Agenda - Parks, Trails, and the Environment Committee

This City Council Parks, Trails and the Environment Committee meeting will be held by video

conference and in the Council Chambers, 6th Floor at City Hall.

The public may attend the meeting virtually; however, City Hall is available for those wishing to

attend the meeting in person.

The Parks, Trails and the Environment Committee will be broadcast live on Spectrum Cable

Channel 16 (English) and 95 (Spanish) and online at bit.ly/cityofdallastv.

The public may also listen to the meeting as an attendee at the following video conference link:

Call to Order

MINUTES

Approval of the August 3, 2026, Special Called Parks, Trails, and the

Environment Committee Meeting Minutes

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Attachments:

Minutes

The committee may vote to make recommendations to City Council regarding any of the

following items on this agenda.

BRIEFING ITEMS

Community 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]

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Attachments:

Briefing Presentation

Climate 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]

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Attachments:

Briefing Presentation

BRIEFING MEMOS

Proposed Legislative Agenda for the 90th Texas Legislature and the 120th

Congress Update [Eric Dominguez, Director, Office of Government Affairs]

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Attachments:

Memorandum

Parks, Trails, and the Environment Committee Forecast

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Attachments:

Forecast

UPCOMING AGENDA ITEMS

City Council September 9, 2026

Dallas Park and Recreation

Upcoming 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

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Upcoming Dallas City Council Agenda Item #26-2305A: Authorizeꢀthe 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 footballꢀgame held annually at the Cotton Bowl Stadiumꢀ

located at Fair Park during the State Fair of Texas; (2) authorizeꢀtheꢀCity 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

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$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

City Council September 23, 2026

Dallas Park and Recreation

Upcoming 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

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Upcoming 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)

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Upcoming 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

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Office of Environmental Quality and Sustainability

Upcoming Dallas City Council Agenda Item #XX-XXXX: A public hearing to

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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.

ADJOURNMENT

EXECUTIVE SESSION NOTICE

A closed executive session may be held if the discussion of any of the above agenda items

concerns one of the following:

1. seeking the advice of its attorney about pending or contemplated litigation, settlement

offers, or any matter in which the duty of the attorney to the City Council under the Texas

Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct of the State Bar of Texas clearly conflicts

with the Texas Open Meetings Act. [Tex. Govt. Code § 551.071]

2. deliberating the purchase, exchange, lease, or value of real property if deliberation in an

open meeting would have a detrimental effect on the position of the city in negotiations

with a third person. [Tex. Govt. Code § 551.072]

3. deliberating a negotiated contract for a prospective gift or donation to the city if

deliberation in an open meeting would have a detrimental effect on the position of the

city in negotiations with a third person. [Tex. Govt. Code § 551.073]

4. deliberating the appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline,

or dismissal of a public officer or employee; or to hear a complaint or charge against an

officer or employee unless the officer or employee who is the subject of the deliberation

or hearing requests a public hearing. [Tex. Govt. Code § 551.074]

5. deliberating the deployment, or specific occasions for implementation, of security

personnel or devices. [Tex. Govt. Code § 551.076]

6. discussing or deliberating commercial or financial information that the city has received

from a business prospect that the city seeks to have locate, stay or expand in or near the

city and with which the city is conducting economic development negotiations; or

deliberating the offer of a financial or other incentive to a business prospect. [Tex Govt.

Code § 551.087]

7. deliberating security assessments or deployments relating to information resources

technology, network security information, or the deployment or specific occasions for

implementations of security personnel, critical infrastructure, or security devices. [Tex

Govt. Code § 551.089]

8. deliberating cybersecurity measures, policies, or contracts solely intended to protect a

critical infrastructure facility. [Tex. Gov’t Code § 551.0761]