--------- sad about that. I'm going to start with organizational updates and employee recognitions. I'm going to start with Council Member Flores who wants to recognize someone. Thank you, Jay. I appreciate that. Uh with us today, we have a person who is
now leading one of our dynamic chambers of commerce here locally. We have Erica Garza. She started March 13th of this year and is now leading the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. So with that, Erica, I invite you to the podium and give us a little intro and let us know
about yourself, please. Afternoon, Mayor Parker. Good afternoon, council members and um Mr. D Chapa. Thank you for having me here. I very much appreciate it. Um I am the president and CEO of the Fort Worth Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. I have been in the role for about three months
and I have to tell you, it's been an incredible honor for me to be able to serve this community. I can tell you firsthand experience that I've been able to see the collaboration, the community, and the support and most importantly for being able to have the ability to embrace me in this new role with the
Hispanic Chamber. I'm really excited about how we're pivoting the business. We are very aware that we've got some challenges that are up front for us. But most importantly, as a team, as a community, we're working on initiatives that we can support our small
businesses, create more Latino entrepreneurship opportunities, support corporate businesses as well, and be able to have educational initiatives. So, with that being said, thank you so much, and I'm very grateful to be here and present myself with you guys. Thank
you. Thank you, Erica. You Okay, next up, um, I'd like to call, um, Holly Moyer, human resources interim director, to recognize our emerging leaders group. Good afternoon. Holly Moyer, interim HR director, mayor and councel. I'm excited
about this opportunity to talk to you about our employees as emerging leaders. This is something that this program started in 2023 and it was a collaboration between Rebecca Doyle from the young professionals and Shannon Loose from our organizational development team. And as we looked at
this, the first class that they had had 11 members as they went through this process of putting together a great program where they can have learning um mechanisms but also learn about each other and the organization as they become leaders in the future with the
city. And so today we have 49 graduates. So that's a accomplishment that I wanted to be able to recognize them for not only a great program but word of mouth has shown that there is an interest here in this program moving forward. So I
just want to give them a big shout out for that. So we appreciate you doing that. And so just a little bit about this emerging leaders program. Uh, it's not moving. Okay.
So, uh, we had two classes of emerging leaders. So, I want to recognize again the emerging leaders, too. If you would just stand up real quickly. Thank you so much. some of the things that they worked on and had leadership with uh Jay Chapa and
Richard Savala. So again, we appreciate them taking the time out of their busy schedules to to meet with uh emerging leaders here to talk about not only the city but how they grow and develop into our future leaders here of the organization.
And so one of the things that they started this year which I think is pretty exciting is this cross development insight sessions. So not only they're looking at being a leaders in our organization but crossf functional departments. So an example of this is when they had a the air quality
group and working with the uh parks and recreation about burn bands. So when you think about that if there's a situation that occurs a communication and understanding of the processes and how it works is something that they have learned in this process and it connects
our employees closer with each other and to make sure that our community understands what's going on and what the needs are and how we can be better with our programs. So that's pretty exciting something that again you can see from here they collaborate very well.
So a lot of work that has also went into the program is the knowledge that they learned from all these assessments and and work that they did. So again there's a lot of success here of understanding things from accountability to leading change, navigating difficult
conversations. So that was a great thing that uh they learned from this program as well. So emerging leaders one if I can recognize you as well please stand up.
[Applause] Thank you so much. And so again, a lot of learning that occurred here between coaching and managing accountability and self-awareness in the program that has
been develop developed through this process. And so one of the things I want to say to Shannon and to Rebecca is thank you again for putting this together. This is a great opportunity for our employees to learn and develop and become future leaders. And I just wanted to say that I
think Shannon is like a proud mom because they have graduated from this program. So I just want to recognize her for that. So I appreciate your time. Thank you so much. And I just want to mention these kind of programs that that have been put in place by the HR department and
collaboration with staff are really going a lot long way to keep employees at the city because they have opportunities to grow, opportunities to to learn new um new skills and I think it's helping them understand that there's opportunities here to make a
career out of the city uh on the long-term basis. Next up, we have Ori Fernandez, assistant director in economic development to recognize one of our employees. Thank you for being here, guys. Have a good one. Or you can stay. No, no one
wants to stay. Good afternoon. It is a privilege to recognize Sheree Gordon. She's over here. economic development coordinator within the economic development department as she was recently named to
the 2025 top 100 influencers and local government list by the emerging local government leaders professional association. Sheree is no stranger to you and she is an incredible asset to the city of Fort Worth's economic development team where
her impact on the community is significant. Sheree works tirelessly behind the scenes as project manager for many of Fort Worth's most high-profile business recruitment and expansion projects. Over the past year alone, she played a key
role in the delivery of nine projects, securing more than 925 million in private investment and creating or retaining an estimated 3,145 full-time jobs for the Fort Worth
community. Her ability to juggle complex timelines, manage expectations with internal and external stakeholders, and coordinate seamlessly with high-profile companies like Bell, Seammens, and IT Logistics demonstrates her dependability
and her competitive drive to secure projects for Fort Worth. These accomplishments aren't just numbers. As Shereice's work actively ensures that Fort Worth continues to be a booming city for business and a center for growth in our target industries.
Another thing that sets Sharia apart is her unwavering support for her team. She consistently goes above and beyond to help her colleagues, offering guidance, expertise, and of course, a healthy dose of humor. Whether she's advocating for a teammate
in meetings or offering assistance on projects with looming deadlines, Shereice's collaborative spirit and strong work ethic are valued and appreciated by everyone around her. Additionally, Shereice's passion for Fort Worth makes her an exceptional
networker, which has been crucial in building relationships between our team and the business community. She thrives on connecting people with resources that can solve their problems or provide potential partnership opportunities, bridging gaps between public and private
entities alike. Shereice's creativity, drive, and unwavering belief in her work and her team make her an outstanding public servant who consistently embodies the city of Fort Worth's values. She's a key player in Fort Worth's growth and
our department and our city are very lucky to have her. Please join me in a round of applause to help celebrate and recognize her. We're not sure what's going on here. Um, and I just wanted to say Sheree is
top 100 in the country nationwide as recognized for that. So, Sheree, you're always such a professional. These accolades are welld deserved. Thank you for doing such a great job on behalf of the city of Fort Worth and your entire team is top-notch, but in particular, we're really proud of you today and congrats on your recognition. Thank you.
I'm very proud to be a part of the city of Fort Worth and for the leadership that I have here at the city. Thank you. It shows. Thank you so much. Next up, Next up, I want to call up Jennifer Dykes to recognize stormwater staff.
Y'all come and stand. Okay. So, I'm excited to uh be back again in front of y'all today um and share with you that in May, the stormwater management program received a national award from the Association of State Flood Plane Managers. Several of
our team are active in this organization which has a mission to reduce flood loss across the nation. So, the program received the James Lee Wit award for local excellence in flood plane management. And this award recognizes recognizes outstanding programs or
activities at the front lines of flood plane management or what they consider as local programs where rubber meets the road. So over the last several years, the storm water management program has advanced several new efforts such as our non-female flood risk initiative, floodplate and development permit
enforcement program, high water warning program communication improvements, our community rating system ranking improvements which are saving residents more money on their flood insurance, and capital and maintenance service level improvements. All of which make significant contributions to flood risk
management and which is why our program has received this award. While many of um of our flood plane management activities are led by our floodplane administrator, Lisa Biggs um and our outcomes of the groundwork set u by our prior flood plan administrator, Claire
Davis. Um we have many members of our team here today because the award recognizes our overall program and teamwork efforts which work together to advance our mission to protect people and property from harmful storm water runoff. So
[Applause] everyone say no more flooding. Thank you, Jennifer. Okay, lastly, um just want to remind everyone Thursday City Hall will be closed. It's Junth National Holiday and that Opel's walk happens that morning at Ferington Field.
Thank you, mayor. Thank you, Jay. Um, at this point, we're going to move into informal reports. Before we do that, I wanted to recognize our council member elect, Mia Hall, is here today on behalf of District 6, and we'll recognize her tonight officially, but Mia, it's great to see you, and thank you for being here today. Congratulations. Welcome. Okay,
Jay, we're going to move into monthly. Our first is monthly report on the release of areas from ETJ. DJ Herella is available if we have any questions. No, DJ, just want to say thank you very much to you and your team and city legal for a lot of important testimony this
legislative session on this issue and a few others. Next up is our uh IR and city flood risk regulation update with Jennifer Dyke. Anybody have questions for Jennifer or her team? We're going to roll through. I bet we have some questions on this one. Uh,
City of Fort Worth, Fourth of July operations communications. Chief Alders, why don't you come on up? And I see Torchy and Cindy both here with their signs and everything. Thank you ladies. We appreciate you both very much. Gina's here in spirit. I feel her.
Absolutely. Chief Aldridge, thank you. Yes. So, in light of this morning's meeting, I have to tell you, I'm not going to recommend or ask for any fee or rate increases for this. So, um, but I will give a general o overview because we
know Fourth of July is is one of those times that's extremely busy for us, extremely busy for the city. And in all honesty, council members receive quite a few complaints after Fourth of July is over. So, it's very important to note in the very very beginning, fireworks are
illegal. Plain and simple. Uh, there's laws on the books. You can't possess them. You can't have them. You can't shoot them off. You can't u do anything with fireworks. and so they are illegal in the city limits of Fort Worth. Um, one thing that is very important to note is that we have a lot of celebratory
gunfire on Fourth of July. Um, we are doing our best to get people to not do that because what goes up comes down and those projectiles definitely hurt people, damage property, uh, and hurt animals. So, we know that we're going to have the Fort Worth 4th, which is at the
Panther Pavilion. On July 3rd, we have KOMO, uh, which is a very large event, very historic event for us. Um, very well attended. Um, and the 4th of July has quite a few other events that are going on throughout the city. So, as you can imagine, we have quite a few fire, police, EMS resources that are out on
the streets making sure everybody stays safe. Um, with that, uh, each patrol division is going to have extra officers out there answering calls for service to help combat some of these fireworks calls. We also have a hotline for fireworks, the 3924222.
The fire department uh gets voluntary staff uh and civilians to uh staff those phones to answer the calls and pass those complaints on to us. You also we also have um an email that we can uh that they can that people individuals
can email to which is report fireworks. Texas.gov if they'd like to do that or they can use the myworth app. Um there are quite a few avenues in which people can report fireworks and report issues within their city. Uh the police department of course fireworks and the calls that we go to are going to be
regulated on the type of calls that we get because they're prioritized. So life uh and death situations of course we're going to handle first. Um and if fireworks calls sometimes those priorities go down the list a little bit and take us a little bit of time to get to it. Um the Fort Worth Fire Department, they're going to be
available to uh take all the fireworks that we confiscate off of the off the individuals out in our city. Um they're also going to be available to um provide messaging for us through their platforms. Um they also are providing additional call takers on their side for
our computer systems. Um and one of the best things that we have is we have such a great partnership with Jim and his team. Um we work very closely together. I know on the 3rd of July um we have set up you know strike teams and and different teams of the police department but we partner with the fire department
so um we can have access into those communities if something does happen. Our community engagement is a real big uh large portion of what we do. Um getting out into the community, educating the community on our fireworks ordinance and the laws associated with that. You can see Cindy and Torchy
behind me. um they've been very instrumental on East Side um going to the apartment complexes, educating them uh and they've been able to curb a lot of the fireworks call that actually happened. So unless there's any specific questions about the IR itself or fireworks, um I'm here to answer any of
them. Any questions for Chief? Council Flores. Yes, Chief. When it comes time, um I'd like to get a little historical uh data just to keep this in mind. Uh, for example, number of contacts either PD or FD make, you know, with residents,
be it a warning or just following up on a complaint. Sure. And also violations issued. And then just a general reminder to everyone, you know, my PSA for the day. You can also report it uh using the My Fort Worth app. Yes, sir. That's all I have. Thank you, Carlos. Any other
questions or comments from council? No. Thank you. You may not like fees, but you like fines, don't you? Yes. And it's a $2,000 fine. You like what I did there, ladies. Thank you very, very much for all your advocacy on behalf of the city. Absolutely. We appreciate you. Okay, we're going to keep moving. The East Side Transportation Plan and Kelly
Porter is here on behalf of TPW or Landre Singfellow with Development Services. We have any questions? Yes, Mayor. Uh I N um a brief uh update on the uh the land counselor
It's a brief update or did you have a specific question? No, a brief update. I may have one once you get done. Okay. So, the corridor is fully funded from 820 from 820 west over to Riverside uh with federal funding and state
funding and some city funding through COG. Um, construction is supposed to start around 2027 and they're going to about 60% design now. And are we specifically talking about Rosedale or Lancaster? Lancaster. Lancaster. Okay. Um,
and how how's our partnership working with Trinity Metro? It's been fine. Um, we met with them and Cog over the last several months to try to figure out where we need to sync up the bus stops and the um and the
crosswalks. So it's a safer corridor. So that was like our last order of business. Um and there um COG worked on u with them on where specific like public or private stations would be once the service is upgraded. So it's going
pretty well. All right. Thank you so much. Appreciate the update. Any other questions for Kelly? Thank you, Kelly. Next up is management of donation box boxes. Yes, mayor. When you turpin,
this is like groundhog day. Be honest, staff, do y'all just recycle the same IR and then touch it up. Just change the date. I didn't realize because we always get this question, right? Almost every year. Yes, council Larsdorf. So, thank you, mayor. Um, so this is one that's I'm
sure it's affecting a lot of other districts, but especially up north. Um, and I learned about the well two years ago whenever I first asked if we could just completely outright ban these. I told it they're actually protected under under the first amendment of the constitution since it's
a form of solicitation. But Supreme Court did say that we can regulate it and and I really want to say thank you to staff for doing all the work they did and especially our legal team who did all the background research on what we can and can't do. Um what's really terrible about these is the fact that the the victims of of well
essentially what it is illegal dumping um is the business owners. And so I know that right now they're required to have it removed um on their own dime if someone illegally places a donation bid on their property. Um and it's big business for these retailers because
it's not there's very very few nonprofits who are actually uh managing these boxes. And there's a few uh good ones out there, but majority aren't. Um and so what what I just like to ask is if we can continue to find a way um to have meaningful enforcement against
these because we're seeing more and more and more pop up as it becomes a more and more uh profitable business for those individuals to put together a $200 box, drop it on somebody's property. Um it becomes an eyesore for that business, for the community. um they come by in the middle of the night, they empty it
out, they they go and sell it, and they they make their money. All meanwhile, the property owner is the one left with the mess uh behind. Um I talked to a couple uh junk removal companies about how they would handle it. Um and the the three I talked to, they actually said 90% of what they would that they if they
were the ones confiscating it, they could actually recycle to keep it out of the landfill, which after this morning's conversation, that's incredibly important. Um, and so like all things that we talk about here in the city, um, any enforcement or fines or whatever it may be, just having teeth on it. Um, so
all that to say, I just really like to ask staff if we can continue to work this to figure out a way we can actually not punish the property owners since they are essentially the victim of that crime and find a way that we as a city can help clean them up and then send a message to those property donation bin
owners that, you know, this is not the place to do it. this is not the place to drop them in in business parking lots. We have some business owners taking matters in their own hand, wrapping them with saran wrap and doing whatever they can. Now, I'm afraid they may end up getting sued at some point. Who knows? Um, so one again, thank you for all the
work that's been put into this and just ask that we continue to find a way to kind of regulate these a little bit more. Yes, I'm fully on board and we'll absolutely pursue that. Thank you so much. Any other questions for Wendy? Thank you. Next is our midyear update for fiscal
year 2025 on illegal campsite cleanup trends. And I think Wendy is also available if there are questions on this topic. Council member Hill and Tara also both of you are here. Wendy, you're back up. Sorry. I think I have questions for both of you actually.
Wendy, do you know how many illegal campsites we have in the city of Fort Worth? Do we have those pinpointed or identified? So we get about 10 to 20 identified almost every single day. And are we keeping pace with cleaning up the amount that we have versus the ones that
are reported? Yes, as a matter of fact, we are able to keep pace at this time. Excellent. That's good to know. Thank you. And then Tara, I had a quick question for you. Is there a correlation at all between those individuals participating in the high impact pilot project and those that
were finding in the illegal campsites that are living there? I would have to find out about that. I'd be curious to know if some of those individuals were working with on a one-on-one basis or living in those campsites and how are we helping them find shelter houses, right? I do know
there's some overlap. Um the high impact program targeted the areas with a lot of illegal camping. Um and so those seven target areas in high impact are the ones with a lot of illegal camping. So there probably is some overlap there. If you could find that out and report back, I'd
appreciate it. Okay. We can we can say that everyone house through high impact was unsheltered and camping somewhere most likely in one of the seven target areas. Okay. Thank you. Yes. Council Nettles and council. Okay. Thank you. I'm looking at the map. Um I
think it's on your IR page 4 and I see the concentration of the illegal campsites in the inner part of the city. uh preferably right there in the downtown area. And as we talk about the high impact as well as funding that we give
towards uh um a homeless initiative, are we matching our funds in the location where we see the biggest issue of the illegal camps? So for for the high impact program um when we started that last May we used
data from the my Fort Worth app um to do a heat map of where are people reporting illegal camping throughout the city. Um and from there we looked at those seven areas and you are right a lot of it is in the central area. So about four of
the seven target areas uh downtown historic Southside, East Lancaster um and near Southside and part of Beach and Hempill are all in that central area. So yes, um we understand that a lot of the illegal camping is in that
area and so that's where we put a lot of target areas. As a reminder, we're going to have an update on the high impact pilot today as well. Anybody else? So, I know we talked this morning, Wendy, about uh these illegal
campsites. I know you said I see this increase from uh 5,200 to 5600 forecast for this year. I know there are only how many upspire teams will we have enough
to manage this increase this year? We use the Upspire creams teams throughout the city. Um, so we have citywide and we also have some specifically donated to homelessness. Okay. And every single week we adjust based on our needs. So I would say yes.
Currently we are able to meet the needs and the demands and that's our expectation what we've presented in that IR. We expect to be able to clean and meet this year. Okay. Is it fair to say, Wendy, it it's probably hard to because we weren't as focused on this effort as we were prior
to fiscal year 22 and then into 23, right? So, the way you guys are tracking the data around camp cleanup is so much more um enhanced than it used to be. So, what I'm saying is it may feel like we're playing whack-a-ole a little bit when you look at these numbers. Um, but
I think our reporting structure is much better. the use of my fororth app, the proactive nature of which we're working, each of your offices are really helping with constituents to make sure they know this is a service we provide and we're taking really seriously. So, I just want to point that out as something that while I know it feels that maybe it's getting worse, it's actually usually
focused on this effort to make it better here in the city of Fort Worth. At least that's the way I read the data. You can speak to that, Wendy. That is exactly true. Since 2023 when we started a a real in-depth program, we have focused on the planning and analytics of this and making sure that we are tracking the
money that we're spending, the amount of people, the amount of time that we are putting forth to this effort. So, yes, the data and analytics are dramatically improved. Thank you, Council Nettles. Yes, I I do want to ask another question. Um, can you give me from the time frame a
resident goes into the my forward app and make that complaint or call in to the time frame the campus actually cleaned up? I cannot, however, Neil Johnson can and I believe he's here. [Music]
Yes, nice pivot. Good afternoon, Mayor Council. Uh, yes, I can answer that question. It it varies depends on depending on the size of the camp. Within my team, we kind of categorize camps between small, medium, and large. As you notice, some some camps may be easily accessible. So those
types of camps where we categorize maybe smaller in capacity, larger quantity, small amount of campers or illegal campers, we can we can generally clean within 24 to to 72 hours. Generally, with the resources that we have with the Upspire and and reorganization, we're
we're actually getting to those within 24 hours. medium to larger scale camps. Obviously, there's more resources. Some of them are tucked away in in deep areas into wooded areas. It allows a it it tends to to we we have to plan a little
bit more with the efforts with other departments and co you know collaboration with other departments with parks and recreation. Text dot is a big influencer in those also. We generally with the resources we can get to those within five to five days to to uh within one to two weeks but generally
right now we're getting to them within five days of scale camps. Yes. You said within 5 days. Yes sir. Okay. And I I appreciate that cuz I realistically we want to have a time frame when people call in our office and because basically when they call today they want to move
today and realistically that doesn't exactly we can't do that for different reasons. Correct. Uh, so thank you. Yeah, are doing a great job. I'm a secret shopper on the My Fort Worth app and so I report them in a non-maril way and it works just fine. Really quick
turnaround and the response backs working. So just kudos to the entire team. I know it's multiple departments making this happen. Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions? Thank you, Wendy. Okay, next up is Dave Lewis on report on city pools and partnerships with YMCA
for access to pools. Are there any questions today's IR? Council member Nettles. Yes. I'mma have Dave to come up. We also have a special guest as well with him. Uh I asked for this IR because I think it was important especially during the summertime uh access to pools and how I know the city of Fort Worth.
Uh we have our individual pools that we provide for our residents. But we have a greater partnership throughout our city with as such as the YMCA and others. And so uh I kind of in our IR want to articulate those locations. And so I talked to Dave earlier about it and so
he'll do that this time. Thank you. Good afternoon, Mayor and Council. I appreciate the opportunity to expand on this informal report. Um, as you know, we have a long-standing history of partnerships with the YMCA across multiple facilities across multiple program areas. I did want to introduce
Mr. Mike Brown, the CEO of YMCA's of Fort Worth, and he'll come up and say a few words whenever I um am finished with the topic at hand. Um, I didn't bring this in case there were any hard questions. This is actually an award that we were given. Uh, recently the city of Fort Worth Park and Recreation
Department was named the YMCA partner of the year. So, we're very proud of that. And the the truth is it takes a good partner to know a good partner. And the YMCA has been a tremendous partner for us. We Mike and I have worked on several different initiatives including pool
access. We believe that it isn't solely dependent on the cityowned or city- managed pools to serve the the city's needs when it comes to pools. And the YMC has always been a great partner that's open to new ideas, new ways of doing things to provide that greater access. Mike and I have talked about
opportunities when it comes to not only facilities and pools, but therapeutic recreation, senior programs, youth development. So, we've got a lot of things um in the works. staff also did have a meeting yesterday with a completely privatelyowned pool that they brought up the opportunity for us to
partner with them to provide more access to another agency that has a pool that's underutilized as well. So, we are looking for those opportunities. Um, but I do want to again take this opportunity to highlight the YMCA is such a great partner for us. And if you go to one of Mike's ribbon cutting, he'll let you push him in the
pool. That is true. He already did. too late. The mayor did push me at Eastside. Uh, thank you for letting me come and speak. I've spoken to several of you about pool access. Uh, and first thing I want to say is the award that we gave and and the
relationship that we've had. I've lived in seven different communities across this country. Fort Worth has been the easiest of cities to work with. uh you all have a partnership philosophy and mindset which says none of us can do all
this work by ourselves. So I appreciate that. Uh several of us have talked about that we have relationships at three of our pools. We've talked about why not have a relationship with all of our pools and we need to do a better job of course as a Y to make sure that the
community knows that access means they don't have to be a member. They pay the same rates as any city pool uh and can walk into a Y without a membership and participate anytime they'd like. Uh it's important to know that we have taught 50,000 folks to date in safety around
water. Uh and that we do about 4,500 swim lessons a year uh in the Fort Worth region. And so aquatics and pool safety is extremely important, plus the fact that folks in the summer like to to come and join us at our pools. So, I look forward to continued conversation and
appreciate the partnership that that all of us have had. Thank you. Thank you, Mike. Any questions for Mike? Thank you for being here. We appreciate it. Go ahead, C. One thing I wanted to um even with Dave and you got doing a great job and with our website, I want to see
if we can make it more um visible on our website. And I do, they are on there, but it's about five or seven clicks in order to get to the list of pools. And I think it'll it'll benefit our residents uh if there's a list there uh and and a list where you can actually click on it
so you can get a location. I think some of it's there, but it takes a few clicks to get to it. Yeah, we appreciate that. Thank you for highlighting that. We do have a location on our website that lists all of the publicly accessible pools, but we do want to make it so you click on aquatics and the list is right there. So, thank you. Yeah. Thank you
again. Thank you, Dave. And don't go far. The uh unimproved alley mowing program contractors is an IR. Any questions on that one? Yeah, that was my IR. Go ahead, Council Nles. Um and I think we
touched on this last week during the budget uh piece. Um as it relates to uh Can you just give me a brief summary on our contract? I know Jerry's gone, so I'm doing his his bidding today. Sure. Yeah. Over the course of the last month,
we've had several questions about the alleyway mowing program. The question that was answered in the informal report was about the two contractors that we currently use. We do also have some IRS in the work um that are explaining, you know, what the cost of graveling alleyways would look like and what the
impact would be and the feasibility of doing that. So, we will have that uh in front of you probably in August. Okay. And because I think one of my issue was with us having only two contractors, uh, they haven't been able to get around to certain areas in a timely fashion. So, I
don't know if that's just the contractors we have, no shade, or if we need to increase uh, our contractors in order to uh, deal with mowing. It it has been a really issue uh, in the historic Southside. Yeah, we do issue an RFP and
those are the two contractors that responded. So we did contracts with them to fulfill the alleyways that are in the Boeing program. But we do keep data and statistics on their success rate as we get invoiced monthly on it and they invoice us based on their work and we do investigations to make sure that they
did the work that they said they did. But we can provide a report of the data of their success in in maintaining those. Yeah. I think I'm more concerned on the timeline from the time they're notified uh that alley needs to be cut and when they actually cut the alley. Sure. uh those two contractors are on a
quarterly routine schedule and it would actually be staff that responds whenever there are those one-offs. Um so we can we can also share some response reports on those as well. Okay. Thank you. Thank you Dave. Thank you council. That's the conclusion of our IRS. We can now move into any questions you may have or
changes to memberships on boards and commissions, zoning cases or M andC log. That'll all be on the January not January June 24th agenda. Okay. Then we'll move straight into presentations. The first is the Westside Village Economic Development Program Agreement with Michael Henning presenting. Thank
you, Mayor. Michael Henning, economic development department. Um, so we wanted to provide an overview of a proposed economic development program agreement in support of the development of Westside Village um or rather an area currently uh known as Westside Village. I say currently
only in as much as that uh the developer is currently going through uh design and branding efforts. And so that name may change in time, but the area that we're talking about here is the area that is generally shown here. Uh located along
the eastern edge of University Drive, just south of the west fork of the Trinity River. Uh as you can see in the image to the right, it is an area a collection of uh city blocks that is currently primarily industrial in nature. It is also the site of the now
former Fort Worth ISD administration building. uh as well as the Autobon uh group set of properties. So in all what would be replacing those properties would amount to a proposed $ 1.7 billion mixeduse development that is
being led by Larksburg Capital. Now, this development would occur over four separate phases uh that could begin as early as 2025, so later this year, and would stretch through the end of 2035. And we'll be uh going into a little more detail about those specific phases here
in a moment. But in total, it is estimated that this project would lead to the development of approximately 880,000 square feet of new class A office, 238,000 square feet of new retail, uh, and approximate 175 key full
service hotel, uh, and approximately 1,785 new multif family units. And then importantly, uh, it would also lead to approximately four $45 million in infrastructure improvements within this area.
This gives a general sense as to the design and uh overall condition that is being proposed for the site as part of the development. And as you can see here uh it really prioritizes having a human scale pedestrianoriented environment that is distinct from other surrounding
subdists. This project would also involve the first uh instance of mass timber development here in Fort Worth. In fact, this would actually be one of the first uh developments involving mass timber
anywhere in North Texas. So, the the relocation of the Fort Worth ISD administration building and the relocation of the Ottabon Group uh dealerships has really created an opportunity to re-evaluate uh and and lead a conversation around the development of this site at a scale that
could really support the creation of a new subd district. Um now as we've discussed here recently uh this area is really challenged by uh by extensive infrastructure needs as well as being prone to certain flood uh issues. And so
uh the investment in the infrastructure as well as the u general market market conditions and the cost of building this overall project creates a financial gap that prevents it from being able to move forward without some form of support from the public sector. uh in order to
just meet the basic uh requirements of the market and of lenders for this type and quality of development within this time frame. Now, I mentioned that this would include the first anticipated use of mass timber within Fort Worth. Uh but importantly, it would also represent the
largest delivery of new office inventory in 43 years by a single project here in Fort Worth. Now just breaking out the overall uh commitments that would be uh committed to by the developer. It would involve a minimum 1.7 billion of overall capital
investment for the mixeduse development in four phases. Of that a minimum 1.275 billion must be for hard costs. And I'm not going to go through all of these phases in explicit detail but I just want to uh walk you through just the the overall delivery of those phases. So it
would amount to a minimum $410 million by the end of 2030. Uh the delivery of a minimum $370 million worth of total improvements by the end of 2032, minimum 380 million by the end of 2033 and a minimum of 530 million by the end
of 2035. And of course you can see uh more specific detail around the delivery of certain components. And now in support of this $ 1.7 billion project, staff is recommending an overall incentive package that would
amount to $125 million. Now, breaking that out, that would consist of a proposed 15-year economic development program agreement that would amount to an estimated $80 million as well as and just um that uh that
15-year agreement would be based off of uh annual grants that are associated with the delivery of each of those four phases of development. And those grants would be based on up to 85% of the incremental property taxes on just the non-residential portion of the property.
Right. So, we've been prioritizing commercial development here in Fort Worth and so this overall incentive package reflects that priority. Additionally, the city will seek to support the uh will seek support from
the newly established near westside tiff uh for the reimbursement of up to $45 million of infrastructure costs for this project. Now, this really illustrates the type of public private partnership that we seek in utilizing our chiffs to be able to address the infrastructure
needs that are found within that area. Right? So, it's an opportunity for us to accelerate uh the investment and the improvements in flood control and in streetscape improvements by partnering with a developer through a project like this. And as you can see here, the
amounts would be capped on a perphase basis and the amounts outlined here uh to a total not to exceed 45 million. Now I need to stress that that is all subject to approval by the TIFF board uh once it is fully formed and and um
brings it forward for consideration. So just to summarize the overall impact of this project, you can see along the left side the key uh overall deal points that would be committed to as part of this project. And on the right you can see the um amount that is estimated in
support of this project at $80 million through the 15-year city chapter 380 agreement as well as the proposed $45 million in infrastructure reimbursement through the TIFF. I will quickly pause here just to to make clear uh the vast majority of that $45 million through the
TIFF will be generated by increment from this project. So effectively this this project would be uh serving our ability to be able to deliver that infrastructure. The overall combined incentives on a gross basis would be $125 million as I
just outlined. But on a net present value basis that amounts to just over $82 million. That amounts to an estimated city participation rate of approximately 6 point 6.1% or a private to public ratio of 16 to1.
Looking at the overall net taxes that this would generate for the city, uh you can see here that this would uh generate an estimated $72 million in new property taxes uh again on a net present value basis over the term of this agreement, as well as over $18 million in estimated
new sales tax, $30 million in estimated new hotel occupancy tax, uh for a total amount of nearly $121 million in net new taxes to the city by supporting starting this project and and uh fill in the gap to allow it to move forward and happen
in the first place. So in all the city would be net positive beginning in year one. All these incentives are completely performance-based. If they do not deliver these phases then they forfeit uh the grants and and are subject to certain other penalties that are
associated with the the terms of this project. Uh we also estimate that the full cost of the project would be uh fully supported inside of 12 years. So with that, staff is recommending that the city enter into a 15-year economic
development program agreement to provide grants of up to $80 million and to pursue that consideration by the newly established TIF for an agreement to reimburse up to $45 million in public improvements. Uh the MSC for council consideration for the economic
development program agreement would be brought forward on the June 24th meeting. With that, I'm happy to answer any questions. Thank you, Michael. Council, any questions? No. Looks great. Thank you. [Music]
Next up is Shere Gordon on Wester Economic Develop Development Corporation. Excuse me. Tax development tax abatement. Can't read today. Good afternoon, Mayor and Council. The purpose of this presentation is to propose a tax abatement agreement with
Wistron. Wistron's an electronics manufacturer based in Taiwan related to the semiconductor industry, major strategic partner and supplier with Nvidia. City of Fort Worth is a member of the Texoma semiconductor techhub and excited
to partner in the semiconductor industry. They're conducting a site search for uh facility manufacturer components related to Nvidia AI supercomputers would have location for two companion projects and competing sites in El Paso, Nashville
and Fremont, California. The first of the two sites, uh, Project Eagle location is at 5200 Heritage Parkway, Denton County. And the second of the s two sites, project Westport is located at 14601
Mobility Way and the Alliance, Texas footprint. For the company commitments, Wdrawn proposes to establish two locations with a minimum capital investment of 687 million. The real property improvements
would occur by June 30th of 2026 and the business personal property by January 1st, 2027. This is an aggressive timeline and they do plan to begin construction this summer depending on the company decision which is contingent on action this council would take
potentially on June 24th. There's a minimum of 888 full-time jobs and the average salary at 63,000. staff was thoughtful on how we wanted to structure this um proposal and it's
designed to encourage both projects to move forward. We're proposing a 10-year tax abatement term. If the investment of if the investment level is standalone, it would be a 70% tax abatement for Project Eagle and a 50% tax abatement for Project Westport. But if both
projects are delivered, it ramps to an 80% for Project Eagle and 60% for Project Westport. Again with the 63,000 and average salary if you we do not make that requirement it forfeits the annual tax abatement in
that current year. Not making the investment results in default and failure to make job commitment also results in forfeite of the tax abatement in a given year. So for the combined project summary, minimum of 687 million in capital
investment, 888 jobs, the average wage at 63,000. We're recommending the Project Eagle up to 80% and Westport up to 60%. The taxable value this represents um what we think would be the appraised
value as it comes onto the tax roles of $67 million would give them an estimated benefit of $30 million and the net present value of that benefit at 22.6. The net new taxes to the city over that
10-year period is 10.6 million. So again that total tax value is 41.4 four with the abatement of 30.8 million but still the city receiving 10.6 million over that 10-year period. So the year the city is net positive is year one and the
full incentive coverage period is 7.22 years. Recommendation 10-year tax abatement agreement up to 80% of value of real and business property for project eagle and 60% for project westport. We did post a
30-day public notice on May 24th and plan to be at MNC on June 24th. I did want to recognize that we do have some guests in the audience with us today. We have some representatives from Wistron, from Lean Associates, and from
ADB. Thank you. And any questions? Thanks, Shri. Council questions or comments? No. Great job. We appreciate you. Okay, council. Our next update is on the homeless high impact pilot and Tara Perez will be presenting
Mayor and Council. Thank you for the opportunity um to present a one-year update on this pilot. To start us off, um, the team at Community and Public Engagement, communication and public engagement, has put together a little video. Everybody's
recovery looks a little bit different. We provide recovery oriented support services to individuals. We consist of a medical staff person, a psych staff person, an RN, we have landlord engagement, we have benefit specialists, and we have housing specialists. And
through high impact, we can actually bring those services into their home or into their community. I don't have to be on the streets anymore because of high impact goals and stuff that I had on the streets aren't the same as the goals I have now. Well, your apartment is very, very cute. Got
some beautiful decorations. I love the pictures. Thank you. Where did you get those? Um, I got those from Officer Mike. He gave me this welcome package. I mean, he also looked out for me, you know, out out there in the streets, too. Veronica's tent was closer to the the
fence area. She was wanting to get off the streets. Fortunately, we really pride ourselves and we emphasize meeting people where they are. And I know I've used relationships a ton in this conversation, but it's it's at the crux of everything we do.
We allow the client to be the driver of their recovery and kind of set goals together to kind of figure out where the client's at, meet them where they're at, and figure out what it is that they would like to work on. For them to have a place they can call their own morale
boost for all of them. Miss Chain is a name that we've shared around downtown since the early 2000s. Given her outbursts and and just presence throughout downtown, she's been a common fixture. We get calls and businesses are concerned with this individual that's experiencing some
mental health crisis that they just want to see here get the help. But at the same time, as you have new businesses coming or looking at downtown as a place that they'd like to do business or have conventions, uh it it is a deterrent. And I know that she was recently housed and she seemed healthier. She was
willing to have a conversation with us. She said she just enjoyed being downtown and wanted to come down and see her friends downtown. was fortunate enough to know Tom and Lucy on several different occasions. When we saw them, we took that as an opportunity to engage and embrace them.
And I think that was one of the catalysts to be able to get them to trust us and trust me. And for something to have such a positive resolution in a very unconventional way that we regularly in this job uh was was was
huge. Success is a little different for everybody. going to college and getting a degree in a high-paying job is what a lot of people think is a success. Oftentimes, mental health interferes with people even thinking about their hygiene or thinking about taking care of themselves. Just getting out of bed and
taking a shower is often a wonderful success for someone. developing those relationships and being able to pass along that information to you and maybe make that connection to your high impact program is is much more uh apt to succeed than uh a police officer pulling up and and trying to arrest somebody for
panhandling or soliciting or things of that nature. Hey, so just a little context um about the high impact pilot where it started. So I believe there was one week um in the fall of 23 um had meetings with
three different groups. One was downtown Fort Worth, Inc. and the ambassadors and they were sharing they keep track of how many people um who live unsheltered downtown at that time. and they shared there were about 30 people living downtown unsheltered. Um but about eight
were highly visible and caused a lot of issues. Uh and they were trying to talk through with us like what were the possibilities? What could we do? Um another meeting that week was with the historic Southside Neighborhood Association. They were talking about
folks they saw experiencing unsheltered homelessness who also seem to have some severe mental health issues. And a lot of that conversation revolved around how do we safely navigate public spaces with our unsheltered neighbors. The third meeting was um pulled together by
Councilwoman Beck at Broadway Baptist Church and that was folks from near southside uh Mike Brennan's group talking with businesses and a lot of folks at the city on how do we navigate uh some things that are not quite enforcement issues around homelessness
and mental illness um but more about people really needing services and to be off the street. So from those meetings there were two ideas that really percolated. one is how do we do something with most the most highly visible folks and also how do we bring
some high level psychiatric services um to our homeless population on the street. And so that's how the um high impact pilot was birthed trying to address that intersection of unsheltered homelessness and mental illness in these
seven really hard-hit areas. So the act in the high impact stands for assertive community treatment. So this is a model that started in the 1970s in Wisconsin. Um people there at a psychiatric hospital noticed that there
were some people cycling through. They would come for treatment in the psychiatric hospital. They would be discharged. They would see them back in six months. And so they started talking about what would it look like? and they put together a staff model, but instead of
having the staff be at the hospital, the staff was in the community. So, it was kind of like a a mobile psychiatric hospital. And over time, um the homeless system kind of put its twist on that about we have to have folks in housing
um and have those psychiatric services to keep people in housing. So, again, it launched in May. Um it concludes the pilot 17-month pilot concludes this September. We have our contract with MHMR um and they have some subgrantees which
I'll talk about in a minute. And then these are the target areas. Okay. So I think one thing that's important to remember is this is not a program for everyone and is not a program for everyone that is unsheltered. So on any given day, we
have approximately 900 unsheltered folks in the city of Fort Worth. But this program is specifically targeting those that are most visible that I would say have an outsized or disproportionate impact on their neighbors and on their
businesses. It's people that you notice when they're gone. For example, one of the NPOS said he got questions from patrol officers like, "I haven't seen Tom lately. Where is Tom? what did you do with Tom? And the NPO had the opportunity to say,
well, well, he was housed. So, it's people that you notice. This was our emphasis in the first year, identifying potential clients, um, training up that team, and want to recognize some partners that are here today. Um, leading the MHMR team now is
Teresa Munoz and her colleague Leah. If y'all could stand up for a second. Um, so they have been amazing at quickly housing people and they really embody the idea we're going to do whatever it takes to help people get off the street
and get the services they need. Another strong partner has been Partnership Home. Lauren King is here today. It's formerly Tarant County Homeless Coalition. They have a strong landlord engagement program and they worked with us um with a landlord engagement
coordinator to talk with landlords. So we have a scattered site approached where people are housed. It's not all in one place. Uh that takes into consideration client choice but also quick access to housing. Uh JPS and the Acclaim Physicians Group
especially is also a partner. They have the physician assistant on the team. Um and also I'd like to recognize my colleague Christy Harac um from homeless strategies. um she has years of experience as a social worker and was really instrumental in helping shape
this program. One bump that we did run into this year um in the program is there were 20 housing vouchers that we anticipated being able to use to house high impact clients, but they weren't available due
to some um a shortage of some HUD funding. These are the measures we used. And when we were thinking about what measures do we want to use, I went back to thinking about those three meetings that really kind of birthe this program. What those interests were and the interests were
pretty simple. Get people with severe mental illness that are sleeping outside off the street and keep them off the street. Um, and so we really shaped the performance measures around those two things. So, our performance measures, we want to have everything accomplished by
September 30th, but this is just a um a look at where we are one year into it. So, our goal was that 70% offered housing would accept it. Right now, we're at 89% of those offered housing accepted it.
We also have a goal that after being housed for one year that 70% of those folks are still housed. So we began on May one. The f first folks were housed in that month of May, but we looked at from then until the end of April, 49
clients have been housed um through the program and and right now um 98% of those are still in housing. The goal was to provide 80 uh people the ACT psychiatric and medical team
services. We're serving 78 clients again, housing assistance to 40, have met that goal with 41. And then providing assistance uh leveraging other programs and this is where we had to get creative and are still working with the
loss of some vouchers there. Okay. And this is a look at um where people are housed by target area. So, a few things for context. Looking at it deeper, we realized um the the intersections of Beach Street, I think they crossed through police three
different police divisions and they had lots of NPOS's. So, we had a a lot of referrals from Beach Street. Right now, our only areas of focus with the limited housing we have left are near Southside and North Side. And so, we think that
will even out um the referrals housed from those areas. presented this information six months ago and it really hasn't changed that that profile of the high impact client. It's still someone with a homeless span of seven and a half years about 54 still
have high acceptance rate. Um the most meaningful stat to me though has been when we track how many times we have to ask people if they want housing before they say yes and that median number has remained at one. And so it's it's very interesting. A lot
of folks say yes the first time they are asked. We have a few that it takes many many times, dozens of times. Um but the median number is one. I want to take a second here and recognize some NPOS. NPOS's have been at
the center of making this program successful and wanted to recognize and I think we have officer Kinka here and officer Marquez. Wave your hands. Thank you.
[Applause] So the NPOS's have been valuable because it wasn't just submitting the name and a date of birth. It was um we met with them, talked about this program, introduced them to Teresa and Leah and
the high impact team. A lot of times they were able to help us with warm handoffs because they know the people that are unsheltered in their area. And so it was just beyond referrals. It was um leveraging the relationship they had to connect them with the high impact
team and for people that can offer services and also helping find people. And so just recognizing that. So, um, Officer Kazinka is in council district 3 and that's the Camp Buouie West Las Vegas Trail area and he has had nine
folks be housed because of his referrals and, um, leveraging those relationships. Officer Hernandez, he's on Beach Street, Council District 4, and then Officer Marquez is historic Southside. um and he's helped us house six referrals.
At the one year mark of a pilot, it's a good opportunity to um reflect on what we have learned, what has gone well, what has not gone well. And so this is some of our learning. Um when we say intensive efforts, we mean intensive. Um
some of the clients are seen every single day by someone on the high impact team. Um the high impact team has a 247 phone number that is answered um because again this is centering on very high needs clients.
One we're also seeing some great early success with those folks who need mental health services seeking and and getting those mental health treatment. So again, the pilot has just started, but already we have almost 40% of people that are
getting mental health treatment. One of the things that um I suspected is we would have a lot of high utilizers of our medical system in our high impact program. This has proven not true. So one of the exceptions was the program was able to house one of the highest 911
callers in the city of Fort Worth. And so he's housed through high impact. I think MedStar fire appreciate that. Um but that's not the general rule. A lot of the clients were referred by NPOS and their interactions have mainly been with
law enforcement because of complaints from citizens and businesses. A lot of times they were off the radar. For example, hadn't received any kind of health services in 10 years. Again, the NPOS's have been a vital part of the program. One thing that we we learned
the hard way is that, you know, when your target grows, when we have seven targets and some of the areas are rather large, it dilutes the impact a bit. And so, we are going to be taking some next steps to figure out how to address that
issue. So for next steps, we anticipate coming before you on August 12th um asking that the program be continued based on meeting our performance measures. It's already built into the general fund base budget. Again, one of
the next steps we mentioned is wanting to go back um with hope and the NPOS's and other partner departments and have individualized plans for these seven target areas. uh while we've been able to house some of the highly visible folks, we don't have the capacity to
keep doing that. So, what are other things we can do? We also are going to have more outreach workers and so we're trying to be thoughtful about how we use those resources to also help lessen the impacts in the high impact areas. And
the the last thing we're doing is working with partners to secure some long-term housing assistance because that is what is ena going to enable us to transfer some existing clients and to be able to take on new clients. And that is it. Happy to answer
questions. Thank you, Tara. Council member Hill. First of all, Tara, thank you so much and the entire NO team. Y'all do amazing work and it shows this is working. Um, when y'all come back to us, I'd let in September and kind of give us another update on this. Um, I'd love for you to come back with a
recommendation for and use the entire year of 2026 to come up with a plan on how we can scale this as a city. Um, I know it's been only been a year, but I think there's a huge opportunity here that if we don't take the time to plan, we're going to miss an opportunity to to continue to serve the the homeless in Fort Worth. And I just want to continue
again, this is really amazing. Y'all have done a great job. Thank you, Council Tara. This it this is actually amazing. I have long said homelessness required a multi-pronged approach and what you all are doing is absolutely uh fabulous.
Those are the kinds of things I think we need to do. I know I'm going to uh piggyback on um Councilwoman Hill there and say on September the 25th, I know you're meeting in District 5 with my historic Handley team. And so I'd like
to know uh how soon we can start moving this project to other areas of the city because District 5 really needs it. Council member Beck. Yeah, I just want to reiterate um what Council Member Hill
said. Um I think the pilot has been successful. Um so one, thank you for um spearheading this and being such an integral part of it. You don't often get thanked enough for the hard work you do and um working with our NPOS to get
these folks um in identified and in housing is a big deal. Um, I know that there was um it took us a little longer than we would have liked to scale the the project up to where it is today. And so I think council member Hill's words
are um particularly meaningful in that regard. Um I would also like to see this um scaled up. So I know that that um that means a whole another you know the the likelihood of a whole another team with MHMR being brought on board because
this is a team-based approach. And so, um, for the next year, I think I'd like to see what that looks like as well about scaling it to to other parts of the city without, um, I guess taking the the warning that we, um, that we heeded in
your presentation that scaling it up too quickly, too fast, um, you don't see the results. And I think what makes this powerful is that for those areas that we identified, they um are experiencing such great levels or that, you know, the impacts they have to people not
necessarily um with homelessness, but mental health issues. Um so I know we've seen a big difference in the areas um that that you've been working in district 9. So thank you, Counc. Well, first thank you for the presentation and again appreciation to
our NPOS's and the audience for what they do. Um, I'd like to know what major lessons or takeaways that you know your team may have uh garnered from the Safe Night LLC safety studies that we've done
and I'm speaking specifically this is just one area where we see homelessness right in our entertainment districts. what takeaways applicable takeaways um have you identified there if memory serves um I did read the study
um a few months ago some of the things described or a lot of times what happens on the ground so there's a lot of really practical problem solving so sometimes our office receives um multiple calls from business districts or neighborhoods
that are very concerned and Sometimes what we're able to do particularly with businesses is put together a meeting and so we have someone from the hope team there um the NPO other departments as necessary and just let them kind of tell us what issues
they're experiencing because that's important for people to be heard um and then offer suggestions and so far that I've seen that approach work in many meetings very well whereas people will say okay you know what uh we are giving
mixed messages is like if we have a business complex and some business owners are reporting like every time they see homelessness while another business is giving away food. Um and so that just like really on the ground practical problem solving about what
business owners can do differently um to help police has been really helpful. And so I I know that was talked about that problem solving and I think that does happen a lot that I've seen. And one more thing again specific uh
since the stockyards area in the north side corresponds to one of the high impact areas uh seem to recall you did speak with the stockyards business association some time back uh you may have I don't know if that's
you know accurate but uh just as a suggestion uh you know I can help you with that if you can make outreach to them maybe share some of this with them because I'm having to field a lot of those questions. Okay. Coming from more of a subject matter expert, you know, want to go further.
Okay. I'd be happy to talk with them. Thanks. Any other questions? Council Larsto. Thank you, mayor. Uh thank you, Tara, for the uh presentation. Um like Councilwoman Beck will always point out, math is not a marine strong suit. So, uh
right now we have 49 house. Is that correct? Okay. And so is it for the rest that have I guess keep turning down services they don't want them? Um is it for a lack of capacity right now that we can't push others into the program or put others into the program or um
there's just no one else is accepting it right now? Right. Good question. So it is a capacity question. So in the budget there is capacity to house um 40 individuals and so we have we have done that and then we have used a state grant
to give us some additional capacity. We we had another 20 vouchers that were committed for this purpose that we could not use. And so at this point we don't have any more housing assistance. So, it's kind
of like um the situation's kind of flipped from a year ago. A year ago, you know, I was calling a lot of NPOS's. They're like, "Hey, let's talk about this." And now we're I'm getting a lot of calls from NPOS's um about, okay, I have another list. I have four other
people in North Side. I have five people in near Southside. And and that's one of the things we're really struggling with is because we don't have that capacity right now to be able to house more Okay. So, for those for the 98, I guess potential clients that were identified,
I assume not all 98 were actually contacted and offered because if there's a if there's not enough for them, then we want to get their hopes up, right? So, if if we do expand the program, we get additional capacity, we get landlords that agree to join the program, then the rest in those 98
identified, that's when they'll be reached out to and offered services. Okay. So, my understanding is um all 98 have been tried to reach out to. Okay, we moved some to what we call like an inactive tab. So if our street outreach, but really more importantly the NPO, if
the NPO hasn't seen them in 9 months, we kind of put them on this inactive tab um where we're not where we're not like spending the time searching for them. The NPOS's know they can call us if they see someone that's resurfaced and that's happened a couple times. Some of our
unfortunately some of our referrals have also passed away during this process. I I believe about three or four of the referrals have passed away during this process and so but we did have a chunk that we weren't able to make contact with. Gotcha. And then one more question
regarding the uh as you know whenever we hear the severely mentally ill. Some see that as that's a danger to themselves or others and they're being placed in communities where neighbors may not know what's going on nor should they for privacy concerns. Um but for those who
may be identified as like they they can't live on their own but they also refuse service. What happens with them as far as like being identified and uh what I guess what happens there? Okay, so in situations where um the person is deemed
a danger to themsel or or others. So we asked um CI our CIT team to connect with high impact several months ago um when they started running into some situations like that. Um, and sometimes the work of the high impact
team is helping people to get into into JPS psychiatric. Um, and so when it crosses that line of danger to self and danger to others, that's when those things kick in. And so the difference is though, if they're in high
impact, they have a place to exit to when they're discharged from from JPS psychiatric, okay? or another um institution. So um sorry.
Uh so that's how we kind of deal with that. Um so we're not so if if there's any kind of danger, law enforcement is involved if needed or that involuntary hospitalization. Okay. Got it. So I mean really I just really wanted to reiterate the point
that the those who are being placed um in in neighborhoods that they are they are safe neighbors they're yes there's no there's there should be no concern I guess is as is the point. So thank you for helping to redirect they're people that are receiving treatment and have a big team right looking out after them
which is amazing. So thank you so much. Thank you. Any questions or comments from council terra a few questions. I was just talking with Jay about this too. I know on one of your final slides on August 12th you'll bring an M andC forward to continue the high impact pilot. Um and it looks like that budget
amount will be just north of $2 million. Jay was just explaining to me that's about a 16-month total. It's not it's a little bit less than that for 12 months just based on when we started the pilot. What I'm getting to ultimately is we think it costs the city of Fort Worth anywhere between4 to $50,000 for each
individual we're housing. Correct. Uh, so my understanding the the 2.1 million that that was for this this 12 months for fiscal year 25. Okay. So if that's the case then it's just south of $44,000
for 50 people and you said 4950 which is fine. I'm just kind of calculating and this I think this is important as we talk about the high impact pilot because I would I would assume our hope is that on an year-over-year basis we're we're moving people through the system, right? getting them out of what's probably the
most expensive triage system of services, which is what this pilot is to get people off the streets, right? And then move them into a voucher program or some other sustainable sorts of funding when they may not need the full wraparound services. PSH notwithstanding, right? Yes. So, as we grapple with this, acknowledging how
expensive it is to get someone off the street that's been there, you know, seven years on average is what you're what you're telling us. um and the amount of staff time and dedication and if we scale up the program, which there seems to be a lot of interest around the table to make sure the entire city is covered. Um what that's going to really
per individual getting them off the street, but long term what that allows um to get them off the system. You mentioned the, you know, the frequent flyer, 911 caller, which is not the average, but those individuals, if you talk with Tarant County and JPS, how much they're costing taxpayers on average per year is pretty extreme. So,
that's just one thing I think we need to kind of calculate um in this and and obviously working with Lauren and her team at Partnership Home. Um and when you triage an individual and then hopefully how it steps down over time that the cost to house that individual, get them back on their feet is actually not $43,000 in perpetuity, but we're
able to to release that amount of money over the duration. Right. Okay. And we had looked at it um I think there's many ways to look at it. We kind of looked at it as 80 clients being able to to receive those psychiatric services. Absolutely. And then um it is an
expensive program and that's why it's very targeted. Um but we're also thinking about like if this person wasn't in high impact if they were in a state psychiatric hospital that's about 270,000. Couldn't agree more. So which is a perfect segue to my next comment.
So this last legislative session they started to nibble around the edges around what the state of Texas wants to do on homelessness. And I would argue they they have a lot more to learn. Um we all do, right? and more people like you at the table. I think you and I should work together on an interim charge request to our state delegation
on what this pilot has done for Fort Worth and and to your point about what it costs the state of Texas if you do put an individual in some type of state psychiatric in facility, how expensive that treatment really is and there's other ways to do this and allow for to be a good example because there were a few pieces of legislation I think we
could have supported, but there were others that quite frankly were just not really going to move the needle for large urban areas like we have in Fort Worth. Council member back. Um I do think you're right. It is an expensive program. Um mainly because of the the mental health care that that it's
working. Um but I did a quick Google search because your number kind of piqued my interest. Um and it says on average it cost a community to support a homeless individual about $36,000 a year. So what we're spending here is
really comparable to what we as a community whether it's through Upspire through Hope um Union Gospel Mission are collectively spending. Um so when you look at it that way it is an expensive program for us to fund but we're spending about the same amount of
dollars as a community anyway for them and and they're not housed. And I would agree. And if you also think about taking those numbers, you can use a few different statistics we want to compile together, but also working with Tarant County and JPS to understand if the city of Fort Worth has stepped up in this way
in partnership with MHMR, what that's allowing to do to lessen the burden on on both mental health services and just a general emergency care at JPS hospital in particular. So, um, Matt, my last comment or question for you is how much opportunity have you had to brief, um, leaders in philanthropy on this pilot so
far? Um, I have not briefed them yet. Okay. On the pilot, we can work on that obviously into the fall. I think they'll be really intrigued by what you've accomplished and your team. I was just say I the reason that I am so
inspired by this is homelessness is not just a Fort Worth problem. It's a national problem. And if we as a city can come up with a way to start cracking this problem, I mean, we would we could lead the nation in how we do this. And
so, I am so pleased with the pilot and to hear it. And, you know, I talked about district 5. I think we picked areas where we really had large pockets of homelessness. But I think everybody around this table will agree that homelessness has crept up in all of our
districts. and we've got to get our hands around it. Thank you, Council Member Peoples. And well done, Tara. You really responded, you and your entire team, to some frustration that was expressed during work sessions and in private meetings from council members of how are we really going to deal with our individuals that we have in our
communities that we know are um at the at the end of their rope and you've really done a fantastic job. And to Susan and her entire team at MHMR, thank you for agreeing to be partnered with us in the city. We hope that you feel that it's been fruitful as well. I know it's been an incredible amount of work and you should be recognized for such. Thank
you. Okay, council. Our last presentation is a response to recent requirements for federal grants and Dana Bergdoff will lead this presentation. Thank you, mayor and council members. I appreciate the opportunity to um brief you today on recent requirements uh
affecting our federal grants and how we recommend that the city respond. And I apologize for my voice um getting over a cold, so I've got my water just in case I need it. All right, if we can get the presentation on the screen. All right. Thank you very much.
So, I'm going to review with you this afternoon the changing federal requirements affecting the federal grants that we receive. I'll review those grants that the city of Fort Worth currently has that are active. Um go over the impacts of uh potentially losing federal funds if we um don't
receive them. the penalties for not complying with the federal requirements, our recommendations to comply and to also support small businesses, and then the impact of using city funds to potentially try to replace the federal
funds and then our proposed next steps. So, I want to thank Leanne and uh Teresa James and their teams for helping to track all of the federal activity related to uh federal grants and federal orders. There's Supreme Court cases, executive orders, and directive from
federal agencies that prohibit the use of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, and so on as criteria for participation in programs and services. And so federal grant recipients including the city and other local
governments across the country will be required to certify that we do not have such programs uh have those criteria for such programs even if we're not using federal funds uh for those programs.
So, I want to be quick to note that to date, uh, none of these changing federal requirements affect our city's human relations ordinance, our ability to enforce the Americans with Disabilities Act, our Reasonable Accommodation Ordinance, Civil Rights Act, Fair
Housing, and Fair Employment. So, the city today has uh active about $277 million worth of federal grants. Some of them are multi-year. They are both for capital projects as well as operating programs. You'll see they impact about 10 different uh departments
across the city with the largest being within our neighborhood services department and the second biggest category being in transportation both transportation and public works and aviation. So within this group of of grant projects or grant awards, we have and
have relied on for a number of years annual awards from the federal government to run federal programs and to also fund city employees. We're at about 120 uh full-time equivalent city employees that are funded with federal grant dollars. That's across five
different departments again with the bulk of that being within our neighborhood services department at just under 35 million. So about 40 a little over 40 million total that we receive uh each year. So just as a reminder our neighborhood
services department most of their federal funds come through the US department of housing and urban development. This is for the community development block grant program homea emergency solutions grant and so on. You'll see that they serve thousands of
families and individuals across Fort Worth. um want to be I want to note that some of these numbers um are um may be um duplicated in that there are families and individuals who do receive different kinds of services from the city as well as the partner agencies that we help
fund with these dollars. But this includes uh rental assistance, utility assistance, rental rehabilitation, priority repair, emergency shelter, and so on. So, the neighborhood services programs primarily benefit individuals and
families who live within the CDBG or community development block grant eligible areas. You'll see those depicted here on the screen, primarily uh within the central city within loop 820, but also some significant areas outside the loop. And then that next category of
significant grants includes the transportation projects through the US Department of Transportation. So this is just projects managed through the transportation and public works department. This does not include the aviation grants. Uh and you'll see on the map on the right a depiction of
where those current grant projects are located. Again, some of these are multi-year projects. They could include intersection improvements, railroad crossings, safe routes to school, uh streetscape projects, other reconstruction, and partnerships with uh with Tex.
So, penalties for non-compliance. So, if the city were to um certify that we did not have programs uh that were based on criteria associated with race, ethnicity, and gender um in order to receive federal funds, but did in fact still have those programs um then we
would be subject to um these penalties. One is the loss of those existing federal funds uh that we have today. The other would be the loss of future federal funds. Uh next is as a federal grant recipient uh we sign grant
agreements with these federal agencies for the grants. And so the city employees are individually subject to civil and criminal liability under the false claims act uh for signing a grant agreement if um if we're have such
programs uh that we're not supposed to with these federal funds. And then lastly, the city itself is subject to treble damages, meaning triple damages uh against the city. So, as the example, if we have our $40 million in annual
federal grant awards, that times three, we could potentially um be uh having to pay up to $121 million in damages for for such a penalty. So, our recommendation to avoid these penalties and to avoid the loss of
federal funds, uh, is to recommend that the city council adopt a resolution to suspend the council approved programs that we have that provide a benefit based on race, ethnicity, or gender. These include our business equity
ordinance, our MWBE requirements in our economic development incentive policies such as our 380 agreement and um tax abatement policies. Also suspending the duties of the diversity and inclusion department that are prescribed in city code addressing racial, ethnic, and
gender disparities and then any other applicable council approved programs that we that we might find. Uh separately from that uh staff through the leadership of our city manager would administratively revise any other programs uh as needed.
So we also recommend that staff develop a more robust small business development program. This would be in partnership with our economic development department that already provides small business services. Uh per perhaps partnering with other agencies in the community that can help us achieve that.
In addition, we recommend that we continue to use the city's local preference ordinance uh for local businesses during our procurement process when we're purchasing with local funds. That uh as required under state law that we continue to utilize historically underutilized businesses
for purchasing with state funds or city dollars greater than 3,000. And lastly, uh that we um um procure disadvantaged business enterprises as required uh through purchasing with federal department of transportation or environmental protection act dollars as
currently required. So, one of the things we looked at was to try to understand what would uh what would it look like if the city were to try to supplant the federal funds with city funds. uh looking at our general fund uh tax dollars. So on the upper
upper left you'll see the table there showing the 40 million in the operating grant dollars that we receive and the 120 employees that are funded through those. And then right below that are the capital projects uh that are currently funded uh that are about 118 million.
And then on the right, you'll see through our Fort Worth lab, they've equated those federal grant dollars to the city's tax rate. So that you can see on the operation side, those operating grants would be a little over uh three cents, 3.4 cents added to our tax rate.
And down below, the capital projects would add uh almost 10 cents to our tax rate for a total of about uh 13 cents that would be added to our tax rate. And below that, you'll see the the math on our current tax rate at 67 and a quarter cents. um and how that could in increase
potentially if we were to try to use city dollars to cover that uh be almost a 20% increase in the city's tax rate. The impact on that to your average um homeowner in Fort Worth, uh looking at a home that's appraised at $300,000, if we
apply the 20% homestead exemption, giving the value the taxable value at 240,000, that would equate to roughly about a $320 impact on their annual tax bill. So again, our recommended next step is the resolution to suspend the pertinent
ordinances and programs to comply with federal law and those that would be in effect July 1. And the action on that um would come before you on July, excuse me, June 24th, next Tuesday, June 24th. With that, I'll be happy to answer any
questions. Thank you, Dana. Questions from council? Councilor Flores, Dana, thanks for the presentation. Obviously, this is a concerning import, right? It's very impactful. But, uh, I'll start off by asking this. Uh, I
don't know what slide that was in, but with the diversity inclusion department, I think I saw that there were five employees that would be affected by these recommendations. Is that correct? That's correct. They receive dollars
through HUD and the uh Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to uh reimburse us for our fair housing and fair employment activities. Can you give us some idea what happens to them as employees? You know, so if we
adopt the resolution, nothing would happen to those employees. They would remain employed. We would continue to use those federal dollars to fund their positions just like the other positions that you see listed here on the screen. So their service and work to the city will continue just in other capacities.
So what you may be asking me, let me just just to be clear, the the employees depicted on this slide work specifically with fair housing and fair employment. But if we come to the recommendation slide, um where we're asking that you suspend the business equity ordinance,
it's a different team that is funded with the general fund dollars that works on the business equity ordinance. So just want to clarify it's a different set of employees that work on our business equity ordinance. So those are the if I can if I may those are the employees that would be impacted and our
goal as what happens with with positions if that go away is what try to find their opportunities in other parts of the city where their skills match up with jobs. And so the the goal is not to have anybody leave the city if possible.
I understand. Thank you. Uh thank you. Um the definition of I think it was the first the second slide you had up there. Uh going to it.
Yeah, the second slide. Can you define that a little bit better than a little more in detail? What uh is was this an executive order signed by the uh president? Uh when was it signed? was can you define that a little bit more? Yeah, I might need to defer to our law
department to help me on the the the the legal piece. Um, but I will say that it it does have to do with providing a benefit to a class of people based on race, ethnicity, or gender. So, if there's a benefit based on race, ethnicity, or gender, that that's the
activity um that's that's prohibited. Hi, Teresa James, deputy city attorney. Um the executive orders we started seeing started um happening pretty immediately after President Trump took office. Um those really were directed at administrative agencies of the federal
government. What we really started noticing is that we started getting letters probably March, April um from some of these federal agencies that were um stating to us what we're going to have to do to continue receiving the
federal funding. So that's what we're really responding to, these letters from the agencies and not so much the executive orders, but they do kind of stack on each other. What agencies are you referring to? Pretty much all of the federal agencies. Um, this is going to
affect in one way or the other. Sorry. Um, the FAA, we have received some notification on some grant assurances for the FAA. HUD is another one. Um, Leanne, I don't know if you can Yeah, DHS. But we anticipate that most if not all
the federal agencies are going to have these requirements. Okay? And and they're basically asking us, do we have programs that benefit uh race, sex, religion? What they're actually doing is they are taking
um a case which is a Harvard case that was actually decided in 2024 um that looked at how Harvard was making race-based decisions on who entered Harvard and applying that more broadly. Um
we do know that there's also a northern district case that also takes that same interpretation which is why we're really paying attention to all of that. Okay. Thank you. Um so when we look at this uh I think I
have a question in just a second. when we look at this and talk about is basically doing away with uh the steps that we have taken with diversity inclusion uh in which we took those steps long before I got here as a city as a uh state and others uh because the
benefit of our black and our brown communities those who do construction work those who participate didn't have the ability to get work or uh scale at certain levels as others. And so we put in these measurements to give them
opportunities. And so I have quite a bit of heartburn. Uh and I understand this is coming down from the federal government. And uh it's not due to staff here locally. Uh but this is a political
um thing that our federal government is doing and we are nonpartisan. And so this directly affects people in our communities uh how to eat at the table. And I'm specifically talking to the point of removing the business equity
ordinance and the MWBE requirements on economic development. Uh those are major issues for me that I typically can I cannot support in this um ordinance and resolution. I do however appreciate um you articulating and writing down uh
how this will affect uh employees. And when we had this conversation uh prior to this, uh one of the things that Dr. Williams talked about is uh when do we take a stand of uh for our city residents and what we
believe historically are uh is the right thing to do. And so I I really have a heartburn on supporting this resolution. I won't um as of right now, I'm not supporting it. Uh, I think the city, and I appreciate the tax measure that you showed today, but we have really been a
city where we've been able to mush things together and I think there's a better there's another approach that we have. I understand that we're pushed up with time. I don't feel comfortable with sign a resolution in June and we really haven't did more
diligently work of how we can support these 270 employees only through the federal only through tax increasing tax. We know we're not going to increase the taxes by 19%. I mean that's that's not rocket science. And so I think we could put
together a more better way to show how we can uh move those dollars to keep those employees. And so basically diversity inclusion goes away. And so and I heard uh our city manager say that we may can find them jobs, which is not
a guarantee, but I know we're going to do our our due diligence to do that. And of course, this not an attack on us as a city, but this is attack on what's happening at the federal level. And so right now I don't feel comfortable uh with moving forward with a resolution.
Questions or comments from council? Council Hill. Um Dana, thank you for this and thank you for breaking it down. Will you go back to uh I think the slide you were referring to, Councilman Nettles, the math, the basic math. So outside of the math,
what other consequences legal or otherwise will the city face if we do not comply? Certainly. So, it's the the loss of funds that we talked about and whether we choose to replace those or not is obviously a policy question. Um, and then again, depending on whether it's
sort of a decision to not sign the grant agreements and to not receive those funds, right, then really we're just talking about that loss of of the federal funds. I think the question comes that if the city council would like to receive federal grants and um
that you know as employees um certainly myself as an assistant city manager who signs grant agreements for the neighborhood services department I would um be reluctant to do so if I were having to certify that we don't have a um a program that provides a benefit based on race, you know, ethnicity or
gender. as as a city manager, it would be unfair for me to ask employees to put themselves in in that kind of position both civily and criminally liable for signing a document that they know does
not meet the requirements. And so in essence, we don't sign those grant agreements, the the grants go away. so we don't receive the grants this coming year and any outstanding grants that we're waiting to receive the dollars on those would would go away as
well. So that's it's a predicament that we've been put in as as Councilman Neville said, it's coming from the federal government. And so we're in the situation where the choice is really we move forward as is and we then need to
do without federal grants going forward. Um or we make these changes and then we can sign the grant agreements and and say that those programs don't exist and continue to receive the grants. Council member Peoples. So Dana, I want
to thank you all and Jay for the due diligence you put into putting the presentation together. So this is not aimed at anybody around this table, but in 2024, the census said we're over a
million people. We're the 11th most populous city in the United States and the fourth most populous city in Texas. And if you look at how we are uh what our uh ethnicities
I could even talk now we're 36.6% white, 34.8% Hispanic, 19.2% African-American, and 5.1% Asian. We are one of the most diverse cities in the
United States of America. And I guess what gives me heartburn is that these programs were started as a remedy to discrimination and they allowed members of the Hispanic, African-American,
Asian-American communities and others to build generational wealth. And that is how we started having a black and brown middle class. And for us to just say we're going to do away with it gives me
heartburn. And I think I have been very clear, mayor, that this while I understand some of the financial implications, I too cannot support it and wish we would go back to the drawing table and try to find other ways because
I think we are in danger of sending a signal to our residents to our residents that 34.8% 8% Hispanic, that 19.2% African-Americans, that 5.1% Asian-Americans,
that we don't care about them, and that's not the city of Fort Worth that I know and love. Any other questions or comments from council? Yeah, mayor. I I I did ask for something in uh when we met about this the last time when we talked when we
talk about um the MBE uh requirements uh in the ordinance and I know it's going to be a lengthy process. Uh but how do we uh reorganize those for to make it even across the board? And so what that
means is um when we talk about general contractors um in economic development, you get to pick a general contractor and then you have to have I think it's 15% uh MB um uh subcontracting working on that uh project. And one of the things they look forward to on the
subcontracting is because they can't meet the bonding as it is on the general contractor level or even the insurance piece uh being bonded in insurance. sometimes it's over uh millions of dollars and so they look forward to the subcontract. So, I want the city forward
to really go back and look at how we do our contracting within the city such as the water department, the uh diverse um um uh DJ's department, whatever. Um development services development services um and look at each one case by
case to make it uh fair or even equitable across the board. that will give me more um um uh reasons to support just the spending when we know we're going to make efforts in other locations to to build that capacity back up for
our uh black and brown communities. So I as as Dana mentioned, we're going to move forward here this support for small businesses. The intent is is as a city manager, what I'd like to do is go forward and create a more robust small business development program that would
be open to all small businesses. Uh, and our our partners with the Hispanic Chamber and and Metropolitan Black Chamber are here. Um, Michelle Green for Erica Garza. And so we what we want to do is work with them, work with the Fort
Worth Chamber to develop a program um that we can look at all those issues where small businesses in general and it won't be tied to race, gender or ethnicity, but small businesses in general. What kind of programs can we develop both on the procurement side of
the city for our contracts as well as um try to create more of that connection with larger projects and larger programs and users in the city of Fort Worth. There there are models, but what we're going to be trying to do, I think,
doesn't exist. A lot of programs have small business related programs, but they're tied to like SBA, right? the Small Business Administration, you look at their guidelines, some of those small businesses are 5060 million dollar a year and they consider them small
because they are small compared to the billions a year. I think for for locally here in Fort Worth, what we want to target are small businesses. So, we would have different categories based on the type of business that really is that looks at what is a small business in
this industry, that industry, and another industry. And that's how we have to create a program. So that's going to take us a little bit. We want to start that dialogue with the chambers and uh the work here during this break so that hopefully be by the end of the of the
fiscal year we can actually have a semblance of a program that we can bring forward to the council. That's that's our intent. Any other questions or comments from council? Just one mayor. Yeah. Council Lord. Thank you, mayor. Uh Dana, right now are there any indications that there
will be any changes to hub certifications? I know right now we're still looking at those. Uh but have you seen any indications that that those may go away as well or that that may be affected? I've not seen anything yet unless law has about um about state law and and hub. There was nothing that you
know passed through the state legislature this last session that that affected that requirement. Um, I do, um, am aware that there's, uh, lawsuits related to the federal government's disadvantaged business enterprise, uh, requirements for DOT and EPA grant
funds, and we'll be we'll be watching those to see if that impacts those requirements. Okay. Then I would just say this may be a good opportunity for all of our chambers uh in city of Fort Worth and our small business development to really um drive home how hub certifications work and um the fact that
actually majority of those are actually minority owned uh businesses and and also includes womenowned businesses which last disparity study in Fort Worth I believe showed that there was no longer a disparity with womenowned businesses. So that requirement was removed. However, you if that womanowned
business is uh if they have their hub certification, which is not difficult to get, then they still would qualify for this. So, in in essence, we're opening up additional opportunities under hub certification. So, I think it's one of those u those I guess bestkept secrets out there on how hub certifications work because veteranowned small businesses
also fall under they could get their hub certification. Uh so I think if we do move forward with this uh in order to keep $277 million and ensure we um keep jobs here as well, then maybe we do better job of communication getting what we can do legally uh getting that
information out there like certifications. I I think we can do that while they're in place. I personally think those last two check marks will be going away by the end of the year. Gota questions or comments from council? No. Dana, just a few a few points. I and
this may also be for Leanne and Jay to point out. Um it's my understanding that the reason the timing of this before we go on July break is because of an aviation federal grant correct with FAA was creating the expediency need. Yeah. I just wanted to point that out. I know council member Nettles pointed you sort
of some concernation about the timing of this but that's one big reason why. And there's two more there's additional two more of the grants that that are coming. Yeah. We also have a DOT grant we want to apply for that we'll be bringing to you June 24th related to Americans with Disabilities Act funding particularly related to our our infrastructure, street infrastructure facilities and so
on. Okay, I appreciate that. Thank you. Um and then the other question probably for Leanne and Jay and Dana is you've y'all worked on this pretty heavily for several months before you brought it to council to kind of know what your what your legal advice would be. Do you feel
like all rocks are overturned? you've really looked to make sure this is the best possible um course of action here. Yes, we've we've looked at it and relooked at it. We've been on calls, national calls with other cities across the nation. Um I think everyone's facing
the same kind of of choice and uh so yes, I think that we've vetted it as thoroughly as we could. Thank you. I appreciate that. And I know there is concernation about the tax rate, but if you look at our our funding sources, general funds, the only one that is a
funding source that could replace these type of activities. When you look at capital on the city side for infrastructure, it comes from the general fund. When you look at operations, it comes from the general fund. You can't take it from the water fund, for instance. You can't take it
from storm water. We just don't have any other sources where you'd be able to uh obtain this kind of funding other than the general fund. I mean the other option would be you would do some of it and not all of it, but then you'd have to decide what programs stay and which
ones would go away. So, um but we we just wanted to show the magnitude and the the reality that's kind of that we're having to deal with here. Appreciate that, Jay. Any other questions or comments from council? Thank you, Dana. Appreciate it. Thank
you, council. That's the conclusion of our presentations today. I'll open it up for future agenda items for anybody that may have one. Council member Flores. Yes. Thanks, Mayor. Um, find that. This is related, I guess, um, the
briefings we've gotten about homeless encampments. Uh, I request that environmental services, PARD, and human strategies and services manager, Tara, uh, and our hope unit get together to discuss and evaluate what heavily vegetated areas and and several of these
are going to coincide with our you homeless heat maps lend themselves for clearing of dense ground cover and trimming of trees. What I've been finding in in my discussions with uh the hope unit, NO, and uh in co- compliance services is
that repeatedly we have to visit and revisit these areas because they're an attractive place for homeless folks to go and you know take shelter and hide out. It it also I think uh if we clear it you know to some degree race trees
canopies uh that's a longerl lasting you know solution deters homeless camps it also uh that clearing uh makes areas safer and uh you know adds more effective access for law enforcement and our hope
and our homeless teams. Thank you Carlos. Any other Yes, Charlie. Thank you mayor. Um, I would just like to get an IR on uh the fleet vehicle repair process and funding as well as the fleet vehicle um acquisition process. Just really kind of help dispel
some myths or rumors out there around city-owned vehicles going to city facility to be repaired being charged, you know, four or five times what the rates are in the private sector. Um, just kind of get some more clarity on that, please. Thank you. Anyone else? Council Rebeck,
I'd like a presentation on um on the efforts that our city has to inspect our boarding homes, our um group homes, the short-term rentals, those kind of um congregant or otherwise alternative
living situations that that we monitor here as a city. And then also, right, I'm gonna say this word. Next year is a big year for the United States. It's our semi quincentennial. And so um there's a
lot going on. I think um civic engagement in civics is something that um we lack um not just in our community but nationally. And so, um, I'd like, um, our departments, mainly, library,
um, public engagement, um, our community centers to really, uh, bring forward a plan for, um, what our activities here in the city of Fort Worth are going to be to celebrate that birthday, but specifically how we can use that to, um, to spur a a
conversation about civics in the city. Anyone else? Future times. Okay, with that, we're adjourned until 5:00 PM. Thank you. Part: 2
How are you? Good evening and welcome to the city council meeting. Before Mayor Parker calls the meeting to order, we ple we ask that you please silence all electronic devices. Thank you. Thank you, Janette, and welcome. I will call our special called City Council
meeting and election canvas to order and turn it back over to our city secretary. Mayor and council, you have received the certification of the tabulation of the official election results from Tarant County for the runoff election held on Saturday, June 7th, 2025 for the purpose
of electing a C city council member from district 6 with the certified cumulative returns for such elections being shown on the screen. As a result of the election, the following person is hereby declared
elected. Council member District 6, Mia Hall, with 57.09% of the vote. Before council takes action on the resolution canvasing the returns, we do have one speaker, mayor, who signed up
to speak on the resolution. Try that again. Okay. Thanks, Adrien. Adrien Smith, District 6. I am one with the people. Council elect Dr. Mia Hall, let me offer
my congratulations on becoming the next council representative for District 6. Hopefully, who you were on the campaign trail will be reflected in this position given by the people of District 6.
From the various political forums we both had an honor of being part of, you've gained insight and understanding from for some of the importance issues and concerns for district 6. Now is the time for execution. The people of
district 6 have heard enough excuses from this governmental body. It's been stated that when it concerns Loki elections that everything is nonpartisan. Even Pinocchio thought he was a boy.
And if you believe this, I have a bridge to sell you. Then there are the endorsements and friendships you have with some on the DAS. Which are which are you beholdened to more if either or
which will you be beholden to more if either? Typically typically political endorsements come from individuals and groups seeking something in return for what they've contributed toward a campaign.
This doesn't serve the interest of the people. Friends. Friends usually don't hold friends accountable for the decisions we make. There are moments of disagreement, but
never real accountability. The people who make those the people who make those with political service aspirations desire desires a reality should never be disregarded for the likes
of name donors or friendships. Nothing happens without the peoples. Again, council elect Dr. Millia Hall was an honor of being on the campaign trail with you and the other candidates.
Um I'm here just to extend my congratulations but please understand that I'm someone who is very much present here in this space my voice my
concerns and love for this city. So my expectations of you are just just to be yourself. Serve District 6 to the best of your ability. Thank you.
Hello. There we go. Okay, at this time I can entertain a motion on the resolution of canvas returns. Motion in a second. Council, please vote. Motion carries. Thank you. And at this time, I'm going
to ask um our fellow council member who's about to be sworn in, Mia Hall, to join me there um at the dis. And I'm also going to ask the honorable Glenn Lewis to join us as well. So, my role is simple here, Dr. Hall. I'm going to hand you this certificate of election and give you a warm welcome.
Congratulations on behalf of the city of Fort Worth and Council District 6. We are very fortunate to have you. Congratulations. Very welcome. Husband and son join us up here. You place your hand on that Bible. I I I state your name. Dr. Hall do
solemnly swear or affirm do solemnly swear or affirm that I will faithfully execute the duties that I will faithfully execute the duties of the office of city council member of Fort Worth, Texas of the off office office of city council member Fort Worth, Texas
and will to the best of my ability and will to the best of my ability preserve preserve protect protect and defend the constitution and laws laws and and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of the United States and
of this state and of this state. So help me God. So help me God. Congratulations. And Dr. Hall, at this time we'd love to offer you the floor if you'd like to deliver some remarks. That is assuming that your monitor is on and ready for a
microphone. Not yet. See if that microphone will work for you, Mia. I think so. Perfect. Oh, yay. Okay, great. Okay, so typically y'all will get to know me. I do not like uh public
speaking. It's not something that I desire to do. So tonight, um, rather than shoot from the hip, I thought I would prepare remarks because I knew that I would be nervous and that I would be overwhelmed. Um, but I now having officially taken the oath and sitting on this diet, um, I am I've got I got
butterflies. I didn't have butterflies all day. So bear with me. I am so deeply honored honored to have earned the confidence of my neighbors across District 6 and honored to serve as your newly elected council woman.
Let me be very clear. Um, this isn't just a title for me. I don't serve ceremonially. Um, this isn't a lateral move for me. This is a responsibility that I deeply uh take and something that truly lives within my heart. So, when I was first elected to Crowley ISD board
of trustees, and it's hard to believe that that was 10 years ago, um, I never imagined that the day would come that I would be sitting here as a member of the Fort Worth City Council. But if I've learned anything over the years, it's that service has a way of expanding when your purpose is rooted in people. My
life has always been guided by three core principles: integrity, service, and community. I've never been one to be um interested or concerned with politics for the sake of politics. And I'll say that again.
I've never been one to be interested in with with politics for the sake of politics. It's always been about one thing, the people and the opportunities that we have to help improve their qualities of life. So, it's about what they're going through. It's what keeps
them up at night and what they dream about and the outcomes for their families. And that's what drives me and that's what I will carry into this role every single day that I serve. So, before I go any further, because I um I don't want to be remiss and uh forget to
thank anyone, which the other night I gave an Oscar award-winning thank you. So, I'll probably be a little bit briefer. Um but I did want to thank a few people by name. So, to my mom, Lynn Lewis, thank you. Thank you for your strength, your grace, and your wisdom.
To my son, Xavier, you inspire me so much more than you know. And between you and your dad, I was reminded every day that no matter how tough the road got, I never had to walk it alone. And to my husband, my partner in life and in per
purpose, um I call him Hall. I love you Hall. And you know, we just celebrated 24 incredible years of marriage. It's hard to believe that, too, last week. and you have consistently been my calm in the storm, my sounding board, and of course my biggest
cheerleader. So know that I thank God every day that he gave um me an incredible partner in you and to do this thing we call life. And to Kendall, y'all know Kendall, my sidekick, right? Uh my entire and my entire campaign
team, all I can say is it was really hard. It was a hard fought win, but we did it, you guys. And to all of my neighbors across District 6, whether or not you voted for me, I am grateful. I'm grateful for your voice. I'm grateful for your trust. And I'm grateful for the
opportun opportunity to earn your respect through action and accountability. I often talk about the promise of District 6. I said the promise of District 6 a lot on the campaign trail. And I want to be very clear that I believe in that promise. And that
promise is very real. We are a district rich in diversity, full of history, and we are bursting with potential. From our thriving schools to our growing rooftops, from the economic corridors along the Chisum Trail to the quiet resilience of the Lake Ko community,
District 6 is Fort Worth at its very best. And as your councilwoman, I make you the commitment that you can always count on me. Count on me to put aside petty partisan politics in an effort to ensure that you, our neighbors, receive
nothing but the best representation. Count on me to have a team that will always be accessible, responsive, and laser focused on making city hall work for you. And most importantly, count on me to make sure that as Fort Worth
continues to grow, that District 6 grows along with it. Not behind it, not around it, but alongside it. I've lived in District 6 for over 20 years, two decades. I've seen our progress and I
know our potential. But I also understand the challenges ahead and I am not afraid of them. The future, the future of our district and our city demands bold, compassionate leadership, and you can guarantee that I'm ready to
lead. So, this moment isn't just the end of a campaign, but praise God that it is. It's the beginning of a commitment. A commitment to all of you, to our families, and to our future. Let's get to work together.
Thank you and may God continue to bless the great city of Fort Worth. Thank you guys. Thank you, Council Member Hall. And I think a few council members like to say a few things. Council member Nettles. Thank you, Mayor. Um want to take this
opportunity to congratulate Dr. Mia Hall and welcome her to the Forward City Council. It has been a true honor to get to know you over the past few year couple years uh doing your bid for commissioner and I have loved to see
your tenacity uh to continue to run and support your commit your community even when you don't have the support of others and coming to this DAS in such a time that our country our nation our state and even this city is in is a pivotal moment
for how the city is going to be moving forward And so we are super excited to add you to the piece of the puzzle to continue to move the city of Fort Worth forward. Uh to support diversity inclusion, to support our residents. When I say residents, I mean our
residents, not just citizens, but residents of Fort Worth uh to move them forward. And so uh I love your family, your husband, your son, and all those who are here. And I want to take a point of privilege also to acknowledge uh former Commissioner Brooks is in the
house. uh trustee um is in the back as well that are here also in support of you. You have a group of people that's willing to push you forward. And so welcome again uh to the forward city council and I admonish all of you who are here uh y'all stay till 6 o'clock so
y'all can watch her uh hear some of these comments that doing public comment. All right, she's telling y'all to go ahead and leave. No, I'm telling y'all to stay. All right. Thank you. Thank you, Council Nettles. Any other comments from council members? Council member Beck.
I just want to take this moment to welcome you to to this dis. Um it's a historic day for Fort Worth. Something I've been very excited about since your run. Um and that is for the first time in Fort Worth's history, we have a majority women here on council. So,
thank you for being that historic vote and I look forward to um working with you to make this city better and to serve on this historic um council with you. So, welcome and good luck. Buckle
up. Thank you, Council Member Beck. Council member Peoples. And that's elder. And so Webster defines elder, that's me, as one or more of a group of associated people of a greater
age. And I am so Mia, I have the honor of being called Aunt Deb by you. It is a title that I treasure and I don't take that lightly. From the first time that
we met and we start working together, it means to me that you are willing to listen to me even if I'm wrong and then go and make your own decisions. It means to me that you are willing to be coached
and also to return the favor by coaching me. It means to me that you are willing to be a part of a team. And so as we sit here, five and six, girl, we gonna have
a good time. Thank you, Council Member Peoples. Uh, I will also echo with my colleagues. We're so excited for you, Mia. It's been a joy to get to know you over the last several years in so many different capacities. If you read Mia's resume, not only has she been a public servant on the Crowley ISD school board, which you've been very
passionate leader there, but in so many other capacities. Um, this job will segue perfectly into your service and really tenacity to make Fort Worth a great place to live and for your family as well. Um, the other thing I think that's important to know about Dr. Hall is she's um, as Deborah alluded to,
she's a great listener and she's one of those people that you can really speak truth to and back and forth and have a great dialogue, which I tremendously appreciate. So, we are thrilled for you and and more excited for the constituents of district 6. They get to see you roll up your sleeves and get to work immediately. Welcome to the four
city council. We're happy to have you. Council, if there are no other comments um at this time, we will adjourn the meeting and we will be brief and come back with you for public comment session at 6 pm. Thank you.