Time is remaining. A bell will sound when you have 30 seconds remaining. Before you begin your comments, please state your name. Thank you. Good afternoon and welcome to your forest city council meeting. I will call us to order. >> Today's invocation will be by Minister John McKenzie from Bridgewood's Church of Christ. Pre please rise for the invocation and remain standing for the pledges of allegiance. >> Let's pray. Our Father God, we're thankful for this day and we're thankful for the safety that's allowed us to be here. We're thankful for so many who have been out in this winter storm keeping this city moving, keeping so many of our neighbors safe. We ask that you would continue to watch over them and the challenges that are ahead. And we're thankful for especially our first responders who don't hesitate to protect and to serve. Father, we're thankful for this council. We ask that you would be with them as they deliberate the matters that are on the agenda today. We're thankful for their service. We're thankful for each one of the neighbors who are here. We ask that you would always help us to use the opportunities of blessings that you give us be a blessing here in our community. It's in Jesus name that we pray these things. Amen. >> Amen. >> Allegiance to the father should stand. The first item will be items to be continued or withdrawn. We've got two items. Uh first item is 26-5721 to be continued to the February 10th meeting. Uh so we can make an amendment and M andC 260078. This is the MSD setting designation M andC will be continued to February 10th at the request of city council member Nettles. >> Next will be consent agenda speakers. Our first speaker is Bob Willoughby, followed by Adrienne Smith. >> Got to ask why do we have three podiums? You always tell us to use the middle one. I don't know. I don't understand that. Maybe there's some reason I'm pro I didn't >> because it's center of the room and easier for >> Why do we have the Never mind. Let's not go there. I'm wasting my time. That's okay. Uh this one's about the CCPD funds. Now, before Maddie Parker became mayor, our agenda items was always right up here where everybody could read them. And also the city secretary who's doing point of order? Really? Satan's son. Okay. Why I'm call order? This is about CCPD funds. This is CCB funds what we're talking about. So why do you not want me to talk about them >> related to the consent agenda, Bob? >> Now what I want to say is that that's good. You got me off air. That's good. You want to get me off track about that? But anyway, here's Rodney. This is not Rodney. This is his website. Y'all gave him $800,000 the CCPD funds. He's been in the presentation penitentiary and there's nothing wrong with that gang member, but he has no business experience whatsoever. I got the meeting. >> Bob, I'm going to cut you off. You can do a lot of things. You're just not going to disparage members of the public that aren't here to defend themselves. It was great to see you. I'm glad you got here safely. Next speaker, Adrienne Smith. Adrienne Smith, I am one with the people. My time is my time. The Crime Control and Prevention District CCPD should should be defunded completely until implementation for better accountability, transparency, and results from both mission partners and emerging partners produce effective outcomes for the communities and individuals the program seek to serve. The Fort Worth City Council, to include the mayor, who are in direct conflict of interest as the self-appointed board members over the CCPD, should remove themselves immediately and appoint individual members from their districts as the board, just like all other boards that are governed under our city charter. Chief Eddie Garcia, thank you for being here, sir. You have an obligation not only for crime prevention, but to ensure every taxpayer dollar allocated for the Fort Worth Police Department is used in perspective of good stewardship. There is too much at stake for individuals not to produce, not to provide in reality what they produce on paper as results for real change. And you all have two uh particular groups that are due to receive funding as it relates to the CCPD uh funding. Again, what I'm speaking on is hopefully that there was no conflict of interest as it relates to either of these organizations. I do know of one that there was a conflict of interest, but I would not speak on it. But I was in the room when this particular um organization received funding maybe a year or two ago. I won't speak on it though. But the conflicts of interest come come in play when you council members know the individuals directly who are over these programs who can pony up to you maybe in private to try to get this funding and you all come before the act because you are the board. So you're going to listen to each other and you can easily say why or why not you think this particular uh these particular programs should receive funding. So that's where the conflicts of interest come in. So mayor I think I think you all need to remove yourselves as the board. I think we need to have individuals from the districts to sit on this board. the community. Chief Garci already spoke of how he wants to uh mend this relationship between the community and the department, but you all are in direct you all in direct way of that. You all you all are in direct way of that. So, we need to fix that. And Mr. Nettles and Miss Beck, I think while we were doing the pledge talking was very disrespectful and laughing. >> That's the conclusion of our speakers on the consent agenda. Got a motion. >> Second. >> Motion a second. Council, any other discussion? Please vote [snorts] was crane and but yeah. Okay, perfect. Motion carries. Next will be upcoming and recent events, recognitions of citizens, and approval of ceremonial travel if needed. >> Thank you. you if you could update some council. Council Flores and Council Larsdorf. >> Thank you, Mayor. Uh staff, can you get the slideshow up? All right, let's get through this here. Uh we kicked off the 2026 Fort Worth Stock Show Rodeo Dickies Arena. Uh several of us rode out in the grand entry and then several of us froze our rears off on the uh parade in downtown, but that was all in fun. 129th annual all western parade. Very well attended. Next slide, please. All right. Myself, um council members Beck and Hall uh joined some members of staff, uh Danna Gordono, social workers, volunteers, Taran County's point in time count. Uh my team consisted of uh Casey Thomas, also our parks director Dave Lewis. So uh saw a lot that night, interacted with some folks that are experiencing homelessness, and uh you know, kudos to everyone that did participate. Uh we also uh celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. holiday by the parade and rally in downtown Fort Worth. Several of us council members were there and again very noteworthy event and the weather cooperated. All right. And then I have one announcement. I'll be joining our chief medical officer, Dr. Jarvis, representing the city of Fort Worth, upcoming National Association of EMS Physicians uh at their annual meeting. So, it's a good opportunity to inform the nation's medical directors about what we've been doing here in Fort Worth to transition over to a firebased EMS system. That's all I have. Thank you, mayor. All right. First, want to um come out for Operation Flock Off. It's uh going to be our anti-gret meeting and community um awareness campaign. Thankfully, we got a lot of great partners uh in on this. We've we've learned a lot of lessons over the years uh in other parts of Fort Worth. It's fairly new to District 4. So, um, please come out. If you do live in District 4 or anywhere else and you just don't like these egrets, uh, please come on out. Well, I think we're going to have some kits that you can take home with you and we can talk all things egrets and the damage they cause. Next slide. All right, our resource fair. Uh, it's going to be April 25th at the North Park YMCA. Uh, last year was the first year we did it. Uh, I think we're going to have a lot of fun. This year we're going to have a dunk take out there. We got some food trucks. Uh then of course we have a lot of our city departments out there. Uh so good time to be had by all. So please put that out on your on your calendars for April 25th. Uh it's probably going to be from 11:00 a.m. to 1 p.m. But we will be sending out details as we get closer. Side. And lastly, um North Fort Worth, we lost a giant in our community this this last weekend. Um at a later date, we're going to be doing a much more formal well-deserved proclamation uh for Lance Griggs. Um, but please keep him and his families in your prayers. He's a 20-year Air Force veteran, but once he moved to Fort Worth, he immediately became part of the community. And, uh, between him and his wife have donated over 35,000 hours to Code Blue. Uh, majority of that between the hours of 10 p.m. and 3:00 a.m. So, um, he and his wife have done tremendous, incredible things for our neighborhood, and we look forward to formally recognizing him. Uh, but please keep his family in your thoughts and prayers. Rahal. One more time. Here we go. >> All right. Thank you. So, this presentation is going to be very brief. I only have one flyer to share with you. We do have a town hall meeting coming up this Thursday, uh, January 29th from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. We'll be hosting at Charlton State, uh, for at the Fort Worth campus. Um, we have guest uh speakers, our Taran County Commissioner for Precinct One, uh, Rodrik Miles. And so I just wanted to make sure that our neighbors know that this is still happening. Um, and we hope to see you there on that evening. Also, just a reminder that KOMO is hosting um their neighborhood meeting next Thursday, February 5th at 7 p.m. and they'll be um receiving a presentation from staff regarding um I think some changes with regards to farmbased code and things of that nature and updates. So, you want to be there for that information as well. And that's all I have. Stay warm, District 6. >> Council member Nettles. Yes. Uh we enjoyed the MLK parade on Monday. Uh mayor present a proclamation to MLK committee. Uh had opportunity to walk uh the streets. Next slide. The UGM grand opening for their welcoming process center. Um I was running late but we Mason Hill, Mia Hall, Michael Crane was there to help cut the ribbon. Um and they're doing a great job at UGM. Next slide. The grand entry rodeo for the Cowboys of color. Um, we had some new riders. Thankfully, all those riders on council stayed on their horse from the be from the duration of the event. Council, I mean council only. Next slide. Uh, I had the opportunity to uh swear in the Glen Crest new members. 11 members were sworn in for the neighborhood association. Uh, they're doing great work in the community. Those are all of my slides. >> Thank you, Councilman Nles because we're back. >> Right. [clears throat] First up, we have the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo. Um, still going on. So, if you have not uh had the opportunity to go out there, um it is heated, so um take that opportunity to use the city of Fort Worth heat and um check out some of our local cowboys. Next slide. Um appreciate the opportunity to walk with my colleagues in the annual MLK Day parade. Next slide. Um, in district 9, we hosted the Texans for greater greater mental health panel. Um, it was a u discussion about the latest and greatest on mental health, how it pertains specifically to PTSD in our uh military veterans and first responders. Next slide. I appreciate uh all the staff and my colleagues that came out for the point in time count um again this year. Um it as always it was um a really eyeopening experience. Next slide. All right. So no regrets with egrets. Um we are working across the city to make sure that your yards are not covered with poop. Um so if you live in the Wedgwood area or anywhere across the city of Fort Worth like uh Councilman Larsdorf said um please join us. our our meeting, the uh District 9 meeting is tomorrow, January 8th, at 6 PM at the Southwest Community Center. Um, egrets can be really problematic. And if you've never had the um unfortunate experience of having one, a nest in your neighborhood, um you'll understand why we have those meetings now to prevent them um from nesting in the future. Next slide. And last, but not not least, January 31st, we're having the Greenbryer Health Fair. I hope you can come out um from 10:00 a.m. to noon at the Greenbryer Community Center. >> Council Martinez. >> Thank you, Mayor. I just have a few flyers. Uh next slide, please. Okay, so uh District 11 will host its first citizenship workshop. We're partnering with various groups uh to have this event in District 11. Uh we will be covering the naturalization process, a presentation by the law office of Hime Varon. Uh we also will have the consulate Mexican council general Luis Rodriguez Busio to present on dual um citizenship and we will also we have invited the office of police oversight monitor in today's political climate. We really think it's important that people know their rights uh when interacting with the police or officials. And this will be at Kario Funeral Homes and the address is wrong. So it is 9 Oh, it's wrong on my slide. Sorry. It is right up there. Thank you. Next slide. We will also be having our district 11 town hall meeting on March 28th. We uh get all of our ID well the ideas on present on the program from our community. So those in district 11 who will be attending or outside of district 11 who would like to uh weigh in on what you what you want to hear at this event, please scan this QR code. We will be sharing it on social media as well. Um and the location and time is still to be determined. Well, yeah. and it's on a Saturday. And we will also be having an Earth Day event. We usually have an environmental day event, but we were pushing it up to an earlier date to Earth Day, April 22nd. It will be at Block Coffee. The time is still to be determined, and we're partnering with our environmental services department to uh have folks bring out their household hazardous waste, any electronics that they'd like to uh have recycled, and also on-site shredding. So, I hope you can make it. We're uh al also providing free coffee to anybody that attends. Um like I said, the time is still to be determined, but the location will be at Black Coffee on April 22nd. Thank you. I >> think that's a conclusion of our council presentations. >> Next will be uh non-conent agenda speakers. >> Our first speaker is Brandon Bennett, followed by Adrienne Smith. Good afternoon, Mayor Barker, members of council. My name is Brandon Bennett, and I'm a citizen at large. I'm also a man of very few words. Um, so I wrote a bunch of words down to help me out. >> Turn them off. I uh thank you all for uh giving me the opportunity to speak today on the resolution uh naming the North Animal Campus after uh the city's first K9 ambassador, Henry. Naming the North Animal Campus after Henry would be both powerful and a fitting tribute. powerful by linking Henry's exceptional life with the dedicated work of staff and the compassion of volunteers. And I want to take a moment um if I could get all of the staff from animal care and control, the volunteers, uh everybody to stand up for a second um so that council can see that uh we have some really awesome folks here today uh that even in the cold weather get the job done. It's also powerful in that it recognizes the generous giving of donors, the love of school children, and the support of the greater community. It's fitting in that Henry was once a scrawny, stray, barely alive dog that was roaming the streets of Fort Worth. picked up by animal control, nursed back to health, and adopted by the city where he served for 13 years. Henry had both a unique presence as a large and intimidating dog. And that was by design that the hardest dogs for animal control to adopt out are ones that are large and dark colored. And so we made it a point to pick Henry, not just for his presence, but also because of his temperament. He loved everyone everywhere and every time. Henry was at heart our dog. At times I'd like to say he was my dog, but nothing could be further from the truth. That's how we saw him and that's how he saw himself. Instead of living in my backyard, he lived in the front yard of Fort Worth. Long before it was built, one of Henry's favorite spots was the pond at the North Animal Campus. And so today, I think we should look at the North Animal Campus as another Fort Worth yard, a yard we built for our dog and tens of thousands of his friends that have been and will continue to be saved because we loved him so on time. >> Great job. Thank you, [applause] consent item is this because you all pulled toward the items that I signed up to speak on. So which which item is this? >> You're currently signed up to speak on 26-5721 >> ported right was ported. >> Yeah. Continued it. Yes. >> Continue till the next meeting. Right. So >> 10th I believe. >> Yeah. So let's wait till then. Okay. Next will be board and commission appointments with starting with 26-5725 board appointments from district 6. Council member Hall it does that again. There we go. Okay. Thank you. Um, I request your consideration to appoint the following individual to the board below with a partial term effective January 27th, 2026 and ending October 1st, 2026. I would recommend approval of Crystal Sullivan to the library advisory board representing district 6. Motion to second. Councel, please vote. Motion carries. >> Next is 26-5727. Board appointments from district 9. >> Council member Beck. >> I request your consideration to appoint the following individual to the building standards commission commission, Mr. Jose. Um term effective January 27th, 2026 ending October 1, 2027. Motion a second. Council, please vote. Motion carries. >> Next is 26-5718. >> Thank you, Janette. Um, council, as Brandon, I think perfectly set this discussion up today. Um, this resolution is to rename the forth code compliances north animal campus within the city of Fort Worth as Henry's animal campus. I'm sure many of us on this dis have positive things to say our interactions with Henry and really are just overall thankful for his life and legacy that he left here in our community. Um, and importantly, Brandon, thank you for your service and for taking care of our dog. Um, I'm sure you and Dana deserve a little bit of credit there as well for for raising such a great pup. But for the people behind you, we know that there was a a whole um litany of people that made his life possible and for that we are incredibly thankful. Um I'm going to turn first to Council Member Hill. >> It's really hard to follow you, Brandon. You said everything perfectly. Um I know Henry meant so much to you and um I just want to take a minute and thank Mayor Price. Thank you so much for championing this effort. Um to you, Brandon and Dana, thank you so much for opening your home and your hearts to Henry. Um and thank you the Fort Worth Animal Control. Everything that you do every day. Um it it it really is a thankless job, but when you see um the love for Henry and the love for the city of Fort Worth and the animal shelters and the animals that you take care of, um thank you so much for all that you do, especially on days like this when it's freezing cold outside. Um but more importantly today, as we um recognize Henry, I wanted to recognize Barry Alexander. Um Barry retired from 25 years of serving the city. He retired on Friday. And I just want to take a minute to read a little bit about Barry. Barry, will you stand? I'm gonna embarrass you just a little bit. Um Barry, thank you so much for 25 years of dedicated service to the city of Fort Worth and Fort Worth Animal Control. For a quarter of a century, you have served our residents, animals, and fellow city employees with integrity, compassion, and the biggest heart. For the past four years, Barry has served as superintendent of the North Animal Campus, providing steady leadership and a strong commitment to both animal welfare and team support. Throughout your career, it has included roles as field supervisor, interim superintendent, and throughout those roles, you have brought valuable firsthand experience into every decision. You are also deeply involved with Henry, helping him thrive as a beloved presence that connected the community, staff, and volunteers. Your leadership, Barry, and dedication have left a lasting mark on Fort Worth animal control in the city of Fort Worth. Thank you so much for all that you've done. Thank you, Barry. [applause] And mayor, I'd like to make a motion to approve. >> Got a motion and a second. Council to approve. Please vote. >> Let's try one more time. Sorry. >> Okay. Can y'all fix it on your end, Janette? >> Yeah, we can vote for Thank you. Motion passes. Thank you. I think before everybody gets away, if y'all if you came today to support Henry, let's take a picture in the well and then we'll move on with the agenda. So everybody come down for just a second. Council can join them all down there, please. >> [laughter] >> I saw that. But we're not doing that. Oh wait. I'm on double duty here. >> Wait, one more. I can send it to you. I know. It's great. That's so hot. Next will be MNC 26-000064. Council member Hall, excuse me. I move to to close the public hearing and approve. >> Motion a second. Council, please vote. Motion carries. Next is MNC26-000068 from Martinez. >> Yes. I move to close public hearing and approve. >> Second. >> Motion and a second. Please vote. Motion carries. Next is MNC26-000070. That's from BLO. Sorry about that. I have to get my mouse over. Motion to approve. >> Motion a second. Council, please vote. Motion carries. >> Next is ZC-25-158. >> We have a few speakers on this item. The first is Randy Bishop, followed by Austin Rankin. Hi, my name is Randy Bishop. Um, I don't oppose the whole, you know, we got too many liquor stores, but oppose this thing. I've been at Jackstar Liquor since uh 1982, 44 years. Had my whole life there. The store's been there since 1974. And I'm asking you if y'all would change something in that if something gets destroyed more than 75% that I can bring it back as a jackar liquor like it always has been. Right now if something fire tornado hits it 75% loss I lose everything my whole life. That's not really fair. I would lose the insurance part of the insurance um because I couldn't build it back as a liquor store. I just wish y'all would look into this a little further and maybe say that stores over 50 years old are totally exempt. >> Thank you, Randy. Our next speaker is Austin Rankin, but I'm going to ask one of our city staff to meet with Mr. Bishop here on the side. Randy, if you'll just stay close here. I think Jess McEn is going to visit with you for a minute. Thank you. Austin Rankin, followed by Danielle Tucker. Mayor and council members, thank you for having me. My name is Austin Rank and I am the regional director of operations for Specs Liquors here in Fort Worth. I'm here to speak on behalf of Specs and the Texas Package Store Association, representing over 3,700 liquor stores in the great state of Texas. I'm here today to speak against the ordinance that would severely impact the liquor store industry in Fort Worth by limiting the distance between liquor stores in certain zones while running counter to the state alcohol laws in the middle of the game after we legally entered the Fort Worth market. Liquor stores operate in Texas under state statute and are highly regulate regulated for good reason. We sell legal products to adults 21 years or older. This proposed ordinance is anti-competitive and anti- business. The mere suggestion that the products that we sell are problematic within a certain geographical area is ridiculous. We sell alcohol for offremise consumption, which means you take our products home, to events, to family gatherings, and other places where it is legal to take and consume them. [clears throat] We aren't the only ones that sell alcohol in the city of Fort Worth. Convenience stores frequently sell alcohol and yet there is nothing in this ordinance that would prevent them from locating across the street from one another, which they frequently do. How [snorts] is this fair? Consuming alcohol in a moving vehicle is against the law. Consuming alcohol in a zone designated for no open containers is also against the law. The city of Fort Worth currently has the tools to regulate certain aspects of consumption of alcohol while state law regulates where and how it is sold. We believe this ordinance is an overreach and I would ask you to vote against this ordinance. I want my city, the city of Fort Worth, to be the best place to do business in a responsible and legal matter. Limiting where liquor stores can be located does not accomplish this goal. Thank you for your time and I hope you can support business and not stifle it. Thank you. >> Thank you. Our next speaker is Danielle Tucker. Good afternoon, Mayor Pro Tim, council and staff. My name is Danielle Tucker and I manage and control and own seven properties zone between e neighborhood commercial and mixed use. Some with existing structures and others that are vacant land. All are located in areas that have lacked meaningful development for more than 40 years. Imposing additional restrictions now risk additional another adding another 40 years of barriers nearly a century of stalled progress these corridors. I am here today in opposition to this proposed zoning change. This justification for this ordinance focuses on lowincome areas, suggesting children walk past certain businesses and may be influenced by them. That framing unfairly stigmatizes entire communities and ignores decades of disinvestment. If children are being failed, it is not because of neighborhood serving businesses. It's because of systematic issues zoning alone cannot fix. So I ask a simple question. What good will this ordinance do when there are already convenience stores on nearly every corner of the city? Convenience stores sell alcohol today and are far more prevalent than package stores. And importantly, they are classified as general retail under the zoning code. A package store, by contrast, is highly regulated alcoholonly business with strict licensing, city requirements, and restricted entry. Convenience stores do not have these same limitations. If exposure is truly the concern, the ordinance does not address the most common and broadly permitted retail use. The city's own material shows that liquor and package stores are already prohibited in ER and FR districts in certain formbbased codes and are already subject to a 300t separation from churches, public schools, and public hospitals. the presentation that lists options to amend zoning, but those are policy proposals, not evidence that existing rules are failing. So, I respectfully So, respectfully, what problem is this ordinance solving? I want to be very clear. Certificates of occupancy are the real drivers of this issue. Zoning determines what uses are allowed and certificates of occupy determine what actually opens. When those tools are misaligned or inconsistent inconsistently applied, they create clustering. So now I have to rent out my building at 1301 South Riverside today if y'all pass this zoning because that would be the only liquor store on Riverside. So I appreciate your time and your consideration on this matter. Thank you, >> council. That's the conclusion of our speakers on on this item. Are there any questions or comments related to this voting case? Got a motion and a second. Council, any other discussion? Please vote. Yes. Council member Flores. Okay. Council member Nettles. Did you just come out there? Motion carries. Thank you. Next is MNC26-000065. Motion and a second. Please vote. >> [snorts] >> Motion carries. >> Mayor, that concludes all of the action items. That gets us to public comments. >> Thank you. Our first speaker is Dolores Phillips. John Frost, James Smith, I've not seen him here, I don't think. Adrienne Smith. Adrian will follow Bob Willoughby. I will end how I begun. Adrienne Smith. I am one with the people. We are back on the four council agenda [snorts] but we never should have been taken off. Thank you to Bob Willoughby for your relentless advocation for the people's voice not being limited because certain individuals have made everything so personal. Thank you to the collective will and voices that have come out over the last several months regardless of where we stood on the issues that we didn't always agree up on. Thank you. Now, former Mayor Bessie Price just left out of this place, and I wish she was here to hear what I was what I'm saying. You know, Mayor Parker, you served as her chief of staff for five years. She served as our mayor for 10 years. Not once did they ever change how we, the people, played a part as it relates to the agenda. So although you have added us back in the public comment aspect, we're not finished. When are you going to add us back to the full agenda to where we can speak on any item we want to rather for or against consent or non-consent for three minutes? When will we get that back? And I'm not just asking you, Mayor Park, and I'm asking this council, because everything begins and ends with you, mayor, but you all who go along with it, just to go along with it, you're just as well as guilty. To again, Miss Hall and Miss Peoples, thank you. newest elected council members. I truly truly truly in my heart continue to give you the grace and and thank you for how you have conducted yourselves thus far. I did watch the work session this morning. There is a divide. We know it's just like the commissioners. this political stuff, but hopefully you all will get it together and become one on the issues that are important and stop picking and choosing what's important to you. But again, Mayor Parker, three minutes, consent and non-consent agendas. We used to be able to speak on those items. Oh, did I forget about remote speaking? You still haven't restored remote speaking. Look outside. The weather is cold. The streets haven't cleared up. I'm pretty sure there are people who wanted to be here but could not make it. But I'm sure if we had remote speaking they probably could have called in and get given their voices to whatever they want to get our voice to Mayor Pora but you forgot about that aspect of it. So this is just a small small thing right now but we we can do more PA. >> Our next speaker is Bob Willoughby. One more thing on the remote stuff. How about the disabled? You limited the disabled. They had to come down here to speak. You took away their rights. You don't care, do you? You see this? This was in 21. A lot of you council members like my council member Deborah, people won't know about this because she never attended a council meeting in her life till she got there. If she had known and done her civic duty, I wouldn't feel this way about her, but she didn't. So, she doesn't have respect for us. Here's the old meeting under Park before Parker. This is what Parker put in. And what what it says is know the new schedule. It didn't ask us. It tells us that's what a dictator does. I want we want this put back before Maddie Parker. And I want to stop this crud about leadership. You're not leadership. You hadn't been here to leader. How can you lead? We don't need What we need is partnership. We are the stockholders. You're the board and chair. It's our money. I want partnership. We go back to square one. And if you want to change it, change it with the people. That's all. But you didn't do that. You said no. You're SC. Once you got in here, mayor, you change this place around like you would redecorating your house. That's what you did. You have no concern for people. No concern for this city. You don't care. You're disrespectful as can be. You're like a child. You're too young. You're too immature to be there. you, a matter of fact, I'm sure you're going to step down. You got your $2 million in campaign funds. That's why you ran again. I surprised you ran again. The first term was to protect Betsy Price. She got uh fired the police chief for turn for squealing on her about robbing us. We'll never know what that was. We were robbed. Oh, don't shake your head. Unless you're going to come out and meet me and confront in front of the people, don't shake your head. That's a mission of guilt. You can't come out. Okay? You're a liar and you know it. Betsy Price robbed us selling information or the parking lot thing. I we don't know. But you paid the police chief $5.5 million so she wouldn't he wouldn't go to court and it would come out. That's why they put you in here. That's why they put a million dollars in your campaign to put you here the first place. And Mayor Bessie Price said she wouldn't trust anybody but you. Of course, you're just as crooked. That's why that's why you're there. Now, the second time, this is not this is a free speech. This is not a point of order. So, I don't want to hear you. Okay. Um, >> the second thing is that when you ran the second time, I couldn't figure out why because you protected the merit. Second time you ran, you got the $2 million in campaign funds. If you want to be a good council, you start putting things on the ballot for us like term limits, campaign contribution limits, change the change the charter, amend the charter, amend it to where uh look at them laugh and talk, I'll tell you. But anyway, anyway, that's okay. Anyway, we need to put it back until we get back. So, we won a battle getting back to here, but we're still a war. And Maddie, I'm glad you're here because if I need a finality for my book, you made it for me. Thank you, >> Council. That concludes all of the speakers and items. >> Lots to unpack there. Um, okay. Very important. Tonight or to this afternoon, we are closing our meeting in honor of Lance Griggs, who passed away this past Friday. On behalf of the Fort Worth City Council, we extend our deepest condolences to Judy and the entire Griggs family. Lance was the definition of a servant leader. He proudly served 20 years in the US Air Force, including supporting B-52 missions in Vietnam from Guam. And he brought that same sense of duty home to Fort Worth. In Somerfields, Lance led Citizens on patrol as captain since 1995, dedicated thousands of volunteer hours to keeping neighbors safe, and helped build a community newsletter with Judy that connected more than 5,000 homes each month. Lance also continued serving through city advisory boards, including the parks department citizens advisory board. His legacy is one of the quiet strength, commitment, and love for community. Today, we are honored. We're honoring his life, his service, and the lasting impact that he leaves behind. Our prayers are with the Griggs family. Council meeting is adjourned.