Good morning. We're going to get started this morning with an invocation led by Pastor Bill Caldwell of St. Jude Missionary Baptist Church. And that'll be followed by the pledge of allegiance led by Zoe Kadak of Girl Scout Troop 1096. Please stand as you are able. Let us go to God in prayer. Most gracious God, we come to you today thanking you for yet another opportunity to abound in your grace, your mercy, and your glory. Lord, we thank you for the fact that you are full of glory and the earth is full of your glory. We thank you that you allowed for Oklahoma City to be part of the epicenter where your glory resides. We thank you, oh God, that you have allowed for us to be in this place and space for a time such as this. Thank you for allowing for Oklahoma City to be a shining example of a metropolis that is modern and that yet has compassion, love, and a desire to want to see the best for all of its citizens. Thank you, oh God, for this city council. Thank you, oh God, for our mayor. Thank you for all aspects of leadership for the city of Oklahoma City. Lord, we thank you that you have given us this opportunity to come together to hear once again the things that are pertinent and necessary for the growth of our city. A city that is leading the way in how cities should go in these days and times. We ask that you will continue to bless all that are citizen citizens of Oklahoma City. We ask that you will bless those that are in here to leave this place in a manner that is sufficient for safe travel that they may be able to go about their days and do the things that will positively affect all areas of their communities. It is in the name of the father and the name of Jesus Christ and name of the holy spirit that we do say amen. >> Amen. Please stand and join me in saluting the flags of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you, Pastor Caldwell, and thank you, Zoe. All right. I call this meeting of the city council to order and I'm going to make my way to the front for a couple of presentations under office of the mayor. Jasmine, why don't you uh come on up and join me here. Jasmine Thompson is our employee of the month, pending consideration of this proclamation, of course, and we'd like to learn a little bit more about you. And so, I'd ask the clerk to read this uh resolution. >> Whereas, Jasmine Thompson has been a city employee for two years and serves as a meter reader for the utilities department. And whereas Jasmine completes routes efficiently and accurately, supporting billing integrity and operational excellence. And whereas JZmine approaches his work with punctuality and a positive attitude, contributing to a courteous and supportive environment. And whereas Jasmine assists in training new employees and temporary staff, sharing his knowledge to promote team success. And whereas Jasmine's collaborative approach and willingness to help others strengthen team performance and foster effective operations. And whereas JZmine exemplifies the city's one city, one team vision, and service first values through reliability, teamwork, and commitment to quality service. And whereas Jasmine's strong work ethic, consistent dedication, and professionalism reflect the high standards expected of city employees. Now therefore, be it resolved by the mayor and council of the city of Oklahoma City that they do hereby thank and commend Jasmine Thompson, February 2026 South Oklahoma City Kuanas Club employee of the month. >> Thank you. Now, this is a resolution. So, let's see if we can pass it real quick and then we'd love to hear a few words from you, Jasmine. So, let's get a motion in a second. Please cast your votes. I wish to vote I >> feel like I'm in a game. >> Yeah, I know, right? Passes unanimously. Uh well, Jasmine, uh you were a joy just in the three minutes that we shared uh in my office. So, I think that uh clearly your attitude is uh lifting up your whole department and that's why they named you the or nominated you for employee of the month just two years into your service here. So, uh, we'd love to hear a little bit of that energy this morning. If you want to share it, the floor is yours. Uh, all right. First of all, I'd like to thank the academy and all my wonderful fans. I wouldn't be here without you. But no, on a serious note, um, I have a wonderful uh, supervisor back there that nominated me. Yeah, you. And then my UOS over here is a is a great guy. Um I I'm just blessed to be part of the city and I'm uh really fortunate, man. It's it's awesome. I I I'm a city resident myself, so I'm a customer of the city and so uh I just feel like uh this is my way of giving back to the community. So thank you very much. I appreciate it. >> Thank you. >> Here for Jasmine. That's yours to keep. All right. If all the key to home people would come up, every single last one of you. I know that's like much of the room. >> I'm standing. I'm standing. Well, key to home um you know is is is an example of us taking best practices from around the country and applying them here in Oklahoma City. And uh of course you may have seen recently passed a milestone of uh 500 people who have been housed through the encampment rehousing initiative. So we wanted to honor that today and all the work that the key to home team which is you know crosses um nonprofits, government, philanthropy, um the business sector. I mean kind of everybody is a part of this effort and that's what it takes. So to learn a little bit more about it, I would ask the clerk to read this citation. Whereas interdisciplinary teams comprising the key to home encampment rehousing initiative worked diligently over the past two years to develop a new street to housing pathway in Oklahoma City. And whereas these teams provided street outreach, case management, landlord engagement, and other resources to house over 500 people who had been living on the streets of Oklahoma City. And whereas the encampment rehousing initiative has successfully closed 30 encampments across the city and partnered with city departments, private property owners, community-based organizations, and law enforcement to prevent these sites from being redeveloped. And whereas the team supporting the encampment rehousing initiative built trust and rapport with people experiencing homelessness to successfully house 92% of the neighbors they engaged. And whereas the key to home partnership represents a groundbreaking collaboration among local nonprofits, service providers, and government agencies. And whereas this initiative not only provides housing but also connects individuals to supportive services, ensuring long-term stability and reducing barriers to health, employment, and community integration. And whereas the success of this plan reflects Oklahoma City's commitment to compassionate evidence-based solutions that prioritize dignity and support for all residents. Now therefore, I, David Holt, mayor of the city of Oklahoma City, do hereby commend the Key to Home Partnership for its progress in advancing solutions to homelessness and fostering collaborative partnerships that strengthen the well-being of our community. >> Thank you. Now, Jamie, if you could make your way over here. Of course, Jamie Caves is well known for uh uh leading much of this initiative and uh we'd love to hear a few words from you if you don't mind on behalf of everybody gathered here this morning. >> We are so thrilled to celebrate this significant accomplishment for our community. Um not everyone is able to be here today. So those that are here and everyone else, we just want to say thank you to the effort and the commitment that you have made to our community and to our neighbors. 500 people are sleeping inside and taking warm showers and locking their doors because of you. And that impact is so important to our whole community. We are thrilled to bring all of these partners together and collaborate and create a new pathway to housing for folks in our community. And being able to work together across organizations in this way helps us know that together anything is possible. And so we're so excited to celebrate today and looking forward to the work that is left ahead of us. >> Thank you. Let's hear it for Kea Holmes. >> All right. Thank you all. You're welcome to stay, but you don't have to. Have a good day. >> You're welcome. Thank you. All right, item we are done with office of the mayor which brings us to item four which are items from council and we do have one today. Item 4 A is a resolution approving travel expenses for council member Avers to attend the NLC meeting in Washington in March. We could take a motion on that. We have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously and with the necessary six affirmative votes. Item five, city manager reports. Uh, Mr. City Manager. >> Thank you, Mayor. Uh, we have a brief presentation this morning. Uh Jeff Butler, our planning director, Brandon Bundy, our uh assistant public works director, will give a presentation on the bike lanes on Classen. We'd had a resolution a few weeks back, and in that there was a request that we would come back with a presentation or to report back to council on what the plans were for bike lanes um on class, but also connectors to class. And I'm going to have turn it over to Jeff and let Jeff and Brandon give us an update on the project. >> Thank you. Good morning, Mayor, Council, and City Manager. Excuse me, planning director, uh, Jeff Butler. Um, as Craig mentioned, we have, uh, uh, the resolution, uh, that we'd like to report back to you on. Um, so this is why we're here, um, couple months after the resolution, excuse me, was passed. So, we want to focus on um what we've heard at a recent public meeting and also um what we uh intend to do on class. So, uh we had a public meeting on February 10th. Um and we had a we had a good turnout. We had a lot of good discussion. Um the next couple slides I'll just briefly discuss uh what we heard from the community members that were there. Um we we had a lot of kind of verbal feed feedback and also uh written feedback. And so this is a summary of some ideas that people had including IT lighting, uh, intersections, signal priority for cyclists, um, speed feedback signs to, uh, help, uh, reduce speeds. Um, also a little bit lower down, just reducing the speed limits generally. um talked about the the east west bike lanes that we'll be uh focusing on here in a minute that crossclass in uh and and their design and how they could be um parking protected. Um we uh uh folks mentioned the leading pedestrian interval which is a little bit uh safer way to get uh uh to get across an intersection just uh relates to the timing and so on. And I think we've discussed that before here and that would be something that we can investigate. Um and then was mentioned that we could do a trail potentially and we'll talk about the trail that that will exist in the uh in the project. Uh but uh there was talk about potentially extending that further uh north and south. Um and then also it was mentioned uh a no right on red treatment could be an option. And these these are options that uh could apply or be investigated for both class uh but other bike lanes uh in in the city as well that we're uh designing and and looking to implement. Uh we also talked to businesses along Classen and these were some of their comments. Um they some businesses agreed, others disagreed with the bike lane uh resolution. Um but whether they supported it or didn't uh they all felt like there was a need to make classes safer. Um they uh were supportive of street improvements. Um they acknowledged the need to improve the pedestrian experience and infrastructure and to make the streets safer. So that's kind of a summary of what we heard from businesses kind of talking to them going along knocking doors and inviting them to the meeting. Um so with that I will we'll turn it over to Brandon. um happy to answer any questions, but uh Brandon Bundy, assistant public works director, is going to take us through the project itself and show you some uh a little bit more detail on the intersections that we'll be uh that we'll be looking at. >> Thank you, Jeff. This is what the project looks like now. And it was bid with ODOT already, but we are working with the contractor and ODOT to keep that project underway, that same contractor. and they will start in spring of this year. But it's basically safety. It's it's a comprehensive project or that's what it was designed for and road resurfacing, wider sidewalks, ADA improvements, uh some lighting, signal upgrades, and we've added the multi-use path and the bike crossings. Here's kind of a map. uh north being to the right and these blue dots are where we're going to do pedestrian andor the bike crossings of Classen. Here's just an example from the plan sheets of what that looks like. So for Northwest 10th or 6th Street, you'll see the the green boxes that will take a cyclist basically across class and it'll bring awareness to those bikes. Similarly, Fourth Street and then Main Street and and like I said, these are from the actual plan set. So, this is very similar to what it's going to look like. We also have added into the project a multi-use path on the west side of of Classen from 10th to 6th Street. And this is basically to facilitate those that are coming down to 10th Street down class and then to connect to Sixth Street. Sixth Street is a primary connection east west and we wanted to get them down to that area. The the path uh will be as wide as we can make it and uh we felt like the west side was the most available for right away. So, uh, with that, I kind of went over the timeline, but I'm available for questions. No one else. Okay. Um, thanks for the presentation. I do have a few questions. Um one relates to 16th to 10th Street. um what can we do to enhance the safety there? And what's on my mind is when I on New Year's Day biked from PO using Deep Fork Trail, then the multi-use path along Classen Curve through the old Chesapeake campus and then took Classen all the way up to Britain. Okay. So, whenever I hear people say, "Oh, I don't know who rides the bikes on Classen." you know, I don't know what you're talking about. Um, I love what you all did up there where you have the delineators and then interspersed with the U armadillos. And right now, I think anyone in a car or walking or biking on Classen will notice from 16th to 10th frequently delineators get knocked over. They're missing already see nodding heads in the crowd. And so I'm just curious what we can do. I like like I said, I love what's coming with the streetscape from 10th to Sheridan, but that connectivity from 16th to 10th strikes me as right now maybe not as safe as it could be for someone on a bike. And so is it possible to replicate what we've done through the Chesapeake campus on the way all the way up to Britain there? And if not, why not? >> Well, I think with the bike lanes, we're learning as we go with every project really, but bike lanes are relatively new compared to other city infrastructure. >> And what we did four years ago was a was a result of years of design. So when we say it was implemented, I I'm not sure when it was installed, but when it was installed, there was years prior that they were setting those standards. We have learned a lot and Classen being our newest example, North Classen. And I think we can go retrofit some of those things. It comes down to uh money obviously and I think it um and a maintenance aspect to it. So we can look at that. Changing out delineators is relatively inexpensive when it comes to bike infrastructure. Uh and so that's something that we can draw attention to especially to our crew. We have one crew that does do bike maintenance and we can look at that. >> So I think too this it's this project specifically that is an ACOG project and ODOT project is from 10th Street to Main Street. Correct. >> Yes. >> So it wouldn't be in this specific project but we will take that in consideration just like what we did with the other um feedback that we received on bike lanes and how we can make improvements and we can have conversations about what we could do. You know what would it cost? What would we recommend here? um and what improvements we can make. So, it's definitely something that we can take in consideration and look at what we can do in that area. >> So, I I appreciate that. I am curious what sort of timeline we're looking at because if we're going to do the streetscape from 10th to Sheridan, like we're going to have this wonderful improvement with the multi-use path and the lighting and everything, but let's say someone a tourist who's here, right? Let's say someone who's working downtown and they use that new multi-use trail, which I'm guessing will be quite state-of-the-art from the work I know you all are capable of doing. But then when they get to 10th Street, that safety diminishes drastically. And so, let's say we finish this project. When do you anticipate the streetscape concluding, sir? Uh, I don't know what the construction days are, but let's just say 6 n months. Okay. Probably >> six to nine months. It's a child. So, once that's built, so you're talking about by the end of this year and someone rides that come New Year's Eve or January and then they get to 10th and they're heading north, they're not going to have that same safety is what I'm saying. And so I'm trying to impress upon us a sense of urgency um in completing safety from 16th where Chad's ghost bike is um to 10th. So I understand that the streetscape is funding from 10th to Sheridan. I I please don't think I don't understand that. I am saying that there is a a gap in safety from 16th to 10th that I would suggest to us has a sense of urgency to it is what I'm getting at. >> We we'll discuss that to see what we can do in terms of what timing would be. I just can't say right now what that timing would be. We'll discuss that and get back to you and let you know what we think the timing might be on what improvements we could make. Part of it as what Brandon was saying is like we'd have to look at with our bicycle lane funding that we have like what funding we would use and what we'd move over there. So let us work on that and see what we can do with it. Um it does still have the delineators there though those that have survived so far. Um but we so those delineators will still exist until we could make a change. >> Yeah. The one thing I'd ask when you take a look at all this um if you can come back and report to us not only uh plans for development but also plans for maintenance over over a period of time. And that's, you know, some of us have been looking at the issue of delineators versus armadillos and which are more durable and which are more safe. And I think we need to factor all of that in. Uh because if you look at a lot of streets where we put in delineators, many of them are missing or knocked over. And so we just it's like you said, um we're learning and so we need to keep looking at this especially as to the issue of a delineator versus an armadillo in my opinion. Thank you. And then can we go back? I appreciate those comments, counselor. Can we go back to what we heard from the residents? Thank you. So, what is the viability of doing these um suggestions from folk? >> Well, some of them can be done. Some of those are probably maybe a little bit more uh further out. Uh for example, the note right on red, I think that is something that we can look at fairly quickly um through our traffic and transportation com commission. the uh the speed limit is something that for no matter what the street is in Oklahoma City, that's something that can be studied periodically because vehicles change, behaviors change. So, there's certain things that are in here that will be fairly easy to implement, but they need to be studied. Um there's some others on here that the for example the bike lanes that should be parking protected uh those will involve a lot more study and design to see if the feasibility and then to determine if if we have the funding that we can we can obtain for that. Does that answer some of your question? Yeah, I would like um kind of as councelor Stonecipher was requesting I would like it doesn't have to happen today of course but I would like a bit of a timeline and cost and feasibility of each one of these suggestions because resident and I know probably some people watching who've never been on a bike are probably a bit bored by this conversation. I'm not the one who brought a moratorum on this. So now that that's happened, I have to help make it better. And so I'm going to linger on this if you'll indulge me. So I just want to say that for people who might find this a bit frustrating. Me too. Um yeah, I'd like for the people who took time on I believe a Tuesday night to come to the downtown library to add to this conversation. I think it's really worth our time as the city that we heard the uh pastor say we are we are modern but we are compassionate and we lead the way. So when people are coming to us with their suggestions I think we just have like a responsibility to hear them and not just hear them but be able to respond back to them as opposed to just letting it disappear into the ether. So I think it's very important that we have some sort of response to these suggestions here. Yeah, I I tend to agree. We we need to thoroughly study each one of these comments and suggestions, and you need to report back to us on the viability or the lack thereof of any of the suggestions as to um how they're going to work for our city. >> I appreciate that, counselor. And then my my other two things that I heard that night, I was there for the first part of it and then I had to go to a neighborhood meeting in Cleveland, such as the life of a counselor, which I love. Um I also heard residents make the si uh one suggestion and then one comment. One was that what is the viability of closing the west side of classen at some of those intersections like at 6 then um I can't remember the exact intersections but there were moments like along where the OKCPS administration building is like closing and putting like ballards like you'll see over here. I want to say it's off of California. Um somewhere in there. Uh but being able to like actually close the street uh would actually because again what's going to happen and this might be difficult for some people to process if you live really far out on one stretch of the city and you're not always on class. Um, but if you're on a multi-use trail along the west side of the street and you're biking and you go through the intersections and there are cars going east and west past you, you're your your safety becomes a inc. And so one of the suggestions I heard, again I don't know its viability, is that the west side of between Classman and Western that maybe some of those intersections might be closed as a throughway. And I'm just curious if that can be something we can study as well. What is the viability of that? >> I think that's a heavy lift that needs to be studied. It affects so so many services that the city provides. It affects businesses that are up and down the west side. It would probably be easier if it was one single business owner, but closing a road, I think, would take a lot of involvement from both the property owners there and also understanding how it affects police, fire, uh, solid waste, a bunch of other city services that use those connections, school buses, things like that. Not saying it's not worth studying. I'm just saying it needs to be I hate to say the answer to all your questions are a study, but that's an engineer. I'm sorry. That's Well, no, I appreciate people who study. Um, my final thing that I heard that night is from the crash data that we heard and a lot of the officer reports were saying that they did not come to the conclusion that it was a driver reason for the crash. A lot of them said that and so one of the things that that makes me curious about is it comes down to the design of the street. That's that's the concern. Um so yeah I how long what's the study look like? And I'm sorry I'll just conclude at this as I ask this question. Um, major respect to you and planning. You you know that I just have a sense of urgency about this topic. Chad died the year I took office in 2019. Like in between me winning and taking the oath that my mother administered, these are my people. This is my part of town. And I I don't that people have waited seven years for us to do these improvements. Um so I I just I don't want things to get studied to death. Um and we have to wait another seven or five. Like and it's not just me. These are my these are people asking for these um updates. This is very serious to me. Um there I I I will keep saying that word urgency. >> Understood. I I I do want to acknowledge that since that time period we have closed lanes of traffic and added bike lanes. Those were added after that time period. So it wasn't like nothing has happened that the bike lanes were added after that time period. So it was not just on deaf ears and nothing happened. I understand what you're saying of other enhancements and other needs but we have taken action on that. We have taken action. Yes. And where we've taken that action right now, missing safety mechanisms, the the delineators are gone often. And that to me communicates that we have a responsibility to swoop in and and learn from our mistakes and shore them up. And it's just that one part that we did. We have not completed this stretch from 10th. So if someone is they can only get as far south as 10th Street. So I do hear what you're saying, but hear me as well is what I'm saying is that there that there's work to be done and there is an urgency to that work. >> I want to add something here. Um, of the multiple calls we got on the bike lane issue, a lot of them came from north of 63rd Street and the businesses on Classen up there. One of the things I'd be curious about is how many single car wrecks or from cars hitting the armadillas. Single car wrecks is probably not the wrong because you're not going to call the police. So, getting that data, but I had a whole lot of people up there tell me that a little Toyota bounces off of one of those and breaks the front wheel off. But that's a one lane street at 30 m an hour when now we're talking about a threelane street at 50 m an hour. A little Toyota hits one of those and bounces off. Now it goes across three lanes of traffic. So I'm I'm concerned about the armadillo part of it. I don't mind the delineators at all, but a a boulevard as big as Classen and as fast as traffic moves on Classin, you're putting potentially speed bumps every 5T that are only going to affect one tire, I guess, is how I'm looking at that. So, just just a thought. >> Can can I ask this question? And I think part of part of the conversation um when we passed the resolution was about um the overall picture of uh bike lane availability in the area. And so I appreciate this recap of improvements on Classen, but I'm just wondering if there was any discussion about some of the concerns um around the bike lanes on Western and Chartell. You know, part of the argument again is people have alternatives to class and so were there improvement discussions about those areas? >> Yes, and thank you for queuing up a note I skipped over. Uh on Western, lighting was one of the the big issues that they communicated and that's something that we as the city pay for already, the the lighting that's existing. So immediately we went out there and kind of audited uh the lighting that was out there and we found that there were some that were inoperable and so immediately we turned in work orders. Now have they been repaired or where they are in the queue to be repaired? I'm not sure. Once once those op those lights are all operating as they should, we're going to evaluate again and determine if it's adequate enough. Now, lighting is very subjective about what is adequate. So, when I say that, there are probably people that are watching or behind me that say, "Well, it's never enough unless you have this much lighting as in this room." But we do have some standards that we want to look at and and make sure that they're adequate to our standards. >> Well, and I'm glad you asked that question. Let me also add and in public express additional gratitude. So Brandon and Max in planning and I went at my request on a walking tour of Western from Northwest 23rd because again it's a connectivity issue. It's not just Sheridan to 10th 10th to 16th. it is. How do you get all along those neighborhoods and the and the coffee shops and the restaurants and the schools and the grocery stores, the whole stretch of class, right? So, we actually and I I am so grateful for you and Max taking time to do this, but we walked we got out of our cars, me and Max, our bikes, and thanks for having your car there. We were able to put our uh bags in there, but we walked from 23rd all the way up to Northwest 39th Street. that whole stretch along Boys and Girls Club, the churches, the everything. And I mean with the fine tooth comb look to see where we've put in new maps for sidewalks, which thanks to the voters, thanks to the maps office and uh planning, etc., where we've put in new sidewalks, and where we could be putting crosswalks from one ADA side of the road to the other. Uh where can we be removing uh old paint where there's not ADA connectivity? Uh where can we be uh putting more? There's curbs that are completely like diminished up there. Uh when you go from 30th up to about Boys and Girls Club, uh that could give us some room to either kind of narrow a little bit to make it safer. Uh the street uh because it's shared bike lane from 30th to uh 36th, right? you're asking someone on a bike to be in traffic with the car, right? So, what can we be doing? And I mean, it really we went it was about a two-hour uh interrogation, right? And so, I'm really grateful for that. But, I just want you to know we're thinking about these sorts of things. So, when I bring these things up on the horseshoe, I want you to know behind the scenes, I'm actually out there with staff and I really appreciate staff taking time to to join us for that. So, it's really matters and I appreciate that question. >> All right. Thank you all. Thanks Brandon. Thanks Jeeoff. Appreciate the work and council. Thank you for your input and feedback. Uh the only other thing we have on is claims and payroll and that can be found at okc.gov. That's all that I have. >> Thank you. >> Item six are journal of council proceedings. We have items A and B we could take with one motion. All right, we're going to have to take a vote. All right, we got a motion and a second. Um, do you want to go around the horn Amy? Hi. >> W two. I mean, yes, W two. Sorry. W four. >> I >> W five. W seven. >> Yes. >> W eight. >> Yes, please. >> Mayor Holt. >> I. >> Passes unanimously. All right. Item seven are uh requests for uncontested continuences. Item 9 C is already on the agenda to be stricken. Is there anything else, Mr. City Manager? Yes, we have a a few. Um, starting on page 15 with dilapidated structures. All the items that I list today will be we will strike from the agenda. Um, this is item 11B1 and it's item H 2930 Northwest 73rd Street. The owner is removed. Then continuing on page 15, item 11 C1, item A, 2461 Northwest First Terrace, the owner is secured. And item D, 2635 Southwest 29th Street. The owner is secured. And that's all the items that I have. >> All right. Item eight are revocable permits and events. And item 8A is a revocable permit with the Oklahoma City National Memorial Foundation for the Memorial Marathon at the end of April. And we have Len Porter here. >> Thank you, mayor, and thank you, council. Um, we are less than 60 days out from the marathon. race weekend is the 24th through the 27th of or 26th of April. Uh we expect um 30,000 runners this year. Last year we had about 26,000. Um we are on track to do 30,000. We have 3,000 over 3,000 volunteers. This is a way for us to honor all of those who were killed on April 19th, 1995. The memorial foundation does not receive any state or federal funds or city funds annually. And so this is our uh fundraiser for the year and to keep on uh the mission of the memorial and museum to keep that operational. And so we are pleased that the city always comes out for us every year along with lots of different uh spectators and it's just a wonderful way to celebrate life after April is just a really difficult month for a lot of people and so this is a way at the end of the month to kind of um end on celebration of life. >> All right. Well, thank you. This crosses into uh boards 2, six, and seven. I don't know if anybody wants to jump in here. >> Sure, I'll jump in. So excited for the Memorial Marathon. It passes in front of my house and so Lincoln Terrace is always really excited to to We have a lot of uh people that gather. So, it's really an awesome event. So, um excited to see it happen this year and I I move approval. >> Oh, very good. Motion in a second. Cast your votes. >> Thank you. passes unanimously. Um, I have a uh very very small ownership interest in McNell's group and so I will step aside uh and our past vice mayor, Councilman Cooper, will preside over item 8B. >> Thank you, Mayor. And because I do not have any uh ownership in this. >> Hi guys. How are y'all doing today? My name is Brooke Glassford. I am the bar manager at McNell's um and we are going to be celebrating our 17th annual St. Patrick's Day block party. Um we're asking to close North Walker um in at 10th Street that's right next to the pub to kind of celebrate roughly about 5,000 people that come out for that day. Last year we did it for three days. So, luckily we're only going to be doing it for just this March 17th day. Um we will have um some tents out there, some beer trucks, and some food to be selling and just kind of have a big festive event. We'll be ending the night off with Mike Hosty as he's singing out and kind of closing out our night. >> Well, congratulations. Also, I'm digging the the color choices you're doing there. Nicely done. And as someone who just rewatched Gangs of New York for the first time in 20 years, it was really interesting seeing that Irish history there in the five points. So, uh, am I allowed to move for approval as the vice mayor? >> I move approval. >> Okay, there we go. Looking for a second. Cast your votes. and it disappears from the screen and it passes. So, oh, how about that? Congratulations. >> Thank you, guys. >> Welcome back, Mayor. >> Thank you, Councilman. All right. Next up is item 8 C, and that was a revocable ride ofway use permit with Stockyard City Main Street to hold the Stockyard City St. Patrick's Day parade on March 14th on exchange and we have Debbie Harrison here. >> Thank you, Mayor Council. Well, I can't believe it, but it's almost time again for the annual St. Pat's parade in Stockyard City. We would like to hold that on Saturday, March the 14th. Starts at 10:00 a.m. We are going to be led by the Longhorns. We have a number of equestrian gr uh equestrian groups that are participating. um a lot of pageant royalty and community organizations and businesses representative of the area. So we would like your approval and if you can come that day that would be fabulous. >> All right. Thank you. I think anybody can step in since W 6 is absent today and make a motion. >> Absent but not forgotten. Uh same spill Irish great love the wardrobe gangs of New York five point and move for approval. I don't know. Here we go. >> Got a motion in a second. Cast your votes. >> Passes unanimous. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> All right. Now, we'll recess the council and convene as the Oklahoma City Municipal Facilities Authority. There are no presentations, but we do have a resident who signed up to speak um on item B, Angela Cosby from the Arts Council. >> Hi, Angela Cosby, executive director, Arts Council, Oklahoma City. We missed the opportunity to come and speak during our revocable. So, thank you for approving that. As you know, we're responsible for planning Festival of the Arts. This April will be the 60th anniversary. And with this agenda item, we're just so grateful to have a home in downtown Oklahoma City, to be able to partner with parks and recck, with the city council, all the city officials, the Oklahoma City Police Department. We're just very grateful to be downtown and to do what we do, which is bring the arts and the community together. >> Thank you, Angelo. Um, well, very good. We can take uh all of these items, actually, A through J with one motion now. Have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. We'll adjourn OCMFA and convene as the Oklahoma City Public Property Authority. Uh we do have a presentation here, actually a few. Right. So, we have a we'll start with the presentation that will cover items B and C. Angela Pierce, our finance director, is going to cover B and C and then we'll have a presentation on some of the other items from David um on the maps project. Th this ties back to the arena project and our financing on the arena project and how we're working the funding. So, I'll let Angela present these items that are needed. There's the administrative process that's needed and I'll let Angela present that. >> Yes, good morning. Angela Pierce, finance director. Um the two items here on PPA, there's also a companion item on your consent docket. That's item AR. Goes along with these two. Um this allows us to begin those downtown improvements before the bonds are actually sold. This is really for um an efficient um cash flow purposes. The net impact is 0. Uh the last thing I'll leave you with today is this also um satisfies some IRS requirements. So we like to keep our friends at the IRS happy as well. So, so Angela, basically this is providing cash flow on the project and then later when we sell the bonds, they would replenish the the the purpose for which they were um intended. They'll be spent on that, but replenish those funds. So, it's really just a process for us. Like she said, it's just cash flow and timing and so but it's a requirement that we have with an IRS rule. >> That's right. Yes. >> Okay. Any questions? Thank you, Angela. Next, we have presentations from David Todd, our maps director, and um this also ties to the arena project. This is on the construction manager at risk contracts. It's several items that tie together, and I'll let David present this. >> Good morning. David Todd, MAPS, program manager. I'm really happy to be bringing you this first group of of u of contracts for the arena. Really good news today. So, remember that we're doing construction management at risk. So we're not seeing a a single bid coming to you. We're seeing it in pieces and we're seeing all the the minuscule pieces of it. So items D, E, F, G, and H are those first groups of contracts and that includes the long lead electrical, which is switches, breakers, those kind of things that take about a year to receive. um the glass curtain wall system that you've seen in the renderings that also takes a long time to to get uh earthwork deep foundations meaning the the drilled shafts that go down into the ground and uh then some below ground utilities. That's what these bids were. The good news is that this group of bids, this package is $6.5 million under budget from what we'd expected. There's still eight more packages with multiple bids in those packages. Um, but this is a good start. And then item I is an amendment for the construction management at risk contract. As we gather these subcontractor bids, we add them to the construction managers contract. And that's what's being done today. And then item J is the second package of uh bid items. And that includes structural concrete. That includes the pre-cast concrete for the bowl, the main bowl of the seating. Uh waterproofing, elevators and escalators cuz those take a long time to get. Also, um some selective demolition and then fire protection. That's item J. And then items K and L. Likewise, long lead stuff, the DAZ, the distributed antenna system, and that's the the equipment that allows 18,000 people to be in one single spot and still be able to use their cell phone. And then the CNS system is the Wi-Fi system that that goes along with that. So, I'll try to answer any questions if you have any. >> Thanks, David. Well, I mean, obviously the headline here is the bids coming in under there's a lot more bids, so you know, it may not always be celebratory, but when you have that opportunity, um, you should. And in in years past, this type of thing was like covered in the media. You know, it's it's a little different in media environment these days. So, this is kind of our first chance really to share this um publicly. So, so great news and obviously continues to help the project which despite its overall budget is certainly not um overfunded, you know, for a project of this magnitude. So, we need every dollar we can get and this is has help. Thank you. >> That is all that we have. >> Okay. So, if there's no other comments or questions, we can adopt the uh PPA docket items A through M. Have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. All right. Now we'll adjourn OCPA and reconvene as the council where we are on item nine, the consent docket. Um, we have a presentation on item X. And is that it? All right. Why don't we uh Oh, is there anything else? I'm sorry. that a council member wishes to pull out for separate comment or vote or question. >> Yes. Uh item I'd like to hear a little bit more about item BK. This donation and then I Yes. K as in British Knights. Um the shoes from the >> So you say BK >> as in Burger King. >> Burger King. British nights. Are we just doing 80s and 90s? Is that where we're at? >> Got it. Stop it. Um, and then, uh, item BL is Zen British London. >> I know that wasn't as good. >> And that's it. >> Thank you. >> Anything else? All right. Then we'll start with item X and the presentation. >> Jeff Butler, our planning director, will give us an introduction on this project and then the developer on the project. uh we'll lay out the uh project. This is a little bit different than what we usually have because typically we're dealing with the funding sources that we would will identify in this. We're typically dealing with this under an economic de development agreement or something similar to that. This really is the beginning point of applying for a significant grant that would be a great help in our community for this project. So, I'll let Jeff give a quick presentation introduction on this. >> Okay. Thank you. Good morning again. Uh so this is the Westwood Exchange Choice Neighborhood uh grant application for 26 million uh to HUD and um this came uh this is the next step in a we've been preparing this for uh for this for some time in 2023 uh OHA was awarded a HUD choice neighborhoods planning grant and that uh we uh HUD and um Urban Design Associates which is which is here um and the community put a lot of work into that that that plan uh covers not just the uh Will Rogers Courts area, but the larger Stockyards neighborhood. So, uh the goal here is to not only completely revitalize um the the site itself, but become a strong revitalizing influence to the neighborhood, the larger neighborhood. Um so, again, the 26 million is what we're uh what this item is to allow the city and OCHA to be a joint applicant to HUD for this uh capital money. Um so just really quick and uh the plan has a lot of uh images and a lot of um a lot of description as to what exactly is is supposed to happen and it is supposed to be transformational and we'll kind of talk about uh what that looks like look what that looks like as we go on today. Um I did want to mention an early action activity. So, as part of the city uh kind of saying that we're serious about this, uh the city designated about a half a million dollars to this early action activity. And that shows HUD that's that's kind of required to apply and that shows HUD uh that we're putting some skin in the game here. Um and what this was is a a parking lot. Uh you can see that it's under construction right now. It was just a open parking lot where uh it became a safety uh hazard. uh people would go there and just spin out. You could look at an aerial and see tire marks all over the place. So, um we are fixing that up, making it become a really nice green space uh and a and a park amenity. Um so, that's that's uh the early action activity. In addition to that, the commitment letter that's in your packet um outlines the financial commitments that the city is making to secure this grant hopefully. Um, so the city will serve as co-licant um and as neighborhood lead entity, which means we're we're working to do everything we can to make the neighborhood to help revitalization efforts. So the 12.1 million uh there's a there's a a list in your packet that outlines what that's for, but that's that's for planned and funded projects. So that 12.1 million is something that we already are doing regardless of of this effort. It includes uh a trail. It includes sidewalks. It includes a street enhancement uh through better streets, safer city and maps 4. Um in addition, we uh plan to allocate 6.6 million in future neighborhood projects and that's through our federal funds CDBG and home stockyards as you know is already an SNI area. Um and so we plan on focusing uh more resources on on that area in the future. And finally, uh nearly 15 million will be uh new investment that that uh we would be committing to as part of this action, this application. These will still need to go through the the usual steps to go through uh GLT approval, for example, economic e to the economic development trust and the council. Um but here are the numbers. 2.88 million in GT for affordable housing. So that's the 60% AMI and below. two million in tiff for on-site infrastructure, affordable housing, uh to to provide infrastructure for this development, for the affordable housing. These are pretty typical numbers uh for developments. Uh in addition to uh to those 10 million in maps 4, uh this is um this is going to the affordable housing replacement. There's a lot of units on site that need to be replaced, completely redone. uh and and we'll talk more about that as we progress through the uh through the presentation. So, I'll cover this real briefly because you'll see this slide again. Uh Brenshore will will cover this. Um but just highlighted there again are the uh the asks from the city to participate. So, the GLT, the MAPS funding, and the TIFF, you can see the numbers there. You can see the phasing over time. It's a multi-year project uh and a multi-phase project. Uh and finally, um uh just to hit again on these real quick again, the GU, the maps, the tiff, uh th those are the funding sources, um and what um what they'll be used for. Uh there are 81 mark uh workforce and market rate units uh constructed with non- city funds. So, uh that's important to this project. It's important to HUD. Uh it's important to the neighborhood revitalization that we do have a mix of incomes and unit types. Uh that's that's a big part of the strategy. Uh but the city's funds are going towards the affordable housing and the infrastructure. Uh so with that, I'm going to turn it over. We have Todd Lieberman here from uh Brenshore Development and we also have uh Megan O'Hara from uh Urban Design Associates. uh pleased to have them as as a as a key members of the team and I'll turn it over to them. >> Morning. My name is Todd Lieberman. I'm the president of Brinshore Development and I'm honored to be with you here today for this really exciting project. Um, I'm going to talk a little bit about Brinshore in subsequent slides, but first I'm going to talk a little bit about the Choice Neighborhoods Project or program, which is really HUD's signature place-based um urban revitalization program for uh transforming public housing, obsolete and distressed public housing into a thriving mixed income community. And I think on the screen, what you see here is uh the components of the program because it's not just about housing. It's about the people who are living there and the community that is the end result of a mixed income um redevelopment process. So I this is the I think the really the most important slide. It's really this connection. Um one of the things that I want to make sure um people um understand about the program is that at its core it provides one forone replacement of public housing converted into um mixed income communities. So people who are living there today have a right to return to the community and have an opportunity to live in a portion of the units there as well as bringing in uh market rate housing and then affordable housing for people who are under a certain income level. The public housing right now will be replaced with income based housing where people will pay no more than 30% of their income if they're living in um the current Will Rogers Courts housing and they move back. In addition, people receive uh intensive supportive services and relocation assistance, which you'll hear about in a second. In the neighborhood side, it's not just about housing as well. It's about how the connective tissue of a community is created so that we're creating a thriving neighborhood at the end of the day. Um the lead organizations are the community action, um cap, the community action partnership, Lilyfield as the people lead. And the the people lead will really focus on providing those resources to residents so that they have an opportunity both to make a choice to move back or also make a choice to relocate somewhere else as well as providing support for employment for uh health and education for their for their kids. And one of the thing that's things that's been really powerful about the choice neighborhoods program as well as hope six is the outcomes for the future generations. This isn't just about the people living in the housing. It's about their kids as well. Well, of course, they're living there, but it's uh it's not just about the adults in the household. It's also about the children. Um the neighborhood lead is the city of Oklahoma City, and the housing lead is Brenshore. Uh Brinshore is a 30-year-old development company out of Chicago. We focus on um working in working with public housing authorities, cities, and nonprofits to translate visions like this into reality. Um we do it by working with great partners um on the planning front and also with partners in the housing authority to add capacity and add uh additional resources so that when we're doing these developments you know that we're working together and brinor is at the end of the day responsible for both the completion of construction and ensuring the project overtime is managed appropriately. Um, we're the 16th largest affordable housing developer in the country. And we've done seven other choice neighborhoods developments around the country, including completed projects in Kansas City, and in Omaha. We also have a second project going on in Omaha. Other FA cities we work in on choice neighborhoods efforts include Norfick, Virginia Knoxville Tennessee uh Houston, Las Vegas, um, and we have others in the planning. Um and I said our role really is to ensure financial success and that the project meets its goals. Um but more than that we help to build capacity um and create partnerships. We see our role as really a convenor between the city's housing authorities and nonprofits to ensure that the built reality matches people's goals. Um, we have a professional team of people that focus on a a professional team of people that focus on everything from asset management finance construction management, and development. Um, and we'll be there every step of the way with the city and the housing authority. Um, I just want to talk quickly about a case study in North Omaha, uh, which we just finished our final and seventh and final phase, uh, which included a mixture of city investment, philanthropy, and money from HUD. Um, at the end of the day, we built 444 mixed income units in the place of 13 112 unit housing complex. And the community is incredible. Um the the the it's it was an area of the highest crime with uh um some of the lowest incomes in the city and the results have been pretty staggering so far. We've had a really large number of people that have decided to come back. Our wait lists are very long both for the market rate workforce units, the affordable units and the neighborhood has gotten a lot safer with incomes going up. And this is something that we see we we want to make sure that um we see in our neighborhoods, which is not just the housing's built, but that we're helping to change the fabric of the neighborhood for the better. Um this was a document, a table that you you you saw earlier, and this really shows the leverage that we're trying to achieve here. The CNI investment in housing is a portion of the grant. We're applying for 26 million. You can see that here 16.5 million actually goes into the physical housing. The rest goes into the economic development strategies, the supportive services, relocation and uh and demolition. Um we take the funds from HUD and then leverage them with uh equity from the tax credit program, permanent debt from private lenders, as well as uh money that is coming in from other sources that we're requesting here. One is the maps for funding that's already been um set aside for the housing authority that's being committed over a multi-year period. So, um as you can see, we're not looking for resources up front. It's really a 5year span of time that resources come in both for GLT, for maps 4, and for TIFF. And what that will allow us to do is not just help fund the development. It's also a scoring criteria. This is a very competitive grant program. Um, and the investment from the city is critical to show commitment and show that the city's a strong partner in this. So, I just want to say thank you on behalf of our team um for the big commitment um you're considering today because it's incredibly uh important to HUD to see that kind of commitment in their decision-m for the grant. Um I'm going to turn this over to Megan O'Hara right now who will talk about both the leverage a little bit more and then about the plan. Megan is a principal at Urban Design Associates, our partner in this development. >> Thank you, Todd, and thank you, mayor and council. So, Megan O'Hara, CEO at Urban Design Associates. Um, one of the great successes of Choice Neighborhoods is that it leverages the public dollars with private and uh nonprofit dollars. And this is a running tally of where we are right now with the leverage that we'll be submitting next week with the grant. So, uh, social service providers and partners have committed nearly $20 million on the people's side of things. Uh, you heard a little bit about the neighborhood leverage that includes not only the city's commitment, but also uh new commitments in the neighborhood that individuals are making in their own facilities and and amenities as well as things that we plan to build on the site at nearly 47 million. And then the housing investment will be over 140 million. Um, and just as a point there, for every $1 of city investment that you're putting into the housing plan, we're leveraging that with $8.5 million of other sources, including the hopeful 26 million from HUD. So, uh, this is the neighborhood boundary. It includes Stockyard City, Main Street, as well as South Rotary Park. And you can see the um Will Rogers Courts development just in this in the center there. It goes all the way over to Douglas Avenue and touches the Wheeler district and that's important for connecting to opportunity. And you can see in the the teal tone in the upper area that is the strong neighborhoods initiative boundary. So we are actually able to leverage the dollars that the city is already investing through SNI uh for the CNI application. We are able to propose three projects to HUD for the neighborhood component that will bring economic development and help transform the neighborhood. Those three projects are to create a neighborhood gateway and public art at the highly visible intersection of Exchange Avenue and Westwood Boulevard. We are partnering with Lynn Institute to build an urban farm um that will bring both job training opportunities, food, and amenities to the neighborhood and that will be located on Southwest 15th. And then the plan is to build an 8,000 square foot uh early childhood education space that will replace the existing Head Start on the site and hopefully partner with OKCPS to bring two preK classrooms on site as well. So these are amenities that will serve the entire neighborhood, not just the Will Rogers Courts residents. Here you can see the the site plan for Will Rogers Courts with the development concentrated along Southwest 15th where we have the early action activity, the newly renovated um community resource center that Lilyfield is operating outside of an early phase of housing adjacent uh to the um charter school that's adjacent to um Wheeler District and the urban farm and the early childhood space with housing extending along Westwood Boulevard to the north and the South. The phasing plan includes an early build first site along Southwest and McKinley and that will allow us to build units before any well Rogers courts units are demolished and some residents will be able to move one time. The second phase will envelop Southwest 15 to signal to the broader community that change is happening and to create a place and build that replacement early childhood center before uh the existing Head Start building needs to be demolished. And then the third and fourth phases extend along Westwood Boulevard on site. Todd talked about how you will have replacement for public housing families, new affordable housing, and then 81 units of workforce housing that will serve 80 to 120% AMI. And the existing residents will have choices. Um, we hope that many will return to the site, but some may choose to take a voucher and move to another part of the city or another state uh to be near family or for other reasons. And there's also a partnership uh to offer replacement housing options in highly desirable uh other neighborhoods and school districts. And the families will have to the support to choose the option that's best for them. There's a robust section 3 opportunity. So the residents of Will Rogers Courts, other neighborhood residents, and other low-income families will have opportunities to uh take part in the the economic benefit of this. So jobs that come from training, property management, case management, and maintenance. Um, and we have a a robust plan to help those families get ready for those jobs over the coming years. So we are in the stages of finalizing leverage and plan to submit next week on March 5th. Over the summer, HAR HUD will shortlist and hopefully we will get a a site visit and then towards the end of the summer, they will announce the awards. Thank you. Thank you. Any questions for us? >> Um I I have a couple questions. First of all, thank you so much for this presentation. I'm very excited about this project. I love the way that we are so intentionally including um market rate and you know and affordable. I love the way that we're including social services and educational opportunities. I'm very excited about this project. I do know that um I want to just first the mechanics here that on this we aren't committing funds yet right this application is just to say that the city is is bought in and then there will later be an action for us to approve like the tiff and golt and those funding mechanisms right >> yes I guess I'd call it a soft commitment because yeah and it it we do indicate that we will formally need to make all of these commitments and these allocations in the future once you know if we do receive the grant. Excellent. You just wanted to be clear about that. Um then the second thing, and this may be a question better answered by Mark, I would imagine that we have neighbors here today who are concerned about other public housing facilities and the city's investment in those public housing facilities. Maybe specifically Andrew Square. So maybe maybe we can just go ahead and have that discussion right now. And maybe if Mark could just share, are there plans for capital improvements for Andrew Square? And could you share with us just any future action that's going to be taken there because I think our neighbors are just here to about that. >> Thank you, Councilman. I'm Mark Gillet. I'm the executive director of the Oklahoma City Housing Authority offices at 1700 Northeast 4th Andrews Square. We'll all uh remember the fact that uh December the 26th in the middle of the night a 4-inch water mane broke at that location. Uh um the current status of that is that the residents that were located on that side of of the development on the first floor uh there are 20 units. um they were relocated to an apartment and have been offered uh housing in other locations uh around the city or at Andrews if they cared to stay there. Uh we are not yet finalized with that relocation, but uh we're getting closer every day. Uh they will all get that opportunity. Um and then we'll go in with remediation. We know that we have to do extensive remediation uh to that side of the development, 20 20 units again. Uh and we're starting that remediation as we speak and then we'll uh have that that completed over several months, but uh the residents that lived in that block of units have been uh taken care of. Um support towards those developments. Um, we've talked often about the fact there's not a lot of capital fund money that comes from HUD to help us revitalize uh those units. Uh, we are exploring uh programs with HUD like choice. Uh, there are other uh smaller opportunities for us to work on public housing developments. And then of course we appreciate very much the city uh city's investment the citizens investment through maps so that we can revitalize uh our public housing property over the next u eight years now I guess and we're working on that strategy. Um there's never enough money councilman. Uh we uh we appreciate the money that we do get and we use it to the best of our abilities. That makes sense. >> That makes sense. And I appreciate that, Mark, because I I recognize also that funds are limited, so we have to make choices about where we get to make investments. Um, obviously there's a lot of need across all the public housing. I could certainly site in my ward a number of places that could use some upgrades, but I hope I just I'm still going to support this effort because I believe we've got to do as much good as we can everywhere that we can do good when it comes to improving public housing in our city. So, um I just appreciate the work that's been done here and excited about this project. >> Thank you. >> Let's go. >> Hi. Um Amy, can I can I share my screen? I just want I would like to uh to councelor Pennington's comments for some people who are seeing all the homelessness in our city and who are especially our friends at Andrew Square and and other public housing uh in the city. I think there we need to understand why those funds are limited. And I just I know some of us do, but I want to I just want to in public right now let everyone know if you don't know. So I'll just read this. So a half a century ago, America invented modern homelessness. The stage was set with the shuttering of psychiatric hospitals in the wake of abuse scandals and the introduction of new psychotropic medications. Then cities started offering tax incentives to owners of flop houses or single room occupancy hotels to convert their properties into market rate rentals, condos, and co-ops. In New York City alone, more than 100,000 SRO units that had house substance abusers, elderly singles, former inmates, and the mentally ill were lost. During the 1980s, back-to-back recessions combined with the Reagan administration severe federal cutbacks targeting low-income housing and poverty assistance programs. So, that's the cuts forced more and more Americans, including large numbers of families into homelessness. At the same time, well-paid manufacturing jobs moved overseas, and still workers had to start pushing brooms at McDonald's. An oil crisis drove up fuel prices which bumped up rents as did a new generation of gentrifiers discovering the architectural pleasures of historic neighborhoods. And I'll conclude with this paragraph. On top of all of that, Reagan era tax form reforms encouraged the construction of high-end single family homes, but not of affordable multifamily rentals. There were 515,000 multifamily homes built in America in 1985, but just one 140,000 built in 1991. As people began competing for fewer and fewer apartments, the affordable housing market turned into a game of musical chairs played by lowincome Americans. And someone always lost. You can Thank you so much, Amy. I was born in 1982. I was born into this mess and it it is it I'm so proud uh just to what I heard earlier of voters for approving maps for because with this backstory that I just shared with you all and it's it needs to be very clear to us that this council the mayor when we set in motion maps for with the voters that represents one of the first times in those 40some years that this city started making these investment in housing and that is devastating to hear but it's true at the same time. So we should be very proud as a city about us making these interventions right now. Is it enough? No, of course not. You can't undo 40 years worth of something with one maps vote or more recently with the bond vote that has $50 million in there for affordable housing. So, this is actually back to city manager when we're talking about the bike lanes. You're like, "Well, but we have made and and this is a moment where I'm going to flat out acknowledge, yes, we have and we are and we will." So, it is in it is critical that we all take stock in the investment in ourselves that we are making right now to undo this horrible history. this horrible history because the fair the housing authority you all have not had the funds that you need to do the maintenance that you should be doing because it wasn't coming from the federal government or the state government or the county government or this level of government until just the last decade and we have a lot more to do and I will always put my uh what do you call it pedal to the metal for more investment anytime I can Um, so I just want to acknowledge that aloud. I think that's so important to say that history because not everyone knows that history and it should cross party lines, right? To acknowledge mental health, substance abuse housing sending jobs overseas. I believe a president won an election on that recently. Right? So this should cross party lines right now as we try and work together to write a historic wrong. So, I think the model that we're seeing here of building mixed income, like instead of putting poor people off to the side as if they're lepers, this is wild to me, but that's how we used to do public housing. But making sure that every level of income is mixed in together is important. But so too is that employment stuff. And so now I have some that's the speech. Now, if I might, I have some ask. One is I would like for this council to receive regular regular quarterly updates if possible, city manager, whatever you think might be appropriate here, but regular quarterly updates on the status of these residents first where they are like literally are they staying right in these in this location? Have they cho chosen to move out of state? Have they chosen to move to other properties within the city? So that's my first request. I the status two. Um I would like to know in terms of employment because having that case manager, we saw the key to home team up here earlier. That's wonderful. They're doing yman's work, right? I would like for this council to receive quarterly updates on those case managers uh work that they are doing. How many of our residents have we connected to Metro Tech, a career tech, uh to ootc, right? To those sort of upskilled uh cert certifications or associates degrees, whatever it is that's going to allow them to be as self-reliant as possible, right? So, those updates are important and and not just how many, but where what types of uh skills, right? Um, sorry it might be going fast. Is that Are you getting that, city manager? I'm sorry. I'm not trying to information dump. Uh, third, I would love uh in terms of public housing, I think we would all benefit up here learning because I don't know this knowledge. What are the like an inventory of infrastructure needs in each public housing um structure? like what what are the needs? So, you know, when what happened at Andrew Square occurred, you know, that was the first time I had heard about some of the issues that were facing residents. I think it would be very helpful to have an inventory list, right, of here are the needs by property. Doesn't mean we have to we that we have the ability for the reason I just said to just go in there and, you know, make it Mary Poppins, right? But once we identify the problems and the challenges, we can then start creating an action plan on how we're going to address them. Whether it's through MAPS 4, whether it's through the Gul, whether it's through the private sector who should should be partnering with us on these measures just as they have done with key to home. They're doing great work there. Step up here, right? Um so an inventory of what those actual needs are. So, we're not always reacting to things, but we're being proactive with that identification. fourth and I believe finally uh I don't know I'm just but one counselor but sounds to me like Andrew Square would be a good candidate for maps for and I think that is something to have conversations with the maps for subcommittee that uh the community subcommittee committee excuse me which is over that and let's find out like I I'm not saying let's prioritize it over maybe there are some other uh properties that have stronger needs but let's find out what we can do there and with that finally uh part of it is for six years that I've been on this council I've heard planning I've heard people smarter than me say that this model that you all are bringing to us right of putting people of all incomes living within the same property right? Having that mixture of subsidized units with market rate units, right? Bringing the developers to the table to do that sort of uh investment, but then having those case managers there so that we can actually connect our people to stabilizing support services so that they can uh become as self-reliant as they can be. Right? That is a model that I would suggest that as we're looking at the inventory needs of all those public housing properties that we should also be taking this choice neighborhoods model. Doesn't mean we're going to get the grant for every one of those properties, but we should be taking this model and we should be looking at all the philanthropy in this city. All of it. All of it. And we should be trying to figure out how do we stabilize our these properties by making sure our people are receiving the support services they need so they can take care of themselves. If for no other reason if for no other reason than if if if if you don't believe housing is a human right as I do. Okay. Did you not see the crime statistics that I saw right there? Do you see that huge decrease? Don't you want that? Don't you want that? And this is our opportunity to achieve that. You can't build walls around your neighborhoods forever and hope that the the boogeyman's not going to get you, right? Like this is our chance to actually make some historic interventions in violence, right? And so those are the choices. That's what the choices are. Speaking of choice neighborhoods, so thank you for the work, but those are my requests. um, city manager and I appreciate you hearing them. >> Okay, we have some residents who signed up to speak on this item. Brady Harold. Okay, Brady Harold here. Brady I'd remind everyone to state your name and address and keep your remarks to three minutes or less. >> Um, hi, my name is Brady Harrell. Uh, I live at 424 Culbrick Drive and uh uh thought that I would uh bring some uh personal comments to uh the topic. Um, I've not always lived in Oklahoma City or the Oklahoma metro. Um, I actually used to live in Norman, uh, and have recently come here as a student and now, uh, work here, uh, full-time, um, and hope to continue uh, living in Oklahoma City uh, and the Oklahoma City area. Uh but I know that I have uh struggled with being able to access affordable housing um not just as a student when uh when I was uh in school but uh uh since having graduated recently um last year and uh know that uh we can and should uh do our best to provide uh greater access to all of our neighbors. Um, that's why I would encourage a a call to action in the form of a budgets uh including a percentage for upkeep and maintenance uh for our uh friends and neighbors on this topic uh uh with uh prudent reserves for emergencies. and uh uh encourage uh all of you to um do your best to find it in your heart uh to provide those services uh to the best of your ability. Um a lot of us uh don't have uh access to you. I know that there is obviously this space and time for people to come but um it is a Tuesday morning which unfortunately a lot of us I came with a number of my friends but um there's a number of friends who I know would appreciate every opportunity to speak to important members of our community who just can't because of uh their situations because they are less financially stable less able to secure work and need as much help as they can get. So, uh I would hope that we are able to provide more of that today. >> 30 seconds remaining. >> Thank you. And uh I think that's all that I would have to say. Thank you for your time. >> Mary Williams. >> My name is Mari Williams. I've lived in the OKC metro for my entire life and I currently reside in Ward 5. Good morning, Mayor Hull, City Manager Freeman, and the members of the Oklahoma City Council. To quote the Oklahoma City Housing Authorities website, quote, "The OCA currently owns public housing consisting of 2718 units," unquote. They state themselves themselves that the OCA is a hand up, not a handout. I believe that this is an extremely important agency, and I don't discount the many people and families that it has helped. But we must demand accountability for the living conditions of some of these communities. A All of you were here at the last meeting and heard the two residents of Andrew Square, one of them a veteran, speak on the living conditions of their units. They had been dealing with black mold, days without running water or heat in the dead of winter. In November of 2024, KCO released an article about an inspection on OCA done by the federal government. Some of the homes were graded a seven out of 100. Seven out of 100. Based on this grading method, anything rated below 60 is considered failing. In the same article, officials of OCA told KCO that because the homes vary in size, age, and structure, it makes them a challenge to maintain, and that they are continuing to seek more financial pathways to improve renovations for public housing. I would have cited a more recent statistic, but this was the most up-to-date source I was able to find. It is clear that this agency does need more funding, but it must be ensured that these taxpayer provided funds are managed appropriately and transparently. We demand that a budget be released to the public and include a percentage for maintenance, that there be prudent reserves for emergencies, and that will Rogers court community, where repairs and renovations are most needed, receive them first before any other projects are started. Now, that was what I had written um before I watched our presentation, but um I'm concerned what's going to happen to the the residents of Will Rogers Court. Are they being essentially evicted? Are they going to have um financial help with their move? Are they being moved to other public housing units? Or are they again just being essentially evicted? And then my other um concern is that after a quick Google search, it shows that Brinshore Development has um allegations of discriminatory practices, including background checks that um disproportionately negatively affect applicants who are people of color. Um a federal lawsuit even took place over this. Um Brian Shore Development, thank you. Branch Shore Development um denies applications of anyone who has a criminal record in the past 25 years and the HUD guidelines suggest that landlords should consider only consider convictions from the last two years when making rental decisions. So I just wanted to bring those concerns up. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. Alisa how >> Alisa How organizing Ogis I too had a nice speech planned for today but in the light of this I'm going to go off script a little bit last city council meeting we saw a delay deny vote ch or potential change to a yes vote after public corruption happened right here right here. So, it's no surprise to me that this body does not like oversight and just loves giving away money because it's not yours. You're entrusted as stewards of public resources. All of it. All of ours, not just a few. A cursory search, as James Cooper likes to say. Just Google add controversy with it and you come up with all kinds of stuff about the people that OSHA has decided to go in bed with on this project. What comes to mind? Corruption. Corruption. Corruption. Something this body approves of. $52 million is what they told us they were asking for. Total. Total. with this body, our tax dollars being on the hook for some of that as well. And we have no oversight. Buildings decay from lack of planning, lack of upkeep, lack of all of the things, oversight, all of the things that this body should ensure happens with all of our tax dollars, not just some. We want to strengthen public housing. We don't want to take away from it. But we need to do so not by throwing good money at bad actors, but by holding them accountable, by asking them to actually budget for the emergencies that's going to come up, to budget for the upkeep. That's all that's required to upkeep buildings is putting it in the budget and then oh right, hiring a company that is actually going to follow the law to do it. Brenshore Development came here from Chicago. And in Chicago, you know, there is a lot of stuff going on with these people as late as 2025 and as early as 2026. Oh, right. That's where we're at now. Um, Forestell following a bumpy relationship and severe stress, failure to make timely payment from timely payments from Chicago. Maintenance crews uh were threatened with violence. These are thugs. Why are we giving them money? Thank you. >> Holly Towers. >> Good morning, mayor, city councilors. My name is Holly Towers. I live at 2209 Northwest 119th Street in Ward 7 and I also lead Lilyfield. We own property in the Stockard City neighborhood. We're grateful for SNI and all of the investments. We also operate the on-site resource center at Will Rogers Courts that is newly renovated um for our use. We're very pleased with the public private partnership that's happening there and we have been selected as a co-people lead on the choice neighborhood initiative. I'm here to speak primarily as a resident of Oklahoma City though. I have worked worked worshiped served or volunteered in South Oklahoma City since 1998. first set foot in Will Rogers Courtz in 1998 as a very young adult and live in northwest Oklahoma City where my children and family have access to things like safe parks and sidewalks and nice streets. As a person working with families in South Oklahoma City, I am thrilled thrilled at the potential for this kind of investment in those children and families. I believe every child deserves access to those basic amenities like safe housing. I do believe it is a civil rights issue and also just the neighborhood amenities we all expect. I also commit to you as a resident of Oklahoma City and a person working in this neighborhood and with these families that we will ensure that the voices of the families are heard that they are well taken care of. We are a little bit unique. I don't know if you know this, but one thing I've learned is most choice neighborhood initiatives choose a large agency that is not local as their people lead. And we have two local people leads. We love this community. We love these families and children. So, I just want to encourage you as you consider this. It is a big investment. I'm grateful that we invest money in arenas. Although I don't go to many games, I'm really really grateful when we invest money in in sidewalks and in parks and in neighborhood and in housing. That's my fun is going down and hanging out with kids at Will Rogers Courts. Um so I just encourage you as we think about the different parts of our our city, the different needs that we have. You know, we all rise together. There's been chronic disinvestment in South Oklahoma City. This is a time that we have an opportunity to make sure those residents know that we care, that we see them, that they matter. And so I encourage you as a resident, I support Choice Neighborhoods. I'm glad for my tax dollars to go towards housing, to go towards things for people who live in this neighborhood. And I encourage us as a as a city and a community to to to vote yes in support of of moving forward with this application um with OCHA. Thank you. >> Thank you. Uh Devon Eckley. >> Okay. Hello. Um I'm Devon Eckley. I have lived at 4344 Dhoon Drive in Ward 1. Uh, and this is my first time speaking to city council. So, thank you. Um, if we have made the commitment to take on the responsibility of providing adequate housing conditions, especially to those who have had a life of serving our community or who have had who have the potential to greatly serve our community if given the chance, then that is a commitment the city must uphold, a responsibility it must take seriously. I know there's a lot to keep track of, but it is negligent to have allowed the problems and conditions these residents have faced, flooding, mold, and inadequate accessibility accommodations to linger and grow. And if I am not mistaken, I believe the city can face penalties and fees if its public housing does not pass inspections. I know no one wants to hear that taxpayer dollars were wasted on penalties because an agency the city was funding failed to meet maintenance standards. Do we want this city to hold a reputation of not keeping its promises, of prioritizing big budget entertainment projects over upholding the commitments it has made to its citizens in need? If you are in a position to have a voice and do something, then it is your responsibility to do what you can to ensure accountability. It's not enough to just pour funding into an organization that highlights its positive impacts. We must also ensure that its shortcomings are addressed and held accountable. I want to commend council member James Cooper for those requests for transparency. That is a great first step. In addition, we demand a budget to be released to the public and include a percentage for maintenance. That there be prudent reserves for emergencies. Um that the Will Rogers Court community, where repairs and renovations are most needed, receive them before any other projects are started. and that res uh residents are given adequate housing and support during those renovations and not just um abandoned or evicted. Uh thank you for your time. >> Thank you. All right, that concludes residents who've signed up to speak on that item. So we can now move forward to BK. Councilman Cooper, you wanted to speak to this item. >> Yes. Uh Burger King, I believe. Uh, could we learn a little bit more about this donation, please? I see our parks director making their way here. >> Hi. >> Hi. Good morning. Melinda McMillan Miller, parks and recreation director. This donation was brought to us through the friends of O Ro Rogers Gardens um with a cooperative agreement they had done with an electrical company to donate electrical service and growing lights for the growing light rack um that we can then use to for all seed starting cutings um a very small little plants that we can get growing in our greenhouse system that then supports the broader parks um across the whole city where we plant uh flower beds and city hall parks park and other areas. That's great. Well, I think I'd just like to take this uh moment in public to acknowledge that donation and say express gratitude for it. Sounds like it's going to be put to use. >> Our friends at Will Rogers Gardens have been really instrumental in helping us improve the gardens overall, but then also just helping fill some of those niches and specialty areas where we find extremely helpful for the whole park system. >> That's great. Well, thank you, director. I appreciate you. >> Not MBL. >> Yes. which you know, uh, Councilman Carter gave me a more clever bottom line BL. Okay, that's better. I'd like to hear a little bit more about, uh, about this item if we could, please. >> Good morning, Mayor, council. Um, appreciate the opportunity to be here. I'm Richard Kelly. I'm the fire chief. Um, first off, I'm going to let Lori talk about I know I come up here induced, but I I just want to thank y'all for continuing to support us, but Lori is our program manager, and she can really speak to this grant in more detail. So, thank you. >> Good morning. Thank you. Uh my name is Lori Brown Loftess. I'm the program manager for a mobile integrated healthcare team um housed under Oklahoma City Fire Department. Um this grant will allow for us to provide one more additional uh mobile crisis team to Oklahoma City. This team will be comprised of a paramedic, a care navigator, and then also a peer recovery support specialist. Uh they will be able to operate um within our peak hours of the city. We won't be able to have them seven days a week because of the staffing, but they'll also be able to provide that extra support during those peak hours where we see a lot of our calls coming in. >> Well, I just want to say congratulations. Um, and thank you. I mean, this is just such a a pivotal service. Someone called me just this this last week, a barista, saying, "Hey, I've been noticing this this person. They feel like they're suffering from mental health. Who do I call?" And so, I told them exactly who to call. So, this is wonderful to have that additional team. So, thank you for sharing that in public. >> Thank you. >> Thanks, Lori. And thanks, Chief. >> Does that bring our number up to four? >> Yes, that would be four teams total. And how far away are we from being able to support a team that is around at midnight and on the weekends? >> Ghet. >> Thank you. Uh I appreciate the question and what we're really want to focus on is that peak time. When you look at the data set, the you know obviously the 11 we we stop at 11 and 7 a.m. We really want to focus on that area. we feel like we're meeting the needs of our community and then we'll look at expanding that 24-hour operation. But our goal right now is to really make sure that we're able to respond to every incident within that time frame from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00. But we do track that to look and see what we're missing. But I I know that doesn't give you the answer, but right now we're really just trying to focus on that area before we go to that 24-hour op. And that's one thing that we committed to when we started is that we wanted to start with focusing on this primary um peak time, but then also over time that we wanted to look to see where are our resources best utilized. And so as we grow, I don't think like every time we grow like in this step, it's really we we saw that we had a greater need during peak time than going into the overnight hours, but still evaluating the call data to make sure that we know where that is so that with the limited funding that we have that as we grow that we can grow into the right area that maximizes the um response times. >> I didn't realize it went till 11. That's you guys do a great job at the firefighter academy. I got to go through it with some of your employees for that and and they were very enthused about what was ahead for him. So, congratulations. >> Thank you so much. We really appreciate Lori does a great job and you know they're really trying to utilize what resources we have just to make the maximum impact and I think they do a great job. Thank you'all for your support in that. >> Thank you. >> City manager and I thank you for that question counselor. I didn't know the time either. So, uh is it appropriate for a council member maybe you just said you did. I'm not sure. Counselor, is it appropriate for one of us to just like when I've gone on the police, well, two requests. One, I'd like to go on another police ride along. It's been a couple years. And then two, uh, well, probably for each of the divisions, Spring Lake and Heer since we're both war. But is it appropriate for a council member to go along with the mental health alternative? >> I believe that works, doesn't it, Lori? That'd be great. >> Let's get it going. That sounds great. Thank you. Thank you. >> Thanks. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. That concludes our consent docket. We can now adopt the items contained herein, except for that one previously struck. We have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Now we're at item 10, the concurrence docket. We can adopt um items A through L with one motion. Have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Now we are at item 11, items for individual consideration. Item 11 A is an ordinance on final hearing that was recommended for approval resoning 3407 South Shields from R1 to SPD 1793. This was deferred a couple times previously. Uh Councilman Hammond is not here. I don't know if she spoke to anybody about carrying this item. >> My my instructions were more to help steward the choice neighborhoods. I don't believe I got that request. I'm so sorry. >> Huh. >> Usually we have some sense of direction. Um do we want to >> Let me check with staff. Could we just hold on this one? Come back to Let me check with staff and to see if we've got um >> the applicant's here. >> Is the applicant here? This is the 6 in away firewall. Was going to be a threeplex and now it's a forplex. Yeah. >> Hello. Jessica Boy with Johnson Associates representing the applicant Wy Sheridan. Uh so this item was before you at your last hearing. Um just as a refresher, the uh property had a fire on site in 2022. Our client purchased the property in 2025 with the intention to restore the existing duplex structure that is on the site. Um he did receive a building permit for that for those renovations uh which included the addition of a second story um following the last meeting. So our client is seeking to reszone the property to a spud to allow for a forplex. So as he started those renovations with the existing building permit with the addition of a second story, he realized he had more square footage and that is what prompted the reszone request. Um, so at the last meeting, we had the neighbor to the north show up uh to voice concerns about the uh two roofs, the uh overhang on both of the properties. Uh so we met virtually with the client and city staff. We also met on site with the client and city staff uh to discuss the issue. And at the on-site meeting, it was determined that a survey would be required to um just to determine the property line in relation to the two structures. So, our office did conduct that and I have it for you today. Uh so, this red line is going to be the property line. The orange building right here is the existing structure on our client site and the dotted line is their uh roof eve. And then the blue building to the north is uh the property owner to the north. And uh as you can see, their roof actually overhangs onto our client's uh property, which is where uh the concerns came from. Um so our structure is actually about 2 and 1/2 ft off the property line. Um with that structure to the north overhanging onto our client's property. Um so after conversations with the development services department um it was determined that a for a reason to a forplex would require our client to sprinkle the structure. Um so that would have additional fire suppression requirements. And since the structure is within 3 ft of the property line they are already required to have a firewall with the existing duplex which would obviously be required for the forplex. So, uh, these are building code issues and what we're here today is to discuss the reszone. So, staff has recommended approval. Planning commission unanimously recommended approval and this body previously recommend this body previously approved it before rescending that vote at the last meeting. So, I am happy to answer any questions. >> Jessica, thank you. Um, and I appreciate that because I do remember the fire issue being really important. So, glad we could get clarity that there will be fire suppression. So, um, but could you So, will the quadplex exist within the existing structure or are you adding more to the structure? >> It will exist within the existing structure. So, the addition of the second story which was permitted with the first building permit >> that already happened. So, >> yes, that already happened and they realized they had enough room to turn that into a forplex. >> Gotcha. Okay. This is a very unique part of Shields that isn't represented anywhere else up or down Shields. It's where the trolley used to run through if history serves me correctly. But these houses are a lot like what were built along Grand Boulevard. Um the twostory colonial style and there's what two blocks of them. And so I can't speak for council woman, pardon me, Hammond, but I'm all for this and I'll move for approval unless somebody else has something to say. >> Okay. I I I heard that we maybe did get some feedback that it's ready. We did we we we did get feedback and I the the be addresses the the setbacks. It addresses the firewall, addresses everything that had been brought up earlier and so the council woman is had is approved. >> Okay. >> So, >> all right. Well, then we'll move forward. >> We have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. >> Thank you. >> Passes unanimously. All right. 11B1 is the public hearing regarding the dilapidated structures here listed. Amy, has anyone signed up to speak? >> No, they have not. >> They have not. And so we will advance to the resolution found at B2 declaring structures are dilapidated. >> We have a motion in a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. C1 is a public hearing regarding the unsecured structures here listed. Amy, has anyone signed up to speak? >> No, they haven't. >> They have not. So, we will advance to the resolution declaring the structures are unsecured. say for those previously struck. We have a motion and a second for item C2. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. D1 is the public hearing regarding the abandoned buildings here listed. Amy, has anyone signed up to speak? >> No, they haven't. >> They haven't. And so we will advance to the resolution found at D2 declaring the buildings are abandoned. Have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. passes unanimously. Item 11E1 is the second public hearing uh regarding amending the June 17th, 2025 resolution uh regarding certain fire expenditures. Uh Amy, has any time to speak? >> No, they haven't. >> Not. And so we will advance to the resolution. We've already had a presentation on this as this is the second of two meetings. The resolution found at E2 amends the June 17, 2025 resolution regarding certain fire expenditures. We have a motion and a second. Cast your votes and you're able. Passes unanimously. Item 11 F1 is the second public hearing regarding amending the June 17th, 2025 resolution approving certain police listed expenditures. Um and Amy has anyone time to speak? >> No, they have not. >> They have not. And so we'll advance to the resolution found at F2 amending the June 17th, 2025 resolution regarding certain police expenditures. This is the second of two meetings. Already had a presentation, so we could take it up now if that is the council's desire. We have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Um, all right. Next up is item G. This is a joint resolution with the Oklahoma City Economic Development Trust approving an allocation not to exceed $400,000 from tax uh increment district number eight. Uh and this relates to the United Petroleum Transport Project located at Corporate Tower. And I believe we have a presentation. >> Yes, Kenny Sud with the Alliance for Economic Development will present this proposed allocation. >> Good morning, Mayor and Council. Kenny S with the Alliance. So, this this is a resolution that would allocate $400,000 out of TIFF number eight, which is also known as the Devon TIFF. As a reminder, that TIF district had some uh a category in it that specifically to try to attract corporate headquarters to move downtown. And that's the case we have here, United Petroleum Transport, who currently has uh a location on the south side of Oklahoma City, but this would provide for them to move downtown into Corporate Tower. Um, and then also there's a plan to add additional staff in the future. The one nuance on this is we we would be structuring this that part of the funds would go in upfront after they can, you know, move in and do their TI and construction in corporate tower and then there's another portion of the funds that would be tied to uh the the job creation down the road and I believe that split was 150 up uh tied to the move and 250 tied to the future job creation. So with that, I'm going to invite up Matt H. Hearnden and Brian uh Baba I always get it wrong. Sorry. Uh, and they're going to give a little presentation on their company and what they're doing here. Thanks, >> Mr. Mayor, members of council. Good morning. Matt Hurden, president, CEO of United Petroleum Transport and the Combined Company. We're proud truckers. Let's call it that. All right. We're a family-owned business. We've been established in 1966 as Oklahoma Tank Lines. Uh, we have grown to a nationwide trucking company. We operate from the West Co, basically from Phoenix. We call Phoenix, the west coast for us and all the way over to the east coast. In the last four years, we have doubled the company with plans to double or triple it again. Uh we're currently sit off of I35 and 44th Street is how we operate today. United Joint Transport, Florida Rock and Tank Lines, Ulogics are combined entities today. Customerf facing, we deliver dry bulk and petroleum uh liquid bulk primarily across the nation. We have,200 professional drivers. over 1500 employees and looking to grow and move downtown. So obviously back up one more. Sorry. These are obviously our customers in which we serve today. Loves we held our first store in Amarillo, Texas. Tom and Judy Love. We grew on the backs of the Love family across the nation as well. We delivered the first Quick Trip Load 55 years ago. Uh so certainly you can see who we operate today with Pilot, Walmart, Sitgo. Uh but we also do a number of chemicals and lubricants for major oil companies. We also do dry bulk which is lime um ash and cement. Uh but we also do a lot of jet fuel for major customers American Airlines Southwest etc. So we are again a nationwide carrier. Next page our mission is really is is is circles all around safety. We are a basically a hazmat carrier over 400,000 loads and shipments annually. Uh we also are very pride in culture. Uh again we are a family-owned Oklahoma based. We turned 60 years this year and we're very proud of that. Uh we want to grow. We're gonna continue to grow and we'll continue to add staff uh as we grow our corporate office but culture will always be very important to us and certainly customer service in which the customers in which we serve as well as our environment. Again, as I stated, we are hazmat carrier. So that's very important to us on all the things as we provide our processes and procedures in house. And the success story of our company, you know, we've we've survived a lot. Lo put a private fleet in. We've retrenched and we continue to grow and we'll continue to do M&A strategies this year. Next page. So obviously you see our footprint today where we kind of stated brick and mortar in the red, alternate locations in green. Our current locations again we've been there over 55 years. Uh we don't feel it's need to build a building in this location. We'd rather come downtown where the energy section is in Oklahoma. Again we're a proud company. Next page. So obviously this is our initial investment almost 2.4 4 million uh 25 additional 25,000 square feet that we are leasing with additional 25,000 we are confident uh again we are on an M&A strategy today we look to maybe do be under an LOI within the next 6 months to a year to double our company again so we need we need room uh and we just don't think it's feasible to build where we are today next slide so obviously we'll be bringing over with us to our corporate offices obviously financial operations human resources uh IT and executive leadership we plan to maintain our facility off of 44th That's not going to change because we have a lot of trucks and traders. We have maintenance staff. We will have over 100 almost 100 people move initially. Uh but we'll keep almost another 40 to 75 people there at our facility there. And we have over we're operating over 100 drivers out of this location today. So that facility remains and we'll continue to upkeep that. Next slide. Obviously community support. We we feel like we serve the community which you know we we provide for the service which we commute. Um but we continue to give every year. You can see a check there for last year. uh over 12 grand. But Greg Price is there holding the check. He's the principal owner of UPT. Uh his son has special needs, so he's a big Wings component. He's been one of the ones that raised all the primarily a lot of the money for Wings. So his son can live there. He'll be the first resident there at Wings. So when Greg and his pass, his son will be well taken care of. So he is very much and we are always involved in community and we give back every single year. Well over 12 to 15,000 every year. Next slide. So, I'll open it up for any questions. >> Any questions? >> Appreciate the time. Thank you. >> All right. Well, if there's no questions or comments, we could take up the joint resolution found at item G. We have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Thank you. >> Okay. Item H1 is our collective bargaining agreement with the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 123. U this is for the fiscal year 2025 2026. Executive session is not requested, but I think maybe um I know Amy was going to make some comments. Mark, we we will look forward to yours as well, but maybe we'll start there. Amy Madera first. Yeah, sounds good. >> Good morning, mayor and council. Um, just before you, we've got um collective bargaining agreement between the city of Oklahoma City and the Fraternal Order of Police with our local 123 for fiscal year um FY25 and 26. Um key changes among with that's noted within the collective bargaining agreement is a two and a quarter% cost of living increase to retro back to July 1, a 2% stipen, our longevity pay to reflect the the cost of living increase. There is an a premium insurance increase of 8.3. Um and then also as we discussed last council, fraternity fraternal over police has accepted the city's proposal with our six p six weeks paid parental leave. Um so they will be they'll be able to have that benefit as well. Additionally, there just a few operational comp components in it. Um so that's really what we have. I just want to thank Mark Nelson and FOP for their partnership. Um and the city is seeking your approval. Any questions? >> Thank you. >> Thank you, Mark Nelson. Mark Nelson, 1624 South Avenue. Uh, here today in my role as the president, I wanted to make a couple of comments uh about some things that are indirectly related to our contract. But before I do that, I want to say thank you uh to Assistant City Manager Jason Fairbrush. His efforts at kind of the proverbial midnight hour, I think, avoided a contentious and divisive arbitration. And all of my dealings with him, I dealt with him with other issues. um unbelievably eager and passionate to communicate with all of the concerns and then we we generally find a compromise that sometimes it's frustrating but we it works and I can't say enough positive things about him and his ability to kind of bring sometimes these these divisive not so much divisive just differences of opinion as it relates to what we're trying to accomplish to ahead in a product that ultimately we can vote on and you can vote on. So I wanted to give him credit for his work. um mentioned two things. This this first one is passed due. Uh our police chief about 18 months ago there was a new hire. Um and I feel like it's my responsibility if I'm going to come before you as I have in the past and express concerns and ask for change that I'm not hypocritical and do the same thing when those things happen and they're going phenomenally. It's not perfect, but I want to thank uh city manager for his hiring of Chief Bassy. I think you heard a lot of concerns from a lot of people and Chief Bassy is literally knocking it out of the park. The morale, the mood around this department was I'm going to say in my 25 years at an all-time low and we'll see. We're going to send out a survey at the beginning of March, but it might be at an all-time high if you look at the last 25 years. So again, um, thank you probably isn't enough, but I want to acknowledge the positive things. I'm not here to talk about any negative things. I just want to address some concerns as we move forward. I've had the uh ability and privilege to meet with almost all of you. Those of you who I haven't yet or talked to for sure. Um some of those meetings are scheduled. But our upcoming contract uh negotiations, not just this year, but in the future years, um I think it's vitally important that you all understand where we are as as a group of police officers. So we have like six members of the police department who are not FOP members. So the other almost 11 to,200 are. and we currently sit at anywhere from 8 to 12% below the market average as it relates to wages um in in our salary survey. And for the 20th largest city in the country, it's it's not tenable and and and honestly, it's just not acceptable. Um we have to do better if we're going to recruit and and retain those officers. Uh I don't fully understand city finance. I'll I'll admit it, but I do acknowledge and respect the efforts that go into balancing the budget. I've heard uh former state senator, current mayor address this in different chambers of the state related to how the city is challenged as it as it relates to collecting revenues. I attended the budget workshop last week where the the budget director mentioned that there's a $66 million anticipated $66 million gap between expenditures and revenues over the next five years. So, as it relates to prioritizing um the you know, the future of this city, there there's no doubt it's bright. But as we're planning and negotiating future CBAs, uh we approach landmark events, as the NBA playoffs, future championships, uh worldclass soccer events, that just as much uh attention and priority go into addressing the need for professional public safety, specifically law enforcement, as visitors and residents of this city interact with those services as the effort that goes into bringing those events to the city. And lastly, I want to mention a a significant item as it relates to our CBA. Eight years ago, members of this council voted to um suspend or do away with helping retirees with city insurance, those who hired on after January 1 of 17. Um we are starting to see the results of that. It's going to be a key topic in our in our negotiations upcoming. Uh currently, a retiree and spouse cost 4300, excuse me, $4,600 a month. If you throw a dependent in there, it's $6,200 a month. And I think most would understand that's not sustainable and it's it's it's not acceptable either. So, we see that we have to do something about it. All that being said, I just wanted to get in front of you, be available for questions as it relates to this current contract, say thank you for the things that I've mentioned. We do look forward to continue working together to try to find a solution to these issues, and then thank you for your uh service to the city. And if there's any questions, I'll stand for them. >> Thank you very much. Thank you, Mark. All right. Well, now we can take up the uh collective bargaining agreement if that is the council's desire. Item H1. We have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Thank you. All right. Item 11 I1 is a resolution authorizing the municipal counselor to confess judgment without admitting liability in the case of LSVC. Executive session is not requested. We have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Item J1 is a resolution authorizing the municipal counselor to confess judgment without admitting liability in the case of express grocery v. the city of OKC. Executive session is not requested. We have a motion in a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Item 11, K1 is a resolution authorizing the municipal council to confess judgment without admitting liability in the case of uh Hinegar, etc. v city of OKC. Executive session is not requested. We have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Item L1 are claims recommended for approval. We can take items A through C with one motion and executive session is not requested. We have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Item 12, comments from council. Ward one. Word four. Word five. Word seven. Word eight. >> Yeah. Just briefly, I meant to mention this earlier. Uh I wanted to thank Automobile Alley, Inc. for a gift they made to Oklahoma City in the amount of $20,000. Currently, 20,000 in funds is available for the Automobile Alley Street Enhancement Project. Automobile Alley would like to donate an additional 20,000 to increase the art award. Um, so thank you uh to Automobile Alley. >> Thank you. Um, that concludes comments from council. We're now on item 13, citizens to be heard. Uh, Alisa How, Alisa How, 6208 Northwest 36th Street. Mayor, members of council, city attorney, and members of the public. At the last council meeting, February 10, 2026, I read the definition of bribery because what happened here should alarm every resident of this city. We didn't hear rumors. We didn't rely on backroom whispers. We watched it unfold during a public meeting on the record in real time. We watched a delay or deny vote change after negotiations happened right here in this chamber and an amendment was drafted accepting the bribe. That amendment included transfer of three to five acres. When a public decision changes after live negotiation over something of value, that's not standard procedure. That's the shape of correction performed in public. When I left this chamber, I didn't just vent. I called the FBI hotline and reported what I believe to be public corruption. I did that because accountability isn't a talking point, it's a duty and residents shouldn't have to beg their government to act lawfully. After speaking with the FBI or actually the FBI recommended I also report this to the state attorney general, which I did, I and called and I followed their direction and they also recommended that I contact the city attorney. They gave me the phone number to call. That number routed me to the pothole complaint department. Now, that would be absurd if it wasn't so revealing. Now, the staff was professional. They told me the proper step, put it in writing, and sent it to the city attorney at address provided. So, I did that. I wrote the complaint. I documented what I witnessed. I followed every instruction I was given. And I'm here today to do the next step in full public view. I am requesting to handdel my written complaint to the city councelor right now and I'm asking it to be accepted on the record. The state attorney general's office assured me this would be handled with justice and care by the city attorney's office. I hope that's true because the public is watching what happens next. Integrity isn't what anyone says while they're in the room. Integrity is what happens when corruption is named out loud in public and the system is forced to respond. Thank you, >> Clarence Ellis. Let me turn around. >> Sure. There's there's a there's a microphone down below you >> is not >> okay that's okay. >> I think he's >> good just Here it is. Here it is. >> Oh. Oh. Okay. Let me face these people I'm talking to. I lost my parters, y'all. But I'm not going that's not going to stop me from doing this. >> Can y'all hear me? >> Yes. >> All right. Uh my name is uh first of all, I'd like to say good morning to the mayor and the city council. Okay. My name is Clarence Ellis Jr. and I live at 442 24 Northwest 47th Street in Warres. The reason why I'm here today, folks, is to honor my neighbor, Mrs. Mary Matilda Factory. She's 107 years old. She is my neighbor. She's two houses up from me. She worked on the chips for Apollo 11 rocket that went to the moon. I'm here to uh to honor Miss Factory and to share with the city the proclamation that I got from the governor stick. This piece of paper it means a lot to me and it would mean a lot to her and her kids. The what's missing is for the governor himself to present this to Miss Factory. And the reason why I'm here is to uh extend that opportunity to you mayor uh hope for Miss Factory and uh to commemorate her achievements. Um she was honored on a national level by the Continental Sorities Inc. is is uh sororities in our 50 states. um she was inducted into the membership hall of fame for that sorority and it's just a real nice lady to know. We're going to have a ceremony in War Acres. I'm inviting you uh James Cooper War 2 I think is Warres and one other city councilman. From my research, I found out that it only can be one or two or three city councilmen at any particular gathering because of the quorum conflict. And I'm aware of that. So, I'm personally inviting you March the 14th at American Legion 6101 Northwest 50th Street at the American Legion. Uh the commander's name is uh Carol Doss and we're going to have some barbecue and have a ceremony to commemorate Mrs. Factory. Now she's back and forth from U Oklahoma City to Macau for doctor appointments. >> 30 seconds. So, I intend to set up a Zoom meeting of some type to uh have the governor present this to him to her in person, either by Zoom, phone, or call something to to hear it from her personally. It' be more uh honorable, I would think. So, uh Mayor Ho, the invitation is there. I'll get you the date and time. Okay. >> Okay. Bailey in my office will meet you out in the lobby to kind of Okay. Thank you, sir. Accept that. Thank you. >> My complex on these portions, Miss Amy, I would like for you to attend. Uh you got the uh the u schedule requests. No, no. The governor got the schedule request for the governor's got the schedule request for this. I'm asking for whatever process it takes for you guys to chip in from this factory. Okay. >> All right. Yeah. Bailey will uh chat with you out in the lobby. Bailey Cyber. >> Thank y'all very much and I appreciate y'all's time. >> Thank you. >> All right, Ronnie Kirk. >> Okay. Thank you. >> My name My name is Ronnie Kirk. My address is 23 28 North, Missouri. Today I come to the council as a messenger. Our government is in much need of repair. We're in a in a fight against good and evil. So far in the fight, we win. Mr. Mayor, when you and the young man that own this property what ICE were trying to rent, y'all stop the government in his tracks. Stop the government in its tracks. Baltimore, they're trying to get the ICE. turn on the body cams that they already have. All I say to our mar our governor, he slapped them in the face. The government told him if I can't bring all the governors, I ain't gonna bring none of them. You could see it hurt the president's ego so bad his first turn red. Astradamus he predicted World War I. He predicted the Merl building bomb. He predicted Martin Luther King assassination. He also predict the death of the Kennedy brothers. So the fight against good and evil and Satan Notra said Satan will walk among us. Everybody will know him. He'll be in the form of a man. the form of a man. So why is in the form of a man? Y'all are going great at this fight to take him down. >> 30 seconds. >> So if all our city leaders, our government leaders would come together, have the ice to take off their mask, that's still part of the fight. Don't let them come in the state without a mask on. So if all my citizen, all the city leaders and state leaders come together, it just take a matter of votes for them to take their mask off. It's not much to really ask. You already winning the fight. Go ahead and knock the Satan all the way down and leave him down. The other states will follow. Mr. M you did a great job of starting this. >> Thank you, Ronnie. >> All right. >> All right. That concludes item 13, citizens to be heard, which brings us item 14, adjournment. And we are adjourned.