Once again, thank you all for coming out.

I uh my heart is glad to see so many folks who are concerned about their community and willing to come to uh spend an hour and a half of your evening just to have a conversation about what's taking place.

That tells me that you probably have some problems.

Uh, this was the old uh new site is the city review some work there.

So this is a very nice uh facility.

Unfortunately, I can get an emails uh some folks my own appreciative and they use it for the best.

Tonight we're uh here for the April 27th town hall.

Um for maybe if you're representative with the hallings as well as listening to where we're going to be on my side.

I will do it's not I can be.

Um I'd like to begin with uh no invitation, I believe we'll follow forget that and I figure it uh leads towards your place.

Thank you for yet gathering our community or those who live or great or grace that you've given regret life the opportunity to live work and serve this on the community.

God, we thank you for the blessings of this nation and the city and all this community as we continue to guide us.

Give us wisdom, whether there's simple discord you go to speak to each other, just like we used to days on the time.

God, we thank you.

First of all, you may just make a suit for stands.

Alright, tonight we have a number of presentations and of course it's always room for questions and uh whether it's relative to uh presenters or otherwise uh that's not here.

Uh our first uh presentation will come from uh Jackie Bregson.

She is with Parks and Breck.

Jackie's on you.

Hello everyone.

You walked in, I put a lot of flyers in the front.

This is the biggest screen by the end of the town meeting, so if I need to make more, I just can help you so um.

I'm just gonna run down a little bit of what I've dropped off there.

Um we're doing summer camp for the registration now, so the days and locations are on the flyer.

Um there's a meeting in the parks that one is on May 15th, and it's at the Riverside Artist Fawn.

Um we're doing a monopoly tournament at the Maine Library town time on May 30th.

Junior Tennis Camp sign ups are on the way as well.

Friday night and tonight's program activity stairs and gyms, which will be basketball, recreation games, hands off e-sports.

And my program that I'm very proud of is we are uh on the lifeguard area, so we're hiring cars and training them to have a classical town right now.

If you know any money just enough, we train them.

We hire them to do it all.

Um please pick up the flyer there.

We have a lot more training dates, and all the this one will open Memorial Weekend on May 23rd.

For the planning department, Mormon Studio is going to be the second floor design.

Blue Cypress Park at the golf course is getting a new floodhouse as well as a rebuilding at the playground.

Just in a road elementary park, the bins, loop, walkway are completed, and they're finishing up the tree planning parkway state.

Fourth Caroline, the playground and walkways are in the design for the fall of this year.

Lake Musita is getting a new restroom upgrade as we speak.

Here are some of the completed projects they have done.

I used to work here about 20 years ago.

Lots change.

Terry Park Bull is getting a new restaurant or a restroom payment and diamond for it installed.

A new playground and fitness replacement.

Ready point dog reinforcement and protecting is complete.

Victoria Park Playground Fitness Restroom and Pickleball is complete.

And Morgan Studios, first floor renovation, adjacent parcel purchase, grouping and fitzing parking.

That's what I have on my end.

Do you guys have any questions?

Going back to the other open for the morning.

Yes, we open May 23rd half of the year.

Yes.

We're actually working with the senior department now.

We will be doing aqua rotics.

We're figuring out the schedule as we speak.

It looks like the classes are going to be 10 to noon.

And it looks like we're expanding to different locations, but this pool will definitely have opera robots and looking for information as we're now just playing the dates and times here.

Okay.

We're hoping we can do Monday through Friday, but we'll wait for the senior services to get back with us.

I heard last year it was pretty popular.

So I thought I'm going to get better out online and both.

Yeah, I actually got an email today to confirm dates and times we want to get outline information sold set.

Okay.

And the reason I wanted our review that is Norman Studio 3 is one of the plants in Bartlington.

And it doesn't get used well enough.

That might be very evolution, and it's going to be a very nice museum designation place.

We went by so quickly.

But the first floor renovation and the adjacent parcel purchase grouping and fencing are complete.

So they're starting to design the second floor as you see.

It's what's in the name of this month.

I don't have the answer for that, but I can follow up with the back of it.

Yeah, you can check them.

One more time.

Yeah, I think the first and third Saturday is when you can check their website for their basics.

That's definitely the whole area.

So I believe the first and third Saturday.

You can check your basement page and their web session.

And they do have the tours instead of in two Saturdays.

Oh my goodness loves the playground complaining, they pitch a rock into the park watching gorgeous, and we really enjoy it.

So we appreciate everything that you guys are doing next to you.

Thank you.

One of the uh big complaints that I receive is that after you can hear me, after the uh weekend, the soccer clubs and whatever, they were scratched the place.

And uh you know parks and records around Monday.

Um I had a conversation with uh Darrell Joseph and you communicate to those clubs, uh the importance of them physically picked up the line and stuff and now we can go one.

So if you see something, say something, and there we go.

Every ninety nine, sixty seven down here today, it'll take two of the stream outside.

Outside is not okay.

So anybody feel like that?

Okay, so you're saying everybody is here every market six to seven free down at the if you go around the way there's a sidewalk and there's a class floor, you just walk in and they have my heart's pre-beding, a little bit less.

Yeah, that was one set of GM out of the garbage situation after some others events we have on the weekend.

Um, and I will say that last weekend was better.

When the citizens have the garbage trucks that they stuck up, do they also send out people to literally hand up because the length is full?

Lake is full, and then of course, when they remove the food trucks, there's napkin and style phone containers and cubs and plastic bottles, etc.

etc.

They go all over and everywhere.

The last time that the um group on Sunday used the facility, the actual field was picked up.

The surrounding area was not.

Um so if you're out here on Monday, and I understand that our people can't come every week, but I just wondered if there is any uh a reevaluation of the people that use the facilities on a regular basis and what their responsibility is.

I just feel like that it's abuse and an awful lot.

But I I have I have come to disguise plastic bottles.

They're they're terrible and they're everywhere, they're stuck in the fences, they're dumping bushes, it's bad.

So um, you know, if there's any way that they can help the people that use it regularly on a regular basis, a little bit more accountable, then that would be wonderful.

But I love the art and I'm glad that it gets used, but I don't want to look at them all.

Thank you, Mayor.

My mayor and my conversation with Mr.

Joseph is that he was going to get with those individuals who are responding to the world as well.

So I'll follow up with sure.

Alright, any other uh questions on parts and break the Jackie will be here if something comes to mind and we'll get her to answer your directly.

I want to go now to uh Mr.

Carroll, who is uh kind of responsible for uh broken sidewalks.

On behalf of the department boat work, we appreciate the invitation to die as we can tell I'll be um real quick.

Uh my name's Any Caroline, Chief Radio School World Right Division.

Does anybody really know Radhaway's Horror Division, what we do and where we are?

Okay, I'll give you a little breakdown on what we are.

We're seeing 200 in-house individuals and independent contractors that works diligently as caretakers for the stage right and infrastructure throughout the hall county.

Maintaining our infrastructure allows us to utilize our main system in an effective manner, our scroll runoff here and three brain events.

Our key rejected our schoolwater maintenance.

Maintaining our open and closed conveyance consists of 1,185 miles of ditches, 1446 miles of storm crane bikes, and that's both our roadside ditches and our alcohol ditches.

Okay, kind of help you visualize that 1185 miles of open ditches.

Google tells me it's 1,066 miles from Jacksonville to San Antonio, Texas.

So that's a pretty amount of ditches there.

Okay.

Also to uh uh where we located our division office or our work office that are adjacent to Greg Airfield and St.

John Club Road North Road, but uh most of our in-house personnel are geographically located at Crossing County and four maintenance facilities, including a support unit.

Our North Area maintenance facility is on Gulf Air Boulevard.

Uh Bond Creek Road is one of the golfers boulevard on the north side there.

Uh Southside of the facility is on the Primer Home Road near Barnes Road through the Alcohol Complex, kind of thing.

We'll have South Side Elementary Upfield School District right there.

Uh also to our uh East area facility is a shared complex with vision office and also our home landscape division.

And then our West area facility is located on West First Street off the back of uh along with our equipment support uh such and there is uh kind of a little bit our in our business complaint group.

We rely heavily on our assistance to report any deficiency that they may encounter.

So if you uh always enter our high check by calling six group cities before eight nine.

Uh and it doesn't matter what side of town you own, it is in the frame on the other side of the town.

Uh archive max field that doesn't matter, that number works for everybody.

And I can pay you there as a dedicated staff and call center, and that will park in the keywords, and whenever they put that my tax in, it defaults to the agency for their investigation.

Okay.

Once the my tax is uh received, uh it's investigated to validate ownership.

Okay, uh, if it's ours, then actually plan is determined.

Not that we uh alert the agency responsible.

So uh broadway school division, even though we're carry fixed rightway.

We don't maintain every rideway or every infrastructure.

So there's a mechanism there.

Make sure that we're using tax office right, working on what the city actually owns.

And so if you see a line tax cancel, you know, don't get upset that it comes to leave the components, it may be a duplicate issue.

Instead of 14 issues for the same issue on the same block, well, a lot of times we'll leave the bridge one in place and work from there, and that way we kind of kind of save a little bit of work too, kind of making sure we attach the right problem.

Also, too, if it's uh not publicly maintained or belongs to the other agency feels so noted in that my jack's issue also too.

I know the biggest thing we're gonna talk about are the ditches, but uh regarding ditch maintenance requests is uh this kind of urgents where our guys want to investigate that ditch.

Um we attack it definitely uh but now when we're talking uh urban cuts, we're talking about excessive sedimentation building to where uh it reduces our ditches functionality.

Um it's not necessarily an overgrowth of vegetation.

It may have a little bit of wings in the pitch and all that workflows to find, but it's not good, so it's not that big official.

And actually, a good standard vegetation is really good for a roadside ditch and outfall digits.

Our routine approved team roadside ditch and cleanness is addressed to our score action teams better known as squat, with our in-house and contract squat teams are assigned to bridges.

Give you an idea we have 66 grids throughout New Ball County, and that's how we assign those particular grids.

We started this program back in 2014.

Uh, and what we did, we packed the worst areas where we had the most complaints, and that's how we generated our list.

Once we get to the bottom of that list, the bridge we start back at the top.

Rotation of those squat grids right now.

Also to most of the rural life is an open containment system or quality and uh environmental protection.

Well maintained in the segment, not only that's just a natural facilitation system, traffic pollutants like fertilizer walls, sediments before they reach our floral sensitive water bodies, such as creeks, rivers, and even our oceans.

Included in that 1,185 miles of what we convey is our 226 miles of outfall digits.

Overall, we have 885 digit segments throughout the county.

191 of those are here in the East Area.

Okay, we've basically 59 and a half miles of uh open digits about laws.

Uh maintenance is addressed manually again, which once per year.

Uh we bring the county down and support the entrance so that we can better manage our contracts and our contractors.

And how we address that in, like the first quarter is basically October through December, we give them back out, and they go to in and so forth.

January through March, and then third quarter, April through June, and then of course the last through September.

I can say right now we've had the funds to address it for the last four years.

So uh that's pretty much it.

Uh a lot of people don't realize this about uh public work, but uh this is kind of the way I feel about public work.

So I've got a few days under my belt as an employee here, but uh anybody here cleaning some thing.

Okay.

All right, there you go.

I like that.

Thank Harvard Bridge.

But work is like the Marines are gone for that.

We'll come, we advise we work getting the job done.

Yes, I'm gonna go back.

Any questions for Mr.

Carroll?

Hi, my name is Jim Pack with the Fairway Spark subdivision.

I just want to give my kudos to Mr.

Carlis.

I contacted them by the account about two years ago for some drainage problems throughout subdivision.

And then we agree, we've gotten the number of things fixed is what we fixed.

So I just want to say thank you, and we appreciate the job that you get the city.

Thank you for those downwards.

I really appreciate it.

I I can tell you uh those 200 team members and house employees.

I I have a tendency sometimes to all overcommit, but I can tell you those men and women never underdeliver.

Uh it's nice to have a team like that with support.

Yeah, I just wondered.

I just want to publicly didn't say thank you sending an email the other day, but uh we're giving the green um uh sewer um swells that was growing for over years.

Um is uh really appreciated as long as a couple of them on there and have you maintained, it's good and sold status.

Well, thank you very much, Mr.

One thing uh Mr.

Carroll is in his department right away uh in your communities when the sidewalks across the outside, you know, and it's becoming trip after if you will.

Uh it's this department that comes in and mixed with rights.

And I've seen it done, and it has been successful.

I know my neighbors uh they had a few sidewalks and uh one lady trip as well, and uh one sound is good, uh the gravity of this really elevated the uh car you're giving back and such what is so even something as simple as that is what they take care of.

Thank you.

Go ahead, sir.

Now G more.

I have a question, I'm not sure whose responsibility is.

Um when they put in the uh weighing down Isabel, they tore up the sidewalks, they fixed the sidewalks except for about a 30-foot section divided is a bell is just dirt.

And I don't know if the city was supposed to come back and fix that, if the builder is supposed to fix that, but there's there's just a visit section right at the corner of Jim Tom and is the building.

Okay.

I know we have some concerns uh when I say we we public work since certainly the big outfall bits and profit.

Um cut down St.

Isabel and turn that uh that I know their development services uh facilitation of prison plans and all that to their 10-set process remaining and all the that's I'll reach out to develop the service.

I'm not aware that we've had any uh substantial uh completion uh review of it yet, but that gives us something like we can track down for me.

I checked the hall out before Carolina.

big outfall bits and revolting uh we cut down saying this well you turn that uh but I know there are development services uh facilitation of prison plans and all that through their 10 step process read and all the that's up I'll reach out to develop the service I'm not aware that we've had anything uh substantial uh completion uh review of it yet but that it gives us something like we can track down from weekend I've checked on that fourth car uh I know that JEA comes through and uh cuts down that's at the trees that are you know power lines but who is responsible for maintaining development uh of the trees that are part of the city and rolling on the city right now and I may control well in the city right that leads so far into the street no one wants to drive on it trend back that much and it's like and it's been there a lot of it there's the 1963 stair now it's been there for a long time and probably the way that is something stage and like I said we don't like driving underneath it that's the only way we have to get out of the subdivision sometimes.

Before you get away just to make sure we can actually get a good address.

Okay.

That way we can line that our mowing landscape we handle our grass on throughout the city uh not just the right way but also our parts department and our city old facilities um but but they're also going to maintain a tree you know so like those new trees we have you see on the side road that's our motion but if it's any kind of maintenance up that'll be evaluated too um the biggest thing they'll look at or make sure it's alive or declining which declining it was the fancy comparison uh but um that we have the break staff over there they'll evaluate it the key is uh they just can't willing will go cut down every tree I'm gonna have to look at it and you know for what's the target that does what you know what happens in this but they they got they got some technical so they they can sit there and look at say hey this is what we need to do like that they got the staff just makes pretty connected to get and we get my taxes and we see that thank you very well pretty tightly and whether sidewalks or not is where there's private parts private property parcels that are not affiliated with the property subdivision is coming to like Evan Easter Baptist church will correspond on the site and there's a development section that we have the sidewalk and the property stops is really private person.

So that's the way all the sidewalks we put into their land and really sidewalks that are not some subdivision probably but uh and also gym sidewalks that we have the track and then that's that's why the sidewalks are not really and there's not new southwest insulation halls underneath my jurisdiction also this is something we definitely look at we forgot who's in pretty few words why you said something about private property and I don't know how that's figuring out I trust these cases we'll take a look at it and see if they can extend and there's anything I can do my end of course is looking at the board and through the level and exactly my it's been a while since I driven back there they've got new infrastructure has to start to build no service problems and all that and so we've got the coming forth the street's the first layer of things and uh we didn't water and very slots and thank you sir for those of you who don't know what we're talking about it's just a few yards in that direction um off the same use we go which is just the uh one way road and going back and see what we are and now 200 homes or something.

It feels like two hundred.

Thank you, Mr.

Carroll shared with us.

Who is the director of public works on the center behind?

And he is going to bring us up to date on some of the projects.

Carol's division falls overline along with seven other divisions including landscape and providing real estate and engineering.

So we talk about new projects.

The engineering division is the group that uh brings in new new items to your to your district.

So I'll cover a couple of things.

Um, of course, is the own star extension.

Um I started companies meetings about two and a half years ago.

I promised them that we were close to uh delivering that, and um of course in government time and it takes a long way to go to right away that we were after delivered phase one of that, and we're working on phase two.

There's uh there's an easement that we're working on in order to start the next part to use that background about.

But um, we're we've gotten good uh good feedback about that highway opening up, and hopefully providing more access to the residents in that area.

Um related to uh some enhancements along with University Boulevard and Armstrong Expressway.

So I'll start with the University of Boulevard Complete Sweet's project, which is uh the segment of University Boulevard starting with the Arlington Expressway up to Daryl Road, and the goal of that project is to make the corridor more walkable and bikeable and more friendly to residents.

And so we are currently in what's called the D and E base, which is a essentially an alternative and environmental evaluation.

We expect to come to the council members soon and then have the public meeting after that to present to you the alternatives that have been looked at so far.

The goal to provide wider sidewalks, landscaping, and other ways to again make the road friendly for not just cars but also for people along the courtroom.

So uh we look forward to bringing that to you to take a look at here in just a couple of months.

Along that same area, um a couple years ago, I asked ST to put some more money alongside expressway, and so they are currently in the middle of design of the interchange at Arlington Expressway and University Boulevard.

They're going to, as most of us who live in the neighborhood as I do, um, when you're going north on university and you're trying to get onto the expressway to downtown, that loop rate that comes around is pretty dangerous because of all the people that's in the leading that's there.

So the DUT is looking at turning that interchange into the I used the terminology might be a P roundabout, which instead of having to go north and then uh looking up the lead ramp right to that stress, you kind of go up and you um follow the roundabout when you actually get on another ramp and we want a quadrant to be up on the expressway.

And so that'll be a lot safer of a move, and along with that, um they have committed over 12 million dollars to that interchange as well as the media agreements.

We all are familiar with how dangerous that media and public expressway can be when you try to cross them over.

And so they're looking at some options as to uh perhaps barriers as well as landscaping and other things to make it safer, and hopefully also a little bit more second cleaning.

So we're working on that with the DUT.

Um in addition, there's a separate landscape uh project with DOT where they have committed to $3 million for additional landscaping along through Alpha's best.

So you should see some decreases.

Um these projects will be bid sometime uh either late 2027 or early 2028, and then we'll see the structure starting work.

So I'm really excited about this forward.

Um another project that uh we've been working with Council Member on is uh looking for a way to uh announce and enhance um the entryway into uh into Arlington.

So there is uh a project on the work line for a monument sign, which is going to be at the Southwest Quadrant of the University of Boulevard College Express by the country.

And so I know we have saved us a long time.

But he is highly committed uh part of the C VA company to put that sign in.

Um I do have some traffic here, but that uh supposed to look like the shed public school, and we have uh filter on board and took that in the program created some design documents.

So if you're interested, you can see Jacob as part of the uh meeting and show you what the parts connected.

Um we didn't brief questions about that.

Sure.

So we uh we have money to continue the design to take it further, so we are uh getting ready to put out the RFP to do that, and once uh once the design is included, uh we will need initial funding for construction, but this we want to start moving that forward again and uh getting that right for construction.

And then we're remaining to money.

That's over.

Any questions for our second?

You mentioned the left-star road extension and the roundabout thing.

So I think that doesn't, and I understand that the last meeting that plans are for a uh traffic signal that mill three and love.

Are there any plans on the books for sidewalks or street lights going down three towards region?

Because all of those kids involved, they there's no way for them to get from the school that's back in there, and I understand that's either a charter school or private school.

They have to put all the way out the middle walk down three to reach the square drive, and then back into those people road uh subdivisions into their houses.

There's no custom room for that.

So we're walking down three, no sidewalk, uh, no street lights, and um it's security dangerous for that section that has been around dark work.

So if there is anything, thank you for that question.

The current project does have a shared path along both dark road.

And you make a very good point, and um I will go down, uh, we'll go back and look at what that condition is at unload break and see if we can um add that request to our to our thing.

Yes, if you like it, go on for um these streets, um, someone familiar with that, but um concerned about the university board earlier in commission.

I'm sure a lot of people are, but so really um as the engineers are developing your proposals of doing the plans that they're gonna come up with.

Um you have the meeting, are those plans pretty much one tour three and that's it, or based on the community's input.

Um is the is your department willing to modify the plans to make adjustments.

The example on one model is Arlington Road, which uh assume that some incentive is similar to that where sidewalks are created like that, uh increased removal of the traffic from two minutes to one.

So I would imagine decreased lane with two lines for both maybe 10 feet to maybe 18 feet.

I don't know.

But so my question would be are you gonna allow for community report and are you willing to modify your engineer advanced uh before you finalize going forward in the development?

How are you finding out the meetings that you're gonna earn in the process?

We have not even started the design phase yet.

You are the alternative development, so that is the reason for the meeting taking very early time steps uh for the community to look at to get your feedback.

So absolutely uh that meetings here you are months and months and probably a year and a half from that to get your five design.

So we have plenty of time.

Now is the right time to get you input.

Um, in terms of how to how to um to let you all know, and um uh your contact list to make sure that you're aware of what that means is going to be held over there.

Um very well uh building and small for the section side.

So welcome to the following options.

What are the total work on the south side of the uh stone?

However, it's like we have finished strike.

Crosswatch and change what you're striking on the scene.

You're speaking of West of 295.

I don't know if the first one is very well there, especially school there.

There's crosswalk across Archfield and then crosswalks across the elbow temporary as well.

It's turn just out on that turn from the question.

So this one might be temporary or thank you that feedback.

We have to wait for the ass off the door.

I believe that's the colour.

Okay.

Coming in to college park of the service road.

I saw direct form.

Zone session signs.

What is that project?

I do not know.

I'll it's uh if you're speaking of college parts specifically, there's an out parcel where property owners generated to build a whole test.

And so they needed to have that zone separately for that uh build up or whatever it is.

Then out of the park.

It's gonna be within possible.

Okay.

That's how parcel apparently was not uh continuous with property as far as the zoning goes.

So they had to be a free zone of that.

Uh I want to go back on the road.

Um, and then I can expound on this.

The reduction of that roadway was um because of the condition of the bridge.

Uh the bridge was safe, and in order to keep it functional, they did all that work to reduce it into the two name.

And that's what she was making reference earlier about uh the work to restore that toilet or at some point building the bridge and that nature.

Am I correct?

Um signage that Dina mentioned, um when you come off the uh Matthew's bridge going east, uh it's always been something in my heart that uh there should be some kind of branding that says well.

And so that's what she's been working on diligently.

You know what?

It's a small thing, but you know, uh something small.

And so um my hope is that by having that completed, uh it restores some sort of community pride and not just a branding on the edification of the community that's been called.

And so every time I see me that's a house sign.

Um she's she's been on it.

She's been on it.

And she's uh an Arlington resident, so her values becomes elevated.

Any other questions for our name?

Thank you so much.

And moving on now to uh enforcement, which is one of my good friends because whenever I see something that's out of line, I call them up as a guys need to go get uh Chris Billings uh usually Roberts that that's with us, but Chris is here tonight with us and uh good evening everyone.

My name is uh Chris Billings, I'm the enforcement administrator.

Um supervisor could not join us since the evening as he's celebrating his anniversary.

So I will run through this uh with you guys and hopefully you know the answer to the question, provide you guys with some uh information.

Um I'm sure most of you guys have uh pretty good idea of what enforcement does all the detail.

Uh we currently have a staff of 28 officers that cover all of the Jackson and I think it's all six C packs uh currently in Arlington each of CPAC.

Just recap to say what uh what they've done in the Arlington area just this year alone.

Uh his team has conducted 3,020 inspections between this five officers.

Um currently uh 1,205 active investigation going on within the community.

Those investigations include everything from private property, uh better dye trees, uh yards, grass, um, trash debris, junk vehicles, residential commercial violations, uh zoning violations and unsafe properties.

When there's an issue in the community that happens on someone's property, typically we have said uh community members respond through using the myjacks in the 60s city to get the issues in our hand, and we'll have one of our officers come out and do an investigation and hopefully be able to either address the problems, educate the homeowners, and work towards voluntary lines.

And that's that's kind of the case of where we like to begin.

Most of our impact in the community is engaging with property owners.

A lot of times people do not know what our municipal codes or ordinances require of private property owners would not be cities HOA, but we do have our standards.

We do have our minimum property maintenance standards.

We're there to start out by educating the community on what those need and try to work towards the Afro's voluntary compliance.

Unfortunately, sometimes those don't always happen.

Speaking on that, I know there's been a lot of issues going around in Arlington with commercial uh vehicles, parking residential neighborhoods, semis in neighborhoods.

If you have one of those issues in your neighborhood, get it to our office, we'll get out there, we'll get a hold of the driver, we'll get a hold of the driver's company.

One way or another, they do not call the rest of the neighborhoods.

We'll make sure that they are addressed.

Um of you may be aware of the Arlington overlay.

Uh Supervisor Koshka had informed me that he is almost wrapping it up with this first round of addressing every uh every business, every property within that uh overlay, uh, looking to be wrapped up within the next two, three weeks.

Um also put a kind of a highlight on where we are right now.

We are fast approaching the end of spring, running straight forward, so we are in the growth season.

We are in the acting in the communities.

If you guys are seeing properties that are unmaintained, that looks like they haven't been moved since last year.

Let us know.

The ownership know, if it's a private property, we can get a hold of the actual property owner.

Unfortunately, we have a lot of people that um are renting these properties out.

There's a lot of investments in Texas, which we're great, but when these properties are unmaintained and unresponded to, that's the word instead of get these properties cleaned up to promote y'all's property value to ensure that your investment is taken care of and appreciated.

Um that being said, June 1st, June 1st is the beginning of our AC here in the American.

We got very lucky last year.

I know we we spoke about uh trees.

Tree co private property is a big concern for me.

Distraction three is a big concern for me.

But it comes down to our highways if we don't get a source that we did last year.

These pass would become hazards for not only you but also becomes hazards for your neighborhood.

Notifying our department and identify these uh potential tree houses that they have a target towards your house or their house, even it's just a um better night tree.

We can get out there, we can identify the property, require it's done.

We uh we have our contractors that go out and do the tree trimming or uh removal on the private property.

Um with that being said, we also wanted to ensure that, and I I have some flyers here and leave that up, but I do want everyone to be aware of our letter sign enforcement, uh any kind of letter signs or advertisements or any uh temporary science place on the railway.

We have our officers that are actively removing these signs, but as community members as well, and it's on city property and it is a uh snipe sign.

You guys are 100% within your legal right to remove those as they are considered trash degrees.

Um see it bugs you remove it, if not let us know, then we'll let the tree that have to have people uh other than that, uh we we uh had a question for everybody here.

Did anybody not hear about the uh Arlington uh district block party that was held Saturday uh this previous Saturday?

Maybe nothing.

So we we uh on Saturday we got our uh our second block party that uh that we had off since far since our initial park.

We initially were going to have this part right here, uh with all the vendors that we had um schedule to come in uh with the golf range as well.

We thought that it might have been better if uh we're open environment.

Um it turned out well, however, I wanted to ensure that when we are including these block parties and our neighborhoods are representative, that our uh notification to the community goes out efficiently and effectively.

Um we probably had somewhere between three and five hundred people that didn't show up.

We had uh we had several food truck vendors representing from all the city agencies, uh had a helicopter come in play on the football field.

Um but again we are uh as part of that neighborhood's apartment, uh we are trying to do these outreach programs, we should try to do more community events, and this might have been the uh the uh Arlington and beaches and see that, but we are also looking into smaller neighborhoods, smaller district block parties to do a little bit more community uh engagement, uh host events, try to get some of these inputs together and bring back the community and try to promote uh education and have a good time.

Um other than that, I'm going to open up for any questions from the audience.

I can speak pretty much.

Um as to the block part, we didn't find out about it until we uh went to the chair's watch and they handed out a flyer there.

Uh and that was what 48 hours before the block.

Maybe a little bit more aggressive in your campaign to let people know with help.

Um I I didn't see enough.

I'm on Facebook, I'm on social media, I didn't pick it up.

So that's my first part.

Second part, this nice sign.

Did somebody go to the charter school?

I'm sure you may have to help that class or please control the science.

I I think we were covered.

Um get any like up and down.

Okay.

Uh last year when they did, we uh we got involved and they picked them up.

Um they did it again.

Yeah, yeah.

They did it again, and then the signs disappeared.

And so I was wondering whether this department picked them up, or did the school do the right thing if we won't pick that up?

Thank you.

Any more Chris, anyone?

We have single family homes.

I live on the working drive.

Um we have single family homes.

What we have is multiple homes open down.

What if this regulation for going?

No.

Um what is the zoning for single family homes and having people, many rooms have multiple families living in one home?

Vehicles.

We all vehicles have people that scrap stuff in the yard one to make all about commercial vehicles.

What is the actual?

So you definitely hit on a hot topic item in Jackson right now.

It is not something that is isolated to your community anymore.

And unfortunately right now, this could uh there's new tools being found with our zone.

There is uh people they're finding ways in the buildings, and any landlords are potentially getting advised from people that are understanding our code and how to go around.

Um to answer your question directly, uh no more than uh five hundred label people who live in the city family residence.

Uh we are looking at identifying these properties.

I you brought up uh multiple vehicles.

Well, it could be an indicator, it could not.

Uh we have to find and navigate that fine line of where our ability to step in and I'll say we're basically going into someone's private property, and they potentially their rights as a system.

Why do you mention that?

Because there is a home on our street that has a home on our street that has a trailer in the backyard in the ground.

Your own person came out and said the gate because you can find the gate.

I said I'll fly a room.

I said, this is the reason.

Where are they doing the waste to going in the ground?

What's the deal?

So when it comes to um against that question, when when we're looking and doing our investigation, we observe everybody's private property rights, we are stopped at a front or we are stopped at the top line if they claim no trespassing, we have to observe those rights.

Now, if it's something that we can see, you know, as an RB, if we cannot see the connections to it, if we cannot unfortunately or I'm down to tell that there's a violation of someone's ready or something that's living in it, then it creates a very hard issue for us to pursue for violation of that.

Now we have the we can't fly growth, trust me.

I looked into every aspect of that.

It would make my job in my life a lot easier, but we are limited by uh for law, we are limited by our ordinance, so we have to use the tools and the methods that we have, and again, as an American citizen, we have to make sure that we are observing people's rights and privacy.

Um but we are going to do everything that we can.

It takes four to five visits and they can get that right person to answer the door.

You know, sometimes when we send things ritters, you know, there are key indicators.

So that person opens that door.

We see that these guys have room units with uh rooms with numbers on them, then we need to at least uh a room house when we put it in a car.

Um we also have our different uh methods for loan for these.

I'm not gonna go into them.

We take some right to slide.

Um that means that we email and I'll take them out right or not.

We uh it it it makes our job very difficult, but you know, I understand that you see eight vehicles out in front of a um central hole that is listed in the two free bedrooms out instead of the red flag.

Unfortunately, our uh point is do not uh limit how many vehicles you can have as long as they're maintained, as long as they are offerable, as long as they're properly licensed, and I for one, I love cars, and I want to have an and you know, if I may look more money, I'll probably like look for cars, then I'll be more trouble.

But you know, with that being said, I I do have a respect for the community, but I also have respect for people's uh probably central American citizens.

So we are doing everything that we can to address these concerns, but there is a very big stop.

I mean we just cannot cross.

But uh in rooming houses, the short-term rails, these tax slip or slip properties, uh splits.

They are good, they are something that is not new, they are relatively growing more, so that's why you're seeing a lot more compusters in your communities.

And we are looking at up for legislation to try to get them to come in and maybe register with the city so we can go new inspections, limit how many people live in, but again, that is very new and we're not we're not even there yet.

Sunday evening, I counting at least six tractors in possibly eight on both sides of the road uh in the parking parking areas.

I have another one uh that actually hold JSON.

They're parked at the towns in uh boulevard um entrance of the certain uh three special service road.

He's parked on the side.

He was there for once five or six days.

We parked on the sidewalk, and kids coming out of seat coast, or driving riding their lights and walking in the road because they can't get around him.

And the JSON said it sent somebody out and sending the water.

Um he was on the sidewalk, and you could not be putting him from the fence going around the seatbelt.

So I don't know if there's anything to do that to you.

There's another track trailer park there before and did have a citation.

I talked to him.

This other one is is there all the time.

Typically when we stop and put that citation on our window is advertised to them as an individual or to their air company, their carriage company has to call down from Indiana and say that can be doing other Jacksonville, it does stop.

But again, it's catch them in the act, and in fact, one you said on the town was there for six days without the address.

Let us know six remote city, say uh let's enter the seminary this area, give us uh an address point that's in front of uh I live probably five miles from here, so my food officers can't do it, and I can swim by, take the photos, and you know, give them the citations to like the mail out of the direction.

We're not a first responder base, we are playing ribbon for the most part, but within reason, we'll get out there and see what's going on when it comes to after hours.

People in taxable know when you join officers stop coming in the neighborhoods.

They know at 3 30, 4 o'clock, our vehicles are out in their neighborhoods, and then they bring in the double trucks that can bring in the city, and this big consistent problem, but we do have the ability to do after hours on limited basis.

Um things might keep them going on on weekends, but uh with enough of a uh enough of a rise in it, I can definitely find a way to offline some guys to go out there on the night and see the new deals.

Okay, so call you I call the GSO um non-emergency number.

Um Friday, whole head and Monday and definitely holding as well.

I have two business cards here.

If you want to communicate a whole lot, I I do prefer I do prefer the area that goes to six rooms in call center, but if you're not getting somewhere, you can reach out and we'll uh we'll get we'll get through that.

All right, we've got a couple more and then we're gonna go to uh in community.

I don't uh ask you guys also on the left side area.

Are you news with uh parking buildings in that area about basically a lot of issues?

I got pictures, so I don't have to want that back to some of this on some pictures and whatnot to show extra.

I understand that we're gonna just want to draw and wassue not too long ago for a very extensive period of time.

I could go more, but um it's uh oh park and open um polls and keep that because again the maintenance that are regulated as well um yes, sir.

So we do uh build directly with uh private property so apartments, they all fall on private property, but you did say you're in the garden, correct you're on the country.

Right.

Yes, and we have been building with that parking complex for the last five, ten years, it has escalated over the last five years.

It actually went in front of the public use of the latent board or all the uh wall line based, and that includes everything from uh incense that JSON has responded now to code enforcement issues with lack of property maintenance.

Um I can go on, we we have several cases in our reasonable force board, our attention has been on that property for quite some time, but we're not walking away until it is uh resolved.

They have struggled with management, they have struggle with ownership, they have struggle with security, but we're not walking away until they can be used to say a couple more before we'll move on to the back of the board.

First question is communicated.

Um for people who maybe are seniors or um are not able to take care of our in the process of co-enforcement, are we looking about with um community services to help with that for uh you know actually once up?

So when it comes down to um if we if the enforcement comes out and they have to issue a property or uh we may not necessarily know if the property is owned by a venture, we may not necessarily know if it's by um elderly person or someone who is on disability.

Um however, we do offer what we call the injectable superior or assistance relief program, which if the um the owner applies for that program, they can be the lien for the city.

The city's still gonna do an abandoned come in and move yard, come in the uh cut tree, remove it, trajectory, um even tear down the house.

That those funds are there to weigh that the cost of the lien, however, qualifying uh factors have to be uh adhered to.

Now it wouldn't be something that we would go out and say uh we site your property.

You know, here's a perfect list of uh vendors or something like something like those.

We don't have a fund.

There are other divisions that maybe have to offer more assistance on there.

Um the drug program is set up for something to help release some of these properties from the owners who are unable to financially because it is through uh disability programs or by uh meaning income of the so the program is available, the application is available online with the extra.gov website, all you can do is type in any paying bar and to search for rearrangement website, I've just updated the application, so everything is ready for uh organization or some are scouts and some of that all the payments or things like that.

That's what so we're we don't we can't stand as the advocate and also personal doing that.

Um that would be something that members of the community would look at uh addressing, try to communicate with churches, local organizations, but currently as it stands, we do not uh have a third point outreach uh to find assistance for individuals outside of our um text assistance or need.

And then my second question is kind of really question, um, about it's not really a question.

More about what's been doing for one of the reasons we see all these people in some different homes, and it's possible housing and stuff like that.

And I don't know how recently people in here have actually rented at home or have uh have buying, but the cost has increased tremendously.

Um and so my husband and our rents are from the 17 until four years ago.

And uh our prints and this is the back of the side of our site, so like that area put out by eight per dollars a month.

So that per dollars is a huge portion of our salary.

I can imagine that happening to people who are on the thing.

And a lot of that is rental that's just like ours.

And they're buying all these homes, and they just have the price up on my friends.

And so I'm wondering if it seems to be anything to help with that, or case the prevent that's not sitting in the rent control or anything like that.

Fortunately, it's great.

Um it's one of the big problems right now in our community.

I only business on Orange Road, Rover.

Um this kind of question presses and go for some development that is happening here.

Um the building, I lease the building, I missed it since 2011.

And the building that I has three commercial spaces, three residential spaces, and I'll decide one additional commercial space.

Um after the uh work was done, we now have three parallel buffer spots in one interview for all those locations.

So the parallel parking across the street, uh, across one, also that's the Harbor, and I employ a couple of people, the business couple of people, plus we have a customer base and then we can also sell tools, things are in and people have to cross on the customers I think it's not the same back for the personal.

Um I I don't know what we can do about that, and I don't know how that can be addressed.

Um the other thing is that's some confusion for code enforcement, I'm gonna go ahead and take uh wise, that sort of thing.

I'm looking at uh ordinances and also city bachelor, they don't seem to line up.

So I'm not really sure what we can do.

Um I love it that we make our work in our design.

I think my yard looks like a ball.

And uh so I really like it that we're looking at codes that we all do, so the foil is sort of the ground coverage for the area traction.

So we have more tracks on this and then um it looks worse than what it is hard.

Um we have a sign for we don't have a sign back there.

So that's something initial stats that's um tough so much like we use.

We have lost uh you know, probably a lot of money that has a lot of version census attack.

The sides building broadly, at least that spot also has no market whatsoever for that, except for heavy times.

So there's no parking for that location.

Um this goes forward to play in the future, too.

And we play university plays and dumpster that have walls by the same work.

The first day that they remove dumpster was the walls, the right random like 16.

Just into it because it used to be diagonal, but you coordinates it and be parallel or that big problem if they trust me has to back into the parallel part and as well as the tree, not the building, and you must have done as well.

So there was a lot of I guess lack of four side of what is going to happen.

So I don't know what the city has any plans or um to help out any of these businesses that have suffered losses because of this.

Um actually looking because of this.

And cost of every 79, 7500,000 dollars.

Actually look removed because 7500,000 dollars for me to stay and fix on the business on the change and what change transfer to carry on so holding something dollars and the parking situation.

Can you address that?

We cannot worry if you give us a map we're trying to get there to discuss the CRA okay and so I just want to know any structure that are legal and honorable.

So short-term rules and meaning of someone coming in type of area thing.

We don't have one that's just currently so that was everyone.

All right, very uh questions we have.

Our last present is the night is kind of wrong who's the uh redevelopment manager for the CRA.

Some of you see the work.

Um this is something that community approved back and forth and now it's being executed.

And some of the work has been very small, uh some has been new for uh but in the end sort of make volume tremendously.

So here's all in the future stuff.

Good evening.

Um, I'm Karen Ashville.

Um we probably should be office back on the development.

I understand CRA as well as a case of property CRA and taxable.

I um please choose my very same tonight and tailwind or bad holes covered with this weather um stat ears.

Um in any event, um just vibrate background for those of you who work with the CRA following part statute um chapter um chapter uh one sixty-three part three series was created with a movements for seven seven thirty-eight as council to redevelopment plan with goals and objectives, and it also included the funding source, which is what we call the TIF tax increment varieties and two fund for projects within the downloading of the CL.

We're new or link to the was created um uh we can have social corridors in the state uh definition of some life areas.

So they allow us to use tax dollars to fix some of that like conditions.

Um yeah, of objectives of every development and to solve um for the conditions of the area to that the CRA bound rate, which is more to discuss airline or caroline to keep work, they're a road to try and hide in the way or city for everything.

Um we are fulfilling um many goals and objectives, and just to remind everyone of the lights, um to get here, protect and enhance the existing markets.

Bring all commercial operations to code so we can actually develop into the area.

No one is going to really study area here, commercial for time.

Um establish a complete streets program without redevelopment areas, but not just the sets, but for the state passage of things for traffic and pedestrians.

Uh need a little bit to the university project which we are so interposing objectives in the remote and complete streets programming is no more important.

It's also protective.

It's also not even more objective, it needs to be tough processing.

It's the most transformative, it's also the most expensive.

There will be a tremendous financial stack, meaning there's going to be a lot of different um funding forces to make that happen, because they are physically expensive.

Um traffic to ensure safety and purge to come up in the corridors, creates sustainable commercial reductions corridors, but at the local destinations.

We want people coming back to our research shop, and we want to provide new residents of online new opportunities to shop.

They're lofty.

We have a lot to home.

One of the programs that we started with was the 70th.

And that was approved in June 2019, 2019.

And it not only provided the guidelines within businesses coming in, but it mandated that existing commercial properties coming to the clients, signage landscape, landscape.

The signages the signage was discussed because the presidents of Arlins and also going through the redevelopment plan to see our information process.

They wanted us to eliminate a lot of the side lights.

So part of that overlay was to take the whole size down and make one unit size so we can do more in their multiple light out of the sky, and then you can see on the tree line.

So those two objectives are what we were trying to achieve.

And then landscape landscape up.

Because it changes everything out there for this element.

And legally the city wants to run away to act that they can't be responsible for customers' parking on the right way, especially in spaces in the armed legal control.

So we're trying to collect that.

Many properties are not aging compliance, which is the question.

So if something happens on your property, and you get sued that your property's not in compliance, you are wonderful.

We are correcting a lot of that for these property making their properties legally completely aligned with local link.

It's also we are currently, we've got 63 properties in the program.

Some of the most notable ones that just come online have a default notice.

And we notice the difference between that property, which is Tigers Express.

All the step and tired of gone.

All the change depends on the world's bottle and so on.

It's new.

That is a prototype of what we expect to see along all these four doors in the program is there.

We have funded to date just over 11 million dollars.

This year we have one point five still the balance because we'll have another 10 million dollars we can contribute to the million years.

We're working diligently for five years and as best we can to bring the property to compliance.

It coupled with the students programming on the university overline.

We will not have to find it in the world towards the different things.

Sulphur Grove.

I'm sorry.

Sulfur.

S UL PH Grove.

Okay.

We haven't done a project that we do that.

It's Holland Property.

Oh, it's one of the Holland Park.

Yeah, I lose the property.

Okay, we still haven't done a landscape project.

Yeah, it's done.

It's done.

That was done.

Okay.

So it's been done for a while.

Okay, so the one that I'm thinking of is right across the base.

Yeah.

So I think what you're talking about is the parking is in the front of the building.

And it's back in Al Charlton Road.

Yes, and that is illegal.

Yeah, I understand that.

So we're trying to mark these things that are illegal and bring in illegally parking spots that are safer for the communities and say for your customers and for yourself.

And parallel parking is the only operator.

For that area.

It was similar to that.

City code is around parking spots on the right way that the parking.

Oh that I'm sorry, right back into the travel rates.

So there are well parking and option once we do it.

And on the vision road, the parts making the trunk off the universal parts of the side street, we have some that they will mark the city backing out and kind of need that work and store for example.

We're trying to make all those questions.

I don't actually first.

And of course other businesses aren't moving in there, so because of that, I'm going to have empty shopping centers probably to get by.

And to be honest with you, that area is worse than it was about 15 years ago.

So it's wonderful.

I probably have a homeless camp in the front line business now.

And trying to attract families and kids are very hard to do in that area.

We do work very close to the JSON and especially Justina in that area.

No.

Okay.

I would get in the Alexa Pocket.

It is a camera program where you can have cameras installed on the property.

And if you're enrolled in the program and you have an issue, JSON registering the program in you your property in real time.

I'm like, I'm just telling what you said.

And my response is well, we're on the so what you said is that his negotiations for your phase is something that we have something that we're built out in front of you.

So as you know, as a this is the beginning to end the white process.

So you've got the negotiations with the places, and we got the sort of what and how it's been out all the way.

He tells me that he's in negotiations and the things in one phase or another.

I don't know what the phases are, but I'll check before you talk about the thing.

I don't want to be back on this conference.

I think that it is um starting to be full of state.

One of the most many folks called something out of the maple that's can't have this part there.

Now one doing mother is coming up there and hang out on our course.

So I think that's a true sounding part of the community.

I didn't realize it's a problem.

I know that's what nothing happens in the front and high time.

I'm not patient drive.

I even asked this restaurant.

I haven't been at 20 days.

So I use I uh I haven't had that experience, but I know it happens.

Um I'm not trying to memorize it.

The uh city of Jacksonville has a path feed, which is housed here at station 27.

Whenever they count or something like that, uh JSO, JFR try to response with the problem.

When you hear the mental illness, unfortunately, it's hard to get in and everything in almost reactive.

Again, I'm not making excuses, you know, just like the reality of the situation.

And my encouragement to you is that the moment it occurs, whatever you can do, you get on the home on the left, is if you can use the response there to be problematic.

Yes, I mean, you know, it's a threat that you have to work in the school, it's a threat to my wife and all others who are coming to pay for my uh and eventually it passed the business.

And that's not what you guys invested in money.

You want to be successful?

And I think we have a question on CRA.

The uh the product, one of the projects that I really like that it's already finished, is the uh property writing race in the wall.

If you've been in office resident, you know, years ago, that was a pre-year-blocked off this year and everything.

And they completed that exactly.

I find it stunning.

Um fire, which is ugly, that's done, woman gave gas later that's gonna be so the work is taking place, and uh you know changes always different and when you're dependent by this gentleman over here, you know, the experience results on the impact of uh Karen is going to be here for a few minutes if you guys have any uh questions regarding uh CRA that you can answer and guide you as we move to that.

Um before we get out of here, it's uh usually hard to stop at 7.30.

I want to recognize uh there's an after school program that's been here in Arlington here at Blue Cyprus for the last 25 years uh the United Communication for communities and youth that they've been doing exceptional job pressures on recognizing uh here.

Uh here's a lot of uh moving pieces within our community reaches the square is about the demolition work that's getting ready to get started.

Uh fortunately uh there's a litigation between the current property owners and the uh the church, which is the best that owner on that property, but nevertheless the permit's been issued for uh litigation, which is really street planting along the Sina Corridor, which is going to enhance that area as well, because that's about to get started.

And uh JU Late Palm School is almost the medical school is almost finished.

Uh the first class would be starting on the separate for the uh first quarter.

So there are a lot of things that have uh taken place that are energizing our community, and I thank you all for your investment as stakeholders and your interest and we want to ensure that the place where we live uh is safe, uh it's attractive, it's it's uh an economic uh uh generator, creating jobs and supporting small businesses uh that are here because uh one of the things that I've always said, you know, when I'm looking for somebody with the heat, why do I have to go to towns I just might hear these in all I think uh I think it's coming anyway?

I'm sorry, anyway.

Uh it's uh 7.37.

Uh thank you all for coming out tonight.

Thank uh the police for transmitter for all participants.

As well uh make sure that we have the safe environment.

And again, if you have any other uh anything specific that you want to address, uh these guys are here for this modified man, so thank you all for coming out.

Go ahead, go ahead.