around Spinks Airport The Holly water treatment plant needs a service center. I will say simply that this piece of it leverages Seven million dollars in of water money, which is how it got on this list in the first place This is not the complete project cost, but this is all that the bond fund would be asked to pay There's a facility up north consisting of a library and a thousand square feet for a municipal court kiosk complex and Again the the municipal court staff. Mr. Emerson is here if you need additional detail on that The downtown court it requires an expansion and so we have got that in the bond program The north part of Fort Worth above I-30 is serviced out of service centers in the south And there's a need for a service center up north. That's what this would be It would house transportation public works and parks folks The animal shelter in South Fort Worth or not South Fort Worth central Fort Worth down 287 and 820 Needs an expansion to accommodate more capacity in a medical treatment facility Walt ranch needs a fire station. That's far west Fort Worth a transit oriented development is a development associated with the Tech techs rail the the light rail that's coming into Fort Worth and it's important that the infrastructure around those stations be developed That's what that's all about. There's a playground equipment at 16 sites in the city Heritage Plaza Park in downtown Fort Worth. You may you may recall that's closed and it has a fence around it Enhanced CFA funds those are funds that we contribute to developers to encourage them to develop There's there's sometimes there's a gap in what they can do We help them with with their needs so that though their projects can be Accomplished urban village improvements improves things like walkability around the city Street scapes makes makes places a nicer Magnolia is a good example of that if you've been in that area North animal shelter again. There's nothing up there. They're there Have a need Oakland Express library. That's a an express library in this particular district that councilman Alan Gray has championed and she And I'm sure you all are aware that there's a need for that library here as well these other The remainder of the projects here are primarily parks related They're pretty self-explanatory the parks and walks and trails is quanta Parker Park That's out east and that would complete a park trail to Lake Arlington The rest I say as I say are pretty self-explanatory except for the public art component Which I'm going to talk to in just a little bit note that's five point eight million dollars And those are those are art projects that are related to capital projects that we're talking about here This is the breakdown of the the transportation line that I showed you earlier you see the Various categories that I talked about Street reconstruction rehab has its line and it's broken down to neighborhood streets and arterials and that's primarily repair of streets And that's a pretty critical line as well These are the this is a map. It's hard to see there's a there's a better map out here in the lobby But these are the arterials these are the major roads around Fort Worth you can see that they're distributed fairly well There's a lot of dollars that go into that $88 million worth of construction of Arterials as we went through the Council meetings the council members brought up various things They still think we should look at and emphasize. I wanted to bring those to your attention. There was discussion of Chisholm Trail Park improvements There you saw Chisholm Trail on the prior slide that is only half of what's required There's some there's some thought that the department can come up with additional dollars or private funding come up with additional dollars But the discussion is that if that's not possible, we may need to look at additional funding there Same for Como Community Center, which is a seven million dollar facility replacement What we have in the bond program recommendation to you is half that there's a hope that private Private partnerships can come up with the other three point five, but perhaps not Citywide Community Center renovations Zebo as park Rockwood golf course and citywide trail enhancements Those were those were brought to our attention as things we might want to take a look at so we offer them to you as suggestions for additional projects I Do want to mention very briefly the public art program Simply to say that it is integrated into our capital projects program These are the goals that they have you're familiar with a variety of projects. Miss Martha Peters is here She has a display out here about how these projects have incorporated public art in the past We fund those projects By ordinance the ordinance currently calls for two percent of the capital project dollars that would go to public art and So for 2014 two percent of our capacity, which is two hundred ninety two million would be five point eight million dollars There's discussion about whether the two percent is right or not. Is that the right amount? So we'll take your input on it. Would you like to see more? Would you like to see less? Would you like to see it go away? Any aspect of this is Discussable as well. So If you have thoughts on that let us know so What do we need from you what we really need from you as your feedback? We really need to know what your thoughts are on what projects that we have Remember we have two hundred and ninety two million dollars in capacity, and that's it. That's all we have so We've allocated that through the projects that you see which are not defined at all I mean those are not final But I would ask that if you have ideas for example if you want to see you know two or three new projects That you help us Understand how they might be paid for you know what what would go away or be reduced in order to pay for those because We're still limited just like you are in your checkbook to whatever is in there for us. It's two hundred ninety two million dollars That sounds like a lot, but it's really not in the in the business of construction. So But we have to have your input. It's critical to To what we're doing These are the variety of ways that we have we have set up so that you can talk to us Public meetings obviously I'll talk to more about those in a second. E-media will take I'll take email inputs My business cards and my colleagues Kristen glass are on the sign-up sheet if you want to email us. That's information social media and the crowd sourcing Facebook Twitter you can get us that way Crowdsourcing is new. We've got an application called my mixer back here where you can enter into the system and express your Your opinions that way you can get to it through our website or you can spend time here today Miss Michelle Goot is here. She's our communications officer in the city. She'll be happy to walk you through how to use this It's really a fantastic opportunity to interface with us This way at this time We have all kinds of written media the publicity in the newspapers that sort of thing We really want your feet will even take mail if you want to mail us something and and let us know About that just a quick word on the public meetings. You're obviously at one today Miss Alan Gray mentioned that the next one for this district is the 25th of July But there's a bunch of them there's 19 currently scheduled of which 16 are District specific and all that means is we're going to talk primarily about that just that district's projects But you're welcome to any of them if you want to come to any of these meetings You're welcome and the last three are city-wide All council members will be at those three the mayor will be at those three So you can come to one or all of those as well You're welcome at any of them if you leave today and you say man I forgot something and you want to express it in another public meeting. Please come out and talk to us You don't have to complete your thoughts today if you don't have them You might take notes today and come back later. You're welcome at any one of these meetings Quick look at the milestones just so you know how the rest of the year is going to go Between now and November 2nd We're going to be doing public meetings and I just showed you that schedule that's schedules in the publicity that we're putting out on the in the variety of various media We've got a compliment in November I'm going to take all that public input everything that you tell me and everybody else all the other citizens and all the other public Meetings tells me we're going to compile it and we're going to shape the project list based on what you say And we're going to bring it back to the city council on December 11th And we're going to say okay We had the list we went out as you've asked us to do we've gotten this information and this is what the new list looks like Assuming that's okay We'll spend the next month or so getting the the ballot and the ordinance and the propositions also all worked out and Then in February 11th the city council will actually call for the election which will be held on May 10th 2014 So that's how that process is going to work So nothing is going to be final until December nothing So you you can interject, you know three times a week if you want between now and December we'll take that information It's important to us that we hear from you, but that's kind of the milestones that we that we have December 11th is the schedule at this time