Okay, so the time is 325, and I call the property management and environmental services committee to order.

Our first agenda item is briefings, and we will hear from uh Wendy Turpin overview of Brownfields Workshop held on April 23rd.

It's moved on me.

Wendy Turpin, Environmental Services Assistant Director.

I just wanted to share a wonderful experience that we were able to provide with our Brownfields program.

So our Brownfield program uses a lot of grants from the EPA.

And with that grant, we were able to provide a workshop and get about 70 attendees to come.

And as part of this workshop regarding brownfields and learning, teaching others how to access all of the programs.

We were also able to share a tour of the convention center that is being abated right now with the asbestos, especially in that saucer area.

So we were able to take that and share it as a learning experience.

It was a very good program.

It was very well attended, and I just wanted to give a little kudos to the staff, especially the environmental program manager Julie Ragland, who put that together with her team and share with you the fabulous opportunities that we have sharing our knowledge of brownfields with the rest of the state of Texas.

And as you can see, we had several attendees from out of state, and they were wonderful to provide education to our our attendees.

It was a great program.

So I just want to give them kudos.

Thank you, Wendy.

Great job.

Does anybody have any questions?

Just thank you, Wendy.

It is a wonderful program and event that your team put on for the community and developers, and thanks for your time and for staff's time.

Thank you.

Foresee this happening again next year or we try to do it every few years.

Okay.

Awesome.

Thank you.

We will move on to the overview of proposed changes to the Fort Word City Code, Chapter 12.5, presented by Dr.

Wittenberg from Environmental Services.

Dr.

Wittenberg.

Absolutely.

Good afternoon, and thank you for a few minutes to discuss our changes to 12.5.

You hear of spring cleaning, I call it summer scrubbing.

We take an opportunity to look at our existing code of ordinances and make some recommended changes for getting things back in alignment or from lessons we've learned recently.

So, real quick slides.

So just real quick, we have uh chapter 12.5 is our environmental protection and compliance chapter within the overall city code.

And going through each of these, there's multiple articles.

And this does impact several different different departments, TPW stormwater, water department, several others, including environmental services.

So as we work with our law department to make these modifications, these are just relatively straightforward text amendments.

First thing, of course, is definitions.

We just want to get those reorganized and put into the right sections rather than the overall chapter with respect to Jennifer Dykes team and the stormwater protection team.

We also took this opportunity to remove some redundant definitions, update our notice to our new location at 100 Fort Worth Trail, and just clarify that TPW stormwater does have the authority for stormwater utility services.

Moving right along, we have learned a lot of lessons about municipal setting designations, and we wanted to take an opportunity to build in some leeway as we work with developers and the community as these applications come forward.

So you see a couple of time changes.

Again, these applications come to the city before they move on to the TCEQ.

And so we wanted to expand some opportunities for staff to engage with the public and the developer 45 to 90 for that uh comment period, and then also moving in 60 days to 120 days for the um the actual public hearing itself.

Moving right along, we have the um the requirement for currently in the code it says that there are necessary for six hard copies in today's digital age.

We just prefer that people bring it a uh in electronic format whenever they provide service.

Also, we're updating it so that whenever someone provides an application that goes to the city secretary's office as well as our office, and we moved away from the library as a place and really allowing our city secretary's office to make those notifications.

The other components we want to allow for more time for city staff to process these components, and we want to make sure that our development commute community is fully ready when they come to the city for a letter of support from the city with an ordinance or a resolution.

So we're asking for some opportunity for the developers to bring their full application for the TCQ ready before they approach the city, and that they've also had time to meet with stakeholders.

Moving right along in the water section, Chris is here if there's any specific questions, but appreciate some alignment here working on the public drinking water side.

They want to really just lean into backflow prevention assembly and making sure that those technical components are in alignment and that those inspectors that are performing those services are fully registered with the city and that we have the opportunity to revoke those items if those individuals are not performing those inspections up to par.

We also want to make some adjustments to industrial wastewater just to be in alignment as state and federal laws change.

We don't want to have to go back into city code and make changes each time and really work to just make sure that all of those permittees know what they need to take care of with respect to wastewater permits.

Moving right along to solid waste and recycling.

Again, we have uh existing city code that's in Finitex for quite some time.

So there's items that are listed as acceptable for recycling that maybe at one time in the early 90s were acceptable but are no longer acceptable or vice versa.

So we took this opportunity to update that list of recycling uh components, move into removing some obsolete waste yard waste language to allow for that full collection, and then we also want to take an opportunity to clarify our environmental protection fee rate structure and classifications as well as just honor some update to granted privilege.

So if someone does not pay their their quarterly fee or does not pay a fee to us, we need that opportunity to go back and reclaim that as an offense.

Last section is fill material.