I'm a Metzelsopranum. And what's happened? My dad played the organ in our church growing up. And my mom too, she sang in choir growing up. Both my parents are from Ghana. And the core of music tradition is very much a part of the culture. My first recital, Ever in my life, was at Carnegie Hall when I was nine years old. I always say I didn't understand the magnitude of that behind site of 2020 and looking back. I can see that that was a big deal. And the rest I guess is history as they say. So thank you Mrs. Ritegi and here I am. So I got my degree vocal performance. I did a double major when I was in undergrad here at UTN really, 10 I have a degree in journalism also. Looking back I'm so glad that I stayed here because a lot of my first professional opportunities were here in the DFW. I made my Broadway debut in Camelot on Broadway in like a center theater. It was amazing and incredibly exciting. I then went on to sing my first Carmen at Opera Columbus and then I went to Portland Opera and did a production of the Marjorie Figaro there as a black woman in this country. The odds are not stacked in my favor. And you know, the old ad is twice as good to get half as far. But in spite of that, I think the American Dream is really whatever you want it to be. I'm so thankful, again, to those that came before me because they opened doors that they probably didn't realize that they opened. We've come a long way, and again, I'm thankful, and I'm praying that those that are coming behind me can say the same thing. I'm Tcia Quarte, and I by Honor with the City of Arlington, on Chris Cassidy with Medal of Honor Museum and welcome back to the construction site. Today we're going to be talking about glass and with me is Pete Shoe from Gartner. We're glad to have you. So glad to be your partner and this is an amazing project from a glass perspective. you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you Thank you. you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you Thank you. to to and welcome to the evening session of the Arlington City Council. I'm going to invite Father Samuel Mall from St. Maria Geredi Church to come forward and lead us in the invocation, please rise. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen. O God, you who did not create the world to be a waste but designed it to be lived in, have called us forth to be stewards of your creation. Help us all as citizens of the city, state, and country to work in together in all things so that we may work together to build up the kingdom of God of you as you have so established for us that we may do so with wisdom, justice, and charity in all of our actions and decisions. We ask this through Christ our Lord, amen. And we have a lot of sun. Please join us in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. On one of the taxes flag, I pledge allegiance to the taxes, one state under God, one and then invisible. Thank you, you may be seated. We get the fun stuff out of the way so then y'all just get more tears later on, okay. A proclamation tonight, whereas Arlington's Lucretia Council Cochrane chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution have brought to my attention that on September 17th, 2024 marks the 237th anniversary of the drafting of the Constitution of the United States by the Constitutional Convention. And whereas it is fitting and proper to accord official recognition to this magnificent document and the freedoms it gives to our citizens on its memorial anniversary, and to the patriotic celebrations which will commemorate the occasion. And whereas public law 915 guarantees issuing of a proclamation. Excuse me, each year by the president of the United States, designating September 17th through the 23rd as Constitution Week. Now therefore, I, Jim Ross, mayor of the city of Arlington, Texas, do hereby ask the citizens of Arlington to reaffirm the ideals the framers of the Constitution had in 1787 by diligently protecting the freedoms guaranteed to us through this guardian of our liberties, recognizing that our United States will celebrate the 250th anniversary of its birth, remembering that lost rights can never be regained in proclaim September 17th through the 23rd as Constitution week. With me tonight are the ladies who are the daughters of the American Revolution. Joe, please. Y'all give it up for that. I would like to invite you to our next really big event, which is when we do Reast across America on December 17th, the public is invited to come lay Reast at the two cemeteries on Mary Street, Arlington Cemetery, and Parkdale, where we lay a wreaths on veterans' graves over 870 of them. balance. Let's take she y'all come on up. This past weekend, Mr. Elverton and I had the privilege of going out to LA for the celebration of life on Miss Liz Levitt. Miss Levitt was the founder and headed up the Levitt Foundation, which was instrumental in the creation of our Levitt pavilion across the street over here. They gave a ton of money and were just phenomenal. I didn't even realize until we went for the celebration of life how much mislevit, really truly love culture and music and art. So tonight we thought it would be only appropriate to do a proclamation in her honor as well. Whereas Levit Pavilion Arlington, which draws thousands of people downtown for free outdoor concerts and festivals will celebrate its 16th anniversary next month. And whereas this gem was made possible in part by the vision of Elizabeth Liz Levitt Hirsch, a champion of the arts and community. And whereas Levitt Hirsch passed away from Moverian cancer at age 72 on May 23rd of 2024 at her home in Los Angeles. And whereas known for her gift to connect and inspire people to achieve a shared vision, Levitt Hirsch channeled her lifelong passion for the performing arts into a source of positive social change in towns and cities across America. And whereas in 2001 Levitt Hirsch became active with her family's foundation, the Mortimer and Mimi Levitt Foundation, which sees free counts, free concerts and public spaces as essential to equality, healthy and thriving communities, and aim to develop a national network of Levitt venues. And whereas to get the program off the ground, Levitt Hirsch traveled to cities across the country to introduce the Levitt mission to community leaders and identify potential sites. And whereas Levitt Pavilion Arlington celebrated its opening night on October 10th, 2008, with more than 1,800 people in attendance, and its success has continued to grow in the years following. And whereas today, the Mortimer and Mimi Levitt Foundation giving has grown to support free music in 50 plus towns and cities across America through 650 plus free Levit concerts serving more than 800,000 people each year. Now therefore I Jim Ross mayor of the city of Arlington do hereby proclaim September 17th, 2024 as Liz Levitt Hirsch Day. Thank you. Well, that is awesome. And the Levitt Foundation and Liz Levitt would sure be proud. I will tell you she was here in October of 2023, standing on the Levitt Center balcony, talking to our chair of the Hispanic Heritage Cultural event that we do our second and last year we've got a third one coming up and the chairperson Kathy Vinables is going, raising her arms up and they're going, I mean next year it's going to be bigger and better and Liz just calmly said, I'm not sure how it gets any better than this. So she loved love at Arlington, has been around since the beginning with Steve Zimmer, Terry Gaines, and Hopper, and to have done so much and had such a passion for live free music. And the cultural piece, she has been thrilled at what we've done over the last few years and with our Hispanic Heritage Cultural event that's coming up on October 5th Asian Heritage Cultural event on the 19th of October and we already had the Juneteenth event so lots of great events come with the direction and vision of Liz Levit and the Levit Foundation. So expect a lot make sure your phone is on social media. North Texas giving day is this Thursday. There are many nonprofits in Arlington that need your support. Please go to your list, support those that need help in this area, and if you want to think of live free music and the economic development, social economic impact that we make in Arlington, think of Levitt too, but there's a lot of great ones, so be sure and support this Thursday. Thank you all so much. Thank you, Mayor Ross, Council, and thank you guys for bell being here. You know your true friends when they stand next to you and they go suck it in. That's friendship right there. You want to give this to Latation? She just walked off. She didn't even get it. Thank you. This was for me. It's for me. It's for me. Miss Garcia, speaker guidelines in to Cora, please. Thank you, Mayor. The City of Arlington fully embraces the values of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility where people of all identities and experiences are understood, appreciated, and fully included in the community, and where equitable treatment and outcomes prevail. We ask that the citizens and other visitors in attendance assist in preserving the order and decorum of this meeting and to provide for attendance at and participation in the meeting without fear of intimidation, threats or hostility. Any person making personal, profane hostels, landers or threatening remarks who uses vulgar or obscene language or engages in any other actions that disturb or are calculated to disturb the meeting or who becomes disruptive while addressing the mayor and the city council or while attending the city council meeting may be removed from the council chambers. All speakers shall address the city council and not the audience or city staff and shall not call out individually members of city staff or the public. For speakers tonight, when your name is called please come to the microphone at the podium and state your name and city of residents or the public. For speakers tonight, when your name is called, please come to the microphone at the podium and state your name and city of residence for the record. Speakers may not use music, videos, other forms of media signs or props. During public hearings for zoning cases, the applicant will be asked to speak first and will be given five minutes to make a presentation. Speakers and supporter opposition of the item will be given three minutes each to make a presentation. Speakers in supporter opposition of the item will be given three minutes each to make their statements. The applicant will then be given three minutes for any rebuttal, for all other items on the agenda, speakers will be given three minutes to speak. If multiple speakers plan to provide the same or similar comments, those speakers may, if they so desire, designate one or more individuals to provide public comment on behalf of the group. A bell will signal the end of each speaker's time in consideration of other speakers. Please conclude your comments promptly when you hear the bell. We ask that you address your comments to the mayor and council. Thank you, Ms. Garcia. Do we have any speakers? Lord have mercy. Do we have any appointments, the boards and commissions? Thank you, Mayor. We do. We have 39 appointments, two boards and commissions to the Arlington Convention and Visitors Bureau. Valerie Landry, place two, in Patel, place seven, Richard Duohi, place eight, Duane Lee, place 10, Elizabeth Betsy Udy, place 12, Robert P. Mattwick, place 14, Susan Skags, place 15, Stacy Snyder, place 16, Aziz F. Copti, or excuse me, Copti, place 17. To the Arlington High Education Finance Corporation, Philip Begun, place 2, Paulette R. Walker, place three, Florene Henry, place seven, to the Citizens Bond Committee. For the 2025 Citizens Bond Committee, we consider the termination of the appointment of current member, George Hartigan, and the appointment of Tina Alameda Perry, to the Comprehensive Plan Steering Committee, Ken Cox Chair, Victoria for our Myers, David Miller, Bruce Dalton, Gara Hill, Jeremy Skidmore, Robert Snyder, Jody Tiddleton, Anthony Powell, Nina Henderson, William Frawley, Aftab Amad, Sidiqi, Carlton Washington, Michael Talambas, Joseph Scott Murphy, Taylor Oldroyd, Zach Graves, Christian Satcher, Leanna Brady. To the Greater Texas Cultural Education Facilities Finance Corporation, Philip Began, Place 2, Paulette R. Walker, Place 3, Florian B. Henry, Place 7. To the North Texas High Education Authority, Jerry G. McCullough, Place one, David G. Petter, placed three, Gracie A. Riddick, placed six, Parks and Recreation Board, John Still, placed five. Those are all the appointments, Mayor. Thank you, Ms. Garcia. Do we have any speakers on any of these appointments? We do not, Mayor. We do not have any speaker cards. Thank you. I have a motion from Councilmember Gonzales, a second from Councilmember Hunter. Please cast your vote. And the motion passes. Move on down to 6.1, Ms. Garcia. Thank you, Mayor. We do have one item for consideration from executive session, a resolution authorizing condemnation of fee simple title to certain tracks of land along in adjacent to division street, also known as state highway 180, between Cooper Street and Collins Street within the city of Arlington for the public use of sidewalks and landscaping for the division street tech stock sidewalk, Cooper Street to Collins Street Project. Thank you, ma'am. Do we have any speakers on this? We do not have any speaker cards, Mayor. Thank you. I recognize Council Member Galante. I move that the city council authorize the use of the power of eminent domain by the city of Arlington to acquire the property necessary for the public use of sidewalk improvements for the Division Street TX dot sidewalk Cooper Street to call the Street Project as read by the City Secretary and as more fully described in the resolution for this item. Thank you, Mr. Galante. I have a second from Council Member Hogg. Please cast your vote. The motion passes. Consideration of minutes, Ms. Garcia. Portunity, we have the consideration of minutes for the August 27th, 2024 afternoon and evening meetings, the September 3rd, 2024 afternoon and evening meetings, and for the September 10th, 2024 evening meeting. Thank you, Ms. Garcia. Council members have any additions or corrections? Seeing none, Mrs. Secretary, do we have any speakers on these items? We have no speaker cards. Thank you. I have a motion from Council Member Odom Wesley, a second from Council Member FAM. Please cast your votes. The motion passes. We'll move on down to consideration of ordinances 8.1. Mr. Whiteway. Good evening, Mayor and Council. Alex Whiteway, Director of Water Utilities, 8.1 is the Industrial Waste and Water Pollution Control Ordinance Amendment. First reading of an ordinance amending the Industrial Waste and Water Pollution Control Chapter of the Code of the City of Arlington, Texas, 1987 through the repeal of the existing chapter and the adoption of a new industrial waste and water pollution control chapter relative to new requirements, clarification and updating of the ordinance, providing for a fine of up to $2,000 for each offense and violation of the ordinance, providing this ordinance be cumulative, providing for severability, governmental immunity, inj junctions publication, and become an effective upon second publication. Thank you, sir. Ms. Garcia, do we have any other speakers on this item? We do not, Mayor. Thank you. Can I get a motion and a second? I have a motion from Council Member Galante, a second from Council Member Fan. Please cast your vote. The motion passes. Mr. Keith Brooks, 8.2. Good evening, Mayor of Council. Keith Brooks, Director of Public Works here to present the first reading of a right away abandonment of a portion of South Elm Street. The Department of Public Works has received a request from the Department of Parks and Recreation for the abandonment of South Elm Street from 70 feet south of the Southwest right away of East Third Street to East 4th Street, save and accept the entire abandoned area to be retained as a public drainage, utility and access easement in its entirety for the existing utilities and public access. The proposed abandon right away would be vacated and to incorporate into the All Star Legacy Park baseball field improvements, basically M Street, South M Street, now dead ends into the new parking lot for the All-Star Legacy Park. The right away was originally dedicated to the public by PLAT at no cost of the city. The eventment request received no objections from a budding impacted property owners, the franchise utility companies or city departments. At this time, I'll answer any questions you might have. Thank you, sir. Ms. Garcia, do we have any speakers in this item? We do not, Mayor. Thank you. I have a motion from Council Member Odom Westley. A second from Council Member Hunter, please cast your vote. Motion passes will move down to 8.3 James. You're not James. No, just a little shorter. Good evening, Mayor and members of City Council. My name is Dr. Vanera Flora Stafford, Assistant Director and Parks and Recreation. This evening I bring to you for consideration our annual use standards of care. The use standards of care refers to an exception for licensing requirements at the state grants to municipalities for children's programs like summer camps. The standards include employer ratios, qualifications, minimum building standards, health and safety criteria, and the mechanisms for monitoring and enforcing the adopted local standards. The state nor the staff made any changes this year. In your packet, you will find all of the details. With that, are there any questions? Thank you, ma'am. Ms. Garcia, do we have any speakers on this item? We have no speaker cards, Mayor. Thank you. I have a motion from Council Member Galante, a second from Council Member Odom. Wesley, please cast your vote. And the motion passes. Ethan, I thought you were gonna have a double in here as well, or something. Well, I can invite other members of the field. We're gonna, I guess have you do 8.4 through 8.6, please. Sounds good. Evening Mayor and Council, I'm Ethan Close, the Treasurer for the City. Tonight we're bringing forward final readings of ordinances for the Arlington Tourism Public Improvement District at Service and Assessment Plan and Levy of Assessments. 8.5 is the updated downtown Business Improvement District Service and Assessment Plan and roll 8.5 is the updated downtown business improvement district service and assessment plan enrolled in the leving of the assessments in 8.6 is the updated Lamar Boulevard public improvement district service and assessment plan and levy of assessments if you have any questions I'm here to answer them. Thank you sir Miss Garcia. Do we have any speakers on either 8.4 or 5 or 6? We do not mayor. Thank you. I have a motion from Council Member Gonzales. A second from Council Member Hunter. Please cast your vote. And the motion passes on 8.45 and 6. We'll move on down to 8.7. This next in. Ann Council April Nixon CFO. The first item that we have tonight is to consider approving the second reading of an ordinance adopting the FY 2025 operating budget. The accompanying ordinance includes no revisions to operating budget for FY 25 as proposed to the City Council by the City Manager on August 6, 2024. Thank you, ma'am. Ms. Garcia, any speakers on this item? We do have one speaker in opposition, Larry McFarland. Mr. McFarland. Before you get started, sir, I want to recognize Council member Gonzales. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, City Council. Passing, this is the first increase in the city of Arlington has done in 20 years. We didn't take it lightly. It's only a penny, but I know it's tax dollars. We've decreased, and I'm not talking about it, but I'm talking previous City Council, previous mayors. Lower the tax rate each year. We had a speaker last week that said the cost of living is 2.9% or the CPI, which is correct, which is that what the government puts out. But I can tell you from my standpoint for my family, my medical insurance went up 13.1% in one year, 17% for my home in auto, 14% for groceries in DFW, which is only higher than DFW was Detroit. Construction costs have skyrocketed, wages in DFW have gone up 4%, and I could go down the list. So, I know we hear CPI inflation 2.9, I don't know where that number comes from, but I think many of you here in this room could attest that you're paying a lot more for items all over the place. And it's important that we keep good staff in the city and that we pay them what they need to be paid. And just to let you know we have a great city manager that we discussed this, starting in March talking about what was happening with TAD and everything else and so he didn't just give us a budget and we just approved it. We had questions all year long so I thank my city council members for reading the entire budget. I read the entire budget from word to word and there are citizens out there that read the entire budget and we do appreciate those people that have questions and send us emails and next year when the budget comes out in August, if you want to be part of the process, it will be online. You can start asking those questions and we prefer to get those questions before we vote on it because then we can have the questions. But I want to thank everybody for understanding and how to any other way I would not like to. It's very hard for me to vote, yes, to approve an increase, but I have to do it for the citizens. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Gonzalez. Thank you, Mr. McFarland, for your patience. Please come up to the podium. Thank you, Mayor and Council. My name is Larry McFarlane. I'm speaking on the budget proposal, number 8.7, and I recommend that you vote no on this proposal. Now I heard and I looked at the staff report and said that the city manager presented a budget on August 6th and there's been no changes since August 6th. So, it also said there was a September 10th budget meeting. And I remember that one, and 100% of the people that spoke at that meeting said vote no. 100%. All the Facebook feedback that you've gotten on the new Facebook post about the city budget, you know, there's a lot of talk about that. All the citizens speakers that talk about, you know, how good or how bad the budget is, and all the emails that you've received that all said, no, don't vote on this budget. Vote on a realistic budget. Pretty much everybody in his dog except the guy that you're getting to paycheck out of it are saying vote no. Now here's a fun fact. Last year's budget. 100% of the emails received at the City Council email addresses, that's for these chairs, said vote no on the budget. And you know what happened last year. Please feel free to fact check that. It almost looks like a, gosh, just a little dog and pony show. Hey, let's get citizens out here and let them think that they're actually doing something, even though it was already said and done on August 6th. It's not involving the citizens. It's about time to start evolving the citizens because they're the guys that put all the elected officials in their places. I mean, summarize, I urge you to vote no in this budget. The answer here is correct, is no. Thanks, Ms. Garcia. Any other speakers on this item? We have no other speaker cards on this item, Mayor. Thank you. I have a motion from Council Member Gonzalez, a second from Council Member Odom. Wesley, please cast your vote. The motion passes. We'll move on down to item 8.8, Ms. Nixon. Mayor and council tonight you're being asked to approve on final reading and ordinance leaven. The ad valorem taxes to support the FY25 operating budget. The ad valorem rate required to support the operating budget as proposed is 5998 per $100 a property value. State law requires the rate be adopted in two parts, one for debt and one for operations. The rate necessary for the interest and interest in sinking fund is 0.1852 cents, and the rate for the general fund is 0.4146. Thank you, ma'am. I'm going to recognize council member Galante. Thank you, Mayor and council. I move that the property tax rates be increased by the adoption. Excuse me, Mayor. We do have a speaker. I'm sorry. Okay. Okay, thank you. Ms. Garcia, I appreciate that. Larry McFarland. Mr. McFarland, come on up, Ms. Garcia. I appreciate that. Larry McFarland. Mr. McFarland, come on up, sir. I got ahead of myself. Please forgive me. I got it wrong. Thanks for remembering. I didn't remember. Ms. Garcia remembered for me. I'm just going to be candid. Sometimes you got to own it and it was my mess up. It's good to have people. Yes, sir. it sure is. But let me be brief on this. The right answer on this vote is no. I urge everyone to make the realistic choice to vote no. The only reasonable choice is the no new revenue rate. That's what should be approved. Anything else is wrong. I urge you to vote no. Thank you. Thank you, sir. All right, Ms. Garcia. Do we have any other speakers on this? Not on this side, I'm Mary. Thank you. Now I'll recognize Council Member Galante. Mayor, before I make a motion, can I ask a question for Mr. Mark Fallon please? Sure. Mr. Mark Fallon, I have a question for you sir. Thank you for coming out. Yeah. Thank you for your time and efforts in reading the entire budget. So I also read the budget. And you said all the emails, they said that they asked for no, do not vote no for the budget, correct? You just said all the emails that we received, do you know how many emails we received last year? This year. This year? This year's not done yet. Okay, but you said all the emails were received, they asking to vote no. So I'll tell you this here. I received four emails from my constituents and two text messages. I represent 80,000 people in the city. 15,000 qualified registered voters and four emails and two text messages. So the ones that didn't speak up, I assume they're voting yes. Thank you for coming now. What's the motion? Did you have any fact check that? I can do that for if you like. If you're free to. Thank you. Well, thank you. Is that Mr. Mayor and Council, I move that the property tax rate being increased by the adoption of a tax rate of 59 and 9800s of a cent 05998 per $100 valuation, which is effectively a 4.2% increase in the tax rate Thank you, Mr. Muglante. I have a second from Councilmember Odom. West sleep, please cast your vote. The motion passes. Move on down to 8.9, Ms. Nixon. This final item is a request to approve on final reading. And ordinance ratifying the property tax increase reflected in the FY 25. But thank you, Ms. Nixon. Ms. Garcia, any speakers on this item? We have one speaker in opposition, Larry McFarland for this item. Mr. McFarland. Mr. McFarland, you can just stand up here. We won't make you walk back and forth every time. It's okay. Try to follow the rules. Let me brief on this one also, 8.9. I urge you to vote now in this proposition. This item should be a no. I swear, I'll walk into room sometimes, and I feel like I'm the only adult in the room. But it reminds me of a toast master training where all you got to do is just three things, right? Because you all did this. Tell them what you're going to tell them, tell them, and then tell them what you're told them. So that's really all you got to do. So I'm trying to say vote no. And then vote no, but then vote no. Now if Colonel Jessup were here, he might save something like, you can't handle the truth. Obviously more forcefully. But the fact is this whole budget tax rate show is, it's a massive failure on the people that elected you. The only reasonable choice here is to vote no. Thank you, sir. Ms. Garcia, any other speakers on this? We have no other speaker cards on the site. Thank you, sir. Ms. Garcia, any other speakers on this? We have no other speaker cards on the item. Thank you, ma'am. I have a motion from Council Member Galatea's second from Council Member Phan. Please cast your vote. Motion passes. We're going to move on down to 8.10, Mr. Whiteway. Good evening, Mayor and Council. 8.10 is requesting your approval for final reading of an ordinance amending the Water and Seward chapter of code of the City of Arlington, Texas, 1987 through the amendment of Article 3. Charges for Water and Sewer Service, Section 3.02. Water and Sewer Rate Subsection A1 relative to Water Rates. Subsection 3.02 relative to Sewer Rates and Subsection 3.02 relative to Fire Protection System fees. Thank you, sir. Ms. Garcia, do we have any other speakers on this item? We have no speaker cards for this item, Mayor. Thank you, sir. Ms. Garcia, do we have any other speakers in this item? We have no speaker cards for this item, Mayor. Thank you. I have them. Can I get a motion in a second? I have a motion from Council Member Odom Wesley, a second from Council Member Pham, please cast your vote. And the motion passes. Thank you, Mr. Whiteway. In the motion passes. Thank you, Mr. Whiteway. Ms. Garcia, speaking of water, I hope you have some over there because we have a long consent agenda here. So can you read that consent agenda, please? Yes, sir. Thank you. The consent agenda this evening contains 28 minute orders, two ordinances and 30 resolutions. The minute order seek to authorize one annual insurance program policy renewals and new policies for fiscal year 2025, two through nine annual requirements contracts for e-learning and recruiting management platform for professional merchant payment processing services for professional auditing services, for grounds maintenance, for water treatment plants, for baller maintenance and repair, for 2024, mill and overlay program, for the support and maintenance subscription for the Remedy Force software, and for umpire officiating services, 10 and 11 renewal of annual requirements contracts for calcium hypochloride tablets, and for mosquito control services. 12 renewal of two year requirements contract for security guard services. 13 renewal of intergovernmental consulting services contract. 14 to year contract for federal legislative consulting services. 15 to year requirements contract for supplemental vehicle services. 16, three year requirements contract for employee advocacy plan 17 three year contract for purchase and implementation of clear risk software for the human resources department 18 through 20 purchase of an articulated boom lift for the esports stadium Arlington and Expo Center of Bunker gear for the fire department and of Replacement Street Maintenance Equipment for the Public Works Department. 21 construction contract for Southeast E. Green Note's Boulevard Green Screen. 22 through 24 professional services contracts for administration of the Texas Event Trust Fund and major event reimbursement program for forensic lab testing for the Arlington Police Department and for blue chip program consulting services. 26 and 25 and 26, five year soul source contracts for taser brand products, cartridges, accessories and services, and four leads online software subscription and services. 27 modification of the four year contract for implementation services of enterprise resources planning ERP software 28 contract for the purchase implementation and maintenance services for time clocks for integration with workday time tracking module The ordinance is seek to authorize 29 municipal setting designation 24-1-4484-08113, 30 Construction Chapter Amendment. The resolution seek to authorize 31, 2025 City Council Meeting Calendar, 32 and 33. Resolutions adopting the 2025 through 2026 Federal and State Legislative Agendas, 34, 4th amended and restated meet and confirm memorandum of understanding with Arlington Professional Firefighters Association, 35 approval of the Indian municipal management district and limited tax road improvement, refunding bonds, series 2024 and the Indian municipal management district and limited tax utility improvement, refunding bonds, series 2024, 36 interlocal agreement with the University of Texas at Arlington for downtown Arlington Management Corporation funding, 37, downtown Arlington Management Corporation contract, 38, Arlington Entertainment Area Management District appointments, 39 second amendment to the e-space ink master agreement, 40 Arlington Economic Development Corporation budget, 41 Taren County 911 District, fiscal year 2025 budget, 42 debt and disclosure policy. 45 and 46 resolutions authorizing participation in the Logic Investment Pool and in the text pool. Flash text pool prime investment pools in designating authorized representatives. 47 resolution reflecting the endorsement of publicly owned treatment works program. 48 amended and restated interlocal agreement for water and wastewater operation and maintenance between the city of Canada, Texas and the city of Arlington, Texas, 49 water utilities fees for services, 58 A and B, solid waste recycling and Arlington landfill Rate Adjustments, 51 civil administrative adjudicative, code and parking fees, 52, airport fiscal year 25, T-Hanger and tie down rates, 53 fee adjustment authorization for multi-family inspection fees, 54 department of housing and urban development, PY 2023, consolidated annual performance, and evaluation report, paper, 55 Arlington Convention and Visitors Bureau Professional Services Contract, 56 A through C, interlocal agreements with the Tarrin County Transportation Bond Program, for Randall Mill Road, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Center Street, and Debbie Lane. And 57 authorize the request for proposal. RFP procurement method for the purchase integration and maintenance of software replacing my tell VL IP phone systems. This concludes the consent agenda for this evening, Mayor. Thank you, Ms. Garcia. Do we have any speakers in support or opposition of any of the items as they appear on the consent agenda? We do, Mayor. We have on 9.25, Larry McFarland. Mr. McFarland. Thank you, Mayor and Council. On this item I urge you to vote no on 9.25. Anytime you look at a five year soul source contract, you really have to give it the sniff test. I mean, I realize 3.66121 dollars, like 3.5 million bucks. I know that's a drop in the bucket, but to me that's a ton of money. And I see that we're spending, I don't know, 600K the first year. And we're getting about a 4% increase every year over the next handful of years. And remember, that's spending money that we don't have. This is not money that's in your cash register right now. Also remember, in the budget, we're gonna spend $419,938 on taser stuff. So we're spending a million bucks in this year on taser stuff. So I mean that buys pretty much everybody in the program, a brand new taser or two. I don't know. It's just a ton of money. And let me tell you, you got to look at it because those guys in Scottsdale, those sales guys, they have really nice houses. And it certainly makes me as a consumer wonder, where does that money come from? And you look at this stuff right here, and I think it explains it pretty well. Now it says that they have proprietary video and audio capture technology. And well, that's for certain because it's hard to get stuff out of that video. Well, unless it's a goat video, if it's an APD with a goat in it, you can get that one day. Not a problem. If it's a snuff film, we're an APD guy. Kill somebody. I thought they outlawed that, but maybe not. If he kills somebody, it takes four days. So it's a little slower. One of you guys have ever heard that Springsteen song, 41 Shots. If you haven't, you're gonna listen to it. But now, some video is so complicated that it takes over 900 days to get the video out. Don't know why, but it's really encrypted. Please fact check me on that. I am still waiting for the video. It was right down the street from some elected officials The bottom line is this is a bad deal need to not vote for it That's that's all I got thank you and for item 927 Larry McFarland come on27, Larry McFarland. Come on back, Mr. McFarland. Mr. Mancounsel, thank you. I'm kind of surprised that other people are not reading this stuff. I urge you to vote no in this proposal. This is a four year contract. We started out at $4.2 million to implement this ERP application. It's a bunch of money. And then they came back and got to you for another million for the first contract or a million revision. And now they're getting to you for another 227,000. Now you are getting an LMS, so that's great. But I got to wonder about the whole cost of the CRP thing. I think those big consulting firms, they're in it for the money. They're not in it for the product. Any contract that's 26.65% Over the original contract you got a wonder you know do you have contract people that are not good at what they do Are we spending too much money on stuff that doesn't matter? You know what's going on here? So much should be asking questions The the bottom line for this is it's too much money. You should vote no. Thank you. Thank you. Ms. Garcia. We have no other speaker cards under consent mayor. Thank you. I have a motion from councilmember Boxel. A second from councilmember Odin Wesley. Please cast your votes. The motion passes. We'll move on down to the public hearings. 12.1, Ms. Thoppel. Thank you, Mayor. Item 12.1, zoning case PD 24-22. The applicant request to change the zoning on an approximately 6.91 acre site, comprising of four contiguous lots located at 100, 120, 150 and 200 East Steven Street, generally located east of Matlock Road and south of East Steven Street. The tracks are currently zoned General Commercial, G.C. And the request is for a plan development PD for limited light industrial LI uses with the development plan. The applicant's previous trade rezoning request to LI was denied in April of this year since then they reapply for a rezoning to a PD with limited LI uses with a development plan showing the three proposed buildings each less than 50,000 square foot in size, its elevations, the site landscaping, and truck court screening. Additionally, the applicant proposes to remove certain uses from the proposed LI zoning district. This morning, I had emailed you all additional letters of support and one letter in opposition, which was submitted after the packet was published. This evening, we have Tyler Thomas from Truman Commercial presenting the case for us. Tyler. Good evening, Councilmembers. Truman is a privately held and locally based real estate developer and investor and general contractor here in town. We have in-house general contracting as we look to build for the long term and build to own and this helps us with our quality control. I'm going to scoot back here. So starting off at the area, 100 to 200 e Stevens, you'll see from the map in front of you here, we are not introducing any new uses. This map shows over 65% of this immediate area pertains to industrial manufacturing or light industrial uses. As the Barton Oaks ownership mentioned earlier today in an email, Barton Oaks being the multifamily group just to the south of us right here. TrueMontz proposed use is consistent with existing development along Stevens and we have no objection to their use or plans. So what we are proposing is three flex light industrial buildings ranging from 28, this to council, at the recommendation of them, we have re-eval, we have reverted back to APD, mostly due to a few of the harsh uses, and with that we've spent the last three to four months, revising our plans, talking to neighbors and adjacent property owners, and ultimately setting on a plan that we love and we have received strong feedback for. Why we love this plan three reasons. Variety, it's a variety of square footage, a variety of bay depths. It appeals to a, I'd say a large group of small businesses in the immediate area. Two is truck court location. When talking to neighbors, we realized it was going to be an issue. Having a truck court facing high density living, so we have reoriented the buildings, face them east to west. And we have committed to above minimum requirements for screening, allowing us to input 11 foot masonry screening walls here, as well as additional boundary and tree screenings on the southern border, which I'll show on the next slide. Last out of the three things that we love most about this plan is parking. It's an abundance of parking, allows it to accommodate a lot of different uses, high finish uses, show room uses, things of that sort rather than just a distribution use. Next slide brings us to our landscaping plan. As you'll see on the southern border here, we have 67 trees along the southern border and we have also committed to a southern boundary wall of a mix of rhod iron fencing as well as masonry. I welcome your feedback because I've, when talking with council members, have received some different opinions with that. But talking with our neighbors here to the southeast, they are not jaded one way or the other. They believe both are sufficient, given our use. Next is our design renderings. These are evolving and these are not complete. But what I want to point out most importantly is we have committed, and when we unanimously passed PNZ last month. We committed 25% plus glazing to the front side of our building's face in Steven Street, giving it a more heightened office style look. Something that I think would elevate the neighborhood given no new products has been built there in the last decade. So why are we building what we're building? Because there is a need in the market and the neighborhood fits this type of building and needs these higher quality, smaller shallow-based buildings. Today in Arlington, buildings under 100,000 square feet, there is a 2% vacancy of buildings built since 2000. We could throw one building on this site, but we don't believe it conforms to the neighborhood, or the small business tenant base in this area, which is why we're proposing three buildings. The excluded uses from light industrial that Jensi mentioned. We excluded the harshest uses. Commissioner Thomas Wehrin, I went through these in depth and ultimately selected these 12 to remove these from our PD. Lastly, here are a few similar users in Arlington and similar product types throughout the area. One that I would like to point out, engineered steel products is a neighbor to the north on Steven Street. Their business owner submitted a support letter referencing their obsolete building and need for this type of product in the immediate area. And I'll finish up with a quote from the owner of the Barden Oaks multifamily. Yeah, you can finish up now. Fair enough. Your time ran out, but the buzzer didn't't being on you but we're gonna stop you anyway. Miss Boxel. Thank you. Can you go back to the slide with your exterior rendering please? Certainly. Okay to start off with I really appreciate your site plan. I think it's much improved over what you first proposed. I like the separation of the buildings and the distance between them. Thank you. But two things struck me in these renderings. First thing is the renderings are very different and I believe they're of the same street scale. So which one is it that's going to prevail there? No apologies. This is the north facing view that I'm circling, so that's Steven's Street. And then here on the next rendering, this is Steven's Street there showing that side view. So really what you're looking at in the first picture is the North side of the building, the second photo, that is the east side of the building where the parking lots are. Okay, and then the buildings look to be continuous or very little separation. So it doesn't really reflect what I see in the site plan. So I just wondered. Sorry, this is just a rendering for one building. This is just building the, yes ma'am. Okay, so that building B is the middle building? Building B is the middle building. So in that view, we're not seeing the two other two buildings. No we're not but I'm happy to supply those elevations as well. No just I just wanted to clear that up because it was unclear. And we do have people in the, you know people look at those things and they take them literally so it'd be better to have a rendering that just shows exactly what's going to be built in case there are any questions from the public. And we can answer them intelligently because we can say that's what they proposed. I'm going to go back to your screening requirements. You and I discussed the difference between a solid Masonry wall and aud Iron and Masonry columns. If the apartments do not have a preference, I would have a preference for the Raud Iron, and I would welcome any comments from my fellow councillors on that. I just think it would be a more friendly and more environmentally friendly proposal to do that. And if there's no objection from the adjacent neighbors, I don't see a reason not to do it. Anyone else? No. Well, and I'll just add to that council member of Buxall. So the group here to the southeast, they have said they do not have a strong preference either way. I think both or a mix of both would be good. And I know they do not have a strong preference either way. I think both or a mix of both would be. And I know you said you were willing to do either one. So thank you for that being open to that. So I would really like to, if I make a motion or someone else makes a motion to put that in there that you do the raw iron with the masonry post. That's okay. Yeah, we are accepting of that. Okay. Thank you. Council member Galante. Thank you, Tyler, for bringing this project, the way it is. Thank you for willing to work and tweak the project to be looking good like it is right now. And the most important, I like what I heard, you spoke, you said the word neighbors five times in the presentation. So you actually get our input from your neighbors and change the project to be appeal for the neighbors and being a good neighbor is very important for a project like that. I appreciate your efforts on it, okay? Thank you. Ms. Garcia, do we have any other speakers on this item? We have no other speakers, Mayor, for the record. We do have three non-speakers in support. Thank you. I'm going to close the public hearing, Ms. Boxel. I have a motion from you. Do you want to articulate exactly what your motion is? Yes, I'd like to make a motion to accept this project as it is presented with the option for the developer to provide either a Mason Reefence or a Rod Iron Fence at his discretion. Developers, the applicant is an agreement with that. We are, yes, Mayor. Thank you, sir. And I have a second from Council Member Hunter. Miss Odom, Dr. Odom Wesley, your name just popped up as I was about to end things. We have some. I have just one question, Mayor. On the planning and zoning recommendation, there were three stipulations. Just to clarify, you did agree to all three. One was about the parking spaces, 129. It was, yes, because I believe the original staff report for planning and zoning was incorrect. It showed like 60 or 70 parking spaces. We are we're proposing. I think it was 123 or 127. I can get that exact number for you if you'd like. Okay. Okay. And then the second one was excluding the uses and you did mention that. The 12 uses, yes ma'am. Okay, and the glazing on the elevations facing which streets sit in. Space in the Stephen Street, yes. Okay, so you agree the author here does. Okay, thank you. Do you have that exact parking count just so I can make note of that mixture? 129. Okay, 129. Want to double check our parking plan if you don't want. It says at least one twenty nine. I'm showing yes. You want a dial friend? Just about, yeah, I use one of my life lines. Yep, absolutely. We can pull the audience. How many here thinks it should be at least 129, raise your hand? No. I promise I've got a $123.00 on $126.00. I'm going to be able to do that. Just so I don't hold up because I'm showing here one. I've got a one twenty three and one twenty six. Can we just ask for a buffer of one twenty or more. I think you all came up with the hundred and twenty nine. and 29. Okay. And we've been planning and zoning commission put that stipulation. I'm just double checking. 129 is correct. I did find it. All right. We are okay with that. Okay. So you're okay with all of that. So we have the motion will for the record amend the motion to include the information included by Dr. Odom Wesley and the original motion by Council Member Boxel. I have a second from Council Member Hunter. We've already closed the public hearings, so please cast your vote. The motion passes, congratulations. Thank you. 12.2 Ms. Stopple. Thank you, Mayor. Item 12.2 is zoning case PD 24-13. The applicant requests a change in zoning from community commercial CC to a plan development PD for limited LI uses light industrial uses with a development plan on approximately 3.547 acres of land addressed at 1601 east Barden Road generally located north of East Barden Road and west of New York Avenue. The site is currently undeveloped. The applicant proposes one building less than 50,000 square feet in size with customer parking in front of the building along Barden Road and vehicle loading and unloading bays at the back of the building. Additionally several LI users have been proposed to be excluded through this PD. Earlier this afternoon, I had sent you all an email with one correction in the staff report, case information and ordinance, all related to the planning and zoning commission stipulation, a copy of that memo and exhibit B of the ordinance with that correction was also placed at your desk. This evening we have Todd Marjassani presenting the case for us. Todd. Good evening mayor council. Todd Marjassani with Box Investment Group. Box Investment Group is focused on curating small buildings. We're looking for smaller infill sites to build really buildings anywhere between 20 to 100,000 square feet in this case. It's right about 46,000 square feet on about 3.5 acres, 1601 East Barton Road, Arlington, Texas. This is the front elevation. So this is exactly what you would see from Barden Road as you're passing east and west. The intent here is to make it look and feel like a retail office building. We did commit to code 25% office glazing on the front elevation. We like to add some of that glazing to create a second look. A second story look. We also have sconces and onnings to, again, create that retail type feel. You'll notice lots of building articulation. A lot of that is as a result of just the nature of the site, but it gives the ability to step the building back away from the street, create some additional interest in the building. We ran a study. Jailah Huff to South. This was looking at buildings that were less than 50,000 square feet. In DFW there's about 13,000 buildings under 50,000 square feet in Arlington. There's about 578. There's currently zero new under construction buildings that are under 50,000 square feet, which is what we're catering to. You can see there just on the right, you know, the typical warehouse building that you might see in Arlington, we are not that. Again, we took a deeper dive District 3, obviously similar result. There's no buildings that available under 50,000 square feet in what we consider Class A. These are some examples of potential uses and how Tinham might use the building inside. So, you know, some examples of Tinham names that we might look to attract in ways that the building will be used inside. Just a little bit of history on the site. This is the last site that's owned by Mr. Don Davis. It's about 3.5 acres. This is 3.5 of 100 plus Acre West Point Business Center. This is an old historic zoning map. Previously back in 2001, this zoning map shows that it was previously zoned BPIM. Again, with our request is PD-Li with limited uses. Definitely less intense than what the previous zoning was in 2001. Here's the zoning map again. I get, you know, currently zone community commercial request PD with limited uses, LI, surrounded by IM zoning to the west, to the east. This is a map I created. This is basically just me putting a buffer along I-20 suggesting that There are there is an appropriate location for community commercial uses Certainly would benefit those type of uses would benefit from visibility from I-20 We are not that we're outside of the thousand linear foot band to the south Also, you'll see on this map just some limits of different overlays and studies. So you'll see the limits of the 360 corridor study on the east side. That's east of New York, south of 20, west of 360, and then that study extends further south outside of this map. You'll also see the limits of the Arlington Municipal Airport overlay, which is just to the west of our side. it encompasses a lot of the commercial to the west and the single family neighborhood to the south. Here is just another overlay of the municipal airport. We like being adjacent or pretty close to the airport. We are building a speculative building, but to the extent our tenant wants that proximity to the airport and use of the airport we love it. This is a map just showing the current stock of land-zoned office commercial or community commercial. There are certainly other opportunities to develop community commercial within the area. Certainly the southwest quadrant of New York and Barden where you can see there's currently a gas station being built today that would lend itself to you know grocery anchor retail also the site just south of Barden Road there in the middle the picture that the depth lends itself to a retail type facility. Our site is deeper not doesn doesn't really lend itself to retail, which is why we're proposing the current use. Again, just showing a few things about the building we touched on running out of time. So I'm going to move quickly. This is a site layout. You can see we've got, you know, we're meeting code 30-foot level 3 landscape buffer on the east and the north side. We've also got a six foot masonry screen wall on the east and the north side those are all per code Let's get down this was a trip generation comparison we put together basically showing actually a decrease and Triangle That courthouse is 112 the other uses shown on the chart are all acceptable under the committee. Thank you. Okay. Ms. Garcia, any other speakers on this? We do have two speakers in support. Melanie McDonald. Dr. Odom Westley, do you have a question for the applicant? Yeah. No. Todd, can you come back up, please? I think you had a neighborhood meeting scheduled for September 12th. Can you tell us how that went? Yes. So as part of the stipulation for our EMS approval of PNZ was to host a neighborhood meeting. We did that. We were, there was a couple of things we went through. We were relying on Commissioner Finley to put us in touch with certain state colliders. So that occurred. We also voluntarily reached out to every residential neighbor within 1,000 feet of our site. So we sent them letters. That's five times the legal notice of 200 feet. That's required in the City of Arlington. We committed to that. We had one member from the neighborhood show up to our virtual meeting. It was very pleasant. You know, heard their questions and we concluded the meeting. Only one person showed up. No opposition from that one person. No opposition. Well, thank you for reaching out to the makers. Thank you, sir. Next speaker, Ms. Garcia. Melanie McDonald. Ms. McDonald. Okay, Jeff Wood. And then for the record, we have one non-speaker in support. Okay. I have a motion from Council. I'm going to close the public hearing. I have a motion from councilmember Bauxle, a second from councilmember Peele, please cast your vote. Motion passes, congratulations, sir. 12.3, Ms. Thoppel. Thank you, Mayor. Item 12.3 is zone in Thoppel. Thank you, Mayor. Item 12.3 is zoning case PD 24-15. The applicant's request to change their zoning from office commercial OC to plan development for office commercial OC with a development plan for telecommunications tower taller than 75 feet on a small portion 0.036 acres of a school site addressed at 7700 south Watson Road generally located south of New York Avenue and west of south Watson Road. The site is currently developed as Timberview High School of MISD, the South Tower company will be leasing approximately 1600 square feet on the northwest portion of the school site to build this 105 foot tall telecommunications tower. The rezoning to a PD is to address a deviation to the UDC standard wherein telecommunications towers must be a minimum of three to one distance to high teratio from single-family residential zoning. Earlier this afternoon I sent an email to you all with a revised landscape plan from the applicant that meets the stipulation by planning and zoning commission. They also submitted a map showing the closest cell towers in the vicinity. This evening we have Alec Brottis of Brottis Services on behalf of Verizon, VIRL, is presenting the case for us. The evening, sir. Councilman Mayor, can you hear me? Yes, sir. So you all have this map. I'm here representing Verizon tonight. This site was given to us two years ago by Verizon to go find a location where they can improve coverage and capacity in this area, or only 10 municipal area. Timberview was a location that I wanted and we decided to do a deal with Mansfield ISD and let me see here. How do I move this around? So as you can see, there's two towers to the north but they didn't meet the capacity or the coverage that was required to Vava Ryzen for this particular location It'll show you how to do stuff if you need to Okay Okay, nice So we with the plan is only meeting and they approve the 40 by 40 location up by the baseball field as you can see here. They asked us to move it back five feet and place landscaping by the fence facing to the west. Clicker. There's a picture here. So you can see this where we added the landscaping. So we had to move it five feet to do that. But MISD wanted that Verizon approved it. And this is the view from the road facing that. So you can see the fence of the baseball field there, right in this area. This is where the 40 by 40 area is gonna be. It'll be a little bit taller than the light standards that are here now. It's a standard compound for telecommunications. I'm trying to thank you of anything. Do you all have any questions from me? It's pretty standard telecommunications site. No sir. Miss Garcia, do we have any other speakers on this? We have no other speaker cards on this side of mayor. Thank you. I'll recognize council member Hogg. Thank you mayor. Thank you Mr. Brotus. Good to see you again. Good to see you. I know you're here for cell towers always. Yes. Let me I think this one's a little easier in the last one Let me ask 75 you know this is a baseball field. There's Electrical towers around it. There's lights is set you know We always want to get our residents the most coverage possible This is a place where you could have gone higher 75 feet. I was trying to remember from the last discussion. So we have is that the highest or could you have gone higher and what was the city going on that? We went to 105 which our red center will be 95 feet. Okay. So that's what we asked for more height for us and needed that height to get the coverage saying so we're up to that 105. Yes. Yes. Okay. So we are at that height. Pretty much your peak height of where you're going correct. Yes, sir. I mean, in the future, if a carrier wanted to come along and extend it, there's laws that allow that, but we're not there. But on this one, if that 105, they can put multiple if other carriers want to get on there. Yes. Okay, that's what I need to hear. Thank you. I'm looking at the stipulations that P and Z put in place, making sure you agree to those. And one was the opaque access doors. Yes ma'am. On the masonry enclosure. Yes ma'am facing back towards the school. Okay. We agreed to that. Okay. And then the other one was the landscaping and you just described that. Yes ma'am. All right, thank you. Mm-hmm. Thank you, council member. Miss Garcia, did you tell me no other speakers on this? There are no other speakers, Mayor. Thank you. I'm going to close the public. Curien, I have a motion from council member Gonzales. A second from council member, Belante, please cast your vote. Motion passes, congratulations, sir. Thank you. 12.4 Ms. Thoffel. Thank you, Mayor. Item 12.4, zoning case PD 24-18. The applicant request to change the zoning from General Commercial GC to plan development for General Commercial plus a car wash with the development plan on approximately 1.846 acres addressed at 2760 East Abrams Street and generally located south of East Abrams Street and east of State Highway 360. The site is currently undeveloped and has a 50 foot wide gas pipeline easement running through the middle of the site. No structures or trees are allowed to encroach this easement. A car wash is permitted with a specific use permit in the general commercial zoning district. However, since the applicant is requesting a deviation to the UDC standard, they have applied for a rezoning to a plan development with a development plan for this facility. This evening we have Samir Mohamed presenting the case for us. Mr. Mohamed. So he sent the smart one up? No, the pretty one. You can't be both. I can. I am. OK. Thank you. I appreciate that. For sure, my name's Ali Sandibal. So we usually do this as a team. There's three of us. Is that OK? That's perfect. OK, great. Good evening. You still only get five minutes. I'm not gonna let you tag out every five minutes So really all five minutes for all three of us. Yeah, I kind of talk a lot Then keep the other guys sitting down there. They're not as pretty as okay Good evening honor will city council members and other city officials My name is Ali Sandeval and I'm here to represent and introduce the proposed Development of Feel Great Car Wash at 2760 East Abram Street. With many years of experience in constructing and operating express car washes, we have established a proven track record of delivering quality and achieving positive business outcomes. We're both familiar with and excited to collaborate with the city of Arlington once again having previously built three beautiful car washes and several hotels in this vibrant community. The purpose of my presentation is to emphasize that quality is not just important to us. It's the main driving force behind everything we do. This commitment to quality is reflected in the positive feedback that we get from our customers. We are proud to maintain a 4.7 star rating on Google, a testament to the satisfaction and trust of our guests. To add value to our guests, we offer a wide range of amenities, our goals to provide a seamless and enjoyable experience, ensuring every visit is efficient and convenient, guests can easily access additional care products at each vacuum station, enhancing both the quality and value of their visit. Community outreach, this is really easy for me to talk about in my favorite part of working on this team. I was initially hired to join the community outreach team and it's a role I'm really passionate about. We understand that true growth comes from giving back not just holding onto every dollar we make. That's why we budget $20,000 annually for community efforts like the ones pictured here. We donated at least $5,000 to organizations, each such as White Settlement Police Department, Hultam City Police Department, Fort Worth and Police Department and Fire. Beyond monetary contributions, we volunteer with organizations like the Community, Food Bank, and Meals on Wheels of Terrent County. Learning firsthand the dedication, it takes to a run successful initiatives like these. As a parent of two school aged kids who play in Arlington sports, I spend almost every weekend at Elzi Odom Athletic Center for summer basketball. I'm proud that we also provide local sports teams a safe and easy way to fundraise. Like the lady wolves here, you can see they're raising funds for their trip to Florida. And I'll give some here in Harrison, two minutes to talk about whatever they want. Thank you for your time, you guys. I appreciate it. Thank you. Mr. Mayor and Council, thank you for your time. Clearly, I'm the young one here. My name is Harrison Hevill from Little Elm, Texas, by way of Fort Hood, Texas. So I've had over 20 plus years, 24 years now in the car wash industry, and I have the privilege of coaching our team members on site to be better versions of themselves, better teammates, and essentially better service providers to the community. So, one of the things we want to do is make a real difference when it comes to that. So we actually have a water monitoring device because that's something that's really important for all of us now and in the future that lets us know our usage per car per hour, every single hour that we're operating. Other things that we do is we optimize the wash layout so it's user friendly. So taking all the things that are going on on this site, we still were able to meet our expectation as providing an ergonomic car wash for the members of the community despite some of the things that are going on there. So, co-ed teammates, well at site, a lot of things speak for themselves. We're able to start pouring into our team members by paying them starting at $13 an hour and people on site can make a base pay of 65 up to 65,000 a year. So I think that is good coverage there. So, Samir, come on up. Thank you. Good evening, Mayor and Council members. Samir Muhammad, Arwing, Texas. I'm the project manager for Field Grade Car Wash, development and construction projects. I graduated from our very own UD-Alington, so I'm local to Alington. And if you look in the pictures, these are our three existing developments in the city of Alington, one of Green Oaks, South Collins, and Matlock Road project. So this particular site was a little tricky to do the layout. I'll come back to that later on. So if you look at the site plan, we have an entrance coming in from Abram Street, three stacking lanes in a four to three to four cards so that there's no traffic overflowing onto Abram Street causing news into the city. We have three POS systems drive into the tunnel, less than and tunnel and equipment room building, less than 6,000 square feet, tunnel exit drive going into the vacuums with approximately 29 vacuums stalls. In addition to this, we have an entrance from Oster Drive and five employee parking spaces at the back. So as I really have highlighted we like our buildings to stand out and we do not compromise on the finishes of our building. For this particular project we are planning to use a combination of natural stone, brick, stucco and metal panels. As I have said before this site was a little tricky to do the layout. We have, as you can see, if you look at the plate of this property, I have highlighted the gas easement in yellow. There's a 50 feet wide gas easement. There's a 16-inch gas main that runs through the middle of the lot, which is approximately 5 to 7 feet deep, which makes other businesses such as hotels, offices to build on this lot. If you look at our site plan, we have made sure that there is no structure or tree within this gaseasement, which we think makes align with adjacent commercial users of the properties and we are also away from any residential developments. So as you all know, we got unanimously approved the PNZ but there was a request to add a berm along oscillator drive. So we went ahead and added a berm to boost the landscaping along oscillator drive. And we had a question only one deviation from the, from the SEP, which is addition of missionary wall to screen the wash tunnel and the vacuum base from the street. We think the missionary wall, adding a missionary wall will make it an attractive. And that is why we went ahead and added landscaping to provide screening from the street. Thank you so much for giving us the time to present our case and we look forward to being a part of the wonderful community of Arlington. Thank you, sir. Council Member Galante. Thank you and congratulations for the entire team to bring this project to us. It's in my district and I had the privilege to go and visit the site in person. You guys gonna upgrade the area and congratulations also for being creative and work with the site plan, with the constraining that we have for the gas line. I know it's not easy. The car wash we have, you guys have a green oak, I'm a customer of yours. So you take my money once in a while I know. In its good standards you know how to run a business, you're serious about it and that's the kind of investors and entrepreneurs that we want in our city. I appreciate your effort. Congratulations. Dr. Odom Wesley. Thank you for the project and for bringing it to Arlington. Just one question I do like the landscaping plan. Tell me about your plan to maintain this landscaping in the long term. So if you look at all our existing locations, our landscaping is well maintained. We have a landscaper that goes out every other week to take care of any Veets or any mulch that is discolored so we replace the mulch quite often if we use Decompose granite as our Landscape covering so if that's eroding we replace them quite often We like our buildings to stand out and we wanna have a clean site for our customers. So we maintain every other week. We have a landscape that goes out. Good, thank you. Council member Gonzalez. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you for bringing the presentation. I don't know if you remember me. I think you all know, and I don't know if it was any of you, but you opened the one on Matlock on the guy that's the expert on these car washes that go to them all the time You know Car washes come and go they sell to other companies. So I'm glad to see that you guys are the owners Hopefully as you promised like you did on the matlock you're gonna maintain it with the the vacuums and everything else because I mean people that use them are just really dirty people They vacuum, you know trap Coke cups Change everything they think, they put everything through there, so I know it affects you all, but I really hope I voted against your project in Matt Locke, but seeing how well you've done, I'm going to vote yes for this one, so just let you know, so. Thank you. It's really good that we're all locals here. We live in Arlington, our owners live in Arlington, and I live in Ulyss. We have to take pride in our businesses because we're here. If somebody uses our car wash on greenoaks, and I'm right down the road at Elzeodom, and they say, hey, your car wash kind of suck today. We take that really personal, so we're proud of it. Are you keep mentioning Elzy Odom. Do you understand that that facility was named after Dr. Odom Wesley's father who was mayor here? Are you just trying to earn some extra money? No, it's because I've been there every weekend since June. I did not know the summer basket. Well, I was, yeah, I was going to take that much time. Yeah, it's been fun. Well, I appreciate you all. I like your project more importantly, I like y'all. You bring good energy. You're obviously good people doing good business in a great city. So thank y'all for that. I have a motion. I'm going to close the public hearing. Miss Garcia, any other speakers? I don't know if I asked you that. We have no other speakers, Mayor. And for the record, we have four non-speakers in support. Thank you. I'm going to close public hearing. I have a motion from council member Galante, a second from council member Boxel. Please cast your vote. Motion passes. Congratulations, Steele. Okay. Motion passes, congratulations, Tiel. Okay, citizen participation, Ms. Garcia. Citizen participation gives the public an opportunity to make comments or address concerns regarding matters related to city business or affairs that are in the scope of the authority of the city council, which are not posted on the evening agenda. However, please understand that the mayor and council are not permitted by law to respond to discuss or address the comment at this time, as these items are not included on the posted council agenda for this evening. The mayor and council may only ask clarifying questions and or direct staff to take appropriate action. Speakers who have pre-registered will be given two minutes to make their comments, except that if 26 or more speakers have pre-registered, each speaker will be given one minute to make their comments. First speaker is Ashley Williams and I live at 400 Central Park Drive in Arlington, Texas. I moved there April of 2024, April 1st of 2024. I have a Chevy, a 1999 Chevy Tahoe that my husband owned. He passed away of COVID July 7 of 2023 and I'm here to see can I have some type of agreement or can we figure out before they can stop putting notices on my vehicle? I have been there again since April. I've gotten three notices. I need to know what I can do in order for my vehicle not to be towed. It's insured, it's registered, and it's backed. The tires are up to code. There's no reason. It's not abandoned. It's my vehicle. I just want to be left alone. I don't want my vehicle to be towed. I don't want to be left alone. I don't want my vehicle to be told. I don't want to be ticketed. I need to find out what can I do so I won't have any issues. If my vehicle get taken, I will be devastated. The ordinance was from my understanding. I am supposed to move the vehicle every 24 hours. And of course, I would try my best. this was from my understanding I am supposed to move the vehicle every 24 hours. And of course I would try my best, but there may be sometimes where I can't. I am on leave absence. I am really trying my best day to day. It is really a struggle for the city to try to take my property. I need to know what I can do so I won't have this constantly a reminder. I just need for you to help me. Thank you, ma'am. We'll have someone from the city reach out to you and speak to you about your situation. May I speak? I'm your time's expired. Okay. Thank you. I had two people to come out already. It was a sergeant and a police officer. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Larry McFarlane. I don't see Mr. McFarlane still here. Next speaker. Sarah Hissin. Ms. Hissin. Ms. Hissin. I'm Sarah Hissin. I'm a lifelong Arlington resident. I am here to express my concerns and the concerns of the members of Arlington residents for inclusion about the council member from district six appointment to the library advisory board. I personally attended every lab meeting during the Pride display debate. While this appointee can say we can't see her heart, we heard her heart loud and clear at those meetings. She dehumanized and reduced the queer community to their private life, which should not be something she's thinking about. Listen to the recordings of June 7th of 2022, City Council meeting where, due to an event with gay neighbors, her and her husband chose to move to Arlington for its family-oriented lifestyle. A lifestyle she seems to view as antithetical to families of queer members. She proselytized that approval of a privately funded Pride celebration was a step away from publicly approving pedophilia. At a lab meeting, she declared Christians on the majority, but that Christians are also being judged. Thus, she is actually the one being persecuted. As for being judged, her and her advocate on August 6th City Council meeting publicly and repeatedly reduced queer people to sex objects, deemed them sinful and a threat, and they are connected to a group here in Arlington who continually called queer Arlington residents, groomers, perverts, and pedophiles at lab meetings. Never once asking for these apporant and dangerous labels to cease. We heard District 6 appointed appointees heart. This council made clear with the removal of the previous lab chair, the professionalism is a high priority. Due to what this individual chose to say and do, ARI requests her rhetoric and actions be closely monitored for professionalism and inclusion. And please remember, this is her second chance to show professionalism. Her first chance was used by demanding the removal of our phenomenal library director since she seems to equate being listened to to getting her way in regards to two books and the adult sections of some of our libraries. Lastly I hope this council remains aware of this group's continued work towards the abolishment of public inclusion of queer people in Arlington and I really hope this group takes the advice Arlington's beloved Shirley Adams gave to them at a lab meeting. Thank you. lab meeting. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. I think broader than yourself. Thank you. James Allen. OK, my name is James Allen. I'm from Rome, from Romans in Texas. Okay, so the last time I came here, I finished the majority of my arguments for public transport. And today I'm here to focus on debunking common arguments against public transport, some of which are made by the mayor himself. I emote a petition with most of my research to just about every council member here with only council member box getting back to me. So the most common argument against public transport is crime, as I'm sure everyone has seen the criminals who have broken to their house, get away, carrying their flat screen TV and Xbox on a public bus. This logic doesn't make sense because using the same logic, crime happens in your public transport, therefore we shouldn't have it. You could use the same logic about public schools because I'm in the shootings and over all crimes happen there. But you don't see anyone arguing that because it is unintelligent. It also is just factually not true. Crime is a socioeconomic issue and something that stimulates the economy through mobility and job creation, such as public transport is not the root cause of that. We push this someone to commit a crime as they nuance topic, but the biggest things are a lack of means to reach socially accepted socio-economic goals. This causes a strain that puts pressure on the individual that pushes them to commit a crime, at least for something like relative poverty for absolute poverty, the state that they are in is a threat to their life, so they commit crime to simply sustain themselves. Blaming public transport for crime is akin to blaming a spoon for making someone fat. Just as the spoon is merely a tool for eating, public transport is merely a tool for mobility and city interconnectedness. It is not actually the root cause of that issue. Some people are opposed to public transport because they feel that it'll bring homelessness, but this also doesn't make sense because homelessness is a problem of a lack of housing. When the demand outweighs supply, when it comes to housing, the price of housing goes up, and those with the least are left without a house. Someone was opposed to homelessness, they should advocate for the construction of affordable homes in their community, which is something I've also watched this council shoot down. Thank you, sir. An argument made by the mayor himself. Thank you, sir. Arlington's apparent lack of density. Sir, your time has expired. Thank you. Okay, I'm not finished yet. Yes, you are. No, I'm not. Please shut the mic off. Sir, take your seat please. Next speaker. Angela Whitman. Angela Whitman. Good evening. My name is Angela Whitman and I'm the lady from last year that came in here in the month of November. November is a really important month to me into the world. November is the month of diabetes awareness. Last year the city of Allerton, you guys let me down. I babysitted the calendar starting from November of last year to where we are right now and to my surprise again. There is nothing on the calendar for the city of all it's in to even recognize that beauty awareness. Mayor Ross you one of my favorite mayors. I come from four different states and you one of my favorite mayors. I talk about you all the time. This Whitman? Yes. Can I interrupt one second? Yes, sir. You can. Have you looked at your email today? I just got it today. Okay. But you didn't let me finish my point. I know you know I'm doing a proclamation and I'm going to come out to your event and take care of my life. Yes, you are. Yes you are. All right. With that being said, Ms. Andy did send me an email today. However, October's real big for the city of Auditor-Mirrora. You guys do not miss a beat when it comes to the month of October because it's breast cancer awareness. I campaign for what makes me laugh, for what makes me cry, for what hurts. Diabetes is not a color thing. It is not a color thing. It is not a race thing. It is not an age. It don't care about your area code or your zip code. It means everything to me. But I had to get people to rally for me to talk about diabetes. You and I are both diabetics, my wrongs. And you got cancer murmurs that on this board that are diabetics. People probably said not her that are died Betty Die Beaties is affecting lives. I'm living it. I am a diabetic with diabetes. I live this It hurts my feelings. I try not to come and hurt with my feelings But these are my feelings it got to mean something to everybody. We fight for one thing. We supposed to fight for all of it. Thank you, ma'am. And I'll see you when I'm out there giving that proclamation. Oh, no. Remember the 50. Yes, ma'am. Sorry. I ain't going to give you any more reasons to get a hold of me, okay? Saeeda, Bill Kisayid? Saeeda? Saeeda? Okay, any other speakers, Ms. Garcia? Those were all the speaker cards. Thank you. Council, do y'all have any announcements? Mr. Gonzalez? Yes, as you remind citizens that the Syrian Committee for the International Accordor are taking applications between now and September 30th, so if you want to be involved and then working on the planning action items and everything else for future implementation, be sure to go online by September 30th, 2024. We are looking mostly for citizens that live in the international corridor area. Thank you. Councilmember Hunter. Thank you, Mayor. I just want to remind residents that on October 5th, we will have our annual breast cancer awareness event, which by the way will include one of the health screenings will include diabetes screenings as well. So thank you. I will have to call Ms. Whitman, let her know that we're going to include the diabetes stuff in there. Any other announcements over here to my left? Okay, Ms. Garcia, announcements please. I'd like to remind our residents, Arlington City Council evening meetings are rebroadcast on Sundays at 6 p.m. and on Wednesday and Saturday mornings at 6.30 a.m. The councils afternoon work sessions are rebroadcast on Sundays at 1 p.m. Wednesdays at 1.30 p.m. and on Saturdays at 6 p.m. You can also watch the meetings online anytime at www.artingtontx.gov. Thank you and with that we stand adjourned. you The We put articles on the recycling cart with the hope that it will be recycled. In the end, this material ends up being deposited in the green. 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