Now, I'd like to call the afternoon work session to order. 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Good afternoon there and members of the council. It's my privilege to report the third update on the Transportation Advisory Committee's activities. I'd like to recognize Mr. Belver Kest, former public works director, who's chair of the committee. We want to stand up for a minute there. The else we're doing a great job in moving and shepherding the committee deliberations along. So I'll just give you an update on the committee and a couple other new transportation initiatives. Just to remind you, the tax charge was basically to develop a multimodal transportation plan framework that will inform future council of the decision-state council decisions about transportation in the city. This is a long range 10 to 20 year plan, and basically I'll give us a lot of perspective on where to go and what our options are. Now there's been a lot of process, a lot of dialogue, I'll go over about requesting from staff additional information and from different providers, articulate in community needs, analyzing the data, rainstorming, and the committee's been really open-minded and really creative in the process. They'll be making a formal recommendation to you all at the September 26th meeting. So we've got three more meetings to go. So we're in the home stretch here. Now the TIC members represent a lot of interest groups. It's very broad. Range 31 members, including the chairman, and they represent, I think, a real great cross section of this community. And I think that's indicative of the kinds of things that we've been talking about. And what have we been talking about? Well, the different TIC meetings, the first meetings were basically getting and knowing each other on the committee and then relating to the staff. What were some of the concerns? What were some of the concerns? When it was some of the interest, interest groups particularly, and we talked about commuters and tourists and seniors, students and healthcare providers and recipients, teenagers, people that were disabled, people that wanted to get to the international airport, the regional transit system, a lot of different need groups in the community that aren't being really served now, which is on the bills. So those were all identified in the first couple of meetings. In the second couple of meetings, we really talked about how can those services be provided to those people? The different modes of transportation, different parts of the city where it seemed better to have transportation services than not because of a propensity for people to get out of their cars and take transit if it were available. At the last meeting, we, two meetings really, we broke down into small groups of four and talked about different alternative ways of meeting those needs, putting together those different transportation modes, talking about multi-modal transportation system for the city. And some consensus was actually reached on what should be done and where hubs and corridors should be for the future. We're going to refine that in the June meeting and then we did. And in the July meeting, August meeting, we're going to be developing the draft recommendation for September. So the process is moving along fast. We heard tack presentations from existing city and regional transportation framework. What we have right now in the city, we made that presentation on existing and future conditions. The information we got from the HDR study, we presented that here a few months ago. North Central Texas Council of Governments, Michael Morris, came in and talked about the potential for high speed rail, the need for connectivity with some kind of people mover to the airport, particularly the 2RE station. Dart came in and talked about services they could provide, maybe bus rapid transit, Fort Worth Transit Authority came in and talked about how their system could be expanded to the city. We talked about our side work program and our transportation program and how much, only about 10% more of our street system to be built out. The bridge corporate people came in and talked before that corporation dissolved and told us about how ride share could be worked in the city. Our easy mile, which is now my low, people came in and talked about how autonomous vehicles could be introduced in certain parts of the city like the entertainment district. We heard from Catholic charities saying how they serve a lot of people in the community and that the needs groups and the needs those people have. Lyft came in and talked about how they were better than Uber. But they also talked about a lot of things, how they could provide that kind of service and demand response. We talked about transportation again. What is the demand areas of the city? Where do most people want to go? People live of course all over the city. We have about a density of about 4,000 people per square mile. The jobs are concentrated around downtown and medical centers up by the airport, close to the airport north, East Arlington, and around the entertainment district. So we looked at how those people could be linked up, those areas could be linked up with services. We talked about future funding opportunities, grant opportunities, and other initiatives I'll talk about in a few minutes. Public participation has been pretty robust. We've had about 10 to 15 people at each of the meetings. We've had two to five people speak and two or three people at each meeting providing written comments. And as noted there on the screen, these are the kinds of issues they're concerned about. You know, the viability of new initiatives like Uber and Lyft and depending on that, new technologies, be sure we were involved with those two technology and take advantage of the new revolution and transportation technologies that are coming about and produce improved pedestrian facilities with one comment received by the law. Now, to date, on those nine meetings, Tacas reached consensus on some major issues. First of all, they support efforts to implement high speed rail. Connectivity between dollars and Fort Worth downtowns, the potential center for a whole statewide and regional interstate high speed rail system could be right here. And so there's really strong support for that concept. Also the support of a rideshare RFP, a rideshare on the demand. We'll talk about in a few minutes. There's a way there to perhaps the next stage, the way that we can improve upon and be the successor for Max and then expand that service to other parts of the city. Supports a submittal of an advanced transportation technology grant proposal. There's a big federal grant out there of multiple millions and we're going to be competitive for that. The idea of a multimodal system, we can't just have one kind of transportation system in the city. It needs to be multimodal, a wide range of modes reflecting the wide range of interest and need groups we have in the city. And we need to connect to our regional rail system. There's a regional system that's developing, and it's very robust, and the city should connect to it. And in the city, there are major hubs where transportation services are needed and should be focused, and major corridors linking those up. So that's where we are right now, and here's an illustration of those hubs and corridors. Consensus so far that we need to connect up to the Center Point TRE station up on the north side, the red dot on the farthest to the north at the top of the map. The entertainment district, downtown and the university and the park, small and highlands mall, there are huge activity centers, lots of jobs, a lot of people going there, real focus and locus of transportation activity. And then connectivity eventually to the Tarrant County College Community College, connection down to Mansfield, down by 287. And over on the west side, just south of the lake, we're 20 and 30 and 30 come together there in 820. Those are the main course and the east west course is of course on 20 and 30 which could have different kinds of transportation services. So that's sort of in summary of where the committee's gotten so far. They've also had a presentation we've talked about high-speed rail because high-speed rail has a real important component potentially here as the major multimodal transportation hub for the city. Now, there's a study underway right now funded by North Texas Council of Governments that will identify recommended station areas and incorporate that into an environmental review process that's required for any kind of federal funding. They're looking at alternative alignments, east-west, between the two, Dallas and Portward Centres, and they're going to have a report on that for the best locations in July and next month. Then that will be incorporated into the EIS, and that will be done next year, and then we'll see how that could be funded. Where we are right now in terms of high speed rail location potentials, area A there is the Interstate 30 and Collins Northwest Corner, big vacant property. That was area A, that's possibility, but that's not the primary location. Primary locations are B, C and D there, located right around the Ranger Stadium. Area B is probably the best location around the Convention Center, just to the north of that. The other sides are the parking lot for six flags and areas around the CABB. This whole area in red is generally, I think, what the study is going to be recommending, and that will be refined later as the EIS is evaluated, excuse me, and moves on. The other part of, other initiative we're looking at is the ride share pilot project. This is the demand response ride share idea, which we talked about with Bridge and it's sort of an evolution of Uber and Lyft but to multiple users. Here we have a network of 14 passenger vehicles and a ride sharing software is provided by an app on your iPhone or through a kiosk or through a computer and you can call and schedule a trip and then the services will come and find a location between you and all the other people that want to go to a certain destination area and then send you a message just to where to meet within a four or five minute walk. The idea here is to go forward with the one to two-year pilot project which should be competitively procured through a public RFP process. And we found that we can utilize the Federal Transportation Administration funds that were being used for MAX. They'll cover 50% of the cost and we can then find city partners, perhaps the university and others that have partnered with this for the other 50%. We plan to issue that RIP assuming council approves that agenda item this evening. And we anticipate service could start as early as fall 2017 as this kind of successor to Max, which would really expand the whole initiative that Max proved was a real success, I think, in terms of connectivity up to TRE. The lot map here shows the red lines that's the Max route. The yellow here shows areas that could be expanded to this man-response ride-share initiative to include center point and TRE station, as well as the entertainment district, downtown and the university, and potentially hopefully parks at Highlands Mall. So we will be looking at that and see what the private sector wants to come back and propose ones that our peak goes out. In conclusion, our tax schedule, we are at June. We have three more meetings until the September recommendation. And at that time we'll be giving you a very direct and interesting report. So be happy to answer any questions. Mr. Glasspink. Thank you, Mayor. Just a general question came to mind when you take under consideration these approaches to transportation that are new and different. Have we gotten any sort of feedback from TRE and DART about how they are looking at incorporating this, do you think? They're considering, you know, different parts of their system is saying, some of the like Uber lift kind of interface ideas like, seven demand response, but it's not really developed yet. There aren't any real, as far as I know, contracts letter proposals out there still in the discussion phase. I don't know, perhaps Alicia knows, but not anything that's evident to us. They're all looking into it though I have heard from both the director of Fort Worth Transportation Authority and DART that they are looking into all of the things that were just outlined here. They're asacements, in fact for extension of lot rail and buses. Mr. Parker. I go ahead and repeat my comments of the particular committee meeting. I think that first of all, as we have utilized the max bus right now, that's a technology that was used back in the 30s with Greyhound, just a bus, a driver, and a schedule. And I think that now that we are, we have the software, we have the cell phones, we have the ability to dispatch and do, and we're looking at smart city technology. This type of multimodal rideshare type organization lends us up to the millennium as what we can utilize in software or the way to get around utilizing the technology that we currently have in today's world. I think that when we take a look at the park's mall, I know we spend a lot of turns money on that bridge, but that's the possibility that we could utilize some of their money and get more partners into the mix, although the rangers and the cowboys probably don't want us to utilize multi-modal transportation and take away from their parking revenues. I think that six flags over Texas multi-modal transportation and take away from their parking revenues. I think that six flags over Texas could possibly get revenue out of this and have people delivered at their front doorstep without infringing on their parking whatsoever since they don't charge for anything. Without the high speed rail, I was at the mayor's debate on transportation. And one of the things that I noted, and one of the things that I think one of the participants stated was the fact that the high speed rail will not go to 200 miles an hour when we get to Dallas and go to Fort Worth. And so that's very true. It just because it can go to 200 miles an hour. It doesn't mean that it has to go to 200 miles an hour to be able to bring in another 4 million people to ride the train. I utilize the example of the concord. The concord had to slow down once it got feet dry because of the sonic boom. And so the bottom line is the concord still made it to places like Dallas and another place, Dallas for a worth I should say. So the fact that it can go supersonic twice the speed of sound doesn't mean that it wasn't viable to be utilized in this market. So those aspects were what I saw as far as adding to this. I'm glad that we did not have too much dialogue with bridge because bridge is not gone. Okay, but there are successors to that that are probably going to be more successful. And we can have dialogue with them. I'm looking forward to seeing what the conclusion of the Transportation Committee has to say. Ms. Walman. Well, thank you. And we did discuss, we got this presentation in our committee, so I'm going to just go and talk about right now. But again, I want to say thank you to that committee. And we got numbers about the participation of that committee. And I think it was something like 90-95% at every meeting. So our citizens were really engaged and I think this report that we're going to get in September is going to be very beneficial as we move forward to put in a system or some systems into our city and to start immediately. I also would like to comment on the fact and you did it just briefly, John, when you talked about the MAX and how that has been a success story, because had we not had that, it was the thing that put us on the map in the region. And it took us to the level where we are now that we can move into these other systems. We've always been moving towards high technology and we knew it was coming. We're very fortunate that we have the ability because we're not tied to anything else. So we can move forward into this centuries to come with the new technology and it will change and will change again with it. But it was because of that that it was the original that got us on the ground that connected us with the region and the region looked at us and said Arlington really is serious about transportation. That made our statement and now you can see where we're going, where we're now going to look forward to a real high speed rail station in Arlington. Whether it goes 200 miles as it comes through here or not, that's the point is it connects us to the rest of the state and will continue to connect us with the rest of the state and outside the state as they move on towards Oklahoma and outside states. So I am really thrilled at the work this committee's done. And in our committee meeting, we thank everyone on the committee and thank Mr. Verkess for chairing this for us. It's quite an undertaking and I'm really looking forward to it. I'm also looking forward for the first time I can say in 20 years that we can say we could have something working in Arlington this year, our beginning of 17. That's really exciting. So I love the work. I think we've done wonderful with it and I just can't wait to see what happens next month, the month after, and especially in 17. So thank you, all for everything you've done, and it's really been a pleasure to see what they've done. Thank you. Mr. Glaspie. Thank you, Mayor. You're one of the things that I guess the primary focus has been on how efficiently, effectively we can move people about with these new options we have with transportation but how much consideration have we given to the economic impact that all this will have on us. We begin to identify really some of the benefits economically to us. Well certainly when we have the EIS done for the high speed rail, we'll see some very large numbers in terms of economic benefit. That area, of course, of the cities may be our future central business district. All of our planning is focused on that and all those vacant parcels around the stadiums could be great economic development and housing opportunities and job opportunities. So I think the study will show that there's going to be a great benefit from that component of the system we're talking about. Mr. Glass-Bied, I think you were right on in terms of transportation is economic development and if you can't move people in and out then your businesses start to fail but then also your quality of life starts deteriorating and But then also your quality of life starts deteriorating and the thing that is really exciting right now is that we are, Mr. Dugan said that we're in the midst of a technology revolution in transportation. And that revolution is bringing us transportation alternatives that are safer and cheaper, both. And that is a wonderful thing. And here is what we move forward, and more flexible. Now, the inventions are coming fast right now, and a lot of them are here, but the other thing that I love for us to be able to do is to do pilot projects so that our citizens actually have the opportunity to try them out, to see, and then we get to see if they're going to work or not. And you can see that we have opened the doors there and for that technology to be tested here in our community. And our community is a great one to test because of our entertainment district, our university, the downtown, our major shopping areas. There, we have a lot of different areas here that really lend itself for our community to being a great place for these pilot projects to take place of the new technology. And so the other part that does, it allows us to be fluid. We can be flexible here and as we move forward. And it is an exciting time and transportation right now. And then also the other part of that is that a lot of the, I'm going to say the extreme cost and the arguments over how much transportation is worth. We're going to be able to short circuit that a lot because the arguments now are outdated. We don't have to, we're not having to debate the cost of light rail and bringing light rail in here like we used to. That's just not there. In fact, today, there with our rideshare program, that's another one of these cutting edge, but yet it's being done and being done successfully here. So it'll be, Mr. Parker said it. It's a new alternative for us. I am very appreciative of our Transportation Committee to just like Ms. Womans said. They have worked hard, and they have now become great experts here because of staff and other people coming out there and training them. I'm very appreciative of Mr. Vercost here, who is one of our leading transportation engineers in the country who happens to live here in Arlington and we were able to bring him in here and he was willing to serve and do that and also when you look at the people on that committee that come from All Walks Alive and then a lot of them on there are very busy people themselves. And yet they saw that this was a priority for us. And so we've got to be nimble, we've got to be able to move. But you know, when Arlington, Texas is one of only ten cities in America that has been designated by the US DOT to actually test autonomous vehicles. When we are known, there is one of the leading cities in Texas and smart cities. And we're here and that, and I know both council members and myself are here and that all the time. Though that attracts a lot of these great ideas and inventions to our city. And that's so important there that we're able to do that because we are a large city, you know, the 50th largest city in America. And we are growing and our tourism is growing too. So this is an important component in that. And I want to take the opportunity here for our TV audience to be able to stress some of that as we move forward and it'll be a great message here for us to be able to be able to move forward with also. Any other questions or comments? Okay thank you Mr. Dugan. Thank you Mr. Verkest. Appreciate very much. Next, it's appropriate that we have the smart Arlington update, and we'll call upon Mr. Jennifer Whitman. Thank you, Mayor. Today, we're going to bring you probably a three-part presentation here. We're going to be talking about, this is a follow-up to a, I'm sorry, Jennifer Whitman, Director of Management Resources. I got ahead of myself. So in February we came to you with an initial update on the Smart City initiative and it talked about generally what Smart Cities are and what we were doing at the time to do that. So today we've got two programs we want you to take a closer look at during this presentation and additionally we have what the mayor requested from Mindy Carmichael about smart transportation technology that we're currently using. So we're gonna get going right away on this. So what we're talking about today is one of the parts that I'm gonna highlight is an initiative called What Work Cities that Arlington is looking at becoming a part of. So as a new initiative, it was launched in April of 2015. It's a grouping of cities that work with this, what work city's entity. They connect cities with consultants to basically help cities, since we all have data, but not all, we aren't able to really utilize it in the best way possible. So they come in with consultants help us come up with a plan to better utilize our data internally. So it's more useful and accessible across the departments and also to make it more accessible to the public and find out what the public's interested in. It's really a transparency initiative. So generally we are, we're very interested in participating this and we're going to talk to you a little bit about the program here. So as I mentioned, it's a city's program. It's generally between a population between 100,000 and a million. They're looking for 100 cities in here. There are a lot of familiar names. Fort Worth is a member, is participating. Denver, Tempe, Minneapolis, Nashville, and Charlotte. So all cities that are, I think, have good coral areas to Arlington and sort of their size and shape. There is no cost to the program, but there is an application and a selection process. So we found that too very encouraging and thought it was good fit with what we're trying to do now with the city. So the proposed scope of work that we have worked together with the Waterwork City staff to create for Arlington. It really focuses on, as I said, the use of our data, making it more useful and available for not only city staff, but also for the public. This dovetails nicely with our city data strategic plan. One of its objectives is to increase data access and public availability, particularly through the open Arlington website, and this would help us to do that. Breaking down those barriers in between our data sets and make them be able to collaborate and be more useful. So the proposal is that Arlington would work with two partners. One is a sunlight foundation out of Washington, D.C. and the other is Johns Hopkins University out of Baltimore, Maryland. There is and the other is Johns Hopkins University out of Baltimore, Maryland. There is on your agenda tonight an MOU for approval with Johns Hopkins, even though there's no money changing hands in this. That particular entity wanted the the formality of an MOU. So that's item 8C1. So it's on your consent agenda if you may have already had a chance to take a look at that, but if you if you did want to draw your attention to that. may have already had a chance to take a look at that, but if you did want to draw your attention to that. So our next steps, this sort of breaks it down. It's 150 day program. So I've broken it down into basically the next five months to give you a good census to where this will occur in the calendar year. But July begins with information and data gathering. We already have a good start on that through the good work with the CDMP Department of Community Development and Planning Department is done with the City Data Strategic Plan, but you know making sure we have a good inventory of our data assets and focusing on the work that we've already done on the put technology to work initiative with the Council priority. In August we'll start the governance planning for our data governance planning and this is looking at creating an internal team to work on data governance, how what our rules are around it, how we'll work on that sharing. Because it's important to have that, that we are just making it up as we go along in terms of where that data can go. September is the month we'll use to also connect to our external stakeholders, get some feedback about, it's important for us to release data. We want to do that, but we also are interested in what's most important to the public. What would be on their priority list so we can look at that first instead of last. We think that there will be good feedback. It's an effort in transparency and we think the public will be good partners in this effort to help us, help guide our work. In October, we'll focus on looking at data release, the prioritization of data release, also how that will be displayed. Is it on our website? Is it in other ways? You know, particularly we have the open Arlington website, so certainly that will be one of the options out there, but there may be some additional ones. And then finally in November, we'll take a look at actually releasing the data, doing some training with staff so we can continue and make this an evergreen process. Because at that point, our relationship with the working will still be a member of what work cities, but our work with the consultants will end. So we want to make sure we get all we can out of that and make sure that it's something that can move forward. And we'll continue to bring you in general, smart Arlington updates, but since that, it dovetails so nicely with our technology to work priority, they'll be coming as a part of those newsletters. We will come with a special presentation like this. If it's requested, such as the mayor requesting to see those individual transportation technologies, or if there's a grant opportunity that we're coming with, so we can spike that out and make sure that you all are aware of it. So I'm happy to take questions now or wait till the end of this point. I'll pass the presentation over to Ms. Mindicar Michael, our public works director. Mr. Glassby. Thank you, Madam. Ms. Wigman. What will be the deliverable and also the follow-up after? Sure, I'll listen. Well, the main deliverable that the public will see is that there will be more data that's outside and excessive. We hope that not only will it be on display, but also for people who are really interested in getting to some of our data and kind of crunching it themselves and figuring out what they can learn from it, it'll be out there on the Open Arlington website. So that's going to be one deliverable. I think internally we really hope for more efficiency and more sharing, so understanding really making sense of how our data can inform each other. And maybe something that we get out of the Action Center for example would be helpful to our code folks, you know, sort of working on that, beginning the process of making that data more, just more work harder for us, I guess I would say. Is the National League of Cities involved at all in this, though? No, sir, this is a separate initiative. Although they are, I mean, they're certainly interested in smart cities, but this is different. Dr. Marsh. I just might follow up. Thank you, Mayor. I would love to see and perhaps this is already on your plan. It's just not reflective by the flow chart there. When you get to the point in November of doing the openarlington.com, I'd love to see you partner with UTA, TCC, others to utilize the data. Municipal data is used by political scientists, obviously. That's my area of field, but it certainly is data that can be useful for master's degrees, thesises, for undergraduate degrees, for class, course, and development. So I'd love to see for us to exploit some opportunities. I know internally we want to be able to do that, but externally as we look to rebuild our website and use feasibility with our website, I'd love to see us to also explore that perhaps maybe have some meetings come the fall or maybe early next year with some of those stakeholders to talk about ways in which we might exploit that data in a better way to help us tell our stories better but also for help us to push the envelope in some areas. To stay as progressive as cities we usually are. Sure, I think they would fit nicely into our external stakeholder group as another group to find out, help us guide the release and work with them. And forgive me, strike progressive and say action oriented city. Thank you. Miss K. Fart. Thank you, Mayor. And thank you, Jennifer. So did I hear you, this is an application process. So it's not just that we sign up, we have to be selected. And it's been quite a process. So we are really at the end of that process. So really at this point, we need to kind of iron out all the final bits of the paperwork and we'll be able to do an announcement. This is not a formal announcement of our participation in what work city. So that is a next and final step. But I can tell you it's looking very good. And we are largely through, have done a lot of preparation at which it's point. I think it's a wonderful opportunity, particularly to work with Johns Hopkins. Are they going to be on site? They will be on site. I'm sorry. Here, meaning are they're going to be on site here as you go through this data mining and data allocation? Or is it just all done via conference calls and all electronic? It is more virtual than on site. We've had some, we have already had some folks from Johns Hopkins come here and help us with the analysis, the evaluation process to find out what we have, what we know about where, what's the direction that we're going in. But from this point on, it will be conference calls. I think a weekly conference calls, what we have set up, and they'll help guide our work and share things back and forth. So it'll be a virtual process from here on out. But we have already had some pretty significant involvement with them being here. And in reading the staff report, they require an MOU, Johns Hopkins staff. That's correct. But there's no cost to the city to have them be our consultant basically. That's all correct, yes, ma'am. Okay, I think it's a great opportunity, Mayor. And we've said it many times that cities are a goal of data and oftentimes it's underutilized because we just don't really connect it across the platforms basically. So it'll be interesting to see what evolves out of this if we go forward, but I'm very supportive of it, Mayor. Thank you. Any other questions or comments? Okay. Thank you, Mayor. Good afternoon, Mayor and Councilman Mindy Carmichael, Director of Public Works and Transportation. So Arlington is a leader in innovative technology, especially when it comes to transportation. We started implementing some new technology back in the late 90s, early 2000, when we started with our backbone of fiber. Today we have over 200 miles of fiber and one of the state of the art transportation management centers in the area. So some of the things listed here is the infrastructure that we currently work with and we will be using that moving forward and it has us poised to bring in the new technology revolution that we're talking about today. We have a couple of pilot projects that the mayor mentioned. One of them is with a cyclica and what that does is it's a company that we've piloted with to collect data on how people move in the city regarding transportation. You know, collect traffic volumes and speeds, turning movements, travel times, origin destination studies, et cetera. What that does is it helps us optimize our signal timing at the intersections. What that'll do for our citizens is it will help them with some of the stress of driving, as well as reduce delays, reduce emissions and just improve the efficiency of our travel system altogether. Today we have 14 of those deployed somewhere in the entertainment district and summer along Matlock Road. So connected vehicles is a future. Actually it's not the future. They're out there today. And today they talk with our infrastructure. Another one of the pilot projects we have is with connected signals. This is a program that we've coordinated with our signal timing and phasing, and it will alert citizens of the upcoming signal timing. It will tell them the predictive delay at the signal, and it will also warn them when the signal is going to turn green that they need to be ready to go. So it's a very environmentally friendly program that will, again, reduce delays and improve the efficiency of the system. The information is displayed to a vehicle via their onboard technology for depending on which vehicle you have or they can do it through a smartphone app which is called in Lightning. Today we have about 40% of our signals programmed into this system and we're about ready to roll it out to the public We've been refining the predictive models on here So we're just really close to rolling that out We also have our ways connected citizen program that we're a member of this is a two-way data share ways remember of this is a two-way data share ways pushes data from the drivers to us so we can see where our system is being congested and not operating as efficiently as we would like. In exchange we can also upload road closures and incident management two ways so that we can notify the public that alternate routes that they should take to get around these areas. We've also developed an internal program where we can download POTHO requests directly to a work order so that we can expedite the repair of those. Right now we're in the process of coordinating with our entertainment venues to encourage their patrons to use ways as well. So moving forward, the infrastructure that we have is going to become very important as we move into the connected and autonomous vehicle technology revolution. One thing that we have done is based upon the previous feedback of the Transportation Advisory Committee and yourselves, we have been developing a grant for the US DOT for the Advanced Transportation Congestion Mitigation Technology Deployment. The notice of funding opportunity came out in March. They hope to announce the winners in September. There's $60 million available each year for the next four years. And they hope to issue five to ten awards with a maximum of $12 million. It does require a 50-50 match and we have organized some partnerships with our submittal with UTA and other stakeholders that I'll talk about in a minute. Okay, the project goals, the project goal for us, we wanted to prove the mobility and the economic opportunity for citizens that are either struggling with age, with their mental or physical abilities, those citizens that are below the poverty line that can't afford a vehicle or don't have jobs to buy a vehicle. And those younger professionals that want to stay in Arlington but don't want to mess with owning a vehicle. I have one of those myself. Anyway, so we want to develop a system that is equal across the board to all citizens that can access it and we improve the safety and efficiency of our transportation system. So how are we going to do that? Some of the elements that we included in our project is to deploy a micro-ondemand ride-share platform, which we've been talking about today, and deploy it to those target populations. Aging, they want to get to their doctor's appointment, grocery stores, recreational facilities, and social activities. Our young adults, you know, they want the on-demand, they want it when they want it, and they want it to be easily accessible. For below the poverty, those below the poverty level, we want to make sure that we can get them to jobs, we can get them to education facilities. So that's what the goal with deploying the on demand is to service all citizens across the board. So we're going to connect the citizens to this system by installing key-osk and smart street lights for those that may or may not have phones or Wi-Fi. So these key-osk and smart street lights will provide free Wi-Fi to any citizen that wants to reserve a ride on these shuttles. We will also install safety and collision avoidance systems, which will be part of the vehicle to vehicle technology that will be installing and it will provide priority signal timing for these vehicles as they approach the intersections. So one of the other things we've done is we've partnered with UTA and UTA will retrieve data from the platform and they will help with optimizing the system. And what that means is they'll do origin destination studies and they'll also do surveys of the riders to make sure that the service that we're providing is what they want to see at the end result. They'll also provide the AV systems that we're looking at can also provide from the LiDAR on the system can provide condition ratings for our streets, our signs, our markings, so on and so forth. So that we can react to that and repair those items and be prepared for the AV deployment if and when those are available for public roadways. So again, we'll be collecting data with UTA and they'll be analyzing it and then they'll document it for Response to the USDOT should be should we be awarded the grant? So preparing for the future if if we were to be awarded this grant, you know, we would leverage our existing Infrastructure that we have today But what this grant will help us do is to accelerate the deployment of the ride share system, the RFP that we're about to put out. We can accelerate that citywide instead of a pilot project, we can deploy that much faster. We can put our upgraded signals and roadside units for DSRC, which is your communication with connected vehicles. All that can be done much quicker. It's in our plan to move forward with that one way or another, but this grant will surely help us move forward. And Arlington would be poised for both connected vehicles and autonomous vehicles when that day comes. And as the mayor mentioned, we are a member of the Texas Innovation Alliance, and as such, we can network with our peers and other professionals. And we have been chosen as a proving ground for the autonomous vehicles. I'm excited. I'll be glad to take any questions. Any questions or comments from Mr. Carmichael? Any questions or comments from Mr. Carmichael? Well, Ms. Walman never had- I just wanted to say again, it's just the fact that we're using this new technology and we're just seeing it come on just in every aspect and all our departments working together to implement this new technology in our city as we say pilots now may last, may not, there may be something new for the pilots over. You know, that's how fast it's moving. But how exciting to know that we've been preparing. And now when you tell me that we can move forward at the speed you're talking about, I think it's just incredible. And I think it's exciting incredible and I think it's exciting for whole city. Well said, Mr. Glaspie. Thank you, Mayor. We were at the meeting the other day and a gentleman brought to our attention that what we look at now in a way of transportation systems and technologists may not really be where things will be a few years down the road. I guess it kind of reminds of Greskies. He said he doesn't move what a puck is, but what a puck is going to be. So one of the nice things about the transportation committee was we told them to be creating and open-minded about what's happening. So we need to keep moving, make sure we're headed again. Will said, yes, Dr. Marsh. I just want to add, thank you Mayor. I just want to applaud staff for really pushing the edge on these things and looking for alternative ways beyond our taxpayer base to go after grants to be innovative in that and really putting other dollars to work here in the city. I think that's just extremely important and I think as we go forward, there are more and more opportunities come out every day thinking about an innovation or grant specialist or someone who was really looking out for these. I know you're stretched in many ways. So I really want to compliment both staff on working on these issues because I think this is really the future of where we need to leverage other dollars to do the work that we need to be done here in Arlington. is they made a real key statement that opens the door for these technologies to be used here. And these will save lives too. I don't want to leave that out because that may be the most important thing is we are going to be saving lives with this technology here. And that's also another benefit for what's happening. Any other comments? Thank you, Ms. Carmichael. Appreciate it. Great job. Thank you very much. Ms. Whitman. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Jeff something else. Well, you're up next. You are up next, aren't you? Yeah, we've got the 85th state legislative session. I don't think it's really wrap up, but anyway, Ms. Whitman, you can share with us about what's happening. Thank you, Mayor General Wickman, Director of Management and Research. Indeed, I had hope this was simply a wrap-up presentation, but it's going to be both a wrap-up and a look forward to the special session, which we know the governor has intended to call, or intends to call on July 18th. So, but I did want to continue to include the wrap-up from the 85th session. There was a lot of good work and good success found during that and the mayor and council, you all really played a very key role. There were a lot of phone calls made at key times. There were a lot of letters signed and testimony given that was very helpful during that session. I think helped us achieve a measure of success there. So, but at this point, I'm gonna summarize some of what has happened in the 85th, and then we'll look forward and have some time to talk about what's what we're anticipating for the special session. So just in general, there was really a main theme for cities, which was home real authority and maintaining that while we were in Austin this year. We spoke, I know that Mr. Shepherd brought up the question about the governor's state of the state address in January and the language he'd use, which we sometimes call super preemption or looking at a broad way to preempt city's abilities to do some local regulation. At the time that we spoke, there had not been anything filed and we did get some legislative language, which I'll speak to a little bit later on, but generally what Austin looks at the folks who are behind this agenda look at cities and they really they tend to cause a patchwork quilt as we find different ways to solve different and unique ways to solve local problems that that's really suit our communities. We disagree with the or we would embraceace. Perhaps the patchwork quote, we think a blanket decision by the legislature really makes us more into cookie cutter cities. I think that's something too important things that local control does. And that is one is that it helps people in a particular community or school district or city or county. They can talk to their local legislator, their local elected officials, and they can make changes that suits that community and helps to run that community the way that's most helpful to those local residents. Additionally, it helps folks like you solve particular problems in the best way for your local community. We know Texas is a very diverse state. The way to solve a drilling prod, you know, to look at drilling in Arlington looks very different from rural West Texas. And I think individual city councils need the freedom to put that to make rules which help their local areas. So we are seeing this as a nationwide trend. This isn't unique to Texas. It's all over. I saw some coverage in Florida in particular that this was, they were seeing very similar things where state legislatures across the nation are looking to consolidate power at their level, taking it from the federal governments and also taking it from local governments, cities, and counties, and school districts. So we do expect this debate to continue not only in the distant future, but in the next few weeks where we'll go ahead and have that special session. So that's something to look towards. So a couple, three bills that pass that were pretty significant and also are good examples of moving this control from the locals back to the state. I wanted to highlight here, one was House Bill 100. This is state regulation of transportation network companies. These are groups like Lyft or Uber and the changes here basically prohibited local ordinances, any local regulation event and puts that at the state level. This isn't an issue that we spent a lot of time on from Arlington since we didn't have a local ordinance related to that, but we are certainly, staff is now looking at that. Language is to ensure that if there are any changes that we have to look at or if there's angles on it that we have to consider that we'll have a chance to look at that. So that's out there. Senate Bill 4 is, was often called the Sanctuary Cities Bill. In the end, it ended up regulating not just Sanctuary Cities, I would say. It was sort of expanded into a broader immigration enforcement. And so it looks both at the conduct of police officers in the field and also looks at how we work within our jails with folks who have ICE detainers. So that's something that Arlington Police are studying right now. Our police department is looking at that closely. And Arlington will continue to enforce the laws we always have, and also to work on being welcoming and inclusive. So those will continue on those sort of dual tracks as we move forward. And the third one I wanted to highlight was Senate Bill 1004. And that bill is the small sale bill which we've discussed before that state regulation of what cities can do with their rights of way not only in setting the price for basically setting the rent for folks to use that but also setting the design standards and sort of the regulation and the zoning and planning that goes into that use. We had talked a bit. I know one of the highlights that I talked to you about in terms of the cost capping was the per node cost that has been capped at $250 per year per node. And I shared with you all earlier that in when we were in negotiations with one company at least, that price was closer to $1,500. So as we look towards not only that cap, but also the cap that's on permit application fees and other things, taking into consideration that there is no inflation consideration within the legislation. So these fees are the fees going forward. We're going to try to work to keep track of exactly how that tolls up. If we can look at whether we, you know, so if we are now capped at getting $250 per note, but we could have perhaps gotten $1,500. You know, if you have 100 nodes, that's $125,000 loss per year. And that will, and that's just for 100. We expect this to be a fairly widely developed, widely adapted and used technology. And so what we're going to try to do, I'm going to try to think if there's a way we can keep track of whatever that subsidy is, that Arlington taxpayers are having to provide to self-uncompany. So you all be aware of what that looks like, because I think that's an important number. There were some other changes to city operations. We have a 57- summary of bills which are just the bill caption. So there are several bills to a page but all bills that have potential impact for city operations. And we have shared all of these with our departments. I clearly no one is interested in having me go through all of those today but I pulled out a few examples but please know that your departments are taking a look at all of those today, but I pulled out a few examples, but please know that your departments are taking a look at all of those bills and exactly how they might impact our operations, but just a few examples are, for example, in our purchasing area, Senate Bill 252 was passed, and it says that the city can't engage in any contracts with vendors who work with Iran, the Sudan, or any terrorist organizations. If you're interested, the way we'll find this out is that the comptroller is going to keep a list. But it's an extra step for our purchasing folks that they'll have to check the list and figure out a way to do that. So there was also a significant municipal courts bill passed in April 1913, which are Stuart Milner, your municipal chief judge. He worked very hard on spent some time in Austin, spent a lot of time in the phone working to mold that bill into something that was practically workable for municipal courts. It deals with the issue of offering some community service for fine-only offenses as a means of payment instead of continuing to let those fines toll and roll and roll. House bill 62, after many sessions of trying, there is a statewide ban on texting and driving. And we did not, it didn't conflict with our ordinance at all that we could tell. But we're taking another close look at it to make sure there's not anything we have to do additionally to comply with that. So there's that. There was also a sort of a code enforcement related bill. This was Senate Bill 1248, which talks about nonconforming use changes in manufactured home communities. So this grant bothers manufactured home communities to the present level of health and safety codes. And so there's no any advancements that happen in that or further things that you all want to adapt or adopt will not be availed of those residents in our community. So they have a cap on that. So again, staff is looking at these bills and many others to see how that is going to, if that will have any effect on us. I don't want to be all doom and gloom. There was some helpful legislation. This is a list of the bills that we were pleased that passed. I'm not going to talk to all of them. One bill that was actually contained on the city's legislative agenda is House Bill 478, which dealt with vulnerable people and domestic animals who were trapped in cars. And this creates steps that a good Samaritan can go through. And they'll be released from any civil liability if they have to break a window in order to free that person or that animal if there might be some imminent harm coming. Senate Bill 622 was authored by our own Senator Burton. This is a helpful bill in that it will help all cities track exactly how much we spend on legal notices. We have for many years sort of looked for some additional options, maybe an internet publication, something that might reach more people than doing those legal publications in those, in the back pages of the newspaper. So we think if we can figure out how much everyone's spending on that, it might give us another talking point to move forward perhaps some additional options. And Senate Bill 2205 was authored by Senator Hancock and that was a statewide autonomous vehicle safety policy and we were supportive of that. We participated in his working group on that initiative and feel that it's very compatible. It's going to be compatible with our status as a proving ground and we think that's really an appropriate place for the state to regulate. It makes sense for the state to regulate. It makes sense for a statewide to have the same rules about car safety because that's a help. And then HCR 82, this was authored by Chris Turner. And it's a concurrent resolution. It's not, doesn't have the force of law, but it expresses the sentiment of a particular body in this case, the house. And in this case, it emphasized the importance of maintaining the tax exemption for municipal slash public bonds and because of the importance of infrastructure. So we're pleased to have that and we'll be able to show that to our federal delegation and others to see if that, you know, to sort of lend another voice to that effort we've got on our federal legislative agenda. Big bills that did not pass. We had certainly the revenue cap bill. There was a transparency portion, the transparency portion of that bill did pass, which we were fine with. We're always supportive of a more transparency. It was the revenue cap portion of that bill that was concerned, certainly. The bathroom bill and its most concerning form and then another form that those there were two bills that did not pass there. The short-term rental bills did not pass neither did annexation. There was a payday lending preemption bill that was filed that would have eliminated the force of your local ordinance, but that was that did not make it. There were some concerning potential limits on high speed of rail and how they could use eminent domain. And so that did not pass. And finally, the super preemption language, which we talked about before, had not been filed. But as I think you all saw on a flurry of tweets on a Friday night when you all probably trying to just relax relax as I was communicating feverishly with you. We had a close call with that and I want to walk the group, the council through kind of what happened there because I don't think I had much time for explanation at the time. So, Senate Bill 1172 was actually a seed bill. It had to do a seed that prohibited cities from regulating seeds and so since we don't regulate seeds and I had never thought that you all would want to regulate seeds, it wasn't something we paid a lot of attention to. But we watched like all the other bills it had to do with cities. When that bill got through the two bodies, there was different versions. And so what is not uncommon is that a conference committee was requested. So a group of senators and group of representatives come together and they iron out the differences in the bill. So that's very normal. What was not normal is that what they, what came out. Two important things. One was a change of the caption, which broadened the what could be included in the bill. That's very unusual. And then the second was that there was a judicial relief section that was added that was not clearly the seed was contained. The seed ordinance was contained within the ag code, the agricultural code. But this said, okay, well, this section doesn't apply just the agricultural code. It applies to all the codes. So it basically said that all people who have a license or permanent or registered with the state have the right, have a new right to sue cities if they feel that the city law, city laws are more stringent than the state laws. And the state or the cities needed to establish clear and convincing evidence that the local law didn't conflict with the state law. So our initial thought was that perhaps this was only a payday lending, you know, a focus perhaps. But then we really started thinking about what all is regulated by the state. And there are over 400 licenses and permits and other registrations that the state actually has. So we would have had, you know, barbers and doctors and plumbers and bars and, you know, all sorts of groups who get some sort of regulation from the state or license. We didn't know where that would stop. Would that mean that you couldn't, you know, know barbershops were subject to zoning? We just didn't know. So, you know, cities, TML, sound of the alarm. Many of you helped with this. I appreciate that work. It was taken off and then the bill passed on. So there's no harm, but I think it does certainly give us a clue as to how far and how serious folks are taking this interest in eliminating home real authority. So while I was very nervous, Mr. Shepherd, because suddenly I realized I thought, oh, wait, maybe it did get filed because you would ask me, was this ever filed? And it wasn't. But it, and that was very unusual to have something that wasn't filed suddenly be put into language at the very last minute. So finishing up this 85th regular session, we have, we know that the special session has been announced, which will start in July. June 18th of this month is the Governor's veto deadline. The Governor can veto sign or just let bills become law. If he neither signs or vetoes it, it will just become law naturally. And then in the fall, which is a waste from now, the interim charges will be issued. So we'll get to see what the committees will be looking into in the interim and it's starting anticipating the issues for 2019. But I did also want to take time to show you that there were, as you probably have heard, in addition to the sunset bill fixes, there were an additional 19 items that the governor spoke about wanting to include on the special session call, which is basically the limited number of things that can be dealt with within a special session. It's not wide open like a regular session is, but there are a lot of items. This is a very ambitious list, and this is just the city item. So the language on here comes from the Governor's press release, but when he spoke, he said a little bit more about each of them, but I'll sort of talk through some of them and let you know where we are on them. So the first two, property tax reform, this is that Senate Bill 2, we talked about concerns are the rollback and not only the rollback rate but also the rollback elections and how those would happen. The caps on state and local spending, these are not, this was not filed during the 85th session, but this would propose what he said was that he was looking for a sort of spending cap, and that's not just property taxes. This is overall spending for cities. He wanted to limit it that at population growth plus inflation and just put that hard cap on all cities in spending. The next three items deal with planning and zoning issues, And so there were three things that he was particularly concerned about that he was interested in limiting. One is our local tree ordinances who can't cut down trees and in what situations. There's a permit-vesting idea that's out there and the permit-vesting has to do with if I keeping the same building rules during the entire permitting process. So if I am going to build a house and it takes me up for a period of 18 months, when I pulled the permit, those would be the same as the rules would be the same, even if there was an update at some point. We call this permit vesting and so we are taking a look at that. There was a more harmful or certainly a version of that bill that went much farther or another bill that took that concept much further. And that would have to do with, and I, for like a better term, I call property vesting. And that, if I bought, say I bought a piece of property 10 years ago, and I started to build on it today, that bill would require that the 10 years ago rules applied to what I could build. And so we're concerned with both those, we'll keep an eye on both of them closely. And then there's also another item which wasn't filed during the 85th session and that's permit. It's a speeding up local government permitting process. I don't really know what that could possibly look like in a piece of state legislation, but we will keep an eye on it and we will let you know how that ends up looking. We have annexation was also something, there was an annexation bill that almost passed, it got to the end and then was filibuster sort of in the last 90 minutes of the 85th session, so that ended up not passing. And then there's also a texting while driving. Oh, and I will say on annexation, Arlington is landlocked, and so we have not traditionally been very active on that. I would actually suggest that we're probably lucky that we're landlocked in that, because in 20 years, when a lot of unregulated, sort of, unpermitted building has gone up in, you know, just unincorporated areas Similar to the situation they had on the border with Colonias. There's a good chance that they're going to be Requiring cities to annex areas and provide them with services because they will have not not had any I'm sure we're gonna have some serious situations out there. So And then the texting and the texting while driving ban did pass the governor has expressed an interest in making that a ceiling and not allowing any city. So okay, the state has taken care of this and cities are not allowed to do any additional regulation of mobile devices. And so we don't know what mobile devices might be coming in the future and I think that it would be important to preserve a local option if you all would like to in particular make some sort of rules about that. So that's something that it's concerning. And then finally, he mentioned privacy, but this is the bathroom bill and he's interested. There were, he cited House Bill 2099 as a model law and that was the bill that prohibited local ordinances. We had heard that the NFL and VA.A. and N.C.A. went neutral on that bill. T.A.B. didn't sign off, and I was always unsure on what the broader tourism group would do with that. So we're not sure what effect that might have. And again, anything can be filed. So although the governor did seem to indicate he would settle for something that just prohibited schools from creating rules as to who can who can't use bathrooms. But it did seem that we really don't know what that, what can be filed. So something as restrictive as Senate Bill 6 could be filed, something more restrictive, just the school restriction could be filed, we're just not sure. And as you know, from going through the legislative session, that's creates a bit of an uncertain environment for Arlington in terms of its economic development and tourism and entertainment interests as that goes. So we are working currently on a plan to help address this. We've got a little bit of a lead up to the 30-day session, and then the 30 days will go pretty quickly, we think. So we're working with other cities through our cooperation with TML. I know that I think one element of that, I would like to implement, is having, you know, working to meet with our legislators before they go to Austin. So sharing with them some of our concerns about these issues before they go. So in the district weekend, they're here, we're here, it just makes sense. And then during the session, we will probably be calling on you to do some of the things you've done. Make phone calls, perhaps go down and do testimony. We understand a lot of this is going to happen during your typical July break. So we'll certainly be understanding about that. But it is something that we're taking a look at and we'll keep you posted on how that's going. So I appreciate your attention. I'll take any questions that you may have. Mr. Shepherd, thank you, Mayor. I don't know if this is for Jennifer for Terrace, but it's, are the home rural cities kind of getting together and discussing potential constitutional action or whatever against the state for basically violating the state's own constitution by trying to rule, homeroom cities. Is there been any talk about that at all? Because it seems to fly directly in the face of our own state constitution where hom home rule cities were set up for a specific reason in the then-republic of Texas. So I don't know. Can we talk about that? On some specific pieces of legislation, there's some activity in the background. Not specifically targeted at what you're thinking about that I'm aware of. We can look and see Jennifer, do you know of anything? I mean, in general, what I'm involved in is TML. We have a group of bigger cities in Texas and we are all home rule and we all get together on a regular basis during the session. We talk about how to fight the legislation but we don't, we work at the legislative level, we have not taken that next step into the legal aspects of constitutional violations. It seems to me that at some point we have to kind of draw a line and ask the Supreme Court to tell us what's what on this and if we don't it could get out of hand. And some things and we all probably have different levels of tolerance, but trees on private land, who cares for me? Me personally, but there's some other stuff like the small cell stuff. There's things that they are legitimately hampering our ability to provide basic city services by restricting our ability to produce income through the only way cities can produce income. And while they're using rollback and property tax reform on cities, they're not doing the same thing on themselves. So that they're not talking about the school district tax, which is the highest component of our ad ballorum tax. Because that's the tax that goes to Austin Austin and they get to decide how that is then redibbyed up amongst the school districts and in some cases how much doesn't really go back to the school district but goes to help balance the state budget. So something about that seems backwards to me. Something to be okay, Clay. Yeah, and it seems as though at some point we're going to want to have a judicial authority rule on whether or not they could do that. But I don't know how you go about doing that. It just strikes me wrong. Ms. Walman. Yeah, I think it strikes everybody, everybody involved in a city. However, next week there is a TML board meeting and TML has been very much involved in all of this and those cities are all coming together to talk about those issues and so when that's done I think we need to bring back a report on exactly what was talked about there because I think that is the vehicle that will be used to probably do this because they represent nearly every, there are just a few cities in Texas that are not part of TML. So that's what I would suggest. Mr. Rivera. Thank you, Mayor. Question regarding texting while driving. Yes sir. The use of, I guess to prohibit hands free, does that, what's in place then supersedes that correct? And then also would that affect school zones? Or what effect does it have to the school zone? Well, what was passed at the state level reflects our local ordinance and so there should not be many changes. I think when Tiffany and I, Tiffany Boweth, PD first talked about the only changes she saw initially were that we might have to do some different signage. So what we currently have would continue to go on, the question would be whether you all would have the choice of making it more stringent because the bill specifically allows cities to be more stringent if they would like. So. Okay, maybe I'm misunderstood or misinterpreted what at least what I read. And we can check on it. And again, I think that we can maybe get back to you with a memo on it. But so tell me again your question. So if Arlington in the future wanted to go, you must go hands free. Would this as written prohibit us from being able to take it to that level? No, I'm sorry. The bill has passed, we could do that. But under the special session that would be called, there is an interest in limiting that. Okay. So I was conflating the two. Okay, thank you. Mr. Borker. Couple of things, Jennifer, if I might. The state Senate bill 622, the one that Connie Burton put in about notice as it's put in the paper. I notice that the TABC utilizes a very small, almost like a shopper paper that is acceptable to the TABC when you post something for a business. Has the state considered utilizing that same standard for the cities? Mr. Parker, I'm not probably going to be very conversant in what we can. I don't know if currently we advertise in the start telegram because of our effort to be transparent and to notify people or if that's what we're required to do. Okay, my question here, the ambiguity is that the state will allow you as a business owner to advertise your business or your intentions of having a liquor license in almost like a shopper type periodical. But when it comes to the city, the city has to post, I'm assuming the city has to post in something substantial like the star telegram. And I can answer part of this, Mr. Parker. It depends sometimes on what's being posted or advertised. And so the statute was specifically layout that it has to be in the newspaper of general circulation within the county where the municipality is located. So usually if somebody's doing it for a legal purpose, they're going back to a statute that's specifically prescribing it. that you specifically prescribing it? Well, my point would be the ambiguity between the state and the cities and what the state requires of the cities. And so that's my concern there. The other one, the tree ordinance, Mr. Shepherd might not be concerned about the tree ordinance, but when on-court comes and pulls a truck up on your street, there seems to be some real concern. And there seems to be, does that have to do with anything about what? The encores ability to screw up the trees in your backyard. Does that give you any recourse at all? I don't believe so. This has to do with property owners and what they could do with the trees on their property. So if- Well, I guess what I'm getting at is the property owner doesn't want their trees all whacked up by encor and is there any relief in that at all? No, sorry. Do you know please? Okay. Okay. Lastly, my point would be, is there a way to get to the governor and explain to the governor how beautiful the patchwork quilt is and how it works and how the blanket doesn't seem to work as well in Texas as in California. And that concept doesn't work in the states and it doesn't work of the blanket, doesn't work in the state of Texas. Is there any way to get to him to kind of illustrate to him that each one of those patches in itself is beautiful and it works and the overall concept of all those patches is very valuable? I believe we've been trying to make that point. I haven't assisted any effort to take that message specifically to the governor, but I believe the TML has been working on that. It was very eloquently stated though. I'll probably go back and watch the tape and write down what you said because it's well put. And I think we can use that in our materials as we go forward to talk to not only the governor but our whole delegation and beyond. Quilts are more valuable than blankets are. Yes, sir. Thank you. Mr. Glaspie. Going along with what Mr. Parker is talking about. Does anybody discuss the inconsistency between the federal government to get off the states back and stay getting off our back? Yes, sir. We've tried to make that point. And I believe that the state's position is that they feel that they are the correct size of government to not only ensure that the federal government doesn't come down too hard on people, but also that the cities do the same. It's has not been the traditional argument that we've heard. But yes, sir or I believe they have a square that inconsistency and are fine with it Any other questions or comments from miss Wigman Well, well, I anxiously await what happens in July and Then again, we're here as a resource and whatever we can do to assist and help. There, let us know. Thank you. Thank you, sir. We appreciate it. And then, by the way, thank you for the many hours spent through this session. I really appreciate a lot of extra effort. Appreciate it very much. Appreciate it. Thank you. Next, we'll move to amendments to the health and sanitation chapter relative to food establishments, childcare centers, and public pools and spa's Amy Rockhill Carpenter. Good afternoon, Erin Council. I'm Amy Carpenter, the health services manager with Community Development and Planning. I'm here before you this afternoon to discuss health and sanitation chapter amendments. I'm going to try to be as brief as possible. Just to give you an overview, we're looking specifically at articles four, five, and seven in this presentation today. Article four being the Food Establishment Regulations, Article five being the Child Care Establishment Regulations and Article seven being the regulations for public and semi-public schools and spas. So the intention with moving forward with these amendments was to bring our current articles up to the state minimum standards that are in association with these regulations. First I'd like to talk about the regulation of food establishments. On May 18th, we held a public meeting and we invited all the permit holders in the city of Arlington. So if you're an establishment that has a permit with the health department in Arlington, you received an invitation to come to this open public meeting. During this meeting, we discussed what the changes would be and here are some highlights from those meeting points. Specifically the changes would include updates to definitions and terminology, again being consistent with those state regulations, food safety, training certificates, inspection frequency and requirements for the inspections. Also addressing new concepts in the food industry, mobile vending, micro markets, some of these other concepts that are new since the last time that these articles were touched. Some of the other things were reducing redundancy, comparing state code to city ordinance, updating again, departmental reference and terminology. So during that meeting we've vetted the attendees for feedback. We also gave a survey to those who came to get some kind of anonymous feedback and we gave them information pertaining to how these ordinance revisions would affect their particular establishment. The anticipated outcomes that we have for this particular ordinance would be an improved food safety program here at the health department. Concurrency with food and beverage industry needs as well as a more user friendly public check for health inspection scores. I know a lot of times we see in the newspaper there's these bad inspection scores and people wanna know how do I get inspection scores for restaurants that I frequent. So this is an attempt to make those inspection reports more user friendly and the scores more understandable for both the actual business owners and the public at large. Moving on to our article five, which would be the childcare establishment regulations. Again, we had a meeting on May 18th following the food meeting. And we sent invitations to this meeting to anyone in the city of Arlington, who currently holds a permit as a childcare operator. Again, we gave them a survey, we've added kind of interest and received feedback from those operators during that meeting. And we've also kept them informed as this process has gone on to the municipal policy committee and here before you today, we've been keeping them informed of that process. Highlights from the meeting with the childcare establishments would be updates to our childcare worker training program that is currently in existence, making that a little bit more clear and concise, as well as incorporating some changes that were done at the state level from Department of Family and Protective Services, the childcare licensing rules specifically, which included some changes to their emergency preparedness requirements, some health and sanitation requirements. One additional change that we would like to incorporate is allowing the operators the opportunity to choose an APA registered sanitizing solution. Our current ordinance is very prohibitive in that way, and there's really no scientific reason for it to be that way. That has been some feedback that we have received from the child care industry. We've received that input, we've heard that input, and we've tried to implement it in this draft that we see before you today. Again, getting rid of some antiquated terminology and updating departmental references as well. Lastly, I would like to speak about the regulation of public and semi-public pools and spas. This again had a public meeting the next evening, May 19th. Again, we sent out notification and invitations to anyone who currently holds a permit with the city of Arlington to operate a public or semi-public pool spa or public interactive water feature. Again, we provided them with information as to what the state changes are, offered them the opportunity to ask questions of myself and our code compliance staff and have kept them fully informed of this process as well. The changes that we have for our pool ordinance would be to again align with our state codes, address industry innovations. So over the past even five years we've seen some real tremendous changes in the pool industry as far as creativity in these public interactive water features. And the subsequent kind of public health fall out of some of those innovations. So you may have heard of crypto, Spiridium outbreaks. This is usually tied back to public interactive water features. So we would like to incorporate the regulations that Department of State Health Services has already come up with for those public interactive water features to protect our citizens and visitors when they're using our pool spas and public interactive water features. P-I-W-F-PIF is the short way of saying it. Some additional changes to this particular article would be to reorganize the chapter to make it, again, more user-friendly for the readers. Our city attorney's office worked diligently with us through this whole process. Again, I would like to appreciate those involved with that process. We would also, again, like to clearly define some of our pool operator and operating standards within the article. So just to recap what we've already done is the three public open house meetings for the food ordinance, the childcare ordinance, and the public pool and spa and PIF ordinance. We also took these topics to the Municipal Policy Committee on May 23rd. Obviously, I'm here before you at work session this afternoon, and I'll be bringing forth the first reading in this evening's Council meeting. From here, on June 27th, we would like to bring a final reading with a fee resolution that, again, the intent of that fee resolution is to match the language in the state ordinances. For example, they have changed the term commissary to now say central preparation facility. We just need to make sure that our fee resolution is matching that language for our specific permit types. So at this point I'd like to open it up to any questions that you may have for me to answer. Mr. Parker. Thank you, ma'am. Any I asked this question because I really don't know the answer. But if a food truck is essentially licensed and for worth, but comes to Arlington and sells food, who does the sanitation and health inspection on that particular food truck? Because it's selling to patrons of Arlington. Yes, Mr. Parker, thank you for that question. We have a permitting process for mobile food trucks. The permit would need to be issued through the City of Arlington health division, which would include an inspection from myself or one of my inspectors registered sanitarian from the city of Arlington And for certain trucks that have propane it would also require an inspection from our city of Arlington fire inspectors Okay, so each each time a truck comes here to sell food say on across the street over here You guys take a good look at it. Is that correct? Because they're permitted because when because when they get their permit? Yes, are we issue annual permits as well as we have an optional temporary mobile permit? So if you have a truck that's coming from Oklahoma for a one time event, they can obtain a temporary permit for that mobile truck. But yes, to answer your question as briefly as possible, we inspect the truck. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Mr. Shepard. Thank you, Mayor. I mean, I've got a couple of questions on the process, so it feels better with me. In each of these cases, you indicated that the current permit holders were notified of a public meeting. How was that noticed provided? We looked at their address on their permit record and we mailed a hard copy of an invitation letter to the record that we have on file for those operations. And how far in advance was that notice provided? I would have to get that exact date from my analyst. He's on vacation this week. But I know it was a couple of weeks in advance and we did get a number of phone calls. In response to that, we did get some returned letters and we made efforts to attempt to reach those operators as well. Sometimes successfully, sometimes not. Can you give me some indication of how well attended the public meetings were? Yes. Either a percentage of the invites or how would we want to do that? some indication of how well attended the public meetings were. Yes. Either a percentage of the invites or how would we want to do that? Sure. So for the food establishment meeting that we had on May 18th, we sent out over 1,2 invitations and we had six attendees but I should also note that some of these attendees may have multiple locations within the city of Arlington both on the food side and on the childcare side like a chain or something like that. Sure. And then for our pool ordinance, I don't have an exact number because that mailing was not done by my analyst that was done by code, but every permitted pool in city got a letter. And we had 12 attendees, including some of our larger venues that have. I'm not sure if it's a particular or a particular or a particular or a particular or a particular or a particular or a particular or a particular or a particular or a particular or a particular or a particular or a particular or a particular or a particular or a particular or a particular or a particular or a particular or a particular or a particular or a particular or a particular or a particular or a particular or a particular or a particular or a particular or a particular or a particular or a particular or a particular or a particular or a or solicitation of input from the attendees? My intent with the meetings was actually both of those items. So I prepared a presentation. I gave the presentation, had them sign in and give contact information so that again, we could notify them as this process continued. Gave them handouts that they could take home. I'm not sure if anyone had a chance to go over to the city secretary's office and look at the binder. The updates that are in that binder are the same a chance to go over to the City Secretary's office and look at the binder. The updates that are in that binder are the same updates that we handed out to the operators at that meeting. So it was very informational from that perspective, but I also wanted to use this opportunity as a way to make contact with my audience. Again, I gave them a very brief survey. I didn't get all the surveys returned, unfortunately, but I did get some good feedback. And I just kept it very much open dialogue. Like, what are your challenges? How can we help? What would you like to see? So I was kind of selfish in that way. I took that opportunity to get feedback from them as well. Okay, thank you. Any other questions or comments from Ms. Carpenter? Thank you, Ms. Carpenter? Thank you, Ms. Carpenter. Thank you. Next we'll go into discussion of informal staff reports and we have 2017 City Council Priority Invest in our economy and I'll call upon Mr. Jim Parishank. Mayor and council, Jim Parishank, one of your deputy city managers. It's my pleasure to talk a little bit with you today about one of your council priorities, which is an investment or economy. I want to just take a few minutes to highlight some of the information that's in your newsletter and some information that's relatively current. Obviously you do have some fairly significant economic development discussions tonight on your evening agenda. So I won't touch on those other than to say that when we think about investing our economy a lot of our focus is on jobs and value and I think that's typically a major focus of our attention. And I think our track record as a city over the last few years, particularly in the job creation has been very substantial. So just a couple of highlights. One of the ones I would really want to spotlight is Texas Trust. This was a relocation of the headquarters financial institution that consolidated consolidated business operations from multiple other cities into Arlington. It generates about 100 new jobs in Arlington. They're based in the southern part of our city and they're a great company. They do a lot of community service activities and things like that that are highlighted in your newsletter side. Encourage you to take a look at that when you have an opportunity in the public to stop in and see them on Little Road. The second one is not in your newsletter specifically, but I want to highlight a couple of our international business efforts. We've been moving forward very strongly with that as Council had directed us. And I just want to highlight a couple things. One actually is in the back of the news letter related to manufacturing in Canada. And I just want to highlight that we did participate actively, a very select opportunity for a forum for Canadian manufacturing, particularly related to manufacturers and suppliers of automobile parts and things like that. Those are our manufacturers that are interested in locating, they're expanding into the United States market. And again, that was a fairly select group of people that were able to attend. And we were looking forward to following up on some leads that we have there. The second one is next week, we'll be participating with the US Department of Commerce and a series of meetings in Washington where it's really an interesting, almost an invitation only, a event where it's really intended for foreign direct investment to be looking into our United States market. And in fact, over the last two days, I've gotten four meetings set for companies that are interested in the Arlington market and they're all international companies from I think three continents. So don't know if they'll be how we'll move forward with those but those are serious connections and the companies do employ people that are most of the manufacturing I think two or three are manufacturing. And then finally I wanted to highlight just sort of an overall understanding of how the city under the council direction on this initiative is done. The Dallas Business Journal recently did announce that Arlington was considered the number one economic development organization in the North Texas region and one of the things I'd just highlight there is about a 1.5 billion dollars in value in the deals economic development deals in 2016 and what's not really highlighted there is the amount of new jobs that are created by some of those opportunities, things like UPS relocating to Arlington, summit racing relocating to Arlington, as well as a lot of small businesses that perhaps we haven't incented financially, but we've incented through our processes and I tried to make it easier for them to do business in Arlington. So I just want to highlight that that's a really nice recognition. We've been at the top of that list or close to the top of that list for the last few years and really coincides with Council's direction on this priority, which is really investing in our economy. So I just want to highlight those. I'll stop there. There's a lot of other things we can talk about. We typically are chasing several different prospects both in the United States and the Texas region as well as internationally. And we'd love to bring those forward to that economic development community when we have those. So I'll stop there and take any questions you might have. Any questions, comments? Mr. Parker. Sorry, Jim, could you please comment. I read a couple of articles on the North Point project and that some of those particular businesses that might be relocating there might be bringing their own employees. Do you have a feel for the number of employees that that particular project will increase or we can see? I know we had over 6,000 jobs last year. We're on track to surpass that this year. So I wonder how does that particular project contribute? I think the North Point project would be when it's finished and built out, could have upwards of 1,800 new jobs. These are not existing jobs in this market, these are new jobs. Mr. Parish on to along those lines there we know that manufacturing jobs generate other jobs and thank you all for what you're doing there in that area. Who came in second and third in the Dallas business journal bill there and if you don't know I can answer I'll be right back. I'll be right back. I'll be right back. I'll be right back. I'll be right back. I'll be right back. I'll be right back. I'll be right back. I'll be right back. I'll be right back. I'll be right back. I'll be right back. I'll be right back. I'll be right back. very unique city and we all know that there and the things that we have here in in Arlington make us unique there who else has a major automotive manufacturer like General Motors six flags professional baseball professional football and a major university nobody nobody in the world as as that combination and and then our location here to be near our neighbors of Dallas and Fort Worth at the Gateway to DFW Airport provides a great opportunity, but takes a lot of work to leverage that and to take advantage of these opportunities that we have. And thank you, Mr. Payne. Thank you, Mr. Paragion, City Manager, and thank you to the Council here for what you're doing and being bold and making this happen because, again, the reason we do this, the number one reason is so that we are able to then fund our services and help our community and keep our taxes down, but also to provide jobs for our people. And then the businesses that Mr. Parijand talked about, and I'll just mention Texas Trust, they are giving a whole lot of money to our nonprofits and contributing in ways in that respect. There, and just mentioned to UPS is one of the leaders in charitable giving that was brought in and some it has the same reputation and that's so important here as we move forward because that is a proven way for a city to be able to improve themselves without increasing the taxes of our residents. It's huge and appreciate all the work there that's gone into that. Thank you all very much. And we're looking forward to the future too. There we go. Okay, next we'll move into discussion of our committee meetings and we'll move to the Economic Development Committee with Mr. Shepherd. Thank you Mayor. The Economic Development Committee met today. Three of our four members were present and all matters that we discussed were in the executive session. Okay, thank you. Next we have Community and Neighborhood Development Committee, Ms. Wolfe. Yes, thank you Mr. Mayor. Yes, we met today. We had a single item and with the quorum present, we heard a presentation from Mindy Cochrane. She is the Director of Arlington Housing Authority. She brought forward a 4% project, non-compete project for tax credit proposal. And we reviewed that process and is for a major rehab from the Texas Housing Foundation. They are out of marble falls, but they were initiated, they are an initiative and responded to requests from our local Catholic charities for the New Astrow Hagar, 65 unit low income senior housing that was built in 1986, currently owned and operated by Catholic Charities and it's located at the corner of Magnoia in Sanford. What they want to do is turn that project over to the Institute of Catholic Charities out of marble falls. Ask them to come in and rehab all 65 units, be about a $2 million project. What they are requesting is a resolution of no opposition and that the Institute of Catholic Charities or the Texas Housing Foundation basically can operate within the city of Arlington. It was unanimous agreement and staff will draw up a resolution for council consideration. Okay. Any questions from Ms. Wolfe? and staff will draw up a resolution for council consideration. Any questions from Ms. Wolfe? Okay, thank you. Next we'll go to transportation and municipal infrastructure committee, Ms. Walman. Yes, Mayor, we met this this morning with three of the four members present. The first thing on our agenda, we had two items. The first one was an update on the Transportation Advisory Committee. And we heard that this afternoon for full council. So it was basically the same presentation. The second item was we are beginning to investigate establishing a customs on demand at service at our Olington Municipal Airport. We got preliminary information about that, about establishing a customs office at our airport, which would expand services, and I think bring in a new dimension to the airport. We had some questions, and we need more information information so we've asked them to come back and bring some information and when we get that we will be coming back to full council with it. Great. Any questions from Miss Swamon? Okay. Thank you. Appointments to boards and commissions. Miss Topino. Mayor will have 15 appointments for council consideration this evening. Great. thank you. Evening agenda items. Mr. Shepard. Thank you, Mayor. This evening items eight, a 16 and 17 relating to the property tax collection and the municipal court debt collection. With my colleagues consent, I'd like to remove that from the consent agenda and table that matter for a couple of weeks to give us some more time to sort of look into staff's recommendations and that sort of thing. So hopefully I'll have your support this evening on that. Any comment or anything on that? Okay. Anything, Mr. Rivera. I'm gonna say, full vote. One, two, three. I'm sorry, one, say you can see. Okay, anything else on the evening agenda? Okay. Then issues relative to city and textile projects. Okay, nothing there. Future agenda items. Yes, Dr. Marsh. Mr. Mayor, I was just wondering, given the fact that we had put on hold, the idea of short-term rentals, with pending state action or state legislative action since there was no state legislative action, might we bring that issue back to the municipal policy committee to have further discussions in light of the inaction by the state? Ms.e Park. It's on the special session call. Well, there's one aspect of it. So, okay, I didn't, your help. Thank you. Yes, no, maybe. Miss Whitman. Miss Whitman. Ms. Wegman. Jennifer Wegman, Director of Management Resources. It is not specifically, as we've heard, on the special session called the preemption is more focused on the planning items that we talked about. It could, I mean, I'm not saying that there could be perhaps language that would be broad enough that would include that, but we do not anticipate facing that item until the 2019 session at this point. But that could change. Then Mr. Mayor given the, given the potentiality and volatility of the state legislative, I'll withhold that for now. And if I may, if it doesn't get addressed in the special session, then I'm very supportive of bringing it back to municipal policy. And that wouldn't have to August anyway in the special session, I would know. Great point. Thank you. Anything else on future agenda items? Yes, Ms. Walmond. Okay. We have talked about, and we're seeing all the construction going on with our new library and the new council chambers and how downtown is changing. And we have talked before about a pedestrian underpass. I wonder if we could finally get some report there if in I've seen preliminary things talked about. I don't know where it is right now, but if you could, I would like to see if we could get a staff report on that. Okay. Either yeah or nay or maybe or whatever. Okay. Okay. All right. Mr. Shepherd. We're going to talk about pedestrian access across our railroad track or under our railroad track if we could also have some report or update on the potential of having an act grade pedestrian crossing there at East Street to connect our our front street vibrant development to our soon to be vibrant development on West Main. Okay. Any other? Mr. Rivera. Just a question regarding Councillor Enverschepar-Juan to pull the item. Was there anything in particular that you didn't understand that staff recommended? No, I just didn't, I didn't have time to get the level of detail for the backup of staff's recommendation. I know they did a fantastic job and have every reason to believe that their recommendation is solid. But being on the Finance and Audit Committee, we were the ones that sort of directed the RFP and I had expected perhaps erroneously that there would be a report back to the committee once the RFP's were received much like we had with the lobbyist and the record service, you know, this whole matter really started a number of years ago with the concept of wouldn't it be a good idea that we go out to bid on these contracts that seemed to be held by the same vendor forever? Right. And that's kind of where the genesis was. And so I sort of, like I said, erroneously expected. So I didn't have enough time to really investigate staff's findings, to be comfortable. And there are another couple of colleagues that felt the same way. So I thought rather than rush us into a vote, they'd be a perfect way to couple of weeks. And I know you won't be here to cast a ballot and it has nothing to do with that. No, I just was curious. Okay. Thank you. I'm sorry. Yeah, no worries. That's fine. Okay, anything else on future agenda, Mr. Glasping? Thank you, Mayor. I've gotten some input from a number of people on a couple of things that hopefully we can consider. In ill Robinson Drive, the extended it all the way to the UTA. It turns out that very integral part of the success of his ministry was his connection with UT Allington. So just something to consider. And also on Veterans Park, the idea of renaming that portion in front of Veterans Park Veterans away was something that was brought to my attention that thought we could consider. And also, Mr. City Manager, just to comment, I am really delighted with the look I landscaping in our city is taking now. It's just really nice riding along our cities and I can't help but think about our initial conversation we had and those things are coming to fruition. Michael, what's the name of that street? What's the current less? What street? What street? I mean, I think Spanish trail. Miss Wolfe. Good. Yes. Can I? Oh, yeah. Well, before I go any further, is everybody all right to bring those up? The ones Mr. Glaston. Okay. Good. Oh, yeah. Before I go any further, is everybody all right to bring those up? The ones Mr. Glassfield. Okay. Great. Miss Wolff. Did our city manager give us an update on our entry waste sign on 30 with our logo? And. How many? What do you want? Well, I know what they have. It's sure attractive. I know what they have is sure attractive. My goodness. Anything else. We're all right with bringing an update on that. And I guess included in that is our others that we'll be doing, you know, there, but I'm getting all kinds of great reports on that I-30 interest sign. And it looks very classy and I think it'll be timeless and it really makes a great statement there. Okay. All right. Seeing no other business then, we'll stand. 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