Good morning everyone. We're going to get started here in just a second. Um let's start out with an invocation and the pledge of allegiance. And for the invocation, we have Lieutenant Steven Harris, the chaplain for the fire department with us. And I'll invite him up to kick us off. Let us pray. Lord, we know that this time of year is the best of times in the worst of times for people as we travel and spend time with friends and family, Lord. So, we ask for your grace and your peace and your joy in our lives as we do these things and celebrate your birth on this holiday season, Lord. for the people here today that come to express opinions and ideas uh for our city and the people here to listen to them. We ask for wisdom and understanding as they share and make decisions that grow our city. Let us be a beacon of light in this nation that we can show what freedom truly is. In your name we pray. Amen. >> Thank you. And then we have Amelia and Caroline from Girl Scout Troop 1772 to join us for the pledge of allegiance. >> I aliance. >> I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. And now we'll call the meeting to order. And we have no items under the office of the mayor or items from council. Um so we'll move to city manager reports. Thank you madam vice mayor. Today we have introduction of our capital improvement plan. Um this plan we adopt every five years and u wanted to bring that forward. Been working on this with staff. It's already gone to planning commission. Steve Akens with the budget office is going to give an introduction overview and then we'll hear from two of our departments today with public works and utilities on their capital improvements plans. >> Good morning, Vice Mayor, Council, City Manager. I'm Steve Akens from the budget office and I'm here to pre present an overview of the five-year capital plan. And if you can go to the next slide. The the first thing that we want to reiterate that the five-year plan is not a budget, but the purpose is to organize the long-term work for projects over $50,000, identify the priorities for our finan planning and financial resources, serve as a mechanism for decision making, serve as a guide for the fisc year budget, which we do fiscal year every every year, and communicate this plan to the businesses and community. Um the projects are identified by the departments and evaluated internally and then this uh they they take into consideration the city council strategic pri priorities, customer service issues, federal and state mandates, um economic v vitality and improvements of neighborhoods. Then they're reviewed by trust, city management, and the planning commission. Um, I wanted to let you know of the $2.7 billion new bond issue, one 42% of that or 1.1 billion is included in this five-year plan. So, it doesn't throw you off. Why doesn't it look higher, but only 1.1 over the next five years is anticipated to be spent? Okay. And so, we've got the um planning by function here. The total plan is 6.598 billion dollar over the next five years. That's the largest that we've ever had. And utilities makes up the lion share or the largest piece of that at 2.7 billion with culture and recreation which includes the NBA arena at $2 billion and followed by public works, airports and public safety. uh by funding source. Trust fund uh fund 63% of the plan. Bonds fund 21% and special taxes uh such as police and fire sales tax and all the other special taxes fund 11%. Next and here you can see where the money is being spent. Utilities has $2.6 6 billion followed by facilities and facilities include the new NBA arena and community enhancements that includes $175 million for economic development and affordable housing and so forth and so on down streets 504 million and airports 488 million. So, selected departments, here are some of the highlights. Fire has a police and fire have a combined training center going in. Uh, $40 million for fire and roughly $44 million for police. New fire stations, uh, new fire storage facility and then vehicles over the next five years are 32 million. Uh, police has a new courts annex police and courts annex for 71 million. uh vehicles and helicopters for 69 million and then their Axon contract which most of you know that's that's all of their technology for their uh body cameras and things like that of 24 million airports. Uh they're going to they're putting in some hangers for 1330 million. There's several hanger improvements and new hangers. A new parking garage, parking garage D, I think it is for 98 million. uh and a new airport u ter or the terminal improvements 47 million and runways 15 million. Um affordable housing and economic development for 175 million. And I just put the uh OKC USS OKC memorial for 5 million. Uh public transportation u upgrades uh to the new embark facilities for 86 million. pedestrian improvements for 35 million and bus replacements for 28 million. And we have two presentations today and two presentations on the 30th. Today we're going to have utilities and public works and parks and maps on the 30th. And here is the timeline. Today we have already gone to and planning commission has recommended and adopted the the resolution. Uh we're going to introduce it to you today. Um we're going to have some partner presentations today, December 30th, we're going to have the other two and then we will set for adoption by city council on the 13th of January. And that's all I have unless I can answer any questions. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Any >> So Jared Mclofflin will be presenting the utilities uh budget or I'm sorry, capital plan and then Debbie Miller, our public works director, will be presenting the uh public works portion of the plan. >> Sorry. >> Good morning. Um, I appreciate this opportunity to give you an update on our five-year plan. Um, the um, our system here in Oklahoma City is fairly large. Uh, as you are, I'm sure well aware. Uh, this just kind of gives you a a list of some of our infrastructure that we are continually having to maintain um, operate. Takes a significant amount of work to operate. um plan, fund, construct, maintain uh this infrastructure. So you can see, you know, 4200 miles of water pipe, 3,000 miles of of sewer pipe. And so um our CIP projects um can be broken down into um these different categories. Projects that address resiliency and reliability. Um they include projects that address the aging infrastructure and also um projects that address um redundancy in our system so that we can maintain service um always. Um so re resiliency and reliability is the first category. Um supply demands and growth in our system is the second category. So like water supply um which includes maybe you heard about our our second ATO pipeline um [clears throat] from southeast uh Oklahoma that uh would be a water supply project or our Deer Creek expansion project would be a wastewater uh water treatment plant wastewater treatment plant um growth project. And then the [clears throat] third category is projects that address regulatory compliance um such as the hot topics of POS and lead service uh line um replacement. So um on those POS particularly we have an emerging emerging contaminant study where we are conducting base baseline POS monitoring of liquid and solid streams entering and leaving wastewater facilities um wastewater treatment plants and [clears throat] and then we're evaluating commercially available treatment technologies for addressing that uh on our lead service line we um have identified approximately 400 lead service line to be replaced and uh they will be replaced very soon. Uh a couple of other challenges that we have that are just challenges for overall CIP um projects are just the rising costs um on& and M costs and and capital costs. Uh, for example, on chlorine gas, uh, we've seen that the cost of chlorine gas go up over 500% um, in recent years. And so, we have projects that will allow us to generate our own chlorine um, [clears throat] where we won't have to purchase it and and freight it to us. Um we have project um another challenge is equipment and material lead times which we've seen some easing of that but they're still not to precoid levels that we uh would have seen previously. And then the last is availability of resources including manpower um consultants and contractors. >> [clears throat] >> So, this is a uh a recap of our previous five-year plan. Um it's it's awards that and the projects are listed in here based off of the year that they were uh awarded. And um so you can see a significant amount in water each year. and uh those specifically in the past five years. Um a lot of those are due to our second ATO pipeline that we've been working on. Um and so that's the water portion especially in the year 2020 fiscal year 2025. There's a significant number of water projects uh related to that second ATOA pipeline. Um you can see in 2023 a significant amount in uh wastewater projects and those are particularly due to uh our $192 million South Canadian wastewater treatment plant improvements project and a $56 million uh North Canadian wastewater treatment plant improvements project. Um [clears throat] if we look specifically at the fiscal year 2025, this just shows uh how much we actually encumbered at 488 million. Um but originally we had planned uh to award $854 million worth of of projects in the fiscal year. So it just shows how fluid it has to be. It can slide um from one year to the next. Um, [clears throat] so like was stated earlier, our uh 5-year capital improvement program for the fiscal years 2026 to 20 2030 um is a $2.76 billion um plan. And um you can see kind of how these projects are laid out um particularly in fiscal year 2026. You can see um that for example in the fiscal year 2025 I said it slid and some of these projects might have slid just a month or two or a couple uh months and ended up from the fiscal year 2025 into the fiscal year 2026. And so that's why that number is a lot higher. But what I really want you to see from this slide is um that 64% of this these projects are water related CIP projects and 35% are sewer. If we dive into the water specifically, you can see how these projects are broken down into those categories that I listed earlier. Um the categories [clears throat] of resilient projects that address resiliency and reliability such as uh a waterline replacement project would be one that addresses resiliency and reliability in the system or uh 35% of these projects address water supply which would be like that second ATOA pipeline um which by the way that second ATOA pipeline is a $1 billion project uh in and of itself over the previous five years and this next five years period. Um oh one more thing about this um water uh CIP each year on the resiliency and reliability each year has a component of of waterline replacement for example we budgeted or planned uh $20 million in the fiscal year 2026 for waterline replacement projects. Uh in 2027 we plan $30 million and each subsequent year has a a waterline replacement part. So I I do want to highlight a few water um CIP projects. The first being that second Atooka pipeline um [clears throat] and it's a 72 inch um pipeline 100 miles from southeast Oklahoma from Atoa the Toka reservoir all the way to our Draper water treatment plant. Um and you might ask well why do we have to go get the water from southeast Oklahoma? Why not just get water here? And the answer to that is there's um 32 inches of rainfall on average in Oklahoma City. Um and in southeast Oklahoma it's 55 in of rain uh on average. And so that's where the water is. That's where we need to go to get the water. And so, um, [clears throat] our some great planners and leaders before us, um, they've shored up significant water rights in southeast Oklahoma, uh, for us. And, um, we do already have a 60-in pipeline that this, uh, 72in pipeline will will parallel, but, um, those together will bring all the water that we need um to [clears throat] Oklahoma City. Um 66% of this uh pipeline is already uh either already installed or under construction. And uh we we have uh bid out just recently the last three of our the three of the last four projects that we have um were expected to be complete by late 2028 on this project. The uh second list uh project on this list is the Kaameichi River Water Management Program. Uh if we go back to this same slide, the Sardis Lake is north and east of the Atooka Reservoir and McGee Creek Reservoir. And so um on we have water rights in Sardis Lake and that water can come down the Kaichi River at which point we're going to build a pump station and a pipeline to pick up the water take it to uh where we have just completed our second ATA pipeline and then we will be able to um take all of that water um the Kaumichi water pursuant to the 2016 water settlement agreement between the city of Oklahoma City the Chalkaw Nation of Oklahoma, the Chickasaw Nation, and the state of Oklahoma and was ratified by the United States Congress will provide half of OKC's total water supply and we'll meet our uh water supply needs through the year 2060. Um, and we do have a hard deadline on on that um getting that project done by uh 2035 to be able to use those water rights. Um the estimated cost of this project is $530 million. So those first two projects on the list address water supply. The last four on this list address um uh resiliency and reliability. Um for example, this uh [clears throat] western interconnection of the Hefner water treatment plant and the Draper water treatment plant service areas is a project that will connect the two systems. the water from our Hefner water treatment plant and our Draper water treatment plant. Again, this is important because a significant amount of water is coming from southeast Oklahoma. We need to be able to push it through the entire uh city uh so that [clears throat] um we get the water where it needs to be number one and also uh it provides for some redundancy so we can push water between the two service areas. Um [clears throat] and then we have our Draper and Hefner water treatment plant improvements projects of which on that project we will um we have some clear well upgrades and filter rehabilitations. But again that project also includes on-site chlorine generation. Um our overher dam structural stability improvements project is a $60 million project to address um the stability of the dam. Um and then our water mane replacement projects is also on the list as a resiliency and um [clears throat] reliability project. We pick areas for water mane replacement based off of the age of the mains, the number of breaks in the area and uh the consequence of failure in those areas. On the sewer side, um 65% of the projects address resiliency and reliability and 25% address growth in the system. Uh one project that addresses the growth on the north on the north um side of Oklahoma City is the Deer Creek expansion project. The Deer Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant currently um will treat 15 million gallon 15 million gallons of water um per day [clears throat] and this expansion project will increase it to 20 million gallons per day. Um that project is expected to be complete by um is expected to be awarded by mid 2027 and is going to cost more than $200 million for that project. Um there's the a few [clears throat] other projects that we have at our wastewater treatment plants to address um um improvements that are needed there. uh including this uh Deer Creek odor management and electrical improvements project that is a $43 million estimated cost to be completed by March of 2028. Um and [clears throat] then uh like on the water side, we also have um sewer line replacement projects um where we uh have planned $15 million for sewer line replacements in each year of our capital improvements plan. Um [clears throat] a couple more is the lift station improvements and elimination project. it. We can eliminate a lift station when we have gravity mains close enough to it where we can um just [clears throat] gravity from that. And we and we want to eliminate lift stations so that we don't have to pay the power costs uh at the station and also reduce the risk of of pump failure. Um and then the final one on this list is our central lab and operations center. um where we've [clears throat] selected an architect for both of those um projects and we expect to be complete by uh December of 2028. These projects will enhance enhance efficiencies for long-term service for our lab and operations personnel. And then finally on our solid waste, it the plan is a $40 million uh capital improvements um which [clears throat] includes um our solid waste operation center uh improvements um cart replacements throughout the system and equipment replacement like the rig shown right here. Uh we have 80 over 80 rigs or vehicles like this one that's shown. This is a side loader and others are configured a little bit different, but this um particular uh rig new, we we just purchased one and it cost $530,000 and we replace on average um five to 10 rigs like this per year. So, we have we have a lot of work to do and we have a a great team, but um we're continually working on improving our system. you have any questions? >> Thanks, Jared. Appreciate it. Debbie Miller, our public works director. She's going to present the projects that are managed by public works. A lot of the projects they manage on behalf of the city are outside of just the public works department and she'll explain that and go through her presentation of the projects they manage and and a good example of that is they manage the geo bond program which you know covers many different areas across the city. >> Thank you. Welcome. Um, thank you for having me, Mayor, Vice Mayor, and Council Debbie Miller, public works director, and I'm here to present the 5-year uh, capital improvement plan for public works. I'd like to thank my staff, Shannon Cox, Mike Miller, who is here, and Billy Little, who assisted with putting this together. So, this first slide shows the capital plan by fiscal year. And as you can see, we start with 221 million and then we go through to the next five years to 5 95 million. So we have six different categories that we have divided the CIP plan into projects that public works overseas. So we have a total of 582 million that public works will oversee. Um the project types, this shows here the different project types and the amount that will be you spent by the public works department in the next five years and the majority is the 504 million of the street project. Um I do want to say that the overall 2025 go bond awards will be about 1.2 billion in the first five years. So this slide shows the work by funding source. Um, as you can see, the majority is the uh geo bond, but we do have a better street safer cities and uh our street development impact fees that make up the majority. So, we'll go through the different categories by type and kind of give you an idea the amount that we are spending and the type of projects that are included. So, this is for the bridges. We have five new bridges and 13 that are going to be rehabbed. um 2 million will be from the 2017 GO bond and 28 million will be from the 2025 geo bond. So this map actually shows where the locations are and I just want to point out I'm excited and I think staff is excited. If you look way up in northeast Oklahoma City in Ward 7, that is our last timber bridge that we'll be able to um convert to actually a a great structure. So, this is an example of the bridge replacement. This is actually the twin bridges over uh Grand Avenue there by the fairgrounds. This picture shows where they're hanging in the beams um putting in the other structures. We're excited that this bridge is complete. So, we've actually transferred traffic over and they are have actually demolished the other bridge that you can see over to the right. So, this project's moving forward. Um, we hope to have it completed later this year. And here is an example of a timber bridge that was replaced with a three cell concrete box. So, with this project, we not only replaced the bridge, we actually did some resurfacing. Um, we did grading. Uh, we completed this in the spring of 2025 and it was about 1.7 million. Um, the next category we'll talk about is our streets. Uh the funding for streets, we've got 469 million from the GEO bond and 12 million from the better streets and 15 million from our uh street development impact fees. So this map kind of shows a map of the locations of the streets that we have um projected to include in the next five years. You can see we have some widening, some arterial resurfacing, and some residential resurfacing. So here's an example of arterial resurfacing. This is on Northwest 23rd from M to Penn. You can see Shepard Mall over there on the left upper left corner. Um with this project, we resurfaced the street. We restriped. Um there's some sidewalks that were put in and we also upgraded the intersections to put in new ADA crossings and the push buttons for the pedestrians. This was completed in early uh 2025 this year. So, here's another that I'm really excited about this project. Um this is actually a street enhancement project that we did arterial resurfacing on. Um we worked with the district to enhance the area. We provided on street parking. Um created a wider pedestrian path for um the customers through that area. And we do have some enhanced crossings that aren't shown. It's just to the bottom of this picture that um cross the street with the signs to kind of enhance so that people know that they're crossing. Uh the speed limit is 25 miles an hour through here, but we are really trying to slow it down. Great thing is that this is on historic Route 66 and so this project is complete for the centennial that will start next year. So the next uh project that we have is facilities. Um for public works we have 157,000 in CIP that we use to do major improvements to city facilities. If you go to the map you can see we are not including any of the police, fire, transit or libraries only the city own facilities. um we will oversee the design and construction for all of those projects for the other departments and then when they're complete we turn them over to them and they take over the maintenance. So here's an example. I think this is a great story. It's the Metropolitan Library at the Alanti. Um, this, if you're not familiar, started as a um, a satellite site over across in the strip center and it was so successful that they wanted to build a actual building over there and they have a lot of great interesting uh, facilities inside that that crafts and arts that you can do. Um, this is the Hefner Clubhouse out at the Hefner Golf Course. This picture, they're farther along than this. They're about 75% and they expect to actually be open early next year. So, this is underway. This is going to be a great enhancement for the golf course there. And here's another facility. This is for the USA softball hall of fame. Um the NCAA has been asking for us to construct an indoor facility for a few years and so we are able uh to do that. We have started a design on that. We start plan to start construction next year to be complete in 27. Uh this facility will have uh it's an indoor practice so it has fields. It has batting u facilities. It also has some offices and locker rooms. So the next category is sidewalks. Um we have a total of um about 458,000 in uh the CIP. And the thing to remember is that a lot of our widenings do include sidewalks, especially if they're from neighborhoods to schools. Um they all we also help Embark, we take care of their um sidewalks that they put in to make sure the connections are there for their bus stops. So our volume looks a little low, but we're actually helping the other departments. So, here's an example of um a sidewalk project that's um this part's complete. We're still ongoing with some of the sidewalks on Northwest Expressway. This actually will tie into the North May Avenue bridge at Northwest Expressway and we hope to have that completed. Um actually, it's going to bid next year. It's supposed to start in the spring and it'll take about 18 months for that to be constructed. But the great thing is we were able to coordinate both projects so that the sidewalks are there and will connect. So, and this is another sidewalk project that extends over um Hefner Parkway, State Highway 74. Um we actually were able to provide um access on the bridge across the highway. We constructed some barriers and we put up some fencing along the um outside wall for protection. So this is actually this this part is complete. So if you drive by you'd be able to see it. Um the next category is the traffic. Um these funding sources are um geo bond the 2017 and the 2025. Uh we have some impact fees available. Um we have 96 projects programmed in the next five years for this funds. So here you can see the locations of some of these projects. And here is a project that's recently been completed. Um we worked with the school to install um safe access across Walker. So we got these installed this summer and they were in operation before school started this fall. So, I think this has been a great asset to to the school system over there. Uh, the next category is the drainage. Um, we have 76 projects that we're going to try to complete and here's a map that kind of shows a few of those and I'll show you a couple of examples. Um, this is a project that we're very proud of. This is um not our usual concrete, you know, just get the water out. This is actually an underground detention facility. Um, this project is downstream from the village and so if we had to carry all this water through the village over to a creek, it just would have destroyed that neighborhood. So, we were able to do this underground detention facility and this is what it looks like now. So, it's available. We have been having discussions with the neighborhood about possible uses for them. So, it's a great success story as far as sustainability and um providing areas for the neighborhood. >> That is all I have. I'd be happy to answer any questions. >> It's not a question. Would you mind going back to that bridge that you all did? Um the the timber one that you >> Oh, the one on 178th and Triple X Road. >> Mhm. >> There you go. >> It's so impressive. It's not even my ward. I just really want to take time and just affirm you and everyone who did this work. This is so wonderful and especially you know that it's not [clears throat] it's not in the urban core and it just speaks to the investments that we're making all across the city. So I just wanted to take the time and just affirm you all on this work. This is I want to go out there and see this. This is so wonderful. So, I want one of these on 164th Street. >> I'm working on it. [laughter] >> And of course, thank you for Northwest Expressway sidewalks and the Britain District Streetscape. And um I saw on the news on the south side, Representative Mickey Dolan talking about some sidewalk improvements by a school over there. So, again, just seeing this work all across the city, it's just really wonderful and I hope your workers get a little bit of rest uh during the holidays. >> Thank you. >> Thanks, Debbie. Um, so we will be coming back at the next meeting on the 30th with a presentation on parks and maps. So we won't present every single department, but they'll come back and provide presentations on those and then schedule for adoption on the 13th of January. Um, so that'll come back to the council then. I think that's all that we have. Claims payroll is also on here. It can be found at okc.gov. That's all that I have. >> Great. Thank you. Um, moving on, we'll have uh item six is journal of council proceedings. And we can take a motion on both those items. We have a motion and a second. Cast your vote and that passes unanimously. Uh, item seven is request for uncontested continuences. City manager. So, we do have item 11G that is listed on the agenda to be deferred to 12:30 of 25. Um, and then starting on page 10, item 11 Q1, dilapidated structures. All the items that I list in these different categories will be stricken from the agenda. This is item D, 2500 Southwestern Avenue to rework for a new owner. Continuing on page 10 on secured structures, item 11 R1, um, beginning with item E, 2500 Southwestern Avenue to rework for a new owner. Item G, 2801 Southwest 5th Street to renotify, and then item H1 1424 Southwest 12th Street, the owner has secured. Continuing on page 10 with abandoned buildings, all of these items are stricken for the same reasons they were previously with unsecured structures. D is 2500 Southwestern Avenue. E2801 Southwest 5th Street and F1424 Southwest 12th Street. And that's all the items that I have. >> Thank you. Um, we have nothing under item 8, revocable permits and events. So, we will res recess the council meeting and convene as the Oklahoma City Municipal Facilities Authority where we can take all items with one motion. Please cast your votes. And that passes unanimously. We will now adjourn OCMFA and convene as the Oklahoma City Public Property Authority where we can again take all items with one vote. Please cast your votes. And that passes unanimously. Now we will adjourn OCPA and reconvene as the council meeting. Um, I understand we have presentations on items A C, A, D, A, I, and AJ. Do we have any items from council members that they would like to pull for a separate vote or discussion? >> Um, yes. Hi, Vice Mayor. Not for a separate vote, but just I think a public update on item W. Okay, >> please. That'll be all. I appreciate you. >> Okay, we will take these in order. We also have um a citizen who signed up to speak under item A, Steve Hunt. >> Hello, Steve Hunt, 2825 Northwest 57th Ward James. Um before I get into my prepared uh statement on this janitorial uh supply contract, um I just started looking at the agenda and noticed a couple um firms that are involved in these contracts. One of which is Bane Capital who purchased uh Class Curve and Nichols Hills Plaza recently. Some of you know that they are the firm that ultimately shut down beloved CRA Anthony in the 90s. And um so I wanted to talk about this a little bit. Um, so I noticed that Oklahoma Janitorial Supply is on the list of a 630 $650,000 contract, but also um HD Supplies, which is a subsidiary of Home Depot uh purchased from Bang Capital uh a few years ago and also um the other one, Brady Plus, which is a private equity firm. Um, I don't know the details of the 650,000 and why it's not possible for a local uh owned company, Oklahoma Janitorial Supply, to do all of this. But it is deeply concerning to me that we are uh working with these firms, specifically one adjacent to Bane Capital, who shut down beloved CRA Anthony years ago and has also purchased Classen Curve at Nichols Hills Plaza. Um, I spoke with Rachel Cop recently. You know, she moved uh Empire Pizza because she saw the writing on the wall. It necessarily wasn't an issue of Bang Capital coming to her and say, "We're going to elevate your your rents," but she's like, "We don't need to be here." And um I think you all know that I've been working with some folks talking about private equity and deeply deeply concerned. Um you all know Mayor Holt had a 10-year synicure with Hall Capital. Um, the Oklahoma City baseball team was purchased by uh subsidiary of Silver Lake Capital and renamed the uh unrecognizable name Dodgers to Comets, which was kind of bizarre because they're holding fanatics profited off of the rebranding. I'm kind of segueing, but um I would definitely like for y'all to table this and look into the possibility of giving Oklahoma Janitorial Supply the full contract. And if they don't have the items necessary, there's got to be a way for them to find ways to do that. And having that extra funding because a lot of the money that goes to Bane Capital and the other >> 30 seconds remaining >> is a Thanks. Um, a lot of the money that goes to them is just scraped off the top for uh fees and, you know, just the the board to uh have a good old time. So, thanks a lot. >> Thank you. Um, next we have item W. Councilman Cooper. >> Thank you, Vice Mayor. Yeah. Uh, it might be city manager if there's someone from staff who could just kind of speak to this particular update. I know the public, a lot of members of the public are quite interested. Thank you so much. >> Good morning. Debbie Miller Public Works. Item W is an amendment to the contract with the consultant for Deep Fork Trail. This um amendment is to pay for additional survey so that we can get a more correct estimate of the cost of the different alignments. And Melinda McMillan Miller is here if you need any additional information on the trail. >> Do we have any just update in terms of when we might expect even preliminary uh reports from this particular line of work? >> Right. So the preliminary report that we had asked Half and Associates to go back and study alternative alignment um methods to help with the Red Ridge Preserve area um they came back to us and u public works has received that report but we still have further questions and that's the reason for this amendment. Okay. Um once we get this amendment approved hopefully today um and then we'll half will do their work then we're estimating about March we'll be able to come back to this body and um give you the full preliminary report and recommendations for that trail alignment moving forward. >> Cool. I appreciate both of you giving us that update. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> And next we have a presentation on item AC. >> Yes. Chris York. um our budget director will and assistant finance director will give us a um summary of this budget amendment that's proposed. We had AD listed for presentation. I don't know if you want to just also go into that one and give just a quick update, but it's basically just our formal introduction of the CIP. >> Yeah, thank you, city manager. All right. Uh so the this item today is step one of our two-step process to amend the budget. This is our first one for fiscal year 2026. This one is a little bit different. I do have one call out for you. Um, you'll notice in the background as well as in the fund summary documents themselves, we have the original budget in the leftmost column. And what's different about this amendment is uh you may recall last year we amended the uh financial policies to allow us to administratively move purchase order rollover um which is the POS from prior year that didn't close out. We move those forward. We used to do that through an amendment. Now we do that administratively. And so we still want to have complete transparency for you. So we have included that in the original budget column to include what you adopted for FY26 plus that administrative rollover. So that's your starting point for this amendment. Just going through the amendment in general, we have a few funds being updated that include the capital improvement projects fund for $1.7 million. This is really a realignment of so no ex no new dollars. These are uh funds that were already in the project uh that just need budget authority to complete those projects for this fiscal year. Um, and so it's just chewing up those. Uh, again, no additional cash there, but an increase of $1.7 million uh, in the fund budget authority. We also have an increase for our fire sales tax in the amount of $1 million. This is to fund a new wellness project uh, for our public safety uh, first responders. Uh, and it'll include some additional heart screenings, uh, some integrated physical therapy, mental health services, uh, and performance training for those individuals. the idea of being able to get those folks back to the job quicker, helping them avoid long-term injuries. That increase is for $1 million. Um, and that will be paid out of fund balance. Still a substantial fund balance in the fund uh remaining at over uh 41% uh after this amendment. We also have an increase to the Oklahoma City Improvement and Special Services Assessments Districts Fund. Mouthful there, of $355,000. And this is to establish the second generation of the adventure district bid. I will say that there is another item out there that is extending generation one. So this is a preparatory step with the amendment. There's still the expectation that Gen 2 will need to come on long online before the end of the fiscal year. Um so we're just getting that in place even though we are extending the contract through the remainder of the fiscal year with that companion item. Finally, we have uh an increase in the special purpose fund of $1.2 million. This is simply a pass through transaction. Uh it is funds being managed by the Oklahoma Development Trust, the Oklahoma City OK Economic Development Trust being received from the Oklahoma Development Finance Authority. Um that will be related to uh new infrastructure at the half. Uh again, the city will receive $1.2 million and then we'll immediately pass that uh to the developer as reimbursement. $1.2 million increase there. And of course, the uh grant from the ODFA would be the funding source. So, the total increase today is $4.3 million, which will bring us to a $2.07 billion budget should you choose to adopt it. Again, this is just the introduction. We will bring it back to you on December 30th alongside a public hearing. Um, and with that, if you have any questions, I'm happy to answer those. >> All right. And if you'll allow me to move on, uh, should I keep going, Craig, or that good? >> Okay. >> Yes. >> Uh, and just very briefly on item AD. So, this is the formal action that goes alongside of the department presentations that you just received. I'll just echo some of those comments that uh this is going to set a uh public hearing and final adoption on January 13th, but you will also receive another batch of presentations on CIP on December 30th. >> And then Chris, too, a correction that I I made a statement earlier that we do the we update the plan every 5 years. It's actually a five-year plan. We update usually every other year. State law requires every 3 years. This one might be the third year. Is that right? >> Yes, sir. It is. >> And so, state law requires at least every three years you update it, but it's a five-year plan when you put it in place. So, this is the third year on this one. Typically, we try to do these about every other year that we'll update the capital plans just because so many things change. >> Thanks, Chris. >> Thank you. Um, and then I believe we have a presentation on item AI and AJ. Um, from David Todd. David Todd, our maps uh director will give us quick presentation on these two projects that we have upcoming from maps 4. >> Good morning. David Todd, maps program manager. U today we have a presentation on part of our mental health uh aspect of maps 4 and this is for the restoration center and Dan Hayes from AHMM is here to take you through this preliminary report. Thank you very much. Um my name is Dan Hayes. I'm from AhmM Architects. Uh here to give you an update on our preliminary report for the restoration center. Um the restoration center uh is a mental health and substance abuse um facility that provides u inpatient crisis care and detox as well as outpatient services and therapy. Uh this is the location of the site. Uh it's located on Lynwood Diagonal. Uh to the east is uh Western Avenue and north is Sixth Street. Um the the building that you can see north of Sixth Street there has actually been demolished. That was the old laundry. And just at the top of the page there, the parking lot that you can see is actually for the diversion hub that's currently under construction uh due to complete soon. Uh the the shape of the site is slightly awkward. it sort of tapers towards the end with Klein cutting off a portion of the of the site there that that makes it unusable. Uh and then the the building that you see on the site is a current office building that will be demolished as part of this project. Um there's a feasibility study completed uh for the for the building um before we uh took took on the project and that estimated that the the overall square footage would be about 51,000 square foot. So we took that area uh and we did some initial site tests, site fits uh to make sure that the uh the site was suitable uh and could fit the building as well as the parking and also thinking about the supportive housing uh which will come uh later down the line uh on the site. And as you can see there, number two was selected which bookends each end of the site with supportive housing and a restoration center and then with parking located in the middle. Uh so that's just a an overall site plan showing there the restoration center to the east, supportive housing to the west. Uh as I mentioned earlier, North Klein currently runs directly north uh where it's it it says supportive housing that that road continues straight on. Currently we're proposing to close that part that very small part of the road uh to allow that site to become usable. Um, and that requires some tweaks to uh, Sixth Street, uh, making that a two-way street all the way along, uh, and allowing it to merge in with Lynwood Diagonal. Um, we worked with the operator quite closely at the start of the project, running through each aspect of their brief, making sure it was it was fit for purpose. We we had all the spaces they needed, uh, and seeing whether we could double up on some of those spaces to make a really hardworking and efficient building. uh and we managed to reduce the square footage down to about 34,000 square foot for the project. Uh these was uh some of the early ideas that that we wanted to incorporate in the building and some of the things that we were thinking about. So um really we wanted to engage with the community, make sure this building was a good neighbor. Uh trying to introduce as much nature and landscape into the project as possible. Uh because that really helps with healing and recovery. Making sure we had the right collaboration spaces. There's lots of different partnering agencies uh within this building. So, making sure they have space to to work together and collaborate. Provide uh good spaces for healing and support whether that is individual or group healing. Uh provide a building that's that's safe for the for the users. Uh and also when the user in the building uh make sure that they can't do any harm to themselves as well. And provide a building that's comfortable uh and is uninstitutional as possible. So this is the the first floor plan. Uh the uh areas that are highlighted here are the uh inpatient services. Uh there are two uh very distinct and separate entrances to this building. One's for the outpatients, one for the inpatients. It's estimated that over 90% of the people who will be using the inpatient services, the crisis facilities will arrive with a first responder. So the entrance there is is to the north to the top of the page. uh it's discreet uh drop off point uh for first responders. They're brought into the intake area that's shown in blue quickly uh assessed and then brought to the uh URC that's shown in pink there which is the urg urgent recovery center. Uh this is where uh clients will stay for up to 24-hour period where they can detox uh hopefully get the support they need. uh if it's decided that they require additional care, they will move to the crisis stabilization unit shown there in orange where they can stay for a maximum of seven days. Um this wing is uh provides 16 beds uh arranged in in two uh sort of wings of eight uh around a central living room area. Uh the middle of the the the plan there you see an outdoor courtyard space. This is the whole idea about uh allowing people that connection with nature. allows people to use that space, step outside, get some fresh air uh and get some light. Uh the central nurses station in that area provides clear views to all of the doors to the bedrooms uh and also to the bathroom. So uh from that single point, there is a cleared line of sight uh to the whole of the um of this wing. The rest of the first floor plan is for outpatient services. So the main entrance to this uh is into this green area that you see and it's directly from the parking lot. So this is uh deliberately front-facing, open and and bright. Uh users of the building can come into this. There are drug testing facilities on that first floor. There is a community center uh that that's sorry a community room that's located um next to the uh courtyard space and there's a reception area and waiting area that also doubles up as an informal place for people to meet have a cup of coffee after one of those community events. Uh the gray area that you see to the to the north near the the sort of loading bay area that is a full-size commercial kitchen uh that allows three freshly prepared meals a day for all users of the building. Um, a key element to this as I mentioned was was uh trying to it's a very inward-looking building. So, how do we give the uh opportunity for use of the building to have a view to outside and that connection to nature? So, instead of providing highle uh windows to the bedrooms, we wanted to provide full height windows that provided a view out of nature. So, we created this 8-ft uh courtyard zone that pro provides safety and security and prevents people uh members of the family uh or other members of the community coming up uh to the uh to the windows of those patient bedrooms uh and being able to interfere uh with their recovery. Um so we have this courtyard space that with that's planted and then we have a mesh screen that from the outside uh looking in appears solid but from the inside looking out uh provides a a sort of perforated view of the city. Uh and also with the height of that allows clear views of the sky. Uh so these uh the spaces directly outside all of the patients uh bedrooms and that's what that could start to look like. So you can see there that the windows are full height. There's a view of directly in front of you of the planting. Then a view of the city through the mesh screen uh and a clear view of the of the sky above. And this is a view of the the the crisis stabilization unit. This is one of those living room areas with a with a TV and a seating u soft seating space. Uh and then nurses station in the middle there. And opposite that is is the external courtyard space. This is a view of the URC. Uh so this is the 24-hour uh crisis and detox area. These chairs uh form beds uh and pull back. Uh and then as you can see there's there's windows there, high level windows again allowing that natural light in uh to the space. And then this is the uh reception area that that doubles up as that sort of informal uh cafe and and meeting point. And then moving to the second floor, this is outpatient services there shown in green. So you come up the staircase uh adjacent to the courtyard into a secure waiting area and then the series of uh individual therapy and group rooms uh uh surround that space shown in green. The blue areas are the uh administrative uh office space uh and partnering areas that provide that collaboration space that I was talking about earlier. Uh and that's a picture of of that uh collaboration open office space. Um we've given a great deal of thought to the to the color palette. Uh so there's the outpatient services have a sort of warm earthy tone to them uh which uh instill safety, stability and grounding while the inpatient services are a cooler lighter tone of greens and blues uh that help to reduce anxiety. So that's been a key key part of our strategy uh in this project. And these are some of early conceptual views of of what the project could look like. So, this is the entrance to the outpatient services directly from the parking lot. As you can see, we're really taking advantage uh of of the glass here on this first floor to open it up and engage with the community to provide a welcoming uh building. Uh this is the the back where really you don't really want any windows out from the from the CSU uh of the building, but you can see from the the mesh that we've used, we have this sort of layering effect uh and broken down the massing to provide an interesting facade. And then that's just another view from Lynwood diagonal uh looking towards the the front of the building. Um the total project budget for this was just over 18.5 million and through uh a lot of hard work um we managed to get our estimate uh to also match that budget. So we're currently just under budget uh about 18.5 million. Um that in that there's no alternates currently proposed. Everything that I've explained today is included within that budget estimate. Um, class one has been a has been a bit drawn out. Uh, but we we finally completed that in October. Uh, and then we're here to you today to present that. Hopefully, if we're approved, we'll move into task two uh early in January. Uh, and that will be 120 days, which would complete uh around the end of May. And thank you very much. Any questions? >> Yes. Uh thank you for an update on such an important project. Um just for my own edification. I remember when and I pulled it up just to to jog my memory but when we created this project in maps for I had recalled uh under mental health that it included $7.8 million for transitional housing and then this project I saw supportive housing. Can you help me understand the difference between transitional housing and supportive housing? And is this the site for that transitional housing? I'm trying I I just don't understand. >> Well, so that's that's currently being discussed and and we're we're I won't say struggling, but we're we're challenged to find operator and how they want to operate and how they can make it work. >> How they can make it work. But yes, it is set up to be right back there at the back end of of this facility because there is a synergy between the diversion hub, the restoration center, and that housing. So, are are we leaning until we know the operator, we won't know if we're going to have that kind of 2-year timeline of like a transitional housing versus uh like when I saw the word supportive, it made me wonder, do we mean permanent supportive housing? Do you see what I mean? I'm just trying to understand. >> Yeah. Those those are all terms that that >> I I'm not real well verssed in, but I can tell you that >> some of it needs to be temporary so that people coming out of this restoration center have a place to go. And if we make it all permanent, >> it'll fill up real quick and then there's there's no way to do this. Also, the ability for the operator to make it work financially and and how they need to operate. So, we're we're going through all that. We just interviewed um operators potentially and you'll be seeing hopefully an agreement here real soon and we'll be able to explain that further. >> Yeah, I appreciate that update. Thank you so much. >> Okay, thank you. Um and then we have our second presentation. >> Yes, David Todd will introduce this presentation as well. >> Right. So, continuing with preliminary reports this morning, we have the U neighborhood and community parks. Remember that this is in several phases. There's 107 of these parks. And today, we have the first phase of of these parks. And Darren Scott from Kimy Horn is here to take you through what's involved in his first phase. >> All right. Uh good morning, council. uh excited to share with you the the next step on uh the parks. Uh it's been a been a journey through the master plan and then this is exciting to get to phase one. Um so as you know uh back earlier this year we uh master plan was approved. So that was all the recommendations through for all 105 neighborhood and community parks. Um consisted of a lot of neighborhood outreach. So a lot of the recommendations were based on what we heard through that and then also close coordination with uh the maps department and I mean everyone on the council uh provided some input as well. So these uh improvements shown on phase one are based on what was done in the master plan. Uh so phase one budget uh is uh 20 and a.5 million a little over uh it's broken down into three u subphases or essentially bid packages uh that will go out separately for bid um 1A uh being about 6.5 million 1B u 8.8 million and that one's a little bit larger because of the bond money that um we were able to put into that. Uh and then 1 C is Washington Park with 5.1 million. Um, so as as I mentioned, the bond funding that was brought up with uh parks uh early in the the master planning process, so we were able to get those additional funds in there to make these improvements go a little further. U so those are shown there on the right as far as the the parks that are getting those improvements. And then Washington Park had specific funds in the MAPS resolution that uh would be allocated to it. So that's the 4.1 million you see there for Washington. Uh so here's a breakdown of all the parks uh per bid package. U 1B is larger and that's primarily because of those bond funds and some parks that u needed to be included to get those spent uh before the the deadline. So that's why that one's a little bit bigger. Um so 1A u what we tried to do when we looked at these we looked at parks and that had the most need uh in a geographic area. So when 1A came about, these are the parks that scored the lowest uh in the master plan that were geographically located. So that was kind of a a two-part thing there and really wanted to make them close enough that we could get good bids and not have contractors going from one end of the the city to the other. U so 6.5 million was the master plan budget. Uh we're showing uh right at that for our uh total cost. Uh we've also included some alternates as well. Also, if bids come in a little lower, we can spend up to that budget uh with those alternates and those are identified in the master plan as well. Uh 1B, uh this package is a little more spread out and because of the bond funds, uh Mlinburgg to the north was included. So, that's part of the reason why it's kind of up there by itself. Melrose and Taylor U are some others that had bond funds, but generally uh focused a little more on the kind of the core of of Oklahoma City area. So the the master plan budget was 8.8 million and uh we're a little bit under that for the the the base bid and then the alternates take us above that for uh being able to add those. And then 1 C is Washington Park. So, it's a standalone project by itself. Uh, with a budget of 5.1 million um for this u the master plan shown here, this this is what was included in the in the overall master plan for Washington Park. Um, we wanted to go ahead and plan this out uh completely. Um, so when we we looked at it, uh, we knew that it was going to be over the budget that was in maps, but we wanted to make sure we were capturing everything that we heard. Um lots of uh influence from south of eight study, lots of public input as well went into this. So uh this is the overall master plan uh that was included. U large splash pad, playgrounds, sports uh court areas uh looking at how we could upgrade the football field that they're existing there now into something a little more multi-purpose. Um so lots lots going on. Really compleiments uh Paige Woodson across the street as well. Um so uh earlier in November we held a uh stakeholder meeting u with the the group surrounding the park and this was a joint meeting with the innovation district phase two uh which we're currently working on as well and that project includes four street. So fourth street Washington park all of that goes together uh as one. So we we asked some questions as to what would be the priority of that previous master plan that we showed and what area should we focus on. Um what we found is west side was the um was the priority. Um, so what that included was a large playground, splash pad, uh, the sports courts, u, the plaza entry to really provide that connection from Paige Woodson across Fourth Street, and then really when we look at innovation phase two and four street streetscape, all of that starts working together. Uh so that was u the the direction and we'll continue to have those stakeholder meetings and get more uh feedback on specifically what this looks like as the the design progresses uh into the final plans. Uh as far as schedule uh we are um you know here for preliminary report approval from here uh pending approval will go into final plans uh with those being completed uh mid next year and then starting the bidding process uh with uh the different bid packages uh mid to later next year uh and extending into 27. With that, I have take any questions and also if you have a question on a specific park, I have those plans as well that we can go to. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. Okay, I believe that is all the items we have under consent docket. Um, so we can take all the items with one motion. It's thinking. Do we need to do a >> voice? Okay, we need to do a voice vote for this one. Do we have a motion? >> Okay. W one. >> W two. >> W three. I do. >> W four. >> W five. W seven. >> Yes. >> W eight. >> Vice Mayor. >> Yes. >> Okay, that passes unanimously. And next we'll move on to the concurrence docket where we can take all items with one motion. I move. >> We have a motion. Do we have a second? >> Second. Okay. >> W one. >> I. >> W two. >> Yes. >> W three. >> W four. >> W five. >> W seven. >> Yes. >> W eight. >> Vice Mayor. >> Yes. And that passes unanimously. Next we have item 11, items for individual consideration. The first item is item A, an ordinance on final hearing reszoning 10901 North Morgan Road in Ward One. Councilman Carter, >> I've spoken with the applicant and the representatives and we are requesting a deferral for two more weeks. See if we can get a motion on the deferral pulled up. >> Okay, sounds like we need to do a voice vote. Sounds like we have a motion. And do we have a second? >> Ward one. >> Yes. >> W two. >> Yes. >> W three. >> W four. >> W seven. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor. >> Yes. So that is deferred. Passes unanimously. Next item is item B. Ordinance on final hearing reszoning 15601 North County Line Road in Ward One. Councilman Carter. Thank you. Um, no one scheduled to speak. Okay. Uh, subject to the summary uh of technical evaluations, I will move for approval. See, >> no. Oh, you're good. Okay. Sounds like we need to do another voice vote. Do we have a motion? >> Yes. >> Second. >> Second. >> Okay. Ward one. >> W two. >> Yes. >> W three. W four. >> W seven. >> Yes. >> W eight. >> Vice Mayor. >> Yes. And that passes unanimously. Next is item C. Ordinance on final hearing reszoning 1108 Northeast 63rd. This is in Ward 7. Councilman Pennington. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Um, this is to um finally bring some development to this area that has been just basically a vacant spot in W 7 despite it being so in such close proximity to the adventure district. They're also building um a a brand new on next door. So, this is going to turn into a nice thriving area around our community. So, with that, madam vice mayor, I move approval. Second. >> Okay, we have a motion. Do we have a second? >> Oh, wait. It's working. >> It might be working. >> Okay. Yes. If it is on your screen, we can go ahead and vote electronically. [clears throat] And that passes unanimously. Item D is an ordinance on final hearing reszoning 11900 Northwest 10th Street in Ward 3. Councilwoman Avers. Not on this item. >> Okay. Do you want to say anything, David? Northwest 10th Street, which is our northern boundary um neighboring with Yukon city limits. And uh I believe there's been a lot of coordination with the legal council and I think we are ready to approve on the Oklahoma City side. The only letters of concern that I have received are residents on the Yukon side and I believe that those um entry points and the traffic flow for Northwest 10th are being navigated through that council. Is that correct? >> Correct. David Box, 525 Northwest 11th Street. So we have had multiple public hearings in front of Yukon on the uh access portion of it and there there were some people there. I will say I think from um at least the the public perspective they were relieved when they saw that the the change requested was to remove the multif family and make this commercial. So um years ago when we were involved in this for a different developer there was a quite a bit of protest ended up in a district court case that we ultimately won uh over the presence of the multif family. So I think there was generally a thought that this is a better development uh for everyone given we are removing the multif family. >> Thank you for your coordination on this effort. I would like to make a motion to approve. >> Okay, we have a motion. Do we have a second? >> The multitasking votes >> the multitasking. Sorry. >> And that passes unanimously. Item E is an ordinance on final hearing reszoning 13725 Southwest 15th Street. This is also in W three. Um council moment, we do have someone signed up to speak on this item um whenever however you'd like to arrange that. >> Cynthia Cycle, if you can state your name. Um and you have three minutes. Uh, thank you very much, Vice Mayor and the council. My name is Cynthia Cycle, residing at 13233 Southwest 9th Street in Belmont Crossing Edition, a community comprised of 44 1acre lots. I currently serve as the president of the Belmont Crossing Homeowners Association. I'm here today not only as an individual HOA president, but I'm also here representing residents living on the west side of Ward 3. I understand that no protest letters or protesters attended the the planning meeting when this pud was addressed. I heard that summer point HOA was part of the review group. Summer Point HOA is managed out of a company in Norman, Oklahoma. Please note, and you can see us up there that if you look at B Belmont Place right there, that's us. The picture clearly shows how close Belmote Crossing is to the future development. I requested the associated preliminary plat and if my math is right, it's approximately 670 houses and 70 duplexes in those two tracks. I understand the distant requirements for notification caused only a few neighbors, mainly from Stable Rock, to receive information. Belmont Crossing is approximately 400 ft. Therefore, just outside those distance requirements. It's somehow kind of convenient that no one from Belmont Crossing, houses that nearly abut this new development, nor me, the HOA president, was informed. It would have been the right thing to do under the circumstances. There's no signs of the property that indicate what's going on. I'm not against future development and providing housing for all. I am concerned with infrastructure providing necessary water, sewer, electricity and gas for this area, addressing drainage. This is rural area and maybe selfishly I feel that developers should be having open meetings to address the impacts to all the current neighbors in the vicinity. If we look at the roads, Southwest 15th from Cemetery Road to Frisco is great right now. uh last few years it's be resurfaced but there's no plans in place after the construction of this magnitude I mean think about the semis contra conc concrete trucks all the things that'll be going over this these are two lane rural roads no shoulders no striping I reviewed the 2025 geo bond extensively happy that it passed south Brisco road and southwest was 15th to Reno is not on the infrastructure for artillery resurfacing. >> 30 [clears throat] seconds remaining. >> It is considered for minor treatment. Chip and seal. Reno to cemetery road is not on the city's radar at all. I lived in my home for 25 years. I've dealt with construction and I see what it can cause. Over 700 houses and duplexes can equate to over a thousand more cars in that area. on a two-lane rural road. I respectfully request that this council defer this action and if possible require the developer to hold a large community meeting with all the surrounding neighborhoods to address the concerns and to give us reassurance that all the things with the infrastructure and the grid have been addressed not only for us but for you. I thank you for this time to speak today. Thank you. Um, so we've been I've received several emails and phone calls over the last few days, couple of weeks, and I've coordinated with legal counsel on this and we are going to request a deferral so we can make sure that we meet the intent of communicating with our neighbors and coordinating strategically. So, um, I would make a motion to defer >> two. Would you >> would you like to speak, David? >> Counciloman Avers, could I just make a comment quickly, and I appreciate our neighbors coming a long way to come to council in the morning, but I I do think it's worthwhile to mention that our staff report does include a specific report about infrastructure. So, to our neighbors that are here, there is an assessment that's done with planning and zoning regarding water, sewer, traffic, um, emergency services. All of those assessments were done when the planning commission also considered this item. So, I do think that's worthwhile to mention that as this council was prepared to vote today, we're we're voting based on the information that we receive from city departments assessing the capability of our infrastructure. So, >> I also add I met with our um city departments as well, Kamal, and there are some some points of consideration in that area that we do want to make sure that we're proactively managing with the applicant. So, that that will be happening over the next two weeks. And I'm going to vote for the continuence, too. So, I'm not saying that like I'm not for the continued conversation. I just want to be clear that we have an understanding of where we are. >> Real briefly, David Box, 525 Northwest 11 Street. And we did, Courtney, we're fine with deferral to the uh January 13th meeting. And and I do want to know because this this happens a lot, but one, we don't send notice, and all the developer can be required to do is follow what the law is. And the law says that we have to send notice pursuant to state statutes, which we did through ownership list that we got from a title company. We don't get to dictate who gets notice. City council through ordinances confirming with state law is what dictates notice. It wasn't that we didn't want to meet with anyone. It's just simply the law says what it says. So, if we aren't aware of protests, and I wasn't aware until I hear from the council person, and right this moment, there's nothing we can do to go meet with people that we don't know exist. So, we're happy to do that. Uh, we'll defer to January 13th and see what we can get. >> Thank you. >> So, motion to defer. >> Yes. Do we have a second? >> A second. >> Please cast your vote. >> Thank you. Okay. And that deferral to January 13th passes. Next is item F, an ordinance on final hearing reszoning 600 West John Kilpatrick Service Road. Councilman Pennington. Y. >> Thank you, Vice Mayor. Um, this is just adding some more mixeduse development to the Chisum Creek area, including a lot more housing, which I'm strongly for building more housing in Oklahoma City. So, I'm going to um move to approve. We have a motion. Do we have a second? Please cast your votes. And that passes unanimously. Item G was uh earlier was uh deferred to December 30th. So next we are on item H. This is an ordinance on final hearing removing metered parking on the south side of West Park Avenue. Uh Councilman Pennington. >> Thanks. Um I am uh going to speak I guess on behalf of the vice mayor and say uh speak in support of this. Um so I'm going to just move approval. >> Yes. And I will make mention until item P, these are all items in my word and I've asked Councilman Pennington to go ahead and motion on them. Do we have Please cast your votes and that passes unanimously. Item I is an ordinance on final hearing removing metered Pike parking on the west side of North Robinson. Councilman Pennington, >> thank you. Um, we're removing that metered parking on uh the south side of West Park Avenue and I would move approval. >> Do we have a second? Please cast your votes. And that passes unanimously. Item J is an ordinance on final hearing establishing 2-hour time limit limited parking on the west side of North Hudson from 9th to 10th Street. Councilman Pennington. Thank you, Miss Madam Vice Mayor. Um, I would also move approval on this item. >> We have a motion. Do we have a second? Please cast your votes. And that passes unanimously. Item K is an ordinance on final hearing establishing 2-hour timeline and parking on the east and west sides of North Walker from 11th to 12th and on the east side of North Walker from 12th to 13th. >> Thank you, Madam Vice Mayor. I move approval. >> We have a motion. Do we have a second? Please cast your votes. And that passes unanimously. Item L is an ordinance on final hearing establishing 2-hour time limited parking on the west side of North Dwey from 11th to 13th Street. Councilman Pennington. >> Thank you, Madam Vice Mayor. I move approval. >> We have a motion. Do we have a second? Please cast your votes. And that passes unanimously. Item M is an ordinance on final hearing establishing reserve parking for the physically disabled on the west side of North Walker. Um the east side of North Walker and etc. Councilman Pennington. >> I move approval. Madam Vice Mayor, >> do we have a second? Please cast your votes. That passes unanimously. Item N is an ordinance on final hearing replacing the no parking uh Monday through Friday, 6:00 a.m. to 6 p.m. restriction on the east side of Dwey from Northwest 12th Street to the alley midway between 11th and 12th with a no parking anytime restriction. Councilman Pennington, >> I move approval. Madam Vice Mayor, >> do we have a second? Please cast your votes. That passes unanimously. Item O is an ordinance on final hearing replacing all time of day and day of week specific parking controls on the north and south sides of 13 Northwest 13th from Chartell to Hudson with a no parking anytime restriction. Councilman Pennington. >> I move approval. Madam Vice Mayor, >> do we have a second? Please cast your votes. And that passes unanimously. Item P is an ordinance on final hearing reserve establishing reserve parking for the visibly disabled on the west side of North Dwey and on the uh from 11th to 12th and on the west side of North Dwey uh near the curb line on northwest 11th. Councilman Pennington. >> I move approval. Madam Vice Mayor, do >> you have a second? Please cast your votes. And that passes unanimously. Thank you, Councilman. Item Q is a public hearing regarding dilapidated structures that are listed. Um, city clerk, do we have any one signed up to speak? >> No, we don't. >> Okay. So, we can move on to item two, resolution declaring those structures are dilapidated. Do we have a motion? And a second, please. Please cast your votes. That passes unanimously. Item R is a public hearing regarding unsecured structured listed. Do we have anyone signed up to speak? >> No, we don't. >> So, we can move on to the item two resolution declaring structures are unsecured. Do we have a motion and a second? Please cast your votes. And that passes unanimously. Item S is a public hearing regarding abandoned buildings listed. Do we have anyone signed up to speak? >> No, we don't. >> So, we can move on to item two, resolution declaring buildings are abandoned. Do we have a motion? And a second. Please catch your votes. And that passes unanimously. Um item T is a resolution approving minor amendment number one to the riverfront redevelopment project plan. Um city manager, I believe we have a presentation. Oh Joanna, >> Joanna Mcpaden, our economic development manager, will give us an update on this project. >> Hello Joanna Mcpaden, finance department. So this is a minor amendment. We uh amended this project plan back in 2022 and we tried to get the budget aligned with some of the other tiffs where we pulled the administrative line item budget out and we just set a maximum of 5% of revenue received. We neglected to add the language below the below below the line item budget that allows us to do that 5% max. So, we're simply adding that in. I want to assure you we have been authorized to spend uh or collect administrative fees. It's authorized by law. they would just have to be applied to those line item budgets and we have typically reported our administrative fees separately which I think is a little more transparent. So happy to answer questions if you have any. Any questions? Seeing none we can vote on item T. Do we have a motion? >> Second. Please cast your votes. And that passes unanimously. Item U is a resolution approving activation and increment district B with for the Western Gateway project plan. Dana, >> good morning. So this is a a resolution setting up future date to activate TIFF B. This is the second TIFF district in the Wheeler district project plan. It's on the east side of Walker. Um, and the res the ordinance that established that tiff district required us to establish a date for activation by January of 26. So this accomplishes that. We're setting the date for January 1, 2027, which falls within the 10-year statutory requirement, and that's what this will do. And so at that time, we'll number it with the next sequential number. We'll assign it. >> And this one's east of Western, right? >> I said Walker. Yes, Western. Thank you for correcting me. Do we have any questions, comments? We can take a motion on item U. A second. Please cast your votes. And that passes unanimously. Item V is a resolution adopting and amending the comprehensive code of conduct, ethics, and fraud intolerance policy for the city of Oklahoma City to comport with charter and city employment policy amendments. Um, I believe we have the city auditor here to make a presentation. >> Yes. >> Good morning, madame vice mayor and council. Uh the item before you is the city's revised uh comprehensive code of conduct and ethics policy. This policy was originally approved by the city council in 2006 to promote an ethical culture and provide examples of the kinds of ethical situations that can arise in the workplace. Um the policy is also establishes the ethics hotline which is administered in the city auditor's office and that hotline provides a means for employees to report suspected fraud anonymously. Um the policy also establishes an ethics committee which is comprised of members of or representatives from the city manager's office, the human resources department, the municipal counselor's office, and my office. Um that committee uh accepts questions and concerns from staff and departments and provides guidance based on the colle collective opinion of those representatives on ethical concerns. Um this policy was last amended in 2018. Um, so the city's employment policies were updated in 2024, which included the code of conduct. So that prompted the ethics committee to essentially assemble and revise these policies to get the code of conduct in alignment with what's in the in the employment policies. Um the more significant changes in the policies include clarifying allowable second secondary employment for employees and political activities for employees and that's based on changes to the city charter that were approved in by the residents in 2019. Um, a couple of the other more significant changes, um, it expands guidance on expected employee conduct when they're wearing their city uniform or have city ID on. Um, those that type of thing was not really addressed in the policy previously. Um, it also expands on actions that are considered fraudulent to include um items such as unauthorized alteration of official documents or alteration of records used to prepare official documents. Um, the policy also integrates the city's new core values that were recently rolled out. Um, having said all that, happy to answer any questions. >> Do we have any questions? >> Okay. Thank you. >> Seeing none, we can take a motion on item V. >> We have a motion in a second. Please cast your votes. And that passes unanimously. That moves us to item W, a resolution authorizing the municipal counselor to confess [clears throat] judgment without admitting liability in the case of Ashton v. Oklahoma City of Oklahoma City. Um, I do not believe the council has requested executive session on this item. So, we can take a motion on item one. The council desires. We have a motion, a second. Please cast your votes. >> He signed up to speak on the executive session. I guess he can. >> Okay, that passes unanimously. Item X uh is an item to enter into executive session to discuss collective bargaining negotiations for fiscal year 2526 with the Fraternal Order of Police, International Association of Firefighters and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees. We have a citizen who's spoken or signed up to speak on this item, Michael Washington. >> Thank you. Thank you, ma'am. Madam Vice Chair, thank you so greatly much. I just want to pick on only one of these groups today and it just so happened over again Michael Watch and uh 100 Parkplace Midwest with City DDD. I want to pick on one of these agencies here. ONE IN PARTICULAR STANDS OUT MORE THAN all and that has to do with, we know what that usually means, the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 123. Certainly not friends of mine. I don't hate any human being, no matter race, creed, or color. I think I've demonstrated that profusely many many many times that I've spoken in in your faces or beyond. BUT OH, [screaming] THERE JUST HAPPEN TO BE ONE PROBLEM here with this ONE GROUP WHO THINK THEY CAN USE THEIR OUTSIDE influence to tell the city of Oklahoma City what they're going to do with their police department. I DON'T CARE THAT YOU'RE A LIST OF FORMER and current police officers, but what I do care about is that you use your influence and you have the ability through your union TO HANDCUFF ANYTHING I MIGHT DO AS A CITIZEN and board and city to put your officers on strike. It has been demonstrated many of times where these people have use their undue influence. There are so many and I can't name one at the moment and that's not my intent today. However, let me stay with my little time that I have. Y'all know me. I'm really just getting winded up about this time here. I really need about 30 minutes. It'll never be a boring moment. I guarantee you that much. Now then, having said that, let me read just a little bit about what they say about this fraternal order of police. Once again, I hate none. And as a matter of fact, listen at the word sound of my voice. If one of them were even in in danger or hurt, harm and need to get to hospital, I'd be the first one to do it. But I'm not going to overlook injustice when I see it. Believe that one for me. Now, let me say firmly the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 123 is Oklahoma City chapter of the world's largest organization of sworn law enforcement officers representing members of the Oklahoma City Police Department and providing them with legal, legislative, and family support, including assistance. 30 seconds remaining. >> And oh, come on now. Is that fast now? Come on. I'll just do it cuz I've been targeting these folks. But I guess I'll let that go. Come on now. Couldn't have been that long now. Come on. Anyhow, it says that they are sworn officers that they representing certain individuals. Not the whole place, not the whole Oklahoma City police force, but certain individuals. It says here once again late lastly that quickly it is organization law. It it represents the world's largest organization, the sworn law enforcement officer representing members of the Oklahoma City Police Department. Members, that's not everybody. Members, that means select few. Thank y'all very much. I'll be back. I'll I'll just finish rest this on my citizens to be heard on chapter uh section 13. Thank you. >> Thank you. Uh we can take a motion on item X to enter into executive session. We have a motion and a second. Please cast your votes. That passes unanimously and we will enter into executive session at the end of the meeting. Item Y is another item to enter into executive session to receive conf confidential communications concerning the case of Bosow at all the city of Oklahoma City. Um do we have a motion? We have a motion, a second. Please cast your votes. That passes unanimously. Item Z is an item to enter into executive session regarding case uh Shireena Perry v. City of Oklahoma City. Do we have a motion? We have a motion in a second. Please cast your votes. That passes unanimously. Item Z is an item to enter into executive session regarding litigation in the case of Shireena Perry v. City of Oklahoma City. Oh, sorry, pardon. Double A. Uh, concerning the case Tammy Gallow at all v City of Oklahoma City. Do we have a motion? We have a motion and a second. Please cast your votes. And that passes unanimously. We will uh hold all those executive session items to the end of the meeting. Item AB is a claim recommended for denial. Do we have a motion? We have a motion and a second. Please cast your votes. That passes unanimously. Item AC is a claim recommended for approval. Do we have a motion? We have a motion in a second. Please cast your votes. And that passes unanimously. Next is item 12, comments from council. Ward one. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Um, I just wanted to take a minute and give a shout out to our public works department and uh, director uh, Debbie Miller and her team. I'm not sure if she's here. There she is. >> Sorry. >> I was trying to like slow play. So, um it's not too often we get um thank yous, you know, around here. And I have received a couple handwritten letters and thank yous from a uh a couple young ladies who are at our Deer Creek Elementary School up uh off of about 150th. I think you and I share that one, Mark. Uh but they uh they finished their new school um and were able to get into it in August and we had no sidewalks to lead from the neighborhood, excuse me, into the into the school. And when Miss Miller found out about it, her and her team jumped on board and were able to get a a sidewalk completed in time for the kids to safely get into school. And I just wanted to to recognize these young ladies, Miss Kylie, Miss Paisley, for sending us these cards and thanking us and Miss Miller and you and your team for for jumping on, excuse me, for jumping [clears throat] on that and taking care of it. So, um also, um in light of uh some of the information we received yesterday from Deer Creek and the the three young ladies that lost their lives in the car accident, uh just that we will be praying uh for their family and their community um as they they traverse this this difficult time. And that's it for me. Thank you, >> Bradley. The other thing I'd say that Debbie's working on really hard right now in Deer Creek is to try to clear up some of the congestion, getting in and out of one of the schools in particular, and she's come up with a great plan, and she's got OG to assist, and I want to thank OG&. And so, thank you, Debbie. >> Thank you. Word two. >> Yes. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Uh in the spirit of gratitude uh and the season for it uh like to express my gratitude to the folk on the legislative committee, Councelor Stone, Councelor Stone Cipher, Mayor Hol uh for your advocacy at the federal level when it comes to mental health funding. I I really appreciate that. Um it's heavy on my mind right now because of what we're hearing in the news. the Bondi Beach shooting, uh, Brown University shooting. um when I've you know cited from this horseshoe previously you know there are professors Metro State University professor James Dinsley who's criminal justice there Jillian Peterson criminology at Hamlin University and if you look at Politico we still don't know the exact reason for either of the shootings but we know from research from these two professors going back to the 60s that quote there's a really consist consistent path pathway. Early childhood trauma seems to be the foundation whether violence in the home, sexual assault, parent parental suicides, extreme bullying. And then you see this build toward hopelessness, despair, isolation self-loathing oftentimes rejection from peers, and that turns into a really identifiable crisis point where they're acting differently, and sometimes they even have previous suicide attempts. But what's different from traditional suicide is that this self-hate turns against the group. Turns against the group. They start asking themselves, quote, whose fault is this? Is it a racial group or women or a religious group or is it my classmates? And that hate turns outward. And so this is also a quest then for fame and notoriety. And I just mentioned that right now because that mental health intervention is is really key. It is really key and so I just really want to express my gratitude again to the folks serving on this body who are serving on that legislative committee. Relatedly to the voters of Oklahoma City who we heard earlier maps for is funding not just the restoration center right but the housing that will go along with that transitional so we stabilize folk and there's the mental health crisis beds for maps for also the youth centers for mapsport. So, it's a time for gratitude even in a season that sometimes sees despair. Um, and for my students at OCU who when I asked them in the English comp one class, what should our theme be in comp 2, they said dystopia and I will meet them on that. We will read Fahrenheit 451 for instance. We'll go through that. We'll study it. Stephen King's The Stand. But that is so scary to hear and sad to hear students say that dystopia is the theme they want to explore. Which is where I would conclude here. There's Brown University students who suffered through a previous mass shooting [clears throat] who went through this one as well as if they're in a bad horror movie sequel. Please don't despair. OKC especially your students. That same research that I cited earlier from those professors says that, and this is the advocacy I would hope we all take to heart if we really want to make an intervention when it comes to mental health, if we were to get at the federal level $35 billion to pay for mental health counselors in all the nation's schools to be doing exactly the sort of inter intervention work I have just described, the work that we're setting in motion in Oklahoma City. you paid them $70,000 a year, those 500 mental health counselors, $35 billion is a lot to a teacher. But when you look at the federal government and what we spend money on, I would suggest we prioritize our children and their families and their safety. We cannot keep telling people uh just be careful not to go to the synagogue. What? Right. Or not to go to school. That's wild to me. So again, I just want to express gratitude even if it's something very difficult and uncomfortable. So gratitude to my colleagues, gratitude to the voters and um that's what I would say. Thank you. >> Thank you. W three. >> Okay. W four. >> Thank you, Vice Mayor. I realize today isn't Christmas or tomorrow isn't Christmas, but thankfully it is our last uh council meeting before Christmas. So, I just want to wish everyone a merry Christmas in case I don't get to run into you again. So, thank you all very much. Appreciate it. >> Thank you. Word five. Word seven. Word eight. >> Okay, that brings us to citizens to be heard. Item 13. We do have a number of folks um signed up. So, I will uh read the first person and then who's on deck. So, you can kind of get ready and um be nearer the front if you wish. Um, first we have Steve Hunt. If you can state your name, address, and you have three minutes. Once again, Steve Hunt, 2825 Northwest 57th. Um, couple days before mayoral filing, my Facebook account was deactivated. Um, I know that some of you all look at my stuff on there. I thought it was kind of strange timing. Um, so I started kind of looking at some other social media options and like a few hours after I got on threads, I saw this. Um, this is a uh a little deal where you can get a free month to watch the Thunder on streaming. And I immediately thought to myself, uh, Oklahoma City taxpayers have financed multiple arenas, paid for upgrades, guaranteed revenue streams, created a sweetheart environment where the the owners have no financial risk. what does the public get in return a free month of streaming? So, I started looking into why we have to pay to watch the Thunder instead of, you know, like over air channel 9 or something like that. And it's pretty grim what I found. Uh, James, I think a lot of the the stuff that you were talking about kind of links to these kind of things. Um, Oklahoma has a long history of exploitation by banks. You know, you go all the way back to the Dust Bowl when predatory loans were given out to farmers and then they over farmed the lands and then they came in and took the properties from them. And it's it happened again in the 80s. A woman by the name of Meg Cipperly came down from New York. She went sat up here from Chase Manhattan Bank and helped engineer the uh Pinscore Bank crisis. So as I started looking into why people can't watch the Thunder over regular TV um years ago uh rather than and I came up here in 2009 to talk about the importance of giving to a local group. Um it was instead given to Fox. Uh Klay Bennett and friends got a sweetheart deal to give it to Fox to do the regional broadcasting. 2019 when Fox was sold to uh Disney. they had to get rid of it because, you know, they own ESPN. So, a subsidiary that was created out of thin air underneath Sinclair, I think some of y'all know who Sinclair is, not really my favorite people. So they created this kind of shell company, got a $8 billion loan to purchase the regional sports broadcasts and um you know was is a typical private equity play where they get this money and basically they extract the control and then they let the bankruptcy sort it out later. Well, the way it was sorted out later was that uh they went bankrupt. Valley Sports went bankrupt underneath and then they were parcled out to 12 different creditors, rebranded as >> 30 seconds >> FanDuel under uh Main Street Sports, which is the same thing as Diamond Sports Holdings. And so I work at a senior living facility and one of the nurses out of her pocket pays a hundred bucks to get Fubo television premium and they weren't allowed to watch it this weekend because Amazon had those rights. Amazon gave $115 million to Diamond Sports Holding after the bankruptcy. So, this is like mind-blowing stuff and it everything's connected. Everything is connected here and we have to start looking at this because, you know, creating a circular economy in our city is incredibly important. I live in James Ward. Percentage-wise, that ward is one of the most taken over by private equity firms. Ror Capital owns the majority of the restaurants on that street. But this broadcast issue and I'll be putting some stuff on YouTube and whatnot talking about this more. Spoke with my friend Gretchen Morgansson at NBC Finance. She was blown away by this. And um city manager Freeman, you know that I've talked about the same kind of thing with senior living facilities and it's it's getting really bad out there, but I think there's a lot we can do and um my hope that you all will consider this. Um merry Christmas. Thank you. Next we have Michael Washington and then after that will be Clarence Ellis. >> Mr. Washington once again you like hearing my voice. Don't you watching that? You know I ain't got time. Mine get cut short more than anybody. But let me let me let me let you know what to last week on the 12th of this month. We celebrated the reopening of the iconic Freedom Center. And guess what, ladies and gentlemen of this illustrious group, they finally those who run the Freedom Center, the iconic Freedom Center, historic preservation society of that number one center. GUESS WHAT? THEY ACKNOWLEDGE Michael Washington for having been the INITIATOR OF PRESERVING THAT CENTER AT all this time. You mean Michael Washington was lying to y'all? Isn't that something to think about now? Isn't it? And now it is a wonderful thing now. But let me also add just a little bit too to back up what they believe their belief is. I'll try to read fast because Amy might try to cut me short. Just no pun intended. This letter is in regard to your request for summary of the initiation of the designation of the Freedom Center as a historic landmark. My records indicate that you, meaning me, Lisa Kronister, and I first met at your request on September 26, 2017. That's 8 years ago, mind you, that we finally see it through. Isn't that something? Look what you get if you just be good now. Then we met on September 26, 2017 to discuss the Freedom Center at the December at the November 1st, 2020 2017 meeting of the Oklahoma City Historic Preservation Commission. You spoke under the citizens to be heard in order to make commission aware of the Freedom Center and its historic significance and its current condition. The commission was interested in the Freedom Center and asked you, not anybody else, and asked you to come back and present additional information at the December meeting. And guess what y'all? That's my own note added there. You met with staff on November 14th and discussed your presentation and then you presented to the commission on December 6, 2017. At that time, the commission asked to have the initiation of the of the designation of the precision process. Excuse me. Yeah, at that time the commission asked to have the initiation of the destination process put on the next available agenda. I'm closing out that was heard and the vote to initiate the process made was made on February 7, 2018. On May 30th, 2018, you spoke at the commission meeting regarding the destination of Freedom Center being his being a historic landmark and the commission voted and recommended the designation. The destination was approved by city council, this wonderful body on August 28, 2018. >> 30 seconds. >> 30 Amy, I got it through. Yes, [laughter] Amy, you something else. But I just wanted to say that y'all. Michael Watson going to stand for freedom, justice, and equality on any level by any means necessary. Because without just freedom, justice, and equality, we rule, we disregard the rule of thumb, the rule of law, the rule of due process, the rule of right in pursuit of happiness. Liberty in pursuit of happiness. That's important, y'all. Thank y'all so very much. And guess what? Y'all going to be hearing from me again because it's going to be something else that I historically preserve. Y'all be back. Have a great one. >> Thank you. Next, we have Clarence Ellis Jr. And after that will be Ben Ill Raza. >> Mr. Ellis, if you can state your name, address, and you have three minutes. >> Okay. >> Are you okay? >> Don't count yet. [laughter] >> Hello. >> Oh, that doesn't Yeah, if you can you can pull this mic. Oh, can it be turned on? No, >> if you can pull up there, you can pull that mic down to you. >> Oh, >> okay. Oh, thank you. >> Stay sat down. >> Well, thank you. [laughter] >> There we go. All right. First of all, hello everybody. Is this on? My name is Clarence Celis Jr. I'm from Mallister, Oklahoma. And I'm here for one purpose only, ladies and gentlemen, and that is to preserve that gym that I played basketball in. I graduated from Macau High School for me [snorts] over uh high school, Mac, Oklahoma in ' 67. They [snorts] integrated in ' 68. And that gym that I played basketball in, went to school at is falling apart. that needs a roof on it, renovation. The reason why I'm here is because my journey ties [snorts] in with Oklahoma City through Garden Oaks, which is located here in Oklahoma City. George Williams and I and two other members sat on a panel at Oklahoma University with a project dealing with Oklahoma, let me see, uh, Institute of Quality Communities and Interior Design. There was classes that are presented to preserve historical sites. The gym that I play basketball in is on the historical national park service register. But because of the condition of the the school, the city of Macallister sold it to two individuals, Herby Keith and PM Moore. PM Moore passed away. My my hats off to him and his family. But his wife, Veronica Moore, is waiting for me to to uh get feedback from the Oklahoma Historical Society, who is currently working with me to preserve the historical sites that I've identified in my research. The thing about my problem is I have Garden Oaks, Emanuel Church, which is eligible for historical preservation. I've already begun the paperwork on uh Reverend Wash's church who was a uh NAAC president. He represented my family on a drive by. Uh when I was a kid, uh my family was shot. It was eight of us that got shot with a saw off shotgun. And uh the NAACP represented us and the guys that did it was four of them. They they beat the case because we couldn't afford to to uh hire an attorney after it was bound over to district court. Well, long story short, I ended up going to the Marine Corps. I uh did two years in or one year in Vietnam, got an honorable discharge and uh [snorts] I came back and I ended up being an alcoholic addict. I went to prison. I did about four and a half years alltogether. I got in 2015. >> 30 seconds remaining. >> How much time? >> 30 seconds. >> 30 seconds. >> Uhoh. [laughter] I don't know why I'mma do this. Okay, here's what I'm going to do. Because of the time limit, I emailed the city council a uh video clip and an email of the fourman four people panel at Oklahoma University. on that email has a link that will show and describe what my goal is as far as the preservation of these historical sites that I've identified. Okay. And uh besides that, I'm going to meet with the uh post 157 today to discuss my Ellis barbecue. I mean, the reason why I got off left this uh project is because I had a food truck. Now I'm in compliance with everything to make my food truck legal, I'm going to offer you guys free Indian tacos and barbecue. Okay, once I meet with the post57, okay, to promote this preservation of the school and gym. Uh, and I want to show you all this right quick. Here's a po photo. These pictures, these pictures are from the Oklahoma University students that did the research for my school. And these people here are from Macau, Oklahoma. And I'm going to go to city council meeting the 23rd of this month. Okay. So, if you guys would take a look at the email and link describing the preservation and what we're trying to do on Banner School projects, I appreciate it. Thank you very much. >> Thank you so much, Mr. Ellis. We'll take a look. >> Is that okay? >> Yeah. All right. >> Okay. Next we have um Ben Ilarazza followed by Jimmy Durant. >> Uh good morning council. Thank you. Uh my name is Ben Larazza. I live at 809 and 1 half northwest 33rd Street. Um I'm here today to talk about the um attempt at cancellation of the planned bike lanes between Tenth and uh Sheridan along Classen. Um I'm very I'm deeply concerned by the attempt to cancel this funded bike infrastructure uh in this area. Um I'm a bike commuter. I frequently uh use the bike lanes on Classin to to get to work. Um the existing connection to Western from Classen is dangerous and inadequate for cyclists. Um and that's a problem which would be entirely solved by extending the lanes to facilitate easier connections as planned by by Guacc. Uh the city council voted for a safer class boulevard. Um, and I'm worried that it's on the cusp of breaking that promise of safety to me and to other urban residents uh for reasons that um for for vaguely stated uh concerns about traffic which uh we don't believe have any founding in the the data that's been presented by the planning department of this city. Uh the existing bike lanes on Classen are safe and fast uh and they offer a vital connection to BRT stops along that street. Traffic levels on Classen have been dropping through this decade. Um this project is going to continue to reduce that traffic while making that corridor safer for all users uh including drivers. Um, I have to wonder why the city has spent so much time and money developing this corridor for our meticulous and thoughtful planning, the the planning of bike walkc um to be undermined by a city council that I I feel isn't proving its work uh with its reasoning here on on cancelling these bike lanes. Um, what new data are we expecting to appear while we wait? Um, what new studies are we expecting to come out um to disprove what we already know to be fact? Um, I'd also like to ask if, you know, I I, you know, I wonder if anybody would want like a six-lane freeway on their doorstep and to be told that it needs to be there because someday traffic might [clears throat] exist to justify >> seconds remaining. >> Um, please do not allow a lack of imagination and political will to be the reason that anyone else is hurt or killed on our streets. as they are every month, year after year. Um, please do not let another death on Classen be the legacy of this city council. Uh, please complete these bike lanes. Um, and thank you for your time this morning. >> Thank you. Next, we have Jimmy Durant followed by Laura Stone. >> Good morning. Jimmy Durant, 8800 Sharingham Drive, Oklahoma City. I am the director of government relations for St. Anthony Hospital. And I too am here to speak about the B bike lanes on Classin. Um there's a lot I could say in response to what the gentleman just spoke about. I travel Classin twice a day every day, Monday through Friday, and traffic has not decreased on Classin because of the bike lanes. If anything, it's gotten much worse because we've gone from the three lanes down to the two lanes between 10th and 23rd Street, if you will, along with the rapid bus lane being involved in that as well. We at St. Anthony are also concerned about expanding those bike lanes because of the confusion that it could cause to our out of city residents, our patients and their families. We also have a good number of traffic related to ambulances that travel 10th Street and additional bike lanes on that lane on that road and congesting traffic there would also cause some further delays in people receiving emergency care. We believe there are other alternatives that could be looked at. parallel streets to class that could be used for the bike lanes that would be much safer for the bikers and the drivers on that corridor. So, we would encourage you to look at using those parallel lanes such as Sher Chartell or even Dwey or something like that to to expand bike lanes in those areas. Thank you. >> Thank you. Next we have Laura Stone. Uh followed by Clay Farhaw. >> Hello, my name is Laura Stone. I'm at 612 Northeast 14th over on the east side. I'm actually really close to the medical complex. Um and I too am going to talk about bike lanes. Um, bike lanes are important, but they're not just about the mobility um, it's not just about the safety options um, of not just cyclists, but pedestrians and also their inherent um, capability of reducing uh, excessive speed as a speed abatement because it kind of makes um, drivers pay closer attention. Um, and I will say at least on the northeast side, we definitely could use some speed abatement in some of our roads. But um, the other thing is it's about options. I will say uh my husband and I are big auto enthusiasts. We love our cars and we love driving. Um but like a lot of other people um in 2020 we got bicycles. I don't know. I feel like everybody got a bicycle in 2020. But since then, since we got bicycles, we have gone to numerous um festivals and markets and um shopping, brunches, lunches, going out for coffee, going out for a beer with friends. >> [clears throat] >> Sorry, this is like the only time I get nervous is when I have to talk to you guys. [laughter] Um, but anyway, we have spent in the last 5 and a half years, we've actually spent quite a bit of money, probably thousands of dollars we wouldn't have otherwise spent. So, not only does that did the bike lanes facilitate those, um, we're kind of home bodies by nature and it doesn't take a lot for us to decide that we're going to stay home. Um, and if I have to find a parking space, it's like a big reason for me to not go to something. Um, but the bigger thing is it's not just me. I'm just a twoerson household. I have hundreds of neighbors and I see them out and about spending money um participating in these things that the city's already put in uh significant investment in parks um services things like that and so although like I said I'm a big car person I also love the option of being able to just hop on my bike and go and that wouldn't happen if it weren't for these bike lanes. So, in addition to it being a safety issue and like I said, a mobility issue and an options issue, um it's a financial investment, um not necessarily that the city is putting in, but that residents are putting in. And so, if those bike lanes have been in my neighborhood, continuing to expand them to other neighborhoods will also draw additional money in. Thank you. >> Thank you. Next, we have Clay Farhoff, followed by Rick Moore. >> Hello. [clears throat] My name is Clay Farhaw and I office at 6801 North Classen in Oklahoma City. We have three office buildings along Classen. We never we were never given notice or a chance to give our opinion about the bike lanes that are in front of our three offices. Whenever property owners want to reszone land and change the use of their property, they are required to give certified notice to all property owners within 300 ft of the property they are seeking to reszone. My question is why doesn't the city have to play by the same rules? We were never notified that these bike lanes would be in front of our offices. Have the have the commuters that take Northwest Expressway to Classen to commute to downtown been given notice of this bike lane proposal? I use Class between Northwest 63rd and Wilshire many times a week and I have never seen one bicyclist use the bike lanes. All I see is trash accumulating in the bike lanes. The danger of commuting cars and bicyclists using the same street, in my opinion, speaks for itself. Thank you. >> Thank you. Next, we have Rick Moore, followed by Jeff Van Husse. >> Good morning. My name is Rick Moore. I live at 2516 Northwest 195th. I'm in Ward 8. Uh, thank you, Vice Mayor, Council members, City Manager, and staffs for letting me speak today. I just want to say that first of all, I'm not here representing a group or any organization. I'm here just as a citizen. And second of all, I want to say I am certainly not opposed to bike lanes and trails and the things that are part of an overall picture that make a city or a community grow and to be better. I'm just asking to revisit Classen Boulevard because as long as I can remember, Classen was considered a main arterial, certainly north and south, and I just don't believe main arterials should be cut down in in lane size. Uh as an example, my wife in the last year has been uh diagnosed with breast cancer and I've been having to do lots of visits to doctors with her, to oncologists, to whatever it might be sometimes. And when she got to go back to work, I would pick her up, take her to work, and bring her home. And I'm going to tell you, when you've got I44 on the west and you've got I35 on the east and I235 or Broadway extension in the middle uh clogged up, Classen Boulevard is a great way to come in and out of this city and it's enabled me to continue that path. So, I just ask you to reconsider and think about that. Uh again, I am not opposed to the bike lanes. I think they're great and the people who who use them, I I'm I'm glad they've got them, but it's part of a city plan and I don't think it's the only city plan. So, I just ask you to reconsider that. Thank you. >> Thank you. Next, we have Jeff Van Hus, followed by Hammed Peskin. >> Good morning, Jeff Van Hus. Uh 101 Northeast 70th Oklahoma City. Uh I am also not representing uh any group here today and I want to talk about the uh expansion of the bike lane. I am a cyclist and I like bike lanes. Uh however, I think um the bike lane expansion on Classen is going to uh reduce it to two lanes which I think is going to be very dangerous for the amount of traffic and the speed of the traffic on Classen. I'm also very much aware of bike lanes on Chartell and on Western and I think those are much safer. Thank you. >> Thank you. Hammed Peskian followed by Landry Willis. >> Hello everyone. My name is Hamid Peskin and I represent myself as a local resident and cyclist as well as a incubator space called Sailor and the Dock located on 617 West Sheridan. Um we are a collective of different businesses and we know how important bikability is. In fact, the uh site location was based on it being so bikable and walkable as a centerpiece of an urban sustainable um ecosystem. I've heard a lot of great uh points be made earlier by previous people and I just want to mention that um we are the modern frontier. That's what we say we are as Oklahoma City. And having traveled around the world, you know, including Europe, South America, um, and different parts of the United States. Um, I've never seen a city be even considered to be modern without bikeability and bike paths being a centerpiece as a um, we are proud to say that bikers are here, right? And so, like some of the previous speakers have said, Classen is obviously a primary and important corridor. um it's hard to be a biker and to ride without having to, you know, be on class and from time to time. And I think that um it is a good point. It's important to have, you know, flexibility in in transition in in um diversion of traffic and things like the ambulances and such. But if we actually double down on this and made a protected bike lane that is, you know, it's got its barrier kind of like parts of Western has had. It's bright. It's clear. Um, it could actually serve as a advertising point, a marketing point for those who have bikes and think, "Wow, I could take this main corridor on my bike and feel safe about it." Because getting on Western, it's kind of rough. You know, getting on Chartell, switching over. Those are all poses a lot of risk in terms of um someone's, you know, safety as a as a cyclist. Um, living in the urban setting, um, being on a bike helps prevent actually helps with a lot of economic reasons. And I know that Oklahoma City is very pro business, which is wonderful. Um, so, you know, bikers, uh, there's tons of data that supports that bikers because of the fact that they're going a little bit slower. Um, there's a lot more dwell time in neighborhoods. They spend a lot more money. They're much more high likely to purchase from local businesses than get on their phone and order off of Amazon. Why? Because they're passing by local businesses daily. And they're much likely, like some of the other people mentioned, to to visit markets and such. So, um, as my time runs out in the next 30 seconds, I just want to complete with that, uh, let's continue that this this beautiful, um, modern frontier that we've started with and we're building such momentum and let's consider Classin as a primary corridor where it could be shown that we are truly a modern city and we are going to pro uh, help encourage bikers to be protected on the main artery while there's a diversion of traffic so that we don't have a congestion of only cars on class, but rather people other options that are safe and protected for bikers. Thank you for your time. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. >> Next we have Landry Willis, followed by Bruce Barosi. >> Uh Landry Willis, 301 North Walker Avenue. And first wanted to let you guys know I am no longer with Oakmar. I got a new gig. Uh and I'm just here speaking as a concerned citizen about uh the class and bike lanes. Um, I've lived downtown uh for the past 2 years and I've taken uh this portion of Classen uh every day to get up to work on Northwest Expressway. Uh, you know, I've driven Classen probably over a thousand times uh hundreds of times during those peak hours. [snorts] And, you know, I know I have confirmation bias here. Uh, we all have confirmation bias here. But uh just from my opinion um there there is I can't recall a single time um during during my commute with traffic was heavy enough to uh justify having that third lane there. Uh my anidotal viewpoint [snorts] is that traffic flows just the same from main to 10th as it does from 10th to 16th Street or it's two lanes. uh any difference is barely noticeable and not enough to justify uh not finishing that protected lane down to Maine. Um I understand the sticker shock that comes with the sticker shock that comes at looking at price tags for some of these projects, especially if it feels like they're not going to be utilized. However, projects like these are the foundation for getting more people to bike. If you the old saying, if you build it, they will come is true with with bike lanes. Um, you know, with this bike lane, maybe somebody finally feels safe enough to bike to work uh downtown. You know, at a time when rising costs are putting everyday people further and further behind, bike lanes like these can actually ease the financial burdens on families. Uh, according to AAA, the average American family spends $12,000 a year on a car. Um, you know, maybe because of this bike lane, a family only needs one car. Now, that $12,000 could go towards their kids' college, a family vacation, or just simply getting ahead. Um, I urge you guys to finish this protected lane down to Maine. And I want to thank you guys for your service to our great city. Thank you. >> Thank you. Next is Bruce Barosi, followed by Rusty Casten. >> Good morning. Thank you for the opportunity to speak uh regarding bike paths which I don't want to be redundant with what's already been said or what will be said I'm sure following me but I am a a property owner of multiple properties on class in between 63rd to the south and Wilshshire to the north. I have the perspective of having dwelt there, run my business for tw over 25 years now. And if you know that area that I speak of, Chesapeake at the time had not expanded at all. There was this class was a street very sleeping street. And I've seen it morph into a very workable expansion where we see commercial developing and housing developing in Wilshshire Point, but it's a mixed zoning area of from commercial to residential and particularly from 63rd to to Britain and closing down those areas where tractor trailers are trying to make U-turns or or just make movements at All I I get paranoid and claustrophobic coming down sometimes just because it's so tight, but to be a tractor trailer. I spoke to a property owner yesterday uh that has a business just north of Wilshshire and if you know Britain Road Britain Road has gone to a single lane and no none of the tractor trailers any longer can go north and they can't even turn a make a Uturn on Classen. But my point is, we're bringing a bike path down a very commercial area, one that is used for heavy trucks, and my office manager happened to see an accident just the other day. And this little compact car hit one of the the bumps on the street, and she she said to me that it was very close to overturning. The other part of this is the extension of this. I I can't speak for the extension except it gets into much more of a commercial area of retail whereas by us it is much more of a industrial or light industrial but >> 30 seconds. >> Yes. Thank you. the I just wanted to say that if there was other places that this could be considered to I know it's hard to go back and re remove what's already been put in place but your consideration to considering other avenues would be welcome. Thank you. >> Thank you. Next is Rusty Casten followed by Coy Rimmer. At the risk of hyperola, never before has the will of a few been imposed on the efficient use of a public utility by so many. I'm a business owner on the Clashen Boulevard stretch between Wilshire and 63rd. And I had no idea that the city had approved plans to reduce an efficient four-lane boulevard to a two-lane traffic jam. But good for democracy and good for advocacy. Shame on me for not paying better attention. While I cannot change my situation, I I want to highlight what would happen to Class and South of Northwest Graham Boulevard. I am opposed to elimination of any more city street lanes for the exu exclusive use of bicycle traffic. Unlike many bike lanes I see in this neighborhood, my streetscape has damaging street humps and ballards that keep transit from occurring in a sidelane. Let me share what the unintended consequences of this effort have produced. The on street services that the post office, FedEx, Oklahoma City trash, and large truck Tommy lift trucks now must either park in traffic or traverse the devices meant to keep them out of the bike lanes. The 40 mph street has now become more dangerous as one lane where several intersecting streets are constantly on and off loading uh at slow accelerating speed. It's very dangerous. And right turn on red, for instance, at 63rd. What are you going to do to that bicycle guy that's coming through? I don't know that any of us have the traffic uh education on how we're supposed to use these bike lanes. Debris is collecting in bike lane much as it does on the shoulder of our highways. Glass, rocks, trash, and auto parts have amassed in this dedicated lane. A 10-speed bike tire has no match for this. Though I have yet to count in its entire lifespan more than nine people that have ever ever used these bike lanes. These people cannot rely on the safety of the new bike lane that you have created. Instead of continuing the cannibalization of more city streets, I propose that the bikes share their path with travel with pedestrians and not automobiles. The speed and the visibility of pedestrians are more equal to that of bicycles. >> 30 seconds. >> Soon you will have to replace the street in front of our offices between Wilshire and 63rd because you have all these cars that are now wearing out that car that those lanes. I would advocate that you drop the bike lane there and put a sidewalk down the middle of the boulevard. You're gonna eventually put a sidewalk there, as you do everywhere with maps. Put a sidewalk down the 60 foot green boulevard. Let bikes and pedestrians use it. Open Classen Boulevard back up to the four line four-lane efficient road, artery road that it has been designed to be. I implore the Oklahoma City Council to deny the application, halt the planning or initiation of a vote against further elimination of the traffic lanes in deference to this small civic subset of bicycle advocates. Thank you. >> Thank you. Next, we have Ky Remer followed by Rick Gibbons. >> Thank you so much for letting me speak. I'm Cooy Reamer. I'm pastor of Yukon First Christian Church, Disciples of Christ. I live at 1025 Arlington in Yukon, Oklahoma. So, the good news is no matter what y'all decide on this, you won't lose my vote. So, thank you for what y'all do here today. Um, I'm an alumnest of Oklahoma City University. My mother is a retired um employee of Oklahoma City Police. My father was Oklahoma City police officer. Oklahoma City is part of my identity. I'm a part of an uh bicycle group. group. We meet about once a week. We meet at Scissor Tail Park right into Bricktown from Bricktown to the Plaza to the Art District and we use these bike lanes. And I personally have several hundred a month that I keep budgeted for this event. My friends, they come in from Lton, Chicochet, Stillwater, Edmund, Tulsa. And they come and they spend money here in Oklahoma City. They don't spend it in Lton, Chicochet, Yukon, Edmund, Tulsa, Stillwater. We choose to come here to spend our money here because of the work that you have done to provide these B bike lanes. And um I understand that it it is a trouble for traffic, but I ask y'all to please don't don't do away with the bike lanes. If y'all need to reroute them, do more, please, so that we can continue to spend our money here. Have a great time and have Oklahoma City be a part of our identity. Thank you all so much. >> Thank you. Next is uh Rick Gibbons. followed by Jacob Keane. >> Good morning. Uh I'm here representing Major Taylor Cycling Club of Oklahoma. I live at 5424 uh Dwey Avenue and would like to thank the city for their support of projects promoting safer connectivity and mobility of its citizens. In 2025, we have celebrated milestones at the new Deep Fork Trail Head uh in near my neighborhood uh just one segment and a new pedestrian bridge crossing uh across the river uh near the east of the boat house district. We have high expectations for completion of Deep Fork Trail and other protected lanes throughout Oklahoma City. We have concerns that the possibility of pausing bike lane construction uh improvements specific to Classen Boulevard could set a confusing message and precedent about the city's commitment to better and safer transportation options for its citizens. We ask that you reconsider any proposal for delay or removal of any planned bike lanes from approved uh and funded projects. Thank you. Thank you. Next is Jacob Keane, followed by Lou S. Jorden. >> Morning, council. My name is Jacob Keane. I live at 3113 Chartell Avenue in the north side. In April of 2024, I was riding my bicycle to work on a bike lane that suddenly stopped. Uh, a few blocks later, I was struck by a truck resulting in the loss of my right leg. In uh 2019, I founded uh hideandgo bike with a friend of mine mostly to create cyclist visibility. Classen uh in my opinion offers an pretty much uninterrupted way to get from to downtown very quickly and I've been using class since 2020 and it can be very dangerous. The lane nugs uh that exists now offers a very safe corridor with the billiards and having it back out into a lane of traffic uh causes a dangerous circumstance with limited visibility and I just like to say unless our friend would like to see more patients like me I would like to continue the bike lane down class. Thank you for your time. >> Thank you. Next is Lou E.jornson followed by Cara Alazad Fard. Uh my name is Louis Estson. I live at 2257 Northwest 36th Street. My comments today concern cycling infrastructure. Uh when I purchased my house, part of the decision was based on the bike lane three blocks to the north on 39th and a planned bike lane on the adjacent North Youngs. Despite this foresight on my part, the most dangerous part of me riding my bicycle is often getting to and coming from my house. The bike lane was removed from 39th Street and the proposed bike lane on Youngs was scrapped for a share row. Neither 36th Street, which I live on, nor Youngs have sidewalks where I live, which means these share have motor vehicles, pedestrians, and cyclists using them. I have been nearly hit many times near my house on these shareros. I have been yelled at aggressively while while on my bicycle for taking the lane I am entitled to. Sometimes so violently that my neighbors feel a need to intervene, literally shielding me with their cars. Little shout out to the old white man in the old white truck. I love you. When I ride my bike downtown, the most dangerous parts of my trip are are riding on or crossing 23rd Street or riding on or crossing Classen Avenue. I regularly bike past the ghost bike on Classen Avenue, including to getting to city council meetings, as I did today. A ghost bike represents a dead human. A dead human. I do wonder when it will be my turn to be a casualty and if I will be lucky enough not to be a fatality. I want to remind you that when you make infrastructure choices, people can and do die as a result of these decisions. Thank you for your time and attention to this matter and other matters important to our city. I know you do not get enough for what you do. And I would like to leave you with a short poem that I wrote after I evaded a collision. It's called # bigig league fatalities. I don't know if this is a poem, but if I die, I want it known. If a motor vehicle hits and kills me while walking or riding a bike in OKC, all I want is to be buried under a tombstone that reads, "At least Oklahoma City kept the thunder." Thank you so much. >> Thank you. Next is Cara Alazad Farard followed by Phil Maul. >> Good morning. My name is Cara Alisa Deod. I live at 5737 Lawson Lane and I'm here today to advocate for the continued support and investment into cycling infrastructure here in Oklahoma City. I believe there is a discussion of a potential moratorium on additional bike lanes on Classen uh which I believe is contradictory to the priorities of this city council. One of which being the development of a transportation system that works for all citizens. The presence of bike lanes visually demonstrates to not only citizens but visitors alike that OKC is a thriving city with a variety of transportation options. Classen is one of the city's main arteries. Hundreds of cars, buses, and other motor vehicles traverse it every day, every hour. By placing bike lanes on streets like Classen, we show that OKC is not only a city with ample industries and history related to cars, but is dedicated to expanding safer streets to those who use bikes for commuting, for health, and for casual use. Citizens that use bicycles matter just as much as those that utilize cars, and they deserve to be protected as they navigate the city. In 2020, I happened to witness a friend as we were cycling down Classen get hit by a slowmoving car, thankfully slowmoving car, as he was passing on 10th Street. Um, he didn't suffer any injuries. He didn't die, but he was lucky. Others haven't been and others [snorts] won't be. So, please keep that in mind as you all um navigate this decision. Thank you. >> Thank you. And last is Bill Maul. >> Thank you. >> Uh good morning, council. Um my name is Phil Maul. Um and I'm a transportation planner in Oklahoma City for a private consultant. Um, but I'm also here representing the Wheels Project, a local bike advocacy organization. So, we have heard that the already fedally funded bike lane from Sheridan to 10th Street is maybe on the chopping block. Um, and it's on probably the false argument that bike lanes are bad for business. So, I'd like to remind the class I'd like to remind the council then of the history of Classen Boulevard. The very first president of the Chamber of Commerce of Oklahoma City, a guy named Anton Classen that we all know [clears throat] developed Classen Boulevard to be a walkable, bikable, and transitrich corridor with neighborhoods that again were bikable, walkable, and transit rich. These [snorts] neighborhoods were built when less than 1if of Americans even owned a car. I'll also remind you that on June 18th, 2024, a little over a year ago, this council voted unanimously to approve our bikewalk OKC plan update, [snorts] which explicitly includes a protected bike lane from Sheridan to 16th Street, of which that 10th Street to 16th Street piece was already built. But as a history of the boulevard and the diligent work of the planning department have not yet persuaded you, I have three new pieces of information for you. First, as a planning consultant, I've used the Federal Highway Administration's crash modification factors to help state DOT clients across the country run benefit cost analyses for roadway safety improvements. I can tell you that these protected bike lanes that will soon be on class reduce all crash types by 45%. That's CMF number 115533 if you do want to look it up. Um, and that's from the F FHA's crash modification clearing house. So I asked council, are you actually okay with more ghost bikes on Class and Boulevard? Are you okay with more crashes and and serious injuries to folks who are going to use Glasson Boulevard? My second piece of information is that bike lanes are good for business. They're in fact so popular that small businesses have showed up here today and are signing our letter of support for the class and bike lane project. >> 30 seconds. >> We will deliver that letter to you at the next council meeting. My last and final piece of information for you all is that the Bureau of Transportation Statistics shows that owning a car again costs $12,000 a year. Spending more than 15% of your income on transportation makes you transportation burdened. Well, 21% of Oklahoma City residents are transportation burdened. Classin [snorts] is a critical corridor for those without cars, especially for those seeking jobs. I mean, transitioning out of homelessness. If you kill this bike lane, you're unknowingly keeping transportation costs high for Oklahoma City residents. So, we ask you, make Clon safer, make Clon better for business, and keep the promises made to the to the public through the bikewalk OKC plan. Build the bike lane. Thank you. >> Thank you. So, now we will recess into executive session and return once that is complete. You're gracious. >> We are back from executive session and we are adjourned.