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I'm going to go ahead and move on to the next one It is 128 PM on Tuesday, February 25th, 2020, and then the city council will now go into closed session at 129 PM on February 25th, 2020, and accordance with the following sections of VTCA, government code chapter 551.071 consultation with attorney. 0. 072 deliberation regarding real property. 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 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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I'm going to go ahead and call the afternoon session of the City Council to order. We are going to make an adjustment in the agenda today. We're going to start actually in section 4, discussion of issue sessions items. First discussion of informal staff reports is 4.1 via ride share updates. Ms. Anfas, Principal Planner, Office of Strategic Initiatives. Ms. Fas. Good afternoon, Deputy Mayor Pro Tem and Council. Anfas, Principal Planner with the Office of Strategic Initiatives. Today we have a brief quarterly update on the VIA Rideshare Service. The VIA Rideshare Service, sorry. The VIA Rideshare Service expanded on January 8th of this year to include a large portion of Southeast Arlington. Key destinations within the new service area include the Tarant County College Southeast campus and the Park and Ride Lot at I-20 and Park Springs Boulevard. VIA continues to serve the Centerport TRE Station, the entertainment district, downtown in UTA, hospitals, high schools, shopping centers, and residential neighborhoods. The city is currently working on a program to provide free rides on via for TCC students and AISD students enrolled in the Arlington Collegiate High School at TCC's Southeast campus. This program would be funded by the North Central Texas Council of Governments and will require no additional funding from the city. We anticipate bringing a via contract amendment, an interlocal agreement with TCC, and an interlocal agreement with AISD to cover this program to counsel for your action in the near future. VIA continues to perform well across a number of metrics. As you can see here, ridership continues to trend in the upward direction. At the end of last week, the service had provided 339,883 rides. We also see a pattern of increased rides following service air expansions as shown on the graph here. These average rides per day include higher weekday ridership numbers as well as Saturday ridership numbers. And we just had our highest ridership day last Thursday, February 20th, with 1027 rides given on that day. This graph compares the growth and ridership between 2018, shown in yellow and 2019, shown in blue. We started off 2020 with 19,706 rides in January, continuing the trend of increased ridership over each year. We also continue to see growth in the number of account signups. At the end of last week, there were a total of 30,984 accounts set up on VIA. were a total of 30,984 accounts set up on VIA. We also wanted to share some updated heat maps of the pickup and drop off locations on VIA. Less than seven weeks into the new service area expansion, we can already see riders using the service across the new area with concentration so far around the I-20 and Cooper retail centers and at TCC's southeast campus. These heatmaps demonstrate the access provided by VIA as riders are able to get within one to two blocks of their desired destination anywhere within the service area. And we can see that riders are taking advantage of this opportunity to reach destinations across the entire service area. of this opportunity to reach destinations across the entire service area. At this time I'm happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Any questions, Council? Mr. Sutton? The ridership in just north of 20. Has that grew any? I know you expand it south of 20, but can you tell me if there was any growth in ridership north of 20? In the previous service area north of 20, I'll just go back to the heat map. I think that shows it best. You can really see that there's a concentration of pick up and drop off locations throughout the entire service area and the area around I-20 is a popular destination. And on the south, south of 20 with the Terrick County College campus, which is more or less a commuter school, do you see that some of the students that are commuting to the school, you're lasing the Arlington Villa? We have seen, again, it's only been about seven weeks since we expanded to that area, but we are seeing quite a number of pickup and drop-offs around the TCC campus. I guess my question is, so with the way we've the cost structure of it, it's $3 per trip, or $15 where you could ride up to four times a day for six days. Is that correct? That's correct. So will that cost structures sustain the Arlington via with the past weekly pass? If we're utilizing, let's say, Terrent County College where we have commuters coming in, parking, and then utilizing Darlington via. I know in some instance, we're actually subsidizing our citizens' riding, but when you're, we're using those subsidies for people who are coming outside of Arlington, and I don't know if we could sustain it with the cost structure. We have not talked specifically about a fair increase of any sort right now. Right now, the contract that we have for our third year of service includes funding from the Federal Transit Administration, from the City General Budget, as well as our anticipated fair revenues. And with those projections, we are comfortable with the fair structure that we have now. All right. Thank you. Dr. Ar All right, thank you. Dr. Arden Wesley. Thank you. Where's the next expansion for Viva? That's something that we have been discussing, but we have not made any set plans for a specific area for that expansion. We would probably look at that as we get further into this third year and assess how our most recent expansion is doing. Mr. Yalverton? Just to elaborate on that, Nans correct. We haven't settled for certain. The original plan was for us to look at starting to kind of wrap further around Southwest and West Side back to the North. But there's some logic for connecting that outlier of the center port station at the North to that piece. I don't know that we would pull the center port station at the north to that piece. I don't know that we would pull the whole north but we might pull in the eastern north kind of over to say a center Cooper or something like that. So that that drive time between center port and those northern city those northern dropoffs along Lamar is a lot of dead air and if we connected that we think we might be able to get some efficiency in that area as a post going back around but that's something you all will need to help determine for us at a future time based on a kind of a business case comparison of those two things I just outlined. Other questions council? All right thank you Ms. Foss we really appreciate that update. Thank you. Moving on to 4.2 fiscal year 2020 City Council priority bless you. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry mobility. You just heard a really good information set of information about the VIA service which is one of the key elements of our mobility program. What which also the public should be aware of is we run a handy trans service that in the first quarter there's over 63,000 trips were made through that pair of transit service with 96% on time delivery. And just to give you a sense of what that really means for public transit services, 96% on time delivery is almost unheard of. So that is a very high, high on time delivery process. Also, as we think about the growth that's occurring very high, high on time delivery process. Also, as we think about the growth that's occurring in our city, particularly as late saliva the development growth that you're seeing, we're trying to make sure that we stay up with our transportation services, which means our core road street systems and those types of things. So we continue to do a lot of road street systems and those types of things. So we continue to do a lot of construction activity throughout the city. And you'll notice if you drive in the southern part of the city right now, there's probably three or four projects that are making it a little inconvenient for you to move around. Eden Road would be one of them. Madlock Road is another and there's a project on sublet road and those are all really intended to make sure that we're maintaining our infrastructure And just to give you a sense of that we have 37 Street construction projects underway So 37 street construction projects again the focus isn't on on inconvenience. The focus is on making sure that the infrastructure is in great shape. Well, last longer, it's more efficient for us to continue to maintain what we have than to try to build new facilities, particularly in a built environment where right of way and land area is very difficult to have and in 19 we've completed 22 projects already. We're still as we go into 2020. We've got 16 projects under design. So this process with the Street Sales Tax as well as the Capital Improvement Program, we continue as a city to make significant investments in our what I'll call our core street infrastructure throughout the city. And I think you'll see more and more of that occurring particularly in the southern part of the city. And a fourth project there is Madlock Road where we're replacing some of the concrete panels. I drive that road a lot. And I do see the progress as we move towards the 20 corridor. I also want to highlight one of our bigger projects, which is right outside, which is the Averstreet project. That project is nearing completion. I'll repeat, that project is nearing completion. We expect that that project will finish in the spring and that we'll certainly want to be able to do is nearing completion. We expect that that project will finish in the spring and that we'll certainly want to provide counsel in the community with opportunity to celebrate that signature street. Right now, what you'll notice is most of the remaining constructions related to landscaping and some of the city hall improvements along the street as well as some additional utility work. That project in the newsletter really highlights the extent of that type of a project but the thing I think is perhaps interesting to the public 57 installation of 57 American with Disabilities Act sidewalk ramps were installed. But the idea being that we wanna have universal access to a lot of the services that are provided downtown and one way to do that is make sure that our transportation services do that. The final point I just wanted to make, as it relates to the council's priority, is the use of technology. And I know the council is aware of this, but for the public, it's the most expensive way for us to improve our infrastructure is to widen our build new. So what we try to do, particularly in Arlington, is optimize our current roadway infrastructure through optimization of our signal work, optimization of a lot of the technology that we're embedding in streets that people ride on very frequently such as Cooper Street. And to that end, the more that we can optimize, the more that we can delay a very expensive improvement. Sometimes we can forego that improvement, and that's really how cities like ours operate, trying to optimize what we have. So to that, on Cooper Street, we have a very innovative technology project that's been underway, Keith Brooks, who is our new public works and transportation director has been leading that effort to really embed some new technology that helps with the mobility of that corridor, which as you know in the peak hours can have some level of congestion, but it's also the most direct way into our university or downtown and into our corridor. So that project won the 2020 Smart 50 award from Smart Cities Connect. I think it was one of nine awards nationally. It's not just about the award, what it really does is intended to really help our public safety with some technology that's put on some of the fire apparatus as well as we're trying to test out the technology to deal with railroad crossings and alerts for our citizens so that they can move quickly through that corridor to particularly to their commutes. So with that, those are quick highlights. We're happy to take any questions. Any questions, Council? Dr. Arden Wesley. There's also article in the newsletter about the median noses. I know we had some seniors that were asking us to clearly mark median noses because they were having problems seeing it at night. Would you kind of update us on that and how much work has been done? Sure, I'm gonna ask Keith to come on up since his team's doing that work. But this is a program where council directed us where there's opportunity where citizens are finding very difficult to see a median, particularly intersections, that we adjust the nose markings so that they're much more visible. That's extremely helpful to those of us that don't see so well. And the way that works is we'll receive some inquiry from a citizen. We'll go out and evaluate it and determine if we think we can do that safely and efficiently. And Keith, if you want to just give an update on some of the things we're doing. Good. Good afternoon, Mayor and Councilor. Mr. Brooks, I just want to thank congratulations on your elevation. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Mayor Councilor. Mayor Councilor. Mayor Councilor. Mayor Councilor. Mayor Councilor. Mayor Councilor. Mayor Councilor. Mayor Councilor. Mayor Councilor. Mayor Councilor. Mayor Councilor. Mayor Councilor. Mayor Councilor. Mayor Councilor. Mayor Councilor. Mayor Councilor. Mayor Councilor. Mayor Councilor. Mayor Councilor. Mayor Councilor. Mayor Council We don't have, per se, a city wide program where we're just going out, just automatically putting buttons or paint on the media and those, but what we're doing is on a case-by-case basis. So you can either send a request through the app or through our XRlington app or you can just call us. And if there's a specific location that we need to look at,'ll take a closer look go out there and evaluate it see if it's if it's just a marking issue if it's a lighting issue if it's just it could be just simply we need to light that intersection up a little more but we actually go out and evaluate and look at each intersection that's being requested to make sure that we're not just doing a cookie cutter approach, but we're actually looking to see if there's some issues that need to be modified or fixed while we're there. Do you have any data yet on how many requests we're getting and what is there specific area in town that's getting more requests than others? I will have to check our card addresses. I don't have that with me. I would have to get back with you as far as the data, as far as how many requests we've had, but I can get that for you. Other questions, Council? Yes, Mr. Sutton? Yeah, for Jim. South Collins, just south of Sublet, where it goes to a two lane road, and you have far station 16, which is off Mansfield Web, when they're rolling south because of two-lane road and you're yielding and pulling to the right, which may impact a response heading further south. Is there any anticipation of expanding columns? Because I know we get congestion there. We've got Tim Review, we've got Izing Howard, we've got the early learning center there. And it gets so congested. My concern from a public safety point of view would it impede a decent response? I'm sure. I think we can take a look at that. One of that project was looked at in the 2014 Bond Committee program. And while it was worthwhile, it was not raised to the level that it was funded in that capital program. We can certainly take a good look at that again. But that project was looked at with that citizen bond committee. Right. And the reason I say that, because Collins is one of those main routes to South Wind, just built a new subdivision rock and hammer state and so it may become problematic for our first responders Because only other route you'd have to take would be going out to the west to head south Or hit New York at some point, but yeah It's so restricted in the traffic. It's so dense there. It's my concern, it may impede decent response. Sure. We can take a look. Any other questions, Council? Mr. Pair, John, Mr. Brooks, thank you very much. Appreciate it. And just a reminder of those here and at home, Mr. Pair, John was nice enough to remind us that we were doing all these wonderful repairs, but that does create some congestion. So I encourage those here at home to use the WAs W-A-Z-E app that will help you navigate in real time throughout the city. Now moving on to our next is 4.3 fiscal year 2020 City Council priority, champion great neighborhoods, a call upon Gilbert Corralis, deputy city manager, neighborhood services. Mr. Corralis. Good afternoon, council. and the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of The articles that we've included in this issue are the noted town hall development on Abrams, Belair, which is offering affordable housing to our citizens. We also have inside the latest awardees for the neighborhood matching grant. In these grants, we have everything from landscaping to street signage, entry signs, and some lighting and trails. Also in the package, you'll notice that we provided some of the information that the Arlington Housing Authority offers. The programs that are offered to qualified residents on opportunities to be able to repair and modify their homes. These are excellent programs that every citizen can take advantage of, especially for those citizens that qualify under the program. And as usual in the back section, what we also provide to you is a quarterly updates from the activity that happens in police fire and code and force or code compliance. If there's anything I can answer, this concludes my presentation. Councillor, are there any questions? I had one, Mr. Pryles. I'm just interested in the neighborhood improvement program. If you have any further updates regarding that? The neighborhood enhancement program. Any other hands regarding that? The neighborhood enhancement program. Any hands of programs? Any hands of programs? Thank you, sir. I can ask Brian to come up. Brian, would you please, if you can provide an update? Mayor and council interim co-compliance minister, Brian Dockery. We just did a cleanup over here in District 1 and Council Member Peales. You were invited as well, but that would be the fourth neighborhood that we've gone through. We were gonna do a quarterly update, so you'll see that soon enough. Thank you very much, I appreciate it. It was a good activity, I appreciate it. Any other questions? Mr. Sutton? Yeah, Brian, how do you determine which neighborhoods that you target? It's a combination of criteria that we use from census data, from code violations, from police and fire. And then a lot of it is now developing through citizen request. A lot of the word through the great minds got out. And we get reached out to a lot of citizens where if we get two or three from a neighborhood we'll go benchmark and kind of see what we're dealing with. Right now it's mainly the last to have been those citizen requests. Thank you. Any other questions? Thank you Mr. Pryles. Thank you. Moving right along we're going to go into discussion of committee meetings and all 4.4 municipal policy UDC standards related to unit sizes and parking for independent senior living and other multi-family uses. I'll call upon myself as chair. That felt odd. Today we had council. We had a meeting today. One of our members was ill. We had two issues to discuss. One was parking requirements for independent senior living and two was minimum dwelling unit size for multi-family. I just remind council these are issues that have come up when we've been discussing our 9% tax credit as well as issues that have come up in various cases that we've looked at from coming up from PNZ to the council. On the first issue, our current parking requirement for independent senior living is one space per unit plus one space per 100 square foot of common indoor area. The committee asked staff to go back with a revised parking requirement of one per unit plus visitor parking for a specific number of spaces. Essentially, the thought here was that the one space per 100 square foot common indoor area was really to try to accommodate visitors who might come in. And so the committee really would like some more information from staff about how we might revise that provision to be more accounting of the potential for actual parkers as opposed to this, the square footage for common area. The second thing, the committee also, in discussing this, there was a question about the definition of independent senior living. Right now our definition states in the UDC that the age of 60 and above, but we have two existing facilities that have come in for a review that's a 55 and above. So the committee did ask staff to investigate further We have two existing facilities that have come in for review that say 55 and above. So the committee did ask staff to investigate further whether the age should be revised in our definition. And then the second issue we looked at was the current minimum unit size for efficiency, one bedroom, two bedroom apartments, and then also three and four bedroom. The committee had a discussion. There was some comparisons between various locales and what their requirements are. And after some discussion, the committee is moving in the direction of reducing the minimum efficiency unit size to 550 square feet. And that's really halfway between what our nearest competitors and what we originally had provided in that definition. And then the second thing is the committee wanted to add a minimum size requirement for three bedroom apartments to be a thousand square feet and that would be fitting with our most recent projects. So next meeting of our, the committee will also look at, there was one issue we weren't able to get to today today which is to look at We have a requirement that in close garage Requirement which says that there must be a minimum of 20% of the total required spaces must be in close garages So there's been some questions that have arisen on certain cases and we will take that issue up at our next committee meeting along with the recommendations that we ask staff for further information on. At this point, I'll be happy to answer any questions or if anybody from the committee would like, Ms. Papalisi committee would like to add to what I articulated today. Yes, Dr. Odom Wesley. I just have one question. So if we reduce the size requirements for the units, when does that go into effect? Would that impact the current projects that we're looking at now for the tax credits? No, ma'am. What is happening right now is the committee will look at this. Committee will come up with some recommendations. Then this actually is a UDC change, so this would need to go through planning and zoning. Planning and zoning would have to hear and agree or disagree, and then it would come back to council. So this would be a longer lengthier process than anything that we see in front of you right now. So the projects that we have now are being held to the higher standards. The projects that we have now are held to the current UDC standard. Unless we variance. Yes, ma'am. Okay. Any other questions? All right, hearing none, then I will go ahead and move on to 4.5 Community and Neighborhood Development, PY 2020 Action Plan for CDBG, ESG and Home Grants, Ms. Moise. We met this morning with all members present. The subject today was to finalize the roughly $5.3 million budget for the annual 2020 HUD allocations. These were released to us, the dollars that will have the shearers for released to us on February 14th and we had a 5% increase overall which helped us out a little bit. So we're working on a five year consolidated plan and this is the final year of the past five year consolidated plan. Essentially what we have three categories and the first one being the community development block grant category and that receives the largest percentage of funds at roughly 3.8 million of the 5.3 million. The second is the home funds which have to do with subsidies for home buyers, home repairs. And in that category we had a 1.2 million. And then emergency shelter grants or the ESG grants make up about 287,000 of the remainder. We did have one area where we had more grant applications than we had dollars available and so we spent a lot of time this morning reviewing about 800,000 grants for the remaining CDBG funds because we had to reduce them to about 511,000 so our decisions were based on we actually have a contract with United Way and they evaluate all of the grants. So using their scoring summary and based on the goals that the committee itself had set, we were able to satisfactorily reduce this to the 511,000 that we have remaining in the fund. And so now the staff can go about notifying a grants and we'll be able to fund those in the next year. It was a good meeting. It's really a pleasure to work on this committee and see the different ways we can help throughout the city. I appreciate the members and their input this morning and the staff and their input and United Way has done an excellent job of reviewing and analyzing these many grant applications for us and we so we appreciate United Way. Anyway this is the report for today. Thank you. Any questions or any comments from any members of the committee? Any questions? Ms. Moules, thank you and thank you very much to your committee as well. Moving to our next 4.6 economic development executive session offers in the centres of business prospects. There was no meeting today so we'll move right on to 4.7 environmental task force update. Fortunately, Ms. K. Part is unavailable at this moment, so we're going to move ahead in the agenda to discussion of miscellaneous items. 4.8 appointments to boards and commissions, Mr. Buskin. Thank you. Thank you, Deputy Mayor Pro Tem. We have 13 appointments to boards and commissions. Thank you, Mr. Veska, appreciate it. On 4.9, evening agenda items. Anything on evening agenda items, council? Dr. Nunoz, you look like you want to say something. I just need to make a motion tonight to take an item off the consent agenda. And it has to do with one of the 9% tax credit senior projects, specifically West Abrams. The reason I'm asking it to be taken off tonight is that there's citizens that live near that neighborhood that would like an opportunity to present their thoughts. And that's why I'm going to take it off. West Abrams, the palladium. Oh, it's one point, I'm sorry 8.18 B. And if I may, Council Member, even if you leave it on Consent Agenda, we will hear speakers before you vote on the Consent Agenda. So you could hear speakers then or you can remove it and hear speakers separate. Okay, that's great. Thank you. So any other evening agenda, Adams? Okay. Then we'll move to issues relative to city and textile projects. Anything for Mr. Brooks? Okay, you already have? Okay, I hate to miss that. I was looking to city manager to make sure it had gotten out. Well enough, Mr. Brooks, we're excited for you. You have worked hard for many years here to prepare yourself for this position. And then we are really excited to have you in it. And then also we're excited you're gonna cut a year out of the State Highway 360 out 30 project. No, I'm just kidding. Mr. Brooks, I don't want you quitting on us now. That isn't your job, it's a text.job on that. But in all seriousness, we're really excited about you coming in and thank you for what you've already done and what you're gonna do here for us. Thank you a lot. I really appreciate it. Thank you. Okay, next we'll move to going back in the agenda to the Environmental Committee and we'll call upon Ms. K. Part. They're on the Environmental Committee. Thank you, Mayor. Environmental Committee met yesterday, and we met today. And we're still a work in progress. But one of the things I wanted to let the Council know is that in our work yesterday, we were dealing with renewable energy and our contract with our provider and we had our consultant in that helped us select our contract with TXU as it is right now. And there are some opportunities, not sure if the council is ready to go forward with any of those. So we've asked at the next council meeting in my report out of the environmental task force, we're going to ask for that report to the entire council with regard to just the energy issues, particularly with regard to renewable energies. So we'll have something for the rest of the council to kind of be thinking about. not that any actions necessarily required, but any feedback you want to give us, particularly as we continue to do our work, I think it'd be an appropriate time. Great. Any questions from Ms. K. Pohrn? Okay, we're gonna move now back up to the top of the agenda for three one, but we need to take a 10 minute break, for the audience will be right back here, we need to take a short 10 minute break for the audience will be right back here. We need to take a short 10 minute break. Mr. Finley, your motor needs to be running. So you've been idling. Okay. I'm going to go to the bathroom. the Now I'd like to call our council back to session and we'll call upon Mr. McFinley, Director of Finance. Thank you mayor members City Council Mike Finley CFO. The item that I'll be discussing today is our fiscal year 2020 capital budget. We're proposing to put this on the March 17th agenda but this is your preview prior to that time. The capital program runs in a cycle as we're constantly investing in our infrastructure. For the purposes of this, it starts with that bond program development and bond election. It's generally a five-year plan. It's been as low as three, but generally a five-year plan. And then upon voter approval, voter authorization, we adopt capital budgets each year. And what those capital budget approval from city council dies is give our departments the ability to start on those projects along with the finance department selling city obligations, city bonds. At that point, the departments implement their projects and then as we work through each cycle, each election, it starts again. This is just a graphic representation of generally what our bonds go for are tax supported tax exempt bonds from streets Water and sewer which are revenue bonds parks or facilities both recreation and the city facilities So in terms of our financing principles it's similar to a household you have to keep investing in your property to maintain Its value and the same thing applies to the city Similar to a household, you have to keep investing in your property to maintain its value. And the same thing applies to the city. We do have conservative financial principles, and I want to talk about a couple of them. Our debt terms don't exceed the life of the items that we purchase with the debt. So we're not ever paying, like an NFL team has dead cap space. We don't have any debt that we're paying for something that is not on our roster. And then our bonds are issued with level principal. So what that means is a mortgage. Generally the payment stays, besides any changes in escrow, the mortgage payment stays the same. And you gradually pay more in principle and less than interest. But we have level principle, which means if we issue a 20-year bond for 20 years, we pay a million a year in principle. And what that does is it decreases your overall interest cost. Our general obligation bonds are approved through the election process. These sales occur on an annual basis. And one of the things I'll talk about just a minute is our rating agency process, but you can see from our bond ratings, from S&P and Fitch, we have the highest at AAA. And Moody's uses a slightly different system, but that AA1 is a AA-plus, so we're one notch below the highest. We also have conservative debt ratios, and so our total debt that's outstanding compared to the ad-vlorum tax base, the goal is to be under 2%. The total debt in general fund, the total debt divided by the general fund fund plus debt service is less than 20%. And then our total debt per capita is less than $1,245 per person. This is just a quick update on some of the projects that we have going on right now from the design of the Active adult center to Harris Cooper design, construction on Collins from 303 to Park Row, just just an overall view of all the activity that's going on all across the city. And this is this is the fiscal year 2019 bond program in action. action. In general, we still have about 272,000 of authorization outstanding. And this is the plan over the next six years, 272 million. Thanks, Tray. That was understated a bit. Over the next six years, this is our plan to implement. In terms of bond authorization, so we have three elections that are still outstanding. The 2014, the 2017 active adult center election, and then the 2018. And what we're trying to demonstrate on this chart is the 2014, besides 1 million that you can see in the unissued column, but with this proposed budget, we will exhaust all but 1 million of the 2014 election. And we'll actually start on the 2018 appropriate authorization to the tune of about $5 million. Some of the capital items that we'd like you to consider, a total of 161 million, about 40 million less than last year, 83 million intact supported, 20 and a half million for stormwater drainage and erosion, and about 57 million in our water utility. Again, this budget is slated for your consideration on March 17th. These are the detailed projects. The single largest one is Turner Warnell and about 12.4 million. Of the streets. We've also got a fire training remodel and Station 1 rebuild. We're going to fix out the radio lease, but I'll talk about that a little bit more. But this is the components of the 83 million. So these are the new items in the fiscal year 20 budget. You have seen most of them as part of the capital budgets in this particular slide. I'm sorry about in the operating budget. So we've got 1.4 million in fire equipment, 1 engine and 1 arph unit for the airport. We've got 800,000 for CAD servers for data storage. We've got 3.2 million in stormwater infrastructure. That second to last bullet is 4.9 million. And what that does is we're hoping to fix out the radio lease right now. It's on an annual basis, but issued debt and get financial terms and advantageous to the city on the radio lease. The last one is for an indoor sports center. Currently our youth team fields are getting full. There's a lot of activity going on. There's a need for additional expansion of that particular program. And this is for that. If the Council passes this capital budget as presented, just wanted to show you how we would project to be versus our debt limits, our debt per capita. We'd be about $15 under the limit. Under the debt process valuation, we'd be about 4% of a percent under. And our total debt service expense versus total expense would be about 4% under as well. For our proposed stormwater budget. We're projecting about 20.5 million. The single largest expenditure is for lower Johnson Creek Dredging. And the source of these funds is split evenly between payas you go and revenue bonds supported by the stormwater utility fund. This is a comparison between what was proposed in the out years as part of the 2019 capital budget and what's being proposed in the 2020 and again the primary driver of that difference is the dredging. For a proposed water budget is 56, sorry, 57.4 million dollars. The single largest component is water treatment at John Caballa. In comparing the fiscal year 19, again, these are the out years that we showed you as part of fiscal year 19 compared to what we're showing you for fiscal year 2020, what we're proposing for fiscal year 2020 is about $8 million difference. The difference there is driven by the JK John sorry John Kubola filter backwash system about $8 million as recommended by the TCEQ. In terms of sources and I'll discuss this in a little bit more detail. Basically we're using 33 million of existing water pays you go funds. We're contemplating a small $2.7 million debt issuance just based on the revenue bonds, and then a little over $21 million in Texas Water Development Board bonds. The reason that's an effective means of financing is because of the interest rate where the true interest costs versus our dollars is roughly will usually get around 3%, plus or minus a half a percent. There's more like a true interest cost of about 1%, so it's quite a bit lower. So last year, as part of the CIP issuance, we saved $18.5 million. In this year, we're projecting to save about $7.4 million over what the revenue bonds would have been. So the water department's done an outstanding job of finding and securing these sorts of dead instruments. On tonight's agenda, we have a notice of intent to issue COs of a maximum of $35.5 million. Those were for the items that I detailed on the new to fiscal year 20. March 17th, we would ask you to contemplate the fiscal year 2020 capital budget and the reimbursement resolution. What the reimbursement resolution allows us to do is to go ahead and start on projects before we've actually sold the bonds. And then it allows us to reimburse the expenses from wherever the cash was drawn from bond proceeds. April 28th is a parameters ordinance. We'll ask for approval of the parameters ordinance. What that does for us is it sets out interest rate terms, amounts, timing of our bond sales. So we can go to the market when it's most appropriate, when we consider the best timing. April, same time period, we'll be working with our rating agencies to affirm and hopefully upgrade our bond ratings. I'm not counting on it, but that's what that's always the goal. And then May and June, generally we sell our bonds at two different times, mostly because we don't want to compete against ourselves. We don't want our water bonds and our general obligation bonds and storm water bonds all in the market at the same time. And with that, I'll be glad to field any questions. Any questions from Mr. Finley, Ms. K. Part? So, so turn around a bit. On the subject road, see them to drop them. Try. So, I'm sorry. So, that's going to stop Sublet, right at droplet. But then we're going to work with the county and going on down Sublet to fix the bridge and all. So it doesn't, shouldn't reflect in here unless we're partnering with the county to fix that. But I don't know. Keith, do you know, I think we've got some. Yeah, Keith, we're gonna fit you in the hospital. Like we've got some county money that has been through a local agreement. There's about a $2 million agreement from the county. And I believe we have sold some previous dollars for this as well. That's correct the Keith Brooks Director of Public Works and Transportation. What you see there that's that's funding for right away. So we still have the actual construction money that we have and we actually already have design money. So through the Terran County program, basically we kind of front the money for design and for construction and then we get reimbursed as we go. So there will be a reimbursement on that project but we did put that as a regular capital project in the bond election. Well, maybe I'm not seeing it correctly, Keith, because the city limit to job, and job on is the city limit on sublet. That is the city limit. So if you're going to go on down sublet, going into Kenneth, well, is the city limit that maybe those road bongs to us past job on. So where the program was the new program is. Right, right. So where they they ended right there close to the job. And then they built like a transition piece. Right. We're going to pick up at job and then go to the city limits of Kennedy. Okay, but is the bridge in the city limits of Arlington or is in the city limits of Kennedy of Arlington? Is it okay? All right, so we still got the agreement with Chair at county to get the money for fix the bridge. Correct. Okay, great. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Other questions, comments? Yes, Dr. Nunez. Just for clarification at the bottom, dispatch services, CAD, data storage. Are we talking about hard drives? Servers, yes sir. Servers. And what, tell me what kind of data is being stored there? I'll turn it over to Chief Krausen. Dr. Nene, it's data for the CAD. Essentially it's all our storage for all the records we keep, millions of records. So it's's the technology has to be upgraded periodically and we're one year out of cycle already. So the has and this could be a discussion for a later time, but has the city ever considered using cloud storage? I think in this case, it's a factor that we're not prepared to do that this time. I think as we look at next-generation CAD potentials, that may be something the city can look at. But much of this data is secure data and has to be cared for in a very careful manner. I understand. I bring that topic up because my former medical group who had their own servers and their own equipment in a storage room finally decided that the expensive maintaining the hard drives and the data was more and to keep the units up to date. That cost was a heck of a lot more expensive than putting all of their patient, hip-hop, compliant data on the cloud. I'm bringing that up as something to think about going forward. Obviously we're not going to change the treatment stream, but cloud storage today can be extremely secure. It has to be for the government, and for insurance purposes, HIPAA is pretty dog-doll strict. And so I'm just bringing that up as an option. Mr. Yolton. Dr. Newy, as we do have hybrid with some we have ourselves and some we have in the cloud. It kind of depends on the application. We've chosen, at least on the public safety records to keep that secure. But Enrique Martinez, who I don't know if you've had a chance to hear from him before a chief technology effort, he might officer, he might want to speak a little bit to cloud versus network server in this kind of environment in the public safety area. Hi, good afternoon. Enrique Martinez, CTO. So currently, as Mr. Yelvich and Touchdown currently, we do have a hybrid configuration where we do have some of our systems out of the cloud. As some of the hardware reaches its end of life, we perform total cost analysis and really return on the investment in understanding the lifecycle of keeping it locally hosted or partnering up with Microsoft or others who offer the cloud solutions. Okay. That's good. Good to know. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Nenius. Real quickly. I think we're about four years away from looking at another cat solution. Dr. Myers. Thank you, Mayor. Actually, Chief, I did have a question for you. On the fire training remodel, can you elaborate a little bit more what that's going to be? Yes, we intend to spend about $500,000 to remodel or repair our drill tower, our drill a burn lab. The dragger system is depleted. Some of the structural elements of the building need to be cared for. So it's basically bringing back our burn lab and our drill tower back up to par. Well, that also included like scrubbing or things to get rid of the car syndicions from the burning that's been happening in the job. Well, no, actually it's the functionality of the items that we use to put firefighters through it that we scrub the firefighters. We keep them. Okay. Thank you Chief. I appreciate it. Thanks Mayor. Thank you. Any other questions? Okay. Thank you Mr. Finley. Appreciate your work and we'll look forward to the 17th. Next we move to tree preservation and mitigation standards and I'll call upon Mr. Richard Gertz and the Assistant Director of Planning and Development Services. Thank you Mayor and members of the Council. Richard Gertz and the Assistant Director of Planning and Development Services. Thank you, Mayor and members of the Council. Richard Gertz and Assistant Director of Planning and Development Services. I'm happy to talk with you today about our tree preservation and mitigation standards. Near the end of 2019, the Council ask us to come back to you with a comparison analysis of how our Arlington ordinance stacks up to a few of the other ordinances in our area. The purpose of today's presentation is for information to then elicit questions on your part and then of course give any appropriate direction you may care to give to staff. In that light, there's no recommendations here today. Again, it's all about the facts and the various ordinances that are compared and so forth. So with that, let me say that the ordinances that you're gonna look at here today, they're very nuanced and so this is a higher level kind of summary. Some of them are very complex and I can't possibly in the time allotted or even in a PowerPoint what it makes sense to try to talk about all the nuances of the various ordinances. And finally just to note that this is different than our landscaping ordinance. Now while there is some intersection between our landscaping requirements and tree preservation and mitigation, there's just a little bit, but they are two distinct parts of our UDC. I'm gonna talk about the four elements that are common to all of the ordinances that I examined, the four major sections, if you will. Applicability, exceptions, standards, and enforcement. At the bottom of this page you can see the other cities that I'm comparing to Fort Worth, Garland, Grand Prairie, Irving, Mansfield, and Plano. With regard to applicability, and indeed even the section on exceptions, there's very little difference between Arlington and the ordinances that have been compared to. Indeed, with the exception of Grand Prairie that applies tree preservation and mitigation only and only to the industrial context, all of the other cities, including Arlington, apply it across the board on residential to vacant and undeveloped tracks that are greater than one acre. On the non-residential side, it's all of the property that may be developed, including mixed-use, parking, and buffers. Now, as you can see from this quick take that you see here, the Fort Worth ordinance breaks it down a little differently. And the words that I've used here are precisely out of their ordinances. I didn't want to try to interpret what exactly they mean. I assume that the words that they use mean something where they don't spell it out as clearly as, for example, Irving that just says it's all property in the city. Does it apply to? With regard to exceptions, there is a blanket exception for residential development on occupied less than one acre properties. And just as a reminder of a couple sessions ago, the Texas legislature made that crystal clear. Arlington already had that requirement, but it was made crystal clear by the legislature, when they removed really the authority of cities to regulate tree cutting, trimming, and those kinds of actions with regard to homesteaded or occupied properties. For non-residential, there are of course exceptions across the board in all these cities for diseased, dead, prohibited species or within the rights of ways where there are franchise public utilities and clearing and grubbing has to be done. With regard to Fort Worth, there are some special exceptions that are made in certain design districts. These are the only provisions I found in the ordinances compared where a city called out a specific zoning district where the ordinance was not applicable. With regard to Irving, I think it was notable that the on the non-residential side tree preservation mitigation does not apply to multi-family and other non-residential under two acres. And finally, in Plano, I'll point out that at the very top of their ordinance, they make a rather large exception and that there's no need to account for trees that are removed within the footprint of any building that is planned as well as a designated construction area around that building. Now the remainder of the site for open space and so forth, there must be mitigation if there's tree removal. On the standards, there is quite a bit of deviation among the various cities. In Arlington, for residential, we require that 35% of the protected trees on the site must be preserved. In Arlington, we define a protected tree as anything over six inches. So again, we require trees larger than six inches, 35% of that to be preserved. For non-residential, it's a very simple formula that we use. It's a one-to-one situation. So for all of the trees that are removed in terms of caliper inch, you replace it with the same number of caliper inches. Now we do give extra points, if you will, towards that replacement or the preservation with bonus trees and significant stand. A word about that. Bonus trees here in Arlington consist of the recognized native hardwoods that are part of the cross timbers forest preserves. Just a little background there. The cross timbers area starts essentially in southeast Kansas, makes its way through central Oklahoma, then down into North Texas, Denton County, and then on through Tarant County. Now when it gets to Tarant, it kind of branches off into two branches. You have the Eastern cross timbers, or also referred to as the lower cross timbers. And Arlington is right in the heart of the eastern cross timbers area. Then you have the western or upper cross timbers that basically are about weather-ferd and go out to Stephenville. In the middle of that, essentially where Fort Worth is placed, it's actually the Grand Prairie. That's what it's called, because really the cross-timbered ecosystem consists not just of trees, but also native prairie area. So you have those two branches, and again, we're in the heart of that eastern branch. That is a significant difference, I think, compared to the other cities that are a part of this analysis here. Certainly those over in Dallas County are not a part of the cross timbers at all. Fort Worth has got just a little bit, but the others essentially do not. The bonus trees that we're referring to specifically are post-oaks, live-oaks, and Texas-oaks. With regard to residential preservation, we actually give extra points towards preserving the three trees that I just mentioned by counting it twice. So if there once you decide how much of the site is being preserved, you can actually count the post-oak live oaks and Texas oaks times two in terms of the caliper inches. Likewise, when it comes to the non-residential side, we do allow for a bonus, however, it's only at one and a half times, the caliper inches that are represented by those types of trees. A significant stand, finally, is three or more trees of at least six inches in size that are clustered together no more than 10 feet apart. And that is something that we see on the proposed site plans and we're able to determine that and determine whether or not that constitutes a significant stand. Fort Worth has a number of different preservation standards. You can see it there for a number of different contexts in the residential side compared to our 35%, it's 40% and Fort Worth. In a multi-family setting, it's 50% of the open space, non-residential at 50% of the caliper inches. Garland really breaks it down in a rather fine fashion, fine as in detailed fashion. For large canopy trees, anything under 18 caliper inches, it's a simple one-to-one ratio, again very similar to our non-residential one-to-one ratio. If it exceeds 18 caliber inches, then preservation requirement and or replacement requirement is at a two-to-one ratio. Small ornamental trees, as compared to canopy and shade trees are treated differently. You need grand prairie, that's industrial application only. In Irving, they have a couple other distinctions there for historic trees in Irving, at least those are trees that have actually been designated as historic by the city council. Specimen trees are somewhat the same as our bonus trees. And in Mansfield, it's a one-to-one ratio. And finally, in Plano, you can see how it breaks down as well. Finally, on the important aspect of enforcement, how do we go about measuring and then enforcing for preservation and or replacement? We require, here in Arlington, a tree preservation plan at the site plan's submittal stage, also at the preliminary plant stage. Keep in mind that one of the things that we now do with our final plants, we require site plans with those final plants. So we see all of that at the same time. We have a replacement fee in the event that the developer is unable to replace the full amount of required caliper inches at $100 per caliper inch paid into the tree replacement fund This was put into place in 1994 by resolution of the council In Fort Worth they have two types of permits. It's an urban forestry permit Which I can just say is a rather complicated matter. They also have tree removal permits But their replacement fee in Fort Worth is at $200 per caliper inch and just say is a rather complicated matter. They also have tree removal permits, but their replacement fee in Fort Worth is at $200 per caliper inch. In Garland, it's $150 per caliper inch. A couple of notable things that I saw in their ordinance with regard to enforcement as a requirement that developers submit phantom-lined plans at the time of a development submittal. Essentially what that is is you have your site plan, but then you lay over it an aerial of the site so you can see quickly the trees and tree clusters that are directly affected by the proposed development. It's a very easy way to see where stands are going to remain as well as work with the developer on moving things around if at all possible on the site to preserve as much of the existing trees that are in place. Garland also has civil penalties if there is a need to enforce the standards or the provisions of the ordinance, civil penalties of $250 per cattle per inch into the Reforestation Fund. Grant Prairie has no replacement fee. In Irving, it's $195. Mansfield 153, finally in Plano. It's $175. And this is a graphic of those replacement fees that I just mentioned to you. See Arlington at 100 and the other cities mentioned with the exception of Grand Prairie or noted here. And the mean of all these cities here is $162 per caliber inch. With that mayor, I'd be happy to answer any questions. of all these cities here is $162 per caliper ranch. With that mayor, I'd be happy to answer any questions. Ask for any questions or comments. Ms. Capehart. Thank you, Mayor. And I appreciate the presentation. It's clear to me that we're behind the curve on the replacement fee. But what I'm really most interested in personally is how do we work with developers to preserve as much of the cross-timbered forests as we can. So, you know, around this horseshoe, we always talk about a carrot and not a stick. So how do we get there is what I'm interested in? Because, you know, you look at all the other cities that we've compared the tree ordinance to, none of them are part of the cross-timber's force. We're the only one. So that's not a very good comparison, but I understand what you did. I'm not being negative about you. It's just, they don't have a cross-timber's force. And as I joked while ago, they don't call it Grand Prairie for no reason. Because it is a Grand Prairie. They don't have a lot of trees. And that's my hometown, so I can save it. So they don't have that dilemma like we have. And I become increasingly concerned that unless we find some way to be able to incentivize the developers and is it that if you preserve more of what is really natural to the city, meaning the post-docs in particular, then you get more credit for them than you do for something else. You get fine more if you take them down than you do for something else. I don't know but that's that's what I really desire in the updating of this ordinance is to find a way to preserve more and more of the cross-timbers forest. However we can get there. Understood. Thank you Mayor. there. Understood. Thank you, Mayor. Dr. Myers. Along those lines, thank you, Mayor. Along those lines, we had a discussion. We have a monthly working group that we have of architects and developers and others. This office came up and this was shared with, this presentation is actually shared with them. And there was an express desire on their part too, if the council was considering a change in this, they would love an opportunity for that information to come back and that they would like to lend their expertise to try to help out with it. And I know there's a couple of those folks. So I just wanted to make the council aware that there was very much an interest on the part of many who have expertise in this area to try to help us mitigate some of the things you're talking about. It's sure they're at the meeting and I was not. I thought most of that comment was really about the landscaping ordinance, not about the tree preservation. The particular example that was given was about the landscaping, but there was also a suggestion that they would like to also, if there was something about trees or any other kinds of things they would like to have an ability to lend their expertise with us. I'm certainly having an open discussion with them is fine, but you know my goal is here to try to preserve as much as across Timbersforces I can. That's my personal goal because we're the only city around us that haven't. And so to me, it's an asset and a jewel that we haven't done enough to preserve and educate about. And I know Dr. Gnacio had asked me about it earlier, because he's very much in tune with this, and is very much more knowledgeable about it than I am quite frankly. But, you know, that's where I'm trying to get to with this. Dr. Nenez. So, from my perspective, and I'll just make this statement, this is how I feel. I would love to preserve as much of the post-hugs as we possibly could. And it always bugs me when a developer comes in, especially if it's in my district. And I know that there's large post-hugs in that particular area. But I have to weigh that between, well, somebody owns that land. And somebody wants to, a developer wants to make as much profit as they can from that piece of property. And so it's, it's, how do I balance those things? And that's the really difficult part. I agree with you. The fee or the replacement fee or the end loop fee is way too low, especially for large publics. And that ought to be increased to the point where it's going to make a developer think, wow, I need to build around this versus just cutting it down. Because if the replacement fee isn't going to have any real effect, we're just wasting your time. But there's going to be a balance. So I also agree with you. We ought to have them in the room talking about it because it's a worthwhile endeavor to preserve it. It's also very difficult to grow these trees. Now, part of West Fort Worth, when you're driving into Fort Worth, and as you go out of Orlington and down the hills down at Long Hill and up before you go past what's that first overpass where no one high school is and all of that land just to the west of downtown Fort Worth that's all also post-doc and so they do have to deal with that over there but on central Fort Worth and on the western side of Fort Worth, that's a totally different area. So part of, would you go back to Fort Worth, they're in Lufys, right there. Wow, $200 per... California. California. If you've got a big tree, like I have in my backyard her... Calparenche. Calparenche. If you've got a big tree, like I have in my backyard that's at least four feet in width, I have a couple of hundred years old in my backyard. Wow, what that cost? If I had a fee of maybe $400 per capital inch on a tree that I want to preserve, that's a lot of money. And so I think we could come up with something that says if you've got some really old trees or a stand of post-doc trees that are valuable for the community, that we ought to consider a pretty high fee for cutting them down so that we can have that money go into planning more post-docs. And that's my- Dr. Myers. Mayor, thank you very much. Then if we're going to go down this trail, I'll go down there with you. I have a couple of questions then. The Phantom Line plans, I'm curious about more, how much costs would that add and what does that mean? And then second of all, are we in terms of, you said post-oaks, live-oaks and Texas-oaks? Are we also encouraging that in all of our, in the UDC, are we encouraging planting at each of those when we're, because I know I want to be careful not to do landscaping and tree ordinance, but I'm just asking asking are we incentivizing the planting of those? Yes, is the answer to that question. We do incentivize that again in terms of what their credits are, the points that are applied. So if they, you know, while we are concerned with removal of trees greater than six inches, we start really at greater than three inches when it start really at greater than three inches when it comes to counting a replacement tree. So if there are those species, the bonus trees, they're planted greater than three inches, they get the two times or one and a half times points for that. And the phantom line plants. We have asked some developers already, because this is something we actually started thinking about last year and several of them are already supplying that and they just simply add that as an additional exhibit to their submittal and we haven't heard any pushback whatsoever on that. Because Mayor, that seems like an interesting thing to potentially add into the process that would allow at least for more informed decision making about what trees are going to be affected. But I would also be interested in the cost that might add and what that would add to the process. Well, I think we can see now instead of rewriting the ordinance in here today, I think it needs a little more study. So I think we need to assign it to a council subcommittee and get to work on updating it here with it. And do I have a volunteer from a committee chair that thinks they would like to take that on? Do you want it in the environmental task force? Well, it could, you know, it's interesting. It could fit there, could fit in community development, or it even could fit in municipal policy. You know, we really have three places that it could fit there with it. So environmental task force, we can take it on. We may not get to the level of detail. We have firm recommendations, but we can do some of the legwork because I know her committee and her committee are pretty jammed right now. So we'll kind of do the preliminary work and environmental task force and then put it in our body of work back to you guys. It'll be good and then as we talked about as we go through that will allow us to get input from lots of different people. Auditing and conservation council on a way in are developers groups way in here and this is always a balancing thing but we do have some unique things happening here in our community. And then this doesn't include tree planting but you know that's another major topic that the city can't do all of that, but I just want to mention it, it's so important that we involve our citizen groups even more in them getting involved in planning trees. And it is amazing how great Arlington looks from the air because of the trees that we have and yet we need to plant more. So that's another topic that I didn't want to leave that out because I know people are wondering about that as we talk about trees here so we'll assign this to environmental task force at this point and to work with our planning department. Mr. Gertzent, excellent research. Thank you to you and your department there because a lot of good information right there and a good comparison. Appreciate it. Thank you. Good next we'll move to 2019 annual racial profiling report and I'll turn to Deputy Chief Jim Lowry, Arlington Police Department. Chief Lowry. Mayor and Council, thank you. Good afternoon. I'm Jim Lowry, the current Deputy Chief of Overtechnical Services. Today we'll be talking about racial profiling, our annual racial profiling report. I do an overview, we're going through several of these items. We'll talk about racial profiling and how it compares to criminal profiling. Talk about a national dialogue, how do we get to this point? Status Texas legislation on the history and how we got to the point where we're keeping data. Our policy in training, data collection, auditing, reporting, and then our overall victim crime victims and suspects, trend data. I think it's important that we understand the difference between racial profiling and criminal profiling. Without a doubt, racial profiling is illegal. It's based off of the fact that you believe somebody because of their gender, their religion, their race has committed a crime without having any problem caused to believe that occurred. Criminal profiling is based on evidence that we've obtained gathered from previous crimes, victims, witness statements. And we develop a motor character based off that from a character assessment. Again, there's racial profile in, which we merely pick somebody out, or somebody picks somebody out because of their race, which is illegal, then you have criminal profile and where race may be a part of that. Again, racial profile in this illegal, then you have criminal profiling where race may be a part of that. Again, racial profiling is illegal. Criminal profiling is a legal aspect of law enforcement as an effective tool. Talking a little bit about understanding racial profiling. In the 1990s, there was a national dialogue that was elevated on racial profiling. I believe many of us can remember the Rodney King incident of LAPD, which was probably a forefront on some of the issues that had occurred. And because of that, in 1994, the DOJ civil rights division began to investigate allegations of racial profiling in the police departments. They developed a DOJ COPS office which is the community-oriented policing services office to assist law enforcement and developing resource guides for police departments on assessor racial profiling data and offered comprehensive strategies to reduce racial profiling. I'd like to talk a little bit more about those recommendations. The DOJ COPS office strategies included the first one was diverse recruitment and selection. Since July of 2012, the Arlington Police Department has hired over 61% of our new hires police officers have come from a protected class based off of race and gender. I think that's an impressive statistic there. Training and education for the police and community, talk a little bit more about that in a future slide. Minority community engagement and initiatives, Arlington PD has been recognized on a national level for our May program, our Coach 5 program, been involved with our youth and our bridge programs. Accountability and supervision, talk'll talk about that in a slide. Future slide also about our audits and how we review our data and how we look at trends and analysis of that data and holding people accountable. Collecting and analyzing stop data, we'll talk about that. And using technology to reduce racial profiling and increased officer safety. You know, we had a committee desire to have body-worn cameras. All officers work in the street. Troll have body-worn cameras. All our vehicles also have digital video recorders. So a little bit of history about Texas and racial profiling. Arlington PD led the way. In 1998, we started collecting data as it pertains to racial profiling, Arlington PD led the way, in 1998, we started collecting data as it pertains to racial profiling. We did that in advance of the law becoming required in 2001 that required all Texas police departments to start collecting data and analyzing that and report motor vehicle related contact data. Again, that was modified in 2009 when another House Bill was enacted, emending definitions within the law. The most recent changes occurred in 2017 for a racial designation and then we had an additional Senate Bill 1849, which is commonly referred to as a Sandra Blan law, where it expanded data collection and requirements. What I want to highlight here is that APD reporting exceeds the state requirements not only in today's mandated state law but before it even occurred and our findings are externally reviewed by a third party outside third party expert. APD policy and training you know we're committed to constitutional policing. It starts in the very beginning with our training and protecting the civil rights of all people. We follow that up. In addition to the state law, the aspect of for the training and policy, we have policies that are prohibited from engaging in racial profiling in any police contact or seizure or forfeiture or property. Officers also receive additional training beyond what is required by the state. All officers receive four hours of state required training and a racial profile to include any legal updates for that year. In addition to this topic, which is not state required, officers receive eight hours of procedural justice, six hours of fair and impartial policing, 16 hours of civil rights training, and again, none of that is required by state law and exceeds the minimum standard. Officers are required to enter disposition codes for all traffic and subject stops which exceeds legal requirements. As required by law, when an officer makes the traffic stop, we also do this for subject stops, which is not required by law. the staff. We also do this for subject stops which is not required by law. They will tell you the race to gender, the reason for the stop, the final outcome, resident status, search was conducted whether they had considered probable cause, the outcome of the search. If there was any contraband use the use of force was used against the driver of the person that we stopped. Commodation and complaints. Anyone can file a complaint or give a combination for civilian or sworn employee that works for the Arlington Police Department. I'll share with you, share these with you on a break, but we have a brochure that we provide to any citizen that comes to the front desk of any police station that outlines the entire internal affairs process on how to file a accommodation or complaint against an employee. We share that freely with all citizens that come to the station and you can also find that online. We have a queue code that's on the back of this card and I'll talk about the queue code here just a minute also. All complaints are documented and managed by the Internal Affairs Unit. Accommodation or complaint can be received by phone and person, by email, by mail. We will accept a complaint at almost any medium that we get that complaint. In 2018, APD implemented a courtesy card program that is provided to citizens on all traffic stops that explains the combination and complaint process. I'm going to talk about that a little bit more in the next slide. APD identified as an international model agency for the Vera Institute of Justice. You know, Vera's policing program is dedicated to fundamentally shifting the culture of policing from one that incentivizes and defaults to enforcement to one that delivers and rewards public safety through community engagement and satisfaction. Sorry about that. As I was talking about our traffic card, card to see card. I will also share these on a break. We have a card that we require all officers to issue or provide to a subject that we have stopped on traffic. In addition to that, our Brasov's automatic ticket writing system also has this information. We take it a step further into ensure they have the card that's in English and Spanish. There's a queue code on there that takes them directly to the website for the police department where they can file a complaint or compliment right there on the internet for them. So this traffic stock courtesy card we have one four years worth of data from 2019. A couple things I'd like to highlight here is we made a little over 117,000 traffic stops last year. Of that, we received 735 responses from our comment cards. That's .06 when we look at it for our complaints of all our traffic stops we made. We had less than 0.06 complaints. When we look at accommodations of that 735, 415 of them were accommodations. We had another 246 in the general calls category. I would like to explain that just a little bit. A general call would be somebody who had the combination card and they call internal affairs and say, I'd like to know, how do I pay this ticket? How do I contact a court? So we refer them to the court given the court number. So that's a general call has nothing to do with a compliment or complaint. It's not related to the police department. We had 74 complaints, again, 0.06% of the cards that we received resulted in a complaint from the 117,000 traffic stops that we made. Two of those complaints alleged racial profiling. All our racial profiling complaints are investigated by internal affairs. Most of those were unfounded after reviewing the body-worn camera video. Then we had three complaints for minor policy infractions, and those three were sustained complaints. We talked about data collection and how to, you know, like right now, I'd like to talk about how do we audit to ensure that the integrity of the data is there? Racial Profile Report considers all of Arlington Police contacts and searches comparing police traffic stops for the Dallas Footworth Metroplex household to have a vehicle. That's a different, that was determined, I believe, in 2001 that that's the database that they want to use, where they take a household, the head of household is considered the person that is considered as owns a vehicle. So if you have a Hispanic male married to a white female, it's going to show that it's an Hispanic male that's driving that motor vehicle where you might lose that ability to have four people of different races in a different household that you can't track that information. That's the database that we use. You know, on a monthly basis, supervisors conduct random body warn reviews to ensure no racial profiling or policy. We have policy compliance. On a quarterly basis, APD conducts internal audits on our traffic stop data. Then we also have a third-party independent audit. It's conducted quarterly for data integrity and trend analysis. And all of our traffic stop data is assisted annually and reported publicly, publicly in our annual racial profiling report. Again, in summary, we do monthly random reports. We do quarterly internal external audits and our audits are conducted to ensure the integrity of our annual report data As we look at our 2019 racial profiling report as I mentioned earlier we made a little over 117,000 traffic stops traffic stops do not include subject stops these are traffic stops. Traffic stops do not include subject stops. These are traffic stops only. And when you look at this data, these two that I've put up here, it's without a doubt that African-Americans were the highest percentage of our traffic stops. That's really not the methodology that we're looking for when we start looking at ratio profiling. And I'd like to talk a little bit more about that. As I look into the second chart here, it talks about verbal warning. It's also the percentage of our verbal warnings that were given based across race. And those were consistent with our traffic stops. In addition to that, across the board, our enforcement for itch and desitation was 43 to 48% across the board for all races. And it's important also to highlight that 98% of our traffic stops officers did not know the race of the driver prior to the stop. Two points I want to highlight on that is that's information that's reported directly by the officer. And then secondly is that that data is within the state average is dead on with the average is here in front of the state of Texas for all law enforcement officers reporting the same data. So this slide here is very busy but but I also want to make sure they understand this is really the crux of racial profiling when you look at this. We talk about traffic stop search and contraband search and hit ratio. The bottom number of 5186 that represents probably 4% of the traffic stops that we made, that we actually conducted a search. The issue at hand that we want to look at is in the very last column where we move over to enforcement ratios. Where you're looking at the fact that not only did you have a search but whether or not you found contraband and then the enforcement on that. If you look at the column there, we are what this demonstrates is the fact that we're coming across the board at 41% of our hit ratios when we have a contraband hit. More importantly, what I'd like to point out is the national average for this is 25%. We're well above that average, and I think speaks for the integrity of the police department and the fact that we're searching on probable cause when we find contraband that allows us to make a rest or not. The next slide, we talk about the searches that had to contraband hits was 2143, and when we enforce that when we find a contraband, what I'd like to point out is that in the last column here, enforcement rates, again, were consistently applying an enforcement rate. Our lowest and our highest enforcement rates was 93 for the low and a 96 for a high. The enforcement rates were within 3.6% for all categories when contraband was discovered. I'd like to go over a couple trends that we're looking at and trying to analyze. My next two slides, the first one is gonna be our 2019 violent crime victims. We're breaking down our violent crime victims by not only race, but by gender. This graph will depict our male and female based off of race. The next slide talks about our violent crime suspects. Again, broken down by gender and race. So when we start looking at this, what can we depict from these two graphs? 71% of our victims and violent crimes reported were non-white. 79% of the suspects and violent crimes reported were non-white. The majority of victims of suspects, violent crimes, are minorities. I thought you would might find this interesting, these statistics interesting, but I wanted to let you know that we're in the process of analyzing this to ensure that we're protecting all members of our community and our enforcement rates and our enforcement efforts to reduce crime. Again, we must work together to reduce violence in our community. APD is committed to investing in the social justice and community program to increase positive citizen engagement. The concept of human rights and equality, distribution of wealth and opportunities and privileges should be afforded to all people. And APD strives to leave on a positive contact with all of our citizens that we come in contact with. Do you have any questions? Mr. Sutton. Thank you for that detail report. I really appreciate it. The question is, what percentage of our Alington populations are African-Americans? And if we look at that percentage, are we pulling, and I looked at the data you had up there? or African-Americans. And if we look at that percentage, are we pulling, and I looked at the data you had up there. So just answer the question of what percentage are African-Americans? Because I want to be able to understand fully the report itself. OK, so the numbers that I have, sir, are based off of a CBSA percentage. We're showing that 8.3%. this is based off a core-based statistical area for the Dallas-Fort Worth area. You actually want the Arlington Census Bureau. Yeah, I want to know the Arlington because we're doing... We're doing... I'm sorry, I stopped in Arlington, right? Yes, sir, I'm sorry. Okay. So in Arlington, I'm showing 9.8 percent of black males and 10.4% are black females. So 19.4% are African Americans, is that correct? Pretty much the most part. 20.2, yes, somewhere there. 9% and 10.4 females. Yes, sir. Okay, so I guess my concern is with the numbers of stops. So we're representing, what'd you say, 21%? 20%. OK, 20%. So what is the population of Caucasians? I'm just trying to figure out the percentage of the stops in why African-Americans are more apt to be stopped, more even though we represent less of the population of the city. Yes, sir. The answer to your first question. White males make up 20.7% of the numbers I have. White females are 21.4%. No, 1.4%. So they're looking at 22.1% of the population are Caucasian. We're looking at... So that's twice the numbers of African Americans, that correct? Yes sir. But yet we have a high rate of occurrence of stops. And so I'm just trying to rationalize, why is it that if we were making the stops based on some violation of the law, obviously, when we make the stop? Because I can share one of my experiences where I was actually stopped. And there was no violation of that stop. I was getting ready to drive off the officer hit his red lights and asked me for a drive slice. I looked at my driver's license and I drove off but there was no reason, there was no violation but I was stopped and I did have my courtesy light on so he could see my race. So I'm not saying that he profiled me, but I'm trying to understand that he stopped me, but I don't even know if that would be classified as a stop, and if data was entered on me for that particular stop. Well, I would tell you that if he uses emergency lights and stops you, he should have checked out and he should have cataloged that as a traffic stop or subject stop if you weren't driving. But he should have cataloged that here she. Well the situation was I was parked, had my flashes on, had to dome light on because there's reading some data and it was probably around 10, 30, maybe 11 o'clock at night. It was doing a campaign season two years ago where I was fixing up a four by four sign. And when I got back in the car I turned the domino to make sure I documented the sign that I repaired. He pulled behind me with no lights. As I get ready to drive off, the lights flash. I stop. He asked me for driver's license. And I asked him why he stopped me. He never answered why he stopped me. So my question is with this data here, even though we're at a two-to-one ratio of the Caucasian African American, but we're getting more hits on the stock itself. And in my case, my personal experience, there was no violation. He never said you didn't have your flash drawn. He never said any of that. He just asked for my drive to license. And he could clearly detect the light in my race. But I'm not saying that he stopped me because of race. I just want to know how that stop would have been categorized. And I don't know if it did or not. So Mr. Siden, I would tell you the same thing. I would tell any citizen, would that occur? It's probably best that you notify the police department immediately so we can start checking into that information and we can research you to find out if there was justification why the stop was made if it was handled properly and within policy. I'm really happy to talk to you offline and go back to see if we can figure that date out and see if I can retrieve that data and find out who actually stopped you and figure out what was happening if it was cleared properly. So is there a way to go back and look at the traffic stops and look at the number of African-Americans that were stopped, right, that data there. So there were 1,200, okay, there was 2,900 and 88 African-Americans stopped. And there are two to one ratio Okay, there was 2,988 African-Americans stopped. And there are two to one ratio with the Carcays and African-Americans. And if we look at the Carcays and there were 898 stops. Yes, sir. So, if the issue at hand again is, and what you see here and represented is not, and it's very confusing with the number of, I'm not arguing with you that there was a higher number of African-Americans stopped. We're trying to analyze that further and we continue to do that. But what has been held by the federal courts and the standard is actually coming back to the hit ratios, and if you want further explanation of that, I can bring Dr. Dale Carmen up to talk about that. Okay, Dr. Dale Carmen, right? Well, first off, hi, I'm Will Johnson, police chief. I want to make something really clear first. Those do not represent traffic stops, those represent searches that are present on this chart right here. And so if we want to talk about the total number of vehicle contacts made, African-Americans, we stopped 43,903, 43,903, which represented 37% of the total traffic stops made by Arlington Police Department. And I also want to potentially add some context. Certainly Chief Lowry said that we could research the contact that you had. We'd be happy to do that. And we'd do that for others when they have questions about when a contact was made. But just because an officer activates their overhead lights and makes contact with somebody that's in a vehicle does not mean that that is a traffic stop. It could be a subject stop, I mean a suspicious vehicle, it could be a variety of other things that that classification, and part of what the auditing process does every month is we review randomized sampling to make sure that when individuals are making contact, that the appropriate classification is filed with that contact. So if it was a traffic stop, was it cleared as a traffic stop? If I stopped you because you matched the vehicle description of a bank robbery that just took place, that is part of the bank robbery call and not part of a traffic stop contact. And so there's a very clear distinction between what is classified and not and that part of what the effort that goes into the data integrity issues. The last piece that I wanted to just try to respond to before I answer any question you have or turn over Dr. Del Carmen is there's a specific reason why we use regional information because a lot of individuals that we stop within the city do not live in Arlington. And so when it was referenced that we ask whether they were a resident or not, we're not talking about national residency standards. We're talking about do you live in Arlington, Texas or not? Because many of the individuals that come to Arlington are not necessarily Arlington residents. And so there is disputed findings within the academic community about what is the best measure. Some individuals advocate for the census data information. Some advocate for vehicles that are accessible in a household. When it was mentioned that we adopted the household as the measurement, it was at the urging of civil rights groups that were in Austin at the time that legislation was being formed. Neither one of those data sets is supremely perfect. Neither one, they both have their pros and their cons. It simply represents a data set. But I do think that it's important to make that determination that there are that there are people that we can contact with that that aren't part of Arlington residents. And so when we have a 98% rate of not knowing who the driver is. rate of not knowing who the driver is. It really moves from the Department of Justice best practices perspective to understand once that face-to-face contact happens, what is the outcome of that contact and what is the enforcement that is provided at that? And so that's why we're really looking at what are the disposition of the searches, what are the disposition of the searches, what are the disposition of the enforcement rate when contraband is located. And so as I said that 37% of the African Americans were stopped, the total stops that we had, 43% 43% of African Americans within those that were contacted received a citation. Of the white drivers, 45% received a citation. The Latinos, 48%. And so the enforcement outcome after the officer is standing next to the vehicle. And very clearly at that point in time, in most cases, understands the race and gender of the individual that is contacted. That's where we try to focus our measurement on, do we have any disparities about how we treat people once we're at the side of the road and we've made that contact at that point in time. And so that is not those hit rates are not part of state required reporting. Certainly, did we search, Did we have contraband located? Those were added most recently in the Sandra Bland Act. But the actual enforcement piece of that is a piece that Arlington adds above and beyond that. And I think that that is how we have continued to try to address to the best that we can. The points that are out there, because we do recognize that individuals that have contact and or conversations with people who have contact, it is always going to be reflected in an individual storytelling environment, or what we're looking at here is aggregate data over police contacts over 12 months. And sometimes the fidelity of that conversation gets lost when we look at the aggregate versus the individual questions that you still have to this day about what that contact represented some two years ago. So back to it, you say it wasn't a traffic stop. So when he hit his mind. I didn't say it wasn't a traffic stop. I said it was potential. It potentially is not classified as a traffic stop. So if he hit his lights and I proceed it to drive, would I be in the wrong proceeding? Because it wasn't a potential traffic stop, because his lights are clearly on as I'm getting ready to pull off. Two separate. Okay, so my question is, at some point I have to comply. At some point I have to comply. That's not true. I can't, I mean, I'm not gonna proceed when I see lights flashing behind me. Certainly. So he's basically telling me to stop. That's what he's basically telling me. He's right behind me, Chief Johnson. What does he say? He's basically telling me I need to stop. I mean, it's clear as day he's telling me I need to stop. He's not saying this is not a traffic stop. And if I had to continue, what are the consequences? And so I'm looking at data. And I know it's not a perfect system, I understand that. But it brings into my mind that we are two to one for you looking at African-Americans and Caucasian, but we're getting more percentage of the stops. So if we're doing a random sampling and we're basing the stops on some sort of violation, some sort of traffic violation, And we're basing the stops on some sort of violation, some sort of traffic violation. To me, it would seem doing a random sampling if you just, and you don't know the race, and you just happen to drive behind someone, you would have a higher percentage based on just the population just you would have a higher percentage of those stops with the Caucasian population, then you would have with an African-American population, because not knowing the race, we're basically random sampling and we all have, I mean at some point we violate law not intentionally, our turn signal light maybe out, we may be traveling a little bit faster than we want to. So I guess my question is, it appears to me that that may be problematic. And I'm not saying it you're racially profiling, but it gives the appearance of that. I'm asking questions that may help Marvin. I'm just reciting to understand a little bit. I'm curious, Chief. If I were to look at a map of Oranton, and you were to do what you guys call a heat map study. And if you were to take those 117,000 traffic stops, I wonder what that map would look like. The reason I ask that question is, if the department targets particular parts of the city because of higher incidence of speeding or robbery or whatever it is that may be going on in that particular section of Arlington. Is our patrols out there in certain higher risk neighborhoods where the minority population is going to be higher and would that explain that? But I don't know that you can answer that question without a map showing where did all these 117,000 traffic stops occur? Dr. Newton is I can't answer that. Okay. All traffic stops are not equal. They are not uniformly distributed across town. They are not uniformly distributed just on traffic violations. Traffic violations is a principal enforcement tool that law enforcement uses for a variety of issues, including how do we address burglaries in neighborhoods, how do we address armed robberies, how do we address increased crashes, how do we address neighborhood complaints for speeding in residential areas, and how do we address school safety for children to be pedestrians in a roadway. All of those are very, very different topical motivations for why traffic might take place, but yet they equally might visually manifest themselves to a passing by community as a traffic stop. And it is very difficult, per se, to understand whether or not we're working that because it was a school zone. We're working that on Interstate 20 because, frankly, we're tired of people getting shot on the freeway, right? Are we working it because we're addressing a 13% increase in violent crime? It's a very specific reason why we included violent crime in this year's presentation, because I've been dribbling out information to you for about the last nine months of an escalation of crime issues that we're trying to deal with. The number one antidote and a crime fighting strategy is more traffic. And how are we going to put more cops in an area like you're talking about that has a hot spot for that violent crime, which could produce disproportionate context. Mr. Sutton, if I just looked last year in 2019 in the neighborhood of Fort Edwards, we had one which for the rest of Marin Council, that is gonna be deep southeast Arlington that makes kind of the point at the very, very bottom hand right. We had one group of individuals that were living with an extended family who were involved in gang activities. We had four or five drive-by shootings that took place within two week period of time in that neighborhood. Two things happened. Actually, three things happened in response to those acts of violent crime. Number one, we contacted that family and started to apply pressure about how they needed to manage their kids. Number two, we started that family and started to apply pressure about how they needed to manage their kids. Number two, we started walking door to door in that neighborhood to let every other resident know we're on it and you're going to experience a higher degree of police presence and a higher degree of police enforcement in this area that is trying to address this back and forth gang shooting that was taking place. And then the third strategy is we flooded the neighborhood with cops and we started stopping everything that we could at that point in time. Now do every one of those stops represent a traffic citation? Clearly, you can see from the data coming from the court and the data that we presented here, not really. There's a lot of times that we talk to people on a traffic stop to do a quick assessment of what's happening, and then we move on, depending on what our strategy is. Now certainly, we have instances where individuals receive a citation. In fact, I had a parent of a teenage kid text me a photograph of a ticket that she received just today in the 2100 block of South Cooper Street. Certainly, he was lamenting about that parent to a parent, but I know what is unique about the 2100 block of South Cooper Street? My good friend and public work could tell you that we have had systemic fatality accidents at that curve on South Cooper Street. That's why our motor officers were there trying to slow people down and it was a 45 and a 30 mile an hour zone. Council directed us by reducing the speed limit on Cooper Street to try to have an impact on changing driving behavior on Cooper Street. All of those things come together whenever we start looking at aggregate data. And so I don't ever dismiss the fact that we need to scrutinize the data every possible way that we can, every possible way. I also firmly believe after 26 years, aggregate data is not going to fix a broken human relationship issue. If somebody is making the decision to treat somebody poorly based on race, I'm gonna find that another way, frankly. Now, you might be able to find systemic issues in the police department. This report clearly says we don't have systemic issues in the police department. But do we need to be village and every day to make sure that individual employees are acting with integrity? Absolutely. And that's where we have to be able to respond to complaints. And 117,000 contact cards went out. And we got 74 complaints back in. I think that is also a very valid number whenever we start evaluating what is the depth and breadth of problems that we have. G.E.V.A.N.E.L.S. Doctor. Okay, Mr. Sudden, follow up. And Dr. Nunez, I appreciate that, but I think Arlington is one of the most diverse cities in Tarrant County, with that diversity and the population. If we look at the demographics, the numbers doesn't shake out because we have one of the most diverse communities. So if it's a speeding issue, if it's diversity in the community, those numbers should play out in the stops. If that's the case. If it's crime in the community where we break ends, if we're just doing random stops because 90% don't know what the race are, those numbers should be reflected in that. And I'm not seeing it. And I appreciate what you do, Chief. Don't get me wrong. I just think that that number is problematic for me. I've been through a stop and I will comply. I mean whether you say it's not a traffic, it may not possibly a traffic stop. If they're flashing real lights at me, I tell my kids and my neighbors comply because I'm not gonna drive off. And I didn't think it was a fair stop, but that's needed here or there, but I just know it exists. It's not probably not intentional. Those numbers are not probably intentional, but they are real numbers and it doesn't reflect the numbers I'm looking for, the population percentage of African Americans, because if we're randomly stopping and 90% we don't know what race is, those numbers should come at least close to the percentages. That should reflect what we're reflecting in our population. I would maybe clarify one thing is when I say it's not a traffic stop, I'm not suggesting that you are not lawfully required to stop for that officer. What I'm saying is for the purpose of traffic stop for this report, it is working traffic and not associated with some other call. That's the only distinction for reporting purposes. And I'm not even saying that that applied in the situation that you brought forward. I'm just informing Council that it is feasible for us to stop somebody using activating our emergency equipment in which the individual is required to stop that would not be captured in this report. The most glaring example would be if you just robbed a bank, they broadcast the suspect description and an officer sees you leaving and stops you and it turns out not to be you. That is not classified as a traffic stop. That officer is going to make contact. He's going to determine that it's not the person that's involved in the call that we're working on, and they're going to release them, and it's not going to be captured as a traffic stop for the clearance code that's required by law, because we didn't stop them because of some moving violation. We stopped them because we thought that they were fleeing from a criminal office. Dr. Naniyes? I just had one. Would you define for the council? What do you mean by traffic stop? Define traffic stop? For the purposes of this report, a traffic stop is whenever we stop somebody for a perceived law violation. Including, what would that include? Perceived. Sure. including what would that include perceived? Sure. Good afternoon, everyone. So let me answer that, Dr. Nene. A motor vehicle stop according to Sandra Bland is any time a police officer makes a motor vehicle to a motor vehicle stop for an alleged violation of the lower ordinance or a ticket, a citation, a warning, or an arrest is made. Keep in mind that these are only self-initiated motor vehicle to motor vehicle stops. So the law is very narrow in its definition of what should be included in this report. So I'm just gonna give some examples. If I don't stop at a stop sign and I do a California roll and go straight through and there's a police officer that witnesses me during that, that would be a reason for a traffic stop. It's based on probable costs. OK. So the police officer, cease violation, the police officer is justified under the law to make a motor vehicle stop. Yes, sir. Or if I'm behind my, I'm in traffic, and I'm driving in and out recklessly in traffic, that would also be a reason to stop, even though I may not be speeding Offsir witnesses my driving as being potentially dangerous that would be a reason to stop. Yes, sir What running a red light obviously but not how about parking Violating a parking sign I pull in into no parking sign, an officer witnesses me doing that. Is that considered a traffic stop? So any time the individual is in a motor vehicle, and that motor vehicle is on, and the police officer proceeds to make that motor vehicle contact, then it would in fact be in this report. So they're divided by ticket, citation, warning and arrest. Right, so Sandra Blan gave us two specific definitions of a motor vehicle contact. And I want to make that clear because that definition has changed since 2001. When Senate Bill 1074 was originally passed and I'm going to give you a lot more information than what you need, but as Dr. Farrer-Miers will tell you, I'm a college professor, and this is what we do. But essentially, back in 2001, Senate Bill 1074, when it was passed, it actually only carved out a motor vehicle contact to be traffic-related, where a citation was issued, or the arrest was made. That was subsequently changed in 2009 when House Bill 3389 was passed. Then the actual bill read, Motor Vehicle Related, which basically took it out of a traffic and put it in a broader basis. Sandra Blan in 2017 gives us two definitions. The first one, which is the one that I said to you earlier, motor vehicle to motor vehicle, self-initiated, where the officer issues a ticket, comma, a citation, comma, by the way, they mean the same. We confirm with the legislators and they simply included both terms so that some cities that would actually call it a citation and others a ticket, it would actually be inclusive of both a warning or an arrest or in instances where the officer makes a motor vehicle to motor vehicle stop This and carefully for an alleged violation of the law or ordinance Okay, so in other words the officer does not need to issue a ticket or a citation But but if the officer believes that that person has committed a violation of the law or ordinance, the officer then would have to report this in this particular report. And I'm here to tell you, by the way, that when the bill was passed, I actually testified in the House here in Texas because I believe and I've always believed for 21 years doing this, particularly, by the way, as a first-generation immigrant and as a resident of the city of Arlington and as a former professor of a university very close to us here. I can tell you that one of the things that I was infatical about is to make sure that Arlington got it right. And early on when 2000, when that bill was passed, I worked with the Chiefs Command staff to ensure that it was in the protocols that they could not clear a call without that particular aspect being recorded. And we used that template for the other agencies throughout the state, which by the way I train all the Chiefs of Police on this law on an annual basis three times a year as Sam Houston State. We used his template in order to show them that this must be recorded, because it's really easy for police departments to forgo when they don't issue a ticket, a citation, or make an arrest. So as a college professor, I'll ask you this question. Why is it that the statistics fall out this way? Why is it that there's 37% African American compared to a 31% Caucasian, et cetera? Why does it, and I know this is 2019, if we were to look at 2018, 2017, do the percentages stay about the same? That's one question, and I don't know if you have that answer available or not. Of course they do. Okay, because you're a college professor. And I don't know if you have that answer available or not. Of course I do. Because you're a college professor. No, because I know the answer. So that's my first question. Are they somewhat, through the ratio, stay about the same? And what is your opinion about why African Americans have a higher percentage? Right. So they're both in the same response, right? This question that you asked, by the way, is a question that we've been contemplating for 21 years now. This is not a new question, right? Because everyone in the early aspects of racial profiling focused on who was stopped. The hardest thing about racial profiling for us to determine whether or not is taking place is not necessarily who gets stopped, although that's relevant. Is that person deserve to be stopped? That's the question. In other words, did that person under the law deserve to be stopped? How can we get into the officer's brain and understand what the intention of that was? So what we started doing is looking at the end result of the stop, not necessarily at the nature of the stop. Hypothetically, you have a racist police officer, not only here, but in any part of the United States, that particular officer can say, well, I stopped that person because I had probable cause. How do we know any different, right? But what we do is we actually trace that officer's stops into whether or not his search was made and whether or not the search had contraband. Because we know, and this is not only me, by the way, as an expert on this matter, as a full bright, I'm not just telling you that, but this is the opinion of the federal courts. This is the opinion throughout the entire United States that it is the end result of that stop. It is the end result of that search that matters. And that's why, by the way, the chiefs have been going over the year your contraband hit ratio, which to me shows the regardless of the population on who gets stopped and as a minority believe me, I don't want African Americans on Hispanics to be overpopulated among those that are stopped. But at the same token, I also want us minorities to be protected by law enforcement when crime is coming upon us. So I think it's particularly relevant to look at the data and see what the contraband heat ratio was. So if your contraband is higher on African-Americans, it correlates. He has a relationship with the percentage of African-Americans that are being stopped. That's where the meat and potatoes of this data argument is. Now, am I here to tell you that the police department is immune from racial profiling absolutely not? You're a physician, and you're a good one by the way you deliver our daughter. 19 years ago. Thank you. But I will tell you, Dr. Mews a good one by the way, you deliver our daughter. 19 years ago. Thank you. But I will tell you, Dr. Mews, that one of the things that you as a physician would never do is you would never tell someone that they're not going to have a problematic birth, right? Because it would be irresponsible for you to do that. On this exactly, it would be a lie. On the same token, I would never be able to tell this chief, or this counsel, one of you represent me, by the way, that in this city we'll never have an incident of racial profiting. But I'm here to tell you, because this matters. And it matters that you hear it from me, not only from them, that this command staff and this chief, they're doing everything that they can to negate the circumstances by which that can happen. And I'm telling you that because that's the truth. I could easily do this without a fee being paid because it is the truth. And the same note, if you look back, I've been before councils before where I've actually told them the opposite because there is a problem. And I know enough to know that in the 21 years on and off that I've worked for this city as a consultant There have been times when I've had very difficult conversations with previous chiefs and told them that they needed to get their act together And that the data needed to look a certain way. So I'm not shy from it But I'm here to tell you that at the very least this data does not concern me as it relates to the searches and the Contraband that has been found. Is there a need for a deeper dive? Absolutely, I'm always doing that. But I promise you this to all of you that if there is a concern, I will come out here, not only as an expert, but also as a resident of your city. Mr. Sutton. And I appreciate it. And I have a lot of respect for your experience and your knowledge about this subject. But could you tell me what was your relationship with the police department prior to becoming a consultant? I was a consultant always. So you were consulting with the police department from day one. I was an assistant professor at UT Arlington back in 1998 and the police department hired me as a consultant part-time to analyze their data. I know there's misinformation out there that I work for the police department full time. I assure you sir that never happened because U.T. Arlington would have never allowed it. So you do have a relationship with the police department? I have a consulting relationship with the city. The police department hired me to analyze their data. And by the way I do that for a lot of other agencies, over a hundred of them. And I have a lot of respect for your experience, but the independence is where I'm a little skeptical. The independence of it because if you had no prior consulting with the police department, we brought an independent body and it adds a little more credibility to the report. And I'm not questioning what you, and I'm not questioning your experience at all. I'm just saying the independence, you know. Sir, I'm sorry. I don't know how I came across to you this afternoon. We just met. But it's pretty clear to me that I'm pretty darn independent. And it's pretty clear to me that I'm pretty darn independent. And it's pretty clear to me that I say it like it is. Now, you may have your concerns, and that's fine. You're entitled to them. And as a city council member, I offer the same respect back to you. But if you do not believe that it is within me as a first generation immigrant from Nicaragua, Surviving a War, and Communism, to come here and tell this chief that something's wrong? Look and deeper into my background and see the previous City Council presentations that I presented in the past few weeks. A relationship with the city as a consultant does not negate me in my Objectivity for by the way you shouldn't hire any consultants for that matter, right? Because all consultants bring that level of quote-unquote You know compromise then if we are to use your rule. consultants bring that level of quote unquote, you know, compromise then if we are to use your rule. Well, no, not that. I mean, I trust our department heads, but we have audit to trust but verify. And all I'm saying is the independence, not that you, that not that you don't know your field and your expertise, but the independence that comes in from an outside party that's never worked with, or consulted with APD, the validity they bring to it outside, did not have in a relationship. That would be my concern. And I have a lot of respect for you. And I appreciate what you do, and I appreciate your work on this report. Mr. K. Park. Mr. K. Park, are you chief, do you have, I was just going to simply say it is not completely without the realm of possibilities for us to constantly seek additional third party review, you know, through our business processes and I hear you're concerned with that and we'll take that feedback. Ms. K. Mark. Thank you, Mayor. And I appreciate all the reporting and the work. And I personally have no problem, I think, to the point that all consultants are going to have to form some kind of relationship. All auditors are going to have to find some kind of relationship with the departments they're auditing, or that they're consulting with. So there's not a consultant out there that you're going to hire that doesn't know the job to do what you're asking him to do. So I think you're finally independent and I don't have any problem with that whatsoever. And I have complete confidence in this report. Why? We can question why all day long, but I really, really appreciate it's the end result. It's what you find. If it substantiates the reason for a stop. If you're striped or solid, I don't care. All I care about is, is there a reason that the person was stopped and is it proved up by what you find or what you sell or what you observe? So I'm very, very confident in these numbers. And as there always room for more discussion, absolutely, is the room for improvement? We're a continuous process improvement city and we always have it. So thank you, chief. And thank you, sir. Dr. Myers and Dr. Odom. Thank you. I just want to bring us back just a little bit to a data question. It seems like if I hear Mr. Souten correctly that we're looking, he wants to say, we have this ratio of different types of populations in Arlington. Therefore we should have this type of ratio of stops in Arlington. Is that kind of fair? Random. Random, okay. But what I heard from you, chief, is that we're not stopping, our stops are not exclusive to our population in Arlington, it's exclusive to people who may be going through Arlington. Is that correct? So therefore, the percentages in other words are not captured by the census. So using the census numbers alone would not necessarily tell us that we should predict a certain kind of outcome of stops. Because that is our pool or our population of which we possibly could stop is much larger in comes from a regional distribution instead of a citywide distribution. Is that correct? Yes, ma'am. So it's fair to say that a one-to-one correlation between our population and the stoppage is not necessarily the case. That would be a different type of measurement than what I'm hearing you say you utilize in the report. Is that correct? Yes. So then just for clarity sake, could we restate it just how that we derive that correct? Yes. So then just for clarity sake, could it re-stated just how that we derive that number? It's not a one to one then. It's all the population of everyone who is traveling in Arlington and these stops that are take place within Arlington within a year. Is that correct? It's correct. And it's what I referenced earlier whenever we use the census data as it relates to vehicle availability per household. And it's a less than perfect data set, right? But it is more, it was argued by those civil right groups and the implementation of the law that that was a better data set than just a census data set. And one of the things with data is consistency of evaluation. So we adopted that early in our implementation of racial profiling reporting in Arlington. And we've stuck with that measurement in perfections and all because we believe it's a better reflection of just the data that's available. Well, thank you, Chief. I was just trying to drill down because I think I'm trying to understand Mr. Sutton where you're coming from and I do hear what you're saying. And I just wanted to make sure that I was hearing from you that our population that we're drawing our stops from is much larger than and may be inclusive of other cities beyond the population that's captured in a census track here in Arlington. That's correct. Thank you, sir. Dr. Arden Wesley. Thank you. And thank you for this data. And thank you, Dr. Corman as well. I do appreciate all of this detail in the stops. And I do understand what my council member Sutton is saying. There is a perception that the data disproportionately represents stops among African Americans and that comes from the population data. If we only have 30% African Americans in this city then how do they constitute a larger percent, a disproportionate number of stops? That's, and I see that, and I don't know what the answer is, but I know the perception is out there. And I'm not sure what we can do to try to mitigate that. But a couple of questions. So once you stop for a traffic related or whatever, what prompts a search? Certainly. So a search can happen a couple of different ways. Number one, the officer can have probable cause that there's contraband within the vehicle. Based on that contraband, maybe they see something that is packaged consistent with with illegal drugs. Maybe they see something that is packaged consistent with illegal drugs. Maybe they smell, smell that is consistent with illegal drugs. Maybe they see, contraband doesn't necessarily have to just be drugs. Contraband is defined as anything that is illegal to possess. So they could be alcohol for an underage person. It could be cigarettes for an underage person. It could be a variety thing that is illegal to possess. So one is probable cause. One is by consent. They can ask if an officer goes back and they run somebody's driving history and maybe they run them through our internal databases. And they can see that they've been arrested five times for possession of a controlled substance. Even if they didn't see anything, they might very well go back up and say, can I search a vehicle? And at that point in time, consent, consensual searches in Arlington are all written and they're all signed for by the person that is consenting to allow their vehicle to be searched. And so that might be a way that it vehicles search. The last is search instant to arrest. So I might arrest you on some unrelated charge. Maybe I arrest you for a warrant violation, or maybe I arrest you for a criminal violation that took place. It's possible, although pretty infrequent, that I can actually arrest you for a traffic offense also. And we might search that vehicle incident to taking that person into custody, looking for contraband. Those three ways are principally the way that a vehicle can be searched. So it looks like in Arlington, our officers do a very good job of identifying when a search is indicated and that those searches in 97% actually yield contraband. So 4% of the total stops, about 4% 4.5% of the total stops result in a search. So searches don't happen a lot at all, right? It is a very small number that searches actually take place. 5186 total searches took place. Okay. And do we have that? I know this is racial profiling report. Do we have data on age, age of the drivers? Is there some correlation between stops, searches, driver age? No, man, we don't have that data. We don't have that data. OK. And we don't have the data on residents as Dr. Farmer's was asking, they're not all Arlington residents thattime residents, they get stopped, they get searched, get ticketed, and we don't have that data, which ones are residents. We do have the data, the total number of individuals that are stopped, that are non-residents. Okay, but we don't see that in this report. It is in the full report at your place. Okay, okay. Thank you very much. Just one last comment, Chief. Again, I appreciate the report and doctor, Carmen, thank you to your point, Councilmember. The population of Mansfield, the population of Dallas, the population of Fort Worth, the population of Bedford, Hurts, Ulyssss, anybody that's driving through interstate 20 and you're making a stop, it's gonna be predominantly Caucasian. That's just there, even if you look at the state population. So even though you have transit coming through and you're doing a stop, it's still doesn't, if we're doing a random 98% unknown, it just doesn't add up to me, even with the population around us. Yes, Dr. Murray. Mr. Sutton, I am not without sympathy to what you're talking about. And what I was trying to do with my question about data is to get at the not one-to-one correlation. Because I know there's a perception out there because we see the data in front of us. And that's why I was trying to dive deeper into the data set to understand that the population, and I think if we can help some of our citizens understand the population of which can be stopped, is outcomes from outside as well. So I think that would help us in discussing this with our constituents. That's why I was driving deeper. It was not because I did not have sympathy for what you're saying. I know that it's a perception and I very much want to die deeper as you do to understand why we have this and how do we best explain this. And I appreciate Chief, you helping me understand that and better explain that to our population. Thank you. I think Ms. Moeys. Um, and I don't know if the state is available, but it occurs to me that what we may need to do for the current year are at some point is break down the data on Arlington into age groups. Like in the Caucasian population, what percent is 20 to 35? What percent's 30 to 55? You do not collect age demographics. You don't. Because I do think that going to some of what Barbara was saying, we do have an older population in Arlington. That's a very established population. And once you get to that older population like myself, I'm not out on the streets that much and I'm never out at night unless I'm going to a city event. So I don't know how you categorize this in such a way that you treat every potential stop equally when your age groups and your statistical norms differ because our income is a changing population. We have far more Hispanic children in our school system coming up to the teenage years, same with African American. We have a younger population, and those are the ones that get stopped. And so I'm just saying we may need to try to drill down into this somewhat by age groups. In the other question, Dr. Neneus. Is this down to be analyzed by some kind of, no, that one, 170,000 traffic stops. Do you have this code? I do want to point out on just data collection, right? At the end of the day, we're talking about police officers trying to do a job that is not about the collecting the data. We have been innovators in collecting data for over 20 years to be able to be in a position to have the most informed data that we possibly can, but they're still trying to do police work out in the field. And they're trying to collect it in a way that they can do their job and then move on to the next job that they're required to do. And they would tell me, if I was in front of a briefing full of officers, chief, you require way too much out of us anyway, in terms of collecting fields of data, to be able to get our job done. And so I stand by the data collection that we have. It exceeds state standards. It gives us a really good platform to have a robust discussion. And my plea to you, because I need you on this point, this very specific point, if we are trying to eradicate racist behavior in this community, it is never going to come out of this report. It is going to come out of vigorously investigating the individual contacts where somebody believes that they were wronged. And you know that we issue these cards to every person that we contact. If we stop somebody and we didn't issue a card, it's a problem. I need to know about it. If somebody feels like they were wronged on a traffic stop, encourage them to contact us. We will investigate it. You've made significant investment in public resources in body cameras and technology solutions for us to be able to case manage our ability to investigate if some officer misconduct has occurred. Let's put those systems to use. What our experience is is overwhelmingly, they get more complaints. I mean, a commendations than complaints. But if somebody is talking to you in the community and feel that they've been wronged, we want to look at that and know that not only is the card a pathway to that conversation, but so are the manuals that we have available at every station. We'll give you all a copy. And all of this is on our website and a supervisor or officer is willing to respond anywhere to take a complaint from somebody that believes that they've received less than expected police service. All right. Thank you, Chief. Appreciate that report. There and we'll next move to we have one last item that's future agenda items. Somebody have anything for future agenda. Mr. Sutton. Mayor, I've had several complaints about fixing cars in neighborhoods and stuff. I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to go ahead and I Sure. I want to ask that. Yes. Go right ahead. Now. Okay. For the citizens who are listening in and citizens in our audience, just wanted to remind you this Thursday, February 27th, 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. I along with Councilmember Dr. Nunez will be hosting a telly town hall and we welcome you to join the call. You have an opportunity to interact with the two of us as well as the experts from our city staff and discuss what's on your mind. So this Thursday District 5 is targeted from 6 to 7. That's February 27. We look forward to meeting you on the phone. Thank you. Great. Thank you. Great. Thank you. Okay. Seeing no other business, we'll stand adjourned. Thank you.