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The Fort Worth Community Development Committee met on Tuesday, October 13, 2026, at approximately 4:06 p.m. in the City Council Work Session Room, adjourning at 4:34 p.m. Mayor Pro Tem Carlos Flores chaired the meeting. The committee received briefings on the Community Center Facility Master Plan and proposed Woodhaven Community Center, the Community Quarterback Training Program, and the NET Force update. No public comments were made, and no executive session was held.
Good afternoon, everyone. It is six after four o'clock. And I call to order the community development committee meeting. Order at four o'clock on Tuesday, October 13th. First item of business is the approval of September 15th meeting minutes. So I have a motion. Do I have a second? No second. Any corrections, questions, remarks? Not seeing any. All in favor indicate by saying aye. Aye. All right. Any nays? Seeing none, they pass unanimously. Next up, we have briefings. The first uh community center facility master plan and proposed Woodhaven Community Center plan. Uh that's Teresa Thompson. Or Joel. We'll take you, Joel. Uh good afternoon, Mayor Pro Tem and Council members, Joel McElhaney Assistant Director in the Park and Recreation Department. I'm gonna give you a brief overview of our community center facility master plan that is uh currently uh developed being developed. Uh the goal of this plan is to find uh to um guide the future investment in the community centers, and that could be building new community centers and service gap areas or areas of need, and also uh replacement and renovation of our existing centers. The this plan involved an assessment of all 25 of our facilities that includes 24 community centers, including LAT Rise and the North Park YMCA, as well as our Hawes Athletic Center, so a total of 25 facilities. We looked at our building age and overall condition, architectural functionality, in other words, the layout of the rooms, the size of the rooms, are they appropriate for the programming that's being offered? Looked at our mechanical, electrical, and plumbing, our building capacity and the and how well the facilities being used. So we looked at how many members we have, how many people are coming in to drop into the center to use it, how many people are signed up for classes, looked at our existing amendities and then our opportunities for renovation expansion, replacement, or even consolidation of these facilities. In addition to the facility assessment, we looked at our level of service standards and our benchmarking and uh benchmarked against other cities, and we also looked at national standards. And what we identified through that exercise is some service gaps throughout our city, and they're highlighted in color here. There's five of them uh yellow up on the north side and green in the west, uh, that sort of teal blues in the southwest, and then pink on the east side of Fort Worth. And we've identified a site at Woodhaven Clubhouse, which would be uh proposed home or location for Woodhaven Community Center, and that's shown there at the red dot, right at the edge of a capture radius for Hanley Meadowbrook Community Center, and it is within that that area that we've identified as a uh service gap uh where a service gap is on East Fort Worth, and a community center in that location would go a long ways toward uh addressing that need. So our next steps with this plan is to we are having uh one-on-one meetings with council members, give them an overview of this plan. We're doing that in the months of September and this month in October. We will go to our uh work session in October 27th, and to our park board on November 18th for consideration of endorsement, and then on December 8th, uh we would bring it back to council for consideration of adoption. And with that, I'll turn it over to uh Philip Michael uh to talk about right the tip 13. Uh, before we go there, uh yes, is everyone good? No comments on that portion of the presentation. All right. And