We'll now call the meeting of the Arlington City Council to order and the City Council will now go into closed session at 12.15 p.m. on January 9th, 2018 in accordance with the following sections of BTC a government code chapter 551. And that is 551.071 consultation with attorney. 0.072 deliberation regarding real property. 0.074 deliberation regarding personal matters. 0.087 deliberation regarding economic development negotiations. you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you I I But now I want to call us back to order for the afternoon work session. And our first item is the downtown master plan in student housing update. And I'll call upon Ms. Jinsy tople. Good afternoon mayor and council. Jinsy tople interim director for community development and planning department. In the agenda this evening, you have an item to approve the execution of a professional services contract for the consultant selected for the downtown master plan update project. Lindsay Mitchell, principal planner, will provide a brief overview of what this project entails and after her presentation I will present some options related to the student housing discussion we had in the December meeting, and then seek direction from council on the way forward. So here's Lindsay. Thanks, Jensy. Good afternoon. The current downtown master plan was adopted in November of 2004, so that's 13 years ago. That plan's recommendations focused on zoning changes, design standards, and TURS financing strategies to help spur development in the area. And as a direct result of that plan, the downtown design standards, downtown business zoning district, and the downtown neighborhood overlay were adopted in the following years. The 2004 plan had a number of specific recommendations that have come to fruition over the last decade. Notably the Love at Pavilion, the Center and Abrams Street improvements, the 101 Center Project, Downtown Library and College Park center can all trace their roots to recommendations in this plan. Other recommendations that have been completed include wayfinding, public art and gateways, street trees, on-street parking and parking requirement reductions. Downtown has seen plenty of change in the last decade, of course, between 2007 and 2012. BandarGraph Town Center, the Tarrant County sub-court house, Levit Pavilion, Center Street Improvements, and College Park were all constructed. In addition, the 300 block of East Abram was redeveloped with restaurants, office, and retail, and improvements were made to the historic Arlington music hall. In the notable developments between 2012 and this past year, include the Thornton Inn Urban Union, three new student housing developments, 101 Center and 404 Border. And of course, we're looking forward to the completion of the Downtown Library and the Abrams Street rebuild. A bit of good news, property values have increased in downtown over the last decade. Taxable value within Terz 1 was outperforming the aggressive forecast for that Terz by nearly 15 million by the end of fiscal year 17. The 2004 Downtown Master Plan contributed to the vision that supported ongoing development during that timeframe. In the FY18 operating budget, Council did approve an update to the Downtown Master Plan. So why update the plan now? An updated plan will refresh the vision for the area and create actionable implementation strategy to guide development. An in-depth housing market analysis will inform and frame the policy discussions around issues like student housing. Identification of potential catalyst projects will help strengthen current development momentum and a public infrastructure needs analysis will set the stage for a possible renewal of TERS-1, which expires in December of this year. The proposed scope for the Downtown Master Plan is quite comprehensive. It includes robust community outreach, stakeholder involvement, and partnership building. A regional market study to help identify new markets for the area, identification of catalyst project development opportunities, a public infrastructure needs analysis, strategies to help existing land uses contribute towards a cohesive vision and a review of funding and incentive strategies for development. In addition, the scope will include an in-depth analysis of supply and demand of both market rate and student housing. The draft results of that effort will be available by April. The future land use analysis and recommendations that are typical of any plan this size. Recommendation for transportation linkages between downtown, the city at large, and the region. A comprehensive parking needs analysis, urban design recommendations, and recommendations to preserve and enhance the historic and cultural assets in downtown. A little bit about the RFQ process that we went through. On September 27, staff released an RFQ for the Master Plan update which closed on November 1st. We received 15 responses from both local and national firms. An Inter-Departmental Staff Team evaluated the responses and interviewed four firms. And from that process, the evaluation team recommends MIG as the prime consultant. MIG will be joined by EPS and Walter P. Moore to provide market analysis and transportation planning services. The proposed consultant team has valuable experience with downtown planning efforts across the nation. MIG was the lead consultant on downtown plans for both Dallas and Fort Worth, along with Charlotte, North Carolina, and they were prime consultant on San Antonio's comprehensive plan. EPS contributed to the downtown plan for Dallas, as well as served in advisory capacity on downtown development projects for the city of Austin. And Walter P. Moore contributed to Austin's Strategic Mobility Plan as well as the recent DFW area high speed rail station planning study. If approved, the Downtown Master Plan update is slated to begin later this month. A stakeholder committee will meet regularly throughout the project to provide guidance and staff will return to council on a regular basis for updates. We do have the ability to augment the plan with advisory services on specific catalyst projects from experienced developers to help test recommendations on market appetite. There will be continuous public involvement with opportunities to provide input online at public houses and at other events. And the final draft plan is scheduled for completion this fall. The Downtown Master Plan will set the stage for implementation of the recommendations, which may include things like changes to zoning and development standards, guidance of capital investment in the area, and identification of specific economic development opportunities. With that, I'll turn it back over to Jensi to discuss the student housing issue in more detail. Thank you. So you may recall this is the same map we had in front of you when we were doing the student housing discussion. It shows the downtown core district in purple, the downtown neighborhood overlay in light green color and the UTR LinkedIn in orange. So what are the current regulations in these districts? Downtown Business Zoning District, the core which was in purple color. If there was a multi-family development project coming in, that will have to go through a specific use permit process, which is planning and zoning commission and city council approval. You could go up to a maximum density of 60 units per acre. However, if a multifamily project is a component of a mixed-use development and mixed-use development we define as you have multifamily or any other residential and at least 15% non-residential component. So a mixed-use development is allowed by right in the downtown business zoning district, as well as in the downtown neighborhood overlay district. So if it was a mixed-use development, you could increase the density, there's a density bonus, it increases to 100 dwelling units per acre, and that's allowed by right, so it doesn't go through PNZ or City Council. In the downtown neighborhood overlay again there is a mechanism for multi-family projects to have an approval process that is through a development plan process. However again if it's a mixed-use development project, it is allowed by right, and the maximum density allowed is 80 units per acre. Elsewhere in the city, so outside of DB and D&O, in multi-family is only allowed in RMF 22 zoning district, and that is only approved with a development plan. district and that is only approved with a development plan. So, as Lindsay mentioned, housing analysis is a big component of the Downtown Master Plan Update Project. The draft recommendations of the study will be ready by April or May of this year. So option one is studying that housing portion of the downtown with the downtown master plan project and after the draft recommendations are available to see if we can do if there are any UDC updates required. That would say as I said the timing is about April or May is when we'll have the draft recommendations. Meanwhile, if there is an immediate need to address the concern of having some kind of an approval process in the downtown for even mixed-use projects, then the short-term solution could be requiring a SUP approval process for the mixed-use developments as well, just like any other multifamily project has. Option 2 is to totally separate out the housing study as a separate project and do it separately. It will still be a four to five months process. There will be a lot of duplication of efforts because the downtown master plan update project is also running at the same time. So duplication of efforts, time as well as the same stakeholders will be meeting for that. So that's the other option. So at this point, I'm ready to have a discussion and see your direction. Well, for me, just to speak up here, Ms. Topel, it looks very clear right now we are in a market with low interest rates that is very conducive to multifamily-slash student housing. We've already seen some student housing get real close to downtown and we are investing a lot of money in downtown and so are our businesses. And we have a lot of places for student housing and I really would like for us to be sure that we protect the core because we are in prime time right now. We don't know how long that's going to last and out in the market right now we don't know also how long the interest rates are going to be so I think we could be having be faced with a multi I should say a mixed use development with predominance of multi-family that is student housing tomorrow and also I don't want to so I don't want a short circuit the process here either. And I think it just would be a smart thing for our staff to go ahead and move forward on a specific use permit requirement for mixed use there too, so that we have that protection for our downtown because it's getting more valuable every day. And it's just, it's exciting what is happening down here. And then I'm very excited about the opportunity here for us to look at our master plan now, because a lot of things have happened. I mean, my goodness, 20 plus restaurants now, our library is going to be opening up. We've got new housing down here, the University of Texas at Arlington is growing, and we have new business startups from UTA here. So I just think that it's very important that we protect our core right now as we go through this study and so that we have the opportunity because there's only a limited amount of blocks that are here in our core. So I just want to throw that out to council that we have staff. That we go through option one and go through our process and take the time we need to do it well. But yet in the meantime, let's do our issue piece. So we have some kind of control here. Miss Wolfe. Thank you, Mayor. I totally agree with you. I would support option one. I think that it's time is of the essence and I think we can just see I mean I'm just thinking how time flies from 0 4 to To now, but we finally really getting stuff out of the ground and and interested Property owners and I think we need to start looking at quality. And I think the SEP for any multi-family makes sense and that we can move along. And I'm not familiar with the groups that you settled on, but I'm glad to see that mixture so that we bring in little pieces of different areas and I think that we'll do well. And I just hope people really recognize the value is illustrated in your TIFF graph, you know, because I think we just look at it every day and think nothing much is happening. And I think there's a great opportunity to extend that downtown tiff towards the end of the year will get all this in place and pull the stakeholders together that will work with staff and will work on this so I support option one and look forward to seeing what you'll bring forward thank you Mr. Mayor. Thank you Miss Wolf. Mr. Shepherd. Thank you, Ms. Wolff. Mr. Shepard. Thank you, Mayor. I'm going to probably sound like the old cramudge and that walked uphill to school both ways. And I'll defer to the council and if that, if the consensus is support option one, I think that's great. Ms. Wolff was here, when, and Miss Wyman was here, when you couldn't pay anybody to develop downtown. It was impossible to get anybody to even consider that. And we're just now getting the type of development that the Frigganese study suggested we should have and the matters that we adopted through the current downtown development plan are a direct result in Mr. Frigginisi study. And we were, it's just now happening. And I'm not saying that the downtown development plan shouldn't be revisited certainly it's 14 years old and it could be dusted off. And I'm sure a lot of things have changed since then. But we've heard for years and years and years we need people down here that we're not going to get any type of restaurant retail, go on and on and on without people. When this was adopted in 2004, there was no such thing as purpose built student housing. That was a term of art that had never been mentioned. And so to me, what we're doing is we're sort of valuing the people. We're getting people down here, but they're students and somehow that's become sort of a negative connotation these days. I'm just glad there's gonna be people down here. So I'll defer to the group on how we handle the any future multi-family mixed use developments down here. But I'm happy after 25 years of working to get anybody to stop and spend a dime down here that we finally got people down here spending times. So anyway. You know, supporting that of how we now have people interested and so forth, it was interesting here that MIG, by the way, is a quality firm, one of the best in the country, no question. 15 firms submitting here, I think says a lot about the attention, the national attention that Arlington is getting and we didn't seek out MIG, but they're in Berkeley, California and have tremendous experience throughout. So that part of it is and then there may be a student housing project that we would want, but I want us to be able to have that choice because recently we had a project come in that I like But we didn't have any say in it, you know at all and it could have been one that we didn't and we did boat down one that we did have a say in Here recently too because of the density was incredible and And now it's interesting, as Mr. Shepherd brings up a great point. We didn't have a lot of value down here when this all started, but all we do now. So that's the figure, I think. Mr. Parker. Thank you, Mayor. Jensy, could you back up a couple slides, please? Right about there. Well, right there. That's a Let's take a look at that one right there We take a look at the mix mix use development aspect of this particular downtown business district and there you have a dwelling units per acre of 100 dwelling units per acre and if you're talking about students, okay, most of the student floor plans are a common area with four bedrooms, okay, in each one of those. So you're looking at a density of 400 students per acre, okay? And you're saying up above that mixed use, if I put a dry cleaners down below, they're in a bagel shop, but a coffee shop, they don't have to come to us. And I don't think that that's what we're looking for. I think that we're probably looking for something I'm always taken back to an audit that somebody did of our city. And they say that in order for you to build a better city, sometimes you just have to say no. And so if somebody came to us with mixed use and put 400 students per acre in a building, I would have to say no. I don't think that's a wise move to give UTA students that particular experience of going to college. So I believe that if you can go to option one there, I believe that option one where they have to come to us, no matter what kind of, even if it's mixed use, there's no approval by right. Because when you start approval by right, you are given them all they have to do is put in a couple of things down on the bottom floor and they can do whatever they want to. And I really don't think that that's what we want for our city or our downtown or our UTA students. So I'm going to have to go with an SUP for any multi-family or mixed use options also. That's my that's my other comments questions. Mr. Glaspie. Thank you, Madam. Just kind of a general question. Looking at the plan that was put together in 2004 and what we've accomplished thus far, how far do you feel we were along the way with our original plan? We are pretty far with the compared to what 2004 downtown master plan and I remember the time to between 2005 and 2009, we really didn't have any developments happening, but it was after that that slowly we picked up. So, but as Council Member Shepherd said, we did not know what purposefully built student housing was, that's not a terminology that we used in the last downtown master plan. So there's a lot of changes that has happened. So this is a perfect time to rethink about the whole plan. Ms. Walman. Jensi, would you go back to that map of there? Okay. When we did this before, you know, for what I'm my question is, what is the impact of I know that UTA has enlarged their area? Yes. What impact will that have on the update of the master plan? I'm not sure, but that dread bold line is the expanded area, but that will be a part of the study too, because in the housing analysis, we are going to be looking at not just student housing, but the market rate, any type of housing that could happen in this area, and a little bit outside of this area. So that can determine where the boundaries of the downtown core, where the boundaries of the overlay could be, and whether that needs to be expanded or reduce those things should be coming out from the study. Okay, I guess I was just saying, you know, before, I don't know where it was before, I know it was smaller, but I'm thinking how that will impact any new development, not just housing, but new development. And I just had questions about that. I don't, I don't guess, I guess it'll be just fine, but what's already there, will it be able to be changed into something else or will it be held back because of that new boundary? That's my, I don't know if I'm making it clear or not. See what I'm saying? In the new master plan, what impact will that have on the new plan? I guess that's it. Yeah, well see the new, because before and for it was smaller and now it's bigger so but they're not doing it. ETA doesn't have to permit anything. I know they don't but will that impact any other development around it? Like what's there right now can stay there till they need it, okay? But that won't be in the study at all that it was was before that'll be out of the study is there right? UTR-Lington will be one of the stakeholders in our advisory committee So there will be a lot of exchange from the university itself what they plan to do that we will include with the plan Downtown, I think that gets it. Thank you the plan down time master plan. All right I think that gets it. Thank you. And I think Charlie bring up a good point in 04 and when you look at the friggin issue plan student housing and part it's apartments aren't even in there at all. So that's what this new master plan will address. What are those design standards? What's going to be that that requirement what's that limitation just multiple pieces that and that I would hope to that we can expand the downtown footprint to the east and to the north and pick up again more because right now UTA makes up over 450 acres and when we started our downtown efforts, we were right at 250 and with UTA moving up, we've lost acreage, you know, as a downtown. So I think we've just got some new stuff that hadn't even been thought of that, you know, my G can come in and say, okay, all you property owners and I think we've got a lot of people that own property on division street that will be participating in this and willing investors to say, what do we know now and what we've experienced now that we didn't know? Because the friggin' ESEI plan basically took everything that was on a shelf since 1995 and put it all in one package and then kind of identified here's your priorities, here's what you as a city need to target. That's all friggin' NECI plan did. So I think this will be a great asset moving forward and student housing won't even it's not even mentioned in Brigham, they see. But we can get some good design standards out of it. I think you just made the point, and that's where I was trying to go, and I didn't know how to express it completely, but it's a smaller footprint for the plan. That's what I was trying to say with UTA expanding, but you just hit on that when you said, we need to move those boundaries out to encompass more. That's good point. Victoria. Thank you, Mayor. I just actually have a different kind of question. If we go off option one and one A, you mentioned on the downtown plan you'll have a stakeholder committee. Could you articulate a little bit about who might be included in said committee? It'll be a diverse group of stakeholders throughout downtown so all of our major institutions will be represented, Chamber, Downtown Arlington Management Corporation, UTA, Property Owners, Downtown Management Board members, our religious institutions, that type of thing. We also have the ability to do individual stakeholder interviews as a supplement to the committee for those who want more to share in-depth information in a more private way. Thanks. Thank you. Good question. Other comments, questions? Mr. Glaspy? It's kind of a piggyback on what does you kind of describe the process of how the stakeholders will be involved in this whole thing. Sure. So the public involvement throughout the process will be continuous. the list is holding. Sure, so the public involvement throughout the process will be continuous, not only the stakeholder group and the individual interviews, but public involvement for the whole time that the plan is being developed. We'll have an online availability for people to make public comment and to review the recommendations that are being proposed. We will also have multiple public open houses and we will go out to events that are already happening in the community to talk to people about the plan, to catch people where they are. So that's kind of the way that we'll be approaching it. Any other comments, questions? And then Ms. Topel has the question on here on whether option one or option two what what's the pleasure of the council? Miss Walman Mr. Mayor option one includes one in one a basically so full option. Okay, then yes one So that leads one in one A, basically. So full option. Okay. Then yes, one. Okay. All right. So I guess we'll move forward on option one. And then can you give us an idea there too on how quickly we'll be able to get started? Sure. That's the next part I was going to tell. Okay. So the SUP to add SUP requirement. That means a UDC update. So we do definitely have to notify. It will go through planning and zoning commission and then come back to city council for approval. So it will be about two to two and a half month process. Okay. All right, great. All right, any other questions, comments? Okay, thank you, Ms. Topall. Appreciate it. Thank you, Lindsay. Appreciate your work. Appreciate it. Thank you, Lindsay. Appreciate your work there on this and looking forward to it. It is going to be an exciting plan here and it great to have some stuff to work with, you know, here and also to be able to piggyback on great successes here with a lot of our businesses that have moved into downtown and a lot more stakeholders to be able to work with here to make it happen. This sure is, this morning the Chamber of Commerce had 143 businesses at Business Over Breakfast. It was a record number of businesses and a lot of them were right here in downtown. It's pretty exciting. You know, that's up from about 60 or 70 here just a couple of years ago. Pretty amazing. Thank you. Thank you. Next we'll move to police citywide on street parking management ordinance change presentation. And I'm honored to recognize Lieutenant Kelly Veldor from the Arlington Police Department. Excuse me. Good afternoon. I'm Lieutenant Kelly Veldor with the Arlington Police Department. Today I am presenting on the Citywide On Street Parking Management Project. Parking issues have been problematic in the city of Arlington for some time. And in March of 2017, I was assigned to the community and neighborhood development committee and task to find viable options to address these parking issues to include the areas within the entertainment district. After researching the issue both from an internal and external perspective. On October 10th of 2017, the staff presented to the Council Committee recommendations for consideration pertaining to these parking issues. From that meeting, Council instructed staff to provide a course of action by providing additional information for a follow-up meeting. That follow-up meeting was held on December 12th. Staff presented revisions to the City of Arlington Code of Ordnance's Traffic and Motor Vehicles chapter and proposed a new ordinance designed exclusively for the neighborhood parking issues in the entertainment district. The committee directives were specific. The first directive, as it pertains to the traffic chapter, was to revise the definitions to be consistent with state law. Recommend changes to the parking of certain vehicle section and recommend a maximum parking time reduction. The second directive was to recommend a new entertainment parking district ordinance. In that follow-up meeting on December 12, we provided a status report on the committee directives. Again, the first directive pertains to the traffic chapter. All definitions now meet the Texas transportation code of statutes. Changes were made to the section pertaining to the parking of certain vehicles, which will help eliminate certain loopholes and are consistent with other city ordinances. Changes reducing the maximum parking time from 72 hours to 24 hours will allow for enforcement action to be conducted within three days instead of the five day waiting period. the second update we provided pertains to the new entertainment district parking ordinance. The entertainment parking ordinance will help prevent hazardous conditions that affect the health, safety, and welfare of those residents in these areas. In the ordinance, the police chief will act as the director, and whereas the director will designate no parking zones in problematic areas. The director will also designate dates and times for activation of no parking zones for enforcement purposes. Parking will be prohibited in no parking zones prior to, during and post event special events. This also includes residents. Permanent posted signs indicating no parking will be installed. There will be no need for permits and for our enforcement capability will be that of an immediate tow. I apologize and then click the next one. This, this is a snapshot of the entertainment district which is outlined in yellow. The three areas that are circled in red represent the three no parking zones. The top right represents the Woodbrook area. The top left represent the Murray Estates. And the bottom left represents those neighborhoods due west of the stadium. Our future action plans will be to present an ordinance for Council consideration on January 30th. If approved, we will move forward with a design to install appropriate street signage, establish an effective day for enforcement to begin, educate residents of the new ordinance and enforcement actions, and then coordinate with city towing services for an enforcement action plan. That is a quick overview of the project. I'm available for any questions. Thank you, Mayor. Lieutenant Veldor, I want to say that you have worked diligently at this. You have come up with a we have essentially had a problem over time in the entertainment district of the Woodbrook area, the Roosevelt area down there of people and we parking up and down the street to where our residents can't get in or out. It has been absolutely chaos. The only time that we have even been able to breathe is when we have put in the barricades and man them with police. This particular ordinance will take the manning of these areas out of the loop and put immediate towing in, which I think is absolutely what is necessary during the times of our special events. We have had a multitude of complaints and I feel that this is probably something that's going to work. It does not require a resident to have a towing contract with anybody and it also allows them to remove cars that are in public streets that should not be there in inundating that particular neighborhood and it makes it allows it to work and allow those people during those time frames to have the ability to get in and out of their houses and their neighborhoods and it also allows all the emergency vehicles that we want to get up and down the streets. So thank you for your diligence. All your work on this. I get the phone calls and the emails so I certainly appreciate your work. Thank you, sir. I just say some of the general housekeeping just getting our language to identify with the state. I think that will help the city as a whole. And when we talk about, I get, I can think of one particular neighborhood that has a lot of visitors and they'll just park their cars and they'll go, now why can they just leave that car there? You know, and we say, well, it's got to be there that 72 hours. Well, we found out that it really doesn't. It can come back and by using that 24 hour period that allows the police department to turn that five day weight period into a really a three day weight period. So not only, I mean, I think it's major for the entertainment district, these rules, but I think we're gonna see some very positive changes in a few of these throughout the neighborhood and throughout the city. Great. Lieutenant Veldor, thank you very much. Appreciate what you're doing. And Mr. Parker, I think said it very well. But thank you, job well done, and thank you for the work that y'all do throughout our city here. And really appreciate it, value you very much. Thank you for keeping us safe and continuing to here to be proactive in coming up with a solution. Y'all have a great day. Thank you very much. Thank you Chief Johnson. Appreciate it. Next we'll move to 2017, 2018, volunteer income tax assistance in Arlington and I'll call upon Ms. Cheryl Kinney. Good afternoon, Mayor and Council. Cheryl Kinney, grants manager with community development and planning. The briefing item before you provides some information on the volunteer income tax assistance sites and program that's getting ready to start here in Arlington. In about a week, these are free community tax centers that are open to lower income working families here in our community thanks to our partners, long term partners with foundation communities in United Way of Terrent County. They've been doing this for quite some time. And this year we have three sites here in Arlington. We have Shadowbrook Apartments. That one opens on January 16th, which is a week from today on South Cooper. We also have a site available at Hugh Smith Recreation Center on New York Avenue. And then the third one will be at Tarant County College, Southeast campus, and that one will open in two weeks. So we'll have those sites ready and available staff by volunteers for people to come in and have their taxes prepared early on and it's a good benefit and I'll hear to answer any questions that you have about the program. Mr. Glassping. Thank you, Mayor. When you take on a consideration, the number of people we could potentially reach, how close do you think we're getting to touch in everyone who could take advantage of this? Well, last year we served about 3,000 families and I believe there's still some work to be done. They're probably an additional 3,000 that we could reach out to. Now a lot of those will go to a paid prepare, but this way, you know, it's free and it costs them less. And it also is an incentive for them to save some of their earned income tax credit for future needs. So it's a good community resource and program. I think we're not quite at capacity, but we're continuing to work on getting the word out about the services. Speaking of when you how much more are we able to get the word out as the each year passes by? We think we're coming pretty close to reaching everyone who needs to be aware of this or. Well, we've got a lot of good partners in our nonprofits that are in the community. We let them know our neighborhood networks as well as through social media. So all those sources and then last year we did have a UT Arlington site. So that helped with some of the student population. Other questions, comments? Ms. Wolfe? I'll just make a comment by having these volunteers serve our citizens. Those citizens, instead of paying for some commercial tax planner, I mean, let's support their businesses and give them that money by having these volunteers do it. Those returns that they get back goes in their pockets and can help benefit their family in the community as a whole. So it keeps the money with the families and I think people just need to grasp that they don't have to go to these little tax shops and where you give them your paycheck and you sign a piece of paper and they get your full tax refund. We've got experts that can really help you do your return and you get your refund. Great points. Miss Walman. I was just looking again and I just wonder if our citizens realize that this is available to anyone with a household annual income of $56,000. That's probably higher than I would have thought. But I think that's something for everybody to know and I think there may be people who didn't realize the the level of income that you know they could take advantage of this. That's a big one. That's a big one. The AARP sites as well will serve those making over 56,000. So those are available also. And how do we get all of this? I know you send out things. Does it go out in the water bill? Does it go out? How are we telling all these people about this? It goes out through our nonprofit networks. It goes out through social media. It goes out through just connections that we have with the neighborhood networks and you know, just people, word of mouth because those three sites have been in operation for quite a few years. So people know to come back year after year to those locations. Any others? Thank you, Miss Kenny. It's exciting. Thank you very much. Next we'll move to discussion of committee meetings. Municipal policy, Mr. Glassby. Thank you, Mayor of the Municipal Policy Committee met this morning and everyone was present. And what we focused on was home-based business ordinance. Dr. Farmer, myers had brought to our attention that we should need to make sure that what we were doing with this new garage sale ordinance was consistent with our home-based business ordinance. And so we reviewed what we were doing and came the staff came to conclusion a couple of recommendations they made that we should put into the new proposed garage sale ordinance one of which was that so something we So, I think that's a very, very, very important thing. I think that's a very important thing. I think that's a very important thing. I think that's a very important thing. I think that's a very important thing. I think that's a very important thing. I think that's a very important thing. I think that's a very important thing. I think that's a very important thing. I think that's a very important thing. I think that's a very important thing. and came to conclusion, most people would print out maybe eight and a half by 11, which not necessarily something you're gonna be able to read from the street. So, they changed the ordinance to say that you need to have the permit and were able to show that permit if a inspector or something came up. And secondly, they went in and made some clarifications I mean, I think that's why I'm not looking at the work that I'm looking at. I think that's why I'm looking at the work that I'm looking at. I think that's why I'm looking at the work that I'm looking at. I think that's why I'm looking at the work that I'm looking at. I think that's why I'm looking at the work that I'm looking at. I think that's why I'm looking at the But really a legitimate garage sale while they're trying to get rid of things because they've commuted accumulated over time So in essence the committee was supportive of that if you have any questions or any additional comments Committee members like to make Okay Any any other comments or anything I just wanted to thank for our TV audience. I want to be sure and put in here. You know, the Grodge cell ordinance came from citizens coming forward in which their neighborhood rights had really been infringed upon. And many of these were because and Dr. Myers, roughly recognize it that people were bringing in and operating businesses out of their homes. They were not garage sales here too. And I think another change that the committee recommended, there's not a charge there for this. It's just trying to protect the quality of our neighborhoods. That's the purpose of this. And we are one of the last cities to adopt a garage sale ordinance. But appreciate the work of the committee because I think as y'all have worked with citizens and gotten more input, we've gotten a better ordinance here as we move forward because that's what this is about is trying to protect the quality of our neighborhoods, not to limit broad sales that are legitimate. We understand that and we want that. That's part of a neighborhood, but when you start having businesses in the middle of a neighborhood, it's a tough situation and that's not something anybody wants to deal with. Does anybody else have anything else to add to that? Thank you, Mr. Glassby. Appreciate it. Did y'all have anything else to add to that? Thank you, Mr. Glansby. Appreciate it. Did you all have anything else at a municipal policy? OK. Then we'll move to community and neighborhood development, Ms. Warth. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. If you were a call, it's about this time last year. We began looking at tax credit housing. And we began that process today. But it was our new process and in the new process which we all agreed as a committee that it works very well we asked for a request for a pre-development meeting with staff we asked that they disclose any all-known variances and all the projects that have been submitted do have several variances and that there be a limited communication with a single point of contact and that was at staff at this point. What we had before us was presented three senior housing tax credit properties. And those are located on the 2800 matte lock between 1315 and 1401 West Abram and 1900 West Abram. So those were the three that were submitted. The Council, the committee will meet on January the 30th and the now they can move forward and the developers can meet with the neighborhood groups, get letters of support or letters of concern or issues that they can address with the neighborhoods if they choose to do that. And then also they will come before the committee and we can talk about the variances. And again, remember they get points for, and the points have changed. And I had that written down anywhere. We can give a resolution, as a full council, we can give a resolution as a full council we can give a resolution of support uh... seventeen points uh... resolution of no objection fourteen points a resolution with no action is zero points and uh... so we don't know what that will look like but we know that also uh... it has clarified the process and then we will bring in that back to council. So we don't have any action today but we will have action moving forward. And in addition, item that was put on our consideration was the exploration of the Arlington Housing Finance Corporation partnership. And we think that that is something that the staff wants us to look at and we will review that and continue to work on that January 30th. And then staff will in our Council Work Session that afternoon will see everything that is being proposed for the opportunity for the Housing Finance Corporation to partner with nonprofits and tax entities tax free going forward. Any questions or comments for Ms. Wolfe? Okay. Dr. Myers? Any questions or comments for Miss Wolfe? Okay Dr. Myers Clarification perhaps on the second particular issue we were looking at in terms of it was brought up in the discussions that we had about our policy There wasn't a staff generated issue it was an issue that came up in our discussions through that So I just wanted to clarify what Minister Wolff was saying. We are looking at it. We've asked, the committee has asked for additional information about that and how that might function and work. So we are going to be considering that in more detail. So I just want to clarify that just so that everyone knew where that generated, it came out of our discussions of the policy that we created in December from our previous learning curve that we had last year. So I just wanted to clarify that for all folks here as well as at home. Thank you. Okay. Thank you, Miss Wolf. Appreciate it. Next we move to finance an audit, Mr. Parker. Thank you, Mayor. We had a quorum this morning and what we did was we set down to try to make sure that we have, we need to approve our investment policy this year. We do this on an annual basis. This particular year, there has been some changes due to the 85th session of our Congress out in Austin. And so consequently, a lot of the things that we have to do to comply with that particular, those changes are admin changes, just verbiage within our investment policy. And so we are going to comply with the, they made changes to the Texas Public Fund's Investment Act essentially. And so we're going to make those particular changes, which are pretty much semantics. One of the things that we have to do is in our investment policy, we have to include the controller on the investment committee. And that will be Amy Trevino. So she will be, there will be a resolution coming to counsel on the 30th of this month to approve our investment policy. One of the things that we were presented was the fact that some of our money that we do invest is invested into the Texas pool, which is the largest investment pool in Texas itself. It's the oldest. It has a triple A rating. One of the subsets, and they had a return this last year of 1.19 percent. And anyway, one of the things that has kind of an offshoot of this is another pool called Texas Prime. And anyway, that particular pool returned to 1.39 or 20 basis points greater. And so in order to participate in this particular pool, have the flexibility to participate in this pool. It will take another resolution. So we'll be coming to you on the 30th with another resolution to give the investment committee the flexibility to invest in Texas Prime also. Are there any questions? Any questions from Mr. Parker? Thank you for that report, very thorough. Thank you very much. Okay, we'll move to economic development, Mr. Shepard. Thank you Mayor. Economic Development Committee met today. There are three members present. All matters were taken up in executive session. All right, thank you, Mr. Shepard. We'll move to discussion of miscellaneous items. Mr. Pino, do we have any appointments to boards and commissions? Mayor, we will have one appointment this evening. Dr. Von Peek's chair of the Community Relations Commission. Great. Okay, and then on evening agenda items, Miss Walman. Yes, Mayor, I would like to pull 826. I have some questions about our Ditto golf course. I'd like to discuss and mainly what it, I guess I can just go ahead. Yeah, we can discuss that item, right? Yeah, it's on you. I think it'd be great. Yeah, okay. Well, I think everyone's aware that we are, the Rangers have agreed to put their name on our wonderful new golf course, the former Chester W. Ditto golf course that was in dire need and we did scrape and rebuild. We might just say that did scrape and rebuild and it's going to be really exciting and to have the participation of the Rangers I think is exciting. It will bring in a lot of more people. I think the Rangers were very gracious to come along side and say, yes, they would like to join with us. It will enhance the play. And I know that our Convention of Vista Bureau, UTA, all the things that we're doing at Ditto are really important. However, with that being said, I think it's also very important that we retain the name of Chester W. Ditto in some prominent manner because they were a pioneer family. It was your old homestead. We wouldn't want to just say a race, not at all. So I would like to propose for the Council's, if you would agree with me to possibly name the clubhouse to be to become the Chester W. Ditto Clubhouse It's it's gonna be a fine facility and I think it would honor his name and the family Which many members are still here in our city and they are practically a pioneer family in Arlington. So to keep that name and to preserve that if that would be of interest to the council I would like to propose that. You know I think that you know that's all of us here really weird we're so thankful to the great legacy that we have and certainly the Ditto legacy is there and I think that's a Awesome thing. I think that to have the clubhouse the other thing that I have heard from a lot of citizens is the fact that I think Chester Ditto would be very happy That we have made all these improvements out there on this land and the land of course has a rich legacy in itself But of course of course it did really gone down and hadn't done anything much with it in a long time there and of course Clubhouse is now it's much more than a clubhouse and that's the other part and it you know I guess we had Park's Department may know what they were gonna call it. But it is also what I'm excited about. This building will be a place where we have anniversaries and wedding receptions and family reunions. And one of the things that we talked about here when we decided to move forward on that is that now a lot of our Arlington families won't have to go outside of the city to have some of these great venues and then of course it's an amazing thing whether you're a golfer or not a golf course creates a beautiful place and the views out of out of this banquet facility and so forth are going to be great and so it will really be an honoring thing there with it. We have Mr. Gary Packen and Mr. Greg Durrani here and I'd love for them to kind of stand up and then then we can hear from council but I'd love for you to kind of go over a little bit of the major points here of the agreement. Because one other thing that I've heard from citizens asking me is that, y'all, this is the Rangers lending their name to us there. And lots of other facilities and golf courses pay millions of dollars for that. This is an offer that the Rangers Hear that it's a real coup for us Anyway, thank you mayor gary pack and assistant director of parks and recreation To give you a kind of a little synopsis on what brought us to this point Obviously, we've been working on the golf course for a number of years In the golf our golf courses, try to work and 100% cost recovery is often as possible. So we look for ideas and concepts to make us innovative, be efficient with our resources and identify possible partnership opportunities. So the concept of bringing the rangers together with the help of the CBB and possibly eventually UTA to help with some programmatic opportunities seemed like a great opportunity as a win-win-win for the community. With the redevelopment that did go off course and obviously that marketing opportunity and the opportunity to brand it, a new facility, a fresh start, in a sense. It seemed like a great step for the Rangers to get involved and to use that brand. You know, the Cowboys Golf Club in a similar fashion uses the Cowboys look and feel at that facility and it really creates an opportunity for sports enthusiasts to get excited about golf and tie in their fan of sports and football specifically. And we feel we could do that same here in Arlington with the Rangers being a hometown organization as well. So during this discussion obviously the brand is a major step. There is no cost to the city to utilize the brand. There's obviously cooperation with the Rangers and how we use that in working with them on a regular basis. But one of the aspects that we're looking for is how the Rangers could help us market the facility in possible ways that we couldn't afford to do or that we typically haven't done in the past. So that could be everything from in-game activities. When people are coming in in promoting the golf course, first pitches, pre-game videos that are going on about the golf course before the game starts, pocket schedule advertisements, advertisements in the yearbooks, the programs, general bringing their tournaments back to Arlington that they host and you know we can't necessarily say the players are gonna bring their tournaments back that's up to them but hopefully that encourages them to come to to have player appearances that may be an additional cost but they have player appearances on the on the driving range where you know a former ranger was going to be on the driving range from one to two on Saturday, come out and meet him and hit golf balls, type thing. Just a different way to brand golf and to tie the rangers more into our community. We're going to have GPS on our golf carts and one of the things we're talking about doing is having players introduce the holes. So hey, this is how you play hole number one. And here's some tips. And that way you kind of make it a little personal in that aspect. So there's a number of doors that they can open for us that we haven't been able to reach. Cooperation on rental opportunities. Obviously the ballpark has a number of weddings on the field and types of rental activity there that when they're renting for a wedding that we could also help they could help us sell golf rounds to the wedding party so they could come golf and the women can go do you know to a salon or something like that as a partnership. partnership and then also possible sales in our our golf shop in I'm sorry in their pro shop of our golf course our rounds of golf as an option so they could help us actually sell rounds of golf and then just in general with the CVB you know they're going to help us promote it more aggressively as well from where I've done in the past because they see this is a major destination opportunity for the city. Try to get people to stay another night or a longer weekend in our community. Some questions in regards to the general contract. The term limit was general term based on the agreement with the stadium, the lease agreements, that's kind of mirroring that, that's how we got to that point. One of the benefits that we're looking at is exchanging rounds of golf for tickets. So they can use it for business development and we could as well. So for instance, we get a lot of requests from the community to donate rounds of golf for this charity or this golf tournament and we provide that as much as we can. We can't provide that to every request. So we have a process that we go through to provide that to the general community. In this aspect, we would use that trade, let's say they gave us 50 tickets of the Rangers. We turn around and give those as prizes to our golfers or to pass holders that have been with us with a 10 years or a 20 year anniversary. So hey, thank you for being a loyal customer. Here's two tickets to the Rangers game. And then the thought process from their aspect is they would use it for business development too. If they were trying to bring a sponsor into town or a special event or even a player, they could take them out there and take them on the course and give them that opportunity. So I mean that's a snapshot of what we've been working on but we're looking forward to really it's more of a benefit to the city because they're giving us a brand that's a well-known brand. We'd be the only MLB golf course in the country Cowboys Club for instance is the NFL Golf Course Associated Facility so that would be something again that's unique to Arlington that we can use to market But in general everything's kind of a wash In regards to what they're doing for us and what we're doing for them And if anything the ranges are probably providing us more of a benefit from the use of the brand. There's value to that. It's not a tangible value that we can hold, but everybody wants to be associated with professional sports in some form of fashion. And this is another way to continue that within Arlington. I mean, I guess with that, I'm open for any questions you may have. Arlington. I mean, I guess with that, I'm open for any questions you may have. Ms. Walman. OK. Here we go, Gary. And I think this is all wonderful. And obviously, the golf course is going to really be a fine course. Oh, women also play golf on those wedding parties. I didn't mean for that. I know you did. I just saw it. So any instances. So for that. No, you didn't. I just saw it. No idea in sense. So Miss Wallen, you're saying the man could go the spa and the women might be playing the game. That's right. They could. I'm all for that. I'm going to do all kinds of things. Okay. That's fine. You'll be the first one to tee off. No. But what I wanted to, the thing I wanted to ask about and what I want you to hear a reassurance of is that we're talking about all these tourist attraction, rangers coming, new tournaments coming, which is all really wonderful, but we need to remember our citizens that have participated on that old course for all these years and they loved it. I know they were, but they're going to be excited about this new course and that we will ensure that they're going to be priority times for our citizens, that they're not going to be put you know they're not in competition but that they will have some priority times t times you and I talked about that it's still going to be there for our citizens to enjoy and to and it's you know one of the perks of living in Arlington is having these wonderful golf courses and parks. So we talked about that this afternoon and we offer a frequent player card and that allows you to get priority T time reservations one day ahead of the general public. So it's seven day ahead of time reservation for the general public. So they get an eight day opportunity to make those reservations. We could even push that to nine or ten for residents and it'd be easy if we could make them frequent player cards. There's a fee associated with that but you get around a golf and there's other opportunities there. So we can create a priority in that manner. That way we can manage it a little better. So that's that manner that way we can manage it a little better so that's that's a way we could do that. Ms. Thelman. I too I think this is a great idea and there are a lot of benefits to Arlington but again in the same vein as for looking out for residents I notice in the agreement that there's certain groups that we would offer discounts to like maybe people staying in our life by loads hotel for example. Will we have any resident pricing for the rounds of golf? I just want to make sure that myself or Catherine, if we like to go play around, we wouldn't be paying more than our visitors necessarily as residents. So a current practice with our golf courses, we don't have a resident non-resident fee. With this course specifically in the investment that's being put into it at this point in time, we've talked about a resident and non-resident fee. So there would be a discount for residents to participate. Mr. Parker. The first thing I'd like to do is give credit kind of where it's due, and that would be the Jimmy Bennett who started this particular project several years ago. And anyway, to have it become a reality, I'm sure he's very excited about it and he'll be out there playing. So if you want to see Jimmy hit it off, I'm sure he'll be out there. So bottom line is that this opportunity, I know that there's a lot of discussion about the fact that we are partnering with the Rangers and that that is in some way, shape, or form, some derogatory aspect. And I want to bring out that it is not in any way and it only benefits the promotion of this course as a destination event. And we want to make sure that people understand that this is gone from number 49, up probably into the top two or three or four in the Metriplex, that this quality, of course course and all the investment that has gone into this course, the 24 million bucks is going to do nothing but boost the property values of all the property owners around that area and they're gonna benefit many times over from this particular investment. So it's not only a great investment in our city but it is also a great partnership with Major League Baseball and the Texas Ranger. So Gary, thank you so much for all the hard work you've put in. I know this has been very tedious and there's been very, there's been quite a few meetings that you've had with the people that live in and around the golf course. So thank you very much. It's been a great... It's been a team effort by golf course. So thank you very much. It's never been a team effort by all means. Yeah, you bet you. Mr. Parker, that was very well stated. And I think that's a very important point that, you know, a big part of the thinking here was to raise the property values and to raise the image of our community. And this is a big part of what we're doing here with that and then the quality of life for our citizens also. And that's a real great side benefit and a main benefit of tourism because we all here in Arlington get to benefit from the attractions that we have here and it's a great thing. Thanks for all the work that's been done with that. And once again, we get to continue to elevate what would be just a golf course project now into a multifaceted project that is going to make it be a game changer and not just for golfers. It will benefit a lot of our people there throughout. Yes, Dr. Myers. Thank you, Mayor. Just, I want to make sure that we don't miss the point that Ms. Wileman made regarding naming of the clubhouse and keeping that did history going. I want to applaud that. I think that's a wonderful opportunity for us to maintain the history. And I would second that. So I just want to make sure that we have that consensus as we can report. In Council of the light too we can have Miss Walman pull it off the consent agenda and add that to the recommendation. I see a lot of shaking ahead. This looks like a great and we're talking about the naming of the banquet facility slash Clubhouse thereafter, Chester W. Ditto. There on it. Is there anybody in agreement to do that? Yes, Ms. Thalman. Sorry, just to clarify. Are we talking about pulling it off tonight or are we talking about adding that recommendation and still doing the same? Okay, yeah. I like that. Thank you for that clarification. Yes. Yeah, pull off consent and then making that part of the motion there with it. Also it would be great. We're having discussion now. I think it would also be tonight when we pull it off. I think if we hit some of the key points there tonight too and I think it would be great if Mr. Packing could be there. And then the other part of it is that we're stealing the thunder from our great press conference. It's going to take place sometime there. We've covered it a lot here, but this is a big deal. It's a very great thing for our community to be doing it. And to have this opportunity. It's a great thing. You're that we're going to have happening. So anyway, with that, if, yes, Mr. Yeoverton. Just for tonight, Gary, when you address just a couple other deal points that I don't think have come out that I think are kind of worthy of mentioning, because when you do these promotional things, people get confused over what that means sometimes. And so I know I've seen some email about how we're giving the Rangers our golf course. And I want to make it very clear, the city owns the golf course. The city will operate and maintain the golf course. And the city will retain all the revenues from the pro shop and from the green fees and everything from the golf course. It's exactly how it was before when we operated it as the Ditto golf course. So as we've gone through this renovation, it did give us an opportunity to do the rebranding that Gary was talking about. So as signs were changed out at all that, we were gonna change them out anyway because we have a new golf course, right? So whether you call it the city of Arlington or Texas Rangers, the Sons are all replaced. But to the Mayor's point, the similar arrangement in Great Vine that the Cowboys have, those folks pay the Cowboys to license their name on that golf course. We will not be paying that. We will receive all the upside of that from the revenues that are be able to be generated The marketing and licensing promotion and there is We believe substantial value to the revenue driven to the green fees by that brand association Away from just a typical municipal course. So that's kind of the simplistic business purpose for why we do it. And to Gary's point, it's all done as kind of a wash to net positive. So there's no loss of public value. There's no public contribution to the Rangers. It's all an asset of the cities and will remain as such. So just want to make sure that's clear for the public as well. And I'd love for you to make that same clarification tonight. That that that will state, Mr. Yeoverton, that's really synopsis of why this is so exciting. There it really is. Okay, any other comments on this item? Okay, and then anything else on the evening agenda items? Okay, then we'll move. Was there any? and then anything else on the evening agenda items. Okay. Then we'll move, was there any? Okay. Okay, issues relative to city and tech.projects. Anything there? Okay. Yes. On tech.projects. Just, I think we got you all the information, but I think at our last meeting, there was a discussion about what was going on down at Bowen and I-20 with the bridge. So just for the public's benefit, the bridge rails, the concrete barriers are being replaced on the north and the south sides of the bridge there. And then soon to follow, I think it's on your agenda tonight, the Texas U-turn there at Bow Boeing and I-20. So those are two separate projects with the highway department doing the railings and then I guess actually the highway department will do the underpass too. I'm not sure Mindy if that's us for them, but there'll be two separate projects in that intersection here in the months ahead. So. Mindy Carmichael, Director of Public Works and Transportation. That will be a local let project, so we'll handle the contract on that one. Okay. Great. Okay. Then we move to the AISD Anatolium Joint Use. Mr. Yeverton. Just along the lines of, from time to time, council members ask about partnership opportunities and joint use, particularly with the AISD's bond program. I think Mr. Glass, but you've brought it up a time or two. And I just wanted to let you know and make sure that you were aware that we're having an opportunity, I think, to kind of collaborate a bit with AISD on the Natatorium facility to make sure it's fit to not only do what they need, but also have the opportunity to do some tournaments and such. So we're in the weeks, months ahead, going to try to work something with them that might look on where we would be able to offer some classes and maybe participate to modest amount in that project. But we don't have anything specific yet, but I wanted to make sure you all were that we were going to try to see if there was something doable there. And if we can, it'll open it up for our Aquatics Recreation for more revenue opportunities along the lines of what Gary was talking about for the golf course. If we can generate some revenue, that's great. And at the same time, make sure external people come in for tournaments. We've got the right type of facility. And so I know the schools are trying to, they've indicated they want to really work. The CVB had some interest to make sure those assets are complimentary to the entertainment district. And we're just gonna work on that a little bit and we'll come back to them if we have something that we think makes sense. But I want to make sure y'all were okay with us kind of exploring that and If you had any perspective otherwise, we'll we'll work it Everybody are out with exploring that any comments or Thank you, miss Shelton future agenda items oh Mr. Farter. I have a couple if I might. One is we have explored in the past the possibility of putting the Arlington Yacht Club in some particular space. And I know that we've explored options on that and I know that Mr. Pishker has been instrumental in that. While we have Mr. Pishker in the area, I would love to see where that is going and what the possibilities may be. So a report on that might be a very good thing to have. This, the second thing that I have is the fact that at the beginning of this year There has been a change in policy at the landfill, okay? And essentially what you have to do now and there's been my My email has been lighting up over this is the fact that you have to get in line and The problem with the government is that the government is not going to get the right to go to the window. When you go to the window, you have to present your driver's license to prove that you are an Arlington individual. Then you have to present your water bill to prove that you are currently living in the city of Arlington and that you are currently living in the city of Arlington and that you are eligible to pay the $7 fee instead of the $37 fee for somebody who doesn't live in Arlington. If you don't have the water bill then you have to go home to get the water bill. If you have a water bill, okay, I personally shred mine after I pay online. So I can't use the dump under this particular rule. And then you go back and you wait in the line again and show them your water bill and you show them your driver's license. And I think this is arduous. The reason that this has happened apparently is because contractors have been going to the window on the scales there. And they've been saying, I'm doing work for this lady and here is a picture of her driver's license. And I want to make this a deposit here. What we're doing is we're encumbering 388,000 people because of a few contractors. And I think we need to look into making it user friendly for the people and arduous for the contractors, rather than the other way around. Another incident was one in which a constituent wanted to drop off. We advertised to drop off your Christmas tree. Well, he bypassed the 45 minute line and drove down to where you could go to put the mulch in. He was stopped, and he stated that he had to go back and get in line because he was essentially making a deposit into the landfill rather than removing mulch. Although we've advertised to take your Christmas trees there. So I think that there should be a way for somebody to actually take their Christmas tree Christmas trees there. So I think that there should be a way for somebody to actually take their Christmas tree and benefit the landfill without paying any money and also without sitting in a 45-minute line to get through the scale area. So I want to I know the Christmas tree time is over. I hope the next year we might be able to fix something of this nature and I think we need to take a very hard look at what we're doing at the at the scales there to make sure that it's not as arduous for our citizens as it currently is. We take a look at that. All right everybody and Grant sounds like good item to look at. I'd be great. Mr. Shepherd. Shepard. Thank you mayor. I think we all got a packet concerning the expansion or extension of the trail system through Rush Creek area and I know this matter I think it went to Park Spor last and next one. Okay. Last night was just a year and that was that was not a good deal. I'd like us if we can put that on the agenda as we can be a little proactive on it. I, what I was, what I was fearful of is we'd have a Richard Simpson situation where the park board's been a bunch of time and then it gets here and perhaps it's not as well received. So anyway, if we could just have a habit on agenda to get some feedback. I know there were some facts that were presented in the packet and I know police is on it and you know we can't discuss it today but there are a lot of those who are not facts. Well, that's what I love your idea. I just want to get an opportunity to kind of, absolutely, there with it. So I wish we could talk about it right now, but we can't, because I really hate that when facts, they think are facts or not, and it just couldn't be, Father, and there's good people down there. It's great citizens that are there last night. A lot of light was shed there, but you know, there's still more that needs to happen. So I think that'd be great on them for us to have there on the agenda. In the meantime, I think there's a lot of us that are going to be working. And I think that seeking the true facts from our police department and our parks department for us is really important. And there's we go. And many of us have already been in the middle of all that. Yes, Mr. Parton. Oh, OK. Oh, OK. All right. Mr. Glassfield. Thank you, Mayor. A few months ago, you kind of reviewed with us, Smart City and the issues of going on. So I was wondering if, period after we could get some idea of what, say, maybe I target maybe for this year and the progress that we're making towards it. Um, you know, in the line of future, Jim Dodams, it's an interesting dynamic here of how Facebook and next door spreads erroneous information. There's a lot of good things about both of them. But one of the things that is so erroneous that I am tired of hearing everywhere I go that I think we've got to be a little proactive and I think we ought to go ahead and put on the agenda here every quarter is and we do it on a regular but we have a great police department and crime is down in Arlington, Texas. You know everywhere I go I hear somebody say that this crime is up. And usually when I track it down, the source is either Facebook or next door. And really appreciate the job the police does. But I think that that topic of what we can do to help spread that word and any ideas that both our communications department and police department because it's You know, it's part of ours there and I I've started adding it to it But it if I don't say anything and I bet y'all experience it too I bet it even came up at town Charlie's town hall, but everywhere I go Somebody will bring that up and say that. And I started trying to be proactive now because that is harmful to our city in the dark too. You know, there and we're in a great position here with what we are. Do we have challenges, yes? And we're working on, you know, as does every city there. I wish the chief could talk right now. Okay, so, and in that, is everybody all right with that? And then I want to get credit where credits do, with the work that our police department's doing here with it. So, what we can do to help get that word out, I think, is really helpful. And thank you to the Star Telegram for me in here. And that's part of the, part of the story too, and being willing to report on it. Any other future, Jim and Mr. Glassby? Matt is going along with that, maybe even sharing some of the unique innovations that we are, our police department manifesting. So our citizens be even more aware of not only how safe we are, but how we're looking ahead on everything. Okay. Anything else? Thank y'all for today and we'll look forward to coming back together at 630 tonight to continue the business and with that we stand adjourned. Thank you.