 And I am very excited about what I see happening in stop six. Years ago, we had plans and people said, you know, nothing is going to happen. But if you hold on, if you respect previous leadership, you can get a path to success. And that's why I'm so glad Councilman Frank Moss is here this morning. It's Frank in the room. Please, you need to know a lot of things happening in stop six are happening because of the vision Frank had. I will tell you the first time I ever heard the word, Natatorium connected to stop six came from Councilman Frank Moss. Who'd have thought it? And we're going to have one. But recently, we were on a Zoom call and this call was hosted by Forward Housing Solutions and I'll tell you how we all work together now. But there was someone who wrote in a very innocent, well-meaning question. And that question basically was, how can you talk about this hub and you have not had meetings with the people in stop six? Yeah. Well, there had been years of meetings. And so for those of you who are familiar with Bible study, I'm going to take you back a little bit. There was a man named John the Baptist I learned about in Sunday school. I'm a rowdy Baptist, okay? Baptist folk can get mad at you and build a church right next door to yours because there is no order. We are rowdy. But John the Baptist had a whole bunch of good news for people and they thought, oh, he's the one who's been promised. But he wasn't. He was the forerunner to the Christ. And so back in 2009 is when I attended a meeting that Frank had at Ebenezer and we were around the table and I think we were looking at what was called the stop six revitalization plan. I think that's what he called it. Well, that led to something else. And in more modern times, we ended up with the strategic neighborhood improvement plan. Is that what we call it Dana? I think it was when David just threw money at different communities. And so the strategic neighborhood improvement plan was not the grand plan, but it really was a forerunner to what you see today, which is the stop six choice neighborhood initiative. It takes time, it takes planning, and it takes people to want to be involved. But for me, it all started with council member Frank Moss. Now, when the strategic neighborhood improvement came along, you know, we had money because the city manager who was new at the time wanted to see what could he do to improve the quality of life in underserved neighborhoods. And how he got to that was me taking him on a tour of my district. I didn't show him Bell Helicopter or Lakes of River Trails. I showed him stop six where I grew up. We went to Burdale and we went to what was called Calumet. We interrupted a guy smoking crack. And at that point, the city manager thought, I better get out of the car because she's going to get killed. And I can't have a council member getting killed because she's starting to fight with somebody who's smoking crack. Well, that plan planted the seed and made us grant worthy. Then comes along a new CEO for what we call the Fort Worth Housing Authority, which is now Fort Worth Housing Solutions. But just like me, she had a good plan and a vision laid out from her predecessor twice. That being Barbara Holston. So when we were able to get this $36 million grant, which, oh, David, I just talked about you and us interrupting the guy smoking crack. Everyone, that's our city manager, David Cook. Please give him a round of applause. And so when Mary Margaret got together and put her legal head into work, we were able to craft a big grant application that was just perfect at the time. But don't forget, all this work has been done by those building up to this, OK? So what you need to know is Mary Margaret was able to write a grant, history from Barbara, support from Brian, her number two, Ace Boone Coon, who's been there for years. And we got this $36 million grant from the Trump administration. We, before Mary Margaret came, I took Ben Carson on tours of Cabell. And what he liked was the fact that we had a neighborhood police substation in Cabell. He didn't know it had been shut down for years. But we had just re-worked it, OK? But that resonated with him. And he came back to Fort Worth three more times. The two of those, I hosted him twice. Betsy hosted him twice. But Mary Margaret comes along. We get the grant. OK, the Trump administration is gone. Biden administration comes in. The flow of money continues. What I'm trying to get you to see is it takes time, it takes planning, it takes diligence, and it takes people to vote. Because but for the bond issue, we would not have the hub. And so the hub is what I call the shining star of stop six. But there are so many hubs and things like that coming up, we've got many shining stars. One reason is because the Fort Worth Housing Solutions team owns a whole bunch of property. And what they do with it works to the benefit of citizens everywhere. So this meeting is going to bring you up to date. And for those who ask the question, why haven't we met with stop six people? I want you all to tell them there have been meetings. You've been there. You actually got people to vote for the hub. So that's my introduction. And what I want to do, I just realize if reading is fundamental, Sanya, I didn't read the agenda. And so what I'm going to do is ask you to come up because one person who helped us convene a lot of meetings is going to be recognized now. Please welcome Sanya Singleton, the Assistant Director of Neighborhood Services. This meeting is being recorded. So you got to talk into that mic. And she's a PK, so she'll be able to talk to the microphone. Good morning. The center coordinator here was Paula Yvonne Jackson. Paula passed away on July the 14th unexpectedly. She was a servant leader, an advocate for those who were often unheard and unseen. She believed in excellence in everything she presented for the community. And she was determined that patrons of the Martin Luther King Junior Community Center would have access to innovative and quality recreational, cultural, educational, and social programs. She had many worthwhile life accomplishments. One, her apple of her eye was her daughter, Rachel. But she was also a part of many professional organizations. She served as an officer or a board member or volunteer. We will miss her bright smile and her jovial request for $5 each time we ask her a question. We will move forward to keep her vision for the programs that we will be offered at Martin Luther King Junior Replacement Community Center, otherwise known as the Stop Six Hope. Thank you for joining us today. Even though staff gave me an agenda, I'm going to go off script a little bit, OK? Because all the checks are written by the city or written by this man. And I want David Cook to speak to you. And I want him followed by Assistant City Manager, everybody's friend, Fernando Costa. And then we'll get back on agenda. David, thank you and your bride for being with us today. I know it's Saturday. Oh, thank you. It's good to see everybody. How's everybody doing today? Good. It's cooler in here. I think we'll stay here all day. Jean asked me to speak a little bit about the Neighborhood Improvement Program. And she said she told you the story about I got to drive around with her. And I stayed in the car when she got out. Did she tell you that part of the story? I wasn't going to get out of the car. And I'm thinking, I haven't even been here two months and I might be killed. But one of the first things I did when it was a pleasure coming here about nine years ago is riding around with council members. And where do council members take you when they want you to see the district? They take you to the neighborhoods. And they want you to see the neighborhoods that they feel responsible for. And they might not take you to the nicest neighborhoods if that rings true, right? They want you to see some of the neighborhoods that might be struggling a little bit and how the city might be able to help out. And so one of the things we started a number of years ago, and I guess we're about seven or eight years in, is on the Neighborhood Improvement Program. And we identify a neighborhood each year that we want to come in and provide some assistance and some capital money. And now it's to the tune of about $4 million a year. We come in to a neighborhood all around the city. I know stop six was the first one. Ash Crescent was the second one. I'm going to forget a few. Northside, Como, Rosemont, Las Vegas Trail, thank you. And I think one of the neat things about that program is our focus is on listening and that we want to hear from the neighborhood of what they think is important. And what has been interesting to me is each neighborhood is different in how they want to use that money. So we don't come in with the prescribed way of saying, oh, we're from government. We know what you need. It's in the spirit of we want to help. We have this money. What do you think the needs of the neighborhood are most important? And then let's go from that point forward. So it's been very popular over the last seven years. We think we've made a difference in some of those neighborhoods and we're still working in those neighborhoods. It's finally occurred to us that it is so successful. It's so popular that we might need to increase the investment. So hypothetically, next Tuesday's recommended budget hits the table. And this hypothetical budget may include two neighborhood improvement programs each year. So we're going to double up the money. We'll recommend to the city council that we double up the money. I'm not sure she knew that. I did not. But I think it's time to circle back around. OK. But I also think that neighborhood improvement program is one of the reasons we're here today. One of the reasons we got the $30-some million from the federal government. And we've got new private investment that's interested in the area. And so, yes, we get to recommend next week that we double up money up and we'll start doing two neighborhoods each year with council approval. And so, man, I feel pretty good now. I'm leaving the podium. Fernando. Thank you, Mr. Cook. Well, you've heard from Councilmember Bivens and city manager Cook about one of the main reasons stop six has been making so much progress. And that's public engagement and community empowerment, working with the community to make decisions about the neighborhood's future. But another important component of that success, I think, is cooperation among multiple agencies. And Councilmember Bivens asked me to say a word about it because it goes back a long way just as public engagement goes back a long way here in stop six. And that's evidenced by the presence here of several leaders from 4,000 solutions led by Mary Margaret Levens. Mary Margaret has been the stalwart of cooperation across Fort Worth and particularly here in stop six. And without that partnership between the city and 4,000 solutions, I'm sure we would not have gotten the $35 million federal grant. That was a big part of it. And Mary Margaret and her staff, Brian and Sonia and others, have exemplified servant leadership in working with the community. I think folks who live here will testify to that effect. And so we've been working. We have a stop six working group that's been meeting periodically for the past several years. And it's not just the city and housing solutions, but it's Tarrant County College. It's a Fort Worth independent school district. It's Trinity Metro. It's all the entities that touch upon stop six. So we have every reason to feel confident about the future of this community. You're going to be hearing in a minute from Victor Turner, our Neighbor Services Director, and from Mary Margaret about the background of this project. And the guiding plan, which the community helped us to formulate, which is the Cavalplace stop six neighborhood transformation plan, which is the basis upon which we're making all of these improvements. It's not as though we started from scratch. We've done a lot of homework. And so we were ready when we launched the Neighbor Improvement Program that Mr. Cook described. It was evident that stop six should be the first neighborhood to benefit from it. Why? Because the needs were here. But more than just the needs, the potential was here. The community was ready for action. And so all of that groundwork paid off. And it's going to pay off even more in the years ahead. You can see the progress we're making with Cal in place. Can you imagine that? You can see it. When Councilor Bivens began talking a few years ago about Cal in place, I bet the very few people actually believed that it was going to happen because they'd heard these promises before. It's happening. And that's just phase one. And Mary Margaret will tell you more about it. Thank you very much. I'm confident that I need Mary Margaret and Victor at the table. They've got two chairs. I'm just thinking y'all are going to do this together. Can y'all do that? Let me talk to the citizens while Victor and Mary Margaret are coming. And Mary Margaret, I'll move my purse out the way. The hub is very important to me. I have been holding out on moving forward with plans for the hub because I felt pressured from entities who want everybody wants to be in the hub, OK? You know, they see the building. Oh, look what it is. We want to be there. Well, I told the city manager, and we talk about this. Did David really leave? OK, OK. I didn't see it. I tell you, every meeting we have, David, whatever services we had at MLK, I want to see those at the hub. And so I've been assured that those services will transfer to the hub. But I'm real paranoid, and I have trust issues. And so my next question was, OK, are we going to have the space we need? Or are we going to be in closets? Or do we have to fight where we put our purses like I had to do for Hand in Metal Brook when we expanded that? So one thing David said that I hadn't even thought about, he said, well, you know, one group that should be in the hub is MHMR. And that's because he's realizing all the trauma that we go through here in Stop Sits. For those of you who live in Stop Sits, how many of you hear gunshots at least five nights a week? I'm one. Trauma. How many of you hear sirens? Yeah, yeah. So without even studying, our city manager came up with that as a likely tenant, if you will. What I want you all to be doing throughout this entire meeting is making notes as to who you think. Vicki, I'm glad you're here. What time is it? OK, just because you're retired from MLK here. And I know Sylvia got you up to get you here as early as you are here, thank you. But I want you all to be thinking, what needs to be in the hub? What needs to be there? Now, we know child care and associates is going to be their words, where's Willie? Child care and associates will be there. And I think they've got 9,000 square feet. I need to know what you want to see. I don't want to leave office because I tell all y'all, I am leaving. This is it, OK? I am leaving office with this term. I don't want to have to look back and hear that there was something that should have been said that wasn't. Now, this isn't Christmas time, and you don't have a Christmas list to create. But you do have the responsibility to help protect your neighborhood, our neighborhood. What should be there? Now, we know, thanks for the vision from Council Member Moss, we're going to have an auditorium there. Now, that is for all citizens, right, David? We can't just say, give me your stop six card. You're going to know. That's going to be everywhere. But that's like handling. People from all over Fort Worth use that battlefield all the time. And so I think more people coming to stop six will bridge some barriers, OK? But while you're here, be thinking about what services need to be there. And if you can write something down, give it to that guy in that yellow shirt. Give it to Josh. Don't tell me I'm not going to remember anything when I leave here and get to the next meeting. So that's what I want to hear from you, your family, your friends, even folk you don't like. This is the time that we need to solidify the input as to what's going to be there for me. And so now we get back on program. Now, I don't know who said we were going to be here to one. Who did that? Who did that? I mean, was that a typo? It wasn't. I'm not going to be here to one, OK? No, we're not going to do that. This is not a Church of God and Christ Convocation. Anybody got a white? And we'll be out of here hopefully by, we started at what time, 10? I'd say about 11, 11, 15, 11, 30. Be OK. So I want you to meet Victor Turner, who is our director of neighborhood services. I call him Deacon Turner. My friend, Mary Margaret Lemons, president of Forward Housing Solutions. When we first started this journey, Mary Margaret's an attorney, OK? And so attorneys are used to analyzing and just getting stuff done. But not pretty much being out there on the stump with a can. And so Mary Margaret needed to get some money. And so early on, I would help her go around and beg and put dollars. Well, she got so good at this, she just starts calling people. And it's amazing to see the passion that she has for this community. Mary Margaret made co-compliance do a drive-through because she was not happy with the properties that they had invested in and how co-compliance was, I guess they didn't see stuff till you showed it to them, do you think? Well, I have my issues with code and everybody knows that. But what we'll do now is welcome and listen to. And everything you hear is very important. Everything you hear is very important. So with that, please welcome my two friends, Mary Margaret and Victor. And I'll move the big old purse out the way. Please applaud. Thank you, Mayor Pro Tem Bibbins. I guess she put Deacon out there so I'll behave, I guess, so I'll do my best. Some of you, you heard the word choice neighborhood. And really, what is that? We know that over the years, HUD has invested in neighborhoods that had distressed public housing. And the purpose is to redevelop that housing and the neighborhoods surrounding it. Prior to choice was a program called Hope Six. And it was housing opportunities for persons everywhere. Choice was first funded in 2010. It is a program that cities and public housing authorities work together to bring public investment into a community. And we want to say that in Fort Worth, that $35 million from HUD, along with over $40 million in forward housing finance corporation and city of Fort Worth dollars, equates to over a $450 million investment over the next seven years. So you can see we're less than $100 million as four times that amount. So we're proud of that. And the program, there are three main pillars, housing, neighborhood, and people. Mayor Margaret, I'll talk a little bit about that. We'll get to the hub and kick it off. Mayor Margaret. Well, I'm going to go back just a little bit so everybody gets the full picture. I joined the Housing Authority in 2015. And at that time, the Housing Authority in the city had agreed upon and both passed, both city council and my board had passed a 2013 transformation plan. And so that was done with the community's engagement and input. And we started to work on that. So when I got here and hit the ground running, we were applying for tax credits. And at that time, the neighborhood did not qualify for any of the state financing due to some of the neighborhood characteristics. So those included poverty rates, low educational attainment, crime, blight. And so the typical funding sources that we would use to rebuild housing or to build new housing weren't available to us. And Caval Place, unfortunately, was contributing to that. So many of you know Caval Place was 300 units of public housing built in 1953. And it had fallen in disrepair because HUD does not fund capital improvements for public housing. So the federal government readily admits that they do not give us enough money to make capital improvements to existing public housing. So we had applied for a program called Rental Assistance Demonstration to be able to transfer those units to a different funding source to try to rebuild them. But there were still major gaps at that time. I can remember sitting at Ebenezer Baptist in the gymnasium over there at Brighter Outlook. And Jonathan was there. And we were having community meetings about how we were going to get this done because everybody wanted us to make a change at Caval. We just couldn't figure out the funding. And so fast forward to 2018. And the crime had gotten so bad at Caval that I honestly didn't feel comfortable having families still live there. And so we asked for permission to demolish Caval and to move our residents using a housing choice voucher. And so we had done a study. It needed $43 million worth of capital improvements. And the crime rates were those that we couldn't be sustainable. And so HUD approved that application for us. And we began the relocation process. But the Housing Authority has always been committed to the stop-sets community. We understand that we are a big part of it. And we've been here for many decades. And so immediately after getting that approval, we started thinking about what can we do to bring it back and bring it back in a better way, a more sustainable way. And so we decided that we would go after a Choice Neighborhood Award. And these are pretty hard to get, you guys. Every year HUD gives out somewhere between four and six across the nation. But there's multiple applications that come in from all over the nation. And typically, you get a planning grant. You get a small planning grant of a few $100,000. And you work for a few years. And you get a plan together. And then you go after the implementation grant of $30, $40, $50 million. Well, we didn't do it that way because we didn't want to wait three more years for stop-sets. And so we took the plan from 2013. And we brushed it off. And we started having community meetings. And we held a ton of community meetings. I think the pictures are behind me. So you can see we had full rooms. And we invited everybody from our Cabell residents to neighborhood associations. We had faith-based leaders there. We had the educational leaders. Anybody and everybody that touched stop six or wanted to touch stop six, we invited. We had meetings with five-year-olds. We had meetings. I mean, it was on and on. And so we developed a new plan. And we submitted that in 2019. We were shortlisted. And on Valentine's Day of 2020, right before the pandemic, we hosted a HUD tour here at Dunbar High School and took HUD all around stop six for the entire day. And then a couple of months later, after we were all in lockdown and we learned by Zoom, we got that $35 million. And so we thought it was big money, right? $35 million sounds like a lot. But I remember David Cook saying, you're telling me that the city's gonna commit $50 million of money as leverage for $35 million from the federal government. And I'm not a math major, you guys. I don't do math, but he was right. It was a lot of money that the city was committing that we knew other funding sources would come to the table. And so when Victor says $450 million are gonna be probably the total investments, I think he's being shy. It's gonna be half a billion dollars at least. Because we've already gotten other people to sign on. And so we started working immediately. We went after those tax credits. We won a tax credit award. We won now three tax credit awards. We just got one last week. And you see the building happening. Cow in place is 87% done and we'll be starting to lease there in the fall. But our plan isn't just about housing. It's about neighborhood and people. And so those are the three pillars of a choice neighborhood grant. Every resident at Cabell Place gets case management for six years. So those families have a personal manager working with their family to work on education, healthcare, financial literacy, economic empowerment, all of those things to get them in a better place. And then the housing, we're not just building back 300 units. We're building back 1,000 units and it's mixed income housing. So yes, we're gonna replace those subsidized units, unit for unit, but we're gonna actually come in with mixed income housing. So we'll have workforce housing and market rate housing that's completely unrestricted. So everybody can come back to stop six and have a beautiful place to call home that's safe and a neighborhood of choice where you're gonna want to live. And so we actually had to expand our real estate and stop six to be able to do that. It's not just going back on Cabell Place land. Cowan was a lit piece of land we purchased. We purchased land at Amanda and Rosedale for Hughes House. And then down at Miller and Rosedale, we have another site. And then if you go on Raimi and Raimi and Hughes, we have another site. So we have actually spread out the housing throughout the community and we want it all to be a part of making this community more sustainable. So like I said, we've gotten three tax credit awards. We've got three phases underway. We'll start on our fourth phase. Brian, he didn't get that wide overnight. It's been a few years but he's starting on the fourth phase in the next couple of months. And we're really excited because we see the change happening. So when we were talking to the neighborhood, we knew that we needed more space because every time when Gina said we had been Carson come to town or other dignitaries and we needed to have events, we actually would come here to this community center and we'd have to displace another activity because we didn't have enough room. And so I can remember coming in the summer when we had freedom schools or when we had seniors for feeding programs or playing dominoes and we literally would have to tell people that they couldn't do what they were supposed to be doing that day and they needed to move to a different location. And so we knew that this space wasn't gonna be big enough. I mean, if you try to park in the parking lot on a busy day, it can be challenging. And so we wanted to make sure that we could welcome everybody to stop six with the resources there. And so we started calling it a hub because it was more than a community center. And we, you know, those sessions with the community really led to what people wanted. If we heard pool once, we heard it 50 times, right? We know that Tarrant County has a horrible rate of drownings and we want to be able to teach swim lessons and to be able to prevent those because that's a completely preventable death. And so some of the partners like childcare and associates have been in the neighborhood. They've been here for more than 40 years. They had four locations within our two mile area and they had a location right in front of Rosedale Plaza Park that they moved those resources during COVID to other locations because our residents were gone. And so they didn't have as many families to serve in the neighborhood. And so we're glad to be able to have affordable childcare and early learning back within the neighborhood, just, you know, a walk away from some of these beautiful new homes that are gonna be built. And so the neighborhood plan, are we, here we go back one, 20. So to get this grant, you had to have everybody come together. And when I say everybody, we had to have letters of support from all different agencies. So first we had to convince the city council and mayor to sign off as the co-lead. And really it was David Cook because he was gonna be signing the checks. And so HUD only gives these grants to communities that show that they can do collaboration well. And then we have a team of people on the ground that are making it happen. So McCormick, Beren Salazar is our developer arm. They've done these developments all over the nation and win these awards year in and year out with HUD. And then Urban Strategies comes in to provide the case management. But our own neighborhood services department is the neighborhood lead. And so they're responsible for the execution of our critical community improvements, which we thought at the time we submitted our award would have been the HUD. Victor will tell you how that all shook out. But we knew that we needed really big things to happen to the neighborhood to bring economic development and make the neighborhood sustainable to be able to carry on even after the grant money was gone. So the grant money was only good for six years, you guys. So by 2026, we have to spend every bit of that $35 million and that won't be hard. But we know that this development will take longer. So we're expecting eight more years of development to get it all done. Let's see. Oh, the boundaries. Now that's a good, if you go to the next one. So our boundaries, the north boundary is the railroad track. The western boundary is Miller. The southern boundary is a little bit funny, but it's rainy for the most part and then it jags a little bit because you know, of our streets are straight here in stop six. And then we come up on carverly to the east. And so we have a ton of community assets. We have TCC, we have all the schools. And at the same time we're doing this, Fort Worth ISD was investing millions of dollars into Youngman's Leadership Academy, Dunbar. And you know, all of these things are happening together which makes us such a good candidate for this grant because we showed that the entire community said yes. And the other thing, before you start talking about the hub, just so when you're thinking about what you want in the community, I'll let you know some of the things that are gonna happen. Hughes House is actually the second phase of housing at Amanda and Rosedale. You can see it being, the lands being moved today, you see retaining walls and all that happening. The bottom floor of that will have about 9,000 square feet of commercial space. And so we have the ability to bring in businesses on the ground floor there. And really we wanna make sure that we're bringing in the right businesses for the community. So if you were on our community update last week, we had a poll to ask people what they wanted. And we would hope that people were sending it out by email, but please you can just email us. Tell us what you want because we wanna attract the businesses that you'll support and the businesses that would benefit you as a family. But those spaces will be able to lease. We're not looking to make money. We're looking to bring the right things to the community if that makes sense. The other thing that we've been able to secure through partnerships is a CVS workforce innovation and talent center. So the former boys and girls club that was along Rosedale and Avenue G at Eta is actually gonna be transformed into a hub for education and learning to get people back to jobs. And so one of the major things they do is train pharmacy techs. They come in and retrofit that building free of charge to us. And then they give us a full-time employee to manage education programs out of it. And so it's not just pharmacy tech training, but other types of training, whether it be call center, logistics, things for high paying jobs. They want to train people to get them into the workforce. And they want to hire as many of them as they can through Etna and CVS. How about the chef stocking? And how people are going to be building a business here? Yeah, so it actually looks like a mini CVS. It's branded like CVS. And it looks like a pharmacy. The only thing that's not real are the drugs. They're M&Ms and Skittles instead of pills. But they have store shelves that look just like a CVS. They train store managers there, clerks, inventory, PO at the point of sale system so people could go out after being trained there and work in a store seamlessly. And so that'll be taking place in the front part of that building. The back half, as you all know, is a gymnasium. And we're turning that into a multipurpose room that'll have a commercial kitchen. And some restrooms that'll actually go to the outside because we're having a food truck park and farmer's market installed along Rosedale. And so it'll have a canopy with water and lighting so people can come in and park their trucks with shade and hook up and not have to use generators. But it will also have a stage and a patio and seating. It's really gonna be a place making opportunity to have events for the community. So when you think about, let's say it's breast cancer month and we wanna do mammogram screenings and have the bus come out, that'd be a great place to have it park and have events there. If we wanna do a movie night for kids, it's just gonna be a multi-use space for the community that can really hopefully draw people to stop six in a really positive way. So that's all happening right there at Rosedale, right across the street from 500, 600 new houses that are gonna open up and be a block away. So we're excited and I hope that you are seeing and you will see the dream with me and believe me that it's actually happening. I think how on places, if you're driven by stall cup in Rosedale is really just an amazing thing to see come out of the ground and we're really proud of it. So I'll turn it over to Victor to talk specifically about the hub. Thank you, Mayor Margaret. You can see on the screen location of the hub across from Rosedale Plaza Park. She mentioned earlier about the hub and critical community improvements. So initially when we submitted our application to HUD, it included this replacement community center as one of those items and they no longer fund community centers as part of that. And so we had to switch gears and submit a new plan to HUD. They have to approve what's called those CCI's critical community improvements. And basically what that is is connecting the neighborhood, accelerating that transformation of the neighborhood and connecting the housing and the people with the neighborhood. So we had to identify some activities that we could do in the neighborhood to meet HUD's approval. So as part of that process, we received a grant from the Urban Land Institute. It was a Curtis infrastructure grant and we had a panel of real estate experts and planners that came to Fort Worth. They toured the area, they interviewed stakeholders. There was a public meeting on Zoom over 80 people participated. But that technical assistance panel, over a three day period, I believe it was February 10th through 12th, 2021, identified 10 things that we could do to submit to HUD settled on three, which is those community critical community improvements. And you can see those, one of them, the very first one, we're talking about the build out of Hughes House. We've been working feverishly trying to get tenants for that. One of the proposals was to have a medical presence, a clinic or some type in that space. We think we have some interested parties, big name medical organizations in Fort Worth that have expressed their interest in being there. Also the farmers market food pavilion. So that would be at the new community center. We know that's a way to bring residents together. You see them in different communities around the country, farmers markets, where we can also bring fresh produce to this area that being one. And then finally expansion of our facade improvement program. So commercial facilities, businesses, we can change the appearance, the aesthetics, the exterior of those complexes. So right now we have about, in our current plan or program, it's about $30,000 a business can get to improve the exterior of their business. And so we're hoping to expand that and improve several more businesses in the area. So the hub, I saw Richard Zavala walk in. So Mary Murray likes to describe it as a community center on steroids is her term. You probably heard her say that many times. And recently, I think it was in 2020, we opened another community center. I won't name the community because I know it's a Redskins Cowboys sometime debate. But anyway, it's another community center. We recently opened, but this one, it'd be even better. We believe, we hoping that it has all the amenities and services, not only that are presently here in MLK, but expand on that. However, we know that you're limited in square footage. So if it's not in this, in the new location, it will be somewhere in the choice neighborhood boundaries. So that's where the Hughes House space and the boys, old boys and girls club that Housing Authority has that can help serve the community. But you can see the dollar amount. There was a bond in 2022 to fund the new center, along with Aquatics Center that our Park and Recreation Department will be hitting up. And so we're really proud of those amenities that gonna be part of the hub. You see the total dollar amount around $30 plus million. Right now it's around, and I'll let the architect talk a little bit more about it. We had planned for around 28,000 square feet or so, but that may be larger than that. Yeah, you can see that. Yeah, 17 and a half million, 28,000 square feet. You can see the amount for the Aquatics Facility. And then we also have a partnership. Mayor Margaret mentioned it earlier with childcare associates to have an early learning center at that location. So it will be a pretty expansive and extensive project that'll be very comprehensive in nature. Thank you. Well, good afternoon, everyone. I'm Monique Hill. I'm the district superintendent for the neighborhood services department. That's just a fancy word for an area manager. So I'm responsible for seven of the 21 community centers. I oversee the onsite managers for those facilities. And so Martin Luther King Community Center is one of the facilities that falls under my purview. And so I am just here to kind of give you a quick briefing about the community center and we're gonna get it more into the grits of everything that you wanted to hear about. So Victor mentioned what we are gonna be doing. So you'll hear a little bit about the process for building a community center. And my particular emphasis will be on talking about the community center. You'll see me at meetings where we're asking you, what do you want? What do you want? Mayor Pro Tem had said it. It's not really Christmas, but we kinda wanna know what you want on your list. You may not, Santa may not deliver all of it because that costs. But I also wanna bring your attention to as we are here today that we do wanna hear from you. You have about two, three, four, five, I have a million and 50, 10 different ways to tell us. There is an agenda that we have on the back for you all that love technology. There is a QR code. If you would scan these codes, you can tell us a little bit of something, right? So if you scan these throughout the meeting, information will be feeding into a survey. You don't like that? We got you covered, right, Josh? We got a paper copy. You know, we got all the measures covered. Fill that out. You can give it to Joshua or you can leave it at the table. There's a little basket up there for you to put information in. You don't like that? Hey, we got you. We got some index cards. Joshua's been passing those out. We want to hear, can you tell? That don't work for you? You don't wanna do none of that? On the back here, there's an email address. Send Nikita an email. You can send it. You don't like this format? We got you. So we're trying to hear from you because we want to know what you think about what is going to happen in the new facility. We want to understand the needs. We do wanna make sure that what's already presently here will be in the new facility. So we really are here just to start that process. We've been listening. There are a lot of studies done with Mary Margaret and the work that was done and all of that was heard, but we wanna hear it refreshed. So I'm gonna turn it over to Seth now. Good morning. Seth Henry with the Parks and Rec Department. So I am the project manager overseeing improvements here at Martin Luther King Park and over at Hubsop Stop 6. Starting with the Hubsop 6, we have had several aquatic facilities that we've been working with recently. We moved forward with one other project first. We moved forward with Como and working through that process we discovered that we wanted to provide more programming and help assist with the needs that we were hearing from the community. So we initially had a lower budget for the aquatics facilities here at Hubsop 6, but we've actually increased them up to 8.2 million. That's going to include increase, increase. So we are going to have a eight lane pool facility with 25 yard lap pool and a interactive play area with any additional facilities that will help benefit that project. We have not looked into the programming exactly yet, but that's something we would be looking into. We will work with the community to get the input that we would want. So we're providing exactly what is wanted and needed for the community. And but some of the items we are pushing for is lifeguards, swimming lessons, and drowning prevention. Then over on Martin Luther King, next slide. We will be moving forward with the demolition in this building at some point. And once we have opened and have a fully operational Hubsop 6 facility. And right now we have that targeted for fiscal year 2026. If it happens sooner that we are able to get this project rolling here, we will move forward with that. But through the funding, we anticipate at least demoing this existing building and repairing the site to a natural park setting if there are additional monies at that time, we will then design additional facilities or amenities into the park. Then, and actually within this year, we are starting another design project here at Martin Luther King Park. So we'll be having some community, meaning input meetings for that here pretty soon. So look forward to that. And we do hope that you come. This is, we want to make sure that when we bridge that gap to the changes that are coming here, that this is still a very important park for the community. That is a good reflection of the Hubsop 6. Everybody appreciating good news so far? Yes. Don't you wish others were here? Yes. I'll take blame for that and we'll do better. The good thing is that this meeting is being videotaped. And as soon as they clean up any inappropriate words I may have said, you know, we'll put that on the website and I'll share that with all of our key stakeholders. I am so glad to meet this guy for the second time in person. And Christopher McGraw is a senior associate with Harrison Cornberg Architects, a very well-known firm. And we were in very good hands with their design. I will tell you, when we were planning for a cow in place, how that would look, Mary Marbrid was getting pushback about how big is it gonna be and all that stuff. And I think that's Michael Bennett, right, right, Brian? Who did, okay. And so I told Michael Bennett another well-known firm. I said, look, when you build Cowan, that's gonna be the gateway to stop 6. I need that to be big and bold and make people wonder, where am I? And one thing Mary Marbrid didn't tell you, and we always talk about this, Mary Marbrid, that tower you see at Cowan Place when Dunbar Wildcats are playing, that light's gonna be blue. Okay. When it's breast cancer awareness month, it's gonna be pink. I don't know about cowboys, you know, but maybe there's a silver light if they're winning. I'm a fair weather fan, okay? But I just want you to know that they're making every effort to make sure that structure, that complex, that hub, is a part of this community. Because once you cross 820, you're in stop 6. I don't want you to just rush on through because you're scared. I want you to stop and shop, live, work, and play. That is going to be happening. That is going to be happening. Now, before I bring up the architect, I have to thank a couple of special ladies who I used as a focus team, and they didn't know it, and I didn't really think of the formal word to tell y'all, that's what y'all were, but I'd like for Sylvia and Sharon to please stand. Sylvia and Sharon Armstrong, please stand. If you know MLK Center, you know these ladies. Sharon is like a big sister growing up in my dad's church. I've known her all my life, and I've never met such a neighborhood zealot until I met Sylvia Allen. And so thank you all for all the work that you did to get people here today. So now let's talk about, is it proper to say what it's going to look like? What, how do I, what do I say? We'll talk about the process of how we get to. Okay, okay. So I'm jumping the gun then. Okay, well, I won't be going Facebook live on that, but please, please welcome Christopher with a K. Well, thank you all. It's always hard to follow an elected official, so I'll see what I can do. So again, I'm Christopher McGraw, I'm representing Harrison-Cornburg Architects. I manage our North Texas operations. First thing I'd like to thank the city for having us here. It's exciting to be here, and it's nice to meet you all. I know I've seen many faces on this side of the room, but I don't believe I've seen any faces on this side, so great to meet you all. I'm gonna talk a little bit about our firm. We're gonna talk a little bit about the process, and then kind of a general overview of the project. So Harrison-Cornburg Architects, we've been in business about 20 years. I've been there, I think, 17 or 18 of those 20 years. As you can see on the screen, we've done about $1.7 billion worth of construction costs in the public sector alone, as well as 12, wow, that's a lot of square footage. Wow. The point of this slide is essentially to say we do a lot of work in the public realm. This is not our first time doing this type of work. We work with various cities across the state of Texas. This is just a list of some of our few lists, few of our clients, rather. City of Dallas, you'll see DFW, Fort Worth ISD. For those, I know there's been a lot of talk about Dunbar. You're gonna see some slides and images of OD Wyatt. We were just selected to do the work. Hopefully, no one holds it against us. So we've won some awards. I don't like to dwell on this. It always feels a little weird to talk about yourself, but we've been fortunate enough to be awarded some accolades for the work we've done. And we wanted to show this slide just to let you know, while I'm here today, representing the firm, we do have a full slate of people that are working across our various offices that'll be helping on the project as needed. And then we're collaborating with Brinkley Sergeant Wiggington on this project. They'll be our collaborating architect. They've got about 45 years of experience. They've done a lot of work with aquatic centers and as well as community centers. So we wanted to make sure that we had noted that they'll be on part of the team. So a little bit of our experience. I won't dwell on this very much, but we wanted to show a few images of work that we worked on over the last 20 years. Most of these are for clients that are in the public realm. I think all of them actually. If you go to the next slide, one thing I was remiss to say, including on our client list, is the bottom image is for the University of North Texas at the Health Science Center. So that's a parking garage here in the Fort Worth area. So the point there being, we have worked in Fort Worth before. This is not the first time we've worked here. So that was kind of an overview of our projects. What we wanted to focus on is highlight a few of the centers we've worked on. So this is a Recreation and Wellness Center for the University of Houston at Clear Lake. So you've seen the interior shot and this is an exterior shot. Next, Judson Robson Community Center. This is for the City of Houston. And then this is a Student Wellness and a Success Center for University of Houston downtown. So again, that's just a little bit of what we do. We're gonna give a quick overview of the project just kind of, I think you've heard many of these things before, but just to recap, the numbers you're gonna see here, I noticed it as others were talking. These numbers are a little bit different, but what these numbers are, the construction cost limitation. And essentially what that means is this is the amount of the dollars you saw before that are available for construction. Now we're gonna talk about the process a little bit. So you've heard others speak about it before. Generally what happens is there's sort of a community engagement and a collection of data component. So a lot of that work happened before we were involved with the project. That's when different groups are going out to the community. They're trying to figure out what the needs are and they're starting the process of figuring things out. We came in at what's called the programming phase and we'll talk a little bit more about what those are in a moment. At the end of programming is when you move into the design phases. That's when you start to get an understanding of what the building will look like. We start document it, that's where you may have heard the term blueprints, floor plans, that's when those kind of things come about. And then the project goes into construction after that. So programming, as a general overview, we like to say that's essentially us working with the stakeholders, the community, whomever is part of that process to understand what the requirements are for the project. What we like to say is even though we've been selected as the architect and we've done this before, it's not our building, it's you all's building. So what we're trying to do is understand what you all want, what the city wants, what the requirements are. And we don't come in with a preconceived notion, which is why I was mentioning earlier, we have no idea what the building's gonna look like. Right now, we're just trying to understand what are the needs, what are the requirements. And so we'll have meetings, you saw photos there, various meetings where we're talking, we're asking questions. What the result of that is what we call, this is an example of a kind of a template where we have room data sheets and we have sort of template spaces. Even though this looks like a hard line drawing, like everything is figured out, it's not. It's just our way of saying, okay, here's what we've heard, we're gonna go space by space and try to identify, is this what you mean? It doesn't mean that's what it's gonna look like in the end of the building, it's just us doing test fits, do things fit, how big do they need to be. And so we do this generally space by space, this is just an example. And then we list and written form, all the things that we've heard and all the things we think we understand about what those spaces are. The other things we're looking at is what the site will look like in terms of utilities that might be on the site, topography, we're trying to understand the priorities, we're trying to define expectations. But again, none of this is really a building yet. Once we move past that phase and everything signed off on, that's when we move into the design phases. So the first phase is called schematic design. That's where we're generally figuring out the form of the building and the adjacency and arrangement of the spaces. We're starting to think about what it might look like, we're starting to think about what the materials might be, but it's mostly about a general overall view of the form and arrangement of the building. And these three images are all from the same project because we wanted to explain how the phases go. So you're seeing the first one, I don't know if you can tell from the back, those are kind of, we may even colored some of that by hand. I can't remember. We were thinking that it might be this material, but we weren't quite sure yet. When you move into the design development, as the name implies, that's when the design is developed. That's when we start to say, okay, we're making decisions, we're understanding what the materials are, we're finalizing many of those items, we're finalizing the arrangement. And so in this case, the original drawing and thought was it was gonna be terracotta panels. In the middle, it actually ended up being brick. And so you'll see now you're getting into a much more photorealistic image of what the building is intended to be. Then we move into construction documents. That's where we're essentially coming up with the details and basically coming up with the contract, if you will, contract documents that go to the contractor. So they understand the design intent and what they need to build. So just to recap the whole overview, programming schematic design, design development construction documents. We've added two more here that are kind of outside of the design phases. There's a procurement phase. This is when the contractor is bidding the documents. This is usually when it's going for permitting. This is when all that sort of, all the design phases are culminating into something that can actually get a building that's constructed. And then obviously at the end, the goal is to have a constructed building. So where we are right now in terms of the process is we're in the programming phase. So you heard a lot about, we want to hear input from you. We want to know what you all want in the building. And as you can see, again, just to reiterate, right now it's just a collection of pieces. There is no building. We have no idea what it looks like. Contrary to there, there have been some in the rooms that say, you've probably drawn this already and it's in your office. We have not. We thought about it. We have some ideas, but we've not. And we intentionally resist that because we don't want our preconceived notions to kind of force you all in a direction or not. We'd rather step back and say, we have no idea what the end result is gonna be. Send all the information in. We'll go through that information and that information then will help determine ultimately what the building looks like. So with that, again, we're very excited. Excited to be here, excited to be working on the project. I'll be around for a while afterwards if people have questions, but don't make them too difficult because we're just in the programming phase. Thanks, everyone. As we wind down, Christopher, I'm reminded of that first Zoom meeting when we met and I told you, I don't know what you've been told, but don't start on anything until you hear from my people. I think you know now that that was good. Now, let me tell you what we're gonna do next. And I'm gonna ask two questions and it's not to embarrass anybody. And Chris, you don't have to raise your hand because Frank was here. If you came in after we started, please raise your hands. For those of you with your hands raised, do you have internet? Okay, okay. Because we're not gonna do this meeting all over again. But what we will do is make sure you have a link so you'll know everything that was discussed and who said it, okay? Well, I mean, we can't do that. Now, here's the next thing. And this is really, I think, the most important point of this meeting. There are a lot of people in this room and I bet everybody has a question. We can get everybody's question answered if you follow this rule. And I'm gonna give you examples, okay? I did the same thing with Woodhaven so it's not because I'm in stop six. We're gonna open the floor for questions. Questions start with who, what, where, when, how, and why. Questions don't start with your history. They don't start with a political speech. They don't start with your opinion. And so it's very, very important to me that we get everybody's question recorded. And what I want you to do when you get ready for your question, we wanna hear your name because Josh is gonna write it down and Josh, you're gonna make sure that that person asking the question, sign that sheet so we know who we're looking at, okay? Does anybody have a problem with that rule? Okay, thank you. Again, I wanna thank you for being here today. I am so very excited. And I will tell you that there were two reasons why I decided to run for office one more time because I really was done. But it's because of the stop six project and because of Lakes River Trails. Those are the two reasons. And so what that means to people is I am laser focused on those two projects. You can't get in my way with crazy because we gotta get these projects done. Stop six is very important to me because we're seeing people move back to stop six. Now that's good. And for some, some of y'all don't want people back. I'm serious. It's like, houses are too close, but they're coming back. And I mean, that's a good thing because it means property, tax money is coming in and we're getting our fair share. And finally, before I open up for questions, David, when are you gonna adopt this budget? When do you wanna, is that September 21? 19th. 19th, okay. So you're gonna be reading city news and I understand city news doesn't come out like it used to every day. It's like twice a week now. We gotta, we need to go back so we can let people know what's happening. But I need you all to be a part of the budget process. I don't know what you want. If you don't tell me, I don't know what you want. If you put it on Facebook and think I'm following you, not, and I'm sure I'm not following next door. So we have a formal process to get input on what you want. Whatever that is, turn it off. Okay, thank you. And so with that, anybody have any questions? Okay, I saw Chris, I saw Sharon. Christine. Is this a different phase from what we did prior to? This is the community center, this is the space. And the other phase was the area and what we. Yeah, and that was part of my introduction, how we got here. I took us back all the way to Frank's Moons in 2009 and how they build on each other. Yeah, but that's okay. I just wanted to know if this is a new phase because we're giving new input. I would say it's more detailed input because we actually voted on the hug. And so now we're getting the details for the hug. And so you can just look at it as expansion. And you know you got my number. Sharon. I don't have a question, but I do have a comment because people call me. I know, I know. And I'm a mobile phone. Ask their question. My comment is thank you. Thank everybody for what you are doing in this area. And it is a multicultural area. It's not just black folks, white folks, it's multicultural. So please, and please remember that. And thank you. Mary Marveth, take a stand. Victor, take a stand. Fernando, stand up please. Brian, stand up please. Michelle Goode, Sanya. She drops that loving bomb and walks out the door. Okay, Lewis, whatever you buy, Sharon today is on me, okay? Got you. Next question, Sylvia. Yeah, I have a question. She said don't make it personal. But I do appear in the plan about the community. It's gonna be a stage and you'll be able to do a lot of events. I couldn't hardly retain in my seat because everybody knows why, so I'm not gonna say anything personal. But my question is, do anybody have any idea, Jonathan, what year is that stage gonna be so that I can res good at night, because I'm really, really excited about to have a stage. See that man in front of you with no hair on the top? That's who will eventually give you some dates. He's our point person. Next question, I don't know your name. Oh, you, Jiu-Jitsu Locker, I went to high school with your dad. He was a couple of years older than me. Your question, please. Because they have such a good look at it, so I can. That's a good question. Now my question is just, how can we access this presentation? If you signed in, we'll send it to you. And for those of y'all who've been hanging out with Josh, make sure he knows you want it. But I know I'll put it on my Facebook page. Michelle, you wanna talk more about it? Microphone. We'll get the video and post it on YouTube and then we'll put the link on the stop six hub page, but we'll also give it to Josh so he can send it to everybody. Yeah, we are communicating. Next question. Yes. What's your name? Lovita. Okay. Oh, I didn't know you were the cap on. Okay, so my question is, is there a definitive plan for this park place? Yeah, it's going down. The building's gonna be demolished. It will remain park space, but this won't go down until we have the new built and we're in it. Right, in 2018-20, see what happens. You wanna add to that? I do it right, Fernando, you wanna add to it? Well, I just wanted to add that the reason the building is proposed to be demolished is because it's not in good condition. It's not economically feasible to rehabilitate it. And therefore, because it's not gonna be safe in the long run, it is safe now, but in the long run, it'll be better for it to be completely replaced. It'll be demolished. We had extensive discussions with community leaders, and I believe everybody agreed. In fact, the city council adopted a resolution saying we intend to demolish it, but actually convert it into park land. And Richard Zavala was part of that discussion and we're committed to do it. If I understand the park, they just gonna be a park. Yes, ma'am. But what exactly is gonna be? Well, you heard from our parks department. We will talk with you at another meeting about what's gonna be here, what you want to be here in the park. Okay, thank you. I'll tell you one thing that's already here, and that's because from Dr. Gwen Morrison, she noticed a few years ago, we didn't have walk markers to let you know how far you've walked. If you look at, well, Dr. Morrison got that here. If you go to Bunch Park, you'll see very nice equipment. And so it really will be a park. We're not gonna create a new definition for park. But what's in there is where your input comes in. And so you'll have Sets Contact on the program, Set Henry. You'll have our contact when those meetings take place just like we did at Bunch Park. We'll get input from people. And another thing, I was looking at Vicki Hudson, who retired from here as Fernanda was talking about the building and the shape that it's in, she was gonna, this building is more than 40 years old. And the city is not interested in maintaining anything 40 years old. Nor can we give it away to your church, okay? And so, that's been a request, but it's time for new. And what I really don't like, I don't like the neighborhood being disrupted with big events. I don't like a whole bunch of strange cars in my neighborhood. So we're gonna be big and new. Councilman Moss, I sorry your hand, but I hope you can also say something about the need and the importance of an auditorium, if you will. It's critical, it's critical. If you don't think from this neighborhood, you have to go out to other, offer campus or to Tarrant County Community College. So, and of course the health department talks about the need to have places where people can do a role in this, because we've got big demand here. But, so that's critical that we have there was just unfortunate, it's not 12 months a year. But, that would be a concern, but I think that we could probably go forward without the question that I had in doing the previous presentations about whether there's any funds to do anything to this particular property once you move out. Second. Once the facility over at Hub 6 is open and running and fully functional, we will then, we will begin the process of demolition for this building. And then at that time, we will at minimum we'd be returning the park to a natural setting. If we have additional funds, then we will add additional amenities to the site. But we do wanna connect the two pieces we have since the building is kind of in the middle of the entire property. And we know one way to get additional funds is, what's that four letter word bond issue? We have always been real successful with bond issues. One thing that you didn't mention, Frank, that I'll promise you, we'll do everything we can and should to maintain the crepe myrtle theme that you established. And as you look at those trees down the middle of Rosedale, you'll see crepe myrtles and other trees, but out of, how many trees did y'all plant in Rosedale Park? Rosedale Park. Association. It was about a hundred, right at 200. So, yeah, that warrants respect and us doing everything we can to make sure we can get that. And we can also connect with Eastside Blossoms, Jared Varden's group. I love crepe myrtles. Any other questions? I see a hand back there. I don't. You know me, Jane. That's wonderful. Hi, you're doing it. My sister was talking about you the other day. I hope it was good. It was good. It was good. I'm Marble Johnson, Work for Solutions. And you, I wish you guys would come to the hub. That's what I'm asking about. Cause I mean, you mentioned the CVS, Workforce Innovation and Training Center, and you've got some specific, you know, industries you already talked about there. So I was trying to see, are you open to a dialogue of expanding, you know, other kinds of. Let me tell you the reason, the reason why I had been holding off on efforts to make final decisions on the hub is because I wanted to make sure the services that were needed are there. Now, I believe MHMR should be there. I believe Workforce Solutions should be there. And Fernanda, what I'd like to do, David, can you hear me? I want you out of work on this. What I want to do is be the point person to convene a meeting with service providers who we know have interest in 76105. And that would include Workforce Solutions. And so it's, we just can't afford to get this wrong. I mean, we really can't, and it bothers me, it's a burden for me to make sure we leave no stone unturned. And so, Mirable, thank you for speaking up, but you were one of the first ones I mentioned, then David mentioned MHMR, we cannot afford to get this wrong. And so I don't want people clamoring here because it's new and shiny and everything. We need people with entities and organizations here who can meet the needs of people in stop six. Jonathan, what's your new job? I'm the family communication specialist for Dunbar Hospital. I'm gonna put my aviaries back on so she won't take yours off. What's your question, cuz? Well, my question goes back to just what Mr. Johnson said, you know, one of the things I think we're gonna do, I'm on the father-in-law coalition chair and I'm with Mr. Johnson. And my question is, and I want to interview Willie, if y'all don't know who that young man is. Willie Rankin, the zoning commissioner. The red shirt on his name is Willie Rankin. He's who he takes it, but he is, and I see him now, and he deserves some respect, but here's my question to him. So we had a meeting with his wife. Wait a minute, wait a minute. Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute. Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute. Jonathan, hold up now. Is the question about the hub? Yes. Okay. So, here's my question is, we only had so many square feet and we kind of realized that we really won't have any new square feet. So I guess it's a question today that y'all are gonna like to tell me which I can see. Can we, now that we've had, isn't even talk about the 37,000 square feet of the hub? Now, as the MLP Replacement Center and talk about the hub as the other space that might be needed for the service providers that they may not keep no space in the 37,000 because of the partners who've already made the investment. And unless they can talk to them over our units of space today, space, you know, what are the other properties that are available within the service providers? Yeah, they're like 70.05 because I think when we did the presentation, my friend was asking who would tell me to be quiet and he was asking me about the overall plan of the unit and that space is the community hub for a stack of seats, a big stack of seats. So, why are 37,000 square feet? I got your question and that's the whole reason for this meeting. Yeah, I wanted to hear and I wanted it to be heard what people in the community believe and think. Now what happens is the questions I get from the community after this meeting. Now, if the community goes home, doesn't call anybody and say we had this meeting, what do you think ought to be there? Then shame on us. And so you really are important. And that's why I keep telling you guys we can't get this wrong. Jonathan, I feel you all the way but that's the reason why I've been pushing back on decisions that have been pushed at me. The people have to be served. And I am real, I ain't scared of nobody but we're gonna get this right. But I can't read your minds. You are going to have to communicate. For those of you who say I don't do email, well that's what I do. You got this QR code, you got a phone number, you have every kind of way to tell city hall what you want to see in that hub. So, you need to take it serious and at the end of the day, you all need to be able to be proud that you gave your input. Yes. I might have missed it or anything, but do you have any programs or a music arts program for anything that's gonna get the new center? I'm sorry, sir, can I get your name? David Martinez. Thank you. Who's here for the center? Where's Paul? Practice. Okay. So yes, sir, we don't have any identified programs. Typically what we do is we rely on our community partners, vendors that we have that we pay to bring in. So all of that is still up for discussion. If you're interested and you have resources for art programs, you can get with me. I'm on E-Kill, I'll give you my card, and we can discuss that. So we're very open to having different programs in the center. It's not just set in stone. Programming for community centers is an ever moving thing. It changes as the need does. Last question. I wasn't gonna ask this question. Is the procurement gonna be the same as what it would if there's Cal in place and Inclusions? I don't know, Fernando, MWBE. Our Diversity and Inclusion Department will be working with property management to ensure that we provide every opportunity for local contractors, particularly minority women business enterprises, to participate in the construction of this top six. So that's real important. It has been real important in connection with Cal in place and it will be for Hughes House and every other phase of this project. It's not about doing things for the community, it's about doing things with the community and it's important for the community to benefit at every stage of the process. And so we take that procurement process seriously and if it's not done right, it's not gonna be done. It's gonna be done right. And we want to provide every opportunity for local contractors to participate. Thank you. Thanks, Fernando. Jonathan, I have an assignment for you and then we're gonna close this meeting. I need you to draft me some kind of communicate so that everybody here can become missionaries on this trip and they can explain what we're trying to get here. And if you send that to me between nine and Monday, we'll get that out. Because I know many of you are wondering, okay, what do I tell people? What can I say? Why is it important? And so we'll get that to you. The stop six really is home. My garage stayed up one night until about three a.m. in the morning. My garage was up. A neighbor called, Gina, do you know your garage is up? So stop six is home. I wanna thank you all for coming and again, Merville, thank you. Thank you, thank you for voicing that because it validates my paranoid concern, okay? And for those of you who have ideas after the fact, you can't send us too many emails. I promise you, you cannot. Thank you for coming. I wanna thank SAF for giving up part of their day because this is a haul. I wanna thank the architect for showing up. Nice socks you got there, I see. And this has been a good day. Thank you very much. Thank you, Monique.