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Well now call the City Council to order and the City Council will now go into close session at 2.12 p.m. on May the 5th, 2020, and accordance with the following sections of VTCA Government Code, Chapter 551.071, consultation with attorney. 0.072 deliberation regarding real property. 0.087 deliberation regarding economic development negotiations. you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you I'm going to go to the next room. 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This meeting is being held by video conference so that we can advance the public health goal of minimizing face-to-face meetings, also known as social distancing, to slow the spread of COVID-19. Governor Abbott has suspended some of the requirements of the Texas Open Meetings Act which is allowing us to meet in this manner. The link to the online location where video of this meeting is available can be found by going to the city's webpage at www.arlingtonTX.gov and clicking on agendas. This information along with the agenda packet containing materials to be discussed during the meeting, is posted on the city's website. This meeting can be watched on AT&T, UVerts channel 99, Inspectorum channel 16 and 15.1. It can also be watched by going to the city's website at www.arlingtontx.gov and clicking on the I Want To button at the top right and selecting watch city council meetings. Here are some pieces of basic information we want you to know about this meeting. This meeting is being recorded and this recording will be posted on the city of Arlington's webpage. The city council will not be voting during this meeting. For the members of the council, please ensure that you are in a quiet place where you will not be disturbed during this call. Background noise can be challenging in a meeting like this. If you can have your own device on mute when you are not talking, that would be helpful. If any member of the council has to leave the meeting, you are requested to identify yourself at the time that you leave the meeting as well as at the time you return. When a member of the council wants to make a comment, please hold up your card and wait until you're recognized by the mayor before you begin to speak. Do the members of the City Council have any questions for me? Thank you, Mr. Buskin. We'll now begin the meeting. For each item that's presented, I will call on the presenter for that item. Once the presentation is completed completed I will ask if each Council member has comments by asking you to hold up the red card that was provided to you. I will call on each of you as I see your card. Does anyone have any questions? By the way please hold it your card if you have a question. So seeing none, we'll next move to our 2019 Fire Annual Report by Chief Don Krausen, the Fire Department. Thank you, Mayor Don Krausen. Parts of your question. It's your management and a little late with this. We wanted to do this back in April, but something got in the way. COVID-19 and we've been a little busy. So forgive me in the way. COVID-19 and we've been a little busy. So forgive me for the delay. I want to thank two people in particular who put this thing together, Jamie Killian. And Denise Rosen, our administrative staff members who let me dump paperwork in front of them. They assembled it, put it together in a coherent format, made this look good, and I really appreciate the work they put into this document. And we're going to share it with you today. So it's our annual report, but it's also a decade in review because we're closing out a decade. And I think if you want to see the future, you need to know where you've been. And we'll talk a little bit about our last decade experience. So I want to stop for a moment and tell Don cocker thank you for being our chaplain for the last 10 years. When I became chief, the department didn't have a chaplain. Captain cocker had retired. He's a faithful man of God. And he has served our department with passion and commitment far beyond my expectations. So made numerous funerals, promotional ceremonies, hospital visits, he's our shepherd, our caretaker, and we're thankful for his commitment to this organization. He's been a great part of us and we love him dearly. So three things for us that affect the Fire Department clearly, the Marin Council, direct us, our city manager and his team lead us with our Gilbert Pralice being the leader of the neighborhood services group and over fire. And then we're civil service organization. So we're in year two of civil service going pretty well. We've had some turnover in the commissioner staff and we have a new civil service director, Yoko Matsumoto, is also a director of human resources and things are going well We're proceeding normally through the testing process and hiring process and promotional processes is all going very well We've implemented a 2020 version of civil service not a version, and it's going very well for the community. So, city manager talks about this a lot, so to why we're a very cost effective organization. We are the lowest cost per capita fire department in North Texas. We have been for a very long time, and we do that through innovation and public-private partnerships and really creative thinking, good budgeting. So we're a data driven organization, as the page to the right is our station locations. We're sort of, they're all sort of equal distant from each other, so it helps us to have good response times. But clearly we have a weak spot in the city. We've been pointing this out to the council for the last three years through heat maps and other things. This area needs to be addressed for the future, whether in a bond package or a different kind of deployment strategy, we are looking at those strategies right now. We'll be bringing proposals up to the council in the future on this area. Is it is a needed area of talent needs to be addressed? Last 10 years, very busy since 2010 to 2019. Our call volume has gone up 40%. However, our responses to those calls have only gone up 30% unit responses because we've employed strategies to be cost effective and appropriate for the demand. We've done a pretty good job, but Arlington has gotten busier. We're a metropolitan city. You put us in any other place where the center of the universe, because we're a city of significant size, but we're in North Texas and we're clustered with other communities and we kind of get a little bit lost in that, but we are a big city with big city issues. And over the last 10 years, we have seen an increase in demand and demand not only for our resources, but resources across the board. But what we've learned is that this is all, also increased our response time. So we've gone up since 2010. Our EMS response time is 38 seconds slower. Our fire responses are 17% slower. Overall, we're 35% slower. Not because we're not doing a good job, it's because our demand is way up. And we've extended our resources to our maximum capacity to meet the citizens needs. And we've done a really good job on proud of our team. But now we're starting to reach a tipping point. Very busy. You can see that our travel times have been relatively consistent the last four years. But over a 10-year period, we're a little bit slower and we used to be because of traffic, because of density, because of demand. And this organization is going to have to grow in the future to meet the increasing demand of our community. So, we're busy. 60,000 unit responses in fiscal 19. About 11 of those responses made by light response units. the area of the city. 60,000 unit responses in fiscal 19. About 11 of those responses made by light response units. 18% of our call loads now carried by these lightweight vehicles. Not those heavy fire trucks. Very good thing. It extends the life of the heavy fleet. It's been a very effective tool. In fact, when all our lightweight units are running, we are, we have 21% more capacity. That's one of the strategies we're employing right now by increasing our capacity. We believe if we increase our capacity, we're going to have better response times and mitigate some of that upward growth that you've seen over the last 10 years. And we start, we are starting to see some of that flat and out and we're proud of that. And these kind of tactics are going to have to continue to be employed in the future because we're changing dynamic city. We've got to be adapted to our reality. And we're doing a very good job in these lightweight vehicles help us keep the mileage off the heavy trucks. Why do we measure unit responses? Because unit responses burn fuel, resources, and everything else that cost money. And so we're trying to be as cost effective as we can. That's why we're one of the lowest cost per capita departments in North Texas. So I'm going to take you through sort of old man's review the last 10 years, and I'll do it relatively quickly, but you've got to know where you used to be before you start moving forward. And we've changed dramatically in the last 10 years. So in 2010, we were going through the H1N1 virus reality. That helped us prepare for today's pandemic. It taught us a lot. We've resourced because of that and some other training issues. We were preparing for the Super Bowl at the time. We had just done the NBA all-star game and it snowed during that thing too. 104,000 people attended and it was really sort of the beginning of a marquee moment for our organization as more great events were going to come to the city. We had just remodeled the EOC. The EOC that we enjoy now used to be a break room and it is significantly more impressive than it used to be. 2011 you see this picture of these kids here and the high school kids. I want you to remember remember those guys you know I'll cite them here in a minute but that's when we started our high school academy with the school district. And it's still going, going strong. And we have lots of members of our organization that came from the program. These kids have gone to other fire departments, other EMS agencies. It's been a very fruitful program. Other programs, North Texas have come and gone. We're still here doing it. In fact, this program was sort of the lynch pen that helped start the Dan Dipper Career Tech Center. We could prove that a vocational program could work, could produce is a pathway for students into a future and we're very proud of that. Oh, by the way, we did a couple of World Series 2 in 2010 and 2011. I still wish we had won those things, but the Arlington Fire Department Public Safety Team, Police Department there, great experience for us. In 2013, I'm sorry, 2012, we initiated our gas well program in a few years later, we were using that gas well program. We started our TIFFMIS team or wild land firefighting team. We had a tornado that hit West Arlington, 500 structures flated or severely damaged and Arlington quickly recovered from that. We started with a temporary fire station 17 and the Viridian as it was being developed and we helped the Texas Ranger donate a fire truck to a fire department in the Dominican Republic. A big thing for us, a privilege, because we like to help people no matter where they live. 2013, we also did a related fire, helped another Texas Ranger donated fire truck to west Texas after the explosion down there. We implemented our, our, our, our bought our new, newest, our existing technical rescue vehicle using U. O. C. funds is a component the first time we've been in the last year, we've been in the last year, we've been in the last year, we've been in the last year, we've been in the last year, we've been in the last year, we've been in the last year, we've been in the last year, we've been in the last year, we've been in the last year, we've been in the last year, we've been in the last year, we've been Final four was here. The AISD Fire Academy is recognized by TML down in Austin and we implemented a new digital radio system. A lot of change in just five short years. The next five years just as busy, I'll take you back to 2015 is when we had the Ebola issue here in North Texas. And we were part of it helping Dallas Presbyterian Hospital through AMR, making sure that the responders who were dealing with the Ebola patients were properly protected. Our hazmat team was involved in helping out, equipped the AMR ambulance. Our Tiffness team went to East Texas to fight fires. The Lake Arlington Baptist Church Gaswell incident occurred in West Arlington. And then Jim Peres on an island down to Austin and pushed House Bill 40 into the position and needed to be because at that time there was a threat that it was going to take our ability away to regulate surface activity through the fire code and other methods. We went down there and testified. We held held our ground and we still have the ability to ensure our community is safe through that That same year we started the community paramedic program That is still alive today and still paying us benefits 2016 we were being recognized at US conference of bears for that program We did a couple of fire watches at two major schools that were not completed for the fiscal year. If you may remember that, the groundbreaking of Dan Divert Career Tech, not a fire department program, but we'd like to believe we had a part in it. We are very proud of that. We went through active shooter training, police and fire together that year, because our world is changing. We're in a more dynamic, unusual environment. Same year our EOD team protected President Obama when he landed in Dallas. So we do a lot of things in the background. We don't tell you about, but this is my one opportunity to tell you how proud I am of our team and what they've done these last last decade. 2017 we became an ISO department ISO 1. We went to Hurricane Harvey down in Houston. Firefighters were in Houston fire stations. They were on the Gulf Coast. They were in East Texas and flooding areas. We were all over the place helping the state of Texas and we still continue today to play a big role in the state of Texas and helping out with statewide solutions. 2018 we remodeled station 12 for an RF vehicle. So at our vehicle is going to be here in 90 days. We're going to have an active program at station 12 when 737s are landing out there. They will be protected. We need renegotiated in 2018 on 10-year ambulance contract that will carry this public-private partnership the Felsay franchise model, into the future protecting Arlington citizens and serving the public's interest from a financial perspective. Tip is team went to West Texas. We implemented a new 911 technology from Tarant County into our dispatch center, so we can see the 911 system better. And in 2019, we have been spending all our time training the new generation of people to take over the organization because my generation is about to leave. And in fact, many of my peers have left. I'm one of the last remaining baby boomers still hanging around and I still love it though. And by the way, in fiscal 19, we had a tornado hit here again, okay? I've told the city manager this several times. If it can't happen, it does happen here in Arlington. We've had a couple of tornadoes. We have a couple of floods. We've had major incidents. And they've all been resolved with great professionalism in the next months. Torenado in 19, North Arlington, West Arlington, EF one, but the reality was very busy community at the time. We stayed around until those streets and those neighborhoods were back up on their feet because you know that's 172 hour operation for us. It was a you know six or second six or seven week operation, making sure those communities get back where they needed to be. Also, with the last 10 years, and this will be the last two pages, I'll talk about these kinds of things. We're looking back, but the reality is, we've rebuilt the fire department a little bit. 2010, we remodeled the EOC. 2011 new station nine was built. 2012, we had a new resource fire resource building that was taken from an existing building and remodeled 13 we have another storage facility 14 we were approved through a bond package to build new station one that's hopefully we'll be building that in the near future station five is rebuilt on station 16 2016 station Station 12 was remodeled in 2017. And station 17 was formally implemented in 2018. A lot of things happening in the fire department. We stop, we stop and look back a little bit. You see how much has gone on in this city in this organization and for us all very proud moments. The one thing that's really changed is the boast though is our specialized fleet units. We used to be a heavy truck department. It's just who we were. But when the stadiums got here, we had to adjust and all of a sudden our firefighters were driving carts. We were buying equipment for Verdeon. We were buying rigs, lightweight rigs for gas well response. Specialized for specialized vehicles for heavy rescue, wild land vehicles for the wilderness area down in North Arlington. A new dive boat that we named Tilly and you know who Tilly is, person who lifts people up and that's exactly what this dive boat is about, is about rescuing people and lifting them up. And then lastly, the last couple of years, our first tower truck has kind of Arlington. Arlington's getting taller. We're changing. We've got to have these kinds of vehicles now in place. And in fact, we had it used for the fire at the ballpark here recently. It was ready to go, didn't need it, but it was there if the fire had gotten worse. And then we took a library vehicle and turned it into a command center and I'll talk about that a little bit in a moment. We're a very well-awarded accredited organization. We're an ISO one. Our bomb squad is FBI accredited. Our dispatch is Clea accredited. Our emergency management group is E-MAP accredited. We're a storm ready, we're heart safe, and we're recognized for a lot of things that we do, and I'm very proud. The use of innovative technology, we've leveraged Homeland Security funds to put us in proper position for Homeland Security issues, for the special event mission, for the gas well mission, for almost anything that comes across now, we're in position, including COVID-19. We're ready to take care of it through technology and other creative mission for almost anything that comes across now we're in position including COVID-19 we're ready to take care of it through technology and other creative efforts. Our dispatch group it's not a better group of people in our organization it all starts with them led by a rendezhip and our team and they have gone through a lot of change also just like the rest of the fire department has but they are steady they are the rest of the fire department has, but they are steady, they are key component of the COVID-19 response today. And we'll show you some things a little bit later during the COVID discussion. But what an amazing team, highly accredited team, a very busy team, and just really exceptional people who are all also public safety responders and part of the public safety mission here in Arlington. Now we're a generation of people that are leaving and my my peer here, Cicindjeeb Jimself just retired last week. So we're in transition and he's left behind some people ready to take his spot. We just haven't figured out who's going to take his place. But in this last year in fiscal 19 we hired three classes and with there's been a lot of talk behind some people ready to take his spot. We just haven't figured out who's going to take his place. But in this last year in fiscal 19, we hired three classes. And there's been a lot of talk about staffing with the council over these last couple of years. We are now in position that we wanted to be in. Today, we have 92 firefighters in the field reporting for duty for COVID. Every rescue is staffed. Every squad is staffed, every squad is staffed. Because we've hired significant numbers of firefighters over the last year and a half, catching up for that hiatus that we had when we implemented civil service. We had a bit of a delay. Well, we have now caught up and the goal would be to stay caught up. We did have a rookie class that was frozen this year under stand because of the COVID experience, but it is important that we get that class back to stay intact, to stay where we are. I can't imagine how difficult it would be if we were staffed at a much lower number through the COVID crisis. Right now we are in excellent position and we'd like to stay in excellent position. We've been spending a lot of time training keeping the new generation up to speed passing on our institutional knowledge and our technical awareness. They clearly have the courage and the energy, but experience is a good teacher and we're trying to pass on all our knowledge and experience to these new people because their reality is going to be different than ours. We have a flash over chamber so these firefighters can learn about reading smoke, understanding what a rollover is, what a back draft is, how to watch for convicted currents, how to watch for building collapse, how to read the situation appropriately to keep other firefighters and citizens safe. We've additionally adjusted our high-rise protocol, Deputy Chief Pedro Revolos led our high-rise program as we're getting ready for a taller Arlington. All our procedures are now in place for high-rise incidents. If things occur here, we're ready for it. Additionally, I wanna stop here for a moment and look at those high school kids who are now Arlington firefighters. I got 11 of them, a couple of them are already leading in the organization. It's an amazing thing to see the thing come to fruition after a decade of effort and they're actually real people. The fire truck there was just recently remodeled by our vendor on for free. They know how important the program is. They had a desire to do some philanthropic work and we pushed them right to the program. They repainted it, reworked the engine, brought all the other aspects of the vehicle up to speed, and it looks great, really pleased with that. Something to aspire to. We create a pathway for folks who don't have a path, and I think for me, that's been one of the greatest joys of my career. Next to these guys, these 11 fire service leaders is a guy they should aspire to be like. These are captain special operations who oversees all our special operation missions. We do a lot of stuff here. We do gas wells. We do dives with water rescue. We do technical rescue. We do, uh, has Matt. We do everything. Okay. There's nothing we can't do. Just put our minds to it. We do COVID. So firefighters, ourn't even firefighters may be generalists, but they're specialists in a lot of things. And the lack of their attitude and their energy are the driving forces for our success. And Ryan Shepherd, our captain, special operations, doing a great job for us in the fiscal 19 and fiscal 20. Talk about our fleet, our fleet is stable, our light response vehicles are keeping the mileage and the hours off our heavy fleets or our fleet can last longer because those things cost a lot of money and then we're gonna extend those costs, the better off. We are from a budgetary perspective and so we're pleased with that. And then I bought that bus from Yoko for $10,000 and put a hundred thousand into it. And you can't buy one of those for less than 1.2 million. And we got the latest technology, the latest everything in it. And in fact, it's at the park's mall right now overseeing the COVID operation. It's a complete tribute to our people who can do this and put these things together. The ingenuity, it's just for me, it's amazing reality that I get to experience as part of my job. I'm gonna stop, a lot of talk about safety and I wanted to give you a picture here. This is a one-alarm house fire, okay? See how many firefighters are there? We put 17 on it on average. The national average is 14. We do 17. Sometimes based on the squads and rescues are running. That number can be up to 23. This is what keeps firefighters safe. You can see I'm going to jump to the page here real quick because I'm speaking a little bit from memory here and I want to be able to keep the page here real quick because I'm speaking a little bit from memory here and I want to be absolutely correct on this. We, uh, this is how we keep firefighters safe. Number one through training. Okay. They're trained very well trained very well organized. You can look at that picture and see how organized they are and how safe they are. Look at the gear they're wearing. Very good, excellent gear. Okay. The command and decision making is what keeps our people safe. And following our safety protocols is what keeps them alive. Everyone in the fire department knows that. We're a very serious safety organization. There's no room for navigating or playing around when it comes to safety. And that's why our firefighters stay safe. But we also keep our citizens safe. And when there's a one alarm house fire, you're gonna get a large cadre of people from multiple locations to sign up to show up, assemble properly and operate in a safe and aggressive and effective manner. We do in Harlington, our fire experience is very low, and when we do have a fire, we stop it, generally where we find it. And it's because of our well-trained service leaders, our structure is proper, our station locations are perfect, almost except for one or two. And it allows us to get to places quickly and in our team, when they get there, they operate with a sense of purpose and effectiveness and they follow our rules and procedures. And they stay safe, but they are aggressive rules and procedures and they stay safe but they are aggressive firefighters and we're very proud of them. Again another division of the organizations fire rescue support David Stapp former assistant chief also retired in January so my my whole command team is retiring essentially but he's left behind a whole group of fire service leaders that are they're stepping up and I'll talk about his successor here in a moment. Got a new budget manager who's doing a really good job for us the last couple of years. We're still the lowest cost per capita department but you can see that our firefighter per capita number is starting to inch up and we are very appreciative counsel for their support in that area. But in the day, we're still, we're still, while we think, call ourselves a very technical and sophisticated fire department, we're still a community fire department. And we still care about people. The things we do is about people. And it's really about passion. It's about love of our community. And our firefighters really step up and show that. Former medical operations chief also just retired January so all these pictures were people have just retired partially. Dr. Simmons still here you can see that but 80% of the 80% of the job here is medical okay 80% of medical that's why we can adapt to COVID very well. We're well trained medical responders, we're very busy. We're very happy that our firefighters are staying safe and we're still seeing a number of injuries that we deal with but we're doing what we can to keep our firefighters injury free and our loss of life in Arlington is due to fires rather consistent about two per year. We're a big city, but that's very low for a city our size. From an ambulance perspective, the Felsay franchise is working. Dr. Simmons, our medical director oversees all the clinical aspects of our system. We're a very busy EMS system. 35,000 transports, almost 36,000 transports last year, 6,800 of those involved trauma. There were about 10,000 inter-facility transfers and yes, AMR is out there at the special events with the Fire Department too. I'm doing a lot of business. They have been a great partner. Since 2011, we've saved about 260 people from cardiac arrest where they've totally recovered, returned to their lives normally. That is a great badge of honor for us. We're about 55% by standard CPR. That's right, Seattle, that's what I said. And so we're in very good position nationally on this issue. Our dispatch team is also a part of that number. Our medical director, our pit crew concept of how to save someone's life in a cardiac arrest moment has proven that we are a highly effective team when it comes to saving lives. We talk about safety all the time and we don't we don't ever stop. our job is very dangerous. Firefighters are prone to cancer. Very good friend of ours. Fire Lieutenant David Colt Hamedied a few years ago, a few months after his retirement. We now have a scholarship program funded at Tarrant County College in his name through donations to the community. We don't like doing that. We'd rather David be here with us. Okay and our goal is to keep our next generation of firefighters healthy. We've been doing physicals for 30 years and we follow the best practices from cancer. You see a firefighter being decondoned on scene right there in that picture. We're very serious about it. We do everything we can. We equip our stations with extractors. Our fire service leaders are enforcing safe practice protocols. And we're serious about safety. Just one of those things we don't kid around on. It's all business with us. Gonna jump real quick. I know this is kind of in the middle of everything, but we had a good West Nile season last year. No traps. We'll see how this one goes. Take you back to 2012. In our first experience, we had about 66 human cases. Now we worry about traps because our targeted spring approach works. It works. Always has worked. If you remember in 2012, some cities were doing aerial spring, we were doing targeted spring. It's really been effective. and it's a collective city effort not just the fire department. Gotta talk about ours for a minute, okay. Gotta talk about the OEM team. They're at the EOC right now helping manage the COVID operation and they were reaccredited in 2019 and there's that tornado we had in Northwest Arlington. Not only takes care of restaurants, takes care of home bench security grants, his entire team is working with Quest Labs, getting test kits ready for firefighters out in the field. It's a collective effort from dispatch to the EOC, to the firefighters in the field, to Dr. Simmons, to the fireOC, to the firefighters in the field, to Dr. Simmons, to the Fire Prevention Team who's working with the business community. It's all team effort, and for me, the COVID experience of being a long drawn out one, we're day 54 right now, and it'll probably go 72 or more, we'll see, but it's been professionally a very rewarding experience because I've never seen a team of professionals come together in the way the Fire Department team has to serve our communities. It's just been a wonderful experience. Coming close to the end here folks, but special events is certainly not at the end of the chain. 2019 was a big year. Gerald Randall was our deputy chief of special events now. He's assistant chief of operation support. He was there for five, six years. Did such an amazing job. I could not, not promote him. So he is now the successor to David Staff, former Assistant Chief David Staff, and he's doing an amazing job. His analytical ability, his business sense. In fact, he's a paramedic and he's got a real heart for service. It's really been great in the transition as we try to retool our leadership team. Another guy I respect a lot is our Fire Marshal. He's not just our Fire Marshal. He's our bomb squad commander, 12 dogs on his team. Now we used to be six dogs, you know, 10 years ago ago now we're 12 dogs. We're FBI credited. We do a lot of inspections you can see and we're working with the business community right now as we come out of COVID and Darren I want to say thank you for your service and excellence. From beginning to end our team together has been working in a seamless fashion and it just you know it's part of the professionalism that is part of the Arlington Fire Department. I'm just blessed. So lastly we'll talk a little bit about international partnerships. We've had a number of firefighters going down to Mexico over the last few years training firefighters from other countries right that? That's what we do. We have a good reputation in the Fire Service Universe. And we've had a good partnership with some communities in Mexico and in fact they came up here last year and visited REOC, our special events, Universe. They got to see all the things we do here. I think Gilbert Perales even stepped in and set a few words with the delegation we do here. I think Gilbert Prowse even stepped in and set a few words with the delegation that was here. It's another effort led by Chief Revolo. So we believe in helping anyone. If you're in the Dominican Republic, if you're in Mexico, if you're in Canada, you're in another state, another part of this state, we're gonna be there to help and that's what Ornick and firefighters do. And I think we've got to start looking towards the future. We've just ended a six year operational plan which was AFD 2020, 2020 is here. Now we're looking towards 2025 and the things we have to think about as we're moving forward is that we do realize that health care and EMS are connected. We do know that we have to be a social media savvy. We understand that. We're going to depend on new people to lead this organization and that's what we're trying to prepare right now, the next generation to step up and carry forward the great things have been done here. We know that the city is going to see additional Homeland Security issues and we're preparing for those issues as we speak. And that we're going to be, we're going to have to be carefully expected to manage our money, the cost, how we do business. Look for innovation and try to be on the leading edge but not so far out that it could be costly for the organization. There's a lot to do in 2025. We've got a list of things that we think the organization needs to follow and they need to believe in and need to exercise and we will as a team because our future is can be bright but we need to make right decisions right now to be in the best position we can for 2025. Lastly, I like to jam this in if I can and I got a copy of it so it's in the end of report. And you know, people, I guess generally like us, they appreciate our work and we're certainly hearing it through the COVID experience but the survey says it too. So I'm gonna put in the annual report. We were number one, as compared to the rest of the city, barely beat out the library again, but we have red trucks of this year. We win. And the reality is that we do a really good job in 2019 was a stellar year for us. We were up in every category, I think in some respects, some of our scores. There's only one way to go. And that's downward. But we're proud of it. I'm proud of what the team has done in 2019. It was an outstanding, outstanding year, and just incredible effort across the board. Improvements in dispatch, improvements in OEM, improvement in the ambulance team, just a good year, folks, just a good year folks, just a good year. And then the end of the document is really, we may have, you know, 15,000 likes or whatever, but in the fire service universe, that's a lot for a fire department. You can, you can compare us to our peers. So we, we do have a following. Our message is a little different than some other agencies, but we are really focused on our community, keeping our community safe, being the help. Former Chief of the was here, one of the former deputy chiefs used to, one of his quotes were, we're the help. And that's who we are, we're public servants. There's no greater honor than to serve other people, and our people do it very well. So with that, I will end the 2019 annual report and turn it back to you, Mayor, for any questions. Sir. Any questions from anyone? Dr. Farrah Mars. If you can unmute. Thank you. Yeah, I just got myself unmuted. Thank you very much you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And all the men and women of the Arlington Fire Department as well as our first responders. For the amazing and doctor Simmons for the amazing job that you've done to guide us and lead us. Through the COVID-19 crisis. So without before I ask you the questions I want to ask, I wanted to say that because I think it's important that we recognize excellence. So I want to say thank you on. Thank you. With that I have two questions for you that I just wanted to follow up on. One, I heard you discuss we had had a lot discussions in last budget cycle about the Arf and or the Foam Truck vehicle that would be utilized at a station 12, I believe you said, that would be used for the airport as well as perhaps accidents on the highway. Are you feeling confident that you have enough folks to staff and do you feel it despite everything that's going on with COVID? Do you feel the training is there and when do you expect that to be deployed? And then I'll follow up with the second question. Sure, we forwarded himself, Lattee. Make sure that we got a number of people trained. We worked with DFW Airport. We've got a number of targeted folks in the department ready to step up. We think the vehicles should be here with the 90 days and we should have a fully operational our program within 90 days to 120 days. Whatever ancillary training will have to do because of the new vehicle will certainly do, but I think we're in good position to do just that. Then the second question, Chief, is about the response times that you talked about in especially the red zone area that you've been showing us. I know the last three years we've had a lot of discussions about that red zone area. Can you been showing us. I know the last three years we've had a lot of discussions about that red zone area. Can you lend a little bit of insight into why you what is driving the numbers in that area? Highway. Could you give a little better sense of what what you're seeing in the in the data in that area so we can have a better sense going into budget discussions later this fall? Sure. We absolutely thank you. We've looked statistically into that area for what the response times in that area. And they are slower than our typical response time. We just put it that way. Also, it's outside of a typical ISO circle. And so we've got a gap there that's not covered properly by all the stations. A few years ago, I guess, 10, 15, 11 years ago, we moved station nine away a little bit further south. That gap materialized and over time, we've now seen a significant amount of activity in that area. The response times are relatively slow as compared. It's a high mercantil traffic area with some residential in the area. And we've talked about implementing lightweight response vehicles to help cover that area. But long term, there has to be a more definitive strategy. Does it have to be a fire station? Not necessarily. Could it be a house? Yeah. Could it be a storefront? Could it? It's got to be something though. We've got to do something to cover that part of the town because it is a gap that we need to look at. Thank you very much, Chief. Thank you, Mayor. Sure. Mr. Sutton. Thank you, Mayor. And Chief Carlson, I appreciate that outstanding presentation. And like my colleague, I like to convey my appreciation to the entire department. I've been on the council coming up on a year and we had some conversations about civil service and an impact on diversity in the department. Do you still see it being a challenge of getting that, reaching that diversity goal? I do. Long-term it will be a challenge of getting that to reaching that diversity go. I do. Long term it will be a challenge. Many departments that don't have certain exceptions in place deal with diversity problems. I think that this city will have to take significant steps. This last year we made inroads into reaching out to populations to do better in testing. I think in some respects that did happen. Will that translate into a more diverse firefighter group? I'm not sure yet. I think we're still studying the issue. I will tell you that we're early into it and we're still trying everything we can and hopefully some of our efforts will bear fruit but long-term they'll have to be additional considerations of the issue I believe. Thank you and I do share your concerns with doing more because your calls and incidents are increasing and as we increase as a city density my concern is staffing or we able to deliver the same service obviously our response times are increasing as well 80% of the calls are medically related and in district three just south of 20s dual income kids and north of 20 we have an aging population how do you see your role in leadership in addressing those issues or helping council to address those issues in the future? Sure, I think understanding our community just essentially in some way what you just stated, understanding the needs and the specific areas of the community, the department needs to adapt to those needs. That's what we're about. We're about adapting to our community. So if we can redeploy our resources in a more strategic manner, we certainly want to do that. If there is an issue regarding, and I agree with your point of density, I see the density becoming a factor in the future. That's another thing that this organization will have to cross as far as being a resource appropriately as the density does increase in Arlington. So I think there's a combination of multiple strategies that we would look at to see what is the most appropriate, the most cost effective, and the most sustainable approach to the specific areas of town. I think you're right on target with that. Entertainment District would be another one of those areas we'd pay attention to also. Thank you Chief Carlson. Thank you Mayor. Thank you, Chief Carlson. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Thank you. Dr. Odom Wesley. Thank you for that outstanding report. And thank you, Mr. Mayor. I do have a couple of questions. Chief Carlson, you said that we had the lowest per capita expenditures of any five departments in our area at $127 per capita. Would you say that our salaries are competitive to other five departments? Yes, ma'am, I would. I would say our salaries are competitive with other five departments. So we didn't reach that at the expense of salaries, but rather in just good management you think. I think so and I think the city manager alluded to and one of his budget presentations. The fact that we don't have an ambulance service within the fire department within the government saves us a lot of money. Okay, but there are certainly other aspects I think the department could look at as we move towards the future. Thank you. And one of the questions I had, I read a lot in the report about how you protect our firefighters safety and their physical well-being. What about their mental well-being? How do they manage the stress of the job and how do we assist that? Well, you know, firefighters are a tough group of people, and but they're human like everybody else. And we do have a CISM team for critical stress issues. And we try to recognize those issues and work through those issues with the appropriate resources that we have to make sure that minor issues don't become problematic for the employees. So we're doing our best. We're in tune with that. Chaplain is a part of that also, but it's something that you have to nurture over time because these teams kind of come and go and these incidents that happen with the employees are infrequent and so staying on top of this issue is one of the things we work through and we work with our team in dispatch also and our partners in the police department. So we do address that. I know you said the chaplain is retiring. Is that position being filled? He's not retiring yet, but he's an unpaid employee. You know, he's unpaid fire department member. And you know, my perspective is every fire department needs a chaplain. If he's not voluntary, he needs to be paid. Whatever it takes, we've got to have a chaplain taking care of our team. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Adam Wesley. Other questions or comments? Yes, Ms. K. Part. Thank you, Mayor. And thank you, Chief. I also want to extend my gratitude to you and your entire team and department for the outstanding work that you've done, particularly in this pandemic situation that we're in. You guys have been kind of rock solid and I know I've heard a lot from many people in the community about how much they appreciate the guidance and wisdom that you guys have put forward. And they do feel safer because of that. So thank you so much. And I'd like to also extend my gratitude to Darren Neeterhouse for all the work he's done and he's taken on a lot of responsibility. I know as Fire Marshal, he's done and he's taken on a lot of responsibility. I know as Fire Marshal he's not often viewed in a favorable light by so, but he's got a tough job to do and he's got big shoulders to him which to do it so I appreciate all the work he's done. And then secondly I'd like to give a shout out to Peter Revolow. As you know he and I had a chance to travel together to a Paso from SisterCities International Conference and he was a star. And I think I mentioned that to you before, so many people, it was an organization, I'm a board member of, right? And yet, the minute they found a firefighter, it was, it was Sherry, I don't need to talk to you. Where's your firefighter guy? I want to talk to him. So he did an outstanding job, people from all over the United States were there. And obviously in Mexico, he was very, very popular. So just wanted to give a shout out. You guys have incredible talent and finding incredible talent. So that's my comments, Mayor. Thank you, Chief. Thank you. Thank you. Other questions, comments? Chief, I just want to say thank you there and please express our gratitude to our first responders there in the fire department and what they are doing and then it is an amazing total program to take care of us in emergency situations there in addition to the firefighting or health care and direction. And it's an interesting thing when we come into these type of crisis situations, it really does make us even more appreciative there of having a great fire department. And it has been very evident that we have a great fire department. You know, the awards are one thing and that has definitely been there. We have gotten a lot of awards there at Farther, the Arlington Fire Department. But now we are seeing you in your department in action and it has blessed our city. And today the I was on the phone with Superintendent of Schools. And we weren't talking about the virus for a change. There were actually other things that we were talking about. And he purposely said that he has been so impressed with the fire department and you, chief Kraus. And there he said it has been just amazing the amount of time and direction that has been spent. There to help them in many of their issues and problems and logistics that they need to work out. And he is one of many that I've heard from and most appreciative there of the wisdom, the experience and the calm there in the midst of this crisis there has been most appreciated. He also wanted to say the same to our city manager, Mr. Yelverton, there for the staff and so forth. And because it's an interesting thing when we see our people perform under pressure like this and come through it so well. And we are not done, though, is you and Dr. Simmons have pointed out to us. We still have some work to do. That virus is still here. But when you look at all of the other still have some work to do. That virus is still here, but when you look at all of the other things you have to do in the midst of the virus because we're in trouble in other ways that you have to help us and we appreciate how you've maintained all of that and how our fire department has just risen to the top there through that. So thank you a lot and appreciate all that's been done and we are going to miss Chief Staff and Chief Self but we know we have great talent following right behind them and very appreciative of their service there and I thank you for mentioning the chaplain because he's made a big impact on the department and in our community there with it. And many times we forget, he's just a volunteer because he is so committed there. So thank you, Chief. Appreciate it. Thank you, Mayor and thank you, Council for your support. The Fire Department couldn't do these things by itself. It's gotta be supported by a Mayor and Council and city managers team. And we're very thankful for the opportunities we've had to serve people. We love our jobs. Thank you, sir. Well, with that there since we're on the fire department and we have Chief Krausen and Dr. Simmons here could y'all talk a little bit about COVID-19 update? Absolutely. We're going to move right into our COVID report. I'm going to to be able to talk about that. I'm not going to be able to talk about that. I'm not going to be able to talk about that. I'm not going to be able to talk about that. I'm not going to be able to talk about that. I'm not going to be able to talk about that. I'm not going to talk about that. I'm not going to talk about that. Also, there's a notation now that the governor is starting to loosen standards a little bit as we move back to work. Just a overview real quickly of our statistics. This is from last week. Notice there were 175 COVID patients in Terran County hospitals. This week, there's 198. So we're up a little bit. And we'll talk about this a little bit regarding definition of a patient because we've had some modification in the system from what we can understand regarding definition of a patient. So we were still relatively stable and things are, you know, as they have been, this is from last week statistically we've improved apparently in certain areas still clearly the the elderly the most impacted and but we have seen some decrease in impact to certain communities as we're moving forward that's up from a Tarrant County perspective. Now from a perspective, I think that needs to be recognized here is that we've had over 500 cases in Arlington, we've had six deaths, but if you calculated these and we've done this now, from all the cases in Tarrant County, we're about just under 20% of the cases. From a death perspective, we're just under 8% of the death. So that is a good number for us. We've had a good experience to the degree you call it a good experience. We've been able to manage our issues at some of our vulnerable facilities in a very effective way, thanks to Dr. Simmons and our team in Tarrant County Public Health. But, you know, the thing that we pay attention to the most right here in Arlington are clearly the hospitalizations. And today on May 5th, there's been a change since last week. Last week we had 59 patients in the hospital. Today we have 66 patients. And we'll talk about the definition of what a patient is here in a moment. However, the number of COVID patients that are ventilators have dropped from 11 to 5 and were at 6 deaths, I think last week we were telling you that we were about to be at 6 deaths. Again, most of these folks elderly, half of them associated with a nursing home or assisted living facility. So if you look at it from a graph perspective we're up a little bit. We've had some measurement upward but you can also see the blue dots we are trending down in ventilator use which is also a very good sign. So I think what we're trying to calculate now is that the definition of a COVID patient in one of the hospital groups is changing a little bit. It's a little more broad. So our numbers may be modified, may reflect a little bit of that. Does that mean we're in any way at risk right now in the hospital group? No, we are not. In fact, overall, again, hospitalizations in North Texas and we watch all of North Texas are very stable. Another reflection is the oranges, the confirmed COVID, the blue or the suspected COVID. And some of that may be in this new calculation too that we're still trying to ascertain. We need to protect the vulnerable populations. Certainly the nursing homes assisted living, senior living. We have been at every facility in Arlington that serves a person over 55 and up and we've made sure that we've had a couple of issues at a couple of nursing homes even this weekend that we've worked through from a supply perspective. And in fact, Dr. Simmons is looking at another facility at this time that we may be responding to tomorrow to, you know, mitigate, isolate, control so we don't have unnecessary spread. Pay attention to all these locations and also we're aggressively trying to serve the underserved communities in Arlington. Those without health care, those who do not speak English, those are there on our radar because we need to make sure they're taking care of. Within the last week, we have distributed 8,000 flyers to apartment complexes through all of East Arlington, Arlington firefighters and fire trucks showing up in apartment complexes, putting these things on doors because not everybody who got these in a water bill got it in an apartment. And these are in three languages, English, Spanish, and Vietnamese. And we're targeting our communities and trying to serve them the best way we can to keep the spread down. Today's sinko to Mayo. We thought it was effective to put a number of dynamic message boards out in East Arlington, both in English and Spanish, reminding people to social distance, how important it is. We're very serious about it. And we're doing a pretty good job. Our metrics are showing that we're being effective. So we're testing, and our strategy is to avoid clusters. We're watching for clusters in Mr. Sutton. I'm going to show you some information that you were asking for because now we have some data after our week's experience of testing. Containment, mitigation, isolation and communication with the public health community is necessary to make sure we're making the right decisions that we're in the right place. We're doing that. I'm sorry I'm jumping back to the slide real quickly. This slide, this graph represents Arlington Emergency Response Activity in the community. It's been busy, it's staying busy. Again, a lot of it worried well, but not all of it. We are seeing COVID out in the community. And so we're addressing it as we see it. Our testing site at the Parks Mall running great. Initially, our numbers are really high. A lot of interest. The intake system was created by us. We had a website, a whole team at the EOC, labeling test tubes and taking phone calls and screening people appropriately and doing all the things we need to do to get a list. Well that process has now been pushed to Tarant County Public Health. And when we did that, and it's not necessarily pointing fingers. I think it's a reality is that our demand is starting to drop a little bit for the testing. So we're paying attention to this issue because today we only had 99 people scheduled. We only saw 73. And so we close shop around 1 o'clock today. And but you can see that we've tested over 1,000 people more than 1,100 now at the testing center. We've done about 500,000 people more than 1,100 now at the testing center. We've done about 500 plus at nursing homes. So we're doing testing in Arlington. We're doing a lot of testing. But now we're starting to see what may be a lessening demand across Tarrant County, not just in Arlington, but also at work locations. So Dr. Simmons is talking with counterparts and for worth about maybe readjusting how we're doing business. We move to a more, you know, show up in a part of town and do testing a couple of times a week. And we're looking at all these kinds of strategies right now because we see a trend materializing. I think we're only scheduled for like 60 tomorrow, 60 to 70 tomorrow. And so we don't understand this completely, but it's a thing we're calculating and trying to manage around. From the test site at the Parks Mall, we have generated a list of zip codes that are impacted. And clearly in Arlington, the 76010 is the most impacted and the and the and the and the and the and the and the and the and the and the and the and the and the and the and the to all the apartment complexes. And this is just from the symptomatic people that tested positive at the Arlington Test Center here at the Parks Mall. Our average from all the positive are coming about about 7% for Arlington residents. For those else from Tarrant County, not from Arlington, their average is coming about at about a 10% positive rate. So anything in yellow is generally above 7%. Anything in blue is generally above 5%. And so we're paying attention to all these areas as we try to target our resource and our strategies. So if you did it by Zipco, this is what it looks like. And you can see that 25% of the people from the O-1-O tested positive, that were symptomatic tested positive. And then we had it varying degrees. The ones higher on the list were generally the East Arlington folks, but we also had, go back, if you look a little bit, 76017, also impacted, 016 impacted. So to a lesser degree, so we're paying attention to these metrics. From a heat map perspective of all cases, not just the Arlington testing site, we've developed a heat map that's not specific to any location. This is what Arlington looks like from a COVID perspective, okay? Just positive cases. Doesn't mean these people are winding up in the hospital. These are current locations in Arlington, 337, okay? People will fall off the list as they get through the 14-day isolation period and things like that. But we are paying attention to our community where the needs are and we are targeting our resources where we think we can make the best impact. Moving forward, our strategy's gonna continue to be the same. We're gonna protect the vulnerable. We're gonna test, we're appropriate. We don't know if this current method has as much more life to it. We may have to adjust and adapt to another strategy. We're going to watch the hospitalizations. We still have a strike team in place that will be in effect tomorrow at a facility. We're going to, Dr. Simmons will communicate our data with the public health authorities in Tarrant County. And we're going to, we're gonna keep moving forward to the community. We're part of the community's solution as we move forward to get people back to work while keeping everyone safe. We're pretty serious about the standards. So as we talk to the business community, we're saying, hey, that's great. You're coming back to work but make sure you're keeping your employees and your customers safe. And if you're doing all these things, you can put up this sign and say you're compliant. And if we show up and you're not compliant, we'll have to deal with us. But the feedback we're getting back from the business community is they wanna follow the standards, they wanna be part of the solution. They clearly understand the grocery store model did work. It can work in their model too. And we're gonna partner with them and we think that Arlington can do that part of this right too. And we're going to see what we can. We can do to keep our community safe, keep our community back to work. We want to be a part of that solution too. You know, we need the community's cooperation. We believe that'll happen. We need the business community's cooperation. We know that'll happen too. I think we'll be okay. We just have to be on top of it. So our goal is to keep everybody safe as what we're doing. These are our kind of fundamentals and showing up on the signs in the business community. And we're just moving forward at a pace that we can. Dr. Simons, do you want to share anything? Because I'm running out of words to say today. Okay. So with that, Mayor, that's the current update. And we're happy to answer any questions for the. I think it would be important for Dr. Simmons to talk about the importance of social distancing now in the time we're in with the presence of the virus and we're starting to move into our businesses. Thank you, Mayor. Yes, social distancing is indeed important. As we open our businesses, open our communities back up and allow some people to resume operations. The use of that six foot guideline is increasingly important. Washing your hands is increasingly important. And we do recommend that people wear face masks when they're in public. It is important to prevent the spread of this virus washing your hands is increasingly important. And we do recommend that people wear face masks when they're in public. It is important to prevent the spread of this virus as if we start to begin to resume some of our normal activities. And so clearly those recommendations are still in force, still in effect. And we would recommend that people follow those. Any questions? Yes, interesting. questions. Yes. Mr. Sutton, I'm sorry. Thank you, Mayor. Chief Krossen, thank you for that presentation. And then you did address the issue I had with the zip codes those zip codes that you've listed fall between Matlock and Highway 360 and this week three shares of boundary with the city of Grand Prairie. The question is the Arlington Drive-Thru test inside that service residents of Arlington and Tarrant County is that correct? Yes sir they do yes sir and part of Grand Prairie's Tarrant County so Yes, sir, they do. Yes, sir. And part of Grand Prairie's Tarrant County. So right. Right. Grand Prairie splits Dallas County as well as Tarrant County. There was some conversation I had with a resident of Grand Prairie if they could use you drive through facility in Arlington, but they're Tarrant County. So it does service Tarrant County residents. Yes, sir. Sure does. Thank you. And my final question is with the floor that you're posting and the in the process of the reopening Effort is there way to list a number on the flyer that if you do observe violations that they can notify you your department I didn't know on there That's that's a great idea. No, we didn't do that, but hopefully Folks can call 911 if they can't call the fire department administration number But we probably could trail behind and put some stickers on those. That's a that's something we'll certainly take a look at appreciate that comment Other questions comments other questions comments. Thank you. Yes, Mr. Yevrton. Just for the Council's benefit in the public. And we applaud Chief and Dr. Simmons very much so. But I think what you're going to start to see in the future is more of a transition away from some of the emergency response and more into kind of the follow-on response where we start breaking into certain economic efforts, economic development efforts and certain kind of housing and human service type efforts. And so, you know, Mayor, you and Jim are working on kind of one angle with the economic and probably going to have Jennifer leading more of our housing and human services piece where we start to get into that area and To that point I want to make sure the councils are aware of a couple of things Thanks to Terrent County Who got out of I don't know a couple of weeks ago they procured some PPE particularly surgical masks on behalf of just nonprofits and businesses and such. And so they've allocated a significant amount of masks to the city. And so Jim's let up a team working with the county and the chamber and the CVB in the downtown organization to have an event tomorrow where they're providing these masks to small businesses so that they can come by and get a resource if they don't have those for their for their restaurants for their retail or for whatever they may need. And so that event will be held out at the ballpark kind of in a drive-through format tomorrow where businesses have been invited to come by and get up get some supplies so that we can help make sure that people are able to perceive their businesses as following COVID guidelines and having masks available to them was a I think a nice thing that we could do thanks to the county's procurement of that material. And then separately but also aligned with Tarrant County we've talked here before and you've heard Jennifer talk in the past about the various funding sources that are out there for from the federal government that are being made available and last week or so Fort Worth and then the balance of Tarant County received their cares funding from the Treasury Department and They're in the process now of trying to understand the programmatic elements of what what's going to be going on. So county last week hired a consultant, a group called guidehouse that I think met with the commissioners today to start to kind of do a meet and greet and start to lay out some of the planning of how those investments will be rolled out in the broader balance of Tarrant County. What kind of investments do we need to reimburse ourselves for for what's been going on say the last two months, but then more maybe more importantly, what's going to be going on for the next seven months that it's COVID related and what kind of planning and replacement and infrastructure or nonprofit help or whatever that's going to be is going to be getting I think a more're going to be in the office and we're going to be in the office and we're going to be in the office and we're going to be in the office and we're going to be in the office and we're going to be in the office and we're going to be in the office and we're going to be in the office and we're going to be in the office and we're trying to make sure that we're active in those discussions. Any other questions, comments? Yes, Ms. Mollies. Yes, Ms. Mollies. This will be a real quick question. Some of my constituents have reached out and asked, you know, the City of Arlington's doing a great job of laying out parks, you know, returning parks to service returning libraries. And a couple of them have asked me, when do you think we'll see council back in chambers? Because the citizens, we think public participation, works better when we're actually in chambers. Do we have any idea yet when we might bring council back into City Hall? No, ma'am, I don't think we do currently. We're still operating under the the activity that the governor has provided for us to have our meeting so that we can minimize the social distancing and most of the guidance that I continue to read is to do everything you can to avoid crowds and to maximize the social distancing. So I'm thinking that as long as we have and to maximize the social distancing. So I'm thinking that as long as we have that in place, then it's probably wise for us to continue to do it virtually until that's relieved. And then we would come back. But if you all feel differently, we can certainly take a look at that. And not quite on that lines, but related, I should probably point out too. On your agenda tonight, we have a cancellation of next week's meeting on the 12th, because that was really purposefully put in place for the canvassing of the election that was going to be on Saturday. And I got reminded that the guy talked to, since you all know, that we would be trying to have a quick off-counsel Tuesday meeting, whether it's 30 minutes or an hour, to kind of get the latest updates of all things COVID-related. And so I would just say in that context, if you all would like to have that brief meeting next Tuesday afternoon, then we probably should not act on that canceling of the meeting, or if we're getting you kind of what you need, then you can feel free to go ahead and take action. But I told you that's what we would do. And I kind of got sideways on the agenda. So if you'd like to meet briefly next week to kind of have the latest and greatest of what's happening, we're happy to do that. Then, I'll leave that up to everybody else. Yeah. And then this is probably a good time there There even to remind our citizens the virus is still here. This is a key time for us to really work hard and I say us all of us and both if you're a business owner, business employee or with your family to work very hard on the social distancing, the mask, the hygiene because we need to continue to fight this virus. And that's the best thing we can do there as we go. And so, as the city manager said, we haven't been in a hurry to move into that, because we also have not been getting very good direction yet on gatherings and so forth. And our council meetings can end up in the gatherings. And we would encourage our citizens to continue calling in there to give us their comments through this. And then in addition to that, we don't want to put our council members at risk either. So we've got all of those considerations that are going on, but I just wanna urge our citizens to realize that it's exciting for our businesses to start coming out and to start that process. But let's make sure we don't have a resurgence and let's try to really work hard, and that's hard right now, because we're all ready to get out. We're ready to be done, but yet we're not done. We're what I hope we're in the third quarter, and I don't wanna go into overtime, frankly, there. And so we've got to really, this month, is just an important month for us to continue to follow the rules there that we have. And if you walk into a business that isn't observing the rules, walk out there. Do not stay. But I am very excited too because we have really gotten great cooperation overall. And then I've got to compliment our citizens because we had 90% social distancing being achieved. And we heard that from several lot of people that were doing the models because of the results that we've seen. I see Ms. K-PART with her card up. Ms. K-PART. Thank you, Mayor. Just in response to Tray's question about keeping it on the agenda for next week for a quick meeting. I'm fine with just a memo from Tray. I think it's just a memo from Tray. I think it's just a memo from Tray. I think I'm just going to give my input to his question. Thank you, Mayor. Okay. Seeing no other cards, I've got a couple of other things here to one. I've got to think our office of community. I think that's a good idea. I think that's a good idea. I think that's a good idea. I think that's a good idea. I think that's a good idea. Okay, seeing no other cards, I've got a couple of other things here to one. I've got to thank our Office of Communications. You know, we want to continue to urge our citizens to go to our website, go to the Facebooks and the other social media that our communications department is pushing out. They really are doing a great job of keeping us informed and along those same lines, this Thursday at six o'clock, we have a telephone town hall again and those have worked very well and it is given our citizens there who prefer the telephone, especially an opportunity to really talk to the experts and Dr. Simmons and Chief Krauson and then and then try and I get a few questions there along the way there with it there's a few other other questions that come in but I it's been great participation from our citizens there and Dr. Odom Westley you said it was gonna be good it is It's worked out well. You've done several telephone town halls, and they are effective and really appreciate participation there that we have. So thank you, Chief Krausen. Thank you, Dr. Simmons. Very much appreciate y'all. Thank you. Next, we'll move to 2020 City Council priority champion great neighborhoods and we'll turn to Mr Gilbert Parallels, the deputy city manager and we're going to talk about neighborhood services. Thank you. Is this on? Yes. The chief and Dr. Simmons a little bit taller than I am so I'll make the best I can but thank you Mayor Council members. You should have a copy of the presentation in your packets. And this is really a continuation of some of the statements that the chief made about what a resilient and dedicated group of folks we have work in and delivering services to our community. Well, what we face, an unprecedented situation right now, I want you to know that our employees remain committed to making a difference in the lives of our citizens. Well, the majority of our day-to-day services continue to be provided. It is in the manner which these services are provided that we want to highlight. On the front page of the presentation, what you see is our firefighters taking their jobs and thinking outside the box and providing a service to some of the nursing facilities. And they actually created a nice-alation room to assist them in addressing some of the issues that were popping up in some of our nursing homes. It shows just how much of their knowledge and skills come out when a need arises. On the next few pages, what you'll see is a highlight of a summer or a community, some of our continued delivery services that our residents have come to expect. The update on our construction of the East Arnett's and library and most important and in full display our employees ability to transition our service delivery model to a virtual platform. Parks is providing online workouts, home gardening tips and virtual bingo to name a few. In libraries we're providing a number of services online, as well as making curbside pickup of materials and option. Code is partnering with fire to conduct door-to-door visits to our businesses to ensure compliance with the declarations in place. And handy-tran continues to provide necessary transport for medical visits, as well as shuttling citizens to the testing sites in Park Small. We continue to do necessary transport for medical visits as well as shuttling citizens to the new, to the testing sites in Park Small. We continue to do all this and it's not just these departments, public works continues to be out there. Everybody is out there providing the services that our citizens expect, trying to make sure that our commitment to creating great neighborhoods continues. This last page, what that represents is that we continue to do all our work as if nothing is happening. And on top of that, we provide the service to ensure that the safety and health of our community remains at the highest priority. And with that mayor, I'll turn it back to you and ask for any questions or comments. Any questions from Mr. Burrellis? Dr. Odom Leslie. Thank you. Thank you for that that report and for taking care of our neighborhoods. My question is what services have we provided for the neighborhoods that have been identified as disadvantaged and at risk. We just got through talking about them with the COVID numbers and then they were also identified in the last week's report of the housing assessment. So what are we doing in those particular areas to improve those neighborhoods? Well, in terms of the issues that are related with COVID, man, we continue to saturate the area with communication in languages that are not just English. As far as the housing issue, Alaska, Jennifer, if she has any comments. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you is an area that we work towards using our federal funding in. So we could get you a broader summary of that work, if that would be helpful, but I certainly wouldn't be able to do it justice right now. Okay, thank you. So I'll look forward to some additional information about how we can help those neighborhoods that have been identified as having the greatest need. And Dr. Oden Wesley, this is Tray. Is your question COVID related or just more broadly citizen service related? Broad citizen services is what I was thinking, not just COVID. Right, that's what I understood your question. We can probably put together in the next update, a more kind of detailed take a look at that that but you're going to find in those areas heavy investments in housing assistance, housing rehabilitation, sidewalk repairs, street rebuilds, park renovations. You're going to see those kinds of investments that are really in those older parts of town because that's where the older equipment is and the older infrastructure. So it's actually disproportionate heavy investment in that kind of East Central part of town. But we'll put together some information and do a deeper dive on that for you in the next two or three months on that one for the next news letter. But we'll be sensitive to that. That'll be very helpful. Thank you. Yes, Dr. Nanias. That would be very helpful. Thank you. Yes, Dr. Naniyes. Good. I want to compliment our code compliance department, especially in the less. East Arlington, Southeast Arlington, they've really gone above and beyond with the development of some new programs where they will choose a unique, small, geographically designated neighborhood and they will literally go in and go door to door and help these neighbors to improve the parents or their front and their backyards to get rid of literally tons and tons and tons of trash material that a lot of people simply don't have the physical ability to move. And a lot of these volunteer organizations have been done with churches, East Orleans and Renewal. I am extremely impressed by the performance of our Code Compliance Department. It's been outstanding and I couldn't be happier for the kind of service that they're providing to our citizens. Thank you. I'll pass it along. And also just a reminder that the council was gracious enough to identify some funding last year for the neighborhood enhancement team. And that's really the activity that your discrepancy are in. That will continue as we move forward throughout the year. Any other Mr. Yowerton? and if I could just follow up the appreciation for code compliance and we appreciate that and very much appreciate the investment in the neighborhood enhancement team that you all gave us last cycle. I'd also just want you all to know that in recent weeks we've we've appointed Brian Dardi to be the permanent administrator in code compliance so he'll be with code and animal services we had him in the interim role and as we took a look at kind of the budget concerns and some of the things that we were able to do and code compliance as far as reorganization and his unique skill set of being kind of very much a can-do positive energy. We decided to go that direction, and so you'll continue to see him in those areas. So I just wanted you to know that Any other questions comments from council Thank you mr. Prowlis. Thank you take care of our neighborhoods appreciate it greatly All right next we'll move to the discussion of committee reports and I K-PAR environmental task force. Thank you Mayor. Environmental task force meant today all members were present. And today we are putting together, we were putting together some final recommendations on our four issue items. And just as a reminder to council they are the carbon footprint, solid waste management, stormwater management and the national environment. Those are our our focus areas. And so we are planning on having another meeting for the Environment and Task Force next week, whether there's also a Council meeting or not to continue to move this forward. But a lot of really good decision-making and a lot of good effort on behalf of the task force. I'm really pleased with how hard everybody's working and putting a lot of good effort on behalf of the task force. I'm really pleased with how hard everybody's working and putting a lot of thought into this. And I think we're done with data gathering and now we're trying to massage it and come up with some meaningful recommendations to Council Mayor. And if any of the other committee members have any comments that I'd like to add, that is my report. I see no other additions from the committee, but are there any questions in Miss K-PART? my report. So you know what are additions from the committee, but are there any questions in Miss Cape Art? Okay. Then we'll move to discussion of Miss Alaineus items, appointments to boards and commissions, Mr. Buskin. Thank you Mayor. We have no appointments to boards and commissions. Okay. to boards and commissions. Okay, evening agenda items. Dr. Nunez. Dr. Nunez, you're muted there. Thank you. I wanted to take this opportunity to bring up PD 20 that's on our agenda for this evening. I'll be totally frank, I'm not sure what to do in this particular situation, which is why I wanted to bring it up for discussion. I know from the discussions that I've had with the developers and that it's a pretty good quality project on a piece of property that is hugely divided by this massive encore power line that cuts right through there with the easement on both sides. that cuts right through there with the easement on both sides. And so I don't have a problem with the actual details of the plan. What I'm concerned about is everything that's gone on in the last 48 hours. So I'm going to digress a little bit. As I indicated earlier, I watched the video recording and then saw the eight to nothing vote. And as I watched the video recording, I saw the staff indicate to our commissioners that the property was had some issues. And the biggest question that kept coming up for which they didn't have a good answer was the fact that because of the COVID-19 virus, because of the uncertainty of our finances in the city and try alluded to that little while ago that we'd have some information that if this property gets finished prior to Debbie Lane being completed there is going to be a massive traffic issue in that area Part of what I remember was my vote on another piece of property that was another planned development at that very same intersection at the Southwest intersection behind a commercial real estate, a commercial strip mall, where we did another PD and allowed apartments to go in there. And part of the reason, and I remember also that the citizens showed up in mass in large numbers not only to planning zoning, but to city council to express their displeasure. City council I think made the right decision at that time, although the vote was split. And I voted to approve that particular plan development because I was concerned that what was going to happen was going to be even worse because that land was owned by the Fort Worth diocese and they were going to consider selling to a school which is going to create even more issues with traffic in that area. And so because of the COVID-19, yes, the developer made an effort to go out and get citizen input, but that meeting got canceled and that and the neighbors in that area really didn't have an opportunity to express how they felt. that we would have had again, another large crowd show up to object to this particular project because of the issue of traffic. At the same time, as a city council member with the knowledge that we have as elected officials, we've put on the ballot in issue in May, which has now been delayed to November, to vote as a citizens, to vote for a course in sales tax for an economic development corporation in order to be able to more effectively use our commercial real estate. And here we are, not only did I get information from Mr. Paragion, but I got lots of data and lots of numbers from the planning staff about what are available acreage for commercial development and we don't have that much land. When you look at the numbers and the actual acreage, the way I interpret those graphs and all those, and all the statistics that were given to us, we have limited commercial property. So here we are at 51% of our ad-loroom tax revenue, single family, 48% approximately commercial, and our goal, our stated goal, is to reverse that ratio and increase our property tax revenue on the commercial side and decrease the percentage of our single family homes. And here come these projects, these planned developments to change either light industrial or commercial property over to multifamily. I'm having a hard time trying to grasp what is it that we should be doing as a council? What is the right pathway to go with our limited resources of land? I don't have the answer, but this plan development and all the discussions that I've had with a variety of developers and staff, I need guidance. I need, I'm asking for a professional opinion from our staff, what is the right thing for Council to do going forward with our remaining commercial property? And that's to me what this plan development crystallizes in my mind as what the issue is. What are we doing? And with that, I'd appreciate any input that anybody has? We want to, all right, Mr. Peel. You went muted again, Mr. Peel. Any, any, sorry, sorry. That's all that we're in these. That's all right. I have to say that I've gone through the same thought process on this issue. Broadly, not just this. Feel the thought in a rub for a moment. This is Sherry. I have to step away, Mayor. Okay. Thank you. Go ahead, Mr. Mayor. I've gone through this same thought process as well, given that we're going before the voters in that's a great question. I think that's a great question. I think that's a great question. I think that's a great question. I think that's a great question. I think that's a great question. I think that's a great question. I think that's a great question. I think that's a great question. I think that's a great question. I think that's a great question. I think that's a great question Any other comments? Okay, Ms. Moise. Remember to unmute this. Thank you, Mayor. You know, I, I agree that we need more information on direction on this. Here's what, here's what all of this means to me as our reflectance. One of the reasons I asked the question about getting back to Council floor, the neighborhood is indicating to me that they've had really no contact with the developer. COVID-19 has affected everything. It's affected our ability to work as a council in the way that our citizens are accustomed to us working. And that means citizen participation in a way other than by phone. But if we really look at this, when we had two previous cases come to us in this area, and it may have been three actually, There was a lot of discussion about Debbie Lane and everything that I mean I felt like the discussions kind of were flowing in a direction that this would be all right if Debbie Lane was happening and I even shared with the developer yesterday that I think the Debbie Lane halt is very temporary and that in that and I don't think the timing is like bad timing a years worth a bad timing. I think it may be a week or a month's worth of bad timing to give him some time to really interface with the neighborhood and find out more about what's gonna happen with the Debbie Lane project. That's where I sit is, I really want a little more time on some of the critical pieces of this. That's all, Mayor, thank you. Dr. Odom Wesley. Thank you, Mayor. And I would just echo what Dr. Iggy and Andrew said as a new council member I think some guidance is helpful. I know we heard earlier today that we don't want staff to manipulate or actually state an opinion and I'm not talking about one particular case. I'm just talking about some general guidance so that we can make the best informed decisions on all of these various cases that come before us. As I know, on the one hand, we want to increase commercial. And then on the other hand, we need multi-family. And we have the comprehensive plan that we don't want to deviate from, but we've seen the deviate from it all the time. So I'm just in agreement with my fellow council members that some guidelines, some guidance just in general, not this one particular plan would be helpful. Okay, we got Mr. Sutton and then Mr. Shepard. Thank you, Mayor. That particular development is in district three, obviously, and like my colleagues alluded to, there was a project that was supported and approved by this body. I've been in this area for over 25 years and I remember back in 2005 that I attended a meeting that was led by Councilman Rivera that had some concerns about Mansfield Web Road. So I guess my point is more information is better than less for me because I look at it from the public service delivery point of view as chief Kraus alluded we're getting more calls for service our response time have increased slightly and because the far station that delivered at service is critical to me that we're looking at devilane expansion which which is great. And I support that. But we have yet to look at other two-way roads which give our first responders station 16 access to the development south. Collins, I mentioned, is a two-lane road. Regressing backwards, I asked doing a presentation by Strategic Mission Department about the Collins study about commercial development. And I asked about what about 360 because there was no commercial development on that particular stretch of 360. So I'd like to see more information presented by staff than less. It helps me make an informed decision. Okay, Mr. Shepherd. less it helps me make an informed decision. Okay, Mr. Shepherd. Thank you, Mayor. And thank you to my colleagues for their input. I will say the Dr. Iggy made a statement that we have a policy about increasing the commercial tax base and I may be corrected if I'm wrong, but while we've been talking about it. And we've been talking about it since I've been on council. I don't know that we have an adopted policy to do that. It's certainly an aspirational goal. So that's one thing that I think needs clarification from our retreat. If we want to adopt that as one of the goals that we have as a public policy, I think we need to state that as a specific goal. Secondly, as it pertains to access at Debbie Lane, and certainly, I think I agree with Mr. Sutton, I think more information is better than less. So I don't have any qualms about more information. But the applicant and the other developments there will be required to provide adequate access. That's part of the process as I understand it anyway. And so whether we build Debbie or they build Debbie, Debbie's going to get built. Now who pays for it and what proportion? That's a different story. That's a different conversation. That's a staff and developer conversation. That's not our conversation necessarily. Lastly, and this is my opinion, the problem at this intersection is largely in one of access. Because if I remember correctly, the access point to, if you're headed south on 360, is some distant north to get off on Debbie. And the analogy I used is New York Avenue. If you don't know to get off at Matlock, you're going to pass New York. And we had a case some time ago from another applicant, a quick trip that was trying to zone, I believe, the northeast corner shown on our map at WebFarrow and Watson. It felt like they needed a sign up north to announce their presence so people could exit in time to go to QT. This property I believe has been zoned CC for 15 plus years, I think Mr. Day, who owns the property suggested it's been 20 years, but it's certainly been at least 15 I believe. So whether it should be CC or whether it should be multifamily, that's what we're elected to decide. We adopt a comp plan as a group. We decide these decisions as a group. We decide commercial versus residential as a group. That's those are the hard questions we are paid so little to decide. And so while I don't, I don't disagree that more information is better. Either the property, either you agree with multifamily at this location, or you don't, in my opinion, Debbie Lane could be a six lane expressway, and I don't think it would change anyone's mind. So if the applicant is is interested in delaying for some period of time, I would support that but time is money for real estate developers and unless a delay would would result in a different outcome than what may happen this evening. I think the cost is too much for this development. So I don't know if that helps anybody at all, but thank you. Miss Cape Hart, and then Dr. Nguyen yes again. Thank you, Mayor. And I didn't want to interrupt again, but I am back. And all of these comments are really good. I'm a little uncomfortable because I'm thinking this is a public hearing discussion that we're having here. So, but Tara says it stopped us. So I guess we're OK. And Mr. Shepherd made reference to commercial development and proximity to this and they didn't come because they couldn't get a sign. Now we were going to give them a sign, I think, Mr. Shepherd. We just wouldn't give them this humongous sign, they wanted. And so it wasn't that. It wasn't we didn't say you couldn't have a sign. It was the over-ye enormousness of it That along that stretch of 360 this being rebuilt I think even the toll authorities thought it would be inappropriate so and we've built other things We built the Walmart out on 287 and 20 and there's no sign to tell you how to get there and everybody seems to find it just fine. I dare say they would have with a QT and I don't know what commercial development might choose to go there. I do know that acreage this size is already pre-zone, any type of commercial is almost a treasure in the city. And I have great concern about, we have a lot of apartments in the pipeline across the city, but particularly in the Southeast sector that haven't come up out of the ground yet. And I don't know what housing is going to look like pre-COVID. Are people really going to want to live in that close proximity again? Are they going to put the pause button on for a while? I don't know. But I have concern about repeating the mistakes that were made in the north in the 80s. And so it's not like we haven't been very mindful of needing more multifamily, but most of that's not built yet. And I don't know what that's really going to look like and how it's going to function. Those are my comments, Mayor. Dr. Nene Yes. First, I want to thank every single one of my colleagues for their comments. I'm going to take those into consideration as I try to formulate how I'm going to vote on this. I agree with Helen. I think that timing is everything. Timing is often a from a planning and zoning perspective. Timing is a reason to sometimes delay a project. I have concerns about where the money is going to come from to actually put in a new traffic signal that's not in our budget. I wanna know where the money's gonna come from because we have a culvert on the east side that's too small. And I hear rumors of lawsuits to the east of this property over in Grand Purry because of the amount of water going into this area, but there's no documentation. It was not discussed at planning and zoning. I don't know where those rumors are coming from. And that's, to me, that's important because even though they are not gonna pave a lot of area, which is in their favor, how much water, and even though their water studies indicate they're not gonna increase their runoff, I want to make sure that that culvert is addressed and it's cost from our perspective is addressed. And so with all those questions that I have, I'm just still undecided. So thank you for your input. Thank you, Dr. Farah Mars. Thank you, Mayor. I wanna take a 30,000 foot look at this and stay away from the current case and actually talk about the series of maps that we've been provided by staff. Staff has done a good job of providing us the maps of multifamily, uh, provided us with maps about, uh, commercial areas. And, um, I just wanted to use this opportunity to continue to ask the same questions that I asked last working session, which is, I really do think we need an opportunity to discuss on a more macro level. If we really are going to do something about continuing to build on the aspiration of building a more business base to take the pressure off of the ad Valorum of our residents, that I would like to have an opportunity for us as a council to have a discussion about that. I agree with Mr. Shepherd. We do not have a policy. And I, I, I, to continue to struggle myself with trying to balance what our interests are now today and going forward. So I would just respectfully ask that because of this type of discussion we're having right now, I know we'll, because of COVID, we could not have our retreat, but I would very much like an opportunity to have a fuller discussion where we look at each of those maps that have been sent to us and look at the overlays to see as Miss K. Parts O. Appley pointed out, we have very few areas that are commercial and also I go back to Mr. Sutton's request about a 360 study to look at commercial development along that side. So, you know, we've had a lot of disparate conversations that I've loved and opportunity to put together. Thank you, Mayor. Appreciate the time. Thank you. Any other questions, comments? Okay, anything else on evening agenda? Dr. Odom Wesley. Okay, can you hear me? Yes. I couldn't find my red card. As a part of this conversation and gathering information and looking at the maps, once we all get together again, could we possibly plan a tour of these parts of town so we can see where the commercial development is zoned and where multi-family and just you know I know there's a quorum issue we're all in the same bus but if there's a way to actually allow us to go and take a look at it visibly. to look at it visibly. Well, it probably is going to have to be done in groups of twos there. And we'll look and see what we can do there as far as I guess Miss Topel, maybe if you can arrange that at least for Dr. Odom Wesley. Well, it becomes very problematic because it puts y'all together. You can't come together as a group. So then you'd have to be divided into very small groups. And it still potentially could raise an issue with deliberation going on in parts. So again, we kind of get into some concerns about open meetings. That one is a very fine line. So I would more encourage you to just go look at the property individually if you're interested, rather than going with more than one of you at a time. Okay, Dr. For our Mars. Thank you, Mayor. If I just may follow up on that, I do a lot of driving myself and I go down and drive and I know many of us do that for our planning and zoning cases. So is there an opportunity to just have a more refined map? We have a series of, I have a series now, what would we each have a series now, three maps. I mean, it'd be nice to have an overlay map that has a series of three layers to it that demonstrates the property that's developed, the property that is still commercial, that has been undeveloped, and an opportunity to look at that throughout the city. I think that that may be helpful. It's a GIS layering map, and I know we have several of them and I appreciate staff for putting them together, but I think if we could have one map that pulls it all together, that might be very helpful for those of us then to plan our own trips around the city. And then Dr. Odom Wesley and others, we can all do our own traveling to not to do what Miss Salis just indicated that we could avoid that is difficulty. Thank you mayor appreciate it. Thank you. Okay anything else on the evening agenda items. Yes Miss. Allis. Thank you. I have one item. Mayor and council item 11.2 was an amending ordinance again that relates to the COVID disaster and we put this on as a placeholder. A couple of things have happened. Initially I sent you an email earlier today that talked about the fact that our current ordinance provisions would expire even though the disaster declaration would still continue, but that the current ordinance would expire on May 15th and accordance with the governor's executive orders at that time. But then we'd have a lapse of four days before your next council meeting. So we kind of pulled some provisions out of all the previous ordinances that we've done that I felt like you would probably want to continue on throughout the disaster declaration and those four provisions are in the draft ordinance I sent you and as you saw they related some of the authority of the city manager to suspend timing requirements and ordinances, some contracting signature authority, and then there's some provisions that allow the fire chiefs some continued authority in addressing issues and nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Those were all previously adopted by you. This would just clarify that those stay in effect and continue on until you terminate this disaster declaration. In addition this afternoon while we've been in Council, Governor Abbott has held another press conference. His, I don't know if he's issuing an executive order, he has done some clarification and it appears there's going to be some additional steps that are going to be taken over the next two weeks. And so I've attempted to craft some language to address that matter that would basically adopt the governor's executive orders that he issues during this disaster as if we were adopting that language word for word, but it would be for anything he's issued going forward, which would leave you from having to come back every week to adopt a new ordinance. You'd always have the ability at any time to come in and alter that ordinance and undo any of that, so you're not locked in stone with that, but that would kind of stop us having to turn around and come back in every time the governor issues something new. So if that language seems acceptable, I can get you a draft before this evening's meeting that has that additional language about the executive orders and then it would be there for your consideration. So everyone all right with moving forward there on that if you're not. Let me know. Okay or it looks like everybody's okay. So Miss Salis if you can move ahead on that that would be great. Okay next one me move to issues relative to city and text. Projects. Anybody have any questions? Okay, next we'll move to issues relative to City and TechStyle projects. Anybody have any questions? Okay, then the COVID-19 update we've already had, does anybody have anything else on yet? Okay, future agenda items. Okay, with that, oh, Mr. Shepherd. Yeah, Mayor, I think I, I, Miss K part responded to Mr. Yelverton's question and I don't think the, I don't recall the rest of us have and I certainly haven't. But I would concur with Miss K K. Part that are, I don't see any need for us to meet next Tuesday for COVID update. I think a memo would suffice for me anyway. So I don't know if Mr. Yevrton seeking guidance from a majority of the body on that or not, but I just like to put my two cents in on that. Is everybody all right with getting a memo for Tuesday and not having a meeting, okay? All right, good. All right, then we'll plan on the memo. I can pick that item up. Or they can do it. They can leave it on. All right, good. All right, then we'll plan on the memo. Leave it on. Yeah, that that item tonight we do need to pass then to delete the meeting for this next Tuesday. Okay, also I just wanted to mention again the telephone town hall that we're going to have this Thursday night at 6 p.m. There and of course we'll have a key city staff there, but specifically our emergency operations and fire chief Don Krausen and our medical director, Dr. Simmons. The Collian number for that town hall is 888-409-538-0. That's 888-409-538-0. Thank you very much and seeing no further in business will stand adjourned. Thank you. you you you you