I'd now like to call the Arlington City Council to order and we're very honored to have the pastor of First Baptist Church of Arlington, Dr. Dennis Wiles here. And Dr. Wiles, I understand you've got some construction going out when we look at our window here. Could you share with us a little bit before you lead us in the prayer and the pledge of allegiance if you can share with us what your building over there. I'd be happy to do that. Thank you, Mayor. Well, we're actually building a brand new preschool children's building and I think the slide you see there is the view that you'll have from here at City Hall coming from the north side of our property and it's a two-story 50,000 square foot building and if if you go on the other slide, it's from the south side of the building on UTA Boulevard. And so some of you probably noticed, we have had to do some preparation work. And we have 300 preschoolers enrolled on Sunday morning at First Baptist, and we have another 200 who are enrolled in our weekday programs. And right now, they're scattered across about four buildings on our campus. So we're going to try to put them all in one building. That's the plan. And so we had to, many, many people don't know that our church actually owns Mission Arlington. So we had to do some restructuring of how things work at Mission Arlington. So we could make room to put this children's building. And the good news is we're able to still provide for the needs of our community with food and furniture and those kinds of things so we're grateful for that. So, you know, we're excited about it. Will's right now it's a lot of dirt but eventually y'all will see something much nicer. And so we're very grateful for the partnership we have with UDI. So we're excited about it. And I would just say if I can, Mayor, as a pastor at First Baptist, I just wanna thank y'all for all your hard work for our city. It's a labor of love for you and we know that. Thank you for making our city a safe place to live, a good place to raise our families. For all your hard work, your work and economic development, it makes a difference. And I've raised my family here, and now my grandchildren are being raised here in Arlington. And a lot of that has to do with the leadership of our city, and y'all are the ones that really help to make that happen. So as a pastor and as a dad and a grand dad and a citizen here, I just wanna say thank you to the city council and to you, Jeff, for all that y'all do for us. I'm particularly partial to Catherine, Atlanta, and you since y'all are church members. All the rest of y'all are welcome to come. Our church is well, but anyway, we're grateful for the work you do, so thank you. So let me pray for us. Father, today we're grateful for many things. You have blessed us in ways that are really beyond our ability to express. And tonight we stand here in freedom and we're able to have dialogue about what's happening in our community and we have people who are in conversation with us that we've had the freedom to choose, to elect them to serve in these positions. And we thank you, Lord, for these freedoms that we have. And we realize that there are people across the world who look at us and the system that we have engaged in governing ourselves. And it's become the envy of many people because of the beauty of it. And so it's not lost on us that we live in a land that's marked by this kind of freedom. And there are meetings just like this that happen all over our country every evening. And we're just grateful for it. We thank you for this particular one. Lord, as a member of this community, I'm deeply grateful for the men and women who lead our city. And I just want to thank you for their service, for their sacrifice, that their families make, so that they can play the roles they play in our community, for how they pay attention to our needs and our safety, how they work to provide for all of our first responders. And I'm just grateful for the energy they bring to this task. And so, Lord, I pray that You'll give them wisdom and guidance and direction, and that we might honor you, that we might care for people in this community and that we will continue to be a place where people can flourish and they can rear their children and they can be blessed because of the partnerships that we have on so many fronts here in the city of Arlington. So we thank you for this community tonight. We thank you for your blessings. We thank you for your love for us and how you tangibly demonstrated. And for those of us who are Christians, we're on an ancient journey now in the Easter season. We thank you for the tangible expression of your love to us through your son. And as a follower of Jesus, I pray in his name, amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. Honor the Texas flag. A pledge allegiance to the Texas one state under God, one and indivisible. Thank you, Dr. Walsh. Thank you. We'll now move to appointments to boards and commissions. And I'll turn to our city secretary, Ms. Mary Sapino. Thank you, Mayor. Tonight we have 21 appointments to boards and commissions to the citizens bond committee. Dixon Holman, Chair, Martha Canard, Richard Kerr, Roderick Penson, Larry Hurley, Carl Warren, Donald Gatsky, Michelle Duel, Julie Vu, Steve Barnes, Mary Phillips, David Wynn, Val Gibson, Michael Vitale, Brett Bell, Gail Burdine, Andrew Peel, Tim Laytonon, and Shirley Terry O. To the emergency physician's advisory board, Caitlin Severson, place seven, and to the building code of Board of Appeals, Brian Perry, place nine. Okay, do we have a motion for approval? for approval. We have a motion for approval from Councilmember Wolff and a second from Councilmember Thalman, police catcher votes. Motion passes. Miss Alpino, if you could go over speaker guidelines in general decorum. Yes, thank you, Mayor. We ask that citizens and other visitors and attendants assist in preserving the order and day quorum of this meeting. Any person making personal, profane, sliding doors or threatening remarks are who becomes disruptive while addressing the mayor and council, while attending the City Council meeting may be removed from the council chambers. For speakers tonight, when your name is called, please come to the microphone at the podium and state your name and address for the record. During public hearings, the applicant will be asked to speak first and will be given five minutes to make their presentation and will be allowed three minutes for any rebuttal. Speakers in support or an 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 promptly when you hear the bell and we ask that you address your comments to the mayor and council Okay, we'll move to approval of items from executive session miss subpoena Thank you mayor. We have one item for approval from executive session determining necessity of acquiring street right-of-way easement rights slope easement rights and drainage easement rights on property known as 2001 Curry road Arlington, Texas relative to to the Eden Road, US Highway 287 to Calendar Road Project. Mr. Peno, are there any speakers on this item? No speakers, ma'am. Then I'll call for a motion. I have a motion for approval from Mr. Shepherd and a second from Mr. Glassbee Police I'm going to start with the next item. I'm going to start with the second item. I'm going to start with the second item. I'm going to start with the second item. I'm going to start with the second item. I'm going to start with the second item. I'm going to start with the second item. there are no more questions. Okay, seeing none, Mr. Pinot, are there any speakers? No speakers, Mayor. Okay, then I'll call for a motion. I have a motion for approval from Ms. Walman, a second from Ms. Thalman, please cast your votes. Motion passes. I just wanted to register my vote as its extension due to my being out of town. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Myers. Thank you, ma'am. Next, we'll move to approval of Consent Agenda, and again, we'll turn to our city secretary, Ms. Mary Sapino. Thank you, Mayor. Consent Agenda this evening contains 10 minute orders, two ordinances, and three resolutions. The minute orders seek to authorize one through three, purchase of a closed circuit television sanitary sewer inspection system, library furniture for the George W. Hawks downtown library, and various ground maintenance and service equipment for Texas Rangers Golf Club. Four and five annual requirements contract for traffic, signal controllers, controller cabinets, and hardened ethernet switches, and fill material. Six and seven renewal of annual requirements contract for athletic infield supplies and temporary personnel services, eight contract for retirement committee consultant, nine construction contract for Abrams Street Cooper Street to Collins Street, ten contract modification number three to the engineering services contract for Eden Road, US Highway 287 to calendar road. The ordinance is seek to authorize zoning case PD 15-11R1, CROGAR expansion and fueling center at 945 West Lamar Boulevard. Number 12, zoning case PD 17-14, the Green Oak School at 500 Houston Street, and the Resolution Seek to Authorize 13 Best Friends Animal Society Grant, Memorandum of Understanding, and 14 authorizations to retain the law firm of Lynn Ross and Ganoway LLP, and the law of sub-Caneth e East. Mr. Peno, do we have any speakers in support or opposition of the items that appear on the consent agenda? Mayor, we just had the applicant on 8-11 if questions. If you all had questions. Okay. Then I'll call for a motion We have a motion for approval from Miss Thalman and a second from this Walman. Please catch your votes Motion passes here. I may madam secretary. Madam Secretary, please show me as abstaining on item 8.9. Yes sir. Next we'll move to public hearings. Ordnance is first reading and resolutions and the first one is 111 specific use permit, SUP08-31R1, cornerstone drill site, 542-7 MATLock Road, and I'll call upon Ms. Jinsy Topal, our interim director of community development and planning department. Thank you, Mayor. Item 11.1 is a specific use permit, a men-ment request, to establish a drill zone for the cornerstone drill site located on 54427 Matlock Road, generally located east of Matlock Road and south of southeast Green Augs Boulevard. The site is currently developed as a gas well site with three well heads at 349 speed setback from the nearest protected use. The operator plans to drill four more wells on site and is requesting a setback reduction to 319 feed through this SUP amendment. At your place is the recently obtained support of waiver from the applicant, making the support go up to 70.8% and hence now only requiring a simple majority vote. The applicant, Kevin Strasser, is here to present the case on behalf of Total E&P Barnett. Thank you Mayor. Good evening Council. My name is Kevin Strausser. The total representative and the government relations and public affairs manager for a total, also known as TEP Barnett. I was able to get through some of this information with some of you all but wanted to go ahead and for the record just get it on the. And so have all information out there. Have from Don, it's a really quick presentation, then I'll answer any questions you may have. Back in just a refresh rate, where we are, we're in total EMP Barnett USA. We're also known as TEP Barnett. It's our shorter name in 2009, total EMP USA became a 25% interest in the Chesapeake Energy at the time. In late 2016, total USA acquired the remaining 75% ownership from the Chesapeake energy. We have our Barnett Shell headquarters in downtown Fort Worth. We have about 300 employees currentlyett shell and over 2,700 wells and in your city We have 34 pad sites and about a hundred and fifty eight wells currently one of the things I did want to mention is total just didn't a oil-aggast company and one of the things that I'm very proud of of our company is that We also although we're the fourth largest energy company in the world, we also have a very large presence in solar, we're one of the largest solar companies in the US, and also we're one of the largest wind providers in the world, and also one of the world leaders of bioenergy development. So we encompass all the energies throughout the world, not just oil and gas, but we obviously here we do, we're very specific on that. You can see here, as it was mentioned, we're located at 5427 Matlock Road, just about a mile and a half south of 20 on Matlock Road, on Craven's Park Drive. One of the things I wanted to certainly mention is that nothing has significantly changed at this site since we were first approved with original SUP and the six wells that were approved. The reason for the hearing today is established the drill zone for the 2011 ordinance. The PNZ unanimously approved the SUP in the drill zone early January. The cornerstone pads site complines with all local, state, and federal laws. We had received no citation, complaints or issues reported to total city staff or any state agency and the site is inspected daily by the Barnett by our staff by the Tech Barnett. By this site we can almost we still develop about 2000 less swords that assigned and trusted us to develop those minerals and so they will benefit from the the wells that we drill in the future. We do have some of our safety things I wanted to touch on was we do have 24 hour telemetry on the wells, which means we have people looking at these wells 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and if there's any issues with the wells, I can shut those wells in remotely, and then we send people out to see what the issues may be. We also, per year, ordinance have 24 hour monitoring of live cameras at the properties, so we can see who's coming in and out and if there's any issues or concerns if we get calls and our security department we also have a rover system where we have on in-house policemen that actually go and investigate our sites and look at any theft to make sure if we get calls or complaints. We do quarterly and annual inspections by the City of Arlington Gaswell Department and upon if there's any issues we We do have a fuller camera testing at least twice a year. And if there are any new wells such in this case, we will go back once the wells are operational and producing and fuller a couple more times throughout the year to make sure everything is the way it should be. Our staff on site wears LEA monitors to monitor for measures of H2S, flammable CO2 and oxygen to make sure that there's not any hazards associated with that. And then we continue our fire department training between the total and the city of Arlington. We had a training in 2016 and we're also playing another one for this year. And some of the environmental programs, I just wanna put some of the information out there and some of the things that we do behind the scenes and since we're in compliance with the state law, we don't submit the paperwork for it, but if we're ever audited, we have that. And one is the TCEQ VOC's allowable emissions at our site. And at this site, we do investigate that to make sure within the scope of the law and we're at 4% of what the TCQ allows us to be at this site at this time. So we're 96% below what the TCQ allows us to be at. And additionally every year, typically we do a gas analysis of all the gas coming from the site to see what's in that gas. We want to make sure it's good for the market and what is in that gas. And in our last testing in November, we are 1.5% of VOC compounds were in that gas, meaning we don't have the isobutanes, the pentanes, hexanes, hymptanes, and the octanes that are commonly thrown out there. And these reports, they're not in that get in our gas stream here at this side. One of the things that I would encourage people to do, if they do have questions or do have concerns, is it called TCQ, call the city, and have the investigators or the inspectors come out and to the site and we will provide all that paperwork to those investigators. You can see here, we have one side of the wall. This is the closest one to the residents, a close-up shot and this is about halfway to the homes. You can see the 600 foot set back here. And wanted to point out a few numbers here. The two buildings to the west, the two closest buildings, 319 feet and 340 feet. Those two buildings have support petitions associated with them, and they have signed those support petitions and submitted those. The building to the north directly north, about 330 feet, is a portable building there at the church, and which was brought up the last time I want to make clarification the playground is owned by the church about 420 feet away. It's owned by the church. They obviously support us it's their property they signed a lease they signed the application for us and they subpoena support petition as well. As you can see to the east the homes range from this to the drill zone, not the well, had the drill zone range anywhere from 542 feet to 610 feet, and then the park to the south is over 1100 feet. You can see here as it was mentioned, the staff report that we have 71% of the waivers obtained, which comes to a simple majority vote. You can see here, as I mentioned, the transportation route comes from my 20 and goes down just under a mile and a half down a mat lock to our pad site. As far as our neighborhood outreach, we contacted surfstoneers initially within 600 foot. We set up a meeting, gave them notifications to them. We delivered notifications. I hand delivered notifications the day before the meeting to make sure they're new about it. We hosted that meeting on January 10th where no residents within the 600 foot setback came to the meeting. We did have a second residential meeting. We sent those notifications out and we hosted that meeting. There wasn't any residence within the 600 feet that attended that meeting with Councilman Talman. And but we did have some residents of Arlington. We had three residents from Arlington that came to obtain information about what our plans were. We continue and during all this time we continue to be open to answer any questions and I haven't received any calls or complaints directly to me or through the city from what I understand. Lastly and all this is my last slide and some of the commitments that we're willing to do is construct the remaining sides of the masonry wall, which we have one side built will construct the other three sides will install wall sound walls during the drilling and completion operation of the site will do 24 hour sound monitoring during the drilling and completion operations. set of a diesel generation rig and so it'll be essentially a lot quieter at that site without the diesel generation and then we're committed to restrict truck traffic from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. 7 to 9 a.m. and then 3 to 5 p.m. during the drilling completions with the request of the Arlington ISD. So I got to do a lot of the information really quickly but I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have. Any questions council? be happy to answer any questions you may have. Any questions, Council? Okay. Mr. Parker. Yes, sir. Have you received any signatures from somebody that has taken a royalty money or signing bonus and then signed the petition against you operating. A support petition? No, or just a letter. A petition against a petition against you operating. Not that I'm aware of, I have not. In other words, in other words, have any residents within the inside the 600 foot boundary signed a petition against you operating and taken royalty? I do not know that question. I know that there is a petition out there that was on the internet on Facebook that you could go and assign against and oppose but I don't know I haven't seen those pages to know if there are residents within the 600 foot or less or or royalty owners of that matter. Thank you for it. Sorry. Any other questions or comments? Okay thank thank you. Yes, sir. Thank you. Peno you want to start calling the speakers up then sure that we have and when you come up if you can state your name and address We have nine speakers and 17 non-speakers all in opposition right our first speaker is Seneca Dickerson Thank you. Good evening, Council. Cinec Cedricerson, 1921, Roe's Elk, or Allington, Texas, 708. In 2011, the City of Allington created 600 foot setbacks from drill sites to protected uses like home, schools, parks, daycare centers in order to protect health and safety arts citizens. Now, a French company called Total is asking for reduction of this distance to 319 feet, a waiver that poses significant health and safety risks. Since our ordinance was written, public health research has shown that even 600 feet is not long enough to distance to protect public health. I would like to share with you how I have personally been impacted from the effects of gas drilling activities. December 2, 2011, this is my experience documented from that time. This evening I smelled an unfamiliar, very sickly, almost sweet smell around New York Avenue and Sublet close to my house. Earlier today, I stopped on Brier Path, close to New York Avenue, near Bui High School, at a very low elevation, and smelled the same smell, but only much more potent. This chemical smell made me disoriented, anxious, and nauseated within a few seconds. I was somehow by the mercy from God, able to leave the area with the killer headache that affected me for the rest of the day. This was a life-changing moment that I will never, ever forget. Local police officer was there at the same time looking for a supposed meth house. He was one of the more senior officers. He knew that it wasn't as well for my meth house. And unfortunately he was in the same area where a plume of chemicals was present. And he got sick the same way I did. He was so furious, he told me he wanted to sue everyone and anyone who caused him to feel like this, but he couldn't. Because Arlington spokesman came immediately out and said, you're not allowed to talk about this because he was wearing a blue, He was in his uniform on that day. My second experience. April 17, 2012. This has to do with the brood aside, which is located at I 20 and Park Springs. And my notes from that date. As I was driving home in I-20, I noticed huge clouds of what looked like dust released into our air shed at Bruder Drillside. It turned out that these racelica crystals released into our air shed during fracturing. After my complaint, fire department came to investigate. Arlington City staff made a site visit and told me in an email that the SUX had not been properly installed during the fracking phase of the operation to stop the silica crystals from being released into our air shed. For those who do not know, silicate dust causes lung disease and lung cancer. And my experience at that time was I started choking up and I was on the opposite side of I-20 when I was taking pictures of this plume. Mystics and if you can wrap up your thought here. Okay, I'll try and go quickly. My third experience, September 12th, Fisk trail, full of dead fish, all the way from New York Avenue with their multiple fracksites, all the way to 360. This is extensively documented, big, large, white, positive foam in the creek. And the Texas Department of Agriculture came out detesting and they said it is not caused by pesticides with which the city of Arlington was trying to convince me at the time. And finally, the traffic is ridiculous and matlock. Any one of you who travel matlock, you know, it's a joke. And having the tracking, well, drilling traffic, prevented only till five o'clock is not going to cut it. The rush hour continues till at least 7 p.m. And at the end, I'm respectfully asking you to deny total request for a waiver from the 600 foot. Our gas well ordinance requires. Thank you. Thank you. Dean Osborne. Hi, my name is Dean Osborne. 5535 Silver Maple Drive. I live on the street behind Cornerstone drill site I've been a resident Arlington for over 25 years and I've been involved in some of these gas issues for 10 I see a lot of new faces I see some old familiar faces And I've seen the same problem in front of us again Drilling company, one another setback. It's not our fault they put the frack pond in the wrong place. If they just continually change this thing up, this was originally from Chesapeake. Never to require a residential setback. It was on their website. to be a resident. I was going to be a resident. I was going to be a resident. I was going to be a resident. I was going to be a resident. I was going to be a resident. I was going to be a resident. I was going to be a resident. I was going to be a resident. I was going to be a resident. I was going to be a resident. I was going to be a resident. I was going to be a cornerstone. So that's why you get a lot of opposition from the neighborhood because we've been lied to every step of the way. They told us when they got the first two, the first SUP on their website, the lady that was part of this deal with Chesapeake said we will never need a setback. It's over two football fields away from the residents. Now, the 600 foot is supposed to protect homes, schools, parks, daycares. I don't care about businesses, I don't care about businesses, I don't care about churches. I don't care about empty lots, but they get to vote on whether the setback goes through or not. We have empty lots. Cornerstone has like three votes on this thing. They signed off on three different lots and they're being counted three and the people that live there only get counted one. We should have more importance than a church than a business. It's only there for eight to ten hours a day. A church that's only there on the weekends of a couple hours during the day. This is where we live 24, 7, 365. And we want to protect our property. We want our kids to grow up and our grandkids to grow up healthy And that's what we want you guys put the 600 foot down in 2011 Live by it just like you live by the no smoking rules that you put together Would you give me a setback to light up cigarette here right now? No, because you don't think it's healthy Do you have proof that it's unhealthy if you smoke outside? No, but you don't think it's healthy. Do you have proof that it's unhealthy if you smoke outside? No, but you don't want me to smoke in your parks. But you'll let the rafting of chemicals, fumes, garbage, whacked from an industrial site into our neighborhoods with no problem. You keep rubber stamping these approvals for setbacks. Now we're down to 319. When we go in for $2.99. I know it's in our future. You guys are here to protect us. We're the tax paying citizens. We vote for you guys. We trust you and we honor what you do. You guys do a great job. We just want you to be We trust you and we honor what you do. You guys do a great job. We just want you to be with us on this. Thank you. Um Shazad Azir. After residing in Olinton for the first 31 years of my life, I now live at 1205 Green Hill with Trill and Mansfield, Texas. I just wanted to share my experiences to why after 31 years I left Olinton, which seems to be a little bit more common of a prominent audience than I realized. But after graduating from UTA, I was working for all into NISD as a special education teacher at Barnett Junior High. It took me a minute, but I finally saved up enough money to buy my first home, which of course, and that's a dream come true, literally. And this is after all, it's supposed to be the dream city. Well, the dream was very short lived. And I'll admit, I was a little naive. The home I purchased was right next to Lake Arlington Baptist Church, where there are now 16 gas wells. I won't ramble on waste time with the odors, the headaches, the noise, the worst part that no one has mentioned so far is the how the house vibrates. The baby crib shakes. You can't live on the first floor. At night everyone had to move upstairs. It just wasn't livable downstairs. But ultimately, after four years, I reached out to the gas company because I had to consider the safety and well-being of myself and my family. Well, they sent me a letter which I have in my folder here, dated July 2014, and they told me, and I quote, we do not anticipate drilling additional wells in this unit. That was July 2014, between September and December of 2014, 10, what's 10 new wells were constructed. After they sent me a letter that I have right here telling me that weren't gonna drill any more wells in that particular site. Well, it gets worse because on December 28th, as we were celebrating my kid's sister's birthday at my house, emergency crews showed up. Arlington then extended the operating hours for 17 consecutive days. It was one excuse after another, but in an email that I attained here at City Hall on January 13th, and I want to quote this so I don't get it wrong. Generate 13th quote, we have total control now, but there are a few things we need to finish before we feel comfortable leaving it overnight. There was no delay in the work on site. Less than two months later, they lost control again. This time the Oletson Fire Department actually showed up in rotisciutation because 1500 fluids had poured off site after they lost control. Again, nothing was done. Less than one month later after that, on April 11th, they after complete loss again, more than 650,000 unregulated fluids poured off that site. It took Halibur in 23 hours to finally get the well plugged. And if you're not familiar with construction of frac wells, after the fluid stops, the gas starts. That's where you have a serious situation. The fire department did evacuate a quarter mile at that time and we're soon going to evacuate more. But it just highlights just one of the many potential dangers that fracking imposes when it's done this close to homes to schools. But more importantly, I just want to make sure that you note. And while I appreciate what the industry does in terms of using their technology to monitor for safety, there is absolutely no reason for them to be within a few hundred feet of a home or a school. They have the technology, including Total E&P, to after they drill down vertically one or two miles, to then extend the well horizontally, well over 5,000 feet. So there's no excuse, it's other than cheap land deals, that they should be that close to a home. On the honesty at this point, I don't even really know what else to address other than just to say, I just hope and pray that you'll do what's in the best interest of the families that live here in Arlington so they don't continue to leave like I had to. Thank you. And I like your jacket, by the way. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Ann John. Thank you. And Johnston. Okay. Pass. Kim Feele. Kim Feele, 409 Elm Street. I've taken a little hiatus from seeing you guys. I was here pretty regularly when we were having these votes regularly. And I would bring Harriet Irby with me. And she passed away a few days ago, and we're gonna miss her. It was reported that just the people left the Barnett to escape $2 billion worth of pipeline contracts. And August of 2016 Bloomberg reported the Williams partners, that's the midstream pipeline company. They planned to revitalize the Barnett shell by a conditional gas gathering arrangement and they're going to be tying the monthly midstream pipeline fees for the gathering and delivering the fuel to the price of gas traded on the New York Mercantill Stock Exchange because we had this big gas glut because everybody was fracking and then the price of natural gas died. That's why they left the Barnett show. It wasn't economical. So this new pipeline contract is supposed to make this economical. Between 2016 and 2019, the cumulative cash flows are going to be about 240 million lower, but higher thereafter through through 2029, the Barnett gathering area is expected, expected, therefore, to realize additional drilling. That's why we're here tonight, and improve volumes. So some of the old wells that are offline are gonna be coming on. Jane Lynn, she's got a drill site, they're reworking the wells over there. That was an old Chesapeake site too. I'm living over here by the Cowboy Stadium's old Chesa a drill site. They're reworking the wells over there. That was an old chest piece site too. I'm living over here by the Cowboys Stadium's old chest piece site. When are they gonna put a rig up there? The new Barnett producer, Total, they are committing to an annual 40 million drilling commitment through 2018. So we know why they're here. So if we deny them and hold to our 600 foot setback, we get them off the loop. They're trying to comply with this contract, but you guys can do your job and get them out of the loop. You have to now weigh public risk and road damages. With your 15,000 dollar permit, you get for each permit, the city gets, and any additional royalties. for each permit the city gets and any additional royalties. Total had in the last quarter inspections, three failed inspections, accessibility, entry approach, not properly displayed signage. We've got that little playground that's not under the, protect it used, it's a building that's protected, but not a playground, so it's what, 211 feet from a storage tank. Just 21 feet away from being illegal. Well, today my husband was at UTA. He's working a construction job. They're building dorms. And twice, he drove into a plume of atmos gas. This is not midstream, this isn't the upstream where he were fracking, but the downstream, the atmos gas, the odorized gas. Let me remind you that the pad sites have odorless gas. So atmos can come and the fire department can come because they have advanced notice with our noses. We know what happened in Dallas a few days ago and 11 year old was killed. We don't have any warning if we've got too much rain, pipe separating, and breaking stuff under the ground building up. When it goes, it's going to go. And no one's going to know it because it aren't going to smell it. But at UTA, we had two events, one in the Northwest Quadrant Amabric Stadium. And then the next one was at Mitchell and Davis. My husband went to the cop shop at UTA and told them there was a strong smell of gas. And so they were just getting it on the police radar. So we don't, we need to be winding down this old school fossil fuel. We need to be leading like the city of Georgetown, Texas with their 100% renewable. That's their goals. That's what they're doing. That's what they're doing. Let's be a leader. And so I just want to leave with Roxanne Thalman's Facebook quote. She's 100% against urban drilling. I hope you guys will lead as well. Thank you. Ingrid Kelly. Thank you again. Today I'm in great Kelly 902 Bell and meet 76014 today. I'm actually presenting a letter on behalf of Sandra den Braber. She lives at 114 Ray Street 76010. Less than 600 feet from a gas and oil well. I'm gonna read her letter really quickly. She's addressing you all, please do not change the drilling ordinance vote no. I was poisoned by the toxic drilling on UTA property less than 600 feet from my home. In cold weather, cooling inversions, pool the pollution back to the earth, trying to warm the earth. Their pollution would set off my carbon monoxide detector, and I have no gas in my home. The smell outside was like I was in the middle of an oil refinery. My blood was tested for drilling chemicals, and many were there. So she shares her lab report, and I'm going to interpret this for you. She had these following chemicals. Ethyl benzene, and it travels through the blood, it's stored in the bone marrow and fat tissue until it's changed into metabolites in the liver and bone marrow. These are harmful metabolites in the body. She had MPX-O-L-E. Produces a vapor that irritates the skin, eyes, respiratory tract, and can produce a systemic toxicity through inhalation or ingestion. She had hexing. These vapors are heavier than air, used in salvents, paint thinners, and as a chemical reaction medium. Exposure affects the central nervous system, can cause dizziness, headache, slight nausea. Chronic exposure causes problems in muscles, creating weakness, fatigue, and blurred vision. Leasions along the respiratory track from the nose to the lungs have been noted. There's no info and reproduction. However, in rats, they found that it causes testicular damages. The last two are very flammable. Two, methyl pentane and three, methyl pentane. These have the highest warnings for pregnancy to avoid during pregnancy. You must wear masks, protect the skin and clothing, do not wash these away in the sewer. They attack plastic. They are both central nervous system depressants can cause paralysis, euphoria, muscle weakness, and nausea to mention a few. Maybe all of Arlington should be tested. Who will be liable? Who will pay for these tests? Will the city provide the residents of the home at Cornerstone or any future drill sites? The protection that the material safety data sheets recommends that I'm sure the workers working at these drill sites have. Thank you very much. Thank you. I'm here speaking for Liverpool Arlington and in the last few days I have said to you on behalf of letters of opposition to this variance on behalf of 588 Arlington R&D I'm here speaking for Liverpool Arlington and in the last few days I have said to you on behalf of the letters of opposition to this variance on behalf of 588 Arlington residents, 588 constituents. And in those letters, people have thoughtfully expressed concerns about emissions, toxic exposures, health effects, loss of property values, proximity to possible accidents like the one at Little Road. Many of these fears have been very well documented, both in our lived experience and in published research. One of those letters was from Councilwoman Julia Bergen, and I just want to quote what she added to her letter. She says, one often wonders why go to the work of setting up rules regarding setbacks, etc. When it seems that they're usually apt to get waivers, the rules are there for a purpose to protect nearby adjacent properties from the negatives of unwise development too close to homes, schools, churches, parks, etc. The reduced setbacks asked for in this item will reduce property values, downgrade property of many citizens who live back close to an industrial project and eventually reduce values for the whole area. Wot know, she capitalized that, to protect nearby citizens plus the rest of the community for the bad reputation which will result if this exception is allowed. Then down go lots of property valuations throughout the city and hence lowering property taxes values for the city. There is a reason that we have the ordinance with its restrictions. Please uphold it. I also want to talk a little bit about the neighborhood. We all looked at the map that was projected, the 600 foot map, and there were a group of houses right on Silver Maple Drive that back into the drill site that had not signed waivers. We had the opportunity to talk to some of those residents, and they were unable to come here. I just wanted to report on what they said. We talked to the people. So these are the homes at 5,500, 5510, 5520, 5524. And I'll give you the originals as soon as I'm done. First, they express strong support. And I'm going to give you the information that you have. I'm going to give you the information that you have. I'm going to give you the information that you have. I'm going to give you the originals as soon as I'm done. First they expressed strong opposition. They described a horrific experience of living through this the last few years. They also described getting harassing messages and letters from total, which basically I was told set to them the first three people to sign a waiver will get $500. Nobody else gets anything. And this is how that number probably was raised to 70%. And this has been our lived experience at other drill sites and other neighborhoods. And I hope this will be stopped. In closing, I just want to remind you again of the public health risk. When this started a few years ago, there weren't too many studies. Now there have been hundreds of published studies which document the health risks that our families and our children face when we live this close to drilling in a town which has close to 400 gas wells and it seems the number you all want to keep allowing companies to raise the number. I'm quoting from Dr. Ann Epstein of the Lubbock Board of Health. She says, the oil and gas sector is the largest industrial source of volatile organic compounds, which are dangerous because they include hazardous air pollutants, such as the carcinogen benzene, and because they're precursors to ozone, which is also hazardous to health. Six epidemiologic studies demonstrate that people who live in close proximity to multiple oil and gas wells, which is all of Arlington, all of us, and all our children. Indencely developed, shale basins have experienced an increased likelihood of childhood leukemia, asthma attacks, congenital heart defects, low birth weight, and preterm birth compared to people who live with no production wells nearby. You know, when people look back at this time, in our history, look at this time in Arlington, they won't judge us by the shiny buildings we build, and the shiny new things we leave behind, they'll judge us by how we treat our most vulnerable children. There is no reason to keep pushing industrial activity on communities now that we know what the risks are. So on behalf of the 588 constituents whose letters I sent to you, I respectfully urge you all to please stop this. Please stop pushing gas wells closer and closer to our homes. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you. Cindy Fincher. Hi, my name is Cynthia Fincher. I live at 505 Rifle, Montreal. When I received a notice that there could be drilling closer to my home for the first time. I've lived in Arlington since 1999 and for the first time I wanted to leave. I wondered how much my property has already lost in value because we have a contract, a sense of safety. Our City Council has a duty to protect us. When the documents were sent around for people to sign that was based on this minimum safety standard at 600 feet, more and more evidence comes about the health hazards. It's well documented. And it is putting our actual lives at risk. And I kind of wondered, I thought, you know, talking tonight, this is awkward. I don't know the Emily post version of say, hey, please don't do something that could kill me. Please don't do something that could kill me. I had cancer. I've done chemotherapy. I'm thankful to God that I'm back at work. But this puts me at risk. And what I do every day, I'm a psychologist. I treat our veterans. I'm one of the only tricare psychologists in the area. I get up every day. I feel I contribute to this community. This puts my life at risk. And the difference between me being in this community, doing things behind the scenes that keep people's lives better versus me being put back into back to chemotherapy and probably not making it the second time, it's a big deal, it's our actual lives. What you decide tonight matters long term. There's more than enough evidence that this is dangerous. You live in a town with incredible university and you cannot get scientific data. You cannot get legitimate scientists to think that this is a safe thing. Last time I brought for most of you copies of my book, looking at how toxins affect human health and brain activity brought more copies tonight for people that didn't get one. I don't know if you realize, but in Boston, one of the ways that we, there was a change in the amount of lead put into gasoline. One of the major studies done in Boston is that at every birth, they took the placenta and they measured how much lead from lead to gasoline was in the placenta. And as they began to make changes in the amount of lead in the gasoline, the amount of lead in the placenta was dropping. People that talk about their concern for the unborn, when we allow these chemicals, we are putting toxic chemicals into the very building blocks of these new people. Every pregnant woman is an incredible risk. Now, some adults like me are more vulnerable than others. Some of you are blessed with great health, and so maybe you won't personally experience this. But every child becomes more vulnerable. As people age, they become more vulnerable. And what you're deciding, whatever money is involved here, of the cost, the long-term cost to the credibility, to the quality of the city, to your credibility with your citizens, that cost is too high. Please vote no. Thank you. Kathy Mitchell. Hi, my name is Kathy Mitchell. I live at 4601 branch view drive. And I don't live anywhere close to this particular well, but I do have a lot of concerns when it comes to urban fracking. And some of the things that we've been listening to here today, we hear that when the L.A.B. Seague well had the blowout and they had to evacuate the area and they evacuated it, what a quarter mile around. And you think about this is just a 600 foot setback that the city of Arlington has and we're asking the city of Arlington then to pretty much half that. And so you have to think about that health and safety risk. And so also, I wanted to point out that the homeowners are taxpayers and their citizens of this town. And I think that they should have the expectation that the city council will answer their pleas to not approve of this setback that the TOTAL is asking for, because they're after a quality of life and they are after good health and that should be protected. That is something that should be prioritized over commerce. So I do ask that you just support the homeowners that are asking you to turn down this request because I do think that that is something that and we do have to think of how we are taking care of the health and the safety of all of our homeowners and their children and keep in mind this is where they live as has been pointed out. This is where they live, this is where they play and this is where they breathe. So please put the homeowners concerns over that of the businesses. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Richard Goldie. Hello, I'm Richard Goldie from Dallas. I am the Co-Chair of Conservation for the Dallas-Cerah Club. I'm here for two reasons. Number one is, I think it's a very bad idea, very unjust to put these fracking wells next to people's homes. It's frankly an abomination. The second reason I'm here is my wife has asthma, and my granddaughter has asthma. I think everybody here knows that the asthma rate in areas that are highly fracked is three times the normal asthma rate. But what you may not know is that the incidence of Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's, heart disease and cancer, and premature bursts, is higher in areas that are heavily fract than normal. But not only that, congenital heart disease in newborn infants is also higher, and that requires surgery on a newborn infant. Don't do that to your community that you represent. There's better ways to make money and make Arlington a great city and let's move to clean energy like Georgetown and Denton. The price of electricity from solar and wind wholesale for three cents per kilowatt hour in Texas. That's half the cost of electricity from natural gas. No wonder companies like Amazon, Walmart, Google, Microsoft, and many others are putting their own solar panels all over their factories. No wonder there was only one natural one utility in the whole country that built an electrical plant that uses natural gas the last year. People don't want to pay more money for their energy. They need to and clean renewable energy is half the price of natural gas. We, okay, so you get your solar during the day and where you get your electricity from might. In Texas, the cost of wind energy at night is negative. There's so much of it. The generators will pay the wholesalers money to take their electricity at night. So what do you do if the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow? In our family, we just contracted this week to double our solar capacity, solar panel capacity, and supply all of our needs. In fact, even more. and supply all of our needs, in fact even more. And we were offered a contract to buy a small battery that can go in our garage and hold all the energy that we would use in our family for 24 hours. The cost of that, $1,400 is less than the cost of one trip to the hospital emergency room for an asthma attack. Let's move Arlington into the 21st century. With clean energy, call up solar city, call up sunfinity, any of these providers, they'll work with you. They'll give you a very good deal and you can have lower priced electricity that doesn't mess all these people up. We don't have to send all the oil and gas to China and to Mexico and kill people here. Go contact Elon Musk and ask him about the biggest factory under one roof in a world in Nevada that builds batteries. We could have a factory like that in Arlington. Thanks. Thank you. First, I want to thank you for the opportunity of speaking. Secondly, I would like to thank all the residents who spoke up tonight. I just recently moved to the area. I live in Dallas right now. But I'm here in part because some friends of mine, in East Texas, lost their home and their marriage because of the Keystone XL pipeline. There was water that was polluted, and it's no longer considered very drinkable water. So I would urge you to consider what your residents are telling you. It's very important if you want to be a dream city as opposed to a nightmare city. I suggest you consider the alternatives. Thank you very much. Thank you. Applause Deidira Ariano. Good evening. My name is Yadira Ariano. I'm here representing myself and also I am a Texas community health worker. I am very much opposed to this project. We are hearing from community members that this is a serious public health concern both to their families and to students nearby. I'm showing there is a boys and girls club nearby. I'm also showing that there is a Glen Harman Elementary School, 6.9 miles nearby. And being that we are from Houston, and our organization has represented and advocated for many families in public schools who have suffered the effects of exposure and releases. And we understand the detriment, the detriment to effects that these cause on our education. Also being that many of our students that are exposed to these chemicals are also low performing schools. We're seeing the correlation of low performing schools, low performance, and also its relationship to the oil and gas industry. I ask you to please reconsider this project. I oppose it in the name of public health. Thank you. Thank you. That's all for our speakers. We have 21 non-speakers here in opposition. Okay, Mr. Pino, then if you would read out the names of the others opposing and if you would raise your hand as your name is read. We have Natalia Carter, Katherine Rogers, Jane Metzger, Dan Metzger, Sharon Richie, Donald Corals, Mary Cato, Susan Hughes, Mary Wood, Gary Wood, Barbara Tucker, Tammy Carson, Ann Hagen, Linda Carrier, Mary Jen Tamundo, Jan Miller, Pamela Glover, Jimmy Hosh, Christine Gouldy, Samary Lee, and Trey Lee. Those are all our cards. I need to ask you to come to the office. Speaker. And what was your name? I'm going to go to the next item. Speaker. What was your name? Okay, was that we have you on the next case. On 11 to on the next item. Okay, did you wish to speak? You wish to speak if you'll come and state your name and address for the record. I wish I was to speak. Thank you, Mayor and Council. For allowing me to speak for a few minutes this evening. My name is Noony Bowen. Naomi Bowen, I live at 820 Castle View Drive. I'm retired Arlington School teacher 30 years with the district. I live out at my house backs up to Eden Road. We are surrounded by wells. We have one within a quarter of a mile, a half a mile, and down on Collins is a little more than that, and now we'll have one within a mile if you put this here. That is inconsequential, however, because I'm not affected, and my children are not affected by this particular drilling site. I will say that I appreciate all the data scientific, economic, and social data that has been put forth and I reiterate all of that that you have to have had enough evidence to know this is not for Arlington. You want a dream city? Then build a dream city. I would just put out there, I would be very brief, if any of you had a child attending that church school, playing on that playground, would you vote for this? Do you have a house in that neighborhood? Would you want it in your backyard? What criteria did you use to change your setback footage from 600 to 319? What was the decision making on your part? Why aren't we pretty to that? If this comes down to financial benefits for the city, I'm ashamed of our city. You need to think very personally, if you lived in homes where these people live or your children attended that church of that church school, would you want it for you? I submit that you would not. I would hope that you would vote no for you. I submit that you would not. I would hope that you would vote. No for this. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I think that's it. Was there anyone else? Let's find up on the item. Our name is Lorraine Rogsen. That's the name I vote under. Also known as Lorraine Rogsen. That's the name I vote under. Also known as Lorraine Levine, 35-08 Halifax Drive in Arlington, 76013. I have been a close friend of Harriet Ernie, who died recently. And what she died of certainly was exacerbated and made more serious by the general-ized air pollution from fracking. We had a lot of negotiations here. I remember from years back about what the setback should be. Further lowering that setback just makes it more hazardous to the people who live immediately nearby. It just seems to me to be totally wrong to be doing this. I oppose this special use permit. Thank you. So we've had all the speakers, also now all the cards of expressing opposition. Yes sir. Okay, in that case, then we'll close the public hearing and call for any discussion. And I'll call upon Council member Robert Shippen. Thank you, Mayor. I want to first thank all of you for your persistence. Many of you have been down here many Tuesdays. In the case of Miss Feele, she's been down here for many Tuesdays for many years. I want to make, what I'm getting ready to say is nothing to do one way or the other with my boat, but I want to make sure that the folks who are here understand the ordinance. The 600 foot setback is prescribed by the ordinance, as is the 300 foot setback. Mr. Osborne was here many years ago when this drilling site was first proved. Everybody, well not everybody. More than 70% of those within the 600 feet signed waivers at that time as well and consented and basically said, I'm okay with a well in my backyard. That's what they all said. Now, whether they were informed when they signed that, I don't know. Drilling was all new back then, but please understand that and the lady that mentioned about the church, this is the church's property. The church is the one who wants this well. Again, whether they're misinformed or not, I don't know. But please understand that it's not this council that is reacting to anything other than the citizens who are directly affected by this drilling operation and their request. And again, Mr. Osborne has come back and said, hey, I didn't know we were misinformed, we were misled, and we certainly heard a number of those stories over the years. And my hat's off to you. You're back down here and you're willing to say, hey, I didn't know. I signed it, but they told me something different in your back now and you're willing to say, hey, I didn't know. I signed it, but they told me something different in your back now and you're expressing the fact that you live through it and you don't want to do it again. So I appreciate that. It's it is in your backyard. But I want everybody to please understand the 300 foot setback is permitted in our ordinance if 70% of the people that are directly affected to it sign waivers. Now that doesn't have anything to do with the direct health of the entire city. There's already wells there as one lady pointed out there's hundreds of wells throughout the city. There's hundreds of wells in Fort Worth. There's some in Mansfield There are gas wells all over the place and so Whether or not that's hazardous to our health. I don't know There's plenty of studies on one side that says it's not there's plenty of studies on another side that says it is I'm not a scientist. I don't think many of you are either. So, all that being said, I just want everybody to please understand what the issue is, so that whatever the vote is tonight on council, you'll better understand what the issue is. Thank you, Mayor. We've received close to 500 letters and they're all the same letter and they're signed by different people. So I get the fact that there is an anti-drilling group that is organized and is coming our way with their requests not to not to have this approved. But as Mr. Shepherd has stated, the individuals that are affected by this particular SUP have signed and complied with the city's ordinance and regulations. There are a lot of different topics that were breached here tonight and anywhere from possible cancerous emissions and so on. I have to say that I live just outside the 600-foot ring of the horse farm. And I'll be honest with you, blatantly honest with you, I don't consider this particular drill the source of the cancers that I have had. And I understand exactly where those came from, from medical personnel, but it has nothing to do with that drill site, and I would be very presumptuous to think that that drill site caused these particular items. My wife is an asthmatic, okay? She has been an asthmatic her entire life. The trees and the pollen give her more of a problem than this drill site does. So I believe me when I understand that all of the facets of health that you bring to us are very important, but they're not caused by, in my opinion, my health issues and my wife's health issues have not been caused by this drill site. So the operator has gone out and he has done his due diligence. We have coined an ordinance that has certain aspects that you have to comply with and the operator has gone out and he has done those things. And so what we ask of the operator to do, almost all of the operators have had to do around the city of Arlington and the 2,200 wells in the city of Fort Worth. I feel as though that I, when you look at the statistics of one out of every two men is going to contract cancer at some point, and one out of every three women is going to do the same thing, it has nothing to do with the adjacency of where a drill side is. that we as Americans live in America with these particular items that we consume and we live with each and every day. Now, if you believe, truly do believe that living next or within 300 feet of a drill site will give you cancer, I would oppose that particular view. I would say that the law of averages is against you. Now tonight, I am going to go ahead and support this particular request. And the reason I'm supporting the request is because the operator has done everything that we have asked them to do. And so consequently, that being said, I'll go ahead and make a motion to approve. Okay, we have a motion on the table. Do we have a second? Okay, Councilmember Thalmond, would you like to offer some comments here? I do. And this is actually more of a question. So as the councilmember representing this district where this particular Drill zone is proposed. I feel like I've done my due diligence. I've attended the town hall or the public meeting Which wasn't required to be held but no one within the 600 feet showed up to that meeting I also knocked doors on the street 100 feet showed up to that meeting. I also knocked doors on the street, Silver Maple that lines this area. So knocking on the doors to try to solicit feedback from those who live within this 600 feet. And I've only heard back from one person. I love my personal cell phone number. I've gone by there multiple times. I've tried to be available, email them. So having said that, we've heard from 13 people tonight, for don't even live in Arlington, although we do appreciate your feedback. Eight live in Arlington and one lives very, very close, so we'll count him. But does anyone else, any of our non-speakers live within the 600 feet? You raise your hand if you do. Okay. And are you non-speaker, opposed? Correct? Okay, great. Anyone else? Thank you. Okay. Well, we are all raising your hand and sure within the 600 feet. Okay, sure. And some of the notifications perform families that live through 600 feet. And they are opposed. It wouldn't come. I have three of them had a motorized, so they're with the motor. And I will get them from them yesterday. And they asked me to bring it here. Also, they did sell these. They bought these letters saying three people, the first people who find these, or if we get 500 dollars, that they brought people up saying, three people, do you think the books could be been funded or afforded $500? Everybody else gets nothing and then have to ask it. That's how the books can be used as a scholarship. I set that first. OK, those letters are not for me. I went by as an individual with my daughter. I know. Right. I have to apologize. I understand. So on my own time, on an evening, after I have a day job in addition to serving on the council. So after work, going by with my little girl knocking on doors to try to get feedback from people who are unwilling to give that feedback to their council member, but they're willing to give it to you after how many times did you go to their doors? Twice. Twice. to give it to you after how many times did you go to their doors? Twice. Okay and I, please come to the microphone. Thank you. And are you the same person who submitted the 554 letters that were unsigned? I have submitted 588 letters and they're not the same letter. Most of them have very thoughtful personalization, and I just read one of them for you from Councilwoman Bergen. So they're not the same letter. And even if they're the same letter, many of us can have the same feelings and thoughts about this because we've read up on the science. OK, we've got a motion. I'll go ahead and second the motion just for the purpose of that. That's right. We'll clear that up. Okay, we've got a motion. I'll go ahead and second the motion just for the purpose of that. Try to clear it up. So we have a second, but I want to continue discussion here. If anyone would like to hit say anything else. Okay. All right. We've we've closed the public hearing. I just said I just want to refer back to something that he said about the first thing that I said, he said this one required five something that's possible. Mr. Shepherd, do you want me to? Sure. Seven. You said, come on, come on to microphone here. So you said on the original SUP, they had 70%. And you're correct because they positioned the wells so none of the homeowners had the right to vote. They were all business owners and the church. So now they're moving over. Now the homeowners are getting involved and some of them are saying no, but the original SEP had 70% of business and three votes from the church. Thank you. and we have a motion on the table from Councilmember Parker for approval and a second from Councilmember Shepherd for approval. Please cast your votes. Okay. Any other discussion from Councilmembers? Okay. Then we have a motion on the table from Councilmember Parker for approval and a second from Councilmember Shepherd for approval. Please cast your votes. Okay, the motion fails. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We appreciate y'all coming up. But one thing that was bothersome somewhat is that we're deliberating here. We're listening to your input. And everyone here cares about this city. It's not that they don't. And so when you come up there to recognize that, that we are not the enemy, we are part of trying to deliberate ourselves on the decisions that we make. And this is a very, very difficult thing that is going on across America right now. And we're all trying to search for the right answers here in that. And then also, no two, that those of you that live here, we are known as the American Dream City, because we are working to try to help people achieve their American dream. And then we have people that have actually been living out that American dream here. And so that is the challenge for each of us is to help each other. There's we move forward. And it's so important as we move forward to to understand that we respect each other and that we show kindness because we have so many challenges that are out there to move forward and that we've got to stay together as we move forward on issues. So hope as we move forward here too that we'll have understanding and that will continue to search for the right answers. But thank you for the time you spent here tonight and coming forward. So we'll move on to the next items and we have 11-2, guess will permit GW-18-007, Fanon Farms, AB-1H-2322, Eden Road, Ms. Topel. Thank you, Mayor. This item at your place is a letter from the applicant requesting a continuance of the item to next week, which will be the March 6th meeting. Okay, we have a continuance so we'll continue that on the next meeting. Next we'll move to 12-1 adopting the capital budget for the City of Arlington for fiscal year 2018. I'll call upon Mr. Mike Finley, our CFO and director of the finance department. Mr. Finley. Thank you, Mayor. I'm members of the Council sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I jumped the gun here a little bit. You know what we generally do is that we allow you to speak on that item if you can't be here next week. So if you would like to come up and speak there on this next item, that would be fine. So with that, we'll come forward. If you can just state your name and address, it'd be great. Sure, Bradley Evans, 6709, Ricky Lane, Arlington, Texas. I wish that my council representative, Miss Cape Art, was here tonight, because this, I had a super majority we would have had to approve the drill site rezoning. I have the documentation. I had 28 signatures out of 42. We were never notified, 21 out of the 28 were never notified because we do not belong to a homeowner's association. Miss Keppart did have the town hall meeting. None of us were notified. We had no clue to get with the drillers. These folks all come together because they are part of a homeowner's association over there. Unfortunately, Miss Keppard said it because whether it was the permitting where I have the documentation here that it did not get up to her office with all the addresses of everyone, but she did notify within a two mile range of the fan and farm. We the homeowners in the 600 foot zone that actually signed a petition 21 of us were never notified. I would really like to get that zoning on that retabled where the 21 families in that zone, what's it down with the operator saddle where we could come to some sort of if there isn't agreement on it but we were never notified. It came for a super majority vote, which was 100% unanimous, but we never got to share with Miss Kephardt our concerns before you all voted. That's all I'm up here right now trying to do. I also have 18 out of the new 28 home owners opposing, have 18 out of the new 28 home owners opposing the saddles requests for the drilling permit. They don't want one well. They're going to want five. They said it's a done deal at their Tuesday meeting last Tuesday at the library. I was there with them. Miss Keppart was not. I don't know if she got caught up, that was when we had all the downpours. It's not, I'm not pointing at anything, it just, I would just like to have us as the homeowners, get with my city councilwoman and Saddle that signed that original petition for the zoning and where the city of Arlington could actually hear what the homeowners in that fan and farms say about it. I don't know if we can do that Mr. Well. So it sounds like this continuum is really as good and let me share with you, you know, Miss K. Parts has passed away. I'm sorry. So she has been out here, but anyway, she will be back next week. But then before that, this allows an opportunity. I'm Mr. Shepherd. You want to add to that? Yeah, Mr. Evans, what was your address again? 6709, Ricky Lane, Arlington, Texas. And where are you in relation to the padside? I am off of Ricky Lane. I know East West, North South. South West, upside down. West. West. And North, Northwest. The original site took in 40 homes. And right now, they just clipped the back corner of my property. So are you the one're the one the large house you've got an out building. Yeah, closest to the closest to Boeing. Yes, and you say you've never talked to Saddle. I have for the general meeting with Miss Keppart that we had as that was my question. You say you've never spoken to Saddle. Well, I went to their meeting last Wednesday or Tuesday. No, before that. Just as a homeowner. So what I'm trying to get at is what I heard you say is that you never got a chance to talk to Saddle operating. With Miss Keppart in the room on the downhole. But you did talk to be talking about. You're going to be talking about the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the the the super majority vote I think as you already recognized happened. I don't know a month ago, six weeks ago, that was 9.0. So that was a super majority. Whatever action is taken with this particular aspect of the case is only going to require a majority. What I'm trying to explain is, I'm trying to explain this or is that we as the homeowners in the 600 foot zone never had the town hall meeting the majority of the homeowners never had the city ordinance is with the operator. This the operator needs to have a public hearing with the 600 foot people within the 600 foot zone. Prior to coming for the zoning rezoning. Well, they did. They didn't have the meeting with the folks that were in the 600 foot zone. The only people that were notified were from fan and farm and homeowner's association. There's 21 people around that zone that do not belong to homeowner's association. Which street did those 21 live on? Okay, what? Ricky Lane. I got that. Kirk and Doll. I'm going to go to the park. Okay, what? Ricky Lane. I got that. Kirk and all. Okay. Park Green Road. And. Okay. Green Road. I don't see anyone on Eden Green that's within the 600 feet. I'm looking at a map and unless you last Tuesday at the meeting of Father. Okay, all right. Thank you for clarifying that. Okay. That's why that's all I was trying to say is we were never notified as homeowners. And have you provided that petition to the city secretary or Mistopel or I don't have you provided it to someone you got to give it to somebody okay do we have someone else to speak tonight in this Miss fail I'm not sure I can make it at the next city council meeting. I've been doing a lot of open mic. So that's one of those Tuesday night things that I, my new habit. It feels good to have a new life and not blog about fracking. But what I want to say is that the newest thing I found out about fracking is the bacteria that is proliferating in the ground. It's getting in private water wells. I implore you to get with the UTA clear group and look at their most recent studies. And just to know that's one new risk. I've emailed you guys over the Christmas holidays, just showing a little bit of a concern about things happening that might not be related, but could be. But we've been seeing a lot of staff infections, animals in my neighborhood with growths, and just things that might be because they've been exposed to extra bacteria. I don't know. I just want you guys to get with UTA clear. We know that the Trinity River Authority is saying that the bacteria is becoming more antibiotic and chlorine resistant. So now we're talking about our drinking water, okay? So we've got groundwater that supplies surface water. So we don't want to have something, okay? So we've got groundwater that supplies surface water. So we don't wanna have something maybe five, 10 years down the road that we can't treat with chlorine or antibiotics. So, and the drillers, they dump a whole bunch of gluteralde to hide down these holes because they wanna control the bacteria, the microbes. We had the Lynn Smith drill site back in 2011 or 2012, Gene Stevens six. She had paramedics come to her assistance. She was vomiting, her blood pressure was soaring. They said the well had a stale odor. Well, the well sour, the biocides failed, okay? We're just, get a UTA clear and if I can't make it to the next meeting, that's all I wanted to say about this new thing I found out. Thanks. Thank you, Ms. Phil. Thank you. Yeah. Good evening. And thank you all for your service. I'm Brad's neighbor. And if you could state your name in Minnesota. Oh, I'm sorry. Mitch Hendon, 6713, Ricky Lane. And I have had gotten all of my information from Brad. If it wasn't for Brad who spoke just a minute ago, I would have had no idea that they were trying to drill new wells behind our house. I'm right inside that 600-ph. It's right in my backyard. I just moved there. Brought my two year old tonight. Um, my understanding is nap time's going to be pretty difficult. Got another baby on the way in May. And so needless to say, I'm a little concerned about the day to day in my house. So I certainly oppose. Thank you, Mr. Hinden. Yes sir. Richard Woully from the Dallas-Circle of thanks for letting me talk I won't be able to come next week and I want to respond to two of the comments that were made. First though, I want to thank everybody for allowing us to come and for listening and for your last vote. Now, Mr. Shepard, you explained that in your opinion, there's 300-foot setback was approved by 75% of the people who sound the least, and that gives the legal authority to the city to honor that. And it may do that. But not necessarily. and that gives the legal authority to the city to honor that. And it may do that. But, no sir, no sir. What I said is that our ordinance is currently drafted permitting that. Yes, okay, I'm sorry, but that, I understand that. I just didn't explain it well. What I would like to say is I think everybody in this room, everybody on this panel knows that fracking companies are notorious for misleading and deceiving and misinforming people and getting them to sign contracts and make them think that what they're doing is safe and we know all over the country and in fact all over the world that that's not. Now the second thing that you said was that you see in all kinds of studies that say that fracking is unsafe and you've seen some that say that they aren't. Okay. What I said is there are all kinds of studies that say gas wells are safe, and there are all kinds of studies that says gas wells are not. I never mentioned the word fracking. Okay. Fracking is a subset of gas wells, so you have to agree with that. I'm going to talk about fracking. And then I want to share what my background is. I have a PhD in material science and I worked in the industry for the 36 years with hazardous chemicals making products that were safe and not getting these chemicals released into our neighborhoods. And that's why I'm so incensed when I see what happens in fracking. I also write scientific papers. I have 40 peer-reviewed publications and I have reviewed publications. And let me tell what peer-reviewed publications are. People who know your work and your field critique what you say. If you say something that's belonging, you don't get to publish. And I have failed some papers because they were wrong. Now I have seen articles that say that gas wells are safe, and probably the ones we had before fracking were. Most of them were certainly no bad as they are today. But I've only seen one paper that says that fracking is safe, and quite frankly, it's just a bunch of garbage. I don't know how I got past a reviewer, and maybe it didn't. Take that for whatever it's worth. Now, Charlie Parker, I want to say that I'm very sorry. You've had cancer. I'm very sorry that your wife has asthma. Those are terrible things to have. And maybe you're right that your case was not affected by being close to a fracking operation. I don't know what you make the decision of that. Really, that's very hard to decide exactly which people are affected and which are not. But the studies that I gave you are statistically samples coming from Dr. Ann Epstein who is a pediatrician in Lubbock and has studied the whole literature and statistically significantly all the things that I say about these diseases are really truly much worse in areas with fracking than in areas not fracking. Well let me say this, there was a well there when I had my first case. So consequently, your assumption that a gas well caused my cancer is absolutely disingenuous to say the least. Thank you. Just understood what I said. What I said. Thank you. Thank you. That maybe yours wasn't. But statistically, we're here to talk about a case. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Hi, my name is Gina Diasto. I live at 2315 Eden Green Drive. I appreciate the continuance for being able to get more information coming towards us. As I said in there in the back, I have not had conversations with Saddle until last Tuesday. I have lived in my home since the start of the first well that came in. Now, I am the last house that the trucks pass on the way into the pad side. I'm not oblivious to the fact that we currently have five wells back there operating. That is not a big fan of it, but I'm more concerned with my day to day. My day to day is living with the constant barrage of truck traffic that go through. And from what I'm understanding is the plan for drilling, we're looking upwards of 25 trucks a day. And a majority of that, they're going to be parked right on the other side of my fence. 10 feet away from my fence, probably 20 yards from my house and that constant rumbling, just idling constantly, is just it's just not a life. And from what I understand, it's going to be that way for six to eight months and that's just the drilling phase. I mean you have the maintenance of the well that you have to deal with too. It's just it's an assault on the on the senses the privacy you have no privacy when trucks are sitting there sitting higher than your fence staring in your backyard just idling it's kind of creepy. So I don't know if I can make it next week really hope that you consider what I'm saying. It's important to me. Something be done. The wells are going to be there. The day to day. That's hard for me. I have a family. I have kids. Just think about it, please. Thank you. Thank you. All right. We'll just case will be continued until next week and we'll move on here now to the next item in the agenda. Is that all right, Mr. City Attorney? Yes, sir. All right, good. All right, so I'll reintroduce the item. It's adopting the capital budget for the City of Arlington for fiscal year 2018. Call upon Mr. Mike Finley. Thank you, Mayor. Mike Finley, Chief Financial Officer. There are three resolutions in front of you. Abdot, abdot, abdot, ding. The fiscal year 2018 capital budget for the city of Arlington. The first one is 64.3 million of the general fund capital budget. 16.4 for the stormwater utility, 16.4 million, and 64.9 million for the capital budget for water utilities for fiscal year 2018 And I'll be glad to take any questions Any questions for mr. Finley Okay Just finally I guess we have talked about it that no one has any questions here And and then just for the TV audience, we have had several work sessions here in which we've been covering these items. Mr. Pinot, are there any speakers on this item? No speakers, Mayor. Okay, then I'll call for a motion. Is this for all three resolutions? Yes. So good question. This is for all three resolutions that we considered at once. Okay. A B and C. Okay. We have a motion for approval from Councilmember Shepard, a second from Councilmember Thalman, police catcher votes. Motion passes. Next we'll move to resolution expressing intent to reimburse certain capital budget expenditures. Mr. Finley. Thank you, Mayor. What this item does is prior to the bond sale that will occur in late May in early June. This allows the expenses that occur between now and then to be reimbursed from the bond proceeds. Okay. Any questions from Mr. Finland? Okay, seeing none, Mr. Pinot, are there any speakers? No speakers, Mayor. Okay, then I'll call for a motion. I have a motion for approval from Council Member Shepard, a second from Council Member Councilmember Walman, police gesture votes. Motion passes. Next, we move to chapter 380 agreement. Renta runway incorporated and I'll call upon Mr. Matthew Hart from the Economic Development Department. Thank you. This is for a chapter 380, we met with rent the runway and online fashion app that has for a distribution center on 1111 West Garden Road. Does anyone have any questions here Mr. Hart? Okay. Seeing none, Mr. Pino, are there any speakers on the side? No, speakers, ma'am. Okay. Then I'll call for a motion. We have a motion for approval from Mr. Shepard, a second from Miss Wollman, please cast your votes. Motion passes. Thank you, Mr. Hart. Okay, next we'll move to citizen participation. And Mr. Pino, if you could go over speaker to call. Yes, sir. Thank you, Mayor. Citizen participation gives the public an opportunity to make comments or address concerns which are not posted on the evening's agenda. However, please understand that the Mayor and Council are not permitted by law to respond or address your concerns at this time as these items are not included on this council agenda for this evening. The Marin Council may only ask clarifying questions and or direct staff to take appropriate action. Speakers will be given three minutes to make their comments. Okay. We have Mrs. Kim Fale here. Miss Fale, I know you've done it before, but if you could state your name and address. Kim Fale for an I-North Elm Street. Okay, so David Cohnam from Arlington, Knights just sent me the official document, the informal report for mayor to council, to mayor and council about busking. That's a street performance musician, my new hobby. Okay, so I'm pleased with it. There is one part about the trust passing part. Okay. It says individuals engaged in busking needs to determine whether they are on public right of way or on private property of special note. note, the ballpark area does include some sidewalks that are included in the real property leased to the Texas Rangers. A good rule of thumb is to encourage street performers to perform on the portion of the sidewalk nearest to the public street. I'm hoping that we can find a way to have a conversation, to get some of these musicians not so close to all the traffic and the exhaust fumes, because I'm sensitive to exhaust fumes. If I can be on an inner street with not as much traffic or a safer place, I just think that the New Orleans scene is happening. We people love to go out in the French quarter just think that the New Orleans scene is happening. We people love to go out in the French Quarter just to get the live musicians. If we've got live performers in Arlington, we shouldn't put them closest to the street in the traffic. So any help that you can provide in that way to get us out by the ATT Stadium, to get us by the Ranger Stadium, to grab these huge crowds would be appreciated. And thank you so much because that's a very flexible busking on deal that you you guys drawn up because I have a little lithium battery and a little amp and it doesn't take up much space but it helps me get my soft delicate voice out there so at first it was you can't you needed a permit to have amplified sound so you guys back down on that. Thank you so much. Thank you miss Phil. Next we'll call upon Chazod Mazeer. I know it's been a long night so I just I'll try to make this quick. I just wanted to give you a little bit of my background. So I just, I'll try to make this quick. But I just wanted to give you a little bit of my background. I hope you'll shed some light on just how important your job is. And I certainly understand the complexity of managing a diverse city. But my mother, my mother's family came to Texas in 1857. She was raised on farm in Gorman, Texas. My father grew up on the other side of the world and he moved to this country with literally $20 in his back pocket and the clothes on his back on a three month visa in 1969 because he had heard of a one man's dream. He had heard the speech on TV came to this country. They met at UT Onenton where they both graduated and many years later after graduating from Bowie, I too graduated from UT Onenton. I left briefly so I could do my grad work in Austin, but I quickly came back as I said to teach for Onenton ISD, special education teacher. I have now been teaching the last 13 years for Terran County College for the Southeast campus in all into Texas, as well as running the health and wellness for all into collegiate high school, and also the programs for six other early college high school programs in the Dallas area, including Cedar Hill, Tisoto Land Caster, Gillian Academy, and so forth. But I've experienced the dream. I appreciate this, I mean, I can't say, I still, because of the fracking situation I did, moved my family to Mansfield now, but I still, my heart still belongs to your knowledge and because it really is the dream city. And I just want to just come up here and just tell you how much I appreciate each one of you and what you do for this community to make it the dream city. Thank you. Mr. Nazier, thank you very much. That means a lot. Thank you a lot. Appreciate that very much. Okay. Seeing no other cards here, We'll move to announcements and we have a public meeting coming up on Abram Street. Mr. Shepherd. Yeah, thank you, Mayor. I just wanted the folks here and the people at home that might be watching to be informed about the Public Works Department is providing a public meeting on the upcoming Abram Street project. It'll be Monday, March the 5th. We'll be in this room, the Council briefing room. I think it starts at 6.30. So anyway, it's a huge project. It's going to affect everything between Collins and Cooper Street. So any of you that have an opportunity to come downtown, for any reason at all, you're probably going to be inconvenienced for a little while. And the purpose of this meeting is to get input and be in to provide notice to everybody so they can be aware of what type of public information rollout there is about what streets are closed and traffic and all of that. So encourage everybody that's interested in the downtown area and this particularly Abram Street to attend that meeting. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Shepherd. Dr. Myers. Thank you, Mayor. I just have a announcement myself. I have a walk-and-talk town hall meeting coming up this on Saturday, March 10th from 9 to 10 30 a.m. At River Legacy, it will include it in the walk and talk will also be a tour of the new Living Science Center. If you haven't seen the updates to it, it's a wonderful gem here in North Arlington. And again, that Saturday, March 10th from 9 to 10 30. It's one of my walk and talks again at River Legacy at the Living Science Center. So I hope to see you all there. Okay. Mr. Peno. Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to remind our residents that Arlington City Council evening meetings are rebroadcast on Sundays at 6 p.m. and on Wednesday and Saturday mornings at 6.30 a.m. Council's afternoon work sessions are rebroadcast on Sundays at 1 p.m. Wednesdays at 1.30 p.m. And on Saturdays at 6 p.m. you can also watch meetings online anytime at www.arlingtonTX.gov. Thank you, Mr. Pino, and seeing no other business, this meeting stands adjourned.