automated vehicles for passenger freight delivery Electric and autonomous autonomous. Yeah Broadband technology. Yeah, that's a good kind of undergird all of that Disparity in schools Yeah So this disparity in terms of availability of technology in school exactly you continue building an underclass if you can't get kids educated and Technologies one of those those areas were lacking because you don't have the access in those cities with the aging infrastructure Yep. Yep. I had access have access to have some have nots. I wrote haves and have nots. Did you look at my Drones and vertical Uh-huh, okay And city staff can can start using drones to eventually don't you think David? inspect my trees That's what I heard. Is that true? Arlington had for a while Okay, I just need to look at trees, you know So the lesson here is in order to achieve your vision There are lots of things that are going on in the world outside you that you have to take into account and think about Some trends very positive some trends Concerning some economic good news some economic not so good So that's the purpose of this exercise just to say, you know, we're not operating in an isolation But we're in this ecosystem where we have a lot of pressures that we have to account for and one of those is hunger So it's time to break for lunch. We've got 30 minutes allocated for lunch, and I believe it's Freedom's just right next door, right? Yep. Thanks. We'll see you in a well We're supposed to take 30 minutes so quarter till talking about you know our city for C staffs and good relationships also with our With our you know something Fernando highlighted that not all cities have the same relationship with their their labor forces with Particularly police and fire, you know that that that's here for worth may enjoy Government relations We work well with our council governments Deploying dollars and that's that's a big advantage that this region has this metropolitan planning organization that that That they do and then the model they have in place is just it really highlights a lot of successes that we sometimes discount or don't don't recognize enough Relationship with the county TCC JPS I don't think TRWD made the list and then overall Improving and then just public support You know we have folks asked talking to us about potholes and police patrols, but in the end we were We have support of our community and we see that Does anyone else from the strengths group want to speak to anything specifically or even add anything? Yeah, under local economy. It was just part of under local economy was just It was growth strength and corporations as part of local economy Just yeah, yeah philanthropic Okay, philanthropy perfect Does anybody else want to speak to strengths that maybe didn't make the list or something that resonates that came out of the strengths group? Oh, yeah, I can read them all back. Thank you. So for the top we have local economy financials leadership and council staff then workforce government relations and Corporate and resident support So those are all the buckets But again, if there's something that didn't make that or doesn't fit squarely feel free to add And open discussion as well if there's something that resonates I would add one to leadership Just the diversity on our council both in all in every sense You know our ideas and perspectives our race or gender or age like all those things Allow us to have a full of picture of the conversations that represent residents of the forward and our neighborhoods too. Yeah When you say neighborhoods you mean that that same diversity and leadership is also within neighborhoods as well. Okay, perfect other strengths other areas where That their strengths happening Could be soft skills can be anything I think as a city we we do have needs and infrastructure both mobility water Environmental but I also think that when you compare us to other large cities We're in a pretty good place and with the right level of planning that can continue and We have some of the best department heads that really focus in that area. So I think that's a strength for us as a community Just infrastructure Say that again mayor. I'm sorry. I missed it infrastructure just infrastructure I mean we could talk about as a weakness too because there's plenty of need That comparatively across other large cities in the country our infrastructure Thanks to leaders before us have planned pretty well And so and how do you remedy the areas where we've had the most we've fallen behind most behind? But also use it to our advantage as a strength And that's also if I can that's a really interesting point because not all of these are going to be unique to that Category so infrastructure both being a strength and a weakness that you mentioned or some of the others who could fall across three buckets All right, if that's all for strengths we can move into some of the weakness areas a lot of times these conversations There seems to be a lot of emphasis on some things that we trying to fix or some things that we want to We want to make right so Let's jump into that let's go over to the weaknesses group What are some areas what are some weaknesses that you think that you all discussed? Yeah, let's just start there Yeah, I'll share out but to my teammates, please jump in wherever you see fit The first one was and I'm gonna ask my answer for this first one. Can you explain a little bit? But you know mine brought up about just our employee mindsets and and long-term employee mindsets Can you elaborate on that? Yeah, it's not to say all long-term employees, of course But I've observed that for some the rate of growth is faster than they have the ability to change and to innovate It's just so fast. It's it's taken some people Unaware so for an example I gave to the group was every time we compare ourselves to Plano or McKinney I kind of cringe because We've never been that small Since I've lived here, so I don't understand why we compare ourselves to such small town When we're so big so to me that that often feels like the growth being faster than people's brains can process it If that makes sense, would you say that that comparison is also is that something that's negatively Effective would that be a weakness that comparison? That's a huge weakness to me I think we should be comparing ourselves to Denver and Charlotte and Seattle and I mean we're bigger than every big city. I just named Okay Thank you for that money yet and then moving down the list our ability to deliver capital improvements Our development services and sometimes the challenges that developers face in getting through that process Is that the same thing or is that two different points which one development services CIP delivered to CIP and then development services Yeah, okay And then rethinking how we approach staffing both in the sense of And David described this really eloquently sometimes we need more staffing and sometimes we need to rethink the service Delivery and how we've done it and maybe the way we've always done it isn't the way that it needs to be done in the future To be able to serve the current needs that we're seeing And then I think sometimes we're limited by our culture to be innovative In in that we could always stand to be more innovative as an organization Just before you move on you said you're limited by the culture in order to be Yeah, so I think be an intentional about creating a culture around giving ourselves permission to be innovative. Okay a culture of Permission to be innovative. That's interesting. We're innovative building an innovative culture. I like it and then This is a redundant but thinking critically about how we deliver services as a city And then another weakness is You said delivering services to the city. I'm gonna combine those please And then another one we wrote down was You know homelessness and litter in the city homelessness and litter Yeah, and just to kind of give some context of the connection there You know, we see like we'll go clean up an encampment and then they can't it moves and then we're constantly spinning energy chasing litter instead of addressing for instance the issue of the encampments We can they can be totally separate. They're and then there's a great homelessness and yeah, okay Yeah, a clean city, maybe a clean city. Yeah, I think Thank you for that mayor for Tim and mayor Another weakness is transportation and mobility transportation and mobility So we're gonna add transportation and mobility. Yes, okay as a weakness as a weakness Hold it up here another one is a use of staff and council time and I know like this is an example, but it's a really good example. We've spent two days full days back to back With each other which I really love but also as you know a young council member who still has to work like There's a delicate balance for me, too, so And in the paycheck So the next one is or the last one implementation of automated systems as we continue to move into the future You know, there's a lot of systems and processes that could be automated But sometimes the devil is in the details and in the implementation And so we can always be better at implementing all automated systems. Yeah, so automated systems to increase Efficiency, right? Okay. Perfect All right, any other weaknesses as we throw it out to the whole group anything? Yes, we don't have any others. That's that's perfectly fine. We can move on No Wait, wait, wait one more. I missed one. I skipped over one. Our team said communications as well how we communicate Okay, internally and externally I'll save it for opportunities Okay, I Said in and out just to make it short. All right, so now Strengths weaknesses opportunities and threats. That's the SWAT analysis. We're gonna move into the threats piece Were there no any additions to I don't think we had any more for weaknesses right no one else wanted to add any Just just an observation. I found over the years doing this that the best organizations are often Always the most self-critical To that means you're thinking about how to get better. So don't feel bad about having a longer list of weaknesses than strength Go ahead. Yeah. No, that's a really great point David as we move into threats I think this group over here was the threat groups as we move across the strengths matrix Share with us some of your thoughts where we're the press line All right I'm just gonna go down to listen if you need we can elaborate okay this information because that interferes with resident outreach and communication Sorry, I don't think I heard the first part of that. This information Interferes with resident outreach and communication resident outreach and communication All right global instability All right Because even at a local level it does affect us. Okay. All right, so we're gonna add global instability perfect All right I'm gonna try to like this as fast as I can so jump in if you need to okay An out-of-character reaction in our efforts to act like a big city Interesting Out-of-character reaction in trying to act like a big city Interesting. Could you elaborate on that one more? I think that was a really interesting one We were trying to Go but well, we did go back to that conversation earlier this morning about acting like a big city a lot of us hear that and It just begs the question of what does that mean and it it can be interpreted different ways as We're not doing things we should be doing But at the same time we should be at least recognizing maybe we are doing some things well that others aren't doing so it it's there's a presumption presumption in that statement of Not doing things as as we should or as other larger cities are which again as I said you get you have to question that so Along those lines If as we're growing and you know trying to mature Asperationally we don't want to do anything rash That is out of our character in our culture as a city Because we're trying to implement some change from an external source Okay, so there's an element of strict strategicness strategic. Okay. That's interesting. Okay Not not executing on economic development Opportunities Not exercising executing. Yeah on economic development opportunities perfect, okay, and Then not being able to recruit needed talent and part of that is competing against the private sector and I think As it was said here amongst our group How do we make city hall cool in the sense of you know working here and attracting? You know the people we need here right and I'm gonna combine another one that we said and that goes hand-in-hand with retention of talent As well not just recruitment the retention of talent and that's our list Okay awesome Try That's group is saying they want I think that So So let's pull it out. I know any other People in the other groups any other council members assistant manager any other thoughts threats threats wise I Just want to celebrate that team One thing that really resonated with me was just how y'all talked about like making city all cool It automatically made me think like how do we make city hall the place to be and for everyone who either wants to work here? Or come to do business here or whatever the case may be making it the place to be in city That you didn't enjoy spending two long days with us They got shady over here Opportunities and I think this is the one Once we're done with this one we're gonna go back and we're gonna work through all these because there's always room To pull some of these areas all the way into the opportunity. So please go ahead Okay, so for our opportunities an influx in federal funding for infrastructure and other Program Funding for programming correct infrastructure and programming Okay infrastructure and programming Um Remote workers are able to relocate to Fort Worth if we make it yeah If we with place-making we can get them here even if they don't have to work here Okay, it's been in here the ability for remote workers to come to forward right Our philanthropic partnerships Throughout the community or a very giving Fort Worth is a very giving community and so that's a huge opportunity for us. I lost the first part of that Sorry, it's still in philanthropic philanthropic dealerships bill in thought philanthropic partnerships Both current and exploring new new potential partnerships and then Partnerships to help us rethink transit and transportation Partnerships to rethink transit and transportation Yes, okay, and I and some of these opportunities as far as it relates to transit and a lot of our major companies I can't transit is going through a new president and CEO search And so it gives us an opportunity as the city of Fort Worth to Establish a new relationship with the high leadership and there's other opportunities that we have that we want to Dive into when we have new leadership coming in Is that is that a sub bullet to this one or is that separate? So it's what strengthen the the training metro partnership relationship is that what you're saying We have we do have another bubble though talking about the changes And so I guess I'll skip to that one then We have new leadership across the county In both organizations that we work with such as the T are I the T Trinity Metro aging myself Trinity Metro JPS We'll see new leadership at the county level the black chamber leadership at Various organizations various levels great, and we're gonna we're gonna call that an opportunity today So if I said leadership changes With major critical significant partner or something like that that sounds great Okay Elizabeth just so you know the former CEO of Trinity Metro is here But I don't call him knew I'm just trying to convince him that he ought to stay yeah All you want to respond to that Higher education and Some really exciting opportunities coming to to the city in the form of medical school and Texas a nem You can just call that one the whoop opportunity WHOP Aren't you naggy David His foot he can't move and so do we have our our natural assets Say that one again our natural assets natural assets, so river our open spaces Around resources correct. Mm-hmm Well, I don't want to say resources because that sounds like we're gonna use them up I don't want to you we want we've preserved them. Yes Yes, natural assets And then our upcoming Election our charter election our bond election are both big opportunities for the city. Okay. Yeah All right, I think that's all from the group. So if there's anybody else Across the panel Opportunities, please feel free to share and just as I mentioned at the start the purpose of the SWAT analysis is to arrive at the Opportunities so our strengths can become opportunities weaknesses can be turned into opportunities threats can be turned into opportunities What are your thoughts? Throw this in there Office of global affairs Okay, David, you may want to pay attention to this the city had this before I checked with Maddie But maybe we should revisit this and make it sustainable through a public-private partnership So we're just not merely adding, you know to to city departments in any way But beyond just being window dressing welcoming VIPs Strengthening economic development ties You know from a global standpoint, it would be one way we would partner with groups that could also bring in revenue opportunities, so And I have an opportunity Fort Worth is a destination place So just right in the bubble destination place. Yes, man So we've run out of bubbles up there, but we can keep adding as we can I Think first would be it's a weakness and an opportunity is the education level of our Community members, okay You know, there's a lack of higher education credentials and the need to fill jobs But you also can fix that so it's an opportunity to really hone in on Maybe not the traditional four-year degree pathway, right but recognizing that the workforce has changed and how do we? support those pathways for our citizens and our residents to have Make a living wage live here. So I think if you just put Education or workforce that's that's helpful. Okay, and then the other opportunity I would say is we're a young city For average age usually hovers around 33 We have a very high percentage of young children. I think still the second highest in the country among large cities And so obviously is a place where people want to raise a family which is an opportunity as a community as well Okay say that again mayor that what's the Headline young we are young city our average age is 33. We also have a very high percentage of Families with young children in Fort Worth So family friendly And then you I abbreviated your workforce point of workforce development. You said it was also potentially a weakness also Yes Well, if that's it for the opportunities One last round is there anything else that anyone wants to add that wasn't mentioned reiterate We can always emphasize something more That's on there that if somebody thinks it just wasn't Punch through how much important that should have Otherwise, that's some that wraps it up. Please sir. I'll just say just efficiencies in general Thank you. I'm Carrie Just efficiencies in general and There's there's a positive takeaway from the pandemic is and it's more just the social exceptions of doing a zoo meeting or processing a set of plans through electronic service and You know my list Is really tied to how do we you know specifically improve our efficiencies? And you've heard me talk about payroll you've talked about a permitting you've talked about TPW You know, it's also a service center It's audit Increasing our audit because every time we do an audit we pay for the manpower there with that Those are more those things that I would like first to focus on and I'll be talking about that over the over the next few weeks Or if the time allows here Dave just pinning on what the next topic is, but just efficiencies in general as we work to improve our service Delivery and then the cost of that service delivery Okay, and Carrie is that efficiencies found through technological solutions or people Technology yeah Because I was going to mention it as Jared brought up the development services. I get a lot of feedback of course with a lot of development going on in the the north side of the district about how You know are there ways that we can improve because We're you know, we're we're not You know keeping pace right and there's manpower issues We know and everyone is overtaxed so are there other solutions that we can investigate specifically to that area Because I think the feedback is we get a lot of Information that isn't always consistent and how can we improve upon that? Yeah, I'll say I guess I'll We're all hearing it about the development services and I'll tell you what we hear is that They handle the You know this one permit, okay But the problem is you don't have enough people so it lends to the question you ask the technology people I said technology well, maybe it's technology and people They can't handle the volume that they have and that's what's bogging causing the bottleneck But is there a technical element that we can change there that we can impact and then we struggle with this decision in our city of If our volume exceeds our workload, do we hire more people? Or do we knowing that we may not have the same workload over the same period of time in the private world? If you've only got staff to do one project and you get the opportunity to two projects you hire the staff to do two projects But you can't always do that in the government world unless you outsource some of that work and and that's just that Control that this institution has to make sure that we have our fingerprints on Everything that comes through City Hall when some of that work could be done differently You know I'll bring up the service center. I think that's a big cost opportunity for us We have you know 7,000 employees right now our police officers when they need an old change they drive across town To get their old change and they sit in the in the lobby and wait for their old change to be habit to occur I don't know of a private Company that has the fleet the size of ours that has That has the same type of service centers we do To the same extent they might have some for special needs special vehicles things that nature but but not to the same capacity and so I know in the private world that We pay that person change an old to do an old change more Then that employee makes in the private world because it's a more skilled technician just doing an old change They're looking at other things. There's a larger checklist But what's the opportunity cost that employee driving across town and waiting in line? We also know That our benefit costs for that employee is 40% for zero compared to 20% in the private sector And it's just a cost accounting To say what does it cost us to do an old change and are we doing that correctly? Another really good point to make it was very profound David. Is this the ground zone? Department heads we give department heads a budget But yet they don't have control of that expense item For the maintenance of their vehicles that is a set expense and they don't control necessarily if they can be done to that car Whereas you and I had that decision on our car And and they've made adjustments to include how they purchase vehicles now to make sure that when they purchase the vehicle Because they have headaches with service that I'm just going to buy all the maintenance Options from the dealer so I don't have to do with the service center anymore And so we're actually paying more to purchase the vehicle to accommodate that Concern that apartments had had With the service center Carry that was profound. Okay. Good glad I've delivered I'm glad you added people when when you talk efficiencies because I think well I know it is technology and people and we had a shot at that a few years ago I got so excited when we hired a six sigma black belt because I just knew that when she was hired We would see things improved, but I don't think we were able to really utilize her Effectively and and she's gone. Okay, but yeah when you take a look at how we operate when you first mention the automotive Example it took me back to TXU because there there's no way our linemen would be sitting up waiting for an oil change But when when you look at efficiencies, I'm just hoping that we can look at some ways to Get better service delivery But if you don't have the proper staff and the properly trained staff that in itself adds to your cost because you've got people Who don't know what they're doing when it comes to development services One thing that we learned through code is that we're very nimble and I was really jazzed when I saw the I guess the All the new technology and development services, but if you have people Who mess up stuff and you're going to get bogged down again? And when I was on board of adjustment I would tell folk if you go down there in the bowels of the beast at 12 noon show a set of plans They will say looks good Same set two o'clock. They'll find problems four o'clock They never saw you and so we've got to make sure people or are trained to do the jobs We hire them to do but if the for me efficiencies is very important, but I do link them to people and technology I'll turn my mic off Question for David Now that we've done this matrix and I'm looking at challenges and opportunities Help us understand what you're trying to get us to over here Because I think all of us could probably go down this and have a lot to say and really want to get into it But that may not be where you want us to go Is I'm going to ask you to use your sticky notes and and almost flip all of this on his head where I've been keeping you at A pretty high level get pretty granular and say, okay What is it that we need to specifically do to? Achieve I nearly wrote down innovation prosperity Diversity and bourbon, but I left bourbon off to achieve that vision which is just our shorthand for the vision right now By leveraging our strings overcoming our weaknesses mitigating our threats Capturing our opportunities. What are the action steps around that and we'll then have you Give us your individual idea and we'll group them Together and figure out all right. What are the big buckets of Challenge that are out there so the end result and I don't want to tell you what what what the end result will be but typically it would be things like Strengthen strengthen economic development Invest in infrastructure and those kinds of things but we'll start I always forget is it deductive or inductive where you move from the from the Detail to the general but I'm flipping it on time. We're gonna start with the details and move up to the general does that ask your question, mayor Trust the process. Okay. Yes. I'm trusting Yeah, but no no trust falling so we'll just we'll just move in that direction and So this is this is all about kind of your own individual ideas. What are your personal? These are things we need to get done. So here's advanced the slide if you would what he won more so This is a facilitation technique.  You've overcome your weaknesses.  You're out there right now looking back on what is today the 21st of February? 2022 there's a 22 Yeah, what did we do from that future? Future point looking back to today What specific action steps did we take as a governing body as a city to get us to that future place? One idea per sticky note One idea per sticky note written legibly Go Any number five to seven is probably a good target Some will have a lot more some may have less and then we're going to start seeing where the common commonalities are to poison the well, but it could be things like Increased community policing programs we We let's see what else We we invested in mass transit We we re-engineered our development process we automated Yeah, we're gonna see where we are time wise we've got essentially I Will are all writing for worth ISD just announced that they will be closing tomorrow for all the parents Yeah, while writing to we're gonna We're not having the redistricting A public comment Thursday night tomorrow night, we're gonna move it to Monday And I'm looking at when you make sure I'm right and then we're gonna do we've already scheduled another drawing session for Tuesday Because work session was already pretty short Okay, and that's our favorite topic, but at least that lets you plan for tomorrow We want anybody driving in the ice and fun stuff and we will try to get out of here by three So those of you are trying to figure out the rest of your afternoons like me with kids You'll know where you can leave. Thank you, David A lot of them are picking up kids early. Yeah, let's start. I Just want one idea Anybody give me your best idea what looking back from a position of great success. What did we do? Just one we fixed the 9-1-1 system. Let me get you get your sticky note Okay, fix the 9-1-1 system and Assigned a process owner for fixing the 9-1-1 Okay, so Who else has something that is related to that? It doesn't have it could be public safety It could be process improvement, but let's build off of that one So we made an investment and could be in technology investment Well, who knows but something that that sort of shares some common trait with that give me another one on the subject of public safety Implement recommendations from the matrix study. It's the name of a consulting firm sure for police department staffing and Justify funding requests Based on it. Yeah, okay load and outcomes Okay, so we got a theme developing here right now could change as we go through this process But now right now we've got two ideas looking back from great success to help us get to where we want to be We fixed our 9-1-1 System made sure somebody was in charge of it and we and we implemented the staffing recommendations and I'm familiar with matrix work using their their Call for service based modeling, right? Okay So now we're looking for public safety stuff who else had things around public safety that are looking back from great success We did this reduced violent crime By collaborating with our communities reduced violent crime Collaboratively with the community you want to elaborate on that a little bit without changing core Values does that fit here? Mr. Firestone or is that maybe a start of another idea? I'm going to put it there for the moment. This says public safety prioritized with more emphasis in community-based programs and Valerie mentioned that fire might something about fire and I know you're looking at some Analysis of fire staffing coming up might fit in that category. This is police centric, but that would now make it public safety centric Do you have just some of somebody have some I know mr. Flores is one of things you and I talked about on the fire side What else? Oh, I'm sorry reduced speed Neighborhood and neighborhoods in streets. So sort of a traffic control traffic enforcement issue All right, tell you what let's get another idea another sort of cluster of ideas going Anyone anybody so I can go economic development. All right But I said we execute on a major projects and opportunities such as Panther Island Farrington Field Caval place butler Texas A&M TC medical school. Everybody could probably add something to that. Yeah, so so this whole idea of Economic development and kind of executing against a growing list as I understand it a really Signature kinds of projects, right? You can add this one to that fourth is recognized globally We've executed on our economic development plans make forth a globally recognized city for business and entrepreneurship. Okay. Yes, so so so this is Still economic development, but it's about having a great story to tell that attracts people here from Maybe where we weren't attracting them before, huh? Yes, ma'am. I'm gonna include this one in economic development, although others might Think it goes someplace else. Well, we'll talk about it. We need to build a robust fixed route transit system fixed route transit system as An economic development tool game you want to elaborate on that a little bit Sure, and there might be some experts in the room that can correct me if my my math is Incorrect, but is it for every one dollar we invest in transit we get 20 back? Is that correct? Yeah, so for every dollar we invest we know we get 20 back and Significant economic development follows a long transportation corridors Bus routes are movable light rail is not it's why we saw in our future Population our projections that mark went over this morning That growth was along our Highway Okay, I Think it might will fall under its own category Because I have one to add to that We created rapid transit on landcastle With new businesses along the quarter Yeah, okay. Well, so we're talking in both of these instances as Transit as an economic development opportunity tool So I'll put it there this could this could spin off into its own stand alone And then I would just add to what the mayor had earlier We created the Trudy River Trudy River with a wealth of economic growth So to her first, okay The ones she had birth What I called the site kind of the signature project idea we Created the Trinity River with a wealth of economic growth. Is that right? Any more on the economic development or transportation front? Yes, sir Levels all schools retain high school college master so looking back on great success We would have will have achieved excellence in education at all levels in all schools Retain high school college and master's degree graduates So as we graduate people they stay in Fort Worth to build their careers and their lives correct I'm gonna think let me go back over here Let me let me go back to mr. Farshland if you don't matter a bit growth without changing core values Can you elaborate on that? I'm putting it here because it says growth, but I'm interested in your core values Point well, I think I handed it to you Actually when we were doing the emergency services. Yes, sir. You did that to me it sort of fit there because We we value each other we value You know a 911 call and being responsive as a city to Individuals and families and and some of the other things outlined there It was growth that got me. Do you didn't mean growth in the public safety services or more generally well just more generally yeah But it's it's that what we touched on this morning about you know the the Core values of the humanity of a good city and caring about each other in our communities Okay So excellence in education I'm gonna guess that this is sort of well as directly related to the Opportunity that the mayor Advanced about both the strength and the weaknesses an opportunity to Build our workforce and overcoming workforce weakness So again, we'll move these around if we need to Another idea another cluster of ideas David Texas A&M urban campus generates new business entrepreneurs and and In an innovation zone. Okay, so again It's a particular project but kind of an in-state description here, too I don't know if you want to put this with economic development if we're gonna have another category that specific to poverty and economic mobility With partnership cut our poverty rate below 10% I know you're always going to have folks below poverty at a poverty level and then Every zip code in school pyramid offers an opportunity for students to be successful So, yeah, the heading on this is poverty and economic mobility With partnership cut our poverty rate below 10% Every zip code and school Offers an opportunity for six for student success. Yeah, that's straddle that straddles This here it's kind of on the kind of on the On the intersection between economic development and workforce. No Yeah Say again What about homelessness? Yeah, if you well, I'm gonna tell you why It's because we got TCC and workforce solutions to create literacy job preparedness and financial literacy courses for the homeless and TCC does a training workforce gets the job connection. Okay Sure, so that fits right neatly with with with this idea Excellence in education at all levels retain high school college grad graduates get TC's to to to do Preparedness training and then Every disc zip code in school Offers opportunities for student success. This is all saying. How do we strengthen? I think it's saying How do we all have the kind of workforce that that the community needs both for the people here and to attract others, right? And here's one you can add to it. Ensure all communities have access to it At that went to the mayors Yeah, internet access all ensure all communities Have access to internet for it for the purpose of edgy education primarily. Yes, okay and job training and okay Training all right. I have one for health care. Okay. Let's talk about health care then. What's that one say? We got UNT Health Science Center JPS THR and all other health care providers to Staffful service hospitals for the homeless. I'm the bleeding heart today I'm gonna start a new one there and see where that goes Some more Support our children outside of schools in a meaningful way to allow them to be successful in the classroom Support our children outside of schools in a meaningful way to allow success in the classroom So to the extent that success in the classroom learning helps Build build well build lots of things but certainly we're forced to kind of put it here Grade improved grade reading levels. Okay, so we're really up and down Which is good up and down the spectrum of education But there are lots of things that you're saying we could do to strengthen our educational outcomes and therefore the quality of the workforce And therefore our ability to attract investment. Okay This is doable. It may sound crazy, but Chesapeake did it. I say for mr. Firestone We get Leon Bridges Kelly Clarkson Ed Bass and Tommy Lee Jones To be in a PSA about while working at Fort Worth City Hall is cool Ha Kelly's from Pearl Center. I never should do it. I Don't know exactly what we call that yet, but let's see. Oh sure. We just just what Gina says Okay, you're on a roll, let's keep you going I'm still looking at three o'clock This doesn't go anything up there, but piggyback you on what Elizabeth had brought up earlier about open spaces our parks We've executed on efforts to achieve things like our ten minute walk to park initiative We preserve land adequately with open space We've also created maybe a land trust that we don't currently have in the city for yeah to help support all those efforts I've got open space and that so this is sort of a Well amenities maybe is the theme I've got something similar Trails opens invest in trails open space parks sidewalks connected green system So trails and bike paths and all of that Yeah, natural open space. Yep More these are great ideas this good stuff And that's so we're gonna every everything's gonna get done tomorrow, but this is starting to say this is what How we're gonna go about executing our vision invest in city systems to improve efficiency Employee and user experience So this is sort of an operational Internal operations I could add to that I could add to that We we created a virtual suggestion box with incentives for the employees All right suggestion box. I'm gonna take all of these that are being waved Nobody talks about development services anymore and growth is still robust Staff working strategically and up to their capacity Investment in technology related to development services related to something Oh hang on a second carry. I'll be right back Investment in technology working strategically and to capacity where we've fixed the problem at development services That's what David meant created a automated suggestion box and then The pink sea coming my way I'll read them off in a second. Yeah, so fix pet fix payroll This it says cure procurement plague. Oh, she got payroll. I've got payroll employee Culture so that was your point you made just a few minutes ago, right? Mr. Moon Inspect what you expect Increase audit Oh AP audits, okay Yeah, talk about that one Just said earlier. I mean audit is paying for itself and I come from that culture and banking where you always had OCC or FTSC in They're inspecting your your cash controls your your assets Everything we do But I want you to know that that doesn't just happen in the banking world I have a friend that works for you asking what he does. He says I work for a home builder And so you would think he builds homes But he works in the audit department of that home building company and they make sure if they go buy The lumber package for a house that the lumber package goes on the house. It was bought for and it's just a simple process Every time we do an audit we pay not every time 90 percent of time we do an audit we find efficiencies And we're not looking for gotchas We're looking at how do we make sure that we're doing it a review in a change order for TPW that we've got the process down in this working correctly Was it a payroll issue or was it a process issue or personal issue? The assets on the balance sheet that are listed as restricted assets with our police We had seven hundred thousand dollars there that was listed as restricted and it wasn't restricted. That was money It was freed up to be available for the police to use we had three hundred thousand is cheated over to the state that didn't We have a procurement contract vendor contracts that we regularly recognize challenges and so it's not designed to To get people like I said to be a gotcha it's say it's how do we improve our efficiencies to make sure that The functions within those departments are are doing well I want to add on to it what customer moon was just talking about with respect to Process efficiencies and looking for those lean government process improvements so I think we have one person right Steven hole is in planning and data analytics, but Oftentimes when we're engaging internal audit, they're making sure that we've got Procedures number one. Do we have procedures? Are we following the procedures and are we doing things correctly? But I think there's another step to that which I think you're alluding to which is are the procedures the right procedures Right. I think there's some question about The number of touches that something has or the technology that's supporting or not supporting those procedures That that's something that we're not really looking at in a Coordinated way other you know other than development services has been trying to look at that right with our development advisory committee and our business process improvements with commercial building permits and some others but there's so much to look at Within development services as well as all other departments capital delivery, you know talked about payroll, whatever it might be procurement purchasing There's a lot of lean government things that we could be doing but it just we're so busy and so in it It's hard unless you have someone who's that's their job right is to come in and audit the process But not looking for something that's incorrect or inaccurate necessarily just continuous improvement So maybe we have maybe a future state would be to have more trained process I guess process improvement votes are people who can map out processes Because until you have that I mean actually I think you chase your tail But you've got to have those people that come in and know and can document processes And I think from there you can set up linear and sure that they're linear processes in place But so maybe there's just that grassroots person in the department is that Is that something we need to add as a sticky note or just Right honestly, I think so because I think it's a deficit that we have just in terms of internal Capacity to do that kind of okay. You jot that down on a note and I'll stick it up there So so let's just let's just pause for a second again. I'm watching the clock. We've got we've got a We're going to name these in a minute, but we've got a priority or a challenge around Economic development and that's that's linked to To the transit impact on economic development It has to do with our branding and our outreach and those kinds of things. We've got a workforce development theme Developing here. We've got an open space Theme amenities kind of a theme here. We've got as efficiency improvement of service excellence idea here We've got a Public safety Emphasis here and then these two that I hadn't quite figured for exactly where they go oh this is this is services to the homeless and Oh This is Kelly Clarkson and Ed Bass Promote promoting it's sort of a Attracting people to public service was the was the idea right So maybe that has to do with some of the things you talked about over here around challenge challenges in Recruiting and retaining people right so What else looking for the big big big themes Fernando you got several here A couple pertaining to neighborhoods which we've discussed in the past. Yes Transforming our most distressed neighborhoods like stop six and Las Vegas trail and also Stabilizing and revitalizing Many of our at-risk neighborhoods by adopting and implementing a neighborhood conservation Strategy, which is the subject of a city council retreat about 34 years ago. Yeah Yeah, yeah poverty No neighborhood Qualify for neighborhood improvement program. Okay, looking back for from great success We've had so much success with this neighborhood improvement program that nobody's asking for Poverty This says try invest more Did it twice city partner resources and concentrated poverty areas new house poverty and violence areas new housing more direct services Interventions education job training health care. So this is sort of attacking root causes of Poverty and violence, right? Does that go perhaps with Gene is no around homelessness or neighborhoods or neighborhoods at least if we're trying to think what Fernando's point about distressed neighborhoods The most distressed in neighborhoods is where I was okay Invest with equity focus in Communities could I send that would be synonymous with neighborhoods, right? Yeah, the council on that topic But Christina Brooks is taking the lead involves a lot of data collection in analysis To help us deliver services in an equitable way across the city I'm thinking about this. So that's not that's broader than neighborhoods, right? Does it go here with all of this? Most of this is efficiency driven by this service excellence operational excellence Not it and encompass this idea of equity and all we do Again, I don't want to force feed anybody. I think it's different. I mean, I think it can go together But I think it's different Well, I can start another one. We'll see So that's sort of the equity lens question other people have anything related to that Any other new ideas new themes this one? I'm not sure where you want to put it, but it's The idea is a we're known in 20 years in terms of innovation and prosperity by an identity that we would have created like historically for worth cattle oil, whatever it may be so examples would be autonomous vehicles coming out of Alliance or Evie batteries energy technologies air delivery educational opportunities There's you know, there's an identity to from an economic development perspective I guess this is where it might go for innovation and prosperity. It came from this this area so it's the idea of Silicon Valley Wall Street Hollywood, you know Nashville did you go though to those places for kind of specific reasons? What's the reason people are coming to Fort Worth? So one of the tricks to this and it's one of the hardest things to do is To find the right level for these ideas. So we've got this cluster of Ideas that all link to Economic development But it's very diverse and of course economic development is right you got to have to pull a lot of levers But we created the Trinity River We we completed some really important signature projects we We became globally recognized it's similar to what mr. Firestone just talked about what are we known for? so that's Branding So what do are all of those are all of those economic development or to some of those rise to a level of a standalone priority like I Don't want to put my words on it But well it also has several transit and transportation related things in here So do we have really a transit idea or a transportation idea and an economic development idea and a branding idea that are important Priorities or does that all lump into the economic development? Who knows so I Kind of I want this to be yours not mine, but I think there's that question again Yeah, I'm just trying to figure out of all the things that we've categorized as I have categorized as economic development Do some of them really rise to it to a co-equal kind of a priority if economic development is a priority does that priority? Does that roll up? transit branding signature of projects A kind of recognition or some of those do they do they belong standalone if you don't break them out? We'll never get them done It was at you Gina. I think everything all rose lead to economic development But for us to be able to tackle them you may need to break them out Where's Robert Stearns? Yeah, it's Robert. What do you think? You want all that okay? Okay, and I might say the same About education schools, I mean I put it in the context of economic development, but That's a totally different animal as well I'm trying looking for that one. Oh, I huh? Yeah, where did I put it? Oh, yeah here? so you're saying excellence go education goes to its own but but We we have what I was calling workforce development. These are also all education delivery Is it not already at its own level or is that something different? I think they're the same but also different quite honestly Because I think a part of it is that educational attainment and things that Robert's talked about in the economic development strategic plan and making sure we're workforce ready and Continuing for future economic development, but I don't think all of the education conversation is tied necessarily to economic development Yeah, I've got I move those over here build a robust transit system fixed fixed Route transit system created rapid transit on Lancaster with new businesses along the quarter again Transit as an economic development engine we've got This education idea here, which is excellence in education at all levels all schools high school college master's graduates stay Okay Any more ideas that we haven't captured somewhere else Reduce reuse recycle abandon buildings change policies to encourage use and reuse I couldn't decide if we wanted that to be environmental public safety or economic development Yeah, so this could go here with the parks open space Trails sidewalks. No We want to yeah, productively use our vacant commercial buildings. Okay. Is that go here? As a as a tactic as an economic development tactic, maybe not a strategy. I don't know Okay for now I'm not turning my back anymore I put it with economic development area. No, yes, maybe okay. It tends to be more common and I would say in the central city, right? That's part of the point the heart of the city. Mr. Moon the heart of the time So I'm gonna not try to wordsmith this I'm just gonna just use usually The Sharpies are beating me down This is economic development and I'm gonna I'm gonna ask you all to look at these up close in just a second This is Neighborhood, I don't know what what term neighborhood resiliency neighborhood conservation Vitality very good. Okay, this is stand alone right now with homelessness This is a public safety this is Operational efficiency this is parks open space this is Transit this is Educational excellence when it was this Equity plan, I'm just gonna call it equity. So let me just read it back to you in a way that well The way at least that I'm thinking of this if we left here today Workforce development if we left here today and we said after getting together and talking about our long-term vision as a Council and assessing our external environment and talking about what we're good at not so good at we said that our our biggest most important challenges and opportunities lie in the areas of transit promoting educational excellence Economic development neighborhood vitality homelessness workforce development parks open space Operational efficiency and public safety nine are those the right ones Are those would you be willing to say boy? That was a day well spent and we know that these are the areas that we really need to focus on in broad terms going forward I'm not sure about homelessness if it's just the one. This is Dana's talking. I can't tell who's talking I hear you over there Yeah, I'm not sure about homelessness as a standalone transit And maybe that's really transit and transportation more broadly, but right now those two sticky notes speak to transit Educational excellence that says doing whatever we can as a city to promote the idea of really high-quality education And now I'm working just clockwise around going to start about homelessness Let's talk about affordability affordable housing all those pizzas as we get into it That if you're gonna make that a category on its own That's the part of it. Yeah, well, I think yeah, I think that's the the the question We had one that yeah specifically mentioned homelessness and It's not the same the feedback I heard was it doesn't fit Directly connect directly to neighborhood vitality, but let me finish it answering mr. Questions so we'd walk out of here saying We have identified that our big strategic challenges and opportunities lie in the areas of transit educational excellence economic development neighborhood vitality homelessness if we include it public safety operational efficiency Parks and open space and workforce development nine big categories. Oh and equities over here. Thank you. I skip that one ten So I'm wondering Val if you would be okay if we did combine Educational excellence and workforce development for the purpose of having buckets Because I do think that it's sort of that Through the entire, you know want to have excellence in K through 12 so that we also then have excellent workforce and Also, I'd like to kind of add some I guess salt and pepper to park some in space I think if we thought about it more broadly in terms of how we address like environmental conservation and sustainability moving forward I think that's a broader bucket that open space conservation covers But then things like litter etc. Would also fall under Got the litter for you Gita This says here right now invest in trails open space park sidewalks connected green system Ten mile let's see I can't read that what I think Councilor Williams. We might need a sticky That's a sticky if I'm sorry. I wasn't here Yes, you could good jot that jot that down so work We're expanding this idea of not not just you know sort of recreational and amenities kind of use of parks and open space as much as a part of our commitment to Sustainability in the environment that kind of thing. Is that right? And I think you're talking specifically environmental sustainability as opposed to like financial sustainability year. Yeah No litter yep Preserve the landfill I guess what's the what's the landfill issue everybody familiar with that? I Mean, I know All right extend the lack yeah, so I got to change the name of this one What were we gonna call that here? I'll just be Environmental sustainability. I can't I can't write this polysyllabically as UST period Something like that environmental sustainability may be spelled right Okay, we're making progress Got 20 minutes, so I want to this came up earlier prior to this conversation, but I'm wondering for transit if we should combine with it or if it's a separate thought the transportation funding Challenge that we have that councilor moon mentioned earlier do in terms of our financial funding strategy If we want to talk about transportation funding with transit or keep them separate Yeah, and virtually every one of you in one form or fashion the other as I taught to you focused on Transportation infrastructure specifically roadway improvements and put particularly outside of the loop came up time and time again Would we have something is there something up there on financial? Sustainability or long-term investment strategies improving those kinds of things Would that be a category we could make one? I guess Carrie. I would look at you for that too It seems like that would almost be a category that we would look at I'm always good for that But operations is operations is where we put it I think we could elaborate on on transit I think we could elaborate on the I put the cure the pen the procurement plague and the procurement plague is a Term I picked up from a from an employee, but I just want to encourage staff department heads and Really just to look at I mean It's a large frustration And I feel like that. I'm just gonna say it. I feel like sometimes Legals legal is a great job, but sometimes legal Just saying here but that's too much two months left We all have two months left We're setting up our whole policy based on the concern that someone is going to sue us About our purchases and there is no greater level frustration Then when we are trying to just purchase something under whatever the new threshold is now $150,000 and my Work and conversations have all been about making sure we spend that dollar We choose wisely and we document why we chose the purchase we did and But at the same time we're required to purchase through this Byboard And then we're required to document a lot of things and we missed the opportunity a lot of times to to choose wisely I just think we got to look at how do we review that whole process and how do we give our department has the opportunity to purchase things at a savings Without violating state law and we need to work on changing state law. We can do that Yep, but You know, we just we got it and I feel like legal is in our way a lot of times and how they interpret things Just with that. I'll say just with that issue They're they're they're at the decision table as opposed to reviewing the decision and there's just significant significant savings So that's also in the bigger picture, but it's very frustrating for your employees. If you ask them, what are you frustrated? That's gonna be second vine payroll, and then you want to talk transit I'm just thinking as a vendor. I have a lot of things to say now with with transit You know, we all see a value in immobility and and we know we can't solve all transit needs with concrete and But we have to invest in something that people are going to ride and right now we don't have that and You know for what we are spending right now I've told others this Chris. I mean for what we're spending right now In transit we could buy everyone that rides transit a Cadillac And just let them drive a Cadillac And so we just got to rethink it and think through how we can better utilize those dollars and get Tomorrow give it yesterday we have 270,000 people in the north. We have one bus routes in the north I'm not advocating for bus routes to the north Because with those but with that bus route has come policies around shopping carts taking from the grocery store to the bus stop because Folks are having to come there to get groceries, which is great. Welcome, but Why not just drop them off at the at the grocery store? Why not pick them up at their house? Maybe folks be willing to Drive to participate in transit if they didn't have to solve the first mile and last mile because we know who's riding the bus We have private companies do it all the time You know where you schedule where you get picked up you schedule where Why are we not changing our? Bus system to accommodate that why are we not putting the size of the bus to match the size of the crowd of the people that are riding the bus and Until that that visual that folks have on on buses is negatively impacts overall dollars that we make and You know if we we just took police to a public vote in July Months after you know George Floyd and it passed if we took The same vote to the public for the same Haxton allocation, which I think we should Would it pass? Would the public decide to invest $99 million a year? And how we utilize that dollar I think we need to we need to have a hard conversation about about that And I know they're many's taken some some bold strides and how to address that and it is a long-term Decision process audience I could have put Carrie on the board which very much I'll add is I'll add a sticky And but to curious what we can we don't have time to debate transit and how to create it But I think the point being how do we as a body collectively work alongside our partners at training Metro to make sure we're Serving our residents the first category residents are those that depend on transit for lifeline right for work for health care for education And do an analysis on how to take care of those folks and and create best practice We're in a good place to do that So I think to Carrie's point it is While it's hard and maybe those conversations aren't always fun to start if we do have a responsibility to have those conversations Especially to have a world-class transit system mobility system that works for Fort Worth specifically so So I'll I'll go back to kind of where we were just a minute ago and ask the question one more time so I I saw our charge as to help this group as as a New a new council a more diverse council a younger council to To articulate what it is that we see as the big big challenges and the opportunities that we want to to work on during our terms of office and and beyond and We've we've reshuffled a little bit since then but again Are the things that are most important to you as a governing body? To guide sort of the policy agenda transit and transportation economic development neighborhood vitality public safety operational efficiency equity Sustainability environmental Sustainability and workforce development again if we left here today and that's what we said we did today Would you would you have spent the day? productively in your View Okay, any other con where we've got gosh. I left you with nine extra minutes Anything else you want to talk about anything? We didn't talk about today that you want to To to bring up talk about rethink in terms of what we did earlier in the day any changes to make Observation and I've been able to sit through this a several country members council members have before And I remember who it was today already said man It's nice to think about the strat strategically about direction of the city rather than get bogged down in the details I have to do every single tuesday How do you keep that going though because it really is hard every tuesday we get back in the weeds And so i've just that's thrown that out there as people to think about how do we Keep strategy at the top of mind rather than The next ir or the next crisis we're managing and maybe that's just the nature of you in a big city But yeah, it's easy to get away from that pretty quickly That's the hard part. I mean everybody says that um, you know Strategic plans rarely fail in the planning. It's in the execution of so to your point if we agree Collectively that these are the categories that we want to focus on for the next 10 20 30 years to create this visionary city Then everything we're doing at the city should fall in one of these categories And should be moving the needle on some of the aspirations that we articulated today I would generally agree with that. I recoil a little bit at the word every there may be sort of sort of day to day Running the business sorts of things that won't easily fit in here that you still have to do Let me give you an example mayor, and i'm not sure this is directly responsive But one of the first opportunities I had to do something like this was with the city of arlington LZ odum was the mayor, so that dates me a little bit And in those days The city council and I think there were nine members at may ended in seven had 30 committees 30 council committees And part of the reason behind all of that is that council candidates in arlington Made a very a big virtue in their campaign literature about the committees that they chaired So ultimately everybody had committees and we came out of a two week a two day weekend retreat out in coughman And if I remember right the number of this kind of thing was seven Seven big strategic priorities and the mayor just decreed. Okay, we're getting rid of 30 committees. We're going to have seven And the seven were those Things that they'd agreed to their their strategic priorities and from the and it was a a change for the staff certainly And I'm not necessarily recommending this but they changed their entire agenda process such that those items That made it to the council for action filtered through those strategic committees And the staff moaned about a little bit because more work But that was how they went about doing it. I'm not saying it's the best way But they I guess the bigger answer to that is they align everything they do to that I was just saying I think I would think there's ways that you can we can check in during the budget process Right to see if Any special things that we're doing in the budget process or do they fit into some of those categories? But I do agree that these are meant to be focus areas But it doesn't mean it there's no way it can cover all the city business that we do You know so that you know water and sewer is going to touch on a lot of these But I don't you know that's going to have its own emphasis for different reasons, but There are going to be some special activities that we're going to undertake I think that's exactly right. I would say that because this was a hurried process right What's more important than these Is these right so for example you mentioned water and sewer well There isn't anything up here that talks about water and sewer But you did call this environmental sustainability and that's where water and sewer most likely did I think it's really important that moving forward staff is completely aware of what we identified here and maybe It takes staff to give us a status of what it takes to achieve what they heard us say here today But we've got to make sure that these just don't stay sticky notes on the board Now this is something that we came and discussed after a long day of council yesterday I never want to do a retreat again after council But it's it's it's important that we make sure That the way staff functions has all of these ideas incorporated into whatever they do and if there's a need for a change in processes It's going to take staff to let us know so I'd like to hear from david To see if that's how we're going to some kind of way that we're going to Move these things off the wall Into the operational manuals and stuff One of the reasons of inviting the audience here who you see over there is so they hear the same conversation That played out and and it's also being being videotaped and other people are watching it somewhere else So everybody has heard the conversation that we've all had here today. So that's one way it gets communicated The other thing we'll do with david eisenlord is we will synthesize this right And feed it back to not only the city council, but also to department heads and staff The what I was going to also add is the way the your calendar is currently Composed or scheduled makes it actually easier to come back With some of these topics since we have work sessions on two of those Tuesdays during the month and right and we can organize The feedback of information the scheduling of presentations To focus around these areas as a part of your new schedule. So the new schedule, I think makes it easier as well and then We test that each year when we come with the recommended budget, which would be this summer Of are we allocating resources to get some of this stuff To make sure We're able to give carry a temporary badge so that after may You promise me you would see still be close And that way carry can come back and be with us and keep us on the track that you know Deal move to deny Second Carry I was going to go for a contract, but I don't think I can get four more people now Is trouble getting five people all in favor all in favor As long as you make and stay on topic Well, I think to maybe start to close this out and and I'll turn it back to david and to david your david One final thought on this Maybe it's serendipitous that we had one open circle Which would be this category to danis point of the daily Running of a city that doesn't really fit in a category. We have to bring the council issues that are coming up And that makes sense to me But i'll speak for myself and I want council members to respond to this it would be immensely helpful if We we could tweak these categories if we think there's needed need to over the next several weeks But if department heads and leadership try to put their presentations and their work and their decisions for council into these categories And also work with mark and his team on what are the data metrics? We should be tracking collectively as a city and you're bringing that to us You know very periodically so we're all kind of aware of how we're moving the needle together Because I think we all got a lot of his presentation today was really helpful It needs to be done more than once a year at least for me Um because all of us are juggling lots of different things and it's so much easier to know Okay today, we're going to focus on public safety and there's a variety of different things We're going to talk about but they all fit in that category And if you knew walking into a work session, how great would that be if you know today? We're going to talk about operational efficiency And we're going to talk about all the things that pertain to that and so when a department head says Hey, I need to present this to council like great your time is a month from now on this Tuesday because we're going to Dive in on operational efficiency that day Maybe less whack-a-mole for me, but I want reaction to that From other council members I'll second that thank you There you go. Can we want to vote on you with us on that one carry? All right. We might have the votes Perfect, uh, I just to expand on that. I think that's a great idea Because you know, we go into the work sessions and we're bombarded with a lot of different information but Coalescing around certain topics. I think we'll go a long way in Breaking down some of the silos So if we're talking about operational efficiency, and that's where our brain is and we have several different topics or departments it gets us collectively thinking From a policy or procedure perspective and not a silo perspective Good idea I love the idea as well because it allows us to Also get a lot more done in those buckets Like for example, we could have done this whole thing just on transit and transportation and doing that allows It'll at least help me feel like we're able to move or at least kick the ball down the field as far as possible Before having to switch to the next thing Our committees are sort of aligned in these categories already and we're not we don't cover every area But there are committees already aligns. Hopefully our committee chairs and Council members feel like that's helpful to what you're trying to do in each individual committees also What are we missing here? I'm really leaning on you because you are going to leave us in a few months You've done this a lot. Where have you felt like we've fallen short and what could we learn from that? um A lot of it. I think that How do I say this we have functions within various departments that are duplicate function in another department And I'll talk grants management is one payroll is another That'd be one I would say with Building services or building I've always I think our biggest thing there is our pos is how we um process Permits, you know, you got to go to How do I say this example? I use you go into a restaurant You you sit at the bar You order something from that bartender on the off the bar menu The bartender serves it you get up and you move to the restaurant Section of that restaurant at a different table you order from a different menu from a different employee from a different pos But when you leave you get one ticket and we can't do that So you go to a permit You should get the same on the same ticket should be your fire your t abc your Impact fees everything should be on there that can be done. It's done the private world it could be done In our basement and that's efficiency So that'd be one thing and that's the second thing the first is just We have duplication of functions if you're in grants management, that should be under one department we had We do a great job with grants manager. We had exposure as a city to a hundred million dollars That we had with federal grant that we had to say hey, we here's our data on it, but What if maybe there's another function of another department doesn't manage it as well What been our exposure there and then we see the challenges with with payroll and payroll is a problem of combination of time keeping and payroll So those are the things I would I would focus on from operational efficiencies were We could streamline those services Yeah, um You know, it's it's funding. There's a uh, I think we've actually kind of captured this concept But there's a great management book called measure what matters by venture capitalist named john door who You know was one of um Sandhill roads great venture capitalist. Do you know the book david? um, but it's a management philosophy based around uh identifying objectives and then key results And we could take each one of these categories define what the objectives are And the key to it is to schedule on a regular basis An update on how we're tracking to achieving those Objectives so it never it doesn't go away. It doesn't you know finish when we you know conclude a good day here but it's a it's a tool that we can actually keep the the um The intent and the the wisdom so to speak of what we've done today We can follow through with it because we're measuring it and it's a discipline that we're going to implement um to stay on point Is just one idea And I'll just elaborate on that is it's all about employee solutions We don't we don't have the answers We just want to listen to but but a lot of the staff does the employees do just give them the opportunity to come with those solutions And it may be something you just you don't have to Create a new idea. It's got to imitate what works elsewhere what you've seen work elsewhere So just value that employee solution because There's ideas out there from the employees. I hear them But they don't make it all the way up into a changing of a policy or a process Anybody else to close out any comments before I turn to david to Give us his wisdom before we leave today I don't know that I have wisdom because I do think as I described before how we can bring that this back will be Very helpful and I think help you because that's our job is to figure out how to help you Uh, but time and we talked about in our smaller group is what's valued too Right and we want to be respective of how much time we all spend for the Benefit of our 900 some thousand citizens and all the visitors that come here So I want to thank you for the time that you've spent today We will follow up with you on several occasions to make sure that Your time here today was well spent and we'll test that as we Bring stuff forward on future work sessions and budget so forth. So thank you for your time Awesome. Well, I think with that council. We are adjourned. Great job today. Thank you