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[ CALL TO ORDER]
I CALL THIS, UM, MEETING OF THE RICHARDSON RICHARDSON, CITY COUNCIL TO ORDER AT 6:00 PM FIRST ON, ON OUR AGENDA, BE ITEMS ONE AND TWO.DORIAN WILL LEAD US IN THE INDICATION AND THE PLEDGE.
AS WE GATHER HERE TONIGHT, WE THANK YOU ALL FOR HAVING AN OPEN MIND.
AS WE CELEBRATE THE MONTH OF DIVERSITY AND PRIDE, I GIVE YOU ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL, STAFF, STAKEHOLDERS, AND PRESENTERS.
I ASK THAT YOU WOULD COVER US WITH A RAINBOW OF HOPE.
HOPE THAT DRAWS US TOGETHER TO WORK OUT OF OUR DIFFERENCES.
HOPE THAT HELPS US CELEBRATE TOGETHER AND CARE FOR ONE ANOTHER.
HOPE THAT RIDES LIKE A BANNER IN OUR LIVES AND WATCHES OVER US WHEREVER WE GO.
HOPE THAT OVERCOMES ADVERSITY AND GATHERS STRENGTH AND GIVES US VISION FOR OUR FUTURE.
AND HOPE, FILL WITH LOVE, FAITH, AND HOPE THAT BREATHES PEACE.
LET US VALUE AND APPRECIATE THE ONES WE ARE ABOUT TO MEET.
I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WIDGET STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL TEXAS.
I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE TEXAS ONE STATE UNDER GOD.
[3. MINUTES OF THE JUNE 3, 2024 COUNCIL MEETING]
TO ITEM THREE, LOOKING FOR A MOTION TO APPROVE THE JUNE 3RD, 2024.MAYOR, I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION OF TO APPROVE THOSE MINUTES AS PUBLISHED.
ALL IN FAVOR? SHOW OF HANDS, PLEASE PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.
ITEM NUMBER FOUR, PUBLIC COMMENTS ON AGENDA ITEMS AND VISITOR FORUM.
UM, I DO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE, UH, ONE PUBLIC COMMENT CARD CARD THAT WE RECEIVED IN ADVANCE OF THE 5:00 PM DEADLINE.
MR. JAMES ROBERSON, 57 12 MAIDSTONE DRIVE IN RICHARDSON.
IT WAS REGARDING, UH, FENCE REPAIRS.
UH, UH, MAYOR COUNCIL CITY STAFF HAS ALREADY MADE CONTACT, UH, WITH MR. ROBERSON, BUT I DID WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE HIS, UH, CARD AND LET HIM KNOW THAT, UH, YOU'VE BEEN PROVIDED A COPY OF THAT, UH, FOR REVIEW.
UM, I'M GONNA GO AHEAD AND READ THE INSTRUCTIONS FOR, UH, PUBLIC COMMENTS AT THIS TIME.
UH, DURING THIS PORTION OF THE COUNCIL MEETING, 30 MINUTES IS ALLOCATED FOR MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TO PROVIDE COMMENTS TO THE CITY COUNCIL ON AGENDA ITEMS. IF YOU ARE HERE TO SPEAK ON THE PUBLIC HEARING, PLEASE WAIT UNTIL THAT HEARING IS OPENED.
IF THERE IS TIME LEFT DURING THIS INITIAL 30 MINUTES ALLOCATED, THE REMAINING TIME WILL BE PROVIDED AS A VISITOR'S FORUM OPEN TO ANYONE WISHING TO ADDRESS THE CITY COUNCIL ON ANY TOPIC IN WHICH THE SUBJECT MATTER IS WITHIN THE JURISDICTION OF THE CITY.
IF THE FULL 30 MINUTES ALLOCATED FOR PUBLIC COMMENT IS REACHED, THEN SPEAKERS WHO HAVE SUBMITTED A PUBLIC COMMENT CARD MAY SPEAK AT THE VISITORS' FORUM SCHEDULED AT THE END OF THE MEETING.
ALL SPEAKERS SHOULD COMPLETE A PUBLIC COMMENT CARD AND SUBMITTED TO THE CITY SECRETARY BEFORE THE MEETING BEGINS.
SPEAKERS WILL BE CALLED IN AN ORDER THEY'RE RECEIVED.
WHEN YOUR NAME IS CALLED, PLEASE STEP TO THE PODIUM AND STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD.
ALL SPEAKERS WILL BE LIMITED TO A MAXIMUM OF FIVE MINUTES, AS INDICATED BY THE TIMER.
WHEN THE TIMER BEEPS, THE SPEAKER SHOULD CONCLUDE THEIR COMMENTS PROMPTLY.
SPEAKERS MUST NOT PHYSICALLY APPROACH MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL OR STAFF, AND SHOULD REMAIN AT THE PODIUM DURING THEIR COMMENTS.
SPEAKERS WITH HANDOUTS MUST PROVIDE THEM TO THE CITY SECRETARY FOR DISTRIBUTION.
SUBMITTING COMMENTS ON THE SAME TOPIC ARE ENCOURAGED TO REDUCE REPETITIVE REMARKS BY INDICATING THEIR COMMENTS HAVE ALREADY BEEN ADDRESSED.
OR BY SELECTING A REPRESENTATIVE SPEAKER THAT TAKES THIS OPEN MEETING ACT PROHIBITS THE CITY COUNCIL FROM DISCUSSING OR TAKING ACTION ON ITEMS THAT ARE NOT POSTED ON THE AGENDA.
CITY COUNCIL AND STAFF WILL NOT AFFIRM OR OPPOSE ANY SPEAKER COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS.
THE MAYOR OR CITY MANAGER MAY RESPOND WITH FACTS, A POLICY OR DIRECT CITY STAFF TO RESPOND TO THE SPEAKER.
AFTER THE MEETING, THE AUDIENCE IS ASKED TO REFRAIN FROM APPLAUDING OR OTHER EXPRESSIONS OF SUPPORT OR OPPOSITION.
THE COPY OF THE COUNCIL WILL RULES OF ORDER AND PROCEDURE, AND THESE GUIDELINES MAY BE FOUND ON THE CITY'S WEBSITE.
AT THIS TIME, I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO REMIND EVERYONE TO SILENCE THEIR CELL PHONE DURING THE MEETING.
I'LL, UH, TURN IT OVER TO THE CITY SECRETARY TO SEE IF ANY SPEAKERS ARE HERE.
[6. REVIEW AND DISCUSS THE TRANSPORTATION AND MOBILITY WORK PLAN]
TIME THEN WE'LL GO TO ITEM SIX TO REVIEW AND DISCUSS THE TRANSPORTATION AND MOBILITY WORK PLAN.UM, WE ARE GOING TO, UM, UM, HAVE, UH, THE, THIS BRIEFING IN ADVANCE OF THE DART BRIEFING TONIGHT AS, UH, UM, OUR SPEAKER AND, UH, HER TEAM ARE, UH, IN ROUTE.
UM, THIS IS A, UH, VERY IMPORTANT FIRST BRIEFING OF MANY, UH, DEEP DIVES THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE, UH, COMING IN THE, UH, IN THE FUTURE, UH, DURING THE SUMMERTIME, SO THAT WE CAN, UH, BEGIN TO PREPARE FOR OUR
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BUDGET DEVELOPMENT PROCESS AND THE BUDGET WORKSHOP THAT WE HAVE, UH, SCHEDULED FOR THE AUGUST TIMEFRAME.UM, MARK NELSON AND, UH, HIS TEAM ARE HERE TODAY, UH, TO PROVIDE, UH, A LOOK INTO OUR TRANSPORTATION AND MOBILITY, UH, CURRENT WORK PLAN AND THE INITIATIVES THAT WE'LL BE UNDERTAKING, UM, IN THE, UH, COMING YEAR AND HOW THOSE WILL, UH, FACTOR INTO OUR, UH, OUR BUDGET.
AND SO, UM, THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE PREPARATION AND, AND, UH, ADVANCE OF TONIGHT.
I'LL TURN IT OVER TO YOU FOR FURTHER BRIEFING.
THANK YOU, MR. MAGNER, UH, MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL, THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE HERE AND PRESENT, UH, THIS EVENING.
OUR, UM, WORK PLAN FOR THE DEPARTMENT.
HERE'S A QUICK OVERVIEW OF WHAT WE'LL BE LOOKING AT.
WE'LL START WITH THE OVERVIEW OF OUR OPERATIONS, THE TRAFFIC TEAM THAT WORKS REALLY HARD, WHAT THEY REALLY DO.
AND, UM, WE'LL LOOK AT THAT OPERATION.
THEN WE'LL ALSO LOOK AT ALL THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT AND THE SPECIAL PROJECTS THAT WE HAVE, AND THEN MOVE ON TO OUR GALLATIN SHUTTLE PROGRAM THAT WE'LL DISCUSS THAT, FOLLOWED BY THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN INITIATIVES, UH, THAT WE ARE MOVING FORWARD.
UM, UH, AND THEN CLOSE THE PRESENTATION WITH THE NEXT STEPS.
SO A QUICK OVERVIEW OF OUR DEPARTMENT.
WE, UM, WE HAVE THREE DIVISIONS, AS YOU CAN SEE WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT.
THE FIRST DIVISION OBVIOUSLY IS OUR TRAFFIC OPERATIONS.
THOSE ARE ALL OUR FIELD SERVICES FOLKS THAT ACTUALLY TURN THE WRENCH.
THEY'RE OUT THERE, THEIR BOOTS ON THE GROUND, MAINTAINING OUR SIGNALS, MAINTAINING OUR SIGNS AND MARKINGS.
THE SECOND DIVISION, WE HAVE, UH, TRANSPORTATION, TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERS THAT ACTUALLY LOOK AT NEW DEVELOPMENTS THAT COME IN AND THEIR TRAFFIC IMPACTS.
THEY ALSO REVIEW CONSTRUCTION PLANS, UH, FOR TRAFFIC CONTROL, AND THEN THEY ARE ALSO RESPONSIBLE ADDRESSING RESIDENT CONCERNS AND SO ON.
AND THEN THE LAST GROUP THAT WE HAVE IS OUR MOBILITY PROGRAMS GROUP THAT ALSO HOUSES OUR LIAISON FOR DART AS WELL AS OUR, UH, BIKE AND PEDESTRIAN AND ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS.
SO LET'S, WITHIN THE TRAFFIC OPERATIONS GROUP, IT'S BROADLY DIVIDED INTO THREE AREAS.
WE'LL START FIRST WITH THE TRAFFIC SIGNS, BUT WE HAVE PAVEMENT MARKINGS AS WELL AS SI, UH, SIGNALS AND STREET LIGHTS.
SO SI UH, STARTING WITH THE TRAFFIC SIGNS, WE HAVE OVER 23,000, UH, TRA UH, TRAFFIC SIGNS THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
THEY'RE CATEGORIZED INTO DIFFERENT CATEGORIES.
THE REGULATORY SIGNS, WHICH ARE THE STOP SIGNS OR THE SPEED LIMIT SIGNS, THE WARNING SIGNS WHERE YOU CAN SEE THE YELLOW WARNING SIGN ON THE RIGHT SIDE.
AND THEN, UH, LASTLY, THE GUIDANCE SIGN WE, WE DO IN-HOUSE INSPECTIONS AND MAINTAIN THEM IN-HOUSE.
ALL THE SIGNS THROUGHOUT THE CITY ARE MAINTAINED IN-HOUSE, AND WE ARE CURRENTLY ON A 12 YEAR REPLACEMENT CYCLE.
SO, AS YOU CAN SEE ON THE MAP ON THE SIDE HERE, THE ENTIRE CITY IS DIVIDED INTO 12 AREAS.
AND WE, EVERY YEAR WE COME IN AND REPLACE ONE AREA AT A TIME SO THAT WE GET A WHOLE CITY COVERED AT THE END OF THE 12 YEAR CYCLE.
SO THIS YEAR WE ARE CURRENTLY WORKING ON THE ORANGE BEIGE COLOR AREA, WHICH IS AREA FIVE AND SIX THAT WE ARE REPLACING.
AND THEN FOR THE NEXT UPCOMING BUDGET YEAR, WE'RE PROPOSING TO MOVE INTO A MUCH DENSER, IT DOES LOOK SMALLER, SMALL AREA, UH, AREA SEVEN, BUT IT'S VERY DENSE AND IT HAS A LOT OF SIGNS.
SO THAT'S WHY YOU CAN SEE, UM, WE'RE GOING, WE'RE PROPOSING FOR THE NEXT YEAR PAYMENT MARKINGS THAT CAN BE BROADLY DIVIDED INTO THESE THREE AREAS AS WELL.
WE HAVE APPROXIMATELY OVER 400 LANE MILES OF PAYMENT MARKINGS.
UH, THESE INCLUDES THOSE MARKERS THAT SEPARATE THE LENS ON LARGER, UH, ARTERIALS, AS WELL AS THE MARKINGS AT THE INTERSECTION.
YOU HAVE THOSE CROSS CROSSWALKS AND BARS AT, AT THE INTERSECTIONS.
THAT'S WHAT WOULD FALL UNDER THE PAVEMENT MARKING.
WE ARE CURRENTLY AIMING FOR OR TARGETING A FIVE YEAR REPLACEMENT SITE CYCLE.
AND WE JUST STARTED THAT LAST YEAR WITH, UH, UH, WITH THE NEW BUDGET THAT WE CAME ALONG FOR THAT PARTICULAR CYCLE.
SO WE ARE WORKING ON GETTING THEM ON A FIVE YEAR CYCLE.
UH, SCHOOL ZONES IS THE NEXT TARGET AREA.
WE HAVE, UH, PAVEMENT MARKINGS OVER 180 PAVEMENT MARKINGS FOR, UH, SCHOOL ZONES.
THESE ARE CROSSWALKS ANYWHERE FROM STOP BARS, CROSSWALKS AND, AND, UM, SCHOOL ZONE, UH, END AND START AREA MARKINGS.
SO ALL OF THEM, WE STRIVE AND TYPICALLY STRIVE TO DO A TWO YEAR REPLACEMENT CYCLE, BUT GIVEN CERTAIN WEATHER CONDITIONS, UH, DURING ICE STORMS AND STUFF, WHEN, WHEN THERE'S STAND PLACED ON THE ROADWAY, THE ABRASION TAKES OUT THE PAYMENT MARKINGS EARLIER.
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WHERE WE HAVE HIGH TRAFFIC OR WEATHER IMPACTS, WE TEND TO GO BACK AND DO IT EARLIER, SO WE GO BACK AND DO ANNUAL MAINTENANCE ON THOSE.AND THEN LAST BUT NOT LEAST, BIKE LANES.
WE HAVE APPROXIMATELY 28, UH, LANE MILES OF, UH, MILES OF BIKE LANES, AND THEN 27 SIGNED BIKE ROUTES WITHIN THE CITY.
AND WE ARE TARGETING TO REPLACE THOSE AND REFRESH THOSE BIKE MARKINGS EVERY FIVE YEARS.
MOVING ON TO THE TRAFFIC SIGNALS, WE HAVE 134 TRAFFIC SIGNALS THROUGHOUT THE CITY, AND, UH, WE CONTINUE.
AS WE GROW, WE CONTINUE TO ADD MORE TRAFFIC SIGNALS.
AND ONE OF THE NEW ONES THAT WILL BE COMING UP, UM, AS FAR, UH, OF A FEDERALLY FUNDED PROJECT IS THE SIGNAL NEAR UTD, UH, WATERVIEW AND FRANK JOHNSON.
AND THAT PRO, UH, THAT SIGNAL IS OUT TO BIDS.
SO WE'RE RECEIVING BIDS FROM CONTRACTORS TO START BEGIN CONSTRUCTION OF THAT PARTICULAR, UM, INTERSECTION.
AND THEN, UH, UNDER THE STREETLIGHT PROGRAM, WE WERE LUCKY, UH, TO GET A GRANT FUNDING, UH, FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY.
AND THROUGH THAT GRANT FUNDING, WE ARE CONVERTING APPROXIMATELY 350 STREET LIGHTS FROM HIGH PRESSURE SODIUM LIGHTS, WHICH ARE THE YELLOW LIGHTS YOU SEE, TO MORE EFFICIENT LED LIGHTS THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
AND THEN, AS YOU ALL KNOW, THE, THERE IS A PROJECT ONGOING FOR US 75 AND TDO IS WORKING ON THAT PROJECT.
THEY'RE, THEY ARE ALSO REPLACING THE STREETLIGHTS ALONG THAT PARTICULAR STRETCH OF S 75 WITHIN THE CITY.
AND THESE STREETLIGHTS HAVE BEEN, UH, A SUBSTANTIAL MAINTENANCE ISSUE FOR US.
THEY ARE OLD, THE INFRASTRUCTURE IS OLD, THE FUSES THAT GO WITH THOSE FUSE BOXES, THE CABLES THAT ARE, UH, DIRECT BURIED, THEY WERE NOT IN A CONDUIT.
SO THEY'VE BEEN A CHALLENGE, AND WE'RE REALLY EXCITED THAT THIS PROJECT IS COMING ALONG, AND WE WILL BE REPLACING THEM WITH A MORE EFFICIENT, HIGH MASS LIGHTING THAT REQUIRES MINIMAL MAINTENANCE.
SO HERE'S SOME CONSIDERATIONS.
AS WE MOVE FORWARD TO THE BUDGET.
WE ARE LOOKING AT CERTAIN PRICING AND MATERIALS AND, UH, NEW, UH, PRICE CHART THAT WE'RE GETTING FROM OUR VENDORS.
UH, WE ARE LOOKING AT SOME INCREASE IN PRICES, AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE PROPOSING THIS BUDGET CYCLE TO GET, UH, A 10% INCREASE FOR SCIENCE MARKINGS AND SIGNALS, ALL THE EQUIPMENT THAT WE TYPICALLY NEED TO REPLACE, UH, AND CONTINUE ONGOING MAINTENANCE.
WE ALSO HAVE SOMETHING FOR, UH, CONSIDERATION FOR THE EVENTS.
WE DO HAVE, UH, WE HAVE EXPERIENCED EVENTS AS THE ICE EVENTS AND FREEZING HAPPENS THAT DOES IMPACT OUR PAVEMENT MA MARKINGS.
SO WE DO HAVE SOME CONSIDERATION OF THAT IN THE BUDGET.
AND AS YOU KNOW, THERE ARE ALSO STORM EVENTS THAT A COUPLE WEEKS AGO WE HAD ONE OF THOSE BIG ONES COME THROUGH AND, UH, A LOT OF OUR SIGNAL HEADS AND SCIENCE WERE IMPACTED AND WE'RE, WE'RE ENDED UP REPLACING A LOT OF EQUIPMENT.
SO THAT CONSIDERATION IS ALSO WITHIN THE BUDGET AS WE MOVE FORWARD.
AND THEN, LAST BUT NOT LEAST, WE HAVE A LOT OF ELECTRONIC ITEMS WITHIN OUR, UH, SIGNAL CABINETS.
AND THOSE ELECTRONIC ITEMS KEEP ON EVOLVING.
SO WE HAVE TO CONTINUALLY, UH, EVOLVE WITH THE TECHNOLOGY AND MOVE FORWARD WITH OUR SIGNAL MAINTENANCE.
SO HERE'S A QUICK OVERVIEW OF OUR, UH, BUDGET.
THE, THIS IS JUST THE OPERATIONS PART OF THE BUDGET.
AND YOU CAN SEE THESE ARE OUR MAIN AREAS THAT WE'RE REQUESTING.
UH, YOU HERE, YOU, YOU CAN NOTICE THAT WE HAVE STEPPED UP FROM FY 23 BUDGET TO FY 24.
WE, WE WERE TRYING TO TARGET THAT FIVE YEAR CYCLE, AND THIS IS WHERE YOU CAN SEE THAT INCREASE.
AND THEN THE FISCAL YEAR 25 BUDGET IS SHOWN AS PROPOSED.
THE OTHER PIECE THAT WE ACTUALLY ALSO, UH, HAVE FUNDING FROM IS THIS, IT AND TRAFFIC FUND.
THIS PARTICULAR FUND IS SET UP AS A COMBINED FUND.
IT WAS SET UP BACK IN 2020 FOR, UH, LEGACY SYSTEMS IMPLEMENTATION FOR IT, AS WELL AS NEW TRAFFIC TECHNOLOGIES.
TH THIS FUND IS A COMBINATION OF OPERATING TAX RATE, UH, ANNUAL, UM, UH, ANNUAL AMOUNTS FROM THE OPERATING TAX RATE, AS WELL AS WA UM, ANNUAL AMOUNTS FROM THE WATER AND SEWER FUND.
SO THAT COMPRISES OF THE TOTAL FUND.
AND THE REASON THIS IS SET UP SEPARATELY, BECAUSE IT GIVES US SOME FLEXIBILITY TO IMPLEMENT SOME OF THESE LARGER, LONGER PERIOD PROJECTS WITHIN THE IT AS WELL AS WITHIN THE TRAFFIC.
SO IT, IT CAN GIVE YOU A PAY AS YOU GO FUND, AND WE DON'T HAVE TO, UH, SET UP CAPITAL FUNDING FOR THOSE LARGER PROJECTS.
SO THIS, THIS REALLY HELPS US TO THINK ABOUT OUR LONG TERM PLAN.
AND, AND NEXT FEW SLIDES I'LL GO THROUGH WHAT, HOW OUR TECHNOLOGY IMPROVEMENT PLAN PLUGS INTO THIS.
AND THEN AT THE END OF THIS PARTICULAR IMPLEMENTATION, WHEN WE ARE DONE
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WITH MOST OF THESE LARGER PROJECTS, WE WILL TAKE BACK THE FUND AND THEN PUT IT BACK INTO THE GENERAL FUND.SO HERE'S, HERE'S THE PLAN I WAS TALKING ABOUT.
UH, WE HAVE QUITE A FEW PROJECTS UNDER THIS, UH, THAT ARE FUNDED THROUGH THE FUND THAT WE JUST DISCUSSED.
WE ARE WRAPPING UP OUR THIRD AND FINAL PHASE FOR THE TRAFFIC DE DETECTION SYSTEM.
UH, IT, IT TOOK US THREE PHASES TOTAL TO GO THROUGH THE ENTIRE, UH, ALL THE SIGNALIZE INTERSECTIONS WITHIN THE CITY.
SO THIS IS THE FINAL, AND WE'LL, WE'RE, WE'RE WRAPPING THAT PHASE UP.
MOVING FORWARD, WE ARE GOING TO, UH, START OR KICKOFF OUR COMMUNICATIONS MASTER PLAN.
AS YOU KNOW, THE, THE TECHNOLOGY KEEPS ON EVOLVING.
SO WE ARE, WE HAVE NEW VIDEO CAMERA SYSTEMS, WE HAVE NEW VIDEO DETECTION SYSTEMS. ALL OF THAT DATA IS GETTING TRANSFERRED BACK TO OUR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT CENTER AND THE BANDWIDTH THAT IT'S USING.
WE REALLY HAVE TO LOOK AT THAT BECAUSE AS, AS WE MOVE FORWARD THE BANDWIDTH, WE NEED MORE AND MORE BANDWIDTH.
SO THAT'S WHAT WE ARE LOOKING AT WITH THE COMMUNICATIONS MASTER PLAN IS HOW DO WE, UM, WHAT DO WE LOOK AT AND HOW DO WE PLAN FOR THE FUTURE WHEN THESE, UH, DATA REQUIREMENTS KEEP ON INCREASING? SO THAT'S WHAT WE WILL FIND OUT IN OUR COMMUNICATIONS PLAN.
AND AFTER THAT, WE WILL, WE WILL ALSO WRAP UP OUR VIDEO CAMERA SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION PROGRAM.
AND THEN ALSO BEGIN A ITS MASTER PLAN.
THE COMMUNICATION PLAN WOULD ACTUALLY, UM, PROVIDE FEEDBACK TO THE ITS MASTER PLAN.
THAT'S WHY THEY'RE ALIGNED ONE AFTER THE OTHER.
SO HERE'S A, A LITTLE BIT, HERE'S A LOOK AT THE ACTUAL FUND, THE TRAFFIC IT FUND THAT I DISCUSSED.
AS YOU CAN SEE, IT'S GETTING FUNDING FROM THE GENERAL FUND AS WELL AS THE WATER SEWER FUND EVERY YEAR.
AND THEN, UH, YOU CAN SEE THAT THERE ARE TWO SEPARATE AREAS FOR TRAFFIC AND IT WHERE WE ARE, UH, SPENDING THE MONEY FROM.
AND HERE'S A LITTLE BIT DEEP DIVE INTO THE TRAFFIC FUND ITSELF.
SO HERE ARE THE PROJECTS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT, THE COMMUNICATIONS PLAN, THE VIDEO CAMERAS, THE UM, DETECTION CAMERAS.
YOU CAN SEE ALL OF THESE PROJECTS ARE LARGER PROJECTS.
THEY'RE DIVIDED INTO A MULTI-YEAR, MULTI-PHASE.
SO THAT'S WHY THIS FUND IS SET UP SUCH, IN SUCH A WAY THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY HAVE THAT FLEXIBILITY TO DIVIDE THAT INTO DIFFERENT YEARS AND THEN FUND THOSE LARGER PROJECTS THROUGH THIS PARTICULAR, UH, MECHANISM.
NOW WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT OUR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT AND SPECIAL PROJECTS.
UH, AS YOU MAY NOTICE, YOU, THIS, THIS LOOKS A LITTLE BIT FAMILIAR.
WE HAVE, WE HAVE CREATED THAT, UH, AS A BIG PICTURE OVERVIEW OF ALL OF OUR TRAFFIC SIGNAL PROJECTS WITHIN THE CITY.
THIS WAS ALSO USED FOR COMP PLAN PRESENTATIONS AND THE RECENT CAPITAL PROJECTS, OPEN HOUSE THAT WE CONQUESTED WITHIN THE, WITHIN THE MAP, YOU CAN SEE THERE ARE DIFFERENT COLORED INTERSECTIONS, AND THOSE ARE IN DIFFERENT PHASES.
SO WE ARE, WE HAVE SOME INTERSECTIONS THAT ARE IN PLANNING.
SOME OF THEM ARE IN DESIGN PHASE AND SOME OF THEM IN CONSTRUCTION.
AND WE'VE WRAPPED A FEW UP, UM, WITHIN THE CITY.
AND IN NEXT FEW SLIDES, I'LL TALK ABOUT WHERE THE FUNDING FOR THESE PROJECTS IS COMING FROM.
WHAT KIND OF FUNDING BUCKETS ARE WE USING? SO THERE ARE PROJECTS WITHIN THE 2021 BOND PROGRAM.
AS YOU CAN SEE, WE HAVE A WORK PLAN FOR 23 AND 24.
WE'VE COMPLETED ABOUT FOUR INTERSECTIONS WITHIN THE CITY WHERE WE'VE REPLACED THE SIGNAL POLES, THE TRAFFIC SIGNAL CABINETS, THE, THE, UH, VIDEO MONITORING SYSTEM.
EVERYTHING THAT'S ASSOCIATED WITH THE TRAFFIC SIGNAL HAS BEEN REPLACED.
AND THEN ALSO WE HAVE MADE SOME A DA IMPROVEMENTS.
WE'RE BRINGING ALL THE INTERSECTIONS BACK TO CURRENT A DA STANDARDS.
WELL, WE ADD HEAD POLES AND PED RAMPS AND SO ON SO FORTH.
SO AS YOU CAN SEE, WE HAVE ADDITIONAL INTERSECTIONS FOR THE FOLLOWING FISCAL YEAR.
WE'VE ALREADY STARTED CONSTRUCTION ON SOME OF THOSE.
THIS IS THE SECOND POT OF MONEY.
THIS IS, UM, STATE FUNDED PROJECTS, UH, FUNDED THROUGH TDOT.
AND THESE ARE COMPLETELY MANAGED BY TDOT.
SO THIS IS A WORK PLAN THAT TDOT HAS PROVIDED US.
SO IN, IN THESE, THEY'RE A LITTLE BIT BEHIND THE BALL ON SOME OF THESE PROJECTS, BUT WE REALLY CAN'T CONTROL THE TIMING ON THESE PROJECTS JUST BECAUSE THEY'RE COMPLETELY MANAGED.
THEY GO OUT, GET THEIR CONTRACTORS AND GET THEIR FOLKS TO COMPLETE THESE PROJECTS FOR US.
YES, THERE, UH, THERE IS SOME CITY FUNDING ALSO, OUR MATCH IS JUST THE DESIGN MONEY, WHICH IS ABOUT 10 TO 15% OF THE TOTAL COST OF REPLACING ALL THESE, UH, SIGNALS.
SO LAST BUT NOT LEAST, THIS, THIS IS, THIS IS WHERE YOU CAN SEE OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH OTHER AGENCIES IN THE REGION.
SO WE ARE LEVERAGING OUR PARTNERSHIPS WITH
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DALLAS COUNTY.WE HAVE A LIST OF PROJECTS HERE WITH, UH, NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS.
WE HAVE SEVERAL FEDERALLY FUNDED PROJECTS THROUGH THE, THROUGH NCT COG.
AND, UH, LAST WE HAVE SOME DART ALLOCATION PROJECTS THAT WE'VE RECENTLY KICKED OFF.
WE'RE REALLY EXCITED FOR THOSE.
HERE'S A OVERVIEW OF HOW IT LOOKS, HOW WE ARE LEVERAGING CITY DOLLARS TO GET MORE MONEY.
AND YOU CAN SEE IT IS A THIRD, UH, APPROXIMATELY A 30 70 MATCH.
SO WE ARE USING 30% OF THE CITY MONEY TO BUILD PROJECTS AND GETTING 70% FUNDING FROM OUTSIDE.
NOW WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE GALLATIN SHUTTLE.
UM, THIS SHUTTLE, AS YOU CAN SEE, THERE ARE TWO AREAS IN THE MAP.
ONE IS THE BLUE AND THE PINK THERE.
IT, IT'S THE, THE PINK IS THE WEST LOOP, AND THEN THE BLUE IS THE EAST LOOP.
THE, THE SHUTTLE CURRENTLY OPERATES ON TWO SEPARATE LOOPS.
JUST, UH, EARLIER THIS YEAR, WE WERE ABLE TO GO BACK AND REBID OUR, UH, CONTRACT WITH THE SHUTTLE SERVICE PROVIDER, ECHO TRANSPORTATION.
WE WERE ABLE TO RENEGOTIATE SOME LOWER COST BECAUSE OF THE SMALLER VEHICLES THAT WILL BE NOW IN PLACE AND USED FOR THE SHUTTLE PROGRAM.
SO, UH, WE WERE REALLY ABLE TO DO SOME COST SAVINGS THERE.
AND, UH, WE'VE SEEN THAT RIDERSHIP IS EVER SINCE THE PANDEMIC.
THE RIDERSHIP HAS NOT GONE BACK TO THAT POINT.
WE'RE, UH, AROUND A HALF WAYS THERE.
AND THEN, UH, JUST WITH THIS NEW, UH, CONTRACT IN PLACE, WE WERE ABLE TO SAVE ABOUT 16 TO 18% IN THE LAST FOUR MONTHS THAT WE'VE SEEN FROM STARTING FROM JANUARY EARLIER THIS YEAR.
SO WE'RE SEEING, SEEING A COST SAVING ON THIS PARTICULAR PROGRAM.
AND LASTLY, I WANNA TALK ABOUT THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN.
UH, NEXT COUPLE OF SLIDES WE'LL TALK ABOUT WHAT WE ARE DOING CURRENTLY THIS YEAR, AND THEN WHAT WE WILL BE DOING THE FOLLOWING YEAR.
SO THIS IS WHAT WE'RE CURRENTLY DOING.
UH, WE ARE WORKING ON ADVANCING A LOT OF REGIONAL PROJECTS, LARGE TRAIL PROJECTS.
UM, WE DID, UH, FORMALIZE THE BIKE AND PET ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND, UM, WE, WE HAVE ADVANCED SOME OF THE POLICIES, UH, WHICH YOU CAN SEE COMPLETE STREET POLICY WAS ADOPTED.
AND THEN, UM, THE, UH, BICYCLE PARKING ORDINANCE IS ALSO ON THE AGENDA, THIS E THIS EVENING.
SO WE ARE APPLI ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT THINGS THAT WE'RE DOING REALLY IS HELPING US TO, FOR THAT LAST BULLET POINT, WHICH IS APPLYING REAPPLYING FOR THAT SILVER STATUS AND, UM, THAT PARTICULAR APPLICATION IN THE PROCESS.
AND IT'S DUE, UM, TOWARDS THE END OF THIS MONTH, JUNE 25TH.
SO WE'RE REALLY WORKING HARD TO GET ALL OF THESE POLICIES AND INITIATIVES LINED UP SO THAT WE CAN REALLY BE IN A GOOD SPOT TO GET THAT.
AND THEN THIS IS WHAT WE WILL BE DOING FOR THE NEXT YEAR FISCAL YEAR.
UH, AS YOU CAN SEE, THESE ARE LARGER PROJECTS.
WE'LL CONTINUE ADVANCING THEM.
WE'LL CONTINUE MAINTAINING OUR INFRASTRUCTURE.
REALLY TWO MAIN ITEMS THAT, UM, WE'RE INITIATING ARE THE SAFETY ACTION PLAN, WHICH IS ALSO VISION ZERO FOR THE CITY.
WE RECEIVED FEDERAL GRANT FUNDING FOR THAT PARTICULAR PROJECT.
SO WE'LL BE INITIATING THAT PROJECT AS WELL AS WE'LL BE INITIATING THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL PLAN.
AND THEN WE'LL ALSO WORK WITH THE BIKE ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO IMPLEMENT SOME OF THE BICYCLE EDUCATION PROGRAMS AND SOME OTHER INITIATIVES, UH, PLAN THROUGH THAT.
WE'RE HERE TO GET FEEDBACK FROM COUNCIL ON OUR OVERALL OPERATIONS.
WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE ADVANCING OUR TRAFFIC SYSTEM WORK PLAN.
WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE OPERATING THE GALLATIN SHUTTLE.
AND THEN, UM, OBVIOUSLY WE ARE PUSHING THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN INITIATIVES THROUGH, UH, AND GETTING THAT ADOPTED.
ANY QUESTIONS? THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
GREAT PRESENTATION MR. CORCORAN.
UM, I CONTINUE TO BE VERY IMPRESSED WITH ALL OF THE WORK THAT, THAT YOUR ENTIRE DEPARTMENT DOES.
SORRY, I WAS LOOKING AROUND FOR YOU, MARK.
I DIDN'T REALIZE YOU'RE WAY AT THE END OF THE TABLE HERE.
UM, REALLY THOUGH, I, IT'S FANTASTIC.
UM, I HAD A COUPLE JUST REALLY QUICK QUESTIONS, UH, JUST KIND OF ABOUT SOME OF THE NUMBERS AND THEN ALSO, UH, ABOUT SORT OF THE, THE CONSEQUENCES OF SOME OF THE, THE TIMELINE SHIFTS ON SOME OF THE PROJECTS.
UM, YOU KNOW, ONE, JUST, JUST WONDERING, 180 SCHOOL ZONES, UH, FOR THE SCIENCE, WILL THAT NUMBER GO DOWN JUST A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE OF THE RST SCHOOL CLOSURES? OR IS THAT STATIC? YEAH, THAT'S, THAT'S A VERY GOOD QUESTION.
YES, THAT'S STATIC OR IT MAY INCREASE JUST BECAUSE WE'RE OH, REALLY? YEAH.
JUST BECAUSE WE'RE MOVING SOME OF THE SCHOOL ZONES THAT CURRENTLY EXIST AND IMPLEMENTING THEM AROUND AREAS
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WHERE THE SCHOOLS ARE MOVING, SO OH, OKAY.WE, WE'LL HAVE, WE ARE LOOKING AT SCHOOL ZONES ALONG YALE AND BELTLINE AND ARAPAHOE INTERSECTION.
SO YEAH, WE'RE REALLOCATING SOME OF THOSE RESOURCES THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE.
AND THERE MIGHT BE MORE RESOURCES NEEDED IN ORDER TO JUST, UH, MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE'S SAFE WITH THE NEW CHANGES THAT WE HAVE.
UM, LET'S SEE, UH, REALLY QUICK WITH THE ITS MASTER PLAN, JUST MOVING IT BACK TO 2025, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, THAT'S KIND OF A FORWARD LOOKING THING ALWAYS ANYWAY WITH, AS AN UPGRADE, BUT ARE THERE ANY SORT OF NEGATIVE RAM RAMIFICATIONS FOR US MOVING THAT WORK PLAN BACK TO 2025? UM, OR ANY, ANY TRADE OFFS MAYBE IS A BETTER WAY TO PUT IT? SO THE, THE ITS MASTER PLAN TALKS TO OUR ENTIRE SYSTEM, BUT WHAT WE ARE CURRENTLY DOING IS WE'RE PROGRESSING SOME OF THE PILOT PROGRAMS LIKE WE ARE INVOLVED IN THE AV, UM, 2.2, 2.3 PROJECT, OR EVEN THE DALI PROJECT THAT WE HAVE WITH, UH, UT DALLAS.
SO ALL OF THOSE PRO PROJECTS REALLY GIVE US AN OPPORTUNITY TO WEIGH IN WHAT'S OUT THERE AND LOOK AT DIFFERENT OPTIONS BEFORE WE JUMP INTO THE PLAN AND, AND MAKE IT A FOOLPROOF SOLID PLAN.
SO THERE ARE PROS AND CONS, BUT YEAH, WE ARE NOT JUST WAITING FOR THAT PLAN TO HAPPEN.
WE ARE MOVING FORWARD WITH TESTING SOME OF THE TECHNOLOGIES THAT ARE AVAILABLE OUT THERE.
AND THEN, UM, FINALLY, YOU KNOW, I REALLY LOVE THE, THE RATIO OF WHAT THE CITY OF RICHARDSON PUTS INTO WHAT OTHER AGENCIES PUT INTO A LOT OF OUR PROJECTS.
UM, AND I NOTICED THAT THE, THE NUMBER ACTUALLY WENT UP A COUPLE OR DOWN RATHER, SORRY, FROM IT WAS 34%, UH, 34%, 66%, BUT NOW IT'S 32, 38.
HAVE WE, DOES THAT NUMBER WITHOUT PLATEAU AT ANY POINT? OR DO YOU THINK THERE'S STILL ROOM, YOU KNOW, IN THE COMING YEARS? 'CAUSE THOSE PERCENTAGES, THAT'S MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, RIGHT? IT'S CORRECT.
SO, SO WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO CONTINUE TO APPLY FOR FUNDING, BUT THERE'S ALWAYS THAT CONSTRAINT OF HOW FAST YOU CAN DELIVER AND I SEE.
SO YES, WE'RE, WE'RE BEING CAUTIOUS THAT YES, WE DON'T WANT TO LEVERAGE CITY FUNDS, BUT WE DON'T WANT TO MOVE IN A SITUATION WHERE'RE WE'RE STRETCHED TO 10 TO SOME OF THAT.
SO THE ANSWER IS NO, IT HASN'T PLATEAUED YET.
BUT THERE IS
BUT DO YOU GOTTA RECALL SOME OF THOSE ORIGINAL COMPARISONS YOU'RE MAKING TO WHERE THROUGH THE COVID YEARS WHEN THERE WAS MONEY FLOWING EVERY WHICH WAY? OKAY.
I WOULD CALIBRATE EXPECTATIONS.
BEING IN THE THIRTIES IS AN, AN EXCEPTIONAL JOB THAT THEY'VE DONE.
BUT SUSTAINING THAT OVER TIME, IT'S GONNA DEPEND ON A LOT OF FACTORS THAT AREN'T CONTROLLED LOCALLY.
I MEAN, WHO'S IN THE WHITE HOUSE, WHAT KIND OF, UH, FOCUS ON INFRASTRUCTURE, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS IS, IS, UM, IS PLACING.
AND SO I THINK THAT THAT MAY LEVEL OUT A LITTLE, BUT IT, WE'RE NOT TRYING ANY LESS TO OBTAIN THE FUNDING, IT'S JUST WHAT'S AVAILABLE.
AND, AND DON'T GET ME WRONG, I, I UNDERSTAND HOW EXCEPTIONAL THAT IS AND I, I REALLY APPRECIATE THE WORK YOU GUYS DO TO KEEP THOSE NUMBERS AT THAT RATIO.
I WAS JUST GONNA ECHO WHAT COUNCILMAN CORCORAN SAID.
I WAS, I WAS GONNA ADMIRE THE WORK THAT YOU'VE DONE ON GRANT FUNDING AND WORKING WITH PARTNERS AND ALL THOSE SORT OF THINGS.
I THINK AS, AS HE STATED, IT'S EXCEPTIONAL.
UM, NOT EVERYONE DOES THAT AND DOES IT AS WELL AS YOUR DEPARTMENT DOES.
AND, UH, TO THE, YOU KNOW, I'M GONNA, UH, ECHO COUNCILMAN CORCORAN TOO.
KEEP, KEEP PUSHING, UM, YOU KNOW, UNDERSTANDING THAT THERE ARE CONSTRAINTS THAT ARE WELL BEYOND YOUR CONTROL.
UM, BUT I THINK THAT IT'S GREAT THAT YOUR DEPARTMENT IS SO FOCUSED ON, ON GRANT FUNDING AND TRYING TO BE MINDFUL OF, OF THE TAXPAYERS.
UM, AND THEN ALSO, I JUST WANNA SAY THANK YOU, MARK, TO YOUR ENTIRE DEPARTMENT FOR THE CLEANUP AFTER THE STORMS. YOU ALL HAVE BEEN OUT THERE, AND I THINK COUNCILMAN HUTCH WRITER WILL PROBABLY SPEAK TO IT, BUT YOU KNOW, HOW QUICKLY YOU ALL RESPONDED TO, TO CALLS FOR ACTION RELATED TO DOWN SIGNS AND THOSE, AND, AND, YOU KNOW, STREETLIGHTS AND EVERYTHING.
YOU ALL WERE CERTAINLY PART OF OUR FIRST RESPONDER TEAM, UM, AFTER THE STORM.
SO I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU ALL DID, MR. HUTCHEN RIDER.
UM, I'LL ECHO EVERYTHING THAT'S BEEN SAID, AND I WILL SAY THANK YOU VERY, VERY MUCH.
WE HAD, UH, ESPECIALLY OVER IN THE EASTERN PART OF THE AREA, NOT ONLY ADDITION TO THE TREES, WE HAD A LOT OF SIGNS THAT WERE KNOCKED DOWN AND Y'ALL WERE JUST JOHNNY ON THE SPOT.
THE, THE NEIGHBORHOODS MADE TOOK NOTICE OF THAT.
UM, NUMBER ONE IS, I KNOW, I CAN'T REMEMBER IF IT WAS LAST YEAR OR YEAR BEFORE WE HAD CONVERSATION ABOUT OUR ABILITY TO, I'M GONNA USE THE WORDS INFLUENCE THESE SIGNALS THAT ARE CONTROLLED BY TXDOT AS FAR AS TIMING WITH OUR SIGNALS WITH THESE UPGRADES.
AND THE OTHER THINGS THAT ARE, THAT YOU'VE SHOWN ON HERE, ESPECIALLY ALONG, UH, 75 AND ALONG, UM, THE, THE
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GEORGE BUSH TOLLWAY.WILL THAT ENHANCE OUR ABILITY TO HAVE INNER COMMUNICATION WITH THEM SO THAT THE SIGNALING, UM, UM, TIMING WILL BE BETTER? UM, WILL THAT, WILL THAT ASSIST IN THAT? YEAH, SO IT'S A, IT'S A TWO PART ANSWER.
SO NEW TECHNOLOGY DEFINITELY WILL HELP US, UH, COMMUNICATE.
BUT THERE IS ANOTHER PROJECT THAT TEXTILES ARE CURRENTLY WORKING ON THAT WE'LL LOOK INTO, UM, LOOKING AT THE TIMING ALONG THE FREEWAY AND THE INTERCHANGES.
AND THEN LASTLY, I THINK IT'S BEEN ABOUT SIX WEEKS AGO, I MAY BE SLIGHTLY OFF ON MY TIMING, BUT WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO ATTEND A SESSION THAT WAS PUT ON BY THE PROFESSOR OUT AT UTD THAT HAS TACKLED, OR IS TACKLING MAYBE A BETTER WAY TO SAY THAT, UM, UM, UH, MOBILITY AND SIGNALING AND ALL THAT.
AND IT SOUNDED LIKE SHE WAS DOING A LOT OF POWERFUL WORK.
AND SO, UM, I KNOW WE'RE ENGAGED WITH, WITH HERSHEY MADE THAT PERFECTLY CLEAR.
I WOULD JUST, BASED ON WHAT WE WERE SEEING AT THAT MEETING, IT SOUNDS LIKE THERE'S SOME REAL KIND OF POWERFUL OPPORTUNITIES AS SHE CONTINUES TO DEVELOP THAT, UM, OF MAYBE BEING A, A BETA CITY TO, TO WORK.
AND SO I WOULD HIGHLY ENCOURAGE US TO CONTINUE TO, TO WORK.
I JUST WANT TO KIND OF GET ON THE RECORD TO SAY LET'S, LET'S CONTINUE TO ADVANCE THAT AS FAR AS WE CAN, BECAUSE I THINK THAT THERE WAS, BASED ON WHAT WE SAW, AND AM I RIGHT NOW, IS THAT ABOUT SIX WEEKS AGO, UM, IT WAS VERY POWERFUL.
AND, AND WE ALL, I AT LEAST I WALKED OUTTA THERE GOING, WOW, SOME OF THE TECHNOLOGY THAT THEY'RE, THAT SHE WAS COMING UP WITH SEEMED VERY IMPRESSIVE.
SO I JUST THROW THAT ON THERE TO, TO, TO, TO SUPPORT.
BUT GREAT PRESENTATION AND THANK YOU ALL SO VERY, VERY MUCH.
WELL, THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.
A VERY INFORMATIVE, I HAVE COUPLE QUESTION PROBABLY, YOU ALREADY HAVE MENTIONED THAT, BUT I DID NOT QUITE CATCH IT.
JUST TO UNDERSTAND, UH, IF YOU GO TO YOUR SLIDE 12, THIS IS ABOUT TRAFFIC TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE BUDGET.
SO IF YOU CAN EXPLAIN A LITTLE BIT SO THAT I WOULD UNDERSTAND THAT THE REVENUE VERSUS EXPENDITURE, UH, UH, SO YOU ARE USING BUDGETED MONEY FROM PREVIOUS YEARS AND NEXT YEAR, SOMETHING LIKE THAT? YEAH.
SO WHAT'S WHAT'S HAPPENING IN HERE IS YOU CAN SEE THERE IS A CONTINUOUS, UM, ANNUAL, UM, COST OR ALLOCATED FROM THE GENERAL FUND AS WELL AS THE WATER SEWER FUND.
AND IT CONTINUES TO ACCUMULATE IN THAT FUND.
AND EVERY YEAR WE DRAW DOWN ON PROJECTS.
SO THERE ARE SOME PROJECTS THAT ARE ADVANCED QUICKLY AND GET COMPLETED QUICKLY, AND THERE ARE PROJECTS THAT LAG A LITTLE BIT.
BUT HAVING THAT CONTINUOUS FUND, UH, INFLOW COMING IN, WE DO HAVE THAT AMOUNT TO FUND SOME OF THESE.
SO IF YOU CAN SEE IN PREVIOUS YEARS, SOME OF THE EXPENDITURES ARE LOWER THAN WHAT WE ARE ADDING TO THAT ACCOUNT.
AND THEN FOR SOME OF THESE FUTURE YEARS, WE'LL BE SPENDING MORE MONEY THAT'S COMING IN.
PRI TIM, I APPRECIATE YOUR, YOUR REPLY MAYOR.
UH, PRO, I'LL JUST ADD, SO THINK OF THIS LIKE THE TRANSFER OUTS THAT WE DO FOR STREETS AND ALLEYS FOR PARKS MAINTENANCE FOR FAC, UH, UH, UM, EQUIPMENT REPLACEMENT FUND.
UH, THIS IS A LITTLE UNIQUE IN THAT WE WENT INTO THIS NOT NECESSARILY LOOKING AT AN ANNUAL PLAN.
IF YOU RECALL, WHEN WE ADOPTED, UH, THIS IN 2020, IT WAS A MULTI-YEAR PLAN.
AND IT WOULD REALLY HAD TO DO WITH ON THE IT, WHICH WE'LL HEAR ABOUT SHORTLY, UM, UH, TRANSITIONING IT THROUGH OUR LEGACY SYSTEMS, UH, INITIALLY MUCH STRONGER ON THE I ON THE TRAFFIC SIDE BECAUSE OF SOME TECHNOLOGY UPGRADES WE WERE DOING AT SIGNALS AND, AND WITHIN THE BOXES.
UM, WHAT YOU'RE SEEING HERE IS JUST A, A LITTLE BIT OF A BYPRODUCT OF US BEING, UH, JUST A LITTLE BIT BEHIND SCHEDULE AND SOME OF THE IT.
AND SO THAT'S WHY WE'RE KIND OF CALIBRATING ON FY 25 AND KIND OF READJUSTING THE AMOUNT THAT, THAT WE'RE ALLOCATING.
UM, BUT IN THE END, WHEN WE'RE FULLY, UH, WHEN WE FULLY IMPLEMENT ALL OF THE TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORTATION UPGRADES THAT WE IDENTIFIED IN THE INITIAL PLAN, AND WE TRANSITION THROUGH ALL OF OUR LEGACY SYSTEM, UM, UM, UPDATES, UM, WE WILL ACTUALLY, UH, CONCLUDE WITH THIS PARTICULAR FUND.
UM, AND WE'LL RETURN THAT BACK TO THE GENERAL FUND.
THAT WAS ALWAYS A PLAN, UH, SINCE DAY ONE IN 2020.
THIS IS BECOMING KENT, IF I REMEMBER, LIKE A FIVE OR A SIX YEAR PLAN TO MAYBE A SEVEN OR AN EIGHT YEAR PLAN.
SO WE WE'RE JUST SMOOTHING OUT THE LAST FEW YEARS, UM, SO THAT WE DON'T END UP WITH A GREATER FUND BALANCE JUST SITTING THERE.
UH, JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT I UNDERSTOOD CORRECTLY.
AND NOW MY SECOND QUESTION IS THAT QUESTION, I MEAN, YOU COULD PROBABLY EXPLAIN A LITTLE BIT MORE.
SLIDE 24, YOU HAVE THAT, UH, VISION ZERO THAT, UH, INITIATE SAFETY ACTION PLAN, VISION ZERO.
COULD YOU TELL US A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT PROGRAM?
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THIS IS A FEDERAL FUNDED PROJECT.SO WHAT WE DID, IT WAS A YEAR AGO, A YEAR AND A HALF AGO, WE DID APPLY FOR A FEDERAL GRANT TO, UH, DEVELOP A SAFETY ACTION PLAN.
SO WHAT SAFETY ACTION PLAN REALLY ENTAILS, OR VISION ZERO REALLY ENTAILS IS LOOKING AT THE ENTIRE CITY, IDENTIFYING WHAT ARE THE AREAS THAT HAVE HIGHER, UH, COLLISION, UH, ACCIDENT PRONE AREAS, LOOKING AT WHAT ARE THE THINGS THAT WE CAN DO TO START FIXING THOSE.
AND THEN DEVELOPING AN OVERALL PLAN.
SO I, THE FIRST STEP IS TO IDENTIFY WHERE ARE LOCATIONS INTERSECTIONS, AND WHERE DO WE HAVE HIGHER RATE OF, UM, CASUALTIES, FATALITIES OR EVEN SOME OF THE ACCIDENTS THAT ARE HAPPENING.
SO THAT WILL BE PREPARED AS PART OF A PLAN.
AND THEN IT'LL HAVE SEVERAL IMPLEMENTATION PHASES WHERE YOU WOULD START LOOKING AT, OKAY, IF THERE IS MINOR FIXES, WE CAN REALLY UPGRADE THIS INTERSECTION.
AND THEN WE CONTINUE MONITORING IT.
SO THERE'S ALSO MONITORING NOT ONLY DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT, START IMPLEMENTING THE PLAN, BUT THERE'S ALSO MONITORING.
SO THAT'S WHAT IS ENTAILED IN THE VISION ZERO PLAN.
I MEAN, IDENTIFYING AN ISSUE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF FIXING ANY ISSUE.
UH, YOU KNOW, ONCE YOU IDENTIFY, MOST LIKELY THE SOLUTION IS NOT THAT COMPLICATED.
NOW, WOULD THERE BE ANY REPORT AVAILABLE TO THIS? YES, THERE WILL BE A FULL PLAN AT THE END OF THE PROJECT.
SO, BUT WE HAVE TO, WE'LL BE ABLE TO SEE THE PUBLIC WOULD BE ABLE TO SEE THIS MORE, OR, CORRECT.
THAT'S, UH, THAT'S REALLY, THAT'S REALLY GREAT.
UH, NOW JUST A GENERAL QUESTION THAT YOU HAVE THAT, THAT PAPER MARKING FIVE YEAR CYCLE, UH, SO YOU THINK THAT YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO, I THINK THAT'S THE GOAL TO ACHIEVE THAT FIVE YEAR CYCLE.
UH, AND THAT INCLUDES PAINTING THE NEW BIKE LANE AND THEN ALSO MAKING SURE THAT EVERYTHING WE COME BACK NEXT FIVE YEARS TO FIX THOSE AGAIN.
SO I THINK THAT'S A, THAT'S A GREAT, NOW ON THE 28 MILE THAT YOU HAVE FOR THE, UH, BIKE LANE THAT YOU HAVE, IS THAT, UH, I KNOW THE LANE MILE FOR THE, YOU KNOW, PIGMENT MARKING IS LIKE FOR EACH LANE YOU ARE JUST SAYING THAT EACH LANE, HOW MANY MILES THERE.
BUT FOR THE BIKE LANE, ARE YOU CONSIDERING THE TWO LINE AS ONE ONE LINE, OR IS TWO LINE FOR 28 MILE IS FOR, SO, SO THE, IT, IT'S THE TOTAL LENGTH OF BIKE FACILITY, WHICH CONSIDER ONE BIKE LANE WITH BUFFERS AND ACTUAL MARK OF BIKE LANE.
THAT, THAT IS THE LENGTH OF THE BIKE LANE THAT WE'RE CONSIDERING.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS, COUNSEL, AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.
YOU HEARD MR. MAGNER STATE, WE MOVED PAST ITEM NUMBER FIVE TO ITEM NUMBER SIX TO SAVE A LITTLE TIME.
[5. REVIEW AND DISCUSS THE DALLAS AREA RAPID TRANSIT (DART) PROGRAMS AND TOPICS OF INTEREST]
NOW GONNA GO BACK TO NUMBER FIVE, REVIEW AND DISCUSS THE DALLAS AREA RAPID TRANSIT PROGRAMS AND TOPICS OF INTEREST.SO, MR. BAGER, UH, THANKS MAYOR.
UM, WE ARE VERY EXCITED TONIGHT TO HAVE, UH, DART, CEO, UH, NADINE LEE HERE.
I'M GONNA LET HER INTRODUCE HER TEAM.
ALSO VERY EXCITED, UH, TO HAVE WITH US, UM, UM, UH, BOARD CHAIR, UH, GARY SLAGEL, OF COURSE RICHARDSON'S APPOINTEE, UH, TO THE DART BOARD.
AND, UH, ALSO, UH, WANT TO RECOGNIZE EDMUND, UH, ZA, UH, HE'S, UH, IN THE AUDIENCE THERE, UH, EDMOND, UM, UH, DOING A LOT OF WORK FOR, UH, DART AND SOMEBODY THAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO, AS CITY MANAGER'S, BEEN ABLE TO SPEND A LOT OF TIME WITH, UH, LATE LATELY.
UM, NADINE IS HERE TO PROS PROVIDE A REALLY IMPORTANT BRIEFING AS AGAIN, UH, AN ANNUAL CHECK IN, BUT REALLY, UM, SOME CONTEXT AS WE HEAD INTO THE BUDGET, UH, DEVELOPMENT PROCESS.
SO MUCH OF WHAT YOU HEARD, UM, FROM, UH, PREEM, UH, RELATED TO, UH, THE PROJECTS THAT NADINE WILL COVER, UM, WE HAVE A GREAT PARTNERSHIP WITH DART AND REALLY APPRECIATE THE STAFF TO STAFF WORK THAT WE GET TO DO WITH THEM.
AND SO, NADINE, THANKS SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE AND I'LL TURN IT OVER TO YOU.
UM, THANK YOU MAYOR DUBBY AND MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL.
UM, I DO HAVE SEVERAL OF MY STAFF HERE WITH ME.
KAY SHELTON IS OUR CHIEF OF STAFF AT DART.
AND THEN I HAVE DEMARCUS OFFER OFFERED WHO IS, UM, OUR SENIOR MANAGER FOR GOVERNMENT RELATIONS AND THEN TREY WALKER, UH, WHO, UH, LEADS UP OUR SILVER LINE PROJECT AS WELL AS OUR DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION SERVICES.
UM, AND OF COURSE YOU ALREADY KNOW, UH, CHAIR SLAGEL AND I, I WANNA THANK YOU FOR ARRANGING THE AGENDA A LITTLE BIT TO ACCOMMODATE US BEING LATE AND STUCK IN TRAFFIC.
UM, SO IN ORDER TO ADDRESS THE CONGESTION ISSUES, I'M GONNA HAVE A TALK WITH YOUR DART REPRESENTATIVE TO SEE IF WE CAN GET MORE TRANSIT
UM, SO, UH, LET ME JUST START BY, UH, LET ME MAKE SURE I, OKAY.
NOW I KNOW HOW TO USE THE TECHNOLOGY
UM, SO I'M GONNA COVER THE POINT B STRATEGIC PLAN.
I KNOW YOU'VE HEARD SNIPPETS OF THIS BEFORE, BUT I WANNA TALK A LITTLE
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BIT IN MORE DETAIL ABOUT WHAT WE HAVE INVOLVED IN THE, UH, STRATEGIC PLAN.AND, UH, OF COURSE WE'LL TALK, UM, IN, IN MORE DETAIL ABOUT SOME OF THE GOALS IN THE STRATEGIC PLAN.
'CAUSE I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF REALLY EXCITING INFORMATION IN THERE FOR YOU THAT WE CAN ALL LOOK FORWARD TO.
AND, UM, AND OF COURSE, AS ALWAYS, THE MOMENT EVERYONE'S BEEN LOOKING, WAITING FOR IS, YOU KNOW, THE SILVER LINE UPDATE.
SO I'LL BE SURE TO TOUCH ON THAT AS WELL.
UM, SO ON THE STRATEGIC PLAN, WE STARTED IN THE FALL OF 2022, UH, REALLY TRYING TO LOOK FORWARD FOR DART AND FIGURE OUT WHAT WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING OVER THE NEXT DECADE AND, AND TRYING TO COME UP WITH A PLAN FOR HOW WE'LL GUIDE OUR PRIORITIES AND OUR INVESTMENTS.
AND SO WE REALLY JUST STARTED OFF WITH A VERY SIMPLE CONCEPT, MOVING DART FROM POINT A TO POINT B.
AND SO, UM, YOU KNOW, THE MOST BASIC PREMISE OF THE POINT B STRATEGIC PLAN IS REALLY MOVING FROM WHERE WE ARE TODAY AND TRYING TO BECOME THAT STRATEGIC ECONOMIC AND MOBILITY ASSET THAT TRANSIT REALLY SHOULD BE IN EVERY CITY THAT IT RESIDES IN.
UM, AND SO WE THINK REALLY STRONG THAT IT'S, YOU KNOW, REALLY STRONGLY, WE BELIEVE THAT, UH, TRANSIT AND TRANSPORTATION IS A KEY TO A THRIVING REGION FOR PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES.
AND SO SOME OF THE KEY POINTS ABOUT THIS IS THAT WE RECOGNIZE THAT THERE ARE 4 MILLION PEOPLE COMING TO OUR REGION OVER THE NEXT 20 YEARS, AND WE'RE ABOUT TO SURPASS CHICAGO AS THE THIRD LARGEST METROPOLITAN AREA IN THE NEXT DECADE.
AND SO, AS WE TRY TO SUSTAIN OUR ECONOMIC POWERHOUSE THAT'S HERE IN THIS REGION OF NORTH TEXAS, UM, WE REALLY THINK THAT TRANSPORTATION'S REALLY CRITICAL TO MAKING SURE THAT, UM, EVERYONE IN THE REGION PROSPERS FROM THIS AMAZING GROWTH THAT'S COMING OUR WAY.
SO, POINT A PROVIDES CONTEXT FOR UNDERSTANDING CURRENT PERCEPTIONS OF DART AND REALLY SOME OF THE REALITIES THAT DART FACES AS WE'RE TRYING TO, UH, TRANSFORM WHO WE ARE AND HOW WE PROVIDE SERVICES TO THE COMMUNITY.
SO IN SOME WAYS, UM, POINT A KIND OF HIGHLIGHTS MORE OF WHAT WE'RE NOT DOING AS MUCH AS IT IS WHAT WE ARE DOING.
AND SO WHAT WE WANNA DO IS FIND UNCONVENTIONAL WAYS TO ADDRESS SOME OF THE CHALLENGES THAT WE HAVE AND FIGURE OUT IF THERE ARE WAYS THAT WE CAN BE MORE SUCCESSFUL, UM, IN WAYS THAT PERHAPS WE HAVEN'T EXPLORED BEFORE.
AND SO WE INCORPORATED A WHOLE BUNCH OF INPUTS FROM A NUMBER OF INTERVIEWS.
UM, I KNOW THAT WE'VE TALKED TO ALL THE CITY MANAGERS, WE'VE TALKED TO OUR CUSTOMERS, WE'VE TALKED TO OUR STAFF, UM, JUST TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THE KEY CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES ARE.
AND SO WE HEARD EVERYTHING FROM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, QUALITY OF LIFE, LAND USE, COLLABORATION, RELATIONSHIPS, UM, THE AUTO CENTRICITY OF OUR REGION, UH, GOVERNANCE AND FUNDING, POST PANDEMIC EFFECTS ON WORK AND TRAVEL, UM, CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE, WORKFORCE INNOVATION.
UH, WE TOOK ALL OF THAT INTO CONSIDERATION AS WE WERE DEVELOPING OUR VISION FOR POINT B.
SO OUR OVERARCHING GOAL FOR POINT B IS TO MOVE DART FROM BEING A SERVICE THAT PEOPLE SOMETIMES USE TO BEING A REAL VALUED REGIONAL ECONOMIC AND MOBILITY ASSET THAT WE CAN LEVERAGE TO DO MORE.
SO WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? THAT MEANS THAT, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A FUTURE WHERE MORE PEOPLE WILL USE AND USE AND RELY ON DART BECAUSE ITS SERVICES ARE SO ACCESSIBLE, SO ATTRACTIVE, AND SO EASY TO USE, AND IT'S A PLACE WHERE DART'S FULL POTENTIAL CAN BE UNLOCKED.
UM, WE WANT OUR CITIES AND PARTNERS TO, TO LEVERAGE TRANSIT AS A CATALYST FOR ECONOMIC PROSPERITY AND A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE.
AND WE REALLY WANT A, YOU KNOW, A FUTURE WHERE PEOPLE ARE PROUD TO WORK FOR DART.
THEY CHOOSE TO LIVE, WORK, AND PLAY IN AREAS SERVED BY DART, AND THEY THINK OF DART FIRST WHENEVER THEY NEED TO TRAVEL.
AND SO WHAT I ALWAYS SAY IS WE'RE CULTIVATING A LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIP WITH EVERYONE IN THIS REGION, AND WE ULTIMATELY WANT EVERYONE TO LOVE DART.
SO POINT B IS UNDERPINNED BY THREE MAIN THEMES.
THE FIRST IS OPERATIONAL INTEGRITY.
WE WANT TO PROVIDE A BEST IN CLASS SERVICE.
WE WANT TO BE FIRST IN MIND, LIKE I SAID, FOR EVERYONE WHO NEEDS TO TRAVEL IN THE REGION.
UM, WE ALSO HAVE SEAMLESS MOBILITY, WHICH IS ALL ABOUT MOVING PEOPLE, NOT CARS.
AND THEN OF COURSE, STRATEGIC RELATIONSHIPS, WHICH IS ABOUT ENROLLING PARTNERS AND CREATING FANTASTIC SPACES.
TOGETHER WE HAVE SIX STRATEGIC GOALS DESCRIBING HOW WE'RE GOING TO ACHIEVE THIS VISION.
AND THESE GOALS FALL INTO THREE GENERAL BUCKETS.
THE FIRST BUCKET, MEANING AGENCY FOCUSED, UH, YOU KNOW, THAT'S, UH, FOCUSING ON OUR EMPLOYEES AND OUR ORGANIZATION, REALLY SUPPORTING OUR ABILITY TO BE RESPONSIVE AND NIMBLE TO FOSTER CONTRIBUTION ACROSS THE AGENCY TO TRY TO ACHIEVE OUR GOALS.
THE SECOND BUCKET IS FOCUSED ON THE CUSTOMER, AND THEY REALLY EMPHASIZE, YOU KNOW, BUILDING A QUALITY SERVICE THAT'S BUILT ON THE PROFESSIONAL PRIDE OF STAFF, REALLY UNDERSTANDING WHAT THE DART BRAND IS AND MAKING SURE THAT EVERYTHING WE DO REFLECTS THE DART BRAND.
AND THEN ALSO SEAMLESS MOBILITY THAT HELPS POSITION DART AS FIRST IN MIND.
AND THEN THE THIRD BUCKET IS REALLY ABOUT, UM, COMMUNITY FOCUS, WHICH IS CREATING FANTASTIC SPACES AND STRATEGIC RELATIONSHIPS TO ADD VALUE TO OUR COMMUNITIES AND TO
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LEVERAGE DART TO UNCOVER OPPORTUNITIES THAT ADVANCE STRONG COMMUNITIES IN THE STRONG REGION.THIS IS A 10 YEAR STRATEGIC PLAN WITH A FOCUS ON THE NEXT FIVE YEARS, BUT UNDERSTANDING THAT SOME OF OUR INITIATIVES WILL TAKE LONGER THAN FIVE YEARS.
OUR POINT B VISION IS ANCHORED BY AND REFLECTED IN OUR NEW VISION STATEMENT AND OUR NEW MISSION STATEMENT, AS WELL AS OUR VALUES.
OUR VISION STATEMENT EXPRESSES WHAT WE ASPIRE TO BE.
UM, IT REFLECTS OUR ASPIRATIONAL GOAL OF BEING FIRST IN MIND FOR, FOR MOBILITY AND A VALUED PARTNER FOR LIFE, WHETHER THAT'S WITH OUR RIDERS, OUR CITIES, BUSINESSES, OR THE MANY STAKEHOLDER ORGANIZATIONS IN OUR REGION.
OUR MISSION STATEMENT IS THE REASON WE EXIST.
AND AT THE END OF THE DAY, THIS IS WHAT WE DO.
WE HELP PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES CONNECT AND FLOURISH.
IF WE HELP PEOPLE FLOURISH, THAT'S A REALLY AWESOME THING.
SO OUR BOARD IS CONSIDERING, UM, THE STRATEGIC PLAN FOR APPROVAL TOMORROW NIGHT AND, UM, IN ADVANCE OF BOARD APPROVAL.
SO WE'RE ALREADY INCORPORATING THE GOALS INTO OUR WORK.
THE QUALITY OF SERVICE IS ALL ABOUT PROFESSIONAL PRIDE, AS I MENTIONED, AND WE'RE TRYING TO DELIVER ON A BEST IN CLASS CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE.
UM, IN EARLY, UH, FISCAL YEAR 23, THE DART BOARD APPROVED $110 MILLION GEARED TOWARDS RIDERSHIP IMPROVEMENTS IN THE AREAS OF SECURITY, CLEANLINESS, AND RELIABILITY.
AND I'LL TOUCH ON A COUPLE OF THESE EFFORTS AS WE WORK TO MAKE THOSE ITEMS SECOND NATURE AND PART OF OUR DNA, BECAUSE IN OUR FUTURE THAT WE ENVISION THESE THINGS ARE THINGS WE DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT ANYMORE BECAUSE WE'RE JUST SO GOOD AT THEM.
UM, SO I'LL HIGHLIGHT A FEW OF THE KEY INITIATIVES THAT ARE UNDERWAY TO SUPPORT QUALITY SERVICE IN THE LONG TERM.
STARTING WITH SECURITY, DART HAS DEVELOPED AND IS ADVANCING A PROGRESSIVE AND INNOVATIVE SECURITY STRATEGY THAT'S GOING TO INCORPORATE A RANGE OF TOOLS AND RESOURCES THAT DELIVER PEACE OF MIND FOR ALL WHEN THEY'RE INTERACTING WITH DART.
THERE ARE A LOT OF FACETS ALREADY UNDERWAY.
UH, FOR EXAMPLE, WE HAVE A BACKEND HARDWARE SYSTEM FOR OUR VIDEO MANAGEMENT SYSTEM THAT'S NEAR COMPLETION, AND WE'RE GONNA BE TESTING OUR NEW CAMERAS SOON, UM, TO SUPPORT, UH, ENHANCEMENTS THROUGHOUT THE SYSTEM AND ALSO ON OUR VEHICLES.
WE'VE ALSO SWITCHED TO BRIGHTER LED LIGHTING AT OUR FACILITIES, AND WE'VE BEEN ENHANCING ACCESS CONTROL, ESPECIALLY AT OUR OPERATING FACILITIES.
THE SECURITY STRATEGY COVERS TECHNOLOGY, ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN, STAFFING, AND THE DARK CARES PILOT PROGRAM, WHICH IS A PILOT TO ADDRESS HOMELESSNESS AND MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES ON THE SYSTEM.
WE ALSO ADDED A HUNDRED ADDITIONAL SECURITY OFFICERS ON OUR SYSTEM, UH, WHILE WE CONTINUE TO RECRUIT POLICE OFFICERS TO KEEP STAFFING LEVELS UP.
AND I THINK YOU PROBABLY KNOW AS WELL AS ANYONE THAT IS VERY, VERY DIFFICULT TO RECRUIT LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS.
A FEW STATISTICS, THE NUMBER OF ARRESTS PER A HUNDRED THOUSAND RIDERS HAS BEEN INCREASING OVER THE LAST YEAR FROM 3.37 IN MARCH OF 2023 TO 5.17 IN MARCH OF 2024.
UM, THE RESPONSE TIME HAS ALSO SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVED OVER THE LAST YEAR, DROPPING FROM A HIGH OF EIGHT MINUTES AND 32 SECONDS IN JUNE OF LAST YEAR, UM, I'M SORRY, YEAH, JUNE OF LAST YEAR, THAT'S A YEAR AGO NOW
SO WE'RE GOING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION ON BOTH OF THOSE STATISTICS.
THE INCREASE IN REPORTING OFFENSES, UH, IT REFLECTS ENHANCED SECURITY MEASURES SUCH AS GREATER POLICE PRESENCE AND MORE VIGILANT REPORTING.
AND THESE MEASURES HAVE REALLY LED TO HIGHER DETECTION AND RECORDING OF OFFENSES, UM, CONTRIBUTING TO A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF CRIME TRENDS.
AND SO THE RISE IN REPORTED OFFENSES IS AN INDICATION OF IMPROVED SECURITY AND ALSO A MUCH MORE PROACTIVE APPROACH.
ON DART'S PART, WE ALSO LAUNCHED THE DART CARES PILOT PROGRAM TO CONNECT PEOPLE WITH MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES THAT THEY NEED.
DARK CARES IS HELPING MAKE A DIFFERENCE AS WELL.
UH, THE DARK CARES TEAMS HAVE HAD 896 CONTACTS BETWEEN NOVEMBER, 2023 AND MARCH OF 2024.
ROUGHLY 80% OF THOSE REPORTED.
UH, THEY DID, UH, REPORTED THAT THEY DID NOT HAVE A MENTAL HEALTH DIAGNOSIS, BUT WERE UNHOUSED, UH, MANY OF THESE PEOPLE ARE CONSIDERED SERVICE RESISTANT.
UH, BUT DART CONTINUES TO LOOK FOR WAYS TO PROVIDE RELEVANT SERVICES TO THIS POPULATION.
ARRESTS FOR EMERGENCY DETENTION, WHICH IS ARRESTS FOR THOSE IN MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS AND WHO MIGHT BE PRESENTING A THREAT TO THEMSELVES OR OTHERS, WERE PREVIOUSLY THE NUMBER ONE ARREST CATEGORY.
AND NOW THESE ARRESTS HAVE ACTUALLY FALLEN TO NUMBER THREE, PRIMARILY DUE TO THE INTERVENTION OF THE DARK DARK CARES PROGRAM.
ON THE CLEANLINESS SIDE, WE'VE ADDED SIGNIFICANTLY TO OUR CLEANING REGIMEN ACROSS OUR SERVICES.
UH, THERE'S A BROCHURE AT EACH OF YOUR SPOTS, UM, AROUND THE DAIS.
UH, JUST FOR WITH DETAILS THAT YOU CAN LOOK THROUGH AT YOUR LEISURE, I WANNA TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT RELIABILITY.
UH, WE DELIVER ABOUT 7,500 BUS AND RAIL TRIPS PER DAY.
SO THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT WE ARE DELIVERING OVER 99% OF THOSE TRIPS THESE DAYS.
UM, AND THAT'S ACTUALLY NO SMALL FEAT BECAUSE TWO YEARS
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AGO WE WERE, UH, WE WERE MISSING ABOUT 15% OF THOSE TRIPS.AND SO, UH, THIS CHANGE, THIS IMPROVEMENT IN OUR DELIVERY OF SCHEDULED TRIPS IS LARGELY DUE TO AGGRESSIVE HIRING OF OPERATORS AND, UM, USING A VARIETY OF OUTREACH METHODS TO ENSURE THAT WE'RE PROVIDING THESE SERVICES THAT WE PROMISED.
AND I ALSO WANNA JUST POINT OUT THAT ACROSS THE AGENCY, WE'VE REDUCED VOLUNTARY ATTRITION FROM 13% LAST YEAR TO THREE AND A HALF PERCENT THIS YEAR.
SO WE'RE REALLY, REALLY PROUD OF THAT NOW, ALTHOUGH WE'RE DELIVERING THESE TRIPS.
SO WE'RE, WE'RE NOT MISSING AS MANY TRIPS AS WE DID BEFORE.
WE'RE STILL SHORT OF OUR ON-TIME PERFORMANCE GOAL, UM, ESPECIALLY ON THE BUS SIDE.
AND LEMME TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT BECAUSE WE'RE REALLY TRYING TO ANALYZE THE ROOT CAUSES OF DELAY.
SO THERE ARE THREE MAIN THINGS THAT IMPACT ON TIME PERFORMANCE, AND FIRST, IT'S THE PEOPLE BEING AVAILABLE TO WORK, WHICH WE'VE TRIED TO ADDRESS THROUGH OUR AGGRESSIVE HIRING E EFFORTS.
THERE'S THE SECOND PIECE, WHICH IS, UM, YOUR EQUIPMENT AND YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE BEING AVAILABLE FOR THE SERVICE.
SO WE'RE DOING THAT THROUGH MAKING SURE THAT OUR MECHANICS ARE GETTING OUR BUSES READY TO GO AND OUR, OUR RAIL VEHICLES ARE READY TO GO.
AND THEN THE THIRD PIECE THAT IS NOT IN OUR CONTROL IS THE ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH WE OPERATE.
AND SO, UM, IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT FOR US TO, TO FOCUS ON THAT, AND THAT'S WHERE I THINK WE CAN WORK REALLY CLOSELY WITH THE CITIES, UM, TO, TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO ADDRESS SOME OF THE THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN REAL TIME EVERY DAY OUT ON THE STREETS.
SO, UM, THE OPERATING ENVIRONMENT, UM, IS, YOU KNOW, IT COULD BE THINGS THAT ARE LIKE, YOU KNOW, CARS BEING ABANDONED ON OUR, OUR RAIL TRACKS, ACCIDENTS, THAT STALL, TRAFFIC CONSTRUCTION, ALL THOSE THINGS THAT CAN AFFECT ON TIME PERFORMANCE.
AND THAT'S WHERE, LIKE I SAID, THE COLLABORATION WITH OUR CITIES IS REALLY SUPER HELPFUL TO OPTIMIZE THE OPERATIONS.
UM, COUNCIL MEMBER HUTCH JUST MENTIONED THE UTD PROFESSOR, UM, WHO'S LOOKING AT THE, UH, SIGNAL, UH, TECHNOLOGY AND, UM, WE ACTUALLY, I, I DON'T REMEMBER WHEN WE'RE MEETING WITH HER.
I KNOW WE WERE, WE HAD REACHED OUT TO HER TO SEE IF WE COULD SCHEDULE SOME TIME, UH, TO MEET WITH HER.
AND, UH, WE'RE REALLY LOOKING FOR EARLY ADOPTERS OF TECHNOLOGY TO HELP US DEMONSTRATE EMERGING TOOLS.
SO, UM, IF RICHARDSON'S INTERESTED, IT SEEMS TO MAKE SENSE.
IT'S RIGHT IN THE BACKYARD OF UTD, SO, UM, SO WE'LL JUST MAKE SURE THAT WE COORDINATE WITH THE CITY ON ON THAT.
UM, ANOTHER POSITIVE CHANGE WE'VE MADE IS NEW TECHNOLOGY TO SUPPORT BETTER REALTIME DATA FOR OUR CUSTOMERS.
AND THAT REALLY HELPS BECAUSE IT TAKES THE UNCERTAINTY OUT OF WAITING.
AND SO THAT, UH, THAT API IS NOW AVAILABLE ACROSS INDUSTRY APPS.
AND, UM, JUST TO NOTE THAT GOLINK IS ONLY VISIBLE ON DARK APPS, SINCE THAT IS AN ON-DEMAND SERVICE.
NOW, ALL OF THESE THINGS THAT WE'VE BEEN DOING ARE REALLY HELPING US GROW RIDERSHIP AND SYSTEM WIDE.
WE'VE BEEN TRENDING IN THE LOW EIGHTIES AS A PERCENTAGE OF PRE COVID RIDERSHIP.
UM, WE'RE JUST ON THE FRONT END OF, UM, OR ON THE HIGH END OF THE NATIONAL TREND.
SO WE'RE REALLY PROUD OF THAT.
UM, AND I'LL JUST POINT OUT A COUPLE OF STATS THAT YOU SEE UP HERE.
PARATRANSIT AND GOLINK RIDERSHIP IS EXCEEDING PRE PANDEMIC LEVELS.
AND, UH, GOLINK GROWTH IS PRIMARILY BECAUSE THE SERVICE AND ZONES HAVE GREATLY EXPANDED SINCE 2020.
THE WEEKEND RIDERSHIP GROWTH HAS BEEN STRONGER THAN WEEKDAYS.
I THINK THAT'S A PRETTY KNOWN THING ACROSS THE, UH, INDUSTRY, UM, ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
AND THEN WITH REMOTE WORK, WE'RE NOT, NOT SEEING AS MUCH PEAK PERIOD WEEKDAY TRAVEL, UM, DURING THE TRADITIONAL COMMUTE HOURS.
SO THINGS LIKE THE EXPRESS BUS AND TRE ARE STILL THE FURTHEST BEHIND.
AND OF, OF COURSE, THAT'S NOT A SECRET IN THE INDUSTRY.
UM, WHEN GOLINK SERVICE HOURS WERE EXPANDED TO MATCH BUS SERVICE HOURS, UH, RIDERSHIP REALLY SURGED AND HAS MORE THAN DOUBLED IN, UM, IN ABOUT A YEAR.
SO WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT THAT BECAUSE, UM, WE'RE GETTING MORE RIDERSHIP THROUGH SOME OF THESE SERVICES.
UM, AND WE ALWAYS HAVE TO MONITOR AND SEE WHERE WE'RE GOING.
WE'RE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR TRENDS TO SEE IF SOMETHING MAKES SENSE IN TERMS OF REINSTALLING OR RE REISSUING SOME SORT OF FIXED DROUGHT SERVICE.
SO WE'RE, WE'RE KIND OF LOOKING AT THAT TO SEE, SEE WHAT WE LEARN.
AND WE'VE GOT LOTS AND LOTS OF EXAMPLES OF GOLINK ACROSS THE REGION.
SO THE OTHER, UH, THING THAT WE'RE DOING IS, UM, WE'RE WORKING ON A SYSTEM MODERNIZATION PROGRAM THAT IS GOING TO SUPPORT THE QUALITY SERVICE.
AND THIS PROGRAM IS GOING TO TOUCH A RANGE OF SYSTEM ELEMENTS AND FOCUS ON EMPLOYEE AND CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE AS WE MAKE IMPROVEMENTS.
AND SO LET ME GIVE YOU A FEW THOUGHTS ABOUT WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE.
FIRST OF ALL, WE'RE GONNA BE REPLACING THE OLDEST LIGHT RAIL VEHICLES IN OUR FLEET.
UM, THEY'RE GETTING UP AROUND 30 YEARS OLD, WHICH IS GETTING TO THE END OF THEIR USEFUL LIFE.
UM, THERE'S ABOUT 95 OF THOSE VEHICLES AND, UM, WE'RE REALLY TRYING TO UPDATE THEM, UPDATE THESE VEHICLES TO THE NEWEST TECHNOLOGY.
NOW, WHEN WE GET NEW VEHICLES ON THE LIGHT RAIL SIDE, IT'S GONNA TRIGGER A NUMBER OF ADDITIONAL CHANGES TO OUR STATIONS, OUR FACILITIES, AND OUR SYSTEMS. SO THAT INCLUDES, UM, YOU KNOW, RAISING THE, UH, LIGHT RAIL PLATFORMS ON THE RED AND BLUE, UH, I'M SORRY, UH, RAISING THE, UH, PLATFORMS
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AT 23 OF OUR STATIONS.UM, WE'VE ALREADY, UH, WE'VE ALREADY EXTENDED AND RAISED THE PLATFORMS AT 28 OF OUR STATIONS, BUT WE'VE GOTTA DO IT FOR THE, FOR THESE OTHER 23.
AND THIS WOULD INCLUDE, UM, THE FOUR STATIONS IN RICHARDSON ON THE RED AND ORANGE LINES.
UM, IF WE RAISE THE PLATFORMS, THIS IS GONNA ALLOW FOR UNIVERSAL ACCESSIBILITY AT ALL DOORS ON THE NEW VEHICLES, WHICH IS A REALLY GREAT THING BECAUSE THEN WE DON'T LIMIT PEOPLE TO CERTAIN DOORS.
UM, AND THEN THE CURRENT VEHICLES WILL CONTINUE TO BE ACCESSIBLE.
UM, YOU KNOW, UNTIL WE, UH, UNTIL WE REPLACE THOSE SOMETIME IN THE FUTURE, UM, OUR OPERATING FACILITIES ARE GONNA NEED TO BE MODIFIED BECAUSE THESE NEW LOW FOUR VEHICLES ARE ACTUALLY, UM, THEY'RE GONNA HAVE MORE OF THEIR COMPONENTS ON THE ROOF.
AND SO WE HAVE TO CHANGE OUR CONFIGURATION WITHIN OUR FACILITIES TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY, UH, MAINTAIN THESE VEHICLES.
IT'S, IT'S JUST GONNA REQUIRE A LITTLE BIT OF EXTRA HOUSEKEEPING FOR US TO, UM, MAKE SURE THAT OUR, OUR MAINTENANCE FACILITIES ARE CONFIGURED THE RIGHT WAY.
UM, ANOTHER THING THAT WE'RE WORKING ON IS A UNIFIED SIGNAL SYSTEM.
THIS IS A HUGE PROJECT, UH, THAT REALLY WILL, UM, UH, REALLY ALIGN ALL OF OUR SIGNAL SYSTEMS TO BE THE SAME TECHNOLOGY, AND THAT'S REALLY DESIGNED TO INCREASE SAFETY AND RELIABILITY ON OUR SYSTEM.
ON THE BUS SIDE, WE'RE GONNA BE REPLACING OUR BUSES.
UH, WE HAVE ABOUT, I THINK 500, 400 OR 500 BUSES THAT WE'RE REPLACING.
UM, AND AS YOU MIGHT EXPECT, UM, IN THE LAST 10 OR 15 YEARS, UH, BUS INDUSTRY HAS CHANGED QUITE A BIT AND THERE ARE FEWER EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS TODAY THAN THERE WERE 15 YEARS AGO.
AND SO WE'RE LOOKING INTO JOINT PROCUREMENTS WITH, UM, ANY OTHER AGENCIES THAT ACTUALLY HAVE SOME, UM, PROCUREMENT, UH, OPEN PROCUREMENTS THAT HAVE OPTIONS THAT WE CAN CAPITALIZE ON.
UM, AND SO WE'RE GOING TO, AS WE'RE LOOKING AT THESE NEW BUSES, WE'RE LIKE THE LIGHT RAIL VEHICLES.
WE'RE GONNA DO SOME CUSTOMER SURVEYS AND DO SOME, UH, WORK WITH THE CUSTOMERS TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THE CONFIGURATION OF THESE VEHICLES SHOULD LOOK LIKE INSIDE.
AND SO WE REALLY WANNA FOCUS ON WHAT CUSTOMERS WANT AND NEED.
NOW, ON THE BUS SIDE, WE HAVE A, UH, $103 MILLION FEDERAL GRANT, UM, FOR A LOWER NO EMISSIONS, UM, BUSES THAT WILL ACTUALLY HELP US PAY FOR THESE, UH, THESE NEW VEHICLES.
AND SO WE'RE ALSO STILL PILOTING BATTERY ELECTRIC BUSES, UM, JUST TO MONITOR THEIR PERFORMANCE AND RELIABILITY AND THEIR RANGE.
UM, 'CAUSE WE WANNA CONTINUE TO LOOK AT WHAT THAT FUTURE MIGHT LOOK LIKE.
THE SECOND GOAL THAT WE WANTED TO WORK ON HERE IN OUR STRATEGIC PLAN IS WHAT WE REFER TO AS SEAMLESS MOBILITY.
THAT IS A DIRECT TIE TO THE AVAILABILITY OF SERVICES, THE EASE OF ACCESS, AND THE CONNECTIVITY OF OUR SERVICES.
SO OUR SYSTEM HAS CONTINUED TO EVOLVE INTO A MULTIMODAL TRANSIT ECOSYSTEM RANGING FROM NEW MOBILITY FOR FIRST AND LAST MILE, AND FOR SHORT TRIPS TO REGIONAL SERVICES LIKE THE FUTURE SILVER LINE.
IN ORDER TO MAKE THESE SEEM THINGS SEAMLESS, WE HAVE TO PROVIDE A LOT MORE SERVICE.
AND SO WE'RE ALREADY ADVANCING SEVERAL INITIATIVES TOWARD THAT GOAL.
THESE MAPS THAT YOU SEE HERE, UM, SHOW THE PLANS TO CONTINUE TO GROW THE BUS NETWORK AND ENHANCE SERVICE LEVELS TO BETTER SERVE RIDERS.
AND JUST SO YOU KNOW WHAT THE COLORS REPRESENT, UM, ALL THE RED LINES REPRESENT 15 MINUTE ALL DAY SERVICE.
THE PURPLE LINES, I HOPE IT'S PURPLE ON THIS, UH, I KNOW IT'S THE DIFFERENT COLORS SHOW UP DIFFERENTLY.
THE PURPLE SHOWS, UM, 15 MINUTE PEAK SERVICE AND THEN 20 MINUTE MIDDAY SERVICE.
AND THEN THE BLUE SHOWS 30 MINUTE ALL DAY SERVICE, UM, IN THE MIDDLE, UH, MIDDLE MAP THAT IS WHAT WE CALL OUR TIER ONE PLAN, WHICH IS WHAT WE HOPE TO ACHIEVE IN A FIVE YEAR TIMEFRAME.
AND THEN THERE'S A TIER TWO PLAN ON THE RIGHT THAT IS A 10 YEAR PLAN.
AND WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO EVOLVE THESE PLANS, UM, BECAUSE I THINK EVERYBODY WOULD LIKE MORE SERVICE SOONER.
AND SO WHEN WE SAY FIVE IN 10 YEARS, THAT'S KIND OF WHAT WE PROJECT RIGHT NOW.
BUT THAT COULD CERTAINLY ALL CHANGE IF WE COULD FIND ADDITIONAL RESOURCES.
AND SPEAKING OF ADDITIONAL SERVICE, THE JUNE, 2024 SERVICE CHANGES WENT INTO EFFECT TODAY.
UM, AND THOSE ARE SHOWN IN ORANGE HERE ON, OR MAYBE IT'S BROWN
UM, EAST WEST SERVICE ON BELTLINE BETWEEN ADDISON AND GARLAND VIA NEW ROUTE TWO 50, UM, AS WELL AS EAST WEST SERVICE ON ARAPAHOE VIA ROUTE 2 38.
AND THAT INCLUDES NEW SERVICE WEST OF CENTRAL EXPRESSWAY THAT REPLACES THE CENTRAL RICHARDSON GOLINK SERVICE.
AND THEN A NEW SERVICE CONNECTING ARAPAHOE STATION CAMPBELL AND, UH, UTD VIA ROUTE 2 44.
IN SEPTEMBER, WE'RE PROJECTING, UH, WEEKEND REDLINE FREQUENCIES TO IMPROVE TO 20 MINUTES BETWEEN 6:00 AM AND 10:00 PM SO WE'LL HAVE MORE REDLINE SERVICE FOR YOU COMING, UH, COMING SOON.
NOW, LAST YEAR WE IDENTIFIED A NEW PROGRAM CALLED CORE, WHICH STANDS FOR CORRIDOR OPTIMIZATION AND RIDER EXPERIENCE.
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SUPPORT SPEED, CONVENIENCE, AND ACCESS IMPROVEMENTS ALONG ALL OF OUR BUS CORRIDORS.WE HAVE COMPLETED PHASE ONE, WHICH FOCUSED ON THE FREQUENT DART ZOOM ROUTES AND ALSO DEVELOPED BEST PRACTICES TOOLBOX, WHICH IS ON OUR WEBSITE.
UM, AND SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN PERUSE AT YOUR LEISURE.
UM, PHASE TWO, UH, PHASE TWO WILL BE DEFINING SPOT OR CORRIDOR PROJECTS IN MORE DETAIL AND EXPANDING THE PROGRAM TO MORE PARTS OF OUR SERVICE AREA.
AND OUR GOAL IS TO WORK WITH THE CITIES TO ELEVATE THE ROLE OF TRANSIT AND LEVERAGE ALL OF OUR FUNDS TO SEE IF WE COULD DO MORE FOR IMPROVING THE BUS SPEEDS.
YOU KNOW, WE TALKED A LITTLE BIT EARLIER ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT AND HOW WE DON'T CONTROL THE ENVIRONMENT, BUT WITH NEW TECHNOLOGIES, WITH UM, COLLABORATION WITH OUR CITIES, WE MAY BE ABLE TO FIND WAYS TO GIVE SOME PRIORITY TO OUR BUSES SO THAT THEY CAN BE ON TIME.
SO WE'RE REALLY HOPING TO WORK TOGETHER TO SEEK GRANT FUNDS FOR IMPROVEMENTS.
AND IF WE CAN GET MORE MONEY, THAT WOULD BE AMAZING.
MOBILITY HUB GUIDELINES HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED TO HELP FRAME OUR THINKING AROUND MODERNIZATION OF PASSENGER CENTERS AND THE INTEGRATION OF OTHER MODES SUCH AS BIKE SCOOTERS, CAR SHARE, UM, CERTAINLY PEDESTRIAN ACCESS, AND THEN OF COURSE WAYFINDING AND SIGNAGE.
ALL OF THIS IS TRYING TO CREATE A BEST IN CLASS EXPERIENCE AND ADDING VALUE TO OUR COMMUNITIES BY MAKING TRANSIT A LOT EASIER TO USE.
UM, OF COURSE ALL THE DIFFERENT MOBILITY OPTIONS CAN INCLUDE MICRO MOBILITY, UM, ALL THE THINGS THAT YOU HEARD ABOUT IN THE PREVIOUS PRESENTATION.
UM, YOU KNOW, BIKE AND PEDESTRIAN CONNECTIONS, ENHANCED WAY FINDING, UM, YOU KNOW, TRYING TO IMPROVE CUSTOMER SERVICE AND CONVENIENCE.
AND, UM, EVEN CAR SHARE AND EV CHARGERS, WE'VE BEEN DOING THAT AROUND THE REGION AS WELL.
SO WE ARE WORKING WITH UT DALLAS TO USE A $2.5 MILLION COMMUNITY PROJECT FUNDING GRANT, UM, FOR A MOBILITY HUB.
UH, THIS MOBILITY HUB WILL BE ON THE UTD PROPERTY ADJACENT TO THE NEW SILVER LINE STATION AND WILL REALLY PROMOTE SEAMLESS MOBILITY FOR THE SILVER LINE AND REALLY TO HELP STUDENTS, FACULTY, AND VISITORS TRAVEL THROUGHOUT THE CAMPUS AND THE SURROUNDING AREA.
AND THE EXPECTED COMPLETION OF THAT MOBILITY HUB IS LATE 2026.
ANOTHER PART OF SEAMLESS MOBILITY IS THE WAITING ENVIRONMENT.
UM, YOU KNOW, A BIG PART OF YOUR TRAVEL TIME IS GONNA BE HOW LONG YOU HAVE TO WAIT AT ANY GIVEN STOP OR STATION.
AND SO WE HAVE DEVELOPED SOME PROTOTYPES FOR OUR NEXT GEN SHELTER THAT WILL HAVE ENHANCED INFORMATION AND AMENITIES.
AND WE ARE CURRENTLY DEVELOPING THE PROTOTYPE FOR THESE, UH, SHELTERS.
AND THEY'RE GONNA BE HITTING THE AREA THIS YEAR.
THE PROTOTYPES HAVE SOLAR, SOLAR PANELS ON THE ROOF THAT WILL SUPPORT THE REAL-TIME INFORMATION AND ENHANCED LIGHTING TO ENHANCED SECURITY.
FANTASTIC SPACES IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE THINGS TO TALK ABOUT.
UM, IT'S ANOTHER GOAL THAT OFFERS A LOT OF REALLY EXCITING, UH, OPPORTUNITIES.
SO WHEN YOU THINK OF FANTASTIC SPACES, YOU KNOW, WE CAN THINK OF ANYTHING FROM A TEMPORARY POP-UP LIKE A FARMER'S MARKET, UM, WHICH WAS ACTUALLY SCHEDULED FOR SPRING VALLEY A COUPLE WEEKS AGO, BUT GOT RAINED OUT.
UM, AND THAT ALL THE WAY TO MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS LIKE WHAT YOU GUYS ARE DOING AT, UH, ARAPAHOE CENTER STATION.
ANOTHER GREAT EXAMPLE OF FANTASTIC SPACES IS YOUR VERY OWN LINEAR PARK IN THE UNUSED DAR RIGHT OF WAY ALONG OUR RAIL CORRIDOR.
THIS INVESTMENT NOT ONLY ACTIVATES UNDERUTILIZED LAND, BUT IT SUPPORTS YOUR ECONOMIC AND QUALITY OF LIFE OBJECTIVES.
AND THAT'S THE EXACT KIND OF INNOVATIVE THINKING THAT WE WANNA HAVE, UH, IN WORKING WITH ALL OF OUR CITIES TO TRY TO LEVERAGE THE ASSETS THAT DART HAS, UM, TO DO MORE FOR THE COMMUNITY.
SO THESE ARE JUST MORE EXAMPLES FROM AROUND THE REGION.
UM, YOU KNOW, IN ROULETTE, CARROLLTON, ADDISON, UM, WE ARE LOOKING TO LEVERAGE ANY OF OUR ASSETS THAT DART HAS TO TRY TO DO MORE.
AND OF COURSE, STRATEGIC RELATIONSHIPS.
THIS IS REALLY ABOUT WORKING WITH OUR PARTNERS, WHETHER IT'S THE CHAMBER, THE BUSINESSES, THE CITIES, OTHER ORGANIZATIONS TO REALLY ADVANCE MUTUAL GOALS.
UM, THIS IS GONNA GIVE US THE BEST OPPORTUNITY TO LEVERAGE OUR FUNDS TO DO MORE TOGETHER.
AND WE'VE REALLY, UH, SPENT SOME TIME OVER THE LAST YEAR MEETING WITH THE SERVICE AREA CITIES TO REALLY UNDERSTAND THE CITY'S KEY PRIORITIES.
AND SO WE ARE ALSO KICKING OFF OUR, UH, AREA PLAN WORKSHOPS THIS SUMMER, UH, TO IDENTIFY MORE OPPORTUNITIES TO HELP ADVANCE SOME OF THE MOBILITY OBJECTIVES OF THE CITY.
OOPS, I FORGOT TO ADVANCE THAT SLIDE.
SO, UH,
UM, IT'S REALLY A MAJOR EAST WEST CONNECTION THROUGH THE NORTHERN PART OF OUR SERVICE AREA.
AND WHEN I ARRIVED HERE THREE YEARS AGO, UM, IT SEEMED LIKE A VERY ILL FADED PROJECT.
WE HAVE ALL KINDS OF CONSTRUCTION UNDERWAY.
UM, THESE ARE THE FACT SHEETS FOR THE STATIONS IN RICHARDSON AT UT DALLAS AND CITY LINE BUSH.
UH, YOU ALREADY HEARD ABOUT THE HIKE AND BIKE TRAIL, UM, WHICH WILL ALSO BE A GREAT AMENITY FOR
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RICHARDSON AND IT ADDS TO YOUR, UH, ROBUST NETWORK.AND I'M EXCITED THAT YOU HAVE AN ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN UNDERWAY, UM, BECAUSE THERE WILL BE LOTS OF OPPORTUNITIES TO INTEGRATE MORE CONNECTIONS, UM, BY BIKE AND, AND, AND BY FOOT
UM, SO WE'RE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT BEING ABLE TO WORK WITH YOU ON THAT.
SO CONSTRUCTION IS MOVING ALONG IN RICHARDSON AND WORK IS, UM, UNDERWAY OR COMPLETED IN A LOT OF AREAS.
UH, TOMORROW NIGHT, UH, THE DART BOARD WILL BE CONSIDERING THE CONTRACT CHANGES TO ACCOMMODATE THE DESIGN REVISIONS ON THE AESTHETIC ARCH BRIDGE OVER US 75.
UM, THANK YOU TO ALL THE STAFF FOR WORKING WITH US AND WORKING WITH TXDOT THROUGH THAT 'CAUSE I'M SURE IT WAS PAINFUL.
UM, AND THEN, UH, OOPS, I THINK, YEAH, ALL OF OUR VEHICLES HAVE BEEN DELIVERED AND ARE BEING TESTED.
AND YOUR TWO STATIONS IN RICHARDSON ARE NEARLY COMPLETE.
OUR VEHICLES ARE STATE-OF-THE-ART, AND THEY'RE GOING TO OFFER A VERY COMFORTABLE RIDE FOR OUR PASSENGERS.
THE OPERATING PLAN, UM, AS CURRENTLY PLANNED, THE TRAINS WILL OPERATE EVERY 30 OR 60 MINUTES.
AND BEFORE WE, UH, GO INTO REVENUE SERVICE BEFORE OPENING DAY, THERE WILL BE PUBLIC HEARINGS FOR THE FINAL SERVICE PLAN, UH, TO SUPPORT BOARD APPROVAL IN 2025 PRIOR TO REV REVENUE SERVICE, WHICH IS TARGETED FOR LATE 2025 OR EARLY 2026.
AND I KNOW THAT SEEMS LIKE IT'S STILL A YEAR AND A HALF AWAY, BUT IT'S ACTUALLY JUST RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER FROM OUR PERSPECTIVE, BECAUSE IT'S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE YOU'RE GONNA START SEEING VEHICLES OPERATING.
AND SPEAKING OF THAT, UM, SEGMENT C, WHICH IS WHERE, UH, ALL OF YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE IS FOR SILVER LINE, UM, SEGMENT C'S PLAN TO BE THE FIRST SEGMENT FOR TESTING.
SO, UM, WHEN WE GET READY TO START TESTING WILL BE LETTING YOU KNOW, BUT WE ANTICIPATE THE TESTING TO START IN LATE SUMMER OR FALL THIS YEAR.
SO YOU'LL BE SEEING VEHICLES RUNNING AROUND.
I'M CERTAIN YOU'LL GET CALLS WONDERING WHEN THE SERVICE IS GONNA START.
UM, WE GENERALLY DO SIX TO 12 MONTHS OF TESTING, SO FOREWARNING, UM, BUT OBVIOUSLY WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE BREAK IN THOSE VEHICLES.
SO JUST TO CLOSE OUT, UM, AS WE GROW, IT'LL BE INCREASINGLY MORE IMPORTANT TO USE THE CAPACITY OF OUR SYSTEM TO CARRY MORE PEOPLE MORE EFFICIENTLY.
UM, WE'RE WORKING REALLY DILIGENTLY TO LEVERAGE DART AS A TRUE ECONOMIC AND MOBILITY ASSET FOR THIS REGION.
AND THERE ARE TON TONS OF WAYS THAT WE CAN COLLABORATE ACROSS THE SERVICE AREA TO ENHANCE THE QUALITY AND CONNECTIVITY OF DART.
AND WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING WITH RICHARDSON AND ALL THE DART CITIES, UH, TO MAKE THIS VISION A REALITY.
THERE ARE A FEW ENGAGEMENT AND MEETING OPPORTUNITIES TO BE AWARE OF.
THEY'RE SHOWN HERE ON THE SLIDE.
AS YOU PROBABLY KNOW, DART IS FUNDING A STUDY BY EY AT THE REQUEST OF SOME CITIES TO LOOK AT COST ALLOCATION METHODOLOGIES FOR OPERATING CAPITAL AND DEBT EY WILL HAVE TOUCHPOINTS WITH THE CITIES THROUGHOUT AND, UH, AND THEY'LL BE REPORTING TO THE BOARD ON THEIR PROGRESS.
WE ALSO HAVE THE BIANNUAL SILVER LINE MEETING NEXT MONTH, THAT YEAR, DEVELOPMENT SERVICES BUILDING, UM, THAT WILL BE AT SIX O'CLOCK.
AND I MENTIONED AREA PLAN WORKSHOPS BEING PLANNED, AND WE ALSO HAVE FAIR CHANGE MEETINGS THAT ARE SCHEDULED OR WILL BE SCHEDULED TO SUPPORT A PROPOSED AUGUST 27TH PUBLIC HEARING.
AND THAT FOLLOWS A COMPREHENSIVE FAIR STUDY THAT WE'VE BEEN CONDUCTING OVER THE LAST YEAR.
SO I JUST WANTED TO END AGAIN ON OUR VISION AND MISSION STATEMENTS BECAUSE IT REALLY CAPTURES WHERE WE WANT TO HEAD IN THE FUTURE.
AND I REALLY WANNA THANK RICHARDSON LEADERSHIP AND STAFF.
DON, ALL OF YOUR STAFF HAVE BEEN TERRIFIC TO WORK WITH.
UM, YOU GUYS HAVE CREATED A GREAT WORKING RELATIONSHIP FOR DART AND WE REALLY LOOK FORWARD TO THE CONTINUED COLLABORATION.
UM, WE DO WANT TO BE EVERYONE'S FIRST IN MIND MOBILITY PARTNER.
WE WANT EVERYONE TO LOVE DART, AS I SAID BEFORE.
AND WE DO THIS BECAUSE WE CARE ABOUT OUR COMMUNITIES AND, UH, THE PROSPERITY OF OUR RESIDENTS.
SO THIS IS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT TO US AS WE MOVE FORWARD, AND WE REALLY LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING OUR WORK WITH YOU AS WE ACHIEVE THESE OBJECTIVES FOR EVERYONE.
THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION AND THE OVERVIEW.
OBVIOUSLY, IT'S IMPORTANT TO DART OR YOU WOULDN'T BRING YOUR WHOLE TEAM HERE.
YOU KNOW, YOU GOT K TO MARCUS, TREY, AND THEN YOU BROUGHT EDMOND ALL THE WAY FROM AUSTRALIA TO JOIN US.
AND WE'VE GOT OUR MR. SLAGEL WHO WE'RE HOPEFULLY GOING TO VOTE UNANIMOUSLY TO RE TO REACTIVATE HIS TIME.
BUT OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH Y'ALL IS VERY IMPORTANT, AND YOU HAVE MENTIONED THAT AND SAID THAT, AND I THINK YOU HAVE LISTED AT LEAST FIVE ITEMS THAT ARE VERY RICHARDSON SPECIFIC TONIGHT.
AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT OUR CONSTITUENTS KNOW, AND OUR CITIZENS KNOW THAT WE'RE IN IT FOR THE LONG HAUL.
AND THE THINGS THAT Y'ALL DONE TO HELP US WITH THE SILVER LINE, THE TRAILS, UH, THE LINEAR PARK, UT DALLAS, WORKING WITH 'EM, AND THAT EVENTUAL PLATFORM THERE.
AND THEN OF COURSE OUR RA ARAPAHOE STATION, FINDING A WAY FOR US TO RENEGOTIATE
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AND HOPEFULLY BE USER FRIENDLY.SO THOSE ARE ALL IMPORTANT THINGS, AND I THINK THE CITIZENS NEED TO KNOW THAT WE HAVE THAT TYPE OF RELATIONSHIP.
I'M SURE WE'VE GOT LIGHTS LIGHTING UP.
I'VE GOT A LOT OF QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS, BUT FROM OUR PERSPECTIVE, I THINK WE NEED TO SAY THANK YOU AND WE APPRECIATE YOU SEEING HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO BRING THE WHOLE CREW HERE TONIGHT.
IT'S THAT IMPORTANT TO US AS WELL.
SO YES, YOU COULD GET THE SILVER LINE HERE QUICKER, WE WOULD APPRECIATE THAT.
BUT OUTSIDE OF THAT, WE'RE IN GREAT SHAPE.
SO THANK YOU, MS. JUSTICE, I'LL LET YOU GO FIRST.
UH, I JUST WANNA SAY I REALLY LIKE THE DARK CARES PROGRAM THAT YOU TALKED ABOUT.
I THINK THAT'S REALLY GREAT TO SORT OF FOCUS ON MENTAL HEALTH AND WE KNOW THAT THAT'S, YOU KNOW, AN ISSUE JUST WITH EVERYTHING WITH RIDERSHIP AND EVERYTHING.
UM, AND SO I THINK THAT'S A CREATIVE APPROACH AND I'M GLAD THAT YOU'RE TAKING A CARING APPROACH TO ADDRESSING MENTAL HEALTH, UM, AS IT IMPACTS THE SYSTEM.
UH, AND THEN YOU FLEW BACK, FLEW PAST IT A LITTLE BIT, BUT, UH, OF THE CLEAN TEAM, I THOUGHT THAT THAT WAS A REALLY GREAT PROGRAM THAT, THAT YOU INTRODUCED, I THINK IT WAS LAST YEAR TO US.
UH, AND I SAW IN THE MATERIAL THAT IT'S PERMANENT AND I JUST WANTED TO CONGRATULATE YOU ON THAT.
THAT'S ANOTHER GREAT PROGRAM ABOUT REALLY GETTING FOLKS WORK THAT NEED THAT OTHERWISE WOULDN'T HAVE IT.
AND SO I THINK IT'S A REALLY CREATIVE APPROACH TO, UM, KEEPING THE TRANSIT CLEAN AND ALSO HELPING EMPLOYEE, UM, UH, FOLKS.
SO I WANNA CONGRATULATE YOU ON THAT.
UM, AND THEN YOU MENTIONED REGIONAL A FEW TIMES.
I'M CURIOUS, JUST, WE HAVE SOME PRETTY AWESOME REGIONAL EVENTS, YOU KNOW, THE WORLD CUP AND THOSE SORTS OF THINGS COMING IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS.
I'M, I'M WONDERING IF YOU CAN SPEAK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT DART IS DOING ON A REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE TO WORK WITH ITS PARTNERS IN OTHER CITIES AND OTHER, YOU KNOW, OTHER TRANSIT AUTHORITIES.
UM, IF THERE'S ANYTHING ON THE HORIZON THAT WE SHOULD BE AWARE OF THAT YOU CAN SPEAK TO.
YEAH, I, YOU MENTIONED THE WORLD CUP.
SO THAT PROBABLY IS THE BIGGEST, UH, BIGGEST THING THAT'S HAPPENING HERE IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS.
UM, AND IT'S, I THINK IT'S OVER A SIX WEEK PERIOD THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE WHAT, NINE GAMES THAT ACTUALLY COME TO THIS REGION.
AND THEN WITH THAT COMES THINGS LIKE FAN FEST, WHICH IS ALSO A BIG DRAW.
UM, AND I THINK THOSE, THOSE ACTIVITIES WILL HAPPEN AROUND THE REGION TOO.
UM, WE ARE WORKING WITH, UM, BOTH TRINITY METRO AND DENTON COUNTY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY TO FIGURE OUT HOW WE SERVE THOSE AREAS.
IT'S A LITTLE CHALLENGING BECAUSE OF COURSE, ARLINGTON IS NOT IN ANYONE'S SERVICE AREA.
UM, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN WE SHOULDN'T, YOU KNOW, RAISE OUR HANDS AND HELP, UH, BECAUSE I THINK IT'S, IT'S A GREAT WAY TO HIGHLIGHT THE NORTH TEXAS REGION AND SHOW THEM ALL THE REAL COLLABORATION THAT HAPPENS HERE ALL THE TIME.
UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE GETTING READY TO DO TO PREPARE FOR THAT IS THERE'S A, UM, I'M PART OF AN ORGANIZATION CALLED UITP, WHICH IS LIKE AN INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC TRANSPORT, UH, ASSOCIATION.
AND, UM, WE'RE DEVELOPING A WORKSHOP.
THE FIRST PART IS ACTUALLY, UM, GONNA BE HELD IN NEW JERSEY, UM, I THINK NEXT WEEK.
AND WHAT WE WANNA DO IS WE'RE BRINGING IN EXPERTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD WHO HAVE DONE WORLD CUP AND OLYMPICS IMPLEMENTATIONS ON THE PUBLIC TRANSPORT SIDE, AND TRYING TO TRAIN EVERYONE IN NORTH AMERICA WHO'S GOING TO HAVE GAMES IN THEIR CITIES.
UM, AND SO TRINITY METRO'S DEFINITELY PARTICIPATING IN THAT.
I DON'T KNOW IF DCTA IS, BUT, UM, BUT IT'S ONE OF THOSE THINGS.
WE WANNA BRING THE WORLD TO NORTH AMERICA TO HELP US UNDERSTAND HOW BETTER TO, TO DEPLOY OUR RESOURCES DURING, DURING AN EVENT LIKE THE WORLD CUP.
UM, YOU KNOW, WE, IT, IT'S GONNA BE CHALLENGING 'CAUSE WITH ALL THE DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES, YOU KNOW, WE, WE DEAL WITH A LOT OF DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES HAPPENING ON ANY GIVEN NIGHT.
THERE MIGHT BE A MAVS GAME AND A CONCERT AT FAIR PARK AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO WE'RE ACCUSTOMED TO DOING THAT.
BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? YOU KNOW, HOW DOES THAT IMPACT OUR REGULAR SERVICES? UM, WHAT KINDS OF RESOURCES DO WE NEED IN TERMS OF BUSES AND, AND OPERATORS AND THINGS LIKE THAT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE ENOUGH CAPACITY TO, TO PROVIDE THOSE SERVICES FOR EVERYBODY.
AND OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, YOU NEVER KNOW, BUT WE WE'RE, WE'RE ACCUSTOMED TO DOING SPECIAL EVENTS, ACTUALLY, FUN FACT.
UM, YOU KNOW, IN THE 80 PLUS GAMES THAT WE HAD FOR THE STARS IN THE MAVS OVER THE COURSE OF THE LAST SEASON, WE HAD VERY, VERY FEW INCIDENTS THAT GENERATED CUSTOMER COMPLAINTS, WHICH IS REALLY UNUSUAL.
UM, THERE'S ALWAYS SOMETHING THAT CAN GO WRONG, BUT WE'RE REALLY PROUD OF THE FACT THAT WE'VE BEEN REALLY PUTTING OUT THAT SERVICE AND PEOPLE ARE ABLE TO RELY ON IT.
YEAH, I THINK, I THINK IT'S GREAT.
I MEAN, IT REALLY TRULY IS A REGIONAL EVENT.
UH, YOU KNOW, FOLKS THINK IT'S HAPPENING OVER IN ARLINGTON, BUT, YOU KNOW, I'VE HEARD SOME STATISTIC, I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S RIGHT, BUT IT'S SOME, LIKE, ONE GAME IS THE EQUIVALENT OF TWO SUPER BOWLS OR SOMETHING, AND WE HAVE NINE OF THEM COMING TO OUR REGION, WHICH IS LIKE EPIC.
BUT IT DOES PRESENT A CHALLENGE FOR DART AND OTHER REGIONAL TRANSIT AUTHORITIES.
AND SO I, I'M GLAD TO HEAR THAT THERE'S SO MUCH THOUGHT GOING INTO IT.
AND I MEAN, I THINK THERE'S A LOT THAT WE CAN LEARN FROM A REGION ABOUT, UH, YOU KNOW, TRANSPORTATION IN GENERAL AND HOW IF WE WANNA KEEP HOSTING THESE SORTS OF EVENTS, HOW WE NEED TO IMPROVE AND REALLY PARTNER TOGETHER ACROSS THE REGION, UM, TO, TO MAKE THE, YOU KNOW, UH, THESE VENUES ACCESSIBLE AND, UM, YOU KNOW, REALLY BE ABLE TO ATTRACT THESE, THESE HIGH LEVEL EVENTS.
SO I'M REALLY CURIOUS TO HEAR THAT YOU'RE BRINGING FOLKS IN FROM LITERALLY ALL OVER THE WORLD TO TRY AND PREPARE FOR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
AND, UM, I KNOW YOU'RE UP TO THE CHALLENGE, UH, BUT I THINK IT'S
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GONNA BE A REALLY EPIC CHALLENGE,SO I LOOK FORWARD TO MAYBE NEXT YEAR HEARING A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT WHAT THOSE PLANS LOOK LIKE.
UH, NADINE, I ECHO WHAT COUNCILMAN JUSTICE SAYS AS FAR AS THE CLEAN TEAM AND THE ADDED SECURITY.
UM, I'VE WITNESSED THOSE PERSONALLY OVER THE LAST YEAR.
UM, I KNOW WHEN YOU CAME AND SPOKE TO US LAST YEAR, SO MY QUESTIONS WERE AROUND CLOSED SYSTEMS. UH, I WANT TO SHARE TWO QUICK STORIES WITH YOU, UH, SOME PERSONAL EXPERIENCES, UH, ONE, UH, AS A KUDOS AND HATS OFF TO YOU.
UM, A UH, I DON'T KNOW, A MONTH OR TWO AGO, WE WENT, WE ATTENDED A, UH, MAVS GAME ON THE TRAIN.
WE TOOK A DART FROM THE SPRING VALLEY STATION DOWN, AND, UH, I USED THE, UH, TAP CARD, UM, FIRST TIME USING IT ON MY OWN.
AND TO BE HONEST, IT WAS A USER ERROR AND I DIDN'T QUITE UNDERSTAND HOW TO USE IT PROPERLY.
SO WHEN I GOT FAIR CHECKED, I REALIZED INSTEAD OF PAYING FOR TWO, I ENDED UP JUST PAYING FOR ONE.
SO GREAT CUSTOMER SERVICE EXPERIENCE PEOPLE, YEAH.
PULLED OUT THE APP, PAID FOR THE SECOND WALL ON THE TRAIN, AND I AVOIDED ANY ISSUES.
MY SON WAS JUST LOOKING AT ME, HE WAS WORRIED I WAS GONNA GET ARRESTED ON THE TRAIN FOR NOT PAYING FARES, BUT IT, IT WAS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY AND WONDERFUL CUSTOMER SERVICE.
ON THE RIDE BACK, UM, WE HAD TO CHANGE STATION.
WE HAD TO CHANGE TRAINS RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE DAR RIGHT DOWNTOWN, RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE DART OFFICES.
IT WAS SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT, I'LL BE HONEST.
WE WERE A LITTLE SCARED OF THAT STATION.
UH, IN THE, IN THE FIVE MINUTES WE WAITED FOR A TRAIN.
THERE WAS, UH, WE SAW EVERYTHING FROM BOTTLES BEING PASSED AROUND.
THERE WAS, WE STEPPED OVER A NEEDLE ON THE GROUND, AND THEN WE GOT TO WITNESS THE LADY JUMP OFF THE PLATFORM AND TORQUE AGAINST THE FRONT OF THE TRAIN.
UM, IT WAS, UM, IT WAS, IT WAS QUITE INTERESTING EXPERIENCE.
UM, SO I HAVE RIDDEN A FEW TIMES AND I HAVE NOTICED AN INCREASE OF CLEANING.
OBVIOUSLY THERE ARE STILL SOME OPPORTUNITIES.
UM, BUT I DO WANT TO COMMEND YOU FOR, UH, TAKING STEPS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
UH, RECENTLY MY SON HAS DECIDED TO RIDE DART.
HE VOLUNTEERS A LOT AT OUR CHURCH, AND THERE'S A, THERE'S A BUS THAT GOES NOT TOO FAR FROM OUR HOUSE, SO HE'LL WALK A BLOCK DOWN TO THE BUS AND TAKE IT TO CHURCH.
THIS IS RECENT, THE LAST COUPLE MONTHS.
AND HE TOOK IT ON HIS OWN TO RESEARCH THE ROUTES AND THEN, AND LEARN HOW TO USE DART ON HIS OWN.
MY WIFE WAS A LITTLE SCARED, BUT HE, HE SEEMED TO HAVE FIGURED IT OUT.
AND HE SAID, DAD, THEY LET ME RIDE FOR FREE.
WHY ARE YOU, WHAT DO YOU MEAN WRITING FOR FREE? HE'S LIKE, YEAH, I'VE BEEN ON IT FIVE TIMES NOW AND THEY DON'T CHARGE ME.
I THINK IT'S 'CAUSE I'M A STUDENT.
I WAS LIKE, NO, STUDENTS GET, YOU KNOW, REDUCED RATE, BUT YOU SHOULD NOT BE WRITING FOR FREE.
SO I CHALLENGED HIM TO FIND OUT, AND A COUPLE DAYS LATER HE REPORTED BACK.
HE'S LIKE, DAD, UM, WELL, I FOUND OUT WHY.
I SAID, OKAY, WHAT HAPPENED? HE SAID, WELL, I HAD A $5 BILL, AND I GUESS YOU HAVE TO HAVE SINGLES ON THE BUS.
SO THEY WERE JUST WAVING HIM IN.
SO I THINK AT THIS RATE, I OWE YOU GUYS ABOUT $15
UM, BUT THE, UH, SO, SO WE TALKED THROUGH THE APP, PUT SOME MONEY, FIGURED IT OUT, UM, INSTEAD OF JUST DOING THE CASH THING.
BUT I THINK THERE WAS A, THERE WAS AN OPPORTUNITY THERE AND BECAUSE THE FIRST, HE'S LIKE, NO, DAD, THERE WAS A BUNCH OF KIDS AND WE ALL GOT ON THE BUS FOR FREE, AND THEY JUST WAVED US THROUGH.
I WAS LIKE, WELL, THAT WAS NICE, BUT IT SHOULDN'T BE RIDING FOR FREE.
UM, SO MAYBE IF THERE'S, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY JUST AN OTHER OPPORTUNITY TO CONTINUE THAT EDUCATION FOR THOSE WHO MAYBE DON'T RIDE AS OFTEN.
AND, UM, AND, UH, TO, TO EDUCATE YOU.
I WAS LIKE, WELL, I'M GLAD YOU SAVED MONEY, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, YOU SHOULD NEVER RIDE DART FOR FREE.
ANYWAYS, JUST WANTED TO SHARE.
SO HATS OFF TO YOU AND, UH, I LOOK FORWARD TO THAT BEING, I GUESS, CLEANER AND SAFER.
'CAUSE I THINK THOSE ARE TWO OF THE BIGGEST CONCERNS ARE SO, LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE ADDRESSING THEM, I FEEL I'VE DEFINITELY SEEN THAT IN ACTION.
SO, UM, STEPS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
AND I'M GLAD YOU BROUGHT UP THE CLEAN TEAMS AGAIN, BECAUSE, UH, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE LEARNED ABOUT HAVING THE CLEAN TEAMS WAS THAT PRESENCE ON THE SYSTEM, OR VISIBILITY ON THE SYSTEM DOESN'T HAVE TO BE ARMED LAW ENFORCEMENT.
BECAUSE WHEN WE IMPLEMENTED THE CLEAN TEAMS, BECAUSE THEY WERE UNIFORMED AND BECAUSE THEY WERE PICKING UP TRASH AND STUFF LIKE THAT, JUST HAVING A PERSON IN A UNIFORM THERE, UH, MADE PEOPLE FEEL MORE SECURE.
WE GOT ALL KINDS OF COMPLIMENTS ON JUST HAVING PEOPLE THERE.
SO, UM, THERE ARE INNOVATIVE WAYS TO PROVIDE A PRESENCE ON THE SYSTEM THAT MAKES PEOPLE FEEL MORE SECURE.
UM, NADINE, I, I 100% ECHO THE MAYOR AND MY COUNCIL'S COMMENTS ON JUST HOW SUPPORTIVE WE ARE AS A CITY FOR DART AND HOW, UM, HOW I THINK WE'RE ALL ALIGNED ON TRYING TO BE THE BEST PARTNER TO Y'ALL AS WE KNOW YOU ARE VICE VERSA TO US, RIGHT? AND, UM, YOU KNOW, KIND OF TO, IN A WAY TO THAT, TO THAT POINT, I CAME IN HERE NOT EVEN HAVING SEEN YOUR PRESENTATION WITH ONE BIG QUESTION IN MIND, WHICH WAS, YOU KNOW, WHAT THE DALLAS CITY COUNCIL WAS PLANNING ON DOING AND, UM, HOW THEY'RE GONNA, YOU KNOW, TRY TO FILL THEIR PENSION ISSUES WITH
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POTENTIALLY ONE OPTION THAT WAS FLOATED WAS, YOU KNOW, REARRANGING HOW THEY ALLOCATE THEIR SALES TAX TO HELP FUND DART.AND THAT'S A HUGE, WITH ALL THE PROJECTS YOU'VE GOT GOING ON, I MEAN, THIS JUST BLOWS UP THE SCOPE.
AND JUST FOR CONTEXT, I MEAN, I GOT FOUR EMAILS AS SOON AS THE NEWS WENT OUT, WHICH FOR ME IS A RELATIVELY LARGE AMOUNT OF COMMENT ON SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
SO I WAS JUST WONDERING FROM YOUR END, I MEAN, HAVE YOU GUYS BEEN WORKING WITH THE CITY OF DALLAS? WHAT KIND OF STEPS ARE YOU TAKING TO, UM, TO SORT OF LOBBY THEM TO GET THAT PROPOSAL OFF THE TABLE? IS THAT YEAH, GO ON.
YEAH, SO, UM, AND I'LL TURN TO DEMARCUS TO CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, BUT, UM, I BELIEVE THERE WAS A PENSION MEETING LAST THURSDAY.
WAS IT DEMARCUS? AND IN THEIR PROPOSALS TO HELP FUND THE PENSION, THE IDEA OF USING THE DART SALES TAX WAS NO LONGER ON THAT LIST.
NOW, HAVING SAID THAT, UM, I'M VERY, VERY AWARE THAT THERE ARE CONVERSATIONS HAPPENING AROUND THE REGION ABOUT TRYING TO REDUCE DART SALES TAX.
I THINK THAT WOULD BE DISASTROUS FOR DART.
UM, I THINK THAT WOULD REALLY HURT ALL OF OUR CITIES.
UM, I UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE PROPOSE THAT, BUT, UM, BUT YOU KNOW, I THINK, UH, YOU KNOW, AS WE THINK ABOUT THE FUTURE AND HOW WE'RE GOING TO MAKE OUR SERVICES BETTER, UH, ONE THING THAT I KEEP HEARING FROM ALL THE CITIES IS WE WANT MORE SERVICE.
AND THAT IS NOT SOMETHING THAT'S POSSIBLE IF DART HAS LESS REVENUE.
AND SO, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHERE WE WOULD LOOK TO CITIES LIKE RICHARDSON TO HELP US SEND THAT MESSAGE OUT BECAUSE IT'S JUST SO CRITICALLY IMPORTANT FOR US TO AT LEAST RETAIN WHAT WE HAVE.
AND IF THERE'S SOME OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO GROW THAT SOMETIME IN THE FUTURE, WE WOULD CERTAINLY, YOU KNOW, WANT TO DO THAT AS WELL.
I'LL DEFINITELY KEEP MY EAR TO THE GROUND WITH, YOU KNOW, COLLEAGUES IN OTHER CITIES TO SEE WHAT THEY'RE SAYING AND TRY TO STEER THEM THERE.
BUT I, YOU KNOW, FOR MY PART, I'M A HUNDRED PERCENT BEHIND WHAT YOU SAID, SO THANK YOU.
YEAH, WE'RE, WE'RE GONNA BE WATCHING, UH, THE UPCOMING LEGISLATIVE SESSION TOO, BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S WHERE SOME OF THESE CONVERSATIONS WILL TAKE PLACE BECAUSE INTERESTING, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, WE HEAR RUMBLINGS AND UM, YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOT OUR EAR TO THE GROUND TOO, SO WE'RE NOT BLIND TO THE CONVERSATIONS THAT PEOPLE HAVE AND WE JUST, YOU KNOW, WE WOULD JUST WANNA COME OUT AND SAY, YOU KNOW, PRETTY STERNLY THAT I THINK IT'S A REALLY BAD IDEA.
NO, IT'D BE ABSOLUTELY DISASTROUS WITH ALL THE GREAT PROJECTS YOU GUYS HAVE PLANNED AND ALL JUST THE BASIC MAINTENANCE OF THE WORK YOU'RE TRYING TO DO.
I MEAN, I DON'T SEE HOW YOU CAN DO THAT WITH REDUCED REVENUE.
UM, YEAH, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, I THINK AS FAR AS THE, THE ONLY OTHER QUESTION I HAVE IS JUST FROM A BUDGET PERSPECTIVE, AS WE'RE GETTING INTO OUR BUDGET DISCUSSIONS, WHEN WE LOOK AT, UM, THE DIFFERENT THINGS THAT WE FUND IN THE CITY, I MEAN, FROM SORT OF A A HIGH LEVEL PERSPECTIVE, YOU KNOW, IS THERE ANY, HOW DO WE ALIGN SOME OF OUR SPENDING PRIORITIES TO ALIGN WITH SOME OF THE ITEMS THAT YOU GUYS ARE TRYING TO, TO IMPLEMENT AND JUST KIND OF, SORT OF ALIGN THOSE PRIORITIES? YEAH.
UM, A REALLY SIMPLE ONE WOULD BE WORKING WITH YOUR STAFF TO, UM, TO IDENTIFY WHERE YOU'RE DOING ROAD PROJECTS MM-HMM.
UM, OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, FROM A FUNDING PERSPECTIVE, FROM A, FROM A BUDGETING PERSPECTIVE, THERE'S JUST, I, I THINK, YOU KNOW, THERE'S ALWAYS MOVING PARTS, RIGHT? THINGS HAPPEN.
UM, YOU KNOW, YOU GUYS HAD A, HAD AN ISSUE THAT CAME UP, A LITTLE ISSUE THAT CAME UP THAT REQUIRES YOU GUYS TO BUILD A NEW CITY, CITY HALL.
BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY, DART IS THERE AS A SERVICE TO SUPPORT, YOU KNOW, YOUR, YOUR FUTURE CITY GOALS.
UM, BUT I THINK TRYING TO ALIGN ANYTHING THAT WE CAN, EVERY, EVERY PLACE WHERE WE HAVE SOME OPPORTUNITIES TO OVERLAP AND ADDRESS SOME CONGESTION, HOTSPOTS OR WHATEVER, UM, SO THAT WE CAN PROVIDE A BETTER SERVICE THAT YOUR RESIDENTS WANNA CONTINUE TO USE.
AND, UM, GETTING PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, FROM YOUR, FROM AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVE, GETTING PEOPLE TO AND FROM YOUR CITY, UM, FOR WORK OR FOR ENTERTAINMENT OR WHATEVER IT IS.
I MEAN, YOU ALL ARE SO WELL SITUATED WITH, YOU KNOW, GALLATIN CITY LINE, YOU KNOW, ALL THIS STUFF THAT YOU GUYS ARE DOING, UM, IS SO COMMENDABLE.
UM, YOU KNOW, I ALWAYS USE RICHARDSON AS AN EXAMPLE.
WHEN I TALK TO OTHER CITIES, I'M LIKE, LOOK AT WHAT RICHARDSON DID.
UM, BECAUSE YOU ALL ARE REALLY A SHINING EXAMPLE OF, OF HOW TO WORK WITH TRANSIT.
WELL, THANK YOU FOR THE COMPLIMENT.
HOW MANY MINUTES OFF MAKES A BUS CONSIDERED, UH, LATE TO NOT HIT THAT OTP GOAL? SO OUR CURRENT, UM, DEFINITION OF ON TIME IS EITHER, I THINK IT'S LIKE 59 SECONDS EARLY OR FOUR MINUTES AND, OR I'M SORRY, YEAH.
FOUR MINUTES AND 59 SECONDS LATE.
DID I GET THOSE NUMBERS RIGHT? OKAY.
I THOUGHT IT WAS A FIVE MINUTE WINDOW, BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE
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IT'S MORE LIKE A SIX MINUTE WINDOW.AND, UM, AND SO WE ARE CONSTANTLY WORKING ON TRYING TO GET THAT NUMBER AS, AS FAR DOWN AS POSSIBLE.
BUT, BUT I THINK, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE WANNA DO IS WE WILL WORK FROM THE OPERATION SIDE TO TRY TO NARROW THAT WINDOW AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
BUT LIKEWISE, WHEN WE ARE LATE, BEING ABLE TO COMMUNICATE TO THE CUSTOMERS WHERE WE ARE, UH, HOW SOON THE BUS IS COMING, HELPS ALLEVIATE THAT, YOU KNOW, ANXIETY THAT IS ASSOCIATED WITH WAITING FOR A BUS THAT YOU DON'T KNOW IS GONNA COME OR NOT.
ON THE RAIL SIDE, IT'S A LOT EASIER.
YOU KNOW, THE ON-TIME PERFORMANCE THERE IS, IS A LOT BETTER JUST BECAUSE IT'S FIXED.
GUIDEWAY, THERE AREN'T AS MANY INTERRUPTIONS.
WE HAVE SOME AT GRADE CROSSINGS, BUT, BUT ON THE BUS SIDE, THERE'S JUST SO MANY FACTORS THAT WE DON'T CONTROL.
AND SO, UM, SO WE REALLY WANNA, WANNA WORK ON THAT.
WELL, ANYWAY, THANK YOU GUYS FOR ALL THE WORK THAT YOU DO.
THANK YOU FOR USING US AS AN EXAMPLE.
AND, UM, YOU HAVE OUR SUPPORT FOR SURE.
DAN, DID YOU, YOU WANT ME TO PASS ON THAT $15? YOU HOME
WE, WELL, I GUESS WE'LL DO THAT AFTER THE MEETING.
ANYWAY, I THINK WE'RE GIVING HIM A BUY
NO, NO, NO, YOU CAN'T DO THAT.
ANYWAY, UH, GREAT PRESENTATION.
UM, MY QUESTION IS KIND OF TO YOUR, YOUR POINT ABOUT, YOU KNOW, RE REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND THEN THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AROUND THAT.
WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY, AND I THINK IT'S BEEN ABOUT TWO MONTHS AGO, UM, TO HEAR A PRESENTATION THAT WAS PUT ON BY, IN ESSENCE, IT WAS A CONSORTIUM OF THE CHIP MANUFACTURERS THAT ARE LOOKING AT THE, THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PLANTS UP IN SHERMAN.
AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE HEARD PRETTY LOUDLY FROM THEM WAS, IT'D BE SUPER GREAT IF SOMEHOW WE COULD CONNECT DALLAS TO SHERMAN.
AND THEY SAW THAT DARK WAS A REAL OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN.
AND WE ALL SAT THERE AND WENT, WELL, THERE'S SEVERAL CITIES THAT WILL REMAIN NAMELESS AFTER YOU GET PAST PLANO THAT HAVE NEVER, I GUESS I'LL SAY BOUGHT OFF ON THE IDEA OF, OF DART.
UM, BECAUSE THE, THE, THE WAY IT WAS EXPLAINED TO US IS, IS THAT SHERMAN'S GOING TO HAVE THIS REAL NEED FOR WORKERS THAT ARE VERY WELL DEFINED IN THE DALLAS MARKETPLACE, BUT THERE'S NO OPPORTUNITY TO TRY AND GET THEM FROM KIND OF POINT A TO POINT B IN A, IN A REASONABLE OPPORTUNITY WITHOUT HAVING SOMETHING LIKE DART UM, INVOLVED.
SO I GUESS MY, MY QUESTION IS, IS IS THERE ANY ONGOING, OR IS ARE THERE CONVERSATIONS, IS THERE OPPORTUNITY FOR CONVERSATIONS? IS THERE OPPORTUNITY TO DO SOMETHING? BECAUSE IT JUST SEEMS LIKE THAT, YOU KNOW, IT WAS, IT WAS THE ONE WORD WE HEARD WAS TRANSPORTATION.
THAT'S WHAT WAS HINDERING, IF YOU WILL, THIS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THAT COULD HAPPEN IN OUR REGION.
SO I WAS JUST CURIOUS IF, IF, YOU KNOW, AND AGAIN, I'M NOT LOOKING FOR ANY KIND OF TRADE SECRETS, I'M JUST, JUST CURIOUS IF, IF THERE'S OPPORTUNITY THERE.
EVEN, EVEN ONE OF THE SUGGESTIONS WAS, IS, WELL, WHAT IF WE JUST RAN THE DARK TRAIN AND THERE WERE NO TRAIN STATIONS IN THOSE UNNAMED CITIES, AND WE JUST RAN DARK THROUGH THERE, YOU KNOW, COULD YOU DO THAT? AND I SAID, WELL, I'M DON'T HAVE ANY CONTROL OVER DART, BUT YOU KNOW, I'LL JUST, I SAID, WHEN I, IF I GET A CHANCE, I'LL THROW IT OUT THERE.
SO I DID WHAT I SAID I WOULD DO.
SO ANYWAY, YEAH, IT'S A GREAT QUESTION.
I MEAN, AND THESE QUESTIONS COME UP PERIODICALLY, UM, PROBABLY MORE FREQUENTLY THAN I CARE TO ADMIT.
BUT, UM, BUT I THINK, UH, YOU KNOW, THERE IS ALWAYS AN OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE THOSE CONVERSATIONS.
UM, THOSE CONVERSATIONS HONESTLY USUALLY STOP WHEN WE START TALKING MONEY
JUST TO YOUR POINT, UM, IF PEOPLE DON'T HAVE THE TRANSPORTATION OPTIONS TO GET THE WORKERS TO THEIR BUSINESSES, THEN IT MAKES THEIR, YOU KNOW, THE VIABILITY OF THOSE LOCATIONS SEEM A LOT LESS APPEALING.
UM, AND SO I THINK WE'RE VERY INTERESTED IN HAVING CONVERSATIONS.
UH, RIGHT NOW, THE NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COG IS WORKING ON A REGIONAL TRANSIT 2.0 STUDY.
PART OF THAT STUDY IS TO LOOK AT WHAT WE'RE DOING IN THE AREAS THAT ARE NOT MEMBERS OF TRANSIT SERVICE AREAS, AND TO SEE HOW WE PROVIDE BETTER TRANSPORTATION TO EVERYONE IN THE REGION, WHETHER OR NOT THEY'RE PART OF A MEMBER, UM, UH, TRANSIT, TRANSIT SERVICE AREA.
SO I THINK WE, WE, IT, IT, IT'S NOT GONNA HAPPEN OVERNIGHT.
UM, YOU KNOW, EVERYONE SAYS THEY WANT TRANSIT UNTIL THEY HAVE TO PAY FOR IT, AND THEN THERE'S, THERE'S A QUESTION OF WHAT KIND OF TRANSIT THEY'RE GONNA GET, UM, HOW QUICKLY IT'S GONNA COME.
UH, EVEN THE SUGGESTION TO EXTEND A RAIL LINE, UM, NORTH OF OUR SERVICE AREA COMES WITH A LOT OF THINGS.
UM, THAT'S AT LEAST A 10 YEAR PROCESS IN THE MAKING, AND THAT'S IF EVERYONE DECIDES TO FUND IT.
UM, AND THEN OF COURSE, WE HAVE A LOT OF OTHER NEEDS THAT THE SYSTEM MODERNIZATION
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PROGRAM THAT I MENTIONED EARLIER IS A TWO AND A HALF BILLION DOLLAR INVESTMENT.SO THAT'S GONNA SUCK UP A LOT OF RESOURCES FOR, FOR THE NEXT FEW YEARS.
UM, SO I GUESS I'M SORT OF NOT REALLY ANSWERING YOUR QUESTION, BUT TRYING TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, WHICH IS IT'S OKAY.
WHICH IS JUST TO SAY, I MEAN, WE'RE ALWAYS OPEN TO THE CONVERSATION.
I, I THINK ONE THING THAT WE REALLY WOULD LIKE TO DO IS MEET WITH THE CORPORATIONS, THE BUSINESSES THAT WANT THIS KIND OF SERVICE TO THEIR, THEIR PLACE OF BUSINESS.
UM, TRY TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THEIR NEED IS, WHAT THEY ANTICIPATE, UH, THOSE WORK SHIFTS TO LOOK LIKE, AND, UM, WHERE THEY ANTICIPATE SOME OF THOSE, UH, THOSE WORKERS COMING FROM.
YOU KNOW, I THINK YOU MENTIONED A LOT OF 'EM COMING FROM DALLAS.
UM, MAYBE SOME OF THEM WILL BE COMING FROM EAST OF OUR AREA OR NORTH OF OUR AREA.
SO, UH, THAT'S ALWAYS, ALWAYS A CHALLENGE.
BUT, UM, BUT I THINK WE HAVE TO CONNECT ALL THE DOTS FOR PEOPLE AND HELP THEM UNDERSTAND THAT IF WE'RE BUILDING MORE THINGS OUTSIDE THE TRANSIT SERVICE AREAS, THAT'S NOT REALLY SOLVING OUR PROBLEM FROM A CAPACITY PERSPECTIVE.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, DART IS ALL IN ON ANY CONVERSATIONS THAT HELP US REDUCE, UH, THE DEMAND, UM, AND THE CONGESTION ON OUR HIGHWAYS BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THAT'S JUST GOING TO INCREASE ACCIDENTS.
UM, I JUST DON'T THINK THAT'S THE WAY PEOPLE WANNA LIVE.
THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR, AND THANK YOU NADINE, FOR YOUR TIME PRESENTATION.
BUT, YOU KNOW, THAT WAS NOT MY QUESTION, BUT I'M GONNA MAKE COMMENTS.
IF BUSINESS ARE LOOKING BEYOND THIS DFW METROPLEX AREA FOR THEIR BUSINESS, THEY SHOULD THINK ABOUT THIS DART.
IF THEY LIKE SOMETHING, THEY SHOULD FIND A PLACE HERE, UH, NOT OUTSIDE.
SO THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF DART, YOU KNOW, PERMISSION WAS TO FACILITATE THIS, THIS AREA, SO, AND ATTRACT BUSINESSES TO THIS AREA.
SO THAT WAS REALLY THE, I THINK THAT'S WHAT I UNDERSTAND.
SO, AND THERE IS PLENTY OF AREA LAND AVAILABLE FOR THOSE KIND OF BUSINESS TO BE HERE.
YOU KNOW, WE ALREADY HAVE PLACARD THAT SAYS, WELCOME TO DALLAS RICHARD.
UH, NOW THE QUESTION, UH, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A LONG-TERM PLANNING.
IT STARTED 20 YEARS AGO, AND, UH, IT'S A GREAT PLANNING.
YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT EASY THAT YOU CAN DO THAT, YOU KNOW, WITHIN A FEW YEARS.
AND I'M SURE YOU HAVE LEARNED LOTS OF LESSON RECENTLY THAT, YOU KNOW, FOR SILVER LINE, I SEE THERE WAS, UH, YOU COULD PROBABLY WRITE A BOOK ABOUT ALL THIS, UH, DIFFICULTIES THAT YOU HAVE GONE THROUGH.
SO HOPEFULLY THAT WILL HELP MOVING FORWARD TO HAVE ANY OTHER NEW CONSTRUCTION.
UH, NOW WE, WE HAVE SEEN WHAT YOU HAVE DONE IN 20 YEARS.
SO 20 YEARS FROM NOW, WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT, I MEAN, IT'S IMPORTANT.
IT'S NOT THAT THIS COUNCIL VISION, THIS IS ABOUT THE LONG-TERM VISION THAT HAS BEEN STARTED.
WE ARE JUST PART OF IT TRYING TO BRING, YOU KNOW, TAKE THIS THING TO FORWARD.
SO IF YOU CAN, UH, SAY A FEW THINGS YOU, OR MAYBE GARY CAN TALK ABOUT THE 20 YEARS FROM NOW, THAT'S WHAT KIND OF THINGS WE'RE GONNA BE LOOKING AT.
WELL, I CAN START AND THEN, UM, CHAIR SEGEL CAN CONTINUE, BUT, UM, FOR ME, 20 YEARS FROM NOW, UH, YOU KNOW, IF WE'RE SUCCESSFUL WITH THIS POINT B STRATEGIC PLAN, WE WILL HAVE COMPLETELY TRANSFORMED THE WAY PEOPLE FEEL AND, AND USE DART, RIGHT? AND WE'LL HAVE, UH, WE HAVE A CONCEPT WHICH I DIDN'T EVEN REALLY TALK ABOUT, WHICH IS CALLED THE 10 BY 10.
AND THAT THAT CONCEPT IS REALLY PROVIDING, UH, A 10 MINUTE WALK OR A 10 MINUTE ROLL TO 10 MINUTE SERVICE.
AND I WANT THAT EVERYWHERE IN THE REGION.
I WANT, UM, I WANT PEOPLE TO HAVE SUCH GREAT ACCESS TO TRANSIT THAT IT BECOMES A NO-BRAINER, THAT THAT'S THE WAY THEY'RE GONNA TRAVEL.
AND SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT, UM, BUSINESSES THAT ARE THINKING ABOUT LOCATING OUTSIDE OF THE SERVICE AREA AND WANTING TRANSIT, THAT'S GREAT.
BUT WHAT I REALLY WANT THEM TO DO IS SAY, OH MY GOSH, RICHARDSON HAS THIS GREAT TRANSIT SYSTEM, LET'S LOCATE THERE.
YEAH, IT MIGHT BE A LITTLE MORE EXPENSIVE FOR US TO LOCATE THERE, BUT BECAUSE WE CAN USE THE TRANSIT SYSTEM TO GET OUR WORKFORCE TO OUR BUSINESS LOCATION, THAT WOULD BE THE BEST OUTCOME FOR EVERYONE BECAUSE IT'S ACTUALLY MUCH MORE SUSTAINABLE.
AND IN THE MEANTIME, IT WON'T TAKE THEM AS LONG TO GET TO WORK, BECAUSE BY THEN THE TRAFFIC CONGESTION ON THE HIGHWAY IS GONNA BE SO BAD THAT, UM, THAT DART'S GONNA STILL BE FASTER, A LOT FASTER.
AND SO I, I REALLY ENVISION DART AS THIS AMAZING ASSET FOR THE REGION, UM, OVER THE NEXT, HOPEFULLY THE NEXT FIVE TO 10 YEARS.
UM, BUT CERTAINLY IN THE NEXT 20 YEARS AND IN 20 YEARS, I WANT PEOPLE TO LOOK BACK AT THE DECISIONS THAT WE MAKE TOMORROW NIGHT AND SAY, THOSE WERE ABSOLUTELY THE RIGHT DECISIONS TO MAKE.
AND WE'RE SO GLAD THAT WE HAVE DART NOW AS A RESULT OF THAT.
IS THERE ANYTHING YOU WOULD LIKE TO ADD, MR. SLA? SHE DID A GREAT JOB.
I MEAN, TO ME IT'S LIKE, I LIKE TO SOME SEE THE PICTURES.
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KNOW, THAT'S, THAT THAT WORKS BETTER FOR ME TO UNDERSTAND.I TRY TO VISUALIZE WHAT YOU SAY, 10 BY 10.
I, I HAVE HEARD THAT THING BEFORE.
HOPEFULLY YOU ARE LOOKING AT, UH, YOU KNOW, THOSE LINE THAT YOU HAVE ON GRADE, THAT'S NOT GONNA REALLY BE AN ISSUE TO ACHIEVE THAT 10 BY 10 CONCEPT THAT YOU HAVE, BECAUSE THE TRAFFIC SIGNAL ALWAYS WILL SLOW DOWN SOMETHING.
SO IF YOU ELEVATE, IF YOU HAVE ELEVATED, UH, CROSSING, THAT WOULD BE MUCH MORE EASIER TO ACHIEVE 10 BY 10.
OTHERWISE, IF UTD STUDENTS, THEY LIKE TO HAVE MORE FREQUENT SERVICES, AND IF, IF YOU HAVE MORE SIGNAL THAT THE DART HAVE TO CROSS, THAT WOULD BE AN ISSUE FOR THEM THAT YOU MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO MEET 10 BY 10, IT MIGHT BE 15 BY 10 OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
SO, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, IF YOU HAVE A FREQUENT SERVICE THAT'S THE PRE, YOU KNOW, SECRET THAT PEOPLE WOULD BE USING THAT MORE FREQUENTLY.
BUT YOU KNOW, WHICH ONE NEED TO START FAST.
YOU DON'T KNOW, YOU KNOW, IF YOU START PUTTING 10 BY 10 ENOUGH MORE FREQUENT NOW, AND IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE ENOUGH PASSENGER, THAT WOULD BE A PROBLEM TO HAVE THE SERVICE.
SO SOMETHING HAVE TO HAPPEN TOGETHER SLOWLY.
BUT, UH, YOU KNOW, THAT'S GREAT.
I, YOU KNOW, IF YOU, IN THE FUTURE, IF YOU HAVE SOME KIND OF CONCEPT VISION PLAN THAT, YOU KNOW, IT COULD START FLOATING AROUND THAT THIS IS GONNA BE LIKE THIS 20 YEARS FROM NOW, UH, BUSINESS WOULD BE PROBABLY, I'M SURE THERE ARE MORE ENGINEERS IN THE BUSINESS THAT THINK ABOUT THE BUSINESS.
IT WOULD BE EASY FOR THEM INSTEAD OF GOING TO CHAIRMAN, I DON'T HAVE PROBLEM WITH CHAIRMAN, BUT THEY'LL THINK ABOUT IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD, JUST, UM, YEAH.
I, I, I A HUNDRED PERCENT AGREE.
I, UM, I WAS GONNA GO BACK TO THE, UM, IF I COULD QUICKLY FIND IT.
THERE'S A MILLION SLIDES IN HERE, BUT, UM, I'VE SEEN LOTS OF NETWORK.
YOU HAVE, BUT I SEE THAT THERE IS NO LIKE EAST, WEST, EAST, WEST CONNECTION THAT I'M, I'M SURE YOU PROBABLY HAVE SOME KIND OF CONCEPT PLAN SOMEWHERE.
YOU KNOW, LET ME JUST COMMENT A LITTLE BIT ON THE, THERE IS A STUDY ONGOING, WHICH THE DEAN MENTIONED, WHICH IS, UH, TRANSIT 2.0, WHICH IS DONE BY THE REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION COUNCIL.
TRYING NOT ONLY TO FEE TO DETERMINE HOW WE FILL IN THE GAPS WHERE THERE AREN'T, UH, TRANSIT OPPORTUNITIES, BUT ALSO WHERE IS TECHNOLOGY GOING.
AND WE'LL FOLLOW ALL THAT SO THAT DIFFERENT MODES, DIFFERENT METHODS THAT MIGHT HAPPEN, UH, WILL BE AVAILABLE TO US.
I THINK WE HAVE TO VIEW, AND WE DO VIEW TRANSIT AS A UTILITY, THAT IS TO SAY, WHEN YOU FLIP ON YOUR SWITCH, IT'S THERE, YOU HAVE THE LIGHTS COME ON.
AND THAT'S THE WAY TRANSIT REALLY NEEDS TO BE.
IF I WANT TO GO SOMEWHERE, I MAKE A QUICK CALL OR DO WHATEVER I HAVE TO DO, AND IT COMES, PICKS YOU UP AND TAKES YOU WHERE YOU WANT TO GO.
AND IT, IT, AND WE NEED TO DO THAT IN A WAY THOUGH THAT WE'RE NOT DOING IT WITH JUST ADDING MORE AUTOMOBILES THAT ARE MOVING A SINGLE PERSON AROUND IN A SINGLE CAR THAT IS, THAT DOES, DOESN'T, UH, SOLVE THE CONGESTION PROBLEM.
SO IT'S A COMPLEX ISSUE, BUT AS WE CONTINUE FORWARD, WE'LL JUST, UH, YOU KNOW, WE WILL TAKE ALL THE TAKE ADVANTAGE OF TECHNOLOGY AS WE NEED TO DO THAT TO BE ABLE TO MAKE OUR SYSTEM MORE AND MORE USEFUL TO, TO EVERYONE IN THE REGION.
AND YOU'RE RIGHT, I'D LIKE TO SEE INSTEAD OF SOMEONE GO TO SHERMAN, THEY WOULD COME HERE BECAUSE OF OUR TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM.
AND, UH, THAT SHOULD BE, AND IT HAS BEEN FOR THE CITY A A REAL DRAW.
THAT'S WHY WE HAVE HAD SO MUCH, MUCH SUCCESS, ECONOMIC, WITH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
AND I'LL SAY THAT WITH THE ATTITUDE OF THE CITY COUNCIL HERE WITH MAYOR AND CITY MANAGER AND YOUR STAFF.
EVERYBODY IS FANTASTIC TO WORK WITH.
AND AS LONG AS WE HAVE THAT, WE WILL BE ABLE TO CONTINUE TO, UH, PROGRESS VERY SUCCESSFULLY.
SOME CITIES STILL DON'T GET IT, SO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT
SO THANK YOU FOR, FOR THE, FOR ALL OF ALL THAT YOU GUYS DO.
NO, ALL OF YOU MAYOR SLAGEL, HOLD, HOLD YOUR THOUGHT.
'CAUSE I'M GONNA LET YOU CLOSE IT ALL OUT AND YOU'RE NOT GONNA GET OUT THAT EASY.
SO JUST NAY, COULD I ASK ONE QUESTION IF I COULD? YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE SHELTERS? MM-HMM.
AND SO THOSE ARE, YOU KNOW, AS A BUS STOP SO FORTH.
SO ON IT, THOSE STOPS, WILL THAT MATERIAL BE SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE ANTI GRAFFITI, ANTIT TAG TYPE THINGS SO THAT IT DOESN'T BECOME A TARGET AND OR AN EYESORE IN THE COMMUNITIES? AND THEN ALSO, I GUESS I WAS THINKING ABOUT THOSE PARTICULAR, UM, LITTLE SHELTERS.
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OR A SCREEN OR SOMETHING TO TELL THE CUSTOMERS? BUS WILL ARRIVE IN ONE MINUTE, BUS WILL, YOU KNOW, KINDA LIKE YOU SEE AND YOU GO TO WONDER WORLD OR WHEREVER, YOU KNOW, NEXT STOP AND SO FORTH.THEY KIND OF KEEP YOU UPDATED.
AND SO IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT COMMUNICATING? YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.
OUR PLAN FOR THESE SHELTERS IS TO HAVE SOME INFORMATION, UM, YOU KNOW, EITHER A TOUCHSCREEN OR NOT A TOUCHSCREEN, MAYBE SOMETHING EVEN A LITTLE BIT MORE LOW TECH.
I THINK THEY STILL CALL IT EPAPER.
UH, THAT JUST GIVES THE INFORMATION FOR RIDERS WHO DON'T HAVE DIGITAL DEVICES.
UM, AND WE'VE EVEN, UM, WE'VE EVEN STARTED, YOU KNOW, CONTEMPLATING A CONCEPT THAT WE HEARD ABOUT IN RIO DE JANEIRO WHERE, UH, LIKE A, A SCREEN IS ACTUALLY A DIRECT LINK TO A CUSTOMER SERVICE AGENT.
SO IF YOU'RE WAITING AT NIGHT AND YOU WANNA FEEL MORE SECURE AND YOU WANT SOMEBODY TO TALK TO, YOU COULD DIAL IN AND TALK TO THAT PERSON, UM, AND JUST HAVE SOMEBODY THERE UNTIL THE BUS COMES.
SO WE'RE, WE'RE KIND OF LOOKING AT DIFFERENT INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO, UH, CREATING MORE SECURITY ON THE SYSTEM, UM, FOR ALL OF OUR RIDERS, BUT THEN PROVIDING THE INFORMATION THAT GIVES THEM THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT SORT OF SENSE OF SECURITY ABOUT WHEN TO EXPECT THINGS, BECAUSE THAT'S ONE THING THAT I THINK OUR ENTIRE INDUSTRY CAN IMPROVE UPON, IS GIVING PEOPLE A SENSE OF WHAT TO EXPECT.
UM, BECAUSE IF THE BUS SAYS IT'S GONNA COME AT A SCHEDULED TIME AND IT DOESN'T COME AT THAT SCHEDULED TIME, THAT CREATES A LOT OF ANXIETY.
AND THAT'S, THAT'S NOT WHAT WE WANT RIDERS TO EXPERIENCE.
THANK YOU, REPRESENTATIVE SLAGEL.
ANY LAST COMMENTS? THANK YOU, SIR.
MR. MANAGER AND COUNCIL, FANTASTIC GROUP OF PEOPLE HERE.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR REPRESENTATIVE.
YES, MAYOR, I, UH, FIRST, FIRST NAING, THANK YOU.
UH, I, I FEEL LIKE, UM, OUR PARTNERSHIP IS STRONGER THAN EVER.
I DID WANT TO GO BACK TO ADDRESS SOMETHING BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE WITH EVERYBODY HERE, IT'S TOO IMPORTANT NOT TO, UH, COUNCILMAN CORCORAN, YOU ASKED A REALLY GOOD QUESTION ABOUT DALLAS AND, UM, AND THEIR RECENT DISCUSSION AROUND THEIR PENSION.
BUT, AND, AND ADINE REFERRED TO OTHER DISCUSSIONS THAT ARE BEING HAD IN THE REGION WITH RESPECT TO TWEAKING, IF YOU WILL, UM, THE PERCENT THAT CITIES SEND TO DARK.
NOW, UM, I FEEL STRONGLY, AND I'VE SHARED THIS WITH NADINE AND GARY AND, AND EDMOND AND, AND I'VE SHARED IT WITH A LOT OF MY CITY MANAGER COLLEAGUES, THAT THE VALUE PROPOSITION QUESTION IS ACTUALLY INCORRECT.
AND SO I'LL BE BRINGING TO YOU, UH, AS PART OF OUR LEGISLATIVE AGENDA, UH, A PRIORITY TO REALLY REVISIT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN NORTH TEXAS AND HOW ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IS FUNDED.
I DON'T BELIEVE THAT THE QUESTION REALLY IS ABOUT HOW WE'RE FUNDING DART.
THE QUESTION IS ABOUT, IS ABOUT AN UN UN UNLEVEL, UH, UNFAIR PLAYING FIELD IN NORTH TEXAS AROUND HOW ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IS DONE.
AND SO I BELIEVE IF WE CAN TAKE THE FOCUS OFF OF DART, AND WE CAN PUT IT WHERE IT, THE UNDERLYING ISSUE REALLY IS, WHICH IS HOW DO DIFFERENT CITIES PAY FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND HOW DO WE COMPETE AGAINST EACH OTHER HERE IN NORTH TEXAS? WE CAN REALLY BEGIN TO GET AT THE CRUX OF THE, OF THE, OF THE ISSUE.
UH, DART IN MY OPINION, HAS BEEN, UM, KIND OF BROUGHT INTO A DISCUSSION JUST BECAUSE THERE'S FUNDING AVAILABLE IN SOME, YOU KNOW, SOME FOLKS MIND.
UM, AND SO, UH, I FEEL LIKE WE CAN TAKE A LEADERSHIP ROLE.
I THINK WE HAVE, AND I THINK WE CAN CONTINUE TO TAKE A LEADERSHIP ROLE WITH YOUR DIRECTION AS WE FORM OUR LEGISLATIVE AGENDA TO REALLY TRY TO FOCUS AND EMPHASIZE ON HOW FOUR A AND FOUR BS ARE FUNDED AND WHAT OTHER ALTERNATIVE CITIES THAT PARTICIPATE IN A TRANSIT AUTHORITY AND REALLY CREATE REGIONAL SOLUTIONS FOR TRANSPORTATION.
HOW THOSE CITIES CAN MAYBE MORE EFFECTIVELY COMPETE AGAINST FOUR A FOUR B CITIES.
AND THEN MAYBE EVEN ASK THE QUESTION, SHOULD FOUR A FOUR, FOUR A FOUR B CITIES HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE IN TRANSIT IN SOME OTHER WAY? AND SO, NOT JUST THINK IT'S A, IT'S A NET ZERO GAME WHERE YOU HAVE, UH, 1% AND THAT'S ALL YOU CAN EVER THINK ABOUT.
AND IF IT'S GOTTA BE LOCAL OPTION KIND OF CONSIDERATIONS WHERE IT'S, IT'S DONE ON A, A CASE BY CASE BASIS, SO BE IT.
BUT I THINK AS LADINE MENTIONED, THE LEGISLATIVE AGENDA, UM, FOR DART AND TRANSPORTATION MAY BE A LITTLE BIT OF DEFENSE THIS SESSION COMING UP, BUT IT CAN ALSO BE OFFENSE IF WE REFRAME THE QUESTION AND WE REALLY START ADDRESSING THE ISSUE THAT IS REALLY, UH, I BELIEVE THE UNDERLYING ISSUE.
SO NADINE, I JUST WANT TO ASSURE YOU THAT, THAT WE'LL BE, UH, TALKING ABOUT THAT AND THAT WE'LL CONTINUE TO TRY TO FRAME THAT QUESTION WITH, UH, OTHER CITIES HERE IN NORTH TEXAS THAT ARE MEMBERS OF DART CURRENTLY.
[7. REVIEW AND DISCUSS THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY WORK PLAN ]
GONNA GO TO ITEM NUMBER SEVEN TO REVIEW AND DISCUSS THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY WORK PLAN.MR. MAGNER, UH, THANK YOU MAYOR.
OUR, UH, DAN STEGE, UM, ALONG WITH LEO GONZALEZ, AND, UH, JOSH, UH, KING IS HERE OR HERE FROM OUR, UM, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT.
DAN IS GONNA LEAD, UH, THE PRESENTATION, WHICH WILL TAKE THE FORM OF, AGAIN, A FAMILIAR DEEP DIVE THAT YOU'VE, UH, YOU'VE SEEN, UH, FINISHING UP TALKING ABOUT NEXT YEAR'S WORK PLAN AND, UH, SOME OF THE, UH, BUDGET CONSIDERATIONS THAT, UH, WE WANNA MAKE SURE ARE ON THE TABLE.
SO DAN, THANKS TO YOU AND JOSH AND LEO FOR BEING HERE, AND I'LL TURN IT OVER TO
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YOU.THANK YOU, UH, MR. MAGNER AND, UH, MAYOR COUNCIL, APPRECIATE GIVING THE OPPORTUNITY TO, UH, PRESENT THIS EVENING.
GIMME A SECOND HERE TO GET SET UP.
I THINK WE GOTTA FIND OUR PRESENTATION.
THAT WAS A LONG PRESENTATION, IS THIS ONE.
I THINK YOU WENT THE WRONG WAY.
KEEP GOING, MR. IT, YOU WENT THE WRONG WAY.
HOW'D THAT GO? WE GOT HERE EVENTUALLY, AND I WANNA MAKE SURE THEY FOUND THEIR SEATS.
SO, UH, THIS EVENING I'LL START WITH A, UH, UH, BRIEF OVERVIEW.
UH, REALLY WE'RE BREAKING THE PRESENTATION DOWN ON THREE, UH, COMPONENTS.
SO WE'VE GOT THE IT DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW, THE, UH, CURRENT ACTIVITIES, AND THEN WE'LL MOVE INTO, UH, AND WRAP UP WITH THE LEGACY SYSTEMS. UH, ONE THING I DID WANT TO EXPLAIN ON THIS, UH, SLIDE, UH, THE IMAGE IS ACTUALLY FROM MOTOROLA'S, UH, FACILITY IN CHICAGO.
UH, SO IT'S PART OF OUR RADIO PROJECT.
UH, THERE WAS A GROUP OF US WHO WENT OUT TO, UH, CHICAGO TO DO VALIDATION AND TESTING OF, OF OUR SYSTEM.
SO ALL THE EQUIPMENT YOU SEE IN THE BACKGROUND THERE, UH, AND THERE'S REALLY TWO ROWS, I THINK FOUR RACKS OF, UH, EQUIPMENT.
SO QUITE A BIT OF EQUIPMENT THAT'S ALL PART OF OUR RADIO SYSTEM.
SO WE WENT THERE AND HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO RUN THINGS THROUGH THEIR PACES, MAKE SURE THAT THEY, UH, WORKED PROPERLY.
UH, WE ACTUALLY HAD A CROSS SECTION TEAM, SO WE HAD, UH, UH, ASSISTANT CHIEF, UH, PEW FROM PD.
UH, UM, WE HAD CRYSTAL FROM THE, UH, 9 1 1 CENTER, UH, AS WELL AS, UH, I HAD KEVIN SIMS, WHO YOU SEE IN THE, UH, ORANGE SHIRT HERE, I THINK THAT'S ORANGE.
UH, AND, UH, UH, JOSEPH, UH, BRONK, WHO'S OUR, UH, RADIO SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR, UH, AS WELL AS KEITH WHITT, WHO'S A THIRD PARTY CONSULTANT, UH, COME IN AND JOIN US.
HE, HE IS A SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT AND REALLY HELP US, UH, PUSH IT THROUGH ITS PACES.
SO THE, UH, FIRST THING I WANTED TO DO WAS KIND OF GO OVER THE, UH, IT DEPARTMENT.
UM, WE, WE'VE HAD THESE DISCUSSIONS IN THE PAST AND WE REALLY HAVEN'T TALKED ABOUT THE IT DEPARTMENT ITSELF AND HOW IT'S BROKEN DOWN.
SO WE'RE, UH, BROKEN DOWN INTO THREE ORGANIZATIONS OR THREE COMPONENTS, UH, STARTING WITH OUR INFRASTRUCTURE TEAM THAT'S LED UP BY, UH, LEO GONZALEZ.
UH, SO THAT'S ANYTHING FROM THE HELP DESK WHERE PEOPLE DON'T DO THE, YOU KNOW, INITIAL CALL, UH, FOR SUPPORT TO WHAT'S TRADITIONALLY KNOWN AS DESKTOP SUPPORT, UM, OR SOMETIMES CALLED USER SUPPORT.
UH, SYSTEMS TEAM IS REALLY FOCUSED ON DOING SERVER ADMINISTRATION AS WELL AS STORAGE ADMINISTRATION, AND THE NETWORK TEAM ARE THE ONES WHO DO THE SWITCHES AND ROUTERS AND THE CABLE PLANT.
UH, AND THEN SOMETHING THAT'S AGAIN, KIND OF UNIQUE TO US IS WE HAVE A RADIO AS PART OF THAT ORGANIZATION AS WELL.
THEN MOVING OVER TO THE, UH, APPLICATION SIDE OF THE HOUSE.
SO WE HAVE, UH, JOSH KILO, WHO'S THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, UH, OVER OUR APPLICATION AND GIS TEAM.
UH, WE DO LESS AND LESS INTERNAL DEVELOPMENT THESE DAYS AND DOING MORE AND MORE SUPPORT.
NOT TO SAY THAT WE'VE COMPLETELY GOTTEN AWAY FROM DEVELOPMENT, UM, BUT, UH, CERTAINLY DOING MORE FROM A SORT SUPPORT AND ADMINISTRATION PERSPECTIVE.
AND THEN THE, UH, GIS TEAM ALSO REPORTS UP THROUGH, UH, JOSH AS WELL.
AND THEN WE HAVE THE PROJECT MANAGEMENT TEAM.
UH, SO ED SNAVELY, UH, UNFORTUNATELY WAS NOT ABLE TO BE HERE WITH US TONIGHT.
UH, ED'S UP THE, UH, PROJECT MANAGEMENT TEAM.
UH, SO THESE ARE THE FOLKS WE, WE CALL 'EM MANAGERS OF PROJECTS INSTEAD OF PROJECT MANAGERS.
'CAUSE THEY DO MORE THAN JUST PROJECT MANAGEMENT.
UH, SO THE, THEY'RE THE ONES WHO ARE FOCUSED ON DELIVERING PROJECTS.
UH, WE HAVE OUR BUSINESS MANAGEMENT OFFICE, WHICH IS OUR FINANCIAL, UH, ELEMENTS.
AND THEN, UH, OF COURSE, OUR SECURITY TEAM.
SO ALL THOSE ELEMENTS PLUS MYSELF MAKE UP THE, UH, 32, UH, EMPLOYEES OF THE DEPARTMENT.
AND, AND CONTRARY TO BELIEF, THAT IS NOT DAN 2.0, STANDING TO THE RIGHT
UH, SO NEXT WE CAN GO INTO, UH, KIND OF SOME OF THE COMPONENTS.
AND YOU'VE SEEN, UH, THESE CHARTS BEFORE, UH, IN PREVIOUS YEARS.
SO AGAIN, ONE OF THE THINGS I LIKE TO TOUCH ON HERE IS ON THE, UH, MOBILITY ASPECT.
SO, UH, AGAIN, OUR FOOTPRINT FOR DESKTOPS IS DECREASING.
UH, OUR FOOTPRINT FOR LAPTOPS AND TABLETS AND SO FORTH CONTINUE TO INCREASE.
SO LAST YEAR WE WERE ROUGHLY AT A 60 40 SPLIT LAPTOP TO A, A DESKTOP.
UH, AS YOU CAN SEE, THIS YEAR, WE'VE EXPANDED THAT TO WHERE NOW WE'RE AT OVER 70% LAPTOP AND 30% ARE REALLY 29%, UH,
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UH, ON THE DESKTOP SIDE.AND THEN ON THE APPLICATION SIDE, THE OTHER THING I, I, I WOULD POINT OUT IS, UH, OUR LOTUS NOTES APPLICATION FOOTPRINT, UH, HAS CONTINUED TO, UH, DECREASE.
SO LAST YEAR, THAT NUMBER WAS A LITTLE OVER 600.
UH, NOW WE'RE DOWN TO JUST A LITTLE BIT UNDER 300.
SO QUITE A BIT OF, UH, WORK IN THAT SPACE.
UH, AND AGAIN, PART OF THAT IS FROM OUR, UH, MIGRATION INTO OUR, OUR NEW LEGACY SYSTEM.
SO AS WE MAKE THOSE TRANSITIONS, WE NO LONGER NEED A LOT OF THE LOTUS NOTES APPLICATIONS THAT WE'VE USED IN THE PAST.
SO HENCE WE'VE GONE THROUGH A PRETTY GOOD EFFORT TO, UH, DECOMMISSION THOSE.
SO, MOVING INTO A GUIDING PRINCIPLES, UH, AGAIN, THIS IS NOT REALLY ANY SPECIFIC, UH, ORDER.
UM, HOWEVER, I DO PUT SECURITY KINDA AT THE TOP.
AND AGAIN, SECURITY IS NOT JUST AN IT RESPONSIBILITY.
IT'S TRULY EVERYBODY'S RESPONSIBILITY.
BUT EVEN WITHIN IT, WE HAVE TO HAVE IT AT, AT THE FOREFRONT OF EVERYTHING WE DO, WHETHER WE'RE LOOKING AT SYSTEMS, YOU KNOW, HARDWARE, SOFTWARE, WHATEVER THE CASE MAY BE.
UH, IT, IT NEEDS TO BE AT TOP OF MIND.
SO WHERE WE'RE GOING WITH THAT IS ANYTHING WE PURCHASE, SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, WHATEVER THE CASE MAY BE.
UH, IT'S GOTTA WORK TOGETHER AND IT'S GOTTA WORK TOGETHER SEAMLESSLY.
UH, CLOUD-BASED OPPORTUNITIES, AGAIN, THIS IS TO LOOK AT GOING CLOUD FIRST.
UH, IN OUR NEW DEPLOYMENTS, UH, THIS HAS CERTAINLY HELPED US OUT IN THE PAST, WHETHER IT BE FROM THE CITY OF, UH, HALL FIRE TO, UH, YOU KNOW, EVEN OUR LATEST WEATHER EVENTS.
UH, HAVING COMPONENTS OUT IN THE CLOUD, IF YOU WILL, WHERE ALL YOU NEED IS AN INTERNET ACCESS, UH, TO, TO GET ACCESS TO THEM, UH, HAS CERTAINLY BEEN BENEFICIAL.
UM, NEXT WE HAVE CUSTOMER SERVICE.
SO AGAIN, WE NOT HERE TO DO TECHNOLOGY JUST FOR THE SAKE OF DOING TECHNOLOGY.
WE REALLY NEED TO UNDERSTAND OUR CUSTOMER'S NEEDS AND BE ABLE TO MEET THOSE NEEDS.
UH, MULTI-YEAR PLANNING, UH, AGAIN, WE, WE'VE GOTTA WORK TODAY, BUT PLAN FOR THE FUTURE.
UH, ONE OF THE THINGS I SAID A YEAR AGO WHEN I DID THIS PRESENTATION WAS THAT AI WASN'T IN THE FUTURE.
AND I'M JUST AMAZED AS TO HOW FAR AI HAS GONE OVER THIS LAST YEAR.
AND I CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE WHAT IT'S GONNA LOOK LIKE A YEAR FROM NOW.
UM, AND THERE'S GOOD AND BAD ASPECTS OF THAT, RIGHT? ON THE GOOD SIDE, IT CAN HELP US ON THE NOT SO GOOD SIDE.
IT HELPS BAD PEOPLE ALSO DO THINGS, UH, MORE EFFECTIVELY.
LIKE, YOU KNOW, THE, UH, PHISHING SCAMS AND SO FORTH THAT YOU SEE OUT THERE, UH, THEY'RE BECOMING VERY, VERY COMPLEX AND, UH, VERY HARD TO DETECT.
UM, HENCE THE REASON WHY WE NEED TO CONTINUE TO DO THOSE PHISHING TESTS IN OUR, OUR ANNUAL, UH, TRAINING.
UM, AND THEN ON THE, UH, PROJECT MANAGEMENT SIDE OF THE HOUSE, WE WANT TO HAVE A CONSISTENT WAY IN WHICH WE DELIVER PROJECTS.
SO RIGHT NOW WE HAVE 35 CONCURRENT PROJECTS THAT WE'RE WORKING ON.
UH, AND AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, THAT'S QUITE A BIT OF, UH, EFFORT.
SO MOVING ON TO OUR, OUR FUNDING SOURCES HERE.
UH, SO AGAIN, LIKE MANY DEPARTMENTS, WE UTILIZE THE OPERATING FUND, OUR ALSO THE GENERAL FUND.
UM, SO THAT HANDLES OUR DAY-TO-DAY MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES, UH, OBVIOUSLY OUR PERSONNEL COSTS AND SO FORTH.
UH, THEN CAPITAL REPLACEMENT FUND OR EQUIPMENT FUND, THAT'S WHERE WE'RE REPLACING OUR BIGGER ASSETS.
SO, UH, BACK IN APRIL, I BELIEVE IT WAS, UH, YOU APPROVED A, UH, UH, REQUEST TO DO A SPEND ON SERVERS IN STORAGE.
UH, SO THAT'S A HUGE EFFORT THAT, UH, LEON AND HIS TEAM ARE, ARE WORKING ON.
UH, SO WE APPRECIATE THE, UH, FUNDING, UM, AND A LOT OF WORK, UH, THAT GOES INTO THAT.
I KNOW YOU'VE HEARD A LITTLE BIT OF THAT FROM PRET EARLIER.
UH, SO I'LL TOUCH A LITTLE BIT MORE ON THAT, UH, LATER.
AND THEN FROM TIME TO TIME, UH, EXCUSE ME, TIME TO TIME, WE ALSO WILL UTILIZE, UH, GRANT FUNDING.
SO FOR IT FUNDING, UH, AGAIN, I'LL TRY TO GO THROUGH THIS FAIRLY QUICKLY, BUT, UH, WE'RE SHOWING ACTUALS FROM 22 AND 23, UH, WHAT WE HAVE BUDGETED FOR, UH, THIS YEAR IN 24.
AND THEN WHAT WE'RE, UH, PROPOSING IN, UH, 25 ON THE, UH, HARDWARE SIDE OF THE HOUSE.
YOU'LL SEE THAT WE'RE, UH, OR I SHOULD SAY THE CAPITAL, UH, YOU'LL SEE THAT WE'RE PRETTY FLAT GOING FROM A 24 TO 25.
SO WE, WE BELIEVE THAT'S GONNA BE CONSISTENT.
UH, CLOUD COMPUTING, UH, YOU'LL NOTE HAS GONE UP.
UH, AND, AND QUITE HONESTLY, OUT OF ALL MY CATEGORIES HERE, UM, THAT, THAT'S THE ONE THAT WENT UP THE MOST SIGNIFICANT, UH, THAT IS DUE BY AND LARGE TO A, UH, PUBLIC SAFETY, UH, REQUEST.
UH, THAT'S A LITTLE OVER $200,000.
UM, SO, UH, YOU KNOW, WE'RE HERE TO SUPPORT PUBLIC SAFETY.
AND, UH, UH, HOWEVER, I DO UNDERSTAND THAT, UH, THAT ITEM IS STILL UNDER CONSIDERATION.
SO THAT MAY BE ADJUSTED SLIGHTLY.
UH, MOVING INTO HARDWARE, AGAIN, UH, FAIRLY FLAT, IN FACT, WE WENT DOWN A LITTLE BIT.
UH, SOFTWARE COSTS, UH, WENT UP SLIGHTLY.
AND AGAIN, SO PART OF THE CHALLENGE WE HAVE WITH SOME OF THESE AREAS IS, UH, WE'RE DEALING WITH INFLATION.
SO AS WE WENT THROUGH THE BUDGET PROCESS, WE REALLY TRIED TO CUT WHEREVER WE COULD CUT.
AND, UH, BUT ON THE FLIP SIDE OF THAT, WE HAD A LOT OF LINE
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ITEMS WHERE INFLATION HIT, AND WE, WE SAW FIVE TO 10% OR BETTER, UH, INCREASES.UH, AND LATER ON, I'LL HAVE A FEW, UH, STORIES, UH, TO SHARE WITH YOU, UH, AS FAR AS SOME OF THE, UH, INTERESTING FUNDING SCENARIOS WE HAD TO DEAL WITH.
UM, AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICES, AGAIN, IS, IS SLIGHTLY DOWN.
SO ONE OF THE OTHER THINGS, UH, WE TRY TO DO IS SHOW YOU, UH, A LOOK AT OUT OF OUR BUDGET, UH, WHICH WE TRY TO AGAIN, UH, BRING IN ALL THE TECHNOLOGY RELATED ITEMS. UH, HOW MUCH OF THAT IS PUBLIC SAFETY? AND, AND THIS TRULY DOESN'T GIVE YOU THE FULL STORY.
UH, SO WHAT IT PROVIDES IS, UH, ITEMS THAT ARE DIRECTLY USED BY PUBLIC SAFETY.
UM, BUT IT DOESN'T CAPTURE THINGS WHERE WE HAVE A CITYWIDE SPIN AND THEY'RE PART OF THAT CITYWIDE.
SO, FOR EXAMPLE, OUR MICROSOFT 365 LICENSING, THAT'S A CITYWIDE SPIN.
UH, I DON'T HAVE THAT BROKEN OUT TO A PUBLIC SAFETY.
WE JUST KEEP IT IN THE, UH, CITYWIDE BUCKET.
BUT, YOU KNOW, SO CLOUD COMPUTING, NEARLY 50% OF OUR CLOUD LINE ITEMS ARE FOR PUBLIC SAFETY.
UH, HARDWARE IS A LITTLE BIT SMALLER, UH, AT 16%.
UH, SOFTWARE, AGAIN, IS ANOTHER ONE THAT'S APPROACHING 50%.
UM, SO OVERALL, UH, JUST FOR THESE CATEGORIES, YOU'RE LOOKING AT A 44%, UH, SPEND FOR, UH, PUBLIC SAFETY.
SO I SAID I'D GET TO SOME OF THE CHALLENGES.
UH, UH, SO IT WAS KINDA INTERESTING GOING THROUGH THIS BUDGET CYCLE.
WE ACTUALLY HAD SOME VENDORS THAT WE REACHED OUT TO TO GET, UH, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, JUST A, A LOOK INTO THE FUTURE OF WHAT, UH, COSTS WERE GONNA BE.
UM, IN SOME CASES, WE HAD SOME THAT SAID, HEY, WE DON'T EVEN WANT TO GIVE YOU A QUOTE FOR ESPECIALLY A YEAR OUT.
WE THINK THE PRICING IS SO VOLATILE AT THIS POINT.
UH, SO IN THOSE CASES, WE EITHER WERE ABLE TO CONVINCE US TO GET A QUOTE, UM, OR WE GOT THEM TO JUST GIVE US A VERBAL SO WE COULD, UH, UH, YOU KNOW, HAVE SOMETHING TO GO OFF OF.
UH, AS I SAID, WE WE'RE SEEING THE, UH, INFLATIONARY INCREASES THE FIVE TO 10%, UH, OR AGAIN, IN SOME CASES MORE.
UH, SO I ALSO WANTED TO SHARE WITH YOU A COUPLE OF EXAMPLES OF THINGS THAT WERE, UH, VERY INTERESTING.
SO I'LL START WITH THE, UH, DATA STORAGE.
UH, WE HAVE A PIECE OF SOFTWARE THAT'S A SECURITY SOFTWARE THAT WE RUN IN OUR STORAGE ENVIRONMENT.
UH, WE HAD AN AGREEMENT, UH, FOR THAT SOFTWARE FOR $33,000 FOR A THREE YEAR TERM.
SO 11,000 PER YEAR WE'RE UP WITH OUR THREE YEARS.
SO WE WENT TO GET A NEW QUOTE.
THEY CAME BACK WITH $200,000, AND WE SAID, YOU'VE GOTTA BE KIDDING US.
SO THAT SPAWNED US TO GO OUT AND LOOK FOR OTHER OPTIONS, RIGHT? WE NEEDED THE SAME FUNCTIONALITY.
SO THAT WAS ONE OF OUR REQUIREMENTS.
UM, BUT, YOU KNOW, KUDOS TO, UH, LEO AND HIS TEAM, UH, FOR GOING OUT AND FINDING, UH, SOMETHING THAT DOES, UH, COMPARABLE WORK.
WE WERE ABLE TO TIE INTO A, UH, FIVE YEAR AGREEMENT AT 97,000.
SO NOT QUITE AS GOOD AS THE 11,000.
I THINK THAT PUTS US UP OVER, UH, 19,000 PER YEAR.
BUT, UH, CERTAINLY BETTER THAN, YOU KNOW, THE 200,000 THAT WE, UH, WE WERE LOOKING AT, UM, WHICH WOULD'VE BEEN 66, UH, THOUSAND $667 PER YEAR.
UM, SO NOT THAT THAT ONE WAS BAD ENOUGH,
SO WE HAVE A SCENARIO WHERE WE USE, UH, SOFTWARE WE CALL SERVER VIRTUALIZATION SOFTWARE.
UM, THE PREDOMINANT PLAYER WHO IS DEFINITELY THE LEADER, UM, THAT WE UTILIZE, UH, WAS SOLD BY COMPANY A TO COMPANY B OR IS IN THE PROCESS OF BEING SOLD, IS ACTUALLY COMPLETED NOW.
UH, SO WHEN WE WERE WORKING WITH OUR, OUR, UH, PARTNERS, UH, LOOKING AT THE, UH, NEW QUOTES, UM, THEY CAME BACK AND SAID, HEY, WE GOT BAD NEWS WITH THE, UH, NEW PLAYER IN TOWN.
THEY WANT TO TAKE YOUR PRICE UP TO $300,000.
MY FIRST RESPONSE WAS 300,000 FOR HOW MANY YEARS? AND THEY SAID, NO, THAT'S FOR ONE YEAR,
SO AFTER THEY PICKED ME UP OFF THE FLOOR, UM, UH, AGAIN, IT WAS ONE OF THOSE SCENARIOS WHERE WE SAID, HEY, WE'VE GOTTA GO LOOK AT OTHER OPPORTUNITIES.
UH, LUCKILY IN THIS SCENARIO, WE WERE ABLE TO GET IN BASICALLY AT THE 11TH HOUR, UM, WITH THE EXISTING COMPANY AND, AND TRULY GOT A FANTASTIC DEAL.
UH, SO INSTEAD OF PAYING THE 300,000, WE GOT IN FOR 87,000 FOR THREE YEARS.
UM, SO AGAIN, A PER YEAR, UH, PRICE, THAT'S, UM, FANTASTIC $29,000 PER YEAR, WHICH OBVIOUSLY IS EVEN BETTER THAN WHAT WE ORIGINALLY HAD.
SO, AGAIN, I JUST WANTED TO SHARE SOME OF THOSE EXAMPLES WITH YOU.
WITH SOME OF THE CHALLENGES WE'RE FACING IS, UH, WE'RE GOING THROUGH THE, UH, BUDGET PROCESS AND, AND PROCUREMENT PROCESSES.
SO NOW LET'S GO INTO SOME OF THE, UH, UH, SOME OF OUR, UH, ACTIVITIES, UH, CURRENT ACTIVITIES.
I'VE GOT THIS BROKEN DOWN INTO TWO DIFFERENT SCENARIOS.
ONE IS FOR GENERAL GOVERNMENT,
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UH, ONE IS FOR PUBLIC SAFETY.AND WE'LL START WITH THE, UH, FY 24 ACTIVITIES.
I, I'M GONNA DEFER ON THE LEGACY SYSTEMS, UH, UNTIL WE GET LATER INTO THE, THE, UH, PRESENTATION.
UM, BUT ONE OF THE THINGS WE DID WAS WE WERE ABLE TO GET THE, UH, FIBER OUT OF CITY HALL, OLD CITY HALL, UH, WHICH WAS A CRITICAL OFFER FOR US.
UM, NO SOONER DID WE GET IT OUT THAN WE RAN INTO A FIBER ISSUE SOMEPLACE ELSE THAT WE'RE, WE'RE WORKING OUT RIGHT NOW, BUT WE'RE TRYING TO GET OUR FULL REDUNDANCY BACK IN PLACE.
AND THAT WAS DEFINITELY A PREDECESSOR TASK.
BETWEEN THAT AND, AND OBVIOUSLY JUST OLD CITY HALL COMING DOWN, WE, WE DEFINITELY NEEDED TO MAKE SURE THAT HAPPENED QUICKLY.
UH, WE HAVE SEVERAL SURVEILLANCE CAMERA, UH, INITIATIVES, UH, IN PLAY.
UM, MATTER OF FACT, WE JUST HEARD OF A DELIVERY ON OUR WAY OVER HERE, THIS MOR, UH, THIS AFTERNOON.
AND THEN OUR ENHANCED CYBERSECURITY, AGAIN, WE'RE LOOKING AT THINGS LIKE, UH, ENHANCING OUR MONITORING, UH, CAPABILITIES, ENHANCING AND MATURING OUR, UH, MULTIFACTOR, UH, SCENARIOS.
UM, SO A LOT OF EFFORTS IN THOSE SPACES.
UH, ON THE, UH, TECHNOLOGY REFRESH, AGAIN, I TOUCHED ON THE, UH, SERVER PLATFORM REPLACEMENT, AS WELL AS THE, UH, STORAGE.
ALONG WITH THE STORAGE, WE'RE LOOKING AT ENHANCING OUR, UH, DATA BACKUPS, UM, AND MATURING, UH, THAT, AND, AND IMPLEMENTING SOME, UH, ADDITIONAL FEATURES THAT WE, UH, CURRENTLY DON'T HAVE IN PLACE.
UM, WE DID THE, UH, PHONE SYSTEM MIGRATION.
IF YOU REMEMBER, I DID THE PRESENTATION ON GOING TO SIP.
UH, WHEN WE COMPLETED THAT PROCESS, THERE WAS A LITTLE BIT OF A DELAY.
UH, WE HAD A LITTLE BIT OF A CHALLENGE WITH OUR EXISTING VENDOR ON PORTING OUR NUMBERS.
UM, UH, BUT WE WERE ABLE TO, UH, FINALLY OVER OVERCOME THAT OBSTACLE AND GET THOSE, UH, NUMBERS PORTED.
UM, AND THEN WE HAD 215 LAPTOPS THAT WE WERE DEPLOYING AS PART OF THE FIRE, UH, THAT SPILLED OVER, UM, INTO THIS FISCAL GEAR.
AND WE FINALLY COMPLETED THAT WHEN, WELL, ACTUALLY, I'M GONNA STEAL MY THUNDER A LITTLE BIT HERE.
BUT WE WE'RE ALSO IN THE PROCESS OF DOING THE NEXT CYCLE OF REPLACEMENTS, UH, THAT'S FOCUSED MORE ON, UH, PUBLIC SAFETY.
UH, WE ALSO DID THE, UH, LIBRARY AND CITY HALL MOVES.
UH, SO GLAD TO BE IN THIS FACILITY.
UH, DEFINITELY AN UPGRADE OVER, UH, WHERE WE'RE AT, ALTHOUGH I ABSOLUTELY APPRECIATE PUBLIC SAFETIES, UH, AND PD SPECIFICALLY PROVIDING A SPACE FOR OUR IT FOLKS.
UM, AND THEN ON THE, UH, UH, GIS SIDE OF THE HOUSE.
UH, SO THIS ISN'T REALLY A, UH, GLAMOROUS SCENARIO, BUT, UH, WE WORKED WITH GRANITE NET, UH, IN THEIR SEWER INSPECTION SOFTWARE AND INTEGRATED THAT WITH OUR GIS.
UH, SO NOW THEY HAVE THE ABILITY TO GO THROUGH AND IDENTIFY AREAS THAT NEED TO BE REPAIRED QUICKER.
SO, UH, THAT'S ALWAYS A GOOD THING WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT SEWER SYSTEMS. MOVING INTO OUR FY 25, AGAIN, I'LL, I'LL DEFER TO THE LEGACY DISCUSSION.
UH, SO MOVING ON TO OUR CONTINUED ANNUAL CITYWIDE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY REFRESHES.
SO ALL THOSE EFFORTS THAT YOU SAW IN, UH, 24 WILL ALSO SPAN INTO 25.
AND THEN OUR CYBERSECURITY EFFORTS ARE ALWAYS ONGOING, MOVING INTO THE PUBLIC SAFETY SIDE.
AND AGAIN, HERE'S ANOTHER PICTURE FROM THE, UH, RADIO, UH, EFFORT.
UH, YOU SEE KEVIN IN THE BACKGROUND THERE.
UM, SO, UH, AGAIN, WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO TO CHICAGO, DO ALL THE VALIDATION TESTING, MAKING SURE EVERYTHING WORKED PROPERLY.
UH, WE'RE NOW IN THE PROCESS OF GETTING OUR, UH, RADIO SHACKS, IF YOU WILL, UH, UPGRADED TO ACCOMMODATE THE EQUIPMENT.
UM, AND THAT'S, THAT PROJECT IS MOVING FORWARD.
UM, WELL, THE NEW VISTA 9 1 1 SYSTEM.
SO, UH, WHAT THE VISTA SYSTEM IS, ARE THE WORKSTATIONS, I'M SORRY, WORKSTATIONS AND HARDWARE, UH, THAT INTERACT WITH THE 9 1 1 SYSTEM.
WE HAD TO DO AN UPGRADE ON THOSE.
UH, NEXT GEN 9 1 1 IS US MOVING THE 9 1 1 SYSTEM FROM AN ANALOG SYSTEM TO A DIGITAL SYSTEM DIGITAL FORMAT.
UH, WE'RE WORKING WITH PD TO SET UP A, UH, NEW, UH, PHONE FORENSICS, UH, ENVIRONMENTS.
UH, AGAIN, OUR GIS TEAM IS WORKING, UH, WITH FIRE ON AN ONGOING BASIS TO PROVIDE MAPS THAT ALLOW THEM TO GET THEIR ISO UH, RATINGS.
UM, AND THEN MORE LAPTOP REFRESHES.
IN THIS CASE, IT'S WITH OEM AND HAVING THE EVENT RESPONSE LAPTOPS, UH, REPLACED FOR FY 25.
UH, AGAIN, WE WANNA TAKE GIS AND INTEGRATE IT MORE TIGHTLY WITH THE NEXT GEN 9 1 1.
UM, AND, AND THAT'LL PROVIDE US THINGS LIKE AS SOON AS WE GET A NEW PROPERTY OR A NEW ADDRESS CHANGE, IT GETS INTO THE SYSTEM THAT MUCH QUICKER.
UM, COMPUTER AID DISPATCH, UH, IS A PRIMARY SYSTEM FOR PD THAT WE'LL BE DOING AN UPGRADE ON THIS YEAR.
UH, THE LIFESCAN, WHICH IS A FINGERPRINTING SYSTEM FOR PD.
AGAIN, WE'LL DO AN UPGRADE, UH, THIS YEAR.
AND THEN I ALLUDED THIS, UH, OUR NEXT ROUND OF, UH, LAPTOP REFRESHES ARE PREDOMINANTLY FOR THE, UH, PUBLIC SAFETY SPACE.
SO MOVING TO OUR, UH, LEGACY SYSTEM DISCUSSION.
UH, SO AGAIN, JUST AS A QUICK REMINDER,
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UH, WE STARTED THIS BACK IN 2020.SO WE, WE GOT THE, UH, TYLER AGREEMENT IN PLACE IN MARCH OF 2020.
UH, AND NO SOONER DID WE GET IN PLACE THAN COVID HIT, RIGHT? AND THEN AFTER COVID, WE HAD THE CITY HALL FIRE.
WE HAD, UH, TURNOVER, WHETHER IT BE IN HR OR FINANCE.
UM, SO WE HAD A LOT OF CHALLENGES RIGHT UP FRONT, BUT IN SPITE OF ALL THE CHALLENGES, WE WERE STILL ABLE TO PROGRESS.
UH, AND AS YOU'LL SEE HERE IN A FEW MINUTES, UH, WE, WE'VE ACTUALLY DELIVERED QUITE A FEW PRODUCTS.
UM, AS WE WENT THROUGH THE PAYROLL PROCESS, THOUGH, UH, OUR ENVIRONMENT'S FAIRLY COMPLEX AND, UH, WE GOT TO A POINT WHERE WE NEEDED SOME ADDITIONAL HELP.
SO WE REACHED OUT TO A THIRD PARTY, UH, WHO ACTUALLY HAD SOME FORMER TYLER, UH, EMPLOYEES, UH, BROUGHT THEM IN AND THEY HIT THE GROUND RUNNING AND, AND REALLY HELPED US CORRECT A LOT OF THINGS AND, UH, GET THAT SYSTEM FULLY, UH, DELIVERED.
SO, UH, WE WERE SO IMPRESSED WITH THEM.
WE SAID, HEY, LOOKING GO, GOING FORWARD, WE ALSO WANT YOUR ASSISTANCE WITH SOME OF OUR ADDITIONAL PRODUCTS.
UH, SO WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO, UH, BRINGING THEM TO BEAR AND, AND HAVING MUCH SUCCESS.
AND THEN THE, UH, LAST TWO BULLETS.
SO I WILL COVER IN THE NEXT SLIDES.
SO, AGAIN, WITH THE, UH, SYSTEMS, UH, WE'VE DELIVERED FIVE SYSTEMS AT THIS POINT.
PLUS, WE DID THE CONVERSION FOR OUR BIWEEKLY, UH, PAYROLL SYSTEM IN OUR OLD SYSTEM.
THAT WAS A PREDECESSOR TASK THAT WE NEEDED BEFORE WE COULD GO ON AND DO THE FINANCE AND THE, UH, PAYROLL SYSTEMS. UM, BUT AGAIN, WE'VE, WE'VE DONE THE COURT SYSTEMS, THE FINANCE SYSTEMS, TYLER, UH, TIME ENTRY SYSTEMS, PAYROLL, AND, UH, HR.
WHAT WE'RE WORKING ON RIGHT NOW ARE THE, UH, GENERAL BILLING AND CASHIERING, UH, PROJECTS.
UH, SO THAT'S IN PLAY, UH, WITH THE ANTICIPATED DELIVERY DATE IN, UH, OCTOBER OF THIS YEAR.
UH, AND THEN UTILITY BILLING, WE'VE ALSO KICKED OFF.
UH, AND WE'RE LOOKING AT A, UH, TWO YEAR PROCESS FOR THAT TO BE, UH, COMPLETED.
OBVIOUSLY A VERY CRITICAL SYSTEM.
WE, WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE'RE GETTING, UH, ALL OF OUR CITIZENS BILLS CORRECT, AND, AND, UH, UH, WE DON'T, DON'T WANNA MESS THAT UP.
UM, AND THEN ONCE WE COMPLETE THOSE, UM, AND, AND REALLY IN, UH, STARTING A LITTLE BIT EARLIER, WE'LL MOVE INTO DOING OUR BUILDING INSPECTIONS, UH, AS WELL AS WE'RE GONNA LOOK AT ASSET MANAGEMENT, DO A REASSESSMENT, MAKE SURE WE UNDERSTAND WHAT NEEDS TO BE DEPLOYED FROM AN ASSET MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE, UM, OR DO WE DO SOMETHING A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENTLY? WE HAVE CITY WORKS CURRENTLY IN PLACE THAT WE'RE LEVERAGING, SO WE MAY CONTINUE TO LEVERAGE THAT AS WELL.
UH, AND THEN WE HAVE REALLY AT THE TAIL END, UH, DOING THE CITIZEN PORTAL AND THE ANALYTICS AND TRANSPARENCY.
SO THE BUILDING INSPECTION COMPONENT IN THE ASSET MANAGEMENT PIECE, WE'RE LOOKING AT 24 MONTHS FOR EACH OF THOSE.
AND THEN CITIZEN PORTAL AND ANALYTICS AND TRANSPARENCY, UH, WE'RE LOOKING AT SIX MONTH EFFORTS, AND THOSE WILL PROBABLY RUN CONCURRENTLY.
SO I KNOW PRE TIM KINDA WENT OVER THIS, UH, SLIDE WITH Y'ALL.
SO I, I DON'T WANNA REHASH, UM, ANYTHING.
I'M TRYING TO SEE IF THERE'S ANYTHING HE MAY HAVE NOT COVERED.
I, I, I THINK HE TRULY DID COVER EVERYTHING ON THIS SLIDE, SO LET ME GO AHEAD AND MOVE TO THE NEXT ONE.
SO, AND, AND I KNOW HE WENT THROUGH THIS SLIDE WITH YOU AS WELL.
UH, THERE ARE A COUPLE THINGS I, I'LL I'LL POINT OUT.
UM, SO AGAIN, HE, HE TALKED ABOUT THE TOTAL REVENUE VERSUS TOTAL EXPENSE, AND THAT WE GET THE REVENUE FROM THE GENERAL FUND AND THE, UH, WATER SEWER FUND.
UH, YOU'LL NOTE IN BUDGET ESTIMATE FOR FY 24, UH, WATER SEWER FUND INCREASES TO 500,000 FROM THE 200,000 PREVIOUSLY.
UH, THAT IS BECAUSE OF THE UTILITY BILLING, UH, IMPLEMENTATION.
SO WE'RE USING THAT FUNDING TO HELP PAY FOR THAT.
UM, ALSO YOU'LL SEE WHERE WE GO FROM 1.85 MILLION IN FY 24 UNDER GENERAL FUND TO ONE POINT, UH, TWO 5 MILLION.
UH, I THINK DON MAY HAVE ALLUDED TO THIS EARLIER.
UH, SO AS WE'RE PUSHING SOME OF THE THINGS OUT, AND ALSO AS WE'RE DELIVERING SOME OF THINGS THAT'S BRINGING THAT COST FACTOR DOWN, UH, SO WE'RE ABLE TO SPREAD THAT OUT.
WE'RE, WE ORIGINALLY HAD PLANNED ON TRYING TO GET EVERYTHING COMPLETED BY, UH, 2027.
UM, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT WAS AGGRESSIVE THINKING ON OUR PART.
UH, RIGHT NOW WE'RE LOOKING AT, UH, UH, 2029.
UH, AND, UH, CURRENTLY IT'S EARLY 2029, SO I, I DON'T THINK WE'RE TOO OFF, TOO FAR OFF OF OUR ORIGINAL PROJECTION.
BUT, YOU KNOW, CERTAINLY THERE HAVE BEEN SOME DELAYS.
AND THEN, UH, HE ALSO TOUCHED ON, UH, HE BEING PRET TAM, UH, IN 22 AND 23, UH, OUR REVENUES EXCEEDED OUR EXPENDITURES.
SO WE HAD A POSITIVE FUND BALANCE, AND I THINK HE ALSO TOUCHED ON, WHILE WE'RE HAVING A SHORTFALL, A SLIDE ONE IN 24 AND A LARGER ONE IN 25, UM, IF YOU LOOK AT THE FUND BALANCE THAT WE'RE CARRYING OVER, UH, THE NET NET AT THE END OF THAT TIMEFRAME, UH, PUTS US JUST A LITTLE BELOW 500,000 TO THE POSITIVE.
SO WE'RE, WE'RE STILL IN A VERY GOOD POSITION.
AND THEN, UH, THIS SLIDE REALLY SHOWS YOU THE IT COMPONENT, UH, BROKEN DOWN FURTHER.
MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU LOOK AT ALL THE, UH, TOTAL LINES THERE,
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THEY MATCH WITH THE IT LINE THERE AT THE BOTTOM.UM, SO I WON'T GO INTO BREAKING DOWN ALL THESE, UH, BUT THAT'S ALL WE'RE SHOWING IS, IS TRULY THE, UH, BREAKDOWN OF THE, UH, VARIOUS AREAS.
UM, THE ONE THING I WILL POINT OUT IS, AGAIN, THE OUTSIDE SERVICES, OTHER, THAT'S WHERE WE'RE LOOKING TO FUND THE, UH, THIRD PARTY THAT I PREVIOUSLY DISCUSSED.
AND, AND LIKE I SAID, WE'RE LOOKING AT DOING A, A REASSESSMENT OF THE ASSET MANAGEMENT COMPONENTS, UH, AS WELL AS THE CITIZEN PORTAL AND THE ANALYTICS AND TRANSPARENCY.
AND WITH THAT, UH, ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS? YEAH, THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION.
UM, SO I HAVE A THANK FIRST, THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION AND THANK YOU.
UM, YOU KNOW, I THINK YOU'RE DOING A GREAT JOB SHIFTING FROM LOTUS NOTES AND THOSE LEGACY ASS 400 SYSTEMS. UM, MY CURRENT COMPANY IS DEALING WITH SHIFTING FROM ASS 400 AND THE, THE HIGHLY CUSTOMIZED, YOU KNOW, PROGRAMMING.
AND IT, IT IS A HUGE CHALLENGE.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, JUST GREAT JOB OFFLOADING THAT.
UH, TYPICALLY SORT OF PRESENTATION TO PRESENTATION, YOUR BUDGET HAS BEEN REALLY ON TARGET AND, UM, YOU KNOW, YOU JUST, IT'S GREAT THAT YOU'RE ABLE TO DELIVER THE LEVEL OF SERVICE Y'ALL DO, UM, WHILE STAYING ON TRACK.
I, I HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS FOR YOU GUYS THOUGH.
UM, YOU KNOW, ONE LEO OR, OR DAN, WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THOSE FIVE TO THREE YEAR SOFTWARE CONTRACTS EXPIRE? I MEAN, THAT'S GONNA BE A PRETTY HUGE EXPENDITURE JUMP, ISN'T IT? OR IS THERE, IS THERE A WAY TO KEEP THE NUMBERS LOWER? YEAH, SO, SO WE TRULY FACE THAT ON MANY, UH, MM-HMM,
ONE OF THE THINGS I DIDN'T SAY WITH THE, UH, VIRTUALIZATION SOFTWARE, SO WE, WE BOUGHT OURSELVES SOME TIME, UH, WE BOUGHT OURSELVES THREE YEARS.
UH, WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO IS LOOK, UH, UH, I MEAN THERE ARE OTHER OPTIONS OUT THERE BESIDES THE ONE WE CURRENTLY HAVE.
UM, EVEN THOUGH IT IS DEFINITELY THE LEADER.
UH, SO WHAT WE'RE HOPING IS IN THE NEXT YEAR AND A HALF TO TWO YEARS, UH, THE NEW COMPANY COMES TO ITS CENSUS, OKAY,
UM, IF, IF IT DOES NOT, UH, THEN WE'RE GONNA GO TO PLAN B.
AND, AND THE REASON WHY WE'RE DOING A CUTOFF AT TWO YEARS AND, AND NOT THREE YEARS IS WE HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, IF THE DECISION IS MM-HMM,
SO, SO THAT'S OUR, OUR PLAN, UH, WITH THAT ONE.
BUT PART OF WHAT WE DO IS, UM, IT, IF IT'S A CONTRACT THAT WE, YOU KNOW, A PRODUCT THAT WE REALLY LIKE, UH, WE OBVIOUSLY TRY TO NEGOTIATE THE BEST TERMS WE CAN.
UM, BUT IF WE DO GET IN SCENARIOS LIKE WE SHOWED WITH THE SOFT, THE STORAGE SOFTWARE OR EVEN THE VIRTUALIZATION SOFTWARE, WE'RE, WE'RE NOT OPPOSED TO MOVING TO SOMETHING ELSE.
IT'S JUST, YOU KNOW, THE LEVEL OF EFFORT AND TRYING TO GET EVERYBODY TRAINED UP ON IT AND, UH, MAKES IT A LITTLE BIT OF A CHALLENGE.
HEY, JOE, IF YOU DON'T MIND, LET ME ASK DAN TO ELABORATE ON SOMETHING.
SO WE'VE SEEN THE, THE, UH, CLOUD SERVICES LINE ITEM, GROW, GROW, GROW, UH, WE'VE ACTUALLY SEEN THE HARDWARE DECLINE, BUT TALK ABOUT WHAT THAT HARDWARE, IF WE, IF WE WEREN'T USING A LOT OF THESE CLOUD SERVICES, TALK ABOUT WHAT THAT HARDWARE LINE WOULD LOOK LIKE, BECAUSE WHILE THE CLOUD SERVICES ARE INCREASING, THE HARDWARE IS INCREASING AS WELL.
AND SO IT WOULD BE TALK, TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE, THE, UH, RELATIVENESS OF THOSE TWO.
SO, SO IT, IT GIVES US QUITE A FEW ADVANTAGES.
OBVIOUSLY GOING TO THE CLOUD, WE DON'T HAVE TO INVEST IN THAT INFRASTRUCTURE, RIGHT? SOMEBODY ELSE IS INVESTED IN, AND THEY'VE ALREADY GOT IT BUILT OUT, SO WE CAN GET TO IT FASTER.
BUT IF WE WERE TO, YOU KNOW, HOST THAT, UH, LOCALLY, UM, BASICALLY THE HARDWARE THAT WE, YOU KNOW, THAT THOSE COMPANIES PAY FOR IT IN THE CLOUD, WE WOULD HAVE TO REPLICATE HERE.
AND THEN ON TOP OF THAT, IF YOU WANT REDUNDANCY, NOW I'VE GOTTA DOUBLE THAT, RIGHT? 'CAUSE I'VE GOTTA SPEND BASICALLY FOR A LIGHT SETUP TO BE SOMEPLACE ELSE.
AND THAT MEANS WE, WE WOULD, I'LL TELL YOU RIGHT NOW, UH, THE SPACE WE HAVE AT THE EOC FOR OUR, SO-CALLED DATA CENTER
WE WOULD NEED ANOTHER DATA CENTER.
UM, SO YEAH, THERE'S HUGE COST BACKERS IN THAT 30, THOSE 32 EMPLOYEES WOULD PROBABLY BE CLOSER TO 35 OR 36.
'CAUSE ALL THAT HARDWARE HAS TO BE MAINTAINED.
SO I JUST THINK IT'S IMPORTANT.
I MEAN, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S A, IT'S A, IT'S A MARKED INCREASE IN THE, IN THAT LINE ITEM, BUT IT'S NOT, IT CAN'T JUST SAY THAT WOULD, THAT WOULD BE THE TOTALITY OF THE DIFFERENCE BECAUSE THE, THE HARDWARE LINE ITEM AND THE STAFFING ASSOCIATED WITH THAT, IT WOULDN'T BE EQUAL MAYBE NECESSARILY, BUT IT, IT WOULD BE A, IT WOULD BE A CONSIDERATION.
LET'S, SPEAKING OF CLOUD COMPUTING, I MEAN, THAT'S SUCH A HUGE PART OF WHAT WE SPEND ON PUBLIC SAFETY, RIGHT? AND MY, MY QUESTION IS FOR THAT, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHY, WHAT ARE WE SENDING UP THERE? IS IT JUST ALL THE RECORDS THAT WE HAVE TO KEEP, LIKE BODY CAM FOOTAGE AND THINGS LIKE THAT? THAT'S CERTAINLY PART OF IT.
SO THEY HAVE ALL KINDS OF SPECIALTY SYSTEMS THAT THEY UTILIZE.
UM, AND EACH ONE OF THOSE IS A LINE ITEM, BASICALLY, RIGHT? MM-HMM.
UM, BUT YEAH, TO YOUR POINT, UH, AXON IS CERTAINLY THE
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BIG PLAYER, UH, FUNDING WISE.UM, AND THAT'S FOR ANYTHING FROM THE, YOU KNOW, BODY-WORN CAMERAS TO THE TASERS TO, YOU KNOW, THE POINT YOU MADE OF, UH, WHERE DOES THE DATA GO, YOU KNOW, FROM THE BODY-WORN CAMERAS.
WELL, IT GETS HOSTED IN STORAGE, UH, UP IN THEIR SYSTEM.
THERE'S A HUGE COST FACTOR, UH, FOR ALL THOSE ELEMENTS.
UM, AND THEN THE, IN THE, IN THE PRESENTATION YOU GAVE LAST YEAR, YOU HAD MENTIONED THAT YOU GUYS WERE BRINGING IN SOME EXTERNAL AUDITORS TO DO SOME MAYBE AUDITS OF OUR SYSTEMS AND SOME OF THE WORK Y'ALL ARE DOING.
COULD YOU, UM, I, PRESUMABLY, PRESUMABLY, SINCE WE HAVEN'T HEARD ANYTHING ABOUT IT, WE DID A REALLY GOOD JOB WITH THAT.
RIGHT? I WAS JUST WONDERING IF YOU COULD SHARE MAYBE SOME OF THE RESULTS FROM SOME OF THAT WORK THAT HAD HAPPENED.
SO ANYTHING SECURITY RELATED, OBVIOUSLY I WANNA BE VERY, UH, VERY CAREFUL WITH UNDERSTAND.
SORRY, SEEMS LIKE JOE'S FISHING TO ME.
I'M HAPPY TO RETRACT THE QUESTION,
IT'S, I UNDERSTAND DAN, FOR SURE.
UM, I'LL JUST ASSUME THAT WE ARE GOOD TO GO.
I, I'LL, I'LL EVEN SHARE THAT WE HAD A SCENARIO WHERE WE HAD A LITTLE BIT OF A SCARE MM-HMM.
UM, AND WE BROUGHT A THIRD PARTY IN TO VERIFY, UM, THAT OUR SYSTEMS WORK THE WAY THEY WERE INTENDED TO WORK, WHICH THEY ABSOLUTELY DID.
UH, AND THAT'S NOT ME STANDING HERE AND TELLING YOU THAT, UH, THAT'S ALSO A THIRD PARTY WHO'S AN EXPERT IN THAT AREA THAT WE INVEST IN TO COME IN AND VERIFY THAT AS WELL.
SO, UH, AGAIN, WE, WE TAKE THOSE YEAH.
SCENARIOS, VERY, VERY, UM, OBVIOUSLY, UH, CRITICALLY.
AND, UH, WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE DOING THE BEST.
IT, IT'S ONE OF THOSE CHALLENGES THAT WE KNOW THAT AS SOON AS WE PUT THINGS IN PLACE OR BAD PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO ARE TRYING TO, YOU FIGURE OUT HOW TO CIRCUMVENT 'EM.
SO IT'S THE, HOW DO YOU KEEP OUT IN FRONT OF 'EM? THAT'S THE, THE CHALLENGE.
AND AGAIN, THAT'S WHY SECURITY WAS NUMBER ONE IN MY GUIDING PRINCIPLES.
AND, UH, IT, IT'S TOP OF MIND EVERY SINGLE DAY.
I'M SURE SOMEONE'S TRYING TO HACK IN AS WE SPEAK.
YOU'D BE AMAZED AT OUR FIREWALLS, THE AMOUNT OF ACTIVITY AND SO FORTH THAT WE HAVE.
MY MY LAST QUESTION FOR Y'ALL, UM, JUST AS FAR AS THE USERS THAT ARE STILL USING DESKTOPS, ARE THOSE SORT OF SPECIALIZED EMPLOYEES OR, YOU KNOW, WHAT KIND OF USERS ARE STILL USING DESKTOPS? YEAH.
THIS DAY AND AGE? THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION.
SO, SO AGAIN, PLACES LIKE, UH, PD AND FIRE, THEY, UH, SHARE.
SO WE ACTUALLY HAVE PCS AND THOSE ARE TYPICALLY TRANSIENT FOLKS THAT COME IN JUST NEED A SYSTEM FOR A LITTLE WHILE, SO, OKAY.
YEAH, THOSE SYSTEMS HAVE MULTIPLE PRO PROFILES, ONE FOR EACH OF THOSE, UH, OFFICERS.
AND THEN A FEW OTHER SCENARIOS.
I MEAN, TRULY WE HAVE SOME SCENARIOS WHERE PEOPLE DON'T NEED THE MOBILITY.
UM, SO WE HAVE SOME OF THOSE AS WELL.
AND THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING YOU DO.
[8. REVIEW AND DISCUSS THE CUSTER PARKWAY RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT FROM WEST CAMPBELL ROAD TO SH 190]
GONNA GO TO ITEM EIGHT REVIEW AND DISCUSS THE CUSTER PARKWAY RECONSTRUCTION, WHICH WE'RE NOT GONNA DISCUSS.WE'RE GOING TO PUSH THAT ON MR. MAGNER TO A LATER DATE.
BUT WOULD YOU, UH, TALK ABOUT RESCHEDULING THAT? SURE.
I REALLY, UH, APPRECIATE, UH, YOUR, UH, PATIENCE AND UNDERSTANDING.
UM, AS WE BEGAN TO REALLY, UH, REFINE, UH, THE FEEDBACK THAT WE RECEIVED FROM A GOOD NUMBER OF, UH, BIDDERS ON THIS PROJECT, IT BECAME APPARENT TO US THAT THE PROJECT WOULD, UH, BE MORE APPROPRIATELY DESCRIBED TO THE COMMUNITY AS MORE OF A TWO YEAR PROJECT THAN AN 18 MONTH PROJECT.
UH, WE REALLY WANNA TAKE SOME ADDITIONAL TIME AND WORK THROUGH THAT, UH, MAYBE, UH, AN ADDITIONAL 90 DAYS OR SO, UM, TO REALLY, UM, RETHINK, UM, THE, UH, CONSTRUCTION TIMELINE.
I'M CONFIDENT WE CAN STILL, UH, GET THIS IN, UM, ON, UM, ON SCHEDULE, UM, STARTING LATER THIS SUMMER, EARLY FALL.
AND, UH, BUT I BELIEVE THAT, UM, THE COMPLEXITY OF THIS PROJECT AND THE FEEDBACK THAT WE RECEIVED REGARDING, UM, OF COURSE, FIRST AND FOREMOST THE CUSTOMER SERVICE, UH, COMPONENT TO THIS PROJECT THAT'S GONNA TAKE, UM, WITH, UH, THE HOMEOWNERS THAT LIVE ALONG CUSTARD THERE, BUT REALLY JUST THAT BEING A NEIGHBORHOOD THOROUGHFARE OR NEIGHBORHOOD MATERIAL, UM, UM, UM, JUST MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE THE RIGHT, UH, PARTNER FOR THIS PROJECT.
SO, UH, WE'LL BE BACK TO YOU AS SOON AS WE CAN ON THAT.
THANK YOU, MR. AND WE'LL, WE'LL UPDATE THE NEIGHBORHOOD, OBVIOUSLY AND MAKE SURE THEY UNDERSTAND THE SITUATION AS WELL.
I THINK IT'S A GREAT DECISION.
[9. PUBLIC HEARING, ZONING FILE 24-07, A REQUEST TO REZONE APPROXIMATELY 2.22 ACRES LOCATED AT 2251 N. GLENVILLE DRIVE, ON THE WEST SIDE OF N. GLENVILLE DRIVE, SOUTH OF WATERWOOD DRIVE, FROM I-M(1) INDUSTRIAL TO PD PLANNED DEVELOPMENT WITH MODIFIED DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS FOR A MULTI-FAMILY DEVELOPMENT.]
TO, UH, ITEM NINE.UH, PUBLIC HEARING ZONING FILE 24 DASH OH SEVEN.
I REQUEST TO REZONE APPROXIMATELY 2.22 ACRES LOCATED AT 2251 NORTH GLENVILLE DRIVE.
MAYOR AND COUNCIL, UH, DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, SAME CHAVEZ IS GONNA PRESENT THE CITY'S, UH, BRIEFING.
AFTER THAT, YOU CAN, UH, ASK QUESTIONS OF, UH, OF SAM, AND THEN THE APPLICANT IS HERE AS WELL WITH A SHORT PRESENTATION, AND THEY WILL BE AVAILABLE TO YOU AS WELL FOR QUESTIONS THAT ARE APPROPRIATE FOR THEM, SAM.
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24 DASH ZERO SEVEN.THE PROPERTY'S LOCATED AT THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF GLENVILLE DRIVE AND WATER WOOD DRIVE.
THE PROPERTY IS CURRENTLY ZONED TO A PLANNED DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT FOR THE IM ONE DISTRICT, WHICH IS AN INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT WITH MODIFIED DEVELOPMENTS, UH, TO ALLOW FOR A FIVE STORY LIMITED HOTEL.
OF COURSE, A SITE, UH, THE HOTEL IS NEVER DEVELOPED.
THE APPLICANT'S REQUEST TONIGHT IS, UH, TO REZONE THE PROPERTY ALSO TO A PLANNED DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT WITH MODIFIED DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS FOR A MULTI-FAMILY DEVELOPMENT.
UH, THE NEXT FEW SLIDES ARE, UH, VIEWS OF THE SITE ITSELF.
AS YOU CAN TELL, UH, IT'S UNDEVELOPED.
UH, THE FIRST SLIDE, YOU'RE LOOKING NORTH TOWARD THE EXISTING MULTI-FAMILY THERE ACROSS THE STREET ON WATER, ON WATER WOOD DRIVE.
AND THE SECOND PHOTO TO THE RIGHT IS LOOKING SOUTH TO THE EXISTING, UH, FOUR STORY HOTEL.
THE CONCEPT PLAN IN GENERAL, UH, SHOWS YOU THE SITE AREA, WHICH IS 2.2 ACRES IN SIZE.
THE PROPOSED BUILDING IS A HUNDRED AND ALMOST 189,000 SQUARE FEET IN SIZE FOR FIVE STORIES.
UH, BUILDING AT A MAXIMUM HEIGHT OF 75 FEET.
THERE'S A INTERNAL PARKING GARAGE WITH FIVE LEVELS.
UH, THERE ARE TWO ENTRY POINTS, ONE ON GLENVILLE DRIVE AND THE SECOND ON WATERVIEW DRIVE.
AND THEN THE SITE ITSELF PROVIDES 21.6% OF LANDSCAPE AREA.
AS YOU DIVE DEEPER INTO THE SITE, THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING A MAXIMUM UNIT UNITS OF 210 UNITS FOR DENSITY OF 95.59%, UH, I'M SORRY, 95.5 UNITS, UH, DWELLING UNITS PER ACRE.
UH, THE MA UH, THE NUMBER OF BEDROOMS ARE 270.
THE MAJORITY OF 'EM ARE ONE IN TWO STORY, I MEAN ONE IN TWO BEDROOM UNITS.
UH, THE REQUIRED PARKING IS 270 SPACES.
UH, THE PROPOSED RATIO IS ONE PER BEDROOM.
UH, THE PARKING PROVIDED THOUGH IS 275 SPACES.
UH, THEY ARE, THEY ARE REQUIRED, AND THEY'RE PROVIDING, UH, 14, UH, BICYCLE PARKING SPACES, UH, WHICH EQUATES TO SEVEN BICYCLE RACKS, UH, WITHIN THE GARAGE.
AND THEY HAVE AN AMENITY CENTER THERE, HIGHLIGHTED IN PURPLE OR BLUE, UH, FOR ABOUT 5,000 SQUARE FEET IN SIZE.
THESE ARE THE PROPOSED ELEVATIONS, STARTING WITH THE NORTH AND SOUTH ELEVATION.
PREDOMINANTLY THE ENTIRE BUILDING IS, UH, IS COMPRISED OF BRICKS, STUCCO, FIBER, CEMENT PANELS, AND SIDING.
UH, THERE'S THE WEST ELEVATION, THAT EAST ELEVATION.
THE EAST ELEVATION IS ONE THAT, UH, THAT FACES, UH, GLENVILLE DRIVE IN YOUR PACKET.
UH, THERE IS AN ITEM, UH, FOR CONSIDERATION, AND THAT IS THE CURRENT FUTURE LAND USE PLAN, WHICH DESIGNATES A SITE AS REGIONAL EMPLOYMENT.
AS SUCH, IT, IT DOESN'T LIST RESIDENTIAL AS A, AS A COMPARABLE LAND USE.
HOWEVER, UH, THERE ARE, THERE ARE EXISTING SURROUNDING USES THAT INCLUDE MULTI-FAMILY, HOTELS, AND OFFICE, WHICH ARE ALSO IN, IN THE SAME REGIONAL EMPLOYMENT, UH, DESIGNATION.
UH, AND THE PROPOSED MULTI-FAMILY USES A LOT DENSER THAN THE EXISTING MULTI-FAMILY DEVELOPMENT NORTH OF THE SUBJECT SITE.
AS A, UM, REMINDER, UH, THE ENVISION RICHARDSON COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE, UH, THE PRELIMINARY, UH, DESIGNATION REMAINS AS REGIONAL EMPLOYMENT.
HOWEVER, THERE ARE SECONDARY LAND USES THAT ARE, THAT ARE, UM, CURRENTLY UNDER CONSI, UH, CONSIDERATION, WHICH MULTIFAMILY WOULD BE A, A SECONDARY LAND USE UNDER THAT REGIONAL EMPLOYMENT.
SO THE CITY PLAN COMMISSION MET ON THIS ON MAY 21ST.
UH, THERE WERE NO PUBLIC COMMENTS RECEIVED TO DATE.
UH, THERE ARE NO, THERE ARE NO, UH, WRITTEN COMMENTS IN YOUR STAFF REPORT EITHER.
UH, THE CITY PLAN COMMISSION VOTED SIX ONE TO RECOMMEND APPROVAL OF THE REQUEST AS PRESENTED.
UH, CITY COUNCIL MAY APPROVE THE REQUEST AS PRESENTED, APPROVE IT WITH CONDITIONS OR AMENDED CONDITIONS, OR DENY THE REQUEST.
I KNOW THE APPLICANTS, UH, ARE HERE IN ATTENDANCE, AND, UH, I'M AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE.
COUNSEL, ANY QUESTIONS FOR STAFF? OKAY, SEE NONE.
I'D LIKE TO ASK THE APPLICANT TO PLEASE GO FORWARD.
UH, GIVE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD AND ANYTHING YOU'D LIKE TO PRESENT OR ADD.
UH, VICTORIA MORRIS WITH JACKSON WALKER, 2323 ROSS AVENUE IN DALLAS.
JUST WANNA THANK STAFF FOR THEIR EFFORTS GETTING US BEFORE YOU TONIGHT.
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WITH US AS WELL, JOE TK AND IK, ALL FROM SPHINX DEVELOPMENT.DAVID HENSLEY FROM HLR ARCHITECTS, AND MY COLLEAGUE SUZANNE KRIN AS WELL.
SPHINX HAS BEEN A LONG-TERM CLIENT OF OURS, AND WE'RE EXCITED TO INTRODUCE YOU TO THEIR NEW PROJECT, WATER WOOD VILLAS.
UM, BEFORE I GET INTO THE DETAILS OF THAT PROJECT, I WILL JUST GIVE A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND ABOUT SPHINX.
THEY HAVE 30 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN THE CONSULTATION, APPRAISAL, AND DEVELOPMENT INDUSTRIES WITH FIVE NEW PROJECTS ON THEIR HORIZON IN THE GREATER DFW AREA, SPHINX HAS COLLABORATIVELY BROUGHT OVER 10,000 RESIDENTIAL UNITS TO MARKET, AND THEY AIM TO SUPPORT, ELEVATE AND CATALYZE SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES.
HERE ARE TWO UPCOMING PROJECTS IN THE DFW AREA, ONE IN MCKINNEY AND THE OTHER IN DALLAS.
AS STAFF INDICATED, THIS PROPERTY HAS REMAINED VACANT THROUGH VARIOUS REZONING PROCESSES, AND WE ARE EXCITED TO BRING AN EXPERIENCED DEVELOPER WITH US TONIGHT WITH A FUTURE IN MIND FOR THE PROPERTY.
SO THIS APPLICATION PROPOSES A PLANNED DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT FOR WATER WOOD VILLAS, UH, AND A AMENITIZED MULTI-FAMILY PROJECT WITH NO MORE THAN 210 DWELLING UNITS.
THE APARTMENT FEATURES, UH, WILL BE A MIX OF ONE AND TWO BEDROOM UNITS FOR A TOTAL OF ABOUT 200, 270 BEDROOMS. AS SAM DESCRIBED, THEY'LL FEATURE OPEN, SORRY, THIS IS YOURS.
THERE ARE VARIOUS AMENITIES SUCH AS LANDSCAPE COURTYARDS, RESORT STYLE POOLS, COMMUNITY MEETING SPACES, COWORKING SPACES, AND THE LIKE.
I LIKED SAM'S VERSION OF THIS SLIDE A LITTLE BIT BETTER.
THIS IS JUST THE TECHNICAL SHOWING THE PARKING GARAGE SURROUNDED, UH, ON ALL SIDES BY THE RESIDENTIAL UNITS.
AND THEN MY PREFERRED VISION IS THE COLORFUL PRETTY PICTURES.
UH, THESE ARE THE ELEVATIONS THAT SHOW, UH, FROM THE NORTH ELEVATION SHOWING THE SECURED ACCESS ON WATER WOOD DRIVE WITH OPEN AND AIRY FEATURES FOR, UH, THE RESIDENTS TO ENJOY SUCH AS BALCONIES AND, AND EAST ELEVATION FROM GLENVILLE DRIVE.
THE LEASING SPACE, I DON'T KNOW IF THIS HAS A POINTER, DOES IT, THE LEASING SPACE AND, UH, SOME OF THE AMENITY AREAS WILL BE LOCATED AROUND HERE.
AND THEN AGAIN, THE DRIVE FOR THE SECURED PARKING FACILITY RIGHT THERE.
THIS IS ACTUALLY A, A TYPO, BUT, UH, ANOTHER EAST ELEVATION VIEW, BUT FROM THE, UM, NORTHERN PERSPECTIVE AND THEN ANOTHER, UH, FACADE VIEW FROM GLENVILLE DRIVE AS WELL.
SO, UH, WE RESPECTFULLY REQUEST THAT YOU FOLLOW STAFF AND CPCS RECOMMENDATION OF APPROVAL, AND WE ARE AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE.
VICTORIA, THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION.
COUNSEL, ANY QUESTIONS MR. DORIAN? THANK YOU, MAYOR.
UH, JUST A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS.
UH, WHAT IS THE GENERAL TIMELINE FOR THIS TO BE DEVELOPED? UH, HOPEFULLY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
WE'RE IN THE INFANCY OF THE DEVELOPMENT, SO WE'RE STILL SECURING FINANCING AND WHATNOT, BUT OF COURSE, TRYING TO GET IT DONE AS SOON AS WE CAN.
SO PROBABLY MAYBE TWO YEARS OUT, PROBABLY.
DO YOU HAVE, UM, I, I NOTICED YOU MENTIONED THERE'S A LOT OF SUSTAINABILITY TO THESE OR TO THIS COMPLEX.
UM, WELL, IS, UM, IS THAT INTEGRATED INTO THE EXTERIOR AS WELL AS THE INTERIOR FROM A MATERIAL STANDPOINT OR, I KNOW IT'S NOT COMPLETELY DESIGNED AT THE MOMENT.
I'M JUST ASKING ABOUT, UH, FROM HISTORY, FROM OTHER, SOME OF THE OTHER PROJECTS.
ARE WE USING THAT, THOSE TYPES OF MATERIALS FOR SUSTAINABILITY AND EFFICIENCY? SURE.
I'LL, UH, INTEGRATION TAP IN DATED FOR ALL RIGHT.
IF I, I'M THE ARCHITECT, DAVID HENSLEY FROM HLR.
UM, SO WE HAVE, UH, PREFABRICATED FRAMING PACKAGE.
WE HAVE, UM, A BRICK AND STUCCO FACADE.
SO BRICK IS HIGHLY SUSTAINABLE.
WE HAVE, UH, ENERGY EFFICIENT APPLIANCES.
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WE, WE HAVE JUST BECAUSE THE NEW CODE ALSO HELPS US GET THERE, THE HIGHEST ENERGY STANDARD WE'VE EVER HAD IN TERMS OF MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT, UM,ANY, UH, ARE Y'ALL USING ANY, UH, SECONDARY SOURCES OF, UH, LIKE, UH, ROOFTOP SOLAR SYSTEMS OR ANYTHING FOR BACKUP OR? WE ARE NOT CURRENTLY FROM GEN.
AND THEN, UM, THE LAST QUESTION ON THE LANDSCAPING, I, UH, OR DO YOU HAVE PLANS FOR A COMBINATION OF COMMON AREAS THAT WILL BE USED FOR SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS AS WELL? SO THERE, THERE WILL BE, UH, LANDSCAPING SURROUNDING THE BUILDING, AND THEN THERE'S ALSO AN INTERIOR COURTYARD WITH A POOL FEATURE.
FROM A SUSTAINABILITY PERSPECTIVE, I THINK IT WILL, YEAH, IRRIGATION.
THERE WILL BE SUSTAINABLE FEATURES, BUT ALSO JUST SIMILAR IN TERMS OF MATERIALS AS THE REST OF THE DEVELOPMENT.
WELL, IT'S A GOOD LOOKING PROJECT.
SEEING NONE THIS TIME, WE THANK YOU.
GO OPEN, OPEN THIS TO PUBLIC HEARING.
ARE THERE ANY COMMENT CARDS? MS. I HAVE NO CARDS, MAYOR.
AT THAT TIME, I'D TAKE A MOTION TO CLOSE MR. HUTCHEN, WRITER, CLOSE PUBLIC HEARING.
MAYOR, I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING.
GOT A SECOND BY MR. CORCORAN? YES, SIR.
ALL IN FAVOR? SHOW OF HANDS, PLEASE.
ARE THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSIONS AT THIS TIME? MR. HUTCHIN? RIDER? MAYOR, IF THERE'S NO DISCUSSIONS OR DELIBERATIONS, I'D BE PREPARED TO MAKE A MOTION.
I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE ZONING FILE 24 DASH SEVEN AS REQUESTED.
ALRIGHT, MR. DORIAN, I'LL SECOND THAT.
ALL IN FAVOR? SHOW OF HANDS, PLEASE.
[10. CONSENT AGENDA]
GO TO ITEM NUMBER 10.THIS IS OUR CONSENT AGENDA AND MR. HUTCHIN RIDER.
MAYOR, I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA AS PUBLISHED.
ALRIGHT, WE'VE GOT A MOTION TO APPROVE.
COULD I GET A SECOND PLEASE? MR. CORCORAN? SECOND.
ALL IN FAVOR OF THE CONSENT AGENDA? SHOW OF HANDS, PLEASE.
AND JUST FOR THE RECORD, I'D LIKE TO SAY THAT, UH, WE HAVE NOW NAMED, UH, MR. GARY SLAGEL, OUR REPRESENTATIVE AGAIN WITH DART.
SO THAT WAS PART OF THAT CONSENT AGENDA.
[11. REPORT ON ITEMS OF COMMUNITY INTEREST]
BRINGS US TO NUMBER 11, REPORT ON ITEMS OF COMMUNITY INTEREST.ANYONE HAVE INTEREST? ALRIGHT, MR. BARRIOS.
UH, I JUST WANTED TO LET THE COMMUNITY KNOW FOR THOSE WHO MAY BE FOLLOWING NOT AWARE TOMORROW, UM, AT FROM SIX 30 TO EIGHT 30 HERE IN RICHARDSON, CITY HALL WILL BE THE FIRST OPEN HOUSE OF THE COMMUNITY, SUMMIT THREE FOR ENVISION RICHARDSON.
SO ANYBODY INVOLVED, WANTED TO, WANTS TO COME PARTAKE AND GIVE THEIR FEEDBACK, IT'D BE A PERFECT OPPORTUNITY TO COME JOIN HERE AT CITY HALL.
I JUST, UM, WOULD ASK EVERYONE TO CHECK, UM, SOCIAL MEDIA.
UM, THERE'S A VERY GOOD UPDATE IN REGARDS TO THE OVERALL BULKY PICKUP THAT WE'RE DOING AROUND THE CITY.
UM, AS WE DISCUSSED EARLIER, ALL ASPECTS OF THE CITY ARE BEING, UM, UH, UM, WORKED, I GUESS IS THE BEST WAY TO SAY THAT.
UM, AND SO JUST CAN ASK FOR EVERYONE'S CONTINUED PATIENCE, BECAUSE I KNOW THERE, THERE, OUR TEAMS ARE OUT THERE AND THEY'RE DOING AN INCREDIBLE JOB.
BUT PLEASE, PLEASE, UM, READ, LOOK TO SOCIAL MEDIA AND, UM, OTHER COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE CITY TO KEEP, HELP KEEP YOU UPDATED AS TO THE, THE MOTIONS AND THE MOVEMENTS THAT ARE HAPPENING AROUND THE CITY.
AND I'LL ADD ONE THING TO WHAT KEN JUST SAID.
AS YOU LOOK TO SOCIAL MEDIA TO GET YOUR ANSWERS, PLEASE GO TO THE CITY OF RICHARDSON WEBSITE BECAUSE THERE ARE SOME RUMORS OUT THERE.
FOR EXAMPLE, I LEARNED TODAY THAT BECAUSE WE, UH, NAMED THIS A DISASTER AND DID THAT DECLARATION, THAT SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT FEMA WAS INVOLVED.
AND BECAUSE FEMA'S NOW INVOLVED, THEY, WE WILL NOT GET OUR DEBRIS PICKED UP FOR SIX MONTHS OR SOMETHING ALONG THOSE LINES.
AND THAT, THAT IS NOT AN ACCURATE STATEMENT.
SO LET'S, YOU KNOW, GET RID OF SOME OF THOSE INACCURACIES IF WE CAN.
UM, MR. DORIAN, THANK YOU, MAYOR.
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TO ATTEND THE PHILIPPINE REPUBLIC DAY GALA, NIGHT BANQUET AND COORDINATION OF MS. PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE 2024, AND WAS ABLE TO PROVIDE THEM WITH PROCLAMATION ON OUR MAYOR AND, UH, CITY COUNCIL'S BEHALF.IT WAS MY SECOND TIME TO ATTEND.
AND, UH, THEY ALWAYS JUST DO SUCH A GREAT JOB.
IT'S A, IT'S A REALLY GOOD GROUP OF PEOPLE, SO I, I THOROUGHLY ENJOYED IT.
THIS TIME WE'RE GOING TO ADJOURN THIS MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL AT 8:36 PM WE'RE ADJOURNED.