2026-10-13 - City Council (Afternoon)

- Okay, good morning everybody. We're gonna go ahead and call the afternoon session of the City Council meeting to order. It is December 13th, 2026 and the time is 1.22 p.m. We'll now go into an

executive closed session pursuant to VTCA government code chapter 551.071.072 and 0.087. Okay, we're going to go ahead and call the afternoon session back to order. We're going to move on down to item

3.1. Lemuel. Thank you. Mayor, members of City Council, Lemuel Randolph, Deputy City Manager. This afternoon, I have your quarterly enhanced mobility update. Just as a quick reminder, this party was

created in 2013. Back then, it was known as enhanced regional mobility and change to enhanced mobility this past year. You'll notice in this report, the quantitative measures won't be in here. We need

another month to get those completed. So this will be really more of a focus on project updates. In addition, at your place, you have this document that lists the 10 priorities in more detail. So if

you come up with questions that are specifically related to items outside of the presentation, they're likely covered in there. So 10 business items, again, created in 2013. And we'll talk a little

bit about some progress that we've made on some pretty significant street projects. So UTA Boulevard to Border Place, about 1.9 miles out of the 2025 Milne Overlay Program was completed as well as

about 1.8 lane miles on Bernie Road between Green Oaks and the city limits. And then Russell Curry Road to the between Eden and US 287 frontage. And so both of these developments have improved the

street condition index from yellow to green in the first one, and then from red to yellow, I believe, in the second. And so you'll see, excuse me, that red one will go to green. You'll see the

pictures associated with those. Debbie Lane, a number of you are at the dedication for this project back in August, 1.5 miles. So this is a significant project. It expanded Debbie Lane from two lanes

to four all the way from State Highway 360 to the Mansfield City limits. It also included new sidewalks, lighting, landscaping, and the like. Significant development for that part of town. And some

upcoming projects, our annual pavement survey. And so as you're aware, our OCI index is done on a three-year cycle. So every three years or every year, we assess about a third of the streets. This

year, we'll be focusing on streets to the north and it's kind of central Arlington. That advantage you see on the right has a number of survey instruments and sensors, and it monitors the road

condition index. And then that is reviewed by our public work staff to verify the actual street conditions. So information obviously is really critical in assessing the need for our bond program. The

Safe Routes to School Master Plan and the Quick Build Demonstration Projects. So the master plan is being led by Kimley Horne. And then through that process, we'll be interviewing school communities,

neighbors, and the like to assess concerns regarding Safe Routes to School. We in addition have two campuses that have been approved as part of a Quick Build Demonstration Project to take place for

the 27-28 school year. So about 10% of the funding for that is coming through this program. And then regional updates. The Project Nexus was one of the projects through the FAA to support our EVTOL

efforts. And so this will generate real-world operational data to help establish air mobility integration into the national airspace system. The airport has been identified as one of the North Texas

nodes for demonstration of these programs for EVTOL. And then for electric aircraft at the municipal airport, we're going to be having a charging station completed by the end of this month. And so

we'll be able to charge those EVTOLs, which are certainly kind of similar to better operated cars. They're much cleaner, quieter, and we are trying to be kind of in the forefront of that development

regionally. With that, I'll be happy to answer any questions from this report or any associated mobility projects or initiatives that you might have interest in. Questions, comments for Lemuel

Randall. Yes, Councilman Hogg. Mayor, one thing, and Lemuel, thank you all for this and to the whole team that works on this. I just think as we all meet with our federal government relations people,

we've got to keep into account a lot of this determines on some federal funding that we're getting down to either through grants in the state or different things, you know, the streets we have, but

some of these things really do matter and the federal funds can make a big difference. Am I correct on that, Lemuel? They absolutely do make a big difference. In fact, the Debbie Lane Project, that

was some Tarrant County bond funds, as you're well aware, the Randall Mill Project, significant grant funding. We could not do as much as we do in the streets area without grants. Yeah. And whether

it's coming directly from the feds to state and locals or through COG that we're getting, and these are, this is why we have to work on federal lobbying constantly. Any other questions or comments?

Thank you, sir. I appreciate you. Let's move on down to the informal staff reports. We only have the one today. For the sake of time, I'll address any, I'll let you address any questions you may have

about the staff report to Mr. Brooks, our director of public works, if anybody has any questions or comments on the annual report for floodplain program for public information plan. Any questions or

comments? Perfect. We'll move on down to talk about the committee meetings 4.2 Councilmember Hogg, Community and Neighborhood Development. Thank you, Mayor. Seeing the community neighborhood

development met on October 7th, as we continued discussion regarding single family shared rental, we call that special meeting as we're trying to expeditiously go through this. And we also, in case we

needed to call another one for today, is why we held that on the 7th outside of some normal committee meeting times. Staff presented as a proposed ordinance modifications to their code, which we

talked about last time. It's related to the permitting process. So what does that include? It's a requirement that each dwelling unit have at least one room such as a living room. There should be no

less than 120 square feet. You don't know that that was current because people were turning living rooms into bedrooms. So now we're saying you do have to have that square footage to dimension

requirements for bedrooms would be 100 square feet, 10 by 10 in any direction. And that is the case is we did not have any minimum size for bedrooms for what we were having. And then ingress and

egress requirements for bedrooms and bathrooms. You're not familiar there was, there was problems with you have to walk through one bedroom to get to the other when they're trying to stack bedrooms.

Staff also presented proposed amendments to the uniform housing code related to the number of bedrooms that can be added to a home during alterations based on the size of the home proposed limitations

on garage conversions for homes built to prior 1984 and limitation of one lease per single family rental property. The committee supported moving forward with the proposed ordinance modifications

asked staff to bring the modifications forward for councils consideration. So you guys can see all the details. The committee also discussed components of a single family rental registration programs

used by other cities we had a full report of what other cities are doing our staff did a great job looking it up. The committee we then still think there's more to do on that right we just we can't

make a fast quick decision on that when we think some of these ordinance changes need to go pretty quick to eliminate the problem that we're all hearing about. But rental registration we've got to

take a little more time to make sure something if we do something it's the correct thing that's done. So we've asked the staff to conduct a stakeholder outreach we're meeting with Arlington border

realtors I think on the 30th and then we're also going to hold a a meeting a town hall meeting over this for all the community details for community means the committee will meet on again on 10 27 to

continue discussion that meeting staff will bring example floor plans because we want to see what some of those minimum requirements have especially as Miss Garcia Dumas and I talked about smaller

homes and some of our older parts of town to make sure on those renovations they're still meeting some of the standards and meeting some of those pieces. So we can see the ordinance modifications that

so we'll meet again on the 27th. Thanks sir. Any questions for council member hog. And I would just say on one other thing as we get these ordinance modifications we're going through as you all know

when we change anything with UDC it takes some steps. So we're hoping to have all this and it'll be going live by February 1st is what we're shooting for January 1st we just can't get the timing

correct. So February 1st is really what we're looking at and we'll go through multiple public hearings multiple pieces for our council to be able to review it. Thanks sir. Okay let's move on down to

4.3 councilmember Gonzalez. Thank you mayor the municipal policy committee met with a full quorum present. We review the facility naming policy which was approved by City Council in 2019 and amended

again in April 13th 2021 and amended again in January 24 23. So basically it says you know we need to look at this more often because I think the last time that we did it there was a lot of names put

in. So we looked at that regarding the president's corner the municipal policy committee reviewed naming opportunity for the president's corner neighborhood in North Arlington which if you know has a

history of streets complex and developments named after U.S. presidents the committee agreed to look at the five to six presidents not yet named for an asset in Parkway Central Park. Those presidents

are all passed away so don't worry it's not any of the past presidents or current presidents that we have. So please people do not. Good clarification Mr. Gonzalez. I don't want to get emails. And

then this came about because we had a council member Ms. Hunter asked to look at some being named after somebody so the committee recommendation for the full council we need input needed the committee

from the full council the committee will if you have any suggestions if you can send a suggestion to Donna or myself of something that for someone that you want to name something after or a place in

the next 30 days so suggestions are received the committee will bring need to bring back recommendations by the year end of the year or so. Just something so won't just keep coming up you know naming

after something because it'll just keep coming up this way it's done at one time and so we're we don't intend on bringing it back around for a couple of years. So if you've got something that needs to

be named we don't want to be naming a whole lot of stuff month after month after month after month. So let's get the name submitted on who you'd like to have and what you want to try to get named

after them and most likely whatever that is they'll come back with other options as well and stuff. There was a discussion about about un-naming facilities but that did not get any support so let you

know. Any questions? Let me just add with the Ms. Gonzalez we talked a lot about I think we all agreed that naming some of that person has to fit what the facility or the location is and make sure

it's the right fit that they mesh together and so that's why we kind of said if you have an idea of a name and a location great give us that idea and then we'll let staff kind of start looking at all

the options they gave us a print out of all the options but I think it's important to make sure those two things start meshing together instead of just throwing someone's name on something. Great

point. Thank you. Okay 4.4 Councilmember Galante economic development anything additional to what you've already expressed at the executive session? Yes Mayor the economic development committee met

this morning with a full full call and besides the executive session we discussed two ongoing negotiations for economic development incentives. We had an open session bringing up the city tax

abatement policies up for renewal per state law every two years. We voted again to renew. Staff is not recommending any changes in action item you see on your agenda on October 27. So basically the

tax abatement policies the SOP standard operating procedure how the city look in the deals and and balance what what fits to that that proposal and what is that? Thank you. Any questions for

Councilmember Galante? Thank you. 4.5 Councilmember Hunter. Thank you. The Arlington Housing Finance Committee met this morning we had all members present with a real quick meeting basically we went

in and improved an amendment to the regulatory agreement for center place apartments and this has been a topic of discussions for a few meetings and we went ahead and improved it. Does any other board

members have anything to add on there? That's it. Thank you. Thank you ma'am. Okay let's move on down to our miscellaneous items 4.6. Ms. Garcia any appointments boards or commissions this evening?

Mayor we have no appointments to boards and commissions. Thank you ma'am. Evening agenda items council have any comments or questions regarding anything on the evening agenda? Yes sir. No you're fine

take your time. I'm sorry Councilmember Galante we're giving you a hard time today aren't we? If you remember just yell at me and we'll go back. I know you guys love me I know. We do. 4.8 the

discussion regarding a potential resolution again for or against the Mansfield ISD single-member district issue city attorney Molly Shordog. Yeah mayor and council this is an item that was requested.

What I've got in front of you is the resolution that the city of Mansfield voted on yesterday was approved by their council we've had one member absent so 6-6-0 so just have this in front of you if

this is something that you're interested in having staff bring back to you and just sort of open it for your discussion. Yes councilmember Gonzalez. Thank you mayor most of you are probably not aware

of what's happening we've had MISDs have as you know 38% of the kids in Mansfield ID live in Arlington we've got citizens in Burleson Fort Worth came here what else but they're all over so what the

school board wants to do is do districts for the school boards they had town hall meetings but everybody most the majority of the people that went were against it but they were determined to do it and

they put out a survey that asked what people thought of the school board over the last five years which you really can do a survey because there's been five different school boards during that time

because they've had so much turnover because people are voting some of the trustees out because they're not doing what the people they feel like they're not being heard by the trustees the same thing

has happened this time the trustees are doing something and the citizens and city council and the teachers they feel like it's a bad idea so I know this is something that we normally don't get

involved in the school's business but I think this is really really not a thing it is very important that you know I'm going I mean I went to the meetings that I saw what was happening but it's really

going to affect Arlington students in MISD they say the reason they're doing this is because nobody from Arlington runs I don't think this is going to change running for any type of office right now

it's really difficult I was on the school board for 10 years and when I ran I felt like I represented everybody and I don't like the idea of school board representing a certain part of the city

because as you're an elected official just like us even though we have districts and we have at large but districts for the city are different which they brought up saying well you're at district but

it's different because we're having to worry about roads and ordinances everything else but when you're doing school district stuff when you decide it affects everybody so I you know I've seen school

districts surrounding us that have that have single member districts and they just really just care about their districts in fact when I first got elected I met with Fort Worth and I remember having

this dinner with them and that's when they lost Melanie Johnson and I asked the school board I said how did you feel when Melanie Johnson said she was leaving and he said to me because I don't know I

haven't talked to her in three years and I thought okay you're a school board member how can you not talk to your superintendent and one of the things he told me to do is you've got to separate

yourself from others and I said what do you mean by that he goes you need to set up different programs for your for your schools than other ones he goes I did something for my district and now they

all copy me and I said well what was that he goes having ambulances at football games so in case somebody got hurt so that type of mentality which I know doesn't make sense to y'all but I'm really

concerned about this and like I said the people did not want it they had three town halls most of the people that were there I'd say 98% of them were against it but they were determined to move

forward and even the body language of the school board during those meetings was like they didn't care what people were saying it was very disrespectful so I know you know I know it's difficult for

y'all but I just had to say you know what I felt and I think it's really important that we look at it so councilmember Garcia Dumas yeah just in the vein of fairness I do believe that there are people

within Mansfield who support that and so I'm not saying necessarily that we need to get involved but I think to say nobody wants this is is not true yeah I didn't say no but I just meant the majority

well 98 98% I think that that's false I people have reached out to me to say that they really want the single member districts I'm not saying that means Arlington gets involved I'm just saying there

are two there are there are two voices that are speaking about this there is support on both sides of that so I I have to defer to people who have greater knowledge about Mansfield than I but I I hear

single member districts may give Arlington at least a voice on there because we typically I think you were the last Arlington resident that sir we've had different that Daniel there was a lot of

misinformation there's been seven since two thousand and ten and they all lived in Arlington from Mayor Evans who lived in Ireland at the time Daniel Gallagher Sandy Vaughtauer myself so there's a

bunch about all in two citizens there's a lot of misinformation like I said I'm almost of the mindset that it's it's more of a Mansfield issue than an Arlington issue I'm almost of the mindset we just

stay out of it then do a resolution one way or the other and let Mansfield deal with Mansfield issues I don't know but yeah we're democracy and I get it I fully understand that you know we had two

former superintendents you know come to those meetings and we they've never seen a vote where it's five you know four to three I mean that's that's not unanimous I mean they're not even together on it

and that's just not you know just like the discussion we had earlier you know you want a little more actually we've never had close votes on anything so never with you never a close vote Mr. Gonzalez

do you know where they are in this process like when are they looking to do this are they able to do it before because the election for May Molly and Molly do they have to does this have to go to

citizen vote or can they just do it I believe they can proceed with it but they've got to do it in a certain amount of time prior to their next election yeah as Councilman Gonzalez was mentioning I

think they're trying to target effectiveness for the May election last I checked they had a special meeting that was last week and I think this is one councilman Gonzalez is referring to where they

sort of reported out on all the feedback they'd received at these town halls but today they've at least not posted action to make this change I appreciate that Molly and I say this from Mr. Gonzalez

and I both had the honor to serve many many years on school boards and I think Mr. Gonzalez is right there's a way schools the worst thing you can do is have people just looking out for their few

schools and you hear this and I did 14 years on the school board in Arlington and we had a lot of discussions about single member in Arlington and we had lots of discussions and I don't think I've

seen a single school district go to single member without a lawsuit being in place at some point usually is where that comes about so for the Mansfield or maybe they're just getting out ahead of it I

don't know or maybe they wanted to avoid a lawsuit that's that's okay but uh I just Grand Prairie is one that I think of that finally settled and went to single members and I hear the same stories Mr.

Gonzalez hears of of I talked to Fort Worth and Dallas there my servant on tasbee board and there's so much individualism when they get single members because they don't have a modified system like we

have for you have at large and at single members and I think the greatness of our system is five people are all elected by every resident the majority of this council no matter was so I don't know if

we have to do a resolution I definitely think we should all send emails um with our support our against our support um doing a little homework on that but uh if we did a resolution I wouldn't be

totally opposed to it either I don't think it's good for schools anybody else want to weigh in on this councilmember fam well uh I guess and I paid tax for MISD uh so you we're gonna put you're gonna

vote for this tonight no sir it's not on the agenda for tonight this is just to discuss to see if this let's not get involved I mean you know if I don't like those schoolboy I can always vote them out

and I can lobby a bunch of people go vote them out down the side lip down South Arlington so I don't let's not get involved yeah let's let's not get involved anybody else want to weigh in on that

that's essentially what I'm hearing I think councilmember hog has a good idea you can you can express your support or opposition one way or the other individually if you'd like with your emails or

anything I don't know it's that it's anything we have to weigh in on okay very good let's move on down to four point nine downtown parking Mr. Elverton uh yeah um back in uh early summer um Mr. hog

brought up a question about talking about downtown parking or having the opportunity for us to talk about that and it's my fault that we haven't brought that forward sooner because I had a couple of

things in my mind I was working through one was some new inventory that was going to be coming online and then there's actually a study tour uh here later this year to kind of look at some other ways

parking districts are are managed but I thought I would just show you kind of the downtown parking map as it is right now for our um for our employees where we try to tell people to park um and the

good news is we have a parking problem downtown uh the bad news is there's a parking problem downtown and and it's uh it's really around uh building number four which is our city tower and there's a

purple parking lot just to the north of that and it's really around the urban union area across the railroad tracks that are there where we're having a lot of parking uh challenges so there's new

inventory coming uh with our announcement on the trammell crow project we will have an additional parking deck that will come into that area surrounding building number four which will add space and

we also are working with public works to have a pedestrian crossing over the railroad which was approved by voters um I think in 2017 uh maybe a little late maybe a little later than that but we're

going to be able to connect that trammell crow development over into the urban union area and then I think we may at some point look at doing some kind of parking facility in the urban union area also

because of some additional demand that I'm I kind of expect to have happen so so there is some new inventory but there's also a lot of technology out there and that we need to learn more about and I

think that's actually what Mr. Hogg wanted to kind of talk a little bit about is some thoughts and ways that we might want to tackle that so I'll turn the rest over to at least we to kind of say some

stuff and then we'll we're willing to go or take whatever advice and counsel y'all have about that appreciate it Trey and and I think you're right that you identified where we do have some issues and

I think we've all experienced that I know I've driven down in downtown at night and then left and gone somewhere else because I couldn't find a park um in a reasonable space where it happens and

that's just reality and if I'm doing it others are doing I hear about from other people and then you see during the day and I hear from business owners people have had to lock in parking spaces and

parking lots they're trying to utilize and and then you see We see people like the Rambler Inn. They have dedicated spaces in the back, but there's no requirement. So they're parking in the front,

locking up spaces on that front side. So I do think, as Mr. Yeltsin and I talked, I think some type of technology to be able to help bring that. I still think we need to provide free parking to

individuals, but a lot of times you can give two hours those type of things free. And Mr. Gonzalez and I have talked to some folks. There's some pretty interesting technology that can be out there. So

I just ask staff, and I think downtown Arlington, this is a big issue. They're talking about a lot. Mr. Garcia Dumas, I know you're involved in that. So I think finding a way to be able to get a

modified kind of system using some technology of parking. You know, do I think it needs to be a revenue generator in downtown? No. Do I think it needs to be more of a, I don't want to say a carrot

stick, you know, help facilitate. Thank you, Dr. Shelton, of what we're doing in downtown parking. So if staff's willing to look at it and look at some technology, you may have to eventually do an

RFP, something like that. But I think exploring some options on the front side, along with downtown and business owners in downtown of what would work the best because they will be very concerned if

they do not have access to parking in downtown. And it can really hurt a business, not having that access. Councilmember Garcia Dumas. So this has been a hot topic of discussion in downtown for many

years. And like the mayor mentioned, early November, DMC, I think Trey is going, I'm going. We're going to old Pasadena and a couple different places who have effectively dealt with this great

opportunity. And every time we come back from these trips, we find these really great solutions and DMC is great about adding those in. So this is definitely on DMC's mind. The new developments that

may be coming in, that's something that we're talking about with them. You'll also know that form based code has less parking availability or parking restrictions on how much parking they have to

provide. So this is an issue that could substantially get worse. So everybody is trying to get out ahead of this. Some of the discussions that we had at downtown were just that. Booey like looking at

better technology and definitely not a parking meter. That is a thing of the past. We want to look at something that's going to evolve with us as we go through. One of the questions that I had is, are

the Ike kiosks appable to utilize for a parking app or something? You know, let's look at what we already have to try to create this innovative solution. So absolutely, this is 100 percent on the mind

of downtown. And I think we will be prepared to bring back solutions. There's at least some really innovative ideas for that when we come back early November. If I could add, I agree. And so I think

we maybe we can get to it in December, I don't know, late December or maybe January. Come back with some of the learnings and some options and thoughts of how we might engage with the downtown group

more formally. All the vendors and businesses because it's about managing the parking garages and it's about managing the surface spots. And that's really what it is. It's about parking management. We

just don't want people we want long term people to be in long term spots and short term people to be turning over so that the visitors can get in and out for the restaurants and all that. So I think

this opportunity will help us and inform us. And then we'll we'll bring back something to either late this year, early next with some ideas about how we might make some things happen to make it

better. So it's it's we used to joke. It'd be great to have a parking problem downtown. And and so that's upon us. So we'll figure that out. Also, did you want to add something? Anybody else want to

make sure we're in the process. That's the make sure the wheels are moving. Perfect. Four point ten issues relative to city and tech stop projects. Any questions or comments? Council member external

committee reports and discussions start with the US Conference of Mayors and then police chiefs meeting that we did in San Diego recently. Chief Jones and I traveled to San Diego and presented with

about 30 other mayors and police chiefs from around the country. Quite interesting. If you haven't had a chance to tour Arlington's real time crime center, you need to get over there and check it out.

We talked about what we're doing here in Arlington with our RTCC and our drone program and everything else. And I'll tell you, we are light years ahead of other cities from around the country. It was

quite impressive to compare who's doing what out there. I had a little bit of a stay for the US Conference for the leadership meeting. The leadership meeting is for the there's 13 trustees. I'm one of

the trustees. And then there's advisors and there's like 20 advisors. So it's about 33 mayors who make up the leadership there. We meet and discuss things there. The big thing right now is the

upcoming elections is what the talks were. And everybody is sort of put on hold right now to see what's going to happen and what's not going to happen. We did talk about the possibility of Arlington

hosting the next leadership conference in February. The only problem is we have this hockey game going on at AT&T Stadium at the time with a bunch of other conferences and all of our big hotels are

completely booked up. So now we're talking about maybe doing the leadership conference in DC so we can do a political fly in to meet some of the new representatives or senators that may have been

elected through the November election. We don't know yet. Nonetheless, we did announce there that we'll be doing the Medal of Honor leadership cohort for the mayor's group again from around the

country in April. So we will be bringing mayors from all over the country here for the leadership cohort. That was both A and B, C National League of Cities Councilmember Gonzalez. Any questions for

me? Councilmember Gonzalez. The NLC fair committee met in September. We basically went over legislative agenda. One of the things that fair is working on is setting up learning videos for new council

members regarding budgets. And so they've been working on that. And we've we've had a lot of work on that. So for the new board or city council members, you'll be seeing that soon. And I think it's,

you know, I know you all understand budgets, but I think it'll make things a lot easier for next year. So hopefully you guys partake in that. I mentioned before, the city of Arlington is highly

regarded by this committee, Dante Moreno, who's the manager for the legislative advocacy, advocacy program. I spoke into Trey and into Trey, Jay, and others. And I have been asked to speak at the 2026

city summit conference. I'm not going to be a speaker, but I'm going to be discussion leader regarding improving civic conversation session on Saturday. So I'm honored to do that. So that's one of the

big issues that we had. And there was a city council member from Arizona that started this whole process. And she was voted out. So I was the next in line. So, but it's really important to talk. I

know. So, but I'm excited about that because it's, you know, it's something that we face and we talked about it today. So we do an email campaign for Raul as well. So our next meeting is this coming

up October 15th. That's our next NLC meeting. And then after that, we'll be in Nashville. Thank you, sir. D is tarrant regional transportation coalition board meeting. We met last week. We had a

presentation from David Salazar, who is now the director of the Fort Worth division of tech stock. He talked about the master planning on everything that we're doing around tarrant county and adjacent

counties. More specifically, he talked about some of the stuff we discussed at the last council meeting, which was the eye 30 project we have about $125 million it's already set up, and we're, they're

prioritizing now, they'd be in text dot are prioritizing where they're going to start spending that 125 million along I 30 between our city limits and Cooper Street regional transportation council

council member Gonzales, is it you and I are we just carrying the load for everybody right now. It's just with ours, I've been meeting quite a bit. The RTC met on Thursday, October, the eighth, the

RTC approved several items including a one time merit payment for Michael Morris submission of applications to the federal protect grant program. We also approved the regional bike safety action plan.

And then we approve opening the 2027 transportation alternatives call for projects, which provides funding for active transportation projects. RTC also discussed and approve their our legislative

program for the 90th, let just text let it legislature session cogs staff recommended a new name for the entity after the recent changes between RTC and cog executive board RTC approved the new name

which will be the regional transportation council, north central Texas metropolitan planning organization. So the next meeting is scheduled for November the 5th, 2026. And then we also have a meeting

coming up for the high speed rail between thousand for working that's coming up in November, it'll be in Dallas, the mayor and I will both be at that meeting. They picked the location yet for that.

It's gonna be a city hall. Okay, cool. Thank you. Any questions for Councilmember Gonzalez, you have your finger on your button Councilmember fam for a reason you ready to talk or something. First

agenda, Mr. Mayor, okay, well then I'm gonna, I'm gonna mention the future agenda items right now and I'm gonna let you go first. Okay, thank you, Mr. Mayor, you know, we all get a bunch of emails

from people that support the gentleman named Yahoo, he the resident of Arlington, Texas. He's a DECA recipient been there 24 years and last year he got locked up by federal agent somewhere in Georgia.

And a lot of people asking that do do a resolution for him. Now, I would like to for you to support that and put the agenda and let us vote for it if the vote failed and at least we would do

something, but I don't think we're hurt anything because you very believe in inclusive. So for him at the race in Arlington, I think we should do a resolution for him. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Any

questions, comments, anything on this, we can't really get into it, but let's, it's, let's see what the staff says about this and let's staff needs to give more details before I see what the staff

says and have a discussion before we put it on the agenda. We've just done that on another issue, a sensitive issue, and let's get a report from the staff first and then let's see what's going on. So

Molly, can you check in that legal stuff and then give us some advice before we can bring it up. Okay, any other questions, future agenda items. Yes. Remember Garcia Dumas, I would love an update, I

believe it's from the landmark preservation or the Arlington Historical Society I'm not exactly sure which department, but we have a tremendous amount of, of new development and downtown, and I want

to know where all of the historical homes are and I want to know where the historical areas are and what kind of protections we have. There are people within East Arlington that are looking at a

conservation district overlay. I just would love to see from the city, what we have what's our inventory what we're looking at, as we build these new developments, so that we can preserve where

appropriate and build where appropriate. As we move forward with those things. So, you're not looking to necessarily put in the agenda you just want to report showing where everything's at right now,

and then we can talk about yes so that council can get a good lay of the land. Again, I don't know, I think that was Jacob Sumter, no, somebody at one point and so I don't know which where to pull

from but yes. Okay. Anybody else, Councilmember Gonzalez, I would like an update on the wall box. Okay, we'll get you an update on wall box. Anybody else. Okay, this afternoon session is a Jen thank

you all for going so quickly through the afternoon session, we were a little behind schedule. Appreciate it. We're adjourned and we'll see everybody downstairs at 630.