Good morning and welcome to your Fort City Council work session.

I will call us to order.

Jay, the meeting is all yours.

Good morning.

Um show me some grace.

Allergies are really bad, so if I sneeze or something goes off.

Um, for upcoming and recent events, we don't have anything specific to announce, but organizational updates and employee recognitions.

I'd like to call Lauren Prieer to recognize TPW team as recipients of the Smart 20 Award.

Good morning, Mayor and Council.

Fort Worth has been recognized internationally for our leadership in emerging mobility technologies.

Our Smart ER Weather and Safer Mobility Initiative was selected as one of this year's Smart 20 award recipients by Smart Cities Connect.

So this project uses an intelligent microweather sensor network to provide highly localized real-time weather data, improving safety and reliability for autonomous vehicles, advance air mobility, drones, and everyday roadway users.

So the award presented earlier this month at the Smart Cities Connect Conference in Raleigh highlights Fort Worth's commitment to innovation, strong cross-sector collaboration.

So we're proud to see our work making a global impact and strengthening the future of mobility in our community.

But traditional tools weren't built for our roads, skies, or emerging technologies.

Through the Smarter Weather, Safer Mobility Initiative, we're capturing real-time weather from the street to the sky, helping the city protect people, strengthen operations, and advance our Vision Zero initiatives.

The project is powered by a partnership with the City of Fort Worth, U.S.

Department of Transportation Smart Grant Program, North Central Texas Council of Governments, Hillwood, two other solutions, Turk Robotics, regional innovators, and the city are working hard to develop this system of weather intelligence software and hardware that helps us keep traffic moving, supports freight, and also enhances safety across our city and the region.

Small powerful sensors now line key routes, measuring temperature, wind visibility, precipitation in real time.

That data flows into a shared platform that we monitor, helping our crews and residents stay safe during weather events, trucks and autonomous vehicles navigate hazards, and drones operate with precision.

The results are already clear.

Safer streets, strong supply chains, smarter maintenance, and more resilient economy.

At this project's core, this initiative is about people, our families, our crews that work at the city, the drivers that use our roads, and the businesses that make Fort Worth thrive.

As the network continues to grow, we're going to continue innovating and keeping Fort Worth safe, connected, and ready for a world-class future.

The future mobility is taking shape, and it starts right here in Fort Worth.

Thank you all.

You're not going to give a speech, Kelly.

Not today.

Good morning, Mayor and Council.

It is my privilege to introduce or recognize Don Guy, who is a plants exam supervisor here with us as the recipient of the real estate council's Excellence Award.

The award is given for exceptional dedication, innovation, and leadership in fostering urban and regional development.

And we have a video we'd like to share from the recognition ceremony.

Excellence Award honors exceptional public servants who go above and beyond to foster urban and regional development.

Those of you who don't know Don Guy, let me tell you why we're honoring Don today.

So if you ever been to City Hall and you've had drama with your building permit, whether it's commercial, residential, you've gotten flagged by code enforcement, can't get through building inspections.

Can we get your plans approved in the first place?

Don is usually you're gonna end up talking to.

I'm Don Guy, plans examiner with the city of Fort Worth.

I've been with the city just under eight years now.

I like working with the customers, helping them solve their problems.

The best thing is to be able to see the customers project come to life in there, and helping them understand the whys in that customer service is understanding what the customer wants when they're not quite sure.

Empathy and uh just seeing their project through to the end.

We all have the same idea and goal in mind is that economic development and getting into a safe uh building.

The 2026 Excellence Award is sponsored by Post L Group.

Congratulations to Don Guy.

Thank you, Don, for everything you do and for showing uh leadership and and how you do it.

Thank you.

It was an honor to receive this.

Congratulations, Don.

That was great.

Appreciate you very much.

Up next, we have informal reports.

Uh the first is the annual development activity report for 2025.

DJ Harrell's here to answer any questions.

Next is the third-party building plan review and inspection program.

DJ is still here to answer any questions.

I have some questions.

Councilman Rebecca.

Oh, actually, it's not DJ, it's Evan.

Uh a couple times.

Uh thank you.

Uh I think you probably know the case that that spawned this IR, so um, these questions are are gonna be a little familiar for you, but um I appreciate you putting together the IR.

Um, if you could give just a brief summary real quick on um on this why we utilize this in the city, what the process is, why we and why we utilize it here in the city.

Sure.

So the third party development or the third party plan review and inspection partners help us deal with the enormous workload that comes from our residential development sector.

They do some commercial work too, but the bulk of the it is handled by the the third parties, uh, the residential developments folks.

Um they offer an alternative or or some flexibility.

They have they're able to do some things um where the city doesn't typically offer um inspections on weekends, they offer you for a fee, right?

So the third party plan review and inspections overview is we have um provided, we have certified about 10 companies to provide plan review and inspections um as um I don't want to say in lieu of, but in partnership with us, you can a developer or homeowner, who anybody actually can choose to select a third-party company, a private company to do their plan review and inspections.

The city still has oversight on it, the city still does the zoning review for those projects.

The departments still work through us.

We do all the requirements, we do all the inspection tracking, but the inspections, the physical plan reviews for the building, electrical mechanical and plumbing, and um energy code are done by the third party company in plan review and inspections.

Okay, and how do we certify these companies?

Um I'm assuming that we have a list of them somewhere on our website.

Yeah, the yes, they they have a contract with us which has um indemnity requirements, insurance requirements.

Um they also have a a strict uh certification requirement for their inspectors.

Um they have to be licensed, and electrical inspectors have to have electrical license and inspection certifications, plumbing, same difference, same thing.

Okay.

Um do we ever spot check their work?

Yes, we do.

Okay, how often do we do that?

So we have um it's a we are working towards a 10% follow-up on them.

There had it's sort of as we go through that process, we're re-reworking that, and in light of the recent events, we're we're sort of ramping that up more.

Um so our goal is 10% of each third-party company gets reviewed.

10% of their work.

Um, and in the event, do we do we have any sort of system where um we're keeping track of any mistakes that they might have made?

And so is there a threshold by like you know, if there's more than um, you know, a certain number of demerits, right?

The penalty uh uh progressive discipline for them.

Um not necessarily at this point.

We are again reworking sort of what that looks like.

We're we're doing some some on that.

We have there is up the option to decertify them.

They have a contract with them, we can terminate that contract for lack of performance if if we can establish a pattern, or I I would rather I would like to say if I find something that's so egregious that it warrants immediate termination.

I don't want to be locked into a you have oh, you you could have killed people, so but you don't have you only have three demerits, so I can't decertify you.

I uh I would like to retain the flexibility to decertify them immediately if it's if it's a significant life safety.

Okay, thank you.

Um I did ask for this IR because we had a recent issue come up in one of our neighborhoods, and uh one thing that you said to me in relation to a third party examiner that didn't that didn't get it right.

Um the thing that interests me the most is that you said the bulk of their work is actually residential.

So what concerns me there is that means that if we don't get it right, um we're impacting our neighborhoods, and so that's uh I think a pretty significant impact.

Um we've talked previously because of the same case, we've talked about fines for people who don't seek inspections.

Do we hold people who have a you know we have gone to these companies and we have said, you know, you are pre-approved because you meet all of these qualifications and they hold themselves out as experts in the field.

So do we hold them to a greater level of standard uh when it comes to finding?

Say, for example, you know, I'm just homeowner A, but Alan is using one of these pre-approved people.

Are we gonna hold them to a higher standard of knowledge than we do?

Yes, that's a regular home.

That absolutely is reasonable, right?

We we give more grace to homeowners and and folks that wouldn't shouldn't reasonably be expected to know better the the third party companies, absolutely we do.

What I'd like to see is that codified in our um in our ordinance to have a fine structure for those that are yes, ma'am.

Okay.

We've got another IR working on on that.

So that'll be coming to you for sure.

I do also want to let you all know that the third party third party systems as we've enjoyed it for 27 years right now, has worked really well in Fort Worth.

Uh last year in the legislative session, there was an odd there was a bill that came through that basically allowed, and that that's in the IR too, you can read that, but I do want to make sure we touch on it.

The IR, the there was a bill that would allow anybody, either in an engineer or anybody with an it said anybody with an ICC certification, which ICC are certifies permit text, they certify special inspectors for welding, they certify all kinds of things.

So anyone with any ICC certification would be allowed to do inspections, all inspections anywhere in the state.

There was no requirement for oversight.

The city gets has no interest, there's no way to decertify them.

There's no the the bill was really bad, and I fully expect that we're gonna see it again in the future.

So there are um any opportunity we have to uh assert or to um I guess cheerlead for the city's ability to at least register, certify, oversee these things because they're in our cities.

We have a vested interest in protecting our citizens more so than some country company out of round rock that's just making a dollar.

Well, and I'll brag on DJ, as you remember, went down several times to test on that particular piece of legislation, and it was helpful because Fort Worth really is on the forefront of allowing third-party inspections, and we have a great system in place.

But to Councilmember Beck's concerns, it is a balance, right?

And so you're I think you're absolutely correct.

If they would model what we do in Fort Worth across the state, that would be wonderful, but we're gonna have to play some defense so they don't take a lot of our autonomy away.

And I think um it you brought up a very good point, and I would invite everybody at this table to just um stare really directly at Alan Blaylock right now.

Thank you.

Thank you.

The next IR is a city preparation for FIFO World Cup.

I have a few questions.

Thanks on the people's does too.

Yeah.

Sunny, thanks for the preparation on the IR.

It looks great.

My my main question is it's my understanding that the federal funds for FIFA reimbursement flow to the state of Texas, and ultimately we're gift not gifted, that's the wrong word, we're distributed to the city of Dallas and Dallas FIFA committee.

Do you have any concerns about making sure that our allocation is received in a timely manner, and what are those discussions like right now?

Yeah, thank you.

So we've been communicating with the Dallas, the North Texas host committee, which is sometimes in the news reported as the Dallas Committee.

Those funds are primarily going to that North Texas committee as a sub-award from the state.

And they just recently, just I think it was on Thursday or Friday, worked with the COG to establish an administrative process for those funds to be distributed amongst the communities.

So thank you for raising the question.

So I don't have any concerns at this point.

We are communicating with them almost daily.

Uh with not just the administrative folks, but also those that are engaged in the planning.

They have not given us a specific award amount to help, uh, but we're going to communicate what those expenses are.

Thank you.

Councilman Peoples.

Can you talk a little bit about the ambassador program and how several people have asking about how they can get involved?

Oh, I love that.

Okay.

So, first off, usually when I'm standing in front of you, it's a drab thing because we're talking about disaster.

This is something fun for us, right?

So we are um I think we're about 75 days away, so we're super excited.

Um, but I do have uh committees that have helped us with that planning.

So I'm gonna call on one of them to tell us about the bass door program, if I may, to answer that question.

So let's see.

Mitch, yeah, could you talk just a little bit, Mitch, about our ambassador program for us?

Good morning.

Mitch Whitman from Visit Fort Worth.

There are really two ways people have gotten involved.

Tens of thousands of residents applied across for DFW for the official FIFA volunteer uh training through the North Texas organizing committee.

That is now closed, but though, and there's some training going on.

I believe there were uh many residents from Fort Worth and of course across Tarrant County.

We've also partnered with Leadership Fort Worth to uh for a host uh host program where people can learn more about and get educated about what is FIFA, what is the World Cup, what countries are coming, how do I even speak, say hello in those languages, uh, as well as just getting uh updates on what our city's about.

Uh how do I talk about Fort Worth?

Those are two free programs offered through Leadership Fort Worth.

You can go to their website or Fort Worth.com/slash soccer 2026.

Uh each are free, each are 90 minutes, and they're online.

You can take them at your own pace.

More than 400 people have signed up, really from restaurants to realtors and all sorts of industries.

Um those are available to anybody.

Council Member Flores.

Sonny, back on March uh 10th, I think it was.

Yeah.

Yourself, myself, uh, members of uh your emergency management team and also SUNY's uh communications team uh were present over there at the Cotton Bowl to get a you know FIFA government update on things.

Can you cover the high points the relevant takeaways as they pertains to our city?

Sure, yeah, I appreciate that.

Uh so some of those are included in the IR.

The uh from that I would say the first off for those that may not be tracking, our first match is June 14th, and it's gonna uh we're gonna have nine matches that go until July 14th, and then it ends with the semifinal.

So I appreciated uh being able to attend that with you.

Thank you for that invitations.

Um and that was an exciting event where we learned more about the fan festival that was going to occur.

So there's approximately 1.5 million visitors that they're projecting to the fan festival, um, and then approximately 1.5 to 2.1 billion dollars in estimated economic impact.

Um I mentioned that we had the five work groups.

I should probably mention them by name so that way you understand the breadth and the depth of the planning that has been going on and how that connects to uh to what we went to.

And so we have hospitality, beautification, communication engagement, safety and security, and infrastructure.

And really for us, what did that mean?

Being able to go to that and see the whole of the region come together.

Like, for instance, with our safety and security teams, they're planning and they have been planning, as you know, for over several years, but really actively planning over the last year.

We're meeting almost weekly or almost sometimes uh twice a day to really talk about all the interconnections that are happening.

The other big takeaway that I remember you and I talking about uh was related to the transportation hubs.

So um what people may not know is that if you're traveling through mass transit to get to the stadium for for game day, you're gonna be traveling through the city of Fort Worth through our centerport station and as well as other stations.

So we want to make sure that we have our best foot forward, that we're welcoming.

We also care a lot about our residents that are not going to the game, and how do we make sure that we're not impacting them as well?

And so those are all things that are kind of top of mind as we think about uh the planning.

So thank you.

Any other questions?

Thank you, Sonny.

Okay, thank you.

Next up, enforcement responsibility from front side yard parking.

Uh Commander Antoine Williams and Brian Doherty from Code Compliance are here for any questions.

I'd like an overview.

Morning, Mayor Parker, Mr.

Choppa and Council.

I'm Antoine Williams, commander of East Division Patrol.

Uh the PD assumed primary responsibility for enforcing the front yard and side yard parking violations due to a staffing decrease in uh co compliance and corresponding increase in police staffing levels.

Co-compliance usually uh their hours of operation are from 7 30 in the morning to 4 30 in the evening.

Currently, co compliance addresses front and side yard parking violations only when already on site for a separate code violation and complaints received solely for front and side yard parking or forwarded to the um assigned MPO for that beat.

Reporting methods currently available for our citizens is calling the police department's non-emergency line, submitting import or report through the MyFortWorth app and also through email at the 1234 at Fort Worth Texas.gov.

In 2025, Fort Worth Police Department responded to 12,631 parking violation calls for service, approximately 950, or 8% of which involve potential front and side yard parking violations.

Although these calls are categorized as low priority, each one requires call taker intake, dispatcher processing, and officer response times.

What we learned was calls rapidly increased at 0700 hours.

P call volume was between 8 a.m.

and 3 p.m.

And the highest hour was at 0900, which resulted in 1,117 calls.

So because officers must prioritize emergency incidents and violent crimes, these complaints often remain pended for extended periods, which resulted in service delays, increased callbacklog and negatively impact perceived police response performance despite the issue being regulatory rather than criminal in nature.

So in 2025, Fort Warf PD officers issue 402 citations for front yard and side yard parking.

Of those, 268, 67 percent were issued between 7:30 and 4:30 p.m.

Assigning sole responsibility to the PD just to address the um front and side yard parking violations was proven to be inefficient.

So we collaborated with uh code compliance to come up with a more effective way to address these violations.

Under this approach, code compliance will assume primary responsibility for enforcing front and side yard parking violations with support from our neighborhood police officers for violations occurring outside of code compliance's operations.

So the expected outcomes with that would be a reduction in non-emergency call volume, increased patrol availability for priority incidents, faster response to quality of life complaints, and improved public perception of service responsiveness.

So if y'all have any questions of me, if not, I'll turn it over to Mr.

Doherty from Code.

Council Willens, I just wanted to say thank you for putting this uh report together and working with our office.

I know I had suggested maybe handing that off to the crime reporting unit, but I'm glad that you and um co were able to come to an understanding.

And you know, I know our MPOs get pulled away for special details or to assist patrol, and I think that you know taking this off their plate will help to improve community relations because you know, if if it is yard parking, I do I know that they really make an effort to do education first, and um you know, I know that this is an issue throughout the city, not just in our district.

So I I really believe this is gonna help improve that situation.

I agree.

Thank you.

Brian, you can come up.

Anything you want to add, sir?

Brian Doherty, Director of Code Compliance.

I would like to add that our animal care and control team is over 90 percent live release rate for the year.

Hasn't been done in six years.

Team Rox.

That has nothing to do with side and front yard parking, but I will talk about that now.

Um yes, uh, we plan on we're taking it over.

We'll take the initial calls.

Uh the implementation won't happen until May because we're gonna have to update the call center as well as how the app funnels the complaints.

Um, we're also gonna take a different approach where we're not citing on first defense.

We're gonna tag the vehicle first.

Um that helps the resident know, and it also helps everyone else who complains when they say code's not doing anything, they can drive by and see the sticker on the vehicle and know that we have done something.

So we're altering that as well.

But yeah, yeah, we're excited to work with PD and anything that's after hours of the weekend where we can't get after a few inspections, we'll send it over to them to handle.

But any questions for me?

No, I was just gonna say, Brian, I think this is good because that will keep me from getting complaints from residents that a police officer knocked on their door at eight in the morning.

So that'll be a lot better if they see a citation code.

Uh-huh.

Council.

Just have one quick question.

Uh so the sticker amounts to essentially a notice of violation, correct?

Yes.

Gotcha.

Thanks.

Yeah, it'll have the same verge, same verbiage, what they violated, you know, that they can't do it.

Um, it's just not going straight to citation.

And it's a softer way, and again, it tells the public because even if we were to write a citation, it'd be mailed to them, they still see the vehicle there.

They're like, code hasn't gone out inspected.

So it's two ways of communication, and then after that, though, it will be citations.

So are you able to verify the ownership of the vehicle when you approach that vehicle?

Uh we can, but it's a property violation.

Um, it's not a vehicle violation, it's where it's part, so that's still on the tenant or the property.

The reason I asked that is because what if someone's visiting a property?

Yeah, and again, that's why we're going to the notices and stickers first so they know to remove it.

Um, and very often um this was one of our more contentious calls uh where we go to if we even knock on the property, they run out and move it.

Now, if they're a repeat violator, a lot of times we've already wrote the citation, and so it gets a little, you know.

That's something that can be remedied right there on spot, so they can't get upset.

And obviously, we that's what we want.

Um, we want them to correct the violation, but if they're habitual violator and whatnot, but no, we are we'll try to make contact as well.

Okay.

Uh English and Spanish.

Text or have you?

Almost certain that the stickers have both, but if not, we'll make sure they have both.

Okay.

Final question.

What color is it going to be?

I believe it's a bright pinkish orange.

Okay.

Yes.

I'm trying to think of something.

I should have had one.

What's wrong with the color, Carlos?

I am curious.

Yes.

Well, because PDP is a very good thing.

Very close to Jessica's jacket.

Nothing wrong with the little hint of more.

Right, salmon.

I can go all day.

Is that the color?

Very similar.

Let's go dive in.

I can go all day.

All right.

Thanks, bro.

I appreciate it.

Congrats on the live release rate, Brian.

That's a huge deal for the team.

Thank you.

Yes, thank you.

Six years since this happened, so very proud of the team.

If you see them, high five.

We will do that.

Thank you very much.

Brian takes time in the mirror to do the imitating thing.

What's that?

No, no, no, and then I was part of that, you know, bringing down the live release.

I heard you want another dog.

No, I want to give him back.

Oh, yeah.

What did he eat this time?

The trash out all over my kitchen morning.

How do I get how do I give him back?

He's walking away.

He's he's leaving.

That's funny.

All right.

Next up is financial achievements update by Reggie Zeno.

Any questions?

Reggie's, there's some great things in here.

Is there anything you want to note for your team?

I just want to hear from Reggie because he says I never call him.

So Reggie, you can you bring it up.

Shouldn't have said anything.

He's coming up, Councilmember Peoples.

Thank you, uh, Councilmember.

Um we actually uh just simply wrote this uh to officially announce the fifth transparency star that was received.

Uh this star was received for the procurement uh transparency efforts we make uh relative to the online uh system.

This would be the fifth of the six transparency stars with one remaining uh for the economic development department.

Thank you.

Mayor thank yes, Councilmember Blaylock.

Reggie, I just want to say thanks to you and and the team and everybody for making this happen.

This is something that we started talking about a couple of years ago, and I know it's been a process and and has taken a lot of work, uh, but it is greatly appreciated.

So thank you very much.

I appreciate that, and especially the purchasing star.

Uh we had Haven Wynn to come on, uh seems like yesterday, but uh it's been six months, and he was able to expedite that process, and so a lot of appreciation goes out to him.

Well, and uh Reggie, are you working with Sena on this as well to kind of communicate this to the public?

Uh yes, we place the information on the city's website, but certainly we'll we'll work.

Now we have some members of the media and realize this might not be as sexy as some topics, Harrison, but this is a really good one, right?

Just shaking his head at me.

Oh, he's falling asleep.

Never mind.

Okay.

We're we're excited about it, Reggie.

Thank you.

Harrison's bored.

Yeah.

Thanks, Reggie.

Um, next up is fluoride and drinking water.

Chris Harder's here to answer any questions.

I think Chris, we have some questions from Councilmember Hill.

Thank you, Chris, for putting this together.

Will you do a quick overview and then I have some follow-up questions?

Sure.

So um the the IR kind of describes some of the background related to water fluoridation.

We've been uh fluoridating fluoridating water in Fort Worth since 1965.

We uh have water uh dosage or fluoridation dosh dosage uh equipment at each one of our water plants.

Uh we follow the CDC guidelines in terms of the dosage rate.

And um one of the things that this IR brings out that's probably new to you all is that EPA will be uh performing a toxicity assessment.

They've already started work on the uh uh just the literature uh reviews, and what we can expect down to this toxicity assessment is to determination of the fluoride levels that a person can be exposed to without likely any uh experienced uh health effects.

So they they've said this is gonna be a whole of government approach, meaning that the outcome of this report from the EPA will be utilized by Department of Health and Human Services, which CDC is under, that potentially could guide their future recommendations.

So, as part of this assessment, they will not be looking at the health benefits of fluoride addition.

They will be just looking at a toxicity assessment.

Thank you for that.

And then I know um I think it was September there's a bill SB 2653 that was on hold about prohibiting fluoride floor floor nation in the water throughout the state of Texas.

Um can you provide some information on that as well?

So, you know, there there are different bills that have been introduced and work their ways through different states.

Uh so last year, Utah and fluoride banned the uh water fluoridation in their states.

So, you know, kind of like uh Evan was saying, we see a lot of bills introduced, and you know, depending on how much support they have, depends on how far they go in the legislative process.

So we'll just be water watching that.

Thank you.

And then does the city um we provide any specific warnings to pregnant women or invents that ingest City of Fort Worth water?

We do not.

Like I say, we we follow the CDC guide guidelines related to the dosage rate.

Okay.

And then if the city were to stop floor fluoridization of the water, it's a big word for a Tuesday morning at nine.

Um what would that process look like and how many wholesalers would that impact?

So right now we we provide water to 1.5 million people.

That's Fort Worth as well as 33 wholesale customers.

So really, before I would be recommending to you all about changing our fluoridation practices, there would be something that has to come out of EPA and health and human services related to the dosage rate.

Now that's what this toxicity assessment is supposed to design to is give us a dosage rate where there should not be any health uh adverse health effects for the uh the customers that receive it.

If citizens were concerned about this, it can they reach out to the water department directly to get additional information?

Sure.

We're always happy to field fluoride questions.

Thank you, Chris.

Any other questions for Chris?

No.

Thank you.

Chris, I have to confess, yesterday I spoke to ACEC, and we were I was bragging about you and your department, and I did call you a nerd in front of all the people, which they all agreed that they're very glad you're in charge of our water utility.

Everybody's laughing because they agree with me.

It's a compliment.

Okay, well, I take it as a compliment.

You should.

You should have been somebody disagreeing, I hope.

No, no, no, no one didn't unfortunately no one disagreed, but yeah.

It was unanimous that we appreciate you very much.

That was my way of saying thank you for the job you do.

You were in you were with ACEC, it was all nerds.

Yeah, that's true.

I think that's why they were laughing.

Yeah, all bunch of engineers.

No offense, Carlos.

Uh update on fiscal year 2026 mid-year adjustments for operating PIDs and tourism PIDs.

And Brady Kirk is here to answer any questions.

Any questions for Brady?

No.

Okay.

Thank you.

Okay, we'll keep rolling through the agenda.

Council.

If I go back to it, here we go.

Um, MNC changes, boards membership, commission changes, anything announced to council.

If not, we'll move to our first presentation.

DFW International Airport bond documents and code amendments that require city approval.

And I believe Brian Butler from DFW is here on behalf of the airport.

Brian, thanks for joining us.

Uh Mayor Parker and Council members, thank you for having the DFW International Airport.

Obviously, you're used to seeing Chris Poinset here at the podium.

Uh he successfully retired this past week after 22 years of service for the airport.

Uh, very grateful for his contributions.

Uh, just gonna take quick 30 seconds to a self-introduction.

Uh, prior to accepting this job to come to the DFW airport, I was a CFO at Salt Lake City International Airport uh for 10 and a half years.

Uh, you know, joined in 2015 right as they were starting a brand new 5.1 billion dollar new airport development.

We opened the first couple phases, September of 2020, right during the pandemic, and they're just getting ready to finish the last 11 gates there in Salt Lake City.

Uh Salt Lake City is a Delta hub.

They have 77% of the market share there, had great relationships with Americans.

So I understand what it is to work for an airport that has a dominant uh carrier.

I've already been over to American Airlines uh headquarters, met with their corporate real estate team, you know, excited to uh to get engaged and involved with them.

But uh the reason we don't get many opportunities to come and brief you on what's going on at the international airport.

So we're grateful for this.

Um whenever we're looking to issue debt, it does uh require uh the city of Fort Worth to approve uh the issuance of that debt.

And then uh we've also been working to modernize our bond ordinances.

And so um I'm gonna have our uh airport treasurer Russell Selkirk kind of go over that work that's been going on for the past six uh months.

But uh just to kind of give you a high level overview.

If you guys have been out to the airport recently, you've seen all the construction going on.

Uh, we're gonna be asking for authorization to borrow up to three billion dollars worth of debt.

Over the next four years, we're looking to borrow up to $9 billion of debt, which sounds like a lot of money.

But when you consider kind of the two major projects that we're doing, which is the central terminal area expansion, it's just uh it's around $3 billion, and then obviously the brand new Terminal F, which will be a 31-gate terminal that will be all American Airlines that will have both domestic and international capabilities.

Right now it's sitting about $4 billion.

We do anticipate to award more contracts uh this year and next year.

Uh these were kind of agreed to between the airport and American Airlines and uninflated dollars.

Uh, we know that inflation is out there and we expect these numbers to go up, which is why we're giving ourselves a buffer on what we're kind of telling rating agencies as well as investors.

But we also have a lot of other projects going on.

Uh, you know, international parkway, we're trying to modernize the roadways, get rid of all those left-hand exits, move them to the right hand side.

And so, really, this is just a kind of a chart to kind of say here is what is planned debt issuance and what kind of bucket do those fall in on a regular basis.

So we're coming to you.

Uh, we're we're basically asking you in your formal meeting on the 28th later this month to uh approve uh all the amendments we're doing to our master bond ordinance as well as our subordinate uh bond ordinance.

And then uh after we give those updates, we do have a few code updates.

Uh Omar from our design uh construction and code departments here to kind of go over those.

If you have questions, I would say on the bonds.

Uh after Russell's done kind of going over uh those, please ask those at that time, and then we'll bring Omar up.

And then if you have any questions on the code adjustments that we're proposing, please ask Omar.

So with that, I'm gonna introduce Russell.

Uh, if you'll come on up.

Thank you, Brian, and welcome.

I know the team at DFW is very happy to have you here.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thanks, Brian.

Mayor, City Council.

Um, you just heard about all the exciting projects we're doing over there at the airport now for just uh some slightly less exciting ways about how we're gonna finance these projects.

Uh so we've got a half dozen items for your consideration here today.

Uh the first two concern our bond ordinances.

These are the master bond ordinance and our 55th supplemental bond ordinance.

These are the governing documents uh that express all the rights and obligations of the airport uh as well as the investors who purchase our debt.

Uh these documents haven't been updated substantially uh in about 15 years.

Uh so we're availing ourselves of more contemporary legal language uh as well as introducing the ability to issue additional financing instruments uh that we can't uh under the existing documents.

The master bond ordinance pertains to the uh senior lien uh debt issuances and the supplemental bond ordinance governs those issuances that would be done on a subordinate lien basis.

So that's a distinction, but uh by and large the language uh is similar across both of those ordinances.

Moving on, the 72nd to the 75th uh supplemental bond ordinances, uh, as Brian just mentioned, uh we are seeking authorization uh to issue up to three billion dollars of debt uh to fund this year's capital program.

Uh we do anticipate there'll be uh uh it'll probably be slightly less than that uh at the end of the day, uh somewhere between two and three billion dollars is what we're anticipating.

But uh, you know, as we move through the cycle here of capital spend for all of these projects, uh we'll only be issuing as much debts uh as we need at that time uh when we go to term out.

We're anticipating that sale to happen sometime in August or September of this year.

Uh and that authorization would be good from June 1st of 26 uh until uh May of 2027.

The 73rd supplemental bond ordinance, uh, this is an annual authorization that uh we're required to seek in the state of Texas, uh allowing us to refund our commercial paper with bond proceeds.

Finally, the 74th and 75th uh supplemental bond ordinances, both of these concern our commercial paper programs.

Uh, you know, one of the ways that we're trying to introduce additional flexibility uh and ensure a most uh efficient cost of funding that we can obtain uh is by increasing the amounts of interim funding capacity that we have.

So we use commercial paper uh to support capital spend uh in between our long-term debt issuances.

Uh the 74th would uh increase the max limit of our Series 1 commercial paper program from 750 million to 1.5 billion.

Uh and for the series two program, uh, we would be requesting an authorization uh to increase the limit from 600 million to a billion.

Uh and just to put those numbers in context for you, uh we expect our peak monthly spend uh to hit uh just over 200 million dollars when we get to the peak spending curve of all of these capital projects.

Uh increasing the size of these programs means we would have about 12 months worth of interim funding capacity uh to be able to meet those capital requirements.

So that's generally speaking, how we kind of think about size, uh you'll see on the page here uh these programs.

Well, this series one program hasn't been updated in some time, and our capital program looked very different back in 2019 than it does now with all the exciting projects we have going on.

Um so finally I will conclude.

Um I think I had one more slide.

There we go.

Sorry about that.

Uh just uh so everyone's aware, uh, we are still working to put together the underwriting syndicate for the upcoming bond deals, so TBD in terms of who's actually taking us to market.

Uh, but we'll be supported once again as we have for for many many years by our advisors at Hilltop Securities, Estrada Hanahosa, uh bond council McCall Parkhurst, as well as Western Associates and disclosure council Bracewell and Hardwick.

Uh, we do anticipate that we'll carry the same ratings with the upcoming debt issuance uh as we have outstanding on our current bonds.

So A1 with Moody's A minus SP and double A with Kroll.

So with that, happy to answer any questions.

You're in the clear.

Okay.

Councilman Flores.

Uh I think you said it, but I just kind of want to understand a little better.

So you don't have any concerns about any added cost to your debt service.

Compared to what we've published in our financial plan, uh, which is what we put together for the last official statement we did in September of last year.

We actually think we can do better than that.

Uh in other words, by introducing some new financing instruments, more flexibility, expanding our interim funding.

Our our goal uh to a large extent is actually to uh come in better than what we've projected just you know, six call it nine months ago.

So and I'll give you, you know, sort of a sense for that, right?

We think our peak debt outstanding is gonna be somewhere between 16 and 17 billion dollars, uh, and we think our annual debt service will reach about 1.3 billion dollars, uh roughly double what it is now.

Um so everything we're doing here is is with that sort of vision in mind of how do we how do we outperform?

How do we not you know sign ourselves up for 25, 30 year debt uh until we absolutely have to uh making more use of funding opportunities that are call it you know near term, short term or medium term in nature, so that we get the benefit, hopefully, uh of lower interest rates uh when we do go to market with those with those obligations.

Thanks.

Thank you.

Great.

Uh with that, I think I'm turning it over to my colleague uh Omar Albagalati uh with uh with code and construction.

Give it a shot.

So morning, Mayor and Council.

So uh a little bit of background about the amendments that we are going through with our international building code for special inspection.

So in uh in the background, we have a requirement in Chapter 17 bears the International Building Code IBC for the owner to hire a third-party special inspection.

This is not your typical inspection.

These are your like welding for your steel and and so on.

What we are amending here, and we are asking to change this from being funded and regulated and managed by the owner to be funded by the contractor, but is still being authorized by us as the owner.

And the reason being in a typical world, like in here in the city, you have three parties.

You have the owner and you have the city code department, and you have the contractor.

In our case, we are both.

We are the owner and we are also the code department.

We have our own uh code inspectors.

And the way that it's being done right now is we are regulating and we are hiring a third departy special inspector, then our code department will still go and re-inspect what the special inspectors have already inspected.

So it creates a lot of duplication.

And also with the size of the construction programs that we just were talking about, we have almost 85 active construction sites as we speak right now at DFW.

It creates a lot of capacity constraints to have one third party to be able to do all of these inspection, which at the end results in in delays in these uh inspections.

And in that case, while we will move this to be funded by the contractor, increasing our capacity and increasing the scalability, we will still remain the authority as a couple department and as as myself as a building official to select and uh deselect or remove any special inspector departing hard by the contractor.

So there's there is no Fox guardings that has a in-house scenario here.

Any questions?

Any questions from council?

Council Rebecca.

Council people.

Yeah, I just uh want to ask if you're willing to come back to the city of Fort Worth.

You want to come back and manage all of our construction projects at TPW and get our pavement management back on track the way you did before you left.

Thank you.

I was just I was just looking talking to Lauren.

I said, like you shouldn't have lit me leave that office.

Well, we can we'll talk to Jay about that hiring freeze, but yeah.

Council of Peoples.

Well, it's an extraordinary job, and I had an opportunity to tour it and so saw many of the projects.

I guess my only concern is by bringing in a third party to do the inspections.

How are we going to maintain the uh what are you gonna do to make sure that the quality of the work is consistent and being done?

That's awesome.

So, in addition to code and spicient inspection, we actually have a quality assurance program.

So we have a $60 million budget for the next for the bond program like for the next four years.

They are 247D FW representative on site watching the contractor.

Any other questions, counsel?

Thank you for the updates.

Good to see you.

Ryan, is that good?

Okay, we got a thumbs up.

Council, we can keep rolling.

Next up is an overview of green space initiatives.

And Alison Docker with um our green space initiatives manager is here to give us a presentation.

Okay.

Um sorry, excuse me.

Um, good morning, Mayor and Council and Jay.

Um, thank you very much for the opportunity.

I'm Alison Docker, the city's green space champion, and I just want to share a few updates today on in all about green spaces.

You should have District 5 underneath Austin's name, yeah.

Probably it is Tandy Hills.

There it goes.

So green spaces.

Green spaces are critical to shaping our everyday lives, and they directly impact our how we um our experiences and how we move about the city.

They're the places, the playgrounds where you take your kids for a play date, they're the trails where you go for a walk or a jog, ride your bike.

They are um the paths that you hike, the fields where you play sports, and they're the open spaces with the gorgeous views.

They're the creeks that you play in and the urban force where you finally trek down that bird that you've been looking for.

These um they're also the tree-lined streetscapes designed for vehicles as well as people, and they become that become your favorite spot to enjoy a coffee and a conversation.

The importance of these spaces um goes far beyond aesthetic.

They're not just a really nice amenity to have, they promote physical health.

Are they talking about one of the pictures?

Oh back one.

That's okay.

The park in the top left corner is actually in Austin.

Yeah, I'm trying to show you.

She's trying to inspire us examples.

We're inspired, we want to.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm happy to talk about inspiring parts.

Okay, thank you.

Yeah, that could be a wonderful.

So these spaces are not just um uh they go beyond the aesthetic.

They're not just a nice to have amenity, they promote physical health by giving you an opportunity to get outside.

They boost mental health.

Um, they provide places to meet friends and family, they foster community connection.

Uh, they can also have uh critical ecological benefits called ecosystem services.

I'll get into that a little bit later.

And then they go hand in hand with economic economic vitality.

People want to live, work and play where they have access to parks and trails, and it's often a big factor where they choose to buy a home if they have that access.

So keeping all of this in mind as our city grows is key.

We just passed one million residents, and based on data from COG, we are projecting a 31% overall growth citywide over the next 25 years.

And so growth and development is healthy, but if we're not strategic on um how and what we preserve now, we could miss the chance if we wait too long.

The goal is to balance development with livability and to have the foresight to create a connected green network.

For example, 60 years ago, a few people saw an opportunity along the Trinity Trail.

And because of their vision and persistence, our city boasts one of the most successful urban trail systems in the country.

Streams and Valleys continues this work along TRWD alongside TRWD and the city to advocate for trails.

The city has made impressive strides building a strategic green planning alignment over the last decades, really.

And then that brings green space front and center as part of an overall strategy for growth.

We have the good natured green space initiative's goal to conserve 10,000 acres.

The comp plan is utilizing green space as a key strategy for future land use.

Urban Forestry's recent master plan has a goal of 30% canopy coverage of throughout the whole city.

TPW's um moving a million effort is looking for identifying opportunities for connection through a trail gap study.

And parks recent uh green print master plan has identified a strategic goal as vibrant nature cultivating natural spaces throughout the city as well.

And all of this works together to increase the community's access to out the outside and nature and improves the Fort Worth's trust for public land park score.

So coordinated efforts like this make a lot of sense, and when we're all working together for a similar goal, it creates real measurable impact and a connected green network.

So currently, the parks department manages an impressive 13,000 acres of parkland throughout the city.

And the good natured goal is to add an additional 10,000 acres over the next several years.

And through a collaborative effort, both internally and externally, we have added just over 3,400 acres of to the citywide green space network, getting us about 34% of the way to our goal.

We've done this through open space acquisitions, parkland additions, um, city policy protections that's like uh zoning or ordinances, internal partnerships.

This one's an exciting one to talk about.

So the internal partnership, the acreage reflected here, is through MOUs and agreements with Parks and Open Space and the Water Department and properties around Lake Worth.

And then external partnerships that includes our recent access agreement with the Fort Worth ISD as well as some development agreements.

And so one of the um categories that I wanted to highlight is the city's open space program, and I wanted to share.

We've been working with our fantastic communications team on a video for open space, and it drops today, so this is the first time that we can share it.

The rivers and creeks and prairies and woodlands sustain generation after generation of indigenous peoples.

In time came the backbone of a cattle empire, a vital rail home, and now we live in one of the fastest growing regions in the country.

With unprecedented growth comes new challenges and new opportunities, and with it comes the responsibility to protect the natural resources that make our city livable, resilient, and sustained.

So, how do you grow a city and still leave room to breathe?

You start with the land.

Since 2019, the city of Fort Worth has strategically preserved more than 600 acres of high quality open space made up of prairies, forests, and waterways.

These ecosystems are more than just a pretty view.

They soak up flood water, mitigate high summer temperatures, clean our air, shelter wildlife, and offer a place to stretch our legs and clear our heads.

They give us trails to wander, rivers to paddle, creeks to explore, and hills to climb.

The open space program was created as a proactive solution to the pressures of urban expansion.

It's guided by science, informed by community input and aligned with Fort Worth's broader planning and environmental goals.

Conserve high quality natural areas, deliver measurable environmental benefits, create equitable access to nature for all residents, support long-term economic vitality, and strengthen the health and resilience of our region.

As Fort Worth evolves, our open spaces remain a central infrastructure.

By accelerating stewardship and conservation today, we're investing in a future where growth and sustainability go hand in hand because the land that built Fort Worth should remain open.

I did a great job.

He's no longer with the city, but he was in the property management department, and he was a fantastic voiceover for that video.

So the open space program, I've had a chance to meet with most of you on this, so you're fairly familiar with all the updates here.

So I'll go through this quickly.

But one thing I did want to highlight is that we have spent about 97% of our funding.

And we are working on a plan to continue these efforts if more bond, if uh the bond election comes through in the spring, and we are able to have another budget, and we plan to add another five to 700 acres to that portfolio.

So while we are still focused on opportunities for acquisition, we are also starting to pivot to activation and creating access.

We are coordinating closely with the parks department, who's already started initial site reviews, and we're looking to wrap that up in the next month or so.

A next step will be to have uh take biological assessments and ecosystem inventory.

This is a great opportunity also to partner with groups like the Texas Master Naturalist as well as other aligned um entities like the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.

And then very soon we plan to advertise in RFQ for the open space strategic plan.

And this is going to take recommendations from the open space strategic report a few years ago and really take it to the next phase.

It will help outline a toolkit and a process to take inventory of what we have, identify opportunities, and um quickly that we can move quickly to bring some spaces online because that's quite often the first thing that we hear from the public is they want to go hike immediately.

So as we've been adding acreage, the conversation around land management has also come front and center.

Managing open spaces and natural areas is very different than how you manage traditional recreational parkland.

The green space team is working closely with the experts in the parks department as well as other coordinating with other departments like stormwater and environmental to create a unified strategy towards the managing and stewardship of natural lands.

The management and stewardship also the implementation tends to look a little bit different than your typical um maintenance as well.

I wanted to highlight a few fun examples.

So there's stream habitat assessments.

This is a great opportunity to again coordinate with the environmental department and their stream monitoring program.

Um there's uh managing natural lands includes invasive removal.

This can be done either by a forestry mulcher, but I also prefer the much more ecosystem sensitive and acuter version of the goats.

And um we'll will be uh starting a goat program actually this spring.

And then prescribe burning.

We're extremely luckily lucky to have the talented staff and leadership at the Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge to lead the way on this effort.

Burning is an extremely efficient way to reduce hazardous wildfire fuel loads, um, control invasive species, and promote native vegetation and regrowth.

And they're not a one-and-done approach, they do require careful planning and effort to get it right, but the end result is a healthy habitat.

And Alison, I believe when we were at Rock Creek recently, you shared with me that other jurisdictions say City of Arlington are coming to us to learn a bit more about what we're doing here.

Yeah, they've approached Jared, the Jareds at the Nature Center for guidance and training on that, which is great.

Yeah, because that's ultimately the effort or the goal.

We want to be a leader in that category.

And I think they've broken a record for the amount of acres that they've burned this past year or so.

And special thanks to our fire department, of course, also.

Yes, that's right alongside.

Yes.

And so when a habitat is healthy and welcoming to plants and animals and insects, it is also healthy and welcoming to human beings.

So these systems, these ecosystems have been in place for thousands of years and they play a critical role in managing our environment.

The benefits of a healthy ecosystem are called ecosystem services.

And while there's quite a few here to talk about, I just wanted to highlight a few that are extremely impactful on our everyday lives.

Um, so plants are amazing air purifiers.

Trees produce oxygen, they clean the air by removing pollutants that would otherwise contribute to human health problems like asthma and other respiratory diseases, allergies.

Um healthy habitat directly impacts water quality as well as water supply.

Native trees and plants have really deep and strong root systems that clean and filter the water.

Green spaces are places for water to soak back into the ground and back into our water table.

And then protecting floodplains and riparian areas supports flood mitigation.

The healthy habitat stabilizes stream banks and reduces erosion and sedimentation.

This protects homes and property from flooding and can prevent hundreds of millions of dollars of being spent on future infrastructure repair and improvements.

Healthy mature tree canopy and planted areas can moderate hot urban temperatures.

Landscaping around a building can keep temperatures down by two degrees and larger landscaped areas with several many canopy trees can adjust temps up to 20 degrees as well.

So in summary, really nature can be a tool if we work with it.

So the green space team in an effort to work with this, the green space team is drafting a proposed policy that establishes a cohesive strategy outlining a citywide vision with measurable goals for the natural land management.

It identifies a roadmap that prioritizes conservation resource allocation and appropriate public access, essentially aligning land management objectives with community needs.

And in it does not get into the weeds, pun intended.

It does not mandate a detailed management plan for every natural area.

It just allowed it just provides the vision for how it could be managed.

It enables the city to apply consistent data-informed strategies to protect natural resources, strengthen resilience, and deliver long-term environmental, social, and economic benefits to the Fort Worth community.

The vision is to improve quality of life for all Fort Worth residents through these four main goals.

We'll be submitting an IR to you guys at the next work session for more information, and then plan to follow that up with a resolution for your consideration at the end of the month.

And to bring it all home, this is all good for the future and good for growth.

These strategic approaches result in social and economic benefits for the region.

The cultivation of green space not only improves the livability and connectivity between residents, it enables that future generations can appreciate the same natural beauty that we love about Fort Worth and ensure that our city thrives well into the future.

So thank you.

Thank you, Allison.

Great presentation.

Any questions or comments from council?

Nope.

Wonderful job.

We appreciate all your hard work.

Oh, thank you.

I appreciate the ability to do it.

Council, next up is a property management facility update, and Val Washington is gonna start things for us.

Good morning, Mayor, Council, City Manager, ACM team.

I'm here this morning to provide a brief update on facility update, specifically 200 Texas Street.

And I'm really championing the work of Director Beryllin Marvin, Brian Glass, Nikki Watts in that department who have been working for several years to really keep this project moving.

So, in one, just kind of a brief history.

This really started when we closed on buying new city hall back in 2021.

Pretty much internally, we mobilized immediately with Dana Bergdoff's leadership to really start looking at how we were going to use 200 Texas Street once we started moving departments out of that building and into new city hall.

Once we started convening meetings, we worked with elements of architecture to come to the table with us to help work through what different stacking and flooring and space options could look like.

And I want to share, we went through a couple of different iterations before I share kind of our final plan.

But if you go back to September of 2023, we were really looking at 200 Texas as a police facility mainly.

We saw that as good opportunities for the police department to combine central division, bring Calvert in, and some of the other accessory operations, and really allow them better coordination within the police department having all of those functions together.

We also were gonna have some other smaller occupants, sister cities, TPW parking right away, Fort Worth TV, and at that time as well.

And I say that as we continue through this presentation, and I think in any large metropolitan area, parking is a premium.

And so really the Taylor Street Garage became a focus of our conversations in kind of the early years of doing this.

When we started evolving and started working again closely with the police department, parking really was kind of a problem for us, especially since we weren't keeping the Taylor Street garage.

We started working with the police department and really understanding how they would use the building.

It wasn't your normal eight to five office functions, especially with patrol officers who would be maybe coming in, coming out, just using touchdown spaces that we really started to reevaluate that and thought maybe that wasn't the best idea.

We also were concerned about the need to potentially have to build a brand new parking garage, which was felt a little out of scope because we had not really considered having to do that when we were working on this project.

So once we decided not to have the police department move in as the main occupant, we worked with Cody Wittenberg and his team and thought environmental services would be a good fit.

Once we fast forward, and then we have a new city manager, Jay Chapa, who joined our team.

We also have a new police chief, Chief Garcia.

So we had opportunities for them to both weigh in and take a look at this.

And so in November 2025, we made another adjustment and decided that we would keep the Taylor Street garage.

And I'll tell you that was a relief for the staff.

I know Dana, Jess, many of us around the table were really concerned about selling the garage and being able to provide employee parking in a convenient way for our employees.

So once we decided to retain the Taylor Street Garage, we also were working with Cody and his team.

And if you remember, we were here a few months ago talking about City Hall here and potentially moving the city manager's office up to the 18th floor.

We really started vetting that through, and in working with Cody and his team and Dana and other city departments, really realized that it would be really in everyone's kind of best interest from a service standpoint to move environmental services to the 18th floor versus the city managers team.

We're going to stay on 14.

But you can see the different chess pieces as we're moving through here.

So once we decided to move environmental services back to City Hall, it really opened up conversations to engage again with the police department and see what functions we could bring into this building.

So again, I've already touched on this.

Parking was a focus.

And again, PMD partnered closely with the police department, ITS, all the other again, other occupants of this building.

And we had our we had solid parking numbers in working with Chief Garcia and William, determining that the police department could fit in this building once we really analyzed the parking and again made that adjustment for environmental services to move to the 18th floor.

So what I have now is a plan, and we've got a four-phase plan that we're gonna roll through.

We've broken this project again into phases.

We're gonna touch on phase one and two first and then talk about phases three and four.

So for phase one, um, we are moving in police central division and the bike patrol.

They're gonna move into the space on the second floor with an approximate cost of 4.4 million dollars, and we're gonna utilize CCPD funding for that.

I should note that over the past couple of years, as we've been looking at the 200 Texas Street plan and how we were gonna fund some of these options.

We've been working closely with the police department and utilizing CCPD to help cover a big bulk of that expense.

So we've been saving up money for the last couple of years.

Um again, we think this is a good use since it's mainly going to be a police function.

You see the timeline there, they've started some of the work and they plan on moving in in April of 2027.

One thing I forgot to share is if you look at the old city hall footprint or 200 Texas Street, it's got approximately 162,000 square feet.

It's got a lower level, the second floor, the third floor, and then a tunnel area.

The next phase is phase two, where we're gonna move in Calvert, ITS help desk, and then also take care of some system infrastructure.

You'll hear and you'll see system infrastructure on a couple of slides, and I want to just define kind of all of the things that are falling into that category.

That includes includes modernizing elevators, updating restrooms, facade and envelope repairs, refreshing all of the floors, so carpet, paint, any of those kind of minor repairs that need to be done, replacing electrical distribution equipment, which is very, very expensive, and then also looking at all of the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing equipment.

And those are things that we would do for this building regardless of the occupants.

It's part of property management just taking care and doing building upkeep.

And I want to note too there, this is also CCPD funding.

So we are proposing phases one and two.

We use CCPD funding that will cover those police functions.

Um, and also, and I didn't go into the details, we've got some customer service functions.

Um, they're gonna be working on the gym.

Um, there's gonna be spaces for police records and crime scene also, and that's gonna be the third floor, lower level, and then space on the tunnel.

I'm sorry, all right, one question before we move on from the gym space.

Um, will the police authentic league still be able to operate in this new I guess the new old building?

That is a good question.

I would think that they would.

There would, I believe that there's space for them to do so.

Okay, awesome.

I just want to make sure that we're not risking that program for the case.

No, and I'll confirm with Chief Garcia and the police department and follow up if that's not true, if that's not accurate.

Perfect.

Thank you.

So phase three is really looking at that system infrastructure at a price tag of $5.5 million.

This is an area where we have a budget gap, and I'll I'll follow up here in just a few slides on some recommendations on how we would like to handle that.

But again, that's just really looking at the infrastructure of the building.

We need to fund that for regardless of who is in the building.

And we did spend a lot of time.

We wanted to program the space, so whoever is in here, it's long-term space.

Um 20, 30 years.

We wanted to take a lot of time to understand the programming and again make sure we're getting it right as we're starting this work.

So ACM Washington, what falls on the systems infrastructure?

How do we what's under that budget gap?

Well, that's the a lot of the electrical work, um, doing the system upgrades.

I can send you property management has a detailed itemized list, but it's those bigger picture items, the mechanical, electrical, plumbing, um, really those kind of the guts and systems of the building.

Um, and again, maintenance items that we would have to do as part of upkeep of one of the city buildings anyway, regardless of the occupants.

But I can send you a break, uh, a list and the details behind that.

Okay.

Oh, so that's non-PD.

Okay, because I'm sorry, non-PD, yes.

We did covered that in uh the previous slide.

No, and it's and we have it, it's we're doing it in a couple of phases.

That's why I said system maintenance will co show up in a couple of places.

But we do this is more overall building, so we didn't look to CCPD.

Um, this is more of an overall building property management function as we looked at those items.

And then going into the last phase, phase four, which is moving in the library's history center on the lower level.

This is really contingent on the bond program passing in the May election.

Um, and we do note here we have some funding provided through the bond program, but even with that funding, we still have a funding gap of about one point 1.7 million dollars.

As we look through and have worked with the police department on this project, there are opportunities to eliminate some leases.

So we I do have some opportunities to eliminate leases and recognize that savings, and we would have the police department and working with property management and other teams really look at any savings realized and reallocate those for priority operational and capital needs, and we would follow up on what those uh what those things are.

But we through this exercise, and as we're spending money and looking for money, we are finding savings and efficiencies through being able to cancel these leases.

For an overall budget summary, we just have a breakdown of the phases, phases one through four.

Um we list the funding sources with C C PD being a bulk of the funding.

As we look through phases one and two are fully funded with C C PD and we're ready to go with those.

Um, with phases three and four, we're proposing that we work with Reggie's team and the city manager to identify future debt capacity and come back to mayor and council in the fall once we have some capacity and then issue CEOs to cover that remaining balance of the work.

Just an overall timeline.

This is really a two-year project starting in January of 26 and then going through December of 27 with phase three really being the tail that wraps up the work with that system infrastructure.

And then we have a couple of recommendations, and after having an opportunity here to share this information and receive any questions and concerns that you may have, we are proposing to move forward with an or informal report that will outline all of this information and share these details at an upcoming council meeting, then follow up with an M and C to fund phase phases one and two with an appropriation from CCPD, and then coming with an M and C in fall of 2026, um, once we have access to that debt capacity to look at finishing phases three and four of the system infrastructure and history center, in addition to the bond funding that will hopefully come from the history center that's in the bond program.

And with that, I'd like to take any questions and concerns, and I appreciate your time.

Questions from council.

I have a few, Val.

Um, if you go to um first of all, who owns Calvert?

Who we lease it from for a dollar?

TRWD.

Thank you, Carolyn.

And do we have any idea what they would want to do with Calvert?

Have we had that conversation with them?

Great.

And when was the plan to be underwater anyway?

Pardon when is it going to be going to be underwater anyway?

Marilyn, do you know that time?

Well, guess like 2033 or something like that.

Yeah, I would think in the yeah, 2030s.

Okay.

Yeah.

That project, the south end of the channels projects supposed to start next year.

Right.

Okay.

Thank you.

Um on the history center, and my questions are not because I don't like the idea, I just have some just general questions.

You know, what we we probably do need a history center.

Do we all collectively think this is the right location for that where people will actually come, park, go inside, enjoy it?

Um, I know this is probably a larger conversation with library as well.

Um, it's just a large price tag, right?

And and is this the best location?

Have we explored other options with university systems?

Those are just things I want us to think through, especially considering there is a funding gap.

Yeah, Council McCrane.

I remember a conversation maybe a year or two ago when when you regina took Regina took over uh the uh Fort Museum of Science and History, and she said there seems to be no history in this museum.

Uh huh.

So I want to make sure we're fully exploring those options there too before we have put this price tag because it just makes sense.

Agreed.

Midori, you can come in.

Well, it's part of the bond program um that we're doing public outreach for now.

But Midori, if you want to probably provide some more details on that.

Good morning.

Um, so we have looked at several different options and it's moved a couple of times.

I think probably the biggest issue is that we had a very, very large space at Central Library.

And the really the bulk of the history center are all of the documents and photographs and things that live in the collection.

So just to give you an example, right now we're spending I can't remember the amount, but it's a pretty significant amount to store these items.

And when people want to access them, they come to the current history center location, which is the former seminary library on Bolt, and they make a request, and then we have to contact the storage company to have them locate the items and then actually drive them to the location for use.

So we've gotten a lot of customer feedback, like they preferred having everything in one location when we had it at Central Library.

And when the space became available or there was space at Old City Hall, we were very excited to be able to reconsolidate the collection and save a little bit of money as well on the storage.

That's helpful.

Thank you.

Um, and then overall downtown.

So on that first slide, this the second slide you have, Val, September 2023 original plan.

Talk to us about the five additional properties that are just briefly listed in that first pillar, because I know the decision has been made not to sell the Taylor Street parking garage, but that's the last time you mentioned the other properties.

Can you provide an update on that as well?

Yes, so we are working with JL.

They are helping us to um locate potential buyers for that property.

And there's again, there's five of them in the locations, they're right around uh it's 319 West 10th Street, 917 Taylor, 910 Monroe, 908 Monroe, and 900 900 Monroe.

Um, and the last we noted, there's about a 19 million dollar value tied to those properties.

So we're working closely with LL to sell those.

Councilman, I mean sorry, Jay.

Uh the 19 million dollar value was when it included the actual parking garage.

The new value is more around nine million.

Thank you.

The fact that they had valued the garage for just 10 million and it was gonna cost us 31 million to build a garage for the police department?

That's one of the first things when I heard that the first week I was here, I said, what do we keep the garage?

We'll keep the garage.

And so that's what kind of led to now police being able to go have the central division consolidation as was the original plan to come back into fruition.

So uh just from financial strictly financial standpoint, it didn't make sense to sell the garage for whether what it cost to build a garage now.

That makes sense.

Yeah, and I want to note again, Jay's correct.

The 19 million included Taylor Street, so removing the garage component brought that down to about nine million for the value of those five properties.

Those buildings are the if you recall where the water department was located, the Gordon Swift building next to it, the parking lot to the south of that, as well as the um the railroad commission building that we were we were in.

Okay.

Um last question is this has been a topic for a long time, and I have some of the council members have voiced an option too of the reverter clause that exists on old city hall that would revert back to federal government if we weren't to use it for municipal purposes.

Um have we had recent conversations with GSA to see if they would release that reverter?

Doesn't really matter right now because we're gonna use it for municipal purposes, but I think if there's a chance to release that, it may make sense for future use.

No, thank you for referencing that.

Honestly, I don't know when the last time we've connected with them, it's probably been a minute, and it's probably worthwhile to reach out to them and have some conversations.

Thank you.

Councilmember Peoples.

So I only had a question.

So since municipal court is right across the street, I love the idea of putting the history center in all in one location, but have we looked at the long-term growth for um the municipal courts and if we we might need any of that space in old city hall for them?

We have I would say yes and no.

I know we have been working closely with William Rummely and the judges on making sure we have plenty of courtrooms and we had renovated public safety building a couple of years ago to add new courtroom space in there.

Um I feel like we're probably good now, I think for future conversations.

We'll need to keep working with William Johnson and William Rumley at the court team to really analyze that space and to see where we have other city facilities that could potentially house a municipal court space as well.

That I think we would keep our options open, um, especially as the court team is looking at some of the court in the community and having some off-site locations that I think we would utilize those opportunities to maybe get out in the community with the courts.

No, and and I really like that.

We just had a very successful court, the community, but it just made having toured the municipal court, and I know that's a historic, historic building, and we want to keep it.

I just thought as it grows, as the city grows, if we needed to expand, it would seem to me that the right across the street would be a better fit.

So, but as long as you all are taking that into consideration.

And property management back there and just grateful for the work that they're doing to get outside of the environments.

I know property management is working closely too on just assessing that public safety building.

So I think as a part of those conversations, there'll be opportunities to look at space.

Okay.

Thank you.

Any other questions from council?

Thank you, Dollar.

I think appreciate it.

That is the last of our presentations, council.

Do we have any future agenda item requests or reports?

Councilman Flores, I'll move around the table.

Councilman Hall, you'll be next.

Thank you.

Um I'd like to get an IR.

I know that we received one uh when it was recent to uh changes in state law when it came to uh enhanced enforcement on street takeovers.

I'd like to get an update for the benefit of the newer council members as well, as far as what our approach is, what we're doing in regards to street takeovers.

Councilmember Hall.

Thank you, Mayor.

I'd like to request an informal report on the impact of Senate Bill uh 1008 and House Bill 2844 on local jurisdiction authority to regulate mobile food vendor operations.

Um this request is pretty much prompted by our recent constituent matter, an ongoing uh constituent matter involving concerns about a mobile food vendor operating from a private residence, including the alleged preparation of food, both at the residence and within the vehicle.

Um both parties have contacted our office for assistance, and the situation has highlighted uh the regulatory challenges associated with recent legislation changes, Alan.

It appears these bills have altered how certain activities which have been previously considered noncompliant are addressed and in some cases have created less clarity around enforcement and jurisdictional boundaries, including where and in what a manner of food manner a mobile food vendor may operate.

And so the purpose of this report is to better understand the current regulatory structure, identify any gaps and ambiguities, and highlight considerations for maintaining local home rule authority so forth can effectively implement enforced policies that address our communities' needs.

Any other future gender items from council?

Councilman Martinez.

Thank you, Mayor.

I have two items.

Uh I'd like a report on contractor infrastructure projects.

This specifically the bond improvements in residential areas, uh, to ensure they are adhering to the projected timelines.

It feels like these projects often extend beyond expectations, and I hate to compare, but if the county can lay asphalt on a four-mile stretch, why is it taking the city weeks to do one block?

And I know it's a lot of different things that go into those projects.

You know, we have sidewalks, uh, driveways, and of course the concrete, but asphalt should not take that long.

Uh additionally, I'm requesting a report on the response times from development services regarding inspections for unpermitted work or improvements.

Uh it's concerning that sometimes the wait for an inspector can be so long that projects are completed and may end up requiring court action and ultimately demolition.

So um want to hear how they work with code to uh respond to those type of uh requests from constituents.

Any other items from council?

Okay, and one more item.

I'd like an INR from uh ACM Washington and her team, uh, Marilyn, about how we um bid out some of these contracts and what work we're doing to ensure that small businesses are included.

Going once, going twice.

Just so you know we have a couple IRs on the small business contractor program in the next uh work session.

Okay, good.

Yeah, may answer my questions.

Okay, council.

We're actually gonna convene into an executive session at this point.

The city council will conduct a closed meeting in order to seek the advice of its attorneys as authorized by section 551.071 of the Texas government code.

Deliberate concerning real property matters is authorized by Section 551.072 of the Texas government code.

Deliberate concerning economic development negotiations as authorized by Section 551.087 of the Texas government code, deliberate concerning security as authorized by Section 551.076 and Section 551.089 of the Text Government Code.

Deliberate the personnel matters relating to the city manager, city attorney, city author, and the city secretary is authorized by section 551.074 of the Texas Government Code.

Just wait with a little bit, yeah.

But it's working.