[0:14] That's very
[0:19] right now.
[0:34] Yeah. Yeah.
[0:39] [music]
[0:51] » [music]
[0:57] [music]
[1:02] [music]
[1:12] » Stay down.
[1:31] » [music]
[1:37] » Birthday.
[2:09] Uh-huh.
[2:30] Hallelujah.
[2:39] [music]
[2:45] [music]
[3:10] too.
[3:12] If you ever plan to go away
[3:19] my way, take the highway. That's the
[3:22] best
[3:25] kick on
[3:33] Chicago,000
[3:39] miles
[3:40] all the way.
[3:48] » [music]
[3:51] » Through
[3:52] Missouri
[3:55] looking
[4:04] [music] for
[4:09] you
[4:11] the time
[4:14] [music]
[4:15] and you make that guy love for your
[4:21] kids.
[4:39] » [music]
[4:44] [music]
[5:01] [music]
[5:03] » Going
[5:05] to see
[5:07] Missouri
[5:24] [music]
[5:26] time
[5:29] when you make
[5:32] California
[5:34] » [music]
[5:35] » Showcase
[5:37] all showcase
[5:41] showcase.
[5:45] [music]
[6:02] You missed it.
[6:07] » He left.
[6:18] I'm just going to do regular version.
[6:38] » [music]
[6:47] » Come here.
[6:57] Here
[7:02] we go. [music]
[7:42] » [music]
[7:47] [music]
[7:53] [music]
[8:03] [music]
[8:04] » Come on.
[8:17] » [music]
[8:51] [music]
[8:59] [music]
[9:08] » Go. [music]
[9:24] Go ahead. Thank you.
[9:35] » [music]
[9:36] » I show you
[9:44] [music]
[9:54] check.
[10:18] Sorry.
[10:34] Free is
[10:47] [music]
[10:53] ready.
[11:03] » [music]
[11:08] » Hallelujah.
[11:11] [music]
[11:24] All right.
[11:28] There you go.
[11:38] » [music]
[11:47] [music]
[11:52] [music]
[12:10] [music]
[12:18] » Don't get around.
[12:30] Let's
[12:33] do
[12:40] » Myself
[12:58] right there. Or you want
[13:11] This musical.
[13:17] [music]
[13:22] [music]
[13:29] Glorious.
[13:51] [music]
[14:10] » [music]
[14:16] [music]
[14:21] » Thank you.
[14:27] » [music]
[14:33] [music]
[14:38] [music]
[14:55] » Understand.
[15:16] » [music]
[15:17] » La.
[15:39] [music] Heat.
[15:56] » [music]
[16:01] » Oh my
[16:08] god.
[16:10] [music]
[16:22] » [music]
[16:38] » Thank you. Thank you.
[16:41] » [applause]
[16:47] » This is our last song.
[16:48] » Uh we're here
[16:51] for Black Incorporated and we are
[16:54] opening up the China Christian Jazz
[16:56] Record.
[17:00] [applause]
[17:05] Hallelujah.
[17:09] [music]
[17:16] [music]
[17:32] Wow.
[17:39] [music]
[17:45] [music]
[17:58] » [music]
[18:03] » Hallelujah.
[18:22] » [music]
[18:29] [music]
[18:37] [music]
[18:52] » Okay.
[18:58] Four.
[19:04] I'm
[19:06] [music]
[19:12] [music]
[19:13] trying to say
[19:17] [music]
[19:22] [music]
[19:42] » [applause]
[20:19] » You want
[28:04] All right, we're going to get started
[28:05] this morning. I first I want to thank
[28:07] Morris McCraven and friends, the jazz
[28:09] trio that was performing inside the
[28:12] chambers here. We'll hear a little bit
[28:13] more about the Charlie Christian
[28:15] International Music Festival in a few
[28:17] minutes. But first, we are going to have
[28:20] a invocation led by Lieutenant Steven
[28:23] Harris, who is chaplain for the Oklahoma
[28:25] City Fire Department, followed by the
[28:27] pledge of allegiance led by Elise and
[28:30] Jocelyn Ormandi, representing Scouting
[28:32] America Troop 3055.
[28:35] Please stand as you are able.
[28:43] Let us pray.
[28:45] Lord, we give praise to you today. We
[28:47] thank you for the wonderful things
[28:49] happening to our city with arenas and
[28:51] stadiums and parks on the riverside.
[28:54] Lord, we thank you for these things.
[28:56] Lord, help us to gain wisdom and
[28:58] understanding to help our homeless
[29:00] people and other people in need in our
[29:02] city in a lasting way. Lord, let our
[29:05] city be a light to all cities, to all
[29:07] people that we can live in safety and
[29:10] harmony and joy regardless of our
[29:14] ethnicity, regardless of our beliefs,
[29:17] that this would glorify you. In your
[29:18] name we pray. Amen.
[29:27] Will you please join us for the pledge
[29:30] of allegiance?
[29:34] » I pledge aliance to the flag of the
[29:38] United States of America and to the
[29:42] republic for which it stands, one nation
[29:46] under God, indivisible, with liberty and
[29:49] justice for all.
[29:57] Well, thank you, Lieutenant Harris, and
[29:58] thank you, Elise and Jocelyn.
[30:02] All right, next up, uh, well, first of
[30:04] all, I call the meeting to order and,
[30:07] uh, next up will be couple of
[30:09] presentations from office of the mayor
[30:12] and I will make my way to the front for
[30:14] that.
[30:32] Thank you.
[30:33] Maybe Anita and our friends from the
[30:35] Charlie Christian uh music festival can
[30:39] come down.
[30:53] All right. Well, coming up again is the
[30:55] Charlie Christian International Music
[30:57] Festival. And to learn a little bit more
[30:59] about that, I'd ask the clerk to read
[31:01] this proclamation.
[31:03] Whereas the Black Liberated Arts Center,
[31:06] now in its 59th year, was established to
[31:09] showcase the cultures and contributions
[31:11] of African-Americans
[31:13] through fine arts and arts education.
[31:16] And whereas for nearly six decades, the
[31:19] Black Liberated Arts Center has worked
[31:21] to develop the artistic talents and
[31:23] teaching abilities of Oklahomaans,
[31:25] bringing world-class arts experience to
[31:28] Oklahoma City and our state.
[31:31] And whereas the Black Liberated Arts
[31:33] Center has produced the annual Charlie
[31:36] Christian International Music Festival
[31:38] for 37 years, educating and enriching
[31:41] residents and visitors from across the
[31:43] country and around the world. And
[31:46] whereas Charlie Christian grew up in
[31:48] Oklahoma City, attended Douglas High
[31:51] School, and learned his craft in the
[31:53] music scene of Deep Deuce. And whereas
[31:56] Charlie Christian, Oklahoma City's own
[31:59] guitar legend, has been postumously
[32:02] honored with induction into the Nessie
[32:05] Nasuhi Ertagon Jazz Hall of Fame, the
[32:09] Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Downbeat
[32:11] Hall of Fame, and the Oklahoma Hall of
[32:14] Fame among others. And whereas in 2006,
[32:18] the city of Oklahoma City named Charlie
[32:20] Christian Avenue in Bricktown. And
[32:23] whereas in partnership with the Leenda
[32:26] Foundation and Oklahoma City University,
[32:29] the Black Liberated Arts Center has
[32:31] established the Charlie Christian Guitar
[32:33] Institute,
[32:35] Oklahoma's only institute of higher
[32:37] learning devoted to his music. And
[32:40] whereas the 2026 Charlie Christian
[32:42] International Music Festival will be
[32:45] held July 3rd through July 5th at Booker
[32:48] T. Washington Park featuring local,
[32:50] regional, and national performers
[32:53] celebrating his enduring legacy. Now,
[32:56] therefore, I, David Holt, mayor of the
[32:58] city of Oklahoma City, do hereby
[33:00] proclaim July 3rd through July 5th, 2026
[33:03] to be Charlie Christian International
[33:06] Music Festival Week in Oklahoma City.
[33:09] » Well, thank you. Well, this has been, as
[33:11] the proclamation stated, a tradition of
[33:13] four decades. And uh I was just thinking
[33:16] also how amazing it is. It's been 20
[33:18] years since we renamed uh the Avenue in
[33:21] Bricktown after Charlie Christian. That
[33:23] I guess that means that's how long I've
[33:24] known you, Anita. So, [laughter] uh so
[33:28] welcome back to City Hall. Uh and we
[33:31] would love to hear a few words from you
[33:33] to uh tell us even more about the
[33:35] Charlie Christian International uh music
[33:38] festival.
[33:39] » Uh this this year's festival is going to
[33:42] be a celebration of celebrations with
[33:45] Charlie Christian. This year marks uh
[33:49] such
[33:50] uh milestones of a rich his history and
[33:55] heritage that most people don't know
[33:57] about. And this year's festival is
[34:00] divided into two parts. We have so many
[34:04] celebrations. I've passed everyone up
[34:06] here um a copy of the celebrations this
[34:11] year and it'll be spread out over the
[34:14] year,
[34:15] » But we have milestones like Douglas High
[34:20] School where Charlie Christian went to
[34:22] school
[34:23] 135 years old this year.
[34:26] Avery Chapel AM Church,
[34:30] 137 years old, which is a church that
[34:34] Ralph Ellison and his family attended.
[34:39] I didn't know that until I started
[34:41] speaking in some of the uh churches
[34:43] around the community, but that's it
[34:47] needs to be noted and people need to
[34:49] know that we've got that kind of a
[34:51] history. Uh Dr. Finley. Gravy Finley was
[34:55] the family physician during those times
[34:58] and if he were alive he'd be 120 years
[35:01] old. Charlie Christian is celebrating
[35:05] 110th birthday as a matter of fact in
[35:08] July.
[35:09] Uh Route 66 is being celebrated for 100
[35:14] years. It was the musical trail and
[35:17] Charlie Christian knew that trail well
[35:21] and it ran from Oklahoma City to Chicago
[35:24] on to California, New York. Everybody
[35:27] was on Route 66, the musical trail. Uh
[35:32] OIC, which was right here, which is
[35:35] right here in Oklahoma City, uh Reverend
[35:38] Dr. H. Leon Sullivan
[35:40] uh who was a great person passed not too
[35:44] long ago. uh he was named by uh the
[35:49] president of the United States to be the
[35:52] creator of business principles that
[35:57] businesses all over the world could do
[36:00] business with South Africa after
[36:02] apartheid and his operations right here
[36:06] is still in operation and now they're
[36:09] doing literacy workshops for our uh
[36:12] public who
[36:14] need to learn.
[36:17] Uh and then finally, we're presenting uh
[36:21] America's
[36:22] 250th anniversary. That's another
[36:25] celebration. So, we'll have these part
[36:28] ones and parts two. We'll have visual
[36:31] arts. We'll have music, and you heard
[36:34] some of that fine music. Uh and, uh and
[36:40] other things like books that are rare.
[36:43] We have two museums, an art museum and a
[36:46] history museum to this day. And so we're
[36:49] in for a good ride and you are all
[36:53] invited to come and just go to our
[36:56] website and you'll get the information
[36:58] that you need on the things that we'll
[37:00] be putting forth. Part one begins now.
[37:04] » Very good. Let's hear it for Anita and
[37:06] her team. [applause]
[37:09] » Oh. Oh yes.
[37:13] Oh, I need it. That's yours. [laughter]
[37:15] » Thank you.
[37:16] » Thank you.
[37:23] » All right, Jarus. Jarus, come on down.
[37:27] » We'll meet here.
[37:29] [applause]
[37:33] » All right, Jarus, we'd love to learn a
[37:35] little bit more about your service to
[37:37] the people of Oklahoma City. And so, I'd
[37:38] ask the clerk to read this resolution.
[37:41] Whereas Jarus Jeff has been a city
[37:43] employee for two years and serves as
[37:46] digital graphic technician for the
[37:48] public information and marketing
[37:50] department's print shop. And whereas
[37:53] Jerus exemplifies the city's core value
[37:55] of service first, responding to each
[37:58] request with exceptional
[38:00] professionalism, accuracy, and a clear
[38:02] commitment to helping projects succeed.
[38:05] And whereas Jerus provides expert
[38:07] guidance on specialty printing needs
[38:09] with patients thoughtfulness and a
[38:11] collaborative approach. And whereas
[38:14] Jerus reliably accommodates urgent or
[38:17] late notice requests without sacrificing
[38:20] quality, making him an invaluable
[38:22] partner to city staff. And whereas on
[38:25] February 11, 2026, Jerus produced a 50
[38:29] square foot banner in under two hours to
[38:31] notify residents of a prescribed burn at
[38:34] Martin Nature Park, enabling clear
[38:37] public communication
[38:39] and allowing staff to be reassigned to
[38:42] critical fire support roles. And whereas
[38:45] his swift action that day along with his
[38:48] consistent excellence enhances public
[38:50] safety, staff efficiency, and city
[38:53] service to the community. And whereas
[38:55] this council desires to recognize Jarus
[38:58] Jeff for his commitment to public
[39:00] service and the residents of Oklahoma
[39:02] City. Now therefore, be it resolved by
[39:05] the mayor and council of the city of
[39:07] Oklahoma City hereby thank and commend
[39:10] Jarus Jeff June 2026 South Oklahoma City
[39:14] Kowanas Club employee of the month.
[39:16] » All right. Thank you. Well, this is a
[39:18] resolution, Jarus. So, we're going to
[39:20] see if we can get you the votes.
[39:25] Got a motion and a second. Please cast
[39:28] your votes. I wish to vote I
[39:39] passes unanimously.
[39:41] Uh yes, [applause]
[39:43] you are the employee of the month.
[39:48] Well, Jarus, we'd love to hear a few
[39:50] words from you and uh but I'll just
[39:52] preface it by saying how grateful we are
[39:54] for your service and that uh you lend
[39:56] your talents to the city of OKC and
[39:58] obviously you are wellliked. This is a
[40:01] this is a rambunctious crowd for Tuesday
[40:03] morning at 8:30. So, um the floor is
[40:06] yours.
[40:07] » Okay.
[40:08] » Uh first I want to thank you for this
[40:10] opportunity. Um, I'm really thankful for
[40:13] the award and for the recognition. Um,
[40:16] since coming to the city, I've been
[40:18] welcomed with open arms from the staff
[40:20] here in the city manager's office. Um,
[40:22] been welcomed with nothing but smiles
[40:24] and support everywhere I turn. Uh, from
[40:27] my supervisors all the way to the staff
[40:29] around me. It's been a really thankful
[40:31] community that I've had up to this
[40:33] point. And so, I'm happy to continue to
[40:35] work and do what I can for the city and
[40:37] thankful for everybody that shows the
[40:39] support towards me. So, all right, let's
[40:41] hear it for Jarus. [applause]
[40:44] Congratulations.
[41:22] All right. Still remaining is an
[41:24] appointment to the Oklahoma City
[41:25] Planning Commission. Item B.
[41:29] Take a motion on that.
[41:36] Got a motion in a second. Cast your
[41:37] votes.
[41:44] Passes unanimously. And then item C is a
[41:47] resolution approving travel expenses for
[41:49] me to attend the US Conference of
[41:50] Mayor's Celebrate America meeting in
[41:53] Philadelphia next month. Could take a
[41:55] motion on that.
[42:00] A motion and a second. Cast your votes.
[42:29] Wait, wait, wait, wait.
[42:33] » Okay.
[42:38] All right.
[42:40] Passes unanimously and with the
[42:41] necessary six affirmative votes. That
[42:44] concludes Office of the Mayor. Now we're
[42:45] at number four. Item four, items from
[42:48] council and we have uh five items today
[42:51] from the judiciary committee. So I'll
[42:53] turn it over to the chair of the
[42:54] judiciary committee, Councilman Stone
[42:56] Cipher, to present these items. Uh thank
[42:59] you, your honor. On um June 2nd, the
[43:02] judiciary committee met and it is our
[43:04] obligation under title 11 to uh pick
[43:08] judges on staggered terms, two-year
[43:10] appointments, and to decide their
[43:12] compensation. And uh we have five
[43:15] appointments and designations that we
[43:17] recommend today to the city council. I
[43:20] would say the judiciary committee was
[43:22] unanimous. Um the one thing that I'm
[43:24] really proud of the committee, we work
[43:26] hard to make sure that we we find judges
[43:29] that know the law, but also that have
[43:32] great temperament and a great degree of
[43:34] civility because many times our citizens
[43:36] their first experience will be with
[43:38] those judges. And we have a great group
[43:41] of judges. We had a judicial survey that
[43:43] was taken in March. I encourage you to
[43:45] take a look at it, how well our judges
[43:47] are doing and what the public thinks of
[43:49] our judges. And so with that, I am told
[43:52] by Deon Martin I have to make these um
[43:55] one at a time. So I'll start with 4A,
[43:57] which which is a resolution appointing
[44:00] Gunnar Brisco as municipal judge July 1,
[44:02] 2026 through June 30th, 2028. So moved.
[44:17] Got a motion and a second. Cast your
[44:19] votes.
[44:22] » Passes unanimously.
[44:24] » The next matter is item 4B, which is a
[44:27] resolution appointing Donald Kein as
[44:30] municipal judge July 1, 2026 through
[44:33] June 30, 2028. So moved.
[44:38] » [clears throat]
[44:42] » Got a motion and a second. Cast your
[44:44] votes.
[44:48] » Passes unanimously.
[44:50] » Item 4 C is a resolution designating
[44:53] Donald Kein as presiding judge July 1,
[44:57] 2026 through June 30th, 2027.
[45:01] So moved.
[45:06] » A motion and a second. cast your votes.
[45:11] » Passes unanimously.
[45:13] » Item 4 D is a resolution designating
[45:15] Edward Hasbrook as vice presiding judge
[45:18] July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027. So
[45:23] moved.
[45:30] Got a motion and a second. Cast your
[45:31] votes.
[45:35] » Passes unanimously. Item 4E is a
[45:37] resolution appointing Christopher Kelly,
[45:40] Lauren Mayo, and David McKenzie as
[45:43] special judges July 1, 2026 through June
[45:47] 30, 2028. So moved.
[45:56] A motion and a second. Cast your votes.
[45:59] Passes unanimously.
[46:01] Thank you and the judiciary committee
[46:03] for all your work.
[46:04] » Thank you.
[46:06] [clears throat]
[46:06] All right, item five, city manager
[46:08] reports. Mr. City Manager.
[46:10] » Thank you, mayor. We have several
[46:11] reports on today. Two of the reports are
[46:14] budget transfer reports. Um, one of them
[46:16] you'll see is for last fiscal year.
[46:18] Typically, we produce this at the time
[46:20] that we're producing our financial
[46:22] reports for the previous fiscal year.
[46:24] Those were delayed due to the
[46:26] implementation of the financial system,
[46:28] which is now in place. still working
[46:29] through some issues with that, but we do
[46:32] have the final report which is typic
[46:34] typically runs with that uh the final
[46:36] transfers report that runs with that
[46:38] financial report. So that is on for
[46:40] today. And these transfer reports,
[46:42] there's certain budget transfers that
[46:43] are the the council through um policy
[46:47] authorizes me to approve and the staff
[46:49] to approve. This just gives you an
[46:50] update on those. There's also a link on
[46:52] there where you can go see all the
[46:54] details of every report that's on there.
[46:55] So the first report is for last fiscal
[46:58] year. The second report is the budget
[46:59] transfers for this fiscal year through
[47:01] March 31st. And then we have the interim
[47:04] financial report through April 30th. Um
[47:07] just give a little bit of update on
[47:08] that. We've done a couple of budget
[47:10] amendments
[47:11] um through this year that have allowed
[47:14] us to increase our budget for a couple
[47:16] of different things that we've approved.
[47:18] Um if you look at our our revenues,
[47:21] generally the revenues are on target.
[47:24] with the budget amendments that we've
[47:26] made, we've approved using some fund
[47:28] balance to cover some of these costs,
[47:30] some of our reserves. And if if you look
[47:33] at this and take out the fund balance
[47:34] that's budgeted, um on the second page
[47:37] of that report, the um it would leave us
[47:40] at about a $4.3 million deficit in our
[47:44] revenues to this point in the year. Um I
[47:47] think in total if you look at it
[47:49] personnel expenses I mean uh our
[47:51] expenses compared to our revenues we
[47:53] would be about 6.2 million if you take
[47:55] out that fund balance about $6.2 million
[47:59] um that we have used in fun would have
[48:01] used in fund balance for this year.
[48:03] Coming into the end of the year with
[48:04] some of our revenues coming in at the
[48:06] end we believe that we're going to be
[48:08] closer to the budget. We'll still use a
[48:10] little bit of fund balance but we don't
[48:11] you think we'll use that full 10.9
[48:13] million that we budgeted so far. Uh but
[48:16] we'll still keep monitoring that and
[48:17] report that back to you. I do want to
[48:19] acknowledge that one of the biggest
[48:21] overages that we have on our expenses
[48:23] where we're over budget is personal
[48:24] services. If you recall when we approved
[48:27] our contracts, we approved a stipen for
[48:29] employees that was above what we had in
[48:30] our reserve for that purpose. So we knew
[48:33] we were going to use some fund balance
[48:34] on that. That drives a portion of it.
[48:36] Another portion of it is we're way over
[48:38] budget on police and fire overtime.
[48:40] We've been over a budget in that in
[48:42] those categories for a while trying to
[48:44] work that get that right size to get
[48:46] those costs down, but also to get our
[48:47] budget back up to about an equilibrium.
[48:50] We've had a significant number of
[48:51] vacancies in the past in police and
[48:54] that's covered some of that and really
[48:55] required some of that overtime. As we're
[48:57] getting more of those positions filled,
[48:58] we should be reducing that overtime and
[49:00] getting that back in line. So, still
[49:02] working on that. All in all, at the end
[49:04] of the year, um our expectation is we'll
[49:06] use a little bit of fund balance, but
[49:08] it'll be a fairly small amount of fund
[49:09] balance. I think even less than the $6
[49:11] million that we show on this report to
[49:13] this point. So, just wanted to give you
[49:15] an update on that. Additionally, we do
[49:17] have the um quarterly riverport
[49:21] foundation report and we can get any
[49:23] answers for you if you have questions on
[49:24] that. We'll get answers for that. And
[49:26] then claims and payroll is on and that
[49:28] can be found on okc.gov. And that's all
[49:29] the items that I have.
[49:31] » All right. Thank you, Mr. City Manager.
[49:38] Next up, item four, Journal of Council
[49:40] Proceedings. We have items A and B we
[49:42] could take with one motion.
[49:51] » Item six. Yeah, thank you. Good catch.
[49:53] Don't know why I said item four. All
[49:55] right, we got a motion to second. Cast
[49:56] your votes.
[50:00] Passes unanimously. Uh, next up, item
[50:03] seven, request for uncontested
[50:05] continuences. Item 11 A and 11B, items
[50:08] 11 A and 11B are already going to be uh
[50:12] deferred until July 7th. Mr. City
[50:15] Manager, is there anything else?
[50:17] » We just have three additional items on
[50:18] today. Uh, beginning on page 23, we'll
[50:22] strike all these items from the agenda.
[50:24] Um, this is 11 M1. Item A, 1623 West
[50:29] Bird Street. The owner is secured. Item
[50:31] G, 11:35 West Wilshire Boulevard, the
[50:33] owner has secured. And item J, 3503
[50:36] Southwest 42nd Street, the owner has
[50:38] secured. And that is all the items we
[50:40] have.
[50:41] » Okay,
[50:48] now we're at item eight, revocable
[50:50] permits and events. Item 8A is a
[50:53] revocable permit with the Black
[50:54] Liberated Arts Center for the Charlie
[50:56] Christian Festival, previously
[50:58] discussed, July 3rd through the 5th. in
[51:01] Booker T. Washington Park and
[51:05] » I believe they left before they were
[51:07] able to come and talk about this.
[51:09] » She said everything she would uh just so
[51:12] you guys know because this is the first
[51:13] time being back at the park. They were
[51:15] at a park years ago, but they've come
[51:17] back. They'll be playing music on
[51:18] Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at
[51:20] Washington Park. They'll also have the
[51:23] same street closures that Junth does,
[51:25] that single lane on Fourth Street,
[51:28] Northeast 4th, and then High as well.
[51:31] So, if you have any questions, let us
[51:33] know.
[51:35] » All right, Councilman Pennington.
[51:37] » Thank you, Mayor. Just want to say um a
[51:39] big thank you to Anita Arnold and to
[51:41] Garland Puit for their leadership. It's
[51:43] a really fantastic event. I'd invite all
[51:45] of of my fellow council members to join
[51:47] me um at the event that on on the
[51:50] weekend of July 3rd. Um, it's going to
[51:52] be really great. So, thank you so much
[51:54] and I move approval.
[52:01] We have a motion and a second. Cast your
[52:03] votes.
[52:09] Passes unanimously.
[52:12] Next up is item B. That's a revocable
[52:15] permit with the with love project
[52:17] foundation for Junth on the east on June
[52:20] 20th at Lincoln Park. And we have Jaden
[52:23] Oliver and Christa Rice here.
[52:26] » Yes. Good morning. Thank you guys for
[52:29] allowing us to be here once again for
[52:30] our sixth year. So on behalf of our
[52:32] committee, thank you guys. Uh we've been
[52:35] able to stand here many years uh before
[52:37] and go over the history. One thing our
[52:40] team was able to do this year is spend
[52:42] some time diving in further into the
[52:44] history of Junth and what happened after
[52:47] Union General Granger uh went into
[52:50] Texas. And we know the history doesn't
[52:52] stop there. We got to talking about uh
[52:54] the the uh the doctors and the black
[52:58] entrepreneurs that settled here and
[53:00] created our black Oklahoma towns here
[53:02] and what that looked like for historic
[53:04] Deep Deuce and for any OKC. Um, and what
[53:08] we're here to share today is how that is
[53:10] why a proven community matters. And so I
[53:13] just want to share a few stats about
[53:14] what we've been able to do over the last
[53:16] 5 years with Junth on the East.
[53:19] Estimated attendance uh over the years
[53:22] annually 15,000 attendees. Local
[53:25] performers featured 20 plus community
[53:28] vendors per year, 80 plus uh 15 plus
[53:32] food trucks. Um and then uh 60 plus band
[53:35] members. A lot of that matters
[53:37] especially for our local artists and our
[53:39] local performers because a lot of them
[53:41] get to say that they shared a stage uh
[53:43] with a Grammy nominated artist or an
[53:46] Emmy award-winning artist. And so that
[53:48] matters because that allows them to add
[53:49] that to their resume which then takes
[53:51] their career even further. Again, a
[53:53] proven community. So this year's event
[53:56] provides the east side uh opportunity
[53:59] the community an opportunity to work
[54:01] with over a 100 merchant vendors and
[54:03] food truck vendors, local artists and
[54:05] performers. Looking at total probably
[54:07] over 150 people uh influence and that's
[54:10] not just the people, it's their families
[54:12] and their children um and so forth and
[54:14] so on. Uh we we love that it gets to get
[54:17] to that point. So, as we allow room for
[54:19] growth, our kids zone will be increased
[54:21] by 2.5%. Um, and we be we're able to
[54:24] honor our families by providing an area
[54:26] where education, creation, and
[54:28] imagination can happen for our children.
[54:31] And as we continue to build our
[54:32] relationships in our sixth year, we are
[54:34] partnering with the Jo Foundation to add
[54:37] a threeon-ree basketball tournament. So,
[54:39] I'll go ahead and let Jaden talk about
[54:41] that.
[54:44] » Good morning. My name is Jaden Oliver.
[54:46] I'm the founder of the Jawler Foundation
[54:48] and I'm honored to be here today
[54:50] representing my family, my ancestors,
[54:52] and my community. I'm excited to share
[54:55] that the Jawer Foundation is partnering
[54:56] with Junth on the East this year to host
[54:59] the inaugural 3v3 basketball tournament.
[55:02] In addition to the festival, we will be
[55:04] bringing 72 kids from all over to
[55:07] celebrate Junth. Not only will they have
[55:09] an exceptional basketball experience
[55:11] with competitive play, open three-point
[55:13] contests, trophies, and giveaways, but
[55:16] my favorite piece is that the teams will
[55:17] be named after local black leaders who
[55:19] have helped pave the way, impact
[55:21] Oklahoma City, and all over the world.
[55:23] Also, in their honor, we will be gifting
[55:26] players all-star trading cards that will
[55:28] tell these leaders stories, and share
[55:29] more about their legacy. I just want to
[55:32] thank and give love to my team, the best
[55:35] committee in the city and um you know my
[55:38] community for helping bring this new
[55:40] experience to life for our kids. We also
[55:43] want to thank the city for helping us
[55:44] get the court in proper conditions for
[55:46] our kids um to be able to compete to
[55:49] enjoy be a part of their community and
[55:51] to be supported by love. My dad always
[55:53] says when the community works together
[55:55] the community works and this festival
[55:56] and this basketball tournament is truly
[55:58] a testament to that. At the Jer
[56:00] Foundation, we always like to share that
[56:02] it's bigger than basketball and we want
[56:04] to invite you all to come and witness
[56:05] that. [clears throat] Thank you.
[56:09] » Thank you, uh, Councilman Pennington.
[56:11] » Thank you, Mayor. Um, and so we have
[56:13] Friday along with threeon-ree, um,
[56:16] tournament, which is awesome. This is
[56:17] the first I heard of it. And the trading
[56:18] cards sound really cool. So, can I have
[56:20] one? Um,
[56:21] » Yes, [laughter]
[56:22] give that to you. Yeah, we'll have Ka
[56:24] give it to you.
[56:25] » There you go. Um, so, okay. So, Friday
[56:27] we've got the 5K.
[56:28] » Thursday. Thursday we have our panel
[56:30] discussion at Innovation Hall.
[56:32] » Okay. Panel discussion on Thursday.
[56:34] Friday 5K. Saturday concert what time?
[56:37] » Festival 11 to 4 concert doors open at
[56:40] 56 to around 10.
[56:42] » Excellent. Well, thank you all for your
[56:44] work. It's an amazing event and um it's
[56:47] always so exciting to bring people to
[56:48] the east side and and to let us see the
[56:50] the unity and the progress that we're
[56:52] making in our community and it's because
[56:53] of your efforts. So, thank you so much
[56:55] and I'm looking forward to participating
[56:57] too. So with that, mayor, I move
[56:59] approval.
[57:06] » Right. We have a motion and a second.
[57:09] Cast your votes.
[57:11] [clears throat]
[57:14] Passes unanimously.
[57:16] » Awesome. Thank you guys so much.
[57:18] Appreciate it. We invite you all to
[57:23] » All right. Next up is item C. revocable
[57:25] rightway use permit with Oklahoma Pride
[57:27] Alliance to hold the Oklahoma Pride
[57:28] Alliance downtown Pride parade on June
[57:30] 28th. And we have John Milner here.
[57:34] Good morning. Um yeah, we're coming back
[57:36] downtown at Scissor Park for the sixth
[57:38] year. Um looking forward to welcoming
[57:41] the community June 26th, 27th, 28th.
[57:43] Festival starts 400 pm on Friday. We'll
[57:46] have entertainment, food, vendors. Uh,
[57:49] we've got a community resource zone on
[57:51] Saturday, artist market Friday night,
[57:53] and then it culminates with the downtown
[57:55] parade on Sunday starting at 11:00 a.m.
[57:57] Happy to answer any questions.
[58:01] » Can you share who some of your
[58:03] headliners are?
[58:05] » I knew you were going to ask that. And
[58:07] I'm the logistics guy. I know they just
[58:10] posted.
[58:11] » I just wanted to shout out the Drag
[58:12] Queen because I'm such a fan and I'm so
[58:15] amazed that y'all got them. It's so
[58:17] exciting. And I will also add we've got
[58:18] Oklahoma native Samantha Crane playing.
[58:21] So that's going to be fantastic. And I
[58:22] believe she plays Saturday night. So
[58:24] it's going to be a good festival. Let's
[58:26] just hope for uh cooler weather this.
[58:29] » We will we will cross our fingers for
[58:31] for that. [laughter] But you all are
[58:33] always so well um organized and just
[58:36] really appreciate um you bringing this
[58:37] this celebration to downtown. So happy
[58:39] to move for approval.
[58:40] » Thank you.
[58:41] » Councilwoman, I just want to clarify. Do
[58:43] you mean Bob the Drag Queen RuPaul's
[58:45] Drag Race winner is coming to Oklahoma's
[58:49] capital? Yes,
[58:51] » Be correct.
[58:51] » It's huge.
[58:54] » And I also just want to add I want to
[58:56] thank Drew Watson in the special events
[58:57] office. I've worked with Drew for the
[58:59] past six years and the special events
[59:01] office and Drew is fantastic. So, shout
[59:03] out to Drew. Thank you.
[59:07] » Any questions? Okay.
[59:09] » No, we got a motion in a second.
[59:12] cast your votes.
[59:16] » Pass.
[59:17] » Thank you very much.
[59:18] » Thanks.
[59:19] » All right. Now, we're going to recess
[59:20] the council meeting and convene as the
[59:22] Oklahoma City Municipal Facilities
[59:24] Authority. Uh we have a presentation for
[59:26] item B. Mr. City Manager.
[59:28] » Yes. Nicole Tower is uh here with the
[59:31] budget office to present this budget. uh
[59:33] this the m municipal facilities budget
[59:35] and she'll talk about this as she goes
[59:36] through but it represents a lot of the
[59:38] transfers a lot of the functions that we
[59:40] have that come through the operating
[59:42] budget so just want to acknowledge that
[59:44] and I'll let Nicole take us through the
[59:46] quick presentation
[59:47] » Yeah good morning Nicole Tower office of
[59:49] management and budget happy to be here
[59:51] again to present the FY27 OC MFA budget
[59:56] um so today you're going to be presented
[59:58] with the MFA budget as well as the OCPA
[1:00:00] budget and while those both pay play
[1:00:03] vital roles in supporting city
[1:00:05] operations. I like to think of the OCMFA
[1:00:08] as an internal facing trust and the OCPA
[1:00:11] um serves the public more outward facing
[1:00:13] activities.
[1:00:16] The OCMFA or Oklahoma City Municipal
[1:00:19] Facilities Authority is a trust of the
[1:00:21] city that provides a mechanism that
[1:00:23] allows for multi-year contracts with
[1:00:25] vendors such as a health insurance
[1:00:26] providers and allows for the maintenance
[1:00:29] of adequate reserves for such things as
[1:00:31] workers compensation claims. At the last
[1:00:34] council meeting, the city budget was
[1:00:36] adopted. The MFA budget that is being
[1:00:38] presented today, the primary source of
[1:00:40] revenue is the city funds from that
[1:00:42] adopted budget. We can now look at the
[1:00:44] specifics of this budget for fiscal year
[1:00:46] 27.
[1:00:48] So overall, the trust budget is just
[1:00:50] over 178 million. Last year's budget was
[1:00:54] 146 million, which is an increase
[1:00:56] year-over-year of 21%.
[1:00:59] And you can see the various budget
[1:01:00] functions on this slide. So this slide
[1:01:03] groups similar functions together to
[1:01:05] illustrate and summarize the functions
[1:01:07] of the trust.
[1:01:09] The first one, health insurance, is by
[1:01:10] far the largest portion at 95 million or
[1:01:14] 53%. This comes from both the city and
[1:01:17] its employees as they contribute to the
[1:01:19] premiums paid for health insurance.
[1:01:21] There are also several similar functions
[1:01:23] to health insurance in this budget. The
[1:01:25] city's property [clears throat] and
[1:01:27] liability insurance is about 23 million
[1:01:29] or 13% and workers compensation is
[1:01:32] projected to be about 20 million or 11%.
[1:01:35] We also pay for unemployment claims
[1:01:37] through the OCMFA, but those are
[1:01:40] relatively small, about 205,000.
[1:01:42] The next largest category is information
[1:01:45] technology. So at 15 million or 8%, this
[1:01:49] is one of the largest areas that
[1:01:51] utilizes the abilities for the
[1:01:52] multi-year contracts. They use it for
[1:01:54] such things as a city-wide computer
[1:01:56] systems, the radio systems, E911, and
[1:01:59] other IT related services.
[1:02:02] The general purpose and others category
[1:02:05] includes annual financial audits,
[1:02:07] professional legal services, and code
[1:02:09] enforcement related contracts.
[1:02:12] The city also uses the OCMFA for
[1:02:14] advanced capital funding. Those are for
[1:02:17] GEO bonds and it helps them jumpstart
[1:02:19] certain capital projects. So, we've set
[1:02:21] up a revolving fund here in the OCMFA
[1:02:24] and it allows public works to begin
[1:02:26] design work on bond projects before the
[1:02:28] bonds are sold. Once the bonds are sold,
[1:02:30] the bond proceeds reimburse the trust
[1:02:33] for those early design costs,
[1:02:35] essentially buying back the plans. This
[1:02:38] process helps us get projects moving
[1:02:40] faster.
[1:02:41] As those funds are replenished, they can
[1:02:44] be used to kick off the next round of
[1:02:46] projects, keeping our momentum going.
[1:02:49] Okay.
[1:02:51] So when we look here at the revenue,
[1:02:54] health insurance contributions from the
[1:02:55] city and its employees is the largest
[1:02:57] source at 93 million or 52%.
[1:03:01] Transfers from various funds such as the
[1:03:04] IT or the risk management internal
[1:03:06] service funds is the second largest at
[1:03:08] 54 million or 30%.
[1:03:11] Fund balance is the next largest at 13
[1:03:13] million or 7%. And finally here, there
[1:03:16] are several miscellaneous revenue
[1:03:17] sources that account for just over 10%
[1:03:20] of the revenue. And this covers things
[1:03:21] like interest.
[1:03:24] Okay. On the expense side, payments to
[1:03:27] other services and charges dominate at
[1:03:30] 172 million or 96%. And this makes sense
[1:03:33] because these are things such as the
[1:03:35] health insurance premiums and the IT
[1:03:37] contracts.
[1:03:39] Okay.
[1:03:41] And with that, I'm happy to answer any
[1:03:43] questions that you might have.
[1:03:46] » Thanks, Nicole.
[1:03:48] » Thank you.
[1:03:49] » Thank you.
[1:03:51] » Thank you. And we have a resident who
[1:03:52] signed up on uh OCMFA item E. Uh Steve
[1:03:57] Hunt.
[1:04:03] All right. Steve Hunt, 6300 West Drive.
[1:04:05] I want to give a little background on
[1:04:06] why I'm speaking on something so
[1:04:08] seemingly benal as a pension software
[1:04:11] contract. Um, late last year I appeared
[1:04:13] on the organized money uh podcast with
[1:04:15] Dave Diane of American Prospect and Matt
[1:04:17] Stellar talking about my time at Costco
[1:04:20] where I saw that Costco was too large of
[1:04:23] an entity for private equity firms to
[1:04:24] take over. So, they were targeting their
[1:04:26] trusted vendors one by one. And over the
[1:04:29] year and a half that I was there, I
[1:04:30] watched uh not just the members have a
[1:04:34] hard time with degradation of product,
[1:04:36] but the people that work in Oklahoma
[1:04:37] City call center unable to get any help
[1:04:39] because these equity firms had taken
[1:04:40] over these vendors. Well, I'm starting
[1:04:42] to notice the same phenomenon happening
[1:04:44] here in the city. Um Oklahoma City can't
[1:04:47] be targeted for leveraged buyout by KKR
[1:04:49] or Blackstone. So, what they're doing is
[1:04:51] they're taking over the vendors one by
[1:04:53] one. And the one that I see today is
[1:04:55] item E. A contract was fully executed by
[1:04:58] the vendor on May 28th, weeks before
[1:05:01] this body was given the opportunity to
[1:05:02] vote on it today. The vendor is Pension
[1:05:05] Technology Group LLC. They are owned by
[1:05:07] Case 5 Capital Private Equity Family
[1:05:10] Office out of Dallas Metroplex that
[1:05:12] manages capital for anonymous high- netw
[1:05:14] worth Dallas investors. That's Case 5
[1:05:17] Capital. You can look them up. The
[1:05:19] agreement hands over access to the
[1:05:21] retirement data of 6,500 Oklahoma City
[1:05:23] municipal employees, active members,
[1:05:25] retirees, and beneficiaries. Buried in
[1:05:27] the fine print is a specific clause
[1:05:30] regarding resilient data. The provision
[1:05:33] grants a private equitybacked firm the
[1:05:36] right to take anonymized derivative data
[1:05:38] from Oklahoma City employees retirement
[1:05:41] records and exploit it commercially for
[1:05:43] benchmarking product development and
[1:05:46] proprietary analytics in perpetuity
[1:05:49] completely surviving the life of this
[1:05:51] contract. The civic architecture here is
[1:05:54] entirely asymmetric. The city employees
[1:05:57] whose labor built this capital have zero
[1:06:00] rights under this contract. The OKC
[1:06:02] employee retirement system has no
[1:06:03] independent right to sue per the
[1:06:05] contract. If the firm suffers a
[1:06:07] catastrophic breach exposing the data,
[1:06:10] which will happen, this is a 5-year
[1:06:12] contract, and this will happen. 6,500
[1:06:14] civil servants, their liability is
[1:06:16] capped at 1.5 time one year's fee, a
[1:06:19] mere $195,000. So each employee will get
[1:06:23] 30 bucks. They can go to Jimmy's Egg and
[1:06:25] have a breakfast if their data is
[1:06:27] stolen.
[1:06:29] This isn't an administrative upgrade. It
[1:06:31] is a long-term extraction mechanism. I
[1:06:33] ask the council to table this item today
[1:06:35] and answer one fundamental question.
[1:06:37] » 30 seconds remain.
[1:06:38] » Who inside the city government decided
[1:06:40] that a Dallas private equity firm should
[1:06:42] own the commercial rights to Oklahoma
[1:06:43] City employee data in perpetuity? Was it
[1:06:46] the mayor who spent nine years
[1:06:48] compensated by a private equity interest
[1:06:50] in a synicure at Hall Capital?
[1:06:53] Thank you.
[1:06:56] That concludes the residents who signed
[1:06:57] up to speak. We can now take OS OC MFA
[1:07:00] agenda with one motion.
[1:07:07] Got a motion and a second. Cast your
[1:07:09] votes.
[1:07:19] [clears throat]
[1:07:28] passes unanimously. Now we'll adjourn
[1:07:30] OCMFA and convene as the Oklahoma City
[1:07:32] Public property authority. We do have a
[1:07:34] presentation on item F.
[1:07:35] » Yes. Uh this is the public property
[1:07:37] authority budget. Steve Akens is here
[1:07:40] with the budget office and Steve will
[1:07:42] give us an overview on the public
[1:07:44] property budget.
[1:07:46] » Good morning, Mayor, Council, City
[1:07:48] Manager. Um, like the OCMFA, the the
[1:07:52] Oklahoma City Public Pro Property
[1:07:54] Authority is a trust where we can enter
[1:07:57] into long-term projects and it's a
[1:08:00] mechanism to allow for the multi-year
[1:08:02] contracts funding to things like
[1:08:04] fairgrounds improvements, golf courses,
[1:08:07] maps facility, sports facilities, and
[1:08:10] something you may have heard about
[1:08:11] called the Continental
[1:08:14] Coliseum, the new NBA Arena.
[1:08:17] Uh, next slide. The revenues by source
[1:08:21] are primarily
[1:08:23] um
[1:08:25] from transfers from various funds that
[1:08:28] come into the the PPA. Golf course has
[1:08:30] revenues. There's a little bit of fund
[1:08:33] balance. There's transfers from hotel
[1:08:35] motel tax and transfers from the general
[1:08:38] fund are the sources.
[1:08:41] expenditures by category. Capital outlay
[1:08:44] is by far the largest piece of the PPA
[1:08:48] and $250 million in fund balance
[1:08:52] was transferred from MAPS to the PPA for
[1:08:57] preliminary work on the new MBA arena.
[1:09:01] Uh that was done back in 2025. It
[1:09:03] carried over to the the new year. $1.8 8
[1:09:06] million of capital construction for the
[1:09:08] new at the turn grill and $850,000 for
[1:09:11] the softball and bricktown improvements.
[1:09:15] other services and charges of 31.7
[1:09:17] millions. are things like the management
[1:09:19] contract for ACM for the Paycom center
[1:09:23] and the Oklahoma City Convention Center
[1:09:26] as well as the other various activities
[1:09:28] for the fairgrounds, golf courses, North
[1:09:30] Canadian River maintenance and sports
[1:09:33] facilities transfers at 17.9 million or
[1:09:37] 5% primarily golf course transfers and
[1:09:40] transfers the excess back of the hotel
[1:09:44] motel tax to from the PPA. It goes into
[1:09:48] the PPA. Then we transfer the excess
[1:09:50] back that's not needed back to the hotel
[1:09:53] motel tax. And the other items are
[1:09:56] personnel services, supplies, debt
[1:09:58] services,
[1:10:00] expenditures by function.
[1:10:03] Um
[1:10:05] we we did have an increase this year of
[1:10:07] expenditures and and and it's about $181
[1:10:10] million and that that is all primarily
[1:10:13] due to that influx of revenue that we're
[1:10:16] using for the preliminary work of the
[1:10:18] new MBA arena. Um
[1:10:22] the golf course expenditures at 27.8
[1:10:24] million. They're primarily salaries and
[1:10:26] wages, water, sewer, refu and
[1:10:28] contingencies. Fairgrounds expenditures
[1:10:31] at 25.4 million.
[1:10:33] um debt service cost uh repairs and
[1:10:36] maintenance and excess funds returned to
[1:10:39] the hotel motel
[1:10:41] uh fund. The remaining 1% are various
[1:10:44] things like sports facilities, natural
[1:10:46] gas, culture and recreation, business
[1:10:48] improvement districts and other
[1:10:50] miscellaneous activities. And that's a
[1:10:52] recap of what the OCPA consists of. If
[1:10:56] you have any questions, um
[1:11:00] thank you. All right.
[1:11:02] Thank you. Well, that concludes OCPA. We
[1:11:05] could take uh items A through H with one
[1:11:07] motion.
[1:11:21] Got a motion and a second. Cast your
[1:11:22] votes.
[1:11:26] Passes unanimously.
[1:11:28] All right. All right, we'll adjourn OCPA
[1:11:30] and reconvene as the council. We're on
[1:11:32] item nine, the consent docket, and there
[1:11:34] is a presentation for
[1:11:38] item AZ. Is there any other item that a
[1:11:41] council member wishes to pull out for
[1:11:46] separate vote? I think maybe uh
[1:11:48] Councilman Stone Cipher, you have a
[1:11:50] couple. What are those items again?
[1:11:51] » It's uh item
[1:11:54] 9DM at page 18. Mhm.
[1:11:57] » I'd ask for a separate vote on that,
[1:11:58] please.
[1:11:59] » Just that one.
[1:12:00] » Well, there's one later, but it's uh
[1:12:02] item
[1:12:05] uh 11s.
[1:12:06] » Oh, okay. After. Okay.
[1:12:08] » Yeah.
[1:12:08] » Very good. Well, uh is there any other
[1:12:10] item that someone wishes to pull out for
[1:12:12] a separate vote, comment, question?
[1:12:13] » Mayor, did did you say that there's a
[1:12:16] presentation on a?
[1:12:18] » Yes.
[1:12:18] » Perfect. Thank you.
[1:12:22] » Okay. Well, if there's nothing else,
[1:12:23] maybe we'll start with that separate
[1:12:24] vote. Councilman Stone Cipher and you
[1:12:26] can step out for a moment. So this would
[1:12:28] be item DM.
[1:12:32] We could take a motion.
[1:12:41] Got a motion and a second. Cast your
[1:12:42] votes.
[1:12:50] Passes unanimously. All right. And now
[1:12:52] we'll go back to the presentation at a
[1:12:56] » Yes. Emma Winsky is here with um the uh
[1:13:00] human rights commission, city human
[1:13:02] rights commission to present this item
[1:13:04] and the actions that we're taking today.
[1:13:07] » Thank you. Yeah, Emma Winsky, compliance
[1:13:09] officer for the human rights commission.
[1:13:11] Um I'm here to talk about the plat
[1:13:13] amendment project that um we and many
[1:13:15] other city and external partners have
[1:13:17] been working on.
[1:13:20] So, a little bit of background. Um, as
[1:13:22] many of you probably know, uh, in the
[1:13:24] mid- 20th century, a lot of plat
[1:13:26] documents contain racially restrictive
[1:13:28] language. So, this prevented black,
[1:13:30] Jewish, Asian, other groups from owning
[1:13:33] property. Um, of course, these are
[1:13:35] illegal and have been for many decades,
[1:13:37] but still in Oklahoma City, many of our
[1:13:40] plat documents still contain this
[1:13:41] language. And so, in 2024, Governor Stit
[1:13:44] signed a bill into law which allowed
[1:13:45] municipalities to amend plat documents.
[1:13:48] Um and then last year in April, you all
[1:13:50] unanimously approved a resolution in
[1:13:52] support of the city initiating this
[1:13:54] process. Um starting to sort of
[1:13:56] understand what it would take for a city
[1:13:58] to do this instead of an individual
[1:13:59] property owner. So we have been hard at
[1:14:02] work in the interim.
[1:14:04] So here are uh you know kind of some
[1:14:06] abbreviated steps. So first of course
[1:14:09] identifying the affected plats and this
[1:14:10] is done [snorts] through a combination
[1:14:12] of um like a digital review of the
[1:14:14] online um sort of archives. We also
[1:14:17] hosted a volunteer event this past March
[1:14:19] and 75 people showed up which was really
[1:14:22] um wonderful. We were thrilled to have
[1:14:24] that much engagement. Um and it also
[1:14:26] involved some manual uh review at the
[1:14:28] county archives for some of those plats
[1:14:30] where um the covenants were either filed
[1:14:32] separately or you can't read them
[1:14:34] because they're so old. Um then we are
[1:14:36] sending mail notification to all
[1:14:38] property owners who live in affected
[1:14:39] plats notifying them of this process and
[1:14:42] letting them know that they can come
[1:14:43] speak at commissions and council if they
[1:14:45] have any um concerns. Then we get
[1:14:48] approval from the relevant commissions.
[1:14:49] So historic preservation planning
[1:14:51] commission. Now here we are. Step four,
[1:14:53] approval from council hopefully. Um and
[1:14:55] then pending that we will file the
[1:14:57] amended plat with the county.
[1:15:01] And so a little bit of uh a status
[1:15:03] update. So, we estimate that there are
[1:15:05] around 6,600 plats across Oklahoma City.
[1:15:08] Of course, we're like a large, uh, land
[1:15:10] area. And so, um, around 45% of those
[1:15:13] have been reviewed to date. And again,
[1:15:15] that volunteer event, we reviewed, um,
[1:15:18] around 2,200 plots in two hours. So,
[1:15:20] again, this is just like a peoplepowered
[1:15:21] initiative. And so, we were very
[1:15:22] grateful to the many volunteers who
[1:15:24] showed up. And of those 3,000, um, 260
[1:15:28] contain discriminatory language that
[1:15:30] been confirmed, and then 20% require
[1:15:32] further review. So again, this is kind
[1:15:34] of an iterative process where we'll
[1:15:36] continue to um sort of methodically move
[1:15:39] through these plat. So overall, we're
[1:15:41] going to estimate that 9 to 12% of the
[1:15:43] total platin OKC contain discriminatory
[1:15:46] language. Again, we're continuing to
[1:15:48] review, but um that is where we're at to
[1:15:51] date.
[1:15:53] And um we're working on this in
[1:15:55] partnership with um some colleagues at
[1:15:57] OU and um one of their grad assistants
[1:16:00] who's been a huge help has been mapping
[1:16:02] the plat as we go along and this will be
[1:16:05] made available. But we're just wanting
[1:16:06] to sort sort of show the um distribution
[1:16:08] of plats across the city um just to
[1:16:11] represent that this isn't concentrated
[1:16:12] in any one particular ward or area. This
[1:16:14] is something that happened across the
[1:16:16] city. So uh the green areas are ones
[1:16:18] where no language was found. red where
[1:16:21] we find that racially restrictive
[1:16:22] language and then blue are just those
[1:16:24] ones that need further review. So, we'll
[1:16:26] continue to update this and we'll share
[1:16:27] this publicly as well. We want this to
[1:16:29] be um an opportunity for the community
[1:16:31] to learn about this project and this
[1:16:33] effort.
[1:16:34] So, with that, I'm happy to answer any
[1:16:36] questions.
[1:16:39] » Well, first I'd like to say thank you
[1:16:41] for the presentation. Um commend you for
[1:16:44] your work. I also would like to express
[1:16:47] gratitude to the residents who in pretty
[1:16:51] significant numbers turned out to do
[1:16:53] this work. Um, it just pulled up on the
[1:16:57] internet uh some of that uh language and
[1:17:00] this was even in our [clears throat]
[1:17:02] Federal Housing Administration language
[1:17:05] uh that it was in something called the
[1:17:07] underwriting manual for them and it said
[1:17:10] that quote incompatible racial groups
[1:17:12] should not be permitted to live in the
[1:17:14] same communities. Right. Um
[1:17:18] that same manual recommended that
[1:17:21] highways be a good way to separate
[1:17:23] African-Americans from white
[1:17:25] neighborhoods.
[1:17:26] Right? So this was an actual
[1:17:31] approach the government took. Right? So
[1:17:33] it was neighborhoods and governments
[1:17:36] that did this sort of work. And that's
[1:17:39] why I am the first biracial black or
[1:17:42] black person to serve on this body
[1:17:44] outside of W seven where a majority
[1:17:46] black population is like a majority
[1:17:49] white population. W 2 elected me based
[1:17:52] on the content of my character. But that
[1:17:54] could not have happened when you had
[1:17:57] restrictions in neighborhoods saying
[1:18:00] that a person couldn't even live there,
[1:18:03] right? No matter if they were a doctor
[1:18:05] or a barista. So, this is critical work
[1:18:08] that you all are doing. It's an
[1:18:10] important reminder because we hear
[1:18:12] voices today that say, "Well, maybe the
[1:18:13] races should be separated again." Um,
[1:18:16] and you should always remember where
[1:18:17] those voices come from. They come from
[1:18:19] this history, right? This history. And I
[1:18:22] just want to thank again you and your
[1:18:24] and the residents and again, especially
[1:18:26] W 2 because I think they have shown
[1:18:29] what's possible um and a different life
[1:18:32] is possible here. So, thank you.
[1:18:37] Thanks Emma.
[1:18:38] » Thanks for all the hard work.
[1:18:41] » I just want to also say thank you to
[1:18:42] Emma. Appreciate your work and I live in
[1:18:44] one of the affected neighborhoods. So,
[1:18:46] um I got the notice and thought, wait,
[1:18:48] what what's going on? So, love that this
[1:18:49] work is happening and appreciate the
[1:18:51] effort.
[1:18:55] » All right. Well, that concludes uh
[1:18:57] consent docket. We can now take the
[1:18:58] remaining remaining items with one
[1:19:00] motion. [clears throat]
[1:19:07] I have a motion and a second.
[1:19:10] Cast your votes.
[1:19:23] Passes unanimously. Item 10 is the
[1:19:26] concurrence docket. We could t take
[1:19:28] items A through R with one motion.
[1:19:36] A motion and a second. Cast your votes.
[1:19:44] Passes unanimously.
[1:19:46] Item 11 are items for individual
[1:19:48] consideration. Items A and B were
[1:19:50] already deferred, which brings us to
[1:19:51] item C. This is an ordinance on final
[1:19:53] hearing. is recommended for approval.
[1:19:56] Reszoning 9525 West Hefner Road from
[1:19:59] double A to PUD 2130. This was deferred
[1:20:02] from June 2nd. Councilman Carter, no one
[1:20:05] has signed up to speak.
[1:20:12] After speaking with the applicant and
[1:20:13] the representation, we will move for
[1:20:15] approval.
[1:20:23] Got a motion and a second. Cast your
[1:20:24] votes.
[1:20:29] Passes unanimously. Item 11D uh has a
[1:20:33] couple of items here. The uh item two is
[1:20:35] the ordinance on final hearing that was
[1:20:37] recommended for approval resoning 4200
[1:20:39] Southwest 29th from I2 and AE2 to PUD
[1:20:43] 2134 and AE2. Item one is an amendment
[1:20:46] to the master design statement. This is
[1:20:49] deferred from June 2nd. Uh, Councilwoman
[1:20:53] Avers, no one has signed up to speak.
[1:21:02] » One of these days I'll get faster with
[1:21:03] the microphone. Um, I have confirmed
[1:21:05] with the applicant we are going to defer
[1:21:07] one more session to host our community
[1:21:09] meeting, but we are moving forward.
[1:21:11] Thank you.
[1:21:12] » Okay. So, I'm going to defer item D for
[1:21:16] two weeks. That would be July 7th.
[1:21:19] » July 7th.
[1:21:21] » Yes, sir.
[1:21:21] » All right. Let's take that up as a
[1:21:23] motion.
[1:21:33] We have a motion and a second. Cast your
[1:21:36] votes.
[1:21:41] Item is deferred. All right. Item E is
[1:21:44] an ordinance on final hearing. It was
[1:21:45] recommended for approval reszoning 9810
[1:21:47] West Memorial from PUD 986 to PUD 2138.
[1:21:53] Uh, Councilman Carter, no one has signed
[1:21:55] to speak.
[1:21:57] Okay. Subject to the technical
[1:21:59] evaluations,
[1:22:00] then I will move for approval.
[1:22:09] Have a motion and a second. Cast your
[1:22:10] votes.
[1:22:15] passes unanimously.
[1:22:18] Uh 11F is an ordinance on final hearing
[1:22:20] recommended for approval reszoning 5401
[1:22:23] South Mustang Road from R1 to SPD 1799.
[1:22:29] Uh this is deferred from April 21st and
[1:22:32] May 5th and 19th. It is a 52% protest.
[1:22:36] And Matt, that triggers the
[1:22:38] supermajority requirement of seven,
[1:22:40] correct?
[1:22:41] » For approval and Councilwoman Avers, we
[1:22:44] have a few people who have signed up to
[1:22:46] speak when you are ready for that.
[1:22:48] » Let's welcome our guests to speak.
[1:22:50] » Okay. Um
[1:22:55] I don't know. Do It looks like a few of
[1:22:57] these are protests. I'm not sure who
[1:22:58] might be here for the applicant. Usually
[1:23:00] it's a good place to start perhaps. Uh
[1:23:03] is that Fox.
[1:23:04] » Yeah, maybe I might suggest we hear what
[1:23:07] it is first before we hear the
[1:23:09] opposition.
[1:23:12] » Good morning. David Fox, 525 Northwest
[1:23:15] 11th Street. Uh here on behalf of the
[1:23:18] applicant. Um this is one that we spent
[1:23:22] a lot of time at the planning commission
[1:23:24] level. Uh there were community meetings
[1:23:26] that were held and I I think it's worth
[1:23:29] pointing out that
[1:23:31] where we're located is South Mustang
[1:23:34] Road. Mustang Road is a state highway
[1:23:36] and could you There we go. I think it's
[1:23:40] this area has exploded in growth over
[1:23:42] the last 10 years. What you would expect
[1:23:44] to see along state highways that are
[1:23:46] fully developed four-lane is more
[1:23:48] intense commercial type of use. You have
[1:23:51] this area along Mustang Road north of
[1:23:54] 59th starting to develop. You've got the
[1:23:56] PUD 265 which is an older PUB which has
[1:23:59] elements of commercial. You have the C1
[1:24:02] immediately east which was a recently
[1:24:04] approved. You have a 7-Eleven gas
[1:24:06] station right there at the corner.
[1:24:08] Significant commercial development is
[1:24:10] expected to to come. So when we
[1:24:12] originally filed this SPUD, it had lots
[1:24:14] of different commercial uses in it. We
[1:24:16] went and had a community meeting. It
[1:24:18] became clear that uh there was no
[1:24:20] element of commercial that would be
[1:24:21] acceptable. What became clear as we
[1:24:24] moved on was there was nothing that
[1:24:26] would be viewed as acceptable by the
[1:24:28] neighbors short of residential. I would
[1:24:30] submit to you that it is very unlikely
[1:24:32] that anybody would put their home now on
[1:24:35] Mustang Road given that it's State
[1:24:37] Highway, given the amount of traffic it
[1:24:38] carries. And so the idea that this would
[1:24:40] be developed residentially moving
[1:24:41] forward I think is extremely unlikely.
[1:24:44] So what we did is we came back with an
[1:24:47] SPUD that has an 01 base. Now it's the
[1:24:51] first 01 SPUD or PUD that I've ever been
[1:24:54] a part of. O2 is generally what you
[1:24:57] would expect to see. O2 is the general
[1:24:59] office. Frankly, I was surprised to see
[1:25:01] that we had an 01. So 01 represents the
[1:25:04] least intensive non-residential zoning
[1:25:07] district that we have in Oklahoma City.
[1:25:09] And then what we did is we further
[1:25:10] restricted it down to only allow about
[1:25:12] six uses. So the only thing that could
[1:25:14] really happen here is that you would
[1:25:16] have an office development, accountant,
[1:25:19] lawyers, things like that. And then at
[1:25:22] the planning commission level through
[1:25:24] commissioner Meek's work, we had imposed
[1:25:27] upon this development. Sarah, would you
[1:25:28] mind go to site plan perhaps the most
[1:25:31] restrictive set of uh conditions placed
[1:25:34] on an SPD that's an office development
[1:25:36] that I have been a part of. All of which
[1:25:39] were intended to make this more
[1:25:41] compatible to the neighborhood. So,
[1:25:44] first what you see is four different
[1:25:46] buildings. We capped the square footage
[1:25:48] of each individual building at 7500
[1:25:50] square ft. We required them to all be
[1:25:52] singlestory. Why that's significant is
[1:25:55] of course the neighborhood under R1
[1:25:56] regulations could have 35 ft and 2 and a
[1:25:58] half stories. We capped these at
[1:26:00] singlestory. We required them in the SPD
[1:26:03] to be residential style with a pitched
[1:26:06] roof. We further specified the pitch of
[1:26:08] the roof to ensure that it is a
[1:26:10] residential style pitch roof and not
[1:26:12] something else.
[1:26:14] We then required a masonry wall anywhere
[1:26:17] where we are adjacent to single family
[1:26:19] residential. Now typically masonry walls
[1:26:22] of 8 ft in height which is what is
[1:26:24] required here are reserved for uses
[1:26:27] [clears throat] that may be deemed
[1:26:27] incompatible. Now this is not
[1:26:29] incompatible. Typically you see that
[1:26:31] when it's multif family next to single
[1:26:34] family or heavy intense commercial next
[1:26:36] to single family. But here at the
[1:26:38] request of planning commission we agreed
[1:26:40] to an 8ft masonry wall. We further
[1:26:43] agreed to uh increase landscaping points
[1:26:46] within the parking areas. Significant
[1:26:49] landscaping on the south, the west and
[1:26:52] the north. Significant landscape buffer
[1:26:54] along the south, the west and the north.
[1:26:59] We agreed to limit it to no more than
[1:27:01] four buildings.
[1:27:04] We required public water and public
[1:27:07] sewer. Uh we are required to double the
[1:27:11] number of landscaping points in the
[1:27:13] parking areas. We are required to double
[1:27:16] the amount of landscaping points along
[1:27:18] the northern border.
[1:27:20] We prohibited access to 54th. What you
[1:27:23] see before you is the original site
[1:27:24] plan. So now we have prohibited access
[1:27:27] off to 50 Uh Sarah, could you go to the
[1:27:28] aerial again? My apologies
[1:27:31] from 54th Street, which serves as that
[1:27:33] residential street.
[1:27:35] Um in speaking with the council woman,
[1:27:37] we have further agreed this and this
[1:27:39] will be an amendment to limit the number
[1:27:41] of access points into the SPD to one off
[1:27:45] of South Mustang Road. So all of that
[1:27:49] along a state highway we submit makes us
[1:27:53] a compatible development. Now one of the
[1:27:55] things that the council and planning
[1:27:57] commission does not um hear or consider
[1:28:00] are covenants. I suspect you're going to
[1:28:02] hear something about it. So I just want
[1:28:04] to mention one brief thing about it. The
[1:28:06] covenants that control this neighborhood
[1:28:08] that were done before anyone bought a
[1:28:10] home in there have a provision and that
[1:28:13] provision is found at section 4 and it
[1:28:15] says all lots except tracks one and two
[1:28:19] in the tract described shall be used
[1:28:21] solely for residential. Well, this is
[1:28:24] within that tract one and two. So what
[1:28:26] does that tell us? Well, it tells us
[1:28:27] that at inception of this neighborhood,
[1:28:30] it was anticipated that everything in
[1:28:33] this is required to be residential
[1:28:35] except tract one and two. So, clearly
[1:28:37] something other than residential was
[1:28:39] contemplated here. I think the neighbors
[1:28:42] know that on the eve of planning
[1:28:43] commission, they went and attempted to
[1:28:46] modify the covenants. Now whether or not
[1:28:48] they're lawful is another matter, but I
[1:28:50] was handed the day of planning
[1:28:51] commission modified covenants trying to
[1:28:53] fix apparently a problem that they I
[1:28:55] guess concede allows something other
[1:28:57] than residential to go here.
[1:29:00] So with that, I'm happy to answer any
[1:29:02] questions. It was recommended for
[1:29:04] approval by the planning commission and
[1:29:06] you'll note that in the council memo
[1:29:10] there are 11 TEES and I think
[1:29:15] four through 11 were all added at the
[1:29:17] time of planning commission through
[1:29:18] negotiation with the planning commission
[1:29:21] uh member for W 3. And again we would
[1:29:23] propose to modify this to limit the
[1:29:26] access to one curb cut off of Mustang.
[1:29:29] Happy to answer any questions.
[1:29:34] Thank you, David. I think that you've
[1:29:35] done a great job explaining it.
[1:29:38] » All right, then we'll start with the
[1:29:39] folks who've signed up to speak if that
[1:29:41] works. Uh Colin Walk.
[1:29:48] » Good morning, council. Colin Walk, 100
[1:29:51] North Broadway, Sweet 2900, and I
[1:29:54] represent Thoroughbred Homeowners
[1:29:56] Association. What I want to be clear
[1:29:58] about is this is the rest of the story.
[1:30:00] You just heard Mr. Box talks talk about
[1:30:03] covenants. And while the city generally
[1:30:05] doesn't consider covenants, and I can
[1:30:06] appreciate that fact, what he omitted
[1:30:09] was that where it says shall be
[1:30:11] residential only except for lots in one
[1:30:13] and two, it then goes on to specify that
[1:30:16] those lots may only be developed into
[1:30:20] retail spaces and specifically for
[1:30:23] swine.
[1:30:24] Right? So, this area, if you look at the
[1:30:27] photos I've provided, still have cattle
[1:30:29] on all of these lots. The reason why
[1:30:33] there are 11 TES in this particular case
[1:30:36] is they're because they're trying to fit
[1:30:38] a round peg in a square hole. If you
[1:30:41] will notice the development immediately
[1:30:42] to the south, it is a high density
[1:30:45] populated area that is adjacent to
[1:30:47] commercial development. Our acreages are
[1:30:50] all five acres lots because this is an
[1:30:54] agricultural development. And unlike
[1:30:56] most people who come and stand before
[1:30:58] you and say, "Please, not in my
[1:31:00] backyard. I bought into this residential
[1:31:02] neighborhood. I didn't know that field
[1:31:03] was going to be developed." These
[1:31:05] individuals not only knew this was an
[1:31:08] agricultural area because of the size of
[1:31:09] the lots, but because of the covenants
[1:31:12] and the restrictions that were put on
[1:31:13] it. So consequently, to the extent that
[1:31:16] this council does believe that this is
[1:31:18] somehow compatible, in spite of the size
[1:31:21] variations, in spite of the fact that
[1:31:24] this is a private road, and if you think
[1:31:26] that people turning off of the main
[1:31:28] highway, the main thoroughfare in
[1:31:30] Mustang aren't going to miss that turnin
[1:31:32] and start utilizing my client's private
[1:31:35] road for which they pay, you're wrong.
[1:31:37] It's going to happen. My clients are
[1:31:39] going to incur additional costs as this
[1:31:41] goes on. And so consequently when we
[1:31:44] look at this we have to say is this
[1:31:46] compatible? This is a completely
[1:31:48] agricultural area has always intended to
[1:31:50] be so it has covenants in there and the
[1:31:53] 11TE are just simply examples of um the
[1:31:57] fact that they're trying to put a round
[1:31:59] peg in a square hole. The final thing
[1:32:00] that I'll say is is again going back to
[1:32:02] the covenants I'll remind the council
[1:32:04] that while you all do not generally look
[1:32:05] at covenants you do for the purposes of
[1:32:07] whether or not to permit uh issue
[1:32:09] permits for short-term rentals. And so
[1:32:11] to the extent that the council is
[1:32:13] willing to consider covenants for
[1:32:15] short-term rentals but is not willing to
[1:32:17] do so for a zoning project would lead me
[1:32:19] to believe that's an arbitrary and
[1:32:20] capriccious decision.
[1:32:22] » 30 seconds remaining.
[1:32:23] » So consequently, we would ask that you
[1:32:24] deny this proposed spud for not being
[1:32:27] compatible with the area it is currently
[1:32:29] zoned in. Thank you.
[1:32:32] » Thank you. Um item I'm sorry, June Roy.
[1:32:49] June Roy 11, pardon me, 11749
[1:32:52] [clears throat]
[1:32:53] Southwest 54th Street in Thorbred Acres.
[1:32:57] Um, [clears throat]
[1:32:59] I'm 79 years old and I know I don't have
[1:33:01] to tell my age, but there's a reason.
[1:33:04] and my husband and I, I'm sorry, bought
[1:33:07] this house 30 years ago
[1:33:10] because of the neighborhood because it's
[1:33:15] five acres and while our neighbors are
[1:33:18] mostly close,
[1:33:20] uh, it's ex exact opposite to the new
[1:33:25] area that is built right beside us,
[1:33:28] which has over a hundred houses on it.
[1:33:32] And they knew when they built there that
[1:33:36] there would be some retail at the
[1:33:39] opening of their street.
[1:33:42] Theirs is not a private road. They don't
[1:33:45] pay for it. We do. And it costs a lot to
[1:33:49] work on our road every few well every
[1:33:52] few years. But we bought this house to
[1:33:56] live the rest of our lives and to leave.
[1:33:59] Sorry, my throat's all dry. and to leave
[1:34:01] for our children.
[1:34:03] I don't have a lot of money. What I have
[1:34:06] to leave my children [clears throat] is
[1:34:09] that house
[1:34:11] and reszoning the front of it. Like I
[1:34:14] say, it's not our backyard. It's our
[1:34:16] front yard. It's what people see when
[1:34:19] they come to our neighborhood. And even
[1:34:23] though we knew in the covenants it said
[1:34:25] there those two were exempt from that,
[1:34:29] our understanding when we bought our
[1:34:32] homes was that that was for the one area
[1:34:36] they're trying to resone now to be able
[1:34:38] to do roping things because there were
[1:34:42] they owned originally four lots and they
[1:34:46] wanted to be able Thank you so much.
[1:34:49] Our
[1:35:00] understanding that that exemption was
[1:35:02] for them to be able to run cattle, have
[1:35:04] roping and all that kind of events on
[1:35:08] that. It was not so it would be built
[1:35:11] into
[1:35:13] really retail.
[1:35:15] And the gentleman who originally owned
[1:35:18] that lived there for a long time and he
[1:35:21] never put any retail in there. It was
[1:35:25] only used for cattle and all that.
[1:35:27] » 30 seconds remaining.
[1:35:29] » Pardon?
[1:35:31] » Did somebody say ask something?
[1:35:34] » You have
[1:35:35] you have 30 seconds left.
[1:35:38] » Okay. But besides that, my real concern
[1:35:41] is the danger this would cause. You
[1:35:43] can't get down Mustang Road during rush
[1:35:47] hour, which is actually three or four
[1:35:49] hours a day because it's backed up from
[1:35:52] 59th Street to 44th Street and then
[1:35:55] after the light beyond that. It's
[1:35:57] dangerous and several of our neighbors
[1:36:00] have been involved in wrecks trying to
[1:36:02] turn onto our street. It's dangerous to
[1:36:05] reszone it. I think I'm out of time and
[1:36:08] thank you for hearing me.
[1:36:09] » Thank you, Mr. Ry. This is very
[1:36:11] important to us.
[1:36:12] » Corey Frank.
[1:36:20] » My name is Corey Franks. I live 11500
[1:36:24] Southwest 54th Street. My house butts up
[1:36:27] to the property of the proposed
[1:36:30] land that's being changed.
[1:36:32] Um,
[1:36:34] obviously I'm opposed to it. You know,
[1:36:37] we people that seek out acreages kind of
[1:36:42] like having space beside them. So,
[1:36:45] thoroughbred acres, five acre tracks.
[1:36:48] This this particular track that's being
[1:36:51] proposed used to be five. The the
[1:36:55] original owner, they passed away. Kids
[1:36:57] seen dollar signs. They decided, hey,
[1:37:00] let's reszone or they
[1:37:03] broke it down to three, three and a half
[1:37:06] acres
[1:37:08] with the intentions of hoping to be able
[1:37:10] to to
[1:37:12] profit off of it for commercial land.
[1:37:15] Um, so basically, if this is approved,
[1:37:19] I'm going to come home to my property,
[1:37:22] see a 8ft cement wall in my backyard.
[1:37:26] If
[1:37:29] I wanted to do that, I'd live in a
[1:37:30] neighborhood. I'd live in a neighborhood
[1:37:32] where my neighbor's house is right
[1:37:36] beside me, 10 foot, you know, from my
[1:37:38] property.
[1:37:40] Um,
[1:37:41] it, you know, if I see a lot of stuff
[1:37:45] that if this is approved, what's to keep
[1:37:49] somebody else from
[1:37:52] buying three or four houses on another
[1:37:54] street on Mustang Road, turning it
[1:37:57] commercial.
[1:37:59] And by the way, when
[1:38:02] Box mentioned the commercial aspect of
[1:38:05] Mustang Road,
[1:38:08] 85% of Mustang is already commercial
[1:38:11] from 152 up to 10th Street.
[1:38:16] There are multiple houses on
[1:38:19] Mustang Road on acreages that remain.
[1:38:25] Um and then going back to the concept
[1:38:31] that they have proposed,
[1:38:34] you know, 8 ft masonry wall that is what
[1:38:37] what is that? Is that is that brick or
[1:38:40] is that a pre-made cement wall that I'm
[1:38:42] going to be looking at? Is that a nice
[1:38:45] brick wall with columns, pre-cast tops?
[1:38:48] We don't know. Also, what they haven't
[1:38:51] put on the
[1:38:53] » 30 seconds remaining.
[1:38:54] » The concept is there is no retention
[1:38:57] pond on there. The city is going to
[1:38:59] require a large retention pond which
[1:39:02] going to hold water and quite frankly, I
[1:39:06] haven't seen a pretty retention pond on
[1:39:08] any commercial development.
[1:39:11] um they're they're hyping it up to make
[1:39:13] it look good,
[1:39:15] but regardless, you start adding all the
[1:39:18] other stuff in and then go before the
[1:39:21] city to get the plans approved, it's
[1:39:23] going to change from what they've got.
[1:39:25] But thank you for your time.
[1:39:27] » Thank you, Russell Rouse.
[1:39:41] My name is Russell Rouse. I live at
[1:39:43] 11501 Southwest 54th Street. Um,
[1:39:48] my reason for being here is the uh
[1:39:51] increase in non-residential properties
[1:39:55] has increased the traffic to the point
[1:39:57] that we have a lot of difficulty trying
[1:40:01] to get out and into our neighborhood. We
[1:40:03] are a not through street. It is
[1:40:06] definitely a dead-ended property. End
[1:40:09] result is as the street backs up with
[1:40:11] the cars, everybody comes down the
[1:40:14] street, sees the backed up cars, and
[1:40:16] turns right down the down our street.
[1:40:18] It's difficult to support a street if
[1:40:21] you're going to have a thousand people a
[1:40:23] day running up and down your street. Um
[1:40:26] there are plenty of uh commercial
[1:40:30] properties up and down Mustang that are
[1:40:32] currently empty. There's nobody to
[1:40:36] support them. There are no companies in
[1:40:37] them. There are no owners in them.
[1:40:39] There's no renters in them. There's just
[1:40:41] buildings out the wazoo. Um we're just
[1:40:45] having difficulty with this. Our place
[1:40:47] is definitely res rural in nature and uh
[1:40:52] maintain that way for a reason. But um
[1:40:56] in this particular case, this this
[1:40:59] really seems out of out of place. We uh
[1:41:02] we can't leave our houses uh say 4 to
[1:41:06] 6:00 at night, 6:30. Traffic's backed up
[1:41:10] all the way from 59th past the entrance
[1:41:12] into our road. So, we can't go north. We
[1:41:15] have to go south and wait in line with
[1:41:17] everybody else that's stuck in the
[1:41:19] backup. It's it's just the rest of the
[1:41:22] environment does not support the amount
[1:41:24] of individuals that we have uh moving
[1:41:27] into the area. The end result is uh
[1:41:31] we're trapped. We can't hardly get in.
[1:41:34] We can't hardly get out. Um and the cost
[1:41:36] will go up in our neighborhoods. Um we
[1:41:40] certainly uh appreciate everybody here's
[1:41:42] effort. Um but u there there's no doubt
[1:41:46] the individuals on our street were under
[1:41:48] the impression that we're in a rural
[1:41:50] neighborhood. We we don't have city
[1:41:53] water. We don't have uh city sewer. We
[1:41:56] don't have anything. We support it all
[1:41:58] ourselves. And um this excess traffic
[1:42:01] when everybody stops and tries to bypass
[1:42:04] the backed up road and thinks they can
[1:42:05] come down our street um is going to
[1:42:08] increase our costs tremendously.
[1:42:11] Um
[1:42:12] » 30 seconds remaining.
[1:42:13] » Trying trying to keep this short and
[1:42:15] sweet, but I appreciate your time. Thank
[1:42:17] you very much.
[1:42:20] » Thank you. Uh Carrie Barker.
[1:42:27] » Thank you very much. Uh it's Carrie
[1:42:29] Barker. I'm the president of the
[1:42:32] Thoroughbred Homeowners Association. I
[1:42:35] live at 11648 Southwest 54 Street. I
[1:42:39] have been the president for more than 30
[1:42:41] years. And if you've seen the speakers
[1:42:43] prior
[1:42:44] u to myself all are of the same caliber
[1:42:49] that lived in that neighborhood and it
[1:42:52] might as well be called thoroughbred
[1:42:54] farms. Thoroughbred
[1:42:57] is the name of what we do. That's the
[1:42:59] nature. We have horses, we have cattle,
[1:43:02] we have donkeys, we raise chickens. It
[1:43:05] is a rule. We're on uh we're not on city
[1:43:08] water. We're well and septic. That's the
[1:43:11] sort of community it is. It's kind of
[1:43:13] unique and that's the reason why this
[1:43:15] sort of business right at our front door
[1:43:18] and in one of our lots that was
[1:43:21] protected many years ago when the
[1:43:23] covenants was written to guard against
[1:43:26] that. And what they failed to mention
[1:43:27] about the covenants is the wording in
[1:43:30] there does not permit a developer to
[1:43:33] come in there and put four 7500 square
[1:43:37] foot buildings and 200 parking spaces
[1:43:40] right at our door. Our area has one
[1:43:44] residence per lot per five acres. We
[1:43:47] qualify as farm exemption. This is
[1:43:51] what's unique and this takes away from
[1:43:52] the character. You've seen this on
[1:43:55] television where ranches have to protect
[1:43:58] themselves from developers coming in and
[1:44:00] changing the environment. Please try to
[1:44:04] protect what we have developed over the
[1:44:06] long many years. There's not many of
[1:44:09] them left and we're proud of it. Each
[1:44:11] one of us know the neighbors personally
[1:44:15] and we want to keep it that way. And we
[1:44:17] don't see why this business when it's
[1:44:19] presented to you, what you don't see, it
[1:44:21] looks pretty on paper, but when you put
[1:44:24] it in practice and drive down there and
[1:44:26] look at four huge buildings set up on
[1:44:29] the front of that, it's going to detract
[1:44:32] from our acreage. And we have kept it in
[1:44:34] pristine condition. All of those houses
[1:44:36] are occupied. We've invested our
[1:44:39] savings, our 401s in there. That's all
[1:44:42] we have. The owners of this that were
[1:44:45] there previously, ironically, is a land
[1:44:48] and cattle
[1:44:50] company and they want to remove what we
[1:44:53] have on there now. We keep cattle on
[1:44:55] there. Everyone else have horses. We do
[1:44:59] not want this change there. We're not
[1:45:01] opposed to commercial businesses,
[1:45:03] » But put it somewhere where it belongs.
[1:45:06] If you read the zoning, the purpose for
[1:45:09] zoning, this was approved residential
[1:45:11] some 35 years ago. It's residential.
[1:45:15] It's not commercial. And if you look at
[1:45:17] the zoning, it says here that zoning is
[1:45:20] the purpose. It's necessary to protect
[1:45:22] the community health, safety, and
[1:45:26] welfare. Please uphold that today and
[1:45:30] reject this application.
[1:45:33] Thank you.
[1:45:36] Thank you. That concludes Councilwoman
[1:45:38] Avers uh the residents who signed up to
[1:45:40] speak.
[1:45:43] » Councilwoman, can I ask a quick
[1:45:44] question?
[1:45:46] Um
[1:45:48] and this might seem like a naive or I
[1:45:51] just I feel very uninformed on what the
[1:45:54] covenant piece is. And so I was
[1:45:56] wondering if maybe Sarah or Matt could
[1:45:59] talk to us about why we don't consider
[1:46:01] covenants and what the purpose of them
[1:46:03] is. then if they don't have any effect
[1:46:06] on our zoning.
[1:46:16] » Yeah, that's a that's a good question.
[1:46:18] So, the covenants run with the land and
[1:46:22] those certainly apply to um visav the
[1:46:27] the developer and the purchaser of the
[1:46:30] property. Traditionally,
[1:46:33] um, as a municipality, we focus on our
[1:46:37] ordinances and what we can consider
[1:46:40] lawfully.
[1:46:41] There are components that of of what may
[1:46:45] be contained in covenants that this body
[1:46:47] can certainly consider, but the fact of
[1:46:50] that agreement
[1:46:52] is that private agreement, it remains
[1:46:55] private. Although it may be of record,
[1:46:58] it'd be more like a mortgage or
[1:46:59] something between between other parties,
[1:47:01] not the city itself.
[1:47:03] » So it it's not something that's like
[1:47:06] who enforces it. It's just self-
[1:47:09] enforced.
[1:47:10] » So the private property owners could
[1:47:13] could pursue recourse at the district
[1:47:15] courthouse if they believe that um
[1:47:17] » The covenant is not being
[1:47:19] » Right. If that the covenants have been
[1:47:20] violated.
[1:47:21] » Gotcha. Thank you.
[1:47:24] And then this is I'm guessing for
[1:47:26] councilwoman because it's your award.
[1:47:28] I'm just looking at the map. Am I
[1:47:31] understanding that retail doesn't exist
[1:47:35] between Southwest 44th and 59th that
[1:47:37] it's north and south of those two
[1:47:39] intersections? Is that about right?
[1:47:41] » What's the question?
[1:47:44] So on Mustang Road
[1:47:48] between 44th
[1:47:50] and 59th
[1:47:52] » 44th
[1:47:53] » Like Southwest 44th. Am I looking
[1:47:55] » That retail does not exist?
[1:47:57] » That's a question. That's not a
[1:47:58] statement. Is there any retail between
[1:48:01] Southwest 44th and Southwest 59th? I see
[1:48:04] some south.
[1:48:07] » Sure.
[1:48:07] » Of 59th.
[1:48:09] I see some north, but on here I'm not
[1:48:12] seeing that.
[1:48:14] » So, the the zoning exists to allow
[1:48:17] retail. Now, we're not proposing retail.
[1:48:19] Like, we're just office. I guess if
[1:48:22] there's a 7-Eleven gas station north of
[1:48:24] 59th that sells things. So, I guess that
[1:48:27] is some form of retail. But there PED265
[1:48:32] allows
[1:48:34] commercial development allowing retail.
[1:48:35] There's a lot of talk of commercial
[1:48:37] development. We do not allow any
[1:48:38] commercial uses.
[1:48:39] » An office.
[1:48:40] » Office 01 office.
[1:48:44] » And then what is the closest office to
[1:48:49] this area? Do you have any notion of
[1:48:51] that?
[1:48:51] » Yeah.
[1:48:53] I'm going to use this. So here's our
[1:48:56] site right here across the street.
[1:48:59] Office.
[1:49:00] » There's office, right? Okay. I see on
[1:49:01] there. But is that zoned or is there an
[1:49:04] actual office there?
[1:49:05] » Actual office. If you look at the aerial
[1:49:08] Sarah, would you mind going back right
[1:49:11] here?
[1:49:13] And then north of that is commercial
[1:49:14] zoning, but yeah, the office is there
[1:49:17] and built. The 7 This images from 2005,
[1:49:22] excuse me, 25. The 7-Eleven is now fully
[1:49:24] operational. Mustang Road is developing
[1:49:26] out. It it once was a kind of rural
[1:49:31] area, but that has changed rapidly.
[1:49:34] You've got multif family here. You've
[1:49:36] got commercial zoning and development
[1:49:38] ongoing and we're again it's I think
[1:49:40] it's critical our spud is limited to
[1:49:43] office only and 01
[1:49:47] and there's a tenant for this office.
[1:49:50] » No, not yet.
[1:49:52] » Okay.
[1:49:53] I I guess that's where I have some
[1:49:58] issues is
[1:50:01] when I think of downtown office space
[1:50:03] right now and the vacancies and then I
[1:50:05] just drive
[1:50:07] almost anywhere in Oklahoma City.
[1:50:09] Really, I could do this almost in any
[1:50:11] city and I just see so much vacant
[1:50:15] office space
[1:50:17] and that always bothers me especially in
[1:50:19] a housing crisis.
[1:50:21] So, I don't know. That's just on my
[1:50:23] mind. So, thank you for walking me
[1:50:24] through that.
[1:50:25] » So, real quick on that. Yes, the the
[1:50:26] downtown market is having perhaps some
[1:50:30] issues with vacancies. The suburban
[1:50:34] market for lowscale office development.
[1:50:37] There is always interest for that. There
[1:50:39] there are largecale office developments
[1:50:42] like this where you'll have 15 to 20
[1:50:44] residential style office buildings that
[1:50:46] are full. Um there's a very different
[1:50:49] market in the suburban market from the
[1:50:51] downtown market. So the question before
[1:50:53] you is not are there tenants to fill
[1:50:55] these spaces. Um it's do we have a use
[1:50:59] that is compatible with all the
[1:51:00] restrictions that have been placed upon
[1:51:02] us.
[1:51:06] If we if we made zoning decisions based
[1:51:08] on do we have tenants in place uh just
[1:51:10] about nothing get done here on Tuesdays.
[1:51:14] » Yeah.
[1:51:16] Okay.
[1:51:35] Okay. I have really looked at this
[1:51:39] application. Uh I actually happened to
[1:51:41] be it's my first planning commission
[1:51:43] case that I ever got to watch. um in
[1:51:46] person because I was here for another
[1:51:48] purpose. And so I got to meet many of
[1:51:51] our neighbors and um hear the concern
[1:51:55] and the um elevation of of issues. And I
[1:52:00] also got to see our planning commission
[1:52:02] at work and our planning commissioner
[1:52:05] representing the concerns of the
[1:52:07] neighbors and the balance of the
[1:52:09] applicant and and their property rights.
[1:52:12] And that's what I've seen really
[1:52:14] evolving over the last several months is
[1:52:17] that conversation and the
[1:52:20] changes to the application. And so we're
[1:52:23] at a point um today where it takes seven
[1:52:26] votes
[1:52:28] um to pass it. Um but the flip side of
[1:52:31] that is if the um applicant feels that
[1:52:36] their property rights are being violated
[1:52:38] and us saying no, then they can take
[1:52:40] that to district court and it would be
[1:52:42] evaluated in a court environment and um
[1:52:47] and so we have to go back to land use
[1:52:49] compatibility. is what is being proposed
[1:52:52] compatible and amendable to what was
[1:52:55] scoped in the land use that was approved
[1:52:56] by the city 30 years ago and the zoning
[1:53:00] from the city 30 years ago was as an R1
[1:53:03] um which actually enables more than one
[1:53:05] house in this particular lot. It could
[1:53:08] enable up to five houses under the
[1:53:10] current uh zoning conditions in that
[1:53:12] area. So what happened in planning
[1:53:14] commission were really adding
[1:53:16] mitigations to make an office as close
[1:53:20] to a an impact as residential
[1:53:23] development would be. So I heard today
[1:53:27] the concerns about the road traffic and
[1:53:29] I echo every concern around traffic and
[1:53:34] congestion and throughput um in
[1:53:38] southwest Oklahoma City. We have some
[1:53:40] real challenges. We have had incredible
[1:53:43] development. Um, one of the mitigations
[1:53:46] that was negotiated with planning
[1:53:48] commission through great feedback from
[1:53:51] community members is, hey, we're worried
[1:53:53] about people wearing and tearing on a
[1:53:55] road that we're paying for out of
[1:53:56] pocket. And so the access to this zoning
[1:54:01] added a restriction where there's only
[1:54:03] access from Highway 4. And um the
[1:54:06] buildings are proposed to be built just
[1:54:09] like a house as if the houses that were
[1:54:12] approved there.
[1:54:14] So the um landscaping that has been
[1:54:17] incorporated would not be a requirement
[1:54:19] under the HOA association or even in um
[1:54:23] any normal residential development.
[1:54:26] And that was done to try to support the
[1:54:31] rural feel of the existing neighborhood
[1:54:34] to create that green space. And um and
[1:54:38] then the masonry wall was actually done
[1:54:40] also to really be able to separate it
[1:54:42] from the neighborhood so that there
[1:54:44] would be no impact from a traffic, a
[1:54:48] safety and security risk.
[1:54:51] um really all of the considerations that
[1:54:53] have been noted by our neighbors. And so
[1:54:58] um today I'm going to make a motion for
[1:55:01] approval
[1:55:03] with the full understanding and support
[1:55:06] that if you want to take this to court
[1:55:10] tied to the PUD, that is 100% your
[1:55:13] right. But if this council votes no
[1:55:14] today, all of the negotiation, all of
[1:55:18] the concessions that you've gotten from
[1:55:20] a neighbor negotiation perspective, you
[1:55:22] would lose and you wouldn't have any of
[1:55:24] that navigation in place. And so today,
[1:55:28] I'm making a motion for approval. Yes,
[1:55:30] sir.
[1:55:31] » We need to to make the amendment to
[1:55:34] limit it to one curb cut first.
[1:55:36] » Sorry.
[1:55:36] » Thank you.
[1:55:39] » All right. Uh the motion for the
[1:55:41] amendment is to make it a one road
[1:55:43] access
[1:55:44] » One curb cut
[1:55:45] » Off of one curb cut allowed off of
[1:55:47] Highway 4 just like um a residential um
[1:55:52] access point would normally be off of
[1:55:54] Highway 4. I'm not saying just like that
[1:55:56] in the amendment, but I'm just saying
[1:55:58] that as a comparison because I actually
[1:55:59] think it would probably be a double
[1:56:02] double entrance to enable access and or
[1:56:05] egress and ingress. Um,
[1:56:09] this is a this is a hard one because I
[1:56:12] totally I 100% understand, but if you
[1:56:15] don't have
[1:56:17] what you have negotiated in place
[1:56:20] approved by this council, then you don't
[1:56:22] have the guarantees of that. And if you
[1:56:24] look at the court dockets, I think that
[1:56:27] you, the applicant, on the flip side,
[1:56:30] would have an an an equal argument. If
[1:56:33] that makes sense. I'm happy to discuss
[1:56:36] all of the things that I've gone
[1:56:37] through, but I want you to know that all
[1:56:39] of these protections are to make it
[1:56:41] equivalent to a residential
[1:56:43] neighborhood, but enable the property
[1:56:45] owner to execute their rights as um to
[1:56:50] have a residentialike business in that
[1:56:52] environment. And if and I'm there are
[1:56:56] many other people around this horseshoe
[1:56:58] that have way more experience than me in
[1:57:01] both law and planning. So, if I have a a
[1:57:04] misunderstanding or a misinterpretation
[1:57:06] of this, I would, you know, welcome your
[1:57:08] insight. But, uh, I've really tried to
[1:57:12] learn and understand all of the risks
[1:57:15] and the benefits to make the best
[1:57:17] decision for our community.
[1:57:19] » I'll just add that
[1:57:22] I appreciate
[1:57:25] the work you're doing on this item,
[1:57:28] Councilwoman. I just do. I think the
[1:57:30] amendments, I think your planning
[1:57:32] commissioner is doing some great work.
[1:57:34] Um, so on that note, uh, I'll vote to
[1:57:38] join you all on the technical evaluation
[1:57:40] just to continue making this item as,
[1:57:44] um, useful to the area as possible, but
[1:57:49] I ultimately
[1:57:51] just don't think I can go along for the
[1:57:53] rest of the ride. But should it pass, I
[1:57:55] at least want to make sure it's the best
[1:57:57] possible product it can be. So I'll just
[1:57:59] want to state that for the record.
[1:58:07] » All right. So we want to move an
[1:58:09] amendment
[1:58:09] » Motion for amendment.
[1:58:13] » And that is an amendment as previously
[1:58:17] described or
[1:58:19] » Um curb cut.
[1:58:20] » Yeah. Uh access shall be limited to one
[1:58:22] curb cut off Mustang Road.
[1:58:25] » Okay, that's it.
[1:58:29] All right, we got a motion and a second
[1:58:30] for the amendment. Cast your votes.
[1:58:35] Passes unanimously. Now we're on the uh
[1:58:38] item as amended. Item F.
[1:58:46] We have a motion and a second.
[1:58:49] Cast your votes.
[1:58:54] » 7 to two and with the necessary Seven
[1:58:57] votes required for approval.
[1:59:00] All right. Item G is an ordinance on
[1:59:02] final hearing. It was recommended for
[1:59:03] approval reszoning 2319 North Barnes
[1:59:06] Avenue from R2C4
[1:59:09] UD and TT to SPD 1817 UD and TT.
[1:59:15] Councilwoman Hammond, no one to speak.
[1:59:17] » Is the applicant here? I'm not sure I
[1:59:20] see them. Oh, there you are. I'm just
[1:59:21] hiding. Um, can you just kind of give us
[1:59:22] a brief kind of overview of what this
[1:59:24] project is?
[1:59:25] » Yeah, absolutely. Mark Sitel, one
[1:59:27] Sheridan Avenue with Johnson and
[1:59:28] Associates. Uh this is a town home
[1:59:30] project just south of Memory Serves as a
[1:59:34] Jimmy John's off of uh Northwest 23rd
[1:59:36] Street. And so uh what we've designed
[1:59:39] are nine units. The front four face
[1:59:42] barns. So the front doors, they'll have
[1:59:44] kind of small front yards. Uh and then
[1:59:46] the units behind will face internally.
[1:59:49] Uh and then they will have backyards. So
[1:59:51] it it's a bit of a an awkward site
[1:59:53] because of its size and its depth. Um,
[1:59:55] but uh we went to the urban design
[1:59:58] commission. It's probably the biggest
[1:59:59] change. The entirety of this SPUD will
[2:00:02] have to conform to the urban design uh
[2:00:05] guidelines and review process. Right now
[2:00:07] only half of it does. So we've actually
[2:00:08] brought some property essentially in uh
[2:00:11] for review. So they recommended
[2:00:12] approval, planning commission
[2:00:14] recommended approval, staff generously
[2:00:16] recommended their approval as well. Uh
[2:00:18] and we are here today asking for your
[2:00:20] approval.
[2:00:21] » Thank you. Yeah, I just wanted to
[2:00:22] highlight this. Um, this lot has been
[2:00:25] vacant the for I don't know how long,
[2:00:27] but definitely my whole time on council
[2:00:28] and I know has been a concern of some of
[2:00:30] the neighbors. So, I think it's exciting
[2:00:32] to see some infill development on it.
[2:00:34] And um I' I've not heard anything
[2:00:36] negative from the neighbors and I think
[2:00:38] it generally it's being seen as a
[2:00:39] positive addition to the neighborhood.
[2:00:41] So, I'm happy to move for approval.
[2:00:46] All
[2:00:50] right, we have a motion and a second for
[2:00:52] item G. Cast your votes.
[2:00:58] Passes unanimously. Item H is an
[2:01:01] ordinance on final hearing. It was
[2:01:02] recommended for approval resoning 1320
[2:01:05] West Reno from SPUD1309
[2:01:08] to SPD1821.
[2:01:12] Councilwoman Avers has stepped away. So
[2:01:14] maybe we will come back to that. We'll
[2:01:17] skip H for now. Um item I is an
[2:01:21] ordinance on final hearing establishing
[2:01:23] 45deree angle parking uh on the east
[2:01:26] side of North College near Northwest
[2:01:28] 16th. Councilwoman Hammond.
[2:01:31] » Yes. I will move for approval.
[2:01:39] » Have a motion and a second. cast your
[2:01:41] votes.
[2:01:53] Passes unanimously. Item J is an
[2:01:55] ordinance on final hearing establishing
[2:01:57] reserved parking for the physically
[2:01:58] disabled uh on College near Northwest
[2:02:01] 16th. Councilwoman Hammond,
[2:02:03] » I will move for approval.
[2:02:08] » Got a motion and a second. cast your
[2:02:10] votes.
[2:02:18] Passes unanimously. Item K is an
[2:02:20] ordinance on final hearing establishing
[2:02:21] reserved parking for the physically
[2:02:23] disabled on the west side of North
[2:02:24] Harvey near 11th. Uh Council Hammond,
[2:02:28] » I will move for approval.
[2:02:37] Have
[2:02:37] » A motion and a second. Cast your votes.
[2:02:46] passes unanimously. Item L1 is the
[2:02:49] public hearing regarding the dilapidated
[2:02:50] structures here listed. Amy, has anyone
[2:02:51] signed up to speak?
[2:02:52] » No, they haven't.
[2:02:53] » They have not. So, we'll advance to the
[2:02:54] resolution found at L2 to claim the
[2:02:55] structures are dilapidated.
[2:03:04] There's a motion in a second for L2.
[2:03:08] cast your votes.
[2:03:15] Passes unanimously. M1 is the public
[2:03:17] hearing regarding the unsecured
[2:03:18] structures here listed except for those
[2:03:19] previously struck. Emmy, has anyone
[2:03:21] signed up to speak?
[2:03:21] » No, they haven't.
[2:03:22] » They have not. And so we'll advance to
[2:03:23] the resolution found that M2 declaring
[2:03:25] structures are unsecured.
[2:03:33] Motion cast your votes.
[2:03:36] » We have a motion and a second. Cast your
[2:03:37] votes. passes unanimously. Okay. Now,
[2:03:39] we're going to go back to item H. I
[2:03:41] understand Councilwoman Avers has asked
[2:03:42] Councilman Stone to carry this item.
[2:03:44] This is a, as previously stated, this is
[2:03:47] for um SPD 1821 at 3020
[2:03:54] West Reno.
[2:03:55] » Thank you, mayor. Has anyone signed up
[2:03:57] to speak?
[2:03:57] » They have not.
[2:03:58] » All right. With that, I'll go ahead and
[2:03:59] move for its approval.
[2:04:05] » Got a motion in a second. Cast your
[2:04:07] votes.
[2:04:12] passes unanimously. Item 11 in is a
[2:04:15] public hearing regarding uh the
[2:04:17] abandoned building here listed. Amy, has
[2:04:18] anyone signed to speak?
[2:04:21] » No, they haven't.
[2:04:22] » They have not. And so we will uh advance
[2:04:24] to the resolution found in two declaring
[2:04:25] the building abandoned.
[2:04:32] Have a motion and a second. Cast your
[2:04:34] votes.
[2:04:37] passes unanimously.
[2:04:39] Um item 1101 is a public hearing
[2:04:43] regarding an amendment to the fiscal
[2:04:44] year 2026 budget. Uh Amy, has anyone
[2:04:47] signed to speak?
[2:04:48] » No, they haven't.
[2:04:48] » They have not. Uh so we can advance to
[2:04:51] O2. This is a resolution adopting uh
[2:04:54] said amendment which I believe was
[2:04:56] introduced at this last meeting.
[2:05:01] So no presentation.
[2:05:04] Got a motion and a second. Cast your
[2:05:06] votes.
[2:05:10] Passes unanimously.
[2:05:12] 11 P1 is the second public hearing
[2:05:15] regarding uh the regarding amending
[2:05:18] amending the June 17th, 2025 resolution
[2:05:20] regarding fire expenditures. Amy, has
[2:05:22] anyone signed to speak?
[2:05:23] » No, they haven't.
[2:05:24] » They have not. And so we will advance to
[2:05:25] the resolution at P2 making such
[2:05:28] amendment.
[2:05:33] We have a motion in a second. Cast your
[2:05:35] votes.
[2:05:40] Passes unanimously. Q1 is the second
[2:05:43] public hearing regarding fire sales tax
[2:05:45] appropriations. Amy, has anyone sent to
[2:05:47] speak?
[2:05:48] » No, they haven't.
[2:05:48] » They have not. So, we'll advance to the
[2:05:50] resolution found at Q2 uh regarding said
[2:05:54] fire department appropriations.
[2:05:58] Got a motion in a second. Cast your
[2:06:00] votes.
[2:06:04] Passes unanimously. 11R1 is a second
[2:06:06] public hearing regarding police sales
[2:06:08] tax appropriations. Amy, has anyone
[2:06:10] signed to speak?
[2:06:10] » No, they have not.
[2:06:11] » Not. So, we'll advance to the resolution
[2:06:13] found at R2 regarding said police
[2:06:15] department appropriations.
[2:06:22] Got a motion and a second. Cast your
[2:06:24] votes.
[2:06:31] passes seven to one. Uh, and then item S
[2:06:34] is a joint resolution with the Oklahoma
[2:06:36] City Economic Development Trust
[2:06:37] approving an allocation to the city of
[2:06:39] Oklahoma City and an amount not to
[2:06:40] exceed $4 million from Increment
[2:06:42] District 2's other public development
[2:06:45] costs. This is for the purpose of the
[2:06:46] MAPS 3 Union Station renovation at 300
[2:06:49] Southwest 7th. And we have a
[2:06:50] presentation.
[2:06:51] » Yes, Ryan Echelman is here with GSB to
[2:06:53] give us a presentation on this project.
[2:06:56] » Great. Good morning to you all. Uh
[2:07:00] I'm here to talk about the uh renovation
[2:07:02] of Union Station which is um located on
[2:07:06] the south end of um Scissor Tale Park.
[2:07:11] Let me advance here.
[2:07:14] Um
[2:07:15] there we go.
[2:07:19] South end of Scissor Tale Park. um
[2:07:24] built in the golden age of rail travel
[2:07:27] in about 1930. Had a few had a about two
[2:07:30] decades of um kind of its heyday and
[2:07:33] then it was um habits changed and the
[2:07:38] city changed and it kind of disappeared
[2:07:40] into obscurity. Um, fortunately for us,
[2:07:42] the building has been incredibly well
[2:07:44] taken care of. Um, and is now exposed to
[2:07:46] public view by the development of the
[2:07:48] park after being buried uh, among
[2:07:50] commercial development south of downtown
[2:07:53] for many, many years. Um, you can see an
[2:07:55] aerial of it in its abutment to the park
[2:07:58] to the rail line and I40 to the south.
[2:08:01] Um, as I mentioned, the building's in
[2:08:03] really good condition. Needs a little
[2:08:05] bit of renovation on the interior and
[2:08:06] exterior. It's been used as an office
[2:08:08] building by uh, Embark for many years.
[2:08:11] Um and we're proposing to return it to
[2:08:13] public use. Um you can see a lot of the
[2:08:16] existing or the original infrastructure
[2:08:18] still in the building, light fixtures,
[2:08:20] cornice, stone work. Um and you can also
[2:08:22] see on the right the office building
[2:08:24] that they built inside of the uh
[2:08:26] original uh waiting hall that will be
[2:08:28] removed. And this is what we propose to
[2:08:30] do is to return it to its original glory
[2:08:34] um and to make it a public facility
[2:08:35] again to host events, to host park
[2:08:38] visitors, um and to make the public
[2:08:40] portion of the building uh public again.
[2:08:43] So this is an image of the east um
[2:08:45] waiting hall um hosting an event. You
[2:08:48] can see the old ticket windows. You can
[2:08:50] see um all the original um cornis work
[2:08:53] and light fixtures and everything that
[2:08:55] would be restored as a part of the
[2:08:56] renovation.
[2:08:57] The building is made up of two portions.
[2:08:59] The the former public portion, which
[2:09:01] we're calling area A to the north. Um
[2:09:03] and areas B and C are former baggage and
[2:09:06] cargo areas. Uh those are not proposed
[2:09:09] to be renovated as a part of this
[2:09:10] project. Um will be focused on the north
[2:09:13] half of the building.
[2:09:15] You can see it consists of the two
[2:09:17] original waiting halls, um support areas
[2:09:20] and circulation areas, restrooms, um
[2:09:23] meeting and office space. Uh the blue
[2:09:25] area is proposed for renovation by this
[2:09:27] funding, but we'd like to tackle the
[2:09:29] alternate areas highlighted in orange so
[2:09:32] that we really we really um complete the
[2:09:34] renovation of the entire north portion
[2:09:37] of the building.
[2:09:39] Part of what makes this project
[2:09:40] challenging is it's historic. Um it was
[2:09:43] built in 1930 at a time when buildings
[2:09:46] were not um did not have central air
[2:09:48] conditioning in those systems. And we
[2:09:50] are introducing um lots of people into
[2:09:53] those spaces for large events. Um think
[2:09:56] about filling those rooms on August, you
[2:09:59] know, at three in the afternoon on
[2:10:00] August 15th when the air conditioning
[2:10:02] demand is at the highest. And so we are
[2:10:04] building a Swiss watch. This is an image
[2:10:06] on the right that shows the air
[2:10:07] conditioning system that's going to be
[2:10:09] integrated into the attic of the uh of
[2:10:12] the facility to support all of that.
[2:10:14] This has to be done invisibly so we
[2:10:16] don't compromise any of the historical
[2:10:18] um character of the building.
[2:10:21] As I mentioned, large occupancy spaces
[2:10:23] will be able to host as many as 600
[2:10:25] people uh over 350 at tables um and a
[2:10:29] smaller amount in the west hall which
[2:10:32] will also function as kind of a uh
[2:10:34] arrival and visitor center for the park
[2:10:36] itself that the foundation will will
[2:10:38] operate. upgrading
[2:10:40] um upgrading all the HVAC systems,
[2:10:43] providing new electrical service to
[2:10:45] support not only the HVAC demands, but
[2:10:47] also the convenience power. Um buildings
[2:10:50] in 1930 did not have the electrical
[2:10:52] infrastructure that we would expect
[2:10:54] today for a modern event center.
[2:10:56] Upgrading some plumbing. There's some
[2:10:58] failed uh failed sewer lines under the
[2:11:01] building that need to be replaced. And
[2:11:02] upgrading the water service. And then as
[2:11:04] I mentioned, lots of selective
[2:11:06] historical renovation to lighting
[2:11:08] windows, um interior plaster, terazzo
[2:11:11] floors, exterior stonework, um
[2:11:14] modernizing many of those historic
[2:11:16] fixtures as well, some furniture for the
[2:11:18] facility, and completing the fire
[2:11:21] protection system to protect it in
[2:11:22] perpetuity. need to go back really quick
[2:11:25] um mention this project um has a little
[2:11:29] over 12.5 million dollars in funding
[2:11:30] from the residual revenues from MAPS 3.
[2:11:34] This was not originally a maps 3
[2:11:36] project, but it has been allocated those
[2:11:38] funds. Um but we are about $4 million
[2:11:40] short to complete uh all of the work
[2:11:42] that I've described. So, some of the
[2:11:45] things that would be um have to be cut
[2:11:47] out of the project um without the
[2:11:49] additional funding um includes the items
[2:11:52] listed on the screen. We would have to
[2:11:54] utilize a different mechanical system
[2:11:56] which would use rooftop equipment or
[2:11:58] some other things that would not be
[2:11:59] compatible with the historic character
[2:12:01] of the building. Um would have to forego
[2:12:03] some of the infrastructure improvements.
[2:12:05] Eliminate alternates. um eliminate some
[2:12:08] of the uh AV infrastructure that would
[2:12:10] be needed to support events um and the
[2:12:13] like. So, this is a request to utilize
[2:12:16] those tough funds to complete the
[2:12:17] funding, close the funding gap, and
[2:12:20] hopefully um with the help of Lingo
[2:12:22] Construction, who's a construction
[2:12:23] manager, um reintroduce this facility to
[2:12:26] the public in a couple years. Any
[2:12:28] questions for me?
[2:12:34] » Thanks, Ryan. to
[2:12:38] » All right. Well, it's exciting. So, we
[2:12:42] can uh take up the resolution found at
[2:12:45] item S.
[2:12:50] Got a motion in a second.
[2:12:53] Cast your votes.
[2:13:00] Passes unanimously.
[2:13:02] And then item T is a resolution
[2:13:04] approving the Oklahoma City parks and
[2:13:06] recreation department policy on
[2:13:07] advertising sponsorships and donations.
[2:13:10] And we have a presentation.
[2:13:12] » Yes. Melinda McMillan Miller, our parks
[2:13:14] and recreation director, will present
[2:13:16] this new policy.
[2:13:18] » Thank you, Mr. City Manager. Melinda
[2:13:20] McMillan Miller, parks and recreation
[2:13:22] director. Um, this policy is is long
[2:13:24] time coming. We've worked on it for many
[2:13:26] years to update and create a policy that
[2:13:29] is very workable for our park system as
[2:13:31] well as our public in order for us to um
[2:13:34] continually provide enhanced maintenance
[2:13:36] uh different types of programming. It
[2:13:38] also follows the parks master plan that
[2:13:40] identified multiple different
[2:13:41] alternative funding resources that we
[2:13:43] could tap into. Um it also follows
[2:13:46] national recreation and park association
[2:13:48] standards for um accreditation purposes,
[2:13:51] something we aspire to get completed for
[2:13:52] our city. So policy overall is just
[2:13:55] giving us the um ability to define and
[2:13:58] outline um what advertising is allowable
[2:14:00] in our parks. Making sure that we
[2:14:02] protect um the public making sure that
[2:14:05] we enhance and protect the city's
[2:14:08] mission and values and make sure things
[2:14:10] are appropriate especially where
[2:14:11] children are. Um and also give us the
[2:14:13] opportunity to have some additional
[2:14:15] resources to continue to maintain and
[2:14:17] take care of our parks.
[2:14:20] There any questions? I'm happy to answer
[2:14:22] them.
[2:14:26] Thank you.
[2:14:27] » Thank you. All right, we can take up the
[2:14:28] resolution found at item T.
[2:14:34] » We have a motion and a second.
[2:14:38] Cast your votes.
[2:14:46] Passes unanimously and uh Vice Mayor
[2:14:49] Hinkle presided.
[2:14:56] brings us to item U1, extension of
[2:14:59] collecting bargaining agreement with the
[2:15:01] American Federation of State, County,
[2:15:03] and Municipal Employees, local two or
[2:15:05] 2406.
[2:15:07] Uh, executive session is not requested,
[2:15:09] but city manager, do you have some
[2:15:11] comments you'd like to make on this? V.
[2:15:13] Uh so UNV um as Vice Mayor Hel said are
[2:15:18] items that are just extending our
[2:15:19] contracts as we're continuing
[2:15:21] negotiations with our bargaining units.
[2:15:23] You'll notice FOP is not on here. We do
[2:15:25] now have the signed agreement with FOP.
[2:15:26] That'll be on the next meeting. We'll
[2:15:28] get that taken care of there. Um so we
[2:15:30] appreciate u the collaboration and
[2:15:32] cooperation as we're working together.
[2:15:34] This allows us to continue the funding
[2:15:36] or the contract as we have it right now
[2:15:38] into next year until we get a new
[2:15:39] contract in place.
[2:15:42] So, we're ready for a motion on U1
[2:16:00] and it passes 8 to zero. V1 uh extension
[2:16:06] of the collecting bargaining agreement
[2:16:07] with the International Association of
[2:16:09] Firefighters Local 157. Ready for a
[2:16:13] motion
[2:16:25] and it passes 8 to zero.
[2:16:29] Uh W1 is a resolution authorizing the
[2:16:33] municipal counselor to approve the
[2:16:35] admnification claim made by the
[2:16:37] defendant officer in the lawsuit
[2:16:40] Lorenzo Clerkley versus citizen of
[2:16:42] Oklahoma City.
[2:16:44] Executive session is not requested.
[2:16:48] Ready for a motion.
[2:16:59] and it passes unanimously.
[2:17:03] Item X and Y are asking for executive
[2:17:07] session. Do
[2:17:07] » We need to take a motion on those?
[2:17:08] » So, we need a motion on both of those.
[2:17:10] Please
[2:17:11] » Do it separately. Yeah, we'll start with
[2:17:14] X.
[2:17:23] It passes unanimously. And to Y
[2:17:47] And it passes unanimously as well.
[2:17:50] Item Z is claims recommended for denial.
[2:17:56] Ready for a motion.
[2:18:10] And it passes unanimously.
[2:18:12] And item AA is claims are recommended
[2:18:15] for approval. Ready for a motion.
[2:18:30] And it passes. unanimously.
[2:18:34] Item 12 is comments from council. One,
[2:18:37] two.
[2:18:40] » Yes. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Um, I just
[2:18:44] wanted to say that I am I was quite
[2:18:48] honored a week ago to march in Tokyo
[2:18:53] Pride Parade. It was incredible. I've
[2:18:56] already posted about this on social
[2:18:58] media. What happened is I met someone
[2:19:01] who does advocacy work around HIV AIDS
[2:19:05] particularly on the idea that uh
[2:19:08] untransmissible equals undetect or
[2:19:11] excuse me undetectable equals
[2:19:12] untransmissible right and so if you're
[2:19:15] someone who's taking the proper
[2:19:17] medications if if you're HIV positive
[2:19:19] right which this is a reminder everyone
[2:19:23] regardless of your sexual orientation
[2:19:26] does not matter
[2:19:28] pest regularly. It is you protecting
[2:19:32] your body and protecting others. And so
[2:19:34] anyway, I met someone and they said,
[2:19:36] "Hey, do you want to march in the parade
[2:19:38] with us?" And I said, "Oh, I'm sorry.
[2:19:40] What did you just say?" So I got to
[2:19:42] march in the parade. And while I was and
[2:19:45] the reason why I was in Tokyo is we have
[2:19:48] uh some OKC residents who live in W 2
[2:19:51] and W 6 uh who are in a band I've
[2:19:53] referenced up here previously called
[2:19:55] Chap Pile, a metal band, uh who on the
[2:19:58] same day that Beyonce's Renaissance
[2:20:00] album came out a few years ago, the
[2:20:02] music site Pitchfork said, "The two
[2:20:04] albums you need to be listening to are
[2:20:07] Beyonce's Renaissance and OKC's Chat
[2:20:10] Pile."
[2:20:12] I I mean that is incredible. That is
[2:20:16] incredible. Especially because I met the
[2:20:18] basis Austin when we were working at
[2:20:19] Blockbuster Video back in 1999 to 2001,
[2:20:24] right? When I was a closeted gay boy
[2:20:26] wearing Abberrombie and Fitch and he was
[2:20:29] a crust punk kid. So, you know, the fact
[2:20:31] that that friendship has endured for a
[2:20:33] quarter century is really special to me.
[2:20:35] And as I was marching in the parade, I
[2:20:37] found myself thinking about Classen
[2:20:39] Boulevard, which is of course home to
[2:20:41] OKC's uh historic Asian district. And as
[2:20:45] I was thinking about Classen, I couldn't
[2:20:48] help but remember, and I know this might
[2:20:49] make some folk uncomfortable, but that's
[2:20:51] okay. Um there was a former OKC mayor
[2:20:54] who in 2001 removed the uh Pride banners
[2:20:57] from Classen Boulevard. Um, and that was
[2:21:00] the same year when I was 19 that I came
[2:21:02] out to my mother, a retired RN who
[2:21:05] actually took care of the first patient
[2:21:08] uh here in OKC who had AIDS. Uh, at a
[2:21:11] time when when some doctors wouldn't
[2:21:13] even touch this young man, right? Um,
[2:21:17] and so that was in 2001. That same year,
[2:21:20] this city council, not us, but our
[2:21:23] predecessors predecessors predecessors
[2:21:25] voted 6 to3 to deny any banner permit
[2:21:30] containing quote a political, religious,
[2:21:32] or social advocacy message. And what was
[2:21:34] strange about that was, and I'm having
[2:21:36] to read from some notes here, since
[2:21:37] 1989, the city permitted groups to hang
[2:21:40] banners from utility pole brackets,
[2:21:42] including celebrating the Olympic, the
[2:21:44] Oklahoma Olympic festival. So when they
[2:21:48] removed the pride banners, the former
[2:21:50] mayor explained that LGBTQ folk quote
[2:21:53] have a right to behave that way if they
[2:21:56] want to. Although some aspects of it are
[2:21:59] illegal, quite frankly, I find it
[2:22:01] offensive that we won't put up a
[2:22:03] religious message, but we will put up an
[2:22:05] irreligious message. The That's the end
[2:22:07] of the quote. The Oklahoma editorial
[2:22:09] board agreed and said, quote, "At least
[2:22:12] the clan wasn't pushing a political
[2:22:14] agenda on a sign."
[2:22:16] End quote. So, remember, back then,
[2:22:19] being gay was actually illegal in
[2:22:21] Oklahoma. In fact, in most states,
[2:22:23] punishable in Oklahoma with a 10-year
[2:22:25] imprisonment until a 2003 US Supreme
[2:22:28] Court decision ruled such laws
[2:22:30] unconstitutional.
[2:22:32] It's worth noting that during Germany's
[2:22:35] 1928 elections a 100red years ago, the
[2:22:38] Nazis, who were the clan's white
[2:22:40] supremacist counterparts, argued, quote,
[2:22:43] "Anyone who even thinks of homosexual
[2:22:45] love is our enemy. We reject anything
[2:22:49] which emasculates our people and makes
[2:22:51] it a play thing for our enemies, for we
[2:22:54] know that life is a fight, and it's
[2:22:56] madness to think that men will ever
[2:22:58] embrace fraternally." End quote. The
[2:23:01] Gestapo, we must remember, arrested
[2:23:03] around 90,000 men for homosexual
[2:23:06] activity between 1937 and 1939,
[2:23:10] imprisoning 15,000 in concentration
[2:23:13] camps under the infamous paragraph 175
[2:23:17] law.
[2:23:18] Nazi youth burned books, and those books
[2:23:22] included Einstein's research and
[2:23:25] transgender medical care research.
[2:23:31] Thanks to a lawsuit from the ACLU and
[2:23:34] former LGBT advocacy group Simron
[2:23:37] Alliance, a judge found that the former
[2:23:40] mayor and the council's actions were
[2:23:42] unconstitutional.
[2:23:44] Another note on the clan uh and the
[2:23:46] Oklahoma's editorial board uh 25 years
[2:23:49] ago that strikes me as silly because
[2:23:54] that same paper in the 1920s had a
[2:23:57] headline above the fold uh crowd knocked
[2:24:00] cold by Ku Klux when tens of thousands
[2:24:03] of clan members marched in downtown
[2:24:05] Oklahoma City. We have to know our
[2:24:08] history when we hear some of this
[2:24:09] rhetoric today uh demonizing LGBT
[2:24:12] people. we need to know where it comes
[2:24:14] from.
[2:24:16] So, as the first teacher and openly gay
[2:24:19] person to ever serve on this council, uh
[2:24:22] I'm honored to do the real work of Class
[2:24:25] and Boulevard, which is with our Asian
[2:24:28] district. It's always striking to me
[2:24:30] people scapegoat queer people about
[2:24:31] society's problems when the real
[2:24:33] problems are streets that need
[2:24:36] resurfaced, right, and sidewalks to
[2:24:38] build. And that's why I'm excited to
[2:24:39] steward an upcoming streetscape for the
[2:24:41] area.
[2:24:43] And uh similarly, we have a competitive
[2:24:47] $975,000
[2:24:49] federal grant that our city of OKC won,
[2:24:53] right? And that's to uh study transit
[2:24:56] oriented development on Classen. And
[2:24:58] that's going to prioritize resurfacing
[2:25:01] sidewalks, crosswalks, median and
[2:25:03] lowincome affordable housing. Keeping in
[2:25:05] mind that OKC's median income hovers
[2:25:08] around $37,000 and that we're short. Too
[2:25:11] many units for our people. This can
[2:25:13] include mixeduse developments, bike
[2:25:15] safety, trees, landscaping, and
[2:25:17] architecture honoring uh our historic
[2:25:20] Asian district and the nearby
[2:25:21] neighborhoods. And I can't wait to march
[2:25:25] with our Asian district who will march
[2:25:27] for the first time in any pride parade
[2:25:30] this year. And I'm signing up today to
[2:25:32] do that with them. I asked them last
[2:25:33] week. Um, a final note, Chap Pile. It is
[2:25:38] incredible to see them in Tokyo and
[2:25:41] Osaka. They're not rich.
[2:25:45] They they quit their day jobs, but
[2:25:46] they're making about the same money they
[2:25:48] were then. They have no healthcare. We
[2:25:50] have no benefits, right? But it is
[2:25:53] incredible. OKC to see audiences in
[2:25:55] Osaka and in Tokyo knowing the lyrics of
[2:26:00] people from Oklahoma City. And to
[2:26:03] conclude, those lyrics are often about
[2:26:07] homelessness. They are out there
[2:26:09] advocating,
[2:26:11] advocating,
[2:26:13] asking a simple question. Why? Why are
[2:26:16] there people homeless on our streets?
[2:26:19] We have the means. We have the
[2:26:21] resources, they say in their lyrics. And
[2:26:24] seeing people from across the world
[2:26:27] knowing those lyrics and singing
[2:26:29] alongside,
[2:26:31] knowing they're representing us on the
[2:26:33] world stage, that's incredible. That is
[2:26:35] just incredible. And so I'm so proud of
[2:26:37] this city and the people we are
[2:26:38] producing. And uh just wanted to share
[2:26:41] that history during Pride Month that
[2:26:43] this council knows better. This council
[2:26:46] does better. the city manager does
[2:26:48] better, this mayor does better, and a
[2:26:50] lot of us in this city know and do
[2:26:51] better. And I just want to thank you all
[2:26:53] this Pride Month for your uh love and
[2:26:55] compassion. So, thank you.
[2:26:58] » Ward four
[2:27:00] six.
[2:27:01] » Yes. Thank you for sharing that,
[2:27:03] Councilman Cooper. Um yeah, I think it's
[2:27:06] unfortunate when we sort of think, oh,
[2:27:08] all that stuff was back then, but
[2:27:11] recognizing that a lot of that rhetoric
[2:27:12] continues today. um and the reasons why
[2:27:15] we need things like pride celebrations
[2:27:17] to to push back against it and um give
[2:27:21] especially young people the opportunity
[2:27:23] to um love who they are. Um I just want
[2:27:28] to invite folks to participate if
[2:27:30] they're um available on the 24th. I
[2:27:32] think that's next Wednesday at noon. The
[2:27:35] diversion hub um is having their ribbon
[2:27:38] cutting. Um very exciting for their new
[2:27:40] building over on Lynwood. Um, it was
[2:27:42] supposed to be, I think, in May, but we
[2:27:45] we had rain, really bad rain that week.
[2:27:47] And so, um, it'll be next next Wednesday
[2:27:49] at noon. Be a big fun celebration. Come
[2:27:52] see their new building. It's really
[2:27:53] beautiful. Um, and in their art, they've
[2:27:56] been they've been in there for like a
[2:27:58] month. I think they're ready to They're
[2:27:59] like, "Why are we doing this now? We're
[2:28:01] already off the ground uh uh doing all
[2:28:04] our work, but an opportunity to
[2:28:06] celebrate their staff and um and this
[2:28:07] beautiful new space that um we partnered
[2:28:09] with them on. So, hope you can join us.
[2:28:13] » 47 48.
[2:28:16] » I have some breaking news. I got it
[2:28:18] about 5:30 this morning when I got my
[2:28:19] newspaper. Um, on July 14th, next month
[2:28:24] that it will be exactly two years before
[2:28:27] the start of the Olympics. And LA28 just
[2:28:31] announced that it's opening the portal
[2:28:32] for volunteers. And that includes
[2:28:34] volunteers in Oklahoma City that want to
[2:28:37] participate in the Olympics. Those
[2:28:39] events will run July 14th through the
[2:28:41] 29th. There's a great article in the
[2:28:43] paper today by Jenny Carlson that
[2:28:45] explains the process and the events that
[2:28:48] we will be hosting. So, if you want to
[2:28:49] be a volunteer, here's your chance.
[2:28:51] Thank you.
[2:28:53] » Thank you. Brings us to item 13, which
[2:28:56] is citizens to be heard. As I call your
[2:28:59] name, come up, state your name and
[2:29:00] address, and you'll have three minutes,
[2:29:02] and the lovely Miss Amy will let you
[2:29:04] know when you have 30 seconds left. Uh
[2:29:07] Dan Halber.
[2:29:18] I'm Dan Helber. Uh 16317
[2:29:22] Northwest or uh goodness gracious uh
[2:29:27] Delmare Drive up in your ward board 7.
[2:29:29] Um I'm a refugee from California. Um,
[2:29:32] mayor, um, council members, um, I came
[2:29:35] here three generation or three years ago
[2:29:37] for freedom and for grandchildren, not
[2:29:40] necessarily in that order.
[2:29:42] Um, Benjamin Franklin wrote that, uh,
[2:29:44] they can they that can give up essential
[2:29:47] liberty to obtain a little temporary
[2:29:50] safety deserve neither liberty nor
[2:29:53] safety. Um, and I think that this
[2:29:55] applies to the surveillance state.
[2:29:59] Around the corner from my home in
[2:30:00] Fairfield South neighborhood is an
[2:30:02] unobtrusive black pole topped with a
[2:30:05] solar panel and a camera. When I first
[2:30:08] noticed it over a year ago, I thought,
[2:30:10] "Oh, it's part of the system that
[2:30:11] synchronized traffic lights to improve
[2:30:13] the traffic flow east on 164th."
[2:30:17] Then I learned about flock cameras. um
[2:30:20] their item got moved to uh two weeks
[2:30:23] from now. Okay. And the potential for
[2:30:26] misuse. Uh Chairman Mao noted that the
[2:30:30] people have sharp eyes. We don't need to
[2:30:33] give big data a record exactly when I
[2:30:37] leave for work each morning. Um feeding
[2:30:40] that information in uh to update my
[2:30:43] social credit score. Um, I do not
[2:30:45] appreciate being surveiled in a
[2:30:48] warrantless fashion. I would like that
[2:30:50] camera and all of its friends uh taken
[2:30:54] down. I would like OKC's contract with
[2:30:57] Flock to to be terminated. Um, and I
[2:31:02] would like to recommend that this
[2:31:04] council think long and hard about
[2:31:06] replacing that system with some sort of
[2:31:08] flock 2.0.
[2:31:10] Um, I'd like to thank Mr. Pennington for
[2:31:13] coming to Mayflower. Um I will research
[2:31:16] and remember his vote um in 28. Thank
[2:31:19] you.
[2:31:23] » Next is Lori Walke followed by Mari
[2:31:26] Williams.
[2:31:33] Good morning. I am Reverend Dr. Lorie
[2:31:34] Walk, 5219 North Miller Place 73112, a
[2:31:38] proud resident of W 2 and a local pastor
[2:31:41] in the United Church of Christ. I along
[2:31:44] with my clergy colleagues and fellow
[2:31:46] citizens are here to urge you to not
[2:31:49] renew Oklahoma City's contract with
[2:31:51] Flock. When the city council first
[2:31:53] collaborated with Flock three years ago
[2:31:56] to install cameras along the routes that
[2:31:58] we take to school and to church and to
[2:32:00] urgent care and to the dentist and to
[2:32:02] work and to the mall and to well
[2:32:04] everywhere you probably thought it was a
[2:32:07] sound decision and it would have been
[2:32:09] hard to not think that it was a sound
[2:32:12] decision to contract with Flock or any
[2:32:15] other automated license plate reader
[2:32:17] system. They make big promises about car
[2:32:21] insurance, community safety, and crime
[2:32:24] reduction. But in the last three years,
[2:32:26] we've learned some things like how ALPRs
[2:32:29] like Flock collect data on millions of
[2:32:32] vehicles regardless of whether the
[2:32:34] driver is suspected of a crime. How they
[2:32:36] own and share that data at their
[2:32:38] discretion. That the data from ALPRs
[2:32:42] like Flock have led to wrongful arrests
[2:32:44] and profiling and enabled police
[2:32:46] officers to stalk their ex partners at a
[2:32:50] rate that is alarming. And we also now
[2:32:52] know that there is no substantial
[2:32:54] evidence that ALPRs like Flock
[2:32:56] effectively prevent crime. Indeed,
[2:32:59] across America, local officials are
[2:33:01] choosing to stop using these cameras
[2:33:03] because of grounded fears of mass
[2:33:05] surveillance and local data shared in
[2:33:07] ways that devastate families and wider
[2:33:09] communities and inevitably the local
[2:33:11] economy.
[2:33:13] It has been three years since the
[2:33:15] council first collaborated with Flock.
[2:33:17] And you didn't know what you didn't
[2:33:18] know. But now you know from public
[2:33:20] records and reports that surveillance
[2:33:23] companies like Flock cannot be trusted.
[2:33:25] Over 50 cities across more than 20
[2:33:27] states have voted to deactivate, pause,
[2:33:29] or entirely cancel their contract with
[2:33:32] Flock because people everywhere are
[2:33:34] asking hard questions. And it is time
[2:33:36] for our city council to do the same. So,
[2:33:39] as you consider whether to continue
[2:33:40] collaborating with surveillance
[2:33:42] companies like Flock, please know that
[2:33:45] while you once may have thought they
[2:33:46] were okay,
[2:33:49] it's okay to change your mind. Show us
[2:33:55] your courage. Leave flock behind.
[2:34:00] Oh, it's okay.
[2:34:04] Change your mind and you can join us.
[2:34:07] Join us here anytime. Oh, louder
[2:34:10] friends, it's okay to change your mind.
[2:34:16] Show us your courage.
[2:34:19] Leave flock behind.
[2:34:21] Oh, it's okay to change your mind. And
[2:34:28] you can join us. Join us here any
[2:34:32] [singing] time.
[2:34:34] May that be your earworm until you vote
[2:34:37] to not renew that contract.
[2:34:43] [applause]
[2:34:45] » Mari Williams, followed by Stephanie
[2:34:47] Berdine.
[2:34:52] » My name is Mari Williams. I've lived in
[2:34:54] the OKC metro for my entire life. I
[2:34:56] currently reside in Ward 5. Good
[2:34:58] morning, Mayor Holt, who's not here,
[2:35:00] city manager Freeman, and members of the
[2:35:02] Oklahoma City Council. This morning, I'd
[2:35:04] like to go through some cases where
[2:35:06] Flock and its AI cause irreparable harm
[2:35:08] and often cost the cities using it money
[2:35:10] for settlements. April of 2024 in
[2:35:12] Toledo, Ohio, Flock misread the seven on
[2:35:15] Brandon Upurch's truck as a two.
[2:35:17] Officers drew guns. When he hesitated,
[2:35:20] the K9 officer released the dog which
[2:35:22] latched onto his dreadlocks, slammed his
[2:35:24] head into the pavement, and bit his arm.
[2:35:27] He was hospitalized in jail before
[2:35:29] charges were dropped. Upurch lost
[2:35:31] sensation in his finger, had to sell his
[2:35:33] truck, was evicted, and rehomed his two
[2:35:36] dogs out of fear. He settled his lawsuit
[2:35:38] for $35,000.
[2:35:40] June of 2025, JC and Carolyn Heron, plus
[2:35:44] their three-year-old granddaughter,
[2:35:45] Penelope, were driving in Morristown,
[2:35:47] Tennessee. Flock confused their lovey
[2:35:49] license plate, spelled with an O, with a
[2:35:51] recovered stolen trucks that spelled it
[2:35:53] with a zero. Guns were drawn.
[2:35:56] Grandparents were handcuffed in front
[2:35:57] handcuffed while their terrified
[2:35:59] granddaughter cried alone in the back
[2:36:01] seat. They were cleared only after a VIN
[2:36:03] check. April 2021, Athetherton,
[2:36:06] California. Flock read an H as an M.
[2:36:09] Jason Berkell was stopped at gunpoint,
[2:36:10] ordered to the ground, and handcuffed.
[2:36:13] This the lawsuit settled for $45,000.
[2:36:16] The department admitted the camera
[2:36:17] misread the plate. July 2023, Espanola,
[2:36:20] New Mexico. Jacqueline Gonzalez and her
[2:36:22] 12-year-old si sister were driving when
[2:36:24] Flock flagged their Kia after reading A2
[2:36:27] as a seven. Both were ordered out at
[2:36:30] gunpoint and handcuffed. Yes, including
[2:36:32] the 12-year-old little girl. Body cam
[2:36:34] footage captured the girl pleading,
[2:36:36] quote, "Can you call my mom?" Family
[2:36:39] settled the lawsuit in 2025. September
[2:36:42] 2025, Bowar, Colorado. Flock cameras
[2:36:45] tracked Christian's truck passing
[2:36:47] through Bowar. A sergeant used that data
[2:36:49] plus doorbell footage to falsely accuse
[2:36:52] her of stealing a $25 package. She had
[2:36:54] to spend days gathering her own dash cam
[2:36:56] footage, Google location history, and
[2:36:58] ring video to prove her innocence.
[2:37:00] Summons voided and the officer was
[2:37:02] disciplined. February 2026, Sherwood,
[2:37:05] Arkansas. A mother would a mother was
[2:37:07] driving with her young children when
[2:37:09] Flock misread their car's plate due to a
[2:37:11] loose loose or broken frame. Misreading
[2:37:14] an X as a Y. Full felony stop was
[2:37:17] conducted with guns drawn. Parents were
[2:37:19] handcuffed in front of their kids.
[2:37:21] Cleared only after an investigation. The
[2:37:23] officer was ordered to receive
[2:37:25] » Remaining.
[2:37:26] » Thank you. was ordered to receive
[2:37:27] additional training. And in February
[2:37:29] 2026, a Milwaukee police officer was
[2:37:32] criminally charged after using Flock to
[2:37:34] stalk her romantic partner, running her
[2:37:36] plate 124 times and her ex's 55 times in
[2:37:41] the span of two months. Please end all
[2:37:43] contracts with Flock. Thank you.
[2:37:51] Stephanie Berdine followed by Elizabeth
[2:37:53] Droo.
[2:37:57] Good morning. Stephanie Berdine, 515
[2:37:59] Maple, Yukon, Oklahoma. I am here
[2:38:03] because even though I'm a Yukon citizen,
[2:38:05] I live in Canadian County and Oklahoma
[2:38:09] City is the largest municipality in
[2:38:12] Canadian County. And in the next few
[2:38:15] meetings, you all are going to be voting
[2:38:18] on some issues, PUD 21105 and 2124 that
[2:38:24] are in Miss's district. And
[2:38:26] unfortunately, she's left and can't hear
[2:38:28] me. Um, but those items are going to
[2:38:32] allow reszoning for hyperscale data
[2:38:35] centers. Right now, you all aren't
[2:38:38] getting any attention. Yukon is, Luther
[2:38:42] is, Piedmont is, but the largest
[2:38:46] data center out of all those will be in
[2:38:49] your city limits over 300 acres and
[2:38:53] everybody's saying that's the Yukon data
[2:38:55] center.
[2:38:57] Well, this meeting has been kind of
[2:38:59] enlightening because I wasn't expecting
[2:39:01] to hear other Canadian county residents
[2:39:05] concerns over your all's actions that
[2:39:08] left here quite heartbroken and unhappy.
[2:39:10] I remember when Highway 4 was just a
[2:39:13] two-lane road and it was rural and there
[2:39:17] are no Mr. Cooper, for your information,
[2:39:19] there are no things between 44th and
[2:39:22] 59th that are mostly it's mostly
[2:39:25] residential. But anyway, back to my
[2:39:27] subject.
[2:39:30] This is a hypers scale data center.
[2:39:34] Do you all really want to be responsible
[2:39:39] to be the city west of the Mississippi
[2:39:42] that's encouraging this? Because the
[2:39:44] land south on Frisco Road where this
[2:39:46] will be in your city limits, the other
[2:39:50] data center companies, the LLC's are
[2:39:53] buying or out purchasing land to where
[2:39:57] there could be a thousand acres of data
[2:40:00] center just on Frisco Road. Um, entering
[2:40:05] from the west,
[2:40:07] that's what people are going to see.
[2:40:09] Data centers, not the prettiness of the
[2:40:13] prairie and amber waves of grain, just
[2:40:16] ugly metal, stone, concrete buildings.
[2:40:21] And I really wish you all would consider
[2:40:25] your all's actions to citizens
[2:40:28] » 30 seconds
[2:40:29] » That are that live right next to your
[2:40:32] city limits. I know I pay as much in
[2:40:35] sales taxes residents of Oklahoma City.
[2:40:37] And I love this city. I am a volunteer.
[2:40:40] I've already signed up to volunteer for
[2:40:42] the Olympics. I give tours at the art
[2:40:44] museum to students from all over this
[2:40:47] state. I love Oklahoma City just as much
[2:40:50] as I love Yukon. And I wish you all
[2:40:52] would show your love to your neighbors.
[2:40:54] Thank you.
[2:40:59] Elizabeth Drew, followed by Cole McAfee.
[2:41:10] [clears throat]
[2:41:11] » Hello. Um, my name is Elizabeth Drew.
[2:41:14] I'm here uh just for myself talking
[2:41:16] against ALPRs. Uh to the counselors who
[2:41:19] are not yet picking up what we're
[2:41:20] putting down. First, I want you to think
[2:41:22] about all your neighbors and all your
[2:41:24] constituents. And I want you to think
[2:41:25] about what your level of trust is for
[2:41:27] them. They voted for you. You live next
[2:41:29] to them. That you they don't have a
[2:41:31] dossier on you. They don't pry into your
[2:41:34] personal lives. They respect that you
[2:41:36] deserve the same considerations they do.
[2:41:39] And then I want you to consider why the
[2:41:40] writers of sci-fi have long pointed to
[2:41:43] larger agencies manipulating large
[2:41:45] amounts of people with mass
[2:41:46] surveillance.
[2:41:48] Agencies which are not emotionally
[2:41:49] driven by the duty of proximity
[2:41:52] knowledge of each other. Locality. These
[2:41:55] agencies are driven by the emotions of
[2:41:57] very few individuals. Very rich
[2:41:59] individuals basically have trust
[2:42:01] problems. They exist because of trust
[2:42:04] problems. How do you build trust? the
[2:42:07] opposite of what ALPRs do. You learn
[2:42:09] what hurts, you forgive, you find the
[2:42:11] way. You're grateful for the experience,
[2:42:13] and you lean into that. You see the
[2:42:16] cycle, and you break it. Please break
[2:42:20] this cycle brought on to us by a very
[2:42:23] few individuals with trust issues.
[2:42:26] When it comes up, you may have a room
[2:42:28] full of people hired to tell you
[2:42:29] otherwise. So, I'm saying it now. Please
[2:42:32] at that time vote against any further
[2:42:35] AOPR contracts. If we can hold trust in
[2:42:38] our hearts, that's beautiful. Thank you,
[2:42:46] [clears throat]
[2:42:46] » Cole McAfee followed by Solless Evans.
[2:42:55] » Hi, my name is Cole McAfee and I'm a
[2:42:56] resident homeowner in W 6. I wanted to
[2:42:59] talk to you today ahead of the city
[2:43:01] contract renewal vote with the automatic
[2:43:03] license plate reader vendor flock about
[2:43:05] what the real impact of this invasion of
[2:43:07] privacy looks like. Back in 2019, my job
[2:43:10] involved increasing transparency work
[2:43:12] around the district attorneys council
[2:43:14] and Oklahoma district attorneys
[2:43:15] association.
[2:43:17] When I started attending the meetings of
[2:43:19] the one body that is public, the
[2:43:22] district attorneys made it clear they
[2:43:23] did not welcome me. One of the points of
[2:43:26] discussion in those meetings was the
[2:43:27] launch of the uninsured vehicle
[2:43:29] enforcement diversion program or UVED.
[2:43:32] This program launched automatic license
[2:43:34] plate readers on traveling trailers as
[2:43:35] well as in fixed locations across the
[2:43:38] state and throughout Oklahoma City in
[2:43:40] collaboration with OG&E.
[2:43:42] During the time I was engaged in
[2:43:43] transparency efforts, I began to receive
[2:43:46] UVED notices despite my vehicle being
[2:43:47] insured.
[2:43:49] In each of these, which I had to spend
[2:43:51] several hours of phone tag to resolve, I
[2:43:53] received a notice with a different photo
[2:43:55] of me in my car, the automatic license
[2:43:58] plate reader had captured uh along with
[2:44:01] the threat that I either pay the UVED
[2:44:04] program $174 or show proof of insurance.
[2:44:09] pictures of me on my way to work,
[2:44:11] outside of my doctor's office, near my
[2:44:13] home, a terrifying invasion of my
[2:44:16] privacy and capturing of my life without
[2:44:18] any wrongdoing on my part. It only
[2:44:21] stopped when media started a first round
[2:44:23] of coverage on all of the wrongful
[2:44:24] letters being sent by UVED.
[2:44:27] That's just one example of what the
[2:44:28] invasive nature of these tools looks
[2:44:30] like. Your contract with Flock and the
[2:44:32] use of automatic license plate readers
[2:44:34] exposes all Oklahoma City residents and
[2:44:37] people who move through our city to this
[2:44:38] invasive cataloging of our political
[2:44:41] beliefs, of where we travel, of our
[2:44:43] medical conditions, of who we meet with,
[2:44:46] of our daily lives. Gathering this
[2:44:49] information should require at minimum a
[2:44:51] warrant.
[2:44:54] The mass surveillance program threatens
[2:44:56] our collective privacy. Please do not
[2:44:59] renew the contract with Flock or with
[2:45:01] other automatic license plate reader
[2:45:03] vendors. Thank you.
[2:45:10] Solus Evans, followed by Steve Hunt.
[2:45:22] » Good morning. Uh my name is Solus Evans.
[2:45:24] I live at 2822 North Hudson Avenue. a
[2:45:27] resident of W 2. Um I'm a disabled
[2:45:30] veteran and the director of community
[2:45:32] for freedom Oklahoma. I'm just here to
[2:45:34] uplift what all the others have said
[2:45:36] about ending the flock contract um and
[2:45:38] remind you that it's a violation of our
[2:45:40] fourth amendment uh rights and that you
[2:45:43] all should not renew the contract and
[2:45:45] any AAL uh PRs um in the future. So,
[2:45:49] thank you.
[2:45:55] » Steve Hunt, followed by William Lee.
[2:46:01] » Is there any way we can do that 30
[2:46:02] minute thing for real this time? No.
[2:46:04] » No,
[2:46:05] he accidentally said 30 minutes last
[2:46:07] time. Um, okay. So, I'm Steve Hunt, 6300
[2:46:10] Westby Drive. Well, there's a lot going
[2:46:11] on today. Um, I appreciate all the folks
[2:46:14] coming to talk about Flock and I would
[2:46:16] certainly like to encourage them to look
[2:46:18] at Granicus, the uh, private equity
[2:46:21] owned firm that does Prime Gov. In 2018,
[2:46:23] the city approved a $53,000 a year
[2:46:27] contract with uh, Primev, who was then
[2:46:29] in 2021 bought by a private equity firm
[2:46:32] backed by Stratam and then purchased by
[2:46:35] Granicus. Now, the city's contract is
[2:46:37] $300,000, a 600% increase in the fee
[2:46:40] that we pay them. Although it is for a
[2:46:42] suite, it's basically the same thing.
[2:46:44] And they're extracting a lot of data
[2:46:46] from uh citizens. When you submit a
[2:46:48] request to the city, it goes through
[2:46:49] Granicus and they're using that data all
[2:46:52] over the country. Um it's basically what
[2:46:55] Hannah Erin talked about in Ikeman and
[2:46:57] Jerusalem, the benality of evil. It's
[2:46:59] easy to be against flock, the foaming at
[2:47:02] the mouth, you know, technological pan
[2:47:05] ponopticon, but the cumulus, I'm sorry,
[2:47:09] the uh granica stuff is just as serious
[2:47:12] and I'd like people to look at that.
[2:47:13] Okay, so some of y'all remember uh back
[2:47:15] in December, I came and spoke about the
[2:47:17] television uh broadcast for the Thunder
[2:47:21] and how they were possibly going to go
[2:47:23] insolvent. They have since become
[2:47:25] insolvent.
[2:47:26] uh they thought that they could get all
[2:47:29] the debt, get the uh asset, and then
[2:47:31] sell once the insolveny approached, but
[2:47:34] it was such a train wreck that it's now
[2:47:37] over.
[2:47:39] And um the reason I bring that up, the
[2:47:41] identical corporate rot is playing out
[2:47:43] right now on the radio side. Cumulus
[2:47:45] radio that does the thunder broadcasts
[2:47:49] filed for chapter 22. That's a joke
[2:47:51] phrase for filing chapter 11 for the
[2:47:54] second time. um they put forth a $53
[2:47:57] million IBIDA with $65 million in debt
[2:48:01] interest services.
[2:48:03] So the creditors are taking over the
[2:48:07] radio side that does the Thunder
[2:48:09] broadcasts and they're the reason that
[2:48:11] it exists in the first place. And y'all
[2:48:13] might know in 2008 2009 I was here
[2:48:16] pleading with the council to give the
[2:48:18] broadcast rights to Perry Broadcasting
[2:48:20] and I met with Russell Perry numerous
[2:48:22] times about it. He was like, you know,
[2:48:24] Steve, thanks so much for doing this.
[2:48:26] They don't care. And they don't because
[2:48:28] the reason is that Klay Bennett gets
[2:48:30] paid regardless.
[2:48:31] » 30 seconds.
[2:48:32] » They're filing for Chapter 11. And one
[2:48:34] reason that they've been able to remain
[2:48:36] relevant is that they have the contract.
[2:48:38] And Klay Bennett and Pro Basketball
[2:48:40] LLC's gets paid regardless. So, we don't
[2:48:44] know who's going to be owning Cumulus in
[2:48:46] the future because their SEC filing does
[2:48:48] not mention it. But it's time to get
[2:48:51] serious about the Thunder and the
[2:48:54] community that loves them and the fact
[2:48:56] that
[2:48:58] non-American groups and non, you know,
[2:49:01] Oklahoma groups are running the show.
[2:49:04] So, I just wanted to bring that up.
[2:49:05] There's a lot uh wanted to talk about
[2:49:07] Union Station and all that, but maybe
[2:49:10] next time. Thanks,
[2:49:14] » Brady Harold,
[2:49:17] followed by Joshua Higinbot.
[2:49:28] Hello, my name is Brady Harrell. I live
[2:49:30] at 424 Colbrook Drive and I'm just here
[2:49:34] to um encourage the city council to end
[2:49:38] its flock contract like a lot of other
[2:49:40] uh of our neighbors here today. But I
[2:49:43] thought I'd do so by sharing a few uh
[2:49:45] facts about uh Flock and uh uh why I
[2:49:50] think that it would be a good idea for
[2:49:53] us to end our uh city's relationship
[2:49:56] with them. Uh so uh first off, it's uh
[2:50:00] uh pretty widely accepted that uh
[2:50:02] Oklahoma City for some time has had
[2:50:04] around 90 or uh just above uh flock
[2:50:08] cameras in the area. That's what we
[2:50:10] actually saw recently at a uh flock town
[2:50:14] hall that some of our city council
[2:50:16] members actually had the opportunity to
[2:50:18] speak at. But if you actually go and
[2:50:20] check uh the number of flock cameras in
[2:50:23] the actual metro area has increased
[2:50:25] significantly to the point where it's
[2:50:27] almost uh entirely blocked out on maps
[2:50:31] if you ever actually go to check for it.
[2:50:34] uh leaving uh in with increases in the
[2:50:37] dozens in certain areas. Um I'd also
[2:50:41] like to make a note about uh
[2:50:43] specifically a type of uh camera that
[2:50:46] has beencome uh much more recognized in
[2:50:49] the Oklahoma metro area called the
[2:50:51] Condor [snorts] camera. It looks a
[2:50:52] little bit like this. It is a uh uh inc
[2:50:56] it is an increased level of
[2:50:58] surveillance. It has a in uh built-in
[2:51:00] tracking technology that allows for the
[2:51:03] camera to actually move and rotate uh
[2:51:06] around any facility. And it usually is
[2:51:09] seen on top of one of these large solar
[2:51:11] panel devices that allow for them to be
[2:51:14] uh transported to different areas with
[2:51:17] relative ease. So they don't have to be
[2:51:19] attached to a particular pole or
[2:51:21] neighborhood and can just be dropped in
[2:51:24] different areas.
[2:51:27] block uh cameras are capable of
[2:51:29] recording
[2:51:31] uh up to uh 14 different uh photos and
[2:51:36] uh videos at any given moment.
[2:51:40] And because of that, they uh pose a
[2:51:42] great risk to uh overexposing members of
[2:51:46] our community uh as a privacy violation.
[2:51:51] Not to mention the recent addition that
[2:51:53] a lot of flock cameras have seen to
[2:51:56] their uh equipment uh with an additional
[2:51:59] microphone.
[2:52:00] » 30 seconds remaining.
[2:52:01] » Thank you. With an additional microphone
[2:52:03] implement that uh as advertised is meant
[2:52:07] to uh help document if perhaps a gunshot
[2:52:11] or a cry for help is uh heard in the
[2:52:14] area. But it could absolutely be abused
[2:52:17] as a violation of privacy with uh people
[2:52:20] just walking around in these areas near
[2:52:22] these cameras being listened in on.
[2:52:26] Uh I think that it's very unfortunate
[2:52:30] that we've uh had a contract at all and
[2:52:33] would encourage you to please end our
[2:52:35] contract with the flock system. Thank
[2:52:37] you for your time.
[2:52:40] William Lee
[2:52:47] going once.
[2:52:51] Joshua Higen.
[2:53:08] » Good morning, y'all.
[2:53:10] My name is Josh Aken botham. I live in
[2:53:12] the seventh ward and I'm speaking behalf
[2:53:15] of Oklahoma's for privacy today about
[2:53:17] the proposed renewal of the city's
[2:53:19] contract with flock safety. Over 800
[2:53:22] people have already signed petition
[2:53:24] since we launched it at the end of May,
[2:53:26] demanding Oklahoma City not renew its
[2:53:28] contract with flock safety.
[2:53:31] Flocks automated license plate readers
[2:53:34] do more than capture images of vehicles.
[2:53:36] They create a searchable database
[2:53:38] accessible to police departments across
[2:53:40] the nation as well as federal agencies
[2:53:42] and any third-party Flock deems in its
[2:53:45] interest to give access to. Flock can
[2:53:48] and does collect and track data on which
[2:53:52] houses of worship you visit, your
[2:53:54] medical appointments, political events
[2:53:56] you attend, and even which gun shows you
[2:53:59] happen to show up at. Over time, this
[2:54:02] can reveal deeply personal information
[2:54:03] about people's lives, especially with
[2:54:05] the 60-day data retention period
[2:54:07] Oklahoma City currently has. Single
[2:54:10] camera hit can tell a little bit about a
[2:54:13] person, but months of records can paint
[2:54:15] a detailed picture, their daily
[2:54:17] routines, beliefs, relationships, and
[2:54:19] activities. Long retention periods allow
[2:54:22] flock to maintain a historical record
[2:54:24] where people have traveled even when
[2:54:26] they haven't done anything wrong. This
[2:54:28] is why we're asking for a retention
[2:54:29] period of no longer than 24 hours with
[2:54:31] the permanent deletion of data unless
[2:54:34] otherwise required by law. Oklahoma City
[2:54:37] residents should not have their travel
[2:54:39] history accessible to police
[2:54:40] departments, federal agencies, and
[2:54:42] anonymous third parties. Nor should this
[2:54:45] system be used to create expansive watch
[2:54:47] lists or facilitate broad surveillance
[2:54:49] unrelated to specific criminal
[2:54:50] investigations.
[2:54:52] Lawful criminal investigations, as far
[2:54:54] as I know, generally start with probable
[2:54:56] cause. Call me oldfashioned, but driving
[2:54:58] a car on a city street does not
[2:55:00] constitute probable cause.
[2:55:03] Bottom line, time and again, Flock has
[2:55:05] misled the public and government
[2:55:07] officials in cities across the nation.
[2:55:09] In fact, they're so little trusted
[2:55:12] cities like Dayton, Ohio, Evston,
[2:55:14] Illinois, and Dayton County, Wisconsin,
[2:55:18] that they have felt the need to put
[2:55:19] black trash bags over those cameras to
[2:55:22] keep people from being tracked and flock
[2:55:25] collecting the data even after the
[2:55:27] cities themselves ended the contracts
[2:55:29] with the company.
[2:55:31] Trusted city officials do not conduct
[2:55:34] the people's business with untrustworthy
[2:55:36] companies. For that reason, we're asking
[2:55:38] the council to reject this contract
[2:55:40] renewal and terminate the city's
[2:55:42] relationship with flock safety as soon
[2:55:44] as possible and until that contract is
[2:55:47] terminated, place guardrails on data
[2:55:49] retention no more than 24 hours and
[2:55:52] strict limits on data sharing with
[2:55:54] agencies outside of Oklahoma. Over 50
[2:55:56] cities, as already mentioned, in over 20
[2:55:59] states have deactivated, paused, or
[2:56:01] entirely canceled their contracts with
[2:56:03] lock safety. And it is time for this
[2:56:05] council to put the interests of Oklahoma
[2:56:06] City residents first. So, we urge you to
[2:56:09] reject this renewal. Thank you kindly
[2:56:11] for your time and consideration.
[2:56:24] Excuse me. William Lee. One more time.
[2:56:26] One more time.
[2:56:28] Going. Going. Gone. Ronnie Kirk.
[2:56:54] My name is Ronnie Kirk.
[2:56:57] My address is 2328 North Missouri.
[2:57:01] Mr. Pendleton, thank you for coming
[2:57:04] Saturday to the event at Memorial Park.
[2:57:09] No, everybody knows there was city
[2:57:11] council,
[2:57:12] but half the people and most of the
[2:57:14] black people don't know how to use the
[2:57:17] city council. Everybody complain, but
[2:57:20] they won't go to the city council to
[2:57:22] make a complaint. So I took the time to
[2:57:25] explain them how to go about doing that
[2:57:28] to get more to start coming.
[2:57:32] Inside that [clears throat]
[2:57:34] newspaper there's an article about me.
[2:57:37] There's also an article that fly.
[2:57:42] I've been over 50 city council meetings.
[2:57:46] That's what's on that fly.
[2:57:49] It's honor to me to be here
[2:57:52] on a holiday
[2:57:55] that I started in Oklahoma.
[2:57:58] I started June 10, June 17, 1970.
[2:58:03] So, I'm honored to get my roses where
[2:58:07] I'm living instead of after I'm gone.
[2:58:11] And I want to say thanks to Mr. Wade
[2:58:14] Gley.
[2:58:17] Before there was the thunders,
[2:58:20] there was way garland police chief.
[2:58:23] I went to Spring Lake Park Division.
[2:58:27] Wrote him a letter.
[2:58:29] Didn't have to call and I said, "Well,
[2:58:32] you send some police out to play
[2:58:34] basketball with these kids on northeast
[2:58:36] side of town to make it a little more
[2:58:38] community friendly and police friendly."
[2:58:42] They showed up.
[2:58:44] They played basketball for 4 hours. As
[2:58:48] they shift change or they got a break,
[2:58:51] Mr. Gar made sure they were there for 4
[2:58:54] hours.
[2:58:56] So, I want to say thanks to the city.
[2:58:59] Thanks to y'all. We steady going
[2:59:01] forward. We're not going backwards.
[2:59:04] So, I want to say thank y'all for what
[2:59:06] y'all doing. And let the bar know the
[2:59:09] city is beautiful.
[2:59:11] There's more things he got planned for
[2:59:13] us, too. And I want to say thank y'all.
[2:59:16] » Thank you, Mr. Kirk.
[2:59:19] Uh, we're going to recess for executive
[2:59:21] session. We'll be back.
[3:23:44] And we are journed.
[3:23:46] And we are German.