 we have a couple of announcements to make the first is I get to announce there's a special called audit committee meeting on Thursday June 9th at 5 p.m audit committee this Thursday 5 p.m at the future city hall those that weren't on the audit committee were happy to hear that there don't have to go that's all right next up I'm gonna call on Alexandra Thurston and cannon Henry they're gonna talk about activities for the city's Juneteenth program come on up good afternoon mayor pro tem and members of the city council my name is Alexandra Thurston I'm the chair of the city of Fort Worth diversity and inclusion committee and employee committee and I have here with me cannon Henry the committee member representing the transportation and public works department the mission of the city of Fort Worth diversity and inclusion employee committee is to promote a greater understanding and appreciation for diversity and inclusiveness throughout the employee population the committee created at the direction of the city manager's office purposefully focuses on programs and special events that highlight and address issues related but not limited to race ethnicity culture age gender sexual orientation gender identity disability national origin and religion fostering a culture of open mindedness compassion and inclusiveness among individuals and groups and create an opportunity for dialogue and education it also makes recommendations related to diversity and inclusion in the workforce to city leadership Juneteenth Juneteenth is a holiday to celebrate the anniversary date of June 19 1865 announcement of general number three general order number three by union army general Gordon Granger proclaiming freedom for enslaved people in Texas additionally Juneteenth celebrates the triumph of the human spirit over slavery it honors those former enslaved African Americans who survived the inhumane institution of chateau slavery and celebrates African American freedom and achievement while encouraging continuous self-development and respect for all cultures miss lee along with the help of many other strives every year to keep and expand the celebration of our day of freedom June 19 1865 when slaves in Texas found out they were free her vision for for Juneteenth has grown from a single day community picnic at sycamore park to a multi-day celebration in downtown forward that includes a parade breakfast a prayer honors banquet miss juneteenth pageant health and job fair five k run art exhibit golf tournament gospel festival food vendors children's play areas and much much more and last year her efforts to have juneteenth declared a federal holiday were finally realized when president Joe Biden signed a building to law which commemorates the end of slavery in our country the president described the new holiday as a date to not only remember the moral stain of slavery but also to celebrate the capacity to heal to celebrate juneteenth the diversity and inclusion employee committee is presenting a historical presentation featuring dance and vocal performances including an employee choir on thursday june 16th from noon to one p.m. in the council chamber employees can register for this in-person program via event bright details can be found on the intranet or in the roundup and the program will also be broadcast live on fort Worth tv and the city's youtube channel fort Worth city hall for the public and employees who aren't able to attend in person thank you so much there's a question for you guys from council member back yes first i'd like to answer councilman nettles question do we have to know to sing to be in the choir and please answer yes if all of the things that you listed that we do to celebrate juneteenth not just city sponsored here but as you listed in the community if you could send us an email with all of that information and if there's any associated graphics that you might have or links that'd be really helpful because i i know i would person like to to help push that information yes we can do that thank you so much any other questions thank you for your time thank you next i'm going to call on mania shore to introduce our new chief communications officer thank you david mania shore acting assistant city manager and normally your library director i'll just lead with a thank you for giving me this opportunity to fill in temporarily mayor pro tem council i am here to introduce our new chief communications officer renae tayas renae will oversee the city's communications and public engagement department government relations and educational strategies divisions as well as being the liaison to the departmental public information officers prior to coming to fort worth renae was the vice president and public sector practice leader with cooxie communications he spent six years as the executive director of the communications and community engagement for the austin independent school district he also spent six years with the city of austin as their media relations manager and he was the director of communications for the austin mayor in addition to having fema national incident management system training and a strong emergency operation center experience renae has worked as a political reporter with a cbs affiliate as a press secretary with the new mexico legislature and in nonprofit communications he received his bachelor's degree in communication and political science from eastern new mexico university and his master's degree from the lbj school of public affairs at ut austin i'm sure you will agree with me after hearing all of that that renae is well placed to take over this position so please join me in welcoming renae tayas mayor pro tem council members mania thank you for your work in the interim role and for setting me up for success through this transition and to the organization for having the foresight in envisioning and creating the position also thank you to our city manager david cook for creating the spot which i hope will be very impactful i am the son of blue collar workers who was the first among in the family to go to college and i feel lucky to have had the experiences centering in executive communication that i have and i believe i'm going to take those opportunities and experiences into this role moving forward and i think of this role as the type of position that you get to both get to in life and get to do not the type of job that you have to go to um with those professional and professional personal experiences first going to be doing a lot of listening and learning not being from this community and then evaluating and acting on how to make our efforts within the department really the best that it can be quick little story so i moved up here on thursday of last week and i'm at a restaurant and in the lobby i hear of folks talking about uh they had the guess that they had had just moved to fort worth i go to the pharmacy the person in front of me is transferring their prescription from another texas city because they moved here to fort worth i go to new or a new employee orientation yesterday and it's a room full of people who have moved here to take a job with the city of fort worth so it's a growing community and yet there is a strong obligation to those that have been here a while to communicate in the best way that we know how and to um engage in the best way we know how with the mix of folks that were here while i philosophically believe that engagement is as strong and needs to be as strong as communication and look forward to working with the full team um tj and government relations in lauren's in um educational strategies i mean kind of just really quickly center on communication it was um the playwright george bernard shaw who said the biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it's taken place to take that a little further often that is because the way it was delivered whether that's in a language or the platform did not receive the recipient so we have to be particularly cognizant about that but also the recipient has to have a willingness to trust who sent the message and a willingness to listen to the message those are things i hope to build on and work on on an internal and external um from an internal and external position and i look forward to telling what is important to the city of four worth thank you welcome thank you rene and welcome to the city of four now we'll talk about a number of informal reports i think there's 13 of them ready let's go the first informal report is on the fourth of july operations and communications and we've got chief nooks and assistant chief homer robertson available if there are any questions gentlemen i would just come up here of course no no questions david yeah but i would like to hear uh for the purpose of the public hearing uh what the plan is mayor and council mayor pro tem and council it's an honor to stand before you today talk about a very important topic uh the fourth of july operations that we are very honored to be working in conjunction with our partners over at four worth fire um i know you've all had a chance to see the ir but some of the the highlights i would like to point out this is going to be a coordinated effort between various departments within the city this isn't just a police issue it isn't just a fire issue the fire will be taking the lead there are the experts when it comes to fire safety which this could be an issue of so they will be taking the lead and will be assisting in any way we possibly can we'll be running joint uh the jeo c daily from 6 p.m to 2 a.m on saturday the second sunday july 3rd and monday july 4th some of the departments that will be present will be the fire department fourth pd med star tpw parks and rec and the tarrant regional water district primary goals to ensure that fire operations and the fourth pd resources are available to respond to emergency and high priority calls for service provide adequate messaging on firework safety the fireworks are legal in the city of four worth and the firework reporting resources and tools are made known through media outlets digital social and traditional leading up to how the holiday weekend and let me point out those reporting tools we're trying to provide as many avenues to report as possible to make it as easy as possible on the citizens of four worth first to ease the burden on our 911 system because we want that open for emergencies only we have a hotline which is 817-392-4444 817-392-4444 we also have a web format which is going to be all spelled out report fireworks dot forward texas dot gov real simple to remember report fireworks dot forward texas dot gov and also we're happy to report that the option to report fireworks is now also on the my four worth app mention the messaging which again will be both digital social and traditional spearheaded by fd but in close coordination with the police department and we're excited to get to work with bernay congratulations again on the great position it's quite an honor and we look forward to working with you on the messaging to make sure we're doing it as efficiently as possible thank you for being on the selection yes sir absolutely that was an honor as well some of the messaging as you've seen and they are it's talking about staying safe during the fourth of july it's talks about the dangers talks about the fact that it's illegal and also talks about the reporting options just to give you an idea of the scope of work based on past fourth of july responses and so is there any effort to be proactive in the known areas and they come oh i know where all of yours are too you know so can you talk about being proactive so that we can issue some tickets yes ma'am so we had had every division all six commanders submit special special operations details just for the fourth of july time frame to deal specifically with fireworks in neighborhoods we have well over a hundred officers that are involved with special events such as the big firework shows also helping out with other fireworks special events that go on in the city we have officers who obviously are answering standard calls for service so what we're doing is pulling in officers specifically for dealing with violations of fireworks and we're hoping is that proactive measure will make a difference well tell them if they can be at lake arlington it would be much appreciated yes ma'am and you know we we have older people in their homes afraid because the fireworks that i hear it makes me think somebody's coming in my house they're they're just well you know what they are but i know it's i know it's it's like a right of criminal passage but it still doesn't make it right that we can't put a stop to it by just if you if you just write 20 tickets i'd be happy so michael since it's more it's that and as well the the elderly in in the neighborhood lake company their houses are they could catch on fire and that's what scares them the most and so i think that message out there too it's not just about the bang it's about the side effect that could happen too i run my sprinkler every july fourth i start around the first just to keep everything wet but one of the difficult things that we have in enforcing the fireworks is at the state level the state has made it easier to get fireworks and not more different yeah and we've got until we get some help at the state level our ability to to enforce those or minimize the effect of those fireworks is hard very difficult thank you Carlos i know that when you uh you know you call me and said hey there's shooting fireworks on the next block over those that's really difficult because when you show up they're not there and uh you can't they're not there and it's very difficult to even find them lighting those fireworks you may see what's the is left over but they're uh they're not there when you get there thanks guys thank you the next informer report is on the crime control and prevention district ccpd pending applications and assistant chief aldridge is available 30 questions if there are any questions all right chief comana chief they are waiting for you and i'd advise you to get to the good camera you know which one that is by the clock yes ma'am i saw the council thanks for having me today thank you the gleam in the eye first came from from council member williams if i don't call his name i'll be a problem thank you mayor pro tem and thank you for this irg paul dredge i just want to know how i can help i know that y'all provided a data figure um with on the question number two um where district six was probably when we look at the amount of funds budgeted per district for partner programs was at the second to the bottom and we know the challenges that we've had specifically with youth gun violence and gang related gun violence so i know that part of that process is getting organizations to apply and and get them involved so can you speak just um to the challenges and then also what i can do to help in terms of ensuring that we um our investments match kind of where we're seeing some of the challenges especially with the issue that just brought up absolutely so you said it eloquently it's getting people to apply um we have the dollars there for people to come out and help support some of our crime fighting efforts but it's a matter of getting them to apply for those applications so we've tried to make it as simple as possible we hold you know training sessions we actually help them fill out the applications so it can be reviewed for the panel um what you can do specifically get people to apply uh you know the problems that you're in your area you know ultimacy mccart some of the areas a little bit further to the west and it's really trying to get those individuals involved and engaged so we can leverage those dollars to make this a little bit safer area for them thank you i'll help out with that thank you come to member niggles okay uh i have a quite a few questions um looking at this the list of the ones that receive funds um ist for worth ist no the i guess the program names okay so page one through three or whatever's different program names that receive funds how many of those are new programs are these recurring programs so off to the side you can see the three years uh Las Vegas trail every two rides i can get you a definitive list of which ones are first year programs yes and the ones that are reoccurring um it'll probably be easier if i do that yeah then stand up here and try and identify those that's good uh then the other thing is i'm looking at some of these uh have districts and then some say all so you probably won't have information today but i would request that each one of the uh groups that say all give us more of a detail breakdown okay of how they are affecting each district okay uh because some of these that say all i you know haven't really seen anything in uh our district per se and i say they're not doing anything but i'd like to know a breakdown okay um so i don't know if all council wants that but we can get that through an email would be great okay i can do that okay uh the other thing the question um i believe i had was when you presented the i guess the heat map uh in a program in a setting wow back yes and i think we talked about that that that heat map versus the programs that are associated in that area and so it still looks a little sketchy that we have heat heated areas but not a lot of programs talking to those areas right so i saw several ones that were denied i kind of want to know a breakdown of why those were denied and then because i have been uh asking other groups to apply and i actually want to i want to request and this may be a future agenda item david cook is that if you guys can give us a walkthrough of the application process absolutely uh because i think there was some issues before when we had the offer funds that sometimes these applications is rigged and it's hard for people to get through the process so i would like to see if we can get that uh shown to us okay but i guess my question is versus the heat would if you can give us a presentation versus the heat map versus the programs that are in that area okay we also have a map that we developed uh that has the programs per um zip code i can definitely provide that to you as well i have a question for you chief on sunday when i finally had time to look at my agenda packet when i saw the ccpd information i sent it to a friend of mine who i'll just say he's he's a formal not former but formal crime fighter you know he's he's involved in this activity and my question to him was what do you think about this i can't repeat what he said because we're on air but to get to the to the heart of the matter what i'd like to see is taking a look at the funding and how that correlates to violent crimes in each district okay we just heard from uh from the chief and pastor macintosh how crime is on the rise in southwest four word uh we hear all the time about stop six in eastwood you know we've had so many problems with speed racing in eastwood they kept the law out is what people on the video said so apparently there is a problem there but i would i would like to think even if people are not applying there would be efforts on our part and and i haven't done a good job you know recruiting activity for applications but i would think that we would really want to try to make sure the dollars that we're awarding are in sync with the crime that's taking place sure and after talking with my uh my friend uh apparently things are really improved in district five and i know they haven't but the dollars don't seem to match the crime and so however you can give that type of comparison i'd like to add that on to the agenda future agenda item that council member nettles just stated and i'm not the only one who who sees this it is quite quite obvious that there's a disconnect here and it shouldn't be because people are not applying you know i think it would be who the police department to go out and shake the bushes to get people to come up and make these applications sure council member beck i think that um we've heard that we want to support y'all in finding these organizations to fill the gaps what would be very helpful is to know where those gaps are in the types of organizations that that you're looking at for example do we have several you know violent crime prevention programs but we're really missing in some trauma informed care for our our youth or domestic violence prevention um you know i i think you kind of get the the drift and then the question begs does that have to be an outside organization that fills that gap um if we have identified a gap and we have done our part collectively as a community to try to to find an organization to fill that gap i know that's easier because you get to contract out and uh but i would like there to be some discussion about one identifying those gaps and then two if we can't find outside organizations then what do we do as a city and as a police department to to fill those gaps ourselves instead of you know i don't want us to find ourselves in a situation where we say well we we don't have any group that does this and we really need x and we don't have it so we can't do it like let's create it um and please lean on us for that and then my question to you is when i go back and i look at um all of the forward i s d after school or not just forward i s d but all of the after school programs um how are those uh individual schools selected to be part of of that program and then i might have some follow-up questions so tag on to that because one glaring miss there is uh all the the schools in Las Vegas trail area right um western hills elementary primary linard and and um western hills high school but they're not on this list but they're obviously it seems like everybody else is but yeah so i just the impetus the impetus for my question as well i noticed some schools on here are not on this list and um some of them in my uh tougher neighborhoods and particularly some of my failing schools aren't on this list so so i might be able to answer a question a little bit because the list of schools that we have are what are funded by ccpd and there are a lot other partners for after school programs with forward i s d in fact the dollar amounts about five point two million dollars and so i mean i can work with the finance our finance people to see if we can get a comprehensive list of see what other schools are being funded beyond ccpd um because i don't want to say they're not being funded but i would have to go and look back at these are only ones that we're funding through ccpd right i get that there's like clayton has programs at several schools and so there's probably some sort of coverage but my question is how do we how do we choose the locations right we have all of our partner agencies that are that are providing some after school programs but then we have the list here that looks like it's directly we're not going through a pass-through agency but we are funding right and right or yeah we give it to forward guys dna so who makes that determination of what schools they go to and and uh what's the nexus for us uh spending spending dollars there so i know it's through an application process and so it's basically the budget was determined by an estimated cost of programs uh staff salary supplies recipients these budgets were approved of course by city city council based on the contracts with ccpd and the i sd's so um i mean that's definitely something we can look at um how those are are funded how the money is allocated moving forward um but i know that uh those were con you know contracts that were in place that you guys were you know kind of informed of whenever they kind of came about i guess what i would like to know as part of that is are we just giving the money to the isd and they decide where it goes without input from y'all as a ccpd knowing that that white western hills area is a hot is a is a hot area for crime etc so what are we doing there with the oversight we just giving it to them then we've got to figure out maybe a better system so let me find out for sure yes sure that's um and honestly i know that every one of the schools they have benchmarks or outcomes that we're trying to have them accomplish we are tracking those but i can definitely find out you know how we determine what schools get what and chief this really underscores the need for this con fab that i keep talking about and the reason why i want to have a meeting with anybody who is getting a crime fighting check is so that we know we collaborate we coordinate we work together because right now things are happening in silos but crime continues to go up and so that's the reason why it'll take a bigger table it may take the council chambers but i promise you we're going to have that meeting school districts united way whoever is giving away crime fighting money we need to be together this is this is this is a regional effort and i'm not being i'm not angry with you but i'm just very passionate about this because i keep seeing people get killed and so the idea that there is money out there going out there we all need to like look each other in the eye and just say what are you doing is it working how do you know it's working are we just cutting checks and so that's that's the reason behind why i want to see this kind of take place i appreciate your passion without a doubt because in all honesty they're limited number of dollars we know that and so we have to be efficient with the resources that we have and it's really important that everybody is going in the right direction instead of just doing their own thing i agree with you 100 percent thank you so much any other questions on this topic thanks chief the next informal report is on fire collective bargaining agreement amendment related to the juneteenth holiday and deanna giordano is available 30 questions all right what's that yes yes deanna deanna giordano hr director so um hey deanna thanks for the ir first i want to just commend the council in the city for the historic steps we took to ensure that juneteenth was a holiday i guess this is just more of a comment that for management also maybe for the hr team but i recognize that with that action that we took as a council that it required us providing an additional benefit in terms of an additional day i mean i just want to know how we're preparing fiscally and ensure that our departments are not impacted or that their budgets aren't constrained with the budgets they set for the things that they needed to do in addition to us as a council adding a benefit day i know fire potentially can be impacted with the collective bargaining negotiations with this benefit day i mean i want to make sure that we as a city and as city management that we're investing that benefit on top of the needs that they need to fund their everyday city services and not be penalized in a sense for us making the decision to celebrate this historic day and ensure that that budget can meet that benefit i got this one so that holiday was in the budget so it's already been accounted for in the budget and the reason for that is we're not going to do things that separate employee groups right so you know holiday that's there for general employees is going to be there for police and fire management does not practice in giving up employee groups thank you for that i think it's it's important thing to highlight as we move into budget season to just make sure that the vote that we made doesn't impact the budget so thank you for that explanation all right next up we have an informal report on the final results of pricing bonds with the 2022 debt plan and regi zeno is available if there any questions yeah regi quick summary oh there he is there we go actually as you're aware the bond sale is a result of several activities that occur over a six month period it started with the annual financial report which was very successful in that we were able to generate some fund balance as well as reinvest back into some programs and services with some of the excess fund balance we then went to the audit audit resulted in no material findings which again was a very significant event for the city we then went to the credit rating agencies excuse me meetings coordinated through the debt manager alex lawford very successful result there we were able to upgrade the status of the actually the outlook status which we then took all of that information and then began the bond sale process the bond sale itself was very successful we entered the market in very turbulent time with the feds increasing rates probably a month before we entered the market but ultimately very successful with the bond sale and alex can provide any further details yeah absolutely happy to share tremendous results on our bond sales this year even despite an increasing you know interest rate environment but so we finished our tax tax exempt geo bond sale with the 3.77 percent tic or true interest cost that's our interest rate that we're going to be paying on our geo bonds our taxable bonds even a slightly lower than that 3.62 percent really that's just a testament of the strong participation in in these bids that we received as well as the water sewer revenue bonds we sold not long ago we finished at 3.88 percent true interest cost so if you compared last year this year yes we were paying a little bit higher interest rate that's just the nature of the market at this time but i think we can be proud of the success of the pricing this year carlos maybe this is not really a question but more of an observation and and both of you touched on it already you know my i guess my long-term concern being you know an environment where you have high inflation increasing interest rates that you mentioned you know in general our returns are going to be diminished but but what you're saying what i've read is that we're still in a pretty decent position our our sales tax revenue is high i mean so kind of keeps us ahead of it that while our returns might be impacted slightly we're still coming out ahead that's true and i mean if you look at it from a historical interest rate environment we're still at a predominantly low interest rate environment if you're looking back you know 50 years or so so we still get the benefit of that but i'll defer to david and regi on the performance of the other revenues well we actually are seeing some pretty significant growth in sales taxes you get those you receive those reports on a on a monthly basis and those are very positive and the question is how long that will last and we're we're pretty optimistic about the economy in north texas and so we're anticipating a continuation maybe not at the really high levels of increases we've seen but certainly pretty robust collections within the sales tax area of course mitigated by any downturns in the market but we're just keeping our eyes on the economy certainly but today things are pretty positive all right thank you i just wanted to comment if i could i was part or i witnessed i should say part of the bond interview process when a couple of the agencies were in and you know i just want to compliment you regi and david as well as leading that process in selling our city and this is a fantastic result i think it might go a little bit underappreciated but this is the engine of course that drives a city in many ways so again just thank you thank you regi for your leadership david you as well in the whole team this was just a great great result thank you thank you for that thanks guys next up let's see we have the employee's retirement fund investment program expense information i think that was a request for information after the last joint meeting and once again regi zeno is available if there are any questions yeah same suit different guy yeah so hi i'm mayor pro tem counsel thank you uh and uh we're here to answer any questions i'm derrick dagna i'm the chief investment officer with uh foreworth's employee's retirement fund and uh we came here on the 24th of may for a joint meeting there was a question about uh some fees and we provided some follow-up information we welcome any opportunity to provide you with educational information answer any questions on an individual basis or or as a group it's important uh you know for for the employees for uh and then obviously for the financing capabilities of the city so we we provided information on cost and we're here to answer any questions i just had a couple questions and appreciate all the information that y'all shared it was certainly dense and um took a little bit to get through but uh you know we don't want to take up too much time but i i just thought it would be interesting to know um uh if if we have summarized any anywhere through all the different stakeholders that are managing uh the fund the fees that they're generating each step of the way is that is can we find that anywhere um so you mean for individual fund managers and then over time so there's there's layers right so we have uh the fund managers themselves then we have different products that we are buying that have fees associated with their services and products um and then we have and i think this was just another question about our performance fees and the carried interest um i think we should understand what that is and and if this isn't the right format david for for these kind of questions that that's fine um but i think it you know it it drives obviously the expense of the fund in many ways that you know the contributors are bearing and i think it's just important for them to know what those expenses are and where um they're found okay so uh we'll be we'll be relatively brief here so as far as individual manager um fee information um we're uh we don't disclose that over time um but it's it's compiled in the annual report okay so and it's categorized by the type and it's categorized by type of investment okay okay um but as far as manager x y z you know the the amount of carried interest we pay to that manager in 2019 that's not something that's disclosed um and why is that why is that not disclosed um there is the we the disclosure is made in accordance with guidelines from the picture review board and so we that's the guidance we have that's how that's how we report it in our annual report okay so i think it's also important to know that um much of this is regulated right uh coming out of austin in terms of how the fund is is managed is that correct how the how the information is reported on fees is regulated coming from austin correct so i'm not suggesting we're not revealing anything or you're not revealing anything because it is regulated that's correct correct okay and so just real last quick question lastly um in the performance fees and carried interest which is obviously if you look at the investment manager fees the year end statement um is significant so sure that structure again that is one regulated is that correct i don't know that regulated is the right term i mean it's the the disclosure of the information is is is yes is regulator required right but is the the fee is not something that's regulated okay so if is it the case that the board of trustees for the retirement fund would negotiate on behalf of the fund the structure of those kind of carried interest that's that's a great question yes so so there's uh so performance fees are or profit sharing are carried in carried interest those are the three ways to describe it um they are uh connected to certain types of investments usually real estate investments private equity investments um investments with hedge funds those are the three primary uh common types of investments those those are a success fee in other words so the higher the fee that you pay there is not necessarily a bad thing or a good thing it's all dependent on the size of the program and how well the manager does so uh that is that helpful it's uh in other words we are we even have an agreement to share the profits above a specified level so as so if the manager does really really well they'll get a share of the profit if they do very poorly they'll get nothing so in other words it's a like a success fee for sure and and is that modeled after any other city's retirement fund is that or is that unique to us and that again is is negotiated by the uh trustees it's very common for institutional investors for pension funds so almost every pension fund um very few pension funds do not invest in real estate private equity or hedge funds or things like this where they have these arrangements with managers that include this mechanism this this um success fee this profit sharing mechanism and and it's the percentage that i guess i'm digging at them and what that split is that we the board negotiates right the split the split is typically um um 20 of the profits over a specified return that's very common across the industry if you're a very large institution like a sovereign wealth fund you know like in canada there are the canadian uh social security administration invest in these types of investments and they are you know hundreds of billions of dollars in size and they can negotiate a lower fee structure but a a pitch of unlike fort worth or you know a medium-sized city or a large city it doesn't really have the ability to negotiate that is that helpful yes that is thank you any other questions going around i just stepped in for jena who has some business to take care of all right thank you thank you thank you all right next in formal report is on the fort worth alliance airport name change and roger venables is available if there are any questions roger you got to pass hold on all right next up is march 2020 hold on we got on here oh hold on uh does roger where is roger roger you didn't get a pass this this will be a quick one yes sir roger venables aviation department can you just maybe reintroduce roger uh what we're doing and and um you know speak briefly about it yes sir so in february of this year i believe councilman firestone requested that the city consider the renaming uh fort worth alliance airport so what you have in front of you today is an informal report that kind of outlines the process for doing that what steps the city would need to go through the individual uh h ross perot senior whom the airport would have some naming uh i'd be brief biographical sketch mr perot and his legacy and contribution to the betterment of the city of fort worth kind of takes you through periods of time in his life in service with us navy to his time with ibm to the creation of his company electronic data systems and then ultimately to the original dedication of 381 acres which is known as alliance airport today cumulatively speaking over the years uh through perot companies subsequent dedications the airport has grown to 1200 acres and now is really home to some of the premier global logistics companies in the world and it is anchor as part of a 27 000 acre masterplanned community in north fort worth and so it's for those reasons that again we wrote the report and uh through the aviation department and the city manager's office we recommend the renaming of the airport to pro field for the lights great okay thank you and i have one question okay roger i think i know the answer to this but just in case you know there are any questions similar to it i don't want it said uh i think it's a good idea to do that to to acknowledge the contributions of the uh perot family uh to fort worth's growth now what's being proposed is perot field fort worth alliance airport yes that that's the entire namesake correct yes sir okay all right and there is uh i know this would apply to to meet him per se but you know the word field yes that doesn't you know cause us any any problems when it comes to grants that we may avail ourselves to later down the road i mean airport is still there that's that's the big operative word for me correct yes there is no impact we've had to we've had communication with the faa about the renaming they have no issue with it at all it doesn't change our airport identifier and publications it's still be known as afw so really that's it's benign in terms of our ability to apply for grants and receive grants okay thank you can you walk me through um the process i'm familiar with how we do it for our parks is it similar with our airports that there's a public notification a comment period we can receive comments and then move forward or we just council resolution it would just simply be through council resolution based on the policy that the council has adopted so uh city council would authorize it through a resolution the renaming we would apply or make application and submit that to the faa for their consideration it's really just about changing names and some publications from faa's perspective sure but there's not a public input process the way we do anything else no ma'am okay thank you mr cook i think we should have consistent policies amongst um naming whether it be parks roadways airports any city facilities because it sounds like we don't and we're required to go through a public process i'm not knocking um the name or anything like that i just think that that we give the citizens the opportunity to weigh in when we're renaming a park or when we're renaming a road but why not an airport why don't we bring back how we do the different naming because in this case it's a little different because we this one has to go the faa and other names don't have to go to the faa we have to go to text dot or on a state street yes right yeah okay okay thank you any other questions oh i'm sorry no good okay thanks roger thanks roger next up is the march 2022 sales tax update and mark macaboy's available if there are any questions all right we're rolling now uh oh this is a good one next one up is response to high grass and weeds so y'all know every chance i get to talk about grass i'm gonna do it brandy benet is available for questions uh brandy brandy knows what um i want i just really want to um for a resident who may see this and may get concerned because they zero escape or they're doing conservation practices on their land can you just speak to kind of the differentiation between like zero escaping tall grass and tall grass in terms of weeds yeah maybe johnson grass and absolutely so you know we started out today hearing about fireworks and i'll tell you this time of year tall grass uh becomes a fire hazard because it dries out particularly if it's more than 12 inches because what happens is when it's short and dry the fire moves very slow when it's tall and dry it moves very fast it tends to be hotter and it tends to create embers that can then float and start a fire elsewhere so uh we pay particular attention to getting that grass mowed down during the hot dry summer months uh if it's a large area you know and remember environmental is our middle name actually it's it's it's embedded into everything we do and kody has a really good update for you today on the fund but you know you also have to look this from an environmental standpoint so we have large tracks of land uh that work into uh soil conservation they need uh grass and other vegetation that it's also a bird habitat and so on large tracks of land instead of having to mow everything to less than 12 inches the ordinance just requires a fire break of 100 feet around the edges so that if there is a fire it's less likely than to a spread to a joining property if it's less than two acres when people make that fire break say at an acre or half acre we generally don't get complaints about those and we don't proactively go after those unless there's some other nuisance condition which then leads me to zero escaping um and you know we didn't have anything in our policies procedures and and um ordinance uh a few years ago and we went and we worked with the extension service and parks and others uh and so now when somebody wants to zero skate uh we have a process where we will evaluate whether that's zero escaping or just somebody that doesn't want to mow their lawn uh and I will tell you more times than not it's zero escaping and if there's ever a doubt they can challenge the officer or the officer will bring it to to their supervisor attention and again we'll get with parks the extension service with others we'll we'll go out and look at it um and more times than not we work something out with the zero escaping folks and uh everything works out to a good a good end awesome thank you for that that's all my questions uh the moral of the story is not all tall grass is creating exactly god bless big blue stem and switchgrass councilmember blalock and then I think councilmember nettles so this is not a comment directed at code specifically but one thing I hear from residents on occasion is are we as a city holding ourselves the same standard that we are doing private property owners and and just uh making sure our own spaces are kept the same standards good point um so I had a couple of residents call a couple of months ago about high grass and so I know that we have a schedule uh but what do we do when we have complaints and they're not on the current schedule to be cut but we're telling residents to call they call but it's been two months and nobody's come out so the the the challenge always isn't a challenge because it's there's a good reason why it exists but it is a challenge is the first go around of tall grass first you have to wait we have to wait until it's actually taller than 12 inches right that's what the law requires state law right it's not just something we could change locally so we have to let it get above 12 inches and then we have to go through a notification process to let the owner know give them time to correct then notify the contractor give them time to mow and then what happens is if we mow it then it's assumed we're probably going to be mowing it all summer long and it goes into a mowing schedule that just automatically generates a mow ticket to the contractor they come out they mow it and they keep it mowed throughout the summer that works very clean but we always have that challenge in the first part the late part of spring first part of summer getting the the lots mowed in a timely fashion because depending on the type of grass like johnson grass will grow 10 feet overnight particularly in in your part of town that there's a lot of grasses that tend to grow fairly quick if we have tall grass now that say is is is is a couple of feet and I saw a couple over the weekend when I was driving around and reported it to staff then that's probably a good indication that it was missed or it's stuck in the system and we'll get on it we also expect our officers this time of year that they should be outgoing proactively in the neighborhood looking for that really tall grass because if it's two feet or taller it's something that hasn't been reported yet so I can I can get back with them but I would encourage everybody if you're in doubt make an extra call use our app the fort worth app that's one of the items in there call me directly I'll go out and personally look at it because you know I don't like tall grass anymore than than you folks do and certainly the people that live next door to it they don't like the bugs and snakes and everything else okay so I have a follow-up question so you kind of out loud out line the fact that you get the call go out there notification to who are the property owner did we tell the resident who call what the outline was if they leave us a email address a telephone number some type of contact information my pet peeve is we should be calling them back a hundred percent of the time if you ever hear if anybody ever hears that we didn't get back with a citizen when they gave us contact data you can let me know that personal that's that's one of the reasons why we try to get it I will tell you the last time I checked it was less than five percent of the public will leave us contact data because they don't want their neighbors to know that they're the ones that that turn them in even though we don't release that data there's still a fear that that maybe somebody will get that yeah if you don't and yeah I'll get with your aid and double check on those cases to see what happened with them yeah you might not want to go anywhere next informal report is on managing and abandoned shopping carts and Brandon Bennett is available 30 questions all right you got by on that one all right I don't think there'd be any questions on this next one so the next informer report is an update on short-term rentals and Daniel leal will be walking us through that Daniel good afternoon Daniel development services good afternoon so I have a couple of questions first I appreciate the effort sounds like you're doing a lot of extensive data mining so thank you for that and it shows here that you intend to come back to us in august on proposed operating standards I think we're putting the cart before the horse my office has certainly received countless number of emails both for and against short-term rentals I think members of our community are feel really passionate about this one way or the other and so before you propose anything to us I think it's really incumbent on staff to host a series of public meetings to really engage the community and determine what they want to see you have some large advocacy groups on both sides and I think council is doing the best that we can to try to filter that information but I think that this is one that definitely requires a little more public engagement and so I know august is a is a short time frame but I would like to see a series of of public meetings to engage this particular topic before you tell us what we're going to do yes so regarding that and what we are confident is that we will be getting a first report on what's out there in july there will be a final report which is slightly more refined but that will come early in august what we are saying is that in parallel code development services finance department and law department are working on options so right now we have like four or five options we would like to present those options like different scenarios and we would like to get a sense from council which of those do you are you comfortable comfortable as going out to the community and scheduling those public meetings is there a reason why we can't take those options to the public yeah we can take them all yeah all right thank you yeah Carlos then Leonard a couple things and I I can provide more information after this if necessary I think staff is aware but I would certainly like to see and expect a pretty thorough research into the platforms that short-term rentals use because those are constantly evolving okay one thing that I've been looking into are apartments being used as short-term rentals in fact there was precedent for it around the country where either an you know an entire building right or part of one is used as such now there may be some violation of the what is it TAA lease terms but if the apartment operator or you know owner agrees to it what then because that automatically just one doing that you know via whatever platform the appropriate platform increases the amount of short-term rentals in an area very quickly so I would like staff to look into that okay yeah that's a very good point so the company we have hired the car technologies are able to track any posting in any platform so even beyond the two main ones if a new platform comes up they will be able to catch that that's one of the many reasons we chose them right and in the in terms of apartment one many options we are studying now or let me put it that way several cities we are benchmarking ourselves with put a cap on both single residential areas and multifamily because it's true there's the option that somebody will build the whole build new building just for that or what happens you know with existing existing tenants that all of a sudden are surrounded by short-term rentals exactly and I think that's probably included you know in the comment that you made right now in benchmarking when you say benchmarking I know that I shared with Dane and some staff members about what the city of Dallas is doing not suggesting that we do owner occupied you know SGRs but just as an illustrative point right let's compare what they're doing they haven't done it they're just considering it but that's you know if we're going to do a complete you know analysis on this let's include that as well yeah sure related to that Carlos I think that's a great point I think we need certainly to um and I guess this is a question to you in the research we're doing to come up with a policy position are we looking at other cities and specifically to see what their experience has been good and bad so are we going to be able to talk about case studies maybe it's limited to Texas to learn about what they've done again good and bad yes correct our goal is to benchmark about with about 10 cities most of them being from Texas or in Texas but some of them being nationwide because there are other good examples that are notorious for good practices such as Denver Colorado but and we want to benchmark with cities of that of a similar size not necessarily hypertristic cities such as Calveston for example because you know it's a different market and it's a different a house housing stock right but cities that relate to us more closely yes that will be part of the explanation we hope to have in all of us also and who are we reaching out to to obtain that that data it's a combined effort so the law department is reaching out to their counterparts I'm doing the same with other cities in development services and Dana is doing a lot of research as well so we it's just evolving now we're compiling all that information okay and you know there I think we had this woman speak the other night Jessica Black and she's with the Texas Neighborhood Coalition and they're gathering a lot of I think very interesting data that maybe somebody worth reaching out to on the flip side the short-term rental group I think we heard their spokesperson as well I want to be sure we're engaging them that that gentleman spoke a couple weeks ago but in that process of case studies and information gathering I think those people should be included if they're not at this point I thought just one other comment Gina and this has come up a couple times in some recent association meetings and I asked Dana this question and I may ask Dana to comment on it if you wouldn't mind but it's kind of a very simple question about that's framed as this if I buy a house in a neighborhood and then announce that I want to make it a bed and breakfast do I have the right to do that so how are short-term rentals when they're certainly not owner occupied or even owner occupied so there's two categories I think Dana's going to speak to what is the zoning for bed and breakfast type of businesses and how is it different than short-term rentals in terms of commercializing our neighborhoods thank you thank you councilmember firestone I appreciate the opportunity to answer the question and obviously Daniel can can answer as well but since I just emailed your office on this it's fresh at the top of my mind so short-term rentals and bed and breakfasts operate very similarly but currently in our zoning ordinance they're listed separately in the use tables so we have two types of bed and breakfasts we have a bed and breakfast home which is generally not generally it is owner occupied or occupied by the primary resident so its primary use is residential as the home for that property owner but then they also have rooms that are available for someone to come and stay for guests to come and stay and so there's a whole series of supplemental standards that go along with that so that type of owner occupied bed and breakfast home is not allowed in single family zoning the similar to short-term rentals which are also not allowed in single family zoning where it is allowed is own in residential zoning is only by conditional use permit limited to five years or it can be less based on council decision and that's in two family zoning so B2 family zoning or multifamily zoning otherwise it's you know allowed in in other kinds of districts as well so that's a bed and breakfast home we don't currently have the option for short-term rental property owners in B zoning or C zoning or in any of the multifamily districts to apply for a conditional use permit right now they can only apply for a zoning change to their base zoning so say they could do plan development or they could apply for just a basic zoning change so let's say they were on the edge of the camp buoy district perhaps they could rezone from residential to the camp buoy transitional zone as an example so the second category of bed and breakfast is a bed and breakfast in that's a commercial operation so it's not primarily a residence it's not occupied or you know it's not owner occupied and so that you can also apply for a conditional use permit but only in our high density residential districts which would be our D high density multifamily and you are urban residential and then beyond that of course you can have a B&B a bed and breakfast in in other commercial and industrial districts since it's cumulative after that so short-term rental right now in the residential use table is listed with just blank meaning there's no operate it's not permitted by right anywhere and it's also not allowed as a conditional use permit so that's one of the zoning options that we'll bring forward and again sorry I can take to the public before we come to council if that's your preference but that's one of the options is to either treat short-term rentals like bed and breakfast homes and bed and breakfast in depending on how they operate and or to consider if there's an opportunity or a willingness to look at conditional use permits beyond just B zoning and multifamily zoning where maybe that's an option in single family districts as well and me again maybe that's geographically limited maybe it's further out that's those are all the options to be talked through thank you Dana um I got most of that I'm sorry a lot of letters just so we know don't don't stop with it but just so you know keeping track next is council member nettles Beck then floris okay that way I don't have the referee yeah you know thanks Dana I do appreciate it and I think it's um you know honestly a really good example of the complexity of the decision that we are going to make because there clearly could be a lot of unintended consequences that we need to be thoughtful of and aware of and you know there are examples I think of cities that regret the decisions that they've made that I've seen reported because they just didn't get it and they didn't understand this industry that is really behind this in good and bad ways but so I'm not taken aside at this point I just think we need to be really really thoughtful about all the aspects of what we are allowing for or not allowing for so thank you again for that I wish you had been around during game room discussions Chris yes I have a couple of suggestions one of the suggestions that is Beck was talking about going out to the community but the other part is that we have really been a very involved council and so I think reaching out to our officers and getting some of our feedback before because you stated that you have four or five options well I think you should try to get some of our feedback because a lot of us have been talking to residents some of us have stayed in Arabian bees and so I think so when we go to the public it's a message that not only we have talked to you guys about that we may be comfortable with so that when we get other feedback we can be at a faster pace than dragging this along the other suggestion is please don't just only consider entertainment areas or entertainment districts because we're going to get into a problem where if we do that then we put a lot of these in concentrated areas and that's not fair to those residents and when you have to think about people who want to stay in a short-term rentals they're coming to stay for a purpose for there's probably five or ten minutes from where they're trying to go so it's not always the stockyards it's not always downtown it could be the Dallas Cowboy Stadium so you have people staying in the South for work and so my suggestion is that whatever we do that is city-wide and not concentrated in only entertainment areas because I think that's what some of the fear is for a lot of residents. I make one comment on that and I think Chris is absolutely right because one of the things I think that's reporting has shown is that when we have cities have short-term rentals in certain areas that aren't entertainment district areas it's negatively impacted the schools because their companies or individuals are gather or purchasing those homes and families are leaving and there's a real negative consequence to the schools. Member Beck. So thank you for just teeing this up nicely for me. The Fort Worth Star Telegram recently ran an article about the percentage of homes in Tarrant County that were purchased by corporations or entities and not individuals. We have a real housing situation on our hands you know we have a skilled realtor on council who can tell us how quickly things are going on and off the market for those folks trying to buy homes it's pandemonium I mean you have to oftentimes come in with a cash offer because they're competing with 50% of the market that are corporations. I think given the current housing situation that Fort Worth is in this recent reporting I would like to when you bring these options to us and when you talk about the unintended consequences and some things that both councilman nettles and councilman firestone brought up I wanted I want to know what impacts this could potentially have to our residents and our housing market and our schools I mean I think it's it's for us to make an informed decision we really need to understand what it's looked like other places and and I know there's cities that have banned them completely and there's some that have let them free for all and we want to see what those impacts are not just to the to the zoning but to the city as a whole Carlos just wanted to clarify my prior point to make sure that it's understood especially by staff you know when I bring up platforms and my request to research it thoroughly I would like that to be put in the context of considering possibly now that might be regulated in our ordinance okay because some of the things that we've been learning you know and hearing from in light of investor groups that's been mentioned before buying up a lot of the properties there is at least one platform that helps organize investors to raise funds to buy up single family homes and if we don't look at that you know we're not going to be doing much of a service to our ordinance so and I can give you more details about that and what my research has yielded but we need to look at that and Dana the information that you just email councilman firestone it would be good if you just shared that with everyone yes happy to okay and what I might suggest so maybe in lieu of us obviously waiting till August to bring you zoning options one thought and I want to test the room is if we get a chance to touch base with some of you individually we could do an IR for the your next work session and then do some public meetings about those options in that IR is that an okay approach or I think that's good but I do want to stress the importance of the recommendation from councilmember nettles that you touch base with with each of us yes before we present any options yeah sounds good all right thank you let's see next in from reporters on school resource officers and assistant chief sparrow is available if there are any questions mayor pro tem city councilman hey chief how are you doing well all right so I've got several questions as we work through this IR so bear with me first and foremost can you please give us an overview of why we have police officers in our schools what what their purpose on our school campuses are all right forward police officers contracts with certain school districts or various school district independent school districts to provide security and safety to our students and those teachers on the campuses so there are some schools that have their own independent school district police but as far as for the ones that exist in Fort Worth there's 13 independent school districts in Fort Worth not just Fort Worth I estate so they can contract with us if they choose to do so so to have forward police officers act as SRO school resource officers in their schools the ones that are located in the city of Fort Worth but can you tell me when we when we place an officer there really define their role for us are they enforcement are they prevention you know we've had plenty of briefings on what our MPOs do and we have a pretty good understanding of their roles and and how they operate but I don't think that we have the same for the SROs that are in our schools and so can you can you shed a little light on that for me they're all of that now let me first of all introduce Lieutenant Brian Klaus he is the school resource officer commander unit commander but school resource officers they're all of that they they are there to enforce now obviously a I think it was back in 2011 or sometime around there 12 maybe later an ordinance was passed where we don't actually enforce classes so what they'll try to do is they'll try to get the schools to handle the classes so the only time that we are involved in a class if we see a fight happening right in front of us or something like that we'll break it up but if if we if the school calls us to handle those we'll handle them we'll work with them but we're we're we're not going to issue any tickets or anything like that during as far as those particular things now that goes up higher to a class B or above then we'll get involved in that but we we're there it's kind of like a liaison between I mean the police and the schools now understand we are contracted by the schools so our SROs they actually are police officers and they answer to the police officers but we work in conjunction with our schools to make them safe okay um so sometimes they're act as mentors for the students and things such as that sure my SRO SRO certainly kept me out of trouble at Southwest so I appreciate that um can you tell me where this is a tough subject I think for most of us at this table um but I want to talk about violence prevention and um what if any training our SROs get when it um and in what procedures and policies we have in place should the um the you know horrible event that we saw in Valdeh happen here in in Fort Worth are are they are they meant to be protective in that way as well I'm gonna let uh Lieutenant Coles handle some of this but understand that our SROs are some of the best trained police officers on the force uh during the summertime when they are out of school now when they're in school they're expected to be there they're expected to be at their schools uh we're limited on allowing them to get off on vacation and things such as that during that time because we want them to be present in the schools uh the schools actually pay for part of and that's the contract agreement um as far as for their services but they are well trained and they they go through much training during the summertime and they actually offer some so I'll let um Lieutenant Coles handle this. Yeah you could give us just an overview of the unique training that our SROs get as opposed to the general police officers. Um just like all Fort Worth officers they all have the de-escalation training and they're all certified mental health peace officers so they've gone through extra training to make sure that they're able to identify students who are maybe in crisis or something like that um but then additionally uh they all go through um the alert training which I think I saw something about on the news where the governor is is suggesting that to all the different departments um but that's uh rapid response training for active shooters uh we actually have four of our SROs who are certified as instructors for that so in our standard operate operating procedures uh it's written in there that every SRO will go to that alert training every summer um so we're scheduled to do ours at the beginning of August and what that is a scenario-based training where they'll go in and practice going through clearing schools uh you know uh securing uh you know savings students and uh we also have some um um parts of that that will do with um um trauma uh you know triage and treatment of trauma and things like that so we practice all that every summer um in addition to the other trainings that they receive okay thank you um next question is um how do you determine what kind of collaboration or communication um is allowed between our SROs and our administration so for example um we have a student that gets in trouble maybe it's a classy we'll say it's a classy um and y'all have a policy you don't get involved in those at what point can this administration say hey you know this kid is this is habitual what can we do can can you help us or vice versa um if it's a situation where a kid gets in trouble and the administration says hey we've really been working with this kid what can we do do the administrators in the ISDs where we have forward PD have the opportunity to collaborate with and help determine um how a particular situation is handled with the forward police officer now it's not our policy not to handle classes it was that's law that's not something that we can do because of uh obviously uh they wanted the schools or somebody like that to handle the lower level offenses um but there's collaboration between the administration and the students I mean as far as the um SROs um on what they can do and obviously they may bring an SRO in while they're talking to somebody well if they choose to do so but um there's they usually have a pretty good working relationship okay um so then my next question is when Fort Worth ISD we split the cost of our SROs 50-50 with Fort Worth ISD who is that salary only or is Fort Worth ISD also splitting the the cost of our benefits and pension and whatnot yes yeah it does include pension and benefits uh vehicle fleet maintenance equipment it's significantly more than just the salary of the officers themselves okay perfect and I have one more one more question for you and I think this one's probably going to be a tough one um but I would like a real and um quite a frank response it seems that we have had several ISDs that have opted to no longer use Fort Worth PD as their SROs and have either chosen to use a different agency or create their own why I don't I don't see that as a negative on Fort Worth PD um some ISDs uh just want to control their own police force like Crowley ISD started their own ISD police back in 2021 Eagle Mountain Saginaw they're planning on starting their own ISD with one of our former assistant chiefs here Charlie Ramirez some of them just want control of their officers they can do a whole lot more as ISD police they can enforce house rules when we can enforce house rules all we can do is enforce the laws police however some of the the other side of that is that they they have to I mean it's very expensive and you have to handle the the training and and obviously the the some of the better officers will actually come to Fort Worth PD because we pay better than most of the surrounding ISD police and things like that so a lot of them so Fort Worth ISD when I was the commander over the school resource officers they did not want to do this just for that and that was one of the stated reasons that they said they didn't want to do that is simply because of all the trouble that you have to go through to do it but at the same time that that their officers may not be of the same caliber of Fort Worth PD did any of these school districts opt out and and create these either extra you know agencies themselves are used different police departments because they expressed some sort of dissatisfaction with the way or either Fort Worth ISD's policies around SROs or how SROs were conducting themselves in their schools I have heard nothing of that at all as a matter of fact most of our school districts are very they're take for instance back in 2009 no less ISD left they started their own ISD police for about five years and they came back so I've heard nothing but the contrary thank you how to member nettles thank you air pro temp so I guess when we're looking at the page two and it shows Fort Worth ISD 44 are we in every Fort Worth ISD school we don't staff any elementary schools as as but as far as high schools there's in many high schools most two officers middle schools one in most cases you want to after that desk so at every school in Fort ISD up with high school in middle school why do we don't do elementary school it's not cost effective and just about there's there's I don't I don't know of any large agency that does elementary schools we did recently did a I guess a price projection of how much it would cost to to cover all the Fort Worth schools it's like 80 million dollars it's it's it's just not cost effective so are the SROs only there for fights within the school are they also there to protect outsiders from coming into the schools both okay so I'm not going to look at you when I say this because I don't want it's not directed towards you but we cannot allow money a budget to be an issue when it comes to saving lives and so I don't know how we we work that or fix that or budget that in with just the recent tragedy wasn't a high school wasn't a middle school it was elementary school and so we're at a state now and in time of life that we can make a decision for a path forward and so I would say we need to consider that's working with the school districts that working with our budgeting whatever funds that we have to make sure that we can start staffing at the elementary schools although when they might not be there just there to protect from outsiders coming in and so I think that's very important that we do that one more thing on that we would have to add over 200 more officers I don't care if you have to add 500 council member Blalock and then I saw council member Beck I mean okay so I excuse me so I agree with Chris you know we need to staff what we need to staff just for clarification in these schools where we have SROs there is also school security officers correct are they called school security officers in some of the districts at least yeah it's something to the fact of security or they'll call them campus monitors some of them are uniform security variations of that yes okay but it's we're not the exclusive provider of security within that school on those days we would be the only armed responders okay the I guess the question I have is similar to Chris's we have the big ISDs here we have the Lena Pope home home what's our situation around the various charter schools throughout the district throughout the city charter schools we don't we don't staff charter schools at this time so I guess they can contract with us if they wanted to but we don't we don't do you do we just have any charter we don't so we have like the leadership academies like Fort Worth has leadership academies and things like that we will staff those but but that's still considered Fort Worth ISDs but it was Flafa Fort Worth Academy of Fine Arts you know still Fort Worth ISD I think to add to add some context to the discussion we at least need to have a conversation with Fort Worth ISD administrators to see you know what their thoughts are on us looking into coming into elementary schools just as a currency since it's their house not ours and that's something we plan to do we plan to meet with each one of the superintendents of each of the ISDs the 13 ISDs that staff that's in our city and talk to them and have conversations about how we get their support chief did you have something chief yes unless there are any other questions first I don't want to interrupt if not one thing I want to make sure I point out is uh as assistant chief's arrow is touching on right there we're reaching out with something we've drafted in conjunction with the mayor with uh city manager David Cook when with the fire chief Jim Davis as well to reach out to all 13 leadership teams for all 13 ISDs within the city of Fort Worth because you're a council member dollars should not affect the safety of our children number one priority for the Fort Worth PD is safety and there's no group of people within our community that's more susceptible more innocent more need of protection than our children our babies absolutely priority number one I don't want that to be understated in any way I appreciate so much the presentation gentlemen and they gave some great figures what I want you to know is it's not just about numbers we're talking about lives we're talking about students and we're going to do everything we possibly can in the city of Fort Worth to make sure what has happened in other areas does not happen in the city of Fort Worth I share your passions there and we're doing everything we can to think outside of the box to think of new ideas I wish I could come today and tell you have all the answers we don't but we're looking into it and we're going to work with every stakeholder we can to make sure we have the best possible outcome in Fort Worth we hope to set the best practice for the nation and council member nettles has a suggestion as this being an agenda item you want to elaborate on that for the joint meeting yeah so I think we have a joint meeting coming up with forward council and school board and so I will ask that we can add that as a presentation of how we can be more effective into the elementary schools that's a great idea we'll connect with your office on that all right council member Williams thank you mayor pro tem I share the same sentiment as councilman nettles I also want to celebrate and I don't think this is a fix by any means but I want to celebrate some of the MPOs and are in district six one in which was posted in front of oakmont elementary during the school day just on his normal route I mean I was running and stopped and asked him you know is everything okay and he said he was here to show presence and to be here in the event of emergency not saying that that's a necessarily solution but I know our MPOs are stretched really thin and they're trying to cover some of these elementary schools so I want to celebrate that also at salto's high school there was a potential threat of a mass shooting during the same day of uvaldi and again the MPOs were the first on on scene and they were able to you know detain the student and investigate it further so I know our MPOs are filling some of the gap with elementary school even on top of having you know sometimes really large beats and so I want to celebrate the MPOs but also want to share that same sentiment that whatever we can do to cover our our neighborhood schools and our charter schools especially I didn't realize they weren't covered as well I think that's something that we need to consider to prevent future mass shootings at schools and that's something that we've been doing as far as having our MPOs and our officers because since our elementary schools haven't been covered our MPOs actually can go there and they can take up some of that slack but we also use our citizen on patrol to actually patrol around that area and especially what with the heightened I guess hearts since uvaldi is something that we did is we made sure that all of our detectives had their uniforms for that last week of school so that just in case we needed them that they could show up and and they made themselves visible we had captains and we had people walking around schools just showing a presence so that people can feel safe in the city of Fort Worth right and that was a really great response I also want to celebrate y'all as leaders of the department I know that that was a call from you and chief notes and so I look forward to that report as well I think there's some things that we're doing that we could be strategic about the budget and and help on the MPO side but also help on some of our elementary schools getting them covered councilmember blalock thank you mayor pro tem I just want to take a moment and say thank you to the police department for the delegation of officers you sent to a baldi to help provide security after the incident if you can maybe spend just a moment and share that we actually still have officers there and we're scheduled to have them there at least until the 19th of this month at the request of the Texas police chiefs association who is helping coordinate a lot of the efforts there the reason not teeth was chosen excuse me is because that's the last date of a funeral so for weeks they're gonna be having funeral and bearing children and staff members from the school and we want to be there to do everything we can to make sure that is done tastefully and respectfully for their survivors of the victims chief I may as well say this while we're here I want to thank you I'll be showing the pictures next week or so but the speed dating with NPLs was a wonderful success you were there you saw that and I appreciate the officers changing their schedules to be there and just just the fact that they were able to meet with neighbors they didn't know and what your commander has done for the east side you know she had no time for a honeymoon she hit the ground running we stopped all the crazy speed racing and I know you're ready again if they come back I didn't know her father was a cop and so when when she saw people leaving he called and said your speeders are going back to Dallas because we knew that a lot of them came from there so hats off to the NPLs of this city thank you very much thank you next informal report is on security and traffic management for large-scale events since chief sparrow is available if there are any questions all right moving on last informal report is on sidewalks both about gaps and maintenance William Johnson is available if there are any questions sidewalks sidewalks absolutely now I have a I have a real thorn to pick when it comes to sidewalks and kids walking in the mud so Mr. Johnson I'm not going on the attack I'll just let you give your report hopefully you'll include some of the locations I've given you well the the IR really covers how we go about doing sidewalk gaps and sidewalk maintenance specifically the city repairs or field has a an active transportation plan and prioritize sidewalk gaps over 3,300 linear miles of sidewalk gaps in the city and it prioritizes those we primarily fill in gaps as part of broader projects our bond projects or major reconstruction projects and in terms of sidewalk maintenance we don't have a specific budget for sidewalk maintenance but in summary what we do each year as we get complaints about maintenance we go out we investigate them and we may take money from other activities like road reconstruction and or resurfacing so that we can take care of severe cases where maintenance issues have become ADA compliance issues or safety issues the city ordinances require that property owners are responsible for building or filling in sidewalk gaps as they rebuild or reconstruct on their properties if there are no sidewalks there in some cases developers have a requirement although it's restricted to the property or their adjacent properties we also have an ordinance that requires that maintenance is be the responsibility of the tenant or property owners which we have historically not enforced because it would force us to issue citations to property owners for sidewalk maintenance any I see councilmember Williams yes thank you mayor pro tem William can you speak to um I guess one concern I have is really about like students getting to school safely especially um and as several neighborhoods in my district I know there's families who and it's in particular have students with disabilities and sidewalks or a safe path for them getting to school like how are we prioritizing sidewalks near schools especially also with charter schools when they get developed knowing that some charter schools may not necessarily be able to create all of the sidewalk but knowing that they're still that sidewalk need to get kids to school right so um what we found is well the the first part of your question is we prioritize uh those filling those gaps and maintenance where we're going to do those as part of our and large part as part of our safe routes to school program where we go out we'll meet with the schools we'll talk about you know their priorities their concerns about traffic where their students are coming from walking from and then we'll coordinate with them to try to improve sidewalks street crossings markings on streets intersections to make the safe routes to school so we prioritize that based on schools routes to transit etc the second part of your question could you repeat it I guess I guess what I'm thinking is like there's there's new charter schools being built and so um I think there's there's a couple things there uh not to shift the school zones but I mean like charter schools when they're developed I've we have several charter schools on a district you don't have school zones there may be gaps in sidewalks to get to the school so during that it may be a more of a development services question but like how are we working with new construction schools to ensure that the sidewalks are connected during that development well we do a combination of things one one of the things is during the development process there's a study that's done on that school and how the kids are going to be getting to school for the most part we find that the charter schools there are a lot more parents coming to drop off and pick up so it creates a bigger traffic problem than walking problem for kids coming to and from school we also work with them on safe routes to school but a lot of their queuing for their traffic is supposed to be done onsite sometimes that happens sometimes we have to go back and work with the schools to make sure that they're following through so that they're not creating problems spilling over on into the travel lanes of traffic yeah and I also want to come in your department because I know y'all worked with our office on a number of instances where even when folks like are driving to school like at Chapel Hill for example they have to park away from the site because traffic's so bad onsite and then they walk across the street so it creates like a pedestrian issue on a rainy day if there's not a sidewalk it could potentially be kind of muddy for the kiddos as well so I want to commend you as well the other thing I want to know is like I guess in the event where schools are already constructed are there limitations um knowing that we're coming up on a budget season to where like we have to turn schools down for making those connections whether it's a sidewalk or crossing walk that we need to consider as we go into the budgeting process where schools are are new being newly constructed a lot of the the sidewalk repair sidewalk installation is part of the development the responsibility is part of that development where they already exist which in often cases a school will go and find a set up shop in an existing building but there's not a complete study that's done um that talks about once they're at full capacity how they're going to handle traffic or how they're going to handle students so we do go back and retroactively work with those schools in terms of budget for those we deal with them on a case by case basis in most cases we can do what we talked about of what I talked about earlier where we may say hey we're going to have to do a half mile less of road reconstruction so that we can take money because it's kind of an emergency situation to try to upgrade the safe route to school for school that makes sense thank you so much for what you do for the department any other questions mayor pro tem that concludes my report oh I have a question go ahead I uh it's important to me to be on good behavior because I'm in the mayor's chair but I remain quite frustrated with how we approach sidewalk needs repairs gaps what have you it may be hard to imagine but there are some schools and some school officials who really don't know who to call at city hall and that's because you know we could do better on our communications that's why I'm glad we've hired a chief communications person uh case in point one example that comes to mind is an h e b i s d school that needed help with not just sidewalks but with traffic cops with uh what do you call them police patrols school patrol they didn't know who to call I thought that it was an exaggeration when I was told they had been calling for 10 years until I met with the principal who used to be the vice principal 10 years ago and she said oh no miss Bivens we just didn't know who to call all of that backdrop to let you know I don't know how you communicate with the schools I really don't believe your staff meets with every school I just don't because I see gaps in in my neighborhoods like mr solace has told you before so how is tpw proactive and if you can't tell me now I would like to see a report that shows just who has your staff reached out to in the past at schools which ones to see how this information can be gathered I hate seeing kids walking in the mud and in stop six they continue to walk in the mud they will have to cross berry they have to cross stall cup some go as far as very all the way to young men's leadership academy I have many frustrations about sidewalks and so that is a report I would like to see we can give you that report we do keep a list of all of the schools that we work with for safe safe routes to safe routes to school and all of the work that we install so we can provide that as a follow-up to this meeting and if there I know that you have we've talked about some specific areas that we can also provide you updates on those as well let me ask you this because safe walks to school you know safe routes to school sounds nice but I think that's it's like a slogan but I don't think it touches every school and I say that just based on complaints I get about kids walking in the mud and so if you can go beyond that program safe routes to school and just tell me which schools your people are talking to and that way I don't miss anybody and I'm and this is just my district anybody else wants to chime in that's you all but this is just my district and not the not the old not to do every school including charters including elementary we had a high water rescue near mallet cove recently I don't know if that triggers into tpw thinking that this may be a problem for the nearby private school at temple baptist and so just what schools your folk are talking to and when if I could get a report that covers let's say the past 12 months no take it back to before COVID because that's when y'all are really working so I'll give you a couple of months yes ma'am thank you 2018 be a good start point okay okay anybody back to you yep okay so now I have to go to this list over here but I think there is a number one but I'm missing questions regarding health very important are there any questions regarding significant zoning cases and with that I know we're going to have staff come up and talk about significant zoning cases there you are hi leo good afternoon again good afternoon is there any question or do you want me to go through the significant zoning cases well you know the hot ones you want to start it maybe you'll have people joining in adding to your list sure so in district four a zoning case 21 208 from b to family to pd plan development for e neighborhood commercial uses mini warehouses the zoning commission recommendation was for denial so in case 21 236 from unsowned ag agricultural a 25 one family a 10 one family and a 7.5 one family to a 51 family j intensive commercial pd cr plan development for all uses in low density multifamily for the touch multifamily the proposed use is a combination of single family commercial and detached multifamily recommendation from the zoning commission was for denial a next significant case is zoning case 22 for sorry 041 from the jp and pd for age uses in downtown urban design district overlay to pd age a plan development for all uses in age central business district plus single family detached brewery and distillery site plant waived within the downtown urban design district overlay for a maximum height of 10 stories the proposed uses mixed use and townhomes and recommendation from the zoning commission is for approval next case in district five a 22 053 from agricultural to i and industrial for rural residential a recommendation from the zoning commission is for denial next case on district six a 22 081 from low density multifamily cr to pd cr plan development for low density multifamily with development regulation for 45 percent open space site plan waiver uh requested a recommendation from the zoning commission is for approval just tell me when you have a question okay and next case on district three 22 027 from f general commercial to add an additional use permit and you don't need to read all that i'll just say that i will move forward with that case but i have some language that i think right in there someone's working on since we worked that with the neighborhood and everything okay thank you in district seven a zoning case 22 069 from k heavy industrial to pdc plan development with a base of c medium density multifamily to construct a detached multifamily the decision from the so the recommendation from the zoning commission is split there's approval on the western tract and denial on the eastern tract both tracks are divided by a road and what district was that in seven district seven in district three a zoning case 22 073 sorry 075 from c medium density multifamily and f general commercial to f general commercial to build the warehouses with outside sales and storage recommendation from the zoning commission was for denial the motion to approve fail that is why it shows as denial and that concludes the significant zoning cases but i'm happy to answer any question on any case though no questions just input from crane thank you sir okay next questions regarding city council action items for june 14th you guys have seen your agenda for june 14th no questions okay works for me update on leadership for worth from my girlfriend jennifer travino hey jennifer thank you for being here and welcome and thank you for the work you do hi y'all hey thank you so much for the opportunity to be here there's a lot of friendly faces in the room from alums and community members and speakers and panelists that and recent grads even so one of the things that i was doing as we were waiting is noting that even the report that we ran on our alumni it's a good test of our database we're not all in there so there was over 60 folks that over the history of our organization have gone through leadership for worth from city of Fort Worth so stay tuned for an updated report you're helping us test our our program in that sense so i want to make sure that i stick to my time i know that y'all have got a lot of other things still ahead but again just want to thank the staff especially elena and patricia for their assistance to get ready for today i also have two of our folks our program directors surely martin many of you know surely from her time as chief of staff to several mayors here at city of fort worth as well as sarah fairly who is the program director for both leadership class and edge surely oversees earlier prime program that just most recently chief nooks went through last summer so again i know that a lot of you know about us but i don't want to take that for granted and so that's why i'm here today to give you a quick update about what's going on and keep you in the loop so many of you know 50 years old we're celebrating big celebration next year i took the position in january of 2021 one of those crazy people that uh even i guess before the great resignation decided to change jobs but uh you know wasn't looking to leave girl's ink of tarant county as many of you know from my role my work there but wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to give back to a program that gave so much to me so i traced back my roots to leadership class 2009 one of the best classes had uh carer sure and uh susan alanis who's no longer here at the city but you know down the road a bit um i credit leadership for worth and all the things i learned and was exposed to and was challenged by for my bid for city council and my service on numerous city council uh city task forces and boards and commissions over the years so want to just highlight the you know we've been doing several programs and we keep adding and growing for when there's a need we've tried to step in so that's something else i want to plant that seed with all the view especially uh mayor pro tem and council that as there's opportunities in your districts or you see something police don't hesitate to reach out to me and our team because we know that there's more that can be done and we all recognize i think based on everything you've already discussed today now more than ever we need leadership at all levels and in all organizations across our community uh so we started out with class in 1972 celebrated that that 50 year mark will be next year in 73 uh or excuse me 2023 we added kids next as a as an initiative coming out of mayor uh k granger's office at the time to work with kids and so eighth graders um that we are working with partnership with fourth ice d and the tcu college student mentors there we added um edge in 2009 we added prime in 2016 again to help fulfill needs in our community and we want to make sure that you all are aware that you're sending people towards us that uh you would recommend as well um give you a quick update about what's been going on in the last year and a half of my uh my term as being the leader of this organization we've shifted some of our approach we dug through sarah i say we sarah dug through a lot of our previous uh participant feedback and many of you have taken surveys and feedback forms and she really dug into it and i credit her and appreciate her time in that to really dig in to make changes so we shifted schedules uh most of you all know most we learned through covid our extension pan is not quite as long as we really think it is so um you know we're changing from a nine to four to allow working parents to pick up and drop off kids uh we're working on shifting off of fridays to thursday program days so that we're not impacting long weekends other trips and other other family dynamics you know even some of the organizations that are going through flexible hybrid schedules um or working remotely on a permanent basis we've also partnered with some new organizations including the tarrant county black historical and genealogical society many of you know we are strong partner with uh judge quentin mcgown on our you know infamous history tour but we were wanting to add more components to the fort worth history and make sure that all aspects of history are included and more voices and perspectives we've also partnered with ola artistila rosa and decolonizing the music room as some examples of that so we also shifted our our curriculum a bit you know there's been a lot of development lots of new leadership um you know curriculums and things and we really focused on strengths and i think with our current program participants now that really resonated so many of you may be familiar with strength finders but leaning on that for both class and edge so not just working on what are our opportunities to improve for our program participants but the enhancements of what they can lean into we had several folks that went after the assessment especially the edge participants that said i didn't know that that was what i was really good at and now i'm going to shift that focus so hopefully that leads them also when they're considering their board service their community service their volunteerism as well some other things that we have done in the last year that we're really proud of is um being part of the fair grant through the north texas community foundation so that's the fund advanced racial equity leaning in that to support our ongoing work in the community we also um established in partnership with one of my alma mater so i'm a horn frog or excuse me a red raider and a horn frog but tcu came to us and said they wanted to leverage our talent in our pipeline again keeping talent here in fort worth and we are going to be announcing later this week our inaugural leadership for our scholar who is going to get a full ride to the tcu nba program this fall so we're very excited about that we had three folks actually apply from the current edge per cohort for that all three were accepted um and we selected one of those to be our scholarship recipient the other two also earned scholarships from the dean in their office so super excited about that uh trying to do that value add as you might imagine for a lot of our participants as well as the organizations that are supporting their their their employees like the city fort worth has done with us um we've also are participating in one of eight organizations that is in the inaugural cohort for um the racial equity now that's funded by the rainwater foundation um doing some really good work we just started that sarah myself and one of our board members is really involved um in that participation we're trying to get with the modern times keep up uh we have a new website coming so that'll make our user experience for both community applicants alumni as many of you get involved with us and again we launched all of our programming back in person we navigated just like many of you um some changes and things that we had to shift and pivot during the holiday period as well as um dealing with the winter weather in february so we're making some changes one of those little things that we're doing is taking a page out of our school districts we're having a weather makeup day just in case so um this participant log here we will we're just under 4 000 alumni over 50 years so i hope those of you that are in our ranks understand you are part of the leadership fort worth family and we're really proud to have you there um you know again in summary that we're developing fort worth leaders and we all recognize that's kind of changed and that does to keep up with the times we're open to y'all's feedback participation as well we want to continue to cast a wider net on who we're reaching out to this year we're working on crunching all of our year in numbers but i believe this is going to be not only the highest dollar amount of scholarships that we've awarded for our programs as well as participants so i hopefully jena is not in her next appreciation from her time on our leadership for fourth board um one of our current board members dj harrell's in the room as well so one of my bosses is here as you can imagine uh but we are continuing to focus and partner with the community and keep up with the times and the fact that we have to do a better job of preparing for worth our tagline is to provide for worth with diverse and enlightened leaders so we're really making sure we feel even better about our action and our results and our impact in the community again i'm big on if i ask you for your feedback and your survey or whatnot it's not just going to go on a shelf sarah and i've done things even from one month to the next month on addressing feedback diversity on a panel we left out this voice we left out that voice we're not perfect and we are going through that being open to that feedback sarah i think is one of the things that i appreciate she's given me some good uh background experience being more open to that feedback and how do we make it better and i think that's what's helpful when you have such a multi-generational and diverse team like we do at the leadership forward staff um so i'll leave you with some highlights and you know this is a little bit of an eye chart but i wanted you to understand this isn't just what we're saying is what our participants are saying so the highlight i want to call out here in this first is this edge participant that said being in this program sponsored by their employer has motivated them to stay in the area to not go to Dallas as much to stay here in Fort Worth to recognize that there's so much growth and opportunity and possibility here and this is somebody who's a transplant hasn't been here but five years or so and this is a young professional talent we want to stay in Fort Worth again the next participant um talking about this the lessons and the experience that they were learning we recognize there's so many opportunities for personal professional development whether it's in organizations and training development departments going to get an MBA but nowhere else in Fort Worth can you get the secret sauce of 14 to 15 plus industries all different professionals from all different backgrounds you know the number when i went through a folks that were born and raised in Fort Worth versus now has continued to shift so i would say about half of our participants have been in Fort Worth less than 10 years before it was a lot longer that that born and raised in Fort Worth has shifted in so of our program participants and they want this experience another thing that we've shifted i mentioned talking about scholarships and some waivers having a seat at the table was what this next participant in our leadership class mentioned and that was in the simple benefit of formalizing and adding some structure to a tuition payment plan so not having that be a one-time single payment and being a hurdle but spreading that over the course of several months to make it more manageable especially on it was in uh we've had teachers artists musicians um several different folks that would not have been able to participate in our program otherwise or didn't think it was for them because of the schedule and the dynamics and the groups uh represented it as in the past so again wanted to keep it short and sweet wanted to allow you the chance to you know ask me any questions that you have want to continue to be a strong partner appreciate city manager always sending us several folks you know this year for nano costa should be like an honorary uh leadership for the alum because he always is speaking at almost every one of our programs um but he and uh now retired Jay Chapa were very instrumental in bringing our class to city council chambers in november where we had our government and economic development day brought all three uh chamber leaders together but the more important exercise was mapping council district mapping and i know you all are done with that and we're glad to put that to bed but i know that so many of our participants one hadn't been in the council chambers ever before or in city hall and then two didn't understand the connection to the mapping and all of that so hopefully we've added some more delegates and folks that are participating in that process because that's one of the things i got you can imagine i got on my soapbox and charged them with is it you don't vote you don't get to be complained and this is how you can be part of the process of the elections the maps and the ripple effects and how the local decisions can oftentimes be so much more impactful than what we see on the news in dc so i'll stop there hopefully i've kept it short and sweet for you all but if you have any questions i'd be happy to take them again thank you for all of your your attention i know you've been working hard today so great report jennifer thank you you're welcome any comments questions recruits yes we are recruiting the application deadline for leadership class of 2023 is june 30th leading edge is october 31st send folks are away we're happy to meet with them for coffee anything you know more information we can send that to you all too just so you have it uh and your your staff have it too and for the sake of our viewing audience what's that website again it is leadership fort worth all spelled out dot org thank you lady t yeah thank you thank you any other questions right all right thank you all i left the agenda covid there's some additional federal funding for homelessness that we are able to take advantage of to make a long lasting difference in the city um also our community partners the homeless coalition have asked not only the city of fort worth but also taren county and arlington to come together to invest in more permit supportive housing so we can address chronic homelessness and we also had an opportunity to combine several funding sources to try to get units on the ground quicker so just a reminder what chronic homelessness is so chronic is right there um so that's homelessness that is longer than one year but also in that definition of being chronic homelessness is the requirement for someone to have a disability so we're talking about housing for those folks with a disability who've been homeless longer than one year it's only about 20 of our population um this population tends to be more visible so our unsheltered population is talking about those folks that are living in their cars or they may be intense or with belongings on sidewalks or under bridges that population overlaps quite a bit with our chronically homeless population so it's not one to one not every person you see living outside is chronically homeless um but there's a pretty big overlap for example the first tenants in casa de esperanza 70 out of the 119 were from the street were from unsheltered homelessness the solution is we have seen nationwide and also more importantly in fort worth is permanent supportive housing so this doesn't refer to a particular kind of unit but rather some qualities of having long-term rental assistance and long-term supportive services so this is the most intensive intervention for people to leave homelessness so that's why it's reserved for this small percentage that are disabled and homeless longer than a year it does come with case management to support client goals and we have permanent supportive housing that's what we call scattered or single site and i'll expand on that in just a second we want to look at some um success stories so before 2020 there were only two single site permanent supportive housing projects and that was palm tree apartments and samaritan house single room occupancy and single site means that everyone at that particular property is chronically homeless so about 95 percent of our permanent supportive housing was what we call scatter site so someone gets a rental voucher and they take that voucher onto the market and try to use it and it sounds very good that people can have that choice and they can take that voucher and live anywhere they would like however there are also some difficulties with that approach so one is we we just have a shortage of physical units for 0 to 30 am i the second is um fort worth has a very high rejection rate on behalf of landlords and rental assistance so for example only 22 percent of fort worth landlords accept rental assistance so while it seems like it's a good idea to send people out anywhere they can be housed with a voucher in actuality it's very limited and in non low income areas it drops to 17 percent acceptance rate and then sometimes because there is such a demand for affordable housing if you're a landlord understandably and you have a hundred folks that are ready to apply for your one unit that is affordable you're probably not likely to choose the person with a address that's a homeless shelter or that was evicted six months ago so all of these things have made it difficult to fully utilize the resources we have in our system and so that's why we've added some diversity to our housing for those exiting homelessness stock which is a couple more single site projects and one is Casa de Esperanza and the other is New Leaf Community Services and so what that has done is that has helped us be able to fill properties quicker and better utilize those federal resources because the unit is there is required to take rental assistance and it's required to be understanding regarding credit history and evictions and the both these projects have on-site services which I'll describe a little more in a second I just want to lift up one thing though one of the services offered at Casa de Esperanza is through our local health system JPS and one of the goals we as the city gave them was to reduce the number of ER visits and with we have data now from our first year and we show that because of residency in Casa they compared the exact people at Casa de Esperanza they look back in their service history for three years on emergency room visits and then their emergency room visits since they've been at Casa there's 634 less ER visits just by virtue of those folks living at Casa if you use the state average of an ER visit being twenty three hundred and eighteen dollars a visit that's nearly one point five million dollars I'm sorry mind repeating that statistic one more time okay so we calculated 634 less ER visits from the folks at Casa versus when they were unhoused and if we use a state average ER visit of 2318 it comes out to nearly 1.5 million one of the other goals in the notification of funding availability for permanent supportive housing projects was to combine multiple funding sources to make it easier to get units on the ground quickly so we were able to combine all these funding sources listed we were particularly happy that our local philanthropic foundations are committed to matching the housing finance corporation funds dollar for dollar to support this development of housing in this process the scoring committee was four folks three neighborhood services staff members and also someone from the private foundations these are the criteria that were used we looked at not only the project description and their ideas but also their timelines and capacity to leverage and their experience in this field out of this notification of funding availability there are three recommended projects the three are new leaf community services journey home housing and opg cliffton riverside I will say in this round we did not have any projects that were rehabilitation projects although palm tree one of our psh projects was there's pluses and minuses to both you know rehab the very good thing about it as we saw with Casa de Esperanza is the ability to deliver units faster which is good but for new construction one of the pros is that we're also expanding our inventory of zero to 30 a.m. I housing so when we talk about recommending 128 units of permanent supportive housing that's also adding 128 units of our zero to 30 housing the first project being recommended is for new leaf community services they have a project now in council district two and they are looking at a site in council district three now it would be much the same model of new construction quadplexes having a nice community space for people to gather in offices and then have 48 units of housing the second one is journey home housing and this is also the same model of new construction quadplexes a total of 72 units and this is in council district eight the third project being recommended is not what you would categorize as a psh project it is a tax credit affordable housing project but what they're asking to do is to integrate permanent supportive housing within that affordable project so this is just eight units of permanent supportive housing this is a map one of the things that's very important to us as we develop permanent supportive housing is that it not be clustered or concentrated and so we're looking at different geographical regions one of the things we do look for is to make sure all the locations are close to bus stops so we have four this map shows the four existing single site projects as well as the three proposed projects so this would be a total of seven projects in five different council districts can you tell us which council districts currently don't have any permanent supportive housing those or proposed I'll say those council districts we are looking forward to working with our council districts five six and seven and just so you all know I've told Tara she finds some land will work with her and I appreciate it very much I know in uh district six there's challenges finding land that's affordable given all the development can you just speak to some of the challenges and maybe how you think we can work to overcome some of those well I mean I think each council district has its own unique challenges and one of the things that's been really helpful to me has been um y'all's willingness to be able to kind of meet and help me learn your districts and and where might be good places um for for a permanent supportive housing and so I hope to continue to do that but I really appreciate being able to come to you guys and and work closely with you thank you Tara Tara welcome help us do the job of working with our colleagues um I'd like to know what um a list of all of the proposed sites and where they could have gone so that we can make sure internally we're putting pressure on our folks to do the right thing okay I will I will look into that and gather that and the reason I ask is because I know that there's a particular project in my district that was proposed that that wouldn't work for the particular location and I welcome the conversation with all of my colleagues as to why I made that determination I'd also like to have that conversation with my colleagues that have consistently turned down projects in their district so this is the funding recommendations we're looking at for the different funding sources the MNC for June 14th will just cover the home ARPA dollars the general ARPA dollars and the directions home funds we will be coming separately to the Fort Worth Housing Finance Corporation for that funding the foundations have already collectively committed to the 2.55 and by the time we have the housing corporation meeting we look forward to seeing the specific foundations with specific amounts for the projects when we added the five million in general ARPA to the support of permanent supportive housing we bumped up the goal to 165 units from the 125 if the three projects I just discussed are passed that will create 128 units and we're going to be going out for a second notification of funding availability for PSH to capture the rest of the 37 I do want to to mention I really appreciate very much in working with colleagues especially development services and the park department on looking at how we can help some lean non-profit permanent supportive housing projects with some fee waivers and some expediting so I really appreciate that citywide commitments of PSH this is where our timeline is again the vote for the funding the three projects is June 14th coming to the HFC on the 28th and we anticipate that second NOFA going out in July and bringing that forward for a vote in September and having those units on the ground within 24 months one thing I did want to mention is there have been a couple citizen emails that I believe you may have received regarding PSH projects specifically Casa de Esperanza and so I wanted to just briefly address three issues that came up in those emails one was panhandling the second was unsheltered homelessness and screening out for mental health and drug and alcohol right now I'd like to ask my colleague lieutenant gory from the police department over the hope team to join me to help address the the concern that was voiced about the connect the possible connection of panhandling and the proximity to permit supportive housing projects thank you lieutenant gory thank you excuse me um for those you don't know me i'm chris gory i'm lieutenant over the hope team the crisis intervention team and civilian response um to speak to the panhandling we started with a year's worth of data uh from may 16th from 2021 to 2022 we ran two heat maps calls for service related to panhandling and citations um those heat maps excuse me those heat maps actually do not correspond within either locations of the public supportive housing so i kind of want that to be known then we decided to expand the data gathering for panhandling and we found going all the way back to 2016 that there was just a steady uptick in um what what we would refer to as beats at 11 and charles charlie 15 those are ones around casa specifically and those had a steady uptick all the way up to 2019 until it kind of leveled out so we we did look at panhandling numbers there's not a whole lot of variation other than the general upward trend probably with the population growth up there okay so in other words it's not due to public uh permanent supportive housing not that i'm aware of sir lieutenant gory can you speak to i know i had a conversation with uh chief aldridge about kind of an informal experimental did about citing folks for panhandling and how effective that was can you speak to that or if he's still here can he's still here but uh we've talked about it several times when he was the captain over central division one of his lieutenants came to him and said let's do a panhandling detail and so over the course of a three week period the first week they decided to go out and provide education to all these homeless individuals correct yes provide the other education then the second week they decided to go ahead and step into a zero tolerance kind of enforcement and arrest inside everybody who was in violation third week they did a post test kind of measure um they found out that the same people that they had arrested in week two were pretty much in the same locations from in week three and then can you sorry just follow up can you um let folks my colleagues know here i know we've talked about it in an area around the ground plaza and i know you're doing up north as well but the education that we're doing to residents regarding panhandling to try to reduce that yes so any neighborhood that wants this flyer it's a it's a one-page flyer that we uh suggest go to hoas and businesses and what it is is just a it has a qr code um we're trying to curb people citizens away from providing dollars on the side of the road to donate to these services that are that that help them in different ways other than just the momentary gratification piece um i just want to ask or maybe clarify this during my time at drc housing solutions one of the things that i found was um really interesting servant on the board there was that the populations between panhandlers and the populations for permanent supporting housing are two totally different populations is that the reason why it's no correlation between those two so um my i'll give you my understanding and then defer to lieutenant gory so the the question is often posed um are the folks that are panhandling homeless uh the answer is some but there's not it's not a hundred percent all the folks that you see that are panhandling are not homeless just as all the folks you see that are experiencing homelessness are not panhandlers there is probably some overlap but it's not one-to-one lieutenant gory i would agree with that it's not a one-to-one for sure it's probably not even a a 50 to one to be honest um it it does um there are people who come in just because they know these corners are lucrative um because we are a very generous city and so they they get personally reinforced to return to these corners on and on and on that's why we're doing the public education piece to donate to um other resources thank y'all for that in fact uh based on a conversation with you and i had before terra i think i've heard it said that in general up to 90 percent the panhandling is not related to homelessness so very small contribution fits in with what both you and the officer are saying and it's good that you're dispelling you know this this narrative because it's not based in fact michael yeah thanks terra thanks for the presentation i just want to recognize randy gideon here in the audience and his uh staff and everything thanks for um uh bringing new leaf and bringing that's going to be the project in district three right yes yeah and after visiting in a carless district working with us and finding the um property uh where it is just want to say thanks again for working with us and getting things over there some support about it alan so i just want to be clear there have been so casa de asparanza is in my district yes and we have had a few of what we believe to be credible reports that people that were panhandling were in early the facility could you briefly talk about what's happening there or what's being done okay so we received um pictures of from citizens of folks that had been panhandling in an area near um casa de asparanza and the citizen had photographed a couple of people entering casa we looked through all the the pictures that were sent to us and forwarded them to the on the ground supportive services staff and asked them to identify if these folks were residents of casa de asparanza or not um the vast majority were not there were two individuals that were identified and case management um has talked with them and reminded them that um panhandling that near the street is not legal and that they needed to stop all right thank you you're welcome councilman nettles uh thank you man pro tem and i think i do this every time we talk about homeless i'm gonna keep the train going uh but first i want to thank you tara for doing an awesome job as it relates to uh permanent uh supportive housing and also challenge our colleagues uh to do the same to help bring uh these housing all over the city of forward and i want to go back and talk about what you talked about the er and that is very significant um my background i worked for public housing at bowler uh place which is right there next to the homeless shelter and um and i was the leasing agent so i was able to bring in people most of people i um brought in to live there we're homeless um and the stories they will say um they will go to the hospital and make up a reason to be sick for food and shelter and so um when you talk about er visits being down because of providing housing for homeless people that's 100 true and so as a city and the chief always talks about being the city that leads the nation um if we're getting really close because i think it's more than 33 that's probably left but as our study shows that's what's left uh but we're getting really close what happens when we meet our goal and exceed our goal we become the city who is taking homelessness seriously and so although um we can't have the um the stigma of i want to help housing uh permanent housing but not in my neighborhood or not in my area or my constituent says this or it shouldn't be next to that there are certain areas where it shouldn't go but there are a lot more areas where it can go and so um that's why i'm glad we have two that are coming and we're trying to identify even more in the district to make that possible um and i want to go back to your first slide when you talked about chronic homelessness and number one i believe um you said that homeless longer than a year and disabled so these are not people who are committing crimes these are people who fell on hard times and i tell you uh 50 percent to 60 percent of the city of forward is a paycheck away from falling on hard times that is where we're living in and so our focus should be on how we can help and not how we condemn not saying that anybody's on here condemning i'm just giving my uh two cents uh into this matter and so thank you for all the work that you are doing and i hope and pray that others will come um and help the process okay i'll give you some closing remarks since everybody has had to say i'm the one who started the move to get our aggressive panhandling ordinance and it wasn't because of homeless people it was because of business people who knew that they could make a living off of panhandling uh back when i was at krld a study had been done and there was a panhandler at mockingbird and the freeway and the dallas morning news estimated him making 96 thousand dollars a year that was back then right and so the holy council person but you know it it's it's it's offensive when people connect homelessness to panhandling that's two very distinct personalities that play there we we worked on the panhandling ordinance kerry joined me kelly allon gray worked in kerry wanted to to buy them to ticket them and so kelly and i convinced him at least in the black church you know some people think it's their christian duty to give no matter who it is we couldn't go that far to ticket them and we knew that not gonna get any revenue from it and so i'm glad your studies show that they still come back but if if one thing this discussion can convey to the public is do not look at homelessness as a panhandling occupation two entirely different things and again terra thank you for the work you do uh the police have been handing out those brochures for years i think they're very very helpful if whoever is the npo for john t white where's chief back there they need to take some brochures to mama jena thank you for visiting her again she has stopped feeding the homeless i explained to her she can either be a business woman or a social service agency i think she chose her contract with will rogers to let that work for her so thank you terra and if i can find where i am on this agenda next thank you i i put it over here it is may you're coming back next week okay yeah okay let's see update on development we just did that wake up jena another presentation oh this is important though presentation on the 2022 2023 action plan for federally funded housing and community development programs uh dynamic duo victor turner and sharon berkeley daughter of my friends thank you mayor pro tam in council just to give you a little bit of context uh each year we have to submit an annual action plan to us department of housing urban development to continue receiving our federal funds as four programs that are listed uh community development block grant program the home investment partnerships program emergency solutions grant and the housing opportunities for persons with aids you just hear her terra talk a little bit about uh permanent supportive housing we utilize the home home investment partnership program uh to partially find new leaf so these programs fund a lot of different things park improvements uh infrastructure uh public service activities and the like uh it's part of this uh action plan uh every state and locality that gets uh entitlement of uh hud dollars have to do a five-year consolidated plan so we're into year five we'll be doing a new plan and it's part of a five-year plan you do an annual action plan to address the goals and objectives that were identified in a five-year plan so that's a little bit about why we do this every year and so we wanted to come to you all today uh to give you a preview of some of the things that are recommended in this year's action plan this goes before the community development council they've already seen it which includes representatives that you all have appointed to serve on that that council so here's a summary of of each program and the the dollar amounts that we're going to be receiving or expected to receive this year you can see uh the cdbg program there was a slight decrease and from year to year that it's up and down with that program there have been threats to abolish it for years by uh congress but it's still still with us but it's a slight decrease uh with that program uh the home investment partnership program we had a slight well a little bit more than a slight increase 11 percent uh esg program went down slightly and the hopper program 17 increase that particular program has experienced increases over the last several years so uh we're pleased to see that overall we had a one percent increase between the four programs so you can see what our allocations were last year between the programs 12.9 and what we expect to receive this upcoming program year a little over 13 million dollars for those programs so sharing is going to go through our public service allocations we only have 15 percent there's a statutory limit that we can only do 15 percent for public service and so you see what that dollar amount is and then this is a list of some of the housing programs that we do I think Mayor Pro Tem had mentioned last week about our priority repair program being limited to to five thousand dollars so we've increased that to up to 25 thousand which you can see there's a two million dollar budget for that line item so these are some of the programs that we do partnering with different agencies and then sharing a go through some of the specifics with the public service agencies okay good afternoon members council our public service agencies apply each year for all four three of our grants the cdbg esg and hopper we received 43 applications this year and recommended 23 to go forward for award they're grouped here by each of the strategic goal which is eight of the con plan goals that we have allocated for the funding for our HUD grant funds first we have our housing channel affordable housing was recommended we have three aging in place agencies that were recommended under children youth training and mentorship we had six agencies that were recommended for funding we had one for homeless services under our cdbg grant and we had four under the poverty reduction household stabilization we have one of our housing programs that's operated internally our priority repair program was allocated two million dollars we are adding or increasing our allocation to include our substantial rehabilitation program up to 25 thousand dollars per property this is for homeowners that are at or below 60 area median income which is 33 960 for a single person or 38 820 for two people you're just glossed over that go back and say that again and tell folk how far we've come to get here this is major our priority repair program has been allocated two million dollars prior to this year we have restricted the maximum allocation per property to five thousand dollars we've increased it which is our is our statutory regulation up to the 25 thousand per property which will allow us to do more comprehensive full work for all of our homeowners within our city now i'm going to interrupt and ask questions victor how did you guys make this happen because we've been asking for this for years what did you do um i convinced staff that this was something that we needed to do uh we also looked at other cities and and where i came from as well we did up to 25 thousand dollars we had to make a few little tweaks with our environmental review but it was nothing that we couldn't overcome so now i think we're at a point we realized that five thousand dollars would do very little uh you can't even repair a full roof and so if we're gonna help extend the life of these houses we felt that it was just critically important that we raise that dollar amount so everybody's on board well i want to tell this council why this is so important and i hope you tell everybody in your districts because people all over this city occasionally need a little help and the fact that we could not provide any more than five grand for more than a couple of decades was almost insulting and so we've been asking for this and asking for this and this this is going to be big for your people so renee one of your first communication pieces will be letting people know about this program now you have to be at a certain financial status to be able to get it but at least this is news and i promise you some folks are going to be allowed to stay in their homes because they can get rid of mold they can get rid of lid and fix up a sink that has all kind of problems so thank you thank you thank you remember tim our caltown brush up program is an ongoing partnership we have with trinity habitat for humanity it's a volunteer home painting program that's operated twice um each year in the spring and in the fall we have for our major projects under cdbg the balance of an allocation of a million dollars for 88 improvements at our south side community center for our home investment partnerships program we have the 10 percent allocation for administration we have a pending housing development project for our community housing development organization development corporation of tarrant county the balance of our home funds are going to be allocated to the stop six capital choice neighborhood grant at a million dollars which is year three of our five year commitment of our grant funds and and also to the permanent supportive housing project that tara mentioned earlier home entitlement funds will be allocated in that second nova our esg public service agencies all funds with the acceptance of administration are allocated to our ps a program so we have our five here with salvation army with homelessness prevention center for transforming lives provides rapid housing services and presbyterian night shelter shrew worth place and safe haven provides shelter services our hoppa public service agencies we have two tarrant county samaritan housing and a's outreach center uh with their funding allocated as shown the balance of our hoppa is operated through our internal uh tenant based rental assistance program with the hoppa funds as well as the staff administration funds this is a spreadsheet just breaking down each of the funding by the conplan goal the majority as expected is with our rehab programs and housing making up more than 50 percent of our overall allocation this is our timeline of course today we're presenting this to the council our draft plan is is currently underway and will be posted july 1st the same day that our public comment period begins it's a 30-day public comment period that will go through august 1st july 13th our staff will have an action plan public hearing and we will be back before you on august 9th requesting for consideration and approval of the action plan which is due to HUD on august 15th and our programming will begin on october 1st of this year any other questions questions or comment outside my sloppy emotional reaction it's so so important elizabeth it's not sloppy i can see it in your face that it's some of the means a lot to you and i think that i appreciate that perspective because not knowing the history behind how we got there sometimes we need that so thank you thank you okay dynamic duo right thank you go forth and conquer some more finally oh no we have to from brandon he's going to bring cody so environmental fund update from my friend brandon vinnett and cody wittenberg from cold compliance hi brandon you know i'm your friend okay and count mayor pro tem if you don't mind if i do a quick introduction for cody and then i'll have you move over to this podium if that's okay so we appreciate having this time before you today to talk about the environmental fund and just to provide a little bit of background back in 2019 we started looking at our enterprise funds specifically looking at the stormwater fund the solid waste fund and the environmental fund and through that process we looked at rate history challenges and policy issues that needed to be addressed and after we started having those initial conversations in 2019 we ultimately moved forward with the stormwater increase i believe in 2020 since that time as well we've talked to you several times about the solid waste fund we've brought to you the waste management contract and we've discussed with you some of the revenue problems we were having with the solid waste fund and we've even proposed different revenue solutions such as instituting a landfill surcharge which we did and also we had entertained implementing a landfill surcharge for our grant of privilege haulers which we have not done yet which has been a conversation i think we've had with mayor and council over the past six months today as we're starting to plan for the fiscal year 23 budget cody's going to dig in and provide a good overview kind of a history on the solid waste stormwater environmental funds but really digging into the environmental fund and posing some policy questions that city staff will spend the summer kind of grappling over and reviewing and determining what is the best way for us to handle some of the environmental fund arms or a solid waste fund expenses such as illegal dumping litter street sweeping and the enforcement that goes along with that so again cody will provide an overview and then staff will spend the summer grappling some of the policy questions that will share with you and with the intention of being back with the city managers introduced budget and with potential solutions thank you thank you valory yes thank you val and good afternoon everyone so it's my it's my privilege to offer some updates on the environmental protection fund or the environmental fund as we typically refer to it and this as we move into today's conversation really wanted to focus in on kind of three key areas so first is just a comparison of the three funds that valory mentioned environmental solid waste and the stormwater utility fund and then we'll dig a little deeper on the environmental fund itself and finally give you a little sneak peek at to some of the policy conversations we're currently having as we work to find a better way to sustain and expand our litter and illegal dumping programs and also some of those other environmental programs as well so here on this slide you also have a packet with you at your at your table if you want to see some of the more detailed elements but here we've taken each of these three funds and tried to break out some of the key elements so you see solid waste environmental and the stormwater utility and in the far left you see the original intent of those funds and then in the center of course you see what the current use of those funds are so just a real quick on the far right you can see that the solid waste fund was established in 1982 just pointing out that the solid waste fund is really established to collect and dispose of our garbage but over time over many over several decades we've added in different program expenses to the solid waste fund that includes recycling, bulk collection, the environmental collection center, drop-off stations, mulching and the list goes on to even include litter, abatement, illegal dumping, homeless camp cleanup, street sweeping and pedestrian trash among others but if you look at the environmental fund and the stormwater utility fund those uses have remained pretty consistent environmental fund used for maintaining our compliance with environmental regulations and dispose of environmental hazards and then for of course for the stormwater utility fund focusing on our drainage system and drainage system management. So continuing that triad if you look in the far left you can see these are the fee increases that have occurred with each of these funds so in the far left you see the environmental fund established in 1995 has not had any changes in the last 27 years solid waste fund as we've added on with additional programs we have had several changes to that fund over the years with 37 rate changes I'm sorry 15 rate changes over 37 years and then moving into the stormwater utility as Valerie mentioned with the most recent change in 2022 we've had five rate changes in the last 15 years so digging a little deeper on just the environmental fund you may ask yourself what are those rates that residents and rate payers are currently paying so if you live in a single family home or in an apartment unit you're paying 50 cents a month on your water bill for that to be collected in terms of commercial accounts that's $10 a month industrial accounts $35 a month and for those non-profit or municipal facilities everyone is paying the environmental fund and that is at 75 cents per month you can see based on our most recent accounts from the water department you can see that brings in about five million dollars annually for this fund now then going back to how that compares to those other two funds you can see across the top environmental solid waste and the stormwater utility the year in parentheses next to those is the last time that a utility rate increase was was made and you can see the compare the revenues for each of those funds so five million for environmental 72.6 million for solid waste and around 50 million for stormwater each year another key point to bring to your attention at this slide is the distribution of rate payers so you'll notice that for environmental on the left and stormwater on the right that this incorporates residential rate payers commercial rate payers and industrial rate payers as well as those other smaller groups but you'll also notice if you look at the solid waste pie chart you'll see that the majority of the rate payers for solid waste is really just our residential rate payers so you're not seeing a lot of our commercial or industrial accounts paying into our solid waste for the way that we've structured solid waste management in Fort Worth and then down at the bottom of course you can see the current net position cash on hand and reserve requirements for each of those funds so we talked a little bit about the fund structures and kind of where at the current statuses of each of these and on this slide we wanted to talk about some of the challenges so I mentioned earlier that we've added many services to the solid waste fund over the years on the left hand you can see these are really what the current revenues can cover each year without any issues and it really goes back to that original intent you've got the residential collections and the management of those satellite operations that support those collections but on the right side you can see some of those other programs that aren't easily covered by the existing revenues that includes illegal dumping litter abatement street sweeping key forth beautiful and others listed there so as we structured this conversation to move into planning for FY 2023's budget we wanted to really go back to the the basis of what some of our goals are for the environmental protection fund we wanted to make sure that we have a solvent sustainable fund to maintain integrity moving forward we want to make sure that we have sufficient resources for that baseline core requirement for compliance with environmental laws we want to of course make sure that we have enough funding for existing in future environmental capital projects we also want to make sure that we're considering service alignment or what the original intent of those funds are we maintaining that with the existing programs and services that we're paying for with those funds and then we also wanted to consider the equitability and the proportionality of those funds so what ratepayers are paying into those funds I mentioned a minute ago I mentioned that residential ratepayers were the predominant rate payer for the solid waste fund but the environmental and solid waste funds incorporate all those other ratepayers and then of course we want to make sure that we're having a nice savings account for those environmental emergencies that happen from time to time and we're meeting that reserve requirement so just as a quick reminder of and this is pretty detailed so you may want to look at the packet in front of you but we wanted to offer a quick reminder you know we're I could not be more complimentary of our staff and we've worked with many of your districts for some very challenging environmental projects and some that aren't quite so challenging but this is just a really good review of all of the different components of air quality water quality land quality hazardous materials management and litter and illegal dumping that we work operationally to control but I wanted to also point out that line on the slide and on your handout is everything to the left of that line is funded out of the Environmental Protection Fund today but the litter and illegal dumping programs even though operationally they fall in the environmental area the everything on that far right column is funded currently from the solid waste fund so as we talked about some of the different policy goals we wanted to start really also focusing on some of the challenges that we see with the Environmental Fund as it stands so we talked a little bit about program fund alignment for the basic core function of that fund are the programs that are being paid for out of that fund are they aligning with that intent or that original goal we also wanted to evaluate service demand we have seen an increase in in demand for services for litter control and illegal dumping as an example and others we want to make sure that we have enough revenue to meet those service demands and then we also want to continue those conversations about ensuring we have funding for the potential cost of future environmental projects and also ensuring that we have the ability to respond to those environmental hazards as they appear so as we looked at all of this we looked into the crystal ball so to speak we came up with about 22 million dollars worth of environmental expenses over the next few years that we felt like we should probably start preparing for or at least consider in conversations so we broke these out into some priorities so if you're looking at slide number 12 priority one was really looking at those expenses that are currently annually paid for out of the solid waste fund to see if there is an opportunity to shift those to another funding source so you can see this is a general given year for FY 23 about four million dollars goes into these programs for litter and illegal dumping again that's currently paid for out of the solid waste fund we have the opportunity to consider another revenue source to meet those expenses each year but then beyond that we have to ask ourselves is there the opportunity to expand what we're currently doing to meet that service level demand that we're that we're receiving is there a way to expand our litter and illegal dumping control services so working with staff working with the budget office we've evaluated some opportunities to expand as a second priority for for addressing those issues and then third last but not least is really looking at some of those other areas of environmental outside of litter and illegal dumping that we may want to consider so whether that's as best as the pavement removal or the development of potentially a city sustainability plan looking at in-stream water quality monitoring petroleum storage tanks often causes a problem at city facilities we have to manage those and then we have some other opportunities with solar solar energy or green infrastructure again total sum for those is around 22 million and there's other projects that we can consider as well so again this is a sneak peek at some of the active conversations we're having not just within our own little department of code compliance but also with the transportation public works department regarding stormwater and with the city manager's office and we wanted to highlight some of the considerations that were that we're moving forward so one is we could increase the amount of revenue that we receive in the environmental protection fund that might be an opportunity the second one is we could potentially increase revenue with the solid waste fund which could be with that new surcharge for GOP hollers or with an increase in residential collection rates number three we could increase the stormwater utility fund and move qualifying expenses to that fund where needed again each of these funds are governed by by local and state law of what we can and cannot pay for out of the funds moving into number four and five those both relate to the general fund we could transition these expenses to the general fund and either compete with all the other obligations for the general fund or consider an increase of revenue to meet those needs and then six of course we have to consider also the option of reducing services and programs to meet our existing revenue streams and again this is a sneak peek so as we move into fully developing a budget for FY 2023 we also are working with our partners in solid waste and stormwater to see if there's a way to maybe work smarter not harder or find some opportunities through potential reorganization so that could also be presented in the fall as well so just as a recap and a kind of a summary whenever we really look at all of the details here we wanted to focus in on some potential policy goals we really feel like there is an opportunity to distribute current litter and illegal dumping cost more equitably among all ratepayers we also feel like there's an opportunity to reduce the expenses of about four point four million of existing litter and illegal dumping expenses off of the solid waste fund and then we also have the opportunity to increase revenue to expand beyond what we're currently doing with litter and illegal dumping and address some of those in other environmental service capacity as well so in closing here's some of our next steps of what we hope to do today of course is this briefing and we'll be interested in all of your questions and feedback and then over the summer we're going to continue to evaluate each of these funds and all of the policies that I've sort of presented today and then on august 9th with the city manager's recommendation we're going to move forward with that as a part of that FY 23 budget so you may see some of this come to fruition at that time as a recommendation and then we'll consider from that point on to the end of the fiscal year any changes to that so with that I'll be happy to answer any questions or take any feedback first Carlos then Elizabeth Cody thanks for the update I was just looking through the presentation and I see at least part of what I'm looking for here because I was going to ask for some you know maybe some plotted historical data or tabulated data to see what what changes we've had in the past years but I see that in a few slides you have some of that there already um you know pertaining to the solid waste fund is it possible to get a little more historical data absolutely from from that I know that there wasn't you know according to slide four when a whole lot of change in the environmental fund for several years so I mean that that in part kind of answers my question but I'd like to get a little more fidelity out of the solid waste fund and just you know back out some historical trends and then ask you generally has staff gotten very much feedback from the private sector in terms of uh any any proposed impacts to uh fees so this is very much the start of the conversation we want to bring it to to all of you first but as we move forward the conversations including our those stakeholders and those representatives from those different core sectors is is very important to get that feedback okay just as long as that's occurring thank you Elizabeth um on slide what page is this six there's it's the pie charts of the different funds and how they're broken down and so like I'm assuming solid waste when you look at it that's because the way our solid waste is structured our residents pay our and you know commercial contract out with private industry um so with respect to the environmental fund we see the residential commercial and industrial breakdown when it comes to the dollars that we're spending out of that fund or the cost associated with residential commercial versus industrial or the money we are receiving are they in alignment with the the cost breakdown of what those particular entities are are costing us or what we're spending on those programs related to those particular entities absolutely so whenever we look at those commercial and industrial facilities we can anticipate that they may cause more pollution or emit certain things so we have structured that rate accordingly we believe but remember that everyone benefits from a clean environment so we're trying to balance out all of those issues cody looks like you're the man of the hour no other questions or anything all right well thank you for your time I appreciate it brandon your leadership shows thank you so much next on the agenda that we have for today is uh city council request for future agenda items or reports michael are you just making eyes at me or do you have something okay elizabeth i have three uh the first one is i would like a report from pd on their policy as it relates to uh runaway children uh we recently on sunday we received an email notification about a a 10-year-old child that was missing and the updates stated uh they have discontinued looking for the 10-year-old child the subject has had a history of running away before there will be no other further updates regarding this incident and i don't know if that's the best practice in our city so i'd like to know what our policy is what's considered habitual and if any mental health or other extenuating circumstances are are part of that calculation of when we stop looking for a 10-year-old child who has run away so i'd like to see that forthcoming second and i want to place a priority on this william i see in the office in the audience i recently had the opportunity to drive a significant portion of our freeways approximately 12 continuous miles from 820 south to 20 and then west to the exit that i take which is trail lake and i can tell you that there were no lights operable from rose dale and 820 all the way to hem hill where there were three lights operable and then they went out again until just past trail lake i want a complete analysis of all major interstates in our city i want to know how many lights are how many sections what the total percentage of lights out are i want to know whose responsibility it is to maintain the particular lights that have been identified as inoperable and i want to know the status of any work orders that we have to get those fixed i think that that's a incredible public safety risk to our community not just those folks that drive on it but our first responders that have to go respond to the accidents that happen i happen to be driving that night in the rain during a storm and and i am not one to be a fearful driver as folks that have been in the car with me know but this was scary and so i want to make sure that we're prioritizing that and i also want to know what our policy is for how we prioritize street light repairs whether it's a single street light or a a string of street lights and whether the location is analyzed for you know high level of pedestrian traffic so that we can make sure we're keeping all our folks safe and then the third and final again for tpw i want to talk about storm water i asked fire to pull a heat map for me of the high water rescues that we've had in the past three years and i can tell you that they are generally located in the central city where we know we have storm water issues because development occurred before we had our standards in place that's an economic development issue and it's a safety issue so i'd like to know what percentage of our city has our city wide flood risk map that we have identified i would like to know for i think we do it do we do three i say i'm looking at you greg do we do three year events and five year events or is it five ten okay so we don't we don't capture five year data on gis all right so then i guess we're doing a hundred and i want to know what percentage of the city falls into a developed area falls into a flood risk for a hundred year i also want that broken down for what the percentage of our mma's and what percentage of that is mma's and smma's and then any vacant land that um that we can that is located within those because obviously those become um undevelopable so thank you thank you any other future chris yes i want to welcome the communication guy here and i also want to ask him uh one of the first tasks i'm asking for facebook live uh as for our work session meetings and our city council meetings so we really want to for so many years we've been facebook live and all of a sudden the equipment is not allowing us to do that so i want us to get back on facebook a lot of our constituents watched it that way and they interacted with the city forward and so i tried my arm got tired today but i i did as long as i could well i'm hold i'm holding your arm up okay we're assistant please i didn't know greg was here greg i hope are you going to my part of town shortly okay tomorrow okay uh my future agenda item is one that i've shared before and uh it's just very sad to think about the heavy rains that came in 2018 and i had four lives lost and so here we are again and development near lgi and huffines and these areas and greg knows very well uh we have people in distress for the new people on this council i stood with my constituent in a news conference in 2018 calling on a moratorium for building because we believed and i believe today that the building that was taking place should not have been allowed to go further and so i want to thank greg for his actions tomorrow he knows those stories very well but i want to report on the impact the rains had that i drove through clenching my teeth while i was riding through friday but david once again it's that part of town and its infrastructure its processes that if if they're being followed they need to be changed mike dean combat pilot vietnam aviation member part of his house is just chipping away and so they were in the rain the other night don taking videos showing the the torrential waters just coming from all directions greg has seen it it is totally evil as far as i'm concerned and we have to take better care of people and so i don't know how this is going to end up this time because i've got people who have never been active or now turning into activists because they believe their city is not taking care of them i don't think i need to be any more specific we know the drill we've been here before we got to do something to fix this but it's going to start with greg tomorrow and what he sees but i'm going to be calling once again for a moratorium on building lienne knows this once before we were told we couldn't do that but we are this is not right this is not right and so for those of you who don't know this is the east side of fort worth near john t white randall mill mallet cove community we had a high water rescue there i guess that was friday or saturday and the building the building just keeps on coming and the building floods people out of their homes so we need some help luckily only one life lost this time this this is this is crazy so that's mine and with that no further business meeting adjourned