The meeting of the Allenton City Council will be called to order on Tuesday, December 11, 2018 at 11.07 AM. The City Council will now close, will now go into close session at 11.07 on December 11, 2018 and accordance with the following sections of the government code, Chapter 551. 551.071 consultation with attorney. Section 551.072, deliberation regarding real property. 551.074 deliberation regarding personnel matters, and 551.8087 deliberation regarding economic development negotiations. you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you I'll call upon Mr. Trae over to our city manager. No, that we're continuing our quarterly updates on the project that everybody can watch going on out there. You all have attached to I think to your agenda section as well as I think an email PDF and folks who want to see this document will be able to see it on our website as well soon but it's our quarterly printed update which hits a lot of the highlights and the milestones of the project a lot of interesting factoid type data and other material things that are here for everyone to kind of be a little bit about what's been going on as well as where we're headed. I just want to highlight one one thing on behalf of the city and then turn it over to Mr. Mattwood who can speak more broadly about the overall execution of the project. But as you all know, one of the largest roles of the city besides the development permitting side of this and inspection side is the financing side and through current time based on our report, we've committed $274 million towards the project to date. And so we're a little bit over half of our financial contribution with about half half of the way we've done as far as time goes on the project so I want to make sure we're everybody know we're watching those dollars flow out make sure we're going to good bricks and mortar types of activities on the project to execute it and then Mr. Mattwick can talk about how that brick and mortar goes together so Rob and I'll turn it over to you and let you speak back. Thank you Mr. Yolberton, Mayor and members of Council, members of City staff. Guess here today thank you for the opportunity to come before you and present our quarterly update. I believe we have some slides otherwise this is going to be there we go. Thank you very much. This can be a long present or short present. Very short. So I thought I'd start with the aerial images. You know, we include these every time we come before mayor and council just to show you progress and where we are, but these were shot in early December. And through the magic of a board here, I'll sort of show you where we are. The bottom portion of this image, the office building which we've been watching go up one of the first elements, first piece of steel one up for the office building side. As you can see now we're pretty much framed out on the bottom portion here. We actually have some architectural precast that's now gone into place. And shortly after this glass is now arrived on site so why she started to glass the office building in and exterior brick will start to go up on the facade very soon. See if I can come back. There we go. So that's you can see the progress that's been made over here in the office building in this corner. I've also have noticed on this slide, the last time we came before council, this crane located now here on the west side of the office building was actually over in this area. And as you might remember, we lifted the first roof truss up here on that corner. Trust 101, we call it on the South Rail in September. So as you can see, that piece of equipment has now moved around the office building over to the west side. We now have seven of those boxed trusses. In fact, I think the eighth was going into place today. So I'd been lifted earlier this afternoon. There will be 16 boxed trusses set along the South. And as we've started to get those trusses into place, the rail for the south portion, the actual rail that the roof will travel on is now being started, has now been started to move into place on the south. So we point out the progress that we've made across the south on the roof trusses. And then you can see the build out of south south framing as we look at this image moving around quickly to the West of note here you can see that we've now spanned from south to the north with bowl steel this is allowing us to pour decks of the different concourse levels of the ballpark prepared to put the steel in the place for rakers and seating bowl and we'll see a little bit of that later in prepared to put the steel into place for rakers and seating bowl. And we'll see a little bit of that later in the presentation. On the north face, you can see the span here for the north roof track now going into place. It's actually completely a little bit further to the west and we're able now to work in both directions, working from the bowl and from the west side of the project to build out the north facade. Also in this area, and I've got a couple close-up images of this. We did a poor last week. We have another one scheduled tonight here as we're nearing completion of pouring out the main concourse of the ballpark. And then back over to the east, probably a little better image here to see that work in completion in this area of the main concourse. You can see over to the left of this image where it's already complete. Last Thursday and in tonight we should have the pores in place to complete main concourse. Yes, sir. Could you go back one slide? I just want to point out one other here. The lot are bridge connect there to Cowboys. Wait, could you point that out? Want to make sure that was also part of what we were trying to do to make sure that lot are was connectable to Cowboys Way and would provide a good lot for proximity to this venue as well as to the Cowboys venue because until that connector was there was really not very easy to get to to serve Cowboys stadium. And so that opened, I think, over the Thanksgiving holiday. Yeah, so it was actually open for Cowboys. The Cowboys game on Thanksgiving Day. I mean, it was the first use of the bridge. So, and you can tell that a lot, it has about 2,000 parking spaces. When the ballpark opens, that portion will be at the home plate entrance to the ballpark. So with the home plate being oriented down the southwest corner that parking right across the bridge will bring it to the home plate entrance. The other item of interest on this north facade you can see is the structure starts to go into place. We've talked a lot about the transparency in the view into the seating bowl. Ultimately everything along this wall would be glass or allow us that view in so you can see the plaza here in the foreground and as the steel goes into place you can start to visualize and understand better how the view into the ballpark at day or night you know will work from the north. As we talked about here over on the east you can see where we're completing main concourse in the east as we've worked from southeast and we've talked about this before around the building. East is the last side to be completed so we continue to work in that clockwise direction. This is just shots from the poor last week finishing out main concourse. This is that elevation at the plaza level 50 feet above grade above the grade of the field. Roof crane we've talked a lot about roof construction obviously the box stresses of being set on the south side of the ballpark. As we build the structure on the north, there will also be boxes set up on the north. This particular crane is the one we've been talking about that is now arrived on site. This is the one that when the when the boom this piece is lifted will be an elevation of 400 feet at the top. So this is the crane that'll be used to build the fixed trust over here on the west side to begin with. And then it'll assist with the construction of the movable roof once we start that phase of the project. Also note here, you'll notice this large shoring tower. It's one of actually two. The second one is here. It's a little harder to see in this image with everything in front of it. The shoring towers will be used to help build, to safely build the structure. So it will still be attached from the box trust to this first shoring tower, tower to tower and then tower to north truss. You remember, you know, unfortunately in Milwaukee back in back in the early 2000s, there was an accident where they were trying to lift an entire side of a building. I believe they may have been using two cranes and lifted it at one time. Wind got in the way, toppled a crane and was a significant setback to that project and led to some fatalities. Obviously the shoring towers have now become a much safer way to do this. So it literally, it's like we're building the rest of the project piece by piece because it's a long span we'll use the shoring towers to assist us as we travel from the south to the north. So you see those large structures actually inside the project now those are to assist with the construction of the of the roof. But the crane is now on site these are just a couple of images to give you a feel. The base of the crane is actually in the home plate area. And while they're setting and constructing the boom, it needs to go out all the way out to about center of field. It's about, I said, it's 400 feet, so we need to at least that much clearance to put this into place. You can see here, there are actually two cranes that are working on this to build it, actually on the site. working on this to build it, actually on the site. There's a lift of a piece. And these pieces arrived on trucks, 140 truck loads to deliver all the pieces that are needed to construct this crane before we can actually put it up into operation. And just some notes on this, I said, 400 feet to all one that boom is fully extended. Takes about three weeks to build. Five million pounds is the weight, the screen is capable of lifting. It's one of the biggest in the world. I think there were two of these that actually worked on the Atlanta Falcons project. That complex roof structure there. 140 truckloads to deliver it. And then the weight of the crane itself is about 3,000 tons. Just quickly the roof, we've talked about this in different pieces of presentations we've done, but 240,000 square feet, roughly 600 feet, spanning north to south, 400 east to west, 19,000 tons, approximately of steel, we'll go into the roof structure from the playing surface up to the bottom of the roof, we'll be at 230 feet. We've talked, we've started to actually accept some of the roof mechanization the bottom of the roof will be at 230 feet. We've talked we've started to actually accept some of the roof mechanization some of the big bogies and boxes that will have the mechanization and the wheels have started to arrive on site now. The diameter of those wheels 42 inches be about 120 120 wheels to move the roof back and forth. Now we've talked about those box stresses total of 33 so 16 will set on the south. Now we've got to about those boxed stresses total of 33. So 16 will set on the south. We're number, we're up to number eight on the south. So we've got eight more to go on the south and then 17 on the north span. And then just some other facts about the weight of the steel trust of the roof, 2.4 million pounds. And then that first, last time we were here, we showed her that first lift at the South Box Trust which was almost 400,000 pounds. So a lot of steel, a lot of steel flying in the air here is we put this all together. In addition to the roof steel, bowl steel, the skeleton of the building if you will, we talked early on in the process where we started with concrete. You know, everything was concrete from the, from the piers up to the main concourse. At the main concourse we transition to steel. So you can see here on the east side now we've made progress on bowl steel coming around the main concourse here as we put the frame of the building together. You've seen this we talked about this a moment ago. It's just a little different elevation here, which gives you that view into the stadium here on the north facade but again it's part of the bowl steel process. The roof will be on top. here on the north facade but again it's part of the bolstil process. The roof will be on top. We're almost done. We've got one more section out toward the west over toward Johnson Creek to put into place before we finish. We can say we're able to work on the north facade now in two different directions. So we're wrapping up on the west side. And then these are just again, this is that home plate entrance bolstil.'ve completed the Southwest corner along the West face and you can see here the decks upper concourse you're getting ready to pour the concrete for those decks in different elevations of the stadium now that we have the frame in place we can do those and then you know to show the Northwest corner so now that bowl steel attaching up to the to the track for the North facade. Precast, which we've talked about before in previous presentations to the council, I think we were pretty much down here, lower concourse. As you can see, we've made progress lower suite level. This is the lower portion of the upper concourse and now the upper portion of the upper concourse. So now this elevation pretty much reaches the top of the seating bowl in that section. We still have work to do forward where the field work is going on where large crane is. But as we continue to set precast, we've pretty much made it up to the top in some sections. Just another view of that and you can see the boxed trusses in the background of this image on the south And you just other views of precast that's been set This this one was shot mid November. So this is where that steel has now been put in place on the east side And we'll follow that with the rakers and precast to come after That's in the upper concourse That's in the upper concourse. And in left field. So these are the rakers. These will be preparing to take precast, as we said. Concrete again from main concourse down. And then over here on the third base side, again, above the main concourse, we transition to steel. So what we're seeing here is the rakers for sweet level, lower portion of the upper concourse, upper portion of the upper con course. So those will be the next areas we start to move precast into the seating bowl. Because of completion of some of the framing and index, we now have block going in, some of these are elevator shafts, but we now have machines that are working on the interior and the build out there. We've touched previously on some of the framing, even though we've had raining October, November, a couple of rainy days by having the elevations above done, we've been able to come in and complete work here along really all levels of the building. We're certainly lower three and up to sweet. We're just getting started on the upper now. This is actually a portion of the clubhouse. You can see ductwork, significant amount of that's in place as we go forward. This is an image on the lower concourse where we're framing out suites over here on the left, club and back-row house spaces on the right. You can see chill water lines, fire sprinkler systems, all these the pipes that are in place which above and then of course you can see the precast and seating above this and that's the main concourse precast that we're looking at there from underneath. But again this is a lot because we do have decks and precast in place that's allowing us to work even when we do have bad weather days. Another image here from the lower concourse framing out suites. Sail Center if you travel long Randall Mill road about the mid midpoint of global life park or across from parking lot B this is actually shot from the ballpark side you'll see a similar sign on the Randall Mill side. Sales center which we have now opened and we're entertaining sweet customers and soon we'll be entertaining season ticket holders that in terms of the relocation process from global like park to global like field. So just to give you a quick look inside, this is now pretty much finished out. This is the old Hall of Fame space. The entry here. Some of the areas for sales reps and customers to come in and sit and talk about seats locations. We've got a few ways for people to come in, create their own baseball cards to come in and sit and talk about seats locations. We've got a few ways for people to come in, create their own baseball cards to come in and create their own Ranger uniforms, take a picture of themselves, provide email information so we can stay in contact with them as we go through the project. But it's a great way for us to connect with fans. It's one of the waiting areas here in the lobby. One of the more interesting areas here, as you can see in the foreground is the scale model of the project. It actually does have a movable roof. So we have our sales staff trained to be able to operate it. We also have some rooms here visiting with guests using our retired numbers for Johnny Oates, Pudrudriga's and Nolan Reign, the three closing rooms there in conference rooms. And you go on to the other side of the model. Actually, you can see Texas Live, the hotel and the conference space, all built out. It really gives you a feel for the size and scale of the buildings when they're put together. This also has projection above. So the models are done in white and we can actually project images of cars driving down Randall Mill, people entering the ballpark. It will simulate grass and greenery around it. So we've seen this done successfully in some other places where you can open the roof, transition the image on the inside from a baseball game to a concert to back to a baseball game, move the roof. So it just makes it a lot more interesting for guests when they come in to see the space. We build out two suites, one of our classic suites and a legacy suite so customers can actually come in and sit, touch, feel and get a feel for what these spaces will look like. At the front of the room you actually see projection here which will allow a guest to get a view from their suite location. We also in the theater space have built out, I don't have an image of it in here, but we actually have built out comparable views from seating locations in the ballpark too. So, suite customers can look at it, actually in the context of the suite. And on the seats side, we can take into the theater and project images from different locations of the ballpark there. So milestones, the good news is, we're even with the rain project images from different locations of the ballpark there. So milestones, the good news is we're even with the rain that we've had. October, November, we've been able to maintain schedule. It's some great weather here recently and that's a lot of us to make up some ground and catch up, you know, some time on the weekends. So still on schedule, the roof project being underway now, which we talked about beginning in October with anticipation of completion next October. I'll take about a year. So good news is we're on schedule. I do have some video, I always like to show a little bit of video we had to drone go up on Monday. This is only about 30 seconds I apologize. You like to get a little bit more, but this will give you a quick look from above, which we shot just on Monday here. So we'll take a look. Okay. That's my portion of the presentation. I'd like to have Patrini come up and join us to give an update on MWBE and I'd be glad to answer any questions from Mayor or Councillor Fadde. Patrina. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Good afternoon, Mayor, City Council, staff and guests. As Rob said on Patrina, Bonac Higgins, I am actually the MWBE Program Manager for this project and it is just an honor to be able to stand up in front of you guys and say hello officially. So we're just going to go through this briefly and quickly. I just... Oh, it's over here. Okay, perfect, thank you. So, before I go into our numbers, I wanted to publicly recognize our local advocacy groups who've been instrumental in assisting us in making our goal, not only making it, but reaching it and also aspiring to exceed it. So we have our contractors association. We also have our certifying agencies, chambers of commerce, and we also have the NAACP who's landed a hand in assisting us in getting to our numbers. So they have been instrumental with the communication plan to their MWBE firms who are associated with their respective groups, okay? Now let's get into our scoreboard. Our overall MWBE summary as stated, our owner's goal is the 25% and we are committed to that 25%. So currently we are at $229 million a little over that and based upon our contractual contracts to date and far, total between our professional services and our construction services, we're at about $52.4 million, which is really good considering we're still finalizing contracts and so forth. Okay, so how do we actually capture report these MWBE dollars? So we wanted you to take a look at all the prime contractors basically have to submit to me a monthly MWBE progress report that includes their proof of payment to their subcontractors. Okay, and I need you guys to keep that in mind as we can venture further down this presentation. And then all the reported some contractor payments are verified and audited by our office owner, Gilliman Songa. And she verifies these numbers to ensure that we are truly reporting accurately what is being reported by our prime contractors and Manhattan. And due to this process, I want you guys to, again, keep this in mind. Our MWBE subcontract payments are always at least a minimum of a month behind. So it could actually up to about 45 days behind based upon payments because you have to pay the primes first, then the primes pay the sub and that could be 10 to 15 days out. So a lag time of possibly 45 days. But based upon what's been happening, they've actually been ahead of that schedule. Okay, so let's take a look at the professional services. We're as I said, our owners go 25%, we're committed to 25%. And so payment wise, the professional services are obviously a little bit ahead because they've been reporting and been on a job longer. So we have them at 31% of $24 million paid to the subcontractors. Okay, other means, sorry, to the prime contractors. And of that, $7.7 million actually is the payments to LMWBEs. And we've broken down respectively to our numbers for MBEs and WBEs, which is minority and women business. Okay, for our construction, I need you guys to remember what I said 30 days to 45 days out. So our payments here are a little on the low side. It may be perceived, but keep in mind we're still procuring. We've almost secured all of the commitments today. So as you can see, the commitments of the prime is at $877 million. And of that, 219 has been committed for MWB participation. And because they've just pretty much done those construction projects, those contracts, we have the payments are definitely lagging a little bit based upon the process we have in house, okay? So we're about a month and a half behind. So as it relates to that, about $243 million been paid to the primes, but they're still paying out their subcontractors. Okay. And we're at $44 million of that paid to the subcontractors. So at this point, I'll go ahead and turn it over to Rob, unless you guys have some questions for me. All right, thank you. Thank you, Patrina. Mayor council, that wraps it up unless you have questions for myself. Any questions or anything that you'd like to ask Rob here on the update? Rob, I'd love to, we had tremendous rains and so forth through here. Where are we on the construction schedule after all these big rains we've had? Well on schedule, as I mentioned, it's a credit to Manhattan and our subcontractors, our partners in the project that they've been willing to work. We spent some Saturdays and Sundays and longer days. I think I've mentioned in previous meetings, or for example, our pre-cast guys tend to work overnight. Steel, they use the cranes during the day to set steel, the pre-cast guys come in at night use the same cranes to set pre-cast. So many times the project's actually going around the clock. The number of pores, fact of poor we did last week on that main concourse, we did it at midnight just to clear other trades that we're working during the day. So that combination of the ability to make up ground on weekends or to use 24 hours in the day has kept us on schedule to this point. So we're hoping that we'll have a relatively mild winter here and then we can continue to stay the course. Great. Any other questions or comments? While I have you here Rob, I want to congratulate you on bringing him Paul McCartney here to Globe Life Park. That was quite a feat there. And tell us about the date and all that and when tickets go. June 14th, tickets. Actually, there's been a couple of live nation presales that are taking place. The public on sale is Thursday morning 10 a.m. at LiveNation.com if anyone has interest. I'm old enough to appreciate Paul McCartney, so I will definitely be at that show. I'm looking forward to it. It's credit to a young man named Sean Decker on our team who has worked hard with Live Nation with AEG to try to bring these types of shows to the ballpark. We're excited to get one at Globe Life Park. We actually have discussions going on about potential for some others. We'll see if they come to fruition. Certainly something we'd like to continue when we move to the new building too. So very excited about Paul McCartney and of course we had the announcement last week about the XFL franchise coming in spring of 2020 And I sure mayor and council that we are you know leaving no stone unturned in terms of looking for other opportunities for both buildings as we go forward Well, thank you for putting Arlington on the international stage again with Paul McCartney and then too It is very significant here with the first step and repurposing of the ballpark and very exciting there, but I'm really excited with all the businesses and educational institutions and so forth who are interested and Our existing ballpark and what need opportunities that's going to provide Thank you Rob really appreciate that very informative and appreciate your time and efforts here and being a great partner here for our community. Thank you appreciate you. Okay next we'll move to short-term rental update and I'll call upon Ms. Jinsy Topel, Director of Planning and Development Services. Thank you, Mayor. Good afternoon, Mayor and Council. Jinsy, the Opel Planning and Development Services Director. Today we'll continue our discussion from November 27th. We are down to two specific items that we'll be seeking direction from you today. So just before we do that, here's a quick recap on where we left. What is short term rental means lodging for less than 30 consecutive days in residential premises. All short term rentals, home-shared, owner-occupied, investor-owned vacation rentals all follow the same approval process, that is requiring a specific use permit approval to allow that to use in residential property. And this is the same slide from the last time. No changes made. We are working on the SUP process and the SUP annual renewal process. We've had several meetings with the public the last two after the November 27th meeting. We also had another homeowner group meeting as well as a meeting with short term rental alliance group. The SUP application in a draft form is available. We did add one more question as per what was decided in the last meeting. Will the premises be simultaneously occupied by the owner and any short-term rental guests during the length of the short-term rental stay? So one question that was asked off staff was to come up with a definition for what a home shared STR is. And so home shared STR means an owner occupied residence that is simultaneously occupied by the owner and a short term, short term tenant occupant. So, this definition was asked to think about if there is a, there is any way to reduce the fee for the SUP application for a home-shared STR. So that's the first item that we are seeking direction from you. If there is any consideration for that, or I can move on. Do you all want to take these one at a time, or do you want to come back and deliberate? What's your pleasure? Wait, you're going to go through. What's your pleasure? Wait, you're going to go through them. Sherry, do you? I was going to say we could answer them now. Okay. All right. But if you want to do it all at the end, that's okay. No, we'll go right now. So on this one, I'm very much in just making it a level playing field for everybody. So there's nothing that would preclude someone from starting out just having kind of a home share and then deciding I'm going to be gone this weekend and reading out the whole house. And there have been some people who have even said, well, if you're going to have a less of a price than I'll say it's going to be this but it's really going to be that. So I don't think we need to have any ambiguity here and I think just having one price if you're doing a room or you're doing your entire house, that's what it is. And I think that that puts a standard in place that you don't have to, the burden doesn't fall on staff to try to figure out did they just rent two rooms or did they rent the whole house? And I'll use their name. The MacArthur's who came to me, that's exactly the problem they're having on their street. And it's someone who's just renting a room. But the chaos that has caused and that entire neighborhood over on Clay Court is really, really bothered that it's a small court. And now they have one of the houses that's being used basically as a hotel. And even though she's there most of the time, she's not there all of the time. And so I can't support having two different price structures as a short-term rental, whether it's the whole house or one or more. Victoria. Thank you, Mayor. I have two questions actually related to this. One, both the short-term rental and the home shared are gonna go through the same SUP process. So the application fee essentially should be the same because they're going through the same process. Is that a fair assumption? It is going through the same process, that is correct. Okay, so in other words, I agree with Ms. Kepart that differentiation probably would be made more at a permitting level than the SUP level. Because the SUP, you're going through the exact same process, you're paying staff the exact amount that's necessary for us to be taken through the process. Okay, that's one clarification. My second clarification is I just want to go back to, in the budget process, that we just passed for next year. We did set aside money for a vendor as well as an additional, if I recall, and I have my numbers in front of me here, an additional one-time person to join the code enforcement. And that my understanding, and please, this is where I need clarification, is that my understanding was that the, now we go to permits This is a way from STR permit fee that the permitting fee would actually help continue to fund that particular enforcement officer code enforcement officer Is that a correct assumption? That is the cost recovery plan So in other words, let me ask, let me ask one last question. Yes, sure. One last question. The way that is written now, you would go through the SUP process. If you pass the SUP process, you would not be paying a permit the first time around. That is correct. You would get an operational license, which we were thinking of not having a fee for. So in other words, we would have a two-year gap before the permit fees would come in. So in the budget, we do have for two years, but I just wanted to remind myself first of all, and then obviously to bring this issue up as we think about this permitting fees, is that we have to be mindful that we did build in a cost recovery to continue the code enforcement. And the reason I ask that is because obviously our neighbors who have come to us and have brought these issues to us and even STR owners who have asked for making sure that we have good actors that they want to make sure that there's good enforcement component to this ordinance. And so I do raise these monetary issues because we're setting expectation by passing in this ordinance, we are going to have a better enforcement mechanism. And I want to be sure that we have the financial resources necessary to do so. Thank you, Mayor. Okay. Thank you, Mayor. Okay. Thank you. So any other comments? You're on the short-term rental designation and fee structure. So is everybody in agreement here to leave in at all the same? Yes, Ms. Thalman. Thank you, Mayor. So just to clarify, the $1,000 fee, this is to cover the cost of staff and the notifications of the neighbors in the area and that sort of thing. So the $1,000 isn't just a number that we pulled out of the actual cost of the process. Yes. Okay. The reason I wanted to clarify that is because we have very several proponents of STRs who have said that we are using this $1,000 fee as a burden as a de facto ban. I just wanted to make sure that everyone understands that the argument is completely void. We didn't just choose this number. Thank you. Thank you. Great clarification. Other comments here on this. Okay. Then we'll sound like everybody's alright then with this right now. And then I probably should say this now. We are working on a process right now of finalizing this so that it then can go through planning and zoning in which we will have public meetings on yet and then it will be coming to council. So this is our effort here to do that. We'll continue to be listening for input here throughout the process. Okay. That's correct. And then the operational license form, again, we have not made any changes there. The standards that we had agreed on was for the trash, noise, and that it cannot be used as a banquet hall. Another item that we talked about is to give a priority for STRs that have been paying hot taxes. So the first two weeks after the ordinance is effective, those STRs will get the first opportunity to apply. So the first two weeks will be open for them. And after that, it opens up to all and for another 45 days. So within that 45 days, the STRs that have been operating if they apply during that time, they will get some time till the case has got a decision on. They can operate till that time. So that's the great period that they would get. And if the existing operating business has not applied within those 45 days, then enforcement can be taken right away as an illegal business. Mr. Topel, this might be a good time to mention that, you know, through the meetings that we've had with many citizens, it's come pretty clear. We want to try and find where the full time SDRs are operating, how many exactly there are. We think they're around 50 of those. We also are trying to zero in on the ones where we have had substantiated complaints and see where they are and how many They're and then above the 50 there what the categories are of the approximately 500 because above the 50 we have some that are operating part time But are they operating just renting room out, they're renting the whole house out when they do, how often they are, so that we can try and get a little bit better breakdown of actually what is taking place here in this industry. That is correct. So we had some data from host compliance previously that we have gone through it to analyze what we had. So 451 listings were shown in Arlington, of which about 94 of them have not been advertised for the last one year. So active listings wise, it is 357 active listings and now we do not have street addresses for all those listings. Now off those 357 about 252 poor their data shows that it could be all single family homes and all of those 252 homes, about 72% of them show as if they are renting the entire home. The rest, I don't know, it doesn't clearly say, but 72% does show it's for the entire home. So that's the data we could find from the host compliance that we worked with previously. Now we haven't been keeping up to date with that data. So if we need very like current data, we would need to go back to the vendor and ask those questions. Yes, and I think we need to do that. We need to do that. All right. I will continue. So we also talked about the occupancy standard being limit occupancy shall be limited to two persons per bedroom plus two more guests with the maximum of 12 persons per unit. And then we talked about the alteration of the maximum limit shall be only considered on a case-by-case basis based on factors such as but not limited to, location of subject site, the lot site size, the home size, setbacks and buffers from the other surrounding homes. Parking, the decision was that. Oh, Mr. Glassman. Yes. Thank you, ma'am. I've just noticed, uh, you know, home owners, it had to fit into the neighborhood. Did you get? Did you get any? I don't think it's just you, Michael. I think I'm going to shut loud now. Okay. Did you get any feel for the smell of the water? What if you want to try it? Maybe you felt it. Maybe you didn't want to get it. The neighborhood felt very strongly that 12 was the number that fits into a neighborhood setting in a single family setting. They are not in agreement with the second part of the proposal. Now, the second part of that proposal, as I recall, our last meeting we talked about that was where you had a large lot. You had those buffers in an unusual situation there where you were isolated somewhat from the houses next door. I think I would like for us to also add in there because we did specifically talk about it and that is parking availability. They're on it. And a lot of having the criteria there so that again it's more objective rather than subjective. That's the criteria that we would be looking at when they do ask for that variance. So parking, the decision was that parking shall be provided inside private property on all weather surface. No RVs or buses shall be allowed and no living in the vehicle is allowed. Again, there was an exception given. On-street parking, shall only be considered as an exception on a case-by-case basis when the applicant demonstrates that there is no parking space available on-site to accommodate guests. Ms. Myers. Mayor, just I have a clarifying question on this particular one. Does this in any way affect the parking regulations that we have currently in the neighbourhood surrounding the current stadiums? So the parking regulations that we have is for specific event days. So that's where on street parking will not be allowed. I do not know how, if that is what you are going to be using as an exception for those houses to have short-term rental that that would not have houses that are in those zones, I think any requirement to the SEP would need to dictate that on event days per that ordinance, no on street parking is allowed. This SEP shouldn't be superior to shutting down the parking on the rest of the street, so it can be an additional embedded caveat there. That's why I was asking if we just add that in. That would be helpful. Then we also decided that with the second citation is where the operational license is revoked. This is the second item that we are seeking direction on the maximum density. The question is, even though the title has been given as maximum density on a block face, that's where we started with. It could be a maximum density on a census tract or any other defined boundaries. So per council direction on November 27th, we have looked at city of Arlington and the census tracks and where the SGRs are located within that. So the question is still, should there be a cap on the number of short term rentals in any defined boundaries, such as census tract, and then should a minimum distance be required property line to property line between the short term rentals. And if there is, then would there be any exceptions in any other districts? So these were the density options we talked about with block phase. This is a map showing the census tract data and the known street addresses that we have for the short-term rentals. So the whole map shows that they are scattered throughout the city. There is more concentration happening towards the North Arlington area. Approximately 0.3% of all single family homes in Arlington are listed as short-term rentals. All except for four census tracks have less than 3% homes in that individual track listed as STO. Ms. Wolfe. Thank you. Density just for clarification of the exception for the four census tracks. Are all those indicated single family houses or some of those apartment mixed? I believe there's one that's even like a Mary-Op resident in. Could you clarify that is correct? So the way the listings were, it did not specifically give us whether it was a single family home or apartment or hotel. So there are a few that could be apartments or hotels. Mr. Glassby. Thank you, Madam. The of those that are more than three percent, how much budget will you say in the three percent? I have that data and where they are, I have a zoomed in map of those. So those are located just north of I-30 and just south of I-30. And the census track 12, 17.02, which is this one. So this is the track we are talking about. That one has about 13%. That's the highest number. 13, 11, 31.10, which is this. That has about 6.8%. 1331.15 has just about 3% so 3.2% and 1131.009 that also is about 3.4%. So it's this one that shows much higher than 3%. Those are better than the pension pension. That's maybe something you want to consider. Any exceptions given, but if you look at this map, the green shows, the boundary, our green shows, where the entertainment district overlay is. Okay. So this goes these three Census tracks. This one, this one and this one are outside of the entertainment district boundary also. Thank you. Comments will start with density there and see what your thoughts are on density. Ms. Thalman. Jensi, on these three tracks in particular, do you know and you might not have this off the top of your head. When going back to when we were talking about percentage per block face. Do we know what percentage these fall in per block face? No, I did not that's okay Yes, mr. Glassby so based on The I guess sort of the guidelines we talked about That would be assuming that we would look at some possible exceptions for the entertainment district. That's only one that's really just kind of way out there. Yes, yeah, this is the one which is in the entertainment district. Yeah, but didn't you say, in the entertainment district, I thought we might look at separately, I'm not sure if it's a case that we're going to be going to be a case that we're going to be going to be a case that we're going to be a case that we're going to be a case that we're going to be a case that we're going to be a case that we're going to be a case that we're going to be a case that we're going to be a case that we're going to be a case by case basis. I don't know that I don't think we have enough experience with these at this moment to to begin adopting something that may have worked in Austin or San Antonio or what have you. It kind of goes with the minimum distance between the properties. There are some areas where I think the entire street being STRs would not be objectionable, would not be problematic, and then there are other cases where any STR on the street might be an issue. So I'm struggling to limit us in the next council that sits here their ability to use common sense to say yeah that makes sense or know it doesn't. So that's where I'm at now. I would prefer that we leave it on a case by case basis. If we did, I think, first of all, distance, I'm in 100% agreement with you, because I don't see how you could say that necessarily, if we didn't right now put a density on it, I think that council needs to really what with staff watch it really closely. They're with it because I think you know we can see right now I think if we did and I'm not in disagreement because right now they get real struggle, but we also have to protect from being overrun there with it also. So this may be one that we watch over the next six months and see how it goes. Also, the other part is how many are actually going to get permitted, which also influences, because I would hate to this to knock out a good STR. to this to knock out a good STR. There versus a, you know, not all because of that. You know, so yes, Ms. Mars. Mayor, I agree with what you were just talking about. And I think we've done it in other ordinances where we asked for a six month review or a three month review. Perhaps maybe that's kind of language we could put into here so that we could then really take an overall look knowing with real data, live data, what we're doing. You know, and for the benefit, and of course we've had so many meetings in which we've talked about this timing wise, you know, it's fairly evident and that our council is going to have to be doing some special called council meetings to be able to work through these S U P's and we also want to work through them quickly. And then going along with with what Ms. Meyer said, you know, we would come back here in a 90 day, six month review, but as soon as we got through the SUP applications, I think the end would be a time for us to then look and analyze, where are they? You know, what are they? And so forth. And of course, we'll be doing that as we go along anyway, but that'll be another milestone. They're also. Okay. So Miss K-Part. Thank you, Mayor. And I certainly am not in support of what they've done in San Antonio at all. If we're going to do anything doing it by census tracks, the only thing that makes any sense to me. doing it by census tracts the only thing that makes any sense to me. And the distance thing I agree that some blocks it may not be a problem. But I do get concerned when I just look at dots on the map that the erosion of home ownership, meaning people who buy the home to live there because that's their sanctuary is going to become a problem for many if They've got several STRs within that neighborhood. They're going to go someplace else And then you're going to flip a neighborhood from being a neighborhood to being an SDR community. That's my concern And so I don't know where I am on it yet, Mayor, but I'm not to the point. I'm kind of opposite it for Mr. Shepherd. Isn't that a surprise? That I would rather a restricted versus opening it up and then try to restrict it. You can't, that you never works well that way. But I'm not, I'm not comfortable of knowing how to restrict it yet. So for me this is still open-ended. I'm not ready to weigh in on which way to go with this one. So with that there will analyze this through the approval process. Is that kind of and I'm talking about our council approval process as we move through the S.U.P. There between now and January. Yeah, and then coming to us. Okay. And it'll it'll be a good information too is is P and Z even moves through it and get their input and so forth. They're also. Yes, Ms. Shefford. Gentsi, would you all make an effort to try to identify what those properties are where there are severe concentrations? Could that, it's been suggested that maybe there are apartments or there, you know, a residence and or whatever or whatever which would yeah, which would tend to skew the numbers and so I think it'd be helpful for us to have a better understanding of what type of structure we're looking at We'll do Thank you Okay and will do. Thank you. Okay. And this was just what is required but we did agree to move forward with the courtesy notification for 600 foot and we also have a web page with the PNC and City Council dates for the SUP applications that come in, as well as a saturation map of all the SUP applications that are in review that have been approved or denied. This is an important one that seemed to create a lot of confusion. 600 foot notification is what we're looking at here. So I'll put that. Okay. And this slide was just showing what the SUP criteria is for making a decision on the SUP's Planning and Zoning Commission and City Council shall base their findings on these three elements. Ready for questions anymore? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I I really want to see if we can determine, and I don't know it may not catch up, but at least so that we can identify where we have had the major complaints on the STRs and to try to identify a approximate number of that. And then of course also getting the latest information from host compliance, there too, about how many full-time SDRs we actually have operating today. Those are two, I think, major things here, because that is usually how a lot of my meetings start out with, no matter what the name is said. How many of them are there that are really causing the problem, and how many are really operating here because you know the closer it is 450. Sounds like a lot, but yet a lot of those are actually not doing much. And of course you've knocked it down to 300 and something that are registered there. And then of course, we know too. We have how many are actually paying hot tax right now? About 67. Yeah. Yeah. So I think that if we can continue to do our best work on that, because I think that is a huge thing that our citizens need to know. And we need to know there is best as we can. I know it's not easy right now. Definitely try to get the data from host compliance on how many are actively operating. The major complaints on the STRs that might be a little difficult. I will definitely approach other departments to help me with that data. But the way the complaints come through is either a noise issue or a parking issue and doesn't really talk about short term rental all the time, the connection of it. So I don't know whether we will get that connected data, but we'll find out. Then combining what Mr. Shepherd and Ms. K. Parts said, I think also if we could look at some ordinances that did work on density there based on census tracks, because I think 12% is high. And 3 may I think maybe a good number except in the entertainment district but however I think Mr. Shepherd's right we don't know enough about Arlington yet to necessarily know what is that right density but still regardless of what we do I think we want to zero in on what other cities have done in this in their allocation of density, their beside just Austin and San Antonio. Okay. Other information or comments are so forth that we have, while y'all are thinking about that, I just wanna re-emphasize our staff, our council members and myself have continued and will continue to meet with citizens that want to meet and talk about this. We'll continue to work on it and we are continuing to progress. Also, we are not waiting on the state legislature, although we are communicating with them and sharing with them what we're doing so they can have the benefit of that when they go into session because that is what happened two years ago is that the state legislature told us that they were going to act on this so it would have thrown out anything that we did and that delayed us going. Well now we're moving ahead and we're not waiting on anything to happen with the state. We are moving ahead as if that wasn't gonna happen. And it may or may not, we really don't know there with it. Other questions or comments? I do have a question. Yes. So the direction. I do have a question. So the direction. So we are moving forward with the UDC amendment is what I'm hearing. Well, I think it needs to come back here to this council on January 8th, because I know I've got meetings. I think the others of us do too. We want to hear our citizens out all we can and we're not, but I think too others of us do too. We want to hear our citizens out all we can, and we're not, but I think too, with the holidays and so forth, and Miss Moeze is out of town, I would like for us to hear that on January 8th. Hopefully we can come to resolution then, and then move this process on in and move it to PNZ, and then coming back with us, and moving out then is the council okay with that? Okay. Thank you. The other thing that I think is so important to out is that a ban isn't working for any city right now that I know of here and right now grapevine is in litigation right now and I keep hearing from citizens that say they want to see the ban well there are no regulations right now in grapevine is that right miss Toeville? Yeah it's not important to enforce it. There's nothing happening in grapevine STRss are willy-nilly running however they want to do. And then here, I have been so encouraged by most of the input, I'm getting from citizens because they understand that, hey, we understand that we can't ban them, although we still have a few that are there, but however, they want good regulations to protect the neighborhood, which is what we're interested in. And then also, we are hearing from SDR owners that have had a good track record that say that, hey, we are going to help there to be able to police our own and help to educate STRs that are not operating well to get them into operating a good operation. Well, that's what you want. Now, we don't want to have to be heavy-handed with enforcement, but we will. And we are working because we will have to work on an enforcement mechanism that is very strong there with it. But also we are trying to develop an objective criteria here as much as we can within this S.U.P. process. The other thing that I've heard again from people on both sides is that they would like to have one public hearing so they don't have to come to two and to go through that and hear the same thing. It's toadal. State law won't let us do that. That is correct. You have to have a Planning and Zoning Commission public, and a city council hearing. Okay. The main theme here is I want us to come together here and work out a good set of regulations here so that our city can move forward in harmony and that our neighborhoods are protected and then yet the SDRs that are compliant are able to move ahead to. And that's what we're trying to work towards here as we move forward. And don't want any misunderstanding about that. And I haven't heard anything different from any council member here. We are trying to work forward here to protect our neighborhoods and allow the current SDRs that are operating. They're in a good manner to be able to move forward here and to get a fair process there in it. Anybody else have anything here to add? There. Ms. Topel, thank you. And then thank you for our citizens here to add, there. Ms. Topel, thank you. And thank you for our citizens for coming forward and helping through this, because this is one of the most complicated, difficult situations we've had here in our city. And I'm hearing that from people that have been here a long time. And so let's work on it and let's show that we are that can do city to figure this out and still protect our neighborhoods. Thank y'all on that issue. Next we'll move to the discussion of informal staff reports and I'm going to call upon Fire Chief Don Krausin to come up. I'm not going to read off the title of this. I'd like for you to explain there with it. Thank you, Mayor Don Krausin, Fire Chief, Director of Emergency Management. I think I'm just here to tell you some good news. Awesome. 2018, a good year for West Nile Virus Experience in Arlington. I'll take you back in time to 2012 when it first materialized. Most of the cities in North Texas were hit by West Nile pretty hard. Us included, didn't really have a system in place, a partnership between fire and community development planning back in 2012, created a system that focused on targeted larvaciting while some communities were talking about aerial spreading, spraying we stayed with targeted larvaciting. So by the next year we had dropped from 66 cases, as human cases in 2012 to about 6. It worked and the system has only gotten stronger by the various participation of other departments within the city, public works, planning and development health group, certainly our public health director of the fire departments, the action center, all these entities came together to focus on West Nile virus and we've really done a really outstanding job in 2018 where we're down to three human cases this year, a very good thing, with 47 positive traps. And I think what's even, you can't notice in this report, is that we had a rainy year. And rainy years, we typically have more West Nile virus positive traps. However, due to the aggressive larbsighting of the public health group and planning and development and public works and just the whole city team coming together to communicate what the issues were to make people aware how to protect themselves, the aggressive approach to how we work with a private contractor and deploying the Laura side to the city. We've come upon a good working model that has been consistent year after year. And in fact, this year, in fact, it was so raining that we saw our positive traps go down is a really good sign that our program's getting stronger and that the outcomes are proving that. So in short, just a good year for the city's effort in the West Nile virus control effort and I think we'll continue along this path is because we've developed a model that does work and we're proud of that. Well, that's great. It's really great. Is anybody have any questions or anything? That's super. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate that very much. Next we'll move to Anybody have any questions or anything? That's a super. Thank you, Chief. Appreciate that very much. Next, we'll move to 2019 City Council Priority and Invest in our Economy. Mr. Parijon, Deputy City Manager. Yep, Mayor and Council to build on Don's point about good news, good year. The Invest in Economy Newsletter, again, gives you the opportunity to talk a little bit about your one of your key priorities, which is investing our economy. And I'm going to go right to one of the main punchlines in the back of your newsletter. It identifies that the city again has been ranked one of the top three economic development agencies in the Metroplex by the Dallas Business Journal. So that makes out of the last five years we've been in the top three four of those five years. So, you know, for an agency as well as an organization. That's a big deal. We compete with cities at large as Dallas and Fort Worth and as new growth as Frisco and Plano and to be in the top one, two, or three for the last five years is a testament to the commitment the council has. As you do economic development deals, looking at job creation, looking at what is the value return to the citizens and businesses of Arlington. Those are the drivers of how decisions get made in terms of what economic development deals the city does and does not do. And just for the audience that we have strategies or economic development strategy that drives the guidance of those decisions as well as again trying to look at what is the value proposition and what's the benefit to the city of Arlington's residents and business environment and that's the driver of variety of good decisions. So I just want to highlight that with you. And then as you get an opportunity to look at this newsletter over time, you'll notice that we're also investing in new industries like the esports industry. Our esports stadium and Expo Center was opened during this quarter. It had a very, very, very successful initial competition. It was the largest eSports venue in North America. And our first entree into the gaming competition was Thanksgiving weekend. And it had the YouTube, which was essentially the viewership of the event, and indicated that they had the largest YouTube live streaming audience that they've ever had in Arlington, Texas. That's a big deal. We continue to work through some of the details with the eSports stadium and has tremendous technology. So as we continue to experience working with that, we'll continue to use it for things like the state of the city that will happen tomorrow as well as for corporate events and other events as well. So I just want to highlight that. And then I'd also highlight, we were again successful with a competitive process in bringing the third distribution center for a company called Turn 14, they're based out of Pennsylvania. So they have a distribution center for a company called Turn 14. They're based out of Pennsylvania. So they have a distribution center in Pennsylvania and they have a distribution center in Reno, Nevada. And we are the third large-scale distribution center in the United States. And that was a competitive process. They've located off of West Bard and Road. They've taken up roughly 272,000 square feet of space. They're an industry leader in performance parts distribution. They again are a significant player. They just a couple of things. They've won numerous awards and industry recognition over the last 11 years, including specialty equipment, warehouse distributor of the year, and some of the best places to work in 2018. So that was a competitive process in the city and working with that organization. They liked our facility because, again, we're one of the distribution hubs for the global market. You know if you're going to be on the east coast you're going to be on the west coast, being in the middle of the United States that serves north and south and east and west very effectively within a one or two day turnaround is a big driver for us. So I wanted to highlight that and then I wanted to leave you with again we continue to work on our international business prospects and we had a very successful meeting with the Japanese manufacturing companies that actually had a forum at the Sheridan, Arlington Hotel with some manufacturers in the region and was really for 25 small to medium-sized Japanese based manufacturing companies to encourage them to find partnerships through some of our existing businesses in Arlington and that was very successful from a network opportunity standpoint. We continue to work off of some of those leads that came from that. So Mayor and Council, just again, would highlight that it was a good year with our economic development. We continue to look at serious strategic deals that match up and align with the City Council strategy of job creation and value creation, and I'd be happy to take any questions you might have. Any questions from Mr. Parishon? That's great. Mr. Glasfi. Now so much question mayors just thought it would be nice for us to make note of kind of the unique structure we have that doesn't allocate a whole lot of resource to go and have to economic development. Yes, we're getting such a great return. That's very exciting. Appreciate the staff and all the hard work that they're doing there. And the thing that I think Mr. Perjone said that was so key is that we're proactive. We're out seeking what we need to fill in the holes here and to help move our city ahead instead of sitting back and waiting and really appreciate it. And of course, job creation and tourism equals lower taxes and better services. So that's a key thing here for our citizens here in Arlington that that is a great indicator when we are one of the leaders here in Texas in creating jobs. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Parishan. Okay, next we'll move in to discussion of committee meetings and we'll begin with municipal policy. Mr. Farrah Mars. Thank you, Mayor. Uh, municipal policy met it very early this morning and all members were present. We had two things on the agenda. The first one was UTA's legislative priorities. Unfortunately, we postponed that till our next meeting staff from UTA could not be there to make the presentation. So we spent- You were early for them, huh? That's right. That's right. It could be, I don't know. We'll talk to staff about those eight o'clock meetings. We spent the bulk of the time then talking about Mr. Lemuel Randolph from the Arlington Parks Department. We're talking about the naming of new facilities. We have obviously three facilities coming online. The East Arlington Recreation and the new library, East Arlington Library, the Southeast Arlington Recreation Center, and the new library, East Arlington Library, the Southeast Arlington Recreation Center, and the new lake house. We were reminded that historically, the naming process had been more prominent citizens or historical aspects. So really, Parks Department was taking a little bit of a different tact on this by using their professional marketing staff to look at ways that they looked at other cities and how other cities are starting to come up with names like Summon and Epic and other, you know, those types of names to try to be a little bit more savvy and more effectively marketing these outside. It helps with drawing people to those facilities as well as effectively building a name recognition for those facilities. The three were reviewed with us. There were recommendations in all three. The former youth Smith, now the East Arlington Recreation and New Library, the recommendation that came forward as well as the recommendation that came forward for the Southeast Arlington Recreation Center. The committee felt that they were not necessarily aspirational and would like to see staff go back and take a look at that. A little bit more to try to get a better sense for how we might capture both those unique venues. The third, although Lake House itself, this committee reached consensus that it's been called the Lake House and it seems very descriptive and it probably will continue to be called the lake house. And so we are recommendation to the council would be that direct staff to go forward with a report regarding the other two centers with some new options of names for us. And please, if I missed anything, members of my committee, please jump in. There's any questions. I'd be happy to answer them. Anybody have any questions or anything? Okay. All right. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Ms. Farrah-Mars. Next, we'll move to finance and audit, Ms you sir. Ms. Farmer's Next we'll move to finance an audit. Miss Cape Art Thank you mayor. I'll have a very brief report Finance audit committee met all members represent we had grant Thornton in our outside auditing firm Just kind of giving us an update Timeline is being met and we'll have more of a formalized end of audit report in the spring. So everything's on track. Great. Thank you, Miss Cape Horn. Next we'll move to, well, were there any questions on that? Okay. Then we'll move to economic development, Mr. Shepherd. Thank you, Mayor. All members of the ED Committee were there this afternoon or this morning, I guess it was and all matters were discussed in executive session. Okay. Yes, Dr. Mr. Farrah Mars. Two may names for you. No. Mayor, I just wanted to just make sure for the sake of staff and I see Lemiel sitting over there looking at me. I just wanna make sure that the council is comfortable with moving forward with the naming of the lake house, the lake house. I just, I wanted, I saw some nods, but I just want to make sure that that. Well, it still gives us the opportunity in the future to be able to implement another name after a citizen or something, right? Well, at this point, the recommendation was coming forward that they would proceed with that name. That name, if it's not the will of the council, then I would just wanted to instruct. If they're going back from the other two venues, I would like to be able to instruct parks to be able to do that as well. So, forgive me, I should have asked at the end of my report, but I just wanted to get clarity from the council of what the will of the council is This will pass them the same I just wanted to add to that same topic is Lemiel Ask us to remember that with the end that structure there are different meeting rooms and different things So there is still the opportunity if someone wanted to honor a citizen or a corporation wanted to put their name Designated for a certain area in the lake house. There certainly will be that opportunity, so Okay, is everybody okay with that? Okay, all right. Thank you mayor. I just wanted to make sure that staff had a Okay. All right. Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to make sure that staff had a- And may I add to our Chairperson's report, we had a little bit of discussion about getting some additional input and our parks director is going to take it back to the parks board and kind of vet it through them and then have them make a recommendation back through Lemuel to the committee and then on to the Council. Great. You should that. Thank you. Okay. Then we'll move to appointments to boards and commissions. Mr. Busk and our city secretary. Thank you, Mayor. We have four appointments to boards and commissions this evening. Okay. Evening agenda items. Yes, Ms. Kport. We have second reading this evening on that cell tower. An issue has been brought to me and I'm trying to reach out to the church to have a discussion with the church and so I've got a call in, I haven't gotten that call back yet. And so hopefully I will by the time we get down sphere. Yes, go right ahead, Mr. Rohram Arsch. Sorry, Mayor, just I guess Mr. Parijohn put at our places, the update to modification to the evening agenda item 8.27 in your local agreement to add in the should be at all your places to add in the agreement item M that relates to the use of AISD facilities when requested by the city of Arlington. That was something we talked about at the last session. So staff just wanted me to make sure that we're all aware of it. Great. Thank you, Ms. Fauromars. Ms. Wolf, did you have? Oh, okay. All right. Okay. Anything else on the evening agenda items? Okay. Issues relative to city and textile projects. Okay. Do what? Abrum Street. Abrum Street. All right. Miss Carmichael, how is Abrum Street coming? I'm sure the rain hasn't affected it at all. Ha ha. I think the mayor said earlier we are at Can do city and we are doing right outside the windows. So actually the rain had a little effect but they're on schedule for the most part. You notice they're pouring pecan street this week. So they're making progress, moving forward. They're pouring up on the west end as well out in front of the McDonald's area and still completing the utilities down on the East End, but they're moving along. Something I really appreciate is that as we repair and rebuild roads, we're replacing utilities that have aged and prepared. So we do not have to get back in to that new pavement to replace them and thank you for that. And then when is our first opening here of our next opening of Abram Street I should say. This one is expected to be finished in 2020. Okay. Yeah but I'm talking about phase. I'm talking about phase. I'm not sure. We know. You come back next time in January and give us a we're gonna give an Able Street update in the next quarter Oh, that's all that's great. That's great. All right, mr. Yovertson Just want to piggyback on that Abrams Street concept Jay you can give me a flash card on this But part of our communication outreach too, because as we know, construction impacts small business along the corridor. So one of the things that we've done is essentially, like we're better phrase, created commercials for some of the small businesses. I know we've done one for J.R. Bentley's and for Fuzzy's and maybe some others. Every two weeks, we're picking a small business along the corridor. Make sure everybody knows they're still open for business and hopefully let them get some social media activity off that as kind of a contribution to the effect of the construction. Love that that's awesome. Anything else for Miss Wollman? Okay all right thank you Miss Carmichael. Then we'll move to discussion of flooding and erosion. And is there anything you need to bring to us, Ms. Carmichael? Okay, and it is continuing on expeditiously. And I appreciate that. That has been real key. Okay, and then now future agenda of Miss Walman Well, Mayor, I just want you to bring this up and I and see if council has any interest in I've gotten quite a few people talking about and I've noticed quite a bit on the Crossing that I see all the time the railroad crossing The trains are getting longer and traffic is backing up at every intersection. They're longer, they're slower. I would just like to say, I wonder if we could ask staff to maybe either get a report or have maybe a representative from the Union Pacific come in and maybe talk to us a little bit about it. Because I don't know, maybe some of the rest of you've heard complaints too, but I've heard quite a few. And I don't know what the solution is there a solution, but I think at least if we could let the citizens know that we are aware of it, and if there's anything we can do to help or get information, then it might help, if that would be okay with everybody. I think that's great. And it is, I'm experiencing it. I'm hearing from others. It does seem like there's more frequent and they're longer. And slower. Yeah. I've seen them just back up around the town bowing and around Abram and all the way down bowing past Abram. Okay, all in that. And then on the north side too. Yeah. So we're not going to discuss it. Oh, I'll have a. Okay, I just want to report. Thank you. Okay. Okay, anything else on future agenda is Miss Thalman. Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to request that maybe our committee municipal policy revisit the donation box ordinance that we passed earlier this year. The reason for the request, I've heard of two pending lawsuits on our decision to limit those two specific zoning areas within the city. So I just want to make sure that we're all comfortable with where we've settled before those come along. So that would be an update on what's happening with our ordinance and then expressing what we're having then. I guess an update on that. Yeah, I think that would be great. Thank you. You're being awesome. Thank you. Anything else? Yes, Mr. Glansky. Thank you, ma'am. While Mr. Paragion was sharing with us how we're doing investment wise, I got me to thinking about the economic development strategy we put in place was in 2014 it would be nice to just kind of take a quick view of that and then the results to show the progress we made toward our following on to strategy. Be great. And that's a great item too. OK. Anything else on future agenda items? All right. Then we will stand adjourned and come back at 630 for the evening meeting. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.