All right, good morning. We're going to get started this morning with an invocation led by Pastor Jim Geralt of Olivet Baptist Church and that'll be followed by the pledge of allegiance led by Harley McWills of Girl Scouts Troop 27. Please stand as you are able. >> If you allow me just a moment of personal thought. I'm familiar enough with city government to know that you get far more gripes than you get expressions of gratitude. I want to express gratitude to you. I live on Southwest 29th about a half a mile west of Cemetery Road. There have been more accidents there in the last seven years than I can count. But y'all got a four-way stop there this summer. To my knowledge, there's not been an accident since. So, on behalf of my neighborhood, thank you. And this probably the first time you've ever been thanked for a four-way stop, [laughter] but we are grateful for it. Please bow with me as we pray. Heavenly Father, in this season of gratitude, we offer our thanks to you. Thank you for this morning and a new day of life. And Father, whether we admit it or not, we are all expendable. So another day, another decade, whatever you choose to give us, we thank you. And Father, I also know that we serve at your pleasure. No government exists without the authority of God. So Father, thank you that you have seen seen in your pleasure to allow these men and women to serve you and to serve our city government, to serve us as citizens. So we thank you for them, Father. And Father, I also would ask today that you help us to remember you are God and we're not. I pray for this council as they conduct the business of the city today. Help them to realize that it is really your business that they're about because we are your people and this is your nation. So, Father, give them your divine wisdom as they conduct the business today. May you be honored and glorified in all that is done. Thank you for the way that you have blessed our city, the way we're growing. Father, thank you for the good reputation that Oklahoma City is receiving nationwide because of our athletics and because of so many other things. Father, I pray for our state government that you will give them lead wisdom to know how to lead our nation to to help us to build up from the bottom of the education pile and to build up economically as well. So, Father, we are just totally dependent on you for your wisdom and your guidance. So direct the meeting today and it all may it all be done according to your will and I ask this in Jesus name. Amen. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, and liberty, justice for all. >> Thank you, Pastor Geralt, and thank you, Harley. All right, I call this meeting of the city council to order. Thank you for your patience. We had a little hiccup this morning with our system that we use to record votes, Prime Gov, but it seems to be working now. And I also want to welcome uh the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. There's quite a few members here in the chamber today. Uh they are here for their day at city hall and will be uh joining us uh for much of the morning. We are now at item three, office of the mayor. And I'm going to make my way to the front for a few presentations. All right. Maybe if uh Small Business Saturday folks could come down. This is our last um Yeah, sure. Come on over here, Kirsten. This is our last council meeting before Thanksgiving. And of course, what comes after Thanksgiving? But, uh, Small Business Saturday, we'd like to hear a little bit more about that. So, I would ask the clerk to read this proclamation. >> Whereas the city of Oklahoma City celebrates our local small businesses and their contributions to our economy and community. And whereas small and micro businesses are key drivers of our city's growth, employing approximately twothirds of our workforce and generating millions in sales tax revenue. And whereas independent retailers and restaurants have played an essential role in revitalizing neighborhoods and commercial districts while shaping Oklahoma City's economic and cultural identity. And whereas small business owners further strengthen our city by supporting local nonprofits, investing in their communities, and enriching Oklahoma City's character and culture. And whereas the city of Oklahoma City recognizes small businesses for creating jobs, fostering opportunity, and sustaining the vitality of our community. And whereas organizations across the country have endorsed the Saturday after Thanksgiving as Small Business Saturday. Now, therefore, I, David Hull, mayor of the city of Oklahoma City, do hereby proclaim November 29th, 2025 to be Small Business Saturday in Oklahoma City. Thank you. Well, we've had a just a renaissance of small businesses here in OKC um these last 15 years or so and they've gotten even more organized and and they've done a great job of advocating and reminding us how important it is that we support our small businesses. To tell you a little bit more about that, we have Kirsten Holder here this morning. >> Thank you so much, Mayor Holt, for recognizing Small Business Saturday and for your continued support of Oklahoma City's retailers. On behalf of Independent Shopkeepers Association and some of the members here before us today, we're grateful to be accepting this award. Um, small businesses are not small in impact, especially in Oklahoma. As you just heard, the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce reported that we've been ranked 17th for best US cities for small business. And the USSBA reports that small business accounted for 51% or you heard 2/3 by some measurements, which far exceeds the national share. Local business is the reason our commercial districts feel alive and welcoming. The place that was once referred to as a flyover state has defied odds and gained championship recognition with the thunder, of course, which has only put us on the world's stage, which in turn spotlighted our local businesses with all of the art and creativity that has become our state's identity. Even with all of these successful and hopeful metrics, this has been a challenging year for many retailers, which is why the next few months are absolutely critical. Nearly a third of annual revenue comes during the holiday season alone. If you're like my family, it's not a hard ask to attend the holiday pop-up shops hosted by ISA and supported by the board. The curated list of vendors provide unique and thoughtful gifts for everyone on your list and usually a few things for yourself as well. The holiday pop-up shops this year opens on Small Business Saturday and they run every Friday and Saturday through December 21st. Through its nine seasons, the pop-up shops have generated more than $3 million in sales for small businesses. This is a give back opportunity and it's a really fun one. Shop for the holidays, but do it locally. These purchases are meaningful not only for the recipient, but for some shops. These purchases are the difference between keeping their doors open next year or not. When people choose to shop local, they hope a business stay open. They help a family stay rooted here, and they help a neighborhood stay resilient, thriving, and vibrant. Small Business Saturday is both a reminder of that impact and a celebration of the businesses that keep Oklahoma City special. If you're not familiar with the local businesses in your area, ISA has a great tool on their website for finding a shop near you or maybe a new to you shop. Um the website is.org. Thank you again for recognizing the importance of this day and for championing many of the small business owners here today and so many more. >> Thank you. Let's hear for our small businesses. [applause] Thank you all. All right. Well, now um why don't we bring our teacher of the month forward, Nikki. [applause] [applause] You're a fan favorite, Nikki. All right. Well, let's learn a little bit more about you. I'd ask the clerk to read this resolution. >> Whereas Nikki Mays has been named teacher of the month for November 2025 by the Milwood Public School District and Rotary Club of Oklahoma City. And whereas Nikki Mays, known as true champion, is a seventh grade geography teacher at Milwood Arts Academy. And whereas Nikki is a change agent in education and believes that all students can and will learn. As a master teacher, she maintains high expectations for herself and her students. And whereas well respected among her peers, Nikki uses her strong leadership skills to advocate for the members of her school community and supports her colleagues by modeling best practices, sharing resources, and serving as a teacher mentor. And whereas Nikki is poised, energetic confident creative and thinks fast on her feet, expertly balancing the social, emotional, and academic needs of all her students. And whereas Nikki's rapport with students and parents is nothing short of remarkable. Now therefore, be it resolved by the mayor and council of the city of Oklahoma City that they do hereby recognize and commend Nikki Mays on her selection as November 2025 teacher of the month by Milwood Public Schools and Rotary Club of Oklahoma City. >> Well, that's fantastic, Nikki. Thank you so much for your service to the young people of our city. Um, this is a resolution, so we've got to actually pass this. So, we'll see. I mean, I I think the I think it made a great case. I think it's going to go well, but let's see. Okay, we've got a motion and a second. Cast your votes. I wish to vote I. >> Mine is stuck. I'll vote yes. >> The suspense is killing. There we go. Passes unanimously. [applause] Good crowd today. All right. All right. Well, Nikki, we'd love to hear a few words from you. The floor is yours. Okay. >> Good morning, and this is truly an honor. And I thank you, Mayor Hope, for recognizing me as teacher of the month. And I also thank Mule Wolf for allowing me to be a part of the family. I want to continue to do my best to teach our children and make a difference in our community. Thank you. >> Thank you. Yes. [applause] Thank you. >> [applause] >> All right. Now, we have our employee of the month, Shelley. Come on down. Shelley Garrison, we'd like to learn a little bit more about you. And so, I'd ask the clerk to read this resolution. Whereas, Shelley Garrettson has been a city employee for 17 years and serves as project management program manager for the information technology department. And whereas Shelley continually exemplifies excellence in both customer satisfaction and internal collaboration, demonstrating professionalism, initiative, and a strong work ethic in every project she leads. And whereas Shelley has made significant contributions to key initiatives including IT strategic alignment for city departments, Oracle Fusion cloud services support, and the budget application software solution. And whereas Shel's ability to analyze complex challenges and deliver practical effective solutions is instrumental to the team success. And whereas Shelley embodies the one city, one team vision, fostering a positive, inclusive, and collaborative work environment and is a trusted and respected colleague who consistently leads with excellence in support to support others. And whereas Shel's leadership has played a vital role in onboarding new team members, helping them ramp up quickly while maintaining high productivity. And whereas Shelley recently handled a particularly complex client issue with professionalism and grace, transforming a potential escalation into a glowing customer review. Now therefore, be it resolved by the mayor and council of the city of Oklahoma City that they do hereby thank and commend Shelley Garrettson, November 2025 South Oklahoma City Kowanas Club employee of the month. >> All right. Yes. Well, this is a great crowd. They just burst into applause at everything. Go ahead. [applause] All right. Let's go to uh the monitor now. See uh see [laughter] how this is going to go for you, Shelley. We've got a motion in a second. Cast your votes. I wish to vote. I double thumbs up. [laughter] >> I'll vote yes. >> All right. Passes unanimously. There you go. Well, Shelley, we'd love to hear a few words from you. So, the floor is yours. >> All right. Thank you very much, Mayor Holt. Um, this is really such an honor. A lot of really great people are in this club. So, >> um I want to thank my team, um Aaron and Amy, Lepina and Luke. Uh I I wouldn't be standing up here if it wasn't for them. Really, they're uh the reason I do anything that I can do. Um and then also it uh is a we're a great department. Um and uh NIT uh the one city, one team is not just a slogan, but the way that we work. So, >> absolutely. Well, thank you. Thank you for your service. Let's hear it for Shelly. [applause] >> Thank you. All right, that concludes Office of the Mayor. Uh we have no items from council. So we're at item five, city manager reports. Mr. City Manager, >> we have several items that are on today. Um there's two that we're going to have reports on. So the first one is a presentation on the resident survey. Chris Taitham with uh ETC Institute. Uh they do our resident annual resident survey and really appreciate the partnership and the work that they do. And he'll give us a presentation on this year's resident survey report. U mayor and members of the council. It's great to be back. I realized as I was coming to Oklahoma City today that my first presentation for this survey was in 2005. So this is the 20th presentation. We missed one year. uh and working with this city uh given that I've worked with thousands of communities across the country, you are one of the most steadfast, consistent as far as getting input from residents of any city in the country. So to be congratulated for that and you're going to see some good news in the results, but also some opportunities uh to continue doing better. Uh for anyone who's not familiar with ATC Institute, we're based in Kansas City. We now have offices around the world. Uh we've surveyed over a million people uh in the past few years. In fact, we've done more than 50 surveys uh for the city of Oklahoma City, including the annual survey that we've done most of the past many years. And our purpose as a company is really to provide local leaders an opportunity to objectively hear what the average resident or business or other people who you are serving think about issues that the results don't make the decision, but they help inform decisions so you understand how things are changing and what you can do to better serve the community better. Uh today I'm going to walk you through basically what we found to give you an overview of the demographics. You're the ones who have to use the data. So it's always important to me that you're comfortable and if you have questions about how the survey is done, uh that that way when you look at the interpretation, you can feel comfortable that the results do represent the city and your ward. Uh this year's survey was very similar to previous surveys. It was a administered to,83 residents. We get 150 from each ward to make sure the ward data is statistically valid as well as the city as a whole. The data is not perfect. Uh it has a precision of plus or minus 2.7% at the 95% level of confidence. And I know that's real boring statistical stuff, but it basically means if we did the survey 100 times, 95 times out of 100 we get these same results within about 3% or less. So it's very good data and very consistent from year to year. Uh some of the things that I just want to share with you is we tend to make sure that we have good representation for several demographic issues. It's challenge makes sure that we have good representation from all age groups. If you actually look at the census uh distributions relative to our sample, they're pretty close across the board when it comes to race and ethnicity. Uh we get good representation from all income groups. And the last one are just all these dots represent the block address, not the exact address of the respondents. And sometimes because the city is so large, people wonder, well, what about all those areas in yellow where there are no re respondents? Well, this year I added your land use map. And you'll notice the yellow areas are where people live. The green and other ones are where people don't live. And if you look at the distribution of our dots, they pretty much line up very nicely with the places where people live. So, we feel have good representation demographically and geographically. And given the historic nature of trends that we've tracked for you for many years, I think you once again can have confidence in this year's survey results. So with that said, I'm going to lead off with the major findings, get through some of the details how I got there, and then come back to the major findings at the end. Uh, but the number one thing I want to highlight, and it's not in this chart, but it's coming up soon, is overall satisfaction with the direction the city is headed. We've shared this for you in the past, but I've never had a national benchmark for you. It's always seemed to be good. This year, 72% of your respondents believe the city's moving in the right direction, which was up three points from last year. Only 11% of your residents don't agree. This is actually almost 30% above the national average in today's time. So, congratulations on that. Compared to most of the nation, most of the nation does not think their local government is moving in the right direction, but your residents of Oklahoma City certainly do. Second, you're setting the standard for most city services. I'm going to walk you through a number of things, but the one that I want to highlight is the overall quality of city services. You're 19% above the national average for large cities and almost 12% above the national average for all cities, which is incredible. The overall priorities have not changed. It continues to be streets effectiveness of how you're dealing with the homeless response issues and others. So, for the most part, things did not change radically. In addition, when we looked at the trends, the overall results were pretty similar to previous years. Uh but let me start off with some of the major findings. Uh this chart shows overall ratings of the city compared to our national average uh which is for cities of more than 250,000 residents. And then also, excuse me, for our large communities in gray and then the national average for all cities is in red. But you'll notice on here is a place to live, place to work as a city that's moving in the right direction, a place to visit, a place to raise children, a place to retire. Oklahoma City is significantly above all of them. And as I mentioned before, the overall satisfaction with the direction the city is headed right now is at 71% 71.6%. Nationally, for large cities, it's just 41.9% and for all cities, it's 47.9%. So again, in periods of difficult time and uncertainty, this city appears to have a lot of confidence in your residents and continues to be rated as a great place to live, work, and raise children. Uh within some of the major city services that we take a look at, things like fire, trash, ambulance service, police services. I won't read the list here of all of them, but I want to highlight how well you rate compared to other national averages. Your communication is more than double the national average for comm community for local governments for large local governments at 51.6 compared to 24.2% nationally. Uh you can see customer service is almost double the national average at 61.2% compared to just 31.9% for large cities nationally. And you can see things like police are more than 20% above the national average or trash service is 35% above the national average. and fire services are also 20% above the national average. So, you're doing a lot of things right. Streets, I think the residents forgive you on that because this has been rated below the national average for a long time, but it doesn't seem to hurt their perception of leadership in the direction that the city is going. And transit, I think there's expectations. I'm going to share some slides for just more and better service for people. Uh, when it comes to some of the other things, the last things I'll share is the overall quality of city services. you can see is 19% above the national average. Perceptions of your downtown are more than 20% above the national average. The image and even planning growth you'll see is almost twice the national average for large communities at 52 to 27.5% on average. Feeling of safety, we've been assessing some of the issues related to traffic, related to homeless concerns and things like that. And though it still trails slightly below the national average, it's actually increased 4% from last year. So again, I think you're moving in the right direction. So lots of good findings when we compare you nationally. And what I like about this chart is we ask people the overall satisfaction with the overall quality of services. And then we show on this chart the average rating for each of the wards. And you'll see it's all the same color. So it doesn't matter which ward you live in. Overall satisfaction levels are pretty high citywide. And that's really unusual in a city the size of Oklahoma City to be able to provide equity and the quality of city services. So with that said, let me talk a little bit about the trends from last year. Uh these are the major categories of city services and you can see there's not a lot of major changes. A few things have gone up, few things have gone down. You'll see uh streets is a little bit lower, transit is slightly lower, codes are a little bit lower. On the other end, you'll see things like ambulance services a little better, trash services a little bit better, and overall customer service from city employees. But for the most part, the trends are pretty much the same compared to a year ago. And I think in a era where a lot of communities are really struggling to provide highquality services, consistency is one of the marks of excellence. And we see that with the city of Oklahoma City. And specifically, there were 89 areas that were assessed in 2024 and again in 2025. Seven of these, which isn't a lot of changes, increased by 3%. Uh, and one of the things I want to highlight is the helpfulness of city staff was the one that increased the most. So again, your employees are out in the front lines have a positive impact on the residents perceptions of the city. That was up 7%. And you can see I mentioned before ambulance service, communication, perceptions of safety, your golf courses of place to visit, and the overall quality athletic programs. All of those areas were significant improvements. Uh with regard to decreases, uh there were just 12 decreases. So again, putting that in perspective, there were just 19 significant changes out of 80ome. So not a lot of things changed. The biggest decrease this year was the code enforcement. It was down 5%. Some of the other areas that we saw decreases related to code enforcement were the enforcing the exterior maintenance of residential property and also the enforcement of mowing and cutting weeds and grass on private property. We saw condition of streets and wastewater also slightly decrease uh from a year ago. But all in all for the most of the items that were assessed there was no significant change from 2024 to 2025. With that said though you just don't want to figure out what satisfaction is. It's what do people think the priority should be? Uh and so when we ask people their overall perceptions of satisfaction, you'll see that effectiveness of homeless response system and condition of streets continue to receive some of the lowest ratings of all the areas that were assessed. In fact, the items on the top of this chart are typically setting the standard for the whole nation. Whereas in the items on the bottom chart are kind of what's left over. And I think that's one of the reasons they continue to get flagged as high priorities for the community. And you can see when it comes to condition of streets, I think just the enormous size geographically of the city of Oklahoma City makes it a challenge. And you can see the ratings for overall condition of streets is pretty much the same regardless of where people live. And the issue about homeless response to the homeless situation is also impacting people pretty evenly. Regardless of where they live, people are probably having concerns and you can see that here as well. uh when it comes to the overall priorities uh we asked people to pick the services they thought were the top priorities streets has been the top survey service for many many years but as I said before I think it's your customer service and other things that overcome some of the challenges you've had with streets which is one of the reasons you consistently get good ratings for the direction of the city even though one of the most important services is actually rated lower than the national average. You can see the second top priority or second highest priority is a homeless response system, traffic flow, code enforcement, and police services and parks and recreation kind of round at the top half. And when we do analysis to identify where you should emphasize messages, perhaps investments or what things are likely to have the most positive impact on satisfaction moving forward. We look at not just the importance, but also the satisfaction to give you some guidance. And you can see streets and homelessness are the top two. The next tier are traffic flow, code enforcement, and public transit. And the next tier after that is police and parks and recreation. You can see for the most part most of the items get relatively low is ratings except for the first three on that list, which have been at the top of the list for quite some time. Uh, as far as the additional things that we looked at this year's survey, we had a number of questions that probe deeper. Uh, one of which was the interaction with police. We actually wanted to find out what residents think about their interactions with police and whether or not they were had a good experience. We found out about half of the residents, 46% said they had interacted with the police officer in the last three years. And then we asked them a follow-up question, were they treated fairly? And 87% said yes. Uh, and it was pretty similar across racial lines and other use. So all in all, most of the residents who interact with your police are having a real positive. But I doubt that 42% broke the law. So that means the police is get your police officers are getting out there and interacting with the public beyond just issuing citations which is great and that's probably one of the reasons overall satisfaction with your police services is 21% above the national average. Uh other things we ask people because the transit we wanted to find out a little bit more under issue what is it because it's a bad service or not enough service and when we ask people some of the issues you'll see that people are would like to see more routes to more places stops closer to home more frequency of service. So really some of the lower ratings we see on public transit aren't that you have a bad service. In fact we've done a number of your onboard surveys and satisfaction's very high among your current customers. It's really a desire for more service and that's what we see in the results this year. Uh we also asked people about some neighborhood issues and one of the things we asked people were what kind of problems they were experiencing their neighborhoods and you can see the most frequent uh problem or that we saw that was reported as a problem at least once a week or more than once a week by 26% of the respondents was traffic and pedestrian safety. So, as part of this survey this year, we actually asked some questions about whether or not people what they thought about law enforcement. And you can see when we asked people their overall satisfaction enforcement of local traffic laws, you'll see about one in three, that's in the smaller pie chart there, uh, said they were very dissatisfied or dissatisfied. We then did a follow-up question as to why they were dissatisfied and 83% felt there weren't enough citations. That's always a challenge. Do you do more enforcement or less enforcement? Right now, the biggest issue is that people are probably feeling unsafe because they think people are driving too quickly through their neighborhoods or not safely through their neighborhoods. Uh, a new finding this year as we've tracked this for many years for you, newspapers used to be at the top of the list. You can see it's way down the list these days, but the new number one source of information for residents about the city of Oklahoma City is now social media. This is the first time it's been at the top of the list. It was a second last year and it's worked its way from not even being on the list back in 2005 to being the number one source. Uh the other tool that we have for you, I'm not going to go into detail today, but one of the great things about your staff is you're able to I know some of you like to do this too, be able to drill down into the findings. So we have a dashboard that has all the data from all your surveys in one place. So you can take a look at trends, you can take a look at maps, you can see how you compare on a wide variety of things. For example, if you want to take a look at just demographics and how people respond to different questions citywide or by ward, you can go to this function here and actually take a look at who responded to certain questions. And this is a place to live. And you can see how people respond based on their race, based on their age, and so forth. And we have found in a number of communities around the country that younger adults, 20 to 34, are typically less satisfied across the board with a lot of things. And you can even see that on this result where you see the little bars in the to the left in the middle ratings of the city as a place that as a place to live as it goes up from the younger people to the older people from 71 to 88%. Uh the other tools that we have are the ability to look at trends. We actually have the data online now for you for every survey dating back to 2020. And one of the things I wanted to highlight here is for your customer excuse me from 2016 is customer service. You have just steadily improved. You really hit it out of the park during COVID. You might remember I shared how well you did, but it's been just steady. If you look all the way back to 2016, each year things with the exception of COVID getting a big positive spike, you just keep moving the needle forward. So, you've always done well in customer service, but you continue to do it. And this is really the reflection of your employees interacting with the public. And that's one of the things I wanted to highlight for you. A last thing I'll highlight from this is if you want to see how things are changing in your wards or citywide, you can actually look at the trends in the map. This one particularly is the rating of the city is a moving in the right direction and you can see ward seven, ward four, ward three are off the charts as far as the overall direction. Citywide it was up over two points, but you'll see there were a couple places that stayed about the same. Again, the margin of error is more than what you see for all of this. The only one that really exceeded the margin of error was ward 7, but you can see a couple of them were slightly below. But this allows you to actually take a look at how have investments, how have priorities perhaps that you've been looking at in your own ward changed from year to year, so you can have access to that information. So again, lots of information here. I [snorts] want to highlight, mayor, and members of the council, what a great job you do. I think most of the time you probably are spending your time responding to the concerns and the negatives and how to make things better, but you're clearly listening and clearly making decisions that are positively impacting this community. You don't get ratings for your major services like trash, customer service, communication, planning for growth, police and fire service at 20 points above the national average by accident. and you don't have a community that's a great place to live, work, retire in a wonderful downtown again without long-term commitment to what the public thinks and making wise investments for many, many years. And lastly, uh first time we've ever rolled out the benchmark as a city moving in the right direction. We knew you were doing well, but we didn't know how well. And I think you can take a lot of pride in the fact that you're 30 points above the national average in that regard. So with that, mayor, I don't know if there's any questions, but uh congratulations for another good year. And hopefully this data will help the city continue to move in the right direction in the future. >> Thank you. And you said that that particular question on moving in the right direction is how many points above the national average? >> Yeah, that you're right at 30 points. I put that that's the second. Here we go. Right this slide here, the very right here moving. You're at 71.6. National average for large cities is 41.9. So almost 30 points above the national average. And at one time we had another data. It was about 10 years ago. It was more in the 50s. So, it just shows how things have changed nationally, but your number keeps getting better. >> Yeah. And and really to validate that, every election we have on our major initiatives tracks right around that number. So, I mean, it kind of I think that's kind of the cohort that feels that way is also voting to support our progress. Any questions? >> Yeah, I just wanted to make sure that the total number of responses is available on each item. >> Yes. So if it was not every question is asked to everyone but you can take a look if you go to the dashboard if that's what you're asking for you can see them for every year b dating back to 2016. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. So you'll have this year it was 12 thou or 1283 I think and then you can look at last year would have been a slightly different number but all of that is now in one master database. But just to be clear like on the individual items and then the followup questions we can still see the total number of responses on >> you can the only good example would be is if for example somebody was uh dissatisfied with police services we asked why you were dissatisfied just to the subset but they're still part of the overall database if that makes sense. Well, I just want to make sure that as we're looking at percentages, um, a lot of times they're very large or very small that we can also say, well, what was the actual number on that that respond? >> And I particularly just caution as you look at your ward, if you start to break it down by demographics and you look at the three people who are Asian and that responded from your ward, probably not good to make decisions or references about that group of people. So that's a great point is be cautious in how you start breaking it down because once you get really below the city level uh or below the ward level outside of the ward total uh the data is not statistically valid at that point when you get too small of a sample >> right thank you excuse me >> bill is that how this goes out >> oh no I should have recaped we actually select a random sample of households each year uh we then mail a survey to them separately from the water bill. Uh we then follow up with texts, emails, and even direct social media now uh to encourage people to participate. >> Chris, I just wanted to thank you for 20 years of surveying. Um this is I say it every year. This is one of the favorite reports I I review each year and I can't wait to read through it. Um we had good numbers last year. I'd say we had good numbers this year and we may have improved a little over the last year. Would you agree? >> Yeah. Overall, what happens is when you become a high performing organization, you tend not to see lots of change from one year to the next. It's kind of like you keep doing really well and you'll see three or 4% increases, 3 or 4% decreases and those tend to be the biggest changes. You know, this year the biggest improvement was 7%, the biggest decrease was just 5%. So, I think your consistency is one of the reasons uh residents overall satisfaction remains so high from year to year. >> Thanks again for being here. >> Thanks, Chris. Thanks for the partnership. Appreciate it. >> Thank you. Happy anniversary. 20 years. Thank you so much. >> So, next up, Jeff Butler, our planning director, is going to give a presentation on bike lane projects. Um, I know several months ago, I'd had some questions about bike lanes as they're coming in and they're removing lanes of traffic. We make sure that we're giving people a heads up. So, council members are aware when we have a bike lane that's going in that we're removing a lane of traffic. Had an issue of a project that was coming up. I had not notified council and I wanted to make sure this one that was planned for class and Jeff will talk about that today. What we want to try to do is get on a regular routine of getting presentations from the council about a every year doing just general updates on where we're heading with bike lanes. We got bike lane projects that are in the bond program. We've got some that are in the maps 4 program. We want to be able to get this in front of council so you're well and then also committing to do some private briefings as projects are coming online ahead of time just so that you're aware of that. So doing a better job of communicating that. So I'm going to let Jeff just walk through this and talk about some of the projects that we we've got upcoming um here in the next uh few years and then kind of the status of where we are with the projects we've been doing. >> Thank you. Uh good morning mayor, council, and city manager. Jeff Butler, planning director. Um, as Craig mentions, I'll I'll go through uh a few upcoming uh bike lane projects. Um, real briefly, uh, this is kind of why we do this. Um, why we build bike lanes uh, these days. Uh, we have studies that say that they are, uh, reducing traffic injuries for all modes, not just cyclist. So, they make our streets safer. Uh, they make our, uh, travelers safer. Uh, physical activity is good as we all know. Uh, so riding a bike, walking, etc. is is helpful in that regard. Um, and it's a lot cheaper to own a uh a bike or a scooter or something like that than it is a car if you're a lower uh moderate income household. So, uh just a quick summary slide. We have uh several projects that I'll go through kind of one by one and there's a lot of information. So, I'll go quickly if you have a question on on a specific project or any question at all feel free and stop me and we can we can pause. also have Debbie Miller, public works director here and uh David Todd, our maps director, uh uh available for questions as well. So, uh here are the numbers. We have um funded projects and design or under construction, uh on street bike routes 12 miles, trails 32 and sidewalks 124. We'll focus on uh bike lanes today. uh various funding sources including 2017 bond and and sales tax monies, general obligation bonds, again 2017 and upcoming 2025. There's a couple of bike lane projects in that in that bond package. Uh MAPS 4 had uh many million dollars um dedicated to um uh bike lanes and also we received federal funds through ACOG. Um this is just in here so that you can see uh when we when we plan for bike lanes, we look for streets that have capacity to accommodate them. Um and so uh this is just an example of a table that ACOG uh that we use that provides guidelines for traffic levels. So for example, uh a two-lane arterial can handle anywhere from uh well zero of course up to uh 15,000 uh cars per day. the average annual daily traffic range there. And then you can see all the way up to six lanes, which would be classen would be designed to accommodate, you know, 32,000 up to 40,000 uh uh trips per day. So I have several slides here that just talk about the individual projects and and we can share this with you later because you know there's a lot of information here. Um but bike lane bike lanes uh we're going to share seven or eight of these. Uh you can see the project type here. are the scope elements kind of what's involved because not a lot of these come with um various improvements, bike lanes, sidewalks, uh crossings, um resurfacing. Um some of them are more limited, some of them are kind of the complete package. Um so this one in particular, uh Sixth Street Lynwood Boulevard. Um this is one that uh Lynwood has quite a bit of capacity and the Sixth Street portion actually is something that we were approached uh several years ago by property owners along Sixth Street wanting to do a uh a street enhancement project there which would include uh better parking uh situation and bike lanes. Um there's excess capacity there to accommodate that. Um, this funding source is a combination of better states, better street safer city sales tax as well as some ACOG uh, funds that we're able to get through a grant. Um, and then you can see there the design capacity in Lynwood. It's it's it's quite a large street. It can handle a lot of traffic. Uh, but the current volumes are a a tiny fraction of what it could actually accommodate. So, uh, this is an example of, you know, opportunities we look at to to, uh, kind of right size a street, uh, where it's in some sense overbuilt for vehicles anyway, for cars. We can accommodate a bike lane. Uh, this project is Northwest 4th and Northwest 6th Street. Um, and you can see they're kind of two separate but related projects close to each other. Um these uh this is a funding mostly this is a grant-f funded uh ACOG project. Um and the amount is $6 million. Um this gets a resurfacing which I think is pretty much the bulk of the cost. Uh bike lanes and on street parking. Um and you can see the the the volumes and the and the capacities there. This is a north south uh facility Robinson Avenue and this goes from Seventh Street to Grand. So, this is a full street enhancement. Includes a lot of things including resurfacing and sidewalks, uh bus stops, lighting improvements, um and bike lanes. Uh and this this is a bond project and is also uh receiving grant funds through ACOG. Uh Classon Boulevard. This is from Sheridan to Northwest 10th Street. This also was a um this this actually goes back several years to the better class and um planning process years ago and it was funded um the street enhancement was funded through 2017 bond uh funds and we received a grant through ACOG. Uh the amounts that we put in the bond I think it was about 2 and a.5 million and the the bal the balance is uh through a ACOG grant. Uh and that would involve many many different things. Uh again, bus stop improvements, lighting, uh sidewalk crossing improvements, um just various safety improvements and bike lanes as well. Uh there you see the design capacity for uh the sixlane class. Uh the volumes there are actually um what you would see pretty typical of a of a four-lane arterial and various places in the city. Uh Northeast Fourth Street and Northeast 8th Street. Uh again, two uh projects nearby. These these came out of the recent uh maps plan for the connectivity the connectivity plan for the um innovation district. So uh these are related projects. They're funded by maps. Uh there you see the design capacity of those uh facilities and the current volumes. Uh and this again provides a lot of different scope elements um including bike lanes, sidewalks, trees um and lighting upgrades. Uh another north south project is Villa Avenue uh the street enhancement. This goes from 10th to the the river. Um and then also sorry uh bike lanes uh resurfacing sidewalks and lighting 39th Street. Um, this actually would connect at Pennsylvania. Uh, and it would meet up with u the new street enhancement that the relatively new street enhancement that goes through the the district just to the west of that yellow line. And it would continue u all the way to to Chartell Avenue. And that's a street that has a lot of additional capacity uh that we have room to put a bike lane on as well. And the amount there is uh about $4 million million dollars and it's uh also a 2025 uh bond project, one of the two in 2025 bond. The stockyards, uh this is another good example of a street that has a lot of capacity. It's designed to accommodate about 22,000 cars per day. Um and it's got a a very low current volume of 2,000. Um, and this this project would install bike lanes and make uh additional parking upgrades. Um, uh, it's just a a street that uh really could use a lot of cleanup that that has been designed. Um, and it's uh about ready for construction. Um, lastly, a couple projects that I didn't have all the details for, but they're mentioned here. There's a couple of phase one um Oh, sorry, I didn't get that on there. There's a couple of phase one projects on here. uh that uh uh we can get you more information on, but these are specific to phase 2 uh alignments. Uh those are coming soon. Uh there's about $22 million budgeted for maps for bike lanes. Um and 11 million of those are for phase 2. So there's still uh some in the projects in in the works. And what we intend to do uh is come back to you uh at least annually um potentially more often as the council desires and give you updates on the progress of of additional bike lanes and where those alignments uh are proposed. Uh we can also do additional briefings uh to the extent that's desired. Um so here's a quick summary map as as we conclude. Um this this shows existing facilities. The purple lines are sheross or just kind of shared facilities. They're not lanes. Uh but the kind of the bold red lines are the uh funded projects that that you'll see coming online soon. And just a quick note, uh this is not just for bikes. Uh a lot of scooter users use these. I was actually quite surprised the other day to learn that we we have new data from uh scooter companies and uh the average annual trips on scooters these days is about 400,000 in a year and that's trending upwards. So we could see easily half a million scooter trips per year and it tends to be clustered actually uh in this area that you see here kind of the core of the city where we see just a lot of scooter trips. So, there's a lot of different, not just bikes, um, a lot of different, uh, ways to use these facilities. Uh, in closing, uh, we we're trying to upgrade our public engagement, uh, for bike facilities, uh, and we've got a new website with new material that's coming online. Uh, additional content's been filmed and that's on the way to be posted. We just want to make sure that people understand how to use the facilities, both drivers and cyclists and scooter users, um how to ride and and what to do because sometimes things are a little different than what they're used to and that can be a little unsettling when you see a street a street uh that's been newly striped and you're not exa exactly sure how to navigate it. We do try as much as we can to design so that it is intuitive, but uh this I think will help uh users as well. So, with that, I'll be happy to we are happy to answer any questions you might have. >> Craig, this is directed towards you. Um, when I was first elected, um, I would get books and articles and and phone calls from Eric Groves, and he was the W 2 uh, city council person in the 70s and 80s. Um, he sent me uh numerous different things including the death and life of great American cities by Jane Jacobs. But when he would call and I used this word intentionally, he would lecture me about certain things and I appreciated that. I learned a lot from him. But one thing that he spoke about over and over was the importance of Classen Boulevard to Oklahoma City. And I really do think this is a a vital and really important street that we always need to stay focused on. So, if we're going to have some briefings, um, I'd like to have briefings earlier rather than later as it as it goes with Class Boulevard please. >> And I've got a question for you from an engineering standpoint. I mean, used to when we looked at capacity, we always looked at bouncing busy hour, right? Because we don't know what that busy hour is. Could be 7 in the morning, 6:00 in the morning, could be 8 at night. Do we ever try to look at what the busy hour is on those streets? Because I know in the past we've had to cancel some of these because when we started looking at the busy hour, it's like, all right, it's going to be backed up a mile here with the loss of that additional lane. So, I'm just curious, do we have the tools to be able to look at busy hour? >> Yes, good question. Um, and we do. You're right. We um so the average daily traffic counts is not everything. you know, it's once you get into the design phase, it is important to look at uh the peak hour and when that is and how just how much it is because it could be that um that that kind of bumps it to a point where it's you know it's it's questionable or even infeasible. Um, so but until you get to that design point, so we don't necessarily have u good solid data citywide for every intersection and every uh street um section for just all the turning movements and the peak counts. But what we do have for planning purposes are the traffic counts. But yes, once we get to the design phase, we can really look at it and see, okay, just how feasible is this design? Do we need to do something different or do we need to move this alignment uh if it's just not feasible? >> Okay, thank you. [clears throat] >> Um I have a few comments and then a a question. Um, I think this is an interesting timing to go with the resident survey, particularly the item about concern about people like speeding, like just safety for pedestrians and generally, I guess, people outside of cars in neighborhoods because I think it's interesting to think about um the impacts of more mobility options and more freedom in options to reduce and maybe help improve um people's feelings of safety in their neighborhoods, even if the infrastructure isn't in their neighborhoods. particularly the fact that they can get out of their neighborhood outside of a car or other maybe their neighbors maybe they can't but their neighbors could um and might be able to take more advantage of those types of um mobility options. Um I think that's like an interesting connection to have these presentations sort of tied in. Um and I also to your point about the scooters um I think is really something that I've noticed with bike lanes particularly where there aren't sidewalks. I also see a lot of people using the bike lanes as a as a pathway for for walking. Um, particularly one of the ones I see most often is on South Walker like around I think it's like 29th to Grand there's like a few stretches where there's no sidewalk on one side of the street and I very very often see families, children, people using those um to to navigate um walking down the street. So thinking too about them as like this broader mobility project and like the opportunities like for to expand both transportation options but just general like freedom of choice um for people and make those things more um possible. But going back to the safety piece, I'm curious where because I recognize that the I think for [clears throat] me there's always this tension of the traffic counts that like it's a little bit like a self-fulfilling loop a bit where like you're like well the traffic counts are too high so we can't do X but then the traffic counts are so high people don't say feel safe you know traversing that area. So I'm curious like and I think we really see that through like a lot of the vision zero data that I you have all presented um around like the areas where the highest fatalities for you know cars and people outside of cars getting hit and having you know catastrophic or fatal results. um are in areas that don't have, you know, they aren't the areas that you highlighted sort of like in the core where um maybe it's it looks overbuilt for vehicles. Um, so I'm just curious like how we navigate that going forward of like not solely thinking like recognizing that like if we're if we're also kind of looking towards this vision zero space like and in goal like how we thread that needle I guess of um [clears throat] of prioritizing safety over how fast an automobile can get through an intersection or through a particular part of the Yeah, thank you. Good question. It's it it is a a balancing act and a lot of it comes down to like [clears throat] we discussed earlier, it is this the right place to put a bike lane. Uh when you factor all those considerations for uh you know cyclist safety, would it have a traffic calming influence? The answer is almost always yes. But what's the risk to the cyclists? Uh is there a risk and what can we do to mitigate that through the design? So [clears throat] if it is a busier street, uh it still may be appropriate to add a bike lane as long as the um as long as the design is appropriate. So as long as it's highly visible, it's got a um the appropriate buffer that is the width and the buffer or the delineator types. Um you know, all the green paint, all the visibility we can muster and making sure that the intersection designs themselves are safe. Uh that the lights are timed appropriately. I mean, it's a it's a and there's quite a lot that goes into the design of these to to make them safe. Um, and you know, then it's it's also a tracking, you know, to your point with with vision zero. Um, [clears throat] we want to make sure and we're tracking these over time so that uh if we do have incidents or even near misses that we we re rethink things, but we do everything we can during the planning and design process to make sure that it's going to be a net positive for all users and that it's going to be um uh safe because we don't want to put a facility somewhere where we're putting people at at greater risk. Um we [clears throat] do look forward to having additional data about cyclist patterns in the future and that's something that we're we're looking into getting data sources and also uh gener generating our own data so that we can see that behavior. Uh and there are various uh ways to do that. >> One other question. What's the impact of this on our residential survey? I mean our lowest point on anything is city streets, right? I'm just curious if anyone has any ideas on is that going to bring up our survey results [clears throat] or is it going to decline our survey results? >> I I think it depends again like what Jeff's saying like where we end up putting the lane the traffic or the bike lanes. I think if it impedes traffic I think that you know flow of traffic is another area that is one that people aren't satisfied with. So I think it's it it comes down to it's a safety issue that's really you know making sure it's accessible and it's safe but also the effect on the flow of traffic. I think the response will be different depending upon where we have the bike lanes. Yeah. >> Sure. Thank you. >> Do we count bikers, bicyclists like we do traffic counts? >> I think we've got the ability. I'll let Jeff answer that. >> Yeah. So we we can um in certain circumstances. So, we we have the, you know, we've all seen the the cords that go across the street. So, we have the ability to u move some counting equipment around, [clears throat] but it's really just kind of a custom uh we have a few u pieces of equipment that we can move around to do that. We don't have a city-wide way of of of doing that yet. Um some of the data that we use, it's called street light that we use to get our traffic counts these days. Um it does count bikes but it it's not yet we don't have the ability to see on one particular you know stretch of a street for example. It'll just kind of give us like the scooter stuff like this is how many cyclists are going in this area. So uh what we will be doing the police uh department has some equipment that we'll be uh employ uh deploying soon uh that they can just kind of put on a pole or something that's nearby the street and it'll count. So, uh, that way we can kind of get before and afters or if we're looking at a particular corridor, we'd like to see when what's going on, whether it be pre or post bike lane. Um, so yes, short answer, we do have the ability to do that. We just have to kind of do it manually and uh take a piece of equipment or two and move it around. So, if there's any particular corridor you'd like to us to look at, we can certainly do that. So, we have a certain traffic count that we have to hit before we'll widen a road or do an intersection uh upgrade. How many bikes do we need to have to put in a bike lane? >> Um, there's no there's no set amount. I mean, it certainly matters if if we notice that people are already cycling on a corridor. Um, but the difference is, you know, it's kind of like, you know, when do you build a street? Because, you know, or to use another analogy that that engineers and planners use, you know, how do you know when to build a bridge? You know, we can't really count the number of people kind of swimming across the river. You know, we just have to kind of estimate what the demand might be if we were to put in a bridge. For for bicycles, um these lanes are really designed for people young and old. Um you're always going to have a certain amount of, you know, what we kind of refer to as the spandex cyclist. you know, they're going to they they're hardcore. They're going to cycle anywhere. They're going to cycle where it's fast and a lot of traffic and they're just brave folks. So, but a lot of folks uh are not comfortable cycling in that kind of environment and they prefer to have um a trail or a protected bike lane that they can use. So, what we do is we try and um estimate where the demand is. And uh the scooter uh information that I mentioned earlier is actually pretty good because it shows okay this is the core of the city. There's a lot of demand for alternative transportation. We know that it's kind of a lower moderate income area some of these areas and so that certainly factors into the demand for these types of facilities. But there's also kind of a threshold where until you have a um a functioning system, people aren't really going to adopt that until it gets to a point where yeah, I can get to several places and I I'll go get a bike and I'll invest and uh or I'll start riding a scooter to work because now I see that there's uh enough infrastructure and it feels safe enough. So um you know I we're still you know we've got a good network now. It's a small network, but it's it it can get people to various places. And so if you look at our map, um you know, you can start to see that kind of taking shape, at least in the core of the city where I think most of the demand is. >> Um I want Jeeoff, thank you for the presentation. I appreciate it. Um I'm looking forward to this conversation further um and being more in the loop around the plans around bike lanes. And so I appreciate that. I think um to all of my colleagues, I appreciate that we're not saying it's e either we have support for good traffic for cars or we have support for bike lanes because I think what we're looking to do is have quality transportation across our city no matter what mode of transportation you're using. And so I hope that our efforts to communicate earlier can help us have better community engagement about design, one that takes into account the need of drivers, of course, and people who are cyclists and just neighbors who are going to be interacting with these streets in general. And so I think about Fourth Street in particular where I know that I frequently travel Fourth Street um not at a low rate of speed. Um and I can say that I know many of my neighbors would love to go to Washington Park and cross the street much more easily and safely. So how do we deal with the other people who are going to be uh using that street like I do as a commuter street or wanting to use it to get to the park? And so I think that's both things matter. And so I think it's important that we just have that community input about design. And so I appreciate the city manager for bringing this to our attention today. >> Thank you, Jeff. >> I'm sorry. Thank you, Jeff. I may I please add some remarks? Uh I appreciate you, Councelor Stone Cipher, referencing my predecessor uh who passed away uh recently. Um, I've spoken with Councilman Groves many times and I he and I have lectured each other, so I know about what you speak. Uh, coming from a middle school teaching background, uh, I am always thinking about the safety of a neighborhood for a child and a senior. Just always thinking about that. I'm staring at my screen right now and I am looking at Flower Garden Park which is a neighborhood right off of Classen. Uh it is under construction right now for the first time in decades with street resurfacing and I went over there just yesterday. It is wonderful to see uh those neighbors have waited a really long time and going over there and knocking doors and and this is important for my council members to hear this cuz I think sometimes people don't understand what I'm hearing at the doors when I knock these doors. There was a young man over here who lived between, for those of you who don't know the neighborhood around uh Flower Garden Park, but there is a young man who when I knocked his door over here in this neighborhood between 50th and uh 39th, he worked at the time at Holy Rollers coffee shop in the PO. And when I asked him, "What is your concern for your neighborhood and hopes for our city?" He said, "I would love better walkability and the ability to safely cross classen to get to work on my bike." That was his ask. So, speaking of lecturing, what is hard for me to hear sometimes is when people who do not live in W 2 try to tell the majority of us in W 2 what our needs are. That is hard to hear. It's hard to hear. Also hard to hear. You all will remember and I pulled this up on Google right now. If you type in Classen OKC sue chef hit and run, you'll recall that on Classen Boulevard outside of Ward 2, we stop at 23rd Street. But right there around 16th in class in the entrance into the plaza where we have award-winning public art now where we had almost no public art 25 years ago. Uh you'll remember that a car hit and ran and killed 31-year-old Chad Epley, a sue chef who was working downtown at Devon Tower, who tried to use Classen Boulevard on his bike from work to get home and a vehicle drug him across Classen to his death. His sister, who is friends with many of the people I know in Wu, stood at this podium where Director Butler now stands and could barely raise her voice above a whisper when we were crafting maps for sidewalk, bike lanes, trails, and street light project. She could barely get the words out to advocate for better pedestrian and bike safety on Classen Boulevard. Advocating for her brother's fate not to be the fate of the anyone else on Classen ever again. And that is why there is $22 million in maps for for bike lanes. We must not have historical amnesia about the number of people who are in this room right now. There were even more that summer of 20 19 advocating for this infrastructure. Classen was a street car suburb boulevard when John Chartell and [music] Anton Classen designed it. The neighborhoods which exist along Classen between Northwest Expressway and Main Street deserve, as councelor Pennington just said, no matter whether you walk, bike, have a wheelchair, afford F-150 like I learned to drive on out in Chalkaw, whatever mode of transportation, you should be able to use class and boulevard to get to work, recreation, and education. So yeah, brief the council about class, but do not try to override the council person who represents that area after all the doors I've knocked in that area and listen to people say they do not want their brother dragged to death again on class. Like stop it. That is I'm just saying that is upsetting to me um to try and say that classen must only be for cars. That ignores the literal history from 1892 to 1945 when we designed those neighborhoods over there for all people, no matter how they choose to get around. that that's what I have to say. Um, so thank you for your work. Thank you to the voters who approved maps 4. Thank you to anyone who came and advocated that day. And going forward, we must honor and fulfill that work. We're not turning back. >> Thanks, Jeeoff. still on city manager report. >> Yeah. So, we've got two more reports that are on the revenue enforcement report and our year-end performance report. A lot of information in those. We'll be glad to get with you. We don't have a presentation on any of those. And then claims and payroll can be found on OKC.gov. That's all I have. Cool. >> Thank you. Item six, journal of council proceedings. We have items A and B we could take with one motion. Got a motion in a second. Cast your votes. [clears throat] >> Passes unanimously. Item seven, request for uncontested continuences. Okay, so item 9B is to be struck. Item 11B is to be deferred to December 2nd. Item 11 N is to be deferred to December 2nd. Mr. City Manager, is there anything else? >> Yes. Beginning on page five, item 11 uh five 11 V, I'm sorry. 11V, I'm sorry, 9V. >> Page five, 9V. >> Well, could that Well, 9V is already listed. Is there something additional? >> 9V. I'm sorry, Victor. V is in Victor. Gotcha. Okay. >> Yep. Then on page 16, item 11, V1, V is in Victor. Again, unsecured structures. All these items are stricken from the agenda. Item D, 251 Northwest 25th Street. The owner is secured. And then on page 16, item 11 W1, it's the same item, item D, 251 Northwest 25th Street. On page 18, I've got item 11 ah B. Uh, and we'll strike this item. That's all the items that I have. >> All right, >> city manager, just for clarity, item V as in Victor is being pulled. >> Yes. >> Um, >> on which under nine >> public art commission >> on on the agreement on that one. They just need to do some more work on that. Gotcha. Okay, that brings us then to item eight, revocable permits and events. Uh, item 8A is a revocable rideway use permit with downtown Oklahoma City partnership to hold the Saints Santa Run or Saint Santa I don't know what that seems weird. Uh, December 6th on Walker and we've got Olivia Bransum here. >> Hi, council. Thank you for having me this morning. Um, we are requesting a rolling street closure for St. Santa. That's coming up on December 6th. It'll be on the SSM Health St. Anthony campus. Uh, starting at 9:00 a.m. for registration and packet pickup, but we will start with a kids dash at 9:45. That's free for kids 10 and under. And then we'll have a onem fun run and a 5K starting at 10:30. Uh, bring your costumes. will have cash prizes for best Santa costumes, most festive costumes, and most festive pet costumes. Um, and tickets can be or registrations can be purchased through downtown in December website and run signup/ Santa Run. >> All right. Thank you, Councilwoman Hammond. >> Um, it's the best time of year because everyone's dressing up to go running. I'm very happy to move for approval. >> Okay. Motion in a second. cast your votes. Passes unanimously. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. All right. Item B is a revocable rightway use permit with Stackyard City Main Street to hold the cowboy Christmas parade on December 6th on exchange. And we have Debbie Harrison here. >> Good morning, Mayor, Council, City Manager Freeman. I can't believe it's time again, but it is for the cowboy Christmas parade. We're asking for the special event permit to be held on Saturday, December the 6th. The parade starts at 10:00 a.m. from the interchange of Exchange and Penn. It will go west down Exchange to Agnu and then south on Agnu to Southwest 15th Street. We're excited to have P. McIntyre is the grand marshall for the parade this year. And of course, you know, where else in the city of Oklahoma City can you see the Slasho Ranch Longhorns parading down the street? So, we have a lot of equestrian groups, community organizations, pageant royalty, and then boy Santa, of course, will bring up the rear of the parade, and you'll have an opportunity to have pictures with him and some gifts um at Rodeo Cinema following the parade. So, it's a great event. We'd like to see you all there. If you have any questions, here I am. Um it's always a really lovely event, so I'm always very proud to have it hosted in W 6. Happy to move approval. Have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. >> Passes unanimously. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. All right. Now, we're going to recess council and convene as the Oklahoma City Municipal Facilities Authority where we have items A through E. We can take with one motion. Got a motion and a second. Cast your votes. passes unanimously. Now we'll adjourn OC MFA and convene as the Oklahoma City Public Property Authority where we have items A and B. We could take with one motion. We have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. [clears throat] Passes unanimously. We'll adjourn OCPA and reconvene as the council where we are on item nine, the consent docket. Um item B was already struck. Item C has a presentation as well as some residents who signed up to speak. Um item V is in Victor was struck. Item AZ has a presentation. Uh and is there anything else that the council member wishes to pull out for separate vote, comment, question? Okay. >> Individual consideration for a and I'd like a presentation on BD and BN. >> Um, >> can you repeat what maybe do the the >> sorry >> B as in B as in kind of thing? >> Bravo David and Bravo Neil. And you said we we're going to have a presentation on C. >> No, we do have a presentation on >> Okay. >> Mayor. >> Yes. >> Hi. Um Oh, yeah. >> Good to see you. >> Can we hear a bit about I'm I'm just really intrigued. This uh Oh my goodness. Where' it go? The schools. I'm so sorry. I was looking at other stuff. Yes. A just would like to learn some more information about that item, >> please. >> Okay. >> Um that's all. Okay. Well, we'll take them in order. And >> can I correct myself? >> Sure. >> Sorry. I had lots of circles and I only had a couple left to answer. Uh so BD I took off. >> Don't need BD. >> Yeah. All right. The end. >> Just the end. Okay. All right. We'll start then with item C. Uh, Mr. City Manager, this presentation here. >> Yes. I just wanted to give a quick update on this. Not really a formal presentation. Um, Kalia Fischer's here with the municipal counselor's office. This item is actually an amendment to the previous item. Um, there was question know there's been a lot of communication on this. the the car cab, the record service that was recommended for award for this um providing services in zone 4, record service zone 4 is actually currently outside of that zone. Um they're working to get a location inside of that zone. And um I'll let I'll just let Kalia talk through that like what we are recommending that we amend uh this amendment of the on the contract and then we have another amendment that we want to include and I'll let Kalia explain that. >> Good morning mayor and council. Um there were actually three legal issues or concerns that uh brought that were brought up through um throughout the protest pro process and the negotiation process and I'll address all three of those. And the first is, is the city prohibited from contracting with one vendor to service two zones? Um, the answer to that is no. Uh, I've reviewed the RFP and the applicable city ordinances along with a a deputy municipal counselor and also our procurement attorney and there's simply no prohibition against the city contracting with one vendor to service two sectors or zones. Uh the second issue that came up is if the city contracts with one vendor to service two sectors, does it cause a negative impact to the public in terms of cost? Um just very briefly, the way that the uh the record services contract is administered is the police department will contact an a vehicle that needs to be towed wherever they are in the city. Um that will be located in one of the four zones. uh they will contact the vendor that services that sector. The record service will go out um tow the vehicle back to their location which is typically in that sector. Um the cost of the towing is borne by the um vehicle owner. So Car Cab, who's the selected vendor, their current business location is three miles from East Reno, which is the southernmost border of the uh sector in question. Um so after learning of this issue, Car Cab volunteered to wave three miles of any tow in zone 4. Um and so there is a provision that's been added to the contract to affect that. Um and then the final issue was does the vendor have the required number of trucks and drivers to service two zones? Under K under city code, a vendor is required to have eight trucks and eight uh drivers to service a sector or a zone. Um, so of course the selected vendor would have to have 16 trucks and 16 drivers. So Car Cab has 17 uh trucks that was confirmed through the Department of Public Safety and as of yesterday they have 15 drivers that are certified through DPS. So they are in substantial compliance. Um, we did add a provision to the contract, that's the amendment that we're asking for today, that, um, actually is a contingency provision that requires them to certify to the police department that they do in fact have 16 drivers before they can, um, assume full responsibility for zone 4. According to the correspondence from DPS, they're expected to have three more, I'm sorry, two more drivers, which would put them at 17 um, within the next few days. Does anybody have any questions about that? Why did they even get approved or looked at during the RFP if they didn't if they weren't in zone 4? >> So, in the RFP process, I believe they submitted uh approximately 18 or 19 uh drivers. Um since that time, according to documentation that they provided to me, they've been in the process, they they've had employees leave. um they've um added employees and so through no fault fault of their own uh the number of employees has shifted and changed because the process has taken several months. They did provide uh documentation to me um throughout this process that showed that they had submitted I believe four or five drivers um back in May of this year and it was just DPS that was taking a long time to certify those drivers. >> So that that was why we they were approved like conditionally meeting the requirements but the decision was made that we would put a contingency on that that they had to meet the requirements before we move forward. Um they were clearly the top rated among the those that were on the um selection committee. So the decision was that we would bring this forward and recommend a contingency on that. Currently it's being served by two different approved vendors that are car is one and then Arrow >> yes Arrow is the other that service that area. they can continue to do that until the contingency is fulfilled. So, that was the recommendation from staff. >> I guess I don't feel like my question was answered. I'm sorry. Um, they're not located in zone 4. Why were they even allowed to submit a bid since that's one of the main requirements in this RFP is that you're located in this district. the requirement for the business location to be in the zone in question is it that's not a requirement. Um it's found it's nowhere in the RFP and nor is it found in city code. Um that >> it was not in the RFP that your business must be located in the zone that you'd be operating in. >> No, what the language says in the RFP is it is the contracting entity's belief that the public can best be served by dividing record services into four four separate zones with the record service provider located in each zone. Um, so it was a preference but not a requirement and that's the only time in the RFP that that type of language appears. >> Will you read that again? Did you say located? >> It is the contracting entity's belief that the public can best be served by dividing record services into four separate zones with a record service provider located in each zone. So, it's not specifically required. It's stated that that's a preference, but it's not specifically required. >> It uses the word located, >> right? >> Right. And that's and that's something that could be questioned. And the the car cab has stated that they are working to get a location in zone 4. And that was the reason for the additional amendment that was the one in the agenda today to approve that based upon um they're waving the first three miles they're well located three miles outside of the zone. That that was the reason to move forward with that amendment. >> So the way that the legal department is reading that is that it's a preference but not a requirement. I think it'd be important to hear from um I know that there are a number of people who are signed up to speak so it' probably be good to hear from them and maybe we can get some of those questions answered that they might bring up. >> All right. Well, uh we have a few. I'll go ahead and say in advance uh when I call you up um say your name and address and limit your remarks to three minutes or less. You'll get a verbal warning when you have 30 seconds left. I'm confused. Okay. Forgive me. I can't quite read the handwriting, but Jason Mart possibly. >> Is it Is there a Jason who wants to speak on this topic? >> Hoping I didn't have to go first. Go ahead. >> Oh, I had some documents for her. I thought she was going to pass them out to everybody. >> She's working on it, but we need to get going. Um, [snorts] >> good morning, mayor and city council. My name is Jason Martin. I own property in zone 4 and own several businesses out of zone 4 that I own and operate and I also have investments in a zone 4 towing operation. I'm here because the city council is preparing to vote on awarding zone 4 wrecker and impound contact contract. The decision before you has direct implications for taxpayer fairness, public safety, efficiency, and the integrity of the Oklahoma City's procurement process. The RFP 0CITY26408 is the city's own RFP rules. The solition the solicitation for zone 4 states that it is mandatory the selected provider have its business and storage facility located in zone 4 and that the facility must have adequate room to store all impounded vehicles. These are mandatory requirements not preferences. If you look at the pro the pictures provided to you, you'll see that Carab Record Services storage facility and yard is almost completely full with approximately 250 vehicles. The average volume of impounded vehicles in zone 4 is 20 cars per day. This equates to 620 cars a month for just one zone. It's clear from the picture provided to you that was taken on November the 16th, 2025. Car cab does not have adequate space to store those vehicles as required in the RFP. Under the city of Oklahoma City's purchasing policies and procedurals manuals, a proposal that faires to that fails to meet the mandatory condition is a non-responsive bidder and must be rejected. It emphasizes the city must award contracts to responsive and responsible proposer whose submission is the most advantageous based strictly on the criteria in the RFP. Awarding this contract to a company whose facility is load located in zone 3 with insufficient storage space is a proper textbook example of accepting a non-responsive proposer. By overlooking zone 4 location requirement, the city would be disadvantaging the compliant biders who follow the rules in good faith. This exposes the city to bid protests, internal audits, contract reversal, and possible injunctive relief. The financial and operational impacts on the public are also significant. A zone >> remaining. >> I'm sorry. >> A zone 3 record service servicing zone 4 will require longer travel distances, delayed service, and increased operational expenses. The public safety consequences must also be taken seriously. Police officers are tied up longer, waiting on zone 3 records to respond to zone 4. Fire department resources are held at scenes unnecessarily. Patrol units are pulled away from their assigned districts during minimum manning days. Increased risk to responders being on the side of the road longer. The request of the council is um within the next 14 days at the next scheduled city council meeting request the selection committee select a responsive bidder from the original RFP who is physically located in zone 4 and meets all mandatory requirements including business located in zone 4. >> Thank you, Mr. Martin. We're over time. wanted to let you get that request out, but and we've got your your remarks here too. >> Thank you for your time, >> Bert. Uh, Woodr, >> perhaps Bart probably Bert Bert Woodring. um retired from uh I guess the toying business, but I guess I'm still involved in it. Uh I sent the council and the mayor a letter of it was a previous protest letter. Anyway, I want to highlight four things about this deal. Uh the uh minimum qualifications of the bid uh to me uh nobody met the minimum bids. I looked at the bid packets, the uh city sent them to me. I've looked at the criteria on the sheets where they bid where they uh done the facts of of the bid. Anyway, uh the intent of the bid is of course to have four record services in four zones. That is the intent of the bid. It's in the city ordinance. [sighs] Number two, the bids of the five applicants. After I reviewed the five applicants, only one applicant met the minimum requirements to even begin into the bid and that was Metro Towing. The others did not meet the minimum qualifications. uh the criteria the companies and the prospector violated federal law when they placed their bid by lying on their bid packet saying they had 15 drivers and they only had four in the bid packet that qualified. Uh, my final thing that I want to put across to the city is that uh, on December the 31st, and I found that in the bid packet, uh, Car Cab's bid says that their license was renewed with the state of Oklahoma on the 6th of January. And uh as it goes with the highway patrol uh on the 31st of uh December, your licenses if you don't renew them is automatically cancelled until you get your paperwork right to renew them. On the 31st of December, they send out notices to everybody through email that your license is about 5:15 in the evening. Your license is going to be cancelled. Until you get it straight, you're not able to tow cars. I have the email right here. So basically two companies that work for the city of Oklahoma City uh licenses were cancelled. Morgan Towing and Car Cab Record Service was cancelled. Now Morgan Towing, the city of Oklahoma City, they unplugged him at midnight and says that you can't tow anymore for the city until you get your license straightened out. >> 30 seconds remaining. >> Do what? >> 30 seconds left on your time. Okay. So, at that point, U Car Cab's license was cancelled for 5 and a half days and he towed cars for the city of Oklahoma City. Probably 40, 50 cars maybe. And I don't know how that happened and and uh it was very strange to me that he continued to tow cars for the city even though his license was canceled at the state. And the state specifically says you cannot tow vehicles until you have a license. You do not have a license to tow a vehicle in the state of Oklahoma for the highway patrol for Oklahoma City for anybody. >> All right. Thank you, Mr. >> All right. Yep. >> Dr. Carlos Robinson. >> Honorable mayor, city council, thank you so much for your time. Citizens, thank you so much for your time. My name is Dr. Carlos Robinson. I'm the president and CEO of the Oklahoma City Black Chamber of Commerce. Our mission is we empower black and black and minority owned businesses and economic interests across central Oklahoma by sharing resources, building relationships, and advocating for equal opportunity and equitable outcomes. On October the 6th, I sent uh you all a letter with our full support in Metro Towing being the representative for zone 4. And many of these things have already been mentioned but I will just highlight our position which is set by three principles. Uh number one zonebased service to protect the public. Number two local facilities matter for safety, equity and cost. Number three are [clears throat] the RFP criteria in the fair practice. It also states just all of these different things. So, I'll kind of briefly go through them based off of the time, but when we talking about number one, uh, splitting up into four zones, that's an opportunity for faster response time, reduce police weight times, improve safety at the scene, and lower cost for the residents. Number two, when we go off into the local facilities that matter, we focus on a few things um that we recognize that slower response time. And I heard that it was addressed about the $4.99 per mile that would have been charged to the citizens, but it's still about the citizens going to pick their vehicles up way on the other side when it's a metro uh company right there in the middle. And then when we're talking about the fair practices in number three, uh it it's big that as I read through this RFP with uh Metro Towing as one of our chamber members, it's a lot of discrepancies across the board and I don't need to repeat those. Uh but we did identify some some key things that stood out. And so what we really come to do is to support Metro Towing and Recovery as a qualified uh service company for zone 4. We we've looked at their things. Uh we look at all of our members um and their criteria on how they can serve. They came to us and they reached out to us and we were able to uh verify that they are qualified. >> 30 seconds remaining. And >> I just want to thank you all for your time. But the Oklahoma City Black Chamber of Commerce, uh, we are in full support of Metro Towing and Recovery to, uh, service zone 4, which is where most of our businesses are located from the chamber. Thank you. >> Thank you. Isar Alzubi. >> Right. City Major, Council Member, Mayor David Hall. Good morning. My name is Asra Al Zobi. I'm the owner of Metropellian Recovery. I'm here to address the issue to reward the contract to car cab is already covering have a contract to cover the southeast part of Oklahoma City. The intent of the bid it was to have for record service in four different zone. I have spent 1.5 million in my facility to be in northeast Oklahoma City. It's very good location where is we can be very very uh respond in very short time. How [clears throat] however uh given the cont there's no any reason to justify to have kap have this uh contract were fully prepared staffed and ready and we the only record service in northeast Oklahoma City that have occupancy permit from the city of Oklahoma City to open record service and given two two contract to a single vendor it does not show any fairness or equity or diversity in Oklahoma City. Oklahoma City is a great city. We have an awesome NBA team like Thunder and the Olympic is coming soon. All this will increase the traffic for in Oklahoma City and uh it's very honored that we we still have the intent of to maintain the intent of the bid to have for record service in four different zone and I think your great leadership up here will make the right thing for public safety and the city the northeast Oklahoma City. Thank you. >> Thank you Todd Ree. Hello. Thank you, city council, the mayor. My name is Todd Reed. I'm uh address 2613 Southwest 92nd Street, Oklahoma City. Uh I guess I would like to uh address some of these things that are brought up at Carab Record Service. I am vice president of Carab Record Service. Uh, Car Cab has been in business for about 40 years towing for the city of Oklahoma City with contract. So, we're not new to all the proceedings and stuff like that. We've been covering half of that zone now for about a year. Um, and the big reason as far as one of them they brought up is time. uh our response times have been considerably better which I assume is why we were considered one of the best. So from a time point of view you know getting to the zone getting to the the incident getting it back and stuff like that. I mean we've have done a fabulous job in doing that. Um the other thing I heard was uh the 25 we didn't uh get our approval until January 6th. We actually submitted to DPS in mid to late October. I don't have that exact number, but it takes DPS time to get through everything. Kind of like I've already submitted for my 26th, but I still don't have all my packets and everything back. Um DPS was considerably short-handed back then also, so the time was kind of understandable. Um but uh I think we would do a great job in in uh providing those services. We've been providing the services to the city of Oklahoma City for a long time and uh the zone 3 and um again we've been providing services to half of zone 4 um already for a year now. So um it's not it's not any undertaking that we're not ready to rise to the occasion. Any questions? >> Thank you. >> Okay, thank you very much. >> All right, that concludes those who've signed up to speak. Um I think is there also an amendment on this? Yes, there is an amendment that was recommended to um add the contingency time period to be able to get in compliance and get I think at this point, Kalia, if I'm not mistaken, there's they just need one more driver certified to be in full compliance for serving ward or zone 4. >> Correct. They have 15 >> and this would give them until January >> January 30th of 2026. But according to an email from DPS yesterday, they expect to have two more um certified within the next 3 days. >> So that's that's a floor amendment that would add that contingency. >> Okay. [clears throat] Well, while we're on the topic, >> can we send this back to the committee then since we've had so many arguments and things that aren't lining up with this RFP to have them re-evaluate and bring it back to us more in whole? I I think with the questions that are here at this point, it's my recommendation and staff's recommendation to move forward with this with that contingency. I think if you didn't want to move forward, I think bas basically what you do is you'd vote against it. if you vote against it and if it wasn't approved, if the contract wasn't approved, my recommendation at this point would not be to go back. It would be to start over to start the process again. There's just some questions that were there that I think would be clarified. So, our recommendation is to move forward. I think there's a plan to move forward and serve this area, but if you vote against that, I'll work with staff and we'll decide what our next steps would be. So, that that would be options that we would have and I would want to make sure that I work with staff on that. >> All right. Well, can we pull that for a separate vote, please? >> Yes. And so, so to clarify for for Councilman Carter and others, like the mechanism to start over is just to vote no. >> That's right. >> So, I just I think it would be great and I appreciate everyone being here to comment and I'll I'll start my comments by saying I I have no reason to believe that Carab is not a great record service. So, I don't want my comments to be construed as as being against them or their operation. I'm sure they do perfectly fine work. My concern is about our process. So if we are saying in the RFP and I respect to the I I think that our our legal counsel Kalia does an excellent job. So it is not a criticism of her legal interpretation of and of what she provided because I know it's uh it is on point. My question is about the fact that our the RFP clearly says a preference for you being able to operate having a space in the in the zone and having substant and having the staffing necessary to operate in the zone. It seems odd to me that the city would then make the choice to select someone that doesn't substantially comply with the two most critical things you need in order to execute in the zone. having space to store the cars or vehicles that you're towing and having sufficient number of drivers. It just seems so strange to me that we would reach that conclusion. And I'm hoping, city manager, you can kind of explain the logic behind that because we're we're literally going to award the contract to someone who at this point can't substantially perform according to our own criteria. And I and that just seems counter to the way that we've done business. >> Yeah. Can I interrupt real quick if you don't mind? Sure. But >> you know, there [clears throat] was a couple of months ago where I deferred an item where we were uh I think we were terminating [clears throat] an agreement with the record service for some reason. It was something similar to that, right? Um, and I'd been reached out and deferred it and I appreciated everyone supporting my deferral until I I dug into the weeds a little bit. And what I figured out that I wasn't typically aware of is the biggest decision maker on that is the performance of that company. If they're located two extra miles away, fine. If they have fantastic performance, then that's the reason that they either decide not to go with someone or they decide to go with someone. And what they were talking about there was really in terms of think about you have an auto accident, right? And it's blocking some traffic and to sit there and wait for two hours or have an officer just sitting there for two hours, a fire truck sitting there two hours waiting on the record to come. that's their biggest decision making in the thing. And so I I don't know personally I'm agreeing to move forward. Um you know especially with the understanding we have on the legal side of things and the performance right it isn't like they haven't been performing in that section because they have for the last year at least half of it and evidently they're doing a great job. Otherwise, I can tell you the committee would have said, uh, no. So, that's just my thoughts on it. >> And, and I think it's fair question there. There's there's question on this of like, you know, what we've said is specifically, you know, it the intent would be that you have someone to serve in that zone and you're able to do that. They've indicated their intent to do that, but I think the performance was there and demonstrating the ability to do to serve. And so making sure that we had an ability to ensure that they would move forward and be able to serve within that zone and until that time be willing to wave that fee. That's why we further clarified that. And so it's it's re they're reasonable questions that are on here, but I felt like we had a good path forward to be able to provide the services in a way that's already being provided now. >> So the so my concern is the optics, the procedure aspects. We set up the the parameters of this RFP and then we decide to award it to someone and amend the RFP to fit that person instead of that person fitting the RFP. >> I think it's much better option for us to send it back or cancel the strike this completely, >> right? >> Redo what our requirements are if we if we're wanting that to be that way so that we don't set ourselves up for setting precedents in any other play. this has got I mean we we can't bend this just to fit somebody. >> And I and I'll add to I agree with with Councilman Carter, but I'll I'll also add to that. It seems like you get an advantage in this process by being an existing record service because if performance is which makes sense to me. It's logical to think performance should matter in how you make the final determination. But if I don't have an existing contract, if I'm already an outsider, how do I prove that I can also perform at the same level? It seems like that gives an advantage to an existing contractor. That's unfair to me. Again, it's legal. Yes. Is it fair and clear from our RFP process that we're giving all applicants an opportunity to compete? It doesn't feel like we have been. And so, again, I I agree with Councilman Carter. I think we ought to send it back and get clarity. And if if the idea is that you don't have to have property on in the zone, you don't have to meet the requirements of having the number of drivers, you don't have to have the number of trucks, then let's make that clear in the RFP and then let's open up the process so that anybody everybody has access >> and I think that's reasonable. I do want to clarify that we have this happen dozens of times a year where we have an acting service provider and we go out for an RFP because we periodically go out for RFPs. Anyone who's an acting service provider, I always tell folks, you've got an advantage. it's really yours to lose. You keep serving well and you've got an opportunity there. I I'm not going to also discount that, you know, when someone's serving. So, it's it's it's fair that we don't want to be unreasonable with this, but if you're serving us and serving us well, it is going to be something that we're we're going to take into consideration when we evaluate a proposal. But I but I understand where you are. >> And I would just add that from a logistics standpoint, performance is crucial. And it's I mean it's very easy to not meet those performance requirements. Takes a lot of work to hit those performance requirements. And if you hit them, you hit them. >> I don't know. Just an additional thought. Thank you. >> Can I ask were you going to say something? Uh so if the process were to begin again it what specific lang I don't know if we would have the specific language but what what kind of parameters would we be crafting there regarding I mean because you're hearing I mean performance to councelor Stone's uh comments really matters but then you know this lack of clarity about preference versus requirement. Like, do we have an idea of what direction that we're wanting to hear? >> I I think that would be our job to clarify that. I' I've heard what's been said here and what I said about going back to start over. I just think what I've heard and seen in this that would make more sense. I I would if you all don't approve the contract today, go back with staff with the team that worked on this and make sure that we all agree with that and that being a path going forward. just sitting here with what I've seen so far, I think it makes sense and the comments that have been made and we'd already looked at a few things that we said next time we go out for an RFP, whether it was on this one or the next time that there are some things that we would want to clarify because of questions that have been raised. >> Thank you. >> And I want to make something clear too if I could. Whether we vote this contract down today and we go back. We're not leaving zone four without service and without any kind of help, they will continue doing what they do within the current contract. We're just not approving the Ford moving contract. Correct. >> Currently, right? Currently, we still have Car Cab. We have to use an approved vendor. Right. >> So, we have Car Cab that serves part of the um area and then we have Arrow that serves the other part. we would continue with that being able to serve that area so it wouldn't leave the area without service. >> Just wanted to make Thank you. >> Um can I clarify because I I feel like there there have been a few statements made where like I'm hearing something that maybe someone has more information than I do. Um but so as far as like being able to prove performance, how do we evaluate that for someone who's like a new a potential new vendor? they don't have a track record with the city. Is there a way that like through their services they provided others? Like how do we capture that? >> It's different in each each RFP that we do. But when we do an RFP, it's subjective. People are using their judgment and looking at this. Generally, what we'll do is ask for demonstration of services that you've provided previously. We'll ask for demonstration of equipment and staff in a case like this to be able to serve. So you're evaluating >> capacity >> the capacity that's there and and any demonstration that could be provided on the fact that you've provided a similar service to this. It's this is this is a pretty heavy service that like we call on this a lot. And so I think it's something that's important as we're looking at that to take that into consideration. But it is subjective. You've got to sit down as staff and look and go, okay, I know someone's doing this and I've seen them work over here. I've got it on paper. Hopefully, it's like demonstrated through customers they've served or demonstrated through how long they've been in business and serving an area. So, you're looking at those kinds of things. >> Okay. Thank you. That's helpful. >> So, I don't know if anyone wants to make a motion on the amendment. Perhaps that's moot. You also don't have to move the item. You could move to strike the item. >> I'll make a motion >> to move the amendment >> to add the amendment. Yeah. >> Okay. All right. We'll do that then. >> [snorts] >> the >> sorry the amendment is adding the contingency that it will it they've got until January 30th to be in full compliance. they're in substantial compliance, but to be they'd have until January 30th to be in full compliance and they wouldn't take over the service full for the full area until they meet that. And as Kalia suggested, the DPS has indicated within the next 3 days they should have that if it were approved. >> And so the amendment again is just modifying the contract. We'd go to on the whole thing. Just want to clarify that for the audience. >> Okay. So this is a motion for the amendment as just described. We have a motion and a second. Catch your votes when you have that opportunity. Passes six to three. Okay. Now, the uh item is amended and we've had a se a request for a separate vote. We can have any, you know, any number of different motions made here. So, whoever speaks up verbally first um will be the one who wins. >> Wait. He's making a motion. Well, I we'll let you say what you're going to say again, Brad Lake, because you already said it. What your motion is? >> My motion is that we vote separately on this and we basically >> not a motion. No motion necessary for that. We're going to vote separately. Um but you wish to move passage of the of the item. >> No, >> that's that's why I'm making it clear that there are different kinds of motions that can be made. >> Yeah. No, I I had requested that we move this >> deny the item it >> all right. All right, we have a motion for passage. That's >> what this vote is. >> That's what this vote is. It's the first clear motion I've heard. So that's what >> Huh. This is Yes. Yes. If you want to pass it as amended, no if you do not, which will have the net effect of >> going back to >> Okay, we have a motion. We are waiting a second. Going once. Going twice. Motion dies for lack of a second. >> Is there a different motion that someone would like to make? >> What would be the right uh maybe maybe motion to strike? I think motion to strike in this case. >> Really deny a contract, I guess. >> So motion to strike is another thing somebody could do. Okay, here we go. We have a motion. We are waiting a second. There it is. Second on a motion to strike this item as amended. Item 9C, cast your votes. So if you are voting yes, you're voting to strike the item. Passes 8 to one. All right. The item is struck and as I understand it, the city manager and his team will get back to work. >> Yes. >> All right. We'll move on now to item. Councilman Cooper, you had some comment on this. >> Thank you, Mayor. Uh, less comments. I just would like to hear a little bit more about what this item is going to do largely because I hear from residents uh asking about safety around schools. So, I don't know who might might come to the podium to speak on it. >> Oh, and there's our public works director. >> Yeah, >> sorry about that. Good morning. Debbie Miller, public works director. Um this item is to provide funding um to uh provide for A&E services to provide the locations for the school zones. This is a ACOG safety project. So the construction is 100% funded and this is just for us to develop the plans. So, I'm seeing that there's like the uh to either install or remove school zone and traffic feedback signs at multiple locations. Uh do we have any sense of those locations or are we talking citywide everywhere? What does this look like? Because when I look at the amount funding amount, [clears throat] >> it's citywide. Um, and that's why we're having a consultant to help us with the locations that need to be upgraded. >> Okay. Uh, when would we learn about those locations? >> Uh, there will be a preliminary report that will come to council for you guys to approve. >> Okay. Is that good for you? Okay. All right. Thank you. Appreciate that work. >> Okay. That brings us to item AZ, which uh Councilwoman Avers requested, uh a separate vote. And so, um, someone could make a motion just on this item. >> We we did have a presentation. >> Oh, presentation. Sorry. Yes. >> Also have a presentation. >> Kenny Sud with the Alliance for Economic Development has been working on this with the city of Yukon. We've communicated with council previously on this. Um, wanted to make sure we get an update here and then address that the concerns. Uh thank you mayor and councel Kenny Sue with the Alliance for Economic Development. So this was something gosh it's been probably 10 11 months ago were approached by the city of Yukon and they had some different things and concerns and uh things they were interested in as we looked at there were some things Oklahoma City might be interested in and out of out of a you know spirit of cooperation tried to work through some things that might be a benefit to both communities. You know, one thing I do want to take a moment to say is just uh sometimes in the past there's been, you know, things where different cities are protectionists against, you know, their own interests. And I think that's valid and we should continue to look at our own interest. But I do think, you know, it's worth saying that uh from a regional perspective, we want economic development. We want advancement to happen with our suburbs as well. I think when our suburbs are strong, it helps Oklahoma City and the region be strong. So hopefully this was something we could bring forward that would be beneficial to both communities and and sort of set the stage for some benefit. Um briefly we'll walk through the the parties on this are the city of Oklahoma City and the Oklahoma City Economic Development Trust because these were these were some of the parties on some previous agreements on a piece of the property which I'm going to go through each part of this. Uh the city of Yukon and the Yukon Municipal Authority. Uh again, those are the entities that are uh involved on a some pieces of property that are uh in this agreement. Um basically to sum it up, Oklahoma City desires to annex uh have deanexed from Yukon and annexed into Oklahoma City a parcel around I40 and Gregory Road that is owned currently by an Oklahoma City trust. Uh and it's it's part of our uh mega site that we have been assembling in the past year or so. Uh Yuk uh Yukon also desires to amend there's an agreement on a piece of property at Frisco Road just north of I40 um that was part of a deanexation from Oklahoma City in the past and there was some restrictions for revenue and development that were placed on that. And then also there's two small parcels that are currently in Oklahoma City that are on Yukon Parkway just east of Yukon High School, uh about 20 acres there that um really are kind of difficult to develop from Oklahoma City standpoint. There's not infrastructure, but it's something Yukon would be uh interested in having uh developed. And we'll so we'll kind of walk through each of those pieces. So the first piece, this is the parcel we mentioned that currently this is in the um city of Yukon. Uh it is owned by an Oklahoma City trust. It's part of, you know, right next to C Page Airport. Under this agreement, under item AZ, what it would uh require would be that Yukon would deanex this property and that Oklahoma City would immediately annex. And I I should back up and say this agreement if passed and it has already been passed by um city of Yukon. Um so it's really in Oklahoma City's court now. Um it if all the provisions of the things don't happen, if because it would require further actions, you know, going through the deanexation and annexation processes, if any of those don't happen, then basically all the previous restrictions just revert back to the properties. So, this would also um on this piece of property um if if it were deanexed from Yukon and annexed into Oklahoma City um would also not have any restrictions. I want to point this out because this was part of kind of the negotiations of as we're going to hear about on the piece of property that's currently in Yukon. Um you know, there are some restrictions Oklahoma City had placed on that property. So this was one of the asks was well in order to have no restrictions on this property uh they wanted some of them released on this other piece. So we'll go to next slide. So this is this piece of property was a subject of some agreements from 2015 that was then modified in 2023 and this was part of a property that was DNxed out of uh Oklahoma City in the past. It's in the city of Yukon, but currently there's a a bunch of restrictions on the uses, and it's also uh if they were ever to develop it, they would have to share the sales tax for 15 years with uh the city of Oklahoma City. Under this agreement, in exchange for deanexing the other property and having no uh restrictions on it, Oklahoma City would remove that sales tax sharing component on here. However, we would leave one restriction here. They would be able to do other types of development, industrial development, some smaller retail development, but it would remain a restriction against what is called um no retail shopping centers, which that's defined as uh shopping centers would have 125,000 square feet of gross leasable space, big box type of retailers, etc. So it would free up the revenue sharing, you know, which would be a benefit to Yukon, but it would not impose anything on our piece if it were NX10, but it would leave the restriction on the sort of big box retailers here. And then lastly, these are the other two pieces of property which are about 20 acres that were currently in Oklahoma City on Yukon Parkway. And it would just require that those be deanexed from Oklahoma City uh and then Yukon to immediately uh annex those. Um and again would have these would have no restrictions on you know what type of development that would really then fall to Yukon to make a determination. That is basically the crux of of this agreement. Um, you know, this was something that again, Yukon approached us on. We began having dialogue and back and forth and um, you know, if there are any questions, be happy to answer. Tried to lay this out on a map. You know, these are all kind of in the same area, but be happy to answer any questions. >> And Kenny, to clarify, too, th this doesn't we would still have a process that we go through for the deanexation. This is just putting the general agreement in place of how we would proceed. Yes, this would be uh kind of as I mentioned earlier, it would this agreement if passed and it's been passed by the other party, if passed by this party, by the city of Oklahoma City. Um it would just require that both cities begin those processes. Those processes have to go through all the normal public processes, public approvals, um etc. So there there would be multiple things that would happen in both cities and back to I I believe you know the agreement states that if those things do not happen those restrictions sort of revert back on on the property that's in u Yukon right now the one at Frisco Road. >> So those 20 acres that we're looking at deanexing. What ward is that in? >> That is your ward, I believe. >> Just chisel away. >> Yeah, >> I do. On that note, so what what's the net annex deanexation for OKC here? So this agreement as it stands the net would be OKC would receive 150 acres and would lose 20 acres. So it' be a net of about 130 for this agreement. However, if you kind of look at it over time, you know, the Yukon piece was 184 acres that we deanexed, but it was some years ago. But technically this agreement would be a net ad. >> So the portion that's north of I40 there that's in the middle, that portion was done previously. >> Yeah, it it was done previously. It was already deanxed, but it it um that was about 184 and a half acres. >> Right. >> So I would like to make the motion to defer this to the dece December 2nd meeting. So, just two weeks. I have a meeting with Kenny today at 2 o'clock to resolve a couple of questions I have. In principle, though, I love the idea of um this the spirit of community and really doing something that's good for not just us, but for our neighboring cities as well. So, thank you for putting this together and thanks for a great briefing. >> So, I have a motion to defer. >> Defer. Is there is there anything we're unaware of that would that would be problematic about >> from Oklahoma City side? We don't have anything any time pressure on this. This is something we're, you know, I think would be beneficial to us long term. There's no prospects there or anything imminent. I think any pressure would be on the Yukon side, but um I don't know that there's I don't know if there's any pressure on that. >> I checked on both sides. Their next council meeting is 17th. So >> Okay. >> Okay. All right. So um if there's no other comments or questions, we could take up that motion to defer item A for two weeks. We have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Go back. Go back up. Passes unanimously. All right. Item is deferred. Thank you. He can come now. It's all right. When you come out during the vote, then you have to vote. [laughter] All right. Uh, that takes us to BN. Uh, [snorts] Councilwoman Avers, you wanted to uh speak to this. >> Uh, I just wanted to get a quick presentation from David Todd on on what's going on in this on this particular project. >> Right. So, David Todd, MAPS program manager, this this contract was originally approved by this body before the implementation plan was revised. And if you'll recall, the implementation plan revision added $und00 million um to the to the MAPS program from the collections. This this contract includes both South Lakes and Cameron Park, and it's for all the engineering on there. We're just compensating them for an additional about $3.6 million that was seen from that that um revision in the implementation plan. And then also with the bond money that's going to be used at Cameron also. And then also we asked them to split it into two pieces, two projects instead of bidding it all as one so that it smaller firms could be more competitive and we could manage it that way. So this is actually kind of late. We should have we should have done this earlier after we did the revision to the implementation plan. >> Okay. Okay. Was it on this one or a different one um tied to Cameron and South Lakes where I saw the contract was requesting an additional amount of significant value of several hundred,000? Is that tied to this specific is that why we're asking for more or is it because we've given we put more into the project or is it because the project is asking for more for a specific amendment? >> It's because we added more to the project and increased the amount that they're designing. Okay, got it. Thank you. Appreciate it. >> Thank you. >> All right, that concludes all of the items on our weighty consent docket today. So, we can now adopt that which remains. Some things have been struck, some things have been deferred, but what is left we can take with one vote. We have a motion and a second. cast your votes. Passes unanimously. All right. Uh item 10 is uh the concurrence docket and we have items A through N we could take with one motion. A motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Okay. Now we are on item 11, items for individual consideration. Item 11 A is an ordinance on final hearing. It was recommended for approval reszoning 1100 East Reno from I3 to I1. Councilman Pennington, no one assigned to speak. >> Thank you, mayor. Um I think we're adding a hotel is what it looks like. Um which it is going to be great as we are hosting the Olympics in Oklahoma City in Ward 7. Um, and so I'm very excited to hear that. I don't have any questions. If there's no one signed up to speak, I'm ready to move to approve. >> Perfect. Have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Item B was previously deferred. Uh item C is got few items here uh relative to a reszoning of 14900 North Mustang Road from DA to put 2086. There's a couple of amendments. This was deferred from October 21st and Councilman Carter, we have uh four people who have signed up to speak and at least two are in opposition. >> Okay. Uh Representative Kaitlin if you can kind of just give us a brief overview of everything that's going on and then we'll listen to the the citizens who have signed up. >> Yeah, absolutely. Caitlyn Turner, 525 Northwest 11th Street here on behalf of the applicant who is also here with me. So, I'll first show you all the site plan that we're proposing. So, what we're proposing here is going to be predominantly single family residential lots and then we also have a small portion designated in the southwest to a maximum of 17 duplex lots. Um, we do have 7,500 square foot lots along the north and along the west. And then we also have some pretty significant buffers along the north, the west, and the south. So, we've got about 88 ft of green space along the north, 23 feet on the west, 50 ft on the south. Uh, within this, you see this red line here, that's going to be uh caliper or excuse me, 3-in caliper trees planted on 25 ft centers. Uh, that was some verbiage that was uh we had assistance with from our trusty landscape architect, uh, planning commissioner Claire. And then we also have uh street trees that we'll have to do along Mustang Road. Um, so in some we have a residential development, we have some buffers and some landscaping baked in to uh kind of protect from the uh neighborhood to the north. Uh you'll hear some uh comments from the neighborhood to the north just about density and about those buffers. Uh so I also would like to briefly point out some of the surrounding area and the surrounding zoning that's been approved here recently. Uh so the development to the north predates the water sewer extension to this area now that that water sewer is available and we have the urban low inensity comprehensive plan designation. We have this PUB 2068 that was just went into effect August 2025 that's going to allow for some duplex lots as well as 40 to 50 foot lots. Uh so that's just abuing us to the east. And then we also have this PUB 1851 abudding the neighborhood to the north. Uh that's going to be 5,000 square foot lots. And then we also have some R1 and some uh higher density, you know, R1 developments in this area. So the trajectory of this area is trending towards this higher density residential. our proposal with the cap, with the maximum of the duplex lots, with the buffers, with the screening, and then with the 7,500 square foot lots on the north and the west. We believe this to be one of the lowest density out of some of those new uh zoning designations surrounding it. We're at about 2.81 dwelling units per acre. Comprehensive plan is about four to eight dwelling units per acre and then immediately east is a little over five dwelling units per acre. So, our proposal again uh with the neighbors in mind based on the community meeting, we've worked out some of those revisions uh to protect them. Um so, with that being said, I'm happy to answer any questions that you all have, but we believe that, you know, this complies with the comp plan. We have a recommend recommendation of approval from both staff and planning commission. And uh I'm happy to answer any questions or address any comments. >> Thank you, Caitlyn. Thank you. >> Can we just listen to the the citizens next please? >> Certainly. Um, Kelly work. >> Yes. Good morning. Uh, thank you, uh, Mr. Mayor and members of the city council. My name is Kelly Work. My address is 105 North Hudson, Sweet 304. and I am uh here on behalf of uh a group of homeowners who live within the Greenwood neighborhood which is located uh directly north across Northwest 150th Street and is comprised of uh residential tracks that are 5 acres in size or larger. I would like to show just briefly the an aerial photo that I think gives you gives you a sense of the character of this area. This photo is u from about from about 18 months ago in May of 2024. The subject property is 160 acres. You can see it located there in the center of the photo. And directly north you see the what is the Greenwood neighborhood that has been there for many decades. And uh so there and of course the access is all off of Mustang Road uh which is to the west of both the subject property and the uh Greenwood uh neighborhood. The um we are opposing the proposed PUD. Uh it um Greenwood includes the entire quarter section to the north and then part of the quarter section to the north of that as well. The proposed PUB 2086 would allow 421 single family residential lots along with 17 duplex lots for a total of 455 residential units. And that would uh amount to a dramatic and abrupt contrast in density from what exists in this area today. The Greenwood neighborhood retains very much a rural residential character and this proposed density with this development directly adjacent to it would be uh not compatible in our view with the established character of the area. it uh would cause uh significantly increase the traffic volume on streets that are designed for rural scale use and the volumes the traffic volumes that would be generated by this proposed development would overwhelm the streets that are not designed for urban density. What the Oklahoma City comprehensive plan says for for this area, it is within the urban low inensity area. It calls for residential subdivisions that are larger in scale as this one is to provide a diversity of lot sizes, density ranges, and home sizes. This proposed PUD does not do that. A transition could be provided in our view with larger lots provided along the north and south boundary boundaries that would make it more compatible. Uh and also in our view there is a lack of adequate buffering and not what you would expect to see for a large subde subdivision development as is proposed here. We do have some specific uh changes that we propose be made to the uh PUD that we think would uh make it uh less uh incompatible. The first is to lower the density of residential lots by providing a graduated density both on the north and the south. On the south of this subject property is a single residential lot on 160 acres. Uh second to provide a transition zone along of larger lots along the north boundary and the south boundary. We suggest the duplex lots be eliminated. We would suggest that the screening wall that has been um set out in the U master design statement both along the north and south boundary be a minimum 6t high brick or stone wall and that there should be an enhanced landscape buffer on the north side along the west side and along the south perimeters which we think would be appro appropriate for a residential development of this size. uh specifying uh the specific landscaping materials that would be included. There are easements along the north boundary and along the west boundary and actually along the south boundary. So the there there's very limited language in the PUD with respect to landscaping materials that would be provided and we think that needs to be changed. Without those changes as presently proposed, uh we would uh ask that you deny PUB 2086. We have indicated to the applicant. These requested changes were certainly open to attempt to work with them if they would be willing to try to reach some resolution. I appreciate your attention and I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have. Thank you. Thanks, Kelly. All right, next up, Glenn Harris. >> I'm not familiar with your process, but I have a handout that I'd like to have passed. >> Whatever. >> I'd like to reserve my time until you folks have looked at that and read it. It's quite brief. >> I don't think we're going to be able to do that, but uh go ahead and start. >> I'll wait till you've read it. It's the remainder of my presentation. >> Okay. Well, we're gonna take it off your time then. Fine. We'll run the clock. >> Thank you. [snorts] >> [sighs] >> First of all, I'd like to compliment David Box. I'm a retired CEO and I haven't seen someone take down a planning commission so effectively in such a short amount of time. That guy, if I next time I do a $10 million or 10 million square foot development, I'll probably hire him. So effectively, we've been blocked from negotiating directly with the developers uh by the the process here and it's forced us into a position where we're likely to have to file a lawsuit against the city and would not be frivolous. It would be simply um giving you guys some time to fix the flood plan issues, perhaps have a reasonable negotiation, get with FEMA, get the maps updated, uh rebuild Mustang Road so it could possibly be safe for the amount of traffic you're thinking. Get with the school board, not the superintendent, and listen to the school board's concerns about the number of additional students in the area. So 100% of the residents in this area are against this and we would like as your banner says outside we would like service please. Thank you. >> Just to be clear we have a process for people to file protests. Um you said 100% of residents are opposed. I see no protests at all actually. Is this correct council? >> They're in your packet. >> But it's not it doesn't meet the threshold. I guess for higher vote, right? It's which 100% clearly would. >> Okay. But it's I mean whatever percentage it is, it didn't make the agenda. So it must not be 100. I just want to make that clear because that's a that's a that's a legal phrase of art when somebody says we have 100% protest on this. We do not have 100% protest. In fact, we don't have. >> And Bradley, if you do what you say you're going to do, when you say you're going to do it for the amount you say you're going to do it for, you get a C. And buddy, this time you got an F. Doesn't seem like that's gonna help this your your cause, but all right. Next up is Leslie Doyle. My name is Lesie Doyle. I live at 11201 Northwest 150th Street, Pedmont, Oklahoma, which is directly across from this proposed development. I have been hired, not hired, I have been requested by our both my neighbors and the neighbors in the Greenwood edition to speak on their behalf. Several of them were going to come today, but uh one husband's died and a couple are in the hospital. So, um I was going to speak about the potential development surrounding the area. Kelly Bo Kelly work was perfect in what he has said to uh what our concerns are. One thing that I'd like to say is that Mr. box will tell you that they have decreased the density of the homes. The first PUD that was submitted in July, there are 369 homes and 67 duplexes. This last PUD, they're saying there's 421 homes and 17 duplexes. We as as a community, as a neighborhood, can't figure out how that's in any less uh development. Caitlyn said that you've they have agreed to give us a 7,500 square foot lots on the north side and the west side of the development and conceded to do 17 duplexes instead of the 16 instead of the 67. They may be losing approximately $45,960 in profit from that. What I'm losing and what my neighbors and I are losing is giving up a million-doll view peace and serenity. And then Mr. box will say and the developer has agreed to put in the fence and extra landscaping. The developer is required by the city of Oklahoma City subdivision regulations to install a fence around the subdivision. And as for the landscaping, okay, the developer is going to be out $10,000. But will that replace the open view of the beautiful field, the wildlife that we have all enjoyed for an average of 35 years? Absolutely not. >> [snorts] >> In conclusion, as a spokeswoman for the Greenwood edition, we respectfully request that this PUD be denied. Uh I still have three minutes of time left, of which >> you have one minute left just to >> Oh, I'll go real fast then. Um >> you start with three. Go ahead. >> I started great, but I'm slowing down here. I would like to point out that you as councilmen are here to represent your constituents. And when you say you're going to schedule a meeting with the applicant's um attorney, you do it. You don't throw your um [clears throat] assistant under the bus saying, "Well, he was supposed to do that and he went on vacation." It it was your job to set up the meeting. And when you as councilman meet with the other applicants attorneys, please be sure that you reread your emails and text messages that you send out in regards to that meeting. the email that we received did not uh represent what was said at all in that meeting with Mr. box and um the response we got with for why was your email wrong it was said and I quote I was talking and texting my email and I didn't proofread what I wrote before I pressed send this shows a total lack of professionalism and I won't go into other things that I would like to say do because I'm probably at 30 seconds but um you all are in a spot to present integrity and accountability and professionalism And um I hope that sticks in the back of your mind. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you. That concludes the citizens who signed to speak. Bradley, I think you're a great guy. Just for the record. Go ahead. The floor is yours. There's a lot I really want to say at this moment. Um, but I'm not going to do a tough job and there's a lot of things that we have to look at. There's a lot of things we have to evaluate. Um, although concessions were made, some people did not believe that they were good enough. Um, those, you know, they have their own opinion. They're welcome to it. Uh there's other residents that were happy with the concessions that were made and so was I in a situation like this when you own the property and you're going to develop the property. Um and it fits our comprehensive plan. It fits everything that was lined out. Uh whenever someone is looking to be a developer, it goes before our planning commission which is the first line. It has been reviewed. It has been done by our planning and zoning. It meets everything and exceeds and as Miss Turner brought up earlier, it'll be one of the lesser dents in this area. I can understand not wanting development in this area. I I live in this area. I moved out there to get away from the city, so to speak, but yet still have access to the city. But the city's moving and growing, and we're welcoming people every single day. and we have to meet those needs. And I'm sorry that this is going to potentially ruin a view, but we've also made plans within our our new geo bond initiative and this is one of the roads that we're going to be widening and taking care of and resurfacing. So, it's going to help with that traffic that they're concerned about. So, with that, I will move for approval. Before we go, Caitlyn, can you show us again the map of what is coming to that area as opposed to Kelly's map of just the raw land? >> Yeah, absolutely. You're referring to the zoning that's surrounding it, >> the the upcoming properties that are are surrounding it. It's real hard to see. >> Yeah. So, this is PUD 2068. This just went into effect August of this year. Uh so this is going to be we have about 20 acres of duplexes and then some 40 and 50 foot lots uh in this property immediately to the east. PUD 1851 is a PUD for 5,000T lots that immediately abuts the the property to the north. And then we also have the R1 zoning. PUD 1992 is going to be R1 with I think some modifications to lot size as well. And then the uh R1 to the south here. >> Thank you. I can get closer if you'd like me to. Okay. >> Actually, mayor, I want to retract because we need to vote on the amendment to the master design first. So, >> all right. All right. So, we got C1 uh is your first motion, I presume. >> Yes, sir. [snorts] >> We have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. passes unanimously. Next up would be C2 if that is your wish. Councilman. >> Yes, sir. >> This is another amendment to the master design statement, but this time at C2. It says C1, but I think we it's being recorded correctly. We have a motion in a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. And then C3 is the ordinance on final hearing for PUB 2086. We have a motion and a second. This is C3, not C1 as it says. Cast your votes. >> Oh, is it scroll down? Interesting. >> Okay, very good. Uh, passes 8 to one. All right. Thank you. All right. Item D is an ordinance on final hearing. It was recommended for approval reszoning 800 South S Road from 01, 02, I1, and I2 to PUD2092. Councilwoman Avers, no one has signed up to speak. >> Um, we there was a community meeting and modifications were made and the neighbors were accepting and so we are making a motion to approve today. >> Okay. We have a motion and a second for item D. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Item E is an ordinance on final hearing. It was recommended for approval reszoning 13945 North Portland from R1 to PUD 2094. Um, Councilman Stone Cipher, there is one person whose time to speak. don't know their position. >> It's Mr. Monson. >> Yes. >> All right. Yes. Um, this application is to allow mixeduse commercial and entertainment district. Commercial and multifamily residential uses are proposed in track one and residential development is proposed in track two. Um, I'd like to say that uh Tim Mson is here today. He's the president of Remington uh Homeowners Association. Um, I deal with him on the phone from time to time. I've dealt with him in meetings. He is always thoroughly prepared. He came together with the developer. Uh they sat down and talked and had productive talks. And so I'm going to turn it over to Caitlyn at this time to talk about an amendment that's been approved by Mr. Mson. And you want to raise your hand? All right. There we go. Thanks for being here. >> Uh good morning. Caitlyn Turner, 525 Northwest 11th Street. Uh so the amendment that was uh discussed and agreed to is going to amend section 9.4 regarding screening regulations. So that verbiage is now going to read for that first paragraph. No less than an 8ft wall shall be required along the west boundary of track 2 where adjacent to existing single family residential. said wall shall be constructed entirely of stucco, brick, stone or other masonry csement site or material including pre-cast and shall be solid and opaque. Wall material shall be provided at the final plat stage and shall be required to be constructed prior to any certificate of occupancy being granted. So that is the amendment. >> Sounds good. >> Great. >> Great. Thank you. >> The amendment uh that was just read into the record. All right. So, we will take a vote on the amendment as just described to item E. We have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. >> And now I'd move to approve the amended 11E, please. Okay. A motion in a second for the amended item E. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. >> Okay. >> Thank you, Tim. >> Oh, wait. And it's okay that Tim did not get to speak. I sort of forgot about him for a second. Was he for or against? Mark, >> he's he's four. >> He's four. Okay, then then I >> You want to speak, >> Mr. Mayor, uh, City Council, I appreciate the opportunity to be here. Tim Mson, 4316 Northwest, 143rd Street, Oklahoma City. Uh, as Mark stated, I'm the president of the, uh, Remington Homeowners Association, and that's the the, uh, development immediately abutdding this PUD. Uh, I'd like to thank Mark and Katrina uh for helping me uh work with Tim and and Mark uh and the developer and coming to agreement on a best case scenario for everybody. Um the one thing that I would like to make the uh council aware of is that while I'm supportive of this of this effort and this development, I think that it's imperative that each and every one of you pay very very close attention to what is going to happen as a result of this uh this is going to put significant pressure on the traffic situation at the intersection of 150th uh and uh Portland and Memorial and Portland. Uh we've had discussions. I know there's an ongoing study with DOT. Uh I would just ask that you all be very very much on point about this because there are already an inordinate number of accidents at 150th in Portland. Uh and I think there may be some discussions down the road potentially lowering the speed limit on 150th. I would be in support of that. Uh but there is going to be the plan calls for over 4,300 parking spots in this in this development. And each and every one of those cars is going to get into that development through 150th in Portland on an arterial uh feeder that feeds from the north to the south. And then everybody that leaves that development is going to go through the intersection at Memorial and uh and that arterial on Portland. So I know there's going [clears throat] to be a lot of other things come down the road. I I support I mean I appreciate Mark's support and Katrina support. I just wanted to make that statement and thank you for your time. >> Thank you. Just so everybody knows, um, when this first came about, W Miller was instrumental in reaching out to ODOT and they've got a consultant taking a look at this. Uh, we've got traffic taking a look at this, uh, lowering the speed limit and some other options that the developer is helping us with. So, we we we know we need to stay vigilant and on top of this, and that's what we're doing right now. Thank you. >> Thank you. Okay. Item F is an ordinance on final hearing. It was recommended for approval. Reszoning 12901 North Cemetery Road from double A to PUD 2097. Uh, Councilman Carter, >> has anyone signed up to? >> Uh, they have not. Okay. Then, subject to the the summary from the planning commission, I will move for approval. Have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. 11 G uh one and two are related. Two is an ordinance on final hearing recommended for approval of reszoning 8901 North Coal Train from AA to PD 2098. Uh item G1 is an amendment to the master design statement. Uh, Councilman Pennington, no one has signed up to speak. >> Thank you, Mayor. Um, this is just to add two additional um single family homes to this lot, and I will move approval. >> I'm going to take that as a motion for the amendment. Approval of G1. >> First, I move the amendment. I'll see. You have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. >> Passes unanimously. >> Now, I'd like to move approval of the item. >> Okay, that's G2. Motion in a second. Cast your votes. passes unanimously. Okay. 11H is an ordinance on final hearing. It was recommended for approval reszoning 13415 North Bryant from PUD 1533 to PUD 20 99. No one has signed up to speak. Councilman Pennington. >> Thank you, Mayor. This is to um create some more mixeduse development and some uh town homes as well. So glad to see some more housing in Oklahoma City. I'm going to move approval. We have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Okay. Item I is an ordinance on final hearing. It was recommended for approval uh reszoning 22000 Northwest 33rd from R1 to SPD 1777. Um Councilman Cooper. No. Senator speak. >> Is the applicant present though? Would Oh, good. We met online. Uh, well, we meet online, but we met uh virtually. Would you all mind uh telling us a little bit about your project? I'm excited about it. >> It's just Yeah. Tell us a little tell us your name and these sorts of things. >> Yeah. Uh Jo Joseph and Hadley Miller. So we're the owners of the property at 2200 Northwest 33rd. And essentially what we're proposing here is to build a duplex property on the back half of the lot. So maintaining the existing structure and um facing that duplex out towards North Barnes. I I just I really appreciate uh this infill um figuring out ways to provide uh housing there in the urban core and not demolishing that that front structure. So, I just really appreciate you both and we'll keep you updated as we keep doing some more of this sort of work and see if there's ways for you all to continue to be involved with this. I would move for approval. >> Thank you. >> Motion have a motion and a second. cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Okay. Item J is an ordinance on final hearing. It was recommended for approval reszoning 8728 North Chartell from R1 to SPD 1779. Councilman Cooper, no. And assigned to speak. >> Cool. Is applicant here to maybe speak on it though? No. Yes. Cool. Well, I have uh once more had a virtual meeting on this one as well, and I would move for approval. Have a motion in a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Uh item K is an ordinance on final hearing that uh was recommended for approval closing portions of private access drives and public utility easements in the Wilshire Point edition. Um Councilman Cooper knowing signed to speak. >> Uh is anyone here though? Yes, I thought so. This is another virtual meeting I had but in public might be worth staying. Also, >> welcome back. There was a is there a honeymoon? >> There was. Thank you. Mark sits out Johnson Associates Sheridan Avenue. Uh Councilman Cooper and I did meet online. Um so we discussed this project. Um we have a multif family development coming. This plat was approved and recorded probably close to a decade ago at this point and the existing utility easements that were platted uh don't align with the current layout for the multif family. So there's nothing in them. Uh and so we've requested they be closed and vacated. Sorry, once more. Uh, I think this an interesting way to do some development and so I'll move for approval. Have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. All right. Item L was an ordinance is an ordinance on final hearing recommended for approval. closing the west uh 10 ft of rightway for northwest 156th place um and etc. Councilman Carter, no one has time to speak. Who's the applicant on this? I couldn't find. Thank you, Mark. >> Can you explain this a little bit to me? >> Good afternoon. Mark Grubs, 1800 South S Road on behalf of the application. So um [clears throat] on the consent docket was today was a partial plat vacation vacating this portion which was already went through. This was the closing which has to be uh voted on by um individual consideration. Uh Visaya when we uh did the adjacent reasonzoning insisted that they did not want to any connection through their uh subdivision. They um got they said they got 100% support. There were like three or four signatures that were questionable because of notaries. They had 100% support of closing and vacating that. And uh therefore um we didn't need the access uh in the subdivision because we had 150th and county line access all the way around. And so we had no problem with trying to help them uh with the the closing so that there couldn't be any connection there. So >> there seems to be a lot of 100% participations going on around here. So I will move for approval. Have >> a motion and a second. Cast your votes on item L. Passes unanimously. Okay. Item M. There's a [clears throat] couple items here related to each other. The there's an ordinance on final hearing that was recommended for denial reszoning 12516 Roberts Road from double A to SPD 1763. There's also item M1 which is an amendment to the master design statement. This item has been deferred a couple of times and it it does have nearly 100% protest. 97.79 which certainly triggers um our higher threshold should someone make an a motion for uh approval. And with that, Councilman Pennington um Kelly Work is has signed up and I'm not sure where what his allegiance is, but >> well, Kelly Kelly's been uh doing a great job representing neighbors. Uh Mason's here representing the developer or the homeowner or excuse me property owner. Um I want to say and for the sake of time I just want to say thank you to Mason and to Kelly for working on this. My understanding is that Kelly submitted a letter of withdrawal of the protest from the neighbors that he um is representing and that thanks to some uh some continuous negotiation we've been able to reach a resolution. So I think all of those amendments have been submitted. Do we need to vote on both? Is it more than one, Sarah? Okay. >> Yeah. So, as I understand it, just to if there's nobody else signed up besides Kelly, I'll keep this mechanical and smooth as possible. Um, we submitted a version on November 1st. Um, that was the one that staff had on file. Since then, we came to additional um, concessions with the neighbors. Um, and we didn't submit that version until I think it was like yesterday. Um, so what we need to do, we do have an agreement uh, with Kelly's group. Um, and so they've withdrawn their protests on the understanding that we make sure that the version that's approved today is consistent with the version that we submitted yesterday. And as I understand it, I need to read the changes into the record. Um, these are the changes specifically that were made between the document that was submitted on November 1st versus the document that was submitted yesterday or two, but it was dated November 17th. So, if that's what staff wants me to do, I'll do that now. Okay. So [clears throat] um under the special development regulations section um three which is the maximum building size and number of buildings paragraph one uh we are looking at the second sentence we are striking that and replacing it with the language it reads the principal dwelling structure shall be limited to 5,000 square feet of floor area which shall be permitted by right um the second change is in the following paragraph which is paragraph to um the we are revising the second sentence to read the accessory dwelling unit, whether attached or detached, comma, shall be limited to 12,200 square ft of floor area. We are then adding another sentence directly after that that says the maximum separation between the principal dwelling unit structure and the accessory dwelling unit structure shall be 40 ft. Uh further down that page under section five, minimum lot size, we are correcting that from 3.5 to 3.48. That was due to a typo that was done on one of the conceptual site plans. So we're just fixing that typo. Um the next page under section 11 vehicular access um after sentence um well after the second sentence we are adding in a sentence that says if there are two points of access on Robert's road the portions of the driveway located within the west 50 ft of the property shall be limited to 12 ft in width. Uh if there is one point of access on Robert's Road, the portion of the driveway located within the west 50 ft of the property shall be limited to 24 ft in width. And then lastly down the page under the other development regulations, section five, dumpsters, we are adding a sentence at the end that reads only residential carts shall be allowed. No commercial dumpsters shall be permitted. So, this is a um we went through extensive conversations with the neighbors on this. Um you might think uh based on the protest figures that we were trying to do a 400 home development like you heard earlier. What this actually is is one home um an accessory dwelling unit for their family member down the road and then a detached garage on 3.5 acres of land. But uh in order to preserve a lot of the interests that the neighbors raised and concerns, we we went through a whole litany of provisions. So, we think we've gotten to a point now where this satisfies um Kelly's clients and is workable for everybody involved. >> Thank you, Mason. Uh Mayor, I'd like to move approval of the amendment as read into the record. >> Can we and can we do that as a package like it was just read of all those different changes? >> Uh sorry, Sarah Welch, Planning Department. Um because the you've never voted on no the November 1st amendment. Our recommendation is that you just don't take action on the one that's on the agenda and instead I can read one into the record for you. Would that be okay? >> It will be similar to what he just said or >> it's well he's he read you the changes from the November 1 document which is not a document that's ever been voted on. >> Right. >> And so what I'm about to read will include all changes from the planning commission until the amendments he just read to you. >> Would that be okay? Sure. >> Okay. >> In the end of this, do we just vote once on all the amendments? >> Sorry. >> At the end of this, we'll just vote once. >> Yes. Then you're just voting once on the >> and it will be as you've described, not necessarily as he just described. >> It will be both >> in addition to what he just described. >> It will be it will be it will include all of the recommend all of the changes that they've made and agreed upon before November up until November 1st and including the ones that they agreed to as of yesterday. >> Which package did he just read? >> He read November 17th. >> Okay. You're gonna add in some other stuff. >> Sorry to be complicated, but he read you changes from November 1st to November 17th, but we're going to act like November 1st never existed, >> right? So, you're gonna add in some new things and he's presumably his head and say he agrees. >> I'm I'm hopefully going to connect all the dots and make it short and simple. >> All right. Go ahead. >> Okay. So, I think you're voting on an amendment to the master design statement dated November 17th, which revises section one, revises section 1.3, um, revises section 1.5, which establishes a minimum lot size of 3.48 acres, it modifies section 1.6, it modifies section 1.7, it modifies section 1.11, modifies section uh, 2.9, and it also modifies exhibit B. Okay. >> Okay. So, you're comfortable with that, Kelly? You're comfortable with that? >> Just while he's coming up here, just to clarify for the record that the version of the master design statement that we submitted that was dated November 17th, 2025, that is the version that we're asking this council to approve. >> And it's a collection of the things you and she just said collectively. >> Yeah, it reflects all the things that I just said, but also she did all the Well, she's doing my job almost as a lawyer so >> All right. So, so Mayor, I'm going to move approval of the amendments as read into the record by both Sarah Welch and Mason Schwarz. >> Okay, sounds good. And we will not take action on M1. So, this is a amendment from the floor. All right, we have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. >> Passes unanimously. So now presumably we're on the ordinance. Um now I now is that was that protest withdrawal effective legal even though it's not on the agenda. You staff certifies that this is now at 36% protest which is below the threshold required for a supermajority. It is still it is still recommended for denial because they didn't go back. You know that's that is what it is. That's what happened at the planning commission. But we're hearing that you know there's been some negotiations since then. So Councilman Pennington, what do you want to do? Thank you, mayor. >> Um, I'd move approval on the item. >> Okay. >> So, just to be clear, if we vote yes, are we denying this or are we >> No, no, he's moving approval. >> Okay. >> Yeah, we we are going opposite [music] the recommendation, but things have h things have transpired since the time of that recommendation. So, he is re he is motioning for approval. It does not require a supermajority. Um, we have a motion in a second. Cast your votes. passes [snorts] unanimously and has a supermajority anyways. But thank you. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Item N was previously deferred. Uh which brings us to item O. This is the second of two meetings on this topic. Uh this is adopting the amended class and corridor revitalization project plan 2025. We had a presentation previously. So there's nothing further to present. the council could adopt if they wish. Oh, is this does this want an emergency? Okay, >> they want the emergency. >> Sounds like it. So, we'll take that vote. Uh second. This is just an adoption. We have a motion in a second. Cast your votes. [clears throat] Uh, Councilwoman Avers, have you voted? >> Passes unanimously. And then it sounds like staff is requesting an emergency on this. [snorts] >> Is there any particular reason? >> I don't recall why we need the emergency on this. Kenny >> had to be sitting in the back row, didn't you? [laughter] I guess it feels like proper oversight to at least ask why we haven't needed. >> Um I'm actually not sure either. Although I think we do have a couple of projects which you're going to hear about later that were contingent upon this being created but um I'm not sure why it's recommended for emergency honestly. >> Okay. >> I don't know if legal or other staff >> is there anyone who would know? Um, I don't know. I I did not make the request. Okay. >> What's the basis for the request? >> Well, that's what we're trying to find out. No one knows. Um, we could come back to this and cast that vote in a few minutes if if we can get somebody in here to Well, there's Joanna. So, so Joanna, the question is there seems to be a belief that somebody thinks an emergency is necessary on item 110, the amended class and corridor revitalization project plan, but nobody knows why. >> I don't believe that there is. Um, the two projects that are coming forward later are contingent on approval of this. We can still authorize those allocations because the agreements won't come forward until a few months from now. So, I think we're safe to do no emergency. I'll withdraw my motion. >> Okay. So, we're not going to vote on the emergency. If somebody probably got another half hour or so at least before we completely adjourn if somebody changes their mind on that. All right. So, that passed uh unanimously [snorts] and now we're moving on to item P. Um we have a resolution adopting and confirming an assessment role for the Uptown 23rd Business Improvement District and we have a public hearing on that topic. Amy, has anyone signed to speak on that public hearing? No, they haven't. >> They have not. And so we'll advance to the resolution found at P2. Is [snorts] this actually dying for lack of a second or is this because There we go. All right. All right, we have a motion in a second. Cast your votes. >> Council Stone, have you voted? >> Yes. >> All right. [snorts] Passes unanimously. [clears throat] Okay. Okay. Item Q is an ordinance on final hearing adopting and setting the assessment role for the Uptown 23rd business improvement district. So this is just the ordinance mirror image of the resolution we just adopted. No presentation on this. We can take this up for adoption. Item Q. We have [clears throat] a motion and a second. Cast your votes. >> [clears throat] >> passes unanimously. Okay. 11 R and S are related to each other. This concept was presented uh at our last meeting. This is relates to charging credit card fees on certain transactions. So this is the second of two meetings where this ordinance is being proposed. So there's no presentation today unless anybody has any questions. Uh R is the ordinance on final hearing relating to taxation. We have a motion and a second. Cast your votes passes unanimously. Item S is an ordinance on final hearing relating to general schedule of fees. This is uh along the same lines of previous item relating to credit card fees. Have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes [clears throat] unanimously. Okay. Item T is an ordinance to be introduced and set for final hearing on December 2nd relating to taxation. And uh we have a >> uh this is the use tax on the arena. >> Yes. >> Tax. Okay. So, yes, Brent Bryant, our assistant city manager, will uh give us a quick presentation on what we're requesting here. >> Yes. Good morning, Brent Bryant, city manager's office. Since 1993 with all of our limited, we've we've been blessed with having many limited purpose special sales taxes that for for designated period of times, we utilize use tax funds um for the city for for multiple processes. And so, uh, with the approval of the arena tax back in, uh, 2023, uh, we knew that we were going to need to do this, and the reason we're doing this at a at a quicker pace is we've got a, uh, we're working on the financing of the arena, and this is necessary is that one of the steps that we need to do as we go forward. So, uh, this use tax will run at the same time as the sales tax, which will be April 1, 2028 through March 31st of 2034. Again, like I said, it's necessary for to support the arena financing, which was approved by this body back in March of 2024. Uh, we do anticipate doing the financing um in the first half of 2026 uh as we as we get where we actually will need the funds. Um, this ordinance does not need an emergency as we have plenty of time for it to go into effect. So, and we'll be bringing that back to you on December 2nd. Um, also on December 2nd, we're going to bring you three other items related to this. One of the things council has done every time we've done the use tax um, ordinance is we've also done a resolution of intent by the council as to how we're going to spend the funds. And one of the things that we're doing in shoring up the financing of of the arena is to pledge the use tax as support. Um we're financing the the debt based solely on the sales tax on a one to one a little over a one:1 ratio. Uh but we need we we pledge the use tax in addition to that it gives us a better debt coverage essentially for that. And um with that and that's when you have a higher debt coverage, your bonds become more marketable. When they become more marketable, you hope you get the better interest rates. And so that all plays into that. And so um so we'll also be bringing that resolution of intent to you. Historically, uh with the MAPS for use tax that we have in place, 65% of that goes to public safety equipment and 35% of it goes to other city facilities. And that's the plan to do that with the arena tax as well. Uh we'll also bring back an amend we'll also bring an item back to amend the maps for use tax resolution of intent only to provide that extra coverage to help us uh for cash flow purposes while we're doing the arena for our initial um debt service payments on that. And that's the only reason we're doing that because if you'll recall with this revenue uh with the with the debt uh we'll enter into the debt in the next eight months and interest will start acrewing against it and the revenue doesn't start coming in until after April 1 of 2028. So any kind of coverage we can have would be helpful. And then finally there will be an Arena debt reimbursement resolution that will be brought to you for your consideration. And this is required by the Internal Revenue Service as we're issuing our debts as tax exempt debt. And anytime that you do that, you if you're going to utilize various funds and in this case, there's the Arena debt, there's Arena uh bond proceeds, and there's also the funds that were approved by the residents of Oklahoma City last month um for the support of the uh Arena from through our general obligation bond program. And so we'll also need to bring that back. And so with that, I'm happy to answer any questions. Thanks. >> Okay. So, this is as stated the introduction final hearing is actually in two weeks. We could take a motion if there's no further questions or comments. Have a motion in a second. Cast your votes. passes unanimously. Um, all right. Item two is the public hearing regarding the dilapidated structures here listed. Amy, has anyone signed up to speak? >> No, they haven't. I >> have not. So, we'll advance to the resolution found at U2 declaring that the structures are dilapidated. Got a motion and a second. Cast your votes. passes unanimously. Item V1 is a public hearing regarding the unsecured structures here listed except for one previously struck. Amy, has anyone signed to speak? >> No, they haven't. >> They have not. So, we'll advance to the resolution found at V2 declaring the structures are unsecured. We have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Item W1 is a public hearing regarding the abandoned buildings here listed except for one previously struck. Amy has any time to speak. >> No, they haven't. >> So, we'll advance to the resolution of W2 declaring the buildings are abandoned. >> Got a motion in a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Item X uh one is a public hearing regarding a resolution approving a substantial amendment to the fiscal year 2025 2026 first year action plan for submission to US Department of Housing and Urban Development. Amy, is anyone signed to speak? >> No, they haven't. >> They have not. But we do have a presentation uh on item two, the resolution approving said substantial amendment. >> Ben Davis with the planning department will give us an explanation of the changes that are proposed. >> Good morning, council. So, uh, back in May, you all approved our consolidated plan, which outlines how we spend HUD dollars for community development out grant, home, and other programs. So, today we're bringing you a substantial amendment. Uh, basically, whenever you go to the next slide. Basically, whenever we have to make a change to our consolidated plan, we're required to go through a public process with HUD and the city council to approve anything that changes an activity over 25%. uh New View Oklahoma in our consolidated plan was approved for $300,000 to extend a public water line to help them expand their services for low vision and blind folks. Uh it's a economic development program. Uh so they are having some cost overruns for their project. Um and since it's a public water line, uh we wanted to provide them some additional funding to help cover that cost. So we want to increase that budget by $150,000. So, a 50% increase for a total of $450,000 to help offset the cost. The total cost of that waterline project is $1.2 million, which they are covering the remainder of that cost. So, with your approval, that'll allow us to provide them additional community development block grant funding. >> Thanks, Ben. All right, we can take up a motion to adopt X2. Have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. All right. Um 11 YZ and double A are all related and there is a presentation. >> Yes. Brock Row, development services director, will give us a quick presentation on these proposed changes in our building code. >> Yes. Thank you, uh, council. Uh, mayor, I'm pleased to be here. What we're going to do today with these three resolutions is basically update our code requirements. Um I'm going to take them one by one. Uh if you look at resolution Y, um that one's the existing building code. And what we're doing with that is first of all, we're correcting a conflicting uh local amendment that we did back in the adoption of February 27th, 2024. Uh we we actually changed the verbiage in section 1301.2 2 and it what it did is it really added a lot of confusion to the performance method of the existing building code. Um and so we're going to move that back to where it says 6 through 12 which is what the intent of the existing building code was from ICC and what is also adopted at our state level. Uh bringing that clarity back to what we we can adopt with that to make it make it better. The other aspect of that one is we are coming in moving into compliance farther with the state requirements for elevator requirements. Um, we are adopting the ASME A17.12022, the ASME A17.32023, and the ASME 4, I'm sorry, ASME A uh 18.1 2022, which are all standards that we use for uh elevator inspections. Uh, moving on to Z, the International Building Code. Uh again, this one is just updating our our standards for the elevator uh inspections. Uh that's ASME A uh 17.12022. Uh ASME A18.12023 and ASME uh A90.1-2023. Uh moving on to double A. Um that's international residential code. Again, just updating our elevator standards for that to stay in compliance with uh the requirements from the state. Um those are ASMA ASME A17.122 and ASME A18.12023. And uh that's all I have. If you have any questions, >> thank you. And I think everybody saw the outrageous letter we received a few weeks ago from state agency that oversees this for which they later apologized. Um this is the response to that letter. Just so you know this is the closure of that of that issue. Um if there's no questions we can take up the resolutions one by one. We [snorts] have a motion and a second for item Y. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Next up would be Z. Good. Motion and a second. Cast your votes. >> [snorts] >> passes unanimously. And finally, double A. Motion in a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Okay. Now we are at 11AB. This is a joint resolution at the Oklahoma City Economic Development Trust approving an allocation not to exceed $660,000 from the class and quarter revitalization project plan for the AVA. >> Yes, sir. >> Ava 2.0 project at Northwest 11th and Lee. >> Thank you, Mayor. Uh, council Kenny Su with the Alliance for Economic Development. [clears throat] So, I'm going to give just a brief overview of this deal and then turn it over. The developer is going to give a brief presentation on this, but AVA 2.0 it this is for 26 units to be built at Northwest 11th and Lee. It's about a $5.1 million project. The proposal and the ask is a 600 not to exceed $660,000 of TIFF over time. So, this would be structured as a pay as you go. In other words, they they pay their taxes. It would be structured as a rebate or of of 80% uh being returned from years 1 to five and from years 6 to 15 50%. Um this was one of them that was contingent upon um you know the creation of the or the amendment to the uh class corridor uh tiff. So with that I'll turn it over I think Rohan Gupta is going to give us a presentation tell you a little bit more about the project then we'll be happy to answer any questions. I I will say also the TIFF review committee which is the body that is composed of all the different taxing jurisdictions has reviewed and recommended approval and the economic development trust has also approved this and recommended it. >> Morning. Thank you council. So this is for our phase two of a 26 unit project. We just finished the phase one last year. 78 units on the other side of the parking garage. This will continue our development of this portion of Midtown. Um, and you know, we uh originally bought this many years ago with the intent to eventually develop these parcels. When we bought it, we thought these would eventually become probably more extensions of office, probably medical office. And as the years have changed, as St. Anony's has grown. This actually made much more sense to become housing in an area that really doesn't have much more than single family housing. And one of the more interesting things we found in phase one was because of the unit size and the cost that c that the units were built at, we were able to put rents at a level to be competitive in the market, but also to um be very appealing to renters that normally wouldn't be able to live in this part of the city. And so the median income in for renters in phase one is about 50,000. And so that renter who would normally have to live in South Oklahoma City or other parts of the city now is able to live in a very urban walking environment where they're walking to their job or whatever it is they may be doing. So we thought that was a really um great part of phase one and we want to continue that success on phase two. This is just a quick outline of the project. So, as you can see, it's on the east side of the parking garage. Uh the parking garage was a big help for us, just providing infrastructure that we didn't need to build additional parking to make the project uh leasable. And this is just a quick sche schematic of the how the units are laid out. Every single unit has its separate kitchen, full kitchen, you know, dishwasher, fridge, stove, and uh laundry, machine, very little amenities, but the amenities really are being able to live in a very walkable part of the city uh with a lot of places nearby. And this will be the uh this is the rendering of what it's going to look like from the souththeast uh corner. And that's a breakdown of our budget. As you can see, we're uh it's a pretty tight budget, but you know, the TIFF makes this project actually much more doable for us. Okay. >> Thank you. Any questions? >> Thank you. >> All right. Well, if there's no questions, we could uh or comments, we could take a motion on the joint resolution. Got a motion in a second. Cast your votes. passes unanimously. Okay. Item AC is a joint resolution with the Oklahoma City Economic Development Trust approving an allocation not to exceed $2 million from the Classen Corridor advisation project plan for the Villa Teresa Hotel project at 1216 Classen Drive. >> Thank you, Mayor and Council. Kenny Su with the Alliance for Economic Development. >> [clears throat] >> Um, a quick summary on this. This is for the Villa Teresa, the hotel portion. So, I'm going to give you a little bit of an overview because this is a little bit unique that it's it was a couple phase project. Um, so originally there was the hotel phase and the residences and I think Marva Ellard's going to give us a little bit of an overview of this. Previously, those were both wrapped up sort of in one economic development deal and they were in the downtown tiff. So, tiff 2. The residences have been completed. they've, you know, acred their their tiff incentive. It's not been paid out to developer because it was still dependent upon the hotel piece being um completed. That was all happening kind of around COVID time. So, and also with TIFF 2 expiring, this was one of the properties that was amended to put into the uh class and corridor tiff so that we could give the the hotel piece, you know, a little longer runway and a chance to move forward. costs are up, you know, as you can imagine, uh, lending terms are less favorable, etc., but we're able to bring this forward. So, this piece would just be the hotel piece. It's a $29.5 million uh, project. The request would be $2 million in pay as you go tiff, structured as pay in, and receive 80% back from years 1 through five and 60% back in years 6 through 15. um the the we would still keep the old residence piece which has been completed. It's still contingent upon this hotel being 50% completed before they would receive even though they've completed that part of the project. So I just wanted to make sure and we're clear and and transparent on all that and and and give you that information. So with that, I'm going to turn it over to Marva and she's going to tell you more about the project. Is it is it still morning or is it afternoon? I'm not sure. >> Afternoon. [laughter] >> Most of you are very familiar with the Villa Teresa site. Uh my partner Billy Woodring and I purchased this back in December of 2017. Uh it was in danger of being torn down and we didn't want to see that happen. So, Billy and I are partners on the residential part of it, and we split the two parcels off between the hotel and the residential. As uh Kenny said, are you the driver, sister? Okay. As Kenny said, uh the condo, I'm sure all of you know a lot about Villa Teresa. It's probably one of the most beloved properties in town. I can't be over there, barely walk down the street without somebody having a Villa Teresa story that they want to tell me. So, um it is its own um National Register of Historic Properties district. It's probably the one of the smallest ones in Oklahoma City. So, all the original villa buildings are part of that district. Um that's the convent on the left and that is what we call Anderson 2 on the right. Um some of you may not know that the building on the left and well it's Anderson one was built by Frank Anderson who is MD Anderson's older brother and MD Anderson and Frank actually lived in Oklahoma City and moved to Houston which was a loss to us. So there's a lot of history on this site. The sisters bought the property or started acquiring buildings at Villa in 1933. I went to see them a couple of months ago. There's six of them left and uh they're very excited about all of this going on. These are the condos that Billy and I have done. U 13 of them are sold. There's 17 total and we're hoping to close on another one by the end of the year. So, as Kenny said, and I want to thank Kenny and Joanna for working on this with us to try to help us be able to do this. As uh Kenny said, it's about a $29 million project. Kenny kind of alluded to the fact that, as you can imagine, hotel [clears throat] financing during CO was not a popular activity. So, we had um what we felt was almost a loan in place. COVID happened. No one wanted to uh finance a hotel. We're back on track. We've got a loan. We've got a tax credit investor. And we're ready to go. >> Okay. >> Any questions? >> Questions. All right. Well, if there's no questions or comments, we can take up the resolution found at AC. We have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Okay. Item AD1 is a resolution authorizing the municipal counselor to confess judgment without admitting liability in the case of McGuffy v. Progressive and OKC. Uh staff is not requesting an executive session. I have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. AE1 is a resolution authorizing the municipal council to confess judgment without admitting liability in the case of Tibs v. City of OKC. Uh staff is not requesting an executive session. We have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. AF1 is a resolution authorizing Jessica Dark and Riley Nester of Pierce Couch Hendrickson Basinger and Green to represent uh city employee Jesse Hilly in the case of night v city of OKC. Staff is not requesting an executive session. We have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Item AG is an executive session to discuss collective bargaining negotiations for fiscal year 2526 with the FOP uh IIAF and ASME. uh we can take a vote to go into executive session now and handle the executive session itself at the conclusion of our other business. [clears throat] We have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Item AH1 are claims recommended for denial. Staff is not uh requesting executive session. Of course, one B was already struck. So, it's really a claim at this point. [snorts] We have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. AI1 [clears throat] are claims recommended for approval. Uh staff is not requesting an executive session. Have a motion and a second. cast your votes. Passes unanimously. That concludes our votes this morning. We're now at item 12, comments from council. Ward one, w two, w three, w four, w five, w six, w seven. I'm going to make a quick comment just to again thank uh the ladies of Delta Sigma Theta for being here today. I'm very biased because my sister Tasha Timberlake is one of your sisters and so um I'm very excited for you all to be here and just appreciative. Um I've been on the council for about six months and this is the longest meeting I've been to. So I'm very sorry. Um um I I'm looking forward to the opportunity to visit with you, but we are going to go into executive session. So I would highly recommend you go ahead and have lunch. And so we'll do our best to join you as soon as we can. But thank you again for being here. >> Thank you. 4 day. >> Yes. Thank you. And and thanks for sticking it out and you did get a good flavor for city government this morning. >> Um can I add one more thing? Sorry. >> Yes. >> I I too, mayor, think that Councilman Carter is a good guy. [laughter] I just think that's worth saying. >> All right. Uh that concludes comments from council. Item 13 is citizens to be heard. Sean Graham has signed up to speak does not appear to be in the chamber. So we will now go to executive session and then return. All right, we have returned from executive session and we have reached item 14 on the agenda which is adjournment and we are adjourned.