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Meeting Details

Meeting Name: Parks, Trails, and the Environment Committee Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 9/1/2026 9:00 AM Minutes status: Draft  
Meeting location: COUNCIL CHAMBERS, CITY HALL bit.ly/cityofdallastv
Published agenda: Agenda Agenda  
Attachments: Agenda Packet
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26-2817A 11. BRIEFING ITEMSApproval of the August 3, 2026, Special Called Parks, Trails, and the Environment Committee Meeting Minutes  
26-2794A 1A. BRIEFING ITEMSCommunity Park at Fair Park Quarterly Update [Alyssa Sifferman, Executive Director, Fair Park First; Norman Alston, Project Manager, Fair Park First; Heather Stevens, Philanthropy and Strategy Officer, Fair Park First; Ryan O’Connor, Senior Deputy Director, Dallas Park and Recreation]  
26-2795A 1B. BRIEFING ITEMSClimate Resilience: Addressing Extreme Heat with Data Heat Intervention Guidebook [Angela Hodges Gott, Director, Office of Environmental Quality and Sustainability; Oppong Hemeng, Manager (I), Office of Environmental Quality and Sustainability]  
26-2796A 1C. BRIEFING ITEMSProposed Legislative Agenda for the 90th Texas Legislature and the 120th Congress Update [Eric Dominguez, Director, Office of Government Affairs]  
26-2818A 1D. BRIEFING ITEMSParks, Trails, and the Environment Committee Forecast  
26-2812A 1E. BRIEFING ITEMSUpcoming Dallas City Council Agenda Item #26-2294A: A public hearing to receive comments on (1) re-adopting and continuing in effect Chapter 12, "City Youth Program Standards of Care," of the Dallas City Code, to re-establish standards of care for certain city youth programs in compliance with state law; and, at the close of the public hearing (2) approving of an ordinance to re-adopt Chapter 12 of the Dallas City Code - Financing: No cost consideration to the City  
26-2813A 1F. BRIEFING ITEMSUpcoming Dallas City Council Agenda Item #26-2305A: Authorize?the City to (1) enter into a four (4) party agreement for a term of four (4) years with Grambling State University, Prairie View A&M University and the State Fair of Texas,?which authorizes both universities to continue playing the annual State Fair Classic football?game held annually at the Cotton Bowl Stadium?located at Fair Park during the State Fair of Texas; (2) authorize?the?City to pay Prairie View A&M University and Grambling State University in the amount of $175,000.000 each for the 2025 State Fair Classic football game at the Cotton Bowl Stadium during the State Fair; and (3) pay Prairie View A&M University and Grambling State University in the amount of $250,000,00 to each school for the State Fair Classic football game held annually at the Cotton Bowl Stadium during the State Fair of Texas, beginning 2026 through 2029 in an amount not to exceed $2,350,000.00 - Not to exceed $2,350,000.00 - Financing: Fair Park Fund  
26-2814A 1G. BRIEFING ITEMSUpcoming Dallas City Council Agenda Item #26-2737A: Authorize a five-year master agreement for the purchase of park and recreation equipment, products, and installation services for the Park & Recreation Department to the following vendors awarded under BuyBoard Proposal No. 781-25 for Parks and Recreation Equipment, Products, and Installation Services upon documented need by the Park & Recreation Department, through The Local Government Purchasing Cooperative (BuyBoard) agreement - Playcore Wisconsin, Inc. dba GameTime c/o Cunningham Associates, Inc. dba Cunnigham Recreation in the estimated amount of $6,287,410.00, Kompan, Inc. in the estimated amount of $6,923,000.00, Parkscapes Texas, LLC in the estimated amount of $5,036,508.00, Webuildfun, Inc. in the estimated amount of $5,778,125.00, and Whirlix Design, Inc. in the estimated amount of $9,012,154.00 - Total estimated amount of $33,037,197.00 - Financing: see Fiscal Information  
26-2815A 1H. BRIEFING ITEMSUpcoming Dallas City Council Agenda Item #26-2798A: Authorize (1) Supplemental Agreement No. 1 to increase the Construction Manager at Risk Agreement with Linbeck Group, LLC, to provide preconstruction and construction services for the Dallas Zoo Safari Trail Project (or “Project”) located at 650 South R.L. Thornton Freeway, in an amount not to exceed $27,192,678.00 and (2) establish appropriations not to exceed $17,567,678.00 in the Capital Gifts Match Donations and Development Fund - Total not to exceed $27,192,678.00 from $90,000.00 to $27,282,678.00- Financing: Capital Gifts Match Donations and Development Fund ($17,567,678.00); Park and Recreation Facilities (B) Fund (2024 General Obligation Bond Fund) ($9,625,000.00)  
26-2816A 1I. BRIEFING ITEMSUpcoming Dallas City Council Agenda Item #26-2799A: Authorize an increase in the construction services contract with SCI Construction, Ltd. to provide additional construction services to add a new underground Fire Water line from the water main to the Fire Riser Room for Forest Audelia Recreation Center Project located at 9758 Forest Lane - Not to exceed $157,317.00 from $4,010,000.00 to $4,167,317.00 - Financing: Capital Gifts Donations & Development Fund  
26-2823A 1  BRIEFING ITEMSUpcoming Dallas City Council Agenda Item #XX-XXXX: A public hearing to receive comments on a proposed municipal setting designation to prohibit the use of groundwater as potable water beneath property owned by GoodRE Singleton Investments LLC and generally located near the intersection of Singleton Boulevard and Vinson Street and adjacent street rights-of-way; and an ordinance authorizing support of the issuance of a municipal setting designation to GoodRE Singleton Investments LLC by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and prohibiting the use of groundwater beneath the designated property as potable water - Financing: No cost consideration to the City.