e for e e e e your city council public comment meeting before mayor Parker calls the meeting to order we ask that you please silence all electron IC devices for those of you who requested to speak there are two podiums in the chamber the podium in the back is for individuals with Mobility concerns we ask all other speakers to step forward to the front Podium each Podium has a countdown clock located to the speaker right that will indicate how much time is remaining when you have 30 seconds left a bell will sound before you begin your comments please state your name thank you welcome to your for city council meeting I will call us to order tonight's invocation will be by Pastor Ben Weiss From Grace Community Church please rise for the invocation and remain standing for the pledges of Allegiance father we thank you for a wonderful city thank you for men and women who desire your wisdom desire for you to give us direction we ask for your favor your blessing we ask that you help us tonight in your name we pray Jesus amen amen thank you IED Al to the god mayor and Council our first item will be approval of the minutes from the March 26th and April 2th and 9th council meeting got a motion and a second Council any other discussion please vote motion carries mayor that concludes the action items thank you Janette our first Speaker this evening is Bob Willoughby followed by Denita bracket is Bob here de bracket is Denita here no problem David Martinez is David here Tommy Chapman Chatman thank you Mr Chapman Mr Chapman well that's not working well jet we'll come back to if he answers I think U Miss FAL tab is here no then James Smith I haven't seen James come in Adrien Smith by phone Janette let me work out the issue with the remote speakers mayor no no luck on the phone I have them I just can't connect right yet give me one second Bob you're up and then we'll try by phone yes sir you were first actually at the top I've already called your name but since you walked in off Mr Martinez you'll be up next hi there okay are we here let's see [Music] oh there it is I got that yeah you got to change this a four minutes instead of three minutes you took away the whole council meeting GE you can give us another minute yeah beond time Bob point of view or something here already no I'm just be on time next time okay oh okay okay this this uh right here this is great this is only a bottom part of an email from our our attorney here and local ver education program this is a good good piece of uh set to work with you get from the city first thing is I got to ask the attorney when did you start deciding who and what employees we talk to because this says as far as reference to Michelle goo you are hereby barred from any future communication or contact with Michelle du do not email her her call her leave her voicemail or address or approach or yell and I don't like that yelling cuz I want to yell to try to get her attention from this I don't go and yell at her that could be misled that's not not like I'm yelling at her I follow her while she is arriving to work why don't follow her when she's driving to work either that's another misleading thing on here or leaving work uh right here you know anyway anyway it says that I can't do that you know that you're not supposed to talk to her at all and she's the one we have the problem with okay it says here that I made baseless falses attacks against her character that's not true either it says that I've embarrassed her she embarrassed herself by running away and not answering questions I didn't do that she did that and you know what the big one here is I'm trying to find it it says that however I can go after any other employee in the city but not Michelle goo are we working in a private business or is this a city cuz that ain't the way it works in the city and when did you start making that decision and here's the beautiful thing see how it signed off here with Le it does not say sign off by city manager mayor counsel no one signs off just the attorney now I've gotten your threatened letters before when you threaten to sue me for putting stuff in the paper and then I had to put that in the paper I had to give blood just just because you threatened me and apparently it was true because you didn't sue me over and it had a hard copy sent so we got 307 seconds left now anyway this is a you know a waste of taxpayers money and don't you shouldn't be sending me letters like this unless they signed off by the Marinette I'd like to know who told you or did you do this on your own you know it are you on drugs or what to send me this thank you order there we go I knew I'd hit somebody so Bob I'm gonna say this as calmly as possible just ask a question that's all I did there's no question in what you just stated I just Behavior especially towards Miss Scot has really rised the level of harassment it's intimidating and it makes people fearful I understand if you don't recognize that that's coming from you but it is all of us have been subject to it you have followed people to the parking garage you have yelled and screamed and we are no longer going to subject our city employees to that type of behavior so you have been appropriately warned by our city ATT attorney lean Guzman I would absolutely heed the warning and do not cross the line and contact Miss go am I clear thank you for coming you put that our next speaker is Mr Martinez how are you hello how y'all doing we're good okay uh councel uh today I'm going to talk about Economic Development and child development um right now A lot of people are talking about a lot of neighborhoods in Southside and North Side District 891 and two um are make a statement saying that there's um they're against economically they're against the hotel north side which we need those tourist dollars those Hotel taxes they don't even understand that the hotel taxes goes to pay for child development you got to have you can't have child health care and child um school without paying taxes where those Hotel taxes come and instead of going to their property taxes being raised it goes toward the the sales taxes and everything that brings into our community now one of the things I'm uh I'm pushing for is the um is doing bringing in program stem and steam programs uh sort of like a pyramid we see the consolidation with some of the schools JP Elder uh Kirk Patrick uh and uh was it mlan other schools in Southside uh so one of the things ideas I had for right now was that we bring in the stem and steam programs that are funded by uh Department of Defense contractors such as Bill helicopter and likey Martin and Ron and some others that are DOD uh defense contractors and they'll pay for it that way it doesn't have to come out of the the uh property taxes or having property taxes raised or anything but one of the things I was uh talking about is what the for DD was that we could we could have these programs be funded by federal federal funds and not really the federal government but like the uh partners and depart defense contractors and having the pyramids for the parents that are fighting against well forth ISD is in competition with the charge schools and the charge schools were helping and now it's going to be for the state I think is going to allow for funding for the uh private schools also so being fair to everybody I'm trying to make it competitive for for THD to be competitive and have fast tracking programs for the kids so they can go into college and then TCC would help out and it' be free getting their associates degree before they even graduate and then moving forward with having um having experiences and like that having the associates agree to move forward and they could also those credits would go over to their college program and then state funded or schools or whatever anyways the reason why I'm bringing this up now is because my mother's uh Health has changed and she's blind and I have to be there 24/7 so I'm not going to be able to do this so hopefully somebody could pick up where I start Ed um until I'm able to get my mother situated where I can help out again thank you God bless thank you David being here any luck with the phone calls there Janette okay go ahead [Music] please Mr Chapman hello this is Tommy Chapman go ahead yes you can talk sir thank you yeah we can hear you good evening okay okay um um on the uh 25th of uh April I was uh it was a warrant put out for my arrest even though my lawyer sent uh a paperwork to the judge saying that he had a uh a murder trial in another County and it was still arrest put out for me and so even when I got in there uh my I got shot in my leg so I told the man that I couldn't well the uh bubble slippers cuz my feet kind of ball up in the uh ball anyway uh I asked them to write a report saying that I told them that I couldn't wear because the two pins at the bottom of my feet is broke so I can't just walk in them slippers anyway I was slammed to the ground they ripped out the uh the dreads out the middle of my head uh they kicked me in my face they kicked me in my body everything and I was just wondering what what can I do cuz I well I made a police Poli report um the amulance came I I have it all documented uh pictures everything but I'm kind of lost say what to do Mr Chapman just for clarification did this occur at Taran County jail yes ma'am so for the the Sheriff's Office correct yes ma'am okay at this point the best thing for us to do is pass these concerns along directly to the county which we will do so and we appreciate you bringing this to our attention Okay thank thank you sir our next speaker by phone I believe is Adrien Smith Mr Adrian Smith Adrien Smith I am one with the people now mayor you know that last caller that was very dismissive for you you know you all are not going to pass this that information along please stop please stop anyway to the collective will of the people who have come and stood on behalf of the people of Palestine as the continual war crimes of the uh Nation Israel continues to disrupt their livelihoods let me say one thing I stand with you continue going forward in your fight continue allow your voices to be heard continue allow allow your presence to be felt and know that we are 10 months away until we go into our next election season as it relates to this city so as the young lady stated on the last uh public comments uh meeting don't forget remember we the people have the power to unseat anyone who sits before us also to all of the taxpayers people listening people present people watching wherever you find yourself uh as my voice goes forward vote no on proposition a May the 4th 2024 we do not need any more money going towards the Fort Worth Convention Center considering this city has already fumbled enough of the financial money that was marked for this city to bring about the necessary changes we need for all of Fort work so vote no on proposition a as relates to the renovations of the Ken County Fort Worth Convention Senate to Mr nles thank you sir for your vote on last week um I I truly think you get it you understand the uh the Dynamics of what what this city is doing with taxpayers money Chief uh Joe F he will win this case he will win this case so thank you for your vote uh Mr Block I just want to say thank you sir for listening to your constituents and standing with your constituents on as it relates to the environmental injustices that have come to try to take over your District so thank you Mr Block and as always Adrian Smith I am one with the people I will see you all on next week thank you thank you I'm just going back to make sure is Miss faral T here please good evening Council thank you for calling me I guess for the second time um it is now day 193 for the live stream of the genocide in Gaza the horrors continue and we don't know how many more ways we need to tell you that we are heading into a new normal that will have consequences for generations to come just to give you an idea of how things are changing in 1903 there were pograms prgrams in Russia that the city of Fort Worth spoke against today we are standing with the p perpetrators in our silence if you forgot what a pogram is it's the organized cruelty or Massac of a helpless People Under The Diplomatic and Military cover of the US P prgrams are occurring all over the West Bank according to the Israeli Human Rights group beam 17 Villages have been successfully cleansed cleansed by settler violence hundreds have been killed since October 7th and this is in the West Bank and not inza where Hamas does not exist ancient Christian communities are are fighting there for on their own battle for Survivor against settlers in Jerusalem we believe in life liberty and justice for all and your inaction here is changing that like the boiling frog it will be too late when you realize that its life in Liberty is just for some and not for all and it'll be way too late when you realize that you were no longer included in that sum I implore you all to please agree to meet with us at teachings or individually so we can discuss a resolution that works for the city that works for the betterment and Improvement of all of our citizens that fights not only anti-Semitism but islamophobia and will better and set a great precedence for the city of Fort Worth we should be the first to make this change all of the cities of Texas will Pro likely follow if one of us takes that stance and I implore you guys to be the first city thank you for your time thank you Council I believe that's the last of our speakers this evening um and that's that'll be it I'll call meeting to whatever conclusion for