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General Fund

MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Asset Management Software: In FY2018, Property Management implemented VueWorks Asset Management
software for the Facility Division. The Facilities Division temporarily hired back staff that had recently retired to
perform an inventory of all city facilities, completing the task for $275K less than the quote from the VueWorks
vendor. For the first time in decades, the city has a comprehensive list of all facilities across all departments.
Work orders are now automated, with all field staff receiving their tasking on their mobile devices in real time.

Facility Renovation: The Facilities Division construction crew completed a $2M renovation of the former training
facility on Calvert for use as a new Police Administrative Facility. This allowed the city to vacate four floors at the
former Police Headquarters at 350 W. Belknap to comply with conditions set when the building was sold to Tarrant
County. This is the largest in-house project completed by city staff, and the work was done on time and within
budget.

Capital Project Delivery: Successfully negotiated the acquisition of over $3M in real property interests in over 160
tracts of land required for the delivery of the city’s capital infrastructure projects. In addition to the increased
volume of land and easement interests acquired over the previous fiscal year, staff improved acquisition services
by decreasing average delivery times by 19 days.

Developer Project Delivery: Facilitated and processed the acceptance of over 350 off-site easements as outlined
in Community Facilities Agreements with developers.

Tax Foreclosed Property Sales: Sold 141 tax foreclosed properties to date for a total of $1.8M. Currently there are
63 tax foreclosed sales pending for a total of $1.1M. The city receives approximately 28% of the revenue
generated from the sale of tax foreclosed properties and associated post judgment taxes collected.

City Surplus Property Sales: Generated $293k in revenue from the sale of 14 properties in the city’s surplus
property inventory.

Fees Offsetting Impact to General Fund: Real Property staff generated and collected $94k in administrative
processing fees resulting from property sales, easement abandonments and non-CFA easement dedications. The
continued collection of these fees offset salaries and operating expenses to the General Fund.

Lake Worth: Sales of 11 residential leased properties at Lake Worth resulted in $420k revenue directly to the
Water Department to be used for infrastructure improvements.

Mineral Management: Staff management of existing natural gas leases resulted in total recovery of $523k in
royalty revenue not provided independently by gas companies, with $278k of the total recovery amount directly
related to a component unit lease reviewed by staff. An additional 23 new natural gas leases were entered into
resulting in initial bonus revenue of $32k with continuing royalty revenues anticipated in the future. Annual royalty
revenues continue to remain stable at $12M to $14M per year.

Property Leases: Staff negotiation of new leases, lease renewals and early lease terminations for properties used
by Police, Parks and other departments resulted in a direct savings to the city of rent in the amount of $104k. An
additional indirect savings to the city in rent is estimated at $165k due to rents being charged at less than fair
market value. Key examples include the early termination of a lease by consolidation of staff in Neighborhood
Services from a leased suite to existing city-owned space, and cost free rent for space used by Police for support
of activities in the 7th Street corridor and for the central division operations of Park and Recreation department.

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