 Well, for those of you who may not know me, my name is Kendall Locke and I am the district six director. I just want to say thank you to each of you for being here. Thank you guys for deciding to join us. Of course, you guys could be anywhere. And so definitely glad to have you here and sharing the space with us. Council member Williams just walked in. He was running in some traffic from a another city meeting. As you guys could imagine, we're rocking and rolling. But I just want to share a few updates just on some upcoming meetings that is happening here in the district. Then I'll pass it over to council member Williams and then we'll pass it over to our animal control team. So of course, we have this meeting that is going on tonight. We have another meeting that is scheduled for March the 24th, which is a Thursday. That is at six o'clock and that will be at Chisholm Trail Community Center. That is going to be a meeting on the upcoming bond as well as the upcoming charter election and just some other things that city staff wants to talk and update residents on. And so like I said, that's at six o'clock on March the 24th and a great deal of our city staff will be in attendance with us. So you have the opportunity to meet them if you haven't already ask all of your questions, pretending to the bond and to the charter, see what's going to be included in the bond proposal. And so that will be that meeting on the 24th. Also on Thursday, April the 16th, which is a Saturday, we have a new monthly initiative called Litter Day with Dr. J. And that is where we are choosing different neighborhoods. And we are going in partnering with Keep Fort Worth Beautiful to clean up those areas. And so we are working hand to hand with our litter abatement team. And for those of you who may not know, because I know several people reach out to the office about it, our litter abatement team, they work around the clock with picking up litter. And so of course, if you ever have any concerns about a particular area, something in a park that, you know, is just looking a little trashy to normal, feel free to reach out and I'll get that over to them. And they'll take care of that. But also, too, we will be doing those voluntary cleanups. And so we kicked off our first one this past Saturday. We picked up, I got a report, it was 58 pounds of trash. And so we did all, yeah, that is something to clap for. So we did all of Summer Creek or a great deal of Summer Creek Drive, and then in Chisholm Trail Park and in some of that developing area. We're also in the process of scheduling a meeting and comparing schedules with the master developer of the nears and roundabout at Summer Creek Drive just to update everyone on the development that's coming there. We have some great updates and great things that are coming. So definitely want to be able to update you guys on that. And other than that, of course, we have some great updates pertaining to redistricting and just other things that are happening across the city that we will definitely get out via email and robocalls and all of those great things. As always, if I can be of any assistance, I'll give you both my number and my email. My number is 817-372-1138. That's 817-372-1138. And that's my cell. I don't mind you guys calling me on my cell or texting me. And then also to my email, which is Kindle, that's K-E-N-D-Y-L-L dot lock, L-O-C-K-E at Fort Worth, Texas, all spelled out, dot gov. So that's Kindle, dot lock at Fort Worth, Texas, dot gov. Please feel free to reach out. If you have any questions, just want to, you know, have a schedule sometime with Council Member Williams just to talk and share your concerns or say hello. We're always here and glad to be serving. So without further ado, I'll bring up Council Member Williams. All righty, good evening District 6. Oh, come on. We need a little more excitement to that. Good evening District 6. It is a great district indeed. Thank you for that. Well, good evening, everyone. For those of you don't know, I'm Council Member Jared Williams, and it's such an honor to be able to serve this great district. So many amazing neighbors, so many amazing neighborhoods. And all of you are who make, you know, our district great. So thank you for being an amazing neighbor and thank you for sharing in this work with us. I'm really excited to be able to share all of the updates. It's eager season, which, you know, makes some people's hair stand up on their arms. I totally get that. But we have amazing updates to be able to share about what we are doing as a city, what I'm doing alongside Kindle in our office, and then also what you can do to help us in helping our egrets along their migratory, you know, season and their flight paths, while also reducing the impact that happens on our residential and commercial properties. So without any further ado, my role is really to kind of share what we've been doing as a council office. And then I'll introduce some of our city of Fort Worth team to share a little bit more about the plan and what you can do as a part of that plan. And then we'll round off this event with Q&A. And so at that moment, you can ask any and all questions and myself and the team that you see around and be able to answer your questions. So when we were elected on June 5th, you know, we started receiving a lot of your emails about egrets, my background is environmental science. So little did I know on the first day I would be able to handle a conservation issue. So I thought that was really interesting. However, I was also really troubled to know the magnitude of impact that these federally protected birds were having through their nesting and roosting on our residential and commercial properties. So we got hard to work alongside many of you, one learning about how egrets and their roosting and nesting were impacting each of you in our neighborhoods. And then also, as a part of those conversations with you all and with our team, like code compliance, animal control, et cetera, we were able to develop a couple of plans to address that. So in a few weeks, maybe when what council meeting are we approving the operational policy on the 22nd? So that's an exact date. March 22nd will be approving our egret migratory bird operational policy. That'll basically the intention of it is to coordinate our city services and in the coordinate education efforts for our residents that are intentional and regularly scheduled because we know that there's always going to be a migratory season. And so it'll schedule our plan and our coordination efforts. So as a part of that plan, it does three things. One, it sets instructions on how we're able to deter birds, specifically egrets, but it covers all migratory birds. The second second thing it does is it basically coordinates all of our departments in doing that. And then the third thing it does will in that coordination, it educates our neighbors. So there's education component of this plan. And then lastly, it promotes conservation. And so we are super excited to have the operational plan. We also recognize that plans don't work unless we have amazing people to execute them. So all of the people that you see in the back of the room and all the people that are sitting next to you are part of this plan. And we'll go deeper into details with that. As a part of the conservation efforts, I'm excited to share that we've really been working hard to ensure that we have open space conservation areas that have more suitable habitat than our residential and commercial areas for our federally protected birds. And one of the highlights from our work in the in the first eight months together, we were able to approve the largest open space conservation area ever in the history of Fort Worth right here in District six. It's a Rock Creek Park and it's 275 acres worth of open space conservation, which is almost a day's flight. No, not a day, but a couple of minutes flight for Egret right down the road by Tarleton State's campus. As a part of that conservation effort, I think it's 80 acres of that will be designated as traditional park space, but the remaining about 200 acres will be for birding, trails, hiking and conservation. So it's an amazing win as a part of this conservation piece of operational policy. Also some more good news. We as a council did something to fund our or to replenish our fund for open space conservation program. We called for $15 million in the bond to create more conservation areas across the city of Fort Worth that can serve as suitable habitat for our migratory birds, recreational amenities for our residents and just help us, you know, be a shining example of what it looks like to promote conservation in one of the largest cities in the country. So that is some big news. Yeah. And again, you know, all of that work came from all of the discussions that we had in our first listening circle, which was definitely a tough meeting for all of us, right? And and it's because of these kind of conversations that we're able to continue to, you know, represent and respond to the issues that we all have as as the neighbors and district six. So that is some exciting news on conservation. The other piece we recognize is that, you know, this plan won't be able to deter all egrets. And what we recognize is that even with the best plan, we're still going to see some impacts on our residential and commercial areas. And so Kendall and I as an office, we've been working with Congresswoman Kay Granger, our Congress congressional representative to look at what federal funds we can secure to try to provide relief to help property owners, residential and commercial who are affected by the impacts of migrants. We recognize that they're federally protected. And when they're nesting, when they begin to nest in ruse, we can no longer deter them. And, you know, as a result of that, you know, important federal piece of regulation, I think it's also important to recognize that that that conservation effort has impact on our residents and our business owners. And so and so that's why we're working alongside of the Congresswoman to create resources that help mitigate the impact for the egrets that the plan doesn't deter to better habitat. So more news on that will be coming and we'll continue to share that in our newsletters. Right now we're working on a letter with the Congresswoman's office, basically to advocate the Congress for more resources to help us as we get impacted by all sorts of migratory seasons. Then the last thing I want to update is on March 22nd, we'll be doing the proclamation as well or another day. So on March 22nd, we'll also be doing a proclamation, just to recognize as a city our commitment to deterring and conserving our migratory birds, but deterring them and their impact on residential and commercial areas for open space conservation areas. And so if you like to come and celebrate, you know, that commitment and basically take the pledge alongside council. That is a great meeting to come see us in action and to be a part of a important day in terms of the city, you know, making a an official commitment to addressing this issue. And then the last thing our co-compliance team, Brandon Bennett, is working on designating or a certification to designate us as a bird city USA. And so basically a bird city USA is a really distinguished certificate. We also are a tree city USA for those of you who didn't know. But the bird city USA is basically just a process saying that as a city we're taking steps to create conservation areas for our birds and especially our migratory birds. So that's a that's a lot of we're working on from a from a council office, but please know that, you know, our solutions and ideas are only as good as, you know, our conversations with you on. So as you continue to see things, as you continue to see issues related to this issue, please reach out to our office so that we can continue to work on this issue with you. So that is a bit of our update. And next, I will invite Chris Lorette. He's going to come share a little bit a little bit about this plan and what you all can do to help us in executing this plan. So Chris, come on up and then we will answer Q&A after the staff presentation. So thank y'all again. Hello, my name is Chris Lorette. I'm a field superintendent over animal control and egrets. We don't want them, right? No egrets. So this year, we have been putting out a lot of stuff. Me and council member Williams, anybody seen our video with egret stuff? So he was a good guy. I was the bad guy. So a lot of that is just making sure that everybody understands that the egrets or they're not bad, but they're not good because we don't want them in our properties. We don't want them to mess up our properties. We don't want them to nest in our trees. We just don't want them, right? We want them outside. We want them in the forest away from us. So we don't have all the smell, the birds, the poop, all that good stuff. But the one thing y'all do want to look at is we're right on the brain. You know, they normally fly in in the February. They depending on the weather, they might be here. Now they might be here later. We got a good couple of code spells that's coming through with might push them back a little bit. But you want to look for your night herrings. They got those they're kind of grayish black. They got your little yellow streaks on their head. You want to look for your blue herrings, the little blue birds. They're they're the ones that's going to come in first. Okay. You want to make sure you get your streamers up in the trees. You want your scary eye balloons above the trees. And I know a lot of people can't do that. So you're going to have to get somebody to get or you get some good long rope and you just let it go up there and helium. It scares them. If anybody wants to get those little owl stands, those are great. You put them in the trees. They scare. They don't like them. Egrets don't have a really a predator. Okay. Hawks, eagles, all those guys, they don't mess with the egrets because the egrets got those long beaks. It will poke their eyes out. Egrets will go after bigger animals to bigger birds, all those things. A lot of people I've been driving through neighborhoods. My guys back here. Some of my officers, senior, senior officer, Jose Flores, officer Carlos Garcia, and officer Ryan McDaniel, officer Trent Westbrook, and officer Joshua Norris. Y'all gonna see them driving in through the neighborhoods this whole time. Because from now till May, our whole mission is egrets. Okay, y'all, if y'all see an egret, anybody knows how to use forward my forward app. Use it. They have a sighting thing on it. You just go in specifically for egret sightings. Specifically, you go in there while life egret sighting, you send it off, you can take a picture of it. Send it to us. Well, I look at my forward app all the time. And I look at the pictures. These guys have it on their phones. They can look at it, they can go over there, give us a where they at, let us know. We're gonna make a lot of noise. And if you see it, and if it's in your yard or your trees, pot and pans, you know, air horns, don't use the bangers please. We forward does have a fireworks incineraries that y'all can't use out of one child to get in trouble. We do use them. We have a permit to be able to use them. We have to notify forward and forward fire police and fire because they don't want us making any fires or things. So we got to be very careful. You definitely want to make sure your trees are cleaned out. A lot of people have them done. I see some that don't have them done. If they're your neighbor, talk to them. Say, look, you know, I don't want you to be be that person that's going to have your trees full of egrets. You know, if they can do anything to, you know, take care of that trim out the trees, get it cleaned up, clean you yards. They love the twigs. You know, they'll jump up and down in the trees to make that nest. You see them doing that. They're trying to build nests. The little white egrets, the little the little they're white, they're small, they're young. That's your scouts. That's the ones that's gonna come in. They're gonna start building those nests and they're gonna work in and they're gonna start clucking their their noise and making that that noise that y'all ain't gonna really know what's going on. Some people think it's cute, pretty until the mess comes. And it's too late. Okay, so keep watching. The more you watch, you walking through the neighborhood, look up. Nobody wants to look up. Everybody's looking down watching where their feet goes. Look up. Stop. Look up. Look in the trees. They had a lady last year up north. She was walking never looked up. One day she looked up and she said, Oh my, look all the white birds. It was too late. Already had a whole bunch of nests. You know, we had to go over there. We tried to do what we can get them out. We don't want to be that. We don't want to be there. Last year we had it on Winchester. Now, thank thanks to all the neighborhood, all the neighborhood citizens in that area working with the lady and getting the trees chopped down and getting them cleaned out. That's great. We're halfway there. And I say halfway. You know, because the whole way is we don't have we're not gonna have any regrets. There's still trees. When it starts blooming, the egress are gonna come. You know, and it's soon, very, very soon. Everybody's looking at me. It's like, y'all want me to say more or more? I mean, it's, you know, it's hard to really say what's going to really, really happen. You know, a lot of us, we're going to be in the neighborhoods. We're going to do what we can. We need y'all to let us know where they at. We need y'all to walk outside with a pot and pan with an air horn, whatever you can do, just to scare. If you see more and more coming, we know they come in around six o'clock, 630. When the lights start to come, you know, they'll start flying in. And they're going to come in a lot. We had about 155 to 200 last year on Winchester. Double that. More and more. They don't stop. It's it's a process they they they're not the smartest birds. Okay. But it's a habit for them. That's why they call it a habitat. It's their habit. They just keep going. They go to the area where they used to. So we try to scare them out. And hopefully we can scare them out to where they not in the neighborhood next to you. We don't want to keep moving them to the neighborhood, to neighborhood, to neighborhood. I want to move them completely out to get them there. It's going to be hard. We try to track them. It's hard to track them. Sometimes they'll fly. And they may fly two neighborhoods over. They may fly 25 miles away. But it's hard. So we're going to need y'all help. Let us know where they at. If y'all see them, you get out there. You scare them out. You see more of them. Give us call us. Take a picture of them. Just I don't care how many times you call. The number is 817-392-1234. The call center will take the call. They'll put it in the system. We're going to get to I'm sorry 817-392-1234. That's our city call center. They'll take the information. They'll put it in the system. My officers get it. They have a computer in the truck. They get the call right there in the system. We'll get out there. These guys are only going to be doing egress when it's time. We do a lot of other things, but egress is our special priority. You want me to keep talking? I mean, I can go on and on. Can you bring up the team so that they can all see them and kind of put an end to the base? Carlos, Jose, Josh. Yes, ma'am. Whenever you go on My Fort Word app, on the My Fort Word app, whenever you download it onto your phone and you can take a picture of the egress and it allows you to go ahead and put the address in there and that will just automatically you just hit add and it will go through the system. I worked with our call center, the superintendent over there now. She created the whole thing and I worked with her on how to get it all in there. Also, if you have trouble downloading the app, you can call our office and we will connect you with the My Fort Worth team and they can help you download it. Also, if you see a sighting, you can also email it to us and we can put it in the system if you don't have a smartphone. I guess we can open it. Do you want to introduce them first? Since I introduced them earlier. This is my senior code officer, Jose Flores. He's over South District. He's always in South District doing everything, not only egress, so if y'all need him, he'll be out here. I have my special operations guy right here, Carlos Garcia. Then I have Trent Westbrook. A lot of y'all probably seen Ryan McDaniels because he's been out in the neighborhood a lot recently and then I got Josh Norris. All these guys are going to be out there. If y'all see him in the dog trucks because all of them drive the dog trucks, y'all see them? Y'all want to say something to them? Ask them a question. They have all the information too. They, I have a whole bunch of paperwork and all. They read over it. They know it. Some of them been doing it for a couple years now with me. So, any questions y'all have? Just ask them. Stop them. Weigh them down. Thank you for that, Chris. I wanted y'all to Oh, yeah. I wanted y'all to have a name to the faces so that when you see our team in the neighborhood, you'll know, you know who they are and why they're, you know, making noise in your neighborhood. We also have our PD, our MPO officers here and we have Brandon Morris who is you all's MPO and so also if you hear any noises that sound strange, you can feel free to call the MPO. Nine times out of ten, we're coordinated in our efforts. Ten times out of ten mostly, but they, they will be able to give you information about the noises you hear. I know the these sounds can sound like gunshots and so, you know, it's important that, you know, you connect with the MPO so that he can, you know, update you all on whether or not this is eager to turn to whether it's an emergency that we need to route through PD. Okay. At this point, we'll open up the floor for Q&A and me and Chris will tag team. Any question that you have and we may bring our MPOs up if, if it's a PD related question with eGrid. So, yes, sir. Last year, you mentioned you were able to take some of the eggs out of the nest and you were hoping to be able to do more this year. Do you have a federal permit to do that? Yeah, she asked to repeat. So, he was asking me if last year I was able to pull out some eggs and nests out of the trees. To do that, you have to have a federally, a depredation permit to do that. We have submitted for it and it's in the approval process at this time. Now, with those permits, there's a limitation for everything and of course, you know, I almost went over my limitation last year and that's why we had to stop. This year, I did request for more. But even with, even with me submitting for the permit to do that, you have to give a good program. You got to tell the federal guys that, look, this is last resort because our whole thing is last year, we was able to pull 190 something eggs out. We have to deal with all those eggs the way they tell you to and then you, once you get rid of them and you, I, we was able to actually give them to all the rescues. The rescue guy took care of them. They, whatever was viable, they dealt with it and we didn't have to kill any birds, which was what I wanted to do. I don't want to kill any birds. I just want to get them out of there. But the program, you have to explain exactly what it's all about deterrence. So, before I get to the point of actually pulling eggs and pulling birds, we need to deter. So, that's the last resort. My next question is Avery Island, which is owned by the people that make Tabasco sauce, they've had a rookery there for about 100 years and it's a raised platform. The birds come every year, same place. If we had something like this, in this new thing that you're talking about, then the land that was setting the site, if we built a permanent thing like that, then you could take the eggs there maybe, get them started. Is that going to happen? Yes. So, that's what we're working with our federal partners on and with Congresswoman Kate Granger's office. They're also helping us with the permit as well. We are looking to, and I can't disclose some of the efforts just yet, but we are looking to set up or use best practices to attract e-grids to our conservation area. So, we are very early on in the discussions of that and so I don't have a lot of details on that, but that is one of our next steps. We're also looking at partnering with the Army Corps of Engineers because they also own a lot of property adjacent to Rock Creek Park that's much closer to here by Bembroke Lake. So, we're hoping to kind of create a system of strategies that will attract them to our, I'm two hundred and five acres, but also the Corps of Engineers, but it's very early on in discussions on that, but that's an amazing idea. Thank you. Yes. I wanted to put in a plug from the My Fort Worth app. I heard about it at another meeting that I attended at the Chisholm Trail thing, and I didn't think that I have to use it, but it was very responsive and very prompt when I reported a sewer leak in a neighbor's yard, and I had to submit my email, and I submitted pictures of what I saw, and boy, within one day they were on it, and it was taken care of. That is so amazing. Any chance after this we can record that statement? That was commercial ready. Let me tell you, I was very impressed. Submissions, I thought, yeah, right, I wonder, and bingo, I think later that day I got my response, and they had somebody out there that night, and I think it was on the private property, but the people were notified, and they had to get some to take care of it, but it was wonderful. That's so amazing. Now you can use My Fort Worth app to tag specifically egress, but you can also use that for a number of other things. If you see litter, you can tag it. I actually have my litter picker uppers. I don't know what you call that thing, but in my best, so I'm also actively stopping along the side of road, putting in my Fort Worth and picking up what I can, right? So this app is really great. It saves you a lot of time. You can also call the call center, but the app is also really good. What are the questions? Yes? The main area of Fort Worth last year that had the biggest egress problem? So the question was, was our area the area that had the biggest egress problem? Chris, you might want to answer this, but from my understanding, no other council members were talking about egress. So there's an inside joke in the council offices that I'm the egress guy, but I'll let Chris answer it more quantitatively. So we had, you had 125 or 155. I've tried to count all of them. We also had China Rose up north. It's, I can't remember the actual neighborhood, but they got hit the year before as well. That year, last year, we had probably about 75 in there. We was able to actually get all of them out and all the nests out. So yes, you are the only one that got hit hardest, but I want to give you a little bit of, it's not only here and that's why we try to get, we send out stuff to the whole city. And I told my PIO, which is our public information officer, I said, if you send it to one neighborhood this year, I'm going to be upset. Send it to everybody because everybody needs to know it's not just your area, because if we move them from here and they just fly somewhere else and they don't care, they don't do anything, what's going to happen is it just moves the problem. And I'm not liking moving the problem. I like to deal with what I can. Unfortunately, every year, you know, I've been doing this for 12 years. So yes, it moves because nobody listens and I want everybody to listen because it's a problem that we're going to continue to have if we don't get the whole city together about it. That's really great. Just to add on that, in addition to all the communication that we're doing city-wide, we're also, we have coordination as staff to where we're doing things like doing eager tree trims in our right-of-ways and in our park spaces. We're also doing our park on all of the hundreds of, if not thousands of acres that we own in in city property as well. So, you know, we'll be doing that same thing. I know that's important in Cannon Ridge, for example, because of, you know, the great parks that we have going through Cannon Ridge. So we'll also be maintaining that area as well. And the park's team knows to look for egress as well. So that's another example of the coordination going on. Is there a website we can go to that we see all the meetings that are coming up? Or how do we find out about the meetings and stuff? Absolutely. So first, if you sign in today, that'll add you to our District 6 email list. So anytime we have events like this, we'll send an email, we'll also do a robocall. So you'll hear my voice. It won't really be me, it's recording. You'll also get our monthly newsletters. So like today, our newsletter went out and it had the list of all of our upcoming events and the things that we're working on. And then also, you can always reach out to our office, you know, for more specific details about any of that. Kendall, is there any? And then too, there's four of them. That's the mic. Then two on these, when you go to the City of Fort Worth website, and it's under government, you hit that tab and then it lists all of the council districts. And then if you hit Council District 6, and then it should pop up with his picture, and then you'll see there's a, to the right of the screen, it says District 6 News or it says City District News or something to that effect. And it will actually list all of the upcoming events. And then there's also a master city calendar when you go onto the City's website, and they should populate there as well. And then just one addition, for those you have social media, we also post regularly on social media. All of our social media handles are Jared Williams TX. And so, you'll see all of our Vin Flyers and any community meetings that we have or any community events that we are hosting. What other questions? Yes. Two Junes ago, we moved to the other side of Chisholm Trail and a small gated community, and we had gorgeous Golden Crown Nightmares. We've had them both in Junes past, and I thought they were great until I found out that they're the leaders. How worried should I be? This is going to be the third June. I haven't seen any emerge yet. Well this time, please, when you see them, reach out to us. That way, especially if it's the herrings, because then we know where the scouts are. Chris, you want to add to that, because you're the expert on this thing. I've become more red and versed on egrets, but he really knows it. So, if they're in the trees right now, and there's a nest, I would go ahead and take the nest out. If you see them come in, the Yellow Crown Night Herrings are the most stubborn. They don't like to leave. They will fight you. They will fly back and forth, and you scare them away. They'll come back next week. They don't, they say, they paid their rent. They want to come back. Get the get the nest out, trim it up, scare them. If you see them coming, scare them. It's going to take a little while with the Night Herrings. If you see the white birds coming in, it's too late. So, do it now. Yeah, but the night, I'd rather not have none of them, because they just multiply. One year, two years, three, the next thing you go get, 50 of them. I would just scare them. Let them go where they need to go in the by the water. You're closer to the lake, so you know, you deterring them. The odds are they're going to make it somewhere in the habitat around the lake in the core engineers property or our property on Rock Creek Park. So, they'll find suitable habitat. You're really close to where we're trying to get them to go. We can send them to Dallas. So, he said we could send them to Dallas, but I didn't say that. Hi, Dallas. Yes, sir. You're saying this year we're not to use the banger guns because of the fire department concern? So, the city does have a fireworks ordinance. You're not, and basically the bangers fall on the fire, the firework ordinance. You could get a citation for it. I know they said they wouldn't have a problem with the screamers. My only thing is, I don't want you getting in trouble. I would check with them if they have a problem with it, or if they're not going to have a problem with it. I know last year the Wildlife and Fishery came out and they started getting on us and I said, hold on, I got my permit and they just left. They left me alone, but I don't, my permit does not cover y'all. It only covers me, the city, and my subordinate or my designees. So, I don't want nobody getting in trouble for anything that, now I know some people had a cannon last year. That's impressive. If they are right with you doing that, I mean, I just don't want nobody getting in trouble. Screamers too, they're saying don't use the guns here. If that's what they're telling you, I wouldn't use them. I don't want, I mean, those citations can be up to, I don't know how much y'all, if they know how much the citations are, I know some of the citations could be up to 500 to 2,000, depending. So, I just don't, I know if I, if anything I do wrong on my permit, that's a $10,000 fine to me. So, I understand that. And that, call me, call me, we got them. We, I have boxes of them. I, I prepared myself for this year. So, I can use them, I can shoot them up in the air. These guys like doing them, you know. You guessed, we would love to get a stash. I don't want to know about it. If you see any of these guys and you want to talk to them. Just to add to that question, a couple things. One, like Chris said, call us. We'll come and use the cannons and, you know, all of the really heavy duty deterrence devices. We'll also get back with you all. Ken, do you want to send everyone an email? Okay, we'll send an email today about what's, we'll send the fireworks ordinance and then we'll also call out, like, what devices are not allowed. That way you'll have a better understanding of that. This week. This week. Not today. No, no. Did I say today? I mean, what time is it? It's home. It's nighttime. Okay, no. Sometime this week we'll send that out. And then the other thing I was going to say, I lost it. I'll come back to it. Oh, so one thing we didn't discuss is what happens when you actually have the egret nesting in your tree. At that point, we can no longer deter. We go, we go into our remediation part of the plan, where we start cleaning the streets and doing that kind of thing. So we also have services so that if you do have a egret nesting, please do not deter or disrupt. That's federally illegal. Please call us and then we will be able to provide services to clean the street. Unfortunately, we can't provide services on your property, but we can certainly help mitigate the impact that happens in the right-of-way and in the street areas as well. So please notify us of that as well. That's part of the reason why we're working with Congresswoman Kay Granger's office, because we recognize once they're nested, our hands are kind of tied at that point. So I wanted to make that caveat so that we're all aware that these deterrence activities are only for when the birds, when we have night herrings, and when the birds aren't nesting yet. Any other questions? In a very bad. Last year I applied several times to contact Barry. I had his number. I think I had his email. He didn't answer my calls, didn't return the call, didn't respond to the emails. So what number do we call to report? I've got a blue herring and a tree behind my house and is that number answered 24-7. How do I get hold of somebody and if I can't? And I've got the streaming sirens which I used last year without any issues. Can I use those? And if you have a permit, where did you get the permit and can I get a permit to use? All really great questions. And first I just want to say, you know, it's our job to serve you all excellently. And so, you know, from me to you, I extend my deepest apologies for not being able to connect with the city. You know, for this year, that's part of reason why we're putting this plan. If you do cite egress, you can call the 1-2-3-4 number that Chris gave out earlier, or you can call Kindle's direct number as well. No, this call center's not 24-7, correct? Actually. So the call center's open pretty much from six to, I think six or seven, like that, the live call center. Whenever after six o'clock, I have a dispatcher's that are logged on and we open all day long pretty much. We're 24-7. So I answer that phone that you call whenever you call the 1-2-3-4 number, that goes to my officer. They pick up and they answer the phone till 12 a.m. After that, you would have to leave a message or a, I think it's like a call message. They'll, you leave it in there. They'll pick it up in the morning and they'll give it to us. And if it's an e-grad or anything like that. The reason we changed that was mainly because I can't have my officers 24-7. Barry was a supervisor. He can't guarantee he was going to answer the phone all the time and I didn't want him to give out his phone number. This year, he's actually reassigned to our North Campus, which is our shelter up there, and I want to make sure everybody gets through to us. So if you call the 8-1, the 1-2-3-4 number, and or the My Fort Worth app, either one of those will get to us and then we'll get out there to you. Yes sir, yes sir. Yeah, and these guys like the overtime. So, you know, I only get calm time, but they love the overtime. So they go out there and they'll be out there until we get the e-grants into it. We stop seeing them coming in. Glad you to have an coordinated effort between your officers and the public to drive these birds in a specific direction, because you might go out at the lake and scare them off and they'll start flying east, and then somebody in the neighborhood will scare them right back to where you were instead of keeping them going in eastward direction. Exactly. That's part of the work that we're working on to try to get them to deter to our open space areas. There's some research out there that around mating calls and setting up a sequence of mating calls. Without getting too much of the weeds, we're looking at ways that we can like set up attractive kind of devices that'll attract them to where we're trying to take them. But you're absolutely right, like the goal right now is to deter them until we further study how to deter them in a coordinated way to get them to our open space conservation areas. The other thing you brought up was related to permits. Individuals can't request permits. Individual residents, the city of Fort Worth as a governing entity is able to request the permit directly from our federal government. So that's how we're able to get a permit. And that permit, all of the things that are listed as activities for deterrence and other measures, Chris has to be on site for those measures to be implemented. So that that permit isn't a blanket permit, as he said earlier, for all of us to operate within it. It's only him and his team and he's typically on site with those. That applies to permits or the screaming sirens? We will get back on the screaming sirens with the fireworks ordinance just to make sure. Oh yes, we will get back. We have to do some, we'll read through the ordinance. We'll also ask our legal team and our co-compliance team just to make sure that we're giving out the right instructions. Also in our education materials, I think it does list what devices are allowed. So we'll sort through that and we'll send an email this week with those specific answers. Yes, ma'am. How do you get the word out to all the neighbors about the egress? Because some people don't use the network. Some people don't have, you know, online services. And I was just curious, we get water bills every month. Is there some way you can put a notice and a water bill so that everybody gets notified? That is a great idea and that's in the plan. So we are working on that. We'll also, so we do robocalls, emails, those kind of things. Right, exactly. So we try to do different tactics because usually, and there's some folks who don't open their water bills, they just throw them right in the recycling bin, we hope, right? So we try to do multiple, you know, way forms of communication. Kendall was going to add to that. And I know because I talked with several people about the water bill or adding some literature in the water bills. So that's a little bit harder on our end just because there are different city departments that already plan out. And so attached to each water bill, there are certain departments that include or already have scheduled out to include their literature for the month. And so needless to say, when we looked at it after the last listening circle, which we had back in July, it was pretty much scheduled well into this year. But we are still working with the Neighborhood Association to make sure that we can get printed material out. You know, I'm always happy to do, you know, print out whatever we can from the office and to deliver it or whatever we need to do. But those are kind of, in addition to the robocalls and social media and email, you know, just working hand in hand with the Neighborhood Association. And of course, and I work with Ms Anita over there and just, you know, really word of mouth and make sure that we're calling everyone in the neighborhood so that they can call on everyone. And I'll just add an antidote to that. If we all do a little, we can get a lot done, right? So if you tell three people you know, and then they tell three people they know, we've told a lot of people. So in addition to all those things Kendall said, you know, you telling three people that even your neighbors on either side of you will be a huge help to getting the word out. I'm going to break the internet. I noticed in some small neighborhoods there have been signs on my prominent street corners mentioning about e-grid deterrence and stuff. And I found that very effective. If you drive through that little neighborhood, as if any thought, you know, at a larger, maybe district level on some of the more prominent street corners, something that the city might do with a little sign like that. So some of the people that don't open their water bill or can't get it in there or something will go, oh, it's not a gunshot, you know, because we get it over and over. I don't know how to not be aware of e-grids, but there are a lot of people that aren't. The signs may be relatively inexpensive way to communicate with a lot of people. Absolutely. And first of all, my eyesight is telling me, but Michael? Yes! One of the best instructors at TCU, GoFrogs, a biologist at heart, so I'm sure he's really enjoying this. But absolutely, that's a really good idea. We can take it back to our team. You make me think if we can get yard signs printed and then give them out to neighbors, at least we're aware of that. So let us look into that. That's a really good idea. Candle Ridge did that one year. I remember saying them all, we wondered how to get them. I think that was one specific person that actually did them. I don't know if she got funding from the HOA or with the HOA or how she did it. I know we try not to put them out because there's a bandit sign thing and I understand we tried to not pull them up and all, but I don't know if y'all can work together. I know there was a printing company that the lady used that was in this area and they did it for really cheap. So I don't know if you want to... That's a good idea too, yeah. And you know, that's the power of neighborhood associations as well. If there's opportunities for us to partner on that, we'll certainly do what we can. We have time for maybe two more and I see two hands, so we'll go here and then there. Well I was just going to say we're part of Woodwood South and so we're the ones that have the signs and if that didn't get the signs... Yeah, we have time for a amount of our neighborhood associations. Yeah, and I requested this year to add noise abatement on there and so there are two different types of signs but we've already had people that have really been responsive to those, especially adding that on there that we would be making noise. That's really good. We'll coordinate after this the CEO's design and all that and maybe we can share that with the whole district. Seems like the work is already done so. But when we... I'm in that same neighborhood association but when I go out, two of us put the signs out and I've been out for the last two years but I always go and ask the property owner for permission to put the sign in their yard and I've told them that it should be there for two or three months and I will come around and collect them and you get most of the signs back but not all. That is such a great idea. We'll connect with both of y'all after that. I think it's really important that we share those best practices with other neighborhoods who may not have as much experience as our Wedgwood South and Candoridge neighbors so thank y'all for that. Oh, one more question? Yes. We found the best way. We lived very close to the eager tree last year. So we one fellow wrote letters. We delivered them. We went door to door. We talked to all the neighbors. We raised the money and we got the job done and that's the best way. Now we were very lucky in that the city paid to have two ash trees removed across from my house and the Smith lawn and tree company was there. So I asked them about the two trees who wanted to get rid of and the man said we got quotes of $3,500 to start with and his company did it for $1,500. He said out of the season in the winter. So it's a good company. We're very, very happy with them. They did beautiful work and in cleaning up the yard that was an all day job that they ate three or four hours, gave us for free. I mean they treated us right and we paid for it and hopefully. But I like the company and you have to get out and do the street pound and knock it on doors. You got to do it yourself because no one else is going to do it. That's a really good story. Thank you for sharing that advice with us. Well that is the conclusion of tonight's listening circle. As always, thank you all so much for what you all are doing. If you have any additional questions you all can always reach out to our office or you can call the 1-2-3-4 number as well and we'll be happy to assist you and serve you as we navigate and migrate through this eager migratory season. So thank you all so much. I'll hang around for a few moments with you all and we'll see you all at the next one. Thank y'all.