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TAKE A PICTURE.[Dallas Park and Recreation Board on August 15, 2024.]
IT IS 10:00 AM WE CONVENE OUR DALLAS PARK CREATION SMALL MEETING TO HONOR.FIRST NOTE IS, I THINK, LET ME START WITH THE CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR MR. GOLDSTEIN IS NEWSLETTER, WHICH STARTED AS A HOBBY
AND IF YOU ARE NOT NICE TO PARKS DEPARTMENT, WE TAKE THE APPLAUSE BACK.
IF YOU HAVE TWO PUBLIC SPEAKERS, I'LL READ THE SPEAKER GUIDELINES.
EACH SPEAKER WILL BE GIVEN THREE MINUTES TO SPEAK.
PLEASE DIRECT YOUR COMMENTS TO THE CHAIR.
ONLY ANY SPEAKER WHO MAKES PERSONAL
YOUR FIRST SPEAKER IS MR. LUKE TIFFORD WAS A HANDOUT THAT YOU HAD THERE ON THERE.
DOG WORKS IN DALLAS BY LUKE T.
HI, MY NAME IS LUKE TIFFORD AND LET ME SHOW YOU MY IDEA THAT I HAVE MORE DOG PARKS THAN DOGS.
THIS IDEA STARTED OUT AS A SCHOOL PROJECT WITH MY UNCLE JASON SALT.
THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME THE TIME HERE TODAY FOR ME TO SHOW YOU MY IDEA.
IS A CENTER 0.4 ACRE PARK MAKING IN A GREAT AREA FOR A DOG PARK.
CONSIDERING THAT DOGS NEED A LOT OF SPACE BENEFITS OF A DOG PARK, NOT ONLY DO OUR HUMANS NEED TO RUN AROUND, BUT OUR DOGS WE TOO, WHICH IS WHY I PROPOSED TO THIS IDEA.
DOG PARKS ARE A GREAT PLACE FOR HUMANS TO SOCIALIZE IN, DOGS TO PLAY, MAKING IT WIN-WIN.
ACCORDING TO PARK COORDIN MEMBER, A DOG PARK LOST $300,000 TO $500,000 SIZE.
WHEN I WENT TO GRACE PARK, I REALIZED THAT THERE'S A LOT OF POTENTIAL SPACE.
AFTER WALKING THAT AREA OF MY PARK BOARD MEMBER, WE IDENTIFIED A GOOD SPOT IN THE FENCE WHERE THE DOG PARK SHOULD BE.
DO PEOPLE WANT A DOG PARK? WHY WAS I GRAY? I ALSO DECIDED TO ASK PEOPLE IF THEY WOULD LIKE A DOG PARK.
OUT OF THE FIVE PEOPLE I ASKED, FOUR OF THEM SAID THEY WOULD LIKE A DOG PARK AND ONE SAID SHE DID NOT.
THE OPPONENT SAID THAT SHE HAD HAD A BAD EXPERIENCE WITH A DOG PARK IN THE PAST THAT ALLOWED ALCOHOL.
SHE WOULD BE IN FAVOR AS LONG AS THE OWNERS WEREN'T ALLOWED TO BRING ALCOHOL REVIEWED.
THE DALLAS PARK RULES AND ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES ARE PROHIBITED IN THE PARK, PUBLIC STREET SIDEWALK, AND PARKING ADJACENT TO THE PARK.
SO TO ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION, YES, MOST OF THE PEOPLE WANT A DOG PARK CLOSURE.
CONSIDERING THE RISING POPULATION OF DLPS IN DALLAS, I BELIEVE THAT THIS WOULD BE A GREAT IDEA FOR OUR CITY.
I KNOW THAT IT CAN BE A CHALLENGE TO FIND THE RIGHT WORK FOR YOUR DOG, BOTH MORE PARTS.
I HOPE YOU CAN GET MY DATA CONSIDERATION.
UM, I WANNA THANK LUKE AND HIS FAMILY.
AND IT MAY BRING ME TO, TO, UM, LISTEN, I UNDERSTAND THIS IS A PART OF A SCHOOL PROJECT.
IS THAT CORRECT? YOU GOT AN A PLUS FROM EVERYONE ELSE.
OKAY, QUICK STORY ABOUT ADVOCACY.
A YEAR AND A HALF AGO, UH, A YOUNG GIRL CAME IN HERE.
HER NAME IS VITA, AND SHE ADVOCATED FOR A PLAYGROUND AT A PARK 'CAUSE THERE WASN'T ONE.
AND, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S IN THE BOND NOW, A PLAYGROUND FOR HER PARK.
UM, AND THE LAST THING I WANNA SAY IS, UM, THIS HAS GOTTEN SOME PRIORITY WITH OUR PARTNERS ON S THEY'RE TALKING TO US A LITTLE BIT MORE SERIOUSLY THAN EVER ABOUT A DOG PARK AT GRIGGS.
SO, UM, I'M GONNA KEEP YOU POSTED AND WE'RE GONNA WORK TOGETHER AND, AND SEE HOW FAR WE CAN TAKE THIS.
THANK YOU FOR COMING IN TODAY.
UM, MY NAME IS DR. CAMERON GRAY.
I'M COMING ABOUT, WE'VE HAD A FEW ISSUES OVER THERE OVER THE PAST FEW WEEKS, UH, WITH INDIVIDUALS COMING UP.
UM, MY CONCERN TODAY IS THE LEVEL OF SECURITY WE HAVE WITHIN THE FACILITY.
UM, ONE OF THESE INDIVIDUALS THAT WAS MENTALLY DISASSOCIATED GOT INTO ONE OF THE EMPLOYEE'S FACES AND THE SECURITY GUARD DIDN'T REALLY DO ANYTHING.
THIS YOUNG LADY, I HELD HER AS SHE CONVULSIVELY, CRIED IN FEAR AND I'M CONCERNED THAT SHE DIDN'T COME BACK.
UM, I ASKED HER SECURITY GUARD WAS VERSED IN HAND TO HAND COMBAT.
HE GAVE NO INDICATION OF THAT.
BUT THE PROBLEM IS, THERE IS A
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PLACE WHERE WE NEED PROTECTION THAT IS BEFORE THE UN PULLING OF A WEAPON.AND AT THIS TIME, IT DOES NOT LOOK LIKE THE SECURITY GUARDS CAN'T STILL THAT FACE.
THIS MAN WAS SIX THREE YELLING AT HER IN HER FACE AND YOUR SECURITY GUARD DID NOTHING.
ADDITIONALLY, I HAVE SEEN THIS INDIVIDUAL SLEEP, WALKED PAST HIM, SLEEP, GOT PICTURES OF HIM SLEEP.
ANYBODY COULD HAVE WALKED IN AND DID A WHOLE LOT OF DAMAGE, BUT BY THE TIME WE WOKE UP, THE DAMAGE WOULD HAVE BEEN DONE.
UM, SO I'M ASKING THAT WE GET A SECURITY GUARD THAT NOT IS INVERSE IN DEESCALATION AND HAND COMBAT AND AS THE WEAPON AS WELL, BECAUSE RIGHT NOW WHAT WE HAVE IS INSUFFICIENT.
SECONDLY, IN THE MIDST OF ALL THIS GOING ON, WE THREW IN A NEW MANAGER.
UM, I, I THINK IT WOULD BE BENEFICIAL WHEN WE PLACE NEW MANAGERS THAT THEY HAVE THE CAPACITY TO TRULY ASSESS WHAT'S THERE INSTEAD OF JUST TRYING TO MAKE IT FIT INTO WHAT THEY'RE USED TO.
UH, UNDERSTANDING RELATIONSHIPS AND PARTNERSHIPS AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
BECAUSE DIXON IS THE BOMB BECAUSE OF THE PARTNERSHIP WITH THE COMMUNITY THAT THAT CENTER HAS.
AND, UM, THAT SHOULD BE APPRECIATED AND HELD UP ON ALL ENDS, NOT JUST WHEN IT'S CONVENIENT.
UM, SO THESE ARE THE THINGS I'M CONCERNED ABOUT.
OVER TO ANY QUESTIONS WILL MEET WITH ANYONE BECAUSE I LOVE Y'ALL AND LAWYERS, THEY ARE OF OUR COMMUNITY.
WE NEED THEM AND WE DON'T WANT NO MORE CHANGE.
SO WITH THAT BEING SAID, I'M GONNA SAY MY LAST PIECE.
I NEED Y'ALL TO GIVE PEOPLE THAT LARRY JOHNSON TO RAISE THAT HAVE BEEN THERE A YEAR OVER.
THOSE ARE SPEECH AGAIN FOR SPEAKERS COMING WITH THAT NEXT POINT OF BUSINESS APPROVAL OF MINUTES.
OKAY, WE FOR SAFETY UPDATE, SORRY, THERE WAS TWO OTHER MINUTES OF AUGUST.
FIRST AND OCCUP SPECIAL APPROVAL OF MINUTES FOR AUGUST 1ST AND FOR AUGUST 1ST AUGUST DATE.
DO I HAVE A MOTION? MR. PITNER? SECONDED BY MS. NY OR FAVOR? AYE.
GOOD MORNING PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.
UM, TODAY WE HAVE OUR CORE SAFETY, UM, BRIEFLY AND WE'RE GONNA DO SOMETHING A LITTLE DIFFERENT TODAY, THE WAY WE PRESENT, UM, BECAUSE IT'S BEEN A WHILE SINCE CHIEF WATSON'S BEEN HERE.
UM, AND JUST GIVE YOU SOME INFORMATION, UH, IN THAT REGARD.
WE'RE GOING TO LET YOU, I'M SURE THAT A LOT OF YOU ALREADY HAVE PRESENTATION, UH, AS FAR AS ALL YOUR DATA AND THERE'S INFORMATION THAT YOU WANT SPECIFICALLY DE DEFINITELY, YOU CAN CALL AND EMAIL US DIRECTLY IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS AFTER
OF COURSE, THOSE WILL BE IN LINE AT THAT TIME.
BUT WE JUST WANNA GO TO PAGE 32, RIGHT? UH, AS YOU KNOW, UH, THERE WAS A BUDGET ENHANCEMENT.
I JUST WANT HIGHLIGHT THIS, TAKE A LOOK AT IT LATER.
BUT I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE KNOWS THAT WE'RE PURSUING ALL OF THE ENHANCEMENTS THAT WERE, UH, AVAILABLE TO US, UH, BASED ON OUR BUDGET ALLOCATION.
AND SO IT KIND OF TELLS YOU SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE ALREADY GOT COMPLETE AS FAR AS LIGHTING PROJECTS.
UH, IT ALSO TELLS YOU WHAT'S IN PROCESS.
AND WHEN WE SAY DO THAT MEANS THE IT HAS BEEN ENCUMBERED.
OKAY? AND NOW, UH, THOSE, THOSE THAT, THAT MONEY HAS BEEN SET ASIDE IN ORDER TO GO FORWARD WITH THAT PURCHASE.
UM, I, I JUST WANT JEREMY TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT SOME OF THE CAMERAS THAT WERE, UM, ACTUALLY SUPPOSED TO BE PURCHASING.
UH, YEAH, THE CAMERAS, THE, UH, AS YOU SEE 'EM THERE, 40, UH, 20 OF 'EM CAME FROM THE ARPA HUNTING.
AND THEN THE OTHER 20 CAME FROM THE, UH, THE ENHANCEMENT BID THAT WE'VE RECEIVED.
I KNOW THAT IT MENTIONS ME, BLUE LIGHT TOWERS.
WE DO WANT TO GET TO 'EM, BUT AT THE TIME, WHENEVER WE WERE PRICING OUT CAMERAS, THE EMERGENCY BLUE LIGHT TOWER CAME TO BE LIKE 25,000 A PIECE.
SO WE THOUGHT IT WAS BETTER TO MOVE FORWARD WITH TWO AND A HALF CAMERA COSTS VERSUS ONE BLUE LIGHT TOWER.
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THE CAMERAS ARE GOING UP, UH, TALKING WITH FACILITY SERVICES, WHICH THEY'RE THE ONES ALSO DOING THE LIGHTING PROJECT.THEY'RE ALSO THE ONES THAT ARE PUTTING, PROVIDING POWER TO THESE CAMERAS AS THEY COME UP.
ALL THE CAMERAS ARE, UH, EITHER ON EITHER UP OR THEY'RE SCHEDULED TO BE, TO GO UP BY THE VENDOR.
AND THEN FACILITIES WILL FOLLOW BEHIND AND POWER.
AND THEN WE GET BACK THE VENDOR TO ABLE TO THE SERVER.
WE ARE A BIT BEHIND ON IT, BUT, UH, TALKING WITH FACILITIES THERE, MAKING SURE THAT THEY WE'RE GONNA TRY TO HAVE ALL THESE CAMERAS POWERED UP, UH, AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.
AND DEFINITELY BEFORE, UH, END, THAT'S KIND OF WHERE WE ARE WITH THE CAMERAS.
AND THAT, THAT WILL PUT US AT 50 CAMERAS IN THE PARK SYSTEM 40, WHICH THESE FOUR WILL BE TIED TO THE NETWORK, WHICH SHOULDN'T BE TIED TO FUSION.
THE OTHER 10 ARE OUR OLDER CAMERAS THAT WILL EVENTUALLY
UH, THIS, YOU KNOW, ABOUT OUR STAFFING.
WE'LL FULLY STAFFED, WE'LL DRIVE THE RANGERS AND I'M GOING TO, WE'RE GONNA TURN IT OVER
HE'S GONNA, UH, ADVISE YOU ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THE MARSHALS.
AND THEN AFTER THAT, CHIEF WATSON WILL COME.
UH, JUST TO GIVE AN UPDATE ON EVERYONE'S, UH, CURIOSITY AS FAR AS THE STAFFING LEVELS, AND OF COURSE, OUR FIRST WATCH FOR DATE NIGHTS GO.
UH, CURRENTLY WE'RE AT 14 DEPUTIES.
UH, THANKS TO OUR, UH, OUR COMMAND STAFF CHIEF BY, UH, MARSHALL PEWS.
WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO, UH, GET A LOT MORE DEPUTIES IN YOUR DEPARTMENT.
AND SO WE ARE FAST INCOMING, UH, SOME AUDIT TRAINING ABOUT
SOME ARE BE GOING THROUGH, UM, EXPEDIT EXPEDITED TRAINING BECAUSE THEY'VE ALREADY HAD INCREASED EXPERIENCE WITH THE MARSHALL OFFICE.
UH, SO JUST A REALLY QUICK UPDATE ON THIS ONE AS WELL.
UH, DUE TO THE STAFF HAD AND THE, UH, VERSATILITY OF ALL THE DEPUTIES THAT WE HAVE AND THE EAGERNESS OF THEM TO ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND AND KNOW WHAT THIS IS EXPECTING OF THEM FROM PARKS.
UH, THIS PAST SUMMER AND SINCE LAST TIME WE SPOKE IN MET, UH, WE HAVE NOT HAD ANY MAJOR INCIDENTS IN PARKS, UH, INVOLVING THE RANGERS IN THE MORNING.
UH, THE BIGGEST ISSUES WE'VE HAD DURING THE SUMMERTIME 'CAUSE OF SUMMER WEATHER, DRINK AS MUCH AS ILLEGAL PARK ACTIVITIES.
UH, DUE TO OUR DEPUTIES MONITORING SOME OF THE SOCIAL MEDIA I WE HAVE ACCESS TO, WE WERE ABLE TO, UH, SUBDUE OVER 10, UH, ILLEGAL PARKING EVENTS THAT MAJORITY ALL GANG RELATED.
SO DUE TO THOSE EFFORTS AND THEN THE, UH, EFFORTS OF THE DEPUTIES WHO HAVE IN ATIVE SKILLS WERE ABLE TO ACTUALLY CONTACT, UH, THE ORGANIZER, HIM OR HERSELF OR THEMSELVES, UH, EITHER BY PHONE OR KNOCKING IN THE FRONT DOOR UNTIL THE SEVERITY, UH, OF THE VIOLATION THEY WILL CONDENSE AND THE, UH, STUFF THAT WILL HAPPEN AFTERWARDS.
SO DUE TO THE HARD EFFORTS OF EVERYONE, ONE OF THE DEPUTIES IN THE PARKING, ALONG WITH THE RANGERS AND ASSISTANCE AND WITH, UH, SOME HELP FROM DPD AS WELL WITH INTELLIGENCE, WE'RE ABLE TO DEBUNK EVERY SINGLE ONE WE HAD.
UM, THE HOLIDAYS SINCE THE 4TH OF JULY.
WE DIDN'T HAVE VERY MANY ISSUES ON THE 4TH OF JULY.
UH, THE YEARS SINCE I'VE BEEN OVER THE PARK UNIT THREE YEARS PLUS NOW.
UM, THEY, WE'VE HAD A DECLINE AND THE CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES THROUGHOUT THE PAST POLICY, WHICH GOOD THING, UH, SAID US THE BEGINNING.
THIS IS WHAT IS GONNA BE OUR TREND.
AND WE ARE FOLLOWING THAT TREND, CONTINUING THAT TREND AS WELL.
UM, THAT COMES UP TO THE, UH, DEEP MIKES, UH, PORTION OF IT AS WELL.
UH, CHIEF AND I REALIZED WE'RE GONNA BE BEGINNING TO BE
AND WE HAVE DEPUTIES WITH THIS NEW SERGEANT.
WE, AGAIN, WORK TOGETHER IN ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMES.
WE, WE LOOK UP THE RENTS TOGETHER AS WELL.
UH, WE WORK HAND IN HAND SIDE BY SIDE.
SO HE'S VERY, VERY, UH, ADAPTABLE INDIVIDUAL IN WHAT WE'RE DOING.
UH, HE'S COME OUT THE PARTS AS PATROL PARTS WITH ME AND SOME OF THE DEPUTIES AS WELL TO SEE WHAT INTERACTIONS WE'RE INVOLVED WITH AND WHAT HIS EXPECTATIONS WERE.
AND SO WE'RE GEARED UP AND READY FOR THAT ONE AS WELL.
UM, JUST TO TOUCH REALLY QUICK, MORE BY THE BUDGET ENHANCEMENT THAT WE GOT, UH, FOR THE DRONE, UTV BIKE, ET CETERA.
ANOTHER ONE I'D LIKE TO ADD AS WELL, WITH THE, UH, ASSISTANCE FROM CHIEF KNIGHT AND US GETTING THE CLEARANCE TO AS WELL, UH, AS COVERT OPERATIONS.
I KNOW THERE SOME ISSUES IN THE PAST BEING BROUGHT UP IN THE PAST TO WHERE WE'RE GONNA BE EXPANDING THE PARKING UNIT AS WELL, AND MORE OF OPERATIONS THAT WE'RE DOING ON A DAILY BASIS.
UH, SO WE'RE GONNA BE SENDING SOME DEPUTIES HERE RECENTLY, UH, TO A CULVERT SCHOOL WITH DALLAS POLICE DEPARTMENT.
AND THEY TOO ARE GONNA BE OPERATING
SO A LOT OF THINGS COMING UP ON OUR RADAR, INCLUDING, UH, KENNY JACKSON FOR EXAMPLE.
THAT'S ONE OF THE NEWEST ONES OF THIS UGLY HEAD.
AND I'M PROUD TO SAY HONESTLY, THAT WE ARE REALLY LOOKING AT IT.
YOU KNOW, THAT'S JUST, THAT'S JUST A, A SMALL PIECE OF IT.
UH, THE DRONE, UH, WE HAVE DEPUTIES WHO ARE NOW, UH, CERTIFIED PILOTS TO OPERATE THE DRONE.
AND WE'RE WAITING FOR DPD TO HOLSTER OR SHOULD BE IN ABOUT TWO WEEKS.
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TO GO THROUGH, UH, THEUH, THAT'LL TAKE A FEW DAYS TO GET DONE AFTER THAT AS WELL.
UH, THE UTV HAS BEEN WRAPPED UP COMPLETELY.
UH, WE'RE WAITING TO GET LIGHTS AND MC SIREN PUT ON IT AS WELL.
SO IT'S GONNA BE JUST WITHIN WEEKS WE, WE DEPLOYING, UH, THE UTV, UH, GIVEN THAT THE UTV IS GONNA BE USED, WINTER, SUMMER, RAIN, SLEET, SNOW, IF IT'S BAD, WHETHER WE'RE NOT GONNA DEPLOY FOR SAFETY REASONS.
BUT, UH, THE
UH, THIS ONE HERE DOES HAVE A HVAC SYSTEM MINUTES, SO IT'S GONNA KEEP US COOL.
UH, WHEN WE USED TO UTILIZE THE 18 BS, UH, A YEAR OR SO AGO, AND THE HEAT RIGHT NOW, WE HAD DEPUTIES AT ING EXHAUSTION.
SO THE HT B NOW HAS HS, SO IT HAS ED AND AIR WINDOWS AND ET CETERA.
AND I'M SORRY, AND A, UH, BED BACK IN CASE SOMEBODY WOULD COME ACROSS ANYONE, HUNDRED TRAILS, UH, ANYWHERE THROUGHOUT THE PARK FOR THAT MATTER, HAS INJURIES.
WE'RE ABLE TO BE ABLE TO DEPLOY THEM OUT OF SOME
UH, ONE OF THE DEPUTIES THAT COMING BACK AS WELL WILL BE COMING BACK IN ABOUT A WEEK.
UH, HE WAS ALREADY BACK CERTIFIED WITH SOME OF OUR OTHER ONES.
WE'RE GONNA BE DEPLOYING THE BIKES AS WELL.
I KNOW CIVIC GUARD, DPI AREA HAS BEEN COME UP FAR.
AND SO WE'RE GONNA BE DEPLOYING THE BIKE, NOT ONLY ON THE TRAILS I'LL, BUT ALSO IN THE DOWNTOWN HERE.
UM, AS FAR AS THE INCENTIVE GOES, I THINK IT'S FOUR.
SO
WE'RE GONNA HAVE AT LEAST TWO DEPUTIES, MAYBE THREE.
UH, LIKE I SAID EARLIER, UH, CHIEF MIKE HAS ADVISED
UH, SO THAT GOAL, UH, THAT NUMBER IS GONNA BE LISTED NUMBER GONNA BE REACHING HERE IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
UH, BUT THE DATE MIGHT SHIFT IS GONNA BE WORKING AT LEAST TWO, TWO DEPUTIES.
ONE SERGEANT, THE DAYS OFF ARE NOT SET IN STONE YET, BUT THEY'LL BE OPERATING FROM 11:00 PM TO 7:00 AM SO ALL THE PARK ISSUES ARE COMBATING THOSE NIGHTS, OVERNIGHT PARTIES, ET CETERA, THAT WE CAN'T GET AHOLD OF BECAUSE WE'RE UP AT 11.
UH, THAT'S GONNA BE TAKEN CARE OF AS WELL.
THAT'S WHY SERGEANT PEREZ HAS WRITTEN OUT WITH US TO SEE THE ISSUES THAT WE'RE HAVING.
HE WROTE IT OUT IN THE EVENING, SO HE SEES WHAT THE EVENING IS TAPERING TO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS.
SO HE HAS A GOOD IDEA OF WHAT TO EXPECT AND WHAT
AND I THINK COMING THE, UH, DEEP, MY SHIFT IS GONNA BUILD ANOTHER HEAD OF AN ISSUE THAT, YOU KNOW, HAS FALLEN BLIND TO US BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW.
SEE, YOU KNOW, JUST MONEY HEARD GO ON.
I THINK THIS IS ALSO GONNA BE, IT'S GONNA REALLY WITH THE STAFFING AS IT COMES THROUGH.
MR. PRESIDENT MEMBERS, GOOD MORNING.
UH, I'M GONNA BRIEF YOU THIS MORNING ON VARIOUS INCIDENTS AND OCCURRED PREVIOUS PARTS.
SO THE FIRST ONE, IT OCCURRED ON MARCH THE 10TH AT ABOUT 9:00 AM AND THIS OCCURRED AS
WE HAD AN INDIVIDUAL WHO WAS FISHING AT THE LAKE AND HE OBSERVED AND DISCOVERED DEAD BODY IN BLANK.
THE BODY WAS TREE DIDN'T, AT THAT TIME, IT DIDN'T SEEM TO HAVE
THAT ONE IS CLASSIFIED AS UNEXPLAINED DEATH.
ON THE SECOND ONE, WE'VE GOT ANOTHER UNEXPLAINED DEATH AT CRAWFORD PARK, 87 40 ROAD, A 9 1 1 CAR CALLED AND SAID THAT HE HAD OBSERVED A DEAD BODY CREEK AND OUT BETWEEN THE, AND NO SIGNS OF TRAUMA, BUT IT'S UNEXPLAINED UNTIL WE TALK TO COLLEGE FACTS.
THE THIRD ONE, FOR SOME REASON, IT GOT SHOWN THAT THIS SUICIDE OCCURRED AT SAMUEL GRAND PARK, BUT NO SUICIDE OCCURRED AT THE PARK.
THE SUICIDE OCCURRED AT A PRIVATE RESIDENCE IN AN APARTMENT LOCATED AT 93 43 CALL.
I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY THAT, THAT NOTHING HAPPENED EXCEPT GRAND PARK.
THE NEXT ONE, THIS IS MORE ENFORCEMENT AT TIMBER GLEN PARK.
MR. CONNER, I KNOW WE SHARED THIS INFORMATION, BUT SATURDAY, MAY THE FOURTH,
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THE OFFICERS WROTE 14 CITATIONS, THREE FOR OPEN CONTAINER, FOUR POSSESSION OF ALCOHOL IN THE CITY PARK, FIVE PUBLIC INTOX, AND TWO PARKING CITATIONS.LIKE SERGEANT CIRO SAID THAT KATIE TRAIL JACKSON BROUGHT HEAD.
APPRECIATE THE PICTURES AND EVERYTHING THAT YOU PROVIDED.
ONE OF THE THINGS THE PARK DEPARTMENT HAS DONE IS IT'S OPENED UP OVER TIME CITY OVERTIME FOR DALLAS POLICE OFFICERS TO WORK THESE TWO LOCATIONS.
THE NORTH PARK, PARK AND JACKSON, FRIDAY, SATURDAY, AND SUNDAY FROM 10:00 PM TO FOUR A, YOU GOT OFFICER THAT HAVE BEEN SIGNING UP FOR THE ASSIGNMENT TO THE NEW MAJOR THIS MORNING.
AND THIS HAPPENED MAY THE FIFTH, AROUND NINE 18.
WHAT THIS APPEARS TO BE IS A POPUP EVENT AT KEYS THAT NO ONE HAD ANY IDEA IT WAS TAKING PLACE.
AND THEY CALL IT SUNDAY AT EASTPORT.
SO, UH, THIS WAS GOING ON THE COMPLAINANT, SHE SHARED WITH US THAT SHE HEARD GUNSHOTS AND THAT INDIVIDUALS WERE FIRING INTO THE AIR.
AND AT THAT TIME, THE CROWD AS FAR AS SHE WAS RUNNING.
AND SHE SAID THAT ANOTHER INDIVIDUAL NOT RELATED TO THE GROUP THAT WERE DISCHARGING IN THE AIR, FIRED INTO.
AND THAT'S WHEN SHE REALIZED SHE HAD BEEN SHOT AND LATE.
NOT UNLIKE THE THREAT WITH RESPECT TO SUSPECT INFORMATION AND THINK OF THAT NATURE MUCH.
THE NEXT ONE IS AT 97 79 FOREST LINK.
THIS IS THE FOREST ALIA COMMUNITY CENTER.
WHAT WE HAVE IS A FEMALE WENT TO THAT LOCATION AND SHE WAS STANDING OUTSIDE OF HER VEHICLE.
SHE HEARD A GUNSHOT AND SHE FELL ON HER RIGHT LEG.
GET YOU, SHE SAID YOU DIDN'T SEE ANYBODY
SO WE'RE NOT SURE IF THIS WAS JUST RANDOM INDIVIDUAL SHOOTING.
SHE HAPPENED TO GET HIT OR IF SHE WAS THE INTENT TO TALK.
THE NEXT ONE IS A HOMICIDE PIONEER PARK, SHOOTING 10 33 YOUNG STREET.
THE COMPLAINANT AND THE SUSPECT MADE AN ARRANGEMENT TO MEET AT THIS LOCATION AND THE SUSPECT WAS GONNA BUY MARIJUANA.
AND, AND WHEN IT SHOWED UP, THE INDIVIDUALS THAT GOT OUT OF THE VEHICLE, THEY BASICALLY SHOT THAT.
AND HOW WE PUT THAT TOGETHER WAS WE HAD A WITNESS THAT WAS NOT COOPERATIVE HARDLY AT ALL, BUT SHE MANAGED TO GIVE THE DETECTIVE ENOUGH INFORMATION TO DETERMINE THEY KNEW ONE ANOTHER.
AND THIS OCCURRED JUNE THE 11TH, ABOUT 10 40.
AT FIRST, INITIALLY WE THOUGHT THAT THIS ACTUAL HOMICIDE HAPPENED AT KID SPRINGS, BUT IT DID NOT.
THE COMPLAINANT AND HER FRIEND WERE AT THE BASKETBALL COURSE PLAYING BASKETBALL WHEN THE SUSPECT
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APPROACHED IN HIS CAR.NOW, KEEP IN MIND, THE SUSPECT AND THE COMPLAINANT WERE FRIENDS BEFORE AND THEY HAD A FALLING OUT.
SO WHEN THE COMPLAINANT SAW THE SUSPECT PULL UP IN HIS VEHICLE, THE COMPLAINANT AND A FRIEND OF HIS GOT IN THEIR VEHICLE AND LEFT THE SUSPECT, FOLLOWED 'EM, AND BASICALLY CHASED THEM TO THE 400 BLOCK OF SOUTH WINNETKA.
THAT'S WHERE THE SUSPECT GOT OUT.
SHOT MULTIPLE TIMES AT THE COMPLAINANT, DECEASED THE OTHER INDIVIDUAL IN THE CAR.
WE DID IDENTIFY THE INDIVIDUAL AND HE HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOR THIS ONE WHITE ROCK LAKE.
AND I, I CAN ONLY GIVE JUST A LITTLE BIT OF INFORMATION ON THIS, BUT THE SUSPECT, THIS SEXUAL ASSAULT
AND THIS HAPPENED JULY THE 12TH.
AND THIS IS OTHER UN AND THEY HAD CONTRACTORS THERE CLEANING THE UNDERBRUSH.
THEY FOUND AN INDIVIDUAL
THIS HAPPENED AT THE WEST END SQUARE PLAZA.
WE INITIALLY THOUGHT THAT THIS WAS A DOPE WHEEL CAR, BUT THE COMPLAINANT WHO GOT SHOT WOULD NOT COOPERATE WITH THE OFFICER WOULD BE DETECTIVE.
BUT THROUGH THE COURSE OF THE DETECTIVES DIGGING, THEY FOUND OUT THAT THIS WAS GOING TO BE A FAMILY VIOLENCE AND ASSAULT.
THIS WAS NOT STRANGER ON STRANGER, IT WAS A FAMILY VIOLENCE.
AND THEN LAST ONE, PACIFIC PLAZA.
JAMES ASKED IF IN PARK, THIS OCCURRED JULY THE 28TH.
WHAT WE HAVE IS A JUVENILE, WE FOUND OUT LATER THAT TOLD HIS MOM HE WAS GOING TO BACK TO SCHOOL FUNCTION AT A REC CENTER, BUT THE REC CENTER, HE WAS GOING TO NIGHTCLUB CALLED
SO HE'S STANDING IN THE PARK, WHICH IS ACROSS THE STREET FROM THIS NIGHTCLUB, AND THERE'S A BUNCH OF JUVENILES WHO ARE FIGHTING.
OUR COMPLAINANT RUNS TO THE NIGHTCLUB BECAUSE THEIR SECURITY GUARD IS THERE.
AND WHILE HE WAS RUNNING, HE GOT SHOT NON-LIFE THREATENING.
WE MANAGED TO CATCH A VIDEO FROM OUR FUSION CENTER THERE ON A PARK.
WE'VE GOT JUVENILES THERE, BUT NO GUNFIRE, NO MUZZLE SHOTS, JUST JUVENILES THERE.
AND WE HAD A SECOND VIDEO FROM A RESIDENT WHO LIVED IN AN APARTMENT THERE CLOSE BY, BUT HE HAD A CAMERA.
AND BASICALLY IT WAS THE SAME THING.
GROUP OF JUVENILES, BUT
AND THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION, MY UPDATE.
WHO MONITORS THE CAMERAS? DO YOU GUYS HAVE UP THE ONES THAT WE HAVE CURRENT, THE ONES THAT WE'RE ON THAT LIST ALONG THE, SO RIGHT NOW IT WOULD BE, SO THE ONES THAT ARE, WE'RE GETTING UP, NONE OF THEM.
WE HAVE A COUPLE THAT ARE WORKING RIGHT NOW.
IT WOULD BE MYSELF, OUR RANGER.
UM, AND THEN WE'RE GONNA MAKE SURE THAT THE DISTRICT HAS ACCESS AND THEN INFUSION.
SO TO BE HONEST, ARE THEY MONITOR ON A REGULAR BASIS, AT LEAST BY US.
SO WHAT'S THE, WHAT'S THE PLAN FOR US? SO HOW MANY CAMERAS ARE THERE? WE HAVE 40 THAT ARE GOING IN, AND THEN WE HAVE ANOTHER 10 THAT ARE ALREADY SO 50 TOTAL.
SO IS THE PLAN FOR THESE CAMERAS TO, TO CATCH AFTER THE FACT OR TO TO TRY TO, SO THE WAY TALKING WITH THE LIEUTENANT
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IN FUSION, THE WAY THAT THESE CAMERAS ARE SET UP IS THEY, BECAUSE THEY HAVE SO MANY CAMERAS THAT THEY'RE MONITORING AS WELL.IF SOMETHING POPS UP THAT'S SHOWS LIKE, YOU KNOW, SAY GUN FOR EXAMPLE OR WHATEVER, THEN THAT CAMERA AUTOMATICALLY LINKS IT TO FUSION SYSTEM.
BUT OTHER THAN THAT IT'S JUST, IT'S VARI MONITORING.
UM, WHAT'S THE PLAN IN THE FUTURE FOR THAT? SO I CAN ASK YOU THAT.
I MEAN OUR OVERALL PLAN THAT'S UM, IS THAT WE'RE GONNA BE COMING BACK WITH YOU ALL AND WE'LL BE PROBABLY GOING OVER TO THE SECURITY COMMITTEE AS WELL, PROVIDING EVERYBODY UPDATE HOW FAR WE HAVE COME WITH OUR SECURITY PLAN.
AND I WAS JUST AMAZED A FEW MINUTES AGO WHEN I'M SEEING, YOU KNOW, 32 SAFETY AND OFFICERS ADDRESSING SECURITY IN OUR PARKS, WHICH IS UNHEARD OF HOW FAR WE HAVE COME IN, WHAT, PROBABLY SIX YEARS AND ALL BECAUSE OF THIS BOARD PUSHING FOR THE ENHANCEMENTS IN SECURITY AND HEARING FROM THE CITIZENS WHO UTILIZE OUR PARKS AND THE COUNCIL.
AND WE'RE FUNDING FOR THREE MORE THAT THE, WE JUST MENTIONED THAT THE RANGERS, I MEAN THE, UH, MARSHALS HADN'T HAD A CHANCE TO HIRE YET, BUT THIS IS HUGE.
400 PARKS AND WE ALMOST UP TO 40 FOLKS WHO ARE MONITORING SECURITY IN OUR PARKS.
I KNOW CHIEF PEWS WANT US TO GET TO ABOUT A HUNDRED OFFICERS WHEN IT'S ALL SAID AND DONE.
BUT TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, YES, WE CONTINUE AND WE'RE GONNA BE PROVIDING A REPORT.
THIS IS WHAT WE'VE COME, WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING WITH THE ENHANCEMENT, YOU KNOW, RENEE, THEM TEAM PUT TOGETHER THE STRATEGIC, UH, SECURITY PLAN.
AND WE'RE GONNA BE LAYING OUT, THESE ARE THE PHASES WE'RE IN AND THESE ARE THE PHASES WE WANT TO GO NEXT, WHICH IS GOING TO BE A LOT MORE OF LIKE THE CAMERAS I PRESENTED TO YOU ALL, UH, A COUPLE WEEKS AGO.
YOU KNOW, HOW DO WE MONITOR THESE CAMERAS? 'CAUSE WE GOTTA WORK WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT AND THEY HAVE A CAPACITY.
WHAT I DON'T EVER WANT US TO DO TO GET AHEAD OF THEM, I'M GONNA TRUST THE EXPERTS TO HELP US WITH OUR NEXT PHASES OF HOW DO WE GET THE OPPORTUNITY TO MONITOR MORE CAMERAS, MORE CAMERAS, WE PUT IN THE PARTS AND HOW MANY MORE WE'RE GONNA TRY TO PUT IN OVER THE NEXT FIVE TO SIX YEARS.
HOW MANY MORE OFFICERS DO WE NEED? WE GOTTA LAY THAT PLAN OUT NOW.
AND WHEREAS FOR ADDITIONAL REPORTING, I'M JUST TELLING YOU, WE AIN'T THERE YET.
WHERE I GOT DEDICATED STAFF LIKE DPD HAS, WHERE THEY MAY HAVE A LIAISON TO THE COUNSELOR OFFICE THAT'S PREPARING THOSE DETAILED REPORTS THAT SOME OF YOU ALL ARE REFERRING THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE OVER HERE.
WE DON'T HAVE THOSE RESOURCES YET.
IS THAT GONNA BE PART OF OUR PLAN IN THE FUTURE? HOW THIS YES, BUT WE ARE GONNA HAVE A DETAILED PLAN FOR YOU ALL TALKING ABOUT MONITORING, MORE SECURITY CAMERAS, MORE OFFICERS, AND THEN THAT IS THE PLAN.
DO THE LIST OF THE PARKS THE CAMERAS ARE IN.
YEAH, THEY CAN PROVIDE THAT TO YOU.
AND THEN THE QUESTION, BIG QUESTION THAT I'VE SENT A BUNCH OF EMAILS ABOUT, AND YOU'VE BEEN COPYING RENEE ABOUT, UM, EXACTLY THAT THE COMMUNICATION ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE PARKS.
UM, SOMETIMES WE FIND OUT FROM THE COMMUNITY RATHER THAN FINDING OUT FROM THE PARK DEPARTMENT OR THE MARSHALS OR THE, UM, THE, THE RANGERS ABOUT INCIDENTS THAT HAPPENED IN THE PARK.
SO IS THAT, YOU KIND OF TOUCHED ON THAT, BUT IS THAT GONNA BE COMING? I KNOW THAT SOMETIMES YOU GUYS DON'T EVEN GET INFORMATION.
SO YOU GET, SO IT'S KIND OF LIKE ONE OF THOSE WHERE, YOU KNOW, AS YOU JUST MENTIONED, A LOT OF TIME WE DON'T GET THE INFORMATION, DON'T GET PROMISE.
IT'S, IT'S JUST
SOMETIMES THEY'RE JUST, THEY'RE STILL TRYING TO GET THEIR ARMS AROUND IT.
THEY'RE TRYING TO COME UP WITH THEIR STRATEGIES AND SOMETIMES IT'LL BE PREMATURE FOR US TO START SHARING SOME INFORMATION THAT WE STILL TRYING TO UNDERSTAND AND IT'S STILL GOING THROUGH THE CHAIN, YOU KNOW, GOING THROUGH DPD MAKING ITS WAY TO RENEE.
AND THEN WHEN IT GETS TO A LEVEL THAT'S WARRANTED FOR ME, RE RENEE, AT THAT POINT, WE GOING TO CONTINUE TO KEEP OUR SAME PRACTICE.
WHEN THEY SET A LEVEL THAT WANTS RENEE AND OUR ATTENTION, THAT'S WHEN WE REACH OUT TO YOU ALL.
ANYTIME THERE'S A HUGE INCIDENT OR SOMETHING THAT'S THAT'S, THAT'S SYSTEMIC THAT'S REALLY HAPPENING ON A REGULAR BASIS AND WE AIN'T GOT ALL THE FACTS.
THE FIRST THING I TELL ATION OR TELL MAINTENANCE, SEND THE EMAIL, CALL THE COUNCIL MEMBER AND THE BOARD MEMBER FOR THAT AREA AND LET THEM KNOW.
BUT LIKE I SAID, I DON'T LIKE IT MAY, LET'S JUST GIVE AN EXAMPLE OF A, I DON'T WANNA NAME A SPECIFIC FORMS,
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BUT IF THEY'RE DEALING WITH AN ISSUE WHERE THEY'RE TRYING TO GET IT UNDER CONTROL, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH PATROL OFFICERS WHO MAY BE TALKING TO SOME CITIZENS OR THE CITIZENS MAY HAVE APPROACHED THEM THAT STILL HASN'T MADE ITS WAY TO JEREMY, IT STILL AIN'T MADE ITS WAY TO TO RENEE YET.AND SO WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING WE CAN SHARE YET.
BUT ONCE WE GET CONCRETE STUFF LIKE THIS MONTHLY REPORT, WE CAN GIVE IT TO YOU.
AND I'M TELLING YOU, OUR PRACTICE WILL NEVER CHANGE.
WE GET STUFF THAT WARRANTS THE LEVEL OF GETTING TO ME.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S KIND OF MY QUESTION IS WHAT, HOW DO, HOW DO WE GET, HOW DO WE GET YOU FASTER INFORMATION SO YOU CAN GET IT TO US.
SO WE DON'T HEAR THIRD HAND FROM AN HOA OR FROM CITIZENS THAT, THAT HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT A PARK.
I JUST, WE'RE KIND, WE'RE LEARNING ABOUT IT ON THE BACK END INSTEAD OF BEING PROACTIVE.
SO LIKE I SAID, ONCE AGAIN, I WOULD JUST HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, THOSE ARE LIKE CASE BY CASE BASIS THAT WE WOULD NEED TO LOOK AT AND SEE WHERE COULD THE COMMUNICATION BEEN BETTER OR NOT.
UH, I WOULD HAVE TO KNOW CASE BY CASE OR RENEE WOULD HAVE TO KNOW CASE BY CASE.
IS THAT SOMETHING THAT WARRANTED GETTING STRAIGHT TO YOU ALL RIGHT AWAY? OKAY.
SO I WOULD PREFER AT THIS POINT JUST LET RENEE KNOW WHEN THERE IS SOMETHING WHERE A SPECIFIC INCIDENT YOU MAY HAVE HEARD ABOUT FIRST AND THEN GIVE US THE CHANCE TO BE ABLE TO TELL YOU IF WE KNEW OR NOT.
AND WHAT WAS THE FAILURE IN COMMUNICATION IF IT DIDN'T GET TO THAT LEVEL OF WARRANT IT GETTING TO YOU ALL.
WE DON'T EVER WANT Y'ALL TO GET BLINDSIDED.
THAT IS OUR NUMBER ONE PRIORITY TO NOT EVER ALLOW A BOARD MEMBER OR COUNCIL MEMBER TO BE BLINDSIDED WITH SOMEONE APPROACHING YOU ALL FIRST.
'CAUSE WE WANT Y'ALL TO BE ABLE TO, TO ARTICULATE, GIVE THE INFORMATION THAT YOU KNOW.
I TALKED TO RENEE ABOUT THAT AND UH, RENEE, IT WAS SOME OF THE INCIDENTS I'M TALKING ABOUT, BUT EVEN, EVEN THE SMALL THINGS LIKE, YOU KNOW, HEY, WE'VE GOT A PROBLEM WITH DOGS OFF LEASH IN THIS PARK.
HAVE PEOPLE THAT HELP OR, I MEAN, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT BIG INCIDENTS, I'M ALSO TALKING ABOUT SMALLER INCIDENTS.
YOU KNOW, THE, THE DRINKING IN THE PARK THAT WE DISCUSSED AT TIMBER GLENN AND KATIE JACKSON.
WE, WE, WE NEED MORE INFORMATION ON IT.
THAT'D BE A GOOD ONE WHERE, YOU KNOW, IT'S A SYSTEMIC PROBLEM.
AND SO NOW THERE PROBABLY NEEDS TO BE SOME REGULAR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN JEREMY AND THEM COMMUNICATING TO THE BOARD MEMBER ON A REGULAR BASIS.
WHEN WE GET THOSE TYPES OF SYSTEMIC PROBLEMS, SOMETIMES AGAIN, WE, THEY MAY NOT REALIZE THERE'S A SYSTEMIC PROBLEM UNTIL THEY GET IN THERE AND START DOING THEIR DUE DILIGENCE.
THEN THE NEIGHBORHOOD MAY HAVE KNOWN ALL ABOUT THIS LAND BEFORE THEY KNEW OR WE KNOW.
'CAUSE LIKE DAVID JACKSON, THOSE PEOPLE WERE VERY DEEP WHEN, WHEN I SAW THAT REPORT, I'M LIKE, OH GOD, THIS HAS BEEN LIKE A ORGANIZED APPROACH.
ACTIVITIES HAPPENING OUT HERE.
THEY'RE DEEP IN THE WOODS HAVING THEIR LITTLE PARTIES.
BUT I'M SO GLAD YOU AND MS. MILLI THAT Y'ALL HAVE STAYED ON THAT AND WORKING WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT.
WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO GET SOUND LIKE WE GONNA GET THIS UNDER CONTROL.
SO I, I JUST WANNA SAY THANK YOU, UM, TO DPD INTO MARSHALLS AND JEREMY AND, AND MIGUEL.
UM, BECAUSE WE DID HAVE SOME SIGNIFICANT, I MEAN I WAS THERE.
I WAS THERE ON SUNDAY MORNING, SAW THE OFFICER GET RUSHED AND TASED WITH A COUPLE PEOPLE AND AN ACCIDENT AND YOU KNOW, DUI ARREST AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO, UM, THANK YOU FOR SPECIFICALLY YOU AND AND YOUR TEAM FOR MEETING WITH RENEE AND NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL TEAM.
SO CAN'T THANK, THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR JUMPING ALL OVER THAT PLEASURE.
MR. JENKINS, MAY I ADD MR. CONNOR, IF YOU DON'T MIND, WITH RESPECT TO WHAT MR. JENKINS SAID, ANYTIME WE HAVE A BANK CHAIR IN CITY, I'M CONTACTING EITHER BY MY NAME OR IF I GET LUCKY, I'M CONTACTED BY 'CAUSE THEY KNOW I'M THE PARK
SOMETIMES THEY'LL SEND ME AN EMAIL AND SAY, HEY CHIEF, WE HAD THIS AT THIS PARK.
IT IS, IT'S A HIT AND MISS IT NEED SOME MAJOR, IT'S A HIT.
GET THAT INFORMATION AND WE OUT AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE FOR THE REASONS THAT MR. JEN SAID, WE DON'T WANT NOBODY YOURSELF OR THE COUNCIL PERSON BLINDSIDE.
YEAH, I I THINK THAT'S, UM, AND I'M ABOUT TO RUN OUTTA TIME, BUT I THINK THAT'S, THAT WAS THE ONE INCIDENT THAT I'VE TALKED TO RENEE ABOUT.
WE HAD A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT, A COUPLE YEARS AGO WAS SEXUAL ASSAULT.
KATIE JACKSON THAT I, I WASN'T AWARE OF.
UM, AND UM, IT, A COUNCIL MEMBER WAS TOLD BY DPD, BUT RENEE AND THE TEAM HERE
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IN PARKS, WE, I HEARD ABOUT IT FROM THE COUNCIL MEMBER'S OFFICE AND THEN THE COUNCIL MEMBER, I TOLD RAY ACTUALLY TOLD RENEE AND JEREMY THIS AND NATE HAD NO IDEA.SO I MEAN, THAT, THAT WAS A COUPLE YEARS AGO.
WE'VE HAD PROCESSES THEN TO YOUR POINT, YOU KNOW, IT'S GOTTEN BETTER, BUT, YOU KNOW, THINGS LIKE THAT REALLY UNDERSTAND.
MS. HAS THANK YOU AND GOOD MORNING.
THANK YOU FOR THE GREAT INFORMATION AND ALL THE WORK YOU DO.
I JUST HAD A COUPLE OF QUICK QUESTIONS ABOUT, UH, THE NEW A TD THAT'S GONNA BE CLIMATE CONTROLLED FOR Y'ALL.
IS THAT SPECIFICALLY FOR TRAIL? YES, IT'S GONNA BE FOR TRAILS.
UM, THE NEXT QUESTION WAS, UM, WE TALKED ABOUT COVERT OPERATIONS.
SO IS THAT JUST, IS THAT LIKE AN UNDERCOVER YES.
AND IS IT, UM, IS IT FOR SPECIFIC PROBLEMS OR DO YOU JUST SORT OF SEND THEM AROUND EVERYWHERE OR I'M JUST CURIOUS HOW, WHY, HOW THAT YOU WOULD USE THAT WITHIN OUR, OUR PARKS.
SO FOR EXAMPLE, LET'S USE L HOUSTON FOR EXAMPLE.
THAT'S ONE OF OUR PARKS HAVE A LOT OF WHAT WE HAD IN THE PAST, A LOT OF, UH, ENCOUNTERS WHERE PEOPLE WOULD GO TO HAVE RELATIONS WITH EACH OTHER.
SO WITH
IT'S VERY UNIFORM THERE BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT
ME AND THE TEAM WALKED THE LUNCH, WALKED FOR ABOUT 20 MINUTES INTO IT AND IT WAS, IT WAS EASY.
IT WAS, IT WAS VERY DAMN SAW A LOT OF, A LOT OF BAD THINGS THAT COULD HAPPEN TO US.
SO THE COVID OPERATION CAPACITY, AND I'VE DONE THIS IN THE PAST, I WAS AN ENVIRONMENTAL OF CRIMES.
ME AND OTHER OFFICER AS WELL WHO HAVE BEEN THROUGH THIS COVID TRAINING, UM, HAVE USED IT TO UTILIZE THAT PLAN FOR SUSPECTS, ASSESS AN AREA, AND THEN TO EXECUTE, UH, AN OPERATION THAT WE HAD GOING ON.
SO WITH THIS BEING SAID AS WELL, UH, THE DEPUTIES WILL BE TRAINED TO HOW TO RESPOND TO AN INCIDENT COME ACROSS.
AND IT'S GONNA BE A PLETHORA OF THINGS.
PLETHORA OF ANYTHING COME ACROSS IN THE PARK, RATHER BE HOMELESS, SMOKING.
AT LEAST THE BIGGER THING BECAUSE WHAT WE'RE REALLY GONNA DO AT THE END OF THE DAY IS GET THE PEOPLE AND THE PUBLIC TO UNDERSTAND LIKE, WE DON'T KNOW WHO WAS ALL WATCHING THEY TO WHEN I WAS KID, SON.
ALWAYS REMEMBER SOMEBODY'S ALWAYS WATCHING.
AND SO THAT'S GONNA BE THE SAME CONCEPT WITH THE, WITH US DEPLOYING COVERT DEPUTIES.
UM, IF THE PEOPLE WERE IN A PARK WHO HAD BAD HABITS AND CONTINUE THESE BAD HABITS, THEY HAVEN'T BEEN CAUGHT.
NOW THEY'RE STARTING TO GET CAUGHT A LOT.
WHY? 'CAUSE SOMEBODY'S ALWAYS WATCHING.
NOBODY MEANS HE WAS, BUT HE ALL OF A SUDDEN NEEDS TO COME UP AND TAKE HASH YOU.
YOU KNOW, THERE'S, WE'LL HAVE SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE AND ALL THAT GOOD STUFF TOO.
UH, SEAL THAT CASE, WHATEVER OFFICE SPEAKER.
SO WHAT'LL BE DEPLOYING FOR THE COVID OPERATIONS FOR A PLETHORA OF THINGS, NOT JUST ONE PARTICULAR THING.
AND I ONE PARTICULAR PARKING HERE COVER JUST MEANING THEY'RE NOT IN UNIFORM.
UM, WOO BOY, THIS, THIS IS DARK.
IT'S SCARIER THAN SOME BRIEFINGS OF THE PAST.
UH, IT'LL, IT MIGHT TAKE SOME PARK LOVERS, UH, AND, AND MAKE THEM WANT TO WALK AWAY FROM OUR PARKS.
BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? UH, THAT'S FINE.
STILL, I WANT THANK YOU BECAUSE, UM, THE DETAILS THAT YOU PROVIDE, UM, THEY WERE AS I BELIEVE THERE, AS DETAILS AS YOU CAN GIVE US.
UH, THIS STUFF NEEDS TO BE HEARD.
UM, AND DIRECTOR JENKINS, THIS IS A NOT TO YOU SIR.
THIS SHOWS HOW THIS DEPARTMENT, UM, INTENDS TO, UH, RUN TOWARDS ITS PROBLEMS, OKAY? VERSUS SOMETIMES RUNNING AWAY FROM ITS PROBLEMS, WHICH I'VE NEVER SEEN THIS DEPARTMENT DO.
UH, WE DON'T SWEEP ANYTHING UNDER THE RUG HERE.
THERE'S NO RUGS IN THIS ROOM EVEN.
UM, BUT, UH, SO I WANTED TO THANK YOU FOR THAT.
UH, BUT I DO HAVE SOMETHING CUTE AND CUDDLY.
I SEE PARK RANGER BIKE METRICS, AN AVERAGE BIKE RIDE.
I KNOW IT'S HOT AS HECK OUTSIDE.
SO NEXT QUARTER LET'S DOUBLE THESE NUMBERS.
BECAUSE AS I LOOK AT, UH, 9.3 MILES AROUND WHITE ROCK LAKE, THAT'S ONE LEISURELY LAP AROUND THE LAKE
AND YOU WON'T BE IN THE SUMMER OF SIZZLE ANYMORE.
SO LET'S, I, I WANNA JOIN YOU ON, OKAY, KENNER AND I WANNA JOIN YOU.
ADD TO THAT, THE REASON WHY THOSE NUMBERS BLEW IS 'CAUSE OUR BIKE, SOP, THEY DON'T PROVIDE PAST NINE, FIVE DEGREES.
IT'S A SAFETY ISSUE FOR OUR RANGER.
THAT'S WHY THOSE NUMBERS WILL GO BACK UP.
ESPECIALLY SINCE WE HAVE MORE OF OUR RANGER CERTIFIED
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NOW WE HAVE LIKE, HEY, WE'RE GONNA SEND TWO MORE HERE SOON.SO WE'RE GONNA, AND THEN I THINK WE'RE GONNA GET A COUPLE MORE.
SO MORE THAN HALF OF OUR RANGER WILL BE BIKE CERTIFIED.
THOSE MILES WILL GO UP, ESPECIALLY AS THE TEMPERATURES DROPPED.
BUT YEAH, THAT'S WHY THE NUMBER LOOKS LIKE THAT BECAUSE WE'RE TRYING TO SQUEEZE IN BIKE.
'CAUSE WE WANT THEM TO STILL BE ON BIKES.
BUT WHEN IT IS 95, THAT ONE COMES BACK.
I JUST WANT TO, UH, BACK UP WITH SOMETHING THAT DIRECTOR JENKINS SAID ABOUT HOW FAR THIS DEPARTMENT HAS COME.
UH, SEVEN YEARS AGO, MR. BLAIR, MR. MR. SLAUGHTER, MR. KITNER, MS. COLS, BRATEN AND I CAME ON THIS BOARD, OUR SAFETY AND SECURITY IN THIS DEPARTMENT.
SIX PARK RANGERS, ONLY ONE OF WHOM COULD WRITE A CITATION.
AND THAT'S BECAUSE HE CAME OVER FOR CODE.
BUT THE WAY THE DISTANCE WE'VE COME IS BEYOND STAGGERING AND IT'S INCREDIBLE.
I JUST WANT TO THANK EVERYBODY WHO HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH THAT.
IT'S, AND I HOPE THE CITIZENS UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS, THERE'S BEEN A MAJOR COMMITMENT, I MEAN BEYOND ANYTHING THAT I COULD EVER IMAGINE.
AND IT'S JUST SUCH A GREAT SUCCESS.
UM, LOOKING AT THE CHARTS, I JUST ONE OF SAY FOR ANYONE THAT'S LOOKING AT THEM, UH, THE BAR GRAPHS, UH, UM, WHEN IT COMES TO BACHMAN, IT KIND OF LOOKS LIKE A SKYSCRAPER SITTING THERE WITH ALL THE OTHER LITTLE BUILDINGS UP.
BUT I WOULD SAY THAT PART OF THAT IS BECAUSE THE ENHANCED ENFORCEMENT AT BACHMAN AND I SHUDDER TO THINK WHAT IT WOULD BE IF WE DIDN'T HAVE THAT AT BACHMAN.
UM, AND I JUST WAS WONDERING, UH, ON THE OVERLOOK, TRINITY OVERLOOK, THERE SEEMS TO BE MORE ACTIVITY THERE.
IS THERE ANYTHING YOU CAN TELL ME ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON AT THE, WITH THE TRINITY OVERLOOK? UH, TRINITY OVERLOOK IS ONE OF THE ONES THAT JUST PEAKED PEAK.
IT UGLY HAD, UH, LATE LAST YEAR, EARLIER THIS YEAR.
AND THAT TOO AS WELL HAS TRENDED DOWN AS FAR AS FROM ACTIVITIES.
UH, WE WORK WITH THE, THE WATERSHED, UH, ENVIRONMENTAL CROPS FOR THE LIVING WILL COME AT BOTH THOSE ISSUES.
I KNOW WE HAD COMPLAINTS IN THE PAST WHERE THERE WERE SOME TRAIL AND BIKE RIDERS IN THE TRAIL PART OF THE LIVING.
AND OF COURSE IT PAIRS UP WITH A TRAINING OVERBOOK, BUT PEOPLE, UH, SMOKING, CONSUMING OUT ALCOHOL, ET CETERA.
AND SO WE'VE WORKED TOGETHER WITH THAT AS WELL.
AND THERE WAS A SPIKE, THERE WAS A HUGE SPIKE, THERE WAS A LOT OF ED THINGS THAT ARE GOING ON OVERCOME THAT TASK AND THAT OBSTACLE SO THAT IT'S, WE DRIVE PATH THROUGH THEIR DOWN EMPTY, WHICH IS GREAT, BUT PEOPLE DOING LL PARK THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO, CAN'T RUN A TRAIL LIKE THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO GAZE AS THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO.
WELL THANK YOU FOR LOOKING OVER THE TRINITY OVERLOOK AND ADDRESSING THAT.
UH, AND THEN I JUST HAD A WEIRD LITTLE QUESTION, UM, ON THE DOG SWEEPS.
I KNOW WE DID 69 DOG SWEEPS THAT RESULTED IN SIX CITATIONS.
UM, WHAT'S THE NATURE OF THE DOG SWEEPS? UM, 'CAUSE IT SEEMS LIKE WE GOT A LOT OF EFFORT IN, BUT NOT THAT MANY CITATIONS STILL BASED ON THE SIZE OF THE PARK AND WHERE WE'RE ABLE TO DRIVE TO AND WE CAN'T NECESSARILY DRIVE INTO ALL THE PARK 'CAUSE WE DON'T HAVE EQUIPMENT TO DO.
SO WE'RE DRIVING CHARGES CORRECTLY.
UH, BUT IF WE SEE SOMEONE WITH THE DOG OFF LEASH, WE'LL UH, TRY TO APPROACH 'EM.
BUT BY THE TIME THE OFFICERS GET TO 'EM, DEPENDING ON THE SIZE OF THE PARK, THEY'RE GONNA HOOK UP AND THEY'RE GONE.
UH, SO THE ONES THAT WE DO STOP SOMETIMES WE'LL GET STRATEGIC ON IT.
FOR EXAMPLE, GRIGGS UH, WILL PARK BETWEEN THE TOWN HOMES AND THE MAIN, MAIN RIVER FAIR AND THEY SEE US COMING.
WE'VE ALREADY SAW THE QUALITY AND THEY'LL GO TOWARDS THE OTHER WITH THE OFFICERS WAITING FOR THEM TO MEET.
SO THAT'S WHERE CITATION THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
CHIEF WAS, AND JEREMY, THAT'S IT.
UH, THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH FOR THIS PRESENTATION AND THANK YOU ALL FOR THE WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING TO KEEP OUR PARKS AND TRAILS SAFE.
I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF WORK GOING ON TO DO THAT WITH LIMITED RESOURCES AND WE APPRECIATE IT VERY MUCH.
UH, EVERYTHING THAT Y'ALL ARE DOING.
UH, A COUPLE OF QUICK QUESTIONS ON, UM, THE PARK RANGERS THEMSELVES.
HOW DO THEY DETERMINE WHAT SITES THEY'RE GOING TO GO TO EACH DAY? IS IT BASED ON WHERE THERE'S BEEN ACTIVITY OR IF THERE'S AN EVENT OR DO THEY HAVE DISCRETION ON WHERE TO GO? OR ARE THEY ASSIGNED LOCATIONS? HOW DOES THAT ALL, HOW DOES THAT ALL WORK? SO THE RANGERS ARE ASSIGNED TO A DISTRICT.
THEY PRETTY MUCH HAVE THAT SAME DISTRICT FOR WEEK AND THEN THEY ROTATE.
DEFINITELY ALL OUR ARRANGERS ARE WORKING THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
UH, THEY, THEY'RE SCHEDULE AND HONESTLY THEY REALLY HAVE, THEY CAN SET THEIR SCHEDULE HOW, WHERE THEY'RE GONNA GO AS LONG AS THEY'RE
IF WE HAVE A PARTICULAR HOTSPOT THAT NEEDS TO BE HIT AT A PARTICULAR TIME, I GOTTA MAKE SURE THEY HIT THAT AS WELL.
BUT IT ALLOWS 'EM TO DO A RANDOM SCHEDULE AS WELL.
SO KIND OF JUST, YOU KNOW, MAKE SURE THEY'RE IN THEIR MOST PARK THEY'RE ASSIGNED TO.
AND IF COMMUNITY GROUPS OR FRIENDS GROUPS HAVE EVENTS THEY
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WANT PARK RANGERS TO ATTEND, WHAT'S THE BEST WAY FOR THEM TO SCHEDULE THOSE? UH, CALL ME OR SEND ME AN EMAIL.AND WE'LL SET IT UP BECAUSE WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE ARE ADDRESS GOOD, GOOD.
WANT TO GET OUT THERE AND WE'RE OKAY.
WE'LL LEAVE A BRING MARSHALL FRIENDS ALONG.
BUT HOW DO Y'ALL DETERMINE WHICH TRAILS YOU'RE GOING TO GO TO? IS IT THE SAME THING? SAME THING BASED OFF OF HOTSPOT.
SO IF WE HAVE A HOTSPOT SITUATION WHERE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE TRYING TO, AND WE WANTED TO, AND JUST SO YOU KNOW WITH, SO THE WAY THAT OUR U YOU SEE THE UTV NUMBERS ARE UP HIGH AND A LOT OF 'EM ARE FURTHER NORTH, NORTHEAST IS BECAUSE CURRENTLY WE'RE STILL IN THE PROCESS OF TRYING TO GET OUR UTV TRAILER.
SO ALL THE UTV ACTIVITIES OPERATING OUT OF WHITE ROCK.
SO YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A HIGH WHITE DOG MILES AND THEN YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A LOT OF MILE THE TRAIL TO CONNECT TO WHITE ROCK.
SO OUR BIKES, WE'RE TRYING TO PUSH TO THE SOUTHERN PART SO WE CAN MAKE SURE WE'RE GETTING THE SOUTHERN TRAILS AS WELL.
UM, BUT YEAH, IT'S BASICALLY OFF THE HOTSPOT AS WELL.
AND THEN WE KIND OF WANT 'EM TO TRY TO RIDE THAT TRAIL AS MUCH AS WE CAN THEN MOVE TO THE NEXT TRAIL IN THE CLOSEST DISTRICT OR WITHIN THE SAME DISTRICT AND JUST TRY TO GET AS MUCH COVERAGE.
IS THE UTV STORED AT WHITEROCK LAKE? IS THAT WHY? OKAY.
YOU HAVE TWO OF, BUT THEY'RE NOT AC SO THEY'RE, THEY THEY OFFER IN THE SAME SOP AS OUR BIKES AT NINE FIVE DEGREES.
AND, AND I ASSUME THE UTVS MOVE FASTER THAN THE BIKES SO YOU CAN COVER MORE GROUND YES.
THE BIKES THEMSELVES, UH, E-BIKES OR ARE THEY TRADITIONAL BIKES? THEY'RE TRADITIONAL BIKES.
IT MAY BE WORTHWHILE, THERE'S A WAY TO INVEST IN SOME E-BIKES HERE AS WELL.
I THINK THAT WILL HELP IMPROVE EFFICIENCY TOO.
SO, SO A BIT OF HISTORY ON THAT.
SO OUR, THE REASON WHY WE HAVE TRADITIONAL BIKES IS AT THE TIME THE BIKE COORDINATOR DID NOT USE E-BIKES AND HE WAS OUR BIKE MECHANIC.
I WILL SAY THIS, AT OUR LAST BIKE TRAINING THAT WE WENT TO, THE DVD UH, TRAINER WAS ON AN E-BIKE.
SO WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO START LOOKING AT THAT AVENUE AS WELL BECAUSE WE, WE DEFINITELY KNOW AND AND UNDERSTAND TOO THAT THE OTHER E-BIKES, THEY'LL BE ABLE TO COVER MORE AS WELL.
AND I THINK OUR RANGERS WOULD LIKE IT TOO.
WE'LL COVER MORE GROUND AND IT'LL BE MORE EFFICIENT.
WE WON'T HAVE TO WORK AS HARD AT THE HEAT.
AND, AND THIS MAY BE A LITTLE BIT OFF TOPIC, BUT UH, FOR SOME OF OUR, LIKE IN LB HOUSTON OR WHAT WE'RE DOING AT THE VALLEY WOODED AREA WHERE THERE'S GONNA BE NATURE TRAILS, HAVE WE CONSIDERED LIKE EVEN LIKE A MOUNTAIN BIKE OR SOMETHING TO GO INTO THOSE AREAS? IS THAT SOMETHING WE'D LOOK AT? WE CAN LOOK AT IT.
WE HAVEN'T REALLY LOOKED AT NOW 'CAUSE OUR BIKES ARE STRICTLY TO THE PAINT.
BUT IT IS DEFINITELY NOT OFF THE TABLE.
JUST, YEAH, JUST SOMETHING TO CONSIDER AS MORE OF THESE NATURE TRAIL AREAS DEVELOPED THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
UM, AND THEN I WOULD NOTE ON BRIDGE PARK, UH, IT LOOKED LIKE THAT WAS THE HIGHEST CITATION FOR OFF-LEASH DOGS.
SO I THINK THAT SUPPORTS WHAT WE HEARD FROM OUR YOUNG, UH, LEADER HERE TODAY ABOUT PUTTING A DOG PARK THERE.
THANK YOU MR. THANK YOU MR. PRESIDENT.
THANK YOU GUYS FOR, FOR GOOD WORK AND DEFINITELY APPRECIATE UM, THIS MEETING, ALL THE WORK THROUGH, I JUST WANTED TO ITERATE RE AND MR. GREEN'S POINT ABOUT THE KIND OF BIKE PATROL, UH, METRICS.
CAN YOU TELL ME, REMIND ME HOW MANY, UH, RANGERS WE HAVE ON BIKES TYPICALLY KIND OF WHAT HOURS THEY WORK? SO CURRENTLY WE HAVE EIGHT CERTIFIED.
THEY, WE BRING THEM IN EARLIER SO THEY CAN START AT 10.
ACTUALLY THIS PAST WEEK WE STARTED RING 'EM AT NINE TO TRY TO GET 'EM ANOTHER HOUR ON THE BIKE, BUT AS SOON AS THAT NINE FIVE HEADS, WE HAVE 'EM BACK UP.
UH, NOW, HOWEVER, ONCE THE TEMPERATURES DROP AGAIN THEY'LL BE A 10 TO SIX SCHEDULE AND THEY'RE ON THE BIKES ALL.
SO WHAT AND WHAT ARE THEY DOING IF THEY'RE PULLED BACK? THEY'RE GOING, THEY'RE, THEN THEY'RE TEAMED UP AND THEY'RE DOING A REGULAR PATROL.
IS THERE NOT ANY WAY TO GO EVEN EARLIER DURING THE HOT DAYS THAT FOR THE SHIFT BEING EARLY WE CAN, WE JUST, WE'RE TRYING TO WORK WITH THEM BECAUSE THEIR SCHEDULE RIGHT NOW, IF THEY'RE NOT ON BIKE AND THEY'RE NOT BIKE EVERY DAY, DAY, IT FLUCTUATES SO MUCH BECAUSE THEY SAY ON A REGULAR SCHEDULE, THEY COME IN AT ONE 30 RIGHT NOW.
SO BRINGING 'EM IN THAT EARLY AND THEN THE NEXT DAY BRINGING 'EM IN ONE 30 TO 10 AND TRYING TO ASK THEM TO COME IN AT EIGHT THE NEXT DAY, WE'RE TRYING TO BE OKAY.
AND UH, THANK YOU HAS BEEN
THANK WITH THAT WE MOVE TO OUR CONCENTRATING TIME, WE'RE PULLING BACK NUMBER FIVE.
DO I HAVE A MOTION? SECOND SAYS ANY, ANY DISCUSSIONS ON ANY OF THE ITEMS THAT ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
UH, LET'S TALK, UH, NUMBER FIVE, DISCOVERY,
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TRADE GATEWAY, PROMOTION.UH, REASON I LIKE THIS WITH DISCUSSION AND I'LL MAKE THIS PERFECTLY CLEAR.
AND, AND, AND MY QUESTION IS, WHY, WHY, WHY? YOU KNOW, I'M NOT, UH, I'M LOOKING AT THE SAME GROUP.
YOU HAD PROBLEM WITH THE
WHY DO WE KEEP BENDING OVER? THAT'S, I DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT.
MR. JENKINS? YEAH, I I'M NOT CHRIS YOU HAVE THE DATE ON THE YEAH, I'M PRESS AL AND CARDBOARD MEMBER SLAUGHTER.
UM, THE MAIN GROUP WAS A LITTLE BIT ON THIS CONTRACT.
UM, WE HAVE DONE DUE DILIGENCE ON THIS.
THEY HAVE THE, UM, CREDENTIALS TO DO THIS PROJECT.
THE ONE THAT THEY ARE COMPLETING ON 30 STRAND TRAIL RIGHT NOW.
UM, THE PROJECT, THE SILVER DISCOVERY TRAIL IS BASICALLY ALONG THE ROAD.
IT'S A VERY COMPLICATED PROJECT, VERY SIMILAR ONE
AND WHEN THE PROJECT IS LOCATED, WE DON'T HAVE OTHER THAN TO TAKE A LITTLE BIDDER AS LONG AS THEY QUALIFICATIONS WHICH MAIN GROUP HAS ON THIS PROJECT.
ISSA, YOU KNOW, I'M A BIG FAN OF YOURS BECAUSE WHAT YOU'RE DOING, BUT I THINK THIS IS WHAT WAS SAYING EARLIER ABOUT, UH, MY EXTENDED COLLEAGUES, MR. CONNOR AND HIS
DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M SAYING? YEAH, YEAH.
WHEN I'M LOOKING AT SOMEONE LIKE ME THAT YOU'VE HAD PROBLEMS WITH BEFORE AND I SEE A CONTRACT COME UP AND ONE OF MY MAIN ISSUES WAS IF THEY WERE NOT COMPLYING WITH MINORITY PARTICIPATION, BUT IF I HAD KNOWN THAT THEY'RE COMPLYING AND DOING THE RIGHT THING, UH, THIS WOULD'VE NEVER CAME UP ON MY ON, ON MY POINT OF VIEW.
SO I'VE GOT, YOU KNOW, IF THEY'VE COMPLIED AND, AND, AND YOU KNOW, HERE WE GO TO THE LOWEST BIDDER, WE'VE HAD PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN LOWEST BIDDERS AND THEY DIDN'T THE CONTRACT.
I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S A QUESTION FOR ME, BUT I CAN JUST SAY I'M, I'M MAKING A STATEMENT.
YOU KNOW, LIKE I SAID, YOU KNOW, ONCE YOU, YOU KNOW, A DUCK IS A DUCK IS A DUCK.
ONCE YOU SHOW ME YOUR TRUE COLORS, I'M NOT GONNA MOVE FROM THAT.
YOU KNOW, UH, WHEN WE HAD THIS PROBLEM WITH THIS GROUP BEFORE AND THEY BLATANTLY SAID, YOU KNOW, PUSHING AGAINST THE MINORITY PARTICIPATION AND I KEEP SEEING, WE KEEP AWARDING THESE PEOPLE CONTRACT THAT THE CONTRACT, THAT'S WHERE I HAVE A PROBLEM COME BACK AND KILL ME.
THAT HEY, UH, WE HAD TO GO WITH THE LOWEST PERIOD THEY COMPLY TO MINORITY PARTICIPATION.
UH, I DON'T KNOW THIS UNTIL I GET THIS IN FRONT OF ME.
THAT'S WHY, YOU KNOW, I'M, I'M ABRUPTLY SAYING, HEY, PULL THIS FOR DISCUSSION NOW.
CHRIS, THANKS TO YOU, YOU'VE ANSWERED MY QUESTIONS.
I JUST WANNA JUST ONCE AGAIN REDIRECT TO THE BOARD.
WE, WE FOLLOW THE CITY'S PROCESS AS IT RELATES TO NWB
AND THERE ARE SOME CHANGES THEY'RE GONNA BE MAKING.
Y'ALL GONNA BE HERE PRETTY SOON RELATES TO THE FAITH EFFORT.
DO WE HAVE DATA? HOW MANY CONTRACTS WE HAVE GIVEN TO
SO OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS, AND THIS INFORMATION IS IN YOUR AGENDA INFORMATION SHEET.
UM, BASICALLY THEY'VE HAD TWO PROJECTS COMPLETED WITH US CHANGE ORDER THAT POINT OF TIME WHEN THEY PAID, SO THEY WERE THE LOWEST BIDDER WHO WAS THE NEXT OR THE HIGHEST BIDDER.
AND HAVING CHANGE ORDER RESPIRATOR DOESN'T
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MATTER.WE, THE REASON I'M SAYING IT, WE DISCUSS THIS PAIN GROUP ALL THE TIME.
WE RAISE OVER ISSUES AND THEN PROCUREMENT AGAIN KEEPS ON GIVING THEM THEN WHAT'S USE OF THIS BOAT.
THEY'LL COME WITH THE CHANGE ORDER AFTER A FEW WEEKS AND THEN WE'LL SAY, OH, WE ARE SCREWING THE TRAILS AND WE ARE, WE ARE LETTING SOUTH DALLAS.
THEN IT BECOMES A SOUTH AND NORTH DALLAS ISSUE BECAUSE THE TRAIL IS IN CERTAIN PART OF IT.
YEAH, THIS IS, THIS IS HAPPENS EVERY TIME.
YEAH, IT IS BEEN ADDRESSED RIGHT NOW IS GOOD.
UH, CHRIS AND HER TEAM HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH THE
UH, AND EVEN I WOULD SAY WHEN WE TALKED TO PROCUREMENT NOW, UH, IT'S LIKE, YOU KNOW, AND YOU ALL HAVE BROUGHT IT UP AS WELL, HEY, YOU KNOW, WE KEEP SEEING THE FIRST, THE SECOND OR THIRD BIDDER AND FIRST ONE COME IN IS THE LOWEST BIDDER, BUT THEN THERE'S FIVE CHANGE ORDERS THAT THE SECOND LOWEST BID PROBABLY WOULD'VE GOT AWARDED.
AND SO THROUGH THE CHANGE ORDER POLICY THAT, THAT THE PLANNING DESIGN COMMITTEE IS, IS, UH, REVIEWING RIGHT NOW, I THINK IT IS GOING TO HELP.
UH, BUT I'M STILL GONNA SAY WE'RE STILL GONNA BE LIMITED WHEN IT COMES TO STATE LAW AND OTHER THINGS THAT ALLOW HOW THE PROCUREMENT PROCESS STILL WORK.
BUT IT'S GOING TO ALLOW US TO AT LEAST HAVE A POLICY THAT GAS US AND GIVE US, UH, WHAT I, WHAT I LIKE IS IN THIS POLICY WITHOUT GOING THROUGH IT IS REMEMBER MY BIGGEST CONCERN IS LET'S QUIT ALLOWING JUST ABOUT TO CHANGE ORDER.
MAYBE WE NEED TO ALLOW WHAT WE CALL A CONTINGENCY AND YOU'RE CAPTIVE THAT AND OTHER DAY, UNLESS IT MEETS THESE FOUR OR FIVE CRITERIA, WE, AND ALWAYS GIVE THE EXAMPLE, WE HAVE OLD REC CENTERS OR WE, AND WE NOW GONNA ADD ONTO A REC CENTER.
AND THEN WE, WE DIG A HERE AND THE PLAN SHOW 10 FEET WHEN THEY GET IN THERE, THEY HAD TO GO DOWN 20 FEET.
THAT'S A LEGITIMATE CHANGE ORDER.
AND WE'RE BEING, WE ARE CRACKING DOWN ON OUR CONSULTANTS.
YOU CAME UP WITH THESE PLANS, WE'RE GONNA START HOLDING UP BECAUSE, OR WE AIN'T GONNA BE UTILIZING, WHAT WERE YOU, WE GOING TO GO AFTER YOU FINANCIALLY.
SO I'M NOT TRYING TO GO OUT AND ORDER
WE, WE'VE, FOR EIGHT MONTHS NOW, SIX MONTHS WE'VE BEEN MEETING ON THIS AND WE'VE BEEN TALKING SIGNIFICANTLY ABOUT THIS, SPECIFICALLY ABOUT WHAT OTHER CITIES ARE DOING AND INCENTIVES.
I THINK THE BIGGEST THING THAT WE'RE CONCERNED ABOUT IS, IS THE PEOPLE THAT WE DO BUSINESS WITH HOLDING A SAUSAGE, LIKE WE'VE HEARD EXACTLY LIKE THE CHANGE ORDERS.
WELL, IF YOU DON'T DO THE CHANGE ORDER, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO REBID THE PROCESS AND YOU'RE GONNA SPEND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
SO WHAT, WHAT DO WE HAVE IN PLACE TO DO THAT? JUST WITHIN STATE LAW AND PROCUREMENT? SO THAT'S COMING TO THE PARK BOARD IN THE NEXT TWO MONTHS.
SO WE'VE BEEN WORKING A LOT OF THAT.
YEAH, THAT'S EXACTLY MR. UH, CARTER.
MY POINT WAS, BECAUSE THEN WE START GIVING, YOU KNOW, S PROGRESS AND THE SYSTEM WILL FALL THROUGH ANY
UM, IS IT TRUE THAT THEY WERE LOWEST BIDDER BY JUST $20,000? THAT THAT IS CORRECT.
SO INTERESTINGLY, UM, WHEN IT COMES TO PROCUREMENT AND THEY SEEM TO BE VERY AUTONOMOUS, SORT OF UNQUESTIONABLE, I NOTICED OVER THE YEARS THAT THAT DIFFERENT CONTRACTS HAVE DIFFERENT CRITERIA.
LOWEST BIDDER, WE'LL OFTEN SEE THAT WE WILL COME IN WITH LOWEST RESPONSIBLE BIDDER IS ADDED.
AND THEN WE'LL ALSO HAVE SOMETIMES LOWEST RESPONSIBLE AND RESPONSIVE BIDDER.
AND SO THESE CRITERIA SEEM TO CHANGE BASED ON SOMEONE IN PROCUREMENT DECIDING.
AND THEN I HAVE AS A CITIZEN START TO ASK THE QUESTION, WHAT'S GOING ON BEHIND THE SCENES? ARE THEY, ARE THEY GAMING THE SYSTEM WITH THESE CRITERIA OR WHAT? SO THAT'S ONE QUESTION ABOUT THE PROCESS.
I'M GLAD IT'S BEING WORKED ON, ESPECIALLY, ESPECIALLY WITH $20,000 DIFFERENCES.
SECONDLY, ABOUT THE FAME GROUP, UH, THIS IS KIND OF A LEGAL QUESTION, BUT CAN, TO WHAT DEGREE CAN WE TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION PAST HISTORY, FOR EXAMPLE, WITH THIS GROUP AT THE BACHMAN AQUATIC CENTER, WE HAD LOTS OF PROBLEMS WITH THEM AS HAD THEY TREATED OUR TREES.
IN FACT, AT ONE POINT I THINK DIRECTOR JENKINS HAD TO THREATEN TO CANCEL IT OR STOP IT DID PUT A STOP ON 'CAUSE THEY WEREN'T DOING WHAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO DO.
THESE THINGS CAME UP ON HIGH LINE TOO.
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WE GOT LOTS OF CITIZEN RESIDENT COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE WAY TREES WERE BEING TREATED.AND ON THIS PROJECT, DISCOVERY GATEWAY SA BRIDGE, THERE ARE NO TREES.
HAD THERE BEEN TREES? I, MY QUESTION, I GUESS IT'S FOR MAYBE THE CITY ATTORNEY.
TO WHAT EXTENT WOULD WE BE ABLE TO RAISE AN ISSUE LIKE THAT? 'CAUSE I WOULD, IF THERE WERE TREES ON THIS, I WOULD ASK, OKAY, PROCUREMENT HAS THEIR RULES, BUT WHERE DO WE AS CITIZENS, MEMBERS OF THIS BOARD APPOINTED BY OUR ELECTED OFFICIAL HAVE A RIGHT TO QUESTION THE GRANTING OF A CONTRACT ON THESE CRITERIA? NOT STRICTLY ON WHAT THE PROCUREMENT DEPARTMENT SAYS.
'CAUSE I DON'T WANT ANY, ANYBODY ON THE LISTENERS TO THINK THAT, UH, ALL THIS LIES ON PROCUREMENT BECAUSE WHEN IT COMES TO DIFFERENT SELECTIONS ON HOW WE DECIDE TO BID SOMETHING OUT, I'M GONNA GIVE YOU A GOOD EXAMPLE.
LET'S TAKE THE CMAR, WHICH WE NEVER HAVE DONE HERE, AND WE BID IT OUT TO COTTON BALL.
'CAUSE THAT WAS A BIG DOLLAR HIGHER.
WHERE CMAR IS, WHAT WE HAVE DISCOVERED GIVES YOU A LOT MORE CONTROL WHEN IT COMES TO HOLDING THE CONTRACT ACCOUNTABLE FOR NOT OVERRUNNING.
WHAT'S THE C UH, CMAR CONSTRUCTION MANAGER AT RISK AND DIFFERENT EXACTLY.
WHICH THEY'RE, ONCE THEY SAY THAT'S THEIR BID, THEY BEAR ALL THE COSTS.
IF YOU SAY THAT'S THE PRICE, THAT'S THE PRICE AND THEY CAN GO.
BUT YOU CAN DO THOSE ON THOSE BIGGER TYPE PROJECTS.
MAYBE WE ARE LOOKING AT EVEN 5 MILLION AND UP.
'CAUSE TO ME THAT'S A BETTER METHODS TO CONTROL COSTS.
AND THEN THE, THE, THE, WHAT DO YOU CALL IT, AS A PERSON WHO IS THE, WHERE THEY'RE BARE ALL THE COST, THEY GIVE YOU ALL THE PRICING.
SO THAT METHOD WORKS, AND WE'RE SEEING IT FIRSTHAND HOW IT IS SAVING TAXPAYERS,
BUT YOU CAN'T APPLY THAT TO SOME OF THESE LITTLE SMALLER PROJECTS LIKE, UH, HORT TYPE PROJECTS.
AND SO WHAT WE'RE STARTING TO LOOK AT IS WHAT IS THE BEST METHOD TO START CONTROLLING PRICE.
LIKE Y'ALL MENTIONED ME, YOU HEARD ME MENTIONED BEFORE, CAN WE GET BETTER TYPE OF CONTROLLING PRICING EVEN WITH PLAYGROUNDS? BECAUSE MAYBE WE NEED TO JUST BE USING A GC VERSUS GOING OUT GETTING A CONSULTANT AND DOING ALL THESE OTHER THINGS WHEN SOME PROJECTS MAKE MORE SENSE FOR GC.
I JUST SAID WE ARE LOOKING AT EVERYTHING NOW TO GET BETTER PRICING.
BUT I DON'T WANT TO THINK THAT ALL THE, THE RESPONSIBILITIES ON PROCUREMENT, NO.
STATE LAW HAS A PIECE, BUT WE'RE GONNA KEEP WORKING WITH THIS BOARD TO MAKE SURE WE ARE GETTING THE BEST PRICING AND CONTROLLING THE PRICE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
AND, UM, TO MY QUESTION ABOUT THE DEGREE TO WHICH WE HAVE STANDING THAT WE'RE A PIECE, THE BOARD, WHAT, WHAT DEGREE DO WE HAVE STANDING IN ISSUES LIKE WHAT I SAID ABOUT A CONTRACTOR WHO JUST FOR EXAMPLE, HAS REALLY BAD RECORD DEALING WITH TREES AND TO BRING THAT INTO ACCOUNT? CHRISTINE MAY GREAT QUESTION, MR. DING.
UM, AGAIN, I I'M GONNA ECHO WITH, UM, DR.
UM, AND BY THE WAY, NUMBER ONE, IT'S THE LOWEST RESPONSIBLE BIDDER THAT IS THE CORRECT STANDARD AND VERBIAGE THAT SHOULD ALWAYS BE IN OUR AI RESOLUTIONS.
UM, AND THAT IS WHEN YOU JUST LOOK AT ADVICE AND, UM,
BUT IT JUST ALSO DEPENDS ON, UM, LIKE DIRECTOR CHICKEN SAID, IF THEY'RE USING A
BUT YOU ARE, WHEN THE SPECS GO UP, YOU ARE LOOKING AT, UM, THE NET CO SPECS, WHICH PART OF THE NET COST DOES LOOK INTO THE HISTORY OF MAYBE AT THE POTENTIAL BIDDERS.
BUT AGAIN, UM, IT, IT JUST DEPENDS ON THE STANDARDS, ON THE PROCUREMENT STANDARDS THAT THE DEPARTMENT WANTS TO USE.
UM, FIRST, YOU KNOW, SUCH AS CMAR DESIGN, BUILD RCSB OR
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LOWEST RESPONSIBLE, UM, WE HAVE TO LOOK AT CASE BY CASE WHEN YOUR QUESTION ABOUT LOOKING AT SOMEONE'S REPUTATION OR HISTORY AND REALLY BOTTOM LINE SHOULD BE IN THE SPECS THAT GOES OUT FOR THAT SPECIFIC PROJECT.AND I HAVE NOT, OUR OFFICE WILL WORK WITH MS. TURNER ON THE ENTIRE CHANGE ORDER POLICY THAT SHE'S PRESENTED TO PLANNING AND DESIGN.
AND WE WILL WORK IN TANDEM WHEN THIS COMES BACK TO THE BOARD.
SO EVERYTHING YOU'VE DESCRIBED IS WHAT HAPPENS BEFORE IT COMES TO US.
MY QUESTION IS ABOUT OUR STANDING, THAT IF YOU'VE DONE ALL OF WHAT YOU SAY, AND YET WE AS CITIZENS AND REPRESENTATIVES APPOINTED BY OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS HAVE ISSUES THAT AREN'T IN YOUR STANDARD.
FOR EXAMPLE, THE KIND I MENTIONED, WHAT STANDING DO WE HAVE TO, TO MAKE AN OBJECTION? UH, AND IF IT YOU NEED TO CHECK IT OUT OR WHATEVER, COME BACK TO ME.
BUT I THINK IT'S A FAIR QUESTION AND I'M DEAL FIND IT JUST HAS TO DO WITH THE BOARD'S, THE BOARD'S ABILITY TO, OR NOT.
IT IS JUST A FAIR QUESTION, BUT I DO BELIEVE IT'S A LEGAL QUESTION.
WE BRING BACK, YOU KNOW, WE KIND OF BRING BACK ALL THOSE PROCUREMENT COMES TO CONSTRUCTION
BUT EVERYTHING YOU'RE SAYING, LIKE, YOU KNOW, IF WE HAVE A PARTICULAR CONTRACTOR THAT WE CAN ALWAYS HAVE PROBLEM WITH, THAT CAN BE WORKED INTO THIS.
MS. LANNER MENTIONED INTO OUR EVALUATION PROCESS THAT CAN, AND THAT'S SOME OF THE THINGS WE'RE, ONCE AGAIN, WE'RE TRYING TO REVAMP SOME THINGS AROUND HERE AND CHANGE OUR PROCESSES TO ALLOW FOR THAT ADDITIONAL SCRUTINY.
JUST SO YOU KNOW, WE ARE NO, I I'M, I'M TRYING TO GET AS TO AS MUCH AS I CAN AS FAR AS CHANGING DIFFERENT POLICIES, PROCESSES, AND I, WE WE'RE MAKING, BUT THIS ONE SURE.
YOU WORKING THROUGH THE PLANNING AND DESIGN COMMITTEE, THAT'S ANOTHER THING YOU WANT THEM TO PUT A FOCUS ON.
WE'LL MAKE SURE DAN IS PART OF THAT PROCESS.
WELL, WITH MY LAST NINE SECONDS, I'D JUST LIKE TO THANK MR. CONNOR AND HIS COMMITTEE AND THE STAFF FOR THIS HARD WORK.
'CAUSE IT'S GONNA MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE.
UH, I GUESS IT GOES BACK TO MR. DICKEY'S QUESTION ABOUT THE, WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT MINORITY CONTRACTS OR MINORITY GETTING SOME OF THE CONTRACTS, WE, WE STILL FILLING OUT THAT FORM THAT SAYS, UH, YOU, YOU MADE YOUR BEST EFFORT AND SUPPOSEDLY THEY PUT A, A VENDOR ON THERE AND ALL THAT.
MY, MY QUESTION IS, HOW, WHAT ARE WE DOING TO FOLLOW UP ON IF WHEN THEY SIGNED THAT LETTER, THAT THAT SHEET SAYING THEY DID THEIR BEST EFFORT? AND I KNOW IT'S NOT PARTLY ANYBODY IN THE ROOM'S JOB TO DO THAT, BUT CAN WE CHALLENGE THE DEPARTMENT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW, BUT DO THE CHECK AND SEE IF THEY ACTUALLY WENT AND KNOCKED ON THOSE DOORS AND TRY TO GET FROM MINORITIES, CONTRACTORS, SUBCONTRACTING, STUFF LIKE THAT.
SO THAT'S WHY I MENTIONED EARLIER THERE'S SOME CHANGES COMING THAT IS IN PROCUREMENT AREA.
I MEAN, 'CAUSE NOW THEY DO HAVE THE, THE, UH, THOSE TWO DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS AT ONE TIME THEN THEY'VE BEEN MERGED.
AS FAR AS THE MWBE AND THEN PROCUREMENT.
SO I, I KNOW I'VE ALREADY SPOKEN WITH THE DIRECTOR.
I KNOW THERE'S SOMETHING COMING HERE ADDRESSING FIRST, RIGHT? I MEAN, WHAT IS IT AGAIN? A BEST FAITH MEMBER? YEAH, BECAUSE I DON'T THINK THERE'S, THERE'S ENOUGH PHONE CALLS BEING FOLLOWED UP AFTER THEY FILL OUT THOSE FORMS. MY, IF MY DEAL THAT WAS ALL CONTRACT, NOT JUST THIS PARTICULAR ONE, JUST GENERAL ALL CONTRACTS.
36 MS. ELL, BECAUSE WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO ANSWER THE QUESTION ALSO.
MR. MS. ELL, I THANK YOU SO MUCH.
UM, I, I WASN'T ON THE AUGUST 1ST, UH, MEETING AND SO I'M ACTUALLY REALLY SH AND BEAR WITH ME BECAUSE IT'S BEEN SUMMER AND I'M ACTUALLY SHOCKED TO SEE THE FEIN GROUP COME BACK TO US.
UM, THEY'RE NOTORIOUS FOR NOT STAYING ON SCHEDULE.
UM, AND IT'S REALLY KIND OF DISHEARTENING TO SEE THAT WE ARE HERE WITH THIS CONTRACT WITH THEM AND, AND HOW WE REALLY ARE IN THE PLANNING AND DESIGN, YOU KNOW, COMMITTEE TRYING TO WORK ON BEING DILIGENT ON, ON HAVING TO, UH, WITH WORK ORDER CHANGES AND REALLY HELP WITH THE PROCESS WITH STAFF BE MORE COHESIVE.
UM, SO TO REALLY BEING DILIGENT ON, ON MANAGING THESE, UM, TYPE OF VENDORS AND CONTRACTORS.
CHRIS, MY QUESTION TO YOU IS WHO ON STAFF IS GOING TO MANAGE THIS CONTRACT AND THIS VENDOR AND STAY ON TOP OF THEM? UM, THAT WE DO NOT HAVE TO HAVE THESE CONVERSATIONS OVER AND OVER, THAT THEY DON'T STAY ON SCHEDULE, THAT THEY'RE OVER BUDGET.
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UM, SO IF YOU CAN ANSWER THAT, PLEASE.LET ME ASK THE FIRST PART THERE BECAUSE I WANT TO CLEAR UP SOMETHING OF THE FAME GROUP AND IT'S, IT'S A DOCUMENT I PROVIDED TO THE BOARD ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO WHEN THIS KEPT COMING UP ABOUT FAME GROUP DIDN'T FINISH THOSE ACQUIRED FACILITIES ON TIME.
AND I, I PROVIDED DATA, WHICH IT WASN'T TRUE.
THEY MET THE SCHEDULE OF THE CONTRACT THEY SIGNED.
IT WAS ONLY ONE POOL THAT THEY DID NOT MEET THE SCHEDULE.
AND I PROVIDED THAT DATA TO EVERYBODY AND I I, CHRIS SENT IT BACK OUT AGAIN BECAUSE I I, I DON'T WANT SOMEONE'S REPUTATION TO BE OUT THERE WITH SOME FALSE INFORMATION.
BUT WHAT STAFF DIDN'T DO BACK THEN WAS TO TELL YOU THERE'S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE SCHEDULE, WHAT STAFF TOLD YOU VERSUS THE SCHEDULE THAT THEY AGREED UPON WHEN THEY SIGNED THE CONTRACT.
THAT'S THE SCHEDULE THAT THEY ARE LEGALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR.
JOHN, HOW ABOUT THE 11 WORK ORDER CHANGES THAT WE HAVE IN THE PAST WITH THEM? YEAH.
AND AND ONCE AGAIN, AS WE'RE GOING THROUGH LOOKING AT DUE DILIGENCE ON ALL OUR CONTRACTORS NOW YEAH, WE'RE DISCOVERING THERE'S A LOT OF CHANGE ORDER.
AND THAT'S WHY WE ARE CHANGING THAT WHOLE PROCESS NOW THROUGH THE BOARD.
BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, LIKE I SAID, I'M NOT A, I'M NOT A CONSTRUCTION PERSON, BUT IF I'VE BEEN DOING BUSINESS WITH THE CITY ALL THESE YEARS, I THINK I'M KIND OF FIGURE OUT HOW TO, 'CAUSE I KNOW THE SYSTEM.
AND SO WHAT WE GOTTA DO NOW, BECAUSE WE NEED TO TIGHTEN UP FOLKS WHO KNOW HOW TO, HOW TO WORK THE SYSTEM.
'CAUSE I CAN'T ACCUSE ANYBODY.
IF I REMEMBER, IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, 11 WORK ORDER CHANGES WERE NOT WITHIN LIKE FIVE OR 10 YEARS.
11 WORK ORDER CHANGES WERE IN THE PAST LIKE THREE YEARS OR SO, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN.
YEAH, I'M, 'CAUSE I DON'T HAVE THE DETAILS OF WHAT THOSE CHANGE ROLES WERE.
UH, UH, BUT I KNOW WE, OH, THIS LAST TWO, TWO YEARS WE HAVE TIGHTENED UP ON SCRUTINIZING THESE CHANGE ORDERS WE HAVE BECAUSE, WELL, I GET IT, THE COLLECTIVE BOARD WE ARE, BUT I AM STILL ASKING CHRIS, WHO ON HER STAFF IS GOING TO MANAGE THIS VENDOR CONTRACT SO THAT WE DO NOT HAVE THESE CONVERSATIONS OVER AND OVER ABOUT THE SAME VENDOR DOING WORK ORDER CHANGES.
WELL, I'D LIKE TO ADDRESS A COUPLE OF THINGS.
FIRST THING I'D LIKE TO ADDRESS IS, AS WE TALKED ABOUT PLANNING ASSIGNMENT COMMITTEE, THERE ARE MANY REASONS FOR CHANGE ORDERS.
AND IT COULD BE THE FACT THAT THE OWNER BEING THE CITY REQUEST JUDICIAL SCOPE TO BE ADDED THE PROJECT.
IT COULD BE THAT THERE WERE MATERIAL DELAYS.
IT COULD BE A LOT OF THINGS THAT WERE OUTTA
DON'T HAVE THE SPECIFIC DATA IN FRONT OF ME RIGHT NOW REGARDING THESE 11 CHANGE ORDERS FROM THE BAIN GROUP.
UM, WE HAVE PROVIDED INFORMATION TO THE PLANNING ASSIGNED COMMITTEE ON THE CHANGE ORDERS OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS.
SO WE CAN GO BACK AND REVISIT THAT INFORMATION IF WE NEED TO.
BUT TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, MARK, MEMBER DEL UH, MR. JOHN REYNOLDS AS PROJECT MANAGER ON THIS PROJECT, AND YOU'LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR KEEPING THE MAIN GROUP ON WRAPPED AND KEEPING THIS PROJECT MOVING FORWARD.
UM, CAN I, CAN I ASK CHRISTINE TO COME BACK OUT? GOOD MORNING, MR. CONMAN.
SO BACK TO THE CHANGE ORDER PROCESS.
I THINK WE'RE WAITING BY OUR, OUR PLANNING DESIGN MEETING THIS MORNING ATTORNEY'S OFFICE TO GET BACK TO US ON RULES, REGULATIONS.
CHRIS SAYS WE'RE ASKING FOR, SO AS THE REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, CAN I ASK YOU TO ASK WHOEVER OVER THERE WE NEED WHETHER TO GET THAT INFORMATION BACK AS SOON AS POSSIBLE? ABSOLUTELY.
UM, ONCE WE RECEIVE ALL THE INFORMATION FROM, UM, MR. TURNER'S GROUP, THEN I WILL MAKE SURE WE TALK TO OUR PROCUREMENT TEAM UP THERE AND WE CAN GO OVER IT.
BUT ONE THING I DO WANNA TALK ABOUT, AND I'M SURE YOU GUYS DISCUSS IT, I PLANNING AND DESIGN, I UNDERST STATE LAW WITH CONSTRUCTION CHANGE ORDERS, IT CANNOT EXCEED 25% OF THE ORIGINAL AMOUNT.
IF IT DOES EXCEED 25%, IT WILL HAVE TO BE REBID.
SO THERE'S A LIMIT TO THE NUMBER OF CHANGE ORDERS FOR CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS.
UNFORTUNATELY, THERE IS NO LIMIT FOR DESIGN AND ARCHITECT CONTRACTS, MEANING ARCHITECT CONTRACTS CAN
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HAVE 50 50 SUPPLEMENTS, WHICH DOES NOT HAPPEN TYPICALLY.UM, BUT WITH CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS UNDER STATE LAW, 2 52 20 5% IS THE LIMIT THAT IT CAN GO ABOVE THE ORIGINAL PRICE.
SO WHATEVER YOU GUYS VOTE ON, OR LOWEST RESPONSIBLE BID OR WHATEVER OTHER WAY YOU, THE DEPARTMENT BID THE CONTRACT NUMBER AND IT CAN ONLY GO 25%.
AND, AND WE'RE GONNA GET MORE INTO THIS BECAUSE THIS HAS BEEN PART OF OUR DISCUSSION IN THE PLANNING DESIGN COMMITTEE.
BUT YOU KNOW, YES, THE 25% IS, IS THERE, HOWEVER, IF YOU HAVE A $5 MILLION CONTRACT, 25% IS, IS A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER.
WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE TOTAL BID THAT HAPPENED, IF THERE WERE FOUR RESPONSIBLE BIDDERS AND WE CHOSE THE, THE LOWEST RESPONSIBLE BIDDER AND THERE WAS A 20 $30,000 DIFFERENCE AND THERE'S FOUR CHANGE ORDERS THAT EQUALED $400,000 ON A 10 $10 MILLION PROJECT, THAT'S LESS THAN 25%.
UM, AND WE HAD PRETTY SIGNIFICANT DISCUSSION TODAY ABOUT THE RESTRICTIONS WE WANTED TO PUT IN PLACE.
AND BASED ON THIS CONVERSATION, I'M, I'M MORE IN FAVOR OF PUTTING TIGHTER RESTRICTIONS.
WE, I THINK WE FORGET ABOUT SPECIFICS WHEN WE'RE IN MEETINGS, UM, WHERE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT GENERALITIES.
THIS MAKES ME WANT TO DO EVEN TIGHTER.
AND I THINK THERE WAS A QUESTION, CHRISTINE, SORRY ABOUT, ABOUT LEGALITY OF THE, THE TIGHTNESS OF THE RESTRICTIONS THAT WE WANT TO PUT IN PLACE VERSUS WHAT PROCUREMENT ASKED FOR THE CITY.
FOR INSTANCE, LIKE A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS CHANGE ORDER DOESN'T HAVE TO GO, DOESN'T HAVE TO BE APPROVED.
BUT WE WANT TO, WE WANT TO CHANGE THAT.
'CAUSE AGAIN, IF YOU HAVE A, YOU HAVE AN 800, RIGHT? RIGHT NOW IT'S A 20% HAS TO COME FOR A 10% HAS TO COME FOR APPROVAL OR ANYTHING OVER A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.
BUT IF YOU HAVE AN $800,000 JOB AND IT'S, AND YOU HAVE A 15% CHANGE ORDER, THAT'S LESS THAN A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.
SO DOES OUR ABILITY TO SET THOSE RATES AND THOSE STANDARDS SUPERSEDE WHAT THE CITY HAS SET SO THAT WE CAN, THEY KNOW WE DON'T, WE REJECT THOSE CHANGE ORDERS, BUT WE HAVE TO ABIDE.
I THINK THAT'S WHAT'S EXACTLY, AND THAT'S AN EXCELLENT QUESTION.
AND I WOULD LIKE TO, UM, AND, AND I WILL TALK TO MS. CARTER AFTER THIS PARK BOARD MEETING EVEN TODAY, BUT I THINK IT'S, UM, I THINK THAT'S AN EXCELLENT POINT BECAUSE WE NEED TO TALK CITYWIDE WITH THE PROCUREMENT ATTORNEYS IN OUR OFFICE AND FIGURE OUT IF, IF IT'S OKAY FOR THE PARKS DEPARTMENT, UM, TO HAVE THEIR OWN SPECIFIC CHANGE ORDER GUIDE.
I WOULD CALL IT GUIDELINES GUIDANCE.
UM, OH, IS THAT WHAT IT'S CALLED? UM, VERSUS, YOU KNOW, WHAT OTHER DEPARTMENTS ARE DOING BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY YOU'RE NOT THE ONLY DEPARTMENT OR SO MANY OTHER DEPARTMENTS ARE THE CITY.
AND I THINK AS LONG AS WE ARE WITHIN THE CONFINES OF STATE LAW AND CITY CODE, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE COULD FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH.
BUT AGAIN, I WOULD LIKE US TO, ONCE WE GET ALL THE INFORMATION AND WHAT OUR DEPARTMENT USUALLY GETS A SERVICE REQUEST, ONCE WE GET ALL THAT, THEN I WILL CONFER WITH OTHER PEOPLE IN OUR OFFICE AND THEN, UM, WE WOULD LIKE TO DO THAT BEFORE IT COMES TO THE PARKLAND POLL.
AND THEN, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, CHRIS, BUT THERE ARE OTHER CITIES, THE STATE HAS A MANDATE IN 25% AND THERE'S OTHER RULES WHERE STATE HAS, BUT THERE ARE OTHER CITIES IN, IN, IN THE STATE OF TEXAS THAT HAVE MORE RESTRICTIVE RULES THAN WHAT THE STATE HAS.
I THINK THAT'S WHAT YOU BRIEFED US ON TWO OR THREE MONTHS AGO.
I BELIEVE THAT IS CORRECT, SIR.
SO REALLY IT'S NOT IF WE STAY WITHIN THE STATE RULES.
CAN WE SAY WHICH WE'RE GONNA DO? EXACTLY.
IT'S THE CITY THAT WE'RE GOING.
AND THEN ANYBODY ELSE THAT HAS QUESTIONS, I KNOW MR. EY THIS IS SOMETHING YOU, YOU'RE, YOU'RE, YOU'RE YOU'RE VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT.
PLEASE CHRIS AND I AND ANYBODY ELSE THAT'S ON THE PLANNING AND DESIGN COMMITTEE COME AND TALK TO US.
LIKE I SAID, WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS FOR MONTHS.
UM, BUT TO MS TO MS. LAND'S POINT, LIKE I, I DON'T THINK WE'VE EVEN TALKED ABOUT THE ARCHITECTURE PART OF THIS, THAT THAT'S UNRESTRICTED IT.
SO LIKE TO UNDERSTAND HOW WE COULD RESTRICT EVEN RESTRICT THAT TO, TO, WE HAVE OVERSIGHT ON THAT.
AND BY THE WAY, ON THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEERING UNDER 84 5, THERE ARE SOME RULES ABOUT WHAT NEEDS TO BE APPROVED BY
I MEAN THERE'S, REMEMBER WITH EVERY AGREEMENT, THERE'S ALWAYS TWO THINGS.
YOU KNOW, THE APPROVAL PROCESS AND THE PROCUREMENT PROCESS OR THE BID PROCESS.
SO A LOT OF THINGS THAT CAN GO WITHOUT GOING TO COUNCIL UNDER 84 DASH FIVE HAS TO GO TO COUNCIL, UM, WITH ARCHITECT AND ENGINEERING.
BUT WE CAN GET INTO THAT LATER.
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QUESTION THAT WE HAD TODAY WAS WHAT THAT MR.WE COULD PROTECT THE DEPARTMENT AND, AND OUR FINANCIAL FIDUCIARY RESPONSIBILITY IS AS YOU KNOW, PART OF OUR MEMBERS.
YEAH, I, I MAKE A MOVE THAT WE MOVE ON 'CAUSE I DON'T WANT PEOPLE TO MISS THEIR CIRCUIT JOB, BUT, UH, SECOND OF ALL, I, I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED.
AND UH, WITH CHRIS, UH, SHE WENT ON VACATION, SHE CAME BACK JUST REALLY, REALLY KNOCKING IT OUTTA THE PARK.
I'D LIKE TO THANK YOU, GET ANY INFORMATION OUT BECAUSE OF YOU.
COUNCILMAN ATKINS IS NOT CHEW ME OUT ANYMORE, THIS DEPARTMENT.
UH, SO I I'M STILL HOLDING THE SAME THING.
UH, UH, I KNOW THIS NEEDS TO BE DONE.
WE ALWAYS GIVEN THAT POSITION WHERE THIS PROJECT HAS TO BE DONE AND THIS DRILL HAS TO BE DONE.
AND I'VE GOT NO PROBLEM WITH THAT.
'CAUSE SOME OF ALL COMMITTEES, BUT I WOULD NOT VOTE ON THIS.
SO LET'S MOVE ON AND GET, FINISH OUR AGENDA.
UM, MR. IS THE VOTING ITEM, RIGHT? YES.
IT AND MR. SLAUGHTER DID THE MOTION AND I SECONDED IT, RIGHT? YES.
DID YOU SAY YOU'RE NOT VOTING WHAT I SAID, I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY THAT I MADE A MOTION FOR DISCUSSION TO TAKE IT OFF.
YEAH, WHAT ARE YOU SAYING? YEAH, YOU'RE RIGHT.
I MEAN, A NEW MOTION WILL NEED MOTION.
I WOULD LIKE TO WITHDRAW MY SECOND AND CHANGE IT TO THE MOTION TO APPROVE.
SO I NEED A SECOND TO MR. VER, I SECOND IT.
SO WITH THAT, THEY'RE ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
A I'M SORRY, CAN YOU CLARIFY? WE'RE VOTING TO APPROVE.
CONSIDERATION THE KEY HAD HER HAND UP.
UH, WE HAVE INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION.
AND MR. BLAIR, UH, ARE YOU MAKING A MOTION ON THAT AND MAKING A MOTION AS ME SECOND? UH, UH YES.
UH, MR. BLAIR, UH, MR. PRESIDENT, THANK YOU.
UH, I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION ON THE KEITH TRAIL RENAMING, UH, THAT WE MOVE FROM A THREE YEAR AGREEMENT TO A FIVE YEAR AGREEMENT.
UH, I GOT THE OPPORTUNITY TO ACTUALLY SPEAK WITH MY COUNCIL MEMBER AND TO TALK WITH, UH, THE, THE COMPANY THAT'S BRINGING THIS TO US THROUGH WFAA.
UH, AND THE BOARD THAT THEY'RE WORKING WITH, THEY COM THEY REALLY CIRCUMVENTED OUR PROCESS.
UH, AND NORMALLY WE, WE WOULDN'T DO IT THIS WAY, BUT, UH, APPARENTLY AFTER TALKING TO EVERYBODY, THEY DID NOT CIRCUMVENT THE PROCESS OUTTA MALICE OR, YOU KNOW, INTENT.
IT JUST WAS SOMETHING THEY DIDN'T REALLY UNDERSTAND AND KNOW HOW TO MOVE THROUGH.
UH, BUT I DO THINK THIS IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO GET $75,000 FOR OUR PARKS AND TRAILS.
UM, SOMETHING THAT NOBODY ELSE WOULD PROBABLY GIVE US FOR A DEAL LIKE THIS.
UM, BUT I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY AT LEAST GET SOME EQUITABLE TERMS. SO I THINK MOVING THE, UH, THE ACTUAL, UH, TERM FROM THREE YEARS TO FIVE YEARS, UM, WOULD, WOULD ACTUALLY HELP, UH, ONE, GET SOME MONEY INTO THIS PARTICULAR COMMUNITY PORTRAYALS.
NOBODY ELSE WILL PROBABLY PAY US TO NAME, BUT I, I'D LIKE TO MAKE AN AMENDMENT TO CHANGE IT FROM THREE YEARS TO FIVE YEARS.
MR. CHAIR MOTION IS TO AMEND IT FROM THREE TO FIVE YEARS.
MR.
A LET'S HAVE IT, WE MOVE ON TO OUR BOND PROGRAM, UH, WORKSHOP, WHATEVER WE CALL BOY YOU GROUP
AND THE QUESTION THAT I WAS ASKED EARLIER ABOUT HOW WOULD CHRIS KEEP FOLKS ACCOUNTABLE TO MAKING SURE FOLKS ARE MOVING ALONG? UH, I CAN TELL YOU THROUGH THIS ACCOUNTABILITY DOCUMENT THAT YOU ALL GET TO SEE NOW.
SO WHAT WE'RE HERE TO TALK ABOUT TODAY IS
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THE WORK PLAN FOR THE FIRST YEAR OF THE 2021.SO WE WILL TALK ABOUT THE PURPOSE, THE BACKGROUND, THE INTENT OF THE WORK PLAN, THE WORK PLAN ELEMENTS, THE WORK PLAN, UPDATE, PROCEDURE AND QUESTIONS.
I'M GONNA TELL YOU, THIS IS GONNA LOOK VERY SIMILAR TO THE PRESENTATION YOU SAW A COUPLE WEEKS AGO ON ONE FIVE PLAN, UM,
SO OUR PURPOSE IS TO INTRODUCE THE 2024 BOND PROGRAM WORK PLAN, REVIEW THE INTENT OF THE WORK PLAN, REVIEW THE WORK PLAN ELEMENTS, REVIEW THE WORK PLAN, UPDATE PROCEDURE, AND THEN OPEN UP THE QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE.
SO IN THE BACKGROUND PARKS 2024 BOND PROGRAM HAS 185 PROJECTS IN TOTAL.
WE HAVE 73 PROJECTS PROGRAMMED IN THE FIRST YEAR OF THE PROGRAM.
AND THE REASON WE HAVE 73 PROJECTS PROGRAMMED IN THE FIRST YEAR IS BECAUSE A LOT OF THOSE PROJECTS ARE DESIGNED THAT ARE KICKING OFF FOR LATER YEARS IN THE PROGRAM.
SO IT LOOKS LIKE WE FRONT LOADED THE PROGRAM, BUT THE MAIN REASON FOR THAT IS WE HAVE A LOT OF
SO WE'RE KICKING THAT OFF TO SUPPLEMENTAL LATER YEARS IN THE PROGRAM.
SO THE INTENT OF THE 2024 BOND WORK PLAN, SIMILAR TO OUR ONGOING PROJECTS WORK PLAN IS SOMETHING WE'VE NEVER HAD BEFORE.
IT PROVIDES A SCHEDULE FOR THE FIRST YEAR, THE 2024 BOND PROGRAM.
WE HAVE SEPARATE SECTIONS FOR THE PLANNING AND DESIGN FOR VERTICAL, HORIZONTAL, AND THEN FACILITY SERVICES.
IT IS BASED ON CURRENT STAFF CAPACITY AND IT PROVIDES A SCHEDULE SHOWING FRONT TO THE OCCURRING IS PROVIDE WE PROVIDING THIS TO YOU FOR INFORMATION, PROVIDING IT TO YOU FOR VULNERABILITY, FOR FUTURE SCHEDULING, AND ALSO FOR ANY POTENTIAL REPROGRAMMING SO THAT YOU CAN SEE WHEN THINGS ARE MOVING FORWARD.
SO THAT IF YOU WANNA REPROGRAM SOMETHING, YOU CAN SEE WHEN THINGS ARE MOVING FORWARD AND WHEN YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO PROGRAMS. SO THE ELEMENTS OF THE WORK PLAN, AGAIN, IT PROVIDES A SCHEDULE FOR THE FIRST YEAR OF THE 2024 BOND PROGRAM.
WE HAVE VERTICAL HORIZONTAL AND THE FACILITY SERVICES, WE SHOW THE FUNDING TYPE CW IS CITYWIDE.
CDSF IS COUNCIL DISTRICT SPECIFIC FUNDS AND THOSE ARE THE FUNDS OF THE COUNCIL DISTRICTS USE THEIR MILLION DOLLAR ALLOCATION FOR.
AND THEN IF IT JUST HAS A NUMBER THAT'S THE BOND FUNDING THAT WAS WITHIN THAT DISTRICT.
WE SHOW THE FUNDING AMOUNT, WE SHOW PRE-DESIGN START AND END.
WHAT PRE-DESIGN IS, IS BASICALLY THE ADVERTISEMENT FOR THE DESIGN.
SO WE WANTED TO SHOW THAT TO YOU 'CAUSE THAT'S A LOT OF WHAT YOU'LL BE SEEING IN THE SPRING YEAR OF THE PROGRAM IS THAT ADVERTISEMENT FOR THE PRE-DESIGN.
AND THEN STARTING OF THE DESIGN, WE HAVE DESIGN START AND END, WE HAVE CONSTRUCTION START AND END.
SO HERE'S KIND OF AN EXAMPLE OF A WORK PLAN.
YOU DO HAVE A FULL VERSION OF THE WORK PLAN IN YOUR PRESENTATION, BUT I WANTED TO KIND OF PICK CERTAIN PARTS OF THIS OUT OF HERE TO SHOW THEM TO YOU AND BLOW UP AND EXPLAIN IT TO YOU.
SO THE WORK PLAN, AS I MENTIONED ON THE GIT CHART, WE HAVE A YELLOW PRE-DESIGNED PHASE, WHICH IS THE ADVERTISING AWARD IN THE CONTRACTING WE HAVE LIGHT BLUE FOR THE DESIGN PHASE AND THE BIDDING PHASE AND BLUE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION PHASE.
THE WAY THAT THE DATA IS ORGANIZED, OUR NUMBER, THE SECOND COLUMN IS THE GROUP V IS VERTICAL AT THIS FACILITIES AND H IS HORIZONTAL.
WE HAVE SOME THAT WE HAVEN'T NECESSARILY IDENTIFIED YET.
SO THERE MAY BE A FEW THAT STILL HAVE QUESTION MARKS.
SO IT HAS THE PROJECT MANAGER'S INITIALS.
WE HAVE THE PROJECT ID NUMBER, WE HAVE THE PROJECT NAME, WE HAVE THE COUNCIL DISTRICT, WE HAVE THE FUNDING TYPE AS I MENTIONED, CW CITYWIDE, CDSF IS COUNCIL DISTRICT SPECIFIC FUNDING.
AND THEN THE EXAMPLES I HAPPEN TO PICK HERE DON'T HAVE THE SPECIFIC COUNCIL DISTRICT, BUT IF YOU SEE LIKE THE NUMBER SIX THAT JUST HAPPENED TO BE THE COUNCIL DISTRICT THAT THE FUNDING WAS COMING FROM.
AND THEN WE HAVE THE FUNDING AMOUNT.
THE NEXT COLUMN IS THE YEAR OF THE BOND PROGRAM.
THIS WILL SHOW YEAR NUMBER ONE BECAUSE THIS IS THE FIRST YEAR OF THE PROGRAM, BUT AS WE MOVE FORWARD, WE WILL HAVE YEAR 2, 3, 4, AND FIVE.
YOU KNOW, COMING FORWARD THIS, AS WE GET CLOSER TO THOSE YEARS, WE HAVE THE PRE-DESIGN START DATE AND PRE DESIGN END DATE.
THE DESIGN START DATE AND DESIGN END DATE, AND OUR CONSTRUCTION START DATE AND CONSTRUCTION END DATE.
SO THAT KIND OF BLOWS UP WHAT YOU SEE UP TOP ON, ON THERE.
AND THEN THE NEXT PAGE SHOWS THE GANTER.
AND AS I MENTIONED, YELLOW IS THAT PRE-DESIGNED PHASE.
THE LIGHT BLUE IS THE DESIGN PHASE, THE MINI PHASE BLUE, THE CONSTRUCTION PHASE, AND THEN THE EXAMPLE WORK PLAN FOR THE FACILITIES.
IT SHOWS THE CONSTRUCTION THAT THEY'RE GONNA BE DOING.
AND AGAIN, THE FIRST COLUMN IS THE ITEM NUMBER.
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IN THERE 'CAUSE BASICALLY IT'S FACILITY MANAGEMENT OBVIOUSLY.BUT THEY HAVE THE PROJECT ID, THEY HAVE THE PROJECT NAME, THEY HAVE THE YEAR OF THE PROGRAM, THE COUNCIL DISTRICT, THE FUNDING TYPE, THE DOLLAR AMOUNT.
AND THEN THEY HAVE A START DATE AND THE END DATE FOR CONSTRUCTION.
AND THEN AGAIN ON THE NEXT PAGE, SIMILAR TO UH, THE OTHER PROJECTS, THEY DO HAVE THE GANTT CHART SHOWING, YOU KNOW, WHEN THEY'RE GONNA BE DOING THIS PROJECT.
SO AGAIN, SIMILAR TO OUR ONGOING WORK PROJECTS, THIS IS A LIVING AND BREATHING DOCUMENTS SNAPSHOT.
IN TIME THINGS ARE GOING TO CHANGE.
WE'RE GONNA DO OUR BEST TO STICK AS CLOSE TO THIS AS WE CAN.
AND WE, WE WILL DISTRIBUTE THIS ONE QUARTERLY TO
OUR ONGOING PROJECTS WE'RE GONNA DISTRIBUTE MONTHLY, BUT THIS WILL BE DISTRIBUTE QUARTERLY.
AND AS FAR AS CHANGING PROJECTS AND PROJECTS AND REQUESTS TO BE REPROGRAMMED, WE WILL HAVE TO SAY ON OUR PROJECT MANAGEMENT CAPACITY TO READDRESS IT TO SEE HOW THE REPROGRAM PROJECT CAN BE ADDRESSED.
AND IT MAY REQUIRE THAT AN ONGOING PROJECT BE PLACED ON HOLD TO COMPLETE THE REPROGRAM PROJECT.
WITH THAT, I'M OPEN TO ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY ASK.
I DO THANK YOU AGAIN, MR. PRESIDENT, RIGHT OUT THE GATES.
UM, THANK YOU FOR THIS LAY OF THE LAND.
I, I, I THINK IT'S VERY EASY TO UNDERSTAND.
AND, UH, AND AND WHAT A TIME, WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE HERE AS THE DALLAS PARK BOARD MEMBER.
SEE ALL THIS, I MEAN, COME ON, WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE.
UH, THE YEAR ONE DESIGN FOR SALE REC CENTER, LET'S CALL THAT REC CENTER X ALL
WALK ME THROUGH SOME OF THE FUN AND EXCITING EVENTS MILESTONES THAT THAT ENTAILS.
UH, IN THAT FIRST YEAR, IF, IF YOU COULD CERTAINLY WHAT WE'RE PLANNING FOR REC CENTERS IN PARTICULAR, AND WE'RE PLANNING TO PUT OUT A SEPARATE, UM, QUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS FOR THAT COMBINING PRETTY MUCH ALL OF THE REC CENTERS THAT NEED TO BE, UM, REDONE.
THE NEW REC CENTERS ONE 50 REMODELS.
SO WE'RE PLANNING ON PUTTING THAT ADVERTISEMENT OUT, I BELIEVE IN JANUARY.
AND BASICALLY WE WILL ASK FOR, UM, STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS FROM INTEREST.
AND ONCE WE GET THOSE STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS, WE WILL HAVE TO REVIEW THOSE AND EVALUATE MOST
WE MAY DO, UM, INTERVIEWS, WE'LL LEAVE THAT OPTION OPEN, BUT I WOULD ESTIMATE, AND I, I DON'T, BUT UM, I ESTIMATE THAT PROCESS IS PROBABLY ABOUT THREE MONTHS TO GET THAT DONE.
SO ONCE WE GET THAT DONE, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND AWARD THE CONTRACTS AND THEN MOVE FORWARD WHAT WE'RE PLANNING BECAUSE SOME OF THE, SOME OF THESE REC CENTERS ARE LATER IN THE PROGRAM FOR THEIR CONSTRUCTION.
WE'LL POINT TO LEAVE A CAVEAT AND THE DESIGN CONTRACT TO LEAVE IT OPEN TO COME BACK AND REEVALUATE THE OPINION OF PROBABLE COST AS WE GET CLOSER TO THE CONSTRUCTION ARM NEEDS TO ENSURE THAT WE STILL HAVE A GOOD COST ESTIMATE WHEN WE GET CLOSER TO CONSTRUCTION.
MY LAST QUESTION, AT WHAT STAGE DO THE COMMUNITY INPUT AND, AND AND SERIOUS CONVERSATIONS WITH, UH, YOU KNOW, THE FRIENDS OF
UM, AND I THINK WITH OL WE KIND OF ALREADY HAD THAT CONCEPT PLAN ACTUALLY BECAUSE WE DEVELOPED A IN HOUSE.
SO WE WILL WORK WITH THE CONSULTANT ONSET HELP INPUT, UH, ONCE WE GET 'EM ON BOARD STILL WITHIN THE FIRST YEAR, STILL WITHIN THE FIRST YEAR.
UM, RECENTLY WE SUBMITTED A COUNCIL OFFICE AND I SUBMITTED SOME SUGGESTED CHANGES TO THE SCHEDULING OF MOVING THE ANITA MARTINEZ OR THE JC ZARAGOZA SENIORS LISTING.
THOSE AREN'T REFLECTED, THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE, IS THAT RIGHT? THEY, THEY ARE NOT REFLECTED IN HERE YET.
DID YOU? BECAUSE AT THE TIME YOU HAD REQUESTED THAT WE HAD ALREADY SUBMITTED THE FINAL PLAN TO ON CONSTRUCTION OFFICE AND THE BUDGET OFFICE AND WE COULDN'T MAKE ANY MORE CHANGES.
WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO IS WORK WITH YOU ON HOW WE REPROGRAMMING MEMO RIGHT OUT OF THE GATE TO TRY AND MOVE SOME OF THOSE AROUND, UM, UM, TO ADDRESS THE PROJECTS THAT YOU WANNA GET IN THAT FIRST YEAR.
'CAUSE THAT'S, THOSE, A COUPLE OF THOSE ARE VERY, VERY, VERY BIG FOR THE COUNCIL.
THIS IS A VERY HELPFUL SUMMARY
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AND WE WILL KEEP US ON TRACK WITH ALL THESE EXCELLENT PROJECTS.FOLLOWING UP ON SOMETHING THAT MR. CREAMY ASKED, SIMILAR QUESTION, WE'VE GOT A LOT OF PLAYGROUNDS IN THIS, UH, BOND ALLOCATION, I THINK 40 PLUS.
SO CAN YOU WALK US THROUGH HOW IT'LL WORK FOR PLAYGROUNDS AND, 'CAUSE I KNOW THOSE ARE SMALLER COST ITEMS COMPARED TO SOME OF THE BIGGER PROJECTS.
SO HOW, HOW DO WE APPROACH THAT FOR PLAYGROUND? UM, AS, AS ACTUALLY DIRECTOR BEING CONVENTION, WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT, UM, SOME OF THE CHANGING OF THINGS AND THINGS LIKE THAT, WE ARE LOOKING AT PROBABLY HIRING ONE CONSULTANT TO DO MULTIPLE PLAYGROUNDS ON THE ONES THAT WE
A LOT OF THE PLAYGROUNDS ARE BEING BUILT BY FACILITY SERVICES.
SO YOU'LL SEE THAT FIRST YEAR PLAYGROUNDS AND THE FACILITY SERVICES WORK PLANNED, BUT WE WANT TO HAVE EFFICIENCIES ON HOW WE DESIGN THE PLAYGROUNDS.
SO WE DON'T WANNA JUST HAVE ONE OFF SIGNS ON THE PLAYGROUNDS.
SO WE WILL PUT OUT AGAIN, A STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS FOR THAT.
UM, WE WILL BE DOING A GENERAL STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS TO, UM, HAVE A GENERAL ON-CALL LIST.
AND ONCE WE GET THAT LIST WE'LL LIKELY PUT OUT THE PLAYGROUND ASSIGNED TO THE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS THAT WE HAVE ON THAT LIST.
AND THEN AGAIN, AWARD MULTIPLE PLAYGROUNDS TO ONE CONSULTANT.
AND THEN SOME OF THE PLAYGROUNDS WILL BE DONE BY FACILITY SERVICE IN-HOUSE.
SOME WILL BE AWARDED THROUGH CONTRACT TO OTHER VENDORS.
THANK YOU CHRIS, SO MUCH FOR THIS.
UM, REMIND ME THE PROCESS WHEN WE HAVE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, UM, WE HAVE A PRETTY ACTIVE, UM, ASSOCIATION OR FRIENDS GROUP WITH ONE OF MY ITEMS AND I'M JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT THEY WANNA BE PART OF THE DESIGN, THEY WANNA BE PART OF A LOT OF THE DIFFERENT PROCESS.
CAN YOU JUST WALK ME THROUGH A LITTLE BIT OF THAT, WHERE WE'RE AT OR HOW WE GO THROUGH THAT WITH THIS SO I KNOW HOW TO GIVE THEM THE PROPER FEEDBACK PLEASE.
PART BOARD MEMBER MONDELL, A LOT OF THAT IS WORKING WITH OUR DESIGN CONSULTANT AND THE PROJECT MANAGER.
ONCE WE GET THE DESIGN CONSULTANT ON BOARD, UM, WE CAN WORK WITH THE FRIENDS GROUP AND BRING THEM IN WITH THE DESIGN CONSULTANT, HAVE THOSE CONSULTATIONS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
WE DEFINITELY MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE INVOLVED IN FRIENDS GROUPS AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD IN THAT PROCESS.
SO IT'S KIND OF INDIVIDUALLY TAILORED ON EVERY SINGLE PROJECT TO BE VERY HONEST.
UM, SO IF WE HAVE AN ACTIVE FRIENDS GROUP, WE'LL DEFINITELY MAKE SURE THAT WE COORDINATE WITH YOU AND THAT FRIENDS GROUP ON THE PROJECT AND HAVE THEIR INPUT INCORPORATED INTO THE PROJECT.
IT'S, IT'S, AND SPECIFIC, IT'S SPECIFICALLY FOR THE, THE REC, THE REC CENTER.
AND I THINK THEY'VE ALSO REACHED OUT TO YOU, UM, ON MY EMAIL, BUT I JUST HADN'T BEEN THROUGH THIS BEFORE, SO I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE, UM, I UNDERSTOOD THE PROCESS AND THE, AND HOW IT WAS ALL GOING DOWN.
THAT, UH, THANK YOU AGAIN CHRIS.
IT IS, UH, 1145 ON AUGUST 15TH, 2024 PARK LITIGATION BOARD WILL NOW GO INTO A CLOSED SESSION, INTER SECTION 5 5 1 ON 0 7 2 OF THE TECHNICAL, HE'S NOT USING THE
AND AT TIME AT 12:15 PM ON AUGUST 15TH, 2024, WE HAVE RETURN TO VOTE ON SESSION, BUT FROM
WITH THAT, UH, ANY BUDGET UPDATES MS. BARRY? NO, NO BUDGET UPDATES.
ANY STAFF ANNOUNCEMENTS, UH, WITH THAT? ANY OR REPORTS PLEASE? MR. SLAUGHTER, HAPPY NEW YEAR.
I'D JUST LIKE TO MAKE YOU GUYS HOW TEXAS, SO SEE AT THE THIRD PRESENT, I JUST WANTED TO LET EVERYONE KNOW THAT YOU GO TODAY IS, UH, BRIAN NEW ALLEN'S LAST DAY AS THE EXECUTIVE, UH, CEO OF FAIR DEPART FIRST.
BUT JUST WANT US TO SUBMIT A NEWS, DONE A AMAZING SERVICE TO THIS CITY OVER DESERVES RECOGNITION THERE.
AND SUE ALLEN, IF YOU'RE WATCHING, I THANK YOU
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FOR YOUR SERVICE TO FAIR PARK AND CITY AND WE WISH YOU BEST IN YOUR EXTENDED, BUT WE KNOW YOU MR.ANY OTHER LIAISON THAT, THAT'S OLD? OKAY, WITH THAT, NO MORE REPORTS.
NEXT PARK BOARD MEETING IS AT 10:00 AM THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5TH, 2024.
IT IS, UH, 1216 AND WE PARK AND RECREATION REPORT INFORMED MEETING.