 Well good evening everyone my dad is a Southern Baptist pastor and so I'm typically used to call and response and we are in a Baptist church today so good evening everyone awesome thank y'all and it's so amazing to see you such a great turnout thank y'all for spending some time here with us for please come in for the district maybe not for the district 6 open house the intention of tonight one is for you all to get very important updates from our city departments and equally as important for you to get some one-on-one time with departments that are here about issues or topics or projects that are of interest to you I just want to first of all not only welcome you but just say how excited I am about all of the good things that are happening in district 6 I know you've heard the news about recent development and who's purchasing what land I just want to highlight really quick that we have been focused as a council office and as a district on ensuring that we're bringing a neighborhood commercial and commercial opportunities to the district we've heard you're loud and clear on the kinds of uses and we're working diligently to do that whether it's at sycamore and summer creek at the shop said Chisholm y'all have heard a number of news and we're proud about the medical offices we brought in child care centers retail and restaurants there's a chili's coming to the district for those of you who like their chicken strips are pretty fantastic but not me list to say your input as our neighbors is really important in ensuring that we are delivering not only excellent city services but delivering for district 6 developments and economic opportunities that we all you know want and love to have around our neighborhood so I'm really really proud about that I'm also really honored for all of the folks that we have here participating in the open house and want to highlight a few we have Crowley ISD that's here Crowley I see wave your hand I'm a proud alum of Crowley ISD I went to Crowley middle school and North Crowley high school I see your North Crowley shirt that made me smile played football there as well so I'm really excited about all of the amazing things happening with Crowley ISD they have information on their upcoming bond that'll be happening just a few weeks away so make sure to check out their table and connect with them and ask whatever questions you have related to that the second organization community organization that's here in addition to city departments is our United Way team they're specifically here representing a new initiative that the city and the county partnered with United Way to deliver on in and it's called the one second collaborative it's really important to me to get emotional a little bit because when I first took office I went to a funeral of a young North Crowley student who was on his way to Texas Southern University on a full ride and to see his football helmet the same one that I wore sitting on top of this casket life in it too soon due to gun violence I promise myself that I would do everything within my power with you all to ensure that we have the resources in place to keep our children safe and so the one second collaborative is a multimillion dollar investment from the city and also the county partnering to establish a coalition that addresses and prevents youth gun violence in partnership with important departments like PD and also with community organizations, community centers, churches, any organizations who are specifically working with kids to address prevent youth gun violence so super proud they're here they could do a lot better job at explaining that than I just did but thank you all for being here to educate the community on the opportunities if you have a nonprofit and you do that kind of work whether you're watching online or whether you're here in person please be sure to connect with them at the end so that you have information about the important opportunities that are part of that collaborative with that being said we will go through a very brief agenda but it's going to be highly informational and you will have opportunity engage as well we'll have important updates from our transportation and public works department about important transportation projects that are that are happening in the district we'll hear from the fourth police department about safety initiatives and to give you a briefing on that we'll hear from code compliance our parks and development I mean parks and recreation department and also our public engagement office about how to report your issues to the city when you see them I used my for that a hundred times a day and I will continue to use it a hundred times a day because that's my responsibility as a neighbor of district six to make sure that if I see something I say something so that the city can do something and so that will be our agenda each department will give you a five minute briefing and then we'll I know it's going to be short but you have five minutes for a question and answer period after each department gives a briefing to you if you don't get your question in have no fear the departments are here and they will be able to connect with you after the presentation portion for another 15 to 30 minutes if you don't get to connect with them we all have information that will give to you so that you can connect with us after the event two more announcements and then we'll get the show started I want to recognize my staff for you all so that you know who are your point persons I'm Davia Johnson is our district director she handles all things related to policy zoning scheduling administrative that type of work I mean also Mr. Joshua Rivers he's our constituent services director he's going to be your best friend if you have issues that you want to report not only should you report into my for that but you can also notify Mr. Rivers and we'll make sure to also help help you navigate your issue the last announcement I will make before I'm sitting down is I just lost it and that's what happens when you have a four month old baby I will come back but the important part is you're here and our departments are here so I need further ado I will bring up our transportation and public works department for them to give you a briefing thank y'all all right guys good evening thank you so much for coming out your public engagement means the world to us we'll talk a little bit more about that when we talk about our bond projects but I'm Lauren prayer I'm the new director for public works not to be confused my with my predecessor we look alike and talk alike but I'm so glad to be here tonight we're going to talk primarily about vision zero in our high injury network so our vision zero strategy is really about eliminating traffic fatalities and serious injuries so Chelsea St. Louis she's one of our senior capital project officers in our transportation division she's going to cover that and might get into Harris Parkway I think that's been a hot topic go easy on her I'm her bodyguard and then we also have Ms. Lissette Acevedo she is our senior capital project officer for capital delivery so her group is charged with building all of the bond projects no easy feet and talking about the bond project so we're already talking about a 2026 bond program so start getting your wish list together as I've talked with a couple of y'all tonight it's really a quantitative and qualitative analysis that goes into creating these lists but your public engagement is critical to the end result so with that Chelsea I'm a senior capital projects officer in our transportation management division we have responsibility for everything related to maintenance of the transportation system so that includes your traffic signals street lights sidewalks pavement markings we handle programming for safe across the school projects as well as school zone maintenance and sign maintenance general sign maintenance as well and so why vision zero is really important it really gets to what Lauren just mentioned about having a data-driven approach to be able to identify the safety needs across the city and having an objective way to identify our projects for investment and so in 2019 City Council really made that commitment to vision zero by adopting this resolution that commits the city to developing a vision zero strategy to eventually get to zero traffic fatalities and serious injuries in the city in 2020 we followed up and we actually identified the high injury network which you can barely see on this map my apologies but this identifies all of the corridors within the city that have the highest frequencies of fatal and serious injury crashes per mile and so from the high injury network there were a few corridors mccard Alta Mesa and one of the frontage roads are for loop 820 that actually showed up in the high injury network next slide please and so from identifying those priority locations we actually did roadway safety assessments on two of those locations so in a roadway safety assessment you pretty much go out to the field you also look at crash data and reports and crash diagrams to figure out what actually happened to cause the crash and then you identify countermeasures to prevent that from happening in the future and so we did the RSAs on Alta Mesa and well there was only one it was Alta Mesa where we did the the larger roadway safety assessment and from that assessment we identified projects that needed to be implemented to improve safety along the corridor and so one one 2022 bond project is Alta Mesa Boulevard at mccard that was already programmed in the 2018 bond so really the roadway safety assessment we completed in 2020 just reaffirmed that that was a need that we needed to be addressing as well in 2022 we identified another signal location that needed reconstruction and so we added that to the 2022 bond as well and there are some other improvements that are underway in district 6 that we'll be talking a little bit about the set will be speaking to a little bit next slide please so in addition to what we've been doing with the high injury network and the projects we're talking about really today are ones that will bring near term relief but in order for us to really address all the traffic safety issues that we hear about every day like speeding the reckless driving distracted driving we really have to identify projects through a full transportation planning process that gets us to that so understanding the needs citywide we apply for a safe streets for all grant from the US Department of Transportation we're awarded that grant and we are working right now to get an agreement with us the OT so that we can start that planning process and so what the vision zero action plan will be identifying a suite of programs project strategies that we can implement holistically in the city to increase traffic safety and eventually get to the goal of zero and then also there is a McCartt Avenue study that will be let by our regional mobility and innovation team to look at what are the needs on McCartt Avenue get out to the to the public and understand how you want it to function I know we talked a lot about speeding on McCartt Avenue so this study will look at okay what does that mean to you what are you willing to accept there's always a trade-off thoroughfares are built to move higher volumes of traffic at higher speeds and this helps you during your peak time but that changes if we're talking about reducing speeds so we'll be talking about those trade-offs that the community will accept as we move forward with those planning efforts and with that our schedules are forthcoming for those two planning studies so look out for that and I'll turn it over to Lisette who'll talk a little bit in more detail about the specific bond projects. Good evening everyone my name is Lisette Acevedo and I'm the senior capital progress officer in TPW for capital delivery we manage a multitude of different kind of programs arterials and mobility etc so today we're going to be touching on some key projects that are in your district. Our first project which was identified with our vision zero high injury network analysis is Altamesa McCartt Avenue. This project received funding from the 2018 bond to to reverse the left turn lanes and create a bigger separation over those left turn lanes and to be able to improve the timing through there and as well as relocating those towers I don't know if you guys you know are familiar but you know we have these really large on-court towers that are very close to the intersection and vehicles are constantly crashing into those towers so we're partnering with on-court to be able to also relocate the towers for that away from you know the edge of Broadway. This project also received a state funding in 2020 from the state Department of Transportation a school program Highway Safety Improvement program that is focused on addressing you know severe collisions so this intersection obviously you know had a large number of collisions so it received federal funds and so that has delayed our start of construction a little bit but good news they are ready to start construction at this spring so you should be seeing some activity at this intersection please be patient construction it's inconvenient. The next project that I want to touch on is a 2022 intersection bond project South Newland Street at Rising Job Road we're currently fast-struck in design we're moving toward 60% design on this intersection and acquiring easements because we're anxious to get this intersection into construction it's going to reconstruct the street it's going to you know provide additional separation among the left turn lanes and improve side distance and navigation to the intersection. The next steps are for us to ask your design contract later this fall around November and last but not least we want to talk about our McCard slash McPherson project. This project was approved in the 2014 bond program and we completed design somewhere around 2019 and then since then we've been trying to acquire right away so the good news is that we have began got approval to condemn the property and we have a hearing for one truck of land this May and another one in the fall of this year and with that I'll be happy to answer any questions that you may have well great I'll be in the back if you guys have any other questions. Thank y'all thank y'all thank y'all I know some y'all may also be learning about a number of improvements on Risinger there's been several stop signs added because of input from you all and TBW has been great at responding to that and I know some of y'all have questions specifically about Harris Parkway know that our office is especially concerned about Harris Parkway as well. Joshua Rivers has done fantastic we're working with residents like Joe and the Great Hearts Lakes side on that so please connect with us later on that and we'll give you an update. At this point we have Chief Aldridge here who will give us a briefing on PD safety initiatives in the district. Thank you. Good evening. My name is Robert Aldridge I'm the executive assistant chief with the police department. First I want to thank you for being here taking time out of your day. I mean everything in district six is important to you or you wouldn't be here. I know crime and safety is one of the biggest things that are probably on your mind. You want to feel safe in your house. You want to feel safe in your community and be able to do the things that you want to do. Before I get started I want to introduce of course commander Andre Smith his MPOs the MPO sergeants over there if you do not know your MPO you need to know your MPO. Those are the ones that are going to get things done for you in your division. So let me just give you a brief update of kind of our violent crime. April 2nd of last year we started a violent crime initiative and the whole purpose of the violent crime initiative was to reduce violent crime across the city. The previous two years we had seen some you know troubling increases across the city and we wanted to do something to try and curb that activity. So we took a little bit of a different approach this year and we started focusing focusing not only with cameras. I don't know if you guys are familiar with flock cameras but surveillance cameras flock cameras read license plates. We can put warrant hits in there stolen vehicle information. It gives us the you know the ability to track these vehicles across the city. One of the other things we did is that our beats are pretty big within the city. We have about 96 police beats in the city. But what we did was we broke the crime down into our police reporting areas. They're very small subsets of these beats and we have 834 police reporting areas in the city. And what we did is we dissect the crime down to that level so we can put the resources in those areas to address those issues as they come up. So last year we were able to see a 13 percent decrease in violent crime which is really really good. I mean that's what we wanted to see. Part of the initiative is we wanted to see at least the 10 percent reduction reduction in crime. We also saw a reduction in homicides. We went from 118 down to 101 homicides. We don't want to see anybody get killed. We don't want to see anybody get hurt but we surely don't want to see that number go up. Now I know those are citywide numbers and I know you're like OK great what happened in District 6. So in District 6 there was a 50 percent decrease in homicides. And so whenever you look at the aggravated assaults those went down by 14 percent and then the robberies went down by 13 percent. So I mean we had some pretty significant changes you know in the violent crime that's occurred across the area. One of the projects that we kind of put together and it was kind of spearheaded by David Cook our city manager he said listen you know crime prevention is everybody's problem in our city. So not one department should have the lion share of everything that's going on that everybody can contribute to crime prevention. It doesn't matter if it's code compliance the libraries TPNW it really is irrelevant because honestly the police department cannot arrest our way of a crime. We can't. We need the community's help. We need the other department's help. You would be amazed if we just change a street light or get a street light working. What a preventative measure that could be. So we started a pilot project down in ultimasin McCart and basically we kind of concentrated in that area because of some of the violent crime that we saw. We brought all the city departments together and basically said listen start providing resources to this area so we can try and improve this area. So maybe more businesses will move in. People feel safer in the area and we can have some you know good strides with reducing the crime that goes on here. Now that program still going on. We're still meeting monthly about that. But we've had some pretty good successes in that area. So beyond the violent crime. I know one of your guys is biggest concern speeding speeding and accidents. You got you know McCart's you got let's see West Risinger Columbus Trail and Summer Creek are one of your biggest freeways out there that people like to race up and down. Again if you do not know your MPO get to know your MPO. I personally know Tiffany Hayes MPO John 18 beat. She adjust her hours all the time to try and adjust our address those speeding concerns and speeding issues. There are other MPOs in the district to do the same thing. They're able to also connect with our traffic division to come out here and run details. Speeding is a concern for us as well. But it's a citywide issue. It's not just a South Division issue. It's not just a district six issue. It is a concern for us for some reason since covid's happened. People are now out and about. It has been a few years. But it seems like they've kind of forgotten how to drive and they definitely have forgotten how to be respectful drivers because we're seeing an alarming number of road rage incidents you know along not only our freeway but our surface streets as well. So we'll be here to answer questions. I mean our staff will be here afterwards. I'll answer questions now if you have it. But I know there's quite a few other presenters to come up. Yes ma'am. Harris Parkway South can be a race track. OK. Yes ma'am. All right. Well we'll definitely make sure somebody at least addresses that. Any other questions. No. OK. Yes sir. A lot of people do donuts a lot. Around our neighborhood. So we have a lot of vehicles across the city that do donuts and most of those people that are doing it. They don't live here. And so you know we call those street takeovers because they take over intersections for a short amount of time and they disrupt everybody's life and they cause actual chaos. Now we do have our directed response unit that is actually we kind of tasked them with attacking that problem. The problem is is that a lot of these groups go underground and they use private social media sites and it takes us a little bit to catch up with them. So they may hit one or two intersections before we can get on to them. But I can assure you that's a big problem of ours as well. And you know we're doing our part to try and make sure they stop doing that. All right. Thank you. Before that young gentleman leaves I have something for him. That was an amazing question. So I'm going to give you a molly pen and it's official pen of the city and I'll give you the one that I wear because I'm keeping the seat warm for you. OK. At this time we'll have code compliance come up and we have Brandon Bennett who will give us a briefing on code compliance. Thank you all for coming out like everybody else. Manya is reminding me I have five minutes. I get very windy. That way I don't get a lot of questions at the end. No seriously code compliance is your junk drawer department. If it doesn't fit any place else in the city they put it in code compliance. So I've got a lot of good staff here tonight. I'm going to talk about just two topics. But I want you all to know when this is over with if you have questions or concerns about solid waste about environmental protection about restaurants and their cleanliness about general property maintenance code violations things like that. I got animal control back there if you want to talk to him about that. I encourage all of you to visit with my staff and they'll help you out on whatever your your concern is. Next slide. So shopping card ordinance. Right. You all don't have shopping carts down in this neck of the woods. Right. You know we are one of just a few cities now in the nation that have a shopping cart ordinance. It's to address situations like this and you probably have it even worse in your neck of the woods. So what we did was next slide is we went and we looked at best practices across the nation and we came up with a system of things where we don't make it a strict ordinance that if you are a business owner with shopping carts and your cart is out on the street we're going to immediately write you a ticket. And the reason why we didn't do that is most of the businesses that have shopping carts they don't want the carts to leave the parking lot in the first place. Right. So they're somewhat of a victim also. So we wrote it in such a way that we said you have a responsibility to drive the neighborhoods and pick up your carts first and foremost. If you fail at that and we notify you that there's a cart out there we're going to give you 24 hours to pick it up. And if you don't pick it up then we're going to take it and we're going to impound it. No difference the way we would impound maybe a car. And then when you come to get your cart you're going to have to pay us a fee to get your cart back. And we did that because we want the businesses to proactively drive the neighborhood and pick them up before you have to complain. And then when we give them notice we want them to have the incentive to go pick up their cart before we take it away from them and they have to pay us money to get it back. We have a number of businesses unfortunately they are national retailers that despite this type of effort and this doesn't even go into effect till July but we've been somewhat beta testing it and we have a number of the the major retailers well one in particular say a number one in particular. And I'm not going to mention it. Does someone say Walmart? Oh what a good guesser you are but I'm not going to mention it. Where you know we've been we've been calling Bentonville to their corporate folks we're just frustrated with some of the things that we've seen and some of those have been in your neck of the woods down here that even after we call them repeatedly they're not going out and picking up their carts. So if they are a repeat violator over and over and over we also wrote into the ordinance that we can require them to put wheel locks on their carts and do other things and other things could be in some parts of the nation businesses are required to have a cart custodian that's required to drive around the proximity of the store in the neighborhoods every day and pick up the carts. And so and again we don't want to be too punitive on this so if that's what we have to do to get their attention over a period of time of them complying then we'll pull back some of those regulations and reward them for better behavior. As this rolls out a little bit more y'all if you get the city news or some of the news feeds and stuff we have a tool online where you can look up like an Albertson cart you can go online and type Albertsons and your address or the address where it's at you know give you the name of the manager and a phone number to the store so we'll be looking for volunteers to helping us because we didn't add any staff to this so the people that will be enforcing this will be your general code officers your restaurant inspectors just employees as part of what they do every day are going to be asked to do a little bit more so anything we do to get y'all to help us there'll be more to come on that down the road so the other thing that I was asked to talk about tonight is short-term rentals so these are your Airbnb's is anybody been following council and yeah and again after this is over because it get complicated I would encourage you to talk with me or my staff so a short-term rental is this it's real it's real simple and short-term rentals we all think these Airbnb's are new they've been around for a long time I've been a local government for 43 years and I can tell you they we've been dealing with stuff like this for that long what we haven't seen is mainstream with the internet and booking and things like that so they've become even more popular because they're more they're more convenient for people to book them and stay in them that that's why you've seen the explosion so in the state of Texas like almost every state in the nation if somebody writes a lease for 30 or more days that is not a short-term rental that's just a rental so what these folks can do legally in any district in the in the city where residential housing is allowed they can if they do it right about 12 times a year they could rent out their house and be legal now most will tell us they only do it that way but there's different people staying there every weekend and we have a way to catch that and enforce that but I want you all to know there are there are some that literally do that that one weekend a month they rent it out for a little extra income and oftentimes actually live there or they have a secondary dwelling unit so they rent out the main house and they stay in the back house so some of the things that that have happened of late on on short-term rentals have had a lot of conversation and I want to make sure that I get this right so I'm not going to read the slide verbatim but kind of give you maybe a top-down explanation that there are some zones in the city where short-term rentals are allowed by right that means if you if you have a house if you have a house in in that particular zoning district and you want to make it a short-term rental you don't have to do anything special other than register it with the city and pay a hotel an occupancy tax hot tax that's all you have to do you don't have to get a zone change none of that most of the time where we get complaints though are in single family residential districts and that's where most of you probably live and in a single family residential district if you rent out your your house like this 12 times a year or once every 30 days that's lawful but the minute it goes below 30 days more than you know once in 30 days then that's illegal none of that has changed over the last year there's been a lot of council conversation and at the end of the day they decided to leave it alone and keep that illegal so what we have some of the tools that we have right now are all of you number one that if you have a short- term rental in your neighborhood you can use the Fort Worth app to report it or you can call the call center and report it and that will generate a response from a code officer what you need to know is we do not proactively go after short-term rentals to us right we don't have you know what I would have to triple my staff if we were going to go after every short-term rental out there so it's kind of like when someone does 60 and a 55 when they're speeding the odds of them getting pulled over drawing the attention of police are pretty slim there are lots of short-term rentals that people don't even know about in their neighborhood because they're managed well right and they keep everything flying under the radar so we're not going to go and try to seek them out there are other short-term rentals maybe in your neighborhood where they're having parties and they're idling their cars and there's trash and you know all these nuisance things that are that are drawing attention to you maybe there's not keeping the property up and it's it's impacting your livability or your property value those are the ones that that we want you to call about and then what we can do is we have data mining capability where we can go and look at their bookings their recent bookings their future bookings and we can build this case and sometimes when we're building the case we have to ask you if you're the complainant to keep a log for us of vehicles that are coming and going but I'll tell you because one nice thing about being the junk tour department is I have animal control officers that work in the middle of the night and they can help the code officers out by going and knocking on doors and seeing who answers most of the tenants that stay in the illegal place they don't want any trouble with the law they'll they'll just answer the door and say I'm here for a couple of days so if the officer just does it this weekend and the next weekend we know it's a violation and we move on but the penalty for it is we can write a citation each and every time the the window for the face value of the fine by ordinance is two thousand dollars we could write that every time we see a violation we typically will write it three to five times let it go to trial and see how we do a trial we tend to when we do trials we have an option to do all five citations at once or do them individually we typically do them individually and we do that so that each case is heard on the merit of the case but we also do it because that way they have to come back five times they have to bring a lawyer five times and they have to pay a different fine five times and and we do that because we want them to become legal we don't want a a fine them just to pay a fine and continue to operate illegally right because that impacts impacts all of you I think at the state there's I don't think there's anything cooking right now I could be wrong there's been some committee meetings and stuff but I think at some point the state legislature may bring this up again or take this up again a couple of sessions ago and almost passed uh and the local jurisdictions pushed back pretty hard and said we should have local control our residents should decide and their elected officials should decide whether these are legal or not I think that is the next slide yeah that's it I know it's five minutes over so I probably should go and no any questions AJ where'd AJ go no question okay all right well thank you for having me and I encourage you to talk to my staff here when we're over with thank you at this time we have uh parks and recreation and Scott's here hey good evening I'm Scott Penn I'm the senior capital projects officer for the park and recreation department responsible for capital delivery of park improvement projects throughout the city um as this evening that's my task so uh but we definitely have a lot more divisions in the park and rec department so if you have questions regarding recreation programming or golf and athletics programming or maintenance mowing litter those types of things see me afterwards I'm pulling double duty so I'll be at the table by myself but I can get you in touch with the appropriate people in the park department so to discuss a couple of active projects we have in district six right now we have a three four reserve sites three reserve sites parkwood east trail lake states and deer metal parks uh you might have seen some of them already under construction deer metal park is already under construction parkwood east and trail lake estates will be before the council on April 23rd to award a construction contract so it will likely start construction around June 1st those are reserve sites so there's nothing built on them correct right now but they'll consist of a playground and some trail connection items I think parkwood actually has a a shelter associated with it and trail lake might have a basketball court half court associated with it as well we have some playground replacements that are going on currently and all four of those are in construction right now and they're scheduled to be done by the end of the summer they're lumped with seven sites so these four happen to be in district six but they're paired with three others so it's a full contract so they probably won't be done until the end of the summer as they'll wait to install the rest of the stuff when we have two that are at schools over 10 and dag it so we're waiting until the school's out and made to disrupt that that area and then we also have some pond dredging funds from the 2022 bond program so that will be used at french lake we and currently that's in construction but there's four sites associated with that one but we were able to do a co-op agreement to be able to get this done faster so it'll happen this spring or summer along with oakland lake pecan valley golf course and green buyer so these are some plan projects actually west haven is currently being designed right now the drainage improvements we're actually doing a study right now system-wide for the park department of drainage and erosion control study so we're going to wait until the study is returned it'll set aside select the items of criteria to wait on for and then prioritize the sites where we need to spend some of the bond dollars that we got for drainage and erosion control so cp Hadley will definitely be considered as one of the ones that we're going to spend some of the initial 22 done bond dollars on for drainage and erosion control improvements and then we have five sites here for security lighting and they're lumped with 26 other sites due to you know obviously trying to get some efficiencies and cost for both design and construction delivery part of it so that's part of the big package that we're just now securing design services for these are some of the recently completed projects that we've done candle rich park drainage and erosion control that was actually done in conjunction with tpw storm water but it was with park 2022 bond dollars and you can see it on the right over there the channel before that's a sunday place in misty meadow and then the after is directly next to it healing meadows is a small playground and some site furnishings pink the tables cookers that we did south meadows is kind of it's kind of bisected by a creek channel so people can't get to the big playground on the other side from one neighborhood so this one's on the other neighborhood on the other side of the creek channel and then of course chism trail phase two which was the skate park that recently that was phase one but phase two just recently got completed about three or four months ago so I believe that's it I definitely wanted to take the opportunity to echo Lauren's sentiment that about these meetings these things are so important to us and I'm so happy that you all showed up tonight I know we've done them for the bond program in the past but I think council council member Williams and the rest of the council I believe are on board but doing these more frequently so that we can get kind of an update throughout the year from the citizens about ongoing projects that are currently going on if there's an issue or if there's not an issue as well as to collect data for future bond programs like Lauren alluded to in the 2026 bond program Joe any questions yes ma'am well we right now we have we've been doing a lot of pickleball but we're converting tennis courts to pickleball and I understand that that's it's frowned upon amongst the die hard the pickleball clan but I think we have 19 courts right now that we have on the list to get done we've done nine and that's again conversion of tennis courts we have not constructed just straight pickleball courts but I think that that's definitely in the future for some of our community park planning and larger budgeted projects to work that amenity into it we have master plans going on right now it's Oak Grove Park Gateway Park Sycamore Park so we have the opportunity to start programming those things in on the master plan and so it's coming and we're going to keep converting tennis courts at least two to four a year for pickleball purposes so it'll be double but it'll be double striped but you will all right a couple of more highlights that Scott didn't touch that I think are really important one we have an open space conservation program and thank you all for supporting it in the last bond that program has $15 million to acquire open space for outdoor recreation I was privileged to be able to approve the Rock Creek Ranch Park but Park Team did all of the work for that it's 290 acres worth of park right here in District 6 and it's going to be a beautiful amenity for all of our residents and it's right down the road so that's one highlight I'm also seeing some of my young people here our office worked with our fellow colleagues to ensure that no kid has to pay a membership fee for community centers I mean so if your kid does not have a community center card you definitely need to get that and speaking of cards Mania Schor is here in the front if you mind giving a quick plug for the new library we have a new library right down the road and so please come up and then we'll bring up public engagement right after that yeah thank you thank you council member and for the last minute add how many of you know there is a brand new library coming to District 6 about a mile away from here well that is not nearly enough people well you all approved it as part of the 2018 bond and we've been designing and building it ever since it is called the Vivian J Lincoln Library named after a very well known Crowley ISD educator and it's going to open this summer we should have the date very shortly we're just trying to coordinate with the council member's calendar to make sure he can be there so it should be very soon that we can tell you the date for the ribbon cutting it will be a Saturday morning so I hope you and your families can come this library is not just going to have books like you would expect it's going to have a large meeting room so we can have meetings like this there conference rooms study rooms and it's going to have what we're calling our first wet room which is a room for messy crafts so it's going to have a drain in the middle of the floor and all the electrical is raised up so we can get messy with our kids and adult programs and then just hose it down afterwards we're also working with Crowley ISD on a reading program leading up to the ribbon cutting so if you have kids and Crowley ISD I hope you'll participate in that reading program thank you so much the addresses at the corner of Rycinger and McCart I don't actually know if we have an address yet they I don't know they don't always assign an address until after the buildings completed but it is going to be right across the street from the new south patrol division so that whole corner which is now just fields is going to be activated and lit up with your city services thank you for having me I'm just so proud of the naming process for the library it was very very public and transparent and the public our community named the library more than 5000 district six residents I believe participated in naming the library and so that is a huge success for us and well deserved for Ms. Lincoln she was a beloved principal for a lot of us who came through the district and so what an incredible honor hate she's not here to see it but her family is really really excited about it so thank you our last presentation for the evening is public engagement and we have Michelle here who will give you all a briefing on if you see something how to say something so come on up thank you for inviting us tonight I have three handouts at my table that I encourage you to come and get the first one has to do with the 2023 election as everybody knows we have an election coming up on 6 May early voting starts on the 24th of April in the city of Fort Worth with the addition of two districts and the redistricting that happened 39% of the residents are changing districts and so we have a page on our website you can get to it if you go to the website and just put 2023 election and on that page it has tools that will help you figure out where your district is where you can vote and the deadline has already passed to register to vote so if you didn't do that it's too late but we also have information on just where you can check to make sure that you are registered so that you don't show up and then find out the hard way that you're not so I would encourage everybody to visit that and use the tool it's really it's a very cool tool you slide it and it'll show the old districts and the new districts on the map so it's a way to see just how the city is changing as a result of the recent redistricting another handout that I have is on the my fort worth app how many of you have the app and use the app yay okay we just did an upgrade so the handout I have looks a little bit different than the app looks now if you have the app and you haven't used it for a while you need to do the upgrade I it takes some people a little bit time to get used to the new one but I think you'll find it it's much easier to use in the end we have a lot more service requests that you can put in for those of you that use the app use the app you know that when you enter it in if you give us your contact information you get updates on the request so you know if it was closed out if it was fixed um I know that sometimes people get a message that says an item is closed and what happens is we've moved it to our work order system and it automatically sends a message that says closed we're working on that messaging so that you'll get a message that says we're working on this we'll let you know when it's finally done so that's something that we're aware of we're working on but anything that you encounter when you're using the app if you like it if you don't like it let us know because we're always improving it we do about four upgrades a year so um we definitely want to hear from you I may steal your see something say something so the city can do something so if you all see that on a promotional item you'll know where it came from so um yes I encourage everybody use the app and then if you don't like to use the app you can also call our call center you can report on the web and all of this goes into the same work order system so no matter how you enter in the request it goes into the same system and goes directly to the department to solve it we also have chat on a lot of our web pages you can text you can text hello to 817-835-MYFW my Fort Worth and that allows you to enter it through text so no matter how you want to report an issue to the city we have tried to make it as easy as possible so that we can get the information directly to the department and then fix whatever the issue is and the final thing that's on the handout I have in the back is one address it's a tool that we have on our website and you enter your address in it will give you crime information code violations permits that have been issued around your address that you enter it will tell you who your council member is your district that's another place where you can see where your current district is and where your future district is if it's changing any other like your neighborhood association all the different things that have to do with your address you can find in this one place so we encourage you to use that you can also find the NPO and code officer so just some tools that we have on the website we're trying to put as much information out there so that we're as transparent and accessible as possible and if anybody has any questions I'd be happy to answer them yes Michelle on the associations that are listed ours is not is there something the association has to do to get listed yes we have a registration process and so what we do is we ask for a point of contact we ask for copies of your bylaws and then every year you have to do like an annual update really that's just to update contact information so I'll give you my card and then we can we can see about getting you registered and on the on the database and that database is important because internal city departments use that to get out information on zoning cases or other things that are happening so if you're in a neighborhood association you're interested in being registered just let me know and we can help you do that anything else all right thank you thank you Michelle and just to follow up on that please please please make sure you all register that's really important especially for the zoning process and for district six we have a lot of cases and I think it's really important for us that we engage our neighborhoods during the zoning process and so having that information helps us better get in contact with you all and get the developers in contact with you as well we're also working on a feature and we submitted a report for a request for a report from staff where individual residents can also subscribe for things like zoning alerts so as much as you can subscribe to things on the city website it's really really helpful for us to help get the word out to you about important updates the last thing I want to do before we open the house back up for a brief period is to call AJ up and AJ will you come up here for a second so AJ thank you for the question you ask donuts and intersections are some that's really important to me my team is going to follow up with you about which streets so that we make sure that we know exactly where you're concerned about is that okay cool I also have a Mollie pen for you this is an official pen of the city of Fort Worth it's a reminder that the city is also yours and that you have a responsibility to the city as well to be a good steward of it and to make a difference in it does that sound good cool well here's your left pedal for you thank you enjoy it okay with that being said that is the end of our program and we are three minutes early how did that happen so we have a bit of extra time thank you all in the back who are tabling it's so important for our residents to be able to connect with you and also thank you for the service that you provide to the city it doesn't go unnoticed and it's it definitely makes our city what it is today so please make sure you connect with those folks if you have questions that we didn't get to answer make sure you get their contact info Joshua Rivers is in our office he has his cards as well so please please please get his contact as well so that you can connect with us again thank you all and have a blessed night take care