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--------- Council, I think we can get started if you want to join me on the dis. >> Good morning and welcome to the city council meeting. Before Mayor Parker calls the meeting to order, we ask that you please be seated and silence all electronic devices. City council meetings are conducted for the official

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business of city council and to receive input from residents. Members of the public attending meeting shall observe rules of decorum and shall not engage in the conduct that interferes with the ability of those present to observe or to participate in the meeting without disruption or fear of intimidation,

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threats or hostility. An individual engaging in disruptive conduct may be removed from the chamber and could be arrested for disruption of a meeting. Speakers who engage in disruptive conduct could have their mute mic muted and may be removed from the chamber and

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arrested for disruption of a meeting. Disruption disruptive conduct includes yelling, screaming, clapping, and other noise creating acts. For those of you who have requested to speak, when your name is called, please come forward to the center podium. The countdown clock is displayed on the left monitor and

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will indicate how much time is remaining. A bell will sound when you have 30 seconds remaining. Before you begin your comments, please state your name and city of residence. Thank you. >> Good morning and welcome to Fort City Council meeting. We are now called to order.

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Today's invocation will be by Reverend Joel McMaster McAllister from First Christian Methodist Church. Please rise for the invocation and remain standing for the pledges of allegiance. >> Amen. Let us let let us now pray. This

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is the day that the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and let us be glad in it. Dear Lord God, we come before you this day asking for your continued grace, asking for your loving kindness, asking

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for your mercy. We thank you, God, for we know that the earth and the heavens were created by you. We thank you for waking us, for starting us on another day's journey, for giving us, oh heavenly father, not only access to be

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able to breathe the breath of life, for giving those here, these elected leaders and officials and all these representatives with the privilege, the responsibility as well as the opportunity to care for your people in

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this city, in this state, in this nation, and in this world. Allow us, oh God, to hear the hearts and the cries and the concerns as well as the needs of

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your people. Speak to us, speak through us. Use us as vessels for your glory. We thank you, oh God, for what you've already done. We thank you, oh God, for what you're doing right now. We thank

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you, oh God, for what you have promised to do and will do. Lift up your heads, oh ye gates, and lift them up, ye everlasting doors, and the king of glory

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shall come in. We thank you, we praise you, and we seek you because we need you. Through Jesus name we pray. Amen. States of America. We will begin with special presentations

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which and the first one is a presentation of recognition to Marie Love for her longstanding leadership and service with the United Communities Association of South Portland. >> All right. Good morning, uh, council.

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Um, I want to take a time to acknowledge a special person and introduce someone to you as well to Councilwoman Marie Love. Yeah. I mean, y'all didn't know. Yeah. Councilwoman. And so all the things that is approved in District 8, if it's not ran by this beautiful young

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lady, um, it's a problem. And I don't know if y'all have ever heard of Eric Maize. This is the female lady of Councilwoman Marie Love. We really want to take the opportunity to really um acknowledge Miss Marie Love for her astounding work. Uh what we do in

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Southeast is a little bit different. We try to be community oriented and so we have a lot of neighborhood associations and many years ago and I think Maria tell us uh they conducted or established United united communities association of southeast which is an association that

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oversees all the neighborhood associations and they come together and make sure that the uh businesses development the homes that come to Southeast for work is all the same. And so really wanted the opportunity to really thank you uh Miss Marie Love for

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uh your continued support. And so each year we do a all-star award and this year for some reason we didn't wasn't able to give Miss Marie Love the award. So we wanted to make sure we take time out this morning and honor her for her community impact all-star awards honoring our community leader United

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Communities Association of South Fort, Miss Marie Love. It is an honor and a privilege to represent you on the Fort City Council. Your dedication and your commitment to this city is well appreciated. Today we honor you and we honor your family and uh Fort Worth District number eight for all stars.

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Thank you, Miss Marie Love. >> Thank you, Councilman uh Nettles. I appreciate it very much. And thanks to the city uh leaders leaders of Fort Worth. Uh, I've kind of been with the neighborhood association since 1973 when I moved in

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that area. And so I've been a part of that. I've been president and secretary and on the board for many, many years type thing. So it's a privilege to work in my neighborhood. It's a privilege to I call

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him all the time and say, "Okay, we need to do this. We need to do that type thing." and going up and down Riverside Drive, you know, uh, in our neighborhood, which is, uh, Glen Crest typically also. But, um, I just want to say thank you. You know,

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you y'all don't want me to see me crying up here. So, let me let me get through now. Thank you very much. You are. >> And we have some other representatives from the new Mitchell Boulevard. If y'all will come up and take some picture. And her family is here as well. Come up and take a photo with Miss Marie

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Love. Next will be a presentation recognition for military appreciation month. If Charlie and Elizabeth would like to join me down here, you'd be welcome to do so. Military Appreciation Month is a time to

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honor and recognize the dedicated men and women of the US Armed Forces who have selfishly served and protected our nation is an opportunity to show gratitude for their sacrifices, their bravery, the unwavering commitment to defending our

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freedoms. Throughout May, we celebrated our military community, including active duty service members, veterans, and their families, and reaffirm our commitment to supporting them both at home and abroad. We have so many wonderful attendees and organizations here today that are worth reading.

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Alongside me today are two of our own veterans and actually still serving in the reserves, Council Member Charlie Larsdorf and Army veteran Elizabeth Beck, are important reminders of how important it is to recognize those that have served our country. And for that, I know this entire council is very grateful for their leadership and

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service to our nation. Just this year, Fort Worth continues to gain accolades and important notes of of um established um recognition in the aviants and defense capital of Texas, which I think is only because of the heavy military

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and veteran presence we have. They are real heroes to everyone today. Just yesterday, I was on Instagram scrolling and a a video posted of a friend of mine whose husband came home after over 367 days deployed came home to his kids. I

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think those are the memories for me to remember to recognize those that have served our country. Today in attendance we have the AirPower Foundation, Big Country Veterans, Carry the Load, Community Learning Center, Cowtown Warriors, Loheed Martin Armed Forces

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Bowl, Mesa Springs Help for Heroes Unit, Next Stop Veterans, Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, One Tribe Foundation, Texas Veterans Commission, Tarant County Veterans Council with the Fort Worth Veterans Parade, the Tarant County Area Food Bank, Veterans and

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Business Fort Worth, UTA Veterans Business Outreach Center, and Roll call just to name a few that are throughout Tarant County. If each of you don't mind standing for a minute to be recognized, we'll take pictures in a moment. Thank you. >> Have it. Just making sure we they have the recognition. So, I think we're going

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to take a picture here. Any of the council's welcome to come down and join us as well. And if someone would like to say a few words, you'd be welcome to. I know that Captain Huttler is also going to be here for the America 250th. Any of the organizations that would like to speak, you'd be welcome to. Anybody like to be put on the spot?

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>> Come on up. >> Please come on up. Chuck, great to see you. >> From the governor, from Texas's best agency, we want to thank the city of Fort Worth. Um, by the way, if you don't know this, third

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largest county in veteran population in the state. A little bit more. Dog's like, "Don't forget to get me. My name is Patrick E. Alorn. I'm the senior director of the Veterans Business Outreach Center located at the University of Texas at Arlington. I just

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want to say thank you first of all for this recognition and I just want to remind everyone in the room that veterans are more than their incapacities of homelessness, mental health issues, physical issues, and all the other challenges that most cities and most organizations celebrate.

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Veterans are also capacity builders, building the economy and communities where they live and serve as small business owners. And our office is responsible for helping veterans transition to that that new service beyond service in the uniform. So we

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don't veterans are not individuals who have served. There are v individuals who continue to serve and thank you for supporting us as we continue to serve. Thank you. Come on up, please. >> My name is Roland Pette. I'm with the

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Tarant County Veterans Council. And we, for people who don't know, we put on the Fort Worth Veterans Day parade. It's 11 month process. Once we're done with one parade, we take a m month off

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and start it again. But honorable Parker, it could not happen without the support of the city of Fort Worth, the police department, and all the other agencies

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involved. Thank you very much for your support. I'll give you a warning. And if you ride with Councilor Larsdorf, there's plenty of remarks to other Marines along the parade route for sure. It's always a good time. Um, it is apppropo that we're

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also here to recognize and celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States of America. And I'm flanked today to my left represented by Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base and our very own Captain Huffetler to receive this recognition. Captain, it's always so great to see you. Thank you for taking

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time to be here. The United States, as we all know, you've seen these celebrations across the country, is marking its 250th anniversary on July 4th, 2026. Commemor commemorating the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence, and the nation's founding. Known as the semicquential,

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the milestone celebration of 250 years of American history, democratic ideals, innovation, and cultural achievement. While reflecting on the challenges and progress that have shaped our great nation, we thought it was very important that we take the time today in this chamber before we break in July to

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recognize and celebrate the 250th anniversary of United States of America. And we're so pleased to have Captain Huff Settler to help us do that. Captain, >> I asked the mayor to dress up in whatever color she wanted to for which service she wanted to represent. So, your white and gold looks wonderful. and

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uh and the Navy appreciates your endorsement. Uh and I do just want to say just a few quick things. One, uh first and foremost, just to um mayor, to the council members here, um I know to to raise your right hand and to serve

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others before yourselves takes a lot of discipline. It takes a lot of sacrifice. It takes a lot of hard work. So, even though I'm sure not everybody in here agrees on uh on every topic that'll come up, just know that uh that we appreciate your sacrifice and your service. And uh

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it means a lot because if we have if we have ideals that we believe in, um then we need to be willing to stand up and fight for them. And so each one of you is doing that. And that that same uh spirit of sacrifice and um and spirit of

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servantthood undergurs everything that our military does and everything that we believe in. And uh this city has been nothing short of phenomenal in supporting our base. Um as you know, we've been a naval air station for 32 years now. Uh run run by the Navy. Uh but we were Carwell Air Force Base well

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before that. And uh and supporting the World War II effort is is really what our foundations were. And so um you know, I would just offer to you as we look around the room and all the organizations, these folks over my last three years as a commanding officer of the base have become great friends. Y'all have become great friends. And uh

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and it's and it's a community like this that really supports their service members when they deploy for 367 days, when they go into harm's way, when they lo lose a shipmate, um marine, soldier, airmen on the field of battle. Uh you all, this community is who steps in and

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supports those families uh when the time comes. So um on behalf of everybody we have here, I got my command master chief Sean Bohannan. If you should raise your hand, say hi to everybody. We've got we've got two of our sailors of the year, AT3 Atensio and PS1 OJ. Stand up.

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You got smile. And I've got my my photographer extraordinaire, MC2 Cunningham, and our public affairs officer, Miss Sandy Owens, over here. So, thanks to all of you for your support. Thanks for what you do. Thanks for

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believing enough in um this nation and what it means, what our foundations were, who we are today, and and the belief that tomorrow will be even better. Thank you for serving and know that it's our honor to continue to serve on y'all's behalf. Thank you. Okay, next up is the mayor recognition

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for y'all means all. As our city as our city continues to grow and thrive for all its imperfections, its growing pains and differing viewpoints of our residents, it is our home and it belongs to everyone. A sense of belonging, of

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respect, of love for our neighbors. And at the center of all that is our slogan, y'all means all. Today's merit recognition is to recognize that all people, all families, all Fort Worthians are truly welcome. All unique

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backgrounds, experiences, contributions, and people of our city, expanding opportunities for every resident. It is truly essential for force growth, prosperity, and long-term visible and long-term vision to be the most livable and best managed city in the entire

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country. But you can't do that if you don't also recognize all residents. Our LGBTQ residents and entrepreneurs in Fort Worth are truly vital contributors to our city's success. They are our brothers and our sisters. They deserve to be recognized and I am so proud to do so today. Is imperative we embrace

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people of all identities as was mentioned if we truly want to be a Fort Worth where everyone is valued and truly free from discrimination. I'm so proud today to have so many wonderful organizations here with me as well. I may ask our our leader who helped put

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today together, Felipe Gutierrez, to come up in a minute. Um, but first, I'm going to read this recognition. If you'd like to join me, if you came this morning for this recognition, you can behind me. Whereas the city of Fort Worth is committed to fostering community where all residents and visitors are treated with dignity, respect, and fairness.

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Whereas since 1999, June has been nationally recognized as LGBTQ Pride Month and providing opportunity to honor its history, resilience, and contributions of individuals and allies throughout the United States. Whereas Fort Worth has grown into one of America's great cities and is now the 10th largest city in the nation with a

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population exceeding 1 million residents in a regional economy generating hundreds of billions of dollars in economic activity each year. Whereas LGBTQ plus residents, professionals, entrepreneurs, artists, educators, healthcare workers, first responders, public servants, and business leaders play an important role in strengthening

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force economy, workforce, culture, and quality of life. And whereas the contributions of LD LGBTQ plus individuals can be found throughout every sector of our community, helping drive innovation, creativity, philanthropy, tourism, small business development, and civic engagement. And

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whereas this Fort Worth continues to gain national international recognition and welcomes visitors from around the world, especially today, dealing with and and celebrating the 2026 FIFA World Cup and other global opportunities, our city's reputation is strengthened by the diversity of our people and communities

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who contribute to its success. Whereas Fororth Pride Month provides an opportunity to celebrate the diversity and experiences and perspectives to help make Fort Worth a vibrant, welcoming, and economically strong city where y'all truly does mean all. Whereas community organizations, neighborhood partners, cultural institutions, and local

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businesses continue to create opportunities for connection, celebration, and engagement to enrich the lives of our residents. And sometimes you just turn to those that are much more poetic than myself. It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love, or how you love. It matters only that you

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love. Thank you to John Lennon. And this at this time, I'll hand this over to Felipe and everyone here. Thank you, mayor, and thank you, council. Uh, on behalf Well, I don't speak to about I don't speak on behalf of every LGBT resident. Uh, you said it doesn't matter where you live, but we do

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love uh, Fort Worth, and we love loving in Fort Worth. So, thank you to all of you uh, for all the work that you put in and making sure that every resident of the city of Fort Worth feels welcome. U,, I also brought Megan Henderson, who is president of Near Southside, Inc., and Roger Calderon who's president of

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Trinity Pride. Uh also to accept today's recognition along with all of our friends. Uh so I just want to say thank you to all of you and we're looking forward to a great festival this Saturday. So thank you >> Mayor Parker Council. I want to just express my deepest appreciation and

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sincerity in accepting the award on behalf of a community that calls Fort Worth home and is proud to be here in Fort Worth. I want to thank you for your pro your policies of inclusion and I want all of invite all of you to come and join us on Saturday for Trinity Pridefest on South Main Street in the

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near southside. The festival kicks off at 6 p.m. and runs till 11 p.m. Many of the business owners in the district, faith communities and other contributors and partners of the festival will be there on site supporting it. Last year we had over 7,000 people who attended. It was a wonderful festival and so you

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can see how rich and diverse the community is in person if you'd like to join us. Thank you so much for today. Um, thank you um, so much. Um, on behalf of Trinity Pride Fort Worth, and the rest of our community, I I want to say uh that it has been such a pleasure working with the city, uh, the police

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department, the fire department, the office of uh, uh, event emergency management, OEM, I know, OEM, um, being able to provide a safe and secure space on South Main Street for this festival. And so I want to thank all of you. Um I

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do also want to say to our community behind us, um I'm so proud of the work that each and every one of you has done to make this community a home for so many people. And um thank you to the city also for letting us do that work.

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Council >> Beck's being shy, but she's not going to say anything, but anybody's welcome to join me for a picture. Okay. All right, here we go. Right here. One, two, three, four. All right.

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>> Thank you. Okay, council, we are in soccer season, football season, but very important that we recognize our own Fort Viceros football club. Any council members also willing to join me here? I think Carlos, have you have you played for them before? Did you try on the field ever?

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Yeah, not for them. They wouldn't have you. Um, where are our friends from Vicaros here? Are they here? Come on down, please. There they are. I think it's important to note Fort Worth would have never been ready to be a part of FIFA this year had it not been

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for the important groundwork that Vicaros has made in Fort Worth and the soccer and football scene. So, for that, we're incredibly, incredibly thankful. Please allow me to read this recognition. Whereas the Fororth Faker football club has served the Forth community for more than 13 years as the area's longestr running pre-professional

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soccer club, promoting the growth of soccer while representing the city with integrity, inclusivity, and competitive excellence. Whereas in 2026, the Fort Vicaros achieved a historic milestone by advancing their men's program into the USL League 2, one of the nation's premier pre-professional soccer leagues,

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bringing increased regional and national recognition to Fort Worth and the soccer community. And whereas the club continues to demonstrate its commitment to advancing opportunities in women's athletics throughout the Fort Worth Vicaris who enter their second season in the women's premier soccer league WPSL

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and provide a platform for female athletes to compete at a high level. And whereas the Fort Worth Viceros are dedicated to youth development and community service through their nonprofit academy which provide which removes financial barriers to participation and provides local youth with access to quality coaching,

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mentorship, and positive athletic opportunities. regardless of socio-economic background. And whereas through their leadership in men's, women's, and youth soccer, as well as their enduring commitment to service, inclusion, and community engagement, the fourth Viceros have made significant contributions to the cultural, athletic,

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and civic life of Fort Worth and continue to inspire future generations of players and fans. Now, therefore, the city of Fort Worth does hereby recognize and commend the Fort Worth Vicaros Football Club for outstanding achievements, community impact, and continued dedication to advancing the sport of soccer in Fort Worth, Texas.

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We're here today with Anthony Harris, the general manager, Amanda Sheldon, community engagement, Tony Morola, head coach of the Vicaros, and Sergio Urbanol, head coach of the Vicaras. Anthony and the team would welcome to say anything, please. >> Thank you, mayor. Thank you, uh, city

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councilman and office here. I appreciate the time, this moment. Uh, we want to say thank you for this moment, this recognition. Um, everyone knows there's a a little tournament going on here in the community and we're so excited to have it here in our city and close close

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by, but um, on behalf of Amanda Sheldon in our front office, Sio Bernal, our women's head coach, uh, Tony Merrell, our men's head coach, we just want to say thank you as being uh, one of Fort Worth's longest running sports franchises. Um, over 12 years we've been in the community. I personally sign up

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for as many career days as I can and I'm sure I've done a career day in every single one of your districts. Uh but I appreciate your work in in the city and everything you do for our communities and supporting the sport. So, thank you. Thank you. >> Max want to say anything?

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>> Of course. Please come up. >> No, please do. >> Um as a as a Welshman, not Englishman, I'd like to say uh go USA. >> Not England. Next will be items to be continued or withdrawn.

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We have a few items to be continued or withdrawn. Uh removed from the consent agenda is MNC 26-0529 um MNC 26-0525 and MNC 26-0539

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so that council members can either vote separately recuse or make a substitute motion or an amended motion. uh M andC's to be withdrawn completely are M andC 26-0543

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and M andC 26-0549 along along with zoning case 26- No sorry those are the two that are be uh withdrawn now two zoning cases will be continued ZC26-062

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to the August 11th meeting and ZC26-41 to the August 25th meeting. >> Thank you, Jay. J, I think we can proceed with consent. Then we have >> to the consent speakers. Mayor, >> thank you. Our first speaker is Adrienne

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Smith, followed by Leticia Wilburn. Adrien Smith, District 6 I and one with the people. West 7 Bridge Lighting Improvements. This is uh American Council Communication 26-E0520.

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West 7 Entertainment District, one of Fort Worth's pride and joy for all things Fort Worth uh area. There is no limits for what is spent irregardless of cost to we the taxpayers. What you have is form over substance

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questions. Who came up with this proposal? Who or what are they connected to? Are we trying to put on a light show for people to be all about? Are we trying to improve overall safety?

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If you're seeking to distract people, then the then the interchange of lights is the go-to. But if you are seeking to improve safety, then a standard set of lighting that illuminates every aspect of the bridge without distraction should

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be priority. This doesn't rise to the level of putting lipstick on a pig, but it is hanging a dominant diamond necklace around the neck of a mural. Which is going to win, show or utility? And the

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current price tag for this uh project is $2,141,825.84. The previous price tag, which is just two and a half years ago, Mayor Parker is $2,500,000, bringing us to a total of $4,641,825.

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And don't let me forget the cent 84 cent to taxpayers. Now, what are we doing here? The forward report did an article regarding seven the seventh street bridge. Seems like you all are throwing taxpayer money into

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a light show that doesn't benefit any of us. It's just costing us. So, it says Fort Worth's West 7 Bridge, and I quote, Fort Worth's West 7 Bridge has become iconic. The bridge is often depicted in foreground on promotional materials for

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the city including website banners. In many of those images, the bridge is lit up mirroring the neighbor the neighbor former Pier One in Ports building soon to be Fort Worth's new city hall. However, keeping the lights working has

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been a challenge, said Clint Hoover, a transportation engineer manager with the city. The stern c of stren uh stern um the stern the current state of affairs is that the lighting is very labor

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intensive and very expensive to keep up with mayor mayor park mayor park mayor park we need standard lights to fix this problem not interchangeing lights that's costing us millions of dollars >> uh Lauren Priier our transportation

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public works director I might just have you speak about this item just in the effort of transparency and less confusion. Thank you. >> Sure. And just just to clarify, uh the original budget was set at $2.5 million. And so this

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contract is for roughly $2.1 million. So it's not additive. It is $2.1 million. And so this is essentially a design build contract, not a low bid, primarily because of the specialty nature of this lighting. Uh this is a uh preformed

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bridge, so we have to be very careful about how we and add uh lighting fixtures to this bridge. It's not as simple as remove and replace. >> Thank you very much, Lauren. We appreciate it. Our next speaker is Leticia Wilburn.

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I don't see her. Um, sorry, Janette. Is this all >> that's it for? >> That's it. Okay. Thank you. Okay, that's all for consent. You can go vote to a consent agenda. Motion in a second. Please vote.

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Motion carries. Next will be MNC26-0525 which was pulled from consent. It's the Kent East fee increase. Thank you. Council, I can entertain a motion. >> Motion and a second. Council, please

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vote. I don't think we have any vote buttons yet. motion carries. Next is MNC26-0529, which is the Brown Ranch Hines Development Agreement.

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>> Thank you. I think we have an amendment on the floor. Is that correct? Thank you, Council Member Crane. >> Yes, Mayor. Before I uh introduce this motion, I'd like Where's Dana Bergdov? Would you mind coming up for just a second? >> I want to say as you're coming up, thanks to the hours and hours of work

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spent on putting this development agreement together. Um I do see Thaad and Austin out there representing this. There's been a shift of us uh before not allowing muds or moving away from muds

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and going to a capital pit. Um this is a mud a municipal utility district. Will you tell us why we're shifting back and why uh this is important to be done? >> Certainly. Thank you. Council member Crane, Dana Burd, assistant city manager. So um over the last couple of state legislative sessions, municipal

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authority has been reduced or removed with regard to our ability to um address planning within our extr territorial jurisdiction or to retain our extr territorial jurisdiction. And so property owners now have the um the

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right to withdraw from our extr territorial jurisdiction and still work with the public utility commission to uh obtain water and sewer services from the city as well as to um have the the the public utility commission create special

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districts without our consent. And so uh we thought it best to come to the table with the uh Brown Ranch property owner and the developer. Uh this is an area that we've had identified within our comprehensive plan as a planned service area, an area where we intended to

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provide water and sewer services as well as other general city services within the next several years. And so because it's an area we've been planning for, it's actually um closer in some ways to our city limits than some parts of Walsh Ranch. Right? Walsh Ranch is sort of south and and west of of Brown. And so

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this is an area that was logical for the city of Fort Worth to serve. So, one of the things that coming to the table did for us is give us the ability to negotiate additional improvements that might not otherwise be required through our subdivision ordinance, uh, if it were to still apply, uh, or through our

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rough proportionality requirements under state law. And so, we were able to negotiate additional off-site, particularly roadway improvements that would exceed the rough proportionality requirements. So, for example, they're able to improve Walsh Ranch Parkway offsite south to where it currently

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terminates just south of Old Weatherford Road. They're able to improve Walsh Ranch Parkway north of the district up to White Settlement Road. Similarly, um West Point Boulevard east of Brown Ranch to where it terminates and potentially improvements to Old Weatherford Road itself east of Walsh Ranch Parkway. So,

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those are some additional negotiating terms that we were able to obtain. Also, they've agreed to comply with our park dedication policy, which doesn't typically apply or isn't legally allowed to apply within our ETJ. Um, they've dedicated they're dedicating flood plane for open space. And so, there's a number

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of concessions that they've been willing to work with us. Um, so we've tried to have it be a win-win uh for for us as well as then, as you've alluded to, some of the hours that we've spent trying to work with neighbors, neighboring ranch owners, property owners with respect to how the roadways will flow through those

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properties and where future intersections will be located to try to reach a good outcome for everyone. >> Yeah. One of the road improvements you talked about was a two instead of a two-lane, which we require a fourlane. Correct. as part of that. Um, we've talked a lot too and I I will say this

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of of playing catchup in the north and I've been pretty vocal that we're not going to do that the west side of Fort Worth. We're spending hundreds of millions of dollars trying to keep up or retroactively go back and build roads in the north part of Fort Worth. But here I think we're being proactive in building that. Is is that correct? >> Yeah, that's correct. And and the other

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p piece I'll point out is the other thing we've been able to do is they've agreed to charge a $1 tax rate, property tax rate or assessment uh per $100 of valuation. And so obviously that will change over time as they pay off some of their debt. But having that higher tax rate then um actually assists us in the

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future if we choose to annex the property once once the debt is paid off um and the the district the special district is no longer needed. So that's something that helps us um with with working with those property owners and residents in the future. >> Perfect. I just want to put that all on the record so when we get flooded by developers thinking that we're already

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uh that muds are the thing now. I think clarification of those rules will be important for everybody moving forward. >> Thank you. >> And we also don't don't they don't have eminent domain authority. So we retain that for offsite. >> That's great for us to Okay. I have this motion. Uh I move to approve MNC 260529

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with the following amendments. add a master roadway network alignment exhibit to the MNC, a copy of which is on file with the city secretary, and direct city staff bring forth an amendment to the master roadway network that is generally consistent with the attached alignment.

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Next item will be MNC26-0539 which is the CCPD emerging partners grants. That's okay. Um with regards to MNC260539, I'm going to recuse myself um due to my participation on the executive board for United Way.

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Second question. Motion carries. Next will be announcements by city council members. Thank you, Council Member Flores. >> Thanks, Mayor.

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Lights up, please. We have two. All right. Uh, reading left to right. Uh, myself, uh, CM Martinez, and CM Hill attended, uh, Paul rather, sorry, attended the breakfast with champions at Billy Bob's, uh, Texas along with other

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supporters. And uh we enjoyed a morning of learning, inspiration, what networking can do to make a difference in the lives of these participants in Special Olympics. So they're all athletes in the true spirit of the word. Center uh of the slide uh was honored to

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recognize the North Fort Worth Historical Society as it celebrated its 50th anniversary. Quite a milestone. They were established in uh 1976 and they continue to work to preserve, protect and promote the rich history of North Texas and the stockyards. on the

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right. Uh we hosted the Croatian Minister of Justice uh Habib John and his uh delegation in the stockyards or of course came in for FIFA since FIFA is here and they viewed uh lots of the sites historic sites in the stockyards

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uh went into the coliseum at Cattleman's enjoyed the Fort Worth herd immensely. So uh very great op you know optimistic and uh wonderful feedback you know from their visit here for work. Next slide. Many of us uh participated in Opal Lee's

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annual walk for freedom. She unfortunately could not join us but she was there in spirit. So uh just very honored to continue that tradition walking in unity to honor Junth and the continued uh strive for freedom unity and resilience. in the center attended

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the LULAC national convention uh their presidential awards to hear Latino leaders uh present about what's going on in local, state, and national politics. Uh I know that our city manager was there along with uh Council Member

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Martinez as well. So my thanks to Basita Fort Worth, the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce for making that happen. And last, we have the Far Greater North Side Historical Neighborhood Association who held their Junth celebration in Lincoln Park on Saturday. So, appreciation to

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Sharon Warren. She took a lot of that uh burden to get all the logistics set up and make that happen. Thanks to the parks department, food vendors, volunteers, Fort Worth Fire Department, Fort Police Department, COBlue, uh City of Fort Communications Engagement were also there. Netland Security Metro

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popped in and crime prevention specialist Doc Kent. And that is all I have there. Chris, council member Nettles. >> Sorry. Thank you. Um, on the first slide, I had an opportunity to go to Mount Olive

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Missionary Baptist Church, uh, to be a guest speaker for the peace over problems team conflict resolution leadership training. Uh, it was great to see those young people actively working to solve problems here in the city of Fort Worth. Next slide, please. Uh, this

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is a walkthrough for Renaissance Heights phase three. Uh, applications open up July uh, open up in July. This is the third phase of Columbia renaissance that's happening in East Fort Worth uh southeast for Worth behind the wall mark. Looking forward for the final

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phase with u the homes being built. Next slide please. Junth press conference at Bob Bolan uh with Dr. Oale u with some other community uh leaders with Chief Garcia had opportunity to talk about the importance and why we support Junth here

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in the city of Fort Worth. Next slide. All right. the Junth walk uh open walk for freedom. Um had the opportunity to do the opening prayer and later on speak on behalf of Mayor Parker uh to thank all of the walkers for for participating

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in the walk for freedom uh Trinity Metro participated. Miss Junth and so many others as well as my council members. Next slide please. Junth soul of Sycamore. Uh this year I did not participate in the food contest but I did participate in all other things. Uh

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we have our young candets I believe they also um did a slide together. I mean uh chaa slide. So it was good to see them uh moving doing the moves and grooving um uh celebrating Junth. Those are my final slides. Thank you.

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>> Thank you Chris. Council, >> real quick, um you saw us uh recognize the Osprey Bass Angler Foundation at the last council meeting and um we had the opportunity to attend that event. Um you can see that they were catching plenty

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of fish there that day. Um that young man won a special prize because his fish was special tagged. Um I don't think anyone caught the albino fish that they put in there. So, if you want to head out to um Greenbryer Park and uh do a

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little fishing, you might catch a surprise. Um next slide. Had the opportunity to join my colleagues and the community in the u walk. Next slide. Okay, coming up um seminary neighborhood um is part of our neighborhood

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improvement program and we have a meeting coming up um at the community center. Um, so I'd uh I'm sorry I can't June 25th. So, um I hope that you'll um join us out there from 11 to 12 to um to

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talk about the improvements to the community center as part of that neighborhood improvement project. Next slide. It is the summer of soccer. If you hadn't heard, there's a game going on um in Arlington. And even when there's not a game in Arlington, uh Sundance Square is broadcasting live all

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of the FIFA games. So, if you were looking for a place to watch a game and celebrate with your community, um Sunnyance Square is really knocking it out of the park. They typically have entertainment that coincides with the um the teams that are playing in those games. So, I'd recommend you head on out

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there if you're looking for a place to sweat and watch soccer. Um next slide. Last but not least, you heard people mention Trinity Pridefest coming up this weekend. It is from 6 to 11. If you are interested in participating in the short march that they have at the beginning of

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of Pridefest, it starts a lineup starts at 5:45 at the corner of Broadway in South Houston. And those are all the comments I have. >> Thank you, Council Rebeck. Council Martinez. >> Thank you, Mayor. Just have a few slides. Next slide, please. Um, I want

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to start by thanking uh my team, uh, Rachel and Natalie, uh, for stepping in for me this weekend. um as I was called away for a family funeral. Um the girls attended uh the Junth parade and celebration this Saturday, June 20th at Sycamore Park. Um District 11 and staff

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celebrated Junth by participating in the parade and hung out with Fort Worth PD and Code Blue at the Cops Versus Community Barbecue cookoff. Um congrats to Cliff Sparks and everybody that was involved in the planning on another successful event. Next slide.

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Uh, District 11 also uh was able to uh participate in another ML uh Junth event at the MLK community center. We uh received a request from a resident Henry Thomas who puts on this event every year and so we were happy to support him by donating uh fans, snacks, juice and

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water for the seniors that that are a part of this event. Uh I also had the opportunity to read at Freedom School at True Vine Missionary Baptist Church on June 16th. It was a wonderful experience and I want to thank Miss Loretta Burns with AB Christian Academy for the

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invitation. It's always fun to go out there and read to the kids and just listen to the music of the they're wonderful group. Next slide. District 11 has one improvement program coming up in Riverside. So on June 30th 6 p.m. this is going to be a virtual

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meeting. Uh, this meeting is to update residents on upcoming construction related to the installation of a 36 inch water mane on North Side Drive from well, this one's not on North Side Drive because that's north side from Booker Street to Springdale Road. Um, and so

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there is a project page and this is also posted on the uh different social media platforms and the district 11 web page. That is all. Mayor and council, there are no uh non-conent agenda speakers that are not public

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hearing or zoning. Thank you. >> Our next item will be CP-338 from district 9. Now, am I correct? We're going to take um all three of these CPS to wave the rules at one time

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and then we'll vote on each one individually. Is that correct, Leanne? Okay. So, council, all we're doing this first vote is just to wave the rules for us to actually be able to consider these TPS today and then we'll vote on them each individually. So, I can entertain a motion, a motion and a second. Council,

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please vote. >> Thank you. Motion carries. Mayor, do you want to move to the next ones until council member back comes >> repeat that? >> Would you like to go to three 339 and

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then come back to 338 when council member Beck returns? >> I think she'll be okay. Yeah. Move to approve a motion to second. Please vote on the record that council Beck is very supportive of this waiver of park fees. Motion

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carries. >> Next is CP-339 from district 8. Motion a second. Please vote. Motion carries. Next is CP-340 from District 6.

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>> Motion and a second. Council, please vote. Motion carries. Next is 26-6044 Board appointments from district 2. >> Council member Flores. >> Thank you, Mayor. Mayor and Council request your consideration to appoint the following individual the respective

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board with a partial term effective June 23rd, 2026 and ending October 1st, 2026. Jacqueline Auger, Community Development Council. A motion a second. Council, please vote. Motion carries. >> Next is 26-6047

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board appointments from district 10. Council member Jameson. uh request your consideration to appoint the following individual to the respective board with a partial term effective June 23rd, 2026 and ending

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October 1st, 2026. Felix Garcia for Park and Recreation Adventure Board. >> Motion a second. Please vote. >> Motion carries. Next is 26-646045. Motion a second. Please vote.

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Motion carries. Next is 26-6046. Motion and a second. Council, please vote. >> Motion carries. >> Next is 26-6048. >> Motion in a second. Please vote.

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Motion carries. Next is 26-6049. >> Move to approve. >> Motion a second. You're too enthusiastic, Carlos. >> Just a bit. >> Motion carries. Next is MNC26-0422. >> Motion and a second.

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We would like to rename Animal Pancakes Roadway, please. Motion carries. >> Next will be uh MNC26-0550. And there are no speakers on this item. >> Thank you,

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Council Member Hall. >> Motion and a second. Council, please vote. >> Motion carries. >> Next will be MNC 26-0551. >> Thank you. Thank you. And we do have one speaker on this item uh who's available

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for questions if there are any. Council member Crane Carl Cwley calling you first. Motion a second. Please vote. Motion carries. Council, next we're going to take the companion zoning case for that public hearing which is

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ZC-26-044. >> Motion in a second. Please vote. >> Motion carries. >> Next is MNC26-0552. Motion and a second. Council, please vote. Motion carries. >> Next is MNC26-0553.

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Council >> Jameson, we have one speaker, but only if there is questions or opposition. To my knowledge, there is none. Can you hear me? >> Oh, he did. He just couldn't hear. Okay. Motion to approve. And I'm going to take a second. A motion. A second. Council,

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please vote. Motion carries. Next, we will take the companion zoning case, which is ZC26-043. >> I may want to make a motion. >> Motion approve. >> Thank you. >> Second. >> Motion. A second. Please vote. >> Motion carries. Next is MNC26-0554.

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Council >> Crane, we have one speaker, Travis Kle. Only if there's opposition. >> Motion and a second. Please vote. Motion carries. >> Next, we will take the companion zoning case, which is ZC-26-042.

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Council member Crane. again. There we go. >> Got it. Just want to make sure it's clear. We annexed the property in and now this is the actual reszoning or the zoning of the property. And I want to read this into the record so it's clear to everyone for posterity. This zoning

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will change it and it will exclude A5 A5 one family residential development, permanent asphalt or concrete batch plant and data centers. So, thank you Travis Kle for uh stirring it up a little bit. but then also calming it down. That was removed at zoning and I

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just want to make it clear that we will be upholding what the zoning commission put in place that there will not be a data center on this property. >> Got a motion. Motion and a second. Please vote. >> Motion carries. Just as a note, ZC26-41

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was continued to August 25th. That gets us to SP-26-00008. Council Martinez, we have two speakers on this item. Um, the first is Jacob Petri and second is Adrienne Smith. Hold on.

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Is Jacob here? Oh, sorry, Jacob. Thank you. Thank you, mayor. I do want to um make note that I I plan to continue this case to August 11th uh council meeting. Um I just want to give the community

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another opportunity to review the site plan because I know there were some concerns. Um, and so, uh, we'll be organizing a meeting and inviting yourself and and the neighborhood associations and the surrounding area to to really discuss what it what it is and just, you know, lay out that the car

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wash part of it would not be included. Thank you. A motion to continue. Motion in a second. Please vote. We're continuing the case. Adrian, what was it as August 11th? Is that correct, Council Martinez? Okay. Thank you.

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>> I don't I don't get to speak even though you >> No, we're continuing the case. We're not voting on it today. We're just going to continue on it. I would like to speak speak to it in the >> I would encourage you to reach out to Council Martinez's office with any concerns or

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on the zoning case. Next will be ZC-26-0227 or 022. >> Council member Hill. >> Thank you. And I understand that um property purchaser wants to um remove

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the case from the from zoning, but because of the location next to the Fort Worth Nature Center, I want to deny with prejudice to protect the nature center and the environmental concerns around it. >> Motion and a second. Please vote. Motion carries. Next is ZC-26-055.

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>> Council member Hill, we have one speaker. To my knowledge, there is no opposition. >> I'm good. Mary, now I move to approve. >> Motion a second. Please vote. Motion carries. >> Next is ZC-26-061. Council Nettles, we have one speaker on

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this item, Anthony Milbbitz, it's representing Tol and Perkins, the applicant on the project. Um, it's just really here for any questions y'all might have. Thank >> you. Council member Nettles. Move to approve. >> Motion and a second. Council, please

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vote. Motion carries. Next, uh ZC26-062 was continued to August 11th. Next is ZC26-063. >> Second. Got >> a motion and a second. Council, please

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vote. Motion carries. >> Next is ZC-26-065. >> Council member Beck. >> Thank you. >> Okay, no problem. Council member Hall first. Try it again one more time. There we go.

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All right. Marry and council, I need to recuse myself from ZC26065 due to my employment with Fort Worth ISD. >> A motion and a second. Please vote. Motion carries. Next is ZC-26-067.

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Council member Hall, >> we'll also be recusing myself from ZC26067 due to my employment with Forthd. >> Motion and a second. Nope. Council member Beck approve. >> Motion and a second by Council Member

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Crane or Nettles. Thank you. Please vote. Motion carries. >> Next is ZC-26-076. >> Council member Flores. >> Before I give my motion, I just want to say I remain excited about this project, very supportive of it. I don't know if

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someone uh from the developers here today. >> Great. Reggie, can you come on up? I just have one question to ask you. Sir. >> All right. This is an option for you. But in addition to the historic designations that we've been talking about that you're pursuing, you plan

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also to apply for the local historic acts exemption. >> Yes. >> Okay. Good. Good to hear. All right. With that, move to approve. >> Got a motion and a second. Council, please vote. The >> motion carries.

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Mayor, that concludes all of the action items and gets us to public comment. >> Thank you. Our first speaker is Chris Wood, followed by Kevin Carlson. I'm Chris Wood from Willow Park. Thank you for the opportunity to speak today. I'm here today because too many women

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are taught that being polite matters more than being safe. Too many are taught to stay quiet, stay agreeable, stay composed even when they are frightened and being mistreated. Women are often taught to protect other

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people's comfort before their own well-being. They are told not to make a scene, not to be too loud, not to be too angry. But in moments of danger, abuse, or intimidation, those lessons can

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become deadly. Politeness should never be expected at the expense of survival. Women need to hear that protecting themselves is not rude. Setting a boundary is not disrespectful. Raising your voice when you are afraid

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is not a failure of character. It is self-preservation. It is what people do when they are trying to stay safe. When women are pressured to smile through fear, minimize harassment or

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keep peace during mistreatment, the damage does not end in that moment. It can leave lasting fear, shame, anxiety and isolation. It can make someone question their instincts and hesitate to

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ask for help when they need it most. No one should be conditioned to endure harm just to appear pleasant. Please continue strengthening support for victims and people in unsafe situations. The Fort

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Worth Police victim assistance section already provides critical help, but more people need to know these services exist before fear turns into crisis. Please expand outreach and public education so

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women and families understand that their safety matters, their voices matter, and help is available. Also, please continue partnering with community resources that help people escape abuse, create safety plans,

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access counseling, and find legal support. When those services are visible and accessible, more people can reach out sooner before fear becomes trauma and before trauma becomes tragedy. Women should never be forced to choose

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between seen being seen as polite and staying alive and safe. Fort Worth has the opportunity to say speaking up is strength. Asking for help is strength. Protecting yourself is strength. Thank

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you for your time and consideration. Our next speaker is Kevin Carlson followed by Ambika Chararma. Good afternoon, Mayor Parker and Council. My name is Kevin Carlson. I am a homeowner within the community of Liberty Crossing in North Fort Worth,

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District 10. I'm supplying picks of the areas of concern today to Councilman Jameson and Mayor Parker. I request a reszoning of a parcel of land that will impact my community and property values. It's at it's at the northwest corner of

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Heritage Trace and Blue Mountain Road. The addresses are 9491 and 9261 Blue Mountain Road. This parcel is a concern for safety, peace, and property values. Families should be allowed to live in peace.

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I'm I'm requesting a zoning change from the current zoning to er neighborhood commercial restricted. This will provide the needs of our community while still offering commercial uses. Please refer to the pick of the construction ongoing to the south side of Heritage Trace.

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illustrates the impact to homeowners backyards. Please resone the land described today. We need your help and thank you so much. Ambika Chararma followed by Christa Herby. Hi, good afternoon. Uh, my name is Anaka

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Sharma and I'm a resident of District 6. I spoke before this body on June 9th as a representative of a group of residents concerned about data center incentives and their impact on forward taxpayers. We followed the guidance which which we were provided by the city secretary's office regarding public comment

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procedures. Yet instead of hearing three different expert perspectives on a bipartisan issue, the mayor immediately shifted the discussion toward limiting public participation. At the time I thought surely this cannot just be about the $48,500 that black mountain collectively gave to

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this dis. But since then I have learned more about the interest surrounding the issue. This is slide one. Um, the husband of the mayor of the 10th largest city in America is David Parker, a registered lobbyist affiliated with the data center coalition, the same organization advocating on behalf of the

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data center industry before governmental bodies across Texas. So, this chart is based on his compensation filings made with the Texas Ethics Commission. Notice what happens after 2021 um when David Parker's wife, Mattie Parker, gets elected as a mayor. Prior to 2021, Mr.

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Parker's reported lobbying compensation topped at about a million dollars. In 2021, the year she's elected, he reported approximately 1.4 million on the high end. And in 2026, year to date, he has reported at the on the upper end of 1.8 million just in 5 months. So, I'm

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not alleging wrongdoing. What I'm asking for is transparency. Because when residents question billions of dollars in incentives benefiting an industry represented by organizations such as the data center coalition, these relationships deserve scrutiny, not hostility toward residents who are

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questioning it. Slide two. So, let's talk about Google. I didn't get to that when I was presenting last time. According to the Tarant appraisal district, Google's white settlement warehouse was proposed to be approximately at $2.7 billion in valuation. So this is business property,

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BPP, business personal property. So just what's inside the warehouse, not the um structure of the building. So these are not Google headquarters as we know. It's not a manufacturing facility. It's just a warehouse. It's a storage unit. So at that valuation, Google could have been the largest taxpayers in our region. But

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instead, forward granted 2.1 billion in exemptions. That's approximately uh 78% in tax abatements. So I question who is signing off on these abatements? This is a warehouse. This is a transitory business. What qualified them to be to

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get 78% in abatements? Um so as I leave today, um I would like to ask this chamber for a brief moment of silence, not just for the death of ethics, but also for the death of fiscal responsibility in the city of Fort Worth.

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Our next speaker is Christa Herby. Miss Irby will be followed by Nor Watti. Good morning, council members. My name is Christa Irby. I live in district 3 and I'm one of the founders of the 2871 community coalition. I'm here to ask

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this council not to reduce, limit, or otherwise restrict the time and opportunity allotted to registered speakers. I'm not entirely certain what is being considered today. Whether this is an agenda item to shorten the time each speaker is given, to limit how long co council remains available to hear

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public comment, or to reduce the number of opportunities for residents to speak. I am opposed to all of it. Um, this was on the agenda labeled consideration of reduction to registered speakers allotted time. Um, it wasn't mentioned today. Um, I don't know exactly why it

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wasn't acknowledged on there, but that's what this is in reference to. Um, three minutes is already a very short period of time to coherently convey a position on a complex. >> I'm going to make you pause. I'm going to pause your time and leave you back to you, but we're not there's no consideration, no reduction of time today. This is a normal threeminute

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public comment period. There was nothing considered on the agenda. I just wanted to further that clarity. And so there was a confusion on the agenda. I'm going to make sure city secretary office knows that as you know your time is continuing. >> So my understanding is is it could still be voted on in future meetings on whether time is limited. Is that

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correct? >> That's correct. But there's been no discussion or plans to do so. >> Okay. Yes. >> I just want to make my stance clear regarding that that three minutes is already a very short period of time to coherently convey a position on a complex issue to your elected representatives. Many of the topics that come before this council, zoning

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decisions, development agreements, policy changes are nuanced. Residents who care enough to show up, register to speak, and stand at this podium deserve enough time to actually be heard. Any reduction to that already limited window would be a disservice to the communities this council represents. I'd like to say

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something else. I voted to increase city council pay. I did that because I believe that when you ask people to serve the public in a meaningful way, you should compensate them for that time. I also voted that way because I want people from a broader range of economic backgrounds to be able to afford to run for office so that Fort Worth has the strongest and most

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representative pool of candidates possible. Part of what this council is compensated for is sitting in this chamber and listening to the people you represent. Public comment is not a formality is the mechanism by which residents participate in their own government. Limiting that partic participation does not make this council more efficient and makes it less

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accountable. I respectfully ask you to preserve the current speaker aotment, maintain full availability for public comment, and protect the public's ability to be heard. Thank you. Our next speaker is Nor Watti, followed by Michael Rollerson.

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Good afternoon. My name is Nuri. I'm an attorney and an organizer with the Faith Power Alliance. Um we're an organization committed to creating a better future for all um through faith-based justice driven organizing. Um and I brought my nine-month pregnant self all the way down from Mckini because there is a

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really important issue that I want to talk to you all today about and it is about um renewing the call and the demand for a data center moratorum. We are mistaken if we think a Fort Worth decision is not going to impact all of North Texas. Um, I want my kids to grow

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up in a world where clean water is not more expensive per gallon than gas. There are real environmental and economic costs to our community. And we know that because you can ask a single one of these data center billionaires if they would move into a mega mansion next to their beloved data centers. And we

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know that the answer would be no because they know what the costs are. They know that the way that their greed is going to destroy our communities. And they're willing to let North Texas residents eat those costs. and unfortunately so is this city council if they do not begin the process for a moratorum. The second reason that I'm here today um

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to speak on this issue is I as an attorney served as part of the Dallas ethics at city of Dallas ethics advisory commission um several years ago and I know how important it is to avoid even just the appearance of impropriy because of how much it can erode public trust in

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in these offices. So then to discover that a city as large as Fort Worth does not have a permanent ethics commission um that we operate on an ad hoc basis um completely floored me. But learning that it started to make sense the way that corporate interests are being

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prioritized over resident well-being and resident out outcry. Um and the fact that unfortunately the mayor has yet to recuse herself from any vote or discussion on this issue given her financial and familial link to the data center coalition. And I know that in recent interviews it's been stated that

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the Parkers have never received a penny of compensation, but the Ethics Commission filing tells another story. The filing designates Mr. Parker under comp 01, which means he made at least a penny up to $22,889.99. So either the filing is lying, the Texas

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Ethics Commission is lying about what comp 01 means, or it's time to bring together that ad hoc commission to take a look at this. Please, I urge you to minimize the ethical and economic and environmental harm that this data center plan is causing and I urge the the city

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to begin the process on a data center moratorum. Michael Rollson followed by Lauren Ivy Chung. Last week, we had dozens of people come to city council to speak their concerns in regards to the data center. Concerns

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such as water reservoir depletion, concerns such as rising energy costs, rising cost of water as well. And what did the city council do in response to that? They they denied previously agreed upon speaking times. They looked to shut us out even more. And it should be

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obvious to everyone why the city council is doing that considering they're taking thousands of dollars from Black Mountain. And I just want to say to any of the city council members that want to posture themselves as being progressives in general or progressives on this issue, I see through that and we all see

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through that. If any of y'all can really think that y'all can post yourself as a as a progressive when y'all are ignoring the fact that Mattie Parker's husband is a registered lobbyist for data centers and even just like being part of a company that lobbies for data centers.

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Even if he doesn't take a penny of lobbying money, he's still a registered lobbyist for data centers and he's a part of a company that is doing that. That should be immediately a red flag for everyone. And you shouldn't even be able to be mayor if you have a husband who is part of a company that is

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registered as a lobbyist organization. That's just ridiculous at this point. That is my speech. But I'm going to continue to stand up here for the next minute and a half to make you all think on that. Lauren Shong will be followed by Steven

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Sanchez. Good afternoon. My name is Lauren Ivy Chong and I'm a resident of District 9. I would like to thank the city council for the opportunity to speak on the importance of constituent meetings. I reached out to my city council member Elizabeth Beck to request a constituent meeting and receive the resp the

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following response from her office. Thank you for reaching out. Unfortunately, Councilwoman Beck will not be able to meet with you. I understand this may be frustrating. Data centers are an important conversation. I want to reiterate that CW Beck is not only receiving information about data

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centers from city staff. She understands the seriousness of this council's decision related to data centers is an and is making sure she is well read on all aspects of the issue. Again, thank you for reaching out. Okay. The email says that data centers

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are an important conversation. When? Five or 10 years from now? >> It'll be too late. No, the time is now. And with whom? high dollar donor, data center developers and VIPs. No,

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your constituents. This goes for all members of the council. If you'd been willing to meet with me, Miss Beck, we could have discussed my concerns about how the city council is acting too hastily to enact regulations on data centers after a presentation from the assistant city manager as your

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main source of information. The last time this council voted after a presentation from the assistant city manager, it was to unanimously pass the purchase of a historic building to house the downtown the downtown library with a price tag of $6.5 million.

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Only later was the thorough assessment conducted which deemed the building unusable as a downtown library. Fortunately, another wonderful use has been found for this building and it's going to be repurposed as a community arts incubator. But the hard truth is that you didn't do your due diligence

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when it came to the purchase of that building. And now the same thing is going to happen with the data center regulations you are about to vote on in August. I would request the thorough assessment of data centers take place before the vote, not after. Respectfully, Miss Beck, I'm glad you're

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well read on data centers, but a thousand AI powered Google searches can't equal the value of one meaningful conversation with your constituents. I hope all members of this council will put on your name tags and show up at the data center open house on June 30th to

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talk to your constituents. Something that I would have discussed in a constituent meeting had I been given one is the devastating environmental impact of data centers. Finally, this summer, I'd like you to read the Lorax by Dr. Seuss. It will tell you everything you need to know

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about how to about how to deal with data centers. Thank you. Our next speaker is Stephen Sanchez, followed by Adrienne Smith. Let the record show that's 76.9 dB at a waiting. Hello council. My name is

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Steven Sanchez and again I'm an audio engineer and forensic audio analyst. I hope you absorbed my last public comment on June 9th, but just in case you didn't, the basics is that this red line is how we hear pure tones in any given environment in an updated 2003 international standard. Next slide. And

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this blue line is based off an old 1930 standard that these SPL meters use of the future still use today. Electronically, they are flawed using the old curves. In conclusion, this is that humans hear more low frequency sound than previously measured. Next slide.

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Let the record show that's 91.7 dB C waiting. Next slide. Please keep in mind in that in these next examples, the mics and measurements are 250 to 300 feet from the proposed sites or already built data centers, the same length as the staff proposal. And coincidentally, the Black

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Mountains zoning plans. All sounds were recorded low and boosted at the same uniform levels for play. Uh, skip to slide 19. So that's Lawn Stevenson. It's preserved low ambient residential baseline. It's active, but it's quiet. In the essence

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of time, I will tell you that I recorded Royal Crest Drive, Western Gardens. All examples uh with data centers footprints uh that would have them there would be 78 to 80% below 50 dBA during the day. Slide 36, please.

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Slide 37. So this is Red Oak. It's an active data center footprint. You can hear the underlying drone, especially when turning down the moving birds and bugs. In the second example, the constant floor is a differentiator from quiet neighborhood. I just showed you and it's not even capturing the low-end hum you

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will experience with your physical body. Again, I have provided a short binaural recordings via this link and you can listen to preferably on inear headphones. We should be measuring these sites with C or Z-W weighted curves or better yet we change to zones which

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again measures true linear human loudness perception. A standard 3-day study is going to show you the same flawed numbers. To use DBA as a measurement to evaluate constant humming of low frequency material is not only irresponsible of this council after I've already told you why it's a bad idea of

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what we can do instead. At this point it's willful negligence. >> Our next speaker is Adrienne Smith followed by TA Jones. I would like to begin by saying uh thank you to the to the forward star telegram

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for your most recent article showing the relationship our mayor has with data centers by way of our lobbyist husband Mr. David Parker. Uh that was very ballsy of you. Uh question is, will you still be considered a city's paper after

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that said article when you receive the funding that the that this city typically typically gives you uh on an annual basis? Thank you to Councilwoman Martinez for trying to improve the

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district you represent irregardless of all the bad you inherited. That is that is uh commendable. I think you are truly trying to improve things, Miss Martinez. I said keep going. I know some of these zoning cases are can be, you know, topsyturvy up and down, but keep going,

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Miss Martinez. I think you're on the right path. Council member Crane, I truly see mayor mayor in your future, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart. council schedule. You have a schedule for a reason

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and it doesn't include doing what you want to do just because meeting started at 11:00 a.m. Mayor Parker, we were told right at the the top of the hour that you all were going to executive session which was scheduled at 9:00 a.m. What happened two hours in

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between 9 10 11. What happened? Nobody knows. But in case you have forgotten there are ways of removal. First is self-inflicted way you step down. Second is the recall

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which is enacted by we the people which we haven't done in this course of this city recalled anyone as it relates to the seats that they occupy as it relates to for city council.

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Third, we vote you out. And again, that is enacted by we the people. So, let's just keep that in mind. We have our options. Do better with your schedule. We we we all have things to do, but 11:00 a.m. is 11:00 a.m. All

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right. Thank you. The recognitions you all do here on a week in and week out basis. I know it's just some of these recognitions are to keep some of you in these seats. You're trying to line yourselves up for the next uh election.

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I get it. But again, we the people. We control who sits in those seats. Remote speaking. Mayor Park is still waiting. Still waiting for you to restore remote speaking to this uh agenda. You know, you pay for a signing interpreter last

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week, but still shop stopped short of what we what I've been asking for remote speaking. And lastly, that sound y'all y'all been hearing that them applause. It's not it's a wave coming like the wave that happened in 2023. It's coming in 2027.

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>> Our next speaker is TA Jones, followed by Da BS. Miss Jones. Yeah, come to the middle. Thank you. >> No problem. That's be fine. >> Pinter. >> Great afternoon everyone. How y'all doing? Thank y'all for having My name is

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Jeff Pointer. I am a descendant from Mosa Valley District 5. I am here uh for a couple of reason. Um Fort Worth the city of Fort Worth annex Moa Valley in 1960. Since 1960,

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we really haven't seen anything. And this is this is nothing directly to the council people that's here. Y that was before most of us was here before I was here. But in that time we've um gave easements before that easements uh road

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easements electric electric easements my family Parker family one of the the founding families of Moja Valley. Um there you see um the park here is the u park description of what what we had got

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for u the new park that's supposed to come. Um, you see the trees and see everything is beautiful right there. We'll get to in just a second. But going back to Moja Valley, uh, what what we've seen since 1960 is really nothing. We

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have unpaved roads, unmaintained roads. >> We have, um, still homes with septic. We have nothing. Haven't seen really anything since we've been annexed. Nothing. We have a couple of p couple of

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pave roads just for the trucks to roll through. We have illegal dumping. We have have a um a company that's dug a 100 foot hole probably 30 30 acres unrecognized by the city of Fort unacceptable

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to see that illegal dumping everywhere. No cleanup. And my great grandmother and our forefathers before Fort Worth was here. We were already there. We were there striving. You know, my my forefathers are are are

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the ones that was giving out the land patents in in North Texas, brought the railroad through. So, we're looking we're wanting and asking the city to show Moa Valley more respect because we were when when everything

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when nothing was going on here, Moa Valley was there thriving without anybody any help. for city of Fort Worth came to us, ask us for easements. Can we get Can we use the land of this? Can we guess what our forefathers did? Okay, sure. No problem. You need you need the

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electric. Okay, here we go. If everything is there, we're asking Fort Worth to pay more attention to the oldest Freeman town in the country. Junth was all over. Everybody celebrating Junth. We had chaos in Moj, but we still prevailed and had a great

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time. But we need the city to stand up and be accountable for their forefathers. the people that was before y'all here and respect Mon Valley and give us the grants, the different things, the historical community and recognition. That's what we want. No, like I say, nothing against anyone.

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>> Thank you. >> I'll be back. >> Our next speaker is Diana BS. Yes, ma'am. Council member Peoples, Sure. Turn your light on Deborah if you don't mind. >> I just wanted to thank you and Mr.

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Pointer for coming today. You are absolutely right. Moia Valley is a treasure that we need to work to preserve. And there is going to be a meeting tomorrow night. And I just went blank on the location, but we're going

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to be talking about Moa Valley and making sure that we honor it. And a lot of work has been going on for many years. I am working hard to bring that to fruition. I think you all know my stand on zoning. I see some residents

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here that know I'm with you in the fight on zoning, but I am grateful to you all for coming today because Mo Valley is a jewel in a diamond in the rough and we have to make sure that we keep it alive.

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So, thank you. Our next speaker is Michael Howell. Mr. How will be followed by Ellis Maxwell. Mr. here. Okay. >> Work. Yes, sir. >> Yeah. Captain Michael Howell, retired US

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Air Force. I'm here to speak on stewardship. Stewardship of this council. Y'all were voted in for a reason.

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Because we trust you for our public safety, our public health. We cannot do it because we are I'm retired. I don't really get around a lot.

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Talk to my neighbors in Pascal. But the city has challenges ahead with the data center. My inkling is, my background is forensic auditing,

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building management information systems throughout the Southeast and with the US Army and US Air Force. So, I probably have a pretty good idea of what the sense of the city council

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is. There's $70 million in the hole. 70 million according to the reports and you see money on the horizon, but you're not looking at the whole

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picture. It's been reported the toxic cleanup at Carwell is under lawsuits because of the groundwater. Okay. Okay. What's going to happen with

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the data center groundwater and the toxins on the on the runoff? You're missing the whole point. The whole point of Fort Worth is we are different.

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I lived in Dallas. I found heaven in Fort Worth. This city, this county is different. Hold the line. Vote no with prejudice on the data centers. Take care of Moser

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Valley. Take care of the people that built Fort Worth, not newcomers. And look at the safety of Fort Worth to build a data center. I'm telling you, I've been around a lot

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longer than most people and I have experience in budgeting. If you need help, I can help you. You have to ask me. I've offered several times to help.

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For example, just off the top of my head, I was sitting I don't I can't see, but I can listen. There was a gentleman that stood up here and said, >> "Thank you, Mr. How, >> our next speaker is Ellis Maxwell,

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followed by Jeff Pointer. Good afternoon. So, I watched the June 2nd city council work session on data centers and found it to be profoundly skewed in favor of the data center uh projects and in favor

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of big tech. So, I wanted to share some critical feedback here. So, there was one slide that I found particularly revealing which was uh the slide on why data centers are coming to Texas. And so the first reason that was given was that we have a businessfriendly environment

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here. Well, I don't think that we should strive for a businessfriendly environment until we can first have a worker friendly environment, a people-friendly environment, familyfriendly environment, and an environmentally friendly state and city.

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And AI data centers do the opposite of this, putting more and more workers out of jobs, bringing rising energy costs and environmental and quality of life harms for all residents, but particularly those in poor black and brown neighborhoods. So when we talk

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about a businessfriendly environment, what I think about is uh FedEx and Echo Heights um being prioritized over residents and their environmental and quality of life needs. and that's not the kind of city I want to live in. There was also mention of faster

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permitting timelines being one of the reasons that data centers are coming to Texas. And again, to me, this is not something to brag about. This means that city officials are giving less time for assessments of m massive projects that

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have years and decades long um impacts. And so to me, this is this is city staff saying bragging that they're not holding their end of the bargain. And then we also had on the same slide

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state incentives and exemptions. Again, not something to brag about. This cuts away at property tax revenue, which is the only real gain for the city that even the city staff or the only real gain for the people that even city staff were able to point to during that

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presentation. Throughout the presentation, there were comparisons made between data centers and single family homes when it comes to resources used. To me, this is a pretty bad comp uh comparison because it reduces people to the resources that we

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use and the revenue that we bring to the city as if our job is to produce profit for the city. And we need to flip this. The job of the city is to support its people. Of course, residential homes use water and electricity. This is water and electricity used to meet human needs.

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This should be the whole purpose of why we come together at all as a society is to meet our needs. Hypers scale AI data centers do not meet our needs. I can see how they benefit AI data centers benefit the super rich. I've yet to see an

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argument for how they benefit everyday people and I would like to see city officials stand up for this. Thank you. Mr. Pointer. Okay. Followed by Brian Patman. >> Okay, I'm back. U Jeff Pointer, descend from Mo Valley District 5. I am speaking

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today on behalf of descendants, property owners, and members of Mo Valley Property Owners Association. For the past year, I have requested public records information regarding land ownership, easement, school property, sheriff sales, annexation,

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auctions, and other matters affecting Moja Valley. Many of these requests remain unanswered or incomplete. Moa Valley is not just vacant land. It's historic community built by families whose roots here go back generations. Many ancestors acquired maintained

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transferred property long before the city forth expanded into the area. The land was conveyed with restrictive covenants to be utilized for educational part purposes only and it not a park which we don't oppose the park the educational property that's what we

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speak. There are specific tracks of land available park land. There is one track of land that's that secured um ground due to historical significance. Evidence continues to emerge showing historical landmarks, family ownership, errors, interest,

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interest, easements, land transaction involving Mo Valley property. Records raise cons serious questions that deserve transparent review before additional development development decisions decisions are made. We

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emphasize that descendants and heirs retain the right to investigate documents and pursue claims regarding property interest that may not have been properly addressed through previous transactions, tax ex uh ex auctions, sheriff sales, easements, and

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governmental actions. further emphasis that the community community has the right to organize through Mo Valley Property Own Association to to identify errors, preserve historic records, protect community interest, and participate in decision

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affecting the future of Mos Valley. For the record, we are requesting full transparency regarding all city- owned land easements and claim interest within Mos Valley. a complete accounting and property acquired through taxes,

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foreclosure, sheriff sale, education, donations, or other governmental actions. Review of the historic school properties and any re visionary interest that may exist. More engagements with descendants,

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heirs, community stakeholders before the development occurs. Re re reconditioning of Mo Valley property owner. Recognizing the Mos Valley Property Own Association as a legitimate community community stakeholder. We are not asking for special treatment. We are just asking for transparency, accountability,

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historic accuracy, the respect of the rights of the families who built the community. On occas on on two occasion, the judge of 52nd uh 352 district court implied to the city of Fort Worth to speak with community. >> Thank you, Mr. Point. >> Our next speaker is Brian Patman,

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followed by EJ Kerrion. Down Angland Drive, right off of 820's neighborhood, is not a luxury resort, but the home of working people struggling to keep a roof over their head and food on their tables. There are a few industrial suppliers and parking at big rigs interfered between the stands of trees and rural residential

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homes along this route. People live a simple route, simple life, but it is a life. That is until you pass the last home and only about 100 feet from where that house ends, a massive electrical station takes over the horizon. At least 2,000 ft long along the roadside. If

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this station were not there, you might also be able to see the southeast landfill in the distance, only about half a mile away, a dumping ground for city trash. Only after you make this journey will you come to Western Gardens, a place that was initially created in the 1930s and boasts a stone ship and extensive collections of native

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plants. The quiet majesty of this place in an age with smartphones and AI cannot be understated. This is the neighborhood Black Mountain wants to put their new hypers scale data center in practically on top of the historic gardens. And do not mistake the absence of these residents of this

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community today as indifference to this data center. When one of our number went to canvas local neighborhood, they informed us that most residents did not know what a data center even was or that one was coming their way. The few that did know said they tried to get reach out their councilman, but he's not easy

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to get a hold of. Not easy to get a hold of. It's also with great privilege that I and many more of our number are able to be with you here today. Is difficult for someone who might work for a particularly irrassable job to take time off to attend a meeting in the middle of the day without losing that job, risking

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everything. The data center is further shadowed by recent reporting showing troubling ties between a lobbyist for data center coalition and a certain Fort Worth city leader. Maybe not close enough to need disclosed, but more than close enough to discuss those of us sick and tired of

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seeing corporate money being used to divert public policy away from the interests of the public. At this point, you might call me a let these data centers necessary for progress. And to that I ask, progress for who exactly? Is it progress for the worker? has their work fed into AI until they are laid

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off. Is it progress for the resident who can see the lights of the data center shine in their windows at night and hear the electrical hum? Is it progress for the taxpayer who need to pay more and more of the coming years just to keep water flowing from their taps? Is it progress for the family living hand-to-mouth who sees their electricity bill go up to do those same data centers

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in their community? Is it progress for the community who sees their vibrant set of gardens that used to be surrounded by green now surrounded by beige humming boxes? The rise of AI and the days of power seem to be in industries that prioritize the benefit of billionaires and businesses or the people that live

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in these communities. And progress and no care for people is no progress at all. Our next speaker is EJ Kerrion followed by Carlos Silva. Mr. Kerrion present. Carlos Silva will be followed by Connley

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Brewer. Mayor Parker, you had a proclamation at the beginning of this meeting celebrating America's 250th anniversary. So, I just want to remind this city government what it is we're celebrating. Please play pay close attention to these

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words as they are not my own. When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for a people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which they are entitled a decent respect to the

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opinions of humanity requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all people are created equal that they are endowed with certain unaliable rights. that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure

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these rights, governments are instituted among people, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter it or to abolish it, and to institute a new

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government, laying its foundations in such principles, and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to affect their safety and their happiness. Prudence will dictate that government should not be changed for light and transient causes. Accordingly, experience shows us that

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people are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable than to write themselves by abolishing the forms of government to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and injustices exposes a design to oppress the people of this city, it is our

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right, it is our duty to throw off such government and to provide new guards for our future security. Such has been the patient suffering of the city and such as now the necessity which constraints us to alter our current systems of government. The history of the present

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mayor and the city council is a history of repeated injuries and injustices all having as their direct objective the establishment of an absolute supremacy of corporate interests over the needs of ordinary people. As proof, you need only

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listen to the people that come talk to you on these city council meetings. In every stage of these oppressions, we have petitioned for relief. Our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A mayor and city council whose character is smarked by

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every act which may define a tyranny is unfit to be the government of a free people. I read you these words of our founders for a reason. to the members of this government that do not serve the needs and will of the

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people of this city. We will vote you out. Thank you. >> Our next speaker is Connley Brewer followed by Alexander Montalvo. Mayor and council members, good afternoon. My name is Connley Brewer. I'm a resident of District 6 and I'm

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here today because I'm increasingly concerned about the direction we are taking when it comes to public participation in local government. Over the past week, we have seen a series of changes to the rules governing public comment. New procedural steps have been added and speakers are now required to

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categorize their comments in advance for for, against, or neutral on the topic they are addressing. On the surface, that may seem like an administrative detail, but in practice, it changes the very nature of public comment from open expression into pre-filtered

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participation. It asks residents to label their voice voice before they're even heard. I understand the need for orderly meetings. I understand the need for structure, but structure should not come at the expense of accessibility or authentic dialogue between residents and

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their representatives. What I find particularly ironic is evidenced today that members of this council are able to participate in meetings remotely when necessary. Technology and flexibility are available when they support government participation and continuity.

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Yet the average resident is still expected to rearrange work schedules, family obligations, and caregiving responsibilities to appear in person at city hall, often waiting for extended periods for a brief opportunity to speak. Many Fort Worth residents work long hours. Some are raising children.

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Others are caring for aging parents or family members with medical needs. Their ability to participate should not depend on how easily they can conform to procedural requirements. And all of this is occurring at a time when public trust is already under strain. Recently, a substantial increase

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in council compensation was approved and will be funded by taxpayers. Whether residents supported or opposed that decision, it reinforces a basic principle. When public compensation increases, public accountability should increase with it, not decrease. The

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question before should not be how to further categorize or restrict public input. The question should be how to make participation more accessible, more direct, and more meaningful. Public comment is not a formality to be managed. It is one of the few district

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direct channels residents can have to speak to the people making decisions that affect their taxes, their neighborhoods, their infrastructure, and their quality of life. Healthy democracy does not ask citizens to pre-label their voice before it is heard. It listens

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first and it evaluates substance afterwards. This council is serious about strengthening public trust. Then the answer is not fewer barriers to participation. It is fewer barriers barriers full stop. People of Fort Worth are paying attention and they want a

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government that listens openly, responds directly and remains accountable to the people it serves. I hope this council chooses openness over restriction and engagement over procedural filtering. Thank you. >> Our next speaker is Alexander Montalvo

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followed by Bob Willoughby. All right. I'm here to continue to call for a data center moratorum. Y'all have had thousands of emails sent to y'all. You've had community members reach out to you directly. You've had

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people participate in public comments and you've had people continue to call for this online that we want a data center moratorum. Now I know regulations are going to be voted on in August but my question is when are we going to get the update that

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a moratorium is being pursued and we know the limitation is going to be for 90 days. That's fine. We can do it again after that. The data centers that are being built in communities across this country

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are not something that are safe for us and the people. And we need y'all to take this much more seriously. Instead, what I see is Michael getting online and complaining about

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how people are mean at public comments. He just wants to hear about He wants to talk to his neighbors about their trees and the leaves that fall in their yard and let's talk oneonone about solving issues. What we're here to talk about is how

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people are harmed and how people are dying in this city in this county because of decisions of leaders like we have before us. You had three people die in the Taran County jail just last week. You have numerous families being

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impacted by what's happening the tea takeover for ISD as tenure just I won't use the word tenure but educators with long experience decades of experience principles opting

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to leave this district because of what they see that's happening and how's that going to hurt kids we have leaders over and over and Fort Worth that do not show care for the people.

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And while y'all go on break for the month of July, it's important for y'all to know that the people will not stop. That we will continue organizing. We will continue communicating. We will continue building what is going to be

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needed so that we have leadership and representation that is actually going to do the will of the people. We have a bunch of excuses about the relationships that people have like you mayor and your husband the lobbyist or

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why we don't have an ethics policy or why zoning continues to be permitted that causes such pollution and harm to our communities. And what we're saying is we're done with the excuses and change is going to be coming. >> Our next speaker is Bob Willoughby. Mr.

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will be followed by Elana Elena Montalo. >> First thing I want people to know, I don't come there and talk to you because you can talk to a wall. You can yell at a wall. You can be nice to a wall, but a wall is not going to answer. You are a wall. I wish people to understand that. Move this comment from the bottom of the agenda to the top of the agenda. And

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these people would have leverage. They'd have a lot of leverage over your mayor. They come here and say this stuff in front of people waiting for zoning cases. They hear, they get exposed to what you're doing. They don't get to go away see it. But now here we're in the basement. Nobody sees you and you don't care. Nevertheless, this much time I got here.

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Okay. Number one thing is what I've learned over the years. The real answer. You can't vote you out of office. You're placed in office just like Deborah Peoples is placed in office with a rigged election. Jamie, you're all placed in office. No. No. When you don't do your civic duty and less than 4%'s voting, you can manipulate everything

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and you can do everything. If we get to 10 or 12% voting, it' be different. But at 4% you can manipulate. That's true. That's why we need voter education in school. We need voter education in school to teach the next generation to do their civic duty. Denver peoples never did is an obligation, not a

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privilege. To do to see the signs when a mayor removes free speech from the council meeting agenda that should send up a flag across the city. It don't. That should be enough to know that a mayor is no good and should be removed

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from office immediately. It's not. Let's teach it in school. The next generation will be smart enough to stand up and do something about this. In 21, you should have been removed. But you weren't. You're still there. You robbed them. It's left and right and you're still there. When the mayor votes to give a police chief 5 a.5 million tax money,

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you got it anyway. Without giving the citizens an explanation, she should be moved. Why do people think they can talk and negotiate with someone like you? I don't understand that. That's why we need voter education. If these people knew that, they put this on top that would make a difference. That should be

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a signal. We cannot trust this mayor and first thing is to remove the mayor as soon as possible before she can do more damage to the city. Too late. Data centers are coming. See, back we moved her in 21, you wouldn't be having this problem. But no one stood up to you when you took

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away our right to speak, did they? Okay. Well, to get voter education in school is going to require our legis no collar to help us and other ones like that. I don't know if they will or not. And the people that's the main thing because when they learn that they're not talking to a wall, you can get something done,

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but you are a wall. You too, Chris, you won't come out and speak. Not one. How in voter education, here's how you can tell you got bad council members. When not one of them will step out that door and confront me on camera. Not one of them will. and you know you got good people. Otherwise, you're talking to a

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wall. Don't you understand that? You're wasting your breath and your time. Thank you. Our next speaker is Elena Montavo. Hello, my name is Elena Montalo. I currently attend Texas State University where I am pursuing a degree in

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education. Before attending Texas State, I began building my educator toolbox through a student program called Taffy and in my role as a teaching fellow at Breakthrough Fort Worth. So, as someone who is a big advocate for public education, it was disheartening to hear

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about the Ford DSD takeover, a district I graduated from. The takeover made me realize that I needed to start paying attention not just to what is happening in Worth D, but throughout the city. The decisions made here at city council have

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a direct impact on students across the city. I am here to strongly urge this council to put a data center moratorum in place. Last week, a large number of community members made it very clear to this

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council of the concerns they had for the development of this AI data center. Community members also made it clear that you as our leaders do not have adequate knowledge around how this AI data center will affect our city. And instead of listening and taking

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accountability, you escalate situations. You stop paying attention. You remove people and threaten to shut down the meeting. Not one council member on this deis stood up for any of us who were here that day.

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This inadequate leadership exists here. It exists at the commissioner's court and it exists at the Ford school board. Actually, just the other week, the Ford ISD superintendent kept requesting the community to give him and the board of managers grace. I keep hearing similar

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phrases from leaders. Give us grace. Have sympathy. Have patience. These selfserving and self-centered requests ignore the urgency and direct impacts that are happening to community members across this city. People are dying in

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our jail system. ICE is kidnapping people at Sundance Square. Ford ISD is falling apart and now AI data centers are eroding our environments. This harm is at the hands of our leaders. Whether you are inflicting it, enabling it, or

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ignoring it, you are contributing to the harm that is infecting our city. So, thank you council for helping not just me but forward as a whole realize that we need new leadership and it's time to vote all of you out come May.

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Council, that's the conclusion of our speakers this afternoon. Meeting is adjourned.

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today's meeting of the Fort Worth Housing Housing and Finance Corporation. Uh, first item of business is the approval of meeting minutes from April 28th. >> All those in favor?

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>> Any opposed? Seeing none, motion passes. We have written reports. Um, Matthew um, Vandereo is here if we have any questions. Are there any questions on the written reports? All right, seeing none, next we have a briefing on the affordable housing bond

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program and Anderson Stout is here to give us that. >> Good afternoon. All right. Want to provide an update on the affordable housing bond program. Um so far to date we've developed a proposed

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allocation timeline. Um we've identified allocations for all priorities which we'll um show as we go through the presentation. We've engaged with all the municipalities seeking guidance and best practices. So just trying to figure out what's working and what's not our regional partners. So as we in as we

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build and develop our policy, we can incorporate best practices and um we've assigned staff to research and develop action plan and the policy. Um we'll be targeting 80% to 120% AMI um for our

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bond um program and that just gives us an idea of the salaries related to the individuals that we will be serving. Um the proposed target areas um will be neighborhood improvement areas, opportunity zones, urban villages and

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transit oriented districts, neighborhood empowerment zones and revitalization areas. And then this map actually just shows in the blue where all of these areas are concentrated across the city.

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Just give you a minute so you can look at it. So we can see kind of where the target areas um will be. And again not limited to just these areas but these are the areas we want to focus on as we target affordable housing across the cities.

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Um in terms of allocations we are considering 4 million in home ownership opportunities that will be used um for which of vacant lotite preparation and predevelopment cost instructor costs. Um same distribution for multif family

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rental development. um purchase of vacant lot site preparation and infrastructure cost. And we are recommending $2 million um that will go to gap financing vacant lots of funding infrastructure that could either be for

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the multif family developments or single family developments. Um it just depends on where the target development projects are within the city. will consider projects as they come in and allocate them based on those funding.

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Um so these are our proposed um guidelines for the program nonprofit and for-profit developers one and two family housing including town homes and cottage homes and um setting affordability parameters as we consider developments

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um for multif family rental nonprofit and for-profit developers. We want to leverage our private and other sector investments and um to work in collaboration with housing for housing finance corporation.

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Um this will be what we will use to actually score um our developments or deals that come through. We want to make sure that they are ready. Um so project readiness, financial feasibility that they are sound and the developments make

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sense that they are um considering the neighborhood neighborhood compatibility that uh whatever is developed aligns with whatever development style or architectural style in the communities. Um ensure that developer has the experience and capacity to do the work.

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Um equity in terms of the units that will be produced and leverage the ratio of bond funds to private sector investments. So we haven't um figured out the percentage allocation for those as we develop the policy will make those determinations but these are the high

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level criterias we will be looking at as we evaluate those. Um this is our timeline. It's an aggressive timeline, but uh we would like to get all of the funding spent within um the next four years so we can

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show um we have development deals and that the program is successful um by the time the next bond um comes around. So um May 2026 through fiscal year 2027 we want to we'll be working with bond

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council doing our lot evaluation um developing um doing outreach and we want to release our first funding availability in 2027. We want to focus on land acquisition and investments um that will include parcels ready for

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construction vertical construction etc. In FY28, we want to be focused on construction. So, we want to make sure we have projects in the works and we're working to get those completed. And in 2019, we want to focus on delivery and

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completion. Um, developing our dashboards, minimum measure, expenditures, affordable compliance, and loan repayments. These are some of the things we will be considering as metrics um to track the work um as it goes along. um the amount

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of affordable units generated um both on the single family side and multif family side um number of units per bond dollar. leveraging our funds um acreage of land acquired and the value of new capital

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infrastructure that we were able um to put into the system and this isn't any questions [clears throat] I have thank you for putting this together I appreciate this um first I

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want to say um how remarkable it is that we're all sitting here talking about the first ever housing bond that the city of what is this put forward. So, I want to thank the voters for um for speaking on that. But I have some issues with um what's proposed here. Mainly, when we

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know better, we do better. In every academic u in the planning space, in the in the uh in the government space that I have ever read, and I've read up on some of it, right? I have a masters in city

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regional planning, so I'm I'm not flying blind here. talks about how bad policies that promote single family developments are for communities. In

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fact, our own development says or our own um code talks about infill development and how we as a city of Fort Worth promote infill development. Where are we going to find cheap property because this is affordable. So,

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where are we going to locate cheap infill property to build these new homes? My guess is is that we're not right. I have a lot of infill property in District 9, and District 9 does not see a lot of new construction homes. District three does, District 6 does, District 8 and seven where they have

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lots of green land. That does not jive with the mayor's effort to uh to preserve open space, right? This is going against I feel like what our city policies are and we know better. Now I

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think it is important that we have an option in this bond for ownership. Too often when we talk about affordable housing, we talk about rental properties, but there's a reason why we talk about rental properties and that's because you get more bang for your buck.

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You can put 300 units on a piece of property that would take you 10 times the amount of space to put single family homes. So why are we specifically stating that this ownership opportunity has to be for single family homes when

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there are so many other types of more appropriate and better use of our tax dollars types of of of housing that offer the ability for people to buy in that are not single family homes. So I'd like to know how we got to that decision

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and how we change it. Yeah, I'll jump in. If you can go back to the the slide that shows the four million for the home ownership. So, you may recall when we started the public outreach for this bond proposition, it was restricted to single

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family and so that's what a lot of the community heard initially and then council asked us to broaden it so that all housing types were were available. We had heard a preference for single family throughout that public input. And so we thought it was important to expand

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that a bit to include duplexes, town homes, cottages, not just strictly your traditional detached single family. We have a lot of vacant lots within Loop 820 where we've got a lot of neighborhoods that we could double their density just by filling in with single

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family or duplexes or town homes. So that's that's part of the thought is that where we've got single family zoning or B2 family zoning or other zoning where we have vacant lots that we think it's appropriate to infill on those lots. I agree with you that from a

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density standpoint, we want to densify our multif family areas and mixeduse areas as much as we can. Um and so I don't I don't want to say that we're limited on housing type at all. Um, my sense is from an ownership standpoint, it's hard to get condominiums to work in Texas. And so that's why we weren't

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looking at ownership on the multif family side, but on the other housing types. Um, but certainly we don't want to limit ownership um, and folks building equity and building wealth by only having a rental product available. But I I do think we're totally flexible on the dollars that go where um, how

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they're how they're allocated. But but in terms of where we have vacant lots, the majority of them are in single family neighborhoods. Um but the density win, you're exactly correct, comes with the multif family development. >> So what is our per project?

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>> I appreciate that. Thank you. Um why are we not just giving this to the um community land trust who has already an operation set up and to to do this? >> So that's exactly one of the options that we have, right? You've got folks

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like Community Land Trust, you've got um you've got the Habitat, you've got the Housing Channel and others. And and it looks like Casey might want to speak to this, but yeah, there's a lot of existing partners who do single family building. >> They do, but the community land trust is the only one that keeps them affordable

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in perpetuity. I mean, Habitat for Humanity, they get to sell their home for equity. >> And so, yeah, let me let Casey address the how we would maintain affordability with different potential developers. >> Yes. So, the points you make are great. I mean, they're good points. They're ones that we've considered as well. I do want to add a little bit to your first

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question in terms of how do we decide on the four million for um single family home ownership. Part of the reason too is a lot of the funding that we get currently now through the federal government to address affordable housing needs. We're currently doing that for

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multif family. And so the idea was with this bond program, this would be an opportunity because if you recall from our housing affordability strategy, one of the things noted in there is the lack of affordable single family homeownership opportunities. And so this

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presents an opportunity to address that. I will caveat that by saying that there are a lot of different affordable housing needs in the city. $10 million is a small amount and so we're not going to be able to address all of the um different needs, but this is a start. Um

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in relation to the community land trust, we are considering them as a partner through this bond program. Um the purpose of this presentation is to really provide the high level of framework um just to make sure that we are on the right track and then once we

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have agreement we pres um previewed it with the city manager's office um wanted to preview it with you all before we started developing more of the details but we do anticipate that the community land trust will be involved in and I'm sorry I'm out of breath I just came from a baseball tournament so I've been

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rushing [laughter] I was not playing My little one was playing. Yes. >> Okay, Michael. >> Yeah, just backing up what Chair Beck said, I community land trust is a good thought. I think for this body, it might be worthwhile to know what are all the

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options out there. My understanding with Habitat is yes, I think it's a 99-year lease. So, if it ever they want to sell, it has to go back to Habitat. So, I think it might be just us knowing the lay of the land before we as we figure out what all the options are. But this

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is a good start, but I think we just need more complete. >> And one of the other things I would like to um discuss is as part of um the bond meetings, we did talk about that we wanted to do a competitive process. And part of that is to see what all of the different affordable housing opportunities that are going to be coming through in the next few days. And

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so I anticipate that there will be groups like Habitat and Community Land Trust and other developers who are already active in the city of Fort Worth and then also new ones who will um present. We didn't want to limit ourselves to ideas because there may be projects coming through that we had not

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considered and so we did want to um keep it open for some flexibility. >> I do have a question. Okay. So, one of my my concerns or I guess I'll just say question before I I'll label it a concern is how to um Councilwoman Beck's point, how do we ensure that we're going

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to spread the wealth with regards to where these affordable housing projects are going to be proposed? Because when I look at like property values and how much, you know, just retail, for lack of a better word, market cost for different properties, it seems like there will be some of us, some of our districts will

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be impacted more than others. So, while I am a huge proponent of affordable housing, I just want to make sure that we're not going to continue to propagate a problem that I hear my residents um expressing all the time. >> Yes. So, the idea would be to spread it

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around as much as possible, but as you'll notice, even just from the map, there are um at least three districts when we talk about all of the different target areas that we're targeting, there are at least three council districts that don't have any of these target areas. And so, it is very feasible that

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at the end of spending these $10 million that we won't be able to put affordable housing in each council district. We do hope that with the projects that we are able to bring online that that will generate more um public support for affordable housing so that when it comes

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to developing the next bond program there will be an opport there will be an um support for increasing the dollar amount. But I mean to be honest with you $10 million we're not going to be able to hit every district. We're not going to be able to address all of the issues,

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but it is an opportunity to kind of basically pilot the idea of affordable housing program and to be able to show what we can do with the little bit that we get and then the idea that if we're able to get more, we can do a little bit more across the city. >> But that's exactly my question. So, you

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don't have a lot and so in order for it to go a long way, it would seem like you'd have to take the best value. And I'm trying to understand how you're going to make that determination. So part of it will be again with the competitive process. So going through the different um we kind of have the

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criteria here. We're going to be looking for of the projects that are um identified that developers have ready to go. One, which ones are able to be uh implemented as quickly as possible, which ones can be best address our affordable housing need? Which ones are

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compatible in terms of the financial feasibility? And so we will be assessing all of the projects that come our way and making um kind of our best guess decision as to which of those projects are the best. >> So So Casey, I'm going to go on the record cuz I'm a state plane. To me,

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what you just said is alarming to me because those things to me, I don't really need to feel like I need to know the numbers to know where that's going to land. And so I want to just go on the record with saying I don't want to continue to be proliferated in District 6 with affordable housing projects. I

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want to I think we definitely need them, but it seems like we're being proliferated with them. And so whatever that process is going to be, I think it's going to have to be more than just looking at where it's going to be easier. Seems to me easier is where it's already at. Where feasible, it seems like it's going to be where it's most

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affordable. So that to me targets a few of our districts and we need to figure out how we're going to make sure that we balance those interests for all of us. >> And I appreciate >> and I'm done. I'm not trying to be combative, but I just want to plainly state where I'm on that, where I am on that. >> And I appreciate the feedback. And that's the point of it here because we

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have not developed the nitty-gritty details. And so based on y'all's feedback, then we can go back and identify like if there are specific types of projects um or areas of the city, then we can incorporate that as part of our more detailed policy.

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But we hear your feedback and we will um take that into consideration. >> Um Casey, I have a question. Council Beck, I I idea that this is a great first presentation and it's generating a lot of conversation. I think maybe we need to workshop this a bit more and get

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better and I I don't have a way of doing that necessarily and I also would love to have some of our outside partners in the room at the same time and even get their real-time feedback in an open meeting to kind of spitball some ideas before we formulate a process because I do think um I want this to be

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successful. it needs to be successful for us to ever have future bonds on affordable housing. So that's just a suggestion to the chair and open to suggestions from council also. I would I appreciate that and I [clears throat] you had no way to know that of the timing, but you know

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yesterday a major bill passed um the Senate the American whatever we're calling it building more in America right and it's the whole purpose of that is to build more housing stock and by looking at the bill or at least

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highlights of it um there are a lot of places where there's synergy they're offering offering a lot of money for communities that are doing work like this, like trying to make sure we have enough housing stock. They're offering grants. Um, and so what I would like to

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see is I know that it just passed and so you know, um, I don't expect y'all to be experts on it. Just kidding. But um um uh how we can develop this bond program to

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capitalize on that. Like for just by way of example, they have a $200 million competitive grant program for local governments that demonstrate measurable increases in housing supply incentive incentivizing reforms such as streamline permitting, density bonuses, and zoning

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changes. So, I bring this up because there's more to it than just me complaining about what the data, you know, the academics say. Um, we have we now have federal law that we can use to um to to gain more >> to to leverage on this. And so I'd like

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to see how um what was passed impacts what we're doing and how we can shape that bond program to capitalize on maybe potentially seeing some additional grants. >> Certainly. Yes, we can definitely do that. Um we've been following it. Um but

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definitely we can do a deeper dive now that it's gone through to see um leveraging is a big part of what we're wanting to do. not only in terms of the target areas, the idea behind the target areas was leveraging re redevelopment efforts that the city already has. And

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then also the idea is that not only will we have this $10 million, but we will be able to um leverage it with other private and federal grant dollars. So definitely leveraging is something that we want to see and in terms of that federal bill that we can see that as well. Um, I do want to address um the

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mayor's comment in terms of the um getting feedback from our partners. That is definitely something that we have an interest in doing as well. Um we did we weren't able to um because we did want to present this to the HFC board before we presented it to the um outside

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public. But we did get kind of discuss some of um some components of what we were proposing with um a group within the city of Fort Worth that includes not only private developers but also nonprofit developers. And then we did indicate to them that once we had you

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all's once we presented to you all got your feedback then the plan was to continue to work with them to make sure we develop this project in coordination with them. Um because we want to make sure there are efforts that's happening on the side. Um some of the things that we may be able to do um but then some

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things that may be better fit for private partners. So we will definitely do that. >> Councilman Nettles. >> Okay. [clears throat] Thank you. Uh thank you for the presentation. I have a couple of comments I want to uh allude to.

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Okay. Uh a couple of comments. Um number one, again, as Council Beck said, we appreciate the citizens for voting for uh this housing bond. And I and when we broaden it, it gave us the option to do more. And so I think is I was going to

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actually suggest the same thing that the mayor suggests about a workshop. and it may be like a small committee because I do think that we need to do it as soon as possible so that we can have um successes going into the next bond. And so um I I'll nominate myself and Beck to

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sit on that partial committee with other groups. Yeah. Uh housing channels um all those nonprofits that are part of what they're doing in city for work. And I will allude to say this as well that today's affordable housing is not

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projectbased housing. It is uh housing, single family housings with uh cuz I have a lot of infield houses that come and develop their brick homes, their nice homes and they can go in any community within the city of Fort Worth because they are built with quality. And

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one of the things about this this housing bund is we want to make sure that homes are built citywide, not just in certain district or certain zip codes. And so I think it's important that uh when we talk about this, the city of Fort Worth is not building the

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homes. Developers will be coming to us and so it's going to be hard to uh eliminate and say, "Well, we we don't want you in this district, we want you in that district." So, I think it's going to be incumbent of us to make sure that we already have partners that we work with with that we do within field

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housing um within your department uh that we continue to move that forward. But I would like to get a robust maybe just a meeting with a round table uh with some uh community partners with a couple of council members to kind of

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hash out and talk about where we can use these dollars. It's not a lot of money. We want to make sure we put them in. And lastly, uh you mentioned it, Dana, already uh but I want to make sure that when we do move forward that if people

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come in and apply for these dollars more uh for one of those um sessions that we don't hold them back because we're saving it for maybe a complex or maybe single family if that makes sense. >> Yes. And that is the intent. Even though we've identified four, four and two,

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those are kind of soft um measures um kind of to your point, if there are more projects on the multif family side or single family side, vice versa, we would want to have the flexibility to to adjust the dollars as possible. And then even with the $2 million um set aside,

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that is, you know, if there's a really good project that comes after we um do the formal R RFP process, we want to be able to have funds that are available to put in those projects. >> Any other questions, comments, concerns?

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None. Seeing none, thank you. Appreciate it. Look forward to working with you on this. All right. Um, we [clears throat] have one more action item and it's consider and adopt a resolution to accept funding to support affordable housing related to the city's chap city's chapter 380 economic agreements.

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And Casey, run on up, girl. And I will tell you, so this was actually came to the city council for approval back in December 2025. There was a informal report and then also a mayor and council communication that was approved in December. the economic

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development department sponsored this. The reason for needing this is now the HFC has to take formal um action to accept the incentives. But basically the incentive would be um for potential developments. They could get a 5% rebate

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on increases in their property taxes and then those dollars could be sent to the affordable housing um I'm sorry to the housing finance corporation to be used for affordable housing. Do we have any questions on that?

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>> Seeing none, do I have a motion? >> You're going to arm wrestle over who's going to make the motion? >> Say second. >> Oh, [laughter] >> so are you second? >> All right. All those in favor? >> I. Any opposed? All right. Motion carries. Do we have any future agenda

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items? Sounds like we had one and it was just to bring back some additional information on the um Anything else? None. Meeting is adjourned. Y'all have a great day.