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All right, we're going to get started
this morning. I first I want to thank
Morris McCraven and friends, the jazz
trio that was performing inside the
chambers here. We'll hear a little bit
more about the Charlie Christian
International Music Festival in a few
minutes. But first, we are going to have
a invocation led by Lieutenant Steven
Harris, who is chaplain for the Oklahoma
City Fire Department, followed by the
pledge of allegiance led by Elise and
Jocelyn Ormandi, representing Scouting
America Troop 3055.
Please stand as you are able.
Let us pray.
Lord, we give praise to you today. We
thank you for the wonderful things
happening to our city with arenas and
stadiums and parks on the riverside.
Lord, we thank you for these things.
Lord, help us to gain wisdom and
understanding to help our homeless
people and other people in need in our
city in a lasting way. Lord, let our
city be a light to all cities, to all
people that we can live in safety and
harmony and joy regardless of our
ethnicity, regardless of our beliefs,
that this would glorify you. In your
name we pray. Amen.
Will you please join us for the pledge
of allegiance?
» I pledge aliance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the
republic for which it stands, one nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all.
Well, thank you, Lieutenant Harris, and
thank you, Elise and Jocelyn.
All right, next up, uh, well, first of
all, I call the meeting to order and,
uh, next up will be couple of
presentations from office of the mayor
and I will make my way to the front for
that.
Thank you.
Maybe Anita and our friends from the
Charlie Christian uh music festival can
come down.
All right. Well, coming up again is the
Charlie Christian International Music
Festival. And to learn a little bit more
about that, I'd ask the clerk to read
this proclamation.
Whereas the Black Liberated Arts Center,
now in its 59th year, was established to
showcase the cultures and contributions
of African-Americans
through fine arts and arts education.
And whereas for nearly six decades, the
Black Liberated Arts Center has worked
to develop the artistic talents and
teaching abilities of Oklahomaans,
bringing world-class arts experience to
Oklahoma City and our state.
And whereas the Black Liberated Arts
Center has produced the annual Charlie
Christian International Music Festival
for 37 years, educating and enriching
residents and visitors from across the
country and around the world. And
whereas Charlie Christian grew up in
Oklahoma City, attended Douglas High
School, and learned his craft in the
music scene of Deep Deuce. And whereas
Charlie Christian, Oklahoma City's own
guitar legend, has been postumously
honored with induction into the Nessie
Nasuhi Ertagon Jazz Hall of Fame, the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Downbeat
Hall of Fame, and the Oklahoma Hall of
Fame among others. And whereas in 2006,
the city of Oklahoma City named Charlie
Christian Avenue in Bricktown. And
whereas in partnership with the Leenda
Foundation and Oklahoma City University,
the Black Liberated Arts Center has
established the Charlie Christian Guitar
Institute,
Oklahoma's only institute of higher
learning devoted to his music. And
whereas the 2026 Charlie Christian
International Music Festival will be
held July 3rd through July 5th at Booker
T. Washington Park featuring local,
regional, and national performers
celebrating his enduring legacy. Now,
therefore, I, David Holt, mayor of the
city of Oklahoma City, do hereby
proclaim July 3rd through July 5th, 2026
to be Charlie Christian International
Music Festival Week in Oklahoma City.
» Well, thank you. Well, this has been, as
the proclamation stated, a tradition of
four decades. And uh I was just thinking
also how amazing it is. It's been 20
years since we renamed uh the Avenue in
Bricktown after Charlie Christian. That
I guess that means that's how long I've
known you, Anita. So, [laughter] uh so
welcome back to City Hall. Uh and we
would love to hear a few words from you
to uh tell us even more about the
Charlie Christian International uh music
festival.
» Uh this this year's festival is going to
be a celebration of celebrations with
Charlie Christian. This year marks uh
such
uh milestones of a rich his history and
heritage that most people don't know
about. And this year's festival is
divided into two parts. We have so many
celebrations. I've passed everyone up
here um a copy of the celebrations this
year and it'll be spread out over the
year,
» But we have milestones like Douglas High
School where Charlie Christian went to
school
135 years old this year.
Avery Chapel AM Church,
137 years old, which is a church that
Ralph Ellison and his family attended.
I didn't know that until I started
speaking in some of the uh churches
around the community, but that's it
needs to be noted and people need to
know that we've got that kind of a
history. Uh Dr. Finley. Gravy Finley was
the family physician during those times
and if he were alive he'd be 120 years
old. Charlie Christian is celebrating
110th birthday as a matter of fact in
July.
Uh Route 66 is being celebrated for 100
years. It was the musical trail and
Charlie Christian knew that trail well
and it ran from Oklahoma City to Chicago
on to California, New York. Everybody
was on Route 66, the musical trail. Uh
OIC, which was right here, which is
right here in Oklahoma City, uh Reverend
Dr. H. Leon Sullivan
uh who was a great person passed not too
long ago. uh he was named by uh the
president of the United States to be the
creator of business principles that
businesses all over the world could do
business with South Africa after
apartheid and his operations right here
is still in operation and now they're
doing literacy workshops for our uh
public who
need to learn.
Uh and then finally, we're presenting uh
America's
250th anniversary. That's another
celebration. So, we'll have these part
ones and parts two. We'll have visual
arts. We'll have music, and you heard
some of that fine music. Uh and, uh and
other things like books that are rare.
We have two museums, an art museum and a
history museum to this day. And so we're
in for a good ride and you are all
invited to come and just go to our
website and you'll get the information
that you need on the things that we'll
be putting forth. Part one begins now.
» Very good. Let's hear it for Anita and
her team. [applause]
» Oh. Oh yes.
Oh, I need it. That's yours. [laughter]
» Thank you.
» All right, Jarus. Jarus, come on down.
» We'll meet here.
[applause]
» All right, Jarus, we'd love to learn a
little bit more about your service to
the people of Oklahoma City. And so, I'd
ask the clerk to read this resolution.
Whereas Jarus Jeff has been a city
employee for two years and serves as
digital graphic technician for the
public information and marketing
department's print shop. And whereas
Jerus exemplifies the city's core value
of service first, responding to each
request with exceptional
professionalism, accuracy, and a clear
commitment to helping projects succeed.
And whereas Jerus provides expert
guidance on specialty printing needs
with patients thoughtfulness and a
collaborative approach. And whereas
Jerus reliably accommodates urgent or
late notice requests without sacrificing
quality, making him an invaluable
partner to city staff. And whereas on
February 11, 2026, Jerus produced a 50
square foot banner in under two hours to
notify residents of a prescribed burn at
Martin Nature Park, enabling clear
public communication
and allowing staff to be reassigned to
critical fire support roles. And whereas
his swift action that day along with his
consistent excellence enhances public
safety, staff efficiency, and city
service to the community. And whereas
this council desires to recognize Jarus
Jeff for his commitment to public
service and the residents of Oklahoma
City. Now therefore, be it resolved by
the mayor and council of the city of
Oklahoma City hereby thank and commend
Jarus Jeff June 2026 South Oklahoma City
Kowanas Club employee of the month.
» All right. Thank you. Well, this is a
resolution, Jarus. So, we're going to
see if we can get you the votes.
Got a motion and a second. Please cast
your votes. I wish to vote I
passes unanimously.
Uh yes, [applause]
you are the employee of the month.
Well, Jarus, we'd love to hear a few
words from you and uh but I'll just
preface it by saying how grateful we are
for your service and that uh you lend
your talents to the city of OKC and
obviously you are wellliked. This is a
this is a rambunctious crowd for Tuesday
morning at 8:30. So, um the floor is
yours.
» Okay.
» Uh first I want to thank you for this
opportunity. Um, I'm really thankful for
the award and for the recognition. Um,
since coming to the city, I've been
welcomed with open arms from the staff
here in the city manager's office. Um,
been welcomed with nothing but smiles
and support everywhere I turn. Uh, from
my supervisors all the way to the staff
around me. It's been a really thankful
community that I've had up to this
point. And so, I'm happy to continue to
work and do what I can for the city and
thankful for everybody that shows the
support towards me. So, all right, let's
hear it for Jarus. [applause]
Congratulations.
All right. Still remaining is an
appointment to the Oklahoma City
Planning Commission. Item B.
Take a motion on that.
Got a motion in a second. Cast your
votes.
Passes unanimously. And then item C is a
resolution approving travel expenses for
me to attend the US Conference of
Mayor's Celebrate America meeting in
Philadelphia next month. Could take a
motion on that.
A motion and a second. Cast your votes.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
» Okay.
All right.
Passes unanimously and with the
necessary six affirmative votes. That
concludes Office of the Mayor. Now we're
at number four. Item four, items from
council and we have uh five items today
from the judiciary committee. So I'll
turn it over to the chair of the
judiciary committee, Councilman Stone
Cipher, to present these items. Uh thank
you, your honor. On um June 2nd, the
judiciary committee met and it is our
obligation under title 11 to uh pick
judges on staggered terms, two-year
appointments, and to decide their
compensation. And uh we have five
appointments and designations that we
recommend today to the city council. I
would say the judiciary committee was
unanimous. Um the one thing that I'm
really proud of the committee, we work
hard to make sure that we we find judges
that know the law, but also that have
great temperament and a great degree of
civility because many times our citizens
their first experience will be with
those judges. And we have a great group
of judges. We had a judicial survey that
was taken in March. I encourage you to
take a look at it, how well our judges
are doing and what the public thinks of
our judges. And so with that, I am told
by Deon Martin I have to make these um
one at a time. So I'll start with 4A,
which which is a resolution appointing
Gunnar Brisco as municipal judge July 1,
2026 through June 30th, 2028. So moved.
Got a motion and a second. Cast your
votes.
» Passes unanimously.
» The next matter is item 4B, which is a
resolution appointing Donald Kein as
municipal judge July 1, 2026 through
June 30, 2028. So moved.
» [clears throat]
» Got a motion and a second. Cast your
votes.
» Passes unanimously.
» Item 4 C is a resolution designating
Donald Kein as presiding judge July 1,
2026 through June 30th, 2027.
So moved.
» A motion and a second. cast your votes.
» Passes unanimously.
» Item 4 D is a resolution designating
Edward Hasbrook as vice presiding judge
July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027. So
moved.
Got a motion and a second. Cast your
votes.
» Passes unanimously. Item 4E is a
resolution appointing Christopher Kelly,
Lauren Mayo, and David McKenzie as
special judges July 1, 2026 through June
30, 2028. So moved.
A motion and a second. Cast your votes.
Passes unanimously.
Thank you and the judiciary committee
for all your work.
» Thank you.
[clears throat]
All right, item five, city manager
reports. Mr. City Manager.
» Thank you, mayor. We have several
reports on today. Two of the reports are
budget transfer reports. Um, one of them
you'll see is for last fiscal year.
Typically, we produce this at the time
that we're producing our financial
reports for the previous fiscal year.
Those were delayed due to the
implementation of the financial system,
which is now in place. still working
through some issues with that, but we do
have the final report which is typic
typically runs with that uh the final
transfers report that runs with that
financial report. So that is on for
today. And these transfer reports,
there's certain budget transfers that
are the the council through um policy
authorizes me to approve and the staff
to approve. This just gives you an
update on those. There's also a link on
there where you can go see all the
details of every report that's on there.
So the first report is for last fiscal
year. The second report is the budget
transfers for this fiscal year through
March 31st. And then we have the interim
financial report through April 30th. Um
just give a little bit of update on
that. We've done a couple of budget
amendments
um through this year that have allowed
us to increase our budget for a couple
of different things that we've approved.
Um if you look at our our revenues,
generally the revenues are on target.
with the budget amendments that we've
made, we've approved using some fund
balance to cover some of these costs,
some of our reserves. And if if you look
at this and take out the fund balance
that's budgeted, um on the second page
of that report, the um it would leave us
at about a $4.3 million deficit in our
revenues to this point in the year. Um I
think in total if you look at it
personnel expenses I mean uh our
expenses compared to our revenues we
would be about 6.2 million if you take
out that fund balance about $6.2 million
um that we have used in fun would have
used in fund balance for this year.
Coming into the end of the year with
some of our revenues coming in at the
end we believe that we're going to be
closer to the budget. We'll still use a
little bit of fund balance but we don't
you think we'll use that full 10.9
million that we budgeted so far. Uh but
we'll still keep monitoring that and
report that back to you. I do want to
acknowledge that one of the biggest
overages that we have on our expenses
where we're over budget is personal
services. If you recall when we approved
our contracts, we approved a stipen for
employees that was above what we had in
our reserve for that purpose. So we knew
we were going to use some fund balance
on that. That drives a portion of it.
Another portion of it is we're way over
budget on police and fire overtime.
We've been over a budget in that in
those categories for a while trying to
work that get that right size to get
those costs down, but also to get our
budget back up to about an equilibrium.
We've had a significant number of
vacancies in the past in police and
that's covered some of that and really
required some of that overtime. As we're
getting more of those positions filled,
we should be reducing that overtime and
getting that back in line. So, still
working on that. All in all, at the end
of the year, um our expectation is we'll
use a little bit of fund balance, but
it'll be a fairly small amount of fund
balance. I think even less than the $6
million that we show on this report to
this point. So, just wanted to give you
an update on that. Additionally, we do
have the um quarterly riverport
foundation report and we can get any
answers for you if you have questions on
that. We'll get answers for that. And
then claims and payroll is on and that
can be found on okc.gov. And that's all
the items that I have.
» All right. Thank you, Mr. City Manager.
Next up, item four, Journal of Council
Proceedings. We have items A and B we
could take with one motion.
» Item six. Yeah, thank you. Good catch.
Don't know why I said item four. All
right, we got a motion to second. Cast
your votes.
Passes unanimously. Uh, next up, item
seven, request for uncontested
continuences. Item 11 A and 11B, items
11 A and 11B are already going to be uh
deferred until July 7th. Mr. City
Manager, is there anything else?
» We just have three additional items on
today. Uh, beginning on page 23, we'll
strike all these items from the agenda.
Um, this is 11 M1. Item A, 1623 West
Bird Street. The owner is secured. Item
G, 11:35 West Wilshire Boulevard, the
owner has secured. And item J, 3503
Southwest 42nd Street, the owner has
secured. And that is all the items we
have.
» Okay,
now we're at item eight, revocable
permits and events. Item 8A is a
revocable permit with the Black
Liberated Arts Center for the Charlie
Christian Festival, previously
discussed, July 3rd through the 5th. in
Booker T. Washington Park and
» I believe they left before they were
able to come and talk about this.
» She said everything she would uh just so
you guys know because this is the first
time being back at the park. They were
at a park years ago, but they've come
back. They'll be playing music on
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at
Washington Park. They'll also have the
same street closures that Junth does,
that single lane on Fourth Street,
Northeast 4th, and then High as well.
So, if you have any questions, let us
know.
» All right, Councilman Pennington.
» Thank you, Mayor. Just want to say um a
big thank you to Anita Arnold and to
Garland Puit for their leadership. It's
a really fantastic event. I'd invite all
of of my fellow council members to join
me um at the event that on on the
weekend of July 3rd. Um, it's going to
be really great. So, thank you so much
and I move approval.
We have a motion and a second. Cast your
votes.
Passes unanimously.
Next up is item B. That's a revocable
permit with the with love project
foundation for Junth on the east on June
20th at Lincoln Park. And we have Jaden
Oliver and Christa Rice here.
» Yes. Good morning. Thank you guys for
allowing us to be here once again for
our sixth year. So on behalf of our
committee, thank you guys. Uh we've been
able to stand here many years uh before
and go over the history. One thing our
team was able to do this year is spend
some time diving in further into the
history of Junth and what happened after
Union General Granger uh went into
Texas. And we know the history doesn't
stop there. We got to talking about uh
the the uh the doctors and the black
entrepreneurs that settled here and
created our black Oklahoma towns here
and what that looked like for historic
Deep Deuce and for any OKC. Um, and what
we're here to share today is how that is
why a proven community matters. And so I
just want to share a few stats about
what we've been able to do over the last
5 years with Junth on the East.
Estimated attendance uh over the years
annually 15,000 attendees. Local
performers featured 20 plus community
vendors per year, 80 plus uh 15 plus
food trucks. Um and then uh 60 plus band
members. A lot of that matters
especially for our local artists and our
local performers because a lot of them
get to say that they shared a stage uh
with a Grammy nominated artist or an
Emmy award-winning artist. And so that
matters because that allows them to add
that to their resume which then takes
their career even further. Again, a
proven community. So this year's event
provides the east side uh opportunity
the community an opportunity to work
with over a 100 merchant vendors and
food truck vendors, local artists and
performers. Looking at total probably
over 150 people uh influence and that's
not just the people, it's their families
and their children um and so forth and
so on. Uh we we love that it gets to get
to that point. So, as we allow room for
growth, our kids zone will be increased
by 2.5%. Um, and we be we're able to
honor our families by providing an area
where education, creation, and
imagination can happen for our children.
And as we continue to build our
relationships in our sixth year, we are
partnering with the Jo Foundation to add
a threeon-ree basketball tournament. So,
I'll go ahead and let Jaden talk about
that.
» Good morning. My name is Jaden Oliver.
I'm the founder of the Jawler Foundation
and I'm honored to be here today
representing my family, my ancestors,
and my community. I'm excited to share
that the Jawer Foundation is partnering
with Junth on the East this year to host
the inaugural 3v3 basketball tournament.
In addition to the festival, we will be
bringing 72 kids from all over to
celebrate Junth. Not only will they have
an exceptional basketball experience
with competitive play, open three-point
contests, trophies, and giveaways, but
my favorite piece is that the teams will
be named after local black leaders who
have helped pave the way, impact
Oklahoma City, and all over the world.
Also, in their honor, we will be gifting
players all-star trading cards that will
tell these leaders stories, and share
more about their legacy. I just want to
thank and give love to my team, the best
committee in the city and um you know my
community for helping bring this new
experience to life for our kids. We also
want to thank the city for helping us
get the court in proper conditions for
our kids um to be able to compete to
enjoy be a part of their community and
to be supported by love. My dad always
says when the community works together
the community works and this festival
and this basketball tournament is truly
a testament to that. At the Jer
Foundation, we always like to share that
it's bigger than basketball and we want
to invite you all to come and witness
that. [clears throat] Thank you.
» Thank you, uh, Councilman Pennington.
» Thank you, Mayor. Um, and so we have
Friday along with threeon-ree, um,
tournament, which is awesome. This is
the first I heard of it. And the trading
cards sound really cool. So, can I have
one? Um,
» Yes, [laughter]
give that to you. Yeah, we'll have Ka
give it to you.
» There you go. Um, so, okay. So, Friday
we've got the 5K.
» Thursday. Thursday we have our panel
discussion at Innovation Hall.
» Okay. Panel discussion on Thursday.
Friday 5K. Saturday concert what time?
» Festival 11 to 4 concert doors open at
56 to around 10.
» Excellent. Well, thank you all for your
work. It's an amazing event and um it's
always so exciting to bring people to
the east side and and to let us see the
the unity and the progress that we're
making in our community and it's because
of your efforts. So, thank you so much
and I'm looking forward to participating
too. So with that, mayor, I move
approval.
» Right. We have a motion and a second.
Cast your votes.
[clears throat]
Passes unanimously.
» Awesome. Thank you guys so much.
Appreciate it. We invite you all to
» All right. Next up is item C. revocable
rightway use permit with Oklahoma Pride
Alliance to hold the Oklahoma Pride
Alliance downtown Pride parade on June
28th. And we have John Milner here.
Good morning. Um yeah, we're coming back
downtown at Scissor Park for the sixth
year. Um looking forward to welcoming
the community June 26th, 27th, 28th.
Festival starts 400 pm on Friday. We'll
have entertainment, food, vendors. Uh,
we've got a community resource zone on
Saturday, artist market Friday night,
and then it culminates with the downtown
parade on Sunday starting at 11:00 a.m.
Happy to answer any questions.
» Can you share who some of your
headliners are?
» I knew you were going to ask that. And
I'm the logistics guy. I know they just
posted.
» I just wanted to shout out the Drag
Queen because I'm such a fan and I'm so
amazed that y'all got them. It's so
exciting. And I will also add we've got
Oklahoma native Samantha Crane playing.
So that's going to be fantastic. And I
believe she plays Saturday night. So
it's going to be a good festival. Let's
just hope for uh cooler weather this.
» We will we will cross our fingers for
for that. [laughter] But you all are
always so well um organized and just
really appreciate um you bringing this
this celebration to downtown. So happy
to move for approval.
» Thank you.
» Councilwoman, I just want to clarify. Do
you mean Bob the Drag Queen RuPaul's
Drag Race winner is coming to Oklahoma's
capital? Yes,
» Be correct.
» It's huge.
» And I also just want to add I want to
thank Drew Watson in the special events
office. I've worked with Drew for the
past six years and the special events
office and Drew is fantastic. So, shout
out to Drew. Thank you.
» Any questions? Okay.
» No, we got a motion in a second.
cast your votes.
» Pass.
» Thank you very much.
» Thanks.
» All right. Now, we're going to recess
the council meeting and convene as the
Oklahoma City Municipal Facilities
Authority. Uh we have a presentation for
item B. Mr. City Manager.
» Yes. Nicole Tower is uh here with the
budget office to present this budget. uh
this the m municipal facilities budget
and she'll talk about this as she goes
through but it represents a lot of the
transfers a lot of the functions that we
have that come through the operating
budget so just want to acknowledge that
and I'll let Nicole take us through the
quick presentation
» Yeah good morning Nicole Tower office of
management and budget happy to be here
again to present the FY27 OC MFA budget
um so today you're going to be presented
with the MFA budget as well as the OCPA
budget and while those both pay play
vital roles in supporting city
operations. I like to think of the OCMFA
as an internal facing trust and the OCPA
um serves the public more outward facing
activities.
The OCMFA or Oklahoma City Municipal
Facilities Authority is a trust of the
city that provides a mechanism that
allows for multi-year contracts with
vendors such as a health insurance
providers and allows for the maintenance
of adequate reserves for such things as
workers compensation claims. At the last
council meeting, the city budget was
adopted. The MFA budget that is being
presented today, the primary source of
revenue is the city funds from that
adopted budget. We can now look at the
specifics of this budget for fiscal year
27.
So overall, the trust budget is just
over 178 million. Last year's budget was
146 million, which is an increase
year-over-year of 21%.
And you can see the various budget
functions on this slide. So this slide
groups similar functions together to
illustrate and summarize the functions
of the trust.
The first one, health insurance, is by
far the largest portion at 95 million or
53%. This comes from both the city and
its employees as they contribute to the
premiums paid for health insurance.
There are also several similar functions
to health insurance in this budget. The
city's property [clears throat] and
liability insurance is about 23 million
or 13% and workers compensation is
projected to be about 20 million or 11%.
We also pay for unemployment claims
through the OCMFA, but those are
relatively small, about 205,000.
The next largest category is information
technology. So at 15 million or 8%, this
is one of the largest areas that
utilizes the abilities for the
multi-year contracts. They use it for
such things as a city-wide computer
systems, the radio systems, E911, and
other IT related services.
The general purpose and others category
includes annual financial audits,
professional legal services, and code
enforcement related contracts.
The city also uses the OCMFA for
advanced capital funding. Those are for
GEO bonds and it helps them jumpstart
certain capital projects. So, we've set
up a revolving fund here in the OCMFA
and it allows public works to begin
design work on bond projects before the
bonds are sold. Once the bonds are sold,
the bond proceeds reimburse the trust
for those early design costs,
essentially buying back the plans. This
process helps us get projects moving
faster.
As those funds are replenished, they can
be used to kick off the next round of
projects, keeping our momentum going.
Okay.
So when we look here at the revenue,
health insurance contributions from the
city and its employees is the largest
source at 93 million or 52%.
Transfers from various funds such as the
IT or the risk management internal
service funds is the second largest at
54 million or 30%.
Fund balance is the next largest at 13
million or 7%. And finally here, there
are several miscellaneous revenue
sources that account for just over 10%
of the revenue. And this covers things
like interest.
Okay. On the expense side, payments to
other services and charges dominate at
172 million or 96%. And this makes sense
because these are things such as the
health insurance premiums and the IT
contracts.
Okay.
And with that, I'm happy to answer any
questions that you might have.
» Thanks, Nicole.
» Thank you.
» Thank you. And we have a resident who
signed up on uh OCMFA item E. Uh Steve
Hunt.
All right. Steve Hunt, 6300 West Drive.
I want to give a little background on
why I'm speaking on something so
seemingly benal as a pension software
contract. Um, late last year I appeared
on the organized money uh podcast with
Dave Diane of American Prospect and Matt
Stellar talking about my time at Costco
where I saw that Costco was too large of
an entity for private equity firms to
take over. So, they were targeting their
trusted vendors one by one. And over the
year and a half that I was there, I
watched uh not just the members have a
hard time with degradation of product,
but the people that work in Oklahoma
City call center unable to get any help
because these equity firms had taken
over these vendors. Well, I'm starting
to notice the same phenomenon happening
here in the city. Um Oklahoma City can't
be targeted for leveraged buyout by KKR
or Blackstone. So, what they're doing is
they're taking over the vendors one by
one. And the one that I see today is
item E. A contract was fully executed by
the vendor on May 28th, weeks before
this body was given the opportunity to
vote on it today. The vendor is Pension
Technology Group LLC. They are owned by
Case 5 Capital Private Equity Family
Office out of Dallas Metroplex that
manages capital for anonymous high- netw
worth Dallas investors. That's Case 5
Capital. You can look them up. The
agreement hands over access to the
retirement data of 6,500 Oklahoma City
municipal employees, active members,
retirees, and beneficiaries. Buried in
the fine print is a specific clause
regarding resilient data. The provision
grants a private equitybacked firm the
right to take anonymized derivative data
from Oklahoma City employees retirement
records and exploit it commercially for
benchmarking product development and
proprietary analytics in perpetuity
completely surviving the life of this
contract. The civic architecture here is
entirely asymmetric. The city employees
whose labor built this capital have zero
rights under this contract. The OKC
employee retirement system has no
independent right to sue per the
contract. If the firm suffers a
catastrophic breach exposing the data,
which will happen, this is a 5-year
contract, and this will happen. 6,500
civil servants, their liability is
capped at 1.5 time one year's fee, a
mere $195,000. So each employee will get
30 bucks. They can go to Jimmy's Egg and
have a breakfast if their data is
stolen.
This isn't an administrative upgrade. It
is a long-term extraction mechanism. I
ask the council to table this item today
and answer one fundamental question.
» 30 seconds remain.
» Who inside the city government decided
that a Dallas private equity firm should
own the commercial rights to Oklahoma
City employee data in perpetuity? Was it
the mayor who spent nine years
compensated by a private equity interest
in a synicure at Hall Capital?
Thank you.
That concludes the residents who signed
up to speak. We can now take OS OC MFA
agenda with one motion.
Got a motion and a second. Cast your
votes.
[clears throat]
passes unanimously. Now we'll adjourn
OCMFA and convene as the Oklahoma City
Public property authority. We do have a
presentation on item F.
» Yes. Uh this is the public property
authority budget. Steve Akens is here
with the budget office and Steve will
give us an overview on the public
property budget.
» Good morning, Mayor, Council, City
Manager. Um, like the OCMFA, the the
Oklahoma City Public Pro Property
Authority is a trust where we can enter
into long-term projects and it's a
mechanism to allow for the multi-year
contracts funding to things like
fairgrounds improvements, golf courses,
maps facility, sports facilities, and
something you may have heard about
called the Continental
Coliseum, the new NBA Arena.
Uh, next slide. The revenues by source
are primarily
um
from transfers from various funds that
come into the the PPA. Golf course has
revenues. There's a little bit of fund
balance. There's transfers from hotel
motel tax and transfers from the general
fund are the sources.
expenditures by category. Capital outlay
is by far the largest piece of the PPA
and $250 million in fund balance
was transferred from MAPS to the PPA for
preliminary work on the new MBA arena.
Uh that was done back in 2025. It
carried over to the the new year. $1.8 8
million of capital construction for the
new at the turn grill and $850,000 for
the softball and bricktown improvements.
other services and charges of 31.7
millions. are things like the management
contract for ACM for the Paycom center
and the Oklahoma City Convention Center
as well as the other various activities
for the fairgrounds, golf courses, North
Canadian River maintenance and sports
facilities transfers at 17.9 million or
5% primarily golf course transfers and
transfers the excess back of the hotel
motel tax to from the PPA. It goes into
the PPA. Then we transfer the excess
back that's not needed back to the hotel
motel tax. And the other items are
personnel services, supplies, debt
services,
expenditures by function.
Um
we we did have an increase this year of
expenditures and and and it's about $181
million and that that is all primarily
due to that influx of revenue that we're
using for the preliminary work of the
new MBA arena. Um
the golf course expenditures at 27.8
million. They're primarily salaries and
wages, water, sewer, refu and
contingencies. Fairgrounds expenditures
at 25.4 million.
um debt service cost uh repairs and
maintenance and excess funds returned to
the hotel motel
uh fund. The remaining 1% are various
things like sports facilities, natural
gas, culture and recreation, business
improvement districts and other
miscellaneous activities. And that's a
recap of what the OCPA consists of. If
you have any questions, um
thank you. All right.
Thank you. Well, that concludes OCPA. We
could take uh items A through H with one
motion.
Got a motion and a second. Cast your
votes.
Passes unanimously.
All right. All right, we'll adjourn OCPA
and reconvene as the council. We're on
item nine, the consent docket, and there
is a presentation for
item AZ. Is there any other item that a
council member wishes to pull out for
separate vote? I think maybe uh
Councilman Stone Cipher, you have a
couple. What are those items again?
» It's uh item
9DM at page 18. Mhm.
» I'd ask for a separate vote on that,
please.
» Just that one.
» Well, there's one later, but it's uh
item
uh 11s.
» Oh, okay. After. Okay.
» Yeah.
» Very good. Well, uh is there any other
item that someone wishes to pull out for
a separate vote, comment, question?
» Mayor, did did you say that there's a
presentation on a?
» Yes.
» Perfect. Thank you.
» Okay. Well, if there's nothing else,
maybe we'll start with that separate
vote. Councilman Stone Cipher and you
can step out for a moment. So this would
be item DM.
We could take a motion.
Got a motion and a second. Cast your
votes.
Passes unanimously. All right. And now
we'll go back to the presentation at a
» Yes. Emma Winsky is here with um the uh
human rights commission, city human
rights commission to present this item
and the actions that we're taking today.
» Thank you. Yeah, Emma Winsky, compliance
officer for the human rights commission.
Um I'm here to talk about the plat
amendment project that um we and many
other city and external partners have
been working on.
So, a little bit of background. Um, as
many of you probably know, uh, in the
mid- 20th century, a lot of plat
documents contain racially restrictive
language. So, this prevented black,
Jewish, Asian, other groups from owning
property. Um, of course, these are
illegal and have been for many decades,
but still in Oklahoma City, many of our
plat documents still contain this
language. And so, in 2024, Governor Stit
signed a bill into law which allowed
municipalities to amend plat documents.
Um and then last year in April, you all
unanimously approved a resolution in
support of the city initiating this
process. Um starting to sort of
understand what it would take for a city
to do this instead of an individual
property owner. So we have been hard at
work in the interim.
So here are uh you know kind of some
abbreviated steps. So first of course
identifying the affected plats and this
is done [snorts] through a combination
of um like a digital review of the
online um sort of archives. We also
hosted a volunteer event this past March
and 75 people showed up which was really
um wonderful. We were thrilled to have
that much engagement. Um and it also
involved some manual uh review at the
county archives for some of those plats
where um the covenants were either filed
separately or you can't read them
because they're so old. Um then we are
sending mail notification to all
property owners who live in affected
plats notifying them of this process and
letting them know that they can come
speak at commissions and council if they
have any um concerns. Then we get
approval from the relevant commissions.
So historic preservation planning
commission. Now here we are. Step four,
approval from council hopefully. Um and
then pending that we will file the
amended plat with the county.
And so a little bit of uh a status
update. So, we estimate that there are
around 6,600 plats across Oklahoma City.
Of course, we're like a large, uh, land
area. And so, um, around 45% of those
have been reviewed to date. And again,
that volunteer event, we reviewed, um,
around 2,200 plots in two hours. So,
again, this is just like a peoplepowered
initiative. And so, we were very
grateful to the many volunteers who
showed up. And of those 3,000, um, 260
contain discriminatory language that
been confirmed, and then 20% require
further review. So again, this is kind
of an iterative process where we'll
continue to um sort of methodically move
through these plat. So overall, we're
going to estimate that 9 to 12% of the
total platin OKC contain discriminatory
language. Again, we're continuing to
review, but um that is where we're at to
date.
And um we're working on this in
partnership with um some colleagues at
OU and um one of their grad assistants
who's been a huge help has been mapping
the plat as we go along and this will be
made available. But we're just wanting
to sort sort of show the um distribution
of plats across the city um just to
represent that this isn't concentrated
in any one particular ward or area. This
is something that happened across the
city. So uh the green areas are ones
where no language was found. red where
we find that racially restrictive
language and then blue are just those
ones that need further review. So, we'll
continue to update this and we'll share
this publicly as well. We want this to
be um an opportunity for the community
to learn about this project and this
effort.
So, with that, I'm happy to answer any
questions.
» Well, first I'd like to say thank you
for the presentation. Um commend you for
your work. I also would like to express
gratitude to the residents who in pretty
significant numbers turned out to do
this work. Um, it just pulled up on the
internet uh some of that uh language and
this was even in our [clears throat]
Federal Housing Administration language
uh that it was in something called the
underwriting manual for them and it said
that quote incompatible racial groups
should not be permitted to live in the
same communities. Right. Um
that same manual recommended that
highways be a good way to separate
African-Americans from white
neighborhoods.
Right? So this was an actual
approach the government took. Right? So
it was neighborhoods and governments
that did this sort of work. And that's
why I am the first biracial black or
black person to serve on this body
outside of W seven where a majority
black population is like a majority
white population. W 2 elected me based
on the content of my character. But that
could not have happened when you had
restrictions in neighborhoods saying
that a person couldn't even live there,
right? No matter if they were a doctor
or a barista. So, this is critical work
that you all are doing. It's an
important reminder because we hear
voices today that say, "Well, maybe the
races should be separated again." Um,
and you should always remember where
those voices come from. They come from
this history, right? This history. And I
just want to thank again you and your
and the residents and again, especially
W 2 because I think they have shown
what's possible um and a different life
is possible here. So, thank you.
Thanks Emma.
» Thanks for all the hard work.
» I just want to also say thank you to
Emma. Appreciate your work and I live in
one of the affected neighborhoods. So,
um I got the notice and thought, wait,
what what's going on? So, love that this
work is happening and appreciate the
effort.
» All right. Well, that concludes uh
consent docket. We can now take the
remaining remaining items with one
motion. [clears throat]
I have a motion and a second.
Cast your votes.
Passes unanimously. Item 10 is the
concurrence docket. We could t take
items A through R with one motion.
A motion and a second. Cast your votes.
Passes unanimously.
Item 11 are items for individual
consideration. Items A and B were
already deferred, which brings us to
item C. This is an ordinance on final
hearing. is recommended for approval.
Reszoning 9525 West Hefner Road from
double A to PUD 2130. This was deferred
from June 2nd. Councilman Carter, no one
has signed up to speak.
After speaking with the applicant and
the representation, we will move for
approval.
Got a motion and a second. Cast your
votes.
Passes unanimously. Item 11D uh has a
couple of items here. The uh item two is
the ordinance on final hearing that was
recommended for approval resoning 4200
Southwest 29th from I2 and AE2 to PUD
2134 and AE2. Item one is an amendment
to the master design statement. This is
deferred from June 2nd. Uh, Councilwoman
Avers, no one has signed up to speak.
» One of these days I'll get faster with
the microphone. Um, I have confirmed
with the applicant we are going to defer
one more session to host our community
meeting, but we are moving forward.
Thank you.
» Okay. So, I'm going to defer item D for
two weeks. That would be July 7th.
» July 7th.
» Yes, sir.
» All right. Let's take that up as a
motion.
We have a motion and a second. Cast your
votes.
Item is deferred. All right. Item E is
an ordinance on final hearing. It was
recommended for approval reszoning 9810
West Memorial from PUD 986 to PUD 2138.
Uh, Councilman Carter, no one has signed
to speak.
Okay. Subject to the technical
evaluations,
then I will move for approval.
Have a motion and a second. Cast your
votes.
passes unanimously.
Uh 11F is an ordinance on final hearing
recommended for approval reszoning 5401
South Mustang Road from R1 to SPD 1799.
Uh this is deferred from April 21st and
May 5th and 19th. It is a 52% protest.
And Matt, that triggers the
supermajority requirement of seven,
correct?
» For approval and Councilwoman Avers, we
have a few people who have signed up to
speak when you are ready for that.
» Let's welcome our guests to speak.
» Okay. Um
I don't know. Do It looks like a few of
these are protests. I'm not sure who
might be here for the applicant. Usually
it's a good place to start perhaps. Uh
is that Fox.
» Yeah, maybe I might suggest we hear what
it is first before we hear the
opposition.
» Good morning. David Fox, 525 Northwest
11th Street. Uh here on behalf of the
applicant. Um this is one that we spent
a lot of time at the planning commission
level. Uh there were community meetings
that were held and I I think it's worth
pointing out that
where we're located is South Mustang
Road. Mustang Road is a state highway
and could you There we go. I think it's
this area has exploded in growth over
the last 10 years. What you would expect
to see along state highways that are
fully developed four-lane is more
intense commercial type of use. You have
this area along Mustang Road north of
59th starting to develop. You've got the
PUD 265 which is an older PUB which has
elements of commercial. You have the C1
immediately east which was a recently
approved. You have a 7-Eleven gas
station right there at the corner.
Significant commercial development is
expected to to come. So when we
originally filed this SPUD, it had lots
of different commercial uses in it. We
went and had a community meeting. It
became clear that uh there was no
element of commercial that would be
acceptable. What became clear as we
moved on was there was nothing that
would be viewed as acceptable by the
neighbors short of residential. I would
submit to you that it is very unlikely
that anybody would put their home now on
Mustang Road given that it's State
Highway, given the amount of traffic it
carries. And so the idea that this would
be developed residentially moving
forward I think is extremely unlikely.
So what we did is we came back with an
SPUD that has an 01 base. Now it's the
first 01 SPUD or PUD that I've ever been
a part of. O2 is generally what you
would expect to see. O2 is the general
office. Frankly, I was surprised to see
that we had an 01. So 01 represents the
least intensive non-residential zoning
district that we have in Oklahoma City.
And then what we did is we further
restricted it down to only allow about
six uses. So the only thing that could
really happen here is that you would
have an office development, accountant,
lawyers, things like that. And then at
the planning commission level through
commissioner Meek's work, we had imposed
upon this development. Sarah, would you
mind go to site plan perhaps the most
restrictive set of uh conditions placed
on an SPD that's an office development
that I have been a part of. All of which
were intended to make this more
compatible to the neighborhood. So,
first what you see is four different
buildings. We capped the square footage
of each individual building at 7500
square ft. We required them to all be
singlestory. Why that's significant is
of course the neighborhood under R1
regulations could have 35 ft and 2 and a
half stories. We capped these at
singlestory. We required them in the SPD
to be residential style with a pitched
roof. We further specified the pitch of
the roof to ensure that it is a
residential style pitch roof and not
something else.
We then required a masonry wall anywhere
where we are adjacent to single family
residential. Now typically masonry walls
of 8 ft in height which is what is
required here are reserved for uses
[clears throat] that may be deemed
incompatible. Now this is not
incompatible. Typically you see that
when it's multif family next to single
family or heavy intense commercial next
to single family. But here at the
request of planning commission we agreed
to an 8ft masonry wall. We further
agreed to uh increase landscaping points
within the parking areas. Significant
landscaping on the south, the west and
the north. Significant landscape buffer
along the south, the west and the north.
We agreed to limit it to no more than
four buildings.
We required public water and public
sewer. Uh we are required to double the
number of landscaping points in the
parking areas. We are required to double
the amount of landscaping points along
the northern border.
We prohibited access to 54th. What you
see before you is the original site
plan. So now we have prohibited access
off to 50 Uh Sarah, could you go to the
aerial again? My apologies
from 54th Street, which serves as that
residential street.
Um in speaking with the council woman,
we have further agreed this and this
will be an amendment to limit the number
of access points into the SPD to one off
of South Mustang Road. So all of that
along a state highway we submit makes us
a compatible development. Now one of the
things that the council and planning
commission does not um hear or consider
are covenants. I suspect you're going to
hear something about it. So I just want
to mention one brief thing about it. The
covenants that control this neighborhood
that were done before anyone bought a
home in there have a provision and that
provision is found at section 4 and it
says all lots except tracks one and two
in the tract described shall be used
solely for residential. Well, this is
within that tract one and two. So what
does that tell us? Well, it tells us
that at inception of this neighborhood,
it was anticipated that everything in
this is required to be residential
except tract one and two. So, clearly
something other than residential was
contemplated here. I think the neighbors
know that on the eve of planning
commission, they went and attempted to
modify the covenants. Now whether or not
they're lawful is another matter, but I
was handed the day of planning
commission modified covenants trying to
fix apparently a problem that they I
guess concede allows something other
than residential to go here.
So with that, I'm happy to answer any
questions. It was recommended for
approval by the planning commission and
you'll note that in the council memo
there are 11 TEES and I think
four through 11 were all added at the
time of planning commission through
negotiation with the planning commission
uh member for W 3. And again we would
propose to modify this to limit the
access to one curb cut off of Mustang.
Happy to answer any questions.
Thank you, David. I think that you've
done a great job explaining it.
» All right, then we'll start with the
folks who've signed up to speak if that
works. Uh Colin Walk.
» Good morning, council. Colin Walk, 100
North Broadway, Sweet 2900, and I
represent Thoroughbred Homeowners
Association. What I want to be clear
about is this is the rest of the story.
You just heard Mr. Box talks talk about
covenants. And while the city generally
doesn't consider covenants, and I can
appreciate that fact, what he omitted
was that where it says shall be
residential only except for lots in one
and two, it then goes on to specify that
those lots may only be developed into
retail spaces and specifically for
swine.
Right? So, this area, if you look at the
photos I've provided, still have cattle
on all of these lots. The reason why
there are 11 TES in this particular case
is they're because they're trying to fit
a round peg in a square hole. If you
will notice the development immediately
to the south, it is a high density
populated area that is adjacent to
commercial development. Our acreages are
all five acres lots because this is an
agricultural development. And unlike
most people who come and stand before
you and say, "Please, not in my
backyard. I bought into this residential
neighborhood. I didn't know that field
was going to be developed." These
individuals not only knew this was an
agricultural area because of the size of
the lots, but because of the covenants
and the restrictions that were put on
it. So consequently, to the extent that
this council does believe that this is
somehow compatible, in spite of the size
variations, in spite of the fact that
this is a private road, and if you think
that people turning off of the main
highway, the main thoroughfare in
Mustang aren't going to miss that turnin
and start utilizing my client's private
road for which they pay, you're wrong.
It's going to happen. My clients are
going to incur additional costs as this
goes on. And so consequently when we
look at this we have to say is this
compatible? This is a completely
agricultural area has always intended to
be so it has covenants in there and the
11TE are just simply examples of um the
fact that they're trying to put a round
peg in a square hole. The final thing
that I'll say is is again going back to
the covenants I'll remind the council
that while you all do not generally look
at covenants you do for the purposes of
whether or not to permit uh issue
permits for short-term rentals. And so
to the extent that the council is
willing to consider covenants for
short-term rentals but is not willing to
do so for a zoning project would lead me
to believe that's an arbitrary and
capriccious decision.
» 30 seconds remaining.
» So consequently, we would ask that you
deny this proposed spud for not being
compatible with the area it is currently
zoned in. Thank you.
» Thank you. Um item I'm sorry, June Roy.
June Roy 11, pardon me, 11749
[clears throat]
Southwest 54th Street in Thorbred Acres.
Um, [clears throat]
I'm 79 years old and I know I don't have
to tell my age, but there's a reason.
and my husband and I, I'm sorry, bought
this house 30 years ago
because of the neighborhood because it's
five acres and while our neighbors are
mostly close,
uh, it's ex exact opposite to the new
area that is built right beside us,
which has over a hundred houses on it.
And they knew when they built there that
there would be some retail at the
opening of their street.
Theirs is not a private road. They don't
pay for it. We do. And it costs a lot to
work on our road every few well every
few years. But we bought this house to
live the rest of our lives and to leave.
Sorry, my throat's all dry. and to leave
for our children.
I don't have a lot of money. What I have
to leave my children [clears throat] is
that house
and reszoning the front of it. Like I
say, it's not our backyard. It's our
front yard. It's what people see when
they come to our neighborhood. And even
though we knew in the covenants it said
there those two were exempt from that,
our understanding when we bought our
homes was that that was for the one area
they're trying to resone now to be able
to do roping things because there were
they owned originally four lots and they
wanted to be able Thank you so much.
Our
understanding that that exemption was
for them to be able to run cattle, have
roping and all that kind of events on
that. It was not so it would be built
into
really retail.
And the gentleman who originally owned
that lived there for a long time and he
never put any retail in there. It was
only used for cattle and all that.
» 30 seconds remaining.
» Pardon?
» Did somebody say ask something?
» You have
you have 30 seconds left.
» Okay. But besides that, my real concern
is the danger this would cause. You
can't get down Mustang Road during rush
hour, which is actually three or four
hours a day because it's backed up from
59th Street to 44th Street and then
after the light beyond that. It's
dangerous and several of our neighbors
have been involved in wrecks trying to
turn onto our street. It's dangerous to
reszone it. I think I'm out of time and
thank you for hearing me.
» Thank you, Mr. Ry. This is very
important to us.
» Corey Frank.
» My name is Corey Franks. I live 11500
Southwest 54th Street. My house butts up
to the property of the proposed
land that's being changed.
Um,
obviously I'm opposed to it. You know,
we people that seek out acreages kind of
like having space beside them. So,
thoroughbred acres, five acre tracks.
This this particular track that's being
proposed used to be five. The the
original owner, they passed away. Kids
seen dollar signs. They decided, hey,
let's reszone or they
broke it down to three, three and a half
acres
with the intentions of hoping to be able
to to
profit off of it for commercial land.
Um, so basically, if this is approved,
I'm going to come home to my property,
see a 8ft cement wall in my backyard.
If
I wanted to do that, I'd live in a
neighborhood. I'd live in a neighborhood
where my neighbor's house is right
beside me, 10 foot, you know, from my
property.
Um,
it, you know, if I see a lot of stuff
that if this is approved, what's to keep
somebody else from
buying three or four houses on another
street on Mustang Road, turning it
commercial.
And by the way, when
Box mentioned the commercial aspect of
Mustang Road,
85% of Mustang is already commercial
from 152 up to 10th Street.
There are multiple houses on
Mustang Road on acreages that remain.
Um and then going back to the concept
that they have proposed,
you know, 8 ft masonry wall that is what
what is that? Is that is that brick or
is that a pre-made cement wall that I'm
going to be looking at? Is that a nice
brick wall with columns, pre-cast tops?
We don't know. Also, what they haven't
put on the
» 30 seconds remaining.
» The concept is there is no retention
pond on there. The city is going to
require a large retention pond which
going to hold water and quite frankly, I
haven't seen a pretty retention pond on
any commercial development.
um they're they're hyping it up to make
it look good,
but regardless, you start adding all the
other stuff in and then go before the
city to get the plans approved, it's
going to change from what they've got.
But thank you for your time.
» Thank you, Russell Rouse.
My name is Russell Rouse. I live at
11501 Southwest 54th Street. Um,
my reason for being here is the uh
increase in non-residential properties
has increased the traffic to the point
that we have a lot of difficulty trying
to get out and into our neighborhood. We
are a not through street. It is
definitely a dead-ended property. End
result is as the street backs up with
the cars, everybody comes down the
street, sees the backed up cars, and
turns right down the down our street.
It's difficult to support a street if
you're going to have a thousand people a
day running up and down your street. Um
there are plenty of uh commercial
properties up and down Mustang that are
currently empty. There's nobody to
support them. There are no companies in
them. There are no owners in them.
There's no renters in them. There's just
buildings out the wazoo. Um we're just
having difficulty with this. Our place
is definitely res rural in nature and uh
maintain that way for a reason. But um
in this particular case, this this
really seems out of out of place. We uh
we can't leave our houses uh say 4 to
6:00 at night, 6:30. Traffic's backed up
all the way from 59th past the entrance
into our road. So, we can't go north. We
have to go south and wait in line with
everybody else that's stuck in the
backup. It's it's just the rest of the
environment does not support the amount
of individuals that we have uh moving
into the area. The end result is uh
we're trapped. We can't hardly get in.
We can't hardly get out. Um and the cost
will go up in our neighborhoods. Um we
certainly uh appreciate everybody here's
effort. Um but u there there's no doubt
the individuals on our street were under
the impression that we're in a rural
neighborhood. We we don't have city
water. We don't have uh city sewer. We
don't have anything. We support it all
ourselves. And um this excess traffic
when everybody stops and tries to bypass
the backed up road and thinks they can
come down our street um is going to
increase our costs tremendously.
Um
» 30 seconds remaining.
» Trying trying to keep this short and
sweet, but I appreciate your time. Thank
you very much.
» Thank you. Uh Carrie Barker.
» Thank you very much. Uh it's Carrie
Barker. I'm the president of the
Thoroughbred Homeowners Association. I
live at 11648 Southwest 54 Street. I
have been the president for more than 30
years. And if you've seen the speakers
prior
u to myself all are of the same caliber
that lived in that neighborhood and it
might as well be called thoroughbred
farms. Thoroughbred
is the name of what we do. That's the
nature. We have horses, we have cattle,
we have donkeys, we raise chickens. It
is a rule. We're on uh we're not on city
water. We're well and septic. That's the
sort of community it is. It's kind of
unique and that's the reason why this
sort of business right at our front door
and in one of our lots that was
protected many years ago when the
covenants was written to guard against
that. And what they failed to mention
about the covenants is the wording in
there does not permit a developer to
come in there and put four 7500 square
foot buildings and 200 parking spaces
right at our door. Our area has one
residence per lot per five acres. We
qualify as farm exemption. This is
what's unique and this takes away from
the character. You've seen this on
television where ranches have to protect
themselves from developers coming in and
changing the environment. Please try to
protect what we have developed over the
long many years. There's not many of
them left and we're proud of it. Each
one of us know the neighbors personally
and we want to keep it that way. And we
don't see why this business when it's
presented to you, what you don't see, it
looks pretty on paper, but when you put
it in practice and drive down there and
look at four huge buildings set up on
the front of that, it's going to detract
from our acreage. And we have kept it in
pristine condition. All of those houses
are occupied. We've invested our
savings, our 401s in there. That's all
we have. The owners of this that were
there previously, ironically, is a land
and cattle
company and they want to remove what we
have on there now. We keep cattle on
there. Everyone else have horses. We do
not want this change there. We're not
opposed to commercial businesses,
» But put it somewhere where it belongs.
If you read the zoning, the purpose for
zoning, this was approved residential
some 35 years ago. It's residential.
It's not commercial. And if you look at
the zoning, it says here that zoning is
the purpose. It's necessary to protect
the community health, safety, and
welfare. Please uphold that today and
reject this application.
Thank you.
Thank you. That concludes Councilwoman
Avers uh the residents who signed up to
speak.
» Councilwoman, can I ask a quick
question?
Um
and this might seem like a naive or I
just I feel very uninformed on what the
covenant piece is. And so I was
wondering if maybe Sarah or Matt could
talk to us about why we don't consider
covenants and what the purpose of them
is. then if they don't have any effect
on our zoning.
» Yeah, that's a that's a good question.
So, the covenants run with the land and
those certainly apply to um visav the
the developer and the purchaser of the
property. Traditionally,
um, as a municipality, we focus on our
ordinances and what we can consider
lawfully.
There are components that of of what may
be contained in covenants that this body
can certainly consider, but the fact of
that agreement
is that private agreement, it remains
private. Although it may be of record,
it'd be more like a mortgage or
something between between other parties,
not the city itself.
» So it it's not something that's like
who enforces it. It's just self-
enforced.
» So the private property owners could
could pursue recourse at the district
courthouse if they believe that um
» The covenant is not being
» Right. If that the covenants have been
violated.
» Gotcha. Thank you.
And then this is I'm guessing for
councilwoman because it's your award.
I'm just looking at the map. Am I
understanding that retail doesn't exist
between Southwest 44th and 59th that
it's north and south of those two
intersections? Is that about right?
» What's the question?
So on Mustang Road
between 44th
and 59th
» 44th
» Like Southwest 44th. Am I looking
» That retail does not exist?
» That's a question. That's not a
statement. Is there any retail between
Southwest 44th and Southwest 59th? I see
some south.
» Sure.
» Of 59th.
I see some north, but on here I'm not
seeing that.
» So, the the zoning exists to allow
retail. Now, we're not proposing retail.
Like, we're just office. I guess if
there's a 7-Eleven gas station north of
59th that sells things. So, I guess that
is some form of retail. But there PED265
allows
commercial development allowing retail.
There's a lot of talk of commercial
development. We do not allow any
commercial uses.
» An office.
» Office 01 office.
» And then what is the closest office to
this area? Do you have any notion of
that?
» Yeah.
I'm going to use this. So here's our
site right here across the street.
Office.
» There's office, right? Okay. I see on
there. But is that zoned or is there an
actual office there?
» Actual office. If you look at the aerial
Sarah, would you mind going back right
here?
And then north of that is commercial
zoning, but yeah, the office is there
and built. The 7 This images from 2005,
excuse me, 25. The 7-Eleven is now fully
operational. Mustang Road is developing
out. It it once was a kind of rural
area, but that has changed rapidly.
You've got multif family here. You've
got commercial zoning and development
ongoing and we're again it's I think
it's critical our spud is limited to
office only and 01
and there's a tenant for this office.
» No, not yet.
» Okay.
I I guess that's where I have some
issues is
when I think of downtown office space
right now and the vacancies and then I
just drive
almost anywhere in Oklahoma City.
Really, I could do this almost in any
city and I just see so much vacant
office space
and that always bothers me especially in
a housing crisis.
So, I don't know. That's just on my
mind. So, thank you for walking me
through that.
» So, real quick on that. Yes, the the
downtown market is having perhaps some
issues with vacancies. The suburban
market for lowscale office development.
There is always interest for that. There
there are largecale office developments
like this where you'll have 15 to 20
residential style office buildings that
are full. Um there's a very different
market in the suburban market from the
downtown market. So the question before
you is not are there tenants to fill
these spaces. Um it's do we have a use
that is compatible with all the
restrictions that have been placed upon
us.
If we if we made zoning decisions based
on do we have tenants in place uh just
about nothing get done here on Tuesdays.
» Yeah.
Okay.
Okay. I have really looked at this
application. Uh I actually happened to
be it's my first planning commission
case that I ever got to watch. um in
person because I was here for another
purpose. And so I got to meet many of
our neighbors and um hear the concern
and the um elevation of of issues. And I
also got to see our planning commission
at work and our planning commissioner
representing the concerns of the
neighbors and the balance of the
applicant and and their property rights.
And that's what I've seen really
evolving over the last several months is
that conversation and the
changes to the application. And so we're
at a point um today where it takes seven
votes
um to pass it. Um but the flip side of
that is if the um applicant feels that
their property rights are being violated
and us saying no, then they can take
that to district court and it would be
evaluated in a court environment and um
and so we have to go back to land use
compatibility. is what is being proposed
compatible and amendable to what was
scoped in the land use that was approved
by the city 30 years ago and the zoning
from the city 30 years ago was as an R1
um which actually enables more than one
house in this particular lot. It could
enable up to five houses under the
current uh zoning conditions in that
area. So what happened in planning
commission were really adding
mitigations to make an office as close
to a an impact as residential
development would be. So I heard today
the concerns about the road traffic and
I echo every concern around traffic and
congestion and throughput um in
southwest Oklahoma City. We have some
real challenges. We have had incredible
development. Um, one of the mitigations
that was negotiated with planning
commission through great feedback from
community members is, hey, we're worried
about people wearing and tearing on a
road that we're paying for out of
pocket. And so the access to this zoning
added a restriction where there's only
access from Highway 4. And um the
buildings are proposed to be built just
like a house as if the houses that were
approved there.
So the um landscaping that has been
incorporated would not be a requirement
under the HOA association or even in um
any normal residential development.
And that was done to try to support the
rural feel of the existing neighborhood
to create that green space. And um and
then the masonry wall was actually done
also to really be able to separate it
from the neighborhood so that there
would be no impact from a traffic, a
safety and security risk.
um really all of the considerations that
have been noted by our neighbors. And so
um today I'm going to make a motion for
approval
with the full understanding and support
that if you want to take this to court
tied to the PUD, that is 100% your
right. But if this council votes no
today, all of the negotiation, all of
the concessions that you've gotten from
a neighbor negotiation perspective, you
would lose and you wouldn't have any of
that navigation in place. And so today,
I'm making a motion for approval. Yes,
sir.
» We need to to make the amendment to
limit it to one curb cut first.
» Sorry.
» Thank you.
» All right. Uh the motion for the
amendment is to make it a one road
access
» One curb cut
» Off of one curb cut allowed off of
Highway 4 just like um a residential um
access point would normally be off of
Highway 4. I'm not saying just like that
in the amendment, but I'm just saying
that as a comparison because I actually
think it would probably be a double
double entrance to enable access and or
egress and ingress. Um,
this is a this is a hard one because I
totally I 100% understand, but if you
don't have
what you have negotiated in place
approved by this council, then you don't
have the guarantees of that. And if you
look at the court dockets, I think that
you, the applicant, on the flip side,
would have an an an equal argument. If
that makes sense. I'm happy to discuss
all of the things that I've gone
through, but I want you to know that all
of these protections are to make it
equivalent to a residential
neighborhood, but enable the property
owner to execute their rights as um to
have a residentialike business in that
environment. And if and I'm there are
many other people around this horseshoe
that have way more experience than me in
both law and planning. So, if I have a a
misunderstanding or a misinterpretation
of this, I would, you know, welcome your
insight. But, uh, I've really tried to
learn and understand all of the risks
and the benefits to make the best
decision for our community.
» I'll just add that
I appreciate
the work you're doing on this item,
Councilwoman. I just do. I think the
amendments, I think your planning
commissioner is doing some great work.
Um, so on that note, uh, I'll vote to
join you all on the technical evaluation
just to continue making this item as,
um, useful to the area as possible, but
I ultimately
just don't think I can go along for the
rest of the ride. But should it pass, I
at least want to make sure it's the best
possible product it can be. So I'll just
want to state that for the record.
» All right. So we want to move an
amendment
» Motion for amendment.
» And that is an amendment as previously
described or
» Um curb cut.
» Yeah. Uh access shall be limited to one
curb cut off Mustang Road.
» Okay, that's it.
All right, we got a motion and a second
for the amendment. Cast your votes.
Passes unanimously. Now we're on the uh
item as amended. Item F.
We have a motion and a second.
Cast your votes.
» 7 to two and with the necessary Seven
votes required for approval.
All right. Item G is an ordinance on
final hearing. It was recommended for
approval reszoning 2319 North Barnes
Avenue from R2C4
UD and TT to SPD 1817 UD and TT.
Councilwoman Hammond, no one to speak.
» Is the applicant here? I'm not sure I
see them. Oh, there you are. I'm just
hiding. Um, can you just kind of give us
a brief kind of overview of what this
project is?
» Yeah, absolutely. Mark Sitel, one
Sheridan Avenue with Johnson and
Associates. Uh this is a town home
project just south of Memory Serves as a
Jimmy John's off of uh Northwest 23rd
Street. And so uh what we've designed
are nine units. The front four face
barns. So the front doors, they'll have
kind of small front yards. Uh and then
the units behind will face internally.
Uh and then they will have backyards. So
it it's a bit of a an awkward site
because of its size and its depth. Um,
but uh we went to the urban design
commission. It's probably the biggest
change. The entirety of this SPUD will
have to conform to the urban design uh
guidelines and review process. Right now
only half of it does. So we've actually
brought some property essentially in uh
for review. So they recommended
approval, planning commission
recommended approval, staff generously
recommended their approval as well. Uh
and we are here today asking for your
approval.
» Thank you. Yeah, I just wanted to
highlight this. Um, this lot has been
vacant the for I don't know how long,
but definitely my whole time on council
and I know has been a concern of some of
the neighbors. So, I think it's exciting
to see some infill development on it.
And um I' I've not heard anything
negative from the neighbors and I think
it generally it's being seen as a
positive addition to the neighborhood.
So, I'm happy to move for approval.
All
right, we have a motion and a second for
item G. Cast your votes.
Passes unanimously. Item H is an
ordinance on final hearing. It was
recommended for approval resoning 1320
West Reno from SPUD1309
to SPD1821.
Councilwoman Avers has stepped away. So
maybe we will come back to that. We'll
skip H for now. Um item I is an
ordinance on final hearing establishing
45deree angle parking uh on the east
side of North College near Northwest
16th. Councilwoman Hammond.
» Yes. I will move for approval.
» Have a motion and a second. cast your
votes.
Passes unanimously. Item J is an
ordinance on final hearing establishing
reserved parking for the physically
disabled uh on College near Northwest
16th. Councilwoman Hammond,
» I will move for approval.
» Got a motion and a second. cast your
votes.
Passes unanimously. Item K is an
ordinance on final hearing establishing
reserved parking for the physically
disabled on the west side of North
Harvey near 11th. Uh Council Hammond,
» I will move for approval.
Have
» A motion and a second. Cast your votes.
passes unanimously. Item L1 is the
public hearing regarding the dilapidated
structures here listed. Amy, has anyone
signed up to speak?
» No, they haven't.
» They have not. So, we'll advance to the
resolution found at L2 to claim the
structures are dilapidated.
There's a motion in a second for L2.
cast your votes.
Passes unanimously. M1 is the public
hearing regarding the unsecured
structures here listed except for those
previously struck. Emmy, has anyone
signed up to speak?
» No, they haven't.
» They have not. And so we'll advance to
the resolution found that M2 declaring
structures are unsecured.
Motion cast your votes.
» We have a motion and a second. Cast your
votes. passes unanimously. Okay. Now,
we're going to go back to item H. I
understand Councilwoman Avers has asked
Councilman Stone to carry this item.
This is a, as previously stated, this is
for um SPD 1821 at 3020
West Reno.
» Thank you, mayor. Has anyone signed up
to speak?
» They have not.
» All right. With that, I'll go ahead and
move for its approval.
» Got a motion in a second. Cast your
votes.
passes unanimously. Item 11 in is a
public hearing regarding uh the
abandoned building here listed. Amy, has
anyone signed to speak?
» No, they haven't.
» They have not. And so we will uh advance
to the resolution found in two declaring
the building abandoned.
Have a motion and a second. Cast your
votes.
passes unanimously.
Um item 1101 is a public hearing
regarding an amendment to the fiscal
year 2026 budget. Uh Amy, has anyone
signed to speak?
» No, they haven't.
» They have not. Uh so we can advance to
O2. This is a resolution adopting uh
said amendment which I believe was
introduced at this last meeting.
So no presentation.
Got a motion and a second. Cast your
votes.
Passes unanimously.
11 P1 is the second public hearing
regarding uh the regarding amending
amending the June 17th, 2025 resolution
regarding fire expenditures. Amy, has
anyone signed to speak?
» No, they haven't.
» They have not. And so we will advance to
the resolution at P2 making such
amendment.
We have a motion in a second. Cast your
votes.
Passes unanimously. Q1 is the second
public hearing regarding fire sales tax
appropriations. Amy, has anyone sent to
speak?
» No, they haven't.
» They have not. So, we'll advance to the
resolution found at Q2 uh regarding said
fire department appropriations.
Got a motion in a second. Cast your
votes.
Passes unanimously. 11R1 is a second
public hearing regarding police sales
tax appropriations. Amy, has anyone
signed to speak?
» No, they have not.
» Not. So, we'll advance to the resolution
found at R2 regarding said police
department appropriations.
Got a motion and a second. Cast your
votes.
passes seven to one. Uh, and then item S
is a joint resolution with the Oklahoma
City Economic Development Trust
approving an allocation to the city of
Oklahoma City and an amount not to
exceed $4 million from Increment
District 2's other public development
costs. This is for the purpose of the
MAPS 3 Union Station renovation at 300
Southwest 7th. And we have a
presentation.
» Yes, Ryan Echelman is here with GSB to
give us a presentation on this project.
» Great. Good morning to you all. Uh
I'm here to talk about the uh renovation
of Union Station which is um located on
the south end of um Scissor Tale Park.
Let me advance here.
Um
there we go.
South end of Scissor Tale Park. um
built in the golden age of rail travel
in about 1930. Had a few had a about two
decades of um kind of its heyday and
then it was um habits changed and the
city changed and it kind of disappeared
into obscurity. Um, fortunately for us,
the building has been incredibly well
taken care of. Um, and is now exposed to
public view by the development of the
park after being buried uh, among
commercial development south of downtown
for many, many years. Um, you can see an
aerial of it in its abutment to the park
to the rail line and I40 to the south.
Um, as I mentioned, the building's in
really good condition. Needs a little
bit of renovation on the interior and
exterior. It's been used as an office
building by uh, Embark for many years.
Um and we're proposing to return it to
public use. Um you can see a lot of the
existing or the original infrastructure
still in the building, light fixtures,
cornice, stone work. Um and you can also
see on the right the office building
that they built inside of the uh
original uh waiting hall that will be
removed. And this is what we propose to
do is to return it to its original glory
um and to make it a public facility
again to host events, to host park
visitors, um and to make the public
portion of the building uh public again.
So this is an image of the east um
waiting hall um hosting an event. You
can see the old ticket windows. You can
see um all the original um cornis work
and light fixtures and everything that
would be restored as a part of the
renovation.
The building is made up of two portions.
The the former public portion, which
we're calling area A to the north. Um
and areas B and C are former baggage and
cargo areas. Uh those are not proposed
to be renovated as a part of this
project. Um will be focused on the north
half of the building.
You can see it consists of the two
original waiting halls, um support areas
and circulation areas, restrooms, um
meeting and office space. Uh the blue
area is proposed for renovation by this
funding, but we'd like to tackle the
alternate areas highlighted in orange so
that we really we really um complete the
renovation of the entire north portion
of the building.
Part of what makes this project
challenging is it's historic. Um it was
built in 1930 at a time when buildings
were not um did not have central air
conditioning in those systems. And we
are introducing um lots of people into
those spaces for large events. Um think
about filling those rooms on August, you
know, at three in the afternoon on
August 15th when the air conditioning
demand is at the highest. And so we are
building a Swiss watch. This is an image
on the right that shows the air
conditioning system that's going to be
integrated into the attic of the uh of
the facility to support all of that.
This has to be done invisibly so we
don't compromise any of the historical
um character of the building.
As I mentioned, large occupancy spaces
will be able to host as many as 600
people uh over 350 at tables um and a
smaller amount in the west hall which
will also function as kind of a uh
arrival and visitor center for the park
itself that the foundation will will
operate. upgrading
um upgrading all the HVAC systems,
providing new electrical service to
support not only the HVAC demands, but
also the convenience power. Um buildings
in 1930 did not have the electrical
infrastructure that we would expect
today for a modern event center.
Upgrading some plumbing. There's some
failed uh failed sewer lines under the
building that need to be replaced. And
upgrading the water service. And then as
I mentioned, lots of selective
historical renovation to lighting
windows, um interior plaster, terazzo
floors, exterior stonework, um
modernizing many of those historic
fixtures as well, some furniture for the
facility, and completing the fire
protection system to protect it in
perpetuity. need to go back really quick
um mention this project um has a little
over 12.5 million dollars in funding
from the residual revenues from MAPS 3.
This was not originally a maps 3
project, but it has been allocated those
funds. Um but we are about $4 million
short to complete uh all of the work
that I've described. So, some of the
things that would be um have to be cut
out of the project um without the
additional funding um includes the items
listed on the screen. We would have to
utilize a different mechanical system
which would use rooftop equipment or
some other things that would not be
compatible with the historic character
of the building. Um would have to forego
some of the infrastructure improvements.
Eliminate alternates. um eliminate some
of the uh AV infrastructure that would
be needed to support events um and the
like. So, this is a request to utilize
those tough funds to complete the
funding, close the funding gap, and
hopefully um with the help of Lingo
Construction, who's a construction
manager, um reintroduce this facility to
the public in a couple years. Any
questions for me?
» Thanks, Ryan. to
» All right. Well, it's exciting. So, we
can uh take up the resolution found at
item S.
Got a motion in a second.
Cast your votes.
Passes unanimously.
And then item T is a resolution
approving the Oklahoma City parks and
recreation department policy on
advertising sponsorships and donations.
And we have a presentation.
» Yes. Melinda McMillan Miller, our parks
and recreation director, will present
this new policy.
» Thank you, Mr. City Manager. Melinda
McMillan Miller, parks and recreation
director. Um, this policy is is long
time coming. We've worked on it for many
years to update and create a policy that
is very workable for our park system as
well as our public in order for us to um
continually provide enhanced maintenance
uh different types of programming. It
also follows the parks master plan that
identified multiple different
alternative funding resources that we
could tap into. Um it also follows
national recreation and park association
standards for um accreditation purposes,
something we aspire to get completed for
our city. So policy overall is just
giving us the um ability to define and
outline um what advertising is allowable
in our parks. Making sure that we
protect um the public making sure that
we enhance and protect the city's
mission and values and make sure things
are appropriate especially where
children are. Um and also give us the
opportunity to have some additional
resources to continue to maintain and
take care of our parks.
There any questions? I'm happy to answer
them.
Thank you.
» Thank you. All right, we can take up the
resolution found at item T.
» We have a motion and a second.
Cast your votes.
Passes unanimously and uh Vice Mayor
Hinkle presided.
brings us to item U1, extension of
collecting bargaining agreement with the
American Federation of State, County,
and Municipal Employees, local two or
2406.
Uh, executive session is not requested,
but city manager, do you have some
comments you'd like to make on this? V.
Uh so UNV um as Vice Mayor Hel said are
items that are just extending our
contracts as we're continuing
negotiations with our bargaining units.
You'll notice FOP is not on here. We do
now have the signed agreement with FOP.
That'll be on the next meeting. We'll
get that taken care of there. Um so we
appreciate u the collaboration and
cooperation as we're working together.
This allows us to continue the funding
or the contract as we have it right now
into next year until we get a new
contract in place.
So, we're ready for a motion on U1
and it passes 8 to zero. V1 uh extension
of the collecting bargaining agreement
with the International Association of
Firefighters Local 157. Ready for a
motion
and it passes 8 to zero.
Uh W1 is a resolution authorizing the
municipal counselor to approve the
admnification claim made by the
defendant officer in the lawsuit
Lorenzo Clerkley versus citizen of
Oklahoma City.
Executive session is not requested.
Ready for a motion.
and it passes unanimously.
Item X and Y are asking for executive
session. Do
» We need to take a motion on those?
» So, we need a motion on both of those.
Please
» Do it separately. Yeah, we'll start with
X.
It passes unanimously. And to Y
And it passes unanimously as well.
Item Z is claims recommended for denial.
Ready for a motion.
And it passes unanimously.
And item AA is claims are recommended
for approval. Ready for a motion.
And it passes. unanimously.
Item 12 is comments from council. One,
two.
» Yes. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Um, I just
wanted to say that I am I was quite
honored a week ago to march in Tokyo
Pride Parade. It was incredible. I've
already posted about this on social
media. What happened is I met someone
who does advocacy work around HIV AIDS
particularly on the idea that uh
untransmissible equals undetect or
excuse me undetectable equals
untransmissible right and so if you're
someone who's taking the proper
medications if if you're HIV positive
right which this is a reminder everyone
regardless of your sexual orientation
does not matter
pest regularly. It is you protecting
your body and protecting others. And so
anyway, I met someone and they said,
"Hey, do you want to march in the parade
with us?" And I said, "Oh, I'm sorry.
What did you just say?" So I got to
march in the parade. And while I was and
the reason why I was in Tokyo is we have
uh some OKC residents who live in W 2
and W 6 uh who are in a band I've
referenced up here previously called
Chap Pile, a metal band, uh who on the
same day that Beyonce's Renaissance
album came out a few years ago, the
music site Pitchfork said, "The two
albums you need to be listening to are
Beyonce's Renaissance and OKC's Chat
Pile."
I I mean that is incredible. That is
incredible. Especially because I met the
basis Austin when we were working at
Blockbuster Video back in 1999 to 2001,
right? When I was a closeted gay boy
wearing Abberrombie and Fitch and he was
a crust punk kid. So, you know, the fact
that that friendship has endured for a
quarter century is really special to me.
And as I was marching in the parade, I
found myself thinking about Classen
Boulevard, which is of course home to
OKC's uh historic Asian district. And as
I was thinking about Classen, I couldn't
help but remember, and I know this might
make some folk uncomfortable, but that's
okay. Um there was a former OKC mayor
who in 2001 removed the uh Pride banners
from Classen Boulevard. Um, and that was
the same year when I was 19 that I came
out to my mother, a retired RN who
actually took care of the first patient
uh here in OKC who had AIDS. Uh, at a
time when when some doctors wouldn't
even touch this young man, right? Um,
and so that was in 2001. That same year,
this city council, not us, but our
predecessors predecessors predecessors
voted 6 to3 to deny any banner permit
containing quote a political, religious,
or social advocacy message. And what was
strange about that was, and I'm having
to read from some notes here, since
1989, the city permitted groups to hang
banners from utility pole brackets,
including celebrating the Olympic, the
Oklahoma Olympic festival. So when they
removed the pride banners, the former
mayor explained that LGBTQ folk quote
have a right to behave that way if they
want to. Although some aspects of it are
illegal, quite frankly, I find it
offensive that we won't put up a
religious message, but we will put up an
irreligious message. The That's the end
of the quote. The Oklahoma editorial
board agreed and said, quote, "At least
the clan wasn't pushing a political
agenda on a sign."
End quote. So, remember, back then,
being gay was actually illegal in
Oklahoma. In fact, in most states,
punishable in Oklahoma with a 10-year
imprisonment until a 2003 US Supreme
Court decision ruled such laws
unconstitutional.
It's worth noting that during Germany's
1928 elections a 100red years ago, the
Nazis, who were the clan's white
supremacist counterparts, argued, quote,
"Anyone who even thinks of homosexual
love is our enemy. We reject anything
which emasculates our people and makes
it a play thing for our enemies, for we
know that life is a fight, and it's
madness to think that men will ever
embrace fraternally." End quote. The
Gestapo, we must remember, arrested
around 90,000 men for homosexual
activity between 1937 and 1939,
imprisoning 15,000 in concentration
camps under the infamous paragraph 175
law.
Nazi youth burned books, and those books
included Einstein's research and
transgender medical care research.
Thanks to a lawsuit from the ACLU and
former LGBT advocacy group Simron
Alliance, a judge found that the former
mayor and the council's actions were
unconstitutional.
Another note on the clan uh and the
Oklahoma's editorial board uh 25 years
ago that strikes me as silly because
that same paper in the 1920s had a
headline above the fold uh crowd knocked
cold by Ku Klux when tens of thousands
of clan members marched in downtown
Oklahoma City. We have to know our
history when we hear some of this
rhetoric today uh demonizing LGBT
people. we need to know where it comes
from.
So, as the first teacher and openly gay
person to ever serve on this council, uh
I'm honored to do the real work of Class
and Boulevard, which is with our Asian
district. It's always striking to me
people scapegoat queer people about
society's problems when the real
problems are streets that need
resurfaced, right, and sidewalks to
build. And that's why I'm excited to
steward an upcoming streetscape for the
area.
And uh similarly, we have a competitive
$975,000
federal grant that our city of OKC won,
right? And that's to uh study transit
oriented development on Classen. And
that's going to prioritize resurfacing
sidewalks, crosswalks, median and
lowincome affordable housing. Keeping in
mind that OKC's median income hovers
around $37,000 and that we're short. Too
many units for our people. This can
include mixeduse developments, bike
safety, trees, landscaping, and
architecture honoring uh our historic
Asian district and the nearby
neighborhoods. And I can't wait to march
with our Asian district who will march
for the first time in any pride parade
this year. And I'm signing up today to
do that with them. I asked them last
week. Um, a final note, Chap Pile. It is
incredible to see them in Tokyo and
Osaka. They're not rich.
They they quit their day jobs, but
they're making about the same money they
were then. They have no healthcare. We
have no benefits, right? But it is
incredible. OKC to see audiences in
Osaka and in Tokyo knowing the lyrics of
people from Oklahoma City. And to
conclude, those lyrics are often about
homelessness. They are out there
advocating,
asking a simple question. Why? Why are
there people homeless on our streets?
We have the means. We have the
resources, they say in their lyrics. And
seeing people from across the world
knowing those lyrics and singing
alongside,
knowing they're representing us on the
world stage, that's incredible. That is
just incredible. And so I'm so proud of
this city and the people we are
producing. And uh just wanted to share
that history during Pride Month that
this council knows better. This council
does better. the city manager does
better, this mayor does better, and a
lot of us in this city know and do
better. And I just want to thank you all
this Pride Month for your uh love and
compassion. So, thank you.
» Ward four
six.
» Yes. Thank you for sharing that,
Councilman Cooper. Um yeah, I think it's
unfortunate when we sort of think, oh,
all that stuff was back then, but
recognizing that a lot of that rhetoric
continues today. um and the reasons why
we need things like pride celebrations
to to push back against it and um give
especially young people the opportunity
to um love who they are. Um I just want
to invite folks to participate if
they're um available on the 24th. I
think that's next Wednesday at noon. The
diversion hub um is having their ribbon
cutting. Um very exciting for their new
building over on Lynwood. Um, it was
supposed to be, I think, in May, but we
we had rain, really bad rain that week.
And so, um, it'll be next next Wednesday
at noon. Be a big fun celebration. Come
see their new building. It's really
beautiful. Um, and in their art, they've
been they've been in there for like a
month. I think they're ready to They're
like, "Why are we doing this now? We're
already off the ground uh uh doing all
our work, but an opportunity to
celebrate their staff and um and this
beautiful new space that um we partnered
with them on. So, hope you can join us.
» 47 48.
» I have some breaking news. I got it
about 5:30 this morning when I got my
newspaper. Um, on July 14th, next month
that it will be exactly two years before
the start of the Olympics. And LA28 just
announced that it's opening the portal
for volunteers. And that includes
volunteers in Oklahoma City that want to
participate in the Olympics. Those
events will run July 14th through the
29th. There's a great article in the
paper today by Jenny Carlson that
explains the process and the events that
we will be hosting. So, if you want to
be a volunteer, here's your chance.
Thank you.
» Thank you. Brings us to item 13, which
is citizens to be heard. As I call your
name, come up, state your name and
address, and you'll have three minutes,
and the lovely Miss Amy will let you
know when you have 30 seconds left. Uh
Dan Halber.
I'm Dan Helber. Uh 16317
Northwest or uh goodness gracious uh
Delmare Drive up in your ward board 7.
Um I'm a refugee from California. Um,
mayor, um, council members, um, I came
here three generation or three years ago
for freedom and for grandchildren, not
necessarily in that order.
Um, Benjamin Franklin wrote that, uh,
they can they that can give up essential
liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor
safety. Um, and I think that this
applies to the surveillance state.
Around the corner from my home in
Fairfield South neighborhood is an
unobtrusive black pole topped with a
solar panel and a camera. When I first
noticed it over a year ago, I thought,
"Oh, it's part of the system that
synchronized traffic lights to improve
the traffic flow east on 164th."
Then I learned about flock cameras. um
their item got moved to uh two weeks
from now. Okay. And the potential for
misuse. Uh Chairman Mao noted that the
people have sharp eyes. We don't need to
give big data a record exactly when I
leave for work each morning. Um feeding
that information in uh to update my
social credit score. Um, I do not
appreciate being surveiled in a
warrantless fashion. I would like that
camera and all of its friends uh taken
down. I would like OKC's contract with
Flock to to be terminated. Um, and I
would like to recommend that this
council think long and hard about
replacing that system with some sort of
flock 2.0.
Um, I'd like to thank Mr. Pennington for
coming to Mayflower. Um I will research
and remember his vote um in 28. Thank
you.
» Next is Lori Walke followed by Mari
Williams.
Good morning. I am Reverend Dr. Lorie
Walk, 5219 North Miller Place 73112, a
proud resident of W 2 and a local pastor
in the United Church of Christ. I along
with my clergy colleagues and fellow
citizens are here to urge you to not
renew Oklahoma City's contract with
Flock. When the city council first
collaborated with Flock three years ago
to install cameras along the routes that
we take to school and to church and to
urgent care and to the dentist and to
work and to the mall and to well
everywhere you probably thought it was a
sound decision and it would have been
hard to not think that it was a sound
decision to contract with Flock or any
other automated license plate reader
system. They make big promises about car
insurance, community safety, and crime
reduction. But in the last three years,
we've learned some things like how ALPRs
like Flock collect data on millions of
vehicles regardless of whether the
driver is suspected of a crime. How they
own and share that data at their
discretion. That the data from ALPRs
like Flock have led to wrongful arrests
and profiling and enabled police
officers to stalk their ex partners at a
rate that is alarming. And we also now
know that there is no substantial
evidence that ALPRs like Flock
effectively prevent crime. Indeed,
across America, local officials are
choosing to stop using these cameras
because of grounded fears of mass
surveillance and local data shared in
ways that devastate families and wider
communities and inevitably the local
economy.
It has been three years since the
council first collaborated with Flock.
And you didn't know what you didn't
know. But now you know from public
records and reports that surveillance
companies like Flock cannot be trusted.
Over 50 cities across more than 20
states have voted to deactivate, pause,
or entirely cancel their contract with
Flock because people everywhere are
asking hard questions. And it is time
for our city council to do the same. So,
as you consider whether to continue
collaborating with surveillance
companies like Flock, please know that
while you once may have thought they
were okay,
it's okay to change your mind. Show us
your courage. Leave flock behind.
Oh, it's okay.
Change your mind and you can join us.
Join us here anytime. Oh, louder
friends, it's okay to change your mind.
Show us your courage.
Leave flock behind.
Oh, it's okay to change your mind. And
you can join us. Join us here any
[singing] time.
May that be your earworm until you vote
to not renew that contract.
[applause]
» Mari Williams, followed by Stephanie
Berdine.
» My name is Mari Williams. I've lived in
the OKC metro for my entire life. I
currently reside in Ward 5. Good
morning, Mayor Holt, who's not here,
city manager Freeman, and members of the
Oklahoma City Council. This morning, I'd
like to go through some cases where
Flock and its AI cause irreparable harm
and often cost the cities using it money
for settlements. April of 2024 in
Toledo, Ohio, Flock misread the seven on
Brandon Upurch's truck as a two.
Officers drew guns. When he hesitated,
the K9 officer released the dog which
latched onto his dreadlocks, slammed his
head into the pavement, and bit his arm.
He was hospitalized in jail before
charges were dropped. Upurch lost
sensation in his finger, had to sell his
truck, was evicted, and rehomed his two
dogs out of fear. He settled his lawsuit
for $35,000.
June of 2025, JC and Carolyn Heron, plus
their three-year-old granddaughter,
Penelope, were driving in Morristown,
Tennessee. Flock confused their lovey
license plate, spelled with an O, with a
recovered stolen trucks that spelled it
with a zero. Guns were drawn.
Grandparents were handcuffed in front
handcuffed while their terrified
granddaughter cried alone in the back
seat. They were cleared only after a VIN
check. April 2021, Athetherton,
California. Flock read an H as an M.
Jason Berkell was stopped at gunpoint,
ordered to the ground, and handcuffed.
This the lawsuit settled for $45,000.
The department admitted the camera
misread the plate. July 2023, Espanola,
New Mexico. Jacqueline Gonzalez and her
12-year-old si sister were driving when
Flock flagged their Kia after reading A2
as a seven. Both were ordered out at
gunpoint and handcuffed. Yes, including
the 12-year-old little girl. Body cam
footage captured the girl pleading,
quote, "Can you call my mom?" Family
settled the lawsuit in 2025. September
2025, Bowar, Colorado. Flock cameras
tracked Christian's truck passing
through Bowar. A sergeant used that data
plus doorbell footage to falsely accuse
her of stealing a $25 package. She had
to spend days gathering her own dash cam
footage, Google location history, and
ring video to prove her innocence.
Summons voided and the officer was
disciplined. February 2026, Sherwood,
Arkansas. A mother would a mother was
driving with her young children when
Flock misread their car's plate due to a
loose loose or broken frame. Misreading
an X as a Y. Full felony stop was
conducted with guns drawn. Parents were
handcuffed in front of their kids.
Cleared only after an investigation. The
officer was ordered to receive
» Remaining.
» Thank you. was ordered to receive
additional training. And in February
2026, a Milwaukee police officer was
criminally charged after using Flock to
stalk her romantic partner, running her
plate 124 times and her ex's 55 times in
the span of two months. Please end all
contracts with Flock. Thank you.
Stephanie Berdine followed by Elizabeth
Droo.
Good morning. Stephanie Berdine, 515
Maple, Yukon, Oklahoma. I am here
because even though I'm a Yukon citizen,
I live in Canadian County and Oklahoma
City is the largest municipality in
Canadian County. And in the next few
meetings, you all are going to be voting
on some issues, PUD 21105 and 2124 that
are in Miss's district. And
unfortunately, she's left and can't hear
me. Um, but those items are going to
allow reszoning for hyperscale data
centers. Right now, you all aren't
getting any attention. Yukon is, Luther
is, Piedmont is, but the largest
data center out of all those will be in
your city limits over 300 acres and
everybody's saying that's the Yukon data
center.
Well, this meeting has been kind of
enlightening because I wasn't expecting
to hear other Canadian county residents
concerns over your all's actions that
left here quite heartbroken and unhappy.
I remember when Highway 4 was just a
two-lane road and it was rural and there
are no Mr. Cooper, for your information,
there are no things between 44th and
59th that are mostly it's mostly
residential. But anyway, back to my
subject.
This is a hypers scale data center.
Do you all really want to be responsible
to be the city west of the Mississippi
that's encouraging this? Because the
land south on Frisco Road where this
will be in your city limits, the other
data center companies, the LLC's are
buying or out purchasing land to where
there could be a thousand acres of data
center just on Frisco Road. Um, entering
from the west,
that's what people are going to see.
Data centers, not the prettiness of the
prairie and amber waves of grain, just
ugly metal, stone, concrete buildings.
And I really wish you all would consider
your all's actions to citizens
» 30 seconds
» That are that live right next to your
city limits. I know I pay as much in
sales taxes residents of Oklahoma City.
And I love this city. I am a volunteer.
I've already signed up to volunteer for
the Olympics. I give tours at the art
museum to students from all over this
state. I love Oklahoma City just as much
as I love Yukon. And I wish you all
would show your love to your neighbors.
Thank you.
Elizabeth Drew, followed by Cole McAfee.
[clears throat]
» Hello. Um, my name is Elizabeth Drew.
I'm here uh just for myself talking
against ALPRs. Uh to the counselors who
are not yet picking up what we're
putting down. First, I want you to think
about all your neighbors and all your
constituents. And I want you to think
about what your level of trust is for
them. They voted for you. You live next
to them. That you they don't have a
dossier on you. They don't pry into your
personal lives. They respect that you
deserve the same considerations they do.
And then I want you to consider why the
writers of sci-fi have long pointed to
larger agencies manipulating large
amounts of people with mass
surveillance.
Agencies which are not emotionally
driven by the duty of proximity
knowledge of each other. Locality. These
agencies are driven by the emotions of
very few individuals. Very rich
individuals basically have trust
problems. They exist because of trust
problems. How do you build trust? the
opposite of what ALPRs do. You learn
what hurts, you forgive, you find the
way. You're grateful for the experience,
and you lean into that. You see the
cycle, and you break it. Please break
this cycle brought on to us by a very
few individuals with trust issues.
When it comes up, you may have a room
full of people hired to tell you
otherwise. So, I'm saying it now. Please
at that time vote against any further
AOPR contracts. If we can hold trust in
our hearts, that's beautiful. Thank you,
[clears throat]
» Cole McAfee followed by Solless Evans.
» Hi, my name is Cole McAfee and I'm a
resident homeowner in W 6. I wanted to
talk to you today ahead of the city
contract renewal vote with the automatic
license plate reader vendor flock about
what the real impact of this invasion of
privacy looks like. Back in 2019, my job
involved increasing transparency work
around the district attorneys council
and Oklahoma district attorneys
association.
When I started attending the meetings of
the one body that is public, the
district attorneys made it clear they
did not welcome me. One of the points of
discussion in those meetings was the
launch of the uninsured vehicle
enforcement diversion program or UVED.
This program launched automatic license
plate readers on traveling trailers as
well as in fixed locations across the
state and throughout Oklahoma City in
collaboration with OG&E.
During the time I was engaged in
transparency efforts, I began to receive
UVED notices despite my vehicle being
insured.
In each of these, which I had to spend
several hours of phone tag to resolve, I
received a notice with a different photo
of me in my car, the automatic license
plate reader had captured uh along with
the threat that I either pay the UVED
program $174 or show proof of insurance.
pictures of me on my way to work,
outside of my doctor's office, near my
home, a terrifying invasion of my
privacy and capturing of my life without
any wrongdoing on my part. It only
stopped when media started a first round
of coverage on all of the wrongful
letters being sent by UVED.
That's just one example of what the
invasive nature of these tools looks
like. Your contract with Flock and the
use of automatic license plate readers
exposes all Oklahoma City residents and
people who move through our city to this
invasive cataloging of our political
beliefs, of where we travel, of our
medical conditions, of who we meet with,
of our daily lives. Gathering this
information should require at minimum a
warrant.
The mass surveillance program threatens
our collective privacy. Please do not
renew the contract with Flock or with
other automatic license plate reader
vendors. Thank you.
Solus Evans, followed by Steve Hunt.
» Good morning. Uh my name is Solus Evans.
I live at 2822 North Hudson Avenue. a
resident of W 2. Um I'm a disabled
veteran and the director of community
for freedom Oklahoma. I'm just here to
uplift what all the others have said
about ending the flock contract um and
remind you that it's a violation of our
fourth amendment uh rights and that you
all should not renew the contract and
any AAL uh PRs um in the future. So,
thank you.
» Steve Hunt, followed by William Lee.
» Is there any way we can do that 30
minute thing for real this time? No.
» No,
he accidentally said 30 minutes last
time. Um, okay. So, I'm Steve Hunt, 6300
Westby Drive. Well, there's a lot going
on today. Um, I appreciate all the folks
coming to talk about Flock and I would
certainly like to encourage them to look
at Granicus, the uh, private equity
owned firm that does Prime Gov. In 2018,
the city approved a $53,000 a year
contract with uh, Primev, who was then
in 2021 bought by a private equity firm
backed by Stratam and then purchased by
Granicus. Now, the city's contract is
$300,000, a 600% increase in the fee
that we pay them. Although it is for a
suite, it's basically the same thing.
And they're extracting a lot of data
from uh citizens. When you submit a
request to the city, it goes through
Granicus and they're using that data all
over the country. Um it's basically what
Hannah Erin talked about in Ikeman and
Jerusalem, the benality of evil. It's
easy to be against flock, the foaming at
the mouth, you know, technological pan
ponopticon, but the cumulus, I'm sorry,
the uh granica stuff is just as serious
and I'd like people to look at that.
Okay, so some of y'all remember uh back
in December, I came and spoke about the
television uh broadcast for the Thunder
and how they were possibly going to go
insolvent. They have since become
insolvent.
uh they thought that they could get all
the debt, get the uh asset, and then
sell once the insolveny approached, but
it was such a train wreck that it's now
over.
And um the reason I bring that up, the
identical corporate rot is playing out
right now on the radio side. Cumulus
radio that does the thunder broadcasts
filed for chapter 22. That's a joke
phrase for filing chapter 11 for the
second time. um they put forth a $53
million IBIDA with $65 million in debt
interest services.
So the creditors are taking over the
radio side that does the Thunder
broadcasts and they're the reason that
it exists in the first place. And y'all
might know in 2008 2009 I was here
pleading with the council to give the
broadcast rights to Perry Broadcasting
and I met with Russell Perry numerous
times about it. He was like, you know,
Steve, thanks so much for doing this.
They don't care. And they don't because
the reason is that Klay Bennett gets
paid regardless.
» 30 seconds.
» They're filing for Chapter 11. And one
reason that they've been able to remain
relevant is that they have the contract.
And Klay Bennett and Pro Basketball
LLC's gets paid regardless. So, we don't
know who's going to be owning Cumulus in
the future because their SEC filing does
not mention it. But it's time to get
serious about the Thunder and the
community that loves them and the fact
that
non-American groups and non, you know,
Oklahoma groups are running the show.
So, I just wanted to bring that up.
There's a lot uh wanted to talk about
Union Station and all that, but maybe
next time. Thanks,
» Brady Harold,
followed by Joshua Higinbot.
Hello, my name is Brady Harrell. I live
at 424 Colbrook Drive and I'm just here
to um encourage the city council to end
its flock contract like a lot of other
uh of our neighbors here today. But I
thought I'd do so by sharing a few uh
facts about uh Flock and uh uh why I
think that it would be a good idea for
us to end our uh city's relationship
with them. Uh so uh first off, it's uh
uh pretty widely accepted that uh
Oklahoma City for some time has had
around 90 or uh just above uh flock
cameras in the area. That's what we
actually saw recently at a uh flock town
hall that some of our city council
members actually had the opportunity to
speak at. But if you actually go and
check uh the number of flock cameras in
the actual metro area has increased
significantly to the point where it's
almost uh entirely blocked out on maps
if you ever actually go to check for it.
uh leaving uh in with increases in the
dozens in certain areas. Um I'd also
like to make a note about uh
specifically a type of uh camera that
has beencome uh much more recognized in
the Oklahoma metro area called the
Condor [snorts] camera. It looks a
little bit like this. It is a uh uh inc
it is an increased level of
surveillance. It has a in uh built-in
tracking technology that allows for the
camera to actually move and rotate uh
around any facility. And it usually is
seen on top of one of these large solar
panel devices that allow for them to be
uh transported to different areas with
relative ease. So they don't have to be
attached to a particular pole or
neighborhood and can just be dropped in
different areas.
block uh cameras are capable of
recording
uh up to uh 14 different uh photos and
uh videos at any given moment.
And because of that, they uh pose a
great risk to uh overexposing members of
our community uh as a privacy violation.
Not to mention the recent addition that
a lot of flock cameras have seen to
their uh equipment uh with an additional
microphone.
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» Thank you. With an additional microphone
implement that uh as advertised is meant
to uh help document if perhaps a gunshot
or a cry for help is uh heard in the
area. But it could absolutely be abused
as a violation of privacy with uh people
just walking around in these areas near
these cameras being listened in on.
Uh I think that it's very unfortunate
that we've uh had a contract at all and
would encourage you to please end our
contract with the flock system. Thank
you for your time.
William Lee
going once.
Joshua Higen.
» Good morning, y'all.
My name is Josh Aken botham. I live in
the seventh ward and I'm speaking behalf
of Oklahoma's for privacy today about
the proposed renewal of the city's
contract with flock safety. Over 800
people have already signed petition
since we launched it at the end of May,
demanding Oklahoma City not renew its
contract with flock safety.
Flocks automated license plate readers
do more than capture images of vehicles.
They create a searchable database
accessible to police departments across
the nation as well as federal agencies
and any third-party Flock deems in its
interest to give access to. Flock can
and does collect and track data on which
houses of worship you visit, your
medical appointments, political events
you attend, and even which gun shows you
happen to show up at. Over time, this
can reveal deeply personal information
about people's lives, especially with
the 60-day data retention period
Oklahoma City currently has. Single
camera hit can tell a little bit about a
person, but months of records can paint
a detailed picture, their daily
routines, beliefs, relationships, and
activities. Long retention periods allow
flock to maintain a historical record
where people have traveled even when
they haven't done anything wrong. This
is why we're asking for a retention
period of no longer than 24 hours with
the permanent deletion of data unless
otherwise required by law. Oklahoma City
residents should not have their travel
history accessible to police
departments, federal agencies, and
anonymous third parties. Nor should this
system be used to create expansive watch
lists or facilitate broad surveillance
unrelated to specific criminal
investigations.
Lawful criminal investigations, as far
as I know, generally start with probable
cause. Call me oldfashioned, but driving
a car on a city street does not
constitute probable cause.
Bottom line, time and again, Flock has
misled the public and government
officials in cities across the nation.
In fact, they're so little trusted
cities like Dayton, Ohio, Evston,
Illinois, and Dayton County, Wisconsin,
that they have felt the need to put
black trash bags over those cameras to
keep people from being tracked and flock
collecting the data even after the
cities themselves ended the contracts
with the company.
Trusted city officials do not conduct
the people's business with untrustworthy
companies. For that reason, we're asking
the council to reject this contract
renewal and terminate the city's
relationship with flock safety as soon
as possible and until that contract is
terminated, place guardrails on data
retention no more than 24 hours and
strict limits on data sharing with
agencies outside of Oklahoma. Over 50
cities, as already mentioned, in over 20
states have deactivated, paused, or
entirely canceled their contracts with
lock safety. And it is time for this
council to put the interests of Oklahoma
City residents first. So, we urge you to
reject this renewal. Thank you kindly
for your time and consideration.
Excuse me. William Lee. One more time.
One more time.
Going. Going. Gone. Ronnie Kirk.
My name is Ronnie Kirk.
My address is 2328 North Missouri.
Mr. Pendleton, thank you for coming
Saturday to the event at Memorial Park.
No, everybody knows there was city
council,
but half the people and most of the
black people don't know how to use the
city council. Everybody complain, but
they won't go to the city council to
make a complaint. So I took the time to
explain them how to go about doing that
to get more to start coming.
Inside that [clears throat]
newspaper there's an article about me.
There's also an article that fly.
I've been over 50 city council meetings.
That's what's on that fly.
It's honor to me to be here
on a holiday
that I started in Oklahoma.
I started June 10, June 17, 1970.
So, I'm honored to get my roses where
I'm living instead of after I'm gone.
And I want to say thanks to Mr. Wade
Gley.
Before there was the thunders,
there was way garland police chief.
I went to Spring Lake Park Division.
Wrote him a letter.
Didn't have to call and I said, "Well,
you send some police out to play
basketball with these kids on northeast
side of town to make it a little more
community friendly and police friendly."
They showed up.
They played basketball for 4 hours. As
they shift change or they got a break,
Mr. Gar made sure they were there for 4
hours.
So, I want to say thanks to the city.
Thanks to y'all. We steady going
forward. We're not going backwards.
So, I want to say thank y'all for what
y'all doing. And let the bar know the
city is beautiful.
There's more things he got planned for
us, too. And I want to say thank y'all.
» Thank you, Mr. Kirk.
Uh, we're going to recess for executive
session. We'll be back.
And we are journed.
And we are German.