[2024 Bond CBTF Meeting on June 20, 2023.]
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WE'LL GET THE COMMUNITY BOND TASK FORCE MEETING TO ORDER.
WITH THAT, UH, WE WILL GET TO OUR FIRST POINT ON AGENDA, PUBLIC SPEAKERS, UH, JEN.
SO OUR, OUR FIRST PUBLIC SPEAKER TONIGHT IS, UH, VENITA BENNETT.
IS SHE AVAILABLE? YOU'LL HAVE THREE MINUTES TO SPEAK.
AND IF THERE'S ANY SPECIFIC, AND THIS IS FOR EVERYBODY, BUT IF THERE'S ANY SPECIFIC PROJECT, UH, QUESTIONS, WE'LL FORWARD ON, UH, THOSE QUESTIONS TO THE APPROPRIATE DEPARTMENT AS WELL.
UM, CHAD WEST ENCOURAGED ME TO SPEAK TONIGHT TO YOU ABOUT THE PLIGHT THAT WE HAVE HAD WITH OUR ALLEY SINCE 2002.
WE LIVE WITH CRATER SIZED, UM, HOLDS IN THE, WE LIVE WITH CRATER SIZED HOLDS IN THE ALLEY AND ARE SUFFERING FROM D DUST INVASIONS.
UM, WE MOVED INTO OUR HOUSE IN 2002.
WE BUILT TWO NEW HOUSES ON PLIGHT LOTS THAT THE CITY HAD, AND WE WERE PROMISED THE ALLEY WOULD BE IMPROVED.
NOTHING HAS HAPPENED IN 21 YEARS.
I'LL GIVE IT TO YOU IN NUMBERS BECAUSE I ONLY HAVE THREE MINUTES.
IT HAS BEEN ON THE NEEDS LIST SINCE AT LEAST 2002.
WE KNOW IT WAS ON THE NEEDS LIST BEFORE, SO IT'S AT LEAST 21 YEARS.
OUR ALLEY NOW HAS A TOTAL OF 87 PARKING SPOTS THAT ARE ALSO USED BY RETAIL ON JEFFERSON AND RETAIL AND BUSINESSES ON SOUTH TYLER.
WE'RE BETWEEN SOUTH TYLER AND SOUTH POLK, AND WE SHARE THE ALLEY WITH JEFFERSON BOULEVARD, WHERE THE ONLY UNIMPROVED PIECE OF ALLEY THAT IS SHARED WITH JEFFERSON, 68 OF THE 87 PARKING SPOTS CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED THROUGH THE ALLEY 19 OF THE 87 PARKING SPOTS ARE ACCESSED FROM JEFFERSON, BUT HAVE TO BE EXITED THROUGH OUR ALLEY.
THE ALLEY IS ALSO USED BY DUMP TRUCKS FOR THE DUMPSTERS OF THE RETAIL AND BUSINESSES BY GARBAGE TRUCKS FOR BOTH RETAIL AND RESIDENTIAL, BY DELIVERY TRUCKS FOR THE RETAIL AND BUSINESSES, AND AT LEAST 10 TO 15 VEHICLES A DAY THAT TRY TO BYPASS THE ONE-WAY STREET THAT WE LIVE ON AND USE IT AS A SHORTCUT.
AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, THE S ACCESS TO OUR GARAGES AS RESIDENTS ON SUNSET.
WHAT THAT MEANS ON A, WHAT I CALL REGULAR DAY, IS THAT WE HAVE 68 VEHICLES DRIVE THROUGH THE ALLEY TO PARK 87 VEHICLES, DRIVE THROUGH THE ALLEY TO EXIT, PLUS RESIDENTS, PLUS GARBAGE TRUCKS, PLUS DELIVERY TRUCKS, PLUS CARS THAT TRY TO BYPASS THE ONE-WAY STREET AND USE THE ALLEY AS A SHORTCUT, WHICH MEANS WE HAVE ABOUT 185 TO 190 VEHICLE MOVEMENTS THROUGH OUR ALLEY ON A NORMAL DAY.
NOW, IMAGINE THAT ON SOUTH TYLER, THERE ARE EVENTS AT THE THEATERS AND OTHER VENUES THAT ARE THERE.
OUR L E B COMES THE EXTRA PARKING SPOT FOR ALL OF THAT.
AND WE HAVE BETWEEN THREE AND 400 VEHICLES GO THROUGH AN UNIMPROVED DIRT, WHICH MEANS GRAVEL ALLEY.
AND THE POTHOLES HAVE BEEN NEVER REALLY FIXED.
AND WE BELIEVE THAT AFTER 21 YEARS, WE DESERVE TO HAVE THAT DONE.
MY HUSBAND AND I BUILT HOUSES IN OAK CLIFF WHEN THE CITY DESPERATELY WANTED NEW HOMES THAT WERE AFFORDABLE.
WE WERE PROMISED 21 YEARS AGO THAT THE ALLEY WOULD BE IMPROVED IF WE WOULD MAKE THAT INVESTMENT.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS JOHN CRUZ.
WE CAN COME BACK TO HIM IF HE YES, SIR.
CAN WE ASK, UH, THE SPEAKER, DO YOU HAVE ANY PICTURES OF THAT ALLEY? I DO HAVE A COLLECTION OF PHOTOS.
I HAVE A MAP THAT SHOWS ALL THE PARKING SPOTS.
I DIDN'T WANT LOSE ANY TIME TONIGHT, UM, FOR A VISUAL PRESENTATION, BUT I'M HAPPY TO PUT A PACKAGE TOGETHER AND SEND IT TO WHOEVER NEEDS IT.
YOUR DESCRIPTION WAS PRETTY GOOD, BUT I, I, I THINK THE PIC THE PICTURES MIGHT
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BE OVERWHELMING, SO IT'D BE NICE.UH, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT CAN BE EMAILED IN, IN, IN THE CIRCULATED TO US, BUT I I, THAT WOULD BE MORE IMPRESSIVE.
SO IF YOU DON'T MIND YEAH, NO PROBLEM.
WE'LL COME BACK TO JOHN CRUISE IS, UM, ANDREA PEDIGO.
IS THAT OKAY? CAN YOU, CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES, YOU CAN.
HI, MY NAME IS ANDREA PETTIGO AND I AM HERE ON BEHALF OF THE WHITE ROCK CREEK TRAIL.
UM, I'M ALSO THE PERSON WHO INVITED EVERYBODY OUT TO THE KAYAK THE CREEK EVENT, AND WE WERE GLAD FOR PEOPLE TO SHOW.
BUT I'M ALSO THE PERSON THAT STOPS PEOPLE ON THE TRAIL AND TALKS TO THEM.
SO I'VE GOTTEN A GOOD FEEL OF WHO OUR TRAIL USERS ARE.
AND THE TRAIL IS A VERY UNIQUE, UM, TRAIL.
IT IS PART OF THE FLOODPLAIN, WHICH WE THINK IS A BIG POSITIVE.
IT IS CONTINUOUS ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE LAKE FROM 6 35 TO LATHER, AND IT IS SURROUNDED BY A THOUSAND ACRES OF GREEN SPACE, INCLUDING THE CREEK.
AND TO PUT THAT INTO PERSPECTIVE, NEW YORK CENTRAL PARK IS ONLY 840 ACRES.
WE ARE ALSO UNIQUE IN THAT WE SPAN FOUR CITY COUNCIL DISTRICTS, AND WE ARE UNIQUE IN THAT WE ARE THE OG TRAIL BUILT IN THE 1980S.
THE TRAIL HAS SURVIVED AND THE PATHWAY HAS SURVIVED REALLY WELL, BUT IT'S NOW COMING UPON 40 YEARS OLD AND IT NEEDS SOME ATTENTION.
OUR TRAIL USERS ARE UNIQUE AS WELL.
THEY ARE FROM ALL OVER THE CITY OF DALLAS.
I'VE MET PEOPLE FROM, UM, TENNIS AND AREA BIRDERS WHO COME OVER TO THE TRAIL, BIKED RIDERS WHO COME FROM ALL OVER TO RIDE.
WE HAVE, UM, OUR CLEANUP CREWS THAT COME FROM THE CITY.
WE'VE HAD TWO, A FATHER AND DAUGHTER COME FROM HIGHLAND PARK.
WE ALSO HAVE PEOPLE FROM MEDICAL CITY BECAUSE WE ARE RIGHT BY THE MEDICAL CITY, UM, HOSPITAL.
AND ONE GENTLEMAN COMES OUT EVERY MONTH WHEN HIS, HIS WIFE HAS TREATMENTS, AND HE COMES OUT FOR LIKE A MENTAL HEALTH WALK.
SO WE ARE NOT JUST A NEIGHBORHOOD TRAIL, WE ARE A VERY BIG BROAD TRAIL USER GROUP.
WE ARE ASKING FOR SUPPORT FROM THE PARKS AND, UM, THE PARKS DEPARTMENT FOR TRAIL IMPROVEMENTS ON TWO SECTIONS.
THEY JUST PROBABLY NEED TO BE REBUILT.
WE ARE ASKING FOR MASTER DESIGN PLAN FUNDING TO UNIFY THE THOUSAND ACRES TO DEFINE SOME OF THE PROBLEM AREAS THAT WE HAVE AND TO PROBLEM SOLVE THAT.
BUT WE HAVE A WETLANDS, UM, SECTION IN THE SOUTH OF THE TRAIL, WHICH IS UNIQUE, AND WE HAVE THE, UM, HARRIET MOSS NATIVE GARDENS IN THE NORTH.
UM, WE ARE ALSO ASKING FOR, UM, ONE MOMENT.
WE NEED TRASH RECEPTACLES AT EVERY ENTRANCE AND EXIT POINT.
WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO PICK UP TRASH, BUT THERE'S NO LOGICAL PLACE FOR THEM TO PUT IT.
SO THOSE NEED TO BE EMBEDDED IN CONCRETE.
UM, WE'RE ALSO ASKING FOR SOME CONSIDERATION UNDER TRANSPORTATION BECAUSE WE HAVE TWO MAJOR RETAIL CENTERS ADJACENT TO US, BUT THERE'S NO LOGICAL PATHWAY TO GET THERE.
UM, WE ARE ASKING FOR SIGNAGE THAT TELLS PEOPLE AT LATHER WHERE THEY'RE HEADED.
THERE'S THIS, YOU JUST DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU'RE GOING.
AND WE ARE ASKING FOR A BRIDGE THAT GOES OVER TO CONNECT THE HARAS MOSS, UM, NATIVE GARDEN TO THE HARAS MOSS SOCCER FIELDS.
YOU ALSO HAVE BATHROOM FACILITIES AND THE DOBA PARK.
SO CONNECTING THAT GIVES IT A SEAMLESS INTERACTION.
AND THE REASON WHY I SAY TRANSPORTATION IS WE DO HAVE COMMUTERS, BUT THEY HAVE TO, UM, ACCESS THE RETAIL CENTER.
UM, AND WE DO HAVE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO USE THIS AS A METHOD OF GREEN TRANSPORTATION.
I COULD GO ON AND ON, BUT I'M RESPECTING MY TIMEFRAME.
IS THERE ANY QUESTIONS? THANK YOU SO MUCH.
AND ONE OF OUR, UH, TASK FORCE MEMBERS,
IT WAS REALLY GOOD AND INFORMATIVE AND MAYBE SOME GOOD AND BAD WAYS BECAUSE OF THE TRASH.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS CHRIS HEIN BALL.
I'M CHRIS HEIN, BALL WITH THE AT AND T PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, AND MOST OF YOU ARE PROBABLY FAMILIAR WITH OUR BEAUTIFUL CAMPUS IN THE DALLAS ARTS DISTRICT.
FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 2003, 20 YEARS, THE CENTER IS ASKING TO BE A PART OF THE BOND PROGRAM.
BUT TONIGHT, I'M HERE AT ADVOCATING ON BEHALF OF THE ARTS COMMUNITY.
2024 MUST BE A SIGNIFICANT YEAR FOR THE ARTS, AT LEAST 6% OF THE BOND PROGRAM FOR CULTURAL FACILITIES.
THIS YEAR, THE OFFICE OF ARTS AND CULTURE SUBMITTED
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A 68.5 MILLION REQUEST FOR CULTURAL FACILITIES.THIS HAS SPREAD OVER 15 FACILITIES ACROSS THE CITY, ALL OWNED BY THE CITY OF DALLAS.
THEY GENERATE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, UH, UH, MILLIONS OF VISITS EACH YEAR.
COMMUNITY CULTURAL CENTERS LIKE SOUTH DALLAS OAK, CLIFF BATHHOUSE, LATINO CULTURAL CENTER, DALLAS, BLACK DANCE THEATERS, HOME, THE HISTORIC MORAL, AND Y, THE SALMON CENTER FOR THE ARTS THAT SERVE DOZENS OF ARTS GROUPS AND MAJOR SHOWCASES LIKE THE MAJESTIC, THE DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART, THE WIND SPEAR, WILEY MOODY, PERFORMANCE HALL, AND MORE.
ALL OF THESE BELOVED VENUES ARE IN NEED OF CARE.
YOU'RE PROBABLY FAMILIAR WITH THIS PHRASE, DALLAS IS REALLY GOOD AT BUILDING THINGS, BUT NOT VERY GOOD AT TAKING CARE OF THEM.
WE HAVE TO CHANGE THIS PARADIGM.
AND HERE IS WHERE WE START, BECAUSE NONE OF THIS REQUEST, NONE OF IT, IS TO BUILD SHINY NEW VENUES.
THIS IS ALL ABOUT TAKING CARE OF WHAT WE'VE GOT.
DEFERRED MAINTENANCE REPAIRS, H V A C, ROOFS, ELEVATORS.
THESE ARE NOT SEXY THINGS THAT INSPIRE FUNDRAISING.
I WISH THEY WERE, BUT THEY'RE NOT.
THESE ARE THE CITY'S BUILDINGS.
AND THIS BOND PROGRAM, WE MUST SEE AT LEAST 6%.
AND THIS AMOUNT, BY THE WAY, IS NOT AN OUTLIER.
IN 2003, 5% OF THE BOND PRO WENT TO CULTURAL FACILITIES, 2006, 60.8 MILLION FOR CULTURAL FACILITIES.
BUT IN 2012, NO MONEY FOR CULTURAL FACILITIES.
WE WERE TOLD THIS ISN'T AN ARCH YEAR.
17 YEARS SINCE THERE WAS A SIGNIFICANT VET INVESTMENT IN MAINTAINING OUR CULTURAL TREASURES.
AND THAT'S A SHAME BECAUSE THEY MAKE THE BEST INVESTMENT FOR BOND FUNDS.
IT'S AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLAY.
THEY GENERATE TAX REVENUE FROM TICKETS, CONCESSIONS, PARKING, GIFT SHOPS.
THEY TRANSFORM NEIGHBORHOODS, ATTRACT CULTURAL TOURISM.
OUR ARTS EDUCATION PROGRAMS IN THESE VENUES BOOST STUDENT OUTCOMES, AND THEY IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN DALLAS.
BUT TO KEEP THIS ROI COMING, YOU HAVE TO KEEP YOUR VENUES IN GOOD SHAPE.
AUDIENCES WON'T COME IF THE ROOFS LEAK AND THE AC ISN'T WORKING.
AT LEAST 6% IS WHAT WE NEED THIS YEAR TO KEEP THESE INVESTMENTS VIBRANT AND ALIVE.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SERVICE ON THIS TASK FORCE.
YOU ARE DOING VERY IMPORTANT WORK.
THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU ARE DOING.
MY NAME IS BRIAN TONY, AND I'M HERE REPRESENTING THE DALLAS HOUSING COALITION.
WE'RE A GROUP OF OVER 100 NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS, DEVELOPERS, REALTORS, HOUSING AND POLICY EXPERTS, AND COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS WHO ARE URGING DALLAS.
TO INVEST IN THE FUTURE OF OUR CITY THROUGH HOUSING, WE NEED AT LEAST 150 MILLION PER STAFF, UH, REQUEST FOR HOUSING AND UP TO 200 MILLION IDEALLY, UH, TO KEEP UP WITH THE GROWTH OF OUR CITY AND MAKE UP FOR THE SHORTAGE THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE.
OUR MOTTO IS THAT DALLAS IS BIG ENOUGH FOR EVERYONE.
RIGHT NOW, DALLAS IS BECOMING UNAFFORDABLE.
OUR MEDIAN INCOME IN DALLAS IS A HUNDRED, IS $58,200.
WHILE THE AVERAGE HOME PRICE IS OVER $400,000, THERE'S A RENTAL HOUSING GAP OF 33,600 UNITS THAT'S PROJECTED TO GROW TO 80,000 UNITS AND MORE BY 2030 IF WE DO NOT TAKE ANY ACTIONS.
NOW, AS YOU MAY KNOW, ACCESS TO HOUSING IS THE GREATEST REASON, UH, THAT PEOPLE MOVE.
RIGHT NOW, WE'RE COMPETING AGAINST OUR SUBURBAN COUNTIES LIKE KAUFMAN THAT GREW BY 9%, AND COMPANIES ARE RELOCATING TO OUR NORTHERN SUBURBS, AND DALLAS IS LOSING OUT ON OPPORTUNITIES.
UH, WHILE WE REMAIN SEGREGATED IN OUR OWN RIGHT, WE ALSO NEED A HUNDRED THOUSAND NEW AND REFURBISHED AFFORDABLE HOMES BY 2033.
AMONG THE LARGEST DRIVERS OF THIS GAP IS THAT WE'RE LOSING 54,000 NATURALLY OCCURRING AFFORDABLE UNITS.
WE NEED HOME HOME REPAIR, AND WE NEED REHABILITATION.
IN ADDITION TO NEW DEVELOPMENT FOR HOUSING IN OUR CITY RIGHT NOW, THERE ARE OVER, UH, 475 UNUSED PLOTS ALREADY FOR MULTIFAMILY ALONE IN DALLAS ON VACANT LAND THAT COULD BECOME A HUNDRED THOUSAND NEW APARTMENTS.
THIS IS A SOLVABLE PROBLEM IN OUR CITY VERSUS OTHER, UH, BOND PROPOSITIONS THAT WE CONTINUE TO POUR MONEY INTO.
WE ALSO KNOW THAT, KNOW THAT OTHER CITIES ACROSS TEXAS ARE ADDRESSING THIS ISSUE.
HEAD ON THAT THERE HAVE BEEN SHORTAGES IN AUSTIN, SAN ANTONIO, HOUSTON, THAT ARE ALL COMING UP WITH INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS.
AUSTIN, IN 2013 AND 2018 APPROVED, UH, BOND FUNDINGS FOR 250 MILLION.
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THEY JUST DID 218 MILLION, TWO, 350 MILLION, I'M SORRY, IN 2022.AND THEIR ECONOMIC IMPACT HAS BEEN OVER A BILLION DOLLARS A LOAN FROM THEIR BOND FUNDING.
SO IT'S ALSO A GIFT THAT REINVESTS IN OUR CITY AND HAS AN ECONOMIC IMPACT OF OVER A HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS PER YEAR, UH, ANNUALLY IN SUPPORTING OUR TAX BASE.
FINALLY, YOU CAN ALSO, UH, LOOK AT OUR HOMELESSNESS, UH, PROBLEM.
THIS IS SOMETHING THAT IS SOLVABLE WITH HOUSING AS WELL.
SO YOU'RE, UH, ADDRESSING TWO PROBLEMS AT THE SAME TIME BY INVESTING IN HOUSING, HOME REPAIR, REHABILITATION, UH, NEW DEVELOPMENT, LAND ACQUISITION, OUR HOUSING STAFF NEEDS THAT FLEXIBILITY TO, UH, ACHIEVE THE GOALS THAT ARE IN OUR COMPREHENSIVE HOUSING POLICY, RACIAL EQUITY PLAN AND MORE.
I'D LIKE TO CLOSE BY LEAVING YOU WITH SOME FLYERS TO OUR HOUSING COALITION LAUNCHED HAPPENING NEXT MONDAY AT 11:00 AM AT THE GATEHOUSE IN THE BOTTOMS DISTRICT.
THAT'S WHERE PREVIOUS HOUSING BONDS FUNDING HAS BEEN USED SUCCESSFULLY IN DALLAS.
AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO BUILDING UPON THOSE SUCCESSES IN THE 2024 BOND.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND SERVICE.
YES, I'M OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS ADAM LAMONT.
COULD I ASK A QUESTION JUMPING BACK AS SPEAKER TO, UM, MR. AUGH, OR IS THAT OKAY? YEAH.
UM, CHRIS, DO YOU HAVE A LIST OF THE, UM, THE BUILDINGS THAT YOU MENTIONED AND THE, THE NEEDS IN EACH OF THOSE ARTS FACILITIES OR CULTURAL FACILITIES? OR IS THAT SOMETHING I NEED TO GET FROM THE CITY? YOU CAN GET IT FOR US.
I WOULD, I WOULD GET IT FROM THE OFFICE OF ARTS AND CULTURE TO MAKE SURE YOU'RE GETTING EVERYTHING CORRECT.
I KNOW OUR FACILITIES NEEDS, BUT I WOULDN'T WANNA SPEAK FOR ANYBODY ELSE.
YEAH, THAT, THAT'S WHO WE'D BE GETTING IT FROM.
I LIVE AT 94 32 AMERGEN PARKWAY ON DISTRICT 10.
UH, I'M A D I D TEACHER, UH, AND, UM, ALSO CO-FOUNDED A GROUP, UH, DALLAS NEIGHBORS FOR HOUSING, UM, ADVOCACY GROUP.
UM, THAT'S ALSO PART OF THE DALLAS HOUSING, UH, COALITION.
UH, AND I'M HERE TONIGHT TO ADVOCATE FOR INCREASING THE FUNDING GOING TOWARDS HOUSING IN THE 2024 BOND.
UH, YOU KNOW, I'M DISAPPOINTED TO SEE THAT BOND STAFF HAS UPDATED THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS.
SO ONLY A HUNDRED MILLION, UH, FOR HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS SOLUTIONS, UM, COMBINED.
AND THAT'S WELL BELOW THE 160 MILLION.
UH, THAT WAS THE AVERAGE FOR, UH, CITY COUNCIL FEEDBACK.
UH, AND THAT GAP WAS BY FAR THE WIDEST, UH, BOTH BY PERCENTAGE AND NUMERICAL AMOUNT, UM, OF ANY BOND CATEGORY, UH, BETWEEN WHAT COUNCIL REQUESTED AND WHAT, UH, STAFF HAS MOST RECENTLY REC RECOMMENDED, UM, SORRY, I, I'M MATH TEACHER, SO I DWELL ON THOSE NUMBERS.
UM, THE NEED FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN THE CITY IS IMMENSE, UM, GROWN IMMENSELY IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS.
OF COURSE, AS WE ALL KNOW, HOW MUCH HOUSING HAS INCREASED.
UM, AS A TEACHER, I SEE THE DIFFERENCE THAT STABLE, AFFORDABLE HOUSING, UH, HAS ON MY STUDENTS.
UM, MANY OF THEM LIVE IN AFFORDABLE HOUSING ALONG PETERSON LANE BY THE GALLERIA, UH, AND THEIR FAMILIES HAVE LIVED THERE FOR YEARS, ALLOWING THEM TO ESTABLISH ROOTS IN A HIGH OPPORTUNITY COMMUNITY.
ON THE FLIP SIDE, I HAVE STUDENTS WHO DO NOT HAVE STABLE HOUSING.
THOSE STUDENTS MOVE APARTMENTS, AND OFTEN THEY COME TO MY SCHOOL IN THE MIDDLE OF THE YEAR.
THAT INSTABILITY REX HAC ON BOTH THEIR EDUCATION, UH, AND FOR THE REST OF MY STUDENTS, AS I'M STRETCHED THIN, TRYING TO CATCH, UM, UP THESE NEW STUDENTS, UM, OFTEN WHAT ENDS UP HAPPENING IS THOSE NEW STUDENTS MOVE AGAIN, YOU KNOW, CAUSING THEM TO HAVE TO START OVER.
NEW FRIENDS, NEW RELATIONSHIPS, YOU KNOW, NEW TEACHERS AT ANOTHER NEW SCHOOL.
UM, AND SO THIS IS JUST ANOTHER WAY THAT AFFORDABLE HOUSING, UH, REINFORCES STRONG COMMUNITIES AND STRONG NEIGHBORHOODS, UH, IN OUR CITY.
UH, THE BOND REPRESENTS A HISTORIC OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR NEW AFFORDABLE HOUSING, REHABILITATION OF EXISTING HOUSING AND HOME OWNERSHIP ASSISTANCE FOR FIRST TIME BUYERS.
UM, AND THAT LAST ONE, UH, IS PERSONAL FOR ME SINCE MY WIFE AND I LIVE IN A HOME THAT SHE BOUGHT, UH, USING A HOME HOME BUYING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM ALMOST, UH, 10 YEARS AGO, LONG BEFORE, UH, MY, MY PESKY SELF ENTERED THE PICTURE.
UM, WE NEED TO DEVOTE MORE THAN A HUNDRED MILLION, UH, FOR HOUSING IN THE BOND.
UM, TO BE FRANK, EVEN THE 160 MILLION REQUESTED BY COUNSEL, UM, IS STILL NOT ENOUGH.
UH, IT'S FAR SHORT OF WHAT AUSTIN PASSED IN 2022.
UM, IT'S BARELY IN LINE WITH WHAT SAN ANTONIO PASSED, UM, EVEN AS DALLAS IS A MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE PLACE, UH, FOR HOUSING THAN, UH, SAN ANTONIO.
SO I URGE YOU TO BE BOLD AND DIRECT STAFF, UH, TO INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF MONEY DEVOTED TOWARD HOUSING, UM, TOWARDS AFFORDABLE HOUSING, UH, TO AT LEAST, UH, 200 MILLION.
THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT YOU DO.
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THANK YOU SO MUCH, SIR.OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS BRENT PETERS.
UM, WE CAN CIRCLE BACK TO OUR SECOND SPEAKER, UH, JOHN CRUISE.
IS HE IN THE AUDIENCE? OKAY, THAT'S LISTED.
THAT CONCLUDES OUR PUBLIC SPEAKER.
PLEASE, UH, SPREAD THE WORD AROUND.
ANYONE ELSE WANTS TO COME TO THE NEXT TASK FORCE? THIS IS A CRITICAL PART OF THE JOB WE ARE DOING FOR THE CITY.
SO LOVE TO HEAR FROM MORE AND MORE, UH, INPUT FROM, FROM THE CITIZENS ON WHAT THEIR PRIORITIES ARE, BECAUSE THAT, THAT SHOULD BE OUR PRIORITIES.
WITH THAT, WE MOVE TO OUR NEXT POINT IN AGENT APPROVAL OF, UH, UH, OUR LAST MEETING.
ANY OPPOSED? WE, UH, THE MINUTES GET MOVED.
NOW COMES THE FUND ALLOCATIONS MEMO.
SO, AS YOU ALL KNOW, AND I THINK, UH, YOU KNOW, ON FRIDAY THERE WAS A ALLOCATION MEMO WHICH CAME, UH, FROM CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE.
IT KIND OF, UH, TRIED TO DEFINE, YOU KNOW, WHERE THEY FEEL THE BOND DOLLARS SHOULD BE APPROPRIATED.
AND THAT'S WHERE THE DISCUSSION IS.
UH, UH, I THINK, UH, I WOULD OPEN, I'M SURE EVERYONE HAS THAT ALLOCATION IN THEIR PACKAGES, WHICH IS HERE.
THIS WAS, UH, SENT ON FRIDAY BY, UH, CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE AND THEN, UH, TO THE COUNCIL AND MAYOR.
OH, I THOUGHT YOU MEANT, NO, AND I THINK JENNIFER SENT IT TO ALL OF US ON YESTERDAY, I THINK.
WELL, AND THEN MONDAY BEING HOLIDAY, I THINK IT WENT TO, IT WAS EMAILED TO US ON, UH, BUT WE'RE GONNA DISCUSS IT NOW.
WE WILL DISCUSS IT, YOU KNOW, ANY THOUGHTS, UH, YOU KNOW, ANY DISCUSSIONS.
SO I, I DO HAVE SOME QUESTIONS ON THE STAFF, IF THAT'S OKAY.
THAT WAY IT CAN HELP US TO MOVE THE MOVEMENT.
SO, UH, MR. PEREZ OR JENNIFER, JUST A LITTLE, UH, IF YOU CAN SHED THE LIGHT THAT, HOW THESE NUMBERS CAME AND HOW, HOW THIS ALLOCATION WAS MADE.
SO AT LEAST THIS GROUP KNOWS THAT, YOU KNOW, HOW, HOW WELL, UH, WHY, HOW WAS THAT MEMO ISSUED? SURE.
SO IF YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE CHART, THE SECOND PAGE OF THAT MEMO, UM, THE FIRST COLUMN WAS A SCENARIO THAT THE BOND AND CONSTRUCTION OFFICE ACTUALLY PRESENTED TO COUNSEL IN JANUARY.
UM, THE NEXT COLUMN IS SHOWING AN AVERAGE OF COUNCIL FEEDBACK.
WE'D BEEN, UH, WE'D SENT A, A FEW EMAILS OUT TO COUNCIL, I THINK STARTING IN MARCH.
UM, NOW I HAVEN'T RECEIVED FEEDBACK FROM ALL COUNCIL MEMBERS, BUT THIS IS THE AVERAGE OF THE FEEDBACK THAT WE'VE RECEIVED, UM, PER UM, PROPOSITION.
THE NEXT COLUMN, UH, IS THE DEPARTMENT REQUEST.
SO, UM, BOND AND CONSTRUCTION OP, UH, MANAGEMENT DID ASK ALL OF THE DEPARTMENTS THAT WOULD BE IMPACTED BY THE BOND PROGRAM.
WHAT DO YOU NEED TO MEET YOUR GOALS OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS? AND THESE WERE THE NUMBERS THAT THEY PROVIDED TO US.
AND AS YOU CAN SEE, IT'S OVER TWICE OF WHAT WE'RE EXPECTING OUR CAPACITY TO BE.
THE LAST COLUMN IS A POSSIBLE SCENARIO.
UM, I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW THAT I WOULD NECESSARILY CALL IT A RECOMMENDATION, BUT HAVING TO GO FROM 2.3 TO 1 BILLION, THIS WAS ONE WAY TO ACHIEVE THAT.
SO DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY COUNCIL MEMBERS REALLY, BECAUSE WHEN I'M TALKING TO THEM ON INFORMAL BASIS, THESE NUMBERS ARE NOWHERE CLOSE TO WHAT I'M HEARING AND VERY INFORMALLY.
AND YOU KNOW, AS YOU KNOW, WE INTERACT WITH THEM.
DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY COUNCIL MEMBERS REALLY GAVE THEIR FEEDBACK, WHICH GOT INTO THIS, UH, INFORMATION? I, I HAD A TOTAL OF SEVEN RESPONSES.
YOU HAD SEVEN RESPONSES? YEAH.
NOW I TO, I OPEN UP FOR ANY QUESTIONS, ANY COMMENTS, UH, ABOUT IT? YES, SIR.
I'M, I'M SURE THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR.
I'M SURE I'LL HAVE QUITE A FEW.
BUT THE FIRST ONE, COULD YOU, UM, KIND OF TELL US WHICH SUBCOMMITTEES EACH OF THESE, UM, SECTIONS FIT UNDER? I THINK THAT'D BE HELPFUL.
SO OBVIOUS STREETS OBVIOUSLY WOULD BE IN STREETS, PARKS, PARKS, TRANSPORTATION WOULD ALSO BE WITHIN THE STREET SUBCOMMITTEE.
FLOOD PROTECTION HAS ITS OWN SUBCOMMITTEE.
HOUSING, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND HOMELESSNESS ARE ALL IN ONE, UH, SUBCOMMITTEE.
SO THOSE WOULD BE THE NEXT TWO.
HOUSING, INFRASTRUCTURE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, OR IN ONE SUBCOMMITTEE, PUBLIC SAFETY WOULD BE IN THE CRITICAL FACILITIES, UH, SUBCOMMITTEE.
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THAT WOULD INCLUDE THE NEXT, UH, FEW ITEMS. THE ONE FOR, UH, PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITIES, FIRE, THE TRAINING FACILITY, UH, PUBLIC SAFETY POLICE, AND THE POLICE TRAINING FACILITY, CULTURAL ARTS, UH, THAT IS ALSO IN THE CRITICAL FACILITIES, SUBCOMMITTEE, CITY FACILITIES AND LIBRARIES.UH, CRITICAL FACILITIES SUBCOMMITTEE, UH, HOMELESSNESS AND ASSISTANCE FACILITIES IS IN THE HOUSING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND, UH, HOMELESS SUBCOMMITTEE.
AND THEN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IS IN THE CRITICAL FACILITIES SUBCOMMITTEE AS WELL.
SO TWO, IF I'M DOING A ROUGH MATH, TWO BIGGEST SUBCOMMITTEES HERE ARE THE STREETS AND CRITICAL FACILITIES.
TRANSPORTATION, ONE MORE TIME.
STREETS AND TRANSPORTATION ARE IN THE, THE STREETS, UH, SUBCOMMITTEE.
AND WERE THERE ACTUAL PROJECTS ASSIGNED WITH THIS, OR JUST NO, THIS WAS JUST THE FIRST SHOT OF JUST ROUND WHERE THE BILLION DOLLARS WOULD, WOULD END UP.
I'M SORRY, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE POLICE TRAINING FACILITY, THAT'S A SPECIFIC PROJECT, AND THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY FEEDBACK FROM ANY SUBCOMMITTEES.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? YES, YES, THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR.
FIRST, IN REGARDS TO YOUR FIRST QUESTION, UH, THAT THE COLUMN LABELED POSSIBLE SCENARIOS, I'M, I'M GUESSING THAT, THAT THIS COMMITTEE COULD, COULD CREATE ANOTHER POSSIBLE SCENARIO.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I WOULD, UH, I'D RECOMMEND AND, AND, UH, FOR AT LEAST DISCUSSION, UH, THAT WE COULD POSSIBLY COME UP WITH AN ALTERNATIVE IF WE HAD A GOOD REASONING BEHIND THAT.
THEN THE OTHER QUESTION I HAVE IS ON, UH, THE, SO THE CRITICAL BUSINESS, UM, OR CRITICAL CITY FACILITIES CATEGORY, UM, WHY, WHY THE TERM CRITICAL? UM, I MEAN, IT SOUNDS LIKE IT'S ALL CITY FACILITIES.
NOW I COULD UNDERSTAND LIKE A REC CENTER IF IT WAS A COOLING OR A WARMING SHELTER BEING A CRITICAL FACILITY.
BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE, I MEAN, IF YOU'RE GONNA INCLUDE, UM, VIRTUALLY ALL THE CULTURAL ARTS IN CRITICAL, IT JUST SEEMS, UH, KIND OF A MISNOMER.
IS THERE A PARTICULAR REASON THAT I'M MISSING? NO, THERE'S NOT.
I THINK THAT WAS A CARRYOVER FROM OUR 2017 NOMENCLATURE.
IT'S, IT'S ANY CITY FACILITY, UM, OUTSIDE PARKS, I THINK THEY HANDLE THEIR OWN REC CENTER.
BUT, UM, BUT OUTSIDE OF THAT, YOU'RE RIGHT, ANY VERTICAL FACILITY WOULD BE, WOULD, WOULD BE IN THAT CATEGORY.
SO THE CRITICAL BUSINESS SUBCOMMITTEE OR CRITICAL FACILITY SUBCOMMITTEE HAS A LIST, THAT LIST THAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT A MOMENT AGO THAT YOU WERE GONNA PROVIDE THIS, THE SUBCOMMITTEE HAS THAT NEEDS ASSESSMENT FOR ALL OF THE CITY FACILITIES, AND IT'S RANKED BY PRIORITY BY CITY STAFF SOMEWHERE.
SO THEY ARE BEING BRIEFED ON, UM, WHENEVER THEY MEET BY THE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS.
SO TONIGHT, I BELIEVE POLICE IS BRIEFING THEM, UM, LIBRARIES WILL DO THEIR OWN PRESENTATION.
SO EACH MAJOR DEPARTMENT IS COMING IN TO BRIEF THEM ON THEIR NEEDS AND THEIR PRIORITIES, AND IT'S TRYING TO KIND OF MARRY THE DEPARTMENT'S PRIORITIES WITH WHAT THE NEEDS OF INVENTORY SCORING IS.
AND MR. COX, WHAT YOU'VE SAID IS EXACTLY RIGHT.
I THINK THESE ARE POSSIBLE SCENARIO, BUT THE JOB WE HAVE BEEN ASSIGNED IS TO DO THE DUE DILIGENCE AFTER SUBCOMMITTEES PRESENT THEIR CASE.
AND THEN, YOU KNOW, WE RECOMMEND THAT WHICH, WHICH HAS SOME DATA BEHIND IT, AND THAT CAN BE PRESENTED TO THE COUNCIL AND THE MAYOR.
AND, UH, SO YES, YOU'RE EXACTLY RIGHT THAT YES, THIS IS A GOOD INDICATION, BUT, UH, JUST DON'T THINK THIS IS A BIBLE.
SO WITH THAT, I THINK I HAVE ONE FINAL, I THINK, YOU KNOW, ONE THING, UH, WE NEED TO, BEFORE WE GIVE OUR FINAL RECOMMENDATION, THAT WHAT IS THE CITY LEADERSHIP, UH, TRYING TO, I THINK TODAY WAS THE INAUGURATION OF THE MAYOR AND THE NEW CITY COUNCIL, AND THEY, THERE WAS CLEARLY SOME PRIORITIES WHICH LAID, WERE LAID OUT.
AND HOW, HOW DO WE KEEP THOSE PRIORITIES IN MIND? BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT WILL BE DEFINING WHAT COUNCIL APPROVES.
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THEY, THEY DON'T LISTEN TO AND THEY DON'T, THEN OUR JOB WILL BE FUTILE.SO IF WE KEEP THAT IN MIND AND WE PROPOSE WHAT LEADERSHIP IS PUSHING AND PROPOSING THAT, THEN WE WOULD'VE DONE A SUCCESSFUL JOB.
SO, WELL, UH, THANK YOU AGAIN.
AND SO LOT OF WORK ON THIS AND I'M SURE WE'LL HAVE LOTS OF DISCUSSION.
JENNIFER, MR. PEREZ? SORRY, ARUN OR, UH, MR. CHAIR? YES, SIR.
ARE ARE YOU GONNA GIVE THE PRESENTATION? I, I THINK I, I CAN DO IT, BUT I KNOW CHRIS AND UH, CRYSTAL IS BACKING HER UP.
THEY'LL DO MUCH BETTER JOB THAN ME AND JARED IS HERE.
WELL THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR INVITING US HERE TODAY.
I AM CHRIS TURNER, NOTEWORTHY, THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, UM, IN PARK AND RECREATION, ONE OF THE ASSISTANT DIRECTORS WITH ME, I HAVE JARED WHITE, OUR MANAGER, AND ALSO CRYSTAL, CRYSTAL ROSS, OUR DEPUTY DIRECTOR.
WE'RE HERE TODAY TO GIVE YOU AN OVERVIEW OF THE PARK AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT, OUR 2017 BOND PROGRAM AND OUR 2024 BOND NEEDS.
AND WE'RE ALSO GONNA TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT OUR NEEDS INVENTORY.
SO OUR PURPOSE TODAY IS TO PROVIDE A GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE PARK AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT, REVIEW OUR 2017 BOND PROGRAM FUNDING AND SIGNATURE PROJECTS, REVIEW OUR 2024 BOND PROGRAM, CITYWIDE CATEGORIES AND PRELIMINARY FUNDING NEEDS, REVIEW OUR PARKS NEEDS, INVENTORY AND SCORING CRITERIA, AND THEN TALK WITH YOU ABOUT OUR NEXT STEPS AND WHERE WE'RE AT.
SO THE PARK AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT, OUR MISSION IS TO CHAMPION LIFELONG RECREATION AND SERVE AS RESPONSIBLE STEWARDS OF THE CITY'S PARKS, TRAILS, AND OPEN SPACES.
AND OUR VISION IS TO CREATE A COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM OF PARKS, TRAILS, OPEN SPACES AND RECREATION FACILITIES THAT SUSTAINS, INSPIRES AND INVIGORATES.
ONE THING THAT WE DISCOVERED DURING THE PANDEMIC IN PARTICULAR, IS JUST HOW IMPORTANT THE PARK SYSTEM IS TO THE CITIZENS WHEN PEOPLE WERE STUCK INSIDE AND REALLY COULDN'T DO ANYTHING.
YOU KNOW, WITH THE PANDEMIC, WHAT BECAME VERY IMPORTANT WAS HAVING OUTSIDE SPACES AND THINGS THAT PEOPLE COULD DO OUTSIDE.
SO THAT REALLY FURTHER EMPHASIZED OUR MISSION AND OUR VISION TO CREATE THIS PARK SYSTEM FOR CITIZENS TO HAVE SOMEWHERE TO GO TO BE ABLE TO RECREATE AND SPEND TIME WHEN WE WEREN'T ABLE TO DO THAT, UM, AS WE NORMALLY WOULD.
SO LOOKING AT THE DALLAS PARK AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT, WE OVERSEE THE MANAGEMENT AND CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF OVER 20,000 ACRES OF PARKLAND.
WE HAVE 410 PARKS, 265 PLAYGROUNDS, 177 MILES OF HIKE AND BIKE TRAILS, 43 RECREATION CENTERS, 20 OFFSITE AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS. 19, SEND A KID TO SITE CAMPS, SOUTHERN SKATES, ROLLER RINK.
AND I'M NOT GONNA GO THROUGH ALL OF THESE, BUT I JUST WANTED TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT OF THE BREADTH OF WHAT THE PARK AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT DOES.
UM, WE HAVE 19 AQUATIC FACILITIES AND 17 SPRAY GROUNDS, WHICH ARE ALL ACTIVE THIS TIME OF YEAR.
WE HAVE SIX D I S D POOL PILOT SITES, SIX GOLF COURSES, 243 ATHLETIC FIELDS, AND WE PARTNER WITH A LOT OF DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS.
UH, WE PARTNER WITH THE CEDAR RIDGE PRESERVE AND ALSO MONEYGRAM SOCCER COMPLEX.
SO THESE ARE JUST A FEW OF THE THINGS THAT WE, OR A FEW OF THE AGENCIES THAT WE ALSO PARTNER WITH.
AND AS I SAID, I JUST WANTED TO SHOW YOU A LITTLE BIT, A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE DEPTH AND THE BREADTH OF WHAT THE DALLAS PARK AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT DOES.
SO LOOKING AT OUR DEPARTMENT ORGANIZATION CHART, UM, OUR DIRECTOR IS IS JOHN JENKINS.
UM, REPORTING TO HIM, WE HAVE OUR MANAGER OF HUMAN RESOURCES AND TRAINING.
VANESSA GRAY, UH, ROSA GEICOS IS OUR MANAGER OF OUR DEPARTMENT.
WE ALSO HAVE OUR PARK BOARD SECRETARY AND MANAGER, TONY BECKER.
I MENTIONED OUR DEPUTY DIRECTOR, CRYSTAL ROSS.
AND WE HAVE FIVE ASSISTANT DIRECTORS.
UM, RACHEL BARRY OVERSEES OUR ADMINISTRATIVE AND AND BUSINESS SERVICES.
RENEE JOHNSON OVERSEES PARK MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS.
I OVERSEE OUR PLANNING FACILITIES AND CONSTRUCTION SERVICES DIVISION.
RYAN O'CONNOR OVERSEES PARTNERSHIPS AND STRATEGIC INITIATIVES.
AND THEN JOHN LAWRENCE OVERSEES OUR CITYWIDE ATHLETICS RESERVATIONS AND EVENTS DIVISION, OUR CARES DIVISION.
AND I'M GONNA TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT THESE DIVISIONS DO FOR THE PARK DEPARTMENT.
SO AS I MENTIONED, THE DIRECTOR'S OFFICE, THE EXECUTIVE STAFF,
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THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF EACH DIVISION REPORTS DIRECTLY TO THE DIRECTOR.WE HAVE HUMANS RESOURCES WHICH PROMOTES AND SUPPORTS AN ENVIRONMENT OF WORKFORCE DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION.
THEY PROVIDE OUR HIRING, OUR ONBOARDING AND PAYROLL SUPPORT TO OUR PARK DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEES.
AND THEY PROMOTE TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES THAT IMPROVE LEADERSHIP AND JOB SKILLS FOR ALL OF OUR STAFF.
AND WE ALSO PROVIDE PARK BOARD SUPPORT UNDER THE DIRECTOR'S OFFICE.
THEY WORK WITH THE EXECUTIVE STAFF AND OUR 15 PARK BOARD MEMBERS ON BOARD BUSINESS.
THEY HANDLE ALL OF OUR RECORDS RETENTION AND ARCHIVAL AND ENSURE THAT ALL CITY RECORDS ARE PROPERLY MAINTAINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH STATE LAWS.
AND THEY MANAGE OUR PARK BOARD AND COUNCIL AGENDAS AND EXECUTE CONTRACTS, AUTHORIZED FINANCIAL EXPENDITURES, INSTITUTE PARK REGULATIONS AND APPLY FOR GRANTS.
AND THEY HANDLE OUR OPEN RECORDS REQUEST IN ACCORDANCE WITH STATE LAWS.
OUR ADMINISTRATION AND BUSINESS SERVICES DO A LOT, AS YOU CAN TELL BY THIS VERY BUSY SLIDE.
SO I'LL JUST KIND OF BRIEFLY, THEY, THEY DO OUR MANAGEMENT OF OUR CAPITAL BOND AND GRANT AND DEVELOPMENT FUNDS.
THEY DO OUR DEPARTMENT-WIDE BUDGET DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT.
THEY OVERSEE OUR DEPARTMENT'S PROCUREMENT ACTIVITIES FOR MASTER AGREEMENTS, OPERATING ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIONS AND WAREHOUSING SERVICES IN COMPLIANCE WITH AD FOUR DASH FIVE.
THEY PROVIDE DEPARTMENT-WIDE SUPPORT ON OUR REVENUES PROCESSING AND PAYMENT OF OPERATING AND CAPITAL VENDOR INVOICING.
THEY DO OUR MAJOR PARTNER CONTRACT COMPLIANCE AND AND ADMINISTRATION AND OVERSIGHT AND SERVE AS LIAISON TO OUR MAJOR PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS SUCH AS FAIR PARK.
FIRST, THE ARBORETUM, THE AUDUBON, AND THE ZOO.
THEY ENSURE OUR DEPARTMENT FINANCIAL AND OPERATIONAL COMPLIANCE WITH POLICIES, PROCEDURES, AND REGULATIONS.
THEY OVERSEE OUR DEPARTMENT-WIDE TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT AND THEY PROVIDE SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS TO MEET OUR REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS AND OPTIONAL ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND PROGRAMS, PRODUCT MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENTS FOR THE PARK DEPARTMENT.
LOOKING AT RECREATION SERVICES, WHICH IS CRYSTAL'S AREA OUTSIDE OF WHEN SHE'S NOT BEING THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR AND ACTING DIRECTOR.
THEY WORK TO EXPAND OUT OF SCHOOL OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUTH BY PROVIDING FREE RECREATION PROGRAMS FOR YOUTH AGES FIVE TO 17.
THEY WORK TO INCREASE OUR RECREATIONAL PROGRAMS FOR TEENS, AGES 13 TO 17 WITH A FOCUS ON ARTS AND CULTURE, HEALTH AND WELLNESS, COMMUNITY SERVICE, LEADERSHIP, LIFE SKILLS, TECHNOLOGY AND JOB READINESS.
THEY INCREASE OUR WEEKLY PROGRAM OFFERINGS ENSURING THAT ALL COMMUNITIES HAVE ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE, EQUITABLE, AND QUALITY PROGRAMS. THEY CONTINUE TO INCREASE AND EXPAND PARTNERSHIPS WHICH WILL SUPPORT PROGRAM EXPANSION FOR ADULTS 60 AND OLDER AND UTILIZE TRAINING AND STUDY OF BEST PRACTICES TO REFINE AND IMPROVE ON PARK AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT DELIVERY MODELS.
OUR PARTNERSHIP AND STRATEGIC INITIATIVES DIVISION MAINTAINS OUR EXISTING PARTNERSHIPS AND WORKS TO INCREASE PARTNERSHIPS OVER TIME.
THEY TRACK AND REPORT PROGRESS ON IMPLEMENTATION OF OUR DEPARTMENT STRATEGIC PLAN.
THEY DEVELOP A SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM THAT WILL SUPPLEMENT AND SUPPORT PROGRAMS AND SERVICES.
THEY HELP US TO DEVELOP STRATEGIES TO INCREASE PARK ACCESS AND WORK ON OUR 10 MINUTE WALK INITIATIVE.
AND THEY SEEK AND MAINTAIN OUR COMMISSION FOR ACCREDITATION OF PARK AND RECREATION AGENCIES.
OUR CAPRA ACCREDITATION, WHICH WE DO HAVE.
SO THEY ENSURE THAT WE MAINTAIN THAT ACCREDITATION AND THEY EXPLORE AND IDENTIFY GRANT OPPORTUNITIES.
OUR PARK AND MAINTENANCE OPERATIONS EXPAND OUR URBAN FOREST INITIATIVES THAT IDENTIFY AND EDUCATE OUR PARTNERS AND RESIDENTS ON THE THREAT OF THE EMERALD ASH BOER, WHICH I'M SURE ALL OF YOU HAVE HEARD ABOUT.
WE ENHANCE AND MONITOR OUR GREEN INITIATIVES AND TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMS THAT IMPROVE OUR ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT.
WE INCREASE PROGRAM OFFERINGS FROM OUR PARK RANGERS THAT PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES TO YOUTH THAT LEVERAGE OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT.
AND THEY CONTINUE TO INCREASE AND EXPAND OUR PARTNERSHIPS THAT LEVERAGE PARK MAINTENANCE SERVICE DELIVERY IN OUR UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES.
IN OUR PLANNING AND DESIGN DIVISION, WE WORK TOWARDS HAVING GREEN DESIGNS.
WE WORK TO ENSURE OUR NEW FACILITIES ARE MEETING OUR NEEDS OF CURRENT AND FUTURE MARKETS.
WE CONTINUE TO ACQUIRE LAND AND BUILD NEW PARKS TO SERVE GROWING PARTS OF THE CITY.
WE INCORPORATE UNIVERSAL ACCESS CRIME PREVENTION THROUGH ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN AND SAFETY PRINCIPLES INTO OUR DESIGN AND MAINTENANCE STANDARDS.
WE WORK WITH OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS AND ORGANIZATIONS TO DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT AND INTERPRETIVE SIGNAGE IN OUR RELEVANT PARKS.
WE CONTINUE TO PURSUE LEADERSHIP IN ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN OR SIMILAR CERTIFICATIONS FOR OUR BUILDING FACILITIES WITHIN OUR SYSTEM.
WE MAINTAIN THE NEEDS INVENTORY FOR THE DEPARTMENT, WHICH WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT IN A LITTLE BIT HERE.
WE MANAGE OUR BOND PROGRAM PROJECTS AND THEN WE DEVELOP THE NEW BOND PROGRAM PROJECTS AND INITIATIVES, WHICH WE ARE CONTINUALLY DOING RIGHT NOW.
AND THEN OUR CITYWIDE ATHLETICS RESERVATIONS AND EVENTS DIVISION, OUR CARE DIVISION, THEY INCREASE OUR YOUTH SPORTS ACTIVITIES.
THEY PROVIDE FOR MEANS TO AN ACTIVE LIFESTYLE
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FOR ALL CITIZENS ACROSS A WIDE VARIETY OF BOTH INDOOR AND OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES.THEY PROVIDE THE HIGHEST QUALITY OF GOLF COURSE MAINTENANCE, RESULTING IN A PRODUCT THAT ENTICES PLAY AND INCREASED USE.
THEY CONTINUE TO DEVELOP PARTNERSHIPS WITH GOLF AND TENNIS PROFESSIONALS AND THEY OFFER QUALITY FACILITIES AND PARK SITES AS RESERVABLE LOCATIONS TO THE PUBLIC.
SO THAT'S A BASIC GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE PARK AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT, THE VARIOUS DIVISIONS WE HAVE AND THE THINGS THAT ALL THE VARIOUS DIVISIONS DO.
SO TALKING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE 2017 BOND PROGRAM, THE GENERAL FUNDING CATEGORIES AND THE FUNDING AMOUNTS, WE HAD THESE GENERAL CATEGORIES OF ADA COMPLIANCE, WHICH HAD $514,000 ALLOCATED TO IT.
AQUATICS, WHICH HAD 46.5 MILLION ATHLETIC FIELDS, NEW AND RENOVATED, WHICH HAD 2.1 MILLION.
OUR DOWNTOWN PARKS HAD 35 MILLION.
EROSION CONTROL HAD 4.7 MILLION.
HISTORIC RENOVATIONS, 1.4 MILLION, LAND ACQUISITION, 24.6 MILLION.
MAJOR MAINTENANCE, 2.3 MILLION.
OUR LARGE PARTNERSHIP MATCHES 25.1 MILLION.
OUR SMALL PARTNERSHIP MATCHES 3.3 MILLION NEW PARKS, 19.2 MILLION PLAYGROUNDS, 6 MILLION RECREATION CENTERS, 29.5 MILLION.
SITE DEVELOPMENT, 14.1 MILLION AND TRAILS 45.3 MILLION FOR A TOTAL OF 261.8 MILLION.
AND THEN WE HAD A FAIR PARK PROPOSITION FOR 50 MILLION.
SO THE TOTAL THAT THE PARK AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT HAD IN THE 2017 BOND PROGRAM WAS 311.8 MILLION.
AND THEN WE WANNA TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT SOME OF THE SIGNATURE PROJECTS THAT WE WERE ABLE TO DO WITH THE 2017 BOND PROGRAM WITH THAT 311.8 MILLION.
SO LOOKING AT SOME OF THE NEW PARKS, WE HAD HILLCREST VILLAGE GREEN, WHICH WAS BASICALLY THE REMODELING OF A COMMERCIAL SHOPPING CENTER INTO A PRIVATE PUBLIC PARTNERSHIP, WHICH HAS BOTH THE PARK AND A SHOPPING CENTER.
AND WE WENT AND LOOKED AT THAT AT OUR TOUR THAT WE HAD ON JUNE 10TH.
UM, WE ALSO HAD DOWNTOWN PARKS THAT WE DID, INCLUDING WEST END SQUARE PACIFIC PLAZA, WHICH ARE BOTH PICTURED HERE.
WE ALSO DID CARPENTER PARK AND THEN HARWOOD PARK IS GETTING READY TO OPEN SOON.
A COUPLE OF OUR NEW TRAILS, WE HAD CEDAR CREST AND HONEY SPRINGS TRAIL AND THEN ELMWOOD PARKWAY TRAIL.
THOSE ARE JUST A COUPLE EXAMPLES OF TRAILS THAT WERE DONE WITH 2017 BOND FUNDS.
AND ON OUR NEXT SLIDE WE HAVE A COUPLE OF NEW PLAYGROUNDS, MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR PARK AND WEST MOUNT PARK.
AND I JUST WANNA POINT OUT ON THESE TWO PICTURES, IF YOU NOTICE, YOU'LL SEE KIND OF THAT BROWN FIVE BAR MATERIAL ON THE, ON THE BOTTOM OF THE, THE GROUND THERE.
THAT'S AN IMPROVEMENT THAT WE ARE MAKING FOR THE NEXT BOND PROGRAM IS THAT WE WILL NO LONGER BE USING FIVE BAR, WE'LL BE USING THE POURED RUBBER SURFACE DOWN THERE TO MAKE OUR PLAYGROUNDS MORE ADA COMPLIANT FOR ALL USERS.
SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE IMPROVING FOR THE 2024 BOND PROGRAM AND OUR PLAYGROUNDS MOVING FORWARD.
LOOKING AT SOME OF THE MASTER PLANS THAT WE'VE COMPLETED TO HAVE UNDERWAY, UM, WE'VE WORKED ON THE DOG PARK DEVELOPMENT GUIDELINES, UM, GLENDALE PARK MASTER PLAN HAT YOU RANK IN MOORE PARK MASTER PLAN, HERITAGE VILLAGE NASH DAVIS PARK.
WE HAVE OLD CITY PARK PARK IN THE CEDARS AND SAMUEL FARM MASTER PLANS UNDERWAY.
WE COMPLETED THE SHIRAC PARK MASTER PLAN.
WE HAVE THE SKATE PARK MASTER PLAN UNDERWAY.
THE SOUTH OAK CLIFF RENAISSANCE PARK MASTER PLAN AND SITE DEVELOPMENT WAS COMPLETED AND THE TENNIS SIM GLEN GOLF COURSE IN SAMUEL GRAND PARK MASTER PLAN WAS COMPLETED.
TALKING ABOUT GRANTS AND PARTNERSHIPS, THE PARK AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT PARTNERS WITH PRIVATE ENTITIES AND MULTIPLE LOCAL STATE AND FEDERAL AGENCIES TO FUND AND DEVELOP, PARK AND TRAIL IMPROVEMENTS.
AN ADDITIONAL 150 MILLION FOR NEW PARKS AND TRAILS WAS LEVERAGED THROUGH VARIOUS GRANT AND PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMS. SOME OF OUR TYPICAL FUNDING PARTNERS INCLUDE DALLAS COUNTY, THE NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE, SOME OTHER PARTNERING ORGANIZATIONS.
AND THEN TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND.
WE DO A LOT WITH TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND AND THEY'VE BEEN HELPING US QUITE A BIT IN ACQUIRING NEW LAND FOR PARKS LATELY.
OUR FACILITY SERVICES DIVISION PARTNERS WITH OUR PLANNING AND DESIGN IN THE BOND AND CONSTRUCTION OFFICE, UM, TO COMPLETE OUR VARIOUS 2017 BOND PROJECTS IN HOUSE.
UM, WE DO HAVE, UM, CONSTRUCTION, UM, CAPABILITIES IN HOUSE AND THE PROJECTS RANGE FROM INSTALLING SECURITY LIGHTING LOOP TRAIL AND FITNESS EQUIPMENT STATIONS.
AND THEY CAN, THEY'VE ALSO HELPED UM, INSTALL AND DESIGN OUR NEW SPRAY GROUNDS.
SO WE HAVE 41 PROJECTS THAT HAVE BEEN COMPLETED AND SEVEN PROJECTS THAT REMAIN IN PROGRESS BY OUR FACILITY SERVICES STAFF FOR OUR 2017 BOND PROGRAM.
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LOOKING AT OUR AQUATICS AND SPRAY GROUND MASTER PLAN IMPLEMENTATION, WE HAD JUST OVER 48 MILLION ALLOCATED FOR OUR AQUATICS PROJECTS.WE ACTUALLY HAVE 10 AQUATICS PROJECTS COMPLETED.
OUR BACHMAN UM, REGIONAL AQUATIC CENTER WAS JUST OPENED, SO THAT WAS THE ONE AQUATIC PROJECT THAT WAS STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
AND WE HAVE SIX SPRAY GROUND PROJECTS THAT WERE COMPLETED.
SO TALKING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT'S INCLUDED IN OUR REGIONAL AQUATIC CENTERS, TYPICAL AMENITIES IN THOSE FACILITIES ARE A BATHHOUSE AN EIGHT LANE LAP POOL WITH A ONE METER DIVING POOL, LAZY RIVER WITH A CROSSING ACTIVITY KIDS POOL WITH POOL PLAY FEATURES AND BODY FLUME SLIDES.
AND THE LOCATIONS WHERE THOSE WERE CONSTRUCTED INCLUDE CRAWFORD FRETZ SAMUEL GRAND, AND AS I MENTIONED, BACHMAN AQUATIC CENTER WAS JUST OPEN FOR THE SEASON, UM, A FEW WEEKS AGO.
LOOKING AT OUR COMMUNITY AQUATIC CENTERS, TYPICAL AMENITIES THERE INCLUDE A BATH HOUSE, A SIX LANE LAP POOL WITH ONE METER DIVING KIDS POOL WITH PLAY FEATURE BODY FLUME SLIDES.
AND THE LOCATIONS THAT THOSE WERE CONSTRUCTED INCLUDE KIDS SPRINGS AND LAKE HIGHLANDS NORTH PARK.
AND THE PICTURE SHOWN HERE IS LAKE HIGHLANDS NORTH PARK.
LOOKING AT NEIGHBORHOOD AQUATIC CENTERS THAT WERE DONE WITH THE 2017 BOND PROGRAM.
TYPICAL AMENITIES FOR THOSE ARE A BATHHOUSE, A FOUR-LANE LAP POOL, KIDS' POOL WITH PLAY FEATURE AND A BODY FLUME SLIDE.
AND WE CONSTRUCTED THOSE AT TSI, X LINE AND HARRY STONE.
AND THEN WE ALSO OWN BAHAMA BEACH WATERPARK, WHICH IS OUT ON US 67.
UM, GETTING WHEN YOU'RE GETTING CLOSE TO DESOTO SOUTH OF TOWN, WE HAD EXPANSION AMENITIES WHICH INCLUDED A BATHHOUSE LAGOON POOL, KIDS SPRAY GROUND, AND A BOOMERANG SLIDE.
AND THEN WE HAVE NUMEROUS SPRAY GROUNDS AROUND TOWN.
BUT SPRAY GROUNDS THAT WERE COMPLETED WITH THE 2017 BOND PROGRAM INCLUDE GRW, WEILER PARK, JC ZARAGOZA PARK, KB POLK PARK, BURG, RILEY NASH DAVIS AND TIMBER GLEN PARK.
LOOKING AT RECREATION CENTER PROJECTS, WE HAD FOUR RECREATION CENTER PROJECTS THAT WERE COMPLETED FOR JUST OVER 23 MILLION, WHICH INCLUDED BACHMAN, SINGING HILLS, THURGOOD MARSHALL AND WILLIE B. JOHNSON.
THIS SLIDE SHOWS SINGING HILLS RECREATION CENTER AND SOME OF THE NEW FEATURES THAT WERE UM, INCLUDED IN SINGING HILLS INCLUDED A SENIOR CENTER, A TECH CENTER, AND A GYMNASIUM.
AND SINGING HILLS WAS COMPLETED IN DECEMBER OF 2020 AND IT'S BEEN A VERY, VERY POPULAR RECREATION CENTER EVER SINCE IT'S BEEN DONE IN COUNCIL DISTRICT EIGHT.
UM, BACHMAN RECREATION CENTER WAS ALSO COMPLETED AND THE NEW FEATURES IN THERE INCLUDED AN ENTRANCEWAY CANOPY, A BREAK ROOM, A MODERN RECEPTION AREA, RESTROOM FLOORING, HVAC IMPROVEMENTS, SECURITY LIGHTING AND LANDSCAPING.
THURGOOD MARSHALL RECREATION CENTER HAD SOME OF THE SAME FEATURES AS BACHMAN IN AN ENTRANCEWAY CANOPY, A BREAK ROOM, A MODERN RECEPTION AREA, CUSTOMIZED CEILING RESTROOM FLOORING, SECURITY LIGHTING AND LANDSCAPING.
AND THEN THE MOST RECENT RECREATION CENTER REMODEL THAT WE OPENED WAS WILLIE B. JOHNSON.
WE OPENED THIS ABOUT FOUR MONTHS AGO AND HAD A LOT OF THE SAME AMENITIES, BUT ONE OF THE MAJOR THINGS THAT WE DID AT WILLIE B. JOHNSON IS THEY HAD AN OUTDOOR GYMNASIUM THAT WE ACTUALLY ENCLOSED AND YOU COULD SEE THE UM, THE UPPER RIGHT PICTURE ON HERE IS THE GYMNASIUM THAT WE ENCLOSED AT WILLIE B. JOHNSON.
AND IT'S QUITE AN IMPRESSIVE FACILITY IF YOU HAVEN'T BEEN OUT TO SEE IT.
UM, WE WENT AND SAW THIS ON OUR JUNE TOUR, 10TH TOUR AS WELL.
SO LOOKING AT FAIR PARK, UM, THE TOTAL BOND FUNDS ALLOCATED WERE 50 MILLION.
WE HAVE JUST UNDER 13 MILLION OF BOND FUNDS LEFT OUT THERE TO SPEND.
SO WE HAVE FIVE PROJECTS COMPLETED AS YOU CAN SEE LISTED HERE.
UM, WE ACTUALLY HAVE 300 CONSTRUCTION.
OUR TOWER BUILDING IS CENTENNIAL BUILDING THAT WERE LISTED AS BEING AWARDED ARE CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
AND WE STILL HAVE FOUR PROJECTS UNDER DESIGN OUT THERE, BUT WE'RE GETTING PRETTY CLOSE TO HAVING FAIR PARK DONE.
SO BASED ON OUR 2017 UM BOND PROGRAM, WE STARTED THERE AND WORKED AS A TEAM TO COME UP WITH 2024 PROPOSED CITYWIDE BOND CATEGORIES.
AND WE HAVE THIS LIST THAT YOU SEE HERE.
AND I'M ACTUALLY GOING TO GO TO THE NEXT PAGE BECAUSE THE NEXT PAGE OR NEXT TWO PAGES ACTUALLY LIST THE PROPOSED FUNDING THAT WE PUT IN THESE 2024 PROPOSED CITYWIDE BOND CATEGORIES AS OF MAY 11TH, 2023 WHEN WE STARTED OUR FIRST TASK FORCE MEETING.
SO WE PROPOSED 80 D A COMPLIANCE AT 2 MILLION ATHLETIC FIELD DEVELOPMENT AND IMPROVEMENT AT 30 MILLION ATHLETIC FIELD LIGHTING, 12 MILLION COMMUNITY POOLS, 44 MILLION EROSION CONTROL, 10 MILLION GOLF CENTER IMPROVEMENTS AT 31
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AND A HALF MILLION.LAND ACQUISITION AT 25 MILLION MASTER PLANS AT 10 MILLION MULTI-DEPARTMENTAL SHARED USE FACILITIES AT 45 MILLION NATATORIUM AND INDOOR POOLS AT 45 MILLION.
OUR LARGE PARTNERSHIP MATCHES AT 75 MILLION.
OUR SMALL PARTNERSHIP MATCHES AT 5 MILLION PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE REPLACEMENTS AT 3 MILLION PLAYGROUNDS AT 10 AND A HALF MILLION.
A RACKET SPORTS COMPLEX AT 30 MILLION RECREATION CENTERS, 160 MILLION SERVICE CENTERS AT 8 MILLION SPECIALTY PARKS SUCH AS SKATE PARKS, DOG PARKS, AND SAMUEL FARM AT 5 MILLION SPRAY GROUNDS AT 21 MILLION SYSTEM-WIDE SECURITY LIGHTING ON CAMERAS AT 10 MILLION TENNIS CENTER IMPROVEMENTS AT 10.2 MILLION AND TRAIL IMPROVEMENTS AT 20 MILLION FOR A TOTAL OF CITY-WIDE PROJECTS OF 612.2 MILLION.
AND THEN WE ALSO ALLOCATED A SEPARATE PARK AND SITE DEVELOPMENT FOR DISTRICT PROJECTS FOR A HUNDRED MILLION FOR A TOTAL PARK AND RECREATION NEED OF 712.2 MILLION.
AND THE PARK AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT HAS NOT LOST THEIR MIND.
WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT OUR NEEDS INVENTORY HERE IN A MINUTE, BUT THE PARK AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT DOES HAVE A VERY LARGE NEED.
UM, WE'VE BEEN APPROACHED BY MEM MANY ALREADY, UM, PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS WANTING TO PARTNER WITH US ON OUR LARGE PARTNERSHIP MATCHES.
WE HAVE REQUESTS ALREADY IN EXCESS OF 150 MILLION FOR PARTNERSHIP MATCHES THAT HAVE COME IN ALREADY, UM, WANTING TO WORK WITH US.
SO LOOKING AT 2017 VERSUS THE 2024 PROPOSED CITYWIDE BOND FUNDING PER CATEGORY, WE PUT TOGETHER A TABLE TO COMPARE WHAT WE HAD FUNDED IN 2017 VERSUS WHAT WE'RE REQUESTING IN 2024.
AND THIS TABLE IS COLOR CODED.
THE YELLOW CATEGORIES ARE CATEGORIES THAT WERE PROPOSED BOTH IN THE 2017 AND THE 2024 BOND PROGRAM.
THE GREEN CATEGORY IS SOMETHING THAT WAS PROPOSED FOR A NEW CATEGORY IN 2024.
AND THEN THE BLUISH KIND OF PURPLISH COLOR IS SOMETHING THAT WAS ONLY IN 2017 SUCH AS DOWNTOWN PARKS.
SO YOU CAN SEE HERE THE ADA COMPLIANCE LINE.
WE'VE ACTUALLY PROPOSED AN ADDITIONAL, UM, INCREASE IN FUNDING FOR 2024 FROM 514,000 TO 2 MILLION IN AQUATICS, WHICH BASICALLY AQUATICS INCLUDES OUR NEIGHBORHOOD POOLS, UM, OUR NET AUDITORIUM IN OUR INDOOR POOLS AND OUR COMMUNITY POOLS.
UM, WE'VE PROPOSED AN INCREASE TO 110 MILLION FROM 46 POINT HALF.
WE PROPOSED ATHLETIC FIELD LIGHTING AT 12 BILLION.
AND THE MAIN REASON BEING, YOU MAY HAVE SEEN A NEWS STORY PROBABLY ABOUT FOUR OR FIVE MONTHS AGO ABOUT SOME ATHLETIC FIELD LIGHTING THAT FELL DOWN IN SOME STORMS. WE HAVE A LOT OF ATHLETIC FIELD LIGHTING THAT'S REACHED THE END OF ITS SERVICE LIFE AND JUST NEEDS TO BE REPLACED.
SO THAT'S WHAT THAT LINE ITEM IS FOR, IS TO REPLACE THAT ATHLETIC FIELD LIGHTING THAT'S AT THE END OF ITS SERVICE LIFE.
UM, ATHLETIC FIELDS, NEW AND RENOVATED.
WE'VE PUT THAT AT 30 MILLION JUST BASICALLY CUZ WE HAVE A LOT OF ATHLETIC FIELDS THAT ARE IN VERY BAD SHAPE THAT NEED TO BE COMPLETELY RENOVATED AND SOME NEW FIELDS THAT WE NEED TO PUT IN.
IN PARTICULAR, WE NEED A RUGBY FIELD.
UM, WE DON'T HAVE ONE OF THOSE CURRENTLY AND IT'S A NEED THAT WE HAVE.
WE HAVE FOR THIS BOND PROGRAM.
LOOKING AT EROSION CONTROL, WE PUT IN 10 MILLION FOR THAT.
IT'S A LITTLE HIGHER THAN WHAT WE PROPOSED IN THE 2017 BOND PROGRAM.
WE HAVE GOLF CENTER IMPROVEMENTS THAT ARE NEEDED AT 31 AND A HALF MILLION.
WE HAVE LAND ACQUISITION THAT WE KEPT AT ABOUT THE SAME.
AND AGAIN, THIS LAND ACQUISITION IS TO BASICALLY ENSURE THAT WE HAVE EVERY CITIZEN WITHIN A 10 MINUTE WALK OF A PARK.
AND WE'LL DISCUSS THAT A LITTLE BIT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE NEEDS INVENTORY.
WE HAVE MASTER PLANS AT ABOUT 10 MILLION.
WE HAVE SOME MULTI-DEPARTMENTAL SHARED USE FACILITIES THAT WE PUT IN AT 45 MILLION AND THESE WOULD BE FACILITIES THAT WE FUNDED WITH OTHER DEPARTMENTS.
UM, OUR LARGE PARTNERSHIP MATCH AT THIS POINT AS OF AS OF MAY 11TH, WE ONLY HAD ABOUT 75 MILLION IN THERE.
AS I MENTIONED, WE'VE HAD ABOUT TWICE THAT MANY OR TWICE THAT MUCH COME IN IN IN POTENTIAL FUNDING PARTNERSHIPS AT THIS POINT.
OUR SMALL PARTNERSHIP MATCHES, WE PROPOSED TO INCREASE TO 5 MILLION BECAUSE WE HAD MANY MORE PEOPLE COME IN THAN THAT 3.3 MILLION.
UM, PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE REPLACEMENTS IS A NEW CATEGORY.
UM, WE'VE HAD OUR BRIDGE ASSESSMENTS DONE, UM, SINCE THE 2017 BOND PROGRAM AND HAVE HAD SEVERAL THAT HAVE COME IN AND BASICALLY IN FAILURE THAT NEED TO BE REPLACED.
OUR PLAYGROUNDS WE'VE ALSO DISCOVERED WE HAVE A LOT OF PLAYGROUNDS THAT ARE AT THE END OF THEIR SERVICE LIFE AND WITH REPLACING, UM, THE FIRE BAR WITH POUR AND PLACE SURFACE BASICALLY IN, IN ONE PLAYGROUND COSTS 300, $350,000.
SO WE'D LIKE TO REPLACE 30 TO 35 PLAYGROUNDS THAT ARE AT THE END OF THEIR SERVICE LIFE WITH THIS BOND PROGRAM.
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INDOOR RACKET SPORTS COMPLEX WITHIN THE CITY OF DALLAS, UM, OWNED BY PARK AND RECREATION.AND WE HAVE A LOT OF RACKET SPORTS THAT ARE BECOMING VERY POPULAR.
UM, COMING OVER FROM EUROPE, FIDEL AND SOME OF THOSE TYPE OF THINGS THAT WE DON'T CURRENTLY HAVE, WE WOULD LIKE TO BE ABLE TO COMBINE ALL OF THOSE INTO ONE INDOOR RACK OF SPORTS COMPLEX THAT COULD BE UTILIZED CITYWIDE.
OUR RECREATION CENTERS, WE HAVE ABOUT EIGHT RECREATION CENTERS.
WE WOULD LIKE TO BE ABLE TO REPLACE THOSE COST ABOUT 20 MILLION A PIECE TO BE ABLE TO REPLACE THEM.
AGAIN, WE HAVE A LOT OF RECREATION CENTERS THAT ARE JUST AT THE END OF THEIR SERVICE LIFE AND ARE NO LONGER ABLE TO BE REPAIRED AND UPGRADED.
THEY JUST NEED TO BE REPLACED.
AT THIS POINT WE HAVE A COUPLE OF SERVICE CENTERS FOR OUR STAFF THAT NEED TO BE REPLACED AND UPGRADED.
THAT 100 MILLION OF SITE DEVELOPMENT IS THE MONEY FOR INDIVIDUAL DISTRICTS TO UTILIZE ON THEIR PARKS.
AGAIN, WE MENTIONED THE SPECIALTY PARKS.
UM, SYSTEM-WIDE SECURITY LIGHTING AND CAMERAS IS SOMETHING FOR, AGAIN, FOR SECURITY FOR THE PARKS THAT WE'RE WORKING TO GET THAT SYSTEM IN PLACE.
AND THEN TENNIS CENTER IMPROVEMENTS AND TRAIL IMPROVEMENTS.
AS WE WERE STARTING TO WORK WITH OUR PARK BOARD ON LOOKING AT DIFFERENT CATEGORIES AND WHERE THEY WANTED TO PUT THE MONEY, WE REALIZED THAT A 700 MILLION ASK WAS NOT REALISTIC IN A 1 BILLION BOND PROGRAM.
SO ALTHOUGH OUR NEEDS ARE $700 MILLION, WE TRIED TO BE A LITTLE BIT MORE REALISTIC.
SO WORKING WITH OUR PARK BOARD, UM, AS OF JUNE 15TH, 2023, WE WENT THROUGH ALL OF THESE CATEGORIES THAT WE LISTED AND BASICALLY KIND OF PUT THE NUMBERS DOWN A LITTLE BIT TO BECOME A LITTLE BIT MORE REALISTIC.
SO IF YOU GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, BASICALLY WE HAVE TAKEN OUR CITYWIDE CATEGORIES DOWN TO 387.47 MILLION AND OUR PARK AND SITE DEVELOPMENT IS 62.53 MILLION TO PUT OUR TOTAL PARK AND RECREATION NEED AT 450 MILLION.
AGAIN, OUR REAL NEED IS 710 MILLION, 712 MILLION, BUT WE KNOW WE NEED TO BE A LITTLE BIT MORE REALISTIC.
SO WE'VE WORKED WITH OUR PARK BOARD TO PUT THIS MONEY IN THESE BUCKETS AT 450 MILLION.
SO LOOKING AT OUR NEEDS INVENTORY, WHICH IS THE NEXT SLIDE, OUR NEEDS INVENTORY SIMILAR TO EVERYONE ELSE'S WITHIN THE CITY IS A COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF PROPOSED PARK AND TRAIL IMPROVEMENTS FOR ALL COUNCIL DISTRICTS.
OUR NEEDS INVENTORY CONSISTS OF NEARLY 3000 ENTRIES.
WE HAVE 18 DIFFERENT PROJECT CATEGORIES AND WE HAVE OVER 2 BILLION IN IDENTIFIED NEEDS IN THE PARK AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT IN OUR NEEDS INVENTORY.
OUR PROJECTS ARE PROPOSED BY CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, THEY'RE PROPOSED BY PARK BOARD MEMBERS.
THEY CAN BE PROPOSED BY STAKEHOLDERS OR PARTNERSHIP GROUPS, CITIZENS WHEN THEY CALL IN THREE 11 OR THEY CAN BE PROPOSED BY STAFF.
AND BASICALLY ONCE WE GET THOSE PROJECTS, HOW THEY END UP IN THE NEEDS INVENTORY IS WE EVALUATE THOSE PROJECTS AND LOOK AT THEM TO SEE IF THEY ACTUALLY HAVE VALUE AND MERIT.
WE PUT, UM, WE, WE EVALUATE THE COST OF THE PROJECT IF IT DOES HAVE MERIT AND THEN WE PUT IT WITHIN ITS PROPER CATEGORY AND THE NEEDS INVENTORY AND PUT ITS COST IN THE NEEDS INVENTORY.
SO LOOKING AT CITYWIDE VERSUS DISTRICT PROJECTS, EACH COUNCIL PERSON IS PROVIDED A SPECIFIC AMOUNT OF DISCRETIONARY BOND FUNDING AND SOME COUNCIL MEMBERS DECIDE TO SPEND THAT FUNDING IN PARKS AND OTHERS SPEND THAT FUNDING IN OTHER AREAS.
OUR CITYWIDE PROJECTS ARE PROJECTS THAT IMPACT MORE THAN ONE DISTRICT AND THOSE, SOME EXAMPLES OF THOSE ARE RECREATION CENTERS, TRAIL IMPROVEMENTS AND OUR PARTNER MATCHES.
SO THOSE ARE SOME OF THOSE THINGS THAT WE'VE LISTED IN OUR CITYWIDE.
UM, PROJECT IMPROVEMENTS AND DISTRICT PROJECTS ARE THOSE THAT ONLY IMPACT ONE SPECIFIC DISTRICT, SUCH AS OUR PARK AND SITE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT, WHICH WOULD BE AN INDIVIDUAL PARK SUCH AS LIKE A CHERRYWOOD PARK IN DISTRICT TWO OR SOMETHING TO THAT NATURE.
SO OUR PROJECT SELECTION PROCESS, UM, WE AND HOW WE PUT THINGS IN THE NEEDS INVENTORY AND HOW WE SCORE THINGS IN THE NEEDS INVENTORY IS WE DEVELOP CITYWIDE AND PARK SPECIFIC MASTER PLANS.
WE MAINTAIN THIS SYSTEM-WIDE NEEDS INVENTORY.
WE PERFORM A SERVICE GAP ANALYSIS LOOKING AT AREAS WHERE WE DON'T HAVE A PARK WITHIN A 10 MINUTE WALK.
WE DO TECHNICAL SCORING, WHICH INCLUDES FACILITY AND EQUIPMENT AGE AND SERVICE GAPS.
AND WE'RE GONNA TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT TECHNICAL SCORING.
WE CONDUCT COMMUNITY MEETINGS TO DETERMINE PRIORITIES AND WE COORDINATE THAT WITH PARK BOARD AND CITY COUNCIL PRIORITIES AS WELL.
SO OUR 2024 SCORING CRITERIA GUIDELINES, WE WORKED WITH THE OFFICE OF BON CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT AND EACH DEPARTMENT SCORING CRITERIA HAD TO EQUAL 100 POINTS.
WE HAD EQUITY GUIDELINES THAT WERE DETERMINED BY EACH DEPARTMENT AND OVERLAPPING DEPARTMENT PROJECTS ARE ACCOUNTED FOR USING A CALCULATED PERCENTAGE FACTOR AND AN INTERACTIVE PROJECT MAP.
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BASICALLY WHAT THAT MEANS IS IF WE WERE TO HAPPEN TO HAVE A PARK PROJECT THAT'S ADJACENT TO A ROADWAY THAT MAY BE BEING, UM, RECONSTRUCTED OR HAVING A STORM DRAIN PUT IN, THOSE PROJECTS MAY GET ADDITIONAL POINTS ADDED TO THEM DUE TO THEIR ADJACENCY BECAUSE THERE ARE DEFINITELY, UM, EFFICIENCIES THAT CAN BE REALIZED BY DOING PARK PROJECTS TOGETHER SUCH AS THAT.SO THERE MAY BE SOME ADDITIONAL POINTS AWARDED FOR PROJECTS THAT ARE UM, BEING DONE BESIDE EACH OTHER.
SO LOOKING AT THE PARK DEPARTMENT, UM, 2024 SCORING CRITERIA, WE HAVE DEPARTMENT TECHNICAL SCORING CRITERIA AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT THESE A LITTLE BIT MORE ON THE NEXT PAGE.
BUT THEY INCLUDE LEVERAGE AND FUNDING MATCH REVENUE GENERATION, ECONOMIC STIMULANT SAFETY CODE AND HUMAN HEALTH IMPACT ON OPERATION OF MAINTENANCE COST AND ENERGY USE.
IF THERE'S AN EXISTING MASTER PLAN, IF THE PROJECT IS, HAS A PRIOR PHASE THAT'S BEEN COMPLETED, IF IT'S MEETING THE END OF A SERVICE LIFE OR IF IT'S MEETING A SERVICE LEVEL GAP, WE HAVE CRITERIA FOR CITY COUNCIL AND PARK BOARD PRIORITY AND COMMUNITY INPUT.
AND THEN WE HAVE OUR EQUITY CRITERIA, WHICH INCLUDES SOCIAL VULNERABILITY, PARK ACCESS AND PARK INVESTMENT HISTORY.
SO LOOKING SPECIFICALLY AT OUR 2024 TECHNICAL SCORING CRITERIA, AND AGAIN, OUR TOTAL CRITERIA AND OUR TOTAL SCORING EQUALS A HUNDRED POINTS.
SO OUR TECHNICAL SCORING CRITERIA IS 50 OF THOSE 100 POINTS.
SO THE LEVERAGE AND FUNDING MATCH INDICATES THAT THE PROJECT WILL LEVERAGE FUNDS FROM OTHER SOURCES SUCH AS GRANTS, MATCHES OR DONATIONS FROM OTHER AGENCIES OR PRIVATE ENTITIES THAT HAS A WEIGHTED SCORE OF UP TO FIVE POINTS ON REVENUE GENERATION.
IF THE PROJECT WILL GENERATE REVENUE FOR THE CITY, IT CAN HAVE UP TO THREE POINTS AWARDED IF THE PROJECT WILL AFFECT ADJACENT PROPERTY VALUES OR STIMULATE OTHER DEVELOPMENT AND BE IT ECONOMIC STIMULANT.
IT CAN HAVE UP TO THREE POINTS IF THE PROJECT WILL ADDRESS SAFETY CONCERNS OR RESOLVE CODE AND REGULATORY VIOLATIONS OR HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS.
IT CAN HAVE UP TO 10 POINTS IF THE PROJECT WILL HAVE AN IMPACT ON OPERATING AND MAINTENANCE COSTS.
IT CAN BE AWARDED UP TO FIVE POINTS.
IF THE PROJECT HAS AN APPROVED MASTER PLAN WITHIN THE LAST 10 YEARS, IT CAN BE AWARDED UP TO FOUR POINTS IF THE PROJECT IS A SUBSEQUENT PHASE OF ANOTHER PROJECT OR INITIATIVE THAT HAS ALREADY BEEN COMPLETE.
FOR EXAMPLE, IF IT'S A TRAIL CONNECTION OF SOMETHING THAT'S ALREADY BEEN STARTED, IT CAN HAVE UP TO FOUR POINTS.
AND IF THE PROJECT WILL REPLACE A FACILITY THAT HAS A LONG HISTORY OF SERVICE TICKETS OR REQUESTS AND OR IF IT'S PER MANUFACTURER'S RECOMMENDED END OF SERVICE LIFE, IT CAN HAVE UP TO SEVEN POINTS.
AND THEN IF THE PROJECT WILL IMPROVE ADOPTED LEVEL OF SERVICE STANDARDS PER OUR 2016 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE, IT CAN HAVE UP TO SIX POINTS.
SO WHEN YOU ADD ALL THESE TOGETHER, OUR TECHNICAL SCORING CRITERIA COULD HAVE A TOTAL OF UP TO 50 POINTS.
THEN LOOKING AT OUR CITY COUNCIL PARK BOARD CRITERIA, THIS HAS A WEIGHTED SCORE OF UP TO 25 POINTS.
UM, 15 POINTS ARE IF THE PROJECT IS DETERMINED BY THE PARK BOARD AND OR COUNCIL MEMBER TO BE A PRIORITY IN THE DISTRICT.
AND THEN WE HAVE UP TO 10 POINTS FOR COMMUNITY INPUT.
AND THAT IS IF A PROJECT IS DETERMINED BY THE COMMUNITY AND OR A FRIENDS GROUP TO BE A NEIGHBORHOOD PRIORITY IN THE DISTRICT, OR IF THE PROJECT HAS SUPPORT FROM A LOCAL FRIENDS GROUP, PARTNERSHIP ORGANIZATION, OR THE COMMUNITY HAS EXPRESSED SUPPORT DURING A COMMUNITY, INPUT A BOND MEETING, OR THROUGH A REQUEST TO THE PARK BOARD MEMBER OR THE PARK DEPARTMENT.
SO BASICALLY, WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT IF THE PROJECT HAS COMMUNITY SUPPORT, BUT IT MAY NOT HAVE A FRIENDS GROUP, BUT WE'VE HAD PEOPLE THAT HAVE COME TO A MEETING AND EXPRESS SUPPORT FOR THE PROJECT, WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE INCORPORATE THAT BECAUSE NOT ALL PROJECTS ARE GONNA HAVE A FRIENDS GROUP ASSOCIATED WITH THEM.
AND WE, WE UNDERSTAND THAT AND WANNA MAKE SURE WE ACCOUNT FOR PUBLIC SUPPORT ANY WAY IT COMES IN.
AND THEN FINALLY, OUR EQUITY CRITERIA, UM, WE HAVE UP TO 25 POINTS AWARDED FOR EQUITY CRITERIA.
UM, FIRST IS FOR SOCIAL VULNERABILITY.
WE HAVE UP TO 10 POINTS THAT UTILIZE, UTILIZES THE SOCIAL VULNERABILITY INDEX, WHICH UTILIZES US CENSUS DATA TO DETERMINE THE SOCIAL VULNERABILITY OF EVERY CENSUS TRACTED.
SO WE UTILIZE, UM, THAT C D C S V I FOR THAT.
WE'VE TALKED A LITTLE BIT, I'VE MENTIONED THIS PARK ACCESS GAP IN THIS 10 MINUTE WALK.
SO BASICALLY WE WANNA HAVE EVERY CITIZEN WITHIN THE CITY OF DALLAS TO BE WITHIN 10 MINUTES WALK OF A PARK.
AND WE DO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT PHYSICAL BARRIERS WITHIN THAT 10 MINUTE WALK.
SO LET'S SAY IF YOU'RE WALKING OUT OF YOUR, YOUR HOUSE OR YOUR APARTMENT AND YOU HAVE A BIG MAJOR STREET BETWEEN YOU AND THE NEXT PARK, WE DO TAKE THAT INTO ACCOUNT AND WE UNDERSTAND THAT WE DON'T WANT YOU CROSSING A MAJOR, MAJOR, UM, HIGHWAY AND FREEWAY TO BE ABLE TO GET TO A PARK.
SO WE'RE TRYING TO ENSURE THAT EVERY CITIZEN WITHIN DALLAS
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IS WITHIN A 10 MINUTE WALK AND DOESN'T HAVE A MAJOR PHYSICAL BARRIER, YOU KNOW, IN YOUR WAY TO GET TO THAT PARK AND FACILITY.AND THEN FIVE POINTS FOR PARK INVESTMENT.
IF A PARK HAS NOT HAD ANY RECENT INVESTMENT WITHIN THE LAST 10 TO 15 YEARS, WE WANNA ENSURE THAT IT HAS SOME POINTS THAT WE, YOU KNOW, GET, GET TO SHOW SOME OF THOSE, UM, PARKS THAT HAVEN'T HAD ANY INVESTMENTS OF LOVE.
SO THAT IS OUR SCORING CRITERIA THAT WE HAVE.
UM, OUT OF A HUNDRED POINTS THERE, WE HAVE 50 FOR OUR TECHNICAL CRITERIA, 25 FOR OUR EQUITY CRITERIA, AND THEN 25 FOR OUR COMMUNITY.
AND, UM, UM, EXCUSE ME, FOR OUR CITY COUNCIL PARK BOARD CRITERIA AND COMMUNITY INPUT.
SO, LOOKING AT OUR NEXT STEPS, WE ARE CURRENTLY COMPLETING OUR SCORING FOR OUR NEEDS INVENTORY.
WE WILL BE DEVELOPING PRIORITIZED PROJECT LISTS PER CATEGORY BASED ON THE SCORING OF THE NEEDS ON INVENTORY.
WE WILL DEVELOP THE PROPOSED AMOUNT OF FUNDING PER CATEGORY WORKING WITH THE PARK BOARD.
WE ALREADY HAVE THAT PRELIMINARY 450 MILLION AMOUNT THAT THEY HAVE DEVELOPED FOR US.
WE'LL PRESENT OUR PRIORITIZED PROJECT LIST TO THE PARK BOARD FOR DISCUSSION AND EVALUATION.
WE WILL THEN PRESENT THOSE PRIORITIZED PROJECT LISTS TO OUR PARK AND TRAILS SUBCOMMITTEE FOR DISCUSSION AND EVALUATION.
AND WE PLAN TO DO THAT IN JULY.
AND THEN WE DO HAVE A FIELD TRIP PLANNED, UM, THIS SATURDAY FROM 9:00 AM TO 3:00 PM AND I KNOW JENNY SENT SOME INFORMATION OUT ON THAT EARLIER.
AND I WILL FOLLOW UP ON THAT TOMORROW WITH THE ACTUAL SPECIFIC LOCATIONS THAT WE'LL BE VISITING ON SATURDAY, BECAUSE THE MAP THAT SHE GAVE, UM, PROVIDED THE LOCATIONS THAT WE VISITED ON JUNE 10TH AND THE ONES THAT WE'LL BE VISITING SATURDAY.
SO I WILL PROVIDE YOU THE LIST OF LOCATIONS THAT WE WILL BE VISITING THIS SATURDAY ALONG WITH THE MAP, BUT WE'LL MEET AT, AT CITY HALL AND WE'LL BOARD THE BUS AT 9:00 AM THIS SATURDAY AND GO OUT FOR ANOTHER FIELD TRIP.
AND WITH THAT, I'D LIKE TO OPEN IT UP TO ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE.
THIS WAS A LOT OF INFORMATION,
YES, MR. COX? THANK YOU CHAIR.
UM, THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION.
UH, THIS, THE, THE BOND FUNDING SCHEDULE THAT SHOWS KIND OF THE PARED DOWN THE FOUR, ROUGHLY $400 MILLION.
UM, DO YOU HAVE THAT BROKEN DOWN BETWEEN, LIKE YOU DID ON THE 2017 SLIDE BETWEEN, UH, EXISTING AND NEW REQUESTS FOR NEW FACILITIES OR NEW PARKS? NO, WE HAVEN'T ACTUALLY BROKEN IT DOWN INTO PRIORITY LISTS YET.
WHAT WE WERE WORKING ON WITH THE PARK BOARD WAS ACTUALLY GETTING THEM TO KIND OF PUT IT IN THE SPECIFIC CATEGORIES THAT THEY WANTED IT IN, BUT NOT, I, I'M NOT INTERESTED IN THE CATEGORIES.
WE DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE THAT BROKEN DOWN YET.
WE'RE STILL WORKING ON THE NEW, THAT WOULD BE ON THE NEEDS INVENTORY, WHICH PRETTY MUCH HAS A COMBINATION OF BOTH NEW AND OLD FACILITIES.
SO AT SOME POINT WE WILL HAVE THAT BREAKDOWN.
UH, I NOTICED YOU MENTIONED EROSION CONTROL.
THAT'S GONNA BE IN THE PARKS SUBCOMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION AS OPPOSED TO THE FLOODING AND EROSION CONTROL SUBCOMMITTEE.
WE HAVE A COMBINATION BECAUSE WITHIN THE PARK DEPARTMENT ITSELF AND WITHIN THE PARKS THEMSELVES, SOME OF THE CREEKS AND THINGS LIKE THAT DO RUN WITHIN THE PARKS.
AND THE GENERAL BREAKDOWN IS IF THE CREEK AND THE EROSION IS WITHIN THE PARK, IT IS THE PARK DEPARTMENT RESPONSIBILITY AS OPPOSED TO DALLAS WATER UTILITIES.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S WHY WE HAVE SOME EROSION CONTROL WITHIN OUR NEEDS INVENTORY AS WELL.
AND THEN LAST QUESTION I HAVE IS, YOU MENTIONED, UH, THE REC CENTERS BEING REPLACED INSTEAD OF RENOVATED, AND THAT'S, THAT'S A HUGE DIFFERENCE IN THAT COST.
UM, COULD YOU GET OTHER THAN SAY, ADA, WHICH I GET, UH, CAN YOU GIMME AN, UH, SOME REASONING OR SOME EXAMPLES AS TO WHY TO MAKE, THAT'S A PRETTY BROAD STATEMENT.
THEY SHOULD ALL BE REPLACED, NO MAJOR RENOVATION.
CAN YOU GIMME EXAMPLES AS TO WHY? SOME OF THE REC CENTERS, AND I'LL USE, I'LL USE REV, SEAN AS AN EXAMPLE.
WE BASICALLY HAVE JUST OUTGROWN THE FACILITY.
THE FACILITY IS JUST TOO SMALL TO SUPPORT, UM, THE ACTIVITIES THAT WE HAVE ONGOING TODAY.
WE CAN'T ADD A GYMNASIUM, WE CAN'T ADD AN AUDITORIUM, WE CAN'T ADD SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE NEED.
SO REC CENTERS SUCH AS REVON ARE JUST AT THE POINT THEY HAVE JUST OUTLIVED THEIR USEFUL LIFE.
UM, NOT ALL OF THEM ARE THAT WAY.
THERE ARE SOME THAT CAN STILL HAVE MAJOR RENOVATIONS DONE.
UM, IT'S JUST, THERE ARE ABOUT EIGHT OF THEM THAT WE KNOW OF FOR CERTAIN RIGHT NOW THAT HAVE JUST OUTLIVED THEIR LIFE.
UM, XOL IS ANOTHER ONE THAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THAT NEEDS TO JUST BE RENOVATED, OR EXCUSE ME, THAT JUST NEEDS TO BE, UM, REDONE.
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RENOVATED, BUT THERE ARE A LOT OF THEM THAT, THAT WE HAVE JUST OUTGROWN THE SPACE, FLAT OUT OUTGROWN IT.AND IT IS NOT ECONOMICALLY FEASIBLE TO RENOVATE IT.
IT IS JUST LESS EXPENSIVE TO GO AHEAD AND RIP IT DOWN AND DO A NEW ONE.
UH, YES, ANN, PLEASE, COULD YOU SAY A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THE, UM, A HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS FOR SITE DEVELOPMENT? IS, AM I RIGHT TO ASSUME THAT THAT'S ALL, UM, NEW PARKLAND OR NEW FACILITIES, OR IS, IS THERE SOMETHING ELSE GOING ON THAT I DON'T BA BASICALLY THOSE ARE SPECIFIC DISTRICT PROJECTS THAT COULD BE, UM, IT COULD BE NEW PARKS WITHIN A DISTRICT.
IT COULD BE NEW PLAYGROUNDS WITHIN A DISTRICT.
IT, IT BASICALLY IS A SPECIFIC DISTRICT PROJECT AS OPPOSED TO A CITYWIDE PROJECT.
SO IN OTHER WORDS, DIVIDE A HUNDRED MILLION BY 14, AND THAT'S WHERE THAT NUMBER COMES FROM.
I'M SORRY, I I'M HAVING A HARD TIME HEARING YOU.
THE ACOUSTIC, SO IT'S A HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS DIVIDED BY 14 TELLS, THAT'S IT, PERIOD.
YOU FIRST, HE KNOWS EVERYTHING.
I JUST HAVE A QUICK, EASY QUESTION.
UM, IN THE MEMO THAT WE RECEIVED TODAY, THE DEPARTMENT REQUEST WAS 400 MILLION.
BUT IN THE SLIDES THAT YOU PRESENTED, IT SAYS FOUR 50.
SO I'M JUST TRYING TO GET THE CORRECT ANSWER ON WHERE YOU ALL ARE.
BASICALLY, WE HAVE BEEN INDICATING TO OUR COUNCIL MEMBERS THAT WE NEED 400 MILLION BECAUSE OF THE WAY THE LISTS ARE COMING OUT AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE WITH SOME ROUNDING AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
WE'VE ASKED OUR PARK BOARD TO COME TO FOUR 50, AND IF WE NEED TO CUT A FEW PROJECTS OFF HERE AND THERE TO MAKE THAT 400 MILLION, WE CAN DO THAT AT THE END WITHOUT A PROBLEM.
HOW MUCH, UM, GREAT PRESENTATION.
HOW MUCH OF THIS IN, IN THE, IN THE, IN THE TOUR THAT WE WENT ON TWO WEEKENDS AGO, IT SOUNDED LIKE A GOOD MAJORITY OF THE PROJECTS THAT NEED TO BE DONE IN THIS BOND HAVE TO DO WITH DEFERRED MAINTENANCE THAT HAS BEEN DEFERRED FOR ALMOST DECADES.
SO, FOR INSTANCE, PLAYGROUNDS THAT ARE 30, 40 YEARS OLD, FIELDS THAT IF YOU'RE GONNA PLAY ON THEM, YOU COULD EASILY TEAR AN ACL, BREAK AN ANKLE, SILVER AND SO ON.
DO WE HAVE A PERCENTAGE OF HOW MUCH OF THIS BOND, THE LIGHTING THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE, HOW MUCH OF THIS BOND OF THE $400 IS LITERALLY SAFETY, SECURITY, TRYING TO REPAIR? YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT RIVER SHAWN, YOU KNOW, IT, IT JUST BEING, YOU KNOW, ONE THAT'S IN MY DISTRICT IN CAMPBELL GREEN, JUST BEING KIND OF AT THE END OF ITS USABLE LIFE.
DO WE HAVE A, A FEELING OF HOW MUCH OF THIS IS NOT, I DON'T WANNA SAY A VANITY PROJECT, BUT REALLY NEEDS FOR OUR CITIZENS? I WOULD SAY NEARLY ALL OF IT IS NEEDS FOR THE CITIZENS.
I WOULDN'T CALL ANY OF IT VANITY PROJECTS TO BE VERY HONEST.
QUICK QUESTION AND ONE QUICK COMMENT.
UM, SO HOW MUCH IS LEFT FROM THE 2017 BOND THAT HAS NOT BEEN SPENT? I SEE THE PROJECTS, BUT I WAS JUST WONDERING, DID, DID YOU ALL KNOW THEM NOW? I BELIEVE WE ARE APPROXIMATELY 80 TO 90% SPENT.
AND, UM, ON YOUR CRITERIA, THIS IS THE COMMENT I WOULD SUGGEST
BECAUSE COMMUNITY INPUT IN ME, IN MY OPINION, IS WHAT THE PARK BOARD AND THE CITY COUNCIL PRIORITY SHOULD BE AT LEAST.
AND IT'S, IT'S HARD TO HEAR ME.
COMMUNITY INPUT SHOULD BE AT LEAST WHAT THE PARK BOARD AND THE CITY COUNCIL SHOULD PRIORITIZE CUZ THEY'RE KIND OF ONE AND THE SAME, ESSENTIALLY.
THEY'RE JUST THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE COMMUNITY.
SO I THOUGHT THAT WAS INTERESTING.
THANK YOU, UH, CHRIS, THANK YOU.
GREAT PRESENTATION AND SOME SEEMS, UH, SOME GOOD QUESTIONS, SO APPRECIATE IT.
SO WITH THAT, WE, UH, NOW MOVE TO OUR PRESENTATIONS, UH, FROM OUR SUBCOMMITTEE CHAIRS.
MR. MADANO, DO YOU WANT TO TAKE THE FIRST SHOT AT IT? MR. MADANO NEEDS TO LEAVE, SO I'M BEING NICE TO HIM.
I'M NOT, I ONE NEEDS TO BE ON THIS SIDE.
MINE'S ON ALREADY, BUT I SEE A LOT OF FAMILY FACES.
SO MY NAME'S, UH, ADAM MADRAN.
I'M THE CO-CHAIR OF THE, UH, CRITICAL FACILITIES
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SUBCOMMITTEE.UM, AND TODAY WE HEARD FROM, UH, THE DALLAS POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THEIR INVENTORY NEEDS, THEIR OVERALL NEEDS ARE 462 MILLION.
AND THEN WE TALKED ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT DO YOU REALLY WANT TO SEE HAPPEN AND GET FUNDED? AND THEY MENTIONED, AND I THINK A LOT OF, YOU KNOW, IS THE NEW POLICE ACADEMY AND THE DRIVING TRACK.
AND THEN, UM, ONE OF THE, UM, UH, OLDEST STATIONS THAT ACTUALLY WAS IN THE DISTRICT THAT I REPRESENTED IS CENTRAL PATROL.
SO THOSE ARE THE THREE THAT, THAT THEY MENTIONED, UH, THAT NEEDED TO BE NUMBER ONE ON THEIR LIST.
UM, THEN WE ALSO HEARD FROM THE DALLAS PUBLIC LIBRARY, UH, THEY DID IT DIFFERENTLY.
THEY DIDN'T, THEY DIDN'T GIVE ALL THEIR NEEDS INVENTORY.
AND THEIR ASK IS 51.2 MILLION.
AND THAT IS FOR A REPLACEMENT, UM, LIBRARY AT PRESTON ROYAL.
TWO NEW LIBRARIES, THE NORTH OAK CLIFF AND PARK FOREST.
AND THEN, UH, UH, MAJOR MAINTENANCE AT, AT ALAR, UH, MOSTLY ALL THE FACILITIES.
UH, WE ALSO TALKED ABOUT, UM, OUR TOUR.
WE'RE DOING, UH, FIELD TRIPS AUGUST THE 12TH, UH, EIGHT 30 TO 1230.
WE'RE GONNA VISIT THE POLICE ACADEMY, FIRE STATION 11.
UM, AND THEN AUGUST 19TH WE'RE GONNA VISIT, UH, THE NORTH OAK CLIFF LIBRARY ANIMAL SERVICES.
AND THERE'S A COUPLE OTHER THINGS THAT WE'RE GONNA VISIT ON THOSE TRIPS AS WELL.
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WANT TO SAY ANYTHING.
EFRIN? NO, I, I THINK YOU COVERED ALL.
ANY QUESTIONS? MR. MR. CHAIR? MR. THANKS.
UH, MAYOR PRO, TIM MADANO? MM-HMM.
UH, WHAT'S THE ESTIMATE ON THE POLICE ACADEMY? SO, UH, FROM WHAT, OR I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S, SO IT'S $150 MILLION PROJECT TOTAL.
BUT THE BOND PORTION WOULD BE 25 MILLION OR 25 BETWEEN 25 50 MILLION FOR THE BOND.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR THE CRITICAL FACILITY? SO, THANK YOU MR. MADANO.
YOUR PRESENTATION WAS SO PRECISE.
ARE YOU? NO, YOU NEED A MINUTE? OKAY.
WHICH IS, SO MS. SCOOP, YOU WANT TO, OH, I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN BEAT THAT.
UM, WE WENT OVER, UH, IN THE STREETS COMMITTEE, WENT OVER TRAFFIC SIGNALS, STREETLIGHTS, AND THE PROPOSED BOND AMOUNT.
UM, WE JUST WENT OVER THE NEEDS INVENTORY AND LOOKED WHAT, WHAT WAS BELOW AND ABOVE THE LINE AND LEARNED A LOT ABOUT STREETLIGHTS AND THAT KIND OF THING.
BUT I WON'T GO INTO DETAIL ON THAT.
THE END OF THE MEETING, WE DID HAVE A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE, UM, THE ALLOCATION SUMMARY THAT YOU SENT, UM, UH, CHAIR TO US.
AND WHAT WE DECIDED KIND OF AT THE END OF THE MEETING, ALTHOUGH I I HAD TO LEAVE A LITTLE BIT EARLY, WAS THAT WE WILL GIVE YOU A PROPOSAL ON THE AMOUNT.
IT'LL BE BASED ON OUR COMMITTEE.
AND, UM, I KNOW THAT WE'VE GOT SEVERAL DIFFERENT SCENARIOS HERE FOR STREETS AND ALSO FOR TRANSPORTATION.
AND THEY RANGE FROM THE DEPARTMENT REQUEST FOR STREETS AT 520 TH UH, THOUSAND DOLLARS TO OUR, UH, POSSIBLE SCENARIO FOR TRANSPORTATION AT 50,000.
SO WE'VE GOT A LOT OF, A LOT OF DISCUSSING TO DO, BUT, UM, WE WILL GIVE YOU A PROPOSAL AT THE END OF THIS, UM, ON THOSE TWO MAJOR CATEGORIES.
AND REALLY, THAT'S ALL WE, WE DISCUSSED.
THE REST OF IT WAS JUST DETAILS OF STREET LIES.
THIS, THIS IS GOING TO BE ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT RECOMMENDATION YOU CAN MAKE TO THE TASK FORCE, BECAUSE THAT'S ONE OF THE THREE PRIORITIES OF, UH, THE LEADERSHIP, CITY LEADERSHIP.
I'M SORRY, I COULDN'T HEAR YOU.
I'M SAYING THIS IS ONE OF THE THREE PRIORITIES OF THE CITY LEADERSHIP, SO WE CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THE FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS YOU MAKE.
AND ALSO WE WILL BE LISTENING.
WE DID HAVE SPEAKERS TODAY, AND THERE IS A COMMUNITY SURVEY.
THEY'RE GONNA BE MORE ROBUST ABOUT IT.
I KNOW YOU'RE GETTING A BRIEFING, OR THE COUNCIL'S GETTING A BRIEFING TOMORROW ON A WIDER, UH, I THINK IT WAS A PHONE SURVEY THAT WAS TAKEN THAT HAD ALL SORTS OF DIFFERENT THINGS IN IT, NOT JUST, UM, UH, KIND OF LIKE THE BOND PROPOSAL THINGS, BUT, UM, WE WILL BE TAKING A LOOK AT THAT TOO, AND SEEING WHAT THE COMMUNITY WANTS.
AND MOST OF OUR MEMBERS ARE GOING TO THEIR, UH, TOWN HALL MEETINGS.
SO WE'RE HEARING FROM THEM WHAT THE PRIORITIES ARE OF THE CITIZENS.
SO WE'VE, WE'VE HAD SOME GOOD INPUT SO FAR.
AND WE'LL TAKE THAT INTO ACCOUNT.
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AWESOME.WELL, THANK YOU SO MUCH AGAIN.
MR. SHE, YOU READY? YEAH, SIR.
THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION.
UH, A COUPLE QUESTIONS ON STREETLIGHTS.
UH, I KNOW IN DISTRICT 13, AFTER THE TORNADO OF A COUPLE YEARS AGO, THERE'S A NUMBER OF MAJOR INTERSECTIONS THAT STILL HAVE THE TEMPORARY, UH, TRAFFIC LIGHTS THERE, AND, WHICH IS KIND OF SURPRISING.
UH, I'M, DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA IS, IS THE CITY OF DALLAS WAITING FOR THIS BOND ISSUE TO PAY FOR THE NEW ONES, OR, WELL, I CAN JUST TELL YOU WHAT WENT ON IN MY DISTRICT OR OUR DISTRICT NOW, UH, DISTRICT 11 WAS THAT THERE WERE A COUPLE OF STREETLIGHTS THAT WENT OUT.
AND WHAT OUR COUNCIL MEMBER WHO IS, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER SCHULTZ IS SAYING IS THAT FEMA WILL PAY FOR THEM AND HAVE GOT GOTTEN THE MONEY FROM FEMA YET.
SO IT'S JUST BEEN A NUMBER OF YEARS.
IT'S, IT'S SURPRISING THAT MAJOR INTERSECTIONS THAT THEY WOULD STILL BE TEMPORARY LIGHTS.
BUT YOU HAVE A TEMPORARY ONE, RIGHT? YEAH, TEMPORARY.
THEY'RE, THEY'RE THROUGHOUT DISTRICT 13.
UM, WE CAN JUST DRIVE PRESTON
UM, I CAN JUST TELL YOU THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE, THEY'RE JUST WAITING FOR FEMA TO PAY THEM.
NOW, HAVING BEEN THROUGH, UM, HURRICANES, UH, UH, DOWN IN THE, AT THE COASTAL AREA WITH FEMA AND WAITING, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE HAD THE REFUGEES COME UP FROM THE COASTAL AREA AND WAITING FOR FEMA TO PAY US WHEN I WAS A COUNCIL MEMBER, IT WAS YEARS.
SO, AND THEN THE SECOND QUESTION IS, UH, WHEN, WHEN I WENT ALONG WITH Y'ALL ON THE, UH, THE STREET TOUR, UM, WE WENT TO, I THINK IT WAS, UH, GRAND AND IN
AND THAT WAS AN EXAMPLE THAT STAFF WAS, UH, SAYING WAS A STREET LIGHTS THAT WERE GONNA BE REPLACED OR WOULD BE RECOMMENDED TO BE REPLACED.
BUT WHEN I SPOKE TO PEOPLE ON THE TOUR THAT WERE FROM THAT AREA, I, I'M FAMILIAR WITH WHAT THE, WHAT STAFF WHEN THEY REPLACE, THEY GENERALLY PUT IN, I CONSIDER THEM KIND OF OVER-ENGINEERED.
AND WHEN I ASKED STAFF ABOUT IT, THEY SAID THEY'VE, THEY'VE ADOPTED THE TDOT STANDARDS AND SO THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE USING.
UH, THOUGH ON THE, THE TOUR, WHEN I TALKED TO A NUMBER OF FOLKS FROM THAT NEIGHBORHOOD, THEY INDICATED ALL THEY REALLY WANTED IT WAS TO HAVE THE, THE LIGHTS PAINTED, WHICH IS ABOUT $400 A LIGHT.
UH, IS ANY CONSIDERATION GIVEN TO JUST RENOVATING LIGHTS AS OPPOSED TO REPLACING THE LIGHTS? AGAIN, A HUGE CHANGE IN THE COST.
WE HAD A DISCUSSION ABOUT THAT TODAY.
UM, THE SAME MEMBER OF OUR COMMITTEE BROUGHT IT UP AGAIN.
UM, THEY'RE TAKING A LOOK AT IT, BUT THE REASON WHY ALMOST ALL OF THEM ARE HAVING TO BE REPLACED IS BECAUSE OF FAULTY WIRING, NOT ONLY WITHIN THE UNIT ITSELF, BUT UNDERGROUND.
AND SO IT'S A COMPLETE DO OVER MAKEOVER OF A LOT OF THESE LIGHTS CUZ THEY'RE SO OLD, A LOT OF 'EM BEING BEFORE 1970 AND SOME OF 'EM EVEN BEING BEFORE THAT.
BUT THERE WAS A ROBUST DISCUSSION ABOUT THAT TODAY.
SO, UM, I'M SURE THAT THERE'LL BE A FOLLOW UP, UH, AT OUR NEXT MEETING ON THAT ISSUE.
THE QUESTION OF THE LARGER STREETLIGHTS, BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT THEM, THEY WANT THE ONES THAT ARE MORE COMMUNITY FRIENDLY.
UM, UM, MY UNDERSTANDING WAS THAT IF THEY CAN POSSIBLY SAVE THE STREETLIGHTS SO THAT, YOU KNOW, IF THEY CAN MAKE THEM WORK AGAIN, THEY WILL.
BUT TYPICALLY THEIR STREETLIGHTS MEET A CERTAIN STANDARD AND THAT'S HOW COME THEY'RE SO LARGE.
NOW, I'M NOT SO SURE THAT THAT'S THE CASE IN EVERY CASE, BUT THE ONES THAT ARE WARRANTED, BEING A FORMER CITY MANAGER, THE ONES THAT ARE WARRANTED BY THE, BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAVE GOT TO MEET CERTAIN STANDARDS.
SO IT COULD BE THAT SOME OF THOSE ARE THOSE WARRANTED STREETLIGHTS.
UM, AND ACTUALLY WE DIDN'T HAVE ALL THAT MANY WARRANTED ONE.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WARRANTED AND UNWARRANTED IS, I, I THINK THE LOCATION, YOU MAY CORRECT ME IF YOU I'M WRONG, THE LOCATION, THE AMOUNT OF VOLUME OF, OF, UM, ACTIVITY THERE, IT'S A FEDERAL STANDARD THAT, THAT'S TRYING TO BE MET.
MR. SHIRE, WE ARE READY FOR YOU.
UH, TONIGHT OUR SUBCOMMITTEE DISCUSS HOMELESSNESS SOLUTIONS, UH, AND DIRECTOR CROSSLEY'S HERE TO, UH, TAKE SOME QUESTIONS IF YOU HAVE ANY.
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ASSUMING, DO YOU, DO YOU GUYS HAVE THE, THE POWERPOINT? NO.IS IT COMING UP ON YOUR SCREEN MAYBE? NO, WE DON'T.
I CAN'T SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING BACK THERE.
SOMEBODY PUTTING IT UP ON THE SCREEN OR CUZ I CAN CONTINUE, IF NOT, NO PRESENTATION.
THERE WAS NO FUNDING FOR THIS IN LAST BOND
WELL, WHILE WE GET THAT TEED UP, I'LL TELL YOU, WE, WE DO HAVE OUR, UH, HOMELESSNESS SOLUTION TOUR THIS SATURDAY.
UH, IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN JOINING US, WE WILL BE MEETING HERE ON THE FIRST FLOOR AT 9:00 AM ON SATURDAY.
I KNOW THE, THE CHAIR WAS NICE ENOUGH TO JOIN US ON OUR, UH, HOUSING TOUR, AND I THINK THAT YOU FOUND IT AS FASCINATING AS WE ALL DID.
YEAH, IT WAS, HONESTLY, I THINK IT, I LEARNED SO MUCH ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THE, WHAT CITY IS DOING ON THE HOUSING LEVEL.
I, I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW HALF OF IT.
WE WENT TO THE OAK LAWN AREA AND, YOU KNOW, DRIVING BY, YOU COULD NEVER THINK THERE'LL BE A PROJECT LIKE THAT, WHICH IS AFFORDABLE HOUSING, YOU KNOW, VERY, VERY WELL DONE.
AND, YOU KNOW, WE WENT TO THE BOTTOM DISTRICT, YOU KNOW, WHICH IS TOTALLY FLOOD ZONE AND HOW CITY IS, UH, YOU KNOW YEAH.
BUILDING HOUSES AND YOU KNOW, THE VALUE, THEY SAID WHEN SOMEONE MOVES IN, THEY ALREADY HAVE A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS WORTH OF EQUITY IN THOSE.
SO IT WAS REALLY GREAT LEARNING EXPERIENCE.
OKAY, I THINK WE ARE READY TO GO.
WE'RE, UH, WE'LL NOW GO THROUGH THE WHOLE POWERPOINT.
WE'RE JUST GONNA GIVE A COUPLE HIGHLIGHTS FOR YOU TO CONSIDER.
WE'LL BEGIN WITH, UH, SLIDE NUMBER THREE.
SO, UH, CHRISTINE AND THE TEAM TOOK US THROUGH THE, THE FIVE PRINCIPLES BASICALLY THAT THEY USE AS A PRISM TO LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, WHAT THEY DO.
AND, UH, THE FIRST ONE IS THAT IS THIS FOUR TRACK STRATEGY.
AND WE'LL, WE'LL COVER THAT A LITTLE BIT FURTHER, BUT THAT WAS APPROVED BY CITY COUNCIL IN 20 17, 17 AND THEN, UH, EXCUSE ME, 18 AND THEN UPDATED LAST YEAR.
UH, AND THEN THE SECOND BULLET THERE IS AN IMPORTANT ONE THAT THE CITY, CITY COUNCIL DIRECTIVE THAT LESSNESS SERVICES AND PROGRAMS BE LOCATED IN ALL COUNCIL DISTRICTS.
SO WE WILL SEE A LITTLE BIT LATER HERE THE SCORECARD OF WHERE, UH, THE CITY IS IN, UH, SUCCEEDING IN THAT ONE LITTLE BULLET POINT THERE.
THEN WE CAN GO TO SLIDE NUMBER SIX, THE OFFICE OF HOME LIFE SOLUTIONS, THE FOUR TRACK STRATEGY, COUPLE MORE, NUMBER SIX.
SO THIS IS ESSENTIALLY THE GUIDEBOOK THAT WAS SET BY COUNCIL TRACK.
ONE IS TO INCREASE SHELTER CAPACITY, WHICH WE'LL SEE LATER.
UH, INCLEMENT WEATHER SHELTERS, SUB SUBSIDIZED SUPPORTIVE HOUSING AND INVESTMENTS IN FACILITIES COMBATING HOMELESSNESS.
IF WE GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, THE, THIS IS THE, UH, THE DIRECTIVE FROM COUNSEL TO, UH, MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE HOMELESSNESS SERVICES AND PROGRAMS IN EACH COUNCIL DISTRICT.
SO THIS IS KIND OF THE, THE SCORECARD OF WHERE WE ARE NOW.
AND, UH, I THINK WE, WE HAVE TO REMEMBER AND KEEP IN MIND THAT THE, THE PROGRAM HAS JUST STARTED IN 2017.
SO IT'S ESSENTIALLY, IT'S, IT'S A TODDLER HERE WHERE, UH, WHERE THIS IS JUST A GROWTH IS WHAT WE'RE SEEING HERE.
AND WE HAVE A, A VISION FOR THE FUTURE.
AND THIS IS KIND OF WHERE WE'RE GOING.
UH, AND YOU CAN LOOK THROUGH THESE AND SEE, UH, SOME OF THEM ARE FAIRLY DEVELOPED OUT.
UH, IN DISTRICT 12, FOR EXAMPLE, WE HAVE, UH, 200 UNITS THERE, 132 IN DISTRICT EIGHT COMING ONLINE, UH, 110 AND 13, 200 IN DISTRICT 11, UH, ST.
JUDE, WHICH I BELIEVE WILL BE ON THE TOUR ON SATURDAY.
IF WE GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, WE'LL LOOK BACK A LITTLE BIT.
AT THE 2017 BOND, UH, THE DEPARTMENT WAS VERY SUCCESSFUL IN, UH, PUTTING THOSE FUNDS TO WORK.
99% OF THE, THE 20 MILLION WAS SPENT RESULTING IN, UH, 680 NEW BEDS, ALL ADAPTIVE REUSE.
UH, AND IF YOU LOOK THERE AT THE BOTTOM, OH, SORRY, NOT THIS
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SLIDE, THIS WOULD BE SLIDE NINE.400 OF THE 680 NEW BEDS ARE OCCUPIED.
THAT'S BECAUSE THE 280 OR HAVE NOT COME ONLINE.
SO, UH, IF YOU LOVE PERCENTAGES AS I DO, THAT MEANS THAT A HUNDRED PERCENT OF THE, UH, AVAILABLE BEDS ARE TAKEN.
UH, THIS IS, THERE'S A LOT TO TO UNDERSTAND HERE.
UM, 4,200 INDIVIDUALS EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS, UH, ON A SINGLE NIGHT.
AND THIS IS, THIS WAS A SNAPSHOT THAT WAS TAKEN, I THINK IN JANUARY OF LAST YEAR, THIS YEAR, 2023.
UH, AND, UH, FROM WHAT WE'RE GATHERING HERE, THE SUBCOMMITTEE, UH, FROM LEARNING FROM STAFF, FROM LEARNING FROM MR. WOODY, FROM LEARNING FROM THE HOMELESSNESS, UH, SOLUTIONS CHAIR, IS THAT THE TRENDS ARE LOOKING GOOD FOR US.
THE TRENDS ARE LOOK GOING DOWN.
UH, 4% DECREASE IN HOMELESSNESS OVERALL, 14% DECREASE IN UNSHELTERED HOMELESS, 32% DECLINE IN CHRONIC HOMELESSNESS.
THERE, UH, FOR 2025, THE GOAL IS TO HAVE 16, 6,000 UNIQUE INDIVIDUAL HOUSED.
UH, AND AGAIN, IT, IT APPEARS THAT TODAY THE TRENDS ARE MOVING IN OUR FAVOR.
SO THE NATIONAL BEST PRACTICES, UH, PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING, UH, IS A PROVEN SOLUTION TO HOMELESSNESS, IS A PARISH, HOUSING AND CASE MANAGEMENT.
UH, AND I KNOW STAFF IS, HAS A, UH, IN-DEPTH BRIEFING FOR YOU GUYS, UH, COMING UP.
AND THE FOURTH BULLET POINT THERE, INCLUSION, UM, 480 NEW, UH, PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING SLOTS, THE ACRONYMS. THANK YOU.
UH, LET'S GO TO THE SLIDE NUMBER 13.
SO NOW WE GET TO THE ASK HERE FROM, UH, THE DEPARTMENT.
THE BOND PROGRAM WAS DEVELOPED IN CONSULTATION WITH BUILDING AND SERVICES DEPARTMENT AND, UH, ALIGNS WITH RACIAL EQUITY IN THAT, UH, THE POINT OF TIME COUNT, UH, RESULTED IN APPROXIMATELY 60% OF HOMELESSNESS POPULATION IDENTIFIED AS AFRICAN AMERICAN.
SO IF WE GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, ESSENTIALLY, THERE ARE TWO COMPONENTS TO THE ASK.
THE FIRST IS AN INVESTMENT IN THE BRIDGE, UH, WHICH IS THE CITY'S LOWEST BARRIER EMERGENCY SHELTER, 15 YEAR OLD, UH, PROPERTY WITH AGING AND OBSOLETE EQUIPMENT.
UH, THE BRIDGE HAS A CAPACITY SUMMARY.
THE CAMPUS WAS DESIGNED TO SERVE 200 OVERNIGHT GUESTS.
UH, OVER THE PAST FIVE YEARS, THE BRIDGE HAS ADDED, UH, KENNEL AND STREET OUTREACH TEAM AT NO COST TO THE CITY AND ADDED 120 OVERFLOW BEDS THROUGH PAY AND STAND SHELTER OVERFLOW.
BY CONVERTING SPACES, UH, DURING THE DAY, THE BRIDGE CAN ACCOMMODATE 120 ADDITIONAL OVERNIGHT GUESTS.
UH, AND THERE WAS EXTENSIVE DISCUSSION HERE TO THIS SLIDE, AND I THINK IT'S AN IMPORTANT ONE TO UNDERSTAND AND TO PUT INTO CONTEXT, IF YOU SEE THE, THE FIRST LINE ITEM THERE, THE GUEST DAY SERVICES ARE CURRENT 700, AND THE TOTAL PROPOSED IS 700.
SO THERE'S NO INCREASED CAPACITY TO THE DAY, THE DAY GUESS THE OVERNIGHT GUESS THOUGH WILL GO FROM 340 TO 440, APPROXIMATELY, APPROXIMATELY 120 ADDITIONAL OVERNIGHT GUESTS.
AND, UH, THIS, THIS TOOK A LITTLE BIT OF TIME FOR THE, THE TEAM TO EXPLAIN TO THE SUBCOMMITTEE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE PUT IT INTO CONTEXT BECAUSE THE, YOU KNOW, THE TERM INCREASED CAPACITY, UH, WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE UNDERSTAND THAT THESE ARE FOLKS THAT ARE ESSENTIALLY ALREADY THERE AND, AND THEREFORE THOSE ARE 120 APPROXIMATELY ADDITIONAL FOLKS THAT WILL THEN STAY OVERNIGHT AT THE FACILITY AND WILL NOT GO ELSEWHERE.
IT'S AN IMPORTANT, UH, NOTE TO, TO POINT OUT.
AND THIS IS THE ASK FOR, UH, THE FACILITY ESSENTIALLY UPGRADING GENERATORS, UH, THE SHOWERS, ET CETERA, AT ROUGHLY 5 MILLION.
AND, UH, THE SECOND PART OF THE ASK IS ON THE LAST SLIDE, WHICH IS FOR, UH, FUTURE PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING PROJECTS AT AROUND 30 MILLION.
AND CHRISTINE WILL, UH, IS, UH, IS HERE TO GIVE YOU DETAILS ON THAT.
AND THAT WAS OUR PRESENTATION.
UH, LOTS OF QUESTIONS FROM SUBCOMMITTEE MEMBERS, UH, MAINLY RELATING TO SOME OF THE NUMBERS.
WOODY WAS THERE, UH, GAVE US A LOT OF CONTEXT ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS, YOU KNOW,
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THE, THE GREAT WORK THAT'S HAPPENING AT THE BRIDGE AND THE NEED THAT THEY HAVE FOR THESE FUNDS.UH, AND I THINK THAT CONCLUDES THE PRESENTATION.
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, WE'RE HERE.
ANY QUESTIONS? MR. COX? THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR.
AND THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION.
UM, AND I APOLOGIZE SINCE WE DON'T HAVE THAT, THINGS WENT KIND OF QUICKLY.
AND SO I'M GONNA ASK SOME QUESTIONS THAT, UH, I'M GUESSING THAT WE'LL GET A COPY OF, OF THAT PRESENTATION.
BUT THE, UM, ON THAT LAST SLIDE THAT HAD THE 35 MILLION, WAS THAT JUST FOR THE CATEGORY OF FUTURE PROJECTS OR IS THAT THE SUMMATION OF THE, OF THE PREVIOUS SLIDES? THANK YOU FOR THAT QUESTION.
I'M GONNA GO INTO COUNCIL MODE HERE AND JUST SAY CHRISTINE CROSLEY, DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF HOMELESS SOLUTIONS.
SO THIS USED TO BE BROKEN OUT INTO, UM, A SEPARATE POT.
WE HAD A 17 MILLION CALL OUT FOR A SPECIFIC PROPERTY THAT WE OWN AND HAVE NOT YET RENOVATED.
BUT THE COMMUNITY AND COUNCIL FEEDBACK WE GOT IS, YOU KNOW, THAT PROJECT IS SO EARLY ON, THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FOR THAT PROJECT REALLY IS BARELY STARTED.
AND SO, UM, WE REALLY JUST WANNA KEEP THIS AS A LARGER POT THAT WE CAN USE FOR GAP FINANCING.
UM, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, IF WE'RE LOOKING AT, WELL, HOW MUCH COULD WE DO, NOT GAP FINANCING, BUT IF WE WERE DOING ADAPTIVE REUSE, UM, UPDATED THAT WE HAVE, UH, PER UNIT COST, UH, IF YOU'RE LOOKING AT LAND ACQUISITION INFRASTRUCTURE, ALL OF THAT RENOVATION IS ABOUT 82,000 PER UNIT.
AND SO IF YOU'VE GOT AN 18% DE DESIGN FEE, WHICH IS WHAT WE HAVE, UH, PER THE BOND OFFICE, YOU'RE LOOKING AT HIGH THREE HUNDREDS FOR UNITS.
UH, AS OPPOSED TO WHAT WE HAVE DONE WHEN WE HAVE CONTRIBUTED, LET'S SAY 3.3 MILLION TO ST.
JUDE PARK CENTRAL, WHICH IS A PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING FACILITY FOR 200 INDIVIDUALS, 18 YEARS AND UP.
UM, AND THAT 3.3 MILLION THAT WE USE TO HELP CLOSE THE RENOVATION GAP NETTED 200 UNITS OVERALL.
AND SO WE REALLY WANNA KEEP THIS SPECIFICALLY PROTECTED BY THE BOND COVENANTS FOR THOSE WHO ARE UNSHELTERED OR UNSTABLY HOUSED, SO THAT WE CAN USE THAT TO REALLY SPREAD THE WEALTH AND MAKE MAXIMUM IMPACT OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS.
UM, THE SAME WAY THAT IT WAS PROTECTED SO WE COULD VERY MINDFULLY UTILIZE IT FOR THE NEXT, FOR THE PAST FEW YEARS FROM 2017.
THE PREVIOUS 5 MILLION IS FOR THE BRIDGE PROJECTS.
AND THEN THE COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION AT THIS POINT WAS 20 MILLION.
SO OBVIOUSLY YOU'RE HAVING TO LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, LIMITED RESOURCES.
WHAT IS MOST EFFECTIVE, AND I KNOW YOU'VE DONE A GREAT JOB OF, OF METRICS AND, AND, AND I'M ASSUMING YOU HAVE A PRIORITY, UH, IF, IF THERE'S A PRIORITIZATION, YOU'RE GONNA BE PROVIDING THAT TO THIS TASK FORCE? YES.
UM, PRIORITIES FOR THIS FUNDING, UM, I WILL STATE, I THINK THE OBVIOUS HERE IS THAT 20 MILLION, UH, NOW IS NOT THE SAME AS 20 MILLION IN 2017.
UH, IT DOES NOT GO NEARLY AS FAR.
UM, BUT I WILL SAY THAT OUR FIRST DUTY IS TO THE FACILITY WE ALREADY OWN THAT HAS DONE GREAT WORK FOR 15 YEARS, AND WE WOULD NOT BE RESPONSIBLE STEWARDS IF WE DID NOT ADVOCATE FOR ALL OF THE MAJOR RENOVATIONS THAT NEED TO HAPPEN AT THE BRIDGE FIRST AND FOREMOST.
AND THE 20 MILLION, WAS THERE 20 MILLION DEVOTED JUST TO THE BRIDGE? NO, 5 MILLION FOR THE BRIDGE MILLION.
SO THAT WOULD STILL GIVE US, IF YOU'RE LOOKING AT 15 MILLION, UM, THAT'S GENERALLY WHAT ONE ADAPTIVE REUSE PROJECT COSTS RIGHT NOW.
UM, SO IT COULD BE SEED FUNDING FOR A PROJECT WE ALREADY HAVE, AND THEN GAP FINANCING FOR OTHERS.
UM, I WOULD OBVIOUSLY LOVE TO HAVE THE FULL 30,000 FOR THAT BECAUSE I THINK IT'LL STRETCH A LOT FARTHER IN THE COMMUNITY.
AND, AND, AND THAT 5 MILLION, THERE'S A LOT MORE THAN JUST PROVIDING 120 ADDITIONAL SPACES FOR, UH, FOR GUESTS, RIGHT? THERE'S, THERE WAS A CONSIDERABLE MORE, UM, PROVIDED FOR IN THAT 5 MILLION, RIGHT? YES.
UM, AND WE'VE ACTUALLY ALREADY DONE ABOUT $800,000 WORTH OF WORK THROUGH ESG CARES MONEY FOR THEIR FOUNDATION, UH, SOME OTHER REPLACEMENTS OF FACILITIES.
AND THERE WERE SOME THINGS THAT WITH THE ESG CARES FUNDING, YOU JUST CAN'T USE IT FOR.
UM, BUT WE'VE DONE A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF WORK AND THEN THE REST OF THE REQUEST WE HAVE HERE.
OH, NO, GO AHEAD, MR, GO AHEAD.
UH, QUICK, TWO QUICK QUESTIONS.
UM, ONE, YOUR REQUEST FOR 38 MILLION, AND I KNOW 5 MILLION IS FOR THE BRIDGE, THE OTHER PORTION, WERE YOU USING THAT AS YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE PERMANENT HOUSING SOLUTIONS? ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT THE ZERO TO 30 AMI, UM, PROJECTS HERE IN THIS? YES.
SO, UM, I'M SORRY, I CUT YOU OFF.
UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S INTERESTING WHEN I TALK WITH
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MY, UH, PEER WHO'S OVER OFFICE OF COMMUNITY CARE, WHO WORKS WITH THOSE WHO ARE UNSTABLY HOUSED, THEY REALLY FALL RIGHT BELOW THE 50% A M I.AND WHEN I'M TALKING ABOUT THOSE WHO ARE, UM, ACTIVELY HOMELESS, THEY'RE DEFINITELY 30% A M I AND BELOW.
SO FOR ME, IN THAT NARROW SCOPE, IT'S 30% A M I AND BELOW.
I THINK IF YOU WERE LOOKING AT MIXED INCOME HOUSING, SO IF WE WERE TO START WEAVING UNITS INTO HOUSING AND NEIGHBORHOOD REVITALIZATION PROJECTS, WHICH SCATTERED SITE PSH, PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING IS A GREAT MODEL, UM, I THINK WE'D PROBABLY WANT TO FLEX THAT A BIT TO MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE COULD, WITH SOME STABILITY, POTENTIALLY INCREASE THEIR INCOME AND NOT BE BRACKETED OUT OF THOSE UNITS.
SO THAT YOU HIT THE NAIL RIGHT ON MY HEAD, ON THE HEAD, UM, CHAIR SHEEE, THAT THAT'S GONNA BE A CONCERN I THINK THAT WE'RE GOING TO NEED TO LOOK AT FROM A COMMUNITY TASK FORCE IS THERE'S GOING TO BE THAT 30 TO 60%, RIGHT? SO MOST PROJECTS, 80% IS PRETTY EASY TO GET MARKET FUNDING AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
AND THIS IS ADDRESSING THE ZERO TO 30%, BUT THEY'RE GOING TO BE THOSE WORKING POOR, ESSENTIALLY, YOU KNOW, THAT ARE GOING TO NEED SOME HOUSING.
AND I'M KIND OF WONDERING WHERE THEY'RE GONNA FALL NOW THAT WE'VE SEEN ALL THREE, YOU KNOW, HOMELESS, HOMELESS, I'M SORRY, HOUSING INFRASTRUCTURE, HOMELESS SOLUTIONS, AND, UM, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
UM, CAN YOU GO BACK TO THE LIST OF THE DISTRICTS AND THE PROJECTS REAL QUICK? AND IT'S OVER TWO SLIDES, SO YEAH, YOU MIGHT WANNA, WHICH DISTRICT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR? SO I'M DISTRICT THREE
SO I SEEN THE HAMPTON YOU ARE, AND THEN THE DISTRICT EIGHT PROJECT IS NOW IN DISTRICT THREE.
SO ARE WE GOING TO REEVALUATE THIS LIST TO MAKE IT A LITTLE BIT MORE EQUITABLE? SO I WILL SAY, UM, AND I KNOW THIS IS A HOT TOPIC FOR THE HAMPTON ROAD PROJECT.
SO AT SOME POINT IT WILL HAVE TO BE DEVELOPED FOR SOMETHING MM-HMM.
UM, NOW THERE'S A WIDE RANGE WITHIN THAT DEFINITION, AND OBVIOUSLY WE ARE NOT DOING ANYTHING WITHOUT COMMUNITY INPUT.
UM, SO WITH THE REDISTRICTING, THEY ARE, NO, NOW BOTH TECHNICALLY THERE, BUT I THINK BECAUSE THAT DEAL IS ALREADY DONE, UM, IN PRACTICAL TERMS, IT'S JUST GONNA BE A MATTER OF FIGURING OUT WHAT THE COMMUNITY WOULD LIKE TO PUT THERE AND IT DOESN'T.
SO BOTH OF THEM HAVE ALREADY BEEN PURCHASED.
THE ONE ON THE SECOND PAGE FOR DISTRICT EIGHT AS WELL, THAT ALREADY THE DISTRICT, THE DISTRICT DATE ONE ACTUALLY JUST HAD A RIBBON CUTTING, I THINK IT WAS, WAS THAT LAST WEEK, A WEEK AGO FOR, UH, THE CENTRAL SERVICES BUILDING.
IT'S BEEN COMPLETELY RENOVATED.
WE HAD THE LARGEST SINGLE DONATION TO O HS WHEN THE AT-HOME CORPORATION, UM, FULLY KITTED OUT THE SERVICES BUILDING AND DESIGNED IT.
AND SO WE ARE NOW GOING TO BE, UH, BRINGING THE, UM, OPERATIONS AND RENOVATION CONTRACTS.
UM, WE'RE HOPEFULLY, HOPEFULLY GOING IN AUGUST, UM, ALONG WITH THE COUNTY ITEM THAT WILL FUND THOSE, UH, OR HELP FUND THOSE, I SHOULD SAY, UM, TO ANNOUNCE WHO THOSE VENDORS WILL BE.
SO I WILL SAY, JUST ON BEHALF OF MY DISTRICT, I, I THINK YOU GUYS HAVE DONE A GREAT JOB AND I APPLIED ALL OF THE PROJECTS THAT YOU GUYS HAVE FOCUSED ON NORTHERN DALLAS, YOU KNOW, AND THEY'VE BEEN GREAT PROJECTS OVERALL TOO, SO YOU'VE BEEN DOING A GREAT JOB.
SO, YOU KNOW, OF COURSE EVERYBODY GETS A LITTLE NERVOUS WHEN THINGS START GOING SOUTH TOO MUCH, AND ESPECIALLY, UM, IN THE DISTRICT THAT I'M REPRESENTING.
WE'LL, WE ARE GONNA HAVE SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT THE HAMPTON ROAD THINGS, BUT THANK YOU.
AND I WOULD EXPECT THOSE, SO PLEASE ASK THEM.
WHAT, WHAT'S THAT MEAN? I'M, I APOLOGIZE.
THEY HAD TO EXPLAIN IT TO ME MY FIRST DAY, SO IT'S OKAY.
UM, PAY TO STAY JUST MEANS THAT, UM, SOMEONE HAS TO FUND THE MATS AND SO WE FUND THEM SO THAT PEOPLE CAN STAY ON THEM.
AND I WILL SAY WHEN WE FIRST STARTED FUNDING THOSE, UM, AND I CAN'T REMEMBER THE SPECIFIC FUNDING, UH, WHERE IS GLORIA? HOW MUCH DO WE PAY? YOU CAN JUST SHOUT IT.
TWO HUNDRED SIXTY NINE, TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY NINE PER YEAR FOR 50 BEDS.
AND THAT USED TO JUST STRETCH TO 50 BEDS.
AND NOW ACTUALLY THEY'VE SAID THAT INSTEAD OF A MAXIMUM OF 50, THEY'D LIKE IT TO BE A MINIMUM OF 50 AND THEY'RE CLOSER TO 68.
SO THE BRIDGE IS DOING, UM, A LOT WITH THAT FUNDING.
AND ACTUALLY WE ONLY FUND, WE ARE ONLY 30% OF THEIR FUNDING OVERALL, AND WE'RE ABOUT 5 MILLION IN OUR ANNUAL BUDGET.
UM, AND THEY'RE DECREASING THAT AS THEY COMPLETELY OVER OUTPERFORM THEMSELVES EVERY SINGLE YEAR.
SO THEY'RE EVERMORE SAFE, UH, SELF-SUSTAINING IN A VERY IMPRESSIVE WAY.
UM, SECOND QUESTION, NOT TO SPEAK FOR MR. MORENO, BUT WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE, UM, ABILITY POLITICALLY TO GET EXTRA BEDS DONE AT, AT THE BRIDGE? I JUST WORRY ABOUT NEIGHBORHOOD AND THE CONTENTIOUS RELATIONSHIP.
CAN YOU TALK ABOUT KIND OF THE PROCESS THE BRIDGE IS GOING THROUGH WITH THE
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COMMUNITY TO, TO COMMUNICATE POTENTIALLY MORE BEDS? SURE.UM, AND THAT'S, UH, SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE TALKED WITH COUNCIL MEMBER MORENO ABOUT, UH, AND WITH THE COUNCIL ABOUT EXTENSIVELY AND WHEN WE BRIEF THIS TO HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS SOLUTIONS.
SO IT IS A, A VERY, UM, VERY, UH, WELL DISCUSSED QUESTION.
UM, AND WHAT I CAN SAY IS THAT THEY ARE VERY ACTIVE WITH THE, UH, FARMER'S MARKET STAKEHOLDERS GROUP WITH THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITY.
WE ARE VERY ACTIVE WITH THEM AND WITH THE SURROUNDING AREA AS IS, UH, DALLAS DOWNTOWN INC.
UM, SO VERY, VERY ACTIVE IN GENERAL IN TERMS OF COMMUNICATIONS, UM, ABOUT THE OUTREACH IN THAT AREA AND HOW WE ALL WORK TOGETHER.
AND I WILL SAY THAT I THINK THE MESSAGE THAT, THAT WE ARE, ARE TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT IS CLARIFIED.
AND AS, UM, OUR SUBCOMMITTEE CHAIR TALKED ABOUT, THIS IS NOT ADDITIONAL BEDS, THESE ARE BEDS FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE ALREADY THERE DURING THE DAY AND AT NIGHT ARE HAVING TO BE CONNECTED TO OTHER SHELTER SERVICES BECAUSE THERE'S NOT ENOUGH SPACE FOR THEM TO STAY WHERE THEY WANT TO.
SO REALLY, I THINK THIS CREATES LESS TRAFFIC OUTSIDE OF THE BRIDGE AT NIGHT.
THAT'S, THAT'S REALLY WELL SAID.
SO I APPRECIATE THAT, THAT THAT'S HELPFUL, I THINK FOR, UH, US TO UNDERSTAND AS WE COMMUNICATE OUT TO THE COMMUNITY'S IT.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? YES, MS. RICE? OKAY.
CAN Y'ALL HEAR ME? UM, I JUST HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT IN DISTRICT FIVE, IT SAYS IT ONLY LISTS, UH, SALMA SALVATION ARMY AS EMERGENCY EMERGENCY SHELTER.
CAN YOU, UM, EXPLAIN HOW THAT FITS INTO THE BOND PROGRAM? THANK YOU FOR THAT QUESTION.
SO, UM, IT DOESN'T FIT INTO THE BOND PRO PROGRAM.
WHEN WE LOOK AT INITIATIVES BY COUNCIL DISTRICT, WE CA WE TAKE INTO ACCOUNT WHAT IS ALREADY THERE AND WHAT WE HAVE BROUGHT TO THE TABLE, UH, WHICH IS WHY WE CLARIFY HERE WHEN WE'RE LISTING A PROJECT WHO IT BELONGS TO.
WE DON'T TAKE CREDIT FOR EVERYTHING.
A LOT OF THESE ARE PROVIDER SPONSORED.
SALVATION ARMY DOES HAVE A SMALL OFFICE IN DISTRICT FIVE, UM, BUT IT'S, YOU KNOW, IT'S A SMALLER OFFICE.
AND SO WE ARE STILL, UH, WE DO STILL HAVE THAT ON OUR RADAR TO IDENTIFY ANY ADDITIONAL OPTIONS MAYBE THAT'S WORKING WITH SALVATION ARMY OR WHAT ELSE DISTRICT FIVE MIGHT NEED.
AND SO THAT'S A CONVERSATION TO BE HAD WITH THE COMMUNITY.
YES, BECAUSE THAT'S, THANK YOU FOR SAYING THAT BECAUSE THAT'S BEEN A CONCERN IN THE DISTRICT WITH, YOU KNOW, UM, CONSTITUENTS TALKING ABOUT OUR, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT CAN WE, WHAT CAN WE DO TO WORK AS A COMMUNITY TO HELP THE PERSONS WITHOUT SHELTER? AND I ESPECIALLY LIKE IN OUR PARKS, YOU KNOW, HOLCOMB PARK IN PARTICULAR.
UM, SO I DON'T KNOW, I JUST FEEL LIKE JUST HAVING SALVATION, I MEAN, IT'S GREAT THAT WE HAVE THE SALVATION ARMY IN DISTRICT FIVE, BUT I FEEL LIKE WE NEED TO DO MORE.
SO, AND I WOULD LOVE TO, IF I CAN FIND A CARD OR IF GLORIA'S GOT ONE, I'D LOVE TO HAVE THAT CONVERSATION WITH YOU BECAUSE I THINK TAPPING INTO THE DISTRICT FIVE COMMUNITY IS SOMETHING THAT, THAT WE'VE BEEN WANTING TO DO.
AND SO IT WOULD BE GREAT TO FINALLY START THOSE CONVERSATIONS IN A REALLY MEANINGFUL WAY.
UM, PREVIOUSLY Y'ALL ALLUDED TO, UH, SOME OF THE INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS THAT BOTH AUSTIN AND SAN ANTONIO HAVE COME UP WITH, UH, IN TERMS OF PROVIDING SUPPORTIVE HOUSING IN, IN FORMER INDUSTRIAL AREAS OR COMMERCIAL AREAS OR, UM, IN OUTSIDE THE, THE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT AREAS.
UM, THAT'S NOT IN THIS ASK, UH, DO YOU HAVE ANY, BUT BOTH THOSE, IN BOTH THOSE EXAMPLES, THEY'VE REALLY HAD SOME GOOD RESULTS.
UH, IS THAT SOMETHING THAT'S BEEN CONTEMPLATED, UH, FOR DALLAS? UM, DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT? YOU, ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH THOSE TWO EXAMPLES? YEAH, NO, I DO.
I JUST DIDN'T KNOW IF ANYBODY WANTED TO CHIME IN.
UM, IT'S A, A GOOD AS AS WE DISCUSSED.
IT'S A GOOD PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTION.
UM, SO I WILL SAY THAT THEY NOT A, AS WE KNOW, AND LET ME JUST THINK ABOUT IT.
IT'S, IT'S A GOOD QUESTION, IT'S A BIG ONE.
UM, ALL MODELS ARE GREAT AND THEY FIT DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE POPULATION.
UM, EVEN IF IT HAS EVERYTHING THERE AND SAYS THIS IS A ONE-STOP SHOP, IT'S NOT GONNA WORK FOR EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN THE COMMUNITY.
AND SO WE HAVE THE BRIDGE, WHICH IS, UM, KIND OF LIKE A SMALLER VERSION OF HAVEN FOR HOPE.
UM, AND ONE OF THEIR ASKS IS TO BE COVERING THEIR COURTYARD SO THEY CAN INCREASE THE SPACE.
THEY HAVE OUTDOOR SHOWERS FOR THOSE WHO ARE TRANSITIONING TO BEING INSIDE WHO MIGHT NOT BE COMFORTABLE YET, AND THEY ALSO CONNECT TO ALL OF OUR OTHER PARTNERS ACROSS THE CITY.
SO I SEE WHAT WE HAVE AS MORE OF A MULTI-PRONGED APPROACH INSTEAD
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OF JUST ONE THING.WE HAVE NOT ONLY THE BRIDGE, BUT WE HAVE SERVICES ALL OVER THE CITY.
UM, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, WE ARE LOOKING TO HAVE MORE OF THOSE IN THE DISTRICTS IDENTIFIED HERE.
SO I THINK THAT THAT'S A STRONG POINT FOR US.
UM, YOU KNOW, AUSTIN IS ALSO DOING GREAT THINGS.
UM, THEY'VE REALLY FOCUSED A LOT ON SHELTERING AND NOW THEY'RE STARTING TO TALK TO US ABOUT THE HOUSING OPTIONS BECAUSE WHEN YOU ONLY FOCUS ON ONE PART OF THE PIPELINE, YOU DON'T HAVE THE END RESULT WHERE PEOPLE GO.
AND SO I THINK WE HAVE HAD THOSE HARD CONVERSATIONS OF YES, WE KNOW THAT THERE'S A SHORTAGE OF SHELTER, BUT THERE'S ALSO A SHORTAGE OF HOUSING.
AND IF YOU BUILD MORE SHELTER WITHOUT BUILDING THE HOUSING, YOU'RE NOT MOVING ANYBODY OUTTA THAT MIDDLE PART OF THE PIPELINE.
UM, AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE DONE AS A CITY IS, UH, OS PULLED A MILLION OF OUR OWN BUDGET THIS PAST YEAR TO DO A SHELTER, UH, OVERFLOW CONTRACT WITH OUR SHELTER PROVIDERS BECAUSE WE REALIZED THAT THEY'D ALREADY FOUND AN ORGANIC SOLUTION WHICH WAS UTILIZING HOTEL PARTNERS.
AND THAT'S AN INSTANT STANDUP, ZERO STARTUP COST.
YOU CAN CONTRACT AND EXPAND AS YOU NEED, SO YOU'RE SAVING MONEY WHEN YOU DON'T NEED IT.
UM, AND WE SAID, YOU KNOW WHAT? TAKE THIS MONEY AND AMPLIFY AND SOLIDIFY YOUR EXISTING RELATIONSHIPS AND WE'LL HELP YOU DO THAT.
AND THEN FOR PLACES LIKE THE BRIDGE, IT ALLOWED THEM TO BOLSTER THEIR SERVICES ON SITE.
UM, AND SO I THINK THERE'S THAT, AND THEN THERE'S THE FACT THAT, YOU KNOW, FOR SOME OF THESE, IT'S APPLES TO ORANGES.
DALLAS HAS A VERY, THE DFW IS, UH, METROPLEX IS VERY UNIQUE.
YOU KNOW, SAN ANTONIO DOESN'T HAVE THAT MUCH AROUND IT, WHEREAS WITH DALLAS, YOU CAN'T THROW A ROCK IN ANY DIRECTION.
UM, VERY, YOU'D HAVE TO THROW A VERY FAR, AND I THINK YOU'D STILL HIT A CITY SUBURB OR EXPERT.
UM, AND SO EXURB, I CAN'T KNOW, I DUNNO WHAT THEY'RE CALLED NOW, BUT, UM, SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
AND, UH, YOU'D STILL FIND SOMETHING.
AND SO HAVING 50 ACRES, UM, SOMEWHERE OUTSIDE OF THE CITY CENTER, I DON'T KNOW WHO HAS THAT.
AND IF YOU DO, WELL, THESE ARE HUMAN BEINGS JUST LIKE US.
THEY NEED THE SAME SUPPORTS WE DO AND THE SAME CONNECTIVITY WE DO.
SO WHERE IS THAT 50 ACRES THAT IS CONNECTED TO GOOD GROCERY STORES, TRANSPORTATION, UM, MEDICAL SERVICES SCHOOLS FOR PEOPLE'S CHILDREN.
AND SO I THINK YOU HAVE TO THINK ABOUT IT FROM THAT PERSPECTIVE AS WELL.
IF YOU WERE DEVELOPING A CITY AND HAD ALL THAT SPACE AND YOU COULD DEVELOP IT IN THE, IN, UH, THE BEGINNING, I THINK PERHAPS.
BUT WE ARE VERY STRONG HERE IN OUR PARTNERSHIPS BECAUSE IT'S DEVELOPED ORGANICALLY ACROSS THE CITY.
AND I WILL ALSO SAY, I THINK, AND I, I'M NOT SAYING IT FOR THIS BODY, BUT SOMETHING I HAVE SEEN A LOT OF IN TERMS OF MISINTERPRETATIONS OF THESE FACILITIES IS IF YOU HAVE THIS ONE STOP SHOP, THEN EVERYONE MUST GO THERE.
THEY CAN'T BE ANYWHERE ELSE, WHICH IS SIMPLY NOT THE CASE.
WE HAVE PLENTY OF PEOPLE IN ALL OF THOSE CITIES WHO CHOOSE NOT TO GO THERE WHO MIGHT BE EMERGENCY SERVICE RESISTANT.
AND SO WHEREAS WE HERE HAVE THE ABILITY THROUGH THE DALLAS REALTIME RAPID REHOUSING INITIATIVE TO MEET THEM WHERE THEY'RE AT, UM, FORM A RELATIONSHIP OVER SEVERAL WEEKS OR MONTHS, AND THEN HOUSE THEM DIRECTLY FROM THAT ENCAMPMENT.
IF YOU JUST PUT ALL THE SERVICES IN ONE LOCATION AND SAY, GO WHERE WE WON'T WORK WITH YOU, YOU'RE PUTTING BARRIERS UP TO AN ENTIRE PORTION OF THE POPULATION THAT YOU DIDN'T NEED TO CREATE THAT HURDLE IN THE FIRST PLACE.
AND SO, I MEAN, YEAH, IT'S A, IT'S A MUCH BIGGER ISSUE.
I COULD SPEND HOURS UNPACKING IT, BUT I HOPE THAT HELPS.
JUST TO ADD TO WHAT, UH, MR. COX JUST ASKED CHRISTINE, AND WHAT I'M SAYING IS MIGHT BE POLITICALLY INCORRECT, BUT I FEEL, AND IT HAS TO BE SAID, I THINK THE HOMELESSNESS IS INTO TWO BUCKETS.
ONE IS CIRCUMSTANTIAL, WHERE PEOPLE WANT TO GET INTO HOUSING, ANOTHER IS HABITUAL.
AND YOU KNOW, THOSE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO REALLY DON'T, THEY, THEY JUST WANT TO, YOU KNOW, LIVE IN THE ENCAMPMENTS AND ALL.
SO YOU SAID YOU HAVE ONESTOP APPROACH CANNOT BE, BUT DOES THIS PLAN KIND OF DEFINE THAT? AND I HOPE, YOU KNOW, I'M USING THE RIGHT WORDS, BUT YOU CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M SAYING BECAUSE YOU KNOW, WE SEE IT IN THE PARKS.
I THINK THE SAME PEOPLE WHO WOULD COME BACK, EVEN YOU SEE IT WITH THE OFFICE OF HOMELESS SOLUTION.
SO HAS THAT BEEN DEFINED IN POLITICALLY RIGHT WORDS?
UH, WE ACTUALLY CALL THAT CHRONIC HOMELESSNESS.
UM, SO HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, WHICH IS OUR TYPE FEDERAL TOP DOG THAT FUNDS EVERYTHING, UH, THAT, NOT EVERYTHING BUT FEDERAL FUNDING COMES FROM THEM.
UM, DEFINES CHRONIC HOMELESSNESS AS, UH, 12 MONTHS AGGREGATE, OR 12 MONTHS OVER FOUR INCIDENCES WITHIN THE PAST THREE YEARS.
AND SO THERE'S A SPECIFIC DEFINITION, AND WE KNOW, UM, THAT IF WE DO NOT SOLVE FOR THOSE WHO ARE CHRONICALLY HOMELESS, WHICH ARE OFTEN THOSE WHO ARE EMERGENCY SHELTER REVERSE, SO THEY'RE STAYING OUTSIDE, UM, WE'RE NOT GONNA SOLVE HOMELESSNESS.
AND THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO, YOU KNOW, I THINK THERE, THERE IS A MISNOMER THAT PEOPLE WANT TO BE OUTSIDE, BUT IF YOU GO UP TO SOMEONE AND SAY, HEY, I'LL GIVE YOU A MILLION DOLLARS IF YOU FOLLOW ME, WELL, NONE OF US WOULD GO.
AND SO I THINK IT'S THE SAME IF YOU COME UP TO SOMEONE AND SAY, HEY, IF YOU JUST TRUST ME, I'LL GIVE YOU HOUSING.
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WELL, NOT ONLY HAVE THEY BEEN LET DOWN BY EVERY SYSTEM THAT PURPORTED TO SAVE THEM, THEY DON'T KNOW YOU AND THEY DON'T TRUST YOU BECAUSE WHY WOULD THEY? AND SO IT TAKES TIME AND TRAUMA-INFORMED CASE MANAGEMENT AND OUTREACH SKILLS TO BUILD THOSE RELATIONSHIPS.UM, AND THROUGH THAT WORK, WE HAVE HOUSED OVER 2000 PEOPLE IN THE PAST YEAR AND A HALF AND SEEN A 32% DECREASE IN CHRONIC HOMELESSNESS.
UM, SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT THE, THE REAL GROUNDWORK NEEDS TO HAPPEN OUTSIDE OF THE SHELTERS WHERE PEOPLE ARE BEING HOUSED FASTER THROUGH THIS PIPELINE BECAUSE THEY'RE ALREADY PRIMED TO, TO TAKE THAT CASE MANAGEMENT.
UM, AND SO, YOU KNOW, BASED ON THAT, WE HAVE GAINED, UH, FEDERAL ATTENTION BECAUSE THAT'S ONE OF THE FEDERAL PRIORITIES.
UM, AND NOW WE'RE PART OF A TWO YEAR WHITE HOUSE PILOT FOR THAT.
UM, AND I HAD A GREAT QUESTION IN THE SUBCOMMITTEE ABOUT, UM, THE, IS THERE A, OH, WAS IT, IS THERE A KIND OF QUANTIFIABLE PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE WHO ARE HOMELESS IN A COMMUNITY TIED TO THE, UH, CITY'S POPULATION IN SOME TYPE OF QUANTIFIABLE, UM, EQUATION? AND I HAD TO SAY, WELL, I DON'T THINK SO.
AND ONE OF MY VERY QUICK EXAMPLES IS THE COHORT THAT WE ARE PART OF FOR THE WHITE HOUSE IS SIX AREAS.
AND I SAY AREAS, NOT CITIES, BECAUSE ONE OF THEM IS THE ENTIRE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.
SO, YOU KNOW, I DON'T THINK YOU CAN POINT TO A CITY AND SAY THERE'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE A SPECIFIC SECTOR THAT IS HOMELESS AS WELL.
AND I THINK I WENT A BIT OFF TOPIC THERE.
UM, ONE, I THINK YOU CAN PROBABLY TALK ABOUT THAT TOO, BUT, UM, I WAS JUST REMINDED YET TO ALSO PUT A PLUGIN FOR THE CORRELATION BETWEEN HOMELESSNESS AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
AND WHEN WE SAY AFFORDABLE, I THINK YES, THERE'S THE WORKING POOR, WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, 50% AAMI AND UNDER, BUT TO GET TO THAT, YOU HAVE TO HAVE BEEN HOUSED SO THAT YOU COULD HOLD DOWN A JOB AND THAT'S THE 30% AND BELOW.
BUT, UM, AND THAT I THINK EARLIER WHEN, UH, THE COMMISSIONER FROM DISTRICT D WAS TALKING ABOUT 80% AAMI, YOU DO HAVE TO HAVE A SLIDING SCALE.
CAUSE WE FOUND THAT IF YOU PUT A CA IF IT'S 30%, YOU SAY YOU CAN ONLY BE 30%.
WELL, WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GET TO 50%? YOU LOSE YOUR HOUSING.
SO IT'S HOW FAR UP THE SCALE DO YOU GO? AND I THINK THAT'S A BATTLE THAT I HAVE SEEN PLAY OUT AGAIN AND AGAIN, BUT THAT'S NOT MY AREA OF SUBJECT EX EXPERTISE.
THAT VERY, VERY, I THINK ENLIGHTENING DISCUSSION AND THANKS FOR YOUR WORK.
THAT REALLY IS, I THINK THIS, YOU KNOW, I I HOPE WE FIND A SOLUTION WHICH IS CLOSE TO PERFECT, BUT, UH, WELL, I CAN, OH, I WAS JUST, I CAN TELL YOU THAT BASED ON THE WAY THAT WE'RE GOING RIGHT NOW, WE ARE LOOKING AT EVENTUALLY IN MAYBE 2025 ACHIEVING NET ZERO, WHICH MEANS THAT YOUR OUTFLOW OF THE SYSTEM IS GREATER THAN YOUR INFLOW.
SO ANY GIVEN AMOUNT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE HOMELESS IN A GIVEN MONTH CAN BE HOUSED.
AND THAT'S, SO IT'S NOT THAT YOU WILL END HOMELESSNESS AND YOU WILL NEVER SEE ANOTHER HOMELESS PERSON.
THE ECONOMY IS NOT PERFECT, BUT YOU CAN GET TO A POINT WHERE YOU CAN HOUSE THE PEOPLE IN ANY GIVEN MONTH WHO ARE HOMELESS AT A GREATER RATE THAN THEY'RE COMING INTO THE SYSTEM, WHICH MEANS NET ZERO.
WELL, THAT'S, THAT'S A GOOD WAY TO END THIS EVENING IN A POSITIVE NOTE.
SO HAVE, UH, ONE I THING I WANT TO SHARE, SHARE WITH OUR MEMBERS, OUR, ONE OF OUR TASK FORCE MEMBERS.
SHE MET AN ACCIDENT OVER THE WEEKEND.
SHE WENT THROUGH SOME SURGERY, BUT SHE'S RE RECOUPING.
WELL, SHE SAID SHE WAS, UH, SHE'S ON, SHE WAS LISTENING.
SO I'LL JOIN ME IN WISHING HER, UH, SPEEDY RECOVERY.
I HEARD IT WAS A PRETTY BAD ACCIDENT.
SO TIFFANY, IF YOU'RE HEARING US, HOPE YOU'RE FEELING WELL AND WE WANT YOU HERE IN NEXT MEETING.
SO, UH, WITH THAT, UH, I THINK IF THERE ARE NO OTHER QUESTIONS, UH, IT IS 8 36 AND WE WILL, UH, AD JENN ANYTHING ELSE ON THE, THAT'S IT.
SO WE WILL ADJOURN OUR, OUR TASK FORCE MEETING.
AND WHEN IS THE NEXT MEETING? DO YOU REMEMBER THE DATE OF THE NEXT MEETING, JEN? AUGUST 15TH.
SO WE ARE TAKING, YEAH, AUGUST 15TH OF NEXT MEETING.
AND WE'LL COME UP WITH A THANKS AGAIN AND UH, HAVE A GOOD EVENING.