I'd now like to call the Arlington City Council to order and we're honored to have Mr. Don Cocher, the chaplain for our Arlington Fire Department here to lead us in our invocation and pledge. Thank you chaplain. Let's pray. I'd hand in final if we just praise you, Lord. And, Lord, thank you so much for this city, Lord. And we thank you so much for the leadership that you have blessed us with over years and years and over and over. And Lord, we thank you for the leadership that right now is guiding us and directing our issues of the city. Lord, I just ask that as they begin this session, Lord, that you allow them to be able to be free of all the stresses and the problems and the difficulties of the day and be able to have their minds and hearts, fresh and ready to be able to listen and to evaluate. Give them, Lord, give them wisdom, give them vision, give them the understanding. Bless those Lord that are coming before them to speak, Lord. May they be able to present their issues and their things and the way that they can best be addressed. Well, guys, we can continue this meeting with Ashton. Thank you and bless you. All these things are asking Christ Jesus' name, Amen. As Jesus' name, amen. I pledge allegiance to the divine of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, a Nrega individual, liberty and justice for all, honor and justice, lying of allegiance to the Texas one state, a Nrega long and invisible. I'd like to call on our fire chief, Don Krausen, for a special presentation. Thank you, Mayor Don Krausen, fire chief and director of emergency management. I'd like to call you down if you don't mind, sir. With me tonight is our team. Assistant Chief Chief Jim Self and David Stapp, Bar Marshall, Darren Neeter House, and then we have representatives from ISO and State Fire Marshall's office, Mr. Phillip Bradley with ISO and State Fire Marshall Chris Caneli is here today. We have a presentation for you, sir, regarding ISO and our rating. So I asked the team to come up and stand with me and the State Farm Artificial stand in front of me and ISO representative please come up and we work on the presentations all stand right here by you, Mayor. And I'll put it here or here. I guess we need to give you a microphone I'll put it here or here. I guess we need to give you a microphone. I guess that's okay. That'd be great. I'm gonna set this aside for just a moment, but my name is Phillip Bradley. I'm with ISO, Insurance Service Office. And also wanted to introduce Jeff Edwards. Jeff was our field representative that did the work from our standpoint That being said the majority of the work was done by the city itself the fire department the water department Communication center fire marshal's office We Communications Way, I'm leaving out one more group. That's the Mayor of City Council because without the support of the programs, we probably wouldn't be having this conversation today. So this is not a fire department scorecard. What we do is we evaluate the total fire protection capabilities provided by a city. And then we assign a scale, a grade on a scale of one to 10 based on the level of fire protection provided. When we run across the community that does very well, we give them a class one, and so we kind of make a big deal out of it. Effective March 1st, 2018, the City of Arlington will become a class one slash one X. And what that means is we are, we did identify there are properties beyond a thousand feet of a fire hydrant and beyond five row miles of fire station. And so the one X would apply in those cases. But the vast majority of the community will see the benefits of the class one. We grade great community on a scale of one to 10, one being the best classification that we recognize, class 10 is essentially no recognized fire protection. We then in turn, turn this information over to the insurance industry. The insurance industry will modify their homeowners premiums and commercial policy premiums based on the classification that we assign but more importantly the fire protection that's community provides. This is a really big deal. Everybody in the community should be very proud of the level of services provided by the community. I just want to say congratulations. Mr. Bradley, we do have a plaque that we like to present and so very very good and what am I suggesting is we're also going to have some more plaques so you want to do that. I'm not. We think it's a really big deal. And to give you some feedback and input on it. We also have the state of Fire Marshal Chris, caneli with us tonight. And so what I'm going to do is step out of the way and turn the mic over to Chris. All right. Thank you, Phil. Well, Mayor, I'm not echo what Phil said. But, you know, very few achieve this goal This is a big frickin deal It is I'm gonna be long it is You know all cities are striving to Attract companies to come relocate here certainly the Metroplex is a competitive market and to come relocate here, certainly in the Metroplex, it's a competitive market. And certainly by doing this, you have reduced costs for businesses, and while homeowners benefit, but certainly going to a class one from a two, you businesses get most of the savings of this improvement. But when companies relocate to Arlington, they bring jobs, which benefits the citizens that live in this wonderful community. And so the return on investment here, the R.I., is outstanding. And this is third party validation. This is not just the city of Arlington, Arlington Fire, Water, or Mercy Communications, just saying, we're wonderful and trustless believers. No, this is third party validation through the ISOs, various performance measures and it's rigorous. While there's only about 300 out of 49,000 plus agencies that are evaluated throughout the country. So Arlington is in a very elite group. And so certainly through year and the council's leadership and I apologize, my backs to y'all, but don't be offended with that. But y'all provide the leadership and set the policy, working with the city manager, and certainly the various part of his. And again, this has been a collaborative effort to achieve this very difficult goal. And so everyone's to be committed, he's been involved, certainly, if you're proud of someone, his leadership team, and again, our service done do well without water. And so that's a huge investment, as y'all know better than I do, it costs a lot of money for my water. And so with that and emergency communications, make sure all those different parts of the system work so that the citizens are well served by reviewing where their fire stations are at, their staffing, their training, their fire marshals, use of the fire code, and various things that are part of these performance measures. And so Arlington again is in a very elite group amongst your peer cities across the nation. You ought to be commended, but the biggest winners are your citizens. And so thank you for the all's leadership and helping facilitate this collective goal that you all've done outstanding. I work for the state and our plaque is smaller so it won't be offended, but state budget. So that said, we want to offer that to you and again, thank you all and citizens of Arlington. You have a wonderful city here is by virtue of this. Designation being awarded you have confidence that's indeed beyond just political talk. Thank you. Chief thanks a lot and I think it'd be appropriate for us to hear from our chief chief Krausson few words for me Thank you, Mayor. I want to credit Jim self Sister chief Jim self who was our project lead on this project with the ISO group And also I want to thank Buzz Piscar in the water department Rhonda ship who oversees our communication group because there's a three key components to make ISO work so for us, one is an outstanding rating. We know Arnickton is an outstanding community, and we're proud of the overall government effort to protect the community through its leadership team and its subordinate department. So this is just a result of a lot of hard work and we're very proud to present you with this and that will become official on March 1st. And then we'll enjoy the benefits of the ISO one ratings. Mr. Bradley, chief. This is awesome. We are so excited and thank you for making a big deal out of something that is going to benefit our citizens, not only from a financial standpoint, but from a safety standpoint, evaluating things that much further. Also, this is an opportunity for us to talk about how great our Arlington Fire Department is. It's exciting to see the achievements that are being made and the investment in resources that we're making here to continue to improve our fire department. Appreciate the leadership here. I appreciate each and every one of our firefighters that contributes here to this and then it really does make it special for you guys to come down here to actually present this to us. But we'll continue to work on our public safety and continue to try to help our citizens as we move forward. Very appreciative of our city council and their decisions here that have helped to get us this direction and then continue to want to brag on our fire department and our firefighters and the job that they do. Very appreciative chief appreciate what y you've done. Chief Selle, thank you for your leadership there too. Well, once again, it's a great night in Arlington. We continue to move on and we'll continue to do that and thank you all very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. David. Thank you. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank I'm going to have to go to the other side. Did y'all hear that that's a big deal? Yeah. Appreciate that greatly. It is exciting there to see that happen and there has been a really planned approach and appreciate city manager for planning out because you just can't get there all at once and it's been a really planned approach and appreciate city manager for planning out because you just can't get there all at once and it's been a step to approach and building on it and thank you for all the work to get us to this point. Next we'll move to appointments to boards and commissions and I'll turn to the city secretary, Ms. Mary Sapino. No appointments this evening, Mayor. Speaker, guidelines and general City Secretary, Miss Mary Sapino. No appointments this evening, Mayor. Okay. Speaker, guidelines in general decorum, Miss Sapino. Thank you, Mayor. We ask that citizens and other visitors and attendants assist in preserving the order and decorum of this meeting. Any person making personal profane slander, so threatening remarks or who becomes disruptive while addressing mayor and council, or while attending the city council meeting, maybe removed from the council chambers. For speakers tonight, when your name is called, please come to the microphone at the podium and state your name and address for the record. During public hearings, the applicant will be asked to speak first and will be given five minutes to make their presentation and will be allowed three minutes for any rebuttal. Speakers and supporter and opposition of an item will be given three minutes to make their statements. To the extent possible, please refrain from 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. Next we'll move to approval of items from executive session. Mr. Pino. Thank you mayor tonight. We have nine items for approval from executive session. One is the consent to partial assignment 10th Amendment ratification and Revive Revealing Gas Least. Total E&P, USA Barnett, LLC, and Total E&P, USA Inc. Least No. 07-011. Two is the Consent to Partial Assignment and fourth Amendment to Oil and Gas Least, Total E&P USA Barnett, LLC, and Total E&P USA Inc. Least No. 10-051. Number three is consent to partial assignments and amendments to oil and gas leases total ENP USA, Barnett, LLC and total ENP USA ink. The following lease number 06008, 0802308036, 10-019, 10-028, 10-029, 10-058, 10-058, 10-036 10-019 10-028 10-029 10-058 10-061 10-063 10-066 11-002 11-006 11-008 12-01 12-003 12-005, 12.005, and 14.002. For the Stonewater Mitigation Project, all cash contract of sale, George L. Gustasson, and Julie A. Gustasson, at 34.01 Doty Lane. Five is Bethesda, 24 is Waterline Extension, Mansfield Cardinal Road, Hudson Cemetery Road, and Eden Road, AB Manus. Six is Abrams Street, Cooper Street to Collins Street, Mark A. and Valinda G.G. 7 through 9 is determining the necessity of requiring a right of way easement rights on property known as 3819, 3821 and 3823 Curry Road relative to the Eden Road, US 287 highway to calendar road project, Thomas G. Ferrier. I have a motion for approval from Councilmember Walman and a second from Councilmember Wolff. Police catch your votes. Motion passes. Mayor, excuse me, Madam Secretary, please show me as abstaining on item 6.6. 6.6. Yes. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chepern. We'll move to approval of minutes. Ms. Sopino. Mayor, we have the afternoon and evening meeting minutes from January 9th, 2018. Any additions or corrections from council members? Okay, seeing none, Miss Epino, are there any speakers on this side? No speakers. Okay, then I'll call for a motion. We have a motion for approval from council member Ferrar Myers and a second from council member Wolff, police catch your votes. Motion passes. Next we move to approval of consent agenda and Miss Apino. Thank you Mayor. The consent agenda this evening contains 14 minute orders, two ordinances and four resolutions. The minute order seek to authorize one purchase of furniture for the George W. Hawks Downtown Library, two sole source purchase of radiological detection equipment, three professional medical services agreement for health and physical evaluation and drug and alcohol testing, four contract for miscellaneous concrete program, five design contract for Randall Mill Park improvements, six installation of a stationary backup generator for handy train, seven renewal of annual requirements contract for pump maintenance and repair, eight through ten annual requirements contracts for ground maintenance and beautification of medians and right of ways, city on buildings, for purchase and installation of pavement markings and for auto body shop repair services, 11 through 14 engineering services contract for upper Johnson Creek pond dredging, for Bowman for Upper Johnson Creek, Pond, Dredging. For Bowman Branch and Lynn Creek Watershed studies, for Bonneville, Greenbrook, drainage improvements, and for Abram Street, Collins to State Highway 360. The ordinance is seek to authorize number 15, Zoning Case PD 17-16, 7-11, convenience store at 100 East Interstate 20 highway. 16 zoning case PD 17-13 may field farm, 7301 silo road. And the resolution seek to authorize number 17 to authorize the request for proposal procurement method for electronic plan review solution. 18 events trust fund agreement for the American 2018. 19 is the resolution authorizing participation in the text pool, text pool prime investment pools and designating authorized representatives, and 20 is the adoption of investment policy. Mr. Peno, do we have any speakers in support of our opposition to the items on the consent agenda? No speakers, Mayor. Okay. Then I'll call for a motion. Mr. Shepard. Mr. Shepherd. Mr. Topel, on item 8.16, the Mayfield Farms case, the public hearing has been closed on. We're kind of confused about whether or not we're led to believe that perhaps the applicant wanted that case continued tonight. No, the applicant doesn't want to continue the case. The applicant just wanted to give some clarification about the gas well site that they don't plan to drill or have a drill zone in the next two years. So we can go ahead and act on this matter. Yes. OK, thank you. Any other questions, comments? OK, then I'll call for a motion. We have a motion for approval from Council Member Wolfe and a a no vote on 816, please. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Parker. Next, we'll move to public hearings, ordinances, first reading. We have zoning case, ZA17-5, 100 West Arbrick Boulevard, to 100 West Arbrick Boulevard. And I'll call upon Miss. Jindsay Topel, our interim director of community development and planning department. Thank you, Mayor. CA17-5 is a request to change the zoning on approximately 24 acres of property, currently split-zone with office commercial, OC, and general commercial GC, to community commercial CC zoning. The property is a request to change the zoning on approximately 24 acres of property, currently split-zone with office commercial OC and general commercial GC to community commercial CCC zoning. The property is located at the southwest corner of West Arbord Boulevard and South Center Street. Applicant Jim Maybach representing Paco, Southwest Realty Inc. is here to present the case. Mr. Maybach, if you could state your name and address for the record. Yes, thank you Mayor. James Maybach, 1703 North Paco Drive with Paco Southwest Realty representing the Arlington and Appendent School District this evening. I do want to recognize we do have the board president here, hopefully speaking for just one very short period as well. Thank you this evening. We're trying to basically take this 28 acres that has as Gen.C. indicated split zoning. Split zoning is never a good situation for a developer or for a property owner when you're trying to sit there and plan out what you're going to do for the best uses in the future development of the property. Therefore, the district is now, this has been considered an excess piece of property since we've determined our location for the new fine arts facility and the new native to them. We're going to be on the old eastern star property next to the Dallas Cowboys in the entertainment district, which we're very excited about. So now this property, we're able to put this back on the tax rolls by putting it up for sale. As you know, state law requires the school district must sell the property on a seal bid process and cannot enter into negotiations just on a regular, you know, basis like we do in the industry. So with that, we want to prepare this property in the best means and set it up at the best applicable sale price we can get. Because that will, price will obviously be going on to the tax roles as well as that money going back to the school district for the students and for a better opportunity to spend the money to on education for our students and our citizens here. So with that, it's cleaning it up to a CC zoning, which we agreed to. We actually applied for GC and we're fine with CC. All the category community commercial is well within the parameters of basically looking at a continuation of what the Highlands looks like and maybe having some other additional uses of high tech industries out there as well. Maybe Amazon might want a small office out there, I don't know but anyhow. Thank you for your time this evening and we appreciate a positive vote for our client to school district thank you. Thank you. I have to answer any questions. Any questions from Mr. Maybach? Okay thank you Mr. Maybach. Thank you. Mr. Pino. We have one speaker and one non-speaker both here in support. Our speaker is Dr. Aaron Reich. Dr. Reich. Thank you for coming. Our school board president here addressing us. And if you could state your name and address for the record. Yes sir Mayor Williams, Dr. Aaron Reich, representing the Arlington ISD at the school school district address 1203 West Pioneer Parkway 7013 So good evening mayor council. Thank you. I think Mr. Maybach stayed at the case very well In my capacity as president of the board of trustees representing the board and the district I Appreciate your consideration to support this case over to CC from the mixed OC and GC use as Mr. Maybach stated. It will be the best value that we can realize after we go through a closed bid process per state law that will have a greater valuation for our taxes yours yours, the school districts. It's a win-win for everybody. The school district has determined we are in a land rich situation there, and it just makes more sense for us to put it back out on the tax rolls and have a greater benefit for our community as a whole. So with that said, I'd be happy to answer any questions if there are any. Any questions, comments from Council? Dr. Rosh, thank you here for what you're doing. Really appreciate that. Appreciate you coming down here personally too. Really do. Thank you much. Absolutely. Thank you. Then we have a non-speaker. We have one non-speaker here in support. If you could raise your hand. Renew name is called Austin Good. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Good. Those are all the cards, Mayor. Okay. Then with that we'll close the public hearing any comments or from council. Then I'll call for a motion. We have a motion for approval from Council member for our Myers and a second from Council member Parker police catcher votes. Motion passes unanimously. Dr. Rush police pass forward. We really appreciate what school district is doing across the board and really helping education with their kids. Looking forward to the opening, the official opening of the career and training facility that is named after Mr. Dipper. Looking forward to that. And Mr. Maybach, I bet you as one of our major property owners here, I'm sure you're excited about our ISO rating that we just got. It's going to save you a lot of money. And your tenants, that's right. That's right. Well thank you very much appreciate it. Next we'll move to zoning case PD 17-10 Oak Creek at University 10 bench drive, Miss Sopino. Oh, it's missed open. Excuse me, missed open. PD 17-10 is a request to change the zoning on less than an acre of land, currently zoned Community Commercial CC to a plan development with limited community commercial uses, plus multi-family use with the development plan. The development plan proposes three small buildings with a total of 17 two bedroom units, each with a two car garage. The applicant Yehuda Goldman of GSI investments, LLC, is here to present the case. Can you state your name and address? Yes. Thank you. My name is Yuhuta Goldman. Our address is 13601. Preston Road in Dallas, Texas 75240. And I want to thank you mayor and council member, everyone, for coming today. Sorry. This should play. Okay. Well, thank you everybody. This is kind of full circle for me. I graduated from UTA at the business school of real estate. And part of our development class, we needed to do a project and actually picked a project similar to this around the campus and so this is definitely full circle for me and I appreciate the time and very excited. So I'll go ahead with my presentation. It is point nine we're talking about seven ten bench dry which is right across from the street from campus. It is 40,591 square feet about 0.93 acres. We are requesting a planned development PD-4 limited CCU system plus duality and multi-family. And the current zoning is community commercial. This is the site right here. This is a location right near Cooper and Bench. And there's a commercial strip center and gas station on the corner between the subject property and Cooper. These are the current photos taken just a few weeks ago from the site. It is currently a victim lot, a big slab of concrete on it. It used to be a car wash and it was demolished in 2014. And as you can see now, this is the site with nothing on it. Our development plan, we're planning to build 17 luxury town homes on the site and you'll be able to see some renderings here. And I think you'd be impressed. Each unit would be two bedrooms, two and a half bath. It would have a two car attached garage per unit. Stainless, the appliance is private balconies and a wash and dry connection in each unit. The site amenities would include two covered trellises with barbecue and sitting area, walk path to water monuments at entrance and a bike rack. This is the landscaping plan. The materials that we will be stucco, stone, and brick. We request two deviations at the time to the PNZ. The landscaping buffer required is a level two buffer 15 feet on the east side facing commercial. And we are proposing a five foot landscaping buffer on the east side facing commercial parking lot only. It also requires 50% maximum perimeter ground cover set back for commuter grass and we're proposing 100% perimeter for commuter grass. As compensation to the deviations, the density. So based on RMF 22, we were allowed 22 units breaker, which gave us about 20 and a half units. So let's say 20 units We are only requesting 17 units the fence it required a 16 a six foot fence on the perimeter and we providing an eight foot cedar fence board on board The entry monument it only required one entry we are we are proposing two entry monuments with water features The open space the requirement was only 5% we are proposing two entry monuments with water features. The open space, the requirement was only 5%, we are proposing 11%. The covered parking requirement was 50%, we are providing 100% covered parking for each unit. In addition, the UDC requirement allowed for 50% cementitious fiber board and we proposed that we would have 0% cementitious fiber board and we proposed that we would have zero percent cementitious fiber board 100 it would be 100% masonry. We did get letters of support. I contacted the housing office in at UTA and they provided a letter of support for our project and they were actually very excited that it wasn't just another typical housing project for our students. We also received the other support of the owner with the Strip Center next door. We also received the other support from the Parkway in Motel across the street. And then we requested support from Hannah, our local association, and they were in support, but they requested that we present more permeable surfaces and more trees. And we went back to the drawing board, and you'll see highlighted in yellow that we did add some more trees and permeable surfaces. So we went back to them, presented that to them. And so they presented us with another letter of support with full support. Am I done? I'll finish real quick. Okay, my name is Yudah Goldman from GSI Investments and we're representing the owner of any bench investments. These are some of the other projects that we've done. and we're representing the owner of any Benjian investments. These are some of the other projects that we've done. We've done, we specialize in single family developments for rental and we are currently working in the Maple District in Dallas, Texas doing a very high end product there for lease and for sale. And thank you for your time. Miss Wolfe. No questions. Mr. Goldman, I just want to appreciate your project and more than anything, appreciate you meeting with the neighborhood and particularly more than once so that you could address their desires. They're a very strong organization and they will tell you what they want and what you need to do. I also appreciate the fact that you got a letter of support from John Hall in UTA. This has been a problematic piece of property for a long time, and it stood as an abandoned car wash for years, and just all kinds of no good happened on that spot. So thank you for coming in and improving our neighborhood and I wish you well and I'll be very happy to support your project. Thank you very much. Well we're very excited for the project especially with my background at UTA. Remember the car wash there and it was very excited for this project. Mr. Glassby. Thank you, ma'am. Mr. Goldman, just wanted to, is your target market students or is it? Very good question. Not your typical student housing. Our target market really, we would like to target either graduate students or staff of the university, or we're open doors for anybody but this is not student housing two beds per room anything like that our rents are gonna be a little bit higher it is a luxury product we have a two car garage attached this is not your typical student housing if that's your question. Okay, any other questions? Okay, thank you. Mr. Peno, are there any speakers on this item? We just had New York Shaman who is here with GSI just available for questions who was here in support. Did you want to speak? No, he's in support. All right. All right. Then no other speakers and okay, then I will close the public hearing and any comments or other from this council. Then I'll call for a motion. We have a motion for approval from council Member Wolfe, a second from Council Member Walman, please cast your votes. Motion passes, we appreciate your investment here in Arlington, thank you very much. Next we'll move to specific use permit. SUPO-831R1, Cornerstone Drillside, 5427 Matlock Road, Ms. Topel. In front of you, there is a letter requesting Continience for this case to the next council meeting. Thank you. Great. We'll grant that Continience then. All right. Dude. Well, granting this continuance then there to want to, what's the pleasure of the council? Do you want to wait for the speakers until we hear the case? If they're unable to attend, make sure they don't get to the speakers. If you're unable to attend next one, make sure you don't think it's fixed. Okay. All right. That'll be good. I'll agree, Ms. Wolfe. If anyone can attend the next meeting, when we hear this case, if you'd like to speak to that, we'll let you let you come forward. Yeah, Ms. Shepper. And I would like to make it clear clear for the audience and the speakers. The primary reason for the continuance is the fact that installment is ill this evening and not able to attend the hearing tonight and so she actually reached out to the applicant and asked for them to continue the case so she could be present when the case was heard so it's wanted to be sure that you all understood the reason for the continuance. Do you like to speak ma''am? You want to come to the podium here and give us your name. It's very ill and Ohio, and I don't know when I, at any time I may be up to Ohio. You bet. Give us your name and address and be happy here for me. My name is Ingrid Kelly. I live at 902 Bellamy, 76014. I'm in Miss Salman's district. I'm going to kind of just not get into the whole script. I really oppose this and I've researched what's going on. It's a foreign company. They don't have 70% of the surface lease owners permission to put the drilling site closer to them. What the city ordinance is. And I find that to be a problem. put the drilling site closer to them what the city ordinance is. And I find that to be a problem. That ordinance was put in place for the safety and well-being of your community. And we've since found out 12 years that that may not even be a good distance. So to even shorten that distance is not appropriate. As an RN, you know, I'm an advocate for public health environmental issues. And that includes fracking. And I do a lot of research about environmental issues that endagers our health and well-being. And I'm willing to share that with anyone at any time and come sit in your office and discuss that with you. But being said that, you know, my motivation and my activism is driven because of my children and my grandchildren and my patients and just my whole community, just what I see. And y'all are good people here, decent people. And I know that you don't have a price on your loved ones. And I just, you know, I just feel that, you feel that you just need to look at this and make these decisions are crucial to the future of our children. And the current community that's there, you know, we elect you all to protect us. And we put a lot of trust in every one of you. To do that job for us and to be educated on these issues that can endanger us, whether it's an environmental issue or a hazardous issue. We've seen lots of blowouts throughout the nation. There's health issues in the fracked patches throughout the nations. It's well documented now. Like I said, I'm willing to share that with anyone. What I have, you know, researched and discovered. I was naive back when I signed my gas lease. And I really wish I could go back and say no. In Ohio, I fought it extensively because of what I've seen here in Texas, living in Arlington. If this new setback is allowed, this is gonna set a precedence throughout the city. We may see these things come up in other areas and it's just not gonna stop. And so you're setting a precedent if you're going to just start allowing them to drill closer and closer to our homes or schools and our businesses. So I really encourage each and every one of you to please take it to heart and oppose this as I do. Thank you very much for y'all's time and y'all have a good evening. Thank you for coming down. Appreciate it. Thank you very much for y'all's time and y'all have a good evening. Thank you for coming down. Appreciate it. Thank you. Anyone else want to speak tonight? Yes ma'am. Again, if you can state your name and address, it would be great. Good evening. My name is Ranjana Pandari and I live at 903 Locked Lohman Drive in Arlington. And I just have a couple of things to add to what the speaker before me, Ingrid said. I remember meeting with all of you or some of you, including Mayor Williams early last year, with video of Fence Line emissions. And we talked about safe setbacks, the fact that with all the gas wells that we have here, we are not really protected because of the distance between homes where we work, where our children go to school and our gas wells. In fact, I remember sharing this paper with you and Mayor Williams, your staff, you asked them to zero ox it. It's written by a few doctors, including Dr. Epstein from the Lubbock Board of Health, talking about safe setbacks from gas drilling that protect health. And I remember that when the State past HB 40, there was a lot of discussion of what is a good setback, and I remember industry talking a lot about our ordinance being reasonable. That 600 feet was a distance they could live and work with. And so I'm really troubled that they keep coming back asking for exceptions to that 600 feet distance. We know, as Ingrid said, that there have been studies since then. 600 feet is not protective. Anything short of that is pretty risky. And as residents, I find that many of us are constantly now playing cat and mouse with drillers. We never know when wells are going to be drilled close to our home. It happens. Then we discover a few years later they come back and put more wells. And sometimes we discover that homes are being put very close to. We'll that already exist. I moved here 25 years ago. This is not what we expected. We lived in residential zone neighborhoods. And now we're constantly worried about when the next round of drilling will start and what it means for our health and safety and more importantly what it means for our children because some of these exposures are going to stay with them and we don't even know what it means for their health in the long term. And so as a mother, this is really difficult for me. And I'm really here to plead for my child and all the children of Arlington. And I really respectfully urge you all to please support, respect, and honor our ordinance. Please don't issue a variance. That's 600 feet is minimal, minimal protection for our community. We cannot have drillerers drilling inside that 600 foot zone. And so I respectfully ask you to please not allow people to violate that ordinance. And because it happens there, it's going to happen in other places. We've just been through that injection belt fight. And it's really, really difficult to constantly be wondering where the next oil and gas threat will come from. So thank you very much for letting me speak. And good day. Thank you. Yes, Mr. Shepherd. I'm sorry, could I get? I miss both of your addresses, and I didn't write them down. It am I to understand that you both live within the 600 foot halo of this particular site or not? I do not live in that halo. I'm in that district, which Miss Dalman represents, where this is proposed. But I'm concerned about that because I have a lot of empty lots around where I do live. I live at 902, Bellamede Street, 76014. I'm in the Mayfield Collins area. There's quite a bit of still empty plots around Mayfield. There's still some issues along Collins where businesses have left and they could be emptied out. So, you know, this is a precedence that I'm really concerned about. If this continues, we're just gonna have a drill site's right up to our backyards. And you, ma'am, do you live within the 600 foot halo? No, I actually live in North Arlington and Councilwoman Milamons District, but I'm speaking for Liverpool Arlington and I'm speaking for the concerns of everybody who's part of our organization and I live near too many drill sites and show any time the ordinance is not followed that poses a threat to. I got you. Okay. Thank you very much. I appreciate neighbors. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else want to speak tonight? Yes, ma'am. Yes, sir, too. You guys can see me? Let me see. Hi, my name is Sayyata San, a Williams and steam council members. I have been living at 601 Engelside Drive, Arlington, and it's the same zip code 76018 where the drilling is. It's about, I would say, half a mile from my home where the really places is not exactly six and repeat, but close enough. A few years ago when the City Council issued the first permit for National Gas well, you promised the citizens that you would ensure the safety of our community through adopting gas drilling ordinances which exceed the state's guidelines. Things have changed since then, but now that there are over three gas wells in each of our cities, 99 square miles, the state legislator has pulled the plug on our local gas drilling audiences. The EPA is rolling back many of their air quality guidelines and rules. Once you permit a well, there is nothing else you can do to keep your promises to the citizens. It's a very important issue for our ecology, for our livelihood, you are our trustees of not of our lives, but our livelihood and our environment. Your hands would be tied if you give that permission. And we have a more dangerous reality than you bargain for. Or as you to act prudently. You know, which ordinance are necessary for us to thrive as a city? You adopted many of them. But now are unable to enforce the ordinances which you carefully studied and adopted. If you cannot enforce the gas drilling ordinances you adopted, you should not permit open wells. I would urge you to consider that from the citizens point of view, you are all our neighbors also. From the citizens point of view, you are all our neighbors also. You are our trustees and we have put you in those seats to protect us. And I am very hopeful that you would act with care and we already have high just the recent news that are coming out. The infant mortality rate is very high in Taren County, one of the top most. There are other things that are happening and people, as researchers, are still finding the causes of what is going on. I urge you to be very careful with your decisions and please don't I urge you to be very careful with your decisions and please don't allow these drilling to change the distance marker. Thank you. Thank you Ma'am Again, if you can state your name and address for the record Okay, I'm Lorraine Levine. I'm I a name Lorraine Rogsen, and yes, I vote. I'm in Catherine Llamon's district, but I can care about people in other parts of Arlington. In the context of the honor, your fire department got today, the ISO one, I think that it was an appropriate honor and shows concern for the safety of our people. But the 600 miles, the 600 yard setback was also for safety. And now you want to overturn that. It doesn't make sense, it doesn't track. And it may even be a danger to the fire department if an accident could happen. So I am opposed to this lease on 11.3. Thank you. And ma'am, as a point of clarification, we're listening to the case. We don't have, we're not expressing that we want to do it. We're listening to the case right now to analyze it. So this is not a council initiated objective right here. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. anyone else? All right. Well with that we'll continue the case. Next one. Oh, we do have one more. Announce speaker here. Yeah, you want to read that. Diana Flanagan. Yes. Did you wish to speak or just want to register? But you are registering your opposition. Yes, thank you, ma'am. Okay. All right, with that, we'll continue this case and we'll move to ordinance's first reading and its ordinance ordering May 5th 2018 special election for reauthorization of the street maintenance sales tax and I'll call upon Miss Mindy Carmichael, Director of Public Works and Transportation Department. Thank you Mayor. This is the first reading for ordinance ordering the May 5th special Election. For the reauthorization of the street maintenance sales tax, this tax is for one fourth of a percent, and the revenue will be used to maintain and repair our city streets. And I'll be glad to answer any questions that you have. Any questions from Mr. Glaspy? Thank you, ma'am. It's called Michael. How much maintenance, I guess, would we be not being able to do without this? It seems to me that it's almost being given when you take on a consideration what we've been doing to try and maintain our streets. Yes, it would be a major impact to our efforts to reduce our overall, or raise our overall condition index and reduce the number of what we call the red streets. We generally use 12 to 15 million dollars a year to address our worst first streets. So it would be a huge impact. Mr. Yellerton. I might just add a little bit more. I'm going to go to the next slide. Mr. Yevrton. I might just add a little bit more. Mr. Glass-B from a math perspective. If we were to not continue the street sales tax but continue to do so, a same level of work based on a property tax levy, that's equivalent to about $0.10 on the property tax rate. Well, while you're here, it's been an incredibly successful program and appreciate the work that you've done. I also appreciate the fact of accelerating the repair of our streets and reconstruction of our streets because you'll have continued to hover around $100 million total in street repair and street rehabilitation projects. And this is a very essential part of that, in which I've heard from our citizens. They very much want to continue. So that's a big reason we want to move forward. But thank you for what's being done there. Does anybody else have any questions or comments from Ms. Carmichael? Mr. Glass-Bee? I guess a little so something that we all often overlook is the sales tax citizens are all not the only ones that we benefit from. Yeah so it's the city management. Yeah Mr. Yeoverton, when you speak to where our sales tax comes from. Based on the latest analysis we've done about 52% of sales tax that's collected in Arlington comes from non-Arlington addresses so it might be Irving Fort Worth Dallas Fort Worth you know California New York but 52% of sales tax collected here is coming from outside our city and I love that because that means other people's money is helping us pay for the streets And they're using them to to come to our city Here so it's an awesome thing glad you asked that question mr. Glassby that sure was great to hear those kind of facts here on the help of that Okay All right, well, thank you, miss Carmichael Now miss a pino or there any speakers on this side? No speakers Mayor. Okay, then I'll call for a motion. We have a motion for approval from Council Member Wolfe and a second from Council Member Walman. Please cast your votes. Motion passes. Next we'll move to ordinance ordering May 5th, 2018 General Election. Again, we'll turn to miss a panel. Thank you, Mayor. This is the first reading of an ordinance ordering the general election to be held on May 5th, 2018 in the city of Arlington and a runoff election should same be required on June 16th, 2018 for the purpose of electing City Council, Synchroremor districts 1 and 2, and Council at large districts 6 and 7. Miss Pino, are there any speakers on this item? No speakers. Okay, then I'll call for a motion. I have a motion for approval from Council Member Wolfe and a second from Council Member Glassby. Motion passes. Next we'll move to ordinance or we'll move to on street parking revisions and an adoption of an entertainment district number parking ordinance. And I'll turn to Lieutenant Kelly Vilder, the Arlington Police Department. Mayor Williams, say to council members. Good evening. I'm Lieutenant Kelly Vilder with the Arlington Police Department. Before you today for consideration is a proposed revision to the City of Arlington, Code of Ordinance's Traffic and Motor Vehicles chapter, which will enhance our ability to address ongoing citywide on-street parking issues. And for your consideration, a new proposed entertainment district, no parking zones that will address the parking issues uniquely associated to that of the entertainment district. If you have any questions at this time. Any questions for the tenant builder? Mr. Parker. The tenant builder, I'd just like to thank you very much for the work that you've done on this particular project. The people of Roosevelt and the people around the entertainment district whose lives have been altered due to the fact that there have been very little attention paid to what is currently happening in their neighborhoods. We hope this is going to stop their issues over there. We hope that it'll maintain their standard of living and anyway improve that so that they can enjoy their neighborhoods just like everybody else and still live near the stadium. So thank you for your hard work. I appreciate everything you've done in this particular project. Thank you. Any other comments or questions for Lieutenant Builder? Okay, thank you, Lieutenant. Thank you, sir. Mr. Pinot, are there any speakers on this item? No speakers, Mayor. Okay, then I'll call for a motion. We have a motion for approval from Council Member Wolfe and a second from Council Member Parker. Please caster votes. Motion passes and just a couple of comments on this Lieutenant Belder, Mr. Bass. I think it's really important as we move out to do a good communication plan as we move into implementation to, sorry, neighborhoods know what we're doing before. We put up all the signs and they have an idea of that. And then also even for our citizens when we implement something like this many times it is trial and error and we'll be looking to see if there needs to be improvements to this as we move forward. Also we talked about that this afternoon and our council work session but thank you for all the work. you know and I will say to council member Parker and the other ones that worked on it they wanted to move ahead quickly to try to help the citizens after they heard from them and appreciate y'all moving forward but then I think also that means that much more that we've got to get that communication out therefore them so thank you very much. out there for them. So thank you very much. Okay, next we'll move to the adoption of a garage cell ordinance and I'll call upon Mr. Bass. That's Mr. Mike Bass, Code Compliance Services Administrator. Mr. Bass, thank you for all work you do. Thank you, sir. Mayor Council, at your place is this evening, is the proposed ordinance that provides for the regulation of garage sales. The intent of the ordinance is related to resident concerns that we've received over the last several years. And specifically the operation of continuous garage sales and neighborhoods. If adopted by the council, we anticipate providing an application on online application and permitting system in June. In the meantime, staff, Court Mayor, as you indicated, will provide an aggressive education program to make sure that residents are aware of the ordinance. And with that, I'll be up to the answer any questions that you have. Any questions or comments? Mr. Bass. Okay, thank you, Mr. Bass. Mr. Pinot, are there any speakers on this item? No speakers, Mayor. Okay, then I'll call for a motion. I have a motion for approval from Councilmember Glass, be a second from Councilmember Wolff, Police Caster votes. Again, just some comments on this ordinance, really appreciate this was citizen initiated. Citizens came forward and said, we have a problem with businesses operating out of houses under the guise of garage cells and that's where this initiated. In addition to that council members and staff have gotten a lot of input from citizens and you can see from the original draft ordinance toward is now they've listened to those citizens and come forward ordinance toward is now they've listened to those citizens and come forward here with a garage cell ordinance that does not require fee but yet still helps protect our neighborhoods and our private property owners rights there to not have a business operating in their neighborhood. So appreciate all the work that was done on that. And next we'll move to resolutions and We have agreed termination Rocco's products company incorporated tax abatement agreement and I'll call upon Mr. Marcus Young from the economic development department Thank you mayor. Good even mayor counsel Marcus Young economic development specialist The item that's before you tonight is a resolution authorizing the agreed termination of the first amended and restated tax abatement and 380 grant agreement with the recose products company ink. I'll answer any questions you have pertaining to this item. Any questions from Mr. Young? Thank you. Appreciate it, Mr. Pinot, are there any speakers on this item? No speakers, Mayor. Okay, then I'll call for a motion. We have a motion for approval from Councilmember Shepherd and a second from Councilmember Wom and Police Cast your votes. Motion passes. Next we move to Raka's products company Incorporated Chapter 380 Gran Agreement. Mr. Young. Thank you, Mayor. This is a resolution authorizing the execution of a Chapter 380 Agreement. By and between Riko's products company and the city of Arlington. I'll answer any questions you have pertaining this item as well. Any questions from Mr. Young? Okay, Ms. Sopino, are there any speakers on this? No speakers, Mayor. Okay, then I'll call for a motion. I have a motion for approval from Councilmember Shepherd and a second from Councilmember Glassby Police Cast your votes. Motion passes. Thank you, Mr. Young. for a glass B police catcher votes. Motion passes. Thank you, Mr. Young. Next we move to Ranger's Ballpark Development Project. And I'll call upon our city manager, Mr. Trey Overton. Mayor and council, we have two items on your agenda tonight, under 133.a and point B, that are clarifications to a couple of steps as we implement this particular project. the . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . is tax exempt. And so we've had a couple of things that we've been working through to get that clarified. That's all done. And this makes some modification to the lease language to make sure that the state is comfortable with that approach and makes that clear. The second piece actually moves forward on point B as it relates to the upcoming financing of the balance of the financing for the project. Our agreement with the team indicates we will not issue bonds until they have a guaranteed maximum price contract. We think that's still going to be the case. However, in order to make sure that we're most favorable position with the market and interest rates, we've provided an option for us to be able to move forward when there's an interim guaranteed maximum price contract, which would let us go to market take advantage of interest rates, but hold if we go under those conditions any dollars until such time as a guaranteed maximum price contract is completed. So we really wanna make sure that the taxpayers get the best value before interest rates start to move up later in the year. And this is really just a timing of how that works relative to the procurement of the project. We want to make sure the team has got that guaranteed price contract so that we know that $3 plus our dollars gives them enough dollars to complete the project and not have it be undone out there. So that's what we're those are the two steps that we're asking your consideration for. Any questions from Mr. Jelverton? Mr. Parker? Just real quick. Thank you Mayor. How many how much are we looking to float as far as this particular bonds sale? You want to take advantage of the interest rates in the early part of the year. How much are you going to float towards this project? This will be the full amount, Mr. Park, from the $500 million. Yes, all right. Thank you. That's a great opportunity while those interest rates are down. Okay, any other questions or comments from Mr. Yoverton? Okay, with that, Mr. Pinot, are there any speakers on the Senate? No speakers, ma'am. Okay, then I'll call for a motion. Is this on both resolutions? Yes, and the clarification it is on both, and we can vote on AMB together. Okay, we have a motion for approval from Council Members Shepard and a second from Council Member Wolff. Please cast your votes. Motion passes. Next we'll move to citizen participation and Miss Pino, if you would go over speaker guidelines and decorum. Yes, thank you, Mayor of Citizen Participation gives the public an opportunity to make comments or address concerns which are not posted on the evening's agenda. Over, please understand that the Mayor and Council are not permitted by law to respond or address your concerns at this time as these items are not included on the post to the council agenda. The Mayor and Council may only ask clarifying questions and or direct staff to take appropriate action. Speakers will be given three minutes to make their comments. Okay, our speaker tonight is Gerald Wallace. Mr. Wallace, if you would come up and state your name and address for the record. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, Council. My name is Gerald Wallace. I live in 1928, Norwood Lane, Arlington, Texas, 76013, Atlanta. My concern is our city dump. About a year ago, I turned, and my dad had deceased not long ago. My mother's ill, and I'm taking care of their home, trying to keep it up. And I do a lot going to the dump, taking leaves and everything else out there to keep their home up. They had a sign on the window there that said, hers, Ulyss, Bedford and the amounts of when people can come from the cities and bring dirt trash to our dumps. When long ago we had a big argument with Mansfield or kind of like a whole hell because we were trying to get a new dump because we said we were filling up out there. If you people haven't seen how fast that dumps are rising up there, it is going, it looks like a mountain now. It's just so much dump, you know, stuff. Bedford allows the city of Arlington now allows Bedford to have like six or seven free days to bring their trash out there. They now they came up and asked us for our driver's license. Okay, fine. Now you have to bring your water bill. So I brought the water bill. And then they the water bill and then they go now we need your driver's license with it. Are we going to be hostages of our own dump? This is just gotten so crazy out there. It used to be, if I'm correct, you take your water bill and it says on there two free dumps per month because you pay your city bill. So I'm computer stupid. You're seeing one of the first people maybe I am computer stupid. Don't know how to work computers or nothing. No problem. So I take my water bill out there and they go, we can't take this. What do you mean you can't take this? You have to go online and you have to print it out and you have to bring that to us and that'll get you your two free dumps. I said, but I've got the water bill here that said it does not matter. They us to have free mulch from Arlington, but you go and it's really terrible mulch and then you have to load it yourself by hand. You don't like have a little tractor real quick to put it there. You have to load it and I mean it's just packed down bad. This is what the Arlington residents get to have while the city of hers and everybody bring their stuff in and build our dumps so I just amaze because I go out there all the time taking lands with parents of Chris. Mr. Wallace, thank you for coming in. We'll have staff get in touch with you as a matter of fact this afternoon and work session. We actually covered some of this and we'll get in touch with you. As a matter of fact, this afternoon in work session, we actually covered some of this, and we'll get in touch with you. According to our guidelines, we can't discuss it tonight, but we'll have staff get back. You can, Mr. Yeoverton can. Mr. Wallace, just to give you a couple of clarifications on your statements, I would just follow up with the mayor said as it relates to driver's license and water bills, we've had some recent concerns in that area and I think we've found a different solution as it relates to accessing that area. So I think you'll see some improvements in that area as it relates to identification and getting the lower cost dump at the landfill. But as it relates to the years of service and the years of life left in the landfill and other cities coming in, I wanna make it very clear that the landfill has upwards of 50 years of life at the pacing that it's going at. So there'll be many, many, many more decades of life in that particular asset. It does fill up faster because we take outside waste. That was a decision made probably 10 or 12 years ago for financial reasons to the city to allow other ways to come into a nearby landfill. So the city does provide tax relief back through you. Based on being able to take in that outside waste from other cities, but I can assure you that we're not providing that to other cities for free. They are paying for that service. All understand. And a higher at a higher price than what we pay for that service. Well, they had a paper down there and it was cheaper than us. And when I brought it up to him and said, excuse me, I'm from Marlington. Yes. It disappeared the next week. I'll be able to explain that to you kind of differently. What's kind of marketed versus how the community pays on behalf of their residents where they might get free. It doesn't mean the city's not sending us a payment on their behalf. It looks weird. It confuses people, but the revenue is coming in. I can assure you we're not getting a worse deal than other citizens accessing our landfill. And can I just one question, sir? Yes, sir. You made the comment. You said we have many years before we could feet of reach capacity. Yes, sir. Bob, we were looking at Mansfield in at that time is such a big issue to do that. You know, I'm not so sure I understand that. I'll have to catch up with you on what that point is. I've been with the city for 25 years. I don't really recall the discussion of Mansfield and waste relatively. It was just south of Arlington and Mansfield was the one making a stink about it. Thank you. Mr. Wallace, thank you for coming down here. Thank you. Appreciate it. Okay, I'll turn to announcements now, Mr. Pino. Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to remind our residents at 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 at30 a.m. Council's afternoon work sessions are re broadcast 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. Any announcement, Mr. Parker? Yes, sir. Thank you, Mayor. Over the last couple of weeks, we have held four short-term rental meetings. And we have requested in those meetings that those people that are interested in commenting on short-term rental to fill out a questionnaire online here at the city website. To March, day after tomorrow, that particular deadline closes and we would like to get as much information and compile as much data as we possibly can. So please, for everybody watching, if you want to have your data compiled and your ideas noted by the facilitator who will report back to us probably about the middle of February. Then we're going to take that data that's compiled and formulate some type of a solution for it through Council. So please fill out that questionnaire here in the next 48 hours. Thank you. Any other announcements? Okay. Seeing no other business, then we'll stand adjourned.