I'd now like to call the meeting of the Arlington City Council to order. And I'd like to recognize Reverend John Hahn from the Trinity United Methodist Church he'll deliver the invocation and recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Reverend Hahn. Please join me in prayer. Holy and gracious God, we thank you for having wonderful our city leaders. You bless us and our city through them. We ask you continuous blessings on these people who have been called to lead the Arlington community where we live and work and play. Help them as leaders, not to ask first, how do we fix this, but to ask, how do we need to learn? What do we need to learn? How can we accomplish our mission and vision? Help them to remember that they are called to serve for those who are the poor and rich, young and old, like long citizens and strangers. As you love everyone, let them care for every single person in Alenton. Grant them your wisdom and courage to know and do what is right and good and true. May they be guided by your spirit so that we may reveal your justice and love in our community. We pray this in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. and to the Republic, which stands one nation under God and indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Honour the Texas flag, a pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one indivisible. This is always an important part of our meeting in which we recognize important events and people here inside our city and with proclamations and I'd like to call upon Dr. Myers here to present the first proclamation. Thank you very much, Mayor. If I could have Deputy Chief Lielin Strickland from the Orange Police Department, please come up and join me. Thank you, sir. Whereas, I'm going to do this side. Whereas, the National Association of Townwatch is sponsoring National Light Out, a nationwide crime and drug prevention program on Tuesday, October 2, 2018, and whereas the 35th annual National Light Out provides a unique opportunity for Arlington to join forces with thousands of other communities across the country in promoting cooperative community crime prevention efforts. And whereas community residents play a vital role in assisting the Arlington Police Department through joint crime, drug, and violence prevention efforts in the city of Arlington and is supporting national light out with a variety of neighborhood celebrations. And whereas it is essential that all citizens of Arlington be aware of the importance of crime prevention programs, and the impact that their participation can have on reducing crime, drugs, and violence in Arlington. Now therefore, I, Mayor W. Jeff Williams, Mayor of the City of Arlington, Texas, and behalf of the Arlington City Council here, Dubai Pro Brooklyn, October 2, 2018, National Night Out Day. Thank you, ma'am. I'm honored to accept this proclamation on behalf of Chief Johnson in the Arlington Police Department. National Night Out is a singular event every year that brings all of us together. Neighbors, meeting neighbors, neighbors, meetings of the citizens, or the servants that serve you. So, you know, this is the 35th year nationally that National Night Out has been around. And for Arlington, we've been doing it for many, many years. But we don't just do it, we do it really well. I'll tell you why, because last year and the year before Arlington has ranked second in the nation in cities with a population of greater than 300,000 in National Night Out festivities. So please join us on October 2nd as we celebrate National Night Out and get to know one another. Thank you. Next I'd like to call upon Ms. Thalman for the next proclamations. Okay, can I please have Betsy Holeschew and Anne-Taran join me, please? Okay. Can I say Anne-Taran? Okay. I see your names right? Okay. All right. Okay. Whereas Betsy Hulshu and Ann Serune have served, it can bind 100 years as teachers and education administrators, most recently as Executive Director and Director of Education at Hope Tutoring Center. And whereas Betsy Hulshu began teaching in New Jersey in the early 1970s and continued teaching in Duncanville, Texas, later transferring into an administrator role and in 2006, she served as education consultant for Hope and assumed the duties of executive director in 2008. And whereas Anne Turune has been teaching in Texas since 1961 in Roscoe, then Abelene and finally in Arlington in 1981. She has also been an adjunct instructor of economics at Tarant County College prior to accepting the position of Director of Education at Hope in 2008. And whereas they both have displayed dedication and determination as they encouraged every student to achieve their potential with school year tutoring and during the summer with math and reading camps initiated by Betsy Holeschew and Antirune. And whereas, under their leadership, Hope has continued to provide free tutoring and encouragement to well over 1200 Arlington Children. Both Betsy Holeschew and Antirune have joyful memories to treasure of the appreciation expressed by so many parents as they begin their well-deserved retirements on September 27th, 2018. Now therefore, I W. Jeff Williams, mayor of the City of Arlington, Texas, and on behalf of the Arlington City Council, in recognition of a combined 20 years of service to our youth as directors of Hope Tutoring Center, to hereby proclaim September 27th, 2018 as Betsy Hulshu and Antirune Day. Just a few. I just want to say that education is one of the most important gifts we can give our students and please support us, support hope. We appreciate all the support that Arlington has given us over the years and I've been honored to be with hope and in education for so many years. I can't believe it's been 11 years that I've been at hope, but I've enjoyed every minute of it. And it's been a privilege and an honor to serve the students of Arlington since 1981. And there's never a day that I haven't gone to work, whether it was a teacher or as a director of education or whatever that I haven't enjoyed it. Thank you. Well, that's uplifting. Edmund, to see educational servants helping our students for so long and thank you for what you're doing and continuing to do there at Hope. For the next proclamation I'd like to call up Anthony Nagy and Miss Nagy and I think we've also got the hazelets and of course the berries up here and several others that would come up here as we call attention to prostrate cancer. Don't come on up and gather around. We're as prostate cancer constitutes 20% of all male cancer diagnosis and 10% of all male cancer deaths. And whereas in Texas, an estimated 12,600 new cases of prostrate cancer, and an estimated 1,830 deaths will occur in 2018. And whereas African American men, men with a family history of prostrate cancer and men exposed to age and orange are at the highest risk. And whereas prostrate cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer in American men, not only behind skin cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death in men behind lung cancer. And whereas this year, approximately 164,690 men will be diagnosed with prostrate cancer in the United States. That's one man every 3.2 minutes, and roughly 29,430 will die this year from the disease, which is one man every 18 minutes. And whereas one in nine men are diagnosed with prostrate cancer in their lifetime, African-American men are at the highest risk for the disease with a rate of one in six men. African-American men are also 2.1 times more likely to die from this disease. And whereas prostrate cancer not only affects men, but also affects their family and friends, and whereas education regarding prostrate cancer and early detection strategies are critical to saving lives, preserving, and protecting our families. And whereas all men are at risk for prostrate cancer, the citizens of the city of Arlington are encouraged to increase their personal awareness of prostrate cancer and of the importance of prostrate cancer screenings. Now therefore, I, Jeff Williams, Mayor of the city of Arlington and on behalf of the Arlington City Council, do hereby proclaim September 2018 as prostrate cancer awareness month. Y'all know, Anthony Nagy here with the North Texas prostrate cancer coalition contacted me here to do this proclamation to bring awareness there to it and of course my family has been affected. We lost my father-in-law two months ago to this and Miss Aiza they asked you to come and come on up here and stand with me here with it. This is something that we need to continue to work on here and so many of our doctors are and the research that's going on. And of course, early detection is so important. But with that, I'd like to present this proclamation to Anthony Nagy, and I'd love to hear him speak a little bit about this. Thank you, Anthony. Thank you, Mayor. I wrote a little something here because I get a little flustered trying to think out of the box. So the proclamation you just read includes statistics that all men and women should become aware of. The purpose of presenting this proclamation is to use this opportunity and platform to address Arlington citizens, both men and women who are watching or who watch the video of this meeting. Hopefully, it will not be glossed over as something of no importance. Citizens should be aware of this disease so that they can discuss it with their doctor. Its occurrence can be detected and monitored by a simple blood test that measures specific prostate antigen, also known as PSA. Awareness and early detection is the key to defeating this disease. I stand in the midst of a group as the newest prostate cancer survivor. Women and wives, mothers and daughters are a major part of this group because they too become part of the new normal when a husband, son, or father is diagnosed. Everyone in this group has had their lives touched by this disease, included with the long-term survivors are members of the medical community, acquaintances of survivors, spouses, mothers, and children who have lost loved ones to the disease. The disease can strike any man, including early firefighters, one of who could not be here tonight because he's on duty. He told me it would be here, but then he couldn't. The internet is a wealth of information on this disease. If citizens want further information, they can Google North Texas Prostate Council Coalition. Again, that's North Texas Prostate Council Coalition. Thank you again, Mr. Mayor and Council and all the survivors for being here tonight. Thank you, audience. I'm going to ask you to come in. Okay. I'm going to our city secretary, Mr. Alex Buskin. Thank you, Mayor. Tonight we have no appointments to boards and commissions. Then we'll move to speaker guidelines in general decorum, Mr. 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 are 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, the applicant will be asked to speak first and will be given five minutes to make their presentation and will be allowed three minutes for any rebuttal. Speakers and supporter opposition of an item will be given three minutes to make their statements. To the extent possible, please refrain from repeating testimony which has already been given. A bell will signal the end of each speaker's time. In consideration of other speakers, please wrap up your comments promptly when you hear the bell. We ask that you address your comments to the mayor and council. Okay, we'll move to approval of items from executive session and I'll call upon Ms. Wolfe. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I'd like to make a motion to remove item 6.3 from the table for consideration. Okay, we have a motion here to remove item 6.3 from the table. We have a second We have a second from councilmember glasspie. Please cast your votes Miss Moe's your vote, please. I'm going to put it on the top. What always keep you get it moving. All those in favor raise your right hand. Okay, any opposed? Okay, the motion carries. So that is item 6.3 is removed from the table. So with that, I'll turn to Mr. Buskin to read the items. Thank you, Mayor. We have three items for approval from executive session. One, notice of intent to bid. Sale of city owned surplus property located at 498 Debbie Lane. Two, sale of city owned surplus property located at 3601 Little Road. Three, sale of city owned surplus property located at 704, 706, 708, and 710 West Main Street, 100 South Cooper Street, and 709 West Abrams Street. Mayer, this concludes the items for approval from executive session. Okay. Mr. Buskin, are there any speakers on these items? Mayor, we have no speakers on these items. We have one non-speaker in support of item 6.2 and 6.3. When I call your name, please raise your hand. Georgie Zhang. Okay. Then with that, I'll call for a motion. We have a motion for approval from Councilmember K. Partt and a second from Councilmember Glaspy, Police Caster votes. And as yours working, and OK, we'll... So raise your right hand, all those in favor. OK? And then any opposed, raise your hand. OK? Motion passes. Next, we'll move to approval of minutes Mr. Buskin. Thank you Mayor. Minutes for approval this evening are the special afternoon and special evening meetings from August the 14th 2018. Special meetings on August 19th and August 20th 2018 and the afternoon and evening meetings from August 21st, 2018. And Mayor, we do have one speaker in opposition of this item. Okay. Then with that, Mr. Busken, we'll bring that speaker up then. When I call your name, please come to the microphone at the podium. State your name and address for the record. Chris Dobson. Hello, Mayor and Council. My name is Chris Dobson. I live 27-08 Buffalo Drive, Arlington, Texas. I was reading through these minutes from these meetings and to some degree, it kind of challenged what I remembered happening in those sessions. I don't know, can we pull up the actual minutes from those meetings to look at them? On the 14th, y'all went into special closed-door session, I believe. If y'all have the minutes in front of you, it would be great. But Mayor Williams, you did come in a journey in the session or open the session and then a journey for a closed or meeting. However, I didn't see any minutes from that session included in the minutes of the meeting. I just said that it was started and it ended. And that seemed a little odd to me because while we're not allowed to hear what you're saying, I do think that people of Arlington deserve to know what's going on in that back room, perhaps not every argument made one way or the other. But it seems odd that we would all come down here to come engage in the process of city governance only to have you leave and have a different meeting without us there. Also, from that 14th meeting, I was wondering if we could add something that indicated that each and every one of you asked for the city secretary to come up with new ways to add language to your attempt to put a petition or your ordinance on the ballot. Because as I read it, it just said, you know, 9-0 voted for. But each one of you spent some time really letting us know that you did not like the language of the petition and that you wanted something separate. So I don't know if there's a way we can just kind of mark it up a little bit. And then it also did not include the fact that I believe that was amended right there, right at the end, right? The process seemed to be going all right and then didn't we amend it right there at the end to change the three by three to make sure that the mayor could go back to the council. Wasn't that part of the gig or am I thinking of the 19th? part of the gig, or am I thinking of the 19th? Which, which, didn't we amend it right there at the end, Jeff, Mr. Williams, Mayor Williams? Boy, it certainly seemed like we amended it after the first and final reading. So just be clear though, there wasn't an emergency declared during that session, right? Like we didn't have an emergency ordinance even if it passed with just one reading. Y'all chose a different avenue by including language on the ordinance that was not there the previous meeting and calling it your own three by three ordinance? Is this making any sense to you all? Do you all remember that meeting? We're listening to your questions, Mr. Dops. Okay. Well, I mean, so we did attempt to amend that three by three ordinance. Didn't we? To change the structure. I'd love for you to ask all your questions and then we can try to answer them for them. Okay, I'll go ahead and stop so we can answer. Okay. Well, thank you. I appreciate you coming up. Yeah, no problem. You can have seat now. Oh, okay. I didn't know we were. We're not going to answer. No, we're going to answer. I'm going to have your answers for you. First of all, I'd like to turn to the city attorney to talk to you about why we have executive session here because it is for the good of our community here that we don't discuss certain items out in the public. Miss Salis? Thank you, Mr. Mayor. The executive sessions are covered by state law under the Open Meeting Act. And those executive sessions are very strictly spelled out in the statute and explain under what provisions and what circumstances the city council can go into a closed meeting. When they go into those closed meetings, it's there's usually some benefit to those conversations remaining confidential and minutes are not kept of those meetings. And so therefore, there wouldn't be minutes to put into what you'd see in an open session meeting. Is there anything else you'd like me to add to that, Mr. Mayor? No, I think that covered it very well. And then I think the next thing that we would talk about is the things that are covered in the minutes of sales. Mr. Buskin, if you could give a general idea of what the minutes are and what their purpose is. Yes, sir. We typically cover in the minutes speakers on various agenda items as well as the motion. Second, who presented those agenda items? For example, on a budget item, we would list Mr. Yeoverton or Mr. Finley, just as an example that's typically what we list in the minutes. Okay, and then we did a first and second reading on the item on the 3-3 proposal, which we had to have a super majority on it, which we do quite often. And again, I'll turn to the city attorney here to talk about why we did a first and second reading on items. My recollection is on August 7th when there was a term limit discussion. This council authorized and requested that additional information come back because they were interested in amending the ordinance calling the November 6th election and that on August 14th the council did Indeed amended that ordinance on second reading which they are authorized to do and They made the amendment at at that time and that substitute amendment was in front of you at At that evening meeting on August 14th in front of you at that evening meeting on August 14th. And then can you address, we did not call an emergency for that meeting and can you address what we did do that meeting? And I don't know where your information was that it had to be an emergency, but Miss Alice, can you address that? There's a distinction between amending something on second reading versus calling something on an emergency. If you call something on an emergency and it meets the requirements of the charter, you can do a pass an item on first and final reading. Throughout the ballot November 6 election process, there has been no emergency reading on any of the ballot measures. The council has considered things, considered ordinances on second reading and made amendments to ordinances that had had a first reading and made amendments to that during second reading which they are authorized to do. Which has been done hundreds of times and somewhere in the 30 years I've been here has happened quite often. So with that Mr. Buskiner, are there any other speakers? No mayor, we have no other speakers on this item. Okay then I'll call for a motion. We have a motion for approval from Councilmember Walman and a second from Councilmember Thalman. Please cast your votes. Motion passes. Next we'll move to approval of consent agenda, Mr. Buskin. Thank you mayor. The consent agenda this evening contains 10 minute orders, one ordinance, and eight resolutions. The minute orders seek to authorize one annual requirements contracts for library material and related services. Two, purchase of a mobile flashover behavior training simulator system. Three, sole source purchase of software upgrade for the public safety computer aided dispatch system. Four and five, police psychological and polygraph services agreements, six crossing improvements agreement union pacific crossing at Timber Lake Drive, seven and eight construction contract for 2017 bridge maintenance, hearted sea bridge repair and for extractor and cascade systems for various fire stations, nine engineering services contract for the John F. Kubala water treatment, chemical improvements, ten consent to merger of boys and girls clubs of Arlington, Texas with boys and girls clubs of greater Fort Worth. The ordinance seeks to authorize 11 redesignation and renewal of reinvestment zone number 41, Arlington Commons. The resolution seeks to authorize 12 Office of the Governor Criminal Justice Division Coverdale Forensic Sciences Improvement Program, 13 Interlocal Agreement between City of Arlington and the University of Texas at Arlington for runway pavement evaluation, 14 Texas Recreation and Park Society Annual Institute and Expo BID,, settlement of claim with Bonifacio Ponce, 16, authorization to retain the law firms of Bikerstaf, Heath Delgado, Acosta, LLP, and Kelly Hart and Holman, LLP, 17, Urban Union LLC, Agreement Amendment, 18, Arlington City Center, LLC, Reimbursement Agreement, Roadway Improvement Amendment, 19, Bylaw Change, CVB Board of Directors Directors and mayor this concludes the consent agenda for this evening. Mr. Buskin do we have any speakers in support of opposition on the items that appear on the consent agenda? Mayor we have two speakers in opposition of item 8.16. When I call your name please come to the microphone at the podium and state your name and address for the record. Chris Dobson. Chris Dobson, 27 away at Buffalo Drive, Arlington, Texas. Nice to talk to you all again. So, I'm not sure why we're fighting this lawsuit. I mean I don't know if they're asking for a ridiculous amount of money. This is like an eagle battle thing or if y'all are trying to preserve some rights, the future councils in the future. But man, it just doesn't seem like the best use of resources right now. But I can see how y'all might want to lawsuit going into November during the election time? It just don't really get it. I mean, suppose we win, I mean, the residents of Arlington acting as the city. Suppose we win this lawsuit, what's the benefit to us, the public? this lawsuit, what's the benefit to us, the public? I have got two questions. What's your other? Do you have any others? Oh, sorry. Sorry. And I guess the third question is, and this is way further back and deeper, but I mean, why did we even fight this ordinance? We all have pointed out a number of times that there are 380 something thousand residents of Arlington. They're about who didn't sign this thing. I've seen it also made on social media, but it just seems odd that at this point, this is where we need to spend our money. I don't necessarily remember any of y'all fighting for the voices of the 380 and 390,000 people that didn't vote for any of y'all. I don't particularly remember any alternative language proposals at the time of the ballpark ordinance, where you heard 50 people complain and decide that they were meaningful enough to you that you needed to propose a different proposal. And so, you know, it just seems like to me that three by three, Harah, Harah crowd seems to be a little bit more important than some of the other people in Arlington. Thank you. Mr. Dopson, whenever a lawsuit is filed, it's the one who files it that is creating the action. The city did not create that action. We're being sued. So that is the reason that we are just strictly trying to defend our city from the one who filed the lawsuit and I can't say anymore about it. So it's fairly obvious there. And then also make no mistake, we are elected representatives of all of the citizens here, you are not, and I resent the fact that you made comments that you represent all of the residents of Arlington. Because you see the people up here, we are out there with the citizens every day, providing service and volunteerism therefore the citizens themselves. And so that is the response there to the questions that you have. Okay, I'm sorry. I did not mean to imply that I represented everybody else. That is my fault if I said that. However, have y'all had more town halls or social exemptions to the quorum rule this year? What did he say? If you had more town halls or social exemptions to the forum rule. Do you know what the social exemption to a forum is? Do you know when you go to a Cowboys luxury box? I'll come back up, I'm sorry. No. luxury box. I'll come back up. I'm sorry. Yeah. So whenever five of you meet in the same place and you are not conducting city business, you need to have a social exemption to the quorum. Have any of y'all heard of this? Do we, do we, am I just talking out in my wazoo? Like when y'all, when eight of y'all meet up at say a cowboys game in the luxury box, you can't do city business. In fact, you have to post something that says there is a possible quorum, but we're meeting socially, so it's not a quorum. So how many of y'all, how many of those have y'all had this year? And how many town halls have y'all had this year? And how many town halls have y'all hosted this year? Mr., you said you were- Mr. Dopson- How would the people- They're all the time. Okay, do you have any other questions? No, I'll just go ahead and let you all answer that. Thank you for allowing me to speak. Okay. First of all, if you were to add every cowboy game and every Ranger game, every single one, they wouldn't add up to the amount of meetings that we have with citizens all the time. Doesn't even come close. And in addition to that, we have obeyed the rules. And we have been ethical, and we have been moral in our goings and I would appreciate the fact that the people here are very committed to our community. And we work all the time to listen to our citizens and to represent our citizens and all of them. Are there any other speakers? Yes, sir. We have one other speaker. Zach Maxwell. Good evening. Zach Maxwell, I live at 2449 South Graham Drive. I'm the Zach Maxwell that the lawsuit is about kind of describing me like a little bit of a bogeyman there So that was that was kind of silly But I'm here tonight I actually really didn't plan to be here But then somebody sent me a text message earlier saying did you see that City's hiring these two high-profile law firms to fight you in this legal battle And I want to give a little bit of context here just just for the record, not really for y'all, but for the record that the lawsuit was filed, it has my name on it, but it was filed on behalf of 11,433 residents who signed that petition for an opportunity to vote on term limits. And what happened was the city council decided that it would place onto the back end of our ordinance a watered down variation of term limits. And so what the judge determined and the reason why we received a restraining order against the city council is that that is a ministerial act. Ministerial meaning that you are required by law to put that onto the ballot. You had no option but to vote yes. And so the lawsuit was purely to get you to follow really the rules and not pardon me, hijack our ordinance. Now, I'm here because when I saw that y'all are hiring these law firms, it came as a bit of a surprise to me because I a comment just now saying that we were asking for six figures. Are we? Because I did not authorize no six-figure settlement. So I think I paid a couple of grand to follow that lawsuit. So if we can just get the cost back, I think that was what our lawyer was going to try to do there. At the end of the day, I think it was what our lawyer was going to try to do there. At the end of the day, I think it's very irresponsible for us to be spending taxpayer money. These are things that I stand against. I mean, for years, I have talked about things like this. This is this is flagrant abuse of tax dollars in order to just try in my opinion justify poor decision making. I had to stop earlier today on the way over here because I was driving down Bowen Road where the easements are seriously this high. They are, they're got to be at least four or five feet high and this is this blocks of Bowen Road that looks like this and I'm just thinking wow we have all this money to hire fancy law firms out of Fort Worth to fight me, pardon me, I'm not that threatening, you know and not only that I should point out for the record that the city attorney will be participating too. So you have two high-prof firms and top paying city attorneys fighting ZAC Maxwell over just trying to defend the right for citizens to petition their government without interference. Yeah, Mr. Yevton, you will talk about Bowen Road. Mr. Maxwell, thanks for pointing out the Bowen Road issue. That's a contractor issue that we have and we're in the process of removing the contractor off and reallocating that work to another vendor who can complete the situation. It's not a monetary issue, but it's a contractor performance issue that we're in the process of correcting. I know it wasn't a money issue, but... Mr. Maxwell, you're the one that filed a lawsuit and there's much more in that lawsuit than what you just outlined and there is a lot more to it. In addition to that, I'd like to have the city attorney address while we can't go into more but also you don't represent the 11,400 that are in that petition. They're actually were 8,900 as it turned out and then in addition to that we have had literally tons of people that sign that that want to have it come back. So Miss Salis? Until the loss it is dismissed we are in the middle of litigation and the city has to defend itself. And the council gets to determine the appropriate way in which they wish to handle that. They are considering whether to hire these attorneys tonight and whether they're going to move forward in defending the lawsuit that is currently filed against the city. Do we pay you for that's between the Council and me. You know, it's, uh, we'll leave it at this whenever someone else files a lawsuit and makes claims, you got to defend yourself. You are the one that has taken the action here against us. We didn't ask for that. With that, any other speakers, Mr. Buskin? We have no additional speakers. We have one non-speaker in opposition to item 8.16. Please raise your hand when I call your name. Rachel R. Okay. All right. Then I'll call for a motion. We have a motion for approval from Councilmember Shepherd in a second from Councilmember Thalman. Please cast your votes. Motion passes. Next we move to public hearings resolutions and ordinances first reading and the first is public hearing resolution 11.1, amending the boundary of the Arlington Tourism Public Improvement District and I'll call upon Mr. Ron Price, CEO and President of the Arlington Convention and Vistors Bureau. Good afternoon, Mayor and Council. This afternoon, I'm here to present on two resolutions. The first is amending the boundaries of the Arlington Tourism Public Improvement District, which you guys gave the hotels of Arlington the opportunity to create a couple years ago. Currently the success of the T-Pid as we call it is tremendous. We're in 18 to 1 return on our investment. So for every dollar invested, $18 have been returned on this. Today we're asking for the first reading of the boundaries and meaning the boundaries where we're looking to add a town play suites spring hill suites and live by lows to these boundaries. Happy answering questions you may have. I'll call upon councilmember Gillespie. Thank you, Matt. Just a general question on. So these are hotels with 75 more rooms. Yes, sir. And that's all hotel users with 75 more rooms, part of this. And we're trying to add this group to it. Yes, sir. So as new hotels open up within the city limits of Arlington, that qualify with 75 rooms or more we come through this process each year to add these hotels. Any other questions from Mr. Price? Okay, seeing none, I'll ask Mr. Buskin if there's any speakers on this item. Mayor, we have no speakers on this item. Okay, then I'll close the public hearing and call for a motion. We have a motion for approval from Council Member Farah, Myers, and a second from Council Member Glasspeak. Police cast your votes. Motion passes. motion passes. Next we move to the public hearing ordinance's first reading. I have 11 to updated Arlington Tourism Public Improvement District and assessment plan and roll and levy of assessments. And again I'll call upon Mr. Ron Price. Yes, Mayor and Council. Second part of this, 11.2. Updated assessment plan service and assessment plan for the tourism public and proven district. There are information on the changes that were requested by the T-Pid Board in your packet. Happy to answer any questions about that. Any questions from Mr. Price? Okay, then I'll close the public hearing. Well, for I'll do that. Let me ask, are there any speakers on this item? No, sir, there are no speakers on this item. Then I'll close the public hearing and call for a motion. We have a motion for approval from Councilmember K. Part and a second from Councilmember Wom and police catch your votes. Motion passes. Next we move to updated downtown business improvement district service and assessment plan and roles setting the assessment rate and levying the assessments and I'll call upon Mr. Bruce Payne. Mayor members of council staff recommendation is following the public hearing and a decision on any objection to a proposed assessment. Please consider the first reading of an ordinance accepting and approving the service and assessment plan for the downtown business improvement district of the city of Arlington accepting and adopting the 2018 assessment role, setting an assessment rate, and levying this assessments on the assessed parcels. I will add that the rate is $16 per $100 evaluation. The same rate has been in place since 2015 on a 10 year schedule. And I can answer any other questions, maybe, that you can ask. Okay, any questions for Mr. Payne? Okay, seeing none, Mr. Buskin, are there any speakers on this item? Yes, sir. We have one speaker in opposition on this item. Please come to the microphone at the podium when I call your name, Jim All, Massad. Good evening. Just before I speak, I want to ask, is Mr. Michael Far, is he? He's supposed to come and speak by the inshwap. Oh, Mr. Moussaad, if you could state your name and address for the record. Yeah, Jim Almasad, the address is 322 West Division Street. It's a business at Scandinmore's. Okay, great. It's regarding the division street, the project between Cooper and Collins. Actually, it's a nice project. Can you hear me? I can. Yeah, I can. yes. But actually the owner is very worried and because he paid almost $700,000 cash for this property and The main line which is the frontline of the Vigenstreet is is the business actually Like because he bike his cars in the front So now the city will take almost 15 hundred square feet, which is all the front line. So in this case this means like no business, so he's worried, I know still there's no details, no much details about the project, but I mean if we lose the 1500 square feet then maybe we have to demolish the building and move it back and so we're just trying to get more details about this project or at least if they take in conservation if they want to pay him some money. I know we like the project but it doesn't I, let's say the square foot is the coasts if we divide, let's say, $700,000 by whatever like 5,000 square feet. So I know how the city will do this. If they were going to give him some money, it is like by a square foot how much of the coast they would give him this or they would take in conservation the effect of this project on the business itself. So yeah, we're just trying to give more details and take this in conservation. Again, it's nice project, we like to see this, like nice curb stones, sidewalks, but we are losing the business actually. Okay, so the setback is the problem there of that 15 feet along the front line actually. And I have like, then can we have some. Awesome, Mr. Mossad. Yeah. Mr. Painter, you familiar with this? Yeah, if we could have Mr. Pain address at Mr. Mossad, that would be awesome. Let him address this. Payne address it Mr. Miss Saan that would be awesome let him address this. All right, thank you. Mayor council the item before you tonight is for the downtown business improvement district assessment which is a different item than what was just described to you. And what I understand is on Division Street the city has been working to try to develop a sidewalk system on both sides on the north and south side of Division Street. Well with that, with this not being an item on here, could you make sure that we have city staff to meet with Mr. Mossad and the owner there that property since it's not a part of this and City Attorney instructed me. I can't discuss an item that's not on the agenda but I know we can sure come and see you and try to work things out and see how we can work that out for you on this other item. But this is actually the assessment as you were talking about there, Mr. Payne. Not the taking or setback or anything like that. Okay, good. Thank you. Okay, any other speakers? We have no other speakers. We have one non-speaker in opposition. Please raise your hand when I call your name. Bassam, Dark Ali. Okay. I have a motion for approval from Council Member Wolfe and a second from Council Member Thalman, the next one is the next one is the next one is the next one is the next one is the next one is the next one is the next one is the next one is the next one is the next one is the next one is the next one is the next one is the 13-101-center and I'll call upon Ms. Jensy Topall. Thank you, Mayor. Item 11.4, zoning case PD-18-13, was continued from the last meeting. The request is to rezone the property at 101 South Center Street to a planned development for limited downtown business uses, such that the existing development which is built as a mixed use with 15% non-residential use is allowed to use the non-residential use to less than 10%. That specifically includes allowing the 23 live-work units which accounts to a little over 5% of the total building square footage to be used as residential space without the business component that requires a certificate of occupancy. Last Friday, the applicant provided a letter with a second proposal, creating a phased approach or a timeline to reach the 15% non-residential use. A hard copy of the letter was placed at your table prior to the afternoon session. Paris Rutherford from Catalyst Urban is here this evening to present the two proposals as the applicant. Mr. Rutherford? If you could state your name and address for the record, thank you. Mayor council members, Paris Rutherford in 70001 Preston Road, Dallas. Thank you for the opportunity to come back this evening and talk to you about this. And I wanted to thank the council members for your individual time and coming with me and looking at the space. And it was very helpful to understand your position and hopefully it was helpful on the other side to understand what we're looking at. I'd like to preface this by saying we are your partner. We will do what you want to do. And what I mean by that is this is not what we're looking at here is using our experience with these types of developments and what has been successful. All we can do is give you the benefit of that experience. Obviously, ultimately, you all are the ones that make the decision on how to, you know, where to move and how to move forward on this issue. But I can tell you that what we put forward is our best approach to ensuring success and having an active ground level streetscape. and having an active ground level streetscape. I heard Jensy earlier mentioned the request is to go from 15% to 10% and those live work units would be residential. Our intention is to continue to market them for small business individuals. What we're after here though is if we are not successful in a time period, that those are not vacant. Vacancy in this kind of environment is very difficult because it's vacant and it's dark at night. There's not activity. So I do want to, I'm approaching you as your partner here tonight. Our proposal is, as we've stated it, go from 50% to 10%. You've seen the infrastructure that we put in place. We've spent the money to allow the market to embrace this concept. And if you want to see a compromise or another thought, then we put out there the concept of a phased approach into it. But we are again providing you with our best abilities and knowledge as to what has been successful in many other districts around the country where we've put these in. And that's why I'm here happy to take any questions it might have. Council Member Walman. Thank you. We appreciate you coming, making effort to work with us. And we consider you and our partners got a nice building across the street. You said something when I caught that a time period that you would market for a time. Do you have any idea what kind of time period you're talking about? So we get into a little bit of the art side of the art and science in this. For someone to make a decision to come locate a small business, it has to do with a lot of different things, many of which has to do with critical massive activity. We're a little earlier right now in downtown. If you think of an accountant or an attorney, a graphic designer, even a piano teacher, all of which can go in are great uses for that space. The folks that make those decisions have a lot of different reasons why they make that, but our experience has been, those decisions are a lot easier to make when there's 10, 15,000 more people downtown. And the reason I say that is that's enough to justify more restaurants. The restaurants creates a stronger address, more activity, and then someone says, you know, I want to work down there. I believe that that's probably 10 to 15 years from now. It might be eight years. It might be less, I hope it's less. But my experience has been that it's usually about that much time. So that's why it's important to build the infrastructure which we've done. And I think the misunderstanding on our part was when we heard live work, it meant live or work, but not that you had to do both in order to get a CO for that space. Okay. Thank you. Sure. Any other questions from Mr. Rutherford? Councilmember K. Hart. Thank you, Mayor. And thank you, Mr. Rutherford, that my question really is for Ms. Thouple. So I know we've had discussion. I know I've had discussion with Mr. Rutherford about he's done this in other communities. And it was a little bit different, particularly with regard to the COs and all of that constant. But in my conversation with Ms. Thouple, I need to know what the new updated standard is. I mean that standard might have been applicable 10 years ago, 15 years ago, but what is the new update? Is it still that standard? Or is it different? So staff has researched other cities to find out what live for a unit's mean in other cities. And city of Dallas and city of Fort Worth, they have a specific definition, which closely resembles our definition. Both Fort Worth uses live work units in mixed use districts and they say that live work units may count towards a mixed use requirement, however only the commercial square footage of the unit shall count toward that calculation. And all live work units require a commercial certificate of occupancy. Similarly, Dallas has the same rule. They are actually in the process of amending the ordinance to make it very clear that they require a certificate of occupancy. It went to their city planned commission just last month and got approved, recommended approval there. So that's the same language that all the work units are accounted as non-residential uses and that they require a certificate of occupancy. Okay. That's helpful to me. And so I hear you, go ahead. I think you probably have a comment there. That's a great point. I would just say two things. One, the idea of having a CO for the business use, we're completely comfortable with that. That's not an issue here. Councilor Moy's made a great point when we were talking that any other commercial business in the city has to have a CEO were supportive of that. In those locations that she mentioned when I was working in those places places that are now called up town Dallas it wasn't called at a back of the time. That didn't exist. There was no critical mass. It was very similar to downtown here in Arlington at that time and say 1994. Okay. 25 years later, when there is critical mass, it's much easier, there's much more demand. It's a different market context. So the equivalency here for your consideration is that we are looking at what was seventh used to be like in full work before we started work there, or uptown Dallas, Lododinver, Midtown Houston. Back in the day when there was not the critical mass that created the demand that called for new regulation. Okay, and I appreciate your comments. My concerns still remains of the precedent that we're setting. My concern remains that we allowed higher density because we were going to get, it was kind of, you get a little bit, we got a little bit. And so we've amended it a couple of times, minor amendments. So I'm just kind of very uncomfortable amending it yet again. But thank you for your comments. Council Member Moeys. Thank you, Paris. I enjoyed visiting with you at the day and I enjoyed touring your project. Thank you. I had not had that opportunity before. I sympathize with what you're trying to accomplish here because the way I see it is you've got 23 units that until we kind of catch up with the concept as a city you may not be able to lease. So the one thing I do like about residential as opposed to retail or office is the leases are relatively short timeframes a year is typical. So we can make adjustments in the market rather quickly with residential properties compared to others. So what I want to hear from you is, and I think we talked a little bit about this, is maybe giving you some breathing room and then reinstating it because we do have other projects following you and it's very important to us to have this type of availability of this type of project in the community. And so are you okay with the second option to here where we have a five year, and here's the other thing I know is that you probably get higher rents when you use it as retail. That's true. Right. So, I believe that along the way, if you can lease one as retail and provide jeans with required and the city with required CO, that you're probably going to do that over renting its residential. So I back proposal two as a way to get us over the hump and then slowly increase the 22 units back into the live work environment. I think that changes some of what you were trying to accomplish when this started, but I think it, I agree with you, we need to see life on the first floor of the building. So anyway, that's where I am on this. Yeah, and if you all know 23 people want to open a small business, we have great space for you. So we will lease this as quickly as we can as non-residential or live work. Our goals are aligned there. We want to have the activity on this street. Thank you. Councilmember Walmond. Well, from what I just heard, the question I ask you about time frame and I got a seven to ten year and so five years won't quite make that and so my question is we had another situation in the city where we gave in and we did that. It was only two and I think everybody knows that and we just rescinded that. But it went over seven. I think it was seven. And so I'm having a problem with time frame and waiting and then we come back in five years and go, well, we really meant seven or ten. And so that's where I am. I love your project, by the way. It turned out beautiful and I know you're doing well with the rest of the rest that's there. And the pool is beautiful. I just thought through that answer, everybody would know. It is there and it is beautiful. But that's my problem right now is this time frame and setting one that may not be viable at all. So that's just where I am right now. Thank you. Thank you. Just out of curiosity, when you talk about the time frame, just to confirm our goal is to continue doing what we're doing, which is to market those spaces to small business individuals. The secondary goal is if we can't, it's Lisa's residential, the next cycle comes up, we try and lease that same unit for small business. So we're not saying we're not gonna do anything until your five. I'm hopeful that it's completely leased up and the market is operating at that point. I completely understand that. And I know that we are building and we are expecting more people down in this area. But it may or it may not. As I say, we've been sort of been through this before and with the assumption that yes, it was going to happen, going to happen. And sometimes it doesn't, sometimes it doesn't. But I don't know that we can actually, we don't, because we have others coming on as you know. And we want to be, we don't want to set that precedent to, and we have some coming now, and there may be more in the future. So it causes a little problem for us, but I appreciate everything you're doing. And thank you. I know that our neighbors across the street that I believe have some units like this as well. They're probably, I'm not sure exactly, I'm assuming about two years out from when they're opening. I don't know if that impacts any of your decision about time frame, but maybe two to three years from now, they'll probably double the number of units like this coming into the market. So it's something that you may consider when you're thinking about timeframe. Other questions from Mr. Rutherford? Okay, thank you, Mr. Rutherford. Do you have anything else you wanted to say? Well, I guess we're coming to a point where there's a vote. I would say again that we're following your lead. We've asked for our initial proposal which was to go from 10 to 15%. The follow-up to that was if you're not comfortable with that, is there a time frame that we could continue to work hard, have the ability to get maybe some of those use, some of those units, I didn't hear much talk about that. Are there any thoughts in that regard as a compromise? Councilmember Wolff. Thank you. I just wanna say, I think you've put a great project here. It's something that I think we envisioned and would like to see a long, long time ago. I like what you've done. I like your reputation, what you've done in the past. And I do know we're growing just just the growth of the University alone and I know of other projects and residential projects that are coming forward. I think we are going to grow the density down here. And Mr. Mayor, if there's no other comments, I'm prepared to make a motion that we adopt your option to and see if we can go from there. Okay, I need to be able to check our speakers here being close to public hearing before we do that. Are there any other questions or comments for Mr. Rutherford? Can you see none? Then I'll turn to Mr. Ope, we do have Dr. Myers does, okay? Mr. Rutherford, I want to clarify something because obviously there's a lot of discussion here about time frames. I heard what your response to Miss Wildman was in terms of seven to ten years. Your proposal number two says five. I'm a little, I guess I'm a little concerned or a little confused by your responses here. Could you clarify the time period and what it is if we were to go to something like what Miss Wildman, excuse me, Wolf has suggested what is your plan in that time period? And I apologize for the confusion. There's two concepts of time. I'll talk specifically to that question What we're asking for is a five-year period in which we can lease to residents Folks with small business or folks that want to do both and at the end of that five years if we have not been able to get small business in there We commit to a percentage point a year from 10% up to 15% until we get to that 15%. Whether or not, I don't know where we'll be five years from now. The second point, I'm sorry for the confusion, was it usually takes, we believe it's going to take about 10 years to get to the point where there's enough critical mass where it's obvious for a small business person to come in and lease one of those units. We're up into other suggestions too. Councilmember Moeys. I'm going to do a little math with you. All right. Okay. So what you're saying is that three year five all 20 to 22 units could be least as residential but not be. But on year six you're trying to get back to the 15% so in year six must see four of the units must be taken out of the residential inventory and move to the live work. Yes. And then in year seven, eight units would move year nine, eight. You'd have 12 units, probably plus one because you're the math and quiet. So somewhere in there, you get back to 20 years. I think that's what we're trying to say. I don't know if we're saying it clearly just looking at this option. I think that's what you're saying, am I right? That's correct. So we do finally return all of them to live work by the end of year 10. So that means you might be here to see us again if that doesn't work. But I'd rather try really hard to make it work. Oh yeah. So I support option two. Thank you. Okay, hold that thought. Any other questions from Mr. Rutherford? Okay, that now turn to Mr. Buskin. Are there any speakers on this item? No, sir. No additional speakers on this item. Okay, then you have one other thing, Mr. Rutherford. I have one more final Mr. Mr. President. I have one more final point. There is some question about what the threshold is to be able to pass, to be able to be considered a certified business within the state of Texas. Whether that's a DBA or it's an LLC or there's a certification. We would like the, you know, as things progress, if they progress. I think that's something that we certainly could work through with staff as to what, you know, qualifies an individual or a group to be able to sign a lease. There seems to be some vagueness right now as to what that definition is. So I put that out there as well. Okay. So with that, do you have a question now, Dr. Myers? Actually, that just raised a question for me. I'm sorry. Okay. Miss, maybe Miss Thopel can answer that. Um, there's an ambiguity here because you help us with what you're just just asked. Sure. A 501C3 also can have a certificate of fall cabins. See, we have a lot of philanthropic institutions that are just a 501, C3 and have a certificate of occupancy. And a DBA or? Works too. Well, understand that more. And that was your question too, Councilmember Glansper. Do you have another one? Okay, go right ahead. Just with the concerns you have about the market being able to respond to the way things laid out now, with the flexibility of the latitude that potentially this could give, how do you see things unfolding? I'm an internal optimist. You can't be in real estate development without being an optimist, particularly projects like this. Everywhere we've been there has not been a market in place. We've helped create the market. So I believe we will create this market. The question is how long? And you know, as I said before, what we know to do is to build a quality project, put the infrastructure in place so it can be successful and market it. And that's what we're doing. So my hope is that by the time this five years would play through, that those would be fully up, the market would understand it and we're great. Thus far it's been a year and a half and that hasn't been the case, but we've also been under construction and you know I understand that. I believe that it's probably going to take about 10 years for the broader downtown market to be in an environment where it's immediately obvious that if you're in a journey or if you're in a accountant or a graphic designer, of course you want to be there. Like it is an uptown Dallas or West 7th in other areas we've worked on. I believe that's going to take about that period of time. So our thought was, well if we split that that, and we say we have a runway of time to be able to work through that split, then that provides enough flexibility so that you all can be successful with us. And we're not having to go in and heavily discount rents and all the things that you have to do if the market's not there. Any others? Okay. Any others? Okay. Then I will close the public hearing and Ms. Wolf, do you have a motion? Would you like to make? Yes, I move for approval of proposal, option number two for the item 11.4. Okay, do we have a second? We have a second from Council Member Moeys. And please cast your votes. Motion passes. Mr. Rutherford,ford just want to say some things. Thank you for your investment in downtown. And then also right now is just the beginning because you have not had the because of construction issues you haven't had your amenities in. And now the amenities are there. And I'm here in from residence already. What a difference that's making to actually have the construction complete. And then there are projects all over the Metriplex that have had similar construction problems because of the demand for contractors right now. And anyway, we look forward to working with you. And I think you can see here that we want to try to help and move forward here with it. You have helped our skyline. You also have created a beautiful project here with it and then also enabled us to do what I believe one of the best libraries in America right now, here also in the Arlington Community Library, that is a tremendous asset here to our city. So thank you very much and look forward to working with you to tackle the challenges as we move forward. Now, one other thing is that we are looking forward to the leasing. They're a long Abram Street. We're under construction and we know that, which also creates some challenges there, but we're gonna see some leases soon. They're a long Abram Street. Yeah, you just approved it on the other night. You should have another one forthcoming. And we're working on several L.O.I.s right now. And I will tell you, we appreciate your thanks and thank you for your support. Really that goes to you all. You all have made some excellent decisions. And if it wasn't for the vision of this body, downtown would not have a thing going on that's going on right now. So, from my personal perspective, thank you. You all are doing a great job. Thank you. Okay, with that I'm going to turn it over to the mayor pro-tim here for the next item. Next we'll go to point 11.5 zoning case PD 17-18 is a continued public hearing and I'll call on Jensy Thogel. Thank you Mayor Pro Tem. 11.5 item is a zoning case PD 17-18. Also a continued case from June 12, 2018. It is a rezoning request from community commercial zoning to a plan development for limited community commercial users plus a limited service hotel. The subject site at 4200 South Collins Street is also subject to airport overlay standards and has received FAA concept approval on the original plan. The proposal is for a best Western glow hotel. The original plan was requesting a deviation to the UDC's required minimum room size of 350 square feet. The applicant has since then revised their plans to meet all minimum requirements of the UDC. The applicant, Mr. Vijay Patel, is here to present the case this evening. Mr. Patel. Good evening, honorable council members. My name is Pankaj Patel. Vijay Patel is not here today. Vijay is the owner. And Vijay is out of state today. And I am in the architect for the project. So, basically it's, so I can just explain about the project. So it's basically, it's on around about 1.89 acres. It's on a 4200 South Collins street. It's near the McDonald's, just behind the McDonald's. I don't know whether it's familiar or not. But along that side is pretty close to the airport. And it is a fourth story. 81 units. It's a best-vested and glow project. And it has a total, before like you know that this is a new product, is there? Best-vested and glow. it has a total, before, like, you know, this is a new product, is that Best Western Glow? Vijay Patel, he is a governor with the Best Western. So he is, like, you know, trying to build the hotel with the new concept. So this is a new concept for the Best Western. So that's what he was trying to propose it on here. But here, the limitation was the square footage. The square footage was for the glow with the best restaurant standards. It was little bit less than 350 square feet. But then the opposition was there like that UDC called for the 350 square feet. So make sure that all the square footage is met. So basically that's what we have done. We have revised the plans. And it has met to the 350 square feet. So basically that's what we have done. We have revised the plans and it has met to the 350 square footage. So right now it meets all the UDC requirements. So if you have any questions, consent, please let me know. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Patel. Any questions, Councillor? I don't see any requests to speak right now, but I do have a question. You said, oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Gillespie. Thank you. Would you indicate that this was a totally new concept? So this has not been tried anyway else? No, it has been, it is new concept. It's in a market. There is a one, it's in a Duncanville. It's already under construction. And this one will be the second one here in Metroplex. But there are a few of them. They're already in a pipeline with the best restaurant across the nation. Mr. Patel, so you said there's one under construction. Is there another one already open and operating in this area? No. No. No. And so, tell me, I'm not sure I'm really clear. What is the, did you say the Glow Hotel has less of a standard than best Western? No, no, no, actually, sorry, I think I can feel it. It's an opportunity for you to make that clear to me, I'm sorry. Actually, basically what happened with the Meriotott, they had what do you call it, it's a fair fill in and sweets. So that's on a lower side. That's like you're trying to make it on an economical side as a compact unit and that one is pretty well catering to the young urban professionals. That's what they're catering that one. So it's a Marri has that that product. Similarly, Hilton has a true, it's a new product. And that is also pretty well catering in the same, like for the younger one professionals. And they have around about square footage again, it is starting for the Hilton brand. So that has a square footage around about, you know, just less than 300 square feet, a room size. So, base restaurant came up with the similar like you know competition made the concept called glow and that's what it happened. They made it like you know little less than 300 square feet for the area and so basically all of them they are competing against each other. So, it's and there are a bunch of fair fillin and sweets across the nation. True is also so many of them there across the nation. I'm doing it at least five of them, designing right now. Three of them there under construction. And glue is just starting. This recently just started getting into the market. The new concept. Thank you for that clarification. And you are aware, of course, that there are quite a few other non-full service hotels in that general area. Yes, yes. Ms. Salman. Thank you, Mayor Pratton. With the, what I would call a proliferation of limited service hotels on that I-20 Collins corner, there's at least four and then there are two more under construction. So this would be number seven. And for me, not being an expert in the number of hotel rooms we need on that particular corner, I would like to request that we continue this so that I can have deeper conversations with you and really understand this product better. And then also look at the needs that we have in that area. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Thalman. Any other comments from council members? So Ms. Thalman has requested a continuance council. Is that in agreement? Mr. Shepherd. I would like to make one comment. Mr. Patel, Would you tell the owner that we met several months ago, discussed this product, and I would like for you to convey to him my appreciation for you all working with staff to bring your hotel up to the UDC standard. I know that was something that you all were pretty adamant about not doing because of the model, the guideline that Best Western had for this type of product. So regardless of how this vote ultimately goes, I'd please tell the owner, I'm very appreciative if you all working with staff on that. Thank you very much. Yeah, actually, again, Lake, as Mr.ard said, that before we had that prototype model, that what the best restaurant has developed, and then we saw that UDC, it's already the regulation was there, and we try to follow the regulation. So that's what happened. Thank you very much. Thank you, sir. So, again, Council, Ms. Salman has requested a continuance. Ms. Moise. Both with? To a continuance. Is that correct? Because we, I think we do need a little more time to absorb this, given what we've just learned today about the market absorption in that area. Oh, okay. And I'm sure you have studies you can share with us that show the need for these rooms. Are you fine with us delaying this, until the next meeting so we can come back and I'll have clear notes. Actually I was just wondering why the continuation I'm just curious because we were worried about the number of hotels are their limited service and this is addition on top of it is that what the concern is there? Because what let me just explain on my side what what has been done on this one, there was a market study was done. And generally the best way to turn on any of these big flag franchises, they won't allow them to approve any particular location. They will also go through the market studies and make sure that this one is going to work for them as well. Because if any product is there, if it is a failure, it's failure for them, like you know, on a bigger scale. And it's failure for the city and failure for the owner. So they will not allow for that as well. So this one, they have already gone through their studies and based on that, they have recommended. And that's where we are going for it. And he is a governor and he would not even, you know, do it something wrong to even put his governorship in the best way. He's a governor, he's a good to put it on the line. If it's a failure, it's a big thing for the governor as well. Thank you, that is helpful. If the council wants to proceed with this tonight, I'm just not comfortable supporting it at this point with the limited information that I have about this particular project. But if we would like to move forward with the vote, I'm okay with that as well. Okay, and I think we have another speaker. If you would give us your name and address at the mic, sir. And then later we would need you to fill out a card for the record. Oh, you did. Okay. I hadn't got to you, Mr. Buskin. Thank you, sir. Go ahead. Give you some feedback. Yeah, I'm I first went with CBRE, ADAV Park Lane, Dallas, Texas. And I started working with Cologne, you know, I'm a commercial real estate broker and so I helped companies find sites. And so we started looking in South Arlington and it had a lot of the ingredients that you look for for this type of product. You know, we're near the airport, we're near great shopping with Arlington Highlands, we're close to six flags, we're close to the ballpark, and also the football stadium. So all these things were positive, and usually business travelers or vacation, they like to be near restaurants and attractions and this had all the ingredients so we've researched vacant land and we're lucky enough to find this track and we're really excited this is a new product they probably got 35 or 40 going across the country right now and it's you know know, updated graphics. It really caters to the new millennial type in business traveler. And so we were real excited to find this location. Best Western, you know, does studies before they let the franchisees do sites. And as he said, that's all been endorsed by best Western. So in any way I understand you're concerned but they've bedded that pretty well and feel pretty confident about the success of this project. Thank you sir. Any questions? Seeing none. So council we have a decision. We've continued this once. We could certainly continue it again. I'm hearing from some council members. They'd like a little more time. Others are ready to take action this evening. I personally cannot support it Simply because I think we have enough of what that particular limited service hotel is going to bring us out there in that particular quarter. But that's just me. So, Council, if I could kind of get some direction, what you would like to do. Not seeing Mr. Shepard? Yeah, I'll chime in. As I mentioned, and I didn't think I was alone. I thought there were other members of the council that met with the applicant. Two or three months ago to discuss this, at that time, there was quite a bit of opposition to the project. I think we have some of those opposition letters in our packet. And I spoke to a couple of opponents also, two or three months ago, and all of the opposition then was to the variance that was requested by the applicant with regard to the room size. So given the fact that the applicant has complied with the UDC at this point, and I mentioned to the applicant I would have difficulty supporting a variance of the room size, because I know we've had several that have asked and we, by and large, said no to those. But for me, given the fact the applicant has met the minimum room size, I'm prepared to support the case this evening or two weeks from now. I certainly don't wanna stand in anybody's way of getting sufficient information on the thing, but I've got all the information I need tonight. Thank you, Mr. Shepherd. Ms. Salman, would you still like some time to consider? Because if so, I think we can continue. Yes, I would appreciate that. Okay, Council, so let's go ahead and continue this for the next Council meeting. Sir, we'll continue it to our next Council meeting in two weeks, is that right, Mr. Delberton? So we'll see you here in two weeks. Thank you, sir. The next we'll go to 11.6 in the mayor will come back in. Thank you. Okay, next we'll move to 11.6 on in case PD 18-8 Cooper Street apartments 1500, Danube Street. And Ms. Topel, I believe we have a request there for continuance on this. That's correct. Okay. So seeing no objections, we'll continue this. All right. Then we'll move to 11.7 specific use permit, SUP 18-3, Zena Throck Daycare, dash 126 East Park Road and Ms. Topel. Thank you, Mayor. Item 11.7, SUP 18-3 is a specific use permit request for a daycare center on a two acre church property generally located south of East Parkrow Drive and west of South Collins Street. The subject site has a sanctuary building and two accessory structures, both approximately 2,000 square feet in size. The SSB building, fronting on harmond terrors, is proposed to be used for the daycare operation to serve 25 children ranging from infants to five-year-olds. It includes classrooms, recreational area, dining area, kitchen and restrooms. The site also has a fenced in playground area located on the west side of the building. Pastor Kennedy Jones is here to present the case this evening as the applicant. Pastor Jones, thank you for coming down and for the record if you could state your name and address for the record if you could state your name and address for the record. Best Kennedy Jones 511, Harmon, Tess, Arlington, Texas. What we want to do is to open the daycare. We have it operational. We want to send it. We do Mother's Day out. And it's meant to service a sect of the city that the law income. Right now in the daycare has run in someone in the range of $200 a week. I was running in the range of $125 a week. The purpose is not to make a profit. The purpose is solely to support a lot of struggling working families that just don't have it. Just spend that much money. And we've got the facility. God has been very gracious. And being here in the city, this council has been very supportive of us and it's something we can do and Our membership feels it's something that we ought to do and so it's not We have getting into the market. This is this is where we plan to be in that area that helps those families to Be able to have good quality, educational, child care services for the kids and something that they can afford. So, I just asked for your support and making this happen. There was a recommendation about a fence on the southern side. We have one there and I don't mind having to do some work on it, but I'd like to go ahead and get this approved so that we can move forward with the state of Texas. And then I'll come back and take care of the fence. I don't mind doing that, but I'd like to go ahead and get this move forward. So we can go ahead and call for the CEO. We already took the initiative met with the the planners. Found out the things that they wanted us to do and we've spent probably 25, 30,000 dollars a good one and do those things. So I'd like to be able to tomorrow morning go to state of Texas and say you know what I'm calling for the inspection for the CEO from the state of Texas and say, you know what? I'm calling for the inspection for the CO from the City of Alenton and we feel that only your paperwork, here you go, and we can get moving forward. Then I'll come back and I'll take care of the fence. Okay, questions for Pastor Jones, Council member K. Part. Thank you, Mayor, and thank you, Mr. Jones, very much. And so I could tell. Jones, very much. And so I can tell it's from your heart. And to be able to provide for educational services for these young kids, more than that, for their parents to know that their kids are safe while they go off and try to make a living and make a better life for themselves and their kids, that's really God's work. So thank you so much. I think it's just a great opportunity But one point of clarification assuming that the council will pass us this tonight Miss Thuffle does it require a second reading? So it would retire a second reading so even though you could go to the state until you've had that second reading It's not completely finished Yes, FYI. Thank you, sir. Okay. Council member Wolff. Thank you, Pastor Jones. I mean, since she became a pastor and moved your church over there on Park Row, you've made a significant investment in the area and you've just built a beautiful sanctuary in offices and just truly have upgraded that whole neighborhood. My question is and I think the reason we're all over here talking is it caused how that the property is currently owned airport residential single family and I'm thinking is that an airport from like 1940 I mean that was the neighborhood I grew up being so I'm going. I don't every member an airport there, but can you clarify that? What what we believe may have happened is this may be a typo that is on the agenda I'm a soapal and I have checked the notice that went out to the media has the correct information which is resident single family 7.2. Good. I just thought maybe there we discovered something that was there anyway but it's I think I think you will bring a great service there and I wish you well and I will support your efforts. Thank you. Councilmember Glaspie. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Pastor Jones, for you. Yes, would you share just a little bit about how this vision came into place and then the other question you mentioned the fence. How did the fence issue come up? Well, the vision itself, I got a two year old brain daughter. And so, you know, I looked at, you know, she was up there at the church all the time, and then my son started looking into childcare. And I was just astonished. I mean, when he and his sister went We're in that age group. We paid $50 a week and The idea of that someone making 15 bucks an hour Now has to pay $800 a month for for child care. I'll do this a lot Now we can't provide child care for all of the city of England, but we can do something. And hopefully it creates a model that's the mother people will pick up and say, you know what, we can create a system so that we have a certain number of stipends for other low-income families. Because we put ours right out there on the front lawns. Everybody sees that we're at 125 and that's to make them think that we may need to have at least some spaces in our child care that is for the low income. And hopefully it will create some movement and some activity in the minds of some of the other folks that have child care facilities. And as far as offense, they were just looking at the landscaping and the way that the property itself. And they thought, you know, you got that fence that's running along the southern end behind the church. Why don't you enhance it? And I was thinking we could not adverse to doing that, but it really is behind the church. It's not really next to the daycare. So to take the time out, to go do that, that takes a couple of weeks to get the beds, then takes a week or two to get somebody in there. And now that we got this rain off and on, it could be three, four, five weeks down the road to get that done. And I'd really like to go ahead and get this process. And then I can take the time out while the state is doing their thing and then go in and enhance the fence. But I'd like to go ahead and get this process and be able to till the state. We've already cleared that's her. the process to be able to tell the state. You know what? We've already cleared that's heard. Councilmember Wolfe, did you have anything else? Okay, that was from before. Any other questions for Pastor Jones? Okay, then I'll ask Mr. Buskin if there are any speakers on this item. Yes, sir. We have no additional speakers on this item. Okay, then I'll close the public hearing and call for a motion. We have a motion for approval from Councilmember Walman and a second from Councilmember Thalman, please cast your votes. Motion passes, Pastor Jones, thank you for your investment in our community and all you're doing to make a difference. Really appreciate it and thank you for this service right here that you're providing. Thank you a lot. Thank you, Dolly. Next we'll move to municipal setting designation 18-1 for 110-114-118-122 stadium drive and 109-115-114-114-114-114-114-114-114-114-114-114-114-114-118-122 stadium drive in 109-115-119-123 Fairview Street. And I'll call upon Mr. Stubblefield, Senior Planner. Good afternoon, Mayor and Council. And tonight, Jack McCranny from Terracan, Inc. has a short presentation for the property owner William Beasel. He may be familiar with and then we'll answer questions you may have. Thank you. Good evening, Mayor and Council. I'm here on behalf of Bill Beasel requesting a municipal setting designation for the property you just read off on stadium drive and Fairview Street and Also have we just live it and floors here their council for Mr. Beasel And I have a short presentation to go through and I'd stop you but if you could give your name My name is Jack McCrainy with terror con I live in Alito I don't live here Arlington, but I'm here representing Bill Beasel I live in Alito, I don't live here in Arlington, but I'm here representing Bill Beesill. So what is a municipal setting designation? It is a legal restriction placed on a property through a combination of city ordinance and state law. It prohibits the use of shallow groundwater beneath the property being used for drinking water or other potable purposes. Arlington enacted an MSD ordinance in 2006 and two days they have approved 19 MSD sites. Here's a typical cross section of the shallow groundwater within the metriplex that we often see gets impacted with contamination. It's usually about 15 feet deep, and usually extends to about 30 feet deep. There's confining layers deeper that protect deeper drinking water aquifers from being impacted. Arlington doesn't use the groundwater. They get their water from surface reservoirs. Shallow groundwater in Arlington doesn't use the groundwater. They get their water from surface reservoirs. Shallow groundwater in Arlington is not used for public drinking or water resource. In the City of Arlington supplies all the properties within one half mile drinking water through through its City of Arlington water supply. How does this play into our closure plan for this property to get it through the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality? The TCEQ looks at basically three exposure pathways, one of them being drinking water, one of them being direct contact with impacted soil, and the third being inhalation, breathing of vapors coming off of soil or groundwater. So what this allows, this allows us to kind of remove the drinking water standards from a play here because this side's not being used for drinking water. So nobody's drinking this water, Nobody's gonna drink this water. I mean, it's not portable water to be drinking. So what happens is we can take the groundwater and the soil drinking water out. And the TCEQ looked at the direct contact and inhalation as the exposure pathways once that drinking water is removed through the ordinance. One more thing on this, this is just the first step in a long process. We have submitted this work to the TCQ already. And Bill has enrolled into the voluntary cleanup program, so there's overseeing all this work. They will evaluate all these exposure pathways once the MSD is in place. So just because the CDB Arlington passes the MSD doesn't mean we're out of the, you know, in the clear. Basically the TCQ will evaluate all the exposure pathways before they will sign off on giving us an MSD approval. Here is the property in question. It's the eight properties that were mentioned earlier. There's the boundary. The outline in red is basically the properties that were demolished as part of the stadium drive expansion. So they're no longer there. The other three buildings are still in place and are still being utilized and rendered out for industrial purposes. So as part of our investigation on this property, we installed 16 monitoring wells. So all the ones in green and blue are monitoring wells we installed to evaluate the groundwater. All the dots in red are basically the soil samples we collected. and red are basically the soil samples we collected. And through our investigation process, it was determined that groundwater flow was to the southwest. There's kind of our groundwater flow lines. And here is the kind of the affected groundwater map that groundwater is primarily affected with tri-chloric ethylene. And it looks like it originated from a 118 stadium drive from a historical tenant that was there we think probably back in the 1980s. And the concentrations on site are decreasing pretty rapidly. It kind of shows the circles there from 20 all the way down to one milligram per liter in the round water. Prior to this meeting, the City of Arlington, to now public notices, they sent owners of all the properties with 200 feet, registered water wells within five miles, Ms. Colleagues, the half mile, retail public utilities within five miles. They published a notice in the Fort Worth Star Telegram posted no designs on the applicant property and posted no notices on the city website. Public notice process and a public meeting which two members of the public attended. And the rating room is recorded. So how does the site owner obtain closure? Basically, once we hopefully get approval from the city of Arlington, we'll have to send that to the CCEQ for review and approval. They will evaluate whether closures are appropriate for the property. And if so, issue a voluntary cleanup program certificate. And then once they do that, the certificate is followed with the property in real county records Here's kind of another map that Sarah put together kind of showing the location of the property and surrounding zoning Okay, any questions from council Okay, Mr. Buskin are there any speakers on this item? No, sirkin, are there any speakers on this item? No, sir, there are no additional speakers on this item. Okay, then I'll close the public hearing and call for a motion. I have a motion for approval from council member Wolff and a second from council member Glaspy, police, caster votes. Motion passes. you council appreciate Next we move to adoption of the 2018 operating budget. I'll call upon Mr. Mike Finley CFO and director of our finance department Thank you mayor. I'm just council, Mike Finley, CFO. The residence in front of you is adoption of the fiscal year 19 operating budget. This budget has been changed from the original proposed on August 7 to increase expenditures by $122,793 to add two senior code compliance officers. Because of additional revenues, the fund balance remains unchanged. A public hearing is required on the fiscal year 19 operating budget after which council takes action. I'll be glad to take any questions that you have. Any questions from Mr. Finley? Then for the TV audience we have been working in work sessions. We've had town halls and and then in the afternoon work sessions of course that are televised so we have asked a lot of questions and gone through a lot of work here to lead us to this point. So with that I'll turn to Mr. Buskin and see if there's any speakers on this item. No sir, we have no additional speakers on this item. Okay. Then I'll close the public hearing and call for a motion. We have a motion for approval from Council Member K. Part, a second from Council Member Moe's. Police catch your votes. Motion passes. Next we'll move to Leving, Taxes for Fiscal Year 2019 and I'll move to Mr. Finley again. Thank you, Mayor. This item is for the first vote of Leving Taxes for Fiscal Year 19. There were two public hearings held on the tax rate on August 21st and August 30th. The state requires the tax be adopted in two pieces, the interest in sinking fund of 19.2 cents per hundred dollars valuation and the O&M for 44.28 cents per hundred valuation. Any questions from Mr. Finley? Ms. Walman? Yeah, I need to ask for speakers here first and then- Public hearing. It's, yeah, the public hearing is already closed, but. So we don't have any, okay? So we are ready to take a motion if you're ready to go, Ms. Walton. Yes, I am. I move that the property tax rate be increased by the adoption of a tax rate of 63 and 48 hundreds of a cent per $100 valuation, which is effectively an 8.31 percent increase in the tax rate. Okay. We have a motion. Do we have a second. There we go. We have a motion from Councilmember Wom and second from Councilmember Shepard, so please cast your votes. Motion passes. Next we move to ratification of tax increase in the 2019 operating budget and the public hearing has been closed Mr. Finley. Thank you Mayor of this lap. Code section 102.0007 requiring a separate vote of the governing body to ratify the property tax rate. Property tax increase reflected in the budget. So that's what this ordinance does is ratify the tax rate vote you just had. Okay, any questions from Mr. Finley? Okay, the public hearing has already been closed, so I'll call for a motion. We have a motion for approval from Councilmember Glaspy and a second from Councilmember Walman, police catcher votes. Motion passes. motion passes. Next we move to water and wastewater rights adjustment. Water and sewer chapter ordinance amendments and I'll call upon Mr. Craig Cummings, Director of Water Utilities. Thank you Mayor. Mayor and council. Before you this evening is an ordinance to modify the reclaimed water rate. The volumetric water rate. The volumetric waste water. Charge and those would be come effective January 1st, 2019 and also to modify the fire protection. System fee and that would be come effective. I would say that the city of Ardenkton is a very important and very important. The city of Ardenkton is a become effective January 1st, 2019, and also to modify the fire protection system fee, and that would become effective October 1st, 2018. The water and 4,000 gallons of wastewater. This would amount to approximately a 4% increase or about $2.28 a month. And that is all on the wastewater side because at 7,000 gallons this particular rate or this particular And that is all on the wastewater side because at 7,000 gallons, this particular rate or this particular customer, average customer, would not be affected by the water viometric rate. As you've heard, Mr. Yolverton say several times that I like to repeat again, we do have the lowest rates in the met Metroplex for the medium and larger size utilities and with this increase we will still have the lowest rates in the Metroplex. What did you say Mr. Cummings? Did you say that we had the lowest water rates? I just wanted to repeat that again. Yes. And then fair. That's fair. And then what has happened is that we have been in a drought, haven't we, until yesterday. And so we have a lot of water usage that has been going up, but now, however, our water rates are lowest. Thank you. Yes. Okay, with that, are there any questions here for Mr. Cummings? Councilmember Glaspie? Thank you, Mr. Cummings. We do share with us the increase in wastewater. What's the main cause of it? We are affected primarily by a treatment charge increase of over 10% by the maternity river authority who treats our wastewater. That is part of the equation of water and waste water that's largely uncontrollable to us. It's what we charge for the water that we treat and the wastewater that we send to the plant for TRA. That's about 43% of our budget is largely uncontrollable. In this particular rate, that is reflective of that, over $3 million, almost $4 million, increase that we have from TRA. Councilmember Shepard, I just wanna make a comment when we close public care. Okay. Then with that, well, Councilmember Moeys, do you have... Okay. Then with that, Mr. Buskin, are there any speakers on the side? Yes, sir. We have one speaker on this item in opposition. When I call your name, please come to the microphone at the podium and state your name and address for the record. Chris Dopson. Hello again, guys. Chris Dopson, 27 away, Buffalo Drive, Arlington, Texas. Nice to see you all all still out here. Mr. Wiener, gone there there for the glow best Western Jeff. I noticed that we are increasing the rates from fiscal year 2018 to fiscal year 2019 along all of the residential block structure. However, it looks like to me that the commercial block structure did not go up by as much as well as having a separate amount that tends to delineate where the price goes up. I did have one question just generally though for the residential rate structure if a consumer uses 7,000 gallons of water. Does the first 2,000 gallons get charged at the zero to two rate and then above that it moves the next rate. So a user would have to use 30,000 gallons before they reach the $5.94. Okay, great. I wanted to make sure of that. However, I also noticed that in this past year, there was a transfer out in the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report of the water services. And it looked like to me that there was about $30 million more in revenue than expenses. And I don't want to call that profit. But that's what it looked to me, and I had to use the 2017 Caffer for that, of course, because this year's is not available but It seems to me that if we're transferring money out of the fund and into the general fund and If we're 30 million dollars above the expenses I Don't see where we need to raise the rate. I understand that some of the costs are going up with the Terrent Regional Water District. I mean a lot of those people have been serving over there for a long time and are very comfortable. But I just don't get why we need to charge more for water than what it costs us to produce it. So I mean, if any of y'all have, I mean, I'm sure you're pretty well. Mr. Yeoverson. Yeah, and I like, let Mr. Finley wrap up this, if there's more than I need to say, but the large majority of that transfer is for capital spending. So you move money out of the water utility to cover all of your bonded projects and all your payage,-you-go projects. So that's what you're seeing. Within the water district. Yes, sir. Ah. So we're repairing water lines and sewer lines and taking and building new ones there so that we can continue to have the best water system in the Metroplex. Okay. All right. Any other speakers? Mr. Buskin? No sir, there are no additional speakers on this item. Okay. Miss Sous. Mayor and Council in front of you at your places was a substitute ordinance based on your conversation this afternoon relative to how you wanted to adjust the rates Staff made the changes and put a substitute ordinance in front of you So your vote tonight would be on the substitute ordinance if you so choose Okay with that I'll call for a motion We have a motion for approval from councilmember Thalman and a second from Councilmember Shepard. Please cast your votes. Okay. And as a clarification, of course, the City Attorney just mentioned it. We have it before us here with that in which we this afternoon went through a discussion here on the methodology here of the rights. Yes, Mr. Yevrton. And just for the public's benefit, I think in response a little bit to Mr. Dobson's comments. The proposed budget included rate adjustments across five classes of water rate in today's discussion only adjusted two of the rates. The other three were left left the same this current year. Okay. Miss, Miss, oh councilmember Shepherd. Thank you, Mayor. And Trace stole a little bit of my thunder there, but I first fall on to think staff for all of hard work they did. On this particular issue, I know that you all spent a lot of time trying to adjust one rate and see what it did to the other rate. And for the benefit of those that didn't watch this afternoon's meeting, the rate stayed the same this year as it did last year for about 71% of our accounts based on July 2018 usage. So the council and staff worked very hard to be sure that we impacted the fewest number of people with the rate change and tried to keep an eye toward conservation by reminding people through their water bill that maybe they're watering their yield lawns just a little too much given the current state of water. So anyway, thank you staff and thank you. Mr. City Manager for all the work on that. Thank you, Council Member Shepard. Okay, with that we have a motion for approval from Councilmember Thalman, second from Councilmember Sheppard, police catcher votes. Motion passes. Next we move to resolutions. Aviation fiscal year 19 T hanger and tie down rights. I'll call upon Ms. Karen Van Winkle, our airport manager. Good evening, Mayor and Council. Continuing with our fiscal year 2019 budget items, this resolution would authorize adjustments to rental rates at the Arlington Municipal Airport for tea hanger, tie down and equipment storage spaces. If adopted, these would be effective on October 1, 2018. And I'd be happy to answer any questions. Any questions from Ms. Van Winkle? Seeing none, I'll turn to Mr. Busken. Are there any speakers on this item? No, sir. There are no speakers on this item. Then I'll call for a motion. Okay, we have a motion for approval from Councilmember Walman and a second from Councilmember Moe's. Please cast your votes. Motion passes. Thank you, Ms. Van Winkle. And then we want to move back here to item 12.3 on the water and wastewater rates adjustment. Let's call upon Mr. Yeoverty. It's just reminded as Miss VanWinkle was saying something that another point of what I think the public needs to be aware of on the the water and wastewater adjustments this year is the council has had a practice that if we have excess revenues in our rate stabilization fund to apply those to these rate adjustments. We're fortunate this year that we have that. So whereas rates would not be effective in October, effectively refunding back to rate pairs the first three months and not implementing these rate adjustments until January the first. So I want to make sure everybody knows that that's also part of the council's will relative to that. Thank you, Mr. Yoverton. Okay, next we'll move to citizen participation and I'll call upon Mr. Buskin to go over the speaker guidelines and the court. Citizen participation gives a 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, we have one speaker and Ms. Stephanie Morrison if she could come to the front. Ms. Morrison, if you could state your name and address to the record, thank you. My name is Stephanie Morrison and my address is 1018 Arlena Drive in Arlington, 76012. This is my first city council meeting. Thank you. Welcome. It's been very interesting. I am here so I don't, I'm, I was kind of hoping somebody else would go to before me so I could figure out what to do. But anyway, I'm just here to voice my opinions on short-term rentals. We have two on our street. And so let me just, okay, I know I only have three minutes. We're currently remodeling our kitchen and our bathroom in our house. And I've learned a lot about that process. I've learned that the city of Arlington has extremely high, some of the highest standards for electrical codes. Like when I call for an electrician, I'm often told that city of Arlington has high standards. Same with the wires that we put in our house and everything has a homeowner. I am annoyed because I have to pay the price of that. However, I'm also, I feel good that you're taking care of your city and I feel like we're in good hands. We bought our house 18 years ago before we had kids, but we bought it in a neighborhood with a good elementary school. Where kids still ride their bikes in the neighborhood. We enjoy the parks. We live very near River Legacy. We love it. We enjoy Texas live. We tolerate the traffic from AT&T Stadium. I figured out how to avoid that area when I need to. But this weekend, this happens all the time. This weekend there were cars, those two houses sleep over 20 people and they're right to store to each other. There was a car parked in the grass. I tried to call, I did call compliance, but there was no one to come out and verify it because it was a holiday. There's been times where the trash truck can't get through and they've had to go and ask people to move. If it was a fire truck, I don't know what would have happened. I don't let my kids go down the street on the weekends because I don't know who's there. So it is affecting my quality of life and it is affecting my property value. It makes me doubt if these improvements that I'm doing to my house are worth it. There's a house for sale on our street right now. And I saw a Century 21 car coming down there this weekend while all those cars were parked with the car in the grass and I thought hmm wonder if they're gonna buy you know would you want to buy a house with you know a part two party houses on on the street and I realized and not all short terminals are are that but I feel like I feel like there's a hotel on my street and I don't understand I feel like there is a hotel on my street and I don't understand. Go ahead, Vinny. I just don't understand why we can't regulate that. Like why we can't, the people who on that house live in South Lake, and they are operating a business on my street and I feel violated. And I just wanted to let, to share my concerns with that. Ms. Morrison, thank you very much. Staff will be contacting you here to find out concerns with that. Ms. Morrison, thank you very much. Staff will be contacting you here to find out more about this. We can't talk about it right now, but no, and you did a great job. Explaining what was going on. That's exactly what we wanna hear, and then Staff will be able to address it, but also all nine of us got to hear your what's going on on your street, and that is so helpful. And thank you for taking your time and sitting through this whole meeting in order to do that. Appreciate it very much, Ms. Morrison. Thank you. Okay, next we'll move to announcements and Mr. Buskin. Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to remind our residents, Arlington City Council evening meetings or rebroadcast on Sundays at 6 p.m And on Wednesday and Saturday mornings at 6.30 a.m The Council's afternoon work sessions or 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 online anytime at www.arlingtontx.gov. Then we have a water utility public meeting coming up. Is that right? Do we have any more? Are we done? That's what I thought we had more. Oh, Miss Thalman's ready. Come on here. I'm looking forward to it. I will be there. It's this Thursday evening, the 6 at 6 o'clock PM at the South Service Center on Greenox. Great, thank you. Any other announcements anyone has? Okay, and I see no further business, so this meeting stands adjourned. Thank you for coming tonight.