The City Council will now come to order and we will go into closed session at 10.53 a.m. On May 22nd, 2018, and in accordance with the following sections of VTCA Government after 551.071 consultation with attorney and 0.087 deliberation regarding economic development negotiations and 0.072 deliberation regarding real property. you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you I'm going to be here. 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The City Council appointed Citizens Mon Committee for 2018 has been working for over 12 weeks now to come up with a list of recommendations for you to consider. I just want to particularly on behalf of staff recognize Chairman Dixon Holman who's going to do the presentation for you today, as well as the committee in general. The committee was absolutely fantastic. They worked, as I said, 12 straight weeks, 12 straight weeks, every Thursday night. And then in addition, all the preparation and the homework and the touring of every one of the facilities. And they probably spent a significant amount of time every week just to prepare for the week's effort. And that type of commitment on the part of our citizens is just almost overwhelming to me. And I'm very, very proud that they took that time and opportunity to do that. Having said that, I think they did an amazing job with a lot of difficult decisions and recommendations. Mr. Holman is going to go ahead and present those to you and then I'll come back up and see if you have any questions that you those meetings, in particular, Lindsey Mitchell and Sarah Stubblefield, who really helped through the process. And that effort, again, I think results in a really good set of recommendations for you to consider. So with that, we have Dixon Holman. You probably recognize him from his previous days as a city council member. Dixon did a fantastic job and facilitating the discussion with the committee. I appreciate it. Mayor members of council appreciate the opportunity to be here. And before I get into this, Jim Parijon deserves a tremendous amount of credit here. He's done a great job along with Lindsay and Sarah and all the staff. We had, we had about as many staff members as we did, committee members at every meeting. And they were there to answer any question or no question. But they were there the entire night and very helpful in working through the process. And so we are excited about moving forward here. We have several of the committee members here today. If you would stand if you were on the 2018 bond committee. So. Applause. And they've done a great job. We had quite a varied group with different perspectives, different opinions, but it was always a very business like very very warm and like process and we reached consensus in a way that I think you would be proud of and we were very happy that we had the opportunity to do this and bring these recommendations to you. And so with that, we'll go ahead and move forward with our, just our overview. The committee's charge was to come up with a prioritization list of approximately $150 million. We started with a number that was in the $620 million, $629 million range, and paired it down from there. It was as you know and the committee members are certainly very aware. It was quite a broad and varied list. And so we were charged with bringing it down in order to meet the requirements that were put in place by the council and our marching orders to be able to manage the debt appropriately. Here you see the current debt capacity, the green bars of the money that is already allocated over time, the portions you see in gray or the dollars there available to be allocated, you see the total $154.5 million in unallocated capacity based upon the financing schedule that we were shown in our initial meeting by the city manager. This is a timeline. The top half of the slide, you will see the committee schedule and how the process worked meeting wise. Then you will see in the bottom half more of a descriptive portion of the slide that talks about the committee process and communication as it moved through that the months go from top to bottom all the way through the slide. And it began on March 22nd with the prioritization overview by Mr. Yelverton, who gave us the ins and outs of the financing bond financing process, how the bond process works, city of Arlington, what it is, what it's not, more importantly. And then the various time horizons on the financing of the debt that we would be referencing in our various presentations from the staff. The rest of it, you can read through, I won't belabor each point, but the schedule was a pretty tight schedule and it took quite a commitment on the part of the members of the committee, which I greatly appreciate. We also, as I mentioned, had tremendous attendance numbers. If we didn't have the full committee there every time, we were real, real close, and we didn't have anybody that missed more than one meeting. So we were very pleased with that. This would be the preliminary project information. This is how the initial projects that were presented broke out. The 600, I call it 629, 628,830,000 dollars worth of projects broke out from a categorical standpoint, meaning the various areas roadway, past improvements, roadway rebuilds, annual programs, the intersections traffic management, the major recreational facilities, community neighborhood parks, linear parks, and then police and fire. And you can see how those graphically were weighted in the initial projects that were presented to us. This is a spreadsheet that shows you the final recommendations from the committee and it's broken into those various categories, the public safety and city facilities, parks and rack, and then public works and transportation that's street projects. And it has a breakdown of the cost estimate of each. Staff did work through some of those cost estimates, the initial estimates on some of these projects that were given to us were paired down but we were able to keep the project intact and it didn't reduce the project for most parts. Some of the street projects were reduced in scope meaning they may have covered a distance from point A to point C and now they go from point A to point B. day distance from point A to point C and now they go from point A to point B. But they are intact road projects that accomplish benefit for the community as the committee saw it. The fire station rebuilt to reduce slightly, some things like that. But they're going to be completed in their entirety with those dollar amounts. We then have a breakdown of the council districts and the committee was cognizant of that. We understand the necessity of spreading projects throughout the community. We also looked at the last bond and wanted to make sure that we were aware of what had been done and looked at it from that perspective. I will tell you though that the committee did not use that as the driving factor. What we believed our charge to be and what staff had concurred on was that we were to come up with what we thought was the best use of the dollars. First of all, for the city as a whole. Second of all, to accomplish as many varied types of tasks as we could. Third of all, to be most efficient in developing and developing that plan. So as to actually, say a street project, create relief for existing problems in something like a fire station rebuild to be able to create new facilities that were updated, modern, and actually serve what our firefighters need according to their administration. And so that's what we looked at first and foremost. Second of all, we looked at obviously the cost and how that fit and the best way to manage those dollars that you had charged us with prioritizing. And then we did do our best to try to within the scope. And this is a big dollar amount to anybody out in the real world. But when it comes to bond projects, it's not as big as sometimes can be available. So within the constraints of the dollar amount, we did our best to acknowledge the districts and the geographic dispersion across the city. Then we came to a point based upon all that that I just discussed. We came to a point where we finally had to decide what made the cut, what didn't make the cut. We went through quite an exercise of deliberation to funnel that, which actually worked quite well and it was brought to us by the staff and had been tested by them. I believe it worked very well and it did. It was several rounds of reduction that allowed us to get to the point we were able to come up with our final recommendations. After we done all that, we still had a few. We probably had more than this, but we then had to reduce that list that we had left over that probably had seven, eight, nine different projects that were looked at by committee members not necessarily in any strong majority, but as important. And then we had these that there was consensus on the committee to let the council know and these are not in a particular order of importance. They're being presented to you just as three projects that the committee believes had we had additional funds. These projects would have been addressed next. And so that's why we brought these to you. We wanted you to be aware of what those priorities on the committee were beyond what you just see in the final recommendation. This is the recommended projects by Category. You have the category dollars for those projects as they are allocated within the recommendation. And as you see the capacity improvements which are roadway related and there as always and there was in this committee quite a discussion about the need to address roads and streets in Arlington. And the roughly 75% 74 point, something percent of our overall recommendation is street related and capacity related. So it certainly looks very strongly in that direction. The next steps will not involve the committee but will involve other appointed boards that you have chosen and then will involve you and that will be the Planning and Zoning Commission will consider recommendations might or standing they've already viewed and reviewed the recommendations as they exist right now. And then they will forward that list to you. The and then on June 12th, the council will continue to discuss the projects and and priorities and then finalize recommendations on the 19th of June with a outlook goal of of calling an election on August 14th to be held on November 6th of this year. So with that, I believe we are through the technical responses clearly for those questions. I can certainly speak to the committee dynamic in the process, but the staff members can obviously address any of those numbers that were presented to you today. Mr. Shepard. Thank you, Mayor. Really have more of a comment than a question. Mr. Holman, thank you to you and your committee for doing the work. I know this was a monumental task as it is every time we go through these and really am appreciative of the effort put into these recommendations. Thank you all for your help. I appreciate it. Thank you. Ms. Wolf. Thank you, Mr. Holman. Could you tell me was there by any chance I know all your meetings were open were there citizens that came to make comments or just to listen or to gain insight? Councilman Wolf, I appreciate it. Yes, we did have, all of our meetings were open. They were helping this room. And we did have, we didn't have an overwhelming, an overwhelming, we didn't have, but a handful of folks who came. But we did have the opportunity in the last I believe three meetings maybe the last two meetings for them to do as they do with you fill out cards and for public input and then come up and speak we did have some speakers and we had some folks that the sign cards that they were interested in a certain topic it It was usually a specific topic, a specific project that we heard about, but that opportunity was there each of those last several meetings. Ms. K. Port. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mr. Holman. I got a lot of comments from Sir Will Compton Committee members and they were very appreciative of your leadership and the way you handled the meeting. So you did great. Well, I appreciate that. They did the work. Well, I think you all did the work, right? And Mayor, if I can just make a comment that several of the bond committee members, I think we're new to the process this year, maybe more so in the past, then in the past, most recent years. And from many of them I heard and probably many other council members did as well, what a learning experience it was for them. To understand the great needs that we have in the community that they were not aware of, and for many of them it kind of pushed them out of their traditional routines and they went and saw on the bus trip, for instance, they went and saw other aspects of the city that they hadn't been to and whether it was the trails at River Legacy or wherever it might be or the need for the fire station. So I think it shouldn't be lost on us that not only is it a process that they provide a great service to us and trying to pair this down and I did here in the beginning You're starting at 610 we got it get it Welcome to our world, right sure But that at the end they were very very appreciative of the opportunity to having learned so much more about their city So I think that's a great attribute that this committee has I think that's a great attribute that this committee has. And in the future, I think as we go forward with other bond committees, I think we'll find more and more people who are more exposed to the needs of the city, then maybe they have been before they serve in such a capacity. And thank you again for your service. Thank you. Mr. Horvind, thank you for your work. I really appreciate that. My question to you is the rebuild on station eight. Did you have any consultation or did you have any information or feedback from Mr. Kimball as far as the progression of apartments down in Lamar? I'm gonna need deferred of the staff councilman, but due to the fact that the numbers, what we did was prioritized it. At one time, those stations were roughly $12 million, I believe, 12 or more a piece. The two stations that made the list and the staff in consultation with the fire department went back and massage those numbers to make those numbers work. I'll let Mr. Parijon speak to it if you don't mind. Thank you very much. Yeah, the way that those two projects move forward, Council Member Parker was really a need as identified by the fire department through Chief Krausen and Deputy Chief Self. And then that gets evaluated in the process. We have not communicated with Mr. Kimball about that, but certainly that redevelopment area, I think what drives this request is the age of that facility and it's outdated nature in particular as it relates to new equipment for our firefighters. Do I understand I understand that the dating and the need for the rebuild itself? Is it gonna be on the same pad or I mean it's gonna be in the same location? It'll be on the same footprint It'll be a larger facility and it'll certainly be much more modern Thank you very much Mr. Glass-B. Thank you, Mayor. I was told when I'd like to share appreciation that my colleagues have shared for the work I'm done in the committee. And I have just a question I had with the, I think you said it was like 628 million that you started off with. So over the 75% reduction you had to make over time to come to conclusion, would you kind of describe the process of being able to get from that large number to the number you got? The process, when we got the list, you say it was dawning. We looked at it and it was quite substantial to say the least and quite varied and far-flung and seemed a bit unwieldy and difficult to manage. And once what we did first is worked through all the projects where they were all shown to us based upon primarily based upon category, we would look at streets one night, we would look at parks in another meeting, we'd look at police fire, city facilities and another meeting and work our way through that way so that we could understand each of the projects that was being presented. That was in the initial, I think, three meetings or so, following the introduction. After that, we were in a position of needing to pair down. So that's when we went through the first reduction exercise that was presented to us by the staff, which literally was, we've all been that have done any of these kind of things for a period of time and through the dot exercises. This was a little bit different in the way it was weighted and in the way that we looked at. And we went through in a couple of meetings more than one iteration of that. And we went through and we would do those prioritization exercises. The staff and compile numbers come back, create a spreadsheet right there, put it up on the wall, we'd see what we had. Then we came back and reduced it again. We were able in the first go round, I believe in the first meeting, where we had maybe three reduction opportunities in that meeting that night. We were able to pair it down to $307 million from the initial amount. So it became fairly clear, fairly quickly what was most likely to be a serious consideration of what was. Certainly you have the ability and charge to consider everything, but there was consensus to move it down to that number. We then, at that number, we stopped and we went back to our regular meeting process. We looked at those projects then again and began to look at them with more of a shark pencil or a keen eye and went through the prioritization exercise again and we're able to lower it down and we wound up long story short. It writeed about the final we were about five million dollars off and some some of that was recaptured by the staffing of go back as the as the fire stations we talked about a few minutes ago. We're able to go back and produce some of the dollars that way, but we were able to get it down to five million. So our last meeting was spent or our next to last meeting. Our last meeting was spent pairing down that last five million dollars. And so that's how it went. It tended to work far more smoothly than I think. A lot of us, a lot of us might have had some trepidations to how do you take that big number and knock it down that fast. But again, I can't stress enough, the staff's help in facilitating that for a large group 21 member committee like this. So that's how it worked in a nutshell. Any other questions, comments? Chairman Holman, thank you for lending your expertise and leadership and time here to directing this very, very important task because we know that these bond programs have been game changing for our community here in the past and after seeing the list here, it's going to be game changing again for us again and setting us on a great tone as we move forward. Also to the committee, what an incredible attendance record, one, and the time spent in that was just phenomenal. And what a wide range of diverse people. And that speaks a lot to Arlington. When you have this kind of diversity on a committee and this, and even in sitting in the audience, I know many of y'all, y'all are very strong wills and have opinions. And yet for you to come together for the good of Arlington that is a phenomenal thing and that's what's happened here in Arlington for decades and once again it's it's very been very uplifting you know hearing from our staff too about how everybody came together there at the end because I think it was dawning for all of us when we saw the council members here, you've heard from us, we thought, wow, what a dawning task. But yet you worked, you found the facts, and you were able to deliberate, and that is so important. And thank you, staff, for being able to bring all of the research and everything together there, and also to be able to provide that opportunity for our key citizens to weigh in. And we are very excited to have this document now and this prioritization for us to continue to work on and to get ready to move forward on the bond program and love what was done here and great results. And now looking forward to implementing and moving forward here in great results and now looking forward to implementing and moving forward here in November but thank you to all of the the citizens on the committee. Thank you Chairman Holman and thank you to our staff here for great work here again and moving our city forward in a in a great way to for the future of our city. Thank you all so much. Thank you. It was an honor of services chair and to work for you as a council. We greatly appreciate it. It was an honor to serve the chair and work with this committee. They did a fantastic job with this staff as well. So we all appreciate it. I personally appreciate the opportunity and enjoy it completely. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate completely. Thank you. Thank you much. Appreciate it. Next we'll move to multifamily recycling on call upon Miss Nora Coronado. Thank you. Good afternoon, Mayor and Council. Nora Coronado is the Director of Public Works and Transportation Department. At the request of Council, I've been the previous meeting staff research and gathered some information about multi-family recycling programs in our nearby communities. So today, preventing very brief sort of high level summary of some of those programs offered in other communities some providers in the North Texas area and as well as some pathways should the council consider moving in this direction. So what we've done here is just kind of put everything in a grid in a nice neat summary. We started off at the City of Arlington and I just kind of went in alpha order. Chose to focus on, first of all, does the community offer recycling in a broader sort of business? So we started with single family, curb side recycling. Then we're like, ask the question, do they offer a multi-family recycling? Also, a question just because it's in part of our discussion is whether the service provided is either Franchise or not franchise. So we start the city of Arlington where we do have curbside recycling for our residents Multi-family is not required however If a multi-family property is interested they can contact any provider If a multi-family property is interested, they can contact any provider in the service of the area, including the public services and sort of spec out an order for service. So currently, I was curious as to how many we have. We have about 10, 5 multi-family complexes in the city who have had it for some time and two new ones that are coming on board. And again, that's just for public services because if a development is interested, they can contact various providers. So we'll start at the city of Allen, Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Frisco, all have single-family curbside recycling. As you can see, we have various approaches with some requirements and also with the delivery of the service. We have, on this slide, we have the City of Allen City of Austin that do require city of Fort Worth does however they do have an application for multi-family developments to say well I don't have the interest at this complex or you know the financial hardship or operational challenge to be able to have a viable program on site. Here at this slide we have the City of Irving, City of Louisville, Mesquite, and Plano in San Antonio. All offer curbside recycling for the residents. The City of Louisville in San Antonio on this slide require it. City of Irving interesting has 11 franchise agreements based on our research that was interesting. And then we have some exclusive agreements with the Louisville and Plano, one with Waste Management, the other one with the Public Services. This is a list of North Texas providers. I'd you have to say this is non-exhaustive list. We just, I just listed a few here for your view. We have a course on public services, Waste Management, Recycle Revolution, Champion Waste, Alconus, Knight for your view. We have a courtship public services, waste management, recycle revolution, champion waste, alconus, night disposal, and trash fusters. So just for your consideration, if the council desires to move in this direction, some things to think about requiring only for a new multi-family that has been part of the discussion. Fort Worth, as I mentioned earlier, has a waiver option, something to consider. A pilot program. We did one staff reminded me that we had a program in the late 80s, early 90s. Contamination was an issue back then. The program was this continued and also we do currently offer recycling containers at libraries consideration could be expanding them to our recreation centers. With that I'd be happy to answer any questions. Stelman. Thank you Mayor. Can you talk to us a little bit more about the contamination issues with the pilot program? Staff recollection was basically waste being deposited in the containers because the containers are not staffed. So that was a problem if there was overflow in the waste container then it would pop up in the recycle container. And of course that would make that container not recyclable, not vital. So moving forward, what could we do to avoid that in the future? I mean, I know that's kind of an individual accountability, like as an individual not, you know, doing the wrong thing. But I mean, I would love to see Arlington have a comprehensive recycling program for new and existing multifamily housing however I Don't want us to keep going down at the same path without a different solution I Think in our conversations with republic services. I'm sorry Maintain introduced Vince Raible with the republic services has joined us again if there any additional questions about what these cities do and what we can do here I think education is a component services has joined us again if there are any additional questions about what these cities do and what we can do here. I think education is a component. I think investment by the property to educate residents and also to monitor for compliance. I think those would make a difference to help minimize the risk. I think there's contamination in general. It's just the varying degrees of contamination. So just needs to be monitored, be invested in. Miss Walman. Nora, what is the increased cost to the facilities if they opt to do this? I mean, does it go, does it just add on to their bill to everybody in the complex, or does it go just to the property? That's what we saw in our research is mostly, it was a cost that was passed on to the resident at the complex. In generally speaking, it would be like a recycling fee bill that's added to their monthly rent. This is what we saw typically. that's added to their monthly rent. This is what we saw typically. Other questions, comments? Dr. Myers. Going back to the educational component, what currently do we do now to educate residents as well in a recycling program? I ask that because I just happen to take a look at the top of my green can. And I know two weeks ago we were talking about the fact that pizza boxes were a problem. And I remember my husband and I having this discussion about whether pizza boxes should be recycled or not. And I much to my chagrin, he pointed out on the top. It says it can be. And I immediately thought it has food waste in it. It shouldn't be. So could you enlighten us of what are we doing to educate besides just the top of the container? Is there other things that we can do or can we doing if we move toward this? Because again, I agree with Ms. Thalman if we're going to do this, I don't want to set ourselves up for failure. Yeah, absolutely. So we do have some marketing materials that we produced for our residents, like you said, the top of the container, our website, brochures, et cetera. We also have a lot of, we can participate in a lot of outreach events at the neighborhood level with other organizations, with COG, to try to educate our residents in our community at large about recycling services and programs that we have available where it would be leaf recycling whether it be e-waste. We just try to inform as many of our as much of our community as possible about the opportunities to recycle. Is that help and so your question? Ms. K. Bart. Thank you Mayor and Thank you Nora. What is the waiver option in Fort Worth? So with city of Fort Worth the requirement is to have recycling and recycling containers at multi-family developments. However if the property can provide evidence that the level of interest is not sufficient to make a program viable. They can apply to be an exempted from the program. Or if they can show I don't have adequate space on my property to have a container available or enclosed, et cetera, to be able to offer this program, then they can receive a waiver. That, to me, applies more to existing properties than necessarily to new properties. So, and there's not a perfect system here. There's contamination in our own curbside recycling. But to not allow or permit the opportunity for people who live in multi-family to recycle without having to go to a library or RIC center, I just don't buy that. So I'd like to see us proceed with recycling options for new multi-family where people can plan for it. People will know what their rents are. It wouldn't be their rents would be going up. It'd be what their rent is because they've never been there before. And so at least we will have done something. And so for those people who really are interested in recycling, maybe they should live in those multi-family places where recycling is offered. And I realized trying to retrofit existing multi-family as problematic, and I was telling someone earlier today, no good deed goes unpunished, right? So when we talked about multi-family years ago, and it was all about retrofitting and getting, losing parking spaces and all of that for the other container, that made sense and so we didn't do anything. But then when we considered doing it for new multi-family so they could plan for it, that seemed to make a reasonable compromise, right? I cannot tell you the number of emails and letters I received lambasting me because I wasn't insisting that we do it for all multifamily. So no good debosam punish. So anyway, for me personally, I think to do it for new multifamily has less risk. I think you're probably going to get people who live on those new multi-family tennis or kind of of that millennial generation who look to recycle anyway and they may even be attracted to a facility or apartment complex that offers that to them. And I realize trying to retrofit it might just be very difficult and extremely problematic. So I'd like to see us go forward with new multifamily there. Okay. Council, there we've got something on the table here, there with moving forward and exploring multifamily, yes, Ms. Wama. Well, yeah, I think, excuse me, that could be. But I didn't realize that right now we have like 12, that did you say, that opted in just on their own. About 10. Yeah, OK. So there is the possibility you could say, you could require for the new, but make it known, because I don't think all of them, or maybe they do know, but I didn't know it, that they had the option. And that if it was publicized, that they had the option to do it, I think some of them would go ahead and go, hey, let's do it. Now, I don't know about the cost there. I think that could be in some of the complexes that cost would make a difference. But I think we need to let everybody know, because it's a good program. and we really need to be doing it We're all environmentally concerned So that's that was something that I leaned out of this is that the options there and some people have already taken advantage of it Are you okay with doing it for new multifamily and just talking about existing multi-family reminding everybody that they can opt in. Okay. Thank you. Dr. Myers. I'm going to add to that. I think Ms. Mileman, you're adding on to the point that I was trying to make earlier when I asked the question about education because I think the new multi-family, but I'd also like to see to give the opportunities for others to opt in. That was new news to me, new information to me as well about what's been transpiring. So I think if we could put some efforts into our neighborhood programs, as well as our outreach programs to try to do that, I think that could help us perhaps expand it without even going as far as that. So I'd be very interested in moving forward on both avenues. Mr. Shepard. Yeah, and without meaning any offense to Mr. Ravel, who's present today, I was interested in the slide that revealed to me that they would have multiple provider options for that recycling as well. So there may be an opportunity for those that want to get in, to get in, and there's somewhat of a competition perhaps in terms of price because there are so many providers that might be in the business of doing it. As I said last time, I'm not generally in favor of the mandating of it for new construction. in favor of the mandating of it for new construction. I too was unaware that it was already permissive and certainly, I don't know how many apartments have been built in the last five years and I don't know what we call apartments and I certainly don't wanna get into that discussion. But I know most of the new development in North Arlington probably took advantage of the recycling. I think a lot of the newer developers to Miss K. Parts point are sensitive to that in responsive to the requirements of their tenants. But that being said I'm not going to get in a big huge argument over it either. So I would prefer that it be optional and there'd be an education, even perhaps a strong nudge toward new development, but to make it a requirement would be difficult for me to support. Ms. Wolff. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. If it would be appropriate with Mr. Rape will hear, I know we have a soon to come online big student housing project right over here, Ralph Mitchell, between Center and Mesquite, and he informed me that they will be doing recycling. And I wondered if he could just perhaps give us, I mean, we don't need to dwell in their dig down in their business, but if you could just give us, I mean, we don't need to dwell in their dig down in their business, but if you could just give us an overview, did you approach them? Did they approach you? How are you coming up with your agreement to service them? And maybe you're not. Maybe it's one of these other providers. No, they reached out to us when they were talking about their proposed trash services for the complex they asked if we could provide recycling and we gave them a proposal They haven't accepted it yet. They're not they're not in there. There's still ending the construction over there, but they will implement a recycling program and it'll be a dumpster type service with us Is this is this the live Arlington Greek the live for yes yes okay so will that they will determine or you will determine you'll give them one fixed price and either they you had the option to charge it to all of their tenants. Yeah we'll build the apartment complex themselves the property manager and then how they choose to a portion that costs to their residents is really their decision but they've they've asked us for proposal to have a dumpster and hopped and we would need to empty that dumpster we give them a price. They can accept that or they can contact another firm but where they've conveyed us that they want to enact that service with us. Would each of those apartments then have their own recycle bin and they take that down to the larger dumpster? You know, I don't know. I don't know the answer to that. I can find out. No, I was just curious if you knew so. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Otherwise Mr. Vince Arawble from Republic, sorry, waste management. Okay, anybody else? Miss Wollman. Well, it just dawned on me. You know, we have a pretty active apartment association in Cherk County. And I wonder if they've been approached to, or what they're doing and probably that could be one way to again get the word out and to talk about and maybe get them to start an education program because most of the apartments in really in Tarrant County I think are in that association. So that may be another way. Miss Capehart. Thank you Mayor and I appreciate your comments, Mr. Shepherd. For me it's an expectation and it's a standard that I think should be required going forward. I'm not necessarily saying that we need to have the same standard for existing apartments and I've been through all the reasons why. But I think just as we evolve and we change what we ask of commercial developments or residential developments, this is an accepted and should be an expected standard that people should have the opportunity to have a multifamily going forward. And so if you give them the option, some will do it and some will not. And I just don't think that's leveling the playing field. I think everybody should have the right to be able to recycle from where they live. And so I would like it to be required for new family, multi-family. Okay, so from that, what's the pleasure of the council? I'm going to draft something up and have us discuss it. You can go through it. Go ahead, you may. Okay, when you put these in, and I'm not asking specifically, but do you have any idea how much does it, what is the cost? What would it be for like an average apartment complex, if I don't know how many they have, 200? So what kind of cost are we talking about? Because some of them, it would be fine, but there's some of them that that would make a difference. So I have no idea. You know, when we said dumpsters, we charge them a service fee for the dumpster size and frequency of service and how that gets, you know, how that gets allocated if it's 200 units is it one dumpster or two dumpster needed? You know, I really don't know the answer to that. I know that some of the multifamily programs are seen where the city assesses a fee to apartment complex based on the number of units that they have. It ranges from $1 to $2.50 per unit. That's what I've seen. Okay. So we'll get staff to work on a potential ordinance for us to discuss and deliberate some more. All right. With that, we'll move to, and thank you, Mr. Robbins. Thank you. Appreciate your help. Thanks. And next we'll move to short-term rental and call upon Mr. Mike Bass, co-compliance administrator. So good afternoon, Mayor and Council Mike Bass, co-compliance services. As a follow-up to our previous discussion, the Council requested some additional information related to methods of regulating, defining and clarifying short-term rentals. So today we'll review some proposed regulatory language that addresses those specific policy objectives. So the first objective establishes a proposed regulatory mechanism. This could be via the adoption of a short-term rental's chapter of the city code Toronto. And I would like to thank the director of the city of Toronto and the director of Toronto and the director of Toronto and the director of Toronto and the director of Toronto and the director of Toronto and the director of Toronto and the director of Toronto and the director of Toronto and the director of Toronto and the director of Toronto and the director of Toronto and the director of Toronto and occupant. A type two short term rental means an owner occupied primary residence or portion thereof that is rented to a third party for lodging purposes on a short term basis. And then lastly a type three means a residential dwelling unit that does not serve as the primary residence of its owner. The third objective of establishes proposed restrictions specific to prohibiting type three vacation rentals. If adopted, it would be unlawful for a person to operate or advertise a short term rental that is not the owner occupied primary residence of the owner. Additionally, it's recommended that an amendment to the Unified Development Code in order to provide a cost reference to the proposed short-term rentals chapter would add some clarity and prevent ambiguity. This is similar to your cross-reference of the gas drilling and production chapter. And so next steps, staff can bring back some proposed ordinance language for your consideration or if we need to have some additional discussion and define some additional considerations and we're more than happy to do that. So with that I'll be able to answer any questions that you might have. Questions comments? Well we are continuing to deliberate here and try to work through this. We're getting a lot of good input from our citizens on it. Very difficult situation here. And of course, the theme has been to protect our neighborhoods here and still try to come up with a fair solution there with that. Anybody else have any other questions or comments? Mr. Parker. This is obviously going to be my last time sitting here. So I still believe that anything that's passed through this body should pass the litmus test of what I want this next to me. Once I get this thing out of my mind and into the community, is it going to be acceptable not only to the neighborhoods, but is it going to be as acceptable to me as a neighbor? And I think that that's the charge that this particular body has. It has been way overdue as far as getting a resolution to this particular problem. We've been talking about it forever. And I think there's time to act on it and the better, sooner that you can get it out of the, out of this particular body and into the UDC, the better. I feel as though that the UDC is very clear as to what it's saying. And the only short term rental application is bed and breakfast. Everything else has been, has come to this city unlawfully and is in violation of our current ordinance that we've had in the book since 2014. So thank you very much for your time here. I am out. Any other questions, comments, Dr. Mars? I just want to continue to register my concerns regarding however we move and how are we moving forward about the concern about how we implement whatever it is the product we produce. And I remain concerned about how we continue to enforce it as well as how we go about engaging in a process to deal with continuing getting input into the process of how we're going to deal with the process of how we're going to deal with the process of how we're going to deal either go with a ban. I don't know. I don't know. I'll open all the discussion. We had implementation and enforcement. I think is a concern of everyone on this council. Yeah, I think one of us are very concerned about that because if we don't have good implementation and good enforcement, that's no matter what we do. And I would like to just say that it continued to have a process of, I know there's been information that's been provided and individuals have continued to provide information to us. And I think as staff moves forward to continue to discern through that would be most helpful as a process for how we arrive at our final decision. Nothing simple about this. It is very, very complicated. There are in a lot of different ways. There in the more we delve into it, the more complicated it gets. Mr. Shepard. Yeah, and I'll go ahead and continue the friendly discussion that years. I'm not going to be in the next two years. I'm not going to be in the next two years. I'm not going to be in the next two years. I'm not going to be in the next two years. I'm not going to be in the next two years. I'm not going to be in the next two years. I'm not going to be in the next two years. I'm not a big supporter of the idea that we just saw presented by staff, the non-owner occupied short-term rental prohibition. I think that is destined to failure on any number of levels and we've talked about it with no need to go into again. I would urge us as we move through this to reconsider the idea of strong regulation of the short-term rentals Which I believe could be applied to both the existing short-term rentals in any future short-term rentals I think that regulation gives us an opportunity to register them, if you will, and gives an opportunity to enforce, implement any other number of things, regardless of our ability to not have done it in the past. And I think it also gives us an opportunity to provide a benefit to the visitors. We sell ourselves as a destination, as a place of entertainment. And it provides an alternative form of housing for that family that would come in here. Having said that, I do agree with Mr. Parker as I said earlier this afternoon. I don't think they're appropriate everywhere. I really don't. I don't think they're appropriate in interior well-established neighborhoods. I think there is a, I think we have the opportunity with a little more time to construct what I think might end up being a model ordinance for the rest of us I think should there you know this issue was identified some time ago. Thought it was dealt with it was not the horse was out of the barn at this point for that. But having said that, I still don't believe that a wholesale one size fits all type solution is the appropriate solution for us. And so as we continue to work through this, and Mr. Parker's absence, I hope we will continue to search for the quote, right answer. And find a way to do this reasonably that clearly protects the integrity of our neighborhoods, no doubt that's number one, it's one of the very first things we have on our list of priorities. But in doing so, permitting this type of activity in areas where it would be clearly more acceptable or however you want to put it. So anyway, that's where I am on an often-team work as long as we need to get to a resolution. So if that resolution ends up being what staff presented today, then so be it. We'll all push our button accordingly and move on but but I hope we take some more time and try to find a little better fit. Any other questions comments? Okay thank you Mr. Bass. Next we'll move to East Stadium, East Sports Stadium update, Mr. Parijon. Yes. Mayor and Councilor Jim Parijon, Deputy C. Manager. Before you today is a work session that Justin Grimsley is going to provide to you. He is a 13 year C. Varylington employee out of the Convention Center. He's our resource administrator. He's also one of our key individuals for eSports. This, I think, is a very interesting presentation. It really walks you through what is the eSports arena. What is it really about? How does this business really work? I think it's really fascinating. And that's in advance of two items that you have on the Council agenda tonight. They're both resolutions. The first one is a capital budget amendment that would provide the necessary funding to make the physical improvements to the Convention Center to convert a portion of that into the eSports stadium. And then the second piece of that is the design bill contract with populace, which is the firm that we would recommend the city higher to make that construction project work well so that we can finish it by the end of this year. So with that, I'm going to turn it over to Justin and he's going to walk you through and then be happy to answer any questions you might have. I'm sorry. to the here the I'm glad to be here this afternoon. I hope to give you a little update on the eSports project that we're working on. I want to give you a little bit of background about what eSports is. We'll talk about the business of eSports. Talk about the collaborator that has approached the city. And then a little bit about the project if we move forward out of the Convention Center and what that will mean for us out there. That clip was from a documentary put out by Blizzard Entertainment, which is one of the eSports gaming companies. It's called a new hero. And if you are interested in finding out any more about eSports, this is a good place to start. It's for free on YouTube, if you're interested in watching it. So we'll walk through a couple of things. First, we'll talk about the game. Like I said, the business, our collaborator, and the project. First of all, eSports. What is eSports? I would say two months ago, I was asking myself this exact same question. So eSports is defined specifically as the competitive video game competition as well as the business models that surround the industry There are several different esports game genres competitive game genres some of the more popular are real-time strategy This is more of a higher level thinking type game, think online chess. This is a game called Heartstone. You may play cards, but there's not a lot of action involved. You've also got point of view action games that are becoming very popular. We've got fighting games, street fighter. There's a game very popular right now called Super Smash Brothers. Think Mario and Luigi battling each other to a final duel. There are sports simulations. This is really just a video game version of its real life counterpart. NBA 2K is taking off. In these multi-game situations. You've got five players playing against five other players, and they're playing the actual positions on the court. So a center and a forward on the basketball court, there's actually a person with a controller controlling those specific positions in a multiplayer competition. And then finally, multiplayer online battle arena. From the video, that was the type of game that they were playing at that event. There are games like League of Legends. Dota 2 is a very popular and a very high paying esports competition currently. So let's talk about specifically how someone who decides they want to play video games turns into someone who plays video games professionally and decides they want to start making money at it. It's not always kids though the photograph here shows kids. You start playing video games just as a hobby. You decide you're interested in it. You can be playing with someone who's sitting on the couch next to you, but now that we're putting the consoles online, which is something that's just kind of come about in the past couple of years, players can play any time of the day against people who are across town, across the state, or across the ocean. And this is leading to folks who play a lot to become quite proficient at it. As a matter of fact, studies have shown that the more folks play, they begin to start to hone their fine motor skills. Muscle memory starts to get better, visual acuity starts to get better. And you see players start to purchase high-end equipment, gaming PCs, keyboards that can be programmed specifically for playing video games. They'll be asked to join a team if they're particularly successful. Teams have coaches, teams have trainers. They have strategies for playing these games. They take this quite seriously, even at the amateur level. And then eventually, if they do well enough, they'll find themselves on the stage at a large event competing for prize money and a championship trophy. So what I would like to show you is a video clip from this documentary that we just saw. This is the final match between Arizona and University of Texas, Arlington. One thing I want you to see in particular, this is the type of event that we're hoping to host out at the convention center. Should we move forward with this project? Pay attention not only to the gameplay, but also what the audience is experiencing, as well as the shout casters, which are your play-by-play announcers, the professionalism and the production quality that you see. I'm going to do bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to So it's pretty intense. The actual game play itself can be quite intense, especially for the participants. So the more you dig into it, you go, this is a hobby. These folks are clearly talented at it, but is it really a business? How do you make money at this? I've got this exact same question. The more you dig into it, the more you realize there's a lot of money to be made in esports and lots of people are currently making it. So it all starts at the individual player level. Once these players become proficient, they begin to make money, but the only way to get into the money is to be popular. And there are a couple of ways to become popular. The first way is to be very good at what you do. The other way to become popular is to have an outrageous personality. So if you're very good at what you do, you can win money by winning tournaments. But if you have an outrageous personality, you can command live appearance fees as a player. You may participate in celebrity matches. For instance, there's a current player by the name of Ninja who played a rapper named Drake for $5,000 and then generated a lot of additional online revenue from watching that. And then you've also got pro-imm exhibitions. There are personalities in the professional sports world who have decided that they really like playing esports as well. And they can command a pretty decent sized audience, NBA players and NFL players who are also playing esports as well. But the primary way that these folks are earning most of their money is on a platform called Twitch. So let's talk a little bit about Twitch. I want you to imagine a website that's basically a giant cable system devoted entirely to eSports. Every single channel that's on this cable system is eSports dedicated. So we'll navigate to the Twitch website, Twitch.tv. And when you land on the Twitch website, the first thing you see is the... Here is going to be the game that they're highlighting at the current time. Then as we scroll down a little bit further on the Twitch website, we've got a menu of games that are being played currently live by players. You pick which one you would like to watch and you along with 18,000 or 37,000 of your other friends are watching an individual play a video game live. Now the money comes in in a couple of different ways. So let's take a look at this game screen. You've got your broadcaster here. This is a live view of a webcam of the person who's playing this video game. He's got his headsets on, he's also got a microphone and he's talking the entire time he's playing. You've got a screen of what he is seeing that you can watch while he plays. And then over on the side, there's a live chat where the other 37,000 people who are watching this game at the same time are interacting not only with the other people who are watching the game, but also with the player himself. While he's playing, he's talking to the people who are typing to him, and in some cases, maybe typing back to them. Now, talking to the people who are typing to him and in some cases maybe typing back to them. Now to become a Twitch partner where you begin to participate in the revenue stream, you have to have 500 viewers and broadcast three times a week. Once you become a Twitch partner, you can start to get revenue sharing from Twitch. So the folks that are watching these games go out with real currency and they purchase what are called bits for about a penny and a half a piece. And when the player who they're watching does something that they like in particular, they'll cheer for the player with these bits. It also puts them on a list with this player and they become a member of its fan club. He'll be telling them when he's coming someplace or he may be giving them particular incentives to be a fan. After you have so many page views, you can participate 50% to 60% with Twitch. They'll get half of the revenue that's generated from this cheering. Additionally, there are subscription levels for Twitch. If you like a particular player, you can pay $5 a month to find out when he's broadcasting on Twitch, and you'll get an email or a text message. And again, if he's a Twitch partner, he gets half of that. Well, that's $5 per month times however many subscribers he's got. He's getting a two and a half bucks off of each one. And those tiered levels go all the way up to $25. That's per player. So if you have 10 players that you like, you're paying $50 a month as a fan, and your players are getting half of that. Well, that compounds into a lot of money for these individual players who are popular on this platform. Another way that these players are making money is by participating with retail outlets, like Amazon. They'll put a button at the bottom of their page. You saw that the guy had headphones on. If he's got fans who want to know what those kind of headphones are, he'll say, oh, these are the Turtle Beach headphones. If you'll follow my link on my page, it'll take you to Amazon right to the product. They buy it and Amazon kicks them back a percentage of that product sale. Other ways that esports are generating revenue, ways that we're all familiar with out at the Convention Center, you've got a Tendi ticket sales, parking revenue that's generated, tournament participant entry fees, concessions and merchandise generate lots of revenue, VIP fan experience packages. These events have luxury suites just like high level MBA or an NFL stadium does. There's also pay-per-view income to be have from not only the online streaming but also terrestrial broadcast. You've got advertising income from both of those streams as well as lots of opportunities for event branding and venue sponsorship and branding inside of each of these events. Let's talk about if I can make money as an individual player, if I go find three other people who are really good at this, we can quadruple our revenues, right? So I go out and I play several people decide that they're pretty decent. I want to team up with them. I put together a team. Well, these esports teams, when you hear about an esports team, that's a group of players who are only playing one specific game. There's lots of different games. This group, for instance, from optic gaming only plays the game called Call of Duty. So if Call of Duty team is doing very well, they may look around and go, well, if we do well as a team, let's see if we can find some other teams who are playing other video games who are also doing well and combine them together to build an even bigger organization, which is called a clan. This group of games that you see represents a clan called Optic Gaming, which you may have heard of in recent announcements. Optic Gaming also participates in professional leagues, a whole nother level of income. There are two professional leagues that are currently very popular right now that optic gaming participates. And one is the Overwatch League, the other is the North American League of Legends Championship Series. Optic Gaming owns the franchise for the Houston Outlaws. They also have a team in Dallas called the Dallas Fuel that's owned by another investment group. But just to give you a sense of the amount of money that's associated with this, the franchise fee for the Overwatch League to be an independent franchise in that league was $20 million to purchase the franchise rights for the League of Legends was $13 million. So this is not small change for these investment groups who are buying into these league franchises. So let's talk a little bit about the collaborator who's approached the city. It consists primarily of the group optic gaming. So optic gaming was founded in 2006 as that amateur call of duty team, four players who were playing the game as an amateur status. They became very successful. They started collecting other teams and creating a fan, I mean a clan. And then in 2017, they were purchased by a North Texas investment group. That group consolidated all of those teams and moved their organization to the Metroplex. But optic gaming is not the only piece All of those teams and moved their organization to the Metroplex. But optic gaming is not the only piece of this organization's pie. As a matter of fact, it's just one small part of a much larger organization called Infinity or Infinite Esports Entertainment. They own not only the gaming piece, they also own NoScope media, which is a broadcast production arm. They own engage eSports, which is a tournament production house and events management company. They own eSports venues, LLC, which is a real estate holding company. This is the group that we will be looking at to be to be a tenant out at the Convention Center. And then they also own an academy called GG Sports Academy, which is a player development organization. They go out and seek young players who are not yet broken into professional gaming and seek to develop them and turn them into popularSports athletes. And so it's this suite of organizations that in infinite eSports brings to the table that has caused us to take a harder look at at what this means for the facility itself. So let's talk about the project itself out at the Convention Center. The goal is, if we move forward, to create an environment out at the Convention Center that meshes with this type of business model. So some of the construction we would be doing, well initially the first thing that we're going to have to do out there is rebranding. We're looking at possibly changing it to the eSports stadium, Arlington. Then we've got some construction items that we would like to consider. The timelines are not finalized yet, but we would be looking at construction potentially in two phases. The first phase to begin in early June, depending on how timelines work out, it would involve converting our lobby and our ballroom into the stadium area, converting our main storage area behind that ballroom into the broadcast center and hopefully would be done sometime mid November for their first event on Thanksgiving weekend. So the ball room we would be looking at removing the carpet, refinished the concrete in that space, changing the wall treatments and also changing the permanent lighting that's in that space. We would be adding an elevator to the mezzanine level. If you're unfamiliar, there's a mezzanine level there in the commission center, and we'll see an artist rendering in a moment, turning that into luxury suites. We would also be looking at adding a permanent gaming competition stage, as well as the associated production lighting and a large video board behind that stage, as well as some movable set pieces for camera platforms and the play by play broadcasters. So what you see here is the setup in that space for your typical e-gaming competition that would seat about 750 people in this configuration. So this is a view of the stage from the back of the room looking forward, an artist rendering of the stage, you've got your competition stage in our video screens. This is a view looking over the top of the shout casters platform back at the stage. And then finally a view if I'm standing on the stage looking out at the audience and you can see up on the mezzanine level the luxury suites that they're interested in and us finishing out. We've got our warehouse area. This is the space behind the ballroom where we keep currently all of our chairs and ballroom tables for the ballroom area. This would be converted into the broadcast center. We would be looking at adding audio and video control rooms and finishing them out as well as a data center, an event server room. You've got your broadcaster dressing rooms, a post-production suite, and then we'll also have to relocate some of the actual doors that go out to the main hallway and cutting some new doors into the meeting room areas. And then also out in the gallery lobby area, again, removing the carpet, refinishing the concrete, changing the wall treatments out there, adding several gaming stations along with video banners and screens, and an opportunity for branding out in that space in the way of either a life-size avatar or some sort of product placement. Down at the window end of the lobby we would have a stairway to the mezzanine suites to allow for fire egress and an additional access point, as well as an additional food and beverage location. So this is an artist rendering of what the gallery space would look like with the gaming pods, and this is a life-sized avatar from the Overwatch game. Phase two, we would hope to begin sometime in December, and this would be the conversion of the meeting room space into the training center, hopefully completed sometime in January. This is our meeting room area, again removing the carpet, refinishing the concrete and changing the wall treatments and the lighting in that space, as well as removing the air walls and the track in that space. The reason we need to take down the air walls and track is because we would be building permanent soundproof walls in that space to create a classroom, five training rooms, a player lounge, a sound stage, a press room, and a show office. And then finally, cutting doors in from the warehouse space or the broadcast center space so that you have access to all six of the dressing rooms. And so we think that by the time all of the construction is complete, should we move forward, we will have put together a product maybe not particularly for this tenant, but for a really exciting new industry in eSports that is not currently being served. There is not a facility like this in the United States, but there are a lot of events that need a facility like this. And so we're really excited about the opportunity to take a look at this. And so I'll turn it back over to Jim if you have any other questions. Mr. Parishan, I'd like for you to talk a little bit about when we're not having eSports gaming, the opportunity for us to have other events there, especially with the way that stage converts. Sure, now that's a great point. Really what we've got here is the capital investment that Justin just described that all basically modernizes that space, that facility. So when there's not an eSports event the city will be hosting events that are particularly can take advantage of some of that new technology, such as a TED Talk or a corporate outing where there's an opportunity for that type of space. It also will appeal to some of the emerging industries that are related to technology-based businesses that benefit from maybe a higher quality sound, higher quality stage, higher quality lighting. So all those spaces are available and they're owned by the city. We own the technology, we own the improvements. And so all those will be put to use when we're not having a eSports event or eSports opportunity at the facility? Well, it's amazing the amount of money that is coming in to eSports because of how effective it's been for companies to advertise here and reach the millennials. And that is a big reason this money has been jumping up. Like as Mr. Grimsley said, it's just an amazing amount of revenue that's there because it is such an effective advertising tool. Yeah, just one more point related to that, not only advertising, but this type of industry is just explosive in its growth. So, if you think about everything related not just to the game, but to the events, to the broadcasting, to the technology, they're going to have applications not just for e-sports, but for our merging industries. And we really see a tremendous value in that. It's instead of some other traditional industries that people are always trying to recruit. This gives us a leg up on recruitment of businesses and business models that are occurring throughout the world right now. In fact, we've had calls just since that announcement. We've had calls from at least four or five countries, companies in other countries that see a business opportunity in Arlington, Texas because we will have eSports stadium in our city. Mr. Parker. Jim, we have the main ballroom that's going to be converted and then we have the the other room to the west that's going to still house some conventions and that kind of stuff is is it not? Yes that's the exhibit hall space. Right. And we are designing the exhibit hall space in the future so they can handle exhibits as well as more traditional ballroom type facilities so you'll see some draping you'll see some ability for some carpeting, some adjustment and lighting and some creation of future meeting room space there. Now I believe Mike has a, does he have a contract with a food dealer that's over there and how is that going to work out? Are we still going to have banquets and Cinderella balls and margarita balls and all that kind of stuff over there and still maintain a food. Yes. Yeah, the answer to all that is we will continue to have many of the events that we have today. serving them with our food and beverage, serving them with our AV technology, serving them with everything we have. This also though represents a entirely new part of the recruitment of events because we have new technologies, we have special stage, we have special lighting. So all those types of industries or companies that are interested in hosting events and that kind of a venue, we now have the ability to do that as well as handle some of the more traditional events that we've handled historically. So we have the conversion of the space that really serves both traditional and emerging opportunities. And that's really what we've been trying to do. But this will get converted into an esports stadium that can house many of those other things. The mayor talked about the conversion of the dius up there and how you can convert that dius out. Can you give us some examples of how that can be added to or remove from or and have other events there? Sure. Which referencing is the stage? If I might yes, this stage not only for the inspirational speaking and that kind of stuff, but also in the event that you say have a margarita ball with the princesses and stuff like that that walk down the runway. Sure, the runway. The stage is large enough and has substantial technology. You know, if you think about special lighting, you almost have to think about almost how you would do a television production or some, because that's really what it's about. So that stage can be used for any purpose that would generate that type of an opportunity. So if there was an event at the stadium that required or wanted some visibility of pageantry, that would be ideal. You would have specialized lighting. You'd be up higher so the audience could see you. The announcing would be in a way that would be visible but not to strike from the event. It really represents a totally new opportunity that a traditional convention center does not provide. Mr. Yellerton, if I can just elaborate on Mr. Parker's question, I want to make it clear just so that's not an ambiguous anyway. While this is a non-exclusive arrangement, there will be a priority on the eSporting events. There'll be the opportunity to infill community events, conference events, other types of areas, particularly into this space. The exhibit hall is gonna be really very available as far as how we traditionally book. I do wanna make sure that what we anticipate in a least situation here is that be really very available as far as how we traditionally book. I want to do want to make a sure that what we anticipate in a lease situation here is that they will in this transitional time it'll be ramping up while some of the other things ramp down. So there will be some transition and his new assets come on on the entertainment district particularly at the live by lows hotel. I would expect some of the things that you're alluding to would either move into the exhibit hall space or move into other facilities in the district. Then I think the, by the way, I've got to say Mr. Grimsley, that was a great presentation. That was very well done and it is exciting that the University of Texas at Arlington is one of the pre-eminent gaming teams and college sports. And of course they were part of our press conference. We had the national champions here of gaming from UTA that were at our press conference when we came forward. Yeah, Mr. Yovic. It was an opportunity. It's important to note that while Justin showed the time that they were defeated in the finals, the following year they were not defeated in the finals, and UT did win the National Championship in that same tournament. That's right. And now at the same time there that we had actually partnered with New York University and had them doing research on what we should be doing next in our entertainment district. And New York University came forward with we are ideal to enter the eSports market. And at the same time we had teams that were suddenly being bought there by local people. So we have four teams here in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, but yet we see the opportunity nationally to be bringing all of the teams here with us being in the center of the country so close to the airport and us already hosting some of the major events here in the country from the Super Bowl to the World Series to even WrestleMania. But of course, recently, the NFL draft, in which we so successfully did. But we had to move quickly because there is a lot of competition that is out there right now. And so we have moved on this, but you can see there, especially from Mr. Grimsley's presentation, the due diligence that has been done here and we're moving, but we have not wasted any time and we are really looking forward to what this is going to mean to us. Now there's some other things that are perhaps the most appealing to me. This is an opportunity to help keep some of our young people here and to attract young talent, which is so important here and for Arlington to remain relevant here to all ages. And this is a very, very important part of this. And then with our university here, we have been talking about wanting to keep more of our graduates and we have kept a big share of them over the years but this is another program, another effort here to keep our young people here and to attract other young people to keep our community strong here in future generations. Ms. Walman. Okay. I'm just going to ask. I noticed that, and you're talking about youth, and it looks like everybody's seeing down playing a game or something. Are all the teams male? Are there women? Is there a women? That's wonderful. That's a great question. The answer to that is no. There are, with e-sports, there are female competitors and there are male competitors. I found it interesting too, Mr. Grimsley hit on it. You know, these are pro athletes. They have coaches, they have trainers. They are, they have trainers, they are, they have nutritionist. I mean, you think about when you're doing this, you've got to have durability and endurance and the ability to keep all of that up. So it is a become a very sophisticated sport in a very short time. Mr. Gillespie. Thank you, Mayor. You are itemizing some sort of traditional things that we're familiar with in sports. And the question I had, we typically think of our sports in terms of seasons, but how does this compare? Another great question. With conglomerate of different games. They run really year-round. And then if you think about internationally, you're going to have games that perhaps, particularly on broadcasting, they may be broadcasting in Asia at a different time of certainly different time of day than would be in the United States. So it represents a much more global approach. Mr. Shepherd. If I could add to that, one of the analogies that I've heard used is that when we think of professional sports, we think of individualized professional sports, but they say the model for this is more like a university, rather than our concept of professional sports, but they say the model for this is more like a university rather than our concept of professional sports because at a university you'll find football, basketball, volleyball, baseball, and with these e sports conglomerates, each one of them will have teams that play different sports, and so the season's much expanded as a result of that. It's a great, great point, Mr. Shippern. Any other comment, Miss Walman? Here too, that most of these people, I know they said they get a college education, but that they're the lifespan of esports person is like five or six years, that they don't usually play longer than that. Is that right? Yeah, they say they're they're one girlfriend away from having their team. Ask that question about male and female. I mean, I mean, are there the teams are not just male and just women, but they're they're all co-ed. Okay, that's great. We'll keep you guys. Thank you. Thank you. And I would just add to that. I've had a little bit of opportunity to see fan experience through my own family. And the audience is a much wider range audience than perhaps people think. It's moms, it's dads, it's people of my age, it's people that are much younger, there's male, there's female, it really hits most of the demographics fairly well. And some of these events are thousands of people, not a couple hundred. I mean, it's a big, it's a very interesting, it's a happening. This might be the best way to describe it. You know who thought that anybody would be watching poker on television? Well there's a lot more action here in these games than there is in poker. Mr. Glass-Me. Thank you, Mr. Piggyback. You're right. It's a seasonal question. You know, normally we think in terms of playing, you don't want to week, a couple of times weeks what, how often would they be playing these games? Justin Grimbley at the Convention Center. They play daily. These professional athletes are also not just playing in the competitions, but they're also trying to generate income. And so they may play multiple times a day or multiple times a week. There's also a model where while there is maybe a season in these franchises when they're in their offices and they're playing exhibition games as well. One shocking number I heard was that the star player for the object team made $7 million last year. Amazing, amazing amount of money. Miss Walmond. At all of our venues, like the Rangers, the Cowboys, one of the big things they have there is their food service. Are we going to have, you know, when you go out and you buy, every year they come out with the Rangers, what kind of new hot dog or what kind of new thing. Are we going to have a food, I mean, is the catering business going to be big there too, like it is at the Cowboys or the Rangers? Yes, my counter director at the convention center. We were working with Levy, our in-house provider, and engaged to start a conversation about what type of food, specialty drinks, specialty mugs, or goblets that match what is in the game itself, think of Harry Potter, where Butterbeer became such a big deal after the movie came out. So we're going to try to capitalize on that to create an experience and to sell the food. Okay, that will be the city doing that. Are you know, that will be the city through our exclusive food and beverage provider. That's big. I believe you, right, right? Well, Ms. Turner, I just want to take the opportunity. I really appreciate the food that we produce in the convention center. I tell you, we go to a lot of events and y'all do such a good job. So I'm looking forward to what y'all create here for the. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Yes, Ms. K. Part. So I think this is great. The esports thing and Twitch, I know a little bit about just enough to be dangerous, mostly through my son who's a gamer. Gaming athlete, right? And I have to get the terminology down. But I also know that oftentimes the gaming industry produces a lot of conventions like Comic Con and all of that. So are we kind of putting that on our radar, Mr. Yeverton, to go seek some of those major conventions, particularly with our new hotel in Texas. Absolutely. And it's not just about the attention of convention business. It's the attention of business business and the attention of the folks that come and play these games. So it's an ability to grow small business, the equipment businesses and such that fuel this type of product as well as the convention business so we're looking at all the lines of trails that connect here and trying to figure out how we can Connect it into our community and and do more with it Mr No matter I've added that I've been on multiple tours There's so much interest coming in about this. And think about a Comic-Con event. Those are the discussions that are being had on these tours. That they want to take over our exhibit hall to have sponsors and have exhibitors or to have multiple gaming stages. And they've also talked about how can they incorporate the new Ranger Stadium. And the new technology going into our stadium will be able to talk to their stadium You know so they're trying to tie in the entire entertainment district Yes, there was one Jim can elaborate if I say it wrong But we did one of the countries that made contact with us about this and they started talking about what the capabilities were And it really weren't as interested here as as they were going to start here but their finals were actually going to be in the other facilities, Cowboy Stadium as well as the ballpark. Their event was so big that it was going to be here but then finalize it for the championships and the other facilities in the district. Yeah they they they they have company in Scandinavian country and they put on a week-long event and they were absent as Mr. Yevredin's describing. They were interested in all of our facilities in the entertainment district, all of them, the stadium, the ballpark, and the esports stadium. So it's pretty substantial. You can kind of see a theme here of all the tentacles reaching out. Here's another tentacle. The gaming athletes are recruited by the military and by companies to hear they actually search out talent that are on these professional teams here to join their companies or to join the military too. So that's another aspect of all of this. We could go on all day. I think great presentations here and you can see great opportunity and once again, Arlington is leading the way here in a new industry here again with the idea of trying to generate tourism and business and revenue for our city so that we again can keep our property taxes down and improve our services and so ultimately that is the goal of what we have, but also to increase the quality of life for our citizens. With that, we'll move into our, I gotta say thank you again. You know, our staff had this come in and interrupt life, which we have happened quite often here, and then think about our convention center people who work in hard to bring conventions in and all sudden we introduce something else here into their life they go what is it appreciated what mr. Grimzley said because all of us were kind of that away a few months ago I didn't know anything now he's an expert I mean you know he is he studied hard and and worked through it as many of our staff are now experts because they've studied it. But it is a new industry just as many others have been here and we are working hard to keep up with the technology and the industry here to make a difference. So thank you, staff, for jumping on this because if we had not jumped on it, that opportunity will have been gone. Instead, we're going to be the first in the country to be coming out with this. Okay, we'll move to the discussion of informal staff reports. And one of my favorites, Street Maintenance Program update, Ms. Carmichael, and I ain't a joke, and I am so excited about the maintenance that's taking place. New records in both maintenance and reconstruction of streets. Ms. Carmichael. Mindy Carmichael, Director of Public Works and Transportation. Thank you, Mayor. Not quite as exciting as these sports, but just this important. It's very important. Yes. So I just wanted to give some follow-up information on Mr. Councilmember Gillespie's request from last week. In 2013, as you may know, we analyzed and we switched our philosophy from approaching street maintenance on a best first case to a worse first, which means we went from addressing our good streets and keeping those in order to addressing our streets that had deteriorated beyond repair and needed to be rebuilt. In 2013, we showed you a chart which is in your packet. If we did worst first and dedicated approximately $40 million a year, that we could maintain our street network over the next 20 years above a 50 OCI. And that's very important because above 50 is acceptable. And long term will be better for our citizens versus the below 50, which is, again, deteriorated beyond repair. We are tracking right along that trend, as we expected to, right along that chart. If you look at the chart at a five year timeframe, which we're in our fifth year, we should be around 70 of our overall condition index and we are at 69.75. So we are right on track where we thought we would be five years ago. We have also reduced our red streets from our baseline of 320 five years ago to about 260 lane miles of red streets. So to answer your question, Council Member Glaspy, we are right on track where we thought we would be. In three or four years, we should reevaluate again to make sure a long term that we're still progressing the way we want to progress and that we can maintain that OCI above 50. So with that, I'll answer any questions you may have. Any questions from Ms. Carmichael? Well, thank you for this report and keep up the good work and then pass on to our crews, our street maintenance crews and our pothole crews How much we appreciate the work that they're doing it is making a difference here in our city Okay, we'll move to state legislative consultant request for qualifications miss Wickman Thank you Mary Jennifer Wickman Wicman, Acting Deputy City Manager of Support Services. What you have in your informal staff report is a description of the changes that we've put in the current year request for qualifications for our state lobbyist contract. It highlights the two differences that we have, namely that we've listed out the specific areas that we're looking for assistance in. And we've put an option in there to bid on all or part of that list. We plan to incorporate any changes or suggestions that the council has and put that out tomorrow with it coming back on June 14th. And then we expect to have some results after staff has evaluated that to go to the municipal policy committee in August when you return from your July break and I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have. Ms. Walman. In this change and when you talked about they could make application for either part or all of the contract. Well this kind of changed what we have, I mean before haven't we just had like one company and they just did everything. And now we have the ability to have people that are just specifically on one issue. Is that what I'm hearing? That's correct. We certainly don't want to have one lobbyist per issue certainly, but it would give the opportunity to not only have someone who might specialize in a particular area, but also if we have more, if we end up with more than one lobbyist, if we do have a situation where a conflict might arise, then that particular area of work could slide to the other member of the team back and forth, and that would allow us to respond quickly to the legislative environment that as you all know moves pretty rapidly once that session begins. I think we've had some complications possibly in the past, but this looks like it's going to take care of all that. So I'm glad to see it. This will. Along those same lines, if we've got these, what, seven different topics. Well, we have the ability, I mean, who would have ever thought esports? I mean, we don't know what could show up. It's true. I mean, who would have ever thought esports? I mean, we don't know what could show up on it. It's true. But do we have the ability as we go on to add something? We certainly can. And I think what we'll probably do is we work on those contracts as having the same version of the other duties as requested and be able to go with them. I mean, I think certainly that could fit into economic development or perhaps one of the other areas but certainly I think that that is a good observation. We'll be sure we have the flexibility to start. Certainly these cover most of what a municipality works on but I just thought maybe you never know. Absolutely. You're absolutely right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. There are comments Okay, thank you miss workman. Thank you, sir Next we'll move to Rush Creek linear park trail extension update Mr. Randall Good afternoon mayor and members of city council Lemuel Randolph here and Recreation. Before you this afternoon is an informal staff report that describes the Russ Creek trail process that we've been undertaking. We started a public input process regarding that project in November of last year. And as many of you are aware, we got considerable feedback from some of the joining residents that are adjacent to that project. So this staff report summarizes the circumstances that have occurred since the initial public meeting and subsequent public meeting and public input. And so based on this we're planning to suspend the implementation of that project unless directed otherwise with the idea that it certainly could be revisited if public demand changes over time. However, the $1.65 million would become available for other park projects if you determine that that course of action is warranted. I'd be happy to answer any questions. We have so many needs there in the way of trail connections here in our community and a lot of citizens crying out for it. This particular area was a mixed environment and there were some that did want it. But however, you know, we have a lot of priorities to try to make trail connections here throughout our community. So we're listening to our citizens and we had a firestorm, Miss Waman, you, that's your district and you work so hard on this issue. Love to hear from you. Well, Mayor, I think you said it. There were a group of citizens in this particular area that were really opposed to it. And they had their reasons, but we have a lot of citizens, in fact, a vast number of citizens that will be pleased because they're going to get some trails that they really want. And we know that it also, it increases the value of the properties around these trails. We've got that, that's known fact. So there are a lot of people in this city that are going to be very pleased to hear, you don't want it, I really do. And the trails are used all over our city. It's, that's the new way that's coming across the city. And it really is important and it's valuable to the homeowners that live around those trails and are able to move all through our city. I mean, we have, we've put in, you know, cycling is really big, walking, running. They're out there all the time. I see them even in our parks. I don't think there's a day that goes by, that you can go by, how park, the trail is there. People are on that, they just circle it. And I know they wish it was longer, but they're using it constantly. So I'm really excited about what we're doing. And I think it's gonna be a win-win for everybody because the ones that were, you know, did not particularly think that was a good idea. I think they're going to be very happy with us because we did listen. And you spent a lot of time on it too, but we had, and so did you, we had many meetings and we had a lot of people involved and I think this is the best decision I really do. So thank you for all you did, the Parks Department, the Police Department. You were a big part of this decision and working with us and there were a lot of staff hours put into this. So I think we are right where we need to be and we're going to move forward and it's going to all be positive. So thank you. Mr. Randolph-Due, thank you for all the work and leadership here and save all your work because I have feelings, citizens, are going to be coming back to us saying, please put this in there. I think we're continuing to see what a positive impact our trails and our green space is making here on our community. And what a great opportunity that we have, because we have ribbons of green throughout our creeks and along the Trinity River that are just incredible. And in fact, our parks department is recognized as one of the best in the country. And then I was in a meeting three weeks ago in which Mayor Price again said that we are working hard to try to get our connection to your River Legacy trails and the she mentioned the fact that American Airlines wanted their new headquarters connected to our Trinity trails the River Legacy Park here in in Arlington so great things are ahead on our trails and and anyway, do you have anything to add, Mr. Rendon? Other than we're choosing to view this as a simple bookmark in the evolution of the trail system. And so, to the points made, there are a number of projects that are available to consider and so we'll be moving forward with one of those. Mr. Glassby, my vision over here for you is not good. That's incredible. Go ahead, Mr. Glasspie. Thank you, mayor. So since we have it as a bookmark, do we intend to eventually flip it back over and see whether is anything there or it's strictly waiting on? What we would suggest is that that would require the public request for that project to come back. And we certainly do not intend to bring it back as a staff until we determine that the climate regarding the project has changed. Any other comments from Council? Go a little further with what you said, Michael, because as I understood it, it's not because it was on the master plan that was established. When was that last master plan? 92, I believe it's scheduled. It was on the master plan then, so I don't believe it's going to be taken off of the master plan. It will stay there, but so it can come back. And I know that there are residents in that area and other residents across the city that would like to see that connection because it goes to Veterans Park. But so hold on, you know, stay tuned is what we would say. Stay tuned. It's not gone forever. It is still on the master plan. Okay. Any other comments, questions? All right. Thank you, Mr. Randall. Next, we'll move to summary of real property transactions here for the second quarter of 2018, Mr. Young. Good afternoon, Mayor City Council Stewart Young, real estate services. What you have in front of you is just a second quarter update of real estate transactions that were $15,000 and less or dedicated to the city at that time. I'm happy to answer any questions. Any questions from Mr. Young? Thank you, Mr. Young. Next we'll move to 2018 City Council priority champion great neighborhoods, Mr. Peralas. Good afternoon mayor counsel. At your desk you should have a copy of the latest edition of the great neighborhoods champion and great neighborhoods newsletter. We have a we do a tremendous amount of work out in the neighborhoods unfortunately we don't have enough space to list them all but we we have listed a couple of them that are prime interest to our citizens. In particular, in the front, you'll notice that we'll be hosting our third annual home ownership fair on July 21st. This is a free event for citizens to come by and visit one-on-one with individual mortgage or mortgage companies. Another company that do work with either selling homes or remodeling homes. So it's a great, they need to take advantage of that. I know it's been successful the last two years. And this will be our third annual event. We also continue our work. I'm sorry, yes, this question. What kind of results have we gotten over the first two? Sir, I'm not sure about that, but I will get that information for you. Also on the front page you'll notice that we continue to do our work in community policing. And this is another effort with our citizens, engaging them to help out in the neighborhoods. It's called the Dog Walker Watch Program. It's in sponsorship with the National Association of Town Watch and Law Enforcement Departments. On the inside, you'll see, you'll notice that we're highlighting the Viridian as a neighborhood and the work that they do to engage their community, the number of programs that they provide throughout the year in order for them to bring all their neighborhood together. We also highlight a tremendous effort. It was a collaboration between the city, UTA and the housing channel. It collaborated to build design and build a home, a single family resident in East Arlington. And it provided students an opportunity to be able to design at home and then watch it be built so that's a great program that we were involved in. And also another announcement that for our citizens to take advantage of the market at NAP Heritage Park there's two events that are scheduled one on May 26 and one on June 23. And this is an opportunity for people to learn about the pioneer past of the City of Arlington. In the back, there's also the second annual International Market, Polk Arts Market. This is a market that involves 40 artists from 30 different countries and all the profits from that market go for artists and their families. And then of course our favorite, our mitigation efforts for mosquito control and some of the things that citizens can do to be able to avoid being sung by a Zika virus mosquito. And with that, I'll answer any questions you may have. Any questions, comments? Well, we're excited about what's happening in our neighborhoods. Really appreciate this report, Mr. Burrouse. A lot of good things, thank you. Thank you. Okay, next we'll move to transportation and municipal infrastructure committee. Report, Ms. Walman. Well, I'm glad to report. We met this morning and you know we've been talking all day about Arlington being first and people knowing that we want to try new technology. And so today the staff briefed us on the concept of personal delivery devices. And those are autonomous electric robotic delivery devices. It was very interesting, the information that we got. A company has approached Arlington because I think we're being known across the world as open for new projects, pilot projects, and new technology. It was very interesting to see these devices will deliver. I think they have a radius of something like maybe only two miles, one to two miles, and they go slow. They're only three to four miles an hour, and it would be a pilot project if we decided to move forward with it. We're still looking at it. There are no decisions made in the committee today but they're coming back to us the next time we meet on the 16th of the 12th. And we're going to talk about it again. If we are interested because again if we are would be the first in the nation to do a pilot project like this. And so it is something that we are interested in and we're glad that they brought it forward to us today. Okay. Any questions from Ms. Thalman? Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to add some of the questions that we had during the meeting, our committee meeting was whether or not any taxpayer dollars would be going into this project and there's no cost. It's not Arlington partnering with a business. This is just whether or not we want to regulate this type of service if it comes to Arlington. Yeah. I love the fact that we get to view it and see how it works. See if it would actually work right here in our own city. Yeah, and Mr. Glendale. Oh, I saw you. right here in their own city. Yeah, and Mr. Glantz. Oh, yeah. Thank you, Mayor. Just cutting out how do we perceive this unfolding? Because you said we're meeting with them, so they can kind of share with us and then what would be the next steps assuming that we're doing. But that's where we're trying to move towards that. But Alicia is here. Would you like to add anything to this report? Because Alicia has been, they contacted our transportation planner and saw that Alicia answer some of those questions. Good afternoon, Alicia Winkled, like Assistant Director, Community Development and Planning. Because we were, we did have this company reach out to us and because there are no other cities in Texas with this type of technology deployed right now. We are on somewhat of a short timeline if Council does decide they're interested in pursuing such a pilot program. So we wanted to go ahead and start the conversation at the committee level today. We still have some questions we're answering, but we think that if Council is interested in moving forward, it is probably a resolution process that you're looking at. So we think at the next council meeting, we would continue the discussion with the committee. And then if action was desired by the council, we could, you could propose that on June 19th, I think. What about applications, any discussion of possible ways it could be applied? Sure, so these devices run on the sidewalk. They are typically used for delivering groceries, food from restaurants, packages. So I think there are several different use cases in the city. If we chose to move forward with a pilot project, I think we would work closely with the vendor to find the right place in the city that needs both their needs and our needs and alleviate any concerns we have. Okay. Any other questions, comments? Well, I think we would want to proceed forward. Would we not? Everybody in agreement with proceeding forward to explore this? That's, I think the committee came up with a recommendation. I mean we want to hear more and that's what I said they're coming back on the 12th because we did have some legal questions too as to how we could do that and we had our good attorney there. So we'll probably maybe even bring it to full council on the 12th or the 19th by the 19th anyway because we are on a short time frame. Sounds good, Dr. Myers. Thank you, Mayor. Just one question. Will the company use that there would be no tax fairy dollars invested in this? Will the company be providing though all data that they collect on the pilot project to us? So that we have better sense of other technologies like this that we could employ and or pilot project? Yes, ma'am the company that I've talked to so far that has reached out to us has said they are willing to share data with us. Okay If there's any objection then we'll have the committee move forward with staff into export. Okay Next we'll move to economic Development Committee, Mr. Shepard. Thank you Mayor. All matters were discussed in executive sessions after that. Okay. Appointments to boards and commissions, Ms. Garcia. We have no appointments tonight, Mayor. Okay. Anything on evening agenda items? Mr. Yevrton. anything on the evening agenda Adams. Mr. Yeoverton. Yes. I was going to point out members of the council we've got a memo at your place. Today we did our bond sale. And so you see the results that are there at your place. It's a very competitive environment. Can't really tell. Looks like nine or ten on our general bonds as well as seven on our certificates of obligation. You can tell the interest rates while still come very competitive are, you know, looking there starting to creep up a little bit. We've had three Fed fund increases since the last time we issued bonds. So just by way of comparison, Fed fund increases since the last time we issued bonds, so just by way of comparison, 2.7% interest is 3.08, same time last year for permanent improvement bonds as an example. So we'll continue to watch that as I think Fed's going to continue to move rates in that direction. So I think we'll see an incremental feathering in over time if it works the way I think they've got it designed. But wanna make sure you had that drawn to your attention for this year's Capitol Bonsoil. Okay. Anything else on the evening agenda items? Well, I've got one. I have some other city business tonight that is going to take me away from the night meeting. So I wanted to say a special thank you to Mr. Charlie Parker and his dedication to our city. And you never had to question whether or not Charlie didn't care about our city and was not working hard for our city and his district. He diligently worked hard and then also I appreciated the fact you never had to wonder where he stood. There were no hidden agendas was parked. And there were so many times too that he pointed out very plainly things that we needed to work on that influence this council tremendously. And then there were many times too that he felt like that he wasn't getting anywhere. But yet time and time again has saw him in my time, influence this council in so many different ways here and really appreciated that and you are going to be missed without a doubt. I do appreciate the fact that you did seek out and cooperate with a successor to that is going to care about our community and Miss Moise we're looking forward to you joining us tonight there and then also Mr. Parker you do not get a free pass you are still living in our community and still quite a leader in our community and and we will look forward to be calling upon you and also seeking advice and council as we move forward. And also, extend a special thank you to your wife for all the many times that she sacrificed either by having you up here away from her or for her having to attend some events, some good, some not. And we really appreciated her and her devotion here to our city to Charlie Thank You. They really really appreciate you. You're going to get a continued dose of my thoughts three minutes at a time. Awesome. Wow. Well, actually, actually there's some value in that, because three minutes at a time, we get no rebuttal either. There is. And Miss Terrace will make sure we don't. That's a great point, but appreciate you so much. And the rest of them will have their opportunity tonight in the evening. Anything else on the evening agenda items? Okay, issues relative to city and text.com projects. Yes, we did. Yeah, that's right. I'm sorry, thank you. Doing some work on division. Text dot sidewalk project on division. So that's good news. And I probably ought to take this opportunity here on State Highway 360. That project there is getting the main lanes from, I interstate highway 20 south to 287. What that does, it frees up capacity on our frontage roads that, you know, the main lanes are told the frontage roads are not. So there is a free path that suddenly has a lot less traffic on it than has been. Also, this frees up congestion on our parallel roadways New York, Collins, Matlock, in which people have been seeking alternative routes. And it is going to be a huge traffic reliever and the toll road was actually a tool that was the last tool to be used. That road would not be there if we had not used the tolls themselves. In addition to that, that provides a very important path to TCC southeast. It also provides many tourists that come here to our city to spend money. It also provides workforce, our skill workforce. A lot of them travel from that area. So a very important roadway also showing the collaboration between many different government agencies and also our sister cities in Grand Prairie, Mansfield, even Kennedy, Elgady, and Ellis County. There we had the judge, there from Ellis County that came and then of course, so many great champions on that, including Miss Walman here has been championing that project for a long time. Our county, our tech stock commissioner, they're in Victor Vandegriff, and then our county commissioner, Andy Wynn, our county judge, Glenn Whitley, in TTA, worked well with tech stock, there to make all that happen. That is a game changer project, therefore, our community. And then when we think we want to look forward to TechStyte 360 at 30, interchange there again, a game changer project, again with a lot of collaboration on that. Miss Waman. Just one other thing that, and you mentioned all the partners that were on that, but we can't forget that Senator Chris Harris was a very big part of it. And that section going down south is named for Senator Harris. And his family was there at the dedication. And it was most impressed. I know he worked harder than anybody on that road was Senator Harris. So that was great. Also, in the collaboration to build that and to tell it, it was NTTA is going to operate it, but TechStop built it, but RTC, the Regional Transportation Council, which is all of the people in the region, is the backstop for the whole project. So it was truly a regional, but of course our cities were very involved, but I just wanted to mention those things that we're most appreciative. And that's the way I think that our region works together. We're seeing it all over in many projects across this region that we come together and we work to make the best for everybody because we touch so many people that way. Awesome. Thank you, Ms. Walman. make the best for everybody because we touch so many people that way. Also thank you miss Waman. Anything else on issues relative to city and textile projects? Okay future agenda items. Mr. Glassby. Thank you Matt. First of all I want to just want to thank Lutters City Manager for leadership and how the face lifted we're getting around our city. And it's just, you know, the streetscapes that we're putting in place. And I really don't want to create any work for anybody, but just an idea of kind of where we are and what our plans are to continue that. I can't help but remember I felt my orientation meeting and we had and you mentioned that so. Okay, sounds like good future agenda item. It'll be great. Everybody in agreement with that. Any other future agenda items? All right seeing none we'll stand adjourned and come back together at 630. Thank y'all. Thank y'all.