To the council meeting and tonight we have a quite an event. We're have swearing in of council members this evening and one new council member in particular. But before that we will start our evening with an invocation and our pledge of allegiance. Please stand. I'm so grateful that we live in this city. I'm so grateful that we live in a place and in a country where our voices can be heard God where you have prospered us or you've provided so much for us, God. And we never want to take it for granted. We don't want to wake up a single morning and just take it as granted. This is what we should have. We want to appreciate what you've given us. The freedoms that you've given us, the voice that you've given us, the order, the unity, the blessing that you've given us. And so tonight, God, I know we have an important meeting tonight. I know we have differing opinions about things, but God, I pray in the name of Jesus, you would bring a unity to the city. I pray in the name of Jesus that there would be a cohesion that people can feel heard, that everything can be digested. All voices can be respected. And when it's done, we can come to a good decision for the good of the people that honors you and that does what's best for this city. God, I thank you for the leadership. I thank you for the council. I thank you for the mayor. Those that you have placed in leadership, God, they've been put there by you. Give them wisdom. Lord, I pray in the name of Jesus that you would allow this meeting itself to have a peace that surpasses all understanding that when it's all said and done can only be stated as coming from you. And God, I pray that when we walk out of here, it'll be with hands joined together and with hearts knit together so that we can make the city what it's supposed to be. And the great place you've called it to be. And so God tonight be in this room, be with us. Be with every single person who's going to voice their opinion, who's going to speak. be with us. Be with every single person who's going to voice their opinion, who's going to speak, every single person who's going to present a counter-argument, all the different things that'll take place. God be in all of it. The business of it that matters. But God let you be front and center because we need you and we love you. In Jesus holy name we pray. Amen. Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to the Texas one state under God, one and indivisible. Thank you. Thank you, Pastor Prattis, for all you do and for a field of church. We're very blessed to have you in our community. Thank you. And tonight we're going to be swearing in for Council members. And before we start that, I'd like to turn the mic to Councilmember Charlie Parker, who served greatly for our city for the last six years. And Charlie, we're going to miss you, but I know you have wonderful parting words for us. So the mic is yours. Well, thank you Madam Mayor Pro Tem. I'm going to start off this short speech with a prayer if I might. So if you could indulge me and bow your heads just for a short moment. Heavenly Father, I come to you on level ground. As I look up to you, I thank you for your vision, your guidance, and the clarity you've given me to come up with the decisions I've had to made over these last six years. I asked that you give this council health and well-being and wisdom to face the challenges before them. And I asked that you give Helen all that you have bestowed upon me so that she can find solace and she can find comfort in her decisions. I ask all of these things in the name of Jesus Christ, your son and my Savior, amen. Now, I want to thank some people. First of all, I would like to name City staff. It has been, we've had an evening with City staff and it was a lovely evening. I want to say that you're doing this job. My back on and doing this job, okay. City staff has been the biggest pleasure to work with. You have 2,500 wonderful people down here that operate this city and they do a wonderful job for you. I want you to know that every time I came to them and I needed information, numbers, statistics, anything I needed to form an opinion to fight the forces of evil, they were there for me. And every time we saddled up, it was absolute pleasure on my part. So thank you very much. Secondly, I'd like to thank the citizens of North Arlington. Secondly, I'd like to thank the citizens of North Arlington. You have stood by me for the last six years at the ballot box and also at the town hall meetings. My first town hall meeting had over 550 people and it had to do with the apartments. And in that meeting we changed the face of the Lamar for the next 50 years. Each subsequent meeting after that had record numbers also, over 200 people a shot. I want to thank you for being engaged. I want to thank you for wanting to be involved in your community and I want to thank you for supporting me through this entire term. Lastly, I would like to thank the council. It has been my honor to serve with you. And this gets tough for me because it gets personal. It isn't easy to read your 800 pages every two weeks and come here prepared to vote on how you would like to the city to proceed. But for nine people to have the responsibility of governance of 390,000 people is a tough mantle of responsibility. But I think you're cut out of even better cloth than that. Because over the last six years, I have seen you face life-threatening illness. I have seen you face the loss of your life's partners. And you've done it with dignity and grace, and for that you have my admiration. So I just want to say that I have appreciated being with you and serving with you. And thank you for your friendship. I believe in divine intervention. I believe that God has this put in a position for a reason. And I'm going to give you five instances of that and then I'll leave. God put me in this chair for a reason. And I hope that I didn't disappoint you and I certainly hope I didn't disappoint him. God gave me two grandkids and I will love those little critters until my last breath. God gave me two remarkably incredible children who were highly driven and motivated. They're intelligent and highly educated. It was this day one year ago where I went to see my son get his executive master's degree from Tulane, my daughter from TCU. So they are making their mark on this world as we speak. The fourth item is the toughest of all because God gave me the love of a good Texas woman who has been by my side for the last 45 years and she is the best companion that I could possibly have in my life and she has her name tattooed on my soul. And the last thing is God made me a fighter pilot in the United States Navy. Mr. Shepherd, what do you think that makes me? I don't know, Charlie, what? The richest man in the world, Adios Arlington. So. Okay, Charlie, before you leave, we need you to sit for just a moment longer. Uh-huh. And have I ever disagreed with you? And I still continue. So I personally want to thank you for your leadership, for your frankness, for your ability to mobilize people, and for your genuineness. I mean, we said it this afternoon, you never had to question where Charlie was on an issue. You never had to guess. You know, if he didn't know, he'd tell you, he didn't know, but he usually knew. And he usually would come to a conclusion not quickly, but he would come to a conclusion or a solution, if you were, after he had done a lot of research, oftentimes he'd call me and say, well, if you were, after he had done a lot of research, oftentimes he'd call me and say, well, have you read this or have you talked to this and I'm going, I haven't even opened the agenda yet, Charlie, you know, and he'd already read all the way through it. I would attribute that to, he was bored, right? No, but anyway. But he's always, there was always very, very prepared at every council meeting and every committee meeting. He knew the issues. He did the research and he came with insight often that I didn't have and I learned a great deal for him. And it was his unfortunate, maybe fortunate for me, that he didn't have anybody else to talk to. Because the only person he said next to this entire six years was me. So the rest of us, except for Michael on the end, who also only has one person to talk to, you know, the rest of us have somebody we could turn to our writer, we could turn to our left, Charlie can only turn to his left and go, what would I, and And I just feeding whatever I thought he needed to know. So it was a pleasure, it was an honor, and I will never, ever, ever forget some of the wonderful moments that we've shared that I will not share publicly. But they mean a great deal to me, and I know they meant a great deal to this city. So thank you for your service, Mr. Parker. We appreciate it so much Any other comments me council Let me let me pull it up mr. Shepherd Thank you I don't really know where to start with Charlie. I met him probably seven years ago when he came down to yell at us about any number of things when his predecessor sat in that seat. And Charlie was single-minded then and when he was elected I thought oh my gosh we're really in for for a long long haul because Charlie is fighter pilot all the way there's no permission to fire it's just locked, tone locked, push the button, boom. But you know he's been consistent he's been that way ever since he was elected. I remember we first talked, he would ask me, you know, hey, what do you think about this? What do you think about that? And no matter what I said, he still had his own opinion. So I knew from the very beginning, there was no reasoning with Charlie when he'd made up his mind. He'd always make up his mind based on the facts, based on his research, based on his constituents, and based on the input that he'd received. And I think Charlie really has epitomized what makes this city council good. Because no matter how much we disagreed, we still been friends. And I thank for the citizens of Arlington, it's been a real treat. Thank you. Miss Wildman. Well, you know, we all know Charlie is Charlie and I always said but he's our Charlie and I really mean that. He has been fantastic and yes the little firefighter pilot comes out and he is ready. I've never seen Charlie come to a meeting yet that he has more prepared. I suppose more prepared than anybody I know. I used to think I could argue with people. I would never really argue. I might disagree with him but I'm not going to argue with Charlie Parker because he'll pull out facts and you go oh well I guess I didn't know that. Charlie has always prepared. He's done more for this city in the years that you've been here. You brought more issues. Controversial. I will agree. But you brought them and we've had to address them. And that is so good for our city. And you're right. You can disagree with Charlie, but you still love Charlie. And Charlie still loves you. And I will, I'm going to mention one of the person in Charlie's family because I remember the first time I saw Charlie Parker, he was running for office. And I remember it was a crowd like this big and Charlie said, that's who I am and that pretty little blonde sitting out there is in my wife. And he was so right. Jackie has just been a real trooper and therefore I have some very personal things that you all did for me. And all I'm going to say it was one Valentine's Day. It was so special that Charlie might be tough and he's a fighter pilot, but he has a real soft heart too. And I really appreciate that and I'm so happy and I love the way you started tonight Charlie because I know you love the Lord and it shows and everything you do. So best both of you and to your family but please come back Jackie you bring him he's promised he'll only speak three minutes now to us. But there's a man there. He only gets three minutes. So make sure he's at that. But thank you so much to you and to Jackie and your family for just being here and being citizens of Arlington. We love you and we want to keep up with you. Thank you. Miss Salman. Thank you. So my time serving with Charlie, and I'm going to direct my comments to Charlie if that's okay. Our time serving together has been only a year and it's been pretty brief. And in that time we've disagreed on most major issues in a pretty significant way. But I'm still here. Anyway, but you have always been respectful, and you've always, you know, several times, we've had conversations, you've given me guidance, and I've learned a lot from you and from serving with you. And I'm very grateful for your service on the council and to Arlene. And I think we can all agree you're kind of the loose cannon on the council. And I look around at my colleagues, they're all experienced and polished and professional and I'm kind of thinking I might be the next loose cannon on the council and I'm not sure how I feel about that. So I'll go this but I look forward to you coming back. Thank you, Mr. Salman. Mr. Glass-V. Thank you, Mayor Pro Tem. You reflect on Mr. Parker. Think about preparation. Think about perspective. I think about passion because he was always prepared. And regardless of what the issues were, he always had a perspective of an approach that he had to it. But then he presented it with passion. And the thing that always amazed me is Charlie would take his position on something, but once we as a council decided what we thought was best, he was a team player. And I just really appreciated the relationship. I've developed a friendship with them over the years. We have breakfast together. He's tried to drag me out a couple of times to do a few other things that I want to do. But it's really been a joy to get to know him over the years. And we actually came in together. You know, we were elected at the same time. So I feel real strange. You look down there and I see Charlie. But Charlie, all the best to you. Look forward to seeing you. Mr. Farrahmahs. Mr. Parker, I had the honor coming on to this council two years ago. And not just as a council person with you, but as also your constituent. And for before then, I got to watch from District One as you represented us sometimes in ways I probably would have never spoken out, but I always knew that your heart was in the right place. When I came on council, I remember the first time I met you, you said, hey kid, do you know what you got yourself into? Call me kid for about the first three months until we had a nice polite conversation about my age. But I knew something had changed in our relationship because you stopped calling me kid and we started talking as friends. And you showed me that wonderful, absolutely endearing quality that makes you so special and that's that heart of gold that you try to hide so desperately from the rest of the world. The man who always holds my doors, who refused to ever let me pay for lunch, who always made sure he was polite and whenever I to ever let me pay for lunch, who always made sure he was polite. And whenever I had a health issue, he would always make sure he would check on me, because Jackie and I seem to be blessed with the same types of inhaling issues of asthma. But Charlie, I just want to say to you, thank you for teaching me. As a professor, you know, you don't get a lot of opportunities to thank people for teaching them. And I want to say thank you for teaching me. Because I try to be diplomatic and you know, draw down the line. And you just call it as you see it. And I love that about you. I've come to find that so endearing. And I'm going to miss that. You've been my touchstone. And for that, I'm going to have to come visit. I'm not so far away because I still need my touchstone. Because without you, I'm not sure I can land on that carrier without you. Thank you. And Ms. Wolfe. Well, Charlie, you have the determination in the fiery spirit that will live in your neighborhood in this city and we're grateful for your service. You've always stood up for what you believe. You've never been shy to what you think. And I appreciate your service to the city. Thank you very much. And with that. So now we'll start administering the oath of office and first up we'll be Helen Moise, our new elected council member and so Helen, you, your family, your friends, come forward, and Ms. Garcia will be swearing you in. I, Helen Moise, do solemnly swear or affirm that I will faithfully execute the duties of office of council member district one in the city of Arlington of the state of Texas and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend, preserve, protect and defend, the Constitution, and laws of the United States, and laws of the United States, and of this state, and of this city, and of this city, so help me God. So help me God. Congratulations. Thank you. I'm going to ask you to give me a hand. I'm going to ask you to give me a hand. I'm going to ask you to give me a hand. I'm going to ask you to give me a hand. You're not. So if family and friends would like to take a group picture real quick, please gather around. One and only opportunity for the first time, right? All right. Yeah. Yeah. Huh? You might, let's do it. Come on. I saw Joe and Dorian Bruner after somewhere. Yeah. It should have been in front of the mic too. Yeah. Okay. I understand I can say like two words. So I'm going to use the time to say thank you. I have so many friends in the audience tonight that I want to say thank you for not only helping me with this election but for being there for me. When you run for office, you can get very stressed very quickly. So I have a lot of people here who helped me. Charlie's already gone, but I want to promise the citizens of North Arlington. I will try to make your town halls interesting. Charlie was the Charlie show and I went to his town halls. I don't think there'll be as interesting as his was were, but we'll try. So I want to take a minute to especially thank Joe Bruner and his wife, Doreen. Joe was my campaign treasurer. He's a former council member. I first went to Joe six years ago and talked about running and he talked me out of it because I didn't have time. So I went back to him this year and asked for his support and we spent two hours talking about my positions, my love for North Arlington, my passion for being part of what I see is as an era that we're entering in Arlington where we're becoming greater than ever. And I just wanna thank him now for giving me the courage to run and to thank him for his support through this whole campaign. I have good friends over here too. And you know, if I start naming, but I love you all. And you're in my heart. The young lady and the young men over here are my daughter and my son-in-law. They're very casual because he teaches at Carter and just got off work. He's a junior high teacher. And my lovely daughter, Michelle, teaches at once again high school in South Arlington. So if you're from South Arlington, you might have met her before. I'm very proud of her. I won this election on a Saturday. And Tuesday night, we went to the Aware Awards right off the election. And she was named the high school teacher of the year in Bioware. So. the high school teacher of the year in Bioware. So... APPLAUSE Very, very special honor for a mom and for those of you with children, you know, those are the most special times. So I look forward to serving. I'll be serving all of Arlington. I've just recently finished chairing, planning and zoning. And one of the people who know me on planning and zoning know I work for the entire city and I'll continue to do that. I'll continue to be here for everyone and available to everyone. So many of you have my cell number. It's almost frightening but you do. So call it I answer but I don't answer I'll call you later but I'm here and I'm excited and I'm ready to go to work Thank you Mr. Shepherd and Miss Garcia will be swearing in council member shepherds if Mr. Sheppers? Mr. Sheppers, family and friends would come forward as well. Mr. Sheppers, family and friends would come forward as well. Mr. Sheppers, family and friends would come forward as well. Mr. Sheppers, family and friends would come forward as well. Mr. Sheppers, family and friends would come forward as well. I will faithfully execute the duties of office of council member of office of council member district six district six in the city of Arlington in the city of Arlington of the state of Texas and will to the best of my ability and will to the best of my ability preserve protect and defend preserve protect and defend the Constitution and laws Constitution and laws of the United States of the United States and of this state and of this state and of this city and of this city so help me God so help me God Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'm sorry. I'm going to cry. I'm going to cry. I'm going to cry. I'm going to cry. And... I'm going to make my remarks from there if I may. Thank you. I'll make my remarks brief. First, I want to thank God for the courage and the strength to do this for the last 10 years and hope that he grants me the courage and the strength to do this two more. Secondly, I'd like to thank the citizens of Arlington for their support. I think we're doing great things here in the city. I think this council in particular is very cohesive. We're all friendly. We don't always agree. In fact, we rarely agree if any of you watch the work session from this afternoon, but we're all still friendly. We treat each other with respect. And it's an honor to serve with these folks on the council. Lastly, I'd like to thank my family, even though they didn't come down while I was sworn in. They've been, they're embarrassed of it. It's the thing on my head, I think. They've been my wife and my two daughters have been very, very supportive throughout this whole time. And lastly, my law partners who have been moderately supportive throughout this whole time, I've always asked them each term I've run and they've always been supportive of my candidacy and my service to the city. So thank you all again and I'll do my best to serve the citizens of Arlington. Thank you. And next we have Councilmember Victoria for our Myers and swearing her in is Judge Sue Walker. I thought I saw you here earlier, Sue. Come on down. Okay. Mr. McHenry. There you go. I'll give you a second. I said your name. Hi, Victoria. For our mayors. Do solemnly swear. Do solemnly swear. But I will faithfully execute the duties. That I will faithfully execute the duties. Of office of council member district seven. Of office of council members district seven. In the city of Arlington. In the city of Arlington, of the state of Texas, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend, preserve, protect and defend, the Constitution and laws of the United States, the Constitution and laws of the United States, and of this state, and of this city, And of this city. So help me God. So help me God. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'm not legal yet. Okay. There you go. Okay. I would just like to say that as a 32 year resident of Arlington, Texas, it's really been my privilege and pleasure to administer the oath tonight to Dr. Ferrar Myers. And I just also want to thank you all for being here and recognize you all as citizens and participants in the governmental process. I appreciate you and I appreciate all of our council members and in a political climate where there's so much rank or discord, I just can't tell you how it's a breath of fresh air to be here tonight. And I just want to thank all of you and I hope that in your times when there is discord and trouble that you will remember tonight that all of the citizens here in Arlington thank you for your service. Let's give them a round of applause. Applause. Thank you also for your service, Judge Walker. We appreciate you so much. Yes, Ms. Myers. I'd just like to say first of all, I want to thank Judge Walker. I asked her to be here tonight with me because she was the actually the first campaign I ever worked on when I first moved here back in the late 90s and I told her she was the reason I got my first sunburn in Texas in March. So I learned coming from the north what happens. But not a more serious note. I want to thank the citizens of Arlington. I want to thank you for your support, for your continued dialogue, for your continued ideas and thoughts, and helping us here that's it up here, work hard to help make this city what it can really be. You saw my son and my husband. That's my inspiration. And people ask me why did I run for this office? Why did I roll up my sleeves to make a difference in this chair? It's because I look at that little man, my little man. He gave me this rock that he made yesterday. They made kindness rocks and delivered them around Arlington. And he gave me this one last night and it says inspire others. I got news for you Kyle Myers. You're my inspiration. You're the reason I sit here. Because someday Arlington will be yours. So thank you very much. It's my honor to continue to serve the next two years. I promise you, no matter what, I will roll up my sleeves. I will work hard and every day I will fight just as hard for the city as I do for my family and my son. Thank you. And next, I will come forward and Miss Garso will be swearing me in. Thank you. next I will come forward and Ms. Garcia will be I'm sorry. Raise your right hand. Repeat after me. I say amen. I share a k-part. Do solemnly swear. Do solemnly swear. That I will pray for the exit to duties. That I will faithfully execute the duties. Of office of councilmember. Of office of councilmember. Of office of councilmember. District two. District two. execute the duties of office of council member of office of council district two district in the city of Arlington in the city of Arlington of the state of Texas and will to the best of my bill and will to the best of my bill to preserve protecting the fend preserve protected the field the Constitution and laws the Constitution of the United States of the United States, of the United States, and of the city. And of the city. So help me God. So help me God. Sorry. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Here you go. Here. Here. Thank you. This doesn't look like my signature. Here. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I met a psychologist. I thought I could do that. And then I got down there and it was difficult. As many of you probably know. I lost my husband in February. Ember was the one who always stood by me. Always encouraged me. And when he was first diagnosed in June of last year, pancreatic cancer. And he knew his time was short. One of the very first things he said was you must own council, because you will need to be busy, and you will need to continue to serve and do things for the city that you love. Embrace himself as a servant. He served as chair of the CPS Board for Tarrant County for 10 years. And he also served on the JPS Hospital Board. And he served on the Methodist Mansfield Hospital Board. And so our entire life as a couple was in service. And so he said, I can no longer be here but your service must continue So that I'm here and I'm only because he asked I'm here because I love doing this I love serving people I love being the conduit to help people when they have a problem and it's something that the city can Help them with oftentimes they don't know where to turn and And we, the elected officials, are the place they should turn. And they do. We can't always help. We don't always have the answer they want. But we're elected by the people to serve the people. It has given me a great honor, a great comfort to be that person that can help as all of us do who are your elected officials. So I debated tonight whether I could do this and I got through the whole day thinking, I can do this and then when Matt and I were walking up to the mic I thought, oh no, I'm not going to be able to do this very well. So I apologize, I thought I had an under control but all I could think of was, it was always Bruce standing there with me. But thank you, Matt, for being here with me tonight. I appreciate it. And so now, Helen, welcome. We look forward to working with you. Helen has been also a public servant. She's indicated she'd served with the Planning and Zoning Commission. But even before that, Helen and I served on the Zoning Board of Adjustment together back in the 90s. So, she too has a history of servant leadership and I know she'll continue that in her role as the District One Council member. But as we will move on through the agenda now, we've gotten through that. Thank you for bearing with me in that moment of weakness that I had. And so now I ask Dr. Farah Meyers and Mr. Thalman to go forward. They both have a proclamation to read. I'm going to ask all the staff from public works to please come up and join me. I know you're out there. Come on up. Come on. I know. You ready? The reading the following proclamation, behalf of the Mayor and City Council. Whereas public works services provided in our community as an integral part of our citizens' everyday lives and the operation of businesses, and whereas the health, safety and comfort of this community greatly depends on these facilities and services. And whereas the provision of stable service and well maintained streets is fundamental to the improvement of the local economy. And whereas the sport of an understanding and informed citizen's injury is vital to the efficient operation of public work systems and programs such as streets and highways, traffic signs and signals, waste and wastewater, public buildings, storm water management, solid waste collection and disposal. And whereas the quality and effectiveness of these facilities and services, including their planning, design, construction and operation, is vitally dependent upon the efforts and skill of public works officials. And whereas the efficiency of the qualified and dedicated personnel who stand behind me, along with many, many others who are not in attendance. Whose work in these departments is materially influenced by the citizens understanding of the importance of the work they perform. Now therefore, I am behalf of Mayor Jeff Williams and the Viscity Council. Do hereby declare May 20th through 26 National Public Works week. Applause. Could I direct her? If I could ask her, Director of Public Works to come up or Mr. Keith Brooks or anyone else who would like to say a few words, ladies and gentlemen, these are the people who keep us moving in our city. When we think about mobility in Arlington, these are the folks that really make it happen. So Ms. Carmichael, can you want to say a few words? Thank you. I would like to thank all the staff. They came out to not. They had a hard day work. I'm sure. But we're so proud to serve the citizens of Arlington. Services are business and we couldn't be more proud to serve you on a daily basis. I'll let a couple of my assistant directors talk if they want. Keith Brooks. Yes, thank you, Dr. Mauer. Thank you, Mindy. Yes, we appreciate working for it. We love working for the citizens of Arlington. This is what we enjoy to do. We are servants and we enjoy serving the citizens of Arlington. So we just want to continue that. We want to provide the city with excellent service. That is our goal. And so we want to continue to provide that service for you. So if there's anything you need, just give us a call and we'll be there and do our best to serve you. So thank you. Thank you, Dr. Farmer and our director and my colleague Keith Brooks, Norco or not. One of three assistant directors. We do a lot. We do a lot day and day out in honor and we take great pride in serving the cities of the Arlington. We do work long days. A lot of us are citizens here. So it's like serving our neighbors, our folks who go to church with. So it is such an honor. And we'd love to hear about you, to make things better. So continue to give us a call, let us know what you need. I reiterate what Keith said. We're here to serve. And we do it happily. And we do it day and now because we love it. So thank you for the honor. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And who do we have here to receive the proclamation for flood awareness week? All right. Okay. Whereas each year brings the potential for flooding and flash flooding to Texas. And whereas flash flooding is the number one cause of weather-related damage and can cause significant damage to commerce, public and private property and result in a loss of human life. And whereas dangerous floods and flash floods often have a higher frequency during the spring and fall, flooding can happen anywhere and at any time of year. And whereas the reduction of loss of life and property damage can be achieved if appropriate flood preparedness control, mitigation measures are taken before a flood by both the city and its residents including observing flood watches and warnings, development of flood preparedness plans, the development of flood preparedness plans, the purchase of flood insurance through the National Flood Insurance Program, development of flood mitigation capital improvement plans, and adherence to prudent land use planning. And whereas the Texas Flood Plane Management Association, and the state of Texas have joined together to urge all citizens to be informed and prepare for floods and flash floods, and to educate themselves on safety strategies and to always be mindful of signs and barriers morning of flood dangers and to always turn around, don't drown. Now therefore, I, on behalf of W. Jeff Williams, Mayor of the City of Arlington, Texas and on behalf of the Arlington City Council, do hereby proclaim May 21st through 25th, 2018 as Flood Awareness Week. here by proclaim May 21 through 25th 2018 as flood awareness week. Thank you, Council Member. I'm Amy Cannon. I'm also with the Public Works Department and I am the city's floodplain administrator and I would just like to stress the importance of always being prepared for a flood because it's never a matter of if it'll happen it's win and be sure to get flood insurance. It is available to everybody in this room that lives in Arlington whether you own or rent and if anyone tells you otherwise please call the Public Works Department and if anything that you have to take away today just always remember when you see water on the road, stop, turn around, don't drown. Thank you. We are so appreciative of our public works department. They do incredible work. And as you know, we have a lot of road construction around town right now. I think you probably run into that just a few places. And then we have a new library coming on board as well. And all of our public works people are involved in that in one way or another. So we owe them a debt of gratitude. It's easy enough for the council members to sit here and say we need this, we need that. But it's up to our staff to actually implement it and make it happen. So we owe them a debt of gratitude. With that, we'll move on through the agenda. Next, we move to appoint Mr. Boards and commissions. Ms. Garcia. We have no appointments tonight, Mayor Potem. Thank you. Next speaker guidelines, Ms. Garcia. We ask the citizens and other visitors in attendance to assist in preserving the order and decorum of this meeting. Any person making personal profane, slanderers or threatening remarks or who becomes disruptive while addressing the mayor and the city council or while attending the city council meeting may be removed from the council chamber. 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 the presentation and will be allowed three minutes for any rebuttal. Speakers and support or not position 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 Marin Council. Thank you, Ms. Garcia. Next, we move to approval of items from executive session. Ms. Garcia. Thank you, Mayor Perten. We have two items for approval from executive session. One, authorizing a settlement for the acquisition of 8178 square feet for street ride of white easements and 8952 square feet for drainage easement in over across and through land. Otherwise known as 1622 Rogers Road limited relative to the Eden Road, US Highway 287 to calendar road, 1622 Rogers Road limited to authorizing a consent and fourth amendment to use agreement, new singular wireless PCS, LLC relative to the installation of wireless telephone facilities, additional and supporting equipment on property located at 1526 Sherman Street. Thank you Miss Garcia. Do we have any speakers on either of these items? We do not. Thank you, Ms. Garcia. Do we have any speakers on either of these items? We do not. Thank you, Ms. Garcia. Any questions from Council? Seeing none, may I have a motion? Have a motion from Ms. Woolf for approval, seconded by Ms. Walman. May I have your votes, please? And it passes unanimously. Thank you, Council. Next, we go to approval of minutes. Special meeting on May 1, 2018. Afternoon meeting, May 8, 2018. Evening meeting, May 8, 2018. Any additions or corrections from any council member on these minutes? Are there any speakers on their side on Ms. Garcia? We do not have any speakers. Thank you, Ms. Garcia. May I have a motion? I have a motion from Councilmember Ms. Farah Myers and a second from Councilmember Thalman. May I have your votes please. And it passes unanimously. Thank you, council. Next we'll move to the consent agenda, Ms. Garcia. The consent agenda this evening contains 11 minute orders, two ordinances and seven resolutions. The minute order seek to authorize one through four annual requirements contracts for the fuel cart services program, traffic signal heads and components, directional boring services and drill shafts, and for digital media online services. Five rental agreement of the visage, GPS software module for gasoline powered golf cars, 6, FJ Red Cain Park, dam renovation, 7, change order number 1 for Harris Road neighborhood park, 8, amendment number 1 to the electricity supply contract, 9, Del Carmen Consulting Professional Services Contract, 10, Engineering Services Contract for 2017, large diameter sanitary sewer replacement, 11, Construction Contract for Woodland West Branch Library Model. The ordinances seek to authorize 12, specific use permit, SUP 17-8, Tran Auto Body Shop, 12-04 Colorado Lane, 13 Termination of Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone, number four, the Resolution Seek to Authorize, 14, Development Plan PD-07-5R4, DPA, Aviance at Buridian, 15 Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant, 2018, 16 and 17, 2018 Department of Justice Office of Community, Oriented Policing Services, Cops Grant, Children and Youth Engagement and Michael Grants, 18, 2018 Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Assistance Grant, Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program. Mayor Pro Tem, this concludes the consent agenda for this evening. Thank you, Ms. Garcia. Do they have any speakers on any items from the consent agenda? We do 912. You, Tran. Mr. Tran. Well, basically I just came to answer any questions of anybody had. Anything from we would discuss last time about adding to painters. I don't see any questions from any of the Council members. Thank you, Mr. Tran. Thank you. Any questions from Council members on any of the other items? Anything to be withdrawn from the consent agenda? May I have your motion or vote? Motion or vote. Thank you. Ms. Wauvin, move to approve. Seconded by Ms. Ful. May I have your votes please? I'm going to get the I have just been given a word that there was another presentation that we overlooked and we have someone else here that was to speak with regard to an ISO. Amy. Amy. So it wasn't on my agenda so I apologize for that. We certainly didn't mean to overlook anyone. So thank you. So I guess so everyone can hear us. We'll stand right here. Is that good? Yes, they'll be fine. Thank you. So you like to? Yes, I'd like to go ahead and have everyone acknowledge that the city of Arlington did make a class improvement to a CRS class seven and what that is is it's based off of activities that Amy and her group implement here in the city for flood mitigation and so this CRS class seven equals insurance discounts for flood insurance for your citizens It was no easy task. They put a lot of blood sweat and tears into it They were great anything that I asked of them. I didn't have to ask twice. They got it done They had a lot of cleaning up and kind of organizing and things like that, but they got it done they got it done on time and They did a great job. I couldn't ask for Anymore from them. So they did excellent and I want to go ahead and present the city of Arlington with this class seven plaque From FEMA on behalf of FEMA and on behalf of ISO Well, thank you And we certainly didn't intend to overlook that so we are so glad that I got this message So thank you and why an accomplishment and so I work a little bit with FEMA on through Cog and I know when you say it was no easy task that is no easy task. So congratulations to our staff and to the citizens of Arlington who now have an even higher rating than move for. Would you like to say something also? Yes, if you all have time. I would like to thank some city staff because this was a big deal for us. We had to modernize our program and go from paper to digital and that can be scary sometimes. But we came together as a team. And so even though public works led the charge on this, and my group led the charge, we really worked together. And so I'd like to take this time to thank members of other departments. First off, from the IT department, I would like to thank Jimmy Marks, Bruce Rohn, Deborah Moore, and Jeff Tate, who got us into our building permit system and got it running and was extremely patient with me. From community development and planning, I'd like to thank Jensy Thoppel, Steve Quirk, Brandon Long, Leah Wilborn, and Ada Payne for all the work that they put in to make sure that when we did implement a process it was right and it made sure that we kept our review time short and everybody on schedule. And from the Public Works Department I'd like to to thank Shay, Regan, Jimmy Phillips, DJ, Lee Jeffery, Sydney Kelly, and finally the other two members of my CRS team, Melissa Walker and Cindy Jackson, who were also extremely patient with me and getting things done and getting things turned in and getting things marked up so Dejra could review them. I'd also like to thank Deja for answering our questions and helping us through this process. Without y'all, we really couldn't have done it. And then finally, I would like to recognize a gentleman that worked with the City of Arlington for almost 24 years and he actually worked with FEMA and he's been behind the scenes and you'll never see them but as each executive order law and FEMA policy came down he guided us through the process on how to make it fit for Arlington and make it work and he wanted to be here tonight he told me that last year but unfortunately two weeks into his retirement he passed away And so I would like to recognize the late Delhoff and just say how incredibly thankful I am for the contributions he made to the city of Arlington because we are a lot more fled safe because of what he did. And he is truly, truly missed. So thank you. Thank you so much. That's quite an accomplishment council. It really is. So it makes everyone safer and as the council has already experienced over the years, so many homes have been flooded and erosion along our creek banks and the council has taken action with regard to our stormwater management to try to help with that and we've made significant progress in that. But thank you and again, I'm so sorry we didn't recognize you in the beginning, but you know you had the spotlight art to yourself so it worked out okay, great. All right and with that we'll move along to item 11, no, excuse me, item 12, public hearings. And the first one is zoning case is ZA18-2, and I'll call on Ms. Jensy Thopel. Item, thank you, Mayor Pro Tem. Item 12.1, ZA18-2 is a rezoning request from Community Commercial to RS 7.2. On approximately 0.814 acres of land at 3601 Little Road, which is generally located south of Mayfield Road and east of West Greenoke's Boulevard. The subject property is a surplus remainder of the property that the city of Arlington had acquired in 2001 in conjunction with an extension of Morris Lane. The rezoning request is in preparation for the sale of the property such that its zoning is made compatible with the rest of the area which is zoned RS7.2. Stuart Young, real estate manager for the City of Arlington is here to answer any questions you may have. Councillor, any questions on this matter? Ms. Garcia, do we have any speakers on this item? We have no speakers on this item. We have no speakers on this item. Thank you. So seeing no discussion, I'll close the public hearing and ask for a motion. I have a motion by Ms. Fraud Myers and a second by Ms. Thalman. May I have your votes please? And it passes unanimously. Thank you, Council. Next we'll go to case, the specific use case, SUPO813R2. This is a continued public hearing. Better known as the cornerstone drill site. And Ms. Thalple. Thank you, Mayor Brotem. Item 12.2 is the continued case for the cornerstone drill site requesting a specific use permit revision to establish a drill zone. The site is generally located east of Matlock Road and south of southeast Greenfield, Spulawar. The applicant's representative Cliff McCoskey is here to present the case and answer any questions. Mr. McCoskey representing total on SUP 0831 PC for a drill zone permit for the cornerstone padside. There have been two changes at the pad site since council approved the original SUP 10 years ago. The changes are the location of the drill zone and the playground closest to the pad side which is planned to be moved 600 feet away from the drill zone buffer. The reason for this hearing today is to establish the drill zone for the 2011 ordinance. The drill zone was approved by planning his own commission on April 18, 2018. The cornerstone drill site is in compliance with local, state, and federal laws. There have been no citations, complaints, or issues reported to the total city staff or state agencies. The site is inspected daily by TEP Barnett staff. Total has been working with the staff and the city staff in the cornerstone church and has developed stipulations for this permit. The stipulations are to relocate the southern most playground outside of the 600 foot zone buffer and three masonry walls to enclose the padside completely. The drill zone has been shifted 20 feet to the south and shifted five feet to the east. And when we've worked with AISD and when the schools are in session, total were strict traffic during the drilling and completions between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. and 3 to 5 p.m. Total will also monitor and take measures to reduce dust on the access road to the pad side. And the trees in the sprinkler system at the pad side have been replaced and repaired as needed. It will be monitored on a regular basis by total. MMA has previous history on this pad side and has prepared the exhibits before you tonight Total is represented here by Kevin Strasser, Dusty Anderson, Julie Jones and Shannon Burke Who are here to present the case overview and answer any questions you may have Cornerstone Babish Church in total of work hard to bring this case in front of you tonight and a fo'kay mayor pro tem I'd like to invite Kevin Strosser to the podium. Thank you for your time, and thank you for your service to the city. Thank you Mayor Pro Tem and Council. My name's Kevin Strosser, a government relations manager for Total Barnet, my address is 301, Commerce Street. And to just go through some of these slides, I know we presented before, but wanted to just go ahead and just quickly go through some of these slides, just in case there's any questions. On the site, we'll have 24 hour telemetry on the wells, which means that it's a safety feature where we can see all the wells and their production going out at any time. If any of our employees or any of our technicians see anything they don't like, they can actually shut in the well remotely. On top of that, we have an ESD button, which your ordinance requires that any fire department or safety crews can hit that button outside the pad site and shut those wells in and will come out and monitor that. We do, for your ordinance, have a 24 hour monitoring of live cameras at the property and our cameras are always rolling, so in case there is any questions about who's on our site and when. We do quarterly and annual inspections by the city, your staff does the quarterly and annual inspections at our sites. We do do for our cameras testing at least twice a year. And in this case, if these wells are approved we will go back out once these wells are in production again and floor tests again which we will usually will do two more times throughout the year to make sure everything is in order. Our employees will have LEL monitors which measures all of H2S, flammable CO2 and oxygen levels, anything that could be disrupt that site. We do it for OSHA reasons as well. And we also have continued fire department training with your fire department and total to make sure that we're all on the same page. And if there was an incident on the site, your fire department would be prepared. As far as our health and safety and environment to tell is a company wide goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions at all of our sites around the world, we are the third largest willing gas company in the world. So of course, that's an important function for our company overall. Our TEP Barnett has a specific goal of reducing all of our emissions by 10% at all of our sites. We utilize Cadillac converters on the gas lift compressor engines. This reduces the NOX, also known as NOX, and CO2 emission by over 90% of each site. We regularly test our gas lift compressors, at least quarterly, and ensure the proper operation, and Cadillac reduction. We use low bleed, no manic controllers to reduce the VOCs and methane emissions from those gas lift compressors. At least annual reviews for the pads, for leaks using optical glass imaging cameras. methane emissions from those gaffless compressors. At least annual reviews for the pads, for leaks using optical glass imaging cameras. We on our storage tanks, they're surrounded per your ordinance as well by secondary containment. Storage tank hatches are maintained in a closed position to make sure no one can get in and completions are conducted using green completion techniques, which means ultimately we do not flare at our sites. Also per your ordinance, we don't do that. It directly goes in the pipeline. There's no vending or flaring from the well-new wells. There's been a lot of questions about VOCs and volatile organic compounds and our gas and some of the things and misinformation out there. What we do, what you'll see here on the screen is our gas analysis. We do this on all of our sites, which we analyze the gas by a third party to see what's in our gas as we provide it to the market. You can see here, we test for everything that's in the gas. You'll see mostly it's a great gas quality. It's methane, it's 95.7%. Carmen dioxide, 2.5, ethane, 1.3, and nitrogen less than 5%. Those are basic compounds of when you, when you mine natural gas. You'll see here down in the middle, the lower part of the page, there isn't any of the alleged butanes, pentane, sextane, septane, octane, all the ones of those heavy organic compounds that are usually found out in East Texas, West Texas, South Texas, Eagle Ferd, which will be mentioned tonight, the Eagle Ferd, some of the studies. You'll see those out in when you have oil and wet gas is what it's called. This is very dry gas and gas that goes to the market very, very nicely. You can see the pad location is illustrated in the red box. We have two development and production units. One on the north. It's the Northeak Cornerstone, north unit about 342 acres, about 95% least. On the southern unit we have 260 acres, almost 100% least, and we have about 1200 royalty owners that have been receiving royalties from the existing wells. We do have three existing wells. You can see the drill zone is depicted in the green box on the middle left side of the page as what we're considering tonight. We will as Cliff mentioned there is an existing masonry wall on the east side of the pad and between the pad and the homes to the east. We will we've landscaped it the northeast and western boundaries of that. The defined drill zone we plan to drill four wells, and then as I mentioned, install the mace rail walls around the rest of the site. The drill zone waivers, we have 24 properties within 600 feet of that drill zone, and we obtain 17 waivers of almost 71%. The closest structure, I wanna make sure there's been some distances that I think been misconstrued just a little bit. The closest structure at this side is 324 feet, which is the buildings to the west. Those are two commercial buildings, and those are both signed waivers, support waivers. There is a school nearby, which is on the church property, which is over 600 feet away, and the closest residence is actually 542 feet away to the east. And as it was mentioned before, the closest playground equipment is going to be moved. That was in question and brought up during the last feedback from the residents and from the council as to move the playground outside of that 600 foot buffer. We did do meeting neighborhood outreach. We sent an invite to all 600 foot residents within 600 feet of the drill zones at that meeting city staff attended. No residents from that 600 foot set back attended. We received 330 letters of support from the minerals. Within the production unit, we have sign petition of almost 150 congregation members at the cornerstone Baptist Church. The sound mitigation, we'll comply with all gas well and production ordinance. We will install 32 foot sound walls, monitor the site 25 hours a day, seven days a week, and we'll be daily checking the sound levels and reporting those numbers to the city. During the sound level. So if you could kind of wrap it up. The day time allowable. Decables is five and seven during drilling and completions and at night three decibels. Here's a picture of the site with the maester existing maester wall an example of what we'll put around the remaining three sides and this is the cornerstone Baptist master plan which you'll see here the overall master plan the city and the mayor put together a few years ago to see the full development of their property. And then lastly, just to reiterate, we'll notify all residents with a thousand feet of any of our operations, install the 32 foot sound walls and here to the ISD's requests of seven, the nine and three to the ISD's requests of 7-9-3-5 truck traffic. And then lastly, all the landscaping is being completed and then we'll have a guard on site 24 hours a day, seven days a week during our operations. And as it was stated in your staff report, the per the city staff, the cornerstone pad site is in complete compliance. I can find a lot of information at one time, but I'd be happy to answer any questions that you may have. Thank you, Mr. Stresser. Any questions from Mr. Stresser from Council? I don't see any, but I do have one. When you have to do a workover on the well, and maybe this is for Ms. Thuffle, do we require sound walls to be placed when a workover is being performed and well? Ms. Thuffle. Sound wall is not a requirement, but in the past, you have, Council has made that as a stipulation in other drill zones. Okay. Would you have an objection to us today, Mr. Straser? I think the current ordinance, and we're not overly against that, but I think how we've operated in the past is, we have, you have your sound ordinance, as you require us to maintain during certain operations, and if we do not comply with that, we have to bring it in compliance. And one of those options is to put sound walls up during that time, or generally the completions are a work work over rig which is during daytime hours only and we'd have to adhere to those standards that the city put forth and if we cannot we obviously have to put up sound walls at that time. But you wouldn't have any major objection if we asked you to do that. Thank you Mr. Trasser. I may approach him I can reserve the right to rebut after the testimony. Yes sir. Miss for our Mars has a question, Mr. Straser. Thank you Mayor Patat. Could you elaborate a little bit on the timeline for the move of the playground? We're working on it now and we're moving at every effort. Actually, the city has been absolutely wonderful with moving towards our accomplishment of being that move. I believe it was yesterday. We received our fencing permit to relocate the playground. And so we're well on our way. I don't have an exact timeline yet as we're still waiting on some results of some other processes. But a lot of that will depend on what the city has been great and we're helping us get together with the state. Obviously, this is the state permitted size since it is a school. And so we're working as hard as we can to get it moved as quickly as possible. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Troucere. So, Garcia, do we have other speakers? Yes, we do. We have three speakers in support. 11 non-speakers in support, 31 speakers against and 47 non-speakers against. We'll call the three speakers in support. You'll state your name and address for the record when you're called to the podium. Jan Porter. Good evening. I'm Jan Porter, 54-15, Matt Lock Road, Arlington. I've been a member of Cornerstone for over 30 years. The natural gas drilling has been operating at this location for almost nine years Cornerstone has not had or experienced any problems with either Chesapeake or total In their in their drilling operation Cornerstone has benefited financially from Them being located on the cornerstone property. The money that we've received has not been used solely for the support of Cornerstone. That money has also gone to support other ministries in the North Texas area as well as various other ministries around the country. We are very strong as far as helping other ministries out and the revenue from the gas company has helped us. The gas revenue also has been used to undergird our school, the church school that we have there. I know I did to help keep the tuition costs down. I'd like for it to be recorded that past the Dwight McKissick, the elders of Cornerstone, and the congregation of Cornerstone of which I am a part. Totally supports Total Barnette's application before you for the additional three wells. And I'll answer any questions you may have. The next two speakers in support is Dwight Perry and Amanda Mata. Dwight Perry. Amanda Mata? We're not in attendance. Yes, we do have some non-speakers in support when I call your name if you'll just raise your hand. Hector Heatley. Anita Moss. Veronica Griffith. Dusty Anderson. Shannon Burke. Charles Richardson. Julie Jones. Mayda Sipeda. Roberto Sipeda. Erica Perry. Those were all the not speakers in support. See, and those in opposition? We have 31 speakers in opposition. When I call your name, please come to the podium and state your name and address for the record. Joanna Cardosa. And then next we'll have Sandra, Dan Braber and Zach Carter. Hello, my name is Joanna Cardosa. I live at 55, 21 Whispering Lynn Drive and I'm here to ask you to vote against this. this. Sandra, Din Braber? I'm sorry we can't hear you. Could you come to the podium, please? Sandra Denbreber was sick and had to leave. And she said you all knew her and she just left two sentences to be read out by somebody if that's acceptable. OK. Sandra D'Andreber, this is her home. And this is Drilling Rake less than 600 feet from her home. And she wanted to say that you've heard my story before. But what you don't know is that for the last five to six months, I have had other health issues with a shift in differential WBC. And my hematologist tells me that cancer is a possibility. So drilling too close is wrong. What comes first, our health and safety or money and she just wanted me to turn this in. Thank you for speaking for her and if you would also give us your name and address for the record. Ranjana Pondari I have a presentation. Ranjana did you want to go ahead and yes of course. Minotry, Lock Loman Drive, Arlington, Texas. Ranjana did you want to give us the ladies' address? Thank you. Thank you. Also, could you give us the address of the lady who was speaking for her from San It's 114 Ray Street, Arlington 76010. Thank you. Is that Carter? And next will be Dean Osborne. How do you? How do you I'm Zach Harbour 5708 congressional drive? I saw him a little bit further away from this, but I'm still in that same neighborhood. It's just right next to it. The actual park is my backyard. Craven's Park is my backyard. I've got a couple quick points to make. I just like the first lady. I'm going to be very brief. This is an isor. I mean, I first lady, I'm going to be very brief. This is an eye sore. I mean, I bought this house in this neighborhood, be at a park for my daughter. My daughter is sitting right over there. She loves this park. You're putting up drilling rigs. You're putting up. Something's going to become an eye sore. There's health problems. You're talking about drilling next to a park is already happening. It shouldn't be happening in the first place. This is drilling next to a park where a children play at. Those of us that bought the house in this neighborhood, I bought the house back in 2013. I'm against this definitely several reasons. And my pocket's not getting lined by putting this drilling rig up there, it's not helping me out. I understand why the church would be for it. And I support anything that would help out a church community I definitely do. But putting a drilling rig up for health reasons such as a second lady that spoke, such as the eye swords, such as this is just not helping anybody out. Especially those that have bought the house in the recent time, such as me as well. You know, we don't have mineral rights when we buy these houses. I know one that I know in the last half a decade has got any kind of mineral rights. And then again, taking money out of this completely is just the eye sore and the dangers for my child. You know, we use that park on a weekly basis. Constantly she loves to walk up there. This is not something that's helping our community out any. If you want to drill that's fine. Don't do it right next to a park on a busy street where there's way too many dangers. Thank you. Mr. Shepard, do you have a question? I do. Thank you for coming down. I appreciate hearing from you. Said you bought your home in 2013. Correct. Yes, sir. Were you aware that there was a gas well site there when you purchased your home? No, sir. It wasn't in the middle of everything so big right there. We were more and a hurry to try to find a house next to a park for my child and you know schools and a good school system. So how far away would you say your house is from this drill sign? I'm at the other end of Craven's Park. So at the foreign to Craven's Park. There's four ends, help me with directly. Okay, I'll help you out right there. You know, where the school is at on Craven's Park. My, I live on a congressional street right in front of that school on the foreign at the park right there. So you're on the east side of the park. You are correct, yes. Correct. Okay, so hazard a guess on the distance there. Half a mile. Maybe a mile. Half a mile sounds fair. Okay. Maybe a mile possibly, yes sir. Okay, thank you very much. I appreciate you coming down. You're welcome. Thank you sir. Thank you ma'am. Dean Osborne. Next we'll have Jaya Davis and Catherine Rogers if you want to come up to the front. Dean Osborne 5535 Silver Maple Drive. Welcome to the show. It's been 10 years and we're still talking about this. On his proposal, there's no mention of four temporary classrooms within almost 300 feet of the wellside. Whether they're going to be moved or not, but there's actual children use those on the weekends in some pieces during the week. And they're right about where the playground is, and I haven't heard anybody point those out, anybody talk about those. Those are literally right at the 300-foot line. It's not all about the money, and that seems to be what everybody wants to do. They wanna know where their check is. This country, as I know, been built on money and major corporations for the sake of money have killed a lot of people. We used to use lead on everything, including paint, kids' toys, used to use lead on everything, including paint, kids' toys. We used to have lead in it. We used to smoke on airplanes, coast to coast, because everybody thought it was fine. How many chemical companies have had to have been taken care by the EPA to clean up messes because taken care of by the EPA to clean up messes because they dump stuff that they thought was okay and it saved them a ton of money. You are the gatekeepers for the citizens of Arlington. We appreciate what you do for us and we know the decisions are hard and we have to rely just like you have police to enforce your rules, you have firemen to help protect us from fires. We need you to protect us from the hazards of a super industrial site that you have has been brought to a neighborhood, to a residential area. You know, 10 years ago we didn't know as much as we do now. Just because they got the original SEP, you know, they don't need to be coming closer to everything. You know, we just want you to do what's safe for Arlington and we got to trust in you to think, you know, I don't want to be the guy on the news in a couple of years going, I told him this would happen. I came to City Council, they approved it. This shouldn't be your legacy of bringing this into our area. I know that, you know, previously you talked about an electric rig that cut down on noise and stuff like that. I don't see in his proposal now. So that's been taken out. And I've learned if they don't put it in writing, they're not gonna do it. Just because they said it once. So I would like to see that in writing. You know, I'd like for you guys to talk about those buildings that are at 300 feet that nobody's talking about, where kids are in classes. And, you know, the sound walls, I don't want left up indefinitely between rigs. But, you know, I just, I trust you to make the right decision and I appreciate your hard work. And that's all I got. Thanks. Ms. Moise. Mr. Osborne. Sir. Sir. Sir. Sir. Sir. We have a question for you. From a council member. Well, and this may be actually questions just to clear some things up for the applicant. If he's got just a minute and then you might stay up here because I just have some questions about I want to understand the process a little bit better. If I could have the applicant back for just a minute. Yes, ma'am. I think it might clear some things up in my mind and I'm sure many people here already know, but I'm fairly new to the drilling issues. So you have how many wells there now? Three. Three, and you're wanting to put in how many more? Four more. Four more. You know, we see pictures of, or, you know, we've shown a picture of a drilling rig kind of blocking the view. How long would you drill a rig in place? That's a good question. Many years ago, and I think this is some of the advancement of our technology, as many years ago, when we first got at the cornerstone site, like many others around the Barnett, we averaged about 21 to 28 days per well. And now we are actually, during the proficiency and technology that we have, we're averaging around 10 to 12 days per well. So we've reduced that by half. And so per each well will be there about 10 days. So if you're starting to drill, because'm just responding questions of hurt here. So if you're starting to drill and The city is testing sound and you don't have a sound wall up because I know some people don't find them very attractive Are you willing if the sound needs to be mitigated? To stop drilling in time and until the sound wall can be installed. There's a couple of points on that Councilwoman is one we will, regardless of sound levels, put up a sound wall initially. That's a given. Before we move into that site and start drilling we will have 32 foot sound walls around all four sides of that. So with four wells you're estimating. About 40 days. About 40 days because you don't intend to drill one, go away from us, drill another goal. OK, so here's a continuous operation. There's a good question that it didn't bring up. And one of the things was the feedback that we did get from the residents on the street closest by was to, can you drill all these all at once and we said absolutely we'll do that we'll drill them at once and then we'll turn around and complete them all at once and then take down the sound walls immediately after that they won't linger out there for many many weeks or months. Okay on the electric rig question I know from some other cases that came to planning and zoning electric rigs are what's commonly used now, they're much quieter, because we had cases where they were reworking wells. So is that something you can explain? Is that what you're using or using? We certainly use that every time we can. There is a limited amount of electric powered rigs in North Texas. And unfortunately with some of the delays that we just encountered which is obviously not a big problem some of the we're limited on which rigs we can use we always use those rigs the first chance we get right we prioritize that to make sure because it does cut down on sound so it does so it sounds the main issue. She necifically. Okay, so I understand that. Okay. Those are my questions. Yes, ma'am. So now when I hear testimony, I'll be up to speed with what we're talking. Certainly. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Do you want to have any of anything else you want to add? Since I feel like I kind of took away thunder. Get it in writing. Get it in writing. We can do that. I've been told a lot of things that haven't been true throughout this whole thing that you've missed out over the 10 years. You know, been lied to numerous times. So get it in writing. Thank you. Sir, if you'd say it, the mic, Mr. Shepherd. Mr. Osborne, I have a couple of questions for you. When you were here last time, or maybe it was time for less, from you mentioned something about not having a lease. Well, yes, they sent me a new lease because they said I didn't have one. Which I do. Okay, you do. And you, okay, so before I was kind of led to believe that you didn't. No, I did. I've always had one. Okay. And so you do own your minerals. Yes. And you did sign your lease originally back in 2008. Yes, for a. He took the bonus money. For a site that I was told going to be over at the airport, not, because I specifically asked, is it going to be at the church and they said no, because that was my concern. I wasn't going to sign if it was going to be at the church. Is that in the lease? That it's not going to be at the church? No, it wasn't told to the neighborhood that it's not going to be a church? No, it wasn't told to the neighborhood that it was going to be at the church till after everybody had their basically signing party. You didn't really know then, at the time, you signed the lease where it was going to be. Correct. No, I just asked and you know, just ask ahead of time and they were told I was told, but I didn't know that they had already done a deal with cornerstone For that site so it was after everybody sign when they came out and says hey We'd like to invite you over to where your Gas is gonna be drilled now Okay, and the reason I asked this because I distinctly remember you and I have in a conversation And the reason I asked this, because I distinctly remember you and I have in a conversation seven years ago, eight years ago, about the specific issue I'm getting ready to ask you. I recall correctly, there's a paragraph in your lease that you signed, where you said that you would not come down and contest any drilling activity or anything requested by the LEC under the lease. So let me clarify that. So that was not on the original one which I had. It was the new one that they just sent me. Now I think it's on the original one too. I can't pull it up now. I had it in my office and I forgot to bring it. Because there was no... Because we had the same conversation about... Agreed. ...'s our wavers. 300 feet. There was a full paragraph in there that's where the less or agreed they wouldn't contest any zoning request. And I'm not saying it was a good paragraph. But it's not in my original one. Oh, it's not. No. It's in the second one. They sent me. So you me so you're you're Testifying so you're testifying this evening that the least it says Lisa Osborne formerly known as Lisa Mills and husband Dean Osborne at 35 35 on Canada silver maple 35 35 35 35 civil maple drive the one I've pulled up on Territ county that I can't get to the last page of your testifying here this evening that there's no paragraph in there where you've agreed not to contest any zoning correct not to not to worry about 600 feet 300 feet all of that there's no reference to any of that. Okay, all right. Yeah. Just want to be sure. Yeah, so that was on the first one now. There was no reference. There was before they even knew that they weren't need this stuff. Because you guys remember originally, they had it on their website that they would never be asking for waivers for setbacks from the neighbors. Okay, I still got. Okay. I've just disappointed I don't have it in front of me because I very, very distinctly remember you and I having a similar conversation on this same topic eight, nine, 10 years ago. So in any event, I'm old, dirt now and don't remember quite as well as I used to. And I'm disappointed I don't have the lease here, but that's on me, not on you. Thank you. I appreciate it. Okay. Just my Ms. Thalman, did you have a question? Yeah. Okay. Ms. Wallamann. Well, I'm a little bit confused. Do you still have your original lease? Not with me. Do you have it at home? Yeah. Okay. That's where I was confused and so they renewed it or is that reason you got the second one? There was according to ToteTow a mix-up because they did a deed search and it's still showing that it was in my wife's previous name, Lisa Mills. And so they said, well we checked for Dean a Dean Osborne, or Lisa Osborne, couldn't find them, so we just sent you a. So this is how they explained the second contract being sent to me. That they said that they thought that we actually didn't have one, and they wanted to give me an opportunity to recover money on my mineral rights, which I've been receiving a check from Chesapeake ever since the second well. Okay. But this was just something, you know. You didn't show them your original, you didn't show total your original issues. Well, when the guy came and knocked at my door to hand me this lease and he wasn't with total. He's with Wagner Osborne Land Services. So this is who they sent out there to my house and I told him I already have one. I've been receiving money. He said, we checked and know you don't. Okay. But in this lease, it says I accept whatever waivers for setbacks they asked for. When did you get the second lease? Two, about two weeks ago. Okay. It was right before the last meeting and it gave me until like that data sign or it was going to expire. Okay, thank you. And I'm not in the 600 foot setback area so there was really no reason for that. Okay. Thank you, sir. Jaya Davis. And then the next speakers I have is Catherine Rogers and Rebecca Berks. Hi, good evening. Jaya Davis, 302 Rexgate Court, Arlington 76016. Thanks for having us able to speak with you this evening. What I want to talk about a little bit more about the environmental and health concerns of continued drilling in Arlington, while I understand the financial benefit to cornerstone and their benefit to other ministries. And I appreciate putting that money to good use. I continue to have grave concerns related to drilling in Arlington and increasing drilling in Arlington and increasing drilling in Arlington. Hey, and Sean Coff in 2016 published an article in plus one, which is a fairly well-respected peer reviewed journal where they reviewed 685. Other peer reviewed papers looking at unconventional natural gas development and the public health issues related to that. These articles came out between 2009 and 2015, although most of those articles were from 2014 and through 2015. They categorized some of these studies by public health, air quality and water quality, and just a couple of the highlights of the studies that looked at, these are direct public health measures to animals and risks to humans. 26 to 84 percent of them demonstrated public health risk outcomes and hazards. Looking at air quality which included air measurements and documentation of pollutants of unconventional natural gas development that included what was previously mentioned as methane, as well as other VOCs. This was 40 to 87% found increases in air pollution of these contaminants, including methane and other VOCs. And looking at water quality of those studies, 40 to 69% either find found actual or potential events of unconventional natural gas development water contamination. So we have concerns about our direct public health, our air quality and our water quality in our LinkedIn if we continue to expand drilling in this area. Thank you. Thank you, ma'am. Please. Mr. Shepherd has a question for you, ma'am. I'm sorry. Ma'am, if you could come back up, please. Could you give me the name of the study again? I'm sorry. Absolutely. It is the authors are Hayes and Sean Coff, SH-O-N-K-O-F. That was published in 2016, Journal Plus One, which is PLOS-O-N-E, if you're unfamiliar. And the name is toward an understanding of the environmental and public health impacts of unconventional natural gas development, a categorical assessment of the peer-reviewed scientific literature. So where was the, what fields, what natural gas fields were these studies performed in? So they reviewed 685 studies of the ones that they include in public health air quality and water quality that's over 125 studies just in those areas. I don't know those specifics. I would be happy to forward the article to you. I'm just curious if any of them were in the Barnett. That's all I'm really worried about. I can't answer that question. Okay, all right. And did the study itself cite the locations of the testing? And you just don't have it with you? Or did the study itself that you reference not cite those studies? They cited the studies where these were pulled. We might have to go directly to the individual studies to find that, but I'll be happy to pull that for you. Okay, that would be awesome. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Thank you, ma'am. Katherine Rogers. Good evening. My name is Catherine Rogers. I live at 523 Metabruc Drive, Arlington, just right down the street. I'm very nervous, I'm sorry. One thing, I don't think it's general knowledge and I got these numbers from the city. There's already 347 gas wells on 52 pad sites, not including the 22 on UTA campus, and these are within the Arlington City limits. The projection is for 900 wells drilled in Arlington. in Arlington. I'm sure that this would require some moving around. And I really believe that the principal way to get all these wells in is going to be negate the 600 foot setback. That's why this is so very important. We've come here time and again and listen to testimony of doctors, nurses, other experts in the field, dozens of concerned citizens, and you've been provided peer reviewed scientific papers all showing the devastating health effects of air and water pollution caused by unconventional gas drilling, aka hydraulic fracturing, aka fracking. It's kind of a 3.3 part thing that the person is drilling and then the capture of the gas, and then getting rid of all the poison water that comes back out. So the drilling goes way down into the porous deep shale substrate and high pressure pumping of fluid to open and enlarge the fissures. They're already there but they're very small and you can't get the gas out. That's why they have to blow them up. The fluid has sand that flows into those fissures to prop them open permanently. This fluid starts with four to 10 million gallons of fresh water. And I believe we're in a drought. We've been there for at least a decade. This doesn't seem to be a very good use of our water. And there for at least a decade, this doesn't seem to be very good use of our water. In this cocktail with the water is sand and various poisonous substances that are put into this previously fresh water and then blast it into the shell. The fossil fuel industry tells us that there is no proven connection between fracking and the earthquakes happening around heavily fracked sites. Literally, this process is fracturing the substrate of the planet, of where we're walking. Excuse me. And then once it's completed, there's gathering of the gas, the collecting it. There's problems with that, namely escape of methane gas into the air. Okay, well let me wrap it up here. I really just want to say that with all the things that we've heard repeatedly here, and with confidence that you're all Christians as we always open these meetings with Christian prayer, I've always been taught that God is commanded man to be good stewards of the earth. The multitude of known health effects and the destruction of the subterranean geological landscape of the planet is as far from good stewardship as possible. And all this is happening in our city, in the city limits. And I think we have a decision to make, dream city or nightmare. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Shepherd has a question for you. Just a minute. How long have you been a resident of Arlington? I've been here for seven years. Almost eight years. Okay. All right. Thank you very much. Thank you, ma'am. I am a seventh generation Texan though. Just for the rest. Rebecca Berks. I'm a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who security while meeting their basic needs for them to grow and thrive in. This should also include a safe environmental surrounding. We should include a healthy foundation for the future health, future health outcomes. Recently, researchers examined the 24 county areas within Barnett Shale for perinatal outcomes. They obtained data about pregnancies, preterm births, and fetal demise via the Texas Department of State Health Services Center for Health Statistics. Preterm delivery and fetal death has increased adjusted odds after applying the proximity to unconventional natural gas drilling. The cause points to undergoing disrupting chemicals. Other studies outside the Barnacht Shell in rural Colorado area found increased neural tube defects. And Pennsylvania researchers found an increased chance of preterm birth in a rural area. A nurse researcher recommended assessing patients in their proximity to drill sites and began to advocate for it among healthcare professionals. Based on early research and the continued mounting evidence, her identification of this need holds true. Especially concerning are the most vulnerable, our pregnant women, infants, and elderly. In the early 1990s, a sudden increase of neural tube defects occurred in South Texas along the U.S.-Mexico border, launching an eight-year study into the cause. Suspected were exposures to pesticides and industrial pollutions from the numerous assembly plants along the border. What causes this? Another group examined this outbreak from 1999 to 2004 and found an association between benzene and spinal bifida. Other investigations found five different pollution types, exposures, increased the odds of neural tube defects. Exposure to organic solubents during pregnancy also increased those odds. Basic research found an increased neural tube defects and pregnant women with the elevated levels in their blood. Environmental exposures interact with our basic genetics. Altering responses in our immune system when exposed to diesel, exhaust, and ozone. How many studies do we need or want that demonstrate adverse effects from living near unconventional gas drilling? The time to protect our children's health future is now. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. And Wilker. Hi, I'm Erin Walker, 2500-place court, Arlington, 76006. First of all, I'd like to applaud the City Council for examining the medical evidence regarding tobacco smoke and establishing ordinances to protect the community's health. The evidence pointed as early as the 1950s to tobacco causing cancer. Fifty years later, the science was conclusive. So how many deaths could have been prevented? Poor air quality causes a range of respiratory ailments. The evidence that gas and oil operations contribute to poor air quality is known. Studies in the Barnett Shale found that there is no difference in the type of volatile organic compounds known as BOCs in dry gas extraction versus wet gas extraction, only a difference in the amount of those emissions. Contributing to BOC emissions was related to the density of the drilling activities, even in less populated areas in the Barnett Chail, where these air samples were taken. Additionally, the worst emissions are noted during pre-production and production phases of drilling. The production phase may last years. Contributing to elevated benzene, methane, pentane could be the machinery, diesel traffic, and the actual drilling process. Leaking tanks unseen to the eye are a common source of VOCs. 35% of VOCs admitted were found to be from the well pad. VOCs, nitric oxide, mercury levels, organic aerosols, and carbon monoxide emissions are all present. In addition, benzene, formatohyde, hydrogen sulfide, were detected in air samples near wells. The question is, how much of it is affecting our health? Will studies confirm that these emissions are causing developmental and reproductive problems? Other studies find associations to respiratory and skin conditions higher in homes less than 3,280 feet from a drill pad. Benzine levels contribute to increased cancer risk. There are higher hospitalization rates in areas, their power plants, which have similar emissions as drill pads. Asma, COPD, and respiratory infections were the common in these locations. Another study found increases in fatigue, sinus problems, and headaches. And looking at methane and adverse health outcomes, the term premature mortality was mentioned. Is that what our legacy will be for our children? A shorter lifespan? Please, please examine the evidence. It keeps pointing in the same way. Just as the evidence pointed to tobacco cause and cancer and respiratory ailments. Let's not wait 50 years to protect our loved ones. Thank you very much. Man. Man. Man. Mr. Shepherd has a question for you. You mentioned a study in the Barnette's shale, but you failed to give its name. What study is that? I have all the reference material and here it's like it is. Just ask a simple question. What study was it that was in the Barnet shale? Right, see. It was. I'm sorry. No. Oh. I'm sorry. I didn't hear that. I just wondered what study it was in the Barnett shale. You mentioned it, but you did not mention its name. Okay. It appears to be scenarios of Bethany and the mission reduction to 2030, a bait macaust and co-benefits to ozone air quality and human mortality. Why? By Jay, Jason West, Arlene M. Fiori, and Larry W. Horowitz. And that was in the Barnet. Yes. Thank you very much. Peter Bagling. I'm here because I'm troubled by this proposal to shrink the distance of the gas industry. So long as it's conducted safely and responsibly, I know that there are people in our community that work in the oil and gas industry, and we know that the business oil and gas is important to our economy. And anybody who drove here can certainly say that, we rely unfortunately to a heavy degree on fossil fuels. However, I am against businesses that try to bend the rules that we have in our books to achieve their ends. And the current setback, I think that the city of Barley and Tune came back years, came up with years ago, I think is the reason, but one. Arlington is not a world town. We have to be mindful of our, we're dense enough, where we have to be mindful of our effect on our neighbors and to not engage in activities that might disrupt or cause harm to them. And we have rules that kind of control this stuff. We have rules that regulate industrial businesses where they have to abide, you know, not commit noise, make too much noise and dispose of waste properly. And we have rules for non-industrial businesses to do things like, you know, abide by fire codes and building codes and so forth. So, but I feel that this permit would do an in-run around some of the rules that we have on the books right now. Rules regarding gas, well, drilling, I think we're put in place to account for it. It's impact on Others on the noise and the disruptive activity that's inherent in this type of business They account for the risk of industrial accidents and the fact that first responders might have difficulty responding to an industrial accident and a urban area and Let's face it. It will get a gas, a gas drilling is something that has environmental risk and it's not a clean and spotless activity and I think it's incumbent upon the ladies and gentlemen of this council to consider the health and welfare of the nearby residents. I worry that if we can't afford to let more businesses bending the rules. Letting this happen is the continuation of the camel's nose under the tent. If you do it now, there's going to be more. I can assure you that we'll come in tomorrow knocking on your door, asking for exceptions and allowances. So, I submit that your duty, ladies and gentlemen, to the community at large, not simply one member. So I ask you to deny this proposal. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Thank you. Next, we have Floyd Ostrum, Darley's Davidson, and Sandra James. Floyd Ostrum, 2005, Shantilly Court, 76015. I'm a board certified pediatrician with additional training and developmental and behavioral pediatrics. Before my retirement, five years ago, I had been in practice for 40 years, 36 of those locally here in Texas with the last 11 years in the Cook Children's Physician Network and the Fort Worth Child Study Center. My purpose here tonight is to speak in strong opposition to the concept of oil and gas fracking and drilling within 600 feet of our residents, let alone 324 feet. I will present several brief summaries of studies that represent a very minuscule number of the studies that support my opposition. If time permits and I doubt that it will, I'll conclude with a brief description of an analogy that may relate to what's going on here now. As far as the research in November 2017, a Texas A&M atmospheric scientist identified ozone and benzene is two important chemicals of concern. In the Eagle Ford Shale region in South Texas, it was shown that 60 percent of ambient benzene in the air now comes from drilling and fracking operations, including gas flares. Before the shale boom, the majority of benzene in the region came from tailpipe emissions, and benzene has been identified as a human carcinogen. In September of 2016 a NASA lead team collected whole-air samples throughout the Barnett shale basin. Chemical analysis showed that they contained benzene, hexane, and talluene at levels 2 to 50 times greater than the total background and similar to those seen in other intensely drilled shale basins in Colorado and Utah. Probably of most significance was a study in December of 2017 that is of great concern on the health impacts of fracking on infants and children. It was done in Pennsylvania as a retroactive study on 1.1 million infants born between 2004 and 2013 compared with maps where and when gas wells were drilled in the state. For those mothers who lived within six tents of a mile, that's about 3,000 feet, not 600 feet. There was a 25% increase in the probability of low birth weight, significant declines in average birth weight, as well as declines of other measures of infant health. These are all scientific studies whether active or retroactive and should be taken seriously. Out of consideration of time, I leave out my analogy but I want to request and show my concern. And state that there are unexpected and tragic consequences that can happen when decisions are made that go against valid scientific research findings. I ask you to do your civic duty for the citizens of Arlington at vote no. Thank you. APPLAUSE Darling Davidson. Darling Davidson. And next will be Sandra James in Alejandro Moreno. I'm Darla Stavitzon. I live at 623 St. Charles Court here in Arlington. And that's a hard act to follow. I just would like to say very simply, we've heard about all the health issues and all those things. And I would just like to simply say, where at what point do we put the constituents before the cash? Sandra James, 1300, Ravenmore Drive, Alunton, Texas, 76013. A review of setbacks, safely examined 14 studies, 10 of those broke at the proximate east to homes and four considered the consideration of wells to residents. One of these was the Barnett chair. Usually that research is so limited in a urban area, so dense two walls, the recommendation was 1,320 feet to 8,200 feet setback. What is striking is that the measurement taken was mostly done in low density population areas. And higher density population area, that was examined such as the Los Angeles, a 2,500 foot setback law was recommended. In order to make these setbacks recommendation, the research considered health impact and quality of life at birth outcomes was found as far as 8,200 feet from the wells. Wells as close as 1,500 feet not only found harmful to maternity child effects, throat, nasal irritation, sinus problem, eye burning, severe headaches, loss of sense of smell, persistent coughs, nose bleeds, swollen painful joint, affected increase. All these symptoms were greater in residential living area than 3,280 feet versus those living with more than 6,561 feet. One study found that the EPA recommended noise level of 55 DPA was continued greater for homes up to 1,968 feet. These studies look as volatile organic compounds, VOCs and EDCs. The mix of hydrogen sub-bite with VOCs could be detected up to 6,561 feet. Elubated level of EDCs were detected in water sources up to a mal way. In Barnett, a explosion caused a 700 foot burn crater. Looking at historic evaluation data from explosion, as blown out, the evaluation zone has such a event of 4,224 feet. Rule areas decreased with confidence to 1,500 feet because only three families could be affected. Compare the same square footage and highly dense area such dislaw sandalists, 1,500 feet was required. Over 1,743 people in word displaced. How high would that number be in Alenta? New dressings? APPLAUSE The next one will be Pat Connelly and Ann Johnston. Morena, next will be Pat Connelly and Ann Johnston. Hello Alejandro Moreno, 11 and 9, I'm Andromeda Wey, Alimton, Texas, 76 and 103. I've been a resident of Arlington for more than 20 years and a broad citizen of the state's far badly more than 10 years. And so I had my family grow up in this city, and I learned to love it. My son now is married, has a baby, a one-year-old, and I want him to grow up in this city and be happy and be healthy. I don't want to be one of those studies in Pennsylvania. I want to, and When I first came here, I saw this meeting and I thought, do I have to sit, listen to all this? And then, can I give you a human aspect of who you are and what you're here for and how you love the city? And I'm really hoping and appealing that that sense of love to your city and love to your families and love to God will will will point you in the right direction and and have you both know for this. Thank you very much. I'm going to speak about it. My name is Pat Connelly and I live at 2428 St. Gregory Street here in Arlington. I've been a resident of Arlington for 48 years. I've always loved this city tremendously. One of the things I'm going to speak about is not statistics because I don't know a whole lot about that other than what I'm learning as I'm researching this, but the thing I do want to speak to is my hometown is the dream city. My hometown is looking to the future, and our future is not always going to be fossil fuels. Our future is going to be about solar energy and other types of energy that don't damage our environment. I have never suffered from asthma in my life until the last five or six years of the drilling that took place actually longer than that over in my area by Chesapeake. And I have found that as time has gone on, I asked him to continue to get worse. And it's a thing that is really frightening to me to think about as poisoning, I'd be air of the dream city for these few wells, well not few, a lot of wells, in an area of our city which is not, which is bounded by all other cities. So not only does our air poison ourselves, but it poisons those who live around us. And so I just want to urge the council to really take a look at the boast that we are, that we are America's dream city, and to keep our air and our water clean and in keeping with that. And, Johnson. And next we have Kathy Smith-Lamorte, Adelina Yokem, and Seneca Dickerson. I'm Ann Johnson and I live at 5,300 Overridge drive in Miss K. Parts District. And I've lived in Arlington since 1983. I want to address the benzene emissions in the Barnett shell for Mr. Shepard and for everyone else. Within the Barnett shale, air quality canister sampling identified 70 individual volatile organic compounds in the vicinity of gas wells in associated transport operation. running for approximately 90% of emissions were ethane, propane, butane, and pentanes. In 2009, TCEQ used infrared cameras to survey 90 for natural gas sites in the Dallas Fort Worth area in order to identify potential sources of emissions. Air samples were collected at 73 sites. At 21 of those sites, benzene levels exceeded the U.S. EPA level for long-term health effects. And two sites required immediate action for benzene levels high enough to pose an immediate threat to health and safety. In 2010, testing by TCEQ confirmed that Tuline and carbon disulfide in addition to other chemicals were being emitted by gas facilities in the Barnett shale. Their report concluded that gas production facilities can and in some cases do emit contaminants in amounts that could be deemed unsafe. And that 35 chemicals were detected above appropriate short term comparisons. This report comes from the Environmental Health Perspectives, adequacy of current state setbacks for directional high volume hydraulic fracturing in the Marcellus, Barnett, and Nio-Bara-Shell plays. And it was put out by the National Institute of Environmental Health. If anyone wants this, you can may have this copy. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Kathy Smith. One more time. One more time. I'm really comfortable talking. This is not one of them. It's okay. I am opposed to the drilling. Did you give us your name and address? Oh, I'm sorry. No problem. Thank you. Coach, me. It's okay. My name is Kathy Smith Lamord Day. You said it well. Thank you. My address is It's okay. My name is Kathy Smith Lamorday. You said it well. Thank you. My address is 4716 Woodfield Drive, Arlington 76016. My husband and I have been residents of Arlington for 35 years raised three wonderful boys and they've had a good life here. We have never had previous to drill, previous to drilling. my husband and I have never had problems with breathing or allergies or anything like that. But the last 15 years or so, my husband has had bad allergies. I've had two bats, two bouts of bas, cell, carnationopa. Thank you to a fantastic surgeon. He's taken care of the nose and believe it or not, I've had work done and my nose is back in shape. I actually had a hole in the side of my nose. I've had loss of sense of smell. I've had problems breathing. I've had problems with allergies and sinus. I have to take eye drops at least four times a day. I really believe it's from the air and what's happening. I don't care how high you build a wall. The fumes are not gonna go out, they're gonna go up. And they're gonna flow across from the gas well that's across the highway from my home. I don't know the distance half mile, third and whatever. It's close enough that when the wind shifts, I can smell neighbors and I can smell what's coming out. It stinks. It hurts. When the gas well had a problem over by Little Road last year, started messing with my baby, because he lives about half a mile from the well. He might be 40 years old, but he's still my baby. And that's what sucks is when you start messing with the children. What are we giving them? What are we handing them? Do they want to have a good doctor helping them as well? Cancer, breathing problems, it doesn't stop. Yes, my husband and I signed the contract when it first came out. We went to all of the meetings, we did all of this stuff. And what they told us was it's going to happen. There's no way that you can take gas from over here and over here, and not from in here as well. We had no choice about it. Any penny, any money that we've gotten at all has not been worth it. Not even for five minutes. The money stinks. It's not anything that is going to make my life better if anything. This has made my life rougher. Could be much worse. Thank God for what I've got. But it wasn't. It's not okay that this can penetrate our air and do this to me or anybody else. Please, please do not okay this drilling. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate you for showing your strength through your tears this evening. I would like to show my strength this evening through my anger and frustration. My name is Idleena Yoko. I've been here a resident of Arlington since 2000. I am a pediatric nurse practitioner on North Davis in Arlington since 2000. I thought a lot about what I was going to say tonight. I thought about bringing posters of lungs and hearts and showing you this is your lungs on metals, this is your lungs on this so you guys could see vivid examples of what could happen to your body when you're exposed to these chemicals. I thought of bringing, I was a research assistant at the University of Arlington while I was working on my masters and I did a lot of review of literature on a lot of different evidence based science projects we had and I thought about bringing a stack of articles to you today to show you the evidence out there. But I decided not to. So instead I'm gonna say this. Total is back attempting to trick the citizens of Arlington by adjusting their proposal, their proposed drilling, to drill four more gas wells at cornerstone. But I am tired of my anger. I am tired of the political discord and not trusting my elected leaders. I am tired of being fearful that the current city council members do not have the health and well-being of its citizens as a priority. But I've decided while I was sitting here listening to all the people in this room, that I'm going to change my thought process. I'm going to let go of my anger tonight. I'm going to let go of my frustration. And I'm going to take a leap of faith. I have faith that the City Council members before me will do the right thing. And we'll deny Totals Current request to drill at Cornerstone. Please vote, no. Thank you for your time. And, ma'am, ma'am, ma'am, do you have a line? Excuse me, I don't think we got your address for the record if you could give us that. But thank you. It's 2-2-0-1, St. Clair Drive 76012. Thank you, ma'am. You're welcome. Thank you. I know that Ms. Moy is new to the council and I thought this would help if you would like me to give this to you. Ms. Garcia. Seneca Dickerson. For her. I'm sorry ma'am. Seneca if you'll wait just a moment. Ma'am. Mr. Shebert has a question. I did not see his light if you'll wait just a moment, ma'am. Mr. Shevert has a question. I did not see his light. If you would come back, I hate to make you act like a yo-yo. That's okay. Yes, Mr. Shevert? Thank you. So in your testimony, it's as a nurse practitioner, you mentioned all these healthy facts. Do you have something in the medical record that has a direct correlation between the illness, defect, whatever it is you refer to bringing his pictures of and natural gas drilling. One, Johnna, don't you have a bunch of articles and research and evidence-based stuff that you've compiled over the years, well all the... I'm just asking about your own experience. Well, in my... When I was talking, I said I thought about giving that information to you, but instead knowing that many people in this room are doing that for me, I decided to appeal in a different way. So let me ask you in a different way then. As a nurse practitioner, do you find that you've seen a lot of patients whose maladies are related to urban drilling? Sure. I see asthma. I see ADHD. I see kids coming in with neurological issues, I see children with all different issues. Can I tell you for certain have I done studies in these particular children to cause that there's a causal link from that child to the stuff that's happening in our environment? No, I have not done that type of study. But there's plenty of studies out there that I've shown the toxins in the environment that have caused problems for people. OK, all right. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you again. Thank you, sir. Mr. Ciccerson. Hello. My name is Cineka Dickerson, hoping my voice will last. 1921, Roselle Court, Arlington, 7608. There's been a lot of talk about different things tonight regarding totals request, but no one really has paid any attention to the traffic. The traffic, as you all know, traveling in Arlington is insane on Matlock at any given time of the day, especially the areas of Southeast Green Oaks. There's a lot of traffic. And some of the cross streets, there are no lights. It's a nightmare, it's a nightmare trying to turn in traffic, hanging there in the middle line, waiting for your turn forever after. Traffic is a big issue. Also, money in my opinion should never, ever be a consideration where a citizen's health is concerned. And right now tonight, I can tell you, I've been having this call for a month, and my voice is still gone. And it all happened to you so long later, when you feel like I do tonight, where is this coming from? Where's my voice after a month? Where's my voice? What's causing this? Why is my husband who I be married to for 38 years is suddenly in bed sick at 3-speed with nothing but sinus problems and headaches, day after day after day after day. Addville Pottle right next to his bed 24-7. Ask yourself a question next time you say, what's this coming from? Thank you. Thank you, ma'am. Next we have Jane Lynn, Cynthia Fincher, and Ingrid Kelly. We have Jane Lynn, Cynthia Fincher, and Ingrid Kelly. You'll state your name and address for the record. My name is Dr. Cynthia Fincher. I live at 5.5, Rife of Montreal, Arlington, Texas, 7, 6, 0, 0, 2. There was a day in Flint, Michigan where city officials decided decisions were made. They're often made in closed door meetings where people make calculations. Eventually, those decisions play out. And you are making decisions tonight about our health and our welfare. Ms. Moise, you were not here last time, but we had medical doctors and pediatric nurses, scientists from UTA, large number of people coming and speaking to the dangers. Our concern is not just noise or the annoyance of a single month. It is the impact of these benzene's tiling solvents in the soil. They go into the soil and when there's a flash flood, those chemicals are going to get washed into our waterways. We are here. We are not here just because it's inconvenient or noisy or doesn't look good. All of these people have come out. This is the fourth time that many of us have been here. Because we believe this is a life and death issue. That this will end the lives of children. issue that this will end the lives of children. This drilling site area, it is close to not just a church and doctor's offices and homes, it is near the boys and girls clubs, it is near Bebency Elementary, it is near venture high school. We were horrified all of us on Friday that there was yet another school shooting. 10 children killed, more than ten people injured. And yet these wells, there will be more than ten deaths. There will be more than ten children who die of asthma if this moves forward. There will be more than ten grandparents who have Alzheimer's because of this, if this moves forward. This impacts the lives of people. And you cannot both serve God, we've talked about church, you cannot serve God and man. If you sell out the lives of human beings for money, there are long-term consequences. I have lived in my home since 1999. I have driven past cornerstone Baptist pretty much every day. I could never have imagined a time when I would be against something in favor of cornerstone Baptist church. But it is my firm belief that as this company comes in and tells this church that they can have money. Of course, every one of us in our churches would like to have an unlimited budget to do good. But at what cost? And if this money comes at the price of the lives of children, this cannot be a good thing. At the end of San Matej shooting, everyone stands around and asks why why why. Every time there is a death from environmental poisons like this we know why. Please choose life over financial profit. Hi I'm Manger Kelly I live at 902 Bellamyd. First of all Miss K. Part I want to give you my condolences for your husband. My mother also passed from pancreatic cancer. That's a horrible disease to watch. Our health has taken a back seat to the industry. Instead of conducting independent baseline and ongoing research, the drilling just continues in spite of alarming findings. This is the industry not doing these studies. They never admit to the harmful chemicals that are used. They're citing industrial secrets. Never admitting that our precious water resources were going to be contaminated beyond safe use. Why are our leaders disregarding the science that is emerging regarding the health, safety, and environmental risks? You rely on the science when you're ill or injured, the very same healthcare professionals that are sounding public health alarms are the very same healthcare professionals that you rely on to treat your illnesses and diseases. Why were the exposures allowed and then the health and environmental effects studied? Why are we a human health experiment for unconventional gas drilling? If the industry is so transparent, then access for independent testing should be allowed at these well sites. If the industry claims they don't have VOCs, then they should disclose the chemicals that they do use in the process of fracking. Disclose the volumes of chemicals used. Disclose the amount of radioactivity in the flow back, allow independent sampling of the air during operations, include the emissions from the diesel machinery that are part of these operations. Please equip our gas well inspectors with floor cambers for them to be able to randomly document. Please allow non-industry researchers to gather water samples from retention ponds and to collect air samples. And one other question, who is providing consent for the underage children at these schools around these areas? And I'm not just talking about the church schools, who is providing consent for venture high school or BBC elementary that are directly downwind from the drilling? If there are stipulations about drilling times, drilling activity, doesn't that in itself acknowledge danger? What about the residents? Would you want this in your backyard? Years ago, the city had to buy out homes along Johnson Creek due to problems with managing flood control. In the future, will the city be buying out the properties backed up against these drill sites? Please stand by your ordinance and this is the neighborhood that is downwind from this frack well. This is only one well they're going to keep coming back at all your other drill paths if you do not stand by your ordinance. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you drive and I can concur with a lot of these statements tonight. And I do live by a journal site. I'm 1,500 feet away. So I can tell you all about the health effects. I can tell you all about the migraines and all of that. But that's not what I'm here to talk about this evening. I have important new information to share, something a little different. But what's really going on with this zoning case that no one's talking about is that the city of Arlington is a major less sore. The Railroad Commission records show a P-12 stuck on the cornerstone north well, and it's called takeoff. It comprises 139 acres, and the city of Arlington is on this proposed allocation well. These minerals are accessed by crossing lease lines. It would be curious to know if the lessers were notified. I'm thinking probably not because I don't know a lot of that contracts, but Robert Chepard, you may know back in the day, I don't think that was specified in the contracts, but this is a common industry practice. But it's something that really needs to be looked at with these pooled units. So it's not like we've got a rancher who's got 100 acres and he's leasing his land. We're talking about thousands of less stores that are affected by this. And due to an allocation well, if they're not notified, it just doesn't seem like that would be the right thing to do. So tonight, if the City Council truly wants to serve the constituents, and I know you do serve us, and I thank you for that. I think the best thing that you could do for us right now is to vote no on this issue tonight, because we know how harmful it is. We know how dangerous it is. Help us to repeal HB 40. So we can have a say about what gets zoned in our neighborhoods. And what does not? Thank you. Yeah, Ms. Lynn. Ms. Lynn. Ms. Lynn. You have a question for you? Or Mr. Shepard? Yeah, Ms. Lynn, thank you for bringing that up. Because I think it's important for everyone to know. It should not be a secret and it should be no surprise to anyone in this room. The City of Arlington is probably one of the biggest lessores that any combined oil and gas company has. It's part of the reason we have $100 million in the Arlington Tomorrow Fund. So the school district is the other biggest less or I assume because collectively between the city and the school district, they own a lot of property in the city of Arlington when compared to individual landowners from neighborhoods. So I don't want there to be any misunderstanding that, yes, the city's never shied away from that fact. So I don't want there to be any misunderstanding that yes, the cities never Shied away from that fact and that's why the tomorrow foundation was originally created and tomorrow foundation is brought a lot of Very good things to the city. So thank you for reminding us though about the city's Investment in in that area. You're welcome. Can I ask you another question about the P12? I have it right here And it shows that the acreage. I'm just curious was this something that was originally intended to be drilled off the rocking horse pad or That they're trying to access the minerals from an alternate service location. I really don't have any idea the Gas well drilling part and and all of that is completely separate from what we're talking about here. So I have no idea. We could find that out. Staff, I'm sure could answer that question. That would be great. And I still need my question answered about that vertical well. There's a lot of confusion about that. Is it just vertical temporarily until the operator decides what direction they want to drill? Because I've not heard of any vertical wells being drilled in Arlington. The vertical well on this particular site? Yes. Okay, I'm sure the ad commission that's the ad sharing shows a vertical. Okay. Yes. Thank you. Oh, thank you. And, John Upandari. Good evening. My name is Rangina Bhandari. I live at 903 Lock Lohman Drive. Thank you. Good evening. My name is Rangina Bandari. I live at 903 Lock Loman Drive in Arlington 76012. Just a quick reminder of why we are how we got here today on February 27th. You all voted this proposal down. 6, 2. On May 8th, we were here for a hearing. And in the middle of the meeting, we were told that the hearing would be postponed. The postponement happened right here on May 8th. I have here a letter that Tottal sent out on May 4th to neighbors where they said that they were going to have a community meeting on the 17th prior to the upcoming Arlington City Council session that is scheduled for May 22, 2018, where the City Council will review our permit application. This letter is dated May 4th. It came in this envelope post-Mark May 4th. I'm very curious why when we had a hearing schedule for May 8th, which was put on the agenda by the city on May 4th, total had sent this letter out to neighbors, telling them that the hearing was on May 22nd. It's very confusing. Why would they send out information contrary to what you had? And both letter actually came to Dr. Fincher. And she said that if she had opened her mail, she was really busy, she wouldn't have shown up on May 8th. I don't want to take more of my time, but I hope somebody will look into this and I'm happy to give you this letter. According to Professor Thomas Daniels, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania who's leading authority on land use in the US., I spoke to him and I'm quoting what he said. The fundamental purpose of zoning is to separate incompatible land uses into different zoning districts to promote orderly development and to protect the public health, safety, welfare, and property values. This means that municipalities zone by districts to separate conflicting land uses, and that municipalities will allow only new developments or uses that are compatible with the stated purpose of each zoning district. The use of zoning is a form of power of government to protect the public health, safety, and welfare was upheld by the US Supreme Court in a case in 1926. The public interest in zoning is broader than the promotion of oil and gas development, which is a heavy industrial use that has the potential to create spill overs into neighboring properties in terms of air and water pollution and concomitant threats to health and reduction property values. Air pollution threats to neighbors have been documented. I'll just cite two studies, May C H all, in environmental health 1382 in 2014. And by the TCEQ, the Texas Commission of Environmental Quality. I provided you all a reference to the TCEQ study on May 8th right here. the EQ study on May 8th right here. Large land owners have a disproportionate voice in this process relative to residents. Could I just have one more minute please? Certainly. Next month, it'll be 25 years since I moved to Arlington. It was a suburban bedroom community. Now it's a mining town with close to 350 gas wells and drill zones with special use permits for fracking right next to homes in neighborhoods that are zone residential. What will the effect on our children be who have grown up surrounded by gas wells? My son was born and raised in Arlington. He is 18 now. This toxic legacy will affect him and all our children all their lives. We live in a non-attainment zone for ozone with the highest childhood asthma rates in the nation. Dr. Ann Epstein, from Lubbock, sent you all something last night connecting the dots between drilling emissions, living close to drill sites, and health outcomes. If you like, I'd be happy to read out for the room what she wrote and sent you all. The precautionary principle dictates that if there's even an IOTA of suspicion that some activity could be harmful to public health, we not engage in it until we conclusively prove it's safety. That has clearly not been done and all our children are guinea pigs in this experiment. I want to talk about the future because that is the time in which our children will live. When I first started grad school, I typed on an IBM Selectric. Within two years, we were all using PCs, word processing, and in another three years, I had a laptop. When I first taught, I wrote on transparencies. Now we all use PowerPoints. I had a PowerPoint for tonight, but I'm not allowed to show it. There were no hearings to protect old technologies. There were no postponements we all made the effort to transition. More than 1,000 Arlington residents have written to you, asking you not to waive the 600 feet offset, not to overturn your own vote of February 27. This mother and all Arlington mothers and grandmothers here hope you will listen to us. Now some clarifications. We've been told that there's monitoring at drill sites. If you can wrap it up please. Yes. There is no continuous monitoring at drill sites for Benzene. In Arlington, total is a driller, not a solar or wind energy company. In France, they cannot drill 300 feet, 600 feet, or even 600 miles or 6,000 miles from a home, because France has banned hydraulic factoring to protect its citizens. I drive an electric car. I get power from solar panels on our roof. In the five years I've done this, I've saved thousands of dollars. This is the future, the rulers are afraid of. This is the future all of us need to embrace in Arlington. Otherwise, the future for our children will not be livable. Thank you so much for the extra time. Thank you. Thank you. Cory Kelly. Next we have Cory Kelly, Divya Vibula, Saeed Hassel. Is Cory Kelly here? Divya? Saeed Hassal. Please state your name and be on the phone. Honorable Chancellor, my name is Sayed Hassan and I live at 6-1 Engelsight Drive, Arlington. But I would say about a couple of miles from the proposed drill site. I think I have a unique opportunity that I ran an election. I got 7,000 plus votes just a couple of. I didn't make it but I nevertheless I was a candidate so I can concur with your positions also. One thing that you probably know or it's a fact that people are not coming out to vote in elections. This is when you ask them their own trust politicians and they think that they are in the pocket of big corporations. I think we must dispel this notion, restore the trust of people in our democracy, in our political system. I believe politics is the most honorable profession where the prophets and saints were sent, and they were merely politicians and community activists and community organizers. The impression itself is dangerous to our democracy, where big corporations come and either use carrot or stick to move and pressurize the elected officials. We have a lot of science pointing to the same direction that we should, this drilling is a threat to our ecology, our system. I'm not going to present any scientific study or something because we know this is what science says. Being an economist, I look at the other side also. What's the economics of this? Well, one thing is from the political standpoint, we elect people, you to represent the people of the city. Otherwise, this could be an appointed board by different companies, and they would just do whatever is the best interest of big corporations, the interest, that's the goal of corporations. But your interest is public welfare. You are there representing the whole city of Arlington. Do you know the infant mortality, infant maternal mortality rate is the highest in Texas and is highest in Terran County in African American community? That is drilling and there are other health issues, but drilling is producing industrial waste in our neighborhood. We are trying to expose our people to industrial waste. I go, I know, I mean, you also, you go to neighborhood, you call people, you doorknob, you knock doors, and you ask people to support you because you have the best interest in your mind and this is why I propose to act in the best interest of people of the city in our society We are all neighbors. We're not aliens from each other. I mean why we are just around the corner from you or other people, you know, so look at the interest of our kids, our future, and our city. You want to make and keep the city of Arlington a livable city, where people move to the city, not leave the city. I know my friend Harriet Erby, who had been fighting an asthma, and she was the fighter for the environment. Because she herself, she passed away just last month because of the air quality we have. We need to improve the air quality. We don't really need to have more problems in our city. And that's why I'll request, and I trust the esteemed City Council to act on the best interest of the people, not the big corporations. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Next we have Shirley Therio, Jill Wisdom and Veronica Cortez. Shirley. My name is Shirley Terrio, my address, Hey Helen, congratulations and welcome. My address is 814 Wagner Drive, Miss Lanna is my consul lady. And I have to say I am a retired teacher of 42 years. So if I use a teacher voice, forgive me, or don't, it's okay. I'm used to it. Last console meeting, I had to take notes for another wonderful woman's organization that I'm in. I'm in two wonderful women's organizations in Orlington. So I came and I took notes and when it came time to discuss the drilling, I said, don't I didn't even know about all this. And I heard the people speak and the people who spoke were intelligent. After you teach for years, you know people and you know who's faking it and who's not. There were many people who spoke from the heart. There were many people who spoke from profession, from years of just knowing stuff. More so than I do or any one of you on the console did because that's their profession. One such person is Kevin Schug. I retired from UTA and one of the people that broke my heart to leave was Kevin Schug. I worked with him with service learning. He's smart, he's got a heart, and I used to tell him that Kevin, your heart is bigger than you were, and he's a big guy. But he absolutely just cares. And he stated research, and he even said to the city council to all of you, I would be willing to work with you on this due research and he truly means that. So you have been offered probably the best scientist from UTA. And then sitting down they are just a second ago. I thought about Dream City. I love this place. I love this place, not going to get old with all of you here. But the dream is not in the physical buildings. This beautiful room is not our dream. Our dream is those people who came and stood here tonight, who stood here at the last meeting and said, please, City Council, help us, listen to us. Here's the research. They're not lying. They're not lying. And how many of you can't, there's a teacher voice. How many of you, council people, have read the research? OK, I'd like copies of the research papers that y'all have read. Real, real, real, real, real good to that in the wrap up. I'm glad you missed and mentioned Mr. Sugar, Dr. Schoold, because I'm going to talk about his paper here when we get through. I'm sure you will, sir. Just be respectful. Oh. I see my time. I don't see the time. But just remember, and I know most of you in here, you are such good people. I know Helen and Lanna for sure. And wonderful Victoria, because I taught with her at UTA and the rest of you are wonderful people. Listen with your heart, because this is our drain. We don't want to see our city become. I'm from Louisiana, and I know what the all industry has done to our coastline in Louisiana. It has destroyed it. All because our council and our state legislatures didn't do a darn thing when our citizens begged, like these citizens are begging you. We won't get a lot of time to listen, but now you have a chance. You have a chance to make history in the Orlington, and I hope that you do. I know that most of the research talks about 1,000 feet. I hear it all the time. I have not read the research. I'm like you, I haven't read the research. But I've heard over and over 1,000 feet. So distances total talked about were as close as 300 something feet. How dare you tell us that when a thousand feet is still dangerous. Okay that's the teacher voice again. I apologize. One last stand please all of you. I have a granddaughter. I want her to get his oldest her grandmother. All of you have children and grandchildren, and we'll have grandchildren if you don't have them. Think about them. Not our children. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I think I'm next. I lost track. My name is Jill Westrom. I live at 171 for Park Ridge Court 76012. I don't live anywhere near where this where we're talking about. But you can't compartmentalize air and water. And my husband's a geologist, and he works in the oil and gas industry. I'm not against the oil and gas industry. I've lived in Arlington for 43 years. The two weeks ago when we were down here, Mr. Parker said that you came up with this ordinance in 2006. I hope you put, or whoever was on the council, maybe none of you were, but I hope you put or whoever was on the council maybe none of you were but I hope a lot of thought and consideration was put into that into that ordinance and What I said two weeks ago was like when is an ordinance not an ordinance when somebody has a problem with it I have a problem with some of the ordinances, but I won't come down here and ask you to change them for my personal needs or wants and If somebody mentioned that the city plans are there's there are plans to drill 900 more wells in this city. I have heard 600 more wells. I said, I don't live anywhere near this site. These sites are coming north. These sites are going to be all over the city. Where do you think they're going to put another 300 wells? They're coming to your neighborhood, too, not just down to Cornerstone and Craven's Park. And nobody's mentioned the earthquakes. There were two reported in Arlington ahead lunch with the lady she felt one couple days ago and I know that there was one week ago. Where do these people go when their gas pipes break? When their windows don't close and you're more of their door, or don't shut? There is no recourse for this kind of damage for these homeowners. I'm fortunate that I don't have any yet, but when I do, I can't come to you and ask you for $10,000 to fix my gas lines. I don't need to speak to the medical and the physical. I think everybody here who has spoken to that speaks much better and towards it than I do. I don't have any experience in that, except three members of my family have had breast cancer, and I live in fear of getting it myself. I ask you to please put health and quality of life over money. I know the Texas tomorrow fund is rolling in money, and it was wonderful when the housing business crashed, et cetera. But the evidence is coming in. We didn't have the evidence in 2006 that we have now, that these things are dangerous, and they're not getting safer. Please put us before the Texas tomorrow, the founder of the Arlington Tomorrow Fund. Hello again, I was the nervous one. I'm pretty sure most of you all remember me. Veronica Cortez, 503 rifleman trail, Arlington, Texas, 76002. I'm a mother of five. Again, I told, I think I told you all my daughter serving in the Navy for our country. And she's in route to the North Korea, South Korea, all that. But I'm here because I want a future for the other ones as well, my four other children, which my daughter is 17. And she goes to Arlington Collegiate High School, which she is, I'm so proud of, and she's doing something good for herself. She's taking her education to the next level. And my other children are also, you know, pre-AP students. They're doing exceptional. They're wonderful. And I want them to keep doing good. I don't want their health risks, you know, all these health risks that come along with, you know, all the drilling and the fracking. I don't want that to get in the way of my children's future. I don't, my son is 13 and he has asthma. He was diagnosed with asthma not too long ago. And, you know, I'm pretty sure this isn't just because, oh, you know, he woke up one day with asthma. I'm pretty sure it has a lot to do with the drilling. At night when I go to sleep, I hear noises like that. When I'm laying down, I can't imagine what my kids, when they tell me, they come and they tell me, you know, when they tell me, they come and they tell me, you know, mom, what's that noise? You know, I have to put noise on for my kids and air filter so that way they can sleep at night. I also, you know, I don't know why they don't do it in France or I'm not sure where your company is from, but I mean, they've they just said that they don't do it over there. So why come to Arlington and do it over here? If it's unsafe for them you know, why not far? You know, where there's no people around where there's no children, no schools, no traffic, heavy traffic, Arlington. There's the baseball park, there's the stadium, and there's a lot of people that come and go in Arlington, go to Mansfield, go to all over the place. And I just want to ask for yada, please, please make the right decisions. You know, we do vote for you to help us. And we are the people from Arlington, not them. They are not here in Arlington. They come and they go. They come and they go. But I'm pretty sure they wouldn't want to drill in their home, and I'm pretty sure they wouldn't want to do it where their kids live. So please think about our future. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Next we have Shazad Nazir Sharon Wilson and Kathy Milner. Mr. Nazir? My name is Shazad Nazir and after spending the first 31 years of my life in Arlington, Texas, well, you know, I think I've shared with you all working, the special education teacher, Barnett Jr. High, I built my home at 3206 Oakborne Drive, but I now have moved my family to 1205 Green Hill Trail Man's Field, Texas. The last time I was here in February, I shared with you how quickly my dream of owning my own home from my family to enjoy quickly turned into a nightmare. I share with you the experiences of the baby crib shaken day and night. I can't even begin to tell you what it is like to watch your baby crib shake day and night. But the migraines, the nose bleeds, and it wasn't even just the health of my family, but after the control was lost for the third time of a well. And I'll just so you know it's I know we have one new member. My at home in Oakborne sits less than 200 feet away from 16 gas wells on the property of Lake Arlington Baptist Church. After and the control was lost three times and after the city took no action, I moved my family in February of 2014 to Mansfield. That is less than two months before complete loss of well 8H was lost for over 23 hours. It's 750,000 gallons of unregulated fluid poured off that site. And even though it hasn't been documented, I have the water samples from my home that were tested in the lab. And I have listened now three times to very emotional testimony from so many of my neighbors. And I hope you understand that this does take an emotional toll on you. When it is your loved ones, the people you care about most in the world that are suffering. And when your six year old is having an asthma attack, you don't concern yourself with proper APA citations. And in terms of the environmental risks, when a state can go like Oklahoma can go over a century without a single earthquake, and then have more than 800 in a single year. And if you want to talk about Barnett Shale, the same thing happened in the Azo region. They have not had an earthquake and recorded history and then had 27 in a three month period. But let's just be honest, this is not an issue of environmental wellness or of the health of our citizens. It really is a financial issue. And I know there are spreadsheets to balance. Money doesn't grow on trees. And I can't even begin to understand the responsibility you have to make sure this city has everything in place that it needs for its citizens. This is a very complex issue and a great responsibility. And I appreciate what every one of you did. But is one gentleman retired tonight and made his final remarks. I want to share with you the remarks as Thomas Jefferson retired from public office. He ended his speech with these lines. The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government. I salute my fellow citizens with every wish for your welfare and the perpetual duration of our government and all the purity of its Republican principles. Exactly 172 years later Ronald Reagan addressed the nation and shared those same lines. While my family's livelihood was putting great danger and as a result I had to move to Mansfield I truly hope and pray that other families in Arlington are not put in the same situation. Thank you. Thank you for your time God bless each of you. I'm happy to answer any questions related to my lease, my paperwork, my experience. Absolutely. My scientific credentials. So, Member Farr, Mars, has a question for you? Yes. Thank you so very much. Thank you, Mayor Prattam. Just a question. You mentioned your water at your home was tested, and that you had a piece of paper that you held up. Could you tell us what the findings were of that water testing? Well, it shows, there's a scale 1 to 7, and it just shows level 7, which is the most dangerous. Now that sample is taken after the April incident when 750,000 gallons poured off the site. But I can, I didn't bring copies, but I can make a copy and share that with you. It's in regards to the money pull it back up. The ammonia salt water ammonia color card and I F3 and it's got some chemical formulas. So was this, I'm sorry, sir. Was this a test of your drinking water from your faucet or was this water around your house? I'm unclear. It was taken from the soil on the property. Okay, so this was not from the home property? This was soil and it was not water from the out of the faucet, no. Okay, thank you, sir. I very appreciate your application. And Mr. Shepherd? Thank you. Mr. Missouri, you mentioned you moved to Mansfield, and I just quickly pulled up, and I don't know how many, I don't know how old this is, but I see 57 gas well pads in Mansfield. I don't know how many gas wells that represents. Do you live near a gas well in Mansfield? I do. I live the closest gas well to my location is a little of a 4700 feet. I made sure to study the Texas Railroad Commission maps to get in Arlington. There was just nowhere I could move that far away from any gas well. But I was able to find a neighborhood which is the subdivision lakes of Creekwood. Like I said, it's a little over 4700 feet away from a gas well so. Okay, all right. I was just curious. Thank you very much. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Sharon Wilson. I'm a certified optical gas imaging thematographer. 10455 North Central Expressway, Dallas, Texas 75230. Regarding a total gas stream composition they flashed up on the screen, it changes over time and should be tested monthly. And each well on the site will have a different composition and a different fingerprint. Thank you, and Johnson, for addressing the industry propaganda that Barnett Chale dry gas contains no benzene. The following materials are saved on this thumb drive and I request that they be placed in the official record. I'm going to start with the Eastern Research Group study. It's over 300 pages and it was presented by industry with a proclamation that there are no problems in the Barnett Shell gas. However, looking at the hard data within those 300 pages tells a different story. Ben seen the contaminant that has drawn much of the current attention on air quality was detected, 94% of the time. It is the best marker of an emission problem. Seven other volatile organic compounds were detected at rates higher than 90%. That these values were collected, citywide underscores the gravity of the situation. So Barnett Shell residents are being exposed to multiple health harming compounds. We know that one compound can magnify the effects of another compound. The Titan Barnett Shell Energy Education Council Air Study, an industry-futc funded air study that had very small sampling size and was heralded by Ed Ireland. I'm sure some of y'all remember him, of the 10 sampling locations sulfur compounds were detected 18 times. Some of those detects were over safe level. Hydrogen sulfide is a potentially deadly neurotoxin. The most alarming finding in the Titan study was the rate of formaldehyde, a known human carcinogen. TCEQ, acute, short term, one hour exposure limit is 12 parts per billion. Chronic long term exposure or one year limit is 4.5 parts per billion. That's the number we need to pay attention to because we live here long term. 4.5 parts per billion is the long term limit. At six locations they detected 69 parts per billion, 81 parts per billion, 100 parts per billion, 114 parts per billion, 127 parts per billion, which is 2.4 times higher than the Houston ship channel, and 7.5 times higher than maximum roadside levels. Still, Ed Ireland tried to blame it on the roads. Despite the fact that it is well known that combustion of methane makes formaldehyde. I have a lot more on here and it's too bad that I don't have time to talk about it. I will tell you there's more, there's a TCEQ Barnett Shell study that found levels at 22 of 64 monitoring sites were above long-term health-based comparison value of 1.4 parts per billion of benzene. It is not factually correct to say that benzene is not in dry gas. It is. And if you're interested, all the documentation is here. But the most important thing I want to tell you is that the World Health Organization says there is no safe level of benzene exposure. So who cares what the World Health Organization says? How about the API, the American Petroleum Institute? From an API funded, toxicology review of benzene. And as much as the body develops no tolerance to benzene, and as there is a wide variation in individual susceptibility, it is generally considered that the only absolutely safe concentration for benzene is zero. That's the American Petroleum Institute, their own study. Also on this disk, on this little drive, is TOTALS Violation Record, the record of violations. And it's abysmal. Kathy Milner. Kathy Milner. I didn't want to attempt the last name. My name is Kathy Milner Moul. I live at 322 Fair Haven Court. I just want to touch on, it's been touched on twice tonight about total. They can't even frack in their own country. Since 2011, they haven't been able to frack in their own country. And the reasons being is all of the health issues and they want to keep their countryside pristine. In 2014, they came along and said, you know what, we're not going to even give out surveying You can't survey for any types of petroleum or gas or anything you can't survey anything in France that has to do with fracking or drilling 2017 comes along and France says, well, you know what? We're not going to give leases To anybody that has a lease coming up. They're not going to renew their leases. Because by 2040, they want to be totally green. They want nothing to do with coal, petroleum-based cars. They want nothing to do with any oil or gas industries. So why do we let this company that can't even frack or drill in their own country come here and do it in our backyards? In your backyards it's coming to a backyard near you. It's not gonna cease they're gonna keep pushing and pushing and I think it going to cease. They're going to keep pushing and pushing. And I think it needs to stop. Go back to your own country. Talk them into it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. Can I have a prayer. Excuse me. My prayer, ma'am. We have 48 non-speakers and opposition. When I call your name, please raise your hand. If you'll do it this way, Ms. Garcia, would everyone in opposition please stand? And we have your names and for the record, they'll be read into the record bit in the interest of time. So I think we get a really, very good picture. Thank you. Thank you. get a really, very good picture. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Schassler, are we out of the revet? There's a lot of information on the revet in three minutes. Mayor Pro Tem, but... The council may also have questions. Okay, absolutely. I will say I'll start out... I'm a father of a very young child, an elementary school. I live between two gas wells. One of which is totals, and one of which is another operator. I also live near a train switching station too. And I'm very aware that we're an entertainment here in North Texas, and we have a lot of work to do overall. So I appreciate the comments tonight and I know it is an emotional situation. And we don't take that lightly. I am a Texan, our company although it was owned by a French company, we office, we employ 250 Texans and Fort Worth. And so we make our living doing this and operating here. Some of us were with Chesapeake and now we're with total. You know, it didn't just about money and I understand that all businesses are money, but also it's the all natural gas, all power plants in North Texas are powered by natural gas. So we all know that the two main people moving here between now and 2022, we have to provide electricity. That's every time you turn on your stove. That's every time you turn on your lies. That's every time you plug that electric car into your home or at the Tesla refueling spot at the convention center that requires energy. Whether it's the golf balls you hit on the golf course or some of the medications you take. It's a necessity of where we are in this world and we're trying to do that responsibly, do it respectfully and I want to bring it all the way back down to our site which is no citations, no violations, no complaints on the site, no TCQ or railroad commission complaints. And I think that I would request that if anyone ever has a complaint about the cornerstone site or the other sites that we have, please call the TCQ, please call your city, please call the railroad commission because that's what these state agencies are for. We contacted the TCroad Commission because that's what these daydations these are four. We contacted the TCQ to see if they could come tonight, but unfortunately weren't able to. They weren't able to answer questions directly towards our cornerstone. That's not really what they do. But I would request that the TCQ come out and test the site. We welcome testing sites. If you call them, they will be out within a day or two and they will floor tests. They will take samples, whatever they need to do. the city. If you call them, they will be out within a day or two and they will flirt test. They will take samples, whatever they need to do. So I would encourage people to do that in the city if they do have complainant, particularly on this site. The variance is, as we know, we're not asking for a variance to break the law. We're not asking to bend the law. We're asking for ultimately what we have today. We're not asking to be any closer than we were in 2009, 2010, or 2011. Back in 2000, early the second phase when we drilled here, we actually the city allowed us to drill a little closer than the 300 feet, which we have wells existing today below that 300 feet. But doing the 2011 ordinance, those buildings that have waivers on the eastern, western side of the pad, those two commercial buildings that are the closest. We actually have waivers from them, and they became a protected use, and so thus we have now moved away from those buildings at least 300 feet. We're asking to stay right in the middle of where we are and not go any closer to homes or not any closer to parks. The parks over a thousand feet away. The schools are over a mile and two miles away within this area. So again we're just asking about water contamination. We have seven layers of protection between our gas and producing and what is flowing in the water aquifers below us. And we take every precaution necessary to make sure. I would refer back to our gas analysis. I know there's a lot of benzene and tollines and hexane and all of that discussion, but my data from a third party shows that we don't have those VOCs in that gas. And we can test it again and show that. Again, have TCQ come out. We will have them test those sites of anything that taping from that site. And if there is, we fix it or get fined. And lastly, I just want to make sure that the variance process of what we're asking is you allow their ordinance does allow us to go down to 300 feet to the 600 foot. And if we were outside the 600 feet, we would still be here having a discussion about you allowing this to happen because we're emitting the SHP. Now, since we are within the 600 feet, we are asked by your ordinance to go and get waivers, support waivers from those residents that reside. I would assume from the most impacted from the six-centre fee. And in doing that, we did burn your ordinance and requirement, asked us to get over 70% of those waivers of which we have obtained from that. So I do 1% of the residents and of property owners within that six- that 600 foot setback. So we're not asking to bend the rules, we're not asking to do anything more than we've done to we already have existing today. And I'd be more happy to ask any questions you have at this time. Thank you, Mr. Strascher. Ms. Salman has a question. Thank you. Okay, so we had a question earlier about classrooms at the church being within around 300 feet. And that came from Mr. Osborne. Do you have any information on portable classrooms and how far away those are? We do. Those are used on the weekends for teens and young adult classes. Okay. They're not a permanent fixture. They don't use them all the time. But from my understanding, they use them from time to time Okay How far away was the The playground that you've proposed moving how far away was that initially? I Think I'm sorry councilwoman. I think it was like I don't want to guess. I think it was around 350 feet Okay, I think I remember that to be correctly And now we're moving that outside of the 600 foot Miss miss thuffle do you remember how far away the playground was? Yeah, I think it was about 349 or something. Okay. Thank you, miss thuffle Okay, and then to clarify, the classrooms and the playground were both put there after your initial three wells were jolt correct. Correct. All right, thank you. Mayor for Tim, a few minutes ago we had everyone who was opposed to stand up. Could we also have everyone who's in support stand up? Absolutely. Those in support of this case, would you please stand? Thank you. And then one more question. Do we have any one representative who's authorized to speak on behalf of Cornerstone Church? Okay. Mr. Porter? Okay. The gentleman who was just there, yes? I'm sorry. Sorry, did you have something you wanted to add? Yeah. Yes, ma'am. Mr. Porter, thank you very much for being here and sending through all the testimony this evening. How long do you anticipate those temporary buildings to be in place there at 300 feet? We anticipate those buildings to stay there, but one clarification, those facilities were there before the wells are there. The playground and the playground they've already said that they're they're going to relocate that and we're in total agreement with their proposal. Okay. All right. Thank you. Mr. Shepherd has a question. If I could, following along the installment line, could everybody that lives within 600 feet of the well that's here tonight stand up? Okay, thank you. Any other questions, Mr. Strascher? Seeing none. Thank you, sir. Council, any other discussion before I post the public hearing? Ms. Dalman. Certainly. Mr. Schell, could I ask you a question? I'll show you. As a medical professional? Yes. Just to the best of your knowledge, I'm not going to hold you to anything. But I'm just curious. Do we see a lot of children here in Arlington who die of asthma on a yearly basis? Well, that's a complicated answer because it depends on how controlled their asthma is. If the parents come in with a child and the child gets routine care, they have a better chance of not having airway remodeling and permanent damages or lungs and not being able to breathe when they're exposed to toxins or ozone. But if the child is not well controlled and only comes in during a birth situation and this constantly has inflammation in the lungs, that's a hard thing to answer. It just depends on the child on how well they're taking care of. Okay. So we've heard testimony from Dr. Finchard tonight that if we increase from the current three wells to seven wells that more than 10 children will die of asthma, that doesn't sound reasonable to me as a mother and as an asthma patient myself. So I'm just asking, does that sound reasonable to you? That sounds very reasonable, yes. That because of four wells, 10 additional. So my line of thinking here, not as medical professional myself, if we have 300, 200, 300 plus gas wells in Arlington currently, and for every four wells, 10 people will die of asthma, we would have a mass epidemic of people just dropping out of asthma all the time in Arlington. I think that's something that we would hear about. Well, I don't know if it's not being studied. If it's not, if people are not specifically trying to study the effects of asthma on children in the Arlington area, we're not going to have an answer to that. OK. We're really not. I do know that the more you expose somebody to toxins, the more increased risks they have of cellular damage. I would agree with that. Yes. So we add more wells, more cellular damage. But not hundreds of people dying of asthma. How do you know not know that? Are you willing to take that chance? Are you willing to take that chance? If I were basing my boat on that then yes because I think that's highly unlikely and as a council member we would be highly aware of hundreds of people dying from any particular cause. So you are against all the scientists in this room, all the people who have studied this, a pediatrician who's retired, who've worked with has a lot more experience than I do, who I that I would respect with all his experience, you would go against that. Wow. No that's not what you asked. And that's not what I said. And for most people who know me, or have been to any city council meeting where we've talked about Guestville Drill, know that I'm opposed to Guestville Drilling in urban areas. Okay. Well, I appreciate that. As a general rule. I appreciate that. But I just think that the claim of 10 children dying of asthma because of four wells is just redecated. Does it make a difference if it's 10 versus 2? I mean, 2, 2? No, I think if it were even 1, I would want to know. One child is too many. I agree. And I would want to know. And I just refute that fact in this case. Bring me back up here for that. Ms. Moe, did you have a question? Did I hear a commissioner, I mean, the commissioner, Councilman, I was still back in. I'm on. Okay. Did you say you had a report that you were going to give us tonight or was that? Did I misunderstand something? No. Dr. Schuh testified at our last meeting and provided us with a copy of I think it's called the clear study that he referenced a number of times and there are a couple of passages from both his study and at least two reports that he cites in his study that I was just going to make mention of but I'll wait till the public hearings closed and. Okay, so then I'll wait to ask my next question until then too. Thanks. Any other comments from council? If not, I'll close the public hearing and ask for a motion or any other comments. Mr. Shipper. Thank you, Miss Capehart. Thank you, every blonde for coming down tonight and providing us their viewpoint on this. I mentioned earlier this afternoon to a couple of my colleagues. I had the displeasure, I guess, of being at this dius since the beginning of gas well drilling in Arlington served on the Planning and Zoning Commission for seven years when the gas well ordinance was originally drafted and then had pleasure serving on the council for the last ten years. So I've got about 17 years of experience in Arlington with gas well drilling. There was a lot of input, a lot of discussion, a lot of testimony all during the adoption of the ordinance itself. There were study after study after study after study that we discussed, reviewed, considered, proposed. Beyond that, there was plenty of opportunity for people to come down and discuss it. Mr. Osborne, I know it's been here on one prior occasion when the original SUP and the was was approved in this case. I think it's telling that there's no one here within the 600 feet hailot. I find it curious that we have people all over the city that are concerned now about gas well drilling and yet there's several hundred gas wells that have already been drilled. And many of you I've only seen recently, which is why I asked the young lady earlier when she moved to Arlington, because the gas well, many gas wells were here before she moved here. So I thought maybe she was here before they were drilled, but I was wrong about that. As far as listening to the people, we get that a lot up here at this body and we're elected to represent all 390,000 people in the city. That includes the people that live around the gas well. That includes the members of Cornerstone Baptist Church. That includes the people up north, north that aren't anywhere near this gas well. It includes all the mineral owners who are getting some money from the gas well, royalties, bonuses. And so we have a job to do of trying to listen to the input and represent all of the people of Arlington to the best of our ability. So Dr. Schuhg came down last week and I heard of this clear study before and he was kind enough to provide us and I don't want to get into a debate with anybody about this. But I think Dr. Nunez at the Planning and Zoning Commission hearing last time stated pretty well that if you want a result, you can find a study that supports that result. And there are a lot of studies, but Dr. Schooge's report is one that's been heralded a couple of different times. The reason I asked about the Barnett because Dr. Schooge's report deals in different gas shale areas throughout the United States. I won't go in and, inside everything and, and discuss everything, but he does say two recent investigations. This is a 2014 report if I'm not mistaken. You'll probably correct me, I may be wrong, it may be 2016. So Dr. Schug states in his report, two recent investigations in the Barnett Shale region reported the emission of various chemical species of gas production sources, particularly lower molecular weight alkalines, less than C6. And he's sites Zalenska 2014 study in Aromattox and he sites Bunch. He goes on to say, however, these detections were not detectable beyond a distance of approximately 100 meters, which I've since learned from my esteemed colleague, is 328 feet. In the downwind direction of the source in question, and all ambient VOC concentrations were below the health-based safe exposure levels, except for 1.2-dibromethane, which is not known to be associated with urban drilling. So in that passage, and he sides both Zalinska and Bunch twice during that passage, and if you go to the Zalinska and Bunch studies, which you can access by a link provided to us, they confirm everything he just said. One of the studies mentions that the level of VOCs in the air are the result of us being in a non-attainment area caused by automobiles, on-road, off-road, non-road automobiles, that the amount of VOCs added are virtually undetectable because of the air quality we live in. Now, both of my daughters were have asthma. They were born in 1987 and 1990 before gas well drilling even occurred in urban areas. For me to begin to equate their asthma with gas well drilling is impossible because it didn't exist. So to say that that asthma today by anybody is the result of gas well drilling would be the same as saying that asthma in 1987 was the result of gas well drilling. I don't understand the parallels or the parallels that y'all are trying to draw. What I get frustrated about having been here for a long time now is the particular testimony which selects bits and pieces of studies that are supportive, are useful for the means and the purposes and the results that whoever is talking about it desires. There was criticism earlier about the Barnett, Shale, and Dr. Ireland. Well, people were critical of him because he was supportive of drilling. Likewise, we have studies that have been cited by people who are against drilling that conclude exactly the opposite of what they've been proposed for. No VOCs above health limits. The TCEQ regulates gas well drilling and its effects on the environment. There have been studies performed by the TCEQ. They've been cleared. I know that people don't want to believe those studies and believe that there's something going on. Look on that desk, I gave you that. The EPA, the EPA in the United States controls all of that. There is, I have one. Like it or not. Like it or not, we have regulatory bodies in the United States who control this type of stuff. House Bill 40, if you'll work, ladies and gentlemen, I sit here very respectfully for the last several hours. Would y'all please let me talk now. Thank you. Huh? House Bill 40 in the Texas legislature was the result of the city of Denton trying to ban fracking. Well guess what? The legislature stepped in and said you can't do it. You know, I'm sorry that that happened. We didn't do that. The Texas legislature did. So a ban on fracking is not possible with the current legislation. So I appreciate everybody coming down here. This is a difficult topic we've talked about it now for over 10 years. And I don't know that we'll ever stop talking about it, regardless of what happens tonight with this particular vote. But I understand that there are very deep emotions on both sides of this. And I would appreciate, as we move forward, and I will check out your thumb drive, as we move forward, that we look at all of the study and look at all of the evidence and not talk about stuff that's in the Marseilles shell when it's different in the Barnett shell. Every shell formation is different. The one lady mentioned about testing, you know, all the time, each well-dressed drill is going to have a different thumbprint. I think that's a fantastic idea. And I think I heard the applicant offer to do that. We have to find a way to satisfy or represent all of the citizens of Arlington. I appreciate you coming out. Thank you for your input. Excuse me. I'm excusing sorry. Testimonious over. Thank you. Ms. Thalman, did you have another comment? I'm sorry, sir. Your time is over. Thank you, did you have another comment? I'm sorry, sir. Your time is over. Thank you. Thank you. Any, I'm sorry. No. No, no. Testimonious over. We close the public hearing. Everybody was given ample time and equal time. So now it is the council's deliberation and the council's resolution as to what to do. Councilor are there any more comments? Are there any more comments council? Is there any more comments on behalf of the council? I would like a miss me. Mr. Shepherds. I'm sorry Miss Feele. I appreciate you being here but no ma'am. No. but no, ma'am. No, ma'am, you must have now. Thank you. Mr. Shepherd. You're speaking. All right. Do we have a motion on this item? You're frying us. I'll go ahead and rip the band-aid off. I don't know how this is going to go, but I'll make a motion to approve it. Mr. Shabberd, in your motion, may I make a couple of suggestions, if you will? I'd love for you too. First Would you be amenable to including sound walls at the workover rigs? Yes, ma'am Secondly, would you agree to ask for an electric drill? Yes, ma'am. Okay. I Do not know who is the second on this motion. It's not showing up. Huh? Oh, it's Mr. Glass. We Mr. Glass. We do you agree with those two amendments? Yes. All right may I have your votes please? I'm sorry. I did you want to speak some words? The motion was for approval. The motion was for approval. With and the motion was made by Mr. Shepard. The Mr. Glassby seconded the motion. I had asked for two amendments to the motion. One was to ask for sound walls at the workover rate. And the second was to request an electric drill. You're welcome. Any other questions on behalf of council before we vote? Okay. Okay, and I think. Yes, Mr. Remires. May I just ask one question before we proceed with the motion? Certainly. Just an assurance that the movement, I know we heard testimony today that they will be moving the playground, but could we have assurances that that will be completed in a timely manner as expeditious as they can do the process through the city? Would you like that to be a part of the motion? I would like that to be a part of the motion. Mr. Shepherd? Yes, that's fine. Mr. Glass-Fey? So, and a third amendment to the motion is that the playground timeline needs to be expeditious. Okay. Council? May I have your vote, please? Or do we have them? Councilmember Wallman? Are you a yes or no? Do we need to raise our hand Miss Garcia? No, I have it here. You have it? Okay, it passes by a vote of 721. Thank you. Thank you. And now we're on to item 13. Certainly. Okay. Council, we will take a five minute break. Do I need to adjourn? We're taking our We don't have to go Stand up Stand up Thank you, Mr. Carter. Thank you, Mr. Carter. Thank you, Charles. I'm going to walk down to this right in the audience. I'm going to walk down to this right in the audience. I'm going to walk down to this right in the audience. I'm going to walk down to this right in the audience. I'm going to walk down to this right in the audience. I'm going to walk down to this right in the audience. I'm going to walk down to this right in the audience. 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I'm going to take a picture. I'm going to take a picture. I'm going to take a picture. I'm going to take a picture. I'm going to take a picture. I'm going to take a picture. I'm going to take a sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Thank you, Joseph. Thank you for offering us a bright gift. So next we'll go to item number 13, Ornitz's first and final readings. Mr. Mike Finley is here to present Ornitz's authorizing sale of City of Arlington, Texas series 2018 permanent improvement bonds and the approximate amount and the Texas account. Yes ma'am. Mr. Finley, how about you just take over at this point? Yes, Mayor Pro Tem, member of City Council Mike Finley, Chief Financial Officer. Dave Gordon, who's the managing director with the Strata Hanna Houses, is going to do a I promise brief overview of the bonds, and then I will come back and we will take those two ordinances together. So with that, Dave Gordon. Thank you, Mr. Gordon, and Council at the conclusion of his presentation, I'm told that we can take items 13.1A and be together with one motion. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Good evening, Mayor Pro Temp, Council. I think you're Mike, and I'm also here with Rob Collins with Bracewell. Here's the finance team. Again, the strata in Hoeson, we're financial advisor. We've got Bracewell, Western Associates, is your disclosure council now, you have Bank of New York Melon as a paying agent. So we had two series of bonds that we sold this morning competitively, very successful sales, a lot of interest in the market. You can see on the 54 million, $2,000 permanent improvement bonds, you had 11 bids, which is extraordinary. And a pretty good spread between Raymond James who is the bitter and frost who is the cover bid. These were 20 year obligations and you can see just over 3% for the interest rate of those. For the combination tax and revenue certificates of obligation at 5,000,000. These were 10 year obligations, so that explains the lower interest rate. We had seven bids. You can see that City Group was the winner at 2.5% there. Just briefly to kind of refresh your memory on the number of the facets of the city's debt policy. We meet all those criteria in terms of the net debt per capita net debt to assess valuation. Net debt to service net debt service to total expenditures. You can see in the bottom right hand side, each of those parameters and kind of where we stand with regard to those. Just to remind you also we have two more sales scheduled for June there will be for revenue bonds for the water and wastewater system as well as the municipal drainage utility system or the stormwater and those are becoming on June 12th. So the city has always had excellent credit ratings as you know with Steiner and Pores and and F, all of your ratings are AAA. Moody's, it was kind of the holdout on, really on all their ratings, they had two AA1s, and they recently gave you the increase the rating from AA2 to AA1 for the final credit on the water and sewer. So they're basically AA1 across the board. But again, those are outstanding credit ratings. And with that, that's presentation. I do have a question. What do you attribute the difference in from James to I think it was Frostbank? There was such a big spread there. Usually you see a fairly tight spread. And most of the rankings were fairly tight, but for whatever reason they had a different view on the credit or just really wanted the inventory and obviously were aggressive in their bid. We were appreciative of it, I'm just curious, Mr. Juan. So different. All right, thank you, sir. Sure. Thank you. So the two ordinances that you all will be voting on this evening. The first one is the first and final reading of an ordinance providing for the issuance of 54.2 million City of Arlington, Texas, primary improvement bond series 2018, awarding the sale thereof, leving attacks and payment thereof, authorizing the execution delivery of a paying agent registrar agreement, approving the official statement, and enacting provisions incident and related to the subject and purposes of this ordinance. So that was the, that was the Geos. The second one's for the CEOs. It's the B, first and final reading of an ordinance writing for the issuance of 5,000,000,000,000, City of Arlington, Texas, combination tax and revenue certificates of obligation, series 2018, Leving Attacks and Payment thereof, prescribing the form of said certificates, approving and awarding the sale of the certificates, authorizing execution delivery of a paying agent registrar agreement, approving and awarding the sale of the certificates authorizing the execution delivery of a paying agent registrar agreement approving the official statement and enacting provisions incident and relating to the subject and purposes of this ordinance Mayor Brotem, I'll take any questions if the council has any I don't see any questions miss Garcia do we have any speakers on either of these Thank you. I've seen no questions, Mr. Finley, so Council, I'm awaiting a motion and I think we have one. She says it popped up yet. I have an motion for approval by Mr. Shepherd and a second by Mr. Glass-P-Man. Have your vote, please. I'm going to pass unanimously and for the record that is for both A and B. Thank you. Next we'll move to resolutions and minute orders. Excuse me. Amending the FY 2018 capital budget for the City of Arlington. Mr. Finley. Thank you Mayor Pro Tem. What this amendment to the 2018 capital budget does is provide budget authorization of $10 million for improvements to the Arlington Convention Center in reference to the esports arena. Any questions from Council on this one? Ms. Garcia, do we have any speakers on this item? We do not. Thank you. And I believe I have a motion and a second for Mr. Shepherd and seconded by Ms. Thalman for approval. May I have your votes, please? And it passes unanimously. Thank you, Council. Next we'll go to item 14.2, Design Bill for for improvements for the Arlington Convention Center. Mr. Perishon Denied is a design build contract to negotiate and execute to Contract with populous for design construction services not to exceed $10 million for the construction of the eSports stadium. Any questions, Council? Ms. Garcia, do we have any speakers on the side? We have no speakers for this item. Thank you, ma'am. And I believe I have a motion in a second. A motion by Mr. Shepherd for approval, seconded by Mr. Glass-Human. I have your vote, space council. Passes unanimously. Thank you, council. Next, we'll go to 14.3, amending the bylaws for the Arlington Higher Education Finance Corporation. Mr. Finley. Thank you, Mayor Pro Tem. This is a resolution that will approve the amended and restated bylaws. The primary change in this was changing some of the rules around proxy voting for the directors. Any questions, council? Dean Nunn. Seeing none. Ms. Garcia, do we have any speakers on this item? We have one speaker. Phillip Wombs comes. I can just take any questions if you have any questions. You have no comments or questions for us. You're just here to answer our questions. Thank you, sir. And I believe I have a motion and a second. A motion by Ms. Farah Murr seconded by Ms. Wolf. I believe I have a motion in a second. Motion by Ms. Farah or Mayor, seconded by Ms. Wolf or approval may I have your vote speech council? I pass unanimously. Thank you, council. And lastly, item 14.4, otherization, approving greater Texas cultural education facilities finance corporation. Mr. Finley. Thank you Mayor Pro Tem. This item is a request for the authorization approval of the creation of a nonprofit cultural education facilities finance corporation to act on behalf of the city for the sole purpose of acquiring, constructing, providing, improving, financing, and refinancing cultural facilities to accomplish the public purpose, I'm sorry, to and as stated in the Cultural Education Facilities Finance Corporation Act. Thank you, Mr. Finley. I see no comments from Council members. Ms. Garcia, you have any speaker speakers? Thank you, Ms. Garcia. I believe I have a motion in a second. Motion for approval by Ms. Farah Mars, second by Ms. Thalman. May I have your votes please for approval? It passes unanimously. Thank you. Next we come to citizen participation and we will start with Mr. Bill Milton. You all have had a rough night. I'll make it as short as I can. I wasn't going to come tonight but I had the pleasure of being at the work session today and saw the wonderful work that everybody is doing really speaking to making this an extremely diverse city in terms of the business that the city attracts The events that the city attracts and the people that the city attracts in that process the esport stadium in particular It was a phenomenal thing to look at just Just from a citizen's point of view, really was. So thank you so much for everything you do, because this is what's gonna keep this city going for centuries, literally. As a part of that, it's making us a huge destination city. And when I thought about that, I thought about the issue, I'm always here about which is short-term rentals, or any type of property rental. And when you attract a diverse base of people, not all of them fit into the hotel scenario. They just don't. There's a need for this type of housing. Does it need to be regulated? Of course it needs to be regulated. Does it need to have some restrictions and ordinances on it to protect neighborhoods? That's the key factor here. But I looked at this now and said there's a positive thing here. If you work together with the people who provide this service, you're providing a valuable alternative to people who don't fit into the hotel model as a place to stay. who don't fit into the hotel model as a place to stay. You're providing an alternate means of them staying in our city, renting a place that suits their needs when it's not a hotel. If you do it via a standalone ordinance with regulations and controls, and you get all these people above board working with the city, register it as a business, paying their necessary taxes, and doing the things they need to do. And that becomes a selling point to get people to come here. If you ban them, you develop the opposite kind of a relationship. It becomes adversarial. And it's them versus the people who don't want them. And that doesn't work. And I'm just proposing that we look at it from the point of view of let's make a positive thing out of this. Let's regulate them, let's control them, let's do it in the right way. Let's do it this way, not this way. That's it. Thank you, Mr. Middleton. Mr. Dave Schwartz. I'm not sure if I can read the writing. Anthony Nagy? It has been a long day. I'm Anthony Nagy, 1000 Curtis Court, Arlington. And Mr. Shepard, I too am a warrior of the gas wars of 10, 15 years ago. The Battle of the Horse Farm, the Battle of Martha Martin and the neighborhood. I live close to one and you're absolutely right. I'm also a chemical engineer. And if I looked around this place long enough, I'd find a few parts for billion bensing. And then I could write a story that says, New Council rooms are carcinogenic. But I'm not here for that. In listening to this tonight, I heard several terms. I'm here regarding short-term rentals. I heard bending zoning rules. I heard it's about money. I heard don't destroy our city. They come and they go. New developments, new uses. Mr. Middleton just said the same thing. I'm not against short-term rentals. I sent each of you a email this past week. I believe in many ways that what you see before you is another issue of special use permits. I believe again that you have zoning laws that say if you're a R1 residential, you shouldn't be running a business. I looked up several things, home, a place to look forward to living in every day. Not just bricks and wood, but a place to bond with your family and in neighborhood. Short-term rental owners, I had this discussion with them, are really not home owners. They are business owners, and the purpose of the business is to make a profit. This concept, I hope, will guide you in your licensing, regulating and enforcing their existence while maintaining the integrity of Arlington's neighborhoods. I heard you say that today. I applaud you for that. I've lived here almost 40 years. The same neighborhood, the same house, everybody knows me. Some like me, some don't. That's all right. Hearing about the esports this afternoon and the potential to bring in a call a different segment of society, the millennials. And I'll ask the question that Mr. Parker asked today, if you had to have a house living next to you or a short-term rental, and now you've got the gamers that have got their systems going maybe till midnight or one or two in the morning and people coming over to participate. I'm really concerned that if we don't regulate something now, we're going to have all these places, Doddy and Arlington, and we're going gonna have a real mess to mop up in the future. Thank you for listening, thank you for all the work you do. I know it's not easy, but that's what you get paid for. Yeah. Let's not talk about the pay, Mr. Nagan. Good night. Good night. Jeremy Finchroy? I think I read your last name correctly. Do I pronounce it correctly? Good evening, Mayor Pro Tem. Councilor, my name is Jeremy Fensroy. I live at 2714, winding Halloween. And I've been running a short-term rental in Arlington since September of last year. And I attended three of the town hall meetings this past winter, and I commend the council for actually taking the initiative to do that. I think it was a very valuable experience, and not least of all, because of the input that we got from the community, identifying some of the issues that some of our community members have with short-term rentals. And I very much agree that, you know, we need to address problems when members of the community bring those forward. What I had hoped is after those town hall meetings that we would go into a process where we would identify the specific problems related to short-term rentals, identify the scope and the degree of those problems and then come up with reasonable solutions to fix those. But instead of focusing on the problem, it seems like we're more focusing on the activity itself of short-term Reynolds. So, I mean, if you look at a, if it's a one-night stay, a one-night rental, a one-month rental or one-year rental, none of those things are inherently problematic. What can be problematic is how the owners implement that rental activity. And those are the things that, those are the problems that I believe we should be focusing on as opposed to just wholesale taking in an economic activity and saying we should just ban this altogether, we should focus on the problems. And that's what I'd like to propose tonight. Councilmember Shepard mentioned that we shouldn't look for wholesale solutions. And Councilmember for our Myers also mentioned the idea of using a process. I'd like to propose that we have a task force or working group, whatever you want to call it, that sits down, looks at this problem, and goes through an actual process, not throwing random statistics at you, but goes through an actual process of, first of all, identifying the problems, second identifying the degree of those problems, and then the scope of those problems, next considering the existing regulation that is already out there and the enforcement mechanisms for those regulations, and then come up with solutions that we can present to the council that are actionable, that you can actually use to create reasonable ordinances, regulations. What have you? I'd further like to propose that that working group be made up of volunteers from within the community and that it be independent but work in close coordination with the council itself. And I am willing and would be happy to drop a formal draft proposal for that to present to the council. I think this would be a much better approach going forward than simply looking at wholesale. Should we ban or should we not ban short terminals in the city. And this way we can have a data driven approach that specifically addresses the problems and provides those solutions to you. I would sincerely appreciate your consideration for the proposal and I myself, as well as several of our community members would be more than willing to volunteer our time and effort to actually put that together and make it happen and hopefully provide you something that you can use. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Kim feel? 49 North Elm Street. The five men that passed away from a rig explosion in Oklahoma in January's autopsy report came in. It was published today. They died from burns and inhalation of soot. We've already had the Lake Arlington Baptist Church spill. We've had to evacuate homes. Janelyn was poisoned in her home when the Fulson site had an emission event at the same time. The other drill site near Pantigo in Doward and St. Gardens had the same emission event. I had fumes come into my home when they were doing the Truman site work over, drilling out the plugs. My mother-in-law got sick that night. My son has had the rashes, I've had the nose bleeds. My husband has had the unexplained head and neck cancer. I started looking at coroner's reports, looking at people that were young that were dead, typing in their address, where I didn't see a police report from a suicide and even started looking at the suicide deaths of young people. Seeing a correlation where the winds blow from the southeast to the northwest, that made me have heart and chest pains. I had to stop looking at the corner reports for young deaths in Tarant County. But no one's looking at this and dealing a very good statistical job of it. Because not all those coroner reports are public. So until we actually look for what we want to see, you can't say it's not there, you're not being protective of the public. Now chasing methane is the name of a video. It's a video series. It's just out. I testified, if we're in front of P&Z last Tuesday, or Tuesday before last. They're finding when they looked in the Colorado and in Utah, up to 17% methane leak. That is incredible because the EPA and TCU are saying it's only 1%. So we've got to come to terms that they're driving around with a piece of equipment and they're actually getting readings real time. And what TCU does is snapshots in moments of time. So we don't have the science catch it up. We're getting there. The shepherd said at the time, yeah, we're doing the ordinance, all these reports were saying it was safe. We didn't have people looking at it. UTA clears only been at work for a few years. You can't say that this is safe because y'all shot the gun, the bullet left the chamber, and we don't know where it's going. All I know is since we've been drilling total trihalomethines in our drinking water supply have almost tripled. Total trihalomethines is meaning that we're adding too much disinfectant to our water and those are christenogens. At some point we're adding too much disinfectant to our water. And those are carcinogens. At some point, we're not going to be able to clean our drinking water. And the microbes that are resistant to traditional coronation is going to mean we're going to have a mass exodus from the DFW area for drinking water. Please, try carefully. Our livability depends on your decisions. Thank you, Ms. Phil. Brad Herbert? Mayor Proton and council appreciate you hearing me tonight. No, it's been a long evening so I will try to keep it short as well. I'm here to talk about short term rentals. I live at 414 East Lavender Lane. Anthony spoke tonight and talked about changing the character of the neighborhood and was worried about people moving in and doing things that would disturb him or keep him up. And I know there is the saying that you can't, you know, choose your neighbors and short-term rentals are just one of several people that can move in next door to you. We do have the long-term rentals and just home owners and you really can't, you know, regulate the activities they have going on there whether it's video games or parties or whatever. And I know that short-term rentals is kind of under the microscope right now. but the ban that I still keep hearing about at these sessions, you know, I'm trying to figure out what problem it really is solving. And the problems that I hear brought to light is noise, traffic, and garbage. And that problem stems much further than just short-term rentals. And so what I'd like to do is figure out how we can address those issues and not just short-term rentals. When so what I'd like to do is figure out how we can address those issues and not just short-term rentals. When I look at the city as a whole, there's 150,000 places to live in the city from homes and apartments and such. And when you look at short-term rentals, there's just a few hundred of us. And that represents like one tenth of one percent of the city. So you ban the short-term rentals and you say okay we fixed all of our problems with noisy neighbors and we really haven't done anything there we've just scratched the surface. So I really like Jeremy's idea of putting together a task force that can go out there and really grab some good data because I still have not been presented with data that I feel represents this major problem that's happening with the city. There is some issues that are happening, but I do think that we can come to some sensible regulations to make sure that those are very well squashed and don't happen on a frequent basis. But the research that I've done personally that I presented last time and the research that I've seen come from city council really hasn't supported that there is a huge problem with this. And so I just wanna make sure that we are not making a bigger deal about this than really exist, but let's just figure out a way that we can work together to take care of the issues that are present. But it's doing a way that is data driven, that we can look at the cold heart facts and then figure out a real solution to handle what is a larger problem in the city and not just focused on short-term rentals. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Herbert. Rajana Bandari. Rajana Bandari at 903 Lock Lohman Drive and thank you for your patience for letting me come out here one more time. Actually, I've had a few questions over time that I thought today was a good day to bring them up. There was a time when I wanted to show a short video clip of emissions that I had individually shown to you. And I was told by the city that this audio visual system that exists because taxpayers pay for it. We don't have access to it only the other side does. So that's a question I'm hoping that you all think about. I had offered to send them the video clip ahead of time. In any way, shape or form that they wanted, it took them two days to get back to me and they said, well, it's first was a technical issue and then it was a legal issue. And then I was told that I couldn't show a video clip in a public hearing. I could only email it to you. The important thing about a public hearing is that the public gets to see. And so that didn't happen. So I hope you'll look into that. A couple of other things. I'm sorry, I'm not as organized as I try to be. Dr. Schuch's work was discussed and quoted after the hearing closed. I was outside talking to the 78 people who were here, talked to many of them. They were curious about Dr. Schung's recommendation. We remember on May 8th, he very clearly said that he wouldn't recommend this within 2,000 feet. So that was encoded. And I understand what you all are doing. You have your own way of interpreting the data. But the million dollar question that everybody is asking outside right now is, why did you all reverse your own vote? We haven't forgotten that on February 27th by a six-two vote you turn down these bells. Except for one person here, everybody, sorry, two people, everybody reverse their vote. And that is very odd and that is a question everybody is asking and you'll have to come up with an answer for. Because nothing new has happened. You didn't find new signs in the last two months that told you this was safer because in fact you exclusively relied on cherry picking old science. That was around in 2007. There wasn't much science then. There are 1400 studies though. We brought them to you. We keep arguing about benzene. The Texas Commission and environmental quality. Every time I've come up here, I have thread out that study to you. I have left a copy of it with Ms. Garcia. Today a friend of mine read it out. So these are the questions people are asking. What you cherry pick from what is presented to you? This is the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. They're not people who make up science. This is a respected state agency or at least a state agency that I think you all respect because you've based a lot of your ordinance in all of what you've done with the drilling here Based on what the state is telling you so for you to then ignore what this same People are telling you about benzene is very very troubling and benzene is dangerous. Thank you for comments Yes, thank you, but the million dollar question. Why would you all change your vote? That's what everybody's asking and they'll continue to ask and you'll have to come on Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Tracy Himminger Why would you all change your award? That's what everybody is asking. And they'll continue to ask, and you'll have to come up with it. Thank you. Tracy, him and your? This comes as a surprise, but I'm choosing not to speak tonight. Okay. Okay. My brain is fried, and I know you're starting to pick food. Okay, thank you. Rebecca, and I cannot read your last name. Please pronounce it for me. Okay. I will. Hold on not ski. Hoy. Hoy. Not. Not ski. Hoy. Not ski. Thank you. It's not that complicated. I am bear- my name is Rebecca Hoy not ski. I live at 201 East Third Street, apartment 110, Arlington, Texas 76010. I moved first move to Arlington, Texas in 2009 and I'm embarrassed to say that this is my first city council meeting. It won't be my last. When I grew up in Michigan, I was on my city's youth council all four years of high school. And the way it worked there was I went to every single City Council meeting so I am familiar with how City Council meetings run. We also ran our own youth council meetings. Do you all know how long it took before the actual business got started tonight? It was more than 40 minutes of the back and forth in the congratulatory. I know how city council meetings work. I've been to more than 100 of them and I've been to the Michigan Municipal League. There were people and it doesn't matter what my position is tonight because there were people lining up, standing up there, your constituents on both sides of contentious issues, standing elderly people, some young people, well you all went back and forth. I frankly, I don't care how you all feel in terms of that because you're here to do a job. If you want to have those good feeling back and forth, that's great, but not on city time. I don't find that appropriate. I work full time. I'm a PhD student, and I've got a very sick mother-in-law. I'm trying to deal with. And I know every other city constituent here tonight had their own time too, and I am deeply mortified at the amount of time you all took before you actually got to business as opposed to the time you all spent going back and forth. And that's all. I just wanted that to be on public record. So the record. Council, now we're to the appointing the agenda of for announcements. Anybody have any announcements? You don't I do. I have a town hall meeting schedule for this Thursday, May 24th at the South Arlington Police Station Community Room at 30, excuse me, 1030 Southwest Green Oaks Boulevard at 630 and the topic will be Texas Live, presented by Trey Yevrton, our city manager and council. I'd like to thank all of you tonight for a lot of work that you did. I'd also like to congratulate those of you who've been reelected and I personally think you have the right to state your feelings about your reelection to your family, your constituent, and your friends and I'm glad you had the time to do that this evening which we get to do once a year. With that we are adjourned.