Welcome everybody. All right, I didn't turn on my mic. Welcome everybody to the Council's evening agenda meeting and we're so glad you're here. And tonight for our invocation, we have Dr. Chris Wilson from Rush Creek Christian Church. If you would come forward, thank you Chris. Did all our eyes please? Let us pray together. Gracious eternal God, we gather in the space and are mindful of your presence and the numerous blessings that come our way. And the acknowledgement of those blessings with it comes the opportunity to share those blessings with others, to deepen our community, to widen our relationships, and to increase the support we give to one another. Tonight we gather for the City Council meeting in the City of Arlington, and we come to bring those blessings of who we are and to enrich the community in which we live. Grateful for the leaders that guide us, for responders that care for us, and the citizens that are the backbone of this community. We are grounded in your presence and your grace, and the deliberations and conversations we share with one another be pleasing to you. We share and know all these things in your holy name. All men. Amen. Pastor Wilson, thank you so much for your contributions to our community. Sure. Nappledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Honor the test of flight. I pledge allegiance to the test is one state under God, one, and indivisible. And so tonight for our presentations, we have the winners of our 17th Annual Animal Essay Contest, which is why we have so many young and pretty faces over here aligning the wall. So with the help of staff and Angie Pickett, we're going to have our winners come forward along with their teachers and principals. So if you would bear with us as we do that and recognize these young essay writers, thank you. So this is as I said earlier our 17th annual Animal Essay Contest and this year we had over 800 essays submitted to this contest. So of that we have the contest open for 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th graders. All you have to do is live in the city of Arlington. We don't care if you're a homeschool, private school, charter school, public school. It matters not to us. What we're interested in is getting the children to think about animals and animal welfare and getting them to write and freely express how they feel about the topics that are given them. So there's a specific topic for each of the four great levels. And they have their judge based on composition and did they stay with the subject matter and just what their creativity levels were. So it's always a hard thing to judge and without the help of a lot of staff, particularly the animal services advisory board members. And if any of you are in the room, would you please stand? Thank you. So they're the ones who actually make sure every essay gets read. Everyone gets read and then they call that down to the top 10 per grade level and then it comes to the final judging of school board members and myself and then that's how we arrive at the 12 winners. So every one of these children are to be congratulated as is their principal and as is their teacher. But even more importantly it's the parents and the family that support them that is so critical to the students doing what they do. So thank you family members. The mayor regrets that he was not able to be with us this evening and he always is very supportive of this contest. He particularly enjoys meeting the children. He regrets that he could not be here. So you're just going to have to settle for me. But I appreciate all of the work that has gone into that. So for that we will start with third grade and we'll start with the third place winner and Angie Rayburn Pickett will help me present the awards and we'll have a chance for family to take pictures so feel free to move around. We'll hold them up here for a minute so you can get the picture that you want. So with that third place for third grade was Yajara Torres from I'm a Jean Gideon. Thank you Renee Gromaldo is that correct and Shawnee Charles she was not able to be here. So congratulations, you're haura. So where are the cameras? So we didn't know where to look. She's this way. Good this way. She's this way. Thank you. You're a teacher. You're welcome. Behind you, sorry. Thank you. Thank you so much. Second place for third grade is Andrea Wrangel from Marymore Elementary, Amy Bennett, and Michael Zook. Hey, congratulations. Thank you. And we're going to see a lot of principal Michael Zook. They had five winners from Mary Moore. So five out of twelve winners came from Marymore Elementary. First place was Sabah Rockman, Imaging Gideon again, Karen Vella and Shawnee Charles is not here of course. Thank you. Good to see you. Oh there you go, here you go, go on over here. Go on over here. Thank you. Got it? Thank you. Thank you. Fourth grade, third place, Raven Carter from Ella Celle-Amentry, LaSanya Blackstone, and Keith Boy. I'm on my way. I'm on my way. I'm on my way. I'm on my way. I you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Second place was Jaden Canis from Marymore Elementary, Laurie Stewart and Michael Zug. Thank you. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. Cool. You're welcome. Cool. Thank you. Sorry. You're welcome. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Congratulations. Congratulations. First place was Orilia Valencia, he's home school by his mother Patricia. Applause Congratulations. Didn't your brother win last year? Yes, so they're giving it in the family. Congratulations. Thank you. Fifth grade. So every one of the fifth graders are from Mary Moore Elementary. So Mr. Zook is going to be up here a lot. Third place, Gabe Hockett, Alison Angle, and Mr. Michael. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Second place, Adelaide Wynn, Mary Moore Elementary, Kim Shield and Michael Sook. I don't come off. Oh, I can't go away. Oh, okay. Oh, she, uh, okay. Thank you. Congratulations. And our first place winner unfortunately couldn't be with us tonight but it was Isaiah, Sayanna from Mary Moore and Julia Helen and Michael Zug. But Michael, you'll take it for Isaiah. All right, congratulations. Thank you. Oh, okay. You got it. There you go. There you go. All right. We're going to take you. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, okay, you got it. There you go. There you go. All right, we're good. Thank you. Thank you, Mike. So, sixth grade, third place, Helen Yang from Bryant Elementary, Pam Mock, and Tiffany Loving. Congratulations, each of you. Congratulations. Congratulations each of you. Thank you. Congratulations. Thank you. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. I'm Adam E. at Wester, Jeremy Beckwith, and Mrs. Webster. Thank you. Oh, congratulations. That's it. Thank you. And first place, Mary McCall, Montessori Academy of Arlington, Price Barnes, and Pam Dunbar. Thank you all so much. Thank you. So that is all of our essay winners, but I want to make sure that I have taken the time to complete everything that I would like to tell you. So Spring Creek Barbecue was our primary sponsor this year along with EECU. So our 12 winners received a Kindle Fire, Compliments of Spring Creek Barbecue. They received a $100 savings account at EECU. They obviously got to come to a council meeting and have an opportunity to meet council members. They're also gonna get a private tour of the animal shelter along with going into the vet clinic. And the first place winners will also be interviewed and it'll be on the city's web channel. So we try to put them through a lot of different scenarios as they've won what is really kind of a very competitive process and let them know that it's not just kind of a one time thing that there are other lessons to be learned from this winning. So going into the Animal S.A. Contest means you have the opportunity to win a hundred dollar savings account we hope for your future education. It means you have an opportunity to get some technology although I would say Kindle Fires are maybe getting outdated and we may have to get something different in the future but they have that opportunity and not every child has that opportunity. They have the opportunity to meet council members. They have the opportunity to go and meet the vet at the clinic. They have the opportunity to meet council members. They have the opportunity to go and meet the vet at the clinic. They have the opportunity to go to the library and get training on their Kindle Fire and to read their essays out loud to a different group of people. And if you're the first place winner, you have the opportunity to be interviewed and for that to be televised. All of those things culminate in a very robust experience, which is what we hope to provide for our children. So again, I want to thank you who have been involved with her at the family level, or at the educational level, and to our staff who makes this happen. Chris, how far are you? Chris is not in the room. She's the manager of our animal shelter, and Chris has been with me on this journey since we first created this contest some 17 years ago and in the beginning it was just a very, very small event. So as you can see over the years it has grown enormously and I couldn't be more pleased that children are engaging with not only welfare, the animal welfare aspect, but more that they are engaging and expressing their thoughts and writing. I think that's very crucial. And one other thing, Tracey Baker, if you will stand, Tracey Baker is the chairman of our Animal Services Advisory Board and she also happens to be an Arlington Police Officer. So thank you for bearing with us through this once annual, once a year event that we have annually, obviously. And now we'll get on with the business of the rest of the city. We've had the fun part. So family, we'd love for you to stay and listen to zoning cases or whatever we've got on the agenda tonight. But if you need to leave, I'd ask you to take this opportunity while we regage and set up for our Council meeting. But thank you again for coming. Thank you. Next on our agenda is appointments to boards and commissions. City Secretary Mary Sipino, do we have any appointments to boards or commissions? No appointments this evening. Thank you. Next we'll go to speaker guidelines, Ms. Sapino. We ask that citizens and other visitors in attendance assist in preserving the order and a quorum of this meeting. Any person making personal profane slanders or threatening remarks will become disruptive while addressing the mayor and council or while attending the city council meeting. Maybe remove from the council chambers. For speakers tonight, when your name is called, please come to the microphone at the podium and state your name and address for the record. During public hearings, the applicant will be asked to speak first and will be given five minutes to make their presentation and will be allowed three minutes for any rebuttal. Speakers and supporter and opposition of an item will be given three minutes to make their statements. To the extent possible, please refrain from repeating testimony, which has already been given. A bell will signal the end of each speaker's time and consideration of other speakers. Please wrap up your comments, probably when you hear the bell. And we ask that you address your comments to the mayor and council. Thank you, Mr. Peno. Next is approval of items from executive session. Do we have any, Mr. Peno? No executive session items. Thank you. And next approval of minutes. Do we have any minutes? We do not. Well, we cleared two items, you're very quick. We're doing it. Next, we'll go to approval of the consent agenda, Mr. Sipino. Thank you. The consent agenda this evening contains nine minute orders and 10 resolutions. The minute orders seek to authorize one purchase of armored vehicle, two renewal of annual requirements contract for mowing of code violation properties, three design contract for River Legacy Park Trail improvements. Four, consulting contract for California Lane Park improvements. Five, engineering services contract for program management and construction management services for water treatment capital improvements. Six, construction contract for timber lake drives, spur three or three to east city limits. Seven and eight, construction manager at Risk Contract and Professional Services Contract for New Recreation Center in Southeast Arlington at Webb Community Park. Nine roadway and traffic signal improvements for FM 157 South Cooper Street. That's New Defox Circle Construction Contract. The resolutions seek to authorize 10 and 11 compensation adjustments for council appointees. 12 approval to execute handy-tran FY 2017 FTIA grant award funds. 13 approval of materials donation for Habitat for Humanity from various city owned properties. 14 authorize the request for proposal procurement method for security guard services. 15 tariff authorizing an annual rate mechanism, and 16 Rush Creek Watershed Study. Mr. Pano, do we have any speakers on any of the items I'm concerned with? No speakers. No speakers. Thank you. For that, I'll call for a motion. Ms. Terrace, so it has a comment. If I may, Madam Mayor. Tonight on items 810. In front of you you have three resolutions that are soon to request. We have put substitute resolutions in front of you. So when you vote on item 810 as part of the consent agenda you'll be voting on those substitute resolutions. The resolutions that are on our places before us tonight versus what was on what we saw this afternoon in the work session. So I have a motion for approval from Council Member Wyman and a second by Council Member Thauman. May I have your votes please? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. That passes unanimously. Thank you, council. Madam Secretary, please show me as abstaining on item 8.6. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Shepherd. Next we'll go to public hearings. First public hearing is on the amendment to the Unified Development Code. And Ms. Sopino, do we have any speakers on this issue? I can present. Ms. Sopil. Ms. Sopil will read us the agenda item. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor Pro Tem. This UDC item is a council directed initiative as Currently written the UDC allows mixed-use development or buildings in the downtown business and downtown neighborhood Overlay by right meaning it only has an administrative approval process no public hearing required Also currently student housing with poor bed leads is considered just like any other multi-family and meets the requirements of the residential piece within a mixed use project. This use was not anticipated with poor bed leads at the time the standard was written 10 years ago. Council wants to have a better understanding of the location and the density of such projects. And hence the amendment to add a SUP requirement, a specific use permit requirement to propose mixed use buildings. This may be a short term fix before the downtown master plan recommendations are released in fall of this year. I'm happy to answer any questions. Yeah. Thank you, Ms. Dopple. Ms. Epino, any speakers on the side? No speakers. Council, any questions or staff? Okay. May I have your votes? Oh. I have closed the public hearing. Thank you, Ms. Solas, for keeping me straight. We'll close the public hearing and we have a motion for approval from Council Member Wolfe and a second by Council Member Gulaspee. May I have your vote, please? And it passage unanimously. Next we'll go to item number 11.2. Is the continued public hearing miss Thalple? Item 11.2 is a request for a gas well permit for the fan-informed pad side, which has an established drill zone. The gas well permit, if if approved is subject to compliance with the conditions of the SUP drill zone that was approved in October of last year in addition to the gas well drilling and production ordinance. Approval of a gas drilling permit requires a simple majority ward of the present and warding council. The applicant Cliff McCoskey from MMA is here to present the case for saddle operating LLC this evening. Welcome Mr. McCoskey. Thank you Mayor Proton. And City Council Cliff McCoskey 200 East Abram here tonight representing saddle operating for gas well permit for the Fand and Farms AB1H. The drill's uninset backs for this pad were established and approved by the City Council on October 10th and the following stipulations were added to that approval. The operation of the gas drilling must comply with all requirements the gas drilling and production chapter of the City of Arlington. All the conditions and specific use permit, SEP09-3 adopted by ordinance number 09040 shall remain in full force and effect. The following additional conditions were stipulated with the ordinance. Compressors must be enclosed in a wall encasement for walls, suited for sound reduction. 16 foot sound walls at a minimum must be erected during workover operations to reduce noise. Currently, workover sound walls are not required by code. Notification of workover operations must be sent to the residents within a 600-foot boundary of the drill zone, and HOA should be notified within a two-mile radius. The communication will describe the type of work and the appropriate timeframes for completion. Also, reasonable measures to reduce dust on access road to the gas wells must be implemented and maintained. In addition to these stipulations, conditions we've also brought power to the site for an electric rig which will reduce diesel emissions and sound. Use and development of the property must be in compliance with the attached site plans and any of previous approved site plan by SUP09-03, which are incorporated by reference for all legal purposes. legal purposes. As far as the site history, the original S.U.P. was approved by Council in 2009. Council also approved a gas well permit for five wells in August 2009 with wells being drilled between July and August 2011. Intervest purchased the asset from Carizo in July 2013. Saddle the current operator purchased the asset in December 2016. The City Council recommended approval of the drill zone with a vote of 9-0 at the October 10, 2017 city council meeting. Saddle operating is a privately held company in Dallas, Texas. Saddle also has a field office in South Arlington. Their focus is primarily in the Barnett Shale and Satell currently operates 12 pad sites in the Barnett, seven of which are in Arlington. Russ Griffin and Charlie Ross with Satell are here tonight to speak representing Satell. This pad location site is located west of South Cooper and serves the fan in farms A and B units which are roughly 950 acres. Transportation route stays the same from the original case. It's will be utilizing, we come down to Cooper and then we turn up, down to 87 turn up FM 187, then come into Paco's industrial area and then cut into the site. Going on a short distance on the Eden Road. The site has five existing wells, an eight foot masonry wall and landscape planted. Additional landscape is proposed to meet the original plan. Five wells are planned to be drilled in 2018, pending City of Arlington approval for a gas well permit. The timeline for drilling operations from installing sound walls to normal production operations are scheduled to occur in 2018. In addition to the city notification letter, settle operating, notified all city registered HOAs within two mile right within a two mile radius of the SUP boundary. The neighborhood Saddle also sent letters to the surface owners within 600 feet of the SUP boundary. The purpose of the notification letters is to give individuals an opportunity to contact us directly. Should they have any specific questions? We attended the city hosted neighborhood meeting on September 19th 2017 and made ourselves available to answer any questions which were asked of us. The meeting hopefully clarified questions with some of the neighborhood as regarding the setbacks future operations of the pad and call in numbers should any concerns come up with the operation. numbers should any concerns come up with the operation. If acceptable to the City Council, I'd like to introduce Saddle's chief operating officer Russ Griffin and Charlie Ross to the podium. Mayor Pro Tem might also like to say or ask if there's any testimony in opposition to GWP 1807, Saddle operating would like to request a little bit of rebuttal time. Absolutely. Thank you. My name is Russ Griffin, Chief Operating Officer for Satellop Redding, LLC. Our address is 5949 Sherry Lane Lane Dallas, Texas, sweet 1700. I just want to take a few moments to tell you a little bit about our company. First, I want to thank you all for your time and your attention. Satellite operating is Cliff said as a, as a North Texas based company. We have an office in Dallas. We have an office in Arlington. We've focused our operations in the Arlington area after vetting the area. After doing our due diligence, we wanted to get involved in the Barnett Shale area. We did so by purchasing assets that were originally developed by Carizo. We bought those from Intervest. Since we bought these assets in 2016, we have cleaned up and improved operations. We've removed compression. We've reduced the noise. And we've also drilled four additional wells that we've turned online successfully. We've had no accidents. We have a zero incident rate to parocia. We've had no unauthorized discharges. We've had no violations with state federal or local regulations. We've complied fully. In regards to the Phantom Forms pad, we've, again, we've done everything that we can to honor the request of the City Council, as well as the residents that have come to our attention that live in the Phantom Farms area. Some of the things that we've done, there were some concern around access to the site after hours. We've put additional security by adding a gate that we also made sure the Fire Department had access to. We have removed all compression from this site. As I said, we would do at the last city council meeting and at the town hall meeting. So that compression is gone. As Cliff mentioned earlier, we brought electricity into the site. We've already had on court do that. We have lined up a electric rig. If we're fortunate enough to get a drilling permit, which will reduce noise and emissions. And we're pretty much willing to do what we need to do to be a good operator in the city of Arlington and in the community surrounding the Phantom Farms pad. We have, as a company company invested a great deal of our assets in this area. We want to be a long-term business in the Harlington area and in the Barnett Shale in particular and again we ask for your support. We've complied with everything that is in the ordinances with everything that's in the regulations. Everything that the City Council has asked us to do, we've done the issues that the residents of fan forums have brought to our attention. We have also addressed those issues. And then I see my time's out. One other thing. I attended the work session prior to this meeting and listened to the the placement that spoke and one thing I want to commend the police department on before I get off is we've operated assets around the country from Gulf of Mexico. I actually have through Canada and there's always a great deal of theft around batteries, copper, solar panels, all the things that you need to have on a location. We have not had a single incident in the city of Arlington since we've taken over operations in 2016. And I just wanted you to know that, because I was very impressed with the presentation that was given. And they've done a good job around our assets as well. So that's another facet of their accomplishments. So. Thank you, Mr. Griffin. Thank you. Any questions, Mr. Griffin? No, see any. Thank you, sir. OK, thank you for your time. Good evening, Mayor Pro Tem and council members. My name is Charlie Ross. I'm the vice president of regulatory affairs and EHS at Satell Operating. I'm also a registered professional engineering and state of Texas and the discipline of petroleum engineering. What I want to do to deny is just go over a few points on the operation that the fan and farms and really in general of the sites that we're in the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state ofing in many cases all of the local state and federal regulations. So I'm just going to go through a few things. First of all, you've already heard it. I mean, we were not here asking for a waiver on the setback that was approved by Council on October 10th with the unanimous vote 9-0. We have five wells on the pad. When I look back at the history of the pad, there's only one new home that's been built in the area since the pad was originally developed. These wells are going to be drilled to a vertical depth of about 8,300 feet. That's about 1.6 miles. The city staff, if you look at their report to me, I see that as kind of a findings of fact for this proceeding tonight. And basically what it shows is that the saddle meets are requirements of the city ordinance in order to get a gas roll permit, but also says that we're a compliant operator. The city last inspected all seven of our paths within the city boundaries in the fourth quarter of 2017, no violations found. And that's how we want to keep it that way. Russ mentioned the recent drilling on the Thornton pad off sublet road. The transportation route to be used for the fan and farms is the same as used for Thornton. It just doesn't go all the way north to a sublet road. They stop and go through the P Peko area the industrial part. During the drilling and fracking and drill out and flow back with that operation we were inspected frequently by city inspectors by the railroad commission TCKU came out and did air monitoring no violations we welcome inspections at all times on all of our sites. There's been some discussion about toxic gases I want to just address the gas in this part of the Barnett The gas in the in the Barnett where we operate is considered some of the leanest gas there is Basically that means it's a dry gas and a lot of the constituents that you heard discussed last week They don't exist in this gas stream. We have gas analysis that we run. Monthly, we run analyses, the pipeline company runs analyses. There are no hexanes and there are no extended methamentanes. And a lot of the other things that sound scary, but a lot of these constituents are also in a larger home products that use everyday paints, soloments, cosmetics. So I just wanted to point out that this is a different kind of gas. Furthermore, there are no VOCs to speak of in this gas. VOCs come out of liquid hydrocarbons. We don't have liquid hydrocarbons. In addition to that, when you look at contaminants to the air and to the ground, you have to have a pathway. First, you have to have a source of a chemical of concern, which I believe a lot of the chemicals discussed don't exist in our gas stream. Second, you have to have a pathway. Salugos beyond, I would say, industry standards with redundant protections for how we set and test our casing, how we set and cement two strings of case to protect all groundwater, how all of the iron on the surface is certified and tested everything is tested well beyond treatment pressures. If you could wrap it up. Okay. Okay. So I will just in there and open up for questions and then I'm not sure where we have all this echo. And they may be available for a rebuttal. Thank you, Mr. Ross. Any questions, Council? Not seeing any. That doesn't mean they won't have some later. Okay. Thank you. Mr. Pino, do we have anybody else to speak? We do. We have three nonspeakers here in support, and then we have 11 speakers and 12 nonspeakers here in opposition. So our nonspeakers in support, if you could just raise your hand when your name is called Lonnie. I'm sorry, I can't read your last name. Doug Ramsey and Greg Stevenson. So those are in support. Our first speaker in opposition is Rangana Bandari. Good evening, City Council. The last principle who was here being honoured. Thank you, Dr. Damon. Address for the Reggaeton. Sorry. Rangana Bandari, I'm at 903 Locked Loman Drive in Arlington. The last principle who was being honored here today with her student was Miss Dunbar from the Montessori Academy. And that's the preschool that my son went to. And the reason why I'm telling you this is because his probably his first month there, he met two other children, and they is because his probably his first month there, he met two other children, and they became really, really good friends. And so they spent a lot of time together, often at each other's homes, my home, or the other family's home. That family lived just behind the 600-foot zone at fan informs that we've looked at. And I can honestly say that my son probably has spent more time at that location growing up, a second only, third only to home and school. And so I bring that story to point out a couple of things. People have asked, why are you here? Is this happening in your backyard in the past? The point is, we live in a community where our children are building relationships, making friends, going everywhere. And we want them to be free to go places and build these relationships. We can't wall them in, just like we can't wall emissions in. So a few years ago, this family moved and we were very sad but the younger child had very severe asthma. And so at some point, despite the sadness, I was very relieved that he was moving away. We also, over the years, became friends with some of their neighbors. And one of their neighbors actually lived two blocks past and right at the edge of this drill site. She went through two rounds of cancer and she moved as well. The whole family moved as well. And despite our sadness that they're moving, we don't see them that much anymore. They've moved away, but inside the Dallas-Fort Worth area, we were sort of relieved. And I also want to once again, just like before, bring to you a message from Ms. Bergen that she sent to me a couple of hours ago, and I'll just read it out. Mayor Williams and Council members, thank you very much for your vote last week to deny the South Mat Log gas well site, about which I had sent a comment to you. I can't easily get to meetings anymore, but I'm trying to make use of all this current technology. Now there's a similar permit application for tonight, Tuesday, March 6th for an area in fan-in forms. Again, that application is due to positioning the well-side closer to homes than our ordinance allows. I served on City Council three terms from June 1997 to June 2003. I took a year off and then served at PNC, please finish, from 2004 to 2006. I just mentioned this as reference to my past experience when Council in Zoning matters. I think it's exceedingly important to protect our neighborhoods and that certainly includes fan informs. I remember the years of development in the housing area south of Barden, and west of Cooper. These are quality desirable areas and have maintained their value. To insert any gas well in this area, I will detract and not enhance it. To put in a site which does not even meet the minimum distance, and then ask for a waiver, does not serve the best long-term interests of Arlington, its neighborhoods, and residents. We are all of us, hopefully in this community, for the long haul. Please support quality safety and our families by denying this permit, regards and thank you for your service, Julia Borget. Thank you very much. Thank you. Gina. Gina Diasto. Gina Diasto. My name is Gina Diasto. I live at 2315 Eden Green Drive. I'd like to first thank the City Council for the opportunity to come and speak with you regarding the Fandom Farm's well site. I feel very strongly about the impact this drilling will have. I was here last time that the five whales were drilled at this location. Case, you're not already aware. I am the last house that has passed on the way to this pad site. My property is within the 600 foot zone. And while I agree with every opposition voice here, I have to deal with another element that the rest of the 600 foot zoners don't have to. I have to accept the constant well traffic during drilling and the lifetime maintenance of these wells. Now, I do not have greenery or any way to escape this assault on the census. I have a six foot vinyl fence with an additional foot of lattice work on top. That is all that separates my home from these trucks. When I met with Saddle two weeks ago for the first time, I asked about the frequency of 18-wheeler traffic and the expected timeline for this project. I was told to expect anywhere between six to eight months from the start date and the traffic to fluctuate between 25 and 40 trucks a day. Now I can tell you from experience that these trucks do not simply come and go. They line up along this road and wait in idle to access the padside. Now ladies and gentlemen, have the council at this point, my home ceases to be a place of refuge and becomes a truck stop. Now, I don't know how many of you have had the opportunity to visit the 18-wheeler side of a truck stop, but I can assure you it's the furthest thing from peaceful. This is my reality. This is what I'm being forced to accept. A truck stop in my backyard. Along with the noise, I also get the ad have benefited board truck drivers waiting to access the pad site. So what do board truck drivers do while they wait? Mostly they stare and sometimes they wave. And while waving is polite, how many of you would appreciate 25 to 40 strangers waving it you daily in your backyard? My guess is this is not something you would expect to put up with. Your home is your refuge, it is where you go to get away from the trials of the day and the public. You don't expect to be put on display at your home. Again, this is what I'm being forced to accept. Now I know there are already five wells operating back there and as long as they are producing they will continue to be online and maintain. I cannot change what is already done. I do not like the drilling. I don't like the noise, the vibration, or the lights at night. I know that there are things that can be done to minimize these issues for my neighbors, but there seems to be nothing that can be done to combat the traffic intrusion on my family's life. I oppose this drilling and permitting, and I ask each of you to do the same. Please, don't turn my backyard into a truck stop. Thank you. Yes ma'am ma'am ma'am. Hello. If you could come back to the mic I have a question. So tell me since I was on here last week and I understand you spoke then are wise council meeting Where do you live what what's your address 2315 Eden Green Drive I am the corner right where the where the road comes in and curves to go back to the padside I am that corner right house with probably the largest open space To the truck traffic that's coming through so have you lived there very long Since 2005, okay, so when they started drew when they did the initial drilling did you have the same problem with the truck traffic? Yes, and I opposed it back then too with the same issues The the trucks that come through, they just sit there in idle. And I am being honest, I wanna tell you that they just sit there for hours. Are they back? Is it on Eden where they are? The road that goes from Eden that turns into a private road, I guess, is probably five or six houses in length and they just line up and park. So they line up on that kind of access road if I can call it? They're not lining up on Eden. That I don't recall. OK. OK. But if they're lining up on that access road as I will call it, that's behind your house. That is directly behind my recall. Okay. Okay. But if they're lining up on that access road as I will call it, that's kind of behind your house. That is directly behind my house. Okay. Thank you. Appreciate it. Yes, Mr. Parker. This one question, if I could. You oppose the drilling in 2005, is that correct? No, I've lived at my home since 2005. I did stand at the City Council a long time ago when in this first drilling first started back there. And that was Carrés oil company, it's correct. Yes. And did you accept the signing bonus for the drill site? That's the thing. I had a contract that stipulated certain things that I agreed to to sign that the entrance to the well site was not where it currently is. And since then, I have not received any royalties. I have not received anything from the oil companies. I pay taxes on it, but I've received nothing. Okay, but you except with the signing bonus Is that correct? Originally yes, okay. Thank you very much Thank you, ma'am. Appreciate it mr. Pinot ingrid Kelly Good evening mayor pro tem and city council I would like to thank those of you that voted to protect the residents at the cornerstone drill site. You've gained our trust and our respect. Over the past weeks, you've listened to myself and others present the health hazards connected to unconventional gas drilling. I applaud you for hearing us and considering the surmounting evidence surrounding the dangers of this form of gas extraction. One of the competency requires requirements for a Bachelor of Science in Nursing is that we are advocates for our community. Responsibilities include promoting healthy love styles through education and legislation if needed be. Not just with the known risks, but also as new health risks are identified. Back in 2012, the American Nurse Association issued a public statement asking for a moratorium on unconventional gas drilling in order for the health sciences to analyze the public health risks. Only a few states listen. Today, those environmental health risks are identified. It requires all of us as a community to reassess and refocus on improving our situation. A new path is needed to prevent further deterioration of our community's health. I'm not gonna repeat all the health risks again. I'm here to ask you, please give this neighborhood the same considerations and protections that you granted those residents at Cornerstone. Tomorrow it may be my neighborhood or yours that needs protection. No matter, it is all of our health and well-being that needs protected. Thank you very much. Dan Warner. I'm going to go to the council. It's Don Warner. Thank you. Good evening, though. Madam Mayor, Pro Tem and council members. My name is Don Warner. I reside at 503 Bedford Court in Arlington, Texas, 7017. I'm a retired mayor, volunteer fire. I'm in the 20-year Air Force veteran. I have been an Arlington resident for a little over a year. The Council resquedial to propose permit number 007 for tonight, so I felt compelled to do some quick research and offer some thoughts on the matter. I stand before you tonight as I am very concerned about this permit and a future permit and all drill pass drilling activities. I am not an expert on any aspects of all of the and gas development exploration or drilling. I do have, however, have first handed knowledge and experience as a 20-year mayor, council member in the town of Enchanted Oaks in East Texas. Twice in my capacity as mayor in 2008 and 2015, we oppose drilling of wells that were reported to the real commission as containing high concentrations of hydrogen sulfide. It is my understanding from my limited research in this last Tuesday that the Barnett Shail is not supposed to have any H2S concentrations. However, we know according to reports by Arlington Residents before this council that there have been occasions of clouds and strong odors and rotten eggs smells. Indicative of H2S at various sites. Furthermore, I have found online reports from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and Staff, petroleum engineers documented in 2015 that there's been a notable increase in the presence of H2S at well sites in the Barnett Shale. And I quote from Tim Brown, Devon Energy in his report, in the past decade, Hydrogen sulfide has gas has begun to appear in many Barnett shale gas wells. As more wells are drilled and hydraulically fractured, larger populations of bacteria are reduced to the formation, resulting in current concentrations of H2S that are observed today. That was in 2015. My immediate concern is over this increase in H2S, are observed today. That was in 2015. My immediate concern is over this increase in H2S, identified in 2015 with recommendations which recommends further TECQ long-term study. These studies should determine impact to health and safety of residents and highly populated environments such as Arlington. What I ask is this council or staff aware of any follow-ups of these studies and the results and any action that's been taken? The current and Arlington City ordinance, 0s or 68, well, well permits only requires a 600 foot setback. Depending on H2S concentrations, this may be totally inadequate to protect local populations. When dealing with H2S wells, our railroad commission requires analysis of concentrations of prescribed several formulas that may be selected. Some very liberal others more conservative. In any case, from the analysis of radius exposure is developed which identifies parts per million to various numbers of feet from a well site correlating to exposure limits and effects on health and safety. Apparently when the Barnett Shale was developed there was no apparent threat math finish. There was no apparent threat and the 600 foot was deemed acceptable. However, now that a potential problem has been identified this was back in 2015, I would urge the Council to take appropriate action. I would recommend that the Council be proactive in order to protect residents in place of moratorium on further permit approvals until these studies and a complete analysis the program can be completed. Once complete, if H2S is determined to be an issue, the 600 set footback should be revised to a set back in line with Ray Road Commission analysis models for H2S. I thank you for this opportunity. And it does, I would say too, that the ordinance does allow for the city council may require an increase in distance well set back or any other matters reasonably required public interest. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you, Mr. Wanderer. Thank you for your service. You're back. Thank you. Appreciate it. Jimmy Hosh. Jimmy Hosh. Jimi Hosh. Good evening. I am Jimi Hosh, representative of $350. Mayor Williams said last week he and the council members were really the good guys. On the side of Arlington citizens working to make Arlington a better place to live. You clearly walked that talk last week when you maintained the 600 foot setback. Thank you all. My friend Richard Guldey from the Sierra Club presented last week a package of reference materials documenting research on how human health is degraded when exposed to the emissions generated by gas fracking and pumping operations. This past week I dug into his materials and I want to draw your attention to just two of his listed documents. I summarized these documents and I hand out entitled dealing with fracking, fracking, fracked gas wells inside the city of Arlington. Do you have those? Thank you. Both of the documents were produced by Dr. Anne C. Epstein, a pediatrician in Lubbock, and a member of the Lubbock Board of Health. She summarizes pertinent research findings and explains what they mean in simple and easy to understand terms, which the other documents didn't quite meet. The first document is a chapter she wrote for the book Advances in Chemical Pollution, Environmental Management and Protection Volume 1. The chapter contents is also in your handout, shows the breadth of information provided to help justify actions you could take inside the severe, could restraints HP- 40 placed on your ability to protect the safety of Arlington citizens facing life close to these fracking sites. Sections two, I hope you can see, focuses on benzene, a bad actor in the chemical stew that comes out of the ground. She explains all the things top quality scientific studies have found benzene does to people at various concentrations and at what distances, from the well head, one measures those concentrations of benzene. You can see Dr. Epstein covers the subject pretty well. Of course, she provides complete reference to documentation for each of the studies she reviews. Section 3 goes into ozone, which triggers a lot of respiratory problems. Section 4 covers well-blow-outs, explosions, and fires. Section 5 covers the wide range of health problems that have been correlated to living close to fracked gas wells. Last week you had a litany of those complaints. Most important is the last paragraph of the conclusion where she states, quote, detection and remediation of leaks from high-ebiting sources should be a priority. Levels of hazardous air pollutants around oil and gas facilities should be routinely and frequently monitored, and held to a standard consistent with the protection of public health." Epstein's second document is a set of slides from a talk she gave in Mansfield, Texas in 2014. She points out that the bulk of the pollution comes from a very few, as she calls him, super emitters that can be seen using infrared cameras. She claims aerial observation with IR is better than ground-based detectors. So, if you could wrap it up your time, or so. And offers TEQ CEQ infrared images to prove it. I recommend you implement aerial drones with IR cameras so that you can monitor what goes on at these wells when you want to do it, unannounced, and at any time, especially when human beings touch the equipment. Oftentimes hatches are left over open, and that's the source of the problem. Do all you can to stop new fossil fuel projects and move forward with clean, safe and renewable energy. Sir, we have a question for you. Sir, Mr. Hush, we have a question for you. Oh, sorry. Mr. Parker? Mr. H Parker? Thank you very much. I appreciate you speaking here this evening. I had an opportunity to read the 34 pages of that particular document that you quoted out of. In the beginning of the document, it stated that Arlington essentially was exempt from that particular document because of the auto emissions and because of the fumes of urban drilling that were not associated with drilling itself rather than just the environment in which we live in. They figured that to do that to a urban site would not give you proper proper readings. Yeah, that what that what do you mean by that? Are you Clinton or we're going to talk about what is is okay. No, what do that? I don't understand. Okay, let me let me just let me just go back over this one more time. The document that you stated that you were stating from that particular that's correct. That particular document was about the Barnett shale and in that document. Not about the Barnett shale. Yes it was about gas fracked gas wells in general. One of the items she talked about was a Barnett shale. She talked about the whole array. OK, fine. But the bottom line is, first of all, it did not break out oil wells from gas wells in this particular document. Is that correct? She specified that the bulk of her argument was for fracked gas wells. If you will look at the, I don't have the title with me. That's in the handout. Can we see that handout? It's okay. My point is the point is. No, I'll make the point. Okay. Okay. Now, the point is that Arlington as a city itself was omitted from this particular document because of the omissions of automobiles in the area. And so the numbers would be skewed. My point in bringing out this to you is the fact that if you use a flare camera on the sites and they talk about hatches being the main leakage items on these things. We have never, we have never in the city of Arlington over the last eight years of drilling in over the 350 wells that we have had, hey, release of gas. We have had a release of water but not of gas, okay, because of a failure of a weld. My point here is to say that if you take those flare cameras and you point them at a gas station, you will find a lot of emissions from the gas station. And so either living near I-30 or at a gas station would be more harmful according to that particular document, then living next to a gas well. I didn't read it that way, sir. We agree to disagree. Thank you very much. I don't agree. Yes, ma'am? No more speakers are indicated. Thank you, sir. Mr. Pino, Casey French. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go Close to where the former Chesapeake now total true mandrel site connects our downtown to the entertainment district. I may not be in close proximity to the Van and Farms pad site, but it could blow my way and worsen the ozone and impact the quality of the air shed in I have asthma. Okay, a new pipeline contract commitments have the operators saddle and total under obligations to produce. That is what is really driving the jillers back into Arlington because there has been no material increase and the price of natural gas to make it profitable for them to be here. I am here to encourage my city council to be consistent in denying these operators who went to come in and drill closer than our 600 feet setback. I do not want to see a rig up in my neighborhood near AT&T Stadium in Texas live. This operator is called Saddle and is taking over where an inner vest and creozo left us and is in my opinion a third tiered driller. Saddle could very well be coming to UTA's pad site to do more drilling where all the attending this fall. The fan and farm joll site is located within two miles of eight other gas well pad sites. Horizontal drilling technology accessible from one pad site should have been allowed by only one operator instead of having numerous pad sites. I read an October staff report that the fan and farms jo drill zone was postponed for a couple of years at the operators request or aka too expensive to drill. And now that the fan informed drill zone was quietly approved last fall, once you've owned on tonight's gas well, the remaining wells that fit on the pad site will be administratively approved. That means that there will be no more public input no matter how horrible conditions get such as ozone, noise, ground shaking, traffic, dust, odors, and silica plumes. Never mind any festering bacteria in the soil and groundwater that could affect our drinking water one day. Please also keep in mind that one teaspoon of benzene contaminates about 261,000 gallons of water. In closing, I just want to remind you of two laws that the city and state have in the past seem to overlook. Texas legal code section 235.005, Texas statutes for a lease of oil, gas, or mineral land, a well may not be drilled in the thickly settled part of the municipality. In closing, no person shall discharge from any source whatsoever. One or more air contaminants are combinations thereof in such of concentration and of such duration as are, or may attend to be injurious or to adversely affect human health, or welfare, animal life, vegetation or property, or as to interfere with the normal use of enjoyment of animal life, vegetation or property. Thank you. Tracy Christ. Good evening. I'm sure you might remember seeing me at the last two meetings. I've talked to Miss K. Part in the past. I'm still here to voice my opposition against this drilling. It's my last chance to sway you, which I think you already have your minds made up to go ahead and pass this. But I do know that they don't have the 70% of us who, the 70% of the written consent of the homeowners. Many of several of my neighbors I know have emailed you over the past week. I hope you read their emails and their concerns. I am not an original owner. I've only been here a year and nine months, and I am looking to leave. So, you know, this just doesn't sit well with me the way everything has passed. I did go to the town hall meeting that they had a few weeks ago. And it just seems like things aren't being told unless you know to ask the right questions. It's like being a nurse and you're a patient and you don't know what questions to ask. And you have somebody there to advocate for you to ask the right questions. You know, that's when I found out about all the traffic that's gonna be back there. 25 to 40 trucks in a day. That's gonna be a lot of traffic and a lot of noise. You know, then it went from, oh, it's only gonna be three months. Now it's gonna be six to eight months. I just feel that it's little tidbits that come out later and later with what we're being told. So I just don't like the way this settles, this sits with me, and I really hope you consider not passing this and oppose this for us and for the residents in our neighborhood. Thank you for your time. I have a question. You and I have interacted a lot over this particular pad sign. So some of the things that we, the council put into the SUP, some of the restrictions and to try to address the concerns that we were hearing. In your mind, have they addressed those? They have addressed what happened with the work over drill from last year. Yes, those have been taken care of. And I do give them the credit for doing that. I'm very happy with that. But it's the not knowing. Some of the residents, I'm listening to what they're saying and what they've been through. And I don't want to add either. I know, I don't have the mineral rights. I'm not getting money from this and I don't want money from this. But yeah, so, but they have, they have worked with us to make a quiet. They changed it to electric. It didn't, it didn't improve. But what's going to happen over the next six to eight months while we're there. So and I and I hear you when you say it sometimes it's the unknown. You don't know what to ask. But is there so setting that aside, is there a concern that you have just about the drill side in particular? Or is it just the fear of the unknown? the drill side in particular or is it just the fear of the unknown? It's the unknown. It's the noise. It's going to be looking at those barriers up there for six to eight months. What is going on? What is all the noise about? What are they doing? I mean, they did explain it. But as I see people asking questions at the town hall meeting, I'm like, I never even thought about how much traffic will be in there. I know we discussed the traffic pattern. Right. But when you talk about, because when those trucks come up, they're going to be coming right up on the corner of where I am at, too. Okay. But they won't be sitting idling, looking in my backyard. I won't have that issue. But we will be looking at the barriers. We will be listening to the noise. and if there's going to be light out there at night, that's the way my bedroom faces. So, you know, yeah, I have blinds but how bright is it going to be? I don't know how lot is it going to be? You know. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Levent Gurdamir? There are council members. My name is Levent Gurdamir. I live at 2-2-03 green stone drive, not within 600 feet, but little farther than that. And I'm an astrophysicist at UTA and I study planets. And I study many planets, but I'm not as concerned as an onerous planet as this one. Because apparently there are some things, there are some developments we are doing that may be danger for the future of the planet. First of all, I raised two children at my home and I would like them to be safe and the air quality and water quality should be at the top level. And I am as many citizens, we are counting on city's regulations in terms of air quality and water quality. So I think enough said last week in this room, there were a lot of people who mentioned about a lot of health concerns that they experienced. And I also had some experience in my household. My wife is a chemically sensitive person, and she can well smell the odor. And the first drill site was started about, I think, 10 years ago, there was a strong odor in the air, and also noise and the countless other problems. At that time, the data was not much available. We didn't know the issues that may be face fits in the future. But after more than 10 years, enough study done. UTA Clear Program has done great study and found significant and also they published their results in their not only like blog or as somebody's opinion as a peer reviewed journals. SMU has another study, not about health concerns, but also linking this fracking activity to earthquakes. And those are also scientific journals and publications. So I talked with a colleague in the morning, he was the author of one of the peer-reviewed publications, Kevin Schuch of UTA. And he said even 600 feet is concerning because they are study found out that the chemicals can burst up to 2000 feet and even further depending on the direction and speed of the wind. So I think as citizens of Arlington and especially for our children, we deserve a safe environment. and fracking can be done outside of the city. I'm just against urban drilling because this is where we live and I don't want to see ugly the rigs in my community, the trucks coming in and out and the noises being made and especially the health concerns are real and it's there. So finally, if this is American city, I would like to see the Arlington as the American City, but American, we cannot build this American City with ugly, thrilling sights right in the heart of the communities. Thank you very much. Brad Evans. the . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and I was here last week and of course the weeks before and with the setback ordinance that's been passed by City Council we now have 17 signatures and opposition to this drill site permit. I listen to my neighbors and their concerns are as well as mine. My neighbor that was here last week, Mitch Ensign, Anderson, I listen to my neighbors and their concerns are as well as mine. My neighbor that was here last week, Mitch Ensign, Anderson, he has going to have a newborn here in March. He has a two year old daughter also. They take naps. They have to be there. These drill site is what he's within 600 feet. My other neighbor has a 94 year old father-in-law that he takes care of with his wife. These people are going to be impacted with the noise, the lights, for this right now they're applying for only one permit. The permits they want is for at least five wells. This is gonna take anywhere from eight to 12 months. These people are going to have to live with this. I just ask that you hear them and you if you were going to have to live with this noise and inconvenience in your backyard for 12 months, would you really want Thank you Molly Rook Hi, good evening. I'm Molly Rook. I live at 5825 Paul Lane in Dallas I represent the the Sierra Club and we have over 5,000 members in the Metroplex, many of whom live in the Arlington area. I want to speak to you from the heart and from my own experiences, the oil and gas industry, my family has a ranch and we've had gas drilling and oil and gas drilling on our ranch for many decades. And have had more accidents and adverse experiences than I can even remember. Some of them were quite extreme, big explosions, fires, spills, everything you can think of. So the people I've been hearing talking about, the experiences with the trucks are something you really need to seriously take into consideration as well. The damage to their quality of life, their air quality as the truck's idle. And one thing I haven't heard people talk about is the extreme danger posed by these 18 wheeler tanker trucks, another large trucks within proximity of people's homes. My father was driving to the entrance of our ranch just last year. He was hit by an 18-wheeler tanker truck and killed. So keep this in mind when you're considering putting a lot of trucks or any kind of oil and gas activity anywhere in your homes. We would never allow any oil and gas activity, any drilling anywhere close to any of the family homes on our ranch. I sincerely request that you not consider such activity close to people's homes in Arlington, and that you not consider allowing drilling within this 600 foot setback. I really wish you had a much further setback, but definitely I request you not do anything any closer than that. It's just too great of a risk. Thank you very much. Pamela Moore. Excuse me if I'm a little nervous, but good evening. My name is Pamela Moore. I live at 70-16 Park Green Drive and my home is within the 600 feet of the drilling site. My family and I moved here from Atlanta, Georgia in 2010 and in 2012 we purchased our home off of Park Green Drive. We were unaware of the drilling site that lies practically beneath our backyard. We were never told by a relative of the dangers of the fracking or the noise or anything like that that could cause all kinds of anxiety, stress, lack of sleeping, pollution to our air and our water supply. My concerns about the fracking could cause, like I said, with the water and the air and cacals, like I said, with the water and air and the possible water that could have damaged to our home when we try to drink, or when I had my grandchildren over, or the noise of the truck or the heavy machinery in the back that when my grandchildren come over to play, I fear that it could cause wild animals to come into my backyard. And you know, possibly when I'm not looking, it could be a snake, it could be a wild rabbit or anything that could bite them or my pit. So I urge you tonight to please vote no because we were here in 2012. And we, like I said, we were unaware of this. And we first was aware of the noise of the truck was maybe two summers ago and I can tell you from the noise of that I didn't get any sleep. I was stressed out the next day when I had to go to work because of the noise that would constantly ring in my ear. I had to go to my doctor for anxiety pills because I felt like I needed to sleep at night. I didn't know anything about the meeting back in September. We were never told about that. We heard about the meeting here and the meeting with the Drillian Company, maybe a few weeks ago by Mr. Evans. So as I stand here before you, I ask that you please consider to vote no, thank you. Thank you. That is our last speaker. So we have 12 non-speakers here in opposition. If you could just raise your hand when your name is called. Catherine Rogers, Donald Corals, Franya Wilhelm, Terry Harris, Tammy Carson, Stacey Swager, Gail and Richard Rodriguez, Mary Cato, William Moore, Jan Miller, Nancy Chrattino, and Vicki Howell. And those are all the cards. and the other one. I'm going to go to the other one. I'm going to go to the other one. I'm going to go to the other one. I'm going to go to the other one. I'm going to go to the other one. I'm going to go to the other one. I'm going to concerns by the residents and general public in the area and what I'd like to do now is just go or feel the items and maybe provide the council with some more information Saddle, when we complete our wells, it's an existing pad. We will have what's called a green completion meeting when we start flowing gas to the surface. We're going to flow directly into a pipeline sales line. As was mentioned by Mr. Parker, all the tanks, vessels, everything sealed. There are surveys down by city inspectors, by us, by the TCEQ. They do come out of the infrared cameras looking for leaks. And we also have an extensive safety system that monitors well-head pressures, flow rates, and sound at the well site, which would be picked up as a leak for automatic shudgeon. All this is monitored real time. I want to talk a bit about the truck traffic and the timeline. There was a lot of discussion about 25 to 40 trucks today. I think maybe there was some misunderstanding on our conversations at our public meeting on the 20th. So I just kind of want to go through the timeline and how many trucks we anticipate during each phase. During preparation of the site, that means coming in to go through the timeline and how many trucks we anticipate during each phase. During preparation of the site, that means coming in and getting the pad ready, putting up sound walls about 14 days, we anticipate 12 loads coming in. When the drilling rig moves in, we anticipate five days, 25 loads to bring in heavy equipment which will be escorted into the site through the approved travel zone. The drilling process we anticipate 12 to 15 days per well. Drilling is other than flow back as the only activity that goes on 24-7. This could take then potentially two, three months depending on how quickly we can drill. We anticipate five day loads coming in during the day during drilling maybe bringing in supplies, bringing in casing, so forth. The largest load of traffic is going to be during the hydraulic fracturing stage. That's what we're going to be bringing in the sand and we're going to be treating the wells. It's going to be about six days per well. We anticipate five weeks. Here we anticipate up to 25 loads a day. But I want to talk about the sand too. There was discussion about the crystalline silica and the emissions. We're using a technique that's called sandboxes by a company called sandboxed logistics. All the sand is going to be brought in on boxes set in place to mix into the hopper by gravity feed. And with a fork lift meeting we're going to have fewer trucks. We're not going to have the noise of blowing sand into vessels from trucks coming in to fill up vessels. We're just going to be offloading boxes, gravity feeding in. So we're using a technique that should significantly reduce noise and emissions for many type of sand. Plus as an operator, we have to protect the workers under OSHA standards. There are certain particular exposure limits that we have to be concerned with. And as we say, we're very concerned about our workers. The drill out phase, we anticipate up to 25 days total. Let me go back. Once the drilling is done, the rig's gone. You're not gonna see the Derek sticking up. The lights on the Derek are gonna be pointed inward and downward. Most of the activity is behind the 32 foot sound wall. So when the drilling is completed, the rig's gone. We come in with the frat crew, which is subject to the city's curfew daylight hours Monday through Saturday. So flow back is when we drill out plug, well we've drilled out the plugs and now we're going to flow the wells back, put the gas into the sails. During this period we're going to be flowing back water. This is going to be another period where we may have 20 or 25 trucks a day taking water off location. It'll drop off quickly. Here again I'll during curfew time. So the rig that we have picked to use in the in this operation should we be permitted as as it mentioned as an electric rig. They've been operating in the barn at for some time. They've got a very experienced crew along either drilling rig with the completion crew to understand the sensitivities of the urban area, then understand the curfews. They've been very quick, very efficient drilling wells in the Barnett shell. Another step we've taken to eliminate odors is our mud system. We're going to use what's called a fresh water-based mud to get rid of any diesel smell that sometimes occurs with all-based mud. There was discussions about all the hazards with shell drilling. First of all, when you frack a well, you don't change the characteristics of the gas versus an unfracked well in the same formation or a vertical well. There's a lot of studies out there. I agree you can go find a lot of information. So, OK, if I keep going. The EPA has recently issued a port report that there's no significant threat to groundwater due to fracking operations. Saddle has two strings of casing, cemented to surface to protect our groundwater. We test that casing multiple times. TCQ has the most extensive air monitoring system in the state, probably in a country right here in North Texas because of the Barnett. It's because of what was going on. This is where the shell play started right here in North Texas. If you look at their reports, you look back at November 17th, they shoot there. That was their last annual report. There's really no increases or no issues of VOCs or other chemicals of concern. In fact, there's a report out there that shows in the 15 years since the Barnett started ozone levels, which are mostly from vehicle emissions, trucks, cars, so forth. Ozone has actually gone down 21% in 15 years in a DFW area while the gas produced in the Barnett has gone for 200 million a day to 4 billion. So there's that. I wanted to talk about H2S. H2S, Hydras and sulfide. When people hear about Hydras and sulfide, it can be scary. Essentially there is no Hydras and sulfide in our operations. The pipelines that gather all of our gas, if there's four parts per million, they're going to shut us off. We test for H2S and all of our gas. And there was discussion about comparing it toant water in a system, a piece of pipe, and what's called sulfate reducing bacteria, which releases H2S. We monitor H2S very closely. Okay. Okay. There was a comment that were required to drill based on a pipeline contract or not. We talked about the silica water bacteria. You know, we treat the water because of the bacteria in the water that we acquire from the city. And I just want to, you know, provide my name and phone number to anybody that wants to contact me at any time, that they have any questions. I mean, it was a good comment about not knowing what to ask. So I'm happy to sit down with anybody at any time and discuss whatever questions I want to ask. Mr. Shepherd has a question. Mr. Ross. Thank you. Mr. Ross, you heard the comments about the trucks idling behind the residents there. And I'm just wondering, kind of looking at Google map here, you all go in on Peco Drive North. We come in Yalf Cooper into Peco, and then we cut through a gate there to Eden. Okay, but which Peco, North or South? It's kind of a horseshoe. North or South? And Mr. McCoskey's saying, North or North? It goes it's kind of a horseshoe. That's south. Mr. McCoskey saying. No, it goes right through the industrial complex. So then you go in and you make a ride on the Eden Road, correct, and then you make a left headed west. We head west on Eden, yeah, through a gate. It looks like, and I don't know how long this is, but there's an area of Eden Road, like and I don't know how long this is but there's an area of Eden Road which is bounded to the north by vacant land and to the south according to this is all pro-threaded products between there and just west of Fox Glen now let's call it Fox Glen there are no houses at all. When you get west into your well site, as you head south down that private road, I think it's Miss K-PART referred to it, you're about 500 feet, 600 feet from many houses. And then when you get inside the well side, is there is there any area to stage vehicles inside the pad? We've got we've got space there we can look at. You know, it's a fairly large and developed area as you come in off Eden Road. We've also had discussions about putting up a barrier along our lease road where we come off Eden and road heads west and then cuts back into the pad so that the homes that are right along the road you wouldn't have trucks sitting there and you know there's gonna be times when they are we're gonna attempt to stage a mouseware but we could put up a 16 foot sound wall there. It's kind of a catch 22. Is that gonna concern everybody? We're willing to do that. We've had that discussion in order to block the view of traffic coming in and out, reduce some of the noise of trucks coming in and out during curfew hours and so forth. So let's talk a little bit about the staging. Okay. Idea. Um, I think the most I heard you say were 20 to 25 trucks per day. That seemed to be the highest volume. That's what we anticipate during fracking and during flowback. Yes, sir. All right. So when those trucks come in, do they all have to be parked and lined up behind the residences? During flow back, we anticipate a truck coming in every couple hours. It's not, they're all there waiting. Okay. Because the flowbacks occurring throughout a 24-hour period, they can come in during daylight hours only, so it'll be spread out during daylight hours for the flow back in the water hauling. The sand's going to come in throughout the day because you're fracking throughout the day. Now we're certainly, you know, willing to look at the additional space we have just north of the pad in that area to see if there's a way we can stage more trucks in there. You mentioned Eden Road. We discussed that, but we felt there could be some sensitivities to staging out on Eden Road even though as you go to the east, there's really nothing on the north side. Well, Eden Road didn't go through to Cooper as far as I know, does it? No, no. We would have to come in and then have the trucks basically back up into the area where there's no residents on the north side. Well, I'm just trying to get to a point where we can have some assurance that we don't have. And I don't, if it's one truck every two hours and you tell me that's what we're going to do so there won't be any trucks parked there. Or if I've got to have 10 trucks at the same time, I'm going to spread them out so they're not. I'm just trying to get to a place where I can get some assurance there aren't trucks parked behind residences for an extended period of time during any portion of operation. What we can assure is we'll do our best to prevent that when we brought in the drilling rig and the equipment to the Thornton we staged the equipment. Well, it allowed so many trucks to come through town at a time they staged outside of town. Of course, that was a big heavy drilling equipment. We're willing to you know do whatever we need to do to prevent trucks from just being stacked up on that road. I'm not sure what the council feels about the 16 foot sound wall along the south side of the road coming into our lease. We have those discussions during prior proceedings. I mean, for me personally, if it if I were living there, I don't think I'd want to look out my back door at a 16-foot wall. That's just me. The proximity of it to the residents is what concerns me. If the 16-foot wall were 300 feet away, obviously the scale wouldn't be that big a deal. But if it's 45 feet out my back door, it's going to look like the Eiffel Tower. That's correct. Yeah. So that would be my concern about it. Mr. Shepherd, I just wanted to jump in and we can stage trucks on Eann Road if it's required. We're going to dispatch our trucks as needed. A lot of times truck trucks will just like to show up and come sit on sit on a spot because it's easier for them to do. We won't allow that. You have my everything I've told you we would do since we first came before you we've done and you have my assurances that we will stage on Eden Road if we have to stage several trucks we will dispatch, we will employ somebody that just dispatches trucks and stands at the end of Eden Road to make sure that nobody stacks up on our lease road. If a sound wall, the 16 foot sound wall is desired by the residents along that corner, we will put one in. If they do not want one, we will not put one in. But we will make every effort, we will dispatch trucks efficiently. We will use that space on the, I've, Charlie and I've already talked about the EAN road. It looks like a drag strip. You can see black people have spun out. I don't know if they race there or not. You may follow up on him. But, but so, but, but it looks like a space that would be out of the way away from residents and eliminates some of the truck concerns. And we can actually have somebody stage there that's their job is to handle traffic on the road. We'll do that. Miss Solis, is there in the approval of the gas well permit itself? Can we add a condition like that to the issuance of the permit so that whenever it gets to the administrative approval stage, it stays with it. Yes, ma'am. In the past, we have asked for staging plans for gas well permits, so we can definitely ask a staging. Fantastic. great answer. Thank you. Thank you both. I appreciate your willingness to cooperate. Mr. Parker. Thank you, Madam Mayor Prattam. I have a couple of questions that I'm a little fuzzy on. You're going to drill four or five wells. We're going to permit five wells. There's five wells. Five wells. That's five whales. Five whales. That's all I wanted to know. Now then, how long is that rig going to be up for five whales? The rig should be there for five whales. We anticipate 60 to 75 days max per five oil. Month to a month. 12 to 15 days per whale. Two months, two and a half months. Correct. OK. I noticed that the noise restrictions on you are five decibels above ambient. It's five it's five during the day three at night and we've already done a background ambient noise survey between the pad and the homes to the north. My question to you is, we're going to measure that from. We're going to measure from all, we're going to track noise from all sides. I mean, our ambient noise survey is about 100 feet from the north property lines of the residents. 100 feet from the north property line to the resident. Yes, correct. Yeah, if you look at the city ordinance, there's a distance based on either proximity to your wall. If you put it right by the wall, you're not picking up. It's really not a true reading or proximity to the residents. And so we're monitoring closer to where the residents are. So that's where you're going to pick up the noise. OK. So the background was 55. So you've got these 36 foot walls, is that correct? 32 foot sound walls around the perimeter. All right, and you're going to be operating for about two and a half months inside these walls. Is that right? Just for the drilling phase. Okay, and then the rig comes down. Correct, all right. And then you'll do fracking. And fracking goes up, no fracking at night, but fracking goes up to 62, seven decibels during the days. That correct? Correct. Seven over. Right. All right. And you're going to measure that particular sound 100 feet from the closest resident. Is that correct? What, what, we're going to have a, we're going to have a monitor stationed 24-7 and we provide the city with those 24-hour monitoring reports that list the ambient and all of the noise through 24 hours. If we get any type of call or complaint about noise from any direction, we're going to go out and we're going to assess it. And as we've discussed in some of the meetings here, we're likely going to put up an additional wall on the north side to further reduce sound during the fracking phase. But the city's the city I anticipate is going to be monitoring noise closely. So are we. Okay. What about lights at night? Most of the light plants are going to be below the top of the sound wall pointed inward Inside down there's gonna of course be some reic some lights up on the rig that for I guess for aviation safety and things like that. They'll be lights up there But as required by the warden sending lights there are should be pointing inward and downward But a aviation safety would be a red blinking a lot of the red blinking on top They'll be they'll be somebody working up in their handling pipe the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area Any other questions of the applicant? I don't see any. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Council, any further discussion? If not, I'll close the public hearing and ask for a motion to approve the gas well drilling permit with the staging plan that provides that all truck traffic will stage either on that portion of Eden Road that is East Fox Glen Drive or that portion of the access road that runs North and South that is approximately 600 feet away from the nearest resident. the nearest resident. And obviously if they want to stage within the pad itself, I don't have any problem with that. But that's my motion. Thank you, Mr. Parker. Mr. Parker, Mr. Shepherd, I'm sorry. I still had his name up here on my screen, sorry, when he was a speaker. But for discussion purposes, we'll have a second reading on this. Between now and then should this motion pass, Ms. Thopel, I'd ask for you to kind of clarify for us what that language would need to be and what the possibility is. Also, if this motion passes, I would ask those who have other suggestions like they have all the material to put up a sound wall temporarily, I don't know if you would want that right out your back door. But let staff know if there's some other desire. And we'll see if we can incorporate that and see if council would be supportive that. There is no second reading on this. This is a resolution. I'm sorry, miss. I could not hear you. There is a second reading. Oh, there is a second reason. Oh, sorry. Sorry. I thought through I just asked her if there was and we misunderstood. So anyway, I don't know what more we can do. For those of you who've spoken in opposition today, and I don't know how this vote will go. But if the motion does pass, the interaction I've had with Saddle has been very positive. They've been more forthcoming than many of the other drilling companies that I've dealt with over the years. And when this gas well request came to us back in 09 or 06 or whenever it was many moons ago now, I will tell you I was in opposition to it because I didn't think it was the right place, it was too close to residences. And I must have had a hundred people in Fandom Farms who came out in support of it and were upset with me for being against it. So my, my times have changed. And it was all about I need the money, you know, this, that, and the other. And so, as times change, as the neighborhood turns over, opinions change as well. But I will tell you, the council hears you all. We can't agree with you all, and we have to make a decision. But it's not that we don't hear you, and it's not that we don't consider your concerns, and we try to mitigate them as much as we can. But then while we don't have a lot of people in the audience tonight who are coming for saying, I hope you let this happen, I will tell you that I've heard from many who do want it to happen because once again they're concerned and consider it of the revenue that they may get off the well. So anyway, I just wanted to add my thoughts to that and then we have a motion for approval with the stipulations from Mr. Sheppard. So I'll ask for your votes. I'm sorry. And the motion passes unanimously. Thank you, Council. And thank you to all who came this evening. Next, we'll go to citizen participation. Miss subpoena, do we have any citizen wishing to speak? Thank you, Mr. Yoloton. First, we have Carl Rintles. Rintles? Uh-oh, okay. Sorry, right. No problem. Caleb Williams. Caleb Williams? Yes committee. I'm going to go to the committee. Members of the city council. My name is Renee Perez. I've been a citizen of on since 1989. A homeowner of 1611 Reverst Street since 2003. UTA graduate with a bachelor's of science in interdisciplinary studies and a minor mechanical Since 2003, UTA graduate with the Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies and a minor mechanical engineering and a six-time member of the world-famous UT Arlington Formula SAE team with five top-10 finishes and one championship. I claim the city inadvertently created a safety hazard by leaving an un paved path from the homeowners driveway at 1701 Reaver, my next door neighbor, through the city sidewalk to the street. This gap is 1.5 feet by 4 feet wide, 1.5 feet wide by 4 feet long, that runs along the driveway, the city port, grottex, port this past Friday as part of the current street reconstruction project. I had been in touch with City Engineer Chris Funches for almost two weeks prior, and he initially said, I needed to sign a document to allow an incursion onto my shared property line. I was expecting to be told when I could come downtown to sign this document without being notified one way or another, the driveway was poured creating the safety hazard. I have sent the email chain to my City Council person, Lana Wolfe, with a picture of the safety hazard outlined in red. Only after I emailed Chris, did he notify me that an adjustment could not be done per a strict interpretation of current city ordinance. I claim the city has the wisdom to see beyond the letter of the ordinance and allow an adjustment to be made to correct the safety hazard. Finally, I can't help but think that this will impact the price of the home at 1701 Reaver if the homeowner Juan Lopez decides to sell. Thank you. Thank you, sir. So my first staff will be in touch with you. Regina B. Hello, thanks for allowing me to come back here. During the rebuttal stage, there were certain mentions of not having any VOCs or benzene in the Barnett-Shale gas. I'm sorry I was distracted. I was on, I was trying to get some material from Dr. Epstein, whose paper was being discussed. So I just want to read this. Dr. Epstein referred to a TCEQ flyover Barnett Shale study done in 2009. Benzene was detected at 21 monitoring sites. It's a catargoary one carcinogen linked to leukemia and children. Two sites required immediate action for readings over 180 parts per billion. The safe limit is one part per billion. That's what our children, that's the hazard our children are facing here. Benzine was detected at one well at 15,000 quarts per billion. There was also mention of the fact that there is continuous real-time monitoring. We know that there isn't. There was mention of the fact that floor cameras are used. I know and you all know that I know that the city does not own a floor camera. We had those discussions last summer. And so I want to express our deep disappointment and this is not just for me a livable Arlington but the 600 people who wrote to you last last week through us for the decision you have made. I understand the constraints within which you make those decisions. But we also know that good science lived experiences told us that this is not a good thing. There was mention of the street, Glenmore, staging from there. That's the street I was referring to. That's where my son spent years of his life playing with his friends who are not there anymore because of the drilling. And I really hope that in the future you'll look at all the research, not just what's presented by one side before you make these decisions because the health, the wellness, the safety of our children depend on it. That's why I'm here every week. I don't want to be, I don't want to burden you with the same arguments. But I think it's really important. This is the community people come to raise their children. You know, we lived in Arlington because while I commuted to SMU, because we thought this was a good place to live. And now I can honestly tell you, for UTA faculty, this is the game. Do not buy a house if there's a 600 piece foot of land, somewhere in proximity that somebody could put a rig on, or if there's a drill site because more wells are coming. I guess we'll learn 300 feet. If there's a 300 piece of empty land somewhere, don't buy a house near it. And this is not just me speaking, this is what people know. I know all my friends at Fan in Farms. It was a very popular neighborhood with UT and faculty. A lot of them are not there anymore. So I hope you'll keep that in mind. Thank you. Thank you, ma'am. And those are all the speakers that I have for this evening. I do have one other announcement. Tonight was our last night to meet in this room for our evening council meeting. This was a temporary move while we renovated the old council chambers downstairs where we used to meet for every evening meeting. And so next council meeting on March 20th will be meeting in the new chamber. And we invite everyone to come at 6 o'clock for an official ribbon cutting of your new chamber. And it's been kind of an inconvenience, particularly for staff having to switch between afternoon setup and the evening setup. And it's not as convenient, I think, for the public, for the evening meeting, but come and join us on March 20th for the ribbon cutting. We hope to see you there. With that, we are adjourned. Oh, I'm sorry. We are not adjourned. Miss Dr. Myers had an announcement to make as well. I'm sorry. That's OK, new race. Just really quick. This Saturday, May 10th from 9 to 10 30. I'm having a walk-in-talk town hall. It'll include a tour of the new Riverside Legacy Science Center, which has been overhauled. It'll also include a walk-in. So please, if you to family-friendly events, so bring your family and friends. This, again, this Saturday 9 to 10 30 River Legacy Science Center. We'll start from there. Thank you very much. All right have I missed anybody else? I don't want to do it again. Thank you we are adjourned. Our adjourn.