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Now that's called a meeting of the Arlington City Council to order. Thank you for coming tonight and we're going to start out with Pastor Jay McFadden from the Connect Church. It will give our invocation and lead us in the pledge of allegiance. Pastor McFadden, thank you for being here tonight. Thank you for the privilege. Hey, before we do both of these, let me just say a word to you, Mayor Williams, and Distinguished Council. I wanna say thank you, on behalf of the citizens of Arlington for your service. I'm a 20 year vet, and I get it, told to me all the time, thank you for your service, and oftentimes I don't know how to respond to that. Come up with a new phrase, you're worth it. So on behalf of the citizens, thank you for making us worth it in doing all that you do. And so you want me to pray first or the pledge allegiance first. First, pray first. All right, let's do that. Thank you, Pastor. Father, it's in Jesus' name that we gather here. Lord, we ask that you reveal your presence here. God, we look back on a year that has been incredible. And Father, I thank you for the service of this city council. The time spent away from their families. I ask you bless their families and recoup that time tenfold. Father, I just pray as we look forward to the future that you would open doors, and they would be unmistakable, and you would give us this council and us a citizens to walk through those doors, to make our city a place that people would want to reside and invest their lives and leave legacies to those that come behind us. I pray you would bless each and every one of these leaders beyond what they're even capable of maybe understanding. And God, I pray you would bless them till their tempted DL stop. I pray the agenda will go smoothly tonight and that wise decisions will be made and those decisions would not only honor you but bless your people of Arlington. And we pray all these things in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. in the United States of America, to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice are all. The place is flag. I pledge allegiance to the Texas, one state under, one, and indivisible. Well, this is always a fun part of the meeting in which we get to hear about neat things or outstanding tasks and so forth that our citizens are doing or perhaps organizations are. And I'm going to call upon Miss Sherry K. PART to take care of our first proclamation. Thank you Mayor and I'd like Rebecca Lex to come forward. Rebecca. So Rebecca is with the American Cancer Society and tonight we're going to read a proclamation with regard to pancreatic cancer. This hit home personally for me. My husband died February 5th of 2018 from pancreatic cancer. He was diagnosed in June of 2017. And looking back, there were little signs that we missed. We attributed it to his age. We attributed it to his inactivity at times. And we didn't realize it's a time that all those things led up to signs of pancreatic cancer. So with that, the proclamation reads, whereas pancreatic cancer is the third leading cause of cancer related deaths and is expected to rise to the second leading cause of cancer related death in the United States around 2020. And whereas this year approximately 56,000 Americans will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, 150 people each day in the United States. Whereas pancreatic cancer is the ninth most commonly diagnosed cancer in women and the tenth most common in men in the United States. And whereas risk factors include family history, age, chronic or hereditary pancreatitis, smoking, obesity, and longstanding diabetes of which Bruce had none. And whereas education regarding pancreatic cancer and genetic testing for those at high risk are critical to saving lives, preserving, and protecting our families. And whereas the citizens of Arlington are encouraged to increase their personal awareness of pancreatic cancer in order to bring attention and progress to fight and survive this disease. Now therefore, Jeff Williams may or the city of Arlington, Texas and on behalf of Arlington City Council, do hereby proclaim November 2019 as pancreatic cancer awareness month. Rebecca. Thank you guys so much for letting all of for me be here. The American Cancer Society is doing so much in our research. We are actually as of this month we have 49 Nobel Prize winners. So while there's not a cure to cancer, we have some amazing research that is out there and it is our funds and our volunteerism is really for a lack of out of words, kick in cancer's butt. A lot of our funds do go towards our research. It goes towards free lodging. It goes towards transportation services. And as many of you guys know, cancer affects so many people. One in three people will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. One out of five people will serve as a caregiver to somebody with cancer. So please do go to those physicals. Get that early detection, taking care of, get those mammograms, get those lovely colonoscopies. Because sometimes that early detection can really save lives. So thank you guys for letting me be here. Thank you for telling your story and letting me be here. I'm just so honored in the American Cancer Society as a whole is very honored to be here. Thank you. Now I'd like to call Dr. Linda Amerson, CEO of LA's Hair and Scout Clinic. It looks like you get some special people with you. Do you want to join her? Come on up. You'll come on up. We'll get some pictures for you. They'll take them for you. Michael, you'll be sure and take them, won't you? Well, I have a official proclamation to read. And thank you, Dr. Amerson. Whereas Dr. Linda Amerson graduated with a doctorate in tricology from the accredited International Institute of Tricology, Madison, Alabama, and is the first board-sodified tricologist in the Western United States. And whereas Dr. Anderson is dedicated to the education of tricology issues by serving as dean of education of the Texas State Institute of Cosricology Issues by serving as Dean of Education of the Texas State Institute of Cosmetology and teaches throughout the USA internationally and opened the first Tricology Training Center in the United States in 1999. And whereas Dr. Amerson is a multi-award winner and host of Dr. Amerson's cruise with a purpose and annual essay scholarship contest for children ages 15 to 19 and is a contributing writer for 65 National Magazine publications with a readership of over 350 million people and was the September cover girl on two national magazines which include Splash and Amuse. And whereas Dr. Amerson continues to spread education and awareness about Alpatepicia, and did I pronounce it right? Ella Pisha. Ella Pisha, there we go. Got it. Thank you, Dr. Amerson. Thank you for your help. And a scout disorder, maladies, and isn't internationally a claim specialist in the field of tricology. Now therefore, I, Jeff Williams, Mayor of the City of Arlington, Texas, and on behalf of the Arlington City Council, do hereby proclaim September 25th, 2019 as Dr. Linda Amerson Day. Dr. Amerson, come over here and say a few words. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. This is truly an honor. Hard work definitely pays off. And I would also like to thank Dr. Ralph Steele for submitting my name for this honor. I've been working really hard in the community and I actually love what I do assisting men, women and children with alopecia and scoptic sort of conditions. So if you are having any problems, we would love to assist you. Alopecia actually affects over 100 million Americans and that does not include the international market. So we love to do what we do to assist the community. Thank you so much. I'm going to do one. Now we'll move on with the business of the council. First item is appointments to boards and commissions and I'll call upon Mr. Alex Busskin, the city secretary. Thank you Mayor. We have one appointment to boards and commissions to the team court advisory board, Victoria Shekaneca, place 11. Okay. I'll ask for a motion. We have a motion for approval, from Councilmember Farah Myers, and a second from Councilmember Sutton, please cast your votes. Mayor, I can't get my screen to pull up. Okay, motion passes unanimously. Next we'll move to speaker guidelines in general decorum. I'll call upon Mr. Alex Buskin. Thank you, Mayor. We ask that the citizens and other visitors and attendants assist in preserving the order and decorum of this meeting. Any person making personal profane, slanderous or threatening remarks, or who becomes disruptive while addressing the mayor and the city council or while attending the city council meeting may be removed from the council chambers. For speakers tonight, when your name is called, please come to the microphone at the podium and state your name and address for the record. During public hearings for zoning cases, the applicant will be asked to speak first and will be given five minutes to make a presentation. Speakers in supporter opposition of the item will be given three minutes each to make their statements. The applicant will then be given three minutes for any rebuttal. For all other items on the agenda and during citizen participation, speakers will be given three minutes to speak. If multiple speakers plan to provide the same or similar public testimony, those speakers may, if they so desire, designate one or more individuals to provide public testimony on behalf of the group. A bell will signal the end of each speaker's time. In consideration of other speakers, please conclude your comments promptly when you hear the bell. We ask that you address your comments to the mayor and council. Next we'll move to consideration of items from executive session, Mr. Buskin. Thank you, mayor. We have four items to approval from executive session. One, a resolution authorizing the city manager, his designated execute a lease agreement for office space located near the intersection of interstate highway 20 in South Center Street, city of Arlington, Tarrant County, Texas. Two, a resolution determining the necessity of acquiring a 209 square foot street right of way easement, in, under, over, through, across and along a portion of attractive land, otherwise known as 805 South Center Street. Arlington, Texas for the public use of constructing, reconstructing, maintaining, and using street improvements in all necessary appearances for the sidewalk program, 2014 bond election project. Three, a resolution to approve a settlement of a condemnation suit styled city of Arlington V3004, hop LTD, cause number 2017-001555-2 to acquire a street right of way easement of 2879 square feet for the Abram Street Cooper to Collins project. For a resolution authorizing a settlement for the acquisition of a sanitary sewer easement in over under through across and along 5866 square feet of land. Otherwise known as 2200 Northwest Greenox Boulevard, Arlington, Texas for public use to construct, reconstruct, repair, maintain, make connections to, and use a sanitary sewer for the Lake Hill Court sanitary sewer main relocation project. Councillor Cullipal, Mr. Terrace, Solace, our city attorney. Mayor and Council, Mr. Breskin is read four of the five items that are listed under your executive session agenda items. The fifth item is a tabled item. If you wanted to vote on that item at this time, you could pull it off the table. But as you will see, item 6.5 was authorizing a condemnation and last meeting the staff asked you to hold that item because 6.4, which is now coming forward, is a settlement of the same item So if you approve that settlement you don't need 6.5 So we'll entertain a motion for that and I'll call upon Miss Moise All items in the from the executive section items from the executive section with the exception of the table items 6.5 which I'm asking that we remove from consideration. Is that a correct way to say that? Do we need to remove from the table? Do we need to remove it from the table first? Yeah, technically remove it from the table and then ask to be removed from the table. So we're going to remove it from the table. Remove 6.5 from the table and then and now we're going to remove it from consideration. Yeah, and the agenda and the agenda. Okay, we have a second. So please cast your votes. So that motion passes so 6.5 has been removed from the table and removed from the agenda. Now I'd like to entertain a motion then for approval of the remaining items on the executive session. We have that from Councilmember Shepherd, a motion. We have a second from Councilmember Nunez, police capture votes. So motion passes for the remaining items on the executive portion. Next one move to consideration of minutes, Mr. Buskin. Thank you, Mayor. Minutes for approval this evening are the afternoon and evening meetings from December 3rd, 2019, and the regular meeting on December 10th, 2019. Does council have any additions or corrections? Okay, seeing that, Mr. Buskin, are there any speakers on these items? No, sir. Okay, then I'll call for a motion. I have a motion for approval from Councilmember K. Partt and a second from Councilmember for our Myers Police Caster votes. Motion passes. Next, we move to consideration of consent agenda. Mr. Baskin. Thank you, Mayor. The consent agenda this evening contains 24-minute, three ordinances, and eight resolutions. The minute orders seek to authorize one renewal and modification of annual requirements contract for motor maintenance, two through seven renewal of annual requirements contracts for fire hydrants, for flocculent polymer, for grounds maintenance and beautification of medians and rights of way in city owned buildings, for fire station uniforms, alert logic services, and emergency hazardous cleanup. Eight and nine renewal of professional services contracts for accounts payable services and for legal services. Ten five year agreement for the sole source purchase of tasers, cartridges, accessories, and services. 11 and 12 purchase of three wheeled electric vehicles for the Arlington Police Department and a brief cam video analytics hardware and software for the Arlington Police Department. 13 purchase of two 2020 Chevrolet suburban for the Arlington Fire Department. 14 sole source annual contract for software, support and maintenance for eBuilder software, contract for audio books, purchase for inquesta, link, mobile service order software software and purchase of flights of Mercible Pumps for Water Utilities Department. 18, execute a five-year contract for a remittance processing hardware and software solution for the Water Utilities Department. 19, modification number one to the five-year contract for a sewer line warranty program. 20 through 22 construction contract for Circle Drive and Exchange Drive, Sanitary Sewer Renew renewal for corridor improvements project and for Washington drive erosion improvements 23 modification of professional services agreement for benefit consulting services 24 lease agreement with DCS aviation to LLC the ordinances seek to authorize 25 a and b municipal court and traffic and motor vehicles ordinance amendments 26 texts increment reinvestment zone number five term extension the resolution seek to authorize 27 A and B authorization to retain the law firms of Brown and Hoffmeister LLP and Binausky and Levine PC 28 authorization to use construction manager at risk procurement method for rebuild the fire station number one 29 and 30 grants from association of food and drug officials food and drug administration to the health services division 31 and 32 fiscal year 2021 text dot comprehensive step grant and step commercial motor vehicle grant and 33 American medical response ambulance service ink corporate contract for In 33, American Medical Response Ambulance Service Inc. Corporate Contract for Arlington City Jail. Thank you, Mayor. This concludes the consent agenda for this evening. Mr. Buskin, do we have any speakers in support or opposition of the items that appear on the consent agenda? No, sir. We have no speakers. We do have one non-speaker in opposition to item 8.26. When I call your name, please raise your hand. Richard Weber. All right, then I'll call for a motion. I have a motion for approval from Councilmember K. Par, a second from Councilmember Nunez. Please cast your votes. Motion passes. Mayor, if I may, Mr. Secretary, would you show me as abstaining on item 8.20? Thank you. Next we move to public hearings, consideration of ordinances and or final readings. We have 11.1, zoning case PD19-20, HairBiz, 2508, and 25010 Little Road. I'll call upon Ms. Jensy Topel, Director of Planning and Development Services. Thank you, Mayor. The parcel address is 2508 Little Road, which is what was used in the media notice and property owner notification for this rezoning request. The parcel has two buildings addressed as 2510 Little Road and 2508 Little Road. The property has a condo regime where both the building owners are co-owners of the land and its amenities. Building 2510 Little Road is currently owned by the applicant. When asked at the Planning and Zoning Commission hearing the applicant mentioned that the other building owner also consented to the rezoning of the property that he co-owns. The day after Planning and Zoning commissions stipulated that the barber or the beauty shop use be only restricted to the building 2510 Little Road. The applicant provided a shared parking agreement, memorializing that the other building owner consents to the addition of this use in the building at 2510 little road. Please see item four on the agreement copy placed at your desk. Additionally, at the afternoon work session, you had at your desk a memo that attached applicants most recent requests that came in yesterday, which includes the request to be able to expand the barber or beauty shop to the building at 2508 Little Road. And a few other changes to landscaping and fencing that planning and zoning commissions depulated. We have Terry Cunningham the applicant who will present the case this evening. Mr. Cunningham, if you can state your name and address for the record as you approach the podium. Thank you. Terry Cunningham of Terry Cunningham Architects at 3604 South Cooper Street, Arlington, Texas 76015. Good evening, Mayor Williams, ladies and gentlemen of the Council and ladies and gentlemen of the audience. I'm representing Tommy and Barbara Davis who own the Hair Biss Salon and we'll just have a brief rundown of a little bit of history of their business here and how they got to where they're at right here. Hair Biss is the name of the salon. As I said, Tommy and Barbara Davis have been the owners for some 45 years under various other names. They've been in Arlington since 1974 and operated many successful businesses underneath the Hair Bizz, PhD, Hair Design, Avant de Styles. They also live in Arlington since 1973, been married 45 years. The current salon they have now has eight style stations. The proposed salon will be opened Monday through Friday, 9 to 6, Saturday, 9 to 5, and closed on Sunday. Their holiday season hours are typically the same. Have an average of 140 customers a week over a six-day period of an everyday being an eight-hour period. On a Saturday, it's an average of 52 customers on an eight-hour day. And as Jensi mentioned, they do have an agreement with the adjacent owner for shared parking and that adjacent owner is fully aware of the zoning proposed here Pete time their of the other business on the property. There's a counseling center in a real estate office and their peak times are really kind of opposite a little bit of what the hair swan is for the There we go. Okay. Yeah. A view of the property from Little Road. Their particular building is the one on the left next to the tree profile. Proposed landscape here. There's several large existing mature oak trees and various other trees on the property. Existing landscape and shrubberies are still there. The original landscape plan proposed some parking lot screening along Little and Lester and increased moving the monument sign out front and increasing the landscaping around the monument side. Parking plan currently There will have more than sufficient parking based upon the city ordinances The proposed salon is only at 2650 square feet and the remaining office building is approximately the same size at 2650 building is approximately the same size at 2650. Using the city ratio requirements, we're only required 15 parking places for those uses. And additional spaces left over would be six total spaces. So more than adequate numbers of parking spaces. Per the Planning and Zoning Commission, they're not gonna allow any employees or customers to park on Lester Drive up there. Many of the residents of Lester Drive requested that and they're willing to enforce that, of course. Just some more pictures of the surrounding area there if they're not familiar with it, you're not familiar with it. This is to the north where several other commercial properties are now existing. To the east there's a assisted living facility there. Down a little road to the south. It turns residential south of there. Right next to it there's a large residential estate next door with lots of generous area between the house and these office buildings, current office buildings. And you can see some of the large oak trees that are there also existing. This is their property, 2510. It's going to remain pretty much the way it looks right now. Their mainst of their improvements will be on the inside. 2508 is the property of the north that has the other owner that is aware of the zoning change. The new hair bis lawn will increase the street landscaping, screening of AC units, renovation of the existing current signage. We do have parking and placement code and transformation. The property now is actually empty and will turn that into a viable business. As regards to some of the requests that were made just yesterday, I've been authorized by Tommy Barber Davis to resend or retract some of those, depend upon the council's concerns are. And so I'm willing to take some questions about that and do what we need to do to get an approval for Tommy and Barbara Davis. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Cunningham, and I'll call upon Council Member K. Pardt. Thank you, Mayor, and thank you, Mr. Cunningham. So I've emailed you today and told you some of my comments. Yes, ma'am. I understand. And quite candidly, I'm very comfortable with the Planning and Zoning Commission's recommendations on this site. I think they did a really good and depth job. So would your client be amenable to the planning and zoning process? I would just say, I think the answer to that is yes. As I mentioned before, Tom and Barbara Davis are not real estate property developers. They're not familiar with this process. And they requested I make those requests. So I did. And so, but they understand the concerns of the council based upon some of the feedback we've heard from staff and from you personally this k-poper and So they're willing to like I said retract some of those if not all of them and so that's why if we need to go down the list and talk about each one I'm willing to do that. It's whatever you all want to do Okay, I don't really think it's necessary for me to go to take your time and the podium to go down the list My basis is what planning and zoning yes commission recommended with regard to the landscaping, with regard to the right-owned fence, all of that. I'm good with that. And so, you know. I would like to point out that they did talk to some of the residents on Lester Drive. And several of those residents were not excited about the Rotten Fence. I understand. So I just wanted to make sure that that was known. Yes, I read that in the staff report, but thank you for bringing it to my attention. Okay. Thank you. Councilmember Moeys. This will just take a moment. Do you have a rendering of what I see here that you're going to have a revised monument sign? No, ma'am, we don't have a picture of the revised monument sign right now. It would just be whatever, done per whatever the city code is required. We're not proposing anything out of out of outline on that. Okay, so so your current signage or their current signage on the current sign now is basically deconstructed. Yeah, it's it's going to be so they won't use what I call a retail sign at this location. They understand it'll just be a monument sign. Yes ma'am. All right. Yes. Thank you. It would be definitely in the character of the sign that's there now. Yes ma'am. All right yes thank you. It would be definitely in the character of the sign that's there now. Yes ma'am. Councilmember Shepard. Thank you Mayor. Miss K. Part of questions for you should this matter be considered favorably by the council. One of the requests that we show in the memorandum was to defer the landscape installation and the handicap accessibility until the March, April 2020 timeframe with it being the debt of winter. Would that be something that you would entertain as I think that was not spelled out in the PNZ report? Would you would that would you be okay with that? I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm thank you for bringing that to my attention, Mr. Shebron. We did have a brief discussion I did with Jensy, but I'm not sure I understand the nature of that request. Can you explain to me this? Yes, ma'am. Uh, the landscaping is a matter of planning things in January. Sure. Number one. Um, so it's not unusual to defer some of those things still a less freezing time, less bad weather. As far as the handicap things are concerned, as I've mentioned in my memo to you, due to the complications of this case for Tommy Barber Davis, They're having to move their salon December 31st, if possible. And so we're concerned about getting handicap ramps and all that stuff done, if it has to be done before a CO is issued. So we're asking the council to let them put some of those things off so that they can get moved in and get set up and vacate their current space. Okay, so I understand about the landscaping, planning it in January, February is not ideal. But Miss Thelple, is there any prohibition on the half of the city for deferring the handicap no the there is a handicap space there it's an existing condition doesn't meet the codes today but so the site is already there and it has a handicap space, but to meet our current codes is what we're trying to get applicant to do. Okay, and so if we deferred it, you know, for basically 90 days, that is still acceptable. That's right, yes. Then I'm agreeable to that, Mr. Chair. Okay. Okay. Any other questions from Mr. Cunningham? Here that you understand that your staff, that your clients understand what they'll have is a temporary CO that will last through whatever date you agree with on Gen.C. When the improvements will be finished and then you'll get your permanent CO. Yes, ma'am. I believe they will agree to that. Yes, ma'am. Okay. Any other questions from Mr. Cunningham? Okay. Saying none. Thank you, Mr. Cunningham. Mr. Buskin, are there any speakers on this item? Yes, sir. We have three speakers in support and one speaker in opposition. The first speaker in support is Tommy Davis. After Mr. Davis is Barbara Davis. Hi, I'm Barbara Davis. Edras, 43.6, Rambling Creed Court, as where we live. And if you don't mind, I'd like to show you part of our history. I have. Thank you. As you'll see, we've been around for a little long time. I just feel it's really important for you all to know who we really are. My husband came from Corset, Canada in 1973. I came from the Chicago area in 1973. We met at the Forum Mall in 1974. We married three months later and here we are today. We've got two awesome children in the sitting in the back back there also. So we've lived in Arlington, all of our lives, all of their lives. I went to Butter Fashion College while I was here, and Tommy went to the barber school while he was here. But our first shop, his logo for that was the world's worst location for the world's best haircut. It was Avanti styles, and it was right where showdown, old mainstream cafe and one of the first politos right there. We were in the back. We are together today when I realized where we are putting things together. We are actually the third longest running hair salon in Arlington. We started in that little Avanti styles location with Bert Grant. He was right there next to us. He moved out a couple months after we moved in. And then Shelton's was here also, but there's no other salons like us that are in running still in Arlington. So I feel like it's important. We've been able to make it move through work through many moves. We've had five moves now and they've all worked out. We've all been able to work together and everything. We love Arlington. We've been here. We've had opportunities to move in the past. We could have moved our business. My husband's comfortable with moving moving but we didn't we stayed here because our LinkedIn is our home as it's grown it's even become more of our home and our kids all live here also great business opportunities we've done really well here so he's also started a a real estate company in fact hairiz is renting from new beginnings. He got his start back and we got our start back in 1999. We decided to do some flipping back before it was popular. We did that. We made some good money and all of that. And he just enjoys the real estate business entirely. He's very savvy. He understands the business, he's smart, he's not afraid to move like we moved our salute and he's just very good and he's helped others also in the real estate business that to help them also. He's a real helper. I guess that's my time up or close to it. I just hope we get your support in all of this. We, you know, this one, we want this to be our resting place and we want to pass it on to our children down the road and we feel like this is a great place. It's like a park. If you go past it, it looks like a park as it is and we just think it's, you know, just a beautiful place to stop and we think we'll be an asset to the neighborhood also. Thank you, Ms. Davis. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Buskin. David Magira. Next is Charles Burkett. I've been a Mr. McGarrick. You could state your name and address. David McGarrick. And I live at 6701 Potomac Parkway in Arlington. I have a company that I've been in business for six, seven years in Arlington and building tornado shelters. And we've also developed quite a few rental properties. And in the process over the last 10 years, Tommy Davis has been our building manager and he has been a very responsible business man and has been responsible for renting our homes that we purchased and remodeled and he's handled a lot of the remodels and and he's taken care of all of our homes for the past 10 years, as well as handling his barber shop and the beauty shop. The shops are beautiful establishments and I think he's an asset to the community. And I just wanted to add that. Thank you, Mr. McGuira. Thanks. Thank you Mr. McGurray. Thanks. That first speaker in opposition is Charles Burkett. Mayor Zayn Council. Thank you for the opportunity of the year tonight to talk about this proposed BG zoning. My name is Charles Berkett. I live at Fort Seville for Lester Drive. I was one of the first property owners to buy into that subdivision Greenwood Hills addition. We have 40 homes in that area. Beautiful wooden lots. Everyone takes care of their property. We're very proud of it. And we have one way in, one way out. And very little crime in our area. And so we're very interested in what happens to the PDZ zoning that benefits the neighborhood because we live there and we have to drive in and out, let's to drive every day. At the PDZ, excuse me, at the Yif playing zone to being, I was there and several other of my neighbors were there. We did not have a neighborhood association as such, but I think we have a consensus of a few of us are there that we would like to see that the zoning course say like it is. Back in 1983, it was proposed that this would be a professional, excuse me, would be a professional excuse me. It would be a journal business and office. We never thought that a retail salesman would come to this area. But of course, that is your decision to make. I can only let you know our concerns. We are concerned that there will be additional traffic that could possibly or potentially park on our street that would and they impede our ingress, the address at the intersection coming in and out. That's why I propose to our council member Andrew Piedel District four that we were restrict parking along these two properties. The property on the south of Lester and also the proposed restaurant on the north side. The restaurant has not opened yet. They're making modifications to it and so anticipate you know where the going to park and then we have of course the customers I'd like to come to these businesses. So those are our some of our concerns and that we do something about restricting parking and I at the zoning meeting I did not propose a fence. I would prefer not to see a fence. I don't want to see papers collecting on the fence. I suggest that the planning be removed. Today we have a nice clean look. And we would like to keep it that way. These large trees have a large umbrella. And so I'm concerned about any plannings may not survive because of the shade. And so that was one of my concerns that I expressed. Also I would recommend that we restrict the zoning to 2510 and not extend that zoning. And which the Planning and Zoning Commission also restricts to a barber and beauty shop only in the building address to 2510 Little Road. Mayor Councilor, thank you for your attention. Any questions I can answer if you'd like to do that. Thank you, Mr. Berkett. Any questions from Mr. Berkett? Okay, thank you, Mr. Berkett. Okay, thank you, Mr. Berkett. Thank you, sir. Berkett, or I should say Mr. Buskin, are there any other speakers? No, sir, there are no other speakers. We do have 11 non-speakers in support. When I call your name, please raise your hand. Jean Limroth, Steve McNeil, Nancy McNeil, Russell Childress, Heather Solis, Shannon Childress, Sheila Arthur, Stephanie Barfield, Terry Davis, Courtney Davis, and Val Caldwell. Mayor, that concludes the non-speakers on this item. Thank you, Mr. Baskin. Then I'll call for discussion here among the council. This is Kay Park. Thank you, Mayor. My iPad is died again. Anyway, so I have a couple of questions of staff. Miss Thelple, with regard to the addresses of 2508 and 2510, the Planning and Zoning Commission's recommendations were only applicable to 2510, is that correct? That is correct. Okay. And with regard to the parking, and I've heard Mr. Bracat talk about wanting to have some no parking signs put up. Is that something that's in our purview to do? No, because whenever we put no parking signs it is for the entire block and to get that no parking sign. 80% of the owners have to agree to it and then that's when public works and transportation will look at it. But with regard to the rezoning request, this particular applicant meets the city's ordinance parking requirement regarding correct basis and everything. Yes. All right. Those are the questions I have, Mayor. I'm ready to make a motion. Can you close the public here? Any other discussion? Okay, seeing none, then we are ready to close the public hearing and call for a motion. Mayor, I move that we approve the planning and zoning's recommendations was regard to this property and with the added stipulation of deferring the planting and the landscaping until about 90 days from now and also the Handicraft ramp and so that would be it. I was at a temporary CO miss Sokol for that purpose. That's my message mayor I'm very grateful to you, Ms. Sokol, for that purpose. That's my message, Mayor. Okay, we have a motion for approval from Councilmember K. Part, a second from Councilmember for our Myers. Please cast your votes. And before we do that, I think it'd probably be important for Miss Salas to instruct us on what constitutes approval on this particular one because it's first and final reading. That is correct, Mr. Mayor, Mayor and Council, one because it's first and final reading. That is correct, Mr. Mayor. Mayor and Council, because this is the first and final reading, it will take an unanimous vote of those present and voting at the dies tonight. Okay, with that, please cast your votes. The motion passes there and the first thing I would say Mr. Berkett, we will be monitoring the parking there on it and then also in talking with the applicant, they are going to work too on that and so I really appreciate your concerns there. And then the Davises, thank you for continuing to be here in Arlington and thank you for your investment and thank you for being good at what you do. And I appreciate what you've gone through here to move forward on your investment and stay here in Arlington. Thank you very much. Okay, next we'll move to specific use permit, SUP 19-3, White Rhino Coffee 401 East Border Street. Ms. Topel. Thank you, Mayor. The property is addressed at 401 East Border Street. The applicant's request is for an approval of a specific use permit or an SUP for a restaurant with drive-through on the property's zone downtown business DB. At the afternoon work session, you had at your desk a memo with the applicant's letter requesting that the SUP be attached to white rhino coffee only. You also have the revised ordinance that includes that condition that specifically states. This SUP is granted specifically to the white rhino coffee. The SUP shall be non-assignable and non-transferable. The SUP shall be immediately and automatically revoked upon the sale, lease, or assignment of the property to any person or entity other than the applicant. With this we have Ernesto Miranda representing white rhino coffee presenting the case for us this evening. Good evening, Mayor, Councilman and women. So unfortunately, Chris could not be here today. They have a something rather special that they do, that they've been doing for, I would say, almost eight years now. They sponsor 100 families during the holidays, and unfortunately they are having their event tonight, so unfortunately he can't be here. But it's a pretty special event for them, obviously having that type of influence in their community. So a little brief background on white rhino. They've been around for about 12 years. Been pretty successful over in the smaller markets, Middle-Othian. They've got a couple of different locations over in Waxahatchee, and now expanding a little bit further out. Our Arlington is the second location that we're looking at for expansion. From that standpoint, their demographics are really everywhere. It's really community-based. One of the key things about them is they want to have a community event or events at their locations as many times as possible. That's one of the key things that drives them from that standpoint. It's just not a coffee shop. It's just more of a community hangout for them. So they started back in 2007, as I mentioned before, expanded very slowly. Chris is really adamant about the quality of the coffee area, I mean coffee shop and the actual taste of the coffee. So obviously the choices for them to expand Arlington was one of the very first ones, simply because of the growth and All the accolades that obviously have come to the city That's one of the crucial items that they that they are looking at in particular cities They also like to go to to secondary markets. They're not initially a big coffee house So you know Dallas for worth. That's just not there. They're They're a wheelhouse. They typically like going into more mid-sized communities, being able to engage with the collegiate area, which of course into Yarlington, which is also my alma mater. So I'm very happy about that. Let's see here. And I also want to get a little bit more into The the overall development which I'm sure you guys have also seen that from the standpoint of the multiple renderings that we've got in there for the expansion of that particular bank We've really transformed it and ended up having a patio area I believe it's roughly about 1900 square feet with one drive-through. We've been able to remove the rest and then add landscaping and parking to it. I'll be more than happy to take any questions. I'll call Paul and Councilmember Cape Art. Oh, you didn't have one. All right. Anybody have any questions from Mr. Miranda? Yes, Dr. Myers. Thank you, Mayor. And thank you for your presentation. I appreciate your interest in our city. I just have a question for you. Obviously you're asking for an SUP for a drive-through in this area. Any of your other locations do you have a drive-through? They do not. This one is the very first one. Part of that is also the added revenue that will bring to it. One of the other key things, and I wish Melanie was here, which is the director of operations form, but she points out that in their Wax-a-Hatchy location, they literally have their baristas walk in the coffee out during rainstorms. It's really one of those things that when we were going through the programming, one of the very first things she says that we've got to figure out a having a drive through. Because I keep having moms getting out of the cars while the kids are still in and then getting so can wet to pick up those. So that was one of the driving forces for them looking for that particular property and being able to convert it into that. Okay, thank you very much appreciate it. Sure. Any other questions? Okay, thank you. much appreciate it. Sure. Any other questions? Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Buskin, are there any speakers? Yes, sir. We do have one speaker in support of this item. Paul Loots. Any questions? Thank you, Mr. Loots. We have no additional speakers. Okay. With that, I'll close the public hearing and call for discussion here among the council or a motion. Okay, we have a motion for approval from council. Do you need to? If I may clarify, Mayor and council, there was a substitute ordinance put it's your place relative to this item. So if you make the motion, substitute ordinance, put it's your place relative to this item. So if you make the motion, we need to know if you're making it on this one or the original. So council member Nunez. My motion is on the amended PD 19-20 with the amendment to expire the SUP. So the ordinance it runs with the business. expire the S.U.P. Senator Orders, it runs with the business. It runs with the business. And Council Member Sutton, you are out with that. Second. Okay. Great. So we have a motion for approval of the amended ordinance from Council Member Nunez. And a second from Council Member Sutton. Please cast your votes. Motion passes. Next we move to 11.3 tax increment reinvestment zone number five, amended project plan and financing plan and I'll call upon Mr. Bruce Payne, economic development director. Thank you, Mayor. Members of the council, tonight, you're requested to conduct a public hearing and consider a first reading on an ordinance that amends our tax increment reinvestment zone number five, otherwise referred to as TERS number five. The model that you see in front of you is pretty much how a TERS works. The blue rectangle at the base is the existing text value of the property that's covered by the TERS district. When the TERS is enacted, then all new increment that's created by new value placed in the TERS district is captured by by the TURRS over the term of the TURRS. And at the end of the TURRS term, in this case, 30 years, 32 years, then the TURRS is dissolved and all of the new tax value then is received by the taxing jurisdictions. With regard to TURRS number five, it was originally created in December of 2006. It's about 2187 acres in size. The boundary is not changing. It was originally set to expire in December of 2036. But last, this earlier this year, I should say back in May, we went through the process with the Terrors Board and the City Council and the term was extended to 2049 and anticipated a future development in Terrors V. Subsequent to that, a number of projects have come to light and then the need for the Terrors District to participate in that was reevaluated and therefore the term was extended. You actually just did that tonight on second reading from 2049 to the year 2052 and to increase the city's participation from 70% to 100% in the terms during that term. Proposed projects that have been identified in the analysis of what's likely to occur, as best as you can tell over the period of time. We've identified, we've estimated about $766 million worth of investment in the tours over its life. And so under the participation assumptions that have been made about that, you have three tranches that are identified here. The first is from 2019, present day to 2031. And the significance of 2031 is when the taxing jurisdictions, Tarrant County, Tarrant County College and Tarrant County Hospital District, have existing agreements with TERS number five that were scheduled to terminate in 2031. And during that period, now that the the tours has been modified and the participation rate has been expanded up until 2031, the city would participate at 100%. Tarrant County at 70%. Tarrant County hospital district is 70% and Tarrant County college at 50%. Arlington ISD does not participate. They are prohibited by state law to participate in this. From the year 2032 to 2049, the city will continue at 100% participation. Tarrant County is proposed to continue at 70%, but the Tarrant County Hospital District will drop from 70 to 50% through the year 2049. Tarrant County College will remain at 50% participation. And in the last three years of the TURRS 2050 through 2052, the City of Arlington would continue at 100% participation, and the other participating jurisdictions would zero out and no longer be a participant in the TURRS. Proposed project costs that have been identified thus far. Water, sanitary, sewer, stormwater facilities, and general infrastructure is estimated about $23 million. Parking improvements, close to $99 million of improvements. Street intersection improvements, almost $25 million. Open space, park and recreation facilities, and other improvements, $37 million. facilities and other improvements of $37 million. General public facilities and project costs is about $12 million. And the economic development grants are identified at about $415 million. These are the funding that will help with major infrastructure costs as well as participating in the project costs of the proposed projects that are likely to happen in this TURRS and the administrative costs over the term of the TURRS is anticipated about $6.1 million. So next steps, as I mentioned to you, the creation ordinance has been amended as of tonight. You did second reading and that takes the TURRS to the year 2052 and then tonight you will conduct the first reading for the TURRS project plan and financing plan ordinance. takes the tours to the year 2052. And then tonight you will conduct the first reading for the Terce Project Plan and Financing Plan ordinance. And then after that, after the public hearing, whatever on January 14, 2020, you'll conduct second reading to consider the elements of this tours. So that being said, I'm available for any questions that you might have. Any questions from Mr. Payne? Okay, thank you, Mr. Payne. Thank you, Mayor. Mr. Busking, are there any speakers on this item? No, sir. Okay, then I'll close the public hearing and call for a motion. I have a motion for approval from Councilmember K. Part II from Councilmember Shepard. Please cast your votes. Motion passes. Next, we move to consideration of minute orders and resolutions. Miss Salas. Mayor, this first item that is under your minute order under this section 12 relates to an item that was on a previous agenda that there had been an error in and staff had requested this be put on hold so it was tabled by the council. In your consent agenda tonight was the corrected item which you have passed. So this is another item which can be removed from the table and removed from the agenda if you'd like to dispose of it. Okay, do we have a motion from Council? We have a motion to remove the table and remove it from the agenda from Council Member K. Part and a second from Council Member Nunez, please cast your votes. Motion passes. Next we move to amendment to Phase 1 of the capital improvement plan for the Arlington Convention Center facilities and I'll call upon Mr. Jim Paragion Deputy City Manager. So, Mayor and Council will be for you tonight is a resolution that looks to adopt an amendment to the phase one capital improvement program for the Arlington Convention Center facilities. In 2015, in December of 2015, the Council adopted Phase I capital improvement program for the Arlington Convention Center complex. That Phase I had two elements, Project A, which has been realized with the fabulous project that live by lows in Texas live which is added guest rooms to our convention complex also added over 35,000 square feet of additional convention center facilities added over 100,000 square feet of retail entertainment and restaurant space in a very high quality way that has contributed to adding the ability for us to receive convention center facilities and business from that, which has allowed us to leverage revenue that can be put back into city services. Project B was envisioned as a smaller 750 room hotel and expansion of the existing convention center. But tonight you're going to hear about a project that expands upon that and modifies project B from the 750 room to an 888 roomroom high-quality convention center hotel, live the Loas Arlington, and then over 150,000 square feet of new convention center space and exposition center with a public parking garage. Construction of that part project B would start to occur in 2020. The basis for all this in terms of the city's policy objectives really resided in our 2014 economic development strategy that was adopted after public input to leverage district assets encouraged continued development of our convention center facilities. And then 2015, the city council adopted the city's comprehensive plan after several years of continuous public involvement, public feedback. Again, all to expand the convention center facilities, which would provide additional business revenue that goes into our city services. So what you have before you tonight is a resolution adopting an amendment to that phase one project which really modifies project B. Be happy to take any questions. Any questions from Mr. Paragion? Thank you, Mr. Paragion. Mr. Buskin, are there any speakers on this item? Yes, sir. We have two speakers in support of this item. The first speaker is Michael Jacobson. Okay. He'll defer. Next is Randy Hendrix. Mr. Hendrix. Okay. We also had one non-speaker in support. Tom Ware. Thank you, Mr. Ware. That concludes the speakers, sir. So with that, I'll call for a motion. I have a motion for approval from Council Member Shepherd, a second from Council Member K Part. Please cast your votes. Motion passes. Next we'll move to Hotel and Convention Center Economic Development Performance Agreement, and I'll call upon our city manager, Mr. Trey-Alberton. Thank you, Mayor. Members of the council, the next several items are actually implementation measures of what Mr. Parishon just talked about as far as actually considering where we go on the various next phases of development of this public private partnership. It's our expectation that this public private partnership that we're discussing would add jobs and wealth into our community that will benefit our tax and jurisdictions, including the city and county and the school district. We also believe it just creates value with jobs for businesses and residents to help pay for the city services. And summary, based on the impact and the track record of our partners, we believe over 3,000 jobs will be created $1.8 billion in economic impact, which will leverage the city's investment nearly one to 10. And so we're hopeful that the information we put together will be helpful so that all of our tax inger stickions provide services to our residents will be able to that all of our tax and jurisdictions provide services to our residents will be able to be benefit benefacted. As a high level, we've been in this business for a long time in Arlington, 58 plus years from six flags to the initial ballpark, to the various other activities as we've built a destination and an entertainment district. More recently, relatively speaking, just going back to 2007. We have taken very specific measures anywhere from creating a Convention Center Development Corporation back in 2007 to over the next 10 years there, 7 through 14, working with various iterations of trying to find the right formula that worked for our community. Through three or four opportunities that I know that I'm familiar with, it just never worked. The opportunity wasn't there, the economics weren't there, the right partners were not there and so we passed or never made it to come to fruition. Since then, 2014 and 15 various plans have been developed or economic development strategy which laid the foundation, identifying hospitality and tourism and this type of project to grow our economy. Our comprehensive plan actually identifying this as a catalytic project for us to work on back in 2015. And then of course we've been incrementally achieving some success success since 2019 when we open this year with live by lows. Additionally, other steps that have been taking some of our long-term planning on behalf of our residents where we take a look at relationships and mobility and neighborhoods and redevelopment housing. Many years ago we created this this envisioning of what those horizon issues were. And for us to be prepared to address those horizon issues, we identified bold steps. And then that document, bold step number one, was continuing to focus on the entertainment district so that we were importing wealth into this city from outside the city and then putting it to work on behalf of our residents. Additionally, another additional documents that have been created over the years from the Glory Park Plan Development Zoning District to our entertainment district design standards to our own convention center study and feasibility analysis that was done in 2008 to lay of predicate for us relative to some of the efforts that we've been chasing along to the Economic Development Report and comprehensive plan that I alluded before. So this has been a long effort by staff and policy leaders and our citizens who were involved in the public input and feedback relative to what made those documents what they were. It dozens and hundreds of people participating in the formation of those various documents. So tonight we have the opportunity to consider a couple of agreements to help move those visions forward. Those plans actually becoming implemented. And so we're going to talk a little bit. We'll hear from some proposed partners here with us to move these forward regarding a 888 room convention center hotel with a joining new convention center space of 150,000 square feet which would be connected by a skybridge over to the existing live by lows. Additionally there's some ancillary development for an office proposed office building that's prospective as well as a mixed use building of restaurant retail and small business incubator space so we can grow our small proposed office building, it's prospective, as well as a mixed use building of restaurant, retail, and small business incubator space. So we can grow our small businesses and encourage incubation of entrepreneurs. Of course, as you can imagine, all of this is occurring on land at the city homes and around the ball parks, and we have all those parking fields out there. And so in order to be able to do those kinds of works, we have to kind of, we have to take the horizontal fields and make them vertical. And so parking, structured parking is a significant part of the plan. And there are two garages that are proposed to facilitate that altogether between public and private investments. We anticipate $810 million in total development costs. We're working with proven developers that have not only done activities across the country with both the hotel and the mixed use office building development, but people who've done these projects here in our community. So we have a real relationship with real expectations and demonstrated credibility as it relates to their ability to make things happen. The projects will be advanced by the developer community. Mine is something that I'll talk about here a second ago as far as some initial planning and risk mitigation, but 100% of what lows corporation is presenting for an opportunity is advanced funded by the private sector. We're not being asked to issue any general obligation debt. To advance this, we'll be looking at things that are being generating wealth from existing state laws and terms, districts that allow us to repurpose the wealth that was created to then work to advance the projects that we're talking about. So as a result, most of these incentives that we're talking about are generated by the tourism-based revenues themselves or the project-based revenues that itself is generating. If things are considered favorably, we could begin work on this pretty soon into the new year with a contractual obligation to actually get started by the end of this next year. We have two partners that are working with us on this project. And it's my pleasure to introduce them individually. And first, I'd like to ask Mr. Alex Tish, who's with Loz Corporation, Loz Hotel's Corporation. It's been working with us for many years on the first project. And this one that we're contemplating tonight. And I'd love for Mr. Tish to talk to you a little bit about the vision for the next stage and what Rose brings to the table. So. Thank you everybody. Thanks for having me. We're thrilled to be here for really the council, Mr. Mayor, and all the people in Arlington. This is a pretty special moment for us, for a lot of reasons. About four years ago, read, read, court, if my dear friend is going after me, and numerous members on our team started exploring the lab fellows hotel. And I think, we hope and in partnership and we're proposing tonight that you recognize that it was a really important bet placed on our firm by this city and we hope that we performed in a way that you guys appreciate and now we're excited to kind of press that bet because we think all the stars are aligning here for something really special to be built as a second phase. So when you think about Arlington and some of the issues that we've recognized, there's kind of a near-term issue you can fix quickly and then a long term issue on creating a global and really US-leading destination and travel and tourism and that's why we're here. So it is all here right now from a leisure and really sports and entertainment perspective. You have Glowblife Park, you have a new eSports stadium, you have AT&T Stadium, Glowblife Field opening for first pitch, the Texas live district, the new golf courses, Six Flags and Hurricane Harbor. Obviously, the Medal of Honor Museum will be a huge boost for really the whole state of Texas, but the whole nation and the repurposed of XFL stadium. So you guys have spent considerable time and energy in getting the right to man generators into Arlington. You've proven that, right? Because you've gotten all these great events to come to Arlington. The PBR Global Cup, the cotton balls here, super cross, the NFL draft, the monster jam, the final four, WrestleMania. So when you look at that, you say, what's the problem? And from our perspective in the hotel industry, when you have these events, the Super Bowl, for example, it's a seven day event. And with a seven day event and not not that many keys hotel rooms in the Arlington market, you wind up giving a lot of those rooms, a lot of people kind of drafting off the momentum of Arlington, and a lot of those rooms go to a lot of the cities that are you're and our partners in a lot of ways, but also, you know, competitors, Dallas, Fort Worth, Great Vine, Frisco, Allen, and Irving. So from our belief in one of the things that we've worked with, with the mayor and tray, and the C&B, and the court is on, is that we really believe that when you come to Arlington, you should stay in Arlington and try and capture as much of your consumers while it as you can. So the question, and I'm leading the witness, but the question here's what's the solution. And from our perspective, the solution is this. It's the 880 A.K. Lowes Arlington Hotel and Arlington Convention Center. It's a project that my cousin John is designed on his own with numerous designers, including HKSs in the room as well. And it's a project that we think will we define the way people think about traveling tourism in Arlington and hopefully they'll think about traveling tourism the way they think about sports and entertainment as a result of a project like this. We're going to build, we're proposing building a world class convention center hotel. Arlington needs and it really deserves all the demand generators here to become a national destination for meetings and events. So the project on the table will have 888 keys, 150,000 square feet of indoor meeting space and an additional 66,000 feet outdoors. We'll have another three-mill restaurant, much like Cutton Bourbon, but with a different theme, but you can expect the same level of four-star quality at the low-zolling to hotel in every aspect as we have it live by lows. There'll be two bars, a lobby bar, a pool bar, a grab-and-go cafe, and we'll also be looking for a 15,000 square foot large-scale four-star restaurant tenant to sit on the corner of Nolan Ryan and Randall Mill. Additionally, we'll have the standard outdoor pool with Cabanas, a kids' club, actually a kids' beach club, but that's still evolving. A fitness center, an outdoor deck for events, and a spa. So you look at this and it really shouldn't be looked at in a vacuum, because what we're proposing is to have 1200 keys in the Arlington market. 200,000 square feet in meeting space inside and about 80,000 square feet outside. With the rationale being there are three real demand generators in Arlington. They're going to be pulling business from the rest of the United States and from the DFW area that already exists. Global I field, the AT&T Stadium, and the New Arlington Convention Center. Those are going to be a significant pull of meetings and events business. Because when you look at the best groups in America that travel lots of our hotels and lots of other hotels, what they want to do is they don't want to spend all their time in the hotel. They want to spend one night in the hotel and they want to go out and see the other demand generators. And it's impossible for any other city in America to compete with Global Life Field in AT&T Stadium and with the live district. It's just the competitive mode you've built, you've built, excuse me, is remarkably commendable. And I think it's time that we all work and find a way to get to exploit that so that when the Super Bowl comes here, it's a seven day event in Arlington. So I guess when we sat down in our office in New York we said the real vision for this hotel is for the corner of Nolan Ryan and Randall Mill to become the corner of Maine and Main Street not in Arlington not even in Texas but in the United States and how do you do that? Right now we've got the live by Los Hotel on one side you've got Glowblife Park, County Corner to that. You've got the live district, Glowblife Field. And the missing piece, one of which we'll speak to about later, excuse Mr. Corridor, if you'll speak to about later. But one of which we'll speak to right now is the Lowe's Arlington Hotel. And when you see this is the corner of Nolan Ryan and Randall Miller, or as we say, main and main, the 15,000 square foot least restaurant padwriping, being right on the corner, some meeting and function space above it, more meeting and function space above that, and then 888 key hotel above that. And then this is just another rendering of that corner of Nolan, Ryan, and Randall Mill being looked at from a global life field. And again, the goal of this is really to change all into skyline so that there are some really great skyscrapers, right next to all those really, really great stadiums you have there. And then the center piece of this is really the Orange and Convention Center. It's, this will be the nicest convention center built in the United States for a lot of reasons, but it'll have a 50,000 square foot ballroom for the many of you who have been to the ballroom of the LiveBallos hotel. There's only 15,000 square feet. This will be an excess of three times the size of the ballroom. This junior ballroom or the mid ballroom will be twice the size of the LiveBallos ballroom and the Junior Ball Room will be 20,000 square feet and then we'll have lots of other sidebar meeting rooms that you need for conventions, we have breakout rooms and rooms for people to have one-on-ones, etc. But this is the rendering of the convention center and really what you're looking at here is if you're standing in the Port Coucher of Live By-Lose looking across the street. This is what you'll see. And again, the live by lows hotel will be connected to this via Skybridge. So this is really one big complex we're selling because when you could sell 1200 key event, when there aren't any events in the stadium, it's very powerful to meetings and event planners in America, especially when there's brand new product. So when you talk about this, it's easy to design, but really the catch here is that it's going to cost a lot of money to build and we're ready to stand up for all of it. Those corporations adequately capitalized, I will walk you through you for a little bit, but we're ready to invest $200 million of our own cash. Our partners through land contributions and development fee contributions will be contributing another 23 million. And we have lenders really lined up for $330 million alone of which the city is not on the hook for any of it. No cost overruns. It's really low corporation or low hotels, which is a subsidiary of low's corporation, will be giving a completion guarantee on this loan. With a total project cost of $550 million, and just another thing, this project, when it's done, we think about the whole complex, will have an excess of 150 square feet per key of meeting space. And for those of you not in the meetings business, which is most viewed, that basically means that this is the kind of conference center where if we're filling up the conference center, there's gonna be too much demand for the hotels, meaning that there's gonna be a lot to spill over demand to all the hotels in Arlington right now that exist currently. And that's our goal, right? Our goal is really to have a rising tide to lift all the hotel product. And you'll see that in some of the slides I'll show you later. That is, that's not a concept that's mutually exclusive that doesn't exist. There are areas in America and lots of cities that we're all very familiar with, where they've done that to the whole hotel product in the market by building a new hotel. And that's our goal here. So again, this is kind of our mission statement, but we want Arlington to become the premier meetings and events destination in the United States. Aside from all the demand generators, there's great air lift. You've got a year-round climate. It's affordable. And with Globe Life Park, AT&T Stadium, Texas live, and then the expenditures we're gonna talk about. Arlington really is already positioned as a region's premier entertainment hub. With our business, and we humbly think we're one of the leaders in group travel, specifically the meetings and events business, which is something that we've been doing for a long time. We think that the same premier entertainment hub will hopefully be thought of as a premier and meetings and events destination, not only in the greater Texas area, but in the whole United States. So just a little bit about ourselves and on the side bars that we've done this before. This is not new to us. We did it in Miami in 1998. We did it in Philadelphia in 2000. We did it in Nashville in 1984. And we're doing it in Kansas City as we speak opening April 2nd. And I think that that one of the things that I hope you take comfort in is that we are owner operators of hotels and we don't really sell them unless there's a reason to. All these markets, we have not left. We've created lots of economic development. Created lots of jobs, we've been great partners in the community, we have great good neighbor programs, we hire locally, and frankly, we spend time investing in the community because we are not making five-year beds like some real estate developers, not all but some. We're making generational beds, and this generational bed on Olington is based on the stuff we've seen in the last four years and being partners with this whole city. So again, we want to compete locally, but we really want to compete nationally. And we want this destination to have the same prominence on the national level that it's ambitious, but that global I feel that AT&T will, AT&T stating well from a sports and entertainment perspective. And we think that with 150,000 square feet of meeting space, it's in line with the larger hotels and the DFW Metroplex. But more importantly, it's in line with a lot of the national hotels that get some of the best business in the world. And again, it says a lot when you're the newest and the nicest and you have a lot of the demand generators and have a lot of the attributes that this region has. So again, there's not a convention center here right now. You did a very smart job in repurposing it to an esports stadium. Now, we think now the opportunity is really here to create a new convention center. So when you look at this, you say how do you compete on the national stage and we spoke to all of our direct sellers and we have 17 that work for us full time all across the nation spread out by region. And they think that this is a sample set of guys who are, well, there are our partners for lots of reasons of supporting travel and tourism. But there are also, you know, areas we think that we're going to be able to compete adequately event, adequately against for all the reasons I mentioned below earlier. And it's really just a, just a, this market needs the new product to be able to compete. And once you have the new product, the people are going to want to come here because they're wanting to see the demand generators that you guys have spent, I mean, I want to say 58 years, but you guys have spent a really long time developing. So again, you saw that the JW Marriott in Austin, you saw the Omnion Nashville, the Omnion Louisville, and our favorite of these, the Los Kansas City. And what all these hotels did is they were public private partnerships, and they spurred significant investment and growth in the communities in which they were public private partnerships and they spurred significant investment and growth in the communities in which they were in. Created a lot of jobs and helped those city reach new plateaus. We see no reason why the low is Arlington and the Arlington Convention Center won't be the next one of these. It's right for a ton of reasons I've spoken about many of them. And again, when you do that, our analysis with the city shows that you're going to have $300 million in annual incremental tourism spend into Arlington. It's not at the hotel. That's based on a $3 million annual incremental visitors and $100 average day excluding hotel spend. And on top of that $300 million, there'll be 3,000 incremental jobs created through construction and through operations. And we believe it'll have a total of a $1.8 billion economic impact to the Arlington area. And you look at it and it's easy to challenge what I'm saying, but we have the data to prove it. If you look at these convention center markets and let's just focus on, we could focus on Nashville, which is the third one over, the Omni and Nashville is game changing for the Nashville market in 2013. It was 800 keys, but if you look at it, it grew, it's revenue grew 9%, 8.7% in the second year. But look at the left part of the grave, our next to it as a result of the Omni-Natch for lots of other things. The whole hotel market in Nashville grew about 5% as a result. And that's what we think we're gonna do here. We're gonna create a convention center and create such a compelling value proposition in this market that people are gonna need to come and they're gonna want to come and feel like if they're stuck going to other cities, they're not happy. And again, this is going to be an affordable product for conventioneers in the United States. So just a bit about lows. Lowe's is a publicly held conglomerate, probably one of the last in the United States. Lowe's has five subsidiaries, the hotel company is one of them, but we're also in two energy businesses. One in natural gas pipelines, one in offshore drilling. We have an insurance business, which we on 91% of it, the other 90% is publicly held, and we have a plastics business. So the hotel business, I'll talk about more in a minute, because that's why we're here. But on top of that, we have $3.5 billion on our balance sheet at any time of cash and investments. And $1.8 billion at debt. So we're adequately capitalized. And our business is really collecting dividend income from our subsidiaries when they have it. And allocating capital to the right projects across the board. Or keeping enough cash on our balance sheet is obviously comfortable at night, which we do. Or looking for alternative investments, but right now we're seeing a lot of investment opportunities in some of our subsidiaries, which is why we're here today. So our hotel business was one of our subsidiaries, which is Holy Own, was started really in 1958 or 1946, but it was a byproduct of being in the summer camp business. And then realizing the summer camp business was only a two month business. And what do you do for the other ten months a year, you know, just prepare for the summer. And he said, they said, my grandfather and his brother said something along the lines, I was not in the room at the time. But they said something along the lines of, well, the hotel business is a lot like the summer camp business, except it's 12 month business, so maybe we should look at it. And it led to hotels and the Jersey Shore, and then with the proliferation of air travel, it led to hotels being built in Florida, and then ultimately acquiring low theaters when it was broken up by antitrust and have become the basis of what low's corporation is today, which is not majority on, but a significant amount of its equities is owned by the Tish family, my relatives. And so you look at our snapshot and this is important because we're not unlike lots of other hotel brands. They are very comfortable in their own skin and we are too, but we're not everybody's everything. We are an owner operator of hotels. That means we are a very asset and capital intensive business. And we don't make many decisions to build hotels. We're deliberate in what we do. And we have a very small development team of which many folks are here today. But the unintended consequences of a big development team team of which many folks are here today, but the unintended consequences of a big development team is you do too much. And we look for projects that we can put, make big bets, they can be mature to our business, we can help change communities, and we don't have to worry about selling them. And this is what we think of about Arlington in this project. If you look at our business under development right now, we have 16.8,000 keys. We have over 16,000 keys, 9,000 of them are in Orlando. And they're all with our partnership with Universal Orlando NBCU. And the reason we do that is because one, they're great partners, two, they continuously invest in their product and we believe that you have to keep on investing your hotel product You just can't let it go and three we made you know for lack of better words a very Good bet in 1998 that we're reaping the benefits from now along with our partners at NBCU Right now when I think about Arlington, you know, we think we made a great investment here. First of all, we love being here. It's a lot easier, political regime than New York, but we don't have time for that. But we made a great investment decision to be here and to be partners with here because I think, it's just one of those partnerships where four years ago everyone, all really, I say four partners, we're really there, four partners, we're everyone really lived up to their end of the bar, you know, we created something special. And when we started talking with the C-N-E-B and the city manager and the mayor about a bigger product, we said it makes all the sense in the world, but instead of putting another 400 kilotel, we want to put one we can compete nationally and go really big because we think that Arlington has a lot of the attributes that Orlando did, let's say, in 1998. You got a lot of demand generators. You got great climate. You got great proximity, great airlift. It's just as a, it's really waiting for great hotel product. And that's why we're here. So this is our portfolio. Now, as you see, we have 29 or 26 properties with 300 development. In the lower right, just here, Orlando has eight of those properties. And a lot of them have over 1,000 keys. So it's adversely skewed to our key counts. But we are a US business. We don't have ambitions right now to go overseas. We're finding enough to do here, certainly, and things like that. And at $550 million investment between debt and equity, but only get all, this is really big for us. And it's something we're going to spend a lot of time concentrating on because it's really matured or business. We really feel that we could make a great difference in allington, which is why we're here. So with that, I just wanted to thank everyone for obviously hearing us out. And I wanted to thank really, we have so many partners in the room. I don't want to name them, but I do want to name them. We don't have time. But I just wanted to really thank everyone in Lavernau, especially, getting us even to this place has been working with the city manager of the CBB and everyone else. Thank you, Mr. Tish. Thank you, Overton. Just continuing with various family business investments. We also have represented from courted companies, Reed Courtish, who is responsible for the operations of Texas Live, and is representing his family here today to talk about the ancillary development that we're contemplating on an agreement that I'll talk to you about subsequent to this discussion. So, agreed. Thank you, Dr. Senator, thank you, Senator Moria. Mr. Mayor, City Council, it's on our to be here today representing the Kurdish companies and my family. It's also certainly a pivotal day on our to be here today representing the courtish companies and my family. It's also certainly a pivotal day for this city in realizing what has been truly a decades long vision of turning the Arlington entertainment district into the premier sports entertainment and hospitality destination in the United States. The Cornish Company was brought in now almost five years ago. And I think we should all be very proud as to what we've accomplished in that very short amount of time, very short from a development standpoint, which generally speaking takes a quite some time. And I think the reason we've been able to accomplish so much is because of the great partnership. First, it takes a true public-private partnership. And with this city, we have that. Second is our private sector partners. First, the Texas Rangers and their organization have done everything that they said they would do. And in every decision that they make, they put their fans in the community first, and they ensure that we do the same on the private sector development. Lowe's, I think you have a good feeling after Mr. Titus' presentation of just how excited we were to bring them to Arlington. And so when the Rangers and us thought about what to propose on Lot J, it was clear to us that Lowe's and a convention center hotel was the best thing we could propose for that site. In terms of the Quartish company, we have multiple divisions throughout our company and you can see them on the screen now. What makes this project so special for us is that we can bring so many of them to bear. And when we've done that in other markets around the country, that's when we've had the biggest impact and the most long-slasting impact on the community. And I think why we've been awarded an unprecedented, seven urban land institute awards for development excellence. Everything that we've done to date has been best in class. And that applies to the architecture. It applies to the quality of the construction and the craftsmanship. And it applies to the excitement that the businesses create. We are also extremely proud that during this time, we've created over 3,000 jobs. And we have exceeded all minority and women business own goals. I think that is something that we are as proud of as a development itself. In August of 2018, we opened phase one of Texas Live. And I think it's fast been considered the premier example of an entertainment district in a sports anchored development. We just hosted all the Major League Baseball owners that stayed at live by lows, spent countless hours at Texas Live, and to a person they raved that this was the best example that they'd seen around the country. And could they get one in there? raved that this was the best example that they'd seen around the country. And could they get one in there? We said, now we're just going to focus on growing Texas Live for a while. And then in August of 2019, just a few months ago, I think we reached a new level with the flagship Live By-Lose resort hotel, and a new standard was created. One of the things that I think our millions of visitors to date to both Texas live and live by lows I've noted is the seamless connection both visually and from a pedestrian standpoint to the surrounding stadium anchors. And it will be critical to us and it will be integrated into our future plans that that continue. Because creating a pedestrian experience, a walkable experience, connecting all these attractions to each other, we think will be one of the things that makes it so very special. And now you get a glimpse of what that can look like with this proposed third phase of Texas vibe. On your right is the, what would be the iconic, lows, 888 room hotel and convention facility. And on your left, the tower that is coming out of the corner of Globe Life Park would be our proposed corporate headquarters iconic office building. And one of the things I should note, it's not shown on this plan, it would be right on the bottom right, will be the location of the Medal of Honor Museum. And I think it's very important to bring that up. It is a true validation that the decisions that this city is making have been the correct ones, and that the power and impact that of what we are building together is being noted on the national stage. That was a national competition and Arlington was selected. And here's a look from the other side of these two iconic towers. And as Mr. Tisch said, creating Maine and Maine right here in the heart of Arlington. In terms of the corporate office headquarters building on the right, we have a lot of reasons to be very confident in that building. In similar projects we've done in other markets, Kansas City Live, for example, we were able to attract each in our blocks, World Headquarters. At Ballpark Village, which we did with the St. Louis Cardinals, we just recently opened a new office tower, and PWC Price Waterhouse Cooper moved their office headquarters to our building. Companies are in a battle to recruit and retain talent. Being in the heart of a district like this, in a city like this, is an incredible way for them to do so. Being in an area where people can find entertainment, have excitement, and vibrancy is a great way for companies to recruit and retain talent. And so we are very confident that this building will be successful in lowering many great corporations. And now looking the other way, you can see our proposed mixed-use development and how it frames the entrance to globally field and works in perfect synergy with the phase one of Texas Live to the right. This mixed use building would contain 1900 parking spaces that will service the entire development, including the Convention Center and Convention Center Hotel, Entertainment and Stadiums. It will contain 280 loft or studio style residential units, and it will contain over 100,000 square feet of premier, retail, family, entertainment attractions and restaurant attractions. And I used that we're incredibly excited to discuss tonight and that's Spark. And Spark is gonna be an integral part of what we propose here. And because of that importance, I've asked our national brand manager, Spark, to explain the concept. Shervin, Shervin. Mayor and council, thank you very much for having us here tonight. We're very excited to bring the Spark ecosystem to Arlington. There's a thriving community here of entrepreneurs and startup companies who are looking for a community for a workspace that they can uniquely grow their teams and grow their companies from. So the courtes, companies and family in 2015 launched the Spark brand where it was an experience, an ecosystem where entrepreneurs could come together actually go into the economic development, support the economic development of the cities that we're in. We launched in Baltimore in 2016, and as of this month, we have 165 companies, small businesses that range from single-person teams to 100-person teams within our Baltimore landscape. So we're very excited to bring that same energy here at Arlington. There's so many public, private partnerships, universities, organizations here in the city. That would be a great pipeline for small business, workforce development, and a space like this would be very beneficial to really be a catalyst for entrepreneurship and to seal that work play live aspects for Arlington. And we have a short video as well that we can play. I will get to it in one second, but I'll take this opportunity just to describe the building in a little more detail. With Chirvan, you can see why people are best asset certainly. The building is going to be built in a way that maximizes the indoor outdoor approach. We'll have amenity levels, which you can see right here. We'll have balconies, we'll have outdoor seating, outdoor patios, and it'll create that seamless connection to the Rangers Plaza. And that plaza will certainly become the community gathering place for years and years to come. The residential building will be high quality, the units will be high quality, but they'll be designed and built in a comfortable and approachable manner. And you can get a feel for that in these photos. And then you get a feel for Spark Baltimore in some of these photos. Spark is also under construction. We open soon in our Kansas City project as well. And now the video. Spark for me is creativity and progressive. For me, Spark is productivity. Spark is a place where we can all build Baltimore into something better. We love the community here. We love the energy. I think coming to a world where you've got ad tech companies and ad tech companies and healthcare companies and defense companies kind of in one spot interacting, mixing and mingling, it really provides a really neat energy within the building. That it has given me the ability to transition and grow my company and allow my employees to grow with no issues as well. The course company has been such an important asset to the city. The city has so many unique aspects to it and the downtown needs a cool hip co-working space, and Spark brings that. Spark helps me focus on growing my company and not having to worry about, hey, or the plants water. What's really unique about Spark is we're not just one type of incubator or accelerator or we're not pigeonholed into one type of industry. What our environment is very conducive to innovation, very open space, collaborative space, and it's being able to walk outside and go straight to the Appi Hour. Really, I think all of it was combined or what makes Spark Special in addition to the phenomenal staff that is here. There's a kind of culture to spark, and there's a culture to the companies that are here. We're really proud of the success that we've had with economic development organizations here in Baltimore and we're really looking forward to continue those relationships with other economic organizations across the country. It's trying businesses in helping them to grow immediately. We have about 5,000 employers in the core of downtown but historically many of those employers have been big insurance companies, big law firms, big financial firms and And that's great, but we didn't really appeal to a lot of the small start-ups. There had to be a heart somewhere, and I feel like Spark is part of that heart in Baltimore. So, I think you certainly can see why we're excited for Spark to be a proposed component part of this mixed use building. In summary, it's been an honor to work in Arlington. We are excited to be here for years to come. And this is a big moment, 3,000 additional new jobs, $1.8 billion in economic impact and a big step to realizing that long-held vision for the Arlington Entertainment District. But thank you, Mr. Mayor and City Council. Thank you, Mr. Courish. Thank you, Dr. Bob. So, Mayor and Council, we've talked a little bit. I started with a little bit about the why and what the public policy objectives have been for this group and for the many years. Mr. Tisch and Mr. Cornish are talking to you all about the who and the what. And so now I want to talk to you a little bit about the how. And so the approach that we're using is to integrate statutorily permitted tools that we use for economic development. You've seen them in various phases. You haven't really seen them working together the way they are here. Through chapter 380 grants, TERS increment from TERS 5, the reinvestment of wealth that's been created, also using the ability to issue that wealth issue, TERS bond. So there's no general obligation, debt that's being asked for, it's all wealth generated from within the ters, and then we're able to use another state statute that lets us rebate hotel taxes and sales taxes and mixed beverage taxes back to the Hotel Convention Center project. So there are no new or increased taxes that are being asked for your consideration. These are all existing mechanisms that are building wealth that are being generated from tourism and performance-based revenues from within a TIF district. So without the existence of this project, the incentive streams would not exist. I can assure you that as we talk about in a city manager, we talk about the various competing things that we have, whether we need police officers or firefighters or potholes, et cetera, the dollars that we're talking about putting towards this project that are not private sector dollars, are dollars that don't exist for the city. These are dollars that are earned through rebate because the projects have generated them. These are dollars that I can't choose to spend on potholes or police officers today because of dollars don't exist. We need the project to help create the dollars. And what we're essentially doing through the goodwill of our partners because they're advanced funding all the investment elements is to put that back and actually finance via the private sector support, New Convention Center and do that. Many of our cities across the country use Convention Center's as lost leaders and they have a lot of operational risk. I know that because we operate one now and I'm always worried about what the cost recovery goals are and what the uptime or the downtime is. And in this situation, that's now something that Mr. Titian, his colleagues will worry about. about what the the cost recovery goals are and what the up time of the downtime is. And in this situation, that's now something that Mr. Titian, his colleagues will worry about. They're going to worry about the investment. They're going to worry about how to maximize that investment. And we're going to worry about making sure that the dollars that they're earning from these various state authorized taxes go back to them to help finance the city-owned Convention Center. I think it's a model that's letting us achieve something that's really unique in that sense that we have a publicly-owned privately-financed Convention Center. I think that's a model that you'll find hard to replicate elsewhere in the United States. From a lay-of-the-land perspective, you saw the various pieces, but just kind of giving our residents a perspective from a bird's-eye view. The areas in what we call the J-Lot is where the Lowe's Arlington Hotel Convention Center and parking will all extend there along Randall Mill. It will also connect to Lowe's via that sky bridge so that we'll have all those hotel rooms and all that meeting space connected in air-conditioned space under one roof. The elements to the right side, the office tower and the mixed use building are the part of the project that Mr. Cordish was addressing. And so that gives you that perspective of how we can build the district of Maine and Maine that's been alluded to. From a transactional perspective. There are parallel pieces here. One on the Hotel Convention Center development is we have in your proposed packet right now a proposed economic development incentive or performance agreement where we have connected to it, the hotel lease, the convention center lease and the parking facility lease. There's also the capital improvement plan that you all considered a few moments ago that are part of that overall transaction. On the mixed-use side, we'll be considering a Terce 5 reimbursement agreement as it relates to the Terce 5 wealth that's being created that can be put back towards facilitating that project. Of course, we just considered a few moments ago the first reading on the project and financing plan. We'll be following that up with participation agreements with all the participating entities and then we'll be working in the future too on a parking lease as it relates to the facility parking that's around that mixed use building as we work to take the hores on a lots and go vertical, we'll need to make sure that we've got the right pieces in place. And then live by lows has an economic development and send them great modification that we'll also be talking about here in a few minutes. From a big picture, how does it all fit together? From the hotel and convention center side, you can look at the project element spaces and who owns what. All of these pieces are owned from a land perspective proposed by the city and it's required to in order to tap into the state program that we're doing that's a fundamental requirement so we're not able to privately own the real estate. However, on the improvements, the vertical improvements, the hotel tower will be a privately owned element. It's taxable. The Convention Center, since it's the cities, is tax exempt. Same thing with the parking space and the underground expo space, which is connecting over to our existing ballpark to preserve that connectivity and future opportunities for future growth or maintaining it as parking or potential expo space in that area. The funding as it breaks out looks something like this. Private funding is significant and it cannot be underestimated how invaluable that is from our partners to help make this happen. A lot of projects and cities are asked to own hotels. They're asked to bond fund hotels. They're asked to bond fund convention centers and take on the operating risk. We're not doing that in this case. The private sector is doing that, but what we are doing is rewarding the private sector for taking that risk and putting rebates back to them, which then finance our convention center. So instead of issuing bonds, we're not private sectors doing it for us. We're gonna rebate them based on their performance. Public incentive then is identified there on the hotel 30 year performance based incentive on the hotel via the program that I've alluded to, state and city sales tax, state and city hotel tax, state and city mixed beverage taxes. On the convention center, since it's a convention center asset, they have asked us as owner of the convention center to set aside $500,000 a year as a capital replenishment fund. In case there's major components to go out. Boilers, air conditions, roofs, those kinds of things. So we will set that aside at $500,000 a year. They will take care, lows will take care of all the operating issues, as far as not only the maintenance and operation and insurance, but also the kind of just taking care of the building, the carpet replacement, the tower replacement, the drape updates, the soft good replacement, those kinds of things. We do have a, because of the hotel being a significant investment, those kinds of things. We do have a, because of the hotel being a significant investment, they've requested a 50% rebate on annual property taxes. That's of their total tax bill. They will be paying taxes to the school district, the city county, various entities. And so of their total tax bill during the period of this agreement, we would be rebating back 50% of that. The parking facility is a $25 million reimbursement anticipated to come through the city of the TURRS and they'll be advance funding that. We will be repaying them at about a million and a half dollars a year for about 17 years to take care of that obligation. Again, they're helping us build wealth in the TUR terms which then we will be able to use to repay and then at one time grant for the underground expo space in order to preserve and protect and create additional expo space or CBB President beats on me routinely about that and while this is awesome believe it or not there's more that he would tell me that we need and so this became a very value conscious play where we could preserve some of the existing ballpark space and in some ways be able to use it both for parking and pipe and draped expo space for purposes down the road and keep it connected and unitized with the hotel. This is just a different way to look at what I just said. All the same components are here just in the various narrative as is just a different way to look at what I just said. All the same components are here, just on the various narrative as opposed to a matrix. So let's get through here. Couple other components that I think are important for you to be aware of. We've put in the draft agreement that it's required to be maintained in an upper upscale rating. The terms of the various agreements include 30 years for the hotel ground links and parking lease a 99-year term for the Convention Center itself. We market it and known as Lowes Arlington, which you've heard here already. We'll have a requirement to develop a joint booking arrangement with Lowes for the CVB to help coordinate and book business into there. I expect Lowes to go sell a ton of the businesses. You've heard a little bit themselves, but one or other hoteliers through our CVB to have access to this facility and generate more compression and overall room nights and all the rental into the new commuter center as well. There's some shared naming rights revenue should any be created within the convention center if any different ballrooms or meeting spaces have corporate sponsors or the garage as a corporate sponsor for example. We've got in the proposed agreement that the naming rights would be split 5050 during the term on which we owe reimbursement to the lowest corporation for the garage and then once that's been taken care of that would drop to 25% for the city and then we'd be rewarded in that way. The set aside I spoke to, as well as the developer's responsibility to take care of all the various other items from a routine maintenance perspective. I also have provisions in the agreement to provide for us to have MWBE contracting goals very similar to what we've done on the current Texas live and live by lows, as well as the ballpark project. We want to maintain that momentum and effort to grow economic equality with businesses that are working to observe our community. And so that's in here. We also are agreeing though to some various protections for the hotel developer. One, we would at the end of this period of time that the hotel opens, at least when it opens, we would be ourselves getting out of the direct competition with our convention center. We'll still be operating eSports activities, but not looking to book meetings and conventions into our existing space. We'll be working to transition any employees. Good news is we've got plenty of time. We've got three, three and a half years to work through that. And the agreement contemplates that employees who are interested in moving to lows, who meet their screening requirements, would be able to move to lows if they so chose. I know I have a couple that are probably retired based on the window of time where they're at, would likely have retired regardless. And then I've made a commitment to all of our remaining employees that given this period of time will have time to place them elsewhere in the city organization if they would like to stay here at the city. We have typical lease provisions for operations maintenance insurance and reconstruction provisions and then we are also providing a non-compete provision as it relates to incentivizing any future hotel development. So as you all can imagine you heard earlier we've been working on this for a long time and the last thing we want to do is harm the foundation that's being set by the significant investment by the private sector so we've proposed to agree to a three-year non-compete period where the city would not incentivize any other hotel similarly to what we're talking about here. It does allow that if it's privately developed, people can develop their own property. It also allows that if we have an opportunity that comes along that we can go visit with the lows, folks, and determine whether or not that's a good opportunity. Hopefully it'll be one that they'll be bringing to us and saying let's go to the next phase, but if not, we will not be involved in having active hotel discussions for three years from the period of opening to that window being closed. And after that in years four through nine we have a limited right where we would offer lows the right of first offer to work with us. And if they pass then we would be able to do one additional 300 room hotel during this window. From a mixed use perspective, similar matrix, we have a land ownership that's a little bit to be determined because we don't know for sure just exactly how that's going to work. The agreement provides for it to be able to be leased or private sector owned. So it's a little bit of a TBD. Of course, the parking facility will be city owned since it's publicly financed. And it will be on city land. Ownership of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city an additional $10 million investment as well in the parking facility because as the mixed use has, we wanna make sure we have a public parking spaces. So there's money, incremental money in the project for 400 private parking spaces, all to be in one facility. The way that we'll finance the pieces of this particular project are through two pieces. One on the private elements that is 100% of the Terr's increment that's being collected. So we're providing a Terr's revenue stream as they take on the risk and build the wealth. They're incentivized to go and earn more and do more and build more. So it's really a financial mechanism to reward the private sector investment. That said there is a one-time initial grant to do a couple of things. One is to take care of advancing engineering and architectural drawings, as well as to kind of cover some of the early year terms modeling to where there's a little bit of an upside down window. So we'll be able to kind of bridge that to where there's improved ability to perform in a positive way. But if you know that said, if it doesn't perform positively, that's the private sector risk that's coming here. So if Ter's revenue goes down, private sector has accepted that responsibility and that challenge. And if it goes up, then we will be working together with them to continue to build our entertainment district. And then the parking facility, the one area that we would be looking to do, financing of public and infrastructure here are two areas we will. This is one through a Terz bond, not a general obligation bond, to finance the garage at $33 million estimated costs, it's reimbursement basis. So if it's not that expensive, we'll be able to save a little money there, but it'll be not to exceed that amount. And then two other areas that we're taking a look at, Terr's bonds, one is for a previously committed to agreement that we have as a pay-as-you-go contract for Johnson Creek Improvements. We would fix that out and go ahead and complete our obligation on that during the Johnson Creek Park Improvements. and then on general public improvements that are around the various development sidewalk street light landscape and you know connections and easements and such that need to be secured through that area at six seven and a half million dollars in that area. On the mixed use a couple of things the tours extended to go through 2053. The bonds would be available for the garage and public improvements and the creek. And then we are committing 100% of that upside to the development so that we are not having to guarantee or assure any downside. And then we will work together as the TERS grows. One time, economic development grant towards the project would come through a combination of various resources that we have of legally available funds between Innovation and Venture Capital and Coopment that's owed to the General Fund. Water Department revenues, reserved dollars, should they be needed, et cetera, that were able to put together towards this project. Projects got to be located as being, or marketed as being located in Arlington and the office building will commence once we have tenant, appropriate tenant secured. And in addition, on the MWBE contracting requirements here, now I do we have on the mixed use a 25% agreement. We have proposed an agreement that we have at least one of the component pieces of the project MWBE Prime Contractor. I can't require it because legal parameters won't let me, but we have best efforts to secure a prime MWBE contractor and one of the project components. And I know that's an initiative in our minority contracting community that we'd love to try to advance. From an economic impact perspective has been alluded to, 3300 jobs direct and direct and induced. A lot of expenditures on sales and lodging. And we project even minus the terms contributions that I've talked about. Still having net benefits to the city of over $46 million over the 30-year life of the agreement. And there are other taxing jurisdictions, county, hospital, school district, several hundred million dollars in net benefits to those various jurisdictions. To just summarize, we've had a long-standing policy and vision to do what we're talking about tonight. We believe it can boost tourism and bring wealth into our community that doesn't currently exist. Allow our CBB and our lowest partners to book larger groups of business. And as evidence of lost opportunities in the last five years, we've lost out to over $345,000,000, room nights and $49 million of revenue because we didn't have the right infrastructure in place. So if we as we continue to to induce private sector investment we'll be able to do that with industry leaders. I think you can see that from Mr. Cornish and Mr. Tish and then on the least on the hotel side in particular I know that we've the team has secured initial financial commitments so that they are very confident that the project will be able to start very soon. And we're not just announcing something we think is going to happen, but something that we think has a very real ability to start happening. So Mayor appreciate the time. It's a big project, a big vision, complicated transaction. I wanted to spend the time to make sure that we were trying to help our residents understand how it works. And I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have and ask for your consideration, I think, on the next two items on your agenda, which deal with the Economic Development Performance Agreement for both the Hotel and Convention Center and for the mixed use office building. Any questions from Council? Mr. Yolverton. Okay, we more call upon? Councilmember Moeys. I want to say thank you, Trey, for all the work you've done on this. It's been exceptional that you may be able to actually educate all of us on this process because I know other cities have taken different routes. This is new for me, new for many of us, and you've made us feel comfortable with it, which I think is a huge task. I want to thank Mr. Tish and Mr. Courish because you took the time to come here and speak to us several times today and give our citizens and our community the chance to get to know you. Because we're confident that we've selected the right partners for our public-private partnership and I think now that more of our citizens can also feel the same way and appreciate all that you're bringing to Arlington. So thank you again, thank you everyone and I'm very excited about the project. Any other questions, comments? Okay, Dr. Wesley. Oh, there it is. Thank you, Mayor. And thank you, Tray, and thank you to our partners. This is a big vision. I think we're all pretty excited about it. And I think we see clearly the economic benefits that it would bring to our city, but I also want to emphasize the benefits that it would bring to our community. We had a presentation this afternoon on neighborhood services and our police, our fire, all of our services here in our city. We're able to provide quality services without increasing property taxes, without increasing other sources of revenue because we have such spectacular economic development. And so my kudos and then I want to just applaud the effort of the staff and everyone who was involved. And I want our citizens to know that we're all going to benefit from this, not just the tourist. Thank you. Council Member Peale. You know, in 2000, I sat at the Arlington Convention Center for a program called Visioning 2025. There may have been some people in this room who were there for that. And it was a group of Arlington residents from all different stakeholders who came together create a vision of what the wanted Arlington to look like in the year 2025. And I think one of your slides actually was developed at that particular event so long ago. And I remember vividly people saying they wanted something special around the ballpark. They didn't want us to do something that was average or boring or just like everything else. They wanted something special because that area was deemed to be the diamond in Arlington. And then when we came to the 2008 recession and our surrounding cities, the major ones of the east and the west faced major budget shortfalls, the city of Arlington was not hurt like that. That's because the people of Arlington and the citizens of Arlington, the voters of Arlington and the staff and its leaders, including some who aren't on Council anymore but are here tonight and worked very, very hard to bring this to fruition. Decided to invest in tourism. And we draw people from all over the country and the Metriplex to come spend money here. And because they spend money here, we were able to sustain city services during the greatest recession, since the Great Depression, not layoff people, keep police and fire strong, and continue to make this a great place to live. Tonight we're going to another step. We're reinvesting in the thing that protects us from economic downturns. And my dad is sitting in his house on Little Road tonight. And he's 75 years old and he's retired. And I can look at him in the eye, and I can tell him confidently that the decision we're making tonight protects him and his home. Because we are going to bring more of other people's money, as our mayor likes to say, to this city to create a revenue stream that stabilizes funding for essential city services, that keeps people's homes homes valuable because it's usually their biggest asset keeps them safe keeps our schools funded and protects all of us in our So when we cast this vote tonight it's because we love this city and we're doing it for every single person in this city And I'm proud of all the hard work that's gone forth to make this happen. I'm proud to have such great partners and good people who are going to work hard with us. And I look forward to continuing to grow from this even to something even greater. Because Arlington is a special place. And every single person who lives in this city should walk around this country, step up to people and go, hi, I'm Andrew Peel, I'm from Arlington, Texas, and I people go, woo. And that's what this is a part of. So anyway, I'm proud to vote for his tonight, and I'm proud of all the hard work, and I'm proud of the wisdom of Arlington citizens to make the investments that made this possible. Thank you. Got council member for our mires. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mayor. I just want to say, echo my colleagues, thanks to the Tish's, the courtes, to tray to all of the partnerships. Everyone in this room who if worked so hard to bring. Well, we've heard tonight called a bold vision. We've heard best in class. We've heard building a vision for the future together. And that's at the heart of what this community is about, is building a vision together, a public private partnership that is going to build a future. And I got very excited earlier today in the work session and I must pull this out again tonight because I do not want to miss an opportunity to point something out. This is not just a hotel. This is not just a convention center. This is not just a building. You have a spark center. That is building on the intellectual capital that we have in the city. We have a small city within this city with UT Arlington. And we have faculty and students and future students who will be drawn to this location because they know they won't just get a degree but they will have a future built in that Spark Center. And I said it today, you sparked my attention with that. And as an educator and a lifelong learner, I want to applaud you for that. And I too am excited about taking this bold step together into the future. And knowing full well that the future is late forward, not just in the areas we've been discussing. But the generations to come who will benefit from the small business development that will be the catalyst. In addition to all our big businesses, this Spark Center will spark the next generation of small businesses that will drive this economy and our city. So with that, I want to thank you. I look forward to casting vote for yes, for our future. Council Member Nunez. Thank you, Mayor. Courage, when you look it up in the dictionary, is to take a difficult action in the face of fear. Well, I've only been at this job six months. And my entire life prior to this was dealing with patients, their lives, and dealing with health care system organizations and business. So I come from a little bit of a business background, but I'll tell you, this is scary. When you talk about the big numbers, and I think of all the people that live in my district, and their fears in mine are that our city's infrastructure and our demographics are slowly aging That much of our youth has left for greener pastors because of the misconception of what it means to live in Arlington My son moved to Ohio for that reason. I was happy, but my daughter chose to stay I fear about having enough money to keep our first responders fairly compensated and keeping them here. I fear that because we're a landlocked city, we cannot just expand laterally like some of our sister cities can in order to raise income and increase our tax base. We're landlocked. 56 years ago, as the slide said, our ancestors, you're not dead yet, Richard or Miss Wildman, they made a decision to make this community an entertainment and a tourist destination. And it's those dollars is Mr. as my esteemed colleague Andrew Peele just said it's what allowed us to weather a terrible economic storm that hurt a lot of people it hurt the poor people that live in my district even more so I am going to support this wholeheartedly, 100% for all the above reasons that have been listed. You know, going forward in time, I want to secure the financial city of this future, I mean the financial future of this city. This is in my opinion one of the best ways to do it. So thank you for all those who've come before me. I am one of the best ways to do it. So thank you for all those who've come before me. I am one of the rookies here. I feel very blessed to live in this city. So even though I have fears about when I hear numbers of $800 million, wow. I'm going to vote for this. I'm going to support it. Thank you. Council Member Sutton. Thank you, Mayor. I just got elected in May and I was up to believe that City gives a lot of money to billionaires and had no rhyme or reason why. Well, today I've been a long, a long learning curve for me, the learned assistive, hot works. In order to sustain our services, we have to generate revenue. We have two main revenue streams, property tax and sales tax. And with this investment, I'm proud to be part of this process where we're able to invest $1 for every $10 our partners invest in. Thank you, Mr. Courtish, Mr. Tissett. Thank you for partnering with our city. What that means to us is we have an opportunity to provide our citizens with the top notch services that we enjoy every day. And my goal to our citizen was to improve their quality of life. This translate into improving our quality of life, but not only that, it allows NWB programs to exceed our expectation, but also to possibly bring on a prime contract. I'm really pleased with it. I can support the project, and thank you for what you're doing in the city of Arlington. Thank you, Mr. Sutton. Any other council members, anything? All right. Seeing none, I'll turn to Mr. Sutton. Any other council members? Anything? All right. Seeing none, I'll turn to Mr. Buskin. Are there any speakers on this item? Yes, sir. We have one speaker in support on this item, as well as three non-speakers in support. The first speaker is Gerald Alley. Good morning. I'm good afternoon. Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening. It's been a long day today. Mr. Daly, if you can state your name and address your name. I'm Gerald Daly. I'm at 606 La Chalet Court in Arlington and been on resident here for 40 years. I'd like to say that I really appreciate you all allowing the town for me to speak. And I want to give a quick look background from a perspective where I come from. After being here 40 years, I'm proud to have a wife that works at Tarrant County College Southeast Campus, Music Professor. I have three children that graduated from the elementary middle school in high school in Lamar, have given the honor to be the chair of the Audit Commission Visitor Bureau. Thank you very much. I believe Audit is one of the greatest CIS-0. And I've always promoted, I guess, recently, Mary here at Meet's seat. We should be calling DFWA because A is just as strong as the other two cities to our eastern west. I don't think we've been able to sail that yet, but I believe it is. And from my perspective, ten years ago, we developed a small hotel in the entertainment dish, which is the Hilton Garden. And from that, we found out it was to first new development hotel in about 18 years. But more than that, we have been very much involved in the growth and entertainment district from the perspective of business, but the perspective of seeing how other business can grow from it. And as a local business person, I'm very proud to say one of my most proudest moments be involved with the low hotel in Texas, Laven, a range of stadium. And why I really like to thank is Alex Tish, Reed and Blake Cortish and also my new friend Scott to manage at a hotel. This is just not the beginning. This is the journey that we need to make and it makes me feel good that all of it is going to be the dream city of Maryl, he's talked about. And that's why I believe, wholeheartedly, we need to build this project, not only to help the things that you all mentioned, but also help the other businesses that's going to benefit from the rising tide. I believe we need to do this now. And I see the city's move at pace that just just amazes me that we are the game changing city and we are the center of the university and we will be the center of the universe for years to come so I support this and I thank you about involved in it thank you thank you mr. Allen those are our non speakers are Tom where Mike Jarrett, and George Zang. And that concludes the non-speakers. Okay, with that, we have 12 to resolution. Actually, we have 12 to three that we need to start with. 12 to three resolution, hotel and convention center, economic development, performance agreement. And I'll entertain a motion for. three that we need to start with, 12, three resolution, hotel and convention center, economic development, performance agreement, and I'll entertain a motion for it. If I may, I've made a motion for approval, but if I understood Missalus correctly, I'd like to make a motion for approval of 12.3 and 12.4 since the presentation we had just covered in both. Yes. And that's all we had just covered in those. Yes, and that's our out in the police. Yes, sir it is. Okay, so we have a motion for Mr. Shepherd here for 12, 3 and 12, 4 approval. And we have a second from Council Member Moise. Please cast your votes. Member Moeys, please cast your votes. Motion passes unanimously. This is a milestone here for our community. This is an opportunity for us to continue to move ahead. And then the opportunity here for us to flourish. And this is also a vision that began way back in the 90s when the ballpark in Arlington was first being worked on. And the opportunity for the ballpark in Arlington to be that marquee in which development occurred where people lived, worked and played around that stadium. And thank you, Mary Green, there for that and so many others, because so many of us were really looking forward to that vision. Well, the ballpark in Arlington was incredible, and still is. And as you can see here, is going to be reused in a very big way, and that's already underway. However, different things happen from the economy there to different owners. There are the Rangers from one thing to another and nothing happened there until AT&T Stadium came forward and in 2009 AT&T Stadium there came forward and created an incredible special event center. But then after that, nothing happened then for a while. And of course now we have beginning Texas Live that brought in the largest entertainment complex in Texas that has exceeded all expectations. And then we also have following that up, the luxury hotel that was a vision that we all wanted in live by lows. They proved out the concept. They proved to Arlington. And it has been exciting to see the expression on our vistas' faces when they come into that and experience the live concept. It's also exciting when we as Arlington residents experience that and see what Arlington can do. You know, we have become known as the Can-Do City. We're working now on We Can and We Do and we want to continue this path so that we can move forward not only in tourism, but more importantly, we can move forward our economy so that we can provide quality services to our neighborhood. Many of our council members, you heard that. That's a theme. That's what we do when we're investing in tourism, when we're investing in jobs, it then gives us the revenue to be able to invest in police and fire our streets. There are water and keeping our city up and investing in our neighborhoods. Well, Arlington does tourism almost better than anyone, and it's been demonstrated there throughout the years. And now this is a step that really puts us in the Convention Center business in a huge way. It also provides an opportunity for that vision of live work and play when you add to that residential units that are here. And then it also adds to more office there in it but it's also not just any office. You heard it said office at Maine and Maine, imagine the opportunity for a business to locate right across the street from live by lows, Lowes Arlington and Texas Live and the new phase two of Texas Live that will be there with the retail and restaurants adding to what is already done with Texas Live. Amazing, amazing, it is a while. And I think this is probably a moment in which I would like, it's not often that you have two prominent gentlemen together like we do with Alex Tish and Reed Cordish. It's also not often when you see the checks that are being written here to invest in a community anywhere. And of course, we appreciate your investment. So I'd like to ask Mr. Tish and Mr. Cordish to come up, because Miss Cape Art asked a very important question here today, and I'd like you to repeat that question, Miss Cape Art, about where we're at and what they believe there with it because I think it's very important for our citizens to hear this response. Miss Cape Art. Thank you, Mayor. So this afternoon, I was curious, and you guys did a great job of giving us just the right amount of information that had your investment in Arlington met or is on track to meet your expectation. Well, as I mentioned this afternoon, I think that is a perfect question. And the answer is that we absolutely are on the right track with what's been created to date. And I mentioned that that is in two parts. One is from a quality standpoint. We are being noticed around the country and being held up as the example, the premier example of how to do mixed use, entertainment, hospitality in stadium districts. And it's never been more clear than when the Major League Baseball owners were here staying at live by Lowe's and touring through Texas live. So from that standpoint, we are certainly meeting our expectations and hopefully meeting yours as well. From a result standpoint, on any metric that you would judge it against, Texas live and Alex will speak to live by lows is performing at a very high level. And so that creates two critical things for us to consider. The first one is it gives us an opportunity to raise the bar that much higher and through what we've discussed today and what was just been approved, we can put ourselves on the national map and become a true national and international destination of the highest order. So that's the most critical and most important thing. The second part of it is it's just pivotal that we continue to do that, that we continue to raise a bar, that we continue to invest, and that we continue to raise a bar, that we continue to invest, and that we continue to add that type of density and amount of uses that will bring people in. We're in a national competition, and we're in a national competition for visitation, and for interest, and for dollars. And we're only going to win that competition through what we've done tonight and that's having the courage collectively and together to invest and invest in the future. And so I commend this Council for having that courage and vision. It's our privilege and honor to be your partner in it, Alex. Thanks for you to me. And I think when I answer the question this afternoon, I think the short answer is yes. The rationale behind it is that, when we underwrote this hotel or made the investment decision, we said we have a really good idea of how the hotel is gonna perform on the nights when either the stadiums are filled, the math is simple, 100,000 people in AT&T stadium, 300 room hotel, we could probably figure out, we'll probably do pretty well, and depending on what the rates will be fine. How is the hotel gonna perform? The other 250 nights here, there isn't much compression in the market, because there isn't a big event that sells out the stadiums. And I think what we've seen is that it's performed, you know, probably better than our expectations. And the rationale being that, and I think it was, I think I probably said it in every slide that I put up, but the rationale being that the demand generators are here. And they've probably been tapped more than anyone expected them to on non-event nights, but they've been tapped by people who don't stay in this market. They've been tapped by people who want to see Globe Life Park, want to see a rangers game, want to see a Cowboys game, want to see Billy Joel, want to see Kenny Chesney, but they drive in and then they leave that night. And I think what we've seen is that on those nights, people really want to tour those stadiums because they're iconic American things. And no better way to prove that we're pleased with our investment to show kind of where we are right now and what we're talking about on this table so obviously we're very pleased. Mr. Tish I'd be remiss if I didn't say thank you for the amount of money that you're investing and believing in Arlington and so grateful to the Tish family and Los Hotels because you also have exhibited an incredible high level of service here at Live By Loads that has just captured the imagination of the vistas and citizens here that have been using that and thank you very much. Thanks and you know we have 10,000 team members across the United States that are responsible for that along with the people you know in this room. Mr. Cordish. You stepped the podium. Mr. Cordish. Yes, sir. Thank you for exceeding expectations in Texas Live and for opening the door for every hotel you're in America wanting to come here, but for us to be able to have the best in class here with low hotels is a phenomenal thing. And then if you could share with us a little bit about what happened when the 30 major league baseball owners came to Arlington here just a few weeks ago. Yeah, you're right. And that it was a pretty incredible moment for us as a company. And it should be for you as a city. Because some of the most sophisticated business people in the country, they're constantly obviously traveling to each other's parks and their reaction was nothing short of their jaw-stropping. And they couldn't believe the quality and the excitement. And then they went on and on and loved how seamless it was, how this entertainment area of Texas live and live by loves flowed so beautifully into Globe Life Park and now Globe Life Field to Cowboys AT&T Stadium, the visual connections and the pedestrian connections. And when we started to describe to them what might be coming soon, what we have now taken a big step on tonight, they were that much more amazed. So it was a pretty incredible moment. It was like the Medal of Honor Museum, it was a very validating moment for everything that we're working collectively so hard to achieve. Ms. Cortesh, thank you for exceeding expectations, as I mentioned, and then thank you for what you're about to do and working with us to go out and find tenants for this office building that's going to be in an incredible location in the center of the country. And then also thank you for exceeding expectations on the mixed use development. We saw the renderings now, and we're looking forward to seeing courtish keep that promise. They always say they exceed expectations and thank you we're looking forward to what happens there on both of those projects. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. These will be spectacular projects and we're going to get them done and we're getting them done quickly. Thank you. Thank you. Now. you. Now, in closing, they're, you know, it's amazing how things come in three, but we had a watershed moment here, and Mr. Cornish handed at it there when we landed the National Medal of Honor Museum, and it was an effort in which all of Arlington came together. And I want to publicly thank the Chamber of Commerce here there for all that you did. And then so many groups of people that came together. And then it left Arlington and went to Tarrant County. And we had Judge Whitley and Commissioner Allen and many working throughout Tarrant County, we had Judge Whitley and Commissioner Allen and many working throughout Tarrant County are friends and for Earth. Then it spread throughout North Texas there and it was an amazing partnership and then it spread throughout Texas and the pride of Texas and bringing the National Medal of Honor Museum. And then at the end, I loved what General Brady said, who was a National Medal of Honor recipient. He said that we have made the best choice to come to Arlington, Texas and the heartland of America because of the heart of the people. Well, then right after that, which was a very exciting moment, we host a very unusual event just a few weeks later, and that was the E-Sports Awards, which is the Oscars of E-Sports that was held in London last year. And we had people from all over the world coming here to that event. And they provided the testimonials too of for how great our entertainment district was, but more importantly, how great our people were in treating that. And then a great moment happened when the head of Esports Awards from Great Britain was asked why Arlington? And he said, of course, Arlington. It is the premier entertainment district in the heartland of America. He said it. And then he also said, and we are coming back two more years. We love Texas. It was a phenomenal thing. And that was international exposure there and validation again of what we're doing. And then tonight, we build more. We come together now and continue to continue to build this entertainment district because of the vision of our citizens that have been there for decades. There is being realized as we move ahead and really help our citizens realize their American dreams in so many different ways. So looking forward to the future and Councilmember Pills said it best. Whenever you walk around, hold your head high because we are Arlington, Texas. But we are a city that believes in working with our neighbors. And what we did tonight, raised the bar for all of North Texas and it is going to help the entire North Texas area and the entire state of Texas because of what we did right here tonight. However, Mr. Yevinton will remind me that we're not done yet. Are we Mr. Yevinton? So you want to move us in to 12-5, I guess? I think we have two more items. We need to consider that are compatible pieces to the work that we're doing today. I'm gonna address the next one and then Treasurer Ethan Close will address the last item. So the next item is for a amendment to our current economic incentives agreement on the existing live by-laws hotel. As we are kind of moving the resources around that we've invested in and kind of gotten them pointed in the in the right direction. We need to make a modification to our existing agreement in the lines of the terms modification that we're making increasing the city's contribution by 30% from 70 to 100% for the term of the turs. It adds the turs as a party to our agreement because what we're gonna do is flow the money from the city to the turs to the developer. And so it kinda keeps all the things pointed in the right direction. So we'll add the turs as a party. The city will pay the turs directly. And then 100% of the city increment will go to the turs. And then it will be available to the developer from the TERS. That's what this amendment to the existing agreement does. Okay, any questions for Mr. Yeoverton? Council members shepherd. Other one? Okay. Okay. Any questions for Mr. Yeoverton? Okay. Okay. Any questions from Mr. Yoverton? Okay. Then I'll ask Mr. Buskin, are there any speakers? Yes sir, we have one speaker in support and three non-speakers and first speaker is Gerald Ali. Okay. The non-speakers are Mike Jarrett, Georgie Zhang, and Tom Ware. Thank you. Okay, with that, I'll ask for a motion and Miss Salis can they make those together? Separately because... Okay. So we need a call for a motion for 12-5. We have a Council Member K-PART making a motion and a second from Council Member Odin Wesley, please cast your votes. Motion passes. Next, we have the resolution expressing intent to reimburse certain capital budget expenditures, and I'll call upon Mr. Ethan Claus. Good evening, Mayor and council members. Tonight as you heard in the long presentation and you voted on in 12.4 there are a number of publicly financed projects that we will be doing via Terz bonds. What 12.6 allows us to do is actually start building those projects, the garage for the mixed use. The Johnson Creek that was in agreement, the all passed back in June, and some public infrastructure in the TERS. It allows us to start building those and then eventually issue the debt to the TERS bonds over the next two years to reimburse us for those. If you have any questions, I'm here to answer them. Any questions Mr. Claus? I don't see any questions, but thank you for all your work, Ethan, really appreciate it. Thank you. With that, I'll call for a, well, I better ask Mr better ask secretary are there any speakers on this item no sir there are no speakers on this item now I'll call for a motion we have a motion for approval from council member Nunez second from council member Moe's police gesture votes Councilmember K. Parton, P.O., your votes please? Well, I think this might be a good one here. All in favor of this motion, please stand. We've been sitting a long time. And now, I think maybe the rest of us all have to stand. We've been sitting a long time. And now, I think maybe the rest of us all have a stand. The rest of us are investment for the draft and I'll tell you a thank you all very very very very very very much. Thank you. Thank you. Now, there are some other thank yous that need to take place. Here, one is to our outstanding Convention of Visitors Bureau President, Mr. Ron Price. Ron, thank you to you and your staff for all that you've done here and all that you're going to do here in this product, but really appreciate you and what is happening there in the Arlington, CVB. Y'all know that it's grown a lot. We anticipate probably already we're right around 17 million visitors a year. You add another three million that's anticipated here. I'm pushing it on our run. It's a 20 million because our goal is to double our tourism because it's OPMPM other people's money. And then as you can see there was a tremendous amount of effort being put forth there with our legal staff there and I just want to thank you, Terri Somali there and others from the legal staff that went through all of this, the structure and incredible agreement. And then the same way with our finance department led by Mr. Finley, thank you so much for all of the long work that being done because it's a game changer. And thank you for that. And then Mr. Parijon, who has burned the midnight oil so many times on various different things and on economic development. And I think there is going to be a little bit of a rest for finance and for legal. But I'm afraid the economic development that falls underneath Mr. Parijon, he is going to be a very busy man as we work there to fill that office building that is going to be such an important asset there. And then, y'all, we are blessed by Mr. Trey Yovrton, who had the knowledge to be able to present each and every part of this complicated agreement here and really appreciate the many hours and devotion here because this man not only is our city manager, he loves our city and he's committed to it and he could be anywhere and Trey thank you for being right here. And then I've got to say thank you to this council because they spent a lot of hours in studying and working there and going through this. And I appreciate the effort being put forth. And then also the message that that put, because it didn't start out, and I know, we all worked there and worked through it, and it became that, but I hope it's a great message to see that we are stepping forward in a unanimous way there for the success of these projects, the entertainment district, but more importantly, our community is a whole as we bring in revenue to help our neighborhoods all through our city. And so thank you again to our partners there. And thank you for believing in us. And then also proving out the concept so that now we could go to the really big projects Which is what these are and we look forward to many great nights in Orlington and you all know is this not a Great night in Orlington isn't it pretty awesome pretty awesome There is one last person to thank you, haven't mentioned, and that's you. How many times have I known you're on the phone in your truck at seven in the morning? How many times have I seen emails from you at 11 at night? You are an example of servant leadership who lives, eats and breathes for the purpose of serving his fellow residents of the city that he loves. You are selfless. Thank you for all your work. Well, in closing on this item, Andrew, thank you and thank you to everyone here. There was a moment there, and y'all have heard me say it before, is that my wife told me that one of the most important things for us to do is to create a city that everyone's kids and grandkids want to live in. And that moment is making, and yes, the noise that was coming over here was from my kids and my grandkids. They just, they left there and we missed them, but also Karen, thank you for reminding us that everything we do really is generational. Here's for the future of Arlington. There with it. So with that, I'd like to move over to Mr. Shepherd. Bill mayor, I think all has been said at this point. So I guess the only people that haven't been thinking I would like to reiterate all the things that go around and catch Miss Wyman before she leaves. Oh, Mayor Green has already left. But as Trey alluded to, this is a project that has been many, many, many years in coming. And I think we all owe a great debt gratitude to the council, the people that said at this dius for all the years that preceded this action because we wouldn't be here today, had it not been for the persistence of those that said at this Dias, that during those times, we, I know over my tenure here, we looked at three or four different transactions that weren't the right fit. And so it took patients, it took wisdom, and it took foresight. And I want to thank all those that set the dies tonight. So in addition to all the other, thank you, said we've had. Council member Shepard, you guys stayed the course before I ever came in of not buying a hotel and running a hotel here in the city, which is what many of our cities around us have done. And now those fruits have paid off because we have the right partner at the right time with a much better developer's agreement than we would have. And I thought it was fitting that the first motion was actually made and seconded by Councilmember Shepherd and Councilmember K-PART here who have really set through this for decades here and see that and then of course again that vision all began way back in the early 90s and now we're seeing it happen and then it's interesting how success actually spurns more success and more synergy and we're seeing that in all aspects of our city where people are doing extraordinary things. Now we do not want to forget that you know it's so hard. Yes, it was the most philanthropic partner in this city who actually provided the initial spark for all of this. That's a great word and that is the Texas Rangers. And Rob, thank you for setting through this and not falling asleep because he's heard this so many times, but thank you to you and the staff of the Texas Rangers. And then Mr. Ray Davis and Mr. Neal Liebman, Mr. Bob Simpson, I could go on on. They provided incredible vision. They provided the resources and the business acumen that we had never seen before from ownership of the Rangers and We're not done yet. Are we more to come stay tuned, but please pass that on to mr. Davis mr. Liebman Okay, thank you very much. Appreciate it. Okay now Anybody else want to who else did we leave out? Citizens of allrington. All right, awesome. But let's see. Well, it's not changing. Dr. Myers, did you want to say something? Yes, sir. Okay, all right, great. All right, now we'll move to citizen participation and I'll come to Mr. Buskin to go over speaker guidelines. Thank you, Mayor. Citizen participation gives the public an opportunity to make comments or address concerns which are not posted on the evening's agenda. However, please understand that the Mayor and Council are not permitted by law to respond or address your concerns at this time, as these items are not included on the posted council agenda for this evening. The mayor and council may only ask clarifying questions and or direct staff to take appropriate action. Speakers will be given three minutes to make their comments. Okay, the first speaker is Christopher Robertson. Mr. Robertson, if you could state your name and address for the record. Absolutely. My name is Christopher Gene Robertson, the 6700 Potomac Parkway on Consectiv, 76017. I'm here to speak on behalf of the companies that I represent for the Arlington Petty Cabin and EV program. I was watching the live feed earlier today, and noticed that all of you anonymously just kind of agreed to shook hands that the program would no longer accept applications. I'm here because I care. I'm here because if you were to do that you were you would break your own ordinance and my the people that I represent the six companies which is 60% of the market for the petty cabs present the six companies, which is 60% of the market for the petty gaps. Do have legal advisors and we'll take action. That's the part that they want to me to tell you. What I'm here to tell you on my own behalf is I am one of Arlington's native sons. The ones that didn't go for the greener pastures because I thought they were right here. And I'm about to get pushed out of this position that I've worked really hard, and I've tried really hard to make this thing work by just being ignored. And there's been systemic problems with this whole thing, and they've come on both sides. Not just ours, but the ordinance itself. I've tried hard to work with Mindy, Carmichael, Keith Brooks, Keith Nelton. When he was here, I've been hard to work with Mindy, Carmichael, Keith Brooks, Keith Melton. When he was here, I've been part of this for going on nine years. I have a wife, and now I have another son. All right, I'm a first son, another Arlington-born son. And I don't want to go anywhere, but I'm about to lose my job, my company, like just because I don't think we've been properly represented. And I've sent you tonight and I see these gentlemen talk about the things, the changes that are happening to the city. I think they're great. I think it's awesome. And I want to be a part of it. I know the people that I represent want to be a part of it. I know the people that I represent want to be a part of it too. And I think on both sides of the aisle here we can try a little harder to make this thing work because I think it's one of the most valuable programs the city of Arlington could have in its entertainment district if ran properly. And I'm just here to tell you I'm willing to work if you are. That's all. Thank you, Mr. Robertson. We'll have staff get with you. Thank you. Thank you. Next we have Chris Sebalas. Good evening, Mr. Mayor of City Council. My name is Chris of I. Some President of the Orange and Missal Patrolman Association. Staying with me is our board of directors. Brett Warman, Angela Bell, Trenton Fight and Greg Parker. We are here to provide each of you with a copy of a recent disciplinary arbitration ruling which disparages the image of the Orange and Police Department and the Department's Internal Affairs Division. In the past few years, we have witnessed an attempt to make known, a longstanding, unwritten practice in which officers and supervisors are not held to the same standard. We have had an assistant chief provide false allegations in an interim affairs investigation against a veteran officer as ruled by a state office of administrative hearing judge yet he has never been disciplined. We have had a deputy chief order the destruction of a governmental record in a lieutenant who shredded the document, namely a use of force, that was part of an interim affairs investigation against an officer who was under investigation for non-acceptive use of force that was part of an internal affairs investigation against an officer who was under investigation for non-acceptance use of force complaint. However, that deputy chief, Lieutenant, only received a minor discipline not for destroying the document, but for not ensuring that it went up through the proper training command. We have had a sergeant over our training unit, falsified training document that was sent to the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement, a government of agency, yet he only received eight hours of suspension and retired honorably a few weeks later. Now you have a copy of an Arbor Trading Judges ruling which states the forming internal investigation report relied upon in this case case, an issuing discipline, is flawed, biased, and unreliable. And the supervisors relied on the internal affairs report, along with its facts, conclusion, and issuing 80 hours of suspension, and at the hearing had to admit that this internal affairs report was flawed, biased, and unreliable, and felt considered mitigating circumstances. The judge also ruled that this hearing showed a disparate treatment and obvious formal privilege that rank has within the Allington Police Department. It is because of these past incidents mentioned here tonight and the ruling which you both have that we touched on briefly, or that all of you have that we touched on briefly, that we have a few, Mr. Mayor and this Council to order an independent investigation into the internal affairs division into its policies, procedures and common practices and to examine the disparage treatment in which officers are disciplined compared to how supervisors are disciplined. We ask this council for the outside investigation because as you read the arbitration ruling, you will see that several policy evaluations were ignored not just by the internal affairs investigators but also by Chief Johnson, who is ultimately responsible to ensure that the Internal Affairs Division conducts fair, thorough, and impartial investigations, which in our opinion he failed to do, which is why our association has filed a complaint with the City Manager's Office for his actions for lack thereof. We hope that this council will help restore the faith into our Internal Affairs Division for us, the the officers and the citizens of Arlington. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next we'll move to announcements. Mr. Buskin. Thank you Mayor. I'd like to remind our residents Arlington City Council evening meetings are rebroadcast on Sundays at 6 p.m. and on Wednesday and Saturday mornings at 6.30 a.m. The council's afternoon work sessions are rebroadcast on Sundays at 1 p.m. and on Wednesday and Saturday mornings at 6.30 a.m. The Council's afternoon work sessions are rebroadcast on Sundays at 1 p.m. Wednesdays at 1.30 p.m. and on Saturdays at 6 p.m. You can also watch the meetings online anytime at www.arlingtontx.gov. Any other announcements? Dr. Odom Wesley. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Any other announcements? Dr. Odom Wesley. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. As we have done for over 25 years, Arlington is getting ready to celebrate the Martin Luther King birthday and national holiday, January 17 through 20th. The kickoff event is this Wednesday, the 18th at Texas Live in the Chaktao Lounge. And this is an opportunity for citizens to volunteer. So visit the website if you'd like to volunteer to work on the weekends projects. And if you would like to submit a service project for our volunteers to tackle on Monday, January the 20th, which is the service day of the event. January 17th through 20th, will observe Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday. Thank you. Thank you. Any other announcements? Seeing none and seeing no other business, this great meeting of the City Council will stand adjourned and thank you all for coming to that.