e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e good morning we're going to get started this morning with an invocation led by Pastor Janine Blount of Crestwood Vineyard Church and that will be followed by the Pledge of Allegiance led by Emily shade representing Girl Scout Troop 5178 please stand as you are able we thank you Jesus for the honor of serving our beloved Oklahoma City this morning I pray for each of our city council members that you would fill them with wisdom and Justice I pray for mayor Holt as you demonstrate your leadership through him I pray for the staff of this city that you would encourage their hearts in the good work that they are doing I pray also for the people of Oklahoma City from every corner every demographic you know every Triumph and every struggle Lord have mercy on us lead us into the future that you envision for a more whole more hope-filled Community as we open the city council meeting I ask that you fill each council member and every decision maker with hope compassion courage and Ingenuity I pray this in the name of the father son and the holy spirit amen please join me in the pledge of aliance I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one under God indivisible of liberty and justice for all thank you Pastor Blount and thank you Emily I call this meeting of the city council to order and we have a presentation to make and so I'll ask uh our friends from the Oklahoma City film industry to join me down front well one of the incredible developments of the last few years um and maybe people would think it was improbable but uh these folks made it happen and uh as been the growth of our Oklahoma City Film Community um and how it has really made a national impact which you'll hear a little bit about here in this uh resolution uh later today in our meeting uh I think we have something substantive uh regarding um the film industry as we continue to implement our uh film credit our film incentive that we created here in Oklahoma City and uh also later today I think we'll announce our official designation which Jill Simpson may talk about here in a moment but right at this moment we just wanted to celebrate uh the film industry in Oklahoma City and so I would ask the clerk to read this Proclamation whereas the City of Oklahoma City and the greater Oklahoma City Chamber established the Oklahoma City film and creative Industries Office in 2022 and is celebrating two years of success supporting central Oklahoma as the premier destination for motion picture television and and Commercial Productions in the state and whereas the Oklahoma City film and creative Industries Office administers OKC's film and ctive program connects film Productions with local resources provides location scouting Services offers an online directory to support local service companies provides lodging assistance and is the liaison between film companies and the city special events office and whereas the Oklahoma City film and creative Industries Office emphasizes Economic Development inclusivity and the creation of a thriving production environment and whereas in addition to the state of Oklahoma's rebate program Oklahoma City offers an incentive program to attract Productions which encourages the film industry to flourish and whereas the Oklahoma City special events office in public information processed 177 permits for production companies to film in Oklahoma City over the past 3 years some of the biggest Productions shot in Oklahoma City since 2021 include agus American Ninja Warrior American Underdog Country Gold Jurassic pet Reagan Stillwater Twisters Tulsa King and what rhymes with reason and whereas the movie Twisters resulted in a 117 million doll impact Statewide with $42.6 million spent in Oklahoma City involving more than 300 Oklahoma vendors hiring more than 1700 Oklahomans and resulting in 28,000 Hotel nights in OKC and whereas Oklahoma City is the home of many successful Production Studios including Prairie surf Studios filmmakers Ranch boiling point media Apex post OKC and onet studio and was ranked 13th out of the top 25 major North American cities by Movie Maker magazine as the best places to live and work as a movie maker for 2025 and whereas Oklahoma City is also home to the dead center Film Festival the state's largest and most prestigious film festival and is one of only 27 film festivals with Oscar qualifying distinction in all three short film categories and whereas Oklahoma City has achieved the film-friendly city designation from the Oklahoma film and music office now therefore I David halt mayor of the City of Oklahoma City do hereby Proclaim January 14 2025 to be film day in Oklahoma city thank you yes um so I first met uh Jill it it's scary to say Jo it's probably almost 20 years ago now uh when you were running the state film office so it was a real coup when we got you uh here in Oklahoma City to run our new Oklahoma City film and creative Industries Office and and uh you have uh been an amazing leader for this industry in these last few years here in Oklahoma City and certainly all of this success uh wouldn't be possible without you we would love to hear a few words from you on behalf of all the folks we've got up here today sure well first of all thank you for this honor Oklahoma City film and music office thank you for the proclamation and as you said we go back 20 years and everything you're seeing happening now has Tak years to achieve and all these people up here play a role a key role in making it happen we're building a homegrown industry in Oklahoma and in Oklahoma City and I am just blown away by the support of Oklahoma city mayor Holt his team the economic development trust we have an incentive program that is becoming popular I'm about to recommend I think our seventh project today we just got the final rebate application for Twisters they spent more than they even thought they were going to spend here which is a huge success and we're at a critical time when we want to keep growing this as we want to make this an Oklahoma industry for everybody and I'm just really appreciative and it makes me burst with pride to see how far we've come so thank you everybody who played a part in it absolutely let's hear it for all the folks up here thank you so much happy film day thank you okay on Office of the mayor we have an appointment to the library a reappointment to the library commission we could take a motion on that got a motion in a second cast your votes uh we had several not recorded did let you vote getting closer can you ENT can you okay so he votes I sometimes the first one's kind of a trial and error very good thank you all right passes you passes unanimously all right item 3B this is um a resolution I've brought forward always trying to find kind of the right balance in our process is our internal process cesses as a legislative body you know the vast majority of items that we consider are only on one meeting agenda there are some exceptions to that our Charter calls for ordinance changes to be on two meeting agendas unless an emergency is adopted there's a hodgepodge of other um requirements that are a result of either State Statute or federal granting requirements um but the council also layered a couple on over the last 15 years through adoption of resolutions in 2010 and 2018 um that I proposing to resend today the 2010 resolution related to ordinance changes at that time the council was meeting weekly and so an ordinance change that would appear on two Council agendas would really only be in the public domain for 12 days but since that time we now meet bi-weekly which brings that total to 19 days absent the 2010 resolution but with the 2010 resolution it's now at 32 days and I really think that that was never the intent and that the change in our schedule brought about uh the original intended um outcome there and then I voted for the resolutions in 2018 um that I'm now proposing to resend but um really have found that uh through the experience of the last uh five six years um that they're just not necessary I mean that's a subjective View and people can certainly have uh a different one but I can't ult ultimately come up with a reason why these particular types of items the sale of real property and economic development incentive allocations should um have a different hearing schedule than other items that um that we entertain so with that I yield for it's kind of a simple explanation it's not a very complicated proposal uh I yield for any questions or comments um I so I just want to clarify so I think the 2010 one makes a lot of sense because like you mention the schedule has changed so it's sort of the same amount of time it sounds like that like you said things are sort of in the public domain um I think I sort of have concerns um with the particularly with the economic development um items um because so I just kind of want to clarify for those ones so those would just be introduced and voted on in one meeting correct although to to expand on that answer if I may those items are also considered publicly at Economic Development trusts and then in some cases Craig correct me here um we sometimes we will see them twice right because our initial vote is to open a negotiation right and then later we actually have like months later sometimes we have a vote on the actual allocation is that correct so we'll we'll do the allocation of funds approve the allocation but then they'll come to go back so it be in the economic development trust they'll approve the allocation it'll come to to the council be it approves as an allocation then it will go back with an economic development agreement in most cases to the economic development trust and then it comes to us on the concurrence Docket in that case so in those cases they'll flow back through again so yes to your question literally but those added yeah and I think my CU I yeah I think the agreements sort of feel a little perfunctory because they're we don't really actually have any authority to like do anything about it at that point um we're just concurring um but I think the allocation is where I still have questions and I I appreciate the process we have of the introduction and presentation at one meeting and then the next meeting the public hearing and a a potential consideration for a vote potent particularly because I think the average Oklahoma City resident does not know the economic development trust exists um and so they might hear about something going on but don't really know like where they're supposed to be directing their um sort of like uh advocacy or questions um and then I think even for Council Members you know it's like I sort of hear those things trickling to me through maybe the news or sometimes through like a a briefing of some kind or you know a memo but the ability to have the meeting with the introduction and presentation and then two weeks to kind of allow for more conversation um you know talking to people talking to the um folks that are you know requesting the allocation is a helpful process just given our limited time um as council members um to be able to get those things scheduled when they're not sort of um on our docket if you will sure I think what I'd say and you don't have to find my my response persuasive but I think for me in in weighing this first of all you know what is different in my mind with these types of items versus the many many other things that are on a typical Council agenda that are currently only at one meeting schedule secondly um you know on economic development in CES particularly I want us to be as Pro business as possible um this has been a little bit tense sometimes over the last six years with some of our um targets that we're recing um it's not always been ideal that uh we have a two meeting agenda I'm not saying it's like cost us anything it's it's just it's just something it's a factor I've considered um also I've kind of got the real life experience of the last six years since we adopted this resolution I wouldn't say I could guarantee we've never had someone speak on one of these but it's close to that and so it doesn't seem like the necessity is there um and then finally I would say if there's ever anything that people are are concerned about on this body um I would say deferrals are generally pretty freely given I'm not saying it's always a guarantee that you that a council member can get a deferral um but if there's really some question or some uh concern um you know we always have the power to slow down the process and add another meeting to this uh consideration of an item so those would be my response to that it is a weighing of interest and and I this does not have to be uh unanimous vote on this resolution if if anyone is less than thrilled with every aspect of it well and while we might not have had people come speak I know I've taken the time often to take those two weeks between the introduction and the vote to to have more conversations or um yeah like take meetings with people that have concerns questions or even with like I said the often the person um presenting the or like requesting the allocation um just to get a little more information if that meeting more often than not is not requested ahead of time time um unless it's maybe like in my ward or something and I think these are a little bit different in my mind because they are an allocation of funds that are the public and so um you know I that's sort of where I'm sitting with it I think like I appreciate the sort of that change in our our schedule but I think the like introduction presentation um at a meeting that like we are the elected people the economic development trust are not that I know there a few people who are electeds on it but they are on an elected body and so having like trying to find that balance I think like for us we have a little bit more um you know accountability to the public to have a have a little more time so I guess my request is if we could consider a um a deferral of this to have more conversation about that item and maybe find like an amendment to the the 2018 resolution and maybe take a vote on the 2 I don't know how uh procedurally we we would be able to separate those if we could vote on the 2010 one today and then defer the 2018 one for a little more conversation um or if there's a way to amend said resolution to sort of hold on to the 2018 one while still uh passing I think it's I think what you could do which would be efficient is because I do seem like there's a lot more it's kind of just a difference of opinion I think what you could do is move today to amend the resolution to take out the resent resending of the 28 2018 resolution relative to Economic Development incentives and then we don't have to come up with the exact words because it's that's a fairly simple motion Kenny would just clean it up if the amendment passed okay would would you like to make that yes I'd like to make that motion okay so the motion the councilwoman Hammond is making is to amend the proposed resolution at 3B to delete the resending of the September 28th 2018 resolution that pertains to the allocation of Economic Development incentives yeah and before we vote on that I'd like to echo on your comments and uh I think the pro business factor is what weighs really heavily on my mind as far as economic incentives are concerned and I I then thought about it this weekend you know what are what are the procedural mechanisms that we have available to deal with this and you brought up the deferral we also have an emergency so we have ways to deal with this if there's uh needed extra time for public comments so I'm going to be voting against that Amendment thank you okay all right why don't we bring that up electronically you've heard it described we have a motion in a second cast your votes motion fails 2 to 7 so we're back on the resolution um as originally proposed are there any other comments or questions I'll move I'll move the resolution at this time please your honor okay so yes hi um just clarification um was my predecessor involved in 2018 in proposing this particular yes the W 2 council member in 2018 was the author of those two resolutions on September thir 28th of 2018 and the council approved it yes and and I voted for it but I've come to believe I've come to agree with the argument against it that was presented at the time that it's just not really necessary I'm a bit torn if I'm being sure that's okay you yeah um on the one hand I hear what you're saying I support you uh if I recall and I was a trustee on the transit trust at the time so I was following the council conversations um the his argument was right that extra moment of this is an introduction we've learned about this item and now maybe we need a couple weeks to reflect on what we've just learned I can't think of how many times on this horseshoe right across from me there has been a moment where something has come up from a Friday agenda right we learned about it on this body learns about it on a Friday we have Friday Saturday Sunday Monday where we are reading about it it gets to this Horseshoe in this packet that's like this thick and then a council member says they would like a two-e deferral to reflect on what they've learned so when councilman shadid proposed that item back in 2018 I think he was I not I think I know because I had conversations about his concerns regarding that brief turnaround from the agenda becoming public to the Tuesday council meeting that when he introduced that item it was to give the council members and the public an additional time to reflect on to councilwoman Hammond's point that for example if you have the gold Dome coming up and you have $7 million worth of taxpayer dollars $7 million that then there was two weeks to reflect on the information that this body digest in the presentation I understand yeah counter argument so it kind of puts me in a very um you will not offend me however you vote it you know you say that I don't I'll save that offense for some other uh initiative this this one is fine it's a hard one for me because it is literally something my predecessor that's what I would like for the public to think about here my predecessor put that in motion I do not always agree with my predecessor as many people know um but it was just that extra couple weeks and I'm not trying to be combative I it's just a little bit of a rock in a hard place mayor well and I think I mean to your point about asking for deferrals and how that you know in my experience of six years on the Horseshoe um as someone who is often uh request deferrals and is denied them that is my concern is not H not if there are concerns by one or two members um not being granted that deferral with that time um particularly thinking about something like the goldome um where it's something that's in my ward um you know when it's Ward spe you know it feels like maybe that would be granted but just not not having to like throw the dice on that concerns me um B based on how the makeup of council might change over time and having something somewhat standard that the public can rely on um is is where I sort of sit of people knowing sort of what to expect versus um kind of having to to throw the dice on whether a deferral will be um approved or not again based on the makeup of council so and I would just add one more thing I hear this language Pro business and I am Pro business I have laid out on this Council in detail how we could further invest in small businesses and getting people connected to becoming small business own owners taking up shop in our commercial corridors that we are redeveloping right now I am Pro business I worry and this is kind of the councilwoman Hammond's point that sometimes this body a majority on this body and maybe this is conversations we need to be having in private as well but I worry sometimes that some of this body thinks that I'm not pro business because I want to slow down a process and learn a little bit more so like the goldome I support but it needed some time I needed to kick the tires a little bit more and I worry that in these moments of saying can we have like a two we deferral that the rest of this body like no it's already gone through the process in fact I've heard many times on this body where another council member has said it went through the economic development trust already it's already had its tires kicked there's no reason for this body to kick the tires anymore I hear that all the time I could roll the tape and so I I don't know that that's actually what's going to come and I actually think that that Pro business language I just heard up here is precisely why a majority of this body wouldn't do that because they don't ever want to be they don't want someone to run an ad against them in a political campaign saying that they're not pro business that's the truth of it and I'm just a little bit more I believe in word two being critical thinkers that they be like oh no you actually just wanted a little bit of slow down in that process and that's partially why Ed shid did that because even Republicans in my word want us to take a little bit of time to think about the stewardship of our tax dollars it's it's not a partisan issue so I would love to believe mayor that what you said is true that there would be a opportunity for a twoe deferral but I don't know that I see that coming based on past precedent so it just puts me in a weird position I'm so sorry I you know you and I normally are on about the same page I this this time we're just a little little off this is uh certainly reasonable people can disagree on these internal processes and finding the right balance so we have a motion on the table to uh adopt the resolution is there a well I guess we've got it up virtually we can go ahead and handle it that way all right we have a working on we have a motion and a second cast your votes which word word eight have you voted Mark I voted okay he is how do you wish to vote V yes okay passes 7 to2 thank you all very much okay item 3C 3C is a resolution uh approving travel expenses for me to attend the US Conference of Mayor winter leadership meeting in February we could take a motion on that we have a motion in a second cast your votes counc passes 8 to one and with the required six affirmative votes that concludes Office of the mayor now we are at item four items from Council we have a resolution at item 4A approving travel expenses for Council Members Bradley Carter and Mark ston Cipher to attend the national league of cities conference in DC in March we have a motion in a second cast your votes passes 8 to one and with the necessary six affirmative votes item five are city manager reports Mr city manager I do not have any reports today we've got claims and payroll on and that can be found at okc.gov thank you very much item six Journal of council proceedings we have items A and B we could take with one motion we have a motion in a second cast your votes passes unanimously item seven request for uncontested continuances item 11b is already listed on the agenda as being deferred till January 28th uh what else might we have Mr city manager we do have a few items on starting on page six item 9 a this is the goldome pre project um there's no issue with the project everything's moving forward appropriately uh just had a conflict that came up that was out of the developers control couldn't be here to present the project so we're just going to strike this item and then we'll bring it back in another date probably next week but I want to make sure we can get it scheduled properly next meeting you mean I'm sorry next meeting and then on page nine item that was that was 9 AR this one is um 11 H1 and secured structures all these items will be stricken from the agenda item a 2517 Spring Valley Lane to rework as a dilapidated structure Item B is 3831 Northwest 10th Street uh the owner is secured item C is 2307 Southeast 13th Street the owner is secured and then on continuing page nine item 11 i1 abandoned buildings these are stricken from the agenda for the same reasons as under uncute structures Item B 3831 Northwest 10th Street and item C 2307 Southeast 3 Street and that's all the items that I have all right with that objection that will be the order item eight revocable permits and events we have none so we will recess the council meeting and Rec and convene as the Oklahoma City Municipal facilities Authority where we have items a through D we could take with one motion have a motion and a second cast your votes passes unanimously we'll adjourn OC MFA and convene as the Oklahoma City public property Authority where we have items a through C we can take with one motion got a motion and a second cast your votes passes unanimously we adjourn ocpa and and reconvene the council where we are on item nine the consent docket and we have one presentation now for item AQ and that's it is there any other item that a council member wishes to pull out for a separate vote comment question could we uh hear a little bit more on item p is in Paul please and uh item v as well did you say v v is in Victor got it okay anything else no mayor thank you so much all right uh then we'll take them in order which means we'll start with you councilman James Cooper item P yes I can see director Miller already uh heading up here could you tell us just a little bit more and thank you I received this morning on my desk all this well you go ah tell us a little bit more about what's happening um item p is to advertise plans and specifications for um a sidewalk project along Northwest Expressway it extends from Northwest 63rd all the way over um to vill Villa is filling in it's um doesn't include the Hefner bridge that is in a previous project that we've already done but once these three projects are complete we will have sidewalk along Northwest Expressway do y all hear that that Cassidy W two like y'all I just want to take a moment that I when I I am serious I thank you so much because you all you're pulling from would you tell us about the different Revenue sources you're pulling from here yes um the previous project that was approved was arpa funding um this is a um it's Capital Improvements it's a better Street safer cities some of that and some Bond yeah I'm going to tell youall right now when I first ran back in 2019 did not even dream of touching Northwest Expressway because it was still a highway and the idea that we could do anything pedestrian on that stretch just I I just thought everyone would fight me and there would be no way to do it and I just can't thank City staff enough I really can't director Miller and planning uh I will never forget the first sidewalk we got from the brt station in front of Penn connecting up to the library and now when I see people using that to go to the library that that's like real material change in people's lives I just think that's incredible and I just when I when when I looked last night at what you told me to also put on my desk to see the sidewalks all up and down Northwest Expressway they'll remember what we've done for Generations after this they will remember and we're not done yet so I think we're lining these sidewalks with trees to kind of create some buffers along the way over time um so for people people feeling not safe walking that expressway so just want you to know it's ultimately about making that Transit uh cord door a more pedestrian friendly one so people who are getting off those different brt stations can have access into their neighborhoods and to the Oak into pinare mall and bile and tgis these sorts of things so thanks we'll stay with you item feie Miller Public Works sorry I forgot to say that before um this is the final acceptance of a phase five of deep Fort Trail um this is the first phase that's been completed it is from 63rd it's on gram from 63rd to the i44 ramp I'm very excited about this project too especially because of the connectivity it gives us across or under rather i44 um I've heard some concerns and I'm curious what we're doing as City staff um related to and I've I've had this concern just kind of thinking about uh lighting and safety through there and then I'm you know homelessness continues to be a a an issue that we're addressing as a city um and I've heard some people as the Trail's been under construction bring to my attention that they've seen some encampments back there um and so I'm just wondering are we already coordinating with our homelessness service providers or uh Jamie caves here in the city what is our kind of planned to think about Outreach to folk who might find themselves housing in various tents Etc along this Trail well I know the parks department has been using some solar lighting to light some of their trails and so we've been putting in those with all of the Trails um whenever we see an encampment we do let the homeless Outreach team know that we have found a camp an encampment back there and then we work with them however we can assist okay it almost makes me wonder and maybe we seem to talk more offline about this and I'd like to hear more from maybe planning staff and you and homelessness and Parks but you know I think there are going to be users of this Trail um who are going to maybe just like you mentioned Public Works employees seeing someone experiencing homelessness you know what to do right you're like all right key to home street Outreach team I almost wonder if there couldn't be like again just thinking aloud and we can figure this out but almost wonder what if there weren't like signage along that trail that actually said a version of what our little key to home uh pamphlet says where it's almost like see someone experiencing homelessness contact the action center and that might actually be something for the person experiencing homelessness too again I'm just thinking aloud right now this is something that a little again kind of going to my earlier comment a little bit more thought and kicking tires could probably even get it right and maybe this is something we need to be thinking about so I've heard people talk about the trails along the river too right I know in fact I think city manager and I'm seeing councilwoman Peck nodding and agree you know acknowledging that this has been an issue that I know you all have raised to me about the trail along the river maybe there are opportunities where if we can actually put public signage up to kind of Empower people to be like hey when you see someone experiencing homelessness this is who you need to reach out to I'm not promising you all Utopia and sudden proof it's all done but at least this way it could say oh I was on a jog and I saw someone and Bop in my smartphone yeah I I think that's a really good idea that we we could look at what we can do to better communicate that and SST could be one I would just say what you said about keah home developing a strategy where we're all working together as a team and then trying to direct all those calls into action center certainly simplifies the messaging on that and makes it easier to communicate that so we'll look at different ways that we might be able to do that yeah thank thank you thank you director M okay we have a citizen who's signed up to speak on item AO uh Gary Jones good morning mayor city council really didn't have much to say I remember a little speech that a councilman gave and says you know we usually only ever hear you guys when there is a problem so we have made it a point that whenever you're doing something good we want to make sure we lift it up and we think this is a good thing as you know we appreciate the work that went into the creation of the new home sharing ordinance but we also agreed and support that enforcement is key and this of course purchase we believe is an important part of that and wholeheartedly support this and other initiatives to ensure that the enforcement component that we talked about in the home sharing ordinance will be implemented so thank you and keep up the good work thank you now we have a presentation on item AQ uh Mr city manager yes Kenny sudel uh the executive director of the hom sance will come and give us a an introduction of this project uh this is one of our allocations um on economic development and it's related to the um Palomar project so I'll let Kenny introduce the project and introduce our speaker yeah thank you mayor council Kenny sud at the alliance this is a unique uh public private partnership and wanted to give you just a little bit of background a little bit of overall information then we'll have a presentation but this is this specifically what we're talking about is a parking garage that will support uh the Palomar project but I want to talk about that in whole um so as part of this and many of you are familiar with Palomar and that it's a Maps 4 project and there's you know project underway to build them a new building but there's also a need for parking so specifically what we're talking about today is a 309 space parking garage 130 of those spaces will be dedicated to Palomar and really this is unique in that there will be funds from Maps 4 about $3.5 million and then funds from Tiff 2 about 2.2 million put together to help fund that that portion of the development of the garage and what that will provide is 30 years of parking for free to Palomar so it's not for free I mean it's paid up front but it's it's pre-funded in addition there's a second piece to this so that's that's one allocation is a 2.2 million from um uh map uh uh Tiff 2 the downtown Tiff but the other one is this is also in the new class and Corridor Tiff so ongoing there will be a what we're proposing is a pay you go Tiff which is structured as uh 95% of the taxes returned just on the parking garage for 10 years and 80% for another five and then 50% for the remainder of the Tiff District to help provide a very small return on this project uh Chris Fleming is here and going to talk about this give a presentation you'll see that really there's several things involved here not only the donation of land for the actual Palmar building but also kind of some you know putting land in on the garage not taking a developer fee Etc so this is a way to kind of help make this have a very small return and as as with all these this has been uh considered at the Tiff Review Committee and also the economic development trust so this is the next step in the process I'll turn it over to Chris thank you Kenny Chris Fleming 111 North Broadway site 400 thanks for the opportunity uh to speak on this today um it truly is a public private and philanthropic partnership to get this done um we've been working with City staff for a long time and and map's office um to figure out a way to to make this work um so do I get to drive this at all or do you get to drive it you tell me okay CU I have a point her there we go um so 2015 Palomar was kind of an idea um we had just purchased a building um former headquarters for North car it was at 10th and or 11th in Hudson and palamar Leadership came and say hey before you tear that building down we have an idea for you what if we put Palomar here and so we worked on that with Palomar um we structured a a financial Arrangement where basically the operating cost of the building or what they pay in rent and so to kind of put that in Easy terms it's like less than half of what it would cost for a self storage unit on a per square foot basis is what Palomar has paid in rent um since since its beginning um in 2017 they moved in 2018 2019 kind of the idea including it into Maps 4 came about and and then here 2026 um everything goes right they should open um in the new facility currently the facility again is 11th in Hudson which is um in Midtown which is along the street car route and this is what it looks like um we call it the little building that could because a lot of good has come out of it and it just keeps on figuring out how to do that but it is it is pretty uh pretty well at the end of its useful life so along comes with maps 4 project um said well palamar has done great in Midtown what if it stayed in Midtown how could we figure out how to make that happen um we have a site that's directly to the west of the current Palomar facility on the other corner of 11th and Hudson this is a street view from that uh site uh where we could uh you know we were willing to donate the land for you know underly the New Palomar building um but then where does Palomar Park and so we worked on on uh this in collaboration with the maps office and David Todd's team and also the Palomar Architects and the Palomar leadership and staff to create a garage plan that uh fully integrates and and addresses the needs of the Palomar team while also um replacing displaced parking that the garage itself displaces and provides a little bit of parking for future growth as well uh this is a r wondering if people remember of the of the Palomar facility again this is the same view that we just looked at um from street view this is on the 11th Street View so it's kind of the back side of the Palomar buildings on your left the parking garage is on your right um sources and uses so it's around a $12 million project um we are as developer land owner um forgoing a developer fee and also donating the value of the land into the project um so in addition to donating the land to the New Palomar building we're we're not including the value of the land in this project and so it's been you know put together with lots of different sources to make the numbers Balan um and been structured in a way that accomplishes hopefully everyone's needs um this is kind of what Kenny had run through um in his in his introduction um palore ends up with 130 spaces for free for 30 years and there's four fiveyear renewal options after that uh we might be in flying cars by then councilman Cooper you might know more I don't know you tell us where we're going to be there so uh gives everybody flexibility as we get uh further in the future uh to not obligate the city if we don't need to um and then you know end of the day you know we just don't want to lose money on the deal and so um you know we're fine we're fine breaking even the you know the the Roi cash on cash on that is basically the same as our you know cost of funds plus or minus depending on what interest rates do um but we're you know excited to work with you know continue to work with the city on this um to get this done so any questions along the way I'd just like to say how much I appreciate you working with Palomar um great organization that does fantastic things for our community so thank you for that yeah we agree and I I'm really glad uh councilman Stone slowed us down there and acknowledged the actual service that palamar provides um I was in uh Southeast Oklahoma this weekend which is where my father and mother are from Mom's from Texana and as I've spoken from this horseshoe before um in my mom's first marriage there was incredible violence and um in the second marriage unfortunately with my father there was um that violence as well but Oklahoma seems to be is it number two in the country for domestic violence number two um so what was happening in my home was is unfortunately something that haunts many homes in this uh State um and I just pulled up an article uh you know when it comes to women uh there was a recent article that said said that uh women's economic and social well-being that Oklahoma ranks 50 so when you heard me earlier talk about being pro business what I mean is I think we have to make sure women are and not just women but anybody has the tools they need to be able to take care of themselves when they are in a relationship with somebody else and often times people will use economics over their partner to keep them in these dangerous relationships um I've had middle school students whose parents have gotten out of those situations and have talked to me about the economic uh violence done to them no don't leave this relationship you'll never you'll never be able to take care of yourself ma'am these sorts of things um so I just I'm I'm glad you slowed us down there Todd because I think we need to remember why we're doing this service um so when we are sending a message out to the rest of the country that Oklahoma is open for business and they see these statistics saying that we're number 50 Oklahoma City it's important we say that in this city we are combating those statistics that the city is getting it better than the state and that will attract more businesses here when we say that we are doing it right in this city that is an important message we have got to contribute um as we are trying to attract business and retain our people that needs to be part of the conversation thank you you may have mentioned or Kenny and I may have just missed it but we have 130 dedicated parking spaces for Palomar the other 179 purpose usage so they'll support um one they're displacing around 100 so the garage displaces about 100 spots that exist on the surface today so part of it is for that to replace those those displaced spots and then part of it can serve um it's called a catalyst for future development in the neighborhood yeah the growing businesses in that area it will serve that that uh the hotels the restaurants and the businesses thank you y okay okay thank you very much all right well that concludes everything that had been pulled out on the consent docket we can now entertain a motion for adoption we have a motion in a second C your votes passes 7 to one all right item 10 is the concurrence docket uh there's nothing there today which brings us to item 11 items for individual consideration uh we have item 11a this is an ordinance on Final hearing that was recommended for approval resoning 5500 South highw wasi Road from AA to ra2 uh this does have a 78.7% protest uh councilman Stone no one has signed up to speak thank you may thank you mayor this project uh has gone from originally half acre lots to now minimum 2 acre size Lots so uh looks like a maximum of 12 Lots total on the whole project and with that I'll go ahead and move for its approval we have a motion in a second cast your votes passes unanimously and with the necessary super majority caused by the protest uh all right we're at Item B this is an ordinance on Final hearing that was Rec I'm sorry what oh yes you're absolutely right yes this is deferred already sorry item C is an ordinance on Final hearing that was recommended for approval resoning 641 Shiloh Boulevard from PUD 1933 to PUD 2033 uh councilwoman pck no one has signed to speak all right I've received um a handful of protest emails so David if you wouldn't mind just coming up and talking to the body about um the changes that the developer has made through the community meetings and that sort of thing sure David box 525 Northwest 11th Street Sarah could you show me uh the site plan please so as uh as you mentioned we had a community meeting before Planning Commission and one of the uh concerns that was raised was proximity of our site to their homes to the West uh and so what we ended up doing was we proposed a setback of 115 ft so the closest structure will be 115 ft from the property line uh we moved the dumpster location we moved uh or we added a playground we add very specific language as it relates to Landscaping in fact yes Nate CLA who is the uh chairman of the Planning Commission who's also here with us is a landscape architect and so if you read the language in our uh PUD about Landscaping it's very specific on types of trees uh burm requirements spacing of trees all to provide um a nice transition from the single family to ours we also modified Building height also worth noting we are on State Highway uh Frontage and we then we have commercial to our North duplex to our South so it is in an area where you would expect to see higher density um residential so with that and the changes made with the tees reflected on your memo Planning Commission did provide a recommendation for approval thank you David I think in light of the changes and I know that there are going to be a handful of folks that are not very happy about this but um the Mustang school district is an excellent School District in our city and I think that families have the opport need to have the opportunity to bring their kids out there just like this neighborhood has moved their families out uh to this part of our city and to enjoy the amenities and the school district that we have out there and we have a pretty limited number um of this level of housing in the ward especially as you move out um to the more Suburban areas so despite the handful of protests I am going to move this for approval and I appreciate all of the efforts on behalf of the applicant to try and um make it a little more amable uh to the neighbors and so thank you all right we have a motion minut a second cast your votes thank you passes unanimously uh item D is an ordinance on Final hearing recommended for approval resoning 3600 Northwest 178 street from c3aa and PUD 995 to PUD 20 36 councilman ston ciper no one has signed up to speak thank you uh this is an application to allow office and Commercial uses in uh far Northwest Oklahoma City at 178th Street there were no protests so I'll move for its approval at this time please we have a motion in a second cast your votes passes unanimously item e an ordinance on Final hearing it was recommended for approval resoning 571 south chocka from AA to PUD 2041 councilman Stone no one has signed up to speak thank you mayor uh this project is basically 13 Lots spread out over the course of 30 Acres the largest Lots situated next to the artill arterial roadway uh which is good so with that I'll go ahead and move for its approval got a motion and a second cast your votes passes unanimously okay item uh f is the public hearing regarding a proposed ordinance change uh related to our Capital Improvement plan am as anyone signer speak no they haven't they have not so we will close this public hearing and advance to the public hearing found at 11 G1 this is regarding the dilapidated structures here listed and we do have a citizen who signed up to speak Michael Washington 1004 please Michael Washington can someone Point these structurs and let me visualize what I'm about to speak on I appreciate it let's see what about uh oh we just have three let me see all can see all of them briefly just oh my goodness Lord have mercy got to do something with all that God Almighty man I'm on your side on that oh Lord keep going keep going Wow Wow for real okay okay I got you well well thank you sir I've seen I do have to agree here that such dilapidated unsecured structions are not only a detriment to society as a whole but certain to bring down property values of houses and businesses in that area it is a Marketplace for drug use homelessness and any other thing that could cause human life to be in Jeopardy my question though that seems to stand out most is if found to be dilapidated and a finalization is R according to a resolution declaring structures are dilapidated directing said structures to be torn down establishing dates of January 15 2025 and February 14 2025 for commencement and completion of removal by owners so in other words you're saying then that it's going to be torn down by the city and then owners have to pay for it more like what the property 30 days to come up with plan of action to comply if they're unable to then yes the city can issue a contract for demolition now see now it's that have no problem with because like I said you just can't leave something that's a detriment to society I mean to just dilapidate the bill is up so I agree with you I'm just trying to figure out so the others they ask me to speak on it so I go can tell them exactly what I heard from you and again like I said it's very important that these things be corrected now then if the owners doesn't come for a follow through and you te it down whose property does it become is it still owners if they don't pay you or how do that do you request to be sold to get your money how that work theity the city then will file a a lean after 6 months with the county but the city never takes possession of the property now then so I lean on it then if I don't pay you then you don't get anything so the property Ste mine in other words steal the property owners until tell the county if the county seizes it for non-payment of taxes or for non payment of that so as long as I keep over taxes 30 second long as I keep over tax is still mine but the county can come in and say that it needs to what no as long as you're paying your taxes on your property or you're paying for that lean or it's paid for then it's remains your property okay so it never do y'all never possess City never possesses okay that's all right we're at we're at time if you have any other questions I'm sure you can speak outside okay that concludes the public hear those who sign up to speak on the public hearing at G1 that brings us to the resolution at G2 declaring that the structures are dilapidated we have a motion in a second cast your votes passes unanimously all right H1 is the public hearing uh regarding the unsecured structures here listed except for those previously struck Amy has anyone signed up to speak no they haven't they have not and so we will advance to the resolution founded H2 declaring that the structures are unsecured have a motion in a second cast your votes passes unanimously item i1 is a public hearing regarding the abandoned buildings here listed except for those previously struck Amy has anyone sign up to speak no they haven't they have not and so we'll advance to the resolution founded I2 declaring the buildings are abandoned have motion a second cast your votes passes unanimously okay item J is a joint resolution with the Oklahoma City Economic Development trust uh regarding a proposed feature film Project Nostalgia and uh approving an allocation from our film and Center program for $309,450 we have a presentation yes Jill Simpson with the Oklahoma City film office is here to present this project pardon me you're just here to present the project yes go ahead good to see you good morning council members um we have a new rebate application for a project that we have code named Nostalgia it's an independent feature film it's about an 8.5 million budget which is a perfect spot for us comedi comedic Coming of Age story about a group of young people crossing the country going to see a green day con uh concert in Los Angeles and ironically one of the members of Green Day co-wrote the script and he has ties to Oklahoma City which I had no idea which is kind of cool filming dates are February 3rd to March 8th um the production team uh it's a producer Tim Perell out of New York they're filming at various locations around Oklahoma City there is no stage filming on this film it's all practical locations name cast attached um and it's a really exciting interesting project that we're thrilled to have they're intending to hire 85% of their crew locally their anticipated Oklahoma City expenditure is 6.1 almost $6.2 million uh they qualify at the 5% level they would have met all the criteria for 10% other than they're only filming half of the film here um they're qualified for the state rebate their expenditures are going to be more than a half million dollars right now there is some question over their production schedule it's influx a little bit so I'm in direct contact with the producers on a regular basis if at any point it appears they're not going to meet the 50% requirement I will be in immediate contact with you and we'll deal with it at the contract phase um but right now they're trying to find everything takes place here except for 4 days in Los Angeles at the Palladium but we're looking to find some exterior locations here that would pull some days back to Oklahoma City so that's the question mark um moving on recommended rebate allocation for the project at 5% is $ 39,43 um the estimated number of local hires is 756 people and that uh translates to 3500 work days 85% Oklahoma City residents qualifying labor income is a little over 4.1 million right now the schedule's in flux as I just described and we're looking at anywhere from 13 to 18 days in Oklahoma City Post production is still to be determined uh 50 trying to get to 52% filming days in Oklahoma City 85% of local crew majority of vendors will be Oklahoma City vendors and the these are the numbers after we ran them through our economic impact modeler at the state at the okom city Chamber the total impact for this film is $14.3 million jobs supported direct and indirect are $812 labor income is at 6.8 million qualified expenditures are roughly little below 6.2 million the taxable expenditures would be 779 ,100 below the line salary and pum for crew is and some of the day player cast is 3,440 206 above the line salary capped at 25% of the total spend ex 687 106 does anybody have any questions okay thank you thank you okay so you've heard the explanation we now have uh the opportunity to move the joint resolution we have a motion in a second cast your votes passes unanimously all right item K is a resolution receiving the housing affordability implementation plan and we have a presentation on this yes Jeff Butler our planning director is going to introduce this project it ties back to our housing study that was done a couple of years ago we continued working with our consultant um Jeff's going to introduce the project and our consultant who will present the implementation plan thank you yes Jeff Butler planning director uh we're happy to bring this uh forward to you at this time um I'm going to introduce David Schwarz who is uh representing uh consulting firms economic and planning systems and SGS economic and planning uh have been working on on this for uh some time now working with uh many local and National developers uh housing practitioners uh other cities housing organizations interviewing just to making sure that we're bringing uh the best practices possible and then kind of trying to customize a work plan and action plan that works for Oklahoma City so that we can kind of go to the next level in implementing affordable housing uh here in our community uh so with that I'll turn it over to David and he'll walk us through uh uh briefly the the uh the plan and uh we'll take questions and after that thank you thank you Jeff good morning mayor city manager and Council thank you for this opportunity to present to you an outline of the housing affordability implementation plan and in this 10minute or so presentation I'm going to give you a brief background um to the plan and update to the uh high level housing market indicators since the completion of that housing affordability study in 2021 and an outline of the plan's stages and goals first some background the findings and recommendations of that housing affordability study or I might I might um refer to it shorthand as the has established direction for this plan its recommendations were organized into the five themes as you see on the left side there um and on the right side the H also established some guidance for this implementation plan first being the recommendations that were being made uh in the as were holistic but they were not an All or Nothing strategy uh the implementation and delivery of the of the plan should not be the city's sole responsibility as an administrator um or convenor um and that the city should leverage existing resources structures and Partnerships as much as possible uh this implementation plan really also represents the evolution of strategic thinking going all the way back to plan OKC when it was um when it was adopted in uh 2013 plan OKC was a comprehensive included a comprehensive housing market assessment that I also worked on um 10 more than 10 years ago with recommendations that aimed at addressing current and future resident housing satisfaction issues through a variety of different neighborhood level infrastructure improvements and the trajectory was really continued in subsequent efforts um such as leading through the go in 2017 Maps 4 the H the strategies to uh address homelessness the development codes update which continues and the house and also the efforts of the housing stability Coalition while Market changes between plan OKC and the hasas were definitely captured in that study you may also be thinking about what's changed since the uh since the housing affordability study such as the pandemic job losses recovery supply chain disruptions inflation and high interest rates the question is have housing markets have having housing market conditions changed in such a way that the problems and recommendations in that study remain relevant so in the next five slides I'm just going to walk you through a few highlevel housing market indicators um to um to gauge whether that study's conclusions and recommendations uh really remain relevant first off is a quick look at the demand or growth pressures at the time we completed the has um the city the city's number of households had grown by approximately 20,000 65 % of which were renters between that time but in the three years since for which data are um available from the US Census in the in this in the uh in that in the correct um variable format um the city has experienced four times that growth increasing by 27,000 households in immense growth pressure on just a few years and the the um the complexion of the the growth has flipped from back to somewhat of a normal um uh owner rent or distribution of 65% owners um with that substantial attention being paid to markets and development feasibility um in the past few years um we expected to see a few Trends um so thanks to Gary Jones's colleagues at oakmar we were able to update some of the MLS data here in the slide which has shown so when we left things off in 2021 average prices were approximately $200,000 for an for existing and new uh average new uh average existing home price so between 20 2009 and 2020 prices had increased 59% or about 4.7% per year since then average prices have escalated at 50 escalated 50% to 300K um which represents about 11% annual appreciation so the um to see how this trend relates to affordability we've made a few standard assumptions as noted at the the bottom of the screen um which I'll just click through here as you might expect with increased um mortgage rates households with today's median income um of approximately $70,000 can afford not much more than they did in 2020 so now let's take a look at rental Trends again when we left off in 2021 rental rates had escalated at about 2% per year and since then have escalated at about 45% per year from an affordability perspective we looked at households earning 60% of the area median income um with some assumptions also noted at the bottom this is um this trend simply points to a continuous challenge for many households uh to find affordable rents particularly when accounting for utilities cost which account often account for approximately 5% of households um monthly payments and this is relevant um for a lot of reasons related to the findings of the has because this population relates to the community and service sector police um uh teachers nurses and other community and service sector Industries excuse me I'm I'm sorry you pause on that could you go back sure because I think there's some confusion sometimes who are we talking about here who's in this income bracket and and the amount of money that they're making a year cuz I think sometimes people would just slow down a little bit on on this particular number cuz I think there are still some people who think that as long as you've gone to college and you have good skills you should be able to afford the rent in Oklahoma City you should be able to afford to buy a house in Oklahoma City so long as you played by the rules and did it quite right I don't think that's what I'm hearing from you right now like who is in this income bracket who are our people what is the percent of our people uh who would have a struggle paying the current rent and owning a home right now it's a good question councilman uh Cooper I think that actually the next while while I can appreciate that there's a lot of information on this on this page this next slide does speak perhaps more to your question and more to your um your concern regarding um how much of one's income is being spent on housing Andor Andor rent so if we take a look at the uh these cost burden numbers um I think it's one one first important to Define that when a household is spending more than 30% of its gross income on housing or rent we say that they're cost burdened so at the completion of the H um there were approximately 68,000 and that number is actually not notated on the graph I apologize but at the time of the completion in in 2021 um and using 2019 data points um for that study there were approximately 68,000 cost burden households in the city that accounted that accounts for 28% of all the households in the city and a majority of those were renters and a majority of uh we and that those renter numbers are shown here in the dotted blue line and renters earning less than 60% of area meeting income are noted in the solid blue line which account for nearly all of the cost burden renters so when we're talking about those affordability Trends um councilman Cooper in the previous slide and and frankly for all of you to understand these these metrics we're talking about a sizable number of people who don't share in that same sort of um shall we say Prosperity that the that the remainder of the community is I think it's important to note that um in light of all of the presentations in all the context of of Economic Development um and really good things that are happening in the city um the has pointed out to a bit of A Tale of Two Cities there are two things going on there the city in large part is an affordable place to live but that prosperity and that and that access to affordability and safe and and and habitable housing isn't shared by all and I think that this trend in cost burden highlights the highlights where those group where that vulnerable population is and why the why the scale of needs and the targets that were identified in that study which this this plan is sort of oriented around addressing are so important to acknowledge thank you so as we continue down this this line here you can see I mean I think it's it's relevant to point out and you may have already looked at this on the right side of the screen um the number of cost burden households has has increased by nearly 9,000 in just the last three years of available data the number of cost burden renters has increased by 6,500 and all nearly all of whom were renters earning less than 60% of Ami um in the final look into housing metrics that underpin some of the some of the critical uh housing affordability study findings and recommendations um are loan denial rates and eviction rates in brief loan denial rates as you can see on the left side of the screen in the in the completion it has were um above National averages um 85% loan denial Citywide with 13.5% uh loan denial rate among African-American um uh prospective home buyers those were higher than the national R averages of about 6 and a half and and more about and 10 to 11% and by 2023 those loan denial rates in general had escalated um with loan denial rate reasons being primarily um debt to income levels and poor credit history for renters eviction rates have remained stubbornly High also above National averages at 14 perers experiencing eviction so reflecting on these Market updates I think it's reasonable to say that the scale of problem is still the scale of the problem is still relevant and still applicable as are the recommendations intended for exploration through this plan so as if you if you have the have this plan in front of you the material on the next few slides will closely follow table six on page 2 first stage one it's important to point out that this this plan is also not a rigid pathway but a series of guidelines for establishing accountability on the left side there setting priorities for Staffing and organizational structure the second column setting priorities for local investment which is really about leveraging a variety sources such as zoning economic resources public land Public Finance resources like Tiff or G and it's also about setting priorities and evaluating opportunities to leverage Partnerships all the way on the right hand side existing Partnerships emerging Partnerships non-traditional Partnerships with business sector um Partners Andor philanthropy and also exploring National partner potentials so once those policy those priorities have been established and opportunities begin to emerge stage two provides guidance for um on one hand improving development process efficiencies on the left side expanding existing programs to meet scaled needs as as um may be identified in the priority setting for example the major minor rehab program that the city already has and the down payment assistance program the city already has the third column establishing and exploring new programs such as introduction of a scaled affordable rental rehab program revolving Loan Fund and also a process for facilitating the establishment of a community land trust and finally the the the last pillar in this stage is to maintain the momentum that has been generated by a variety of those uh those efforts that continue today such as the housing stability Coalition uh the development codes update um and other structures to improve landlord tenant relations and also align with the key to home partnership efforts so down the line when some but not necessarily all of these initiatives may be up and running and metrics have been collected the STA this stage offers um guidance for evaluating programs for refining partner roles and responsibilities and also refining administrative um and organizational structures again this stage would not occur um at a specified point in time it may be somewhere 5 to 10 years from now it also is a reflection of the flexibility that is built into this plan um and not tied to the completion or adoption of any particular program or outcome so pulling our view back to 2025 these these these next steps in front of you represent a first shovel in the ground so to speak so securing funding for a principal housing position the key that key role a role that will be Central for coord ordinating processes in this plan the creation of an Advisory Group a body accountable to the public who will provide input to decisions and guidance at critical junctures and then progress on those first two goals will increase the chances of of being able to leverage outside capacity and capital as much as possible um through those through those next three pieces and as I close the presentation I'd just like to point out how taking action on these steps up front will be instrumental in laying a foundation for a positive longer term trajectory so thank you again for letting me present to you and I'm available for questions as our um colleagues in the in the planning department I think some of the information that's been provided to me recently is that that cities that have continued to add to its housing stock have been able to lower the rent growth rates uh one example is Milwaukee which uh from 2017 to 2022 increased its housing stock by 12% and thus the rents grew by just 1% I don't think we're experiencing that right now in Oklahoma City so I think the need for increased housing stock is essential and something we all really need to be focused on at this time thank you Council and stone CER that's exactly that's exactly right the um the um the the pressures that are alleviated in the market when um when new Supply that's quality Supply is added um and also the quality is addressed as well contribute to uh contribute to riting some of the problems that are addressed just real quickly I would like to say that the one thing that sticks out to me on this thing is I mean I love housing affordability it's something we really need to work towards and we're always going to have renters there's people that aren't able to purchase um aren't in a place in their life where they're going to purchase they might be hey I might be moving in a couple years I don't want to purchase but when you look at that 10-year graph right if you bought the house 10 years ago your payment's the same now insurance and taxes will go up on it right but you've just achieved 100,000 in equity with your home whereas if you're a renter your rent's gone up 4 and a half% every year and you don't have any equity in it and it's going to keep going up and as a city I just yeah we need to make sure that there's affordable rental rentals but at the same time we really need to be trying to to focus on and figure out how to make the housing more affordable for purchase versus rental you know when you purchase it as long as you don't get a adjustable rate mortgage you're pretty locked in right 10 years from now you're not going wow my rental went up 50% and I just I think it's important that we continue to push on that piece so thanks made a good point and if I may add to that Council and stone is that um the uh the cost burden numbers reflect that where you don't typically expect that um owners are cost burden because of the point that you just made when people take on a fixed rate mortgage um and the variability in rents contributes to that loss of Equity Building this this plan lays out a set a process and guidance for establishing priorities and also uh nav ating the legal hurdles and obstacles that may be in the way for the city to facilitate either directly or indirectly those opportunities to in increase uh uh households ability to take on a mortgage um to remedy that loan denial rate issue um through service through services and support but I think Community wealth building and Equity Building are a very important um outcome in promoting housing stability so I'd encourage the city to continue to pursue that well and one thing I'd like to kind of point out to sort of build on that like recognizing that some cost of Maintenance or maybe insurance or things well I pay for my own renters insurance so that's not a um cost that my uh landlord bears but um you know if if it is the case that the owner has the equity and their mortgage is staying the same then why my rent is going up is sort of a question to me because if their Co if their costs that they're paying to the bank are not going up why my rent needs to go up at a higher rate um to quote unquote achieve Market um is always the the question that I have for my my property manager every time they send me a lease renewal um so I think that's the other piece to it is being able to protect renters educate renters and tenants um both through advocacy to the state and um and making sure you know our landlord tenant Act is modernized and um brought into some sort of balance um so that that tenants have more legal protections um and and sort of yeah just like a Level Playing ground with their with the the person whose mortgage they're paying um but also from the city perspective you know being involved in and maybe it is just as a coordinating role through you know tenant education renters rights um so that you know renters have a better sense of where they can um sort of push the issue especially for landlords that are um really taking advantage of their tenants but um that's always the sort of question that continues to loom for me is that if someone's mortgage is staying the same why am I paying um more to them year to year uh if if the cost to you know do maintenance and and some of those other things are are maybe um not Rising as as quickly so I think that's the other piece is and I'm you know all for making sure that we're promoting and and finding ways to create ownership opportunities and that wealth building opportunity for people um but but also making sure that um we're sort of leveling the playing field for folks that and I think for me particularly you know when I sort of when you were showing those numbers you know when I look at that $40,000 that 60% of Ami that's me like without my council salary which is not thing that I will have in perpetuity um you know when one day I'm not on Counsel my salary goes back to my nonprofit salary and some folks might argue well that's the path you chose and so you need to bear that burden um but you know I also would argue that like people that work in nonprofits people who are Baristas in the service industry um are teachers like those are all people that play a role in our community that I want to have there um you know I want like my Barista to be able to afford a place to live nearby um because like I want my fancy coffee um but also I want you know the teachers at the local elementary school to be able to live in the neighborhood or live near you know live in the community um that they are serving um to whatever degree they're you know to have the options um available them to them to do so and not feel like they have to you know sort of be crunched based on the the stagnation of their way is um so I think that's too I mean the councilman Cooper's point about kind of like talking about who these folks are um you know again it's kind of going back to that Arena conversation like I want the folks that work at the arena to not have a an hour commute because they feel like they need to live you know in a suburb or um live in substandard housing because they're not being paid you know good wages um you know and so I think there's there's kind of that position that that two of like putting a face to folks that are um experiencing this burden and I think for me you know I I feel very lucky and I'm very privileged to and blessed to not have um student debt like my parents were able to and through scholarships I was able to avoid student debt that's not the case for a lot of people in My Generation Um especially if they are firsttime college um attenders or or any sort of secondary education um that they've had to pay for um and so you know and I don't have the cost burden of a car so you know I I think I I feel like I am in a financial place that gives me some of that flexibility um that a lot of people don't find themselves having especially if they are working in a job that is not providing them wages really commensurate with the education that they had to pursue um to to get that job like a social worker or um a nurse teacher those sorts of things so I think that's also trying to keep in mind that um you know I think there is a role for the city too of um finding ways to protect renters um especially because um they are paying their landlords mortgage um among other things and so um and we're often not getting cost of living adjustments like I only got a raise in the last 10 years because I changed jobs I changed where I worked um so it's kind of one of those was needing to think about and put the face I think again to councilman Cooper's point on who these folks are and um and making sure that we're covering you know the range of needs um and I it sounds like there is a lot of that in this plan I haven't had a chance to really like go through it um in depth but I'm excited to be able to dig in a little bit more and find those opportunities going forward so I just wanted to point out if if you need a good realtor there's a couple of them setting out there so yeah let me let me say that I really appreciate uh this report and as I went through uh this report it was uh tremendously insightful and gave to us even when we're not fing perhaps what others may be feeling in the city it did give to us uh clear indications of some areas that we need to work on to make our city better um and I agree with what uh uh Council uh woman H has said and also uh councilman stone that uh a key component uh to all of this is the thing that has been attractive for Oklahoma City and that is affordable living and for uh many are not experiencing that so then there's the key components of capacity building can you drill down a little bit more on capacity building because we talk about it and talk about it in such vague terms that sometimes we miss out on the nuances of capacity building so when we talk about uh things like uh affordable housing financial literacy uh how is that actually going to be implemented and what is going to be the plan going forward that's the first part of my uh question but then the second part is related to the advisory committee and who is actually going how do we go about the process of putting people on that advisory committee and who's going to be on it and then um what will be the scope of their responsibilities was there another question as well councilman those just those two questions those two Capac we'll start with capacity building um there are several different aspects to capacity building um there is much said about capacity building in the plan when you start to dig into it one of the first layers of of this is about building what I like to refer to is system capacity that's sort of at an at at the overarching level we're talking about a housing system that includes the city itself and all of its Partners the system also includes the beneficiaries so the homeowners the prospective home buyers renters landlords everyone that's the housing system and as well as the regulations that that are stat UT and the ordinances that you pass the system is is legal it's Financial it's regulatory um and it's it's also administrative from from the perspective of capacity building on the on the administrative side the city works with a lot of existing Partners the the um the Oklahoma City Housing Authority with the Housing Finance Authority at the state with okura with the alliance with a lot of different Partners around the community those are a part of the system to one of the parts of exploring um and identifying priorities for Partnerships which is a part of the first stage of this plan is to identify where there is existing capacity what's being done by those those Partners where are alignments possible um where are their resource gaps and where are there needs that that that should be filled or there are demands that need to be filled with in that first layer of existing Partners the next layer of exploring capacity building is to understand who your emerging partners are those might be not those might also include some non-traditional Partners they might be business Community it might be the health care sector um which we had a focus group with four years ago during the during the the H um it might also include philanthropy there are a variety of Foundations and nonprofits and I won't name any of them um here but there but there are mission statements that may or may not align with some of the efforts that are intended to pursue and explore through this through this plan finding those alignments means Capa building capacity in the system to address needs that don't necessarily require the city's public dollars and then there also another layer of of capacity building which is exploring National partner potential there are National Partners out there like Community Development Finance institutes such as Lisk or Enterprise um that have that bring in technical assistance they also have access to outside capital and they provide a a another layer of resource sort of along the lines of we could call them development incentives as well that that in that also seek to further build capacity in the system leverage existing resources without without spending more local dollars um the this now just briefly jumping into the the other side of capacity building after we've thought about our the partner the city's Partners is really building capacity on the recipient end or the beneficiary side so ensuring that services and nonprofits that do provide services like home buyer counseling financial literacy making sure that educational institutes are providing those types of services is a part of the purview of setting priorities and get and and uh focusing on service efforts here so home buyer counseling financial literacy budgeting um social support um for tenants for example um and making sure that people also have the capacity to address needs just as the system is also needs to have the capacity to be responsive so there are other aspects of building capacity that are that are less direct such as the use of financial resources or economic resources but I think that hopefully that that answers some of that question quick quick question yes or no uh legal aid have they been involved in this process legal aid was inv we have we have consulted with legal aid we consulted with legal aid and focus groups and a lot of interviews in the housing affordability study um pardon me councilman Cooper you also asked about the Advisory Group um the creation of The Advisory Group is also outlined in this in this implementation plan um there is guidance but not a rigid prescription for its membership for example in in this type of of an Advisory Group which other cities in similar situations have created it depends on the city's interests it may have the complexion of Housing Industry uh Representatives real estate development industry Advocates lawyers legal representation um there planners um you know maybe even representation from from the dis um Andor from City's leadership but what whatever that complexion is the setting those priorities and establishing who should serve on that Advisory Group um is a part of this process it could look a lot like The Advisory Group that um that guided the housing affordability study um and that contained a very wide ranging membership um and contained about a a dozen to two dozen individuals um thank you for your presentation I as many people are very well aware have been obsessed with our affordable housing study um I have a series of questions since we have you here number one I pulled up the PBS news hour was a uh um this is the councilman Stone um observations there's two questions here but this was a newsour uh segment called why are uh rents still higher in much of the US than before the pandemic um so my first question uh this was the host John Yang he said in a number of states and in Congress there's a push to limit the corporate ownership of rental units is there anything in this study that addresses something I hear all the time from w i residents of every class which is this existential concern that out of city and out of state and sometimes out of country corporations are gobbling up like Pacman housing in our neighborhoods in W two I won't even speak for the rest of the city I'm just going to I'm W two but buying our homes tearing them down building unaffordable homes right outside of this median income like much higher either 500,000 or 400,000 or $600,000 homes this is in Helm farm right now Happening by the way um so it makes it harder for someone to purchase the home the new one that's being built or there was no way to rehab the we didn't rehab the existing home that could have been made into a rental or something that was accessible for someone to purchase I'm just laying it out there this is what people are across class really worried about it's changing the character of their neighborhoods by building things that don't look at all like them and are out of scale where in here are we dealing with the corporate ownership issue it's a good question and it does come back to uh councilman uh Hammond's observations about the underlying um factors that drive rent increases I I think there's a there's an issue there and I and I I didn't really respond to it because I think you just wanted to make some points but and it feels like something that um is a matter of discussion for a longer period of time or it's a longer discussion than maybe we want to have here however I I will answer your question about this this issue of out of state or not you know corporate ownership we can recognize that this is a trend and that it is happening globally it's not unique to Oklahoma City um I think there are a variety of while the financial factors that influence rent increases are not addressed in this study and they weren't addressed in the they weren't addressed in the housing affordability study um because it wasn't really an economic analysis to evaluate where the factors are and whether and to what extent you can influence say um the cost of Labor that goes into management uh company um you know um cost structures or the cost of capital and what that looks like and under a variety of circumstances and taxes that may influence those things regardless of those uh regardless of those factors I think it's important to recognize that there that this plan does allow for a process to set priorities that may relate to that may relate to how to address renter issues and how they impact on the the regulatory en or how the regulatory environment should respond or how the local regulatory environment could respond to let's say protect against what I hear you saying in terms of displacement there's a displac a displacement issue going on in what you're talking about that has played out from Nashville to Portland and overseas many places this is not a unique issue but it is something that as a local elected U body you have the authority to decide and to come up with priorities for protections I think there's an opportunity here to in in the in the setting priorities for improving landlord tenant relations also to identify um how to use incentives as opposed to penalties but how to use incentives for the landlords that are local and to in it and to set a set a pattern and establish a framework for a system that that um that incentivizes landlords to keep their properties habitable that also allow that also is indirectly I um geared toward um preventing some of these externalities such as such as displacement um you could go even as far as and this is the LA this is this is the last thing I'll say about the corporate ownership piece I don't think that there's there is there are many legal protections against the corporate ownership piece but the out of state ownership it can be can be an issue that can that can be addressed through regulation some states Florida Utah and others have contemplated outof State Property Tax differentials for nonlocal owned property owners and that's something that can be that can be dealt with in a variet in in a variety of ways that's something for consideration here and something for consideration as you walk through those priority setting exercises is that something at this level of government we can I'm saying some you're you're going to have to coordinate with the state there's going to be a state I'm this it's not it look it could be it could be more complicated but you're going but there are issues that do intersect with statute and you're going to have to work within the within that framework and I do encourage you where it's important and where it elevates itself as a matter of priority to work with other stakeholders in that may be non-governmental entities and other Advocates to make CH to make broader changes such as that and councilman cver also offer because and I I appreciate what you said about the like offering incentives um or or sort of rewarding folks for um or even provide cuz like I know one of the reasons that where I live um it's changed hands and so recognizing that every time it changes hands interest rates are different the type of capital that the new corporate ownership has access to might differ Etc um and so that's going to affect you know what what sort of um payment they have that then affects my payment um but I appreciate that a little bit more I think than sort of not to because I hear you say Florida and Utah are sort of contemplating some of those out ofate things and so that seems like oh something May a state like Oklahoma would be open to but the last property owner of my building was an instate corporate owner and is doing exactly what you're saying buys buys is buying properties all over the city letting them fall into disrepair doing a few like you know window dressing type of improvements and then flipping flipping just selling it for at a higher cost just because time has passed and property value goes up um but you know I've I I hear complaints from um from other renters that sort of make their way to me or I'll see them on TV and I go look up who owns that building and it's often that same instate local owner um so the the idea of being able to sort of reward appropriate good like behavior and or you know I think that's the other thing is the ability for us to provide incentives for development um at lower um that that you know that commercial revolving Loan Fund idea that's been floated for the bond um so that you know the money is essentially cheaper to borrow and and that cost isn't passed along to the the tenant um I think is like more interesting to me so I appreciate you saying that because I think we sort of have this idea that like out ofate corporate ownership is like the boogeyman but there are instate actors that are not doing good things just a couple more things uh one this is to first let me just say I was thrilled to hear uh Ward 8's uh councilman and I be completely on the same page that there has to be an increase in inventory to drive down these cost and enough people do not actually understand that so to hear someone who we don't always see exactly eye to eye say that aloud we do too I said not all the time but then we you know uh I I didn't say we were like you know Peter Pan versus hook or something um no I think I I'm glad to hear that because that that can be a bit of a misunderstanding and I think there's going to be a misunderstanding in the public right of going why do we need to build more housing is that not just the job of the private sector so to hear across the aisle two sides understanding that we got to increase the inventory is actually a huge place of stasis and agreement so we got to acknowledge that Victory um I do have a few questions though as we creating this Bond uh one of them is uh I too would love to see more people move into Home Ownership my the model that I think really worked well in the city is uh inward two I remember right about 29th and Classen there were about eight homes that uh we were able to build uh positive excuse me speaking of posi positively poo speaking of Partnerships they partnered with the city and they built about eight houses and they were very careful in the design of the house making sure the porches are facing each other so built this sense of community you've heard me talk about the design of housing being very important in terms of Apartments as well so they were very intentional in building these homes to where they are in they're dense enough and close enough and the layout of the porches create this sense of oh I'm walking outside I'm sitting on my porch I'm going to know my neighbor right so this sees a decrease in crime right and an increase in belonging in community um I see both the revolving Loan Fund being able to do more of those things and the Community Land Trust being an opportunity to do more of that sort of thing my concern is as follows and I've noted this before and some people don't seem to understand what I am asking um you name it in here that a common challenge cities face this is on page 57 a common challenge cities face is that residents and potential beneficiaries are often unaware of the resources and tools available to them so a lot of us like to believe that just because we have the knowledge and that must mean everybody else has access to the knowledge and thusly if they didn't take advantage of that opportunity that's on them well that's wild that is a wild statement actually to believe going back to the example I'm talking about to secure to be able to purchase one of those homes and I had friends who lived there married a couple who are no longer together um I'm sure it wasn't the housing's fault um but there different directions in life but they had to participate in a financial literacy class mhm to be able to receive uh funding a down payment assist assistance yes um and one of the things you're talking about doing in here is increasing the city increasing our down payment assistance program and so I have a couple questions on this thing one what I proposed a couple weeks ago that some people kind of rolled their eyes at me um is I think the only way we are going to be able to educate our people about down payment assistance programs rehabbing their homes revolving loan funds the the the programs that exist and that we will create is I actually think we have to go door to door in the City of Tulsa this is not just pie in the sky in the City of Tulsa they have a new mayor who just announced through the violence Interruption program they have a $2 million grant that they received to begin a violence Interruption program those people will be going out knocking doors with a resource guide saying here are the different resources available in our city but they're going to be asking people and by the way in our most vulnerable in Tulsa's most vulnerable neighborhood which is another thing that this document talks about is targeting housing in our most vulnerable neighborhoods you yourself in this document talk about the uh lack of the pathway to home ownership in our black community just as an example but not limited to right in Tulsa with that violence and eruption program there are people from those neighborhoods who receive training and then paperwork to go out and share with people in those communities about the programs that is what I am asking for I think we actually have to meet people where they are otherwise let me just put it this way what we've been doing has not been working if it were working more people would know about the down payment assistance program they would know about the housing rehab that exists right now and they don't and these are not often uneducated people so I'd like to know what our plan is we don't have to have it right now on this horue but what I am suggesting is that we borrow the successful model that we see from the violent interrupts that Tulsa is doing which our own 39 recommendations from the uh all of our law enforcement work recommends a violence Interruption program we could do this too we have a pilot program in our city that JB um and some of the Eastsiders are undertaking so I actually think we have to go out into these neighborhoods and meet people where they are to let them know about what we're doing so that's my challenge there so that's my first thing is there anything in here that talks about what you say in here that there's got to be this educational this Community Education Outreach but do you lay out for us how to do this because I think if we're not intentional about this we will create programs and they don't actually reach the people they need to well councilman you've pointed out a um a pretty fundamental challenge in the um in the uptake of a lot of these types of programs um it's important to clarify though that the down payment assistance program just as the major minor rehab program are funded through federal dollars yes and those federal dollars are very limited um it's um it's true of of the the program here as it is for nearly every other down payment assistance program administered through or funded through federal dollars in other cities that I've worked with that uptake is very low um and that has to do with two fundamental reasons one in spite of the fact that some of those grants and or loans tend to tend to appear are very generous you know up to $40,000 may be available um the terms and restrictions are always incredibly honorous and when prospective home buyers look at those they often turn away now that's if they get to the point of exploring those those options the problem is that there are not marketing dollars that come alongside those program dollars and if there are ad admin dollars which there are for a cdbg funded programs um they're really not sufficient to Market to the audience and the and the perspective um the perspective beneficiaries that would that would make up the um the that that pool of of potential candidates um and this is a and this is something that I think um as you pointed out needs to be addressed through perhaps more direct and targeted marketing of the the opportunities available um it's it's true as a generality that um most uh most people in cities do not know about programs and and um and options and opportunities that may be available to them because they have other lives and they have other things going on um so I would I think that this this plan lays out um you know you've touched on a variety of things such as the use of the revolving Loan Fund um and you've touched on the Community Land Trust model um and I think those are all very important for facilitating um home home ownership and Equity Building for people who may just be right below that barrier to entry um but the process of of marketing this and and educating the community we have built into the into this we have not been we have not been so specific in this plan as to say for this for the purpose of the down payment assistance program these are the steps you need to take to Market that and where you should go that is left to this priority setting proc process so I think it will be important when those when those conversations happen to identify exactly where that community outreach and education should be but rest assured the community outreach and educational components are in this implementation plan it's really good to know and I think this is to councelor Cooper's earlier observation that I think our um Advisory board that would come into existence I think that's an opportunity for council members but I also think that's an opportunity for you know different Community Partners to maybe be on there who could be helping us think through with staff who's you know already done such a good job with positively poo and what and the development I just described on Classen but really thinking about using their knowledge and the community's knowledge to figure out what does outreach need to look like what is the best bang for our buck you know many political campaigns mine included you know we won because we knocked doors and to hire a filled organizer to do that work is way less than millions of dollars it's tens of thousands of dollars and that strikes me as a bargain if it means connecting our people to financial literacy and the down payment assistance program which they all had to have to have the housing on class and just a couple more things one um councilman Stone I hear what you're saying about moving people to home ownership completely on board just understand that I mean for all the reasons that you and I know right the other thing that this newsour segment talks about that I've been learning a bit more is that a lot of people especially in the millennial generation and the Gen Z and I'm sure maybe some of you have already seen this is it's not just that the opportunities aren't there for the reasons we've learned today and have been learning for months now maybe years but for a lot of residents renting is the the almost like preferred thing right um for a number of reasons right sure you don't have to work on it then I mean think about it you if you own it you're either going to pay for it or you got to get out there and do the work right so there's this these different things so if you're a traveling nurse if you're whatever the profession is that can kind of prevent the the upkeep the the right there are just different reasons um and we can be mad about that reality or we can just acknowledge that that's just the truth of it is that the the old traditional way of I leave technical school or college I get a starter home now I have one or two children we get a bigger home which is what defines a lot of I think our City's thinking when it comes to housing that's no longer the model and again we can be mad about that or we can just acknowledge the reality and so I'd like to acknowledge the reality um one of the things that they talk about in here and I'm curious if this is something that either the revolving Loan Fund or the community loan loan oh sorry I'm so sorry the community land trust or the revolving Loan Fund can kind of help create some parameters that if we're going to build apartment rentals um one of the things that they suggested here in this newsour segment was that there uh for people with the lowest incomes who are going to be renters that there need to be increased subsidies for them MH is that something that we're talking about here and do you follow me with what again it's just I'll just quote for people with the lowest incomes we need to increase subsidies we need to increase rental assistance to repair and build more apartments that are affordable to people with the lowest incomes and by people with the lowest incomes we are talking about your Council woman right over there who is going to be making in the 30 something thousands you're talking about teachers who are making 42,000 we're not talking about lazy layabouts we're talking about people who contribute to this community every single day can we they're not going to move into homes and often these cases is there something in this proposal that is talking about subsidies where if it's a four unit two of the units are subsidized for the people at 60% of Ami and the other two units are at market rate no I a concern I have on that and I'm not against subsidies at all uh I just think it has to be very controlled because when you start entering those subsidies you're driving up the cost of the rent overall you're going to drive the cost of rent up I mean it's you really need to be able to develop that affordable housing and make it affordable but with a commercial developer right uh when I come to you and go hey we'll pay 50% from the city the rent value is going to go up overall on the market I'm not saying that individual one but overall on the market the rent value is going to go up and we're driving inflation aren't we so yeah what is the response to good I love this sort of we just got to be candid about these sort of conversation this is New Territory for us I'm glad you said that what do we got David well um there are a lot of issues that you've just that you've you've both and and all frankly touched on um a couple points of clarification maybe um there are so first of all this plan does accommodate addressing each of the issues you've raised so number one um number two um you've also touched on sort of the uh the the idea of both production and also operations you've touched on the development incentives component and how to subsidize and create affordable rentals and on the other hand I also hear you talking about subsidies that that basically allow um units and tenants to occupy units that are available at well lower lower Ami levels um there are there are Provisions for identifying priorities for the use of local um development incentives that are local in this in this plan such as such as whether or not to prioritize production to Pro prioritize um use of economic resources um um for that production um or there are there's also the contemplation of use of other public resources such as tax increment financing tax increment Finance can both impact the operational nature of a of a project and it can also impact the capital stack of a project upfront now aside from that it's important to distinguish between the types of subsidies and incentives that are available which when you look around the world there are really three types of of subsidies a revolving Loan Fund and making resources available has the potential to be used in three different categories the first is a capital subsidy so that's where if a developer is putting together a project um they need to put together debt sources of debt and Equity to make that project you've you've talked about a a plan unit development um you know or you you talk about other types of efforts the all require Capital to progress so some subsidies can be Capital that is Cap that's that by by by virtue of its its name is capital intensive so when we're talking about a limited use of resources and you're and you're putting dollars as grants into the subsidy of projects that makes that makes a u that makes a pool of local resources go very quickly you can also do that in the form of debt lower interest and so some uh for some in some in some some cases lower interest debt or concessional loans can be advantageous to bring down the cost of the the cost of a project and subsidize that that rental rate the second bucket of incent development incentives are Revenue incentives or operational incentives so when we think about housing Choice vouchers that are a federal resource those are more along the those fall into more of a revenue subsidy the city is probably not going to use its resources in that way so I think it's safe to say that that's that's off the table and not really contemplated as a matter of priority for use of local investment however um there is the um there is the use of tax increment Finance which can impact um or tax abatements or tax Grant backs as some communities have explored that can be used as a form of incentive to maintain lower levels of rent for some portion of units in a project that gets built that's another way of of approaching things the Third Way of approaching things which is something that evolved from focus groups with developers and other stakeholders um several years ago and I believe to be still relevant today um is um is the use of credit enhancement mechanisms so some smallscale developers that are interested in infill projects of which I think there are many in this in this community which is which is great R which represents a great level of interest in beautification in City development um in vibrancy credit enhancement mechanisms and the use of those resources are Tim limited allocations of dollars that don't just walk out the door they come back because they're used to enable to to bolster developers ability to um access more Capital when they've already got Capital encumbered in another project so that's also uh councilman Cooper um is also a um a mechanism of capacity building on the financial side that is lesser known um it's not a big ticket item but it goes a long way to to encouraging capacity building um but it also helps in bringing down cost and delivering those units faster so there are a lot of issues there and I feel like some of the issues you've raised are a matter of priority and a matter of priority setting which is great because that is the conversation that needs to happen um and what I've what I'm just trying to explain are some constructs and some and some Frameworks of of um standard practice that you should take with you as you proceed um through these conversations now what I explained just now about those developer incentives and the capital revenue and credit enhancement mechanisms are an appendix in that document so where where um there some of these issues arise we've tried to ensure that there is material that can be used as guidance not just today or this year but along for the next 5 to 10 years before too much dust gathers on its cover okay I'll leave it there for now hey David that was an outstanding presentation a lot to digest um I look forward to reading this but also could I have you send me the presentation in the slideshow today just send it to my w 8 uh email address so I can study that please yes make sure we get that for all the council yes indeed great great job yeah thanks for the presentation you have another hour to kill we if tired yeah if we can bring coffees in okay and and you know here's one of the things like we get into situations like this with with consultants and and we don't want to be totally relying on a consultant um we want to be able to get to a point where we get the advice we get the plan and we can move forward ourselves but I think having them as a partner and a continued advisor as we're dealing with some of these very complex issues and the experience that David has and his team has of knowing what's happening in other communities what's been successful what's been less successful what's worked with the sources of revenue that we have available to us and the tools we have available I think that that continued work in relationship to help us get to the place where we can be ready to move on our own I see us continuing our work and continuing to have them as advisers for us as we're moving forward and how we actually imple implement this plan and I think it's it's interesting it's similar to where we came back with the recommendations that we got from um the task force the the law enforcement policy task force and we received the report we received the plan and that's what we got here is we're receiving this plan and we have steps going forward now it's doing looking at Staffing looking at how we would manage this and developing that implementation strategy around our implementation plan and I that's how I see this following that same kind of process yeah well and also let me just double down great presentation great work this whole time same to staff like y'all have really done well I I it's been an education for me I guess my questions going forward is when I throw that word existential around I mean it like a lot of my residents are really worried about you know instate out of state folk buying up their properties changing the character of their neighborhoods can they afford to stay stay living there so I guess I'm curious in terms of next steps and action items what is a of us and how can other council members can speak for themselves but for me where I would like to at least have some regular updates are on where are we heading with the educational component uh when it comes to these different resources and tools available to our people and how I as a council person can better disperse that to my people I think that's so critical here um and as we are creating this revolving Loan Fund I want to be kind of kept in the loop there and then these Community uh and quite frankly cultural Land Trust right both of those are together and I as I've said before I really would like to see I mean i' like see them across the whole city but you know we have a lot of um opportunities for Transit oriented development in war two and doing this sort of Community Land Trust cultural land trust and housing along those routes the brt but then also in so many of w I's oh good I see our planning director is here to answer some of this but but also our historic commercial corridors like housing in those corridors to help avoid displacement that's going to go a long way to assuaging my anxieties and a lot of way a long ways to help saging the anxieties of the people who are living there right now who are worried they're going to get priced out so what are the next steps how can I be involved and not just in a like well every six months we'll update you sort of way um we so The Advisory Group was mentioned so we'll be you know putting that together and any you know suggestions are of course welcome uh we'll work with uh the folks in this room on that um the we'll also be convening a group of of developers of course we've we've spoken with many developers both inst State and out of state uh in in market and out of Market uh as part of this process we'll be doing that again just to kind of start refining because we have uh now between now uh as as you know uh hopefully we'll receive some additional funds uh through the next Bond so we'll be preparing for that uh being optimistic um so developing the policies uh that will apply there uh a lot of the things we've talked about today will go into those so that's an important critical step developing those um the developer Round Table will help us do that for example uh where should we uh Target These funds how much should we uh you know be spending per unit how how what income group should we Target and and uh various important decisions and and again we want to be flexible uh but we would like to have some guidelines in place um so that we can you know Target the funds to the their their best use um just a whole host of things we we would like to get as was mentioned on one of the slides uh housing officer in place so that they can be the person who just you know every day they just they just focus on implementing this plan and getting us to the next level um uh I was reminded that as some of your latter comments uh we do have uh additional funds available in uh for example the class and Tiff I think there's $10 million budgeted there and those resources um can also be added to kind of the pot uh so to speak um so a lot of a lot of really need a gritty work to be done to make sure that we're doing it right as we always do with our limited resources because they're limited we've got to make sure that they're being applied in the right way so a lot of exciting things ahead of us uh immediately adopt the plan and and get to work and that develop I'm sorry go de see yeah Jeff I was going to also add for uh for Council Cooper the um the there is a Communications plan as well in as a part of laying the groundwork in the first stage of this so that includes um identifying making a web creating a web presence for the implementation plan ultimately would house is the the targets and metrics for ATT tracking success over time and accomplishments that the city makes so that that's publicly available the communications plan while that's also left vague um that's not really my area of expertise um but to embed a Communications plan and alongside the Advisory Group and also a key housing position means that the opportunities for discussion and update here at the dis um are frequent and and um as desired well I would as appropriate would like to be very engaged in this conversation even with the developers I'd like to sit with I think what they call our business community and I'd like to hear from them what some of the parameters are uh that are preventing them from doing a lot of this infill and to figure out how from this dis we can help uh to address this issue from the private sector it would be very useful to hear that sure um okay thank you thank you great work okay we do have two residents who've signed to speak on this item uh Landry Willis land's gone Gary Jones okay because I only have three minutes I got a whole bunch of stuff I'm going to try to get done real fast the first thing has very little to do with the affordable housing implementation study but because people watch this and people that are concerned about housing are going to see this I'm just going to make a real broad statement last night we had an Adu town hall with our members it was great we had great information exchange of ideas the thing that really put a damper on it as all of my realtor members went to their cars on our cars was a flyer that had in big black letterers betrayal and it was a long list of why do realtors care about this all they're interested in is money uh trying to find another way to make another dollar and it was appalling it was very appalling and I wanted to make sure that everybody understands here's why we're involved in this four years ago our membership did a survey and in that survey we asked them out of all the policies that the City of Oklahoma City could pursue help us understand what's important to you 63% of our membership said homelessness 57% said affordable housing it wasn't commissions it wasn't inventory it wasn't sales it was those two things since then we have revamped our whole entire government Affairs program and surely you've noticed it that we have become engaged on these policies because our members care and not about making a buck sorry I just wanted to say that because you could tell it offended the hell out of me second concerning the housing affordable housing implementation stuff we have been excited on this since me and some of the other Realtors got a chance to serve on the advisory committee with the Consultants we appreciate the city bringing us to the table we have just been waiting for this plan so that we can move forward there is so much there but here are a couple of things I want to lift up councilman ston Cipher hit it on the head all of the other local boards that we've talked to that have had success in this says the key is inventory you have to create more housing that people can afford and here's something that people don't quite understand what's affordability the market does a great job as far as developing housing that are $200,000 and up well you know what a third of our Oklahoma cians will never be able to qualify for $200,000 mortgage what they need is housing that they can afford so there is a continu of housing that we have to address this plan does that having that housing person that's going to be leading the charge we think is the most critical component of it but more importantly there are people like us that are ready to go and do the work we just need you guys to let us get loose and get out there and make it happen thank you very much okay well that concludes our residents who signed up to speak if there's no other comments we can take a motion on the resolution oh you do want to speak you were just navigating the order okay very good then all right then uh Landry Willis uh Landry Willis 301 North Walker Avenue and I do government Affairs for Oklahoma City Realtors uh oakmar and the housing stability Coalition is very excited to see the release of the housing affordability implementation plan uh housing is a fundamental human right there is nothing more important than having a safe dignified place to call home this plan is a significant step forward in ensuring that Oklahoma City continues to strive to meet the central goals this essential goal for all of us residents currently Oklahoma City faces the housing shortage of over 44,000 units laid out in the study one of the top attributes of our city has always been its low cost of living particularly in housing however we have seen this affordability Road over time and this is now the perfect moment to act before it slips further from reach as we've seen from our other local boards the numbers tell a compelling story there are 77,000 cost burden households in Oklahoma City meaning that these families spend more than 30% of their income on housing according to the original housing affordability study the economic impact of this is very severe uh an estimated 113 million annually is not recirculated in our economy because of this this could generate additional 4.7 million in additional sales tax revenue and uh 2.5 million in General Revenue funds each year for the city we are eager to work with the city manager the mayor and the city council to ensure that a significant portion of the G is allocated towards addressing housing afford ility by investing in feasible and effective Solutions we can tackle this Challenge headon and avoid becoming an unaffordable City like uh our counterparts in Austin or Nashville uh let's work together to keep Oklahoma City a place where everyone can afford to live Thrive and called home and additional uh stats that that I got this morning um from the from the presentation the average home cost in Oklahoma city is $294,000 or the the medium uh House cost uh and then also from our National Association uh the first time home buyer average a is 38 years old uh this is an alarming Trend and money set aside in the go can really help address this alarming Trend and I hope to we work we hope to work with you all to address this in the gold thank you guys so much okay thank you we now have a motion in a second to adopt the resolution uh cast your votes passes unanimously all right item L this is a master plan for maps for Parks programming and uh we have a presentation yes David Todd our maps program manager will come give us an introduction of this project we've had this before us previously we're just going to run through it again real quickly just give a quick presentation and overview we've had separate conversations with council members since that time it's all that David uh G quick introduction right David Todd maps program manager as uh Mr Freeman said brought this to you before um and then we've received some comments about it and those comments uh we believe have been addressed and we're bringing it back to you and Darren Scott from kimley horn is here to go through a presentation to just highlight what's in the master plan all right well uh thank you Council glad to be back uh to talk about the uh Parks master plan and and some of the updates that were done since the last time we met um last uh last year um so just a a quick recap of what is is the project about so this is the language that's in the resolution for maps essentially upgrade every uh residential or neighborhood and community park outside the central business district um there was some language in there how we should do that so the the top part of this is access access prioritize Uh current and future opportunities for each Park based on current conditions accessibility uh Community input and potential expansion needs uh so we had a pretty extensive U formula of how we went about that that we explained last time and it's also in the in the report um but U as as part of that it required various different phases of this so we went through the needs of needs assessment first uh then through the recommendations which are in the report uh the master plan that we developed and then we're here in phase four for uh review and approval um so since the last time we met I know there was uh a few comments about um some of the parks and some of the the the ideas and and different things that could be updated so we met individually with uh the different uh council members and W two uh six and seven had updates to the master plan revisions and and you had a list of what those were um so if there uh weren't any comments from the other Wards they're the same as what they were in that original master plan so uh those three Wards had some updates some of the the things were just shifting Dollars around from one u u amenity to the other but it all stayed within that Ward uh itself so a little bit of the highlights and this was uh in the the last round and it was updated based on some of those additional updates but uh of the 105 Parks uh 56 received playground updates uh we added 66 multi-use courts uh all of the splash pads were updated uh and will be replaced uh a lot of Park signage shelters and then one of the big comments across uh several of the Ws was lighting U so 188 of the solar lights which uh was mentioned even on that trail project uh earlier so a lot of more a lot more lighting going into to these neighborhood and Community Parks as well uh so an overview of the the budget so 66 million is the the total budget um of that about 51 million is the what we call kind of the general pot of money for that can go across all 105 Parks uh there were some Park specific funds in there as well um that are listed there uh and then in addition to that there was Bond money that was thrown in uh because of the we were already in those Parks so let's let's add the bond money to to go a little further with those improvements uh so in total you add all that together it's about 66 million um with that we broke it out into phases U so on this slide here you'll see the the order of things essentially five phases two bid packages per phase so about uh a bid package every 6 months is the the frequency so starting in 2025 will be the design a lot of that construction some of that construction will fall into 26 and then it'll go down all the way through 29 and into 30 uh to get constructed so when you look at these numbers they're about 5 million per bid package uh phase 1B is larger but that's because the bond money is in that uh package so that had it to be had to be spent uh early so that's why that one's a little larger but in general trying to give a decent Siz package for the contractors uh to bid on U but not so large that it um you know it prudes some of the uh the ones able to bid U on those so with that that's a very quick overview compared to last time but entertaining questions that you may have I just want to say thank you for taking the time um to sort of pause and um and consider some of those changes I looking through the list that you all sent um the email sort of if the changes sort of just um you know bullet it out um particularly I know we's park over on Broadway um one of the complaints I get all the time about people feeling unsafe in that Park is that there's a lot of crashes into like the you know as people are going north um on Broadway and so seeing that there's like some notes about adding some reflective elements and those are sort of things that I know like the neighbor neighborhood has tried to maybe like sort of gorilla install but it's very hard for them to keep up with and um so appreciate that that opportunity to sort of add some of those maybe more um uh very sight specific kind of requests that have funneled through to um I think to Council Office and um and even some of the things like with um Garvin Park you know adding the like the flexibility of some of the courts to to have multiple types of play on them um just knowing that lots of different folks are going to go out and use those so not having something that's kind of static um in their neighborhood parks I think is going to be a really big Improvement so just appreciate all your time to kind of rework those and and kind of make those little um tweaks around the edges um because I know that's a lot of work then to sort of rework budgets and then sort of see how it affects all the other cells on the spreadsheet so really appreciate it thank you thank you all right so could entertain uh a motion to adopt this master plan got a motion in a second cast your votes passes unanimously okay 11 M1 is a resolution authorizing the municipal counselor to confess judgment in the case of Holland the city of ok AC Etc executive session is uh requested here so what I would propose is just to take a vote on that but before we do that we do have a citizen who signed up to speak uh Michael Washington thank you again everyone 100 Park please this is a disturbing a tragic most eventful situation how in the hell very slightly not going to read too rough words offensively that is hand the hell though a word often used by many of us are we even having to debate in the first place to put a situation of so important to families communities and life of all with the fragrant Reckless disregard of Life yes right no one asked me to speak but because I'm a political and human activist I must come in and express my righteous indignation for standing here in the first place now then let's move on you have six Rogue officers you heard me are you listening watch me who took the life of an innocent young kid wait a minute now we're not talking about the wrong obviously he did in robbing number one Michael will Express that quick quickly but what I am having a problem with is that this young man was told to drop a weapon that he had did that and then he they asked well whatever you have in your pocket remove it the faternal of police hold that group I do not necessarily hate them what their practices is De Squad now there are you listening to that boy now that's right minute and 10 seconds huh this young man stavan Rodriguez the family is grieving and we forever continue to grieve based upon the flagrant and Reckless abusive behavior of six police officers 13 shots one in the head just because I'm getting in my back oh that's a threat and then you got a incompetent district attorney Vicky behner oh I like her though again her behavior is atrocious you heard me now then 30 seconds now I'm going to decide to let these officers go and yet her prote stated that these people had went overboard and overkilled you need to give this people matter of fact triple times this amount they can't bring him back but I believe that Justice can to be required and those officers going to jail like they belong right now bottom line with that man 4 seconds thank y'all very much and I do have a second part I'd like to speak on I'm confused yeah we're you're done for this item I me well what about this too I A2 I put A2 down there uh I mean M M2 M1 then you have one so you're going to speak on our choice to go into executive right that's right that's right that's what I want to well I'm going to watch intently to see if your remarks are specifically on the question of whether we enter executive session or not and if they deviate from that I'll ask you to step aside okay now I'm not going to deviate against the executive session is number one let me make that point clear but I'm saying you should not go into an executive session and leave the public wondering why you need an executive POS uh exess executive session when we the public should know and you claim here that it would seriously impair the ability for the the B public body to conduct pending litigation in the public interest no it's not going to in interfere because this case is over with all you're doing is approving whether or not or making the steps to approve whether or not that $875,000 be given to this family why shouldn't the public not be be able to hear that when at the same time it's not about oh well what do we do now or it's a lawsuit pending or maybe still in an investigation no the case is over with so I'm saying why do you need an executive session because this is a bunch of maluke where St because disclosure how is disclosure when we to the point of reaching do we give $875,000 to these people now then we would like to know your understanding and reasoning why you make a decision to give this let the public know that they have truth and transparency in their officials government body why do we need Executive session no it's not that it it'll offend The public's interest it offends our interest because you don't let me see why you reach the conclusion that you did because you said resolution authorizing huh that is that's that's clandestine activity that you're asking us to to subject it to some of us has to suddenly speak I don't know because it's not right in closing let me go over a little bit Li I'm an individual you never heard me one time say hey John Harry or Lucy speak like I do act like I do now but now if they do we're definitely a welcome in closing Mr Mayor thank you all right thank you enter executive session on advice of the municipal counselor on the advice Municipal counsel to receive confidential communication from an attorney concerning from his attorney concerning the above pending litigation as authorized by 25 30 seconds please thank you ma'am thank you we're overusing these policies and practices and procedures now then I as one I'm suggesting with less than 30 seconds oh my time just fittes by when I get to go you I'm longwinded I am suggesting that you people revisit this power and authority given to you on section 25 3337 B B4 you need to revisit that man because you really overstating it you over exercising your Authority we need to know thank y'all wonderful people for this opportunity to stand before you thank you very much all right now we'll take a motion on whether to go into executive session to discuss item M1 have a motion in a second cast your votes fast as unanimously we'll handle that at the end of our other business as well as the potential for addressing M1 item n is an executive session to uh receive confidential Communications concerning the case of clerkly V city of OKC uh Michael Washington has signed up to speak again pigy backing thank you'all very much I'm not long we need a government of transparency we don't need a government this is wasteful useless taxpayer dollars excluding us from the process of conclusion here why do we need an executive session watch this one on advice of Municipal counsel to receive con confidential communication from its attorney confidential communication where is the confidential where what do you mean the case is over with explain help me visualize and understanding here because I find it hard to accept based upon on the advice of your Municipal Council to receive confidential Communications from its attorney confidential what I have a right to know what y'all talking about what so confidential about a case that's over [Music] with we know that it's a case against Lorenzo clerkley versus city of okoma City etal filed in United States District Corp of Washington District of Oklahoma so where is the com why are we reaching the conclusion of giving this money out why are we reaching the conclusion of denying or whatever can't you tell us all this in other words we just got to accept what you do oh no no no that's that's a communist government very and simple yet you may be given all the right the entitlement of government municipality regulations we deserve more we deserve better and we should be given better and I'm demanding better you are put into office to represent your respective districts Wards the people again don't know what to say like I say because a lot of them are not educated to say it like I'm saying so I'm here speaking for every award every citizen every people that's has a mental capacity all the vess people who need somebody to stand up here and stand on freedom justice and equality transparent accountability it is a symbol of Ethics a symbol of Comm aery a symbol of useless of being a part of come on man tell everybody today why you accepted that these no good people shot I'm not saying no good here human being like I say I can't do that because of my religious background but 30 seconds please I'm saying no good because of what they did that young man this family is going to be grieving they terrified shouldn't have to go and in this case as well ladies and gent of this round circle excuse me of this Hardo let's let's revisit this uh executive session let's not give the municipal counsel more power than that uh agency deserves because we deserve no more thank y'all so much and you know my famous phrase all be B thank you okay we can take a motion now to uh enter into executive session to discuss item n we have a motion in a second cast your votes passes unanimously we'll handle that at the end of our other business item o is an executive session uh to receive confidential Communications concerning long V city of OKC we could take a motion for that got a motion in a second cast your votes passes unanimously will'll handle that at the end of our other business item p is an executive session to receive confidential communication regarding the case of city of OKC V Links at Mustang Creek we could take a motion on that got a motion in a second cast your votes passes unanimously we'll handle that at the end of our other business item q1 is a claim recommended for approval executive session is not requested have a motion and a second cast your votes passes unanimously uh item 12 comments from Council W one not today sir two yes I just wanted to extend an in invitation for this Monday's MLK parade uh if you go to OKC MLK alliance.org uh you'll see a schedule of events um so many events taking place that day um I would like to encourage folk to join me for the portion I'm going to be hanging out in which is uh the parade and that'll be at 2:00 uh the kickoff will be at Northwest 5th and Walker downtown if you haven't been uh you're in for a treat because you just this is the city as you all recall that Martin Luther King Jr came here here thinking that this might be where his new preaching home was going to be and so this was someone who actually had quite the um intimate conversations with some of the uh pastors who have gone on to create legacies for themselves here so this parade always feels like a bit of a homecoming in my mind when I when I think of Martin Luther King Jr so that's 2 pm uh next Monday and uh if you haven't I Believe by January 15th if you go to vision. .gv back geobond 25 you just have a couple days left to add your voice to our bond conversation I'm seeing some nodding heads and approval there so those would be the two websites I would send you to vision. okc.gov Geo Bond 2025 to add your voice about what your neighborhood infrastructure needs are and OKC Alliance uh.org uh hope to see you at the parade uh on Monday thanks thank you w three word four word five word six word seven couple of things uh uh mayor and councel and all of uh those uh who are sharing today uh in addition to um what councilman Cooper has already said about the MLK parade uh there are several things happening in our community certainly the religious service which is the oldest in the United States where we celebrate at St John Baptist church on Sunday the uh just just before the holiday on Monday but on that Sunday uh everyone is invited uh to Come Share participate uh in that religious service that will happen at St John at 3:00 on uh Sunday and then there are a number of other MLK events that are happening as well so uh feel free to uh participate and take advantage of all of those and then a bit of sad news for those who may not know uh Rex the oldest uh elephant at the Oklahoma City Zoo uh had to be euthanized and so um uh we uh that's a bit of sad news but just FYI for us how old is Rex is it 57 Rex would be one of like one of the older members of this Council if he wait a minute wait a minute uh word eight yeah I want to congratulate the north North Oklahoma City soccer club it was just announced that uh the Cameron foundation and the Cameron family are going to donate 500,000 towards the third phase of the park uh also I want to thank uh thez much Foundation who has contributed $250,000 to the third phase of the soccer park uh this is being done in three phases the first phase was completed in September of last year and they are now using those five new Fields the next 10 Fields will be built um beginning in 2025 and I want to thank David Todd and his staff for working so hard on building the next 10 Fields the last five fields we are raising $2.5 million to complete 20 fullsize soccer fields the reason we're doing that is because uh we're in Oklahoma City we're at the crossroads of America at I35 and I40 we getting no Regional no National sanctioned tournaments because our fields we don't have enough fields for a national or Regional Tournament U for example uh all the people from like Frisco and Dallas are driving to Overland Park Kansas for the regional tournaments and all the people from Overland Kansas are driving to Frisco and Dallas for the tournaments there we've decided they ought to just come to Oklahoma City to our tournaments we just need to get 20 Fields built uh this is a great thing for the economy in Oklahoma City but more importantly it's important for our inner city youth who cannot afford to travel to those Regional and National tournaments we're going to bring it here to Oklahoma City and we're going to have it sooner rather than later thank you thank you all right we're now at citizens to be heard Michael Washington I tell everybody think I'm ladies and gentlemen of this wonderful horse you Gathering today permit me if I can say that this is a wonderful day and a lot of events Char toity this is the 14th day of January 2025 Brandon Gardner current CEO of the Oklahoma County Detention Center has decided to resign step down or whatever name you want to give it let me say without reservations though I thank the job was a bit much for and now the next CEO is going to have a mountain full of problems decisions in other areas of thought to deal with but let me say it once again I'm very seriously thinking about putting my hat into being the next CEO of that historic F y'all say hey man this guy's a lost his man no no no no no no I have a right to move for anybody else I'm a citizen why not go for a prestigious position why because I believe in transparency accountability and guess what I would allow the health department to come in when any this time it feels it's necessary to do matter of fact have cofin Donuts waiting on them that's how serious I am about life in the pursuit of happiness no matter where you are what you may have done you're there for a confinement but not to be punished after you're there and of course let your behavior warrants it not making an automatic thoughe I believe that I bring a comprehensive plan that many will benefit from the workers the citizens the state federal Municipal governments and all because with Michael as head we're going to be able to sit down at the table you're going to be able to fire me if I done something incorrectly I mean that's going to be overall you know affects the overhaul Community itself the jail issue people going to be fed better officers will not be allowed to bring in any kind of drugs and if me suspect you let me walk you out quick fasting than I hea 30 seconds that's right we need that kind of accountability we need that kind of accessibility we need that kind of of on hands government of of control that's what I like doing and I will go the extra mile to make sure that the Oklahoma County Detention Center is upgraded to the ultimate degree 7 Seconds always jumping at me thank y'all one more time and guess what every one of you have a wonderful new year because we're just beginning thank you if that good morning I'm here to request a meeting with uh the city manager and our mayor and this is due to a hidden run which I was a victim of on November the 12th 2024 I have made numerous attempts to contact your office uh through calls and emails with no response um and um I want the meeting because the report was falsified um it wasn't corrected as I was told it was going to be and I have uh faced a lot of opposition from the Oklahoma City Police Department I've already went through the uh chain of command so it has brought me to this point so so I just want to clarify you stated You' have not received a response did Jason did not assistant city manager Jason Fair brush meet with you just last week um he spoke with me before the December holidays he was be very dismissive he told me he he kept telling me he had a 3:30 meeting I asked him if he would look at the report um on two occasions in that conversation he said he would that he would get back with me he never did okay well he stated to us that he plans to meet with you so I think that follow up is so I have called your office and I have emailed you and I haven't received a response assistant city manager Jason Fair brush has the police department under his authority and he will meet you in the hall and visit with you yeah so okay you'll be right out there thank you all righty all right Amy Goodman hi good morning um I'm here in desperate need of immediate action which I just I'm so sorry to interrupt but I do Jason is gone is anybody going to meet with her real quick Chief basy is here SP speak with her but we'll get something scheduled hang in the lobby for a minute somebody's going to come find you out there in the lobby okay all right well somebody will meet you in the lobby to arrange for the next conversation so sorry Amy no that's okay that's okay need to catch her okay um I came in desperate need of immediate action on an issue that's literally pushing me to the brink of financial ruin uh for nearly three decades I've owned the building lovingly known as Rainbow by the hundreds of children that I've raised in it as a child care center over my 19-year career um rainbow is a magical place for families even mine after I ended up having to move into it in 2017 the surrounding neighborhood is rapidly deteriorating due to a persistent homeless encampment directly behind rainbow located primarily in the abandoned warehouse at 19th and North M uh Northwest 19th and MacArthur this structure is a magnet for Crime vandalism and despair its deplorable condition is a blatant disregard for city codes and poses a significant threat to public health and safety as a direct result my property has been repeatedly vandalized broken into and unfathomably damaged beginning with two robberies in under 24 hours in 2019 the situation has become unbearable forcing me to relocate my children to a safer neighborhood before the relocation was complete the theft and destruction overwhelmed me and has left me penniless and exhausted I've lost everything except for a few loads of Necessities that I was able to move out before this began on my property in August of 2023 despite numerous police reports I'm trapped in an expensive cycle of cleanup and repair I'm now stuck paying for a mortgage on this property and also rent in an apartment across town I have no hopes to sell or rent rainbow with the massive damage that it's suffered I'm also paying fines unfairly to the City of Oklahoma City for damage to my property that is completely out of my control $600 at Christmas I'm a single mom I urge you to work together to fix this uh this problem which I have great news that it is the building is going to be destroyed which is more than I could have ever asked for today um we deserve a thriving Community one that supports its most vulnerable members in addition to the unhoused individuals my teenage daughter is also vulnerable she is my priority I fostered and then adopted her uh when she was 5 years old and a student in my classroom she is vulnerable and my life was already in crisis before this because of the severe attachment disorder that she suffers from after being traumatized in her critical development years getting her out of this neighborhood was imperative if I have any hope to raise her to be a law-abiding citizen in our society 30 seconds other families are also suffering with their children as a direct result of the effects of living in this heartbreaking environment I'm a single mother stretched impossibly thin between caring for my two children one with profound emotional needs while juggling a job managing a house household and Desperately Seeking a sense of stability and normaly in my own life This Disaster is quite literally breaking me never did I imagine that I would have to sacrifice my only asset that I've owned since I was 23 years old for the sake of a safer neighborhood for my kids please take immediate action and bring some urgently needed relief to me and to many others in my community thank you thank you is there staff who can yes and then I so Jamie I think Jamie cave spoke with you out there about what we can do with the uh keetah home program and trying to get out there and get homeless Outreach out there make sure we're addressing that so we'll definitely work through that yes I do know the individuals that are left in this facility are ones that are not responding to the key to home program that is currently active uh they're not they're not mentally well they are not reasonable they are not ration uh I I speak speak to them on a daily basis um I hope that there are some answers I know it's a challenging situation I realize that and I am not insensitive to their needs uh but I have got to prioritize my own family my own needs right okay is there going to be somebody calling her with information as to what're Jamie spoke with her earlier but could speak with her again about what we you have Jamie's phone number I do uh I do um I was also um speaking with Chad Davidson and he did give me the plan of action that has been done already so it does look like there is an answer coming um I just hope it comes quickly Tad's right behind okay yes well and I'll just add uh thank you for the phone conversation yesterday uh I'm glad you were able to come up here thanks Chad I don't know if there's anything you need maybe we talk offline or talk right now but I just want this horseshoe to know that uh I kind of moved immediately to connect you with the two entities that I thought would be useful here yeah just quickly um spoke in the we already have this property declared dilapidated uh it's just getting it to the contractor and getting him to to move on getting permits and and raising the building Chad will you keep us updated on that absolutely all right thank you thank you so much for hearing me thank you all right we're going to go into executive session uh handle those several items four items that we voted to go in executive session come back possibly address M1 when we return councilman ston Cipher will be presiding e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e they want me over here they take 10 minutes to set it up I like sitting better next to you do we have everyone that's coming all right we are back from executive session and I am not David Holt uh mayor Holt had to leave and so we have one item remaining that's at page 10 item 11 M1 it is a resolution authorizing the municipal counselor to confess judgment without an admission of liability in the case it was discussed extend Ely in um executive session and at this time I'd ask the council is there a preference for a motion this is in support of this is the this would be a motion to approve the resolution James okay we have a motion uh and we have a second at this time I'd ask everyone to cast their votes maybe technology help us there's the second it passes 5 to3 uh now that the item 11m is concluded I look at the agenda and I see nothing else on there so we're are now at item 14 which is an adjournment we are adjourned thank you for