Good morning. And we're going to get started this morning with an invocation led by Pastor Jack Terrell Wilks of Lakeside United Methodist Church. And that'll be followed by the pledge of allegiance led by Councilwoman Katrina Avers. Please stand as you are able. Join me in prayer. Gracious and holy one, we thank you for your presence guiding us. May we listen for your still small voice. Thank you for creating and sustaining us day by day. Thank you for making us in your image and designing us to exist in community with one another and with all your creation. We thank you for our city. We lift up our elected officials, our businesses, our houses of worship, our families, our individuals who make Oklahoma City the vibrant place it is. We especially thank you for the countless people we may never meet. Without them, our city would falter. They are our backbone. We aspire to live by the words of the prophet Micah. When asked, "What does the Lord require of us?" The answer was received to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God. Yet, we acknowledge the reality that we often fail to live up to that call. We confess that it is often more convenient to lean into division than to seek common ground and to work for the good of every person in our community. Let us be attentive to the cries of the poor. Let us share their burdens and come to their aid. Give us the courage to address the systems that hurt our most vulnerable neighbors. May we treat those in need with mutual respect, fairness, and love. Let our actions bring hope, encouragement, and freedom. We renew our commitment today to direct energy where it belongs on repairing what is broken and building your kingdom here. Oh, holy one, grant the mayor, city leaders, staff, and this council the wisdom to navigate the challenging times. Give them the discernment to distinguish right from wrong so they may usher in an age of civility, stability, and tranquility in our community. May the ordinances and laws of our city benefit all citizens regardless of who they are, whom they love, their skin tone, their social economic status, or their faith. May the work of this council establish justice here in OKC, carrying a message of equality to all who come and go from this great land. Give those who gather today the insight and direction as they consider what comes before them this day. Grant us strength and tenacity to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with you, oh God. It's in your holy name we pray. Amen. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you, Pastor Terrell Wils, and thank you, Councilwoman Avers. I call this meeting of the city council to order and I do have a couple of presentations to make under office of the mayor and I will make my way to the front for that. Perhaps our friends for bike month could come down. All right. So, May is National Bike Month and so we have a proclamation to make it so and I would ask the clerk to read it. Whereas May is National Bike Month, promoted by the League of American Bicyclists and celebrated in communities across the country. And whereas creating bicycle friendly communities has been shown to improve residents health, well-being, quality of life, and sense of community while reducing pollution, congestion, and traffic collisions. And whereas the ongoing implementation of BikeWalk OKC, the city's comprehensive bicycle and pedestrian plan is creating a citywide bicycle network accessible to riders of all ages and abilities. And whereas the city of Oklahoma City has secured tens of millions of dollars toward bicycle and trail infrastructure through the maps for initiative, geo bond programs, and federal grants. And whereas the annual bike fest event held on Sunday, May 3rd is a family-friendly festival celebrating the benefits of bicycling for fun, fitness, and transportation. And whereas National Bike to Work Day on Friday, May 15th will be celebrated with group rides hosted by the city of Oklahoma City, the Association of Central Oklahoma Governments, and Downtown OKC Partnership. Now therefore, I, David Holt, mayor of the city of Oklahoma City, do hereby proclaim May 2026 as bike month in Oklahoma City. >> Well, thank you. And, uh, we've got Max Harris here who's going to maybe introduce some of our special guests. >> Hi, thank you, mayor. Um, yeah, so every month, every year we have, uh, bike month. It's a national kind of celebration of all things bike uh, related. And this year we uh we have bike club OKC who helps to kind of educate uh the next generation of cyclists here in OKC. And we have ACOG representation and some some other organizations as well. And these are all people who um uh kind of do their part to help make OKC a safer, more bike friendly place um in in various ways. So we appreciate all the advocacy and support that we have in Oklahoma City. Um, and real quick before before I hand it back off, we have a couple of events that I want to plug. And one is BikeFest and uh our friends at ACOG here put that on every year and it's a big celebration at the Wheeler District Ferris wheel. It's on Sunday, May 3rd from 12 to 300 p.m. Uh, tons of fun. And then on May 15th, we have Bike to Work Day, which we also do every year uh with ACOG and Downtown OKC Partnership. They pay for free coffee for everyone at Bsentennial Park um from 7:30 to 900 a.m. So, also a lot of fun there. We appreciate Mayor you highlighting this for us and and uh for our community here too from elementary school. >> Yeah, multiple elementary schools throughout Oklahoma City. >> Yeah. Y >> we are grateful for all of these uh additional bike paths and bike lanes, you guys. It just keeps our our our students safer as they learn to navigate their community by bike. >> Thank you all. >> Thank you. >> All right. Now, if our friends here for child abuse prevention month could come down. This month, April, is child abuse prevention month, and we'd like to learn a little bit more about that. So, I'd ask the clerk to read this proclamation. Whereas Oklahoma City's future depends on the healthy development of the roughly 190,000 children who live, grow, and learn in our community. And whereas the early experiences of a child shape their development and long-term well-being, making safe, stable, and nurturing relationships essential from the very start. And whereas positive childhood experiences such as loving caregivers, strong social connections, and supportive communities play a vital role in helping children thrive and mitigating the impact of adversity. And whereas child abuse and neglect can have serious and lasting consequences for individuals and society, including health challenges, academic difficulties, and significant lifetime economic costs. And whereas parents and caregivers with strong social networks and access to support are better equipped to provide safe nurturing environments for their children. And whereas Parent Promise Prevent Child Abuse Oklahoma, the Exchange Club of Oklahoma City, the Downtown Oklahoma City Exchange Club, the Oklahoma State Department of Health, and other community partners are working alongside the city of Oklahoma City to promote awareness of healthy child development, positive parenting, and community-based family support. Now therefore, I, David Holt, mayor of the city of Oklahoma City, do hereby proclaim April 2026 as Child Abuse Prevention Month in Oklahoma City. >> Thank you. And uh we have Chris Seammens here from Parent Promise, and we'd love to hear a few words from you. >> Sure. Thank you, Mayor. So, every year in April is Child Abuse Prevention Month across the country. Um, as an organization, we do partner with Prevent Child Abuse America. So, we are the Oklahoma chapter and um we want to appreciate or we want to thank you for recognizing this every year. Um for me, it's been the past three years, but I know it's been longer than that um with previous leadership, but we do partnership. We do partner with area organizations, nonprofit um nonprofit organizations, communities, and state departments. We have Oklahoma State Department of Health representation here. Um we do promote um safe and healthy childhoods and we do uh support families in um in promoting safe or in creating safe environments for the children in their home. >> All right. Thank you. Let's hear it for everybody who does this important work. Yeah, kind of. >> All right, that concludes office of the mayor. Now we're at item four, items from council. We have a resolution at 4A approving uh travel expenses for council members Carter and Stonecipher to attend the National League of Cities summer board and leadership meetings in Louisville in July. And uh we could take a motion for that. Got a motion and a second. Cast your votes. >> Passes unanimously and with the necessary supermajority. And then we also have item B, a resolution approving travel expenses for council members Cooper and Hammond to attend a technical tour of the Utah Transit Authority in Salt Lake in May. We have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously and with the necessary six affirmative votes. Next up, we have item several items from Judiciary Committee. We'll begin with item C. This is a resolution appointing Brian Young as municipal judge for the remainder of the two-year term that expires uh June 30th of 2027. I'll turn to our um judiciary committee chair, Councilman Stone Cipher, to uh talk about that and maybe should that vote go well, maybe uh you could roll right into item D, which would be the swearing in ceremony. >> Sounds sounds perfect. Um I think I speak for the judiciary committee. Um, I want to thank our presiding judge for being here, Judge Keifin today for the swearing in. Uh, but I really want to thank Brian and his family that are here on the first two roles. Uh, the one thing I can tell you when uh the judiciary committee tries to pick a judge, we look really closely at at the jud at the interviews person's uh temperament. And and the reason we do that is because many times a citizen of Oklahoma City, their first experience is with a ticket, with a judge. And we want to make sure that we have judges that reach out and help people. And uh Brian displayed this throughout his interview. He is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma with a political science and history degree in 2000. He graduated from Georgetown University Law School and um he's been in private practice recently but served for from 2007 to 2015 in the public defenders office. So Brian, we are really happy to have you coming on board assuming this resolution passes. So I'd make a motion at this time. >> All right. I have >> There we go. Have a motion in a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Thank you uh Brian for your willingness to serve. And uh Judge Keifin, at this time would you swear in Brian? >> Thank you, sir. >> Repeat after me. >> I say your name. >> Brian Young. do solemnly swear or affirm >> do solemnly swear or affirm >> that I will support >> that I will support >> obey >> obey >> and defend the Constitution of the United States >> and defend the Constitution of the United States >> and the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma >> and the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma >> and that I will not >> and that I will not >> knowingly >> knowingly >> receive >> receive >> directly or indirectly >> directly or indirectly >> any money or other valuable thing >> any money or other valuable thing >> for the performance or non-performance performance >> for the performance or non-performance >> of any act or duty pertaining to my office >> for any act or duty pertaining to my office >> other than the compensation allowed by law >> other than the compensation allowed by law >> I further swear or affirm >> I further swear or affirm >> that I will faithfully discharge my duties >> that I will faithfully discharge my duties >> as municipal judge for the city of Oklahoma City >> as municipal judge for the city of Oklahoma City >> to the best of my ability >> to the best of my ability. Congratulations, Sh. All right. >> Thank you. >> Very good. Well, thank you again, uh, Judge Young. Thank you, Judge Keifin. We also have resolutions at ENF uh pertaining uh to our special judges. Um Councilman Stone Cipher, the uh you might feel free to explain uh those independ uh independently of each other or together, however is more convenient. >> Um item 4E are our existing judges um who have terms that are expiring June 30th 2028. Item F are new judges that are coming on board uh whose terms will expire June 30th 2026. And I might take this a moment just to say um Lehan Thompson, Mana Holloway, and all of our judges do a great job at running this courthouse. And um we've been a little short-handed uh the last few months. And so this passing ENF will be a big help to the courthouse. And maybe for those watching the difference between what just happened and these special judges. Special judges are part-time and Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, let's take up item E. This is a resolution for Jeffrey Black, Claudia Connor, Larry Hazelwood, and Gary Henry as special judges. We have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. And then item F is a resolution for Christopher S. Kelly, Lauren Mayo, and David McKenzie as special judges. We have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Thank you. And thank you to the judiciary. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> All right. Item five, our city manager reports. Mr. City Manager, >> we all we have on today is the claims and payroll and that can be found on OKC.gov. >> All right. Thank you. Item six, journal of council proceedings. We can take items A and B with one motion. >> A motion and a second. Cast your votes. >> Thank you. Appreciate you. Passes unanimously. Item seven, request for uncontested continuences. Already printed on the agenda is a deferral for item 11A, a deferral for item 11B, a deferral for item 11D, a deferral for item 11G, and a reference back to a refer back to the planning commission for item 11 K. Is there anything else, Mr. City Manager? >> Yes, Mayor. On beginning on page nine, item 9AV, we're going to strike this item, make some corrections, and we'll bring it back at a later time. Um, AV, A is in Apple, V is in Victor. >> That's right. And then on page 14, 11:01 under dilapidated structures, these items will all be stricken from the agenda. Item F, 2316 Northwest 33rd Street, the owner is removed. Continuing on page 15 on unsecured structures. Uh, item 11 P1, item L, 1501, Northeast 42nd Street. The owner is secured. And that's all the items I have. >> All right, that will be the order. Item eight is revocable permits and events. We have item 8, a revocable permit with OKC public tennis to hold the OSSAA state tennis championships uh in May. And we have Canon Low here to talk about it. Hello. Thank you. Uh we're here again requesting approval for the Oklahoma State Tennis Championships at the Oklahoma City Tennis Center. Again, it's a great event where we get to have all of the high schools of all class sizes come in with the girls the second weekend of May and the boys the third weekend of May. We'll have a few thousand people there. Um, we have a big parking job and a ton of things going on. So, we would appreciate approval again. >> All right, Councilman Cooper. >> Let's go. >> Yeah. Good to see you again. And I'll move for approval. It's great. >> Wow. >> My bad. >> Hey, have a >> Does it matter? >> Motion in a second. Cast your votes. >> We're just trying to keep the >> passes unanimously. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. Yeah, we hope to see some of you guys out there. >> All right. We'll recess council now and convene as the Oklahoma City Municipal Facilities Authority where we have items A through F. We could take one motion. A motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. We'll adjourn OCMFA convenes the Oklahoma City Public Property Authority where we have items A through L. We could take the one motion. Have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. We'll adjourn OCPA and reconvene as the council. We are on item nine, the consent docket. Uh there's a presentation for item D. There's a presentation for item AF. Um and that is it. So, is there anything else that council member wishes to pull out for a separate vote, comment, question? >> Um, item D. >> D is in David has presentation. >> Has presentation. Perfect. Sorry, I was looking. Thank you. >> If that is all, then that is where we will begin with item D. Mr. City Manager. Yes, Chief Pacy's coming in to uh speak on this item. This is an item that we had deferred previously and are bringing back now with some amendments uh to the contract. And I'll let Chief Bassy just give us the overview of the changes that are being made in this contract. >> Good morning everyone. Um so as you know this was deferred um and it is something that we re-evaluated and we wanted to put some additional safeguards in place um to make you all feel a little more comfortable with Accurate. So, Acurant to remind you, it's just it's a shared investigative information platform and it connects public records and search tools with local law enforcement data. Um, so that participating agencies can work across jurisdictional issues. And I'll give you a really good example of the lack of accurate. Um, it wasn't but a few years ago, not that long ago, that three Oklahoma County Sheriff deputies went to a house to serve an eviction notice. and the information we had in our system they didn't have access to. Two of them were shot by Schwarz was killed. That's the importance of sharing this information with our local partners. So, as we we discussed before, this is not something we share with our consortium, which are metro agencies, county sheriff's departments, local municipalities. Uh we don't share with federal agencies. What we did is we went back and we put an addendum in place with Acurant which codifies the agreement that we had with them already that they can't take any data that we collect and use it as their own and share it and that is now part of the contract where you at less >> um yeah I guess one question I have is so what information inaccurate would have prevented those deputies from getting shot? >> I'm sorry I couldn't hear you. >> What what information was inaccurate that would have prevented those deputies from getting shot? There was some previous contact u mental health related information I believe um that would have given maybe an alert that there maybe some other precautions could have been taken um to keep them safe and maybe keep him safe as well. >> Well, I just want to say thank you to Chief Bassy, to the legal team, um and to the city manager for making these changes. We're obviously trying to do the very difficult work of balancing our privacy and our safety. And so I appreciate the extra effort put into trying to um further protect our um our privacy while at the same time keeping the tools that are helping to protect the lives of of law law enforcement as well. So appreciate that. >> Thank you, Councilman. >> Um Chief, always good to see you. >> Likewise, >> Captain. Um, first I want to say thanks for uh very diligent work uh for captain for reaching out consistently regarding updates and just the just again the amount of time and attention you all are bringing to this uh this issue. Um I took a note like using your own language. Oh my it's not me. I'm not doing it. Okay. All right. Uh I took a note on some of the language uh where you said that the work you all have done should make us feel a little bit more comfortable. That's a quote. And it does make me feel a little bit more comfortable. Not comfortable enough to um support uh this particular iteration. I'm not sure what it would take. Uh to councilwoman's question, when I think about some of the work that we've done with the 39 recommendations, the public safety recommendations where thankfully law enforcement is doing stuff now where if someone has for instance an autistic child, a child who heart of hearing, mental health issues, these sorts of things, those are now things that we have in our system and I'm glad to see those sorts of improvements. But I just have a lot of concerns when it comes to surveillance. I've had those concerns going all the way back quite frankly to the adoption of the uh Patriot Act at the federal level when I was a college student and nothing has changed as far as I am concerned. Same with FISA and yes I am the person who pays attention to every level of government because I I I take very seriously our Bill of Rights as I know you all do too and that's why I know you put in this extra bit of work here. It's just that I'm not there yet and I look forward to seeing where you all continue to take us. But for now, uh, I I can't quite go along. But really grateful for the attention because I mean, you did. I mean, there were emails, there were teams calls. You all have really brought your agame here and it tells me you're taking this work quite seriously. So, I appreciate that. >> Okay. Um, separate vote has been requested on item D and we can go ahead and uh do that now. We have a motion and a second. Cast your votes passes 7 to two. And now we will advance to item AF which has a presentation. >> Good morning uh Christian York Finance Department. Uh so the item today is the uh introduction to the second budget amendment of fiscal year 2026. Um it impacts a number of funds. I'll work through those with you. Um but the total increase being requested today to both expenses and revenues would be $28.5 million. It would increase the overall city budget to $2.10 billion. And again, it impacts a number of funds, 17 in total. And rather than read each of those to you, I thought I might bucket those up by purpose. There's really only four purposes being covered here. Starting with the citywide compensation adjustments. Council recently approved some CBAs as well well as pay plan adjustments for the city. Thank you very much. Um and those uh changes impact 12 of the funds including the general fund, utilities, airports, internal service funds, and various public safety sales tax funds. That total increase is $7.9 million um with the general fund piece of that being 5.8 million. The second category in the amendment is for purchase order rollovers. It's relatively small at $375,000. You might have you might remember the briefing you received on amendment number one. We talked about how this is switched to uh basically an administrative process. Um and in full transparency, we missed a couple POS. That's why we're bringing that to you here. Um and I didn't feel comfortable telling you it was complete on the last amendment and then not pointing it out specifically here. Um and so we have a few funds being impacted by that. uh capital improvement projects fund, the impacts fee fund, and the MAPS 4 program fund included a few POS getting us back to that $375,000 total. Uh the third category is recognizing increased revenues, the biggest piece of which is in our hotel motel sales tax fund. That increase is nearly $16 million. Uh it has been performing better uh than our projection, mostly due there's some organic growth there, but mostly due because we just underestimated it for this year. Um, and so this gets us caught up to the performance that we're actually seeing. Um, and then likewise in our zoo sales tax, we're asking for an increase of $200,000. Again, it's performing just slightly better. It also operates similar to the hotel motel in that we're just passing through receive dollars to the zoo, and this gives us the budget authority to do that. And then finally, we have some targeted operational needs. Uh, the largest piece of which is in our utilities fund at $3.2 million. That's going to cover some overtime needs, part-time staffing, and operational needs across water, wastewater, and solid waste divisions. Um, that will be funded by a transfer from the Aqua Trust. We also have some increases in our internal service fund specific to uh the vehicle uh maintenance or the fleet fund uh at $500,000 and that's for vehicle and equipment maintenance. $80,000 in our print shop. Paper and other supplies are just much more expensive this year. and then $215,000 in our risk management uh division for a management safety culture project. Uh that's all the call outs I have for you. We will uh bring it back to you on May the 5th alongside of a public hearing. Um I do want to call one thing out just to avoid any confusion. By that time you will have already received your briefing on the proposed budget for 2027. So over the next few meetings we will be talking about two different fiscal years. We'll continue to call that out for you. That's all I have for you. >> Thanks for thanks for your work. All right. Well, there are no um other items, so we could adopt the remaining consent docket except for the item previously adopted and the item previously struck. We have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Item 10 is the concurrence docket. We have items A through Q. We could take with one motion. There's a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Item 11 are items for individual consideration. Item 11 A was previously deferred. Item 11B was previously deferred. Item 11 C is an ordinance on final hearing. It was recommended for approval. Uh reszoning 9705 South Chalkaw Road from DA to PUB23. This was deferred March 10th and April 7th. Councilwoman uh I'm sorry, Councilman Stone. Uh we do have a couple people signed up to speak. Don't know their position. Thank you, Mayor. All right. Uh Mr. Box, can we have you come up first? David Box, 525 Northwest 11th Street. Um, so actually, sorry, Sarah, you do the aerial again. This uh this is an application that um seeks to reszone this to a PUD that would allow for 1acre uh development. The neighborhood to our south is a oneacre development and the kind of the crux of the argument the whole time has been our ability to utilize Southeast 98th Street. Uh Jamie Way specifically is a north south street that you'll note stubs and dies into our property. Um the reason that's significant is because that is a public street. It's a public street that the city owns and maintains and therefore it was required to be stubbed so that when the property to the north was developed, the public street would extend to that. We seek to develop our property in the exact same manner as those folks to the south. They believe wrongly that the street is private and therefore they don't want the traffic from our neighborhood accessing uh this site. This was hashed out at planning commission for quite some time and it was recommended for approval by planning commission. It came before uh this council two weeks ago. Uh Councilman Stone asked us to go back and and work with the neighbors. Sarah, would you mind showing the exhibit? What we have uh come up with is the exhibit you see before you now. You see Jamie Way enters the property. In the previous version, we had an east west street right on our property line. Uh that was viewed as um negative by some of the neighbors. And so what we've done is redrawn this site plan to now push that east west street to the north. What we would propose is an amendment to the PUD to swap out the previous site plan for this and further add a technical evaluation that would prohibit any east west street in uh the south 200 ft uh of our property line. So that we would ensure that it would be a lot next to a lot rather than the east west street. So with that, now we have lot next to lot uh in a manner similar in terms of lot size to what exists to our south. So with that, I'm happy to answer any questions. >> Thank you. Um what I would like to go ahead and make a movement to um approve that amendment before we vote on the item. >> She probably want two, I would. >> Okay. What is the other one? So, one amendment to swap the site plan, the other amendment being a technical evaluation prohibiting an east west street in the south 200 ft of the PUB. >> Gotcha. Okay. >> Okay. So, this is a motion to approve the amendment as has been described. We have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. >> Passes unanimously. >> Thank you, Mr. Box. Let me go ahead and hear the constituents that would like to speak. >> Okay. Daryl Patterson. It's me again. I just want to compliment you guys. We're at the start off for opening up in prayer. I didn't see that where I came from. So, I think that's awesome. Anyway, back to this. Uh, and I do appreciate uh, you know, the uh, you know, the road movement and then I think there's going to be 40 foot easement and all that kind of stuff. There's one thing that and and I'm I'm not really sure how the process works. Like I told you last time, I came from Missouri, uh, St. Louis area where they built a bunch of stuff and there was a town five miles that flooded because, you know, they tried to do their best to try to get it into the Missouri River, but it but it failed. Uh, there was a meeting last night uh, in our neighborhood and I didn't realize this, but there's three houses down the hill. Their yards are flooding and I hope you don't mind, Todd. I gave your number to call you cuz I don't know what to do with it. That's good. And I think there's a little bit of concern that uh the only thing I would ask is really take a good look at that flood plane because that that water is going somewhere and I know Chalkaw Road floods. I've seen 104th flood now down the hill where we're having problems at Whitney Ridge flooding. I don't think that'll wrap around there but it could because we're up on a hill and it's going to probably go this way. So, they really need to look at that. And I think flood planes going to have to be redrawn because you can't put 14 15 houses in there and keep that same area. And I noticed there was houses that their backyard backed up the flood plane. I'd be scared to death of that because all the all the runoff and in Missouri we had more even rain here. Oh my gosh. You know, it can just come. I've never seen anything like this. So anyway, then August, we get nothing. So anyway, I that's that's all I want to ask is somebody would really take a close look at it and I think that's the next phase. Somebody would look at that. >> Mhm. >> Okay. All right. Well, thank you. >> All right. Thank you. Appreciate your input. >> Blaine nice. >> Bla nice. 100 North Broadway, sweet 1700 Oklahoma City. I'm here on behalf of some of the neighbors. I just wanted to say thank you to Council Member Stone. he postponed this more than once to have some dialogue. Um, obviously many of the neighbors would wish this wasn't developed, but that's not reality. And we've worked out some concessions. Certainly, one of the concerns, as the previous gentleman stated, is just make sure that planning staff and development staff addresses the drainage and other issues, but that's a different process, and we understand that. So, I want to thank you for taking the time to meet with with the neighbors and and trying to to work some things out. >> Thank you. Appreciate it. >> So, yeah, this one we have had to defer it a few times and I would really like to thank the input from the constituents. Um, I can tell you they raised some things in there that at first I didn't see as troubling, but uh and thank you to the developers and Mr. box for being able to make some changes in there that I think address most of those issues. I'm not a drainage expert. That'll fall to city staff uh when the design starts to come out to make sure that those issues are addressed, and they should be for sure. Uh I would have those same concerns. But um with that, again, I appreciate everyone, but I'll go ahead and move for its approval with the uh amended All right, we have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. >> Passes unanimously. All right, item D was previously deferred. Item E is an ordinance on final hearing recommended for approval resounding 17412 North May from PUD 1843 to PUD 2125. Uh, Councilman Stone Cipher, no one has signed her to speak. Oh, he's not here. >> Okay, we'll come back to that. Uh, item F is an ordinance on final hearing recommended for approval reszoning 544 Southeast 14th from R1 uh MH and SRO DD to SPUD 1794 and SRO DD. Councilman Pennington, no one has signed to speak. >> Thank you, Mayor. Always glad to see us building more housing and and especially some housing that looks like it'll be more uh affordable. So, I move approval. >> All right, we have a uh motion and a second on item F. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Councilman Stoneer, I skipped over item E. coming back to you now. This is in W 8, but I previously described it. This is for uh approval of PUD 2125. There's no one signer to speak. >> Thank you. If no one signed to speak, I'll move for approval, please. >> Have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Item G was previously deferred. Item H is an ordinance on final hearing. It was recommended for approval reszoning 1526 North McKinley from SPD 1736 to SPD 1808. Councilwoman Hammond knows. >> Yes. Um this is some infill development um at 15th and Mckenley. So I will move for approval. 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 resoning 2654 Shaw from R1 and Hn to SPUD1 1812 and Hn. This was deferred from April 7th. Councilman Pennington know and is sign up to speak. >> Thank you. And I appreciate uh David Box um coming and meeting with the constituents to share their concerns. So we address those concerns and again this is just a continuation of the existing um way of operating on this property. So I move approval. We have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Item J, uh, two items here. The amendment to the master design statement in item one, which relates to item two, which is an ordinance on final hearing. It was recommended for approval reszoning 2020 Southwest 10th from R4 and SROD to SPD 1814. Uh, Councilwoman Hammond, no one to speak. >> Um, I will move the amendment. >> Okay. J1. Have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. >> Passes unanimously. >> Okay. And then I will move for approval. A motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Okay. Item K was referred back to the planning commission. Item L uh is L1 is a public hearing regarding the assessment role for year 2026 2027 for the adventure district. And we have someone who signed to speak under this public hearing and that is Cheryl Bond. Good morning, mayor and council. I'm Cheryl Bond. I'm a me board member for the Oklahoma City's Adventure District and the CFO at USA softball. Uh first, I want to thank you for your support um of generation one of our bid. We're excited to have generation two on the agenda today and look forward to continuing the progress in our area. We've done excellent work in maintenance, beautifification wayfinding um and business recruitment. Our district is a vibrant area for tourists with numerous museums and attractions and will be the host of the softball portion of the 28 Olympic Games. We'd appreciate your consideration for renewal of our bid as we work to beautify this area and continue the work in our great city. >> Thank you. Uh that concludes the those who have signed up to speak. That means we'll advance to L2. That's the resolution adopting and confirming said assessment role. A motion in a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. And then item 11M is in the ordinance u setting the assessment role for the adventure district business improvement district. We have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Item N is an ordinance on final hearing. This is the second of two meetings uh where this ordinance has appeared. You may recall the presentation from our previous meeting. This deals with the scheduling of council meetings. If the council has no further comment or question, we can take up the ordinance for final approval. We have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Item 01 is the public hearing regarding the dilapidated structures here listed. Amy, has anyone signed up to speak? >> No, they haven't. >> They have not. So, we'll advance to the resolution found at O2 declaring the structures are dilapidated. Save for one that was previously struck. >> We have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Item 11 P1 is a public hearing regarding the unsecured structures here listed. Amy, has anyone signed up to speak? >> No, they haven't. >> They have not. And so we'll advance to the resolution found at P2 declaring the structures are unsecured except for the one previously struck. Have a motion in a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Uh item Q is a joint resolution with the Oklahoma City Economic Development Trust approving an allocation to the city of Oklahoma City and an amount not to exceed $2.5 million in addition to the previously allocated 4.75 million uh from TIFF 8 increment fund uh related to the WY Post Park and USS Oklahoma City Memorial Plaza project. And we have a presentation. Yes, >> Melinda McMillan Miller will give us a quick presentation. Thank you, city manager. Melinda McMillan Miller, parks and recreation department director. Um, before you today is an item for your consideration for an additional request for TIFF 8 funding to help support the uh completion of the construction of the USS Oklahoma City Navy Memorial. Miss Joanna will help me with my slides. That would be appreciated. Thank you very much. Um as at this point today, WY Post Park Northshore um improvements are just about complete. We will finish those improvements here in about May. Um the improvements include uh two playground areas um with a lot of nature play and accessible uh play features as well as shade structures, amphitheater, additional parking off street um and then of course a large large lawn areas for additional play and there's space for performances and amphitheater use. And so the area in um soil right there, thank you that you see there is that is the space that we've reserved open for the USS Oklahoma City Memorial. The memorial itself um the conning tower of the submarine sail will actually be dead centered on Hudson Avenue. So it'll be right at the um same parallel as the Devon Tower. So it'll be a really beautiful structure and very iconic as people drive down Hudson. So, renderings from Don Beck and Associates show how the uh Memorial Plaza lays out at the end end of Hudson. Um if you're driving to south on Hudson, that is the view of the Memorial Plaza in front of you with the Conning Tower flag plaza. The um as you walk onto the plaza, you'll be able to overlook down onto the memorial itself and onto the river. And then walking down an east ramp um past the flags you'll come down to other static displays such as the screws anchor and ship's bell and then be able to turn and walk across the uh different colored of pavement there in order to actually understand and respect the size of a submarine that the USS Oklahoma City is along with interpretation panels of the different um crew that and and uh services that those crews performed while on stationed on that submarine. ing and then other interpretive panels are located without that also discusses u the commanders and officers of those of the boat. But then also um another panel is for the actual USS Oklahoma City um cruiser that u has our city's namesake as well along with all of its um its features and its officers as well. The Navy memorial funding as you can see there the original TIFF 8 request was $4.75 million. We also had assistance with ARPA funds. And so once we com nearly really almost completed the WY post park improvement in the Northshore, we were had a remainder of about 1.6 million left in the budget. Once we got the USS Oklahoma City project bid, the hard bid numbers came in and we realized that we were about $2.5 million underfunded. And so that's where we prompted going back to the TIFF board and working with Miss Joanna um to secure additional funding. happy to answer any questions that you have about the project. >> Thanks, Melinda. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> All right, we can now take up the joint resolution. If there are no further comments, we have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. passes unanimously. Item R is ratifying and approving agenda numbers one and two uh and adopting joint resolution with the Oklahoma City Economic Development Trust, extending time to award the contract and awarding a joint contract to Liippard Brothers. This um I think you might have said this would have normally been like under consent document, but because it was uh conditional upon item Q, you pulled it out and put it in. >> Yes. Have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Okay. Item S1 is a resolution to approve participation in settlements with associated farmyarmacies inc etc. Uh, executive session is not requested. We have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Item T is a claim recommended for approval. Uh item T1A, executive session is not requested. Have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Item U is an ordinance to be introduced and adopted with an emergency. Uh this would declare a moratorum until the end of this calendar year December 31st, 2026 on the acceptance of new applications for processing of and issuance of resoning requests and permits including building permits that would allow construction on expansion of a use of property for a data center located in Oklahoma City, etc. And we have a presentation. >> Yes. Um just just to introduce the item. Um, we've had one zoning item that's been coming forward. Multiple um, applicants have been talking with staff about potential for data centers of various sizes. Um, some of these are getting to the hypers scale size and there's a lot of demand that places on our resources. And so what we wanted to do was put this in place with the emergency so that we have a chance to step back with staff, evaluate this, discuss this with developers and all of how these are moving forward to make sure that we could be strategic and consistent with how we're treating these to look to see if we need to amend our code to spec specifically address data centers. So I'm going to let Jeff Butler just give us an overview of what we proposed in the moratorum um and our timing on this. The mortorium does say to the end of December of this year, but also if we get the code amended before that it would be lifted and so um our goal would be to try to move faster than that. But just knowing our processes, we wanted some extended time to allow time to work through this. Jeff, >> yes, thank you. Jeff Butler, planning director. Um so we have done a substantial amount of research already. um legal uh council, planning commission, um planning staff, uh utility staff. Um so there's a lot of information we do have as you know uh with a couple of PUDs that we're considering right now. Um there's still some work to be done to um kind of consolidate that into something that would be workable, not necessarily for a PUD, but something that that would apply generally to all data center um applications. And so that work remains to be done. However, we think we think that that can be done uh fairly quickly. Um we we already have a draft of um uh a draft ordinance that we planned on moving forward this summer. Uh this could come as part of that or it could come uh separately uh if it was if we needed to do it sooner. Um so we're prepared to do that. Um and if there's any uh suggestions uh on that, we'll be of course uh coming um bringing that out to um planning commissioners council uh so that you can review what the proposal is. There's a couple different options. But mainly at this point, we'd like to confer legal and see um what we can take from what we've learned and what we can accommodate in our in our ordinance going forward. A couple different options as to how we would do that. Any questions for Miss Jeff? >> Yeah, I just want to say um I appreciate section four which makes it the earlier of um whether it's December 31st or when we can come up with an amendment. I'm hoping we can come up with the amendment sooner rather than later. I I think that's what's been a a big help to me was and Katrina set it up. We had a call with another city that's ahead of us in the process and what they've gone through and that was quite informative and so I'd encourage everybody to take that opportunity talk to Katrina about it. Yes, >> sir. >> Okay. We have some residents who have signed up to speak. Taylor Sanchez. >> Good morning. My name is Taylor Sanchez and I'm here today speaking on behalf of Honor the Earth, an over 30-year-old indigenousled organization working for environmental justice within an indigenous rights framework. I'm here today to urge you to vote yes on the data center moratorum because of what we've learned recently about hyperscale data centers fueling the generative AI boom. Our organization works alongside rural and tribal communities across Oklahoma and across the country. What's happening in both the federal and state leg levels legislative cycles indicates that a municipal level moratorum is one of the fuel tools of our protection that our communities have in an unequal partnership with data developers that are making billions by building data centers in other communities that they would not build in their own. A moratorum would slow down the process and allow opportunities for prior and informed consent amongst community members. We're seeing city and tribal officials are being approached with NDAs in hand, foregoing transparency with communities about projects in Mallister. Currently, we're seeing a developer with an active proposal who does not want to meet the community about the project until after it is approved. Um, sorry. Uh this is all too often the case because community approval or rejection is seen as potential to derail the project especially as the public is becoming more informed about the public health disaster that hypers scale data centers are creating. Data center proposals are popping up rapidly across Oklahoma Kawa Sand Springs, Tulsa, Pittsburgh County, Mallister to name a few cities as well as on the lands of multiple tribes. The growth is outpacing the ability of regulators, researchers, and communities to fully respond and understand its impacts. Slowing down the process would allow for transparency and allow the community who must bear the harms of a technology that extracts local resources. The harms are great. So, first, excessive water consumption. A hypers scale data center, particularly in Yukon under the Oklahoma City's Planning Commission, can consume up to 5 million gallons of water a day, equivalent to the daily use of roughly 16,000 households. This level of demand is similar to a small town just to simply maintain operations. Individuals should not be forced to compete with industrial users for already limited resources in a landlocked and highly agricultural state that already has limited access to safe and clean drinking water. Hypers scale data centers have been sold as closed loop cooling systems and water positive but use technology that sprays water into the air to evaporate and cool servers. So the water is not recycled nor is it truly closed. >> 30 seconds remaining. >> Sorry. >> Okay. Um the water is cycled until it is too polluted and then it has to be discharged. It cannot be returned to local water supply full of nitrates. Amazon just settled in an agricultural community of Oregon on three weeks ago for over $20 million over an alleged pollution from this very thing that was causing rare cancers and a high miscarriage rate. There's plenty of reasons why this can cause public health disparities. So, I urge you to vote yes on this moratorum and slow down the process and consider the protection of your constituents. Thank you. >> Thank you, Trevor Francis. Good morning, Mayor Holtz, members of the council. Um, my name is Trevor Francis. I, uh, I operate a data center in Oklahoma City and a central plant on Expand's campus. Uh, first off, I want to thank you guys for, uh, for allowing me to speak today. Um, there's a lot of misinformation on data centers, including some of which I just heard. Um uh I do operate a data center in Oklahoma City and I would welcome each of you guys to come and visit and see actually what what one of them is. Um one of the things that we're working on right now uh in our data center is we are um we're expanding our central plant. So our central plant is responsible for cooling expand in the peaks campus. So a moratorum on data centers right now will prevent us from expanding the central plant and will also um make it difficult for um those tenants to actually expand uh and occupy their buildings. This is less than 10 miles away from here and this is one of the um the big redevelopment efforts that are happening in Oklahoma City. Um our our data center um with the the expansion of the central plant uh our our intent is to utilize no power from the grid and do entirely behind the meter. So, that was one of the big issues and misconceptions about data centers is that they consume a lot of power. Ours won't. Um, we do use closed loop cooling. Closed loop means it's closed. Closed meaning that there is no water used at all in uh in the cooling of any of our data centers, nor does it have to be recycled ever. It is it's it's no different than than um similar to to the um the the things that you have in your home, the air conditioners that you have in your home. Um we also employ hundreds of people in your wards um both in construction and maintenance of our data centers. So um this this this moratorum affects um everyone. Um it's 8 months doesn't seem like uh a lot of time but it it is an eternity especially when I have summer coming and I have to figure out how to expand the central plant which gets lumped in with our data center. Uh on the permitting side we're already zoned to do data center services where we currently are. This affects existing data centers and I think that there are unintended consequences for uh for what this um what this moratorum um will mean. Um it would be one thing if we're trying to to do hundreds of acres out um in in another area or expand by hundreds of megawws. This is not what this is. This will actually prevent us from expanding the the the central plant campus um that we that we currently have that we've already gone through zoning commission for and that we intend to pull permits for in the next two weeks. >> 30 seconds remaining. >> So I uh I ask this uh this council that uh that you you defer this this um this order by by two weeks to allow us to to get um the central plant uh piece uh handled. Thank you. Do you have any questions for me? Excuse me. Yeah, I do. Um, I appreciate your input a lot and I think it would be very important moving forward that you provide us additional input as well. >> Excuse me. >> That you'll provide us additional input as well so that we can kind of maybe better understand the impacts. Um, I'm still in favor of the moratorum, but my hope is that we're able to really get this thing resolved in like three months. Um, I know we've put it out to December. That's so that we're not going through this same discussion every two weeks like a regular deferment. But, uh, I appreciate your input on it. >> So, I will say that the three-month moratorum would mean that we actually can't expand the central plan. that puts us right into the middle of summer. And the central plant services, no different than OU or U Health Science Center, um is what provides the chilled water services or the air conditioning for the expand campus. So, this gets locked. This this um this prevents us from actually doing that until until the middle of summer, which it takes us a couple of months to get that that work done as well. So, I I just implore this this council to uh defer this for two weeks. so we can actually get um our permits on file to do that expansion. Um it's just lumping everything in. The fact that we're a data center operator, we just happen to operate also operate that central plant. So I'm I uh I think there are unintended consequences here to this. >> City manager, would you have a problem with just accepting his application and going ahead and having the moratorum enter today? >> I I just think that we open a door here. I think there's specific issues here that are like specific to like enter enterprise data centers as opposed to a data center serving outside that one we have the opportunity that we can address this with um the board of adjustments. Um we could come back with an amendment later on the moratorum. My concern is just opening this door and saying this one. There's many others that are in line that you'll be saying this one and then this one and then this one that that we would open a door. Um it's and it's up to the council. >> Can we make an effective date the moratorum to begin two weeks from today? >> But I mean you really do that you're gonna have a thousand data centers apply in the next >> Yeah. >> It probably better to try and sorry >> it'd probably be better to >> what what he's describing is not what we were intending. So is it is it can we come back in a couple weeks with >> amendments that differentiate better and are not so broad about >> Yes. And I I did want to ask too I think that's a good point. But I did want to ask that what you're talking about is really an enterprise data center that serves only that campus or does it serve beyond that campus? >> Well, I mean I think data centers in general they're connected to the internet so they serve the world essentially, right? We do operate a data center that is is is outside of that. Well, it's not outside the campus. It's on the campus. It's been there for 14 years. Um the biggest issue that I have right now uh is that is is the expansion of the of the central plant. The central plant services serve the entire uh the entire campus. So, Midfirst Bank, Expand, Diamondback, the expansion for for uh certain aspects of Peak. Um this is a big this I mean we we provide their their their chilled their chilled water, right? We provide their air conditioning. You can't you you can't um inhabit the buildings unless you have that. And these buildings have essentially been sitting vacant for almost a decade now. So, this is a big um the the sale of the campus has actually been a great thing. uh for um you know seeing seeing it redeveloped. So >> I don't I don't think this would capture the central plant itself. It's only the data center piece that it would affect. So if there's a portion of this permit that would affect central plant that you're providing for a facility. I don't think it would capture that. I think it's just the data center portion. >> How would that how would that affect our per when we're pulling permits? So it's a very broad ordinance that talks about zoning requests and permits. We're not asking for a zoning request. So, we're just asking for that we can we're able to pull mechanical, electrical, and building um permits to be able to expand the central central plan on campus. It also includes adding additional buildings, >> right? And I I'll let the attorneys help to answer that, but right now the application is would be to permits associated with a data center. >> I don't know how you differentiate that. The other thing too is is we're anticipating a modernization of this of these things. It's it it benefits data centers because we I own a data center there, but it also um benefits everything that this young lady spoke about as far as water uses. The central plant uses water, right? It independent completely of data centers. We're trying to modernize that where it uses less water, where it uses less power. They're very central plants are very power intensive. Our intent is to actually create our own power which we're already doing to some degree, expand that even further where we actually contribute the power that the current data center that we have um we can contribute back to the grid. So we're a net positive on that. So that's the central plan is is it it's intrinsically linked to uh our existing data center use and and the use on campus. I don't know how we don't know how to separate them. I just believe there is a that that smart people can figure out in two weeks a way to differentiate what he's describing which is obviously a very limited use data center of which we probably have how many in Oklahoma City I mean probably dozens right of what you're >> sure yeah absolutely >> in and what we're talking about which are these like $50 billion you know data centers serving the you know the the international you know data business I I mean surely we can figure out whether it's dollar amount for construction whether it's you know >> megawatt usage's there's a lot of ways some differentiator in the next two weeks. But we probably should >> if you if you don't want to have a thousand applications in the next two weeks, you probably should put this in place now and then come back in two weeks with um >> an amendment. >> Yes, >> that'd be that'd be perfect if we could come back with some language in two weeks. That would be perfect. >> Yes. You actually could do it in a Don't you have a count a budget council meeting next Tuesday? >> I don't think we'll have it ready by next Tuesday. I think that's a lot to commit. >> It's a lot to commit. Yeah, >> fair enough. It's our biggest my biggest concern and not to interrupt uh the council here is just the time necessary for us to do our construction so we can meet the needs of the of of the folks on campus. >> I think your your argument has resonated and I think something will happen. But maybe be sure that somebody has your contact information. >> Thank you, Mayor. Before you leave, >> members of the council. >> Okay. Uh we're not done though with residents here. Elizabeth Drew. >> Hi. Hello. Um, I'm Elizabeth Drew. I live here in Ward 2, uh, next to my lovely friend James. And I do film and lighting work, uh, here in Oklahoma, Texas, and down in Ada. I'm helping as vice chair on Simon Sierra Club, the local OKC chapter. And I'm showing up here in support of the moratorum. I ask that you not defer it. Um uh I'd say make it longer if you could. Um there may seem to be an ev an inevitability to data centers and many other things, but nothing is inevitable. You are not beholden to the companies that want these projects. the jobs that he's talking about, are they jobs that are just for the construction of the place? Are they jobs that are keeping this long term? Like that's something to consider, too. Um, they can want all they want. That doesn't mean anything about how it ends up going. I ask you not to defer it. Even moving fast and breaking things, an ethos I can just not get behind and always try to curb within myself when it shows up. Even that may feel inevitable these days, too. trying to get things turned around this summer. Even so much is happening all at once. How the heck to protect the water of our land in this chaotic time is something that we have to keep at the very forefront of our mind. Water is life. for the stability, tranquility, and support of all. Let water gently remind you how important it is to protect the gentle things. Our vulnerable ecology, which has no vocal cords, but certainly speaks to us in myriad ways. All the more important to slow down, move slow and fix things. Move slow and fix things. Thank you. >> Thank you, Carl Typton. >> Mayor Holt, uh, council members, my name is Terrell Zerby. Carl Typton is with me. He signed up. He may speak. We're together if I may step in. If not, I'll step down. >> Uh, you actually also signed up. So, you were next. You also signed up. So, yes, you were next. So, sure. We can skip him. That's >> uh Mayor Holt. Uh, uh, council members, my name is Terrell Zerby. Uh, I am the managing partner of 7725 Connect. You may know that as the former, uh, Lucent Manufacturing facility. Uh, we acquired that in 2004. In 2012, we launched Rack 59, which is our collocation uh data center facility uh which is also a internet carrier uh for a number of uh worldwide carriers local as well. Uh over time we've continued to expand uh and the campus has now become a data center campus. Uh we've continued to expand our power there with the formation of Global X Digital in 2017. uh with the mining of Bitcoin, we've made substantial investment not only in buildings there but in the addition of substations with the assistance of not only OG& but the Southwest Power Pool. Uh our first stress test was with the Southwest Power Power Pool in 2021. We were kind of we we we we kid with OG. We brought each other to the party uh early on and in large part because of that the inherent attributes of that campus and its history and its ability to manage power. We started out with 25 megawws of power. We're now to 315 megawws of power. Here's the difference. I'm zoned. We're going to we we intended we intend to expand our data center operations with the investment in our power. We have over a hundred million invested in those substations which are in place ready to turn on. Uh we have signed a lease, a long-term lease uh with a company. It's public record uh with a company that is backed by a Fortune50 uh uh uh company. uh they're looking forward to perhaps submitting a building permit within the next two or 3 weeks. Uh that's the reason you haven't heard from us is that we don't have a a a zoning uh uh change uh pending in any way. We by writing have the right to to to develop a data center. >> Uh so I'm here today to to to request that you uh give this some further thought. I heard the comments maybe a delay of a couple weeks. Uh I do want to say that uh we're hearing that there perhaps might be some exemptions to this m mortorium uh and with our history here of 20ome years uh our investment already in place our substations already in place that we too would be considered uh a candidate for any exemption as well and happy to talk about this further in the next uh couple weeks. Thank you very much for your time. It's very important uh and I understand uh uh the huge task ahead of you. Thank you. Are we going to get contact information from these people that are speaking today? >> Yes. >> Okay. Okay. Any questions? Sorry. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Okay. That concludes the residents who have signed up to speak. Um so >> who who are you? I'm sorry. >> Uh you signed up under uh item. >> You're right. >> Okay. Uh that concludes res time to speak on this item and um is there anything else council wishes to say? If not, we could take a motion on the item. All right. Got a motion and a second. Cast your votes. Passes unanimously. Now, uh, an emergency requires a second vote and a super majority. So, we can take a motion for that as well. Have a motion and a second. Cast your votes. passes unanimously and with the necessary supermajority to invoke the emergency. All right. So, that is now in effect and we hope to see maybe maybe some amendments to uh better address the subtleties and nuances here in a couple weeks. All right. Uh that concludes votes for the day. Item 12 are comments from council. Ward one. W two. >> Yes. Uh, briefly, uh, when I stepped from the horseshoe, uh, our council support staff, who I always refer to as the W 2 chief of staff, Boyd Pulton, um, he let me know that a W 2 resident, Jane Wheeler, had dropped off something in a brown bag for me, and I wanted to show everybody, but especially my good Wo friends. This is the shirt that my predecessor Sam Bowman had made back in the day. Um, he had this shirt made and as you've heard me say from this horseshoe before, uh, Sam is the first council person uh, since the Second World War uh, to advocate for the construction of sidewalks in this city. and because of his advocacy, we saw that $7 million in the as uh through the bond and then through Mayor Mick Cornet uh and his advocacy with MAPS 3, you got the next round of sidewalk funding and then the council before I was on here 2017, which I think Councilman Stone Stone Cipher, you all were here. I know mayor was working in the uh well Senate, but you were with Cornet for years. So, I mean, you were there for that sidewalk backstory is my point. And so, uh, but Sam will always hold a very special, uh, place in my heart. And I can tell you for my seniors in W 2, whenever they hear me invoke his name, it really means something to them. Uh, Brent Bryant, our assistant city manager, crafted this W 2 shirt for me. And when we had the groundbreaking at Swatk Park for the multi-use trail and put the plaque in there honoring Sam, I had on this shirt. And when Jane saw it, it just brought this rush of memories back. And she told me about the shirt that Sam had. And I had forgotten until today that she was going to bring it here. So, it will hang in our W 2 office. And I'll make sure that it is something that becomes a bit of an institution, maybe even to pass down to whoever takes this seat um long after I am gone. So, I just want to say thank you to Jane and thank you to council for hearing that. >> Thank you. W three. W four. W five. W six. W 7. >> Yeah. Just want to say quickly um that we'll be having a W 7 town hall on April 30th, so next week on Thursday at six o'clock at Metro Tech. And so I'd want to invite um everyone to feel free and attend. And I want to especially thank we're going to have a fireside chat with um our assistant city manager Jason Fairbrush, our uh director of development services Brock Row, our uh director of uh public works Debbie Miller, and Chief Ron Basy. And so we're going to talk about um RTA. Um we're going to talk about uh safety and security. We're going to talk about geobond projects and and the renovations to soon happen on Northeast 23rd Street because the great work that's happening on Northwest 23rd Street has my constituents calling me about why we're not fixing Northeast 23rd Street. So I'm very pleased to >> You're welcome. You're welcome. >> Right. >> So excited about that and as always appreciate Brock um and and code enforcement's work in our community. So, um, hope that you all will attend. >> Yes. I want to extend a personal thank you to Paul's Valley High School principal Kirk Moore. He is being held nationwide as a hero for stopping the April 7th shooting before any students were hurt. His bravery, his courage, his valor uh is amazing. if you've seen the video and I am hopeful that our government will consider our governor will consider the med medal of valor which is the highest state medal that can be offered and I'm hoping our president will consider the medal of freedom for for him. Uh thank you principal Kirk Moore. >> Thank you. Uh item 13, citizens to be heard. Merrily Perry. Hi. Sorry again about interrupting earlier. I got excited. Um I'm Marily Perry. I live at 10001 Northwest 16th Street in Ward 6. Um, on Sunday, 2 days ago, I rolled out of bed in Musta Park, um, around 8:15. And when I checked my phone, I had missed texts and calls from my neighbors telling me that ICE had been detaining somebody on our street about an hour earlier. I went out and talked with my neighbors and found out that four unmarked vehicles had pulled over a man in front of my next door neighbor's house. They had arrived and left in less than 5 minutes, and my neighbors were shocked at how quickly and quietly it happened. This is happening every day in OKC. ICE often goes out between 6:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. racially profiles men on their way to work and takes them away as quickly and quietly as possible so that the rest of us don't notice. I've spoken with two OKCPD officers recently who told me that ICE in OKC is only picking people up from the detention center who are on ICE holds or targeting violent criminals. This is simply not true. It greatly disturbs me that OKCPD thinks this is the case and it is important to me that you all know what is really happening. I was sitting on my front porch when the family came to pick up the car of the young man who had been detained. So, I was able to learn more about him from his cousin. He had no criminal record. He had not done anything wrong that morning. He was simply on his way to work at Ted's Tacos on 23rd Street. That morning, when Ice began following him, his second job is at a pizza place in Midtown. When the cousin arrived that morning, when the cousin arrived that morning and I confirmed that it was her loved one who had been taken, I told her I was so sorry and I asked if I could give her a hug. She said yes and we hugged for a long time while she wept. It apparently was 9 It was apparently 9:02 a.m. because I heard the bells begin to ring at my church in remembrance of the bombing while while I held this weeping woman in my arms. I ask you, please don't look away. Learn what ICE is doing in our community. Please help city and please help city employees to know what's happening as well. >> Thank you. >> Thank you Jared Freeman. >> Good morning. My name is Jarrett Freeman. I'm an OKC resident of Ward 1 and I'm an IT and cyber security professional. I'm here because of I filed multiple uh foyer requests for information about the automatic license plate reading cameras owned by Flock Security. They're up and down all of the public rights of lay. What I found raised raised serious enough concerns that I'm here today to speak about both this department's oversight of the com of the company that we are all paying to surveil the residents. OKCPD confirmed in writing that there are no access controls, no policies, I'm sorry, no use policies, no audit procedures, and no transparency reporting about the flock system. But I want to be clear, this isn't just about paperwork. This is writing a one-page policy document does not fix what is fundamentally wrong with this system and this vendor. Flock Safety's leadership has gone on the public record repeatedly to claim that their platform uses the best security has never been hacked but into independent security researchers have documented more than 22 serious confirmed security vulnerabilities that have been inserted into the national vulnerability datab database. They've demonstrated on video that flock cameras can be compromised within 30 seconds with and without physical access to the cameras and they can stream live video directly to devices unencrypted over the internet. Senators and representatives have formally requested FTC investigations into these claims and that Flock safety is not a trustworthy vendor. In February 2026, Flocks Flock quietly rewrote their contract terms and deleted the clause stating that they would not sell customer data in favor of perpetual irrevocable worldwide data licenses that survives contract termination. They block the Wayback Machine and other archival online services from archiving their terms and conditions so that cities can't track what they change from month to month. When cities like Cambridge, Massachusetts voted to deactivate the cameras, Flock installed new cameras after the service had been terminated. This is not a company that respects the authority of m of the municipalities that it serves. Flock business model depends on getting cameras on the ground before contracts are served, before oversight exists, using free trials and uh free trials that don't require a vote and installation is prioritized over documentation and accountability. >> 30 seconds remaining. >> Unfortunately, I don't have the time to finish reading my document. Um, but I'm asking this council as future renewals come up to seriously consider who you're doing business with and who is surveilling the constituents and um residents of Oklahoma City. Thank you for your time. >> Can I ask city manager when when do we anticipate that renewal? >> I do not know when the contract would be renewed, but I do know we are planning briefings for council. >> Okay. on this system and the contracts. Appreciate you. Thank you, >> Ronnie Kirk. My address 2328 North Missouri. I want to say thanks to the Baptist Hospital and staff. You know, when I was here six weeks ago, sitting right here, after I got out city council meeting, I stopped and got me something to eat, went to DLO to have my blood count checked, and I was in the hospital that evening. The hospital had called 911. I'm at home laying in the bed. Somebody knocking on the door. So I get answer my door. They say the hospital call for us to come get you. Bring you straight up to the hospital. My hemoglobin level was so low. They said, "How are you walking?" If you stayed home one more day, if you went to sleep that day, my hemoglobin was so low, I could have died. That's why I want to say thanks to Baptist Hospital. And my medication was so high. I f filled out a living will asking Baptist Hospital take my medical records cuz they're alone for get stopping the hemoglobin. You could y'all couldn't tell. I was bleeding on the inside, not on the outside. I was just weak. So, I'mma just reverse it now. I'mma go up to the Baptist hospital cuz I see I I signed I got 5013C and I want to get me a truck for all the names that y'all see on the back of that paper etched in glass. Now, I want to talk about Junth. >> 30 seconds remaining. >> Yes, ma'am. Now I'm going to talk about Junth 1970. I filed right in this building here to get a Junth block party. No, our government, the senators, the governor, the mayor, city council, the fire department, and the police failed to protect the citizens. Black people have been free for two years. Oklahoma did not tell them. Yeah, Ronnie, we're we're over time. Is there anything you'd like to say in conclusion? >> Yes, sir. And the other one is three years ago, I was also here when y'all talking about tearing down the old jail, putting up a new one. Two weeks ago, the the jail trust. >> Yeah, Miss Mr. Cook, I'm sorry. We're going to have to wrap it up, but thank you so much for for coming down and we're we're way over time. We will have to conclude there, but thank you. Okay, >> the jail trust. >> All right. Thank you. >> They approved everything. >> Item 14. We are adjourned. Thank you, Mr. Kirk. >> Yes.