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Thank you.

Thank you, Jeanette, and welcome to your Fort City Council meeting.

We are hereby called to order.

Tonight's invocation will be by Pastor Ben Weiss from Grace Community Church.

Please rise for the invocation and remain standing for the Pledges of Allegiance.

Father, we welcome you into this place.

We're so grateful that you are God and you are good and you do all things well.

We ask for your wisdom tonight as decisions are made, as we have conversation, we ask for unity as we gather.

We ask for your peace that passes understanding to guard our hearts and guard our minds in Christ Jesus.

Lord, I pray that you would direct our steps.

The wisdom that you promise in James chapter one would be available for each of us today, that you would get glory from all that we do, Father.

In your name we pray, Jesus.

Amen.

Have either of the ASL interpreters arrived.

Our first items of business are the special presentations, with the first one being a presentation of a recognition celebrating 100 years of life of Dr.

Opal Lee.

And promise, if you'd like to join me up here, you'd be welcome to.

And counsel anyone that would like to join me for this important recognition.

You of course will be welcome as well.

This evening we are honored to have a recognition opportunity to celebrate 100 years of life for Dr.

Opal Lee.

It truly is a privilege for all of us to serve on council during this time period and to recognize Dr.

Lee for so many accomplishments as we continue to celebrate throughout the next several weeks her 100th year.

Dr.

Lee was born on October 7th, 1926.

Fourth is deeply proud of Dr.

Lee.

Her decades of perseverance she devoted to fighting for all communities and ensuring that Juneteenth received the recognition it truly deserves as a national holiday.

Her leadership has helped elevate an important chapter of American history and inspired millions across this country, earning her the presidential medal of freedom in 2024.

Importantly, we all understand here in Fort Worth that her impact extends far beyond our city and far beyond the establishment of a national holiday.

Most recently, she's worked tirelessly alongside our friend Jared Howard and many others to bring to fruition the National Juneteenth Museum who will be here in Fort Worth, Texas.

Now very close to the beginning of construction to happening in historic South Side.

We are joined tonight by her beautiful granddaughter, Promise.

Thank you for being here today on her behalf.

And I believe at this time we're supposed to cue a video.

Is that correct?

We'll do that and then have additional remarks.

Thank you.

As you can see from this video playing that, ladies and gentlemen, it's meant to have no sound.

There's no um mistake here in the background, but we are here to honor Dr.

Opal Lee, whereas the honorable Dr.

Opal Lee, affectionately known as the grandmother of Juneteenth, has dedicated her life to education, community service, the advancement of freedom and equality.

Whereas as a longtime fourth resident, educator, counselor, and civic leader, Dr.

Lee has positively impacted generations through her commitment to public service and community advocacy.

And whereas through her tireless efforts to preserve and promote the significance of Juneteenth, Dr.

Lee led a national movement that helps secure federal recognition of National June National Juneteenth Independence Day.

And whereas her advocacy culminated in the signing of the National Juneteenth National Independence Day Act on June 12 17th, 2021, establishing Juneteenth as a federal holiday and solidifying her legacy to champion of freedom, historical awareness, and justice.

Whereas, in recognition of her extraordinary contributions, Dr.

Lee was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2024, and at 99 years young continues to inspire people across Fort Worth, Texas, and the nation through her perseverance, her leadership, unwavering belief in the power of history to shape a better future.

And for those that know Dr.

Lee as well, keen sense of humor.

Whereas at nearly 100 years, Dr.

Opal Lee continues to inspire people across Fort Worth, Texas, and the nation through her grace, perseverance, and steadfast belief that understanding our history strengthens our future.

Now, therefore, the city of Fort Worth hereby proudly recognize and honor the honorable Dr.

Opal Lee for her extraordinary life of service, advocacy, and leadership, and for her enduring contributions to the city of Fort Worth, the state of Texas, the United States of America.

Thank you, promise for being here.

We'll take a picture in a moment.

I'll hope it's a little odd for me.

I want to just turn around and talk like this, but I'm an I'm honored to be here for my grandmother.

If she could be here, she would say that it's all up to us young people, and you're young if you're not 99 years old, to make the impact that we need in this world.

So this is my first time stepping inside this room.

I know there's a lot that happens in this room.

So just know that if she could be here, she would.

She is doing well.

She is like you said, still cracking jokes, uh, still doing all those things, but she's a late riser and an early to bed these days.

But you will get a chance to see her for Juneteenth.

Um, and I'm just so excited.

I'm excited for her.

It's my grandmother first, and I've watched her hard work all her life.

To see that national Juneteenth Museum, that is a thought that was just in her head, and to see it come into fruition, and I'm praying she gets an opportunity to see it happen.

So I just want to thank you all and uh and thank you for continuing to recognize my grandmother.

So, thank you.

Ladies and gentlemen, we're also have an important recognition to the Lake Como Neighborhood Advisory Council, otherwise known as the NAC, for excellence community leadership, and three consecutive neighborhood of the year awards.

Please join me.

And Dr.

Hall, you got to come back down here.

There are some amazing leaders in Fort Worth, and specifically from the Como community, they're here tonight.

Y'all come on down.

You're here from Como, please come join me.

But those that get to work with these amazing people, they weren't surprised at all, Dr.

Stanley.

Um, and it's always such fun to be there every year on and honor your your entire organization.

With that, I'm gonna turn it over to our representative from District Six, Dr.

Mia Hall.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, as Mayor said, um, anyway, I'm just very honored to have this opportunity to recognize the Lake Como community um to win an award three years in a row, not only here in the city, but to do so nationally is quite a feat, and it's an amazing accomplishment.

And it is all attributed to your dedication and the hard work that you all do in your neighborhood collectively, each and every day.

So today is really a special day for District Six.

Our very honored Lake Como, African American neighborhood that has been a cornerstone of this city for more than 120 years, has once again been recognized as both national neighborhood of the year by National Neighborhoods USA and Neighborhood of the Year through the mayor's community engagement awards.

And y'all, they didn't do it once.

They didn't do it twice, but three times in a row, and they told me they were this time last year.

They were gonna win it a third time.

So you proved me not wrong, but you you stood up for what you said you were gonna get done.

Um in my 12 months as councilwoman, I have personally witnessed the steadfast commitment that Lake Como residents have to their fellow neighbors and to their community from monthly food drives to after school programs to community celebrations.

Lake Homo is a model neighborhood, demonstrating what can be accomplished when residents come together in the name of service and in the name of community.

Como is the epitome of what it means to love your neighbor to every resident, volunteer, neighborhood leader, church organization, and community partner who has played a role in this success.

This recognition belongs to you.

And on behalf of District Six and the City of Fort Worth, our mayor and our mayor, congratulations.

On behalf of District Six, the City of Fort Worth, and our mayor, congratulations on this incredible achievement.

We are so proud of you.

We are grateful for you, and we are honored to celebrate you today.

So let's give them a round of applause, guys.

Do you want me to read this long whereas?

Would y'all like me to read it or do would you like to take it?

I can I can read.

See, okay.

I I know I know my Como family, so here we go.

All right.

Now this is a test of my eyesight.

I'm getting older.

All right.

Whereas the historic Lake Homo neighborhood stands as one of Fort Worth's most treasured and enduring African American communities, celebrating more than 120 years of resilience, leadership, service, and unwavering community pride, while honoring its rich history and investing in the promise of future generations.

And whereas established during an era of segregation, Lake Como became a beacon of opportunity, self-determination, and community strength, where generations of African American families built homes, founded businesses, nurtured churches, supported schools, and cultivated institutions that continue to shape the cultural and historical landscape of Fort Worth.

And whereas through both the City of Fort Worth, Mayor's Community Engagement Awards and the National Neighborhoods USA Neighborhood of the Year Competition, Lake Como are Neighborhood of the Year recognition in 2023, 2024, and 2025, reflecting an extraordinary and sustained commitment to community engagement and neighborhood excellence.

And whereas Lake Como received national recognition for the Lake Como Juneteenth celebration coming soon, the Lake Como Cemetery Revitalization and Preservation Project, and the Como Lions Heart College Dorm Kid Program, demonstrating an unwavering commitment to preserving historic legacy, cultivating educational opportunity, and strengthening the bonds of community that have sustained Lake Como for more than a century.

Now, therefore, the City of Fort Worth does hereby proudly recognize and commend the historic Lake Homo neighborhood, its residents, organizations, volunteers, and community partners for earning neighborhood of the year recognition at both the local and national levels for three consecutive years.

We celebrate Low Como's extraordinary legacy of resilience, leadership, and service, and honor its continued commitment, preserving its rich history, strengthening its community, and inspiring generations to come.

Congratulations.

So our next presentation will be a presentation of a recognition celebrating 50 years of hip pocket theater by Council Member Hill.

Is this working?

Yes.

Okay.

All right.

We are here to celebrate 50 seasons of the Hip Pocket Theater, and with me are members of the board of directors and staff from Hit Pocket.

Thank y'all so much for being here this evening.

The Hip Pocket Theater began in 1976.

Began in 1976.

And over many years of collaboration between Johnny Simmons and Douglas Ballantine, the Hip Pocket Theater produced more than 30 original musicals that often paid homage to their Fort Worth home.

And for nearly 50 years, the resilience of Hip Pocket Theater has never ceased, standing as Fort Worth's only and oldest outdoor experimental theater, calling three different locations home before settling into its current rustic home in District 7 on Silver Creek Road.

And throughout its history, Hip Pocket Theater has been an active and creative force in the Fort Worth community through partnerships, educational outreach, and performances that have impacted audiences locally and internationally.

And in 1983, the Hip Pocket Theater proudly represented Fort Worth internationally, taking more than 40 actors, musicians, and technicians to perform at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, England.

And today, the Hip Pocket Theater continues its legacy through its annual free community puppetry festival.

It's Twilight's Ray, and the Diane Simmons mentorship program for high school and college-age theater technicians, original play readings, workshops, and mainstay mainstage productions under the Texas Stars that incorporate dance, mask, mime, puppetry, music, and more.

Now, therefore, the City of Fort Worth does hereby proclaim June 9th, 2026 as Hip Pocket Theater Day in Fort Worth.

Would you like to say a few words?

I just want to say a very heartfelt thanks to all of the members of the Fort Worth community.

We are proud to serve you.

We are proud to be here in our community for 50 years, and we'll do it for 50 more.

Thank you so much.

Our next presentation will be a presentation of a recognition for the Osprey Bass 35th Annual Youth Fishing Festival by Councilmember Beck.

Good evening.

Tonight I am joined at the podium by members of our Osprey Bass Anglers Club.

Founded in 1991, the Osprey Bass Anglers Club encourages Fort Worth Youth and their families to take advantage of our city's natural resources.

The club established the foundation in 2021 with a focus on revitalization of underserved communities and their nearby ecosystems.

The vision of the foundation is to help people achieve their personal best by using knowledge principles and techniques gathered from prior generations of successful anglers and mentors.

For the past 35 years, they have hosted their annual youth fishing festival at the City of Fort Worth's Groombrier Community Center and provided all the necessary equipments, equipment and bait for free.

The mission of the festival is to help young people gain uh skillful knowledge and to have a stress-free family-oriented day outside.

And I have had the opportunity to attend the festival on uh multiple occasions, and I can tell you that if you are an angler in the city of Fort Worth of the youth variety, none of you adults um skipping in on it, uh, but they actually stock Greenbrier Community Center's pond with some pretty large-sized bass for that event.

Um, it is uh a really uh neat event that we have here in the city of Fort Worth, and it's really great to see people utilizing our city resources in the way that they do.

Um I didn't know that I could fish for bass in the city of Fort Worth until I learned um until I went out to the Osprey um festival.

So I encourage you all to come out and learn to fish and um visit Green Briar Community Center.

We stock it twice a year, and with that, I think Orris has some words, yes.

Good evening, City Council mayor and mayor.

Umsprey Bass Anglers started with a bunch of uh military gentlemen that was stationed at Carswell Airport space.

Um, as we got together and was fishing at Benbrook Lake, we decided to form a club and drawing up our club bylaws.

One of the things we said was we're gonna we was gonna give back to the community.

With that, a quick uh statement I'm on mic.

My dad was stationed, was in the military, stationed at Play Koo in Fan Rang, and the kids in my neighborhood used to tease me and said, Your dad's not coming back home, nobody comes back.

And he made a phone call, uh, radio call, I guess, to my mom.

My mom said, Your son's upset, uh, you need to talk to him.

He talked to me and he told me I'm coming back.

When you get back, when I get back, we're gonna spend a lot of time.

Me being selfish.

My dad started taking me fishing.

Well, they always took me fishing, but they would include the neighborhood kids, the same guys that was teasing me, went fishing with me.

So I introduced to the club that we need to give back to the community because that's what my dad wanted me to do.

So I gave back to the community, talked to the club members, and we started the kids fishing tournament.

Uh thank to the Fort Worth Sportsman Club and CJ Punch Bay, who I met at a boat show, and uh he said he would be with there with us from then on.

He has uh the 20th would be having our next one.

Uh last year we had over 300 something kids with their parents.

But that's that's all I'm gonna say right now.

What I'm gonna do is I'm the oldest member of the club or one of the oldest.

I'm gonna turn it over to one of the youth.

Good evening, mayor and city council.

Uh, my name is Noah Catreau.

Uh, and I want to thank you for recognizing the Osprey Bass Anglers Foundation.

Uh, I first attended the Bass Anglers Fishing Festival when I was 10 years old.

Um at that age, I was just excited to be outside, you know, go fishing and be a part of something fun.

But looking back at it now, that event meant a lot more to me than I realized at the time.

It gave me confidence, it taught me patience and helped me build a real love for fishing in the outdoors.

What made the biggest impact on me was seeing adults take the time to teach kids like me and encourage us and make sure that we had a great experience, and that stuck with me.

Now, at 18 years old, I'm proud to say that I have become a member of the club, and even more meaningful, I now get to volunteer at the same fishing festival I grew up attending.

Um, it feels full circle to help give younger kids the same experience that made such a big difference in my life.

Uh the Osprey Bass Anglers is more than just a fishing club.

It brings people together, supports the youth, and it creates memories between people that will last a lifetime.

So thank you again for recognizing this foundation.

Mayor and Council, I believe we have a short video about our about the project.

Thank you.

Our next presentation will be a presentation of recognition to Dr.

Gwendolyn Morrison for 50 years of service to the city of Fort Worth as the longest and as the longest service board member of the Tarrant County College District.

So mayor and council and audience, seeing all those beautiful young people at that fishing tournament just made me so excited because they are the embodiment, embodiment of the work that the next honoree has done.

So I'm going to ask, before I ask Anori to come up, I'm going to ask her son Jonathan Morrison, her other bonus son, Reginald Gates, who is the vice chancellor for communications at Tarrant County College, and Dr.

Eva LeBlanc to join me here at the podium as we get ready to recognize an extraordinary woman.

If you had been here earlier with me and Chris, you all know I said I'm a backup dancer.

So I would be the backup dancer for Dr.

Gwendolyn Morrison any time of the year.

So Dr.

Morrison, would you please join me and Chris Nettles here for some special recognition?

And then Mayor, I'm going to ask all of you to come down because the work that she does at Tarrant County College has benefited and enriched all of our lives.

So Dr.

Morrison, whereas you are a graduate of the famous Stephen F.

Austin University, and my almado Texas Woman's University, you're a noted champion of education, and you are the longest serving board member of Tarrant County College since being elected in April of 1976.

And for those of you who don't understand, in 1976, Dr.

Morrison had to run at large.

She ran not from a district, but across all of Tarrant County, and Tarrant County residents saw the value in her service.

Whereas in 1975, you chartered and co-founded the you were the chartering president of the Greater Fort Worth Negro Area Business and Professional Women's Club, a club that is still in existence today and does extraordinary work.

Whereas you taught in the Fort Worth Independent School District and served as the rector of Fort Worth ISD departments, including the state-approved teacher certification and employment staffing.

Whereas, this is just so much good stuff.

You were appointed by Governor Bill Clinton, Clements.

Lord have mercy, Governor Bill Clements, as the first black member of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.

She was also appointed by Governor George W.

Bush to the Governor's Commission on Women and to the Governor's Council on Purchasing for People of Disabilities.

Whereas Dr.

Gwendolyn Morrison serves as the chairman of the board for the community food bank in Fort Worth, Texas, and her family, including Jonathan, are founding members of the historic Rosedale Park Neighborhood Association.

And she also served as past member for the community hospice of Texas and Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogical Society.

And Chris, if you didn't think, you didn't think I'd ever stop reading, will you give the great line now?

Therefore, being resolved, the City of Fort Worth, Texas, is proudly to honor and celebrate and recognize Dr.

Gwendolyn Morrison as a pivotal figure and notable citizen of Fort Worth, committed to public service, presented this ninth day of June.

Congratulations.

Congratulations.

So yes, yes, please please make the remark.

She's an educator, you all.

She has to give remarks.

Thank you so much.

Good evening, and thank you all for being here tonight.

More than 60 years ago, it was the vision of voters of Tarrant County to have affordable quality education available to residents of Tarrant County.

And I am grateful to God and the citizen voters of Tarrant County who have gifted me the opportunity to further this vision into the mission and the reality that Tarrant County College is today.

Today, Tarrant County College annually serves more than 100,000 students.

This year, we awarded over 9,000 degrees and certificates, a record high, with 30% being in high demand occupation fields.

In the past decade, TCC's dual enrolled student population has grown about 90% from 6,500 high school students to 20 in 2015 to 12,050 students.

For each Tarrant County Independent School District senior class, an estimated one-third attended TCC by the end of their senior year.

TCC generates 2.3 billion in added annual income for Tarrant County.

And we returned $64.4 million to Tarrant County taxpayers in 2025.

We invested $5 million in tax increment districts.

And TCC invested $15 million in area independent school districts through the dual critic tuition waivers.

We believe in community and view Tarrant County College as a shared investment between the community, students, and the college.

Thank you, Councilwoman Deborah Peoples for initiating this recognition.

Thank you, Mayor Matty Parker, and all of the council members for this honor.

I am deeply honored to celebrate 50 years of continuous elected service to Tarrant County College.

Elected two times countywide in 1976 and 1982.

I'd also like to thank my husband of 53 years, Ben Morrison, and his father, Jury Morrison and Francine Morrison, who were well loved in Fort Worth as I started this journey in 1976.

I'm also very grateful to our three children, Brandon and his wife Toyer, our daughter Betsy, and a special thanks to our son Jonathan, who is here today and who works daily here in Fort Worth to make our chosen hometown and his hometown a better place to live and work.

And my grandson Griffin, who's eight years old, I want to thank him for inspiring me every day to keep working.

A special thanks goes to all who over the 60 years have contributed to the success of Tierra County College.

Thanks especially to our current chancellor, Dr.

Elva LeBlanc, for carrying on the success and continuing the legacy.

And I thank all of you for being here to support me.

I want to ask my longtime friend, Christine Moss, to come and join me here.

We've been friends since 1975.

She was a charter member of that organization, and we still work there together and live in the same neighborhood.

Thank you so much.

And may I just say that the first neighborhood that I ever visited in Fort Worth was Lake Como.

Thank you.

And our last presentation will be a presentation of a recognition to the Fort Worth Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Lanzar graduates, Councilmember Crane.

Thank you, Jeanette.

Y'all come on up.

Coming up.

Y'all, I want to introduce you to part of the uh May or cohort of the Lanzar program to refresh everybody's memory.

This was a grant that we received uh through the office, but to through the city to uh the Hispanic Chamber to create a small business program to help.

And what we found is a lot of times there are people with great ideas and they're scared to execute on them and take the risk, but they need the tools to do that.

And so we have a great uh group here as part of that.

This is the sixth class.

This was in English.

They teach sometimes in English, sometimes in Spanish.

This one was in English.

And some examples of some businesses that got started because of this construction, auto shop, HR consulting, cleaning businesses.

And so I won't read all of this.

They each got speckled special recognition and Molly pens.

But about Gilberto, I think you're gonna talk on behalf of the group, and we'll see what happens from there.

Thank you.

Congratulations.

All right, good evening, Mayor and Council members.

I just wanted to take a moment to highlight the impact of our program because it's been become one of our signature initiatives for developing and growing small businesses.

Uh to date, we graduated six cohorts, uh, three in English, three in Spanish, with nearly uh sixty entrepreneurs completing the program uh through this initiative.

Uh they receive hands-on guidance, they to build sustainable businesses, but uh results speak for themselves.

Approximately 80% of the participants complete a thorough business plan.

Uh we have had in the past two years more than 20 businesses uh registered with a new LLC.

And uh beyond education, uh, we've seen the economic impact.

In last year's cohort, we had one of our Lansar participants actually get a secure a private contract this year for $142,000.

And so I think that's a big uh but stories like that is because uh we're actually transforming the uh training program into a small business incubator, and so we're also gonna provide leadership development, uh, more mentorship opportunities, of course, the one-on-one technical assistance, uh, so they can keep growing after this graduation.

And so we're very proud of all of this, but I think the thing that we're uh or I'm most proud of is that we're also creating business owners um that have great values who are always committed to giving back to the community.

So uh after this program, a lot of them stay involved in the organization, they volunteer for certain things, and they understand the importance of giving back.

So uh thank you so much uh for all the graduates and congratulations congratulations on being the 2026 Landsat graduates.

Yeah, we'll take a picture.

Let's take a picture.

Next will be items to be continued or withdrawn by staff.

We have three items to be uh continued.

Uh ZC 25184 and ZC25205 will be continued to December 8th council meeting.

And MNC 26-0422 will be continued at June 23rd council meeting.

Mayor, that gets us to the consent agenda speakers, and I believe we have two.

Thank you.

Our first speaker is Bob Willoughby, followed by Adrian Smith.

Well, this is like CCP.

Oh, there we go.

We're ready to go.

Go ahead and play the video.

Okay, I don't know if there's any sound of this thing or not.

I forgot my numbers.

Hey Charlie, come down and take any questions or not, Mr.

Carlos.

Absolutely.

Oh, you're not gonna take a question, huh, Carl?

You know, the detective the detector sent me an email.

Okay, he called me.

He sent me an email.

It didn't answer the question, sir.

I'll answer your question.

We need them on film, sir.

Why don't you you're transparent?

You're not gonna be transparent.

When you are ready to have a genuine conversation with me, we'll do it on film though.

We won't do it in secret rooms, Carlos.

That's that's that's just that's crooked.

It'll be in my office.

Well, okay, call me.

Let's do it, but let's do it with a camera.

Oh, contact.

Oh, yeah, but we gotta do it with the camera, okay?

You got to agree to public uh transparency to call it.

Transparency, right?

No, I didn't trace him down there, did I?

I'm doing better.

Yeah, I would have trashed him all the way down there earlier.

Now, this is the thing I've been bringing up here for the last few years.

No one's answered up here.

Carlos runs away.

Now, what I'd like to do is get uh see this website by uh Rodney.

He got $800,000.

That's a dummy website.

There's there was a fake number and everything, so I brought it to their attention, and then they fixed it.

Now, Phil's source here is sitting on his desk the corruption of this C C P D funds and misuse, and we want him to invoke the Texas Rangers because they said they'd do an audit.

That's what we want an audit on these numbers.

And if we do that, I think there's gonna be some major stuff coming loose, but it's not, they're fighting it.

That's why our DA will not.

Now, DA told me I'm not gonna dispute the evidence, and I'm not gonna act on the evidence, and I'm not gonna do anything, is what the DA said.

So I've been up at the commissioner's court asking them, they'd ask the DA why, but they turn a blind eye too.

They're not gonna ask him why he's not doing his job.

So, anyway, there is something in our House Rule two, sir, 17th House rule about removing the DA, but that's probably going to take an act of God.

Nevertheless, I'm trying to get local voter education in our schools to teach the next generation not to be as dumb as the generation I live in.

When you allow this mayor to take away free speech from the people of Fort Worth for two years and you don't say anything, we're dummy down pretty bad.

We need to teach these kids in school.

So that's the same thing about the CCPD funds.

There they've been misused, they won't answer, and they run away, and it's got all the signs of corruption.

You know, every bit of it.

So anyway, they're not answering.

I can't make them answer.

The DA don't want to do anything, and the people of the city of Fort Worth, they just flat don't care.

Thank you.

Adrian Smith.

Adrian Smith, District 6.

I am one with the people.

So the first council agenda item I'm speaking to is uh Mayor and Council Communication 26 hyphen 0438, and it speaks to a settlement that was just that's due to be um finalized once you all vote after this uh non-cons uh consent agenda.

Congratulations, Captain Paula Conway, on your court victory against the abuse of power, denial for something you rightfully earn, and silence from those whom we the people elect as representation of our city.

I'm sure no amount of money can make up for the turmoil you went through under the leadership of former police chief Neil Noakes, but it sends a message to all future whistleblowers that you don't have to be afraid of speaking up against tyranny, Chief Eddie Garcia.

Hopefully, you have done something to identify potential bad actors within the ranks of the Fort Worth Police Department who don't serve the interest of the greater good of our city.

And again, congratulations to Captain Um Paula Conway on her settlement in the amount of one million, the amount of one million one hundred and sixteen thousand nine hundred and thirty six dollars, uh, because she uh was demoted by former police chief Neil Nokes.

Um, because of his abuse of power, but however, I'm gonna leave that where it is.

Now, this next agenda item I'm speaking on is uh 260484.

Water department staff and purchasing division is there's someone who can explain to myself and the people of our city the purpose of this massive contract five million five hundred and fifty-nine five hundred and sixty-two thousand for the initial term, which will belong to an additional twenty-two, two hundred and thirty-eight two hundred and thirty eight, two hundred and forty-eight thousand of the contract life.

Although this contract is said for the purpose of all districts.

My number one pressing question to either division.

Didn't we already previously update our metering systems throughout the city to a digital format?

Mayor Parkham.

Will you give space and time for any represent representative from either division explaining to water utility payer uh taxpayers the purpose of this massive contract?

I know you won't.

So uh I would humbly ask someone from either of those the visions, please give me a call and uh give me better clarity as to why this contract is so massive and necessary.

Thank you.

That's the end of our consent agenda speakers.

Got a motion and a second.

Any other discussion from council?

If not, please vote.

Charlie's a yes.

Motion carries.

Next will be presentations and announcements from council.

I believe, mayor, we have a the first one is Mayor Protim Flores.

Carlos.

Okay, there we go.

Alright, first slide, please.

All right, from left to right on the left.

Uh the Fort Worth uh police department held its Northwest Division Summer Kickoff Party at the Northside Community Center.

It was a great opportunity to have a lot of resources for the community.

They're present and uh have some fun as well as learn what kind of resources the city and other of our uh resources or local resources offer them.

In the center, uh I was honored to take part in the 97th Annual Memorial Day service at Greenwood Funeral Homes Cremation, presented a proclamation on behalf of the mayor and uh our own Charlie Larisdorf, also MC'd the event.

Uh on the right, on behalf of the mayor, joined the Fort Worth Public Library to kick off the mayor's summer reading challenge at Trinity Park.

Uh and we honored the uh award winners for the bookmark contest.

So that was a lot of fun.

Next slide, please.

Okay, on the left.

Uh Modern Aviation is groundbreaking, a meetup International Airport.

This is part of the midfield development that the airport keeps doing to great success.

Uh modern aviation has a reputation for high level of standards for FBO's fixed space operators, and uh cutting edge facility is going to augment those resources there at Meacham, bring in jobs, and increase uh, you know, our economic footprint here locally, so thanks to Modern Aviation, was joined also by my colleague Macy Hill and representatives from District 6.

Uh next slide, or I should say in the center.

Uh, was honored to speak again on behalf of the mayor at the uh Metropolitan Black Chamber of Commerce Luncheon, 46 years.

The chamber has shown leadership advocacy and support for black owned businesses and entrepreneurs.

Love to see that they have increased their membership ranks, and they are also uh having a lot of great momentum going forward, and applaud them for all their leaderships.

Uh on the right, I was proud to join members of our city's economic development department uh at the University of Texas Research Institute for the TMAC 2026, Texas Manufacturing Excellent Awards, City of Fort Worth was our conditions with two awards.

So thank you, staff for that outstanding work.

And last slide I have uh FIFA is coming to town in case you haven't heard, so there's a lot of activities that are going to be activated.

Uh the mayor and I were and I think uh Councilmember Crane were also at Billy Bob's here on Sunday, helping them kick off that event.

A lot of world travelers are visiting Fort Worth and uh also Trinity Metro at a PEP rally there at Central Station, kicking off their contributions because we need public transit to move all these people around town.

And so they kicked off that to much fanfare.

We're all excited, great regional partnership and teamwork.

And one announcement of the last slide.

Far Greater Northside Historical Neighborhood Association.

Uh will have their annual Juneteenth Freedom Festival.

And they're doing this in collaboration with one of our community centers, the North Tri Community Center.

Uh that is Friday, June 19th from 6 to 8.

And also, we're gonna have a family fun day, Saturday, June 20th from 11 a.m.

to 5 p.m.

Please bring your lawn chair.

These are occurring at Lincoln Park 2922 Lincoln Avenue.

Hope to see you there.

That's all I have.

Thank you, Carlos.

Rodin Bondonet who has uh presentation.

Council Member Nettles.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Alright, the first slide is an event that we happened at the new historical South Side Community Center.

We was knocking down a wall that uh the house, the community center is gonna be housed at Havey Harvey Peace.

This is part of the uh partnership that we're working with Juneteenth to take over the Southside Community Center.

So really want to thank city staff for coming together and putting this event together.

And so we have a couple of community members helping take part in that.

The next slide is our court in the community want forgiveness.

We had a total of 170 served, total of uh 550 cases resolved, and a total of 468 warrants cleared so we want to appreciate Program Valley Church uh for participating in that and hosting that event.

The next uh slide is a game room opening in memory of Harrison Thomas the Third who suddenly uh lost his life.

Um so Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church uh named a game room in his honor, and so it was a great event to memorialize such a great young man with great purpose.

So we really appreciate that.

Next slide.

At the opportunity, I do this every year is go and congratulate all of our um uh high school graduates.

This year I was able to attend North Carolina High School uh as well as Crowley High School uh graduation to encourage our youth to continue to climate education.

Uh next slide.

TCEQ uh commissioner uh meeting was at Holland Hills.

Those of you that know we had the big case that took place in um in uh Highland Hills and Highland Hills requested for us to have a sit-down meeting with the state and all those in charge, and so we had over 60 residents there, TCEQ, Commissioner Miles, we had a lot of our city staffs conducting this meeting.

So I want to take the opportunity to thank city staff for going over and beyond what has been asked of you.

Next slide.

Many of our colleagues, I'm sure Councilwoman Beck will talk about it.

Worship at the Mount Gilead Baptist Church alongside all of our council members for their final service.

It was a great historic moment for Mount Gilead, and as the pastor told us, just because we're leaving this building, we're not done ministering to the people of Fort Worth.

So we really appreciate the work that they have done in the city of Fort Worth.

A couple announcements.

We have the soul of Sycamore event coming June the 20th, Saturday.

Uh, it's going to be at the Sycamore uh Park.

We also, next slide, have the East Side Cops versus Community Barbecue Cook Off, June the 20th.

I think that last year was the first time I um ate a re-up.

And so I'm looking forward to doing it again this year, and it was pretty good.

One rib, one rib.

Thank you.

Next slide, please.

District A event this Saturday, June the 13th, uh team conflict resolution leadership training at Mount Olive.

There's a QR code.

Uh please can it.

Uh, it's on our social media page, uh, working with our uh conflicts resolutions here in the city of Fort Worth and District 8.

So we appreciate Mount Olive again for hosting this event.

And I believe the final announcement we have is gonna be Friday, June the 12th from 6 to 9.

It's gonna be held at the Fort Worth African American Museum and Culture Center, 3100 East Rosedale, Fort Worth, Texas, 76105.

Come and be a part of this great event.

Those are all the announcements that I have.

Thank you, Chris.

Councilman Beck.

Thank you.

First up, I had the opportunity to read to a group of very young children at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History.

Um the book was Sophia Valdez Future Prez, that I'm gonna be working with our library department to make sure that we have one in each one of our libraries.

Um and if you have not read that book to your children, I highly recommend you do because it's about a young girl who um decides she wants something changed in her city and how she goes about doing that.

Um, and it really was uh just a lovely reminder of the um the hard work that we do here on council and what um what our community members can do, just given a little bit of effort.

Next slide.

I was honored to be joined by Councilwoman Mia Hall, Jeanette Martinez, and Councilmember Charlie Lowersdorf at this year's Carry the Load.

We had over 60 people walking in the Fort Worth team this year, which was more than we've ever had.

So to all the employees that showed up and walked, and specifically to the members of the Fort Worth Police Officers Association and the Fort Worth Firefighters Association for the work that they did making sure that we had everything we needed for that particular event.

Next slide.

As Chris mentioned, we did recognize Mount Gilead.

I was sweating in this picture, but it's not because I have an alleged demonic heart, it's because there was no AC and we were all burning up in there in the last in the for their last meeting.

So it really was truly an honor to get to experience this historic building one last time and just a little piece of Fort Worth history when not all members of our community could use pools freely without throughout the city.

Mount Gilead Baptist Church had a pool in their basement for their members to swim.

So they have been providing services for their community for a very long time.

Next slide.

June 11th through the 27th.

If you haven't heard, there's a soccer tournament going on right now, and Fort Worth is incredibly excited about that.

We have several events that'll be taking place around the city.

And I would look to Sunday and Square as one of the key points if you want to watch those games because they will be doing live streaming in Sundance Square for all of the FIFA games.

Next slide.

If you're looking for something to do in the evening when it's a little cooler as the sun heats up, our artisan circle, which is down on West 7th, is hosting night markets June 13th, July 11th, and August 8th.

It'll be local businesses, music, food and drinks.

Next slide.

And last but not least, it is June, and June is Pride Month, and June 27th.

I hope that you will join us all in the main street corridor, South Main Corridor for that event.

And that's it.

Thank you, Councilman Beck.

Councilman Martinez.

Yes, thank you, Mayor.

So please bear with me.

We have a lot of events to catch up on.

So we're gonna start with our District 11 Town Hall, which took place on March 26th at the stagecoach ballroom.

We had approximately 55 residents, but you know, lots of staff.

So I just really want to thank uh the departments that were there to um that were on site to answer specific questions and provide one-on-one updates.

Those uh those departments were Fort Worth Code Compliance, Fort Worth Community and Public Engagement, City of Fort Worth Economic Development, Environmental Services, Fort Worth Lab, Fort Worth Police Department, Neighborhood Services, Office of Patrol Oversight Monitor, Parks and Rec, Transportation Public Works, Fort Worth Public Library, and we also had our regional transmit transit partner, uh, Trinity Metro.

Um, but we did have a few presentations, and this was um these were identified by survey we provided to the to our constituents, and they wanted to hear from these three different departments.

So we heard from our Transportation Public Works, Parks and Rec, and Economic Development.

So thank you again.

Next slide.

On April 22nd, we celebrated Earth Day at Black Coffee.

So for the past three years, we've hosted an environmental event.

Um, this year we did it in April because uh the past two years we had done our environmental event in June for uh World Environment, and we realized it's a lot hotter in June, so we did it in April.

Um, so but I'm just really incredibly proud to share what we've accomplished together over that time collectively.

We have safely disposed of over 16,500 pounds of how of hazardous waste, kept 68 pounds of medication out of our water system and salvaged 750 pounds of materials to be repurposed.

Next slide.

Uh May 7th and 8th.

Students had the opportunity to learn about different professions and participated in uh three career paths, and we were happy expos uh Trinity Basin on Pafford Leadership Academy at Forest Oak and Glen Park Elementary, so at the other presentations at those different schools.

Next slide.

So the secret language of trees by Bal Nogue's studio located at Riverside Park.

This abstract pattern depicts the complex root system of the historic Pecon Grove remaining in the park.

It is an incredible whimsical, vibrant, and colorful piece.

Next time you're in Riverside Park, I highly encourage you to go in person.

And so we have a couple of uh transportation um meetings coming up, district.

Um, so there's a railroad safety improvements for the Trinity Railway Express at Haltham Road.

That's going to take place on June 15th, 6 p.m.

This one is via WebEx, and we are also sharing this information on social media.

And if you're registered for a newsletter, it's also included in there.

Next slide.

Another meeting is the Riverside Oakhurst and East Fort Worth water and sewer improvements.

So that's taking place June 18th at 6 p.m.

This will be in person at the Riverside Community Center.

And so this is to update residents on upcoming cast iron water main and sewer main replacements.

Next slide.

Okay.

The AM Safe Ross to School Project.

That meeting is taking place June 22nd at 6 p.m.

This one will be via WebEx to update residents on upcoming construction aimed at improving pedestrian connectivity and safety.

Next slide.

So happy early Father's Day to all our dads, grandpas, uncles, and father figures.

Our local community centers are hosting some great events to celebrate you.

So at Andrew Doc Sessions will be hosting their Father's Day breakfast on June 17th, 8 a.m.

to 10 a.m.

Eugene McCray Community Center is doing a best year's club Father's Day brunch on June 22nd, 11 a.m.

to 2 p.m.

And while not in D11, Hanley is right across the road.

They're going to be doing a Father's Day domino uh tournament, and that's June 20th, 10 a.m.

to 2 p.m.

Uh, we also have a few Dutin celebrations that are happening in the district or that we've been invited to that you won't want to miss.

So on Thursday, June 18th, there will be a Juneteenth celebration at the MLK Community Center from 9 a.m.

to noon, and we'll uh we uh are proud to help sponsor that event.

Um Friday, June 19th, the United Riverside Neighborhood Association will host the Juneteenth celebration at Luella Bales Baker Park from noon to six.

It's gonna be a wonderful day featuring car shows, water activities, food, and plenty of family-friendly fun.

And lastly, Soul of Sycmore, which you've already heard from Councilman Nuttles, we were also very proud to help sponsor that event, and that's June 20th at Sycamore Park from noon to six p.m.

So the lineup's gonna start uh on Ayers at Foodland, and it's then and it's gonna conclude at the park.

Um big lineup plan, including a parade, barbecue cook-off activities for the kids, and live performances.

And that's all for me.

Thank you, Jeanette.

That's the end of our council presentations.

Mayor, that gets us to non-consent agenda speakers, and I believe we have one.

Thank you, Bob Willoughby.

Did we change some rules here?

Because I was informed that these resolutions are independent, they stand independent from your constant and non-constant items.

Now are you combining all the resolutions with non-consent now?

May I get an answer three minutes I want to make sure that I'm on a non-constant item.

I want to see if I got three.

Well, I still have to be able to speak on my non-consent item.

Or will I be using it up right now?

You're referring to your public hearing and zoning items and your non-consent items.

And yes, you'll be able to speak on those.

So you're saying everything's non-consent.

In other words, I only got three minutes period, right for the night two minutes and thirty seconds that's it okay well I can't prepare it at least that doesn't surprise me because I was told that resolutions are supposed to stand independently three minutes and I signed up for six of them but uh we won't get all that time that's Chris Jameson they got on uh six boards you sign up the six boards I don't know who he is who and a gosh question is he's going to take your place when you leave mayors everybody's working on here I never seen anybody be part of house of financing who is this guy a Texas motor speedway who is this guy Trinity River vision who is this guy nonprofit the benefit in the city of Fort War my God look at this here he is again on the director of sports I mean when does he have time to live he also has time to get more than 57 votes Bob.

Well you know what it doesn't tell you anything on the website about him you go over and try to find out who you got there you don't tell us anything so you don't tell us anything about the person he's on here six times and that's just no one should be on here that many times you know why because when you get on these boards you get hundreds of thousands of dollars to get the manage here and then when you do this you get influences and you get favors done from people so that when you run for office kind of like when Jarrett was here which is moving for a commissioner now he was a council member now he must be a commissioner they use this as stepping stones I won't get a local voter education in school to teach people to be smart in this group because this is dumb to allow this to happen six times and there's nothing we can see I was going to speak on each one of these let's prepare for each one to talk about them but I'm only gonna have three minutes now so there was a uh CCP at the end and I was going to talk about again there but I can't use it because I'm using it up now.

See we used to have three minutes all the time but Mayor Parker took that away she took away the remote woman you are a commonist that's all I can say thank you.

That's all I can say you just know that piss anybody off I thank you very much for this to item 26-5976 which is changes and memberships for board appointments for district two thank you mayor mayor and council I uh ask for your consideration appoint the following individual to the respective board with partial term effective June 9th 2026 and ending October 1st 2026 Jackie Thompson the third for park and recreation advisory board motion passes motion carries next item is 26-5973 got a motion and the second council any other discussion if not please vote motion carries next is 26-6033 a motion and a second council please vote motion carries next is 26-6036 motion and second council any other discussion please vote motion carries next is 26-6037 a motion and a second council please vote motion carries.

Next is 26-6038 a motion and a second, please vote.

Motion carries.

Next is 26-6039.

Motion and a second.

Please vote.

Motion carries.

Next is 26-6040.

Motion and a second, please vote.

Motion carries.

Next is 26-6034.

Got a motion and a second council.

Please vote.

Motion carries.

Next is 26-6035.

Motion and a second, please vote.

Motion carries.

Next is MNC 26-0459.

Mayor, we have speak.

Thank you.

I've got first speaker is Bob Willoughby, followed by Adrian Smith.

Is Mr.

Willoughby here?

Okay.

Adrian Smith.

So this particular uh mayor and council communication two six hyphen zero four five nine.

This is to conduct a public hearing to approve a total of nine million seven hundred and twenty thousand five hundred and twenty-one dollars in amendments to the physical year two thousand and twenty-six crime control and prevention district budget CCPD.

Now for those who don't know what the CCPD budget is, it's a budget that uh encompasses our tax dollars outside of the annual budget that the police department already receives.

This is a separate budget that they it's a uh play out of.

Who is never against law enforcement?

I will never stand up and say to defund law enforcement.

We need law enforcement.

Law enforcement is very important as relates to our society is governed.

However, the CCPD, I am standing saying that we should defund it, or find another way to go about ensuring that whatever they are doing with this said money is more transparent because we know our mission partners the that that uh partner that are supposed to partner with the police department to bring about crime uh let's see, crime initiative, crime control initiatives for our communities have been ineffective.

Well, we continue to give money to various uh mission partners, you know, these these individuals who come to the table at the behest of council members because none of these people get funded unless a council member gives them their blessing, and I don't have to name uh any of them, but I do think that our mission partners, um, the money that they're receiving, it hasn't produced anything.

What Bob spoke to earlier in regards to the VIP program is true.

There was uh one of the mission partners that received over $800,000, which produced nothing for the communities that it was supposed to represent.

So, Mayor Matty Parker in council, since you all are the board members for the CCPD.

Is there a way we could be more transparent or bring about something better for the people so we can know what's going on with this money, other than you all just rub a snap at everything?

Like you always do.

That's a question, Mr.

Neil.

That's the conclusion of our speakers on this item.

Oh, Councilman Nettles.

Keith, can you come up quickly?

Um, not quickly, but can you come for a second?

I have a question I want to ask you about the process and the transparency process that uh Mr.

Hunts spoke about.

If you can articulate the group that review the applications uh and how it is submitted to uh the board of directors for the CCPD funding, and then also uh the review of once they receive the money, how they have to report back um findings of what they have done with the uh the money they receive.

Uh yes, sir.

It's a labor-intensive process that we have for our agencies.

Uh they go through process and application that requires multiple pages and attachments that they have to submit in through a website, uh, and then we process those and go through a technical scoring process, they're reviewed uh with pages of feedback provided to an appointed advisory board uh that's appointed by this group to specifically to review and provide recommendations to the CCPD board of directors.

And so there's a lengthy process, a lot of hands in the in the process, and we do everything we can to for it to be transparent.

And then on the back end, there are reporting requirements both financially and programmatically that are posted on our website and then go through the pages of reports that we provide on our website.

Thank you for uh that explanation.

And I want to remind those who are watching what you see today.

We're voting on this MNC or this resolution, but the work is done when we meet in work session and we talk about the individuals who apply for these.

And so I encourage you to uh chime in on the work session and you'll find more information about these companies or groups that we fund.

So with that mayor, I want to uh approve motion to approve.

Thank you.

I've got a motion and a second council.

Is there any other discussion?

Please vote.

Motion carries.

Next is MNC 26-0506.

And Mayor, we have four speakers.

Thank you.

Our first speaker is Dylan Moroni, followed by Rusty Fuller.

Good evening, council and mayor.

Thank you for having me.

My name is Dylan Moroni.

I'm the director of transportation for Tarrant County, and I just wanted to congratulate the city on putting together this very comprehensive and impressive document.

Uh, so important to our relationship with the county to the city is the partnerships that we have on these different projects.

Currently, we're spanning all over the county with you guys as our county seat in the top 10 city now, as the city of Fort Worth, on billions of dollars worth of projects, and having a plan towards those projects goes so much further for those dollars for those projects that we're trying to deliver to the citizens of this city.

So, couldn't be more proud of this.

I I really uh dug into that document, and one of the key things that I found from it is that the focus that it puts on building systems, not just project by project.

It's a huge difference between that.

We can chase our tails a lot on that stuff.

So couldn't be more proud to work with you guys across different departments.

Congratulations to the TPW team, Kelly and Lauren over there, and then all the your team over there with your city management team.

So just happy to help, uh, ready to plug in and congratulations.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Rusty Fuller, followed by Victor Vandergriff.

Good evening, Mayor and Council.

Good evening.

Welcome, Councilman Jameson.

I'm Rusty Fuller, and I was a member of the community advisory Committee for the development of the Master Transportation Plan, corporate safety plan, or the comprehensive safety plan, and the comprehensive plan overall.

All that to say is I've had the opportunity to see how the development of the various plans have been built on one another, and they have.

Tonight you are voting on an excellent analysis that has incorporated the past effort of the Master Thoroughfare Plan and the Active Transportation Plan.

The big difference that I am excited about is that there is an implementation strategy and plan to guide bond and annual spending.

The guides are such the guidelines are such that they provide flexibility to implement these strategies as this city evolves in ways that are yet to be imagined.

It incorporates plans for from surrounding cities and counties again to allow for growth depending on how it happens.

TechStot is tied into this plan.

Finally but not least are the implementation of safer roads for drivers, cyclists, and for pedestrians.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Victor Vandegreth, followed by Tara Crawford.

Apologize for being a little casual.

I'm putting on a summit tomorrow, so we're we're a little busy, but I could not take the opportunity and not come here today to talk to you about this plan that you've developed.

Between Lauren Kelly and the entire staff, they've really put together a solid book and a path towards during the future.

There's a lot of things to yet to come, but it's a great start and a great finish to where this city I think will explode.

And I'd like you to look at your neighbor.

Again, I apologize for my voice talking too much today.

I'd like to look at your neighbor to the east in a plan that was developed there 10 years ago.

And in that plan, we laid out how that city could envision and move forward.

And ironically, as sports teams and other things, City Hall are moving out all around it, it's moving in.

Just in the last couple of months, the second deck park got opened up.

And just recently, the canyon has received full funding.

Those of you know to the south, but will correspond to the north and the two other freeways around it.

It's it's amazing how they've reached it to community.

And for you, I think the opportunity is that much better.

Not just restitch areas that are torn apart by roads or the river, but to put a community feel into downtown Fort Worth that will be something spectacular.

So my congratulations to the staff and good luck in moving it forward.

Good evening, Mayor and Council members.

My name is Tara Crawford.

I serve as Vice President of Planning for Trinity Metro, and I am here today in support of the city's first master transportation plan, and to recognize the outstanding partnership between the Transportation and Public Works Department and Trinity Metro.

Over the years, TPW has been a trusted and proactive partner as we have worked together to advance our shared transportation priorities.

That collaboration is reflected throughout this plan and aligns closely with the 10 priority transit mobility projects our organizations have jointly identified, including the Tex Rail Extinction to the Near South Side Medical District Area, the East Side Route 89 Rapid Transit Project, the downtown Central Station High Speed Rail Rail Hub, the Stockyards Connectivity Improvements, the Barrie and McCart Hub of Technology or HOTT Hot, Quarter Capital Projects, the Bus Stop Improvement Program, and our work to advance innovative first and last mile connections.

This plan strengthens regional coordination by aligning local investments with the work of Trinity Metro, NCT COG, TechSOT, and our regional partners, and improves access to transit through a complete network approach that connects people to jobs, education, health care, and other destinations.

And importantly, it prioritizes safety by incorporating safer street designs, crossings, and transit access improvements that benefit both riders and transit employees.

The Master Transportation Plan provides a strong framework for delivering the transportation system our growing city needs.

And Trinity Metro looks forward to continuing our partnership with TPW as these projects move from planning to implementation.

Thank you.

And we really do enjoy working with Kelly and Lauren and the team.

Thank you.

Thank you, Tara.

Council, that's the conclusion of our speakers on this item.

I see Lauren Preer there at the back.

Kelly Porter is here in the middle.

Either one of you want to say anything about your hard work on this project.

I'm both there.

Oh, Kelly's gonna stand up.

Come on down, Kelly.

Some will tell you that I actually started the plan before I got here because I interviewed on it, how I would approach this.

But I do want to say that I appreciate all of our partners over the last couple of years getting us to this uh performance-based uh plan and uh capital program.

Uh it really is going to be a road uh path forward and a roadmap for implementation.

I just showed Victor and the team the five inch binder of all the projects now that we have developed as part of this process.

I also want to state that this wasn't just a Kelly Porter and Laura Prieer thing.

This really was a full TPW process.

Every single division put their time into uh reviewing the plan, uh providing funding for the some of the work.

Um, this is really all hands on deck, and we really was a one-team one fort worth effort, and I really want to thank y'all for allowing us to do this type of work.

Kelly, if you were worked on this plan, do you mind standing up in the audience or several of you still here tonight?

Don't be shy.

There's quite a few people rushing.

I can see them, yeah, please.

Kevin, Victor, go, yeah.

Just know that your hard work does not go unrecognized by this body.

Every council member has been incredibly impressed by your hard work, Kelly, and congratulations to you and the entire team.

Thank you.

Council member back and then council member peoples.

Um, Kelly, Lauren, and all the TPW staff, um, thank you for this tremendous amount of work.

I know a thing or two about putting together a transportation plan.

I've done one or two in the course of my life, and I don't ever want to do them again, so thank you for doing that because it is not an easy job.

It's tedious work.

Um, there's a lot of push and pull, and I have been so impressed by what I've seen you put forward, not just a plan for us to dream by, but a plan for us to implement.

So thank you for that.

And with that, I enthusiastically move to approve.

Thank you, Councilburg Peoples.

Oh, Kelly and Lauren and TPW.

I think you know that great teams operate in the moment and fix things, but extraordinary teams have vision, and what you all have put together is clearly visionary.

And I cannot tell you enough about how excited I am about what you've done.

And since council member Beck stole the words out of my mouth that she moved to improve, I uh proudly second that motion.

Thank you.

Got a motion and a second on the floor.

Any other discussion from council?

Councilmember Florida, as you're good.

I just wanted to say again, ad nauseum.

Thanks again, Kelly, Lauren, your team for doing that.

I know not you work with council members, but also with community stakeholders, which I appreciate because a lot of my folks did have some good input.

Thank you.

Got a motion on the floor and a second, please vote.

Motion carries.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

Council as a reminder, ZC 25 184 and 205 were continued to December 8th.

That gets us to ZC 25-185.

And Mary, I believe we have one speaker.

I think three, maybe.

Um, yeah, Joseph Pasa.

Pasanisi.

Joseph, are you here?

You can correct my.

Okay.

Thank you, Joseph.

And Joseph will be followed by Kent De Cardenas.

Madam Mayor, Councilman, and ladies, thank you all very much for giving us another opportunity to talk about this.

We have, um, we are asking for a CUP for a zoning on a piece of property there off of Dean Road.

It is, we're we're wanting to take a small portion of a 28-acre tract and turn it into a area where we can do a permanent batch plant.

With all the growth and everything going on in the area, we feel that this isn't a perfect opportunity for a location.

It's right there off the rail track.

It isn't an area that's already zoned for it.

We just have to have a CUP for it.

We've met with staff, we've talked with all the different elements of it.

I've met with the council member, or we've spoken on the phone, not actually met, but we've talked on the phone.

Um we've agreed to add extra trees and to make sure that we put up a privacy fence around the sides of it that would be facing the community on the four acre, and then we would still have the remainder of the 28 acre around it.

Again, this is a allowed use in that area, and we are doing everything we can to help make sure that it is not an eyesore, and we're um looking at doing trees even around the perimeter of the 28 acre to help uh add an additional buffer on the side where the school is at, as well as the stuff along the um Dean Road, and I'm available for any questions or comments.

It's Kent De Cardinas, and Kent will be followed by Adrian Smith.

Um, if I were to write a sarcastic uh comedy skit about a city and uh uh in commenting on a racist approach uh to development, it would be what we're looking at right now.

Talking about putting a concrete batch plant on the site of a fertilizer plant that is right next to a school that has just been renamed Esperanza.

Uh I think really says a lot about uh Fort Worth and Fort Worth ISD.

Um I looked at the map, I pulled the lines.

I'm sure uh that this the city has done due diligence and seeing that the plant does meet the minimum of being one quarter of a mile away from the school, but I think we as a city could do better than that.

Um, and if this does get passed, I would encourage the owner of the property, the the developer, the business owner, to do to go above and beyond what is necessary to mitigate any pollution, uh, to mitigate any uh ill effects uh of the neighboring residential community as well as the school because you may have a very profitable business with this concrete batch plant, but it will not be the customers who are paying the bill, it will be the children uh and their future medical uh issues that will be paying the bill.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Adrian Smith.

When representation no longer represents you, what do you do?

When the livelihoods of many are placed in jeopardy for the very thing that holds no true value, what do you do?

I don't have all of the answers for some of the things that my mind ponders at times, but I have lived long enough to know that not doing anything anything isn't the answer.

To the people of District 2.

It is high past time that you reevaluate the representation that has that's been as it relates to your livelihoods.

Far too many developers and business interests have been given favorable concessions against the better good of your livelihoods.

Thus while now you are faced with urgent danger, urgent danger concerning the God-given error, you breathe freely.

There's no price tag on that.

It's free.

God gave us that.

Oh.

Oh, and the children of the elementary school who will be on the direct path of this disgusting life altering concrete batch plant.

May you reach the full potential in life that life intends for you.

Mr.

Flores, we visited this, maybe maybe a council meeting one or two back.

You uh you made it a point to remind me, I say me because I'm the only one who got up to speak in opposition against this.

Uh you made a point to remind me of the distance that the school is from this particular location.

But Mr.

Flores, one thing you did not uh speak on was the importance of how the air moves and operates.

And you know what?

No one can speak on it.

Even the Bible tells us that no one could understand how the air moves and operates, the wind, you know, etc.

No one knows.

But one thing for sure, Mr.

Flores, the wind, when it blows, it blows.

It blows in every direction.

And with this concrete batch plant, sir, and all of the nasty, disgusting things that would come from it, it's going to blow into the into that community, sir.

Surround the community.

And those children, when they're on the playground trying to enjoy themselves, you know, just being kids, you know, just being innocent, you know, and just trying to enjoy life.

What will happen to their little bodies, you know, when they take on these elements?

No one knows.

No one knows.

So, Mr.

Flores, yes, this is a plea to the last of our speakers.

Counsel, Councilmember Flores.

Thank you, Mayor.

I want to say that District 2 residents have been well informed by myself and staff on the particulars of this uh proposal at the regular meetings.

Uh, they have communicated with both staff and myself and made their uh concerns known to me.

Uh, let me say in short that I move to deny ZC 25185 because I believe a permanent batch plant is not compatible at this particular location, given its immediate adjacency to residential and an elementary school.

And a motion and a second council, please vote.

Motion carries.

Next is ZC-26-009.

Councilmember Nettles.

All right.

Um the applicant is here.

Come on, come on.

We continue this case uh for 30 days.

Uh if you can kind of just articulate, I know I do have the letter from Glenn um Glenn Crest, but if you can kind of articulate uh the project and the businesses that are going to come to that you're looking to come to this area, which are development.

All right.

It's rental property that I'm putting up.

Yes, sir.

But the uh the first renter that I have for the company is gonna be a adult rehab family uh adult care daycare center and kids educational center.

Okay, so I I did have the uh zoning recommendation from uh Glenn Crest, and I believe when I looked at the amend PD, all the uses that Glencrest has requested not to be used.

I think daycraft was one of them, but then they said they would change it.

They will change that.

So um I'm going to motion to approve.

Thank you for coming down today.

Got a motion on the floor.

My motion and a second.

Any other discussion?

Please vote.

Motion carries.

Next is ZC-26-015.

Mayor, we have two speakers.

We have two speakers on this item.

Our first is Cesar Gonzalez, followed by Charlotte Tobias.

As forward funding goals a period of rapid expansion, it is important that our land use policies reflect the commitment to flexible urban development.

I believe the transition to B-zoning offers substantial benefit for both the community and the city at large.

Expanding affordable housing option allows resident residents of various socioeconomic backgrounds to access the zero areas of the city without displacing existing residents at a time when options are urgently needed.

Let me show you a demographic landscape of the neighborhood.

It is a two-block neighborhood sandwiched between commercial zoning.

It's not your typical neighborhood.

The area in purple is 18 Wheeler parking.

The area red is a bar and nightclub.

The area in blue is Trinity water treatment facility.

The orange area is a cellular antenna tower.

In this two block neighborhood, there's mostly AG with some A5 and even R1 zoning.

I calculate there are seventeen rentals.

I got this number by seeing that the owner contact address is different than the house address.

H two uh on the same street as proposed area, there's mostly older homes from the nineteen fifty with gravel driveways, and uh two unlivable houses and even a mobile home.

And uh there's a house, there's a lot with two detached houses on it, and there's three new duplexes, and uh two houses with five uh footbackyards and on small lots.

I own the house uh uh south of the proposed lot.

On the other street behind me, there's a mechanic shop and the rest of the homes are habitat for humanity.

We all know how they look.

In conclusion, this area has long been intended to fulfill the housing needs of Fort Worth residents.

I think that these duplexes will offer just that in an area that won't be negatively impacted, giving the area positive contribution, making this small small neighborhood more desirable to live in.

Well, I don't think duplexes in any neighborhood is positive, in this neighborhood it is.

I've seen it firsthand with the do new duplexes already there, giving the area a long needed gentrification.

I think that the zoning commission's unanimous recommendation uh of approval is reasonable.

Thank you.

Good evening, Mayor Parker and um to my representative, Ms.

Never Peoples.

I live in that community and no, we don't want those.

And we're more than a two-block.

Okay.

So I've lived there all my life, and um that's just not acceptable.

We've always been left out in the cold about everything that we need to do in that community.

We have fought like hell to get what we have.

And I am here also on behalf of my own property that the city keeps harassing me about.

I'm the one that's on George Court that's at the end of the street that they keep coming by because the water department that's right next door to me wants to take my property, and I'm not giving it.

If they want my property, three million dollars.

If you can't come up with three million dollars, leave me alone.

Okay.

Now, um, city came out on Friday.

I have a Volvo that I am in the process of repairing.

He told me if I didn't move it in 30 days, that it would be towed away.

Well, if you have to come to my house, you have to come down both of those streets.

Most of the people on those streets have more than three or four cars that are not operable, but you're gonna come all the way down to the end of the street to my property to tell me that you're gonna do this, that, and the other for mine, because the water department needs a place to put more equipment.

So it's been over 71 years, and I, as their youngest child of nine, am not willing to give the city or anybody else anything.

My parents fought bled and died for that piece of property, and it's gonna stay in the Tobias family.

So if the city would stop harassing me and leave me alone, we'll be okay.

But we do not want those uh duplexes, and no, we don't need them, and yes, we are bigger than a two-street that he just described.

Councilmember Peoples, that's the last of our speakers on this item.

So thank you, Mayor.

So let me just say that the reason we delayed this case was to give the applicant a chance, Mr.

Gonzalez, a chance to meet with the community and the residents who live there, and that has not happened.

And I would also tell you that Mr.

Gonzalez just made my case for me.

Just because an area appears one way, doesn't mean that it has to stay that way.

We are working hard with the residents of Moja Valley to improve the quality of this historic community, the lives of the residents there.

And I would tell you, Mr.

Gonzalez, I mean, your comment that uh the homes that um are there, that's just how they look.

Uh, we all know how they look.

No, we don't.

There are many proud residents in that community who have property and they take care of their property, and they want better.

They want to see more uh houses that are there, single family houses.

And so our city staff that I is who are very competent and wonderful, said the land use compatibility, the request change is not compatible, the comprehensive plan map consistently, the request change is not consistent, the comprehensive plan map policy consistency, the request to change is not consistent.

Our staff that I trust recommended denial, and so I'm going to move that we deny this request.

Please vote.

Motion to deny passes.

Next is ZC-26-017.

We have one speaker on this item.

Council member Hill, Councilman Hall, but I believe you're continuing this item.

Yes, uh Mayor, I did have an opportunity to speak with the applicant, and so I would like to make a motion to continue ZC 26017 and to the August 11th zoning meeting.

Got a motion and a second council.

Please vote.

Motion carries.

Next is ZC-26-040.

We have one speaker on this item, Dr.

Hall, and to my knowledge, there is no opposition.

Thank you, Mayor.

I'd like to make a motion to approve ZC 26040.

And a motion and a second.

Please vote.

Motion carries.

Next is ZC-26-Z039.

Councilmore Flores.

We have one speaker only.

If there's opposition, to my knowledge.

There is none.

Thank you, Mayor.

On case ZZ 26039.

I make a motion to approve as amended by the zoning commission.

Motion and a second.

Council, please vote.

Motion carries.

Next is SP-26-006.

We have no speakers on this item.

Councilmember Jameson.

And with approval from city staff, and by a vote of 10 to 1, 10 to 0 and support from zoning commission, I move to approve.

And a motion and a second, please vote.

Motion carries.

Next is ZC-25-206.

Councilman Martinez, we have one speaker on this item.

Only stopped in my knowledge, there is none.

Thank you, Mayor.

So I'm actually excited about this development, not only because it is going to be developing a vacant lot, but it's going to be mitigating the issues that can occur with vacant lots or with absentee property owners.

So this development will bring jobs, food and beverage option, and it will be a catalyst for future improvements.

So I will be upholding the zoning commission's recommendation and motion to approve.

Got a motion and a second.

Council, please vote.

Motion carries.

Next is ZC-26-013.

Councilmember Flores.

There are two speakers on this item.

No opposition to my knowledge.

Right.

Thank you, Mayor.

On KCZ 26-013, motion to approve.

Enthusiastically, and I also wish uh continued success to the OSDA team.

Got a motion and a second, please vote.

Motion carries.

Next is ZC-26-048.

Councilmanettles, we have four speakers on this item.

The first is Brandon Ostemeyer, followed by Stephen Epstein.

Hello, I'm Brandon Osmeyer.

I'm with Quick Trip.

I'm a real estate project manager.

Uh what we're proposing next to our existing Quick Trip is a bubble bath car wash.

It's an extension of what Crick Trip already is.

We'll vote here.

Sorry about that.

Part of what bubble bath we do here is we're going to serve the community, the next generation, and we support our neighbors, protecting our planet as best we can with any sort of car wash.

Each one of these uh locations will create 15 well-paying jobs for the community, and with QuickTrip, we promote within 90% of our people are promoted from store level from high school at 16 years old all the way up into construction, real estate, and IT.

Well BAF missed 100% of the retail profits from the grand opening weekend to a local charity, which we can work out with the community at any time.

We also work with local officials, continue to help serving the community as we go.

All locations have the latest water reclamation systems and recycling system.

We'd reduce water usage 14 to 22 gallons per freshwater vehicle.

The average home uses about 116 gallons washing the car at the house, and that's under 20 minutes.

Reclaim water is used to lubricate brushes and rinse the vehicles.

We're proud to use biodegradable soaps and waxes provided by national car uh car wash solutions.

The blowers do not stay on for the duration of the work day.

They only operate when there's a car at the end that needs to be dried.

We close when the sun goes down as our customers don't wash at night.

We can close our dryers in the building to reduce noise pollution also, and we are less than 80 decibels at the street.

Uh we did go to some of the people from the P and Z that had opposition to us directly behind us, were able to get one person support directly behind us and then talk to two people that uh were opposed to us and actually show them what we were wanting to do and go from there and get their letter or support actually coming into the council here.

On top of that, we did go through and work with the uh manager at our local quick trip and go around and receive 63 other letters of support in the community in the neighborhood.

This is the basic site plan of what we've uh proposing here.

We did take from the P and Z and from talking to the residents.

We're gonna add an eight foot stone wall in the back and add uh additional landscaping.

Additional landscaping back there to block any of the stuff in the vacuums from the neighborhood right there.

Want to take the time and uh think everybody you can kind of see what the proposed look like here is for our building, and appreciate everybody, Mr.

Nittles for Pastor Noodles for meeting with us and everybody here, council members and the mayor for taking their time tonight.

Councilor Nettles, our next speaker is Stephen Epstein, followed by Amelia Wheeler.

My name is Steve Epstein.

I'm from the Hallmark Canada Highland Terrace Neighborhood Association, but I have the opportunity tonight to speak for the uh mayor and the um city secretary, uh Mayor Bartley and City Secretary Gamboa who are here.

Unfortunately, they missed the deadline for speaking.

They wanted to speak on behalf of their city, but they weren't able to.

I asked them what points they wanted me to make, and they're very concerned about the noise level that is facing the residents.

They also appreciated the city staff report uh done uh that recommends denial of this request because it's an incompatible use and it doesn't meet the comprehensive plan.

Uh in addition, they did their research and found they talked to a uh car wash owner in our area um on Sycamore School Road, and he said to them that sales tax, he does not pay sales taxes.

And we would hope in our area, our city needs revenue.

We would like a we we support commercial development, but we we would like a business that's gonna provide sales tax revenue to our city to help us and not harm the residents, and we fully support the city staff report that was done in an excellent manner.

And my neighbor, uh president of our neighborhood association is going to be speaking next, so I'll stop now.

Our next speaker is Amelia Wheeler, followed by Adrian Smith.

Uh good evening, Mayor and Council.

My name is Amelia Wheeler.

I am the president of the Hallmark Camelot Highland Terrace Neighborhood Association.

I'm speaking on behalf of the association in opposition to CC 26048.

Our association has engaged extensively with the applicant.

We met with Quick Trip representatives, held special neighborhood meeting, provided residents an opportunity to act questions directly of the applicant.

Following that process, the association voted unanimously to oppose this rezoning request.

The question before council is not whether Quick Trip is a good operator.

The question is whether a high-intensity commercial car wash is appropriate at this specific location.

City staff reviewed this proposal and recommended denial based on incompatibility with adjacent residential uses and inconsistency with the city's comprehensive plan.

That conclusion is grounded in land use relationship and proximity, not preference.

The record reflects homes approximately 50 feet from the site, more than 20 homes within 300 feet, the comprehensive plan is intended to a nearby K-12 school environment.

These are precisely the conditions recommendation, however, place significant weight on existing corridor traffic, projected economic benefits, and the idea that standard buffering can adequately address impacts.

Well, those factors are part of the discussion, they do not resolve the central zoning question.

Whether this high-intensity use is compatible when placed immediately adjacent to established residential neighborhoods and schools.

Traffic volume on a roadway does not by itself determine compatibility under the city's adopted planning framework.

Nor does economic activity override those compatibility standards.

The comprehensive plan establishes clear protections for residential adjacency, and those protections are not displaced by corridor activity or projected economic benefit.

The applicant's proposed mitigation, landscaping setbacks, and typical buffering does not address the fundamental issue identified by staff, continuous noise and activity generated by a high volume car wash and vacuum operation directly adjacent to residential property and a nearby school environment.

These are not incidental impacts, they are defining operational characteristics of the use.

We ask council to be cautious about treating intensity as inevitability.

The fact that traffic exists on a roadway is not the same as concluding that any additional high intensity use adjacent to homes is appropriate.

The question is not whether growth is occurring, but whether this specific use is appropriately cited given its immediate impacts.

Council denied a similar car wash proposal for the same site in 2021, the ZC21146, and the considerations have not substantially changed.

We also note that the most directly affected residents include households in Edgecliffe Village, including properties directly back up to the site.

Their objections reflect consistent concern about adjacency and livability impacts across municipality boundaries.

This is not opposition to Quick Trip as a company nor to development in general.

As my cohort Steve said, we are in favor of commercial development that is allowed by right under the existing zoning.

Thank you.

Councilor Nettles, that's the conclusion of our speakers on this.

Oh, hold it.

Well, I'm sorry, Adrian.

Can't wait.

I will begin by list by starting off with good neighbor versus bad neighbor.

And when I say good neighbor versus bad neighbor, the first company I think of is Walmart and how it started, how Walmart started off small.

But when Walmart became super, it moved in communities and pushed smaller businesses out of business because of its size and what it had to offer.

Do I consider quick trip or bad neighbor?

I would say I'll just say it's a thin line with that with that question.

But Quick Trip operates the same way.

It typically moves in areas that already have uh service stations operating for a particular community, takes over a great uh land mass, and boom, the service uh stations that are already there or have been there for years are typically pushed out of business.

I say that to say this.

Regardless of how the zoning commission votes, whether for or against an item you all remember the council has the final say.

So don't get hung up on how the zone commission votes.

The council has the final say.

Now, Quick Trip wants to put a car wash in this particular location.

Uh that's right will be right next to its store.

You know what's right across from Quick Trip at this particular location?

B and K court wash.

There's already a car wash at the intersection.

Already a car wash at the intersection and walking a distance.

What is at this proposed site?

You know what else is in that area?

White Washer Express car wash is to the south at 2100 Sycamore School Road.

There's two car washes.

You know what else is in this location in this area, particularly?

Shammy's car wash.

It's to the southwest at 7200 avenue.

So that's a total of three car washes already in flux into one community.

Now, this typically happens in black and brown communities, you know, where the uh zoning is laxed, so a person could bring a business into a community and operate it without no restrictions.

Case in point.

If I have a dry cleaners and I'm serving my community, guess what you can do?

You can bring a dry cleaner and put it right across the street from my dry cleaner because zoning is so laxed.

It typically happens in black and brown communities.

It doesn't happen in communities of Florence.

Quick trip.

Please deny with prejudice.

Thank you.

Counselor Nettles, that's the conclusion of our speakers.

Thank you.

Um I want to talk to a few things.

Thank you, Adrian.

Good points.

I think you should run for council one day and help us out up here.

Um I want to talk a little bit about this zoning case, and there's a couple of things that I'm dealing with here.

It's because I have worked with a Hallmark Neighborhood Association, and I was here in 2021 when we did deny that car wash.

And times were different at that time.

We have not adapted a policy over automatic car washes at that time, as well as it was an individual user who was bringing a car wash.

And so we did deny that in preparation, make sure that we can put some things into place to protect residents from automatic car washes.

And so I do remember when we did do that.

Here today we have a quick trip who has been on that corner for I think some of 20 plus years, operating uh their gas station, and I have worked intensively with the um charter school next door uh to the car wash, and we have worked with our NPO because we have had uh a lot of people coming over to QT.

Uh we haven't had the security that we need, and so at this time the charter school has also in favor of this to allow QT to expand and take more ownership of the land to bring more protection to that area.

Also, I have had opportunity to uh go and look at, I believe this has happened in district two.

Uh Carlos Flores has a QT with a bubble bath car wash to it, had opportunity to look at that as well to see how it can affect a neighborhood.

Now, uh, as it relates to Hallmark, uh there is an extensive buffer uh to uh the car wash cross out to Mesa land before you actually get into the neighborhood association.

Uh one of the issues that came up was Edge Cliff, uh neighborhood, and I have three letters here from Edgecliffe uh bagging up to a neighborshood saying they are not opposed of the car wash, and so along with 63 letters, and so um I believe that QT has been good neighbors and that they are a company uh they believe investing back into the communities, and so today I am going to uh support the zoning commission recommendation and motion to approve for um ZC 26048.

Motion carries.

Next is ZC-26-049.

We have one speaker on this item, Dr.

Hall, Abby Samu.

Some Munu, and I believe there is no opposition.

Alright, Mayor, um, in regards to case number DC 26049, I'm recommending for approval.

Or a motion and a second, please vote.

Motion carries.

Next is ZC-26-052.

Councilman Jameson, we have one speaker on this item, Joe LaCroix, there's no opposition.

Enthusiastically, uh move to approve.

And a motion and a second council, please vote.

Motion carries.

Next is ZC 26 053.

We have one speaker on this item.

Consortials, Rayojeski, only if there's opposition.

Oh, I don't think he's here.

I did uh speak with him.

We want to continue this case for six of days until August the 11th.

Motion and second, please vote.

Motion carries.

Next is ZC-26-054.

Councilmember Flores, we have two speakers on this item.

Thank you, Mayor.

Before I make my motion, I want to cover some just some ground that I think is necessary contextually.

I know that I've uh spoken to my fellow council members on this.

This is a first of its kind proposal in the stockyards, but not surprising that we need this kind of use.

It's for structured parking.

Design and use were carefully considered and discussed for several weeks, in fact.

Stockyards is experiencing tremendous success, and with more than 10 million visitors each year, they need a place to park.

Thank you, Paul, for attending.

Kirby Smith's leadership on the SI, the Letty's family, and their ongoing commitment to the success of the stockyards.

Shannon Beardon and Dunway and Associates, Susan Medina, and the stockyard stakeholders who gave their insightful and useful input during these conversations.

Going forward, because of the rapid growth in the stockyards, I have asked Fort Worth Stockyards Inc.

to begin the work of identifying and prioritizing items in the stockyards form-based code that will require and require now updating in collaboration with city staff and a to-be-determined uh form-based code consultant.

Now I want to be mindful of uh Paul being here.

I want to give him the opportunity to say a brief uh comment if you would like Paul.

I'll give you that opportunity.

Good evening, Mayor, Councilmembers.

Pull the mic up closer to you, Paul.

Test.

There you go.

Mayor, Council members, thank you.

Uh councilmember, Mayor Pro Tem Flores.

Thank you for your leadership.

And I just wanted to say that we did spend a lot of time discussing this issue.

It was brought to my board.

Uh there was a denial that first came up by my board.

It was concerned with form and function.

Uh a lot had to do with height and scale.

Uh there was a request for Mayor Pro Tem to hold a meeting at council.

I'm sorry, at City Hall.

And uh that was honored.

There was a good discussion with the owners and uh Dunaway, the architect firm.

Uh I think it was over two hours.

Good uh lot of dialogue.

Uh question of the uh applicant, would they consider uh reducing the height, the top floor 36 spaces, and what that could do.

They came back and reported two days later that the engineering could be done, but financially it would kill the deal.

So uh that was brought back to my whole board through my um uh Kirby Smith, our chair, and we had 12 votes in support of the project.

So I just wanted to lay out the facts that uh Stockyard Inc.

was uh very much engaged in following and uh tracking this.

Um there's been a lot of support from the open house meeting that they had for the use.

Uh there was quite a bit of discussion on that form and function.

Thank you very much, sir.

All right, thank you, Paul.

With that, make a motion to approve uh the Franklin Letty structured parking garage with commercial use on the ground floor.

Motion carries.

Next is ZC-26-057.

We have no speakers on this item, Council.

Okay, Councilmember Beck.

I move to approve ZC 26-057 with the following amendments.

Amend section 5.159 subsect subsection C to require sites of one acre or larger zoned E, neighborhood commercial or ER neighborhood commercial restricted to comply with the urban forestry requirements in section 6.302 of the zoning ordinance.

And amend section 5.159 and the exhibit appendices to one remove all references to land use survey and replace with adjacent land use map.

And two, replace the existing language under land use survey with the following language.

As part of the submission of a permit application, the applicant shall submit a map showing all land uses and businesses located within 1,000 feet of the proposed mixed use residential or multifamily residential development.

Can a motion and a second council, please vote.

Motion carries.

Next is ZC-26-058.

We have no speakers on this item, Council.

Motion and a second council, please vote.

Motion carries.

Next is MNC 26-0454.

Motion and a second, please vote.

Motion carries.

Next is MNC 26-0475.

Councilmember Hill.

Thank you.

The property interests to be acquired are described by meets and bounds and depicted by survey exhibits attached to this mayor and council communication.

The first record vote applies to all units of the property to be condemned, and the minutes shall reflect that the first vote applies to all units.

Next is MNC 26-0477.

Councilmore Jameson.

I move that Fort Worth City Council adopt the resolution authorizing the use of the power of imminent domain to acquire one thousand 178,456 square feet and permanent water main easement rights and 299,548 square feet for temporary construction easement rights from real property owned by uh Knox Street Partners Number 13.

LTD owners of property located at the southeast corner of Blue Mound Road West and Hicks Avondale School Road and along the south side of Blue Mound Road West, approximately 100 feet, 160 feet west of Holson Trail, City of the Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, and situated in the James Riley Survey, Abstract Number 1268, and the Memphis El Paso and Pacific Railroad Survey.

Abstract number 1111, City of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, and Wellington Homeowners Association, owners of the property located at 1533, Stowers Trail, City of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, being lot 1x block 16 of the Wellington Edition, in addition to the City of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, and Priscilla, Patsy Porter Speed, Jarvis H.

Porter, Mary Sue Rabe, and Joe Whitley Wilder, Senior Trustee of the Joe Whitley Wilder, Senior, and Ann Porter Wildley Family Trust, as created under the last will and testament of Ann Porter Wilder, owners of property located at 11996, Willow Springs Road, City of Fort Worth, Terrant County, Texas, situated in the James Riley Survey Abstract Number 1268, City of Fort Worth, Terrant County, Texas, and Houston Cobart Salvage Auto Auctions Limited Partnership, owners of property located at 100 and 1020 Blue Mound Road, City of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, and situated in the James Riley survey abstract number 1268, City of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas.

RDS Opportunity Fund LLC, owners of the property located at 880 Blue Mound Road, City of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, and being situated in the James Riley Survey, Abstract Number 1268, City of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, and Houston Cobart Salvage Auto Auctions Limited Partnership, owners of property located at 841 Blue Mound Road, City of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, and situated in the James Riley Survey Abstract 1268, City of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, and Keith Sturgeon, owner of the property located at 834 Blue Mound Road, City of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, and being situated in the James Riley Survey, Abstract Number 1268, City of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, and Jarvis Porter, Ann Porter Wilder, Mary Sue Porter, Rabe, Mary S.

Porter Rave, and Priscilla Jane Porter Speed, owners of the property located at 820 Blue Mound Road West, City of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, and being situated in the James Riley survey, abstract number 1268, City of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, and HBC Wellington North Development Corporation, owner of the property located at the northwest corner of Sabright Trail and Hudson Holson Trail, City of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, and being situated in the James Riley Survey, Abstract Number 1268, and the Memphis El Paso Pacific Rail Survey, Abstract Number 1111, City of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, and Ron Sturgeon Real Estate LP, owner of the property located at 850 Blue Mound Road, City of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, and being situated in the James Riley survey, abstract number 1268, City of the Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, and North Side 3, 54 inch water transmission main phase four project will move potable water from the Eagle Mountain Water Treatment Plant to our retail customers in North Fort Worth, as well as wholesale water customers that border the northern city limits.

Timely completion of this project is necessary to improve the water system reliability and support continued growth.

The property interest to be acquired is the described by meets and bounds and depicted by survey exhibits attached to this mayor and council communication.

The first record vote applies to all units of the property to be condemned, and then it shall reflect the first vote applies to all units.

Good job, Credit.

Didn't need to read all that.

That was just they were punking you for your first imminent domain.

Yeah.

You only needed to read the first paragraph.

Okay.

Well, I'm just kidding.

I'm not kidding, but good luck.

You did a good job.

Motion and a second.

Please vote.

Motion carries.

Next is MNC 26-0479.

Councilmember Peoples.

Chris, Macy and I weren't that long, so they were.

That was a right of initiation.

But Mayor and Council, I moved that the Fort Worth City Council adopt the resolution authorizing use of the power of Emmanuel Domain to acquire 475 square feet of permanent sanitary sewer easement rights owned by Maria Rojero, owner of the property located at 4604 Burton Avenue, City of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, and being part of Loc 10 of Block 7 of the Edgewood Terrace Edition, an addition in the City of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, and 469 square feet of permanent sanitary sewer easement rights owned by Home Your Way LLC, owners of property located at 4600 Burton Avenue, City of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, and being part of lot nine, block seven of the Edgewood Terrace Edition, in addition to the City of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas.

The land rights in the subject properties are needed for a public use for the 2022 bond year one contract for project to replace sanitary sewer main L 4508, located between Edgewood Terrace and Crouch Avenue from Burton Avenue to East Berry Street.

The proposed sewer line will replace an existing deteriorated eight-inch clay pipe that currently runs beneath the building.

The required easements will allow for the construction, operation, and maintenance of the sewer line.

The property interests to be acquired are described by meets and bounds and depicted by survey exhibits attached to this mayor and council communication.

The first record votes applies to all units of property to be condemned, and the minutes shall reflect that the first vote applies to all units.

Next is MNC 26-0463.

Councilmember Hill.

Okay.

First of all, I want to thank Matt Homan, Matt Carter.

I saw some members of the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo and the Will Rogers Coliseum.

Thank you so much for your work on this qualified management agreement.

I look forward to it.

I know it's going to be as successful as the Fort Worth Zoo, the Tannett Gardens, and the Caltown Coliseum and City Staff.

Y'all been working on this, I think, since 2019.

So thank you so much for your hard work on this as well.

Move to approve.

Got a motion and a second council.

Please vote.

Councilmember Peoples.

I thought we were going to have a presentation on this.

Did I miss it?

We did.

Last week.

Okay.

Any other discussion from council?

If not, please vote.

Deborah, I think you gotta vote.

No, I know.

Thank you.

Okay.

Motion carries.

Next is MNC 26-0489.

Councilmember Flores.

Move to approve.

A motion and a second.

Motion carries.

Mayor and Council that concludes the action items and gets us to public comment.

Thank you.

Our first speaker is David Rodriguez, followed by Emily Dial.

All right.

So I'm going to be speaking in regards to the data center that's proposed.

I know it'd been moved to December 8th, but either way, I think it still needs to be discussed.

So the world becomes a better place when people plant trees whose shade they know that they will never sit in.

And if there's ever a definition of what you would consider a native Texan, I mean, I feel like trees pretty much fit the bill.

They've been here for way longer than we have, and they actively have been influenced and influenced the actual environment of which we live in right now.

However, the same cannot be said for data centers.

Data centers are inert, they actively cause the destruction of the land and any resource that trees could provide data centers essentially create value out of thin air and just trickle it upwards to a couple of billionaires.

Now, on that June 2nd meeting where y'all got all the information, I kept hearing this rhetoric about y'all are trying to do what's best for the community, y'all are trying to figure out the safest ways to approach the environmental regulations, and it's all it's all a balancing act, except that as I stated before, one side of this uh pendulum is weighted for an immense amount of money to be made for Mr.

Rhett Bennett while communities of color and communities that have come out and actively spoken out against this, and I've told y'all that they don't want these data centers.

Instead, y'all just go, well, I mean, your kids might get asthma.

Okay, well, we'll make that decision.

All right.

So, and along this line, my concern is that really should I even bother speaking to y'all?

Should I be speaking to y'all or should I be speaking to Rhett Bennett?

Because he spent 46,000 on y'all.

I'm sorry that I cannot give you half of my yearly salary to try and influence y'all's behavior.

All I can do is show up as a member and a constituent of the people to voice my concerns.

So, and really quite frankly, I don't want to and I know like a big concern is that y'all don't have the legal authority to do anything, but Mr.

Carlos Flores, whenever Cesar Chavez, you got those sign toppers knocked down, you acted extrajudicially judicially.

You listened to the people today that they didn't want this concrete plant by an elementary school, and you agreed with them.

So let me see some of that heat for this data center.

And the same action, again, someone else today voted to deny that duplex or missed different people's you voted to deny the duplex.

I want to see some of that heat for this data center.

Because quite frankly, if you eight members are not gonna vote or abstain, and you're just gonna allow yourselves to collect all of this money, you will show that Fort Worth is not a democracy, but is it in fact a plutocracy, a government for the wealthy?

Our next speaker is Emily Dial.

Emily will be followed by Christy Crager.

I'm also here to talk about the data center moratorium.

I understand that y'all are not the sole authority for the energy grid, air quality, and utilities, but you are responsible for the consequences accrued by allowing the data centers into our community.

We don't want best in class developments if best in class is still a net negative.

First, Ms.

Beck made a great point and was absolutely right to question why we're offering them at tax incentives in the first place.

Would property taxes be included?

How do incentives factor into the projected data center revenue?

We've been provided the gross property tax revenue, but what is the net revenue after incentives, upfront investments, and other costs to the community are factored in?

I'll skip the over proliferation or overbuilt infrastructure, except to say that those are very real concerns that need to be thoroughly evaluated and addressed.

And the current proposals I feel are not sufficient to address those problems.

Noise pollution is already a problem in Fort Worth.

One not, we can all admit is not perfectly enforced.

How can we trust that you will enforce regul those regulations on data centers?

Data centers across the country are brazenly defying environmental laws.

Our legislature and the regulatory body cited at the working meeting are responsible for many of our concerns, don't have the capacity to hold data centers accountable.

TCEQ has 10-year-old enforcement cases.

10 years of you and your children breathing NOX and breathing PM 2.5.

These don't leave the atmosphere, they infect our already poor air quality.

Have you taken into account the rise in health care costs that will result in the community?

It's not just local regulation that's behind.

It's the entire states.

A moratorium isn't the cause of overdue regulations.

Allowing the development of multiple data centers across the state without regulating them is why we have overdue regulations.

I also would like to push back on the inevitable regional data center development brought up during the working meeting.

The groundswell of public outcry, the growing environmental concerns as we learn more about their impact, the resource strains across the country.

These aren't signs of inevitability.

Our land is finite.

Our energy is finite.

Our air is finite.

Our lives are finite.

We do not have enough information to meaningfully regulate these data centers, let alone enforce compliance from a local or state level.

Look at the at the what Sarding polled in Abilene, the small first big later approach.

There is no recourse for us as now.

We need a moratorium precisely for this reason.

Christy Krager, followed by Bob Willoughby.

Christy Krager, followed by Bob Willoughby.

My name is Eric Krieger.

My wife is Christy.

I'm here as a proxy for Conley Brewer.

And he has asked, I believe he has a video that needs to be shown.

Mayor and Council members, good evening.

My name is Conley Brewer, and I'm a resident of District 6.

I regret that circumstances dictate that I cannot be there with you in person.

I want to give a very big heartfelt thanks to Miss Krieger for being here in my place.

I have spent more than 8,000 hours in the cockpit flying everything from regional jets to Boeing 747s.

In aviation, when a crisis develops, you don't panic and you don't reach for shortcut.

You steady your hands, focus on what matters most, and then you cut everything that does not serve the mission.

That discipline is not optional.

It is required.

Fort Worth faces a 49.3 million budget shortfall instead of a top to bottom review of discretionary spending, the city's response is to propose a new permanent street maintenance fee added directly onto residents' water bills.

Just last month, taxpayers approved the largest bomb package in city history.

845 million.

More than half of it, 511 million, was specifically designated for streets and mobility infrastructure.

That ink is barely dry on that vote.

And now the city is coming back to those same families asking for another monthly fee for roads.

Many residents in Southwest Fort Worth feel like this is a bait and switch.

In my own home, budget triage is something I live with every day, as I've shared with you before.

My wife Dawn was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's at just 48 years old, and I am now her full-time caretaker.

When our finances tighten, we do what families across the city do.

We separate wants from needs.

At our kitchen table, we ask three very simple questions.

What does Don need to be safe?

What does she need to be cared for?

And most importantly, what does she need to be loved?

Everything else, every want, every convenience, they all get put aside.

That's what responsibility looks like, and that's what love requires.

I believe this council should live by that same standard.

Public service is about stewardship, because I believe so strongly in that.

I've said that if I were sitting at that dais, I would donate 100% of the increased city council's salary, every single dollar, every single month, directly to Mills on the wheels of Tarrett County to support our homebound seniors.

If we expect our neighbors to tighten their belts, our leaders must be willing to do the same.

Public safety, clean water, and reliable infrastructure.

These are not luxuries.

They are needs, and they are our needs.

Everything else is just a want.

If $511 million for streets is not enough to stabilize our roads, then the problem is not the taxpayer, the problem is priorities.

I respectfully urge this council to reject the new street maintenance fee and instead conduct the kind of disciplined budgeting that Fort Worth families are already forced to practice every single day.

Thank you for your time and for your service to our city.

Our next speaker is Bob Willoughby, followed by Sarah Bradford.

Yes, she may, Councilman Nettles.

Okay, I just want to take a point.

I just want to take a point of privilege.

I know that uh we have not allowed um agreed speakers.

You know what going with this.

Yeah, and that shouldn't have been allowed in this situation either.

Had we known that was the speaker, we would not allow that video to play.

Okay.

Also, proxies as well.

Yes, sir.

Okay, agree.

Yes.

Sustained point of order.

Thank you, Chris.

Yep.

Bob will it be followed by Sarah Bradford.

Just play the video.

Hello, Maddie and Council.

Way down here from the bottom of the council agenda where you got us down here on the bottom.

That's where uh council announcement should be down here.

Well, now that you gotta raise, that's a full-time salary.

And I do not believe that you should be able to still do part-time work on full-time salary.

You want full-time salary, you ought to do full-time work.

Now we need to do away with community engagement.

That's what community engages put in to do your job, and it cost us quite a bit of money.

I mean wasteful money, really.

We cut that apartment.

Yep.

Wait a minute.

Want to keep going, Bob?

These videos are pre-approved before you do this, and you're doing it.

Sustained point of order, sustained.

But you can you can attack us all you want to.

How much time do I have left?

Two minutes.

Still got two minutes left to speak.

Okay, don't play the video.

It's okay.

It makes my point.

How they don't want you to know.

And I feel sorry for you people because you think you're dealing with people that care.

They're not going to do anything for you.

They don't care.

I learned that a long time ago.

You know?

That's why I don't I don't do it.

Now I want to talk to you.

Whoever's speaking, put your little light on something, see who it is.

Speak up.

You got something to say?

That's the second point of automatic.

You shouldn't be a port of order.

That's another beautiful thing.

Port of order.

We used to never have a port of order until Mayor Parker got here.

So he has to talk to counsel not to.

This three minutes should be, it should be government free.

This three minutes should be immune from government.

The people come down here should have three minutes to speak or show whatever.

And just because you don't like it, you shouldn't be able to stop it.

If you did right, you wouldn't have to stop it.

But you're not doing right.

And this needs to be on top so people can see.

That's why we're on the bottom so nobody can see us.

You don't want to be exposed because they get educated, but get educated.

Mayor, I know you're not staying for another term.

Your first term was here only to protect Bessie Price from going to jail.

That's the only reason you're here.

The third time, you're not staying.

They probably got something else for you.

So I look for you to go somewhere else.

But I really hope you do stay, Mayor.

Because there ain't no one else I like to argue with more than you.

You're beautiful to argue.

I can't afford professional counseling, but I get to come down here and vent for three minutes free.

And I take advantage of it.

And you know what?

A good counselor would cost seven dollars a minute, that's $21.

I go have dinner at El Chico's afterwards.

So this comes out all right.

But I don't, you know what?

The school board is beautiful.

It's day and night.

Over at the school board now, it's like heaven.

You come here, it's filthy.

It's dirty.

You people are dirty and you're filthy.

You really are.

Go to the school board and see how they work.

That's heaven.

You're hell.

Our next speaker is Sarah Bradford.

I want you guys to know that you guys are committing murder.

You're killing me.

There's two things that's going wrong, and I have called.

I have planned.

I went over to the construction office.

I've been everywhere.

And nobody gives the care.

All you guys think about all of you, both sides.

All you think about is money.

All the money you can get.

It doesn't matter about anybody else.

And I'm here to announce right now that when I die, I'm writing them down as murderers because you actually murdered me.

I can't breathe.

I can't go outside my house because of all the dust and dirty across the street from me at the school.

I have asked everybody, they had a a petition up there, a cloth petition up there to keep the air from dirty from coming across the street.

I live right directly across the street from where they work in them next school and not be dog.

I started to say another word.

But I'll be dog.

If they don't put anything up there, that air blows over on me.

This is the picture of the back of my car in my driveway.

Thank you very much.

Now, if you see that much dirt on the back of my car, how the heck you think I'm supposed to breathe?

You know, the white part of my house is brown.

If I go outside, I have to have a mask.

If I go to the doctor, I have to get out there and clean my uh cameras on the back of my car and my bag up went mirror, window, whatever.

I have to get up there or clean them myself before I can get out the driveway.

You know, I have gone through a whole lot in my life.

You know, I had a son, he had musculat.

I took care of him, everything for him.

And at the same time, I had a jar 40 hours a week in Dallas, so not even Fort Worth.

And that's how hard I work what I have.

And then they come around and tear it up.

You know, the paint off my car, you know, because all the dirt from across the street.

And again, you're killing me, okay?

I went 820 is right down the street.

They're working on that bridge.

I had a pothole that I couldn't get over.

I drove in.

It cost me $5,000 to get my car fixed because the city wouldn't do anything about it.

And I gave everybody, I sent it to the city manager's office.

Thank you very much.

They sent it to somebody else.

They sent it to somebody else, and then nobody ever said anything else about it.

So I have two complaints here.

My car got messed up, and now you're killing me.

And I sincerely mean, I really mean that you actually murdering me.

Letia Wilburn, followed by EJ Carrion.

Y'all know I agree with her.

I'm from Echo Heights, and that's one of the most polluted communities in the nation.

Now y'all have in the city of Fort Worth, y'all have polluted air, worse than the country, polluted water because Mayor Parker filed a lawsuit.

So that means that the soil is also polluted.

The best thing that you guys can do to fix that problem is to add more pollution to it.

And it's crazy because y'all make all of these rules, like she said, that kills us.

Our communities have some of the lowest life expectancies.

You come, we come up here and speak to y'all, look at the mayor.

She's looking down.

Jeanette Martinez, she keeps passing things in the community that we ask to keep out.

You know, the east side of town does not have, besides the people, the people are good, but y'all put bad things over there.

The only good thing on the east side of town is Western Garden.

And y'all want to put a data center around that.

Y'all have no concern for human life.

Y'all have no concern for the people.

And I'm telling anybody who's listening, if y'all think that the city is going to do anything to regulate data companies, they won't.

Come to Echo Heights, Echo Heights.

It's a story to tell.

You can come to Echo Heights and see how the city regulate things.

We had a company, FedEx, operated for five years without proper permitting.

And what did they do?

They came in here and made a lot of promises that they didn't keep and they knew they were not going to keep.

And to Net Martinez knew they were not going to keep them.

And what did they give them for operating five years without proper permitting?

They gave them two more years of a conditional use permit.

What do they do now?

If you come to Echo Heights, if you stay there for five minutes, just sit on Martin Street where people are supposed to be, but trucks are not.

Every major trucking company in that area comes down the street where they're not supposed to be.

Y'all can't even regulate trucks.

Y'all cannot recognate regulate the noise in Echo Heights.

When you have no trucking science and from an elementary school and a police officer is sitting there while trucks come through, that's a problem.

There's no regulations.

And I want y'all to know, you always hear data centers coming here talk about low noise, but it's the noise you can't hear that's worse than the noise you can hear.

Y'all can't even regulate the noise from the trucking company behind my home.

Y'all need to get a life and let everybody else get a life and stop polluting black and brown communities.

No data center and echo height.

DJ Carrion is our next speaker.

Alright, so we have no vote today.

Gina hit a host is in town as well.

So imagine how full this place would be today if y'all had to have the courage and actually vote today.

Just think about what it would look like, feel like the more signs you would see.

But I know what you guys care about.

You care about money, you care about time.

So I think I want to talk about this data center and the magnitude that it actually is, so you can actually have the courage to understand what we're facing.

So let's talk about money.

Let's just use an example.

Last year in 2025, Mayor Parker raised a million dollars to run for uh mayor.

Um, there wasn't real any serious competition.

But let's just take that million dollars, and let's say for every second she had to live, she had to pay a dollar.

That means if she took all that money, she would live for 12 days.

All right?

Now, the billionaires who fund that campaign, they got a billion dollars they can spend on seconds.

So a billion dollars turn into a billion seconds, and they could live for 32 years.

Now, this data center fight.

What this is really a race to is the first trillionaires in this world, and y'all are trying to allow God like billionaires chasing this, whatever artificial intelligence that they desire, right here in Fort Worth, Texas, because a trillion seconds is 32,000 years.

You guys are 12 days of effort, and it feels like you're spending it on the godlike trillionaires rather than the communities who need you to fight.

You're small just like us, you're no bigger than us, and you all can have the potential to actually represent the people and show them how we can stand up to them.

That's what this data center fight is about because this is foundational to who gets to create how the future is civilized.

We're talking five trillionaires in the next 10 years.

We have to start understanding we have no sophisticated zoning cases, uh I meant zoning laws.

We have no sophisticated accountability around departments and how we keep them accountable.

We have no understanding of taxes and how we can be a part of their exponential uh growth that we have to be a part of.

And I know all of you are sitting there sobbing, and you guys have been one poor leaders this whole freaking event this whole day.

This is a depressing place to live.

So I'm just gonna start naming off voting, all right?

So let's go with with Chris Nettles.

Chris Nettles, you won in 2025 with 1,717 votes in the Democratic primary, 8,652 people voted in your district.

Elizabeth Beck, 3300 votes to win your seat.

8,700 people voted in the Dem primary.

All right, we could keep going with uh Jeanette Martinez, 1,724, and the Dem primary, 7,000 people voted.

Start waking up.

Our next um speaker is a part of a group, but there are three groups signed up with the same group of people.

So Steven Sanchez and Bika Sharma or Kent Dick Ardennez, who's speaking on behalf of your group for six minutes.

I just need one person to speak for six minutes, that's all.

Who would like to speak?

Yeah, they're all, but you sign up the all the same people, there'll be one group speaker for six minutes.

Is it Kent the speaking?

That's great.

I was told by the city secretary that we could share the same people.

No, you may not.

That is not the rules.

That's not the council rules.

You can you can yell and scream, or we'll shut the meeting down, or we can have one person speak for six minutes.

Or if you want to all speak two, two and two, that's totally fine.

We have 30 people sign up because we need it.

Would you like to speak?

Hey, told us what we share.

We have 30 people here.

We need it.

We will stay.

We call.

That's not the way this works.

Would you like to speak?

You can't try to get the rules.

You have you have a total of six minutes.

Would you like to speak?

If you don't, I'll just shut the meeting down.

I have that.

I would really like to continue the meeting.

If you can't stop yelling, I'm gonna shut the meeting down.

Okay, guys, I got them.

We got this.

Okay.

Um, is my time starting?

Yes, it has.

Yeah, of course.

She's got six minutes.

She has six minutes.

Okay, guys, we got this.

All right.

Um, they say, you know, when they go low, we go high, so here we go.

So my name is Ambaka Sharma.

I am the author of the moratorium uh data center moratorium that probably is inundating your email accounts.

And today we wanted to present our point of view in three three parts.

I was gonna present the part about technology and economics.

Another person was gonna present to you about um the code and the compliance and the ordinances.

Another person, we had an audiologist with us who actually went to different data centers and recorded, and he was gonna play the different decibels, which he sent to your team yesterday.

But you want to play this way?

Let's do it.

Okay.

Uh second slide, please.

Whoever is doing that.

Um, so uh Miss Jen Jessica, I think uh Ms.

Eakarn, um, she actually explained to you guys what is a data center, and I take intellectual offense, third slide.

Um I take intellectual offense to that because she equated it to something like um streaming Netflix or you know, purchasing an airline ticket.

That is not the data center that we are in opposition of.

We're in opposition for an AI data center.

An AI data center is using uh GPUs, graphic processing units, as opposed to CPUs, which is what the Facebook data center were.

So to compare a CPU-based data center to a GPU-based data center is like comparing a Ferrari to a submarine.

Sure, both of them can get you places, but that's they are not the same.

Next slide.

Now, what is artificial intelligence?

It dates its days back to actually 1950.

You may have seen a movie called uh Imitation Games, so that's Alan Turin.

He helped shorten the uh World War II by breaking the Enigma Code in 1950.

So after World War II, he wrote a very famous article called What If uh Machines Could Think.

So that was a 1950, Alan Turing imitation game.

Fast forward to 2026, we do have machines that can think.

You may know them as ChatGPT or Google's uh Gemini or Perplexity, etc.

Next page.

Um so again, what is artificial intelligence that I am here to speak about?

Artificial intelligence is about having GPUs that can do parallel processing, not uh CPUs that only do linear processing and allows you to do web browsing.

I am worried as a technologist about how fast artificial intelligence is going, and so are the people who are developing these LLM models, these uh large language models.

So I just took uh four um news articles, and I'm just giving you their um uh their headlines.

So in April, one of the companies that's uh a premiere in this in the space is called Enthropic, and they came up with a model called Claude's mythos models, and basically an engineer overnight just said, Hey, I'm going to sleep and just, you know, solve for any vulnerabilities in the system.

What did the model do?

The model actually scanned the entire internet infrastructure and found so many, I don't know how many vulnerabilities, but these are day zero vulnerabilities, and they were afraid of releasing this model to the general public.

So they called the White House, and the White House, you know, and the Federal Reserve and the Secretary of Treasury called in big CEOs for a meeting on this.

So this became a national security in April 2026.

Coming from that, in April 2026, last week, President Trump passed an executive order asking these AI companies to release their models 30 days prior to general release for cybersecurity review.

Um, last Friday, I don't remember the date, but Anthropic also said, hey, 80% of our code is now developed by models and not by humans, and they're asking for a global pause to AI development.

So Anthropic, you may all know about open AI, but I, as a technologist, I use Claude.

So Anthropic is actually at the frontier of developing models that are used by many more businesses than you know, open AI.

So if Enthropic, which is a premier here, if they're telling, let's pause, guys, I think this is going out of control.

Why are you all so eager to supply the energy that's gonna build these LLM models?

We are all humans.

We eat bread, you know, protein, all of we eat food, that's our energy.

That's how we have energy to do things.

These models, they need compute technology.

And so when that is the data center, that is actually the bill that's in front of you.

It's about creating compute technology and to power these LLM models so they can do things independently without human.

As Alan Turing said, what if machines could think?

So it's not about, you know, writing my essay on Chat GPT, it's about I'm going to sleep.

Look at the internet and tell me what's wrong.

And if these models get into the hands of hackers, we have a serious problem, as the White House and the federal government is recognizing.

Next slide.

Um, okay.

Well, let's I'll skip that.

Next slide.

I sent you, I gave you all um some bills, some receipts.

So Jessica, Jessica, this is her best argument, which is 83 million dollars it brings to the to the city.

She hasn't been able to back up this data.

Please, Jessica, tell me how you did this.

Then next slide, I'm looking at the actual bills that Fort paid.

So what I saw was Fort Worth or the Facebook paid.

Facebook only paid, or Facebook is valued at 1.7 billion dollars in 2025, the data center in North, and they did not get any abatement for the city of Fort Worth.

They only got an abatement for one year in 2018.

After that, that's pressy price didn't give them any abatements.

County did, county gives a billion dollars last year, and they lost 1.9 million dollars in revenue.

Our next speaker.

No, media Cardenas.

Samantha Jukum.

Adrian Smith.

Adrian will be followed by Nancy Estrada.

WFAA News 8, Fort Worth Report, or we're still telegram.

Why hasn't remote speaking been restored to the Fort Worth City Council agenda?

My direct questioning towards these three media outlets is because they are main sources of reporting on matters relating to our city.

I also figured that since what I've been asking has fallen on deaf ears with this mayor, that maybe one of these media outlets could get the necessary answers.

The process for how things have been done at City Hall since its inception far proceeds what this mayor feels is the way we're doing things.

How does one continuously go on record to telling city growth expectations in a perceived future while deliberately silencing the voices of people, which are the heartbeat of this city?

We see you're still talking about remote speaking, Mayor Parker.

We are truly embarrassed, Mayor Parker, but I don't think you are embarrassed at all.

Everything begins and ends with you.

You are the face of this city.

Counsel, don't think I've forgotten about you either.

Remember, the seats you currently occupy didn't come by way of an employment application algorithm.

The seats you occupy were made possible by the system of voting that's been in place since our nation's inception.

So, Mayor Park up still up here advocating for remote speaking.

Maybe one of the council members can do a council proposal to my council member, Dr.

Hall, Ms.

Peoples, a newly elected councilmember, Mr.

Jameson.

There was we did uh there was used to be a time where people used to be able to call in the council to to give voice to the issues that we discuss on agenda rather than for or against that doesn't exist anymore.

So I'm advocating for those people who want to give their voice, Mayor Parker.

$333 million is what this project costs us, taxpayers.

At least the least you can do is open up that phone line, allow these people to call in.

I have witnessed developers come down here who haven't signed up to speak on any agenda item, given space and time to give whatever presentation they want to give outside of the rules.

City secretary, please be be due diligence to these people who still trying to understand this process of signing up.

Give them, you know, uh a bit of guidance, you know, so so so they won't fall when they come here because mayors don't Nancy Estrada is our next speaker, followed by Amanda Coleman.

Nancy Estrada, thank you.

You can start.

Yes, ma'am, please.

Thank you.

Nancy 10.

I was arrested by Fort Worth Police Department after reporting a sexual predator to Fort Worth, Country Day Private School.

A false police report was filed shortly after.

No real investigation took place.

I was never questioned.

Just another strategy to try and silence the truth.

I asked for a trial by jury, and not one of the four prosecutors I had during my case wanted to take my case to trial.

Harassment case dismissed.

Qualified immunity, though, is being used as a weapon in Fort Worth.

Friday in downtown, there was a peaceful protest.

Officer Snyder assaulted three protesters and violated their constitutional rights.

I filed a complaint with internal affairs after watching it live.

Instead violate and trample on the rights of the people they serve.

Assault and constitutional violations undermine public trust and damage the relationship between law enforcement and the community.

Accountability is not optional, it is essential.

We now have a constitutional police unit, correct?

I was gonna call them and tell them about Snyder, the community terrorist, but they have no phone number.

If someone could fix that, that would be great.

Thank you for your consideration.

And free Camello.

Our next speaker is Amanda Coleman, followed by Tara Maldonado Wilson.

Amanda Coleman, Tara Wilson.

Holly Huertes.

Tara.

Tara will be followed by Holly Huertes.

I used to come down to City Council all the time and give you guys a ride act.

I ran for City Council three times.

District 4.

And then the special election for District 4 against Alan Blaylock and then 2023 against Jeanette Martinez for District 11.

We threw a lot of numbers up here tonight.

As a nobody that created their whole entire campaign on their own in 2021 as a nurse who was fed up with watching for a police department terrorized black and brown communities.

In the very least, to start that process so that we can pause and put the brakes on this.

You all live here.

This is your home too.

Chris, you said, hey, this is like the car wash issue at the working session, but it's definitely not, my friend.

That's like taking a swig of water.

We're talking about opening the faucets and letting them have all the water.

Those are two very different things.

Once they pollute our water source, and once we run out of it, we can't get it back.

We're never gonna get it back.

Macy, your husband's on the Terra Regional Water District.

They're already fighting to get water from the Richland Chamber Reservoir, which is all the way in Course Canada, Texas.

We've been robbing water from East Texas to give us water in North Texas.

There is no comprehensive plan on the state legislature to keep in mind the water usage of data centers in their five-year plan that they just put out.

As you guys know, I'm an ER trauma nurse, and there's three fundamental things that every single one of us need to happen for us.

Every 72 hours, or you will definitely feel this.

You have to drink water or something with an electrolyte base in it.

You have to intake food every 72 hours, and then you have to have a way to waste meaning urine or valve movements.

If any of us sees any th any of these things in 72 hours, you will become my patient in the ER.

I'm so sick and tired of you guys belittling people that come down here.

Don't just want to talk to you for three minutes, six minutes, twelve minutes, eighteen minutes.

It's not that hard.

All of us, including myself, live with a supreme amount of privilege.

To run for office to win office is such a privileged position to be in.

Here's the thing: the reason why they didn't want me on city council, y'all, is because if I was in that District 11 seat and they cut step stepped y'all from talking, I would stand up and tell y'all to let's get saucy in here and make them in this meeting.

But that's why they don't want me up there.

They don't want people like us up there.

And the other thing that I'll say is from that seat, I will tell OpenAI, Google Anthropic, that they can take all of their data centers and all their computing power and they can put it up in a ball and they can shove it where the sun doesn't.

Our next speaker is Holly Huertas.

Is Holly here?

Holly will be followed by Gerald Banks Sr.

I just I just wanted to say uh it seems like people don't, you know, it just seems like the council that uh decided to accept this data center doesn't understand that it doesn't matter how advanced technology becomes access to clean drinking water remains far more essential to human life than artificial intelligence ever will.

It's just like hello, like, are you gonna drink the data?

Alright.

So uh I think other people have, you know, talked about how the city council was, um, I think his name is Rhett Bennett, donated uh forty six, I think it was forty-six thousand dollars to the city council.

Um, I think that that just needs to be reiterated over and over again.

It's really really sad.

I mean, okay, anyways.

So I know a lot of people are concerned that we will run out of water, and that is so important and absolutely, you know.

Um it's just it's totally possible, considering what you know the last lady was talking about how we're trying to get water from other places, and I mean it's Texas, it's not like we're, you know, it's raining all the time over here, okay.

So as it turns out, the AI industry is not just using our water, it may also be contributing to its pollution.

Residents in Morgan County, Georgia say they've been seeing contaminated water following major data center construction in the area.

Reports of murky sediment filled water have raised concerns among residents about the potential impacts of large scale development on local groundwater supplies and long-term safety of their drinking water.

Here's how it happens.

As many people know, data centers require massive amounts of massive cooling systems to prevent servers from overheating.

However, mitigating that risk introduces another concern.

Water contamination.

Data centers can use and discharge large volumes of water, and experts have warned that wastewater construction runoff or improperly managed stormwater can affect groundwater and surface water systems if not properly controlled.

There are three major categories three primary categories of pollutants that data centers can introduce into the water systems.

First are biocides.

The control to continue with the terror that has never left this nation until we realize that they will have the true power, and what they do with it is not good for us.

If we all come together as a malinated unit, respecting one another without the hate, the violence, this world would be a better place in itself.

Be mindful and don't get arrested because you're gonna have to pay the same crooked system that you're fighting against.

Well, I want just to take off that damn blindfold and see what is really going on.

Modern day lynching, like today, justice for Camilla Anthony, and all the victims of this American KKK system.

I appreciate you listening.

Mr.

Cardenas followed by Manuel Mata.

Alright, I want to make this quick.

I would like to address the data center presentation from last Tuesday, in particular, the speed with which it has been proposed that new city ordinances and regulations be put into effect.

First, making the presentation and assuming that these there needs to be no revision of proposals by you, the council, or us, the citizens, is preposterous.

It sets the tone that the report was perfect and had had no flaws or oversights in its evaluations.

The following is a list of proposed changes to our zoning ordinances and code that should be implemented and concerns that should be more acutely addressed so that the residents of Fort Worth can truly live with the potential data centers being proposed for our city.

Zoning regulations and plan approval.

All data centership regulations should be based on a tiered system, the tiers set by the megawatt usage and not square footage.

The more megawatt use, the more stringent the restrictions imposed by the city.

A megadata center above 100 megawatts, such as the one proposed for the Long Stevenson location, should only be allowed in K districts based on the amount of noise pollution alone.

Evergreen trees and vegetation must be required in a triple row screen with height requirement of a greater value than existing buildings on neighboring property.

Developers must be required to disclose future phased expansion they would like to pursue that relates to current proposals, even on property that they currently do not own or have sought to rezone.

Failure to disclose should automatically prevent developers from expansion beyond the current proposed location.

Data center size can and should be capped by setting a ratio of coolant capacity to total gross square footage of buildings and requiring initial fill to be completed within one year of receiving certificate of occupancy.

Standby generators and cooling equipment should be completely enclosed in a building courtyard with only limited access through a double solid gate.

All site plans and buildings must be designed to provide viable future use that is different than the immediate proposed project.

Noise ordinances.

Current noise limits are already too high.

The current standard from the EPA's 555 DBA day or night.

The World Health Organization has released studies that show long-term negative effects for people of all ages, but especially children who are exposed to constant noise levels above 53 dBA during the day and 45 dBA at night.

The shitty city should add a component to the noise ordinance that penalizes a noise emitter if a low frequency noise is part of the sound profile.

The penalty would lower the overall allowed limit by 10 dBA.

All systems that could create low frequency persistent sound, cooling, power generation, etc., must have active noise cancellation systems accompanying them in state-of-the-art vibration dampening systems.

An ambient noise study should be required of all new proposed commercial developments, not just all data centers.

Ambient noise studies should be three separate 24-hour samples with a 90-day gap between each sample so multiple seasons can be captured.

The samples should set a daytime and nighttime average.

Development should be capped at the current ambient sound levels, not the plus five DBA as the city report proposed.

The developer must be barred from our next speaker is Manuel Mata, followed by Blaine Toole.

Mr.

Mata available.

Thank you, Kent.

Appreciate it.

Mr.

Mata.

No, you don't.

Thank you, though, for coming.

Thanks for coming.

Mr.

Mata will be followed by Blaine Toole.

Can you remove Mr.

EJ Carrion, please?

Thank you.

That's like the fourth or fifth time he's yelled from the audience.

Appreciate it.

Mr.

Mata will be followed by Blaine Toole.

What's up?

I live in Carlos' district, and I warned you about these cops.

This one right here, while they're refusing to identify because I'm not part of an investigation, he goes in his squad car, looks up my name, gives out my name, first and last name, and my birthday.

Next slide.

This is his supervisor, Lieutenant Medrano.

And I've dealt with him before.

He turned off his body camera when Sergeant Ramirez lied to him over a case that got dismissed.

Right?

So I told them I'm gonna investigate them.

Next slide.

This is what Officer Atkins did to a young man, Brock, who was who left from downtown, uh, and his girlfriend and her mom beat him up, dragged them out of the car, and left them on the side of the road, right?

They responded.

Uh a dude called a 911 call says shots fired.

Officer uh Atkins drove around the corner and ran them over and unalived them.

Three more officers went down the same street.

None of them hit him.

The second one that went after him missed him.

The third and the fourth one stopped and found him.

You know what they told his mom?

Nothing, absolutely nothing.

At all.

And these are the cops I'm dealing with, and I told you.

I used to live in Elizabeth Beck's district, and it took me teen years two years to get them to stop messing with me.

I told you, is it gonna take two years for them to stop doing this to me?

I'm a law abiding citizen.

I assert my constitutional right because it's afforded to me as a free person.

All of y'all have missed the point of accountability, transparency, because y'all all took POA money.

So y'all can't say nothing.

And that's what I'm here to expose.

So until y'all get y'all cops in line and they keep arresting me like Snyder downtown.

I'm going to keep exposing them just like this.

Wait till I get the body cam footage, all the investigations y'all did on this dude, Atkins, and I'm gonna post it.

I'm done playing.

I've asked y'all, I've came, I've been filming for eight years, and I've told each and every one of y'all stop these cops from doing this to me and people in my community because I'm the only one that ain't scared to tell them how it is.

Could you imagine who what they're doing to my community members who don't understand what they're doing and have been told and are afraid of them because they keep harassing them.

I'm not afraid of Atkins.

I'm not afraid of Sar uh Medrano, Ramirez, Chief Garcia.

I don't care about none of that because they all work for me.

Just like y'all do.

Remember that.

Blaine Toole, then Sabrina Ball.

Good evening, everyone.

My name is Blaine Toole.

I'm a precinct chair with the Terran County Democratic Party and one of the local leaders of Fort Worth Area Indivisible.

I'm here to urge the city council to place a moratorium on data center development and expansion in Fort Worth until 2028.

The recently proposed city ordinances do not go far enough to protect the public from potentially harmful side effects of living or going to school near data centers.

The recently released state water plan for 2027 does not include projected data center construction or resource usage.

At the same time, Tarrant County has struggled as a whole, hitting robots acquiring water sources to keep up with projected population growth.

As of May 12th of this year, more than 65% of Texas was officially under drought conditions.

Mayor Parker said herself in a recent interview back in April that public concerns over data centers is a statewide conversation, and thus the state needs to step in and help regulate the situation.

Even Texas Ag Commissioner Sid Miller has called on a pause for data center construction.

There are gaps between city, county, and state regulation, and it's within those gaps.

Predatory industry sink their teeth in and poison communities.

The Texas House does not go back into proper session until January of 2027.

And the people of Texas deserve meaningful regulation and oversight to be put in place over data center construction and resource usage.

I see that taking at least a year.

We need truly independent environmental health and economic impact studies.

The last decade of natural disasters across the state have led to have laid bare the fragility of our infrastructure.

It has made clearer more than ever the need to preserve and properly steward our natural resources.

Water is a human right, not a corporate asset.

If the water crisis from Corpus Christie is a canary in the cold mine, I don't know what is.

A city half the size of Fort Worth that is functionally out of water.

It's a crisis driven by drought, poor city management, and a different hungry water industry, petrochemicals, with warnings that went back to the 80s about water city uses and industrial growth.

But the people of Corpus Corpus Christi have been left holding the bag the entire time, all the same.

We have to look out for our neighbors because data centers across the country have had a track record for destroying home values, raising utility costs, training local water, and causing health issues.

Well, economic development is important.

Sabrina Ball, followed by Mary Hendrickson.

I'm here tonight to remind you of your responsibility to Fort Worth because representation matters.

At the county level, the man I voted for no longer represents me in my new rep Answers to Tim O'Hare.

As a Fort Worth ISD parent, I have no representation.

My principal is leaving.

Half the teachers my daughter had this year are leaving, all good teachers.

The takeover board voted to dismantle language education for over 27,000 students, and they're ignoring over 51,000 letters asking to reinstate a highly qualified principal who was targeted by extremists.

And tonight they discuss spending 25 million dollars on elevate an unproven model.

Fort Worth ISD is the largest district in this city, and we need you to push back.

Federally, my congressman Craig Goldman won't take appointments, won't do town halls, you can't talk to him on the phone, and your friends in the private Fort Worth Club where he offices, which our taxpayers, our tax dollars pay for, shield him from this responsibility.

We gather outside the club to practice our First Amendment right, the only recourse we have with Craig, and to gather donations for all the people he ignores for an hour during lunch on busy Fridays.

No one blocks traffic or the sidewalk.

Yet last month the noise of a single drum was too much for a resident somewhere high up in the club.

Your noise ordinance was used to shut down a small protest for a single drum.

This man here in the picture loves to walk by and insult us, and we usually brush it off.

Can you put the picture up, please?

But last Friday he decided to harass a citizen to follow us and call us demons.

Then he called the police because his feelings were hurt when he was asked to leave us alone.

He wasn't asked nicely enough.

I observed Officer Snyder kick a senior citizen, a man who was concerned for his wife being manhandled by police, thrown against a car, the contents of her purse scattered.

Her crime was trying to de-escalate when Officer Snyder escalated.

Three people went to jail without investigation.

PD only spoke to this man, not the senior citizen he insulted, Mr.

Horton.

I've given you his statement and another.

It's handwritten in cursive, if that tells you anything about Mr.

Horton.

PD did not look at the video of this man harassing us and following us.

We were told to leave.

If I wanted to file a complaint or defend our group, I would have had to talk to Officer Snyder, a man I just observed kicking someone and manhandling a woman.

A cop who didn't even put his name on the paperwork.

All of this to shield Craig Goldman from answering to taxpayers.

Having organized rallies myself, I can appreciate the work of law enforcement to keep us safe, but I can recognize when they pose a threat.

You will see that PD acted inappropriately last Friday, and you can expect that we will be more vigilant in the future.

But more importantly, we should not have to beg every level of government to listen.

Tonight, a large group of people are here begging you to listen for the people of Fort Worth.

If you will not represent them, who will Mary Hendrickson, followed by Catherine Woolley.

Thank you for letting me speak.

Are you called microphone?

There you go.

As a veteran, we signed up to serve and fight.

We know we were going to be exposed to weapons, chemicals, loud noises, but civilians, nature, agriculture.

They didn't sign up for it.

It's being shoved down their throats.

We have 86 billionaires tied to AI data centers with the combined pocket money of 2.9 trillion dollars.

And they are asking citizens, cities, states, to help pay for paved roads so they can bring their loud trucks in.

Bring in dust.

They are profiting from this.

We will get medical bills.

People will be affected mentally and physically.

Mothers will have miscarriages due to the 10 chemicals that are used to support AI centers.

I have been on the flag line where I have been exposed to 90 decibels or more.

These diesel generators, chillers, high-pitched mechanic noise will have 100 to 105 decibels.

Some of these places that are already existing that have live two to five miles away are feeling the vibrations.

They cannot go outside and enjoy their backyards.

They cannot sleep at night.

I know what vibrations feel like.

So I have no hearing hardly in my left ear.

They tried to wash the water down, rinse it out, put it through a process, and they poisoned the water to 45,000 residents that depend on this in agriculture.

In Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, a teacher, who has a creek running in front of her home, small farm.

Her water has disappeared on and off from the creek due to all the construction.

There are communities that are having to buy bottled water to bathe, drink, and cook.

It is not fair that billionaires can come in like the Gestapo and tell us how what we can have and what we can't have.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you for your service.

Project Catherine Woolley.

Catherine Woolley will be followed by Carissa O'Pry.

Is Catherine here?

Carissa O'Pry.

Carlos Silva.

Jonathan will be followed by Steven Sanchez.

Oh, sorry.

Carlos will be followed by Jonathan Demarest.

Am I started yet?

Okay, great.

So quick real quick.

I just wanted to be very clear what happened here today.

We had members of our group reach out to the city and ask what we needed to do to have three six-minute presentations.

We were told that we needed to have 10 people and that those people could be representative of all three of those people that were speaking.

Then we come up here and you tell us differently.

Maybe you're right.

Maybe we're wrong.

We got that information from your office.

So you're contradicting yourself.

Okay?

I'm gonna finish um the omicas uh presentation.

So please, if you still have the handouts, look at those.

Because those are receipts.

Those are receipts that she got from TAD that she's looked up herself.

The data center for Facebook is appraised at 1.7 billion dollars in personal property for 2025.

No abatements from the city of Fort Worth were given in 2025.

The City of Fort Worth only provided a 10% tax abatement in 2018 only.

That's six years ago.

Northwest IC collects revenue through Denton County.

Terran County lost one point nine million dollars in revenue on this account alone by providing a one billion dollar abatement in 2025.

I need you to understand what that means.

That means that a property that was valued at 1.6 billion dollars was given an abatement of one billion dollars.

Okay?

That's the county.

That's what we're telling you not to repeat.

This is not an economic development boon that the data centers are gonna bring to town.

They're going to pollute communities.

They're going to take water, they're gonna take resources, and they're gonna give nothing back.

Because it's all towards a ploy to build a godlike superpower, or just make a boatload of money doing it.

Trying.

So here are the receipts.

You guys have them, you can look at them, or don't.

These data centers will build compute power to power AI models that are growing faster than anticipated, but for what?

What do we get out of it?

What do I get out of it?

I get to be faster at work.

Oh, whoopdy do.

Do I get clean water?

Do I get electricity when we have hotter and hotter summers and colder and colder winters?

Are people dying when they don't get power?

Are they thirsty when they don't get water?

What do we get?

Okay.

The city manager needs to start a process for a moratorium to take the time to deliberate with industry leaders, not just real estate developers, and most importantly, with the community.

You are here to represent the community.

So say no to data centers.

Thank you.

Jonathan Dimarest will be followed by Steven Sanchez and then Nidia Cardenez.

Councilwoman Beck.

2,000.

Councilman Crane, 2,000.

Councilman Losdorf, 2,000.

Councilwoman Hill, 2,000.

Councilwoman Martinez, 2,000.

Councilman Flores, 4.5,000 dollars.

And this one really disappoint me.

It disappoints me.

Councilman Nettles, $20,000.

This is the amount of money each of you has taken from Black Mountain Mountain CEO Rev Bennett.

Now not shown here as Mayor Parker.

Even prop money is expensive, unfortunately, but for the record, she took $12,000 combined.

That is roughly $44,000 in campaign contributions in this council.

If seeing it like this makes some of you uncomfortable, I understand.

But what strikes me is not that this is a lot of money.

What strikes me is that in the grand scheme of things, it's really not that much money at all.

For comparison, that is about the price of a new 2026 Honda Pilot.

A nice car, sure, but not a Ferrari.

Not enough to defend hyperscale data centers.

But still, residents are being asked to believe that this money has nothing to do with what is happening here.

We are being asked to believe that it is just a coincidence that Black Mountain CEO gave thousands of dollars to members of this council while Fort Worth is being pushed towards the data center project residents are actively rallying against.

We are being asked to believe that this is just a coincidence that you, Councilman Nettles, received $20,000, 10 times what most members on this council received, and that this data center just so happens to be planned for your district.

Maybe you can all look your constituents in the eye and say this money has no effect whatsoever.

But the problem is that residents should not have to wonder.

We should not have to look at campaign finance reports, look at the proposed data center, look at the emails being ignored, and ask if our council is listening to residents or to donors.

Because we know what this project brings: a drain on public utilities, noise pollution, light pollution, minimal job growth, more pressure on infrastructure, and for all we know, an industry built on AI hype that looks more and more like the dot com bubble on steroids.

We may be approaching a project that becomes uh an empty billion dollar warehouse within a few years while residents are left with the repercussions in the meantime.

This is what makes people cynical about local government.

That the politicians closest to home, the people who are supposed to be community leaders and responsible public servants are taking money from the same interests, asking this city for approval and then expecting Fort Worth to not notice.

Well, we noticed.

If this money becomes continues to work against the demands of Fort Worth residents, it will not benefit the politicians who took it.

It will become a political liability because by May of next year, people will know exactly who listened, who ignored them, and who stood with Black Mountain when residents asked for a moratorium.

So put in the damn moratorium.

Thank you.

You wanna keep this?

Steven Sanchez will be followed by Nydia Cardenas.

Sorry, we're trying to pull up the presentation.

The record show that was 48.7 decibels at A weighting.

Good evening, counsel.

My name is Steven Sanchez, and I'm an audio engineer and audio forensic analyst based here at Fort Worth.

As you just heard, a hundred and sixty hertz tone was currently filling this chamber is actually really low.

I don't know why.

Slide two, please.

The blue lines from the 1933 Fletcher Munson test or alongside the red lines in the international standards curves from 2003.

These are the equal loudness curves.

In 2003, the scientific community corrected a 70-year-old error accounting for binary hearing.

How human ears actually hear in an open room and environment rather than through 1930s headphones.

It proved humans are even more sensitive to low frequencies than previously measured.

Slide three, please.

Yet our city ordinances rely entirely on the blue A-weighted curve derived from those outdated 1933 findings.

Because A weighting was designed to mimic that old data, it aggressively turns down the volume frequencies electronically inside the meter itself, chopping up up to 50 decibels of physical sound pressure.

It strips real irritating structural acoustic energy off the record.

The city should not base noise ordinances off data centers for A Waiting.

Slide four, please.

I wanted to verify if infrasonic weight, or I'm sorry, to find the truth.

I wanted to verify if infrastonic waves were physically striking residential structures and acoustic phenomenon I experienced personally living two and a half miles from Panther Island Pavilion.

My logging verified there are no unsafe or structural levels of infrasound coming from these data center footprints at the time of recording.

This is not a structural vibration issue.

It is a sound is an issue of continuous airborne acoustic pressure.

Slide 45, please.

Now look at the city staff's own slides.

Every single comparison example the police gave us is a fleeting noise of a point source.

A bird chirp and flies away, a car passes.

A data center is a massive permanent line source.

It does not move, it does not decay cleanly over a distance, and it never stops roaring 24 hours a day.

Dropping this into a neighborhood breaks the peace entirely, especially when my data of these residential streets naturally well serve naturally well below 50 DBA during the day, one can only assume it is quieter at night.

Our call to action is a moratorium, or to at least start the process.

And those two roles are in direct tension right now.

I noticed in the working session slides that the word inevitable appeared.

So when you believe something is inevitable, you stop asking whether it should happen.

You only manage how it's happening.

And that word is doing a lot of work tonight.

It's providing political cover for a decision that in some in some places has already proven to be the wrong one.

I imagine elected officials face two voices in this moment.

One asks, what keeps me in office?

The other asks, what can I live with myself on?

Tonight I'm asking the second voice to be louder.

So let's give that second voice something to work with.

Here's what we actually know and what we don't.

We know that in 2025, Texas data centers consumes an estimated on the low end 25 billion gallons of water.

And we know that figure could reach 161 billion gallons by 2030.

We know Texas' own state water plan doesn't even account for data centers.

The data it uses predates the AI boom entirely.

We know data centers create minimal permanent jobs relative to their resource demands, and we know what has already happened less than four hours north of us in Granbury.

Residents who showed up to fight data centers describe living next to a constant industrial hum, which Steven just talked about.

One said, I get to pay property taxes to be audibly assaulted.

So we don't we also don't know about the impacts on human or animal health.

What what we don't, or that's what we do know.

So what we don't know is where is AI going.

We don't know how many of these facilities will become obsolete in 10 years.

We don't know the true local water impact because companies rarely disclose it.

We don't know how much of the of the grid burden eventually lands on our residents through higher utility rates.

That uncertainty is the argument for a moratorium, not against one.

The problem this body appears to be solving for is tax revenue.

That is a problem of today, and it has many solutions.

Drought does not, a grid in crisis does not.

The communities downstream of these decisions don't get a vote in this room, but you are our representatives.

Tax revenue is a problem with many destruct many solutions.

The destruction of our collective future, again, is not.

When you decide on a moratorium, both parts of your job will be watching.

And I'm asking you to use the one with the longer memory to win.

Pursue a moratorium now, please, and protect our future.

Jessica Schulman, we followed by Alexander Montalvo.

Uh, good evening, and thank you, um, city council and mayor.

Um, if I hear data center one more time, I'm gonna beat my head against the wall, and I'm sure you guys all feel the same way.

Um, you know, you guys are all people, and I'm sure that this is really hard not to be hardened to all of us.

You know, this line makes it feel like you're the enemy, and you're not.

You're we're all on the same team.

You guys all live here too.

And we're all just trying our best.

You guys are trying your best, and you guys are doing your jobs the way that you, you know, feel that you need to, and that's admirable.

We're all here, you know, missing time with our spouses or our kids, you know, missing bed times, as I'm sure you guys are too.

Just trying to do our best.

And here we are just asking for more consideration.

And I'm sorry, data centers, moratorium is why I'm here.

You know, all we're asking for is a pause.

There's so much we don't know, and there's no backpedaling.

And and I spent my morning getting laid off, and then going to the Parker County Commissioners uh meeting because we're getting hit on the other side of Walsh with another Black Mountain data center, the size of a lead out.

And it's just it's alarming how fast this is happening, and uh, no one is taking a pause.

So I'm just here to beg on my hands and knees, and and Councilman Crane, you've been so lovely about speaking with me about this.

So I very much appreciate that back and forth.

And I don't know all of you personally, but I know that you're people with families who live here, and you're just doing your best.

And this is a late night, and I'm we're all so tired of talking about it.

But we're just asking for a pause.

You know, wait until we know more, um, and and the collective um data of having them all around us.

Like I said, I mean, this is like the third one.

We've got Veal Ranch, we've got Black Mountain on this side of Fort Worth and Black Mountain and Parker County, and we're just getting hit from all sides, and we don't know, you know, the true destruction that this could cause.

Um, so I know that you guys' hands are tied, and I'm sure you're really tired of getting screamed at.

Um, it's gotta be really hard.

But do anything you can um to fight for us and for our kids.

Um, this is a truly bipartisan issue.

I am, you know, I consider myself a pearl-clutching conservative, as most of the moms are out in Walsh, and so my the morning that I um we spent talking about data centers, the people looked really different there than they do here.

It's just to go to show you how bipartisan this is and how we are just desperate.

This is a desperate plea.

Um, to just wait, you know, pause and and learn more.

So thank you for your time.

Alexander Montavo, followed by David Martinez.

Okay, before I get carried away, I want to make it clear what the request that I have and the people have, is that for City Manager Jay Choppa to instruct your staff to start the process of a data center moratorium.

There's our understanding that from Jessica, the assistant city manager that that instruction needs to come from you, and it needs to come from you right away in order for it to be in place for the vote that can happen in the next few months.

So please start that process now.

In terms of what we've seen today, you know, another a couple of the community members mentioned that you know, for some of us, it takes immense amount of privilege for us to be able to be here in this meeting.

Not every person in our city of a million people can be here, and what we hear constantly is the gratitude of us showing up to be able to share the concerns that they have that they may not be here for, but they do show up in other ways, like the over 26,000 emails that have been sent asking for this data center moratorium.

They show up in other ways and how they engage online because that's a space that they can engage from to be able to share that they do not want data centers in Fort Worth.

But what I've seen today in a day of a lot of government business within Tarrant County and Fort Worth is I saw county commissioners unwilling to support the help center for LGBTQ plus health with a proclamation, just a thank you for the work that they do, and what I saw instead was just cowards.

What I saw at the school district board of managers meeting is an unwillingness to hear about how the grift is in with a TEA takeover, and how people from outside our community are going to leverage this window to profit versus actually serving our kids in our community.

Something you sought, Maddie, and they didn't want to hear that.

More cowardice, and what I've seen today is when a community organizes to share the concerns for their lives and the lives of their families and the lives of their communities.

You can't afford 12 minutes for them.

That is being cowardly, and the city council today have all collectively showed the cowardice that y'all have right now.

Any one of y'all could have stood up to fought for the people in the city to let the people speak, and it wouldn't have cost you anything but 12 total minutes.

But it's just one example of how leadership in this city and in this county will do everything they can to shut down the people's voice to benefit corporations and billionaires.

And we're telling you, David Martinez.

Good evening.

Um, I guess I'm gonna be the uh oddball in the room because I am for the data centers.

Um I'm not gonna be a hypocrite.

I use AI.

I'm gonna let y'all know something personally.

Uh I was in uh incident where I lost uh part of my legs and uh amputated my feet and legs, things like that, and then also having a quadruple bypass, which brings up a real quick quick note.

We're gonna have a JPS uh hospital being built.

I think there should be a memorial for the people who died during the pandemic.

It's like we moved on without even thinking about them.

And I was there in the hospitals, and I would see people dying every day.

Um that's something we should need to talk about later on.

But right now I'm talking about data centers.

Um, the things that people are not going to talk about is well, one somebody brought up how the data system has been here since the 50s, 60s, and it has been.

Uh, I work with some people that that were there at the beginning, and uh my father being one of them.

Um the things that we know now, the things you're barely seeing right now is 20 years obsolete.

Um, uh, due to national security reasons, you cannot know these things uh that that are out there happening now.

And I wanted to know the enemy is not going to stop data centers.

They're continuing their prog their progress, and it's there to overcome us.

And some of these communist countries are supporting these socialists, and these socialists are here, they think this is a game.

They think this is this is not this about listen, I'm Native American.

I would be the first one to stop uh this uh if there was toxic gonna be where my grandchildren are going to be down the street.

I'd be the first one to stop it.

But I'm trying to tell you what's more important is our defense and our prosperity.

That I mean, we go look at history, what happened, and when settlers came here into Fort Worth, and when we would allow them to drink of the water of the Trinity River, and what happened?

Some of our families started dying, and we knew it was something that was they were bringing diseases.

We didn't know about diseases in those days.

We just knew it was a bad medicine, and said, Well, and when we asked them to leave, they didn't leave.

And what happened?

We went to we went to battle with some of the uh militia, and some of the big investors came and they sent the US military after us.

We had already left Fort Worth.

We had win West.

And now today, what is happening?

We see an uh we see people being manipulated on the internet saying, and then I've talked to people, I try to tell them, well, listen, let's we'll go ahead and set up something that where we have like uh a city agency, someone like the the environmental protection where they come and do uh investigations if we want.

But that's one of the solutions we could talk about, but I don't hear solutions.

All I hear is there's there's everybody going to hear you go be totally against it.

I stand by Chris Nettles.

Appreciate it.

Thank you.

Counsel, that's the conclusion of our public comment tonight.

Um tonight we're gonna close the meeting in honor of Mr.

Walter Rainwater, a man whose legacy is found in thousands of lives.

He helped improve across Fort Worth and beyond.

Walter was a proud Fort Worth native.

He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from TCU and built a distinguished career as a nuclear engineer and researcher.

One of the most notable chapters of Walter's life began after retirement when we became a middle school math teacher because he believed every child deserved a chance to succeed.

That decision illustrated his deep belief in the power of quality education.

Walter was a beloved trustee of the Rainwater Charitable Foundation.

Walter helped steer transformative investments in children, schools, veterans, and community development.

His leadership touched countless organizations and initiatives that continue to strengthen Fort Worth today.

Some of those initiatives he championed included Morningside Children's Partnership, First T Fort Worth, Dream Big Scholarship, now the Myerson Rainwater Scholarship Program, Tarrant Tune through our T3 Partnership, Fort Worth Forum, Texas Washington University Leadership Academy Network Schools, and Camp V.

Walter's vision for Fort Worth was rooted in opportunity, and he worked tirelessly to expand our possibilities for future generations through his philanthropy, mentor mentorship, and advocacy.

Today we honor not only what Alter did for our community, but also what he did with wisdom, generosity, integrity, and genuine care for others.

Thank you, and meeting is adjourned.