Good morning. We're going to get started this morning with an invocation led by Pastor Leslie Johnson of East Lake Church, Cumberland. And that will be followed by the Pledge of Allegiance led by Janice Shelton representing Girl Scout Troop 7110. Please stand as you are able. But Lord, let us keep our passion and our love for what we do, for our city council, for the people here that are gathered. Let us have also a level head. Let us come together in our differences that we may see different sides of things, that we may come to an understanding of each other. Lord, we ask a blessing upon the works of the day that that passion and that love for what they do would just come through everything that they decide, everything that they have to deliberate today. Lord, continue your presence over the people here. May be a wonder and a peace and excitement for the day. Lord, we put it in your hands and we give thanks. You are our God and our guidance. Be here with us with all our differences and all our similarities. In the Lord's name we pray. Amen. Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, Pastor Johnson, and thank you Janice. All right, I call this meeting of the city council to order. We are now at item three, office of the mayor, and uh do have a few presentations to make. So, I will make my way to the front. Maybe our friends here for bike month come forward. Where are all of the Yeah. Yeah, just just just fill all the space up here. That'll be fine. All right. So, May is National Bike Month and it is also bike month right here in OKC. And so I would ask the clerk to read this proclamation so we can learn a little bit more about it. Whereas the League of American BIC bicyclists recognizes May as National Bike Month, which is celebrated in communities across the country. And whereas National Bike to Work Day will be observed on Friday, May 16th with group bike rides hosted by the city of Oklahoma City, the Association of Central Oklahoma Government's ACOG and downtown OKC partnership. And whereas the annual bike fest held on Sunday, May 4th was a family-friendly festival celebrating the benefits of bicycling for fun, fitness, and transportation. And whereas the city of Oklahoma City, ACOG, downtown OKC partnership, Embark, local bicycling organizations, and bicycle shops are promoting public awareness and safety education to help reduce serious and fatal collisions. And whereas creating bicycle friendly communities improves residents health, well-being, quality of life, community spirit, and safety while reducing pollution, congestion, and wear on roads. And whereas the ongoing implementation of BikeWalk OKC, Oklahoma City's comprehensive bicycle and pedestrian plan, is building a city-wide network for riders of all ages and abilities. And whereas the city of Oklahoma City has secured tens of millions of dollars to expand bicycle and trail infrastructure through the better street safer city program, multiple federal grants, and the maps for initiative. Now therefore, I, David Halt, mayor of the city of Oklahoma City, do hereby proclaim May 2025 as National Bike Month in Oklahoma City. Thank you. Well, the last decade or two um really represent a unique time period in our city's history relative to our commitment to uh bicycle safety and infrastructure especially. You know, we really uh are challenged in a city our size with 620 square miles so uniquely large as we are. But uh we have put bicycle infrastructure in really every initiative of the last 20 years and it's uh starting to make a difference. And of course, we have a 100 miles of trails now. And uh it's really an exciting time in Oklahoma City's history if you are a bicycle enthusiast. And so we wanted to celebrate that this morning with people of all ages. And I think we're going to hear a few words uh from Max. You might introduce yourself and feel free to share as well who you are joined by today. Sure. Hi. Thank you, Mayor Max Harris with the planning department. And every year during May, National Bike Month, we just like to take the opportunity to kind of express some appreciation uh from both within government and uh outside organizations who are doing work to make biking safer and and making bike Oklahoma City more bike making Oklahoma City more bike friendly. Um so going to fly through some plugs here. Uh I think standing here we have representatives from ODOT um ACOG who's just put on bike fest at the Wheeler Ferris wheel. It was a great event. Uh we have Oklahoma Bicycle Society. We have Major Taylor Cycling Club and um kind of want a special shout out here to Bike Club OKC. That's where all these kids are from and uh they do great work. Yeah. Round of applause. Great. That's welld deserved. So, uh, Bike Club OK Casey does great work, and I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna say this as best as I can here, uh, to, uh, teach kids to, uh, navigate streets safely, to learn the ABCs of of cycling, um, and and kind of help really build the future of of, um, you know, what biking around town means and using our trails and and all of that. So, um, they have at the end of the program, the school year, they receive free bikes and helmets, and that's what the organization provides. So, on this Saturday at Scissor Tale Park at 10:00 a.m., there's going to be that graduation ceremony, and at 11:00 at Wheeler Ferris Will kind of a celebration of everything. So, everybody's invited to come out to that. Um, and then the following Friday is Bike to Work Day at Bsentennial Park. So, that'll be a fun event, too. free coffee from Junction Coffee. Um, okay. I think I covered everything. Thanks everybody for being here uh and showing up today and thank you mayor and council for your support and persistence and patience as we as we all kind of continually make Oklahoma City a better place to bike. Sounds good. Let's hear from everybody who came out for bike month. All right. Thank you all. Yeah, you can head out if you want. All right, let's bring forward our folks here for public works week, Debbie and team. Well, of course, public works is a core function of our city government. And to learn a little bit more about that, let's read this proclamation. Whereas public works professionals are responsible for the infrastructure, facilities, and services that support everyday life in Oklahoma City. And whereas public works professionals build, improve, and protect our transportation infrastructure, water supply, water treatment, and solid waste systems, public buildings, and other essential structures and facilities. And whereas the maintenance and operation of these systems rely on the dedicated efforts of engineers, managers and staff working in both the public and private sectors. And whereas public works systems contribute directly to sustainable and resilient communities, supporting environmental protection and economic growth. And whereas the efforts of public works professionals are vital in advancing public health, enhancing safety, and improving the quality of life for all residents. And whereas 2025 marks the 65th annual National Public Works Week sponsored by the American Public Works Association to recognize the contributions of public works professionals across the nation. Now therefore, I, David Hol, mayor of the city of Oklahoma City, do hereby proclaim the week of May 18, 2025 to be National Public Works Week in Oklahoma City. Thank you. So, fundamentally, of course, we're wanting to recognize the many folks on our city staff team who work in this area and they are led by our public works director, Debbie Miller. We'd love to hear a few words from you, Debbie. Thank you. Thank you, mayor and council. Um this is for um National Public Works Week and this is to recognize and to kind of promote and let people know what public works does. We touch every part of your life from streets to water to sewer to drainage to traffic. It's just a big gambit and our guys are always out there in the bad weather doing the snow removal or in the pits fixing the water lines when it's cold. So, we just wanted to one let everyone know this is what we do and to recognize all of our crews here. Excellent. Well, let's hear it for our public works professionals. Thank you, Debbie. Thank you all. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Why don't we bring up uh our realtors? You're all in here, right? Are you out there? You in here? Okay, good. Yeah, come on up. I should be expect a big crowd. I often say that uh realtors are in many cases the first people that uh new residents meet here in Oklahoma City. you're sort of our welcome committee and uh uh you have also been great partners uh to us at city hall on many initiatives and we're going to hear a little bit more about that. It is realtor day and I'd like to ask the clerk to read this proclamation. Whereas realtors are actively engaged in efforts to enhance the quality of life for all residents of Oklahoma City, encouraging their members to contribute toward making our city a great place to live and work. And whereas realtors advocate for home ownership and fair housing through a range of initiatives including the development and implementation of plans, policies, and programs that increase access to safe, quality, and affordable housing. And whereas realtors are key supporters of transformative community initiatives that have shaped Oklahoma City's growth such as maps, keep OKC big league, and the OKCPS bond. And whereas realtors are actively involved in addressing pressing community issues, including efforts to make homelessness rare, brief, and non-recurring. And whereas realtors consistently engage with various stakeholders to support thoughtful and sustainable development in Oklahoma City. Now, therefore, I, David Hol, mayor of the city of Oklahoma City, do hereby proclaim May 6, 2025 as Realtor Day in Oklahoma City. Well, thank you. Um, you know, I really don't think we should ever take it for granted what a great partnership we have here. You're actually you have a a major policy proposal on today's agenda that you're very interested in. and you're very involved in the development and passage of major initiatives. And uh not to call them out, I'll leave names out, but you know, I I I certainly noticed that in a neighboring community last year, um there was a major proposal to make a core investment in that city's infrastructure and the realtors there were the leaders of the opposition. So, I do never take it for granted that Oklahoma City's realtors stand shoulder-to-shoulder with us and we work together uh to invest in our community. And of course, we've all seen how those investments have made such a difference and helped your business and and helped our city and it's been mutually beneficial. So, um, we would love to hear a few words from, uh, Vanessa, who is you're the president, current president, Vanessa Johnson, current president of the Oklahoma City Realtors. Uh, the floor is yours. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. I wrote a few things down. Good morning. Thank you so much, city, city council members, city manager Freeman, dedicated staff, and everyone here. On behalf of the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Association Realtors, the folks who help people find their little slice of OKC, thank you for the kind words in the proclamation. Um, if you're an OKC me, well, you're all standing up here, so I don't have to have you stand up, but I appreciate you guys all being here. You make the annual realtor day at city hall possible. Think of it as our our annual see how the sausage is made tour of the city government. This day connects our members with important work happening here. As the resolution noted, we've long supported initiatives like maps and the go bond that make our city a better place to live. It takes more than just money. It also takes understanding. That's why we bring our association leaders here each year to see firsthand what you do, meet you and staff, and get a real sense of how our city operates. We at Oakmar are proud to help improve Oklahoma City's quality of life. We believe the best way to do that is to be informed and engaged. It's not just enough to be a member. We need to do the heavy lifting of understanding the challenges and strategies you're working on to make OKC the place people want to be. So, thank you again for this. We look forward to our continued partnership with you and the city council as we work to build an even better community. We're in this together, making OKC the place where everyone feels right at home. Thank you again. Thank you. Let's hear for our realtors. It's yours. Thank you all. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Okay. And finally, Dominique, come on down. Well, it's time now to recognize our teacher of the month. And to learn a little bit more about you, I'd ask the clerk to read this resolution. Whereas, Dominique Ponlay has been named teacher of the month for May 2025 by the Oklahoma City Public Schools Foundation and Rotary Club of Oklahoma City. And whereas Dominique was an Oklahoma City public schools district teacher of the year finalist for 2024. And whereas Dominique serves as a science and study skills teacher at Southeast Middle School where she mentors new educators and implements innovative teaching methods. And whereas Dominique fosters an inclusive and dynamic learning environment where all students feel valued and encouraged to excel. And whereas Dominique's dedication extends beyond the classroom, contributing to the school community through her involvement in various committees and initiatives. And whereas Dominique believes in the transformative power teaching to change lives and improve students futures. And whereas Dominique Ponlay demonstrates strong leadership skills, compassionate nature, and commitment to educational excellence. Now therefore, be it resolved by the mayor and council of the city of Oklahoma City that they do hereby recognize and commend Dominique Ponslay on her selection as May 2025 teacher of the month by the Oklahoma City Public Schools Foundation and Rotary Club of Oklahoma City. Well, thank you. By the way, there was a typo there. We'll get the teachers in the future to edit these for us. Um but uh all in all great information and uh we're very grateful for the service you provide the young people of our city. Um this is a resolution. We're going to hear some words from you here in just a minute, but u this is a resolution. So let's get a vote on this one if we can get a um motion in a second. We got it. Cast your votes. I wish to vote. I [Laughter] All right, passes unanimously and with Kamal's support as well. So, yes. Um, well, we'd love to hear a few words from you. The floor is yours. Sure. Well, thank you very much, uh, everyone for being here and for this honor and recognition, you know, especially during this, uh, teacher appreciation week. So, thank you for your time this morning. Um, I would just like to say that my work would not be possible and none of this recognition would have come if it weren't for the incredible young people in my classroom. They are the pride of Oklahoma City. Um, and I just feel so joyous when I work with them and they're becoming such incredible young scientists. I hope they stay in the state and go into engineering and aeronautics and they have such bright futures and I'm just so proud to be able to work with them here in Oklahoma City in our public school system. So, thank you for recognizing their work because their work is just as much as part of why I'm up here. So, thank you and I will make sure to say South Oklahoma City, this is for you guys. Awesome. Let's hear it for Dominic. Thank you so much. You have one job. Okay, we have a few more items on office of the mayor. We have some uh appointments. So items B through G are appointments to Mechanical Code Review, uh Oklahoma City County Board of Health, the Post-employment Benefits Trust, uh the Redevelopment Authority, um the Riverfront Redevelopment Authority, and Urban Renewal. We could take those with one motion. Have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. passes unanimously. And then we also have item 3H, which is a resolution approving my travel expenses to attend the US Conference Mayor's annual meeting in Tampa in June. Um, and we could take a motion on that. Have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. passes unanimously and with the required six affirmative votes. Uh item four are items from council of which we have none today which brings us to item five, city manager reports. Mr. City Manager. Thank you, mayor. We've got a couple of reports that are on today in addition to the claims and payroll. One is the CVB third quarter report and um have that in your packets. If you have any questions, we're glad to respond to those. Um then we have the sales and use tax report. you know, we watch this very closely and report on this regularly. This is for the month of April. Um, it's uh the sales tax itself was down 6.6%. And it's the most significant decline that we've had in a single month. Um, the good news is we have preliminary information from May and u we do see some growth in May. It's just been up and down throughout the year and I think um half you know half through through this part of the year we're basically at a place where we're just about a half percent uh decline. So everything balancing out with this check we're about a half percent decline and I think it's just something we're just going to have to continue to monitor. But right now between sales and use tax we're $12 million off on the budget. Um fortunately you know we've had a hiring freeze in effect for some time. We had several vacancies before that. that's helping to balance us on the expenditure side where expenditures are also below budget. Um and as well as other areas of expenditures were a little bit below budget. So just trying to be careful with that going into the end of the year. I feel like we're in a good position this year. It does kind of set the groundwork for next year's budget. We'll have two more checks that we'll report on as they come through um and just continue to uh monitor and keep you informed on where we are as we go through the budget process. That's all that I have, Mayor. All right, sounds good. Item four, Journal of Council Proceedings. We have items A and B we could take with one motion. We have a motion in a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Um item seven, request for uncontested continuences. Mr. City Manager, do you have anything? We do. We have several. Starting on page 12 under dilapidated structures, item 11K1 u all the items that I list on on these different areas will be stricken from the agenda. Item G, 5000 Southwest 28th Street, the owner has repaired. Then on page 12, item 11, L1, unsecured structures. Item I, 1300 Southeast 38th Street, the owner has secured. Item J, 4428 Southeast 44th Street, the owner has secured. Continuing on page 12, item 11, M1, abandoned buildings. Item D, 5000 Southwest 28th Street. Item F,300 Southeast 38th Street. And item G, 4428 Southeast 44th Street. That's all the items that I have. All right. All right. Thank you. Item eight, a revocable permits and events. And we have a few. Uh item 8A is a revocable permit with the American Heart Association for the OKC Heartwalk uh at May 30th through the 31st um in and around Bsentennial Park. And we have Amanda Linhardt here to speak. Yes. The Heartwalk is on May 31st. Um activities start at 8:00 a.m. Um they will be over by 11:30. Um, the walk is a mile and a half around downtown Oklahoma City. Uh, we will have CPR and AED demonstrations. Uh, prior to the walk, we will also have a jazzer size warm-up. It is 80s theme this year, so we would love for all of you guys to come out and all of you guys to come out to the heart and stroke walk um, and at least learn CPR and AED demonstrations. Um, if you don't have time to to stay for the walk. Um, and if you do want to stay for the walk, dress in 80s and have some fun with it. So, asking for it to be at Bsentennial Park. Sounds good. Um, the council member for that word is not here today, but I'm sure we can take it up. Uh, if somebody wants to make a motion virtually, we'll I like your chances. We got a motion in a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Thank you. Okay. 8B is a revocable permit with OKC Public Tennis to hold the OSSAA state tennis championships uh two weekends in May at Will Rogers Park. Um we've got Tim Richie and Canon Low here to speak. Hi, I'm Canon Low. This is my boss, Tim Richie. We uh two of the guys in charge of running the uh Oklahoma High School state championships each year, which is every single high school in Oklahoma coming together. So, it's a pretty big event for us. We've got about 1 to 2,000 people coming through there. And we use a permit to uh help a lot with the traffic, making our Pat Murphy Drive along the uh center there a oneway, and then also blocking off a another entrance there. So, we would appreciate another approval. All right. Um, Councilman Cooper, shall we move for approval? We have a motion in a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Approval. Thank you. All right. 8C is a revocable rideway use permit with PO Artists Association to hold the PO Arts Festival in May 24th through the 26th. Um, and we have Amanda Blekeley and Colin Rosebrook here. Welcome. Good morning. Um, Mayor Holt, City Council. My name is Amanda Blakeley and I'm the executive director of the PO Arts Association. And I'm Colin Rosebrook and I PO Pottery there chairman. We're um asking to have our revocable approved so we can have the 48th annual PO Arts Festival and hopefully increase your uh city sales tax. So uh so we can get back on track. We know that it does bring in quite a bit of business for the city. Um any questions about it or No. Councilman Cooper. Oh, hi. Always good to see both of you. Um, yes, let's do this. I'll move for approval and everyone should go to the festival. Do you want to tell them again the times and dates? And so, it's May 24th, 25th, and 26th, Memorial Day weekend. Uh, starts at 10 o'clock in the morning, goes till 10 at night on Saturday and Sunday, and 5:00 on Monday. Cool. We're still looking for volunteers if anybody wants to come out and help us. Uh, it's a really a fun event. We have 85 artists and 52 performers on two different stages. It's a pretty uh fun community arts festival and um we're just looking forward to having another one. Well, I'm excited uh to join you all yet again. So, let's do this. We have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Thank you. Thanks. Thanks for all you all do. Okay, item 8 D and 8E are kind of related. It looks like the 8D is permit joint revocable permit with the Oklahoma City Water Utilities Trust and Bodies Race franchise to hold the do not stop 5K, 10K, and half marathon at Lake Stanley Draper on May 17th. And then item E is a joint revocable print with the Oklahoma City Water Utilities Stress and Bodies Race franchise to hold the hometown half at Stanley Draper on June 7th. And we have Morgan Danker here to talk about both items. Yeah. Hi, my name is Morgan Danker. I work with Oklahoma City Parks and Wreck. Uh this applicant is actually out of state, but they do put on once a month events with us in the different parks. So, for the first one, the do not stop marathon, the half marathon, it always tricks me up because do not is combined. Um, and it's kind of a play on words because is it supposed to be do not stop or do not stop? And the answer is yes. So, it's a donut themed running event. Um, and so they have all sorts of challenges. You can do their baker's dozen challenge. you can eat a doughnut hole at the different aid stops and get a special pin at the end. Um, and then the other one is the hometown half marathon. So, it's a local themed run. So, they'll have some vendors of local uh organizations and things at that run, but both will be out at Lake Draper. Do you have any questions? No. Councilman Stone. Thank you, Mayor. No, I'm just really appreciative of these events continuing to happen out at the trail at Draper Lake. I mean, it's just beautiful out there. So, uh, with that, I'll go ahead and move for approval. I have a motion and a second for item 8D. Passes unanimously. And then let's get a motion on 8E. Motion in a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Thank you. All right. Well, now we'll recess the council meeting and convene as the Oklahoma City Municipal Facilities Authority. We only have claims and payroll item A today, but we'll go ahead and take a vote to accept that. Got a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. We'll adjourn OCMFA convene as the Oklahoma City Public Property Authority where we have items A through D. We can take with one motion. Got a motion in a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. We'll adjourn OCPA and reconvene as the council. We are on item nine, the consent docket. Um, there are actually no scheduled presentations. Is there anything that a council member wishes to pull out for a separate vote, comment, question? Hearing none, we have actually a few people sign up to speak on item 9 A. The very first item uh this is uh regarding uh contracts with record services and so I will call them up uh first we'll start with Bert Woodring and if everyone uh this is an evergreen statement but uh for this item particularly if you would state your name and address and keep your remarks to three minutes or less. Mr. Woodring. Uh yes sir. Bert Woodring. Uh, I just want to say that I'm in support of this amendment and I think the police department and the city staff done an excellent job in their decisions and that's all I have to say. Okay. Thank you. Uh, Nathan Perez. Nathan Perez, Car Record Service. uh we uh are the district record for W 4 and since the first of the year we've been covering W uh seven, the south southern half of that and we're fully prepared, fully staffed and got all the trucks ready to continue on with with this. So, okay, that's all. Uh next up is Hank McVey. the mayor, city council, my voice. I just got out the hospital pneumonia, but I'm here as a character witness for Morgan Touring and um I'm a pastor. I live in Muscogee but a pastor in Eupfala and I'm here to I work for Morgan Touring as a spiritual worker. He hired me as a to take care all of the uh spiritual concepts of the drivers and every employee. Nick Morgan is a very good guy. um all of his employees are not like him, but they are metriculating or that neness and that it's metriculating down through every employee. So, I'm here to as a character witness for Nick Morgan. I live in Muscogee and Nick Morgan is in Muscogee and Oklahoma City and I would appreciate it if y'all would recognize him as a record service here in Oklahoma City. Thank you. Thank you. And finally, Nick Morgan. Yes Mayor Hope, City Manager Freeman, and the city councilors. I'd like to first of all thank everybody for taking the time to reconsider to allow Morgan Torin and recovery to serve the citizens and the Oklahoma City Police Department. I've made the necessary um ar uh the necessary um changes that need to be made that I had some issues with in the past. They were growing pains and I've made those uh changes and I'm ready to serve the citizens of Oklahoma City and the police department and work hand in hand with the police department. Okay. Thank you. All right. Well, uh if there's nothing else, we can adopt the consent docket now. Have a motion and a second. Catch the votes. Passes unanimously. Item 10 is the concurrence docket. We have items A through J. We could take with one motion. Have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. passes unanimously. Item 11 are items for individual consideration. Item 11 A is an ordinance on final hearing that was recommended for approval resoning 800 Southwest 63rd from O2 to R4. Councilman Stone. Thank you, Mayor. Uh this item was recommended by the planning council. It's planning commission, excuse me. Uh, it's a multif family unit surrounded by other multifamily units. And if no one signed up to speak, then I'll go ahead and move for approval. Got a motion, a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Item 11B is an ordinance on final hearing. It was recommended for approval. Reszoning 4511 Southeast 59th from R1 to I2. Back to you, Councilman Stone. No one signed up to speak on this one. Uh, no, they have not. In fact, I'll go ahead and say no one has signed up to speak on any zoning case today. Oh, awesome. Um, I think the planning commission did a great job on this one. They they took care of a a existing issue on it. uh pulled back the zoning about half a football field in distance to take care of some of the neighbors surrounding the area. So with that, I'll move for its approval. Got a motion in a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Item 11 C is an ordinance on final hearing that was uh recommended for approval. Reszoning 340 Northwest Center 22nd from R1 R2. Councilman Pennington. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um this is a pretty simple application just extending the R2 further on um on 122nd. Um no objections from neighbors. It's pretty simple. I'm in full support. We have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Item 11D is an ordinance on final hearing uh recommended for approval reszoning 5241 Northwest 10th from C3 to SPD 1699. Uh, Councilwoman Avers. All right. First time done. You're gonna do great. All right. Thank you. Um, and since no one has come to contest this and Commissioner Meek recommended approval subject to the summary of technical evaluation, I'll make a motion to approve. Have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. passes unanimously. Item 11 E is an ordinance on final hearing recommended for approval reszoning 14601 South Sun So Sun Sooner Road from DoubleA to SPD 1714. Councilman Stone. Thank you, Mayor. Um, this actually is a really interesting project over on South Center. It'll help increase our tax benefits. So, with that, I'll move for its approval. We have a motion, a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Item 11F is an ordinance on final hearing. Is recommended for approval reszoning 2615 Norman Avenue from R1 to SPD 1715. Um, Councilman Cooper. Mr. Box, you want to come and tell us what what you got for us? for consideration, please. Thanks. Good morning. David Box, 525 Northwest 11th Street. Uh, this is an SPD that would allow for a duplex uh on this lot. This was recommended by uh planning commission unanimously, and there is no protest. Okay. Well, with that, I'll move for approval. And thanks for reaching out to me about it yesterday. Have a motion in a second. Cast your votes. Thank you. Passes unanimously. Item 11g is an ordinance on final hearing recommended for approval reszoning 2207 North Gatewood from R1 and UC to SPD 1717 NU. Um did uh Councilwoman Hammond communicate with anyone about this item? Mayor. Mayor. Hi. Me. Hello. Yes. Uh, Councilwoman Hammond spoke with me on Friday and she requested I carry this for approval. Okay, we have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Last unanimously. Item 11H is an ordinance on final hearing. It was recommended for approval. Reszoning 4036 Northwest 170th center 78th from PUD 1768 to SPUD 1718. Councilman Stenc. Thank you, Mayor. Planning Commission approved this on March 13, 2025. There have been no protests, so at this time I'll move for approval. Thank you. Have a motion in a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Item 11 I has a couple of elements. Uh first up is an amendment to the master design statement dated March 21st. Um modifying the item as described here. Second is I2, an ordinance on final hearing that was recommended for approval resoning 17901 Grove Parkway from PUB 1111 to SPD 1719. Uh, Councilman Stone. Thank you, Mayor. Uh, planning commission approved this. There are no protests. So, at this time, I'd take the first step to amend the master design statement dated March 21 2025. I have a motion, a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Oh, that was for the uh amendment. Yeah. Now we need the ordinance. Yeah. With the amendment, I will now move uh for approval of the ordinance found at I2 of the agenda. Okay, we have a motion and a second for the ordinance at I2. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Okay, now we're on item 11J. This is an ordinance on final hearing. This is the second of two meetings that this was scheduled for. Uh this ordinance relates to the zoning and planning code. This is commonly thought of as the ADU uh proposal. And we do have some folks who have signed up to speak, but um I don't know if any council members want to chime in first about this or some thoughts or plans about today. No one else going to speak. I guess I'll speak. Um I I received some uh phone calls this weekend. uh uh former Senator Kate Floyd um some other uh friends of hers concerning some language uh they had some concerns about uh I talked to Gary Jones with the realators association on Sunday and as far as this amendment to the language uh the realators association asked for an additional two weeks to vet this and take a look at the language and see if they were supportive. So, at this time, I'd move to continue this for two weeks. What date would that be, Amy? Sorry. May the 20th. So, that would be uh May the 20th. Thank you. Um well, let's uh maybe we should hear from folks first before we do that. I mean, a lot of people came down. Sure. Sure. Have the right to speak. Um but they did hear I thought it was good for them to know though that this probably won't be voted on today. I mean, we haven't voted on it yet, but you know, I imagine this will probably pass. So, uh, you want me to go ahead and do that now? Call up the residents. I think that'd be great. Okay. Gary Jones. And if, uh, everybody would state your name and address and keep your remarks to three minutes or less. Gary Jones, government affairs director for the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Association for Realtors. So, the speech today is going to be a little bit different. Uh we originally were going to be here in support of the ADUs. Uh for those of you who don't know, we've been trying to address an ADU ordinance for Oklahoma City now for a little over a year. Edmund's done it, Norman's done it, Tulsa's done it, but Oklahoma City has not done it. We thought this was going to be the big moment that we're finally there. But we did receive information and a request to consider a potential change to the language. Uh initially we were no we just need to get this done and move forward. But after talking to our uh key experts in Washington DC, no one's seen language quite like this. So, they were not sure about the implications, but they did think that it merited uh additional consideration and research. That's why we're supporting the delay. But I want to be clear about something. It's not because we're wanting to make sure that language fits what we as realtors thinks an ADU ordinance looks like. It's because we believe in collaboration. In order for us as a city to make those tough decisions, we have to sit around the table and find out where we can compromise. We don't think this is really necessary, but there are fellow residents that do. We believe we need to hear them out and we need to make sure that whatever changes that we do make are in the best interest of the city. So, we're here today in support of the extension and hopes we're finally going to be able to push it over the top because we want to give them that opportunity in order to voice those concerns and see if there is a viable way in order to address it. We believe there is an opportunity in order to modify this legislation based on what our experts tell us, but I am not here today in order to do that. And for us, uh, two more weeks is something that we're willing to do for our fellow residents in order to find a solution. Thank you. Thank you, Kelly Work. Yes. Uh, good morning, uh, mayor and members of the city council. My name is Kelly Work. My address is 105 North Hudson, sweet 304. And I am here representing a group of uh residents uh who live in the urban core area that will be most affected by the proposed ADU ordinance. We support the deferral. Uh we have provided uh a proposed amendment to the ADU ordinance that has uh been introduced before you all. And our objective in doing so was to see if we could find a reasonable reasonable basis for a uh compromise. Uh we think we can uh improve on what has been uh presented uh to this point and then also uh perhaps address some of the concerns that uh that we have about uh ADUs uh that would be allowed under the terms of this new ordinance. So, uh, we are committed to work with, uh, all involved. I have spoken a couple of times, uh, with Mr. Jones and, uh, we'll, uh, between now and the next meeting see if we can reach an agreement on, uh, some proposed language for the for the ordinance. We appreciate your time. And Kelly, the only thing I'd ask the proposed language, could you make sure that gets to all the council and if anybody has questions, they should call you. Is that right? Certainly. Yeah. Okay. We'll do that. And Kelly, um, also just so that we're clear because and and I recognize that I am the cause of much of this delay for the last year, having led the task force at at the planning commission, but could you just I want to make sure that we're clear here about specifically what issues we're going to spend the next two weeks addressing because I'm I I don't want us to continue to move the goalposts and revisit issues that were consistently addressed in the discussion that the planning commission had for the last year. So, could you just name those specific things we're going to address in the next two weeks? Sure. The um the amend as as it's presently proposed, the ordinance, as we understand it, would allow accessory dwelling units in this uh urban core area in the residential districts as a conditional use. So in other words, there would be provided the conditions are met, there would be no notice and hearing provided. That's a concern for our neighborhoods that there would not be an opportunity for there to be notice and hearing before a public body where concerns would could be expressed and the neighbors could have some input. Uh what we are proposing as an alternative with our suggested amendment is that the um accessory dwelling units would be continue to be allowed as a conditional use where the property is the primary residence of the owner. But in other instances where it is property that is being purchased for investment purposes that there would be a public hearing and our suggestion is with the proposed ordinance that we have submitted is that that would be through a special exception before the board of adjustment. Currently, as you are aware, having come from the planning commission so recently, in order to do an accessory dwelling unit, you have to go through the SPUD process and so there is all of the SPUT documentation that is required and then hearing before the planning commission and city council. We understand there is a desire to simplify the process for accessory dwelling units and we think that that can be done uh and uh and still provide uh where there are going to be investment properties that there would be an opportunity for notice and hearing for the neighboring property owners. And that's that's what our proposed amendment uh offers up. And uh we're open, of course, to suggestions, alternatives, but uh but we felt like that was a reasonable compromise to allow ADUs uh where the property is the primary residence of the owner without additional notice and hearing. But in other instances, we feel it would be appropriate for there to be notice and hearing to allow the residents an opportunity to be heard and have input in the proposed development. So that's the direction we have suggested. We're certainly willing to carry on those discussions as we go forward. I appreciate that, Kelly. And I and I'm open to considering that amendment. I just wanted to be clear that this is not a wholesale review of the concept of well it won't provide we won't have notice as much as we did before. I don't want to revisit that issue because we we've had that discussion numerous times. It's just about this narrow suggestion and I and again I'm open to it. I think it's a good suggestion for us to deeply consider. My fear is that we're going to start the whole conversation all over. So I appreciate your assurance that we're focused on that amendment. Our belief is that our proposal would represent a significant concession from what has previously what from what the opposition has previously proposed. So we're trying to move to find a middle ground and that's that's why we think it's appropriate for there to be some additional discussion. I'm open and I appreciate it. Yeah. Thank you. Um, I too am open, but I opened up yesterday and finals were all last week and um, tomorrow my grades are due. So, last night I had the Thunder game muted because can't have too much stimulation. And then I had the the papers in front of me. And an a writer of an op-ed, which I'm I believe you represent those folk um asked me to read their op-ed. So I took a break from grading to read that number one. And then someone from the realtor's um folk asked me to uh speak with a professor Dr. Emily Hamilton from George Mason University. So, um, between grading, thunder, and grocery shopping, that's what I I did yesterday because that's what teachers do. We juggle. Uh, Mr. Work, uh, I'm I'm deeply concerned about what this proposal is. And I I don't This is And I want to be very clear to everyone. This is not a negotiation between the realtors and ADUs. This is a conversation about how do we make sure a teacher can afford to live in the urban core near the schools where they're teaching. I came to this council in the immediate aftermath of the teacher walk out. So everything I have done has always been with an eye of can a teacher afford to live in a neighborhood and will their student have housing options as they age into adulthood as they age into their senior years. And right now that's next to impossible in a lot of word two neighborhoods where housing cost post pandemic are now $250,000. If you are a teacher making in the 30s or $40,000 a year, your American dream opportunities are out the window when that number is staring you in the face. I looked up city council salaries in New York over the weekend. They make twice what I make when I combine my $50,000 a year from OCU with my $12,000 a year from city council. And it is a full-time job, friends. I learned out in New York and also anyone up here on council knows this is this might be a part-time job. This is full-time work if you're taking it seriously. So, you know, I am moving between teaching and counsel all the time. And last night was another piece of evidence of that. So, this is not a negotiation with the realtors. This is about teachers. This is about the missing middle class. This is about people making $31,000 a year to $80,000 a year. Those That's who this is about. That is who this is about. No offense, realtors. Um, but that's what this is about. So, I did not go into either one of the opeds or the conversation with Miss Hamilton, Dr. Hamilton last night with solution set. I just went into it full-on questions. Did you know do you know what some of the unintended consequences of what this compromise is going to do? This this this language, do you know? Have you looked at any of this op-ed appeared on Sunday? Has anyone looked at the unintended consequences? What's the question? Have you looked at any of the consequences of what you're proposing? I'm not sure what you're refer referring to. Council Person Cooper, but um the this process has been fluid and uh we're certainly interested in considering uh all of the consequences intended and to make sure that what is finally presented to the council for approval is something that's appropriate and is going to hopefully help address the concerns that you have about affordable housing. I hope so. And I hope that the entire council gets to hear from um from Dr. Hamilton and not through a third party. It's important you all ask the same questions I did as I was grocery shopping yesterday earlier before I then moved into reading the stuff in between grading papers. But here's what I learned just asking questions. One, if we put on this proposal, an amendment saying that someone has to live in the home, the primary structure, if they're going to have an ADU, banks become less likely to lend them money. That's the first thing. Okay. So, let's say we put this requirement on right now, today, and then five years from now, someone sells that house because they get a job offer or they're in the military or whatever it is that takes them out of OKC. Now, I want them here in OKC, of course, but if they move and then they now try and sell their house, the moment someone tries to purchase their house, the bank becomes less likely to give them a loan because of that requirement put on top of it. Why are they less likely there? And I'll use the military example and I'll use my friend Kim as an example too. If someone in the military gets called overseas to go um you know serve our country, what they are likely to do is maybe rent their house right to somebody while they're gone. And if they have an ADU, what you all are proposing that the person has to live has to be the property owner living in that primary structure. The service member is the primary, they're the owner, but they're serving abroad and now their opportunity to rent that house. You see what I mean? They're like violating the law in that sort of moment. or my friend Kim, she just got accepted to um graduate school for graphic design in in UT. Go Kim. And they've lived in Miller neighborhood, right on the cusp of Miller and Crestwood since 2007. Well, they're going to move down to Austin for 2 years. They're going to rent their house. if they had an ADU in their backyard, they they they can't the the person in their house, they wouldn't be able to rent their house because the person would need to be the homeowner living in the house upfront. Do you follow what I'm saying there? Okay. Um, next. So, that's one problem with the banks. Two, FHA has loans. I've heard people who are in oppositions to ADUs rightfully point out that it's probably around $150,000 to construct an ADU. Um FHA has loans for people to construct ADUs. Not if you put this ordinance in place with this proposal. The FHA will not give you a loan if you have this sort of um u proposal that says the primary homeowner has to live in the primary structure. They won't do it. Um it those are those are real consequences. In fact, a simple Google search of this item suggests that this is a bit of a poison pill. um for ADUs. So I I don't I this doesn't feel like a compromise to me. This feels very restrictive. It feels very detached from research um which I take very seriously as someone who who uh teaches research. And then finally, I think I understand. So I spoke with Marva on the phone yesterday. I always loved speaking with Marva. Um but I spoke with Marva. I think she and I have the same concern when I pull up a Frontier article. At least I hope we have the same concern. Every time we talk, I think we do. Um I can't speak for the other people protesting. Um I know Senator Floyd and I have this concern as well because she was nodding her head when I spoke it into existence two weeks ago, but Oklahoma ranks third in the nation among states where institutional investors are buying single family homes. That's according to the National Association of Realtors. In 2021, institutional buyers accounted for 18% of all single family homes in the state. All single family home sales in the state. One more time. In 2021, institutional buyers, not young couples, not families, not teachers, not uh re retail workers. It was institutional buyers who accounted for 18% of all single family home sales. And Oklahoma County had the highest share of sales to institutional investors in the state, making up 29% of home buys. The American dream is slipping through the fingers of teachers, people who work at Target, your baristas, your landscapers, you name it. And I have explained, and I don't know why sometimes people don't hear me say these things. I genuinely don't. It actually hurts my feelings and my heart. I have explained that this summer, lickety split any neighborhood in W 2, I'd blanket the whole ward if they'd let me with urban conservation protections. Protections. Protections. The president of Helm Farm has homes all the time that are being demolished by these investors and in their place built 400 $500,000 homes 800 sometimes 900 has a chance to speak sheet you get three minutes from the audience sorry I thought you were gabbling me there mayor I was like oh my god I'm sorry thanks u I was like oh no the mayor's Um, but no, I mean that's the reality facing W 2 is that we have people gobbling up our single family homes, building addict character out of the price range of that missing middle that we're talking about, the middle class. Um, and I have told you all, I have promised my neighbors that I will put in place if you'll have me protections including two things. design review and demolition review that going forward if you're going to try to come into Douglas Edgemeir or Helm Farm and demolish one of our precious dwindling houses that all the neighbors in that neighborhood should receive notification that someone wants to demolish because right now that's not happening. That's not happening. people demolish and then they build out of character, out of the price range stuff, out of the budget. I want those de demolition protections and that's something the city of OKC can do. Number two, design review protections. We could put in place saying if you're going to build something where you've demolished, you have to build something within the architectural history and character of that neighborhood. You don't have to mirror it, but you have to complement it. What a challenge for an architect. So sometimes neighbors don't hear me when I say these things. I will never understand it because I am dedicated to those protections. They are a priority for me. They have been a priority for me since I walked for two weeks starting on my birthday in April 2018 to stand with teachers, students, and the support staff and their families. A teacher should be able to live in our neighborhoods. And an affordable ADU is an option to do that. and the proposal you all have put forward has very unintended consequences of taking off the market that housing possibility and you all need to know that as council could I council person Cooper could I respond to your comments the um proposed amendment that we've suggested would not in our view prevent ADUs from being constructed in the areas where they are being proposed to be allowed. What we are merely suggesting is that in order for an ADU to be allowed as a conditional use, in other words, without any notice or hearing to surrounding neighborhoods that it the property be the primary resident of the owner. If that's not the case, then the ADU could be approved. It would merely require that the owner make application for a special exception and receive approval from the board of adjustment. So it would be possible in fact it'd be much simpler than under the current process which is requires that you go through the spud resoning process. And then the other point that I would offer in response to your comments is the ADU ordinance that is presently proposed without any amendment will in our view incentivize the type of corporate investment that you are suggesting you want to discourage. It's going to incentivize that because people, investors will be able to come in without any notice and hearing, acquire a property with a house on it, tear it down, and build two units now without any notice or hearing to the surrounding neighbors. We don't think that's appropriate. We think that's going to result in further diminishing the fabric of these urban core neighborhoods. That's why we're suggesting there there needs to be some amendment to the ordinance as proposed. We're trying to find some reasonable compromise. Uh and and so what we have proposed we think would would reach that uh reasonable compromise. We're certainly open to other suggestions and uh and of course we're also interested in in what the consequences will be. We think the consequences of the ordinance as it's presently proposed are going to be detrimental to these urban core neighborhoods without some amendments. And that's what I don't understand especially after what I just articulated. It's like it went in one year and out the other. I am saying to you there is no research and this goes back to Councilman Pennington's comments for one year we have been engaged in this conversation everybody and there is not one bit of research that shows not in California not in Oregon that shows that when we allow ADUs and I'm so sorry to the students who are listening to me right now because I know my tone it's just that I I just get so passionate about this for them and those teachers but there's not one bit of evidence right now that is showing that the allowing of ADUs um by right leads to an influx of investors coming in and gobbling up the the single family homes. What I am telling you right now is it's happening right now. The current system is what is allowing your greatest fears. Friends, the nightmare is here. That's why so many of my friends who are renters are so scared right now. It's already here. It's happening all around you. That's why when you all send your emails to me complaining about these out of character, out of price range homes being built. There's no ADU ordinance in in existence right now in the city that's allowing that. The current system is allowing that. The system we are defending is allowing that. That's the first thing I want you all to understand that you do not understand. I will never understand why you do not understand. Number two, I do not understand why I do not understand what I just said about the first thing. the the proposal you are putting forward that some of my friends are putting forward to require someone to live in that primary structure that the consequence is is it takes it off the market in terms of getting loans from a bank of getting loans from the FHA to mitigate the cost of building an ADU. I do not understand why you do not understand what I am saying and that is disagree on that council. You disagree but it's not backed by any sort of data. That's what I am saying to this council. We've got to make datadriven decisions. We cannot just make decisions based on our fears while our teachers and our students are wondering how they're going to pay the rent. That's what I have to say to you all right now. So bring your research. I will bring mine. And we got to bring it to this council. This is not a negotiation between Mr. Work and the realtors. This is a negotiation between our people and this council. All right, we're back on um residents who signed up to speak. John Cousins. Good morning. My name's John Cousins. I live at 400 Northwest 44th Street in the Douglas Edgeir neighborhood and I'm the president of the neighborhood board this year. And I appreciate us having a healthy discussion on this matter because it does have some potentially large consequences to our neighborhood and others. And we appreciate Councilman Cooper's time with us. It's not been easy, but we've continued to move forward and talk. I've been surprised that some of the information presented from the planning leaders has been what I would call biased or skewed. And I just wanted to point out a couple of things. In their presentation, they said that the survey showed that over 70% of the people in the survey uh were in favor of ADUs, but I don't believe it was a scientific study. Maybe it was something like the question was maybe like if your neighbor wanted to build a little house in the backyard so that their dad could live there before he needs to go to the nursing home, would you complain about that? Well, most people wouldn't complain about that. But if you were to pose the question saying this takes away all of our due process property rights, we can't get prior notice. we can't have a comment period and we can't have a public hearing. I think you would find the opposite. Our neighborhood found the opposite. We've had petitions that were signed during the holidays. 290 people that opposed the ADU ordinance and zero people were in favor of it. And the neighborhood south of us, Edgemeir Heights, had a similar result, but they had almost every homeowner. So, there are two sides to the story. And I just wanted to bring up some of this information as this is contemplated. They mentioned that there's an ADU ordinance in Edmund and one in Norman. Edmund affects less than a square mile and Norman's size would have to be 50% larger to be what the proposal is for that. But they failed to mention Tulsa and I don't know why but Tulsa retained property rights. So there's a process still in place that people get prior notice. It's not by ride, but that was not brought up when this was presented to you a month ago. The financial impact study says that there will be 10 ADUs in a year and we've been spending all this time for 10 ADUs a year. I think it's going to be a lot more than that. It's going to be these commercial interests that are seeking this loophole. Uh Councilman Hinkle is showed his wisdom in the meeting saying, "I could see 12 houses torn down and 24 duplexes put up." And we've already had that in our neighborhood. We had a nice ranchstyle home, $200,000. It was purchased by corporate interest, torn down, put up two big barn looking massive houses that are going to be over $500,000. Took away an affordable house, have unaffordable homes. Mr. Cousins, we're at time. Okay. Anything else? I appreciate. All right. Conversation and the citizens and homeowners having an a voice in this process. Thank you. Thank you. And uh she was daydreaming, but she's gonna From here forward, the clerk will tell you when you have 30 seconds left. Uh next up is Senator K. Floyd. Mr. Mayor, council members, I yield my time. Okay. That's a very senatorial thing to do. You're right. Um Lee Matthews Good morning everybody. Thanks for your time here this morning. My name is Lee. I build tiny homes in people's backyards. That's what I do. So we mentioned data making decisions, right? I I talk to people every day that want to build ADUs in their backyard. 80 and I mentioned this last time. It's about 80% of the people that call me are building it for their family members. So, like I I appreciate the investor component that uh Councilman Cooper uh mentioned earlier, this is a family this is a family ordinance. 80% folks. And of that 80% most of the people have a disability that are calling me. So, it's it's not like investors coming in gobbling up stuff. It's it's families coming together and taking care of mom. Uh you mentioned you mentioned dad. That's most of my phone calls. By the way, it's uh Guthrie also added an ordinance recently if you hadn't heard that. We're literally surrounded by municipalities that are making this work. And it's important that it be a simple process. One of the questions I'm often asking on the phone is when did your mom fall? It hurts because the answer to that question is recently u there's a family emergency they call me how fast can we get this done and folks if there's a big drawn out process to make it work it hurts like people want this done yesterday and it's been over a year we we need to get this done the the 10% of people that call me that are talking about investors are helping out the teachers that James Cooper was mentioning earlier. So, I would urge you to pass this ordinance. Thank you. Thank you, Vanessa Morrison. Good morning, Mayor Holt, members of the city council, and OKC neighbors. My name is Vanessa Morrison. I am an urban planner uh ward 750th in Lincoln and I'm here today to share some insights from my work on the ADU discussion. I am CEO again of a nonprofit design firm called Open Design Collective and we support black communities through the tools of architecture, city planning, and cultural preservation. And since 2017, we've been working in northeast OKC and on various projects including leading the south of 8, a community vision project which was commissioned by the Oklahoma City Urban Renewal Authority to address legacies of urban renewal that disproportionately impacted the JFK and Harrison Walnut neighbor neighborhoods. And this was a two-year project that engaged over 400 Northeast OKC community members about how can we revitalize the area and rebuild the community while centering culture, equity, and affordability and economic mobility in the process. And I'm going to share some insights and read from my phone so I stay on time. Um, so first, uh, Northeast OKC has been faced with decades of vacancy and disinvestment. Much of this from urban renewal practices in the 60s. And throughout the project, community members really emphasize this need to gently densify the area. So, how do we restore housing opportunity through smaller units like missing middle housing typologies such as duplexes, quadplexes, and more um to again restore permanent housing opportunities back in the community. Um, also, ADUs were specifically named and supported as a a desired housing typology by the community, but as we know, they're not currently allowed by the existing zoning code. So this forces residents to go through a very complex barrier intensive process to build the type of housing typologies to support families, support their community and to build in affordability. Um also uh lastly, ADUs were seen as a tool for affordability and stability. Uh they allow our elders to age in place and families to support family members as what was mentioned before. Uh they generate rental income that can help support property owners and build additional streams of income. and they add to the housing supply which we know is in crisis not only here in Oklahoma City but nationally. So in closing ADUs were not just supported by many of these northeast OKC residents and of course there was diversity and perspectives and opinions but there was direct consensus on how this could be a pathway to again rebuild housing opportunity, restore housing and really connect to the neighborhood's historic character because seconds remaining. Thank you. Uh historically there were a lot of these housing typologies in northeast OKC. So this is nothing new. You can find more about this report at openendedesigncode.org. The full report is on there and most of the ADU content is on pages 40 through 51. Thank you all so much. Thank you. Vanessa, I hope you can share that send that to the council so that we can have that for everyone and and it'll be important information to include in this discussion. Okay, I will do that. Thank you. Thank you. Martha Jet. My name is Martha Jet. I live at 4914 North Harvey Parkway, Douglas Edge neighborhood. And I know you don't want to rehash everything, so I'm just going to say, please listen to the residents here. We need protection. My neighborhood's being torn down and monster houses that are not selling. They're just sitting there for two years. ADUs are a good idea for some, but there's a loophole in there that allows this demolition issue. And maybe if we could all figure out how to get rid of that loophole, we wouldn't be so frothy about it. We need your protection for our neighborhoods. That's what we're asking for your help. Everyone should have housing, of course, but tearing down affordable housing for monster homes is not the answer. I don't know what the answer is, but you all could make it work for everybody. And thank you. On that note, I mean, I'm here right now is our representative of our ward. If you tell me right now, and I the planning director is sitting right there. Tell me if I'm wrong, director. this summer when you're ready because I'm ready. Let's work on getting those demolition and design protections for Douglas Edgemeir. Like just not even thinking about ADUs. Like if you're ready, I'm ready. And we can do some protections that I would suggest to you are six decades overdue. You're nodding your head. Sounds like you're good. Director, am I right? Is that this summer that we're going to start doing that? Yes, that's correct. Okay, let's not make a liar out of him in public because in public now. It's right here. You all heard him this summer. I know. I know. You got to build some trust. We're going to We're going to do it. We're or we're going to call him out for it, aren't we? Together. All right. Thank you. I'm sure there's no questions. Thank you. Cassidy Smith Toiver. Mr. Mayor, as our as our neighbors coming up to speak, could we just clarify from the director? Douglas Edgemeir is exempt from this ordinance. Correct. Yes, that is correct. Planning commitive plan and put them into urban low. So, this ordinance does not apply exactly. So, just want to be clear and I appreciate hearing from our neighbors and their perspective, but I also think we need to be clear about the impact. We've exempted numerous areas in the urban core and so those neighbors will not be impacted by this ordinance whether it passes or not. So those those detrimental effects that we're discussing, I agree with Councilman Cooper. We should address those with the zoning code update this summer. That's correct. And nor would it impact HP or HL neighborhoods. However, director, hang on, hang out because I'm still with Martha a little bit here. We will then phase two, correct me if I'm wrong, there's going to be a conversation with urban low neighborhoods about ADUs. That's why, am I right? Um well yes we will talk about a host of things including the things you've already mentioned and if that's something that uh residents desire in the urban low areas then that could come up and we may have that discussion. It is something that was much strong much more strongly desired by their urban medium neighbors in our scientific survey. So that's why I'm saying to Martha and John right now that you know going that that's why I'm so committed councilman yes Douglas Edgeir is not in this round but there's going to be a conversation about urban low and I'm saying heading into those conversations with our with Douglas Edgeir that these demolition like just again just setting aside the ADU just the demolition and these design protections I think are important because of the photo and what Cassid's about to speak to in home farms. So that's why I'm mentioning it within the context of the ADU conversation. City manager, you're looking at me like, okay, sorry, we get really passionate about this in work, too. Um, my name is Cassidy Smith Polliver. I live at 1216 Northwest 42nd and I serve as the president of the Helm Farm neighborhood where everyone is welcome and we take pride in our social connections and advocating for our best interests. If you've never visited our community, we invite you to drop in for one of our many social events. Um, there are about 475 homes in our neighborhood, but when I bought my house in 2018, which I couldn't afford to do now, there were actually three 430. And the increase comes from the infill of vacant lots, as well as unfortunately the demolition of what is considered some of our most and much needed housing stock, which is homes under 1,000 ft for reasonzonings of three to four homes a lot. On average, since I've moved in, we're averaging two or three cases yearly. Home Farm is not a stranger to density or reszoning. Since 2019, you've seen me on four hotly contested cases. We spend hours engaging with applicants, and in return, we received minimal compromise and have always ended up with more than 50% lot coverage allowed for residential homes. The homes are not complimentary or respectful to our neighborhood, but that's never stopped at approval by planning or city council before. There's no protection to preserve our architecture, no protection to prevent the number of historic, muchneeded housing stock from sudden demolition. And unfortunately even today and as Councilman Cooper knows this week yet another listing in Homer went up that said quote investor special ideal for developers looking to build multifamily development income property which investor special lots. I mean there are one so I don't hear building multiple. Our neighborhood has taken the countless surveys and attended every meeting since 2021. The overwhelming consensus is that ADUs would benefit our neighborhood. Comments we've heard are there are already some in our community. they're not even noticeable. Or our neighbors had to move because they couldn't find a way to care for their aging parents without an ADU. And the cost and time isn't feasible. We've lost board members and close friends, including our secretary, because they were unable to continue affording to rent at increased rates or they could not afford to purchase a home in their desired area. They've had to move out towards Lake Hefner or into more, taking them further from their jobs, friends, public transit, and resources. On a personal level, my husband and I don't have children currently, partially because we don't have the needed space, nor could we afford to move into something um that, you know, is in the area we've invested so much time and money into that we love. And we did the math and we've learned that if this passes without the new conditional use proposed today, we could actually build a space 30 seconds remaining for my mother-in-law who's aging or to rent to another neighbor while gaining space back in our two-bedroom, two bath for a child or two. So, Homer champions this um overwhelmingly, and we applaud this. We ask for obviously UCD protection if this were to happen. Um, but thank you, Councilman Cooper, for working so diligently on this and for our future. Thank you, Margaret Riggs Johnson. Good morning. My name is Margaret Johnson. I live at 504 Northwest 48th Street. I am in in the D in the neighborhood. I understand that we are exempt from this for now. I just um would like you to really consider the neighborhood and the neighbors and what's happening to them. I'm not against ADUs, but I do think if you're touting them as a granny flat or age for parents, then what's wrong with a resident requirement for the main house? Um I'd like to see the protections put in place maybe prior to it being passed. I don't see why that would be a problem. And u Thank you. Thank you, Jessica Thompson. They're not the same. Oh, they're not the same. I'm so sorry. Jessica Thompson, 1414 Northwest 14th Street. What I'm passing around, if you look at the Miller neighborhood, um, well, first the 80 listings one, these are all recent listings that had accessory dwelling units that have sold within the last year. As you can see, um, on the median side, you're looking at 182 a square foot. on the low end 140 ath square foot and on the very high end 250 ath square foot that's for all the ADUs I could pull between Gatewood Miller neighborhoods um class and 10pen and I don't think I uh even on the northeast side there's one as well that was actually the one that sold for 250 a square foot um the one the next one is Miller I highlighted underlined the one that um was an ADU all the other houses were not an ADU and you can see that that actually sold at the minimum price per square foot relative to the other properties that sold in the neighborhood that sold for much higher at 170, you know, maximum 195 a square foot. On median about 179 a square foot and then on Gatewood they have a lot of listings that have sold, but I on the second page you can see that ADU sold for 182 a square foot. These are all existing ADUs and the median price in Gatewood is $25 a square foot. So, it came in under the median price and the maximum price for a home to sell in Gatewood is at about $34 a square foot and that is a brand new build or remodeled. So, I wanted to show that having ADUs and also if you look at on the very end it has DOM which means days on market. You can see that these homes are not all that desirable for people. It takes a particular person to want to go in and buy these homes. So, I wanted to bring the data and show that to you that it we're not going to see a ton of these pop up, but they are a solution to housing that we need in the city. Um, I also wanted to point out and say thank you for um applaud the changes in the ADU ordinance that will now allow a singlestory house to have a ADU above the garage apartment. Good call on that. Thank you. And then appreciate that this ADU ordinance sets out the parameters for ADUs where we don't have them now. And I think it's really important to remind people that we don't have any protections right now with ADUs in what they do. So, um I do think that conditional uses are hard to enforce and would be burdensome on current owners, but also future owners. How do you 30 seconds remaining? For example, if you have a homeowner that has an ADU, consolidated two households, brought in their mother to live with them. They use it. It's multigenerational. Their mother tutors students. you can't when they go to sell that property, you can't control how the next person uses that property. How are you going to police this in a way that isn't going to be a burden to the city staff and resources and budget and then also to the homeowners that are trying to purchase these properties. So, I really think you should reconsider that um and move forward with this ordinance and also reduce those parking requirements. Thank you. Thank you, Lynn Smith. Good morning. My name is Lynn Smith. I'm a longtime resident of Oklahoma City and the current vice president of Helm Neighborhood Association. I'm here to voice my um support for the ADU proposal. My mother-in-law is 80 years old and will be retiring at the end of this year. She is a busy body. Like many families, we want to support her aging journey while maintaining her independence and privacy. So having an ADU built with universal design practices would give us the chance to help her come visit us for longer stays or even permanently without sacrificing her space or ours. Because let's be honest, I don't think anyone in here, no matter how much you love your parents, uh, want to be under your roof, one roof with your mother or your father for very long. So, second, um, we know Oklahoma City has an affordable housing problem. While ADUs aren't the silver bullet and won't fix everything, they are a practical, low impact solution that gently adds density. Like has been mentioned in my neighborhood, we've seen homes go up for $750 million plus where modest homes used to be. And these homes are empty. They've been empty for months, even years. And that's pricing out families um in our neighborhood who want to stay and continue to support the great um work that we're doing in our area. So, ADUs allow regular homeowners to be part of this solution to a house their aging parents, even their adult kids coming home from college, and it creates a long-term rent rental housing um practice that fits within the fabric of our communities. So, like the second speaker said, I think this ordinance really is about helping families. They support aging in place and increase our housing supply without disrupting the feel of our neighborhoods. Thank you so much. Thank you. Um, Kelly Pinkton, sorry. Please, please properly pronounce your name. Not a problem. My name is Kelly Parker. Parker. Yeah, you probably can't read my writing. I apologize. Thank you, mayor and uh, city councilman. I'm a developer um in northwest Oklahoma City. Village Verde project is our latest project. Uh it's in northwest Oklahoma City. Um it is a standard suburban development with multi- um um duplexes and forplexes and etc. So I want to voice my support for the ADU ordinance. I think the ADU ordinance does allow for um the uh gentle increase in density. I think that's important. I think um and I've heard a lot of as I've been sitting here just kind of listening to the um comments. It's very interesting. Uh the more older subdivisions in the city are very concerned and I and rightfully so. Um this is also going to cause a burden on our um just to be aware it's going to cause a burden on our utility structure. Um and I know that's a big issue. So, um, our utility structure with, um, adding an additional ADU, um, and and I will voice my opinion, um, in terms of just our local utility, O OG. Um, we we waited 20 months for transformers because ours was the first subdivision to to ask Ogene and say, "All of our houses will be will have a 30 amp plug." Well, that 30 amp plug on 200 houses causes an increase and now our wire sizes are about 6 in coming to our transformers. They didn't have transformers. They didn't have transformers that big. So, I'm I just ask and some of these uh older subdivisions have all their power lines buried. could be a major issue and that's an issue that just needs to be brought up that our transformer availability from our utility companies are an issue and be aware of that so that um you know when I went to the as an engineer I went to the utility company and I said very interested in all of our um houses being able to have a plug for electric cars just being able the infrastructure they said oh my gosh this is nobody's ever asked for this I Well, these are nicesiz houses and I I think they will probably want these. That's an issue and that's an issue that could really be an an issue later on, but I am supportive of the ADU as a developer. I think that's a a great thing. Questions from the council. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes the residents who've signed up to speak. We uh now, I think, have a motion to defer this item for two weeks. have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. And Mr. Mayor, and maybe we can have um our planning director make available also these reports from public works, from utilities. Um there were also report there were tons of reports from our city expressing that this is not a concern as far as our utilities. So I think the council should hear that as well. Thank you. All right. Uh passes unanimously and item will be deferred to our meeting. And um what was it again? Uh May 20th. May 20th. I don't know if it's city manager or mayor here, but I'm guessing city manager. No offense, mayor. Um but yeah, Dr. uh Hamilton, I think we need the council needs to hear from her because the tricky thing and I this might be the clever thing that Kelly's done. I'll give him that. Um I hope he enjoys the back and forth as much as I do. Um, but the the the question it's usually a poison pill to put the live there requirements, but he's actually crafted something that could um maybe not be that. And so we need to find out legally like from the FHA. We need to find out from Dr. Hamilton about the banks whether this particular type of approach that Kelly is proposing has the same unintended consequences or not because it's a little bit it's a little bit different and I'm still very concerned. But if it if we get some opinions saying that it's um not going to have those unintended consequences then then then we can talk. But um that so hats off law man with your writing if that if James the scary part about this whole deal is the unintended consequences. I mean, we're talking about developers coming in and pillaging neighborhoods, but if we open this up to developers to come in and pillage neighborhoods at by right, then what's to keep? I was driving through east of the hospital complex at 13th and Lotty yesterday, and there are hundreds of empty lots over there that by right could all of a sudden just be a sea of duplexes. And I hear everything you said. The only thing I disagree on is we're here to protect our citizens and our neighbors and these people have spent their biggest investment in their life in their house. And I would want to know what was going in next to me. And I'm all for the ADU thing. I just think there needs to be a protection in there somehow some way that the neighborhoods get to regain their or get to keep their integrity. And you don't just end up with a W seven worth of duplex after duplex after duplex because it's easy. The developers will come from out of state. It's like roofers. They smell it. They can come. They're going to build crap and turn it around and leave. So to me, the most important thing here is protecting the people who have already bought the homes and are making those neighborhoods thrive. I haven't had one single call that tells me this is a good idea. I've had a hundred calls that say, "Please don't do this. Think about this." And this doesn't affect W five at all at all yet, but it could and it will someday if it works. But in all honesty, it's a social experiment of unintended consequences. And I'm not against it. And I'm really interested to read what your research is. Um, I had never thought about the FHA neither part of it. I mean, that makes all kinds of sense, but um, just my thoughts. Thank you. Okay, this item is deferred. So, we're going to move on now to item 11K one. This is a public hearing regarding the dilapidated structures here listed. We do actually have someone who has signed up to speak. Um, Max Column, you mayor Hol esteemed council members say well um I represent uh Arch Property Group the 6400 uh on number D here. Our building was a victim of arson. We have been in touch with the uh city inspector's office as well as code enforcement to see what we needed to do to get this building restored. I do have a email letter here from uh Robert Hagard which is a uh plans designer and he has an engineer on staff who says that the building can be saved. Uh we just need some time to uh let the engineer do their work and get with us on saving this building. This building is one that we use for lowincome families through uh uh key to home and homeless alliance programs uh to try to get people reintegrated into society and things like that. So it's not just you know an eight family apartment home for us. It's actually a community service that we very much enjoy uh being a part of and we ask that you allow us to save this building and give us the time to do that. Good morning, Mayor Council. Chris, chief building inspector for code enforcement. Uh, this complaint came through um the action center via resident concerns that the property owner had uh started modifications to the structure uh without the required permits. Upon staff inspection, um we found the condition to meet the the dilapidated standards and and we're presenting the item for your declare uh today. the owners had contracted people to do a cleanup uh with the uh knowledge that they would be contracted to do the repairs when we got the permits. They misunderstood and started work. We have had them stop and uh pending the council's decision. So the council member for this ward is not present today, but I mean maybe quickly explain the ramifications of what we would do today. Yeah. So staff would still request that the council go ahead and declare the items today. We're happy to to work with the property owners towards compliance. I it is my understanding through your your acknowledgement there that they have initiated the permit process. Uh if we received a a declaration today uh by statute, they would have 30 days um and that we would simply request a more formal plan of action uh for the repair of the structure within that 30 days and would be happy to provide them time administratively to complete their project. Okay. So I mean I think what you're hearing is just this declaration still gives you plenty of time to work with staff and you know I barring anyone else saying anything I I think it personally I would want to declare that dilapidated today but that doesn't stop you from Well we're also on schedule M for abandoned listing. So I just wanted to make my comments are the same for that as it is for this. So I'm sorry. Say that again. Uh we're on section M for abandoned building. My comments for this is the same for that. Right. Right. Okay. We have 30 days. Uh it'll be at council's declaration. Uh but yes, that is correct. If council declares the items today, uh you would have 30 days to just present a plan of action. And if they do declare it, I'm happy to speak with you out in the hall here and provide my contact information personally and be happy to work with you towards resolution. Thank you for your time, council members. Okay. Thank you. All right. So yeah, I won't call you up again for item M if that's all right. You've already discussed it. Yeah. Okay. There's no one else who signed to speak under that public hearing. So we'll proceed to the resolution found at K2 declaring that the structures are dilapidated. Have a motion in a second. Cast your votes. Excuse me. Before you all vote on that, I have something to say about 5000 Southwest 28th Street on that was actually struck from that is no longer on the agenda. I'm sorry that item was struck correctly. That's right. It's no longer on. So that's not on the agenda. I can talk to you about it out there. Okay. Okay. We're back on the vote. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. All right. 11 L1 is the public hearing regarding the unsecured structures here listed except for those previously struck. Amy, has anyone signed up to speak? No, they haven't. They have not. So, we'll proceed to the resolution found at L2 declaring that the structures are unsecured. We have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Item 11 M1 is public hearing regarding the abandoned buildings here listed except for those previously struck. Amy, other than the gentleman that we've already uh conversed with. Is anyone else signed up to speak? No, they're not. I have not. And so we will advance to the resolution at M2 declaring the buildings are abandoned. We have a motion in the second. Cast your votes. passes unanimously. All right. Now we're at 11N. Uh we have a public hearing here regarding a resolution approving a substantial amendment to the fiscal year 2425 fifthyear action plan for submission to HUD. Uh Amy, has anyone signed to speak from this public hearing? No, they haven't. We have not. So we'll advance to the resolution where we have a presentation. This is the resolution into approving a substantial amendment to the fiscal year 2024 2425 fifth year action plan for submission to HUD. Ben Davis with the planning department will explain the amendments that we're proposing. Good morning. Ben Davis with the planning department. I have a short 30 minute presentation. I'm just kidding. I'll try to make it as quick as possible. Uh so a suban a substantial amendment is a requirement by the US department of housing and urban development whenever we make uh specific changes to our consolidated plan and annual action plan for how we're going to spend um HUD provided funding for our housing programs and community development programs. So a sub substantial amendment is required whenever we're changing the goals of our uh five-year strategy also known as a consolidated plan. uh if we change uh any funding of an activity type that's not described in that annual action plan or if we increase funding allocated to an activity by more than 25%. So the purpose of today's item is to provide us with some flexibility. It's going to allow us to continue our programs throughout the period between the end of the action plan, the current action plan, which is June 30th of this year, and through the receipt of next year's grant allocations. Since there's some uncertainty with uh our HUD allocations and when they might happen uh this coming year, we just want to provide a little more flexibility to continue our programs and not have to halt any new funding. Uh it also allocates previously unallocated funding to support existing programs. for our CG CDG sorry community development block grant amendments. Uh we have two changes uh that affect the walnut development. So we're going to add an additional $100,000 to that project for infra infrastructure and public art completion. We had some increased cost uh due to street light sighting and some other infrastructure. Uh so we need to add some money to that budget line. uh those funds will come back will be moved from the CDBG general public facilities budget line. Um also for housing re rehabilitation um our current partner community action agency has an extensive wait list for their program that we fund. Uh we have 124 households that are currently on the waiting list. So, we are establishing uh requesting to establish an in-house uh parallel program to help them get caught up on their weight list. So, this $325,000 would be um a new program uh where we'd be moving some funds from our exterior maintenance program budget line to be able to fund this to help them get caught up on their weight list. Uh, under SNI, uh, we have $45,000 that would be moved for the SNI safe and tidy program, $170,000 for the hazardous tree program, $450,000 for sidewalks in Metro Park, $450,000 for sidewalks in Capitol Hill phase 4, and $49,250 that would go for neighborhood grants. So basically all of this funding is currently in an unallocated general public facilities line item for for CDBG. So we're just specifying these programs to allow us to go ahead and continue those programs through that gap time. Uh for our home amendments, uh we are moving $400,000 from our unallocated affordable housing development program line item uh over to uh allow us to build some single family homes in the MLK neighborhood as a part of SNI. Uh that would fund two homes. Uh we're moving $600,000 from that same line item over to Ali's End. Uh so Ali's End was identified in our action plan uh but we didn't have the budget um outlined yet. So that would just specify that money for that project at Fourth and Broadway that's under construction now. Uh and then we would move a million dollars from that unallocated line item over to uh Walnut Village to allow us to build six more homes and then uh an additional four homes in the Capitol Hill neighborhood as part of SNI. Does anyone have any questions? All right. So, we are now on the resolution at N2 if the council would like to move it forward. I have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. 110 is a resolution rescending resolution dated May 24th of 2022 um establishing increment district number 16 etc. We have a presentation on this. There's a lot of confusing words here. I think it'll be better to explain it through a presentation. Yes. Joanna Mcpadden, our economic development manager, will explain this um TIFF in the area of the First Americans Museum. Yeah. Good morning. Joanna Mcpadden, finance department. So, this item will set a future date to activate TIFF 16, which is the TIFF that surrounds the Okconor development at August 1st. So, this will give us the authority to request the base value and activate that TI. it does rescend a previous resolution that was attached to the EDA that we signed three years ago that had prior dates. This date will give us the ability to maximize that tip benefit. So that is why we're here today. Questions? Happy to answer. Okay. Thanks, Joanna. Thank you. All right. You've heard the simple explanation. We can pick up that resolution for your consideration. If you want to make a motion, we have one. A motion and a second. cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Item 11P is a resolution um naming the soccer complex at 4,000 Northwest 122nd CB Cameron Park. Now, of course, a lot of people call it that and there's a sign that says that. So, maybe I don't know if uh Melinda wants to explain why we're doing this. Yes. Yes. Thank you, Melinda McMillan Miller, director of parks and recreation. Yes, this is a formality. Um the CB Cameron Park Soccer Complex um has been operating for 30 plus years and we've always referred to it as CB Cameron. CB Cameron was of course a longtime philanthropist, businessman and very wonderful person to help the soccer club there at North or North OKC soccer club out for all the improvements they had made at that facility when the facility was actually owned by the utilities trust. Um once the facility was actually purchased for the city um that we assisted the soccer club to help officially name the park CB Cameron Park. So um all of this rolled up into it with all of the activities that are happening up there, the completed bond program and the upcoming maps improvements. Um we think we needed to get it officially done. So this is in front of you today to get that started. Can you explain also the funding on the uh absolutely that was on the memo? Yes. Yes. So, on the memo, we noticed that on the maps for improvements, um, this park specifically will be receiving There we go. My face had to wake up my phone. Um, the park will actually receive from MAPS 4 a total of 23,62,481. Um, from that funding, of course, 17,831,000 will be uh the improvements to the actual park. And that includes um 10 additional soccer fields, uh concession restroom facilities, full irrigation systems, a clubhouse, um all of the other, you know, sorry, all the other attachments and and amenities that come with a soccer complex with additional parking and further amenities and shade and all that good stuff. So, and that's all consistent with the resolution the council passed on. Yeah, that's correct. Thank you. Yeah, thank you. Appreciate it. All right, we can take that up. I just wanted to say a couple of things uh quickly. Um I wanted to thank the Cameron family. Um for years and years and years, they have given back to this community. Uh not only at Cameron Park, but also at Scissor Tale Park, uh and the Myriad Gardens and other places. Um I want to thank their foundations. I want to thank their company, American Fidelity. I especially want to thank Tom McDaniel who is the president of the American Fidelity Foundation. Uh he has bent over backwards to help us and continues to help us make this one of the greatest soccer facilities in the state of Oklahoma in my opinion. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, we have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. passes unanimously. Q1 is a resolution a resolution authorizing the municipal council to confess judgment without admitting liability in the case of Moser Moser Moser Moser U versus the city of OKC. Executive session is not requested. We have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. R1 is a resolution authorizing the municipal counselor to confess judgment without a liability in the case of Ortega v city of OKC. Executive session is not requested. Have a motion to second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. 11 S1 are claims recommended for denial. We have items A through C we could take with one motion. Executive session is now requested. There's a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. 11T uh one are claims recommended for approval. We have items A and B. We could take with one motion. Um executive session is now requested. Have a motion in a second. Cast your votes. passes unanimously. That concludes votes for the day. We're now at item 12, comments from council. Uh, ward two. Thanks, Mayor. Uh, I just want to say thank you to uh starting with the community who went out back in summer of 20 and protested. But I I want to go to Andrea Grayson and Jason Fairbrush and everyone who served on the community policing working group, served on mayor's law enforcement task uh force. I got to see the launch video on Thursday for this city. Craig's already smiling, so he knows what I'm going to say. I got to see the launch video for this city's um 911 mental health alternative. The coordinated, what do you want to call it? What are we calling it? the uh it's it's the um coordinate mobile in mobile mobile integrated health. Took me a second. Yes, I'm still learning it too. But the mobile integrated health and this is wonderful that video uh seeing we've already piloted piloted excuse me this work back in December. just seeing firefighters, seeing, you know, uh, mental trained mental health professionals just going out there and, um, responding to mental health crisis calls. Um, I pulled up the statistics earlier. You know, we remain at the top when it comes to children with adverse childhood experiences, but also one in four Oklahomaans have a mental health issue. And as that same research shows, most of them don't have access to mental health care. And it is a remarkable moment, a historic moment. And I just want to thank any council member who was here during that time as well. It's just very important to acknowledge the council who, you know, supported those efforts. um to acknowledge again the protesters who were out there asking for these things, the people who volunteered on the community uh policing working group, volunteered, didn't even get paid. Um but Andre and Jason have just stewarded a remarkable ship. Um city manager, I mean, I think what you've done, yeah, asking Andrea to step into that role is just truly truly commendable. My dean at OCU served on the advisory for the mental health and I was talking with her over graduation and she's she's impressed, you know, and this is good. This is I know we had some growing pains back during that summer where I I wasn't sure we were going to be able to pull this off and um I can't even process what we're about to see. Uh we should be very proud because the fact that I wanted it back in 2020. I didn't want to study it. I wanted it in place right then, but that gave us time to slow down and study how other cities have done it and uh we learned from their mistakes. And so that's actually going to hopefully mitigate us repeating those. So I think we're having a press conference later today. So what time is that? Believe it's 2:00. 2:00. So tune in everybody because this is just such a remarkable moment. I can't wait to go back out there to W 2 to Shepherd. I was a neighbor when I was knocking doors. I'll conclude by saying this. I was knocking doors back during the re-election and this was a progressive woman and she opened that door just with the most angry look on her face at me and she was like, "James, why haven't you all built any of the mental health stuff in MAPS yet?" And I will never support another maps again. And I had to explain like kind of shaking in my boots like well not only is MAPS going to build the crisis intervent the beds right and the transitional homes but we have this alternative that's coming and I just she she started to calm down but her trust wasn't quite there and today the city of OKC gets to double down and be like yeah trust us and uh I just really want to thank that resident for trusting us. I want to thank the residents for trusting us and thanks for helping guide us, mayor and city manager. Thank you. W three. I'm still learning. Nothing at this time. Thank you. Very good. Four. Five. I want to double what Councilman Cooper said about the mobile integrated health. When I took the firefighters academy, there were a bunch of their future employees going through the firefighters academy at the same time and they were very very enthused about what was coming as well as the fire department. I mean, this takes a burden off of a large part of our expensive part of the city. And we've heard a whole lot of conversations about a whole lot of stuff today. But the one thing that everybody wants to know is with two marathons coming to W four, are you going to run in either one of them? Okay, I'll just making sure. That's it. W seven. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I also wanted to know if Councilman Stone was running in those marathons. Um so maybe we need to pay his registration. Um um just just two things quickly. One, I want to I want to thank uh the city manager and ACM Fairbrush and uh D uh embark director Rush for their continued attention on um on the potential removal of Route 19, the bus route that's going the only bus route that is serving our neighbors in Spencer. Um I continue to hear from my neighbors calling me, emailing me, um with real concern about their inability to access quality public transit in our city. And I just want to again thank you for the continued efforts to find alternatives and just strongly encourage us to to remember that all of our neighbors deserve an opportunity to have access to our quality services and this and we will isolate this community if we do not address this issue. So I I want to thank you for that. Two, I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts about the ADU ordinance. So if I reach out to you, it's because I would love to know what you think. I think it's really important. I appreciate um and respect the idea that we're going to have some continued discussions about um how we can minimize corporate influence that could be potentially damaging to the character of our neighborhoods. And I want to continue to hear about that. But I also think it's important that we keep be clear about what the issues are and what they are not. To Councilman Cooper's point about demolition being an issue and and um those restrictions and other restrictions as far as design review, those are separate issues than the ADUs. And so it's important that we keep our eye on the ball. It's about adus and whether we're going to allow it by right in select areas in the central core of Oklahoma City. So, um I hope to hear everybody's opinions about it and that's all. Mayor, thanks Mark. Yeah, last week I got to go to Washington DC with a group of people and meet with our congressional delegation and it was really meaningful. I learned so much. But in talking to all these people and and talking to our members of the Senate and Congress, uh the one thing that was the big buzz was the 2028 Olympics. And when I got back home, I saw that uh Michael Burns was selected to lead our efforts uh for those games in Oklahoma City. And he is a tremendous sports executive. He has strong ties to Oklahoma City. I looked uh this morning and one of the things he's already done, you can go to www.visit visitc.com and you can sign up to volunteer for the 2028 Olympic events. Now, here's the sign up form. This is going to move fast. We've got a lot to do, but I'm glad we've installed uh Mr. Burns. I think he'll do a great job. Uh thank you. Thank you. That concludes comments from council. We're at item 13, citizens to be heard. We have one citizen who signed up to speak, Ronnie Kirk. My name is Ronnie Kirk. My address of 2328 North Missouri. Two weeks ago, Mr. Mayor, you had just left. I I gave all the city council members some information. I also left some of the information for the police chief. I talked to him this morning and he haven't even received it yet. Three years ago, I stood right here when Oklahoma started issuing all those license for marijuana. They miss issued more license than anybody in the United States. Oklahoma is the number one capital for marijuana. Also, 30 days after that, I stood right here. I said, "Y'all need to start monitoring what come across the line." I stayed lines. They never did that. They got them gummy barrels 30 days after that. As of today, in every store you go in, every store you see those energy drinks, THC levels, drink five of those and you're higher than anybody you want to be in the city. They have already had 10 deaths from OD on those energy drinks. You know, Oklahoma, we're really growing fast. It's good to see the city grow. We not really let the the genie out the ball for all this marijuana uses and it's just too late to put him back in. So some of the things that we still have control over, try to control it. some information I bring down here to this city and give y'all. It's really important for the city, not just the east side, for the city we live in. 30 seconds remaining. Yes young lady. I'm going continue bringing stuff to concern me, my family, the east side, and the city. It's important that people come down here and speak out for things that they think can be changed. I want to say thanks to y'all again. Thanks. Thanks, Ronnie. All right, we're at item 14, adjournment, and we are adjourned.