which will indicate how much time is remaining. A bell will sound when you have 30 seconds remaining. When your time has ended, the bell will sound again and you should complete your comments. Before your comments, please state your name and city of residence. Thank you. Welcome to your Fort Worth City Council meeting. Tonight is Tuesday, August 9th. I'll gavel us in. Meeting is called to order. Turn it back over to Jeanette. Today's invocation will be by Dr. Marty Williams from the Bethesda Community Church. Dr. Williams? Dr. Williams? Dr. Williams? Pastor Nettles is about to pray. You ready? Okay. We may have to, if this doesn't work. Dr. Williams, can you hear us now? No, Dr. Williams, we'll let him come maybe next Tuesday since we're having issues. I'm gonna turn to Pastor Nettles, AKA Council Member Nettles to pray for us if you don't mind. Thank you, Council Member. Thank you, let's bow our heads. Most gracious and eternal God, we want to first say thank you. Thank you for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Now God, we ask you to be with us in this city council meeting. Bless our leaders, our mayor and council, our city staff that we can do this city some service tonight.  In Jesus' name we pray, amen. Please remain standing for Pledge of Allegiance. Foundation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice. So thank you all for coming tonight. We're gonna do something a little bit different and I do want feedback.  We're working on a few things here at council to make it a little easier and user friendly for those of you in the audience. But in the meantime, we're gonna do a few things like this. So you can see this is the order of business for this evening. We've also pulled a few M&C items off the consent agenda to allow speakers to give us feedback.  We've also tried to give you a little feedback on which page of the agenda these will all be on if you're following along. Just trying to make it a little easier for those of you that are visiting with us tonight. So again, please give us feedback and let us know if this might have been easier as we kind of decide if we're gonna move to a different agenda system in the future. Janet, I'll turn it back over to you. Thank you. Thank you. And so everyone can make sure they can see the slide. The order will be special presentations and introductions, announcements by the city manager on pulled or withdrawn items from the consent agenda, approval of the consent agenda, then the items pulled from the consent agenda, then council items including presentations and boards and commissions, resolutions, public hearings, zoning cases, and then finally the reports from the city manager. The first item is going to be special presentations and introductions. And the first is the main street pilot program. Thank you. We've got several special guests here this evening. Please come on up to the microphone. You can introduce our guests. Thank you to city staff for getting us to this place. We're really, really excited about what this main street pilot looks like and our partners will be working with us. Please, thank you. Absolutely. Thank you, Mayor Carter and council and fellow council people for allowing me to be here today. My name is Deanne Boe and I am the vice president of Urban Development with Main Street America. We're based in Chicago, Illinois. We're really happy to be here to announce this partnership with the city of Fort Worth as this is the very first city in Texas to provide this level of financial support and technical assistance to support programs in developing revitalization in their commercial corridors. We're known for our four points, which are organization, economic vitality, design and promotion. And that's our signature approach to commercial corridor revitalization. Since our inception in 1980 and we've collected statistics over the past 40 or so years, we have seen $95 billion of public and private investment invested in over 2,000 main street communities that we're working with which includes 46 states, cities and counties across the US. We've been able to assist over 700,000 buildings become rehabbed, over 160,000 new businesses and over 150,000 new jobs that have been created in main streets that have utilized our approach. I'm gonna turn it over to Director Stern, who is our partner working to develop this program. Thank you, Deanna. I just wanna let you all know, we're very excited to announce the two organizations that will be moving forward with us on the main street program. But before we do that, I really have to ask Martha Collins on my staff to stand up. Martha Collins really oversaw this initiative with us with Deanna and did an outstanding job. Thank you. So as you all know, this program wouldn't be possible without an allocation that the Local Development Corporation set aside last year for the main street program, $650,000 to do a three-year pilot program. And as Zeon said, this is really a tentpole initiative around our broader full-strength Fort Worth revitalization strategy focused on the four-point approach of revitalization that main street has in mind. The selected organizations receive a total of $270,000 each in grants for operations and project implementation, as well as ongoing training for main street America to produce a customized transformation strategy for their corridors, complete with actionable goals to spark economic growth. Now we had a total of five really, really strong applications for this program. And I wish we had funding to support all of them. So maybe a future budget discussion we can talk about continuing additional funding for the main street program. But without further ado, I'd like to introduce the two organizations. If you look to my right, you might have a sense of who one of the organizations by the amount of gold that they have on, but focused on the near Northside, sorry, the Fort Worth Hispanic Chamber of Commerce will focus on historic preservation of buildings and community, specifically along the area between the stockyards and Panther Island. Their program also envisions the establishment of an Hispanic small business hub within the district to foster and grow entrepreneurship opportunities. So, Nat Landeros, president and CEO of the Hispanic Chamber, please come up. And our second community organization, which is a little more incognito over there on my right, focused on the polytechnic area, Southeast Fort Worth Inc. in partnership with Texas Wesleyan University will launch a more focused, place-based economic development organization with an eye toward historic preservation of buildings and also a growing a small business hub to accelerate economic development efforts within the district. In addition, they have also raised an additional $75,000 already to support their program. And so that is a great start to the Main Street Initiative. So Stacy Marshall, Ms. Nancy. All right. And Mayor, I believe we're gonna have you come down and take some pictures. I think the whole council wants to come down if that would be okay. Okay, great, here we come. Especially the LDC president. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. So much you. Thank you. Oh, her? Yeah. I don't want to laugh at you. Thank you. Let's get it all rid of all of this. Thank you, Mayor. How you doing? She's my blocking, I'm Paul. There you go. Come on, okay. Are there any other pictures? I'm blocking it. I am blocking it. I'm blocking it, oh, I'm blocking it. How do I? Hold that one. Hold it. I'm blocking it. Hold it. I'm blocking it. I know, I'm bumping it. Hold my hand. Thank you so much. I feel like now it's so surprising to have a audience and get down here. Thank you so much. Thank you all for coming. I mean, it's very exciting and special thanks to President Sleibach for being here as well from Texas Wesleyan. I know they're a huge partner in the polytechnic area. We'll let them get out of here. And then I don't think it's on our agenda, but we have two awesome Boy Scouts over here in the audience. And I think Council Member Flores wants to give them a little congratulations. I see uniforms in the audience. So surely I can't be the only one standing up here. I'm front and center. All right, I think we have Matthew and Caden, which is which? OK, good to meet you, young men. Well, it's my honor to recognize you here in front of Council. So say hi to the Council in the mirror. It's really our pleasure. We do have, you know, Scouts like yourselves who want to aspire and go to that next level. So is this for the earning of a badge? Really, what badge would that be, or badges? OK, that's a communication merit badge for both of you. OK, wonderful. OK, how long have you been Scouts? Three years. Well, that's wonderful. Great undertaking, so appreciate your involvement. OK, would you like to say anything to the Mayor and Council? Probably not. Now's your chance. OK, well, tell me who your den leader is. OK, true leader. So who would that be? Oops. You don't know, I don't sweat it. Don't worry about it. Point is here that we want to recognize you, you know, for your achievement. And to do that, we're going to give you an official symbol of the city of Fort Worth, that what we wear here, you know what this is? You do. OK, it's called the Molliepin, right? All right, so it's my honor and privilege, as council member, to officially give you the Molliepin. All right, you can wear it on your uniforms, wear it with pride, and represent the city. OK, and there's yours, young man. So we're going to take a quick picture here, all right, guys? Let's get in line, all right? One on each side. One moment, please. We're going to do a sound check with one of our vendors. Chris, can you hear me? Next item is items to be withdrawn from the consent agenda. All right, we have a number of items to withdraw from the consent agenda. Those would be M&C 22-0563, 22-0568, 22-0583, 22-0562, 22-0575, 22-0579, 22-0590, and 22-0595. Items to be continued withdrawn by staff. There are no items to be continued or withdrawn by staff. Consideration of the consent agenda as amended. Jen, please vote. Next item is M&C 22-0568. Is this the 0563? I think it's M&C 22-0563, just confirming. Yes, OK. We have one speaker on this item, Thomas Trollin-Cosse. Mayor and council members, fellows, citizens, and neighbors, on this specific agenda item, I was asked by the National Police Accountability Project to clarify whether this claim is an accident or an incident that is a police officer involved. I know in the past, the council has expressed that all of these claims are accidents. The clarity is in that if the officer followed department policy and procedure, or whether this was an avoidable accident. 155, Fort Worth 8-9 to 6 p.m. central time as a speaker. You're OK. You've got more time. I've kind of paused it at 2.15 if you want to keep going there. No, I just asked the question. Thank you. Somebody can clarify that. Any other discussion, council? Thank you. Got a motion and a second, council? Got a motion, got a second? Thank you. Any other discussion? Please vote. Motion passed. Quick sound check with our vendor, Chris, can you hear us? Sound check, I can hear you. Can you hear me? Yes, thank you. Next item is MNC 220568. Thank you. I'm going to turn to Council Member Michael Crane for an acceptance of a donation that's very special. And we have a special guest in the audience tonight. Got a few, mayor. Thanks. I wanted to pull this off, especially to recognize some great folks in Como. If you don't know Lake Como, Texas, nothing gets done without these three people here that are here tonight, Carol Kirby Brown, Dorothy DeBose and Leon Reed. They work tirelessly. And I know Carol Kirby Brown, you work tirelessly with Como Lions Heart for a long, long time. And I know you have an event coming up. I'd like you to come talk a little bit about the event and all the great work that you're doing for all the youth there in Lake Como. Sorry to make you get down. I saw you put your lipstick on those, so it looks great. I want to thank our city councilman, because I wasn't even planning to come. But just to let you know, we formed this organization back in 2015 to support the programs of the Como Community Center, because for the youth that don't know my history, I ran that center for 30-plus years. And I kind of knew what it took to keep it going. Not to knock the city, but you just never gave us enough money to do what we needed to do.  So we formed a nonprofit. And we have been working to keep the programs going that need that extra funding. And so this $15,000 that we gave was for summer day camp, because a lot of our parents just can't afford the day camp fee plus the field trip fees. So we didn't want any kids to miss out on field trips. So we paid for that and the transportation. This Thursday, we will be having a taste of soul. It is our yearly fundraiser that we do. And we have a dinner dance. This year is going to be an originally theater on Camp Bowie, the old theater. It's now events venue. We'll be having it there. The plates and everything are $200 for an individual or $1,500 for a table. It's not too late to come and join us. Legacy of four will be our band there. They're great if you haven't heard them. But all this is so that we can continue. Last Friday, we had our college luncheon. And what that is is we sent 30 youth from the Como community off to college with full dorm, school supplies, snacks, and everything. Our kids don't have as much as other kids. They go on grants or loans. So we give them that little boost. We take care of everything they need for their college, including a computer, if they need that. We do all kinds of programs, everything you can imagine. So we just thank you for allowing us this time to tell you a little about it. Carol, thanks for all the work that you do there. I think you have a, Ainsley's very excited to go to the NRH2O tomorrow with the field trip. So thanks for sponsoring that as part of the day camp, summer camp, so people have opportunities. And we'll see you on Thursday. Appreciate y'all being here tonight. Thank you. Thank you. Michael, you want a motion for us? Got a motion? Gonna get second counsel. Thank you. Any other discussion? Please vote. And motion carries. Thank you. Thank y'all for being here. We appreciate it. Next item is MNC 220583. We have a few speakers on this item. The first is Adrienne Smith. Followed by Thomas Tirlan-Cosse. Greetings to the, oh, Adrienne Smith. Forth resident, district three is my district, former city council representative of district three of the 2021 election year, 2023 candidate. Council, greetings, council. First and foremost, to Miss Bivens, I owe you all an apology regarding the last council meeting. We had a exchange and all you were doing was just being the chief in charge, keeping the room in order. So my apologies for how I acted out.  But anyway, this state's 17 million, oh, I'm sorry. $117 million, I believe, is what's going to be allocated or voted on for our police department. Okay, kudos to the police department. But my thing is, what now? I mean, we vote for this fund and that's cool. No one is against policing, you know, because this notion that we have an issue with the police in certain communities is not the case. So let me be the first to say we don't have an issue with policing. Only thing we asked was just more accountability for the decisions making that goes on for the people who were the badge. So if you're gonna approve this, please, by all means, this is a lot of money. We need to get something in return from the police departments, you know, because there are communities that are having issues because the police choose not to be available. So with all of this money, they can implement something for these communities. And I do believe Mr. Nettles months back tried to put the word out to various organizations or individuals who may have ideas to get some type of dollars from CCPD funding. So thank you for doing it. I don't know if any other council members done it, but I do recall you doing it. So all we're just saying is just a little more accountability, that's all. You know, nothing against law enforcement. You have a job to do. But when I came up, I do recall a program called DER that was in school. DER Drug Abuse Resistant Education. I don't think it exists anymore, but programs like that and just anything to help these youth of this city to get their lives in order because it's a lot going on.  It's accountability, you all. Thank you for hearing me out. Thank you, Adrienne. Our next speaker is Thomas Trollen-Cosse followed by Bob Willoughby. Parker and council members again on behalf of the National Police Accountability Project. I wanted to kind of review this fiscal year. It was projected that this fund would be $80 million, I believe, and that the next fiscal year that is this measure is reflecting to be 85 million. Projection for this year, I think is actually 130 million. That's substantially more than the CCPD funds were projected to be in a five-year run. We're on pace to nearly increase the funding by 60% of what was projected. This is basically a tax. And that means that the poorest people in our city, the homeless people that go in and buy a bottle of water pays this tax as much as the richest man in the city. The reason why I point that out is because it's kind of ironic. The city and the city council is considering this measure submit an application for $170 million to the board. The board meets on the 23rd of August to consider this application and for other purposes and potentially on the 30th if they don't get everything done. I say that because the board that meets on the 23rd and possibly on the 30th is the same nine humans that you see in front of you. Instead of appointing separate citizens to serve on the CCPD board, it is literally themselves recommended to themselves that they appropriate $117 million. And then so. My point is if you go to one of these meetings, you actually have the opportunity to speak just like I'm speaking now. A lot of people don't know that. Different from this council, you have to sign up the day ahead of time. It's very important and it's not the usual mechanism through the city secretary. So if you wanna speak on the CCPD funding and this measure specifically when the council votes twice the second time basically on the exact same giant chunk of money, learn the method and do it or I can help you with that a little bit separately. What's really interesting is, and I know they won't do it, but this council brags on being the most accountable and transparent city council in the country. And so what I wanna encourage them to do is if they do take police officer association funds in their political campaigns to disclose that or to abstain from voting and better yet, figure out a way to appoint a separate board so that you can have more of that work-life balance that you talk about all the time. Our next speaker is Bob Willoughby. You probably won't be able to read it completely. That's good enough to show you what we're talking about. All these items in here on the CCPD funds. I want you to know on the 20th of July, I held a town hall and invited people from the CCPD funds to come because I told Keith Morris there with him that I was getting reports on our radio show that the funds weren't being used properly. They were given out to different organizations that helped put them back in office. So that's what I was told. And I said, come on the show and let's clear it up. Come to the meeting, are they the town hall? Well, he couldn't. He got denied to come to our town hall to talk about the CCPD funds. This paperwork and him should have been at that town hall meeting. This should be advertised in the city news, which is controlled by Michelle Gooke, which you'll only see cosmetic news there. Nothing that is substance will be put in as long as she's in charge of our news, waste of our tax dollars, totally. Second thing on this, well, Thomas stole part of my thing. Yes, council dismantled the independent board that used the CCPD funds and put themself in place. And then they turn around and yell, we're overworked. We need a $70,000 raise. So, you know, same thing with the redistrictizing. They put themself in charge. This needs to be postponed. It needs to be publicized better. And we need to, I got questions all over the same. I just now seen it, I got too many questions here. So we should be able to answer these questions. You put it out for us to vote for it, but you don't want us to know about it when it came out. So one thing it needs to be put out in the news. Also, yeah, need to be the news on our city news and we need contact and we need to answer some of these questions before you go forward. And also like Thomas said, if you're such a good council, you will put an independent people back in charge of this and take your greedy hands off of it. Thank you. Thank you, Bob. For an important level of clarity, I'm gonna ask one of our senior attorneys here in the city of Fort Worth to provide a little overview as to why the city council is your CCPD board legally by state law. And then I'm also gonna ask Chief Knokes to come out and provide a level of clarity of what this application really means to the public. Thank you, Dennis. Good evening, Mayor and Councilmembers of Public. Dennis McQuarrie, City Law Department. Chapter 363 of the Local Government Code, which governs the CCPD board, addresses the, is funded out of sales taxes Mr. Torron-Cosse pointed out. Currently the city does not, or the Fort Worth CCPD does not apply at sales tax to utility bills. We could, we do not. Prior to 2009, I believe it was, that was not an option. The law was changed. And so basically this board was giving the authority to determine whether or not that tax applies to the citizens. And at that point, the city council decided because this is a tax, a question of whether tax or not, it should be elected officials who serve in that capacity. And so the decision was made to have the council serve as the board, which is a mechanism that the state law allows. Thank you very much, Dennis. Chief notes, come on down. Thank you, sir. Mayor and council, thank you so much for the opportunity to talk about the CCPD, Crown Control and Prevention District, what it means to the forward police department. And quite frankly, what it means to the safety of all the citizens of Fort Worth, regardless of zip code, it's meant for everyone in the entire city. It does pay for some equipment. It pays for some training, it's for training our officers to be the best they possibly can be. It pays for some positions. What I believe maybe some don't know are some of the programs. We have our Parks Community Policing Program paid for through CCPD, School Resource Unit Program. Our Crossing Guard Program, which is being expanded to cover not only elementary schools, but middle schools to make sure students have safe passage to and from school. It pays for programs designed to deal with violent crime in the neighborhoods that need to help the most. And it's policing that's done the right way, led by data and intelligence to grab through the exact offenders and not to saturate an entire neighborhood. Our Code Blue Program, Community Information Program, our Civilian Response Unit, which is a group of civilians that respond to low level, non-emergency calls, which is what our community said they wanted in the first place. Our Crisis Intervention Team, Graffiti Abatement, Homeless Outreach Team, Neighborhood Police Officers, Domestic Violence Assistance Program. Our partners with the shared mission programs such as our after-school programs, funding for Alliance for Children, a gang intervention program training to make sure the officers that are responding to the citizens of Fort Worth are responding the right way. And it's also about community capacity development, giving back to the communities to empower them to be strong, to work with us while we make Fort Worth the major city in the entire country. Thank you, Chief. Any other questions? Council, I think Gina may be in the queue. Mayor Pro Tem, anything from you? Go ahead. There is something, Chief, please come back because there is one I'm gonna ask you to clarify. I support this. And what I'm gonna say may be redundant to what the Chief just shared, but if you've ever known a woman who's tried to get away from an abusive partner, you'd be glad to refer her to the Safe Holden Program. That's where some of this money goes. If you know about juveniles and the stresses that they have this day and time, kids have mental health issues in 2022. Well, we have programs that we help fund through this money. You know, this isn't padding the salaries of the Chief and his people. This is really helping the citizens. Now, initially when we approved this long before I got on the council, it was a five-year stint, but the citizens have so approved and appreciated what happens. We got 10 years. You need to know that. I would also share with you one program that's very special to me, Chief, and this is why I want you here. Tell us what the civilian response unit does and what kind of difference that makes. We listen to the voices of the community and we hear a lot of voices. A lot of competing interests, but one we heard over and over again from various sectors of the community. They wanted an alternative response to non-emergency calls. Quite frankly, not every call requires an officer in uniform with a badge, with a gun, because it's not an emergency situation. And some felt that an officer responding in those situations might actually escalate the situation. So the idea was, let's let officers respond to the calls they really need to be responding to. Quick response to citizens who are experiencing emergencies. Let's have a group of professionals that are highly trained to go and respond to non-emergency calls where there is no danger to take reports, to collect evidence, to try to resolve low level disputes. We've been able to do that. And initially we didn't know how it would be received by the citizens or by our department. Overwhelmingly, internally and externally, we've heard again and again about positive interactions in the way people love interacting with our civilian response unit team. Don't we commonly hear this referred to as the mental health unit? Is there a mental health professional involved? Now that's actually, Mayor Pro Tem, our crisis intervention team. Same money. Exactly, and it is equally important. The difference there is, when responding to a person who may be in mental health crisis, oftentimes me showing up in this uniform is not the best person to show up. We have officers there to show up and so we'll make sure everyone's safe. So those officers should respond, but we have officers who are trained and partnered with masters level, trained or hire, social workers, counselors and mental health professionals who as a profession know how to deal with someone who might be in crisis and they respond to those situations to de-escalate the situation to make sure that everything is done safely and routinely follow up with certain citizens to make sure they're getting all the resources they need to prevent them from ever being in crisis in the first place. Thank you. Mayor, I support this. And if you're ready for a motion, I move for approval. Thank you, Jim. I've got a motion and a second. Neither discussion council, please vote. Thank you, Chief.  Dennis, is that a party trick that you can quote local government code by memory? Not really. Very boring, okay. Well, thank you very much. I appreciate it. We'll move to the next item. Next item is MNC 220562. We do have a speaker, Thomas Trillin-Cosse. I wanted to have the council mayor be mindful of the fact that you're basically, it looks like empowering the Tarrant Appraisal District to do its job. The Tarrant Appraisal District is embroiled in quite a bit of controversy and there's a meeting on Friday morning at 9 a.m. Their upper management may be terminated. The person on the tad board that the city council has the most influence over and we haven't heard a peep out of is Junkist Jordan. It is clear that the scandals there exposed and Mr. Chandler Crouch can explain that to the council more. While we need Tarrant Appraisal District to do its job, there's a deep need to dig deep and check out what's been going on, specifically with both Jeff Law and Randy Armstrong over there and the city's representative is Mr. Jordan. So I don't know what the mechanism is to make that happen, but I've seen Mr. Jordan at a couple of meetings and we haven't heard any comments from him on behalf of the interests of the city of Fort Worth. Thank you, Thomas, maybe for a point of clarity. This item is actually pertaining to the tax assessor collector, which is a different entity than TAD. So just pointing that out that Junkist Jordan does not serve as a tax assessor collector and that's actually an elected position. Wendy Burgess holds that. With that council, we can have a motion. Thank you. Motion and a second, please vote. Motion carries. Next item is MNC 22-0575 with one speaker council, Thomas Cherlen-Cosse. Council, I wanted to point out this is a vote to approve a contract with Freese and Nichols. They do work all over the state. They're specialists in engineering and water-related projects. In the interests of accountability and transparency, since this is declared to be the most transparent city council in the country, it would be handy to hear which city council members have received political donations from Freese and Nichols and you can acknowledge that before you vote or you could abstain from voting on this measure. Council, a motion? Motion and a second. Thank you. Please vote. Motion carries. Next item is MNC 22-0579. We have one speaker, Thomas Cherlen-Cosse. Mayor and council members, neighbors and taxpayers. I need to make sure everyone understands that I'm often speaking on behalf of other folks. In this specific instance, I'm talking on behalf of Mr. Jesse that lives on Village Creek Road across from Natural Gas Pad with 14 wells. It is the example of the height of environmental racism in the Echo Heights, stop six neighborhood. You'll hear a little bit more about that from my friends from the Sierra Club at another measure on the council agenda. This air quality compliance inspections and monitoring equipment is vital throughout the city because right now that gas pad and the city's responsibility I believe is limited just to groundwater issues. This particular spot, Jesse and Botina James of that neighborhood coalition, environmental coalition, they're worried about particulate matter, specific fume detection, other emissions, 24 hours a day truck traffic which stirs up dust and more particulate matter, noise pollution, surface water runoff and a variety of other environmental impacts that impact the schools and churches nearby and the seniors like Jesse who live directly across the street.  Thank you, Thomas. That's the last of our speakers, council. Your motion and second please. Motion is second, thank you. Please vote. Motion carries. Next item is MNC 22-0590 with one speaker, Thomas Turlan-Cosse. Mayor and council, it's the same mask. I'm not picking on freezing nickels today but they are on the agenda, they're getting too sweet. Deals create contracts, they're very capable but they're also very generous givers to political campaigns. So I'm gonna ask you on behalf of everyone in the room and everyone that watches this afterwards, if you received or plan to receive freezing nickels money, be kind of handy to disclose that before you vote and give them another contract. A motion, council. Motion is second, thank you. Any other discussion? Please vote. Jared Leonard, sorry. Motion carries. Next item is MNC 22-0595 with one speaker, Thomas Turlan-Cosse. I was wrong, everyone, I apologize, Mayor. There are three measures where freezing nickels gets giant contracts. Same mask, be accountable and transparent. You can raise your hand because in this part of the meeting, you're allowed to respond to the public. So feel free to raise your hand if you've received donation funds from freezing nickels in the last couple of cycles. Motion carries. Next item is announcements by city council member and staff, including upcoming and recent events, recognition of citizens and approval of ceremonial travel if needed. Council member Flores, you're up first. Ready, Melissa. All right, some slide seems not too long ago at the city and the nation celebrated our Independence Day, July 4th. And there were a couple of noteworthy celebrations in district two, June 28th and July 2nd, Marine Creek Ranch, HOA, proudly celebrated their fourth annual firework show. And that's done professionally with exceptional displays of pyrotechnics. And the Northside Neighborhood Association had its fourth annual Independence Day parade and picnic. Biggest they've ever had. Had a lot of door prizes there and a great turnout. Now I don't know if we have a video embedded there in the presentation. This is just a sampling of some of what was offered there. This is a local, you know, Mexican style horsemanship group there by Cassie Lopez who came over and offered their performing arts to the attending audience. Very exemplary of the different cultures that constitute our American melting pot. I wish I could do a horse like that, but don't have that skill set. All right, next slide please. Okay, we're July 2nd, Northside Neighborhood Association. You know, again, at its parade, we talked about that. Moving on to the next slide. I think what we have, oh no, a backup one. I'm sorry, I lost my place. There we go, Billy Bob's. There's some good news coming out of Billy Bob's. July 5th, we gathered for the State of Billy Bob's, Texas. It was a press conference on Tuesday morning and Marty Travis, their general manager, unveiled new renovations plans that involve knocking down an old support column that has been there and has been somewhat of a obstruction for performing artists there, music groups, et cetera. So they're gonna re-envision that. They're gonna take that out and they're going to enlarge that viewing area. It's gonna increase ticket revenue and make audience happy. So good luck to them as they proceed there. Next slide now. All right, July 8th, community coming together, especially for our law enforcement community. There was an injured Hulton City, two police officers, Zach Tabler and Tim Barton. So, oh, a third one, I'm sorry, in Jose Avila. Who were shot and injured in the performance of their duties? They were recovering and there was a fundraiser for them at Cowtown Brewing Company. A lot of Fort Worth's finest were there, including Chief Nogues and Jimmy Polizani and many others. It was very moving tribute. All right, next slide. All right, now the library in action at the Diamond Hill Library, Jarvis Library. We got together for a book reading. And so it was bilingual story time for this council member. So I read a book called El Cocodrilo a que no le gustaba la agua. So a crocodile who did not, does not like the water. And then the second one was Croc and Turtle, the best friends ever. So well received. We did some arts and crafts here with the kids and we had some great giveaways. Really appreciative of the children that came and their parents that brought them and thank you to the library staff. All right, next slide please, July 8th. All right, Hunto Sipueve, another non-profit who's given a lot to the underserved community. They had their scholarship dinner at the Trinity, I'm sorry, Trinity, I can't speak today, TCC campus. And they were awarded scholarships to the students and recipients. Sponsors came together to make that happen. And if it wasn't for Hunto Sipueve, many of these young students could not realize their college dreams, so. Not turning you off, I promise it's not me. Okay, I like that. All right, next slide, Canales Furniture and Cosponsors. Like the Fort Worth Police Department at a back to school event, as many are going on right there, at their Ellis Avenue location, HWNT was present along with farmers insurance, et cetera. We see Daniel Segura, one of Fort Worth's finest there who was helping out with that effort. So appreciate everyone coming out. Next slide. August 5th, Casabary ISD, one of the ISDs in district two, came on board with our city departments for first next gen ambassadors program. So had great attendance there by them and others. That ambassador program I think is gonna be very essential to immerse students in getting a sampling and experience, paid experience at that with city government and who knows where it might lead to, might blaze a career path for them in the near future. So that was at the Botanic Gardens and Brit facility. All right, next slide. August 3rd, Julie Butler, who's the president and CEO of Terrent Area Food Bank, she gave a tour to myself and I think to other council members as well to their facilities and gave us a look ahead of what they hoped to do with expanding their capability to reach out and help underserved communities, especially when times of need to send on us. Here in North Texas, they're a very big presence and they deserve our support. So happy that they do the mission that they do every day. And I think this is the final, almost two more slides. Okay, there's an announcement there. Artista La Rosa along Frostbank are gonna have their third annual back to school supply distribution giveaway that's Saturday the 13th, 10 a.m. to 12th at the Historic Rose Marine Theater. So you have children, bring them along because they're gonna need those supplies. All right, last slide, but not least slide. I'm proud to say that the Northside Community Center has just finished an eighth month renovation and that renovation was made possible by CDBG funds to the tune of 5.46 million dollars and what a result it is. Now with 31,000 square foot, it is the largest community center in Fort Worth. So staff is very excited to be in the new digs. The community has been visiting there. They've had some soft openings. It's wonderful to see the possibilities. And then shortly we're supposed to get furniture but supply chain issues being as they are kind of slowing that down. So we're gonna have an official grand opening sometime in September and that's all I have. Thank you, Carlos. And now on to Council Member Williams. Normally it doesn't jump from Carlos to me so I was a little surprised there. I have just a few slides. On this first slide, I had the opportunity similar to Council Member Flores and several other council members to participate in the music and movement story time with our neighbors at the Wedgwood Library. It was a really cool time hanging out with our residents and our young leaders and talking about environmental conservation. And we read a really cool book to highlight that. Next slide. We also had a great time joining some of our amazing community leaders, our first responders and the North Crowley cheerleading squad during the grand opening of Buffalo Wild Wings Go off of McPherson. They even let me make my favorite wings in the kitchen. It's mild with lemon pepper sprinkles and I served everyone who is there with that. It's a really amazing opportunity and the students of North Crowley are really excited to have another option for lunch in the community. Next slide, please. The next slide, we had a wonderful meeting with the Southwest Fort Worth AARP chapter where I got the chance to share my story growing up in the area and also some important district updates that affect our seasoned neighbors. Next slide, please. Yesterday I stopped by the Southwest Community Center and I was really, I'm excited about this opportunity. We got the chance to partner with some amazing artists in the community to teach our young campers at the Southwest Community Center about the industry of sneaker culture. I'm a sneaker ahead of myself and absolutely love shoes, but it's also a great opportunity for folks to be entrepreneurial and to get in a emerging industry of shoe collections and so the kids got the opportunity to learn firsthand from an amazing entrepreneur who makes his own sneakers and customizes them. I mean, so they had a fun time and paint was definitely on the shoes but also on their hands and shirts in some cases but it was fun to see them exploring that career opportunity and shout out to the Southwest Community Center for all the amazing summer programs they're doing not just for our littles but also for our teens as well. Next slide, please. So many of y'all know we broke ground not too long ago on a new library in District 6 and it's time to name that new location and so the Forward Public Library has taken nominations until August 31st. After the nominations close, a panel will review the submissions and select top five choices for the community to vote on in September. So if you haven't submitted your name or an idea for a name to this process, please consider doing that and then we'll be excited to release and announce that on our social medias when it's time to vote for you to vote for the top five choices. Also, please note that municipal buildings and Forth cannot be named after living people. So if you're interested in making your nomination, you can do that by visiting the city of Forth website and then I believe this is my last slide. So it's time for the budget cycle like we do every year and this year we'll be hosting two opportunities for listening circles where we get to talk about budget. The first meeting will be on August 23rd at Southwest Community Center at 6 p.m. And a translator will be present at this meeting. The second meeting will be held on Thursday, September 1st at the Chisholm Trail Community Center at 6 p.m. So hope to see you there as we continue to ensure that our budget reflects your needs and the vision that you have for your neighborhood and the district. That's all I have. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Jared. Our next go to Councilman Nettles. Thank you. I try to keep this brief. We have a Southside Community Center, Southside Community Garden build days. And so you see Michael Crane, Jared was also there. I think they built probably about four that day. They're doing an awesome job in the Southside, 76104. Next slide, please. The Fourth of July parade, the historical Fourth of July parade and Como was awesome again. Commissioner Roy Brooks gave us a sound off. He gave us our marching orders. And so it was good to be there. Next slide. This is Roots Community Festival. This is a young lady who inspires to get young people involved. And so it was a great meeting and it was a festival on Saturday. Next slide. This is our education rally was held at Newbury Christian Ministries Church by Miss Bobby Edmonds. She's doing a phenomenal job for our community. Had opportunity to be there. There was a lot of door prizes giving out. The next slide. This is the next level Cosmo hair show. This is the final finale for our young girls who did an awesome job. So thank you for all the who supported them. It was a great summer and a great event. Next slide. I had opportunity to speak to be the keynote speaker for Khan Academy graduation here on Lancaster. And so it was great to be there to speak to our young people about their future. Next slide. Tarran County back to school roundup happened this past weekend. It was lines outside the door. Ken Scribner was there. Commissioner Roy Brooks and others. And so it was just great to be amongst the people in the community. Next slide. Had opportunity to speak to team civil program at the McDonald YMCA. And I know there's a lot of pictures that you're seeing but it shows that this community, this city council even the ones that didn't show anything today is very involved into our community and our neighborhood. So it is great to be a part of such a great council. I had opportunity to speak to young people about gun violence, about education and about their future. Next slide. I also had opportunity to do story time at the Ruby Kerry Library. It was a fun adventure. I had on the red shoes getting ready back to start walking the neighborhood again. And so it was good to be in the neighborhood. Next slide. That's it, thank you. Thank you, Chris and the council member Beck. Elizabeth, it's to you, but you'll have to unmute yourself if you can hear me. It may be a little bit delayed for her. Maybe she can't hear us. Oh, there she goes. Go ahead. Okay, sorry about that. My computer picked the perfect time to drop off. So it was council break, although we did not take much of a break here in district nine. We too had some fabulous Fourth of July activities. You see two separate parades there. One is Ryan Place, the other is Berkeley Place and also a huge shout out to Chris Mosley with our legal team, that gorgeous green MG that you see me in was driven by him. And so I appreciate his love of old cars and his willingness to drive me around on a hot Fourth of July day. Next slide. We got to read to some preschoolers at our central library. It was a lot of fun. They definitely kept me on my toes and I learned the hard way that double high fives cause chaos. So stick to one high five if you've got three, three year olds and below. Next slide. That's the video. I think we can go and skip that for time's sake, Melissa. Okay, there we go. Had the opportunity to attend South Hills Pyramid Convocation yesterday. It was really great. I've been to a lot of pep rallies in my life with students. This was my first with teachers and I can definitely tell you that our fourth ISD, South Hills Pyramid really does bring the heat to a private rally was a lot of fun. And I really appreciate all the work that they're doing to improve our student outcomes in the district. Next slide. All right, this is upcoming. This is actually in district seven, but it's something I'm really excited about. And I wanted to make sure that everybody knows about it, eight, one, seven days. So on the 17th, we will be having a concert showcase of our local artists. And I really want to take this opportunity to thank Monya Shore and my crumb. As part of my get to know the city tour last July in touring will watchers. I saw this amazing space, this auditorium space and thought, what can we do here? And Monya and her staff at the library took what was a harebrained council idea and turned it into what I absolutely know will be an amazing show. Tickets are free. So make sure you sign up, grab yours and tell your friends to come and really get a local taste of Fort Worth. And I think that is all I have for today. Thank you, Elizabeth. Appreciate it. Next item is 22-2370, appointments to the animal shelter advisory board with a correction to Cindy Bowling's first name. It should be CINDY. Thank you, Jeanette. Council Member Crane. Thank you. Motion a second. Please vote council. Oh, Jared, will you try again? Sorry, it's not working. Will you vote for Jared? Motion carries. Next item is 22-2376, appointments to the historic and cultural landmarks commission. Can I motion council? Thank you. Motion a second. Please vote. Jared. Chris. Motion carries. Next item is 22-2373. We have one speaker on this item council, Bob Willoughby. I want you to know that I do not recognize them as mayor and council. They do not respect us by taking away our right to speak here tonight. We're not on the presentation. Mr. Baylock and Firestone.  Can you speak? You're not answering one question. I have filmed these people running out of this building and will not answer one question. If they can't answer a question, how can they serve on the board? They can't do this job. That is the premise of the job of a councilman and mayor to answer questions. That is their job. Okay, but they don't answer questions.  Now, we outnumber them big time and we should not have let them take away our club at right to speak here tonight, but we don't speak any more like other cities do. Because I had some good things to say about the city, but I can't say them because we don't have three minutes no more. They took it away. Second thing is, until they can answer questions, how can you put you on the board? Mr. Bailuck, I've got more footage of you backside than I do front side. Same thing with a Firestone. Chase Tim all the way out the street and I couldn't get back in the building. I didn't realize I went that far. So, I mean, this is just, I don't know. I don't understand you people. What is wrong with you? Is my mic dead or it's still on? Anything on RTC you wanna add for your remarks? I'm sorry. The Regional Transportation Commission to which this agenda item pertains. Would you like to add anything? Well, no, I guess my thing is if they can't do their job as council members, how can they be on any boards? I think they need adults supervision really. Thank you. Thank you, Bob. With that council, I'll take a motion. I move to approve this motion and welcome these two since I serve as vice chair of the Regional Transportation Council and I deem them both appropriate. Thank you, Jean. I've got a motion and a second. Please vote council. Motion carries. Next item is 22-2374. We have two speakers on this item. Bob Willoughby followed by Thomas Trollen-Cosse. This is for the night out thing, okay? Look, we used to be able to go in there and speak four times a month. You took the council meetings away to two times a month for yourself. You took us off there completely and you put us in quarantine twice a month for use in the most coherence. Now you want to take away one of these days so you can go party? I know, if we had all four nights, you know, I wouldn't mind giving up a night for a party but there are some really important, serious things going on in this city that affects people to be off and not be able to express them, you know? And that's just not right to go party. You guys get off enough, okay?  You've moved the time to six o'clock and 10 o'clock, the meeting's easier for you.  Really, it's what y'all done in this city is more than anybody done in the last, oh, one other thing real quick, Maddie, if you don't stop me. What the attorney said earlier, I'd like to rebuttal what the attorney said earlier. It's just disrespectful at this point. Thank you very much. We'll go on to the next agenda item. Thank you. Motion council. Oh, I'm sorry, yeah, Thomas, come on down. Thank you. Mayor and council members, on this specific measure, I want to comment, I really want to comment on your own rules of procedures and how you conduct yourselves towards the public, but I'm not allowed to do that. I want to comment specifically on this. I get the part about rearranging certain budget days and that this is budget season. There was a new organization in Fort Worth. I probably haven't heard of it yet. It's WeThe330.com. It's an organization I belong to, as well as Mr. Modder and Chandler Crouch and a number of other people across the city. And our focus is on First Amendment rights. There are five First Amendment elements. Four of them are practiced here regularly. In fact, five if you count freedom of religion. But specifically, as you know, I think you're eliminating one of the meeting nights this month too. But the reason why we have these mega agendas and you nice folks are waiting so long to deal with your zoning issues is because they do cram all the business issues into every other Tuesday. The council may not see this this way, but the people in the city believe that your first priority is to sit in those seats every Tuesday night.  You take a Tuesday off at the end of the month. You have public comment every other week, but you cancel it when it's not convenient. The National Night Out is a focus on emergency responders, especially police. We're working and struggling on police accountability and transparency in the city. And most of the time, the public comment meetings are over well before 7 p.m. Seems to me that instead of canceling the comment since you reduce, reduce, reduce, you can still have it and run out the door like you usually do and get to whichever propaganda National Night Out event you want to attend. But this is the epitome of an example of you shirking your responsibilities when it comes to the first responsibility as a deliberative body, which is to be here on Tuesday nights and actually deliberate and differ and debate and sometimes show a vote, especially in support of the First Amendment that differs from your peers. My motion. Yes, Mayor, I have a motion, but before I do that, I just wanted to clarify a few dates because I believe October the 4th is the only Tuesday that's been canceled. And I believe here we're adding August the 10th, which is Wednesday, separate from Tuesday. And then if needed, August the 12th, which is a Friday. Guys, you're gonna have to come to work on Friday. And then August the 25th is another Thursday that we may have to add. So the only meeting that we actually counseling is one. So I think it's important that we clarify that for these wonderful residents that's here, that you just don't hear a lot of words that's not meaning anything. So with that being said, since I have clarified that I moved to approve this resolution. Motion a second. Thank you, Council. Please vote. Motion carries. Next item is 22-2375. We have one speaker on this item, Bob Willoughby. Well, we need a city auditor, but I don't know anything about this one. When I looked at the agenda, I don't know how to have one question. What city did he come from? Is he from here or from another city? There wasn't a list of where he came from. Can anybody tell me what city he came from? This auditor we're adding. His name's on the, I should be up there. Or when you go look at David. Yeah, where did David come from? Anybody know? You all didn't know who he is, do you? Anybody know the auditor? I don't think they do. So what city he came from? You're gonna set tight lip on that? Jesus Christ. I'm gonna start doing drugs or something. I can't handle you people. Thank you, Bob. I think we're really excited to have this appointment on our agenda. David is here tonight. I feel un-standing, David. Welcome to the city of Fort Worth. Give him a round of applause. He's incredibly credentialed and went through a very arduous application process, interview process with several different interview panels, including all of us here on this dais. We are incredibly excited to have you joining us. I know that our audit committee is especially excited, led by council member Firestone. If anybody else wants to say anything to welcome David to Fort Worth, go ahead, Leonard. Yeah, David just wanted to welcome you as well as chair of the audit committee. And we are excited to have you here. And I did just want to take a moment, Mayor, because you mentioned David's credentials, which are really terrific. And it was an arduous process to get here. We're excited to have you. We welcome you. But just, you know, I think it's worth noting, you know, of course, David is very well credentialed with a CPA, CFA, CIA, a CCEP, a CISA, an FRM, CFA, and a CTP, and Lean Six Sigma Green Belt. Pretty extraordinary. Did also want to mention David has great roots in Texas. He was at Rice University. He was at University of St. Thomas in Houston and also got his bachelor's in business administration at SMU in Dallas, which of course we ignore it, but we're happy nonetheless. We're happy nonetheless. So welcome, David. We're glad you're here. We're thrilled, David. Thank you so much. Okay, with that council, we can have a motion. Going to go for it, Leonard? Yes, motion to approve. Thank you, motion in a second. Please vote, council. Motion carries. Next item is MNC 22-0570 with a staff report by Leah Brown. Hi, Leah, come on down. Good evening, mayor and members of city council. My name is Leah Brown and I am a neighborhood development coordinator in the neighborhood services department. This evening on your agenda is MNC 22-0570 regarding the adoption of a resolution of no objections supporting a housing tax credit application by ECG Shelby LP for the development of the Shelby Trace Apartments. ECG Shelby LP intends to submit a 4% non-competitive housing tax credit application to the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs, otherwise known as TDHCA. In order for a housing tax credit application to be submitted to TDHCA, a municipality is required to hold a public hearing for the purpose of receiving public comments on the project. The proposed development will consist of approximately 300 units of which 255 units will be available to households earning 60% or below of area median income with an additional 45 units set aside for households earning 30% or below of area median income. The proposed development will be located at the southwest corner of South Ray Street and Oak Grove Shelby Road in Fort Worth. Staff has reviewed the request by ECG Shelby LP and found that the development is consistent with the quality affordable housing goals and priorities in the city's 2018 to 2022 consolidated plan. Therefore, staff recommends that after any public comments are received this evening, the public hearing be closed and the city council take formal action to approve MNC 22-0570 and the attached resolution of no objection for the development of Shelby Trace Apartments. Thank you. Thank you, Leah. Any questions for Leah council? If not, I'll turn to council member Nettles. Okay, may I move to close? MNC 22-0570 and move to approve. Thank you. Got a motion and a second. Please vote council. We may have to do abstention for Elizabeth. I think she's off her computer for a minute. Oh, there she is. Okay. Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you. Next item is MNC 22-0569. Sharon Berkeley is gonna come down. Hi there. Hello. Great. Good evening, Mayor Parker and members of the council. I'm Sharon Berkeley. I serve as a community development planning manager in the neighborhood services department. The purpose of the public hearing tonight is to receive comments regarding our 22-2023 annual action plan, which is required for the city's receipt of grant funds from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development known as HUD. Action plan specifies how HUD grant funds will be used in the upcoming program year from October 1st, 2022 to September 30th, 2023. The total amount of grant funds budgeted through this action plan is 13,124,648 dollars, as well as an estimated amount of $100,000 in program income from the use of grant funds and prior years. Specific grant sources are the community development block grant, CDBG, the home investment partnerships program home, the emergency solutions grant ESG, and the housing opportunities for persons with AIDS program HOPWA. Overall purpose of these funds is to assist low-income households and neighborhoods. Recommendations for this plan's funding allocations were developed with the assistance of our Community Development Council, which is the city's advisory board for the use of these grant funds. The public hearing follows a 30-day comment period on the draft action plan, which ran from Friday, July 1st until Monday, August 1st. And this draft action plan was posted on the city's website for public review, and copies were also distributed to two regional city libraries and six community centers. One additional public hearing was held during this 30-day period, via at the LMA Shambling Library on July 13th. As referenced in the submitted action plan, an amended action plan will be submitted in the event that one or more awarded agencies is unable to execute a contract with the city if required to do so by HUD. Staff is requesting that following any additional comments received this evening, this public hearing be closed and the M&C be approved. Thank you, Sharon. Any questions for Sharon Council? If not, we've got one public speaker on this, Johnny Mitchell. Hey, I'm Johnny Mitchell. I am the financial programs manager for the AIDS Outreach Center, which is led by Kelly Allen Gray. The funds that we get from the city of Fort Worth we greatly appreciate because it helps the clients that we serve who are living with HIV and AIDS. And what we do is we use those funds to help them with rental, mortgaging, utility assistance. And without the city of Fort Worth, we couldn't make that possible. So we would like to thank everyone. And that's it, so thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. Mitchell. Appreciate you. That's the last of our speakers. Council, we can take a motion. A motion, motion and a second in their discussion. Yes, mayor. I'm recusing myself from this agenda item due to a conflict of interest related to my current employer, the tannery food bank, thank you. Thank you, Jared. Got a motion and a second, please vote council. Motion carries. Next item is ZC-22-056. We're moving into zoning, ladies and gentlemen. Our first speaker on this item is Andrew Ruegg. Andrew, I apologize if I butchered your last name. Oh, you did great. Usually it does get butchered, but thank you for that. Good evening, Mayor Parker, city council members, Andrew Ruegg with master plan land use consultants. I had a brief presentation, but I can just kind of go over the case quickly. This is, oh, here we go, thank you so much. This is a self storage mini warehouse request up here on Northwest Loop 820 in Huffines Boulevard. We're requesting a PD zoning with a site plan for this area currently zoned commercial, intensive commercial and general commercial. This site has had several challenges due to its location and grading issues that are there currently. I think there's been a couple of proposals in the past that haven't passed muster with the surrounding community and we've worked with them to come to an agreement as far as something that will be beneficial for both the property owner and the surrounding community. And that was some additional discussions with the Northwest Fort Worth neighborhood alliance. Additionally, we're located next to the crosspoint church. We've had a letter of support from the pastor of that church who's looking forward to having a neighbor to help with some security. I'll skip forward just a couple of slides. One of the things that we heard when we had our neighborhood meeting with the surrounding community is they wanted a lower traffic generating use and many warehouse self storage is actually one of the lowest traffic generating uses. On ITE trips, that's about 128 trips per day. If you're kind of going by the book numbers, we have another facility in Grapevine and our numbers are actually significantly lower than that about 33 trips per day. One of the, we had a couple of questions that we were still working through with the surrounding neighborhoods after we've had a neighborhood meeting with them regarding landscaping and a deceleration lane issue. So I think the main concern that continued on was this right lane issue into the site. Because of our low traffic use, we looked at the, let's see, our access management policy for the city of Fort Worth and found that a right turn bay into the site was actually not warranted. However, we're open to looking into that scenario at the time of permitting. So just to give you a very quick overview and then I'll try to wrap up my quick comments. This is our proposed storage facility. So it's all interior facing. We have attractive exteriors with enhanced landscaping provisions. So we are looking to provide an attractive non highly traffic to use to provide a storage option for the surrounding neighborhood and community and have an attractive product there on site. And I'll be available for any questions should there be any. Thank you so much. Thank you, Andrew. Our next speaker is Brad Boswell. Thank you, Brad. Council Member Flores. Thank you, Mayor. And thank you, Mr. Ruegg for getting us to this point. And you are correct. This site was not without its challenges ever since I've been a council member. Challenges have existed. So we might have something that I think is a workable product. So I appreciate you making outreach to the relevant HOAs, to the Alliance, to working with them and having meaningful discussions and also with my office. So with that said, I move to approve ZC 22-056 with the inclusion of consideration of a right turn deceleration lane on Huffhine's Boulevard to prevent traffic stacking and provide traffic metering. Thank you, Carl. Second from Council Member Williams. Please vote. Motion carries. Next item is ZC 22-046. Our first speaker is Jordan Snyder. Followed by John Palmer. Hi, John. Jordan, excuse me. Hi, this is a slide deck. Thank you, City Council. Thank you, Mayor, for allowing me to present tonight. Jordan Snyder, development manager with Gardner Capital, Dallas, Texas. So without further ado, we're gonna go into tonight about the 2022 comprehensive plan and then dive right into the project overview. So within the 2022 comprehensive plan passed by City Council on March 8th of this year, it's identified that there's a shortage of roughly 23,000 units for people earning 30% AMI or less. Furthermore, the number one goal and objective within the housing section of the comprehensive plan is to increase the number of quality affordable units for low income renters. And then even more, when you start looking at the news with articles such as this, the rent hikes across DFW have outpaced the nation. For instance, in Fort Worth, median rents are up 16% year over year versus 14% nationally. What that means, people are getting priced out of their home or getting priced out of their apartments, excuse me. And if they don't have the means to afford a home, especially in this market, their options are limited. Number one, they have to move into a substandard apartment for lower rent. Number two, they have to move further out of town to find lower rent. Or number three, they have to hope there's not a wait list at existing affordable properties. So diving right into the site overview and adjacent uses, as you can see, the adjacent uses and the existing zoning surrounding the four corners as well as the site's limited visibility and unique site shape, it doesn't make it conducive for retail development on the entire 6.8 acres. Furthermore, as some know in this room, retail development is market driven, meaning the market will dictate what will go there and when. So I've worked with a lot of you guys up here, worked with the mayor, Councilman Crane, Dr. Williams, Dr. Nettle or Pastor Nettles. And we started here at 197 units, three stories on the 6.8 acres. After numerous meetings, numerous feedback and input, especially from Dr. Williams, since this is his district, we landed at this current site, one acre of retail commercial pad, 5.8 acres of multifamily, four stories, 168 units. And I know there's a lot of discussion on what wants to happen with the site amongst the council. All I ask is we have an opportunity right here right now to address affordable housing within the city of Fort Worth. And especially with the public financing timeline we have, we request this doesn't get tabled and get some motion for approval tonight. Thank you. Thank you, Jordan. Next speaker is John Palmer. Good evening, Mayor Parker and Mayor Pro Tem, Council members, I'm John Palmer from McKinney. I'm a master developer throughout DFW. I'm here tonight not to speak specifically to this property, but ask the council to consider what type of a property it is. That's a senior housing development, affordable senior housing development. So as we all might have historically an opinion on how many multifamily units we have, either in the city or the county or the state, what is unique about this is there is no dispute that there is a need for quality, new construction, affordable housing for seniors. And so that's what my appeal tonight is. It is not looking at this as an apartment building. There is a lot of retail. We need a lot of retail, but what we really need is affordable senior housing for people that are living in substandard situations, including some I have personal relationships with that are living on their nephew's futon, waiting for something that is affordable and available. I build new construction, affordable housing across the state. When we open them, a lot of times before we finish our grand openings, they're running waiting lists. So tonight I'm just asking that you consider from a timing standpoint, because there is a timetable on this. We're looking for unconventional financing. And the last thing I'll say is in this market today, it's changing. Interest rates are climbing. Developers like me are looking at where we're investing and why we're investing there and the clock is running out. It's not the last cycle, but I've been around for a few cycles and I see them lapse. And so vacant land can sit. This is an opportunity to do something now and we're asking that you approve this so we can create affordable housing for seniors in Fort Worth. Thank you. Thank you, John. Our next speaker is Beverly Adams. Is Beverly here? Oh, hi, Beverly. My name is Beverly Adams. I live in Hearst, Texas. And I live in a senior facility. If it was not for the senior facility because of my income from my retirement and my social security, I wouldn't be able to live there. I don't know if there was going to be any more facilities built in my area, but it would be nice to have more opportunities and more selection for seniors to live. Thank you, Beverly. We appreciate you coming tonight. Thank you very much. Our next speaker is Annette Ogburn. I'm Annette Ogburn, Hearst, Texas. I manage a senior property since 2011 and I help seniors that can't afford a place, a market rent. Multiple people have been brought to me that are living in hotels that are where you wouldn't wanna live or drive past. So for them to have an affordable place where they can have dignity is important. This is the generation that went before us that paved the way for us. So our lives are easier because of them and we don't wanna forget them in their golden years. We need to make it easy for them and I appreciate it. Thank you, Annette. Our next speaker is Elvira Jordan. Good evening, Mayor and the City Council. My name is Elvira Jordan. I live in Melissa, Texas. And a senior housing complex, brand new. And I thank God for that because it gave me, putting me in a new apartment, really nice, clean, no noise, no music. Open my blinds. I can look out at the swimming pool. At night, the swimming pool is lit up. I can just sit on my balcony and look at that. So with that being said, we, you cannot get enough housing for seniors. I was accustomed to living what they call a good life of America. Well, when the market crashed, I lost everything. So now I'm staying with my daughter, which that's another story. I need something of my own. So God bless me to get in the Galer senior complex. I love it. And Mayor, the counselor, whatever you all have to do, you all need to approve that. We need it like yesterday. Thank you. Thank you Elvira. Best dressed woman at council tonight. Nita Brant, please, Benita. My name is Benita Brant. I live in Hearst. I'm 76 years old and I'm currently going through the most stressful event of my life. On June 10th, I walked out the door of my apartment, which I've lived in for 12 years, found a flyer on my door stating that my monthly rent would increase by $160 per month, beginning August 1st for a one year lease. I was stunned and panicked because I am living on social security alone due to my life savings, having been wiped out by medical expenses. I moved to Texas in 2003 to summarize a very long list of health issues that I've had since moving here. I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer within a couple of months of moving here. Subsequently diagnosed with breast cancer, had to have a major neck surgery, which resulted in a plate being put in my neck, have two heart conditions and have recently been diagnosed with osteoarthritis. I will have to be followed medically for the rest of my life or I'll be above. The plate in my neck is breaking down after 10 years and I will have to have another surgery to address this within the next few months. I go to approximately 14 medical facilities within the hersteria. I am no longer able to drive the freeways due to the issues in my neck. When I moved to Texas in 03, I thought I would be financially okay for the rest of my life. I owned a condo in another state and intended to rent it out for the rest of my life to supplement social security and I had significant savings. I had to sell the condo to pay for exorbitant health insurance premiums, $800 plus per month and high medical cost. My life savings were wiped out. Having to apply for food stamps and electric help was a hard pill to swallow. I was barely getting by before this ran increase and have had to drive my car for three years with no working AC and sometimes it doesn't start. I have aching teeth that cannot be fixed until January because my Medicare limit for dental, excuse me, has been reached for this year. I have no family except for my daughter who lives in Cape Town, South Africa with her husband and child. When I had money, I never passed by a homeless person. I always stopped and gave them money. Sometimes up to $200. I never imagined that I would be threatened with homelessness myself. Since finding the flyer, quoting the new rent amount, I've worked with the social worker with my Medicare plan but after making dozens of phone calls, we have come up with nothing other than years-long waiting list for subsidized housing and housing vouchers. It goes without saying that this is not just about me but it's about very many people who are in the same situation. I hope our stories will help others in our situation. Thank you very much. Thank you. Our next speaker is Andy Williams. I'm Mayor, Council. Come here, I slide just on the issue of Portable Housing. I sit on the State Board of Portable Housing and what I'd say from a statewide level, this is a problem. I vote in support because these are going to be veterans someday. We have a lot of veterans coming home and we put up with our partnership a little over $100 million and we haven't indented it. So I'd say Mr. Williams, vote in support because the capital, the unconventional financing needs to be deployed and land costs isn't going to go down. And more importantly, it's a real issue for seniors specifically. And in addition, this creates workforce opportunities for those local and then more importantly, what we're building today, the veterans will be living in tomorrow because we're only 20 years behind. Thank you. Thank you, Andy. Good to see you. Our next speaker is Key of Tatum, followed by Mike Haley. Council, hello, good evening. My name is Key of Tatum and I reside at 8717 Garden Springs Drive in the affected neighborhood of this planned development. Councilman Colos Flores, I heard your incredible presentation and Councilman Crane, I wish these developers had talked to me and my neighbors and they would have understood that we are still adamantly opposed to this development. And the primary reason why we're opposed is because you never thought enough of us to sit down with those who are immediately impacted by this development and let us know what's going on. In fact, tonight is the first I've heard by watching that plan on that screen and you can see my house on that screen. We are directly impacted by this development and what I appreciate seniors involved in their community. Bringing seniors in from Hearst is disingenuous. Bringing seniors in from Melissa is disingenuous because we're not against senior living. My mother lived in a senior living complex when she passed away in 2001 and I was greatly appreciative of that opportunity for my mother. In fact, one of my best friends, Demetri McCane is the new assistant secretary of HUD for enforcement because we fought to get these kind of developments in the right place, in the right neighborhoods. So Mr. Councilman Williams, I asked emphatically that you oppose this zoning change and that the council opposed this zoning change with prejudice. And then if they're serious, they'll come back and talk to the ones who are directly impacted by your gross misrepresentation about what we need in our community. That's the, I'm sorry, Mike Haley is our next speaker. Mike Haley's not here. Okay, that's the last of our speakers. Councilman Williams, I'll turn to you first. Thank you, Mayor. And thank you, Jordan and John, for updating the site plan. I'd like to make a motion to remand ZCE 22046 back to the zoning commission so that all voices can be heard on the new site plan that was presented today, being presented. Okay, Gina has comments too. I have a few questions. I'm gonna first ask Jordan to come back up to the dais if you don't mind. So refresh my memory and you might pull his presentation up for me. We've seen this zoning case twice and it looks different this time. So maybe you and Jared can chime in on the really the compromise that I think was achieved with the new site plan PD. And then I'll have some questions from Melinda Ramos. Yeah, so after numerous iterations of the site plan and numerous discussions in person and WebEx calls with Dr. Williams, he wanted to preserve at least one acre for neighborhood commercial E. And so last discussion we had, which was last Thursday or Friday, or actually, excuse me, Wednesday night, we had a WebEx call and that was where we finally, painted the picture that this would not be feasible for stripping out one acre of general commercial and only having three stories. So he offered giving us a waiver, possibly doing this PDD plan to bump it up to four stories to make it financially feasible again. However, I hear what Mr. Tatum's saying with the iterations and the lack of time to get with Dr. Williams and get everything kind of tied together, it's hard to get all the community stakeholders on board. However, with that being said, there still is an opportunity right here right now to go with the original plan of the just strictly neighborhood or high density D multifamily. And the original plan you're referring to would not include this additional carve out here. It's here, yeah. So this is the original site plan, obviously a lot different than this site plan, given kind of some comments from our PDC pre-development conference conversations with Mr. Steven Murray, Armand Bryant senior transportation planner where we made it more user friendly and ingress, egress friendly and that's more represented on here.  Right. And then how has your communication been with neighborhoods surrounding this site? So four out of the five, great. One stone meadow, which zoning commissioner Mia Hall resides on, hardly a blip. Very, very difficult. I even sent numerous emails to their HOA board, their HOA community employee that the company that manages their HOA and all I needed was approval from the board to get an email out to, you know, inform the whole HOA and they wouldn't approve it. Okay. And council member Williams in your experience and all your conversations, I know that a commercial piece of this being maintained was a priority.  Just to provide context, the plan that was here, we discussed back in May. And I said that, you know, I made it very clear that the neighborhood, although they, you know, really support this vision for this project, there's also a conflicting interest in the need to preserve neighborhood commercial. And I said, if you could present something like this and take it to the neighborhood, I'm at least helping you get over one barrier. We didn't get this site plan until Monday and staff hasn't rebuted neighborhoods, haven't seen it, which is why I'm remanding it back so that we can give it, you know, a fair shot with the new site plan. And for residents who haven't seen this, who've sent letters of opposition can see this through the zoning process. And this is a little bit difficult maybe for you to wax poetic into the future in your crystal ball. But in the conversations I've had with developers, both on affordable housing projects and traditional housing projects, because the market is so volatile right now, it's causing a huge disruption.  Yes.  I mean, we have our Texas Bond Review application due October 5th. So the class is- So you would need to have a decision well before October 5th deadline. Right, okay, thank you very much. I don't have any more questions for Jordan. Jared may have more questions and I know Gina had comments. Okay, go ahead, Chris, sorry. I got questions too. Jordan, just get comfortable I guess. Yes ma'am. I'm gonna always respect the council person just because I trust them to know their district better than I do. But I'm concerned about communications. Now I was looking for Bob Willoughby. Bob is the best communicator when it comes to getting meetings. How did you go about communications? I just heard emails and I know the obstacles with HOAs but did you rely on electronic communications? Yeah, I mean a lot of electronic communications and especially with the era of COVID, a lot of HOAs are still doing WebEx and Zoom calls. I will say there's been so much change to the site plan that especially having a meeting four days, five days before the city council meeting to finally arrive at a final site plan, that's just not enough time. Well, let me tell you what you might wanna do. I don't know the outcome of this vote but what Bob Willoughby does in district five, he makes the best signs. He puts them along access roads all over town and they are very effective. And so I would suggest to you if you ever need to have community outreach again no matter what the project is, you wanna be a little bit creative because it was of concern to me that Pastor Tatum's house borders were you're talking about and he didn't know about. I will say it was always our plan to take this strictly multifamily. So it wasn't until we finally got a meeting with Dr. Williams on June 28th where we'd been working with him to get this retail, one acre retail, get the three stories with where construction costs are going, where interest rates are going. As I started rerunning those numbers, it didn't make it financially feasible. And especially in unconventional financing, which we deal in, it kind of has to pencil. And so when we finally got the meeting with Dr. Williams on June 28th, Wednesday, and we told him like, look, we've done everything we can. From July, I believe July 8th is when we did the tour of Gallup Central Park and then some other tours between then and July 28th, we tried to get with Dr. Williams. It's just hard. Well, let me tell you what, I'm hearing the theme that Dr. Williams wasn't available. I really don't want to get into that because that's a little bit too, I don't like that. But what I will tell you is there's room for you in district five for whatever you want to bring. We are building, I always try to pitch from here. I've got a car wash pitching from here, but we're building a senior complex right now on the outskirts of Arlington. And my district does include Hearst addresses. So there's room, but just know that whatever it takes to communicate to a community, I think you have to be able to do that. I'm sorry, your schedule didn't work out like it should, but just know that I've provided the second and that's what I've agreed to do. Uncle Moon Bivens, let me respond to that. It was always our plan. We've been working with Dr. Williams to come to this. So for multifamily, did the zoning that you have right now allow for multifamily, which wouldn't require outreach? So you would still have to have outreach. Yeah, we'd still have to, well, and we did the outreach on the purely multifamily. And so what I'm saying is with how the timing worked out, and especially with the timing for our application, we're wishing tonight to push up a three. I'm still hearing a deficit in communication and that'll be the end of my conversation because if you were gonna have to have a zoning change for multifamily anyway, it still would have included Pastor Tatum knowing what your plan was. And so my suggestion is when you do something in the future, you might wanna broaden your approach. And that's the end of my dialogue. Thank you, Gina. Council Member Nettles, followed by Council Member Flores. Okay, thank you. First, let me say to the seniors that did come tonight, we appreciate you being here and traveling the mouths that you did travel. I was always taught and brought up that you respect your elders and those that come before you. So I wanna say to you, thank you for coming to a public meeting to speak before a council such as ours. So thank you for coming. I have some struggles with this whole zoning case and I will tell you why some of my struggles is. One of the things that I ran on is affordable housing. And I don't care what anybody says in this room, we need more of affordable housing. When you talk about 30% and 60%, especially for our seniors who I have a great aunt who's in the hospital now that got both her legs amputated and we're looking for somewhere for her to be, I understand that it's important that we provide these type of housing. I voted on a hemp hill affordable housing that was very contentious that caused me to lose some support in my neighborhood, in our community. But one thing I want to be a person of is a man of my word is that if I'm gonna fight for affordable housing, that's affordable housing all over the city of Fort Worth. And I have done all my efforts, found every block, every street, every acre in District 8 to provide that type of affordable housing. And even when it comes to permanent supportive housing, I have asked my colleagues from the Norths to the West to help provide those. And so I talked about this last time you was here because you reached out to me and I myself like Gina, I tried not to bud in other folks districts and so I didn't take the meeting. But when you came, I said, well it's important to take. And so I did take the meeting and I'll kind of just give dialogue of what happened at that meeting. We talked about your site plans. And I asked the question, I said, what is the difference between all affordable and then a piece of it being commercial?  Yeah, 152 units of the three stories retail. Correct. Without retail. And sans retails, yeah, no retail. And then with retail, it gave 124. For three story cracks. For three story, correct. And I stated, where is the compromise? Because if Dr. Williams want retail, how can we get to that portion? And I think you guys stated, well, Dr. Williams said, what if we go up a fourth story with retail? And I think that's what you guys presented tonight. And so I think when we get to a point where we get to a compromise, we need to move forward. And I have completely tremendous respect for Pastor T, Key of Tatum. And I will also highlight and give support to Gina, Mayor Pro Tem is that we have to do a better job at communication. I'm not building nothing on that lot.  Then you have to do a better effort making sure that everybody is communicated to. This is really hard for me. I support a lot of things that each council person do, but I cannot not support affordable housing. So I cannot support continue kicking it down the road. I don't know if there's gonna be a substitute motion from the current motion, but as of right now, I won't support kicking it down the road. Thank you. Thank you, Chris. Council Member Flores, did you have some questions? And I have a question for John and just meant to put him on notice. Go ahead. Yes, ma'am, I do. How do the deed restrictions on the site affect the economic feasibility of having neighborhood commercial on that property? It's a lot of various uses. So it's like amusement parks, bingo parlors, dance halls, auditoriums, assemblies, some, a lot of retail that doesn't fit in that 6.8 acres anyway. So, and then additionally, when the Chase Bank bought that parcel and developed their financial institution, there's a deed restriction for other financial institutions. So no more, no competitors. And then also Golden Chick, when they bought their parcel, kind of closer to Reisinger, they also put a deed restriction on our parcel that no fast food, quick service restaurants with chicken as their main item could be. So some consideration for competitors. Okay, I understand. All right. This property is surrounded by neighborhood commercial with the area to the south being undeveloped. So I guess I'm trying to get a comprehensive picture on the importance of having commercial on this site if it's surrounded by neighborhood commercial. So excuse me for my ignorance, I'm still trying to wrap my head around that. Yeah. Mayor, may I add to that? Okay, a couple of things, that's a great question. And we kind of alluded to before, retail is retail. On this particular site, I believe there is a list of restrictions. But one of the missing parts of the conversation in a community engagement, Mayor Pro Tem, this most important thing of the piece is a pastor Tatum who voiced concern about specifically multifamily behind him. What was not mentioned tonight, which is of really interest and should be, is if you look at this particular exhibit where it states Hallmark Baptist Church, there's kind of an L shaped vacant land that wraps that. That southern portion is already zoned multifamily. So what I'm bringing up is we do a lot of development. Can we do a better job of community engagement? We can. Our job is to create in today's economy the highest and best use. And I would argue to your point, council member, if you look at E and F and F and F, there's vacant land that has not been developed to my knowledge ever, retail or otherwise.  The good news is, if you look at the credit tenants who are there, Chase Bank, Walgreen, CVS, those people do very stringent demographics. But my experience and why we're bringing this up, whether it's in a community engagement and with credit to Jordan, when we talk about electronic community engagement, we do a lot of outreach.  But for instance, the argument that we really don't want multifamily behind us, you have to look at the zoning already that exists on that church property and that's multifamily. So what we're looking for here on our particular, Jordan's particular design is, how can we take that site?  And as a result, that center portion where the proposed senior living is going and even with or without an acre of retail. That's the highest best use because my experience in a lot of retail is people are not going to buy or build retail in the center of that property. Does that answer your question? Yes, I think it does. And let me move on for the sake of time because other council members might have some remarks. Is the park really currently under contract? Yes. Okay, when do you have to close on it? Closing, I believe is 221 or 221 of next year. But that's, we're gonna have to push out just given kind of how closing works for debt and equity as well as the tax credits. Okay, I'm gonna close my questions by saying this. I tend to agree with Mayor Brotam Bivens when she says, at least in my observation, there's some deficiencies there in communication, right? Maybe from the start, certainly with this latest site plan proposal. So that I can see, could it have been better? Yes, might have avoided this coming to a head at this juncture, not possible, okay? But generally speaking, you have those communications on front end to avoid situations like this. So you'll the floor, Mayor. Thank you, Carlos. Who's also next? Elizabeth, go ahead, Elizabeth. Hey, thanks. So I wanna reiterate what we've heard from Mayor Brotam Bivens and Councilman Nettles that it is generally the policy that we trust in our colleagues and the decisions that they make in their districts. It's also our duty to the city to make sure that we are looking at the entire landscape and not getting so myopic within the boundaries of our own districts that we miss the forest for the trees. I have some real concerns about affordable housing and the support for affordable housing and permanent supportive housing in that area of town. We've all committed to being good partners and good neighbors amongst each other in our council districts to ensure that we are all equally bearing that particular function of making sure that the most vulnerable in our city have a place to live. We have taken a policy decision as a city that we weren't going to centralize and concentrate poverty anymore. And the way that we implement that is through making sure that our permanent supportive housing and that our affordable housing are spread across the city. And so it's vitally important that those facilities be in District 9, District 5, District 6, District 8, District 4, District 2 and so on. And so when this comes back I will be supporting this particular project. I think that affordable housing particularly for seniors is so vitally important. I can tell you that there are these types of facilities in District 9. They're great neighbors. They aren't just neighbors that live quietly next to our residential communities but they join our neighborhood associations. They come to our national night out. They participate, they show up, they're great residents. And I wanna make sure that we're doing what we need to do to take care of folks in the city of Fort Worth. And that without question means affordable housing. Thank you. Thanks, Elizabeth. Council Member Biffens, did you have anything? Go ahead. Well, Torn, Jordan, I don't know you but John makes you look good. I know John, I know the standards that he has. I'm just real torn here with this. I'm looking at these senior citizen ladies. I'm 67, so I'll be down there doing the same thing you're doing in a few years. I'm trying to figure out a way to look at the clock so that there is no harm done to any stakeholder. No harm done to those prospective renters, no harm done to you financially. Tell me about the numbers in terms of affordable units, anything permanent, what's the breakdown of your units? So for the, it's always gonna be 100% affordable whether it's one acre with a four-story of multifamily or if it's just purely multifamily. So it's gonna be 100% affordable, 15% dedicated to the 30% AMI category, 85% dedicated to the 60% AMI category. And the reason for those percentage splits is you have to submit a priority application. So priority one applications for the bond allocation, private activity bond allocation, if you're not a priority one application, chances are you're not gonna get a bond allocation. And so for it to pencil the best, the 15, there's three different options. I believe it's 50, 50, 30% AMI, 60% AMI, 15%, 30% AMI, and then 85%, 60% AMI. And then the third is a blend of that, but basically for it to be competitive, that's why we pick those splits. And so with more units, obviously, the more we can target the 30% category, which is obviously very important. Okay, you're good. Councilman Williams, let me ask you a question. I fully respect what you see here. Are you open to a meeting immediately with this group, with the neighbors, and as opposed to remanding that to council to a zoning, bring it back to us in a couple of weeks? I would defer to one of my constituents who's here, Pastor Tatum, if we have a community meeting and we can see him in for 30 days, how would you and the neighbors feel about that? And just to note, we've had several letters of opposition. So, you know, Pastor Tatum represents Fox Run. However, they're still, I mean, the district. I don't wanna change minds. I just want the communication to be pure. Right. And that's what we've asked all along, genuine communication with the taxpayers. I've been there since 2016 and I'm the newest neighbor and we get along well. And when I shared with them that this project was moving forward, every one of them was surprised because they had not heard one thing about it. So do you think we could gather a meeting within two to three weeks? I think we can have a meeting if we're serious about it. I think we can sit down and have a discussion about it. But if this is just about the greedy blind eye, we're gonna oppose the bonds. We're gonna oppose the tax credits. And that's okay. That's okay. I get that. But what I'm saying is in the best interest of our city, our city, not Dallas, not McKinney, not Hertz would all do respect. I have nothing but respect for the work they do. But please respect me as a citizen of Fort Worth who pays taxes in that neighborhood. You at least ought to have the decency to stop by and knock on my door and say, hey, we got this great project. Well, I will help Councilman Williams knock on your door, other doors. Jordan, you need to get some senior citizen, pretty ladies like you have here, but let them be from Fort Worth. I think that'll carry them a better. And I don't know how to make this. What is this called, Maddie? And amended a second, whatever. Well, yeah, we'll have to make a separate motion or they'll withdraw the motion on the floor. And I think for clarity, in addition, I'd asked Melinda Ramos and Lee and Guzman to clarify, if we were to demand it back to zoning, which Dr. Williams' first motion was on the floor, the soonest it would come back to Council after zoning is September 27th in a quick turn, is that correct? That is too tight of a deadline on October 5th. I cannot support that motion. And while I respect greatly, Pastor Key of Tatum's point here, I do just want to ask, Key, if you don't mind coming back down, I have a question or two for you. Thank you for your letter. I think it was really helpful. I know that there's a concern about changing the zoning of your neighborhood commercial area residential without holding you to anything, sir. And knowing that this is a current proposal, is this something that you could get supportive of with commercial and multifamily affordable? I have not seen anything in regards to this project. Fair enough. I don't know what was the initial. I don't know what was scaled down. I don't know anything. So it is unfair for me to say, I would support anything without knowing the basics of this proposal. Sure. And it's so, so Mayor. And I want to be emphatically clear. You know my civil rights record. It's over 30 plus years. If anybody fight for seniors better than me right now, let me know who they are and where they live and affordable housing. So to make this argument about affordable housing, it's disingenuous to me. What this argument is about is about these developers who come in from other cities to do business in our city and don't have the respect to talk to the taxpayers who are in the front yard, not the backyard. Meaning when I walk out my front door, I can see those apartments and he didn't have, they didn't have one ounce of respect for the traditional process of the city of Fort Worth. And you know when I know, when they go to the next level, one of the primary question is for tax credits, have you reached into your community to gain their support? And I'm gonna stand before them and say, they absolutely have not talked with us. Fair enough. Thank you, Reverend Tatum. So Council Member Williams, I can't support remand it back to zoning, but I do think to Gina's point earlier, there's a breakdown of communication. I think if you would consider withdrawing your motion and coming back to council in a few weeks, I can support that. I think this project needs to move forward, but I don't think looking at John and Jordan, you wanna move forward without the neighborhood support either and people like Reverend Tatum, be prepared to go down to Austin and support your tax credit application as well. That would be ideal. So there's a lot to unpack there and I know that the burden will be on Dr. Williams. But I think this dialogue has been incredibly important tonight because this is gonna keep happening across the city of Fort Worth and every single district because affordability is probably the top concern of Americans right now, especially as inflation continues to climb, gas prices, wages have stagnated. So we need to be respectful, especially of our senior population. And I think there's a lot of opportunity here to get this right. So that's my recommendation, Dr. Williams, if you'd entertain that. Absolutely, and I completely agree with everything that's been said. Like I said, this is not about the affordability aspect. This is about bringing our neighbors along with us. And so I'd be supportive of continuing it for 30 days and pull together meeting. The other thing that you all will need to do is connect with staff on the appropriate zoning because we're gonna have to make some adjustments in the next motion to make it right. So staff has to review the site plan and make sure that we're ready to go. But you withdraw your motion first. Right, so I'm gonna withdraw the motion and then I wanna make another motion to continue it for 30 days. So that would come back to us on September 13th for final decision. Got a nod from y'all that works. Yeah, we can shuffle it around. Okay, go ahead, Dr. Williams. That's it, that's the motion. I'm gonna motion. I'll get the second. Got a second for Michael, thank you. Any other discussion? Okay, they're fighting over it, there you go. I'll let it talk, I'll get the second. Thank you very much. We're gonna vote, council. And mayor to Jordan, we need to make sure he understands communication. If you see that guy with the white hair that's Bob Willoughby asking what he does. It's very effective. Motion to continue passes. Thank you gentlemen for taking the time. Thank you Reverend Tatum for being here.  You were wonderful. Thank you so much for being here and taking the time. Andy, good to see you. Carrie Moon, don't you miss us? I just noticed you were back there. We just needed you to go through one good zoning case. Council Member Moon. He's hiding out in his polo shirt back there. Thank y'all very much. Okay, we're gonna move on. Bye ladies. Of course. Next item is SP-22-009. We have one speaker, no opposition, Fred Power, but there's only opposition. Otherwise I'll turn to Council Member Flores. This one's yours. Mayor Moon for approval. Thank you. Motion second, thank you. Please vote council. Motion carries. Next item is SP-22-011. This one's with Council Member Beck. I've got two speakers, but there's no opposition, Elizabeth. Move to approve. Thank you. We've got a motion. Motion in a second. Please vote. Motion passes. Next item is ZC-22-065. Thank you. We've got a few speakers on this one, Gina. Our first is James McCulley, followed by Ray Ojeski. I'm James Parker McCulley. My current residence is in Cedar Hill. I spent the first couple of decades of my life on Avenue K in Polly. I graduated from Polly High in 1961. I maintained a residence there until the early 1990s for my parents, and I'm the owner of the land. The farm has been its farmland and Parker Henderson Road. And no, I'm not aware of any relationship to the mayor. My mother was a Parker. And the road is Parker Henderson Road that bisects the property. It was farmed by my grandfather beginning around 1900. My parents then farmed it, and now I oversee the farming of it now. My children unfortunately aren't in the area, so I'm not going to have anyone to pass it on to. And since we're talking age, I'm 79. So there's a limit to how much longer I can oversee it. My children do not live in the area, so it's going to be hard for them to oversee it. So from a family, land to ownership standpoint, this is a good time for it to be developed. The road, Parker Henderson Road bisects it. The east side of the property, it's roughly equal in acreage, 57 acres. The east side of the road has been in city planning designated for light industry. The west side of the road, to my surprise, I recently found out was not light industry. I'd always assumed it was, and had been told that until recently I found it. It had been designated for open space, which really doesn't make good sense because there's also already an active drill site and gas wells. The light industry to me seems to make good sense. The highest use, the west east side of the road has already been designated for that. And as I said, I thought the west side was too. It will bring jobs, it will bring tax money. And the tax money could hopefully help somewhat the neighborhood, the Echo Heights neighborhood that has concerns about the infrastructure in their streets, in their neighborhood. So hopefully bringing tax money would be a benefit to that. Could be a benefit to the school that is adjacent to a portion of the property. Oh my gosh. Fort Worth in general has supported what's going on a lot in the community. The development of warehouses and distribution centers. There was an article quoted at the PNC committee about the environment and air. It was taken a little out of, well, a lot out of its position. Thank you, Mr. McCauley.  We may have questions in just a moment. Thank you. Mr. Ojeski, followed by Lucretia Powell. Thank you, Mayor and Council. Ray Ojeski representing Leon Capital Group, the proposed developer of this site. Council, you see before you a concept plan for this property that Mr. McCauley was describing to you. You can see the east portion of the property labeled as Building B, and then you can see the west portion of the property is Building A. As he said, where you see Building B, that is designated for industrial growth center in the future land use plan of the city. The property there, Building A, as he mentioned, is in the open space designation, which, as he told you, is problematic for a property owner who has told that his land is only valuable for agricultural use or possibly a park that would be purchased by the city, but there's no plans to purchase that park by the city. City staff has confirmed that. So here, we just believe again that the 57 acres as a total development is the proper use for the property at this location. There's been concerns with traffic that were brought up by the opposition here. There was a traffic study that was provided to the city, and it was primarily with regard to truck traffic. There is already truck traffic, as you'll note, further east on David Strickland Road with three industrial warehouse complexes that are already in existence on David Strickland Road. So the study found that the addition of this development would not adversely affect the traffic impact to David Strickland Road. There's also been concern raised about proximity to the school that is right across the street from Building B, and as I mentioned, further east at this location, as you go back toward 820, there are exactly three existing industrial sites that are all warehouse uses. The school has been there, as I could find, on Google Earth since 1995, and these industrial uses have been there since 95 as well. So the proximity of the school to this type of use has been there for a long time. Finally, there were environmental concerns that have been raised. The source of those environmental concerns has not been determined by any study that we can find that supports the environmental concerns. I'm not saying that the people that will tell you there are concerns have been affected, there's just no studies that we can assess to show exactly what the proof is. Councilman Berbivans, if it helps this case to reduce the size of this development, we could request a continuance, we could carve out Building A and we would bring back just Building B, which is already in the industrial growth center for the zoning change in this case. Thank you. Thank you, Ray. Our next speaker is Lucrecia Powell. Good evening, Councilor Diocese. I stand before you supporting the ZC-065 and others in the community who have chosen to remain anonymous. I have supported, I support this project because it is not an environmental threat or threat to the community or safety and the surrounding communities. With noting also, there's been concerns about trafficking may possibly increase negativity, but with noting on that, I am grateful that some time ago, I believe, beginning of the year or the end of the year, there was a community personnel who donated to the Fort Worth Police Department, the land on Sun Valley and the service road. So with that addition to the community, there is safety. Also, it is not an environmental threat, safety issue to school children in or out of school session. I am a grandmother of 19 grandchildren. I've had the afforded opportunity to teach primary and secondary scholars for many years in the private school sector. Teaching and working with youth will forever be a passion of mine and with regard to their totality being. I support this project and community investment plan with contingency if granted. Again, ZEC 065 project is not a threat to the community, health or safety. I will also add I am a living walking testimony, nine-year council survivor, and will continue to be. The environmental will have no effect on my health or my children or grandchildren. From my protein, whatever your decision may be, I salute you and I respect your leadership. Thank you. Thank you, Lucretia. Our next speaker is Evelyn Mayo, followed by Letitia Wilburn. Thank you. Is Letitia here? Hi, Letitia. Come on down. Letitia will be followed by John McFarlane. Of course. Okay, I want everybody to look at this EJ screen report. I want you to notice the blue. The blue is the national level. This is based on echo heights. You know, echo heights ranks above average in environmental pollution. They want to talk infrastructure, but we're here to talk about the environment and pollution of the, and how the kids are impacted of the 81 schools in Fort Worth. Nine are in, are surrounded by industrial industry. Of those nine, 100% are in black and brown communities. Now echo heights is a black and brown community. It sits off 820, 287 and 20, which means that we have pollution from that. And it should never have been zone industrial to begin with because of the pollutions from the freeways. The community consists of approximately 705 homes, one school, which is WM Green, one park, Prairie Dog Park, one polling site, which is also located at WM Green. It has over 186 industrial businesses. Each one has council causing 18 willers. These things weigh 80,000 pounds and each one have pollutions that can tribute, emit 40 council causing pollutants. And they want to put this across the street from an elementary school with multiple trucks. The citizens of echo heights in other black and brown communities, and I don't want y'all to get offended by this, but we are actually under urban and environmental domestic terrorist attacks by the city of Fort Worth. And the reason I say that is because of this. Okay, now just look at this particular report and look at the industrial zoning, the disparities in the industrial zoning. Now the city of Fort Worth took the time over decades to go into echo heights and remove the Prairie Dogs to safety. They did that, but they did not take care of the kids. There's a 2012 Cook's Children's Asthma Report for children, which stated that echo heights was high in asthma, but the city of Fort Worth did nothing about it. They added more industrializations to the communities. Not only that, they changed their rules as they went about, meaning that even when the community fought things to avoid zoning changes, the city backdoor that and changed the zoning anyway. So we're stuck with more things that are detrimental to our community. And no one has even spoken about the children with disability that attend school at WM Green. Thank you very much. Our next speaker is John McFarland, followed by Chris Jones. Hello, I'm John McFarland. I am the chair of the Greater Fort Worth Sierra Club. We advocate for clean air, clean water, and we advocate for environmental justice communities. This is a classic case of environmental racism. This development will have, this zoning change of development will have direct adverse effects to black and brown community, echo heights and stop six. This community is already overburdened and disproportionately affected by industrial uses such as shipping and logistics companies, which are trucking companies, gas drilling, waste services that cause excessive truck traffic and air pollution. The development is directly across the street, a two lane road to WM Green Elementary, a predominantly minority school, elementary school. We wouldn't be talking about this case or even this case wouldn't even be brought up. If this development was across from Tanglewood Elementary or Lily B Clayton or West Cliff or Ridgely Hills, this simply wouldn't come up. I wanna let you know that the 4th ISD actually opposes this case. I notified along with some members of echo heights, the Board of Trustees, my District 9 and Wallace Bridges District 5, I can't remember what district is now, but anyway, the district opposes this zoning request change because of its effect to children, black and brown children. This community is 85, so Ms. T talked about EJ screen, this comes straight from the EPA. They are in the echo heights and stop six are in the 85 to 90 percentile particulate matter, 90 percentile for ground level ozone, which is small, which can be caused by the truck traffic. 70, 90 percentile of diesel particulate matter, which is also emitted by diesel trucks. 70 to 100 percentile traffic, 70, 90 percentile of toxic cancer risk, I can go on and on, also asthma. So the 4th Comprehensive Plan calls for light industrial surround this school. And so I'm asking that the city of Fort Worth also look at this Comprehensive Plan that future uses are industrial uses. So the Fort Worth Sierra Club, the Environmental Justice Coalition of Fort Worth, the support denial with prejudice of this case. And we've been working with the echo heights and stop six environmental coalition as well. And we oppose, we all oppose the zoning request change. Thank you. Our next speaker is Chris Jones, followed by Sherry Warren-Dukes. My name is Chris Jones. I live at 5316 Parker Henderson Road. My property connects directly to one of the properties that are being requested for land zoning change. I'm against this change for many reasons. Coming into the neighborhood from virtually any direction, there are trucking companies, industrial complexes and other businesses that surround virtually the entire neighborhood. These lands create a buffer between the companies that already exist in the area and the residential neighborhood. These properties in question currently help to create a buffer zone, noise reduction, neighborhood isolation so that it feels like a small town atmosphere in a community environment. It provides a peaceful environment. These properties and how they are currently used as part of a decision when we made the purchase of our home with over 185 businesses compared to just over 700 resident housing properties, the ratio of businesses to residents is almost overwhelming. I do not want to see more industrial businesses reducing the air quality near my home. My 89 year old grandmother lives with us. She is terminal with stage four heart disease. My wife works from home to take care of her. We set out on the back porch every single morning facing this property, drinking coffee before I have to go to work. I do not want to live next door to a building that's going to generate even more trucking business traffic that disrupts how the school children are going to get to school, how I'm going to walk my dog or how that's going to disrupt my lifestyle or my family's lifestyle. I do not want to live next door to the big building that will have multiple tractors and trailers making lots of noise. I don't want to live next door to a building that dwarfs the acre of land that I purchased to have a peaceful environment for my family, my family events, and for holiday events. The developer states that they contacted people in the area, including on Kellis and Peco streets. Both streets are opposite side of Prairie Dog Park. However, they did not feel it was important to address the neighbors that were within the 300 foot notification area as defined on their agenda. While we were never approached by the developer but received a mail to come to the neighborhood association meeting to find out about information. Under the rules of procedure for the city of Fort Worth under section 8.1.3, changing of the zoning ordinance, I live within 200 foot of the affected property and ask that at least a three quarters members vote of the council must be in agreement for this vote to be approved. I request that you consider the long-term safety and health of the children of W.M. Green, our seniors and our residents and deny this with prejudice. Thank you for listening. Thank you, Chris. Our next speaker is Sherry Warren-Dukes, followed by Crystal Wolburn. Good evening, Mayor, Mayor Pro-Tin and Council. My name is Sherry Dukes and I am Echo Heights neighborhood association president and I oppose EZ, ZC 220065. I represent myself and Echo Heights community. If there's any still here when you might stand there, I can raise your hands. Thank you. We are a community of interest and I love to say that. Our community is a friendly family oriented low income and have home owners of all races. When I woke up from being so comfortable in myself, I focused and I realized that the community was being overtaken by industrial companies. Polluting Echo Heights are air and natural land. I ask that we the people, we as people, save the children at W.M. Green Elementary, save the community and save the land from polluters. This is a public health and environmental issue. I oppose it. I would like to add that children, the children are our future and who would want to hinder their livelihood? How many communities of interest in the city would allow this? Also, Parker Henderson Road is still not completed and it's been over two years. I only have one other thing to say and it's a quote, if I may. No Americans have to live, work or send their kids to schools in a neighborhood that carries an unfair share of environmental hazards and that was said by Associate Attorney General, Banana Gupta. So that's my case and thank you. Thank you, Sherry. Our next speaker is Crystal Wilburn. Is Crystal with us? She's removed. She's actually removed. Hi, Crystal. Go ahead. Hi, my name is Crystal Wilburn and I strongly oppose VC 22065. I grew up in the neighborhood of Echo Heights and I attended elementary school at W.M. Green from kindergarten all the way up through fifth grade and my siblings and I, we would walk to school. We would walk home using Parker Henderson Road and back then it was pretty safe for us to do so. I couldn't imagine placing an industrial business directly across the street from this elementary school. It would be super hazardous to small elementary kids the heavy traffic from the 18-wheelers. You're putting them at risk for accidents. The foot traffic and the normal bull traffic, people traveling in their cars, fumes and air pollution. There's an increased threat to children in regards to sex trafficking and also as well as prostitution and drugs. I mean, like I said, I just couldn't imagine having a business placed directly across the street from these kids. I don't understand why we can't have something more positive for our community using that land. Why can't we have restaurants? I mean, there's so many other positive things that we could have in that land besides putting another industrial business there.  Now when you drive through that area, it's just full of industrial businesses and it's created a lot of eyesores and it's really depressing driving through the area. So I strongly oppose the zoning changes and thank you for your time. Thank you. Our next speaker is Martesha James, followed by Hazel James. Ms. James? Ms. James? Yes. Please go ahead. Do you have three minutes? All right. My name is Martesha James and I am the president of the Echo Heights Sound 6 Environment Coalition and I'm speaking and recalling in support of the residents in Echo Heights who are fighting to prevent the zoning change from the agricultural to industrial in the neighborhood and against potential warning, potential warehousing facilities from being built in the residential community. I'm concerned about the health, the safety and the general welfare of the residents in Echo Heights. A warehousing facility will have a negative impact on air quality, roadway safety and maintenance and other nuisance affiliated with an industrial operating in a residential community. The zoning case is a symptom of larger issues that will continue to arise and this many and many others, if the root of the problem is not addressed and an adequate zoning and land use plan that concentrates the black and brown youth with industrial polluters.  And we don't want it down the street or around the corner just because we asked for it not to be built across the street from the viewing range. We have a lot of things that are at risk right now. If you guys do allow this checking company come in and we don't know what may come of it just having that company come there. And if someone in the community is voicing to you about something that they do not want with their neighborhood taking place in their neighborhood and it has been stressed repeatedly, then I began to question our representatives if you've been taken over even setting into consideration. And not to the rezoning, not to the new companies that can bring jobs because I myself walk these streets and don't see anybody working at these locations or spoke to any people that are working at this location. And I strongly am against this zoning proposition and hope that my voice is heard. Thank you. Thank you. Our last speaker is speakers Hazel James I think also by the phone. Ms. James. Good afternoon. This is, good afternoon. This is Ms. James and I'm calling to just let y'all know. I want to respond to three things that were said. One by Mrs. Powell who indicated that she's also a teacher. However, I'd like to ask Ms. Powell as being a teacher of private schools do any of them have a commercial trucking company in front of them? Two, the attorney who spoke for the Leon Group made the statement that WM Green was built or opened up in 1995. Not true. I have nine siblings, six of them attended WM Green for my kids also attended WM Green which was opened December the 7th of 1959. In 1966, WM Green at that point had 521 students who was attending it and has been open and thriving every since. The other thing was, I noticed that Mr. Jarrett, Jarrett, a counselor on Williams, made the statement how he supports and listened to his community and he wants to important, I mean also make the vision of what his community is asking for their future community. And we're just asking that our counselors are the same for us. We are communities that's asking for not just to be brought in our community. And then the other thing was, the Leon Group said that there would be 52 truck stalls there. Now, let me just say this. Do they know what type of license that these truckers will have? One, you do have to have a class A license to drive an AT&T and will a first of all. However, do they know how many of these truckers actually have a hazmat endorsement on their driver's license? Do they know if any hazmat materials will be brought in with these people having these endorsements they're not just gonna let them run dormant because they make more money driving hazmat vehicles. Hazmat vehicles or they transport explosive, flammable, poisonous, otherwise potential dangerous cargo. Now, with that being said, they don't know what's coming in and out. They have said on many occasions that they didn't know what the trucker companies would be hauling. However, they would be obtaining stalls, parking the trucks and the trailers. Ground transportation for AT&T is the most crucial form of getting our food and beverages and things like that or buy AT&T with a driver's. All I'm just trying to say is that with a hazmat, which they do not know if their drivers will be at this time or anytime hauling hazmat materials, are they gonna check their license to see if they're a hazmat driver or if these truckers will be providing any hazmat materials? Let's just say that they do. And one of these vehicles happened to start leaking on the property causing erosive materials and chemicals to start exposing from these vehicles. Therefore, going up into the air, traveling over to the school where our children will be attending. Again, I asked for y'all to again, deny what prejudice, right on the corner, parking Henderson, Mr. Jose was killed by an AT&T in Willard six years ago. And that's going up that street. So I'm just saying if an older man could have been hit and killed, who to say that our small children want? I'm not- Thank you, Hazel. Anything from my teachers? Thank you, Hazel.  Appreciate you. That's the last of our speakers, Council Member Bivens. Thank you. And I want to say thanks to all of the neighbors who showed up here this evening. During when COVID first started, that was the first time residents of Echo Heights came to city council. Bobby Edmonds was with those at that time. And this was an environmental issue then. I was remote, couldn't be here because of COVID, but I asked the people here to get together and create a real neighborhood association. And you did, not because I suggested it, but you did, you saw the need to unify. I also asked Bobby Edmonds as an attorney on camera to help you all connect with TCEQ. John, you know I respect everything you do. You guys have done that and I think you're going to be a model for the city. I'm going to tell you, back in the 1990s, I met a man named Louis Sepulveda. And I don't know if anybody knows that name, but Louis Sepulveda grew up in West Dallas. And every house on his street had yard ornaments, but not birds and things that you see decorating yards. These yards were decorated with old batteries. And they came from a smelter plant in West Dallas. When you saw Louis, you had no idea how young he was, but the lead from those batteries gave most people in West Dallas cancer. It became a super sight. And so I am more than familiar with the problems involving environmental issues. I even went on to become a spokesperson for a corporation on environmental issues. I got my toxic release inventory training so I feel you're paying. What you need to know is there's very, when you talk about no testing to show some things, you know, I got nothing but love and respect for you. But there are no tests to show certain things because in communities of color, nobody ever saw the need or the respect to do the testing. Doesn't mean the issues were not there. I will tell you, Ribi Carey's daughter, Faith and I were t