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It is 01:16, and and I'll turn it immediately over to Jay Chapa. Good afternoon, everyone. I will jump into upcoming and recent events. I do wanna announce that, and it wasn't on anybody's calendars, and it was a miscue on staff's part. But we do have a special call meeting next Tuesday at 05:30 to go over the ordinances associated with the adoption of the budget and the crime control. You have to be in two separate meetings, so we're having a special call meeting at 05:30. And then the 06:00 meeting is where you actually vote on them.
There we do have the Hispanic Heritage evening event going on. We understand that it might take a while to get quorum closer to six, but we can have the other meeting start immediately after the special call meeting. So I just wanted to let everybody know, that's on your calendar now. As far as organizational updates, we have Holly Moyer, our interim HR director, is here to recognize, some professional graduates. Good afternoon. Holly Moyer, interim HR director, mayor and council.
I'm excited about telling you about our experienced professionals cohort. Now, when you think about it, what is an experienced professional? It says someone with twenty or more years of experience. But if you think about it, when you go into the workforce, you're in your workforce, what, eighteen, twenty? Forty five years, typically. So these are younger experienced professionals is what I'm calling them. So I I'm excited about this because this program just started in March. And so this team met about every six weeks to discuss a lot of, skill
sets that they have because not only do experienced professionals provide services to each other as a mentor, but also they have seen changes in the workforce. They've experienced growth in the workforce. So they have a lot of ideas and opportunities to make our city more successful. So when I thought about this, I was like I was talking with Shannon. I'm like, what is it that we've given them that opportunity that helps them become more of part of our city and our growth? And so she said that there's a lot of skill sets that people have that
actually helps us become better coworkers and peers. And so they went through this whole list of ideas and and topics that they went through. One of them was accountability, self awareness, but time management. And I'm like, can I sign up? Because I really need that. But also there's feedback and listening to others and also conversation, how to have difficult conversations. But the last thing they had was managing up and across. So this cohort team, which is a fantastic group of people, they've taken it to
the next level. It's not just within the community, but I am actually gonna point out to a few people. You're aware that I'm not calling you. So Kim Markle and Shannon, she's my sparkle. She's in HR. They're looking at doing a succession planning workshop. So again, from this group, we have more programs coming out of it, but we also have community programs. So I want to recognize here, Stephen Murray? All right, Stephen. He he and Shannon are looking at a zoning ambassador. So when you think about the community and the needs of the community, this zoning
ambassador is a great idea and opportunity to help our community navigate through the city. And last but not least, Buck Wheeler. Is he here today? Here you go. He's like, what? What am I doing here? So he's going to help with the library when it comes to all things about de escalation and conflict resolution. So partnering with the library to help in those skill sets for our employees. So I'm excited about this. I'm excited about the next group that's going to come through this. But I also wanted to recognize them individually. So bear with me if I say your name wrong.
I apologize. But Claire Davis, Patricia Garcia, Michelle Gorman, April Gray, Juan Guadalajarlo, Ayesha Hawkins, Brandy Hazel, Anne Herrera, Ashley Socar, Michael Casa, Sam King, Catherine Kirkpatrick, Laurie I'm sorry. I think I'm gonna mess it up. Lori Maniotis? Close enough? Okay. Okay. Maniotis. Sorry. Kim I'm I'm saying your sparkle to me.
Monica Murphy, Steven Murray, Brandy is it Faye? I apologize. Allison Rich, Juanita Rigsby, Robert Robinson, Carmen Rodriguez, Julie Romero, Lakita Slack, Becky Story, and Buck Wheeler. So congratulations on this group. We're excited about having you guys. We're excited about the things that you're gonna bring together with us with the experienced professionals. Thank you so much. Thank you. Now we gotta mix these folks with our young leaders, and there's nothing we can't
do. Sec next, I wanna call up Kevin Gunn, and he's gonna introduce our new IT solutions assistant director. Thank you, mister city manager, mayor, council. It is my distinct honor and pleasure to introduce our newest assistant director, in my management team, Bobby Lee. Bobby, come on up. Alright. Bobby has been with the city for a little over nine years and held increasingly responsible positions, first as our network manager, then as senior manager over IT infrastructure, and now as our assistant director responsible for technology infrastructure operations and public safety, technology.
So we're very proud of Bobby, and, I want you to know that he's a native of Watauga, and, joined the Marine Corps. As a former naval officer, he I'll say he made the second best choice in which branch to serve. But he joined right out of high school at the age of 19. It's 21, separating honorably, and that twenty one years incorporated lots of tours, including five combat tours, three in Iraq and two in Afghanistan. So very proud of him and his service to our country.
He retired as a chief warrant officer three, and, we appreciate his dedicated service to both our country and here, the city of Fort Worth. In his spare time, which I will add, there's very little spare time when you work in IT. But in his spare time, he enjoys, spending the, downtime with his family and working on his game on area golf courses. So please, join with me in welcoming Bobby Lee to our management team.
I'll say thank you to Kevin and to Sally for the opportunity for my fellow ADs, Mark, Cynthia, and Donlon for all their support. When I was serving in the Marine Corps for twenty one and a half years and time to get out, Kinda concerned about where do you go from there. And when you have strong leaders and strong, you know, core values and and such, you really worry about where you're gonna go next. And I say I got lucky being at the city because from the mayor and council, city management, directors, ADs, I'm just so impressed.
So happy to be part of the team. So thank you. Welcome, Bobby. We're thrilled that you're here. Thank you. That's all I have for announcements. I can jump into I formal I The first and formal report is, city inspections of, warranty homes and short term rentals. I'm Brian Daugherty's here with Brian, if you wanna come on up. Brian, if you could just give us an overview. And while you're walking up, I had the opportunity to read the IR. And, I just wanna thank you for all of the work that your department has
been doing to help us get a handle on these communal living, facilities throughout the city. So take it away. Thank you. Oh, no. Thank you. No. It's, it's it's a group effort. We work with police as well as a lot of development services. But, yeah, it's, it's quite the impact. And, it's it's I'm sure you read some of the some of the police stats were really fascinating to me where they're able able to identify missing persons as well as, you know, track down some other people. So, no, it's a it's a team effort. Just really proud of the group. Thank you, Ryan. I think it's worth noting too that the city is really leading the way across
the country I mean, across the state of Texas. This was an issue that's really come up in several other cities where they've struggled. So, appreciate council member Beck leading the way and and your team putting resources where needed. It looks like we're on the right track. So we really much appreciate you. Next IRS 25Dash0104 is the cost of fleet maintenance, and Marilyn Marvin's here from property management. Any questions? On fleet. Oh, Charlie. Go ahead. Mayor. Yeah. If I could just have, Marilyn come up to the, the podium real quick, please. She's on her way. Awesome. Well, she does really don't have any questions. It was, you know, we spoke to it.
First of all, sorry for not being able to be there in person, currently in Dallas with the wife. So, don't have any questions? I just wanted, to thank Marilyn and her team for all the amazing work they do there in fleet services, to keep all of our employees and all of our responders on the road, in a safe manner. Got to meet with them and really discuss how they get things done, and I was really impressed with the system and how it all works. And I recommend any of my colleagues who who aren't aware of how things work there with, fleet services, definitely sit down and talk with them. I think you'll be as equally impressed.
Marilyn, I believe you brought some of the team today. Is that correct? Yes, sir. I did. So if, my fleet management team would come up, they very rarely get, recognized. And so just wanna take this opportunity, and I really thank council member Lorenz Dorf for the opportunity for y'all to see your fleet management team who takes care of over 5,000 vehicles, for the city. Y'all are awesome. Thank you. Now now which department's the highest maintenance? This is your chance.
Don't don't answer. Don't answer. Some of them have answers. You can tell. Thank you. Great. Thank you, Marilyn. Thank you all for coming. We appreciate you very much. Next one's twenty five dash zero one zero five economic development quarterly report or quarterly update. And Kevin Gunn, is here to answer any questions. He's still director of Edit Economic Development and IT, for another week. I don't have any questions, but just, huge kudos to the department. There's a lot of amazing activity on this report and a lot of transition economic development. They have not skipped a beat. And, Kevin, we really do appreciate you serving in in dual capacity and to Ori
and Michael and everybody else. So congratulations. Appreciate every all the work they've done with that norm normal regular director and a vacant assistant director position. Twenty five dash zero one zero six, proposed 2026 council meeting schedule. And that will be coming at a future day for council approval. No questions. 25Dash0107, the proposed Council member Nettles. I need to add that. The discussion on that. No no true no true discussion on it, but I did want to, note that we will have an election cycle, for next year.
And I think there's a council meeting scheduled for election day. To to look at that carefully? Yes. We we oh, not about that. Yep. Yeah. We thought about that last year, and it was kinda a conflict. We wanna also make sure the city staff had opportunity to vote. So maybe we can look at that. Good point. Thank you. We'll look at that. I'm glad you brought that up too because I don't think in the past we've had meetings during Thanksgiving week either. So you might look at that. K. 25Dash0107. The proposed council initiated zoning changes for certain properties on Panther Island.
K. And, Yes. Council member Flores, just second. Brandon Utterback is here to answer any questions, plus we have a Susan Alaniz is a special guest. Susan really wants to get to the microphone. I just know it for old time's sake. No. She's shaking her head. Carlos, go ahead with your question. Yes. No question. I I mean, I'm familiar with this item. I would just like Susan to step us all through to see what we're trying to do, which is, in essence, encourage, development in areas that can be developed in Panther Island in order to jump start, something there and start contributing to the TIF. So with that, I'll let Susan give us some details.
I didn't escape successfully, but, so, basically, the we are planning for phase one of the canal system, implementation, next year, and we focused our, activities to issue an RFQ in November, or October or November to get a development partner to start working there. And as part of that, while the form based code is underway to be fully revamped, this phase one area, we're recommending, a a change in zoning that increases the
entitlements to raise the building heights up to 15 feet, as well as to add administrative approval for, buildings that don't meet the minimum standards so long as they are incorporated into a development that, does meet the minimum standards overall. So, it's an expansion of the entitlements. It'll allow us maximum flexibility as we go out to the market for a development part part, partnership for phase one. Thank you. If there's no other questions, 250108, the Tarrant County 911 District, 20 f y '26
budget approval. And Sunny Saxton is here to answer any questions, if there are any. Any questions from council? Nope. With that, that's my full report. Council, we do not have any, upcoming presentations today. So are there any other zoning cases you need to be flagged here, m and c's, change the memberships or boards on commissions? Yes. Carlos. Yes. I I do have one zoning case. It's coming up on the sixteenth. Okay. ZZ25Dash114. Basically, it looks at the transition, neighborhood MU districts, edge districts, and, transition for Swift
Armor in the Stockyards area to change that over to, HSS, which is historic shop front in the historic court. I'm going to continue that case until October because I need additional time to sit down and discuss this with a couple of interested parties, namely, Majestic. Again, as you know, they've had a change in their team, and, they need to be brought up to speed so that they're fully aware of it. Thank you, Carlos. Okay, counsel. If there are no other questions or things to flag, meeting is adjourned. Part: 2
Good evening, and welcome to the city council public comment meeting. Before mayor Parker calls the meeting to order, we ask that you please be seated and silence all all electronic devices. When your name is called, please come forward to the center podium. The countdown clock is displayed on the chamber monitor and will indicate how much time is remaining. A bell will sound when you have thirty seconds left. When your time has ended, the bell will sound again. Before you begin your comments, please state your name. Thank you. Hello. Good evening. Welcome to Fort Worth City Council. I'll call us to order. And I believe that pastor Chris Nettles is gonna deliver our prayer tonight.
Is that correct? I don't think Chauncey's here. Please rise for the invocation and remain standing for the pledges of allegiance. Alright. Let us bow. Gracious and most eternal god, we thank you for the opportunity to assemble in this place of government to govern your business in the city of Fort Worth. We ask your special blessing upon all these elected officials, the city staff, and our city as a whole. Bless us as we conduct the business for the city of Fort Worth and bless all our citizens. In the mighty name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Allegiance to the I of The United States Of America.
To the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The first item on today's agenda is consideration of the minutes for the August 5, August 12, August 19, and August 26 council meetings. I've got a motion and a second. Council, any other discussion? Please vote. You've got Flores, yes. Beck, yes. And Belaylock, yes. Thank you. Motion carries. Next will be public comments. Thank you. Our first speaker is Caroline James, followed by Rajeev Gupta.