Good morning. We're going to get started this morning with an invocation led by Rabbi Vared Harris of Temple Benai, Israel. And that'll be followed by the pledge of allegiance led by Claire Goodasture representing Scouting America Troop 6226. Please stand as you are able. Ruth Brin wrote, "When men were children, they thought of God as a father. When men were slaves, they thought of God as a master. When men were subjects, they thought of God as a king. But I am a woman, not a slave, not a subject, not a child who longs for God as father or mother. I might imagine God as teacher or friend. But those images like king, master, father or mother are too small for me now. God is the force of motion and light in the universe. God is the strength of life on our planet. God is the power moving us to do good. God is the source of love springing up in us. God is far beyond what we can comprehend. With this in mind, I offer a prayer from a Jewish person forced 500 years ago to choose whether they would be murdered, whether they would be forced to leave their home country or whether they would convert to Christianity under duress. God on high, divine sovereign, enlighten my soul at all times. Give me, oh God, true faith and perfect humility against the world's vanities. Do not give me riches, oh God, that may make me proud, nor poverty that may abase me. Give me, oh God, some help that I may serve you, and life that I may praise you. In your work today and mine, may we serve a source of light and love, a force for good, a higher purpose. May our work itself be a form of praise for that which is beyond what we can comprehend. May we understand that tomorrow's better world relies on today's better decisions. Amen. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Well, thank you, Rabbi Harris, and thank you Claire. All right, I call this meeting of the city council to order. And we will start, of course, with item three, office of the mayor. We have item 3A, which is the appointment of our youth council for the academic year of 2025 2026. And I forget exactly how we've done this every year, but uh I think what we'll do is we'll go around the horseshoe um words one through eight and then I will finish and then Debbie, do you think do you want them all to come up now or come up as they're announced? All right, everybody come on up. Get behind your council member and then we'll go around and we'll learn a little bit more about you. and we certainly welcome you all and we welcome your families here to city hall this morning. So once everybody's kind of settled, uh, Councilman Carter, we'll start with you. We'll go all the way through eight and then I'll do the atlarge. And did you want have something you wanted to say? Debbie Martin, of course, at the chief of staff to the council who uh put so much work uh into this program every year. Debbie? Well, I'm pleased to present these young people this year for the new class of the youth council. And I would also like to reintroduce Kim Garrett Funk and Spencer Brown as our program co-chairs for this year. They make this happen. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. Yeah, >> Carter. >> Thank you. So, I have the uh the honor and the pleasure of introducing Sarah Ryz and Ethan Lamb. Uh but before I do though, um would Zida and Brandon stand up please? Mom, Dad, thank you guys so much. You raise amazing children and the fact that they even want to serve the city of Oklahoma City. We just want to give you a round of applause as well and say thank you very much. So, I will start to my right with Sarah. Sarah is a senior at Pum City High School. She plays the first violin in the school symphony orchestra and helps lead multicultural leadership efforts, organizing heritage celebrations and fundraisers. Outside of school, she runs her own beauty business, Glam Dubai Serita, offering nail lash and brow services while managing appointments, marketing, and client care. A superior rated soloist and AP world history honore, Sarah is also passionate about social connection and service. She says her business has helped her overcome shyness after immigrating to the US and she sees a need for better mental health support and housing stability for Oklahoma City youth. I asked her earlier what is one thing her bio doesn't tell me and she said that she loves to challenge herself and learn new things mainly trying to get herself out of her comfort zone. So thank you very much Sarah. Okay, Ethan. Ethan is a senior at Piedmont High School. He has served on the board of teen volunteers at U Medical Center where he has contributed over 500 hours of service. He is a member of the state champion cross country team and all state honor band. As a student leader, Ethan has organized a 5K fundraiser through student council and he's raised over $3,000 for his community. He also guides a visually impaired runner three times a week. Ethan sees declining education standards and the loss of face-to-face social interaction as significant issues facing young people today. I also asked Ethan what is one thing his bio doesn't tell me and he says that he just loves to give back and he thinks it's important to pour into other people before himself. I say this each and every year after reading these bios and I'm going to continue because it is it amazes me in everything that we get to see in the news, everything that we hear a lot of times that we often negate how awesome our youth can be. And I am challenged even at what these two have done in their lives up to this point and what I'm doing with mine. So I want to say thank you to these two and introduce Sarah and Ethan to you. Thank you very much. Okay, Councilman Cooper. >> Thanks, Maya. It's on. Thanks, Mayor. Uh, Cali Pacas, did they do it? >> Yes. >> Yes. Okay. Uh, this is me every semester at the start of teaching. Uh, it was 20 new batches of students times four, and I'm just going to mess it up. Uh, so I'm glad I didn't. Um, I'm going start with Calie, uh, who is a senior at Aztec Charter School. Uh, she has served as a YMCA summer camp counselor and works currently in child watch, supporting early childhood development and building relationships with families. Callie has coached elementary volleyball. Oh my gosh. uh helping young athletes develop skills and confidence and previously studied piano for six years, performing advanced piano pieces at public recital. She sees rising homelessness and the discrimination faced by Hispanic students as major issues. So do I. Um impacting young people and believes in advocacy and equity for all. Bless you. That's wonderful. Excited. Deleó. I get it. Okay. Matthew Deleó. Uh Matthew is a junior at Bishop McGinness uh High School where he has served as student council senator helping lead community service initiatives like food drives for the regional food bank. He is a competitive member of his school's speech and debate team. Yeah, it's going to be fun. Earning second place in regionals and placing in the top 20 at the state level. Matthew also plays on the varsity soccer team where he has developed resilience, teamwork, and leadership. He believes the rise of peer pressure and cyber bullying through social media are major issues facing young people and advocate advocates for mental health resources. Good for you. And protective policies to create safer online environments. Welcome to W two. I'm going to give Can I I'm just going to give these to them. I think is that what I'm supposed to do? All right, they're yours. Thank you, >> Councilwoman Avers. >> Thank you. All right, I'm going to follow example and ask the parents of Jaden Muse and Edward Winn to stand up, please. Thank you guys for raising your children and encouraging them for public service and giving them this opportunity. and I can't wait to work with them and um learn a little bit from them and learn from your families as well. So, thank you guys for being here. All right, so Jaden Muse, got it, sister. Um Jaden is a senior at Mustang High School. She is a dedicated member of the Mustang Girls golf team where she serves as social media and social events coordinator and represents her sport on the Bronco Athletic Council. Jaden is also active in REACH, a student-ledd service organization and coaches youth through First T, a national golf and leadership development program that our very own Debbie Martin is so instrumental in. Her accomplishments include the Horsepower Award, selection for the John Deere Leadership Academy in San Francisco, and participation in the PGA Leadership Academy in Atlanta. Jaden is passionate about addressing substance abuse and harmful social media influences among youth in Oklahoma City, advocating for preventative education, positive peer mentorship, and stronger mental health support. I've already told Jaden we're going to be putting her to work. All right, Edward. Edward is from our South Lakes district. Edward Hwinn is a senior at Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics. He co-founded a private V um VEX robotics team, earning multiple state champions in national placements while developing skills in C++ programming and CAD. He also volunteers at the U oncology lab, researching RNA regulation and gaining hands-on lab experience. Edward is passionate about mentorship, offering ACT tutoring, and advocating for youth access to research and healthc care career pathways. He believes Oklahoma City youth need more mental health support and equitable access to STEM opportun opportunities, and he champions peer-driven innovation and education equity. I am so excited to be working with both of these students and welcome welcoming them to help me represent W three as our youth council. Councilman Stone. Thank you, Mayor. I think I'll do likewise and start with the parents first. If we could get Kristen Star, Derald Ross, and Jessica Menz to stand up. Thank you all so much for working with these kids and developing them. That's just amazing. I know it's a ton of work, but thank you very much. All right, we're going to start with Sena Holmes. Sena Holmes is a junior at Dove Science Academy. She currently serves as secretary of the National Honor Society, vice president of the Black Student Union, and has been captain of the girls basketball team, all while maintaining employment at Kids City Indoor Playground. Her leadership is developed by her personal strength. Sayia courageously navigated the legal system to advocate for herself when faced with the challenge of securing her own safety and well-being. She believes deeply in expanding mental health support and educational access for Oklahoma City youth. Congratulations and thank you, Sia. Appreciate you very much. All right, next we have Camden Ross. Camden Ross is a senior at Dell City High School. He's a graduate of the Delquist leadership program and has been a dedicated member of the track team since 2022. Camden has made the honor role every year since elementary school as a National Merit Scholar and currently holds a 4.0 GPA at Rose State College. Through Delquest, he explored ways to serve his his community and build leadership skills. While track has taught him teamwork, discipline, and resilience, Kandem sees the lack of access to the mental health resources and limited career opportunities for youth, especially those from lower income backgrounds as significant issues facing young people in Oklahoma City. So, thank you, Canman, and congratulations. >> Appreciate Councilman Hinkle. >> Excuse me. I'm going to do the same if the parents of Serena and Ree or the family representatives wave your hands and let us know you're here. Um, and also want to I want to point out Spencer and Kim again. You guys do an amazing job with this every year and Debbie too, but this is this is the highlight of me on the council is getting to interact with these kids and find out what's going on in the world. So, um, Serena and Ree, and let me tell you about Serena. Uh, she's a junior at Westmore High School. She serves as secretary of the Key Club where she helps organize service projects and community outreach. She's also a performer and an event planner with Gawad Kolinga USA NextG. And that's a Filipino organization that raises funds for impoverished communities throughout cultural presentations. Since 2018, she's volunteered with the St. James the Greater Catholic Church supporting church activities and events. She's received academic honors including the certificate of academic excellence and several competition awards. She sees social media misuse and racial discrimination as two major challenges facing young people in the Oklahoma City today. Ree is a senior at Tuttle High School and an active member of the National Honor Society. He's also served in student council and volunteered with the YMCA youth sports program. He balances academics and community involvement with part-time work at both the YMCA and Three Strands Vintage Mall. He's been recognized on the superintendent's honor role for academic excellence. After overcoming a serious health challenge, Timothy developed a deep sense of resilience and empathy, and he sees excessive screen time and teen vaping as key issues facing the youth today. Please welcome the W five representatives. Councilwoman Hammond. >> Thank you. Um I'm excited to welcome Claire Galloway and James Cortez Rodriguez um to the youth council today. And we have Samantha um Claire's mother. Where'd she go? There she is. To say hello. Um, um, I'll start with Claire. Claire Galloway is a senior at Mount St. Mary Catholic High School. She serves as vice president of the student council and is a dedicated member of both the speech and debate team and the varsity palm squad. Claire has earned top honors, including first place in policy debate at both the Baylor debate workshop and the OSSAA 4A regionals. Known for her ambition and leadership, she takes initiative in schoolwide projects and competitive events. Claire is passionate about addressing education inequality and youth homelessness in Oklahoma City. James Cortez Rodriguez is a senior at Cristo Ray Catholic High School. He is the captain of the rowing team and serves as treasurer of the drama club. James is also a dedicated dancer earning recognition in traditional Mexican dance competitions. He has been recognized with the executive director excellence award and multiple president's honor role distinctions through his work study roles at bridges health OKC and Accenture. James has developed strong organizational and professional skills. He sees the lack of access to mental health resources and youth homelessness in Oklahoma City as the two big issues in our city. Welcome James and Claire. Councilman Pennington. >> Thank you, Mayor. Um, I'm especially excited to be here. As you all may know, I am the first youth council member to be elected to the city council here in Oklahoma City. So, it's like really an honor for me to be here because it's my life full circle 20 years later. Um, and I'm especially what makes it even better is the fact that I get to introduce Jeremiah today. I know uh we also have Fathia Aod Aayod Delay who is also who's out of unavailable today but I hope we can recognize her in another um council meeting but we're excited that Jeremiah Hogan is here to serve W 7. Jeremiah is a senior at Milwood High School. He serves as both as captain of both the football and baseball teams and is a proud member of the National Honor Society. Jeremiah was honored with the title of Mr. Milwood, a recognition of his school spirit and leadership, which by the way, he's also number one in the class besides being uh captain of the football team and baseball team. But outside of the classroom, he is on he serves on the uh reemerge board and he's passionate about addressing educational inequality and expanding career access for Oklahoma City youth. So Jeremiah, welcome. So excited to have you here. Maybe this is your future. Councilman Stone Cipher. >> This is Debbie one of my favorite things. I love doing this. Uh I have the honor of uh introducing Caitlyn Long and Shogi Adu. Uh Caitlyn goes to Crossings Christian School. Shogi attends Deer Creek High School. Are your family members still here? >> Yes. >> If they are, would they please stand? I'm here. You're really proud. U first of all, Caitlyn Long is a senior at Crossings Christian Church or school. She serves on the leadership board of hope squad, a mental health awareness club, and is the lower school editor of her school's yearbook. Caitlyn is also an active member of the student leadership council, the Spanish club, and the National Honor Society. Outside of school, she is a dedicated figure skater, a cashier at Super Cow Win. Did I get that right? Yes. >> Okay. Super Cow Win and co-owner of a freeze-dried candy business with her sister. She's passionate about improving civic awareness among Oklahoma City youth, advocating for education, and access to local issue-based knowledge through digital outreach and community engagement. Let's give Caitlyn a big hand. Um, Shogi Adu is a junior at Deer Creek High School. He is an active member of the speech and debate team where he has earned top recognition, including a second place in a national pros competition and fifth place in a a local humorous duet. He is also he also participates in the Black Student Union and volunteers with St. Anthony volunteer program supporting h hospital staff and patients. Outside of school, he works alongside his father in the in the family plumbing business, gaining hands-on experience and responsibility. He is passionate about improving mental health support and expanding job opportunities for youth in Oklahoma City, advocating for increased awareness and access to career development resources. Let's give Shogi a big hand. Hey mayor. >> Yes. >> I did not know we were going to be introducing everyone's families and I my mother would never forgive me. So, Marbel, Edgar, and Nancy, if you're here, would you mind? >> Yes. I We just have to >> Thank you, your honor. >> Of course. Uh now the at large council members Grayson Petty and Thomas Suarez who are joined here today by their families. So we'll start there. Juan, Adriana, Allison, and anyone else who's here with Grayson and Thomas, please stand and let's recognize you. All right. Well, Grayson Petty is a junior at my alma mater, Putnham City North High School. She serves as section leader for her school's advanced choir, a leadership role she earned as a sophomore in a class primarily composed of seniors. Grayson is also a two sport athlete competing in both varsity soccer and softball. Beyond school, she actively serves the community through From the Ashes, a grassroots organization dedicated to providing meals and clothing to individuals experiencing homelessness. Grayson received the superintendent's honor role for maintaining a GPA above 4.0 O and earned the number one academic ranking in her sophomore class. She sees mental health struggles and educational inequality as two of the most pressing issues facing youth in OKC. Let's hear it for Grayson. And finally, Thomas Suarez is a senior at Mount St. Mary Catholic High School. He has served as class president since his freshman year and is an active member of student council. a varsity debater specializing in policy and original oratory. He also tutors students at Kumman Learning Center, Thomas is a two-time published poet, recipient of the Sister M. Anton English Academic Achievement Award, a PSAT Hispanic Scholar, and was honored by the Oklahoma House of Representatives. He sees educational disparities and rising youth overdose rates as urgent issues, and is committed to civic action and meaningful change. Let's hear it for Thomas. Now, we do have one bit of business. These are actual appointments and uh we do need to approve them. So, let's see if we can get a motion in a second for that. Have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Yes. >> All right. Passes unanimously. Let's hear it for your youth. [Applause] Have a good day. So, everyone's welcome to hang out, but you also could leave. That's uh totally up to you. We're going to move on to other business now. And um that is items from council. Item four, we have uh item A and B which are both resolutions appointing municipal judges. And why don't we hear a report on that from the chair of the judiciary committee, Councilman Stone Cipher. >> Yeah, we have two items of business today. Uh item 4 A and B. Um before I get started, I I do want to say this. Um I've been on the judiciary committee since 2015 and we rarely have to do this and so um we had to kind of think a bit a little bit about it because it' been a long time since we we we had done anything like this and um the process is somewhat difficult. It takes a lot of time. Uh I want to thank uh Laura McDivet, Amy Simpson, and Debbie Martin for putting all this together. Uh, and so, um, oh, and I want to thank each of the committee members, uh, Bradley, Matt, and Joe Beth. Um, it it it, like I said, it took a lot of time, but it was well worth it because we got two outstanding um, candidates. And so, the first item of business will be the resolution appointing Gunnar Brisco effective August 26,25 through July 1, 2026. I'd make that motion at this time, please. Governor, >> we have a motion and a second for item 4A, appointing Gunner Brisco. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. >> And then if you're ready, the second item of business is 4B, which is through July 1, 2027. >> Very good. Of course, many people will better know her as Senator Kay Floyd. >> Yes. but I've known her a long long time. >> We have a motion and a second. Cast your votes for item 4B. >> Passes unanimously. >> Thank you, mayor. >> Uh I know that over at the courts they recently unveiled a wall with all of the judges pictures and I was a little struck and it resonates with what you said a moment ago at how few people have been municipal judges. So there's often a lot of longevity and uh thank you for the work of the judiciary committee for ensuring uh such qualified new judges join their ranks. All right, item five, city manager reports. Uh we have items A and B. Mr. City Manager. >> Yes, thank you mayor. So um on item A, July sales tax. So first month of the fiscal year. Um just as a reminder, we projected about 1.7% growth in sales tax for this year. sales and use tax combined make up a little over 70% of our budget. So on the general fund. So it's really uh very important to us. Um our first check of the month was slow. It's down. It's a 1% uh growth in sales tax but was below the target. We've got a little bit more of our target for the year projected for the year in the early part of the year and then later in the year it's a little bit less. But um between sales and use tax were down about $1.2 2 million in the first month. A leadin for the next for the next check on August. We've already got preliminary numbers on the August sales tax check. It is very strong growth and a lot of that's you know getting the sec the last part of the Western Conference finals and then getting the finals that we think is having an effect. We don't have the detail but think that would have an effect and it's about 9% growth. So we go from 1% to 9%. Now, we don't think that's going to create a trend that will continue on. But it is good news that it will really offset the losses that we see in this month um coming into next month. So, I think we're in really good position right now. Again, as we've talked about before, our reserves are still strong. Um so, this is a slow start, but next month we'll offset that. Uh and then we've got claims and payroll, and that's on OKC.gov. So, if there's any questions, be glad to answer those, but that's all that I have. >> All right. Thank you. Item six, journal of council proceedings. We have items A and B we could take with one motion. We have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Item seven, request for uncontested continuences. Is there anything, Mr. City Manager? >> Yes. Starting on page 16, all of these items will be stricken from the agenda. Item 11 E1. Item B, 2200 Harden Drive. The owner is sec. Owner has removed. Item D, 12728 Nelson Avenue. The owner is secured. Item E, 3812 Walker Avenue. The owner is secured. Item F, 3814 South Walker Avenue. The owner is secured. Item G is 424 Northeast 16th Street. The owner is secured. Item H 709 Northwest 24th Street. The owner has secured. Item I, 3029 Southwest 24th Street. The owner has secured. Item N, 4428 Southeast 44th Street. The owner is secured. And item P 309 Northwest 90th Street. The owner is secured. Continuing on page 16, item 11 F1 abandoned buildings. Um, these are all stricken for the same reasons in the previous list. Um, item B, 12728 Nelson Avenue. Item C, 424 Northeast 16th Street. Item D, 709 Northwest 24th Street. Item G, 4428 Southeast 44th Street. And item I, 309, now Northwest 90th Street, the owner has secured. And that's all the items that I have. >> All right. Thank you. And without objection, that'll be the order. All right. Item eight, uh, are revocable permits and events. We have A through E, uh, which are all related to river sport. And we have Trisha Downey here. And Trisha, maybe feel free to just maybe just go through all of them and then we'll just take a series of votes if that's okay. However you want to do it, but >> it's a plan. Nope, we're going to we're going to go in order of the agenda. The first one is our fireworks permit. Uh, it allows us to do 10 fireworks a year as opposed to requesting them one by one and saving us all a little bit of time. Um, we go through Ark's Arc Pyro Technics and the first thing on their page says, "Safety is our number one priority. Not only do they do amazing fireworks, but they shoot them off to the music of our choice." So, if you ever saw fireworks at Riverport, they're pretty fantastic. Our next fireworks display will be at the Oklahoma Rata Festival the first weekend in October and also the Holiday River Parade on the 15th of November. Um the next item on the agenda is the holiday river parade. Uh the revocable permit allows us uh exclusive use of the river for this parade. Uh we have skiing elves as a warm-up act and honestly it's kind of hokey sounding but they are amazing. They do amazing tricks and things that shoot out of the water and wow. Uh we also do a parade of boats that light up. Last year, our lady's dragon boat won for moving lit up orars as they pass through the water. It's such a beautiful site to see and we follow up with fireworks and maybe some laser show at that event. Um, fun for all. We get over 10,000 people at that event. So, if you want a VIP spot, call me up. Our third event is the Oklahoma Reata Festival, which is October 3rd through the 5th. The third is uh Friday night corporate rowing and dragon boat racing. Um again, Oklahoma has the only 500 meter length course that is actually stadium lit up, so it's a bucket list item for all rowers, but our locals seem to really enjoy that part of things. On Saturday and Sunday, we do collegic, masters, and junior rowing. And when I say collegic, we have SEC and Big 10 teams here um battling it out. We have a DJ and loud music. And it is a really, really fun evening. And food trucks are all around. Again, we wrap up that event with fireworks. Um all of our events are actually free to visit. We don't charge a ticket. if you want to, you know, compete, we'll we'll charge a little bit, but uh come watch and uh we would enjoy your company. Um fourth on the docket is the TOR, which stands for Trio OKC Riverport Challenge and uh Trio OKC is our local triathlon club. So, I'm going to introduce you to Alina Croy. Alina is a systems analyst for our OKC fire department. She's a wife and mother of four. She has finished the Iron Man three times. Uh she's a past president of Trio KC. Uh cons is still on the board and is the regata director or I mean the everything's a riotta in my world. Uh the race director. So I'm going to let Alina talk a little about the race. >> Is that a job offer? >> Yes. Very happy here. Um no. So uh the torque as she said is a mouthful. uh the River Sport Adventure. This race is in its fourth year um at River Sport. Uh it's a two-day event. The first day on Saturday is a multiport race. So we have a sprint triathlon, a duathlon, and aquabite. Basically different flavors of triathlon. Um where athletes get to swim in the lower pool of river sport, which is amazing. It's a pool. We spend a lot of time telling athletes it's not the river because people think it's the river and no one wants to swim in our river. Um but it's their pool, which is amazing. Um, and then they get to bike through Oklahoma City. Um, we worked with Oklahoma City PD to put the bike course together and they've been amazing to work with. Um, we're the only race that races through Oklahoma City, so it's a big draw for people. We actually have people from 11 states. I checked yesterday coming, which is crazy. I think we someone from South Dakota coming down, which is great. Um, and then on Saturday or Sunday, excuse me, we do a 5K 10k event. Um, so every year participation has gone up. I think we were looking at probably 250 people this year and we're really excited about our medal. It spins. Um it's not going to spin of course, but so we still have some slots available. So if you guys want to come out, we also do a relay. So if you only want to do part of one of those things, um and we also do an adventure try, which is where the swim is the biggest thing for people who don't want to do triathlon, that's scary. Um the adventure try allows you to kayak or paddle board the swim. Um and we don't have time cut offs. It's a very relaxed, chill event. um so people of all paces and distances can come out and do it. So we're excited and we love uh racing in the city. So thank you. >> Yep. >> Thanks. Y >> that one ends during the day so there's no fireworks. >> Uh finally is our roof youth rowing league which is Saturday, November 8th. The youth rowing league is about 250 kids from 14 schools maybe 15 16 this year. Um they're mostly title one schools that only really provide an adviser, uh someone to communicate with the team. Um Riverport provides coaches, practice time, water time, uh this rowing event at the end and t-shirts. And we have a lot of great sponsors and a lot of great volunteers who get this. It's one of my favorite. I say it every year. It's my favorite because these kids bring their brothers and sisters and moms and grandparents and aunts and uncles. They all show. Usually a river sport um calculates uh the audience like one one and a half for each participant. Uh with this it's almost three. So we're expecting maybe 800 people to watch 200 kids. It warms my heart to see kids who probably would not make the football team actually be off their phone outside getting exercise and seeing the pride in their faces just makes my job great. So those are the five events on the docket. Does anyone have any questions? >> All right. Well, we could start taking some votes then. Thank you for all of that. Uh, Councilman Pennington, do you want to >> Sure. I'll get us rolling. >> Happy to do that. Very excited for all the exciting the great events that are happening at the river. Um, I I did not know that that serving in this seat meant that I would serve on the River Sport Foundation. So, it's been a lot of fun so far. I I can't commit to the Iron Man just yet. Um, but it does sound like a great We could do the relay the council. >> There you go. See >> the adventure? Oh, with me? We're going to do a relay together. Councilwoman. >> Okay. >> Don't challenge me. >> We might be able to. We might we might have the council doing it. So, we'll see if we can make that happen. But um very grateful for all the work that you're doing to bring um great activities to our city and to our river. So, um with that, mayor, I'll first uh can we move for all all the items at once or do I have to? >> I asked and the answer is no. One at a time. >> All right. Well, then I'll I'll move item a approval of item A. We have a motion in a second. Cast your votes for item 8A. Councilman Cooper, have you voted? >> Ah, very good. Well, they just tell me sometimes. Uh, passes unanimously. All right. 8B is uh all the river parade vote. >> I move approval of item B. >> It's all good. >> Have a motion in a second. Cast your votes when you can. >> Passes unanimously. Item 8 C is the Riata Festival. I move approval. Got a motion to second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Item 8D is the trioc riverport challenge. >> I move approval of item D. >> We have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. 8E is the Youth Rowing League Championship. >> I move approval of item E. Have a motion, a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> All right. Now, we'll recess the council meeting and convene as the Oklahoma City Municipal Facilities Authority where we have items A through M that we can take with one motion. Have a motion in a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. We'll adjourn OCMFA and convene as the Oklahoma City Public Property Authority where we have items A through D. We could take with one motion. A motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes. unanimously. We'll adjourn OCPA and reconvene as the council where we are on item nine, the consent docket. There are no presentations. Is there any thing that anyone wishes to pull out for a separate vote? Discussion, question hearing. None, we'll Oh, we do have someone signed up to speak on item 9 A and that is Francis Smith. if you state your name, address, and keep your remarks to three minutes or less. >> Absolutely. I'm Francis Smith. I'm with the Oklahoma City Farmers Market District. Thank you all for having us here today. I just wanted to start with a few key accomplishments um from the last fiscal year. Um because the city has supported our endeavors, we've been able to install our district banners, which is super exciting. We did a public reveal ceremony in May. We've been able to help secure funding for four major storefront improvements. We've had four seasonal festivals which have included free cooking demonstrations, educational speakers, as well as showcasing all of our local vendors, food trucks, musicians, our farmers market, and the districts in our business. Environmentally, we have launched and I'm right now working on expanding the cigarette litter recycle program with OKC Beautiful as a partner. We've participated in the Great American Cleanup and Litter Blitz events within our district. Um, we are currently putting in a pollinator way station that we're very excited about. We're building out a whole educational series and volunteer opportunities doing that through the end of the year. We are also currently working on one identifying all the businesses in our very large borders um that are active and then we're working to put together um a district meet and greets so that we can kind of connect and and unify our district. Organizationally, we have expanded our board of directors. One was just sitting in here, Spencer Brown. We're so glad to have him. Um, we've started and are actively working three committees. We're working with Matis Group on our strategic plan which has been developed and we are progressing very well. We got a nine out of 10 from them on um our ability to progress and we've been working on policies and procedures. as a nonprofit um in our infancy stage. This is a big task and we are working diligently on um establishing that. Looking forward, we are going to continue to expand our educational programs, our volunteer opportunities, support business, also advancing our green space and infrastructure projects to strengthen the district's identity, vibrancy, and economic vitality. In closing, I just want to thank you all for investing in the Farmers Market District. Together, we are honoring history, building community, and creating a sustainable future for this very unique part of Oklahoma City. I'd like to open it up to questions if anybody wants me to expand on anything we've been doing or going to be doing. >> Thank you so much. >> Here to speak on item 9 AE. Good morning, mayor. Good morning, council members. Good morning. I'm Pari Palon, president of Lavventino District Association, and I'm just here to highlight a little bit of the incredible impact of the business along Southwest 29th Street, which is one of the most commercial areas in Oklahoma City. Our district is home for 100 locally owned service provider. These businesses don't serve the community. They create job sponsor local events and other safe welcoming a lot of families. They pay property taxes and sell taxes that support a schools, infrastructure and public service. Many have invested in building and improvement. We invite you to walk it and experience and continue support the entrepreneurs in our 29 district. Thank you for your time and for your support and I invite you if you really want to experience our authentic Mexican food, please come to Laentino. You will have the best experience there. >> Thank you. >> You are correct. >> Right. 29. >> Truly. Yes. >> 29 is the best place. Thank you. >> Thank you. Uh item 8 ah Michael Washington >> this is what nine >> yes 9 ah you also signed up for 9 by so perhaps you can touch >> oh yeah yeah yeah >> Michael Watson 100 park place the one and only with the MS >> oc sorry also by y and c so you signed up for three items on the same item nine. So, >> okay. Subreient agreements with the homeless alliance numbers are not necessarily to be uh acknowledged. City Rescue Mission, Catholic Charities, all to be provided money for the homeless and disadvantaged. You know what? We here, this committee and I don't agree on much, but in this one instance, I have to admit that I'm very, very persuaded by the decision to allow the monies that has been selected for these particular projects to be given out to individuals living on the street, homeless, don't have money, maybe some not even families. but is also targeting these same people who are street on the street to be given as you say a rehousing initiative reactive reactive August 1st 2025 through July 2026 and authorizing execution of necessary documents. I'm kind of thrown for a loop in that particular last sentence. Nevertheless, because I'm highly capable and intelligent enough, I can decipher pretty much it has to do some promoting and uh assisting these charitable organizations. Let me say, oh, but I'm not finished. I think that this city making a move that we have is great, but I just got to divert just a little bit and say, what about those that this money doesn't earmark or target for? How I've been hearing people been arrested because they sleep under a bridge. I've hear that they have been arrested for not moving quick enough or finding a house. >> 30 seconds remaining. >> Lord, it always gets Michael when I just get started. Get the now then to get back and pick it back on the point that I started with the with only 17 seconds. Count it. I think this is a wonderful project that you people have come up with. And you guess what? I want everybody to know with 8 seconds, 765 remaining that Michael is here to do what he can to assist these projects to the greatest fullest degree of his power. Amy, I got you. Thank you. >> All right, we can take a motion in a second on the consent docket. Have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Item 10 is the concurrence docket. We have items A through K we could take with one motion. We have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Item 11 are items for individual consideration. We have item 11 A. Uh this says an amendment to the master design statement. an ordinance on final hearing reszoning 1 19301 Lutheran Road from DA to SPD 1695 and this was uh deferred uh a number of times and has a protest of 60.9%. Councilman Pennington, we do have one person signed up to speak in opposition. >> Excellent. Um this is a case I'd love to hear from our neighbor first because I think we're going to have several answers to the questions that she has. So that'd be great. >> Okay. Kristen Dawson. >> Kristen Dawson. >> Hi everyone. Um, Dr. Kristen Dawson. Um, before we start, I just want to say a quick thank you to Kamal Pennington and also to Debbie Martin because I know it's frustrating for you to deal with people who don't know a lot about real estate and stuff like that. You guys have been extremely generous with your time. Um, and I also want to thank you because, uh, last time I guess came up here and spoke to you guys in May, one of my primary concerns was about the safety of the blind intersection with having an RV park there. And they listened to what I said, and that was by far my number one thing that I was most concerned about last time. And so, thank you for that. Um, as far as the changes for um, what is going on on this property, there have been many iterations. Um, there was a new iteration on Thursday and then another one this morning. Um but um have is my understanding. >> Oh, the same one for Thursday. Okay. Um so there hasn't been a whole lot of time to do an in-depth analysis, but I'm going to um speak to you as best I can today. Um okay. So number one, overwhelmingly the neighbors um that I've talked to, there was only one that was even borderline on um changing the zoning. Every single other person I talked to was very opposed to it. I know that a bunch of people have sent in letters I believe um and they have all been universally uh opposed to reszoning this property and these are people that you know actually are living in the neighborhood versus a corporation that is trying to create a commercial development. Um secondly um the the overwhelmingly um so they has gone through many iterations and they have addressed a lot of concerns but one thing that persists is that every single plan so far um has been noise and an imposition on the neighbor as far as noise and that's been in every single plan and so you kind of feel like you since consum compromises have been made you kind of feel like oh maybe I should just say yes but every single plan um is something that is the detriment to the lives of the people that actually live around there. Whether that's the RV park or whether this is going to be um clubhouse sports complex with pickle ball courts um though throughout the nation. I was kind of doing my googling and there have been a bunch of um lawsuits um in cities about pickle ball courts because the pitch of the pickle ball is different than like a basketball court or a tennis court. It's high pitch and it's extremely annoying. And so a lot of those they say along the long axis you need to not have anything within at least 500 feet because that will lower the decibel level a little bit. >> Um secondly um one of the things that I talked about with the neighbors that they had concerns about they used to have um the chicken shack which was 1.1 mile away and they were extremely annoyed by all of the noise from that and that was 1.1 miles away. Um and that moved so thankfully that resolved. Nextly traffic. Um, I learned um from Councilman Pennington that Lutheran Road is a private road, so there's no city upkeep on the road. Um, we don't have a site plan for this. And so, we don't know, um, on that private road, are they going to have to are the neighbors going to have to pay for, you know, uh, increased maintenance on that road to support this uh, you know, financial endeavor by corporation. Um, also personally, I'm concerned about the traffic of people. Um they have an they have asked for an alcohol license for this. Um there the Deep Fork um river. I spoke on this last time. You may remember May I may have sounded a little um overzealous when I said that this is a dangerous part of the Deep Fork. And um that for instance this summer um our locks, we have locks and chains so that people can't access this dangerous part through our property. We have locks and chains. They keep getting cut off. in between when I talked to you guys in May and now, somebody died there. And I just, you know, personally, I know that's not something you can always prevent, but I don't personally want a whole lot of people that are able to be served alcohol within walking distance of this particularly dangerous part of the river. Um, sorry, I'm nervous. >> Oh, you are? Okay. Um, can I say one more thing that might be important? Um, uh, I'm not sure how, you know, up to date you guys keep your county assessor records, but in terms of looking looking and listening to the people who actually live there whose enjoyment um, could be affected by this development versus a corporation that has multi-million dollar properties. Um, the last thing I was going to say is that they have so many properties that, if this is correct, maybe it's not, according to that county assessor, they don't even own the property. like because I believe it was Goldjack that filed this, right? And if Goldjack filed it, they don't even own it. They sold it last December. Um, >> so I don't know how that affects the process and if that's just a little um, you know, thing that needs to, you know, cross and dot and get taken care of or if you have to refile it. But I mean, this is people whose lives are actually affected versus someone who doesn't even know that they don't own the property to my knowledge. So, thank you. >> Thank you, Councilman Pennington. >> Thank you. Um, well, just I'm first of all, and I really appreciate Miss Dawson. I know that she's trying to it's difficult to engage with the reasonzoning process, as I'm sure we all know from us having to be involved in it all the time. Um, we've come a long way. So, we started an RV park and some other um commercial uses. We came down to some cabins and that some proposed uses there. So, we went back and visited with Miss Dawson. She had some more concerns. We made some further adjustments. So now at this point we're talking about the existing church facility that is there that's already on the property and um and the uses that the um applicant is asking to put in there is a let me make sure I say it a community recreational that is uh and allows for an eating establishment that is sit down alcohol permitted that is accessory to the use unit um for community recreation. So, first of all, let me ask the planning director so we can have clarity of exactly what that means. What's the difference between community recreational limited to accessory to the use um of that for an eating establishment? What's the difference between that and just having a restaurant? >> That seems to be part and then we'll ask the applicant to come up and talk about the other concerns Miss Dawson had. Y um let us look up the code for a second here. Sarah's David, we can read it. Good morning. David Box 525 Northwest 11th. Um, so as Councilman Pennington said, this this bud well, when it went through planning commission, it was recommended for approval unanimously, and at that time it allowed for uh RV pads, um, cabins, and those things. To my knowledge, every specific request we've had from Miss Dawson, we have agreed to. And I think we've actually gone further than what she has asked for. And so what we're left with, frankly, along Route 66 is a very minimal um development at this point. It's a clubhouse that would allow for, you know, the service of food and alcohol. We're willing to stipulate that the service of food and alcohol is limited to the existing building. we're willing to limit it to one pickle ball court. What she's referring to with the lawsuits that have been filed nally on pickle ball facilities are when there's multiple right adjacent to a traditional single family neighborhood with multiple lots. Here, my guess is there's going to be more noise from traffic along uh Route 66 than the single pickle ball court. Um the the large complexes are are what is generating complaints for pickleball courts in close proximity single family residential. We don't have that here. Um I I don't the closest home is I think a good distance away. So it's one of those cases where it's a bit challenging for for me and and my client when when we're asked to change something, we change it and then here we are the morning of council, new requests are are coming in and new concerns. There's only so much we can do. Um, my belief is we have kept this individual in the loop. I think we've sent her the revised documents at every turn. So, it's still recommended for approval by your staff. It was recommended for approval at a much more intense development unanimously by your planning commission. Um, so I'm happy to answer any questions. I don't really know where to go from from here at this point. We've taken just about every residential component away, which was the big concern with RV paths and cabins. Those have all been removed. It's now basically a clubhouse uh that would allow for the sale of food and alcohol. >> So, um and again limited only to that facility, that existing church facility. >> Yes, sir. >> Can we hear from the planning director quickly? >> Uh yes. So, uh would you mind repeating the question? the difference between community recreation um that also has the uh accessory use of eating establishments sit down. What's the difference between that and a restaurant? >> Oh, gotcha. Okay. So, we have we have uh three kind of community recreation general property owners um and restricted. Um they're asking for the comm community community recreation property owners association and community recreation general and then they're also ask asking for eating establishments uh sit down alcohol permitted um and the difference between so they're asking for sorry I didn't >> it to be accessory to the community recreation use versus being a standalone use unit of eating establishment. like what's the difference? That's that's the concern that she has. >> Okay. I don't know. Sarah, you're going to have to help me out on this one. I'm not sure about that. Yeah. Go ahead and come on up. >> Sarah Welch, Sarah Welch, Planning Department. Um the restaurant would allow a standalone use. You'd have customers coming from all over. And in my understanding, this is limited to the the guests of the property. Correct. We we apologize. We have not seen a lot of the changes since Thursday's uh master design statement. >> So, the the real difference is it it wouldn't be like a restaurant that would just have normal hours of operation. If some sort of family reunion was there, that facility would then be open as the accessory to the community recreation use unit. So it's even further limited from what a restaurant could be. >> So okay. So my other question was about the family daycare homes. >> We can remove that >> and we'll just remove that. So then the other question that I'm certain that um Miss Dawson would ask is if this property were sold, >> what would they be able to do with this property? It sounds like based on what I'm reading in the zoning would be they'd have to have they'd be allowed to have this community recreational use clubhouse in the existing building and they'd be able to build a garden uh home garden, a hoop house or homes. >> Yeah. And that's it. I mean, obviously the zoning will run with the land. It it would be limited to just those things. >> So then the only question left council members on for me is and I and I appreciate Miss Dawson. I know that it's can be scary. changes is difficult, especially when you're dealing with zoning uh cases. The the question for me is what's the noise difference between having a church that can have regular activities any day of the week, people coming in and out. What's the meaningful difference between that and the activities that could be having at any active congregation, church, and having a clubhouse? Because to me, it's the same level of that's the question before us. Um, and so for me, and I appreciate Miss Dawson's concern, and that's why I've tried to make sure that we've asked the right questions to address the specific concerns that she has. If we're talking about a clubhouse and we're talking about houses and one pickle ball court, to me, that seems like a reasonable use of property along Route 66. I'm going to ask the dumbest question. >> No, you're not. It's not. >> Buckle up. Um I forgive me and I'm kind of looking at uh former commissioner Hinkle and thinking of your commission role as well. I don't understand anymore the proposal because if the original proposal was um much more about like RV uh to allow for that agricultural recreation lodging uses, but now it's just this existing property that's or the existing structure that's on the property, right, that I looked up on the map at Lutheran and Route 66. Yes sir. >> Um, so that's now going to be a version of a restaurant is what I'm hearing. >> Think of like u if if you were going to have a family reunion. >> Sure. >> It would be a place to to rent out the space and they would be able to provide for the service of food and alcohol for basically a special event like that. >> So like the weddings and these sorts of things that I've gone to and wherever. >> But not not weddings, but yeah. Yeah. Like some sort of family event. I mean, it's I understand your question. It's so limited now. >> That's the main thing I'm getting at >> that it's it's limited to some some one-off events that that might occur. >> I guess that's kind of my main dumb dumb question here is this this no longer feels like what went to planning commission. >> Oh, it's significantly stripped down. >> And so that just raises just some like basic process questions for me of like planning commission looked at one proposal. I'm not even saying I agree with what the proposal was. I'm just saying planning commission looked at one proposal and now we are talking about but a fourth of that proposal if at all I guess the recreational aspect of it and I'm just it's just it's creating a lot of confusion for me in my head about the council's role at this part of the process. if planning commission looked at something, staff looked at something, and now we're looking at something called item C, you know, wasn't that's just I don't know. I've never been in a situation like this before. >> It's a fair question. The the concern is typically if we are adding things or it's becoming more intense than perhaps what planning commission would have seen here, we've gone backwards from what planning commission commission unanimously deemed appropriate. So, understand the question. I don't know that it it is a concern. You guys are elected to make the decisions. Ultimately, it's not uncommon that you see, you know, when you see your agenda and there are amendments to the PUD. That is because there have been changes from what planning commission has seen. Uh often times >> you really had your opportunity unless you you would like to invite her to come forward again. Councilman. >> Sure. If I were just going to explain it um from my perspective, >> if you could take a microphone. >> Um I think what the deal is and why um Councilwoman Pennington is working so hard on this um is um to give the neighbors a say. And the reason for that is um from everybody I talked to, there are notification requirements before it goes to the planning commission. And um you can never assure that anybody receives their mail, but everyone in the neighborhood I talked to, only one person actually got the notification. So, they only talked to one person prior to the zoning commission. So, now um now that more neighbors know about it and they're sending in protests. The zoning commission didn't hear any of those people before. So, now they're trying to make it work and hear the neighbors. But a lot of this should have been litigated at the zoning level. >> That's >> notice was proper. Notice gets sent out twice in Oklahoma City, which is uncommon. Most cities have one round. So, notice got sent out before planning commission. Somebody showed up at planning commission. We deferred it. We went and met with them. We modified the spud. Notice got sent out again. This individual came. We've deferred it multiple times. We've modified it to her request every single time. And then every single time we show up, there are additional requests made. >> So, in a nutshell, this started out to be a KOA campground and now it's a wedding venue. >> Well, not a wedding venue, but a a rentable venue for one day events. >> That's right. or a weekend event or I mean so it's >> correct. >> I got you. >> So again for me the you the comparison is um one to Councilman Cooper's point initial question um we've come down it's significantly less than what it was when it went to planning commission. Um and so when we're really talking about the uses that are the most of concern that could be the most disruptive, it is the um building that they're going to limit to community recreation, which is like any other community center that would be at any other in my neighborhood or yours. Um so that's what we've come all the way down to. If council doesn't feel like we're clear, even though we've sent the redline version, you don't feel like we have enough information about what where we are now, then of course we can we can take a continuence. But in my view, the question is, is it more disruptive than a church would be if it's a clubhouse? And and in my view, it's not any more disruptive. Except this time, we required the screening between this property and the other ones. We allow for homes to be built around that area. And um we've eliminated any of the uses where there's any other questions about what could happen um in the space. So, I'm comforted by that. I do appreciate Miss Dawson's concern about um there being some area nearby that that's I guess fenced off where there people have climbed the fence and there's been issues, but I would I profer that that's going to be the same problem if you put homes there that people may decide to trespass and go on that property. So, um this is on Route 66. We've come from RV parks and cabins down to just being able to limit all the uses being limited to just that church. um even if it's if it is sold, it's just going to be limited to again the uses being in that church building. Seems reasonable to me at this point, but if we if council's not comfortable, let's continue. >> It it seems very reasonable to me and we've addressed issues like this before. We paired it down. >> It's our decision and I'd like to just move forward with on it at this time. other members concerns. I >> I hear what councelor Stonecipher is saying. I guess my only final question is like legally how are we feeling about this topic item. >> I was afraid you were going to ask that question. >> Well, because I do ask questions that are tough. >> Yes. Uh legally, I believe as Mr. box answered I and I agree with his answer. I think the coun uh the planning commission looked at all the elements that could be included in this this item. So essentially you've stripped it down is what you've done. You've made it a less intense use and it was a more intense use is what they looked at and a and reviewed. So I I don't think you have a legal problem in approving it. Thanks. >> So I would I would say let's confirm the amendments limited. We'd be limiting um use units 8250.3 8250.2 83008 to the existing facility. >> Yes. >> Existing church on the property would be eliminating use unit 8300.40. >> Yes. And those will be the those are the changes. >> Yes, sir. >> And to be clear, these are new amendments in addition to the amendment already listed in the red line. >> So this will be a separate vote standalone just that with what you just stated. >> Yes. >> Perfect. Thank you. Keeping me on process mayor. >> Um so that's my motion. >> Okay. >> To amend the the MDS to that >> as described. All right. So let's take a motion and a second on that series of amendments. >> Oh, sorry. I'm on the wrong screen. Have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. And then do you also need the amendment listed on the agenda? >> Oh, the >> the amendment to the master design statement one. >> So, let's approve. I'll move approval of that. >> Okay. Have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. passes unanimously. And are there any other changes? Are we on the ordinance now? A2. I >> think we're on to the ordinance at this point because we've effectively taken the redline version, then approved th those amendments, then approved some additional changes to that. Um so with that, mayor, I move approval. >> Okay. And this vote requires seven votes because of the high level of protest. >> Unless I have unless my colleagues would prefer to take a delay, >> a continuence. >> Okay, we have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. >> Passes unanimously and with the necessary supermajority due to the protest. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> All right. Item 11B is an ordinance on final hearing. That was uh reszoning. There's recommended for approval. Reszoning 3223 Northwest 178 Street from PUD 1891 to SPD705. This was deferred a number of times as well. Councilman Stonecipher knowing has signed up to speak. >> Thank you, Mayor. Um David, on this item, we are deferring it till October. Is that correct? >> Yes, sir. October 21st. >> All right. Uh, at this time I'd like to make a motion to defer this item to October 21st. >> Okay, please. I have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. That item is deferred. >> Thank you. >> 11 C. Ordinance on final hearing. Recommended for approval closing all of the platted public alleyways in block three trust for Park Highland Edition. Uh, Councilman Stone. Thank you, mayor. Has anyone signed up to speak? >> They have not. >> All right. This is recommended for approval by staff and by the planning commission. So, with that, I'll go ahead and move for its approval. We have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Item D1 is the public hearing regarding the lapidated structures here listed. Jamie, has anyone signed up to speak? >> No, they haven't. >> They have not. So, we will advance to the resolution at D2 declaring structures are dilapidated. Have a motion to second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. 11 E1 is the public hearing regarding the unsecured structures here listed. Does anyone Amy has anyone signed up to speak? >> No, they haven't. >> They have not. So, we'll move advance to the uh resolution declaring structures are unsecured found at E2 >> except for those previously struck >> there. Thank you. >> I can hear it too. >> Motion second. Cast your votes. >> No, please. >> Pass. Cast your votes. Getting ahead of myself. Passes unanimously. All right. 11 F1 is the public hearing regarding the abandoned buildings here listed. Amy, is anyone's time to speak? >> No, they haven't. >> They have not. We'll advance to the resolution declaring the buildings are abandoned. That resolution is found at F2. And of course, this is except for those previously struck. Have a motion in a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Item 11 G is a joint resolution with the Oklahoma City Economic Development Trust uh authorizing the general manager of the trust or his designate the city manager of the city or is his design to negotiate an economic development agreement not to exceed $8 million to support the development of a shield sporting goods store and we have a presentation on this. >> Yes, Kenny Sudel with a president of the econ the alliance for economic development will present this item for us. >> Thank you mayor and councel. uh excited to bring you this um joint resolution, this project for a incentive for a shield store. Just to give the broad uh overview on this thing, um what this would provide is a maximum over 10 years of $8 million. Uh we intend to bring back, you know, this would be the allocation. So, this is kind of thinking like the term sheet. we have to bring back obviously the uh contract with the economic development trust but would intend to have in there that also it has an $800,000 a year limit um to also just to make sure we check the boxes this does comply with our retail policy we looked at this you know did market studies and looking at this project uh it's estimated that over 50% of the sales would come from outside a 25 uh mile radius and over 75% of the sales would come from outside the city limits. Uh uh Trevor Klein, the director of operations for Shields is here is going to give a presentation, talk to you more about the project, but just what this is all based on is approximately $130 million a year of sales. So, if you kind of look at that in that uh perspective, we as always, we only look at the net new sales. The incentives are a negotiated amount only out of the new money that comes in. And uh you know, as an estimate, looking at that, the general fund portion on $130 million of sales would uh be like in the $2.9 million range. You know, if an $800,000 incentive is given, uh the city would still receive the other 2.1 in general fund, not counting the other taxes. So, it's also a major capital improvement. And uh there's some really good job creation on this as well. And and I'm going to invite uh Trevor Klein up and he's going to give you a presentation. and we'll be happy to answer any questions. >> Morning. Uh Trevor Klein with Shields. Uh I'll be brief in respect for the council's time. Uh I guess the the first the only thing I really wanted to answer for you this morning a little bit is who is Shields? I think we get that a lot certainly as I've u you know you see some of the social media stuff floating around. It's always always interesting. But you know who are we as a company? uh because I do think there are some differentiators uh with Shields compared to maybe some other retailers and hopefully what we can bring and partner with Oklahoma City. So the first thing is we're employee owned. Um it's it's one of the unique things about our company. We're one of the largest esops uh in the country. We're 100% employee owned. We're not uh we're not publicly traded. We're not owned by one person or one family. Um and that's one of the unique things. We're really split out between our 44 about 4,400 employee owners. Uh many of which there'll be new ones when we move to Oklahoma City here and and grow in this uh area. And I think that fundamentally changes how business operates because really we're doing the best that we can do for our associates and always thinking long-term, never shortterm, never about what's best for our stock price in the next six months or whatever it would be. We're always thinking long-term and long-term partnerships. Second, customer experience. It's it's huge at Shields. If you've been to a Shield store, hopefully you've been, whether you've been down into Texas or to Oklahoma City or up to Overland Park. Um, it's one of the unique factors about our store of Yep. It's got a ferris wheel and all the bells and whistles and it's a beautiful store, but from a people perspective, um, we have a lot of long-term associates. being employee owned, you have people the tenure of our associates and what we invest in them for training whether that's through universities or um hiring passionate experts and especially how we compensate those associates. So you'll find when you go to a store if you're going to go in today's day and age, you want to talk to somebody who knows what they're talking about, who's passionate about hunting and fishing or who's passionate about running or whatever that would be. And you'll run into those experts in our stores. and we really pride ourselves on customer service and I think that's one of the things you'll notice if you've been to one of our stores. And then of course the the third one I think will be fun for Oklahoma City as I've talked to more people in the community. Uh you know we have specialty shops. We're not just a big box retailer and all of the uh when you go to a store like Shields, you'll find that it's really catered to the local market because we have local associates and they do the buying on a local level, but we have all the high-end brands that whether it's OnRunning or Mizen in Maine or Vori, some things that are perhaps maybe hard to find. You'll have them at Shields. Our bike shop will be like a specialty bike shop and we partner with Trek and other retail or other vendors to really create those experiences instead of a big box. It's really going to feel like your small town archery shop or bike shop or fashion boutique. So, it is a unique experience and every one of those specialty shops is run by specialty shop managers. Kind of the unique one. Where are we going or who are we? We're not very big. So, when you when you think about Shields, we only have 34 stores today. The pro the proposed store for Oklahoma City would be our 38th. We don't build a lot of stores. Again, we're employeeowned. We're very conservative in our growth. We maybe build one story a year, sometimes two if it lines up perfectly, but we're very conservative making sure that, you know, slow and steady wins wins the race. And uh, as I mentioned before, we're kind of a we're not a microwave, we're a crock-pot. And so we're very we're very uh I guess um take our time to expand and make sure we're in communities that we want to be in and want to grow into. Um, so yeah, 34 stores. We're going to Cedar Park, Texas, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and then you'll find us hopefully here in Oklahoma City in 2028. So, that one. And lastly, which I think is is important, especially hearing some of the things um with the how we started today's city council meeting. Um we're going to be uh just a fantastic partner and a lot of places say that. Um but this uh we have a lot of programs in place. And why are you in business? Well, number one, to take care of our employee owners. Um, I think every business is in, you know, they want to take care of their their owners or their employees. Number two, we want to provide a service for the community. We want to be a great u uh place where you can shop and find the coolest gear, of course, but the big one and and Steve Shield uh really embodied this in our company, but we're going to give back to our communities and make our communities a better place. And so, there's a lot of ways we do that. Of course, we have give back programs where our people can um donate uh their time and we help assist and pay them to do that. Every full-time associate gets $500 a year that they can give to whatever charity they want. Um any 501c or frankly a great cause that they have. And then on top of that, we give back a percentage of our profits. So, a store this size um will give back well in excess of $500,000 a year all to the local community every single year over and over. In addition to that, we also have our foundation on top of that. So, you really have four or five methods where you'll see Shields involved in the community and it's not just lip service, but it is truly we embody ourselves and we don't have a lot of marketing campaigns or flashy commercials or all those things. We're very much grassroots and and you will feel the impact of a Shield store in your community and how we involve ourselves locally. And then lastly, of course, what's the economic impact? And so here's I think just some interesting stats. Here's the most uh the 40 most popular sporting goods stores in the country and the 40 most popular apparel stores in the country in terms of traffic. There's a lot of Shield stores on there. Um I don't know if anybody's been to Oaklair, Wisconsin, but uh it's pretty small. It's a town of about 65,000 people. Um, and it's busier than just about every one of our competitors in the sporting goods category throughout the country. Even if you go to apparel and footwear, uh, if you look at, you know, the big Macy's or Bloomingdales or whatever it would be, there's Shield stores. And and what that means to Oklahoma City in the community is we're going to draw a lot of people, a lot of people outside of this community. What 250 mi radius? Um, I worked at the uh, Texas store. It was amazing how many folks we drew from Oklahoma. How many people I run into in Oklahoma City of like, hey, we go to the go to the Shield store in the Colony, Texas down by Frisco. But we'll average 2 and a half million visitors a year. Um over a two-hour stay. Uh and then on top of that, uh besides all the sales tax that will be created from a jobs perspective, 200 plus full-time jobs that today average over 55,000. I'm sure that will be higher in 2028. Um, but those jobs range anywhere from entry level, you know, about 50,000 for a specialy shop manager all the way up to about 120,000 for assistant store leaders. Um, plus on top of that, we'll have 300 plus part-time positions. Uh, which today averages uh north of uh it's about 22 $23 an hour for part-time pay u when you add that in. So overall, the payroll for that store, I know it says 13 to 16, will probably be uh somewhere between 15 and $16 million a year. So we really pride ourselves in taking great care of our associates because those are our owners. And then of course there's a construction impact as well. So who is Shields? I mean, we're a lot of things. It's hard to explain. It's a a weird Swiss Army knife of things, but uh um we're not a department store. We're not sporting goods. We're not a mall. We're just somewhat unique in that aspect. and we're very excited to hopefully partner with the city of Oklahoma or with party with party partner with Oklahoma City and bring a new store here in 2028. So with that, I'll open it up to any questions you may have. >> I'm just going to say since it was announced, OKC talk, other publications, I have had person after person after person come up to me and they were so excited about this development coming to Oklahoma City. Um, it's not a grab-and-go store. It's it's a family store for an all day experience with an aquarium and and ferris wheel and restaurant. And so, um, the people I've talked to are really excited about it. Uh, if you look in today's paper and you really want to dive into it, uh, Steve Blackmire did an article about all the amenities with this store. And so, I'd encourage people to take a look at today's Oklahoma and the Steve Blacker uh, article. I look forward to you coming to Oklahoma City, sir. >> Yeah, the cat's kind of out of the bag. We haven't officially enough, but yeah, it's it's amazing. Uh, in today's day and age, the OKC talk. Yeah, it's fun to read those comments. >> Um, again, sounds like a wonderful story. I look forward to going. Um, my question is actually more for Kenny about the incentives. So, could you explain how this incentive works? What are the metrics that go with if we vote yes, explain the metrics that Shields is required to meet in order to get >> CBNC? So, we'll be bringing back a um contract that embeds those metrics and the intent was, you know, it would be limited to over 10 years, a max of $8 million over 10 years. It we intend to bring a max of $800,000 per year. And then uh we also intend to bring that there's a minimum of a hund00 million of sales or they don't get anything each year. You know I think Trevor they feel pretty comfortable with that which I will tell you is a pretty high bar on these types of incentives. So they have to build the store you know uh and it has to generate this level of sales for them to get that. >> So we'll have to we'll see in the contract details yes this. So this is just enabling us to engage further. Okay that make sense. But it it definitely will be structured as a pay for performance. >> Excellent. Thank you. >> Um let me let me also say that um I'm glad we have those metrics. Um good wish you all the best if you uh council approves uh this uh proposal in meeting that uh those sales projections. Um for me uh the item that you spoke about that is the most important are the wages. Um seeing part-time uh wages you said on average would you say that number again? >> They're about 22 to 23 on average part-time a lot of those associates now. So, it's uh and it will range as high as 30, but entry- level cashiers are probably about 16 or so. Uh depending on what if it's just a part-time cashier, but um really that's continued to to rise and rise, but most of our sales associates uh merchandisers uh support throughout the store is going to be much higher than that. >> Uh we haven't had a chance to talk. Would you briefly explain to me the council the public why those wages especially even for the entry level? >> Uh pardon what is your question? >> I know it's actually a very like simplistic question so it might have just caught you off guard but it's simplicity. Why those starting wages? >> Oh why those starting wages? Um well we're looking for great people and um you know retention is really important to what we do even in a part-time associate. I started part-time when I was in college and um you know so whether it's a part-time associates you'll see a lot of our part- timerrs work for us for a long period of time whether that's throughout high school extended into their college years or the entire four years of college or really the gamut of part-time people that we have um I mentioned at the economic trust um one of the former uh FedEx executives is a part-timer for us in in uh in our archery shop down in in uh Texas. So, we have it's an interesting mix of you have the uh 16-year-old person. It's their very first job in high school to very tenured folks. And so, um from a wage perspective, um uh we really want to make sure that we're at the top of retail and and retain those people and just get the best uh quality applicants. >> Thank you. Can I make a slight correction to count uh Councilman Pennington? I think we had negotiated to have an $854,000 a year limit per annually. I said 800. So I just want to make sure but it's still the total over time would only be 8 million. So thank you for the reminder Joan. >> Well, we have a resident who signed up to speak. So or a couple. So, we'll if we're done with uh the presentation, then we can call those residents up. >> Um, okay. Michael Washington. Well well well. Mr. Shields, that's not your name. That's just the company you employ with, right? You want to now come in Oklahoma City and just offer such great services to us and we don't even know you. I'm not talking about your partners in the sales divisions or in the corporate world. What I'm talking about is what you actually can bring to me and are you going to actually produce what you say you are? Or do we get so trapped in and say, "Oh Lord, it's too late now." We still got to accept them now. No pun intended, no disrespect to anyone, but you just can't ask the citizens of Oklahoma to accept something they don't know about because we may or the greater Chamber of Commerce might want. No sir. And we know that didn't happen without them, don't we? Who run the city. Now then associates wonderful part-timers. Wonderful. That's right. look get the looks of me because I don't bite my toilet for anybody because I'm independent and will remain that way until I die. And when in heaven, God going to say, "Well done, my good and faithful servant." Having said that, sir, while your eyes are balling, let's get back to my point. Now then, we're going to generate, I believe, at least $850,000 a year if the project doesn't work. Now, I may have misunderstood that. We've already got 30 some odd stores in various cities in the state of the United States, which is great. But not one time did I hear you say, "No, one time did I see the faces that you showed did I see a black face." Michael acknowledging have to see these things because it's very important when you're talking about our employees own Our employees own our businesses and we're not a one market sales department. >> 30 seconds remaining time. >> I get his head. I get rotated. But sir, I am willing to give you and yourselves an opportunity to show Michael what you're made of. And you can best believe, sir, this not talking to you. I'll tell you this is how I speak every whenever I feel like I want to. It ain't you personally. I don't even know you, but I definitely wish you a success because we do need to generate more money here in the state of Oklahoma if we're going to especially with 2.1 million general fund. Amy, thank you so much again. But you cut me off too quickly. Thanks everybody. >> Thank you. Mike Reynolds. >> Thank you. My name is Mike Reynolds. I'm 74 years old. I've lived in South Oklahoma City within three miles of the same area for 66 years. My grandmother grandfather moved here before statehood. South Oklahoma City. Now, this is all of Oklahoma City and this is ridiculous. I fought this when I was in the legislature and I'll fight it now. Giving away money to corporations that may or may not be able to make a profit without taxpayer gifts. taxpayer. I'll be paying for it. The citizens where I live will be paying this money and each one of you know it. So, I'm here today. I am going to confront you. I am going to do it from now on. I've been out of the cycle for some time. These gifts, these giveaways have to be exposed. And this is is minute. What keyed me up today? I got my water bill yesterday. $167. I've lived in the same house for $43 years. It was $27. Somehow the price of water has gone up sixfold. What is going on with this body that you can allow things like that? You got a law passed in the legislature last year so that you can steal property from homeowners that can't afford to mow their lawns. If they don't pay their taxes, their property taxes in Oklahoma, what happens after three years of non-payment of property taxes, an individual's house can be taken. But you guys got a law passed last year that says if they don't pay a mowing lean, the city can foreclose on it. A mowing lean is above property taxes for people that can't even afford to mow their yards. But this great economic develop, why don't you divert this 8 million and help somebody pay to clean up their property or whatever? This is so disgusting. This is so far from the foundations of our country that it is absurd. And I will start bringing it to your attention. I will be asking my councilman. I'll be seeing how he's going to vote on this. But I'll be asking my councilman why he could possibly support this kind of giveaway. This company looks like a fantastic company. If they can't make a profit without the citizens of Oklahoma City subsidizing, they have no excuse, no reason to come to Oklahoma City. And what else does it do? It gives them a a a huge gap over their competitors that don't get the giveaways. That's what you're doing. You're picking the winners, picking the losers, and it is absolutely absurd. I'll be back. More to come. >> Thank you. That concludes the citizens who've signed up to speak. Now, we could take a motion. We have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes 8 to one. Um, all right. Now, we're on to the next item, which is 11H. This is a joint resolution with the Oklahoma City Economic Development Trust approving the allocation of geo limited tax bond proceeds uh in an amount not to exceed $175,000 for the provision of certain job creation economic development incentives to Kierney National Inc. Uh and I think we have a presentation. >> Yes, Kenny is back to introduce this item. >> Thank you, Mayor and Council. Kenny Sudol with the Alliance for Economic Development. So wanted to bring this joint resolution before you that is part of our strategic investment program that it's funded through our gulp bonds and this is for Kernney National doing business as Hapco and uh Fred Vermeier the former CEO and president who's still working on this project is going to give us a short presentation about this project but just as an overarching summary uh this would help incentivize the creation of 81 new jobs over the next 5 years estimated average wages of just under 51,000. Uh it also uh you know this is based on estimating kind of having a first roll first year payroll of around uh a million dollars just under and ramping up to 4 million by the end of that fifth year. There's also quite a bit of capital expenditure involved with this about 51 million. So with that I'm going to turn this over and the overall incentive would only be the 175,000 again paid overtime as a pay for performance type of incentive. So with that, I'll turn it over to Fred to tell you a little bit about more about the project. >> Good morning. My name is Fred Fier. I'm the former president and CEO of Hepco and now the project manager to make sure that this project actually uh materializes. As you can see, Hepco is actually the trade name. We're working under the uh legal entity of Kernney National who is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Dyson kiss corporation uh that are located in New York. What do we do? Uh we actually manufacture aluminum light poles and aluminum light poles are just the uh the next generation of light poles after the steel and the concrete poles that you see a lot in the United States. We were established in 1843 and have been in business now under the name of Hepco for 60 plus years. Uh why aluminum? Uh our poles are superior to other materials because they have low cost of ownership and I think that's important for the owners of their the light poles especially for DOS and municipalities. Uh they're lightweight, they do not rust, so they don't need to be painted, and they are environmentally friendly. Uh the company is located in Abington, Virginia, and we're pretty well established on the east coast. We like to go further west and we uh we actually looked at multiple places to be able to do that. uh and we kind of looked at how can we supply our raw material which we also manufacture but that's being done at Tri City Extrusion in Bristol, V in Bristol, Tennessee. And we looked at a 10 mile radius around uh uh for our trucks. How how can we get our trucks in 10 miles and then our or 10 hours and then we can get them back and do the next round. So, we looked at I40 and fortunately Oklahoma City is right on I40 and makes almost a straight shot. You don't have to make a lot of turns to uh to get from I40 at Knoxville all the way up to Oklahoma City. So, that's kind of how we looked at it. Uh, and we ended up uh here. But let me tell you a little bit more about our poles. Also, we uh we recently also started to work in the solar uh business. So we now also make a pole that is suited for solar. And most recently and you've seen this uh big beautiful light pole being erected at the uh state capital uh or at the uh at the capital in in Washington. And that's also a pole that we manufactured. Where do we sell? We we sell to a lot of customers mostly utilities but also Department of Transportation and a lot of light fixtures companies. I actually think that we're in we we call ourselves pole guys, but we're actually in the safety business because why do we have light is because you want to see things at the interstate, at your municipalities, downtown. You want to be safe and when there is light, there's normally a lot of safety. Uh so we're in 30 states, 45 municipalities. One thing that you see on here, you don't see on the uh on the slide uh Oklahoma City. We we one of my goals is that before this building is up and running, uh we want to have the uh Oklahoma City also converted from steel poles to aluminum poles. Okay. So, I'll probably be back. Uh we manufacture. We're not a sales uh outfit, but we manufacture products. Uh we're thinking about 81 jobs. I think that's a little on the low side, but we try to be conservative in five years. Average salary is about 51,000 and our investment is a little over $50 million with almost $36 in a building that we're building here and the rest is equipment that we put out. Uh we already talked about why Oklahoma. You're on I40. You have a good workforce. It's stable. uh you actually have some welders, you know, here that uh do steel welding. We do aluminum welding. Uh but in our experience, we can work with colleges and set up training facilities uh at the college for that. And we actually done that in Amington. We work with the local college and we actually have set up a aluminum welding class there that not only helps us but also other companies in the area. The potential site that we're looking at is OKC 577. I think you're familiar with that. It's right on 240. Uh we like the uh the environment there. We we feel like it's uh easy shipping in and shipping out. So good for our product. Uh if you haven't seen our product, you it's long. It's not easy uh handling. You you just don't need a fork truck or a pallet. It's takes a little bit of work to put it on a truck and and get it out. Uh but the location that we have selected is uh is very well suited for that. Uh on the civic engineering and philanthropy uh we do work very well uh with the colleges but also with the uh uh local uh workforce development. We we like to be very much in contact with that. our employees, they uh support baseball teams and football teams and high schools and things like that. We uh we're very uh in favor of that also. And with that, we uh we love to be here. We like to get your approval for for this project and uh and start working. Any questions? Perfect. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> All right. We could take a motion on this item if there's no other questions or comments. >> Actually, I do. I have question. Kenny, >> would you walk us through how this item will work similarly to how you work walked us through with shields, please? >> Yes. And I think this is similar in that we this is the allocation. you know, we'll bring back a contract that would lay out those things. And Joanna, correct me if I hit anything different, but it's it's it's a different program, but it's based more on the payroll. So, they have to actually create the jobs that hit the minimum uh required salary, benefits, those sorts of things. And it's after those jobs are created, paid out the payroll, they submit to Joanna's office to, you know, the economic development office, and they get some portion of that rebated. It's it's a negotiated percentage but the 175 would be the cap over the whole period of time >> and it's the 81 jobs that they are to create. >> Yes. >> Yep. >> If they create more they don't get additional cap that amount. Yeah. >> And they also have to demonstrate at this weight or sorry the salary. >> Yeah. The salary and benefits. >> And benefits. Okay. Yep. >> Thank you. Okay. If there's no other comments or questions, we can take a motion, which looks like we've got got a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes 7 to one. Okay. Next up is item 11 I. This is a joint resolution with the Oklahoma City Economic Development Trust approving allocations from incre increment district number nine's public improvements and development budget category and an amount not to exceed $350,000 and increment district number 15's uh pu uh improvements and development budget category and an amount not to exceed $150,000 to uh contribute towards the construction of the Clare Looper Civil Rights Center. Do we have a presentation on this? Yes. Thank you, Mayor and Council. Kenny Sud, the alliance. We brought you a um uh SIP deal. We brought you a retail deal, so I thought I'd bring you a TIFF deal also, so we just cover all and we're also going to have a film deal. So, we're using all of our tools today. Um this one just uh excited to to bring forward. Again, you know, I think where we've had maps projects that are geographically located inside of TIFF districts, if there's been opportunities to kind of help with some of those things, this is another example of that. Um, you know, where we've helped with like Palomar, we've helped with the, uh, multi-purpose stadium, things like that. So, this one it would be one that we would take a little bit of funds from a couple different TIFF districts and put it towards helping to really cover what the estimated uh base budget bids would be for this project for the Clara Looper Center. So, that's really it's sort of like an allocation from TIF to MAPS. So, kind of from our to oursel. Uh but uh Christina Batty is here and she is going to walk us through kind of just the project, what we're looking at and kind of walk you through the budget and why this uh $500,000 is needed to supplement. So Christina, thank you. >> Thank you. >> Good morning. My name is Christina Batty. I'm executive director of the Freedom Center and here to share a little bit about the project, give you an update, well introduce to some and give an update to others. Uh so for those who are not familiar with the project, it's located on Martin Luther King Avenue just north of 23rd Street. Uh the building itself, the new construction will be cited between Madison and 24th. And this is just uh a block down from the historic Freedom Center building which is there at 25th. Um you see it there under construction. That's a building that we have worked to restore with private funding. So these are just going to be a couple of renderings to give you a sense of what the new construction will look like. Um overall we're looking at a roughly 17,000 square foot building. um with classroom spaces, administrative spaces, event hall for both our programs and for um rental revenue. Yeah, that's the image right there, Freedom Hall. Um and so these next few images we'll go through will show you a sense of the uh inside layout, the floor plans. Um so that was kind of highlighting again the event spaces. This is more the education community spaces um with classrooms, boardroom, lounge and gallery. We have our administrative offices as well as uh and then the next color I believe is pink. Yes. And this highlights really what we are hoping to allocate these tiff funds towards um the storytelling elements, the gallery elements. And so, um, while there have been, uh, some shifts and changes and we're pushing a formal gallery into a future phase, we did make sure to include storytelling elements in the current uh, first phase of the project. And so, these are just some really initial renderings giving you a sense of how these spaces can do double duty. We widened the hallway to 13 feet wide so that there's more than enough egress um but also giving us room to really use those walls. We're looking at that entry lounge and this is the pre-function area to the main event hall to be able to use those for storytelling as well. We're looking at a combination of projections or screens um you know putting things in terms of vinyl on the wall and actually using artifacts from our archive. Uh and so we're looking at a multiplicity of ways to do storytelling uh throughout the space. So this is the overall budget summary for maps. Uh you'll see of course the overall budget is 26.8 8. Um, but with the operations and maintenance endowment, it's really 17 almost.2 that goes towards the actual project. Um, but if you'll see at that last line, construction is actually 11.8. Uh, and so that's, you know, what we're working with in terms of the building itself. Um, that money really is all going to be absorbed by constructing the physical building. And so it was very important to our maps for subcommittee that storytelling elements um be included in the base bid and that some part of the city's contribution to the project is um making sure that this is more than a building that this is as the mayor shared with us a place where anyone can come and learn this history. And so it was very important to our subcommittee that part of the city funding go towards the exhibitions. And so what you see here is that we have created this half million dollar allocation to cover um exhibition elements. That could be anything from casing to purchasing projectors to um just any of the elements needed that will be a part of the building that ensure that we can really get highquality content in there, protect it, uh and tell the story of Oklahoma's civil rights history. Um and so again, we're looking at that 11.8 8 really being absorbed by the the physical building itself. An additional half million to ensure we can do some really strong storytelling and that bringing our overall excuse me base bid for the project just over 12 million. Um and so and that that's falling right in line with the cost estimates that the architects have um been receiving. They're working with I believe Palasio is the name of the cost estimate estimation firm um doing those cost estimates every point along the way. Uh also you'll see here there are a couple of alternates. We are looking at other options um just to round out the project. We're hopeful to maybe be able to create a storm shelter. Obviously that's a need here. Uh also working with OG& um around per power burial uh burial of power lines and really communication lines as well. We're having to work with Cox and other um service providers to handle that. So this is really just demonstrating that truly this is base bid. Um, and you know, we as the operator are doing fundraising for other things, but it was important to the subcommittee that we really have this storytelling included in the base bid. I believe that's the end. Happy to answer any questions. >> Christina, thank you so much for the work that you've done. And I know it has not been an easy journey and with all the changes in construction and the challenges there, I know that doesn't make things easy. Would you mind sharing with the council? I know a lot of work has gone into um with the board that you have. >> Would you mind go walking us through a lot of the work around um the fundraising and grant writing. There's been a lot of work that were that's been done as well as the opportunity to activate this space for not just community but for events and other things that may generate revenue to make this a more sustainable project. >> Absolutely. So um first and foremost, you know, the board's first priority was fundraising to restore the historic building and that turned in started out as we estimated about a half million dollar project turned into about 650,000 that was all privately fundraised. We have wonderful relationships with our local foundations here in the city um as well as some corporate donors. Uh and then I have been with the board for the last four years, almost four and a half now. Uh and the truth of the matter is we raised every dollar just to be there, right? We are a independent nonfor-profit organization. Uh we are in the midst of negotiating our contract to be able to access some of the operations and maintenance endowments funds. But to date, um all of our operations are privately funded. we have not uh received any funding yet from the city um just to operate. And so we again really have made wonderful relationships um and are expanding those uh in terms of local foundations looking to national foundations looking to uh we've had wonderful relationship with entities such as uh the historical society and the humanities council supporting this work um and uh really working with fundraising consultants to just continue building that. Right now we're really focusing on additional um corporate and and corporate entities um paycom banks um things like that. So I spend a lot of my time fundraising is the answer. Uh and once I raise a little bit more I'll hire a development director who can focus on that full time. >> Thank you. This is an exciting um addition to this community. I don't know, Joanna, if you go back like a couple of slides to the one where it shows the corner and and I think um it just highlights the need for us to have another great attraction to this area that could be could generate some economic activity, but also just be a really great place for us to honor um this this unique history in our community. So, appreciate the work that's been done. >> Uh thanks for your presentation. Mhm. >> Would you mind? I'm trying to understand also I know in the bond. >> Would you speak a little bit about the uh expansion there? >> Yes. So, we have had to phase the project um as many of the MAPS projects obviously made many adjustments based on just the changes in the economy since those budgets were passed pre- pandemic. Um, we have gone through an extensive planning process working with Lord Cultural Resources, which is a global firm that specializes specifically in cultural institutions, museums, libraries, zoos, um, that type of thing. And initially in going through our business planning, we had hoped to be able to create a 26,000 square foot twostory facility. Um, and that would have included all of the spaces that you see here. in addition to a 30,000 square foot gallery and a 1,00 square foot um reading room and climate controlled storage for our archive. So we have we have been formalizing an archive of all of the historic materials that came out of the Freedom Center building. We had to remove those before construction. Have been working with university partners, the the Oklahoma Historical Society and others. um that is currently housed in a office facility on Northwest 63rd. Um and unfortunately will have to remain there until we can get the appropriate storage on site with the new facility. And so what we've done is looked at phasing the project um so that we're able to get these initial spaces. Could you go back to the to the slide that shows um Oh, do we don't have the one with the chart, but any of the any of the floor plans is great. Yeah. So, uh you'll see here again um the event space, the administrative, the widen gallery hall, the spaces we're doing double duty for storytelling, classrooms. Of course, with Claire Looper being first and foremost an educator, we wanted to make sure that we can start out with the educational programming with being able to welcome the public into the space. Uh that's been very important to my board from the beginning. Uh and so these are the spaces that we prioritize for phase one. Um also prioritizing the opportunity to be able to generate revenue through rentals. Uh however, we do still want to see that expansion and so that is where the allocation for the go bond funding will go should it be passed in October. Um so that would go to creating those additional spaces um which would come you go to the slide that shows outside um the floor. Yes. Perfect. So no no go right where you are. Perfect. So you'll see um to my left here the green the grassy area just to the left of the building. That's where we anticipate being able to site an expansion that would accommodate the exhibition the um archive storage possibly if we need additional administrative space you know in the future. Um so that's that's what we're hoping to do with the geo bond. Thank you. Any other questions I can answer? >> Thank you very much for your time. >> Thank you. Thank you for your work on this. Um, we do have one resident who signed up to speak on this item. Michael Washington. >> Thank you. Thank you. You've been listening to this foolishness. Have you been listening to this foolishness? I asked you. Here it is. this rank for a board going to have the density to exclude me who single-handedly That's right. I got information I can show you by politics as well as newspaper clipments and so forth that I single-handedly alone preserved the freedom center so that she can be talking about it today. And yet this rank board that she spoke about going to have the audacity to not even mention my name. Would Clarupa accept some foolishness like that? Hell no she wouldn't. You want to know why they don't want to mention me? Because they going to know a lowly nobody like me had the courage, the inspiration, the manipulation and the ability to say, "Hey, hold up y'all. Let's do something with this great historic property here, which had long since passed in 2017 when I put it together. say, "Hey y'all, I'm tired of looking at this eyesore of a so-called historic facility, historic project. Oh, what are we going to do about this building here with all the different great things, the pageantss and and cookouts and things that has gone along and strategies that were planned for marches and things of this nature. I by myself, as a matter of fact, you think I'm lying, go to the historic preservation commission." You heard me. Go to the planning commission. I for nine months by myself was over there doing that. I myself introduced it to Katie Friddle. Ask her that if you want to me. You think I'm going to allow these people to stop here and talk about what we want to have? We're going to do this here with that. We're going to w bop bop. Hell no you not. If I have to file a damn lawsuit to stop it all. That's right. You must uh determine how upset I am. I was waiting for this moment to come on me and embarrass me every time at grand open or whatever come. You gonna recognize me as you would anybody else. I'm not gonna allow you to discriminate against me. These some of the things that the group talked against and here it is. You're practicing it. Hell no. It ain't going to work here today. I wouldn't do anybody else like I give you your accolades. Your respect for what you did not going to take from you cuz I don't like you. It don't make a difference or damn whether I like you or not. If you did something, you going to get it from me. That goes against what my mama got a problem with. Mom, sit down and listen to me. Now, like I said, if it has to come some lawsuits being filed, you better believe it. Here it come. You got these so-called boards that don't even want to let you know when they're having board meetings. How in the hell they going to tell somebody to respect them? >> That's right. Cuz if you have your board meeting, I'm damn sure going to speak because I have the opportunity to do do ain't going to do it whenever opportunity arises. Now then, that's right. Let me borrow you just for another 20 seconds. Don't want to have give people board me when you going to have it. Huh? Got this so-called monies and things coming in. Don't want to share with people other than people that you know are like on your board. Let me tell you something. Every one of you board members, if y'all listening to me, get ready cuz there will be a part of you and see section 1983 lawsuit for slight disrespect, emotional stress, mental angles and pain and suffering. Yes, y'all hear me. I know it. Check your laws as I turn on the on the table. He knows about it. Yes, I can do it. You can't. And then we got our supporters, our people. We got our supporters uh big name philosopher corporation saying we're they are buddies. Don't mention nothing about empower people. We're overtime. >> Thank you sir. Y'all have a great day. Like I said this is not the end of this. I start a baby because my line is I'll be back. >> All right. So we are on item I and if there are no other questions or comments we can uh move its adoption. We have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. passes 7 to one. Um, and now we are on 11J. This is a joint resolution with the Oklahoma City Economic Development Trust certifying that Wild Rooster LLC's proposed feature film project was an eligible project under the strategic investment programs film incentive program. This allocation would not exceed $181,298. And we have Jill Simpson. >> Good morning, mayor, council members. I'm Jill Simpson, executive director of the Oklahoma City Film and Creative Industries Office. I'm bringing to you a rebate application, and I want to remind those that may be new, um, it's a performance-based incentive, so they've got to meet all the requirements of the program to get a dime back from our incentive. Um, this is an independent feature and it's a road movie in the vein of Rainman. Um, it takes place in all practical locations, no sound stage, and it tells the story of two brothers, uh, one who goes to get his brother on the East Coast who's had a mental health issue, uh, college professor at Harvard. This isn't based on a true story, and he's driving him back cross country. Um, they're planning to film October and November. They came in here and scouted in May and fell in love with it. They had never been to Oklahoma or Oklahoma City before. So, um, the company is created just through this film, Wild Rooster LLC. Um, they're going to have name cast attached. I can't name names yet and honestly I don't even know who they have uh confirmed yet but they do they will have names in the starring roles. 70% of the crew will be based in Oklahoma City um or from our pool of Oklahoma City talent. They're anticipated to spend roughly 3.89 89 million or 60% of their budget in with Oklahoma City spend that qualifies them at the 5% level. Um they have local qualifying expenditures again taxable transactions of 3.880905 million. Um their criteria that they met to qualify were uh at least $500,000 for the film. More than 50% of the crew are hired uh from the Metropolitan MSA, which is the seven counties surrounding Oklahoma City. Uh more than 50% of the filming days will be in Oklahoma City proper. More than 50% of their contracts will be with Oklahoma City vendors and the main production office will be located within Oklahoma City limits and that will be determined and I will work with them on identifying the spot. They're pre-qualified with the state of Oklahoma rebate program. So based on all this information and putting it through our economic impact modeler, the the dollar figure we came up with was $181,298 in rebate. They intend to hire roughly 35 people. The footprint of this film is smaller than usual. There will be 1,400 mandays by the time they have filmed everything here. Um, again, 70% Oklahoma City residents. Qualifying income labor for the rebate is 2,639,27. Filming in Oklahoma City locations, 23 days, which constitutes 80 82% of their schedule. I still don't know about post-prouction. I'm hoping we can at least get some of the post-production work at Apex Post, at Filmmakers Ranch. Uh, and this these are just the bullet points again. 82% of film days in Oklahoma City, 70% of the crew will be local, 90% of the vendors, and then some of the e economic impact numbers after running it through our um custom modeler. Um, jobs supported direct and indirect, $8.8 million. uh uh 313 jobs and that equals labor income of $4.3 million. Qualified expenditures roughly $3.8 million. Taxable expenditures $518,000 65 518 and 65 below the line salary and pdium $1,413 864 and I will tell you with above the line salary they had 1.2 2 million. We reduced it to uh qualifying expenditures of 970,226 to keep it in line with our cap of 25% on above the line spend. Does anybody have any questions that I can answer? Thank you. All right. Well, thank you, Jill. Um, so we're on item J. If there's no questions or comments, we could take a motion for adoption. A motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Okay. Item K is uh enter into executive session on advice of the municipal counselor to receive confidential communications from our attorney regarding the case of city of OKC v. Betty Osbbor trustee Atal. We can take the vote on the executive session and then we'll handle it at the end of our other business. We have a motion in a second. Cast your votes. passes unanimously. Item L1 is a claim recommended for denial. Executive session is not requested. L1A have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Item 11 M1 are claims recommended for approval. Uh there are items A through E we could take with one motion. Executive session is not requested. I have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. All right, we're at item 12. Comments from council. W two. W four. W five. W six. W seven. Say something quickly. Yes. >> I want to say something really quickly. Yeah. Um I the homeless alliance is hosting um a homecoming event um that is a fundraiser for um the homeless alliance. They've never done one before and I have been invited to be a member of the homecoming court. So I'm strongly encouraging um all of our council members to please consider coming. It's going to be a fun uh party and activity. We all know how important the work that the homeless alliance is doing for our city um is. So I'm encouraging you to come. So if you hear if you see see it on social media and you're like no one invited me Kamal did just remember that. So thank you. >> Very good. Word eight. >> Nothing today. >> Okay that brings us then to item 13 citizens to be heard. And we have Ronnie Kirk. My name is Ryan Kirk. My address is 2328 North Missouri. You know about three years ago also stood right here when Mike Turban had interviewed the young lady selling the Oklahoma marijuana license. She had already sold 6,000. Onethird of them were sold to people in other countries. We had so many not even from Oklahoma got those license. You know, two weeks ago, you're seeing this young man walking down the streets in New York going up to this NFL building. He had a AR15 walking down the street. And also right here in this town here, we got this open gun carry law. I seen a man riding down a bicycle in Break Town with a AR15. You know, we got to get these guns under control. Get a repeal. Lincoln repeal two laws. Theodore Roosevelt repeal two. Oklahoma surely can repeal one to get these guns off the street. Here it is. You f to build the tallest building in the world. Do you think these shootings have stopped? Do you think these shootings have stopped Kennedy two days ago? You know, I also told y'all two years ago, three years ago about these gummy bears in candy, THC levels so high. You know, we got these trying to stop this drugs from coming across >> 30 seconds remaining >> the borders, but hell, we got the drugs already in our city stores today. And these energy drinks, y'all go buy. The drugs are coming through legally through our big trucks. Don't worry about coming out of Mexico. They already in the stores here today. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Kirk. Michael Washington. >> Thank you again. >> Again, let me stay by concluding Mr. Pennington, I'd like you to do some kind of resolution or whatever, thanking me for such a great thing that y'all just voted on. Watch it now. Thanking me. I've got information in the Daily Oklahoma. Let me read just a little bit because my time is so limited. With just a stroke of a pen, activist Michael Washington claimed to have taken control of the Freedom Center, Oklahoma City's only civil rights monument memorial. But some in the community question Michael Watson's self-proclaimed role as savior of the historic building. The property at 2609 North Martin Luther King has been owned since 1969 by nonprofit freedom center incorporated founded by Oklahoma City civil rights activist Clar Looper and I don't want to go read on and on because y'all can go and read the daily Okman yourselves Mr. of Pennington of of seven ward 7. Okay. And it's clearly states with the stroke of a pen, I preserve the freedoms. And I can't go into because I don't have time to really do what I want to do, but I want to get back on this uh foolish stuff here this lady spoke about. I need to be given and will be given my recognition just as anyone else. I'm sure I'll tell you I'll jump off a 10-story building if one of you can say that you wouldn't want to be recognized for something great you did. That's going to affect millions of lives from here to come in general situation. Now, come on. I'm ready to do it to prepare mine. Let's see if I hate if you hate Michael that much to lie and say you don't. Thank you. Now, just like you and all I'm going to get mine. You don't he You want to know why Michael don't get his because he don't play by any means necessary as all of us know. If you're done wrong, get ready just like I do wrong. Get me. I was taught and raised that way. I don't need no friends. Turn your head, Michael, cuz I'm your friend. Don't expose me. No, sir. I'm not. Don't but ask me to partipate to participate in crime of wrongfulness because I don't do it. That's right. I don't do it. And I want to be given my recognition. I want this board, this here city council to give me my resolution as you would anybody else for saving such a great historic landmark the way I did for 9 months by myself. Again, ask your historic preservation commission, the planning commission by myself. Nine months coming out day speaking and giving on it. But they don't want them to know that. Why? Because these so-called civil rights people quote unquote here it is. You laid back and plan to give it away to make it become a parking lot or something. And I stopped it. Here it is. You a you got civil rights struggle nameing all this. And then little old me underdog had to come in and do it by himself. Now you want recognition for bringing monies in. Millions of dollars would never got started out me. I'm sorry sir ma'ams. It ain't going to work again. I need to be given recognition. Mr. Pener 7. Thank you. >> Thank you. That concludes citizens to be heard. We're now going to go into executive session and we'll be back. >> Thank you for everyone for listening. Have a wonderful I forgot where I wanted to take that stuff. >> I don't know. Seems crazy. >> Just feels better this way. Yeah. >> All right. We're back from executive session and we have reached item 14 adjourn minute.