 We're going to get started. We have three presentations today on redistricting on the proposed bond projects and the proposed budget. We are recording this so that anybody who wasn't able to attend today will be able to watch it. And we'll have it on our YouTube channel and we'll also share it with Councilmember Bivens so that she can send it out to her distribution list. So if you have any questions just raise your hand and staff will call on you and then they'll probably repeat the questions so that we can be sure and get it on the video and people can hear it that aren't able to attend today. So we'll get started with a welcome by Councilmember Bivens. Thank you. I went looking for Bob to get him back in here but maybe he'll come back. Thank you for being here today. We have some very important topics to talk about. Can you guys hear me OK? What I hope you will do is engage. I hope you will ask questions. We are in the middle of budget and Judy Taylor and Juan does not hear yet. But back in 2014 we changed the trajectory of a bond package because we were able to get Handley Meadowbrook Rec Center included in addition to what staff had proposed. And Judy was a part of that. We went around the entire city like a troop of gypsies if you will asking the city please support Handley Meadowbrook Rec. And that gave us two rec centers in the same bond package. That doesn't happen but it shows the power you can have if you just engage. I'd like for any board, commission, advisory council people representing District 5 to stand. Dave you're still on that group you're on. You're still on that group that you're on involving trees. Yeah. OK. Thank you for your service. And Will if you can tell us what you are on, what you do? I serve on a commercial board of adjustment. You don't know what that is for people who seek experiences with everything from science to lighting to other things. And I came to serve on a commercial board which was wrapping crazy. But anyway, I also booked in a room where she was trying to get us to do some other things I might or might not do. But thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And you're also a wonderful urban board here as well. Captain Preserver dreams. Woo! Dave? The criminals seem to set their own fines for the midst of doing. We're going to do a little bit of that. It's counterfeit. The city only had a certain authority in how much they could fine these developers in that for destroying the trees, that's going to increase by the short development office myself, which I'm capable of doing. We shall overcome. All right, thank you. He's been my buddy forever. His wife, Nina, and I have had some lead surgery so she's not here. Davis, tell us about all of your activities. Well, I'm Dave Folson. I am very proud to serve. I see Susan here. She's our secretary with John D. White Neighborhood Association. We're a really active neighborhood association here on the east side. We engage in issues that affect our community, you know, zoning. I happened, I'm very proud to sit on the open space committee and the genius performance. And we've had, you know, with Mr. Good's help, we had a great victory. We worked with the city about 24 acres up here on the corner of John D. White and Cook Slain that will be, you know, saved old growth canopy post-oaks and it will connect with the park over to our west, yeah. And we're really appreciative and we're very proud of that. But we work a lot on zoning, probably the main thing that we spend our time on. But if it's an issue that affects our area, we welcome two new schools recently. So we're proud of that. They're going to be great neighbors and we're going to be great neighbors with them. But we work very closely with our councilwoman and her district director, Sandy Brough. And we try to work really hard with our city in general. We support our city. We support our city leadership. We're appreciative of the hard work, much of it volunteered and unpaid. And just proud to be trying to help make the east side a little bit better to make what work as a whole better. Thank you for your service. Dave is also a big game hunter. If you Google tracks across Africa, you will see his nationwide production. And if you look at their website, you may see me hanging out with a few grizzlies and all kinds of just huge things. The first time we had a gathering at Dave's house, Wanda Conlon was frozen outside and she said, have you been in there? I said, no, but I can't wait to get in. But everything in Dave's house is from something that he hunted, even the cabinetry. And he gives the food to the villages where the shooting takes place. He's a good guy. Thank you all. I think I've killed enough time to get a few more people in. My only announcement to share with you, in addition to making sure you engage with this discussion, we're going to have a workshop on buying tax foreclosed properties. I started doing those back in 2014. The community was able to get up to speed. Thanks to Mr. Venables, who helped facilitate a lot. But there are so many more available and people don't know how to buy them. It will be at City Hall, what time? 10? 1 o'clock. And we will do live from City Hall. And so you can look at my Facebook page and you can, next Saturday. 18th, I think. So that gives enough people to get out the freeway. Dave, I guess when Bob saw you, he decided just to leave. You do that to him. Oh, he's greeting people. Okay. Did you get one of his cards? Okay. That's all we need. First thing we're going to talk about is redistricting. And this is a topic that Fernando Costa is going to talk about. I understand that there is a move that some people want to bring as far west as Woodhaven into District 5. And there are some who want to cut out Part of Stop 6. We now have 109,000 people. And I think we're pretty much closed right now. And no more people coming. We're done. But when it grew, I was shocked. But Fernando, please take the microphone and educate us on redistricting. Please welcome Mr. Fernando Costa. Thank you, Council Member Bivens, and good afternoon, folks. I'm happy to be with you today, as always. Let me, we have lots of city officials here, and we won't take the time to introduce all of them. You know most of them anyway. But you'll be hearing from at least two of them this afternoon. I'd like to introduce you to the Roger Venables. You've heard about Roger. Many of you know Roger Venables. He's our aviation director. And I will tell you he is the best aviation director of any city in the country. He's doing a great job. On top of that, he's also managing our 2022 bond program. And he'll tell you all about it. So Roger, thank you for being here. And I also want to introduce you to one of our newest city employees, assistant director of planning and data analytics, Casey Lay. Casey will be talking with you today about our city manager's recommended 2022 budget, which comes to a public hearing next Tuesday and to a final vote the following Tuesday, the 21st. I was telling Casey about all of these town hall meetings that we're holding around the city. And I said, we got one, we're talking yesterday. I said, we got one tomorrow, District 5. And her boss is under the weather today. Mark McEvoy couldn't be here, so Casey agreed to substitute. And she's a quick study. She's already become quite knowledgeable about the budget. David, we tossed her right into the fire and she's performed splendidly. But I was telling Casey the District 5 town hall meeting brings together the best informed and the most engaged neighborhood leaders from all of Fort Worth. And I don't know if that's good or bad, Ms. Bivens. Well, that is true. And I say that anywhere in Fort Worth, District 5 has the most engaged neighborhood leaders in our city. We have other well-engaged neighborhoods, but none can top District 5. So we're glad that you're here. And I've been asked to say a few words about redistricting, which is the process that we follow every 10 years after release of the census results to redraw the boundaries of our city council districts and ensure that each district contains roughly the same population in accordance with the one person, one vote principles set forth by the Supreme Court. And so that's a big challenge. It's a challenge that every elected body across the country will be undertaking, whether it's County Commissioner's Court or any of the school districts. And the state legislature is going to be doing the same thing. The governor just called another special session, which will be devoted mainly to redistricting. It's going to start week after next, I believe. And how do you think that process is going to go? Smoothly, peaceful. No gerrymandering. Okay, all of these are facetious remarks. We all know how it's going to go. It's going to be contentious. It's going to be highly partisan. It's going to result in lawsuits. It's going to be a big, ugly mess. But it ain't going to be that way in Fort Worth. In Fort Worth, I can tell you this. We're going to have the most participatory process we've ever had. In fact, it's already been the most participatory. And we're going to have the most transparent process we've ever had. No back room deals. It's going to be done all in public meetings, according to the guidelines that the City Council has already adopted for the redistricting process. We've already started training residents in the use of redistricting software. Do I have anybody here who's gone through the training already? Several already. Okay. Dan, what did you think about it? You're smart enough to learn it. I'm sorry? You're smart enough to learn it. Absolutely. All right. Mr. Morrison, what did you think about it? More scared to try. Well, we just didn't get them out there. Look, even Michelle Goot has learned how to use the software. Is that right, Michelle? All right. You can learn to use the software. You can learn to use the software. You can draw, propose council district maps, and submit them to the City Council for their consideration. And not only that, but Michelle is making it possible so that even if you don't want to get on the keyboard and draw the maps yourself, you can still participate. You can tell us what you'd like to see. If you'd like to see Meadowbrook brought into District 5 or if you'd like to see Stop 6 moved out of District 5, you can tell us that. You can work in what do we call it, collaboration groups, and still participate in the process. So we are going to have literally hundreds of residents participating in the process of proposing council district maps for consideration. And all of them, as long as they meet the prescribed criteria, all of them will be submitted to the council for them to consider. That is the most participatory process I would say we've ever had and certainly among the most participatory of any city in the country. And it's going to be a transparent process because all the decisions are going to be made in public meetings. Council members are actually forbidden from having discussions about changing any council district lines outside of those public meetings. So those are going to be the hallmarks of redistricting and Fort Worth. And let me see if I can share with you additional information about city council redistricting. The council wanted to undertake a very thorough process. So last year, in August of 2020, they created a task force to provide advice on the criteria and procedures by which the council would redraw the district boundaries. So they wanted a group of citizens to recommend how the process should work. This was a resolution adopted in August of 2020. And this is a list of the task force members. And you'll recognize many of the names, I'm sure, including Lorraine Miller, chair of the task force. Some of you know Ms. Miller, a prominent citizen of Fort Worth. But she spent many years in Washington, D.C., worked for Congressman Wright, worked for Congressman Lewis, who was famous for his work on voting rights. And she became clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives. So she knows redistricting as well as anybody. And she chaired the task force. And you see at least a couple of former council members, Sal Espino, Burt Williams, they brought a lot of experience, a lot of expertise. So these folks certainly knew what they were doing in making recommendations to the city council. And they undertook the task because we need to make sure that each district contains roughly equal populations. And that's a big challenge in a city that's growing as fast as Fort Worth. Our council districts now are rather lopsided. We have District 7, which is very, very big now in population, much bigger than most of the other districts, than all the other districts. And that creates an imbalance. So we need to bring the districts into balance. And on top of that, we need to create two new districts. Because as you'll remember, five years ago, the voters of Fort Worth decided in an election to increase the number of council districts from 8 to 10 plus the mayor. So we need to add two more districts. That's going to mean we're going to have to reshuffle the whole deck. And how it's going to come out is anybody's guess at this point. But those are the challenges that we face. And so we just got, last month, the results of the 2020 census. Long-awaited results because everything had been delayed by the pandemic. But we just got the result. It tells us that our official population count for 2020, April of 2020, was 918,915. Now, our actual population today is probably in the ballpark of 940,000 because we're still growing. We haven't slowed down. In fact, last year was the busiest year ever for building permit value. Nevertheless, the official count that we're using for redistricting purposes is 918,000. And you can see the figures for all of the council districts. District 5 now has a population of 109,000. It grew from 90,000 to 109,000. The growth rate of 20% for District 5. You can see District 7 grew by 76%, almost doubling in population. Even the slowest growing district increased in population. That's the District 9 in the heart of the city. It increased from 95,000 to 99,000. So all the districts grew, but some grew much faster than did others. Now, here you can take a look at the population data with respect to different characteristics. You can see that our total population in Fort Worth grew by 24%. That's a total population. But that growth rate varied by different ages and ethnicities. So the white population grew by 9%. The black population grew by 29%, almost 30% growth in population. The Hispanic population grew by 27%. Asian grew by 73%. A big growth in our Asian population, as we see also in other population, multi-racial and voting age population. So in every demographic group, we experience growth. And the black population was among the fastest growing in all of Fort Worth. You can see that we are now 37% white overall. We're 35% Hispanic, 19% African American or black, and 5% Asian. We are more diverse in Fort Worth today than we've ever been before. And that makes redistricting an even bigger challenge because we want to have fair representation for everybody who lives in Fort Worth, at least an opportunity for everybody to elect folks who represent their interests. Now, if we were to zoom in on Council District 5, we can see how these same demographic groups have grown over the last 10 years. You can see in District 5, the overall population growth is 20%. The white population grew by 2%, black by 7%, but the Hispanic population of District 5 grew by 41%. 41% growth in the district's Hispanic population and 65% growth in the district's Asian population. So District 5 is a lot more diverse than it's ever been before. So significant trends that are evident from the 2020 census results. So the task force on redistricting set three broad goals to prevent gerrymandering. What is gerrymandering? Dan, you used the word, what is gerrymandering? Creating a district that goes in specific areas of the gerrymandering that's there for what you want. Exactly right. It's the practice of drawing irregular district lines in order to favor one interest group over another. And it goes back to a historic political cartoon. Somebody drew an electoral district that the artist thought resembled a salamander and he named it after the governor who signed the map into law, Governor Gary, and they called it a gerrymander. And that term has stuck for two centuries now. And that's the practice of drawing these irregular lines. And it continues to this day. It's a practice that the courts frown upon, but it's not downright illegal because it still happens. But it's a practice that we want to prevent to the extent that we can. We want to be sure that we provide the best opportunities to elect council members who reflect our diverse population and we want to promote education and public participation as we're seeking to do today. So this is a schedule that the task force followed. I don't think we want to take time to go into it in detail. But let me say that they did their homework. They spent a lot of time doing research on best practices about redistricting and they held a lot of public meetings to get comments from residents before they delivered their recommendations to the city council, which they did in March of this year. And the council in April adopted a resolution establishing the criteria and procedures for redistricting. This is a chart showing data on the participation in the different task force meetings. A lot of folks were involved. A lot of interest groups were involved, like Citizens for Independent Redistricting, the League of Women Voters, the NAACP, and many others. The three most common themes that the task force heard were one, the desirability of creating an independent redistricting commission. Second, the need for greater public participation. And third, the need for greater transparency. Those are the three most common themes that they heard. And then the council adopted a resolution in April establishing the criteria and procedures for this process. So here's the final list of approved redistricting criteria. It was divided into two parts. Five were considered high priority and then five were considered lower priority. These are the five high priority criteria. Number one, equal sides, that's actually a legal requirement. Number two, compliance with all other pertinent laws. Number three, creating what we call minority opportunity districts that create opportunities for fair representation for minority groups. Number four, what we call communities of interest would be contained within single council districts. So for example, we've heard from the east side alliance of neighborhoods. Anybody here from the east side alliance we've heard from you that you want to be considered a community of interest and contained within a single council district. So that becomes one of the criteria. And one of the geographic layers that we're going to include in the redistricting software is communities of interest. Now we've got until September 15th, which is next Wednesday for any interested neighborhood or group of neighborhoods to register on our website as a community of interest. How many do we have registered so far, Michelle? 50, if you're not registered as a community of interest that's not to say we're not going to recognize you as a neighborhood. We still will, of course, but if you want to be sure that your neighborhood or group of neighborhoods is contained within a single council district as a criterion for redistricting then you've got until Wednesday to let us know by registering on the city's website. And we'll incorporate that information into the data that residents will use with the software to redraw council district boundaries. Can you say the criteria again and how to use them as well? Yes, any neighborhood or group of neighborhoods or school attendance zone or any geographic area that has common interest and you want to be contained within a single council district you will be called a community of interest. That's a common term used in redistricting for that purpose. But to be recognized, you need to register. You just need to let us know who you are and what geographic area you represent and we'll make sure that one of the criteria for redrawing these lines is that you be contained within a single council district. That's actually going to be very hard, very hard to meet all of these criteria simultaneously. In fact, it's almost mathematically impossible. It's very hard to do. But we want to meet as many of them as possible. And as you start working with the redistricting software you'll see that you can't do everything you want to do and make everybody happy. It's just impossible. So you want to make as many people happy as possible. So that's community of interest. Thank you for that question Ms. Wood. And then contiguous territory. You can't fragment districts. You have to make sure that the districts are in one piece. And then these are the lower priority criteria Compact districts, not districts that wiggle around in many different directions. Identifiable geographic boundaries, containing whole voting precincts, whole census blocks or block groups and do not consider the place of residence of incumbents or potential candidates. That's actually the opposite of a criterion that we had in the last round. We actually said you should consider the incumbents to preserve, I think the terminology was to preserve incumbent constituent relationships. That's a euphemism for save the current council members. But that doesn't have to care about that. You don't need to care about it. You don't need to care about it. And so this criterion says that's irrelevant. We don't consider the place of residence. And so these are the procedures registering communities of interest that we mentioned that. Resident producer distancing plans, we mentioned that. The council will select an initial map as a starting point for further mapping. Any changes will require rationale to be explained by the city council. So the council can't just make arbitrary changes without explaining the basis for it. So everything is done transparently. Redisting is a single agenda item. So every discussion about redistricting in the city council has to occur at a meeting called specifically for that purpose. It can't be just one of many agenda items. And then there will be many public hearings before the initial map, after the initial map, and after a proposed map is ready for consideration. Those public hearings will be held during the first half of 2022. And finally transparency, any communications to occur in official meetings. So the process has already started with what we call pre-redistricting. We've had software training. We had multiple sessions. We had one thing just last Monday. There was a sorority. The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority wanted to have a redistricting software training session. And they brought about 15 folks to one of the city facilities and we trained them on the use of that software. If you have a group of any size, we'll design a training session specifically for you. If not, we will publish by the end of this month another schedule of training sessions so that you can come as an individual or you can come with some of your neighbors to participate. And then we're registering community adventures. This is something we've never done before. But we're doing it to ensure that folks who want to stay together in a single district can do so. In August, we received the block-level population data. And on October 5th, about three weeks from now, we're going to have a joint work session of the city council and the redistricting task force. So the task force members can explain directly to the new council members how they think that the process should work. As you know, six of our nine council members now are new. Ms. Vivins is one with more experience, but six of the nine, including the mayor, are new to the city council. And so they were not around when the redistricting task force was presenting its report to the council earlier this year. So here's how we go forward. The months of October, November are devoted to residents producing proposed council district maps. So if you're interested in participating, we'll have two months to do that. Then in December, we'll brief the council on what the citizens have submitted, along with a staff-produced map for the council to consider. In January, they'll have their first public hearing, so they'll be able to hear from folks why did they submit the map that they're proposing. The council then select a starter map, just a starting point, and then they'll have another hearing to get comments on how they should consider modifying that map. Then the council will have two months, just like the citizens had two months. The council have two months, February, March, to produce a proposed map. And in April, they'll have another round of public hearings, at least four of them, by paired council districts, to hear from the public about the proposed map, and then they'll take final action. It's important to do so by June, because by July, six months before the filing timeframe for the next municipal election, by July, any interested candidate would have to establish residency in the district that they want to represent. So it's important for the council to take action well before July to establish the boundaries for the new council districts. Then in May of 2023, we'll actually elect council members from those new districts. So to run down on the whole redisting process, and if we have time, we'd be happy to entertain any questions you might have. Thank you, ma'am. Questions? Yes? Okay. So how many committees find out how many people live in those areas? Yes, sir. The redisting software will contain detailed population data. You can drill down to city block and determine how many folks live there, and you can determine what their characteristics are. So if you prepare a map, the computer will tell you how many folks live in each of the districts that you've created, and it'll tell you about their characteristics. So if you want to create, let's say, at least two Hispanic districts or two districts that have 50% or more Hispanics, then the computer will tell you, as soon as you produce a map, it'll give you all the data, and then you can figure out how you want to adjust it. And that becomes a rather intricate exercise, but it's practical to do using this software. So yes, sir, the data will be available. The next question is, your figure showed 115,000... The average. ...for the eight districts. With 10, we'll be looking at 98,000. Exactly right. Exactly right. So if... I'm sorry? Yeah, so if you look at... Let me see if I can... Oops, I messed this up. If our... total population is 918,000, then all you... I bet everyone here can divide that by 10, and you get roughly 92,000 in each of the districts. It can vary 5% up or down. So a good practice for a fast-growing district like District 7, or any district in the far north, if you know it's going to be growing fast, which we reasonably can anticipate, then we probably want to set it maybe 5% below that 92,000 average, because you know that after 10 years it's going to exceed it. If it's a slow-growing district, you probably want to start off at 5% more than the average, because you know the other districts are going to catch up and surpass it within the next 10 years. So that's a good practice to follow. Other questions? Dan? Was it a criteria to try to create a slender district that all touched down town? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. That was a criterion. It's on the spoke wheel map. The spoke wheel... Yes. The criterion effectively said that every district to the extent possible should contain territory inside Loop 820 and outside Loop 820. The theory is that if a council member represents constituents from the central city and from the periphery, then they're likely to provide a more balanced perspective than if they represent only the central city or only the periphery. They wanted to avoid an us versus them kind of conflict. That was a rationale. Now the task force didn't think that was practical with 10 districts to have everybody containing both inside and outside the Loop. Right now, if you look at the eight council districts, six of them reflect that principle. There's one district, District 9, that's entirely within the Loop, and one district, District 6, that's entirely outside the Loop. But all the others contain both inside and outside. That's going to be harder to do. So that's a good question, Dan. Any other questions about resisting? Yes, sir, please. It does not. It does not. In fact, one of the points the task force made was that they did not want to incorporate into the data is the data even party affiliation. So now, if you're into politics, you can probably figure out how people vote. But that is not going to be any one of the data sets in the software. Good question. Thank you. If not, then I'm happy to step down, Michelle. Thank you very much. Uh-oh, sorry. I was heading to something different. Okay. I'm going to get some work out of the city manager. Number one, I was okay with you wearing the shorts. That's what you always do. But I think when it's time to Oh, you did it. Oh, you dressed up for us. I want you to introduce Mr. Ketticles. And the reason why is because he was so good before and you can tell about how you kidnapped him from his former department because he's just that good. Is that okay, Michelle? Absolutely. Well, it's good to see everybody. And Fernanda was right. We have some of the best participation from District 5. And so I think you ought to thank Gina for that. And so we've been doing a number of town halls. And I think there's only two left, right? There'll be one or two next week. And so I think we've been in attendance on many of these. And this is by far the largest participation of citizens in the other town hall means we've had. So I want to really thank you for being here. I think Saturday makes, I think Saturday makes a difference too. There's more people out on Saturday than maybe a night during the week, but it is good to see you. And I have the honor then of introducing Roger Venables. And so if you went through the 2018 bond program and I know there was a meeting in this room, I was here in shorts at that time. It must have been hotter that day. But let me tell you about Roger. Roger came to the city a number of years ago having worked a career with the city of Arlington. So he's been a municipal government for a long, long time. He's had a number of different roles. And he was the assistant director in our property management department. Most of his background is in real estate and land transactions. And so he was doing incredible work for the city in that respect that we thought, well, heck, why don't we let Roger run the 2018 bond program and coordinate it? You know what happens when people do good work? They get more work. Right? And he did do a wonderful job in 2018 with the bond program. I thought it was a big success with people going and voting for all the referendums that were on that in, what was that, May of 2018. Since May of 2018, we talked Roger into becoming our new aviation director. And what that means is he runs Spinks Airport, Meacham Airport, and he's the liaison with the Hillwood folks up at Alliance Airport. So he's in charge of all the airports the city is responsible for managing. Part of that is because he's got that background in real estate and knowing how to do transactions with people who are essentially releasing property at our different places. We had one deal with Roger when he took the new job at the aviation department. We said, Roger, you still have to run the 2022 bond program. We made it a condition of employment in some ways. But let me ask Roger to come up here. He again is leading the city's effort and what he's working with every department in the city and it will go through the process. He works with everybody's wish list and when it starts it is a wish list. It's what everybody can think about wanting for the next 10 or 20 years. And then he's got to work into a process that whittles that down into priorities. But Roger's our guy. He does a wonderful job in working with all the staff in the city and he does a wonderful job in doing these town halls. So let's give it up for Roger Venables. I can't recall ever having an introduction like that so I don't know what to say. In my arms still hurts. Actually I like bond programs. I think it's really a privilege and an honor to be a part of that process because it helped shape the fabric of the community. And so it's very collaborative. I'll tell you that everybody from transportation and public works, the parks department, neighborhood services, anybody that puts forth a project just being a part of that team and being able to help guide things if you will through the process is really a joy so it didn't hurt too much. But I'm going to get started, talk about the bond program itself. We're on a limited amount of time but I'm just going to briefly talk about the projects and if there are specific questions about projects in particular that I don't have the answer for then we have people from transportation and public works and parks department here and neighborhood services so I invite you after the meeting or I'll call on them if you have a question and I'll talk for you. So we started off with any type of bond program. You've got to have some overarching goals and so our goals for this were maintain and improve our existing infrastructure, address equity, provide those mobility and city services and growth areas, enhance active transportation and recreational corridors, allow for some flexibility and partnership opportunities and you're going to find a lot of that in this program and achieve balance and fiscal stewardship. What we mean is if we are putting in a new facility we're going to have operating and maintenance expenses attached to that facility when it gets delivered so if you approve a new facility in 2022, 2025 we've built it, put it in place now we've got to staff it, got to pay the electric bill and we've got to maintain the facility so we need to be cognizant of that when we're building out our future budgets and then there's some strategy attached to those goals as well so on the capital delivery side to accelerate capital delivery to get those projects on the ground as fast as possible we've dedicated separate from the bond program $29 million that goes towards the design of those transportation and park projects the majority of this is in the transportation piece to take those arterials for instance for added capacity design those now get them to 60% design plan before we even get to the bond program we know we've got to expand that corridor anyway to our master thoroughfare plan if we can help secure right away even before the 2022 bond program at least have conversations with adjoining property owners and help secure some of that it gets us farther along because that's only one piece is acquiring the real estate the second piece of that is Encore's got to relocate their utilities we've got franchise utilities that need to relocate that takes time because they do that so we can even get out there and implement our project and put it on the ground resources we're going to reserve some debt capacity we don't obviously this is proposed as a $500 million program we can afford more debt but you don't want to you want to reserve some of that debt capacity we may have emergencies that come along there may be grant opportunities we're not aware of now that may present themselves again reserve some of that capacity as a prudent thing so some of the program highlights when we put it together we said okay what really jumps off the page when we looked at it so well we've got $213 million plus and leverage opportunities from partnerships with Tarrant County as they have a bond program scheduled for November of this year other funding sources there may be third parties maybe the cog maybe Texas Parks and Wildlife we've got $229 million and identified infrastructure for community facilities park improvements located within majority minority areas and I'll talk about that specifically in a moment $100 million in park improvement and open space conservation I'm not going to talk about this slide a lot that's going to be covered in the budget piece but I will just point out a couple of things this is really just showing you where the allocation is of the Avalor and tax rate for the budget so $0.58.5 goes to operations and maintenance but on the debt side which we're talking about here with general obligation bonds is $0.14.75 is dedicated to the retirement of the debt whether it be from the 2014-2018 proposed 2022 tax notes anything where we're retiring debt it's all covered the important thing here too is and what Casey will also mention is in an environment where we're proposing to lower the tax rate so she'll go into more detail on that so project development where do we start really we started two years ago the conversation never stops about capital improvements your CIP is an ongoing process but a couple of years ago we're asking the departments to go ahead and get ready to present their plans their proposed projects and submit it to a committee and I'll talk about that in a moment but the project itself how does it get formed well it comes from a number of different sources data collection analysis we collect data and analyze it 365 days a year whether it's the pavement condition the facilities condition index etc there's master plans and strategic goals that are approved by council and by departments that are those guidance documents on what their capital improvement needs will be over time in a few years there's development activity that's obviously occurring in high growth areas of town city council will have projects that they would like to bring forward there are waitlisted projects from 2018 that didn't quite make it the need for those projects still exist and they can move forward on to the next bond cycle and then obviously service demands where are we deficient where are the highest needs in the city for services and then again public meetings boards and commissions neighborhood meetings just having those conversations helps formulate those projects so the selection process we start off with inviting the various departments that want to put these on the bond program to rank and prioritize their projects that's the most important thing what are your greatest needs as a department they provide it to a prioritization committee which is really comprised of individuals from the various departments within the city that act as the first filtering if you will when we see those projects come in to rank and prioritize across the spectrum and then management review and input we take it to Mr. Cook and the leadership team and that's another filtering process more questions to be answered then it comes to city council for review we presented it to city council I think for the first time in July and said here's what we're proposing for the 2022 they provided some input and then they said let's go out into the community and get public input that's why we're here today so what are the citywide prioritization criteria now these are criteria that we use as a committee to rank projects across all project types whether it's facilities parks or roads now each department in addition to some of these criteria will have their own criteria pavement condition index for transportation and public works they're looking at congestion alright they might have the parks department they're looking at the condition of the various facilities whether it's dams within parks etc but embedded in a lot of their criteria are these right equity is a new criteria that we included in 2022 that was not in the 2018 bond program I'll talk about specifically that moment but service deficiencies again the project trying to address services deficiencies around the city is there leverage opportunities right are we using like Tarrant County suggesting to use some of their bond funding in their November election to pair up with our projects to get more done approve master plan strategic goals is it a replacement of a capital asset that's gone beyond it's useful life is it collaborate with other departments for instance we've got a project in here today we'll collaborate with library, neighborhood services parks department again creating synergies that way improve existing infrastructure is it a federal state or a legal requirement for the particular project and does it address public and health and safety concerns and again does it stimulate job creation in economic development so equity the new prioritization criteria we took this right from the recommendations of the Fort Worth task force on race and culture and we're really asking the question is the project located within or serve and some instances adjacent to a majority minority area both super majority minority area and majority minority area and you can see where the difference lies between the two but the map just highlights for you the diversity of that of all these MMAs and SMMAs throughout the city so where do we start we started with $1.3 billion worth of projects knowing that we had a bond program that was somewhere in the $5 million range and that was the cap the hard cap we set for ourselves so we've got to take all those projects that were submitted and pair them down prioritize and rank them to get to about $500 million and you can see the lion share streets and mobility that's not atypical that is very typical that they're going to need they have the greatest needs about 53% of those projects submitted would include in that category facilities about 28% when I say non-vertical that means just park development parks may have facilities but they would be included in facilities category and then of course open space conservation which is a new category for 2022 so here we are today this is what we have proposed as the current project distribution so you can see again streets and pedestrian mobility at 64% so we're proposing $320 million parks and rec at about 17% at 87 million public library improvements we have a new public library schedule fire safety improvements couple of fire stations one public facility police facility community center facilities too planned in this one and an open space conservation of 15 million at 3% so streets and pedestrian mobility these were intersections arterial established quarters neighborhood streets so what you're looking on the map there's really anything just to show you the general distribution of it okay we do have a map on our website if you visit that for the 2022 bond program that's interactive you can go in you can click on whichever project you're interested in provide a comment if there's one there that you don't see provide a comment we're going to take and collect all that information again to arrive near the end of the year to come up with some recommendations and final approval for city council some more so taking the MMAs we earlier defined in the SMMAs those majority minority areas this is where those projects lie within those majority minority areas so about $167 million of bond program funds that are being proposed would go into those super majority or majority minority areas so this is the streets of mobility these are the project types the overall types so highlighted in red or in red font the arterials intersections traffic signals and grade separated railroad crossings our projects that we've asked and submitted for participation with the county so starting at the top on arterials we're recommending $110 million of city bonds for 2022 paired with Tarrant County Bond $149 million and impact fees at about $49 million $308 million worth of projects so the take away really is we're trying to take $110 million leverage it with outside funding sources to put $308 million worth of improvements on the ground so if we look keep going down on the far left established corridors there's three neighborhood streets we have 117 rehabilitation projects for neighborhood streets 24 of which are in council district 5 bridge rehabilitation street lights intersections we have 12 intersections plan traffic signals there are about 15 traffic signals that we're looking at I believe the last list I saw there was about 5 in council district 5 that are under evaluation but if we go down to neighborhood and school safety and sidewalks and bicycle facilities are more buckets of money there are prioritized projects within those funding buckets and I invite you to just visit transportation and public works to find out where one that you might be interested in is it within those schedule projects starting at the bottom line $370 million in transportation and public work leverage funding we put $570 million on the ground that's what we're trying to accomplish so here are the proposed arterials we've got one in district 5 it's tranny boulevard phase 2 it would be from the famous trail it would be designed in construction of about a half a mile of a four lane divided thoroughfare established corridors so east Lancaster we're posing $10 million that can go towards local match to support transit initiatives same with east barrier mccart avenue those would be for design dollars but again if we can get the design we're much farther ahead and we'll maybe be able to leverage some of those dollars too to help secure maybe some right of way but again it's being able to go into the design phase of those projects proposed intersections so we've got one at tranny boulevard in euless main council district 5 all these with intersections are really to address congestion so we have a vision zero initiative which is really we understand where we have corridors around the city where we have the highest rate of severe injuries and fatalities a vision zero initiative is to implement improvements to those corridors to be able to get it to zero we want to eliminate them all together and that includes anything from bicycles to pedestrians vehicular accidents etc these are those 10 top corridors if you will interesting to point out that all of these except for one are located in super majority minority areas so we will TPW will work with the consultant within these 10 corridors here to determine what improvements need to be made to those corridors to help get to that vision zero and eliminate those severe injuries and fatalities so on to park and rec well this map again just gives you the general distribution of where those projects are around town but everything from aquatics facilities to golf course improvements to park improvements and on down the list I will go over each one of those categories individually this shows you where they are about $47 million of those park and recreation improvements located within majority minority areas so here they are by project type so gateway park development you can go down and look at the total list for 2022 bond much like we did with the arterials or with the transportation public works projects about $85 million worth of projects looking across to your right if we add in what we are looking at in terms of securing outside funding sources we are trying to do about $100 million worth of projects so I will start with some of those projects botanic garden infrastructure improvements we turned over the botanic gardens to the management of the botanic research institute Texas when we turned it over to them we left them with a lot of infrastructure that had a significant amount of deferred maintenance to it well as a part of that agreement we said we would put forth on future bonds funding to help address that deferred maintenance on those facilities whether it's a replacement or a significant rehabilitation of those facilities so this is $4.6 million would go toward that effort heritage and paddock park renovation and site improvements $13.5 million this is on the north end of town it's where the convergence of main street is before the bridge the park is essentially not open right now we've got private funding about $8.3 million we paired with that $13.5 million that the city is putting up not only to just help improve those parks but we are also looking at improving pedestrian mobility at that intersection as well court worth water gardens $6.5 million water gardens built in 1971 it's undergone some renovation over time but there is a significant amount of plumbing and infrastructure that you don't see from the surface that had deteriorated a lot of those bold cypress that we have out there those routes have found their way into that plumbing and destroyed slowly degrading it this is to come back in and rehabilitate some of that along with concrete and paving sections in there $6.5 million drainage and erosion control and typically we'd like to use our pago funding at $6.5 out of every $100 property value to go towards maintenance of things that we've built these are situations where it's gotten to the point where it needs to be completely replaced or rehabilitated altogether completely replacing a dam for instance in some areas we've got significant silt build up in some of the ponds within our parks that actually helped for stormwater to build stormwater capacity that capacity decreases over time when silting occurs we want to come back in and dredge those ponds out and you can see where they're located around the city better about golf course renovation planning on doing there is reconfiguring tees, fairways, addressing some erosion that we're seeing at the golf course much like we did with Rockwood it improves play of the golf course Sycamore park improvement Sycamore park was formerly Sycamore golf course what we want to do is take that 66 acres and now master plan it into a community park so with those many that you'd normally see trails, roads, parking picnic facilities etc stop six enhanced neighborhood family aquatics facility and then we're going to talk about stop six hub in just a moment but this would be located adjacent to that project it's $7 million for an enhanced neighborhood family aquatics facility here in council district 5 forest park pool replacement $7.5 million it's undergone renovations over the years it needs to be completely replaced $900,000 has been dedicated separate from the bond program to help with the design of the forest park pool today so we're ready to go when 2022 rolls around echo leg park improvements we received this property it's 41 acres we received it from the county in 2017 it sits just north of worth heights community center when we received it from the county a lot of the playground equipment out there had deteriorated nothing out there was ADA compliant this is taking $5 million and building it out as a park and replacing all those facilities gateway park development this is a continued master plan development of gateway park $8 million for additional athletic fields trails, skate park parking lot, security lighting neighborhood park improvements so these neighborhood parks about 81 acres is what's totally represented there on the screen that's $5.5 million it's really to take these neighborhood parks which are reserve parks we acquire real estate all the time out there but we don't always get to develop it right away well in the parks master plan these are scheduled for development it's $5.5 million to go towards that there's walking, biking trails so we got one in here is Martin Luther King we're going to be doing that so I'll talk a little bit about in more detail about what we intend to do with where the old communities and Mosier Valley as well both are included in this for park development Fort Worth Zoo this is one of those contractual obligations of 3.5 we're proposing $3.5 million basically our contractual obligation is to provide utility infrastructure to support new exhibits at the zoo because we have a contractual obligation with them the Fort Worth Zoological Society to do that so it's a small investment for what we get in return in terms of new exhibits trail gap connections there are three listed on the screen here Bomber Spur, Mistletoe Bridge and Sycamore Creek Trail and we propose to take that $500 million and we can leverage that with some Texas Parks and Wildlife funding we can leverage every grant we can get to help build out those trail sections and connect everything Open Space Conservation new category for this $15 million what we're proposing here is we've got land, vacant land around the city that has environmentally sensitive lands that are going to evaporate if we don't go out and protect it if we don't go out and acquire it for future generations what we're going to approach towards it was mentioned earlier about 28 acres that was recently secured, well we did our first one as 50 acres at Broadcast Hill did that I guess a couple of years ago we bought that land facility improvements so I'll go through these quickly but here you can see the facility improvements that are planned and where they lie within our majority minority areas as well we'll go through each one in more detail in just a moment on New Library Stop Six Hub Fire Station Community Center replacement and then a new Northwest Patrol division so Far Northwest Library I think you saw as Fernando pointed out earlier this is the highest rate of growth that we have experienced has been in the Far North part of town where absent library services dearly absent the library services in the Far North part of town where we're looking at is around Sandera Ranch at Avondale-Hasslet I only point that out because in a three mile radius of there during a year of a pandemic we added 3200 people just in a three mile radius of where we're looking at it already has 20,000 people within that three mile radius and growing so this would be 12, a little over $12 million to build a new library a land acquisition design of construction to replace this Fire Station 37 which was a temporary station that was moved on its current location in 1998 as a temporary fire station sits on Ray Wright Road but where it sits is on a blind curve it makes it very difficult for our firemen to get in and out of that site secondly it's about half the size of a three bay double company station that we build today Fire Station 16 replacement Fire Station is about 57 years old it definitely shows its age but more importantly it's half the size of our double company stations today second thing is it will not accommodate female firefighters it has significant code compliance issues as well and we've got to lower our fire apparatus suspension on our fire apparatus just to get it in the bay doors and there's only about that much clearance alright so it really just needs to go and be completely replaced now it's embedded in kind of a residential neighborhood right now we'd like to see it more visible so we're going to be looking at an alternative site to locate the fire station and to meet the fire stations fire departments response times essentially stop six hub community center so this is one of those highly collaborative projects what we're proposing is a 28,000 square feet facility that would go at the cavill location the former cavill location would be across from rosedale plaza park stall cup and it's 28,000 square feet but it will not only house things that you typically would see in a community center we'll also have social service programs that will be operated out there we'll have a library a planned 3,500 square foot library inside of this facility to top that off and the next project is we put an enhanced neighborhood family aquatics facility be a public pool be operated by the parks department but it will be located directly adjacent to the hub fire station community center replacement this is a waitlisted project from 2018 we elected to go with diamond hills replacement this would replace fire station community center really it was an historic fire station added on over the years it's all chopped up doesn't have great line of sight it's starting to show its age we want to do is remove everything except the historical fire station and then incorporate a new design complete design for the community center north west patrol division this is a new we own we've recently closed on 60 acres on the west side of meacham airport the 3,900 angle lab this proposes a 2,000 square foot facility for the northwest patrol right now they are housed in one location on main street which they pay about $151,000 a year in lease payment that we can liberate them from that lease payment they're also down in some in the north side some in other locations this is to actually consolidate that operation to one facility so where are we at today this is the program schedule public meetings we're going through the process right now we'll be taking input and collecting all that information from the website and various sources we'll also be validating some of these projects when we started this a year ago when we were actually putting the cost estimates together if you will for these projects it was a lot different environment back then cost of material, labor everything's gone up well we assume that would happen we just need to come up with these cost estimates now in light of what we know today because again we're trying to we're trying to come up with values three years from now four years from now on all those material labor costs so we want to make sure our assumptions are correct then we'll come up with the finalized project list for input with city council hopefully by the end of the year we'll have a finalized list that city council can consider voting on and moving forward with in the January-February timeframe next year for a bond election in May 7 it doesn't stop there in January-February we're going to come back out again and have more meetings to show you the actual propositions that you'll be asked to vote on and go through over those in detail with you so again this is just a part of the process it's going to continue on until the May election that I'll answer any questions that you have I don't have the answers I know there are folks from the various departments that can help me answer this yes I just spoke about the last year the last bond election or the last year the last bond election was $399.5 million so this is a little bit more at $500 million a little bit it's really not a big deal I think I'm just going to make a comment I'm going through this list and that the worst lead performance that you talked about has made a huge difference in the past I think the logic was to try to have equal amounts of streets and so forth for districts that's not the case here there are still districts that are the older part of town District 9, District 5 District 8 and so I'm really pleased to see that I think over 50% of these streets are in 5 and 8 and that's pretty remarkable thank you yes ma'am I see a couple yes ma'am Roger, Sharon Douglas the question is with the information together how does it impact transportation I heard you mention something about transportation and if it does impact transportation are they coming to the table in that developmental stage or are they brought in secondary do you mean transit yes transit okay I think the question is are we having communication with our transit partners yes in fact the three that I had mentioned on the established corridor with East Lancaster that's one of those right there where we're dedicating $10 million because we know we're going to have to address transit in that area and this would help with two local matches in the future yes ma'am I have a question I know that you stated that it was actually a golf course is that the north side as well as the south side is there a big responsibility I'm trying to think it's actually on the north side right it's the north side I believe where the golf course, former golf course was both of them considered a golf course period before it was separated in the middle part so a good question is I work for the park and recreation department so previously the north part is a golf course so we decided to adopt a resolution two years ago to abandon the golf course or close out the golf course so it will be converted into a public park actually it is a public park right now but we're just undergoing a mass plan so we are going to have funding in the new program to have a more detailed decision to change that portion into a public park Jason question so as you relate to that so when you come into the particular park I know that a part of it looks like it might be connected to Texas Wesleyan but not connected to Texas Wesleyan so you have a little area that has like the little center restroom area it's all ward out so in the process of remodeling it will there be a new welded facility with fresh running water and everything as it relates to the restroom area there and the part of remodeling the park so if you come off of Roseville and you're going east and you make the left to come into Sigma Park as you enter you take the first left there's a little area right there if you walk to the back of it you're connected to Texas Wesleyan but if you walk back to the north and you sit there and there's a little spot there used to be a basketball goal there but I think people have been parking there playing basketball so there's one goal there but it was two but there's only one and it's a little facility where you used to be able to use the restroom it's all messed up right now so you really can't use it there's not a restroom facility in the park my question is will there be one included in the remodeling phase with air conditioning and fresh running water so that part is in the south portion of that Sigma Park so the bond program 2020 bond program is only including to regulate the gross portion of original bond force into the park but the south portion we have some funding we have some funding from not from the bond program we have some funding from other programs other funding resources we're trying to do some regulation and restoration in the south park as well I will take notes about your suggestion so that's a very good point so we will consider using our funding to take care of that area too thank you excuse me let me ask you a good question Sigma Park you're not intended to do that on the golf course there are it's not going to be a golf course anymore thank you that was my next question that's my question I'm moving around so way at the back yes do you have an estimated timeline for each project assuming it's approved the name next year I think the question was an estimated timeline for each project so when we build out our delivery schedule because remember I mentioned earlier we're going to have some operating and maintenance expenses we're going to incur so we do build out a proposed delivery schedule particularly with our facility projects because we're trying to plan for it in future budget years so short answer yes right now we have an estimate on when we think those projects can be delivered and we can provide that to Michelle and she can put that up there's one over here yes my next okay I think I've got them all just pertaining to the wishlist looking at the proposal for the Campbell MMP and the Quantic 7 we have Rosedale Park that is pretty much invasive to the American and there's no funding to improve that park so looking forward we're going to build energy with the what needs to be planned to operate that park to make it more accessible park that's a great comment and in fact do we have anything planned for the Rosedale Plaza park no that's not Rosedale Park Rosedale Park is on Rosedale Rosedale Plaza Rosedale Plaza what the apartment used to be there's some public art there now it's on Rosedale it's a different park no it was Rosedale Plaza the Plaza Park is the name of the park on the corner of Rosedale in Liberty yeah we have some art so what my question is it's not too late to add that to the wishlist that's what we're going to do and we're gathering all that information that's why we're doing that I would like to see the west side of Lake Arlington including some form of the west side of Lake Arlington has been neglected for quite some time and I think that it's an opportunity to really make some improvement so it is accessible to residents on the east side so is this the time this is the time to take those both of those parks to the wishlist now I can't promise they'll make it there but this is what we need to do okay, keep going yeah I want to follow up on that sorry, Dana I worked off at work for the city I believe and Brandon you did correct me but I think when we did the stop 6 we were in an improvement program there was a little bit of money put into Rosedale Plaza Park a lot of money but you're talking about something in addition to that right I think what he's saying is that in the line items in the wishlist that we have now there is no line items so as a community we don't know what funding is in the general fund budget so Mr. McAvoy is not here but he's that department in the budget that we do have that money for MLK so I think he's saying similar to the way that there are dollars for the improvement of the MLK park when the centers move that there should be dollars or at least an outline of the budget I think he goes back when you say the match like that's a match right the match from the center the products okay so we're other dollars for the park I think that just for Rosedale Plaza Park so there were general fund dollars that were spent a few years ago at Rosedale Plaza Park so that's what I want to make sure that we talk about that and then talk about what we want to add to that you should understand that the stop six plug that Mr. Venable described is at Rosedale Plaza Park right so he's saying does that that's what his question was does the stop six plug include a line item the additional improvements at Rosedale Plaza it'll be adjacent to the park now if you want additional improvements to Rosedale Plaza then that's something for us to take back to the park's department yes we got it we got it let me repeat what I said at the very beginning the whole idea of the bond process is together input and I gave the example of how in 2014 the handling medical community made the case to add that into that 2014 bond package it wasn't in the package that staff presented like what you're seeing now but this is gathering input now what happens after you get your add-ons loaded you got to get your crew you got to go around town just like Targie did Delores did, Judy did and say look the rest of World War we want you to vote for this in our neighborhood and so this is the time and one of the places to get your ideas put in so are you stating that we need to get the petition together no no no they're going to be hearing she said to go around to your community and tell us what I'm saying get your people just like you brought that point go to those other meetings so that other people from other neighborhoods will hear your point they'll know what you want and understand why you want it Delores said bring your process it's not anything that requires a list it's just you making all the meetings that take place with a group of people on the bond package you make your own list no no I mean they're online so can I ask one other question as it relates to Bunch Park I'm just asking can we get some coverings Bunch Park isn't complete yet I think we're in phase 3 phase 2 3 phases 3 phases so I'm going to sit myself down because I know we're going to move the budget eventually but for those of you who want more information on the bond there's a website right there I got one more I got one more back here you've been so patient okay I'm fine I got a question here so Ab has not been followed through I'm from cobblestone on the outside Far East Fort Worth and one of our bond projects was never completed as promised so what's the resource when bond projects aren't completed as promised and if nothing from our area is included here what do we do to submit those requests so a couple of questions there I think the I'll start so I'll start with the last one which is what do you need to do to make recommendations or to suggest projects go to our website and on there there'll be an interactive map and there'll be an area for you to provide comments related to either a specific project or just provide a general comment it'll be recorded much like we're doing today with this gentleman here who had some recommendations for Rosedale Plaza as far as bond projects that appear on a list that never get done I don't know that specific project so it was a promise we were promised and I think it was the 2014 fall election that we were going to have sidewalks running from 820 all the way down the drive on both sides of John's new wife or with sidewalks not the small ones and covered bus stops and every bus stop is a loose cover we currently have small sidewalks that aren't maintained well maintained by anybody and none of the bus stops are maintained or covered and so and they weren't finished at the promise they stopped right past the fire station on the north side sorry I said we got the problem too but there's no way to know they have sidewalks on both sides so here it is as to what are like what are the repercussions and what are the next steps because we did our part by going to all the meetings petitioning the city asking and I was one of the people that asked for the sidewalks on John's new wife 2014 and it's disappointing that we promised things that they aren't deliberate because just to do simple things like walk in our area you take your life in your own hands at many places and so I'm just curious like what happens when these projects are promised and they're not deliberate and when you do that it's like does that project get released? I've got an answer I'm going to pre-spare we have to look to see what really happens and the person who can tell us that is over TPW that's Mr. Johnson and so if you'll make sure we're close and we'll find out so now everybody knows who the TPW director is now we've got 30 minutes left and we've got a cover budget and so if you don't mind I do need to kind of record I need you to do the roundabout would it be within the bond package a roundabout on Cook's and John G1 would it be within we're welcoming three schools within a half mile of each other and by God we need improved education in our area so no problem with schools but the big up line is becoming great and roundabout would that need to be addressed in the bond or would it be on normal budget? that's something that we would have to communicate with TPW they do have funding outside of a bond program to address certain things but it just depends on what the ultimate objective is to work out some projects so we're looking at probably a 20% increase for better in my bond over the last few years 20% of what we're going to wind up with some of that we're going to end up with a lot more projects we're going to add and we're going to save the 20% and then think about the leverage opportunity we're going to move to the next color budget I've got the budget presentation ready and I'd like to thank Casey for stepping in at the last minute Casey's been with the city one month so I'm sure if there's anything that she can't answer that we can go back and find the answer and get back with you so I know she's going to have to go through this pretty quick too thank y'all for having me today this is my fifth town hall I just finished my fourth week here given the hype around district 5 and the engagement here I'm really looking forward to talking to all of y'all after this building relationships and learning from all of you and the historic stuff that y'all know that I definitely don't so with that and being respectful of time I am going to go through our proposed budget for fiscal year 22 fairly quickly so the first thing I'm going to start with is one of the favorite topics for most citizens and that's going to be the appraised values and the tax rates so as you saw from Fernando's presentation earlier a lot of population coming in and things are growing here including our values if you look at almost the last 10 years you can see we're pretty steadily growing each year in both our market values which is going to be that blue line and the taxable value so that's going to be the value that your tax levy is based off of it's going to be a lot lower for things like homestead and different exemptions that you may qualify for but if you will focus on those last two years fiscal year 21 and fiscal year 22 that the value for the city overall has increased almost $8 billion in the last year and of that almost $8 billion which is 9.4% overall increase to value we break it down into two different ways of categorizing it and that's going to be the change in taxable value on existing property and then all of that new construction that's happening all over town so the change to existing property has about a 5.3% increase over last year and the addition of new construction that came online to the tax roll is 4.1 getting us to that $87.3 billion total valuation for the city of Fort Worth given that we are proposing a lower tax rate of 1.5 cent to 73.25 cents per $100 valuation on property for fiscal year 22 of that 73.25 you saw this slide with Roger and I'm going to further explain how we break it down there's two major legal portions and that's going to be our ONM operations and maintenance and then our INS which is interest in sinking or debt that debt portion covers all those types of bond projects like Roger was just covering for ONM we further break it down internally between just the normal operations and maintenance so all these faces you see here today the folks that greet you whenever you walk into a community center that's what's coming out of the operations and maintenance side to capital maintenance so we set aside 6.5 cents for the upcoming fiscal year specifically dedicated to those capital maintenance programs so not exactly the huge reconstruction of streets new facilities coming online these are going to be smaller but necessary infrastructure improvements just to keep our infrastructure maintained and keep those service levels high for you and this slide here is just a little historical look at the different way that we've allocated tax rates over the almost last 10 years you can see that the bottom line number there says that we've lowered the tax rate a little over 12 cents since 2013 and then that column on the right just again reiterates that last slide showing the breakdown between ONM that capital infrastructure maintenance 6.5 cents or PAYGO as we call it and then the debt portion alright and so then starting to segue into more talk of budgetary dollars we as a city use those taxable values in order to not only set our rate but also to calculate the expected property tax revenue that goes to help fund our annual operating budget so with the 9.4% increase in taxable value and the tax rate being lowered a cent and a half we are estimating that property tax revenue between all of those portions that we just talked about are going to come in just under $600 million for the fiscal year 22 so breaking that down what we are looking at specifically is about $421,000 to fund mostly our general fund operations and maintenance plus $52,000 in those PAYGO or capital infrastructure improvements we are also setting aside an extra $2 million for some economic development opportunities and then that additional $120,000 there is for the debt payments now those are really big numbers and as a homeowner they may not resonate with you so if you were a homeowner for the fiscal year of 21 and you had a $200,000 home if we think about that 5.3% increase of existing value that would mean that for fiscal year 22 your $200,000 home last year would be worth on the tax roll about $210,000 again last year we had a 75 cent almost tax rate and we are lowering that one and a half cents so an average homeowner with a $200,000 home last year could expect to see their tax bill raise a few dollars from $1,495 last year to $1,543 it is important to note that this is the cities portion I know everybody that gets that bill in the fall and has to write a big check around Christmas time they will be writing a check a fair amount larger than this because there is other taxing entities on there the ISD is one of them yes sir and so breaking that down thinking about the dollars that are coming out of your pocket what that really means is if you are writing the city of Fort Worth specifically that $1,500 check we are using about $1,200 for operations and maintenance and then $300 to service our debt and then we will switch over to what you can expect to see in the budget for fiscal year 22 we are expecting budget we are expecting $1.86 billion and we break that into all the different funds that the city utilizes with the largest being our general fund we are looking at a general fund budget of roughly $761,000 we also have enterprise funds which is the second largest group special revenues and then some ancillary other smaller funds that are specific to their own purposes looking only at the general fund which was that $761,000 portion of the overall $1.86 billion the revenues that we collect here are majorly those property tax dollars and then also sales tax we have a host of other different revenues that come in the city each year for various reasons specifically we have things like charges for services and license and permits a good example is a building permit to do a full on renovation or add on anything to your home this is just a different way of looking at the general fund revenues comparing last year's proposed budget to the upcoming year's proposed budget and you can see that overall we're expecting revenues in the general fund to increase about 6% and this slide I realize is very hard to read and again I'm going through this fairly fast so if you haven't already I do encourage you to go out front and sign up and I'll address so that we can provide these slides to you and you don't have to scribble down numbers as I'm running through them but this view here just shows those expenditures by department and if you can read it those first two lines on there talk about the police and fire department so you can see that the bulk of our general fund revenues are going to support public safety initiatives the overall increase to expenditures is a little over $40 million and most of that can be attributed to these high level items a lot having to do with our dedication to improving infrastructure and also our commitment to employees you can see pension contributions the collective bargaining meet and confer agreements and then pay for performance these are all directly related to staffing for the city we also have as Roger alluded to a little over $5 million just for the maintenance of facilities that are coming online over the fiscal year of 2022 and then the last thing on here is some different economic development incentives above and beyond that $2 million that we specifically identified earlier and then switching over to our enterprise funds these work a little differently as we saw on the general fund we've got a lot of different oh gosh do I have music backing I like numbers but I understand not everybody loves them all right looking at the enterprise funds these work a little more like businesses so they'll have a specific fee that is associated with providing a very specific service so our largest one here is water and sewer everybody gets a water bill so we try to make sure that we set rates according to what it takes to make sure that service delivery happens each year one thing I do want to make you all aware of we have no retail water or sewer rate for fiscal year 22 we're also not anticipating any increases for residential solid waste stormwater or for parking rates throughout the city all right the next type of fund that we'll discuss are special revenue funds they're called special revenue funds because they have special revenues meaning that there is some reason be it legal or otherwise that says these very specific types of revenues the city collects can only be used for very certain purposes the largest special revenue fund we have is the best example we have a portion of sales tax that is collected to fund our ccpd this nine hundred or ninety two hundred million dollars that is actually about a quarter of the police's overall budget and that comes as I said specifically from sales tax all right and then flipping over to our cip the city does a cip schedule every year and it goes out five years so whenever you come back and see me again next year we'll start with fiscal year 23 and we'll go through fiscal year 27 but these are the different types of large projects that we're doing each year and you can see that for fiscal year 22 we're expecting to do about four hundred and forty two hundred thousand or sorry I'm going to get numbers one day but that day is not today um we have a lot of dollars set aside for cip next year and as I referenced earlier we've got that six and a half cents of the tax rate that we've specifically identified for the different pago items the majority of that so about twenty million of it is going towards more routine maintenance for our street maintenance we also have dollars set aside for neighborhood improvement strategies, parks and all kinds of different improvements and maintenance just scattered throughout the city so overall whenever we are thinking about the tax revenue that the city collects it's not just property tax we do have those sales tax dollars in there and then using the 2020 census population amount that Fernando had referenced what we were looking at from the fiscal year 21 to fiscal year 22 on kind of a cost per day per capita we're looking at going up about six to two point seven percent meaning that per person two hundred and fifty nine cents a day was paid in taxes and then we're expecting that to go up just a little to two point seven six to two dollars and seventy six cents two dollars and fifty nine cents a day alright and then thinking about what's next in our budget process we still have a couple of these town halls left if you would like to come join us at any more of these we have a budget work session just yesterday with council and then next Tuesday we will have public hearings for both the tax rate and the budget and then for September 21 during that council meeting we are planning on having the budget and the tax rate brought before council for a vote and then these are those remaining town hall meetings that we still have left and with that I am happy to bring up staff to help answer questions I do want to find out if Hazel got that two billion dollars for Roger I heard about that one he scared me to death by the way we're going to do I have to on behalf of a citizen who had to leave I'm going to ask each of you to look around and see if you see any car keys I'll apologize for the disruption involved with Mr. Willoughby he was taken home but he says he left his keys I don't know I don't know I don't I don't I don't know if we took him home or if UTA put him on what we it was UTA so that keeps my hands clean of that thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thanks for coming thanks for coming Dana has offered to take care of his keys thank you inside joke for those of you who are new I know you want to answer staff can join you we'll go through your questions i can help facilitate I don't know which way we're going to go Wood adels We talked about urban forestry earlier in the budget. Otherwise, it hasn't been able to cost urban forestry. And in the city survey that was done recently, it's about four pages if you recall, what the general public certain VISTAs, I guess, are addressing or what, and questions might have about everything that had to do with city services of any kind. There was not one mention in that survey that had to do with urban forestry. So, would we get a response to that from the people at the end of the survey? I may have mentioned that it was not mentioned in there. I don't know if we'll get a result or not. Yeah, I can't answer a question about urban forestry. Urban forestry is just a division so we have a special funding for urban forestry operation. We also have an urban tree program so it would help to plan new trees to see why. I don't have a property where we can plan a lot of trees. It's a bit of a park drill. And I'll get them to send it to you, but it's a bit of a park. Yeah, it's the only problem. We have special funding. Are you crazy? I just want to make sure that there's a tension being paid to it. You don't think this is a tension? You see, he's with a corally-fated tree lover here. Say no, Dave. Tell him, tell him, Dave. I'm featuring on Fort Worth Report, Star and Telegram. I'm the one bringing all the fuss about all the trees that are being torn down. Sorry, I just want to add, I wanted to ask if the gentleman was asking about urban forestry that the city performs on city rights-of-way and city property? Well, she's acting. I'm sorry, I was talking to the wrong person. Sorry, are you asking about urban forestry that the city performs with city trees on city rights-of-way and city property? Or are you asking about urban forestry for private property and developers and builders and that kind of thing? I'm talking about oversight having to do with developers and builders and who is policing that with DJ Harrell and how much money are we going to spend on that specifically? I don't want it hidden in the park record. Right, no, it's not. So the city does not have specific urban forestry inspectors. We're using gas well inspectors to perform urban forestry inspections. So we need forest rangers to perform. Well, we didn't have inspections at all until Ms. Bivens asked us to get inspections. She's the one who got us inspecting, yep. Yep, she's the one who got us inspecting, yep. Next question, running out of time. In the overall expectation of the city budget, what's the financial stress test that is conducted because obviously property value isn't going to increase forever? Eventually we will have property decrease and property value year over year in comparison. How is the city looking at the financial stress at any downfall in projections of property value over, say, a market crash in property value that might decrease city revenue by 5% or 10%. What is the financial stress that the city may still accommodate and how is that being modeled into the projections? I'm going to have Fernando come help with that. We actually expected property values to decline this year as a result of the pandemic because hotels had very little occupancy. Their values, we expected to drop. We expected retail values to drop. We expected office values. And to the contrary, those values increased. And so if we're able to withstand the pandemic in that way, I think we have every reason to be confident that our property values will continue to increase. Our residential values, this is a mixed blessing, but our residential values have increased even faster. And as we continue to grow and all the projections indicate that we will continue to grow, we are not expecting to crash. Now, God is looking after us and we're doing well. We're always going to be prepared for things to go wrong. But everything we see suggests that the property values will continue to increase. I'm here to help with the increasing homelessness that we're seeing. He's going to say, I can get your name and I can follow up with that. It is. I trust him. He knows markets. My question was about the lady mentioned about that project about getting done. Do you know if there's maybe a way we can add that to my footwork? Like a project tracker, I know they have that for 10 dot, but I know that a lot of times with the budget, we see the overall line out of number, but I know that there are like a man talking about everything. There are citizens who might want to track the actual expenditures or just see like what we're getting for our dollars or not just the overall amount that was spent on something, but like, you know, how much did we pay for that street like this on? We can bring that back to Sharon and her group that do the My Fort Worth app. I know that she's a big proponent of bringing on new features to that. Sharon, Gamble, Gamble, like a bond, bond, track. Yeah, they have that for 10 dot. I got some information to share with you guys. I know Michelle has something to share too. I'm going to go first. The most important thing you can do is engage. It's the most important thing you can do. I've pretty much gotten people away from expecting me to report problems. I need to be doing other things. You have to build up the money that comes to our district when you report problems. And so what I want you to do, get one of these cards, and we now have a new council and all the other council members are doing the same thing. We are trying to communicate the city's business. Now, I've told everybody, Kelly, I want to talk to you how to use My Fort Worth app. So for those of you who were like me, and you're not that tax savvy, tech savvy, my teeth aren't in yet. I think I'm going to get them out. But it was Jonathan Morrison who taught me how to email problems. I was on the council. He said, well, just send it to me. One, two, three, four. I said, what is that? Jonathan taught me that. That's on here. There are other ways to report problems. You can call, but I don't like calling because I put you on call. So what I want you to do is the next time you see a pothole, a loose doll, a mattress that's really, this is my mother off right now. We don't know it's there unless you tell us. I tell people all the time, you probably think we're driving around looking out for you. No. That's a time long ago. Now, there are people who do regular raps and rounds and they go about, but really we need the citizen re-engage. And so that's why this is important. I'll take you a minute. I'll finish up. Now, what I'm getting ready to do, because I've met some new young new friends on this council, Mr. Johnson, I want what they call a QR code. And I want a QR code that will take us to streets. That means you're going to help Jonathan, okay? That's what you get for clapping. We want to make it so easy for you to know how to handle the issues that take place in this district. Now, I was concerned when I saw we grew to 109,000. I think we've got enough people. But when you take a look at how we're growing, we're going to have to go bigger than that. So the bigger we get, we got to get smarter. If you want some lessons on getting code to come to your rescue, charge it. Raise your hand. That's the code queen. Disturred Carver Heights. When Tartier says, we need to do a sweep. Well, code would rather not deal with her and just do the sweep. My fifth, raise your hand. Code King. Okay. Mike helps look out for problems in district five as if he's lived over here. I just want to press upon you all to get this card, use this card. And if you want to know who the biggest tree-hugger we have is, it's the guy with the funny hat. And he wasn't in Washington on the 6th. He's here with us now. So, Daniel, thank you. Ms. Christine. Is there names and names? No. No. The names I called are just volunteers. But all you have to do is call Daniel. Take care of whatever you do. They've got adopted by Ms. Armstrong. And I had my stroke in 2018. Remember? Now, I saw a question. Because I need to have frequency. Carl Ellis told me that they're not able to see the pictures. You know, they make you take a picture of the violation. They want to call number one. Okay. CC Bill. We'll put CC Bill in touch with you. Okay. And they told me that their pictures, the pictures we take, they can't see. Talk to you. Have you heard that? Who can see it? The code. I see Mike said Mike. Yeah, my way around that, I reported through the 1, 2, 3, 4. I attached the pictures to that, going through the email. And if I know the code officer for that area, I will also attach that code officer to that complaint. That way they get it. And they're aware of it. That it's coming through the system eventually. That is the next step if we're supposed to be getting smarter. You just have to take a picture. And then they say, well, we can't see the picture. They saw my picture. They saw my picture. They saw my neighbor's picture. We're going to look into that. Look at all my reports. They tell me every time now I can't see the picture. Carl. Yeah. Carl Ellis was the. Long time ago, but he is the one there. And I see another. She's on her own side. Okay, Michelle. Before you leave, get this. It's in Spanish. And we're going to get us a QR code for everything that bothers y'all. Okay. I'm just just just a few more things. Thank you so much for coming out today on your Saturday. We do have a handout on the my Fort Worth app that has step by step instructions. If you haven't downloaded it, we do have the QR codes to download for Apple or. Android. So we've got this up here if you want to get it. And I will check into the pictures because the picture should be part of the work order. I would like you to pick up a list of the bond projects. If you didn't get that, we have copies out front. We also have handouts on redistricting and the communities of interest registration. Please be sure you leave your email address. And I will email you all of the presentations from today so that you'll have those. And once the video is ready, we will share that with Council Member Bivens and then she can share it with the neighborhoods. So if there are no other questions and whoever gives Mr. Willoughby his key, be sure and tell him that Michelle Goot found it. He'll like that.