Centribreia C8 shows that it is a miracle to the 9-2. It has two sessions. In the morning, at 9-11-30, and at the afternoon of the 11-30-2. We are going to have the same things in the two sessions, it is not important what you want to do, but what is the perfect idea to come? When people register, you can choose what session you can come to. It is not a long time since I've been here. If you need to register before August 30th, you can register in line or call some of the Recreation centers. It's important that people come to the Aginwo Expo because this is the key information in a place. Also, in the city, here in the Aginwo Expo, there will be people with people who can translate it. Welcome to another episode of Forge by Honor with our great partners, The City of Arlington. I'm Corey Crowley, filling in this week for Chris Cassidy, who's in the South Pacific with Medal of Honor, recipient Kyle Carpenter and Project Recovery. But what we'd like to do is welcome you up to the visitor deck of the museum. Behind me you see an immersive theater. This is where every visitor will enter the museum exhibits for the first time. It's called the Medal of Honor Experience. And on both sides of you in this room shaped like a big donut, you'll see the stories of the Medal of Honor recipients coming to life before your very eyes with 16-foot tall theater screens and projections all around you. As visitors leave this experience, they'll head out into the galleries, which are 360 degrees all around the rest of the building, and tell the stories on different islands of each Medal of Honor recipient who is featured in our first batch of 85 recipients. Our museum collections out here in the exhibit galleries are made up of macro and micro artifacts. And one of the macro artifacts, the biggest one, you may remember from an earlier episode of Forge by honor this Huey helicopter, which will be used to tell the stories of 11 Medal of Honor recipients and their actions saving the lives of others aboard this aircraft. We're standing now in what there's the last area of visitors we'll see when they come to the museum. It's the virtual recipients as we're calling it. This is an opportunity for visitors to actually interact with Medal of Honor recipients who we've filmed over the course of four days a piece asking them hundreds of questions. AI will be coupled together with that and then you'll be able to sit down and ask a Medal of Honor recipient in a theater just like this one anything from experiences about their Medal of Honor action to what their favorite ice cream is to where they grew up as a child or their favorite sports team. It's a very interactive and personal experience. The recipient will be largest life in front of you and you'll be in one of these small intimate theaters with just eight to 12 other guests and able to ask any of these questions. And we're excited because it's also a technology that will be able to deploy in classrooms around the country and make available to teachers and students to do on an iPad or laptop in their own classroom and have a similar experience. So thank you again for joining us for another episode of Forged by Honor and your regular host, Chris Cassidy. We'll be back with you next month. you you you you Hi, I'm Cynthia Lemuth with my Arlington TV and in this episode of Arlington Eat I'm going to talk about National Tagoday that here in the United State with Celebrator on October 4th and I'm gonna take you to one of the places that they say they have the best beery at tacos. Let's see. Welcome to Gilberto's. I had a craving one day and that's how it started. I was craving breakfast tacos and breakfast burritos. I couldn't find them nowhere. And that is why Jose decided to open Hilbertos Taco Shop in 2019. I'm going to start my own restaurant and I'm going to sell breakfast all day long. But at Hilbertos Taco Shop they also have a variety of Mexican dishes. I didn't want to just make it just tacos, I also sell burritos, casalillas, I sell the special super fries, which a lot of people call it carter and salad fries. It's special to see that we work on right now or it's our casal vilia tacos. It's probably one of our top centers. And this is the beauty of it. We have La Domada, we have three pizzas, we have lengua, cabeza, which is similar to marbacoa. A taco is a traditional Mexican dish. If you have only tried beef tacos, which are the most common, believe me, you are amazing a lot. Basically, any meat you want. A taco can be made with a variety of fillings. I'm sure you wonder why. And the answer is because in every Mexican state, they use different meat or they cook differently with a unique taste. So this is my first time trying beauty tacos. How do you recommend me eating it? Okay, so there's different ways of eating it? Some people in Mexico believe that the word tacos comes from the now-what word, clacaco, meaning half or in the middle. That is why the meat goes in the middle of the tortilla. How do you eat your tacos is not important. But really matters is the taste. And as Roberto's taco shop, here in Arlington, you can enjoy delicious Mexican food. Ever since I moved to Arlington, my life has changed. Ever since I established my business, my life has changed and ever since I have my daughter, my life has changed. Welcome back. I'm Andrew Tnullian with MyR LinkedIn TV and this episode of Our LinkedIn Eats brings us to the Urban Market where one of the great things you can find is Biscotti. I didn't start baking with the intention to sell it. Jessica Forster Brush Haver started the Scotty Babe after her second son was born in Spring 2020 and has said publicly how it helped her deal post-partum with the pandemic and of course quarantine. I may have binge watched every season of the Great British Baking Show. We all have, but unlike us, she got good at it. Can we just step with it? So much so, her husband who, by the way, loves his wife's homemade biscotti, asked if there was a way that they're not be so much around. He's like, I have goals. You know, like I'm in the gym, I'm trying to get fit, I'm trying to watch what I eat. She understood, so she took them to her son's daycare, where they were enjoyed just as much. So they continue to ask for more. And also started pitching new flavors to Jessica, and because she had been bringing them in for free, offered to pay her by the dozen. Now with her first client, she knew she had a business. 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I'm going to go to the other side. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'm sorry. Thank you. Good afternoon. We'll go ahead and call the afternoon session of the Arlington City Council work session to order. And we're going to start off with one of my favorite hospital presidents. Mr. Blake, how are you today? Come on up and talk to us or good to see you. and we're going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to hospital. We're excited to give you a little bit of background on the hospital, what's going on now, and then kind of what we have planned for the future as well. And of course, our hospital has a rich history. Most of you all know it. I've been at the hospital now for eight years, and the hospital has been here for 65 plus years. Back in 1956, the community came together and it was built in 58. GM was a big part of that. The Vandergrist donated some land. And so over the years, the hospital has gone from a 50 bed facility to now over 369 beds. And so we've been able to grow from when the community was 7,000 to 400,000. But we're also kind of here in the center of Arlington. We've got resources within Texas Health resources to the north and to the south. Off I-20, the USMD hospital is also part of the Texas Health family. And so we have hospitals, obviously ours here in the center of the city and then to the south. And over the past few years we've been able to continue to make some improvements at the hospital. And we're now a level three trauma center. We have an advanced acute heart attack program as well for the emergency room and primary stroke center. So strokes that come in now because of the improvements we've made within 39 minutes can be in the CT back out. And then if it's appropriate, have the medicine to dissolve that clot. So some awesome work going on there. And then also level three maternal and neonatal intensive care unit. As a matter of fact, our NICU had its 43 union on Sunday. And so we got to see a lot of the patients come back one 30 years ago was there that came back and still new Dr. Tisdale, he's been there a long time. Took care of him and a lot of hugging going on. Very close group. And we do just about everything. We are a tertiary level of facilities. So you can see the list of things there. We do cranny otomies. So some very advanced procedures done at the hospital with one of our neurosurgeons. We have a CT within the room that allows them to navigate and do those advanced cranialautomy. They even do some brain surgery up through the nose. I mean, it's pretty amazing what they're able to do. One thing you won't see on here is heart, and that's because our LinkedIn Memorial is kind of unique. We have a hospital within a hospital. So we have a joint venture with physicians that's on the third and fifth floor of that South Tower that has our open heart program. They do the advanced procedures there as well. So a lot of great work going on. We just opened up a reflex clinic because we see so many people with gastrointestinal issues that now they can go in, get evaluated, and have the procedure all at the same time between a GI doctor and a general surgeon. So some nice things going on there to make things a little bit better for the patient experience. Just kind of looking back the last 20 years. We've had the major expansion of that South Tower that was built in 2007, 2010 time line that expanded our OR capacity. That's where our heart program went in. Then as we got into the 2010s, the emergency room continued to grow and so expanded the emergency room. It's now 50-bed facility that allows better flow for patients and we'll talk a bit more about the ED. And then in 2020s, we've expanded. We have a lung nodule program as well. Have a robot now that can snake through into the lungs and get to nodules that are only a few centimeters large where in the past you just have to kind of wait to see if it was cancer or not. And now we can look at it much earlier. We have a pulmonologist who's done a hundred or more of those cases at our hospital. And we like to brag on ourselves, but it's good to have others that come in and take a look at the hospital. There's a national recognition for nursing. It's called magnet. We've been certified three years, or three times in a row. It's every three years. So that's great because obviously the nurses are at the main point of the care for the patient. We're also 10 years in a row, best place to work for in healthcare in the nation, Fortune 100 company, and then Newsweek, great place to work, and also well-being awards and health equity awards at the hospitals one over the years. And actually today, there's a joint commission is like our surveying body showed up this morning. So it's been busy at the hospital and we of course pass that very well every year. Here's kind of some of the numbers get you kind of a feel about 14,000 people come to our hospital as an inpatient every year. Emergency room has been very busy. You know, right after COVID, things slow down, but certainly have bounced back now. And we're seeing a couple of hundred plus patients a day there, about 5,000 surgeries in eight O.Rs. And then about 1,600 bursts that we have in our birthing center. We're going to talk a little bit more about what we're doing in that area. We do have an impact on the community. There are about 1600 employees at Arlington Memorial with a payroll of $125 million. So that money does multiply as it goes through the community. So we're excited about that. And if you've seen rates have gone up quite a bit for nursing over the years, so that number continues to go up. And we invest quite a bit in the employees training education. We have a diversity inclusion program, that program that we're really excited about, competencies and we do education, quite a bit of collaboration with UTA and their nursing program, even have some medical students that rotate through the hospital as well. So, work force is a big part of what we're doing at Arlington Memorial. And caring for the community. As I said, we've grown up with this community over the past 60 years, and we're proud of the work that we give back to the community in charity care and there's requirements within the state to give a certain percent of your net revenue back. Our hospital, as you can see on that bar, exceeds that number. A lot of that through our emergency room, if patients don't have access to primary care or other means, a lot of them come to our emergency room and we take care of them regardless of their ability to pay. So you see quite a bit of our revenue go towards servicing those patients within our community. And then on top of that, I felt to introduce more issues with our foundation and our foundation does an outstanding job supporting not only Arlington Memorial but all our hospitals within Texas Health resources. And a lot of that comes back to Arlington. Part of the community HOPE program, there's a million dollars kind of in the Tarant County area that has been funded in 76011, is one of those zip codes that dollars have gone to to help with mental health. We're also partnering on the Taste Project as we do social determinants of health care. That's a new phrase within health care. We look at every patient that comes in and are there any needs that they need besides just the health care that they have. And one of them is food. And so we're working to try to make a little bit easier access for food for patients and then follow up afterwards. And then of course, we partner with quite a few of communities, or community nonprofits, the Levitt, we've been lead gift there. Also, Mission Arlington and their clinics, we support that. And then the North Texas area clinics, we also support them financially. And then of course, partnering with the city of Arlington for the past many years, about $100,000 a year for the parks. So probably close to $1 million now. And whenever the fire department had the paramedicin program, we piloted that and kept doing that all the way through COVID and was a great program when that was running. So we really take pride in not just being the hospital, take care of people, but to take care of them once they leave the hospital. And just a note on spear elementary, of course, they're immediately across the hospital. You can kind of see us in the background. And we support them every year with backpacks. We got about a couple of hundred of those for the kids. We even have a teddy bear clinic. So we bring the kids over. They go through the emergency room and the doctors take some time and show them how to wrap a bandage around a teddy bear. And at Christmas, we got to start this back up again after COVID. Santa Claus came to visit them. Thank you, most of the children that go to this school that start will not be there. 70% of them are not there when they finish at the end of the year. And so a big need there, and we're excited to get to help those kids. So a little bit about the hospital and some future renovation plans that we're looking at. Right now we have a breast center renovation going on. I'll show some pictures of that. It's been about 20 years since we had an upgrade there. And so going to be a little bit more of a spotlight. Women's Center renovation will get started in January of this year and OBED upgrades there. Something that was just approved, the Cooper kind of entrance, you know, when that hospital was designed, I don't think they ever believe that Cooper would be such a major thoroughfare. And unfortunately, our doc is on the Cooper side, not much we can do with that now 60 years later but we are the hospital systems approved dollars for us to go in and kind of camouflage the air handler that's there, the big oxygen tank that's there. Try to soften that dock area and maybe some landscaping. Unfortunately we don't own the property just in front of the parking garage. We going to do a new facade on that and I'll show a little bit more there. One of our nursing units up on the fifth floor, it's 20 bed units, also going to get a fresh look. And then in our five-year plan, we've got some additional things we want to do in that north entrance. So I'll show some of that. And then an interventional radio show. fresh look and then in a five-year plan we've got some additional things we want to do in that north entrance so I'll show some of that and then interventional radiology suite as well. So our breast care center is very busy center we have a board certified breast surgeon that takes care of a lot of our ladies and does the reconstruction surgery as well, very advanced procedure, about 9,000, 10,000 ladies go through that breast center each year, and so it's something we want to update, make much easier for them to flow through and a much nicer experience. So we're going in, renovate all the rooms, the waiting, the changing area, and the biopsy screening room is going to be expanded and upgraded as well because we do quite a few of those procedures. And here's kind of the waiting room area you can see there on the left so much easier. Try to allow the ladies to relax as they go in and then on the left hand side it's going to have a floral kind of look to it with the big sliding glass doors as they go in to the patient areas. And that's about halfway finished right now. We expect to finish that sometime in January. the North entrance if any of you all have been in our hospital. The North entrance, of course, six years ago was the main entrance. Now it's to the south of the hospital, but that North entrance hasn't been updated. It's kind of dark area and the women's center is right above there on the second floor. So really doesn't have an identity. What we want to go do is renovate that North entrance area, make it much nicer. You can see I'm just going to use this because you got it there. All right. You can see that area and the North entrance when every you go in. That's where that area is. There you are. Where the North entrance comes in and the stairs go up to that second floor. So much more modern look. You can see the waiting area now has a coffee bar and some things to make the families stay a little bit better as well. The hallways and the patient rooms will also be updated. And we did an update on those a few years ago along with the C-section room as well. And then here's a little bit more about the exterior updates. You can see in this area right here. Well, that did. Right here is where there's a big oxygen tank right now that kind of shows up and there's some big tanks that go right here. We'll camouflage all that and that'll blend into the parking garage. It'll get a new coat of paint and then as we go over to this area and the dock, I want to try to camouflage that, maybe put some landscaping in those areas as well. To make that look a little bit nicer and then I know when I first came to the hospital, this air handler up here, I was like, is that an industrial park or a hospital? And it is a hospital, the beautiful part, unfortunately is on the other side. But as the entertainment district and all that really continues to grow and expand, that is a major thoroughfare for Arlington. So we want to be sure we're doing our part to make that look as nice as it can be. Those dollars are working to get approved through our system as well. But our CEO came, visited the hospital this year and was very supportive of it. So I think that's something we'll get to do. And then in our five-year plan, since the South entrance, kind of the main entrance of the hospital, post-COVID and security issues that hospitals have now, that front north entrance is locked down. So it makes it a little bit harder for some that might try to get to that area. They have to walk around to the emergency room side. But we've got plans for the North entrance to reopen. It'll be a combination for the women's center and the emergency room would go off to the right. It'll be separate so we'll have one area for patients to come in, be screened, and then can go to each location. Modernize that front area right along Randall Mill and have an ambulance entrance. It's completely separate. So there's no cross traffic between the patients coming in and the ambulances that are pulling in because the ambulance is it's busy. I mean there's 3040 a day I mean coming into that area so it's a busy location and a little bit safer for patients. So we're excited about that coming within the next five years as the plan there. So just kind of wrap it up. Community supports a big part of Arlington Memorial and what we do in volunteering and the things that we do within our local community to make it better. So we're excited about the things that we do within our local community to make it better. So we're excited about the things that we're doing there. Of course, in today's world, advocacy's got to be a big part of that. So our hospital advocates for the health and community and any legislation that's out there. And then as a nonprofit, one of the largest nonprofit hospital systems in the nation, we do some fundraising to kind of make all of this flow from the hospital perspective and giving back to the community and kind of comes full circle. So we're excited about that. Mori does a great job helping us with that area. So that's a quick update. I think I did it in good enough time to let you know a little bit of what's going on at the hospital. There's a lot of other things but be glad to answer any questions anybody might have. Council Member Peel. I'm glad you're here. You know it's been 52 years since a guy named Bob Buck delivered me into the world at the hospital. And my oldest child was born there as well. And your personal stewardship of the hospital has been much appreciated over the past seven to eight years. But there has been concern in the community about people above your level of management across the highway in North Arlington, de-emphasizing Arlington Memorial and not making necessary capital improvements to maintain it along the cutting edge of hospitals. We see quite a difference between what's going on down off Matlock regarding capital investment and what's going on at Arlington Memorial. And there's quite a discussion in the community about this and some concerns that the quality of on at Arlington Memorial. And there's quite a discussion in the community about this and some concerns that the quality of care at Arlington Memorial is no longer comparable to the quality of care off Matlock or down on 20. And these are serious concerns that are quite prevalent in the community. They have nothing to do with you personally, but more to do with what is perceived to be a lack of attention by people on I-32 year hospital. Okay. And I do think major capital investment is conspicuously absent from the plan that I'm looking at here. I appreciate what's being done. Don't think I'm saying don't do it. But it clearly isn't on the scale of other healthcare investment that we've seen at surrounding healthcare facilities. And people are concerned. And you know, I've even heard people say that Texas Health Resources won't ever put money into our onto Memorial because they think the demographics don't support any sort of investment in the facility, which a lot of people in Arlington find kind of insulting. I like to ask you if you could address those concerns and assuage them and possibly ask the people above you at THR to let us know truly what their ongoing capital investment intentions are regarding the hospital because it's an important part of Arlington's soul and fabric. Now appreciate that but there is quite a bit going on obviously down on Matlock so I can see those concerns but the health system has invested quite a bit going on, obviously, down on Matlock, so I can see those concerns. But the health system has invested quite a bit in this facility over the years. I mean, you can see how much it's grown during that time. And the facade of quality of care from the outside, you can't judge your book bites, cover kind of thing. I think that's one of the reasons we're looking to modernize some of these areas. But we've been investing quite a bit in the interior of the hospital and keeping up with the technology. We're one of the first hospitals in the nation with a new DaVinci robot. It's called DV5. But it's cutting-edge technology and through the system, we're one of the first in the nation to get it, and now we'll have three of those robots. And so there's a lot of things like that still going on in the community or in our hospital to keep it at the cutting edge. We continue to have able to recruit the best doctors and surgeons, the neurosurgeon that I talked about, general surgery, colorectal surgery, all those sub-specialties are still at Arlington Memorial and available to the public. And so the system does allocate dollars to quite a few hospitals, so they look across the entire system. But there's still money being invested in Arlington Memorial. And I have gotten very positive feedback from them that they want to continue to do that. It was one of the main hospitals that was brought in back in 1997 whenever Harris Methodist and Presbyterian merged, and they said, we've got to have something right there in the center of the Metroplex and Arlington Memorial was that center piece. You know, they could have picked other hospitals but certainly chose Arlington Memorial. So there's still a very real support for our facility and I think we'll continue to see that into the future. I'd like to offer my assistance in spreading the story that needs to be told because I do think there's probably more there. I would love to have more of an update from the system about how the intent to ensure Arlington Memorial stays relevant for the next 20-30 years. And help spread that story. You also touched upon something that a lot of people in the community have been concerned about is recent retirements of longstanding surgeons that have done a lot of practice there. I don't think many people know there's a fear that a lot of the quality and experiences being sucked out of the hospital and not being replaced. And it sounds like you have information that indicates that's not necessarily true. That's not necessarily true. That's not the true, yes. Yeah, and I would love to have that information so I could be part of maybe dispelling some of these things, but it's a very real concern throughout the community. Okay. It's good to hear. Thank you. Dr. Rotem Weissley. Thank you for being here. I appreciate the update. I feel like I'm kind of out of the loop now. Would you just share your experiences with the THR breeze clinics, the kind of response you're getting, the level of service, the utilization, and what are your plans going forward for ambul Tory services. Okay. Yeah, so Texas Health Breeze is Texas Health Resources brand for urgent care in North Texas. And they just recently put one in right up near Lamar Collins area. And unfortunately this fall or fortunately, I had the opportunity to use it. And we have gotten just outstanding reviews from Breeze. And the reason the name Breeze is because it's a breeze to walk in and walk out within less than an hour, came in, got the flu, the COVID, all the test, and the medicine, and was out of the facility. And the volume on that service line continues to grow quite a bit. So they are continuing to open up new services within the Metroplex. Arlington, at some point, I think in the South, is scheduled to get another one. But that hadn't been finalized just yet. But it's been a great service. For kind of that, I think it's $100 to get the clinic visit in and out, and you don't have to go to the emergency room. I've used it too, I like it a lot. Yes. I know the North Texas Area Community health center has just relocated into one somewhere in your building. Vandergriff building. Yeah, can you talk about that partnership? So, yes, Jerry, over there, and she and I have worked together for quite a while for the patients, and we partner with them. If the patient comes in our emergency room and does not have a primary care care and they'd like to establish that especially those that have chronic disease diabetes those types of things. We can make a referral over to her and with the renovation that was going on across the street. I think they had to vacate that area. And in the Vandergriff building we were able to relocate them. I think it's up on the eighth floor and so they're able to see patients there now. And it's been working really well a couple of months ago and they really love the new location. Yeah. Anyone else? Try. Blake, could you talk a little bit about your behavioral health unit? Is that still active? I'm not sure if you can see that. Anyone else? Try. Blake, could you talk a little bit about your behavioral health unit? Is that still active or is that phasing out and is that where that women center is going or kind of could you talk about the behavioral health? Yes, behavioral health. So, um, Arniton Memorial had a behavioral health unit. It was about 30 beds and HEB also, HEB hospital also has a behavioral health unit that had a 20-bed unit that was not being used. And so kind of for the economies of scale, because it's tough to get staff for that, we did relocate those beds to HEB. We still have an outpatient behavioral health in the Vandergriff building. So if there's any patients from the Arlington that might get inpatient treatment there, they can come back afterwards and have their follow-up care in the Vandergriff building. With the same program and the same people, we just relocated a lot of those employees over to that facility, so they're taking care of them there. And if they need to be transported from our emergency room, they go straight over to HB if that's what they prefer to do. Just as a follow-up to that. So the bed space that was there is that where that women center is coming in? So that allows us, yes, that allows us to move some things around kind of that north area over into the, what was the behavioral health and expands some of the waiting, some of the patient rooms. We have an innovative way to take care of patients in the emergency room. It's kind of a joint evaluation So that the nurse and the doctor look at the patient at the same time And then they go ahead and get labs and everything going and then they can wait in another area So that all that can get done and we can get people through a whole lot faster and so it'll help kind of make that a little bit nicer, set up in workflow once it's finished. Two things. One is, thank you for visiting my mother when she was in the hospital. Absolutely. You made her day when the president of the hospital swung by. The second one is on February of next year, will be 35 years since my second oldest kid was in the NICU unit at Arlington Memorial. Three of my four kids were born there. He went on, his diagnosis was cerebral palsy and became a very successful actor and stuff and I credit a lot of what has happened in saving his life with NICU at AMH. You mentioned earlier that we get 30 or 40 ambulance trips to the ER there at AMH. We have an influx with our density and the entertainment district that grows and shrinks on a daily basis where we bring somewhere in the neighborhood of 15, 16 million visitors a year to Arlington. How's the occupancy rate, I guess, for AMH looking? You know, I've had this discussion when we had Dr. Duncan here from JPS. I've had this discussion with her where she says, listen, you're not filling your hospitals in Arlington. And my position is, that's because our residents are going elsewhere. We have two hospitals here in Arlington, essentially, which is the same number of hospitals that a city one-third size to the south of us has. And then for worth to the west of us, which is about three times our size, has Lord knows how many hospitals over there, 15 hospitals or so. People, even when I had COVID when COVID first hit I wasn't in an Arlington hospital I had to go where I could get in. So what's the occupancy of rate looking like here and are you seeing the same type of stuff with the population of Arlington utilizing surrounding communities, medical facilities. Yes, so our occupancy rate and that's kind of a staff beds, available beds. So we do have some additional room for ICU if we need to do that and that's what we did when COVID came in. So we had some additional room for ICU if we need to do that. And that's what we did when COVID came in. So we had some additional ICU rooms. The med surge beds, what we call med surge beds, the general beds within the hospital, stay pretty full. Especially during the winter, we have to hold patients in the emergency room until a bed can open up. And so that can happen at the hospital, especially during the winter. During the summer months, it's a little, you know, a little bit of you, we can get them straight up and it's not a problem. You know, I think when you have two major dialysis and footwork on each side, sometimes people just, bigger is always better. And so they just leave for that reason. But I think getting the word out for Arlington and once they experience the care here, you know, they're here for life. And I've heard that many times, as patients, get their care here in Arlington. And the capacities that we have within Arlington, except for what we'd call Quantinary Care that really, really high level care is available right here in Arlington. Thank you. Any other questions or comments? Thank you Blake. I appreciate you. Thank you. I really appreciate your time. I have a great day. We'll move on down to 3.2. Alex, Whiteway, Alex. How are you? Good. How about yourself, Mayor? Good. Good afternoon, Mayor and Council. Alex, Whiteway, Director of Water Utilities. I'm going to give you a quick brief on the comprehensive plan for Lake Arlington. So starting off with the history, I'm sure everyone's familiar with the miracle lake and all the myths around it. But Mayor Vandergriff back in the day had this built, starting in the 1950s. And in 1957 everyone thought he was crazy. I'm sure everyone's heard the story that it would never fill up. And it ended up filling up in one month, which was April of 1957. There's a lot of myths around it that the equipment that was used to dig it is still at the bottom of the lake. We don't know if that's true or not, but it's still pretty cool stories around it. And 1957, so our Peer Spurchwater Treatment Plant is we have what's called the North Plant, which is out of service. Now that was built in conjunction with Lake Arlington. That first year we pumped out 36 million gallons that year. Roughly that plant now is about 8 billion gallons. So there's a big difference from 1957. Going on to Lake Arlington today, so TRWD, Terrant Regional Water District, they manage Lake Arlington forest. So what happens is, is we take water out of it that goes to our pier spurt water treatment plant and then Trinity River Authority utilizes that water that they provide water to call a bill Ulysses grapevine Northridge and Hills and TRWD replaces that water so they have a pipeline that's called of the village creek watershed that dumps back into it So all the water that we use and TRA use is gets replaced right back into Lake Arlington. So the master planning started in 2010. It was completed in 2011. Oh, Arlington worked with Fort Worth, NCT Cog. And this was, we just wanted to kind of get all the parties involved in it. You know, Fort Worth is part of a, on the west side of Lake Arlington, so they have an investment in there. They held multiple town hall meetings, Arlington held multiple town hall meetings, and then in CT Cog kind of brought all the entities together that was outside of Arlington and footwork. So there was a lot of good meetings that happened so we can come up with a very good plan. The vision for Lake Arlington, there's a bunch of bullet points there. Obviously number one is protecting water quality. I mean, that is the number one goal for everyone is we want to ensure that we have safe drinking water for Arlington and all of Trinity River authorities customers. And then developing best practices for our watershed we'll go into that one on the next slide. And then of course just promoting a good walking, biking, kayaking, just everything that the residents can go out there and enjoy Lake Arlington. So the one cool thing about being having TRWD, TRA, and then City of Arlington involved in this is you get a lot of redundancy. So at Arlington Water Utilities, we do a lot of testing on Lake Arlington. We're always ensuring that the water is safe. Well, TRWD does their own set of testing. And so does TRA. So the good thing about having three entities involved in it is you're constantly sampling. So it's not like we're testing once and we're like, TRA is like, oh, you tested this month, we're not going to do it. That doesn't happen. So everyone is constantly testing. They're doing their own testing and making sure that the water is safe. And then we developed the Village Creek Watershed Protection Plan. We split that with TRA. So what that is is if you can see everything that's highlighted in black, you know, we're looking at Lake Arlington, but what we need to understand is everything from Burleson, Joshua, all that all those creeks all the runoff all drains to Lake Arlington. So we want to ensure that those entities are doing the right thing and protecting our drinking water. So that's where the Village Creek watershed protection plan was developed and that's working in conjunction with TCEQ and the counties just insuring that those entities are doing what they need to do. So we're also, we want to promote growth on Lake Arlington. So the Richard Simpson Lake House event center, that park was completed and they host a lot of events there. And then one thing that we did was the raw water pump station. So that raw water pump station was built in the 70s so it needed to be rehab. So another thing about partnering with another entity is we split the cost to rehab that. So we installed three new pumps and so did TRA. And what that gave us the ability to do too is for some reason, if we get an emergency, TRA is able to pump to Arlington and then vice versa if TRA gets in a gym, we're able to assist TRA and pump water to their water treatment plan. So the Texas Parks and Wildlife has worked with the city of Arlington. They have built habitat for fish to be able to put out there and other aquatic life. The Lake Garlington native plant and pollinator garden. So if you haven't been out there, please reach out. We'd love to give you a tour. It's we do a lot of demos out there and that we do in partnership with TRWD. So they kind of split the cost with us and help us maintain those plants and they also bring their own set of individuals to do tours and then we do a lot of outreach with the public in different schools. Additional activity. So the one cool thing, Lake Garland 10 was the very first lake to actually have a paddling trail. So I believe the paddling trail is 10.9 miles long You can look it up on the website you can literally go on your kayak and do a paddling trail So that's you know, that was pretty cool for Lake Arlington And then we want to continue maintaining safety Quality for lake activities. That's where buoy improvement looking at docs and different structures out there to ensure that those are kept up to date and looking good. So with that open it up to any questions. When you say buoy improvements, you're talking about BOUY not BOWIe correct. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. I just wanted to make sure Mr. Peel. You may be aware but I sent an email a few weeks back to James and Jensy about some residents who reported that several of the docs on properties owned on the bank on the on the lake were falling apart and falling into the lake. And it turns out we kind of hit upon an enforcement hole. Apparently planning permits the docks and but then there's really no inspection mechanism our update mechanism and it looks like that maybe y'all are starting to work together to try to figure out how to monitor those structures on the lakes and ensure they are kept in a safe condition. I see James is here. Yes, sir. Yes, Mr. Peel, you're correct planning and development issues a license annually for people to have the privilege of having a private structure on a public body of water. However, that doesn't come with any sort of routine inspection. And so kind of what we've talked about internally is putting together resources from different departments. So for example, the Parks Department has a boat so we could bring that to the table. I don't have inspectors, but code and planning and development does. And so we're kind of talking about ways that we mark partner together to do kind of a one time project, if you will, to bring the resources together to go out and do basically a survey of those different docs and structures on the lake and come up with a plan of action. So I just want to say thank you for doing the cross disciplinary work necessary outside your silo to work together to make that happen because I I guess that lady went and talked several other people because I've got multiple other emails on the issue now and it makes me feel good to know that we're working together to address it so thank you for that. We'll follow up with your residents. Anybody else? Dr. Odom Wesley. Thank you for this report and I guess a year or so ago I heard about some development are some anticipated development on the west side of the lake, on the foreside. Have you have any current information on that issue? Haven't been able to find out exactly what what's going to do. We do know that they purchased 29 acres for their conservation method, but we haven't been able to, they haven't given us any other update on what exactly they're doing with that. Are you referring to the city of Fort Worth or the private development that was set to be Yeah, I went over there for the ribbon cutting on that And my understanding is they're still working on trying to bring the funds together to do something over there So we're not much further along than we were a couple years ago. OK, thank you. And I think the mayor's 100% right on that. I want Don't You to miss the point that Alex said, because separately from that part that's being worked on for the private development is I think it was like 500 acres. It was a large tract of land that they bought on the West Side for the private development is I think for worth, I think it was like 500 acres, something like that. It was a large tract of land that they bought on the west side of development to kind of create an open space buffer. It's part of their open space master plan. And I think they're still looking in the same joint area to do some other areas. So that was maybe three or four months ago, type acquisition to protect just the environment. So it's pretty notable, yes sir. Any other questions or comments for Alex? Thank you sir. Appreciate you. 3.3 Miss Mitchell, Mr. Young. Good afternoon, Lindsey Mitchell, Director of Strategic Initiatives. So as we all know, there's a lot of fiber installation activity going on these days. So we did want to take the opportunity to update you on the progress of that and provide some context for that current activity and an overview of our right away permitting process. But before I go into that, I do want to introduce our right-of-way permitting staff. We have Tab Hendrick and Jason Rice. These guys have been working very diligently, especially within the past several months, on these issues, and their work is much appreciated. So just wanted to point them out so that you have a face with the name. So a little bit of interesting information. We were talking with AT&T last week, and they mentioned that Arlington currently has the highest fiber build installation rate for them in all of the US. So the activity we're seeing is kind of proof of that, I think. There's no question. We're going through some acute growing pains right now, but it is time limited, and we'll lead to a greatly enhanced internet service for our residents and businesses long term. So, Payne is worth the game. We do have a permitting and construction monitoring process to oversee the work that's happening in the right of way and ensure certain procedures and standards are followed. So today we have an interesting look at the our current fiber coverage and permitting data. Then I'm going to turn it over to Stuart and he'll cover the rest of the permitting, communication, construction requirements, and our issue resolution process as well. This is the latest look at our general overall fiber coverage, which looks much different than a few years ago if you all recall. This does show aggregated coverage data. We can't get too specific with the location or provider information. So that's why it's kind of diffuse and it shows more like a heat map where the red areas are a greater density of fiber coverage and the blue areas indicate less fiber coverage. Those green lines that you see are areas where permits have been recently issued and work is either underway or about to get underway. So you can see we have near total coverage at this point. A few commercial areas in particular remain. And just to compare the permitting activity that we're seeing and kind of give you some context which I thought was really interesting. On the left, so the orange map, that's 2022. You can see those permits were scattered kind of all around town, encompassed a lot of commercial and arterial areas, so less about the interior of neighborhoods at that point. In 2023, which is the middle, the blue map, the activity started to pick up, especially on the west side. And then you can see where we are in 2024 and the green with intense activity in residential areas all over town. So in 2022, the right-of-way team approved permits for 148 miles of fiber. In 23, it was 170 miles of fiber. And so far this year, it's 383 miles of fiber. So that helps to explain the level of activity and the commensurate level of issues, that need resolution that have been happening lately. So on that note, I'm going to turn it over to Stuart to cover the permitting process. So what is the public right away? Look at the public right away is everything that's above and below the street, including the sidewalks. And in typical residential right away, would encompass our approximately 50 feet. Whereas if you go to Eden Road or Sublet Road, the right of way with is about 120 feet, large difference. And so within that you have the parkway. And what the city has, what we've done very well over the past decades is install city facilities, our own facilities, our assets within the public right away. That can consist of storm drain to move water off the streets. It consists of sanitary sewer and water mains, but also traffic signal conduit and traffic lights. So when you have all of that together, it's kind of a recipe for congestion. And so the right awayof-way permit process, I look at it as it's trying to organize a bunch of things together with a little bit of regulation. So what we've done, we have a permit process for the public service providers. Now public service provider is on-core, atmos, spectrum, and AT&T. So they get their authority to be in the public right away, either through the state or through a franchise agreement with the city. But we permit these areas for specific reasons, and it's mainly to protect our assets. We know that we need to protect our assets, but we understand that progress needs to be made with the construction of fiber, construction of electricity, and replacing gas lines. So we also permits for safety reasons and to make sure that our ordinances and regulations are followed. So what does the public service provider do? Need to do in order to get a permit? Well, first they have to register with the city. We need to understand how they get their authority from being in the public right away. We also like to update the registration to make it more current with our current insurance requirements. We also have requirements for bonding. So once they provide those for us, then they are good to go. As a matter of fact, they have to have their prime and subcontractors registered in Arlington, and those businesses need to have insurance and uploaded in the Amanda system. And of course lastly they're submitting professional plans that show the extent of the type of work is necessary. So back in 2021 we worked with Mary and the Amanda team and developed a process at ArlingtonPermits.com. So this process allows a provider to utilize the Internet and upload construction plans, but we also added another component to that. And that is uploading traffic control plans that public works reviews. Also they can upload construction plans as well as other project specific information. So we will create that application process. It comes into our queue. We review it. We make comments to their plans. For example, we may notice that there's a tolerance of three feet that needs to be maintained of vertical separation to a water line. Well, we will make that comment. We will submit it back to them. they will get an email. Once they're complete and upload their plans with the revisions, they'll email it back to us. And then we will get a notification. So through this process probably takes approximately two to three days on average. And then the permit is issued and the permit is good for 90 days. We ask that the permit is also kept on location along with the construction plans. That is because the subcontractor needs to understand the approved plans and make sure he's following it to the T. This is my favorite part, I think, is the communication. And it's so much so back in 2022, we updated the construction manual to say, all adjacent owners of a construction project need to be aware of the work. So we added that, and so you can see to the left here, 18T is developed a door hanger, which is served as notification. It has to be 72 hours prior to construction. If citizens, if we get wind, this hasn't been done, we will immediately find out what's going on and we will stop the work. It's that important. Also, I guess certain occasions, projects lasting in two weeks, we asked that they post project signs at neighborhood entrances. But also if you look on the brochure here, there's a local number contact. Very important that they have that. We also asked that their contractors and subcontractors mark their trucks and equipment, conspicuously with a metal or sticker on the door. So our expectations with these folks are primarily treated like it's your home. Work in the front yards, keep it clean. Clean as you go. Be aware of your surroundings. We like to see daily route sheets of where these people are at, where they're working. It gives us a snap shot view of Arlington. Restore affected areas to like or better because that's our standard. And we asked that they also pothole each yard for water and sewer service. That way it can be located so they can bore. So how do we monitor and address issues? We basically, we listen to the public, we get complaints. We take those complaints very seriously, but we also, we do pre-construction meetings. That is a big one for us. We'll go out there in the field before a project begins. We meet with them. Sometimes maybe a resident or two there, but basically we give them a snapshot or a summary of the ordinance and the construction manual. We put it in simple terms. You know, when to stop work, phone numbers to call for locates, all that has to be met. I mentioned earlier the daily crew trackers. Sometimes we'll even conduct a random or scheduled audit. We address issues by conducting weekly progress meetings. So we'll go over the problematic subcontractors with prime contractors. We'll let them know that they've got to do better. We may issue stop work orders like we did earlier this year. No more work until things get corrected. We'll also require them to have maybe get well plans to provide their contractors. And these plans can be anywhere from, you know, they can follow the manual. Basically clean as you go. Don't leave bore equipment in the road at night. Let's go to the next one. In this slide, I just wanted to show you. So July, we had 84 complaints. The majority we resolved in two days. That's pretty good. August we had 133 complaints and the majority resolved in three days. I will tell you in my office if we get a call before we leave we return the call and we figure out a game plan and we notify the specific primes and public service providers. It's all about communication. And sometimes we gotta have a reset and we get back on track. But we've had some good responses from residents. We've done a lot of neat things. You can actually go in with IT's help. You can see the right-away permits in the online system with virtual maps. We've also Sarah Stubblefield and her team has made an online portal, the public portal, a way for Atmos to get ahead of this and look at issued permits as well as on course so they are very thankful. And, you know, I thank the guys over there. They do a lot. I'm happy to answer any questions. Council Member Peale. I know I'm a broken record on this, but Stewart and Tab and Jason, and you guys are doing an incredible job. The vast majority of the construction has been going on in my district. I thank you guys. Get sick of me forwarding you. Could you please call Mrs. So-and-So and talk with her? But every time I send it to you, you'll get out there. You deal with it. You solve the problem. I'm very thankful for all your hard work. I mean, dealing with people sometimes can be hard. Some of the people that have emailed me have been pretty ordinary. And, you know, what's really amazing is some of the most ornorious people who are angry when the email me after they're done dealing with you, they're like, oh, everybody's so wonderful at the city. And I'm like, what the heck are you doing? He's putting fairy dust on their Cheerios or something. But I mean, it's pretty impressive. And I mean, if there's a definition of a good problem to have, it's this because the lack of fiber optic connectivity was big deal to realtors as they were showing Arlington homes to people. People would be like, they're, I'm not going to buy this house, it doesn't have fiber. You know, it's the way of the future, it's the way that cable is going to migrate to online apps, everything's going to be a line remote work is the way of the future. This is a big, big deal and I'd like to thank my colleagues because even though way back in the day when we approved sci-fi, it didn't work out. You know, the next week, the Vice President of Fiber of AT&T was in Trey's office going, well, maybe we need to move a little faster and they have. So this is a big economic development piece for Arlington that's coming together and y'all are playing a big role in ensuring Arlington's future is a healthy one. So thank you guys. I really appreciate it. Council Member Hunter. Thank you. Definitely my colleague took the works right at the moment. I just want to say thank you. Last week we had some issues in District 3 and stored you and your team. You guys are amazing. You came out, you had a few used to problem. The residents are happy. So all of you guys, thank you for all your hard work and for everything that you guys did. So thank you. Council member Goodas-Alles. Yes. All of a sudden. Anybody else? Lindsay, I appreciate you. I don't care about Stewart over there, but nobody's thanked you at all. So thank you, Lindsay. Just didn't want you to feel left out or anything over there. Thank you, Stewart. I appreciate you, Terry. I just want to augment what Councillor Murrath Peel is saying, because this is a strategy that has come together, a plan that has come together. It's not with who we thought it would come together with, but it gets the same result. And in many ways, a better result on dealing with a trusted brand that's been around for 100 years. So there is a little bit of pain, but the game, when this is all done in the next number of months or a year or so, when it's fully 100% done across the city. This is the last couple of years have been a key moment for us, and it is a huge deal. So I don't want us to at all miss that point that the strategy y'all deployed a few years ago has really come all the way around. Okay, thank you. We're going to go on down and talk about our informal staff reports. Council Y'all have had an opportunity to review the written reports for the sake of time. We'll just address any questions or concerns you may have about a particular report. We're going to start with 4.1 on the charter amendment. Any questions for Molly Shortoff or comments. Dr. Odom Wesley. Just a question. So what action after reading this are we supposed to come up with some amendments to the charter? If it's the will of the council to pursue a charter amendment election we could we could come to you in a committee and discuss some ideas if you have no interest in it we can leave it alone and come back when there's some interest in it. What does that mean? A timeline. If we're interested I know Mr. Hogg had brought this up at the last council meeting based on some conversations we had when we were changing term links and creating that sort of off-year. And so if the interest of the council is to have an election in May of next year, that off-year for council elections, then we do have a timeline. We have got to get that election ordered by the very beginning of February. So if it's something council said, should it explore and we have to get on it and start having a conversation about what those provisions are? I think there's a consensus or has been a consensus with council on the off years addressing whatever bond issues or has been a consensus with council on the off years addressing whatever bond issues there may be on something like that. So I think what would probably be best is to let's put that issue in committee and see what recommendations can be brought to council on that. That sound good to everybody. Council member Hogg. Yeah, thank you. Thank you Mayor and Dr. Arbemuesa. I think Molly said exactly right. I think we'd be doing disservice to not explore if there's something we need to put on there. We have four months, which sounds like a lot, but not a lot of time to get something agreed to and put out, but as you can see, some of our neighboring cities are doing, I think they have 10 items on the ballot coming up on the charter amendment. And sometimes I think with council, it's a last thought of charter amendments of things we need to change. And with every third year having that opportunity, we need to explore it. If we don't find anything that has to be done, And with every third year having that opportunity, we need to explore it. If we don't find anything that has to be done, then great. We move on, we continue on with our business that we are honest to do. But if there is a time for us to make a charter amendment, I do believe this is the time for us to explore how do we issue some of those charterments. And it could, with staff and committee, it may be some basic things that we need to change on there or it could be some larger things that we need to look at I don't want to set expectations before we explore what we're going to get into that from those from those situations Yeah, I don't disagree. Why don't we we'll throw this in municipal policy committee? committee. We'll let the committee explore a variety of options of what may be needed, what may not be needed and bring that forward to council. Fair enough. Everybody comfortable with that? Yes, ma'am. Okay, thank you all. Let's move on down to 4.2 special event parking ordinance any questions or comments from Mr. Buskin? I do. Mr. Belante. Thank you, Mr. Buskin for putting together the report. Yeah, my I bear up I bear out as a future agenda item on the last meeting because the special parking ordinance, event parking ordinance is being done in 2010. And back in the days, we're bringing 10 million tourists. Now in the realm of 15 million tourists, there's a lot more people. I noticed also the map that is in the ordinance to protect the neighborhood like a no limited access on the neighborhood on the west of the stadiums right and I think we could go ahead and explore the opportunity now is the opportunity since we have more bigger events coming in to include the Northwest neighborhood, include North, neighborhood, and also discipline that use, for example, this weekend, we have a game opener on the cowboys, and you see the East Rogers was backed up, and it was the main artery filling into the cowboys way, going straight into the neighborhood that is in a limited access zone. So clearly, we have an audience in place, we have the court enforcement there, we have everything in place, but apparently it's not working. So we have several residents from that neighborhood asking to do something about it. So we have excessive noise, you know, the tailgate party starts at day before, or the event, we have excessive littering after the event and the neighborhood is actually being used as a main arterio traffic for the parking. And that's my question is there's an opportunity we can discuss on reviewing this special event parking outside the stadiums. So we can discipline better and get prepared for the events that are coming. That was my. My question. Did you. Did you did you explore that opportunity? Yes, so we reviewed the we reviewed the ordinance as we were preparing the informal staff report. We also, the concerns that you've raised previously from the residents, we added those areas to our task list for our team that is working on the special event days. So they have a task list that they work on on each event day. And then we have some additional additional tasks that we assign based on properties we've had issues within the past for their parking or if there's issues in the residential areas. And so I know on Sunday they went through some of those residential areas that you had previously referenced and did issue some citations for parking in the yard. So they have gone through those areas recently. They were there on Sunday. So yeah, I thank you for the answer. I see the code enforcement doing fantastic job there. There's just too many people. There's too many cars, right? But my question is how many parking totals we have available out of the 76 active accessory special events permits. The total number of parking spots. Total number of parking spots. I don't have that number with me, but I can get that for you. So the total number. Yes, sir. And the stadiums, I believe, are around 15 to 10 to 12,000 parking spots. All the stadiums, right? Combine, correct? Now, combined closer to 25. Close to 25. Close to 25, yeah. And the special events pushes you towards 30. So there's close to 30,000 parking spots and overall this. Okay. And when we have, for example, events like next week and we have two games going on the same time. So do we re-capacity to attend all the visitors in the city? Those 76 parking spots extra, they attend our capacity. Or we have an overflow of cars. And there's no place to park. So they are parking out north of Highway 30. We see there on the Champions Park. They parking south of 180. And they parking neighborhoods on north of the stadium, north west of the stadium. That's why I buried it up. So we'll see, how can we review this, bring back to the committee? And the committee goes ahead and suggests to the consulate. If I might just maybe just a quick history and then let y'all tell us how you'd like to do it. Where we, number one, where we want people to park is where it's designed. Exactly. Parking lots are built for a reason, not to be avoided, but to be parked in. They're safer so that people don't get towed. They've got better security, better traffic management, and all those kinds of things associated with it. And between the two stadiums, somewhere around 25,000 parking spots, which certainly for a cowboy stadium event is fine for baseball statements more than fine to your point when you have competing events. The goal is to have them be compatible so that as one set of traffic comes in, another set is leaving and you kind of are back filling the parking spots. And then the entrepreneurial special event parking has been primarily a situation where we're trying to minimize the impact on business. Because there were businesses along Collins that say, well, hey, when there's an event, I don't sell as many hamburgers. I don't, you people can't get to my pizza place or whatever. So we created a unique situation where on event days, they can be open for their main business, but they can also be open for a parking lot. And back in 2009 when we opened the stadium, that was like gold to those businesses. It was like a no-brainer kind of thing. And they were thankful and appreciative that it really activated more broadly. It was almost so successful that it pulled parking away from the stadiums. And we'd really rather than be at the stadiums because it's a safer, better traffic managed situation. So the entrepreneur permits did that. We did and have chased with this ordinance. Some parking that's made its way back into neighborhoods, which is something we don't want to have happen. Whether it's north or to the west, neighborhoods are neighborhoods and while it can be certainly loud and there might be ancillary impacts, we certainly don't want people selling their front yard or backyard and all that for parking lots. So that is something we definitely want to do to minimize, but it's something we have to constantly chase and take on additional expense to actually send people out there on an overtime basis in order to do so. So this is one of these situations where there's a lot going on over there, and it's a little bit of a managed chaos mode because there's literally 100,000 or in certain days 130,000 people coming into an area that's pretty compact and it's got all these little activities going on, you know, different people coming in from different directions, parking in different locations, et cetera. So what you see out there today, I would tell you, it's never perfect, but it is optimized, generally, to what our history has been. And we learn new history based on new events because a Taylor Swift concert is different than a football game, different than a baseball game, different than a George Strait concert, different than a dirt event, right? Behaviors of the patrons are all very, very different. And so our teams have developed different pattern books for lack of better phrase. Cowboy game is this, New York Yankees baseball game is this, but a twins game on a Tuesday night is this. It's different styles and approaches to traffic management, et cetera. Our code team only puts a handful of folks out there. It is not a primary deal because we're trying to make sure that we do enough, but not too much, and we don't really add to the overall challenge. But we can certainly explore both through you all as well as with the vendors that are operating events out there what they can do to expand like recently. I think I got an email today about litter and a neighborhood to the north around those town hall marias and there's no reason why we can't ask the vendor operator. When you go out the day after an event if you like like, let's say Tuesday, Monday morning, if you went out after Sunday, it might not look great Sunday afternoon or evening, but by Monday, it's been cleaned up around the venue. We just probably need to take that parameter out just a little bit if we can, and that can help us with some of the litter kind of questions. Noise is always going to be an issue. I mean, it just is. I mean, when you have the Dallas Cowboys come and people tailgate four hours before, that is part of the experience that was a known consequence to the attraction of the team coming here. And, you know, it's every other week or whatever the situation may be, but it is something we just have to work to best manage the situation. But a little bit of history of kind of how we got to this point and how we worked to improve it we're certainly open to collective wisdom. So thank you for your answer. So do we have we have a opportunity them to expand this area right? The no-axis on correct? To understand it how can we do this? I think that's up to you. We could go to a committee and talk about it further. We could bring in operational departments between the police and public works. I think they might have a perspective that the committee might want to hear about as far as the chair. Oh, the chair. Because sometimes there can be unintended consequences to certain actions. Right. We want to make sure it's all globally thought about. Sure. And then come back with some recommendations. What's the chairs of the neighborhood? there can be unintended consequences to certain actions, right? We want to make sure it's all globally thought about. Sure. And then come back with some recommendations. What's for the chairs of the Chair of the Neighborhood Commission? Do you want to bring this? Councilmember Boxel. We have had this problem in so many neighborhoods in mind and we have solved that problem by putting or partially so the problem I should say. By putting signs saying no public parking even though it's not necessarily enforceable, it does cut down on that type of thing because people read the sign and they think they just assume why better not park here. We've had that in the park view neighborhood, and so we could try that same concept in other streets if you're having that problem. See how it works? It's worked pretty well in the park view neighborhood. It's, I don't know, Trey, we haven't had any more complaints since we put that in. So it's like a kind of a passive measure that you can take to reduce the parking and neighborhoods. Try that on other streets. And I'm not, and maybe I'm just feeling slow today for some reason. I'm not exactly sure what the question is on what council members referring to, but I look at parking through the entertainment district as a constantly moving target. We're always trying to hit the bull's eye, but we're never going to get there because we're chasing this target around. We have certain developments going on now with plans for parking garages and increased parking spaces from time to time that will help alleviate some of the pressure at certain times, but it's not going to be an end all be all answer. So, you know, I'm hesitant to throw this into a committee because I'll be candid. A committee is not the experts on this kind of stuff. Our staff is the experts and they're the ones that are chasing that move and target on a regular basis. So I'm more inclined to say, listen, if we're getting an abnormal amount of complaints, and I don't know that we are right now, I haven't seen a surge in complaints coming up on this. But if we need staff to sort of just take a look at this thing and come back with the staff report and say, yeah, we found some ways that we can better things out. I'm not inclined to just say let's bog things down in a committee. Let's leave it to the experts to identify exactly what we can do and I'll come right back to you Ms. Boxel Councilmember Gonzalez. I Mayor. Then there's a lot going on. And it's always fluid. I mean, with just the traffic alone with, I wrote an email today, or as a seasoned ticket holder to the Cowboys about the traffic. When we have our London police, they do an excellent job of having the traffic exit. When you have other city municipalities in charge of the traffic on Collins and Randall Mill it does not happen and so that's a big deal and so you're talking about and if you notice what happened on the game they closed off Collins because the fans were just crossing the road and the police were not stopping them so it is a big issue all over the place but like you said you got let the experts the police and all that get involved but you But I think the guy wasn't realized it's an issue also with regards to the traffic and everything else. But I'm inclined, you know, like you, let them look at it and see what we need to do if anything, but it's moving target for every game. I mean, it was opening the game, it was the Saints, it was the worst case scenario. I'm not a traffic management expert. If you asked me to put together a plan, it's terrible. To park vehicles around AT&T or the neighborhoods and the move traffic in and out, we'd be in a world of trouble if we relied up on the mayor to do that. So, I'm more inclined to say Keith. I'm gonna say Keith I've gotten a few complaints too. Could you talk a little bit about anything unusual that went on Sunday relative to the traffic plan that made it a little different experience? Sure. Sure. What if you do wrong, Keith? What is your problem? I know I'm trying to fix it. So Sunday I actually worked a game. Bab was actually at AT&T Stadium in the command. We have our every every single game will have folks working inside of our TMC located inside of Ocribs. We talked each other. We coordinate with the police and so we're all in there looking at traffic. We have traffic management plans that we work on for every single game. We work with Dallas Lighting Barricade. They actually put together a plan. We actually review management plans that we work on for every single game. We work with Dallas Light and Barricade. They actually put together a plan. We actually review those plans for every event. Each event is a little different. Most of the cowboy games are going to be pretty much the same. We take a look at what time of day the event is happening. That makes a difference. If it's a Sunday night game or Thursday night game or something like that versus a noon game. But this particular game, it was obviously the first home game for the Cowboys. One of the things that we noticed, there was a lot of traffic that backed up on I-30. We sent at the Collins Street Exit, we sent them down to Center Street. And we started noticing that N-bound was taking a little longer than normal. Most of the Cowboy fans, when they come in, they kind of know where to go. A lot of them are season ticket holders, so they know which parking lots to go to. They kind of know where to go. What we ran into is we also was talking with the Cowboys. We realized that some of the, I guess, their ticket scanners were not operating optimally during that game in a couple of the lots. So we noticed a couple of lots the road you know, roadway was backing up. So that was an issue. There's always issues with trains and stuff like that going through there during during games. But for the most part it was and then of course during outbound we had, we did have a mini parade out there. Police was able to just disperse it pretty quickly. So that's always an issue with every game. They are fluid. We do have police to help us with the pedestrian traffic to make sure that they stay out of the roadway as much as possible. But there are times that you have to kind of let the crowd kind of go through for a little bit. And then once that calms down, then you can get traffic through. So it's kind of a working thing that when we're looking at traffic the whole time on cameras and we're making adjustments to the signals of the whole entire game. So even though we have a traffic plan and that's the base of what we need to do for that particular game or that particular day. There's always adjustments that we need to we need to make. Sometimes there's accidents. Sometimes things happen. We have to make adjustments. And so it's a very fluid thing when you're dealing with traffic. If I could just pick up on that, sometimes it doesn't look like anybody's watching. But the camera systems that you all have invested with us in between the police department and the traffic management system, they're watching them in the traffic management system and they're watching them in the stadium. And then they're talking to each other via radio and they're telling the people on the ground what to do, what not to do through the radio system. So sometimes I know an ideal world. We want the traffic, we want the flow just like the signals, like if it's green, go, if it's red, stop. But there are times where they will be instructed to do something different because the eye and the sky can see different consequences. Elsewhere in the street network, and that's what Keith and his team, as well as our command staff does. But I wanna also make it clear that when we, you see inter-gear-stictional folks out there, they are all working under Arlington Command and Control. So it might say Haltom City, it might say South Lake, it might say Burleson, they work for Arlington PD that day. And so when a commander instructs them what to do or what not to do, they're supposed to be following our direction. They're also get briefed that morning as to what the plan is. So when they go out there, there's a briefing. They're bust into the area and there's hold what their post is and what their job is. So there's a lot of order and management to it, but at the same time, it's a big event. There's a lot of adaptation that occurs. Um, and sometimes it works like a charm and sometimes there's some imperfections, but that's a little bit of the method to the madness. Yes, sir. Mr. Gonzalez. And like I said, APD is a great job. I'm just telling you, I saw the Haltum City guy. He wasn't stopping traffic. He was letting people cross and that's how it all fell apart and I yelled at him while I was in the car, do your job, stop the people from crossing the street because he was just standing there on 18 T way and Collins. He wasn't doing a darn thing and so that's when it all started unraveling so but I didn't let the Cowboys know so but I did say other than APD there's no what they're doing. Council member Boxel. Thank you. I wanna get back to Councilman Gansal Galanti's question. I wanna answer your question. I don't think I answered it. I'd be, we would be happy to look at that at C&D and we could bring in the experts to C&D. And by the way, I don't think anything's gonna get bogged down in C&D. So we were- Are you volunteering to take this- No, we'll listen to the experts but we'll also take into account what we're hearing from our neighborhoods because it does impact the neighborhoods near the stadiums in both of our districts. So and we'll be willing to listen to what they have to say, maybe bounce some ideas off of them but I don't think that's necessarily going to bog anything down. Well, Councilmember Boxel, I would never want to deprive you or Mr. Galante of an opportunity to look at this stuff. So I think that's a perfect committee. We're going to put it in your committee and let's all do it. Thank you. Okay. Thank you for your support, Ms. Boxer. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you guys. I have a question. Oh, go ahead. My question is in regard to the fees. So we've got 76, I guess, additional lots from what the CalBoards provide where we give permits they pay for a permit to park. Mostly commercial I think I read. So my question is do do these fees get updated or they increase once a year because I know the feed the park increases. I noticed on Sunday that they had increased the rates up and down around the mail. So do the fees get increased so that city gets some benefit from that? To answer your question, I don't believe these fees have been updated and try, I don't know if you have any of the history on a particular reason. The fees are kind of like we talked about in budget. They are a cost for service. So we can probably take a look to see if they need to be updated to make sure we're getting a full cost recovery for the service that we're providing. But it's a it's a flat fee. It's not a percentage. And in my sense, if it was $150, maybe it's maybe it's $250 now. It's something, but it's not it's not going to be proportional to what you're seeing. But one of the things we make everyone do is it is a sales tax generating service. And so part of the fee is to show us that they've got a sales tax form and that they're collecting sales taxes. So that shows them back up through sales tax collected based on cost of what they collect. But we can take a look at the fee and make sure we're full cost recovery as we should in any fee area to make sure we're recovering our cost 100%. Any other questions? 4.3 park lighting. Any questions or comments for James Orlowski? Council Member Boxel. Thank you. Thank you for this report, Mr. Orlowski. I have a couple of questions. We have security concerns in our parks, and I understood what you in the report, you talked about the cost considerations. And it was just wondering if we looked at sort of alternate methods for example, do we look at motion lights? I know there would be some conflict maybe with animals, but there might be some way to calibrate that. I don't know. Another idea might be to have, if an area is identified as a problem area, for example, the unhoused started hanging out there, then we could bring in temporary lighting that just brought in until that problem is resolved. I think you guys did something like that at OS gray at one point. So, and the other thing is maybe there's some remote way to is there a remote possibility to turn on lights remotely if a problem was identified there and then turn them off without having to go out there or reprogram all the lights. Yeah, so James Rolowski, Director of Parks and Recreation to answer the second part of your question first. Yes, our lights are on Skylogics, which allows us theoretically to remotely control the lights. That's how we do, for example, sports field lighting. So if there's a reservation, we turn the lights on or program them to turn on and then turn back off when that rentals over. So that opportunity is there. As far as the first part of your question, we're basically in the first phase of looking at this, which is to survey all of our park system, all of our lighting and figure out which parks currently do have what we call security lights programmed. So, Field or Park is kind of the prime example, the one that came up recently. So, we know about that one. However, there may be others out there that were programmed at one point in time could have been based on something that we're at right now is just doing a survey to figure out what's going on currently. We are very interested in park security considerations. We do a number of different things from, you know, lighting. Certainly is what we're talking about now, but we also have mobile cameras that we move around at different locations, depending on what the trends are. And when we're seeing things that we're getting complaints, I think lighting's another good opportunity. At the end of the day, it just boils down to competing priorities of cost, basically on the one hand and then security on the other. And so I think part of the report today is just not asking for the lights the security lights to be on at all parks and at all hours of the night. Sure. I think that would be counterproductive and as well as expensive. But if we could look at other methods that just address the concerns about security even if it's on a temporary basis and until the problem is resolved. Yeah, temporary lighting is something interesting that at least in a couple of your two and a half years I've been here that we haven't looked at, but I think that's something interesting to consider. Again, kind of a temporary solution that we could deploy when it's needed and then pull it back when it is no longer needed. I'll tell you in my experience over the years, lighting is a little bit controversial just because some neighborhoods like it, some don't. Some like the park dark when it's closed, because they don't want to encourage people to go there. And that's one of the stories. It's a double-aged sword. And there's also some evidence out there that lighting encourages activity, like you just said. So it would have to be flexible enough to address each situation. And every park is different. Some are next to neighborhoods, summer, and every park is a little different. Yeah, and just to pick up on that, I agree strongly. I think flexibility is the key. So if we're seeing an issue somewhere, that we have the ability, and we do have the ability to data program that. So I told you earlier that Skylogics, we can remotely control the lights and program them. The other thing though is actually when you get to the park different sets of lights may be on different circuits and so you may not have the option to turn this light on but not that one and so that's where it gets a little bit more complex of possibly having to put lights on different circuits. So again we're just in the initial steps of kind of figuring out what's out there and if you'll have feedback about it. But in terms of your remote capability each park is separately able to be addressed separately. Yes ma'am. Okay Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. comments for Gus Garcia on the City Council priority. Perfect. 4.5, any questions on city council priorities, supporting our youth and family newsletter with Jennifer? Perfect. 4.6, Ms. Boxel. the . Perfect. 4.6. Ms. Boxel. Thank you. That's here. Okay. Yes. The C&D meeting meant the evening. Everyone was present. I believe. Let's see. OK. Today we looked at an overview of the housing tax credit program and why it's needed. And we had an explanation about the differences between the 4% and the 9% tax program. I know we've all been had that education before, but it's good to go through it again. A review of the upcoming 9% cycle with applications due to the city this coming January 2025 will start the new cycle. I look at the historical results since 2017. Arlington has supported 61 applications and 11% or 7 were successful in receiving an award from the state. And under that program we've had 749 units built. So we also had a refresher on the elements from the City Council approved housing tax credit policies, which we revised a little while back and what we used to evaluate the application. So we look forward to getting starting on this new cycle in January. Thank you. Any questions or comments from Miss Boxel? All right, 4.7 council member Hunter. Thank you. Today the Arlington House and Finance met this morning. All members were present. We went over a few things. First we approved the FY25 budget, then we approved the MOU for survivors to convert 194 existing units of market rate housing to 50% affordable housing. The result of that will be 94 units of affordable households to 60, 70% and 80% AMI within the first 12 months of closing. The Arlington Housing Finance will receive payments and fees as a partner in the transactions. We also went over the Housing Rehab Program, which back in the summer of 2023, we approved supplementing the housing rehab program budget with a 600K to make up for funds that were moved to support the new childcare center. Finally, we went on the board reviewed other reports, including a monthly financial report, single family bond program report, which was 37 new home buyers and updates on the Arlington House and Finance Committee developments. And that concludes, says anybody have anything to add from the committee? Any questions or comments from Ms. Hunter? This is going be easy today. Okay, 4.8, Ms. Garcia, do we have any appointment sports or commissions this evening? We do, Mayor. We have 39 appointments to boards and commissions on tonight's agenda. Thank you. 4.9, Tarant appraisal district board nominations. Good afternoon, Mayor and council. I'm Ethan Closet, the treasurer for the city. the current appraisal district board nominations. Good afternoon, Mayor and council, I'm Ethan Close, the treasurer for the city. A year ago at this time, we all went through this process where you nominated and then voted for the members of the TAD board. You are having to do the five again at this point in time. The current five that are appointed you are having to do the five again at this point in time. The current five that are appointed are Victor Puente, Gloria Pena, Alan Blalot, Gary LaSoda, and Rich Diot. Since that time, three have been elected, that sit on the board, county wide, and then the tax assessor collector, Wendy Burgess, serves as a ex officio a member that now has full voting rights. The entities that make up the votes, I've split them up for you so you can see kind of where they reside. 21 of the 64 members are ISD's but they make up almost 53% of the votes. 41 are municipalities and we make up 27% of the votes. The county by itself is 10% and this county college is a little over 10%. The top five entities are the City of Fort Worth, the ISD, the College District, the county AISD, number six is Keller ISD and we are the seventh largest entity making up just under 5%. Now those everybody above 5% has to have their votes in prior to everybody else. But the way this will work is we've now been notified the before October 1st is we've now been notified of the number of votes that we have That's that 211 votes for or 4.2 percent before October 15th Any nominations that are made have to be reported down to TAD So your next meeting is October 8th your next council meeting and so if you want to nominate people, not vote for people, but nominate people, you will need to take action at the next calendar meeting, not to be rate, so that we can then present that to TAD. And then at that time, they will send out ballots by the end of October. The bodies that are greater than the 5%, which are those six entities will have to vote before in their first two meetings after they receive the ballot. So most likely in November we will have all of their votes and then we will need to vote before December 15th. December 31st will know all the candidates will know who won and then they will start their term January 1st. So the way it's now going to be working under the new legislation is we just did the five, we're doing the five again and at January 1st they're going to take those five and split them up because they now will be serving four year terms. So they'll draw lots actually. So two of them will serve for one year. So we'll be back again this time next year nominating for two and then three of them will serve for three years. And then after that, they will be every odd year, will be nominating either two or three. On the ones first, far as voting because we're nominating five, sorry, because you vote on for five people, they need at least 833 to guarantee a spot or 16.7%. No individual entity has that amount of votes. If you remember, for worth being the largest has 13%. So no entity by itself can vote for someone in. The ISDs have enough that if they were to collaborate and work together they could actually control three of the five nominations. Cities have enough that they could control approximately one and a half. But it's and so there's no thinking that you need to talk to other cities or you need to talk to the county or the college district or the other ISDs, but that is what may be occurring behind the scenes. The elected board members, as I said, there were three. They were voted in May. They took their seats July 1st. Their terms will end in December and there will be an election for them in November. So they will now be run on a four-year cycle after that election on even years where your nominations will be on odd years. The county tax assessors also on a four-year, they're also on an even year, but they're in the opposite even year that the elected officials have. So the way it'll look is right now you've got the five that you're nominating and then every year some are coming on to the border dropping off of the board potentially. So you'll have five this time, two of those will be replaced at next year at this time or you nominate the same people again and then in 26 we'll have three that are elected and then back and forth and back and forth. So one of the main the the ability of the board is to oversee TAD. They hire chief appraiser, they hire people for the ARB, they establish the budget for the district, for the appraisal district, and then every other year, on even years, they create a reappraisal plan that has to be approved by all of the entities. It's a de facto approval of if you don't do anything, it's automatically approved, you don't have to vote on it. It's more of if you object to it, then you would send, you would create a resolution saying we don't agree to this reappraisal plan. This particular year was the first time that they had received rejections on their reappraisal plan. They received nine rejections from all from ISDs because of what the reappraisal plan has now done. The reappraisal plan has changed some of the methodology of the way it has been done in the past. I talked to you about this a couple of council meetings ago to give you an idea of what those were. The main three were freezing all market values for residences for next year. And then moving to a two-year appraisal cycle in odd years so that it matches up with the state comptroller's, reappraisal plan so that they match and say whether or not the ISDs are fully compliant. But so what that will mean is that it's also frozen for next for the following years well. So all resident values are now frozen for the next two years. Again, that's market value, not appraisal value or tax value. So if you below the cap, which the majority of home-steaded homes, over 70%, are underneath the cap, they will still rise up to whatever that cap limit is, or up to you know that 10%. The second, the third thing they did was create a 5% threshold cap on the market value which again is not a legally binding cap. It is a direction from the board to the chief of prazer saying in order for value to go above 5%, you need to show us actual evidence that it should. The decision was made, there was discussion instead of a two-year cycle of trying to create a three-year cycle. The elected officials that won their election, they all ran on a three year freeze, freeze for a number of years within a three year appraisal cycle and trying to create a 5% hard cap on appraisal values, which is not allowed under legislation. So this was the compromise between the two positions. And the board is required again to adopt this reappraisal plan every two years, so they just adopted it in 24. The next time it will come up, it won't be in 2026. The effects of the plan on the citizens of Arlington, 47,000 homes in Arlington are currently capped, so their appraisal values less than market value. Where the other 20,000 homes, we have roughly 67,000 homes or residences in the city. So the other 20,000 are non-home-steaded homes. They will are already at market value. So their values are indeed frozen for the next two years. The current value as of this year for FY 25 that the cap hat was roughly $1.9 billion. So we will eat into that $1.9 billion if nothing changes over the next two years. The ISDs are concerned that freezing the values will make them fail the property value study And if they fail which means that the as the state comes in and they say the values should be where we are 60 billion dollars in values for our residents if The state comes in and says you should have been at, we calculate 70 billion. If they are 5% off, then they fail the study, and they can lose some of the funding from the state. And that is what the ISDs are concerned about. The reappraisal plan can be amended or replaced at any time. At the last board meeting as the ISDs once again came and argued against the Rio Presil plan saying that there was already an ISD that the tax assessor, I'm sorry, the chief of Fraser has said is probably close to failing at that 5%. The board has said we won't let anybody fail. We will change the plan if we get notification that we're possibly not hitting that 5% threshold. So it can be amended or replaced at any time. Functionally, any change should be made prior to April 1st because that's when they beginning mailing out notifications of people as to what their values are. Again, under this reappraisal plan, none of our citizens would actually receive any type of notifications because there's no change in value, so there's no need for the appraisal district to mail. So the next steps are creating who you want to nominate and have a resolution on October 8th if you want to nominate. Again, you don't have to nominate anybody. You can nominate 15 people, whatever you want to do, but we will need to take that into a resolution as of October 8th, and then create, get bios for them and send that all to TAD. Questions or comments for Ethan? Council member Hogg. Yeah, thank you Ethan. Good information and we've all been keeping tabs I think on what TAD's been doing and we've talked with other entities and there's a lot of change and so there's that what happens in future years with those caps some of those things. Let me ask on the vote one one question from that clarity. So now with them that we voted in and then start of each year this year they'll draw and then they'll be there. Well, we have the same number of votes every single year or if you allocate votes in year one for that group that's now coming up this time next year, do you have votes for the same people or is there percentage of each one? So like two will be in, I guess, 2025, we would vote for, do we only get two of the five that are on, you see what I'm saying? Like what percent do we get of our number of votes that were allocated? So every year that there's an election, and nomination and election by the entities. They, the appraisal district starts with 5,000 votes across all of the entities, and then they allocate those as a percentage of the market value of each entity. So whatever percentage that is. So if our market value goes super crazy because GM decides to triple their size, then all of a sudden our percentage will go up in the number of votes. But you just, instead of splitting that 211, again, you can vote all for one person, you can split it up however you want. But if market values didn't change at all next year. We'd have the same 211 votes. Now you would split that up amongst however many people you wanted, but only the top two will move on. So we'll get the same number of allocations, the percentage of each year based on that. And not whereas in the past, we'd nominate the five people we'd vote for, we would determine how many votes went to each individual, but this time we will have. No, you still get to decide once, once your allocation of 211 or however many that is, you can then decide how you want to place those votes on however many people are finally nominated. But it only be for those two. It would only be two. Positions in 2025 versus the five positions. Okay. thank you. Council member fam. Well, so we have five, the last time we nominated. Correct. So this time, you're all five again. But we can add somebody into it. Yes, absolutely. It can be entirely new board of five. It can be, you know, you can nominate some that are already there, bring some new ones on. It's an entirely new board as far as TAD is concerned. We have until next meeting of code A to nominate a person. It's a nominate, correct. It has to be, it can be. Again, you can nominate however many people you want. Okay. And then later on that we get 2.11 votes, we decide if we have 5 or 8, how many percent, how many of each individual correct? Yes. Okay. So, all right. So that, so the, so if one person, they say we have nine members in one person like nominee, two individual, but everybody else just one, keep the other five. Now we have seven. Well, all of them have to be nominated. So including the people that are currently on the board, if nobody nominates them, they are no longer on the ballot. So every single position needs to be nominated. So Tad must get five nominations. Okay. At a minimum. It doesn't mean five nominations from us. It means five nominations across all of the entities. Oh, okay. Okay. All right, thank you. Council Member Boxel. Thank you. You mentioned that the five that have to vote by December the 15th. Do they have to vote on that in two consecutive meetings or can they be separate? It's a one it's voting just one time. One time. Yes. Okay. And then you mentioned collaboration between entities. Is that is that allowed? Yeah. And so does it have to be public? No. No. No. It does. That's just discussion individually. That's not a technical collaboration of the City Council with the AISD. That's more of you yourself have talked to a board member or a council member. Some other entity and you all just have come up and said, okay, we want to support this portion. So if you decide you want to collaborate and vote for one person and so that all those negotiations can happen just individually. Okay thank you. Councillor Mournbrough, go on take. Take away the full presentations. Great. Can you just send by email that presentation for us? Of course. So I can study a little bit too much for me on one day. That's how I'll learn it. Any other questions, comments? Thank you, Ethan. I appreciate you. Evening agenda items. Anybody have any issues or questions on tonight's evening agenda items? We have a few evening agenda in this box. So did I see your hand? Yes. Yes, ma'am. Okay, the first one is 8.5 updated downtown business improvement district service and assessment plan. I don't know who's, oh, that gots. Yeah, okay. Can I get you to move closer to the mic my old ears aren't here and you well okay my first question was and thank you for sending me this map but for the benefit of the of the other counselors maybe who haven't been keeping up with that could we get a an map of the difference between the expanded district and the and the prior district just so that we have it clear where that was. Yes of course Gus Garcia Office of Economic Development so as you may know this what's on the council before your day is the last year of the agreement and so they're in the process of visiting with all of the business owners on a potential expanded map and that's not what you'll be voting on today, but I'd be happy to get that. But when they but when they do that there is. Absolutely. Okay, and so and then my other question was have there been any objections from any of the property owners on the assessment? So I've I've been visiting with Miss Maggie Campbell who's the executive director for the DBID and so far she has not expressed any opposition to the expanded the expanded map but of course it's still ongoing so people seem to be accepting it. Thank you. Any other questions or comments? Is that all for you? No I have other other items. Go ahead. Okay. Go through my list here. 9.9. I had a question for the parks. Just a real quick question. Whether the. The. The contract for the softball and kickball umpire officiating isn't that is that part of the park's budget or it seems to be separate? James Roloski, Director of Parks and Recreation. It is part of our budget so we obviously charge registration, collect fees from the participants and then that defrays the cost of everything including the umpiring services that we use. Okay. All right. Thank you. Yes, ma'am. I have one more I think. Come on. I'm going to go to the office. No, that one was answered already earlier. That's it. That's it. Thank you. Dr. Odom Weissley. Thank you. I had a question on 8.6. I think it is. I'm looking at the draft. The Marble of Art Public Improvement District. We had a question doing the last council meeting asking whether or not the title was gonna be changed from Arlington Commons. There's a sign up on that median now that says Arlington Commons. And I guess with all the other businesses participating in the care and maintenance of that median that they wanted to be included in the tie-doll or check. I'm not sure what all the concern was. They didn't really bring it out during their discussion. But did we get that question answered? Not sure we spoke with them specifically, but just, I mean, for Y'all's benefit, the name of the district is the Lamarable of our public and premium district. benefit, the name of the district is the Lamar Boulevard Public and Primate District. That's the name of the district. The sign in the area that says Arlington Commons is really just a name of the broader associated development and it was emulated after the Boston Commons. Kind of if you think about this open green space, the Arlington Commons and the Boston Commons, that's where the Lamar, full of our public improvement district will take care of the Arlington Commons median. So that's where the confusion comes from, but it doesn't do anything on the Arlington Commons development site. It's only in the publicly owned areas and the center of the median. So do the business owners know that? I'm happy to tell them that information so that it's clear. So they're the ones that raised the question last time during the council meeting. Yeah. Okay, thank you. Anything else for tonight, Dr. Odomesley? Was that it? Anybody else? Questions, comments about this evening's agenda? Okay. Issues relative to city or text out projects. Future agenda items. Dr. Odom Wesley, I'm sorry, Ms. Boxel. Thank you. I would like to have a staff report or some information about how we can create a local artist committee or a local artist round table, some body where local artists can come together and discuss their issues and perhaps lobby the city for different things. I don't think we have any, I think we have an arts committee, but it's not specific to just local artists. And so if I can just get some clarity on the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of that could under consider city projects just want you know one that we're going to have coming forward. We had a traffic accident down here at division and center the other day that connected into one of the line head obelisks and created some pretty notable damage to it. The person didn't have insurance. So just if you're wondering why the city is not fixing it, because it just happened, but we will be getting a contract in place underway, but it'll be at our cost because there's not gonna be an ability to recoup the damage, but it's gonna be not, you know, an inexpensive item, but we wanna maintain the quality of the downtown gateway. Just as an FYI. I'm going to go ahead and leave the council in suspense and make you wonder about how my head would look. It may keep people from entering downtown Arlington, to be honest with you. Anyway. We could just push it over during the downtown car show or something and keep people from driving in that area. Okay folks, we're going to adjourn the work session and we'll see everybody downstairs in a couple hours at 630. you you you you you I decided to open up a Mexican and seafood restaurant.