 first came to town he wanted us why don't we do this in one budget and the reason he don't is that we do the CCPD general fund budget process as a standalone to see what all the priorities are so that you could clearly show that if when we get audited that then the grant the forfeiture dollars are done separately through a whole internal process at the department of what's needed and is supplemental versus supplanting so that it's a timing piece but it's also for auditing purpose in the state I think Kerry has a question just really I took this more as an overview of the the budget the revenue from that you know the the task force but I just want to make sure we you know comes to asset forfeitures you know we are just following the we understand that you know our we follow the rule of law set by the state there's not ordinances that we can put in place here that was subordinate state laws when it comes to asset forfeiture and what I want to make sure we're doing better since we got the finance guy up there is is those restricted assets on the balance sheet is making sure that y'all have better processes in place we did have about 700,000 that was identified as restricted was not restricted we had $300,000 that was bequeathed to the state when it did not need to be bequeathed to the states just make sure we have good accounting processes in place y'all address that as a department and and there hasn't been follow-up since that time so again just make sure those processes are in place to once the court releases those assets for you all that we can then put those in the general fund revenue where we show these expenses for the equipment purchases to better our police force yes sir thank you for raising that question there was a review of my understanding before my time in this area with regard to abandoned assets and so our practice on those abandoned assets yes is when it comes time those are transferred into the general fund and I'm I've been in contact with the our property room to do that on a on a quarterly basis to get those in there as our personnel allows to make that happen that often and please just make sure it's a process not a person's tied to a process and not a person so when you replace we process just goes smoothly we maintain good control of those forfeit assets yes thanks guys the next informal report is on the transportation impact fee study update and DJ Harrell is available if there are any questions no questions David but I would like DJ to maybe just give a quick summary for those in the listening audience especially those north of the loop they had some questions about our fee structure there good afternoon mayor and council yeah basically every five years staff has to by state law go and look at our transportation impact fees what we evaluate is the future land use assumptions and the growth projections for the city and we weigh it against the capital development projects necessary for adequate roadway capacity throughout each sector sector of the city and so we're we're well on our way to doing that this year is our was intended to kind of give you guys an update on some of the considerations that staff is asking the consultant to report back to you on and yeah the the the goal is to bring back to you guys a policy recommendation by October of this year and have the new rates approved by January of 2023 and I'm sorry implemented by January of 2023 all right DJ I know that there's been communication via email and Dana can attest to that have you received adequate feedback from the alliances in in a North Fort Worth and also Northwest Alliance we were Saturday we had a public meeting in the North Fort Worth Alliance I think Northwest maybe they've requested a similar meeting yes and I think they're on this the calendar for either next week or you know shortly thereafter we've also met with the development stakeholders such as the Builders Association the realtors the real estate council and we'll be meeting with DAC on this week you know we've been getting pretty good feedback from each group I think each group is interested in facilitating the adequate construction of our roadways is just coming to you know an agreement or consensus of how how we do that what's the best policy going forward all right thank you DJ thank you hey DJ don't go anywhere hey the next one is the monthly development activity report and guess who's available if you have any questions Michael yeah you're already up there great awesome quick on your feet I want to just refer back to your December 2021 development activity report specifically page three I just think it's worth noting and we'd love your quick thoughts on this too even through the pandemic we've continued to issue building permits and been on top of that process and I know we all I get it especially but other get it how slow we are in issuing those but do you have some thoughts about that that we've continued to perform there absolutely thank you so yes this year I think it's about 18,500 new construction permits that we've issued that's right 2021 the year before we were right at about 16,000 which is which was a flagship year right so during 2020 was the biggest year ever in the history of Fort Worth and then now we've we've exceeded that right and another thing that's important to note and let me just give kudos to staff right where you know I know that they get a bad rap often if you look at the pages that show the turnaround time we're exceeding our goals as far as the seven days go for replying the customers on plans that reviews well I appreciate that too I know we still have a lot of systems and processes to work on as part of this and I appreciate you when I call you ask you to sit down with constituents and try and figure out what those problems are and how we can address them that you all jump to it I appreciate that absolutely thank you Leonard DJ if I could just back up real quickly on the impact for you study you know for those listening I think it might be helpful to talk a little bit about the you know some of the language that we use in terms of the maximum fee and the collection rates and you know explain the history of what the city has done briefly and then where we are today and really what I think it's important for folks to know is why don't we collect everything that we might be able to collect okay thank you so so back in 2008 is when we first started collecting transportation impact fees and the thought process was we were looking at transportation funding and we were looking at the three three-legged stool of how we fund the roadways in the city of Fort Worth I think the mayor put together a blue ribbon task force to evaluate you know how we go from there I think it was a 1.4 billion dollar deficit in the in the roadway features and so coming back from that one of the things that we you know they recommended that we do was implement a transportation impact fee and they suggested that we go to 50% of what the maximum allowable collection rate is and what the maximum allowable collection rate means is this is the maximum amount that we can charge a development for the construction of roadways associated with the demand that they put on the on the roadways this is something that must be calculated in a specific methodology per state law and you know no collections can exceed that what we decided as a body at the city of Fort Worth is that we won't collect the maximum because at the time the city of Fort Worth was trying to get through a recession we were trying to come out on the other end of recession so we we implemented a reduced amount which was which is also which is called the schedule to I think the amount at the time was 36% for residential and around about 22% for commercial then kind of fast-forwarding to the next study which was in 2013 we were kind of posed with similar things I mean you know city of Fort Worth has continued its growth and one of the things that the council at the time wanted to do was not stifling development but promote them continue to promote development so what the council chose to do is kind of kind of stay with you know they're about with that rate so you know at a factor for inflation but kind of keep the status quo with that and then we did the same thing in 17 and so what you'll see in this current study is going to probably potentially be a recommendation you know getting the feedback from all the stakeholders that I mentioned earlier is a recommendation that maybe we you know we really truly look at those fees right because the schedule one is intended to mean what it actually costs to construct a roadway and schedule two is what we collect and so if we continue to collect a lesser amount the city will continue to be you know face these challenges when it comes to construction thank you thanks DJ and the final informal report report is on the proposed zoning ordinance tax amendment for car washes and Daniel Leal is here if there are any questions Jared Daniel I know this is coming up in the future I just had one question about I guess going moving away from the CUP process for general commercial restricted and general commercial and the impetus behind this question really is that at least in Southwest Fort Worth there are some places that are zone G that are really like close to neighborhoods and so by right may not be the intention there and just wondering kind of the rationale behind that and then the question is could we I would love for the council to entertain maybe holding the CUP for some of the general commercial well the direction yes with the direction we interpreted from previous conversations in this council work sessions in November and October was to try to promote them by allow them by right in most of the instances and that's why we expanded from in FRFJ which are all commercials more intense commercials so that's the direction we interpreted we can review that so as it stands today the CUP is required which allows staff to review the site plan first to require a site plan then to review and for the council office to review as well that's how it stands today we are recommending for council to to direct the staff to move into that other direction following them by right but we can add some nuances to that yeah I just to follow up on I think for that clarification that the one concern I have was just the FR general commercial restricted I'm sure there instances in district 6 where they're really close to the neighborhood and I I support the spirit of what we're trying to do I'm just wondering if the impact of by right will kind of tire hands on particular areas in district 6 that may not really be compatible for that use we can definitely change or keep it as a CUP required because that would establish a difference between FR general commercial restricted and F so that's restricted doesn't only mean that alcohol is not for sale it means and other things for example you don't see in this list ER E restricted because it's not even here we don't allow car washes in it restricted which is closer to the neighborhoods so that could make sense thank you for that day and then just one more follow-up on the automated services and the full service I know as a council we haven't really talked about differentiating between those two but I there's a huge difference for example in council member nettles district where our boundary is on Crowley Road there was a proposal for car wash next to the QT which was going to be fully or it was going to be full service whereas there was one on the other side of the corner like right across the street that was automated service that failed so I think there's some discussions between like full service and like the automated because they're two different models and I'm really supportive of the full service ones and giving like broadening the regulations so they're bought by right but the kind of self serve automated is putting us somewhat in the same position as the like self service car washes so just wanted to put that on record and offer it up for discussion well yes that's exactly the gap we had in the ordinance the ordinance dates from back from 1999 so it was brought by other council members that you know the automated service model was not even specified in the ordinance it was about the self service and full service but there was no specific language about automated so this zoning change of this text amendment would include automated services and would we like to hear I guess the levels of yes so automated service and full services would comply with the table you have which is we're allowing them by writing most of the cases it is the self service you know that one in which you have to do everything and it's it looks very industrial those would be allowed only in industrial uses and we'll automatically made it follow the self service model or the full service before the service okay Carrie had a question did y'all look at the I don't know how many six zoning cases that we had come in front of us over the last two weeks that are tied to car washes what were the zoning what were those properties owned what were those properties owned did y'all look at that were those mostly neighborhood or general commercial the news coming are you referring to the ones that went to the December yeah yeah those were mostly mostly e neighborhood commercial that is why we still want to to keep a CUP okay so it gets to the side yeah I agree with you know the concern of Councilman Williams but also agree with your answer that general commercials not typically next to to residential so it wasn't big as big of a concern on the the buffer of a hundred feet of a hundred feet how did y'all establish that perimeter yeah that was established in comparison with other other restrictions for example I'm yeah I think it's something related with commercial uses restaurants specifically close to neighborhood residential so that was so we it's about parking parking requirements in relation with that proximity to neighborhood so we thought that that could be a good standard as all the cases that prompted public outreach in November and December were closer than hundred feet they were compliant with a 25 feet but not with a they wouldn't do with a hundred feet okay so that's the building itself can't be within a hundred feet I I don't know if that's enough is my concern it's the building and the dry and facilities so when you when you vacuum the interior of your car that still creates a lot of a lot of noise although it's not a building it's an open air okay I think if you're saying you're pulling a hundred feet based on guidelines from other commercial zoning 300 feet comes into my mind when I think of other yes setbacks for commercial zoning so maybe somewhere between that I don't think hundred feet is enough to separate from residential property permitted by right like the work it's I think we're going the right direction but a little more feet yeah I agree with that as well and to that same point I want to veggie back on that with the noise requirements with that are we also specifying what the noise requirements are in these by right areas and what is that yes the noise requirement is a saying it's in a separate section of the ordinance and it's citywide so it is a measure at the property line of the complainant so if there's a house there somebody from code enforcement or code compliance goes there and measure at the property line of that person so so it assess the reality after the fact but it can be it can be turned down if it doesn't complain so that doesn't change it's the levels remain the same yeah I think those two conversations go hand in hand that if you have more distance you also have a sound and so it also helps both residents and our developers of car washes be reassured that they can actually meet those sound levels as well so yes indeed in many of the cases on in December you know other additional measures were provided to to tackle some such as trees and fences but those were perceived as not sufficient by residents with a 100 feet or more distance we can we can definitely it would be much easier to meet that level thank you Dave thank you mayor that concludes my report thank you David appreciate it looks like we're gonna move straight into our first presentation which is well do we have any city council action items for January 25th council meeting upcoming that we need to talk about now no okay we'll move to the COVID-19 update with Brandon Bennett so the first suit the first few slides are going to seem like terrible news but let me get through the whole presentation so you can get briefed on where we are and where we're gonna be in a couple of weeks because it's gonna look a lot better and then we can open up the floor to questions this is a chart that we've seen a number of times it is the reproduction number we are now at an all-time high on the reproduction number you can't really count the first two to four weeks of the pandemic if you have one person sick and one person gets sick that's a hundred percent increase so that's why the number in the very beginning is relatively high when you look across the chart we can look at the mouse to work here this is Delta right here and you can see where we are right now so give you in context the Spanish flu was around 1.59 and we're around 2.10 so Omicron as predicted is spreading very fast in our community the other is on the percent of COVID tests again during the Delta variant right here we were seeing roughly 20% of tests coming back positive back throughout the entire pandemic and our on our lows it was about 5% and at our highs it was around 20% and now we're running right around 36 to 37% so there are a lot of sick people out there Tarrant County Hospitalizations and there's a lot of good information on the notes off to the right just a week ago it was predicted that we would have around 2,000 concurrent hospitalized cases over one week that's jumped to 2,500 it isn't that the variant has gotten more dangerous it's a numbers issue it's like the flu the more people that contract the flu the more people you have in the hospital in the ICUs so because the the spread of this in the community is so great it's resulting in a higher demand for hospital beds and we've also jumped from 6,000 to 8,000 infections per day in Tarrant County we are starting a little bit later than the East Coast East Coast started before us it's starting to wane on the East Coast it's too early to say whether that trend will continue but it's predicted to continue and then we should follow behind that Texas volumes COVID-19 that's important they've increased 44% compared to a week ago and up to 325% a month ago again those are really large numbers and really scary but it shows how quick this variant is hitting the community and what we know is from from previous upsurges and epidemics and pandemics a similar nature is when it goes up quickly it also tends to come down quickly it's not a slow growth and a slow rescind daily hospital admissions this is an interesting one we just added this to the slide presentation for today this is fresh data out of UT Southwestern and what we have seen over the last few weeks is an increase in the hospitalizations of both the 18 to 49 and the 0 to 17 year olds again this was not unforeseen but it is concerning we have ongoing calls with the hospitals they are all reporting probably their biggest concern even though they have limited bed space their bigger concerns having enough staff to care for the people that are that are in the hospital and both the federal government and the state government's been helping them with additional resources okay so that was all small data so when you look at the small data right if you look at the people that are being hospitalized they're almost all unvaccinated and when you're looking at the mortality rate it's almost all unvaccinated but all of us we have been vaccinated and some of us have gotten COVID after being vaccinated we know friends and family that have been vaccinated and gotten COVID but we're now through this this particular variant starting to get some of the big data so this was from the New York Times we instead of recreating it we just grabbed it right out of the newspaper and what they did is they looked at New York City and they looked at Seattle they looked at Seattle was daily New York was weekly but it tells the same story and that is when you look at the unvaccinated which is the lower line the gray line and then you look at the unvaccinated which is the upper lines that throughout the course of this particular variant people that are vaccinated it went up the number of people vaccinated went up along with unvaccinated but then it just leveled out and what has happened is hospitalizations for the unvaccinated has skyrocketed on both ends of the coast and the state of Texas and weekly deaths and daily deaths have also gone up for the unvaccinated so the big data is telling us the same thing that the small data is telling us which is that your best survival option for this virus is to be vaccinated this is truly a pandemic of the unvaccinated now again just like with the flu scenario in the hospitalizations the more people that you have sick in a community the more vaccinated people you're also going to have sick in a community the vaccinations were never designed or never sold as you get vaccinated you'll never get sick what they were sold as as as being preemptive that is one you're less likely to get sick and number two if you do get set you're less likely to have severe symptoms that's what we've seen okay so 58% as our for the counties are fully vaccinated right we have some of the other counties here in Texas we were a little bit on the low side but I'll tell you 58% is the number of the day you look at nationally 58% of the population is fully vaccinated if you look at the state of Texas 58% you look at Tarrant County it's 58% and if you look at the report that you just received today of the city employees it's around 58% I will tell you it's grown by about 2% over the last few weeks what we're not seeing is when the infection rate goes way up people rush to get vaccinated we're not seeing that but we are seeing a steady increase in the number of people getting vaccinated which kind of went up with the holiday travel season before Omicron was was actually a threat to us so one of the things that we're doing with vaccination rates if you look at the vaccination rate by census track this is what does typically produced by public health agencies either do it by census track or by zip code it's not it's helpful data in the sense that it shows where more people are vaccinated and less people are vaccinated but it doesn't tell us what their age is it doesn't tell us what their gender is it doesn't tell us what block they're on it's very difficult to actually target those audiences with messages so what we did is we actually established a relationship a contract with the state of Texas and now we get the the positive data directly to us and we are able to create heat maps this is a presumptive map so we focused on the inner city to begin with in just inside and outside of the loop and the darker the green that the more people we have vaccinated per square mile the lighter the green the fewer we have per square mile so what we're doing is we're now overlaying that with Resid with a zoning map so if it's a commercial area right then we can kind of a lot of these areas that that are that are uncolored are open space lakes rivers commercial industrial focus on the residential and then what we can do once we target the different areas is we can then put the message into a format that's more likely to touch that segment of the population that has not been vaccinated so we're working with weekly and community newspapers working with the weekly Facebook advertising one of the things we're doing is we're targeting little areas of the city so people that live in Como they don't have to subscribe to one of our lists if they get on Facebook in Como it sees that they're in Como and it says hey you in Como there's a vaccination clinic right down the road from you at the community center so those are a lot of things we're able to do using that that heat map map moving forward and then of course we're working with neighborhood and local businesses and we'll do that with the target also getting businesses to put up signs and other literature in their businesses to help people when they come in to pick up food also know that there's available testing and vaccinations in their neighborhood and of course we have our broad based messaging that we continue to work with Michelle and her team on and and others so testing sites I think this was one of the reasons why we got asked to give you an update is we all saw in the news a few weeks ago the long lines at testing sites across the nation what I can tell you is that there is available testing in Fort Worth sometimes there's a line depending on where people go but across the board people can get tested and people can get results Fort Worth has the fastest PCR test second to only a few that the county does that's because we do the saliva test so we're using a different lab so people that do the nasal swab PCR there are just hundreds of thousands of those that are going to local labs they're backed up anywhere from 7 to 14 days with results we're getting them in 24 to 48 hours we have the one side of text rail and then we continue to do pop up sites the good news is the county has actually stepped up and done more testing sites for this particular wave and so we're not having to do as many sites and that's a good news and also the private sector the dock in a box all those little white shipping containers on street corners throughout the city they're also providing some relief for folks the only interesting thing that we're just to point out is remember we trained everybody PCR test PCR test PCR test it's the gold standard with our new CDC guidance where you isolate for five days and then if you have a negative test you can come back to work and wear a mask for five days that's an antigen antigen test so antigen just in the beginning kind of got beat up now antigen tests are for this particular variant that the most the most useful test for people to use and that's because what it's measuring is whether you are actively infected look for that that protein so if you're positive and then five six days later you do that same test you come back negative your risk to other people around you is astronomically low in and of itself with this particular variant you put a mask on it as you start pushing it out to one in million so and that is quickly so it it it's it's a short term crisis right now and if we come back in a couple of weeks what we should see is it starting to wane that the only the only if in this is what happens with the kids going back to school and some of our larger community events but again I don't think that's gonna be an issue for us Brent I'm sorry do we still have funds for our roving vaccine teams are they're still happening and is there still funding available for us there is still funding available for them we do them ad hoc and that's one of the reasons what it's nice having this heat map is we can focus those vaccine folks what we were doing before is we were using the census block data from from the health department and we were having vaccine teams teams that were literally sitting at community centers not doing anything for a half a day or an entire day can I ask you to look into similar to what you're doing the geo targeting that you the Como example that you gave can we do that geo targeting a couple of days out of a roving vaccine as well like hey we're gonna be in the neighborhood that's the plan yes absolutely and we'll do that we have a meeting coming up I don't have the date with the with the district directors that will provide that heat map by council district and also be getting input from them on where they think some of the areas would be good areas would be for us to set up shop we'd like to get some ice cream trucks and drive down the road with the bell and you know come get vaccinated that's that's our next step I've asked I asked this question before some time back to you I'll ask it again I know that hospitalizations due to COVID-19 are hospitalizations due to COVID-19 right matters not to those that are hospitalized with some variant of COVID-19 if they're in the hospital right now that said the county does not do genomic testing to determine the variant right that's correct okay the data that you presented does that have any genomic testing data in there there there is random testing to determine what the variant is but what happens it's like it's like when we do our our employee server not employee but our customer satisfaction survey you do a sampling of a certain number of the public and that becomes representative of what you know the rest of the community same thing with the variant and so we know the dominant variant right now is Omicron although there is still Delta variant still in the community where I thought you were going to ask was of people that are hospitalized how many of them go in with COVID and how many are found to have COVID after going in for something else and I'll tell you it's about 60% and when I say 60% that's 60% of the people go in with a broken leg and they're found to either have COVID or develop COVID after spending some time in the in the ER that is interesting yeah now pertaining to the geo mapping that's intriguing to me I'd be curious to see how that works out around the areas where you have these private testing sites saying you know which one I'm talking about and kind of see how that washes out because those some do attract a lot of people from outside a particular area the and I didn't I skipped over it I was having to look up the wall here but the federal government has started to ship the antigen rapid test to school districts there they're sending I guess 10 million to the school districts first and then they'll be direct shipping to the public once those start really coming out then we'll see a supply back in the pharmacies and I think a lot of these street corner places that are doing antigen testing that that that will reduce the demand and the traffic flow to those places alright thanks man anybody else council thank you Brandon thank you our next presentation is with Michael Morris from the North Central Texas Council of governments and Ricardo Gonzales is also here I think text dot and William Johnson it's a party yeah okay so madam mayor thank you very much members of the council mr. Cook it's very nice to be with you today and mr. Johnson and Ricardo it's nice to be on your team I heard there were two questions one we have a new transportation bill what is the transportation revenues expected in our particular region and potentially going to Fort Worth and then where are we on advancing transportation so I have good news in in two areas yes there'll be more money as elected officials don't try to figure out the money part because I'm a share with you it could come from lots of different places because we're going to use lots of different ways to get lots of money help us focus on getting consensus to move your project across the goal line so as a staff person talking to our regional transportation council I told them this is the year of doing this isn't the year of talking this isn't the year beginning this is the year of doing we've been talking about a lot of these things for a long time all of this is now in our court congress has passed a new transportation bill for five years the metropon planning organization has its certification as it has for the last 35 years we have our appropriations in our transportation bill you have a special infrastructure bill you got the potential of bill back better you you have everything you've ever wanted now we got to get the ball across the the goal line the good news is working with the team of people presenting today we started three or four years ago to get these things ready to get across the goal line so this isn't a new play in our playbook this is asking you as staff people and you as elected officials please help us carry the conversations to an end so we can get the consensus we need to get to the implementation of what it is we've been talking about for years so if we go to this do I do the slides so let's talk about the money part first our region should get at least $200 million more per year due to the formula funds from Washington DC I put a plus sign next to it because I think the state is underestimate underestimated that number our number is going to the Commission the Texas Transportation Commission this month so we will be able to report how much additional revenue anticipated I think this is actually the smallest of the revenue sources that I have have for you today what isn't talked about is proposition 1 and 7 so the citizens of Texas voted for proposition 1 and 7 that is the excise tax of energy coming out of the ground and those that are blessed enough to buy new vehicles and the excise tax associated with the purchase of those vehicles because people are continuing to buy vehicles and as you know they're not heavily discounted at this point in time and because the cost of energy is quite expensive and lots of people are moved on life both of those revenue sources are very very strong in the comptroller 10 days ago updated those revenue sources we anticipate in our region another 250 million due to the revenues in prop 1 and prop 7 we are very good at competing with our colleagues across the country and winning competitive grants we we won the build grant which is working on the trinity railway express we won three grants last month in the region with regard to advancing projects for low income and others we have a very dedicated staff very good at these particular projects I'm gonna flag two of them for you today that impact this council and I think are very strong likelihoods because our national government is very much aligned with the principles of the regional transportation council on these projects the fourth area is deferrals from other parts of the state you have two big freeways one in Austin and one in Houston that's not moving along very quickly those projects are programmed the led the commission nor the legislature is going to let those funds accumulate without them being reassigned to two other projects those deferrals in the next year or two are of significant size and we we are ready to have our projects be able to go to construction and keep contractors busy where the commission would reassign those commitments to two other projects and then as a staff person who helped create the DFW miracle of our toll management system we had a commitment from the commission by minute order that if we advanced sweat equity projects like toll manage lanes our out year money would not be harmed in the future I think it is being harmed parties or you have a new administration I'm not sure that's going to be sustainable since other other projects aren't going to be able to proceed so this staff person continues to maintain the commitments of a previous commission to ensure we get our fair share allocation translating just because we built toll manage lanes and we built those knowing we would always get formula allocation in the future that that commitment should be honored and we made sure by minute order because we foresaw a day 20 years into the future where it might be easier to fund another project needed somewhere else in the state at the expense of ours so we are continuing to remind folks of that and then your candidate projects that I think would compete very well and or be funded directly is the Lancaster project and the rail extension into the hospital district there are other projects most of my presentation today is projects over a hundred million there's some projects up sprinkled in but this is not all the projects we haven't foreword I'm really focused on the mega projects today but I believe this is the year of Lancaster and this is the year of the rail extension into the the hospital district so if if you could think of this presentation of the year year of doing because you're the elected officials and your three members on the regional transportation council need to hear from you because we are going to be advancing these projects until we hear otherwise from this particular council now this is the DFW miracle so this happens to be from one navigational data company we publish it every year this is 2008 we're sitting at 6.2 million go to 2019 pre-covid we're at 7.4 million so we added 1.2 million people in the region and we barely increase the congestion level from 14 percent to 18 percent this graph exists nowhere else in the United States nowhere else has a region grown by this magnitude but if they grew by this rate their their data is moving east-west they're going from 20 percent congestion to 32 percent congestion and it is because of the leverage where the public sector at the RTC put in 800 million dollars to build the Northern Express and the LBJ project the private sector put in 7 billion can you imagine if those products weren't funded we would be building those projects and there would be no discussion of a Lancaster or a rail extension or anything else a great separation to connect your north Fort Worth neighborhood to interstate 35 none of those conversations could exist high-speed rail will now be moving into the official environmental phase we finish phase one these are the alignments of high-speed rail between Dallas Arlington and Fort Worth we are on the interstate 30 freeway corridor and I want you to think of this as two different designs west of Cooper interstate 30 has to be totally reconstructed so picture a moment that you design high-speed rail because of its grades and tangents you let it have whatever the piece of right-of-way you need to maximize your ability to build high-speed rail and then you finesse the freeway around that particular location now you would build the freeway most likely first so you can imagine the freeway being built the new the new interstate 30 freeway and people you're gonna say well why is this like turning here and why is it doing this because you're probably putting high-speed rail down the middle of that that particular roadway or you can go ahead and elevate high-speed rail and go ahead and build your freeway in a similar location that you have that conversation is gonna be brought to the public into the engineering staff into the environmental process on how best to build high-speed rail between downtown Dallas and downtown Fort Worth in the back of your mind if high-speed rail does not happen between downtown Houston and downtown Dallas I do not think you're gonna see high-speed rail in Texas of apry I think you're gonna see it move to this environmental clearance between downtown Dallas Arlington and Fort Worth so think of the work that we'll be doing with your citizens as a toggling of what's the best way to put it inside this right away and how to minimize the impact to the community and maximize the ability of high-speed rail potentially being the first high-speed rail system in the United States the other thing you'll see in this presentation is we're toggling Lancaster with I 30 so the conversation we would be bringing to the Commission is I 30 is gonna get bigger and Lancaster is gonna get smaller Lancaster was your roadway 70 years ago to go from the eastern side of the United States to California you went down Lancaster that was the roadway across the country with a new interstate 30 with high-speed rail Lancaster can become the neighborhood street that it very much wishes to be and the regional traffic stays within the interstate 30 quarter and maximize job creation and land use improvements on Lancaster similar to what we invested on Rosedale and bring the Rosedale story to Lancaster as part of the toggling of the interstate 30 Lancaster project two major design efforts one is and these are staff conversations going to occur with the Regional Transportation Council both of these major conversations with this council two major freeway design conversations one we're calling interstate 35 W central this is making sure on 35 you have the right access to downtown Panther Island I'm gonna come back to Panther Island in a moment the near north side but the housing replacement I've been here before on Butler housing being replaced by hopefully tall taller buildings in a Tiff district and then ensuring the correct transition to the south side gateway interstate 35 project to the south the second one is the one I mentioned before interstate 30 Lancaster being toggled you have high-speed rail you have freeway within that right away new express lanes either told or truck lanes and then the appropriate context for the Lancaster Street quarter these are two major design conversations charrette like initiatives to make sure when we're advancing these two investments we're doing it to maximize accessibility and economic development in the central part of Fort Worth your staff has appropriately come to us with hey we need some greater assistance with the cities not just within Fort Worth and the functions within Fort Worth but with cities and counties as neighbors so we can better plan for north northwest Tarrant County and the high growth you have west of 35 and then west southwest West Tarrant County and the huge amount of growth that you have heading in that particular direction so judge Whitley if your members said go go west young person we are now moving forward with very detailed plant thoroughfare street planting simulations growth rates now this is the year doing so I hope to build as much from your current thoroughfare plan as possible now so we're not in a delay situation by by doing these new more comprehensive approaches so yes I want to do these more comprehensive approaches get your correct neighbors to participate with you we got fundamental problems like in the elite Alito school district they can't even build schools because they don't have water and sewer and they're building package plants on their campuses in order to pick sites that are not the correct place they should be placed because they don't have the ability of getting water and and sewage treatment to the schools so this is a very complicated problem we're going to need all of your hands across your disciplines within the city paying attention to this as we move out in these particular approaches let's shift gears and talk about the projects I'm going to try to go through this quickly triggering hopefully your questions you have the presentation we can make this presentation available to whoever who wishes it but we often look at and you often don't see transportation products funded this way but projects that are recently completed projects under construction projects that are funded that you don't see yet products that are partially funded and then the next candidate projects like the new electric car company wishing to come to the region having missing interchanges in Southwest Fort Worth on Interstate 20 and they elected to move to Atlanta and not come to our community not because the interchanges are missing but if they're environmentally cleared maybe we should move ahead with those interchanges now because there'll be another big company wishing to locate at those particular locations so you have two presentations within here you have the black writing which is the formal presentation and then Michael's nudging you in the green to to really give you foreshadowing of where this is headed so recently completed projects you obviously know about 3a built on 35w just north of downtown dfw connector on the north side of downtown there's one section remaining to be built there basically done 360 toll road and tta is taken over that particular project and means the northern section of 360 over the 161 the southern section is to to extend 360 to 67 so please remember that you have a lot of your southern sector on 67 you can't get the 360 from 67 now you will in the future remember there's missing parts on schism trail you got the direct connectors at 183 and then you have the staged roadway in the southern part of your community I'll talk about the the interchange at Tarleton state in a moment 183 you'll see later the the next phase of that project that the private sector is willing to pay 3b was your project from 820 up to 287 in north Fort Worth you'll see in a moment 3c which is the project above it and then one project I feel I want to pick my words carefully the RTC committed to this community to build the Trinity bridges I believe the Corps of Engineers has a commitment a contractual commitment to the RTC to build a bypass channel as a result of that commitment you will see staff bring to the RTC a conversation of the Corps of Engineers and forcing the commitment that we thought we had with the Corps of Engineers when we funded those three bridges you may wish us not to do that we will listen to you but in the absence of direction I believe since we were not allowed to substitute some other structure we have an implied contractual responsibility by the US Corps of Engineers and staff is going to take to the Regional Transportation Council the enforcement of that particular provision projects under construction again you can see the major projects in in black that are there you obviously know them because you can see them under construction notice up on 170 170 is going to construction from your north Fort Worth area 35 east on the 170 alignment over to 114 that comes over to Intermodal Parkway that's the Hathlitt Parkway because of lack of emergency response in the proximity to the Intermodal Facility of Burlington Northern we wished a great separate Hathlitt Parkway which connects to your bond program projects which connects to your new bond program projects so the vision that I'm trying to lay out here is you have a facility that needs to be coordinated with all three parties from 287 in north Fort Worth all the way to DFW airport in the north Fort Worth section that is the vision being contemplated with regard to this including the great separation over the Interma the feeding rail line on Burlington Northern to the Intermodal Facility so that's the plus the great separation plus what you've recently done in your bond programs tying that together to be a major east-west connection so your citizens aren't being held up going east-west because of north-south freight trains and your police and fire isn't being held up to respond to incidents because we will have a great separated facility that we're taking to the Regional Transportation Council I think that facility for example should be paid by the RTC where Lancaster and your rail extension have greater merit for Washington to be interested in helping fund those so we are why are we submitting which project to which element our ability to predict which ones we think has a greater chance of winning when we compete nationally projects funded in under design this is the prior to going to legislative budget board the private sector wants to put over one billion dollars in airport freeway we're trying to get it constructed to improve mobility just south of DFW airport fully funded by the private sector fully funded in existing contract and unfortunately it's not able to to proceed similar to why 3C was held up for a long period of time we're obviously trying to get through the politics so that work can go to construction and improve the safety of airport freeway heading east out of your community we have funded a lot of 199 from a 20 towards downtown we're working with Ricardo on the interchange location that's held up the construction of that project so in theory you know do we borrow funds from the 199 project to get Lancaster across the goal line the answer in my opinion is no because I think Lancaster will compete very well on its own I think we'll get enough money from the commission this month to fund Lancaster for if we're incorrect in getting federal funds for Lancaster but I think we keep our commitment to 199 and continue to work with Ricardo on the interchange and again one day not 199 is a context sensitive thoroughfare street similar to Lancaster that's already been funded funded also remember we have the one the bill grant this is your Trinity Railway Express and this is the construction of your new East Fort Worth rail station on the Trinity Railway Express it's in addition to the bill grant but again I don't have time to cover every single project we're funding so don't lose sight of the new Fort Worth station on the Trinity Railway Express as well projects partially funded Carl isn't here today Carl Johnson he and I were at the Commission meeting in December you probably have heard that Southeast connector in your East Fort Worth has been funded for 1.5 billion that's with a B we're missing a 450 million section the RTC is funding the cost overruns on all the other projects that Text.District has so Carl can laser focus on this one project with his commission between now and the summer that's the 450 million addition to the 1.5 billion dollar Southeast connector project I-30 heading west is broken up into different sections you know we're fully funded between you know at Camp Buoy slingshot west of 820 that project's going to construction we're reviewing what interstate 30 should be inside please let our office know if you like or dislike conversations that are occurring that work is in the early parts I've already talked about the design focus on 35 to Cooper Street that's the toggling of Lancaster and in the high-speed rail quarter and then we're fully funded east of there from Arlington over to 161 that's fully funded if you go down further I won't talk about the Arlington project on East 20 there's your Lancaster project I want Lancaster fully funded by the end of 2022 Fed is the discussion where we hope to work with you and train Metro to get a final resolution of the context sensitive design we'll probably take a chance at two requests if unsuccessful fully fully fund Lancaster by the end of the year you know we're working on next-generation technology and using utility balls to have equal access to the internet for the communities along Lancaster text rail extension into the hospital district we're capping you out at 80% federal we can't put any more money into it than 80% federal and the 20% match we're working out between the city and training Metro I think training Metro should focus on the rail extension to Fort Worth and leave to us the Lancaster project with regard to technology we have a new interchange on Chisholm Trail it's funded with RTC money and a transportation development credits paying the local match we have a little bit of an equity issue we have to talk to you about with regard to developers getting a free ride as a result of the new interchange and we'll probably have a conversation with you are there any revenues in the out year part of that Tiff district to help reimburse the RTC for that interchange and then on 287 I call that our magnet project we're continuing to work on the frontage roads with text dot I'm 35 up to 87 heading northwest so we're continuing to draw other increments of improvements to build continuous frontage roads and new intersections with the Thurker streets that you'll be building and we'll be working with your city on in that north for worth study we talked about the bond program we heard we got a lot of feedback from especially communities up in the north and northwest portions of north of Fort Worth about what's been happening with growth and our ability to keep up with growth and development in those portions of the city and while we continue to grow at this grist blistering pace there's historically not been I don't think an overarching level of coordination with all of these different activities and entities and stakeholders that have been contributing to our infrastructure so some of the things that we're playing that we're hoping to do with this effort is to update a lot of those existing plans that we have come out of that on the other side with more of an implementation strategy if you will that's been coordinated with all of the different activities that are going on and really have a more definitive plan and what it's what it's going to take for us to catch up and sync up with the growth that's been happening in north Fort Worth this map shows the bond and arterial projects that have been implemented and and are being planned for the proposed 2022 bond program now in 2010 there was a blue ribbon task force that was formed that talked about at that point since 1995 the level of growth that had been happening in north Fort Worth and out of that blue ribbon task force there were some recommendations I think DJ alluded to some of them earlier but at the time it also projected that there was at that snapshot a $1.8 billion deficit in terms of what it was going to take in terms of infrastructure to address the development that was projected back then and as you know a lot of things have changed since then one of the things that you'll notice about this map as you look at it just graphically you see a very high concentration of investment that's been planned and or implemented on the north end of Fort Worth where a lot of this development has been taking place taking place taking place but at the same time as I mentioned before we're still hearing from the communities that we're behind so in 2010 we were already 15 years 15 years behind in 2014 which is what you see on this map things from 2014 through 2022 that's being planned the city has been systematically investing in that north section where we've seen all the growth but we still believe and we still know based on the feedback from communities in a level congestion that we see up there that growth is continuing which is great but we've got a lot of work to do to try to get caught up I'd also want to point out that this doesn't include all of the infrastructure invested by or that are this developer led this doesn't even include any of the developer led projects and as you know with the amount of development this has been going on there's been quite a bit of infrastructure that's come along with that and this realization is part of what's led us to ask for a coordinated effort involving cog city staff text dot the county and our neighbors and looking at some sub regional planning efforts that will help us to prioritize projects going forward when we're done with this process we should be able to say we've got a more programmed 5 and 10 year capital plan that's identified not just what projects are out there but what order we should be doing them in and what kind of funding strategies are out there so that we can start to try to get ahead of this we're going to do it not just on the north side but also on the west side because as you know right now I look at the west sides where we were back in 2010 growth has already started out there we know that it's coming so let's plan and get ahead and you're going to hear Kelly come up and talk about that a little bit more shortly this is a list of the 2022 bond arterial projects are major projects that we have planned and you're going to hear a lot more about this a little bit later today Roger's going to come up and talk about it in more detail so I'm not going to drill down too much on these projects I will just point out a couple of things for 2022 there are a couple of projects that we re-scoped that we carried over from 2018 because in 2018 we weren't planning to do the full build out of those projects we were just doing intersections in some cases which provides some relief but by the time we're done it's not going to provide the kind of relief that these communities have been waiting on Cromwell Marine Creek is one of those one of those projects and also Avondale-Haslet as we continue to list the other thing that I'll point out is that our city manager finance department planning data data analytics we all heard and they have responded to a lot of things that we heard from communities in North Fort Worth and Northwest Fort Worth and we were actually able to increase the number of arterials that are included in this list the amount of funding for arterials you notice the total estimated project cost of about 255 million dollars is the total cost but from the bond standpoint we're looking at about a hundred and 45 million dollars of bond funded projects there are additional funds that we're planning on but that 145 million dollars compares to around 102 or so 103 million for 2018 so you can see the increase that's coming with this next round with this next bond program but it's still not enough so I'm not gonna gonna go into more detail than that but we'll pull up some of the projects that tech starts gonna be doing I'll turn it over to them and then after that we'll have Kelly come up and talk about the sub regional plans so instead of putting multiple sorry let me introduce myself harm record goes awesome the director of transportation planning and development for tech start so I've been here for three years and trying to get a lot of this stuff going for y'all so wanted to get to this slide so we don't double present and put multiple slides of the same thing up here but I'm gonna go down our list so kind of give you an orientation so right now let me start with the I-30 corridor so kind of like what Michael kind of presented some of the facts on the I-30 so going from the West the I-30 I-20 split we have a regional study we have a schematic at development going on now and then we are currently going into PS and E trying to get those into construction documents so we have an ultimate phase to do everything from 1187 going to the 2030 split on 30 going all the way to Linkress and then on 20 continuing on all the way to Markham Ranch Road so those who include those two interchanges that were slated for the Rivian development so again as we continue we're going into what we call PS and E getting those construction documents together so we are moving forward with those two interchanges for any future development coming into the west side of Fort Worth so again those right now we're slating to go to let probably in mid to latter part of 2023 so again we're continuing with that commitment to try to move that forward moving along 30 we have Linkress the next section from Linkress to 820 that's going to public hearing public meeting so again that one right now it's still under schematic development we're trying to get environmental clearance by the end of the year we're moving to construction documents as we are speaking now so we are trying to get that let same around around mid 2023 to trying to get that out for letting and probably go into construction the latter part of 23 early part of 2024 with that that'll reconstruct that entire corridor get rid of that little bottleneck that we have going from the six lane section down to the four lane section then going back up to the six lane section after that so that'll increase that capacity improvement through there at that point we continue with the additional study on 30 30 from 820 and this one's kind of broken up into multiple phase so we have I 20 goes from 820 going into Camp Bowie Boulevard that's their main focus of the the environmental study trying to go to schematic take a look at those operational improvements at a capacity through there then there's a component that will go with that which is the operational improvements that go from Camp Bowie Boulevard are the way it's Chisholm Trail those are going to be in conjunction with that schematic at a capacity that's going to the West we are also taking a look at a study and this is right now it's just a vision of what this may look like and this has just been presented to the technical work groups is what happens from Chisholm Trail to which we have Camp Bowie so again it had been posted online everything else so one of the things those are been only for the technical work groups City of Fort Worth other people that are adding to our feedback along that corridor so right now that's just a vision right now we're trying to get that to public meeting which is I think is slated for March that way we can just get feedback on what that looks like that is just again nothing that's being developed at this point nothing to say this is exactly what we're doing but we want to get a public feedback on trying to take a look at what that vision for 30 looks like in the future so those are the 30 quarters and you kind of see that kind of takes us all the way from downtown all the way out to the city limits the next one is going to be 35 35 3C the one that's currently in the construction so that'll kind of go through we have that one slated to kind of be opened by latter part of 2023 and that'll be with our NTE partners wanted to move to 820 820 which is basically that entire northwest section from height 30 all the way up to 35 so Michael mentioned the interchange at 199 so we've had a lot of vision changes as the development of the 199 interchange was like worth you know also coordinated with City of Fort Worth trying to take a look at what that looks like and how that becomes to comes to fruition so with that we've had to come back and consolidate they consolidate that with our 820 interstate 820 project apologize so in order to do that we want to make sure that we're not constricting the interstate 820 by putting the center change and not allowing additional capacity so something that you know was voiced over with our federal partners so we wanted to make sure that we added that component in there to make sure that we're not restricting ourselves for any added capacity any other you know vision improvements that we wanted to do in that corridor so with that we're trying to move that one forward quickly so as we develop the 820 corridor we are sliding to try to expedite the 199 interchange in front of it this way it coordinates our interstate access justifications additional environmental coordination as well that we need to do with the interchange and also with the interstate 820 corridor so we are envisioning trying to take a look at areas where we can improve front-end roads especially over the lake we also trying to take a look at maybe some additional just to look at the feasibility of what that looks like again whether that's added capacity whether it's a managed lane system we'll have to go into study trying to take a look at what those systems are so that's that's the study that one should be kicking off probably in the next few months probably early part of summer we went into procurement last year and then we made negotiations so that one should be getting kicked off probably in the next few months we have the I know I'm going around here so on the north side northwest side I'm gonna move over to US 287 and US 287 we have a big schematic that's been ongoing for quite some time but we anticipate finishing environmental clearance in this schematic by the end of this year so that's been broken up into multiple projects at this point one of which is going from I-35 all the way to Harmon Road North Tarrant Parkway that'll kind of make some improvements there some drainage improvements also build the two interchanges at Harmon Road and North Tarrant Parkway kind of creating that box and kind of alleviating some of that traffic flow and that ties in with the Osbon project of Harmon Road to the north and your upcoming projects and visions that you all have on the south side to connect that interchange as we move forward trying to concentrate the efforts also to improve the frontage roads at the frontage roads onto the US 287 also the schematic also adds the additional capacity along the US 287 corridor and then trying to take a look at other areas in case we do not get the full full project fundings about 200 220 million we're trying to take a look at areas that we can concentrate maybe concentrating the frontage roads we're probably in the realm of about 120 million just to add the frontage road network through that corridor from 35 all the way to Avenue Hazlett I know this is kind of just just beyond but from Avenue Hazlett which is from the railroad tracks just south of Avenue Hazlett and we'll continue that improvement with a schematic that also has the frontage road network and that particular study will go all the way up to Rome so any future expansion will also be planned on frontage roads and interchanges that we can implement and as it gets environmentally cleared we can implement various different implementation projects from it it may not need to be the whole thing but we may be able to pluck out an interchange or anything else as long as it meets the full corridor so those are the ones along the major corridors that we have under study and taking a look at those some of the other improvements 199 like Michael mentioned there's a lot of them under construction one under construction from Confederate Road all the way to Azo Avenue which is north side of Lake Worth and then the interchange that we mentioned now there's the other section that's inside the loop again that one's in environmental as well we're trying to get that one wrapped up probably within early part of 2023 at this point as we do that we'll move into going into the construction documents to try to get the six-lane divided section from Roberts Cut-Off all the way to just past University to match up with the TRB projects so that's ongoing right now again because of utilities and try to get right away and everything else along there we're looking at finishing those documents probably I said environmental clearance by 2024 right away utilities will probably take another two years but we're probably looking at construction somewhere in the 2025-2026 time frame for 199 the other thing is also part of that vision with the 199 corridor is also the 183 corridor that also is under schematic development that's also that's a longer lead time at this point but it also will create that additional capacity along 183 connects from 199 all the way to 30 again coordinating those two studies together to try to make sure that we have those added capacities of two points so that one just starting get kicked off again we're having that big concentration at the Pumphrey's Gate to try to make sure that we have that intersection so that'll be one of the breakout projects that we would have right now we have 10 million associated with that we'll probably need some additional funding once we come up with the best alternative which we have not presented to the public yet so we're just going through the alternative analysis stage for that project so again the other ones in the area I'm going to go back up north on 156 so again we have current construction between Blue Mound which is from Kelroy all the way to 287 so that's ongoing now then we also have a schematic environmental which goes from 287 to the north all the way to Intermodal Parkway currently slated for six lane divided highway from 287 all the way to Avondale-Haslet and then from Avondale-Haslet north drops down to a four lane divided section for that additional capacity there so again that one we'll anticipate environmental clearance probably in the next year probably towards the latter part of this year which allows us to go to putting our construction by you know additional rider we did a great effort there to try to minimize any ride-away take so we can try to implement that as quickly as possible as well it's unfunded so we're just trying to make sure we can move forward again so there's some of the major corridors just to go through there again I'm prepared to have additional like the 730 corridor also on the northwest side we have understudied 28 or in 2871 as well so we're trying to finish that off probably within the next early part of next year that way we can also go into construction drawings to try to get that one funded also some of these are getting ready and again trying to prep us in a position where we can get them into construction drawings PS&E and then that way we can try to also get into funding so again we're trying to get to a position where we can have them ready and then you know as this additional funding comes in and we can identify we can try to see how we can move them out the door to construction alright so I'm gonna talk to you all briefly about some of the the work that you've heard Michael talked about as well as some coordination with tech start some of the approach we're going to use into our comprehensive transportation planning so there's three types of spatial areas that we've been looking at as a department to better understand some of these transportation challenges and be able to coordinate plan use economic development other things we'll be looking at small area studies which would be similar I'll talk to you about the Butler study that NCT Congress helping us fund corridor studies you're gonna hear about a few of those and then also these sub regional plans which are these broad areas where we really need to look at the network as a whole as a part of that work so these studies that are coming out of CPW are gonna be coordinated with other departments we're gonna be looking at land use economic development as part of it as well as safety some other divisions like a tiny Brooks transportation management divisions looking at a vision zero and high injury network we'll be able to incorporate all those different planning activities that the city is working on as part of this that only helps us get the best data it also helps us also leverage our activities when we got to the public maybe we can do run around a public meetings together things like that so we're trying to really be thoughtful about our time these will have robust public outreach with them and so there'll be a suite of outreach from virtual maybe as safety improves with the pandemic be able to do some to them outreach being able to go out to communities where people actually want to be to be able to reach out to them and it's William alluded to we really want to be able to develop prioritized project list for the city as far as implementation goes so we're looking at a suite of projects from anywhere that they could be implemented really quickly from less than a year we'll have a list of projects up to four years that tie in really well with our bond cycle as well as the cogs tip and then projects are five to ten years out which will be kind of longer term in other projects that are well close to 20 years out that could be maybe included into the cogs long range plan these planning processes aren't just going to sell them a shelf we want these to be regulating plans if possible as well as to be able to go forward and update our master thoroughfare plan our transportation plan and better coordinate those documents better so the sub regional plans that we talked about earlier that have been talked about quite a bit Michael gave a bit of a hint in this presentation we've been talking to both districts of Texas that both the Fort Worth district and the Dallas district as well as with Tarrant County we plan on talking to the other counties that we're in as well as part of some of these studies and text that we want to be able to understand what the suite of improvements are going to be potentially for these areas understand what the issues are and the develop the suite of alternatives that that would lead them to a project list and hopefully get a some of them projects prioritize so we know we were implementing when when these would update the thoroughfare plan and also help us identify projects that we can collaborate with NCT Togon and so we're right now in the process of kind of getting those scoped and and working with Cogon helping us with the funding so this is that northwest area in the southwest area the study areas abroad they go a little bit beyond our city limits just because working with Cogon these are multi-jurisdictional it's not going to help the city so I was going to help text that and Cog with some of our regional planning efforts but Dana had me go ahead and add on the plant service area so you get a good understanding of how this aligns with where we're going as a city and where we're growing and so this is going to help us better coordinate some of these regional projects with our cities that are adjacent to us really understanding what the regional what the regional significance of certain projects would be so makes it much easier when Cog is going after funding or we're going funding through Cog through the RTC that we're able to understand what might meet those criteria the best whatnot and so we're looking really at that northwest area is a place to where we're going to hopefully be able to not only catch up to growth but maybe get ahead of it if we can through looking through this planning horizon and that southwest area as I heard from some of them from the council member crane as well as from some of the citizens out there you know there's definitely those growing challenges out in that area but there's also opportunity to be able to get ahead of some of the things and so we hope that these studies will help give us a really solid strategic way to be able to get ahead of many of the challenges in these areas butler place is something that Cog has funded for us had funded for us I think the agreement was good a little time ago actually on my second day here Fernando made sure that he handed that over to me so I could go ahead and get that scoped and ready to go and so thus far we've gotten that into Cog's UPWP and we're working to get the TIP amendment so we can go ahead and move forward I've already started to talk to text dot about the funding agreement so we can go and start moving that project forward this year that's going to be looking at really an area plan remember those three areas are talking about we're going to be looking at how to improve access area understanding what the land use implications are going to be understand also the economic development piece of that and then also take that not just as a planning study but have solid recommendations that we can incorporate into our city policies as well as do some pre-engineering work so our team at TPW can have something they can go straight on so we can start go straight on to design and start to implement east Lancaster phase two is something that we've generally started to some degree pretty well we've gone out to the public and talked to them about some guiding principles that we came up that we've come up with to get some feedback from them on that this is not only a corridor study it's looking at what do we want Lancaster to be as Michael talked about being a context sensitive corridor but also to how are these improvements phase with i-30 this is not just going to be a roadway study it's also going to be looking at what type of mode of transit we might be using as well as where's that transit going as we've talked to many of you all on the council as well as to the public there's a lot of talk about what happens east of Hanley is that the logical most logical place to stop and so we want to be able to phase these improvements with what's going to be happening on i-30 because the function of Lancaster's changed but now it's really going to be designed for in the way that the way that its future function would would accounts for Michael did you have something that you wanted to just okay so we're going to be working with COG on that this is going to be a comprehensive study taking it not only through the planning and alternatives phase we'll come out with the preferred alternative for both the roadway and transit we also need to move this forward and environment get it environmentally cleared and then hopefully down the road get take it into construction so it's very important that we go and sync up this work and get it going as soon as possible so it can be tied in with the work with i-30 and some of these funding opportunities are coming down the pipe in addition to this in the bond list you'll see that there are two line items in there one for Barry and one for McCart so the berry street one is looking at potential well both of them are looking at potential some money for design right away in utilities about two and a half million dollars is not supposed to be totally going to a complete utility and right away for those corridors but it kind of helps out so the berry street piece in the bond is from 35 down to 287 and on McCart it's the fundings for from loop 820 down to sycamore school road what i want to do is take that comprehensive approach so we'll just look at the whole corridors because we know that there's improvements needed on those corridors understand what those cross sections are going to be what land use policy needs to be associated with those things working with Robert Stern to his group on they're doing some economic development projects down there make sure all that stuff is synced up so we're able to leverage our dollars better and see a question yeah i just want to make sure what i'm looking at and what i know is the Eastbury plans are from 35 not to 287 but to Cravens and so is that still because that's what the PowerPoint here shows yeah so what i'm looking at doing we have bond projects that go from us from 35 to a seven these plans will look at the whole corridor so we can phase it out and so that bond project that you were referring to will be part of it and so that's why we're going to look at 35 all the way over to the lake and then on mccart go ahead and look at all the way down and probably try to work with Crowley and Burles as much as you can so we come up with a continuous um continuous and you know um connected plan for those um those corridors and so Barry's what we're kind of working on first because our partners even on development are starting to do some things on that we want to make sure that we're able to leverage those activities together as best as possible and then we'll move on to mccart and just so you all know that pretty much all of these studies that i talked about pretty much hit every corner of the city and somewhere and others so i just want to make sure we're thinking about everybody and everybody's needs as part of this work so uh what i've done is is i've basically taken just a sample of some of the different uh funding opportunities the existing funding new funding in part of the iaja and it kind of lined them out with some of the um different corridors and studies just so you can idea of that what michael was talking about with you know it's our it's our really our time to do that this is really an opportunity there's been a really unprecedented opportunities for us to do this um we want to be able to really work with our different partners at the counties at coq and with text dot to make sure these things actually happen and we really want to make sure that our plans and our priorities are there so we can go after them when opportunities do come forward so David you take any questions so mayor you requested basically what does the financial picture look like i don't think we'll always get it be able to get out in front of the unbelievably fast growth that you have but i do believe this is the year of doing and we have a a great opportunity in front of us where we're not waiting on congress or other people to to do things some of this work still is in the planning phase as you heard from kelly some is in the urban design part of freeways and then staff is suggesting a strong action plan to get those critical projects that create the best opportunity to either match up with federal interest match up with rtc interest match up with your interest get those projects behind us so we can get those projects to construction as as quickly as possible thank you thank you ma'am the state is ready i believe the city is ready the rtc is ready uh we're happy to take any questions thank you michael gina thank you michael and thank you kelly and and both of you i want to say thanks for coming to stop six a couple of months ago to talk with one of my uh entrepreneurs who was afraid of what he saw southeast connector project doing to his property as he perceived you left him in a very pleasant state of my question really is a challenge and because you're here michael i'm going to voice it again you're very familiar with east southeast footwork uh when you put dollars into rosedale that was not just a transportation project that was an economic development project and i commend you for your creativity in bringing that improvement we will soon have the toppers naming rosedale after your friend we be carry now here's my challenge to you when you take a look at northbound 820 from willbarger i've done rezoning over there we've been able to go through paper streets and get people closer to the lake and not go through the neighborhood but i can't get rid of the ugly that's there and so putting on your economic development brain i would ask you to give some thought take another drive to see how we can can help because there is nowhere in the country except for here that i know where there is a body of water that we don't have beauty but instead we have chemicals and we have things that don't lend itself to the beauty that a water a body of water should bring i i bitch about this all the time and so i just ask you to take a look at that kelly and william are willing partners but before we lose this stretch of land again for another 50 years if there is any way to see a way to bring beautification to access road of 820 that's right there at lake arlington we would certainly be open to ideas so consulman you're right 20 years ago we we built rosedale rosedale was the first project we ever built that was not a transportation project it was an economic development project i thought i'd be terminated and i wasn't um what you hear from kelly what kelly is laying out to you is really you got to tear down all the silos and you you got to go from trash pickup to police response to building enforcement and you got to set a tone you know the transportation economic development federal rtc dollar can only take you some of the way in some places in the region it takes you far enough along in other parts of the region it doesn't take you far enough along so what we're laying out for you today is we're going to need i think i called it other functions of local government we're going to need other partners in local government to be able to carry out the visions these master comprehensive visions that you're you're hearing from kelly where you know the transportation economic development can take you 40 50 60 percent of the way but what you're saying is it can't take you all the way when we first drove rosedale the councilman at the time said i'd like you to swing the alignment further to the south because they sell drugs in that house i said with all due respect that's why you have a police department i can't jiggle the centerline and catch whatever other problem you're trying to catch in the particular community that's the vision that that we're we're laying out to you today and you know asking the city manager to be able to say you know what we're going to start attacking these by tearing down silos across our different disciplines pick some of these pilots some of these harder ones maybe is a good place to start and see if we can turn around the whole vision so the economic development part is a little easier quality of the schools is a hair easier pedestrian bicycle connections are here easier is part of that particular system i say thank you i just wanted that in your brain because i know it will bother you until we have some ideas and thank you for the response kerry just overall just just thoughts in general i mean first michael thank you for what you do for our our our region i don't know if a lot of folks realize how successful this region is with transportation although we get frustrated with congestion but we just realize how bad it could be and obviously air quality is a concern as well as congestion you know but as far as a metropolitan planning organization you know you set the standard here don't let us slow you down you know for my colleagues what i say is and city staff is you know we are competing for not just dollars but also we're running a race to make sure we are ready to be ready for those dollars um three of us serve on the regional transportation council myself councilmember bevin's councilmember beck and we are at a table um you know with with 30 plus other elected officials who are also charged with getting dollars and and expedited processes to be ready for having projects shovel ready so that we can get dollars for our city um and then projects that impact our region and whether it be the county or the whole metroplex i'll bring up you know the 820 corridor east full-worth east loop 820 from i-30 or randall mill to 121 that was a project that was in design for 30 i'm sorry that was in design for 30 years and we never we couldn't get the money until governor abbott's congestive relief program in 2016 became available when we were able to have that project ready and now it's under construction it will be a tremendous improvement to east loop 820 and with that road improvement will come in increased drainage um it'll help get rid of some of the uglies that are there along that corridor because we'll have better road structure less road congestion and i feel like that's where we are now and you had a great message uh at the last meeting and then today and that's you know this is the year of the doing and so what i would just you know challenge staff with and city management is we don't want to be the one slowing these people down and not having our stuff ready and these dollars going to other cities and all organizations need to step up it's not just us it's trinity metro not saying they're not but we all gotta be ready to to put our foot forward and to have our projects ready in our pocket books open on what we can do for for regional mobility um all of us have the tragic story in our own district um as as far as loss of life for you know how public safety um impacts impacts that but let's just let's be ready let's think outside the box and my last question is once we get it all financed decision how do we get it built faster yeah so remember you don't have to have everything designed to go get the bucket of money and work with the community so if you got you know 80 or 90 percent of the vision nailed down is there enough confidence between the council the rtc the state the city staff to be able to say you know what we're fully funded now we have these principles we still have to work out legal agreements to put in utility vaults to get equal access to the internet and eight people are going to argue you can't put that in public public right away and i'm going to argue yes you can because we're going to argue the internet is now a transportation mode and we're going to have to get people to rethink elimination of food deserts and equal access to education and jobs is just as important as a b or c so as all that exercise occurs simultaneously the critical part it has that you have to establish the confidence of trust in that process or what you do is you wait for the perfect to occur and you potentially miss the financial window the good news is we're going to study this for three more years and make sure it's exactly right the bad news is you now have no ability to fund the project because uh those funding opportunities have come and gone so don't wait on the perfect to fund the good because remember you still have to do the design and all the other elements later and we have an aggressive public outreach program um for the consensus building then the environmental then the design then the utility and right away but in the case of like Lancaster you have two competing visions one is a big public sector transit item where the stations are in the median and the other vision we have is you create entrepreneurial jobs at the curb and create economic development in the neighborhood feeding next generation technology um advancing buses just as fast as on the curb as you can in the in the median two two completely different visions we got to get everyone on the same page so in that build grant or whatever that comes in march or may or june if i don't have 14 letters all echoing amen we're not going to win and Lancaster is a perfect project for this administration the key part for all of you is if Lancaster gets funded with federal money that frees up rtc money to bring to other projects that are in your community it's not like well why does michael like Lancaster and he doesn't like my you know north fort worth i'm i like money i like the color of money and i maximize it and leverage it to free up the money to go to all the projects we're trying to build and i think that's consummate what you're laying out that you're laying out that you're responding to that vision uh michael i might just add uh briefly one of the things that you use the term shovel ready and and that that means different things to different people i had an opportunity to meet with the uh one of the deputy secretaries of fhwa as and they're in washington they're still trying to figure out all of the nuances of how they're gonna distribute or make this make make a lot of this money available they've heard a lot from cities and counties that want to have some direct access to funds and other things but one of the things that they said that was interesting is this is not a stimulus program so they're not going to be focused so much on do you have project shovel ready now i say that uh but you should be aware that we have a lot of projects shovel ready there's a whole list of projects that are unfunded uh that couldn't make our bond program this year some of those would be perfect candidates we've started identifying which ones if if projects come up and there's an opportunity available that we're going to be ready to put forward for federal funding but it was interesting that they said this is not supposed to be a stimulus program there's going to be money for planning there's going to be money for design it's better if you have projects that are ready to go or projects that are fully vetted if you will and maybe they just need funding for environmental or the other studies that have to be done but it's not specifically a stimulus program as it's been in the past yeah and i too am saying the same thing Lancaster is not environmentally cleared some other particular project the great separation for the Aslan Parkway is not environmentally cleared but do we have the common vision that this is what we're going to do to then marshal the revenues for the planning the public outreach the engineering the environmental the whatever else has to happen because in these competitive calls if your project can't go to construction in you know 27 months you're not eligible for the program so a lot of times the eligibility requirements trigger which projects do we put in which bucket to try to to to go do and we'll soon find out well we'll soon find out are we close enough to a consensus or we're not we can't fund them all anyway but the ones that do have more consensus on them let's say the top 10 projects are all important for work the ones that have more consensus on them are going to be the ones that end up going faster in the process the ones that still have you know issues to hammer out though those ones aren't going to go as fast Jared first of all thank you all for laying forth his vision i'm really excited about it for a number of reasons two questions i have and i know there's others probably have questions so we can probably take some of this offline but in southwest forward we've had some concerns relative to the work worth creek parkway exchange or interchange and it's timing we know the funding's there but there's many questions about whether or not we can accelerate the timing because of development or recent developments with charlton state i'm getting funding from the state for new buildings in addition to some of the residential development that's getting ready to tee off i mean then the second thing is relative to textual extension i'm really excited about that and then moving to district nine and there's all i know there's been talks about long-term vision of you know carrying that extension all the way down to southwest footwork and just wanted to hear y'all thoughts on the timeline of that as well and if there's money coming down the pipeline that we can talk about you know just doing a game-changing project of you know making sure that folks in southwest forward they're connected to this regional rail system that we're envisioning in the future so the second question first and i'll try to go fast to get to all the questions yes the vision is to extend rail all the way through southwest forward past tcu and beyond the best way to do that is incrementally and make hay while the sun shines so we think the next bite is to get it down the bottom of the hill underneath the up mainline into the hospital district just because you do that that doesn't mean you're less interested in getting to tcu and and beyond but sometimes it's best to build build projects in increments and because there's carryover funds from the rail line that the feds had to the airport it's on the clock and if it doesn't get spent in a timely fashion that money is lost so we've got to get those encumbered to the hospital district the rtc has funded your interchange at tarleton state it's not on text dots right away so they're not paying the 20 percent match ntta probably doesn't have the money to pay the match so we're using our transportation development credits to fund it which means we're funding into 100 federal two issues arise one is we got to get environmentally cleared so we're working with text dot and the north texas tollway authority because we have an unfunded interchange very near there that can we think can comply with the environmental requirement the second part is though you have an equity issue of and this is as the councilman knows on the rtc we we play this card fair across the whole region if there's an economic benefit to the private sector who is not putting in money then we explore the the tiff district or some other way to capture some so the good news is the project's going to go to construction we still have to have conversations is there a way the tiff district or something in the out years 20 years from now you could help pay back the rtc for the commitment being made today we haven't had any time to even have that conversation but it's not going to hold up our commitment to build the interchange you know i mean yeah thank you for that i'll be happy to be a part of that conversation to see what we can work out moving forward thank you mike thank you crane and i miss you sorry i'm just working okay go ahead elizabeth i appreciate all of your time you know back in 2008 2009 i had the fortune of working in the transportation department when we received our our stimulus funding then and we were incredibly successful as a reason as a region because we did all of this work to have shovel ready projects and we see things like the chism trail parkway you know finally get turned dirt and it had been part of the plan since was it 74 when you first put it in yeah and i just want to say to you we we do need to make sure that we have as many projects ready to go as possible because we're working in a timeline we want to make sure we can capitalize on every single dollar we've already given it to washington and they're going to be willing to give it back i'm going to take every penny we can and so michael my my charge to you is to work with william and we have kelly who is an amazing asset and comes from a regional transportation planning background if there's anything when it comes to consensus building or you know getting that community support that's what we're here for so please feel free not to just reach out to those of us on rtc but through william and kelly and and communicate with us so that we can make sure that fortworth gets as much as we possibly can so we're we're very pleased that your service your public service with us as a council government's transportation employee did not hurt your career as an elected official so i'm very happy heard that but you bring up a very good point we are using that playbook it may not be exactly the same but the dallas fort worth region built billion-dollar regional projects with that money and the rest of the state of texas did not they built asphalt overlays and other things that have sense and if we did not use that money to build the interchange we would have never been able to build chism trail and if we didn't use techstots money to start the dfw connector we would have never had all the other phases of the dfw connector that techstot has built so it's because of that ability of working hard to build really good community projects and you obviously saw that we are trying to make sure in this process we build really good community projects i think carlos had a question and then crane thank you mr thank you michael for the presentation and i think you touched on it a little bit i went back and skimmed over the presentation but in regards to the us 287 corridor and i-35 and us 287 and the taren county line it were called back in 2019 when i started a conversation there with say rep kraus about needs you know in that area infrastructure needs the bridge needs frontage roads needs and that led to a conversation between rtc our staff here tpw taren county and the fortwith alliance to see what we can do to bring attention to it in the form of funds and again the focus of that meeting again was to you know address those infrastructure needs where are we with that in terms of my concern was that i think there was a bit of a disconnect of course because of the pandemic because i really didn't hear much after that at the time i think if emory serves tech stock was about 30 done with their design so just looking for a little so first of all you were instrumental in and doing that in my presentation i call that the 287 magnet is a result of that particular initiative tech stock is environmentally clearing 287 from 35 to the county line the good news it's it's comprehensive meaning it knows where the frontage roads will go and it'll know where the main lanes go we know right now we can advance the frontage roads without hurting the freeway main lanes i think the best strategy is to advance the frontage roads first to tie in these intersections and thoroughfare street improvements where the city wishes these thoroughfares to go and fund them and leave the existing freeway other than to adjust the ramp connections leave the existing main lanes alone and don't use up your money for the freeway main lanes but use your money for the frontage road system that's the partnership that you helped create that we were working on with tech stock and the city we're going to fund and we'll know how much money we get from the commission in in january to continue to fund the thoroughfare street connections in the frontage roads from 287 287 35 w north along those frontage roads so as the planning study gets more comprehensive we'll get further out in time but in the meantime where are your bond bond program projects that cross 287 in front load the thoroughfare street frontage road improvements and build the frontage roads out now you get the benefit of your economic development the footprint of where it's going to be rickardo has to make sure we're not building anything in the quarter that hurts his ability to eventually build the main lanes further out in time but the strategy is to is to advance the frontage roads because i don't think you want to take 280 million poured into the freeways without getting your frontage road thoroughfare street connections built that's the 287 magnet thank you for that and uh just just yeah so again we'll anticipate environmental clearance by the end of this year so looking at the corridor we're looking at all existing right away for the most part very minimal takes so that should help expedite anything that we do to get it shovel ready but again right now it's just getting the funding working with michael going through our our utp process that we're going through right now so again that's where michael's referring to that we'll get that funding allocation around end of january and again we'll get into those processes so apart from the corridor being ready we also want to help identify where we want to concentrate if we don't get that full funding so we're trying to identify those little pockets of projects as well just to try to advance some operational improvements along the corridor too all right michael rickardo thank you rickardo while you're up there i did have something for you um are you familiar with the uh boat club road safety improvement project yes sir i'm more familiar with it than i'd like to be i've gotten a lot of calls about that a lot of folks think it was a city of fort worth initiating thing i've notified text on about it you know notified our tpw department about it people are really upset and i'm sure you've probably heard something about sir going back to the notice for the public meeting in may 2020 tried to refer people to that point of contact spoke to valo lopez as well there seems to be a disconnect you know i don't know how to more effectively impart what text out was trying to do to constituents that ask us you know as elected officials uh you know Leonard may have gotten you know similar comments as well but it's come up before in our town halls so you know i would ask that i don't know what you're doing in terms of an entity to look at that again i mean what's done is done the concrete islands are in place i drive there from time to time and i see additional work done but people are really upset about it and they say it just made matters worse just just conveying the messages that that i've received no yes sir and we're well aware of so we're trying to take a look at some operational improvements that we can actually do as an interim in the mtp we have the ability to study the sixth lane corridor which actually helps some of these areas and then we can kind of revisit those openings as well because i think there are some of the complaints that i've had the privilege of seeing or hearing it's probably just the spacing of the openings and taking a look at those i know a lot of them were going through the public meeting that was done to go over the openings and everything else with the public but again it gives us the opportunity to kind of revisit get the better vision of where those openings need to be as we go into maybe a study for the 1220 corridor to go to that six lane divided section all right thank you and michael just one parting comment on the trinity so before we leave that i'm less familiar with it so rickardo if you'd bring us up to date if you need something to help make interim solutions to make it better please ask our office and we'll see what we can do and i don't want to come back here and not have some ability to fix whatever the concern was so i'm asking rickardo to bring our staff up to speed on that and my long-term new river vision bridges you have no complaint for me and i'm sure from no one on the council to go ahead and pursue that 127.4 million dollars that you're trying to get we certainly need it thank you well i'm not at i'm not asking yeah but i'm a i'm a staff person and i take policy direction so if it's something that you you wish me not to do i need to be told yeah the next 45 days otherwise i think it's worth exploring yeah i think it's worth exploring and i we've already written one letter we have a new administration we have a new secretary and we're going now and our bridges are opened i was in a not in a strong a position when they were under construction but i think a deal is a deal exactly and that's what i'm trying to convey to you thank you anybody else questions crane go ahead yeah bear with me here because i got to a lot and it's got all my homework here um thank you all for coming out today i want to say thanks uh i know internally tpw william your staff know how important this is kelly back there too michael i appreciate you uh back in probably june us having a meeting via zoom to discuss all the issues in the west side of fort worth i actually you followed up a few weeks later and and put together a little comprehensive list for me that i've had my folder since that time you know called i wanted this briefing to happen the way it did i think in early fall called to see how we get uh everybody to the table ricardo i appreciate you being here today um i've made several attempts to try and talk to your boss who i haven't had been able to connect with so i'll let you take your his predecessor which is much more accessible than he has been so i'll let you take that back to him um what i'll say about this i appreciate there's lots of words here appreciate forward thinking etc um i know you are and i know you are looking at all that piece but i have the problem on the west side of fort worth outside 820 that's growing at an unprecedented rate and we're not solving that problem i got gary hogan back here that is my man out in chapel creek i gave him my business card while we were waiting perfect and i'll he's he's my guy out there that helps us sort of figure out what's happening so i appreciate other people that have connected with him but i'll keep on this because he's on me to make sure that we're looking at this kelly or someone can you go back to slide five i just want to understand something that's there uh so we it's on the record right there so the right hand side i'm trying to figure out what the end the it looks like it's a road that goes into to 30 and i think the top is that old weatherford road you see what i'm talking about it doesn't exist at this point it's the masseteria fair plan and it looks to the left of that is waltz parkway and to the right of that is another dotted line i just want to figure out what that is and where it's connecting because there are thousands of homes going to that area and there are two ways out for them right now one is white settlement road which is highly inadequate and the other one is chapel creek bridge or chapel creek which is great we i'm glad we got that bridge built but it's not serving everybody that's there so we've got to figure out how we're going to give some relief to those people to get out of there i'm out there all the time and it's just not adequate to get out there um the link press project appreciative that that's underway um and that we're going to give some relief there under 30 um i drive that way all the time and the and the the uh traffic routinely backs up past ridge marmal and that affects everybody in the area not only us white settlement ridge marmal ridge mar west over hills you're supporting our funding of the interstate 30 improvement i am for sure for sure if you need to get that on record we got that on record so there we go um and then i'll say this that uh the uh there's environmental study the 820 to camp booing um i think that's great uh i just want to make sure well i'll say that comment and they can't be to chism trail parkway um i i've seen sometimes we study things to death and i know that we know that there needs to be some relief there so i hope that we look at those projects look at what that looks like because everybody's coming you know they're coming they're not stopping at this point um and i think in that point i'll one of the things carla said i'll drill down a little bit there it's about communication y'all don't get the calls when someone is on the street or we get the calls yeah we get the calls but you probably get them you get more of them and right right probably louder than we get them but it's not like we don't get the calls right uh maybe you get some but i'm telling you no one's looking up cog when they're calling and you know trying to figure out what's wrong with their street why things aren't happening right you are i am and that's what we're here today i think what we owe you yeah is let's see what happens and why let's be clear michael it's not what you mean it's what you all those residents are their citizens we owe we owe the citizens of fort worth yeah and the citizens of the other communities from downtown fort worth all the way west of weatherford right we owe them a series of sequence diagrams on what is happening on interstate 30 so what happens is we go in and build this bridge and then we build this north-south connection and then we deal with the lane drop and we're trying to find as best we can the resources to simply attack that particular problem right and then we lose memory that we've attacked that problem because it's just another problem and another problem so we need to stop take a sequence a series of sequence pictures and say here's the 18 we don't print money here's the sequence of projects that we're going to have from west of weatherford to downtown fort worth and we owe that to the citizens that traveled out to your court and i i'm i'm glad you said that way because i think gary would back me up that he's been asking for that for years to me i met him an hour ago no i know you met him an hour ago but um we can keep going back and forth like this if you want i'm just trying to say that we owe the citizens out there to make sure that we're looking at it and we don't end up in the problem with the problems this fort i've heard fort thinking it's the year of doing let's get ahead of it that's what i'm asking at this point yeah but i i don't want to mislead you you are going to grow faster in the western part of terran county you're in the one of the fastest growing parts of the united states we are not getting enough money to keep out in front of that magnitude of that particular growth we're going to do the best we can we're going to stage it as best we can but today i cannot stand in front of you and say the amount of resources we're getting in all the needs that fort worth and the rest of the region has we are not going to totally solve that now we can communicate better we can lay it out in stages that's the commitment that i'm making to you i appreciate that piece uh and that's what i'm asking is that we communicate it that we know that there's a plan that we're thinking about that because it's not just for worth you got parker county and arguably it'll go into johnson and hood county too which are also part of me a fourth or a third of the cog service area so just thinking about that piece that's all i'm asking yes lennard just to add on that michael thank you um and thank you for i think recognizing so many of the issues up north uh it's much appreciated and i guess it's really just a request just as you uh committed to michael to to provide some sequencing could you do that for the north side as well particularly on our east west arterial yeah another another great example is is uh 114 coming across from 170 haslett parkway the great separation the lack of your fire service getting to emergency calls your bond program projects we owe that same sequence to you and we will commit to that sequence as well thank you Leonard chris no elizabeth's done okay great um and since we've we're now ending the our transportation session work session this is what two hours long right um i do think you've done an excellent job articulating the hard work that you're doing together the only challenge i see is how to story tell this is on us to not just for y'all how do you package this in a way that people that have really busy lives have confidence in the work that we're doing as a region and so we can work together on that i think honestly michael's presentation came as close to that as possible if we can condense some of the others and give us something that's easy on a road show um i know i appreciate that i took a lot of notes like council member crane too um as michael knows you have my pledge that i'll spend a lot of my own time in political capital on transportation and mobility funding um i'm serving on the executive committee for trtc um i spent a lot of time talking to victor vandegra if i'll continue to do that um because i think this is truly the best economic tool we have as a city um if we can continue to get this right um thanks to those that came before us we have a lot of really positive things to tell but as michael um expressed earlier we do have a lot of planning to put in a place to avoid a lot of congestion west and north fort worth um but tremendous thanks for all of your hard work we are incredibly fortunate um as people have already bragged on michael you're an authority across the country and we're very lucky to have you in north texas and now we have the team at the city as well at text dot to help you get your job done so well done today gentlemen and thank you for taking the time to present i think jina has something in closing mayor i just have one closing remark to offer to this table uh we've heard a lot of information but what sticks with me is the the conflict for lack of a better word that we have on the east Lancaster project and so we have got to be on one page the same page with that we all have appointees on trinity metro we have phone numbers to call we could not get a check if we're not on the same page that's the bottom line and this is the guy who's always gotten the check and so that's that's my takeaway and then the only thing i ask is if i go and respond to the interstate 30 sequencing and then start laying out Lancaster i'm not criticized because i i forgot to do the north fortworth one because they can't all be done simultaneously right hold us accountable to what we've committed to do but permit us to sequence it in a way because the last thing if i don't have equal access to transportation revenue for everyone regardless of their disabled transit sidewalks bike roadway i've lost the confidence of this community so as we sequence these communication pieces they don't come at an expense that we forgot some other piece that that's the part i ask you to remember that's all noted sounds great anything else thank you all very much okay everybody good you like to jump in jacks keep going okay we're going to have robert sternes come up to talk about a tax abatement agreement with mp materials thank you very good afternoon members of council robert stern second on developments we don't need to stretch our legs a little bit after i've linked the transportation workshop but here to talk to you about a proposed tax abatement with mp materials this is a project that we you sure we don't need to bring just check but this is a project that we spoke to you about for the end of last year and so we're bringing it forward to you for consideration today so mp magnetics is based out of los vegas nevada they were funded in 2017 and they manufacture rare earth materials their products are used in various applications automotive clean health aviation and digital the company is is really involved if you've been following them involved in creating the materials for the magnets that are going into electric vehicle components and that is really the piece that we're talking about today so the proposed location is at 13 840 independence parkway and fort worth they will be doing basically the project will allow them to reshor operations manufacturing back to the u.s so they won't be mining at this facility the mining operations actually occur in mountain pass california but they'll be able to reshor operations here and they've also recently entered into a supply agreement with gm to power up to 500 000 ev motors per year and that's going to be generated out of this facility and it will also be the business and engineering headquarters for a subsidiary mp materials so the project overview will be a 200 000 square foot building proposed capital investment will be right at 100 million dollars between the construction costs and the business personal property they'll initially start out with 30 full-time jobs and then those will raise up to 90 they're rejecting they will have about 100 full-time jobs at at full operation average salary would be above 80 000 and 15 percent of those construction costs will be with business equity firms so again just a recap of the overall development commitments of the project uh here let's talk about how we're kind of stair-stepping this agreement so again five percent of the tax abatement will be based on the overall investment of 100 million dollars in real and business personal property uh 10 of the abatement will be tied to their business equity commitments and then you'll see the remainder is tied to their job creation components one meeting the salary requirements for the position that over 80 000 dollars and then the number of jobs uh under the agreement so you see in year one the potential abatement maxes out at 20 a year or two as they add more jobs they can get up to 40 and then by through year three through seven that would allow them to reach a full 60 percent abatement for the remaining years of the project this overall abatement will be capped at 2.7 million and so what we're proposing again 100 million of investment costs by December 2023 for the construction costs 2024 for the business personal property 30 fte's to start by December 2023 rising uh to 90 fte's uh in years three through seven at average wages of 80 000 the proposal is a seven year 60 tax abatement on the incremental increase that turns out to be about 2.7 just under 2.8 million estimated benefit uh participation is just under three percent uh with a public to private ratio of 36 to one so 36 of public investment i mean private investment sorry for every one dollar public investment over that same seven-year period the city should net just under 1.9 million uh after-alarm taxes for the development site and we have a payback period of about four years on the project so staff's recommendation will be to move forward with the seven-year tax abatement agreement we would have a public hearing to create the real investment zone on the january 20th of the agenda and then a council consideration of an mnc on that same date answer any questions any questions council very exciting robert i know how hard you and your team worked on this so sincere congratulations thank you i want to thank kelly baggage in the audience on my staff she worked really hard on this so thanks kelly job okay moving on we have the community survey results who is it mark mackaboy is gonna present hi mark hi mayor and council thank you for allowing us to come up i'm excited to be able and for the sake of time i'm just going to introduce uh chris tatham chris is the CEO of etc institute who is our survey partner and has been for the last 20 years and chris was here last in february of 2020 to present the results of the 2019 survey and he is back this afternoon to present the results of the 2021 survey and so with that i'm going to turn the floor over to chris thanks mark a mayor members of the council i don't know a lot of you but i love your city uh fort worth was actually the first big city outside of kansas city that i did a survey for back in 2002 over the last 20 years we've now surveyed over 75 000 people in this community for the city for the county for cooks children's nct cog text dot trinity metro and many others so i feel like this is a community that i really care about i personally come back to do the presentations for you because the city means a lot to me so hopefully today the highlights that i'm going to share with you will help you and your decision making moving forward if you're not familiar with etc institute we're based in kansas city we now have offices all over the world in fact we're doing a big survey for adis ababa ethiopia right now and they actually liked your survey and they're using it to model the work that they're doing there the goal of our company our company is to help local governments use input from residents as part of the decision-making process we did a survey three years ago and we asked people had you been to a public meeting in the previous year in a whopping 7 percent of people actually said yes when we then asked them why they went the number one reason was to see somebody get an award or recognition or get it themselves number two they wanted to express their dissatisfaction with something the city was doing and number three they wanted to cause a change or advocate for change in the community average residents don't show up to public meetings and as a result without a tool like this you oftentimes have a hard time hearing from what the average resident thinks with regard to satisfaction service delivery and priorities the city of fort worth has been committed to doing this for a very long time you're probably the most consistent performer i've seen in the 20 some years that i've been doing surveys i've seen many cities do well at one point in time and they get comfortable and then they collapse and some have come back over the last 20 years but year in and year out fort worth has consistently delivered high level results this was a particularly challenging year because it was the pandemic so part of the reason they're doing the survey is how have expectations and satisfaction changed how have things and priorities compare now to what they were before the pandemic and certainly help get input on priorities you may wonder why am i why am i presenting today you're going to see one of the big priorities for the community is transportation and infrastructure which you've been hearing all day this afternoon the survey itself is a statistically valid survey that means we randomly select the participants in the survey it's not a self-selected online you just do it yourself we engage people by mail email and text these days we even let people call in and do it on our call center if they like to but the key thing is the addresses are selected at random so you have to live in one of the places that we're selected in order to participate we make sure we get at least 200 surveys in its district and the overall results are statistically valid both for the city and each of your council districts and that way you can actually see how your constituents feel about various services we also collect address information so you can actually see how people respond in different parts of the community today i'm going to show some of the maps just to buy council district but there's all sorts of ways to slice and dice the data we also make sure that the results are demographically comparable to the city's census population or census estimate with regard to age race and other factors you can be sure that when you look at this sample it actually reflects the city's population so with that said let me kind of jump in to some of the major findings so if you're tired of all the presentations this is the only slide i ask you pay attention to because it's the highest it shows the highest overall priorities and what you'll see at the top is overall satisfaction where the city is a place to live and work remains high you're actually setting the standard for most large cities across the country in that regard residents actually feel safer now than they did before the pandemic and what's even more important is they feel safer now than many of they did back in 2002 so 20 years later this city which has grown from 500 and some thousand when we did your first survey to over 900,000 people actually feel safer here today than they did 20 years ago satisfaction among most major services has improved customer service is something you'd take a lot of pride in it got better at least expectations soared during the pandemic for many communities and many cities couldn't keep up with the rising expectations fort livered fort worth delivered very well but highlights at the end street maintenance traffic flow public safety are the things that people really care about it should continue to be priorities for the community moving forward as far as the major findings i'm getting myself a setup here technologically there we go here's the first slide that i'll share this is just the ratings for the city as a place to live and work raise children and you'll see the blue bar actually shows the results for last fall if you look at the gray bar that was actually what i presented here just under two years ago this is actually my last presentation before the pandemic hit i was here in late february and you can see if you look all the way back to 2002 your ratings as a place to live have stayed the same that's incredible for a city that's grown as much as this city has because expectations have risen over the last 20 years your populations grown by 400,000 yet you're still making this just as good a place to live as it's ever been in your residents eyes so great job a lot to celebrate there in addition when you compare yourself to other large cities you're setting the standard as a place to live but even more importantly you may not realize that your biggest comparative advantage to other large cities is as a place to work i'd broadcast that out there to all the folks who might want to invest in this city your night or 17 points above the national average your trailing a little bit as a place to raise children and pretty much on par as a place to retire when it comes to people's perceptions of the state of the economy this is a great community to be in you'll take a look at when we ask people whether they think it rates better or worse than the rest of the nation 56 percent of people are over half said it's better only six percent said worse so people are optimistic feeling good about this city in regard to what they think about what's happening around the other parts of the country so again great perceptions of the community and that ties over or rolls over into your perceptions of your public services that you delivered i want to just highlight there's several things on here quality of life value for taxes and so forth but you'll see the overall quality of services 57 percent of residents give positive ratings set 19 percent give negative ratings as a three to one ratio you're likely to hear from that 19 percent that's a lot of people when you apply it to the whole city's population you're probably not as likely to hear from the people are feeling really good about what you're doing so just the next time you get a complaint just remember there's three people out there for every complaint you get that actually think the city is doing a good job in addition value for taxes is always a challenge people don't love and say hey i love to play taxes but you'll see people are actually more likely to give favorable ratings for the value provide 43 percent combined positives to just 27 percent negative so there's a lot of good things that are happening in the city when it comes to the highlights i want to just highlight the perceptions of safety this is probably one of the most impressive slides that i've seen over the last 20 years for a really big city like fort worth experiencing the growth that you've experienced because if you look at these survey results people generally feel safer now than they did 20 years ago and when i first came here did your first survey this city was very proud about what a safe community it was for example i feel safe in public areas and there's some that are listed has gone from 81 to 92 which is actually up from pre pandemic 91 feeling safe in neighborhoods has stayed about the same a little bit less than it was 20 years ago but it went up four percent since the pre pandemic survey feelings of safety in city parks is up 11 percent historically and up two percent from two years ago same thing in safety in neighborhoods is up two percent from two years ago the down a little bit long term and safety perceptions in schools have stayed the same so this community definitely continues to feel good about safety in general one of the other things that we notice on this survey is that for most of the services you provide satisfaction levels have improved and many of them have improved long term which means you're continuing to deliver great services in spite of the rapid growth there weren't a lot of statistically significant changes but i do want to highlight the customer service rating because it was 85 percent it's about the third fourth the one down from the top in 2002 you've then grown to serve a population of the community about 400,000 more residents than you did in 2002 and you're actually serving them better today in an era where technology and service expectations are higher than they've ever been so congratulations to your team for implementing that and you can see that improved a couple points from the pre-pandemic levels the other thing you've noticed significant improvements in long term or the management of your storm water it's gone from 77 to 84 percent over the last 20 years and continued to improve from the last survey but as you get to the items down to the bottom of the sheet you'll notice that overall satisfaction with code enforcement traffic flow roadway delivery and overall maintenance those have all seen some decreases over time and those are very high priorities and so I think the discussion you had leading into the survey results is very consistent with what residents are feeling in spite of that though take a look at traffic flow it's only dropped from 63 to 56 percent imagine what would have happened if you hadn't done all the great projects that you've done over the past many years a lot of metro areas are really suffered because they haven't kept up with those expectations the other thing i want to highlight from this year's survey is your customer service i mentioned it before but the pandemic tested pretty much every community in the country's ability to respond to the needs of residents and many communities saw significant decrease in customer service because frankly the cities weren't able to respond to those needs you'll make a look at this chart for almost every area that was assessed compared to two years ago the overall ratings are better the perceptions of the courteous and politeness of your staff is up three points and even compared to 20 years ago is up five percentage points how easy it is to contact staff say the solid 81 percent giving people prompt and accurate questions was up a little bit a little bit lower than it was long term following up and actually doing what you say you're going to do and then helping people resolve issues to their satisfaction all improve so great job for the folks who are managing interactions with the community the other piece that's important and i don't have a lot of maps in today's presentation they're in the full report but you do it very well throughout the city what this map shows you you're looking at well there's the city of fort worth in blue well the entire city is in the same shade of color that means that you're equitably providing customer service throughout the city you're not neglecting one part of the city at the expense of the other and that's really hard to do in a big city that's growing as rapidly as fort worth is another one of the findings that we found is that although you have heard a lot of great things that you're doing you don't do the survey just to basically know how awesome you are some cities do but i know the city actually uses it you actually want to find out well what are the opportunities to do better and so we asked questions about the major categories of city services and you'll see them listed here kind of from best rated down to the lowest rated and things like public safety your libraries water sewer your building maintenance your customer service all have lots and lots of high ratings but as you work your way down to the bottom you'll see your traffic flow your street maintenance and your roadway project delivery again those transportation related issues are areas where we have the most dissatisfaction in fact those three each have more than four and ten residents giving negative ratings and they all have more residents who are dissatisfied than they are satisfied when you look at that it's the one exception for those three in addition when you look at the maintenance ratings on some of these other items on maps of the city you'll notice the north which i heard a lot in the last presentation generally gets lower ratings for the maintenance of streets and facilities it gets lower ratings for traffic flow you can see that not everybody in the city though is cranky with traffic flow you'll notice that the folks down in that area the bottom south and west actually give somewhat higher ratings for the overall flow of traffic on streets or than one mile of their home uh roadway project delivery a little bit lower to the north and then you'll see one of the areas that the southern parts of the city get more negative ratings for have to do with swimming pools and so those are some of the differences that are in the report i'm just highlighting a few of them in today's presentation when we ask people what the top priorities were public safety street maintenance traffic flow or the top three our firm then does some analytics to help you take all this survey data and say well what should we focus on at the end of the day there's lots of information here what should we do we have an analytic tool called the important satisfaction rating which essentially objectively assesses how well you're doing in each of your major categories of services and also how important those services are to people the idea is if nobody cares about it you could spend millions of dollars and nobody would notice or they'd actually think that you were wasting dollars on something that wasn't important what this does is it helps you identify as where do residents think things are important that they're also less satisfied with and the items with the highest ratings tend to over time yield the most overall improvement and satisfaction long term and you'll see investments of streets and traffic flow or at the top of the list followed by your next tier which are your public safety code enforcement and roadway project delivery so as you're looking forward these are the big buckets that will probably have the biggest impact on future satisfaction ratings with the city if you're not a visual or excuse me if you're a list person you're going to find out right now if you're a left or right brain person because if you like this first in order and this is your preferred list your left brain if you're more creative and like the picture this is for you this is the same information but from left to right it shows essentially how important the item is so the things on the right are more important and from the bottom to top are the satisfaction ratings and what we're looking for the things that are in the bottom right quadrant these are things that are more important with the lower ratings and this is where you can see traffic flow street maintenance and city codes and you kind of work your way kind of counterclockwise and that follows the risks you saw on the previous page in addition to doing it kind of by major buckets for the city we also did this analysis for each department or kind of the departmental categories and i won't spend a lot of time on this but when it comes to public safety the number one opportunity to enhance perceptions of public safety in the city is crime prevention and a lot of times that has to do with education and letting folks know what you're doing and being responsive to their needs and that is clearly the number one having visibility of police officers neighborhoods with second and just overall police protection that's usually at the top of the list if there's really no other area to improve on when it comes to parks and recreation services it's your maintenance of existing parks and the quality of the quality of the facilities your parks so taking care of what you have is at the top of the list you're walking and biking trails and outdoor pools round out the top four and it was the outdoor pools you saw previously where the southern part of the city gave much lower ratings than the northern part of the city when it comes to the maintenance this is low hanging fruit in my opinion this is one of the areas that cities your roads cost millions and millions billions of dollars this is one of the opportunities a lot of cities pay attention to and they're getting low satisfaction ratings in this rating that you can actually improve and increase overall satisfaction and you see it's the cleanliness of major city streets and public areas and how well litter is kept under control those are two relatively low hanging fruit that if you do them better are likely to have a positive impact over the next couple years and then with traffic and transportation services taking care of your city streets both your major ones and in neighborhoods and what's interesting here is you might say well traffic flow and maintenance get confused they're one and the same but actually you'll see a pretty significant difference in the results for traffic flow compared to the priorities that people placed on at the top for the maintenance of streets and maintenance of streets and people in their neighborhoods and I'm having technical challenges but that's been fun because I'm on my last slide so anyway just to summarize and bring back to the beginning you'll notice here at the very top just enjoy that a lot of communities don't get a chance to savor the fact that they got through the pandemic and overall satisfaction levels stayed the same or got better and your overall ratings generally got better particularly with customer satisfaction uh the other thing I want to highlight here though is moving forward your maintenance of streets traffic flow of public safety are going to be things that you want to continue to invest in you do well in those areas now but you want to continue to make them high priorities and with that I'm going to stop speaking I know you've had a long day and you have questions I'd be happy to answer them questions council I have one quick question for did you capture any qualitative data as part of this we have some open-ended questions that you're able to take a look at I didn't come prepared today to give you any analytics on that but there are some that sometimes help you better understand uh some of people's perceptions on issues would you have them on the place to raise a kid in managing growth question we don't but it's interesting as we have a lot we do cooks children's health assessment if you're familiar with that it's an ongoing survey we've done for many years that study actually has a lot about the kids and so it's one of the things where I'm sure they'd be happy to partner and let us share some of that information with you because we really get into that issue on that survey all right appreciate you anybody else go ahead Jerry thank you mayor and thank you for this survey two questions one you talked about like the goodness of fit of like the demographic breakdowns to the overall proportion of the city was that proportionate from your sample size compared to the general population of Fort Worth and the second question do we see I know you didn't present it here but do we see any like statistically significant differences on these questions when you disaggregated it by individual variables yeah that's a great question the stratification for the survey is done to mirror the council most of your councils if you look at the population are similarly populated you know it's just the way the census sets it up for you all so but we make sure that we get at least 200 from each district and that's to make sure that know if the district has a higher response rate compared to one that has a lower response rate we balance that out so when you're all done the councils all have 200 if you have a little more than 200 but that makes sure the results for the council districts are representative the second thing that we do is we actually take the census data for race age and other factors and we monitor that at the city level so as you get down to the council districts that may not be as accurate but we're still making sure that it looks good compared to the census and then we did provide cross tabs and do other analytics by race by age I think even by years of residency and I don't remember what all the results are I can tell you there are differences and so we've actually helped work with the city to provide a data analytics dashboard that helps you really drill into some of those sorts of details to equip the staff to look at it more in more detail thank you for that I'm always cautious when looking at data and especially survey data that the details are in the disaggregation right and we may get some trends that in their aggregate are really nice and and look good but when you disaggregate it they're probably are disparities or differences along different questions so I would love to see those we can check on it but a good example I know I was in Oklahoma City and when they looked at it kind of by district their overall quality of life rating had gone up one percentage points but in some districts it had gone up 10 percent and other districts we've gone down exactly so that's something I recognize as being simply really important and we designed this survey to give the city that ability and we can work with the city as needed because as really our goal is we don't have an agenda to make it look good or bad we want to help you in your decision making that makes sense and one more thing I just wanted to celebrate I know we're moving on and I want to kind of side-eye Richard the fact that southwest folks want pools and intro connections are really important so I'm glad the survey validated that great job thank you all very much very informative thank you moving on council is to Roger Venables and our bond program Roger as you're getting up there to embarrass you I had a lady pull me aside after she'd heard you present and she very seriously looked at me and said that man that does your bond presentation I said Roger Venables she said yes ma'am he could sell a bible to the devil and she just kind of turned around and walked off I it was meant as a compliment I'm fairly certain she liked you put it that way okay that's good that's good well now you can speak good now I can go right so but while the presentation oh there it is what's being handed out to you is a representation it's the summary list of projects by proposed propositions so you'll see it as proposition a bc and I'll let you go through that list but I'm going to give you a preview of that 20 proposed 2022 bond program and since our we last visited in December we had just gotten through with some community engagement and found out from the community they've got them feedback some very good feedback particularly from the neighborhood alliances in North Fort Worth we visit back with the council members again so between that time and today been very busy and I will say TPW has been very busy I'm trying to fit in and address as many of the community concerns in terms of transportation can I summarize it for you I'm testing this out for everybody you bet really the feedback led to more lanes right if it's roads or pools right it led to more lanes okay sorry Roger go ahead I'm gonna remember that one but that was good so what we're gonna talk today about is the additional bond program funding proposed projects additions and revisions that we're proposing and then overall the program summary along with the the remaining schedule as we sprint towards may of this year for the bond election so originally what was proposed was a $500 million program this is you can see the distribution here was about 64 percent represented in streets and pedestrian mobility I won't spend a lot of time on this slide other to show you where we started and and where we're at today with parks a bracket about 17 percent and of course open space at three percent below we had two community center facilities in there still do but the next slide is you're going to see in the after at 560 million really aligns with the proposed propositions so in other words the parks and for parks and recreation we're going to put the fire station community center in the parks and recreation proposition and the stop six hub community center will be a standalone proposition so what are some of the changes you're going to see is additional funding for arterials neighborhood streets and intersections as again aligns with what we discussed or where we're going to go back and take a look at in december of last year park and recreation improvements increased funding for forest park pool replacement and stop six aquatic facilities increased funding for botanic gardens infrastructure improvements oak grove park development with partial funding reallocated from sycamore park development increased funding for land acquisition primarily related to 1637 fire stations so the revised today as you can see it about 66 percent going to streets mobility about three that represents about 369 million dollars and just put that in context the 2018 bond in its entirety for all project types was 399 and a half million dollars park and rec at 106 million again that includes the fire station community center fire safety improvements for the two replacements public library police facility improvements stop six hub community center in open space so streets and mobility projects so what you see highlighted in red are those that we've got some changes to principally as a result of what we received back from the county but also the addition of arterials so you look at the arterials we started out at nine it proposed that last year we're up to 14 separate projects now proposed bond funding at 145 million that's about a little over 35 million then what was originally proposed in the arterials of last year tarrant county funding they committed to a little over 56 million dollars which represents for arterial projects 52 million dollars in a combination of funds from 2018 bond transportation impact fees or future improvement agreements the neighborhood streets we originally proposed 70 million dollars proposing to put back in 11.1 million dollars in addition to 1.9 million dollars in transportation impact fees those are done in four contracts proposed for contracts during the cip the fourth year contract would have only funded the design for those 110 streets adding the 11.1 million and the 1.9 in impact these gets us to fully fund the rehabilitation of all 110 streets so we wouldn't be left with some just some design of streets in the end of the four-year cip intersections adding about 9.9 million dollars to 2 million 27.9 million dollars we the intersections stay the same we did not reduce the number of intersections so the list that you have today is the same list that was provided last year great separator railroad crossing so that project did as they went back and looked at pricing actually got reduced a little bit which meant our commitment originally was 30 million dollars has been reduced down to 22.2 again we've got tarrant county participating a little over 15 million dollars and then a combination of other funds for 3.8 to fully fund that grade separated crossing so again bringing it from a total project before of three over project category 320 million a little over 369 million included in that is the public art component as well one percent so the revised arterial is what you see in green as what has been added since we last met last year Bailey Boswell design and right-of-way acquisition for about 0.7 miles of four lane divided thoroughfare so we've added Meacham Boulevard as a design only for 1.72 this is really those two are really kind of set the stage if you will for future funding opportunities in order to build those projects going down the list Wagley-Robertson Quicksilver Court to Coneflower Trail that would be design and construction of a little less than a half mile of four lane thoroughfare in all instances when we do a design and construction we're also going to address the drainage as well curbing gutter shared paths reconstruction Bailey Boswell design and construction of 1.8 miles of four lane divided thoroughfare about 29 million dollars this was one of all the neighborhood alliances both Northwest Fort Worth and North Fort Worth Alliance both agreed this was on their top priority and inherited Trace Parkway design and right-of-way acquisition of 1.2 miles of four lane divided thoroughfare again setting the stage it's a very expensive project but if we can have the design and right-of-way out of the way I go a long way to securing funding for the project in the future so that's a hundred and forty five little over a hundred and forty five million dollars bond contribution about 56.3 million from Tarrant County and about a little over forty 52 million from other funding sources this just gives you the map showing the location that will have that as a separate handout for you and submit it to the council members but it may already be in your agenda those that are dashed in black with the green those are design those would be arterials for design only the ones in solid green with design and construction so in the revised park the only thing we've got as an add-on is outgrow community park and visiting with councilman nettles he was very interested in being able to develop this park particularly in the southern portion of his district it's a park that we purchased in 2015 it's a little over 67 acres it consists of the northeast corner of Shelby road and oak Grove road we could split the funding between sycamore park development oak Grove Park so we did that we committed we split the five million originally proposed sycamore park development and allocated three million of that to the oak Grove park added another 486,000 in park dedication fees to bring the total up to a little more than 3.4 million dollars this would handle the master planning effort some design and construction of some of those master planned elements but with sycamore park development we kept two million there and added another two million from gas well revenue it could be freed up to put to that so it really only resulted in a 20 percent reduction in what was originally proposed at five million dollars so we'd be able to move forward with a good deal of those elements that we still wanted to construct that came out of the master planning effort with sycamore park what you're seeing green are those that we've made pricing adjustments to stop six aquatics facility again moving from four lanes to eight lanes footwork botanic gardens 4.6 to 7 million again we talked earlier about going back and and and repricing projects and the brit has done that they've come back and they've asked for additional funding because they've seen some price increases and some of the planned infrastructure projects so this would be raising that to seven million dollars fire station community center replacement that's just a rounding from 11 million 572 to 575 and then the forest park pool replacement is adding lanes at the length that the community was interested in also have an interactive play area zero depth entries um tube slide so some of the things that you the amenities you'd see with aquatic facilities that's really the only changes that took place with the park and recreation on our facility projects really fire station 16 and 37 is looking at additional land costs that we've seen there's probably no surprise over the last couple of years we've seen significant increase in land prices so we've had to add more to fire station 1637's replacement sites all the other categories stayed the same with the far northwest library the stop six hub community center and the northwest patrol division and then of course open space conservation nothing's changed with that still in the program will be as a separate proposition and this gives you an idea of what those propositions would look like for work proposition a and its total value and all these include the public art component as a part of that project proposition b proposition c public library improvements d would be fire safety improvements e would be police facility improvements f would be stop six hub community center and then of course open space proposition g roger i've got a got a question for you yes ma'am the fort worth proposition f is now its own standalone yes ma'am yes ma'am why is that because i'd like it better where we had it as park and recreation yes ma'am i understand we had conversations with the city attorney's office about this the propositions need to be single purpose so when we think across the board of the park projects and particularly a traditional recreation center the majority of it is a gym it's a recreation center it may have some other smaller components to it but for the most part it's park and recreation when you look at what we're attempting to do with a stop six hub it's more multi-purpose when you think about it we've got a library in there we've got recreation components but we've also got dedicated spaces for social delivery service delivery social services how do we how do we talk to legal again how do we talk to legal about that because i'm i'm very uneasy about that so we did discuss this with our bond attorneys as well and this one can kind of go either way i needed to go back the way it was yes ma'am so part of the issue and part of the recommendation was initially considering doing it separately is because it does have so many unique features um weren't sure that i'm real familiar with everything it has yes ma'am i needed back where it was for clarity purposes do you know you're asking open space to be back in the park and record no the the hub to be back yes yes we we we had it like that that's the way we've been talking about it citywide district wide and now you pull this i don't know who in legal came up with that but put it back to where it was okay okay we can let's be clear in the earlier pride chart it was in community centers right talked about having it all in parks and recreation right that's the conversation we're having now it's not separating community centers from parks and recreation but putting community centers in parks and recreation right i'm more than comfortable with that as long as legal says we've got some ability that makes sense to me as well and and i would be more than happy to have an offline conversation but uh i'm woke so okay i think the majority of the use was recreational nature and so it would be fine for it to be into parks okay yeah thank you great that can be done easily so here we are again moving forward can i go before we oh i'm sorry no problem it's in the same vein well two questions one thank you for all of the hard work on this i'm going to reiterate it the folks in oak grove and in the garden acres area have some significant infrastructure challenges i mean i didn't see anything on the western portion or eastern portion of district six being addressed especially in that area so i want to lift that back up for the record that we're addressing that in some kind of way the second thing is similar i noticed the open space is its own proposition and it almost makes sense to be in parks and rec since parks are managing the open space program but just want to hear thoughts on that and i would also recommend it being in parks and rec i think on that one the recommendation has been consistent from the beginning to keep it separate my understanding and david can speak to this a little bit more is that while generally the open space is anticipated to be kept long term as you know open space reserved areas recreational it's not technically going to be dedicated parkland and there's i think an unlikely likelihood but it's there's a possibility of some parcels being initially acquired as open space and they want to keep the flexibility of well if there's an economic development project we might want to be able to sell that property and then buy other land to add to the open space inventory and dedicated parkland can't be sold without being put to the voters in the election so a little bit more on that so i've seen where open space is successful on its own proposition and many many many communities we are also mixing monies with open space right we're using gas well revenue we're using water and sewer revenues in order to acquire open space and so i do think we think of open space as i do think we believe it is permanent open space but not necessarily entitled as parkland because then that brings some very restrictive i don't know what the right word is stay regulations that go on the property that don't go on when we acquire open space so would put it under parks and rec prohibit that any uh if i think the issue is if you we think of as open space and permanently green space right if it be if you look at it and it becomes or is thought of as a park whether you name it a park or whether it's under the park's department right it is considered a park or can legally be considered a park and then uh attach all those restrictions to it there may be some open space that isn't maintained by parks and recreation might be maintained by the water department as an example there's some properties on the on lake worth that might not fall under parks and recreation but would fall under a different maintenance too there's also going to be the distinction with the public art component because the open space will not be subject to a percent set aside for public art because it's intended to be undeveloped whereas the parks would be subject to the two percent set aside so that it creates a separate set of issues as well that makes sense i guess the biggest concern that came up there is that and with parks like in rock creek ranch part of it is being dedicated to parks and what i hate to see is that it failed because it was its own proposition versus it being in park so go ahead carlos roger had a direct this question at you david i know that you're going to be familiar with it um just so i make sure where is the money for the intersection improvement at old santa fe trail and basswood tpw is familiar with this i know william is where is it if it's not in intersections is it in traffic signals because my understanding was that was going to be it's in it's a lot of money right yeah it's there yeah it's there it's there so it's under traffic signals is that where yes okay now the next question again tpw familiar with it and so will you david um i was trying to remember at least a couple of years ago there's a segment of marine creek parkway from 820 to long the west long that was talked about it's a concrete road way it's broken up you know it's a maintenance issue what we're doing right now is just patching it up with asphalt i get a lot of complaints about it back in 2018 when we were talking about it i was told hey wait for the 2022 bond program 2022 bond programs here and it's not on the list uh my question to you david was if it's not going to make the bond program list and get its 14 million needed for repairs how are we going to do it do we have a plan b okay all right okay well we'll definitely make those changes that we've talked about and we'll address the issue with you so january 9th between now and february 3rd when we really have to put this on the agenda we're going to be preparing the ordinance and it's good we've had this conversation about where things belong and what propositions so we're working with legal to do that and then on february 8th you would have the ordinance that actually come before you for adoption which would really lay out the propositions that you would be asking to move forward with and then we'll start the the public education of the bond propositions we'll be going back out much like we did last year in the end of summer and first part of fall to really inform people about the bond propositions and then of course the election day schedule from may 7th 2022 and that's any questions you might have a question yes sir i don't know if you covered this roger but thank you in terms of informing people how how do we go about doing that so we'll work with the office of communication work with michelle's group she will set up a series of meetings probably by council districts we're still working on the plan to do it but much like we did in the fall it may be something a little different than the town hall meetings where we've actually got scheduled areas time and days we'll be out there to present the program they'll see a lot of what they saw today but a lot of what they saw in the fall as well so we'll give them we'll orient them aware of the projects are describe the projects to the public again just as a reminder of what they are so we'll be working with the office communication develop that schedule of meetings over the next you know two and a half months really right up before the election chris yes thank you roger i really wanted to really just take time and thank uh david cook i spoke with him about reallocating that money from sycamore park to ogro park uh that's uh that's the area that uh is surrounded by a huge community we got two major developments that's coming i actually had a meeting two weeks ago with another development that's going to be right adjacent to that park so i want to thank richard as well for making those adjustments great job and valerie uh for actually doing a ride along tour uh she said it's important for her to see what we really want in the community so thank you valerie and all of you guys great work on this i appreciate you anybody else yeah just me go ahead jena have something very very nice to say i i think it's important that we avoid criticisms that we've gotten before and make sure we have a meeting in each district yes because you know too often we've had to come back i think on three occasions not your fault but we need meetings in each individual council district and that's my input with a smile anybody else roger you're awesome thank you very much how hard you've worked great job team selling bibles one bond at a time door to door i don't know his suit's pretty nice for a door-to-door salesman i don't know well in keeping with the election theme and i will try to keep this brief um i realized y'all have had a very long afternoon uh following up on the presentation that leon guzman made in my absence on january fourth uh although i was not able to attend i was watching remotely and it seemed like the general consensus around the table was to move forward with the may election will be able to leverage with the bond education sessions to kind of make voters aware of what's proposed for the charter election um it did seem like there was general consensus to include a council salary item it seemed like there was definitely a thought of not to do to not bother with the staggering of the terms that seems to be the sense around the table i was not clear on the whether you wanted to extend the term so those are the kind of two key decision points for discussion are council salaries and whether to extend terms so we'll start with the council salaries uh and let me preface this by saying what's on the slides is just a starting point for conversation by y'all ultimately you decide what you want your proposition to read so one option this kind of mirrors what leon presented in january one option is to go with a hard number the recommendation from staff would be if we do a firm number in the proposition that we include a cpi adjuster so that we don't have to keep going back to the voters to adjust um another option would be to go with a very blanket council can set its salaries by ordinance austin has that set up um the a third alternative would be to set allow for council to set by ordinance but to set a cap so the voters kind of feel like they're giving you authority but they're they're limiting it and then another would be for count for the voters to be asked to instead of picking a dollar amount to set a methodology like your salary will be tied to x so i'm not going to read the propositions hopefully uh you all have the slides the updated slide should be in your dropbox now but the the fixed dollar amount would be should the mayor the salary for the mayor be moved uh to 45 thousand i'm sorry to 60 000 and council members to 40 000 and then subject to the local cpi adjustment or average city employee uh salary increase whichever is less option two is as i said this one's really simple this is the simplest of all the bond like language which is shall council be authorized to set its salaries by ordinance uh this next one kind of is a hybrid between option one and two which is uh have the mayor's annual salary set at 150 percent of the average salary for all city employees and the other council members salaries to be set at 125 percent uh so ordinance would be allowed but you'd be subject to this limitation and the other is to just say to set it at those rates that the rate would be 150 for the mayor 125 for the council we did uh the hazard of doing a meeting the day after a holiday we did run some numbers on some other possibilities of indices we could tie it to so we don't have to do the 150 125 percent um city managers the average that hr came up with for all managers across the city was 109 so you could do uh if you do particularly if you do the ordinance with a cap you could say not to exceed the average for all city uh managers and so there's different different ways to structure and skin the cat but those are the four options you keep saying employees you keep saying city managers well so the the clarifier if you go with the average of a city employee that puts the number kind of low so we're trying to find something that was closer to around 70-80 thousand dollars is our starting point and so because we don't have broadly applicable you know g level as the feds do we every department has slightly different job titles we're trying to figure out a class of employees that we could key it to and so generally those who are classified as managers the average of all of their salaries is that makes sense yeah 109 000 so yeah not city managers but yeah yeah no city managers would be alive so um and so at this point i was kind of hoping to open it up to discussion around the table i did also look at indexing the outside sources i wasn't necessarily particularly comfortable with that personally it's again y'all's proposition uh to tie it to the district uh court judges or the the county judged i think keeping it in house is easier and there are different ways this could be structured potentially we just haven't had a chance to fully identify it but methodology mechanism is kind of the first question of okay i love how simple that is i just don't know see how anybody ever passes that i think voters i don't i'm would love to know how the heck austin did that sorry keep looking at you but my sense was that austin i don't know if they ever had a set salary in their charter but their their charter's silent so they weren't combating a situation i just thought that's a hard hurdle but that's my opinion but i i concur i think that that's a a terrible idea and not only that but once a year we'll be flooded with folks yeah that are coming in and you know we'll have to deal with that and then during any campaign you know to explain all that it'll be well they you know all they're doing is fat cat and maybe we've eliminated option two yeah okay good we got three more to go i like where we're headed what also feels more simple counsel and uh there was a document but it wasn't enough slide okay but we didn't have the first option that mirrored i think was the first option that mirrored the same bond referendum as 2016 which one which option mirrored the it's option one option one option one i would point out that the numbers from the 2016 are now six years old and they weren't particularly high numbers to begin with so i think with that route i think if you option one if you use the same language update the numbers it fails again so it's too complicated so yeah i i don't disagree with you kary if it's you know even updating the numbers i really like the idea of tying it to employee salaries employee salaries in particular a band like managed or class like manager yeah and it's appropriate to the level of work that councilman was doing councilman floors mentioned this last time you know i think this is also about creating an opportunity for representation and diverse representation so that seems like the best way of doing it without is option for being a barrier yeah i'm i'm team option four i am too i like it and we can four yes four good as far as the basic mechanism and then it's the preference to title this is a record well no wait no no are we doing no no no it was option five kary you're okay go ahead say it out loud so you're saying option four so option four is as originally written is tied to salaries average city employee salaries across the board with a multiplier but the basic structure could be employed and it would be a modified four or a five okay i like i like the language what is the dollar amount so we need them out for the council and the mount for the mayor it's so that becomes a question of whether you want to go with a straight then so you could theoretically have um the mayors would be equal to the average of city managers across the organization which would put you at 109 000 and then i think in conjunction with that the alternate would be for all city other other city council members to be and then that becomes a question to y'all is to percentage 80 percent 85 percent and you don't want a lawyer doing a math so you're on the fly i don't so you're saying when someone asks how much will you pay the mayor that there should be 104 000 yes so my would council members be paying you so 87 000 that's 20 000 more than Dennis on the on the spread out on the sheet you gave it starts off with 150 percent being 104 000 that if i'm correct that is the 150 percent of the average for all employees not department not managers yeah so yeah i did not have time to distribute the manager one the manager the average and also so that there's not any confusion let's say department managers instead of city managers because that can be confusing yeah so uh good diana is back here so diana diana provided this information she can drill down a little bit more than i can but my understanding is that she ran the numbers as of today for all managers across the organization um which is i think manager up through department head uh i don't know if it included the city manager or not but that average city wide was 109 098 okay so that's the piece i think we like option for what you're saying makes sense to us it's going to be the verbiage of how we refer to a city manager to not confuse people that it's david cook or our cmo team right it would be management level management level across the organization and the dollar amount sorry that was loud sorry would it be easier if instead of saying because i do think however we word it we could say manager level people are going to automatically think david cook and i know this messes with the dollar configurations that y'all did but if we could do department directors and then adjust whatever percentage that is of department directors down because i think for a voter that that's an easier so if you go with department head that starts at 199 306 is the average and then if you factor in department directors in 80s it's what brings down to 153 yeah but then we can adjust the percentage whether it's 50 of what they pay or what they make or whatever it is it doesn't have with the dollar amount elizabeth for clear yeah no i what i suggested was use department directors as our benchmark but here we have 150 percent because we're doing general average of general employees but if we know we're using a benchmark that's higher then we can use a percentage that's lower say it's to get us to the same amount of money correct correct i don't dislike that idea i think that's fine let me quick quick question because i think we can come back to this without keeping the labor in the point you this language right now is written knowing we would change percentages and verbiage it would not include an actual dollar amount in the language correct it would not it would follow the same basic structure there is a fiscal impact statement that will be in the ordinance that says what the net impact across organizations but it wouldn't actually be so i just want to i'm okay with that but i want to make sure the body knows that as of right now the language might adjust a little bit before we finally voted on it are you comfortable with something like this and then tweaking it based on the conversations we're having here today i'm comfortable with the language and i understand how it's not going to be the dollar amount it's not going to be listed in the the context and i i'm okay with that but what i want you all to understand is that everyone's going to ask how much money how much are you gonna pay and if it's and if it's higher than the 69 000 it ain't gonna pass that's just my thoughts on having gone through this i disagree but that's just me i think i think well we may all fall on our faces about it but i think um it's important to me to be able to pass the torch someday to somebody and say if you're a single mom and you want to be mayor it won't be easy but you could actually raise a family on what you're making and i'm okay to say sorry and keep going go ahead that's all i was just to say that's roughly what our district directors get made get paid so maybe a little bit more but i'm okay having that conversation of saying this is explaining a full-time job but carry articulates a good point there is an uphill battle here for voters that he's lived through and we have to regard we have to think about that i think the number of people that are gonna be in the booth reviewing the language will be far greater obviously than people that are asking you the question and i could very easily see those people saying they're hiding it they're just giving me the percentages because we i have no idea what these other people make yeah and they may say that too but well sorry but the numbers are going to change too so if you put something on there again the cost of living adjustments everything happens i think go ahead jared i was just going to say i think i love numbers and math but when you put percentages you lose voters so i'm wondering if there's a way to just say like i guess clarify the class level we're trying to achieve the average salary of that class level is versus percentages i think if we differentiate too much we get back into the numbers game and whether or not a voter understands what a hundred fifty percent of that band is you mean feedback to that Dennis um we did like i said we did some rough research initial analysis and it it was hard to find one if your target dollar amount is somewhere in the eighty to ninety thousand range it was hard to find one that were directly correlated to that because my understanding and diana again can speak to this more detail every department has slightly different titles for some of their things so if you start going with a specific title then you end up with a situation where you get ten years down the line department gets reorg that title no longer exists how do you tie back to it so trying to normalize across departments with slight differences in names is where i was thinking if we come up with a class that's like yeah management level 80 so i don't need to keep going but real quickly if you need us to vote on something by next week no no thankfully there there's a little time we will be bringing back the ordinance by february 8th okay and so we can kind of go back with the marching orders go with option four see what what there is the preference being to try to come up with a direct parallel as opposed to having to do the percentage okay um and see if we can find out i think that's the good direction for right now yes council okay good okay um so then the other kind of uh key data key decision point here was whether there was consensus to put the issue of extending the terms out before the voters um as i said at the beginning of the conversation the last meeting it seemed like there was some interest but by the end it seemed like that had kind of disappeared everyone felt like a two-year term was good proxy for a term limit so maybe not um so i think we were stuck on the two years we made it back to two years okay all right that that was my sense i just wanted to confirm that and so then uh the balance is the technical amendments i'm happy to run through those quickly if you'd like i've provided them to you via email um so if you just want to reach out to me individually with questions you might have or if you have questions having if you've had chance to look at already have questions that's your preference do you want me to i just have a general question the document that you provided it says ordinance number and it goes where as whereas blah blah blah and then it says forward proposition f four against shall basically mirrors this language is that language we have to use when we do shall blah blah i mean it can't be i'm a lawyer i can read through this but i'm just thinking about getting people to actually understand what these are some of these are just confused i will tell you the language in the the rough draft of the ordinance is my simplified version from the 2016 language and so i simplified as much about like i could yeah while keeping it technically but we have to use shall blah blah i mean or it just can't say um yeah revive it will do this i mean i i i'm just want to simplify this as much as possible for people um i let me let me look into that is there a state law that says we have to use all this lawyer language is basically what i'm asking so yeah yeah i know i i i might i might well i mean when you get down to it it's just asking it's just citing this i'm just saying i'm just saying i'd like to think about that so our citizens can actually understand without us having to try and explain it to them we'll take a look at it so go ahead jarred i'm really quick um one thing that is a concern for me is that we put too many things on the on the ballot in may and um i am i guess i am leaning towards us holding off on the technical amendments until probably may of 2024 that we also give us time to have like a full charter review if we want to do it at that time um and address some of the bigger issues like independent redistricting whether or not we want to go down that road or if the next council does but i think putting too many technical amendments loses voters because we already have six propositions for the bond um then we're adding the charter amendment for the salaries and then we're going to add several technical amendments that could be a long ballot for one for the for folks to be educated on what's on the ballot and two for them when they get in a box to read through so i'm kind of i would caution us from going down the technical amendment route at this point i would just chime in and say that there's three hundred thousand dollars worth of savings in those technical amendments that pay for some of the salary cost increases and stuff but yeah we've had to wait so long we only really get through this once every four years and you do you're gonna make the same argument in may of 2023 we're on the ballot so i think we keep them on there but well yeah i think my my perspective would be i know it's confusing for people but i think it's the right thing to do for us to try to include these we know there are problems for legal especially and for some departments to Jared's point we do probably need a full charter rewrite and run the risk of maybe being confusing but committing to doing that so then four years we could do this full charter review and have something that's less confusing because we read our charter right now it's very confusing yeah and then just really working together that's the most important thing to me is cary ritt mentioned past charter elections where the council was divided i think if we make some decisions here it could be unified it will be a much better message the community that we agree this is the right thing to do that's my perspective otherwise there's no point going through all this because it'll just be messy the one observation i would offer two observations was there if there's an interest in doing some but not all technical amendments the prior um presentationally and made kind of said these are the ones that we'd recommend prioritizing but as mr moon pointed out in the 2016 charter election with uh all the technical amendments passed by a handy margin so i don't know that it was something here although it was the end of the the ballot and it was not as long a ballot uh i don't know that there was something that voters had too much to stress about because they are very lawyerly and technical jeana i've been trying to be silent but since cary did mention the council was divided the last time it came up when it came up the last time i was the first one to be opposed to it and stated that publicly i didn't think the citizens felt this council at the time was due or deserved a raise i'm still i'm just real neutral about that but i don't oppose it i think this council that we have today has brought new energy new ideas and a new level of respect and i mean that from my heart and so but as one of those who was causing that division i'll fess up to that but uh i think this is a different council so i'm i'm still neutral whatever you guys do is fine with me i'm going to eat no matter what you know but uh i just thought i would let you know why at the time i just don't think the public thought it was deserved thank you jeana any other comment council no do you have the direction you need right now dennis i just want to put it back to the group are we good moving forward with all technical amendments i think the consensus is yes jared made some good points but i think maybe anybody that's really opposed you need to let jared know we let denis know um when we vote on this at council is it important to you guys to vote on the things separately about what goes on and the m and c is what i mean what goes on the ballot is that important to y'all well since i brought up i just the cost saving tax amendments make sense to me but like if though if there's tax amendments that aren't leading the cost savings i think it's going to clog the ballot so i don't prioritize those so you can distinguish those right i mean can staff do that you can but there's one right now i'm steering out that's really important that really technically is cost saving avoiding major lawsuits yes how many technical amendments were on the last charter election do you remember testing your memory here i know that and i wasn't the elections attorney i think it was about 10 okay and this is in the neighborhood i think 15 rail pass most of that was because state law required us to update the charter well some of this is residual just avoiding potential future conflicts with state law so last time we had add new people pay for council and terms and then 10 technical amendments and now we're going to have pay for council and less than 10 and growth of council to adding the two seats right on the last one yeah so we're already down from where we were i say just do it yeah okay okay well if you have any questions on individual propositions that were uh in what i forwarded to you by email please feel free to reach out i'm happy to follow up thank you dentists awesome job that was our last our presentation council we do still have future agenda items who has future agenda items for date but our team no we're okay um chris i have whether they're one or two i'll leave that up to staff but um i would like and i are on the feasibility of providing covid tests to our small businesses here in forward i've had many folks reach out to me and and talk about their staffing difficulties and ask if there was something specifically we could do for testing and i think that's a great economic development and public health initiative and then i was really alarmed by the graph that brandon showed us specifically when it came to the number of our young children that are being hospitalized due to covid and so i'd like to see um what if anything we can do we have captive audiences in our after-school programs and working with their parents to provide some sort of random testing for our children at our community centers to help detect it as early as possible chris did you have something yes um so i had a um an employee reach out and talk about um they were down 20 percent or they was at 20 percent uh staff because of covid 19 and so um i know we might have spikes up and down but i really want us to come up with a strategic plan where when we have these spikes they have the ability to work from home and i don't think we should it should be left up to department here as i think it should be because those departments that can't work from home they should have the ability to uh with the spike of covid so i want some type of what plan we have in place so what we can do to make that happen for our staff uh city staff uh the second one is i got the message from communications uh about us not streaming live on facebook and i think this is really an issue and so i'm getting some names and and so i think one of the things that said uh if we do it we have to have somebody watching it troubleshooting the whole time so um so i i want us to at least come back and figure out us we need to continue to do facebook uh that is a great uh message to get our city council meetings live well i think the other clarification and michelle could talk we can have her come back next week to talk about this but was that facebook staff was recommending youtube is a better option to bear and you could still do live youtube so maybe that's the key thing we need to figure out for staff go ahead i'd like to add to that i had a constituent ask me if we had transcripts of you know whatever meeting or task force and i think looking into the feasibility i know we haven't come up here so it's got to be captured somewhere and providing that to the public i think it's an accessibility issue anybody else no i have two quick things david already knows one of them and city of dallas is doing something pretty innovative they're creating a non-profit folks in economic development they're using seven million dollars of arpa funds david's already on it but i'll just mention it put out in the universe is something we're going to explore to make sure there's not some feasibility here and the second thing is pools sorry to hit kick at anthill but i think it's time for us to revive that master plan and talk about aquatics in fort worth and then the time is right because of our community survey and our bond election but something we can do in the next year that's it anybody else meeting adjourned