Join me on the dais.

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Thank you.

Good morning and welcome to Fort City Council meeting.

We are now called to order.

Today's invocation will be by Reverend Joel McMaster McAllister from First Christian Methodist Church.

Please rise for the invocation and remain standing for the pledges of allegiance.

Amen.

Dear Lord God, we come before you this day, asking for your continued grace, asking for your loving kindness, asking for your mercy.

We thank you, God, for we know that the earth and the heavens were created by you.

We thank you for waking us for starting us on another day's journey.

For giving us, O Heavenly Father, not only access to be able to breathe the breath of life, but giving those here, these elected leaders and officials and all these representatives with the privilege, the responsibility, as well as the opportunity to care for your people in this city, in this state, in this nation and in this world.

Allow us, oh God, to hear the hearts and the cries and the concerns as well as the needs of your people.

Speak to us, speak through us, use us as vessels for your glory.

We thank you, O God, for what you've already done.

We thank you, oh God, for what you're doing right now.

We thank you, oh God, for what you have promised to do and will do.

Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and lift them up, ye everlasting doors.

And the King of Glory shall come in.

We thank you, we praise you, and we seek you because we need you.

Through Jesus' name, we pray.

Amen.

We will begin with special presentations, which in the first one is a presentation of recognition to Marie Love for her longstanding leadership and service with the United Communities Association of South Poor.

All right, good morning, uh Council.

Um, I want to take the time to acknowledge a special person and introduce someone to you as well to councilwoman Marie Love.

Yeah, I mean, yeah, yeah, y'all got to know the councilwoman.

And so all the things that is approved in District 8, if it's not ran by this beautiful young lady, um, it's a problem.

And I don't know if y'all have ever heard of Eric Mays.

This is the female lady of Councilwoman Marie Love.

We really want to take the opportunity to really um acknowledge Miss Marie Love for her astounding work.

Uh, what we do in Southeast is a little bit different.

We try to be community oriented, and so we have a lot of neighborhood associations, and many years ago, and I think Marie will tell us uh they conducted our established United United Communities Association of Southeast, which is an association that oversees all the neighborhood associations and they come together and make sure that the uh businesses, the development, the homes that come to Southeast for Work is all the same.

And so we really wanted the opportunity to really thank you, Miss Marie Love for uh your continued support.

And so each year we do an all-star award, and this year, for some reason, we didn't wasn't able to give Miss Marie Love the award.

So we wanted to make sure we take time out this morning and honor her for her community impact all-star awards, honor our community leader, United Communities Association of South Fort Worth, Miss Marie Love.

It is an honor and a privilege to represent you on the Fort Worth City Council.

Your dedication and your commitment to this city is well appreciated.

Today we honor you and we honor your family and uh Fort Worth District number eight for all-stars.

Thank you, Miss Marie Love.

Thank you, Councilman uh Nettles.

I appreciate it very much.

And thanks to the city uh leaders leaders of Fort Worth.

Um I've kind of been with the neighborhood association since 1973 when I moved in that area.

And so I've been a part of that.

I've been president and secretary and on the board for many, many years type thing.

So it's a privilege to work in my neighborhood.

It's a privilege to I call him all the time and say, okay, we need to do this, we need to do that type thing, going up and down Riverside Drive, you know, uh in our neighborhood, which is uh Glencrest specifically also.

But um I just want to say thank you.

You know, you all don't want me to see me crying up here, so let me let me get through now.

Thank you very much.

Oh, you are.

And we have some other representatives from the new Mitchell Boulevard.

And her family is here as well.

Come up and take a photo with Miss Marie Love.

Next will be a presentation, uh recognition for Military Appreciation Month.

If Charlie and Elizabeth would like to join me down here, you'd be welcome to do so.

Military Appreciation Month is a time to honor and recognize the dedicated men and women of the U.S.

Armed Forces who have selfishly served and protected our nation.

It's an opportunity to show gratitude for their sacrifices, their bravery, and wavering commitment to defending our freedoms.

Throughout May, we celebrated our military community, including active duty service members, veterans, and their families, and reaffirm our commitment to supporting them both at home and abroad.

We have so many wonderful attendees and organizations here today that are worth reading.

Alongside me today, are two of our own veterans and actually still serving in the reserves, Councilmember Charlie Larisdorf and Army Veteran Elizabeth Beck are important reminders of how important it is to recognize those that have served our country.

For that, I know this entire council is very grateful for their leadership and service to our nation.

Just this year, Fort Worth continues to gain accolades and important notes of established recognition in the aviance and defense capital of Texas, which I think is only because of the heavy military and veteran presence we have.

They are real heroes to everyone today.

Just yesterday, I was on Instagram scrolling, and a video posted of a friend of mine whose husband came home after over 367 days deployed, came home to his kids.

I think those are the memories for me to remember to recognize those that have served our country.

Today in attendance, we have the Air Power Foundation.

Big country veterans carry the load.

Community Learning Center, Cowtown Warriors, Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Powl, Mesa Springs Help for Heroes Unit, Next Op Veterans, Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, One Tribe Foundation, Texas Veterans Commission, Tarrant County Veterans Council with the Fort Worth Veterans Parade, the Tarrant County Area Food Bank, Veterans and Business Fort Worth, UTA Veterans Business Outreach Center, and Roll Call, just to name a few that are throughout Tarrant County.

If each of you don't mind standing for a minute to be recognized, we'll take pictures in a moment.

Thank you.

Just making sure we they have the recognition.

So I think we're going to take a picture here.

Any of the councils welcome to come down and join us as well.

And if someone would like to say a few words, you'd be welcome to.

I know that Captain Hutt Stuttler is also going to be here for the America 250.

Any of the organizations that would like to speak, you'd be welcome to.

Anybody like to be put on the spot?

Come on up.

Please come on up, Chuck.

Great to see you.

From the governor, from Texas's best agency, we want to thank the city of Fort Worth.

By the way, if you don't know this, third largest county in veteran population in the state.

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

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

So we don't, veterans are not individuals who have served.

There are individuals who continue to serve.

And thank you for supporting us as we continue to serve.

Come on out, please.

And we for people who don't know, we put on the Fort Worth Veterans Day Parade.

It's 11-month process.

Once we're done with one parade, we take a month month off and start it again.

Honorable Parker.

It could not happen without the support of the city of Fort Worth, the police department, and all the other agencies involved.

Thank you very much for your support.

I'll give you a warning.

If you ride with Councilmore Larsdorf, there's plenty of remarks to other Marines along the parade route for sure.

It's always a good time.

It is apropos that we're also here to recognize and celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States of America.

And I'm flanked today to my left, represented by Naval Air Station, Joint Reserve Base, and our very own Captain Huff Stettler to receive this recognition.

Captain, it's always so great to see you.

Thank you for taking time to be here.

The United States, as we all know, you've seen these celebrations across the country, is marking its 250th anniversary on July 4th, 2026, commemorating the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence and the nation's founding, known as the Semesequential, the milestone celebration of 250 years of American history, democratic ideals, innovation, and cultural achievement, while reflecting on the challenges and progress that have shaped our great nation.

We thought it was very important that we take the time today in this chamber before we break in July to recognize and celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States of America, and we're so pleased to have Captain Huff Settler to help us do that.

Captain.

It takes a lot of hard work.

So even though I'm sure not everybody in here agrees on uh on every topic that'll come up, just know that uh we appreciate your sacrifice and your service.

And uh it means a lot because if we have we have ideals that we believe in, then we need to be willing to stand up and fight for them.

And so each one of you is doing that, and that that same uh spirit of sacrifice and um and spirit of servanthood uh on girds everything that our military does and everything that we believe in.

And uh this city has been nothing short of phenomenal in supporting our base.

Um as you know, we've been a naval air station for 32 years now, uh run by the Navy.

Uh, but we were Carswell Air Force Base uh well before that, and uh, and supporting the World War II effort is really what our foundations were.

And so um, you know, I would just offer to you as we look around the room and all the organizations, these folks over my last three years as a commanding officer of the base have become great friends.

Y'all have become great friends, and uh and it's and it's a community like this that really supports their service members when they deploy for 367 days, when they go into harm's way, when they lose lose a shipmate, um, Marines, soldier, airmen on the field of battle.

Uh, you all, this community is who steps in and supports those families uh when the time comes.

So, on behalf of everybody that we have here, I got my command master chief Sean Bohan and you guys you should raise your hand and say hi to everybody.

We've got we've got two of our sailors of the year, AT3 Atencio and PS1 OJ stand up.

They got smile, and I've got my my photographer extraordinaire, MC2 Cunningham, and our public affairs officer, Miss Sandy Owens over here.

Thanks to all of you for your support.

Thanks for what you do.

Thanks for believing enough in this nation and what it means, what our foundations were, who we are today, and in the belief that tomorrow will be even better.

Thank you for serving and know that it's our honor to continue to serve on y'all's behalf.

Thank you.

Okay.

Okay, next up is the mayoral recognition for y'all means all.

As our city, as our city continues to grow and thrive for all its imperfections, its growing pains, and differing viewpoints of our residents.

It is our home, and it belongs to everyone.

A sense of belonging, of respect, of love for our neighbors, and at the center of all that is our slogan, y'all means all.

Today's mayoral recognition is to recognize that all people, all families, all Fort Worthians are truly welcome.

All unique backgrounds, experiences, contributions, and people of our city, expanding opportunities for every resident.

It is truly essential for Fort Worth's growth, prosperity, and long-term visible and long-term vision to be the most livable and best managed city in the entire country.

But you can't do that if you don't also recognize all residents.

Our LGBTQ residents, entrepreneurs in Fort Worth are truly vital contributors to our city's success.

They are brothers and our sisters.

They deserve to be recognized, and I am so proud to do so today.

It is imperative we embrace people of all identities as was mentioned.

If we truly want to be a Fort Worth where everyone is valued and truly free from discrimination.

But first, I'm going to read this recognition.

If you'd like to join me, if you came this morning for this recognition, you can behind me.

Whereas the city of Fort Worth is committed to fostering community where all residents and visitors are treated with dignity, respect, and fairness.

Whereas since 1999, June has been nationally recognized as LWTQ Pride Month and providing opportunity to honor its history, resilience, and contributions of individuals and allies throughout the United States.

Whereas Fort Worth has grown into one of America's great cities and is now the 10th largest city in the nation with a population exceeding one million residents and a regional economy generating hundreds of billions of dollars in economic activity each year.

Whereas LGBTQ plus residents, professionals, entrepreneurs, artists, educators, healthcare workers, first responders, public servants, and business leaders played important role in strengthening Fort Worth's economy, workforce, culture, and quality of life.

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

And whereas this Fort Worth continues to gain national and international recognition and welcomes visitors from around the world, especially today, dealing with and and celebrating the 2026 FIFA World Cup and other global opportunities.

Our city's reputation is strengthened by the diversity of our people and communities who contribute to its success.

Whereas Fort Worth Pride Month provides an opportunity to celebrate the diversity in experiences and perspectives to help make Fort Worth a vibrant, welcoming and economically strong city where y'all truly does mean all.

Whereas community organizations, neighborhood partners, cultural institutions, and local businesses continue to create opportunities for connection, celebration, and engagement to enrich the lives of our residents.

And sometimes you just turn to those that are much more poetic than myself.

It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love, or how you love.

It matters only that you love.

Thank you to John Lennon.

And this at this time, I'll hand this over to Felipe and everyone here.

Thank you, Mayor, and thank you, Council.

Uh, on behalf, well, I don't speak to about, I don't speak on behalf of every LGBT resident.

Uh, you said it doesn't matter where you love, but we do love uh Fort Worth and we love loving in Fort Worth.

So thank you to all of you uh for all the work that you put in and making sure that every resident of the city of Fort Worth feels welcome.

Um I also brought Megan Henderson, who is president of Near South Side Inc.

and Roger Calderon, who's president of Trinity Pride, also to accept today's recognition along with all of our friends.

Uh so I just want to say thank you to all of you, and we're looking forward to a great festival this Saturday.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Mayor Parker, Council, I want to just express my deepest appreciation and sincerity and accepting the award on behalf of a community that calls Fort Worth home and is proud to be here in Fort Worth.

I want to thank you for your policies of inclusion.

And I want all of invite all of you to come and join us on Saturday for Trinity Pride Fest on South Main Street in the nearest South Side.

The festival kicks off at 6 p.m.

and runs till 11 p.m.

Many of the business owners in the district, faith communities and other contributors and partners of the festival will be there on site supporting it.

Last year we had over 7,000 people who attended.

It was a wonderful festival.

And so you can see how rich and diverse the community is in person if you'd like to join us.

Thank you so much for today.

Um, thank you so much.

Um, on behalf of Trinity Pride Fort Worth and the rest of our community, I want to say uh that it has been such a pleasure working with the city, uh, the police department, the fire department, the office of uh uh event, emergency management, OEM, my no OEM, um, being able to provide a safe and secure space on South Main Street for this festival.

And so I want to thank all of you.

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

Council Rebecca's being shy, but she's not gonna say anything, but anybody's welcome to join me for a picture.

Thank you.

All right, here we go.

Right here, one, two, three.

All right.

Thank you.

Okay, council, we are in soccer season, football season, but very important that we recognize our own Fort Worth Vaqueros football club.

Any council members also willing to join me here.

I think Carlos, have you have you played for them before?

Did you try on the field ever?

Yeah, not for them.

They wouldn't have you.

Um, where are our friends from Vaqueros here?

Are they here?

Come on down, please.

There they are.

I think it's important to note Fort Worth would have never been ready to be a part of FIFA this year had it not been for the important groundwork that Vicaros has made in Fort Worth and the soccer and football scene.

So for that, we're incredibly, incredibly thankful.

Please allow me to read this recognition.

Whereas the Fort Worth Facaros Football Club has served the Fort Worth community for more than 13 years as the area's longest-running pre-professional soccer club, promoting the growth of soccer while representing the city with integrity, inclusivity, and competitive excellence.

Whereas in 2026, the Fort Worth Vicaros achieved a historic milestone by advancing their men's program into the USL League 2, one of the nation's premier pre-professional soccer leagues, bringing increased regional and national recognition to Fort Worth and the soccer community.

And whereas the club continues to demonstrate its commitment to advancing opportunities in women's athletics throughout the Fort Worth the Caras who enter their second season in the women's premier soccer league WPSL and provide a platform for female athletes to compete at a high level and whereas the Fort Worth Vaqueros are dedicated to youth development and community service through their nonprofit academy which provides which removes financial barriers to participation and provides local youth with access to quality coaching mentorship and positive athletic opportunities regardless of socioeconomic background.

And whereas through their leadership in men's women's and youth soccer as well as their enduring commitment to service inclusion and community engagement the fourth Vicaros have made significant contributions to the cultural athletic and civic life of Fort Worth and continue to inspire future generations of players and fans.

Now therefore the city of Fort Worth does hereby recognize and command commend the Fourth the Caros football club for outstanding achievements community impact and continued dedication to advancing the sport of soccer in Fort Worth Texas we're here today with Anthony Harris the general manager Amanda Sheldon Community Engagement Tony Morola head coach of the Vacaros and Sergio Banal head coach of the Vicaris.

Anthony and the team would you welcome to say anything please thank you mayor thank you city councilman and office here I appreciate the time this moment uh we want to say thank you for this moment this recognition everyone knows there's a little tournament going on here in the community and we're so excited to have it here in our city and close close by but um on behalf of Amanda Shallot in our front office Sergio Bernal our women's head coach uh Tony Moral our men's head coach we just want to say thank you as being uh one of Fort Worth's longest running sports franchises um over 12 years we've been in the community I personally sign up for as many career days as I can and I'm sure I've done a career day in every single one of your districts uh but I appreciate your work in in the city and everything you do for our communities and supporting the sport so thank you thank you.

Oh of course please get up no please do um as a as a Welshman not Englishman I'd like to say uh go USA.

Not England.

Next will be items to be continued or withdrawn.

We have a few items to be continued or withdrawn.

Removed from the consent agenda is MNC twenty six-052 nine MNC twenty six-zero five two five and MNC twenty-six-0539 so that council members can either uh vote separately, recuse, or make a substitute motion or an amended motion.

Uh, MCs to be withdrawn completely are MNC 26-0543 and MNC twenty six dash zero five four nine long along with zoning case twenty six dash no sorry, those are the two that are the uh withdrawn.

Now two zoning cases will be continued.

ZC 26-062 to August 11th meeting, and ZC 26-41 to the August 25th meeting.

Thank you, Jay.

Janet, I can proceed with consent.

I think we have to the consent speakers, Mayor.

Thank you.

Our first speaker is Adrian Smith, followed by Leticia Wilburn.

Adrian Smith District 6i and 1 with the people.

West 7th Bridge Lighting Improvements.

This is uh Mary and Council Communication 26 Height and 0520.

West 7 Entertainment District, one of Fort Worth's pride and joy for all things Fort Worth.

Uh area, there is no limits for what is spent, irregardless of cost to we, the taxpayers.

What you have is formed over substance questions.

Who came up with this proposal?

Who or what are they connected to?

Are we trying to put on a light show for people to be all about?

Are we trying to improve overall safety?

If you're seeking to distract people, then the then the interchange of lights is the go-to.

But if you're seeking to improve safety, then a standard set of lighting that illuminates every aspect of the bridge without distraction should be priority.

This doesn't rise to the level of putting lipstick on a pig, but it is hanging a dominant diamond necklace around the neck of a mural.

What is going to win?

Show or utility.

And the current price tag for this project is 2,141,825.84 cent.

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

And don't let me forget to sent 84 cents to taxpayers.

Now what are we doing here?

The Fort Worth report did an article regarding the 7th Street Bridge.

Seems like you all are throwing taxpayer money into a light show.

It doesn't benefit any of us.

It's just costing us.

So it says Fort Worth's West 7 Bridge, and I quote, Fort Worth's West 7th Bridge has become iconic.

The bridge is often depicted in foreground on promotional materials for the city, including website banners.

In many of those images, the bridge is lit up.

Soon to be Fort Worth's new city hall.

However, keeping the lights working has been a challenge, said Clinton Hoover, a transportation engineer manager with the city.

The current state of affairs is that the lighting is very labor intensive and very expensive to keep up with.

Mayor, Mayor Park, Mayor Park, Mayor Park.

We need standard lights to fix this problem.

Not interchangeing lights that's costing us millions of dollars.

Thank you.

Sure.

And just to clarify, the original budget was set at 2.5 million dollars.

And so this contract is for roughly 2.1 million dollars.

So it's not additive.

It is 2.1 million dollars.

And so this is essentially a design build contract, not a low bid, primarily because of the specialty nature of this lighting.

This is a pre-formed bridge.

So we have to be very careful about how we cut and add uh lighting fixtures to this bridge.

It's not as simple as remove and replace.

Thank you very much.

Appreciate it.

Our next speaker is Letitia Wilburn.

I'll see her.

Sorry, Jeanette.

Is this all that's it for speaker?

That's it, okay.

Thank you.

Okay, that's all for consent.

We can go vote to a consent agenda.

Motion and a second.

Please vote.

Motion carries.

Next will be MNC 26-0525, which was pulled from consent.

Second East fee increase.

Thank you.

Council, I can entertain a motion.

Motion and a second council, please vote.

I don't think we have any vote buttons yet.

Motion carries.

Next is MNC 26-0529.

The Brown Ranch Hines Development Agreement.

Thank you.

I think we have an amendment on the floor.

Is that correct?

Thank you, Councilman Crane.

Yes, Mayor.

Before I uh introduce this motion, I'd like where's Dana Bergdoft.

Would you mind coming up for just a second?

I want to say as you're coming up, thanks to the hours and hours of work spent on putting this development agreement together.

Um I do see Thad and Austin out there as representing this.

There's been a shift of us uh before not allowing MUDs or moving away from MUDs and going to a capital PID.

This is a MUD municipal utility district.

Will you tell us why we're shifting back and why uh this is important to be done?

Certainly.

Thank you, Councilmember Crane, Dana Bergdoff, assistant city manager.

So over the last couple of state legislative sessions, municipal authority has been reduced or removed with regard to our ability to address planning within our extraterritorial jurisdiction or to retain our extraterritorial jurisdiction.

And so property owners now have the right to withdraw from our extraterritorial jurisdiction and still work with the public utility commission to uh obtain water and sewer services from the city as well as to um have the the public utility commission create special districts without our consent.

And so uh we thought it best to come to the table with the Brown Ranch property owner and the developer.

This is an area that we've had identified within our comprehensive plan as a planned service area, an area where we intended to provide water and sewer services as well as other general city services within the next several years.

And so because it's an area we've been planning for, it's actually closer in some ways to our city limits than some parts of Walsh Ranch, right?

Walsh Ranch is sort of south and west of Brown, and so this is an area that was logical for the city of Fort Worth to serve.

So one of the things that coming to the table did for us is give us the ability to negotiate additional improvements that might not otherwise be required through our subdivision ordinance if it were to still apply, or through our rough proportionality requirements under state law.

And so we were able to negotiate additional off-site, particularly roadway improvements that would exceed the rough proportionality requirement.

So for example, they're able to improve Walsh Ranch Parkway off-site south to where it currently terminates, just south of Old Weatherford Road.

They're able to improve Walsh Ranch Parkway north of the district up to White Settlement Road.

Similarly, um West Point Boulevard, east of Brown Ranch to where it terminates, and potentially improvements to Old Weatherford Road itself east of Walsh Ranch Parkway.

So those are some additional negotiating terms that we're able to obtain.

Also, they've agreed to comply with our park dedication policy, which doesn't typically apply or isn't legally allowed to apply within our ETJ.

They've dedicated their dedicating floodplain for open space.

And so there's a number of concessions that they've been willing to work with us.

So we've tried to have it be a win-win uh for for us, as well as then, as you've alluded to, some of the hours that we've spent trying to work with neighbors, neighboring ranch owners, property owners, with respect to how the roadways will flow through those properties and where future intersections will be located to try to reach a good outcome for everyone.

Yeah, one of the road improvements you talked about was uh two instead of a two-lane, which we require a four-lane.

Correct as part of that.

Um we've talked a lot too, and I I'll say this of uh playing catch up in the north, and I've been pretty vocal that we're not going to do that in the west side of Fort Worth.

We're spending hundreds of millions of dollars trying to keep up or retroactively go back and build roads in the north part of Fort Worth.

But here I think we're being proactive and building that.

Is that correct?

Yeah, that's correct.

And then the other piece I'll point out is the other thing we've been able to do is they've agreed to charge a one dollar tax rate, property tax rate or assessment, uh, per 100 evaluation.

And so obviously that will change over time as they pay off some of their debt, but having that higher tax rate then um actually assists us in the future if we choose to annex the property once once the debt is paid off in the the district, the special district is no longer needed.

So that's something that helps us um with with working with those property owners and residents in the future.

Perfect.

I just wanted to put that all on the record so when we get flooded by developers thinking that we're already uh that muds are the the thing now.

I think clarification of those rules will be important for everybody moving forward.

Thank you.

And we also don't don't they don't have eminent domain authority, so we retain that for off-site.

That's great for us too.

Okay, I have this motion.

Uh I move to approve MNC 260529 with the following amendments.

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

Next item will be MNC 26-0539, which is the CCPD emerging partners grant.

That's okay.

Um with regards to MNC 260539, I'm going to recuse myself due to my participation on the executive board for United Way.

Second.

Next will be announcements by city council members.

Thank you.

Councilmember Flores.

Thanks, Mayor.

Slides up, please.

We have two.

CM Martinez and CM Hill attended uh Hall, rather.

Sorry, attended the breakfast with champions at Billy Bob's uh Texas, along with uh other supporters, and uh we enjoyed a morning of learning inspiration.

What networking can do to make a difference in the lives of these participants in Special Olympics.

So they're all athletes in the true spirit of the word.

Center uh of the slide, uh, was honored to recognize the North Fort Worth Historical Society as it celebrated its 50th anniversary.

Quite a milestone.

They were established in uh 1976, and they continue to work to preserve, protect, and promote the rich history, North Texas, and the stockyards.

On the right, uh we hosted the Croatian Minister of Justice, uh Habi John and his uh delegation in the stockyards or of course came in for FIFA, since FIFA is here, and uh they viewed uh lots of the sites, historic sites in the stockyards, uh, went into the Coliseum, ate a cattlemans, enjoyed the Fort Worth herd immensely.

So very great, you know, optimistic and uh wonderful feedback, you know, from their visit here at Fort Worth.

Next slide.

Any of us uh participated in Opal Lee's annual walk for freedom.

She unfortunately could not join us, but she was there in spirit.

So uh just very honored to continue that tradition, walk in in unity to honor Juneteenth and the continued uh strive for freedom, unity and resilience in the center, uh attended the Lou Light National Convention, uh their presidential awards to hear Latino leaders uh present about what's going on in local state and national politics.

Uh I know that our city manager was there along with uh council member Martinez as well.

So my thanks to the Cita Fort Worth, the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce for making that happen.

And last, we have the far greater Northside Historical Neighborhood Association, who held their Juneteenth celebration in Lincoln Park on Saturday.

So appreciation to Sharon Warren.

She took a lot of that uh burden to get all the logistics set up and make that happen, thanks to the Parks Department, Food Vendors Volunteers, Fort Worth Fire Department, Fort Worth Police Department, Co Blue, uh City of Fort Worth Communications engagement were also there.

Matt Landero's pretty metro popped in, and crime prevention specialist Doc Kent, and that is all I have now.

Chris, Councilmember Nettles.

Sorry.

Thank you.

On the first slide, I had an opportunity to go to Matt Island Missionary Baptist Church, uh to be a guest speaker for the peace over problems team conflict resolution leadership training.

Uh it was great to see those young people actively working to solve problems here in the city of Fort Worth.

Next slide, please.

Uh this is a walkthrough for Renaissance Heights phase three.

Uh application open up July, uh open up in July.

This is the third phase of Columbia Renaissance that's happening in East Fort Worth, uh Southeast Fort Worth, behind the Walmart.

Looking forward for the final phase with uh the homes being built.

Next slide, please.

Juneteenth press conference at Bobolin, uh, with Dr.

Opal Lee, uh, with some other community uh leaders with Chief Garcia, had opportunity to talk about the importance and why we support Juneteenth here in the city of Fort Worth.

Next slide.

All right, the Juneteenth Walk uh Opal Walk for Freedom.

Um had the opportunity to do the opening prayer and later on speak on behalf of uh Mayor Parker uh to thank all of the walks for participating in the walk for freedom.

Uh Trinity Metro participated, Miss Juneteenth, and so many others, as well as my council members.

Next slide, please.

Juneteenth soul of Sycamore.

Uh this year I did not participate in the full contest, but I did participate in all the other things.

Uh we have our young condensed, I believe.

They also um did a slide together.

I mean uh uh cha cha slide.

So it was good to see them uh moving, doing the moves and grooving um uh celebrate Juneteenth.

Those are my final slides.

Thank you.

Thank you, Chris.

Councilman Beck.

Real quick, um, you saw us uh recognize the Osprey Bass Angler Foundation at the last council meeting, and um we had the opportunity to attend that event.

Um you can see that uh they were catching plenty of fish there that day.

Um that young man won a special prize because his fish was special tagged.

Um I don't think anyone caught the albino fish that they put in there.

So if you want to head out to um Greenbrier Park and uh do a little fishing, you might catch a surprise.

Um next slide.

Had the opportunity to join my colleagues and the community in the uh Lee's Walk.

Next slide.

Okay coming up.

Um Seminary Neighborhood Um is part of our neighborhood improvement program, and we have a uh meeting coming up um at the community center.

Um so I didn't uh I'm sorry, I can't, June 25th.

So um I hope that you'll um join us out there from 11 to 12 to um to talk about the improvements to the community center as part of that neighborhood improvement project next slide uh it is the summer of soccer if you hadn't heard there's a game going on um in Arlington and even when there's not a game in Arlington uh Sunday and Square is broadcasting live all of the FIFA games so if you are looking for a place to watch a game and celebrate with your community um Sunday Square is really knocking it out of the park they typically have entertainment that coincides with the um the teams that are playing in those games so I recommend you head on out there if you're looking for a place to sweat and watch soccer um next slide uh last but not least you heard people mention Trinity Pride Fest coming up this weekend it is from 6 to 11.

If you are interested in participating in the short march that they have at the beginning of uh Pride Fest it starts a lineup starts at 5 45 at the corner of Broadway in South Houston and those are all the comments I have.

Thank you Councilman Beck Council Martinez.

Thank you mayor just have a few slides.

Next slide please um I want to start by thanking uh my team uh Rachel and Natalie uh for stepping in for me this weekend um as I was called away for a family funeral um the girls attended uh the Juneteenth parade in celebration this uh Saturday June 20th at Sycamore Park um district 11 staff celebrated Juneteenth by participating in the parade um hung out with Fort Worth PD and Code Blue at the cops versus community barbecue cook-off um congrats to Cliff Sparks and everybody that was involved in the planning on another successful event next slide uh district 11 also uh was able to uh participate in another uh Juneteenth event at the MLK Community Center we uh received a request from a resident Henry Thomas who puts on this event every year and so we were happy to support him by donating uh fan snacks juice and water for the seniors that that are part of this event uh I also had the opportunity to read at freedom school at True Vine Missionary Baptist Church on June 16th it was a wonderful experience and I want to thank Miss Florida Burns with AB Christian Academy for the invitation it's always fun to go out there and read to the kids and just listen to the music of the their wonderful group.

Next slide district 11 has one improvement program coming up in Riverside so on June 30th 6 p.m this is going to be a virtual meeting this meeting is to update residents on upcoming construction related to the installation of a 36 inch water main on Northside Drive from well this one's not on North Drive because that's north side from Booker Street to Springdale Road um and so there is a project page and this is also posted on the uh different social media platforms and the district 11 webpage that is council there are no uh non-consent agenda speakers that are not public hearing or zoning thank you our next item will be CP-338 from district nine now am I correct we're gonna take um all three of these CPs to waive the rules at one time and then we'll vote on each one individually is that correct Leanne okay so council all we're doing this first vote is just to waive the rules for us to actually be able to consider these CPs today and then we'll vote on them each individually so I can entertain a motion a motion and a second council please vote.

Oh thank you motion carries Mary do you want to move to the next one repeat that would you like to go to through three three nine and then come back to three three eight when council member back returns?

I think she'll be okay.

Yeah.

Move to approve.

The motion and a second, please vote.

On the record that Councilman Beck is very supportive of this waiver of park fees.

Motion carries.

Next is CP-339 from District 8.

Motion a second, please vote.

Motion carries.

Next is CP-340 from District 6.

Motion and a second council, please vote.

Motion carries.

Next is 26-6044.

Board appointments from district two.

Councilmember Flores.

Thank you, Mayor.

Mayor and Council request your consideration to appoint the following individual with respective board with a partial term effect of June 23rd, 2026 and ending October 1st, 2026.

Jacqueline Auger, Community Development Council.

A motion and a second council, please vote.

Motion carries.

Next is 26-6047 board appointments from District 10.

Councilmember Jameson.

Yeah, request your consideration to appoint the following individual to the respective board.

With a partial term of active June 23rd, 2026.

And ending October 1st, 2026.

Motion a second, please vote.

Motion carries.

Next is 26-646045.

Motion a second, please vote.

Motion carries.

Next is 26-6046.

Motion and a second council, please vote.

Motion carries.

Next is 26-6048.

Motion and a second, please vote.

Motion carries.

Next is 26-6049.

Move or approve.

Motion a second.

You're too enthusiastic, Carlos.

Just a bit.

Motion carries.

Next is MNC 26-0422.

Motion and a second.

Motion carries.

Next will be MNC 26-0550.

And there are no speakers on this item there.

Thank you.

Councilmember Hall.

Motion and a second council, please vote.

Motion carries.

Next will be MNC 26-0551.

Thank you.

And we do have one speaker on this item, who's available for questions if there are any.

Councilmember Crane, Carl Crawley.

Calling you first.

Motion a second, please vote.

Motion carries.

Council next we're going to take the companion zoning case for that public hearing, which is ZC-26-044.

Motion and a second, please vote.

Motion carries.

Next is MNC 26-0552.

Motion and a second council, please vote.

Motion carries.

Next is MNC 26-0553.

Councilmember Jameson, we have one speaker, but only if there's questions or opposition to my knowledge, there is none.

Can you hear me?

Oh, he did.

He just couldn't hear okay.

Motion to approve.

Can I get a second?

A motion of second council, please vote.

Motion carries.

Next we will take the companion zoning case, which is ZC 26-043.

Anyone want to make a motion?

Motion approved.

Thank you.

Motion a second, please vote.

Motion carries.

Next is MNC 26-0554.

Councilmember Crane.

We have one speaker, Travis Clegg, only if there's opposition.

Motion and a second, please vote.

Motion carries.

Again, there we go.

Got it.

Just want to make sure it's clear.

We annexed the property in, and now this is the actual rezoning or the zoning of the property.

And I want to read this into the record so it's clear to everyone for posterity.

The zoning will change it and it will exclude A5, A5 one-family residential development, permanent asphalt or concrete match plant, and data centers.

So thank you, Travis Clegg, for uh stirring it up a little bit, but then also calming it down.

That was removed at zoning, and I just want to make it clear that we will be upholding what the zoning commission put in place that there will not be a data center on this property.

Got a motion.

Motion and a second, please vote.

Motion carries.

Just as a note, ZC 26-41 was continued to August 25th.

I guess it's to SP-26-008.

Councilman Martinez, we have two speakers on this item.

The first is Jacob Petrie and second is Adrian Smith.

Hold on.

Is Jacob here?

Oh sorry, Jacob, thank you.

Thank you, Mayor.

I do want to um make note that I plan to continue this case to August 11th council meeting.

Um, I just want to give the community another opportunity to review the site plan because I know there were some concerns.

Um, and so uh we'll be organizing a meeting and inviting yourself and and the neighborhood associations and the surrounding area to really discuss what it what it is, and just you know, lay out that the car wash part of it would not be included.

Thank you.

And a motion to continue.

Motion and a second, please vote.

We're continuing the case, Adrian.

Okay.

No, we're continuing the case.

We're not voting on it today.

We're just gonna continue with August 11th.

I would like to speak, speak to it.

I would encourage you to reach out to Councilman Martinez's office with any concerns or on the zoning case.

Next will be ZC-26-0227 or 022.

Councilmember Hill.

Thank you.

And I understand that um property purchaser wants to um just remove the case from the zoning, but because of the location next to the Fort Worth Nature Center, I want to deny with prejudice to protect the nature center and the environmental concerns around it.

Motion and a second, please vote.

Motion carries.

Next is ZC-26-055.

Councilmember Hill, we have one speaker to my knowledge there is no opposition.

I'm good, Mary Now, I move to appraise.

Motion and a second, please vote.

Motion carries.

Next is ZC-26-061.

Councilmember Nettles, we have one speaker on this item, Anthony Milbitz.

Well, it's representing uh Teagnol and Perkins, the applicant on the project.

Um it's just really here for any questions y'all might have.

Thank you.

Councilmember Nettles.

Motion of second council, please vote.

Motion carries.

Next, uh ZC 26-062 was continued to August 11th.

Next is ZC 26-063.

Second.

Motion carries.

Next is ZC-26-065.

Councilmember Beck.

Second.

Okay, no problem.

Councilmember Hall first.

There we go.

All right.

Mayor and Council, I need to recuse myself from ZC26065 due to my employment with Fort Worth I'd seen.

A motion and a second.

Please vote.

Motion carries.

Next is ZC-26-067.

Councilmember Hall.

We'll also be recusing myself from ZC26067 due to my employment with Fort Worth IST.

Motion and a second.

Nope, Councilmember Beck.

Motion and a second.

Councilmember Crane or Nettles, thank you.

Please vote.

Motion carries.

Next is ZC-26-076.

Councilmember Floros.

Before I give my motion, I just want to say remain excited about this project, very supportive of it.

I don't know if someone uh from the developers here today.

Great.

Reggie, can you come on up?

I just have one question to ask you.

All right, this is an option for you, but in addition to the historic designations that we've been talking about that you're pursuing, you plan also to apply for the local historic tax exemption?

Yes.

Okay, good.

Go to here.

Alright.

With that, move to approve.

Got a motion and a second council.

Please vote.

Motion carries.

Thank you.

Our first speaker is Chris Wood, followed by Kevin Carlson.

I'm Chris Wood from Willow Park.

Thank you for the opportunity to speak today.

I'm here today because too many women are taught that being polite matters more than being safe.

Too many are taught to stay quiet, stay agreeable, stay composed, even when they are frightened and being mistreated.

Women are often taught to protect other people's comfort before their own well-being.

They are told not to make a scene, not to be too loud, not to be too angry.

But in moments of danger, abuse, or intimidation, those lessons can become deadly.

Politeness should never be expected at the expense of survival.

Women need to hear that protecting themselves is not rude.

Setting a boundary is not disrespectful.

Raising your voice when you are afraid is not a failure of character.

It is self-preservation.

It is what people do when they are trying to stay safe.

When women are pressured to smile through fear, minimize harassment, or keep peace during mistreatment, the damage does not end in that moment.

It can leave lasting fear, shame, anxiety, and isolation.

It can make someone question their instincts and hesitate to ask for the help when they need it most.

No one should be conditioned to endure harm just to appear pleasant.

Please continue strengthening support for victims and people in unsafe situations.

The Fort Worth Police victim assistance section already provides critical help.

But more people need to know these services exist before fear turns into crisis.

Please expand outreach and public education so women and families understand that their safety matters, their voices matter, and help is available.

Also, please continue partnering with community resources that help people escape abuse, create safety plans, access counseling, and find legal support.

When those services are visible and accessible, more people can reach out sooner before fear becomes trauma and before trauma becomes tragedy.

Women should never be forced to choose between seeing being seen as polite and staying alive and safe.

Fort Worth has the opportunity to say speaking up is strength.

Asking for help is strength.

Protecting yourself is strength.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Good afternoon, Mayor Parker and Council.

My name is Kevin Carlson.

I am a homeowner within the community of Liberty Crossing in North Fort Worth, District 10.

I'm supplying picks of the areas of concern today to Councilman Jameson and Mayor Parker.

I request a rezoning of a parcel of land that will impact my community and property values.

It's at the northwest corner of Heritage Trace and Blue Mound Road.

The addresses are 9491 and 9261 Blue Mound Road.

This parcel is a concern for safety, peace, and property values.

Families should be allowed to live in peace.

I'm requesting a zoning change from the current zoning to ER neighborhood commercial restricted.

This will provide the needs of our community while still offering commercial uses.

Please refer to the pick of the construction ongoing to the south side of Heritage Trace.

It illustrates the impact to homeowners' backyards.

Please rezone the land described today.

We need your help.

And thank you so much.

At the time, I thought surely this cannot just be about the 48,500 that Black Mountain collectively gave to this dais.

But since then, I have learned more about the interest surrounding the issue.

So slide one.

So this chart is based on his compensation filings made with the Texas Ethics Commission.

Notice what happens after 2021.

When David Parker's wife, Mattie Parker, gets elected as the mayor.

Prior to 2021, Mr.

Parker's reported lobbying compensation topped at about a million dollars.

In 2021, the year she's elected, he reported approximately 1.4 million on the high end.

And in 2026, year to date, he has reported at the on the upper end of 1.8 million just in five months.

So I'm not alleging wrongdoing.

What I'm asking for is transparency.

Because when residents question billions of dollars in incentives benefiting an industry represented by organizations such as the Data Center Coalition, these relationships deserve scrutiny, not hostility toward residents who are questioning it.

Slide two.

So let's talk about Google.

I didn't get to that when I was presenting last time.

According to the Tarrant Appraisal District, Google's white settlement warehouse was proposed to be approximately at 2.7 billion dollars in valuation.

So this is business property VPP, business personal property, so just what's inside the warehouse, not the um structure of the building.

So these are not Google headquarters, as we know.

It's not a manufacturing facility, it's just a warehouse.

It's a storage unit.

So at that valuation, Google could have been the largest taxpayers in our region.

But instead, Fort granted 2.1 billion in exemptions.

That's approximately 78% in tax abatements.

So I question who is signing off on these abatements?

This is a warehouse.

This is a transitory business.

What qualified them to be to get 78% in abatements?

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

Our next speaker is Krista Irby.

Ms.

Irby will be followed by Nor Wadi.

Good morning, Council members.

My name is Krista Irby.

I live in District 3, and I'm one of the founders of the 2871 Community Coalition.

I'm here to ask this council not to reduce limit or otherwise restrict the time and opportunity allotted to registered speakers.

I'm not entirely certain what is being considered today.

Whether this is an agenda item to shorten the time each speaker is given, to limit how long council remains available to hear public comment or to reduce the number of opportunities for residents to speak.

I'm opposed to all of it.

This was on the agenda labeled consideration of reduction to registered speakers allotted time.

It wasn't mentioned today, I don't know exactly why it wasn't acknowledged on there, but that's what this is in reference to.

Three minutes is already a very short period of time to coherently convey a position on a complex.

So I'm gonna make you pause, I'm gonna pause your time and leave it back to you, but we're not there's no consideration, no reduction of time today.

This is a normal three-minute public comment period.

There was nothing considered on the agenda.

Just wanted for that clarity.

So there was a confusion on the agenda, I'm gonna make sure City Secretary Office knows that.

Okay, you know, your time is continuing.

So my understanding is that it could still be voted on in future meetings on whether time is limited.

Is that correct?

That's correct, but there's been no discussion or plans to do so.

Okay, yes.

I just want to make my stance clear regarding that, that three minutes is already a very short period of time to coherently convey a position on a complex issue to your elected representatives.

Many of the topics that come before this council, zoning decisions, development agreements, policy changes are nuanced.

Residents who care enough to show up, register to speak, and stand at this podium deserve enough time to actually be heard.

Any reduction to that already limited window would be a disservice to the communities this council represents.

I'd like to say something else.

I voted to increase city council pay.

I did that because I believe that when you ask people to serve the public in a meaningful way, you should compensate them for that time.

I also voted that way because I want people from a broader range of economic backgrounds to be able to afford to run for office, so that Fort Worth has the strongest and most representative pool of candidates possible.

Part of what this council is compensated for is sitting in this chamber and listening to the people you represent.

Public comment is not a formality as the mechanism by which residents participate in their own government.

Limiting that participation does not make this council more efficient and makes it less accountable.

I respectfully ask you to preserve the current speaker allotment, maintain full availability for public comment, and protect the public's ability to be heard.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Nor Wadi, followed by Michael Rawlerson.

Good afternoon.

My name is Noorwadi.

I'm an attorney and organizer with the Faith Power Alliance.

We're an organization committed to creating a better future for all through faith-based justice-driven organizing.

And I brought my nine-month pregnancy self all the way down from McKinney because there is a really important issue that I want to talk to you all today about, and it is about renewing the call and the demand for a data center moratorium.

We are mistaken if we think a Fort Worth decision is not going to impact all of North Texas.

There are real environmental and economic costs to our community, and we know that because you can ask a single one of these data center billionaires if they would move into a mega mansion next to their beloved data centers, and we know that the answer would be no.

Because they know what the costs are.

They know that the way that their greed is going to destroy our communities, and they're willing to let North Texas residents eat those costs.

And unfortunately, so is the city council if they do not begin the process for a moratorium.

The second reason that I'm here today to speak on this issue is I, as an attorney, served as part of the Dallas Ethics, City of Dallas Ethics Advisory Commission several years ago, and I know how important it is to avoid even just the appearance of impropriety because of how much it can erode public trust in these offices.

So then to discover that a city as large as Fort Worth does not have a permanent ethics commission, that we operate on an ad hoc basis, completely floored me.

But learning that it started to make sense the way that corporate interests are being prioritized over resident well-being and resident outcry.

And the fact that unfortunately the mayor has yet to recuse herself from any vote or discussion on this issue, given her financial and familial link to the data center coalition.

And I know that in recent interviews, it's been stated that the Parkers have never received a penny of compensation, but the ethics commission filing tells another story.

The filing designates Mr.

Parker under Comp Zero One, which means he made at least a penny, up to twenty-two thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine dollars and ninety nine cents.

So either the filing is lying, the Texas Ethics Commission is lying about what Comp01 means, or it's time to bring together that ad hoc commission to take a look at this.

Please, I urge you to minimize the ethical and economic and environmental harm that this data center plan is causing, and I urge this the city to begin the process on a data center moratorium.

Michael Rawlson, followed by Lauren Ivy Chong.

Last week we had dozens of people come to City Council to speak their concerns in regards to the data center.

Concerns such as water reservoir depletion, concerns such as rising energy costs, rising cost of water as well, and what did the city council do in response to that?

They denied previously agreed upon speaking times.

They look to shut us out even more, and it should be obvious to everyone why the city council is doing that, considering they're taking thousands of dollars from Black Mountain.

And I just want to say to any of the city council members that want to posture themselves as being progressives in general or progressives on this issue, I see it through that, and we all see through that.

If any of y'all can really think that y'all can post yourself as a as a progressive, when y'all are ignoring the fact that Matty Parker's husband is a registered lobbyist for data centers, and even just like being part of a company that lobbies for data centers, even if he doesn't take a penny of lobbying money, he's still a registered lobbyist for data centers, and he's a part of a company that is doing that.

That should be immediately a red flag for everyone, and you shouldn't even be able to be mayor if you have a husband who is part of a company that is registered as a lobbyist organization.

That's just ridiculous at this point.

That is my speech, but I'm gonna continue to stand up here for the next minute and a half to make you all think on that.

Okay.

Lauren Chong will be followed by Steven Sanchez.

Good afternoon.

My name is Lauren Ivy Chong, and I'm a resident of District 9.

I would like to thank the City Council for the opportunity to speak on the importance of constituent meetings.

I reached out to my city council member Elizabeth Beck to request a constituent meeting and receive the response the following response from her office.

Thank you for reaching out.

Unfortunately, Councilwoman Beck will not be able to meet with you.

I understand this may be frustrating.

Data centers are an important conversation.

I want to reiterate that CW Beck is not only receiving information about data centers from city staff.

She understands the seriousness of this council's decision related to data centers as an and is making sure she is well read on all aspects of the issue.

Again, thank you for reaching out.

Okay.

The email says that data centers are an important conversation.

When?

Five or ten years from now?

It'll be too late.

No.

The time is now.

And with whom?

High dollar donor?

Data center developers and VIPs?

No.

Your constituents.

This goes for all members of the council.

If you'd been willing to meet with me, Miss Beck, we could have discussed my concerns about how the City Council is acting too hastily to enact regulations on data centers after a presentation from the assistant city manager as your main source of information.

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

Only later was the thorough assessment conducted, which deemed the building unusable as a downtown library.

Fortunately, another wonderful use has been found for this building, and it's going to be repurposed as a community arts incubator.

But the hard truth is that you didn't do your due diligence when it came to the purchase of that building.

And now the same thing is going to happen with the data center regulations you are about to vote on in August.

I would request the thorough assessment of data centers take place before the vote, not after.

Respectfully, Ms.

Beck, I'm glad you're well read on data centers.

But a thousand AI-powered Google searches can't equal the value of one meaningful conversation with your constituents.

It will tell you everything you need to know about how to about how to deal with data centers.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Steven Sanchez, followed by Adrian Smith.

Hello, Council.

My name is Steven Sanchez, and again I'm an audio engineer and forensic audio analyst.

I hope you absorbed my last public comment on June 9th, but just in case you didn't, the basics is that this red line is how we hear pure tones in any given environment in an updated 2003 international standard.

Next slide.

And this blue line is based off an old 1930 standard that these SPL meters use of the future, still use today.

Electronically, they're flawed using the old curves in conclusion.

This is that humans hear more low frequency sound than previously measured.

Next slide.

But the record show that's 91.7 decibels C weighting.

Next slide.

Please keep in mind in that in these next examples, the mics and measurements are 250 to 300 feet from the proposed sites or already built data centers.

The same length as the staff proposal, and coincidentally, the Black Mountains don't zoning plans.

All sounds are recorded low and boosted at the same uniform levels for Play of Black.

Uh skip to slide 19.

So that's Lon Stevenson.

It's a preserved low ambient residential baseline.

It's active, but it's quiet.

In the essence of time, I will tell you that I recorded Royal Crest Drive, Western Gardens.

All examples of with data centers footprints that would have them there would be 78 to 80% below 50 DBA during the day.

Slide 36, please.

Slide 37.

So this is red oak.

It's an active data center footprint.

You can hear the underlying drone, especially when turning down the moving birds and bugs in the second example.

The constant floor is a differentiator from quiet neighborhood.

I just showed you, and it's not even capturing the low-end hum you will experience with your physical body.

Again, I have provided a short binoal recordings via this link, and you can listen to preferably on any of your headphones.

We should be measuring these sites with C or Z weighted curves, or better yet, we changed to zones, which again measures true linear human loudness perception.

The standard three-day study is gonna show you the same flawed numbers to use DBA as a measurement to evaluate constant humming of low frequency material is not only irresponsible of this council after I've already told you why it's a bad idea, but we can do instead.

At this point, it's willful negligence.

I would like to begin by saying uh thank you to the to the four star telegram for your most recent article showing the relationship our mayor has with data centers by way of our lobbyists husband, Mr.

David Parker.

Uh that was very ballsy of you.

Uh question is will you still be considered a city's paper after that said article?

Will you receive the funding that the that this city typically typically gives you on an annual basis?

Thank you to councilwoman Martinez for trying to improve the district you represent, irregardless of all the badge you inherited.

That is that is uh commendable.

I think you are truly trying to improve things, Miss Martinius.

I said keep going.

Uh I know some of these zoning cases are can't be, you know, topsy turvy up and down, but keep going, Miss Martinez.

I think you're on the right path.

Council Member Crane.

I truly see mayor in your future, and I mean it's from the bottom of my heart.

Council schedule.

You have a schedule for a reason, and it doesn't include doing what you want to do just because it at 11 a.m.

mayor Parker.

We were told right at the the top of the hour that you all were going to executive session, which was scheduled at 9 a.m.

What happened two hours in between 19 and 11?

What happened?

Nobody knows.

But in case you have forgotten, there are ways of removal.

First, the self-inflicted way, you step down, second is the recall, which is enacted by we the people, which we haven't done in this course of this city.

Recall anyone as it relates to the seats that they occupy as it relates to for city council.

Third, we vote you out.

And again, that is enacted by we the people.

So let's just keep that in mind.

We have our options, do better with your schedule.

We we all have things to do.

But 11 a.m.

is 11 a.m.

Alright, thank you.

The recognitions you all do here on a weekend and week out basis.

I know it's just some of these recognitions ought to keep some of you in these seats.

You're trying to line yourselves up for the next uh election.

I get it.

But again, we the people.

We control who sits in those seats.

Remote speaking, Mayor Parker, still waiting.

Still waiting for you to restore remote speaking to this agenda.

You know, you pay for a sign and interpreter last week, but still stop short of what we what I've been asking for.

Remote speaking.

And lastly, that sound y'all heard y'all been here.

The applause is not, it's a wave coming.

Like the wave that happened in 2023, it's coming in 2027.

Our next speaker is Tonya Jones, followed by Deanna Bowles.

Ms.

Jones?

Yeah, go to the middle.

Thank you.

No problem.

That's be fine.

Great afternoon, everyone.

How y'all doing?

Thank y'all for having.

My name is Jeff Pointer.

I am a descendant from Moser Valley, District 5.

I am here for a couple of reasons.

Fort Worth, the city of Fort Worth annexed Mosia Valley in 1960.

Since 1960, we really haven't seen anything.

And this is this is nothing directly to the council of people that's here.

That was before most of us was here before I was here.

But in that time, we've um gave easements before that.

Easements, road easements, electric, electric easements, our family, Parker family, one of the the founding uh families of Mosha Valley.

Um there you see um the park.

Here is the uh park description of what what we had got for uh the new park that's supposed to come.

Um, you see the trees and see everything is beautiful right there.

We'll get to in just a second.

But going back to Moshe Valley, uh what we've seen since 1960 is really nothing.

We have unpaved roads, unmaintained roads, we have um still homes with septic.

We have nothing, haven't seen really anything since we've been annexed, nothing.

We have a couple of paid, couple of paid roads just for the trucks to road through.

We have illegal dumping, we have have a um a company that's dug a hundred-foot hole, probably three, 30 acres, unrecognized by the city of Fort Worth, unacceptable.

To see that illegal dumping everywhere, no cleanup, and my great-grandmother and our forefathers before Fort Worth was here.

We were already there, we were there striving.

You know, my my forefathers are are the ones that was giving out the land patents in North Texas, brought the railroad through.

So we're looking, we're wanting and asking the city to show Moser Valley more respect because we were when when everything, when nothing was going on here, Moja Valley was there, thriving without anybody, any help.

Fort City of Fort Worth came to us, ask us for easements.

Can we get can we use the land this?

Can we guess what our forefathers did?

Okay, sure.

No problem.

You need you need the electric.

Okay, here we go.

If everything is there, we're asking Fort Worth to pay more attention to the oldest Freeman town in the country.

Juneteenth was all over, everybody's celebrating Juneteenth.

We had chaos in Moshe Valley.

But we still prevailed and had a great time.

But we need the city to stand up and be accountable for their forefathers, the people that was before y'all here and respect Moser Valley and give us the grants, the different things, the historical community and recognition.

That's what we want.

No, like I say, nothing against anyone.

Thank you.

I'll be back.

Our next speaker is Deanna Bowles.

Yes, ma'am, Councilmember Peoples.

Sure, turn your light on, Deborah, if you want.

I just wanted to thank you and Mr.

Pointer for coming today.

You are absolutely right.

Mosia Valley is a treasure that we need to work to preserve.

And there is going to be a meeting tomorrow night.

And I just went blank on the location.

But we're going to be talking about Mosia Valley and making sure that we honor it.

And a lot of work has been going on for many years.

I am working hard to bring that to fruition.

I think you all know my stand on zoning.

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

So thank you.

Our next speaker is Michael Howell.

Mr.

Howell will be followed by Ellis Maxwell.

Mr.

Howell here.

Hi.

The work, yes, sir.

Yeah.

Captain Michael Howell, retired U.S.

Air Force.

I'm here to speak on stewardship.

Stewardship of this council.

Y'all are voted in for a reason.

Because we trust you for our public safety, our public health.

We cannot do it because we are.

I'm retired.

I don't really get around a lot.

Talk to my neighbors in Pascal.

But the city has challenges ahead with the data center.

My inkling is my background is forensic auditing.

Building management information systems throughout the Southeast and with the U.S.

Army and U.S.

Air Force.

So I probably have a pretty good idea of what the sense of the city council is.

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

It's been reported, the toxic cleanup at Carswell is under lawsuits because of the groundwater.

Okay, what's gonna happen with the data center?

Brownwater and the toxins on the runoff, you're missing the whole point, the whole point of Fort Worth is we are different.

I lived in Dallas, I found heaven and Fort Worth.

City, this county is different, hold the line, vote no with prejudice on the data centers.

Take care of Mosier Valley, take care of the people that built Fort Worth, not newcomers, and look at the safety of Fort Worth to build a data center.

I'm telling you, I've been around a lot longer than most people, and I have experience in budgeting.

If you need help, I can help you.

You have to ask me.

I've offered several times to help.

For example, just off the top of my head, I was sitting here, I don't, I can't see, but I can listen.

There was a gentleman that stood up here and said, Thank you, Mr.

Howe.

Okay.

Our next speaker is Ellis Maxwell, followed by Jeff Pointer.

Good afternoon.

So I watched the June 2nd City Council work session on data centers and found it to be profoundly skewed in favor of the data center uh projects and in favor of big tech.

So I wanted to share some critical feedback here.

So there was one slide that I found particularly revealing, which was uh the slide on why data centers are coming to Texas.

And so the first reason that was given was that we have a business friendly environment here.

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

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

So when we talk about a business friendly environment, what I think about is uh FedEx and Echo Heights being prioritized over residents and their environmental and quality of life needs.

And that's not the kind of city I want to live in.

There was also mention of faster permitting timelines being one of the reasons that data centers are coming to Texas.

And again, to me, this is not something to brag about.

This means that city officials are giving less time for assessments of massive projects that have years and decades long impacts.

And so to me, this is this is city staff saying bragging that they're not holding their end of the bargain.

And then we also had on the same slide state incentives and exemptions.

Again, not something to brag about.

This cuts away at property tax revenue, which is the only real gain for the city that even the city staff, or the only real gain for the people that even city staff were able to point to during that presentation.

Throughout the presentation, there were comparisons made between data centers and single family homes when it comes to resources used.

To me, this is a pretty bad comp uh comparison because it reduces people to the resources that we use and the revenue that we bring to the city, as if our job is to produce profit for the city.

And we need to flip this.

The job of the city is to support its people.

Of course, residential homes use water and electricity.

This is water and electricity used to meet human needs.

This should be the whole purpose of why we come together at all as a society, is to meet our needs.

Hyperscale AI data centers do not meet our needs.

I can see how they benefit AI data centers benefit the super rich.

I have yet to see an argument for how they benefit everyday people, and I would like to see city officials stand up for this.

Thank you.

Mr.

Pointer, followed by Brian Patman.

Okay, I'm back.

Jeff Porter.

I am speaking today on behalf of descendants, property owners, and members of Moser Valley Property Owners Association.

For the past year, I have requested public records, information regarding land ownership, easement, school properties, sheriff's sales, annexation, auctions, and other matters affecting Mosja Valley.

Many of these requests remain unanswered or incomplete.

Moser Valley is not just vacant land, it's a historic community built by families whose roots here go back generations.

Many ancestors acquired maintained transfer of property long before the city for expanded into the area.

The land was conveyed with restrictive covenants to be utilized for educational park purposes only, not a park.

Which we don't oppose apart, the educational property.

That's what we speak of.

There are specific tracts of land available, parkland.

There is one track of land that's that's secured ground due to historical significance.

Evidence continues to emerge showing historical landmarks, family ownership, areas, interests, interests, easements, land transactions involving Moshe Valley property.

The records raised serious questions that deserve transparent review before additional development, development decisions decisions are made.

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

The further emphasis that the community has the right to organize through Moser Valley Property Owners Association, to identify heirs, preserve historic records, protect community interests, and participate in decision affecting the future of Moser Valley.

For the record, we are requesting full transparency regarding all city owned land, easements, and claim interests within Moshe Valley, a complete accounting, and property acquired through taxes, foreclosures, sheriff's sales, education, donations, or other governmental actions, review of the historical school properties, and any visionary interests that may exist, more engagements with descendants, heirs, community stakeholders before the development of cares, reconditioning of Mosha Valley property on the station, recognizing the most value property owners association as a legitimate community stakeholder.

We are not asking for special treatment.

We are just asking for transparency, accountability, historic accuracy, the respect of the rights of the families who built the community.

On occasion on two occasions, the judge of 52nd uh 352 district court implied to the city of Fort Worth to speak with community.

Thank you, Mr.

Point.

Our next speaker is Brian Patman, followed by EJ Carrion.

Down Angland Drive, right off of 820's neighborhood, is not a luxury resort, but homeworking people struggling to keep a roof over their head and food on their tables.

There are a few industrial suppliers and parking at big rigs, intersters between the stands of trees and the rural residential homes along this route.

People here are a simple route, simple life, but it is a life.

That is until you pass the last home, and only about a hundred feet from where that house ends.

A massive electrical station takes over the horizon.

At least two thousand feet long along the roadside.

If the station were not there, you might also be able to see the southeast landfill in the distance, only about half a mile away, a dumping ground for city trash.

Only after you make this journey will you come to Weston Gardens, a place that was initially created in the 1930s, and both a stone ship and extensive collections of native plants.

The quiet majesty of this place in the age with smartphones and AI cannot be understated.

This is the neighborhood Black Mountain wants to put their new hyperscale data center in, practically on top of the historic gardens.

And do not mistake the absence of these residents of this community today as indifference to this data center.

When one of our number went to Canvas local neighborhood, they informed us that most residents did not know what data center even was, or that one was coming their way.

The few that did know said they tried to get reach out to their councilman, but he's not easy to get a hold of.

Not easy to get a hold of.

It's also a great privilege that I and many more of our number are able to be with you here today.

It is difficult for someone who might work for a particularly irascible job to take time off to attend a meeting in the middle of the day without losing that job, risking everything.

The data centers further shadowed by recent reporting showing troubling ties between a lobbyist for data for data center coalition and a certain Fort Worth city leader.

Maybe not close enough to need to disclose, but more than close enough to discuss those of us sick and tired of seeing corporate money being used to divert public policy away from the interest of the public.

At this point, you might call me a Luddite.

Say that these data centers are necessary for progress.

And so that I asked progress for who exactly?

Is it progress for the worker as their work fed into AI until they are laid off?

Is it progress for the resident who can see the lights of the data center shine in their windows at night and hear the electrical hum?

Is it progress for the taxpayer who need to pay more and more of the coming years just to keep water flowing from their taps?

Is it progress for the family living hand to mouth who sees their electricity belt go up to do those same data centers in their community?

Is it progress for the community who sees their vibrant set of gardens that used to be surrounded by green, now surrounded by beige humming boxes?

The rise of AI and the day's series of power seem to be in industries that prioritize the benefits of billionaires of businesses are the people who live in these communities.

And progress and no care for people is no progress at all.

Our next speaker is E.J.

Carrion, followed by Carlos Silva.

Is Mr.

Carrion present?

Carlos Silva will be followed by Conley Brewer.

You had a proclamation at the beginning of this meeting, celebrating America's 250th anniversary, so I just want to remind this city government what it is we're celebrating.

Please play pay close attention to these words, as they are not my own.

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for a people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which they are entitled.

A decent respect to the opinions of humanity requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all people are created equal, that they are endowed with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among people, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter it or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations and such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to affect their safety and their happiness.

Prudence will dictate that government should not be changed for light and transient causes.

Accordingly, experience shows us that people are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms of government to which they are accustomed.

But when a long train of abuses and injustices exposes a design to oppress the people of this city, it is our right, it is our duty to throw off such government and to provide new guards for our future security.

Such has been the patient suffering of the city, and such is now the necessity which constraints us to alter our current systems of government.

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

As proof, you need only listen to the people that come talk to you on these city council meetings.

In every stage of these oppressions, we have petitioned for relief.

Our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.

A mayor and city council whose character is marked by every act which may define a tyranny is unfit to be the government of a free people.

I read you these words of our founders for a reason.

To the members of this government that do not serve the needs and will of the people of this city.

We will vote you out.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Conley Brewer, followed by Alexander Montalvo.

Mayor and Council members, good afternoon.

My name is Conley Brewer.

I'm a resident of District 6, and I'm here today because I am increasingly concerned about the direction we are taking when it comes to public participation in local government.

Over the past week, we've seen a series of changes to the rules governing public comment.

New procedural steps have been added, and speakers are now required to categorize their comments in advance for for, against, or neutral on the topic they are addressing.

On the surface, that may seem like an administrative detail, but in practice, it changes the very nature of public comment from open expression into pre-filtered participation.

It asks residents to label their voice before they're even heard.

I understand the need for orderly meetings.

I understand the need for structure, but structure should not come at the expense of accessibility or authentic dialogue between residents and their representatives.

What I find particularly ironic is evidence today that members of this council are able to participate in meetings remotely when necessary.

Technology and flexibility are available when they support government participation and continuity.

Yet the average resident is still expected to rearrange work schedules, family obligations, and caregiving responsibilities to appear in person at CD Hall, often waiting for extended periods for a brief opportunity to speak.

Any Fort Worth residents work long hours, some are raising children, others are caring for aging parents or family members with medical needs.

Their ability to participate should not depend on how easily they can conform to procedural requirements.

And all of this is occurring at a time when public trust is already understrained.

Recently, a substantial increase in council compensation was approved and will be funded by taxpayers.

Whether residents supported or opposed that decision, it reinforces a basic principle.

When public compensation increases, public accountability should increase with it, not decrease.

The question before should not be how to further categorize or restrict public input, the question should be how to make participation more accessible, more direct, and more meaningful.

Public comment is not a formality to be managed.

It is one of the few district direct channels residents can have to speak to the people making decisions that affect their taxes, their neighborhoods, their infrastructure, and their quality of life.

Healthy democracy does not ask citizens to pre-label their voice before it is heard.

It listens first, it evaluates substance afterwards.

This council is serious about strengthening public trust, then the answer is not fewer barriers to participation, it is fewer barriers full stop.

People of Fort Worth are paying attention, and they want a government that listens openly, responds directly, and remains accountable to the people it serves.

I hope this council chooses openness over restriction and engagement over procedural filtering.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Alexander Montalvo, followed by Bob Willoughby.

Alright, I'm here to continue to call for a data center moratorium.

Y'all have had thousands of emails sent to y'all.

You've had community members reach out to you directly.

You've had people participate in public comments, and you've had people continue to call for this online that we want a data center moratorium.

Now I know regulations are going to be voted on in August, but my question is when are we going to get the update that a moratorium is being pursued?

And we know the limitation is going to be for 90 days.

That's fine.

We can do it again after that.

The data centers that are being built in communities across this country are not something that are safe for us and the people, and we need y'all to take this much more seriously.

Instead, what I see is Mike will get online and complain about how people are mean at public comments.

He just wants to hear about, he wants to talk to his neighbors about their trees and the leaves that fall in their yard, and let's talk one-on-one about solving issues.

What we're here to talk about is how people are harmed and how people are dying in this city in Terran County because of decisions of leaders like week.

You have numerous families being impacted by what's happening, the TEA takeover for Thai Steve, as tenure just, I won't use the word tenure, but educators with long experience, decades of experience, principals opting to leave this district because of what they see that's happening.

And how's that going to hurt kids?

We have leaders over and over in Fort Worth that do not show care for the people.

And while y'all go on break for the month of July, it's important for y'all to know that the people will not stop.

And we will continue organizing, we will continue communicating, we will continue building what is going to be needed so that we have leadership and representation that is actually going to do the will of the people.

We have a bunch of excuses about the relationships that people have, like you, mayor and your husband, the lobbyist, or why we don't have an ethics policy, or why zoning continues to be permitted that causes such pollution and harm to our communities.

And what we're saying is we're done with the excuses, and change is going to be coming.

First thing I want people to know I don't come here and talk to you because you can talk to a wall, you can yell at a wall, you can be nice to a wall, but a wall's not going to answer.

You are a wall.

I wish people understand that.

Move this comment from the bottom of the agenda to the top of the agenda, and these people would have leverage.

They'd have a lot of leverage over your mayor.

They come here and say this stuff in front of people waiting for zoning cases.

They hear, they get exposed to what you're doing.

They don't get to go away see it.

But now here we're in the basement.

Nobody sees you and you don't care.

Nevertheless.

Okay, number one thing is what I've learned over the years.

The real answer you can't vote you out of office.

You're placed in office, just like Deborah Peoples is placed in office with a rigged election.

Jamie, you're all placed in office.

No, no.

But you don't do your civic duty, and less than 4% voting.

You can manipulate everything and you can do everything.

If we get up to 10 or 12% voting, it'd be different.

But at 4%, you can manipulate, and that's true.

That's why we need voter education in school.

We need voter education school to teach the next generation to do their civic duty.

Is an obligation, not a privilege.

To do to see the signs.

When a mayor removes free speech from the council meeting agenda that should send up a flag across the city.

It don't.

That should be enough to know that a mayor is no good and should be removed from office immediately.

It's not.

Let's teach it in school.

The next generation will be smart enough to stand up and do something about this.

In 21, you should have been removed.

But you weren't.

You're still there.

You rob them, it's left and right, and you're still there.

When a mayor votes to give a public sheet five and a half million tax money, you got it anyway.

Without giving the citizens an explanation, she should be moved.

Why do people think they can talk and negotiate with someone like you?

I don't understand that.

That's why we need voter education.

If these people knew that they put this on top, that would make a difference.

That should be a signal.

We cannot trust this mayor.

And first thing is to remove the mayor as soon as possible before she can do more damage to the city.

Too late.

Data centers are coming.

See, back we moved her in 21, you wouldn't be having this problem.

But no one stood up to you when you took away our right to speak, did they?

Okay.

Well to get voter education in school is going to require our legislature, no, Nicole Collar to help us and other ones like that.

I don't know if they will or not.

And the people.

That's the main thing.

Because when they learn that they're not talking to a wall, you can get something done.

But you are a wall.

You too, Chris.

You won't come out and speak.

Not one.

In voter education, here's how you can tell you got bad council members.

When not one of them will step out that door and confront me on camera.

Not one of them will.

And you know you got good people.

Otherwise, you're talking to a wall.

Don't you understand that?

You're wasting your breath and your time.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Elena Montalvo.

Hello.

My name is Elena Montalpo.

I currently attend Texas State University where I am pursuing a degree in education.

Before attending Texas State, I began building my educator toolbox through a student program called TAFI, and in my role as a teaching fellow at Breakthrough for Worth.

So as someone who is a big advocate for public education, it was disheartening to hear about the Fort Worth ISD takeover, a district I graduated from.

The takeover made me realize that I needed to start paying attention.

Not just to what is happening in Fort Worth ISD but throughout the city.

The decisions made here at City Council have a direct impact on students across the city.

I am here to strongly urge this council to put a data center moratorium in place.

Last week, a large number of community members made it very clear to this council of the concerns they had for the development of this AI data center.

Community members also made it clear that you, as our leaders do not have adequate knowledge around how this AI data center will affect our city.

And instead of listening and taking accountability, you escalate situations.

You stop paying attention, you remove people and threaten to shut down the meeting.

Not one council member on this dais stood up for any of us who were here that day.

Actually, just the other week, the Ford ISD Superintendent kept requesting the community to give him and the board of managers grace.

I keep hearing similar phrases from leaders give us grace, have sympathy, have patience.

These self-serving and self-centered requests ignore the urgency and direct impacts that are happening to community members across this city.

People are dying in our jail system.

ICE is kidnapping people at Sundance Square.

Fourth ISD is falling apart, and now AI data centers are eroding our environments.

This harm is at the hands of our leaders.

Whether you are inflicting it, enabling it, or ignoring it, you are contributing to the harm that is infecting our city.

So thank you, Council, for helping not just me, but Fort Worth as a whole realize that we need new leadership, and it's time to vote all of you out come May.

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

Meeting is adjourned.