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I'm going to and call the afternoon session back to order. We're going to move on down to 3.1. John, how are you? Good afternoon. Let's see here. There we go. Good afternoon, Mayor and Council. John Chapman, Long range planning manager for the record. I will be talking to y'all about the tree preservation and mitigation item, as part of today's work session. As many of you are familiar with, we have gone to extensive amounts over this past year meeting with the municipal policy committee and then also meeting with many of our external stakeholder groups that have also talked about trees over this past year and some previous years before. Some of those additional stakeholders groups include the Landmark Preservation Commission as well as Impact Arbor which is a Relator Association and then DRT, the developer's roundtable. All of these groups gave us the green light, which is why we are here today. So to go over today's agenda, we'll be reviewing the 2019 amendment and kind of what spurred the conversation that led into this UDC amendment, changes to the point system based on the results of that question about the 2019 UDC amendment. Some significant stand updates, Heritage Tree, which would be a new addition to our UDC. Development incentives for tree preservation. Some other miscellaneous revisions brought up by staff as well as some suggestions from our external stakeholders. So back in 2019, we had a UDC amendment that went forward that amended a lot of our tree preservation and mitigation requirements. It was then brought up to a question was brought into staff regarding that amendment and its implementation success. After some analysis, it was determined that even though the objective was to protect more trees as part of that 2019 UDC amendment, we found that we were in fact allowing developers to remove a greater number of trees or the tree canopy from Arlington as part of the UDC amendment back in 2019. So that then spurred the review of a lot of our point systems as well as including new criteria for the heritage tree. So just a broad overview of how the point structure for our bonus points have changed. On the left hand side, you see the buckets of trees that are related to bonus points, our cross timbers, the bonus trees as well as significant stand. In the middle there is how the point systems are currently calculated when developers propose new development, and then on the right hand side is the proposed changes. Cross timbers and bonus trees are looking at a reduced value in the point system. Significant tree stand however is looking at an increase, and that is also due to an increase in the definition and requirements to meet a significant tree stand. So moving into that what we're looking at is our existing conditions for a significant tree stand would be two and a half caliper inches minimum for each of those trees with three trees and then no more than 10 feet apart from each other. And that would be a 1.5 bonus point. What we're looking at doing is really beefing up the standard for trees to be meeting the significant tree stand requirement. Because what we've heard during this conversation is that we really wanna make sure that as people are visiting Arlington or residents are walking down their sidewalks, visiting businesses that we're keeping and incentivizing the much more mature trees that are in stands to keep those as part of new developments. So we've increased the number of trees that would need to be part of a tree stand from 3 to 5, increased the maximum caliper size for each tree to be identified within the tree stand from two and a half, up to eight inches, eight inches being a much more mature size for many of our tree species that would be protected or across timbers to really show characteristics of mature trees, and then also increasing the maximum spacing. And that's to ensure that or acknowledge that with much more mature trees we will have a natural increase in distance between those as well. So the objective here is to really refocus what a significant stand is by increasing those standards. And then we will also ensure that it will be explicitly stated that there is no double dipping of our bonus point structures. So if a significant tree stand included cross timbers, the developer would need to determine based on their development and what they're proposing, which point system would be who of them the best, whether that be significant stands or through the cross timbers. So no double dipping. Heritage tree would be a new addition to our point system. These would be defined as cross timbers trees that are more than 40, or at least 40 inches or greater. They would receive a times two bonus point as part of the preservation calculation. And this goal, the goal here is to de-incentivize any proposed removal of these truly significant and mature cross-timbered trees in Arlington that honestly you can't replace. So by making it more bonus points, we're really incentivizing these types of cross-timbered trees. And then this would be the only type of tree that you would actually have a penalty for removing. So it really becomes a part of the conversation when developers are laying out their site and likely, you know, trying to figure out how to maneuver around these types of trees. So moving into some development incentives as part of tree preservation. Each category is receiving a proposed incentive for single family, multi-family, and then mixed use and non-residential. For single family, the current requirement that is not being amended at all is that there needs to be 35% preservation on total caliper evinches on the site. The incentive that would be related to single family would be that if a developer was to exceed that 35% preservation requirement up to 50%, they would get a equal decrease or reduction in the lot area and lot size requirements and then after some feedback from council we've also added in here and underlined it the dwelling size requirements so that would be that's part of YALL's consideration is to also include a reduction in dwelling size so that would be a reduction limited to no more than 50% so that's where I got that 50 overall was 35 plus 50. So for each additional percentage over that 35% up to a total 15%, you would receive that reduction. For multi-family, the first bullet point of 10 preservation as a requirement would be new to our multi-family category So the incentive that we're looking for or proposing on that is a reduction in the garage parking requirement Which is something frequently cited as part of many of the multi-family plan development applications Seeking relief from that standard so that is why we're proposing it as part of an incentive package for multi-family. So as a developer goes above and beyond that 10% preservation requirement, which again would be new, they would then be entitled to a reduction in that parking, that garage parking requirement up to 25%. requirement up to 25%. And that for non-residential mixed use, 10% would remain to be something that would be the minimum, however it's not required related to preservation. So if a non-residential or mixed use developer became entitled to and instead of it would be related to a reduction of the required parking, which would be a reduction in the number of parking spaces required for development on that site. Some other miscellaneous revisions would be to assess our penalty fee for unauthorized removal. It's currently at $200 per caliper inch that has been recommended to increase up to $600 per inch, and that would be for any unauthorized removal of our protected bonus trees and cross-timbered trees. Include a purpose statement as to what the tree preservation and mitigation section of our UDC is for. And then to also define where caliper inches for trees are to be measured from as surveyors are out in the field, gathering that for their tree survey. And that would be four and a half feet based on the International Arborist Association. And then the last item would be to exempt the Arlington National Airport from our UDC requirements related to tree preservation and mitigation due to stringent FAA regulations. and I includes some suggestions from our external stakeholders. The first item requires no action by council. We just wanted to bring it to your attention that it will be part of the planning and development services work plan for 2025. And that will be to include more educational material for our community members, residents, business owners, developers, including staff as well about what our regulations are and requirements are for tree preservation and mitigation as well as just overall tree information. Numbers 2 through 5 received either a single voice of input or a mixture of voices based on some of our Extral stakeholder meetings that we had the second one would be to allow a Would be to allow the parking reduction for multi-family incentive to be used for our surface parking and or garage parking So that would the idea here for this suggestion is to allow a multi-family developer the flexibility to decide how they would like to spend their incentive, whether that be a reduction in the number of garage parking spaces, moving parking spaces from a garage out into just surface, or allowing a full reduction in the number of spaces for multi-family developments. Number three is also related to multi-family development. This just looks at the current proposal which again is only related to a reduction in garage parking spaces. Right now the proposed cap would be 25 percent. This suggestion is to increase that from 25 to 50%. Number four would be an administrative waiver for any site that may only have one or minimal trees that would need to be identified on the tree survey. And that would allow for the city to a process administrative waiver to basically allow such development to not have to be any of the city's tree preservation and mitigation requirements. And then number five would be, is the suggestion to decrease the caliper size, the proposed caliper size for the new definition of a significant tree stand. Staff proposed a, as I mentioned, that's really to ensure that we're capturing mature trees. There was no suggested number as to how far we should reduce that eight inches, but somewhere I suppose between two and a half and eight. So these were the items that we discussed today. Our objective, the updates that we made, as well as what we've heard from our external stakeholders. We can return to this slide at any point through our discussion. It is a summary of all of the changes that are being proposed. The changes are in red. And then I also want to point down there at the bottom in that gray bar. Back in 2019, the UDC amendment included a adjustment to the minimum calipers tree size that cross timbers need to be in order to be identified on the tree survey. We've talked a little bit about how characteristics really arise at a much larger caliper size, and due to cross timbers being such a slow growing tree, at three inches you really don't see any of the characteristics that a tree surveyor or arborist would be really be able to identify as being a cross timbers tree on a tree survey, so we're recommending to increase that from three to six inches. All other trees would be identified as six inches as well. So we are here today to have a work session with y'all and receive feedback on the proposals as well as any of the suggestions that y'all may like for us to look into more or include. January 8th is what we're looking at for our public hearing with the Planning and Zoning Commission. Followed by, I'm sorry, work session with our Planning and Zoning Commission. And then January 27th being the public hearing with the Planning and Zoning Commission. And then we will return to y'all if this is how we proceed between February and March. Open to any questions. Questions, comments for John. Dr. Odom Leslie. Thank you, John. I know we've been talking about this for I think over a year now and hopefully we've covered everything but I do have a question on on, I guess, slide number six, page number nine, other miscellaneous revisions. And the first one says, assess the penalty mitigation fee from 600 per caliber inch, are more. My question is, what's the definition of are more? And under what circumstances would we assess more than $600 per calipring? Based on my understanding, 600 is really I think what staff would propose based off of what other cities around the area are also doing. 600 is what we found to be the max. That standard can be increased at the request of y'all though. Oh okay so in the final ordinance it's gonna say if everybody agrees 600 dollars it won't say or more. That is correct it will just say 600 dollars. Okay good okay and the other question I had was on the Slide number seven suggestions from the external stakeholders Number two that they be given a choice on how to spend the incentive it says Surface parking and or garage parking so the developer gets to choose whether they're going to reduce surface parking or garage parking or some of both. Is that right? That would be correct. It would be a menu item for the developers to pick from. So we need to decide if we're going to give them that choice or? That's a suggestion. So it's not it won't, unless we hear otherwise from y'all, the what we will proceed with is that multi-family developers for incentives would only be entitled to a reduction in the parking garage requirement, or the garage parking requirement up to 25%. This suggestion that we received feedback from and it was from impact would be related to keeping that suggestion that we currently are proposals that we have and then adding into the mix a and or which would include a reduction in the number of parking spaces for multi-family period. So developer would be able to pick do I want to reduce the number of spaces that I need to have in garage parking or do I want to reduce the number of spaces that I create? So the developer would choose. Based on the suggestion, that is correct. Okay, so we need to make a decision about that. If you would like to these are just suggestions so again we if we hear otherwise from y'all what we will proceed with is only allowing the incentive to go toward a reduction in the garage parking department. Yeah that's what I would say that's what we hear from developers. Thank you. Councillor Marbury-Boxel. Thank you. This has been a long effort and a really complex. I know it's been going on since before you got here, but since you got here, you sort of corralled the whole thing, and I really appreciate it, and got us on the right track again with it so thank you so much. Yeah also John outstanding work on getting all those entities together and listen to them and it was just awesome to see congratulations. Thank you. Councillor my borrower. Yeah. Boy, John, you drew the short stick coming into the city and put you, but you have done. I think I told you when we were meeting about this earlier, and we feel like we've talked a lot about trees. I've learned more about trees than I ever thought I would know being a council member. Dr. Oden Westley, these are just recommendations. You know, I think more education is a good thing. The more we do that and I'd encourage staff, you know, so that's not just you guys explaining every time. Maybe it's a video, someone can watch to have those full understandings and get that because we do get a lot of questions from developers and I know y'all do too people come in and trying to especially newer developers trying to figure out what all these rules are and these codes especially a tree and I think it's important for citizens to see it developers everyone to be able to see that but Dr. Rodin Wesley on these other recommendations I don't think these are changes that we should be making I would not recommend making those those changes. These are just suggestions that were given as John a veteran with other groups more and more. I think we continue with what we developed, what we built out. I think we've got to a pretty good balance of a policy that really will make some impact because the reality was our old policy was not doing that. So we had to make some changes on this and I do think it gets us up to some of those levels where it allows the developers to still develop but also protects a very valuable resource that we have in the city of our trees. So I would not be probably willing to take some of these suggestions that we have right there. Thank you. Any other questions or comments from council? Thank you, John. Appreciate it. Thank you. We'll move on down to 3.2 fee-full-world cup update with Deputy City Manager Wakeland. Thank you, Mayor and Council. for Wman, Deputy City Manager. Today we have a two-part presentation. This is actually the second presentation. Could you put the other one up, Matt? So we're gonna have Monica Paul, who's the executive director of the Dallas Sports Commission. Under her watch, numerous major events have been brought to North Texas. And so now she's working her magic on the FIFA World Cup coming in 2026. She's going to give a presentation to you and then I'm going to follow up after you have some questions and answers with her and then I'll come back with some additional updates from what we're doing more specifically in Arlington, so Monica. I'm going to click here. Perfect. Thank you for allowing me to be here today. Definitely an exciting time for us here in the North Texas area of this opportunity for World Cup in 2026. As many of you may know, we hosted a World Cup back in 1994 when I go out to speak about major events. People still talk about the opportunity and what that World Cup in 1994 left for them. There were people who have been ball kids, people who worked as volunteers in the International Broadcast Center, the fact that streets were in multiple different languages and just their overall experience. And I think that speaks volumes to not only the economic impact, the opportunity for us to position Arlington and the North Texas region, really on the global map, but the legacy that a World Cup can bring out of 1994, the MLS was created. So as we continue collectively to plan for 2026, I want to ensure that we're also looking towards what kind of legacy can we leave. In 1994, we were host to six matches. All of those were took place at Cottonball. Brazil, Netherlands still. One of the most talked about matches in World Cup history. We were home to the International Broadcast Center. A lot of excitement took place. But what we want to talk about is really what is in front of us. So going to kind of give you an overview of maybe what to expect, what we're working on, what does our footprint look like, and kind of what is the overall organizational structure. In terms of economic impact, we all know that we do these major events. One of the big reasons is for that incremental tax dollars and that economic impact. When we started bidding on this back in 2017, the United Bid Committee did an economic impact study. In generalities, keep in mind, we were anticipating hosting four to five matches at that point. And just with four to five matches, they had projected 400 million in economic impact. Since then, our footprint makes a little different. We have nine matches, the most of any host city. We have a potential International Broadcast Center, five base camps that I'll review here shortly. A large fan festival in Cupposing 39 days, potential main operations center and some different layers that weren't anticipated back in 2017. With that, FIFA did an economic impact study. Very high level one. We're going to dig down in the details here in 2025 and provide each of the municipalities with additional information. But the projections are about $2 billion in economic impact for the region. For all of those items that encompass this World Cup. International Broadcast Center is still on the table. I hope full to have some updates on that from FIFA very soon. But we could be looking at 3,000 to 5,000 broadcasters here. A great opportunity, in fact, to get in front of them and share all the reasons why we love living here in the North Texas region. But share our stories to further elevate, whether it's getting businesses to move here, having broadcasters that are here talking about, the experiences they have, all the great things, the restaurants, things to do, different attractions here within our region. What does the timeline look like? By far, this will be the largest event that we have hosted today. Typically, we may be looking at an event that takes place for a week-long period or over an extended weekend. The first match of the World Cup takes shape on June 11. Our first match is is June 14th. Our last match is July 14th, and the finals will take shape on July 19th. We're hosting nine matches, 48 teams across the board. This will be the largest World Cup from a team standpoint, for sure, FIFA extended from 32 teams all the way to 48 teams. So this will be an opportunity once that the draw takes place. We may have teams participating in the World Cup and some of our group stages that have never participated in a World Cup to date. In terms of footprint currently The nine matches will be taking place here in Arlington at AT&T Stadium I know that it says Dallas Stadium on there. We are working very closely with FIFA to make that modification to Arlington Dallas Stadium Dallas Arlington Stadium Arlington Dallas Stadium Working to make that modification mayor the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the transparency, FIFA removes the commercial aspect of any stadium's name to go along with those host cities. In addition to the stadium, we have five base camps. One of our base camps was just added here a few weeks ago. So we'll get that added in this graphic for any future presentations. A base camp is basically an opportunity for a team to come in. They may come in 5, 10, 30 days prior to the World Cup and they make that location, that training facility, as well as hotel that is matched up to that training facility, their home. They train there, eat there, live there, then day or two prior to their match, they'll travel to, let's say Kansas City, where their first match will take place. They will hold their match, and then they're gonna come right back here to their base camp and kinda do the same thing until their next opportunity or until their next match. That'll probably be pretty consistent through the group stage and maybe through that first knockouts stage. But we have Toyota Stadium, University of Dallas, Dallas Baptist, and then TCU, and then new to the table as UNT in Denton. There's a possibility to adding maybe another base camp, but we won't know that until 2025. The kicker to the base camps are, we won't necessarily know if our base camps are being used, or who will be staying in our base camps? What teams will be here within the region until March, estimated March of 2026. The draw for the teams participating in the group stages will take place December of 2025. So in about a year, we'll know who are playing in our group stage matches. And then those teams, which will kind of be divided up in pods based off of where those teams, their first group stage matches are, to kind of alleviate some of travel demands on the teams first. So if their base camp can be here centrally and maybe their matches are used in Kansas City, maybe even Atlanta, Miami, Dallas, Monterey, something like that. We're trying to reduce the travel demand there. In addition, Cotton Bowl Stadium and SMU will be the venue specific training sites. Those are the sites that the teams playing here at AT&T Stadium. That's where they will practice prior to their match. In addition to that, each host city puts on what's called a FIFA fan festival. Very important to the commercial affiliates as well as our host city supporters. This is a festival that will take place all 39 days minus the rest days, but we'll look to do some higher end concerts and programming throughout that fan festival. Fan festival numbers just to give you an idea. It guitar, the largest day was 99,000, and Russia, their largest day, was 160,000 people that came through a fan fest in one day, not all at one time, but a fluid opportunity there. In addition to the fan festival, we want to do additional watch parties and activations. some in collaboration with some of our host city supporters and partners and with our cities. So when you look at obviously Arlington Entertainment District, there's some opportunity, Sunday at Square and downtown Fort Worth, Frisco, maybe a few opportunities and a a very smaller capacity in Dallas. We are awaiting some additional details on what that looks like. The license is to be able to show those feeds to larger crowds to be able to capitalize on some of that additional economic impact and incremental tax dollars. This is a brief overview of what does our overall footprint going to look like. There's some hotels that have to be identified here, but there's basically three or four additional elements here that we're working on FIFA with FIFA to identify. deep- Depot where they bring in all of their buses as well as a lot of their sedans and kind of manage that from April, May, time period all the way through the World Cup. A main ticketing center where they may distribute tickets. Yes, a lot of tickets are digital, but keep in mind we have international visitors here. So if there are issues with technology or be able to get it on the app, there's some additional gifting and that sort of thing. So FIFO will be looking to find a location for that, as well as manage both the Fleet Depot and the main ticketing center. And then the other location would be a volunteer center. This will be the largest volunteer program that we have we've had here from a region standpoint. We're looking to have that open from November of 2025 all the way through the end of July 2026. So that'll'll take into account from a recruitment standpoint to an orientation training standpoint, to uniform distribution, and then a location during the World Cup time period for people to check in, and then obviously have volunteer appreciation at the end. Overall, match schedule. We use this a lot in terms of our planning. The kind of colored for areas under the white section or the group stage matches, you'll see we have five of those followed by two in the round of 32, then one in the round of 16 followed by that semi-final. But we use a lot of this from planning, not only for fan festival, but then utilization of resources. You know, when we host major events, whether it be the Super Bowl or NCAA, men's final four here at AT&T Stadium, those are happening in one city throughout the United States. Here, and sometimes we have to, you know, with other weather buses and other things with Houston or bring stuff in from Austin. Here we've got the first two matches, our first two matches here also taking place in Houston. So it also we're also taking a look at this of where some other ancillary vent opportunities on some of our dead days. We know that FIFA has been working with the Rangers and MLB and the planning of their games and ensuring that there's not a Rangers game on top of one of our World Cup matches. In terms of overall FIFA by the numbers, again, there are 16 host cities across three countries. The first time that the World Cup has been in multiple countries. So you've got two cities in Canada, three in Mexico, and 11 host cities here within the United States. 104 matches. When we started bidding on this, there were 80 matches. Now we have gone to 104. 1994 has still set the record in terms of most ticket sold, revenue generated. Now you'll see that 2026 will easily eclipse that. In terms of overall footprint in the cities, we've got a good base here within the Central United States and working collectively with all of our US host cities on a very regular base. We have weekly calls, so we have a good idea of what's taking place across the country, not only working with them, FIFA, but then our federal agencies and partners as well. Just to go over a little bit from an infrastructure and how FIFA is organized this. FIFA, in fact, is the local organizing committee. In Qatar, it was 50-50 with FIFA and the Qatar government in running the World Cup in Russia. It was 100% Russia. So, they have transitioned during this World Cup as FIFA being the local organizing committee and then divided it out into Canada, Mexico, and the United States and working with each of the city host committees there. So really looking to hone in on the strengths of each of those areas. FIFA being the governing body, working with the federal agencies and the federal governments on some guarantees and what those federal agencies can bring, whether it be safety security, transportation, and really relying on us here as a local basis to work with our state agencies, but ensuring that public safety, transportation, issues of sustainability or human rights are taken care of. We have the context here. We know how we have, how we typically run major events here, what needs to happen, what works best, lessons learned from previous events, so how can we transition that in working with FIFA as a local organizing committee for all of us to collectively be successful? Honing in on that, we've hosted major events in the past. This one is a little different because of the length of time, a little bit different because there's a larger footprint across the region. But I think each of the cities knows what they do best and what their responsibility is. So a lot of the working groups from previous, all the way back to NBA Austin, to Super Bowl, College Football Playoff, WrestleMania, along the way. I think we've learned in trying to put that to use, but then also increase our knowledge and create some of those legancies. Probably very hard to possibly read, but you'll kind of see the, from FIFA's structure, then what does that look like here locally? From organizing committee standpoint, the different buckets below mirror what FIFA's responsibilities and some of what their working groups look like. So they kind of, we try to match those up with what we need to be focusing on here locally. Or in some instances, FIFA may be totally responsible for it. So you won't necessarily see it on this organizing committee chart of responsibility because it's not our responsibility. But we're going to be looking, you might be able to see that a little better. But areas of focus, transportation, working very heavily with the North Central Texas Council of Govern, as well as City of Arlington staff, City of Dallas staff, Frisco Fort Worth, to identify what are the needs and what are the systems that we need to put in place. So for instance, on our transportation standpoint, FIFA really takes care of all of their teams, all of their VIPs, some of the media, some of their staff, and a few other areas. And our focus is really some of the credential holders, some of the broadcasters, volunteers being able to get travel throughout the World Cup, as well as the spectators. So one of our key focuses is how do we get the ticket holders, knowing that we have a lot of international visitors out here to AT&T Stadium. So we have working with COG in a very similar fashion as what we did in the 2014 NCAA MINS Final 4 4 as well as we did a smaller level during WrestleMania in 2022 to have that best bridge and have the transportation system. So those meetings, those committees are already working and we'll continue to ramp up here in 2025. Accommodations, I think that's fair to say that across the entire region, hotels will be utilized all the way from VIP to staff, to broadcasters and media, to a lot of hospitality and spectators. By the end of this year, we're hoping to have designations that we can share so that we can continue in the safety, security, transportation elements of those planning. Sustainability, University of Texas at Arlington is leading the way for our sustainability working groups. Very robust group working with a lot of the base camps, training venues, stadiums, restaurants, hotels across the board. So a lot of positive that are coming out of that committee and really that is one that we hope to have some legacy elements. I'm not going to go through necessarily each one of them. I'm happy to answer some of those questions. A few other areas, safety security, FIFA's outlined what their safety security structure is. They have identified 18 different focus groups in areas that throughout the region. We have representation on all of them for each of the cities that are involved. And those committees, as well as subcommittees, will start to meet on a monthly basis as we continue to form this plan. From a human right standpoint, we had our first workshop in October, October 31st across the region. About 125 stakeholders show up. That has since grown to about 300 stakeholders, but we're talking about issues such as migrant rights, labor rights, human sex trafficking, labor trafficking, LGBTQ plus homelessness. How in each of these areas, what are we going to be putting in place from a regional standpoint to mitigate a certain risk or negative effects that the world could have on certain stakeholders? Probably the volunteer program, you're probably looking at roughly 7,000 volunteers needed across the board. FIFA, some of those are FIFA volunteers, some of those will be host city, host region volunteers. Keeping in mind, we want to have a lot of great ambassadors to really showcase our region and provide the hospitality that we're known for. And one of the probably key areas York and the city of New York and the city of New York and the city of New York and the city of New York and the city of New York and the city of New York and the city of New York and the city of New York and the city of New York and the city of New York and the city of New York and the city of New York and the city of New only cover a part of the cost to be able to put on a World Cup. So each of the host cities is able to secure 10 host city supporters with approval by FIFA and then can layer in a donor program to get the additional funding needed to not over cover those cost of putting on a a World Cup. Hopefully leaving some legacy elements, whether that's additional fields, additional equipment, access to sport. And underserved areas providing access to sport that the people you know, kids may not have the ability to participate in now. So those were a lot of the key areas that we are working on. Know that we're towards the end of the year. So these are just kind of a highlight of here's what we're hoping to close out here in December. We do have some federal funding emergency appropriations asked collectively with all of the 11 or other 10 host cities within the United States to our federal government specifically focused on safety and security elements knowing that when we've been on this World Cup in 2017, our world is maybe a little bit vastly different as it relates to safety and security and that's not something that we take lightly and want to ensure that we have everything that we need to have a safe World Cup across the region. FIFA is in the process of staffing up, so we anticipate in January that the pace is going to quicken as we get additional committees and additional people involved and get the feedback from FIFA to continue the planning into 2026. Here are our website, DallasFWC26.com. It's about to go through a refresh here the next week or two, but we'll be posting. We post a lot of opportunities, whether it's MWBE, Small Business, any of the RFPs that FIFA sends out, we'll be posting on our website as well as sending to the database of the companies that we have. We share with our regional partners as well for distribution and then we'll be posting those on our website. Currently FIFA does not have one central location so we try to get that information out through as many channels as we possibly can to provide those opportunities for our local businesses here. And with that I'm going to pause to answer any questions that you may have. Questions, comments for Monica? Council Member Galante. All right. Thank you, Monica, for the grip representation. Just for the record here, last time Brazil won a workup was 1994 in the United States. It was 24 years after we won the workup in 1970. So, 2026 will be 24 years after we won the last workup was 2002 in Japan and in Korea. So I'm feeling a little lucky. OK, well, then I'm going to engage your help and let's see if we can try to get Brazil as one of our base camps. What? What are you saying you're going to do? Oh, no, no, I'm asking for his help. I know. You may not want his help. So I have a question for you. Yes, sir. I saw that there's an opportunity for new training camps. I don't speak for another entity for sure, but we love to have to see the activation of the former football field on UTA. We have plenty of hotels close by. We need to change the grass, right? If I'm not right. I love you consider that. I think here in Alenton and the base camp. We can definitely consider that. I think we can get you the specs of what FIFA kind of requirements are, the additional infrastructure. I haven't been out to that field, but definitely FIFA still looking for additional fields to serve as options for base camps. So definitely interested in that. I appreciate it now you then I activate a Marty Weeder. Ask Marty if he can connect with you on that ship. Sure. Thank you, Marty. Councilmember Gonzalez. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. President. I was fortunate to go to one of the games in 1994. It was an amazing experience. You might not know the answer regarding transportation. You said about sustainability. I know that ROTC gave approval for the Cog Executive board to submit an application for 59 electric buses. I think back in April, did we get those? I can't remember seeing anything. That was supposed to come out in July. Yes. To my knowledge, we have not heard a response. That's not that. Okay. Thank you. It's still in discussion, believe me, every time that Mr. Morris has an opportunity he asked but we have not received response. Thank you. Any other questions comments? You know I love you. I really truly do. You have been a regional warrior on this thing like there's no tomorrow. Every city that you deal with has their unique pride that comes with who they are and we are no different. You know how I feel about Arlington has to be wrecking us. We will be at the center of the universe on this thing. We're not asking for a lot but calling that that stadium by some other city's name is really going to go hard with over 400,000 residents in Arlington. And we're happy to share it. We're happy to call it the Arlington Dallas Stadium. And Dallas has done a lot of wonderful things, and you in particular, you have done phenomenal. We're happy to share it, but give us your best effort on this. I know you're not the decision maker, but I trust that you are an influential individual on this. And I'm happy to accompany you and help convince anybody. In any way I can. I feel like John Dutt and all of a sudden. But we're happy to convince anybody along those things. But Monica, seriously, thank you for everything you do for this region. You are incredible. I appreciate you. You're very welcome and let's get through the holiday and I think maybe we can start 2025 off in what you're anticipating. Yeah, thank you. Anybody else? Thank you, ma'am. Deputy. So thank you, Mayor, and thank you, Monica, for the update. I just have a few slides just focusing a little bit more on the Arlington experience here and what we've been doing. And I want to acknowledge that I start both Kerry Parker-Berry, who I believe is in the audience or there she is. She's our esports and conventions center director and also Brent Derod, who's the CEO of our Convention of Visitors Bureau. They both does, they both have been working with me closely and we've been meeting, I think, every other week to talk about some of these things that are really more Arlington focused. So just here's another version of the match schedule that Monica had discussed. This is just the ones that will be played here in Arlington. So you can see how they kind of, both the group stage and then the rounds of 32, 16 than the semifinal, which is great. So as we look at Arlington planning efforts, these have been going on since, I mean, we've been meeting with an Arlington team specifically, which is our folks, and then also some of our stakeholders in town. We've been doing that since before early 2023, but additionally, we've been working really focusing on with the Parks Department and Carrie and her team and also grant about entertainment district infrastructure improvements. This is everything from way finding signs to sidewalks to just cleanliness and making sure we understand who's responsible for what. So a lot of real focus on that to make sure when people come to our entertainment district, they have the best experience they can with the physical environment. We're also planning working with our Office of Communication and Cynthia Leymus on Communication to Residence. That's really going to the pre-event engagement is going to begin about April of 2025. We don't want people to lose track of this and they might start tuning us out if we start this too early. But a little over a year in advance, we'll start some of that real focused effort to focus on our residents. Communication to businesses, however, is gonna start earlier. So we are focusing on several different groups. We have hotels, we have restaurants, potential vendors, and then also entertainment district businesses, who we all want to give an opportunity to come to different meetings and ask questions, understand how these amazing events are gonna affect their businesses in a positive way, or if they might have concerns about will I still be able to sell gas or do whatever my normal course of businesses during the time, the 31 days that we've got them here. Business continuity is very, we learned, or I learned about this recently from FIFA, they have a business as usual sort of tenant that they go by where their goal is to not interrupt anyone's regular business that's around the area where the events are happening. So this means that all those folks who are around that event, the AT&T Stadium and other areas, they should be able to go on with a regular course of business and still continue to do that. We don't want this to be a time, a dead time in anyone's business effort. We want this to be the best time that they've had perhaps during the year. We really want to help build the businesses and not make this an interruption. And then finally we're working hard on staff preparations. As you may imagine, we have done super balls. We've done final fours. We've done all sorts of things here, but they have been single events. Having these nine events within 31 days is a different sort of a different thing that we haven't done in the past. We want to make sure that our teams have, can do the work whenever possible. But if they need backup from other cities, We have those agreements in place and plans in place to bring in other public safety personnel or other inspectors or other bomb dogs or whatever it might be required. So we're really thinking a lot about that. And now as the city runs what it needs to do for this area, we have enough support for that. And just as I mentioned the World Cup planning team that we are working with internally, we have a number of departments who are included in this, along with some important city partners that we're working to bring discussions together every month we'll hear about a topic and then we'll hear updates from all the different groups. And this is a great chance for us to make sure everyone's tuned in and we're all focused on the same things. I just put together, this is just an overview slide. I had in mind, you may be getting some questions from the residents you talked to or from businesses that you talked to. So some things that I think might be important at this stage to emphasize is the nine matches we talked about before, the June 14th, the July 14th, with the five, two, one and then the semifinal, are we have a robust regional planning effort going on. Arlington's not having to plan this alone. This is we're working with regional partners at the state level, at the national level. All sorts of folks are a part of this effort. So it's robust and it's shared and it's a good connection. Monica mentioned the transportation, which a lot of you have mentioned to me, that concern. We wouldn't want to ever build a transportation system that would sort of stand up on an everyday basis, because we're never gonna have an everyday basis. The amount of people we're gonna have for each of these world cup matches. So we build things that work for, they come in when we have that huge need. And that bus bridge that comes from center port down, you know, sort of from Dowsen Fort Worth to center port and then down to our stadium. And that's the right solution. We wouldn't want to build something that would be able to bring in, you know, 100,000 plus people every day, because we just don't have that sort of a need in our entertainment district on a daily basis. We are going to be focusing on Arlington businesses, probably outreach beginning in 2025 that Kerry and Brent and I will be working on bringing those folks together, answering their questions, just starting to spread the word. We'll try to meet with them regularly and continue to keep them updated. And finally funding which Monica also talked about, we do have the state major event reimbursement program which is a huge help in Texas. There will also be some local organizing committee fundraising. This isn't something that the city is expected to foot the bill for or Dallas is expected to foot the bill for or Monica's. The Dallas Sports Commission is going to foot the bill for it's sort of fundraising and also working with the state to help get these expenses covered. Also, there are volunteer opportunities. If folks are interested in that, want to get that started. This is the website that Monica and her team have stood up and folks can register there to volunteer. We're going to, it's going to be a big effort and I think a really exciting and fun effort to invite all these folks to Arlington and to this, the North Texas, really, the Metroplex for this event. So with that, I'll take any questions that you all have. Anything else for Deputy City Manager Wakeman? Thank you Jennifer for the update. On December 13 next week we're going to have the draw. The FIFA workup is a correct monica. We're going to have the draw. December of 2025. So that's any? December 25. I, a year for now, pretty much. And only then we gotta find out what teams are playing which venue. Yeah, we won't we won't know that for some time. Okay, that process of choosing camp based camps locations is started then, right? Cause then they will know. Of course, the commission has the context with all the the federation's in the country federation's so it can start the conversation, right? Okay, we have time. Thank you. Monica, is there any way we can keep any other Brazilians out of Arlington? They travel well. Oh my goodness, we got to keep... And they spend the money. Councilmember Boxel. Thank you. What I haven't heard discussed is the really hyper local issue and that is what about local residents and by that I mean Arlington probably Mansfield. I don't think what we want is a bunch of people trying to drive up there or to even take right share up there is just going to clog up we don't need a lot of extra vehicles on the road so what and they're not going to drive up there or to even take ride share up there is just going to clog up. We don't need a lot of extra vehicles on the road. So what and they're not going to go up to center port either and then ride back. So how are we going to get local people there? Do we have a bus bridge or a ride share? I mean a park and ride for a bus to get local people up there so that we don't have that crunch point. Cause it's so close for us, the temptation is to be, I'll just drive up there and park wherever. So do we have a plan in place for getting local people there and back? So I will say that there is, there's, it's going to be a combined effort to bring people in from all over. So it will be some as the bus bridge, but not everyone's going to take a bus bridge. There will be parking for some people. I did check into your question, and I'm sorry, I didn't get back earlier, but I did check into your question with the cog at this point. The focus and the funding is really going towards the where we're going to bring the most people in from. Sure. So my concern is with creating extra congestion, don't need that will come from more local sources, just that it's just going to add to the mix there. And I think we really need to look at even if they don't drop off right in the stadium, they could drop off near within walking distance or something like that Just to keep people from You know taking right share up there and you're just clogging up the congestion Sure, so I'm gonna be congested the second one is about Trash removal do we have republic services coming up with a plan because That many people is gonna create a lot of trash. And that's going to be, it seems to me we need some sort of plan in place to remove that trash every day or several times a day or whatever. So if we could hear from Republic, if there's any kind of planning operation going on. I will see that there's an entire sustainability committee that's being headed by Magnetare, who's from UTA. Okay. And they are, there are a lot of, Feetha has a lot of interest in sustainability and reducing trash and sort of being as, you know, as green and as eco-friendly as this event can be. So I think there's that, that conversation is happening on a broader level that will include trash removal and all of that. So the stadiums, they're part of that discussion they have trash removal contracts. But this is a little bit different. Absolutely. So they need to, yes. To me, there need to be some anticipation of an increased amount of trash. Could be, could be. That discussion is happening within the sustainability committee. I'll definitely pass that along and make sure that we've plugged in Republic to that conversation. So those are my two concerns. The local transportation issues and congestion issues and the trash. Thank you. I appreciate that. Any other questions or comments, Dr. Oda Wesley? Thank you for this update, very helpful. I know I have heard from a number of residents actually requesting an opportunity to expand our short-term rental ordinance so that residents can rent out rooms during this time temporarily. and then I guess go back to the ordinance after it happens, after the event. What has there been any discussion about housing in, what outside our traditional short terminal area, are we looking at that as a possibility? I have not been looking at that as a possibility, but I think if we've got other staff who might want to respond to that, think. I'm gonna say maybe Molly could address it. I know we had that request and it creates a little bit of a conundrum and a on and again, off again, ordinance. And so I think we need to have the ordinance the way it is and perpetuity for what it is and not create one time special stuff. And we could talk an executive session about the potential risks that that could create, but Trey's right, and my guidance would be that we leave it alone as is. Any other questions or comments? Thank you both. I appreciate you all. Okay, we're going to move on down to 3.3 on the energy efficiency. Norah, I saw you nodding your head back there on trash collect. Oh, yeah. And I'm sure you've been engaged in the public on some of that stuff. We are. We are all working on it. Norah Coronado, Director of State Management. Thank you, Mayor and Council. That is some tough information to follow. I wish I wasn't the one that to follow it, but I'll try to make this as exciting as possible. So a few weeks ago, we had a question, the topic come up of energy efficiency. So we have some information to share with you all today. So we'll provide some background, some examples to illustrate how we've put, how we've approached energy efficiency and what are the investments we've made. We'll talk a little bit about construction. I think that could be of interest. And then also just in general energy sources and consumption. And we have been answering any questions afterwards. So more specifically, the question was about having an office of sustainability. So in conducting some of that research, I found mainly cities with very large populations have such offices, typically with small staff, small number of staff dollars for orthost and Houston. Cities of our size and less typically have a study or a plan. And while that's true for us for more than a decade, years go back. We have actually embedded policies, practices and programs to protect the environment and preserve the environment and conserve on natural resources, also to with a lens towards lessening the impact of rising cost. And that's what I'll illustrate with the energy of building energy efficiency improvements. So these are just examples. It is not an exhaustive list. I have other list from other departments who helped me with the research, but this in general kind of wanted to provide a sort of a sampling, a comprehensive sample of what we've done over the years. So to illustrate what we've approach this, implemented this, I lean towards building energy efficiency. So we go back 16 years in 2008. It's something that we started to pilot to kind of work into our plan. It was an energy conservation capital and improvement project. It was sort of small scale and it involved City Hall, the old central library, Parks and Recreation Administration Building and the Bob Duncan Community Center. So, certificates of obligations were sold as a part of a larger issuance for these energy efficiency improvements. It did generate savings in the general fund. The projections that were at the time, we estimated to pay that debt off in 2018, but we actually paid that off in 2016. So it definitely yielded some good returns there. So in 2015, this is a project that I was directly involved with. We focused on street lights. So we focused on retrofitting 10,500 street lights with LEDs. So this is where we had a major conservation here. So prior to the retrofit, street lights consumed about 20% of the city's electricity. The LED installations were completed in six months, resulting in 45% energy use reduction. Now we were able to leverage that and do a phase two. We bundled that savings with efficiency, building energy efficiency upgrades at 21 facilities. So this grew and spoke in scope, you know, compared to the one in 2008. We replaced HVAC equipment. We modernized control systems. We did low water, domestic water retrofits, and a lot of interior LED lighting. This was performance contracting model with no upfront costs to the city. And again, we leverage the street lights savings to help with the other energy efficiency improvements. So the phase one lease is approximately $10.5 million with payments through August of 2030. We have an outstanding balance of about 4.2. Phase two lease was about close to 3.3 million. Also payments go through 2032 and we have an outstanding balance about 1.6. So you can see we're making some very good gains not with savings. So as of late in 2023, we received direct allocation and entitled allocation under the used Department of Energy Formula Grant Program in the amount of $369,000. City Council decided to use the most of it to continue to retrofit our LED mostly neighborhood lights. We are cycling through that. And then about 50,000 for electric vehicle charging stations. We're adding one with this funding to the 14 that we have already with the city that we installed, purchased and installed with TCQ grant funds. So when it comes to new construction, I just want to highlight that we do construct the most up-to-date building codes. So with that, there's a lot in the new codes that keep making things a lot more energy efficient. So, insulated glazing, it's sims, LED lighting, that's what we've done. Building automation systems, air conditioning systems have become more energy efficient. Low flow plumbing fixtures are almost at staple, drought tolerant landscaping, which we have always had a practice of doing here. And then automatic irrigation. Those are just some examples of that are part of the code that we comply with. Now, if you take things together, those typically would achieve what is called leadership and energy environmental design. I think a lot of you all know it as lead, certified or start silver certified levelified Level. But we do have LEED SEARTS Certified Facilities Downtown Libraries LEED Silver. We also design and install solar panels with the assistance of a grant. And then the other LEED facilities are Fire Station 9, Fire Station 5, and then the airport terminal. Now I do want to point out that so the city as you know by Sarlic Trisserie directly from TXU, there are no contract provisions for any renewables. However, solar and wind is heavily used here in Texas. This is a screenshot. If you go to the Arcott website, has many dashboards. And this is just one of the many dashboards on there. And as you can see, Solar and wind make up a good portion of how the energy is produced. Now the state has an interest in all jurisdictions conserving energy. Local governments, county governments, school districts, higher ed, in 2001 the state passed Senate Bill 5 establishing a requirement to set a 5 annual percent reduction for these jurisdictions. Senate Bill 294 in 2011 had to do with the BUC, those that reported to the PUC also had to report to the State Energy Conservation Office. And also in 2019, we had Senate Bill 241. It extended the timeline, they gave us more grace, they gave us an additional seven years from 2019 to try to meet these goals. So here, so as part of our statement reporting, we track this data. The period here, September to August of every single year, we can go back as far as 2013. As you can see here, you'll see in 18, 19, 20 sort of a dip and then going back up. Now, we had Fire Station number 17 open its doors in June of 2019. We had the beacon open in September 2020 and then we had east open in 2020 as well that fall and then fire station one last year and I say this because this kind of helps to explain that. So just as these buildings were coming online they weren't going to be maximized as far as use because we were the middle of a pandemic and so we were taking a lot of precautions then having limited contact with folks so that's kind of why you see the trajectory go a pandemic. And so we were taking a lot of precautions then, having limited contact with folks. So that's kind of why you see the trajectory go down or then go back up. As far as for the water utilities, beginning in 2019, we found additional data that needed to be reporting. So that was more comprehensive data. Not that we were consuming more, but it was more comprehensive data that we were reporting since then. So with that we happy to take any questions. Any questions for Nora at all from council comments? Council member Gollum. Nora, thank you so much for presentation. That's all great to see efforts are paying off, right? Yes. So there's a lot more room for improvement always, right? Always. So you talk about the SB5 and SB241, right? The 5% energy consumption goal. Does this also include using natural gas or just electricity? I think it's just, actually no. I think it might, I'll have to confirm, sir. I think there is a component in that. Okay. How are we doing with those goals? I mean, they set 5% annually. And did we reach that goal? FCP 5, in New South, we get an extension on 241, correct? Seven years from 2019, so 20. 2026, yeah. Yeah, so I would I'm starting to I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry,. I mean, that's just more space to serve our community. So, and we built them to the highest code at the time. So, there are very energy efficient. So, I'm looking, I'm delving into this data with the help of staff to look at a square footage, sort of cost of power consumption. The consumption, yeah. Any penalty for you to make those goals? I'm so so researching that too because we were on this downward trend. I can say because we're not the only local government in the situation. Higher ed districts, school districts are in the same situation. It's very challenging to meet when you are when you are growing like demand for your services are growing and you're having to, you know, kind of fit that with facilities. But I'm researching that too, but the state has granted us some grace. So I'm hoping it won't be substantive. I'm still researching that. Also, I mean, you see opportunities for us to, I mean, of course, budget is always a concern, but there's ways in all solar panels are become much more affordable in 2019, almost one-third of the price what it was before, and more efficient, and it generate more electricity. So you see any, you know, all the buildings, I got an email from a constituent that all the buildings added up from the city is like a 300,000 square feet plus all the parking lots. The city has 1,300. These are opportunities for us to explore to put solar panels on this. How much will we offset? Of course, let's not think about how we're gonna fund this. But how much will we offset electricity? If we're gonna meet those goals, that's be five, that's be 241, they have it far above. I've done some preliminary research on that, looking at the performance contract model, same thing where it's very little up for cost of the city, et cetera, and you're right, the technology has advanced a lot in recent years. In addition to parking lots too, we also have open land, So that's something that I've taken starting to look at. And certainly we'll continue to be happy to report back on that. In just last question, the buildings, you set a retrofit in the buildings. The building that is built lead, it's already state of the art for energy consumption for sure. Have we explored retrofidial buildings and I know you're doing so much on retrofidial buildings. To build insulation, new insulation so we consume less new type of windows in insulation. Plus use natural lighting to reduce amount of electrical lighting we needed. Have you explored this? We do that. That's a very good question. Thank you. We do explore that on a project by project basis. A good example is the city office tower where we're currently doing some structural enhancements and some other modernization in addition to we're selling LED light and we're selling a new system. That roof is new. Now with the new energy code, we're going to have to add some insulation up there. We would also be, so the windows are actually new where we did that with, I think it was recovery money back in 2016, I want to say. But there's also the building joints, right? We need to reseal the building joints to try to conserve that energy. So we do it on a project by project basis, whenever we can touch something to improve it that we do it that way. Does that make sense? Just last question, real quick, on the new library here, they have solar panels. So you offset, do you compare this, how do you compare this building by per square foot consumption energy, Compared to all the buildings, per square foot, consumption, energy, how do you compare if you work the investment? So we've done an analysis on the building itself but not to other buildings so that's something we could take a look at we've done like an analysis for that building okay but not in comparison to others so I can do that on a square footage make it compare and let us know thank you appreciate it council member Gonzalez yes thank you for the report you know many of us know? Thank you. Appreciate it. Councillor Lemak and Zalas. Yes. Thank you for the report. You know, many of us have been approached by several citizens regarding sustainability and everything else and it's a great group. So, I know we're all meeting with them and we'll try to answer their questions. The city is doing a great job, but I just want to give this report real quick. and I'm part of the RTC so as a mayor and then Bouvier is part of the cog. Tomorrow's RTC, so it's a mayor. And then, Booby is part of the COG. At tomorrow's RTC meeting, you know, we take air quality seriously. Not only in Arlington, but in Dallas, Internt County. At tomorrow's report, they take your director's going to talk about air quality standards. Air quality standards that are going to be for air quality projects, spotlights. They're going to talk about the Arlington multi-module drone delivery demonstration results. So that's, you know, highlighting us. We're going to talk about engine off North status report, which city of Arlington does have an ordinance regarding handling semi trucks. So that's important that people don't realize. They were also going to discuss upcoming clean cities events, which the city is also participating in. There's also, they're going to discuss air quality funding opportunities, which are staff and who's the other person? Alicia, that they do that. The staff will be providing a summary of the 2024 ozone season activity and other air quality updates for DFW. We know it's been going up after COVID and we're trying to do the best we can. So it is a this is a big regional issue. It's not all until this not just you know the people that are coming to us, but I want those people to know. Tomorrow we have an action item to call for projects to reduce diesel emissions. And so I'm sure the city's going to be applying for that. And then the past action items, which I mentioned earlier, nor takes the government's submitted application for more than 52 million for two competitive grants operated by the FTA. The money would be used to purchase 59 electric buses in preparation for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. And so hopefully they announced so soon, but that's another thing. And people can always just like they come see us at the RTC meeting tomorrow, which is begins at one. They have public comments. So, you know, those people that come to us and they come and speak there, they can be heard by a lot more cities and other organisms. You just sign up to sign up and it's at the 616, 6 flags drive. So just I think it's important that we all know all that's going on because we don't get to give you reports of what's happening. But those things are on the agenda every single time. And Michael Morris, he lives in Arlington. And this is the guy that's behind all this. So I mean, this guy is incredible. So he lives in District 2, which is my New York bed. It's like, he really cares about that. The only thing I have noticed, so when I was in the school district, we remember we had some issue came up and we looked at some company that would come in and show us how we could save money. and it was gonna get extra $900. I thought, there's no way that's gonna happen. And they did it for two years, and it's amazing what they did. They came in and just's amazing what they did. They came in and just showed staff and everybody else, how turning it off lights, whether it's a computer, a monitor, these screens, how much money it saves. And I thought there's no way. Well, MISD has been awarded by EPA, I think, eight years in a row now. and they're the only school district in the country by savings millions of dollars of taxpayers. And I can assure you when I come up here on Saturdays, whatever, I see it a lot to look. I think eight years in a row now, and they're the only school district in the country by savings millions of dollars to the taxpayers. And I can assure you, when I come up here on Saturdays, whatever, I see a lot to light to this building, and other buildings, so if we could maybe start implementing stuff like that within our own offices, most of the lights do go up, and a lot of these lights do not. I know the cleaning crew, and they come in, supposed to but they don't but you know I've gone into that conference room and all three screen drawn and luckily I know how to turn them off but if we could start doing stuff like that that would really help but thank you for the report thanks for all that we're doing and we got to keep you know we got to keep doing this so thank you. Any other questions or comments for Nora? Thank you Nora. Thank you. Okay we're going to to move on down to discuss our informal staff reports. Y'all have all received the written reports for the psychotime staff will address any specific questions you may have on any given report. We're going to go to 4.1. Any questions or comments for Lemuel Randolph on 4.1 and enhanced regional mobility? Outstanding. We're going to move on down to 4.2 municipal policy, Dr. Odomwesley. Thank you, Mayor. Minister of Policy Committee today, with three members present, we will missing Councilmember Andrew. The municipal policy committee met today with three members present. We were missing council member Andrew Pio and we had one item on our agenda and that was the discussion of a proposed ordinance regarding boarding homes. So we had a presentation from staff. And the first thing was the title. We don't cut, let's see. From the state, we get the title now of boarding home facility, not just boarding home. And we had a presentation that showed us all the different types of group homes and what's happening in the region when it comes to adopting ordinances. And we do have a model ordinance provided by the state health and human services. And so after looking at all of this and just to remind the council what brought this to our attention was the issue in Arlington where there was an owner of several group homes. It's actually been indicted now for murder because one of their patients receive low quality care or no care there. And the city doesn't have the responsibility to monitor, to inspect, to evaluate, to set standards. So we're looking at the model ordinance that came from the state as all the other cities in the region are doing. And we're looking at moving forward with adopting those model standards into an ordinance for boarding home facilities so that our police, our code, our health authority have the right to inspect, monitor, make recommendations, even make citations and arrest if need be so that residents and the residents of these homes are not subjected to substandard care. Most of them target elderly citizens as well as citizens with disabilities, and there are cases of exploitation when ordered to pay for the stay in the boarding home. The residents are enticed, tricked, to signing over property, signing over their assets. And we, so that's a problem. So hopefully this ordinance will close the loophole that allows some types of group homes to operate with little to no oversight from the city or from the state. So after discussing all of this, the committee agreed that the staff should draft a comprehensive ordinance and bring it forward to the entire council. Any committee members want to add anything? It's well said and it's covered and you heard a lot of, it did come from abuse but we heard from our lieutenant who oversees this and it is a constant problem. The one thing I think committee recommended is we need to move fast because if you look at the biggest thing is you look our surrounding cities almost all have this and what will start happening as they will start moving into here. And so we will start seeing influx on this even more. It is a, as Dr. Bargamo said, it's another tool and tool kit for our police fire, everyone, to be able to utilize and do that. So I think it is one. And I would just, the only thing I'd add is, we're going to follow all the procedures. We need to follow, but we need to move expeditiously to get this to be able to allow our city staff to be able to utilize these things. Thank you, Mr. Hogg. Anybody else? I would just outline for the council, there are three primary elements that would be included in this ordinance. And the first one is the annual operating license so that we at least know where the group homes are. We can start with that. And one of the things was to require criminal background checks for the operators, that's not even done now, and proof that the property owner consents for that use of the property that they own. That was the first element. The second one is initial inspections and annual inspections. Much like we do multifamily developments now. And then the third element is enforcement for any violations. And we have the right to issue citations, suspend their license or even revoke their permits to operate. And we will notify the state of Texas of all of these registered boarding facilities. So as councilmember Hawke said, we're moving expeditiously to get this implemented because the owners of these homes will migrate to cities where there are no ordinances so they can fall under the radar of the state. So thank you all. Mayor. Mr. Gonzalez. Thanks for the great report. I agree with Mr. Hawk both both of you all and you can move quickly. Quick question. So regarding property taxes. Is there anything in it that we would, you know, when they get the licensing that makes sure the property, I don't know that's different, but part of the process can we add that to it that makes sure the property taxes are being paid? I think it's definitely something we can look into. So your thought is that they wouldn't be able to get a permit if they're somehow to link one on their property taxes. So yeah, we definitely can look into it for you. Anybody else? As we prepare for a tad discussion, I am thinking about TAD a lot as multiple of these candidates have brought it up. And some of the complaints on TAD is that they're not labeling things properly. Would these be labeled as commercial? Yeah, they'd still be labeled as residential. And I guess the question in Malia, I'm not expecting to know, does TAD take that into account? I guess it does affect their value whatsoever if they have a permit that they have that. That's a good question. I'm not sure it's probably something we could ask Tad about. What do they pull that type of licensing permit type information versus permits for improvements to the home that might increase value? Something we can take a look at. I think about it. I think of improvements. If they're housing this many people, they may know, a lot of times you will add ADA accessibility, things of that there, and that does increase that. So is that being evaluated? They're definitely pulling building permit type information so they're evaluating if a home is adding, to its adding square footage. I'm not sure that they're necessarily looking at improvements like that. Maybe Trace gets more inside. I don't have the answer, but we'll have the assessor here next Tuesday to talk to Council. So let's save that question. Now, what just to me, the twist off on that is it's an income based valuation under scenario like you describe instead of just a cost based scenario like when you're using it for residential property. property. So my question would be why isn't it income cat cat just like these car lots on division street things like that. instead of just a cost-based scenario like when you're using it for a residential property. So my question would be why isn't it income-cap? Just like these car lots on the vision street, things like that, or how everyone look at it, but we can ask him next week. They look to freeze property tax. I think it's great to find their freeze and property tax, but what are they doing and being to be more accurate on what they're actually doing? is the question I think we'll have to ask the appraiser next Tuesday. So, okay, thank you. And thanks for the heads up on the appraiser. I'll get a list of questions ready for him. Mr. Busken, 4.3 any appointments, boards or commissions tonight? Yes, sir. Thank you. 4.4 charter amendments, Ms. Shortle. So we just have this placeholder here for any discussion the council might want to have about charter amendments. So there's anything else we want to add to the discussion or we'll continue to work towards the five amendments that we've been talking about and looking to bring forward an ordinance throughout order that election in January. Anything y'all wanted to add to City Attorney's plate. Okay, well, we'll continue to keep it on here just in case there's something that comes up before we put that ordinance forward. Ethan, you've been chomping at the bit for 4.5 on the Terrick County appraisal district director's appointment for 2025. Just before you get into your thing, Ethan, you sent out a memo on December 6th. Since then, I think we've had one other city add some more people to it is there. There's been a couple and actually this was as of this morning and as of the last hour it's not up to date. Both Burles and ISD, it's 26 votes and the City of Keller, it's 22 votes, have been added to TADS website so it's not reflected in this but this is pretty much up to date. I thought City of Mansfield did their vote as well then Then if they split it, I think they have. They just haven't reported it into TAD yet. Okay. Or TAD has an updated their website with that information yet. Okay, thank you. So with that, here are the entities. Again, mostly it's the ISDs from a numerical standpoint that is still outstanding. there's almost a thousand votes standing on I.S.D.s from a nummerical standpoint that is still outstanding. There's almost a thousand votes outstanding on I.S.D.s and with Burleson with Keller of Mansfield put in then worth 350 maybe 320 of City which we are obviously the vast majority of. By candidate, you have this is by alphabetical, but what you'll see with this, I tried to slice this a couple of different ways, is who's getting the vote by type of entity. So as you can see the ISDs have really put their voting towards five individuals. Alfred. So as you can see, the ISDs have really put their voting towards five individuals. Alfred Burgess, Campos, Davis, Grissum, and Pena. The cities is primarily Blalock is getting 660 those votes from the city of Fort Worth. Otherwise, the cities are not coming in a whole lot yet. The county put all of their votes to almost all their votes to all of them to Puente. The county college split there's amongst Blalock, Burgess and Pena. This is sorting it by who has the most number of votes. At this point, Mr. Blaylock has enough votes that he will be appointed. So it really is four more that will be appointed. And numerically, if all of the votes could go to Henderson or Compton. So numerically, nobody is actually out of it yet. But you would need at least 469 votes, basically, to bump up above who are the top five right now. So from a realistic standpoint, you're really looking at, unless there was huge movements towards those bottom five or bottom six, it would be difficult for anyone below Davis to be appointed at this point. Thank you, sir. So a few of us have had conversations on this or the city of turnies years. We were careful not to violate any rules of quorum So I apologize for those who I haven't been able to speak with on this. I Think at least from the people I've spoken with there. There's a pretty close consensus on where we're leaning on stuff, but I want to open it up to Council if you all have any comments, remarks, suggestions, anything such as that. Mr. Hogg? Yeah, Mayor, I'll kind of kick this off. And I think all of us, we all spent more time on TAD than we've ever spent in the history of all of our service discussing TAD board, but it shows you what's happening is we know there's been some proposals of, you know, in essence, a three-year property tax freeze from what it's doing. And then you hear some of the issues of potentially things not being evaluated properly that we'll have a chance to talk through. But here is three have already been elected by the VEST community, which was a change in the legislature. We have the chances of taxing into elect five. Things we have to take into account is whoever the five are in this volatile time of TAD, there's a real chance someone could be recalled. So I would ask our colleagues no matter what, we think of who the top five, six, maybe even seven, whatever you decide, put at least one vote on each one of those people. Simply for the strategy, if they are recalled, we then have a say in who is coming back in. So I think that is something, I think everyone in here would probably agree with, and if not, we can talk it through, but I think that's first thing essential for what we do. And then as you start evaluating, I kind of take into account who's talked to us, who's reached out, who has that, is one parent. And then the piece I really account for is, who do I think is going to represent Arlington? The best. Who's going to be someone that actually represents our taxing entity, which is Arlington? And so if you look at this from the people who are, you know, there's only one who actually lives in Arlington, and that is Gloria Pena, who's a long term school trustee hasn't served in many years, but fully understands the governance role how to do this. From everything I've heard, from other members, she's very respected. She is the, I think, the vice chair on the board for TAD from that. So I think from our perspective, Gloria probably holds strongest weight on that. And then I'll also look at Mr. Campos. So Mr. Campos served as a long time as an HEB I-ISD. He's not anymore, is he, Ro? He still is. He still is. Okay, he's an HEB I-ISD trustee. And we do have a large portion of the city that is represented by HEB ISD up in North Arlington, all of Verdean is represented by HEB ISD and they've always been a very strong partner of Arlington. Not just Verdean but all of HEB ISD from that perspective in those of the two and then the third one you can relate. a lot of business in Arlington children grew up in Arlington those is Mr. Puente And so as I think through Some of those and then we get into Miss Burgess also who's been in Mansfield for a long time from those perspectives You know when I lean on those I probably look at Campos and Pena is how do we make sure our votes are counting to get people elected. And sometimes it's hard to spread it all out, but that's the kind of the angle we have to start thinking about and taking. That's it, Mayor. I'll stop there and then come back when I needed it. And I appreciate how you've articulated all this. When I look at this, in my book, The Top Six will be Alfred Blaylock, Burgess, Campos, Pena, and Puente. Be on the top six. I agree with Mr. Hoggs' analysis, and we've, and candor have discussed this. I would lean towards giving where the votes are and where they're going to give Gloria Pena, 118 of our votes. Campos, 89 of our votes. And one of the reasons is we anticipate that he's going to get a significant amount from HEB ISD. And then Alfred Blalock, Burgess and Poente, one vote of peace for any potential recall in the top six. Mr. Gonzalez. Thank you, Mayor. You know, I like what said the only thing I think I would say differently is, you know, with regards to Miss Pena and kind of closest. It's not because of Arlington. I think it's the people that were present of Tarrant County because that's important because I don't know there's been several issues that school districts not felt they've been heard by several of the members on the tab board. You know, we don't want to waste our votes because I know we've had for Miss I ed, you know, I've called around to several of the people that have not voted and as the mayor mentioned, I do know several of the votes are gonna go to several of the school districts that are voting for the people that we've discussed. And so I don't want to just throw out votes for the people that contacted us, but I think it's important that we use the votes correctly because it's going to affect all of us as we see with a three year freeze on taxes. Everything else is just not good. So the only change I think, and I think maybe, you mentioned one 18 to Gloria and one for Wagon, one for Alfred, two Burgess, I think Mr. Puente, who has done quite a bit of business in Arlington is very involved in Arlington. Just to throw out instead of one vote to 10 and bring Campo down to 80, that would be my only change that would make to it. But I think those are the top six that we need to vote for, because I think any other vote that we give to the other ones, it's not going to happen. It's just it's I'm not going to be able to get the vote. I'm not going to be able to get the vote. I'm not going to be able to get the vote. I'm not going to be able to get the vote. I'm not going to be able to get the vote. I'm not going to people on here, the only, the only name, the only person on here that elected official, Mr. Blaylock, everyone else in the opponent, they not elected. We don't elect these people. Council member from different city that pay taxes and tear and get to change up opponents, the individual. And like I say, it doesn't matter where you live, as long you do what's right, you read the tax code, you learn about the tax and take care of every tax pay and turn account, that's an old important one. Because of this system, this is a broken system. Every year or every other year is when we voted, we keep reappointed the same people. And look what we got for the next three years because that's a problem right up here. That's why I'm so disappointed we got to get, this person got no chance to win. So what I still want to give it, just like Miss Sayette, she got no chance to win. But what's wrong to give her 88 votes, okay? And the rest of them, what did you want to do? But like I say, this is the broken system. That's why we're in the mess with it now. That's why we got a problem with our budget. Because people don't get in there. Don't read the tax law. Don't learn, don't talk, don't punch calculator, calculate all the stuff, what what happened? We vote to freeze what consequences for all the city, all the school system in Taren County. They didn't do that. Okay. They wanted a title. They get appointed. They want to say, I'm a board to a C, but they don't do what's right to 10 county tax pay. That's why I think the system is broken. They need to be fixed. I think we should be elected for everyone and then whatever whoever got in, they messed up, we can vote them out. But we keep reappointing the same people. Look what happened to us for the next three years. That's all I have to say, Mr. Mayor, thank you, sir. Thank you, Mr. Femme. and I appreciate your candor on that. I don't disagree that the system certainly has has room to be put together better But I do disagree and that I'm opposed to giving votes to anybody who has virtually no chance of getting onto the TAD board because I just want us to make sure that we're using our votes in a manner that is going to result in getting the right people in place. And I think Syed is a wonderful person. I've visited with her. I think she's great. I would not want to put any votes there, really, only because there's virtually no chance that she's going to get I think that's a good thing to have a good time. I think that's a good thing to have a good time. I think that's a good thing to have a good time. I think that's a good thing to have a good time. I think that's a good thing to have a good time. I think that's a good thing to have a good time. I think that's a good thing to have a good time. Thank you Mayor. I agree with my colleague that I think we need to look at people, getting more people on who haven't served. And I agree with my colleague that I think we need to look at people, getting more people on who haven't served. And I agree perhaps not give the votes to people who have no chance to win, but to reapportion our votes and wait them towards people who haven't served. Give them a chance because the history, the recent history has not been great and I would like to see some new faces on there. I don't know each of these people personally. I don't know any of them but I do know that there are some major problems with TAD and I'd like to see other people get a chance to get in there and make a difference. And so that's what I think giving huge blocks to people who've already served doesn't move us towards the goal of getting new people in there because we already know those people are going to win anyway. So it's sort of the flip side of giving somebody with no chance to win a lot of our votes. The other side is giving somebody who we know has an excellent chance of getting in and giving them our votes. And that's just my here's, here's how I've looked at the incumbents versus the newcomers on this. The top six who are in a position to get on the board, there's only two people who are not incumbents. And that's Alfred and Campos. Out of those two individuals, Campos is the only one I would be interested in giving any votes to. And that's one of the reasons why I recommended that we give campus a significant amount of votes because it is new blood on the board. And campus has represented from from H.E.B. ISD a significant portion of Arlington there in Veridian. And I do think it matters that we have new blood who has an interest in Arlington and he has proven that with his willingness to serve on ISD. Giving votes to anybody else who is the new blood, other than those two, is futile. Because it's not going to generate any new blood on the board. So then I look back at the four other incumbents on there, and I think who's been doing the right job for the right period of time, and who's going to have Arlington's interest at heart, and that's where I land on Gloria Pena. And I think it's important that we ensure out of all of those that Gloria gets in, we do the best we can with Campos because I believe Campos is probably going to pull all 170 of the HEB ISD votes and with our 80 or 89 votes depending on how we follow that Mr. Gonzalez, I think that's going to give an opportunity to put campos in a position to be on there and that's going to be new blood as well. So I don't disagree that we need new blood. The reality, however, that we we're only gonna get likely one new person that's not an incumbent that gets on this board. And out of those two people, I think, by far campus is the one best situated to address us. Mr. Gonzalez. Thank you, Mayor. I totally agree with many of you are saying. We're looking at strategically also based upon what other people are going to vote. So if everything falls into place, what we see is going to happen, you're going to have two new members on there. We're now voting for one of them, but based upon what is happening, that other person that's one of the top five will be on there and one of the persons that you should be on there will not be on there. So that's gonna be two. With regards to Miss Pena, I know there's been discussion from several of you regarding the past, a pointy from the city of This one is different. She is working well with them. Yes, she changed her vote, which many of you have an issue with, which I don't understand, because if you guys have, if you vote a certain way, and then you hear the other facts, and you change a vote, there's nothing wrong with that, rather than following the rest of the group, which she didn't. She went against the other group, which affected the school districts. So I think you need somebody that can think outside the box that can follow, think on their own, and I just go with the group. And so I fully understand what everybody's saying. But like I said, we have to be strategically and I think if we do what we do and the way things are happening, we're going to get two new members on there which is big. The other three are going to make it no matter what. And I think it's important that we put our votes for those, for the R2 so we know that glory will be in there and that cap will be one of the top five. That's how I you know that's how I see it. So thank you. Sir Mr. Hogg. Yeah Mayor. No I hear my colleagues and I do believe I think Mr. Puente's been on there maybe three years and Miss Payne has been on there two years. And they have made a lot of changes since they've been on there. So I do think it's some new in essence change on there. And there's something that goes with some knowledge of what they've gone through and claim, they removed the appraiser. They've changed the system. They also have, we have three new elected officials. So, I think there's more than three new officials that were elected by ballot in a countywide vote on there. So I do think we're getting some new ones on there. Mr. Gonzalez, you made some numbers and you proposed that. And I was just kind of over here riding up some numbers. And you'd said, just drop in Mr. Campos down, I think by like nine. When I calculate those numbers up, small thing, but it puts him just a couple of votes over Miss Pena. Just in case they don't get anymore I would just make a small adjustment to that. I would propose just a little tweak on what you said 120 votes for Miss Pena. 78 votes for Mr. Campos. 10 for Mr. Puente and then one for Mr. Boylock, Alfred, and Ms. Burgess. And that would put Ms. Paine, I think, with those, might are assuming those 170 votes from HEB, ISD come in, which if you follow the trend. But if you're lucky to see that, I've heard you write. Yeah. You said 128 from Miss Pena. No, I said 120, I think is what I said. 120 from Miss Pena. 120. Yeah. 70 AC of this adds up to 211. I can add it up just a second, Mayor. 120, 78 from Miss Campos. 10 for Mr. Pointe. I am Arlington educated. And Alfred Blaylock and Burgess each with one. Yeah, that is what I have. OK. Luckily, the longhorn's not here to make fun of my Aggie taggy math. So I'm going to defer to your Arlington education more than mine. That's what I'd prefer. No rhyme or reason, just a little thought process on some of these numbers. Anybody other comments on all this miss boxal? I'm just wondering why we wouldn't give a larger block to Mr. Compas. I agree with that. Yeah. I mean, why wouldn't we, since the, if everybody agrees that the goal is to get somebody new in there, then why wouldn't we just wait it slightly more to him? I would disagree. I would tell you Miss Paine is probably my top person. I would tell you. But she's already gonna be in. So that's what I'm saying. I don't think that's true. Because I've calculated out the numbers, I'm assuming Mr. Compos is getting 170 from HEB ISD, which takes him up to 520 votes, because he had some earlier ones that just got added in. And so if we put 78 on him, that takes him to 598 votes. If we put 120 on Miss Pena, that takes her to 600 votes. I think Mr. Compos is going to get, we've had discussions with him. I think he's fairly safe to get all 170 votes from HEB ISD. And I think that's gonna assure him getting in with our, whether we do, man, I'll be honest, I'm comfortable with 78 or 89. I don't really care one way or the other. I think we should waive Miss Penia a little bit more than we should waive Mr. Compos just because of who needs the votes more to get in. And I think Miss Penia could benefit from, I sort of like the way Mr. Hogg laid it out like this because I think she can benefit more from those than what we need compost. If it was just the other way, I'd say absolutely give compost 120 on that. But I think with this group of votes being split the way it is, we have some that are holding off till Monday to do a special session to do their voting because they want to wait and see how everybody else is playing out. And I think this hedges our bets the best it can with our 211 votes. Mr. Gonzalez. Just to give an update, Mansfield yesterday voted 19 for bird, just 19 for point day and 19 for Alfred. Saginaw is voting and they're gonna go with school district people don't know how they're gonna spread that vote. But that's, you know, those are all the little things that that's out there that's important. So either we can do that or, you know, we can have a special meeting, which I've already asked our staff to look at. We can have one Monday. If we want to wait till that happens, but I don't see why. You don't think we can do it ourselves and just let the other ones decide. We can hedge it. And it's like, I'm just throwing that out. I know. Mr. Galante. I'm new to this. Okay, thank you. Anybody else? Mr. Galante, we're new to this. We're new into this. Okay, thank you. Anybody else? Mr. Galante, we're new to this. We're new to this. It's always kind of... I have a great deal of respect of somebody that reach out, diligently, bringing in. I watch all the videos, okay, for Compass. And he came out and talked to me. sent emails, not only him, you know, but I have Burgess also reaching out and is in combat, right? And NCI had also put a great work in there, but when I see these numbers that she has, you know, very little votes and I argue myself, she She lives up north? Long, she lives up north, Frank Keller, or she lives in Collivio. And then I see Collivio doesn't vote for her, right? You know what I mean? So she got grandparents and color. I mean, if you live in the area, like a consumer boy here, he serves the ISD, and you know the people. So you create a connection. I mean, she has votes from Grand Prairie Crowley and White Settlement and she didn't get where she leaves. That tells me a little bit, you know. And I understand. I move mayor, frequently to secure at least one new guy to shake up the board. And I'm telling you a group of consumer women to go back and let's get campus. So can we do this? Instead of counting somebody else to get compost let's do it. It sounds like we have a consensus at least on a few things. Is everybody in agreement with Alfred Blaylock and Burgess to give one vote a piece? Can we do that? I see and yes yes and I have one shaken heads note, but for everybody else it's a yes to have one vote a piece on that. And is everybody comfortable with Mr. Puente getting 10 votes? Yes, Puente 10, and everybody but long is the yes. Well I missed the discussion on point A. Why do we want to give him 10? A lot for in Arlington and he's running those meetings more efficiently than anybody's ever ran it. He's a chair. They get he gets on on topic. He's a business owner. He does not waste time. Before he was on there, the chair was wasting time. An hour to an hour and a half on minutes. He wants to get out there, wants to get to done. He's business. He listens to people and I think he's experienced the way he runs a business. He runs that pretty, pretty good. Good track record. But he already, in he already in the top five. What is that? 500. Yeah, he's already in the top five. But he's probably not gonna get any more votes from anybody else. So why TN? Why not one? Just, I mean, we can do either one. I just, I just thought some, he was in August and just to show the hey. He's reached out to, I know he's reached out to us. He's reached out, but I... I'm okay with giving him one and adding that nine to somebody else either Campos or Pena. Yeah, I'm agreement with that. Okay, so right now we've narrowed it down, Alfred Blaylock and Burgess and Pena, one vote of peace. No, no, no. I'm sorry, Pente, thank you. One vote of peace, everybody's okay with that, except for Council Member FAM. Okay, if you're not, please speak up. I'll give 10 for him, but you guys have a majority. All right. I'm sorry, I'm pointing. Yes, my Spanish is back today. Okay, so we have a majority of the councils, one vote piece. So now, now we have the remaining votes, which is going to be 208 votes, that we can we agree that they're going to be divided between Campos and Pena. Okay. You know, it's me, but I'm hesitant to give 207 votes. Thank you. I told you I went school and Detroit. 207 votes between Campos and Pena and everybody except for Mr. Fam, correct? Mayor. Who has the tent to give in vote for Pani? I'm never being reached out, you know, ain't. What? She had a person didn't reach out to me. I mean, it not. She sent an email to all the council a couple of times. I have the other ones, a rich and unpersonally. Okay. So I give the benefit for the one that did most efforts. That's me. But the majority I mean you what have you choose? So 207 votes Miss Boxel. So why wouldn't we just split that? Anybody I'll give more to Well, does that guarantee that pin you goes in? I think it does. I think it's on I think it does. I think it does. I think it does. I think it does. I think it does. I think it does. I think it does. I think it does. I think it does. I think it does. I think it does. I think it does. I think it does. I think it Campos will be getting the 170 from H.E.B. ISD. How old are you on that? I'm wondering what if he doesn't. It's going to happen. You talk to them? Yes. So if you're successful, I'm new on this. He's a current trustee. I'm happy I'm happy. He's a current trustee on Mayor't mind. Mr. Campos is a current trustee for HEB ISD. They nominated Mr. Campos to be on there. If you follow any Mr. Blaylock was the same situation in the city of Fort Worth gave every single vote to Mr. Blaylock. HEB ISD, you can't guarantee anything. You never know what happens, but I do believe all 170 people will go to Mr. Campos. If one of my colleagues on this council was nominated and was doing this, I would be shocked if we did not give all the votes. And for that reason. I'm more inclined to say, let's give Ms. Penio some more votes than Mr. Campos because he's gonna get that the question is What more if any are y'all comfortable with splitting off them? Good idea and Rebecca you can speak up. I mean you know by now. I'm okay when you disagree with me I just feel like that our vote to get new blood in there is important and then we either split the vote or give slightly more to compost. I'm with her. I'll throw it away. Gloria Pinyan lives in Arlington. She serves Arlington and I think she would have Arlington's best interest at heart. And I think in my opinion, she deserves more votes than campus from the Arlington city. Miss Hunter. I don't you don't need raise your hand because you sat in silence for a while and now I'm just gonna call on you. I mean, if we're betting on campus getting the votes in HEV and we're not so sure that Pinyas gonna get them get them. I would say we need to get a little bit more to PENYA and give you know a fair amount to cut campus. Mayor yes sir. Just real quick. It just running some numbers once again. Please, please fact check me on this. Assuming campus gets the 170 from HEV ISD. that would the I would propose Miss Pena getting 125. Mr. Campos getting 82. What that then takes their total numbers up to is Miss Pena has 607 total and then Mr. Campos would have 602. I think getting them both over that 600 number is probably assuring that both will get on there. It is giving a little more to Miss Pena, who is an Arlington resident, which I do think is important and has proven success representing on the board. And then Mr. Prentay, Mr. Blaylock, Mr. Alfred, and Miss Burgess, where you should get one. And that takes us up to the whole to 11. 607 and 602 is what you said. It takes them up to that total is what what I calculated out. And that's giving 125. Look I'm doing the math right now to make sure I'm not totally. So 125 to Miss Pena if we plus 82 If we- If we- If we- If we- If we- 20 plus one to play log plus one to Alfred plus one to Burgess that gets us to 11 Mr. Gonzalez Yeah, look look at look at the top of the two right columns County and TCC Okay, look where the votes have gone. I mean you can see when we talk about Changing everything else you can see where the issue is. Look at the rest of the other one with the votes are going. I think that's why we have to do what we're doing. I mean look at the ISD's. You know, look at the cities. I mean, you know, I mean, but look at the ISDs. That's a big, that tells you a lot. And guess what? Most of the ISDs have not voted, because they're awaiting, they're all working together to get the people that are going to, you know, that needs to be in there right now. So yeah, so that's just like I said, that's the last I'm going to say. Okay, I'm comfortable with what was just proposed at 125 to Miss Pena and 82 to Mr. Campos. Is there any way we can get a majority of counsel that would agree with that? Miss Hunter, Miss Gonzalez, 125 to Miss Pena and 82 to Mr. Campos. My vote is flipped opposite. OK, you're in the vote. I'm going to yes. Yes, yes. No, no, Miss Moxel. I'm saying 124 and 83. For for compost 24. No, 124, opinion 83 come. Just because it just balances the the final number a little bit better the final number that was pretty good. Are you okay with that? That's fine. Yeah, that's no problem. I'm fine. I'm fine with that. If that puts Miss Boxel on a yes column with 83 and 124. Mr. Hogg, Dr. Odom Wesley. I changed my vote. I'm with you. I changed my vote. Roe Sittel helped me out on that. Okay. We go with her. Yeah, I agree with that. Okay. Rebecca, next time can you speak up earlier so we don't have to go through that over there right now, okay? Because obviously mr. Glonte is gonna go with you on this Okay, so what we have is all of council agree in with the exception of mr. FAM To provide Miss penia with 124 and Mr. Compos with 83. Agreed yes. Perfect and the one to the others. And one to the others yes. Molly does that get us what you all need to do for the resolution. We'll have a resolution to your seat tonight that reflects those numbers that you just want to to. Thank you. Okay, evening agenda items. Anybody have anything on tonight's evening agenda? Tonight's evening. That's an oxymoron, isn't it? On the evening agenda items tonight. Ethan, by the way, thank you so much. This is one of the most convoluted messes on the face of the earth and you did a tremendous job sort of guiding us through this stuff. Thank you. I appreciate that but what I would say is this is now an annual thing. At this time next year, two out of these five will be back in front of you. They'll be full nominations again for two people. Yeah, I'm just so stink and excited about this happening every single year. We'll just leave her a backup. Let her back around the show, man. If we can get them to do appraisals every year, that might be nice, you know. I'm sorry. Did I say that out loud? Lord have mercy. Okay. Evening agenda items. Y'all get me beyond this issue here Anybody have anything for tonight's agenda? Seeing nothing on there issues relative to city and tech stock projects Nothing there future agenda items 4am. I have one and it was brought up again today. I think I mentioned this before that we would have an opportunity in the agenda for council members to give reports from entities where they represent the city. And it happened again today because Raul talked about RTC and issues that were born on there and there's nowhere on the agenda for him to share that with the rest of the council. So can we get on the agenda and opportunity for people who represent COG and all these other entities where we serve at least not mandatory reports but an opportunity to share. Have that coming probably beginning of the year. So you look at that. I'll see that show up. Thank you. Mr. Gonzalez, did you have something for future? Did I see a hand or no? No. Anybody else, Mr. Hogg? Mayor, I've been talking with a group of residents and we started noticing and I think we dealt with this a year or two ago, but illegal garage sales occurring and when I say illegal, I'm saying people that are consistently doing garage sales and they are selling just mattresses, they're selling building supply materials that they are strictly doing from that. I think it's one, I'm gonna meet with Nora and staff on that to go through that, but it may be something from that that I think is after that meet with Nora, we may need to bring that for a possible gen-diet on because it is becoming an issue and I'd like to see how many citations have been issued to try and defer those because I have a folder of pictures of people selling building supplies, lumber, different types of things out of their driveways, out of their houses, filling up neighborhoods. I do think it's an issue if we don't stay on top of it becomes a bigger issue. And so I will say of me with Nora, but we may need to put that on an agenda item for the coming future. Yes, sir. Just let us know. think that's a good idea. Anybody else, Mr. FAM? Yes, regarding the agenda that Councilmember Bui Hall talking about. How about we give them opportunity to go on on line of website and pay like to pay in the water bill. So that way when we get a water bill we can sure that's how to do that when I used to live in the city, if my wife wanted to do a garage sale, she'd go on there and she'd pay 10 bucks. So next month my water bill got $10 for garage sale. And that's where we can get the money. And it's again, team money, they do that. If they get caught, then the fine will be like 50 or $60. So people, they know that they tend to go online and pay for the fees for the Guarassale. I'm not sure this thing requires any action right now. Let's let Mr. Hogg speak to Nora and let's see what happens from there and then we can make a decision on that. Anybody else? Well, today wasn't easy, but thank y'all for your input. I really appreciate the effort that y'all put in. And with that, we are adjourned. We'll see everybody downstairs at 630. you you you I'm not sure if you're going to be able to do it. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to do it. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to do it. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to do it. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to do it. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to do it. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to do it. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to do it. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to do it. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to do it. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to do it. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to do it. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to do it. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to do it. Having franchises in at least 30 or 40 years. But you had to go through the 60s to really appreciate what happened thanks to Mayor Tom Vandergriff because in the 60s there was disappointment, anger, despair because Dallas Warworth could not get a major league team. Roy Hawfines, General Real Estate Baron Ari Bob Smith had let us successful drive to bring Major League Baseball to Houston. Here's Houston. They get the coat 45s in 1962 and that killed us up here. How can Houston, Houston, Mosquitoville get a major league team and we don't have one? One of the main reasons is Judge Roy Hawthine, a big villain up here. He visited with Hawthines and he envisioned us having a nationally club and Hawthines was not very receptive. He told him that stuffy that there was going to be we were going to have one Texas Major League Ball Club and that was going to be Houston. He could care less about a rivalry, a natural rivalry between the Dallas Fort Worth area and Houston. He declared Texas is my territory, not just below Huntsville or somewhere he wanted all the Texas. And I was shocked, I was the unsports rider with the morning news. And I was shocked at how much power that, how fine say said. I mean, he was able to block it. He literally had an entire monopoly on the Southwest so you bring in Arlington and Dallas for worth and he wasn't about to have that. And so that was a big effort that he ended up single-handedly blocking Judge Roy Huffine's. And I don't think my grandfather ever made a trip down to Astro World or the Astro Dome ever again after that date. Arlington lost out in that because we did not have a ready-made stadium built. And that was the reason, otherwise we would have been in part of the expansion. What was amazing about that, and it's fun to know, came into that possession after my father had passed, unfortunately, was the drawings of the original stadium that we've been here, and it would have been the first dome stadium in America. It would not have been the Astridone, it would have been Arlington, Texas. The disappointment and the despair and the anger of the 60s because the decade went on and on and on. Nobody was really saying that much about the W.C. Tom Vanderbilt, who was out there beating the drum. Never stopped beating the drum. Thank you. The baseball was the first time that the people of Donaldson turned to turn to turn.