The Fort Worth City Council held a work session on Tuesday, May 5, 2026, from approximately 7:30 PM. The meeting included employee recognitions, informal reports on city operations, and a detailed update on the 2050 Comprehensive Plan. No formal votes were taken.
Okay, council, I think we can get started. I will call our work session to order. Good afternoon, and Jay, over to you. Good afternoon. Um, I'd like to start off by making an upcoming event. Next Tuesday, uh, 5 12, May 12th at 10 a.m., we will be having a little press conference here at City Hall to talk about and put out more publicity about the illegal gunfire campaign that we've started. And so um welcome, we welcome any city council members that'd like to attend. Under organizational updates and employee recognition, I'd like to start off by calling up uh Jessica McAkren to recognize our stormwater team. You know what? We will postpone this because I don't see the team here. It's a nice day, so they're cleaning. I'm gonna postpone it. We're gonna come back. All right. It's not raining, so they're actually preparing. Uh, okay, then we'll jump to the next one. Diana Giordano, assistant city manager to recognize Public Service Recognition Week. All right, afternoon, mayor council. Um, I'm Deanna Giordano, city uh assistant city manager, and it's public service recognition week, so May 3rd through the 9th. So we want to be able to, this actually has been celebrated since 1985 for both federal, state, and local government employees, and it provides us with an opportunity to celebrate our employees here in the city of Fort Worth. And those are the individuals that uh bring a level of dedication and integrity and professionalism to our city to make sure that every day behind the scenes it's keeping our community safe, thriving, and moving forward. So I'm gonna take just kind of a brief walk down memory lane and to remind us that the city was incorporated in 1873 with a population of just 500 employees. That year the city hired their very first public servants. Their jobs were to keep the city safe and deliver essential services to its residents. Now, fast forward more than 150 years, one million residents and over 8,000 employees. Um, and the core of the public servants, what they do is still the same to keep the city safe and to provide essential services. So a lot has changed in terms of growth, but this core of what we do uh is still the same. I'd like to add that our city, particularly here in Fort Worth. I hope you're as proud of them of our employees as I am, because they are the very best public servants that I have seen. They're highly skilled with top-notch expertise. They not just only do their jobs, but they do it very well. They come to work every day to execute your vision, the community visions, and making sure that we operate as one city and one team. So please join me in thanking the resident the members of our city team for public service recognition week. So I'm gonna look to the audience. If you're a city employee, if you would kindly stand to be recognized. That's most of you. And anybody that's watching online, give your hand give yourself a pat on the back because you all deserve the recognition for keeping Fort Worth thriving and moving forward. Thank you. I saw our chief financial officer didn't stand. I think he didn't. He doesn't like the condition of the budget. Yeah. He doesn't want to acknowledge it. Um, William Rummely from our courts department to recognize uh our teen court program. Thank you, Mr. City Manager, Mayor, and City Council. I'm just gonna turn this over to the chief judge. We just want to recognize our teen attorneys and uh the coaches that helped them. And I think we have a presentation. Good afternoon, mayor, council members, city manager Chapa, staff, and guests.